please. greetings and salutations pull up any major action movie in the last half century hawk watchers and you can you can probably be pretty guaranteed that about half the city is going to be destroyed before you reach the end credits almost any michael bay film or ninety's aarakshan pick and you'll see the same formula destroy a city kill bad guy walk off in the sunset with plucky sidekick and super attractive costar who is in distress for most of the movie. what's often left out

of these films or at least barely acknowledged in any real emotional way is the civilian death toll that every john mcclane or james bond leaves in their wake family crushed by the plane vin diesel just blew up over los angeles to kill a scenery chewing gary oldman just doesn't make for a good popcorn experience in action films but if you think if you think hollywood is bad at recognizing real world consequences nobody and nothing nothing holds a candle to the head in the sand act the u.s. government and the pentagon plays when it comes to the deadly consequences of blowing up cities to kill bad guys and this was never more on display than in the three months each taking place in the syrian city of rocco were coalition forces have been bombarding the city with air strikes under the auspices of destroying isis the loss of civilian lives has gotten so bad that we had one anti isis syrian

activist from rocket told the intercept that quote the airplanes are heavily strike in the city and many of the places they are targeting are empty of isis fighters and full of civilians the number of civilians being killed today is much more than the isis members. but but if you're not talk watch your spear not because our action hero secretary of defense james mattis promises that the innocent civilians in iraq i know the difference between the good guy the prizes their mother and the bad guy prizes their brother he told reporters quote we're not the perfect guys but we are the good guys and the innocent people on the battlefield know the difference . and then secretary mabus marched off into the sunset with jonah hill cracking wise by his side and megan fox on his our. ballots start watching our.

the. real thing. as a lot of. you know that i got. it so. well it was in the dark so i am tired and out of the wallet. this is. how do you miss that i hear black liar way dropping bombs on places that. scott to finish up the packet of is actually a day oh you know you've got me behind it really is astounding really about it this morning i mean where they would you would you have a secretary of defense who really actually believes that the people who are on the ground being rained you know with bombs dropped or cafes blowing up next the.

terrorists or u.s. warplanes or all that can actually tell the difference between like oh the good guys dropped about bombs so we won't be as many. that's the ideology that they really think happens so so what we're saying is that matter doesn't understand how war works how terrorism starts. you might want to you might want to look that up in what you might want to spend a little time thinking about that because now when you have people going in and investigating which there has been a lot of talk where are the death tolls why is this what's got what's really going on and you know so donna teller of arrow who's a senior crisis response advisor at amnesty international she led the on the ground investigation into what's been going on there and what she had to say as the battle to rest from islamic state intensifies thousands of civilians are trapped in a deadly labyrinth where they're under fire from all sides so the u.n. estimates that there's anywhere from ten thousand to fifty thousand and

a sense of million still trapped in iraq so a lot of them most of them are thought to be sort of holed up are being held as shields but either way you you have the last isis members them innocent civilians and you're dropping bombs on really whoever's left over it really is ridiculous and we've seen this from from almost every side of the syrian conflict when it comes to dropping bombs in a place where there's the u.s. or russia or everybody's been dropping bombs and then in country you see it in yemen saudi arabia you know there's this idea of the bombs are perseveres and they're just not ok. yeah you might be able you know maybe more times than not you get in your caravan of bad guys but at the end i care i'm in a bad guys in the middle of the desert is a little different than a neighborhood a block exact at all of a city that's really people you're looking at war one of the things about fire and really funny is how the media kind of covers this because it's like you know you

look at another quote you know what they love to quote when it came to you know bad things of the sob to do is people that the britain based syrian observatory for human rights we all know right you know now they're having to report that airstrikes in iraq and just last month they killed forty two civilians including nineteen children and twelve women are women the odd diverse group iraq is being slaughtered silently said thirty two people were killed in airstrikes in one neighborhood alone and they all blame the u.s. led coalition there because what's happening is you have the people that we believe are the moderate rebels on the ground calling in the airstrikes so you know you hope that these sometimes al qaeda members sometimes and i don't know i'm really confused about who's on what side over there at any moment as we all are now are calling him strikes on isis or they could be calling him strike some people they don't like you were amiss with the bit where now they're fighting we're just throwing weapons out and seeing what happens and it's not just these airstrikes and

it's also the actions of people on the ground because one of the issues has been keeping you know in any war you want to keep supplies away from those who are fighting and obviously so part of the deal was that they survivors had told people to stand or national the coalition forces were targeting boats anything that was trying to cross the euphrates. on july second a coalition commander u.s. lieutenant general steven j. townsend said that he told the new york times on july july second we shoot. we find . so that route is is an escape route for refugees this is indiscriminate attacks on boats is making it harder for people to get out and once all of that rubble that we see is earlier you're going to find a lot more people you're only how to bodies they can find and identify now once you

are about it it's going to get awful. first they came for the offense of social media then they came for the statues the now they've come for the movies the orpheum theater in memphis has been showing the oscar winning gone with the wind as part of its classic series for thirty four years but today after its screening two weeks ago they theater announced the film will be polled in the future due to overwhelming criticism on social media so as the nation struggles to decide what monuments are acceptable for public display and what degree of controversy we can tolerate on social media. reports on the latest front in the modern era culture wars orpheum theatre group in memphis tennessee has screened the classic film gone with the wind each of the past thirty four years now this year screening on aug eleventh coincidentally coincided with a white nationalist evening march in charlottesville virginia ahead of a unite the right rally that ended in three deaths according to theater group

president brett batter since the screening prompted numerous comments that led to a decision not to run the film next year patterson said as an organization whose stated mission is to entertain educate and lighten the communities it serves the orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population the one nine hundred thirty nine film takes place in the american south against the backdrop of the civil war long criticized for glorifying slavery when orpheum theatre group announced its decision to pull the movie memphis resident wendy thomas praised the decision on facebook saying slowly but surely. we will read this community of all tributes to white supremacy but backlash after the announcement was much louder katie hydro not sure if anyone really complained or your theater just decided to be cowered sheep and given to mad this way you should be ashamed underneath dixie grey pointed out how do you make daniel was the first black american to win an oscar with her costar in the role as

mammy in gone with the wind i guess her achievement is also gone with the wind sad how to make danielle was not only the first african-american to win an academy award she was also the first to be nominated for acting it would be more than two decades before another african-american actor would win and the comments continue to pour in with outrage and calls to boycott the theatre orpheum c.e.o. said the screening of this film is something that's questioned every year but the social media storm this year really brought it home we reached out to theater representatives for reaction to the backlash against their decision and have yet to hear back in washington cmon dollars r e o r t. fascinating story story you know to me there's a difference between commemorates someone like robert e. lee a general someone who slaughtered people someone representing you know an ideology but a movie ultimately you can't escape the fact it's

a piece of artistic expression right so that's a different that's not saying we're honoring something that's making a movie about a book about a time frame of us history right and that's the thing about that movie is that it's not as if the slave owners it's not as if the white people come out looking so great on a good boy i mean it really shows how utterly ridiculous that all was and hit on some really important issues that the book and also the movie they did it also here's the other flip to this too is that i understand when people say this statue in that park bothers me i. i have to walk by that she was going to praise they are like are wonderful and can you know better exactly general that's different. book you choose to go into the theater and watch you choose to pick up the book and read it and to me it's like if for every time you want to criticize the right for you know being morally superior oh you know this books has sex in there this book has

witchcraft it like harry potter you know care every time of that side tries to say we need to get rid of this book or not let children suter ban the book now you have the love doing this extreme thing and saying ok this movie that took place that was you know written in a time in history about a time in history now we need to boycott and ban and not let this movie because of them as ridiculous as it is where i wonder how much of this is actually a group of people who are really upset and how much of it is people are people who are more on that right who are in the new free speech movement where it's not really about free speech it's really sort of making a point how many of these people online and how many people are just doing it to make the point like well well what would you do if we said you can't work out not the wind i mean the internet is one of those places where people don't do things because they really believe it they do it because then everyone else is and you get a laugh and the fire store and you know i look this leader it's a private business they can choose to show this or not they can take it down or

