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know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

well here in d.c. even massive keystone x.l. pipeline protests have died down of recent months but doesn't meet the battle over the keystone pipeline has died down in general in fact the pipeline has become a major focal point on capitol hill are the senate voted on a new measure designed to keep president obama out of the decision making process now their idea was to cut him out of the equation because the pipeline originates in canada and not in the u.s. but the measure needed sixty votes to pass and it quite literally sprung obama into action he and his team lobbied other democratic lawmakers into saying no this bill our ports are the obama phone calls himself so as you can imagine the g.o.p. it was not too happy about that. this report this morning that the president is personally making phone calls for democratic senator who she thinks might vote for the amendment asking them not to and frankly charge to even comprehend how much completely out of touch she is on this issue. now those words were simply

not convincing enough because the measure failed today fifty six to forty two but eleven democrats voting in favor of the measure now mr mcconnell says the president is out of touch he's referring to all the job opportunities that supporters say could come from the construction of the pipeline even a former president bill clinton has shown support for the pipelines capabilities and speaking of jobs has become a divisive issue for the labor unions one hand some labor unions are in favor of projects other projects potential for job creation touted in ads like this one. the pipeline will produce over two hundred one thousand nine hundred sixty. seven. private industry to produce something that really. stable source of. north america. now according to union websites it turns out that more union members are actually opposed to the pipeline and those that are in favor of it i got this

chart three point three million union members favor keystone four point nine million have come out against it and those union members who signed with obama say the president has done the right thing putting the environment first and they believe that he's going to be the answer for the growing problem. prices have risen even higher today's national average three sixty five president obama says his republican rivals are using the pain at the pump to score political points yes prices are up another three and a half cents just from yesterday twenty seven cents from a month ago. now some say the keystone pipeline can cause a spike in gas for the midwest region and bloomberg says residents could see the price go up at least twenty cents a gallon on a dream's dot org knows that some of the oil supply will end up in foreign markets because our producers are working side by side with texas refineries to move the product to the global market shipping the blackall to europe latin america and china but will side a lot of landowners solve concerns about how trans canada project is going to

affect their property the n.r.d.c. spoke with residents in texas that have doubts if the benefits of the project might actually outweigh the costs one point seven million gallons can we really without triggering a real timely detection system and a trans canada his request they would not add any additional ground patrols to look for those undetectible leaks you know that's a huge problem you know that much could be spilling daily into our water supplies into our creeks into our springs believe that this would actually lower the price of gasoline and diesel fuel here in the states. so. happy about it. now while the texas land owners took their concerns straight to the politicians in d.c. native americans of south dakota took a different approach on several members of the dr talwar the trans canada trucks were trying to bring supplies to parts of the pipelines route last monday seventy five members decided to put their foot down quite literally. so by trucks loaded

with enormous oil pipeline components were sucked across the road sometime during the afternoon on march fifth or caldwell no digital media participants were mobilized or wildly sold to corded for improv gathering blocks the route with their bodies to bridge some of the trucks and pipeline components from crossing. at least five people were arrested when police were called in to break up that barrier like the people in texas the old law lakota tribe believes of the roots of the x.l. pipeline looking to make their water supply and would poison their people all for the sake of making a profit and keeping all of that in mind trans canada the company behind the pipeline construction plans to refile its application to build the northern section of the oil line within the next few months and protests are still guiding in the midwest specially in parts of texas and south dakota residents want to make sure that it's known that they stand with obama and oppose the pipeline so while one measures around the keystone failed in the senate today something tells me the battle for the pipeline is long from over. now unless you've been living under

a rock this point you've probably at least heard about the campaign to stop tony maybe you saw trending on twitter as hash tag conan twenty twelve it's all thanks to a nearly thirty minute documentary by the nonprofit invisible children something that went viral and by viral i mean since being posted online on monday march fifth it's garnered more than thirty nine million views on you tube here's a short clip. our goal change the conversation about cultures and give people the. truth we have printed hundreds of thousands of posters yard signs and fires that are right now today being put up in major cities all over the world. now documentary aims to bring awareness to just a leader the lord's resistance army which terrorized uganda for decades over the last six years has fled the democratic republic of congo in central african republic now briefly describe the brutal history of the l.r.

