shutting down its web site for now to fight the financial blockade that companies like these and master card and pay pal have put up against the whistle blowing organization so if the money doesn't start flowing again could it be the end of wiki leaks and one of the dangers here for the freedom of speech then the obama administration reportedly debated launching a cyber offensive in libya before they actually decided to go with cruise missiles and the drones right so how much closer does that make us to having cyber war become a concert reality or have all that for you tonight and more including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look what the mainstream media has decided to miss. so the mainstream media which so do it or fully reported on the arab spring while revolutions are breaking out in tunisia egypt is back on the revolution that wagon well of course either ignoring or mocking the occupy wall street movement right here at home but now those revolutions of taking place now they could off he's been killed the next question is of course what comes next and if unita elections is

visa and master card, they are really drilling down. thing you did not mention, there is a patent by master card to use d.n.a. data bank so way in the future they will use, talk about personal information, your d.n.a., to market to you. >>shepard: weird. hang on, i will bring in a financial advisor at chapman investments. is there anything we can do to keep them out of our shopping pattern? >>guest: you have to stay ahead of the game. in question, things are happening each day with new technology and you need to be aware. what you can do is actually ask when you do a purchase online, and that is what this is about purchasing online, they don't know who you are but they know your e-mail address and i have my e-mail address, my name in my e-mail, guess what they can go online and google and find out more information about me. what you can do is ask citibank or bang of america or the card providers including visa and master card for opt out a no third party suppression form. you can ask and fell it out but get them to fill out a letter, yo

just a matter of time really until that ran out in the companies involved are people like visa and master card pay pal bank of america and they're all financial got it all happened about a week or so after what's being referred to as cable gate when. the leaks from released all those. secret cables from u.s. embassies in the mattock service and now what's being referred to as. julian signs that he said he's calling this as a u.s. base concerted political attack and it's not from the government though they have actually seen this to be without any lawful grounds as has the u.n. high commissioner for human rights he says he's condemned the blockade instead says it's being carried out by politicized u.s. financial companies now they have actually pursued legal action they've opened. action in a number of countries where they have publication deals that iceland denmark the u.k. the e.u. us australia as well they've also lodged a complaint with the you the european commission now that's. a decision on that is due in mid november as to whether visa has broken any rules here but until that is really

. >>> operators of a.t.m.s not linked to banks are suing visa and master card.hose businesses are accusing the credit card companies of price fixing. independent a.t.m. operators have access to a variety of fees that process transactions. but master card and visa forbid any savings being passed onto customer if the a.t.m. has a visa or master card logo on it and most cards do have those logos. >>> the state of the nation's economy is apparently not spending people away from spending on halloween. the national retail federation predict people will spend more money on this halloween than last year. it's estimated that people will spend $1 million on adults' costumes and $1 billion on children's costumes. it's the candy that is bringing in the most money, an estimated $2 million. >>> let's brick you up to date on the -- bring you up to date on our top stories. one of the trains in the amtrak accident was moved from the scene and service is slowly but surely getting back to normal. >> police say a female victim is not cooperating after being shot around 69th avenue

the looksry department store chain will accept master card and visa next month. until now, it was neiman's card, american express or cash. and that's america's money. would >>> now "good morning maryland." >>> people living in northern colorado are using the shovel. early season snowstorm hit denver area and crews are twork restore service to thousands. are -- are working to restore service to thousands. >> pretty early. it's blocked off and telephone pole came down. >> most of the power is expected to be restored this -- expect to be restored this morning and if you have a flight through denver check the bwi website because there could be delays. lynette. >>> let's look at what's going on right now because as you can see, we are talking about denver. check out temperatures right now. 19 degrees. so oh, boy it's very cold there. cold enough to support the snow. so we are seeing this big pocket of cold air over the west right now. satellite and radar not showing any type of snow here. and you see a smile on my face. we doesn't. >> he to -- need to see that in fall.

they will accept master card and visa next month. til now the neiman's own card american express and cash were the only things allowed. >>> government study finds thethe richest 1% of americans have been getting richers and the middle class and even the poor have seen their after tax household income only crawl up by comparison. income from the top 1% of the u.s. households tripled during the past 30 years. >>> well, a new report says fewer people are hitting the roads. the department of transportation says travel on the u.s. roadways is at the lowest levels since 2003. the first 8 months of the year there have been 26 billion less miles traveled compared to last year. of course, higher gas is part of the blame. >>> this is hardly the halloween decorations anyone wants to see. but, a freeway near detroit looked festive during a rush hour. what happened here that caused such a mess. and a thief breaks into a home and starts taking everything in sight. too bad he didn't have the device that was recording him the entire time he was there

