to see what they're working on our producer andrew blake is in the newsroom to tell us what he's got cooking andrew what are you working on over there work and i'm working on work and i'm going to tell you about the transpacific partnership it's a legislation floating around congress right now a lot of people don't know about it though you want to know why they don't know about it and why the white house isn't telling them anything about it the own congressman our own congressman don't even know a lot about this deal because the white house is trying to keep them from figuring out the whole thing now senator wyden is asking for an obama to be forced to give them information on it go to our to dot com slash usa read all about the t p p it sounds or it was an issue as yet t p p r t dot com so she was a read about that also another president bill clinton photographed this week posing with some unusual guests may or may not be pornographic after says. they were they were so good go check that you get stories about israel about iraq the stories about kelly thomas beating whole bunch of stu

web producer andrew blake were all started in new york city for more on the day's events there. andrew what is the mood there what's going on in the streets of youyou do a good hopeful as well over there tell us about it you're kind of a not the best guy but also trying to the best god i mean union square right now fourteenth street middle of manhattan and i were outed by thousands and thousands of really really really energized people started to get near me to speak or just took the stage in front of me but your union square and elsewhere across. there's been massive demonstrations all over the island today also going at the brooklyn thousands and thousands of people it's unlike anything that i've spent the occupy movement kind of like a little bit of a hibernation last year and the energy that evident here today is. something let me tell you you know and in face of the federalize crackdowns that we saw and the harsh militarized actions against occupy camps nationwide and also the harsh winter that kind of put occupy in a dormant state would you say that today marks a reemergenc

well it's time to check in with our web to see what they're working on our web producer andrew blake is in the newsroom to tell us more about some troubling lessons taught at a u.s. military school and what's that all about we go whole bunch of trouble today liz yes if you were right there is a u.s. department of defense training manuals have come out and it looks like the pentagon was kind of saying that soldiers should. be wage war on the entire your religion of islam which seems kind of silly but that is what the military was telling them to do it looks like these papers are now out you can read about it on our t. dot com slash usa a couple other stories we're doing today is that the cia is looks like they're now doing an investigation into what role within the agency may have released the crucial information about the recent alleged al qaeda airplane bombing that broke last week this is now. the seventh different whistleblower investigation waged by the obama administration since he took office so we'll give you that and then also just finished up a story out of georgia about a m

that he could take anything that was deemed weapons away from the protesters artie's web producer andrew blakeis a new york city for more on the day's events andrew be able to happen and nothing much seems like things are really exciting over there i was wondering if that was going to go toward the spirit i was wondering if you could comment on you know how is it that a mayor can say that anything that's deemed a weapon i mean what about keys what about pens and pencils i mean that's all agree just let me tell you something i've had many cars in my time and you can do some serious damage. so yeah i think that's a little bit over the top it's kind of really weird to compare things with what's happening out on the west coast of what's happening out here on the east coast because as i told you earlier we have had some incidents out here earlier today but from what i've seen from the luminary reports there's really been not a big to do here in new york city i'm actually standing as close as i can get right now it's a cody park which was the initial hub of occupy wall street and the. higher three f

go and maybe get a hamburger through will definitely stay tuned that was our key web producer andrew blakethe event of an unfolding all day in new york archies on starting a church going to have been on the streets getting a feel of the may day protests here's a report. that's the beginning of the action in new york city by occupy wall street and already a major street blocked off all of the traffic right here waiting to get through but they say that because about two hundred fifty people watching the street right now and only imagine i sit there like you get considering the fact that you have more people are expected to want to talk with you later on throughout the day challenging corporate personhood challenging the big body was ignited nine. thirty occupy it was. out. in the city i think it's really great to get everyone together in one place and see the potential that we as individual humans can have to create new systems by just coming together and making things happen with office workers looking down on them does. that the company inside. immigrant workers one of the major issues of

time of the day to check in with our web team and see what they're working on our web producer andrew blake is in the newsroom what do you got cooking there man i got a locker funniest. ask. one of those there's a guy coming at us we're only a week away from the big nato summit in chicago right you know how police officers are getting ready for it. by putting a ton of cops all over the city and i'm going to tell the cops all over the place that they just invested around a million dollars into different riot gear we're going to bring out the el red sound cannon so great expecting a couple tens of thousands of protesters are getting ready for a couple other stories to go check out our team dot com slash usa you can read about how one of the co-founders of facebook just renounced his u.s. citizenship he's off to singapore we'll talk to you about it when i can really talk to you we'll talk to our audience he get it ok go check that out one more new polls out today romney according to restless and reports way ahead of obama so go check that out and get six months until election things are heatin

