in the country they gave up their economic sovereignty. people calling like you said for free and fair elections. and they're still reporting from the. if you can hear behind me loud explosions. i get it gave me. a.

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our guys it's time for you said it i read it right take time to respond to my brilliance engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because you've got something to say i listen now first i want to respond to many of our viewers the were upset about a comment the r.t.s. christine made on our happy hour segment on friday here's what as collision commented on you tube and said o m g did r t get bought out this is the worst crap i've ever seen they quote they hate the military are you kidding me ron paul and his supporters do not hate the military we have always supported our military it is our current foreign policy that we oppose there is a huge difference are not first off you know r.t. didn't get bought quite a lot of negative feedback are you guys about that statement. i would urge those of you that are upset about the context of. the coverage that both christine for as our r.t. as

a whole have given to ron paul and his supporters nobody can ever believe that hates the military or their supporters do in fact quite the opposite you notice are one of the only or one of if not one of the only networks that actually covers ron paul support within the military but the whole want a happy hour to be casual sometimes i think statements maybe go unfinished got a little sloppy i can assure you that ron paul is for military was not what christine intended to say so how little faith don't act like one comment invalidates all of the coverage that found respond if you are the watched our interview on the coney two thousand and twelve video produced by the group invisible children jared poor said on facebook there is no right side in this conflict from so far away i can't tell if there truly is a lesser evil and i think of that's why this video really has caused such a stir and been affected too and made everything quite simple for the viewer just good versus evil unfortunately while cody is certainly an evil man nothing is as simple as it seems especially when you're advocating for international intervention

as ways to take him out and finally i want to respond to a new viewer a.j. pape tweet us at below to show we have bring in some michelle. mn first time i've seen your show so well done so i just want to say thank you for watching all that making fun of bob dylan is always a good time so keep coming back and spread the word and that's it my rantings and i always got with more as usual later in the week. hey guys well guess what this week is sunshine week and even though spring is in the air here in d.c. this isn't about the weather this is about shining a light on government secrecy the sunshine week was created in two thousand and five by the american society for news editors and it's designed to highlight the public's right to know what its government is doing and why and ever since the

society first came up with this idea or journalism groups have expanded the concept to create sunshine week as we know it so this week we're going to be hunting scouring highlighting a few important issues on how transparency comes into play now here is the first one here is. so here's the first thing that i would like to talk about it's senate bill twenty one o five aka the cybersecurity after twenty twelve legislation it was the first attempt by capitol hill the crackdown on cybersecurity but it's the latest one thousand support of much of congress and the backing of the part of homeland security so it was introduced by joe lieberman and susan collins before going into the details of the bill let me just remind you how cybersecurity is one of lieberman's issues just think back to when we were going to oppose the internet kill switch here's how he explained a cyber security threat to c.n.n. and a crowd. this is a matter of national security a cyber attack on america can do as much or more damage to the capacity to our

banks or our communications or our. patient as a conventional word to. nasa lieberman just loves to fear monger about cyber security issues and it's not too surprising that he's behind this year's cyber security act see this bill we put the part of homeland security in charge of creating requirements and guidelines for some government and many private web sites both government and private companies will be subject to these requirements including those deemed as critical infrastructure information and so guess what anything that satisfies the critical infrastructure information act of two thousand and two isn't subject to four other freedom of information act which is pretty important because right now we still don't know what type of information what type of communications created as a result of the bill are going to be put under the ever expanding guise of critical critical infrastructure and therefore will be exempt from for it and so that's got

a lot of people talking putting myself and it's got a lot of i'm concerned open government groups are calling on lawmakers to take the emphasis off of fast tracking this bill so that politicians can weigh out the safety versus the transparency aspects of the writing an open letter to lawmakers who highlights how the bill is keeping even more government information in the dark section seven zero four d. is too broad according to the group and that's a part of it explains how limiting public knowledge about information shared in the cyber security exchanges would be a bad policy so there you have it a cyber security act aimed at protecting infrastructure which is currently run in cyberspace with not only expanded definition of what's critical infrastructure making sure the public's out of the loop on what's happening but it would also violate n.d.a. and keep whistleblowers exposed so call me crazy but the outcry over fast tracking twenty fifteen seems to be appropriate and it's just one example of your right to government transparency being trampled on and sadly we're just going to have more

