well again it's ten thirty pm here in moscow i'm kevin zero in with the top story update for you violent clashes shake the spanish capital madrid today as police crackdown on a mass and your stare at a rally firing rubber bullets to protest a group back to the government showing no sign of loosening we'll stir the noose with further tax hikes. syria's main opposition leaders refuse to budge a top level talks in moscow saying they don't want president assad in power and demand the u.n. intervene to stop the bloodshed russia's meantime asking the security council to prolong its mission in the country for three more months. and an increase in violent attacks in immigrants in greece is being blamed on rising nationalism both

on the streets and in parliament the rise in racial hatred is being leagues an economic crisis. more of those stories a lot of course are t. dot com i'm back in half an hour with the news in full first though back to a loner. hi guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight it's going to the national governors association for proving that shady backroom dealing isn't confined to just washington d.c. now of course when most americans think of sleaze in government capitol hill comes to mind and that's not surprising with a lobbyist campaign no made donations and lawmakers self dealing infecting a capitol hill already plagued by gridlock a gallup poll from december show that sixty four percent of americans rated congress members as having low or very low ethics or some raising this kind of skepticism of government isn't usually shared of the state level another gallup

poll from last year show that americans trust their state legislators more than they do the federal government state governments polled higher than congress by twenty six percent now officials the state level they tend to brag about this and members of the national governors association are no exception the group build the bills itself as a truly bipartisan organization promoting visionary state leadership best practices and a collective voice on national policy here's what it's new chair delaware governor jack markell had to say about the group and its upcoming annual meeting which will be held this thursday through sunday in williamsburg washington may be caught in the grips of partisan paralysis but in state capitals across the country governors are having to figure out ways to keep people working together the national governors association means twice a year including next week for its summer meeting bringing governors together to see what's working and the far new ways to work together in critical areas like jobs schools public safety and cost cutting. sounds pretty great

right it's kind of like a summer camp for governors but they can solve the nation's problems they catch fireflies roast marshmallows and sing kumbaya except a few of your details are actually missing here see first there's the fact the public money is paying for some of this getaway through membership dues and state funds and that includes amusement park trips golf outings five star dieting an outdoor concert and a fireworks extravaganza but don't worry taxpayers aren't the hook on the hook for the entire two point two million dollars corporate donors are also finding this event and it appears that their funding comes to the per se procter and gamble johnson and johnson northrup grumman a virginia electrical utility called dominion and philip morris his parent company altria they've all donated to host this event and they will all have access to the governor's attending along with n.g.'s corporate fellows who paid twenty thousand

dollars a year to belong to the group's best practices center so it seems like this is alleged above the fray assembly of governors is really just a fancy pay to play event corporate fellows love closed door lunches on friday and saturday with the latter giving them a chance to mingle with governor senior staffers and guess what the press and the public will be kept totally in the dark and adding fuel to the speculation that this event could facilitate i don't know corporate giveaways and yes sponsor algeria was among a number of corporations that exploited manufacturers tax loophole signed into law by virginia governor bob mcdonnell funny right the bay decided to donate money to host the gathering just shortly in the donald states shortly after so another controversial governor is also going to make sure that he's there rubbing elbows with america's corporate leaders that would be wisconsin's darling scott walker. many believe governor walker is too closely connected to koch industries which donated to walker's campaign some have raised questions about a provision in the governor's bill saying it would allow private organizations like

koch companies the ability to purchase power plants from the state without a bidding process. so basically if other governors want to learn how to lay legislative groundwork for close bids on state owned power utilities governor walker can dish the goods and n.g.a. friends like dominion and general electric they can offer their two cents as well this whole of vent seems to just be another example of how bipartisanship is really just a cover for selling out to corporate america republicans and democrats that use this very vague language about working towards practical solutions but really they're just tripping over themselves to sell out instead of making tough decisions in the public interest that might upset their corporate donors let's cut the crap national governors association we know who you are and above the grime if you were you throw your doors open for public scrutiny but for pretending that you are above the ground you're the winners of tonight's tool time award. well six months and

approaching fast that's of the day doomsday clock is saying and that's when the leaving sequestration cuts are supposed to take effect now we've told you about them the before there are the trigger cuts that are mandated by the bipartisan congressional super committee when they couldn't come up with an agreement on what out of the federal budget they should cut so on d.-day the pentagon is set to make five hundred billion dollars in additional cuts to their bloated budget now the chances of that actually happening love every coming more and more slim as lawmakers d.o.d. brass their fear mongering like crazy there really is the worst possible scenarios as to what could happen if defense does really face the chopping block. in modern warfare if you're not in it dancing improving your technology you become very much at risk so if we could a trillion dollars out over the next decade our modernization programs come to a halt and you're talking about personnel so again it proportion so you can't project force as the navy will have fewer ships than we've had one hundred years

