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get ready for a game of monopoly president obama's passing go and collecting all of our national defense resources in times of emergency anyway we'll tell you how a new executive order means the u.s. government can run the board whenever it wants. separate thread. in the forseeable future and from warmongering to cyber hysteria the us has sure cultivated a taste for fear tactics and now the government is blazing a trail in the deserts of utah with a super spy center mad to monitor their every move. and if you thought lawmakers were raking in the dough wait until you find out how much money they make when they
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start lobbying let's just say they made richie rich but poor. it's tuesday march twentieth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz of all you're watching our team. well it is an executive order signed by president obama has sparked controversy on both sides of the political aisle but national defense resources preparedness executive order was signed quietly friday night gives the president the power to control u.s. resources in times of war and peace this includes food water oil and transportation now some are concerned this could lead to the executive branch having absolute authority over the nation's resources and others question if this is all and part peroration to go to war with iran here is white house press secretary jay carney is
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answer to that question at a press conference. it's an. hour to hour. service was. explained with its. reaction to it i think it was a fairly. standard and rich. piece of business. so is this just business as usual or does it give the executive branch unprecedented amount of power to talk more about this radio host alex jones joins me now from austin hi alex nice to see you so we just heard though the white house they're they're they're brushing this off saying it's not really a big deal but should americans be alarmed. americans should be extremely alarmed look at the indy a where the president saying he can secretly kill
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americans and have bags put over our head and have a throne and a black vans to disappear forever or look at the t.s.a. in the airports groping people look at the drones in our skies look at arming checkpoints now the end of posse common taught us what's dangerous about this cold war era emergency legislation is that it was for basically nuclear war and it is for the government taking over infrastructure you notice carney didn't deny that he just says this is business as usual the difference is they're taking that out of the deep freeze and trying to thaw it out and the president said last year during the libya war that hey i don't need congress' approval watch this war and then two weeks ago they told congress and the secretary defense did i don't need your authorization the president doesn't need it to go into syria we'll do it if we want because the u.n. gives us permission so we have
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a president and others saying they take orders from the u.n. and they're taking legislation designed for them for when the us is under a nuclear attack and everything's been destroyed basically they're saying we're going to use this in peacetime so that's the difference that we see the president shutting down power plants without congressional approval so his buddies make more money with their power plants that are left on we see the president nationalizing general motors giving tens of trillions to foreign banks we see the president signing legislation to charge people with felonies if they protested national security events all of this is part of an acceleration and it was incremental now it's an acceleration towards classical tyranny and so we would be insane if we weren't concerned about this new executive order now alex song. executive similar executive orders in the past one president cited them as that they could be used and special special powers can be used during times of emergency
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but as you just mentioned this is special this is different because it allows the president to exercise its authority in times of peace so what does this mean when can the president now use absolute control. well the president may try to implement this it's still unconstitutional it's still illegal they can pass an n.d.a. saying they can kill me and no one ever knows where i live you know literally blow my head off tie a chain around me throw me in the ocean they're saying they have that power i say it's legal i say it's a violation of common law a bill of rights constitution but yes you're right the difference here is they're saying hey we can do this for any economic emergency or anything else not just during a major world war and so that's why this is so on president and so incredibly dangerous and that's why so many people are concerned about it they just want to
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bring these powers in and then not have people challenge it they don't like the fact that they're prying to power grab right now ahead of all these new wars they want to start and people are standing up and saying of this is wrong including congress legislation has been introduced by walter jones of north carolina that obama launches new wars in syria or other areas without congressional approval that impeachment begins that has not been on any globalist corporate new world order media here in the united states not a.b.c. not fox not seeing it in none of them have covered that impeachment proceedings have begun look there's major power grabs happening and if we don't stand up and a crime we're all in serious serious danger now on you mentioned war and you run a reporter asked the question if perhaps war with iran this is all in preparation for a war with iran you heard some laughs there. part of the heart of a sun behind us executive order. yeah think about that everyone knows that israel
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says they're get ready to strike iran and there's open discussions of it they've got special forces and proxy groups blowing up military bases in iran now that's on record and we see the president putting the u.s. on a war footing and signing a declaration that allows the grabbing of the entire infrastructure that's what it says and people say it does this have to do with iran and people laugh like we're strange because we're actually keeping our eye on the ball that's the biggest sign there that you know how close we are towards this new war they're sending russian troops into syria the russian ships are there dock. all of this china the chinese president two months ago said prepare for war with the us china has never talk like that i mean the world is racing towards a giant conflict and the system doesn't want the people to know about this or to be
