what about the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour if you want to see the devastating results of global capitalism with no farther than camden new jersey why has that city been called a sacrifice zone and why are city officials trying to save money by put the lives of residents at risk and well nearly sixty percent of americans have lost faith in the corporate controlled mainstream media some media mainstays were thought to be untouchable or untouched by corporate corruption but one of those mainstays turns to the dark this weekend with our side so is there any way to get all of this information off over the airwaves.

in the bowels of the us the news unionized n.f.l. referees were back on the field this weekend for the first time since the season began in f.l. as experiment with locking out the refs and replacing them with lower paid scabs proved to be disastrous but even though this labor struggle eventually went in favor of the workers there are other labor struggles going on around the nation where workers are in a lot of trouble perhaps none more so than in camden new jersey and his book days of destruction days of reason bold pulitzer prize winning journalist and author chris hedges highlights the plight of camden new jersey calling it a sacrifice zone to global capitalism what used to be a booming manufacturing sector an important export hob has been decimated turning camden new jersey into one of the most dangerous cities in america and despite murders within the city on track to break all time records this year candid is moving to. lay off its remaining two hundred seventy three police officers to save

money and instead hire non-unionized police officers to handle the streets the police union is suing the city claiming the move will risk public safety joining me now is josh eidelson labor reporter for salon and in these times josh welcome thanks for having me back tom thanks for thanks for joining us it's great to see you again the n.f.l. refs are back but it's not all good news for organized labor. first of all let's explain the difference between actually i'd like to start with camden new jersey we just we were just talking about that are we going to see a situation now where if you get stopped by the police in camden new jersey they'll say. your driver's license registration and by the way would you like fries with that. well clearly camden is going into relatively on charted territory i mean there's a real debate to be had about how we reduce crime the role of poverty the approaches around decriminalization of drugs that could affect some of the root causes here

but was disturbing as we see the movement into the public sector of a long time trend in the private sector where you bust the union when i was an organizer in the hotel industry you'd see this all the time where the owner shuts down waits a little while only brings back some of the workers puts up a new sign pretend it's a new business and effectively bust the unions in this case according to the times you have a plan to pay similar wages to a new group of workers but take away their union benefits by creating this legal fiction that it's an entirely new police department and might they not just be hiring back the same cops well under law if they hire back a majority then they're at risk of being caught union busting illegally but if they hire less than a majority if they hire say the forty some percent they like the most or anyone else or if they hire the cops they think they're the least likely to organize a union then they're likely to get away with it and take away people's benefits that's amazing ok the n.f.l. story that that brought to the fore what is

a lockout of what's going on here. when you've got scott walker calling for unity in groups or when you know you've got something really amazing going on. first of all profile for us or explain to us the difference between a lockout and strike this was something that i'm sad to say a lot of my colleagues in the media missed a lockout is not a strike that's if i had time i'd repeat that five times in a row a lockout is when management chooses not to let union workers come to work until they get rid of the union or they accept the contract offer that management is willing to live with so as strikes have gone down and unionization has gone down lock outs have become more prevalent in fact i reported for salon that lock outs are more than twice as high. a ratio a percentage of work stoppages as they were in the one nine hundred ninety s. so far in this decade so if your boss can't get what he wants from you at the bargaining table he can kick you out of the job until you come back and you become more pliant didn't that used to be illegal i mean you see

a violation the wagner act the national labor relations act when and when did when did it change so lockouts have been going on for decades unfortunately in the hands of management was strengthened by the passage of task hartley as well as by the supreme court supremes court's decision in the k. but lock outs are on the rise because employers increasingly recognize vulnerability in the labor movement go to the goshi ations as a couple experts have said not trying to get more in bargaining but to eliminate the union standard or the union itself in bargaining and it's put in unions on the defensive didn't a lot of the slow really begin with the reagan administration ronald reagan being the first president to appoint a secretary of labor who was actually hostile to labor. ronald reagan certainly bold employers and one of the things we've seen from reagan the scott walker is the face of the public sector union movement in the private sector union movement are intertwined as we see what we see now with the rest that when you see an attack

