fort ward is actually a good place to actually start our tour of the civil war defenses of washington. before we go out and look at ft. ward, i want to point out this is an 1864 plan of the fort. the part that has been restored here is the northwest bastion which is right here. you will see that. the rest of the fort is not as distinct when you walk through it. the northwest bastion is. this is the model of the fort as it might have looked. notice around it is the abatis on the outside of the ditch and then the fort itself and then this is the northwest bastion here. this is the gate or sally port to ft. ward. it was on the rear wall of the fort. it's been redone a number of times. the army down at ft. belvoir, especially when the engineers were there, helped redo this gate a number of times, but this is your entrance to ft. ward. i want to point out. if we look around, there were buildings here. they are based on plans and photographs of buildings that were actually in the defenses of washington. but there were other gates like this at some of the other forts, too. they may not have

act now i said it was handed down i didn't say the big time anchors and reporters in this country actually read it. the supreme court has ruled that the individual mandate is in fact unconstitutional the individual mandate has been ruled unconstitutional the supreme court justices have struck down the individual mandate the centerpiece of the health care legislation the court striking down that mandate is a dramatic blow to the policy and to the president politically if the individual mandate cannot be sustained under congress's power to regulate commerce that means the mandate is gone the justices have just got it wolf the centerpiece provision of the obama health care law you're seeing something we didn't complete in their formation we're going to be inflicting information to get. chief. we're now getting more information and i just want to get our viewers despite what shannon just read that the individual mandate is surviving the individual mandate may be upheld we're trying to do the best we can right now as we sort through it and we need it later a lower third right you may not be cor

as well so this is actually an interesting question that i think no one is going to be pleased with the results because the divide is extreme may be pleased with the process of voting on many a stunning away from boycotting the vote but even i think because surely one of the candidates going to be elected anyway. yes there has been an auction be an interesting movement called the white vote movement and i have actually spoken to one of the media managers who is actually a coordinator of this movement and he spoke to me telling me that invalidates saying the vote is actually democratic tool because for the first time the egyptian people have the right to say or to negate that we do not like the two runner ups because they feel that there is an extreme divide between actually voting for a remanent of the x. regime such as mubarak's ex prime minister ahmed shifty and you have the muslim about a candidate dr morsi as well so they feel as the egyptians that it is their joy and this is the result and products from the revolution to actually invalidate their votes but from a legislative po

i actually heard over the crowd i don't because that. whatever you want to get we laid it out her over theatrical versions there a little bit i think that this police department is down they've got to be going broke right because you know the twenty dollar a pop thing that's like that's desperate times i also like the story i read about earlier today the police a police officer tried to pitch this is like we're actually decriminalizing swearing because as of right now it's like a felony or misdemeanor because of the nine hundred sixty eight law so i'm making a sizeable since they're actually doing everybody in that town a huge favor a lawsuit and they only really have a very very. clearly that local news crew asked people around the town what they thought of this fine and the people in the town actually thought it should be even higher that the fine should be one hundred most jobs thing i've ever heard in my entire life you know i think i think everybody should move if they don't like the fine they should move i mean generally i hate the

and, actually, our most recent restoration effort. i'm very excited about this particular room because it really kind of brings together all of the -- opulence that would have been exhibited in the bedrooms of the pabst family when the house was completed. we are fortunate that the pabst mansion has a visitorship of 40,000 a year. so between -- our visitors and memberships and rentals, and foundation requests, that presents a budget off bout $375,000 a year of which supports all of our activities as far as the operation of the house and then, the other portion of my job other than being the historian, i am also director of development. so -- we are constantly going out to organizations in milwaukee but also across the country, to help support the pabst mansion as well. the exterior of the mansion has been restored by several restoration campaigns. that sought to bring back more of the original details lost over the decades. large spires on the top of the house were re-created, after the original ones had been destroyed by lightning ea

