market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports . you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so many i mean the town i believe that i'm sitting here listening to me really messed up. and we're all very sort of silly apologize and. worse we're going to go oh my downstairs of a. radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone hospital i want you to watch closely are about to give you've never seen anything like this i'm told.

the top guys i'm having martin this is breaking the sides there's some interesting news that broke yesterday that you may have missed her and the former president of france nicolas sarkozy has received over sixty five million dollars in funding from former libyan dictator moammar gadhafi this is all poured into a businessman who has been implicated in some of france's biggest international arms scandals because it is proof that sarkozy received the money during his two thousand and seven presidential campaign as well as during his presidency but it seems like even the outrageous of sixty five million dollars still wasn't enough to prevent france from spearheading nato bombing campaign in libya. the ousting of gadhafi in two thousand and eleven i guess money can't buy loyalty not that it ever should maybe that's the takeaway from this greed driven failure but enough of that let's break the set.

all right so every day i keep asking you guys to write me and let me know you think about the show well yesterday after my segment on paranoia damaging the truth movement i've been getting a lot of hate mail from explain one point that may have gotten lost in what i said i'm not trying to call anyone's beliefs crazy i'm trying to make a smarter and more critical thinkers on a side note i think alex jones and in four wars have done a lot of great crucial work but as woken up a ton of people for years and years however there seems to be a movement of people who immediately seize on every single bad thing that happens including hurricanes mass murders and assert that they're all being fixed by the government to fulfill an overarching agenda and i mean immediately like in the minutes following these disasters before any of the facts are even laid out healthy skepticism and criticism about the government is absolutely m. heritage in this day and age government narratives are not to be trusted but before

you start making speculative claims you to be armed with facts this is about questioning everything including the claims of the alternative media. those seeking truth about real provable conspiracies are discredited when people jump on bandwagons that peddle alternative theories with little to no evidence to back them up for example the millions of people around the world who have questions about nine eleven and the victims families that are pursuing a new investigation are now lumped in with the same movement that's claiming that every mass shooting is staged we don't all want to be the boys who cried wolf here we want to present a hard hitting questions backed by real evidence but the only way the alternative voice can maintain its credibility. with that said i wanted to address a few specific comments from you tube's no name no fame who says at the end of the allegory of the cave piece that i did he says why was the j.f.k. assassination mentioned at the end now she looks like one of those in same

conspiracy theorists so i just can't win so i'm labeled a conspiracy theories because of my questions about the impossibility of the j.f.k. assassination to happen as the government claims it did yet when i don't jump on board about them trails or sandy hook being a black out the movement turns against me all i can do is say my truth as i see it moving on to twitter at mark j. c. one says i can't believe you're parroting anti gun propaganda i'm unfollowing you well apparently there are a bunch of people under the impression that our team is the network is pushing an agenda of gun control and all of the say this i'm pro second amendment in fact i own a firearm i just wish people would take every other amendment of the bill of rights as seriously as the second also i think it's kind of naive maybe this is just me to say that simply having guns is a realistic way to protect yourself against the most massive and oppressive military force in the world in fact i haven't said one thing that rails against or

for guns on the show because i think it's worth talking about the underlying issues of violence in the wake of these mass shootings and stead of peddling with the mainstream media is still on twitter at graceful biscuit says keep moving closer to fox news if you can become their brain for hashtags say it isn't so oh i had no idea that i was a neo conservative hate monger if you think that i resemble anything that fox owner is and i don't know if you actually been watching the shows served from you tube a comment from i love the keys for ever says what i want all over stone to answer is how are we supposed to deal with terrorism and our enemies all over stone does is complain about how rights are being taken away but what answers does he have to deal with real problems such as terrorism which is the primary reason why all these new laws exist in the first place. what this you two are doesn't realize is that there is no threat of terrorism to americans the government justifies taking away

our freedoms to catch terrorists but one more likely to die of accidental suffocation in bed than we are of a terrorist attack in this country so really the true way to deal with stopping terrorism is to stop bombing countries when people get bombed their families get murdered for no reason those people tend to become radicalized against their oppressors i.e. the united states and finally from you tube tio a lawyer says i think i'll try to experiment and make him breaking the set my only source for news great idea to will i hope the experiment is going well for you and thanks so much for writing watching and for your thoughts yes even the trolls. like. never seen anything like that. one hundred fifty five thousand jobs were added in the month of december the latest

