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the opportunity to do so she made no such challenge so in other words there is an argument you made songes lawyer indicated that she would make the proper argument in the court's eyes so songe now is the choice of obeying the decision or appealing to the european court of human rights in strasburg and was signed has not been charged with any crime in sweden and supporters are concerned the extradition to sweden would lead to extradition to the united states where as we know a grand jury is reportedly deciding whether or not to charge a sign over wiki leaks unauthorized disclosures of classified information don't really keep you guys updated with any new information that comes out but it's a case that you have to watch because if a sign is brought to the u.s. this could have a chilling effect on the freedom of the press. all right a time for show and tell on tonight's program the earlier this week we spoke about the possibility of an internet bill of rights with julian sanchez now he suggested that we shouldn't need new regulations because our rights should already be covered in the original bill of rights in the constitution so i want to know what you think
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if america needs a bill of rights for the web producer for treason i sent you to find out what you had to say i'm in 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 orderly. do you think we need an internet bill of rights creedence wrote in to say he thinks the internet bill of rights is just another idea of how to control people up on line he does not think the internet needs one what do you think i think you make some very good points there and it's not something we only i don't know how you just say you know this bill or i should be just for americans but it's something that the whole world takes part in do you feel protected on line i do feel ok i feel pretty secure for the most part if you have the right security it's not an issue i've never run into an issue online at all mark is wrote in to say it's a ludicrous assertion to think that we need to legislate something that is the appear to me a free speech she also believes that trying to bring bills into legislation no matter how well in their intentions are all they create eventually gray areas for
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someone to exploit but you know i think about that i think i want the government protecting me online definitely don't think we need a bill of rights on the internet feeling a bill of rights to be going a little too far if you're ok about being on it like it's i don't feel unprotected quarter right in to say we need something to cover the net do you think we should really add to our constitution. i'm not sure if it's to the point where it needs to be constitutional yet i don't think we need to interrupt the rights no i think we all enjoy our freedom of surfing the web but the general feeling is to leave the internet alone and the constitution as it stands and internet bill of rights would only create new legal complications and unwanted government intervention. now as always thank you for your responses and here's our next question for you earlier in the show we discussed carlos slim suggestion the retirement age be raised to seventy to reflect life expectancy rates thing is for many poor people
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life isn't getting any longer so let's say your take do you think the retirement age should be raised to seventy but if so you think on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. now thanks to last year's indefinite detention provision the n.b.a.'s become an acronym synonymous with injustice but the annual defense spending bills more than just a vehicle for back door tyrannize the unfortunately before the indefinite detention provision most people probably didn't even know what the m.t.a. was they know that congress has to approve funding for the pentagon or for our wars abroad but not necessarily the vehicle through which it happens so what the indefinite detention provision did was shine a light or shine the light on for many americans was that it's not just great forward funding it that gets put into this massive piece of legislation annually now we want to highlight some other shocking aspects for you that are being overlooked as the n.d.a. for fiscal year two thousand and thirteen works its way through congress unfortunately looks like the culture war managed to wait make its way it last month
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president obama threatened to veto the two thousand and thirteen bill as it is now because the house version explicitly bans same sex marriage on military installations and last week a same sex commitment ceremony at a louisiana base and house republicans up in arms calling upon it as evidence of the band's importance but that's not the only cultural fight here the house republicans are using the defense bill as a weapon in their war on women to the department of defense is the only federal agency out there whose insurance plans will cover abortions resulting from rape or incest and abortions are only provided when the life of the mother is in danger so if a service woman is the victim of rape that leads to the pregnancy the military wants no responsibility in that and sadly rape in the military is an increasingly common occurrence and one often goes on to report it a study just this year found nineteen thousand sexual assaults reported in fiscal year two thousand and ten alone and the pentagon estimates that only about thirteen point five percent of cases actually result in complaints to the actual number is
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most likely much much higher and there's a feeling that service women are being abandoned by the military brass and specially when it comes to remedying pregnancies that result from rape. but i've seen some really sad cases. of situations where individuals have and these are women who tried to do the abortion themselves all went to other people who were not able to do it well and ended up with very sad outcomes and then attack. so that those sentiments in mind democratic senator jeanne shaheen trying to amend the senate's version of the two thousand and thirteen and the a she reposed a provision that would force the government to pay for abortions when the pregnancy is a result of a woman in uniform being great and many of the military saw this is a sensible way to approach the consequences of a massive systemic problem take a look at this. this is just not acceptable bans on abortion coverage exist for millions of women who receive their health care through government programs but these bans under the hyde amendment allow coverage of abortions if the
