i can go downwards further so you know and that's that that's probably my only saving grace. is this your true r t you. will have another short break when we come back showing tell then the f.b.i. found going cybercops as though we're losing the war against iraq that is wrong just isn't working. let's not forget that we turned in a parked car using the urban legend i think the rock the bombings beautiful and well. we have the government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you believe your freedom. is still there even

when i. left and they alone are still you know 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 sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then he lives something else and hears you some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. for.

a little. time now for show and challenge the night's program earlier this week we talked about the impact of occupy wall street movement which has been declared all but dead by the media all the occupiers promise a resurgence so do you think we'll see an old old u.s. style american spring let's go to producer project patrice in a sense a to find out what you have to say. i'm on the streets of d.c. to tell people in the nation's capital what our viewers have to say on twitter facebook and you tube and see what's. really. going on.

as we head into the spring and summer we asked our viewers will we see a reoccurrence of the occupy wall street movement so i'm going to read your responses on facebook he told us there will be a resurgence in the end of may and beginning of june when students responsible for a large part of the movement will be out of school you want to keep it or delete it keep it. as the weather gets better and kids out of school and we get closer to the election issues and. i would say yes keeping. this election draws near and the weather starts to get warmer you probably will see a resurgence of the political. movement. probably keep it. to the drawing board. one of your viewers told us on you tube definitely not nowhere near an occupy wall street style american springs and wall street does not have

a cohesive plan of attack nor does it have a fully formed list of reasonable demands do you want to keep it or delete it i don't agree. it is in have. all the. compete together as he goes on you don't need to find a we i mean it's all good. wall street has run its course. shouldn't stop until they reach their goal is. getting the message do you want to. whether washington his message or not it's going to take a great deal of effort to dislodge the status quo people think the movement is over not. ready made plans like next month they will have a ninety nine percent spring action training across the country and there's already a general strike in the works for may so we'll. just have to wait to find out.

and thanks for your response of the as usual all right here's our next question to you earlier in the so we discussed the brics summit taking place right now in india and the blocs plan to move away from using the dollar as the reserve currency so why do you think some of the largest economies in the world making the move away from the dollar is not bigger news let's know what you think on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. well the f.b.i.'s top cyber cop shawn henry is leaving the bureau and he has a departing message for the american people there is a war going on a war against hackers and he says the united states is losing it's a dire warning we've heard from u.s. officials many times before. the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples or our power system certainly our grid this is a matter of national security a cyber attack on america can do as much or more damage today by incapacitating our

banks or our communications or or our finance or transportation as a conventional war to the terror could come not only from a few extremists and suicide vests but from a few keystrokes on the computer. and he says the f.b.i. has been forced into a defensive position against increasingly talented hackers private companies are simply unable or unwilling to protect their networks oftentimes unaware that they've even been hacked the private public approach is failing us but all of the apocalyptic warnings that beg the question what should be done or regulation more money joining us to answer those questions is jim harper director of information policy studies at the cato institute jim first of all is there a war against hackers and are we losing it i think call it a war is over statement and to talk about cyber terrorism is overstatement so i will security as thousands of real problems with data that works and can. users'

problems that hundreds of thousands of people and institutions work on over many many years it's not a war and there's no terrorism involved and we can settle down and work on these problems seriously without throwing up our hands or or giving it all to the federal government to work on and that this term cyber terrorism and cyber war of course john henry says that and we've also heard from leon panetta from president obama and i'm wondering what you think is sort of the end game here is that just simply more regulation and more money devoted to the well when you've got thousands of problems to work on what do you do don't think about fixing them all think about who should be responsible for them but the goal in washington is to move this all to washington and make federal agencies responsible whether it's the department of defense or the department of homeland security i think the better approach is to put responsibility where it lies now which is that with the owners of the data with the owners of the networks and the owners of the computers they lose money if they fail to secure their infrastructure from the moment that they if they do fail so you may know owners of the computers so if we're talking about computers that at

a large corporation it's to be the head of the corporation that are responsible through the heads will the corporation itself so we won't we don't want to cybersecurity bail out with the government coming in and fix them to be ready for our businesses business is that fail to secure their own infrastructure should fail that's good for all of us because it will strengthen the ones that remain they clearly need those processes to continue working rather and cybersecurity over the government to fix for everybody maybe not fix it all right they haven't made it a priority so i know that you wrote about this and you called the cyber security act of twenty twelve soviet style cyber security a regulation what's so dangerous about this go well it's centralization of processes that really should be dispersed look the internet or the internet's brilliance is the fact that it's dispersed the genius of it is that people across the internet can communicate with one another work on problems together what do we do to secure the internet put it in the hands of a single federal government agency to try to fix all the thousands hundreds of thousands of problems you had he's bringing corporate sectors in and in the regulators saying you have to do this you have to do this you have to fill it.

