cameron and his obsession with trickle down austerity thrown the united kingdom into another recession when will world leaders come to their senses and realize that austerity doesn't read build an economy it ruins it also the use of domestic drones is on the rise which means is a good chance one is flying somewhere near you officials say they're used for law enforcement protection purposes only are all these drones affecting our privacy and officials are saying a cow found in california with mad cow disease its job is to isolate incident now but not worry about it but if some government had their way this wouldn't be just one incident it would be an epidemic killing thousands of americans i'll tell you why tonight's daily takes. in screw news the u.k.

is officially in a second recession as the british economy strong shrank for the second straight quarter conservative prime minister david cameron whose government has been pushing trickle down austerity for nearly two years now called the new economic numbers quote very very disappointing the u.k. joins the long list of other european nations that have pursued trickle down austerity and watch their economies tank like greece italy and spain meanwhile in france conservative president nicolas sarkozy is desperately trying to keep his job against socialist francois hollande who is running on an anti austerity program growth platform and in the netherlands the dutch government is in limbo after it caved to grassroots pressure and failed to pass its own austerity budget over the last year we've seen the devastating consequences of trickle down austerity job layoffs the riots and the suicides and now the politicians banks there's a. technocrats pushing trickle down austerity in europe are feeling the political

backlash from their angry angry populations so where is the world headed if it sticks to the trickle down austerity agenda and what might the backlash against the sort of austerity look like economists richard wolffe joins me now from new york he's the visiting professor at new york school at the excuse me at the new school university and the author of numerous books including capitalism it's the fan the global economic meltdown and what to do about it dr wolf welcome back. thank you since the two thousand and eight financial crisis we've seen these austerity measures being pushed across europe as the dutch government topples sarkozy it looks like he's headed for defeat in france what stage are we at now in this austerity agenda and is this a backlash it's absolutely a backlash if i could draw your attention to to particular statistics i think they demonstrated overwhelmingly the official unemployment rate in spain is now twenty

three percent. that was the low of on the employment in the great depression of the one nine hundred thirty s. it was twenty five percent spain is in the great depression of its history again the second time in seventy five years and it is changing everything in spain and in france last sunday a clear majority almost sixty percent of the people who went to the polls voted in favor of parties that are officially opposed to austerity and what that means we'll concretely they want to raise taxes on corporations raise taxes on wealthy people and stop cutting government jobs and stop cutting government services to people there's no question that the mounting rage in europe is that they've suffered five years of a crisis then they watched bailouts of everyone but the mass of people now they're

told they have to have an austerity and lose their public services to pay for the bailout that never went to them and that was designed for the people who probably brought the crisis in the first place it really is a society a continent saying anough is enough and the message for the united states and other parts of the world is an ambiguous but the economists that are being quoted over at fox news and on the networks here in the united states some of the so-called business shows and some of the other networks is that well these are just of course you would expect the average person who has no understanding of economics to be out in the street demanding something for nothing they don't realize that you know this is the real world and that these banks have to have to do what they have to do and that austerity is necessary and you've got to balance the books that you can't have everything for free and you can't have the government is the employer of last resort how would you respond to probably doing

a bad job of paraphrasing that message that seems to be being repeated over and over over and. i've heard variations on that three times in the last week on major national news shows in the united states if i'm doing a bad job of paraphrasing it please. fix it and i'm curious how you respond to it. well first of all allow me a snide remark those same people who voted for mr sarkozy for example or who voted for any of the other politicians that brought austerity in were not considered to be ill informed poorly motivated or anything else when they voted in favor of the austerity programs and the politicians who pushed them there only being criticized now that they've changed their attitude that they've understood that they are the victims of a crisis they are the victims of a bailout that never went to them and now they're the victims of an austerity after

the third victimization they finally are saying a nuff it seems to me that is a wise decision and it is one that responds to the actual facts on the ground of what is happening the unemployment is worse in all of these countries the prospects for economic growth get dimmer and dimmer the inequality between rich and poor grows wider how many more statistics would you need to do to marshal to show that people are reacting in a very logical and reasonable way when they say a policy that has not worked is not one that ought to be continued but the again here in the united states the the message is still being beat you know the drum is still beating for austerity we don't call it austerity we call it the paul ryan budget we call it scott walker's agenda in wisconsin scott walker is facing a recall he's actually there are some polls showing that he's going to beat that and that if there's a democrat who even if there is