on the public sector it spills over into the private sector and vice versa and certainly reagan made a signal and scott walker made a signal that you can go for the juggler and get away with it and employers have taken that they certainly have josh eidelson thank you so much for being with us tonight thank you very much moving now from the fight for organized labor to the fight for the ninety nine percent happy birthday occupy d.c. demonstrations took place all across the nation's capital today as occupy participants marks the one year anniversary of the occupation of washington d.c. targeting the corrupted influence of lobbyists on our government demonstrators plan to shut down k. street corporate capture of our democracy. more evident than ever today which is why we need grassroots movements in the streets to push back against it speaking of that joining me now for more on what we've learned in the years since occupy d.c. was birthed and where it goes from here is robert stephen a second to last an occupy protest but robert great to see you back yet because

it's going to be back thanks for joining us so what's what's the state of occupy d.c. right now. as you talked about earlier we had a demonstrations today that a lot of people participated in a lot of people said they had a lot of fun shutting down k. street there were doors of lobbyist organizations that had bungee cords tied to them so that people couldn't get in because protesters had stormed a few of the buildings and so people were they caused a lot of disruption in the lot of drew a lot of attention to what really has been kind of in the shadows the lobbying infrastructure of this country hasn't really been at the forefront as far as like what specific groups are doing specific it's working with specific projects so this brought a lot of attention to those people unwanted attention in their minds and so i think that was a productive event. don't you think that the average american gets a k.

street has owns congress. yes and no because i think if the average american understood that maybe voting patterns would be a little different or they'd be standing next to you exactly. i think what's most important to me about this event is that it's not what happened in the spectacle on the streets so much as the work that went in behind the scenes as far as the people who dedicated hours and hours of time to play in these events make a lot of the signs that you saw and building the community that would was able to make this event like this possible and i think community and an action that works those are the enduring legacy is what i call the occupy moment i don't really call it the occupy movement. because i think it was a moment of time where people really converged and met one another opened up space and it was a rupture that released a lot of energy that has really changed not just the discourse but changed people's

lives over the last year and so i think that's the important thing i make a historical comparison to the city i think there is a city a moment in which that particular tactic is very effective but what happened after the sit ins which were started by a few black college students in north carolina you have people like baker come in and create a slick new network emerged around this tactic can spread throughout the south throughout the country and so you have this new network in these new communities and maybe eventually begin to sprout off into different directions and by linking these struggles to go that's what created the broader movement so i think that occupy was a moment in which there was a space that opened energy was released and you have networks that emerged dealing with different issues whether you take the home foreclosure defenses or a number of other issues. by releasing that energy and working on solidarity with the teachers' union in chicago for example a lot of people went and supported that. police uprising earlier this summer

a lot of people from. not just occupy the new networks and communities that have emerged as a result because i was thousands of miles away from california but i felt intimately connected to that struggle that was going on because of these new communities and these networks and i think that's the enduring legacy and you expect these communities to endure oh yeah. once you get involved in this excitement really manifesting in your ideas collectively and collaboratively and it's really dynamic way like the action that you posted that was in the video before this people planned and then it happened. you know that kind of feeling people don't really get that in their day to day lives yeah so. being involved in the issues directly affecting them now that was just a street action one of the things that i think is really critical has been the

occupy home. organizing that's happening which is had and tremendous impact died over these foreclosures and now we have people to talk to them there's a lot of great stuff robert stevens thanks so much for being with us again yes. thank. you. praise the lord not your average video game made him creative minds over at slate of come up with a very unique way to pick the twenty twelve presidential race they turn it into a series of animated video game bikes today they released the first video of a political combat well the series an animated fight between mitt romney and the duel of herman cain and rick santorum said in the fictitious land of obama ville romney fight santorum using moves like tax evasion and olympics savior santorum counters with sweater vest and

a special move to claim coal herman cain joins the me like he unleashes his nine nine nine attack on romney romney counters with another round of tax evasion toward the end of the epic battle santorum even manages to give romney a dose of church and state. videos are no doubt are doing their due out in the series all leading up to the fine now a battle between royale between president obama and romney one can only wonder about the moves of the future character paul ryan had an austerity attack. on the rand roundhouse kick. you know the mainstream news media as a joke when even one of the most historic trusted influential political news programs. because in a corporate corruption what happened on meet the press this weekend i want can you do to stop the steady stream of misinformation that's korea out of your t.v. so you and i still eat it.

