and vinnie does todos martin and this is breaking the set you know sometimes there's a story that just defines hypocrisy one is how facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg bought out his neighbor in mansions so he could have some privacy nevermind the millions of facebook users whose personal data is sold off to vulture businesses another is a story that broke just a few days ago the exxon is the largest natural gas producer in the u.s. and if you've been following the downward spiral of u.s. energy consumption you know that the government and big energy are pushing hard for fracking all across the country but don't you dare frack on exxon c.e.o.'s rex tillerson the yard see this million or scumbag things it's perfectly ok to poison the planet with toxic pollution at the hands of his precious business but as soon as his pristine landscape it scarred well that's just not acceptable teller said in his rich neighbors of a lawsuit in an attempt to shut down

a fracking project that's just a little too close to his texas mansion and the petition in the town to block a tower that would provide water for fracking because of how much of an eyesore it would be in the suit they actually go as far as claiming it's illegal it would create a noise nuisance and traffic hazards interestingly enough mr tillerson sday job is literally to debunk the same claims he's making in the lawsuit and to promote hydraulic fracturing a practice is already been proven to cause earthquakes and birth defects of the very least in fact tellers and as even garden as far as saying that those who oppose and try to regulate fracking are quote holding back the american economic recovery growth and global competitiveness wow i find it absolutely fascinating that c.e.o.'s and politicians find it perfectly acceptable to completely stripped the environment toxify the land and poison the air as long as it's someone else's land someone else's family someone else's life just waiting for tellers in the set his own p.r. . our machine against himself after all he would want to be accused of holding back

the growth of america what do you now let's break the set of. the three please please. please very hard to take a. look. at that fact with the earthquake there are those.

surveillance of the post nine eleven worlds par for the course but when news broke in two thousand and twelve the new york police department going outside of its jurisdiction to spy on large swathes of new jersey's muslim community people were a little surprised then my pretties a violation of civil liberties by indiscriminately spine another state's religious populations in davia this and in two thousand and twelve eight muslims filed a lawsuit against the city for targeting a community for its religion but last week a federal judge threw out the case altogether alleging that the surveillance was not a violation of civil liberties because it can be ducted to prevent terrorism even though no acts of terrorism are actually prevented from the spine and while there's a similar case pending in brooklyn this ruling could have set a dangerous precedent for the future well earlier i was joined by deepa kumar professor at rutgers university and author of the book as lama phobia and the politics of empire i first asked her to break down why the judge justified the constitutionality of the program. if you look at the background of this case this

case was brought by the center for constitutional rights and it's on behalf of new jersey muslims who have been surveillance for at least the last twelve years since two thousand and two so mosques and schools and community centers and student groups and even grade school does find we want to see a way out and the idea behind this lawsuit was to say that this is unconstitutional and this program should be suspended. but what the judge ruled was that actually no harm was done by civilians you know never mind the psychological trauma that new jersey muslims are faced how do we treat as you know in all of their institutions and so what. it's done to the how harm that was done was by the associated press which broke the story the associated press did some amazing investigative journalism for which they won the pulitzer prize the judge decided that they were the ones who caused not the actual survey and so you know you have it in one fell

swoop you have not only the justification for racial and religious profiling but it impacts on the press right in fact on the associated press and the idea that the press should be watchdogs of the government that is shocking that they would actually go as far as claiming that the harm wasn't the surveillance system itself it was the just the press of the fact that surveillance was happening i mean what do you think about that claim. well i think this is a completely specious claim i think that it's this ruling absolutely sends the wrong message it sends a green light not only to the n.y.p.d. to continue these practices of surveillance but to police agencies all over the country this week and even with absolute impunity might lead to civil liberties off them spent i want to read from the. document that the judge produced this is what he said he said quote the police could not have a bomb if you just see for muslim terrorist activities without monitoring the muslim community itself the motive for the program was not solely to discriminate

against muslims but rather to find muslim terrorists hiding among ordinary mall fighting muslims which is just so deeply racist you know it's a cultural racism that says that people who practice islam are sort of programmed. to inspect and it's easy to you the mindset of the n.y.p.d. they released a document in two thousand and seven cold terrorism in the west the homegrown threat in which they argue that there is a four step process of radicalization in which if you are just a young muslim man you are already at stage one then you become religious you stop smoking drinking and you stepped on to the religion track and once you reach right and this is really such a simplistic and problematic notion of what i think bill johnson by and said frank you this is cultural racism martin is a former republican congressman a bush appointees even been removed from a racketeering and murder case in the past for his lack of impartiality so

