that's. well back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour there's a is stirring link between big business i powered lobbying firms and our

politicians to get it reportedly fun just a moment rake it all down also going to the dentist is scary enough but what does new research suggest about a link between going to the dentist and end up with two and finally representative allen west says there are eighty or so communists chasing over congress and while he's wrong about congress in congress he's not far off when it comes to other radicals in congress all explain in tonight's daily chick. in screw news the next few months you'll likely see a flurry of political advertisements touting paul ryan's republican trickle down austerity budget and the members of congress who support it these ads will be brought to you by a group called ending spending which recently purchased three hundred seventy five

thousand dollars worth of advertising and dean's spending is just the latest super pac creature born out of the supreme court's citizens united decision and like all the other super pacs there's a disturbing link between big business high powered lobbying firms and our politicians joining me now to expose these links and for most of all what else we need to know about the corporate buyout of our government is lee fun estimate of a reporter with the united republic's republic report we welcome you as a great glad to have you back with us lee so what's the deal with this ending spending organization. well as you mentioned there are a lot of groups coming out. and support the poll ryan plan which you know cuts taxes on what corporations slashes and how much in privatizing medicare we saw this actually the beginning of this budget year ago we saw a lot of really shadowy right wing groups airing ads to promote. a debt deal

to us. but in the last august when people were talking about the deficit they were to running ads and because they didn't mention a candidates name they'd ever had to register but millions of dollars were spent promoting. big cuts to the federal budget and this is no different however like the groups back then it's a fair one see where they don't have to register or report their donors however we did see that they share their office with the corporate lobbying firm so that suggests that they have some relationship with k. street so a lobbying firm is coming up with a front group organization and in spending and they're buying ads basically congratulating right wing congressmen are talking about how wonderful a ball ryan budget is this is the sort of thing well this particular ad comeau to the republican field and calling for that for them to support. policies like the

phone ryan budget in underwear if you go there website it's all about promoting the ryan budget and encouraging both democrats and republicans running for president to endorse these ideas rather than they don't get many details on what their exact plan is it's pretty much just a paul ryan corrosion group maze and you also have a story up over a public report now about the business roundtable what we need to know about the business roundtable and their access to our lawmakers well this is a very powerful lobby group kind of like the chamber of commerce they've got tens of millions of dollars they spent a lot on lobbying. berenice it's bringing in c.e.o.'s of fortune one hundred companies you know xerox j.p. morgan better think well point and bring them in to literally need with legislation they want to lobby against the volcker rule which is their big priority right now to lobby for more corporate tax cuts and especially tax cuts unquote on profits made overseas as repatriation issue but anyways this is really at the table is

bragging right now and saying that they can arrange and they do arrange one hundred meetings with congress a year so i think that that number is very significant because this is around here has been around for a long time but this is this is more meetings than a record of poor and and just think about just the regular you know average american out any meetings that they get their member of congress maybe one if they're able to fly out there and wait in line or you know if they have a big check maybe they can arrange one meeting but and you know this is you know john snow in the reagan administration with the former president visits around. right and the current head of business roundtable is giat england a former governor of michigan so you know they use the revolving door they use lots of campaign cash and i think it's likely we might even see them running ads this year because you know because of citizens united the business roundtable you know i'm gaged electioneering amazing night lobbying be out mode form of influence now

thanks to citizens united i mean instead of spending millions of dollars lobbying can't corporate interests just threaten politicians and not actually even have to buy them dinner i mean they can just make a threat and if they if they take down maybe one or two politicians ten or twenty will be terrified will do their bidding won't cost them anything that's exactly how the new game is played there's a very powerful lobbyist in two thousand and ten i've named scott reed he basically as i've heard said you know i'm going to get the banking industry health care energy firms so give me a lot of money it's my super pac i'm going to go around basically threaten members who don't agree with their agenda but we're going to you know dump twenty five million dollars worth of ads and districts that's lobbying it's just a new ballgame now while this is jumping twenty five million dollars into a congressional district i mean you know there are many congressional districts in the united states that historically turned in an election that caused way less than

