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brilliance in engaging viewer comments on facebook twitter and you do is when you've got something to say i listen now first i want to respond if you are that watched our interview with chris hedges about the n.b.a. and the lack of mainstream media coverage surrounding it groups one nine hundred seventy two comments on you tube and said the reason the media won't cover it is because obama is there and they don't want him to look bad if bush for president you can guarantee the media would cover the story now i've got a feeling that. it's true not necessarily that obama is the entire media's guy i don't believe that but if bush had been the one to pass the n.b.a. there would have been a much stronger response especially from the channels out there like a mess and we see parts of the other hand all we know were you know they're into that kind of things i don't find all that shopping but back to the purse point it goes for a lot of the things that obama has done in his presidency in the shadow war is the assassination of american citizens all of which the more left leaning media has been largely knew who were the same thing of happening or bush i really don't think so i think there's some sort of collective hopelessness of in the media of the

obama administration really has our best interests at heart they say they will detain americans ok the military says don't talk about the shadow words there for your own good ok and the reality is that what is good for americans is knowing what the government is doing in the name of their safety next i want to respond to a viewer who tweeted out this telling component said show president obama also has a new ad calling mitt romney a big oil crony he is giving more to obama than anyone so now first i'm just sorry guys but that's being referred to here. not approve this message under president obama domestic oil production is at an eight year high so why is big oil attacking him because he's fighting to end their tax breaks he's raising money standards doubling renewable energy you know all these fights that romney's to do with. tax breaks attacking higher mileage standards and renewables you see the same remember

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changed our facebook picture and twitter picture will be uploaded by the end of the week i promise so that's it my rantings tonight but i'm back with more next week. well today is the day you know the two hundred marines arrived in australia and the first of what will be twenty five hundred american troops deployed out under it's part of an agreement that president obama and also brilliant prime minister julia gillard dillard signed last november now for now we hear the marines will be engaging in training exercises and are going to be around for humanitarian help but a consensus around the world is that clearly this is part of a strategic shift of the us military to focus more on china and the asia pacific region and the australians seem more willing to admit it when we discuss it is robert farley sr professor at the university of kentucky and blogger at lawyer guns and money robert thanks so much for joining us tonight and for starters do you know more about the timeline here like i said today we have about two hundred marines that arrive at the end of the day they're supposed to be twenty five hundred do we

know when they're supposed to get there. i think it's really over the course of the next few months i'm not sure of the exact time around are there but this we're going to work for several months since we're going to bring much visit to australia and it's bitter chander and so forth and i think you're right that the australians seem very excited about it and talking about it in different terms than the americans are talking about it well yeah let's give let's give the viewers an example right so first we have australian defense minister minister stephen smith and he said we see this very much as responding and reflecting the fact that the world is moving into our parts of the girls the world is moving to asia pacific and the indian ocean we need to respond to that. then we have the u.s. ambassador to australia jeffrey place who said there's this kind of sexy fun narrative that you hear from pundits and others trying to suggest this is about china but it's not so that's kind of interesting right why do you think that that's going on we have the us trying to downplay it and then australia and i guess

they're just enjoying the time you know in the limelight or saying or you know are important ones coming this way well i think the. they're trying to ensure that the united states makes as much of a commitment to australian defense into australian security they can and so they i think they're talking about this it's one of the most grandiose terms because when they talk about grandiose terms the radically it will commit us to do do things that is in their favor but i mean let's be frank it's about china i mean it's mostly about china it's also about the tremendous amount of world trade they construe the area maritime trade that goes through the area increasing importance india and indonesia and so forth but the military aspects of it are mostly about china what about the thing that we heard from the prime minister this week when she said that the us and also i are currently in discussions for maybe having drones on australian soil as well. i think that's a really interesting. i mean i hadn't you noticed that but i do think that it's

