there that's given our very own jenny churchill a pretty tall order rumbled touch droid have this message to give to jenny on you tube she said bring back viral spiral make a girls of our calendar and make a loan to do a maxim spread this is your duty jenny churchill. now listen here buddy kaye jenny has got plenty to do on a daily basis to make sure that our program actually gets on the air so i don't need you giving her orders and as much as we all miss viral spiral unfortunately it's not coming back but if you do have some constructive ideas for what else you would like to see as a viewer aside from the girls of our team posing for pictures of bikini and lingerie we'd be happy to hear them in the meantime if not some calls i just might pick up and finally my pro me vs review it last night or be some credit some of the viewers and political set on you tube alone a thank you best review promethea as i've seen on you tube and apocalyptic with this alone if you're smart enough to see through the stupidity of promethea us and still sane enough to enjoy some of the good performances in the movie you deserve your own movie review show now you know it guys i have to admit i don't see too

many movies in theaters these days i'm busy girl but i do love me some side to michael fassbender so i couldn't resist with this one but since you enjoyed my review then maybe i will do some more in the future the next time that i actually make it to the theaters so i think my ranting tonight thanks for your comments as always and i'll be back with more next week. well yesterday johnson and johnson became the nineteenth company in recent weeks to cut ties with the american legislative council otherwise known as alec corporations have come under fire for funding this lobby and the pharmaceutical giant has joined the likes of wal-mart mcdonald's and coca-cola and withdrawing donations and we spoken about before but let me just refresh your memory alex is written controversial model legislation that's been embraced by state lawmakers all across the country and they have a corporate agenda that promotes the likes of union busting environmental deregulation and prison privatization and alec has been ruefully efficient in its quest to aid in the corporate takeover of america claiming that over one thousand

of its bills are proposed every here with more than twenty percent becoming law although there are some liberal activists commentators out there that i've been talking about for years they have mostly managed to fly under the mainstream radar until legislation that they drafted was connected to the death of trayvon martin and then the media frenzy erupted when the group was linked to the stand your ground laws the boycott campaign kicked off and a lot of politicians and corporations sever their ties so in other words media focus actually made alec a dirty word but it looks like the activists can claim a victory in the battle but will they win the cold war we fought on was on the show in april to discuss this issue and as he explained have no doubt there will be others out there to pick up where alec left off it's not just alex this happens across the board and not just in state governments either that's why lobbying firms exist that's why big trade associations like the american petroleum institute and the u.s. chamber of commerce which is funded by big multinational corporations this is why

they exist they helped lawmakers draft bill is in secret they represent corporate interests that are looking for legislation that is not in the public interest at all. yeah pretty much alec draft bills in the corporate interest bills written by corporate lobbyists with coca-cola. wal-mart dropping out like it's not as though big business has suddenly turned a new leaf grown a conscience they worked with alec because it was good for their bottom line and they also left alec because it became a liability for their profits so even if alec days are numbered the days of an alec like influence to our states political system well they're far from over so now the question here is not will there be a new alec it's who will be the new alec so we did a little digging and we thought that we should point out some groups out there that might rise to the occasion now first you've got the chamber of commerce one of the lobbies mentioned by lee there in alec member with a network extending all around the country and no shortage of resources and two thousand and ten the chamber took in over one hundred ninety eight million dollars

and spent over one hundred fifty seven million on federal lobbying how the chamber doesn't shy away from state level issues either today they hosted a jobs summit here in d.c. and invited a number of governors including scott walker what a great venue right for walker to do a victory lap touting his union busting law as model legislation and another possible bill bill is americans for prosperity another alec member that had a forty million dollar budget in two thousand and ten now speaking of walker that group played an instrumental role campaigning for him during the recent recall election take a look. what i think you know is that you know they go over there it is fire you know i say. yeah that's right notice how he said your governor that's because it's not to fill up the state he was busted from virginia the heart of a of these thirty two states strong network but it's not just electioneering if

people routinely lobbies on state issues like it did in two thousand and eight when they fought climate change legislation on all fronts and next there is freedom works the astroturf group that propped up the tea party led by former house majority leader dick armey it took in over four point five million dollars in income in two thousand and ten and has satellite groups and holds events in all fifty states now freedom works as wonky even a.f.p. in the chamber and it isn't part of alec currently but the organization quote recruits educates trains and mobilize as millions of volunteer activists to fight for less government lower taxes and more freedom like any good front group it puts up a great grassroots facade but with that in mind it could be the perfect vehicle to advance corporate interest legislation throughout the country especially if they're presented as grassroots petitions after all freedom works as experience at the state level portraying a big business agenda as part of main street take a look at this ad that they ran in oregon in two thousand and eight for too many

