well go back to the big picture i'm tom marvin coming up in this half hour last month a u.s. army soldier allegedly massacred seventeen afghan citizens so what could this atrocity of war have to do with wall street's foreclosure crisis and the one percent a war on middle america also there's more to music than meets the year ok listening to music helps make the lives of alzheimer's patients better and even slow the progression of the disease and in tonight's daily take are you back to the ideals of harry truman who phony democrats from congress and return the party to its progressive roots. in the eyes of the rest of the news in two thousand and eight wall street got

bailed out and hauled out homeowners got sold out and now it's the children who are the biggest victims of the ongoing housing crisis according to a new report from first focus and the brookings institution more than eight point three million children are facing the direct consequences of home foreclosures already more than two million children have seen their homes foreclosed on since two thousand and eight and another six million children are at risk of being foreclosed on in california alone more than a half million children have gone through the foreclosure process seen firsthand what it's like to have their homes taken away from families who are foreclosed on at a higher risk of living in poverty and children growing up in poverty as nearly sixteen million currently are in the united states are more likely to drop out of school and get involved in crime. so not only did wall street steal seven trillion dollars worth of wealth out of the middle class and working people they also stole

a generation of young people as well even the eight million children affected by foreclosure doesn't begin to tell the story of the terrible damage those banks have caused the murders the suicides the financial ruin sweeping our nation as a result of that financial meltdown to dig deeper arcanes joins me is the founding editor of the exile and coeditor of the exiled mark welcome. thanks for joining us from our new york studios which has the class warfare in america turned out and who's dying as a result. well really the class warfare started in a big way under reagan and then certainly reached a new peak levels since you know since the meltdown in two thousand and eight when the bailout was really a gigantic transfer when it should have been actually a redressing of what had gone on the previous thirty years it was actually a gigantic transfer of wealth again from the middle and lower classes to the super

wealthy and so in that way definitely has heated up and as always the victims are everybody but the one percent and now it's up to such a level that. you know people are killing themselves and killing other people on levels that they hadn't before. you know i wrote a book called going postal which is about these going postal workplace massacres and school massacres which never took place in this country on a repeat of the sort of repeat scale until the mid one nine hundred eighty s. that is until reaganomics really set in and broke unions and wealth inequality started taking off so this is just sort of taking that process to a whole new level like you said in the in the introduction and i wrote about this in the story i mean there are murders and suicide or murder suicides in foreclosed

homes people burning their homes down with themselves inside of it or shooting policemen or locks and it's income to evict them from their foreclosed on owns and behind all of this is crying it's fraud it's predatory banking fraud and crime to fleece people who don't know they're being fleeced who trust in the system still too much and who are not as sophisticated as these fraudsters prey house how extensive are these death by foreclosure killings and suicides around. well there are no statistics on a you know sometimes these things reach the papers sometimes when they're bit more spectacular a lot of times i found when i'm sort of searching through these things that they only make sort of local news and when i wrote my book on go on the going postal shootings in the workplaces and schools and the things that really shocked me was when i really spent time researching digging into it is how few how many more of

these actually happened than ever sort of make the news outside of the sort of the narrow region where these shootings might take place unless there's a spectacular shooting someone somebody kills themselves and sets their home on fire you're probably not going to hear about it you might of in the very beginning of the economic collapse but certainly over the last three years it's moved off the front pages for you know stories about. romney's dog and things like that i wonder how many people who would do something like that commit suicide so their home on fire. might be thinking or hoping very that tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire self-immolating and kicked off the arab spring it is there any indication that some people are doing this not just out of despair but but out of you know hope that it will produce a response and and if so is our media is unwillingness to cover these stories making it less likely that they'll be any kind of an american anti-bank spring

anyway or solver. well you see the thing is these people are pushing this point of despair because there is actually so little media attention except for this little window few years ago on what's happening to them i mean the foreclosure fraud for example and that happened after obama came to power that happened after the bailout there were tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of illegal foreclosures on families to these robo signings they're completely fraudulent any illegal and they were happening right under everybody's noses and you know and this was the cause of a lot of suicides and murder suicides as well that this particular kind of foreclosure fraud in the robo robel for courses and so on. and i would think you know from studying these kinds of killings or suicides they are they take place generally in such a void in such

