welcome your take my take live the phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air me or my pop and honey or both give us a call or two a two nine zero four twenty one thirty four add a one before the number for our international viewers let's go to our first video comment. from marcus from colorado here i was just wondering what is going to happen when our government just follows down crashes because of how crappy everything is being. thank you for your time big fan of your show by the way. thanks for your kind comments mark. pap. you think you know this is that this is a sale item the you've had the right wing trying to sell for so long that is that the government is just wholly dysfunctional that by its very nature it doesn't work

and this is been since look since the new deal you've had this idea that government at any moment is going to implode and you you have a certain part of the population that buys into that you know in their eye and dried foods that lead back to the sky is falling let me get my you know let me get my forty seven and go to woods unfortunately unfortunately if you look at public opinion they have the right wing has been very successful in trying to scare the hell out of everybody and you know what the media has been a big part of that unfortunately the corporate media has been a huge part of trying to sell the idea the government doesn't work well part of it is in the in the in the corporate media the imperative is to get eyeballs city you sell them your advertisers and by screaming dysfunctional government train wreck you know this guy hates this guy you know and turning basically the governance of the united states into a w w f match you know it's. it's i mean they're not just not serving our country

i'm one of the it's so so net net for our for our listener was a mark i think he said marcus marcus chill out the government is not going to collapse i mean we may face some really serious crises i would be much more concerned about what's going to happen as sea level goes up as mile wide tornado starts rolling across the country particularly in an era when theme is being cut by by the sequester next video up keegan in syracuse new york. this is cute at syracuse university with gerrymandering and the two party oligopoly our district system is broken so shouldn't we move to a proportional system of representation where everybody's i do you are proportionally represented. great question keegan pap by understanding the history of this is that you know it's been about three thousand years since there was a real democracy when one of the founders put together ours and they didn't have

a whole lot to work with other than you know looking at the roman republic in the group of democracy to three thousand years ago and they put this thing together with first past the post winner take all actions in seven hundred eighty seven and seven hundred eighty eight as they're trying to sell it james madison just a sudden oh my god and realizes this is going to lead to a two party system and he writes federalist number ten saying don't do that yeah and it wasn't until eight hundred forty one i mean you know i have long after madison was dead that john stuart mill in his book on for on liberty i think it was titled came up with the idea of proportional representation and laid it out and so it was you know all at that point there were only six democrat democracies in the world and so basically all the democracies that came along after eight hundred forty one modern european democracies asian democracies whatever they all embrace proportional representation which is where if a party gets twelve percent of the vote they get twelve percent the seats they get forty percent of votes get forty percent of the seats. we've got this two party

winner take all thing the other there are seven countries in the world that have this we do greece as new zealand australia and i forget what the other ones are but new zealand australia fixed it with instant voting so if i can snap shot of this i think it's very good snapshot what we have again it comes back to this idea i hate to say everything's based on fear but let me let me run something by ok when you say socialist in this country right what what the what happens so it was all my god you know it's like the economy the economy revolution is right around the corner or you say communist years there but i was what has been think it upton sinclair running was it sinclair in california ok he says look i'm want to run on a party that's not quite democrat it certainly is not republican kind of hard to describe but he called himself a democrat but the truth was he was way way to the left the attack on him was he was a frenzied crazy so any time you start talking third party in this country the media

is the first person the first into tea to start saying well this guy's just different. looking at what does this person have doff or does the democratic party really represent america anymore i don't think so they they have been as much a part is the divide between one percent ninety nine percent to some degree is the republicans have you have this new animal called the wall street democrat we've never seen one except when bill clinton took office we started seeing a more and more big jump from l.b.j. when you could say really wall street democrats were involved republican party has become so dysfunctional it's barely recognizable as a political entity so isn't it time for somebody to say you know what i might take it on the chin i might get the hell beat out of me but shouldn't i try it we have to have more parties in this country and we can't be afraid of that right and but structurally to make it possible so that you don't have the what was i mean ralph nader didn't actually flip florida it is george bush but that was the hit. and so