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part of the debate they want to see all there is actually they're going to have with iran. it's crazy that there might be a war how crazy oh we're saying it will secretly kill citizens if we want then use the military on him oh it's crazy to not like that again they don't want to be awake to this they don't want to to be discussing this because we might be able to stop this madness so you think it might might be a little bit of a it was an uncomfortable laughter one poll that was raising eyebrows that high home this order was signed that late friday night before st patrick's a do you find the timing strange. well it's clear that they didn't want the public debating this or looking at this just like the national defense authorization act was signed in the afternoon on new year's eve december thirty first two thousand and eleven obama had said he didn't want to sign it then it turned out he demanded that the provision for secret arrest of citizens and secret killing and torture be added
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people asked is this martial law yes we've been under a soft form of martial law with secret erast warrantless spying protesters getting beaten up all of these type of things going on for a long long time now they're telling us tortures good secret arrests of citizens is good government taking over infrastructure is good they don't deny all this stuff that we warn people about forever being real now you know before they laugh you can say it wasn't real now it's real but you're still a conspiracy theorist if you don't trust them well then all the founding fathers of this country were conspiracy theorists and the last thing i want to say is this throughout history governments have gotten out of control and hurt people and i want to buy and understand this is not even america doing this the same banks you see openly appointing presidents and prime ministers and europe the same mega banks announcing world government are the people that have captured america it's nice all
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of the arts that are doing this well they set off shore playing our nations off against each other we need to come together against the new world order global crime banking center kit and restore our country's sovereignty before world war three is started and a good news is the military and police and others that i talk to are waking up in droves and that's why the system's trying to excel or rate their takeover and trying to sign these pieces of legislation in the dead of night before a holiday when they think people will be too drunk to notice. if they do want to switch now to another topic i know you have very strong opinions about the. also has to do with government expanding powers at essays the newest and biggest surveillance program it's called total information awareness the program targets all kinds of electronic information from around the world so this includes emails tweets texts phone conversations you name it from u.s. citizens and here what you're looking at here is the center in utah it's been
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called the biggest spider machine ever in existence alec should citizens be concerned about how the government is handling this wealth of information that they will now have. well just five years ago bush tonight they were doing this because it was illegal and now i saw a large magazine just a few days ago and they said watch what you say and then they have the secretary of defense they had the cia director. in their portrayal saying oh we're working with industry they have bugs in tracker systems built into all appliances your dishwasher is going to be listening to you watch what you say we don't need warrants anymore just like they said they'll secretly arrest us just like they say they'll kill us i mean they're just full on treating all this tyranny in our face now the head of the cia it's illegal by the way to have them involved and i strictly doesn't care he says yeah the cia is watching you america that is
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a system in our case telling us you're a slave and trying to intimidate us we you know what's betray us i'm an american i don't work for goldman sachs like you new world order guys do i'm here to defend my republic and i'm not scared of you no matter what happens what you're doing is illegal and just because you publicly announce you're going to arrest and kill citizens and that you're going to spy on us without warrants and they're going to put troops on the streets and they're going to do all this doesn't make it ok it's like when the troops got caught growing opium under orders three years ago in afghanistan they just did it in plain sight and had fox news and c.n.n. go yeah the troops grow the opium and ship it to you in america but if we catch you with it you're going to prison i mean think about how they hide it in plain view yeah we torture yeah we spy on you yeah we do all of this but it's no big deal get used to it you know what we're not going to get used to it you're in guiding and convicting yourselves globalist that you're a bunch un-american traitors and the people are waking up to what you're doing you
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have robbed this country blind of tens of trillions of dollars through the banker bailout you're trying to conquer the us to find her i do want to bring them to justify for a some of us i want to play this sound bite from where i believe defense secretary or pranab here's what he has to say about the terrible. the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples or our power systems or our grid. so cyber security is a concern you know where we're becoming more more modernize we have hacktivists it's kind of part of a more modernized world so shouldn't the government that take steps to address it if it in fact is a threat yeah out of the u.s. and israeli government launched the struction in iran and now are using the stocks net as a reason to have the government take over all the infrastructure in the internet and put kill switches and all of the devices when they're the ones that have been