a million sometimes less than five hundred thousand dollars given that the congressional races and particularly state races typically are low budget things is this ultimately just a complete corruption of our democracy arts and national ad that this guy scott really grabs very successful campaign two thousand and ten using that corporate money is now the political director of the chambers ad campaign this year to chamber congress so they actually actually like what he was doing and promoted him but this is a fundamental source of corruption and when people talk about you know obama had to pick up support his own super pac i mean you know just so he could compete. at the end of the day you try to create more corruption because how is he going to encourage corporations to donate was to attack there are consequences that questions give mine expect something in return on the other hand if he didn't lose the election that's very true but i think it is there's the churches are all this is this this is just this absolute destruction of democracy brought to you courtesy

of five guys on the united states supreme court who who frankly my opinion should maybe even have the power to make that decision and he a leaf thanks so much for the great work you're doing thank you tom if you would you check out the latest report on corruption in washington d.c. by going to republic report dot org. now i want to move on to address something that i said on the show last night one of the things important to maintain a high credibility program is to make sure your facts are right and when you get them wrong pointed out even before anybody asks you to last night i got it wrong when i said this. reporter is part of the watchdog out or network which is run by former coke operatives in the franklin center one of the many right wing front groups the coax help thought so here we have a partly coke funded chamber of commerce running an ad portraying republican linda lingle as a moderate using as evidence a campaign press release by a woman linda lingle that appeared on a web site run by koch political operatives all all of that was right except the

very end there were it was a web site owned by operatives that i reported isn't owned by koch bridges in their public report story that was the source of my information didn't explicitly say that it was i got that wrong and reported it wrong in my commentary and i'd like to apologize to the whole i reporter and most importantly to you from my roni is jumping to conclusions and state is a fact something that wasn't so. it's thursday so that means it's time to get he science we need another reason to be afraid of the dentist a study released this week in the american cancer society's journal cancer reports that there is a link between specific kinds of dental x. rays and the most common type of brain tumor study found that people with the meningioma type of brain tumor are more than twice as likely as people without the tumor to have had by doing x.

rays at some point their lives studying clue to both modern exposures to dental x. rays as well as those early on in the one hundred sixty s. a time when dental x. rays deliver far higher doses of radiation than today's x. rays do a study compared self reported dental x. ray histories of fourteen hundred thirty three adults who had been diagnosed with a meningioma and thirteen hundred fifty adults who had not same study also found a link between the anorexic type of dental x. rays and the meningioma meningioma tumor people who reported having had an anorexic examiner's before the tour in ten years old were nearly five times as likely to develop a meningioma as those who had anorexia x. rays at any other times in their lives according to the study ionizing radiation as an x. rays is a major environmental risk factor for meningioma tumors and dental x. rays are the most common artificial source of exposure to this form of radiation elizabeth cause the lead author of the study and

a professor at the yale school of public health notes that the risk factors for meningiomas are poorly understood partly because they weren't even added to the official brain tumor registries in america until two thousand and four she also adds that it takes anywhere from twenty to for thirty years after exposure to ionizing radiation and other environmental triggers for meningioma tumors to develop meningioma tumors while often benign can become as large as baseballs and can cause vision problems headaches and loss of speech so i guess you can have brain tumors the list of fears associated with going to the dentist. crazy alert what's that in the mail in response to the republican war on women that has taken over washington women from all over the country are sending their congressmen special presents crocheted bags ouches and other decorations in the

shape of female body parts as right knitted ovaries vaginas in utero are filling the mailboxes of republican congressman a group responsible for this new unique activism is this natural project and they're encouraging women across the nation to send their congressman a little special something obviously are often mailed unusual things from their constituents you know opening of a box to find a knitted lady part has to take the cake who knows if these crocheted crafts will stop the war on women but one thing is for sure political activism just got a lot more creative. coming up in tonight's daily take representative allen west things communists are running amok in washington while there are any communists walking the halls of congress and sure are a lot of fascists. for

