beautiful and well. we're never going to be as leader keep you safe get ready for freedom. but still are very. similar. but in the aloneness so you know there's a real headline that none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters for 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 in t.v. . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else hears you some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

ok or show and tell on tonight's program last week we told you at the cia's trying to expand their drone war capabilities in yemen able to launch future strikes without knowing who their. targets oh i don't know if you thought the signature of

france writes could be considered a terror topic but a producer for truth in ascending to find out what you have to say i'm on the streets of d.c. to tell people in the nation's capital what our viewers had to say on twitter facebook and you tube and see which comments we see cable or daily. from. the cia wants to launch drone strikes in yemen based on suspicious behavior without really knowing the identity of the target so could this be considered a terror tactic on to read your response from yours and on you tube he said drone attacks are a terrorist act they demolish buildings kill people indiscriminately and are operated in secret pretty much the same thing as a terrorist attack do you want to keep that comment or delete it keep it yeah like keep it. there's a thing that you need to have a hundred percent evidence of attacks do you want to keep that or delete it. delete that we're trying to keep the terrorists out so it's not it's not the same as

a terrorist strike what if it drones were used based only on suspicious behavior i'm sure there are people. competent enough to. trust them enough to make some decision i don't know read your sponsor i'm gone on you tube he told us the only people terrorized by drones are terrorists the u.s. uses drones to stop terrorism not participate in it so what do you think you drones only stop terrorism or can you be a part of the problem well it's going to increase tensions but they've taken out quite a few terrorists already with groups. like the cia doing their homework pretty good on their own manned and unmanned aircraft sitting down to boma no one targets. these people see it. so many people we spoke with support using drone strikes on terrorist suspects launching drone strikes based on suspicious behavior seems like it's a conversation up for debate. as

always we appreciate your responses and here's our next question for you just before the break we told you about the case of france's great man to try to burn down a planned parenthood in wisconsin and while he's facing jail time he's not being charged with domestic terrorism we've seen people get that charge just for translating documents so is there a double standard on what counts as domestic terrorism rights don't you think on facebook twitter and you tube and the responses just might make it on air. it's also no secret of the culture war is alive and well here in the us you've seen it waged on a mass scale by the religious right this year the debate over contraception to the slew of restrictive legislation on abortion that's making its way through state legislatures and while the religious right will point to their bible to the bible and their ideology for social issues like abortion and gay marriage something that doesn't square out of the pairing of those views with fiscal conservatives just last week we saw that play out the debate between paul ryan and the catholic bishops over his budget

a budget the question is austerity not all the defense department of course but on to social programs but one has to really be a good christian our viewers like ryan's when it comes to social spending hypocritical and what we make of how our friends across the pond approach this earlier i caught up with david sirota talk radio host and author of that's our future how the one nine hundred eighty s. explain the world we live in now our david wrote about this topic last week specifically referring to a new report that was published in the u.k. that looked at religion and political views and participation so i first asked them to tell us more about that report. but what they found in britain is that the more religious you are the more life where you are to be caressed left of center who believe in money for equality believe in the need for tolerance when it comes to issues of immigration in other words what about is that in the united kingdom as opposed to the united states the more you so identified as religious the more you actually start all over in your political beliefs the economic word of the bible so

how is that i mean obviously they're different countries right you can't expect everything to be the same but how is it that they're so completely opposite because often you do find this correlation between somebody who is socially conservative and then fiscally conservative as well. in the united states essentially true has done studies also come out showing for really for good. it's now that the more religious you are the more you tend to be economically conservative not just conservative on social issues and you're right but in the united states are not the same but i think what the british report highlights is that american politics and politics in the industrialized world doesn't have to have him parsi embedded at the place where religion and politics intersect that there can be an economic politics that is risky because expressive of the economic dark rooms in the bible and let's

remember the doctrines in the christian bible on economics are quite progressive anybody who reads the sermon on the mouth speech knows that it's kind of ridiculous to claim that the christian bible inspired any economically conservative position well so that you know that's interesting too because as i mentioned last week we saw this is the first time that we've seen it happen when there's a republican budget that's proposed that ends up slashing a lot of social programs programs like medicaid or welfare and food stamps and what not and so last week we saw that play out between paul ryan and the catholic bishops but we've also heard certain ways around this from paul ryan even some religious guess that they host on fox news so let me play you a clip and i want to get your response. when we say something like the importance of taking care of the poor the importance of taking care of the least of these that there's also this other other element of personal responsibility and making sure