a kind of cultural media void that i don't think these people i mean these people do this because they've completely given up just isolation very rare yes absolutely it's very rare it does happen sometimes but it's very rare way they sort of explicitly say i'm hoping to draw attention to what's going on in my workplace or like the guy who is plainly iris building and left. a screen behind what's the true story of sergeant bales'. well first of all we don't know he's been accused of. going into these villages and killing these women children interact others seventeen in afghanistan and. by him alone by himself you know the detail of the story from the pentagon side is pretty suspicious and afghan investigators and a few very few an independent journalist who have gone in and interviewed the witnesses said all of them to

a t said he wasn't alone that there were other soldiers with him and some said there was even a helicopter and so on so the truth is we don't really know the details. of what happened we just know what he's accused of what we do know is that his family's home with his wife and two kids live back in washington their home was foreclosed on three days before the massacre and there's been a lot of talk about how one of his buddies in his unit had his leg blown off a couple days before but very little talk about the fact that their family lost their home they previously when he was on his previous tours in iraq. they lost their rental property to foreclosure and both of these homes. both of these homes had had loans taken out on them in two thousand and six that people in the mortgage industry short sellers on looked at these loans and said

these are liar's loans these were loans that were intentionally designed to fleece these people you know the head of the seattle mortgage. industry or whatever this group is called he called these loans unconscionable and it's short sellers said that they were they were designed to steal their property it's six so you know really what you have and this is why i wanted to sort of bring these two. sides of the story together. what you know basically what our what our elite our establishment are doing here and abroad they're exploiting and preying on foreign countries through the military and then they do the same you know just different means at home these are these are two sides i think of one coin invading and raping countries and exploiting the profit opportunities through military contracts ongoing military contracts and so on and so forth abroad and then at home

primarily through through housing fraud through stealing people's homes through locking them in on loans that were absolutely predatory fried you know an illegal deceptive everything and these people get away with it and that's i get to that part of my story the head of the mortgage company that fleeced roger bales family bales is the guy accused of the massacre the head of the mortgage company that. that all those loans that he was accused by the state of washington his firm of a whole laundry list deceptive and fraudulent practices including the c.e.o. and self was accused of doing these radio ads running them over and over and over that were themselves deceptive and fragile and he with a you know three hundred three hundred thousand dollars and i think he personally had to pay a three thousand are flying these guys made millions he's now yeah he's now awash in money he's hailed in the sacramento area he wins chamber of commerce

entrepreneur of the year awards amazing those are the heroes according to our establishment are the guys that rip off everybody else mark mark ames thanks so much for being with us tonight. thanks for having me on despite all the damage the bankers have caused both at home and as the case sergeant bales' illustrates a broad as well not a single banks that has been tried for his or her crimes on wall street that might be the biggest tragedy of all it's time to do what reagan did after the savings and loan crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. and that's throw a few thousand suits in prison. this is. crazy alert run for your lives during a recent survival themed race in laguna province the philippines runners faced a variety of obstacles both manmade and natural but the biggest obstacle they faced

was the horde of two hundred zombies that were hiding along the racecourse two hundred paid actors dressed up as an army of the undead hid behind bushes trees and hills waiting to surprise unsuspecting runners organizers of the zombie laced race that taught both amateur and professional runners to stay focused and to expect the unexpected some runners also said it was great problem practice for a future zombie apocalypse in order to ensure safety in the race organizers prevented the zombies from having physical contact with the runners so even brains and biting necks are strictly prohibited so skip the running of the bulls in spain and head to the philippines if you want some real death defying fun. coming out the democratic party is always for prided itself on inclusion and letting people of all sorts of political stripes and what portion of the party needs to be booted out so that harry truman's vision for the party that are going to be realized fully and i still say.

