if you look at all the shutdowns in the past the cast of deadliest catch and other alaska crab fishers can't open their season as planned on tuesday because the government hasn't set crab quotas to put the qur'an down to get above his knees and to figure cheerfully come up with his hands out. everything from ted cruz's rendition of dr seuss to a tea party loyalists demanding that obama put down his caronna yes it's been a long sixteen days but now people can rejoice government workers are due furloughed and we're even greeted by uncle biden with donuts how adorable so what did the sham of the government shutdown actually accomplish await nothing and guess what we're going to go through the whole damn charade all over again in just three months not to mention how the circus cost taxpayers a whopping twenty four billion dollars according the s. and p. and the wives of four miners but i guess sacrifices have to be made to manufacture

outrage and sufficiently divert attention from everything else going on in the world. the three look at the table they are looking very hard to take a little girl to get along the line have you ever had sex with the target they're looking. for that they are. the to sleep with a. little. slow. slow slow slow slow slow slow. slow slow. slow. and now it's time for an update on my favorite bloated government agency

created in the wake of nine eleven that he as a witch of course stands for train a sexual assault hurts and i don't say that lightly secret into an investigation released last week by the arizona republic twenty six complaints were filed against the t.s.a. at the phoenix international airport in two thousand and twelve on behalf of the disabled this may not sound like many but actually that number is more than double the national average. but it's not just the high number of complaints that stood out in the report but the agree just methods that t.s.a. officers employed to search these people take the case of a breast cancer survivor who alleges that phoenix t.s.a. agents refused to pat down her prosthetic breast in private in the complaint the unidentified woman wrote she made me pull it out in front of the world and i got upset i was told to shut up i've never been so humiliated in my life the t.s.a. has ruined my vacation but you know ruining vacations seems to be the t.s.a.

is favorite pastime especially for breast cancer survivors see agents forced another woman to take out her purse that breast for inspection but this time it was an eighty two year old lady in a wheelchair her grandchild wrote in a complaint at her age and physical capabilities she posed absolutely no risk whatsoever to anyone's safety and should never been subject to such invasive an undignified treatment the sort of degrading treatment is more appropriate for prisoners actually i don't think prisoners deserve to be sexually assaulted either but let's get back to the t.s.a. is obsession with prosthetic body parts arizona republic began its investigation after a paraplegic marine claimed he was forced to remove his prosthetic legs he says the t.s.a. checked his wheelchair for explosives and then made him reattach his legs and walk to the body scanner which he was physically unable to do conveniently the video shows from release from the t.s.a.

only shows the before and after scenes of the inspection claiming that no video exists of the alleged incident is interesting no big brother turns a blind eye when it's most opportune. but unsurprisingly though these incidents aren't unique to phoenix between two thousand and nine two thousand and twelve the to say received nine hundred twenty complaints just from disabled travelers according to government accountability office again that's only disabled travelers overall t.s.a. misconducts on the the rise. last three years t.s.a. investigated over nine thousand impropriety cases and during that time misconduct filings actually increased by twenty six percent that means that just last year one in sixteen t.s.a. officers were investigated for misconduct. but is this really a shock considering that a two thousand and twelve investigation by congresswoman marsha blackburn revealed that because of lax hiring policies the agency has employed everyone from child pornographers to amateur thieves so as we joke around about changing the name of

the t.s.a. to thousands standing around while they touch some ass let's not forget forget the real issue at hand guys while the agency picks on the weakest members of society to justify its authority the rest of us remain obey look at tory actors and their game of security theater. the. good news everyone and as a director keith alexander is on his way out at the n.s.a. chief as formalized plans to step down by spring of next year. couldn't have anything to do with the ongoing stream of damning revelations about the u.s. government's global voyeurism right now that would be admitting fault and we all know how much the n.s.a. isn't exactly a fan of accountability aside from news of alexander's retirement the latest n.s.a. revelation to hit the internets details how much cia drone strikes depend on

intelligence gathered by the n.s.a. now i know it seems like there's a brand new n.s.a. revelation every week but consider this the journalist who published the initial documents glenn greenwald just announced that some of the emotion and significant leaks have yet to be exposed so help me break down the latest on this ongoing scandal and the failure of the u.s. political system as a whole i'm joined by my good friend david seaman journalist and a host of the david seaman hour also to have you on david it's awesome to be here at the let's couple thousand miles between exactly david what are your thoughts on the confirmation that the cia relies so heavily on the n.s.a. for drone strikes. well i think it's terrifying the washington post story that came out yesterday shows that the cia collaborates of the n.s.a. and on the basis of sending in each something doing something like sending an e-mail to a certain targeted individual you yourself can be targeted for a drone strike in some of these countries of course that's not yet happening in the