higher level of government does not our society does not do well in a lower level of government or society can do for itself there's got to be this balance here those principles are very very important and the preferential option for the poor which is one of the primary tenants of catholic social teaching means don't keep people poor don't make people dependent on government so that they stay stuck in their station in life help people get out of poverty and a life of independence. so i do think that that death occasionally. i mean my reaction person foremost is the kind somebody up for food stamps is not aware with them of out of poverty so that's the first thing the idea of the paul ryan budget or the romneys project proposals are aimed it at eliminating poverty and getting people out of poverty is preposterous making somebody more hungry a million somebody not be able to afford their health insurance their subsidized health insurance is not a way to end their poverty it's simply a way frankly in my estimation to get more money to give to the very wealthy indus

in this country my in my larger critique would be this we have to remember that historical context of all this the intersection of politics and religion in the united states for most of our history was an intersection where the cap for instance where the christian bible see chains on economics were represented on the progress of the cross of gold speech for william jennings bryan for instance the famous example also of course martin luther king comes out of the religious world his poor people's campaign to try to end our reach so we have to remember that what you see expressed by paul ryan is is a modern idea so called interpretation i would also probably colored starvation of what the bible as. actually teaches that how do we get there right how did that become the modern interpretation because you could say in many respects to the world we see with you know the religious right nowadays especially with younger

populations that when it comes to social issues like gay marriage for example they're moving towards a more progressive stance in terms of becoming more accepting of it so how is it here is the fiscal conservatism now that the modern way of looking at it what i think i think part of the way that's happened is that you have a situation where religion has become a political brand and not a serially something represented by whether people are actually reading the canon there was a recent study out just a couple months ago that found even in america people who actually have read the bible tend to be more progressive than those who haven't read the bible and that's different than calling yourself religious a lot of people can call themselves religious and really have not much of an idea of what the religion in question actually teaches the other part of it i think is that look you have a well funded conservative movement that has tried to create what is an unholy alliance between working class people and the very rich and the people who have

created that that on will you alliance has used religion had manipulated religion to try to force that on unholy alliance together the good news is that generational calling tells us that the new younger people today even younger evangelicals aren't necessarily buying to the best way to pursue the word of god if you were god it is far more progressive than economics is somehow to embrace conservative economics i mean yes one of those things when you think about it you look at it it seems so obvious that there is that hypocrisy there but it's important to think you talking about it right otherwise they can try to cover it up and they would thank so much for joining us absolutely thank you. let's take one more quick break but when we come back full time tonight involves phone companies being too busy healthy live for us to infringe on your privacy to quit. privacy i'm not happy our new clothing and style of the restaurant.

story seems so. you understand it and the. other part of it and realize that everything is. part of the big picture. mr. but in the alone until

you know there's a real headline with none see the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and 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 in t.v. . or is this state english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us.

prize archetypes tool time award and tonight we're giving a collective honor to cell phone providers have a talk show we spoke about her ever expanding surveillance state and this story falls right into that that cia the wireless organization is the cell phone industry's trade group and it's involved in state bill fourteen thirty four it's called the california location privacy bill now proposed by state senator mark leno this bill would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant from a judge before getting their hands on a phone location information and i would also require a phone providers to disclose why they're sharing that information and how often they're giving it to the police i personally i commend this senator for this proposal after all police are using mobile data is their number one tool in tracking down individuals and just last year it has julian sanchez discussed how police managed to bypass the fourth amendment to obtain whatever data about you

that they can. and it's actually an interesting kind of way of doing a little weird end run around the fourth amendment because it within it doesn't retype in the same way information that is stored by a third party like a truck on so they have this kind of clever two step they couldn't get you know mr this information from you directly without a full blown search warrant but they can say well first the third party has to collect it and i want the third party has collected it your fourth amendment privacy interests diminish and then they can get it with lesser process. so as you can see law enforcement is learning how valuable cell phone companies really are i like the way the bush administration used the telecoms to wiretap and then gave them legal immunity from prosecution but anyway in this case the companies really seem to feel the same loving way about the police and fact c.t.a. the wireless association whose members include sprint horizon u.s. cellular and agency all sent a letter to leno explaining why they oppose the location privacy bill and it turns