paperwork you have to certify you've done them well all that stuff isn't fixing problems the job is to fix problems with people who lose money if they don't fix problems and you're likely to see a lot better focus. what do you think i mean do you think that the public is especially susceptible to these attacks by hackers because they see news of this over and over and you know it i mean are they are they just more worried is it fear mongering what's going on here there's a lot of fear mongering the public doesn't really know how all these problems work either and so they're susceptible to hearing that there cyberterrorism you know what they saw in the movies resonates what you hear in washington what you hear in hollywood are pretty similar let me start to think it's real actually kind of boring it's it involves patching your software doing smart things and encouraging employees not to give away their passwords or do all the things that allow david speak to compromise there will be years and years of learning about how to secure things and there's no sense this is a real problem but it's nothing like war it's nothing like terrorism we're going to

be all right and lots of work has to be done i tell you what i went through a few years ago here in washington i went to a cyber security conference of all of the big wigs former heads of just about every agency in their town there and they sort of staged a mock cyber security attack it was on everybody's cell phone and anyone who downloaded the app for the march madness that. they staged this that it just went to show how much could happen how how you know the connection to the computers and the outs on our phones and computers could actually lead to violence i mean it is this just. there's a very very little chance they can happen you know the stuxnet virus in iran had some connecticut effect that is it is real world damage but it is very well placed we were real world damage and just a little bit and it was produced by the united states and perhaps israel real world damage from cyber security will happen very rarely it hasn't happened almost any other place and when it does it will be small it'll be contained the worst thing that could happen to the average person is perhaps. financial network going down if

you're not able to get some cash out of the a.t.m. well then take a day off work something to be really scared of let's talk about the cyber security industry itself in fact mr henry is leaving his government's position to go work for a private security firm is this sort of the next grooming industry should we tell college students now that this is what you should major and there's already a big business in quote unquote cybersecurity and a lot of people love going through the revolving door to go into the cybersecurity business and there's some of the chief spokespeople arguing that this is the biggest thing stands nuclear terror it's not what they do stand to make a lot of money it's worth watching who's talking about these things sometimes the mainstream press won't tell you but michael mcconnell works for. a government contractor that stands to make millions tens of billions perhaps hundred eighty nine dollars on cyber security expert right that's right he knows a few things there's no two ways about that but he has a point of view that he's selling and maybe he's literally selling. you talked about sort of the money involved here i know the u.s.

government is expected to spend ten and a half a billion dollars a year on this by twenty fifteen analysts have estimated that the worldwide market is as much as one hundred forty billion a year the defense department says it's seeking more than three point two billion in funding just for this year what's sort of the story behind these numbers here will there is there is something the u.s. government can do which is to be a smart purchaser of hardware software and services itself so that to the extent it is spending money on cybersecurity in the stuff that it buys that's actually a good idea and that will improve the market for secure services throughout the whole you can't just say that all cyber security spending is waste but trying to corral the private sector into following government cybersecurity mandates probably a mistake obviously u.s. government a huge buyer of technology and it should be a smart buyer we can help things that way. your perspective because really when you when you look at this topic as discussed in the mainstream media there's so much very little skepticism so it's good to have you on here and sort of giving. the

other side of the story jim harper director of information policy studies at the cato institute. so the guns and i are the pentagon love spending your tax dollars are in bed with nine told time award and also stick around for happy hour for a porter is outed by a competitor for being. plus reports a dominic strauss kahn that loves luggage i'll explain in just a. story and it seems so easy to understand it and then you know here's the part of it and realize that everything. i'm charging is a big. mystery

. left in the lower so you'll get the real headlines with none of the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters for those viewers and so that's like young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it and we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. .

