king abdullah's regime despite certain factions within the country calling for a boycott of the election it was reported fifty six percent voter turnout over the last year jordan assumed a growing dissent against its monarchy and the simmering uprising curiously absent from the us corporate media to give us a sense of what's happening on the ground in jordan right now i'm joined by our two correspondent lucy caffein office in jordan as we speak lucy thanks so much for coming on. and as we know i'm there how are you i am great thanks for so as we know jordan is a monarchy and people because of that i mean people are just calling these elections cosmetic what is the real significance or purpose of these elections. well abbie as you mentioned these elections are the first in jordan since the start of the arab spring which of course toppled four governments so far now king abdullah the second has seen what's happening in the region he's aware of the growing discontent here at home in jordan and so these elections on the series of

frankly cautious reforms that came along with it are really a way for the monarchy to sort of try to straddle both sides to give people enough of a sense of change to try to placate the growing discontent here at home while continuing to hold on to power and so there have been some changes for example the elections were open to outside observers for the first time there's an independent commission that's set up to oversee it the parliament will have more of a say in day to day affairs but at the same time the king maintains control over the security services over foreign policy and most importantly he can summarily dismiss the parliament at will by a royal decree and that's why for many jordanians the changes were simply too little and too late but at the same time as you've mentioned we've had more than fifty percent percent voter turnout that's more than fifty six percent of the two point three million voters who are registered here in jordan and so what that says is that people at least for now are cautiously willing to sort of see where these reforms go and give this a chance but by no means is the monarchy. in the clear just yet very interesting

what can you talk specifically about what parties are involved here and what was the outcome of the election. right well the interesting thing here is that despite all of these reforms right there's this electoral law that's really quite contention and the biggest party opposing these elections is the muslim brotherhood now this is actually the strongest most popular national party here in jordan if the electoral law was different then the muslim brotherhood with frankly win a majority of seats here but the way the things are set up of the one hundred fifty seats of this parliament only twenty seven of them go to national parties the rest go to largely independent and tribal candidates those are seen as being closely aligned with the government and that is why a lot of people who are upset with the outcome frankly see this new parliament as being aligned with the king and not necessarily an independent body of any sort. and you mentioned earlier that these were kind of to try to quell that to send

these reform measures i mean do you think about going to work i know that a lot of the board a lot of criticism was saying that the even the numbers of voter turnout were inflated that it was really exaggerated and that a lot of more people didn't vote. no on the muslim brotherhood has certainly been saying that i do have to say that what we've heard from independent observers that the turnout probably was fairly close to what the electoral commission is saying but when it comes to avoiding the kind of you know is serious overthrows of governments that we've seen in the region it's not quite clear that jordan is in the clear that is because the monarchy is going to be facing a very difficult situation in a few months of head any any sort of misstep by the government here could spark new op risings and frankly much more important in the political situation is probably the economic situation jordan has a high rate of unemployment it's highly dependent on western and gulf donors just to survive economically and last year was forced to take out a two. billion dollar loan from the i.m.f.

which guess what came along with biting austerity demands what that had caused the government to cut food and since probably have a lot more of an effect on georgian stability in the months to come but i do have to say that for the large part most people aren't calling for the overthrow of the government just yet although we have seen sort of more voices speaking out quite critically of the king which has really been largely i'm heard of so far yeah i mean it's interesting that the jordanian government has always been kind of prideful that the arab spring bypassed the country but of course you know it's easy to say but there is definitely something stirring in the country and it's in a really crucial spot of course borders you know the west bank let's talk about syria also i just read this article that said that twenty thousand people will have fled into jordan in just the last few days i mean how what kind of strain is this presenting on the country. this is something of this this is something that's on the minds of all jordanians we're actually going to the refugee camp tomorrow to

see for ourselves what's going on on the ground but the flood of refugees has been huge and those economics of economic problems that we've talked about those are only being exacerbated by the flood of refugees jordan simply doesn't have the money or the financial resources to deal with this huge flood of people coming in and a lot of jordanians fear that this is going to affect their quality of life they don't necessarily want to see and they don't necessarily want to throw the refugees out on the streets so to speak but they're quite worried about how that's going to affect the stability of the government here and frankly the government itself has said that it might close its borders if the numbers continue to increase if the government of bashar assad falls and so it is placing an enormous financial as well as political strain on the population oh yeah absolutely and like i mentioned before border in the west bank i mean now that netanyahu was reelected in israel i mean might the prospect of peace even be further deterred in this region we have about a minute left. right well jordan has the largest palestinian refugee population

