today in r.t.s. that time of year again the birds are singing the weather is heating up and monetary leaders are descending on d.c. to discuss the global financial future so what does this mean for you and the world's economy we'll find out. and take a look at there as it looks like the real bank of america website there works like the real bank of america website but this is not the real website it's a spoof and it's out to teach big banks a big lesson. plus as the u.s. presidential race heats up so do the topics tax abortion contraception all the candidates seem to have a lot to say about it after they get over the initial embarrassment of talking about it a lot of these topics so taboo is the u. last rude.

it's thursday april nineteenth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz all in you're watching our t.v. . well spring may be in the air but the optimism about the world economy is far from me and as the i.m.f. and world bank leaders decide on washington for their buy annual meeting tomorrow europe's fiscal woes threatened to cast a dark shadow over the agenda today of the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde more about the eurozone as the quote epicenter of potential risk this as she sets a boost of funds coffers to protect against future threats and while the world's leading emerging economies may be willing to help they want more of a say at the i.m.f. in return it's the rising powers versus the old world order at the world bank as well and as catherine of explains the clash is likely to dominate this week's

meeting. well global challenges may be aplenty these days but few are holding their breath for solutions when it comes to this weekend's upcoming meeting of the international monetary fund and the world bank part of the issue is that the world is still grappling with a crisis a financial crisis that began here in the u.s. that spread to europe and in fact threatens to undermine much of the stability in the eurozone one of the biggest issues of course is that these institutions are led by european countries and the united states and rising the colonies that are in fact doing much better than many of the original founding member nations of these institutions are poised to do better at a time when these economies here in the western europeans are so much more reliant on their money and their help. take the world bank for example one of the biggest charges leveled against it is the undemocratic way in which it's structured and american has always led the world bank and that has been one of the biggest issues

despite a mountain challenge that saw a defeat this week now the united states of the leaves the world bank but it has a board of directors that is comprised of twenty five members twenty five members that predicts a hardly at all reflect its one hundred eighty seven. member nations in fact some critics say the bank is less about eradicating poverty as its official goal states and more of a liberal neo colonial gang of thugs that imposes unfair policies in terms of the loans that hands out to the country as it tries to help and whether or not any meaningful reform will actually take place this weekend remains to be seen but the world especially the developing and rising world will certainly be watching parties . in washington they're your bank of america and they're causing quite a stir even blacklisted by google take a look at the website it's designed to look almost identical to the real thing same colors same graphics you're greeted by a statement from bank of america's c.e.o.

brian moynihan part of it says quote today it's time to acknowledge that our bank isn't working anymore not just for the market for the people our real customers so here are the two websites side by side the real and the fake can you tell the difference the pretty convincing right of course it's all fake but it's not a scam they're not trying to take any of your information or your money those behind it say it's a spoof most of bring awareness to bank of america's controversial policies and even posted some silly testimonials showing how ridiculous some of bank of america policies are take a look at the it's. like in the past my bank of america is going to pay taxes like me the next one there i'm a proc tala guess at least i tell you before i do i'm like bank of america and here's another if money was the same speech i'd have about that see i don't well

joining us now is the man posing to be c.e.o. brian moynihan his real name is andy because it is here to tell us more about your bank of america. so what is this all about. so your b. of a dot com is a project that a bunch of us launched in order to get the word out there about bank of america and more importantly about not not only bank of america's failings and. you know quasi criminal activity if you will but more importantly to give us all thinking about what will we do with a bank like bank of america when we have to bail it out ok talk a little bit more about the issues that you want to bring to people's attention with the main the main issue that we want to bring to people's attention is. banks

fail they do and in two thousand and eight a number of banks failed and the taxpayers were asked to bail them out and the taxpayers did through the government now those same banks those banks are acting the same as they did before now if they think of america fails which it looks like it very well could in the next couple of years what will we do with it will bail it out but then what will be able to do anything we want and i think it's pretty obvious that most people have better ideas about what banking should do than the people who actually run the banks that's what this site is all about rate ads and so india what is your ultimate goal do you want to bring bank of america down. bank of america's bringing itself down it doesn't really need our help it's. if you look at its share price its quarterly earnings out just today the