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so sometimes you know what you know and so now you know i don't know and sometimes as the firesign theater says everything you know is wrong. you know you think you know if you really are you're right. just say that you're right. and you go with. the lone wolf ask any law enforcement official and bill tell you it's their worst nightmare the single gunman with no ties to terrorism who goes on an unexpected killing spree much like james holmes did in the aurora colorado shooting just a few months ago and while it's hard to pinpoint why individuals like home suddenly decide to kill people research suggests the psychiatric medications may be a factor so if you think the psychiatric medications are helping to prevent unthinkable crimes like shooting sprees rather than fueling them in everything you know might be wrong i mean now is dr peter breggin

a psychiatrist and former full time consultant with the national institutes of mental health he's also the author of numerous books including his latest psychiatric drug withdrawal doctor dr breggin excuse me welcome. i'm glad to be on your show again thank you for joining us. these psychiatric drugs do they promote violence and if so which categories of them are more likely to do that than others . well there's no doubt at all that many psychiatric drugs can promote violence the antidepressants often stimulating drugs they can produce mania people in a state of mania can become violent. this is these drugs also the n.i.d. present about like selects a paxil zoloft they can produce something called aqa says it which is an unbearable sense of being tortured that sometimes leads people to be violent and they can dole empathy dull caring which can contribute to unleashing violence i've seen and

evaluated forensically dozens of cases of violence from the newer antidepressants the stimulant drugs like amphetamine methylphenidate which is ritalin adderall these drugs also dettori asli can cause people to get violent and we know that from them on the street drugs like a methamphetamine and cocaine that over stimulating the brain can lead to the unleashing of violence and the bends the bends of that species like vallium and librium that. clonopin. xanax in particular you think they're supposed to tranquilize people but they can act like alcohol and disinhibited and that disinhibition just like outlook can unleash violence and sometimes it's a combination of drugs there's just no doubt that disrupting the chemistry of the brain. can lead to a loss of our usual control our usual inhibitions isn't there

a time though when the biochemistry of the brain is dysfunctional to begin with you know. factors i mean. it almost almost doesn't matter is it is there or are there are there times and places when these drugs are appropriate well first the whole idea of the bio chemical imbalance was made up inside eli lilly when they were getting ready to promote prozac even before was approved by the f.d.a. they were sending around doctors to talk about bio chemical imbalance so that that's of that's just pure nonsense. you know whether the drugs have an appropriate place in my practice i find that i can deal with situations without the use of psychiatric drugs i think it's a choice for people provided they have an idea about the risks associated with them and the drugs i was just talking to you without can cause suicide to people need to know that well and and in fact you know let's talk about that a little bit the black labeling of some of these drugs particular the s s r i's my

understanding is that. people people come in and they say you know the world is too intense and so ok here's a drug that dials down the world what that drug does is it diminishes their ability to experience their own emotions they're also not so much experiencing other people's emotions and at that point other people cease to be people they become objects and then at that point it's not a huge step for a very small number of people to start shooting at them is that a. reasonable lay analysis of what what you're talking about i think it's a great description tom i i think it's a great description of what happens to a lot of people you know our front to lol that's us you know that's what makes civilized it's what we're culture exists it's what allows us to love and care and to control ourselves and all psychoactive substances impair frontal lobe function and then it becomes somewhat of a throwing of the dice as to where that is meant may lead

a person. but all substances psychoactive. this is impair the highest functions or they wouldn't be psychoactive. the doctor brought in. the black label into the black box or block labeling some of these drugs are actually labeled with warnings and say this may cause suicide that's an extension of the same thing isn't. it very just have a few yet and yeah definitely so we have black box warnings on all of mood stabilizers like depakote integra tall and we've got the black box labels on an id presence about the risks of suicide and on street terror which is a drug free h.d. so this is no question at all and we've actually been able to show now with a very good study of all of the reports sent into the f.d.a. that some drugs are far more dangerous than others and at the top of the list your s.s.r.i.

