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and couldn't give a lot of money making enterprise for you to get more lucrative in the period of the young turks about a leak presentation to investors for the corrections corporation of america a largest for profit. or to live here last two years in central moscow top stories now this crackdown in bahrain security forces attacked anti-government demonstrations with rubber bullets and tear gas group of doctors who treated protesters a standing trial as the western backed regime continues to target opponents. a government under siege interludes has been confirmed dead over thirty hours after french police surrounded his apartment he's believed killed seven people in a fortnight and claims of al qaeda links several officers were wounded in the siege
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. and china slams washington's latest sanctions against iran aimed at other countries as the u.s. compiles a list of nations to be punished for continuing to import iranian oil beijing tops the list along with india north korea which have been given six months by america to cut sharply their trade with the islamic state. one hour back to washington for part two of the early show now be back with more news for in half an hour from now . our guys it's time for you said it read it right take time to respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube and you mean to say i listen now on monday i doubt if you had my opening mainstream this segment of the sixteen victims of the massacre in afghanistan taking time to read
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the name of each victim. spoke about the need for the media to talk not only about the man accused but to care about those whose lives he and we see a lot of positive feedback from our viewers on this piece forty four profit on you tube thank you for respecting those tragically murdered and the loved ones suffering the horrific loss just all that said on facebook i was shocked to see alona give the names of those victims after all they're people too and that's them treats them like that to sticks all they're worried about is the tabloid aspect of this story a rogue soldier killing innocent civilians makes their day and makes good copy an earnest well person on facebook excellent take on the perception game it was unfortunate victims are not a collection of numbers after all they are not numbers or people and so here on the alone issue will continue to cover them as such and next on move on to something a little more light hearted last night we joked on the show about ben bernanke is an attempt to win over the american people through social media and so we had a little fun with the story you know coming up with some tweets of our own that we
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think that he might send out but our viewers had a few ideas to bamboo fourteen giri wrote on facebook i said we're doing god's work never say which guy hash tag. learn or learn said we print fake money you think is real that's the best way to enslave and he'll. be kind of been there now thankfully our viewers are much more into our very own jenny churchill lurks more to read about is at the lower show i noticed a disk. think the lack of jenny see on today's show all alone it was always outstanding jenny see is dreamy and awesome so i'm very sorry for jenny's absence on last night's show but i just didn't use or you jenny is going to be back on happy hour tonight that's my ranting this big probably back with more as usual next week. oh ben bernanke is taking to the podium to defend the actions of the fed to educate americans about the many follies of the gold standard one branch of the
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fed is a decidedly different message for americans it's times of great suck the big banks now and no that's not ok by wall street it's not of wall street whistleblower this is a branch of the federal reserve itself a letter introducing the annual report which advocated the breakup was written by the president of the dallas federal reserve richard fisher who joe wiseman's all over business insider characterizes as one of the most hawkish and conservative presidents out there and he starts a letter out with a bank announcing to readers if you are one of the too big to fail banks alternatively you known as systematically important financial institutions or die buys i doubt you are going to like what you read in this annual report you probably also won't like it if you're just frank supporter the letter rate dodd frank does not eradicate d.v.d.'s too big to fail indeed it is our view as adults that it may actually perfect perpetuate an already dangerous trend of increasing banking
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industry concentration and the negresses certainly show a massive increase in the power of the big banks by big banks and one hundred seventy eight the top five banks controlled seventeen percent of industry assets before only four years and the top five banks control fifty two percent now the report goes on to characterize the too big to fail banks as the culprit and that define the financial crisis the reason for the lackluster recovery andy who grab a perversion of capitalism defecting blame deflecting see the blame for the economy from the fed directly to the base themselves now to dial spending so there's a crisis of faith in capital thing that capitalism requires the freedom to succeed and the freedom to fail capitalism requires government to enforce the rule of law and capitalism requires businesses and individuals to hold it. countable so the consequences of their actions are all fairly obvious point so what is the dallas fed antidotes or answer to this crisis you might ask how do you know just
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a little dose of creative destruction which they advocate for poetically by quoting economist alan meltzer think capitalism without failure is like religion without sin now a lot of deflect almost all the blame for the slow recovery from the fed and with the directly on the banks and life think that the fed also deserved their fair share of blame in fact abraxas openly calling for a break up of the banks kind of a breath of fresh air and something that i can guarantee we will not be hearing and want to ben bernanke these lectures and you time. now he's spoken a lot about for profit prisons on his show from lobbying states to pass strict immigration legislation for recent offer to forty eight states to sell their public prison on exchange for twenty year contracts and a ninety percent capacity guarantee hearing seat so it's a money making industry that's on the right and this month we've got a new glance into the mind of corrections corporation of america the largest for profit prison company and a slideshow intended for investors c.c.a.