report from the bureau of labor statistics coming out today with that number the u.s. unemployment rate holds at seven point eight percent and politicians are using the numbers as evidence to support their own agendas and one quarter we have white house economic adviser alan krueger saying quote while more work remains to be done today's employment report provides further evidence that the u.s. economy is continuing to heal from the wounds inflicted by the worst downturn since the great depression and there is newly elected house speaker john boehner who said quote too many americans are still out of work and washington has too much debt our oversized overspent federal government is a drag on economic growth and job creation as burden every american with a fifty thousand dollars share of its debt and rising so what these numbers really mean and could the fiscal cliff hysteria be hiding the real issues plaguing washington talk about all that and more i'm joined now by paul craig roberts columnists columnists and assistant secretary of the u.s.

treasury during the reagan administration paul thank you so much for coming on. the spirit so the job numbers report just came out today of course saying that we're increasing jobs in the workforce i read one of your posts last month about the jobs added in the month of november you called it more phony employment numbers why do you call them phony and does that still apply to the most recent report. well the bureau of labor statistics has what they call the birth death model which they estimate you start out companies and the jobs that they create and they estimate the companies are going out of business and therefore the jobs at those so-called companies lose this model is based on normal economy one that's growing. it is not based on the recessionary economy and what the model does is it ends in.

an average of forty five thousand jobs every month. the the amount can vary by month but over the year averages to twenty five thousand jobs per month that they just added in based on this model so if we take those jobs out then we have one hundred. ten jobs created this month which is not enough to stay up with population growth and of those one hundred and ten thousand one hundred. we had. yeah we had one hundred hundred ten thousand jobs of those jobs almost all of them were accounted for by health care and social assistance waitresses and bartenders so there are located jobs unskilled jobs and

it's no sign that the economy is going anywhere or of course people in total are moonlighting not talking about picking up double shifts at these places like you said very low paying jobs of course the media and politicians are seizing upon the numbers politicizing them like they do every time without really breaking it down like you just did i want to talk about the fiscal cliff of course becoming hysterical in the media we just took a nosedive off it you wrote this recently said the fiscal cliff is another hoax designed to shift the attention of policymakers the media and the attendant public if any from huge problems to small ones a lot of what you meant by that. well in the fiscal cliff if there's if they deal with it all they're doing is reducing the growth of the deficit over the next ten years by ten percent or so instead of growing a hundred percent and so only going to grow nine percent. and so the first good

cliff really is relevant to the two reducing the size of the annual deficit and to reducing the growth of the public debt over the next ten years we're talking about is reducing. about one hundred and twenty billion dollars a year. of the issue of new debt but of course where he is shooting a trillion or more. so they're talking about ten percent of the growth of the debt. being cut so that doesn't really affect anything relevant the deficit stays and the growth of the public stays huge whether they deal with the fiscal cliff or don't do it it really doesn't make any difference given the size of the problem right absolutely this minimizing the problem really it's

a much larger than that as you said on your blog we are on a crash course i mean the economy is this is an unsustainable course that we're on i know that you've worked in politics for many years what are some of the things that you've seen change for the worse from president reagan's administration and to obama's economic well being. well that's a huge change. in the reagan administration did not have an agenda world had jimmy. they did not have an agenda of building a police state. i mean it would have been in comprehensible to president reagan had he had he been told that he had the power to assassinate americans without due process and that he could buy a light the constitution ignore the constitution indefinitely detain people imprisoned without due process reagan would have thought even so this is not the

sort of that you know this is not nazi germany but we don't do those things but today it's just become standard lists and no one seems to really be that much upset about. because it hasn't happened to them. so that's a huge difference another huge difference is there was still it was still possible in the reagan years to have corporations in the congress between republicans and democrats they couldn't always come together to deal with everything but they could come together on big things to do. much of the time today they don't see the need to be able to work together at all. it's quite a huge difference right well divide and conquer. mr roberts you know. and always like to divide and conquer us so then they can continue the rain or systematic erosion of our civil liberties and police state at home and abroad thank you so much for coming on shedding some light on these really confusing iconic topics at least for me i appreciate it paul craig roberts columnist and former

assistant secretary of treasury. ok like you see so far go to our you tube channel at youtube dot com breaking the set and subscribe to our facebook page at facebook making your one of my or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter martin they take a break from my preaching for now stay tuned to hear about one group still fighting for our right to privacy despite the passing of a foreign intelligence surveillance act next. who are.