marked around the world so we're going to host a panel on labor occupy and the way forward but andrew blake is going to fill us in on the protests in new york today and what actually happened on the ground and we've been talking a lot about drones lately but as you know the f.a.a. has already approved drone use for twenty five universities we're going to talk about the new career opportunities and the drone age it could bring as well as the privacy concerns that come with it we're going to all of that market and i include ing a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look what the mainstream media decided to miss. so there was some breaking news this afternoon as we found out that president obama took a surprise trip to afghanistan we have breaking news at this very moment we understand that the president is in afghanistan and one year to the day since u.s. special forces killed the world's most wanted terrorist the president of the united states is on the ground in afghanistan i'm hearing now president obama has made a surprise visit to afghanistan president obama arrived in afghanistan

all right joining me for happy hour is our producer adriano seto and our do web producer andrew blake our i guy i wish we were national bar all three of us and soon we said all right we're going on the case of trayvon martin is back in the news report from his autopsy was just released and it actually has some quite a few people are pretty upset take a look. yes what trayvon has is a system according to the autopsy report that we did study one point five nanograms of t.h.c. which is a greedy marijuana and seven point three nanograms of another t.h.c. sussed substance both found in his blood and traces of cannabis also found it is your and. so traces of t.h.c. of marijuana that must make that the stoner did it as you started it absolutely makes me so angry i mean that doesn't mean that he. maybe smoke up maybe he like poppy seed muffins you know and then all of a sudden i mean regardless not recall exactly eighteen year old doesn't smoke pot first of all second of all the contests and make people more apt to do anything or be violent and there's certainly no evidence and i was why are

we want to make sure that you're aware of what's hot on the web so i've got archie web producer andrew blake in the newsroom taking a quick break from his hard work tell us more andrew what are you working on today whole bunch just wrapping up things shortly but we got a couple good stories already up there at our tea dot com slash usa one i was a partition particularly fond of. kind of startling statistic out of the i.r.s. in twenty eleven more americans renounce their u.s. citizenship than in the last four years combined a lot of people are saying that there is just too much taxation going out while living abroad and even if they're holding on to u.s. citizenship they're kind of sick of paying for for nothing so we had close to two thousand people dropping their citizenship last year and experts are saying that if the banks keep on keepin on things are only going to get worse. we got a couple other things up on our to dot com right now we have another story about the f. twenty two stealth fighters that are kind of a controversial plane in the u.s. air force there was a handful of instance

again to check in with our web team and see what they've been working on our team web producer andrew blake in the newsroom taking a quick break from his hard work to tell us more andrew what's going on man. how you doing today good how are you not too bad not too bad i'm very very busy today a lot of stories actually a lot of stories having to do with candidates who were involved in the two thousand and twelve presidential race you see today on the t.v. talking about things. yeah he's only all right so you know we got that covered obviously everyone's got that covered today also though. could be candidate ron paul came out he gave a fiery statement to congress saying that the u.s. government should stop sending military aid to israel there's currently a house resolution bill that would reinforce that and so he put that out there and then michele bachmann remember that crazy old coot who is running for a while. for dinner she's a now a citizen of switzerland so you can read about that read about romney a whole bunch of politics are to dot com slash usa that was our two web producer and you

tenenbaum one time to check in with our web team and see what they're working on our web producer andrew blake is in the newsroom what have you got cookin man a whole lot cooking and really busy really busy really busy so really best first we go over this weekend back in illinois we had some terrible weight on white hate crime a bunch of anti-racist did out with some white supremacists at a restaurant there we'll show you how that whole crazy thing is escalating over the internet also speaking of the web makers up in new york state trying to propose a ban on speaking on the internet anonymously so anyone that wants to leave it on and on a message board yeah it's pretty pretty pretty pretty crazy so we got a whole bunch of stuff today on the internet on hate crimes when i go to our dot com slash usa you can see we've been working on i'll be here the rest of the night make it some crazy story so go check them out or follow us on twitter r t underscore america thanks andrew the problem now is our two web producer and your blake with a preview of what's trending today on our web site still ahead o

