c n n monday january twenty first and then and last night the president only how. far back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour startling new research suggests a major similarity between the human brain and the universe could help explain one of the greatest phenomenons of the last hundred years i'll tell you about it in tonight's science and we all know whole foods for its wide range of organic foods and other environmentally conscious products but the chain store is serving up the heaping helping of fascism to explain in tonight's daily take.

welcome to your take my take a live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a shout to zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four or so or first call or the night paul in oswego new york hey paul what's on your mind tonight. oh oh i think there is a really big connect you might do about the gun industry. that there is a huge shoemaking between conservative religious people and the gun industry and i think they're all going to go to export to god if you create want to carry it around the world as far as that goes between christian and muslim and other really didn't well so you're seeing this as a variation on the old praise the lord and pass the ammunition you know you don't tell her she had her well great. you know sure it wouldn't surprise me paul thank

you for raising that and that's a that's a good that's a head scratcher i'm going to think on that one but rick in boston hey rick thanks for watching what's on your mind couple things first definitely want to talk about poverty when it comes to the g.o.p. and guns but i'm curious i think any intelligent viewer of our team wants to know why you don't focus since there's a lot of criticism of barack inside which he definitely deserves it but why not turn the focus back to russia to our boss cafes to talk about chechnya or freedom of journalists and all that why not discuss that as well rick thanks for the call i appreciate it we're doing this show is america centric show i talk about american politics so that's you know basically talking about any other politics douglas in henrietta oklahoma a douglas with anyone. douglas. hello . now ok let's let's move on to do you

han in alexandria virginia. suzanne. the wanted oh i'm sorry i'm mispronouncing. i said one quick sure. i want to. want to super program in my living room that i went through. and now when there are about marijuana i do not begin to marijuana. but it's it's been decriminalized now in colorado and washington state and. well it's illegal in virginia it's a it's illegal federally too as well john thanks a lot of calls thanks for raising the topic i think that this is this is one of those issues that in the united states we go back and look at the original anti-drug laws and you know there is a real racist pieced to starting them back in the in the ots of the. teens in the

early parts of the twentieth century. in addition to that and along with prohibition what they did was basically created an industry that's all there's this whole anti-drug industry that they're fueling the private prison industry there's there's. you know in the end the fallout from this has been lots and lots of americans going to jail there's also the drug testing industry back in the seventy's i had a friend who was a chemist and he used to sell drug testing kits and high times magazine some people could check out their own pot you know that kind of thing and you know when the drug testing got really big in the eighty's he sold this company for millions of dollars because it's so profitable twenty five cents for the chemicals you sell it for thirty or forty dollars so anyhow that's that's my take on it the i think that it's silly the pot is criminalized nobody's ever died from an overdose of it and yet forty fifty thousand people a year die from alcohol bob in valley springs california hey bob what's on your mind tonight my top talk about being a responsible gun owner and of course

a. truly a backer of the second amendment but also as a responsible gun owner can we set up a federal government secured web site where i can register my serial numbers and to make it manufacture of my weapons to at least get a head start letting the government agency know what i have so they can actually help trace it why i'm. not certain but i believe that you could simply let your local police department know what the serial number is for your weapon what kind of weapon it is if you're concerned about it being stolen for example and used in a crime and be on the record that way thanks for the call and thanks for raising that my take on the whole gun thing is that a really simple way to deal with this is to deal with cars or excuse me with guns basically the same way we deal with cars back when cars first came in the marketplace they were unregulated we the first stop signs we had cars in the one in the one nine hundred. ots the one nine hundred teens and the one nine hundred

twenty s. and it wasn't until the one nine hundred thirty s. that we had in fact the mid nine hundred thirty s. we had a federal national standard for stop signs and lights traffic lights and around that time we started saying ok the car has to be registered the driver has to be licensed we have to have to demonstrate that they are competent at it and because the cars can kill people and this didn't come until the forty's and fifty's the drivers have to have liability insurance and i'd say for guns let's register the guns just like a car let's show proficiency for the user to get a shooting license basically demonstrate you know how to use and store a weapon and require insurance liability insurance did in dubuque iowa a dad thanks for calling once on monday. about it to do so weapon thing you know we have our theory that we all over the united states. oh oh the weapons that people want but the thing is you have to check the armory when

you're done you're going to mock. government you're going to have ranges right there yeah. yeah i agree with you and dan an excellent point thank you for calling and making it in fact in the early days when we had militias particularly in the north in the south the militias were used mostly to suppress slave insurrections they were called slave patrols in fact there's a book by that title that chronicles the history of the militias in the south pre ratification of constitution in the north the militias were more to replace a standing army and there were local armories where people would keep their guns and switzerland does that right now and i would i would say that for example of somebody who wants to shoot an assault weapon they're not going to do that hunting they're going to be doing that and in the target range so let the target range own it let people rented or if you do own it you have to keep it there at a target range locked up in an appropriate gun case. paul in napa california hey

paul thanks for watching thanks for calling it's on your mind. i was wondering i curve that the dems are bringing up single payer health care in the congress again and i wonder maybe approved it but if you could tell me what you know about that if it's true and what you think the benefits would be over the current national health care plan sure sure thanks a lot for the call bill there has been a proposal and. forgetting which which member of congress put it forward but it was put forward today by a democrat in the today or yesterday by democrat house representatives no it was jan schakowsky it was jan schakowsky from illinois who put it forward and in fact she called it the. the. public option deficit reduction plan and basically what it did is that allowed people to buy a public option insurance as well as health insurance i think it's a great idea. and she's great frank in chicago last call what's up frank.

