well with. its technology innovation all these developments from around russia. the future of. headline schmaltzy ten thirty pm moscow time over two dozen people have been killed and many more injured in the. security. of the syrian capital desperate attempts at the u.n. to bring the conflict to peaceful resolution. two men found guilty of last year's terror attack in minsk have reportedly been executed despite calls from international human rights groups for the death sentence and you can consider. the s.s. march inside the e.u. nazi soldiers hailed as heroes in that rally given top level support triggering public outrage. up today with the latest from moscow now back to washington more of

tonight's alona show in just a few moments. it. the little. the ability. to. archive the time for tonight's tool time ward and why it's quite a special occasion because the winner is that once again he'll be presidential hopeful rick santorum and in fact the fifteenth time event or has been honored on this stage as a standalone winner so just to mark this special occasion we decided to put together a little tribute to see all of rick's time here as the tool time winner. it's time for tonight's tool time award and we're going to give it to former republican

pennsylvania some leverage rick santorum rick santorum brick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum breaks and so i'm rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum rick santorum. rick you know sometimes i really wish for your own good that you would just stop talking but then again that would make finding our winters so much harder so i guess keep up the good work now it's an irate concern the honor once again for injecting himself into your bedroom this time he's decided to go to bat for the children taking down internet porn recently discovered stevan santorum campaign site express that santorum is intense desire to put an end to internet porn or actually this is how he put it he said while the obama department of justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families that will change under a santorum administration what's pornographers over children and families thank god

santorum is here to rescue america from people having sex with each other on video now to be out there that's shocked us and where we go after the internet you should just listen to his thoughts about the internet in general. the internet is not a. free zone where anybody can do anything they want to but the idea that you know anything goes on the internet where they. can operate the internet in our bedrooms rick why on earth would we think that we have the right to do whatever we want in those places i cannot but wonder if a little of santorum is distaste for the internet you know might come from a personal vendetta one stemming from the redefining of his name perhaps it's unfortunate that some people thought that there would be a big joke to make fun of my name. little ricky we got his feelings hurt by the big bad internet why don't he didn't take the whole your name is now defined as a gay sex act being too personally because when it comes to santorum is crusade

against the internet and porn people are going to get whipped up into a proxy frenzy if he contrary to rick squeaky clean america view more than one out of every three people with internet access check out porn on a regular basis that a lot of voters to vilify and alienate don't you think i would write about them gay activists were able to mobilize to smear his name is shocking wages wait until he sees the backlash from this one but he knows imaginary president he can't always do the popular thing but unfortunately for rick his anti-porn statement contains straight up lies like this part is that pornography is toxic to marriages and relationships that contributes to massage any and violence against women break i think it's obvious that over the last twenty years internet access has increased therefore internet porn availability has increased but guess what courting of the census bureau over the last two decades divorce rates are down twenty five percent according to the bureau of justice statistics occurrence of rate is down eighty six percent and clear there are other factors that play into this is well but there is

an argument that everybody gets along a little better when they're able to shall we say release some stress occasionally but i guess that we should see all of this come in given that rick wants to tell us what to do with every aspect of our lives especially those that involve sex and i'm starting to think that maybe he's a little obsessed with other people's sex lives almost to an unhealthy degree maybe he should seek treatment for it but anyway for trying once again to force all americans to be as boring sexually as he is and value to stop the pandemic of pornography rick santorum is tonight's top time winner. well day two of the latest bradley manning hearing at fort meade yesterday we saw prosecutors put a name on the label and any lawyers or lawyers officially accused manning of aiding al qaeda and al qaeda in the region insula we also learned the defense lawyer david coombs filed several motions including the use of depositions from witnesses who were denied by the prosecution and the seven not only was the defense team denied access to key witnesses but the government is also denying them access to the

people in charge of determining what's labeled as classified which is really important to highlight because one of the cruxes of manning's case here is the question of whether or not the documents that were leaked actually harmed national security of the united states in any way and since the defense is so if you materials to help build their case they filed a motion to dismiss all charges against the army private for the most shocking part of yesterday's hearing came from the judge and we'll let our dog lake's haven't got stolen explain why. who's. and she said from in the courtroom today which leaves here on leave she is not familiar with the case material yet and there are some basic details from the article thirty two hearing that she doesn't know about. that's right even the judge for this hearing hasn't done her homework so i think it's safe to say that in order to come to a well rounded decision she should probably know a role adrian lamo played in manning's current attention which brings us to today

