you know get the real headline with. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and from what actually matters that's why young people 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 to t.v. .

is the state run the. russian channel it's kind of like. today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. recently we've been spending a lot of time on the show speaking about the case of tim de christopher the activist who's serving two years in prison for violating the offshore oil and gas leasing reform act of making false statements to the government now it turns out that tim is the only one who violated the offshore oil and gas reform act and he isn't the only one who made false statements to the government he apparently two big oil companies are also guilty of both of those things but seeing as how they're

not really scary environmental activists they will be facing any jail time for basically two oil companies got us an energy corporation and as a key interest they entered into a written agreement in two thousand and five not to bid against each other in these auctions and then to give the land acquired amongst themselves ensuring that the amount of money they had to pay the government paid to the government would be kept low so basically you have two companies striking backroom deals and what do you know turns up about the legal record of justice decided to go after them and in a settlement reached last month and two companies are forced to shell out two hundred seventy five thousand dollars apiece and what has been toted as a landmark settlement i just can't help but ask why is it the those companies get away with a slap on the wrist while the christopher is rotting in a jail cell and us or pay a fine of ten thousand dollars so you see these corporations break the same laws and extremely calculated manner in an effort to rip off the us government i was the

result no jail time no convictions and if you're wondering what the price is for corporations colluding against the government in those options i remind you it's two hundred seventy five thousand dollars and i really reminds me of a segment on the today show eat this not that. now at seven forty four big events not bad in this morning fast food director fare a big part of a lot of change the bottom line if you're not careful you could end up supersized. now why you might think that going to a government auction pretending to be a real bitter to throw rain. in the system and draw attention to your causes and activists is mostly harmless it's not that action could come with a prison term and federal charges but if you're a corporation and you get together with another corporation have some meetings do some backroom deals collude ph other to rip off the government and the taxpayers will just get a fine and why the finger so please do this and that for the price you pay for breaking the law could get supersized and don't think about the only example of you

this we've got for you today recently on the show i spoke with activists and he supposed he spent three years in prison for an activist website which he and is he and others posted on. and on about protests efforts to shut down an animal testing facility now some of the posts were about legal actions protests other posts covered illegal actions like stealing animals from labs and the government decided the web site was encouraging to mystic terrorism so andy and the other website authors were tried and convicted under the animal enterprise protection act now they say makes the destruction of an animal enterprise that leads to economic damage or loss of profits charism guess what if you're a corporation you can threaten and intimidate people do things that lead to a loss of profits or that all you want and that's what's called business as usual take for example monsanto the biotech giant that holds patents on alter and soybeans corn cotton sugar beets and canola seed genes well apparently monsanto is

a little habit of going after farmers for patent infringement on their seats even though those farmers often claim that the seeds ended up on their farms due to cross contamination so here's a monsanto farmer here's a farmer and santa when after after describing how the lawsuits work. it doesn't matter how get your field trip they can take the holes total. from him make them destroy and you know my wife and i were seagull pushing in canola which we had been doing for over fifty years we sure are in need of a big control of even we lost all that research when the court ordered true so according to the public patent foundation between one thousand nine hundred seven and april two thousand and ten month and so filed one hundred forty four lawsuits against farmers for patent infringement and more than five hundred farms are investigated for that a year so basically monsanto if i have a farm that has its genes in their crops then they go after them in court for infringement and usually those farms collapse under the pressure of pressure of the

legal costs of fighting a giant and make event so once again we've got to do this not that scenario if you're an activist with a website that supports the actions of others and those actions result in the loss of profits for animal testing facility well then you can be tried as a terrorist but if you're a company that goes out for small farms for pan infringement because your patented seeds blow out of their land and take their entire crop resulting in a loss of profits that small farmer well that's just another gave the office so please do this and not that and obviously we don't want anybody to actually do any of those things but the point here to us is that the government has a trend of going after activists and throwing them in jail and when corporations do similar things they face laughable fines or in some cases even debate of the government just yesterday david sirota was telling us about agag loss to prosecute activists or journalists or trying to expose illegal actions of factory farmers. there's a lot of states right now. basically criminal law was the act over infiltrating

a factory farm taking pictures of factory farm went on authorized and this is in response to the consumer backlash of the superstructure of farming industry in light of revelations about the mistreatment of animals a century missions so that's just the latest trend in criminalizing the activists all turning a blind eye to the sins of corporations and one way you can fight this is by helping us in our efforts to figure out which congress person requested that environmental activist him to christopher be put in isolation we spoken about of the law on the show so i'm not going to go through the whole story again but you can learn more about instance in isolation which you have been released from now and how to help us on our facebook page and remember if you do find anything out we want to share with us please e-mail us at ts producer at g. mail dot com. our we take another short break but when we come back.

