you know the show. well. it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. all right it is time for our show and tell on tonight's program now last week we told you how wal-mart was bribing public officials in mexico and covering it up now some say that it's a violation of the foreign corrupt practices act but the real debate is whether the law should even exist so we want to know if you think that american companies should be able to bribe while they're conducting business abroad go to producer for treason assented to find out what you have to say i'm of the streets of d.c. to tell people the nation's capital what our viewers had to say on twitter facebook and you tube and see which comments we should keep or delete. do you think this

kind of bribery should go unpunished i'm going to read your response from he said if u.s. companies aren't allowed to there's a good chance companies from other countries will if outlawing bribery works it needs to be international law do you want to keep it or delete it companies should be held accountable and foreign countries like their american companies they should be held to the same standard keep it i know you agree should not be exempt we asked our audience question people wrote it on twitter facebook you tube going to read your sponsor and on facebook he said if a business is incorporated in the u.s. they should be subject to u.s. laws wherever they do business if you want to keep it or delete it and agree with that i think u.s. companies should be held accountable especially if u.s. law would prohibit that on american soil i do have a quick so i guess. that's if there were if they mean united states any kind of foreign and they should be. but short of all the rules. i'm going to read your sponsor dave he said of course they should be able to bribe government

officials why should the law be any different when they conduct business abroad if you want to keep it or delete it. kind of thing in the sky three two one what's interesting is that some people think bribery is just a normal way of doing business but the issue is much larger where do you draw the line when it comes to regulating u.s. companies doing business overseas. so thank you for your answers and here's our next question for you today's made a note across the world of international workers day which began here in the u.s. celebrate the achievements of labor movement and today labor union membership in the u.s. is at an all time low so why do you think that after all of the achievements of the movement in the last century and a half membership is declining let us know you think on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. last week the house came together in the name of cyber security compromising your personal information

while doing so and in fact when the house voted in favor of this but they even expanded the ways that your personal data could be used by companies and the government now it's worse they combined all of those additional provisions with the already incredibly vague language of this bill which uses words like notwithstanding to say that any spying in the name of cyber security overrules any existing privacy law so they basically signed off on the concept of giving the government full access to do anything they want with your data all will trampling on your fourth amendment rights and several privacy groups out there like the a.c.l.u. that. they're opposed to cispa as well as the white house although i must admit i'm a little bit skeptical on that what now we've even seen a few lawmakers take their concerns over this broadly written bill to the floor. this bill had a privacy policy it would read you have no privacy. twenty two up but it

should be needed for. if you for. privacy in the constitution then you will vote no. now despite the growing opposition and pro privacy circles one of the main reasons this is very scary bill passed the house was because of the support from the tech sector right firms like microsoft i.b.m. facebook boeing lockheed martin and symantec and horizon they also all said that they were in favor of this bill and guess what it is all about the benjamins the wording in system would serve as a protective shield for all these companies partially because it would be a voluntary agreement between the companies and the government but more importantly it actually protects them from lawsuits from americans who would want to protest the use of their information for anything being used for anything of the government wants so basically they're not going to have any flavor or any money over cispa but despite the pro-business language in the current form of the bill

a few tech firms might be having a change of heart facebook right the popular social networking site with over eight hundred million active users when they realize that they're not going to be on their users good side if they openly cheer for cispa said joel kaplan vice president of u.s. public policy for facebook he released a statement on the site talking about the positives of the bill but then he also went on to say the following is a concern is that companies will share sensitive personal information with the government in the name of protecting cyber security facebook has no intention of doing this and it is unrelated to the things that we liked about h.r. thirty five twenty three in the first place the additional information it would provide us about specific cyber threats to our systems and users kaplan also said the facebook of the open to working with lawmakers to draw a better provisions to this bill so you see what they. their facebook technically went from being all of the supporting this one box to entering this weird little grey area here where they have

a better chance of trying to appease both sides and like the idea of it all but they're trying to keep their users quiet too and now microsoft has also joined facebook in this gray area over here after being the poster child for supporting system microsoft is back peddled on their stance after they were hounded by the press so their new position is to uphold the security promises made to their customers so it's not a complete reversal but it shows a bit of in decisiveness on their part they can pledge their allegiance to the government and cyberwar or their customers who are the ones keeping the company alive now even more importantly this shifts all but a small one it does show the companies are listening to the growing outcry over cispa and americans concerns over their diminishing rights to privacy now personally what i suggest that you do is that you keep an eye on google the internet giant admit that they helped draft the original form of sis but as we know it something probably will be acceptable to a lot of google users out there and in the meantime the senate is looking at its own slightly less threatening cyber security bill the cyber security act of two