actually there was this very interesting thing from the cables says that the russian government tried to negotiate a way that visa and master card payments from russian citizens within russia would have to be processed in russia and visa master card actually refused it it would have the pat the power of the u.s. embassy and visa combined was enough to prevent even russia from coming up with its own domestic payment card system meaning it even that even payments from russian citizens within russian to russian shops will be processed right so that when you american data center when you are is out of america will have heuristics no control or at this point it goes out to buy a coke thirty seconds later it is noon in washington d.c. . so this and that of course is a very unsatisfying situation independent of the fact if i like the u.s. or not this is just a very central dangerous thing to have a central place will payments us toward because it invites de facto to all kinds of use of that data when we are going to ensure i mean one of the fundamental things that cypherpunks written recogni

by jeremy jeremy much anyway but let's actually see if he can finish this sentence you know. so that for all of us master all. those industries that are productive to produce wealth to produce wealth for the whole society in fact because that productive they have the money in order to make sure that they continue to be productive and that random legislation i think random legislation that comes comes out as a result of political with making isn't constraining their productive activities and the best way to do that is in fact by congressman to take. the labor of all good productive industries and use it to modify them or to keep the productive nature of the industry going ok i got this from reading reading reading i know. that. there are a couple of reasons but for one there's a feedback loop that is extremely negative so for example i believe the largest political campaign donor in the state of california is the prison guard union and part of the reason to do this is because they like to lobby for stronger laws not because they care about the rule of law but because it is a j

right absolutely i mean president obama when he was a senator actually vowed to filibuster the fison limits act because it gave all the telecommunications companies like eighteen t. absolute immunity for the crimes they committed by allowing the n.s.a. to suck up everybody's e-mails and phone calls after nine eleven when you after about a filibuster he ended up actually voting in favor of the bill and then after he got to office he said ok well when the bill comes up for renewal i'm going to make sure that there's added civil liberties protections well when time comes around for renewal right now the attorney general eric holder says it's his top priority to renew it without any changes and he just wants it just like it is and so you know we've seen this pattern over and over again where we've seen promises where you know more transparency is going to be added more civil liberties protections are going to be added and it never ends up happening so hopefully congress you know after this hearing after hearing the a.c.l.u. and effort privacy explain the real dangers of this bill what ki

well first of all egypt actually was the nie its passage into democracy because now we've got a great divide between the supporters of the muslim brotherhood of course dr morsi supporters in both case there will be protests but if we're going to talk about like a lot of fraudulent behavior in terms of the polling stations the majority of people have assessed and have felt a mood in the city that morsi is most likely to win but in the weird scenario or likelihood that morsi is not the winning candidate and it is actually fifty people will then raise cain saying that no the polls were not actually tabulated correctly and maybe there has been some fraudulent behavior and there has been numerous reports of actually campaign violations as well so this is actually an interesting question that i think no one is going to be pleased with the results because the divide is extreme nobody pleased with the process of voting on many a stunning away from those but it is boycotting the vote but even i think because surely one of the candidates going to be elected anyway. yes there has been an auction

that's actually trying to use the principles of finance against itself in a way to actually becoming a shareholder and trying to trying to. sort of disrupt a system like that there's a lot of limitations to that. i think the thing i'm most excited about with the exponential activism of stuff around actually radicals getting people to actually popof the system almost becoming entrepreneurs so i guess hybrids between campaigners and entrepreneurs who start to develop say alternative currency is the . alternative banking systems and thereby disrupt the system those are the main the main categories i guess all right now one idea you recently came up with bret is with called the safe deposit box that wiki leaks for finance tells about it i guess what our allies was. over the years i've actually met a few financial whistleblower one of the biggest problems they face is actually sort of the internal internal cultures in finance where you're kind of you're not encouraged to disclose and. if you do you sort of socially shunned there's still lots of sort of fraudulent issues and finances of so

it was actually a very small room. it was much like a galley kitchen that had a 12 burner hotel stove and a couple of small pantries. and so that space was eliminated. but it always made me laugh that there were three sets of doors from the kitchen into the house. and there were two reasons for that. the most obvious is that they did not want heat from the kitchen to go into the more formal rooms of the house. but also cooking smells. the victorians were obsessed with allowing -- with not allowing cooking smells to emanate into the room. and the pabst daughter who had built a large house in germany we have her letters to her architect requesting a very tall chimney to vent the cooking smells out of her kitchen and her house. it's interesting how now we think of it as being homey and what makes a home are the cooking smells and obviously during this period it was considered extremely vulgar. well now we'll leave the servants quarters of the house. before we do, we'll just pass by captain pabst' elevator that was put in