will be given one hundred fifty to two hundred thousand pink slips to active men and women in the military today and according to the secretary defense will cost one point five million jobs across the country we can't yet say precisely how bad the damage would be but it is clear that she chris ration would risk hollowing out our force and reducing its military options available to the nation we would go from being unquestionably powerful everywhere to being less visible globally clearly it would. that kind of secret straight cut across the board would have a serious impact not only on men and women in uniform but on personnel and the contractors who serve the defense establishment. now let's focus on what leon panetta said at the end there the part about defense contractors because they're doing everything that they can to not end up on the chopping block last week

defense news found the top five contractors up there lobbying spending by eleven point five percent just in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve sorts talking almost sixty million dollars for one quarter and from the looks of it the efforts have been working because over the past two weeks contractors have been awarded thirteen billion dollars in new projects and yes that is just over the course of two weeks so what projects the pentagon promise to fund well let's take a look at their shopping list from the end of june as they i think got have a billion dollars to help develop radio scanners that we interrupt the triggering of i.e.d. president obama's marine one and it's an upgrade so lockheed martin got forty four million dollars. to make sure that the chopper will fly high through two thousand and seventeen boeing was awarded thirty six million for wafers for minuteman missile systems basically ensuring that long range ballistic missile systems are ready to go and in efforts to go green the air force is paying sun edison thirty

eight million for energy that comes from solar panels located in arizona oh and also boeing got one point eight billion to upgrade several f. fifteen jets have been sold to saudi arabia so why is the u.s. involved in that purchase because it ensures that any sales of foreign countries only go through places are in good terms with the u.s. so grand total for one week there four billion dollars but wait there is more in the first week of july the pentagon dropped six billion contracts to eleven companies and the only reason we know about these deals is because one of the companies let slip that they were moving the equipment on behalf of the d o d talk about expensive moving company right now meanwhile contractor textron they got two hundred and thirteen million to help the navy come up with a ship to shore contraption that will get our sailors to land the boeing i think had the best week of all of that not only were they awarded hundred forty six million to build all sorts of weaponry for other countries on behalf of the u.s.

they also got a five hundred million dollars severance package for what the government calls transitioning away from c. seventeen s that's right even though our military is no longer going to use those jets they're still giving boeing several million dollars just to ensure a smooth transition damn right talk about a cadillac cadillac driving welfare queens the grand total for just that one week in july that comes to nine point two billion dollars so what's the deal here is the d.o.t. just handing out parting gifts well tweet from the a.p. is josh letterman today gave us some insight when he quoted the pentagon spokesman as saying we don't have any plan right now for sequitur. so yeah that certainly appears to be the case the way the pentagon has been spending money makes me wonder if they're insuring that the private counterparts will survive the cuts if they're just ignoring that january deadline regardless of the reasoning it is astounding to see the pentagon blow money like this one supposedly government spending our

deficits and our control but then of course there is your military industrial complex at work people no matter what it will keep on truckin. our guys it is time for our last break the evening but there's a lot more to come public schools are increasingly segregating classes by sex so does that make as much sense as a clean shot and then can college students major and even called their find out on happy hour and be read as a returning archy's lauren literally join us after that. she did laboratory. was to build the world's most sophisticated robot which doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach religion why he should care about humans in great this is why you should care watch only on the.

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single sex education is on the rise in the country but a decade ago about twelve public schools were separating classes by gender but now an estimated five hundred schools offer the split classrooms so why the change or part of the influx can be attributed to relaxed restrictions but research that shows the boys are graduating at lower rates than girls doing worse the girls on tests is also seen as a factor and so some people say that these classes are helping to focus tailor the education to the needs of the student but not everybody's happy about the shift a.c.l.u. claims of the classes violate title nine and this spring they started a national campaign called teach kids not stereotypes encouraging people to fight gender separated classes now supporters of the classes argue that the exact opposite is happening and these classes help to break down the gender stereotypes but obviously it's not a cut and dry issue so we sent our man on the streets bozzio out to find out of

