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and then is germany occupying greats or to speak with author william black about the plight of greece in the country they gave up their economic sovereignty. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big picture. on. morning news today violence is once again flared up.
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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 tube because we've got something to say i listen now first i want to respond to many of our viewers that are upset about a comment that our tease christine for example made on our happy hour segment on friday here's what that's collision comments on you tube and said o m g did r t get
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bought out this is the worst crap i have ever seen from them they quote they hate the military are you kidding me problem pawn 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 right now first off though our t. didn't get bots got a lot of negative feedback for you guys about that statement but i would urge those of you that are upset with the context of course the coverage the book receivers out r.t. as a whole has given to ron paul and his supporters nobody to never believe that ron paul hates the military or their supporters do in fact quite the opposite you notice are one of the only or one of or if not one of the only networks that actually covers ron paul support within the military but the whole point of happy hour from casual sometimes i think statements maybe go unfinished got a little sloppy i can assure you that ron paul hates the military was not what christine intended to say so how little faith going to act like one comment validates all of the coverage that saw to respond if you were the watched our interview on the kone two thousand and twelve video produced by the group invisible
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children who are set 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 effective to make everything quite simple for the viewer just good versus evil unfortunately while cody is certainly an evil man nothing is a simple as it seems especially when you're advocating for international intervention was a place to take him out and finally. i want to respond to a new viewer a.j. pape tweeted at the alone a show way to bring it to michelle who have been first time i've seen your show well done so i just want to say thank you for watching all of it making fun of bachman is always a good time so keep coming back and spread the word and that's it my rantings and i are back with more as usual later in the week.
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hey guys well guess what this week is sunshine week and even though spring is in the air here in d.c. so 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 of 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 senate bill twenty one o five k. the cybersecurity after two thousand and twelve legislation is the first attempt by capitol hill the crackdown on cybersecurity but it's the latest one thought of the
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support of much of congress and the backing of the government 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 proposed the internet kill switch here's how he explained a cyber security threat to c.n.n. and he crowley. this is a matter of national security a cyber attack on america can do as much or more damage to. sure our communications or our. transportation as a conventional war. that's the leverage of the loves of 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 would prefer part of homeland security in charge of creating requirements and guidelines for some government and many private websites both government and private companies would be subject to these requirements
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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 foil the freedom of information act which is pretty important because right now we still don't know what type of information what type of communication is 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 foil and so that's got a lot of people talking quoting myself and it's got a lot of them concerned open government groups are calling on lawmakers to take the emphasis off of fast tracking this bill and the politicians can weigh out the safety versus the transparency aspects of the writing an open letter to lawmakers group highlights how the bill would keep even more government information in the dark section seven zero four g. 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 the cyber security act aimed at protecting
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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 government transparency being trampled on and sadly we're just going to have more examples for you throughout the week. now in order to secure a second bailout and remain solvent greece implemented the biggest debt write down in history today it's privately held bonds have now been swapped with new ones worth less than half of their original value but despite the move fears the greece will still be saddled with far too much that remains exactly what the greek population as a force 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 at and t.