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describes why this is a market that you'd want to think your money into a seventy four billion dollar industry that at the moment is only ten percent privatized now the statistics they show are scary and because they're true one graph shows that historically despite economic conditions in their populations have grown another looking at demographic trends points out that one in every one hundred adults in the us are in prison or jail recidivism rates are high and it's a population grows so does the number of inmates and finally just one more page of the fifty three page presentation show that c.c.a. believes the demand from federal agencies will only increase in the years to come but this is not a scary reminder that locking people up in this country making some people rich joining me to discuss it is an experience co-host of the young turks and a thing. so much for joining us tonight and this is a topic that you and i have spoken about so many times before but there's always just another dirty piece of information getting thrown out there so you know after
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looking at this presentation and you see a gave to the investors what are your thoughts you know what really stood out to you. i was really disgusted about it because they are basically banking on the destruction of the country in order for them to profit keep in mind that they are the ones wishing the house on crime laws that imprison nonviolent offenders and also keep in mind that they are telling the investors that during an economic downturn they are going to make war money because during economic downturns you see more crime so they're like hey a bad economy you need that you're going to make we're going to you don't worry about it invest in us so you know they're incentivizing all of the negative things in society put more people away even if they're nonviolent for a bad economy you're going to make more money and also keep in mind but they're not going to privately a portion of these for profit prisons are funded privately however the state will get the money under this but thought that the state is actually saving money that's
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not the reality at all in many cases they lose money because they're funding these for profit prisons. i mean can you think you know if you if you go through and you really look at this presentation all of it as such now don't worry about economic downturns because it's going to keep on growing don't worry because the demand for more beds in the prisons of going to keep on growing the demand coming from the government is just going to keep on growing how many other industries are there out there do you think that can almost guarantee the growth to their investors. not very many that's why this is a very lucrative business and the fact that they are asking forty eight states to sell their state prison so that they can manage it is a really scary thought however there is a tiny piece of good news in this because what you're seeing is in states like california believe it or not texas georgia they have actually denied c.c.s. bid to purchase these state prisons so that's actually a really good piece of news it means that you know at least
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a few states have their standards look who knows what's going to happen with the others that have been offered the same thing but you know it's already had a really horrible implications in the country so far if you look at arizona and as seventy the for profit prisons played a huge role in pushing for that legislation and they were successful and the reason why they did that is because they want to put more and more people behind bars you know if you really look into the statistics it's amazing out of every one hundred people in the united states one person is behind bars i mean we have more people behind bars in this country than any other country in the world and that's a scary thought but you know i have to be brought up to this deal with the states which there are some states that have rejected it thus far but that in the case of ohio. ohio actually did present a c.c.a. but they say wanted five of them and they only got one because in communities local activists got involved and people actually said no so i think that we can take that as a little bit of grain of hope as well and you know they're really banking on ice immigrations
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and customs of course that being a big customer of theirs in the future as the as they start thinking that you know the more strict immigration law passed around the country then the more people were going to have locked up and these beds but do you think that there's you know what's going to happen in their plan b. foiled if these immigration laws don't go through you know if the courts actually turn them down if let's say after this upcoming election we see a change in legislatures. the only way that their plans can be foiled is if we do real campaign finance reform because what's happening with these for profit prisons like c.c.a. as a specific example between two thousand and three and two thousand and six they donated three million dollars to lawmakers in order to push their agenda and look money talks regardless of how we vote and regardless of what you know occupy wall street can do politicians are going to listen to that they're going to listen to
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the amount of money that's getting thrown in their pockets so unless we get real campaign finance reform nothing is going to change and also keep in mind that these for profit prisons have their eyes on two different groups of people undocumented immigrants and also those who are using drugs right nonviolent drug offenders back in the one nine hundred eighty s. you saw this huge boom with for profit prisons and the reason why is because the government became even tougher on drug violations they started putting more and more people away all these prisons were over capacity and for profit prisons were like hey you know what this is a great way to make some money why don't we create our prisons and help the states by putting these nonviolent drug offenders away the drug war isn't going to end anytime soon so as a result of that these for profit prisons are always no matter what going to have a way of making money so that's another disastrous aspect of it the war on drugs a whole nother story that we need to focus on but it's lucrative and look i think that they're horrible people because they're like i said rooting for the demise of
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this country but at the same time you know they're fueled by greed and if they're going to make money they're going to do it any way they can regardless of how horrible the processes. yeah i mean it's it's a business and when you look at the slides it makes sense and it's taken sad that they want to make a business off of locking people up but you're right there's you know a lot of it we have to talk about in terms of lawmakers pushing this tough on crime and tough on drugs legislation thanks to all the money that's out there but you know even when we talk about attitudes amongst people and this desire for punishment i think. we also have to be honest with ourselves and see what that's leading to and i thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you alona. all right sam for a last break of the evening when we come back extends his war on food to the homeless so with our tools i'm a lord not happy our president obama on the keystone pipeline and ron paul says that using a secret service detail is taking government welfare. with
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the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons facility and. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake special it sounds a little nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. puppets of the victims who use it as a threat all as an act of it but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or build. that represents all the firepower of the second world war this sounds is the equivalent
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firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. please. please just sit. here. and. sit.
