and i think that you're. on the record player. that's out and folks i'm having martin and this is breaking in the set so between speaker of the house john boehner so you know obama over obamacare and the design of hearing on the i.r.s. scandal to say that congress is getting nothing done would be a severe understatement but yesterday the senate actually managed to take a big step forward and one of the most important reasons why our current representative system is so toxic and corrupt campaign finance seen a ten to eight vote the senate judiciary committee voted to approve

a constitutional amendment that would overturn a notorious two thousand and ten supreme court citizens united decision of course this rolling solidify the notion of corporate personhood and equated money with free speech by allowing companies to give unlimited amounts of cash to political action committees or super pacs which then lobby on behalf of individual candidates now realistically this move is purely symbolic considering that a constitutional amendment requires a two thirds majority vote in both the house and the senate but the fact that ten of the most powerful members of the senate will be willing to vote against their own interests for once as encouraging chairman of the senate judiciary committee patrick leahy even went as far as saying quote i've always believe that amending our constitution must be subject to the highest measure of scrutiny it is something that should only be done as a last resort when the voices of hardworking americans continue to be drowned out by the money and few more serious action must be taken and i'm hardly suggesting that we should rely on the. larry people who benefit from this pay to play system

to change it instead we should be looking at grassroots movements from outside the beltway movements like made a pac a super pac started by harvard professor lawrence lessig that ironically is raising money to elect candidates promising to repeal citizens united and other measures that have institutionalized money in politics unless they came on the show a couple months ago to talk about why the current system is so what poisonous any human who spends thirty to seventy percent of your time raising money from a tiny tiny fraction of the one percent you can't help but develop an intuition about exactly what sorts of things you need to say to continue to succeed in raising money for most people and what sort of issues you need to avoid so you begin to develop a sense sixth of what range of appropriate issues to approach and to talk about and to push our if you're going to continue to be able to be successful to raise money from these funders now amazingly that made a pact which was only started in may have this year has raised

a stunning seven point six million dollars to date from over fifty three thousand individual contributors so while the future of our political system does indeed look grim the fact that there are people using the system's own tools to dismantle it is a bright spot indeed let's break the set. the please please sir they are looking very hard to take our little touch. lightly you better act with the earthquake there are those. that are like. putting. such. utter

such. as i have covered all week on the show israel has launched a now four day assault on the gaza strip dubbed operation protective edge and today and israeli was critically injured by a hamas launched rocket that hit a gas station in the city of ashdod on the palestinian side the death toll has now surpassed one hundred with another six hundred eighty injured according to news agency but again despite this grows disproportionality the establishment press continues to the store at the truth take a look at this headline from the new york times after an israeli missile hit a gaza cafe packed with palestinians watching the world cup it says a missile at beachside gaza cafe finds patrons polies for world cup. that's right those gazans were just inviting that deadly missile to de seems like quite an

inappropriate way to describe a massacre doesn't it well thankfully widespread outrage has forced the new york times to change the headline to a somewhat more appropriate but still bizarre and rubble of gaza seaside cafe hunt for victims who had come for soccer. but see this example is only a microcosm of the disturbing way this entire conflict has been framed by the mainstream and it's the willful one sidedness that is forcing people out in the streets to voice their opposition in fact all of the world thousands are joining in protests from one in oslo with slogans such as and the siege on gaza and freedom for palestine right here in washington d.c. activists joined in solidarity at a large protest and from the israeli embassy by the grassroots organization code pink book i understand of this conflict has led to unbelievable tension suffering and tragedy for all those involved a perception is everything and if we let the media dictate the narrative it does a great injustice to any efforts of diplomacy and peace because as much as we might

want to deny it the fact is that israel is the largest recipient of u.s. aid to the tune of over three billion dollars a year so what happens over there is all of our problems. perhaps there is no better way to express frustration with the current system than splashing an image in a place where the public's forced to see it which is exactly what street artist guilds doesn't places all around new york image here is just one example for powerful body of work that mixes activism art and cutting political commentary join me now is brooklyn street artist herself gil to discuss her art and advocacy thank you so much for coming on. thanks for the idea and i'm great and so the vast majority of art is not political what drove your passion for some balik political parties. but well i started putting work out in the street in two thousand and