if we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old until the truth. i make incessant i am a total get a sense that i love rap and hip hop music and. he was kind of the jester day. i'm very proud of the role that out you'll see it's place. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse

something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

it's thursday so let's get geeky in the past scientists have shown that humans are hardwired to react to music and have discovered that music stimulates more parts of the brain in pretty much any other human function for example a report published back in two thousand and nine showed that aboriginal african people people who had never before listened to radio were still able to pick up on the emotions in western music and songs when they were poirot report included basic emotions in music and song are universally recognized regardless of culture or persons from so it should come as no surprise that music has the power to awaken those with alzheimer's right in moments of lucidity and memory recognition. see envy in the repeated quickest and most common sense and almost on

a live then he is given an i pod containing the new his favorite music and many to he he lights up his face assumes expression his eyes open why he he starts to him to seem to welcome to move his arms and he's being animated by the music and buds so see director of research at the boston university alzheimer's disease says that there are two theories to explain why music has such a great effect on patients with dementia first as i mentioned earlier music has emotional content to it so if we hear a song of a trigger emotional memories that we have emotional memories or some of the strongest memories of human beings so they have the best chance of being recalled by patients with alzheimer's secondly when we learn and hear music we store the information as procedure old memory a type of memory associated with repetitive activities and routines while dementia destroys parts of the brain associated with episodic memory memories the

corresponding specific events it leaves procedural memory fairly intact and since we don't lose procedural memory as we grow older we're able to keep an appreciation for music while music mail our alzheimer's patients to recall memories from their past it may have an even greater impact on in two thousand and ten boston university researchers discovered that alzheimer's patients have an easier time recalling words after they have been sung to them than they did after the words been spoken to nicholas sims stern one of the researchers the spine suggests that music might promote new memory creation in hell's numbers patients as a result researchers are now trying to see whether patients can learn critical information like when to take medications through song and music. simmons stern says the unpublished results may support the idea and that music may become a very common tool for treating dementia in the future so next time you play

a cd and your car throw on the headphones just remember it's far more to music and what needs to ear. it's just. it's the good the bad of the very very angry. stray shit is slowly ugly for good citi group shareholders at the c.e.o. shareholders at their annual meeting shareholders of citi group voted against the pay packages that had previously given a company executives including twenty five million bucks given to citi group c.e.o. pandit although it is non-binding and can't influence the company's eight practices it said a powerful message of discontent to both citigroup's leadership and to wall street firms in general one analyst called the move his story saying that no other wall street firm had come under such fire from the shareholders let's hope this is just

the beginning of a trend and the shareholders continue to pressure corporate executives to clean up their acts of bad senator john mccain earlier today mccain a strong supporter of mitt romney weighed in on the doggy gate scandal he tweeted a picture of his son's dog saying good picture of my son jimmy's bulldog apollo i'm sorry mr president but he's not on the menu horse this line was referencing a section of the president's book dreams of my father where he talks about eating dog in indonesia as a child and what he didn't like it conservatism latched on to that statement using it in response to the attacks on mitt romney for strapping his dog to the roof of his family car at the senator mccain should point out that mitt romney was a thirty six year old adult when he did it not a nine year old kid really didn't want to be eating that dog food and go with the reality instead of fuel in the conservative spin machine. and a very very ugly representative pat to barrett at a tax policy summit yesterday to very defended the paul ryan republican budget and

also defended the idea that actions on the rich need to be. the taxes on low income americans should be raised referring to low income americans he said it's hard to lower taxes on people who don't pay taxes if you don't have skin in the game even if it's ten bucks a quarter i think it changes the debate on what the role of federal government is what the role of state government is don't have skin in the game low income americans are the ones getting screwed by the republican budget suggests that they shouldn't have any kind of say over this theory of. it one hundred fifty two president harry truman had a message for democrats he said the people though want a phony democrat if it's

a choice between a genuine republican and a republican and democratic clothing people choose the genuine article every time that is they will take a republican before they'll take a phony democrat and i don't want any phony democratic candidates and this campaign harry truman's message to democrats prove prophetic in two thousand and ten when nearly half of the entire fifty four member blue dog caucus in the house of representatives was voted out of office. blue dogs are the ultra conservative democrats usually hailing from red states or as harry truman would call them republicans and democratic clothing talking republican code words like fiscal conservatism and small government now frankly some of them after act like republicans out of sheer political survival let's face it progressive like nancy pelosi can't get elected in the second district of oklahoma but a blue dog democrat again born or promises to act like a republican he can and the democratic party has always prided itself on inclusion