so that may not be true we'll talk about why the cybersecurity bill so i think. is a big. you

know there's a real headline with. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers from what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young 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 to t.v. . is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us.

is cispa the next sopa you may have seen it had making its way across the internet in the last week or so so tonight we want to clear things up i know these cyber intelligence sharing and protection act better notices but it's not the next so but the truth is that even scarier and we spoke about it just last week and it's just one of several competing cybersecurity bills making their way through congress but since the specifically is the house version and it's the worst of them all under the veil of doing things for cyber security purposes a very broad and vague definition it would allow companies to collect and monitor private communications and share those with the government and anybody else but you can compare to sopa in the sense that it's already starting to anger a large portion of the internet community it's even passed we told you about how

private companies like speed facebook other telecoms have been gathering information about you to share with third parties and of course thanks to the patriot act the government has the ability to do all kinds of monitoring including the authority to intercept a wire oral and electronic communications as long as it's for the sake of fighting terrorism but cisco would add a brand new or wally in dimension where the government intelligence firms can work with private companies think alike your personal information and the law doesn't specify where the information would go as in which particular government agency so that means that it could end up in the hands of the n.s.a. or another girl as her agency for all we know and let's face it they're probably the ones who would want this information the most oh did i mention if you're being watched you probably wouldn't even know about it and you probably already have lots of questions right so what will get you monitored what's hyper private information can be monitored what can the government do with it once it actually has that

information and frankly we have a lot of questions because as of now the language in this bill is so incredibly vague according to the bill theft or misappropriation of private or government information intellectual. pretty or personally identifiable information all of the information collected so that opens up a lot of doors and as trevor brought up last week and let us conveniently overlook privacy laws because after all they say that they're on the lookout to keep you safe. so what it does is essential we are cars out a cyber security exception to all of our privacy laws and then once it gets to the government that all of this information your you know your communications your private communications we don't know exactly where it goes or what they're using of course we don't know which agency it goes through or whether they're allowed to share between agencies so they're allowed to use this information for over other than cybersecurity purposes later normal criminal investigations and we know in the

writers' guild the n.s.a. is probably going to be one of the biggest benefactors. good to know right the government could monitor share even hold on to any and all communications were discovered by private companies and we don't even know where to go now is this broad language that has so many people so worried anonymous is just one of the many critics out there h.r. three five two three pointing out that it's allows the government to interpret the law in such a number of degrees that any online communication could be suspect and thus unknowing unknowingly monitored and i guess that we can't be too shocked by this legislation after all cybercrime has been declared enemy number one here in d.c. and surprise surprise lawmakers that are heading up the cyber war committees are also the ones who are sponsoring this bill both dutch ruppersberger and mike rogers are ranking members of the permanent select committee on intelligence and rogers explain that he's backing this bill because every day u.s. businesses are targeted by nation state actors like china for cyber exploitation

and theft the broad base of support for this bill shows that congress recognizes the urgent need to help our private sector better defend itself from these insurgent attacks how convenient you're throwing a little line about china being the bad guys and the fear. longer the fear mongering the crap out of politicians until they side on that is bill but sadly that's kind of what's happening thus far this bill already has one hundred sponsors after all you want to speak out against national security and those are the only politicians in favor of cis why there are a large number of corporations that are voicing their support see facebook microsoft horizon and i.b.m. they're all months of corporations who think that since it's a good idea according to andrew coots over a digital trends the reason they're in favor of this bill over sopa and pipa welcome sound business see if your members sober would essentially force companies to police the web hunt down pirates putting the onus on them so of course they said no but this was different it will actually make life easier for those companies

