i would like her a little luck and they alone if else they'll get the real headlines with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why don't people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . you know some closure see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

little. leg. our guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and i thought that's a fox news host for all the rivera he's the ace reporter he used to be most famous for being escorted out of iraq i did pentagon for giving away the positions of u.s. soldiers back in two thousand and three but after this morning he will now be famous as the man who blamed the hoodie for the death of trayvon martin the are going from now you may have thought that it was

a natural person that killed trayvon and that person would be george zimmerman but according to her although it turns out that it was really just a piece of cloth a hooded sweatshirt here's the dire warning that i am urging the parents of black and latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies i think the hoodie is as much responsible for trayvon martin's death as george zimmerman was also a guy reaction astute political and social commentator to warn us about the dangers of a piece of clothing that literally every single kid in america wears but it turns out that a hoodie takes on a whole different cultural significance when the person wearing it isn't white. you have to recognize that this whole style was seeing yourself as a gangster you're going to be a gangster wannabe well people are going to perceive you as a menace that's what happens it is an instant reflex action yeah you see not only

does wearing a hoodie instantly make you look like a criminal but chasing an unarmed black man down the street killing him in cold blood that's apparently an instant reflective action for most americans and i for one know that when i see a black or latino guide a hoodie my first instinct instinct is to whip out a gun chase him down the street and kill him oh no way that doesn't make sense does it so i wonder what a young person of color has to do you not to get gunned down the street what sort of attire be permitted for her although it may be a suit because that has please don't kill me written all over it who forget all offended let's let rather clear a few things up here which he did earlier today on twitter turns out but he says trying to save the lives guys he tweeted justice will come to zimmerman and the florida shooter but i'm trying to save lives like trayvon parents alert hoodies can get your kids killed yes parents don't be alert that there are stand your ground laws in florida and twenty three other states across the country which empowered

random citizens to gun down kids without so much as being arrested oh don't be concerned that we live in a society where racism is still incredibly prevalent beeler about a sweatshirt because that's what will get your kids killed minutes later he responded to the growing outcry tweeting this so it's not blaming the victim it's common sense look like a gangsta anthem arm schmuck will take you at your word so logic is perfect right if you put on a what it's worth her while being glad you were announcing to every single person on the street that you are a gangster if why you're just saying hello it's raining and i've got a hood on but if you're black that hoodie is like putting a bull's eye on your chest what schmuck doesn't want to hit a bull's eye right so just to recap in are all those worlds and really it's really trade. and it's parents of course that he was gunned down the schmuck was acting on instinct which tells him that a black going to hoodie and thinking set what happens next hold that simply wasn't in his control so for saying that a hoodie and a man who chased

a young armed boy down the street and killed him are equally to blame for his death geraldo rivera is connivance to a time where. now as our regular viewers know we've been keeping close tabs on the n.y.p.d. as wide as surveillance of muslims all throughout the northeast for no other reason than being muslim and that's pissed off everybody from new jersey governor chris christie to civil libertarians obviously to the f.b.i. officials and it turns out that those aren't the only law abiding citizens that the n.y.p.d. was exacting all over the u.s. to monitor a new a.p. investigation is revealed of and why p.t. was spying on activists as far away as new orleans according to interviews and documents and april two thousand and eight and why p.t. sergeant attended the people's summit this is a protest a meeting of american canadian and mexican leaders in the big easy which was very menacing and of course the n.y.p.d. says the surveillance was all part of a threat assessment and he pinkies toward that it wasn't political now they should

really just the ads of this and the organizers who work out a catalogue by the n.y.p.d. are doing nothing other than engaging in constitutionally protected speech as one journalist mentioned and widebodies of fort jordan flaherty told the a.p. the only threat is the threat of ideas so next thing you know the n.y.p.d. will be assessing the threat of mardi gras beads on talk of new yorkers out of the big easy to have a good time because right somebody has got to keep the big apple safe but once again i why people are standing by their spying tourism they say that they have the right to send undercover cops anywhere in the public know her so-called operational planning the federal government i beg to differ according to reports last month the justice department started considering whether or not to launch an investigation into n.y.p.d. surveillance of muslims now then my p.c. is traveling down into orleans to monitor protests and driving muslims all over the northeast that one can only imagine how they're reacting to the occupy movement they just last night we had we spoke with truthout jason leopold to discuss the