thousand and twelve dollars proposed by joe lieberman and i would give homeland security the author already to have a say in private companies network security policies now it certainly has its privacy concerns as well but if this. have taught us anything it's that if the american people actually keep the pressure on they really can get lawmakers and companies maybe even the president to pay attention. now we've been talking a lot about drones lately the cia's expansion of their drone program in yemen the signature strikes or the first international drone summit that was just held here in washington d.c. this past weekend but much of our focus has been on drone use abroad for counterterrorism purposes but let's not forget that the president recently signed a new f.a.a. bill that's going to allow for domestic drone use in the coming years drones are going to be used for commercial purposes by law enforcement for agricultural purposes by media organizations possibilities are really endless and universities are catching on in fact the f.a.a.

has already approved twenty five universities to have drones now some of r.t. created degrees in unmanned aviation walls an exciting front here that could create new jobs in the future should be concerned but the military defense contractors are the ones funding much of this research of guys with me is jeff morley writer for salon and author of the forthcoming book snow storm in august washington city francis scott key and the forgotten race riot of eight hundred thirty five thanks so much for joining us so what can we say here right how did we even find out i know that you. helped put some pressure on it but you know how do we find out exactly as it was only from the freedom of information lawsuit that they filed that we found out about the twenty five universities and so i wrote my story for salon about that because i thought that was very interesting even more more universities and police departments so this is really where the interest is strongest right now in using drugs and for the most part it seems unobjectionable in the state where

they have you and me and aviation major they're helping the national guard develop in aerial technology to go into disaster areas where after tornadoes strike to see the damage and see where where rescue workers should go nobody would object to that that's that's all talk about it that sounds exciting and so in that sense when we talk about these twenty five universities when you look at the list of the names what kind of schools are we talking about humans in kansas but are they mostly technical schools where. harvard are they are they have a generally drive these are these are big universities they tend to be in the south and west georgia tech mississippi state university of arizona university of colorado middle tennessee so these are schools that are there strong engineering schools in general that are that are adapting this and for good reasons there's going to be jobs in using this technology in the years to come and they're training young people to do it where i'll have many jobs i mean are there any estimates out there for you know just how big this new field is going to be the industry is talking about twenty three thousand creating twenty three thousand new jobs over

the next ten years and if you look at possible uses in commercial civil i think that's you know that's not an unrealistic estimate at all. but how much of the funding you know you're right about this too is actually coming from the military from these big defense contractors like lockheed martin for these programs i mean there's not it's hard to break out figures of how much is going into a mandate as opposed to aerospace in general you can't really do that but. it's a lot and most of the schools i looked at there was some pentagon funding of some sort or another from the army research laboratory from the air force scientific community so and as well as from as well as from the big defense contractors so it's a coming feel that what you have here is this is the war is coming home this is a technology was developed in the war zones the people who worked on that over there realize those words are winding down they're coming back to the united states and looking for markets law enforcement public safety and universe. isn't always

you know isn't necessarily a bad thing i mean we talk a lot about drone you know what i would call it or on this program clearly there are privacy concerns but at the same time if you want to talk about some of the things in the past that the military has funded you know you mentioned talk about the internet talk about cell phones these technologies that we depend on every single day don't even think twice about that and drones are very similar to that they are a military technology developed by the military that's going to be commercialized and there's lots of good uses no question about it but what we don't have is we don't have a discussion about what are these being used for in the war zones or is this really advancing the united states interest to be killing people by remote control and killing a lot of civilians will they keep it secret they say it's a national security secret but you can't can you can't say that when they're going to be used here domestically can you know but for example some of the drone manufacturers are touting the ability to weaponize their drones for police departments and we have no laws covering that and we and people haven't really

talked about it or debated that what is this going to be used for are we going to weaponize drones for our police department what we should talk about that before somebody just goes out and does and that's the same thing about. and i would definitely definitely hope so i mean the congress before they ordered the f.a.a. to do this held no hearings on privacy and what kind of privacy. regulations might be written into the new drone technologies that's what we need to do is our law and our ethics need to catch up with the technology do you think that the universities in any way should be held responsible or should try to jump into the debate if they're getting so much fun and money to fund research in this sense i think it is that is any of the power in their hands of course because they're teaching the young people and i think they're doing a good job of teaching the technology and i think this is going to spread and that's a good thing but they should be teaching the law of privacy we should be teaching the foreign policy implications of this we should be talking about civil liberties but that's all part of the discussion it's not just attacking