than any other country in the world it's about thirty percent we've actually went and visited a palestinian refugee camp today and people here well they're not they're not certainly they're not rising up at the moment but they're quite unhappy with what's going on in the middle east they're very very unhappy with the situation in israel and you know frankly they're just sort of playing it easy so for other they don't really want to upset the balance because they don't want to lose the the the few freedoms and opportunities they joy here in this country but they're not happy about the regional balance and if the situation with israel continues to escalate we really could potentially see more uprisings in the camps and more uprisings from the palestinian red. but i should mention that there's a lot of wealthy middle class palestinians who are quite content to sort of set out this argument and keep quiet for now sure and unfortunately it does look like it might be even more tense than it is now with. you so much for shedding some light

from the ground in jordan lucy catherine of our team. los angeles is certainly no stranger to police brutality and that's why this recent tragedy comes as no surprise on january seventh a man named so car horror was sitting in a car with his girlfriend when multiple undercover police officers came up behind them so proceeded to get out of the car before he was able to speak to the police they fired upon him trice hitting him once in the chest all on suspicion that he was complicit in a burglary and since then the twenty two year old cambodian man has been clinging on to his life in the hospital. but even more inferior rating is the police have refused to visitation rights for all of his friends and family and when his mother demanded to see her son a cop simply responded. back to you if he dies now the police claim that soco was

armed but his girlfriend is the night of the allegation all we know is that they're trying very hard to prevent his family and friends from making contact or pursue an investigation and response of the case activists and ellie from the answer coalition have been organizing protests against police brutality around the hospital to demand visitation rights for so his family these intimidation tactics from the long beach police force bring me to a very important point which i don't talk about enough on the show knowing your rights in a police state police are supposed to be public servants we rely on them to keep us and our communities safe while biting by the law but in many cases cops abuse their power and become reckless brutal and in some cases murderous so let's do a quick one on one from the a.c.l.u. is website if you're stopped by police immigration agents or the f.b.i. here's some things to always keep in mind first it's very important to ask the

police am i being detained if they say no you have the right to walk away very important remember that second and this seems so obvious but it's also so important to remember that you always have the right to remain silent because police can and they will take anything you say once you're arrested and use it against you wait to speak until you have legal representation and don't forget to ask for it because that's also your right third do not consent to be searched ever this means on your person vehicle or home unless there is a warrant issued police legally do not have a right to enter your home or search your belongings also when a police officer comes to your house don't let them in until they have proper legal tuchman's even though that's totally up to interpretation these days look it doesn't matter what your skin color is and it doesn't matter what your legal status is in this country you have rights now there are many more tips for. writes dealing

with ice i.c.e. officers or people dealing with the f.b.i. accent or so please be sure to check them out a.c.l.u. dot org or hop block dot org now even to soak up practice the rights that he had after was going to front by police it probably would have changed the outcome of this terribly tragic situation but perhaps if we all stood up more to the police they would stop power tripping and they would start to respect the law and human life look this is not about hiding anything illegal this is about not succumbing to intimidation tactics by the establishment this is about standing your ground by practicing the rights we all have in this country because if we don't use them we'll just continue to lose them. and if you like what you see so far go to our youtube channel two dot com slash breaking the sent to describe to us check us out on hulu as well hulu dot com like breaking the set check on our facebook page and lycos facebook dot com plus breaking the said follow me on the twitter verse that abby martin so stay tuned to hear the second part of breaking the exclusive

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like a clock or a college appreciate anything like such. claims. yesterday i showed you the first part of an exclusive interview with internet take and founder of mega upload to him dot com where he discussed the u.s. government's extradition case against him right now let's play a part two are his own andrew blake sat down with cannot come in new zealand to talk about internet freedom copyright laws and has been isn't he first asked him about his newest internet venture a website simply called meghan and why he feels the internet needs more encryption take a look at what i have learned since i got dragged into this case is

a lot about privacy abuses about the government spying on people you know the us government invests a lot of money in spy clouds massive data centers with you know hundreds of thousands of hard drives storing data and what they are storing as basically any communication that for versus through u.s. networks and that means they're not spying on individuals based on a warrant any more they just spy on everybody permanently all the time and what that means for you and anybody is if you are ever a target of any kind of investigation or someone has a political agenda against you or a prosecutor doesn't like you or put the police wants to interpret something in a way to get you in trouble they can use all that data go through it with the with the comb and find the things even though you think you have nothing to hide and