in uganda the thirty thousand children that have been abducted over the years boys turned into child soldiers girls turned into sex slaves and the film calls on people to support invisible children to donate thirty dollars get a kit with the bracelets stickers posters all included and it tells the earth to participate in a day of action on april twentieth to spread the word hang up those posters and stickers all over the world and the endgame here is to have arrested this year two thousand and twelve brought to the international criminal court and for the u.s. to keep one hundred military advisors that were deployed last year there to help it happen but there's a lot of critique out there a lot of people should learn consider before they donate so let's take a little bit deeper into this not so with me is christopher chambers author of the blog turner's revenge and lecture at georgetown university chris thanks so much for joining us tonight. for starters before we get into the details here the history or this organization thirty nine million views on you tube it's only been up there since monday and i think it has maybe another six million of e-mail and that is a viral video of

a person running. that's that's the very definition of viral and that's the whole point i mean this is you know the filmmakers couched this as an experiment and we are moving into another age with this i mean you saw it with occupy wall street you saw it with the arab spring i mean this is a new tool social media and people are using it this is a new generation of people that are creating this content and it sparks a lot of problems with the older generation the thing that they don't seem to understand the old generation that is that you know we different media has come along you know radio and then t.v. and then the internet i mean the internet was the prototype for this with your for i mean mia farrow actress mia farrow she said without the internet and blogs putting up in bed video nobody would have cared about this well this is just a natural progression you know so i mean now the problems however you know i have so maybe foreign policy intervention is right well i was going to get it but first

you know finance wise right coming under a lot of heat they've released their tax records out there you know they're they're trying to be very responsible in this entire situation but it looks like they spend a lot more on the media and the production part than they do you aren't actually giving you know donating or trying to fill that but at the same time that's ok to write as well yeah but there are food makers this is an experiment i'm not making excuses i mean i don't think this is going on into the rome of say why clips on and yearly haiti where it was you know there was a lot of money that was moving around that was not going to where it was supposed to go here they could probably make an argument that money is where it's supposed to go because we are in the social media business where we're out there generating here's the thing that people get that when they spend thirty minutes watching this document oh no. i'm going to wear a bracelet and that makes me feel ok i'm going out i think so i mean you know what let's face it i mean a lot of this is psychological a lot of people who are probably clicking and

watching it do. probably don't even know where uganda is it probably don't know that there are one hundred you know u.s. military advisors over there and they're over there for a good reason but you know that's always going to happen and we live in a disconnected society disconnected world social media is the only thread that's holding all of this together these guys are just twenty one on that thread and you know i don't fault them for that but yes in terms of background you know what you also have another issue i mean there is this there's always a racial component with africa where it's the old one thousand century white man's burden and we need white sea viewers to go in there and see these you know people from savages i mean there is that aspect of the ugandan people also made if you're right i mean their number one goal from the way the video looks is that get colony it's going to happen in two thousand and twelve arrest them bring them to the international criminal court and then everything's going to be ok they make it seem so simple what happens to all those other child soldiers what happens to the fact that there is there is corruption in there is poverty there is disease in the west

of uganda where the l r a hasn't even been very serious and you get any sense in saying that and n.g.o.s on the ground have been saying that you have totally oversimplified this situation i think they understand that and one of the filmmakers john carroll to big hollywood director even sir you know you have to be oversimplified because we live in this disconnected age and you're trying to get people who probably don't even know where uganda is to get engaged and this is what we do we engage people it's one thing to engage people and inform them versus you know and this is where i start to have issues too where i think you see a lot of these liberal humanitarian grounds are we just want to help but it ends up being about intervention when we already have one hundred military advisers that are there they're not going anywhere i don't know why they're freaking out in this video as if the obama administration is going to pull the now but it's this concept that you know that militarily you somehow need to engage they admit that the