all right joining me this evening for happy hour is our various meant for andrew blake and jim hampton roads aren't special operations master sergeant and military blunder and backed by dot net. i mean look at look at your outfit right i had to say something anyway let's thank you the boss of one laundry day to no one told me i was coming on the air. you knew with enough ram whatever we'll move on we'll move on let's just talk about we obviously have to talk about the time magazine cover that's out there today because every been doing a lot of them out and that they are you mom enough and i originally thought that no way that's a model and like a child paid actor but apparently that's the real kid and his mom and it's about how some women out there you know like to all the over mom in the still keep breastfeeding like five years old which i think is just grows does it is that what determines if your mom enough like you they need to be more specific or they present a question like that i'm. going to i have this is that i believe that's what we're judging motherhood in america is her phi

producer web producer andrew blake is in the newsroom to tell us what he's got cooking and what it what you are going on there if i tell you what we're working on it will you promise to go read them later i absolutely well ok as long as i have your word first things first earlier this year a nineteen year old college student in pasadena california was shot and killed by two police officers real tragic story but only recently did the results of the coroner's investigation come out today we wrote about how in that investigation was determined that after the cops shot this boy seven times they then handcuffed him and let him die on the streets. warner's report is outstandingly disgusting so you have to go to our to dot com so she will say read all about this story because now the parents of the c.s. boy are filing a lawsuit in california also remember the whole story of trayvon davis all kind of similar accounts george zimmerman the man the confessed killer of trayvon davis in that case george zimmerman maybe now be facing federal hate crime charges the f.b.i. is considering doing that wit

web producer andrew blake and soren dayton republican senior strategist with new media strategies.i'm going to cut off all the strategies next time i introduce you hey guys thanks for joining me let's start i just really like this story because i just think that it's so funny and just i don't know if you want to call it a sign of the times or it's one of those things we say only in america but check out what happened to this guy and all you can eat buffet. it's. bill was it has a beef with the all you can eat fish fry it chucks place in beans bill he was there friday when the restaurant cut him off after he ate a dozen pieces with us for more fish and they refused to give us any more fish the restaurant says it was running out of fish and patients. and it just makes me laugh. a lot of it this is a perfect example of life imitating art this was a promise for a simpsons episode like twenty years ago and like most that this is they were way ahead of their times and you know clearly it was bound to happen sooner or later i understand is this what happens to all you can eat buffets and

ok it's for a happy hour and joining me this evening archie web producer andrew blake and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger at black net thanks for joining me gentlemen my pleasure to. do this yeah friday oh yes that is some really sad news today for music fans we lost a beastie boy take a look. reports just coming in that beastie boys band member adam yoke has died he had been battling cancer for years the beastie boys are widely considered one of the most influential pioneers in the hip hop world they were inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame just last month he was forty seven years old. you just ruined her. right to turn off the private she said are you to start now i mean i remember that you were going to go who would want to be. he was an awesome party animal himself so yeah we're said he's dead but if you see boys rock they party they want to greatest videos ever sabotage they actually fall so there is a lot of party they did go by saying sabotage a karaoke last week and i don't want to necessarily do a repeat this week but i feel

ok guys it is time for happy hour and joining me this evening artsy web producer andrew blake and mike riggs associate editor at reason that is dean and reason dot com. all right guys well yeah yeah you too over there. mike we miss you very much in studio i hope even enjoying yourself in florida it's not only you know it's not working like the rest of us just. don't tell my boss isn't really working right or just jealous or you're in a sunnier more fun loving you're putting your good riddance i say go back to italy . ok so i didn't read i don't i don't think that we went far enough i don't think we're done talking about bloomberg absolutely you're on the other twenty ounces right here they're not that i don't think you know i could probably also know. that yeah i like let's just move past the inconvenience for a minute it's bad public policy in general like the studies have shown that like the b.m.i. or the obesity index for people who are deprived of soda or their access to soda is like some how complicated it decreases right point zero one percent there's the fact that this really is

why are people why aren't people more bothered to discuss this and more our own r t a web writer andrew blake joins us now good to have you in the studio and so would you say that americans are apathetic to losing their online freedoms and online privacy we don't want to but it's kind of obvious at this point it's really really unfortunate and it shouldn't be the case but after years and years of congress trying differently censoring the internet and all different mediums all over the world you know outside the united states wherever they can the last couple of months have been terrible for internet freedoms in america and in people wake up well you know every couple of weeks and they say you know paper has to go so it has to go system has to go and every single time you just comes back it comes back in a different name it comes back worse right now today down the street capitol hill they're going over five and it's said to be renewed right now for another four years and if i supposes as it is right now the government will be reauthorized the power to go in and go through your e-mails to go t

