intelligence but it can be used as the guy i think the i.q. requirement may look. at the lower levels of bureaucracy. actions and brain codes that's corporate interest. just. think. it's interesting the idea of. competence or intelligence should be associated with the ability to serve people in government is actually. in practice right now it's called the civil service to us there are the there are actually tests that you have to take if you want to go to work for the government in many positions and i mean just in general positions we're the post office i believe. but. with regard to politicians. i would love to live in a country where politicians started promoting their intellect their thoughtfulness

as a reason to vote for them. rather than this jingoistic stuff you know who's got the best bumper stickers or who's got the best billionaire behind them the problem is the money in politics you know tragically. now our political system is following our business system since reaganomics began basically you know to the person with the greatest degree of sociopathy go the spoils which is tragic i think we first have to get money out of politics and then we might be able to actually have serious conversations about some variation of what you're talking about so to mark with his video comment on campus. i phone with mark. i want to talk about a classic under reported story that really. i was shocked to learn with more than ten years ago the walls were to fall well represented by the help. the patent for medical cannabis. what's the patent number six six three zero five

zero seven which was wrong you used to read will clear and direct contradiction we use place will appear to be with one side parable let's go to one drop my question for you thomas rules in the. u.s. patent number six six three five seven. smoking. new defining force. at this point. it's a great pattern it's a great question it may well be it may well be and this is something that the president actually has within his power the classification of drugs in the d.a.'s hierarchy schedule one schedule to schedule three schedule one being no redeeming medical value and totally addictive which is where heroin and pot are both placed. is. you know i mean richard nixon was i want to put pot in there and

barack obama could be the guy that takes pot of it in my daily take them out on talk about how rand paul's presidential aspirations may actually move the democratic party in the direction of that sort of thing i think but you know i think frankly if the president was to say ok we're going to risk reclassify pod you know just right now i can do this he doesn't need congress he can do it. it would be a good thing i think would be a good thing for him to here's our last video question and i earnestly bethesda maryland. this is. your first. here it's. the right story just really. really so. this is listening. but.

you know liberace. yeah well actually the movies are fairly if you talk about the movie industry. the movies are fairly heavily regulated the vertical integration of the movie industry that is to say the ability of the movie making companies to own the theaters that distribute their product. was challenged in the one nine hundred thirty s. i think it was maybe it was the one nine hundred forty s. but it was you know it was before i was born i believe and then the television industry with they they did this in the one nine hundred eighty s. it was called the primetime roll and they said that the networks cannot you know they must run at least one or two hours during prime time programming that they themselves don't own and didn't create in the first company to step into that in the television business was mary tyler moore enterprises m.t.m. production company with programs like lou grant and rhoda and mary tyler moore show and all these other things and then steven j.

canal got into it with all the action movies and you know it just exploded i mean just the explosion of creativity and back in the thirty's or forty's or whatever it was at the movie business was regulated more heavily there was an explosion of creativity that too because the get used to be that if you wanted to see a metro movie you had to go to a metro theater and you only saw metro stars and when they got broken up you know it provided for a lot of career to never happen in the radio industry and i think it's one of the problems that am radio struggling with right now so. you know as much as i appreciate your point ernest i think the opposite is actually the case that regulation here we have you know the movie industry a great example of regulation actually helped build the industry now is that our callers for the night ed in erie pennsylvania want to talk about the keystone pipeline in. it it begin. delivering oil from cushing oklahoma

to customers in early and texas early was. alex. powerboat president of the energy and oil pipelines that are news conference. expected to refinery near you yeah this was a tar sands oil it was a sweet sweet crude it comes through the. cushing oklahoma. terminal leave they get both. that you know god only knows yeah it's thank you for the heads up on that it is your point that it's it's time to do something or or what. would you do all of those ideas just to reach around on this you know that's what they did x.l. pipeline but it's not actually right like probably all the streets but. yeah you know i mean well they're doing it but he spoke. right i think we'll still be in