. >> don't worry about the debit card business, master card is 20, 25% the nexxis months and held upin the bear market recently. >> brenda: jonas, what do you think of his prediction. >> i do not care for it. (laughter) >> what is that a college entrance exam? it's lousy, stupid, i don't care for it. >> brenda: the debate? >> and let me show you how to do this. hang on. >> brenda: and gary b, your prediction. >> it's like jonas was turning down a plate of hors d'oeuvres, no, thank you, i'd rather pass. (laughter) >> anyway, brenda, report out. health

both russia and the master card in a number of conflicts across the world world war two the vietnam war and various military operations in all parts of the globe cost both countries thousands of missing soldiers after the iron curtain battle joins russia u.s. commission on prisoners of war and missing in action was created its primary objective is to clarify the fate of the russian an american serviceman missing military conflicts of the past and the present. i welcome to the show thank you i thank you very much for being with us thank you alex great to be here thank you very much greater how you are first of all i would like to ask you about the rule of the veterans of foreign wars association your association playing in what you call the accounting mission it's aimed at recovering the traces of more than eight thousand american servicemen those still missing is that. true that is true well i've got to before i answer your question i would like to thank the russian government very much for appointing a co-chair recently to the u.s. russian commission for p.o.w.'s. we work together join

you know and you can donate money to them with master card visa or. why them and not julian assange and wiki leaks. well there you can a little worse than you suggest i mean the council of conservative citizens is a group that says things like you lack people are a great species of humanity quote unquote this is the group that in fact is directly descended from the right citizens councils of the one nine hundred fifty cent sixty's that in fact were formed to resist school desegregation so that. it is surprising and surprising to me that they have not been cut off by pay pal because the reality is that occasional has actually tried to cut off a lot of it so it's not unusual to find them. alland there are mechanisms and used by groups that are named in an obvious way spread sense to the american nazi party certainly cannot kick a paper one of the american nazi party as website today and they say that they only accept money orders or well concealed cash is that a result of that i've not heard of them do the same is that some extra operators that because

attacks eventually the same tactics that anonymous used to briefly take down pay pal and master card but this raises a larger question here as to whether d.d. o. s. attacks are legal or not he currently there's a case in santa cruz california where a homeless man is being accused of setting up a d.d. o. s. on the city's website in protest of a campaign not his attorney jail lederman is arguing that there is no such thing as a d.d. o. s. attack idea less as a protest it's a digital sit in it is no different than physically occupying a space it's not a crime it's beach now so far it seems like a number of indicators point to those arrests and sweeps against anonymous and law they also use the same defense strategy so do they have a legal point well joining me to discuss it is nico neely a lecturer in public policy at harvard kennedy school and the founder and president of dot com if you want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and for starters any speculation here as to whether this is a real anonymous attack or not when it comes to the new york stock exchange i mean the intere

santa cruz web site when it comes to anonymous the little site what they've done in taking down master cardaking on paper you think about policy as protest business that in your eyes are. you know if it's about political speeches about political purpose it's not about some kind of fiscal financial gain i definitely think that there is there's an argument to be made that that's a consulate general form of social protest you know i think there are probably some there definitely some gray areas in the space but broadly speaking i think there's a clear appropriate parallel and here's something i thought was interesting there's a woman a mercedes paper who was one of the arrestees she's alleged to be hacker an anonymous and one of the things that she was saying is that you know president obama tells his supporters to overload the switchboards of congress that he wants them to call about something so he's allowed it and she thinks of that as a form of a d.d. o. s. attacks so why is national out a call for it and she doesn't so he thinks that that's political persecution is great i absolutely thin

there's nothing stopping them from giving a $75 master card credit cards to supporters and having themstion, which is bottom line in a general election, if mitt romney is the gop nominee, will enough conservative voters, christian conservative voters come out to get him elected? >> i believe so. that's one thing we're going to be working on. we're doing a national bus tour to register voters across the nation and mostly in the key states. it will be for most christian voters from everybody at the value voter summit defeating barack obama in 2012 is the most important goal that we have. >> okay. tom, mcclusky thank you for joining us. appreciate that. >> thank you. >>> we'll go to michael smerconish. michael, what do you think about the conversation there? >> i think that when voters wake up on a sunday morning and the vast majority of the country is not represented by people who were in that room and the take away, the headline is how a leader of the organization in and interview equates mormonism with a cult, i think it's a net negative and a loser for the gop field. that's what i thi

