welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour this government really need to see your online shopping receipts for the family pictures you e-mailed to relatives congress seems to think so what's happening on capitol hill this week and what does it all mean also the traditional stigma of nudism in america revolves around retirees with bad tan lines popping skin loving all thing else for the world to see is nudism in america undergoing a revolution and moving away from that all too disturbing image and in tonight's daily take i'll tell you why the who are wealthy walton family had the best seats in the house for this year's edition of the chaos filled shopping marathon known as

black friday. in screw news it could get a lot easier for authorities to snoop through your e-mail the senate will vote this week on legislation to update old one nine hundred eighty s. surveillance laws to account for the new digital world in earlier versions of the bill the democratic chairman of the senate judiciary committee vermont's patrick leahy said the law should protect internet users by requiring law enforcement agencies to obtain a search warrant before looking at any e-mail but a new version of the bill heavily influenced by law enforcement agencies makes it even easier for the government to read our e-mails as seen ever reports the new bill would give twenty two different agencies the legal authority to read emails private google docs person to person twitter messages and private facebook posts all without a search warrant the law also doesn't even require the f.b.i.

and homeland security to notify the user or even a judge at the end of last week under pressure from several privacy organizations including the american civil liberties union senator leahy dropped his support for this new law but as a right now the bill still remains loaded with intrusive provisions and it's still scheduled to be voted on by the senate later this week so what more do you need to know about it what does privacy mean really in the digital age amy stepanovich joins me now she's the associate litigation counsel at epic electronic privacy information center and the welcome back hi nice to be here thanks great to have you with us what's the current status of this bill so it's in committee right now it hasn't been reported out some. inlays committee and leahy's committee and this current status now is that there we're looking at it being back to the version that was released in september which attempts to clarify when law enforcement can look at the e-mails there's a lot of a. ambiguity in the one nine hundred eighty s.

law as you said this was written before the internet was even the internet about at what point do you need a warrant to know what point you really can just go with only a subpoena and access a person's emails and there are a lot of really weird lines that the law draws so this bill as it stands hopes to clarify some of that without the amendment that would of completely wiped out all of the new privacy protections we're back to being a lot more protective of privacy however there also are additional provisions wrapped into this that will amend other laws and make it easier for online companies to publish information about people specifically companies like netflix that deal with movie watching so that but that's more in the in the commercial realm where they can basically sell your information to the already huge industry doing the exact right now but with regard to the government looking at what we're doing before with moments for really clear that we have the right of privacy in our papers and personal effects i would think that the modern version of papers would

certainly be e-mail in the last somebody swears under oath before a judge that there's you know reasonable cause to believe that a crime has been committed correct me if i have it in a language wrong you have it and. how does this law or this bill either comport or not comport with that language in the fourth and the well the new the as it stands currently without being amended actually degrades the fourth amendment what it says is that there are times when there is no judicial oversight necessary you don't have to go to a judge somebody can access your e-mails without any. process no procedure they don't have nobody has to go before a judge nobody sasebo i'm being committed and like i said the line is very unclear they look at how long you've had the e-mail if you've opened it there are some cases some interpretations where if you've opened even in this is a lot of what happened with the general petraeus scandal that that e-mail is then subject to law enforced. review without any oversight and it can lead down the

chain as i have that interest which you know it raises the question here we had apparently rogue is maybe too strong a word but a curious f.b.i. agent who was using apparently powers given to him by the patriot act to look into somebodies e-mail without a judge without a warrant without anybody swearing that their crime was being committed just you know a question from a friend basically we're concerned and that led all the way to the director the cia's personal and private e-mails exactly so as things stand if that f.b.i. agent isn't in jail or being prosecuted it looks like we have no no privacy as it is and that's why they've they initially took up amending the electronic communications privacy act is because as it stands there you can do that so is there a good a moment there are good amendments to this they clarify that you need a warrant in order to access somebody whose e-mail that that is required that way