a recall he will win that at the same time that he's been laying off so many people in wisconsin that it now has some of the worst job numbers in the nation with a net twenty three thousand jobs lost in that state and yet still there are these economists coming on t.v. saying well this is we still need to cut more we haven't reached the point where we've got enough our austerity isn't severe enough we need to take a lesson from what the french are doing or what the what the british are doing. again i would i would use history as the example we are now in the fifty year for five years the drum has been beating that we have to cut the government's budget that we have to let the wealthy people and corporations get away with little or no taxation that we have to do it we have to do it because that's our way out i think for a while the mass of people went along with it i certainly know that that my colleagues in the profession of economics make a living by explaining why that's necessary the people are beginning to change

their minds i'm not surprised that the economists are still seeing the same old tune because it's hard for them to go back and say that what they've been saying for three or four years was ill advised to be as polite about it as i can the changing atmosphere takes time people have to give up their illusions they have to give up the hope that this will be a short downturn that will get out of this quickly that the hard times will pass and people only begin to question their basic assumptions and what they're told so often in the media and by their business and political leaders when the reality of their lives relentlessly forces them to look in a different direction and as you open the program by pointing out britain is now in the second recession of this five year crisis you're teaching the british people by this experience that they're being led by folks who are taking care of the one

percent at the expense of the ninety nine percent and just like it took several years for occupy wall street to appear and show that it had real power it is taking time for these changes to come to the fore and a country like france which together with germany dominates europe is a real weathervane that sixty percent of the people voted for parties against austerity and crystal clear. really means that they cannot pursue those policies as easily as they did before doesn't mean they won't try to keep them going it doesn't mean that the forces behind austerity will not continue to push what is happening is a counter push of people who want a different way and in twenty seconds we have left do you see how do you see this playing out in the united states i think we're going to have big changes and i

think it's the history of united states that will show us in the depths of the great depression of the thirty's much worse than today a roosevelt became president who ended up creating social security not cutting it like today creating an unemployment compensation system not limiting it like today and hiring twelve and a half million people between one thousand thirty four and forty one we haven't even discussed it today that is the future of the united states the discovery of what we did once before that we should have been doing all along now from your lips or to god's ears let's hope so dr richard wall thanks so much for being with us tonight thank you tom one interesting cons consequence of trickle down austerity in france is that it's fourteen political alliances that we have here in the united states are very familiar with it we'll see how all this plays out. just. the.

kids the good the bad in the very very prose. is slowly ugly the good german bank west l.b. last week the german bank announced that it would not provide any financing for offshore oil or gas drilling in the arctic ocean west bilbies sustainability manager dust and noone meyer said that the risks of drilling in the arctic were simply too high and so more banks do the right thing for once and help protect the arctic for greedy oil barons the bad missouri state representative dwight schrute our new horse scharnhorst is a co-sponsor of the state's so-called don't say gay bill which would prevent teachers from talking about l. g.b.t. people and issues in public schools discussing his support for the bill scharnhorst said sexual orientation issues should be taught by parents clergy and physicians

and the teaching l.g.b. t. issues could lead to other discussions he ended his remarks by saying there is no need to talk about billy wanting to marry a goat i'm sure somewhere man and dog rick santorum smiled and the very very ugly john harris harris president of the tennessee firearms association expressed outrage when the public and state officials refused to support a gun bill that would allow people to bring guns to work even if they left them in their car harris said that house republican caucus chaired debra maggart should be quote politically crucified in the wake of the trayvon martin shooting scharnhorst wants to turn her off as places in the scenes of a wild wild west and a mythical one at that and he's invoking the same kind of political hatred that nearly killed representative gabby giffords that is very dear. coming up this week another car with mad cow disease was found in the u.s.

what are officials call it it is an isolated incident but what if the likes of paul ryan and rand paul got their way with their government facing a madly epidemic of bad cow disease i'll explain why and still to.