this little font was actually a wine cooler. and here we have -- bacchus pouring wine to his cohorts. and so this container could be filled with ice and -- and, and then filled with several bottles of german wine. one of the things that i always look to point out is that, captain pabst was much more of a wine drinker than a beer drinker. when his estate was probated in 1904, the inventory showed there were 3,800 bottles of german wine stored in the cellars downstairs. this is one of my favorite paintings in our collection, and the, the pabst family had purchased this work in europe in 1894. and -- it had, originally -- hung on this space in the dining room. and it had passed through generations of -- of the pabst family until the -- then current owner, decided to donate it back to the mansion. and so, this has been a very happy coincidence that we have been able to repeat many times throughout the mansion of items that left the house in 1907, when the house was being closed up, and then have returned to our us in the modern peri

isn't actually to the freedom or previous c. of the economic interactions more important than the freedom of speech who will carry on here any less that's a very tough one to hear that it's because we just look from a simple intelligence perspective you've got a ten million dollar intelligence budget you can spy on people's e-mail. interactions or you can have total surveillance of the economic interactions well the party just replied which one would you prefer these days what they will do is they will say ok we'll just forest payment and banking's to use to internet so we have both of us and that's. actually there was a very interesting thing from the cable says that the russian government tried to negotiate a way that visa and master card payments from russian citizens within russia would have to be processed in russia and visa master card actually refused it you know it was the path the power of the u.s. embassy and visa combined was enough to prevent even russia from coming up with its own domestic payment cuts just meaning

are act or are actually done and actually here's the number of them so breaks out it's pretty simple i mean you know the math is right there in the in the budget it's gone full screen so you can see it on the monitor here the people in the three bottom whatever they are as you know sections the people in the bottom of the economic pyramid the pain more in taxes you know it's a negative tax cut and and the people making more than a million twelve point five percent tax cut five hundred dollars i mean. the study is fatally flawed and i'll tell you why it assumes baseline revenue projections going into the future which is about twenty one percent of g.d.p. in revenue whereas the paul ryan plan assumes eighteen to nineteen percent of g.d.p. in revenue so in other words you're talking up to an additional four hundred twenty billion dollars of revenue that these projections say were to be require some revenue right now but the point is it was based on projections that it assumes a revenue level that's two to three percentage points a percentage of g.d.p. higher than the paul ryan plan in t

to you but so what happens when all you do is talk about political strategy but you forget about actual real people and we see this on a daily basis in the mainstream media every time a jobs report comes out they act like it's just a bunch of statistics not actual lives that are being affected much the same way they ignore the housing crisis and it's exactly why they fail to see the relevance and connect with the occupy movement because the mainstream media only represents a tiny elite bubble and so with this battle in wisconsin i feel like we're seeing a lot of the same thing not across the board but for the most part when people say if this is a loss for labor they just need it in the political sense of getting candidates elected rather than one that focuses on workers' rights what's going to be lost and so in light of that i'd like to highlight a new report that's out there from the food chain workers alliance of this actually shows the plight of workers who are largely non-unionized whose working conditions continue to deteriorate as we see mass corporate consolidation and ask for m

the white house actually has put out an official statement in the last couple hours and.mccain is alleging is ridiculous and while i happen to think what he is saying is probably pretty partisan i know i wouldn't disagree and what's interesting about the white house response is what they say is you know we are not revealing anything that would be detrimental to national security but quite revealing about selective leaks because we know that everything they release is supposed to prop up and make their counterterrorism operations look good overseas no matter what it is even if we're just talking about the kill list they're not going to release something about how they failed to assassinate the number two commander so it's very revealing to me that the white house lackey is saying that mccain's off we would never damage national security well i agree but you wouldn't possibly reveal classified information that most people would think but if you mean if you think about you know and again they've been the information for example that was put out there by wiki leaks you could