department of homeland security's role in monitoring the movement and truthout was the first organization to file a formal request and they got. almost four hundred pages worth of material all there is no smoking gun from v.h.s. in terms of unconstitutional surveillance i wonder last night whether or not and other local police forces might be the ones that are really doing the heavy lifting aka the dirty work now we haven't seen the results but leopold so that he expected the department suppression of the occupy movement to surface faster than you can say for them in violation if and when those documents are disclosed that is. but you also try to go local to the n.y.p.d. use the freedom of information law in new york and you think of that's where i mean that to me sounds almost more fascinating it remains to be seen what they'll turn over there's no question in my mind that the photographs of studio clearcuts threat assessments. so it's a matter of time before they at least state me you know what they'll turn over and

what's privileged. today's revelations of the n.y.p.d. spying on left leaning activists for their political leanings as well as the revelations about her spying program on muslims for their religion all that seems to have some weight to leopold suspicions so obviously we're going to have to wait and see until the documents come out but there's one thing that we learned from this boy is documents the truth out received as if the feds were actually cautious and knew their civil surveillance to be highly scrutinized so maybe they're leaving it to local law enforcement to really get in there and we know it and like he knows how. now we talk about the influence of defense contractors in washington all the time the military industrial complex at work keeping defense budgets high keeping us taxpayers on the line for weapons projects that can last decades and cost billions truly case in point the f. thirty five joint strike fighter the most expensive weapons program to date recent

government accountability office report shows that cost overruns in the first four procurement contracts are more than a billion over budget combined but the air force and sticking with it and they're just going to have to settle with fewer planes so you think of a company behind the f. thirty five lockheed martin and they might face a penalty they might lose the trust of the government to be awarded so many contracts unfortunately that's far from the case and a lot he just secured a major strategic way and the obama administration's two thousand and thirteen budget request lawrence thomson is a former lockheed advisor he claims the basing this on excessive influence over government is. really all just conspiracy theory but i bet that we can prove them wrong so joining me to discuss it is their crow political director at new foundation gary thanks so much for joining us tonight i know first of all when you look at this twenty thirteen budget that's been proposed by the obama administration do you see lockheed martin as a clear winner. well i think lockheed martin has is and has remained a winner for years despite the fact that they're one of the most corrupt and guilty

of misconduct companies that does business with the federal government and i just have to say you mentioned lauren thompson's article i mean i think we should take lockheed martin and give them a little bit of credit that they know how to spend money effectively when it comes to getting profits for their shareholders and if it wasn't profitable for lockheed martin to be dumping eleven million dollars in the last year and a half into lobbying and a hundred twenty six million over the lifetime of the company into lobbying they wouldn't be doing it they know exactly what they're doing they're trying to buy our congress out from under us yeah but at the same time if we talk about this article which i found i don't know i'm using and disturbing and just odd on so many levels so he claims of the people out there that think that maybe the influence that lockheed martin then in effect has over washington those people are all just conspiracy theorists and really it's the lot he just doesn't such a good job that they're you know they're better at execution tell me how they're better executed if they're thirty five great biter is supposed to be any example

well i would love to be able to say that they are execution if it were anything remotely approaching true i mean the simple fact is they don't even act as good stewards of the money they're given they have more than sixty six instances imho goes government misconduct database for contractors and one of the most find in corrupt companies that does business with the federal government they have thirty five's a prime example it was approved by a gentleman in the pentagon named pete aldridge who right after he got done approving that spending and then some f. twenty two spending which is another lockheed product that month he went to work for lockheed martin on their payroll he left the pentagon and went straight to that company now it's absolutely clear from that there's no way to put all of which could have been making good decisions on behalf of the taxpayer and he had his eye on the exit and that's just legal corruption that's rampant all over the pentagon and it's something lockheed martin are lies. now we actually have some figures here to talk about how much life it is you know involved how much money they like to

give and this comes from the sunlight foundation so since one nine hundred eighty nine lot he has given twenty three million over twenty three million dollars basically in campaign financing they spent one hundred twenty five million on lobbying hiring some of the biggest republican and democratic lobby firms in washington received over twenty million earmarks received thirty one grants and fifteen thousand plus contracts in the federal government and had two hundred fifty seven of their people on one hundred thirty five government advisory committees so i think that unfortunately we all kind of assume that this is what happens in washington this happens all the time began to think that latinas really mastered it are they better than the other defense contractors that it will treat their own head of this is a great article out about this where they call them the perfect pay to play company and they're really correct i mean lockheed martin if you look at where most of their political donations go to they go to buck mckeon who is the chairman of the house armed services committee that has oversight on