years environmental extremists aboard against the welfare of the people who are well overdue. and they'll stop at nothing to justify their actions. or you certainly won't by reading words quote crying over dirt and rocks that adam rid of the fact that freedom works and linked to funded by some of the worst polluters in history b.p. and exxon amongst others now those three groups that i just mentioned they are big players they've been around but after rounding up the usual suspects there are always lesser known groups who could just fill that void just as easily take for example the national. adoration of independent business is an alec member unlike the other conglomerate lobbying groups that pretends to be for small business but any of the be took in just under ninety five million in two thousand and ten boasts of having offices in all fifty state capitols a real modern pop lobbying group right in addition to its federal lobbying in judicial activism the n.f.i.b. has pushed a big business agenda at the state level notably where it tends to her workers it's

back to governor case which is anti-union bill in ohio the one that was rejected in a referendum it's also fought paid sick leave in connecticut and minimum wage increases in new york and then last but not least there is a little known group the already closely mimics alec out that makes alec out there it's called the state policy network a free market think tank the took in just under five million in two thousand and ten now despite its relatively small budget the s.p.n. is spread across all fifty states and claims to be building a permanent freedom majority that's kind of surprising as pianos work closely with a fact made glaringly obvious when reading organization state fiscal policy exchanges see if latest addition contained a tax on education spending in nevada taxes on the wealthy in maryland and public transportation in washington state so i'm i already have the model down pat it also has a few accomplishments under the belt like the emergency managers a law in michigan that allows the governor to take over in

a simple government it's a power grab disguised as deficit reduction here the law permits the state executive to even union contracts fire local officials and interfere in land management issues what champions of freedom these guys are right just like the other lobbyist who want to hand the country over to all the cards so it seems that celebrating victory over our league is entirely premature if you ask me and who knows what new groups might spring up in addition to this unsavory bunch but the truth is at the influence of money in politics it's not going away anytime soon not at the state or the federal level and specially the post citizens united era and because of the system. a lot of politicians around the country are going to continue to put the corporate agenda before the public interest they're going to have to if they want campaign donations from the business giants that actually fund these groups so for activists to truly celebrate the demise of individual groups like al like the entire system has to change because trying to fight the corporate influence in politics is like cutting the head off a hydra each victory only creates a place for two more monsters to grow back and until you take down the body it's

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i guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and i were giving it to the u.s. justice department or the beginning of this year when they seized that mega upload servers and an athlete in new zealand to arrest the company executives if not here's something refresh your memory make upload don't comb it's one of the largest sharing websites millions tapped into around the world but not anymore the u.s. justice department shut down the sun for allegedly violating parsley thoughts and costing copyright holders more than five hundred million dollars in lost revenue all or it. was. always trial oh. and. don't have access to that property. yeah everybody out there especially the d.o.j.

or obsessed with makeup loads founder kim dotcom and the other employees linked to the alleged intellectual property infringement now despite the fact the story hasn't made headlines recently there is still a lot going on with the case and aside from all the legal action surrounding megaplex founder kim dotcom the other employees that are being charged well there are more elements to this legal battle see the company who least a thousand servers to make up load their stock in a pretty bad situation they will access the data on the servers because mega uploads assets are frozen and so they obviously aren't getting paid at the same time the government and the n.p.a. are in agreement that transferring all that media off the carpathia servers and on to others would actually be an act of copyright infringement in itself so they can't utilize the servers for anything else while they do contain that data so they're basically losing nine thousand dollars a day maintenance costs meanwhile you also have users who can't access their data that saved on those servers you see some users may have bit uploading sharing copyrighted materials on the web site but the heard

a lot of people out there who uploaded shared media that they created themselves but sadly have been lumped in with the pirates and includes users like kyle goodwin as the owner of ohio sports net he films high school sports that he post those videos on they go upload to share with his clients so he's one of the innocent people that's caught up in this legal mess with the electronic frontier foundation representing him good has gone to the court on several occasions to try to get his media back after it was seized by the government he even argued that the government could shell out whatever money is needed to retrieve this data but that was met with a big fat rejection from the federal courts and a statement from the d.o.j. saying mr goodwin's proposed solution is to have the government bear the financial cost of restoring his data even if that means releasing his assets of the defendants which are subject to mandatory forfeiture twenty three years ago the supreme court made clear that a criminal defendant does not have a right to use someone else's money to finance his defense. so let me get this straight an overreaching illegal operation resulted in an innocent person's data