out of the organization not only finds it to be a burden to disclose how and why they're sharing location with data with cox but they also claim that would be expensive to compile that data and it might create confusion for providers so ladies and gentlemen protecting your constitutional right is just too much of a burden for these cell phone companies just look how insane can and is that those reasons are inferior to listen to house and it's argument every iterates these are reporting mandates what i'm doing the burden wireless providers and their employees working day and night to assist law enforcement to ensure the public safety and to save lives are so not only have they said they would burn them financially marilee emotionally to have to be honest about how often they're giving up their data but they're also just admitting that they were day and night with law enforcement so like they're giving up are data all the time is that i would be so burdensome and expensive because there's so much of this going on there as well have just come out and say the protecting their customer's privacy is not

a priority hell it's not even an interest oh hello this is a constitutional issue we have warrants for a reason i love to see how one of these companies would respond if the cops showed up at their poor without a warrant now it's not entirely the same obviously but i think you get the point it's disgusting to see a total lack of interest in protecting their customers but overall their financial argument also doesn't make sense so according to see t.i.a. it would be expensive to put together all this data about how often why the police are requesting the information because a.c.l.u. and c.n.n. pointed out. info the privacy bill request is already put together it wouldn't require any extra work from the companies and so why is that information already available you might be asking well because the company send the bill to the cops every single time they come begging for that location data data as that on the color point out those location data requests they don't come cheap and the companies want to make sure they're giving accurate invoices to law enforcement there's even an example invoice this one actually shows how he charges one hundred

dollars after the service and then twenty five dollars a day for their assistants so it's pretty clear that e.t.a. wants or exact all the extra money coming in first providers after all it's a nice perk to the business but it completely violates the unspoken understanding that cell phone providers should be working for law enforcement they should be working for you the customer right and we've gone for cement when it's within the law but once again this is all part of our growing surveillance tech state well it's been expanding since september eleventh for national security terms of for your personal privacy and where the constitution has been shredded into a million little pieces banks to the theory that they peddle about needing to be able to gather anything they want on any given day but this california bill is trying to put an end to that trend of all go completely stop police from using mobile data to their advantage it would at least give customers peace of mind the concert have to go about it the right way by obtaining a warrant and in the eyes of the cia this would keep the phone companies and law enforcement from being best buddies and they definitely will not that to happen so

are arguing against the rights of consumers encouraging the continuing police practice of taking location data without warrants feed cia and their member companies are tonight's tools i'm here with. ok time for happy hour and joining me this evening lauren lyster host of the capital account here in r.t. and that is and roll calls on the hill reporter i know the lady is. all the rage these days i mean ever it's you to latino vote or it's a female though and now everyone is talking about the youth vote. numbers suggest that young voters those eighteen to twenty nine year olds are more likely to stay home in the fold rather than helped reelect president obama's the white house sending some of its biggest names down here to its usage will recapture some of

that magic from two thousand and eight. so i don't want to try to reach out to the magic mitt romney's trying to tell people the young young people that the reason you're unemployed is they go obama's so bad so you should vote for me but the whole thing about the youth right so in two thousand and eight what they said basically was that young people came historic numbers to vote for obama and he did win young people by thirty four points but new research from tufts university points out there wasn't all that historic in terms of the numbers forty eight point five percent of citizens eighteen to twenty four voted in two thousand and eight seems like a lot but in two thousand and four forty six point seven percent in one thousand nine hundred to forty eight point six percent one hundred seventy two fifty one or fifty two point one percent so we're not your people aren't actually coming out and voting but they are compared to the slackers in gen x. during the late nine. zero one i didn't i was like i mean you know.