they're not choose to show that that's their right as a private business let's not forget that but to me i think you know it's a different it's apples and oranges and i'm talking about something that you have to walk by that's locked in the public sphere and something that you have to physically go buy a ticket to go in and see no one's forcing you to see this my taxpayer dollars are paying to keep. it all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are dot com coming up radio host author and sociobiologists back across to the park service to discuss the benefits the dangers and the future of predictive analytics it's fascinating you don't want to miss this. they tend to watch the locals. all the world this day and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties aren t. america playing r.t. america offers more. in many ways the news landscape is just like the theater and in the end you could never house when you're on some other car company playing all

the world's a stage all the world's a stage all the world and we are definitely a player led. all the feeling of knowing something. everyone in the world should experience sleep and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just. welcome our world come along for the. the modern era is often referred to as the information age and for good reason as coders replace factory workers and algorithms push out heavy machinery we truly

live in the area where data reigns above all as a socio biologist and futurist rebecca cost us so eloquently put it in our book on the verge every day our ability to anticipate future outcomes grows more acute more all encompassing and extends further out this sea change has a quip today's leaders with previously imaginable power the power to respond and shape events before they occur we stand on the cusp of what darling darwin himself might have called pre adaptation the ability to adapt prairie we sat down with cost earlier to discuss how the modern deluge of information is changing our ability to shape the future. well i think data is forcing our hand as you know we began with data production that became the name of the game in the seventy's and eighty's and into the ninety's and then after that we had so much data we couldn't really put it to good use and so we went through

a data analysis phase but we've now moved out of data analysis into predictive analytics models which allow us now to forecast with unprecedented accuracy in other words the future you know as much as we like to say the future is unknown there could not be a more false statement the future is in fact unknown and once you know what the future is it dramatically affects how you make decisions today and that is what our leaders are up against i can give you some examples if you like please do. so let's talk about for example the opioid epidemic. right now several industrialized nations are trying to deal with people who are started out with a prescription drug and now are hopelessly addicted to opioids it turns out the company name fuzzy logic so i don't mind using their name they by using medical

records and looking at public activities behaviors of human beings they can identify up to eighty five percent of those people who are predisposed to become opioid addicks so that that first doctor's prescription need never be written in this way we can get out ahead of our problems we don't need to have these problems because we have the analytic ability now to prevent them. and it's interesting you brought up fuzzy logic speak when they started in the health care field and then now they they actually do predictive modeling for financial sectors banking. retail all of that and predictive modeling has been very helpful in getting diabetes health related things we're now able to see a little bit better but what i wonder what the consequence is because getting the data is not

a problem we sort of give that out for free in our daily lives of social media and everything else what are the consequences of having that kind of power to be able to model these things and predict things with data. and what are the long term effects that that kind of power has on leadership. well it has a tremendous power because it means that those with the data and the analytic abilities those with the predictive models will dominate let me give you an a another example in business a business example because of health care we could look at the fact that we now have genetic profiles on people and we know the predisposition that they have for certain diseases certain cancers all the time. even baldness at the time that they're born we can do genetic testing and then we can act prophylactic lead to help them in many cases we can do certain kinds of genetic treatments to prevent diseases this is a power we never had before and so we can easily understand that health care but

let's look at business once businesses and i'm talking about the largest retailers in the world discovered that as the climate warms milk production in cows goes down so as the season warms up their productivity in producing milk starts to go down as soon as they saw that relationship they began tapping nasa's meteorological data and then locking in milk prices before it temperatures went up while while the other bats that's getting way out ahead of the curve and so people who have these predictive models are able to use these models to eliminate all risk and now their words predictive analytics is the and of risk through using these insurance companies will no longer have group health care programs they'll have individualized programs that will have absolutely zero risk because

based on your your behaviors the environment that you live in and that you work in based on your genetic predispositions all that data will come together and they will be able to put it insurance plan together that is uniquely adapted to you i have to because asylums both incredible but also. having to anybody just kind of curing us of this is a very you know futuristic can predict them seems also a little invasive with the amount of information that they would have are there any you know downsides to corporations or political leaders or whatever or having this kind of you know ability to see into the future so to speak what would. the boehm sarge i get asked this all the time and i have to say that any time we come up with any new technology any time we progress in society there's going to be a down side someone's going to abuse it i mean that would be like saying you know what if we only hadn't come up with the internet we wouldn't have hackers critical

or true. true if we want to have hackers without the internet you know and we would have people we would have identity theft yes there's always the potential but we can't allow the downside to prevent humanity from progressing what we now have in terms of data allows us to evacuate entire cities in advance of hurricanes as we see going on right now it allows us to to forecast diseases in advance it allows us to to take action when a currency like the euro is being threatened by the debt of greece those were all predicted boggles what i don't think people understand is this is happening now this is not science fiction this is not going to happen in the future businesses are using predictive models today as we speak so with health care so where the fine is so is the financial industry every industry and every leader every economy will

now be able to do something in the present to affect a future outcome now think about this think about this this means that we now are taking action over events which have not manifested yet they haven't occurred yet and this automatically throws it into a political argument doesn't it because half the people are going to say that's never going to happen and the other half are going to say yes but we have data and it is going to happen which is exactly what's going on with climate change it's become a political football you know you're exactly road exactly one of these things that that sort of gets me is when you read all the self-help books you know it's all you have to do is to. something ten thousand times or get a certain amount of habits and then there's all the success but failure which is you know failure is the opposite of set of success it's what most of us are trying to avoid we don't want to fail but all failure isn't created equally how has this

you know predictive modeling and big data and the study of it change how we look at how we should look at failure. well one of the things i explain to people is is that in a highly complex environment you have to make friends with failure and that is because the definition i use of complexity is there are more wrong options than there are right ones and the number of wrong ones are growing exponentially now in an environment like that you can't stop and try to call it right. what you've got to do is what you do with your investment portfolio as an example there's an example of a complex dynamic environment certainly you don't go out and put all of your money on one stock if you have then good luck to you you're just gambling but what you do is in a complex environment you spread it around and as bonds go up stocks come down maybe real estate investments go up and stocks come down you know you hope to have

a diversity that you're going to come out ahead in the end and that is also true and in any kind of complex dynamic environment like the one that we're going through right now until predictive analytics can for certain predict the outcomes of virtually everything we are left with trying to daven gate a very complex environment where there are more wrong choices that there are right ones and the best way to do that is to use diversification even venture capitalists only get it right ten or fifteen percent of the time and think of the due diligence that they do so you know you're not going to call it right on. all the time make it allowing said make friends with failure but here is the key fail fast and move on. good bad leg good it's a very great bit of advice fail fast of a movie pick yourself up keep going and going there that we all could agree to that

i have one big pile and one final question because this kind of struck me is weird is something like let's say you know a chaos theory get into predictive analytics knowing that you know the predictability of the unpredictability of the world where words that fall and predictive analytics. i will tell you that there will be no more unpredictability we will know the outcome of absolutely everything in the future the only question that remains is will we take action you know we're finding out in the terrorists attacked in barcelona in the paris terrorist attacks in two thousand and fifteen as we go backwards we find that these terrorists gave us every clue we had warnings on the two thousand and fifteen paris attack from from turkey and from iraq they knew exactly the sounds they knew the actors but the problem is that we find out about this after the fact and so the real question is if we have the data if we know the