you don't have that problem of the third party stepping on the second part to fix that you can do an instant runoff voting or we're going to cost amend the constitution to have proportional representation but anyhow we have i think you know in seattle we just had the socialist socialist mayor yeah she was on this program not a member and a member of the city council now separate church yeah it's a it's a it's marvelous ok let's pick up some calls or ed in here in pennsylvania you want to talk about fracking tonight at eight tom i was going to talk about broccoli but if you don't mind i would rather security dick cheney and halliburton certainly iraq kuwait you war you got it might have been tito with the yeah so he could actually investigate just ordinal drilling that they have the patent on that most of it in use could kill iraq's oil well insured on the interview with peter jennings or or yeah i had forgotten about that saddam hussein's can beef against kuwait was that they were doing a horizontal drilling right to trace golders oil right right yeah so shady was

running however and oliver moved so there's no doubt in him. to the emir of kuwait because they held their hours on a little earlier in pennsylvania where i live. there is the head banks from the call pat he thought yeah we'll see him soon they're going to be horizontally drilling for water because fracking his destroyed everybody's aquifer and water system follow those stories i know you do the destruction to our our water system is is deplorable our aquifer is precious right now you have industry already trying to figure out how they can bottle in-cell water because they know what's happening in this country right now look at california sixty days you have counties in california that won't have water water will become the new well in then we're going to see a lot of horizontal to report to the next state to try to get water and that and that by the way seems to be coinciding with global warming and this year disintegration of the polar shield that kept the but make no mistake fracking has

a big part of this oh yeah and while it's also it's releasing enormous amounts of methane which is vastly more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide at least for thirty forty fifty years or thereabouts derrick in detroit michigan. wanted to mention or talk about my book the crash of twenty sixteen or literally a crash of twenty sixty. x. exactly claim i did get a request that i may you and i should be. god. you guys should be and in here i won't follow you thank. you very. basic when i ask you tom . could you just repeat describe what's going to happen before he and what should normal people like me hope do to repair or to that we thank you very much thanks derek thanks for the call. in terms of the promise of the crash twenty sixteen is twofold one is that you know history goes in cycles we get we make a horrible mistake we learn from it over the next you know we pay for that mistake

we have a depression and a war then we figure out how to. prevent it we do that for about fifty or sixty years then the last person who remembers the mistake time dies and we have twenty years a stupid and it falls apart again so every eighty years we have a crash followed by we're eighty years ago it was the crash of twenty nine followed by world war two eighty years before that was a crash eight hundred fifty six or eighty years before that was the crash of seventy eight seventy followed by the by the revolutionary war eighty years before that there was another crash eighty years before that there was the crash that followed by the war of the roses i mean in practice always back to the fourteenth century but that's not the principal promise the principal one is that this crash that i'm predicting for twenty sixteen actually started in two thousand and six two thousand and seven it hit us in two thousand and eight and instead of resolving the problems that a stop in the stupid what we did was we threw baling wire and bubblegum at it and obama is trying to inflate the bubble right now and no hold this thing off and the

reason i pick two thousand and sixteen is i think obama's doing the same thing that bush was doing bush saw this coming in two thousand and six and said ok we're going to try to hold this off until after november he wasn't able to hit before that and so a that's my analysis and summary the book you don't buy it now and b. what do you do about it i don't know i really don't know i would say either get totally out of debt or totally in debt but anyway your thoughts on this perhaps well my take on your book first of all is it's a book about hope really you know the ending is there's hope the ending is you know all those stupid years we learned human we learn from them and we can do better unfortunately there is such there's been such a demise of intellectual ism in the country in a lot of it is right here within the beltway we would be horrified to interview twenty house representatives to find out really how much insight they have we'd be terrified by it would scare the hell out of us marty in minneapolis we have just

a minute marty quick question for perhaps. you know i just want to know what. treason is and how member of congress could be brought charges on that and overlay that to any action p.p.p. issue already thank you a legal question for america's lawyer sir well i think that any action on t.v. is going to not. rise to the level of treason it makes you know when we use words like treason and impeachment it makes us feel better you know we're going to impeach this person this person is committed treason but in the truth it's merely part of the political agenda is going to play itself it's been playing itself out for two hundred years it's going to continue to play itself the thing you can do is actually pick up the tell telephone make that call say dammit no t.p. for p.p. for me that has better success than a call to the treason charge and participate with the outside the political