a lot of the programs that they have an interest in within the federal government and it's that way on the. committees on the senate appropriations subcommittee on defense it's like that all over the federal government they know exactly where to put their dollars to get the most results and they don't care about your political party by the way they'll give to whomever is sitting in those chairs that has decision making capabilities over the money that they have an interest in lockheed martin is is great at navigating the system that exists between staffers wanting to get pentagon jobs in pentagon employees wanting golden parachutes will make it out of the pentagon they make a place for them on lucky boards and in their various offices around the country lockheed martin knows how to entice and seduce these people to get exactly what they want and i think the numbers that you have there just show it and it shows that they know that the money they're spending is subject. i but if i let's say you know you were northrop grumman or that you were boeing would you look at perhaps

you know the budgets of some of these contracts and say hey it's not fair what you want to call your competitor out and say that really you're just paying to play or is that not profitable for that you know to take a little piece of pie that subcontracts north of. me will not give martin get something or do they just want the same practice to keep on going just in case they learn how to start winning well i mean the thing about that is that yes in one way they do kind of benefit somewhat when lockheed martin wins because they act to some contractors on those contracts but the moment they point out this kind of legal corruption that's going on is the moment they also indict themselves i mean right under lockheed martin on that list of the most find the most corrupt companies in that misconduct database are boeing northrop grumman general dynamics and companies like they all work this game they all donate millions and hundreds of millions of dollars a lot of time of their company to lobbying and to campaign contributions because they know they can buy or rent these politicians and you know the success of their businesses is in large part due to utilizing this model that lockheed martin has

perfected so i'm sure they're a little bit jealous that lockheed martin is so good at it but they've built quite a lot of success on it and by the way all three of those companies that i just mentioned they're so good at it that their c.e.o.'s are in the top zero point zero one percent of the richest americans based on are. just more proof right of what everybody already knows meanwhile we can't get any infrastructure projects built but all these weapon systems just keep on getting the funding. from the pentagon from congress a real tragedy thank you so much for joining us tonight eric thank you. are we taking our last break the only comeback friday and i'm happy our facebook decides that they care about the last and. about after the break.

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to tonight's fireside for your host of. this week of the one story take the country by storm the tragic and fatal shooting of trayvon martin a seventeen year old boy in sanford florida was simply holding skittles and iced tea while he was walking down the street and how could we forget also we're hearing . from what's been gleaned so far there's just no way to justify the actions of george zimmerman the killer here and the line of reasoning that very few continue to deny is that trayvon crime if you want to call it that was walking all being black now we've seen marches in florida and new york and other cities take place across the country this week calling for justice for trayvon but a prominent justice is said that they're going to look into this case and even the president weighed in today telling reporters that if he had a son he would look like trayvon does not work mode because aside from

a few right wingers out there nobody is scared of calling this a story where race played a role we want to confront racism we have to be able to talk about it openly as a society and not to shy away but the sad thing is that the stories that capture the nation's attention like trayvon are few and far between occurrences like this issues like this are not trayvon cases the entire combination of the various levels and types of injustice that we see but the truth is that it's everywhere racism plays a role in our criminal justice system throughout the entire country just look at the makeup of prison populations look at the supreme court case we mentioned this week questioning whether juveniles should be given sentences of life in prison without parole in cases of homicide black youth are ten times more likely to be given those sentences and their white counterparts plays a role in our schools look at the statistics that we spoke about last week that showed that punishment is handed down in a much harsher way. for minority students black students are three times more

likely to be suspended from school and their white counterparts the death sentence is much more likely to be given to minorities and none of this is meant to take away from trayvon story his case is particularly poignant because he was completely innocent of any wrongdoing while the way the case is being handled by the local off already is an aftermath just reeks of the injustices in the entire system the way in which he was killed is based on a personal internal racism found within the shooter himself what i'm trying to say here is that we should take trayvon case and we should make sure that becomes a catalyst for change don't let this gruesome reminder that we're not opposed racial society just another story that the media embraces for a week or two and then forgets i think unfortunately that's what we saw in the case of troy davis suddenly the death penalty was being judged seen in a public light we saw the state of georgia put a man to death who was killed could not be proven without a reasonable doubt and we asked if that would bring about change but so far it