a great new technology we're in america we fall in love with our technology and we think it's great and we wanted to do everything for us but we need to have a bigger discussion is this a good idea do we want to be watched all the time we do think about this is drones or cannot be separated out from the other technologies that track those we need to think about jones and in conjunction with your browser you get tracked on your browser the g.p.s. system your cell phone drones it's all part of a constellation of technologies that is introducing this whole ability to track and monitor and surveillance and we need to we need to figure out what do we want out of that system you can do a lot of good things for us and it can do a lot of bad well if you want to figure out what we want we have to start talking publicly about it and i just think cool of flying robot that can deliver my talking that's why i wanted to write about it for salon because i don't think anybody had realised quite how widespread university adoption of this techno know it's. important and it's really interesting to actually look into that i had no idea that

already before law enforcement is you assume they're going to the first ones to jump at it twenty five universities have this it. makes so much for joining us tonight thank you. i just ahead tonight we're going to give out our travel time award and not happy hour hillary clinton appears to be quite a diva she's open to appearing on the big screen but she's got some interesting demands. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is approaching a little different. in the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former misleading empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s.

troops stationed on these bases all around them. we don't have a foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in the in the last i want bases of one of the noises i want noise and doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you know thing else you get everything you needed.

today. the following these are the images. of canada. hi guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and this evening the award goes to republican congressman david fincher now venture was elected to represent tennessee's eighth congressional district in two thousand and twenty ten and he was part of the tea party movement that swept the nation a movement fueled in part by outrage of the cozy relationship between big business washington anger at the banks got bailed out with our taxpayer dollars and all this

is rather ironic of course considering that the tea party was bankrolled by big business pushing the type of deregulation that caused the financial crisis that led to the bailout but as the bipartisan wall street bailouts quickly became a political liability in two thousand and ten tea party outsiders people like stephen fincher definitely took advantage so take a look at some of his campaign rhetoric and this is actually before and after he took office. he's going. ok. we need the policy but i just want it on the taxes let the free market want to quote the people of the congressional district they sent me to washington to stand up for working middle class to stand up for the story more taken time to get in the mess we're in and it's going to take

time to get out and we we just we have to do what the american people want. that's right stephen venture rode into d.c. to stand up for the free market the working middle class and to oppose wall street bailouts now according to bloomberg he even ran an anti bailout campaign ad ninety eight times in the nashville area and his campaign website states quote to restore prosperity we have to change the way things are done in washington stimulus bills bailouts sweetheart deals for wall street big banks this must change well get ready for a big year rick perry's dial hopes the yesterday bloomberg report of the venture was one of ten tea party backed congress members whose twenty twelve reelection campaigns took money from bailed out banks political action committees run by j.p. morgan chase wells fargo goldman sachs and bank of america have donated eleven thousand five hundred to congress and venture of the four banks and citi group have donated a total of almost one hundred seventy eight thousand of

a tea party backed freshman with delicious way ironic here almost doesn't really need saying the banks probably would have had all this money to donate if they hadn't been bailed out the first place they received one hundred fifty billion in emergency relief at the end of two thousand and eight but it's really not surprising that venture and his colleagues received this sort of wall street blood money these banks of regulation to the nail insurance company are members of the house financial services committee on the front lines of wall street's war against oversight but. stands out here as the only member of the tea party caucus and is suppose that enemy of the bailed out banks and that hasn't stopped him from carrying the wall street water venture is trying to repeat the part of dodge frank act that gives the government the ability to break up the too big to fail banks if he had his way the country would be on route to another bailout or great depression style catastrophe was also the sponsor of the so-called jobs act a piece of legislation that's been described as a quote invitation to fraud by former regulators but cognitive dissonance is

nothing new to fincher even before he took office as the popular c. was as obvious as a derivatives trader burning man during his campaign the washington post pointed out that the agribusiness man took over two hundred thousand dollars a year in farm subsidies so does that really sound like a free market champion to you doesn't steve venture apparently because of long as you're funding him he is willing to close his eyes to the truth clearly he's those spring chicken when it comes to being a hypocrite but for taking money from the companies who are bailed out which he ran against congressman steve fincher winter nights tool time award. ok it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening lauren lyster host of the capital account here on r t n matter take a democratic consultant thanks for joining me guys thank you and speaking of