ugandan military is. also corrupt and there are evil allegations of rape and whatnot but they so we've got to work with somebody well in that you know and again that's oversimplification angle that's where the n.g.o.s that are there and ugandan people are saying war will hold up but again i think these guys are not thinking that far ahead it's viral games i mean that is that is a twenty first century younger mindset at work here and you see that in journalism and politics all over the place i don't think they're thinking that far ahead if they were maybe they pulled back a little bit but you know yeah that's it i guess. you know they've i think if she if their goal is that they have made jokes of coney famous and a lot. and yeah everyone's talking about it you know forty five million views online combined it but then at the same time you know watch out what it is exactly that you're printing your because they which you wish for you might get it was another you know we have we have another somalia that i'm doing exactly what

interventions and where you know there has been a lot of damage done a lot of exotic their lives that are my letter thank you for your writing us tonight. i start our last break that evening well we come back to our report for the one child policy that's of itself often seems to think humans are told my lord and i'm happy our fans produce a volunteer sing country song at a solar flare headed towards earth because the all that we've. seen. people calling like you said for free and fair elections. and we're still reporting from the so. you can hear behind me a little out of solutions. they

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our guys it's time for science to a time award and this time it goes to former g.o.p. presidential candidate and current congresswoman michele bachmann on tuesday see appeared on news on a news show called real news from the blaze that aired on when beck's online paid subscriptions out and she describes how cool the g.o.p. is war on women it has been reduced to

a war on women right or wrong that is what is being read as in the public you think we've totally bungled this debate although i think that it is a mistake for us to get caught in a trap that the left would love to have a stance in. it would be a mistake to get caught in that trap michel two things here i don't think it was a trap set by the left i seem to recall the right leaving themselves that little present and then circling back to step in it themselves words dancing in it and this shit if twenty six would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person that would effectively banned all abortions including those resulting from break or incest republican lawmakers under fire in georgia are pushing a bill that has grown women should be put together if they have a miscarriage this is. a college college susan fluke. two days before a congressional committee is he she says she must be. right

virginia lawmakers passing a bill that requires a woman to have an ultrasound before having an abortion in pennsylvania is considering the same type of statute. yeah i'm pretty sure the right made that bed for themselves but then later in the interview michelle decided not to take your own advice and a double down on the g.o.p. and sandy. it isn't far fetched to think that the president and states could say we need to save health care expenses the third row governor will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family. and even saga of the doctors and the t.l.c. so nineteen kids and counting because i'm pretty sure of that statement is based on absolutely no facts whatsoever but then again we are talking about michele bachmann here's the facts are kind of a rarity original statement was so over the top that it even shocked the bullies through check out this response comes in are you suggesting that this

administration or any next administration would actually advocate a one child policy like communist china yes michelle please and like that are you suggesting that america is headed towards a one child policy. the president i'm it states unilaterally can tell insurance companies you must offer the morning after abortion pill you must offer sterilizations you must offer contraceptives free to the recipients of those products because we tell you to which means they are effectively setting the price as well that's that whoever the health care dictator could conceivably could make that order as well. well i mean that's pretty rich michel actually wants to argue because liberals want to provide women with more health care to ensure the needs of women all across america and their rights are in danger of being stolen by a health care dictator even though obama is working to ensure that women have the

right to choose when and how many children they'll have and eventually it's going to lead to them having fewer choices and being told how many children they can have makes perfect sense so for not standing up her own gender's right to make decisions about their own bodies and instead twisting this debate to fearmonger about communist style one child policy is michele bachmann and it's not full time where. hi guys it's time for happy hour and twenty busy evening lauren lyster host of the capital account here on r t and comedian lafayette right hey guys if you go and think. did you know that today it might be and not really but there's some steering stuff going on in space take a look. listen to this a huge solar storm the largest in five years is already hitting earth today at four

million miles per hour now if you disrupt winds and deliver a knockout punch to your g.p.s. splosion right there that is where the other solar flare emitted all that radiation some of which got here at the speed of light which takes about an hour roughly other which travels at scale say between three and five million miles an hour. i get this point and we're ok i don't really think anything about this rapid that i thought of but biggest solar flare storm inner solar flare in six years or something like that i love that shit work i would not doubt that arise from people who. know work take the. crowd of people is going to stop there you me now right yeah exactly. the first. i think that came from my mind was oh no must be doing this story today because she loves space stories and you were and the second thing that came to my mind was wait power grid. is this going to be the next like solar flare industrial complex that is suddenly at the right that we need to guard