humongous raft of lawsuits and claims against it and so on and so forth it's pretty obvious they're they're doing their best to ruin themselves. what we want to do is whether or not bank of america itself alles we come to don't care it's whatever the next bank is that fails we don't want a repeat of two thousand and eight where the banks fail we bail them out and then they go on doing the same crazy things that got them to fail in the first place there are many many smart things that banks could do. and there are many many stupid things that they do that they could stop doing talk a little bit more about that why do banks need to stop doing at and like not bank of america where shared customers go. where should customers go is an easy one and so there's a lot of local credit unions small credit unions that are answerable to local communities if the community doesn't like what the credit union is doing they can

actually stop them from doing that if the credit union wants them to do something else they can make them do that there are lots of credit unions all over the country that are very responsive to their local communities and they're doing this despite laws that are not super favorable to credit unions. one of the things that there are critics that actually will buy mortgages off of large banks like bank of america and resell them to people who are being evicted and thus save people from being evicted from their homes due to predatory lending practices and probably the best thing that could happen to a big bank like bank of america would be that it would be split into smaller credit unions. failing it could also just start predatory lending

it could try to make reparations for the predatory lending disaster that it's created the foreclosure disaster. if you put your money in a checking account shouldn't you have a say over what that money does right now you put your money in a checking account and the bank invests it wherever it wants even if it's something that you really dislike. i would like personally to have a say in what my money is doing if it's in a checking account somewhere but i don't and with a credit union with a small credit union you often do you know if you don't like if you don't want your credit union. investing in predatory loans or in armaments or what have you you can vote as a community and pressure your credit union to not do that anymore so now this website is even to bring some of these these issues to the forefront and it's obviously it's a spoof and it's kind of a funny way to bring these issues so you the public's attention but was that

blacklist said as i understand why. well the main thing the slate is trying to do is get people talking about banking and get people understanding that they can run banks better than the bankers can and so all this fakery and stuff is basically just a trick to get the site into the news and get people using it to treat ideas about how banking should be. when we launched it yesterday. bank of america. it seems complained to google the it was a phishing site ph phishing meaning that it was trying to get credit card information from customers and so on and so forth it's really obvious it's not about that there's nothing it's nothing like a fishing expedition. but google reacted to bank of america's complaint and listed

it as a phishing site meaning that anybody who went to the site would get this big warning on their screen stop this is a dangerous site don't go here and google was even blocking g.-mail users from sending e-mail about the site to each other. that's right i know that we even had some trouble downloading it today to get the graphics or for this part of the show are they planning on taking it down so that people can access it easily now. yes down. hundreds of people complained about it we actually sent out an email to our list saying please tell google that this is not a phishing site and people did and google corrected it so now you can actually access the site without any trouble they obviously got you got bank of america's attention and you got googles it and said what kind of feedback are you getting from this site. well a lot of very great stuff is going up if you visited your b.

of a dot com you'll see that there's a bunch of ideas now bunch of really funny ads the odds are supposed to be for this future bank that whatever the bank will look like in the future your advertising your bank this is what my bank will look like. and you know suppose the pretense of the site is that bank of america is asking for your help to advertise what they should be. and a lot of those ads are really really funny and a lot of the ideas are fantastic too you know you scroll through a few of the ideas and you realize oh yeah these are some really commonsense basic no brainers we can we can run banks we just have to have the guts to do it now we are you making any money off of this is wells fargo or anybody else trying to push you to do this are is there any you have financial motivation behind this on your part i know we should make

a joke here about how much each of the other banks are giving us but no no no there's no financial motivation doing this there's a straight up answer there and tell me a little bit about your organization has doing some reading and some people are wondering who is behind this super web site there was some speculation occupy wall street was dying that i saw that yes and that and was of a part possible culprit tell me a little bit about the yes men i know that you aim to kind of bring these political messages out there tell me a little bit more about about this organization. well we've actually worked quite a bit quite closely on this site with others especially with people from occupy wall street there's an alternative banking working group that are all about thinking of ways that we can do banking differently that we can run banks differently and we worked with them on the site as well as with some folks with occupy who have made a site break up b.

of a dot com very good site. and we've also worked with the rain forest action network a new bottom line on the site as well so it's a big coalition and we're just the ones who you know who facilitated it and. helped to make it all happen mechanics of it but it's really a big group of people that made this happen and what we've been doing we've been doing bakery of different sorts for about thirteen years now basically giving journalists excuses to cover topics. that they think are important . maybe they don't have enough of a hook to. really these important issues until we make a funny joke that gives them that excuse all of us are only as a good way to get your word out so you've taken on bank of america who you've taken on x.

