this medium, mommy bloggers, mommy bloggers have sort of created, rebuilt our village, and these are months been like? i imagine it's quite difficult. >> it's extraordinarily difficult. i wouldn't wish this on anyone. it's probably the hardest thing i've ever been through. >> let's talk about your blog. it's enormously successful. this is a self-sustaining business. anybody who thinks bloggers are in their pjs sitting around all day, that's not you. why do you think it's caught on the way it has? >> i think people realize we have this huge community, we have huge connections. the women that i have friend. with online. these are the women i turn to for recommendations for, you know, bottles and food, and back packs, and these are the women who give me the recommendations, and i think people realize that we have these voices that are unfiltered and raw and honest. and that what people are tapping on to. >> let's talk about your book "dear daughters." you actually write letters every months starting when lita was a few weeks old. i'm amazed at the discipline when you're trying to raise

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he is a blogger for the daily beast.most 30 years now, and you were always passionately interested in america, in american politics. like me, you are an immigrant, but you have only very recently been able to get a green card. you have identified this with country. why? >> for two reasons. one, because i'm h.i.v. positive, and i have been for -- since 1993. secondly, because i'm gay. my marriage, which is legal in both my resident states, both massachusetts and washington d.c., is not recognized by the federal government, so i am not granted automatic green card by virtue of marriage along with everybody who happens to be -- who happens to be in a same-sex marriage. >> of course, if you were straight and you were married, you would automatically -- >> i would be automatically granted because people understand that if you fall in love with someone and you want to build your life with them, and if you have been married as we have been for four years together married and together for eight. it's an injustice. american citiz

we bloggers work to make sure that what is secret comes to light so we're trying to bring a resolution to the situation as well. but. you are a few minutes it becomes clear what's happening at the asylum. is in fact being turned out of the characters' premises along with his belongings that. finally this fifty seven year old man unable to move around without crutches has been left in the streets. a friend office to collect his blunderings from the asylum. johnson no longer has a warm bed get a meal at the charity center every evening. those reports. according to a statement from the charitable organization keratosis. was thrown out of the asylum because he had left the place in a miss. maintains that he was expelled for being too frank with journalists about the real situation for refugees in italy today.

does not prove god to give us money does not then know that on the same evening verily could the blogger host the finishing touches to a post on the refugee situation but when she's about to sent a text she receives some unexpected news ever johnson has been thrown out of the asylum after spending two months there why is not yet known. now we bloggers work to make sure that what is secret comes to light so we're trying to bring a resolution to the situation as well that. was out. after a few minutes it becomes clear what's happening at the asylum. is in fact being turned out of the charities premises along with his belongings. that. finally this fifty seven year old man unable to move around without crutches has been left out on the streets. a friend to collect his belongings from the asylum johnson no longer has a warm bed nor can he get a meal at the charity center every evening. on the roof or do both and i want to. know deport you. according to a statement from the charitable organization carol johnson was thrown out of the asylum because he left the place in a miss. johnson maintain

person is sometimes called the first russian political blogger in the middle of learnt the century by a weekly column that would probably still london was as influential among liberal minded people in russia as facebook the larger logic research is claimed hurts and created a political background. for the abolishment of serve in and call him the father of the russian socialist this weekend russia celebrates and since two hundred is the center of all of the world came to moscow a lot of them is in my studio to mr michael harrison the right is great great grandson living in the. nineteenth century writer philosopher and a rebel alexander hertz and is often described as the founder of russian socialism he started question in that sorry stop salute isn't as early as in his university years he's ready cove you soon made him an almost permanent exile he left for the west in eighteen forty seven and spent the remainder of his life there becoming one of the most prominent thinkers of his time hertz and set up russia's first free press his newspaper well a call about was published in london in

russian philosopher and thinker alexander kurtz answer the sometimes told the first russian political blogger in the middle of the nineteenth century by a weekly column called the battle published london was as influential among liberal minded people in russia as facebook a larger like today researches claim hurts and created a political background for the abolishment of serve in the shop and call him the father of russian socialist this weekend russia celebrates hope since two hundred has descended from all over the world came to moscow and one of them is in my studio today mr michael harrison the writer's great great grandson living in the us . the. nineteenth century writer and alexander is often described as the founder of russian socialism he started questioning that saris absolutism as in his university years he's ready made him an almost permanent exile he left for the west in eighty seven and spent the remainder of his life there becoming one of the most prominent thinkers of he's time hertz and set up russia's first free press his newspaper. the bow was published in london in the mid

and i think also, you know, i think there's a huge community around what we do as mommy bloggers. my god, i hate that word. i really hate that word. but i don't know. i think mostly, it's just speaking the truth and trying to be as authentic as possible. >> sure, all right. >> so everybody can relate to you as opposed to actually reading what you say. >> i hope. >> i'm on the ride with you. so when you separated and split from your husband, that must have really devastated a lot of the readers because they've been with you so many years. >> yeah. i was really scared to write about it, scared. you know, a lot of people have their own experiences and perspective on this type of situation, and you know, i didn't go into the details and i never will go into the details. >> right. >> so, people are confused and hurt, and -- >> and he's still the father of your two beautiful girls. >> yes, he's still the father of my children. >> still have a relationship with the three of them. >> and i don't want anybody thinking bad about him, you know. >> right. >> and so, i'm trying to, you know, w