examples for you throughout the week. now origen secure a second bailout and remain solvent greece implemented the biggest debt right down in history today while commits privately held bonds have now been swapped with new ones worth less than half of their original value but despite the move here's the greece will still be saddled with far too much that remain exactly what the greek population as i'm forced to accept austerity and wage cuts really needs to hear but is it time to start talking about alternatives other ways out that's what happened and then t. or modern monetary theory summit in italy so the world ready for a fresh perspective to get out of a slump so i mean to discuss as william black associate professor of law and economics at the university of missouri kansas city and author of the book the best way to rob a bank is to own one million thanks so much for joining us again and i guess first you know i want to get your take on this big his debt write down in history the happen to today the way that you wrote it you compared it to the occupy movement

here in the u.s. wall occupiers are trying to occupy wall street you say that the entire country of greece is occupied by germany right now. reoccupied of course they did it during world war two with the aid of the government and this time they're even more efficient because they're in. a difficult to government and there's even talk of german tax collectors to germany to crack down on the latest occupation. but i guess so they have seen this coming right i mean if you're going to sign on to be in the eurozone in the in a monetary union and given your economic sovereignty as you wrote it then what do you expect. well i agree that the euro has been a disaster waiting to happen and indeed my colleague stephanie cutter wrote a decade ago about precisely this problem that once the periphery goes into

recession there is no. answer left within the eurozone system we didn't though believe that europe would take such an insane austerity approach that it would actually throw these nations into ever deeper recession but so then i guess you have to get into the reasons as to you know why i think it is that good and he decided to go with this approach of austerity well i mean it went in contravention of everything that is known in economics so it went on the basis of just extraordinary i you elegy it has been proven wrong consistently and they have managed through austerity to put the entire euro zone back into recession . and they've sent unemployment in much of the periphery above twenty percent

if sent you unemployment above fifty percent in a number of these nations and the leading export of nations like ireland and greece is now the irish and the greeks. so now let's talk about you know what it is that you and other economists are trying to discuss is that there really isn't the way the it has to be or that it had to be you know one of the other options not only for greece but for spain for portugal for italy. well our security in the face of a massive recession is the sick joke made living of you know the daily floggings will continue until morale improves around here so they are gaily flooding the economy which already has insufficient demand and making it worse what they ought to be doing is giving people jobs and having them work and productive things and they cannot do that effectively under the euro structure so the periphery needs

to get out of the euro it needs to regain its economic sovereignty by going back in the kalyan case and developing the lira again and what we're really saying is when you give up economic sovereignty it's only a short step to giving up your political sovereignty and freedom as well as you're seeing in greece right now is what you're saying but so. you know i'm also curious do you think that this invalidates any monetary union do you think the eurozone has happen to be a horrible failed experiment or should there never be a monetary union should you never give up their economic sovereignty you should rarely give up your economic sovereignty you can have a monetary union of nations that are have very similar economies that might be the core of europe and you look at the core plus the periphery of europe so the preferred a leading the euro doesn't. necessarily die it would be

a euro germany france and other kinds and perhaps some of the scandinavian nations although as you know not all of them even join the e.u. a bunch less to europe so in the meantime if let's say greece or italy were to exit the euro zone as are saying there are going to be some type of short term consequences right mean is that going to have a trickle down as well as i can affect us. well the primary concern of course is how it effects the greek people of new talent people and such. and the answer is there is no answer right now that the earth really has been sent into this year recession completely gratuitously it didn't have to happen and so you are quite correct if they go and get we euro system there is going to be a problem in greece but there's already a massive problem in greece and really the only way to recover is to develop their

own currency again in terms of the united states i agree with you that the leading threat to the u.s. recovery is a real meltdown in the e.u. and the current e.u. policies are precisely what greece the danger of. but so. the greek people are either dealing with austerity or they want to try to go back and out of the arrows are they going to have to deal with that i guess it's a it's a lose lose at least in the short term william thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you so much. our it's time for our last break for the evening that doesn't think the wealthy have enough influence over our political system so romney supporters and if griffin wins are tools on a war on happy hour just stars stuffiness being rained in and the homeless are being used as internet hotspots at south by southwest all that were from the.

