i think. it. is the good the bad of the very very economically ugly the good. pope francis the bishop of rome is making headlines again and for all the right reasons and thursday mass last week the pope called out religious extremists calling them a serious illness in the church he said and when a christian becomes a disciple of the ideology he has lost the faith is no longer a disciple of jesus is disciple of this attitude of thought the faith becomes ideology it ideology frightens it is a serious illness that is of ideological christian. witness said it better myself

it's a good work the bad the new york post the rupert murdoch owned tabloid is known for its outrageous front page headlines most of which are pretty funny the front page of this week's sunday edition was anything but comical it was downright misleading cover story was about the thirteen billion dollars settlement that the federal government reached with wall street giant j.p. morgan chase posts headline makes it seem like the government is stealing from that bank in reality the government is just making. investors and homeowners are in the lead up to the two thousand and eight financial crisis j.p. morgan is the real criminal here but good luck trying to find that on the posts from him. and the very very ugly senator jim inhofe during an interview with a.b.c. radio this weekend the republican senator called obamacare socialized medicine and

used his own experience with blocked arteries to argue that if the united states adopts a european style health care system people like him could die take a listen. if you're in the country of the united states that a lot of begin to do to get my case with my age would have been about a month wait you've got to haven't had it hard to. go. there is that you know i'm sorry you're american literary but build on what we've got here and you know what i mean you're going to get one right now you probably wouldn't be here if we had to go through that if in america. senator inhofe is wrong and totally full believe it or not we already have socialized medicine here in the united states it's called medicare while and also the veterans administration medicare is actually single payer the socialized medicine is the v.a. and both work perfectly. medicare particular for people like him over sixty five

the idea that european health care systems leave people to die is wildly overstated and is really just the death panel myth by another name sadly sort of scare tactics are commonplace in today's republican party and that is very very . crazy alert kitty cat contraband guards at a mall dovi in prison got quite a surprise recently when they captured a cat ever in their jail the guards have been watching the cats sneak into the prison for a while and were sketched out by the behavior when they finally nabbed the cat they notice he was wearing a fake collar on further investigation the guards discovered that the collar contained marijuana two packets of it to be exact prison officials believe inmates were using the cat to smuggle drugs between surrounding towns and their cells it

released the video of the incident which you could see here to try to get more information about who could be behind the plan that is certain that it could be just one part of a larger trafficking scheme david officials are right to be concerned i mean that cat was really into risk at all the helps of humans get we put knows what it would have done to help its buddies at the pound score some catnip and let me tell you those cat and fiends are crazy. in tonight's green report we're all paying a steep price for the carbon pollution it's filling our skies and driving global climate change but that price doesn't just include more extreme weather events above average temperatures in the winter from diving food and water scarcity to

eating up our tax dollars carbon pollution is having an effect on just about every aspect of our lives. so what can be done to combat carbon pollution and save the fate of our planet well here's one suggestion let me set this up into pieces. first of all there's a modern carbon cycle and an ancient carbon cycle. just fall. on with the modern carbon cycle is we plants that it starts up plants absorb sunlight from from the sun or energy from the sun they use that energy to drive photosynthesis as that photosynthesis is happening the plants are building cellulose so we the plants now carbon has been trapped out of the atmosphere we eat the plants and we exhale carbon dioxide so carbon goes back into the atmosphere that's a that's a mot what's called a modern carbon cycle no problem with that it doesn't cause global warming burning

wood doesn't cause global warming but using ancient carbon. carbon actually does cause global warming because what we're doing is we're pulling carbon that was taken out of the atmosphere three hundred million years ago and then dumping it up into the atmosphere. and the result of that is pretty much a disaster. earlier this month we debuted a new documentary titled last hours of humanity which is. about this topic. earlier this month we debuted a new documentary. titled why stars matter warming the world to extinction take a look. at the state because it had made climate change. it's hard to imagine earth without life we take life for granted but life has not always