probability is in the ninety nine percent tile that these enough areas actors are going to committed act what are we prepared to do great question to rebook or cost american social biologist host of the some because of radio program the cost reporter and author of a new book on the verge also interview thank you so much for coming on very very very interesting stuff. thank you so much for having me i appreciate it. a former staff member of the british embassy in paris said on facebook recently that french politicians all look like film stars whereas the stress and fatigue apparently hiding under a lot of very very expensive make up former president spent a famed eleven thousand dollars a month of french taxpayer funds on a hairdresser while simultaneously pushing through bills that would diminish the rights of workers in the nickname shampoo socialist not unlike his predecessor

nicolas sarkozy who is penchant for luxury vacations and pricey ray-bans turned more than a few eyes sideways when he spent eight thousand dollars a month on his make up now french president emanuel. is letting his aristocratic swagger as. i'm through with the big beauty bill of his own french magazine love point reported but the president spent nearly thirty thousand dollars on a private makeup artist during his first three months in office but his stick housewares the expenses were a matter of urgency and that it's still less than what is this predecessors and i don't know maybe i was born with it maybe it's just fantasy. i think graham i mean i think most politicians kind of err on the side of gravity these days when you really cut down with powerhouse and that's a lot of money a lot a lot of money clearly what role does it look as good as these two and there's not

even any way glitter or a bit doubtful that is cars are going to where everybody remember him as world we're not told real love develops or tell you well i love you i am i robot and i'm talking to while watching those hawks out there of a great day at the but. i've got to just. if you're watching all of your. peers will people been saying about rejected in the us actually it's the law in austin the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than food nothing's better and see people you never heard of love redacted

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you know what they're working. on larry king now brigid every time forty five and my career is just sort of really kicking into gear i think any time you're a little bit different you have to wake the people up and let them see it and it's just taken a while i think that's part of like by my actors so like a large and aggressive and sexualized because i i feel like i was being ignored or not really getting opportunities because i have this body i look different than you know i don't know how in pairs or as a test saying or somebody like that but. i have something to say to i want to be a rock star and like a storyteller and somebody that has to sing in training around a piano so how does this create to have him plus put so when she should. have once my mom's favorite it's called what i got to do to get that my mouth. i can't

believe i just said that's larry king live he sings of all next on larry king now. the larry king now mice. question guess is bridget everett comedian actor musician we're now in cabaret perform and she's been named the most exciting performer in new york city by the village voice and rock and riotous by the new york times bridget's band the tender moments as an album available on i tunes she tours the country with her comedy act and she stars in the new movie patty cakes about an aspiring rapper from new jersey had a case will be in theaters august eighteenth to talk about petty cakes in a bit but cabaret act is that a lost art you know it's funny and i have a hit at home and you don't hear it too much but when people first started saying like you know if i would like a comedy festival whatever they'd be like what do you do in my friend she's

a cabaret singer i be like showed up because it's not like a cool term really but in new york it's it's really thriving this is on or there's a ton of people doing you know just a different version of like the standard old so i was having a tells like what is a cabaret well to me a cabaret is singing and telling stories you know it's like the combination of those two. you know there's like the old guard that would be like so to. reflect of stories and i do the same thing but i just sort of. you know it's a little bit wrong as i meant but it's doesn't have to be bronte a great standard of the day barbara cook yeah she's a good boy yeah we had this dream there were my friends call a school and us and the v.m. bon and we all went to team up like old school new school and bar because for cole and i was going to be with a paddle upon and it was i don't i think she's old school i think the pollen is legendary and it's all about her i mean you said

a few years ago the wilder i become on stage the quieter i become in real life yeah what i mean i don't know i think that i spent all my formative years trying to like get noticed and karaoke bars that was crippled like the only job i could get it's not really a job but i just found myself like going wild in my shows and you know like ripping my shirt open and like i interact with the audience a lot and i think that i just the more i put out the less i have left of me and so i would just sort of when i would go to a party or something i'd be like what am i doing here is yours and like anything goes yeah it's like a motor scale it's a risk but it's not like for the sake of being risque it's sort of it's just my way of like interacting with people and getting to know them and sort of seeking them alive in a way. but i call. tender like you do a couple the roxy songs and then you course you have to have heart to balance it or

it's just as is the sex was so wrong she's like well i have once my mom's favorite it's called what i got to do to get that my mouth. i can't believe i just said that to larry king live isn't it. but you know i had difficulty. but i have a song like my most popular song is called and it's about i wrote it for my mom actually when she got breast cancer she's fine but she when i grow up we use a color beaver tails because she had these like long well hang in there. yeah but i. you know i was saying about the loss of my sister and my my dad and so it's not just all just you know pounding you are also a large woman yeah most people groom and try to play bad yeah you have a lot of body confidence right well i think that's part of like why my act is so like large and aggressive and sexualized because i feel like i was being ignored or

not really getting opportunities because i have this body so i wanted to i wanted to present the full all of me because i feel like that it's you know it's i look different and you know i don't know how it pairs or jessica testing or somebody like that but. i have something to say too and it's just in a six foot tall package that likes to make friends of people in the audience i guess you first funny and then saying oh do you sing for i consider myself a singer i studied opera. yeah but i i hung that up when i realized i couldn't. have to have a real clean living have a clear crystal voice so you mentioned patti wood poem perform with her carnegie hole like. it was incredible i was at the bank deposit in my tips i waited tables for twenty five years and my friend scott whitman called and he has a patio opponent seats in a show that we did together and he and he's in there like he which one if you'd

want to sing a song with patti at carnegie hall like six months before i just told my agent that i was like you know i'm never going to sing at carnegie hall and here i was get an opportunity to do it with somebody who i think is just the queen to do one song with i did one song we saying me and bobby mcgee and then after i left the stage she stopped the show and she talked about me for several minutes and just telling people that what i was doing was unlike anybody else and people said come down and see me at joe's pub so it was pretty cool what was it like to share a stage with. heaven she's gracious. so she's like by onic you know she's like a broad and but incredibly talented i just saw her do warpaint on broadway and her voice is better than ever it just keeps getting better she's a she's a force she just stands at the end of the stage and it just comes out and she just it's effortless and i just aspire to have like the longevity that she's at carnegie hall perfect acoustics right is incredible you need

a mike you don't. care it's what it's like a moment i'm sure you've you know been on essays many times and it's i've been on it twice and you stand there and it's like this is like a seminal moment when all those you had that just kind of all wondered about going to church itself which so tell me about this year it's about a new jersey girl who's an aspiring rapper yeah pattycake says patricia dunn brodsky and she's. she's not a typical anjan hoover she wants to be a rapper and she's trapped in small town in new jersey and i play her alcoholic mean bitter mother who had dreams of being a rock singer some other comedy not well it's a funny movie it's like serial comic but my part is dramatic so that was a first for me to get it. well they're part of the sundance labs and called me was like do you want to go work with this first time writer director sunday as i was like no because it's not because i didn't want to work with them but because i

thought i would fail and i have a habit of self sabotaging myself but my friend convinced me to go and. the worst thing that happens is i spot robert redford walking around those well jean shorts or is talking about that i'm doing all right but i fall in love with and it's been a life changing experience for no movies yeah yeah in fact like when i was there i was surprise you know like with any comic or comedian or funny person you know the play the pain sort of right at the skin. and i think that this gave me an opportunity to access that i wasn't that hard let's watch a clip from teddy gate showing. for me it's. legit ditched the day would come sit on call joe's left i want to count you frank rich.

they said think of the shit. oh hey this you know it's a real treat to night. patricia but if you. are going to grease pipes you know you're old lady she was a real piece of a back in the day and still got it. one more. seriously what you might have a nice time to. come up with there you go. one more day. with the spread no. not. it's better for compared to something well. almost almost right. i'm on. the.