when everyone convened again and he blinked you might have missed what happened because after a long delay this whole thing wrapped up in about twenty minutes we did however learn the fate of the motion yesterday the judge ruled against the defense's motion to gain access to classification authorities she says she's quite happy with the way to authorities to determine who the defense can and cannot use as a witness and her reason she said the government a bang up job during article thirty two hearing in december and if they did their job then then she trusts that they've done their job well this time around to now this would be a good time to remind you that the government only allowed ten of the forty eight witnesses requested by the defense during the hearing in december so i think that would be debatable to hear how good of a job that it was also revealed today that bradley manning is going to be back in court on april twenty fourth but we're not sure what exactly is going to be litigated that's linda explain the both sides have to submit what they want to be litigated in a final decision will be made before next month so in short these are this judge who isn't completely up to speed on the case feels that manning's lawyers have ample materials to build their argument and the government hasn't done anything to

impede on the process without a fair hearing perhaps you should be the judge for now. and now we've got a breaking news update for you tonight the suspect in killing of the killing of sixteen afghan civilians has been identified as army staff sergeant robert bales is officials of kern that confirmed the name of the suspect and we'll bring you more details as they come in. now we've spoken about the f.b.i. monitoring of foreign men on animal rights activists many times before here on the show but new documents even more instant insight into how pointless some of these investigations event pointless in the sense that people are being monitored simply for being anarchist of militant feminists who planned rallies for of subarus and went to farmers' markets and supporting take notice and highlight these issues of course because it shows how far the f.b.i. will go under the guise of terrorism to monitor people despite no suspicion of wrongdoing and thanks to the freedom of information act requests john cook has been able to glean information on

a three year long investigation called seizing thunder wells a nationwide investigation called operation that fire so let's see just how big the feds are keeping themselves to supposedly protect us from those with strong political beliefs joining me from our studio in new york is john cook senior writer for gawker dot com john thanks so much for joining us on a first i guess just tell us how it is that you ended up you know trying to look into that filing a freedom of information act request. well i've read a lot about the animal rights movement and rights extremism and the federal government's response to it over this especially during the bush administration and i had filed some requests just looking at the animal liberation front and in some of those documents i go back on the f.b.i. sabino bleak reference to an investigation called seizing thunder which sounded kind of cool so i just filed off request but three years ago for that one and it's back to me and it turns out the season funder was an investigation run out of the portland oregon office of the f.b.i.

and it had at its root a sort of legitimate you know there was a legitimate law enforcement interest they were they were looking for some extremists who had committed some arsons across the pacific northwest and also a notorious one in vail colorado in the one nine hundred ninety s. a cause about twelve million coldly dollars of damage to a ski lodge. but the investigation quickly metastasize from trying to find these specific individuals to literally just that f.b.i. agents sitting in a car outside a farmer's market yeah i mean felony act and a lot of i briefly i briefly mentioned you know the subaru the farmer's market but tell us some of the other examples that you found hundred documents. oh there's a lot of instances of informants just telling agents about the little giving in the the license plate numbers of every car that parked out of what big but what they called parked outside of what they called a a no one in

a case hang out and you know there's nothing illegal about being an anarchist that surely no federal law against that so it's just bizarre that we've got you know federal law enforcement resources especially in the wake of nine eleven this is going on two thousand and two to two thousand and five. federal law enforcement resources devoted to you know just keeping track of what cars are parked out of known anarchist hangouts there's a lot a lot of instances like that there's instances of people you know a warning that one agent received from an informant saying that the the local homeless groups are aligning with anarchist groups and are going to create a homeless camp as though there's anything the f.b.i. should be involved in there there's cases of agents monitoring it's a war protest protest against the i.m.f. and world bank and the agents you know find out about this is a memo where an agent very proudly recounts how an informant told them about an

upcoming march against the i.m.f. in eugene and he informed the eugene police department and he writes menacing i averted a riot there was going to be a riot and because i warned the eugene police department about it there wasn't a riot will know it was a march and there was going to be a teach in and some bands were going to play so that they just these are sort of clueless agents who don't understand. you know the political activism and think it poses some kind of dangerous of the just sort of you know what rhythm uk well i mean one hand you know a little funny at first when you listen to some of the things that they did and you say while scared of. them home with the lions or people going to punk rock shows but you know it's it's funny right this is posed to be a democracy and so how dangerous is that when you start being monitored by the f.b.i. sometimes very stupid thousand agents like you mentioned for the fact that you're practicing your rights that you're expressing your political views. well i mean

it's not quite up to the standards of you know the stasi or the soviet era k.g.b. or the or the nixon era f.b.i. for that matter i think a lot of it's motivated by this you know what happened in the in the two thousand as the bush administration said our top counterterrorism domestic counterterrorism priority is animal rights and environmental extremism that was the number one thing . and domestically and a lot of resources internally in the department just in the f.b.i. went to the environmental and animal rights extremism and you know as of two thousand and five there are one hundred fifty active federal investigations and i think what happens is just agents who want their careers to succeed look to what their bosses priorities are and they go with it and i think that's what's behind a lot of it and there's not a tremendous amount of of indications that any of this intelligence was was used.