. >>> anonymous a group of hackers who targeted companies like master card and visa say it plans to attack the new york stock exchange they will support the occupy wall street protestors by erasing the website today an attack on the nyse site would not effect trading, the company says it will not comment but protestors in our area could face a show down with police their permit to gather at freedom plaza expires today. stacy cohen joins us with more. >> reporter: they got a reprieve yesterday the original permit expired last night it was extended through today, today is the columbus day holiday schools are closed as are many government offices it will remain to be scene what happens most protestors plan on staying put. this has been going on since thursday they go by several names, stop the machine, some called it october 2011 and others -- some are protesting war to corporate greed they have held rallies, had marchs, music out here all weekened long if park police do decide to confront the protestors later today many have said they are willing to be arrested. >>> park police could have ro

states," claiming they destroyed 95 percent of the organization's revenue and officials at visa and master cardprocessing donations for wikileaks after releasing hundreds of documents from the war in afghanistan to detainees at gitmo and the federal government shut down almost every payment source phone to man from papal all the way up and down is he is out of money. fox news is america's election headquarters. and republican presidential hopeful romney making it official in new hampshire, the former massachusetts governor is the latest candidate to submit the paperwork in the state that holds the first primary traditionally and leads in the polls there and god a key endorsement but several other candidates also focusing on the state with the primary now just 11 weeks away. and now carl is live in washington this afternoon. no votes in december? >>carl: not from new hampshire or for president this year or next year for that matter. we should be done. yes, the primary calendar has been established we and iowa goes first, january 3, new hampshire in january 10, and the talk of the possibility of

we were able to tell that by certain numbers that are in the card that only belong to master card andg to visa, certain numbers only belong to american express. so these are stolen credit card numbers from somebody out there who we can't determine yet. >> at this point, store security is onto their game and they zoom in for a closer look. >> she takes out a credit card. it's a visa card in her left happened. she's putting a little sticky note on the back of that card and on that sticky note are stolen credit card numbers. >> but the thieves run into a problem. several of the card numbers are declined. they despite to split abruptly, leaving the cashier literally holding the bag. watching all this happen, ee zbal-eyed store security calls the police. the cashier is arrested and so is one other member of the ring still inside the store. the two others get away, but once again the surveillance tape proves to be their undoing. >> i was able to actually take one of the credit card numbers off that video surveillance, and i was able to take that credit card number and find out who that cred

the actual cost of a bank and visa or master card processing a debit card transaction is anywhere from 4 cents to 12 cents. remember when they used to process checks for pennies, no matter what the face value was? the actual cost of the debit card, the new checking account, the plastic checking account, is 4 cents to 12 cents a transaction. then the federal reserve board said what are they actually charging to the retailers? 44 cents is the average charge by the banks and credit card companies for the use of a debit card. more than ten times the 4 cent rate, more than six times the 7 cent rate that the federal reserve said is the reasonable cost of a debit card transaction. a 600% profit that they're taking right out of every transaction, of course it means that the grocery store, the retailer, they have to charge more. emergency someone comes in -- imagine someone comes in and gets the special, a cup of coffee and doughnut at the rock island country market which i visited during the break here, 99 cents special. they use their debit card to pay for it. the country market is now going

these guys went up to visa and master card. money was slowed up significantly.ncial structure? >> steve: exactly right. they do it, it's called denial of service thing where they've got this software and they wind up bombarding people's sites so it slows down to a trickle. apparently, according to some people at the department of homeland security, anonymous has been trying to find some people on the inside of the financial community, disgruntled former employees to figure out a way into the system. there is information that so far, they don't think anybody has, but none the less, it's troubling. as you look at what's going on, occupy wall street, occupy hartford, occupy boston, dc, everything, this was one of the big topics yesterday on the chat shows. let's listen to what some prominent americans think about this. >> the bankers and the people on wall street didn't write these failed policies of the obama administration. they didn't spend the trillion dollars that didn't work. the administration and the democrats spent a trillion dollars. so it's a distraction

card scores." >> social security did not close the account. they keep the masterth lists and so did the states. the credit card companies pulled the information from one or the other of the sources and they closed the accounts because you're an authorized, not a joint user on that credit card. this is why we always tell people you need to have a credit card in your own name. what you should do right now is call those same credit card companies back, explain to them what happened and ask them to open a credit card specifically for you. >> all right. >> and we're sorry about your husband very, very much. >> and having this problem on top of it. >> yes. >> guys thanks soech, jean chatssky, david bach and sharon epperson. >>> germs are not just hiding in your bathroom. we'll show you surprising hot spots. >>> and lou man fredini shows us how easy it is to transform your home but first these messages. hey, mom? what? pay you? for what? for unloading the dishwasher?! kid, you need to pay me for making this delicious -- whoa. hold on there, mom. kitchen counselor. um, mo

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