very interesting in terms of how those drones would play out in a. in a sort of militarized scenario between china and the united states i mean everybody expects the drones are going to play a large role and that is exactly sure where they're going to be based drones are going about sterility would probably manage anti-piracy campaigns probably carry out all kinds of surveillance that the chinese and potentially other actors in the area so that's pretty interesting they want to be sort of scouring the outback and i guess it wouldn't be all that shocking but in the meantime we don't really know if it's just up for discussion hasn't exactly been been decided on but you know if you were china how would you respond to that. wasn't china has responded to it by expressing its suspicion and by chastising both the united states and australia for essentially militarizing diplomacy in the region and i think this was

a reasonable response by china the australians for their part see this as a response to the fact that china was taking what a lot of people in the nation thought was a much more assertive and aggressive diplomatic track around two thousand and nine in two thousand and ten and so the australian seem to think or what one of seeking to suggest that this is in response to show that the chinese are sort of suggesting that this is an escalation by the united states and the united states is regional allies and one of the things that we hear all the time when it comes to military planning. strategy planning here is that our generals vary from pairing for yesterday's war they're never quite and soon with what exactly it is you know that we need to plan in the future but here you think they're actually doing the opposite are are they really thinking ahead. absolutely i think that they are the navy and the air force out for a very long time one had to move away from the focus on the middle east and want to move away from the iraq and afghanistan. under robert gates gates was very clear

that the united states had to fight the wars that it was fighting right now before it moved on to the next war but now that we've moved on to secretary of defense panetta and we move mostly out of iraq and the time on afghanistan is certainly seems to appear there the navy and therefore very eager to think about what the next conflict might look like and they're happy to have the focus back on them and back and what they can too. i think the navy the air force. maybe not so much the the army there but so in that sense as we look at this strategic shift and actually see that happening right now there's actually action in it how much do you think we still are going to have you know how many resources are we going to have focusing on in the least. we're going to see a reduction but a lot of the resources that can be applied to conflict with china can also in sort of us are included case to be applied to the middle east so especially naval assets

that are part of pacific command are pretty easy to shift over to the middle east if there's any kind of crisis and this includes carrier battle groups that includes submarines and so forth. that could respond in a sort of crisis in the middle east what i doubt you'll have in the middle east after there's been there's some kind of which are all more some kind of drawdown in afghanistan and as you probably don't have large scale deployments u.s. ground troops in that region but you know instead you'll have air and naval assets that can check between the two theaters if that turns out to be necessary i think got plenty of jets and plenty of steps out there it's to cover the globe robert thank you very much for joining us and i thank you for having me. well time for a last break in the evening but when we come back that romney pretends to be a normal guy and i thought i don't have another happy i really think you're drunk there's enough to make you think you're sexy and a campaign here to get facebook users to post their efforts as. for the greater

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our guys it's time for tonight's all time award and so night we're going to get to the g.o.p. presidential front runner mitt romney he celebrated last night's primary win in wisconsin surrounded by fellow g.o.p. ears and of course aside from thanking voters for choosing him he started throwing some punches at obama here's one of the jabs enough to make you think that years of flying around in air force one surrounded by an adoring stance of true believers telling you that you're great and you're doing a great job it's enough to make you think that you might become a little out of touch. yes he says that obama has been spending too much time on the official presidential plane with his adoring staff and that's led him to be out

of touch with voters i mean really promise me visioning if romney gets the golden ticket to the white house then he'd probably make some pretty big changes over at six hundred pennsylvania avenue if that's what he thinks her star is obviously air force one have to undergo some serious remodelling like he said it just gives the president the opportunity to become out of touch with americans so maybe but then decals on it like don't tread on me help road if you sponsors to perhaps a nascar team owners that he's buddy buddy with or better yet we can scrap a whole plane give him a blimp and as a safety measure we'll just attach the machine guns so gets the job done right and he'd clearly have to change out the white house mansion as well after all mentions he does scream disconnect so we're placing with a much smaller home with a huge cross an upright yard and a coal burning girl in the white house lawn it's too bad romney doesn't drink because he would definitely have space for an ace in the backyard but let's get