eight in direct response to the bush administration was awesome what was it about right now i'm. the. just the. amount of terrorism i thought was happening in iraq with the torture of the prisoners and a lot of the things that i saw happening over there i just i i couldn't get behind and i was really. questioning you know the dialogues that were happening in our media and it just didn't none of it made sense to me so you know i was talking to people and friends and nobody wanted to listen everybody would change the topic of conversation and so i was left to express myself visually. street art could be territorial you can be dangerous i mean it's a practice largely dominated by men do you think it's been harder for you as a woman to establish your name and make a space for yourself in the medium. i definitely see the

sexism that exists in the streets i think a lot of times people don't take me seriously because i'm female. but you know i that if anything that just fuels me to work harder. to look at them you're different art work you've done a lot of work from rabin gentrification and progress banners around buildings to destroying a kitchen and gentrification protests as a new yorker what effects have you seen gentrification do in your city and why is it an issue that speaks to you so much. when new york is a very unique place you know it's the birthplace of so much creativity and so many of the you know the arts are so concentrated here so when i see things like the rents sense two thousand and been increasing to seventy five percent in the last fourteen years you know you see a lot of creative people being pushed out because you know we're you know starving artists or however you want to put it and a lot of us are just surviving and not thriving necessarily financially so when you see you know places like five points that giant building that i wrapped. you see

those sort of artistic meccas and institutions that have been around forever disappearing so that they can put up you know glass structures with you know luxury apartments you kind of have to question what's the motive and why. it's what's our city turning into how is this changing. the environment and how we're how are we supposed to co-exist in this sort of situation right i mean every every city that i live a life lived in the last five years it seems like they're just putting up these high rise apartment buildings pushing all the people out of the centers of the city and it's like we're not i mean you're just pushing them out to rich people can't see like the reality of what's going on and let's take a look at the the amazing clip of use of ash and a whole lot of those kitchen oh what drove you to create this food so work. well it was a it's an abandoned building that was getting ripped down to make way for these condos and a friend had kind of gotten access to the building not necessarily legally and so

a lot of us just came in and we were all going to work out and i decided to just take over the kitchen because of all places. what speaks to a family more in like where is that more of a communal space in the kitchen that's where you make memories and cook together he's talking you know you fight you argue you you know you your family in that room specifically so i felt the need to kind of destroy those memories and you know to recreate a kitchen and then to to take it apart all in the name of progress just it just felt i don't know the way i needed to go all in the name of progress that always. and i love that work is so varied covers so much ground to take a look at copper green an outline of the famous image of the opera great prisoner with the department of homeland security phrase if you see something say something why did you bridge these two concepts. well i felt that we were you know saying one thing to our citizens and doing another abroad and you know if. i felt the government wasn't. being honest with the population if you're going to be

doing those sorts of things you know we should have a say in whether or not we find this to be ok and obviously i felt like we were we were misguided and doing things that weren't right and i was saying something i love it oh yeah another one your work such as the statue of liberty drinking the kool aid and you think nationalism is a hinderance to the evolution of empathy and consciousness. yeah that's that's a good way of putting it i think a lot of people get that wrong sort of mentality. thinking that we can do no wrong but in the last few years i feel like that's sort of been starting to unravel and i think people are starting to really become more informed and more aware and you know shows like yours are doing that so thank you for that thank you so much the first work i saw of yours of these amazingly complicated mazes first they seem purely abstract but upon closer examination they display words and phrases out of

a concept manifest and how do you even map them out we have about forty five seconds left. the concept is really about kind of getting lost in your world and also giving those sorts of words strength and power by a kind of. you know exponentially growing through those lines so it's just about. seeking deeper reading between the lines and trying to see past what you know may at first glance be something simple and how the hell do you serious about the mo as an artist i like them they're incredible start from the inside and work out that's how it goes yeah also drop your website real quick. and why si dot com g.i.l.'s and y.c. dot com thank you so much food artist golf related that really love your work. thanks so much coming up on future an exclusive performance by hip hop artist sage francis stay tuned.