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or modern monetary theory summit in italy so is the world ready for a fresh perspective to get out of the slump joining me to discuss was 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 that happened today the way that you wrote it you compared it to the occupy movement here in the u.s. occupiers are trying to occupy wall street you say that the entire country of greece is occupied by germany right now yeah reoccupied of course they did it during world war two with the aid of a puppet government and this time they're even more efficient because there. will be a permanent now there's even talk of german tax collectors to germany to crack down in the latest occupation i but i guess said they have seen this
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coming right i mean if you're going to sign on to be in the eurozone and be in a monetary union and give up 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 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. europe would take such an insane austerity approach it would actually throw these nations into ever deeper recession that's a then i guess you have to get into the reasons as to you know why i think it is that europe did indeed decide to go with this approach. very well i mean it
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went in contravention of everything that is known in economics so it went on the basis of just extraordinary ideology that has been proven wrong consistently and they have managed through austerity to put the entire euro zone back into recession . and they sent unemployment in much of the periphery above twenty percent a cent youth unemployment above fifteen percent in a number of these nations and believing export of nations like ireland and greece is now the irish in the greeks so now let's talk about you know what it is that you and other economists are trying to discuss is there a therapy 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 austerity in the face of a massive recession is the sick joke made living of you know the gaily floggings
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will continue until morale improves around here so they are gaily flooding the economy which already has insufficient the mainland 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 carrying case and developing the lira. and what we're really seeing is when you give up at anomic sobber it's only a short step to giving up your political sovereignty and freedom as well as are seeing in greece right now is what you're saying that so. you know i'm also curious do you think that this invalidates any monetary the ending i think the eurozone has
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happened to be a horrible failed experiment or should there never be a monetary union should you never give up your economic sovereignty you should rarely give a correct anomic sovereignty you can have a monetary union of nations that are have very similar economies that might be the core of europe and you couldn't the core plus the periphery of europe so the preferred a leading the euro doesn't mean that the euro would necessarily die it would be germany france and of the ones and perhaps some of the scandinavian nations although as you know not all of them even joining the e.u. much less the euro so in the meantime if they greece or italy were to exit the euro zone as they are saying there are going to be some type of short term consequences right meat is that going to have the trickle down as well as i can affect the u.s. . well the primary concern of course is how it affects the greek people and kalyan people and such. and the answer is there is no answer right now that the
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periphery has been sent in can assume we're recession completely gratuitously it didn't have to happen and so you are quite correct if they go and get we the euro system there is going to be a problem in greece but there is already a massive problem in greece and really the only way to recover is to develop their own currency in terms of the united states i agree with you 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 increased danger of. but so. the greek people are either dealing with austerity or they want to try to go back and get out of the verizon they're going to have to deal with tough times that you
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know 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. hard five our last break of the evening but when we come back i don't think the wealthy have enough influence over our political system so romney supporter can afford it and wins our tools on a war but i'm happy hour just hours from phoenix being rained in and the homeless are being used as internet hotspots at south by southwest all that will come back. to. get are sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then he lives something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.
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sorry. technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. live. our guys it's time for tonight's tool time ward and this one is going to billionaire kenneth griffith for thinking that money doesn't have enough influence in politics through the weekend the chicago tribune published an interview with griffin the founder and chief executive of the hedge fund company called citadel and 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 they actually 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 egotistical billionaire only somebody totally detached from reality to
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believe that the richest people in this country don't have enough influence over politics but about two decades that wall street's political contributions have increased by over seven hundred percent thanks to citizens united that put outside spending on ads rise to over sixteen hundred percent so far and so these politicians are raising more money than ever before and you better believe that six figure donations come with strings attached between the chokehold and the military death row complex how is our government and the revolving door between the hill and history who is spoken about countless times seems to me like i don't know at least like the influence of wealth in our political system has never been greater but that's not the only absurd statement griffin made during that interview he also decided to delve into class warfare he said this is a very sad moment in my life this is the first time class warfare has really been embraced as a political tool because we're looking at the ministration that is embrace to class warfare as being politically expedient so yeah he can tell you there's griffin but
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there might be a little more of the so-called class warfare as you call it just political expediency i think rather 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 is growing and the middle class is shrinking and it's not just something that conveniently surface for this campaign that's a true. that's been taking shape for decades so-called class warfare of the group and references the american people waking up to the fact that those with money have used their influence until 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 the very victims of their actions as the insurgents so group it isn't just a billionaire with a few political thoughts he's also donated millions of dollars to candidate 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
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maybe somebody who thinks like that's. corporations are people my friend we can raise taxes and of course they are everything corporations sure it also goes to people so our group has donated one hundred fifty thousand dollars to the pro romney super pac restore our future and that's on top of donating a maximum amount allowed directly to romney's campaign but really 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 that money gives you the right to dictate the course of the country ahead of griffin is tonight's poll time when. our guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening our t.v. producer jenny churchill and mike riggs associate editor at reason that asean and reason dot com so far away you are far away oh my god in
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a different kind of. deal where more teeny everywhere could start. i don't know are you guys big chest span the like not you like to play chess but you got to go over chess. actually yeah yeah fairly people like to go watch chess tournaments and sometimes there's some really liking stuff that can be seated. that's leader of exactly but obviously we just love that clip but apparently there is a little problem 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 really sure there's like
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a really professional dress code for the entire tournament like i have to dress like preach. bags and i know flip flops no i go to where you like to leave their clothes well or something not to but only and then skirts have to be a certain length and i'm sorry my knee injuries have to me is totally reasonable chess becoming sexy is the best thing that could ever happen to it and other states feeling it this is a revolution. yeah when i say i mean sorry or should i say i would like how you judge like no cleavage though i mean. i'm probably the best person to ask that question but i don't know i didn't this makes sense to keep the game classy and boring boring i don't know the action is i do not a word that anyone take this position that i'm saying shots rotella shallow actions on the board wow that was on the board i was going to say that over and over but i'm. ok. i don't feel like he might be right.