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into cons a report. new york this last sunday thirty three people were arrested outside a military drone base at an airfield more than one hundred fifty activists turned out to protest the ongoing use of unmanned drones running missions in afghanistan pakistan yemen and several other nations that we know and don't know about here's what ann wright a retired u.s. military officer had to say about why she participated in last week's protest. you . have to. do lots of stuff scouring. afghanistan and pakistan agree and have called on the united

states to stop drone missions in their nations but putting aside the use of drones abroad americans should really be concerned about the use of drones here at home currently fifty six different domestic government agencies are authorized to fly drones in the skies above the united states and as this chart shows there are sixty three known active drone watch sites across the country these drones are as we speak flying above some of us as part of law enforcement operations border security and just plain old good old fashioned surveillance so the question that seems to be lost in the proliferation of domestic drones is what about the privacy rights of americans jeff morally joins me now he's the washington editor at salon and author of the forthcoming book snowstorm in august race and unrest in washington city eight hundred thirty five jeff welcome to tom the title of your book has me

fascinated we have to get you back to talk about that love to do that it's but when most people think of drones they think of airstrikes in the middle east they don't they don't imagine that there's one following them or watching them sunny in their backyard or whatever how big is the domestic drone elite in the united states right now and what's anticipated for the future well you've as you mentioned we've got fifty six government entities now that have permission about the f.a.a. is issued about three hundred permits for people authorized to use that so it's just starting to grow now what you have here is you have this technology that was developed in the war zones in the middle east that as those wars wind down on printers are bringing that technology home congress said earlier this year ordered the f.a.a. to open up the airspace. and so the the american airspace is being opened up to these drones starting right now starting this year and you're going to see a lot more of this starting this year and in the next couple years so there's three hundred people authorized to operate these does that mean that you have the

equivalent three hundred pilots license is out there or that there's three hundred different police departments or whatever that have gotten authorization to use it or that there's three hundred drone what does that mean there's three hundred to three hundred authorisations have been given in recent years what we know most recently is fifty six government entities have have applied for and gotten authorizations to fly drones for a wide variety of purposes most of them are universities a lot of them are law enforcement agencies as well so we're just starting to see this adoption but. there's nine hundred thousand police departments in the united states about three hundred of those have an aerial surveillance capability primarily helicopters right now helicopter costs anywhere from six hundred to four thousand dollars an hour to operate a drone costs maybe forty dollars an hour to operate so the number of police departments that are going to be able to afford this aerial surveillance technology is going to expand tremendously starting right now this is going to be big bucks

how powerful is the drone lobby and garners this legislation was passed very much at the behest of. the. association of unmanned vehicles systems international which is the lobbying group for the unmanned vehicle industry they claim about five hundred corporate members in fifty countries in congress there is an unmanned vehicle caucus with fifty three members that's one out of a every eight members of congress a caucus of man going to be with fifty three. there's a caucus for a k forty seven why would why would it why would it as a member of congress why would i join a caucus for unmanned vehicle is this a way of saying i'm a shill for the industry i don't get it. congress sees this as a job creating industry and there's a lot of good that can come from drones that they're going to be able to do a lot of good things with that nobody would object to the search and rescue

missions looking at a fire from above finding i was thinking well fires you know where it's hot where put where firemen should go where they would so there's a tremendous amount to use is the problem is congress authorized this opening of the airspace never held a hearing about civil liberties never held a hearing about privacy never held even held a hearing about safety and so we really don't know what's coming the law the law has not caught caught up with the usage yet and that's the that's the danger that we're in the minute or so we have love to talk about weaponization of drones if we open. pandora's box we could. some police to police departments and drone manufacturers are offering drones that have a weaponization capability there's nothing in existing law to prevent it and so. the law is trailing behind the technology would it be more likely that instead of shooting bullets of people they would be shooting things like tear gas canisters possibly but on these platform these aerial platforms you could put anything you

want so could be tear gas rubber bullets this could be could be a weapon this one drone manufacture in texas is offering the capacity for grenade launchers. that's domestically yes whereas posse comitatus when you did they bring that law backers are still gone it's on it's on the books but we don't have laws to control domestic drones and thank you so much for being with us thank you to appreciate it. this week we found another how in the u.s. that mad cow disease that's a disease that causes the brain they cause brain to deteriorate until a cow eventually goes completely insane and dies and if humans happen to eat a cow with mad cow disease then humans also suffer the same fate insanity and then death so clearly it's really good news that the department of agriculture found