that is the newer stimulating and i depressants good scientific data on that dr peter bergen thank you so much for being with us tonight thank you now everything you know about psychiatric medications and their effects may be right. clearly the mainstream news media has failed us cable news is a joke that relies on infotainment rather than need to know news that americans have lost faith in a recent gallup poll shows that a record high sixty percent of the nation say that they don't have very much trust anymore in the corporate news sure we all know the cable outlets like fox c.n.n. amas of the sea are not doing all that great but a lot of people out there still think there are institutions in the media that are

in corruptible that are still as pure as when they were first created one of those used to be meet the press the sunday morning news and in interview program which is the longest running television series in american broadcast history if the press is supposed to be the mainstream media's standard bearer show all americans can rely on to inform them i watched the meet the press this last sunday i can tell you it too has been corrupted like the rest of the corporate media consider for a moment the big issues facing the nation today is the corruption of our government by big money and a republican congressional pact to destroy the president politically producing the least productive and least popular congress on record as the two thousand soldier who just died in afghanistan there are the ongoing drone strikes which are inflaming anti in our american sentiments in the middle east there's the environmental crisis there's the manufacturing crisis there's the health care crisis there's the student loan debt crisis there are movements in the streets there are numerous big issues that americans need to know about that our democracy

requires we know about and the programs like meet the press used to cover but don't anymore instead of those big issues it's that all that news we need to know here are the questions that. david gregory asked to chris christie instead. governor welcome back to meet the press happy to be back to have a good morning let's look at the state of the race how do you restart a campaign governor at that last moment where you can reach tens of millions of people how does he go large at this point governor are we going to get those details in the course of the debate this forty seven percent comment not simply a misstatement this was a pretty thoughtful accounting of a government dependent society in romney's view you admit it's done political damage i want to end with this is you know political reviews are are tough things sometimes and it was a tough for you from you for you as the keynoter at the republican convention are you still the future of this party do you believe. that of an important all those questions have the same goal to basically trivialize the issues and turn the

election into a horse race and so the media is doing today turning this election into a horse race because they know as long as they can keep it close that means more ratings for them and more ratings for them means more ad revenue and more quarterly profits for the small handful of corporations that own over ninety percent of our news media sort of asking chris christie about his poor speech at the r. and c. i don't ask him why he's rubber stamping corporate and pieces of legislation from the american legislative exchange council alec why is it why is he promoting those as governor several groups including common cause people for the american way center for media democracy or out with a new report showing that christie and you jersey lawmakers have introduced twenty two bills in the two thousand and ten that are current copies of official corporate written legislation coming out of the american legislative exchange council or alec so perfect question for gregory would have been governor you think it's ok the corporations and lawmakers are right in the was a new jersey or maybe ask the governor why he's diverting critical funds millions

of dollars they were supposed to help struggling homeowners in his state toward filling budget holes created by his tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. unfortunately those questions are never asked they don't fit in with the horse race selection agenda that the corporate media is now so committed to so what do we learn that's the question we should be asking ourselves after watching corporate news programs especially those programs that are supposed to be the standard bearers like meet the press and answer that question every day every time will be we haven't learned much of value i mean the press we learn that chris christie doesn't think the presidential race is over yet and that the debates might impact the polls wow did you see that one coming and we learn that chris christie has no regrets about his r. and c. speech shockey. and if that was all we needed to know to be an informed voter this election then the corporate media gets an a plus but we know that's not the case none of that is important is the real issues in this crucial election all that stuff is theater it's infotainment corporate media has lost its mission statement

which is to inform not to provide bread and circus while everything falls apart around us from the one nine hundred twenty eastern one thousand nine hundred seven the media was required by law to provide actual news regardless of its entertainment value so that stations could get their broadcast licenses renewed every year reagan did away with that and within a year or two all of the news networks all the news divisions of the big networks had come under the oversight of the entertainment divisions and the profit seeking bean counters thousands of reporters relayed off or fired hundreds of bureaus around the nation the world were closed so today we live in a media world so bizarre that the majority of registered republicans actually believe global warming is a hoax and president obama is a secret muslim who was born in kenya. the simple reality of so many american citizens being so badly misinformed particularly as we go into an election that is going to mold the next generation particularly by its impact on the supreme court

nominees that should give us all pause and should make us demand a return to the f.c.c. rules that reagan stopped in foreseen in one thousand nine hundred seventy which required programming in the public interest not just in the interest of corporate shareholders as thomas jefferson so eloquently and repeatedly pointed out our democracy depends. and that's the way it is tonight monday october first two thousand and twelve for more information on any of the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com three speech dot org dot com and if you missed any of the night show you can now watch it on h.d.d. on hulu at hulu dot com slash the big picture also check out our two you tube channels there are lots of thom hartmann dot com also to our and i can check out all the different ways you can send us your feet and don't forget democracy begins when you get out there get actually tag your it see them.

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