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here is the quote we love to. change. something. so yes because. that ever actually haven't seen anybody in real life but this software might try to do that there's a study team at the university of buffalo and they're working on video analysis software analyzed movements to spot liars basically so that's not a horrible idea it sounds like the worst idea ever i mean can you imagine if there are becomes an i phone from the us every crazy girlfriend ever is going to say that again. they have their own personal handheld i mean that's a two way street i love being lied to especially when like somebody's speaking the wonderful confluence i don't want to know the truth i don't want to truth my old
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ladies like you were great today i don't know if she's right i just i'm just going to yeah but now this is going to be like maury povich or just on the street you know in an i phone app where everyone if. there's a mobile it's going to be in the western civilization as we speak you know which is built on dissent in israel so i mean it's bad i mean i'm stocking up on spam vote or i would like to start using a i know this is good and it is the usenet or i mean how are we going to have water if people know when like i'm telling the truth you know. people that would be crazy can you imagine happen if we would use this on our politicians we wouldn't have any politician they couldn't function if they have to this is a pipe dream jimi really this is not good for us it's not even for us lies ok so basically we want them to stop doing this yes so you're out we don't know you love them. all right so that i felt less was going on right now and apparently you know
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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 by 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 it's a pay pal donation. and i think i personally think that this is awesome i know people were 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 the day i think it's wonderful i don't understand why everyone so outraged i think jimmy's right biggest objection i saw was saying the shirts say i am a hot spot instead of like i'm carrying a hot spot or i can paint a hot spot and i don't know hot spots are people too. my friend as mitt romney
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might say so i actually think this is a great idea and it's a lot better then. most people newspapers that they sell because like when i buy one of those guys like sam's right here on three cents right which is not a successful business model you know it's being you know but it is good because these are actually you know it's almost people that actually write the stories and it's nobody who reads them so just 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's the soft spot thing like there's something i actually wanted something i did yeah but so i never you would just keep browsing the way oh you know it's only i don't know if you have to pay attention to everybody you have a transaction with this is how capitalism was going to have a service that's supposed to help people that doesn't work in the real world newspapers don't work in the real world they're failing responsibly every day so why is back then why is that then what people go to and just the other day i was
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thinking well if you could get street sense on line and i was like oh wait that doesn't help the homeless people so this is something that actually does and again nobody read streets and i think it's the biggest thing here and that is pretty good . jenny he churchill the one person i'm sure you can. understand so maybe we should go talk to this ring fence if you check out. russian celebration starts putting it on an online world sounds i mean i don't know how the homeless people get the money because they'd buy the papers from st johnstone and 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 figure it out that's it yes or here we don't have time for other stories because we got to move on but thanks for joining me tonight that's a pretty late show of things for tuning in our nation because i can are oh michael hastings rolling stone contributing editor is going to be back on the show in the meantime don't forget speaking of families on the show facebook don't forget to
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