people think if single sex education provides a better learning experience. in the real world you that's a do it. if you like to go on through is beneficial no i think you need a balance in the school system something it's good to have both together and i think . if you don't think it's difficult for people to make a speech you would think about things that twitter and to the little that i think people lose the social skills between but six is pretty good to have a balance in the school student system. but if i had some i would prefer that they be. educated with some special place is that a gender specific when you got was a girl is the same room you talk about some it's just it's interesting you know it's it's kids can be silly you know the first beat ever to have

a serious conversation about the serious stuff there is a way to speed up the military stood up anything else voters for the kids. and mixing. with different races in different ages. having it's been official for them to be a need to give us an heirloom different traits from but six and it's fun i think in some agreements it is going to go because there are some topics they need to be covered just for the males with the males it's well as the females but we really need to get back to the poll with situation for socialization. so it doesn't seem like the people here in d.c. think it's a good idea to split up boys and girls into different classes and maybe it's only appropriate for sex education. now we asked this question on our social media site as well and like on the street some real thought we were talking about split gender sex education rather than split gender education in general but it seemed like our viewers were a lot more accepting of the idea than the people on the street were alan half

a set on facebook yes i do think there is something to this it's hard for boys to concentrate on anything else when girls are around and i think both girls and boys act in sex stereotyped ways when they're around each other at rhodes traveled to enid as an all girl high school grad it worked for me but that is not ideal for all learning isn't one size fits all and stephen farrow's said on twitter in my experience i went to a single sex school yes probably it does but provides a far worse social environment and paul bang tweeted no it does not in the real world one has to work with both sexes so we might as all learn together so we can work together so it seems like we're nows a topic that people can really go either way on but i think as more schools adopt the idea might be interesting to see if the conversation heats up. ok guys it is time for

a happy hour and joining me this evening lauren lister host of the capital account here on r.g.p. and anthony rendez a director of economic research for the reason foundation. so i just want to i want to start by getting your opinion on the whole the single sex education thing i'm for it why are you a little boy for an elementary school i do this is based on personal experience i was really tormented by the boys and i wasn't protected by my teacher because they were flirting with you so much more you know i don't know what they were doing but in elementary school they're not nice about it they're horrible about it you know they like you know that's what i like now but you know what i think it really significantly impacted my learning experience was i was afraid to speak up in classrooms i was afraid to talk because i didn't want to get teased i wasn't protected by the teachers and i just feel that i would have benefited from having i think that is what you want to be like anybody you know you could be teased by somebody in your same gender and i'm just you know i could girls or is mean or the boys you could i'm just saying in my experience it was the boys and i really do feel like there might be something to that because people that go to maybe like an

all girls private school have always said that was really good in terms of their intellectual. development and i could barely concentrate with two women on this panel much better if it was an all male surely you know. it's i think that's probably certain cases there are certain people that might learn in different environments there's definitely no one size fits all education thing but this shouldn't be a broad trend i think that you should learn to be able to interact in the real world early on when you can interact in a real marriage and that tough and you well know. where your child is that it was tough and other things toughened me up i don't think that that did i know it well the point is everybody has different exams and. i also agree it should be should be a broad based you have the playground guys it's not like you never get to socialize i mean the classroom is only one place where you are but i think it's good to have both sexes in the classroom to offer their different perspectives on the subjects that you're it's also gouging which you're obviously very deft when you're like i

want to watch rather go to school where there are girls to look at. and i was around the school where i'm going to be so i'm going to be more likely to go to school could you point me like that winning statement we're going on in the next story ok. let's talk about the olympics they are coming up and so we know that security is going to go crazy for these olympics one of the things is that they're going to be putting surface to air missiles on certain apartment buildings so the residents in one of the apartment buildings try to sue saying no thank you this is going to make us like a bigger terrorist target i think a lot and a judge made a decision on it today. the british government has the right to put surface to air missile launchers on top of people's sets a ruling today from a judge in the united kingdom who rejected claims from the locals who said look the missiles being above our heads on our private rooftop would make us terror targets . i don't blame them i don't want terrorists to air missiles out of my apartment building this is so messed up what is this what how do you what does this have to

with private property and is this what i mean. why did this thing you know british law is different than u.s. law u.s. laws we you know you have the right in the constitution to reject the quarter of troops this is we actually have to actually see how it will or very specifically in our constitution that the british used to do this to us and we don't like it now the british should get a little taste of their own medicine yeah they're still doing this kind of b.s. why we got away with. it they say it's just crazy but i'll say this i would i would be fine with the surface to air missile in my apartment if i get to pull the trigger so you can put it in my apartment but i get to be the one that operates it know this was why we should not assume so i guess to to give the kid right on the dog down or you know really blowing stuff up and talk a little and them so when we're in a big story i'm sure we have a lot of these coming up recently but. you know one of the things that we often see surrounding the olympics are obviously