concerning his past how much do you think martinez personal politics played into the ruling well i'm sure a kind of not to you because there are at least a schools of thought to be well the republican school of thought that was a conservative school of thought tends to be very simplistic in the way it mirrors the muslim terrorist enemy threat. and i have no doubt that he that huge role in how is the n.y.p.d. justified and spying on locations completely outside of its jurisdiction yes well frankly this entire program is not illegal because a cia agent was responsible for setting this program up so first of all the cia should not be involved in any kind of domestic spying on their sought so there is so many ways in which you know what the n.y.p.d. should be doing the cia should be doing has been completely irate in this case and you know the case was actually brought by a man by the name of assad is the. natural and and you know i believe went off to

fight in the iraq war but then he comes back and finds this mosque being so right on so you know the logic is will send you to go fight for oil and so forth when you come back you're part of a suspect community. believe a bowl or you mention kind of the message the clear message that this ruling stands i mean expand on that what kind of precedent do you think it will set for future widespread surveillance by law enforcement agencies across the country well you know you have there's already been since two thousand and two widespread programs of the sort the n.y.p.d. is not the one institution the f.b.i. various you know no good police departments and been involved in this but the key to keep in mind is that you just put it stands even though this program has been in the facts instead of thousand and two there has not been one single beat related to terrorist activity level of terrorism conviction and actually this is consistent

with nationwide statistics in the ten years since nine eleven off the one hundred fifty thousand murders in the united states most americans in the response were probably thirty three of that right answer the question is why so many resources spent by police departments likely at the right. by national security agency and film on so amazing it's american well what it comes down to i think really is the fact we have seen the massive development group not only the civilian and the but a national security state that's relying on the scene watching and these nine eleven are on now and to be more global terror everywhere so we have to run its national security not a monkey. it's national security speech isn't about keeping us the right to think about what americans die from being dive bomber often from things not i was

featured in injuries forty five thousand americans die each year not go back to help get the right that there's no war on people profit out yes to some what it is i want i'm like in the next book that i'm writing it's really about a national do you think got the you should also once the. and just to find out national security team is about creating the enemy and creating programs that block by the way not just most americans but all the center do you think that they alexion of new york city mayor bill de blasio has made a tangible difference and both the approach of minority surveillance and stop infrastructure find a lot of people are kind of disappointed and so far. yeah i mean a rhetorical e i think it's made some good friends because de blasio around the platform where he not only is rejecting stop and frisk but he also promised them some new york city that he would curtail and you know i just didn't like it surveillance program and only in specific cases where there was actually been

television and he would sanction this from surveillance but to the best of my knowledge that he hasn't actually done anything about it and the one thing that he has done is actually wait. new police commission out who you know if you know who this man is william bratton he was the cheaper the any in the ad why are they actually the number of stop and frisk case that has expanded by fifty percent and furthermore he was fond of putting forward you know he had any version of them you know program it was called a community mapping program which was going to do exactly the same thing with most americans it didn't come to fruition because there was a huge public outcry deeper kumar professor rutgers university author islamophobia and the politics and power always a pleasure having on thank you. so ground you guys will break down the real wealth for a problem in this country. i

marinate join me on earth into impartial and financial reporting commentary contribute and much much. only on the bus and. they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i haven't read the reports i'm likely to put in the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point among please. please or carry out a car is on the docket. there they go no more weasel words when you have a direct question and the prepared for a change when you throw

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perhaps one of the most controversial and politicized issues in america as well there yes i'm talking about all those status who can't get their grubby hands out of uncle sam's pockets on the heels of obama signing a farm bill that will cut funding to food stamps by eight billion dollars a new report by good jobs first has exposed the absurd amount of taxpayer dollars are going to provide welfare not for the poor but for wealthy corporations of course corporate welfare is not really mentioned on the corporate press as a problem but i wonder why couldn't have anything to do with the fact that it's owned by five corporations credit well the report is aptly titled subsidizing the corporate one percent revealing that state and local governments have shelled out

at least one hundred ten billion dollars to companies doing business in the us of a the study compiles figures over several years analyzing the many ways these companies are enjoying special treatment which will come in the form of everything from utility discounts to cash giveaways in theory the government justifies corporate subsidies to incentivize business growth and to support startup industries and if applied in that way i'm not entirely against it but the stats and lack of transparency paint a much different picture to the majority of these subsidies are going to only a select few of the. the richest of the rich companies in the country so which mega corporations are benefiting the most first off there is dow chemical at fifty seven billion dollars company that's been exploiting us energy policy for years. past any other corporation on the list by the sheer number of subsidies it's received four hundred and sixteen in total adding up to one point four billion dollars next up digital science company intel which manufactures aerospace components made number