go. to family right. now i'm sticking to. the hollywood reporter wrote of your performance also outstanding is everett he had a four known as a leading new york cabaret singer still looking on the younger side of middle age she is nonetheless not afraid to come off here as gross and repellent a frustrated woman who never had the career she wanted his letters of go and has done nothing to repair her daughter for a better life than she's had discus send you on your way to a new type career we'll see. i mean it was it's a great experience and it's a really wonderful movie i'm happy to be a part of your feel about the role how did you get into. well she's you know like i said i waited tables for twenty five years so like that feeling of frustration and

feeling trapped in your life and like things got away from you it wasn't really that hard you know and i had. my mom you know she's a single mother drank off i just really related to her sort of instantly it was really more about just getting over the fear of. being an actor or whatever because i write my own stuff i you know i write direct i do everything for my own so so it was it was interesting to let go and let somebody else you know if you had someone direct you well i mean you yeah jeremy that wrote and directed this he wrote all the music in the lyrics all the raps and everything it's his first movie and i just immediately trusted him enough and i felt comfortable and safe with him if it weren't for him i never would have been able to do something like this some of our viewers know you best probably from inside amy schumer yeah what have you done with her. change your life she's changed my life she's another angel what we've got it just for laughs comedy festival maybe two thousand and nine or something and she

asked me to go out on some road dates with there and i was like i'm a cabaret singer i'm not really like i'm not going to work in a comedy club and she's like trust me they're going to they're going to like you i like you they like you so she took me out on some road so i was and then she started her show up in she would feature at the she would close every season with me singing a song in joe's pub and so it's incredibly generous for somebody to let somebody else close out their season other sell and see and i've toured all around the country with tell me you have your own show premiering on amazon yeah called love you more when the going to that comes out september first i wrote it with bobcat goldthwait michael patrick king and. yeah it's love you more was it about it's it's about it you know like a woman with a messy personal life that's great at her day job but she has a big heart and she's working towards feeling like she's worthy ally. and my roommate is played by loni anderson here. how is she doing oh my god she's incredible she's so her performance in this is funny and beautiful and really

touching and she's like an angel i'm sure you've met her on the way yet see this is all your baby right yeah yeah you know it you'll be a big time now baby well of the scratching and scratching the crawl and getting beyond cabarets yeah so they have bridget on her seemed good telling her guilty pleasure of creating old words will be right back. it's called the feel we don't really go to. everyone in the world should experience fleas go and you'll get it on the open roll in. the world according to just. look up the modern world come along for the ride to.

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necessity i think like that's at the stage so. and i wanted to be a rock star and like a storyteller and somebody that has to sing and drink around a piano side is create have you have a rough patches yeah who doesn't who doesn't or does d d h d you stand for well l.l. cool j. . oprah on one of those live classes that she does. you know as it stands for dreams on have deadlines and something that he's he says and at first i thought that was so corny but like now i just want to tattoo it all over my body because it's true i mean my i'm forty five and my career is just sort of really kicking into gear so you know you have to hold on to something when you're not living the dream and i are bigots to live the dream but you know when tables wasn't something that i thought i would be doing for twenty five and you a good way to is. was you farrah by fake i mean it was pretty horrible but i did

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actually what we both do as we go on petfinder dot com because you know i love to look at rescued animals like out this my dream is that i have a houseful of them while you home on saturday night because like my my professional life is the social life you know you going to date. i'm single. who never fails to make you laugh. amy. schumer best piece of advice you ever got. to jump off the cliff and take a chance on yourself. what's your go to karaoke song. that you are in all honesty or is that the worst piece of advice you ever got. that ideas are stupid don't listen to yourself something you wish you were better at. golfing best compliment you ever got

my mom came to see my show and she said that that was freedom and mouse and good line strangers fan encounter. gloria steinem came to one of my shows set up a little legacy was coming from a premiere and i see walked in late i turned around i was like. just never i've never really respect recovered from that because she's the queen is this something you belong to believed to be true and realize wasn't. finds its way to everybody. you're right tell me something we don't know about you . i didn't know that about the breasts revolving. something they don't know about me i. don't know i'm such an open book i guess.

we're open book yeah maybe that's it i don't know secrets there's no secrets we have some social media questions i guess god s. do you ever get nervous about interacting with the audience at your shows things can get physical what does he mean well i mean like the motorboating and pick women up and play him like a guitar because a says that once its. enclosure show by sitting on someone first me do the airplanes like the big you know like you know i filed them and then i was on their face i know that that sounds like very involved but it's really just to make everybody feel alive though erotic it's not it's not meant to be erotic it's meant to be something else but. i don't get nervous i feel in charge how do you decide to do that sit on someone's face just seem like a good idea and i've never been able to shake it oh jeez stink baby what's your

favorite kind of pizza. mushroom fresh mushroom don't like us suffer macan no thank you garvey eighty seven i would love to hear your thoughts about growing up in rural kansas i worked for your brother bread and you two are polar opposites we are our very different my brother has four kids he's a republican i'm you know lefty. it was good i grew up in a college town and city met in kansas the little apple university i can say university is a great place to grow up. but i cannot wait to get out i love to go on a visit but it's just i don't know i like you know walk into the park and being on the swim team and all that cool stuff and my brother was the mayor so as my dad so i'm basically like kennedy except for other things and they are yes it was my dad you go to kansas state now i went to arizona state i got a scholarship for saying in and i was out liza foster sixty eight tweets why aren't

you a superstar yet well that's a good question it is a good question and i think you're known wow she's super known i think any time you're a little bit different you have to wake the people up and let them see you and it's just taken a while but i'm not going anywhere where your act is very different right yeah but you know it's people come and they come back again and again and again so we would you try a lot of things right dramatic you adventuresome now i'm terrified that's the thing that people know about me i look don't they i have i'm terrified but you see it on people's faces. it does seem like a little bit addictive contradictory yeah now that i think about it but it's like in my personal life i'm so i'm not as assured as i am on stage or as

a performer for some reason that this feels like the superhuman part of me and for sure in control because i'm in control and when i'm not in control that i guess that's why i stay home with my date night is the mexican side of my dog poppy is that something you would like to try but i haven't. maybe the dancing with larry king. wakil we do that are you performing anywhere near here i'm not going to do that you know. yet i've got to you've got a great life i'm. here a legend you know i want to put a about i want to be the black mark on that the new goals changed over the years yeah my goal is always just like whatever the thing is in front of me and i think the last couple years have proven to me that i can be better and go further than i ever dreamed of he said about patti cage i'm really excited up how to cakes i'm

excited about love you more because it's it's like the funny side of the serious side of me and you know and writing and everything and. i'm just constantly waiting for a new thing to happen so someone you get in august mentions your family over politics. my brother brad and from kansas is a triumph and he's not i thought i found out that nobody in my family voted for term which is really stressing me out like i can't go home you know especially now the you know the more the tide swells it's really difficult but. my nieces there are feminists and my and i'm a brother voters so trumbo he didn't i think he voted for that i'm sure he voted for the third party and there's no way voting for hillary but. yeah we. we disagree on some things what do you make of trump. i mean if feels

like he's a a little boy with big toys and he's not really thinking about the consequences of his actions and it's really scary do you use him in your act. well i wrote a song that for all my girlfriends actually have the ring on it's called back. grabs but yeah and all the proceeds go to planned parenthood and you can get it on my website but that's really i'm not like a political comedian or singer is i mean i am in the way that i am what i am and sexualize woman is political in itself but i don't really like to comment on things specifically but but as you know a feminist and a woman when you know when that happened like with the you know gone by the you know whenever i was like i cannot live with this and a mandatory tay is a writer and humorist and she coined that phrase and i'm going make that into a song so my band and i wrote it and it feels very cathartic to sing it and people love it great many of which is