this cow in california before it was slaughtered and was made into your next hamburger if you're a meat eater you can breathe a lot easier. as the oh i see which is the french intergovernmental agency that handles animal health groups said in a statement this detection demonstrates that the u.s. national surveillance system is efficient in this case should not have implications for the current u.s. risk categorisation or as the chief veterinary officer with the united nations food and agriculture organization said the fact that the us picked it up before it entered the food chain and the fact that they were transparent about it should give more confidence to the trading partners it shows that the surveillance systems in place at done their job so we dodged a mad cow disease bullet maybe but if the libertarians had their way if we lived in a united states like the one in vision by the likes of the pauls ron paul rand paul

paul ryan then we would be so lucky. libertarians who want no government beyond an army and a court system to prosecute fraud and republicans who want very little government and are currently trying to gut funding for the u.s.d.a. and its meat inspection programs hate the idea of a big nanny state government making sure that you and i don't get mad cow disease they don't consider what happened in california a success story they consider it a big government intrusion these guys say that instead of government we should rely on the c.e.o.'s the marketplace they say will police itself so how exactly does that work well in a libertarian tea party republican world there would be no federal food inspectors so that cohen california with mad cow disease would have gotten slaughtered and ended up in your hamburger and the parts that we don't eat would have been made into cow food so it would have quickly spread through the herds contaminating

a bunch of other cows that contaminated even more cars and lots of the beef laced with mad cow disease would end up in even more of your hamburgers and your supermarket now it takes a few years for americans who get mad cow disease to get dementia go crazy and die so a couple years from now tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands maybe even a million americans from little kids to twenty year olds to old people would start showing signs of alzheimer's and die. it's at this point that the magical libertarian free market correction system kicks in grieving family members will use the courts the only part of business left in a libertarian republican tea party world and use the courts to sue the slaughter houses and beat back in companies for the loss of their dead kids and relatives because a libertarian republican tea party tour reform laws the most each family can get

like right now in taxes is two hundred fifty thousand bucks for a dead relative so when enough thousands of people are dead these companies would see the fines start to cut into their profit margins and they'd begin inspecting for mad cow disease on their own while on the market just corrected itself of course you have a few hundred thousand dead americans and millions more are starting to twitch and act like zombies and the companies will probably just declare bankruptcy so they don't have to pay anything to the grieving families the way they are with the as best as companies now but hey what the heck the free market work dried her a in another twenty or so years there won't be very much mad cow disease it will only come from those road companies who don't care about the laws it's because they can just shut down their operations today in iowa and start tomorrow in montana or in mexico only a few thousand people will die in paul ryan and rand paul can claim their victories this is the world with the libertarians and their army of well intentioned useful idiots in organizations like the libertarian party of america and rand institute

the reason foundation the cato institute the whole bunch of the this is the world they want to live in a world without inspectors to find disease meet without the c.d.c. to diagnose diseases in the population and without mechanisms we the people can prevent corporations from poisoning us other than suing them after we're dead it's a world where mad cow disease eats our brains including the brains of the libertarians while we all wait for the market to correct itself. so remember that the next time you're eating drinking or breathing remember that the only reason you can rest assured that the food you're eating isn't contaminated with mad cow disease or the water you're drinking doesn't have arsenic in it or the air you're breathing right now doesn't have mercury or cancer causing eggs cena is because we the people have ignored the crazies at the libertarian think tanks and gone ahead and funded the u.s.d.a. and the e.p.a. to keep our commons clean and healthy and considering safe food water and air as

part of the commons we don't leave it up to the c.e.o.'s who only care about profits to decide how to manage them we leave it up to a government that works for and has to answer to us in elections so if they don't do a good job we can replace them with people who will if rand paul and paul ryan want their libertarian experiment somewhere that i don't well read from b.p. and set up their utopia in the middle of the ocean far from the rest of us who value say food air and water leaving them a few cows they survive a few generations of mad cow disease maybe they'll figure out a way to tax themselves to pay for a meat inspection service or maybe they'll just go crazy and die before the world leaders they accept a radical socialist step god save us from the libertarian useful idiots tag your it will see the more. pepper spray that just burns your eyes right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. this is much stronger than anything you buy out is

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