being confiscated by the government and now that data simply lost because without it he can't even prove that there wasn't any wrong doing so not only is that the o.j. taking the liberty of treating goodwood like a criminal but they're also just trying to wipe their hands clean of the whole thing and for an extra slap across the face they even suggested the goodwin consumate upload or card path for his untouchable videos now call me crazy but has anyone else see how the government is being absolutely ridiculous here they go and they seize the servers they lump all of these users in as pirates put people in jail when it comes to helping out the innocent people that are caught in the mess and now forget about that the d.o.j. is sticking to its original argument make the pirates walk the plank i mean even on the internet the us is taking out the bad guys with so little thought to the collateral damage they're causing they're all about the shoot first ask questions later or last questions later approach and that's kind of pirate like if you think

about it so the d.o.j. has failed to fix its own problem is left innocent people like goodwin and the server company carpathia stuck in the middle and totally plundered so far that the justice department winter nights to all time award. hi guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening alone a show senior producer jenny churchill and greg robb social commentator for man on the street d c dot com thanks for joining me guys thank you very much so i know these days it seems like people can't get anything done on their own you have to hire an entire team not only to decorate and whatever but apparently even a name your baby even though there's been t.v. shows about this take a look. and then their image advertising me to help them find the perfect. the name for this place very sad to hand-pick think tank of the leading experts in various

fields that are academic and should help us come up with a break so one of the roles that's very important to us is easy to spell but not too popular no decorative name and we don't want the first name having a chat we don't want or in our we don't want the first name to end and then ask them to look it sounds a little strange. i like speechless in terms of that is that that's a think tank the kids got you're going to saw. but. in light of that now there's even a different way of you can have your baby named groupon is actually making an offer out there to name your baby clem bell klim ball i don't even know i would be. with her announce it for a one thousand dollars fee and actually apparently this monday one person did bid to take the group on up on the offer but they won't give you details that is i want to do the bidding would have been a little bit higher if they'd stuck with the original idea which was that living

social sucks in the last name so so the first day of school for living social sorts grossman would probably be one of his worst and i honestly i'm a little disappointed in group on here i think they should have offered to buy your baby for a thousand dollars and then for the rest of its life your baby then just does activities that group on selling every single day for free for free yeah i mean they buy your home you lose your baby but so what's the thing i like what is this event if you actually buy into this here that i don't like what it would do you gay cool i mean if i was a joke yes i first got to say i can't believe someone bought it i assumed when i saw this that group on starts out all of their offers as one person has bought it nobody wants to be the first one but then the other one was like no someone actually really did. i love the title it says redeem from home so if it were you know this is if you had to go and pick it up or there's meetings so that's just attention whoring for groupon but because this is reading from home. i could stay home totally and also i like how they're trying to justify it like you know anyone

can name their child that name now that it's out there but they will all be you know posers posers really claimed by such a great mary for nine hundred ninety nine i don't get made fun of and tortured at all i mean it's you know i'm a little confused citizen it's those that are living out of the next big shall we state of the nation you know we've done a lot of atheism discussions here on the show or. recently we had one of the largest gathering of atheists in the country that was a couple of months ago it turns out a new survey by the pew research center finds that the belief in the existence of god has dropped fifteen points in the last five years amongst americans thirty and under now the older the generation the more likely they are to believe in god but between eighty one and eighty nine percent of older generations say they never doubt the existence of god we feel like most young people i know are not not religious of course the older generation is going to say that they're about to die

and they have covered their bases and say i believe in you just but for young people i think it's impatience these kids were promised the rapture last year and that never happened so now i think god is maybe engage in a little bit of a false advertising scam going on here and i think everyone is so that people just want the end of the world because they want to show right everything is zombie apocalypse it's snow began when we got like two inches of snow lish year l.a. shut down the four or five for two days and that was carmageddon i remember that's not really the world that's traffic were a little obsessed with these type of. apocalyptic i mean. i don't know if people don't believe in god or they're just mad that he hasn't read tweeted them for talking about how branches have been yeah i mean if god can't text you back he clearly doesn't exist and i mean i think too it's kind of funny you know we see the vatican trying to be cool and hip to appeal to these younger people who are.

