three. cheers. video for your media drug free media guns are cheap drugs on the. internet sites like wikipedia and google might have been able to temporarily block cyber security bills in congress but they're not out of the woods yet or get sold but there's a new academic in town system and this one is the mother of cyber rights bills will tell you how the days of browsing online really becoming so we're now at a pretty legs. were water ok ok been four for me please. a law enforcement officials are getting a little frisky these days that's thanks to a new supreme court ruling that allows some pretty invasive strip searches will show you the naked truth behind this controversial rule. this time around it's my

ribs my goodness. and if you're running for president you better have some thick skin that in some deep pockets this election season is the ugliest most expensive one in american history and mainstream media networks are loving the spectacle while news stations around candidates be transparent if they need to take a look at me or. it's tuesday april third eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz of all and you're watching our t.v. . well it's the latest attempt at regulating the internet and we saw the public outcry over so-called but now a sopa like the bill is being debated in congress so it was supposed to stop on line part piracy the critics say the only thing it was stopping was online freedoms giving too much power to company is allowing them to pull the plug on sites that

they think violates copyright laws and then there was so as counterpart in the senate known as the protect ip act it requires more court intervention to go after an accused website now there is a bill called sis the sister intel the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act and what this bill does is allow companies to collect information about you and give it to the government but government simply needs to request it in the name of cyber security but critics say the bill is so broad it can lead to companies and the government monitoring and censoring what people say so is the era of internet for good i'm coming to an ans earlier spoke to senior national security fellow at the center for democracy and technology kendall berman i asked her should people be alarmed take a listen. or a number of cybersecurity bills that are on the hill right now and we understand that probably the first of those to move are going to be in the house likely in the

third week of april with the senate moving closely after that and we are very concerned about certain components of the information sharing schemes that are parts of each of these bills and representative rogers bill this is bill is really the most alarming in terms of how vast it could potentially be in terms of the types of information that the government would be allowed to receive under the name of cybersecurity talk a little bit more about exactly what is in the bill that people should be concerned about sure so essentially what the bill does is it creates a structure whereby private companies are encouraged to monitor for cyber threat information that goes across their networks and then share that information with the government doesn't specify to whom in the government that information should be shared but the structure of the bill all likelihood would be that it would be shared by merilee with the national security agency or another component of the department of defense so we have a number of concerns with something like this bill that creates sort of

a bastable in the privacy law to allow government to receive this kinds of information so we saw a lot of outrage over sopa how does this bill compare well i think one of the lessons that we learned in the reaction to sopa and pipa is that when congress tries to legislate on the things that are going to affect internet users experience the internet users are going to pay attention and bills you know like congressman rogers bill in information sharing bells on congress definitely could affect in a very serious way the internet experience and so we know people are starting to notice of that do you think people are noticing as much i remember there was a whole blackout with sopa and pipa where a lot of online sites shut down. basically in protest to this do you think there is as much. public awareness about this bill not yet but i think that is things move progressively on the hill that we may see something that's like that i think the

other components of cybersecurity have gotten a lot of attention this far but the information sharing schemes are extremely important to pay attention to now up until now the internet has been pretty much unregulated arguably but some people just disagreed with this republican presidential candidate rick santorum is one of them let's take a listen to what what he said about this. the internet is not a. free free zone where anybody can do anything they want to do and trample the rights of other people but the idea that you know anything goes on the internet we're going to come from we're all americans but if you say. that's interesting coming from a republic ed who usually advocates less government but in this case when it comes to freedom of speech on line he's advocating more of it but what do you make of his argument well look i don't know what rick santorum thinks of the cybersecurity legislation but i do think that you know in terms of his promise that the internet

isn't regulated that's not true just because you commit a crime on the internet doesn't immunize you from liability just because it's on the internet and law enforcement has many tools to go after crimes that are committed anywhere including you know now what is the likelihood that you think that this is going to pass so i'm not sure i think that you know no one knows right now there's a lot of different movements on the hill but we take we take each building extremely seriously and particularly congressman rogers as always we get very scared. now supporters of this bill will point to things that do need to get regulated for example copyright infringement or there is a possible link to terrorist activity being posted online or where the government would need to get ahold of this information so what do you make of that argument where these regulations need to be put in place in order to protect the. well i mean i think when you look at the purpose of cyber security legislation you know we think that it could have huge benefits for people and we're not against the purpose

