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deaths and the collateral call is called live. coming up on our t.v. more and more n.s.a. leaks journalist glenn greenwald gives us a preview of the next big revelation find out what country is helping the u.s. senate spying ask pates. and the court battles for stop and frisk won't be stopping anytime soon we'll take a look at the latest regarding this and why peavy pat down and how the new mayor might be shaking things up for the better more details coming up. and if you're short on cash why not sell your body bodily products that is believe it or not more and more americans are cashing in on everything from blood to hair to fertile eggs will give you the numbers on what sells later in the show.
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it's tuesday november twelfth five pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching our t.v. while edward snowden's bountiful n.s.a. leaks are far from over at least according to glenn greenwald greenwald is the former guardian journalist responsible for breaking the n.s.a. surveillance story and he says there are indeed more damning documents to be released only this time it'll be about our neighbor to the north canada recently greenwald spoke to the canadian broadcasting corporation's radio station take a listen to what he said. the documents are quite complex there are a lot of them there is a normal announcer reporting to do in canada one of the most active surveillance agency countries in the world because of how closely they work with the n.s.a. greenwald also took the opportunity to respond to claims that publishing the classified government documents harms people i think not publishing really puts
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people in danger because when you have a system of government in which people can exercise great power in the dark that's what is dangerous. i was joined earlier by steve anderson executive director of open media to talk about just how that power in canada is being exercised and what can we expect out of these leaks i first asked him to tell us about how the canadian and american security agencies share that information with one another. candidate in the u.s. are part of what's called the five eyes network and it's a very secretive but what we do know is several countries this by several countries leading us to the new zealand canada the u.s. they all share data and information with each other and we know that for example australia had been used by then it to do certain spying on certain individuals and we know that there's a lot of other cooperation there between canada and the u.s.
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and the other countries absolutely and then of course the information that's collected is then shared with other agencies like the cia do the two countries work together and actually detaining us or canadian citizen citizens abroad. well i mean that's sort of the issue i think but both with the n.s.a. and with the candidates. both these agencies are really they're secretive they're expensive and from what we're hearing all these leaks from from snowden they're really at a control and we have every reason to suspect that they do cooperate in that way in terms of apprehending people we know that they're definitely sharing data but how deep that cooperation goes we don't know but i'm hoping that the new revelations coming from glenn greenwald will shine some light on that a committee because i think canadians americans people really around the world have
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a right to know what the spy agencies are doing and if they're violating a right to privacy and her basic freedoms sure and in the united states of course there are the house and senate intelligence committee that are supposed to oversee this kind of activity what kind of oversight is there in the canadian government and do you think it's affective. it's definitely not effective the there is a watchdog but at the very small office and this government watchdog has basically said that they don't know if canadians are being targeted or how many canadians are being swept up in the secretive expensive skyline. and in fact that you have addition parties have called for more oversight by the liberal party here in canada has just put forward a bill asking for parliamentary over say because really it's really small office and they have been so complain that they don't have an anough access to
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information and they have all the government's own commissioner has called for more privacy safeguards and more oversight of government spying activities and steve how would you say canadian citizens pursy the threat to their privacy now how do you think they're really going to react to these upcoming linux. well just recently we put up a petition on our web site media and what we saw is thousands of canadians across the country in just a matter of days speaking you know calling on the government to create more oversight mechanisms to protect their privacy so i think canadians are various and similar to the u.s. no in the u.s. there is this really big kind of cross partisan coalition called stop watching us. and in canada we have a similar coalition the groups from the array the left you know labor groups right
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leaning groups you know the d.p. groups. speaking in on this issue and joining with canadian so i think that as more revelations more and more canadians will be demanding answers and you know i'm really i hope that rob nicholson who's the minister responsible for this is even harder really come clean with canadians and let us know how many mediums are being swept up in this dragnet surveillance what information is being stored in giant databases and how secure is that information here and it does seem to be a very bipartisan issue unlike many others you know you mentioned this that pool the data are held by the five eyes which just so people know in the u.s. canada u.k. australia and new zealand do canadian seal in some way that their relationship to means other countries is beneficial to them and their security. i think from what i'm hearing today is that really worries that we're getting you know our spy agency
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. being used but that is. to collect information and share information with u.s. officials so you know i think that we don't the issue is we don't know how these organizations are operating we don't know how much of our information is being shared across borders and different databases and i think canadians are mostly just concerned and want answers on the shore and lastly steve i wanted to go back to something glenn greenwald talked about in his c.b.c. interview and response to the claim that these revelations would expose state secrets to those involved with terrorism and therefore it would do more harm to national security then than good take a lesson of this terrorist of long ago known that the u.s. and u.k. governments do everything possible to monitor their communications that's why it's all been mobbed used human couriers we didn't tell the terror as anything they didn't already know we polled people that they didn't already know or ordinary