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i almost told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to push the no i will leave them to state clearly to comment on your latter point of the month to say to mr kerry you have a car is on the docket no gonna. do no more weasel words. when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a. pretty tough speech and a little down the street into costs. ten years ago i heard a song that deeply resonated with me and articulating my frustration with media and politics that song was called makeshift patriot it was written by an incredibly talented hip hop artist named sage francis francis is

a prolific lyricist who has broken through almost every genre from slam poetry to what's been dubbed indie hop considering that francis was the first hip hop artist to sign a punk record label epitaph now he runs his own independent company called strange famous and i was lucky enough to have an instead he joined me earlier to perform a song called vonnegut busy with his new album copper gone. my. dad. might have been called the were my samantha the saddest. night for my shoes to look like they didn't walk to my house to look like it's been lived in the clock to look like the fall for it has been driven off a cliff michael pretty good dog stuff great y'all don't clean the crime scene because tommy's money don't need. blood you just see dead people who just see he

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a daydream i'm at the wheel say famously cake people call me keep math good job only one two went to the full closure they said the war was so book we do what we wanted more soldiers what we see. is a fresh batch of people was sent back to the ball back to roll traps in the back of the people to smoke down the bottom of the mountain cinema to see called the many many to get it when they put a positive effect of to break a promise and take a breath but it is nothing that we could stay alive under subpoena shuttlecock this is what you say that we took you to our cradle we take all we keep. alone a very good evening to review what you around the world sorry to break into programs we've got a live news event to take it to us probably says could have one is our is the russian an argentinian president's giving separate statements to the media telling

a joint conference by ten minutes ago president putin just about to speak. and. there was a fridge full of corporations on multiple international platform such as the g twenty and many others between our countries would like to say that. the pro-union we're developing our relations with argentina across all areas in political humanitarian and economic cultural spheres despite the difficulties in the global economy we have been able to keep the positive developments in our volume trades it has grown by more than sixteen percent over the last year alone and madam president. has just mentioned basically all of the top banks and issues

we have talked about i would just briefly like to go into the details on some of them and i would like to say that over twenty percent of the high end for our electric power is being produced by the russian made equipment and we very much hope that our companies will continue to take active part in projects such as construction and more than ization of the energy power plants in argentina. one of our companies is going to participate in the. hydro power plant project. who is the project sas that two billion dollars. and not a russian company is also. to participate in the construction of the power plant to. we have a great prospect as madam president i have already mentioned in their nuclear power

production power companies are participating in the bid for. of the a to train nuclear power plant and i would like to say that russia has one of the. technologies in this area they are cost efficient and they're up to the. toughest standards of security and safety. and we have signed today and every month on the corporation only. on the cooperation of the nuclear power production i would like to pursue those that it is it is of great importance and we hope to continue our cooperation in other high tech areas such as space exploration corp. we proposed to locate a russian glow a nasa station in argentina the system on all the projects we hope to achieve. and

today we also discussed project and number of projects such as deliveries of military equipment to argentina for joint projects in. such a. shipment of helicopters and other military equipment and ladies and gentlemen if you were a witness to these agreements well a relevant agreements have been signed today with that effect and we are in towns to continue of preparation also in mass communication. this directly. impacts. the activity of you all are present here who understand what is and is designed to help the. news agencies over us and argentina. exchange more efficiently information and share information and we have also we also have for the first time in

argentina. russian t.v. channel russia today which broadcasts in spanish will be made the way more available to all viewers a word until you know when it will happen it doesn't need to channel. says without pressing the first time in latin america this is being done but. we really as i mentioned as i want to mention it are offering also to run cultural culturally significant events since the next year will be. one hundred thirty five i never saw since the diplomatic relations were formally set up between russian and argentina and we hope to have a culture in russia and i jumped you know. also have discussed.

regional and global issues today with my the president and i would like to say that argentina is a very good partner in my opinion of course we all have our own opinions but. it's a sobering that. that's what's valuable about this something this is a voice which is unique this is important this is of great value. and i would like to thank my the president once again for the wonderful atmosphere during our working session today for the friendly atmosphere thank you very much. ok you've been watching the live media event there from one of the czars the russian and the argentinean president appeared very cordial russia's president

there addressing the media what is or is one of the key stops of course of his major latin american to be praised for cooperation with argentina you mentioned the trade between the two countries has surged more than sixteen percent last year alone russian argentina of focusing on cooperation in nuclear energy as well as high tech industries two sides agreed on deliveries of military equipment for joint projects and in antarctica and we made the news a bit too on top of that one of the key points is the deal is that our t.v. spanish our sister channel will be given its own specific channel there to broadcast twenty four hours to argentina so hopefully we'll have many more happy views that as well. all i'm a pretty good view sir let me bring you up to date with more of the less fortunate world events over a dozen palestinians were killed on saturday morning as the israeli offensive on gaza entered its fifth day among the dead a victims of strikes which reportedly hits