structure organizations like citizen dot org you know exactly alternators starters lori wallach is carrying on the good work so my cap and tonio thanks so much for being with us and i thank you it's great having you and that's it for your take my take live all your calls don't if you didn't get your call back next week keep the video calls coming by the way it's easy just grab your phone pointed at yourself and record your question or comment and e-mail it to us at your take my take at g. mail dot com coming up it's time for white americans to wake up and help heal the wounds caused by four hundred years of slavery and discrimination in our country more on that tonight still to. this immediately though so we leave the baby. out of the scene motions to.

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go back to the big picture the federal communications commission will not stand up for internet for and once they have c.c. chairman tom wheeler announced that he will not appeal the reason court ruling struck down net neutrality instead the commission will attempt to regulate internet providers on a case by case basis. in addition the obama administration announced tuesday that the president cannot order of the f.c.c. to reclassify internet providers as so-called common carriers overall it appears that the president and the f.c.c. are siding with giant corporations rather than with the millions of americans who demand a free and open internet standard he was struck down last month there have been numerous reports of internet traffic being slowed down by carriers in a blatant attempt to extort more money from content providers like netflix to make matters worse comcast also announced a merger with time warner which would give that carrier carrier even more extreme power to create

a pay for play internet instead of protecting our right to freely exchange ideas and information on the web our government appears ready to allow corporate control of the internet and the creation of another functional monopoly apparently more than a million people speaking out against the recent net neutrality ruling wasn't enough to wake up government officials we have to keep this movement growing and keep demanding that our internet freedom is protected action steps on this check out free press dot net. is thursday let's get geeky if the food doesn't get you the packaging might at least that's one of the takeaways from a new report released by one some of the world's top scientists in a piece published in the journal of epidemiology and community health

a group of scientists talks about the use of cancer causing substances like formaldehyde in the packaging of foods drinks and dinner or products according to report there are over four thousand chemicals used in food food and food product packaging that we can potentially come in contact with formaldehyde in particular is a known human carcinogen and. it also specifically can cause sinus cat cancer and leukemia according to the scientists from el hyde can be absorbed by drinks can attach to the food it can wreak havoc with the human body the report states that food contact materials are a significant source of chemical food contamination of the legally they are not considered as contaminants as a result humans consuming packaged or processed foods are chronically exposed to synthetic chemicals at low levels throughout their lives including the most sensitive periods of develop in other words our kids are getting stuck the

scientists also believe that there may be a link between the chemicals and food packaging in a variety of other health issues including obesity diabetes and even neurological conditions all these findings are pretty startling a lot more research has to be done to figure out exactly what the long term impacts are of exposure to formaldehyde and other chemicals in food packaging but to make matters worse formaldehyde is legal in the united states to use in food packaging and is found in some foods as a consequence of that so it might be time to start avoiding those processed foods altogether is not only is the food on healthy but it looks like the packaging is to . just. it's the good the bad in the very very from a terrace lee oddly the good sally jewel on wednesday the secretary of the interior

announced the approval of two major new solar energy projects the first state line solar project will be located along with the bad a college california border and will produce enough energy to power ninety thousand homes second the silver state's solar project also be located in nevada california border area and will produce enough energy to power eighty thousand. both projects a part of the obama administration's climate action plan which the president first announced in a speech last june solar is the future good on the secretary of interior for helping us get closer to having a totally renewable energy infrastructure. the bag lady teresa is according to a new report put out by the advocacy group found inside a candidate for texas' state board of education isn't such a big fan of education in fact in a conservative voters guide obtained by t.f.s.