the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and are what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . you don't know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. hi guys so here we are at netroots and obviously one of the big topics for discussion here is the economy a lot of talk about unemployment a lot of talk about tax policy not so much when it comes to monetary policy if anything they have one panel about the federal reserve but it seems like it's more of an introductory class to the fed then a real honest discussion about it and so to talk more about that with me is matthew yglesias from slate and also author of the rent is too damn h

or put up a billboard or you know have a make a video that by media for a video that actually reaches people that wouldn't see it on facebook or twitter it was at this bar i mean how often does it happen that aside from when you pass this along to your friends it becomes this advertising campaign that people can actually see out there at the time that i was to reach the most people was in october where that occupy wall street movement was kind of you know happening and somebody made a thirty second video on the streets of new york somebody found it put out loud saucier is six thousand dollars and unlike less than a week and then we were able to air a national t.v. and even aired on fox news of all places and that because of the moment of that it also had a. media it was on t.v. the story itself was interesting and i think that's what's what's amazing about the time we live in is that social media is very powerful like organic spread but then when money is involved it becomes even more interesting like regular people are spending money to try to buy advertising for things they care abo

this is the first time the europeans actually agreed. there were different positions in the european union. sarkozy we on the other extreme. supporting tough sanctions. maybe tougher than obama and keeping president obama on the sanctions line. and then on the other hand, sweden was actually went along with the sanctions rather reluctantly. so there was an agreement. the european parliament has supported sanctions, and has a long time standing position that no military solution is possible. so actually the european parliament stands on diplomatic solutions with or without sanctions. now the problem is that they are leading the negotiations, but it lacks a long-term strategy on iran. contrary to the u.s. position, which actually sees iran as an enemy, the eu does not see iran as an enemy. there's no enemy picture related to the question of diplomatic contacts with iran. so this is a different position. so i think the european union should have a long-term strategy with engagement rather than containment of iran. and as the first step in t

might actually be time for a revolution. and it turns out that a procurer drinker starbucks has a surprising him. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then. some other part of it and realize that everything. is a big issue. here is what i. love and they alone is so they'll get the real headline that none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . welcome to the capital account i'm learning this for. it's wednesday are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's low rumble our caroline may reporter with the daily caller and marc harrold libertarian commentator attorney and author of the book observations a white noise and as a test for the first amendment thank y

the other interesting thing is that pakistan the only countries surveyed were drone strikes are actually going on well their results weren't published because peter says that the bill going to come out in a separate report now you could be saying well who cares what other countries think about our foreign policy and that's the thing at one point we did care hell that was one of the main critiques that was of the left during the bush administration the same left that now is not only fallen silent but expresses support for obama's drone policies but if that's the case then let's not be so surprised they were often misunderstood that there's anti-american sentiment in the world that there are people who want to hurt as in retaliation for drone strikes that have killed their families friends and neighbors you can blindly pursue a policy that leads to death and destruction and then be shocked by the consequences now sure drone strikes may put less on less risk onto the lives of american soldiers for now. they definitely cost a lot less money than standing armies they may lead to fewer civilia

the actual reality is that their relationship was actually extremely complex. and depending on the time exactly that you're looking at it, bradley, at some times, was patton's biggest antagonist. and other times his biggest defender. on sicily, with the slapping incident which patton, just to kind of recount that very briefly, patton had been visiting a military hospital and encountered a soldier who appeared to be suffering from what was known as battle fatigue at the time. patton's attitude was basically not what we would call now an enlightened one. and essentially ordered slapped the aide, perhaps, actually slapped the soldier and told the soldier to go back to the front and get out of his sight. the incident and another incident very similar would have caused patton quite a lot of trouble. the information about that incident was duly reported by someone that was -- that had witnessed it, an officer. that officer reported it up the line. and it went to bradley. and bradley took the paper and said, this is going to be a big problem for patton. i have been ha