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blow into a market of washington d.c. and welcome to the big picture in fewer than twenty four hours donald trump will be sworn in as the forty fifth president of the united states and when he does he will almost certainly be met by a media resistance both in congress and in the streets arguably no president elect

in modern history has posed as serious a threat to the political fabric of this country trump's agenda is reaganism on steroids it's brought violent white supremacy ism into the mainstream and if an act it will move america farther and faster down the road to a corporatist oligarchy what f.d.r. called fascism when f.d.r. famously said the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself that is its essence that in in its essence is fascism ownership of government by an individual by a group or any control in private power with a billionaire oligarchy president an oligarchy billionaires making up much of his cabinet these are dangerous dangerous times so how do we resist is it just a matter of getting out of the streets and making a show of force or do we need a new set of values to rally around and if so what are those values joining me now is someone who knows more than most about what it means to resist legendary

activist bill ayers former distinguished professor of education senior university scholar at the university of illinois at chicago bill is also the founder of the small schools workshop and the center for youth and. society is new book is titled demand the impossible a radical manifesto it's a must read as we enter the age of trump layers welcome thank you to is a pleasure to be here pleasure and honored to have you with us first of all the title demand the impossible talk about well i started off writing a pamphlet i really thought i was writing something that was going to intervene a year ago into the political conversation and i wanted to be short and punchy and i wanted to say to myself a lot of times we progressives know what we're against but what are we for and i thought it write a book about what we're for and as i thought about it i realize that there were there were demands that i thought were quite possible and yet they're outside the kind of given conversation so in health care if we have a conversation about should be preserved obamacare or should we go with full out

corporate greed and my response is there's a third option here and that option is free health care for all so i tried to take several issues and say what do i really believe what do we want what are we fighting for and i found this great quote from che guevara which was all over the walls of paris in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and i like the country diction in it the country diction is being realistic demand the impossible and frankly i think the book is completely realistic and yet it's not in the political discourse that's approved by the mainstream yeah unfortunately a lot of these ideas in fact took in some ways some would argue it took the sanders candidacy to push some of these well i sanders came to see let's also acknowledge occupy let's acknowledge black lives matter who put many of these ideas on the agenda and brought them into the mainstream but the the important thing is that we we sometimes get stuck in our imaginations get frozen and instead of saying this is

what we really believe we we end up kind of fighting defensive battles and so the idea was to say what do we want and as i wrote the book i realized that the big issues of the day even though i've long been. kind of caricature as the far left this and ultra left this and every issue of real importance to me i feel like i'm in the mainstream i've always felt that way but so i acknowledge occupy i acknowledge black lives matter and yes the sanders campaign did a good job of popularising some of this conversation we are watching right now as the. in the in the cabinet selections you know the senate hearings in the in the public statements in the public pronouncements it seems that the trump. team for lack of a better word is not just committed to rolling back the great society they're committed to rolling back the new deal and the and and and literally taking us back to the gilded age of the late nineteenth century and do you see is it your sense

that that's the greatest crisis we're facing how would you define the crisis such as on where you began was absolutely accurate and we may need a new language to describe it because somehow the word fascism seems so european and so twentieth century but the fact is it has a concrete meaning and what we were all thinking before the november election is that the trump candidacy trump ran on a platform that was explicitly fascist that is the core the merging of the corporate with government the disappearance of the public square the criminalizing of entire classes of people and on a none so what we have magine before november was that even though trump himself would be crushed this forces that he unleashed were going to be something we would have to deal with for a long time and it is a white supremacist organized force now in the west wing so i would say yes we are up against. a crisis that none of us has ever seen in our lifetime i think it was

absolutely reasonable for people to be shocked and surprised the day after the election i think all these weeks later we should not be surprised we should remind ourselves that this is the country we live in that this country has this shameful history that this shameful history rears up now and again and here we are facing something that i think is unprecedented but we are not starting from scratch either black lives matter is on the ground standing rock is resisting people are coming to washington to voice their opinions i think this is an exciting and terrible time in america and we all get busy and get organized at no time to no time to take a vacation here absent you open a book with a with a story about going to greece tell a sister well i went to. i was invited to give a talk at an anarchist convention and of course the first thing i said to them when they picked me up at the airport was are you sure you're anarchist because you're having a convention. and i said it was a little weird in any case i had a wonderful time with the young radicals in athens but through

a mutual friend i was introduced to him in the middle this glacis and i know this is famous to greece a national hero a national treasure now it is ninety's but he's famous because at the age of fourteen he took the fascist nazi flag off the acropolis. as the nazis were occupying greece and he was hunted his brother was killed and he was imprisoned for and tortured and now has risen as and as a national hero we spent the day together an island fire outside athens and it was a most moving experience but what part of what was moving about it we found a lot to agree about a lot to to talk about but. what was most moving to me was as we returned to the ship to take me back to athens moneyless said to me i think you face in the united states the same problem we face here in greece and that is that people don't really have confidence in themselves that they could run their own affairs with confidence

with optimism with hope we could actually run our own affairs without a big government without capitalism without bosses and sheriffs and mayors and i found that very moving he was in the mode of demanding the impossible we're seen the rise of neo liberalism in europe and you know from the euro zone the european union in some ways the austerity politics. that neo liberalism within the democratic party right now is under fire. arguably you know the the the confluence of neo liberalism and reaganism in the republican party and all of this kind of stuff and it seems like and in fact some of the some of the stuff coming out of davos right now where the billionaires are sitting around congratulating each other on how the how they're running the world it seems like in many ways it's starting to break down what's your sense of how the world order is well i think it's i think it's important that you point to that because i don't think trump is is simply an american phenomenon what we see is right wing nationalist governments fascist

governments really rising all over europe and the west and in many ways it is a rejection of thirty forty years of neo liberal policy and that's one of the problems that we face uniquely in this country which is the democratic party is ill prepared to represent a real opposition to this because it's really been a bipartisan effort that has walked us down this road to where we are a bipartisan effort has brought us permanent war a bipartisan effort has brought us to mass incarceration and a hollowed out economy and meaningless work and austerity so they are ill prepared . say now what we're going to rise up and represent a real opposition on the other hand trump selection represented such a hurricane such a kind of storm that who knows maybe they will start to find their footing i'm not hopeful in that direction what i am hopeful about is people on the ground getting

organized building a mass movement that can really make the kind of demands of what we deserve and build a movement that can really change things around the late tim carpenter who started this progressive democrats america's old dear friend and he talked about the inside outside strategy that we really need to not only have an outside movement but we also have to get inside the democratic party and i always on my radio show i'm constantly pushing people to go to your local democratic party bolland here become precinct committee person because they write the platform they determine is going to be the primary get real progress is in am i being pollyanna well i don't think you're being pollyanna in fact the way i would say it is we have to walk towards socialism on two legs one leg is the constant mobilization of people the other leg is the participation in normal politics on the other hand i wouldn't get to an emirate of that and that's what has worried me through my whole adult life that is

every four years the carnival comes to town and people who want to be political get sucked into that drama forgetting that what really changes things is mobilized people in real social movements from the ground up in other words lyndon johnson passed the most far reaching civil rights legislation since reconstruction he was a part of the black freedom movement franklin roosevelt was a part of the labor movement and abraham lincoln was not part of the abolitionist movement every of them opposed all those all of the earlier and later so you read lincoln's first inaugural address it's a law and order speech you then listen to harriet tubman or john brown on the gallows and you read lincoln's second inaugural address and you say that could have been written by apple. something happened but it wasn't a change that came from above it was fire from below sometimes i worry that we spend too much time staring at the sites of power we have no access to the white house the medieval auction block called the congress and too little time paying attention to the sites of power we have absolute access to the workplace the

classroom the neighborhood the house of worship this is where we should be mobilizing and organizing today in in the face of this trump election one of these i think we can all do is we can gather we can gather our neighbors we can gather our schoolmates we can gather our workmates and we can ask ourselves where are we on the clock of the world where are we in this in this long drama of this country and what's required of us now looking forward what do we have to do you know it's it is it is a remarkable time and time pregnant with opportunity absolutely and danger and i want to get into both of those with you particular meditations on the american dream that you and your book absolutely and just a moment we'll have more with bill ayres right after this break.