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citizens around the world that this spying system is directed not at the terrorists but. so what do you make of the argument that the leak of this information could actually aid terrorists like do you agree with greenwald and what he said on that. no i think yeah i think the most absolutely correct i mean. from what i've read in . you know terrorists and criminals have for quite some time known that they've been targeted surveillance they use a christian and that technology and carriers and whatever they can to get around it so i don't think it's new to those both i think it's like remote that it's new to you know law abiding canadian letting americans know that their government agency that is collecting their sensitive private information you know we're talking about things like your prescriptions your phone records where you are where you're going to your friends the fact that that information is being collected and stored in giant unsecured databases i think that is what is news to american think canadians
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and what is dangerous i mean if you look at canada we've had over three thousand breaches of sensitive citizen information in recent years affecting seven hundred twenty five thousand canadians and the fact that we're now having agency collect even more information on us i think it makes us less secure and it makes us more exposed to cyber criminals to have this information collected and really at the end of the day we have the right no which give permission how many of us are swept up in this giant dragnet surveillance share well it'll be very very interesting to see what these upcoming weeks during the all about canada i do appreciate you coming on and breaking down some of that for us steve anderson executive director of open media entrapment and it looks like stocks that the cyber weapon allegedly developed by the u.s. and israel to disrupt iran's nuclear program has at even further reaching
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consequences than previously known eugene casper ski runs one of the world's most renowned online security firms and soak it all straight as national press club on issues of cyber security and cyber espionage take a listen to what he had to say. how many computers come when the enterprises which he buy stocks that in the united states do you know i don't know but mania. last year for example chevron the agree that the with the infected buy stocks. the friends of mine are broken the russian nuclear probably and once it's are doing these stocks that then send a message that their nuclear plants network which is just coming from the internet in russia this oldest. weapon in the woods. so the men send a message that their enjoyable network is bred to infect the base text that's right if casper c.
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is to be believed the stocks not virus infected a russian nuclear plant that wasn't even connected to the internet and damaged the plants ability to function to infect a non connected computer a person would have to either physically install the bios or trick someone else into doing so and he thought nuclear plants were bad places to get infected by viruses get this casper see also mention that computer viruses are even an issue on the international space station where a malware on a u.s.b. stick once infected the station with a virus. and now to new york city where the policing policy of stop and frisk continues to snake its way through the court system outgoing mayor michael bloomberg has become synonymous with the program he and police commissioner ray kelly have issued their full support for the practice by which police officers are able to stop people walking down city streets question them and pat them down to
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further in trying the practice the bloomberg administration has appealed of federal court decision from august that ruled the stop and frisk program violated the constitutional rights of minority citizens the judge called for an independent monitor which bloomberg is challenging civil rights advocates have long questioned the constitutionality of stop and frisk especially because eighty seven percent of those stopped and frisked are black or latino and these stops resulted in an arrest of only about six percent of people this from an analysis of police data from the center for constitutional rights now mayor elect bill de blasio made his opposition to the current use of stop and frisk a huge part of his campaign but now that he is elected what powers does he actually have to change this policy r t correspondent on a saucy a church cannot reports. twelve
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years under mayor michael bloomberg have left a legacy of the controversial stop and frisk policy six hundred thousand stop and frisks in one year which is more than the black male population of the whole city. the policy allows the n.y.p.d. to stop interrogate and search new yorkers on the streets without a warrant overwhelmingly in communities of color it became a huge issue in the city's most recent vote it is racist immoral and illegitimate it treats black and latino people especially young people like criminals now new york has elected a new mayor and let me say it all of you from the bottom of my heart thank you one of mayor elect bill de blasio as distinctive positions in the campaign a stance against the police policy as it's currently used in illegal back and forth most recently city lawyers had a federal appeals court overturned the appointment of an official to monitor the use of stop and frisk as well as several other new rules suggested by top judge
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stalled this court ruling you know shows not that it's a more complicated issue and maybe there are different degrees of of constitution ality but it shows that this courts are more than fine with violating the rights of blacks and latinos. well officials claim stop and frisk helps prevent crime in the city activists and victims disagree it amounts to police stocking intimidating sometimes jailing and even as much as killing people in the name of security. we're going to do there because stop and frisk is no damn good protesters against this practice have been taking to the streets of new york for years calling for it and i would say it does make us feel safe area it certainly makes us feel like we're in more more in danger of. just say we're going to jail for this if.