refined here need a date you know you have any it's good for them to being shipped off to europe and to south america asia i mean if you actually look at a map we're good really it takes this is there's a little over a harbor you know port right there yeah i mean it goes. excellent point all the replies and thank you for the call. this. bill mckibben has pointed out the this carbon store in alberta is one of the water just chunks of carbon on earth and one of the dirtiest and. you know that it's game over for the planet if the whole thing is is dug up and turned into into oil and or something resembling oil and then refined and we and the bizarre part about it is you know these refineries that the koch brothers and others own down on the gulf coast we keep the poisons from the refining process we get the cancers we get the polluted

air and then we ship the diesel fuel and gasoline off to mexico or england or china or you know someplace else i mean how is that right. and how is that conservative why are the republicans like all over this. larry in vancouver b.c. hey larry thanks for calling you want to talk about a national popular vote. are here to talk to tom and i really appreciate your show thank you i have heard two question i want to know is there any effort to reform the congress critters. gerrymandered. there is no serious three effort in answer that i can answer very quickly. in terms of the poker be true to your record for being our national presidential vote for any effort to reform got it wrong yeah that you're getting a lot more traction there larry thanks for the call. and there's good news and bad

news. there are states that have signed up that have agreed to legislatively have agreed to or by citizen ballot initiative have agreed to a program where if anough states to turn a presidential election all agree to it that those states agree that they will flip all of their electoral votes to whoever gets the majority of the vote in their state. so that if you know functionally basically you get a winner take all situation in terms of the national popular vote and i'm sure i'm describing the mechanics of it wrong but in any case the that's the good news the bad news is that there are also republican efforts to say that the winner take all the in the states right now should be done away with because you've got some states like virginia where you've got you know one or two very large counties that go democratic and then you've got a whole bunch of smaller counties that are republican and rural the go republican

but because the majority of people live in the big cities majority of the state voted democratic and so the state the entire state vote goes for it for example for obama they want to break that up and say the red counties are the red electoral congressional districts. that those votes will become considered individual literal votes if they had done that in the last election and you've got several states alec is promoting this i believe pretty aggressively there are republican strategist promoting this if this had been the case the last election mitt romney would be our president even though he didn't win the popular vote the popular vote went to obama by a landslide and this is because as you point out the jury rigging the gerrymandering of the republican districts jerald in lake wells florida joe we have just a minute left a quick question. we just have a minute left yes or. ok you were interviewed. the man on the great unknown on the

whole picture and wendell potter. but i couldn't hear the sound like it only see the images on the t.v. screen i would hate. to see like the obamacare. his thank you for the call gerald potter's point about obamacare is that it's the it's the end of the beginning of reform so now we're into the serious part of health care reform and in other words it's a good start but we've got a long way to go and i agree that's it for your take my take alive thank you for all your calls if we didn't get your calls tonight tries back next week and keep the video questions coming in c.z. just grab your file pointer to yourself or set up your computer however you'd like to do it or mr great job and record your question or comment and e-mail it to us your take my take at g.-mail dot com coming up rand paul could be just what the doctor ordered when it comes to the future of the democratic party i'll explain why that i still take.

this is the media leave us so we leave the media. by the sea motions to the. way your party is that the. questions that no one is asking with the guests they deserve answers from. politic only. plus some of the new alert animation scare me a little bit. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news. alexander's family cry tears of joy and a great thing that had he had read at a court of law. this is

a story many movies playing out in real life. in screwed news most people forget it but professional supports are a business and like any business workers can be mistreated or abused current former members of the oakland raiders raider at sure leading squad have filed a lawsuit against the old oakland raiders football team playing in that that organization withhold pay from the cheerleaders until the end of the season doesn't even pay for all hours worked and that their pay works out to be less than five

dollars an hour in a press release share and then it one of the cheerleaders attorneys said that it's as if the raiders owners believe that the laws that protect all workers in california just don't apply to them joining me now to talk more about the lawsuit and the alleged worker abuses or lacy t. oakland raiders raider red and lead plaintiff in the case and leslie levy attorney and partner would love even a brawl and i'm a hyams law firm. welcome to you both. thank you thanks for joining us lacy what exactly are you alleging in this lawsuit how are the reader as treated by the organization. granted that we were asked to sign a contract which soon after i signed on the outlet is packed with some illegal her visions that make the contract mostly illegal it wasn't very long after i signed his contract that i started having feelings that you know what a lot of money was coming out of her own pocket and i realized well i'm really not