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welcome back to the big picture i'm speaking with legendary activist bill ayers whose new book is titled demand the impossible a radical manifesto bill you end your book with a meditation on the american dream what is the american dream well you know i think the american dream in many ways the way it's deployed by politicians is a myth and the myth is that somehow we're the exceptional people that were different then better than other people. and that's a treacherous treacherous path to go down so i want to think of ourselves as human beings i don't want us to think of ourselves as outside of or above the law of the laws that govern everyone else or the standards or the behaviors or the moral principles that govern all other people so the idea that somehow we have the right

to invade other countries we have the right to torture we have the right to. issue drone strikes against other human beings this is unacceptable and the behavior of the american government our government around the world if it were any other government we would be appalled i remember years ago we were world social forum in brazil and there was a wonderful workshop run by a latin american activist and he had a map of the world and he asked there were about one hundred participants he said put up a map put a pin on this map if the u.s. has a military presence in your country and the maps went up and the pins went up on the map and then he said and put up a pin if your country has a military presence in the u.s. and everybody laughed of course it makes sense to americans that we have air bases in the italian alps but what we think if the italians had an airbase in the adirondacks it's unthinkable and that's the kind of thing i wanted to challenge

this idea that we should think of ourselves as outside of the norms of civilized behavior historically if you look at the arc of history of the united states we have essentially rebooted a couple of times and each time it was provoked by a crisis first in economic major economic crisis followed by a by a war eighty years ago the great depression followed by world war two eighty years before that the crash of eighty fifty seven followed by the civil war eighty years before that the great economic crisis a seven hundred seventy followed by the american revolution actually another one eighty years before that you know there's a book called the fourth turning about this. here we are eighty years out from the last. major crisis the last major turning the last major revolution but those three turnings every single one of them because we had the founders that we had because we had abraham lincoln because we had f.d.r. turned america in a more progressive direction what are your thoughts about how

a crisis let's say that there was another economic crash for example it seems to me that two thousand and eight actually never went away they're just kind of holding it in abeyance or you know some some some sort of worldwide crisis whether it's a you know a war to taiwan china whatever i mean is a million million things that could that. that could be provoke a really problematic response i mean in thirty two we had f.d.r. at thirty three we had f.d.r. germany had hitler we both experienced the great depression we went in very different directions because the leadership now we have trouble what does that mean well it's a terrifying analogy you're making or comparison because absolutely when crises can lead to in many directions there's no guarantees history surprises us again and again and i don't think any kind of cyclical vision of history in the end holds holds up i mean i think that that new things are on the agenda new technologies new

possibilities and i think two thousand and eight certainly that economic crisis could have been a time to really hold the banks and the bankers feet to the fire it didn't happen now here we are eight years later and the crisis hasn't gone away you're right i think the crisis is in abeyance but there's another cycle that i'd point to in the last couple hundred years and that is the centuries old black freedom struggle which i think is is is absolutely at the center of our story of our collective story and i think that when i see progress happening i see it coming from the impulse of african-americans to be free to demand the impossible to man the end of slavery which was not popular which was entirely minority movement for a long period of time and then to win to sell for the brain and to win that struggle hundred years later we have the second. iteration of that black freedom struggle and here we are i think on the brink of of the third of the third rising

and that is the black lives matter movement which i think should fill all of us with hope optimism a view that we can change things and that these young people are not settling for with the democratic party has been selling these all these. years which is optics or diversity as opposed to justice in other words assimilation you know breaking the glass ceiling that's all well and good but what we want is justice what we want is an end to structural white supremacy and i think that's on the agenda right now and i don't think it's going away you. yeah what how would you characterize the activism of this you just characterize one dimension of the activism of this era but as if my recollection is correct from reading your book the. and i might be mixing next in this up to something else you were talking about how you know

decades ago just the idea of gay marriage would have been impossible absent and yet here we have it was asian wide that's how rapid change can happen when a group of people who are really committed to their own rights come forward what are the other dimensions of the activists of the activism of today that we should be paying attention to feeding nourishing and participating well you know i've mentioned before that the victories of the civil rights movement did not come from on high in fact i often think that you read a textbook about brown versus board of education the case that did away with supposedly with segregation in schools and you have to you know if you read a textbook it will say brown versus board of education opened up decades of activism that gets it absolutely backwards decades of activism led to brown versus board of education which lead to more activism in other words the idea that change comes from the good intentions of people on the top is always wrong just look at

the eight years of the obama administration who made progress who made progress were those activists and movements that didn't go to sleep that didn't sit down that didn't back up and i would put in that the environmental movement occupy black lives matter standing rock women. people and immigrant youth all these people kept at it and that's what led to good things i think chelsea manning being commuted her sentence being commuted was another example where it was thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people from the bottom who made who made that decision a possibility so i think that's our job that's what we ordinary people can do we don't command the levers of power but we can make ourselves heard sometimes in traditional ways street demonstrations which they'll be plenty of this weekend writing letters organizing campaigns but what's important is that everyone can

stand up for something everyone in a in a world is out of balance is this world everyone can find a place to dive in once you find that place to dive in and connect with other people who have dived in as well and that's how movements start we've we've talked about how crises can provoke change one of the great crises of our day is of our day is global warming where we're looking at the possibility i mean there are there are paleo geologic geologists out there be up people who look at the ancient rock history. who are suggesting that if the methane for example that is frozen the methane clathrates that are frozen around the world were activated were you know mobilized into the year simply by warming the oceans then you could produce something like the permian mass extinction ninety seven percent of all life die and i mean we're we're we're we're looking at a planet wide crisis to what extent does that play into all this and it and

how aware are people that well i don't know how where people are i think it's our job to be sure that we're aware and to make everyone else aware front page the new york times today we're in the third year of record warming globally so this is not a mystery and yet the people who are taking power in washington d.c. . one of the characteristics of a kind of right wing neo fascist kind of movement is to ignore science to ignore intellectual life the distain the arts well this is what the crisis that we're facing i look at something like standing rock though it take a lot of energy and hope from that because not only did they mobilize a successful movement but they combined the issues that need to be combined they combined environmental justice with indigenous rights with anti imperialism with a sense of fairness and justice for for all and they linked up the movements black lives matter was part of it and so on and so i think that i'm hopeful but i think

that the urgency you know a lot of people kind of hair wise the sixty's the so-called sixty's which i think is largely a myth i don't think anyone looked at their watch on december thirty first one thousand nine hundred sixty nine and said oh my god it's almost over you know it was it's both played up too much as a kind of wet blanket on activism today it's also nothing more boring than old people looking the style sickly at a ship that already left the shore but i think that one of the things that is true that can be said truly of the sixty's is whatever it was it was prelude to the urgency we must feel today it wasn't a thing in itself but the activism of those days the activism of the last forty years has to take on a new urgency not only to save ourselves but to save the world well and apropos of that in in this in the one nine hundred sixty s. in the late and sixty's you and i were both in as to yes in fact in some cases in

the same places. i didn't go down the weather underground path graduations well i had one close friend who did and ended up in prison i mean it's. but i'm curious your thoughts as somebody who did what lessons you learned from that that you would want to like. look into the camera and tell activists today do this or don't do this you know this is well you know i'm i'm seventy two years old now and i'm looking young activists and asking them to teach me and i don't feel like the old people have a lot of mentoring to do in that regard i think that kids are wiser smarter more aware more attuned. more beautiful than we were and so i look to them on the other hand i think that the rhythm of activism is always the same you have easy to say and difficult to do you have to open your eyes and see the world as it really is you have to be astonished every time at both the beauty and the ecstasy

that's everywhere around and also the unnecessary suffering that people visit upon one another you can't get used to it you have to be astonished then you have to act and then you have to doubt if the weather underground made one fundamental error it was we forgot to doubt in other words like a lot of other folks who become dogmatic and sectarian we were so certain and we were geared up so completely to do what needed to be done and that we didn't step back and say let's rethink this let's ask ourselves and if i were to advise activists that i would say always rethink always follow that rhythm keep opening your eyes keep being astonished keep acting keep doubting keep that circle going and the way you will evaluate your activism is a pedagogical standards in the standard is that educate others and that i learned something myself if you educate others and learn something yourself you're on the right track bill ayers honor to have you with pleasure thanks so much and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not

a spectator sport get out there get active tag you're it. leg length it's called the feeling of freedom to the lead everyone in the world should experience flamingo and you'll get the old the old. legs the old according to josh. the modern world come along for the ride.