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pregnancy is the result of or result of rape or incest federal civilian employees medicaid recipients even federal prison inmates are guaranteed affordable access to abortion in cases of rape. are that was the wrong clip but this whole thing was a commonsense provision to change that ban and even have the support of senate republicans but surprise surprise house republicans are the ones causing problems last week the army times quoted the republican staffer quote familiar with defense issues instead of the amendment probably won't pass the final bill and he said the following historically social provisions that are not reflected in both bills heading into conference don't survive amendments like this have come up several times so that make you feel good that stuff like this doesn't survive the provisions to indefinitely detain american citizens do now senator shaheen it came
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to the defense of her amendment today and washed didn't mention g.o.p. opposition outright outrage at the reports was clear so here's the clip again. this is just not acceptable bans on abortion coverage exist for millions of women who receive their health care through government programs but these bans under the hyde amendment allow coverage of abortions if the pregnancy is the result of or result of rape or incest federal civilian employees medicaid recipients even federal prison inmates are guaranteed affordable access to abortion in cases of rape. so there it is again but you know what we have to repeat it because i'm with the senator this is absolutely outrageous it's bad enough the republicans are fighting tooth and nail to take away a woman's rights to choose all over the country but you would think that with their
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love of heroic soldiers and the right would want to protect women instead of ignoring their abuse and then leaving them high and dry now on top of that the liberation of women is essential part of our afghan war p.r. campaign so how does that square away with the way that we actually treat the women who fight that war quite simply it does it as a whole or hear what the whole ordeal highlights of the gross hypocrisy of our liberation of propaganda and discourages women from joining the military but most importantly shows that republicans will stop at nothing when fighting their war against women even when it interferes with the actual wars themselves. also to come tonight a top defense contractor makes sure the politicians stay on their side by pulling some pretty line me and yet very unsurprisingly it will explain in tonight's bull's-eye and on happy hour the people in maryland really say who up oh and the creators of h.b.o.'s game of thrones play i have some explaining to do details straight ahead.
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a defense contractor that enjoys pulling the strings over on capitol hill and when it comes to the top defense contractors there are three names that you should know lockheed martin boeing and northrop grumman but today we're going to pay extra attention to that last company because it's just remarkable how much influence they have a lawmaker is here in washington especially when it comes to winning the big money contracts for the biggest and most bad as weapons that our military can handle northrop grumman their response will for the long range strike bomber program a fifty five billion dollars project will replace our perfectly good b two planes that we currently employ one of their biggest claims to infamy is the f. thirty five think you guys remember that one that's the trillion dollar fighter jet that's been riddled with problems well despite their efforts to snag contract after contract from the pentagon northrop grumman obviously feels like that still isn't enough it looks like they want to be the top the number one military contractor see they gauge in a little bit of brazen pocket lining who put most other companies to shame the
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northern grumman lost a vice president to the public sector last year thomas mckenzie after ten years at northrop he became a staffer for the house armed services committee and he gave up his sweet five hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars salary to make just a little over one hundred thousand a year drafting bills so why would you have the job change green unless he's had a lifelong dream of working on the hill that is quite the pay cut for him but there's another crucial piece to this puzzle you see according to a frequent guest of our show or public reports leaf on ethics disclosure forms show the mackenzie got a sweet parting bonus for. north of granite a four hundred ninety eight thousand dollar windfall that's about as much as annual salary was when he worked for the company but wait because there's even more injuries in this corruption saga see the head of the house armed services committee as california congressman buck mckeon this guy is a war hawk if you've ever seen and not only does he defend wasteful military projects but he's been practically begging i mean fagging everybody out there to
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stop sequestration cuts designed to save five hundred billion dollars for our country's budget check out a clip of this shameless tear jerker featuring an appeal from buck himself at the end. contracts of this nature. could you radically valley would mean a loss of business will mean a loss of jobs nobody can be produced from outside but if you don't sell and so. we have to protect against them. now the olympics are in for another few weeks but a fear mongering wasteful spending where events safe to say that mccain would take home two gold medals the summer and we can't campaign coffers well they are brimming with defense contractors gratitude as a result she according to the center for responsive politics northrup grumman has donated fifty thousand dollars to the congressman's campaign funds just this past year to see how it works nor that grubman scratches his back with campaign donations we can defend pretty much every single product that comes out of the