going to hurt her nine mine and i'm not going to pay for all the hours i'm working on a weekly basis that just practice. and photo shoot that we were doing very early on in the season and so at that point is when i brought our contract to the lawyers here and sat down and realized that my feelings were indeed correct. a lot of the things that our contract were highly illegal and there was a really strong case to make against the radio that what they are doing was wrong and they need to change so. do you think you can win this case is this. is a it was like is it is it was like the attorney is it really that that that. it is that the back of the raiders well so immune to the law that they have no problem putting illegal provisions in writing for example. for example well writing that they say in their contract that they won't get paid for their work until the end of

the season so although these women are working from april through december they don't see a paycheck until january well i think that anybody in any work environment would be slightly appalled. by any policy that that. is a true good you are paid functionally five dollars an hour for this is serious work in that you're doing. a lot of stuff here and it's got to be hard on your body as yet we the rhetoric printed on time practicing getting ready for games staying in shape having workouts we need three times a week well before the season even starts so in a contract it clearly says you're only paid for games there's ten home games that's one hundred twenty five dollars a game so your end of the year salary is one thousand two hundred fifty dollars so where we got the number for hourly is i tracked only hours and cashier and divided

our into the year's salary amongst all those hours and it will weigh less than five dollars an hour. so yeah we're pretty much told after that you're not going to be paid for all your time we're only getting paid for your game day and so yeah you're era you're a mom you're trying to make a living in your and you're being paid literally below the poverty level right and i'm fully aware it's a part time job but even even so you still have a right as as an employee to be paid for your hours work and that's what i'm really fighting for here yeah lovely is this a problem exclusively to the oakland raiders and i'll wire here or is this something that that's just common practice throughout the league. we have no reason to think that the rangers are outliers in fact we think that this is pretty consistent through the n.f.l. there may be slight differences between the contracts and the way that women are paid but overall as far as we've been able to determine they've never paid for all

of the hours that they work and they are often depending upon the team not paid timely proper records aren't kept they were banned from talking about their salary is going there in their earnings which is illegal and we think that this is an end of n.f.l. why problem lisi only have in the last minute we have here have you been in touch with the players association the n.f.l. p.a. about this and is there i mean the union that represents the players and is there any possibility that a union might represent the cheerleaders that's interesting no so far we have been contacted from anyone from the oakland raiders are the n.f.l. everything's been kind of no comment no comment no comment so i don't really interesting to see if anyone just kind of hat guy has been in here is the union that represents cheerleaders being life changing for the future of cheerleaders yeah i would have been could argue that you're in the in the entertainment business

some maybe you could even get sag aftra to represent you or something like that if there's a lot of a lot of possibilities. a loving thanks for joining me. thank you. it's the good the bad of the very very hip no. really ugly or good netflix in a shareholder letter released yesterday the company said that if internet service providers try to slow down its video streams in light of the d.c. circuit court's decision that struck down net neutrality rules it would bigger asli protest and encourage their members to demand the open internet they are paying their i.s.p. to live or other words netflix wants its customers to engage in massive resistance

to protect net neutrality obviously net neutrality is good for netflix is bottom line but what an open internet benefits consumers as well as business is so good on netflix for speaking at the bat jamie diamond for an interview with c.m. d.c. yesterday the j.p. morgan c.e.o. told said that the thirteen billion dollars settlement his bank recently reached for the justice department was going through her check it out. so you look at these big numbers and they are big numbers and so the public looks at them and they're trying to grasp and understand what to make of it do you think ultimately that it was fair no i do a lot of that was unfair but i can go the details i was that never really. more than half of that thirteen billion dollars settlement was tax deductible spare us the sob story jamie no one's listening and a very very ugly ted nugent right wing activist went on a wild rant in a recent interview with guns dot com saying that he took personal responsibility

for the real action of the quote subhuman mongrel and quote barack obama is description i might take a look. up. just fail to galvanize and try to not shape enough americans to be ever vigilant not to let a chicago communist bring communist which communist nurtured subhuman. like the corn community organizer the gangster rockers. tool we saw his way. into the top office forty macy's. as if that wasn't bad enough nugent called the president a chimpanzee will discuss in the benghazi attacks a leader part of the interview. this is a guy who's on the board of the n.r.a. could you get any more races this is very fear of.