in in a pernicious way was just it's just sort of the the the just kind of run amok although the one thing that is there definitely was in chilling i think that went on there was a deliberate effort in in the run up to the two thousand and four political conventions two thousand and four r. and c. in new york there was definitely a concerted effort by the f.b.i. and other federal law enforcement agencies to keep track of anarchists leftists and he asked them are you going to are and see what are your plans and to develop intelligence and i think a lot of that was aimed at letting people know we're watching you don't try anything thought and you know i mean unfortunately i feel like we hear these stories a lot right we've seen a piece of investigation and then my p.d. and their surveillance program any kind of a muslim population in the northeast and i'm fortunate we always find out about these things very often after the fact right it took you three years to get that

information through deploy requests but you. also mentioned that you know in fact the f.b.i. inspector general had issued a report thing if they went too far he had to take a guess i think anything to change or they thought doing the same now the thinking out there that are in thing in the d.n.c. this year to you and we know the pair the occupy protesters are going to be there well that's what i mean one thing that is very clear from these of these documents and other sort of cases of f.b.i. monitoring political extremists i think it's very clear that there are f.b.i. informants in occupy camps that the f.b.i. is keeping tabs on on these on these people especially and you know what they call they regard as the ever kissed movement that they are paying attention to them and they regard them as for some reason a federal law enforcement priority and so it would not surprise me on that we do know in fact that there are we would call her coworker agent trying to guard her has reported on. it an informant who was sending forwarding.

occupy e-mail list serv information to the f.b.i. but i'm sure there are people in the camps who are. reporting back to f.b.i. agents. and yet i guess it makes her a point to find out exactly extent of all of it john thank you so much for joining us tonight my pleasure thanks for having me. i had time for our last break of the evening but we come back tired said friday and then happy hour the co-founder of invisible children masturbating in public and if the government makes you get it ultrasound against your will one lawmaker suggests that you just close your eyes.

to tonight's fireside with your host cops.

here weeks ago i covered her report by human rights watch report the highlight of the incredibly high numbers of youth juvenile offenders are facing a life in prison without parole three hundred in the state of california alone are behind bars for life with no way out nationwide that number is twenty five hundred but next week on march twentieth supreme court is going to hear oral arguments in two case. is to decide if sentencing juveniles to spend the rest of their lives to die in prison is unconstitutional and these two cases are jackson versus hobbs and miller versus alabama two cases were fourteen year olds were convicted of murder sends to life in prison without parole and this is a subject that divides a lot of people we saw within our own audience so we posed this question to you we went and spoke to people on the street well it might seem that if a kid is capable of committing heinous crimes they must know what they're doing they can't have the child the mind of a child anymore the evidence just doesn't the rulings of the supreme court in the past just don't add up and let's not forget one of the few countries out there

especially democratic nations the still have capital punishment thankfully the supreme court ruled in two thousand and five that juveniles can now be sentenced to death in two thousand and ten they ruled that juveniles guilty of non homicide crimes can't be sentenced to life without parole based on these two prior rulings they should say that even in cases of murder sentencing a young person to rot away in jail without any chance of rehabilitation is wrong and that's because in past rulings we've seen supreme court justices argue that juveniles are less mature that they're not fully developed they're more vulnerable to external influences and they have a greater capacity to change and for be a village patient there are psychological studies out there to back that up neuro science can back it up and despite the fact that we treat kids like kids and have legal boundaries for what they can and can't do until a certain age and so many other areas why is our criminal justice system different we don't trust people to drink legally in this country until they're twenty one years old but we believe that at age fourteen they can be capable of being

completely rational and fully where their actions and the repercussions in cases of violent crime and there's no definitive way to say yes or no what's going on in that person's mind but the studies show what they show if we believe them elsewhere it's hard to imagine why wouldn't apply them here as well perhaps it's because americans have been conditioned to buy into this tough on crime logic ok. that we don't have the largest known incarceration system in the world we've given up on rehabilitation as a country which means that we're giving up on people we'd rather lock them up throw away the key and deal with them like human beings and it's worst of all if we do that too are you saying that doesn't mean that you don't think that people deserve punishment for their crimes it's simply about believing if they have the capacity to change and at least giving them the option to prove it to start over after serving their time so we'll be covering this case for you next week are we keeping you updated with all the details but in the meantime just think about what some of the court has the right.