what i mean there was a correlation right so that's why nader is everybody i remember and in college everyone was all excited about nader most of the people seemed to be like super jazzed about it i had friends like really politically aware active friends that decided very clearly to vote for nader knowing that their pro wouldn't go to other people and yet the perot you know you had a series of kind of like broken up elections i think. and but i also think that this idea that they used vote is something they capture they use that if there are more active or less active than ever before i feel like that's used every election and i'm sure if you go back to the one nine hundred thirty s. people are still saying you know this is the most. unfortunate kind of sad like the only thing that's consistent about the youth vote is that young people. we just don't usually come out of people because of the word with younger or going out with benteke or young people who haven't had formed in the young people haven't had enough policies affect their life yet to be like truly understanding or angry about

this situation that their end would be my argument but also i think that this whole you know obsession with the youth vote from candidates might not be so youth driven like the whole student loan thing the student loan interest rates whole lot of that affects middle class parents everywhere how many parents get out of with their students debts i think that my dad is still paying a student loan. and i would also argue that people don't realize how annoying you have your student loan and intel your three drugs in that and you're still not getting the raises they need to make and you're trying to you know i mean life changes you make different and so i have a feeling that the people who really care about that are people in their thirty's late twenty's thirty's or that are you know you still dealing with i mean. the people that are actually getting the experience. like ten twelve years. of student loans are those who are to our next sort of which are kind of a story i guess you could say there's going to be a ballot initiative in california and november the house with the draft. supporters

and some eight hundred thousand signatures to elections department wrong i hope. you measure for the november ballot they say solution to prison for life with no room will save the state millions of dollars. so that's when they were still gathering the signatures now it's on the ballot member six people are going to vote for it but i mean the kind of sad thing is that you have to sell this it's going to save you a lot of money hey we should abolish the death penalty because. people especially when we can always prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are guilty but what i thought was amazing that it was it's what one hundred thirty eight million dollars keep then to keep the seven hundred people that are on death row on death row but the ones that have been executed which is not that many i forget the number that you like in the tens. it was four billion dollars i mean i think for

a state like california to make the economic argument broke right is actually really important i think more users like that will probably have more chance of working unfortunately because of the moral argument in the not one. on the other hand connecticut only have what it only have eleven people on death row who unfortunately are still going to be on death row even though that was repealed by earlier this week or early last week or something but they don't have that same kind of economic need and yet it's happening so i think that's something that should be really looked at as a trend there is there is some kind of trend can we can i just say one thing though that i fully support this because i am completely opposed to the death penalty for reasons like you mentioned so many miscarriages of justice that i'm sorry but the death penalty is by no way a properly because there are wrongful convictions but i mean i think it's a little bit odd that the matters of life and death go to a vote because of how much it's weird. valid measures that aren't really what they

seem to be i mean yes on eight in california. it was very confusing to voters because you were voting actually against gay marriage but yes on eight and all of their marketing made it seem like oh i'm voting for what people were confused and so life and death matters being put to a ballot vote for me just seems very but that's that's a problem with the system that you know that california has had that larry is that our initiative is that you get some crazy stuff going on there and so then you have to try to beg people to not have the government kill people anymore i just say like it'll save you money because it was you know if you believe me they probably say yes anyway next right here which is basically if you are a gun owner and you know you have a permit to carry concealed weapon there's a new islands out there for you take a look. so

brian miller woolridge series tactical about the company and so those were the chief that he was showing off which cost sixty five dollars and are basically for the fashion where gun owners know their cleats just say no to police yeah and across the world listen to me you know clearly what i think is funny is this is being billed as a covert fashion which is just too funny because yes it is covert action. because no i don't. i think that's a really good point i think we got a call up brian over you know what's really intelligent clearly you didn't get a female perspective here if you actually want to make the guys look good while they're experiencing old weapon it's not just them it's a burgeoning business according to that story said it's under armor too everybody's trying to take the bull market in concealed weapons permits this is like the male equivalent of the female paint gun like the little lipstick gun that you saw in

like the old noir movie is about was sexy i mean not that guns are you know. you're the no no there's a little pink everywhere still hot pink guns that they made you know the little pink pepper sprays and everything. i guess i'd like to see some more clothing so please. hopefully it's going to say our girls thanks for joining me tonight think about their very night so thank you for tuning in ad they couldn't come back tomorrow are you speaking about arizona as the ten seventy you going to the supreme court i mean time don't forget to get fan of the a lot of our facebook and to call us on twitter if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch youtube dot com slash the launch show coming up next is the news.

there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . used to get the maximum political impact. before source material is what helps keep journalism honest. we wanted to visit. some feel. wealthy british style some. type of. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. you know how sometimes you see

a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm charming welcome to the big picture.