make for tonight's conversations with great minds as caitlin bella barnett caitlin is a journalist blogger and author she writes about mental health topics for the huffington post about young people's experience medications at my meds myself a blog at the psychology website site central she's held positions at the atlanta constitution journal and st louis post dispatch has worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of publications including the new york observer and parents magazine she graduated dartmouth college as well as the columbia university journalism school caitlin is also the author of the new book dosed the medication generation grows up and she joins us now from our studios in new york city kalen welcome. thanks so much for having me thanks for joining us tonight you write that your generation is the first in history to have a certain a significant percentage grow up on psychiatric medications mind and emotional during medications what does that mean for us as a culture and for the future of your generation. well i think that it means that a significant percentage of people

there's many levels of you know, from the bloggers to the reporters who take a year to get the story. we still do a heck of a lot of stories that piss off the administration, the congress, believe me i hear about them so. it's more about where you put the resources you do have. >> are there enough of those? >> that's the question. >> that is the question. and are you comfortable that there are enough of those stories? >> i'm comfortable with the commitment that a place like the post has which is you know, they put their money where their mouth is. the legacy of watergate, the willingness from the walter reid investigation on down they are willing to really still put their money where their mouth is. and there's every level of engagement from the tweeters and the bloggers down to people like dana priest. >> amanda, what about where you are? what is the commitment to investigative journalism there? >> not the commitment but the craft. one of the things i'm thinking is despite the talk about the tweets and things, how little has actually changed. how similar it seems, the process you're

at the same time the state department has spent all that time and all the money supporting those bloggers it has found internet freedom to be inconvenient in the form of weekly leaks i just work just as hard and spend probably more money trying to shut down for a speech that it opposes while supporting free speech that it feels furthers america's own political goals overseas we call that a partnership but it's not just a leaking website is that the u.s. is after but also their sources critics say this administration is involved going to an unprecedented campaign against whistleblowers in this culture where this administration is going after. lowers in a president a way we all have an obligation to protect our sources i have to say that i myself i'm really nervous about the safety of some of the people that i talk to as a journalist to call this national security i'm talking all the time with people that work in the intelligence that the military community has said shockwave through the community while trying to stifle inconvenient belief said home the u.s. perceives the internet and socia

talk more about the upcoming gathering in istanbul let's go to joy poindexter blogger and peace activist. thank you for joining us so damascus says the battle to topple the state is over but it's not true given that arms are reportedly continuing to flow into rebel hands you know i mean i think as long as there's fighting going on and long as there is interference coming from other countries or road organizations. arming one side if you know that we're not going to really see an end to this now why do you think the assad regime has if you guys refuse to lay down its arms for us in response to kofi annan appeal to stop military activities as the stronger party in a good faith gesture. well i mean i think that they obviously are under pressure whether it's from you know the members of their own party or people on the outside looking in and seeing that as an act of weakness perhaps they're kind of acrobatics up against the corner you know it's against a corner right now and maybe doing that might give the rebels even more of an incentive to continue on because a lot of these cease fire agre

eight has spent seventy six million dollars overseas on internet freedom giving tools and support bloggers and journalists and online people around the world particularly in countries that we have difficulties with at the same time the state department has spent all that time and all that money supporting those bloggers it has found internet freedom to be inconvenient in the form we can leak so just work just as hard and spend probably more money trying to shut you know free speech but it opposes while supporting free speech but it feels furthers america's own political goals overseas we call that a partnership but it's not just a leaking website is that the u.s. is after but also there's sources critics say this administration is embark on an unprecedented campaign against whistleblowers but in this culture with this administration is going after whistleblowers in a president way we all have an obligation to protect our sources i have to say that i myself i'm really nervous about the safety of some of the people there. i talked to as a journalist the cutlass national security i'm talking

once again, people just sort of published things or put things out, even if they were bloggers or newspapers or magazines or new newspapers and magazines. it was much more of a you put your content, your pictures, whatever out for people to see. and the community was relegated to comment sections at the end, which were generally brain dead and stupid. now we're having another major shift that started three or four years ago for the next 25 years of the web, itsomes seems to me. it's being based on social networks and social media everything from facebook to twitter, which is bringing us back, thankfully i think, to a combination of people publishing things but also people forming communities, forming circles, forming discussion groups. and in some ways instead of resembling the web, the social media phase of the internet, i think, will resemble more of the first phase of the internet that was based around communities, sharing of information, and internet chat and internet relay h chat. so with that introduction, i was going to start with marcus because marcus with "the washington post" has b