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whole first half of the show on something the mainstream media won't touch with a ten foot pole which is actually a lot of stories i mean in fact this is c.n.n. storage facility filled with eleven foot poles they used to just keep the real news stories a brain and here's jake tapper using one to keep away an anti factory farm protester . not cool taps not cool but tonight let's talk about the fact that there was no russian hack of the d.n.c. server last year. it's one of those it's one of those who love the lady the lovely miss big thought or the loch ness monster or a threesome that doesn't leave someone crying. summit. and i want to go through the proof that there was no hack instead it was

a leak from inside the d.n.c. look you don't need to believe me ok in fact don't don't believe me why would you believe a lousy good for nothing comedian who in high school failed out a whole room. why would you put everything on the ballot to tell you is not coming from me i cannot stress this enough it's coming from a nation magazine article quoting a group of forensic investigators intelligence analysts systems designers program architects and computer scientists all day long. experience and strongly credentials basically people whose job titles alone give me a stroke. the group is called veteran intelligence professionals for sanity v.i.p.'s and they were founded in two thousand and three when they came forward to say there was no proof of weapons of mass destruction in iraq in fact the aluminum rods the media kept pointing to as proof of w m d were actually the eleven foot

aluminum poles they used to keep the truth they. were. the i p s now has thirty members coming from the n.s.a. the cia i.b.m. and more none of them are dirty dirty russians who want to eat your by a vase. these guys are patriots who yes want to eat your babies but it's. simply because baby meat is a delicacy i mean it's. nothing to do with russia. so you could doubt me you can hate me you can you can think i'm i'm i'm under intelligent and over harry and i say soon. after you're done thinking all those things you should realize that this info is not coming from a. so you'll recall. you were called in june twelfth of last year julian astonished announced that wiki leaks would publish documents pertaining to hillary clinton's campaign three days later

a hacker named cooter for two point zero appeared and took responsibility for the hack and posted documents online that contained russian language aka the language of the devil. on july twenty second wiki leaks began publishing documents that showed that the d.n.c. and hillary clinton were corrupt to an almost all laughable degree the maze through media call assess the situation and gave a very measured and in-depth analysis. you would see the president did cyber attack ordered by c.u. russian leadership the russians attacked our electoral system with russia meddling in the election russia's election meddling the russian government was behind the mail hacked into the democratic national committee russia act but the election they tried to interfere the russian attack on our election. or they made

heath ledger's joker look like a meditation tape of ocean sounds. a lot of better inside a sleeping baby bird. they furiously use gallons of ink and i are to talk about the supposed source of the leak rather than talk about the actual proven corruption it would be like if your house were on fire and rather than talk about how to put it out how to save the people inside how to prevent. fires you stood there going right . good bye but dude you're at your house the perfect day out i mean. ok ok just take a breath or i will go get a drink will stored all the rising are. now here are the main three points put forward by the intelligence and computer analysts who are not me number one there was no hack of the d.n.c.

system on july fifth last year not by the russians not by anyone else hard science now demonstrates it was a leak a download executed locally with a portable data storage device so basically there was someone in the d.n.c. with access to the computer system ok here's russia. here's the d.n.c. headquarters notice that russia is not inside the d.n.c. headquarters. in fact very far apart. a. number of qur'an trick of analysis of documents by the person known as good for two point zero show that they were fraudulent but for good or for posted them they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had russian as its default language group or took responsibility for the hack but forensic science now devastates that narrative and

number three the mainstream media has announced they will is your attraction for the past year of false coverage and apologized for manufacturing the consent of the american people for a new cold war rather than just looking in the mirror and admitting we live in a corrupt political system and here now is that brave retraction by our mainstream media. russia the russian hackers russian with the root structure inside been meddling putin's russian election attack russia russia russian russia russian russian meddling russians pac x.x. the targeted hillary clinton campaign. so maybe they got something criminal he. said waiting for the media apology about weapons of mass destruction in iraq and. it's just been going well. so let's let's get in let's get into the boring yet

amazing details i hack is very different from a leak a hack is done over the internet a leak is done in person with a storage device like like sticking a thumb drive in a computer basically it's the difference between phone sacks that can be done anywhere and a full on in person ok. a thumb drive. this was a thumb drive. how do we know it was a leak and not a hack well first of all the metadata shows that the download speeds are too fast for an online transfer the download happened at least twenty two point seven megabytes per second and therefore they stays what we've been calling the hack is impossible now now after the nation article came out some people argue that twenty two point seven is obtainable though rarely but it doesn't really matter because the investigators have since found that

a more detailed analysis shows that the peak copy speeds were in the range of thirty eight megabytes per second which is impossible for an internet transfer next timestamps throughout the method data suggest the transfer was done in the eastern time zone third these former n.s.a. and c.s.i. specialists know that if it were over the internet the n.s.a. would have only have proof of it so the fact the n.s.a. hasn't presented any proof is very telling. fourth. wall analyzing the layers of matter data the investigators found that the first five files grew to for made public at each point run through a single template that effectively immerse them in what could plausibly be cast as russian fingerprints they were not the russian markings were at all were artificially inserted prior to posting the leak of the cia's internet espionage

tools called vault seven show that programs designed to make things look like a little russian document are indeed in the cia's tool box and i want to throw one more note in here that is coming from me this is the only one point that is not coming from the intelligence analysts the entire reason that someone anyone would leak something to wiki leaks is to avoid being identified right there is no other reason to go through wiki leaks so why would wiki leaks announce they have d.n.c. documents and then google for two point zero come out a few days later and say he's the one who gave him the dogs right then i guess are the one who leaked through weekly leaks so you would know who i am. this way. surely this is going to cause if it's a boy. they were i mean yes ok that be like like signing up for tender arriving at the date and saying i am so not into sex i mean. gross you're not you're not into

that stuff are you. the only way you would make sense is if gucci for two point zero was either not a real person or he was hired to falsely point the finger at russia but if it was in russia though why did all seventeen intelligence agencies say he was russian as seventeen of our intelligence agencies have confirmed the intelligence community's. i have concluded all seventeen of them the intelligence community and all of its component parts seventeen agencies yes yes seventeen agencies came together in a moment of beautiful all inspiring you to do you really. say ok if you can as a cool guy yeah they gave me gathered and agreed that the mother should we're all up in our mother's action. and have concluded all seventeen of them. that

russia interfered with this election and we all know how that's right but as i pointed out in my statement franken there are only three agencies the directly involved in this assessment but but but but all all all all seventeen. welcomed this assessment plus more on all seventeen signed on to that well we didn't go through the process this was a special situation it was a special situation in which we were making up and. waiting to joel it through other people because they would have said that supply was. thank you thank you thank you these organizations have

a long history of lying to the american public when they feel it will benefit them and even so only poor agencies signed on to the russian hacking narrative and the intelligence community has still released no proof of anything right mcgovern a former cia analyst of twenty seven years calls it a disk race to the intelligence profession it is spotlessly free of evidence front to back pertaining to any events in which russia is implicated so why would so many of our politicians in our media jump on this law and ride it around like a cat i don't roomba why we want well as noam chomsky said control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than protests politics states a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force but as the state loses this weapon other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs which are none of their business the public are to