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you give a shit you're going to bust a fool could be you know but is there really a way to make it more constitutional as mayor elect blasio wants without getting rid of it altogether the only thing the party will be ok would be the victim of the stop of a family been victimized but it will be totally just and in the new leader of new york will appoint his own commissioner and run the police force enough power to change stop and frisk but it will be an uphill battle to improve the policy that the n.y.p.d. has been using for decades losing the trust of many new yorkers in the process as they see it you're going to party. and to the philippines where residents are still reeling from a typhoon that struck the eastern part of the country this past friday since the disaster only a small amount of assistance has arrived that includes two marine cargo planes that have unloaded in a ray of food and medical supplies at the airport filipinos crowded the airport many begging for attention to their various ailments of course that shipment barely
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scratches the surface of the resources that will be required to accommodate the tens of millions of people who've been affected while local authorities struggle to deal with the enormity of the disaster many local groups are taking it upon themselves to provide support our team spoke earlier to jesse edward we've who lives in say blue philippines he described the storm that passed through the central islands and the efforts of a long night from the university of san carlos mountaineering group to help their neighboring island which was hit worst by the storm. and it was quiet are going to need. it we need to get. the hour has managed to survive me but the trees are bending. flying all over the area. nobody outside because in one case with something better lighting like. that
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we are going to sing a really good of a parisian we are facing off once to buy some the seed and water is very. global. a plane transporting his group's volunteers and supplies has arrived in tacloban and they have begun to provide medical assistance but even some of the largest organizations are having trouble providing support united nations says it released twenty five million in emergency funds and was launching an emergency appeal for more money however government officials and police have been caught up in the disaster it themselves and many say that has hampered the coordination to deliver the needed resources today the official death toll from the disaster climbed to one thousand seven hundred seventy four though authorities say they expect that number to rise significantly now projecting a death count of more than ten thousand this is likely to be the deadliest natural
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disaster to hit the impoverished southeast asian nation. and i'm sure you never thought of it this way but your body is a cash machine this is all according to a recent bloomberg report showing that products like hair breast milk and eggs are doubling as hot commodities on the market for some cash strapped americans industry officials say people are hoping to trade spare body fluids tissues and other parts all of course for the right price take a look at what the going rate is for some of the stuff for blood plasma donors can charge anywhere from twenty to fifty dollars for a shot of sperm you're looking at about one hundred dollars for a beautiful long hair ponytail you could expect two hundred dollars and up for a fertile egg that's the big money maker there is a potential to rake in approximately seven thousand dollars now clearly this is not chump change i was joined earlier by robin hanson associate professor of economics
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at george mason to talk about the very meat market and the potential for growth going forward i first asked after robin to take a look at some more numbers that are very telling visits to a website called blood bank or dot com. which is a cash for plasma site are up by fifty percent this fall the hair trader dot com has also seen increased traffic twenty percent more and shady grove fertility center where women are donating eggs has seen a thirteen percent increase in applicants just since last year i then asked robin why this is such a viable form of income right now. people want and need money people are hurting sometimes and these markets are getting easier it's getting more flexible easier to trade these things and people get value out of the other end of the deal so people want to buy other people want to sell and so do you think this expansion could be attributed to more than just a bleak economy could it be that people are just feeling
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a little bit more altruistic these days could it be that there's just way more web sites and businesses that offer these kinds of services i don't know but i guess that over the long run it's just going to get easier to do these things the more flexible markets we make the more different ways the more you can go to a website in a range for it it'll just get easier to do it and without going through all the trouble now if the this market does expand with more and more people wanting to sell their bodily products do you expect that we'll see a decrease in the prices of these of these you know bottling products and do you think that could be a good thing or a bad thing or what are your thoughts on that well whether we the price goes up or down depends on whether there's a bigger increase in demand as an increase in supply i would love to see a big increase in supply to get the price down but if the demand goes up to then the price could go up as well. and should we be worried that this could possibly further stratify the economy you know considering we'll see more low income donors
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selling these products i mean obviously selling to wealthier people wealthier buyers do you see any problems in this at all or why would see this mostly as a response to poverty or way to deal and help you out so if you were a poor person and you had a gold watch and we said you're not allowed to sell the gold watch sorry it has to remain a family heirloom and that would hurt you that you could be limited in what you're allowed to sell separately if you want to sell your hair and it will help you to be able to sell you know it's it's not causing the poverty to let you sell something it's helping you out of your situation of poverty if you've got something valuable that you can sell that will help help. in the situation who do you think are the majority of the people that are going to be looking to put their bodily products out there what kinds of people would you say it would be demographic wise or whatever well the will be a certain just convenience if you happen to need money and you happen to have a nice head of hair that you might sell your hair if you happen to need money and