for more on syria we can now top two middle east blogger karl charo joining us from london karl there are reports of clashes close to the turkish border with damascus claiming the attacks are part of a plot conducted by turkey against syria what hope is there left for the ceasefire now. i think there's some some hope i mean i'm a bit skeptical about the plan in the first place i think because there's a certain imbalance in there is the opposition or the official recognized opposition in the name of the s.n.c. the syrian national council doesn't actually control events on the ground nor does it have a direct relationship with the free syrian army or the other groups that have the weapons so in agreeing in entering this agreement and agreeing to kind of restrict the amount of violence or eliminated they don't actually have the means that effectively controlled out of the ground however there is that we've seen a noticeable decline in the violence but what he means really worrying is the fact that we've heard reports today of thousands of the restoration is coming out of these three if t

journalists or bloggers someone who basically doesn't have their own in-house legal counsel or legal team that they know they can intimidate them with a lawsuit and possibly just just bankrupt them or get them shut down by force all right so now finally you keep an eye on the mortgage lenders that's the next fraudulent practice we should look out for the big thing out there is people who are looking for help with loans. so there are a lot of scams out there with people purporting to do forensic analysis or get your loan modified so just to be careful about that generally you want to get a lawyer on your side or when you're facing foreclosure and looking to get a long model so that's that's the hot area for for for for basically right oh right well maybe it'll be offered as a closed trust or a.t.f. on the york stock exchange a new way for people to buy into fraud that is america dot com all right erin crowe thanks so much for being the kaiser report thanks max all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert and i thank my gues

t. a blogger. lol we've got some breaking news coming in and u.s. officials have confirmed that north korea has just launched a test rocket this launch of course has been highly controversial it is in violation of u.n. regulations and a previous deal with the u.s. and well of course bring you much more on this as more details become available but still had an r.t.a. disguised by good intentions non-governmental organizations are accomplishing a lot more than what they were set out to do so do these groups actually have the power to push pro western policy if some answers next. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions break through that sort of thinking and made who can you trust no one who is you. know with a mission that would see where we had a state controlled capitol. sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. argy is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. we just put a picture of me when

steve keen on over his very highly covered in lost after debate with paul krugman it lit up the bloggers there and jamison graber said is that the got way too into the drama between he and crewman stick to the ideas not the sensationalism thank you for your feedback we have to disagree we think ruben really represents the idea of establishment largely neoclassical thinking that dominates the mainstream economic debate despite failing to predict the financial crisis in large part now kean challenging that with alternative methods and actually getting a debate going on them all in the pages of the new york times represent an idea as to what to do with the ship will it be significant i don't know we'll see can i promise that i won't get into drama a little bit of time to make concepts like six august and dodginess money more personal to t.v. viewers probably not so you got me there jon benet ninety nine said never ever rush a guest with their answers you can edit his answers for brevity later thank you for the tip i don't know. our work is live t.v. but that doesn't really leave a lot of ro

marine corps an artsy blogger and also currently living in the u.k. jake what the sentiment where you're living about this proposed law the communications capabilities development program. hey christine thank you so you guys well basically this is this is really of top austerlitz attempt by the government to expand its more powers and i live in lincoln living here and that it's like yeah there's been major expansion of government powers and that's exactly what they don't need here the government has cameras at every angle every street there's by and everything possible is absolute madness here so in the independent was reported today and blogs are going crazy british people are not very happy about this but if you read in the daily mail which i like to call the daily races you can find all sorts of claims about through the republicans but the conservatives here say oh it's a good thing because it's going to defeat terrorism i say well you know the best way to be terrorism is by getting your troops out of their country and stop making the rest of the w

as a fashion blogger, i love when i get to do a morning talk show.lways talking about t.j.maxx. i tell people how to look like a million bucks without spending it. fashion direct from designers. savings direct to you. t.j.maxx. let us make a maxxinista out of you. >> time to get to one of your answers to our watercooler question of the day. >> this morning we asked -- do you think a judge should grant a request to delay the trial of eliyahu and avi werdesheim because of comparisons to the trayvon martin case? >> keep sending us those responses. we will read more of your responses in the next hour and post all of them on the front page of our website, wbaltv.com. >> good morning. on the heels of the bounty story, the last thing the nfl wants or needs right now is another scandal. the same with the saints general manager, who already will miss half the season for his role in the bounty program. is what does happen. mickey loomis used a listening device on game days that allowed him to monitor conversations between opposing coaches. he was buying. a pla

close to the region and the culture was blogger in the middle east coast shero is joining us on the line from london hi there karl despite a wave of disqualification aguy the most controversial no that we heard that of a barracks from. remains in the race tonight does that mean he still has his supporters in the ruling authority or simply that he's done his paperwork on time you know i don't think it's a question of paperwork interpretation in egypt at the moment is that this is the military's push to maintain a credible candidate credible that is from their point of view someone that could take votes away from the islamist candidates and other candidates and possibly allow them to control the transition for the transition into egypt and maintain the military's control and all these disqualifications we've witnessed have resulted in a lot of confusion among the voters many favorites of being blocked so how is this going to play out when people actually get their chance to vote in a month. well it's very interesting at the moment but i think we'll see a lot of tactical voting for example