united states but it leaves the door wide open and even if that doesn't happen these people in other countries are still well people right i mean we don't know who these people are they've never been given a fair trial david let's talk about another recent n.s.a. leak that the agency actually harvests hundreds of millions of contact lists personal e-mails and instant messenger accounts and clearly beyond just the metadata now why are there no consequences for these continuous the lies from n.s.a. officials. well general alexander is as you said announcing his retirement from the agency you know after all those tours of duty that combat zone of checking people's facebook likes and their yahoo address books you can understand why he wants some down time it's pretty ridiculous because what they initially told us that first back in march james clapper the director of national intelligence told congress that they're not collecting any data at all on the u.s. citizens clearly a live perjured himself or congress should be in jail based on our existing laws

but of course nothing has happened to him because he's too powerful and so that was back in march not collecting any data on us citizens and then we have yeah we're collecting data but it's only the metadata don't worry about it guys go back to do whatever you do before car dash in kanye west or together disco focus on that stuff and then it comes out that oh they're actually harvesting hundreds of thousands in a single day hundreds of thousands of people's address book contacts people who have no connection to terrorism or crime and by the way people who are u.s. citizens so we have a situation where the u.s. government is taking our taxpayer money and then turning around and using that money to spy on us in our own country it's unheard of and it's also kind of unheard of that you broke a story when you interviewed n.s.a. whistleblower russ tice there is this strong possibility that the n.s.a. targeted president obama and the beginning of summer two thousand and four why hasn't obama looked into this what other world leader if told that his own intelligence agency was spying on him years before he even ran for the presidency

one of the world leader be totally ok with that yeah and think about this david i was also thing about this you know this reports coming off the heels of finding out that the n.s.a. is also spying on multiple other countries including brazil i mean at least in the u.s. we technically have constitutional protection can you imagine being a citizen of brazil with no legal safeguards and it's just an amazing. yeah information is power and clearly the united states wants the information and at once that power between industrial espionage political blackmail the the uses for this stuff is almost endless and it doesn't have to be used today it can be stored for a time in the future when it becomes politically useful and let's talk about glen greenwald of the journalism broke the leaks leaving the guardian to start this new voyeur two hundred fifty million dollar backed journalistic venture founded by e-bay founder perrier only dar probably just said that wrong do you think we should be skeptical of a billionaire that claims to be invested in transparency and free press. not

necessarily if you look at how he made his money is really kind of a democratic concept at least originally was and this is somebody who i think was watching what's happening and thinks that with his money and expertise he can bring . he can bring more to the people than what the guardian is doing in some of these kind of journalism one point so we'll see what happens you know my only concern is i don't want to take away too much of greenwald's energy from the leaks that he's already promised us you know what i mean so that's my only concern is that this stuff needs to come out right away if as snowden greenwald had been saying the worst is yet to come i say let's see it we're all adults here let's see what this government is actually doing in our name right we don't wait till he builds the network get someone on board and then release them it's like let's get him out now and then and then work on this big media empire which is great i agree with you it is kind of a sad commentary about the state of media in the us that we need to rely on you know billionaire funding or for these ventures or to have journalistic freedom david you brought up a really interesting point to me in the past which is that the burden of proof in

the wake of these leaks is always on the media that's covering it why do you want to cover this what's your profit motive why isn't the burden of proof on the government for kermit committing these crimes david. that is exactly my question it's always well glenn greenwald he's a limited government or more and she works at russia today and it's never well the facts have not been disputed this is what the n.s.a. is doing with our taxpayer money so let's turn that mirror around and let's ask a government why are you doing this if you guys have nothing to hide you should have nothing to fear and president obama's actions have been in complete contrast and violation of every single page of the audacity of audacity of hope and almost everything he said in zero seven and zero eight on the campaign trail is now a fire has been lit under anybody who still considers themselves to be a real journalist and not just a well paid hack at a network like m.s.n. b.c.