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congress completely failed to pass a significant piece of legislation called the vote women against violence act a bill that would have wide and protections of native americans illegal immigrants and the community of course one bill they didn't have a problem with passing just as the rest of america was preparing for their new year's was. a foreign intelligence surveillance act a highly contentious bill that allows federal agencies to eavesdrop on our communications without a warrant although it was passed with ease there are vocal opponents and groups still fighting for a right to privacy one of which is the electronic frontier foundation a group who filed a lawsuit against the justice department demanding more disclosure of the government spying program so to talk more about pfizer and where the case stands today i'm joined now by cindy kahn legal director and general counsel at the electronic frontier foundation cindy thanks so much for coming on thank you so when the patriot act was signed it was so controversial because it gave the government

such wide sweeping powers what more powers did. give the government the patriot act it in well the amendments act in two thousand and eight expanded fi's a couple of ways the first thing it did was it allowed the government to get kind of general warrants not have to particularly identify people that it was serving ailing but it could just say like it's going to surveil members of the rotary club or or the name of a group rather than individuals and that's a big shift because the fourth amendment really requires specificity of persons group general warrants the second thing was is. eliminated the face of court's ability to really know what the government is doing as a practical matter and how it's implementing these broad new powers. by taking its

review of the level of abstraction to just reviewing procedures rather than what actually happened. it granted immunity to the phone companies which was of course very controversial at the time. and i guess probably most importantly what it what it confirmed that allowed the government to do is to spy on americans in america without a warrant as long as those americans aren't though or didn't quote target quote of the investigation which really isn't much of a limitation on the n.s.a.'s ability to spy on people it basically says as long as they say they're spying on a foreigner abroad the fact that they're also spying on americans who are talking to them doesn't count for purposes of the constitution. it just seems like this is a legal i mean like you just said the fourth amendment text should protect us from the just seem to have widespread surveillance without

a warrant is really just shocking i mean korea nine eleven i feel like people have been up in arms about this but now in a post nine eleven world it just seems like a lot of even the legislators who are passing this controversial spine legislation is doing so because of fear of the backlash of being labeled you know you're pro terror or you don't want to catch terrorists or something so it's just a really sad climate of fear really that we're living in but talk about this lawsuit that you guys filed why did you file it what are you asking for with it. well we filed we have evidence of. a piece of how we think some of this spying is working and what we have is we have the schematics of a facility here in san francisco on folsom street and eighteen t.v. syllabi where copies of everyone's internet traffic. is being are being made through a cabinet of fiber optic splitters and one copy is going on its way to his

destination and the other copy is going into a room that you can't get access to unless you have n.s.a. clearance and that has very very sophisticated data mining and wiretap equipment inside it so we have the schematics we have a declaration from one of the people who maintains this build a cabinet and we have lots of. internal an extra eleven and this is we think how one piece of the spying is occurring and so we've sued we started off by suing a t.n.t. but that got blocked in two thousand and eight so now we're suing the n.s.a. to try to stop the spying frankly we think it's unconstitutional we also think it's illegal under fisa you know if i said let's the government do a lot of things that i think should be improper but it certainly doesn't anywhere authorize the dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary americans and their everyday communications there's nothing in i said that says it's ok to wiretap the

whole country. is so we think it's unconstitutional we actually think it's illegal under vice and we've been suing to try to stop it. yeah you would think that it is illegal and unfortunately in their responses you know it would be a violation of privacy to unveil how much how much of the country were spying on of course that's double speak i mean the justice department tried to invoke a state secret privilege to not divulge the information i mean what do you think about the response and how do you think this is going to play out. well it's very troubling that the government is basically taking the position that. they can prevent the courts from deciding whether what they're doing is legal by claiming secrecy i mean we have three branches of government and the job of the courts is to oversee the executive branch and congress to make sure that they're consistent with the constitutional and so the government's argument that the state secrets privilege means the courts can't decide whether this is legal lot to trouble all