done nothing wrong they will find something that they can nail you with and that's why it's wrong to have these kinds of privacy the abuses and i decided to create a solution that over time is going to encrypt more and more of the internet so we start with fi olds would then move to e-mail with them to move to voice over ip communication and our a.p.i. it's available to any third party developer to also create their own two worlds and my. all this within the next five. years i want to encrypt the internet long before megaupload was ever taken down justice department is looking into ninja video and you actually cooperated with them and people want to know how is this the guy who is incredibly against washington you know hates hates everything that they've done to him how is this same guy also helping out the justice department before which

can dot com should people think is the real one well let me explain to you how this worked ok i was a good corporate citizen my company was abiding to the laws if we get this search warrant or we get in requests by the government to assist in an investigation we will comply and we have always complied and that is the right thing to do because if someone child pornography if someone op loads terrorist stuff we're anything that you know is a serious crime of course we have there to help you know this is our obligation and i am not for copyright infringement people need to understand that i'm going to sue and right now in studio andrew blake to discuss more of this interview and some of what ken dot com was saying you know andrew i thought that what he was saying about aaron's words was really touching i was really moved that he was so moved by his death and really noticed you know that he almost pioneered stopping by that was

really cool i mean in a way he really did without insurance works is efforts to kind of halt the entire stop on my privacy act and sister act people like it really wouldn't have had as much of effect and here is a co-founder of writer of read it and read it you know essentially did shut down in protest and when megaupload was was taken offline last year aaron was actually on our team to talk about it so there's always been some sort of little connection between the two yeah and one thing that i actually was the price of i mean i am and i'm not the fact that cannot comment not go out. and say i endorse do you us the tax and shutting down websites i mean on on one hand he is trying to be a law abiding citizen and do things very by the book on the other hand were you surprised at all the kind of saying i don't really agree with the tactics of anonymous and the activists who shut down the site not really because if you look back during the last couple of months the activists movement known as anonymous is really transcended beyond just d.d. o. s. attacks yes that is still a common tactic but go and look at the response to sandy hook and the response

to westboro church planning on picketing that tragedies funerals and all they want the members of anonymous have coordinated a lot of i.r.l. in real life movements during the past year and it really off the web and that's what really got people talking like it if you remember during the strike on gaza back in november i believe anonymous was really trying to help people get connection to the internet in parts of palestine that were taken offline and that actually got anonymous coverage on the mainstream news so it's not just. that this group is known for even though a year ago when they waged attacks on the d.o.j. and the f.b.i. and the m p a n r i ate that you know obviously made a point it shut down all these places they got the job done it got people talking about megaupload but it's been a year and you are seeing this group do things other than just you know push some buttons of the mouse and firing their lasers at websites and taken them down there it is more than just that and i think it makes a really good point why would you really want to take out

a web site if if the web site you know serves a purpose. right now it's great that it's transcending now just on line and cannot come saying what he's saying take it to the streets take it outside of the web space and i'm personally i think seeing is in effect a form of protest to some degree i'm not sure if it should be legalized i really still undecided on the whole thing but i can understand where he's coming out and he said look you're we got a bunch of people binding together to get some sort of action done why not do that on the streets especially right now. the whole story of this whole tragic story about his his whole life being turned upside down comes apart because people really don't understand computers and computer laws that's why he's you know being made a speech and that's why they're going after him with all these bogus charges or i don't believe you absolutely i think one of the things that he said that completely resonates with me and i tell those people all the time you see is the name i mean piracy is inherently and you know you're never going to get rid of piracy you all you can do is scapegoat these large figures and try to take them down and really set example them but i wanted to to ask you another point that you brought up which

is that within five years he wants to encrypt most of the internet i mean we have about thirty seconds left but is he pretty much laying the groundwork for a future where we can take back our online privacy here and i wouldn't say that kim is necessarily laying down the groundwork what he wants to he might make the next really big step last year we saw an entire movement the whole crypto party thing take off where people all across the world were getting together and talk about different devices like their cat and other clients where they'd be able to have anonymity and i think that we're going to see more of that in the alluding thank you so much our to producer andrew blake you guys see tomorrow. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of. over sixty two percent and. this is

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