you know our support of israel i'm all for that but doesn't anybody wake up and see that they're treating the problem. like the not peace treaty i mean i may be in the i know what i think that certainly but. your argument thanks for the call your argument starts to break down when you get into that kind of hyperbole but the fact of the matter is that in israel there is a very loud very public debate about israeli policy with regards to the west bank and the palestinians and gaza and we just generally don't have that debate here in the united states and i think it's unfortunate i think that it's good for israel that we don't have that today that's it for your take my take live thank you for all of your calls i didn't get your calls and i was called back next week.

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a memo recently bragging about its victories in the twenty ten and two thousand and twelve elections and the role the jury mandarin played in the story of the memo quote drawing new district lines in states with the most redistricting activity presented the opportunity to solidify conservative policymaking at the state level and maintain a republican stronghold in the u.s. house of representatives for the next decade and of quote as we all know this plan worked pretty well for republicans they ended up with a thirty three seat majority in the house even though they got fewer votes than the democrats did and it works so well that they're expanding their joy at their election rigging in jury manner in efforts for the twenty sixteen election and that is very very up. coming up the c.e.o. of whole foods recently attack obamacare calling a promise ample of fascism you were wrong about that explain what fascism really is in tonight's daily take.

the worst thing. white house to give a. radio guy a minute. what. if you've never seen anything like this. let me let me i want to know wouldn't let me ask you a question. here on this network is what we're having a debate we have i know you see. these two feet is this really what it's about staying there figuring this race will be i don't want me to talk about the surveillance.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. another reason day of the ball much more than a brain cell thank you both a look at president obama's second term we're going to be even more. and even more invasions of our privacy even and monday january twenty third and the eighth and ninth for the president only now. is thursday all its big over the last eighty years something really interesting has

been happening all across the globe nineteen thirty today there have been consistent increases in i.q. test scores all over the world it's pretty much the period of time that we've been measuring i q's and while many explanations have been proposed to help explain this phenomena which is known as the flynn effect none of really stuck well now thanks to a new study and surprising new information about the universe scientists and researchers may be a little closer to possibly explaining the flood effect according to a computer simulation run by a group of researchers the universe may be growing much like a giant human brain a study published in the journal nature's scientific reports suggests that some undiscovered fundamental law of physics may govern and explain the growth of various systems both large and small like the electrical firing between neurons in the brain the growth of social networks and even the expansion of galaxies studies

of the past of show. and the brain circuits and the internet look very similar but despite the similarity nobody's been able to develop equations to predict how computer networks brain circuits or social networks will grow over time but using einstein's equations of relativity physicists researchers can retrace the universe's birth and growth since the big bang and see how it has expanded outward ever since so the team of researchers on the study decided to see if the universe is accelerating growth could give insight into the ways the brain circuits and social networks expand the team created a computer simulation the broke down the early universe of the smallest possible units or quanta of space time smaller than subatomic particles the simulation link to all of quanta in a massive celestial network that were causally related as a simulation continued it added more and more and more units of space time to the history of the universe and as

a result the network connections between matter in the galaxies also grew when the researchers compared the universe's history of growth to that of social networks and brain circuits they discovered that all of the networks expanded very similar ways dimitry create a copy of one of the lead researchers in the studies says that it is highly unlikely that to use this phrase the eerie similarity between networks as small as the brain and as large as the universe is just a coincidence he also says that quote for a physicist it's an immediate signal that there is some messina understanding of how nature works so what's the bottom line of all this it now appears highly likely that there's some yet to be discovered law that governs the way all networks grow regardless of their size. but let's revisit the flynn effect for a moment for decades the i.q. of the world's population has been consistently increasing and no one's been able

to determine why what or for intelligence what if our consciousness was directly related to the universe what if is the human race what what if the human race gets smarter as the universe grows larger and larger could it be possible that we're all part of one massive brain known as the universe and that our consciousness grows with time because it's an expression of the consciousness of the universe boggles the mind. this is a whole food c.e.o. john mackey. and he doesn't know what a fascist is he talked to n.p.r. this week and he tried to express how much he hates obamacare you see back in two

thousand and nine mackey hated obamacare so much that he called it socialism. but now in two thousand and thirteen mackey thinks obamacare is fascism as he said they're going to speak in obamacare is more like rush's socialism is where the government owns the means of production in fascism the government doesn't own the means of production but they do control it and that's what's happening with our health care programs and these reforms today maggie walked back his remarks saying he regrets using that word now because there's so much baggage attached to it but whether mackey meant to use that word or not it's about time someone injected the word fascism back into our political debate especially now that corporations wield more power today than they have in america since the robber baron era the one nine hundred eighty three american heritage dictionary defines fascism as