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down with the official anti allocation joint phone call touch from the choose option. which all chiefs life on the go. see video on demand all the. these are my rules costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. our guys in fact that i have tool on reward and i went to new york city mayor michael bloomberg that's no secret the bloomberg has waged a full on war against who. i read labels for
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the calories more so than the salt the sodium content i will admit whether it's helped my waistline is a debatable with wind up with a lot less sodium in the food what we eat is really crucial to our health and our fitness government sent levels must make healthy solutions the department social. every silly gloom were found a new a demographic has forced his food regulations on the homeless and now look i get it there's a very real obesity epidemic in america people are shutting their faces with food eating themselves to death it's hard it's incredibly hard to get access to healthy food but don't you think that it's a little too far when we're trying to monitor the sodium intake of the people who live their lives on the streets and never knowing where their next meal is coming from now apparently because of anything but it's too far new regulations in new
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york ban the donation of food to homeless shelters and you heard that right it is now illegal for churches and other businesses to donate leftover food to people that are homeless and hungry and the regulation was discovered when a man trying to donate leftover bagels from synagogues in the area to a local shelter and was told it is food it was not want to have managed in taking leftover food to the shelters for over ten years so would it merit michael bloomberg i have to say for himself he was confronted about this new regulation check it out for the things that we run because of all sorts of safety reasons we just have a policy of my understanding of not taking donations. they just have a policy of not taking donations could be trying to distance themselves anymore now i guess if you want i didn't want he didn't want of to get the impression it was an extension of his war on food but unfortunately for bloomberg the city's own department of home homeless services commissioner basically explained this new
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policy as an extension of bloomberg foreign food he says the regulation is consistent with bloomberg emphasis on improving nutrition for all new yorker regulation is that if a shelter is no access to salt fiber other nutritional content of food and not with must be turned away now if you ask me this is just beyond insane i mean let's look at it this way we have a obesity epidemic in this country and it needs to be fought and it needs to be confronted by applaud the efforts out there to get more nutritious food into our schools into our stores into our bodies and we also have an epidemic of poverty and homelessness the rates have been rising drastically in the last few years he can't just lump them all into one let's solve hunger before we start controlling what it is that those who have no money to buy any food can eat and i really feel like with this of bluebirds babies are getting lazy maybe it isn't too much work trying to take on people who have the ability to fight back but you just decided to micromanage the diet of one group that doesn't have any say which are the homeless it's pathetic and it's not the first time that we've heard of targeted the homeless
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population of new york last year we try to put a lot of places that would force homeless people to prove that they had no other options before being admitted to a shelter as a homeless shelters in new york city were such a coveted getaway destination and last month a judge struck down that law so i get the sense bloomberg can keep the homeless in their cushy dig he has food police are settling for controlling the serving size salt content a calorie count of the food they put in their mouth so we're saying no bagels for you for the homeless new york city mayor michael bloomberg is tonight's chill time . hi guys it's time for a happy hour and joining me this evening are two producer jenny churchill and jake were she the strategy officer vision strategy thanks joining me guys during q ok
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let's start with this one i just find it crazy but apparently it's happening in more than one player employers asking for your facebook password take a look. the county sheriff's department is one of many employers that definitely look at the social media sites of job candidates during background checks and may have you log in during the actual interview to check on those let's say eight hundred contacts and about seven hundred one of their friends posted a picture of a pot plant. you know or a bag of pot you see why that's not appropriate in the one force field. well i mean how me but. can you people space i mean get rid of the people are checking you know your facebook profiles before you apply for a job but this is a career privacy violation if you ask me that like think you sign your g.-mail really quick and i can look through everything like you know that's been written to you can you bring me your home video recorder and show me any tapes you've ever