is the state english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. time now for tonight's tool time award and this time it's going to the pentagon we've discussed the f. thirty five program on the show it time and time again you know the most expensive defense program ever the one that's been riddled with problems and allays the jets have been grounded for everything from valve issues to parachute problems in the

past few months and let's not forget to mention that the persistently faulty planes are hopelessly and absurdly over budget and last month the pentagon announced that it would postpone the production of one hundred seventy nine of its two thousand four hundred forty three after thirty five but they will eventually order of a goal to save fifteen point one billion dollars over the next five years following that announcement strongly also decided to delay their order of f. thirty five. and italy decided to cut its order from one hundred thirty one planes to ninety well after the pentagon announced the production postponement the head of lockheed martin have this to say about the announcement he said it will raise the overall average cost of the total procurement of all the airplanes bought. sound like a used car salesman much get it now with this one time rock bottom never better offer but in reality the f. thirty five aren't going for rock bottom prices they're going for billions of dollars and counting just this week reuters obtained new projections from the pentagon about the ballooning cost of the f.

thirty five and the numbers aren't good for the total cost of the f. thirty five program and from one trillion dollars to one point forty five trillion that is a four hundred fifty billion dollar increase in just the last year with the price per aircraft jumping fifteen billion dollars a cycle lockheed head wasn't kidding now about prize includes inflation for the course of the program but nevertheless the price tag for the future of the u.s. fighter program seems to be going up up and away and it really just seems like someone needs to stop and say hey this is out of control this project is a failure but we all know about what happen and listen to secretary of state at the time robert gates back in two thousand and nine he spoke about the f. thirty five program. we obviously have a huge investment in this aircraft it is the heart of the future of tactical combat aviation for services. gave gave that we were heavily invested back in two thousand

and nine dollars investment just seems to keep on growing the f. thirty five program has truly become the too big to fail of the defense world and really had to come as no surprise that the government has no intentions of veiling on the program given the fact of the company producing the f. thirty five lockheed martin seems to have a very cozy relationship with the government lockheed martin scored what many saw as a major victory in the obama administration's twenty thirteen budget so lockheed will have a monopoly on the fighter industry in the united states just last week alone and talk to derek crowe from brave new films and he had this to say about the relationship between the government and lockheed martin the f. thirty five is a prime example it was approved by a gentleman in the pentagon named pete aldrich who right after he got done approving that spending and then submitted twenty two spending which is another lockheed product that month he went to work for lockheed martin on their payroll. oh surprise surprise the revolving door played a part in the beginning of this after the five disaster and let's not forget the

other project our brought up the f. twenty two another lockheed martin project plagued with issues remember last fall when the entire fleet was grounded after they found antifreeze an oil fumes in the blood of the pilots sounds like a program that's on the road to success but it seems that in the pentagon lockheed martin can do no wrong and the f. thirty five project a large john no matter how long it takes and how much money it ends up costing and for that the pentagon is tonight's tools time winner. all right joining me now for happy hour is lauren lyster host of the capital account and our t.v. producer jenny turtle thanks so much for being on it's a girl party they. guys always think that when girls get

together a party there's always pull if i make a deal if i'm not having on the show girls let's see what happens at about seven minutes ok so first reason i google is allowing its users meaning you and me to monitor their own online activity on wednesday they began letting people get monthly reports which summarize all the places you've been on the internet. let's say a local news stories covered the soviets. but there are also a variety of software tools that are available online for you to track which your children are doing to monitor what they're doing. all right so this is called the account activity feature and what a nice favor for them to let us kind of check up on where we've been but i guess also a reminder that they know where we've been the most absurd thing i've ever seen you know everyone's freaking out because google's new privacy settings have them aggregating all of your information from all of their sites in one place and now they're going to make that information available to you now it's

a good thing because you can monitor what's going on with your account yes like right now that makes it ok anybody that wants to actually see their account activity summarized on google it has way too much because we already spend so much time on google particularly analyzing that then you've got some serious issues i really honestly believe that this is all about them trying to spin this in a way that makes it seem like they're doing you know when really they're all in your business yeah i don't disagree with you there i don't think i mean i think anything it's a reminder to know that they've probably been monitoring us this whole time now here's proof that they know sort of where we've been in the form of exactly let's talk now about lauren you like me are from california and when i worked in local news there i was always doing stories about the next first it was going from restaurants and it was banned from the restaurant and it was banned from parks and beaches all turns out this week the city of el grove california