of information sharing regime but so long as it's narrowly tailored when you talk about using information that the government receives that's purportedly for the purpose of protecting cybersecurity and you're using it to you know for law enforcement purposes or for national security purposes but don't have anything to do it either security will law enforcement has tools are ready to go after those crimes and we don't we very much fear that the information. sharing regime that's related to cyber security could very much become a backdoor wiretap or a surveillance program by another name so you're saying the danger that when it comes to this bill is that there is not really going to say when does it end will it go too far there's not really any control but because the bill the language in the bill is so broad that's exactly right we have a lot of concerns with the breadth of the bill if it was very narrowly tailored to information you know that was very much related to cyber threat information you know there would be comfort level with that but the way that it was written it applies to so much of your online communication and to have that risk straight to

the national security agency we think creates a real civil liberties problem and that was kendall berman senior security fellow at the center for democracy and technology. a law enforcement officials are getting a little frisky these days that's because the supreme court ruled five to four this week that the suspects fourth amendment privacy rights are outweighed by some jailhouse security concerns so now police officers have the right to strip search anyone they arrest doesn't matter if you have an unpaid parking take it or a suspected serial killer both are fair game for strip searches now the case was brought to court over a year ago after manning's albert florence was searched several times when he was arrested for a fine he'd already paid well at albert pickett the story from there and he instructed me to. try to. manipulate my genitals with cloth even thinking about it even speaking about it still brings me you know chills. well

in court he described the searches as humiliating and said it made him feel like less of a man which made him take the case to the supreme court but let's take a step back and see what a strip search actually yes this is a video from the federal law enforcement training center take a look you're about to see the correct way to conduct a strip or visual search. the initial verbal command is important. we. already jones can be forced to search you know we think i mean come on you know. ok at least they are remaining professional and courteous but since i'm here to go for coffee please. please to close out of range watch we can meet all time this is the most vulnerable moment you've just asked someone to under us in front of the proper courteous verbal commands are essential. ok well that doesn't seem so let's see what happens. especially legs when the water

ok ok been. in storage or got a look for anything in certain. i guess checking the person from france or rare is to be expected but it doesn't stop there spread your legs the water ok ok look i mean as we please. if he's uncircumcised ask him to pull back and forth. be professional and work. that's right a normal strip search is very very thorough you could say not a note or cranny is left unturned and while that video seems quite absurd that is a reality of what does happen in these sort of searches and keep in mind these days that the u.s. has the highest incarceration rate in the world to put in perspective there are more people under correctional supervision in america than the current population

of the state of massachusetts and of the thirteen million arrests each year seven hundred thousand of them are over minor offenses now this all comes in an age where more and more americans are corn fell over the pat downs the t.s.a. performs very airport security screenings i can guarantee you a strip search is much more invasive than someone touching you over your clothes people behind bars are not your average traveler but this ruling does bring up a number of questions about prisoner rights within the u.s. so why are more americans not outraged could it be because americans agree with the fact that when a person is arrested they are also forfeiting their rights no matter how small the offense so could strip searches become as routine as having reading the miranda rights i for one don't plan on finding out first hand but we here at artsy will continue to fall follow the developments of this story and in the meantime what do you think are the strip searches a good idea leave us your comments on mine. well it's like the days of the dollar

the almighty dollar could be coming to an end as the currency weekend's countries are looking for alternatives and it looks like the garo also has a bleak future economists are pointing to a weakening us and e.u. economy while emerging economies are growing china for example is expected to trump the u.s. g.d.p. and just a few years and just last week at the bric summit in n.z. of the five most rapidly growing countries agreed to ditch the dollar in trade using their own currency is so has the dollar seen its and as the arrow going down with that earlier i spoke with harold selenski publisher at the trans journal and director of the transit research institute about the signs that the dollar is weakening take a listen well look at the price of gas some of these are petro dollars and we have gas prices now we're seeing brant crude it was one hundred twenty five dollars a barrel and what they're really doing is they're creating the same scenario that

they did to blow up the bible that ended with the real estate crisis in the financial credit crisis so go back to two thousand in the nasdaq crash what did they do well after nine eleven alan greenspan began to low interest rates to forty six year lows of course the nation was in a recession and they used that as an excuse. so they're doing the same exact thing now only but a little differently in the sense that now the federal reserve has said that interest rates are going to remain low essentially throughout twenty five to twenty four teams and what are they doing well now it's a different kind of brothel so now consumers are again going into debt losing their savings and borrowing more building up more credit card debt student loans again more debt what's fueling the equity markets it's simple low interest rates so

they're creating another bubble and the europeans are doing the same thing with their central bank by dumping what about one point three trillion euros into the banking system since the end of last year i loaning it out to banks to virtually no interest rate so of course the brics want to come up with another currency because they know they're getting shafted now as we are the u.s. has a very big gap problem as you just mentioned but there is also this crisis in the euro was a great currency do you think it's a mark trouble i think right now the euro zone is in much deeper trouble but again it's relative it's which one is going to go first and liz when you read the quote by dilma rousseff the presidents of brazil at the bric meeting recently she said quote it will not be overcome simply through measures of us stary the crisis