a charity for people with disabilities and then go for special needs children the overall number of casualties now stands at one hundred thirty five. i think i i was. i. i i don't know and i said yes and i know what i mean but that i. owe the world. because in fish oils the fighting causes say about three quarters of all palestinians killed there this week of being civilians among them twenty four children israel insists it's only targeting hamas militants and their facilities but of course scars of those a very narrow area crammed with almost two million people residential districts are frequently caught in the firing line with israel saying it's readying for a possible ground invasion locals expect the worst is harry fear reports next

several days into the latest escalation between israel and hamas and the situation in gaza has not eased. israel appears to be preparing for more hard hitting campaigns to rein in her mass rocket fire along the israel gaza border as thousands were ordered to evacuate a warring indicating that a ground invasion may be imminent is that unless we were attacked by f. sixteen jets to destroy her home. the whole neighborhood left when the israelis began demanding people move out for their sake and their children say so we left the area and then did up on the streets rockets continue to be fined vigorously from gaza israel struck over one thousand targets many of which homes friday morning the air force targeted a building belonging to a family in shaikh redwine locals are adamant that it was just a residential building they also billion there are no weapons. nothing

is. hidden within this building as you can see i don't know why the family managed to evacuate before the main missile struck no one was injured but they didn't have time to take their belongings before the house was destroyed late thursday night a peculiar strike took place at gaza's marina a boat owned by the international freedom flotilla coalition was the sole target gaza's ogg was a humanitarian project designed to export goods from the besieged enclave to the outside world to boost the economy and i disassemble all of palestinian nonviolent resistance in the face of what they see as the israeli occupation palestinian activists say israel struck the boat to ruin their work but it's unclear if militants were at the marina that night in what's normally a relatively safe area of gaza more than eight hundred gazans have been injured and

the health care system is struggling to keep up with. the truth in. that is gradually decreasing if the doctors aren't provided with medicine it will soon be tougher to provide such services with border crossings closing and intensifying bloke who'd and this is really a school ocean in gaza. as this war goes on it's the palestinian civilian population that is paying the greatest price the bodies continue to arrive at gaza's hospitals israel says it's got hundreds of strikes after exactly against gaza it feels very much like this is not the end of the latest israel gaza war perry fear r.t. . well there's been reaction to see them from the un security council is called for a cease fire in the escalating gaza conflict its statement dividing a restoration of karma and direct talks between israel and palestine was approved

by all fifteen members of the un's most powerful body and his reaction to from the un human rights chief she's deeply worried by israel's attacks on gaza is raising the question of the legality indeed i commissioner navi pillay said civilian casualties are raising concerns over israel violating international law the guards are offensive results are triggered outrage ship publicly around the world let's look at those some pictures see what people have been doing and how they've been damaged by this is washington for a crowd converged on the israeli embassy for an end to the assault and calling israeli leaders terrorists pictures now from cairo next their police used tear gas to disperse the garza solidarity protests friday egypt's foreign ministry condemned the israeli airstrike but many egyptians don't think that statement went far enough they say also around one hundred demonstrators gathered here in paris denouncing. the development of what they describe as a massacre. from gaza has that university believes israel is capable of hitting

militant targets without putting civilians on the threat. is a very small territory and it is very much parked. with one point eight million palestinians but even in spite of that if the israelis wanted to hurt. or those who are responsible for the launching of rockets against israeli towns and villages they are able to basically do without without their injuring palestinian civilians in there doing this the populated areas now is where it is clearly the houses which are limited on target did by the israeli bombardment they belong to are hamas militant or the islamic jihad militant but give vonnie more sort of these hours without prior warning which which results in civilian death thousand million casualties. all the mounting international pressure to end the

violence those having no effect on the ground israeli leaders indeed vying to continue the girls are offensive hamas is backing down either reading more rockets on israel or middle east correspondent paula slee has got the latest from tel aviv the situation here in israel is extremely tense barrages of rockets continue to be find at the country from gaza there was one incident when a gas station in the city of ashdod was hit and one person has been seriously injured in fact that is the most serious incident so far ninety percent of the rockets that are coming from gaza are intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile defense system on friday night three missiles were intercepted over the skies of tel aviv and i was at an open field when this happened and it's almost surreal people who rushed out of a cars and is almost a few seconds before they can get to the ground or hide behind some kind of building many people just watching this interception in the sky and when it happened there was this huge applause that went out from people on the street where i was but certainly people are afraid what we're hearing from israeli.