against and build up industry against no because for republicans we don't really believe in things like solar flares or global warming or climate change or are scared of cyber warfare and hackers hurting the grid this is just a little different oh it was how it started that's how it always starts is my prediction ok let's move on to something that i just find really kind of creeps me out but there are some santorum fans out there that decide to create this take a listen. and then. there's the reverse from in a little bit that is the exact opposite thing that i think when i see that video is that there is hope for our nation again my hope for the nation is that the super pacs are

a little more powerful than those singers but i didn't give us the bill of rights really really not according to them just. i don't know those people for you know. speaking of being. i don't know if this ever happened to you guys but definitely there were was a class that i took in college that had a cool name called the violent universe we all had. it on and it turned out not being as cool as a supposed to be and so here's something similar a class called surviving becoming zombie apocalypse but the teacher at least made a video to get students. in terms of. yes some. years.

so the name is a hook and the class actually is about studying mass catastrophes and human behavior and life or death situations i mean the whole place on it is like i put a lot of thought into how to survive a zombie apocalypse because i don't get laid so but not you prepared properly for that situation the one thing you need to do you just this is my philosophy you follow the poor why you do why what is the poor guy could you know i do i do middle america people that don't have teeth and they've got guns i mean the big guns are not going to save you you need generators you know these things are you know are sold out yet how many songs i receive we. survive this is what the funny thing is actually. really research behind this c.d.c. actually has gone be apocalypse campaign because what they found is if you're prepared for a zombie apocalypse you actually are well prepared for our hurricane or disaster or terrorist attack or whatever so i think this is along the same probably you got it lined up that day inside yeah i'd say but i mean really not of not if you know what

you don't like on earth credibility ok i'm going to walk in and i watch the show our lives are removed trust me i'm going to talk about it you just you find some dude named dale there's like three see and then bam you're good they're like they're not going to hate you because you're black at this point because now they can use their guns. legally they hate us. more all right i'll give you that one because i haven't seen all that money's on the movie so you know i'm not even trying to. speaking it's obvious actually. there is a new bill. basically it's this woman that has just revolutionized being able to wear tight clothing for her win anything. cheryl blakely the inventor of spades she is the youngest woman to make the forbes list on her own with no help from a husband or an inheritance. banks i never would have guessed you know years ago

when spanx came out that she had been a billionaire but they pretty much are the best thing ever but seems like do their kind of trying to capitalize on this to tell you design house and believe me has designed a range of tights that it says are unisex and they're being snapped up by by men i don't buy that sorry he's trying to design houses or trying to ride this you know wave but what i was actually where he might have you seen the infomercials for like the white theaters that are kind of like getting sprayed eyes that second all. those for men and evidently really popular according to the sales associate i spoke to the last time i was at nordstrom but those are actual types to be worn outside your clothes with stars on them so when you are right what's your experience of spamming all the ladies you would you want to talk to or do with. you know. there's going to be marks. somebody knows what i'm talking about i'm going to be alone here that's not just me don't embarrass me here don't you know they don't let

you know why they're there booty is good when they do they do not really disgusting if you're just going to walk around with like there's no showing do zoeller and you know it doesn't sound like a skirt over your tights i'm just going to have the but i mean i don't know i'm just i'm just trying to defend i read the words i was world no problem with it oh i don't even like skinny jeans but that's just me i'm trying to you know put myself into the mind of the weirdos who were. so progressive all right and i think that we are we've gone too far this. are you guys thanks for joining me tonight i've got to wrap it up. thank you for tuning in and making a comeback tomorrow gary weiss author of and read nation is going to be on the show to discuss the monthly report meantime don't forget to become a fan of you on the show on facebook you can follow us on twitter as anything ever missed by that all you tube dot com slash the line show plus interviews as well as the show in its entirety there and coming up next it's the newest.

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