there's not this one eighty day period on this if you open the e-mail versus if you have an open the e-mail there is a strict warrant requirements are they are likely to i'm sorry go ahead and people are there are those are those are most likely to get attached to the bill while they're attached and now the amendment that was reported on last week supposedly had lights those provisions from the bill and that's basically exactly and that has now been polled supposedly that's what's being reported that a provision has come out so now we're back to having a warrant requirement if this is able to get through congress and as you and i both know it has been incredibly difficult for congress to pass anything which is why this bill hasn't been updated since the one nine hundred eighty s. is there you know legislation supposed to originate in the house and we go to the senate but this is the senate working on something so eventually it's going to have to go to the house for me to put in a new wrapper or there's going to have to be an identical bill in the house is the republican controlled house inclined to. i mean do you think that conservative faction old fashioned conservative faction. and so we should have privacy rights we

should comport with the fourth amendment well the great thing about privacy is that it's bipartisan this isn't something that just democrats believe in or something that just republicans believe in however this particular bill is very heavy on the law enforcement side and the need for law enforcement supposedly there talking point the need for them to be able to conduct official investigations to get the information they need and when you come from that angle a lot of times that is more of a conservative slant they want law enforcement to be able to operate openly and be able to get as much information as possible so there is concern right now it's not really being talked about in the house that often we're trying to get it through the senate leahy and his committee are trying to push this through hopefully without amendments that strip it of all of the good privacy. that provisions that are in there now and keep it to where are even going to be better protected and not open to more abuse is our are you all lobbying or speaking out on this and are

there other groups that are the that are doing the same or are doing that there are many groups are doing it i think actually isn't a lobbyist group so we're not able to go and say this legislation is good or bad what we can say is these protections are necessary so we have said that we have said that you really need or want requirement for email we've said that for a very long time no kind of constitution want to want exactly so that is something that africa has openly supported however this we're not really a group that says so is it is it like the civil liberties groups a.c.l.u. versus law enforcement groups the military industrial police complex that's what it's come out at and that ends up being the case i think on too many occasions but you do you have the a.c.l.u. what's called the digital due process coalition coming out and saying we really need this and the law enforcement groups saying no way this is going to interfere with our ability to conduct investigations and give them basically unfettered

investigatory power. not subject to judicial review which is ok amy thanks so much thank you for being with us and for the information keep your group work thank you for you missed another. is the good the bad in the very very in groovy asli arguably the good. as i mentioned as i just noted it's worth mentioning again in an interview with the yale environment three sixty feet go out as the top u.n. diplomat for international climate negotiations said the superstorm sandy's serves as yet another wake up call for the us to cut carbon pollution was also asked why the united states was willing to let other countries pressure clean energy technologies pursue clean energy technologies at the expense of american jobs and

economic growth to go out as also predicted increased frustration with the united states if lawmakers in washington continue to fail to address the devastating effects of climate change superstorm sandy should be a wake up call to everyone in this country let's see if politicians on capitol hill get that message and finally do something to curb climate change the bad carly fiorina and sunday's edition of meet the press fear in a complain that it is not fair that public worker unions are so rich take a listen. let us accept reverend al point in the president's point about fairness but equally it is not fair that public employee union pension benefits are so rich now that cities and states are going bankrupt and college tuition is going up twenty five and thirty percent or police and firefighters being cut there's a lot that isn't fair right now i'm not sure what planet ms fiorina is on but back down here on earth public workers. they're anything but rich and by the way those

workers paid into those and should and public employee unions are also under constant attack as increasing numbers of communities across the nation move to privatizing the commons one thing not to do the real thing here is that this fear arena is worth over fifty million dollars and is still paying lower taxes than working class americans who are struggling. and the very very ugly box so-called news in an op ed posted on the fox so-called news website self describes social critique suzanne thinker argues that women's newfound roles as family breadwinners and their strides toward gender equality have caused them to become angry durable and unappealing to marriageable men in america banker goes on to say women aren't women anymore fairly it's a terrible thing that women are becoming more successful in the workplace for finally being allowed to catch up with their male counterparts. you saw how well

that war on women worked out for republicans this past election i think they have learned their lesson instead of posting op eds by a successful woman ironically about how awful it is for women to be successful and that is very very. coming up while millions of americans stampeded through store aisles on friday the waltons heirs to the vast wal-mart fortune were probably sitting at home sipping champagne and smiling as they watched all the chaos unfold on t.v. so why would they be so interested in all the black friday madness i'll tell you and i'd still eat it.