because they're not responsible for finding anything may be protected against any personal lawsuits from privacy advocates because well this would be the law plus they'd be part of the bigger plan to stop any cybersecurity threat so politically this is a win win for that so let's get back to the original question here is sista the new sopa i'm not really a number of companies are actually backing this bill unlike sopa and although some are concerned that sice book that even be interpreted to go after copyright infringement it doesn't stop there this thing is about security not just piracy and when it comes to the congressional signatures sopa had about eighty supporters until the internet blackout on january nineteenth forced them to change their minds but both bills have raised the ire of the internet community for their alarmingly broad language when it comes to monitoring the internet sadly though we haven't seen the same outcry over this bill that we saw when it came to sopa thankfully though advocacy groups out there and anonymous do continue their campaign against h.r. three five to three. given the state but the latest censorship bill could sneak through

congress however anyone concerned over the future of the internet should be on the lookout for sr as it continues to be considered on capitol hill. and in fact anon has already hacked into two companies that have openly backed says but the real question here is can anything be done to stop this legislation can a internet community perform another sopa miracle without the help of the major tech companies to kill this bill or four times law well that's was going to have to wait and see. we're taking one last break that when we come that the president's name is the only thing wrong with the bush tax cut that's right bush is back and taking all of our tours on awards and on happy hour college breaking more pieces and the da just wants to hack into new york the week concert with from. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like you think you understand it and then you glimpse

something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't. charge bloggers a big. download the official tea allocation the one called touch from the i'll choose option. on the. video on demand. in the registry now in the palm of your. our guidance conference night fulltime ward and tonight the honor goes to former president george w.

bush for comments since he made the new york historical society last night. i was speaking about the merits of low taxes and his vision for economic growth that anyone really wants to hear about economic policy from the guy the letter to the brink of disaster but anyway he went on to speak about the tax cuts that he championed all in office i don't have this to say that it secondly if you raise taxes and we should be led to i wish they were called the bush tax cuts as they're called some other body's tax cuts they're probably less likely to be raised. now we all know that george w. doesn't come off as the most clever guy in the world but he's really think that americans are that doesn't think we wouldn't associate him with the trillions in tax cuts that he consistently praised during his administration if they didn't have his name slapped on the front i don't know maybe he does or maybe he was trying to be cute like he was when he made this joke at the two thousand and four radio and television correspondents association dinner those weapons of mass destruction got

to be somewhere. you know wasn't that funny mr president when your lies helped lead to the deaths of thousands of americans hundreds of thousands of iraqis and added trillions to the national debt but of course a little quick last night was the only reason that he acted like complete fool take a look at his justification for continuing to push economic snake oil part of the political debate and i guess rightly shows about our balance sheet and make sense i mean when you look at the debt to g.d.p. it's pretty high but we believe that in order to solve the balance sheet first and foremost you've got to grow the private sector most more businesses pay tax at the individual income tax level therefore if you raise taxes. only so-called rich you're really raising taxes on the job creators.

now there are a number of things wrong with this first the public sector can be crucial to economic growth just yesterday on monday hangover we were talking about how federal funds for job retraining programs are running out it's a troubling development of american workers life in crucial skills what if an official excuse me official unemployment rate refusing to drop below eight percent then there's the fact that government spending itself leaves the private sector jobs and when those jobs result from crucial public investments like those in education research technology and transportation there's an even greater multiplier effect and thirdly if tax cuts actually did shrink the debt and we probably wouldn't be in this mess in the first place just take a look at the orange part on this graph here the center on budget and policy priorities as they made last year the over half of the federal deficit by twenty nineteen going to come from bush's tax cuts but as bush offer up a rick perry loops for his role in that so-called budget crisis no he just offers more of the same and finally and perhaps the centerpiece of bush's smoke and

mirrors tax policy is the idea that tax cuts on the great harm job creators if you believe that and i know a great ski lodge of the bahamas the should go visit democrats who consistently make the point that they would only repeal the bush tax cuts on households making over a quarter of a million dollars that amount quarter million only two percent of all american households actually make that and twenty ten analysis from a nonpartisan research organization shows that less than three percent of small businesses would be affected by rolling back bush's tax rebate so i don't think i sound a great deal small business to me but if the tax cuts are to stay trillions will be added to the debt over the next ten years and you would pay if the proposed house republican budget is any indication it would be the most vulnerable income bracket by the way that spends a higher percentage of its money than the wealthy making them more likely to create jobs than bush's two percent because all the habits die hard and bush find it necessary to shill for the super rich again and because he wishes the tax cuts that racked up the deficit just didn't have his name on them and then no one could blame