a lot of commercials are kind of sponsorships that go along with the athletes and especially we see this when it comes to fast food or soda. now that i've come so far. i'm not about to leave anyone behind on. support our athletes cucolo the games collector series. so there is a london cardiologist who is out there doctor a seam malhotra who thinks that this is horrible we need to end the relationship between fast food and the olympics specially when there's an obesity epidemic and you have all these athletes that obviously. healthy and take care of their bodies and stuff that they shouldn't be. getting sponsorships or being in commercials advertising for her fast food what do you think i think this is stupid i think this is all you really feel ok well i am broccoli doesn't pay so i really don't know what they're going to do about sponsorships going forward if they can't use junk

food but b. i just think how often it was come around was every four years well the winter olympics are in four years the summer olympics thirty four years so it's like every team so sorry there are a lot more opportunities to cut down on the foods people eat that are driving obesity and diabetes which this columnist was writing about which are a lot more effective then the sponsorships of olympic games once every four years i just don't really buy that are you know i read some british politicians so that we should ban them because these commercials will convince people to put these foods into their daily diets one coke at mcdonald's are already in the deal with a lot of people as those people who that's in their daily diet they don't need to limit commercials to the book that for most people that's really not the case i really doubt that the olympic advertising is what's causing the obesity epidemic exactly i am getting the much much better i'm sure thing to be said for maybe a lot of young kids look up to these athletes right when a lot of the young kids really watch the olympic games and so maybe if their heroes

are telling them that they should be drinking coke all the time because that's what keeps me strong or whatever they might be swayed by that but as of now no nerves are there. you know i'm not saying they should be censored they should do it but i'd like sure that could be a concern and that's what your parents are there for and they should exactly should educate you but then you have a lot of you know parents in the u.s. to think that for all of this made of real fruit now there's a lot of action lawsuits that are prevalent as dumb parents not ever to get rid of the ok. we have identified the problem all right now it's time for a little. and she has never had to write in cursive. i mean we all had to do it where we were growing up i think was like first grade or something second grade and it was the reason there is a test so i want you to actually write the word radically i've been drinking. i actually have a my heart is half not so right the word pop quiz i'm going to test did you practice what you have perfectly graffiti i don't you know this was coming. well.

you know she guys have really no. i know what so the whole point is that apparently forty five fifty of us. are now in the process of phasing out you know research of these and you're going to probably get out of. this dying i think it should because clearly again i don't you are right and you know. do you think that kind of the so pretty. before this. i didn't practice before this i did practice writing my name this morning when we were talking about the idea that. you know i never want to remind them working in person because i like the. person on the block letter and they are very different but actually we kind of joke that we're with an a and i always want to do like the. like because i don't know how to do a good p. . i think i'm. going to person of it's. just really how do you. think you. know cursive is pointless. i guess you can say you don't have to agree

with me what it was it was nothing i was pretty it's not it's not going to die there's always going to people that use some cursive in there so what would that have of education you know they're having problems as it is this need to be replaced i mean if you want to. go. i agree i think i'm better now and so i want to a little bit of ok yeah and i think you know my point is that. we have the last time for the last story basically stephen colbert error has become an obsession in academia and that's what some people are saying because there are courses you can take there's seminars called the colbert report american satire. universities all across the country yeah this is just because i've lived here as i said now you know you know we have one hundred now we have toys to play with i know i think this is because professors are bored with teaching a serious answer like we do a class on stephen colbert. so there we can have more fun that side of an education

bubble. worth noting that the news is that was is what larry and i actually do i actually have on my list of like dream projects if i had more research to do a project on the daily show i think they're actually some really awesome economic stuff i get it i think they want to have fun but there's also information to be really it is a lot to talk on if you are areas of how it affects you know the influence that it has on media the way that it's shaping media the way we like to hear about politics i don't know all i know is that my if my kids said that they were taking a class on stephen colbert are in college i would just be like i'm not paying for your ma was writing services so you have. no yeah i got that one on a very not only. dead read our guys got to you for joining me tonight but he had one little last statement that he wanted to throw in there non-person. that is the better night show thanks for joining in and make sure they come by tomorrow greg roth is going to join us for happy hour but in the meantime don't forget to be a lot of show on facebook to follow us on twitter subscribe to our you tube channel and of forgave watch everything on hulu now as well coming up next.

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