hasn't let's not trayvon be just let's not let trayvon be just another name another black child's face becomes famous for all the wrong reasons realize that this goes on everywhere that there are journalists out there highlighting the injustices every day and they all deserve attention because the more that we know the more i hope we can change. time for a happier me r.t. correspondent christine and politico's david cat needs thanks for trying to guys appy friday happy friday and for some people a friday started last night like our own jenny churchill who went to the midnight showing of hunger games with her only live with her to our country take a look. the hunger games opened tweens teens and most of the valley actually headed

out to rave theater at town square to see that film it's based on a series of books by suzanne collins and stars jennifer lawrence just josh hutcherson and liam hemsworth moviegoers were more than pleased with it. so all the tweens and jenny turtill going to go see the midnight showing last night i'm just really just jealous because. i wanted to see. but so what happens with these movies and i guess there's the same thing with harry potter is that you know certain charities organizations try to kind of join in and so there's one called hunger or excuse me oxfam want to launch a campaign called hunger is not akin to support one of their campaign to make food aid more efficient and lines gates is saying no and they said they're trying to piggyback off their motion picture and causing damage to lionsgate and our marketing efforts i mean it seems to me they're just trying to raise awareness and using this as an opportunity to do so awareness about a subject that's very serious but i saw the letter online that lionsgate wrote to

oxfam some of these other charities that said please take any mention of hunger is not a game off the web site and threaten to have it removed for copyright purposes if they don't so pretty serious about it. bottom line you know any publicity is good publicity right and i get very skeptical that some of these controversies juno right when a movie land because it's good for everybody right hunger games isn't more everybody's talking about it and they're trying to so a movie i mean it would make it makes sense too though if you just think about the story the hunger games it's like why not. take advantage of what let's talk about. first of all you're not the only one we constantly have these polls and what not talking about the president's religion. a poll of likely republicans in alabama shows that only fourteen percent believe pres obama is a fellow christian and mississippi the figure is twelve percent and the majority

there say a strong majority say he's a muslim. so you wonder why these obama is a muslim or is don't go away maybe you can thank people like cambridge. he was asked basically why so many voters continue to mistakenly believe that obama is a muslim and he said you have to ask why they would believe that it's not because they're stupid it's because they watch the kind of things i just described you basically said that it's obama's fault for acting like one this is dog whistling and newt gingrich is on this throughout the campaign i mean even if all the language he uses socialist kenzie in it's all of you know never go as far to say you know we had a black president go that far but it's all this coded language and appeals with a certain amount of voters in the south and you see it because i mean the fact that obama to release his birth certificate a sitting u.s. president people still believe it doesn't matter what anybody says they're never going to believe it and i thought because he was acting so muslims and so when you

and when these debates come up as we've just seen in the past few weeks the past month really of the contraception debate the part of obama's health care plan that requires businesses employers to pay for things like birth control that is very easy to turn into obama's war on the catholic church obama must be a muslim because he wants to attack the church so you know and it's very easy to spin in that light it also shows this is where the new gingrich is where is yeah i mean which is that you know a little bit of pressure actually. is but newt gingrich is but then with santorum still doing well i have actually ok. let's move. this isn't that. has put out and it basically had to get pulled. a little there we go unlike some people belvedere always goes down smoothly and the photo disappeared from her facebook page and from her twitter account within an

hour people started noticing and complain they said we have to apologize to our fans. yeah the way things are going to fire this is where you come up with something you know the brainstorming session and what you think it's funny but you don't go the next step and go through it it's sort of someone stops it because you've got to always think about the other perspective with who is the one actually what they were trying to do is make it look like she was about to get raped because that's what people are saying i'm going to carry a lot of this he's such a scrawny guy in the picture he's such a funny guy and like he's not doing a great people like say he's smiling and she is like a really strange look at me or i would like really i'm not offended really this is what i'm going to spend my but obviously about if you can we put out a poll of our time right there another way for us to look at it again. i mean the girl doesn't look happy grabbing her. you know if she was the arms were around her and a little comes side cut truck just pulled up and she's running and he's like no stay

back i mean. now she wants. to marry one i mean as mike says i don't think she was terrified i just think she looks like she's running but who knows where to belvidere i battle. space or because i was running who are not going away from where we're coming exactly. like that i don't think we have time to do our next story but just a little update for our viewers we spoke about the fact that certain employers were trying to ask people to hand over their face but passwords that's crazy and facebook is actually coming out on the side of the facebook users saying that that's not cool and it's also not you know not allowed to nations suddenly facebook i was going to give your password to their girlfriends and boyfriends when i was you give me a call because. i know you think you're going to have a very weak at night show thanks for joining in and make sure that you come back on monday robin hobb vice president of media matters could be joining us for our

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