him for anything. well that's why he wins tonight's tool time award. our guys in time for have the hour and joining a busy evening lauren lyster host of the capital out there on r.t. and michaele labor journalist and staff writer for in these times. thanks for joining me guys thank you all right so what a shocker the feds want to break into another thing so they can spy on you their own homeland security is launched a research project but find ways of happening instigating console's to obtain sensitive information about those gamers and so you might wonder why. the u.s. government is looking into how it can. export some places it's worried the

console's might be used by a pedophile there were still carry secret conversations through the guy in chat functions that means the sign criminals could potentially be talking to your kids and all would try to should parents be worried. sorry i did was laugh i have to love the new story we have little kids their. parents but anyway really you know i think what's funny is that if you slap pedophile and terrorist onto anything it'll make it's like p.r. people to support it when in reality it might be an excuse for a million other things that don't really address those i was really messed up right that is their gaming console is for all kinds of things you know playstation reno like you go online and the new game was it more than sit in their parents' basement and communicate with other people. will work after whatever it is. i don't look at porn on the internet but what i really want to go to. the little

kids you know it's very clear that stuff you're pressure game. you know i just wonder how far they're going to take of the game the more likely terrorist. you have to be careful with what you put in your living room because i have friends that work in tech and it's very scary what they're trying to do with those gaming console they have been cable console they have spine to where they can see when you lose attention so that they know what to advertise to you. i don't know if this is rolled out yet but i know this is all in the works and this is all part of the same gray area of what can go wrong. in your consul well this is the kind of stories actually kind of. kind of related i guess except for it's not really being done secretly this is legislation in fact it's not just the d h s are in a break in the game console knowing about it but. this specifically we can talk about new york right now where they announce an initiative operation game over and so

they're removing the profiles of registered sex offenders for certain games and take a look at what attorney general eric. schneiderman provided a list of the state's registered sex offenders two leading gaming companies who in turn cancel the accounts of more than thirty five hundred people. i mean is that fair because you were a registered sex offender you never allowed to game again they already can't do anything and they're not able to live many places many of them are stuck out in the boonies because of all the regulations what else are they supposed to do other than play video games and i mean it just really stop high cost for being a sex offender you know i mean that you're not so much of a buyer some people actually get the sex offender label slapped on them for something like slashing somebody when they were like drunken college not that there are there are actual sex offenders out there that are complete cycle goes and it's

a really tough balance basically it is a great kind of fight because there are always those loopholes where you have a couple that maybe someone was over eighteen and someone was underage and it was a normal couple that stayed together and then someone's out and that being a sex offender for life and now they can play video games now we know what you know being a lot. of any other. guess what despite how much everyone is freaking out about birth control and everything in this country teen pregnancy rates are actually at record lows record low in the seven decades and such statistics were last collect it and i think there's going to offer all kinds of reasons all those people standing on playing. maybe this m.t.v. show and. so far. this year he. sued you challenges

you know which group would be. there's make life look pretty miserable if you're if you're a teen mom yeah i don't know what does this say that abstinence only education actually works and you know i think this is i'm pretty bearish on the economy but this was something that made me go because the fact that teens are delaying sex which was one of the things that reason that was given i thought increased contraception and delaying sex maybe means that the economy is improving a little bit we know that teens have been hit very hard by unemployment sex is free therefore the fact that rates are going down maybe you need people it's more money if you're going to. i mean i don't really believe that but i did think that my interest for that reason. you're going to go about. picking i don't know why but i just think that obviously you know if you have sex ed where you can teach

kids about everything that comes along with the fact that i guess abstinence is the only one hundred percent sure way to get you down as you are to get pregnant to all of the other options that are out there like contraception the kids will get smarter about it all i agree with. you know it's a good thing rick santorum suspended his campaign so we can't mess these numbers up . who are we going to miss rick santorum or. rick santorum who will draw on the issue. so i goes wrong you know you. guys i got to thanks for joining me tonight that's a good night's show thanks for doing it and make sure you come back tomorrow when the time to get sick from a family will show up on facebook and follow us on twitter if you missed any of the night's show or any other nights. dot com you want to show they will find the interview in its entirety coming up next is the.

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