three on the list which fifty eight subsidies totaling three point eight billion dollars or take aluminum company which has taken ninety one subsidies totaling five point six billion dollars in fact the amount that outflow receives in government handouts far exceeds their annual profits as journalist david johnston points out on the basis of its pretax income for the last four years these subsidies amount of all the pretax profits alcoa can expect for the next one hundred and eighty nine years wow so this company is essentially running on government cash nice also interesting that alcoa makes no public mention of these massive subsidies its annual shareholders meeting finally topping the list at number one cash cow recipient is boeing with one hundred thirty seven subsidies totaling a staggering thirteen billion dollars now boeing is notorious for holding jobs hostage while states fight each other for its contracts this thirteen billion

dollars in handouts reflects the amazing deals lucky boeing has clearly made with states like washington and south carolina keep in mind that boeing is the number who provider for america's military machine which i don't think is an industry that deserves financial breaks guys the subsidies in this report are often in the form of tax abatement under which underscores exactly how much burden falls on average taxpayers because many of these massive corporations are relying on government welfare for profit employees that actually earn. the money from their sales an organization called citizens for tax justice points out that at the end of the day is tax burden hits the poor especially hard adding that quote in every state low income taxpayers pay more as a share of income than the wealthiest one percent remember this report doesn't even take into account federal subsidies which highlights the need for more transparency on the issue of corporate welfare so you tell me which makes more sense continuing

to bicker about food stamps or addressing the same corporate welfare that actually perpetuates poverty all in the name of job creation. america's one of the only so-called representative democracies in the world that is utterly dominated by two parties the democrats and the republicans the left versus the right it's all manufactured paradigm when in reality both parties are more in line of the each other and the majority of americans are in line with them what's even more frustrating is how hard it is to break through the political system as an independent or third party candidate without being completely marginalized by the media when one woman is taking that chance her name is marianne williamson and she's running as an independent for california's thirty third district but she's

also been a new york times best selling author on the subject of spirituality and self-improvement four different times she joins me now to talk about her transition from self-help guru to politician thanks so much for coming on. thank you so much for having me marian you're primarily known as a spiritual teacher and author not exactly something someone associates with politics so why do you decide to jump into the political ring. well isn't that the problem though that anybody is not associated with politics isn't part of the problem that we have a kind of political class and politics has become a kind of spectator. sport everybody should feel that they're part of that show even eisenhower said politics should be the part time profession of every american citizen a very good point i totally agree with you it's time to take it out of the inside baseball and hope exactly been imposed op ed you wrote recently entitled a funny thing happened on the way to the primary i wanted to read a quote from him we don't have an open political system we have a political elite ruled by political parties that decides who gets to play whoever

is playing however nice a person is part of the same conversation we've been having for years the stale worn our rhetoric that promises to do little more than perpetuate the system as it is i cannot agree more with how have you experienced this phenomenon firsthand is someone running outside of the two party structure. well you know i think more than anything else we just have to disinter all ourselves as lincoln would say it's just a thought we have you know we have a two party to operate as you're well aware and it has a choke hold on the system and it's sucking the oxygen out of our public discourse but there's no need for it i think americans just need to be taught to love our own history there's no mention of political parties in our founding documents george washington warned us against them in his farewell address abolition did not come from the major party suffrage did not come from the major party the civil rights movement did not come from the major party the parties although they certainly have their role to play but there are they should be here to serve us we shouldn't be

having to filter all of our thoughts through their idiology and you know j.f.k. said we should be seeking not the democratic answer or the republican answer but the right answer and at a time today as you mentioned yourself when the more disturbing news is how similar they are compared to how dissimilar they are i think it's time for some voices that just don't buy into the idea that we have to be one or the other and you describe yourself as a lifelong democrat you're running as an independent why did you choose to distance yourself from the party and what do you see as the most fundamental flaw of the left wing establishment. well i don't think of myself as really distancing from the party i think the party has distanced itself from me i think if you look at someone like bernie sanders here he acts in many cases more like a democrat as i think of a democrat acting than many democrats do and so what's happened today is that progressives have this codependent relationship with the democratic party they keep getting more corporatist and in many cases more militarist and progressive say oh

ok and enable them one more time one thing they have to give to the tea party they're not in a codependent relationship with the republican party and i think it's really important for progressives who are treated like the democratic party in too many cases not all cases but in too many like you know we we come to when there's an election we ignore you till the next one i just think many of us can't tell the line anymore i just know that i can't but i would caucus with democrats you know like i said i am a bobby kennedy democrat and it's hard it's like well stone said i'm from the democratic wing of the democratic party it's hard for me as a democrat to find too much comfort anymore within the purview of the democratic party you know i'm open i hope that this election you know one of the reasons i hope i win app is because i think it would really perhaps inspire a movement by which the democrats get their soul back not the people but the party sure i heard some people say that if nixon were running today you'd be the most