web producer andrew blake with a preview of what's trending today on our web site so had on our cheat on the occupy wall street movement focuses attention on government corruption and economic equality and someone else is keeping their eyes on the group will tell you the department of homeland security and local law enforcement officials are keeping tabs on the movement. of one of american power continues. on things that are. might actually be time for a revolution. and it turns out that a particular drug or starbucks has a surprising greedier. when you. look into the alone a sale you'll get a real headlines with none of them or see the problem with 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 to t.v. . all everyone in the mainstream from cork from corporate media to the government have tried to charact

that time to check in with our web team and see what they're working on our teams web producer andrew blake is in the newsroom to tell us what he's got and what's going on on t.v. i ask my right. we've got some stories we've got some stories you member the year one thousand nine hundred eighty eight was a while ago vaguely ok ok last time ha all right well if you were like three point one million people when the globe dot com filed an i.p.o. you were trading shares on wall street do you remember the globe dot com i definitely wasn't competent enough to be trading shares ok fair enough however do you remember the globe dot com and don't tell me you do because i know you died definitely down ok well when they did their i.p.o. back in one thousand night it was the biggest i.p.o. in the history of the united states sound familiar nope well you know the facebook thing today i go to our t. dot com place usa say they read about the globe read about facebook read the ses i.p.o. read about the national defense authorization act in read about the summit in chicago has all sorts of great stories stay

remember the other day when you said andrew blake if there's one thing i really enjoy it's flying on airplane i don't remember saying that to you ok well that's what i remember so imagine my disbelief when i heard out this morning that the t.s.a. is trying to double the security fees for american passengers so if congress has their way the t.s.a. has their way security fees are going to double in the next couple of months you go to archie dot com slash usa you'll read about who wants that and why they want that and how it's going to impact you also a story out of washington this week of the republican party front runner mitt romney was meeting with senator rand paul will talk about what will not be happening between the two of those guys also do you like tanks army tanks because i know i know you like the t.s.a. so don't get me wrong twice here who doesn't like army tanks exec i'll tell you who the army congress is asking for ninety one million dollars worth of tanks but the army is saying tanks but no tanks i thought of that one right now if you like. of that is a lot of interesting

magazine time to check in with our web team and see what they're working on our team's web producer andrew blake is in the newsroom to tell us what he's got cooking and what's going on man you know every so i only got like a minute so you have to really hang in there with me i'm going to go for it ok parmeet olsen she's a journalist over england she has a book coming out next week and in the book she says that she managed to do some interviews talk to a bunch of people get all on the internet some stuff and find a whole bunch information about the activist collective anonymous but specifically the big offshoot that had like fifty days of terror last year now according to the olson there is a lot of crazy stuff going on that we're only starting to really figure out now we know that last june the f.b.i. vanished infiltrate the group infiltrate the group and work with an informant sabu remember when that story broke a couple months ago absolutely ok well now according to olsen while sabu was already working for the f.b.i. julian assange and wiki leaks was trying to work with wall sec and taking dow

good it can be with that microchip in a story about i'll try ok that was our to have producer andrew blake with a preview of what's trending today on our web site. to kill or be killed sounds like a scary concept but if the primary motivation of learning self-defense when it comes down to the wire you might only have yourself to get out of a sticky situation you may think that self defense is an important skill to learn but the british government may have something to say about that recently tim larkin a self defense guru is taught and fifty eight countries for twenty years was banned from the u.k. on an order that him being there isn't conducive for public good like and was scheduled to attend a martial arts conference and seminar when he was found out he was given an exclusion order from the british government and that was not allowed in so as larkin's exclusion a reasonable move and what precedent does the set for the future to answer that i'm joined by our first we're going to play a package from the resident asking people what do they think about self defense. former u.s. navy seal ti

so i think in the army there are two web producer andrew blake with a preview of what's trending today. thanks. let's turn now to latest crack in the foundation when it comes to internet freedom this week brought about yet another ruling this one in the u.k. where the file sharing website the pirate bay was blocks to millions of users the u.k. high court ruled that the leading i asked these in the country must censor the pirate bay website saying both the site and its users were breaking major copyright laws and this comes on the heels of the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act or says by passing right here in the u.s. house of representatives just a week ago and with many more rules and regulations regarding the internet in the works said a little deeper into this i was joined earlier by david seaman a journalist also host of the d.l. so now i started off by asking him why this is an issue that we here in the u.s. should even care about. i think the fight against quote unquote piracy is global we have these powerful but dying and detainment corporations that are putting trem

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