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just. because the good the bad and the very very spagna coal is slowly ugly the good san francisco city council the city's board of supervisors voted unanimously tuesday to call for a foreclosure moratorium in the city so federal and state protections against foreclosure fraud are established supervisor john of bellows who introduced the resolution said every day families seniors and children wake up with the fear of losing their homes and foreclosures earlier this year an audit of foreclosures in san francisco found that the majority of foreclosures and legal problems or suspicious documents associated with time cities and communities across america in san francisco's footsteps and helping victims of predatory mortgage companies stay in their home the bad virginia house speaker william how

a group progress very much v.a. progress for ginia recently released a report discussing the legislative influence of alec on the virginia legislature report noted that the state had spent over two hundred thousand dollars of taxpayer money to send legislators to the annual alec koch brothers sponsored conferences well today speaker howell attacked the report calling it an accurate and mocked the executive director of progress v.a. and a shoulder it was. just curious about which part of the breakdown to be hit and the part where you say they got two hundred thirty thousand dollars so they spent two hundred thirty thousand dollars check i just missed out on this i guess i'm not speaking the words you see but i'm trying to do the smart girl i think at least the first you virginia and it's ok if you could figure eight words cultural syllables would be just fine for again sorry speaker how attacking the intelligence of the

shoal probably wasn't the best idea considering everybody realizes your party is doing everything it can to downplay its war on women and the very very ugly buster freaks freeze the billionaire conservative who single handedly backed the santorum campaign made a joke last night about an assassination attempt on president obama during an interview on fox business freeze said there are things that have been hammered out because rick and mitt have been going at each other oh they've trained their verelst on president obama was teleprompters are but one. presents corrupting our democracy with billions of dollars and now he's making jokes about killing the president and states both are things frankly have no place in american politics and are very very ugly.

here's a message for congressman allen west there are no communists in congress but there are a heck of a lot of fascists including yourself this week republican freshman representative allen west from florida said this to his constituents during a town hall meeting. leaders of. the group of. west was referring to the congressional progressive caucus with eighty three members that recently introduced the budget for all essential to their blueprint for the future america congressman west thinks the budget for all might as well be renamed the communist manifesto so what exactly is in this budget that has a right winger like it's terrible well there's a two point nine trillion dollar investment in rebuilding our infrastructure so if that's communist and president dwight eisenhower who invested a massive amounts of

government money to build the interstate highway system is also a card carrying member of the communist party how could job occur at the abyss that was the progressive caucus budget also ends the bush tax cuts for the top two percent relativist americans and proposes new tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires having them pay a top tax rate of forty nine percent still well below what the super rich paid under the administrations of roosevelt truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford carter and even the beginning of reagan's administration are those guys communists not only that a big majority of american people support taxing the rich at a higher rate as a recent c.b.s. news new york times poll showed sixty five percent of americans are in favor of this proposal so are most americans communists congressman wants the progressive budget also creates a public option giving americans an alternative to the for profit private health insurance industry. two thousand nine quippy act poll during the height of the

debate over health care reform found that americans by a two to one margin supported the public option sixty one to thirty four percent with a communist to zero and a progressive budget and star wars and last time i checked my distaste for war is not a central tenet of the communist party so it would be useful for congressman west to understand what a communist really is already karl marx himself as he wrote in his book the communist manifesto the theory of economists may be summed up in a single sentence abolition of private property and the encyclopedia brittanica builds on the definition defining communism as the political and economic doctrine that a mystery plays private property and profit based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production mines mills and factories and the natural resources of a society so under this definition either of those definitions there's no private prison business there's no profit there's no free market and these wal-mart i.b.m.