well i can't really tell you or them. you'll see you'll see very shortly in about a month all right one month that's how long we'll have to wait to see who the next target is of the yes men andy thank you for coming on the show that was andy vical from activists for the yes men. well if you have pigs and live in the state of michigan hide them or they'll get shot at the state department of natural resources outlawed fierro pig that it takes are not considered to be native so pigs and piglets on small family farms are now illegal and considered invasive species the law went into effect on april first and that's the deadline that farmers have to wipe their pigs off the face of the planet if not a pig farmers are subject to arrest and as you can imagine this is outraging local farmers that want to keep their beloved lines for more on this i was joined on the phone earlier by mark baker from baker's green acres i first asked his reaction to

the law and his upcoming court here's his take well actually the court appearance that i'm headed to right now is for another farmer. to be at our house too because he would allow them to come on his property be told get a warrant so they suited. his hearing is tomorrow and just so happens his lawyer it viable are the same ones. my lawyer is going to. do some things in court tomorrow and i just thought of this but ok and so you are a local farmer there do you do you own pigs yes i do and what do i want to delete and what have you done with them have you complied with this law and got rid of them. i know i'm one of of two farmers in in michigan that has said we will not comply and we have filed suit against the michigan d.n.r.

and will probably go to court within the summer so at this point mark you are considered to be breaking the law since you still have these pigs you can get rid of them. they consider me to be a felon a felon for owning these pigs and how long have you had them all i've been in this business for fifteen years this this type of take that i have is a little different than anything that i normally done. but see with what happened was the michigan d.n.r. issued a deck with a ruling and they have nine characteristics and if your pigs have any of those characteristics then they say that your picks are federal ok and so now they are considered invasive species by far as you know i know you've had them for years do they pose any danger health threats no not at all i mean

any animal here even a human being can become feral and i suppose. the behavior of that animal or human being could be become a problem but the whole gist of what i do i'm a farmer so i buy thing is i keep my animals where i want them so i build fences so they stay on our farm and they don't go to live in the woods or at my neighbor's house or send me anything like that you know that's our goal as farmers is to keep the animals where we want them ok mark if this isn't about public safety that right is behind the politics behind that. know it we think that the michigan pork producers are behind this and even on a grander scale than that probably the american pork producers these are the guys that raise pigs in confinement operations or k.

photos kafer always the is the acronym. confinement animal feeding operations for you think that the big businesses that are behind that oh absolutely they'd even come out and be cleared as much i have paperwork actually sitting on the seat in my truck right next to me and it lists the people that have signed on for this and there's six really big ones that it's michigan for . michigan milk fish and poultry fish get to cato's and michigan agribusiness so station and the granddaddy of all greenstone are credit services so they're the guys that supply money to big us true and now they're kind of demonizing the pigs that local farmers like you are really hard what is the difference between your pigs and the pigs that are considered ok are that

are allowed to survive that you can own basically there is no difference between the two are raised outside of me and mine will be better and more taste because they're outside of sunlight that is the root of all that good stuff that their scientists do the pigs in the case post. that's the other white meat because they never get to see the light of day so their meat is scale and. tasteless and all that stuff and that's fine if they want to do that i don't care to eat that and i'm not throwing stones at them for say but basically there is no difference at all they all have really tails they all have straight straight or floppy ears they all have a digging stuff on them. are pigs have a little more fur on them because they're outside their pigs usually are bald but they're inside and now we know you're not allowed to have these pigs how are you and your fellow farmers over there how are they reacting to this new law. serious

serious that's why it's one thing when. when they try to tell us you know what kind of cars we drive but if you try to tell us what we're going to need that's a different story and these are farmers that the d.n.r. is dealing with i don't think they they thought there was going to be such extreme reaction from us but farmers by nature a pretty radical people and very tough and they never give up fifty two years old if i was going to give up i would have done it thirty years ago and i will not give up all right leslie martha what do you plan to do about this are you planning to take to fight this battle in court. yeah that's absolutely what we plan to do because. this is still a cost to tional republic that we live in and this deck what sort of ruling that the n.r.a. has put forth is unconstitutional and it's

a law school and it cannot stand in this country. where will this end if government regulators are going to tell us how we raise our animals and what we can raise that's our business right mark we're out of time but thank you very much for coming on the show and sharing your story and good luck with your fight there i hope you get to keep your pain because that was mark baker from baker's green acres. well in the battle over women's rights to the fight against porn savan and birth control now maybe the time to question is america becoming proof remember this super bowl halftime performance back in two thousand and four when janet jackson exposed her breast like of america was appalled at the end of wardrobe malfunction led to the f.c.c. slapping a five hundred fifty thousand dollar fine on c.b.s. for airing that. all this over