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caught before launching false flags against the internet structure that he and this isn't a u.s. government it's long gone this is a bunch of private globalist who have taken over and hijacked our country shame let us take over the internet and shut down people's free speech to protect it it's the opposite that's not what they're doing again this isn't our government anymore that's the point i'm trying to make here it wasn't bad alex what who is it that if it's not our government that's. it is six mega banks goldman sachs j.p. morgan chase and a handful of others that openly have announced a bank of the world the economist magazine admits they've got a goldman sachs takeover of europe hostile takeover of europe it's a private corporate fascist group that have bought off our governments and gotten control of our militaries they control europe they control england they control australia they control the united states and everybody better look out including
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those of us inside the empire because these crooks know that they've got to fully take over or they're going to end up all going to jail these are crooks these are crazy bankers they make forty to one bets with their own customers money who have nuclear weapons they are completely full of bravado and chutzpah and everybody better look out and here's the bad news ok he's doing them well they can back off it will only make them get crazier they're running why old and we are going to be talking more about that later in the show tests how special interests affects our government and whether or not democracy is as present today as it has been in the past alex pleasure to have you on the show that was our experiments host of the alex jones our. well still ahead on our to you from capitol hill to k. street it looks like it pays for lawmakers to sell out to lobbying firms how bots
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that are might give you a headache story to some home at. least put a picture of me even though i was like nine years old and just you know lived through . it i'm a total get over friends that i was going to happen for. that it was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the world with its place. the. pepper spray which is burning gerard's right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's
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a free product essentially. i see much stronger than anything if you buy off. thousands of times i'm stronger than any kind of after you've ever put your. people calling like you said the free and fair elections. and we're still reporting from the winter and you can hear behind me loud explosions.
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well apparently it's selling out pays off at least if you're a congressman lawmakers they serve their time make their connections and when they get out get lucrative careers as a lobbyist there are a few examples former congressman billy tauzin a republican from arizona once you jump to the private sector his salary is shot up seven thousand one hundred and ten percent while he was in congress you voted for the bush prescription plan and now he lobbies for pharmaceutical companies and then there is former senator chris dodd a democrat from connecticut once you got out of congress he went on to lobby for the motion picture association for america and it paid off his salary increase by seven hundred sixty two percent and another example there is former senator tom
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daschle well a democrat from south dakota you found a more lucrative career as a lobbyist raking in one thousand two hundred and twenty percent more than he did as a member of congress. well to discuss this more i'm joined now by john lee communications and outreach coordinator for united for public welcome to the show so first off this just screams of. conflict of interest isn't there a conflict of interest when they go on and work for congress and then they make money off of lobbying and congress knows that is actually two conflicts of interest the first one is that when you're actually in office you're allowed to continue to negotiate with people for your next job so if you're retiring member of congress you could be talking to the m.t.a. or to the drug industry and saying well i want to become a lobbyist for your organization or for your lobby after i leave office and at the very same time you're doing this you could be potentially overseeing legislation
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again seriously affect their lobby or their industry i mean quid pro quos are technically illegal but there's very little real oversight or regulation of this and unfortunately that's a huge called the divisions in the other one of course is that once you leave office you have all those connections within the executive branch of the legislative branch and you can continue to have levels of access for those industries that ordinary people wouldn't have which is why lobbies love to hire former members of congress i thought how often do you think this goes on and it's really interesting there's only foundation which is the transparency of your bachelor looked at the careers of everyone who lost their retired in two thousand and ten and the people who are employed now who have jobs. over fifty percent went into some form of lobbying in terms of the people who left congress in twenty ten now well how do you think of this of tax laws that are passed. you know you can affect in all sorts of ways one really good example is judd gregg judd gregg was a senator from new hampshire republican senator and at the very same time that he was overseeing sort of this financial reform law he was being courted by goldman
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sachs where he works now doing sort of over government affairs committee relations sorts of things so you can see that these people have a huge pain to sort of please the lobby's they get really great employment after leaving office which is always much more lucrative in their careers now well when you have lobbyists that are congressmen that i'm going to lobbying. as we said conflict of interest whose interest that our lawmakers serving while they're supposed to be serving the public know exactly i mean the the oath that they take when they enter conan this is an oath to the constitution is not know to the drug lobby or to chamber of commerce or any other sort of special interest group but what sort of our system does which allows them to legally become lobbyists and it is tom daschle is case he's not a registered lobbyist but he still more or less influence is congress as a consultant you know what it allows them to do sort of the oath that they took to the public and is instead sort of private interests who are paying their marriages