might actually be time for a revolution. and it turns out the procureur director starbucks has a surprising him. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then. some other part of it and realize everything you. welcome is a big issue. here is what i. love and they alone until they all get the real headlines with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . to the capital account i'm laura mr. our first comments and i comes from kathy she had this take on our segment last night about why mitt romney and why it's it's a moral issue he's probably been doing this all his life logical liar moral issue well actually i'm not not so sure i. mitt romney and lies with su

because he was actually a gracious well they're going to martin bashir. murmurous here who is more you know he's our c.n.n. and i you know i really you know he's not going to like. other media news since we're on this too so now joy baby car is going to host a show on current t.v. and it's tentatively titled the joy of a hard show and it's going to premiere in september now personally i like to be her in the sense of like i actually i find her entertaining i find her pretty funny but on current t.v. i just do not understand what they're doing when they just keep hiring former democratic governor and now they have joy bay hard get some young people right get their real liberals on the program because you're blowing your chance to be a real alternative network look at it's supposed to be i have incredibly low expectations. for everything so i'm sure joel degree i think i do i like you like joy however i don't understand what current is thinking they're supposed to be an alternative news network and they're just taking you know the cast off and recycled wall

might actually be time revolution. and it turns out the programmer director starbucks or the suppliers it can really hear. very good. luck and they alone until you get the real headline with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually mattered to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. . all right so how big of an issue is one ton i'm obey the treatment of prisoners there has long been a stain on the u.s. reputation which is probably why president obama promised time and time again while complaining that he would shut it down and would do so the first year he was in office well that hasn't exactly happened so how do people feel about that laurie harkness with the resident donna asked that question to several people on the streets of new york city. ev

politician you're actually taking your own money and you're moving it in so doing you're actually making a direct contribution so it is a very visceral direct thing people can do all right brett scott i wanted to talk to you about your idea for monarchy back securities as well but rather time sucking up to say goodbye thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thanks michael great ok and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert our thank my guest bret scott if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser reported r t t v are you guys are saying. well with the. technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

without actually going in check and seeing with your imagination actually match reality and then you go to sort of model him and so he starts from this idea that winning is good like you know statins a bit down on his luck the ghost is rich my max cards are in bars a million dollars and therefore max has actually to spend money drops why million six passengers and rises by million dollars macroeconomic there was no impact so that doesn't matter and he insists because banks tipping point may end max and that whole process you can ignore banks as well and you can model capitalism as if it doesn't have x. and it doesn't have money you sectors that are going to include it that's just sort of debt when you're in a rush and actually back. now frankly it's i mean it's like trying to model out birds fly by pretending that happened but wait it's good luck if the market interesting theory but it's going to give you no explanation of what it will actually write well i mean krugman getting the nobel prize in economics i mean is ludicrous it would be as ridiculous as if let's say barack obama got

not too much at least but hopefully we'll never have to actually buy ad space to actually air that p.s.a. but unfortunately i can't totally rule it out seems like every time i turn around there's a new law being introduced in the name of stopping piracy because the music industry is suffering so much from it and don't even get me started on the insane anti-piracy ads but then you have to ask ok where's the proof how much is piracy really hating the music industry i'll take that as a north carolina state university study conducted between may have twenty ten in january of two thousand and eleven they found online piracy of music actually correlated with increased album sales and that's not the only study out there to make that argument but looks like the lobbying and whining from hollywood is paying off at least in canada for now because the money from the fees will be collected by a not for profit agency called resound and the money they collect will be given to those poor targeted performers and music labels. so the content i think countless amounts of information from the books of form

that's a lot actually. so "b" corporations are businesses, for-profit businesses, that are structured in order to deliver values and complex deliverables. it's not just about money. you're certified in order to be a "b" corporation through something called the gear certification process which is a little bit complicated, but it's worth it. they look at your holistic position in the world. they want to know you're respectful of the communities you rate in, how many women on your board, how many women executive, how many women, period. what kind of benefits do you have for people who have children. there's this very complex package that you're certified through in order to be a "b" corporation, but i think it does something really important. i think it announces the presence of business that's actually built to achieve good. not businesses doing good on the side which i argue is the case in many corporate social responsibility examples, big companies doing the same old same old can take a tiny portion of prof