a boob that's being exposed something that about half the population has c.b.s. has been. sense and an appeal was filed with the supreme court yesterday now while it revealed that breast in the us is enough to stir outrage and turtle trigger court back battles western europe on the other hand is much more open when it comes to sexuality and in countries like the other lands france and germany where they preach comprehensive sex ed teen birth rates are much lower take a look at this lousy conceived birth rates in the united states are much higher than in countries in western europe so as america sexual repression not doing us any favor well here to talk about this adult alex chad's adult film actress is here to discuss this hi alex so is being sexually repressive a sexually repressive society possibly harming americans health and well being

i definitely think it is and where i have friends over in europe were definitely one of the more courteous countries and talk about that a little bit how would you describe how our cultures are different when it comes to sexuality. over in europe i mean you can have nudity on commercials it's just it's more open it's more free over here i mean you can even opt your kids out of sex education and that's a great it's just. go ahead don't interrupt you there. oh i'm sorry no what i was saying though is it's just it's a country where it is there are so many things that aren't accepted in mainstream from light from any sexuality on t.v. i mean it's there's the bible belt there's everything here it's just and it is harming us i was reading earlier i mean i just heard you talking about did teen birth rates and we have developed countries we have some of the highest teen birth

rates here i just think it's because they don't know about it and if you're not taught about sex education and how to protect yourself then no wonder we do now when you hear about the fight against contraception the fight against sex education and where do you think the u.s. is headed i don't think we're headed to a very good place it's i remember i actually when i was in school i had and having five occasion in my school in virginia they didn't teach it they taught abstinence and my teacher used to teach in our school system where they did have it so he actually ended up closing the door and teaching us about condoms and birth control and all of that i mean if you don't have the tools then i just think we're headed to a very bad place to a lot more teen pregnancies and a lot more s.t.d. s. and why do you think that is it's interesting because in these places that try to preach abstinence and sexual education what ends up happening is that there is

a much higher rate teen pregnancy. i mean because of course teenagers are going to have sex a matter what you do so you might as well give them the tools to protect themselves otherwise they're just going to have sex and get pregnant and get s.t.d. that's just going to happen they have hormones you can expect them not to and we are seeing that the stats are are backing that up alex you are indeed adult film industry and rick santorum he's not in the race anymore but here is what he's hank god a about for and take a listen. you draw your conclusion well you're whether the administration has not put a priority my conclusion is they have not put the priority on on on prosecuting these cases and in doing so they are exposing children to tremendous amount of harm and that to me says that they're putting. their foot in the unfortunate of this law and putting children at risk as

a result of that. now alex what do you think about rick santorum sky and of war on porn he's not in the race anymore but he does cater to a very large base in america i think it's ridiculous i mean porn has been around for a very long time in one way or another it's not affecting the children it's just it's it's stupid i mean it's i think as americans you know we're all about freedom and freedom of speech and all of that so they can't really take away our right to have sex on camera and that's right and eliminate porn also gather and compared to the netherlands where things it's not even talking pornography prostitution is legal we see there as well that teen birth rates are are much lower and sex crimes are much lower i think when it's out in the open and when it's acceptable that you know people are less likely to do it ok it's you know just the thing with it's

that's how do it ok and we are seeing that there is a big part of america that finds these things to be taboo and alex what do you say to those people to that part of america that it fears the moral that we're on this path of moral decline and we need to preserve these traditional values. i mean we're always going to have values here it is america but i think it's harming us too you know you can't eliminate learning if it's a factor people enjoy it it's just like any other recreational activity i think if americans just become more open to things it won't put us on a moral decline the law actually make us more moral if anything else because things will be open in view differently and we see this kind of behavior and then at the you know if these kind of i guess values that are imposed we see these headlines for example the cia over and colombia and they were visiting some prostitutes over

there so people at all levels are not immune to this yeah i was actually just watching that on the news before i got on here it's crazy i mean you should have a right to your own recreation. i can argue with that alex let's say porn in the u.s. is outlawed no more porn no more no more adult entertainment industry. what is the u.s. like that look like for you if that does look good i think that hugo would be you know a lot more miserable than they already are greece porn is an outlet for people not just the people watching with performers as well i mean it's a multi-billion dollar industry and especially with jobs that employs tons of people you know tons of people are helping the economy by watching porn you know it's i think people are already sexually or prost enough as it is and miserable because of it so it's.