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our guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and this one is going to billionaire kenneth griffith for thinking that money doesn't have enough influence in politics the other week on the chicago tribune published an interview with griffin the founder and chief executive of the head on a company called get it out now in that interview griffin was asked whether he thought the super rich had an inappropriate amount of influence on politics and this was his response he said i think perhaps we have an insufficient influence those who have enjoyed the benefits of our system more than ever now owe a duty to protect the system that has created the greatest nation on this planet spoken like a true ego does to go believe are only probably totally detached from reality to believe that the richest people in this country don't have. enough influence over politics over the past few decades wall street political contributions have increased by over seven hundred percent thanks to citizens united that's led

outside spending on ads rise to over sixteen hundred percent so far and today's politicians are raising more money than ever before and you better believe that six figure donations come with strings attached now between a chokehold and the military duster a complex house our government and a revolving door between the hill and he street who has spoken about countless times seems to me like i don't know at least like the importance of wealth in our political system has never been greater but that's not the only absurd statement the griffin made during that interview he also decided to delve into class warfare he said this is a very sad moment in my lifetime this is the first time class warfare has really been embraced as a political tool because we're looking at an administration that isn't graced class warfare as being politically expedient so yeah i hate to tell you this griffin but there might be a little more of the so-called class warfare as you call it than just political expediency sigrid might not feel the effects seeing that he's one of the four

hundred richest people in america but the truth is that the wealth gap in america's growing and the middle class is shrinking and it's not just something that conveniently surface for this campaign that's a trend that's been taking shape for decades so-called class warfare the grip and references to the american people waking up to the fact that those with money have use their influence to tilt the scale in their favor and the reality is that the wealthy have been waging a shadow war against the american people for years now but they've been exposed they try to paint a very victims of their actions as the insurgents so grip it isn't just a billionaire with a few political thoughts he's also donated millions of dollars to candidates and political groups which makes me wonder if donating millions of dollars to candidates is enough influence for a group in what would be maybe having one of his own in the white house perhaps maybe somebody who thinks like this. my friend. you can raise taxes and of course they are there but the corporations are also the goes to people. our group has donated one hundred fifty thousand dollars to the pro romney super pac restore our

future and now funds out of donating a maximum amount allowed directly to romney's campaign but apparently have still not enough progress and he believes that making it to the top makes you smarter and better equipped to make decisions regarding america's political future so for believing the money gives you the right to dictate the course of a country canada griffin is tonight's told simon. our guide in time for happy hour and joining me this evening r.t. producer jenny churchill and mike riggs associate editor at reason magazine and reason dot com are you so far away you are far away oh my god i'm going to different kind of. a more teeny everywhere you can start it's ok i don't know are you guys big chats band has been like knock you like to play chess but you go over

charles. who actually yes yeah why apparently people like to go watch jazz tournaments and sometimes there's some really like the stuff that can be seen there. but as leader of the sexy but obviously we just love that clip but apparently there is a little problem with cycling it's because there are new rules now that dictates that female players in the european women's championship in turkey. can't show any cleavage and apparently this is a women's championship so it's not like there are male you know playing partners or being distracted it's the fans. but i'm really sure that there's like a really professional dress code for the entire tournament like men have to dress like. these bags and i know flip flops no but i'm going to declare that's like you