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you know everything you know is wrong. when i say nudist what do you think of all you probably conjure up all too disturbing images in your head of a seventy year old couple having a little too much fun to notice or treat right well while the news population has been traditionally dominated by older generations it turns out going on. is attracting new audiences so if you think living the nude life is only for retirees then everything you know is wrong i mean now is victoria become posts writer and contributor to bitch magazine village voice and alter net or ladies alternate pieces titled nude awakening the benefits of getting naked victoria welcome. thank you so much for having me it's an honor thank you it's great to have you with us what is one of the most common stigmas associated with nudism. i would say that there are a couple of stigmas associated both with the ascetic characteristics and moral

characteristics of people who are practicing nudist or naturist first starters i always recall on the title essay in david today or says naked and it gives none to and a not very appealing perception of nudists as unattractive flabby. over tanned people i believe that there was even one segment in which a scrap of twenty paper was affixed to the buttocks i'm an individual at a nudist camp. so there is that stereotype that it's mostly older individuals and not young people. and you know a really common refrain that one often hears is that the people who want to be nudists or naturists are the people who shouldn't be. and then there are the moral curse sections about nudist and naturist namely that that it's some type of sexual

perversion that it's you know kind of a nefarious form of exhibit. and also there is the perception that people who are practicing nudist and naturist might be more likely to be sexual predators of some sort of specially when it comes to male participants in nudist and naturist cultures those are all the downsides in the perceived or real what are the what are the benefits of getting naked. and. the benefits of getting make in public. in public well you know i approach the investigation about this. you know from more when immersive an anthropological standpoint and so i really just try to get a sense of what people who are participating you know saw as the benefits though

i'm still personally like myself as to whether nudism or naturism necessarily have you know overarching benefits that said a lot of the people that i interviewed and a lot of the people. you know that you know in person and also a lot of people that i spoke with over the telephone in subsequent interviews indicated that the clothes free lifestyle gave them both a sense of security with their bodies and. also made them act but it's materialistically when it came to working and you know interacting with people of all walks of life they didn't judge other people based upon their sartorial decisions it was more the content of their you know their you mean people who are going to work they could. you know it was mainly for example one story that came up was that at

a young naturist or nudist gathering you know at the end of the time when everybody was leaving to put their you know clothes back on it was very clear that had they not originally interacted in the cruelest presetting the type of subcultures associated with their various forms of dress would have prevented them essentially from ever interacting with one another in a meaningful way because their clothes are like uniforms they speak about us you very much so very much so very interesting we just in the in the twenty seconds we have look we're born naked why why this hysteria about being me. i think that a lot of this hysteria about being naked stems from very very strict judeo christian bodily morals and norms that treat nudity and be uncovered and. on and on what held human form as simple and you

know having the potential to lead to moral downfall i mean it really stems from the beginning of the hebrew bible in which sin was associated with nudity the avenues to return to begin to say thank you so much for being with us thank you is a pleasure now everything you know about going on out here all is right. every year after thanksgiving in the nation's wealthy elite still fat bellied from turkey and stuffing tune into their local news outlets and observe what has become an annual tradition of bloodletting and frenzied consumerism we call it a lack friday but to those like the wal-mart heirs who together own more wealth

than the bottom forty percent of our nation combined it might as well be called their very own hunger games is their stories after all the play host of this one day battle waged by poor and working class people to get discounted appliances clothes and toys for their kids like suzanne collins dystopian future portrayed in the games in which impoverished teenagers battle each other to the death once a year for the amusement of panama's wealthy elite black friday battle royale often ended in death as well in just the last few years we've seen shoppers retail workers shot to death trampled to death pepper sprayed bitten punched and kicked all in the pursuit of black friday shopping deals this year was no different two people were shot outside a wal-mart in tallahassee florida and the two people were run down by a car in a wal-mart parking lot in covington washington and an alleged shoplifter was beaten to death by walmart employees at