flourished here. has experienced dramatic loss of life or what we call mass extinctions five times over the course of geologic history each one of these events as a result in the loss of more than a half of all life on earth today a sixth extinction is underway one that will test the survival of not just human civilization but possibly of the human species itself and it bears a horrifying resemblance to several previous global warming driven events like the permian mass extinction i think it is joining me for more on carbon cycling carbon taxes and what can be done moving forward as maggie fox president and c.e.o. of the climate reality project maggie welcome. hi top. thank you for joining us how is carbon pollution driving climate change. oh you

know we're dumping ninety million are been pushed into there and we have been since the industrial revolution and our atmosphere just as that previous documentary discussed is the thin layer that makes it possible for things to live on this. what's happened is that most. if for year after year after year is completely filled the atmosphere like a sponge and is changing not just the temperatures weather and our climate sions literally changing the plan so that's actually what's happening now we've got to do something about it. carbon tax has been suggested by many as a viable solution at the appropriate price points that would make wind and solar and some of the more mature alternative non carbon cycling systems for as a fact you are your thoughts on. why i think the whole notion of we're driving

a price on carbon i think there are a variety solutions there's fees there's taxes and trade bland's like in australia where they're doing both the particular mechanisms each one of them has merits and advantages in this is key the core solution is to put arbonne pollution and let the markets go to work so that we can actually get it out of our atmosphere. if. we really do have a awful lot to do and my apologies by the way for the bad signal we seem to be having some problems. in our connection i'm curious your thoughts you see these geo engineering thing as you know it's just spray titanium dioxide in the atmosphere mixed in with jet fuel to make the jet exhaust even more reflective than it is or or you know i don't know what spray paint white the green arctic or

what are your thoughts on radio engineering is this is this pie in the sky stuff that might have more negative consequences. even at solutions or are there actually some potential solutions out there that could do more good than harm. or good than harm for example you know is the energy you don't use we haven't even begun to look at the efficiency side of living our lives of actually. our energy systems less energy rather than more that's the first thing to do the second is actually to drive innovation towards clean energy solutions that we already have and solar and we know because that around for a long time we know how to do them and we know how to do them well we know how to do them at price points and competitive today so before we get to these geo engineering ideas there's a huge amount of extraordinarily good solutions that we can implement not only nap

on carbon but we can move the rate of change with a price on carbon at the pace that we need to to get a handle on. maggie in the in the minute we have left what are your thoughts hala tics of all this the practical reality given the amount of money that the carbon industry has at stake they're sitting on a couple trillion dollars worth of trillion tons of carbon underground sort of trillions of dollars i would guess. they're throwing money around in this town like there's no tomorrow what do you think is is coming along. what do you think a regular citizen can do what. acts of climate change are no longer in the distance and more in space they're not something that you can turn your head away from because they're happening look at you know we're a week from superstorm sandy and sixty five billion dollars worth of damage and literally thousands of families that were hit the midwest and my home state of

we've had fires and floods like we never understood biblical and the dollars that are racking up are more than you can actually can't predict because of realities. at eleven am pacific to look at the cost of carbon pollution that we're already paying politics politics are driven by people people like you and i that refuse to sit by and do nothing any longer who want to face costs that we're already paying so far in excess of what it will take to the economy there we're going to once people understand that the simple source with complex results is carbon pollution. price on carbon through a variety of different mechanisms the funds to drive these solutions people are going to demand it politics will have to respond maggie fox thanks so very much for being with us the. great work thank you for coming up it's time for a secession in america but not the tea party fueled far right three inch kind of

one you're probably thinking of i'll explain in tonight's guilty. dramas the truth be ignoring the. stories of others who refuse to notice. the food since changing the world rights and the. girl. on field picture of today's events. from rhodes to the. broken. but i think. we're going to do the job that you know the price is the only industry specifically mention of the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy schreck numbers. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of

our government and oppressive ago we've been hijacked right handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once i'm tom are doing it on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem try rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america if i ever feel ready to join the movement then welcome to it. i am the president and i decided that i don't think race trying to. do. the bankers taught at all about money and i was specially fake for politicians writing the laws and legislation that corporations and banks public has. just crashed into the.