burning man right i just mentioned in the last story quite interesting burning man is is basically lobbying the hill right now they've come to washington are representatives of take a look. organizers of the annual burning man festival are appealing the decision by the federal government's a place them on probation the move comes after crowds top the fifty thousand person camp over two days last summer bill and officials warn that if organizers are placed on probation for two straight years their permits could be suspended or canceled. i just so interesting to see something of such an outsider hit the thing like burning man have to come to d.c. i know but the thing that's so funny is i don't know if you had this experience but i am so surprised at the kind of people that burning man attracts because in this fear is of life that i've lived in in san francisco or new york it is high level people people that are. c.e.o.'s very educated very wealthy

that literally plan all year going to burning man and love it is like they can i live off and i know he lives you know people are really serious about it in san francisco they meet they plan you and you kind wait in line there's all of these plans for out they would say in construction no like the most absurd things ever in the desert that you wouldn't even imagine i mean the thing is if the people that actually went to bring in some of these high level people put their weight behind this kind of lobbying effort as opposed to probably not being able to admit that they. actually you do get every man they probably get what they wanted yeah they don't need a lot of what your experience has for me it's been mostly like other people i went to college with that i wouldn't say you know are at this point high level bankers yeah well for me i can't speak from experience on this one but you know lobbying this republican congress i think did have a you know when they thought about legislating what people do with their bodies this wasn't what they had in mind of the republicans but you know i think it's kind of an interesting. attempt to you know get some support on the hill i just i just

don't think this tea party congress is really going to be the ones that is one of them. and i did become a group of people you know maybe that you would find in washington d.c. let's move on to hillary clinton who i don't know where we were been wondering lately if maybe she and he would advise or something like that that's trying to hit that more make or break or cooler but. so jason segel basically asked her to be in a movie and she wrote this rejection letter to. read it for you says dear mr siegel i was delighted to read about your interest in sharing the big screen with me as you can imagine i am a little occupied at the moment but perhaps some day i can help you forget sarah marshall again my only condition is there be muppets involved and that is non-negotiable in the meantime you have my best wishes for continued success with your career best regards sincerely yours hillary rodham clinton my favorite part is that or only condition is that there be muppets involved because that's probably

what she figured she would need in order to feel like she has kind of a political vibe to have like all these talking muppets that are just like spewing stuff but not really based on anybody's real. anything while i don't know about you but those would be my conditions too i mean who wouldn't want to you know a movie with the muppets but you know something to think about twenty one has been a pretty good. techs for hillary clinton. recently showing that she kind of has an idea of pop culture and then i'm going to do it only saw the legs that that there i had she was like hey i'm on a ride to somebody but souness it was a reminder to get a new you know like cool adviser to try to direct her that way to everybody forget about the policies maybe that you're pushing but look i can drink and write to jason segel ok let's to our last story real quick basically and i won't play the clip because we don't have all that much time but british parliament after all this investigation into the news of the world scandal has said that murdoch is not

a fit person to run a major international corporation which that's kind of interesting considering that he also runs fox news which is the most successful news channel here in the u.s. yeah that's ironic what i think is cooler is that the parliament voted in approved this report that says that i wish the u.s. would do the same when they've had some of these bank c.e.o.'s on the hill or us that you know anybody to say you're not going to run a company at least that looks like a public you know what i mean if you just look at the. fox fox news is wrong in the kinds of journalism that they practice over there and just watching the testimony of murdoch was really kind of fascinating to see just how aloof he was trying to present himself to be what when you when you're overseas such an enterprise i think it's kind of difficult to believe that he's just you know up in his ivory tower does know what's going on about the and that's what they're saying and like you know really there is always a legal action going on then you're not fit to run if you can't see that it's happening right before your very eyes but at the same time you know fox news is really popular here and the whole we're there we got to continue this discussion in

ways learning how to tweet makes it seem like you would know a little bit more about that yeah you know the more about tech there are a lot i got to wrap it up a big for joining me tonight but that is it for the night's show thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back tomorrow kevin glass is going to be joining us for happy hour but in the meantime don't forget to become a show of the a fan of the a lower show on facebook and twitter and you tube dot com slash they've launched you can find the videos coming up if they. join me on a journey to the heart of the problem to a place is hidden from the tories you going to meet some real climate insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. .

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