liberal democrat i hope there it's pretty shocking how far right everything is kind of shifted let's talk about your fund raising efforts according to open secrets you've already raised over three hundred thousand dollars far surpassing your other opponents how you've been able to do this. it's grassroots you know part of the way americans are locked out today and that's why i'm running this campaign the average american is locked out of what should be considered the minimum in terms of access to political influence educational opportunity and economic opportunity and the way that works of course with this legalized system of the. robbery and corruption we have especially since citizens united by which money forces wield such disproportionate influence over our political system compared to the average citizen is how expensive it is to run for office if you don't either have wealth or have access to wealth so i looked at my four hundred thousand names on facebook and my two hundred thousand on twitter because i i have been writing books you know my

first book came out in one thousand nine hundred two so i've been out there for a while and i thought to myself looking at my social media. numbers i thought well if everybody sends me five dollars i could do this and my it's a grassroots campaign and i've announced publicly i'm not taking pac money i'm not taking lobbyist money and my average donation is fifty nine dollars. that's how it should be and. we're almost out of time i just want to get to a couple more things that is incredible but you're saying that you're still not being treated as a legitimate candidate even though you've made a lot of money through grassroots funders and i mean what other factors are leading to your dismissal. well you know what the fact is are is this sort of media political elite but it's ok i mean that's what i would if i were the democrats today my studies to do would be to ignore me and pretend that i don't exist so you know i can't blame them for that. i just and the media you know i think when henry

waxman first announced his retirement it's all horse races and it's all in the horse race is that the democrat of that democrat but you know part of running with any real principle is that the horse race is that what you're doing this for and you know the only the only the only thing that matters is what the voters have to say on june third on our primary june third so i think a lot of people are coming to understand that i would not be a threat to the democratic party i don't think anybody sees bernie sanders as a threat to the democratic party and also people are coming to understand that he doesn't lack power. or in the senate i think that people here in los angeles are beginning to understand that the election of an independent candidate particularly someone running on the platform of getting the money out of politics would really help create a space an opening a possibility for this kind of a candidacy and a winning candidacy throughout the country and l.a. likes to do things first you know this is a district that doesn't really like same ole same ole anything and people are

really responding to the idea that we start new conversations here this is what we do this is why people live in california california this area starts a new conversation it's a national trend within five years and i think that's one of the selling points of this campaign i think it's an exciting idea that we're just not going to be perpetuating the system as it is when all of us know it's not working indeed california a lot of things in motion here let's talk about some the other major points of your political platform you're on board with several bills that represent a proposed including the meritorious of the use of drones the repeal of the authorization for use of military force i mean as much as i believe in these things these issues seem to be dead in the water on capitol hill how would you get congress to seriously consider them. well listen i'm not naive about what one congresswoman can do particularly first time congress person who particularly now that it's an open seat anybody will be so i'm not naive i wouldn't be going to washington with a magic wand no one would and no one should be able to but on the other hand i

think conviction is a force multiplier and particularly as an independent candidate not feeling shackled i think that my hopefully the contribution of my voice both within congress and because i have a national platform of some kind outside of congress as well to use whatever power that i have in terms of audience nationally to talk about these things in a way that makes more people wake up and more people ask their congress people and their candidates around the country what of what's going on with these drones. i don't think the average person even realizes abbi the power of these things they will they can know who you slept with what you just logged onto on your computer what room you just walked into and they are coming and you know the same the same government that has had to it been forced to acknowledge n.s.a. spying tells us in relation to drones not to worry because they are going to have to adhere to all privacy laws state federal and local americans who listen to this

are god following we just need to to continue the buzz it's like you create with your show a lot of voices are out there now i think something's already rumbling and i just believe that these voices need to also be represented in a less ok in a safe life something is death labor and revolution of consciousness thanks for being a part of that marianne williamson congressional candidate california's district thirty three really appreciate you coming on. thank you that's our show you guys join me again tomorrow and i break this all over again. a. little right. around. here. for the young girls

campbell for the future harder. between two and three hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the causes that is the law or you know i mean this teaches them a lot of rote sponsibility and seems to come to play it through the eyes of children if we can do it for our children for our future what is the time to be deceived. the agenda here is clear banks don't want the competition they don't want the coin to succeed the central banks that deal in money don't want to they don't want to cryptocurrency they are going to report the news in a way that reflects their interests unfortunately there is no sure objective news

source anymore except. from the. supporters and opponents of ukraine's self declared leadership clash in the southern region of crimea where local lawmakers are at loggerheads over whether to sever ties with. you this is just the beginning ukraine's reserve europe's reserve should be started our mind altering nationalists keep posts in the government with crowds again on independence square the hub of the uprising ready to approve or reject a new lineup of cabinet members. and then just leave these members of the public to be harassed part of shari'a patrols far right vigilantes in armored vehicles patrol the streets of the muslim neighborhood in east london sparking fears of violence between communities.