that started in the developed world. well fiscal consolidation and depreciation of labor costs let alone through quantitative easing policies that have triggered what can only be described as a monetary tsunami has led to a currency war and have introduced new and perverse forms of protectionism around the world what she's saying is very important go back to the crash of one nine hundred twenty nine what was it the crash of compression as you have now in a lot of the world a deep recession followed by currency wars followed by trade wars followed by world war two the same scenario since the panic of the way is playing itself out again now we are saying seen the grex just last week there they want to take matters into their own hands and say hey we don't need to use the dollar we want to

trade in our own currency but if there is carol this set away from the dollar as a world reserve currency like i would replace that. well again probably a best of currencies and oddly enough the the head of the world bank who about two years ago came out and said that there should be a basket of currencies of which gold should be part of it has also come out in favor of the britain nations deciding that they want another finance vehicle he said quote i'm going to cut another of an economist that i'm not a monopolist so something new is going to be created and it's very important that the dollar became the reserve currency after world war two with the bretton woods agreement and at that time when you go back the united states was the only game in town europe was destroyed there was no russia in the business china it was behind

you know the the i incurred that they had the yellow curtain over there you had no india and brazil what was brazil doing this is a whole new world it's beyond the post world war two world it's a twenty first century world and the times definitely are changing especially with the u.s. now not as powerful as it once was in terms of the economy at least and we see the brics nations out there with their economies are growing at a very rapidly rapid rate so gerald how soon if we do see this chap to a different world reserve currency when would that happen i would expect it to happen after the presidential election. they're going to do everything they can to try to keep this going and to try to soothe any kind of ripples coming from around the world but you know this is not bigger than just the dollar crisis it's really the decline of empire america in so many different ways whether it's waging its losing wars overseas and draining its treasury whether that's the noun tins of debt

that they're piling up or whether the declines in virtually every o.e.c.d. lead in this see whether it's quality of life health care the list goes on and on so what we're seeing is decline of of america and the building up of really a twenty first century economy i think it's going to happen after the elections now ultimately what would this mean you know economists are talking about what the implications of this could be held by should the average us citizen care if the dollar is no longer the world reserve currency what are the implications for everyday americans and so lower standard of living it continues to decline and the price of everything costs more the united states of course like you know the eurozone has the the leverage to print money so the more that they print the cheaper the the the less the value so what this means to americans is

a continued decline of quality of life and i don't say that is just a throwaway phrase by all indices for example median household income is below that and see ninety nine levels when you see the decline of the of the the decline of real wages over the last quarter it's one after another so that's what it means and speaking of quality of life carol what kind of plays into that as well as gas prices. exactly that's what i was saying that it's petrodollars it again this came about it only in the one nine hundred seventy s. and that we're going to start pulling off that as are already starting to be seen so you look at the price of everything owed by the way how foolish of me to talk and you to talk about oil prices because the federal reserve has does not include food and fuel into our core index so we just have to throw that away because after

all we don't have to eat or use fuel what to range the more i would really include that into a core index the books are being cooked the numbers are a lot worse than they are in all the federal reserve is doing i believe is pumping this up to make it so that it looks like it is a recovery up and saw all the action right scary stuff but carol thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing your views with us i was gerald celente a publisher at the transparent oil and director of the trans research institute. the media it's that in called the fourth say expected to hold government officials and people in power accountable and demand transparency but what happens when it's the media refuses to be transparent while that's the case this election season and for the mainstream media election season means airing ads which means of reeling in the big bucks let's take a look at what spinning the airwaves recently this is the latest attack at our from

a pro obama super pac. feeling this new president. that's. being made from high gas prices it's doing the right thing the mitt romney's campaign people executives applauds through hundred million to help him and he's pledged to protect their rights and profits and their billions in special tax breaks to these kinds of prices. and here's a look as a look at some of the attack ads from various g.o.p. campaigns this time around. rick santorum record of. the leadership style that can only be described as leadership by chaos. just like you. just like john kerry.