began discussions to ban smoking from rental apartments the california apartment association and the rental housing association of sacramento valley are opposed to the smoker rappelling measure and there's other areas as well that are kind of talking about the cycle. over the last decade smokers across the country have been on the defense pushed out of offices restaurants and books new york city's now taking the war against tobacco will step further with the new law that goes into effect to morrow. out to beaches or walks parks street plans. so what if you're a smoker or do you just shouldn't live in new york or california if you're just smokers you're becoming a pariah you're getting squeezed out of everywhere but no i really do have major problems with a smoking ban on rental units because that should be a cue whoever owns those apartment buildings and if they want to have a no smoking apartment or a smoking smoker friendly apartment i think it should be like pat you know it's up

to them to have the city come in and say this is a van is that i think a huge breach of people's individual rights and. i actually could this is so weird we're green so much and feel kind of uncomfortable but i want to argue i know i couldn't agree more though because i can't imagine that when a government goes and says you aren't able to do this in your own home you know i think that's a little crazy i know these people don't own their homes but they rent and you know what are they going to be doing not saying that people who are gay that live in a part of buildings can't be having sex in those apartments i mean there are no limits on i don't think that there's no i mean it's you know i don't think it is because smoking does affect other people if you're renting in a unit smoke comes in from the you know next you are that happened to my apartment all the time or it's not horrible. as you get into the paint and the walls but like you said earlier and that should be up to the building owners the sodomy laws first of all those not that long ago. i don't know how they monitor about this hoping it will is there and you know that doesn't affect anybody else but someone's that

individual right here right. and just yourself i don't think we need the government coming into our place of living where we choose what we do and telling us what to do and any manner of our lives i really i think it's a little more sticky when you talk about sort of the laws. for parents smoking in their cars if there's children in those maybe there's a little more for discussion i want to move on because this is a really good story apparently a reporter in houston she writes for the houston chronicle she's a conservative reporter twenty nine year old sarah trust or wasn't making here's a picture of her as she was making enough money i guess working as a reporter so she had another job there she is there in her stripper outfit now. here's what happens when you have you know they say this is a very cutthroat competitive business so richard connelly a reporter with the houston press found out about her other job and it's an exposé about her. found out that she also keeps

a facebook and twitter profile and blog using the pseudonym angry stripper. and she was shamed bulldog no she was not shamed asport she had an angry stripper blog where she blogged in detail about stripping including department is a customer vendor nipple fetish is i mean it's not up in court but this is absurd as she tries to doesn't you know not ok doesn't that right after her it doesn't matter what she was asking for what she got was an interview tomorrow morning on good morning america so i'm going to say she. was hot yes exactly and this is the best thing that ever happened to this girl i mean she was a star i don't think she cares that she was a stripper she had a blog she had photos you know it's unfortunate for her i think in her eyes that she lost her job as a society writer but i think she's going on to bigger and better thing and as a society writer it's not like she's you know this is some conflict of interest with her hard news you know crime fighting reporting you know she's covering party she's on the social circuit it's basically like a who's who of society the losers here the jokes are on her bosses at the

conservative houston paper who have been sending a stripper to all the conservative ladies who lunch benefits the joke is really on her coworkers who apparently ratted her out to this other newspaper because they were jealous. that she was walking around in that she bought with her stripper money to print reporters that we see around here in washington aren't so designer we dressed early origin night for that come on jerry lee make money and i let everyone know that let me move on really quickly let's talk about dominique strauss kahn the former head of the i.m.f. such a lovely little guy and an extrovert as we remember he was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid that case was dropped but he's not totally out of the woods yet he apparently is involved in possibly another scandal referring to women as luggage and equipment and texts he sent as well as alleged pimps with whom he is accused of

planning a string of sex parties sex part sex and sex parties according to a leeds transcript of his police questioning he admitted to police that he used inappropriate language calling women luggage he. just what do you guys think about this i mean really surprised no one has been charged with aggravated pending which is like a funny charge even though it's i guess a serious offense but i do think this gets a little sticky because prostitution is illegal. it's legal in france but pimping is not so it gets a little confusing because what ok so if you ask your friends to bring prostitutes now you're aggravated but that he called them luggage i mean i think it's funny that they had code words and if i brought it all right i didn't think on it i think it's telling people is in this supposable i don't like luggage we're out of ammo you're out of time ladies but it was good to have you along with her and any churchill that's going to do it for tonight's show thanks so much for tuning and you're sure to come back tomorrow they would helps

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