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amounts of money now you know america are supposed to be a democracy we elect our leaders but doesn't this that make the voice of the average citizen you're all about. it's very interesting you know you know in the united states we want to or one of the freest countries in the world we have excellent free speech and it's not law as a right of assembly but unfortunately we still have elections which are fairly private as meaning to make a campaign yet enormous amounts of money that our system that way and we freely allow our legislators to become lobbyists you know we have no b. and we have cooling off period so we have to wait a year or two depending what your position is or if you're a staffer but you're still freely allowed to lobby and to join up with these private interests and that to me is a perversion of sort of what our country is about because when you're serving a private interest it's a foreign tyranny because you're not you're not as hell is going to be who elected you sort of people who pay you money and a tiny group of people paying you money have more influence over you than your constituents then it's not really democracy and how does this happen most of it
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does happen happens behind closed doors in secret. sure there are a few in terms of negotiating when you're still a sitting member of congress to become a lobbyist there are a few sort of disclosure requirements on the house side unfortunately there's no public disclosure by many of the tell the house ethics committee and the public and find out significantly later on the senate side there's talk to requirements but still after the three month period called the lame duck period where they after the election happens you basically are free rein to negotiate with people you not disclose immediately the current laws are there full of loopholes and honestly it's probably intentional half of the people in the retiring congress has become law yes of course they don't want rules that will belive the public know what they're doing so would you say then that a lot of lawmakers are that motivated by special interests and making money when they get out of office you know and i think they absolutely are most of them don't want to admit it i mean for example chris died he gave an interview in two thousand
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and seven when he was still senator he's running for president he told going green while there's a line you know who would ever want to become a lobbyist or head of a trade association is there's only the extent and then you know lo and behold after he left office he joined the a.p.a. i think you get like a million and a half dollars salary is his first year and he and pushing all sorts of laws for the for the movie industry that really honestly did not champion the public interest and now we see things like super pacs where you have more special interest money going into politics they would to what extent do you think super pacs also contribute to this problem you know the more money you have the more you can impact the political the politics the way things are running the country and i think you would absolutely terrible and in the sense that they allowed an unlimited amount of spending by corporations and also unions to sort of impact elections at this point they've been utilized their fullest extent of all you've seen them to some extent in two thousand and ten to some extent in the republican primary but i think they're really going to start to ramp up in the storage of the presidential election between democrats and republicans as they both try to outgun each other to
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get as much cash as they can for their super pacs well what do you think needs to be done how can this be you are a verb. so how do we restore a democracy where you know america is supposed to be where everybody's voice counts for something their vote counts for something fundamentally the change was they need to make a much much either much you know a combination of much richer reporting requirements or they did just outlaw you believe members of congress become lobbyists and there's a lot of people who want to be there some state legislatures that you think you similar things we are running an independent after a united public and a public report where we are asking the thirty five members of congress to declare their retiring publicly disclosed any negotiations there that they're they're taking place right now with lobbyists and if they choose not to do that we tend to definitely go after them more and demand that they do this because right now you know with such a weak system of laws the only thing the public and us pressure these people individually to sort of do the right thing and let everyone know what the conflicts of interest are so it's not happening to secret so you think that there needs to be
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more transparency more disclosure and less of a motivation for somebody to from going into congress to the private sector and lobbying congress and absolutely i mean as long as you know individual members of congress i think need to take the initiative to be as transparent as possible and not try to be corrupt morally corrupt in this sense but i also think that at the end of the day when you're in a system where all your colleagues are doing the same thing you're more pressure to do it so we need to reform the system as a whole to sort of fix the behavior of individuals. thank you so much for sharing your views with us that was that giuliani communications and outreach coordinator for republic. well the capital account is up next r t let's check in with lauren lister to see what's on city his agenda lauren what can we look forward to i live you know i don't know if you saw but ben bernanke he taught a college course today the first time ever that a fed chairman has done so a bit of what you know observers would maybe call a p.r.
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