be observers not participants. so that's why our mass media tries its damnedest to ensure the people remain ignorant. how come our job tonight actually is to scare people to death on the subject so thank you brian yes. studies have shown people confuse familiarity with truth so if you just repeat rush or do it all day long people will come to believe it if you tell people buying crap makes them happy they'll believe it even as they get more depressed and if you repeat endlessly that ryan seacrest has some kind of talent people will think they are great. this is not to say trump isn't corrupt oh of course he yes he was in bed with mobsters before he was even a d.d. was even old enough to give consent all right. this is also not to say he doesn't

likely have shady criminal business practices with shady business people all around the world including russians he likely does just like the clintons have corrupt partnerships around the world all i'm saying is that currently there is much more proof out there that the russians did not hack the d.n.c. then there is proof that they did it and the apology of our maze dreamy via is common any minute and even the way. i'm being told we now have it we do have it it is a perfect part in far better get out of your pool and those who ignore these elemental existential facts democrats or republicans are triggers to this country apparently alex jones then made his breakfast salad. i think repeating flat out lies while defending the corporate interests that have gone into our nation and destroyed the lives of millions allowing a fascist corporate takeover while pointing a finger at russians or bertie voters rather than our own corporatocracy that makes

you a traitor to this country thank you thank you good thank you. the first thing is it was a very dark time and our so-called left wing media used to ridicule politicians who seem to be going down that mccarthyist path yet again now our media have become the exact thing they claim to despise most. mr olbermann you are today's worst person in the. decade the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money public restroom got a lot of boys that's how it is in the news polter in this country now that's where i come in. i'm michel martin america i'll make sure you don't get railroad

you'll get the straight talk in the straight news. but. i made a professional is powerpoint to show you how artsy america fits into the greater media landscape is not all right but we are a solid alternative to the. liberal or conservative and as you can see from this bar graph we don't skew the facts either talking head lefties talking at righties oh there you go above it all to look at world art see america is in the spotlight every lead might have no idea how to classify as it actually took me way more time than i cared. when you treat the. real that would be analyzing the bottom. line. like you i got.

architects of the cia's enhanced. interrogation program the psychologist james mitchell and john justin settled their court case with three torture victims defended by the a.c.l.u. . r r r lawsuit happy society is out of control you used to be you could just you could just torture some folks without all the hubbub you know now it's like it's like a thing with lawyers involved that anyway here to discuss is our resident torture those years they only go on a. series they don't know me. and we

are we are we actually suing war criminals it's believe there are no we're criminals they're just doing their job and someone has to employ psychology mangers . you know those college kids who are like i want to be a doctor i don't want to touch anyone take a more read any books. but i do want to get rich writing a self-help book titled i think love your curves or lose some weight that a. lot of that was there well i think i think most people go into psychology to help people i think you know i think don't psychologists don't even take the hippocratic oath so they don't have to help people they take hippocrates brothers. draco the chiropractor. and the draconian oath is i promise to do no harm unless the cia offers me eighty one million dollars. they paid to eighty

one million dollars yes yes i know the estimate from jess and mitchell and torture fiends incorporated sounds high for you know enhancing interrogation but you have to give them some credit for creativity you and i couldn't come up with a crazy thing to do to people like forced nudity forced feeding orally and. who would think to add force to that somebody great. only the. this is a real low point for the american experiment i think it was nothing but through me and such a brilliant moment to see that the head of the cia michael hayden try to defend the stupidity of government sanctioned rectal feeding. let's differentiate if we can for the sake of this conversation between the abuses the things that were not sent authorized to go not short such as the rectal rehydration stuff. that was

a medical procedure. that is a real patriot. i don't think you know how the human body works and how. your veins that way no need for pita bread or carrot sticks. are worse than all but a rug filled feeding aside it's the first time the c.e.o. or its contractors are being held accountable for torture that's this is store a cold moment the historical moment my hummus flavor ass. settled out of court so they wouldn't have to go to trial and reveal all the cia's mistakes in the hansing suffering the trials would last for a century and the judge would have to leave his family he wouldn't see as kids grow up imagine we started the trial with this mistake they cleaned their newly waterboarding thing juicy details about al qaeda from a prisoner when the information came primarily for my different terrorist operative

who was interviewed using traditional methods you know like talking. it's not the good now of the of evil it's the banality of really really badly then lying about it can't be real work for a mentally. incompetent. no this isn't this is it you see they were this is very intentional they knowingly broke the geneva conventions then covered it up but no one using the cover. unless you know you're doing something illegal to cover up but they have a full proof full of proof defense lawyers argue that they can't be held responsible because they simply did business with the cia like contractors who supply the nazis because i want to be. the nazis were found guilty of that certainly was defense everyone knows the nuremberg defense of just doing your job did not hold up yeah you're right. did go to jail.

whoops. well that's another historical moment in america when the cia uses. we're just like not seen. as a defense then again on air our yes. really. ever tries being is if ever a pervasive ever offensive part of our lives but a lot of the time we don't even notice it however we found one terrifying campaign in the tops of all our own troops bomb not only with jill investigative. while going to further grabbing hold of a quasi whopper of a child's first exposure to a bovine flesh but it's monarchy in a frightening ad campaign that spawned a million bedwetters across the world. actually

let's make that a million bad show. but in argentina b.k. is home to stacker day an annual event where the fast food monarchy slashes the price in half or at stacker burger no fewer than four big patties sandwich no affectionately to us fast food fans as a suicide burger on burger king secret menu this year in argentina along with your gigantic burger you get a. new car. burger king is building an artificial limb so that disabled people can eat there on the help the birds you know like really fifty percent of staggered a profits went to atomic lab in argentina lab that makes three d. printing press that it's to give out for free because apparently burger king is

being spent helping people without limbs getting new plastic appendages will somehow make you interested in eating a burger that looks like a terror alert chart for your cardiovascular system. but i know what you're thinking cattle you're being too skeptical of burger king's motives and i assure you my skepticism isn't rooted in the fact that fast food leaves the bascule are diseases that will increase the number of amputations in the u.s. to two point three million in thirty years or that hands free is actually the only way to get americans the eat something healthy. it's rooted in the fact that it's dangerous to rely on corporations to be our saviors especially when that same corporations ad campaign showed real burger king locations on fire in order to prove their burgers are flame broiled that ad seems as effective as an ad with a motel six on fire with the words will leave the light on for you what i'm talking

about is corporate social responsibility the idea that corporations care about issues or even make you feel like you did something good with your money just as long as it doesn't hurt their profits like when thomas promised to give a pair of shoes to a poor child a third world country for every pair you bought for the short lived three insulin pens and every cinnamon toast crunch box for the even shorter lived free parachute on every spirit airlines flight and in case you're wondering no they don't teach you how to open it and if you don't use it by the return trip they will charge you thirty dollars for a carry on. but corporate p.r. stunt social responsibility doesn't get at the root of any real problem and in argentina's case that problem. is their government failing and citizens living with disabilities disability laws are barely importers and opportunities for education and jobs are closed off leading to poverty and or help any progress that has been

made for the handicapped is because of advocacy on a grassroots level atomic level to borrow is getting at the root of the problem prosthetics are expensive and not only is he giving them out for free he's giving kids an opportunity to lie to their friends that their dad was half rock'em sock'em robot but that's different than burger king exploiting it to sell cow patties and they're still wait list for these prospects in the thousands and no guarantee b.k. will pass though the same generosity again so call me what a corporation is interested in systemic change and not making good at bass tracks amputation via diabetes to which i'm ninety nine percent sure i have no god only one of the cinnamon toast crunch and so intense. reporting from washington natalie we go back to tonight.

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voters elect a business to run this country business because. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that bird fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most elusive society on politics as a species of endless and needless political theater politicians more than just celebrity are two ruling parties are in reality one part of corporate and those who attempt to puncture the. breathless universe of the just sign to push through the rules and they're exploiting the little door for so far to the margins of society including by

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