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north of gum and workshop no matter how shoddy and dangerous they are there is so much corruption going on here that it's difficult to actually keep track and it is if that wasn't grimy enough the company then sends one of its higher ups to mickey and staff to write legislation ensuring that our military does for a complex will keep on chewing up the dollars all over the benefits of north of governs bottom line it's and there's one company guilty of all this it's much bigger than just north and buck mckeon it's all part of this revolving door syndrome that we talk about regularly people leave their lobbying firms to work for the government after they're done due to fully helping out their old bosses they go back to their cushy job on k. street it's a problem president obama vowed to add when he was a candidate dishing out promises like hotcakes but as the evidence shows things did not quite pan out like that and in the meantime north of going to taking full advantage of it so for being one of the highest flying corruption influences and for continuing to contribute to the slimy failure of american democracy we're
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giving northrop grumman tonight's tool time award. ok guys it is time for a happy hour this evening and joining me tonight are t. web producer andrew blake and warren rojas roll calls her down the hill columnist hello gentlemen willow out of let's basically start with a little something that one of my favorite t.v. shows the thout their game of thrones i'm obsessed with a lot of things that h.b.o. does and i have to admit i haven't read the books getting in there but so game of thrones involved a little bit of controversy and i'll let this clip explain it because i'm not doing a good job remember when jaafari forced sunset to look at her dad's head on a stick we miss you ned stark well look closely and one of those heads is george w. bush now when they reveal this in the commentary the creators insisted that it was
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for budget purposes only and that it was not a political statement. here that. neither back to t.v. time so i mean what do you guys think now they have to they by the way they had to apologize about it today it would be apologizing h.b.o. at least partially h.b.o. i thought the whole thing was at their edgy and that's a service that's a network that people actually paid for it i mean if you will you be so you don't have the constraints because h.b.o. will will go anywhere with this like if they could have apologized for taken. gary shandling off the air or something but no no they would like nothing nothing is apologise because people who really didn't have to have all are going to get in here and all whatever you know or all the sudden it's people don't like bush is that like we can't talk about it now that he's out of office roland i want don't tell me one of the biggest privileges of political slurring writ large like game
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dreams where they just drug. mccain and sarah palin through the mud you know they saved it for their big features and this time they're just saying oh well we just rented this like someone just has george bush prop it's lying around but it's kind of creepy to you know you never know what might be lying around in the prop closet we have some funny stuff over by my desk and all this gets that we've got on the left. completely i don't even know you completely understand because i actually kept a nixon mask in the trunk of my car for a good four maybe five years i just recently took it out and replaced it with some bunny ears and actually replace it but there are now bunny ears that in case i mean a situation that calls for problems. and try to trick them with your friends you know that's what they can do. anyway lame i'm with you lame if they had to actually issue. let's talk about that. well first of all this isn't necessarily something new but we know that you know political campaigns these days. they're getting
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grabby and they want all of your information so that then they can target you and we've spoken about this before we take a look. and that's going to be the holy grail for about the last ten to fifteen years for political parties to actually get into this game and say we're going to make all of this part of how we target you and so the things you put on facebook are now allowing folks in chicago for the obama campaign to basically send you a different e-mail than me. that they creepily. find out your habits and patterns and things but this time we're talking at microsoft and yahoo because turns out they are actually selling political campaigns the ability to target voters with tailored ads using names zip codes and all kinds of other registration information you provide when you sign up for their free e-mail and other services do you remember a couple of months ago when the presidential debate was all on how much romney was making in the race and also web site we can type in your annual salary and tell you
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how long we take romney to me. that am i kind of want of ice that was like a minute yeah i kind of want to import like my facebook profile and maybe they can find a way to tell me how much my terrible terrible info is worth to these campaigns because i would really like to know what i'm because i don't think i'm worth that much frankly i don't value your club score for politicians how much. if you were to your vote i really don't think romney's campaign cycle we need to find a registered member of the green party that's heavily in debt and started searching and it seems like you're doing you're probably not you're probably not one of their intended targets but this is what this is why it's so ridiculous to me that somebody like sheldon adelson wants to shovel out one hundred million dollars just so you can like convince a couple of voters in the swing states you know that the whole system to me is that is so frustrating because of that that's what they're trying to convince people these are even coming off as ads they're actually getting you know i don't see them getting into your computer but they're following what you do online the following