it's obviously not working but there is i mean we were talking about there is you know the other the church we spoke with has a lot of younger members that look like total hipsters but. there you go working i'm sure we go back to the first thing and i hope they're writing porn and their website is triple x. church talking about you know and everyone else yes and everyone who works a church very memorable but you know i think what david brooks would have to say about this is that the problem is the young people are just too freakin veiny of days and don't know how to worship their leaders and god properly so he can go suck it let's move on to our next story here fifty shades of grey this is supposed to be that raunchy speaking. i think that here is a here's a funny reading the l a degenerate. he grabs me suddenly and yanks me up against him one hand on my back holding me to him and the other hand my god i'm not going to say that. you know is it kind of is it ok if i paraphrase so that i don't say

the exact words that it but it's more like i'm going to put it in my own words. i haven't read it maybe that's because i'm not like you know aging suburban housewife and i have other things to do but i know you're reading right now jenny. but to of course of course it's been going on the show might be better shades of grey merchandise that's coming out there carol and make clear limited as they've licensed it there might be lingerie in sleepwear peril fragrances beauty products bedding home furnishings stationery jewelry and other adult products how do you like what kind of furniture can you get because along with the book. like all right i don't know if i'm what i was more disturbed by this was it made some mention of the upcoming movie the fifty shades of grey apparently the movie companies are competing and like you know when we were right. it's been sold in something like thirty seven countries how is that possible it is only is it so i'm sure that it is

unbelievable it is the most absurd thing i've ever read and actually you know it's not surprising that they're trying to merchandise it because it all started as a fan fiction story from twilight and they've. hack out of twilight there but it's glitter and shimmer like edward so it shows how far we've come so thirty years ago this book sold ten million copies thirty million years ago nine and a half million of those would have been in between the box spring and the mattress now it's pretty much all that was out there it was really care that this was going on i am not about to ride on the train like reading that like. so you're telling us all the various about it yeah i'm actually a little upset i admit it i mean reading it on air i didn't pour and. there's no idea how popular this book was and i was shopping for a greeting card and i picked one up and it said i just met you this is crazy here's my number come over slap me around dress me up and you're really bad me. i think

it's ok that's good that's good let's do our last story here i mean all i could say to this kid is that he's. we've all done our fair share of cheating on tests and high school middle school but here's a high school student who was taking university entrance exam in kazakhstan he was caught with a thirty five long had twenty five thousand answers on it and he was chronically was wrestling and fiddling with his clothes too much for the test art how do you fit thirty five feet of a test no it's about how do you expect to be able to pull them out and see the answers how many questions were in this test well that i don't have any questions or a total he had twenty five thousand answers to me well just in case ok first of all in the time it took him to compile this. cheat sheet he could have actually studied for the test and not only that how how long did he have to take this test how do you find you've got twenty two thousand answers how are you going to go about locating those answers and the logic of it so there's really. i think sadder than doing something wrong the wrong way and i didn't really write your usually wrong

bottom it's kind of like i know not resign now he's clearly committed so i say he skips college and somebody offers him a job interviews get he's got a future writing long boring meaningless legislation in this country let me just get over here there we go and i just came up with brilliant ways of doing that stuff. i just. don't tell my teachers i got to run but i thank for joining me tonight there for tonight so thanks for tuning it was only geometry where i make sure you come back tomorrow kato as a dad i can find going to be on the show to discuss the leaks and serve from the transpacific partnership agreement for vili the president obama's compared to grant and more power to multinational corporations in the meantime don't forget you like the lot of so on facebook to follow us on twitter to subscribe to our you tube channel and don't forget you can also check us out on blu now coming up next it's me.

number two calls on militants or cross the world to join syria's rebels in their fight against president assad's government this statement comes in a dated b.t.o. broadcast a week after washington think he'd been killed in the drone attack. european football's governing body the violence around the poland russia match of the euro twenty championships polish fans attacked russian supporters before the game and clashed with police in warsaw after a bit. of a son to wait for the supreme court decision on whether it will reopen his extradition case in the u.k. a new bill that could prevent potential whistleblowers from speaking out. six am in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story

a militant web site has released a video message from his deputy leader calling on islam is outside syria to join the rebels and they're fighting there against president assad earlier the u.s. claimed. had been killed in a drone attack in pakistan calling it a major blow to the terrorist group it's not clear when the video was made but as r.t. summary of an ocean reports from syria it provides further evidence that extremists might be taking advantage of the country's civil war. this video is a clear indicator that in the conflict here in syria you kind a global terrorist organization is taken solid and supporting those who are fighting against president bashar al assad and they extend in their presence in the country it's not the first message of its kind earlier in february we heard a card as leader calling on all muslims to support the syrian rebels president assad has been blaming militant groups and international terrorists for violence of his country since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march but it took a year.