top of that. so sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and sometimes as the fire of science theater famously said everything was going to go wrong if you were me or you're right you seem. to think things through. your mind. you know is wrong after nearly a year of bullying by as many as fifteen different girls authorities in florida are now. saying that twelve year old rebecca and such would climb to tower at an abandoned concrete plan on september ninth and jump to her death. her back is tragic story is a prime example of the bullying epidemic which is plaguing this country and when people try to talk about this subject they often end up saying things like the kids

are going to be kids it's normal behavior. but nothing really could be further from the truth so if you think bullying is just a part of growing up then there's nothing that can be done to prevent it and everything you know is wrong joining us is anne-marie gardini are all still associate professor and co-chair of the department performance and communication arts at st lawrence university who's written garden here she's been who's written the internationally acclaimed play have you filled a bucket today based on a book of the same name by author carole macleod and we welcome. thanks tom thanks for joining us why do so many people think the bullying is normal behavior and just an example of kids would be kids well i can only speculate but i would imagine that maybe they think that bullying is the same game if you will when they were kids and that's just not the case because of cyber bullying kids are facing much harsher

realities today than we had to face when we were kids you know i read a great article a few months ago that's really stayed with me the author interviewed young middle school students and one girl grow quite eloquently about the problem she said if it weren't for cyber bullying she would be bullied at school and that would be unfortunate awful even but she'd go home at the end of the day to her safe place and have a break from it she'd rest and recuperate and be herself and not have to face it until the next day because of cyber bullying which carol macleod calls long handled dipping. and i use that term in my play as well kids can't escape from it it's falling down twenty four seven and clearly as you reported on kids are doing drastic things taking drastic measures to escape from if you will the bullying that they're facing these terrible consequences yeah i know i hadn't considered that

in exactly those terms i mean i was bullied as a as an elementary school kid and i would if i could just make it past dennis's house i could get home safely and then i was safe until the next day at school you know during recess and lunch and trying to get home past his house i remember that well but but once i got home everything was cool and you're pointing out how tell us about your place. well the place based on tara mcleod books and this concept about pocket billing is one that's really working for kids they understand it they're using the language and bucket filling essentially is this idea that everybody has an invisible bucket inside of him or her and our bucket gets filled when someone says or does nice things for us and in turn somebody dips into our bucket when they do or say mean things and when you fill someone's pocket you fill your own as well it's essentially a modern take on the golden rule you know i was introduced to that concept of

markets one when the reason i ran a community for abused kids and i am sure back in the late seventy's but there was an added piece to that metaphor it was that a lot of these kids who are coming into care had been so damaged by their life experience that there was a hole in the bottom their pocket and you just had to continuously fill the thing. does that metaphor fit in with this children who for example have been damaged by bullying months years of bullying. it does actually we're finding that it works very very well for kids and another way in which it's working is with conflict resolution some kids who are facing a lot of problems in the moment kids i'm seeing this with my own children too they're able to solve problems without even having to involve adults you know something happens when a kid says you know that really dipped my bucket and the other kid is apologizing in the able to move on now of course the kids get older the problems are not quite as simple but i believe if we start when kids are much younger we can offset some

of the problems later on so it sounds especially like what you're doing is creating a metaphor a paradigm that produces a shared language that kids can use to communicate what works and what doesn't work in terms of of you know that that hurts me versus that doesn't. that's exactly it we're giving them a vocabulary to use to express themselves right which is abstract enough the that it doesn't the things don't get personalized like you hurt me instead you took something out of my bucket what you know that doesn't produce a reactive response exactly that's why it's very interesting what kind of groups have been producing the play and where is the play been produced so far. well schools are producing at theatre companies character education groups and it's being produced in various states across this country in canada in australia i had the great good fortune of being invited to us to attend the international premiere