he speaks french truth. well the mainstream media is making a killing off of these ads and estimated three billion dollars now with the money pumped into campaigns from super pacs the f.c.c. wants the public to know exactly who is behind these apps but the big broadcasters are fighting it from c.b.s. to fox a.b.c. companies say they don't want to be bothered with splitting the in the public so what's the problem with keeping viewers and forms talk more about this i was doing earlier by christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university i first asked him if it was hypocritical for the media to demand one way transparency here's his take. very as a matter of fact the deans of some of the major journalism and communications schools in this country and individual faculty people such as myself i've actually commented on this rule change saying you know this is immensely hypocritical we're

teaching our students one thing and then you're turning around and saying well you know it's it's a business you know you know you wouldn't understand what we do understand it is hypocritical the f.c.c. just wants to basically put those have them put those online in a database right now they sit in rusty file cabinets on paper and hundreds of network affiliates all around the country and there's you know they do ties everything else as a job saving nut job killing yet they don't want to do this you know chairman. of the f.c.c. says that this is the only industry ironically that's what's making that argument it has to stay in paper it rusty file cabinets under the receptionist desk now some of the art arguments from that some of the networks seem kind of ludicrous on the surface admitting you say we don't have the manpower to do it right i'll take too much time job killer. seems like it's giving somebody a job because they were failing giving somebody something to do with

a buddy creating more awareness really what do you think is behind it what are they afraid of well it's a couple of things first of all the rule is going to basically make the data available about super pac spending which which is that the market rated you don't get a discount for that candidate spending. video news releases were basically a company a corporation could make their own video and give it to the network of the network base and slaps their logo on it and then there's a little disclaimer maybe or maybe not and then and then you know kind of consolidation where local stations will combine their news divisions to save money to lay off a bunch of reporters will have the same stories but they'll pretend to be two. different channels and the public is not served by that the public is served by vigorous debate and transparency so basically what they're doing is they don't want this stuff out there because they're then people will see the ludicrous on those

mind boggling japanese monster movie level of spending. that they are riding the crest of i mean it's going to be double what it was in two thousand and four in the election cycle in two thousand for election cycles of one point five billion probably going to about freedom maybe three point four billion that's you know basically paying to play and that's not right and we're seeing sell much money as it is sad belly and south belly and values being pumped and these campaigns especially now that we the super pacs are involved at this ultimately at the consequence of the media being a big business at the end of the day well they are but they also have to realize the roots you have to go back to where the stuff came from the jurisdiction of the f.c.c. in radio and in the television spectrum and these were thought of as the blue sky and that the government had to own the you know the blue sky and trust us trustee for us for all america and you know they get their licenses based on there are

certain burdens that they have including keeping the records all they're saying is put the records up. on a database like everything else is and not in a rusty file cabinet where you have to go and demand can see it and somebody may or may not give it to you and you know again i mean for the deans of major journalism and communications schools to all get together which is like herding cats on this i mean that's pretty important but are you average american doesn't really know more care of what is out there because that affects us it affects our perception of the world and our perception distorted is distorted then you know we're want you know one step closer to the chaos that you know the previous guy. yes and talk about about the economic system and you know you would think that you know providing this information. you're keeping your viewers informed and that's what you're supposed to be doing right as a as a license see here you're a lawyer you know that's ability. alarms but then that if they're not doing this

then it doesn't seem like their primary responsibility responsibility is to the viewers but to you well first of all to the political interests that they fuel i mean that this isn't a liberal or conservative thing although conservatives are taken the lead on on on keeping this you know trying to keep this this rule the room if you process now or the color in public comments keeping it down because they probably benefited the most ever since the destruction of what the f.c.c. had called the fairness doctrine in the eighty's but i mean this is the these are you know c.n.n. n.b.c. universal. disney which owns a.b.c. the so-called liberal media time warner you know they're all in it together because they don't want to release this information the some of the conservatives however think that it's going to harken back to the fairness doctrine undercut their you know the ability of conservative causes and candidates to really perpetuate

themselves on the year but you know it's weird how you know they were the ones who want government accountability and transparency of the obama administration etc etc they don't seem to want it here now the election process and the last word democratic country it's supposed to get every person every citizen of the election process but when you have super pacs and big donors pumping so much money into campaigns then does it had a good route out of the average citizen of course i mean it's you know some people have said it's legalized bribery i mean others have said it's legitimate free speech and that's what the citizens united supreme court case and a lot of other cases. you know going back to the red lion broadcasting versus the f.c.c. there is a first amendment right you know to to put your ideas out there and be a media outlet be a t.v. outlet you know versus a newspaper newspapers are not regulated except for obscenity you know so i

understand that i also understand that their view that this is proprietary information and if you know revenue sources are identified there my it might distort the market but you know they turn around on the other hand and say we need to deregulate or regulate other areas because the market is being distorted well you can't have it both ways you can't be a licensee and be a part of that trust of the public airways and then turn around and say well no i mean the stuff that we're supposed to provide we just don't feel like making you that support crests were at the time a pleasure to have you know if that was desperate chambers journalism professor at georgetown university. let us know for now before more of the stories we covered. last arts in america check out our website it's our it's got const last usa you can also read or atlas of olive if you thought a segment about the supreme court ruling.