serious here romney of all people is trying to call obama for being out of touch i mean this is almost too easy but here it goes pot meet kettle. so i drive a mustang and a chevy pickup truck and drives a couple of cadillacs actually ten thousand bucks. ten thousand no big. corporations are people my friend we could raise taxes and of course they are i like being able to fire people who provide services to me doing some renovating of his own tearing down his old house and lawyer california to build an eleven thousand square foot mansion he is installing a car elevator to a four car garage as campaign thinks there's no optics concern here telling the new york times it's quote just a mechanism for storing cars in tight spaces. yeah the guy who knows nascar owners has a lawyer home expanded it for a car elevator and his wife owns

a you've got a lot guy he's the one who really understands real america how to run a even you know you can't identify with anybody out there but the one percent and we try to act like you're an everyday guy you still come off as fake. go for story and also. really. works. so romney my officially the unemployed he's still running twenty one million dollars in two thousand and ten and i'm sure that real americans would give an arm or a leg for that kind of money i'd also like your mind made about something else calling out obama for using air force one is ridiculous because guess what that's how every president since the fifty's is traveled not just obama even ronald reagan you have the massive claim he was commander in chief and in reality the presidential plane

the white house those are all things that mitt romney is working towards that's his goal that's his finish line and those are the things that he's been campaigning to get for almost a decade so it's a week sausage it really wants the job he's going to work a lot harder on getting his stance straight on tough issues and at least get members of his own party on his side and if you want to pick a fight with obama i suggest he digs a little deeper next time there's plenty out there to criticize so for now we will gladly give mitt's a night stool time award because his a popular see and sister fund overlook. our guys time for happy hour joining me this evening r.t. producer jenny churchill and alex sites all this as an editor of progress stuff or . thanks for joining me guys thanks for having me. you know sometimes when people drink a lot then funny things happen to them they might think that there are more. they

might start hitting on people i'll kinds of things sometimes makes me we're so. but of course. all right well here's the interesting part is it might not even be the alcoholic does it with just the knowledge or thought that you're drunk there's a new study out there that basically says and they did some placebos they just thinking this just thinking you're drunk can make people think that they're more attractive and so the people that they actually gave alcohol to but than they weren't drinking anything they still had low self-esteem and the people they actually gave placebos to who thought they were drinking alcohol just decided that their life. i mean is it really any shock that we're all a lot vain or am i mean was it all so much rain or than we want to admit and the

only thing holding us back from talking about how fabulous we are is society and their judgment is that's why i chugged six pack of jewels right before i came here and that's why you put this not to spoil any. here on the morning t.v. that's already very real darshini is here on this to make me feel more like right to say i mean sometimes when i go to the met you are attracted to for ok well then you know mission accomplished i mean i write home after happy hour on this show it's always a lot more awesome because i just exude confidence i guess that would be you know because he just think about the effects of alcohol and everyone talks about how lowers your inhibitions and so it's easy to blame it on the buddha's and in reality it's just you can't some of the so if you can't blame on who is most try to but if you think about it maybe it's not actually lowering people's inhibitions it's just making them feel like social norms don't matter anymore like here it's not socially normal to talk about how hot you are or how hot you think you are so when that norm

is taken away because you're drunk you can talk about it but it's not socially normal to hook up with someone you know on a one night stand basis but after you've had a few drinks well then it's totally cool that you can still blame it on the booze whether you're actually drunk or not exactly if you think you are. so you're saying basically there's a lot of closet sluts out there that aren't even getting drunk but are having one night stands and pretending like they were blacked out. ok let's move on to this next story shall we basically researchers thing that facebook can help you figure out you know what the chances are that you might get an s.t.d. and so he envisions an app that could alert you to your risk of catching one based among its prevalence prevalence excuse me amongst your friends so they're saying that if you just say that you haven't asked. see that it will help figure out the statistics of what the chances are you know that your friends probably have it to

you but we all know this isn't going to hurt because what person in their right mind is like i have clue media let me tell everyone i know you put that on your profile. alex we do actually happen to know that you probably are s.t.d. free because you never have sex because you for. this is a really complicated we thought it was so funny last time we were on the show we were talking about this study that some people said they would give up sex for a year had access to the internet and the washington free and. they were really shocked about that i mean you know i was trying to be provocative a little bit here but when you think you're. on a show in line and are now back on the show admitting you lie or am i lying about admitting that i'm lying. does that have any what the washington free beacon thinks is you know really worthwhile to write about. move on to our next story shall we.