president rand paul may not sound to catch you but rand paul being the republican nominee for president in two thousand and sixteen could actually be a good thing maybe even the best thing that happens to democrats or that has happened to democrats in our nation for a long time from explain political commentator peter biner as a new piece in the atlantic where he writes that now that chris christie has been knocked out of the number one spot republican party rand paul is the likely front runner for the republican presidential nod in twenty sixteen minute writes that if chris christie was ever the front runner for the two thousand and sixteen republican presidential nomination he isn't anymore so if christie is no longer the candidate to beat the twenty sixteen republican race who is believe it or not it's

rand paul he goes on to write that the two thousand and sixteen election could turn out to be like the election in one thousand nine hundred sixty four when the dark horse weird for in conservative candidate barry goldwater. came that party of the republican party's nominee as puts it is just possible that two thousand and sixteen could be another one thousand nine hundred sixty four nine hundred eighty years when the republican establishment proved we can pliable enough to allow a candidate previously considered extreme to come in from the coal miners as the reason for this in addition to the fact that rand paul has good polling numbers is that there is an existing infrastructure of paul support within the republican party thanks to ron paul taking big chunks of support from republicans and twenty twelve those people who are ron paul followers in two thousand and twelve are now rand paul supporters and they're well embedded into the republican party so basically rand paul has a very good shot at becoming the republican nominee for president in two thousand

and sixteen. so why is it but that might be a good thing for democrats and maybe even for our nation the answer is really simple a rand paul republican candidates could force democrats to move way to the left. let me explain rand paul who hates things like social security and medicare is very right he hates long term unemployment benefits or oppose the minimum wage all together very right he even said the company should be able to discriminate based on race or gender or sexual orientation very right economically thinks everything should be privatized the only exceptions being the military police forces and our judiciary and he's totally opposed to a woman's right to choose to have an abortion very right but most people don't know the those are rand paul's positions. what people do know is that paul is strongly opposed to the n.s.a. snooping and spying on american citizens they do know that he's incredibly skeptical of our nation's drone program and that he's in favor of gay marriage and

people also know that paul is in favor of decriminalizing all drugs not just pot and earlier rand paul's position on just these issues he appears to be way to the left of much of the official democratic party so if the democratic nominee wanted to have any chance of defeating rand paul whether that nominee was over a clinton of the warner andrew cuomo they'd have to move way to the left of the current mainstream democratic party's positions if things like this were to play out like that and if paul did become the republican nominee in two thousand and sixteen it's likely that the two thousand and sixteen election could be the election where things start getting really populist imagine of democrats had to become more progressive to take on a libertarian republican candidate creating protectionist trade policies decriminalizing pot could become official parts of the democratic party platform just to push back on rand paul suddenly pushing for things like health care for all and legalizing marijuana would seem mainstream. make no mistake about it rand paul

being on the republican ticket for president twenty sixteen could be the powerful force needed to move the entire democratic party from presidential nominees to state assembly nominees to the left what a remarkable outcome that. and that's the way it is the night thursday january twenty third twenty fourth and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your seat.

i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question or. i know c.n.n. the m.s.m. b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. at our teen years we have a different pretty. good because the news of the world just is not this funny

i'm not laughing dammit i'm not god. i thought. you guys took to the jokes well handled in the sense that i'm. i marinate join me. in that impartial and financial commentary for news and much much. only on bombast and on. think. the thing to do is kill it you know the price is the only

industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy correct albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our cracks in a row we've been hijacked like a handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built up i'm tom parker and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world to go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing are. ready to join the movement and welcome the big picture.

he could congress in the midst of a scandal only recently made an unsuccessful bid to become new york city's mayor he's the always outspoken democrat anthony weiner and he joins we're going to talk about obama's second term the mounting allegations against new jersey governor chris christie and what he calls the white can do wing of the g.o.p. plus we'll hopefully get a few insights into picking up the pieces after a public fall anthony weiner is our special guest today on politics. taking with larry king on larry king and if anyone is our special guest he's been a frequent guest on mine.