and to serve as a playwright in residence for the australian production i was able to attend rehearsals give feedback to the director and actors and that was a wonderful experience and one of the things that i took away from that experience in australia was that we need to own this problem as communities we need to own the bullying problem as a society i don't think we can expect teachers and school administrators to take care of this on their own this is an epidemic and kids are killing themselves because they've been bullied this is very serious we have to take it seriously and what happened with that australian production is that an entire community came together to make that production happen to attend the production and to send a message to those kids that we all care about you and we care about this problem and we will work together to make sure that everyone is safe everyone is taken care of and that everyone is treating each other appropriately they they were really

handling it very well and we're in the back half that are so we have loved if you're over eighteen and somebody is bullying you you can stop them with anti assault laws anti stalking laws you can actually send them to jail why can't kids. well there's no comprehensive law to address bullying and harassment in schools at the moment there called is something. state's rules improvement act that would fill that gap in federal education policy as far as i know that was sent committee about eight months ago and nothing has happened yet should we get more attention more pressure on our representatives to do something about the sleep schools improvement act we might see something happen to protect the way that adults are protected in the workplace that's great emory thanks for joining me today thank you tom to learn more information about emery's play have you filled a bucket today go to bucket filling play dot com and now everything you know about

bullying is right. the tea party is nothing new the activism we see from tea party radicals in washington today is just a modern day reboot the rebranding perhaps of the same government obstructionist strategies that have been around since the early days of slavery from the battles over segregation and discrimination of the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's to the war on voting rights that alec is driving in state capitals all across our nation today tea party yes because strategies and values have repeatedly reared their ugly heads throughout american history as chuck thompson over at salon dot com points out the tea party strategy of today is the same old obstructionist

strategy that's been pursued by traitorous southerners and government since long before robert e. lee's doomed to charge at gettysburg thomson goes on to say that it is part of the same soiled fabric that stretches from john c. calhoun south carolina's eighteen thirty two order ordinance of elevation all the way to the newt gingrich led government shutdown. simply put the tea party represents the twenty first century rebirth of angry nineteenth century white male confederates who wanted to secede from the united states and start their own dysfunctional country based on a plantation economy so maybe we should let him do it and while we're out of let's make it easier for people like ted cruz and michele bachmann and the rest of the tea party friends let's help start their own plantation economy style country we can do it by starting this is such a movement of our own in the blue states the idea of northern industrialized states

seceding from america is actually not a new idea back in eighteen fourteen and eight hundred fifteen the hartford convention took place in hartford connecticut federalist met to discuss their growing grievances provoked by the war of eight hundred twelve and principally the disagreement over slavery going on down south those at the convention discussed changing policies like the three fifth compromise which allowed the slave states to have more members in the house of representatives and requiring a two thirds supermajority in congress for the admission a new states are for declarations of war for laws that had to do a trade. ultimately all outcries for new england secession from the rest of the union were strong those cries were drowned out by the moderates and talk of a northern secession was dropped. i'd say it's time for a new hartford convention so what would an america free of southern lunacy and tea

party radicalism play well first the disaster of citizens united supreme court decision would be a thing of the past in a modern twenty first century america it would be clear corporations are not people and money is property not speech similarly billionaires wouldn't be able to buy politicians in a blue america so their mountains of money couldn't corrupt democracy in the political process next the destructive policy decisions that came out of the reagan revolution will be overturned we put the sherman antitrust act back into enforcement and roll back the reagan tax cuts the fairness doctrine could be rebooted so that the media had to actually cover the news instead of programming infotainment to drive profits from there we live in a disastrous trade policies like nafta the debbie t.o. return to the kind of protectionist tariff based trade policies the built this country and our middle class from the george washington a ministration until ronald reagan begin taking them apart and the medicare eligibility age could be lowered to the moment of birth giving us

a national single payer health care system over night. when this is accomplished america will reflect a twenty first century version of the ideals and visions of our founders if it takes the session of blue america to achieve all this then so be it it's time to let small minded bigots go back to their plantation style economies let them run their states like third world countries meanwhile the rest of us can get started filling the dreams and visions that our founding fathers had for the general welfare and a more perfect union of these remaining united states. and that's the way it is tonight monday october twenty first twenty thirty and don't forget them ocracy begins with you get out there get active go to last hours dot org you are.

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