or c.n.n. and those people. there are people like greenwald people like you they are more motivated than ever to uncover uncover every single stone and rock out there and see what this administration is doing and it's not only obama because you know after obama retires that it's somebody else in the white house a lot of these programs and agencies will still exist unless we show the american people what is going on and unless the american people in turn demand change and reform of these programs you're right david and i think that's why i'm so open about how i feel and the same with you is that it's time to stop tiptoeing around these issues that we know are criminal unconstitutional and unlawful so i'm not going to appear to be unbiased about an issue that i know is plainly wrong and i think it's time to stop really tiptoeing around these things david i want to bring your attention to this whole it's a historic new poll that came out last week that showed sixty percent of americans think third party representation is needed and congress is this a sign of real will among people for changes that merely a snapshot in time of sentiment towards the current dysfunction what do you think

the public has a short attention span but clearly if anything has been proven by the shutdown it's that our existing system does not work we threaten the entire planet's financial system over a you know mostly televised dispute between democrats and republicans on acceptable clearly people want something better and i refuse to believe that people like dianne feinstein on the left as senator whose recent op ed in the wall street journal read like something the chancellor for v. for vendetta would say you know some kind of authoritarian fascist like that and not the right senator lindsey graham who sounds almost identical to her in his narratives and rhetoric i refuse to believe that those are the best people out there able to represent us and able to run our country i couldn't agree more and i think a lot of americans agree with you david everyone check it out david seaman host of the david seaman our great podcast thanks so much for coming on man thank you. after the break i have the opportunity to speak with public enemies professor grip

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arabic to find out more visit arabic don't. fight the power is immortal words not only revolutionized music but help start a movement one hundred eighty two public enemy was formed it was a hip hop group that there to challenge preconceived notions about how music should be delivered to the world as form of hip hop inspired a generation of free thinkers to confront authority and question the establishment one of its members professor griffin also known as the minister of information is still fighting the power today he joined me are there to talk about the evolution of hip hop and the true political power structure of this country i first asked him about his thoughts on the dysfunctional government shutdown. i think it's jockeying for power. that's not there all that doesn't even exist.

that we need to keep in mind that. that the united states government is a corporation and the corporation needs to be run by a president a vice president and a board and i think that's what's going on i don't think the people on capitol hill have our best interests at heart like when a very few more of their griffons talk about public enemy or one of the early members of the group which covered previously taboo topics and music such as past consciousness race issues what was it like to be at the forefront of such a revolutionary musical art form. very exciting very challenging to say the lease. and then when you cut it when it got a young kind of go into it in accepting everything into our mission which is only a two year mission. is very critical of that more challenging critical because it's acting with people that we kind of like never had

a clue or an idea that we'd be interacting with each or king about you know six brothers from the hood you can log on in new york and taking on issues that ultimately will impact. the human family throughout the globe saw it was very very challenging but you know we kind of got through it to walk across the stage and receive the. accolades from our peers as far as being in the rock n roll hall of fame so it was a beautiful thing that is always the thing that was worth it and that is rare in speaking for a whole generation there are so many prominent hip hop artists today like jay z. that are actively lobbying for obama why do you think so many rap artists have stopped fighting the establishment of instead actively joined it. you know i think they get along to kind of go all just to kind of get along there what they don't want to. they don't want to cause any waves sort of speak simply because i think they feel they really feel that it'll affect their paycheck deeper than that i

think there's a fear there of going having to go back and live the way the majority of us live now to see that we were not in that in a terrible destitute kind of situation but they don't want to go back to live and have to deal in day to day grind that you and i may have then on top of that they don't want to confront the powers that be they don't want to speak truth to power. and i think it's there culpable where they are with some degree of having this illusion of having some degree of power which you and i both know that's no power at all do you think that it's just self-censorship or do you think that there are certain factors behind the corporatization of the industry and the white washing of hip hop's original message. you know i always say that we help with the duty and responsibility of a dollar so what you're complection is. to keep the integrity there in hip hop to

keep the integrity in music and bring it back to its cultural roots and live by those elements that the for the founding fathers of hip hop laid out. and i think it's a beautiful thing let's we can recognize and understand this but in order for them to be successful. a certain amount of pain is have to be on the less a certain amount of it's a misstep to be. on the right it's middle ground those of us that want to keep the cultural integrity and hip hop we. were looked at as though we're the rabble rousers because we bring up issues well if you go back in history you look at any popular genre of music when it began bubbling up it was always about these particular taking all of these particular theme and presenting it in the music out of his poetry jazz pop rock. rock and in some cases of that