know the whole leaving your clothes they're selling out of that too but only and then skirts have to be a certain length and yeah my library nine inches happening is totally reasonable chess becoming sexy is the best thing that could ever happen to it and now they're stifling it this is a revolution. yeah you say to me it's how are you organize our. judge like no cleavage though i mean. i'm probably the best person to ask that question but i don't know i think this makes sense to keep the game classy and boring boring i don't know the action is i do not a word that is easy to take this position and i was shocked at how we shall be actions on the board wow that was on the board i was going to say that over and over but i'm. ok. i'm feeling that he might be lying. but we love. the cherry there's some good history you

speak of. but never actually happened certainly in real life but this software might try to think that there's a study team at the university of buffalo and they're working on video analysis software to analyze movements to spot liars basically so that's something a horrible idea it sounds like the worst idea ever i mean can you imagine if there becomes an i phone app from the us every crazy girlfriend ever is going to say that again you know how their own personal handheld i did actually two way street i love being lied to especially when like somebody spraying the wonderful compliments i don't want to know the truth i don't want to my old ladies like you look great today i don't want to know if she's lying i just i'm just going to yeah but now this is going to be like maury povich except for just you know in an i phone app for everyone it like it's like there's

a mobile. this is going to be in the western civilization as we speak you know which is built on dissent is. i mean it's bad i mean i'm stocking up on spam i would like to find these again and this is the scenario is that you know you're going to snap your i mean how are we going to have order if people know when my i'm telling the truth you know. people that would be crazy you guys who have it if we would use our politicians we wouldn't have any politicians they couldn't function if they had ok this is a pipe dream to me this is not good for us it's not good for us lies ok so basically we want to stop doing this. study out we want to love all. right so south by southwest is going on right now and apparently you know there's some stuff with homeless people and this is kind of a crazy concept take a look. it's an initiative ending today that employs thirteen people who are homeless to carry four g. wireless routers for some my southwest interactive they're not affiliated with the

festival attendees can access these strategically placed hotspots by donating directly to the carriers. so. there are thirteen by the way thirteen homeless men that are hanging around the conference wearing those things pay pal donation. but i think i personally think this is awesome i know people who are outraged by this and saying you're objectifying homeless people but you're giving them an opportunity to go out and do something and and get money for providing a service and one guy was joking it's my small business for that i think it's wonderful i don't understand why everyone so outraged right i think he's right the biggest objection i saw was saying we should say i am a hotspot instead of like i'm carrying a hot spot or i can cane a hot spot i don't know hot spots are people too. my friend that romney might say so i actually think this is a great idea and it's a lot better than. most people newspapers that they sell because like when i buy

one of those allies like france right here on three cents right which is not a successful business model you know it's being propped up by you know but it is ok because these are actually you know it's almost people that actually write the stories in health and it's nobody who reads them so because like i've seen white people give like five dollars to a speech and so when they take five copies it's like you know i feel bad for you i don't actually want to read about your life you know where is this hot spot thing like there's something i actually want to have a good idea or yeah so i can ignore you and just keep browsing the web and you know it's not like i don't know if you have to pay attention everybody you have a transaction with this is ok it was going to have a service that's supposed to help people that doesn't work in the real world newspapers not working around the world they're failing ronson everyday so why is that then why is that then why people go to you and just the other day i was thinking well if you could get streets and song line and then i was like oh wait that doesn't help people so this is something i actually thought and again nobody would street since i think is the biggest thing here tonight. jenny churchill the

one person i'm sure you can. understand so maybe we should go talk to this. huge island. it's going to run and sell insurance cars putting it on the line at the world but i mean i don't know how the homeless people get the money because they buy the papers from street sense and then make the donations they get like all bloggers get like one cents for every doesn't read your stuff you know so all right the business model needs a little bit of work but i figured out that yes are here we don't have time for other stories guys we got to move on but thanks for joining me tonight that's a pretty made show of thanks for tuning in and make sure to come back tomorrow michael hastings rolling stone contributing editor is going to be back on the show for the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the long show on facebook don't forget to follow us on twitter if there's anything you ever missed you can catch it at youtube dot com slash the on the show will find the interviews as well as the show in its entirety and coming up next is the news.

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