exxon mobil g.e. you name the company even my small business which produces the show would cease to exist and i haven't heard one person in congress called for that scenario for a living nation a private business or private property not one there is a communist political party in the united states see the usa one that has not rated itself considerably from marxist communism but also has yet to achieve any real significant political representation they don't have a single representative as far as i know in any election i see anywhere in the country there are no communists in power power in america congress in the west the true extreme left the cons did no political power. but the communist i don't find extreme right but we've historically called fascists they do have political power in this country and in fact right now the fascists have control of the house of representatives and they just passed a budget for america that got the vote of nearly every single republican member of

the house according to the american heritage dictionary fascism is a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right typically through the merging of state and business leadership together with belligerent nationalism in one nine hundred thirty eight italy's benito mussolini brought fascism to the world that he invented the phrase by dissolving parliament the italian parliament and replacing it with a committee to see the ele sione forgive my lousy tell you the chamber in english the chamber of the fascist corporations it was a system of government in which the corporate leaders from all across italy were chosen to represent their communities in the government it was not a government to paraphrase lincoln of by and for we the people instead it was a government of by and for the most powerful corporate interests in the nation that's fascism what was going on in italy at the time so freaked out franklin

roosevelt's vice president and we wallace that vice president wallace wrote an article in the new york times in one nine hundred forty four warning that fascism could one day come to america. wallace wrote if we define an american fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings and there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the united states there are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow that is that of a nation to include only those in their search for money and power who are ruthless in the seafood he went on to define the american fascist as those who pay lip service to democracy and the common welfare but in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from this monopolistic extortion looking at the republican budget and the republican embrace of corporate corruption of our government monopoly as to extortion most republican members of congress in my

opinion would fit well within walls as the affirmation of fascism or a fascist in the search for more and more money paul ryan and the republican fascists passed a budget that gives a three trillion dollar tax cut to the wealthiest americans and the biggest corporations in the search for more and more money the paul ryan budget strips away laws to safeguard the public and keep our air water and food clean so the corporations can maximize their profits while we all choke the paul ryan budget ends medicare as we know it and cuts a huge chunk out of medicaid weakening the role of government to provide health insurance and instead giving for profit health insurance corporations absolute dominion over the health care market in the united states and his nine hundred forty four times new york times article vice president was also highlighted this interesting tactic of the fascists writing. always and everywhere they can be

identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power it is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice so is it just a coincidence if the same republicans who are supporting the fascistic paul ryan budget are also promoting prejudice against women gays and minorities and standing in the way of equal access to health care and marriage and economic opportunity now that there's enormous support on the right for the supreme court's citizens united decision which gave corporations uncle limited influence over our politics basically allowing corporations to run their own corporate candidates in local state and federal elections you can argue that the supreme court here they do have mussolini did in italy in one nine hundred thirty four only just under a different name was also enormous support on the right and the hard right for

groups like the american legislative exchange council which taking a page from mussolini's chamber of fascist corporations gives corporate lobbyists an equal vote with mostly republican state lawmakers to pass corporate for new legislation all around the country this is the definition of a rule by corporations which is the definition of fascism and it's also the agenda being pushed by today's republican party and guess who enthusiastically supported and voted for paul ryan's fashions budget and plays on prejudices and routinely puts the interests of corporations ahead of his constituents congressman allen west and something really unbalanced with the american political system now and people like congressman west can call it moderate policies like tax taxing the rich investing in america's infrastructure and ending our wars communist. these policies have historically been embraced by both republicans and democrats as presidents as

members of congress as well as the majority of the voting american public and as the influence of the far left the communists has disappeared the influence of the far right the fascists and the libertarians who have virtually no government at all but corporate control billionaire control it has grown immensely and who are rich and the corporations control the house of representatives that were majority the republicans are multi-millionaires and they're even running their own guy for president in quarter billionaire mitt romney as vice president henry wallace concluded in one thousand nine hundred four we must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels if republicans like the west want to call people who support pell grants for college students communists but let's start being brutally honest about him and his republican cronies and policies as the former vice president of the united states of america pointed out repeatedly there fascists that's it for the big picture

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