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your habits on social networks or following your purchasing history like everything about you there's like three or four different types of data mining involved in this all to install ads as you go about your internet business and there and it's not like driving around and seeing billboards these are custom made ads for very demographics and it's really doing i hope it's not going to do a lot to the way we elect people in america and says he has created the thank you for that very detailed rundown of it so you're going to see more about it is just did you by any chance read a story from the web site about that today mayhaps is no one going to applaud microsoft and yahoo for finally catching up to google and i'm going to do it very easy and learning all this information i was going to make money to have microsoft really needs to make money they're hurting who i mean actually got when i was going to write the story today we were looking at information and if you look at microsoft if you look at yahoo. they're not doing so hot. now i
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mean i mean yes they're obviously still making you know we too much money but yahoo is a little past their prime and i went home i mean what are what are yahoo's profits like well i mean just looking at the nasdaq yahoo peaked in june two thousand i think it was a little bit ago i need to do the nothing and suddenly. i think but this is why they're not going to let you have on it's. ok side i'm going to cut you off but let's talk about ice t. he basically they have him it's an interesting thoughts today on president obama's original election and the role that rap music played. what the races together put barack obama in the president's you know if it wasn't for rap white people wouldn't of been so open to vote for somebody like barack obama but it was hip hop thirty years twenty years ago that got people who are willing to vote you know there's only ten percent black people in the united states white people voted for. the best
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thing is when you have. kathie lee and hoda sitting there being tell us i see what way people think and do when they. hear what i what do you what do you think did rap music elect obama i can't tell you i don't know how many white people i've spoken to that get a lot of their political information from gangsta rap i mean that is a seminal vehicle to middle america to who they should be voting for so i think i mean they're educated on the gangster rap of the talk a lot about the east coast versus west coast battles and you probably pick out a lot of political those names and they're right i mean i remember biggie and tupac always drop and lyrical bombs about their state represent their congressional representatives and you know their favorite senators so this one nailed it i still reference you know public enemy lyrics. however i mean i think it's not necessarily a great argument like i was going to take the approach of you know jazz didn't really do anything but i guess then again you know you couldn't really vote. at the
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time america so little to get old. yeah i don't know if i buy it first like i don't trust him you don't trust i know. because he loves cocoa no no it doesn't go to what is going to do it's like you know being in body count and now he's just like an actor but not in order and i think we could see that rap didn't elect obama just the failure of bush for eight years probably had a bigger role but i think there's an argument to be made probably that music and hip hop music in particular in a certain way because we influence people you know if it was an alternative to those maybe you know maybe help influence people in regards to race and open them up a little bit you know to become a little more accepting i mean i can tell you that i know a lot of you know i know a lot more about because of groups like regents machine and you know more today or
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you could say about him are you a really quick we got to wrap it up but i can is opening up the door for new domains and some of them are going to be dot. l.o.l. and i just love that because the second that happens i'm going to purchase andrew blake dot sucks. all right all right so you got me. great somebody stole my name on just dot com and i really do i wonder who did. you were going to our guys got to have another thanks for joining me tonight that's it for tonight's show and thanks for tuning in tonight tomorrow lauren lyster is going to join us for our financial checkup and in the meantime don't forget to like the a lot of show on facebook to follow us on twitter if you subscribe to our you tube channel and don't forget you can also check us out on hulu now and we have next is the new.
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pratt's protests on the eve of the egyptian presidential runoff as the country's highest court just solved the parliament and allowed mubarak's acts prime minister to continue his controversial election challenge. you add steps up deadly drone attacks from pakistani territory leading to calls for an investigation into their the galaxy that's amid claims innocent civilians are being killed in strikes officially targeting terrorists. but syria's government says there may be more suicide bomb attacks in the country's capital but warning problems the arrest of a man with a tie to al qaeda linked group. it's
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eleven pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live now with our top story and egypt's election transition is sliding deeper into turmoil that's as the country is left with out of parliament to head of this weekend's presidential runoff the supreme court's rulings affectively dissolve the islamist dominated body and allowed mubarak's last prime minister to stay in the presidential race as artie's polis the reports from cairo more protests are on their way. you be here in cairo. left wing activists as well as liberals the youth. and many in the muslim brotherhood are outraged earlier there were demonstrations in front of the constitutional court and now as we speak crowds are starting to gather in tahrir square the off rage is really because many egyptians feel that what has developed here is a carefully maneuvered plan by the supreme council of the armed forces scaf to remain in power looking at a decision that was.
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