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there's a convenient way to sell some blood that you might do that too so the more easy we make this the more it will be a matter that somebody will just do it at the last moment so do you imagine it might actually be difficult you know not everybody and there might be a limited amount of people that can do this because maybe as it becomes more competitive they're only going to want people with the best care or the best ags the best everything. possibly that could happen eventually but in terms of the short run we have this huge need for organs that in terms of kidneys and and other things like lungs and so we have a huge need for those people to have those things that a lot of people died because there aren't enough organised like that available so we could increase the supply of things like that that would save a lot of lives out there and that would be great and you think we should you know continue this debate about whether organs should really you know be available for sale if you look at google if you type in sell my blank one of the first things that comes up is sell my organs sell my kidney so do you think we should perhaps
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open the conversation to selling something like that but the question is why don't you want somebody to sell things so one story could be it's a bad deal right sometimes we want to prevent sales of things if it would just be a bad idea to sell it to you or you know you just shouldn't sell it but if these things are actually helping people then the shame is that there are poor enough to even consider it and obviously poverty is a bad thing we would like to get rid of poverty but again keeping poor people from selling things to help themselves doesn't prevent poverty it makes it worse. very interesting points well it is a pretty crazy topic i've pretty you coming on and breaking some of that down for us robin hanson associate professor of economics at george mason university thank you. well what happened if you crossbred a fish a bird and a mountain goat well according to sandia national laboratories it might look a little something like this you're looking at the concept for what's called the
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multi modal vehicle it can fly swim and traverse land even with the ability to dodge obstacles and climb on land plus it does all of this covertly and is operated remotely sandia is funded by the government which has a strong interest in developing unmanned vehicles that can do a whole lot more than just fly and shoot missiles the multi-modal vehicle is still in the testing phase but it may not be long before you see it in an ocean or a sky near you. and the dating match making site ashley madison is now being sued by one of its former employees ashley madison is a web site geared to married men or women who are seeking relationships with other married men or women or single individuals the employee is dorie on a silver and she blames the company for her development of carpel tunnel after being asked to type up hundreds of fake profiles of sexy women sylvia is seeking
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twenty million dollars from the company for what she is calling quote unjust enrichment at her expense plus another one million in general damages silva says she was asked to create these female profiles to entice heterosexual male members to join and spend money on the website and she was pressured to do all of that in a three week time period according to silva creating those profiles required an enormous amount of keyboarding and that then led to the severe pain in her wrists and forearms in a statement ashley madison has responded by saying quote this silva's allegations are without merit and we consider this to be a frivolous claim brought by an opportunistic plaintiff and went on to say that in several postings on social media miss silva can be seen clearly enjoying herself on a jet ski and unlikely activity for someone who has allegedly suffered serious injury. and michael jackson once said it doesn't matter if you're black or white
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however in a recent election pertaining to the houston community college board of trustees it didn't matter a white republican politician named dave wilson duped voters into believing he was a black man today's resident captures what really happened and why some people are very upset. this will turn as a republican who just won a seat on the houston community college board of trustees congratulations dave he wanted to win very badly because i guess he believes he can represent his constituents better than anyone else now many of his constituents are
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african-americans and dave is a conservative white man but since he really wanted to represent the needs and concerns of the black constituents and was worried that they've rejected lily white but dave came up with an inventive direct mail marketing campaign he didn't he led voters to believe that he himself was black he printed up pieces of mail that featured the smiley faces of many african-americans no white people were pictured at all dave chuckled when he admitted that he just grabbed pictures of smiling black people off the internet underneath the people david written please vote for our friend and neighbor dave wilson on another piece of direct mail dave wrote the headline endorsed by ron wilson ron wilson is a well known former state representative from the area who also happens to be black so dave was. having the impression to voters that he was endorsed by
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a respected african-american when in reality the ron wilson that day was indorsed by was his cousin a white guy in iowa his opponent bruce austin a black man who held the office for twenty four years says wilson went to lengths to hide the fact that he was white and wilson doesn't deny that when confronted about treating the people he wants to represent into thinking he was black he laughs he openly admit that he's full of crap and goes on to say that all politicians are full of crap he was quoted as they every time a politician talks he's out there just d.v. voters that might be the most honest thing a politician has ever said that his opponent is trying to get a recount but it's not looking good for him so it looks like dave wilson's constituents are stuck with his just thieving lily white butt but the part i like best about this is that the crux of the story is simple if you're
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a politician you're a liar too if that black and white tonight let's talk about that by following man twitter at the rest of him. and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered today go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our web site r t dot com slash usa you can follow me on twitter at a mirror david see you right back here at eight. i
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am x. kaiser welcome to the kaiser report in ireland this past weekend a group of protesters gathered outside the dial with a simple message don't sell out by forcing us to work abroad in order to achieve the allegedly falling unemployment numbers which have to impress the troika occupiers the irish government has been sending letters to the young unemployed citizens of ireland suggesting that they leave town go overseas scat scram pound sand get out of our statistical sites get devil get out of here are good don't want to see your.
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