especially with the james brown's of the world definitely with the public enemies of the world we always brought these kind of issues to be talked about via the music is social commentary outside of the context of the cd or your album right and of course there are tons of have ours that are very revolutionary to the roots to the core still in the world today but of course what's pushing the mainstream is that dumbed down you know advertising to people kind of diluted message and you know even just talking about the quality of music in the mainstream how do you feel when you watch something like the v.m. maze and see that the most popular artists presented are robin thicke and miley cyrus represented as the voice of our generation for music. you know when i see that. red lights are going off in my head. if that is the standard now. from that reference point where do you go right

i mean to me there is something i want to see him say but deeper than that how about all of those that have sacrificed. their lives to see that culturally artistically we got to this point to the point where we're respected and we're heard i mean i would like to be sitting here with with blago from u two and shut d.c. on this side to ask him that same question where are we going if that's the standard and that's the reference point from which we have to pass that to the next generation coming behind us this is a sad state of affairs is really is i mean you just had it right on the head there it's a very sad commentary that that's that's what should be looked up to i guess when really it's just were horrible music let's move on to your stint in the army i heard you talk about i was really interested you said that you've been listed because you didn't have a choice talk about what influenced that decision and why the events in vietnam

didn't deter you from signing up there's not too many options you can either take to the streets in sling dub sacks. to shorten to light nash to play football with sports too short to be a fast ball player what other options are going to take an academic route but mom had twelve of the children. i said to myself ok i like discipline and law and order . i like that i don't mind being disciplined i don't like the i don't mind the discipline so i went into the military. and went on to this program to become a military police because ultimately wanted to get into child protective service out of the military and even went to p.s. g.i. in atlanta to take this post certification training to become a police officer to get into child protective service because the children was the thing i had in my mind that was my focus to protect the children and what we're

here experience like in the military to kind of change their opinion about it absolutely terrible. as opposed to a three year stretch get a product out a year and a half and got out because i was taken vaccinations which i'm opposed to. taking orders from people i didn't respect not only that after studying. the domestic policy which is upon me the foreign policy which is the extension of the domestic policy i just said to myself i've got to find a way to get out and speaking of foreign policy as a member of the nation of islam how do you feel about the islamophobia being bred here at home and the war on terror being waged abroad. whom it's critical and those that are watching that are in the nation of islam says ok well professor group has been active in the nation of islam for a while so we've got a mic need to make a side note but. islamophobia it's very critical because even in

my lecture to dr not that i give in dealing with the psychological cold war on the of pop dealing with this whole psychological war on in most cases i put pictures of muslim women in the way they dress next to christian women in the way they're dressed or supposed to be dress and it's the same a lot of the things in the three major religions are common. they're very common but the media. multi-ethnic destruction in america the media will exacerbate the tensions. to get us to move one way or the other it depends on the hidden the hidden agenda and i think it's very unfair simply because we've since a look at people that would probably have more in common with. that we would never ever ever know if we left it up to the media absolutely got it we've been this out of it i felt even as the enemy in order to keep those wars turning grif we had about a minute left and i just wanted to sum it up by asking you how can we collectively

galvanize the youth i mean the youth seem so consumed with escapism turn up at the inundation of information and a dog and pony show of our political stablish then how can we generate the you to really fight back and stand up starting with you and i in this conversation right now we have to dare to be different and did tell the truth and we have to bring other people around us to death particular reference point and then we need to take it from there and then powell young people with education and information this is why in the midst of it the nation i think what you tell young people and you be straight up with young people in real with young people young people will gravitate towards it and i think it's our duty and responsibility revolution is not an event it's a process and we need to understand that and we need to continue to speak truth to power in every where we find young people wherever they are whatever medium we need to use any every and all means necessary thank you for speaking out truth to power

professor graham minister of information public enemy amazing to have you on the show thank you so much of good things thank you very much. thanks our home for turning into night make sure to join the all going tomorrow writes that. song. will writes.

the. pain of the young girls. all for the future harder. between two and three hundred million guns the united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the plaza sound is a war and you know i mean this teaches them a lot of are a responsibility and simply come to play it through the eyes of children if we can do it for our children for our future what is the country will save. may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional.

we can't. let. let's. look. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily

reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's a step forward oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent on. this. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred top two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face.

a limp a torch relay. on r t r g dot com. and a man spike in radiation levels fuels fears at the fukushima nuclear plant as readings in a storage tank rise six and a half thousand times higher in two days. and supplied by spies a lot. national security agency says he'll step down after spending months with a fallout from the edward snowden leaks. last year in rebellion was rival armed brigades and civilians feeling the siege. perspective from within an opposition controlled area. just eighty kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state. so here is firsthand what it's like for syrians to live surrounded by militants.