a store in georgia every year around this time the phrase clean up on aisle five takes on a much more disturbing meaning all while the wealthy elite look down on the spectacle below them with amusement and the knowledge that that entire spectacle is fattening their bank accounts. this black friday hunger game is a relatively new phenomenon though the term has existed since the one nine hundred sixty s. then it was mostly used by factory managers referring to the number of workers who called in sick after thanksgiving it was in the one nine hundred eighty s. that retail outlets co-opted it after noticing how their balance sheets would be a washington black ink for the year at the end of a friday which was considered the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season after years of relentless marketing to lure shoppers back to their stores for bargain prices black friday officially became the number one busiest shopping day of the year only in two thousand and five that year nearly half the nation more

than one hundred forty million americans went shopping on black friday this year that number swelled to more than two hundred forty million americans participating in this stampeding chaos but to blame the rise of black friday on effective marketing is to miss half the story black friday in reality is a symptom of the plight of the thirty years of reaganomics has brought to working people in america coinciding with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other in retail outlets across america we've seen the destruction of labor unions where a third of the unit the workforce was unionized just two generations ago only a tenth is today alongside the drop in unionization rates the middle class a share of national income has also dropped off significantly as reflected in their wages adjusted for inflation in one thousand eight hundred eight before black friday existed in this modern form the average american worker made thirty three

thousand four hundred dollars a year by two thousand and eight with black friday taking off the average american worker was actually making less bringing home around thirty thousand dollars a year. while virtually every cost of living borne by the working class at the same time from housing to food to pharmaceuticals have risen all the while the wealthy elite the top one percent has seen their incomes rise two hundred seventy five percent since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine with the price of everything else from food to energy to education to housing to health care up more and more working americans are having to make tough choices christmas presents are the heating bills and that's where the retail giant stepped in the retail industry which employs more than a third of our nation's low wage workers created black friday with a promise that shoppers can save big if they hit the stores on one special day although several studies have shown the shoppers can actually get better deals on

different days the only thing shoppers have left is to enter themselves into wal-mart's hunger games where they literally pawar and buy each other to get one of those forty percent off kitchen appliances with only limited quantities available eternal asterisk for so many advertised deals and thousands of people waiting in line outside and the message given to the young warriors in the hunger games applies to the shoppers readying themselves for the mad dash to the kitchen section may the odds be ever in your favor but of the fifty million americans in poverty in the fifth of the nation living in economic insecurity one of the choice is that they want their kids to have a christmas comparable to the one of their more fortunate classmates. we have black friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for three decades time magazine in one thousand nine hundred sixty six saw a future of rising productivity thanks to machines and computers and thus rising wages for workers they suggested that a leisure society was on the horizon in which americans would be working fewer

hours and yet earning larger paychecks it was calculated that the average worker would be taking home somewhere between one hundred one hundred twenty thousand dollars a year by the year two thousand and sure enough productivity did increase significantly just as the time magazine article predicted unfortunately all that extra wealth created by their productivity boom was pocketed by corporate executives instead of being shared with the workers thus the black friday hunger games it's fair to assume that americans are earning six figures or more are far less likely to pull guns on each other a wal-mart has to grab a handful of buy one get one free d.v.d.'s but unlike previous hunger game black fridays this time the working poor are fighting back right alongside frenzied low wage shoppers our nation saw striking workers and activists demanding higher wages in more than one hundred cities and forty six states hundreds of wal-mart employees walked off their jobs and were joined by thousands of supporters to raise awareness

of wal-mart's low wage low benefit work environment and one store in paramount california as many as six hundred protesters showed up at another store in hanover maryland four hundred store employees union workers and activists joined together to speak out against wal-mart this is the movement that can put an end to the black friday horrors that americans watch every year it's time to give our desperate working poor in this country a ladder of high wages benefits and union representation so they can climb back up into the middle class and find economic security once again no more post things giving one hundred games in america. and that's the way it is tonight monday at every twenty sixth two thousand and twelve for more information check out our website to tell marvin's dot com free speech dot org r t dot com and who are dot com slash the big picture and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your it see if.

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