a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right typically through the merging of state and business leadership together with belligerent belligerent nationalism fascism originated in italy giovanni gentile who wrote for mussolini invented the term fascism and defined it in the encyclopedia italiana this way fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power in other words fascism is corporate government a libertarians wet dream it's a government in which the atlases of industry are given free rein to control the economy to control just how they're regulated to control how much they pay in taxes and control how much they pay their workers it should be noted here that ironically john mackey describes himself as a libertarian someone who wants to get government out of the way someone wants the

corporations to perform the functions that many think should be the functions of government at least when it comes to economic affairs. in one. hundred eighty three most illini finally got his chance to bring fascism to fruition in italy he dissolved the italian parliament and replaced it with the camaro defy. sione forgive my terrible italian in english it means the chamber of the fascist corporations members of the chamber were not selected to represent particular regional constituencies like members of congress are here but instead to represent various aspects of italian industry and trade they were the corporate leaders of italy. imagine that if the house of representatives was dissolved and replaced by a council of america's most powerful c.e.o.'s you know the cokes the waltons the blank fines the diamonds the mackey's you get the picture. actually it's not too

hard to imagine right but this system this form of government is what mussolini and gentile reducer defined as fascism as we know fascism was eventually defeated in world war two but just before the end of that war with the fascists on the ropes in germany and italy the vice president of the united states of that type henry wallace wrote an op ed for the new york times and in it he warned americans about the creeping dangers of fascism or corporate government here in america he defined the fascist says those who pay lip service to democracy in the common welfare in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives do not hesitate surreptitiously to of they the law was designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. that's a fascist than what's so different about those c.e.o.'s who decided to evade obamacare is mandate to provide health insurance for their employees guys like the

new york city applebee's franchise owner zane turkle papa john c.e.o. john schneider and the executives at darden restaurants or what about the banks there's a goldman sachs who knowingly evaded laws who knowingly sold investors crappy deals or who knowingly scammed entire cities into bankruptcy who knowingly illegally foreclosed on thousands of americans through fraudulent robo signing they did this all in the name of short term profits and all in the name of pervert preserving their monopolistic too big to fail status either way evading laws meant to protect the public in order to pad your own pockets has become the name of the game in corporate america today wallace went on to write the american fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fisher of disunity every crack in the common front against fascism. can anyone say fox news for the rest of the conservative media complex. for those on the right who divide working people and

turn them against each other makers versus takers public workers versus private sector workers white people versus brown people but wallace didn't stop there he continued about the fascists they use every opportunity to impugn democracy is this unfamiliar after months of republican efforts to disenfranchise large swaths of the electorate with voter suppression id laws and efforts to put restrictions on early voting and voter registration in largely democratic areas but what about republicans in pennsylvania and what they're doing right now they introduce legislation this week to rig the next presidential election by changing how electoral votes are counted in that state is a lot of democracy impugning going on around here wallace continues they demand free enterprise but they are the spokesman for a monopoly and vested interest their final objective twar which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that using the power of the state and the

power of the markets simultaneously they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. we often hear of free enterprise from the likes of wall street big oil and the defense industry yet these are the same corporations who also lobby to keep generous taxpayer subsidies bailouts and no bid contracts in place that allow them to reign supreme over the markets that allow them to crush their smaller more independent competition and the common person suffers as a result wages as a percentage of g.d.p. are lower than they've ever been unionization rates are lower than they've ever been they've been in more than a half century here in the states and yet corporate profits as a percentage of g.d.p. are higher than they've ever before been in american history. at the time wallace was writing this op ed he was confident that the fascists had been adequately held in check in america by the rosen. administrator franklin roosevelt and he wrote

happily it can be said that as yet fascism is not captured a predominant place in the outlook of any american section class or religion but he went on to warn that in the future fascism quote fascism may be encountered in wall street main street or tobacco road some even suspect that they can detect incipient traces of it along the potomac. sure enough the bastions of fascism can be found on wall street and main street which used to be lined with local independent businesses now lined with predatory transnational giants and along the potomac we find politicians who are more than happy to do the bidding of their corporate overlords today in america were dangerously close to seeing wallace's fascistic this topik america coming to fruition we see the traces of it everywhere unfortunately too many americans just didn't have the word to define what's

happening but thanks to john mackey and thanks to the foresight of vice president henry wallace we now have that right word it's fascism. and that's the way it is tonight thursday january seventeenth two thousand and thirteen for more information and news stories we covered visit our website to tom harkin dot com org. and if you missed any of tonight's show you can now watch it in h.d. on hulu hulu dot com slash the big picture also check out our two you tube channel is there a link to tom hartman dot com also there you can check out all the different ways you can send us your feedback and no forget democracy begins with you it's not a spectator sport you got to participate and there's lots and lots of ways to participate go to p.t. america dot org back to get a gig coming up here this weekend here in washington d.c. progressive democrats of america p.d. america got four or move to amend dot org another great organization that's moving to bring democracy to america so. get out there and occupy something get out there

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