god time for happy hour and joining me this evening archie read writer andrew blake and kevin glass managing editor at john hall thanks for joining me guys are up here to be. talking about the company twenty twelve video on this show before and we were going through some of the problems with that we had to highlight for our fans but there is quite a p.r. scandal today but for the purpose of this remind you of things like. our goal change the conversation of our culture and give people the house who is joseph we have printed hundreds of thousands of posters stickers yard signs and fires that are right now today being put up in your cities all over the world. are there lot of critique about the video the finances of invisible children and what not but

whatever their christian dude some standy a go they want to come off as like children saviors they can do no harm that jason russell one of the co-founders was detained in the pacific beach for being drunk in public and masturbating and also i think there was some vandalization involved and this all happened eleven o'clock in the morning. this is their goal is to change the conversation and to get people asking who joseph cohen he is but obviously their brain just negative attention upon themselves you know if you're asking me who are invisible children who are these guys behind it and through what kind of you know organizational founder is drunk in public masturbating and probably going to be let go they even though you they will oh not so much right he's been everywhere they're getting all the flack from everybody maybe he's having a breakdown because of all the negative xander so they say that he was exhausted but i can't masturbate when i'm tired so i don't so i'm assuming drugs probably m.d.m.a.

i'm just going to jump to conclusions but but. yeah it's funny. the masturbation big thing if you just put me on the spot i thought i thought i was going to hear a little more from you know if they got this thing when the video came out everyone on the internet apparently except for me yeah yeah and they really call who are these dude's and then they started saying all these dude's they're bad and there's like this conspiracy that these these dude's these invisible kids or whatever it where they can sort of every time i'm talking to guys the guys invisible kids are children invisible children yeah so that people are selling they're just blowing people's money all these people are like oh this coney. and they're giving out money to these kids dude's. time's running out. he's going to go saying they're just blowing their money and now we know that at least it wasn't like going right at the dude's nose he was just boozing themself hard and laura ling was blowing that i mean yesterday look at this.

pennsylvania's. ultrasound bill they also have an ultrasound bill this is different from the virginia bill because it's specify what type of ultrasound but when people you know who had a problem with this ask the governor this is tom corbett this is what he had to say . it's a lose it's not a true sense. but i'm still waiting to see the water. that was. making you pretty much ok because you just have to close your eyes. it is that to close your eyes works i'm not going to defend his statements here at but they do specify it's supposed to be a non-intrusive type of a book of ultrasound and you know i've had an abdominal ultrasound it's not a huge thing to go through what it really comes down to i'm pretty is a pennsylvania's bill doesn't specify what kind of ultrasound it's going to be and

so is it has to be a non-intrusive ultrasound in the language is vague to say the big you have to wear . critics of that it's true begun under certain circumstances there might be transvaginal ultrasounds involved but that's an easy fix if if the how he wins and the experience of the legislation well in my eyes if you say you know the dominant doesn't provide enough information to the mother who is going in for an abortion you can say well then we can we can't give this kind of information but and he said in some of the your i guess you can still close your eyes and like i said getting rid of the pool is the only further step though right because the doctor has to give you the ultrasound images you get you copies of the printed image then you have to tell you about the number of heart people. that you have to get on the paper and find you bring the ultrasound images to your doctor if you know you know what it's a simple as if you don't want to close your eyes you should just masturbate on the streets of california eleven o'clock in the morning and you wouldn't be getting an abortion don't have sex there you go very answered if you don't go

a lot of really quick newly discovered about i think really. wise words live in running for. resistance the holes in their early years they are. never sort of sensually to who are cursed rights that are growing within their blood so essentially we found the riser using alcohol as a medicine and their self medicating giving drugs. all right not only medicating but they did this whole experiment where they put the fruit fly than a jar with like some female they just mated so she went down and so the i started drinking because of the lack of sex yet another like serum and this confirms humans and animals are not so different as if the colony guy clearly wasn't doing anything the first flight shutdown of the bar he drowns the sorrows just like any of us think if the fruit flies drunk and put him in a jar of the girl fruit fly in this lake the worst frat party we've got to wrap

up ok this is really uncomfortable we are now i think going to have a vision i thank you for joining us come back i may have a great weekend.