explain this the obama administration they haven't been all that nice to some of the federal agencies that are actually trying to implement some of the things that the obama administration has been asking for it so then when the agencies actually start working on it they end up kind of clamping down and basically the reason that they're doing this in political and often because you know maybe they get a little scared that things like fox news will attack them for. you know there's always a zillion dylan right there is when time was fats and everything was not that it was soft and everything was low sodium and now it seems that this is moved to sugar so dr london is this something we really need to be concerned about that's different than the other cycles or is this sort of a pattern of picking something else that we should watch in our diet. and scary scary regulations now we just kind of want to talk about this not necessarily

because there's something going on in the news today but let me give you an example the f.d.a. twenty time they have proposed as part of a new health care law to require that movie theaters post calorie counts for popcorn so that when people go they can just see the calorie number before they order it and the administration actually thought that this requirement was necessary they thought it would probably be lamb who and on fox news and so and so they fought over it i don't think that you know it's kind of unfortunate that you see the administration backing off on things like this one who's it really going to hurt that's not you know that you have a number up there you're not forcing anyone to do anything. yeah i mean because because there are people like fox news and all the entire right wing echo chamber they will go nuts i mean they could propose a regulation that says cars shouldn't explode when you drive them and that would be job killing regulation to crush the auto industry so it's like you know they want to make this concession on the small movie industry thing in order to save the

bigger health but it is unfortunate that politics is from senator i just i can't agree with you on that because what we're talking about here is you have the f.d.a. whose purpose is to gather information to consult with experts and make decisions based on that and then the white house says oh i'm sorry your decision based on information isn't popular so we're going to strike it down i think that's the opinion of letting politics take over where i mean i think actually insane like oh fox news might have a field day with this that means that it's actually not better for americans to now know it's totally possible when moving their part but you know part of the problem here too is that i don't even necessarily think that it would be something that's popular is they just don't know how to message it and they don't know how to sell it so they let fox news went out because to me that just seems like a really logical thing. you know birth control is maybe a more divisive issue around the country calorie counts i don't really see the. you know the device of no i mean i think calorie counts definitely can be to visit

because i can definitely see fox news saying oh nanny state they want to tell us you know what we can and cannot do you even though they're not actually doing that they find a fabulous way to spin everything so i don't think that it's that crazy for them to want to keep that in mind if you have i think if you're going to put people in positions to make decisions like this and have these agencies then you have to let them do what they were put there to do you know the f.d.a. is theoretically an independent agency that's not you know not like h.h.s. or any other part of the justice that's part of the administration is technically independent but the white house is going to be the one that's dragged before the court of public opinion for whatever. the f.d.a. does so it is unfortunate it's true i wish we had more of those calorie counts everywhere we went because i want to see what i like to like killed myself then do these things you know like i want to see the number of calories just so i know you know how much fake out of hard to make i would say it's only true because i used to

be like knowing just me i know it totally changes things there's one place where i found out what the calorie count for something was and was like i'm never getting up again so i mean it does make a difference because there's this killing regulation right there you know the regulation i guess so but sometimes. i maybe it was business killing because people stopped buying stuff but i thought this i don't necessarily stop ordering the product or stop lying i just like to know that if i say that about it i'm just weird like that i think it's rather obvious already i don't know what you guys think you joining me tonight big confusing and make sure that you come back tomorrow so rights advocate michelle alexander is going to be on the program to speak about her new book the new jim crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness now in the meantime to forget to become a fan of a lot of shows on facebook and follow us on twitter if there's anything in this tonight or any other night that was. flashed below or show and let me up that is

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