americans there shouldn't be a constitution freezone in the law. and so we think it's very troubling it's currently pending in front of our judge here in san francisco and we hope to get a decision soon rejecting that argument and it's especially inappropriate because the faisel law actually creates causes of action for people who have been illegally surveilled they creates claims that's part of what congress passed in the one nine hundred seventy s. after the last time the n.s.a. was caught spying on ordinary americans as part of their church committee report congress specifically created legal remedies and instructed courts to decide whether surveillance is legal or not so it's very troubling to have the obama administration basically follow in the footsteps of the bush administration and say

you know regardless of the law that's been passed and regardless of the constitution nobody can decide whether what we're doing is legal or nah. very important facet thank you for breaking it down really appreciate it and thank you for pursuing as i think it's really important for people to realize this is still being enacted it just seems like once these bills are passed they just continue to be passed without any real contention among the media or a political establishment really appreciate your time and yukon gold director and the general counsel of the electronic frontier foundation thank you. right around the holiday season it's common to see heartwarming stories of the haves giving to the have nots from gold coins and salvation army red kettles to oprah's favorite things giving is a holiday theme but this act stands out above the breast meat tony tolbert an

entertainment lawyer from los angeles who is redefining what it means to give to those in need so you don't. bill gates or warren buffett or oprah you know that we can do it wherever we are with whatever we have been so for me you know i have a home that i can make available so just hooted tony make his home available to a local homeless family he founded a shelter for women and children that family will also now be whole again because an older son wasn't allowed to stay at the shelter because if he didn't and made the age requirement there and what about tony the fifty one year old is moving back in with his mom and dad all the homeless family he has never even met will live in his fully furnished home rent free for an entire year. the fact that he's giving up a beautiful home that he's working years to be able to afford is facing tony in the least he sees the reality in this country he acknowledges the fact that unemployment foreclosures and homelessness are on the rise and he couldn't bear to

see yet another family left out in the cold while he was privileged enough to enjoy the warmth don't take it from me hear it from the man himself. creates kindness generosity creates you know generosity love creates love it if we can share share so with that we want to have more stories about people doing nice things for other people and fewer stories about people doing horrible things for the people that's a better world well said tony and i'll take the time to say thank you thank you for being a selfless human being thank you for being compassionate and for showing us what a good deed can look like in the face of a government that turns its back on us and a banking complex that locks up thousands of empty homes and throws away the key you will forever be an inspiration to me and i bet those two are watching too and that's why you tony tolbert are my hero today so do the hero was the villain while i think it's accurate to say that this next guy is the scourge of the holiday season and he's blaming his scrooge them on our favorite destruction the fiscal

cliff so most people are thinking about the fact that this payroll tax has gone up for the majority of americans believe it or not there are some rich people in the world just be moaning about the fact that they'll no longer be able to write up any amount as a tax deductible charitable donation one such rich guy is every fleischer the former press secretary of george w. bush he we also recognize him as a talking head c.n.n. and fox news so mr fleischer here took to twitter just after congress passed the fiscal cliff bill to say this is that i increased donations to charity in two thousand and twelve this deal limits my deductions so i and many others will likely donate less in two thousand and thirteen while ari thanks for. even the fact that the only reason you donate is to get tax deductible write offs lots of warm thoughts for the holidays but i never tell you that i think you've got enough twitter hate yourself from at happy alone or says you are

a douche bag if you base how much you donate to charity based on how much you're going to write off on your taxes or my personal favorite at malia says it doesn't surprise me that ari fleischer will cut back on charitable donations what does surprise me is that he ever gave to charity at all. but don't worry our responded to clarify what he meant he says for those having effect regarding my charity tweet when the government reduces people's take home pay people have less money to donate slash spend it's math well ari we all know that's not really what you meant plus i doubt that you're one of the ones who are struggling to make ends meet so you have money to donate so for being a sterling example of selfishness and for body in the end to the sis of our hero today who's the most selfless person i've read about a long time you ari fleisher are today's villain so there you have it one charitable act to burst as a not so charitable act every day we choose what kind of person we want to be to

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