and letting people of all sorts of political stripes into it that's not necessarily a bad thing in fact i think it's kind of a good thing and that is why there tends to be a lot of infighting among democrats and when it comes to the blue dogs specifically the benefits of having more democrats in congress are typically greater than the trouble with these dynamos cause and president obama won in two thousand and eight democrats won a lot of red states that they normally don't and the ranks of the blue dogs swell but tragically rather than working with a president who came into office on a fairly strong mandate for change the blue dogs generally worked against him right off the bat it worked to whittle down the stimulus package eleven blue dogs even voted against a much smaller stimulus package then they actively spoke out against obamacare creating a rift in the democratic party and giving republicans a chance to take control of the messaging which eventually proof fatal for progressive parts of the bill like the public option in the end twenty six blue dog

democrats voted against their own president's obamacare and thirty two blue dogs voted against president obama's plan to fight global warming with cap and trade legislation so even though the blue dogs caucus with the democrats voted along side the democrats on those issues and gladly took campaign funds from the democratic national committee they turned their backs when it came to the really big stuff. and support for major democratic reforms in the big areas we all really care about where the democratic party is like really genuinely strong things like health care energy policy the economy when these reforms were badly needed and the american people were begging for it the blue dogs weren't siding with the people and tragically they weren't siding with their party instead more often than not they sided with big corporate interests and the schism that that created in the democratic party in two thousand and ten the blue dog opposition to democratic

signature pieces of legislation ultimately was one of the major factors that led to the defeat of democrats in the election a year and it led to the decimation of the blue dog coalition itself with twenty four blue dogs losing that. so you'd think that the blue dogs were there last that harry truman was right the voters democratic voters are real democrats republican voters want real republicans but unfortunately the blue dogs still haven't learned that. this is to representative old alien from pennsylvania seventeenth district holden is a blue dog and he's one of the democrats who voted against obamacare and now after holden's congressional district was redrawn last year to include more liberal voters in finds himself in a tough primary against a real democrat a progressive named map. and the blue dogs are rallying together to protect their own. as politico reports a washington d.c.

based organization center forward so progress from the senate is that forwards run by former blue dog representative blood kramer and funded with a whole pile of corporate money they're spending one hundred thousand dollars in ads against the progressive mr cartwright in pennsylvania a key accusing the progressive mr cartwright of working against president obama on health reform that's right the blue dogs who voted against obamacare are accusing the progressive who's running in the primary who supports a national health care system they're accusing the progressive of being an opponent of the president's efforts to reform a broken health care system course of the two men and only person who had a chance to vote on obamacare was blue dog representative jim old and as you recall

you voted no you voted against his own president so the question democrats should be asking themselves especially in pennsylvania seventeen this trip and others like it is if they want a true progressive democrat or a blue dog democrat who fights against major progressive reforms on the other side of the aisle republicans have made their choice they're not rushing to the center moving farther and farther to the right and in two thousand and ten that shift to the right paid off a major electoral victories waddy because voters want. the old politician so we should all take that as a lesson and politicians in particular harry truman was right we don't need a half hearted democrats especially when we have the possibility of a real progressive democrat. oh friend jim hightower said it most brilliantly but it was the title of his book he said there's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos the whole idea that democrats can win elections

by being in them it will road is just as crazy as most republicans would say that the idea of republicans winning elections by being in the middle of the road is because people people want somebody who actually reflects their views they want somebody who says this is where i stand this is this clear place right here not the middle road with the yellow stripes on the head of armadillos but you know right here i'm a progressive i'm a conservative you know when george w. bush at least you knew what you were getting it was crazy you knew what you were getting and that's what people want their politicians they want to know what you stand for and they want you to stand for progress and that's the big picture for more information on the stories we covered visit our website the top part in our con for speech dot org dot com also check out our two you tube channels or links over time or that copy also of tom hartman dot com check out all the different ways you can send us your feedback i don't forget that marks the beginning you get out there and get active tag you're it.

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