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made i don't know i think have an h.r. manager ask you for your facebook password you should say you know what salut way i will do it as soon as you give me the bank account number and routing number to this firm and you have full access to my facebook that's actually not even necessary in some poking around and then i found out that it is against facebook's terms and conditions to give anyone your password or access to your account you know those crazy terms a question is no one really that's right but no i mean that's that's actually like britain and france on their terms and conditions you can just say you know i'd love to but unfortunately i read all the terms and conditions for all the websites. but important you know i actually read all the terms and conditions and if you really need a job within are you would necessarily in a position to say like you know let go show because this is a violation of my privacy i really viable find plenty of other candidates and if you want to do it the whole point is that is being challenged in court i hope somewhere smart about this and immediately. nobilis what is the really be
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creepy thing about how i get attached we're getting through our phone. or i try to think taiko i think we have a news clips explaining it oh just kidding read. so they file the patent they basically proposes creating a vibrate able to design that would break every time i guess you get a phone call or text message but i just don't even understand how it works i actually think if you follow guys like ray kurzweil if you have any kind of understanding of the exponential curve that technology and biology are kind of i don't know how they're merging how they're converging and and what's happening i actually think we're not very far away from this being more normal than it is weird and scary i find it creepy because it's kind of become going something normal if you're going to attach my phone to my body i want to be like implanted in my head and contact lenses i can just go about my business i want to get a stupid tattoo to vibrate like my phone vibrates thank you oh that's done that's
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why i'm saying we've been together so i act to be a lab attached to it sounds ridiculous only run off and creepy and stupid as they like the idea that it is their hands they are going to function very well with knowledge in twenty years it will be like oh i'm surprised you don't have the tattoo for your vibrating. thing or whatever but i think that's yeah right here it'll be like making fun of people with. probably right. like. you feeling a whole group of right if you saw a razor we're sorry. but. let's talk about that because i don't know about you guys but i'm pretty sure that we all kind of grew up on these movies and they were and so here's a little kinder for everybody. ok
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so i got a member to come in do a new turtles thing and he wants to turn them into aliens and the plot and this is causing like a total uproar not only. on lying and people are saying in a letter open letter to michael bay. the rape of our childhood memory needs continues people are saying that he's saddam izing the franchise by forcibly inserting his own interpretation breastplate penetrating it with his alien angle while ripping out the they want to protect it are collected by the original and it is not a serious problem right away and they will have the original movie. there's there's little that makes me more uncomfortable than hearing the words we're going to charles in the same sentence and i'm feeling really awkward but i do think michael vick should be stopped and he should be stopped and the only way we can solve the mystery not go see this movie they're going to get on when they're going to like
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four hundred million dollars then the anyway i heard anybody say it's going to go like that it just will continue and we'll have to do i think we're going to hold you there ration now he's going to do that under ground zero is that where you really. want to actually want to go see a ninja turtles movie are the people who love the ninja turtles already and he's ruining it for those people and i think it's pathetic that they can't come up with new movies in hollywood took place really really well to how you know where you know there's. a line running in the writers for everyone kinds of organizations that's a little little mice and more nicely worded than that. yeah obviously it's never a good thing when someone you know talks about a movie and reference to a very that's never a good person i mean all right let's just finish this ron paul who was on jay leno last night talking about the secret for kicks. with the secret service code names i think the secret service name for romney with javelin santorum as a mentor was paid for what would i know you don't have secrets or play with your
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what would your secret service code name be. expanding no why did you reject a secret service protection seems like. it's a form of welfare you know you're going to have a new case there's pay to take care so i'm an ordinary citizen and i would think i should pay for my own protection. but i mean what do you think should the taxpayers have to pay until you get elected i think raipur ninety i agree with their i don't want any of my taxpayer money going to anything rick santorum is doing effort anyway i think that ron paul knows that he is like obi wan kenobi and if he is struck down he will become more powerful than we can possibly imagine and he knows his ideas will live on in martyrdom and i think that's really nice and they'll be ideas are now are very about it think about it thanks for joining me tonight that's the night show thanks for tuning in come back tomorrow night you know it's going to
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