on said that she strongly disagrees that it is the government's responsibility to be sure children are properly educated in other words doesn't believe in the position she's running for. you know what they say only in texas and a very very ugly mcdonald's in only a new york branch of the fast food chain is under fire today over allegations that have fired an employee for buying a group of firefighters lunch employee had to live via had already bought lunch for a group of firefighters earlier on in the day when another fire department called and asked for a big seventy dollar order that is says that her decision pay for that second department order is what got her in trouble managed. so heather texted her boss to see if the cop. but he would pick up the tab for the firefighters she thought they might because she says they routinely give free meals to police officers who come in it's very common and her boss said no they don't donate food heather called the

corporate office and got the same answer so she and fellow workers again picked up the tab and when word spread that heather paid the bill some firefighters called her boss and complained thinking the restaurant made heather feel obligated to pay for their meals she thought you open the whole being at her next shift after eight years of working for mcdonald's heather was fired she said donal says it fired heather because she swore at a superior but had any ties it's allegations if heather's story is true mcdonald's did fire her for buying lunch for firefighters let's hear it for. the michael dunn trial has all that proven that it's legal in a red stand your ground should first states for a white man to kill

a black man simply because he's afraid of black people. and just a few months ago the supreme court said there's no longer any significant racial discrimination or animosity to america and its ruling on the voting rights act so with that in mind let's take a look at how things really are american city when it comes to racial equality in response to the jordan davis case in the trayvon martin case the folks over at color of change dot org of launched a new campaign titled black lives matter they're calling on americans to take action to help prevent the loss of another trayvon or jordan they say join us to bring an end to stand your ground and other shoot first laws that undermine public safety senselessly put people at risk and enable the kind of tragedy witnessed in the case of jordan davis one main goal of the campaign is to convince white americans that black lives are just as valuable as white lives in the most black people are not scary but they're just like you and me right now across the web

black americans are tweeting and posting pictures of black kids doing things that all kids do regardless of their race using the hashtag dangerous black kids. or relate to her no has compiled some of the tweets over at her horizons blog twitter user rice about tweeted out a picture of a black child playing baseball with a caption dangerous black kids get ready to steal meanwhile twitter user neil curry her tweet tweeted out a picture of a group of high school students many of them black with the caption gaithersburg high school of b r o t h e r s inc is dangerous because they feed the homeless as dangerous black kids and link twitter user bugs act tweeted out a picture of her two sons with the caption my son is looking super scary one serves this country others serve student athletes with disabilities dangerous black kids. what these tweets and photos are trying to do is wake americans up to the fact that

we're all. all just humans here regardless of skin color you think that the obvious but centuries generations and in recent decades and years of largely white owned and program media in america have repeatedly portrayed blacks in a variety of negative stereotypes from the early days of actor and comedian al jolson in blackface on the screen dancer my mind the marketplace on t.v. blacks are often characterized as subservient or dumb in popular culture today blacks are repeatedly characterized as criminals pimps drug dealers gang banger. the scary images been promoted from movies to music to television even the president of the united states is not a you when you use the word ass of a t.v. interview a few a few years ago drudge and others on the right screamed obama goes street street of course being code for angry black man. the result of media and popular culture portraying blacks as more likely to be criminals is that they're far more likely to

be treated as criminals even when they're not jason robards a white man and a host of the you tube channel simple misfits decided to make a video to show the double standard that exists between white men and black men take a look at what happened. here in the view of the difference between how people react when he tries to break into a car versus when i try to break into a car that's lined up. early nobody here for thirty minutes and there's a copy i want to try to stop me less is it happening when clinton is that is right .

here. in germany. for. two minutes because our largely white society and culture is biased to think the black people are scary and white people aren't roberts videos a great example of what goes on all across america every day it's time to go beyond these recent stereotypes it's time to strip the. it's been associated with dark skin since the early days of slavery america time for white americans to wake the hell up and realize that we're all humans black white latino asian it doesn't matter we're all just humans they were all just trying to get through life as best we can we need to start doing some serious work clean up the mess for years of slavery and discrimination and parts are left in our country and both poverty and

racism and it's time for white americans to wake up and help heal this country of four hundred years of self inflicted us. and that's the way it is tonight thursday feb twentieth twenty fourteen. and don't forget democracy isn't just a spectator sport you can't hang around and watch it happen you gotta get out there and show up whether it's contacting your members of congress participating in the electoral process running for congress becoming a precinct of a person or standing outside the system and participating with a group like move to amend or resin democrats america feeding america or whatever it may be get out there and get active tag you're it.

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