just two years ago and said that common causes issues working on good government are now the issues of the labor community because they know they're not going to get anything done unless we reform our system so democracy works from your lips to god's ears let us hope that it works bob. thank you all very much for being with us great to be with you to watch this discussion as well as other conversations with great minds segments go to our website conversations in the great minds dot com that's big picture rumble right after the break. please leave me. leave. now.

of common cause kurt wallander research associate at the public campaign action fund and shane larson legislative director for the communication workers of america welcome to you all public campaign campaign. for you the jury and. so let me start out occurred actually with you. sort of the beginning why was the filibuster when was the filibuster how is the filibuster conceived well that's the funny part about. the history of the filibuster is that there was no sort of strong start date to it it was not part of the constitution nothing along those lines and so it sort of was an accident of history and i'm sure bob and shane might know more about the exact date that it first began but i know it was about twenty years after the passage of the constitution and then it was just sort of established because. we now want to have a redundant rule and it was actually invented by accident by aaron burr twenty years after the constitution and wasn't named to filibuster till fifty years after the constitution common cause is in the federal courts arguing that the filibuster is actually unconstitut

of the hip-hop caucus mary boyle vice president of communications with common cause back and alexis baden mer and i center and got a political director with the organic consumers association and what thank you all for joining me tonight let's start with the money out voters in day of action revenue want to give us a snapshot of this definitely it's the money out voters in a coalition of groups coming together to really this bring awareness to how bad the citizens united decision was to many people that decision was as bad as the dred scott decision was and couldn't couldn't you argue that it was actually the mirror image of dred scott because dred scott said that people are property in this one property as people know you can you can own from a decision that was so bad i mean that decision for dred scott people so outweighs that it live to that much pot with base of the thirteenth the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment the civil war and the civil war. we don't want that to happen but we do want this to be change because this has a huge impact on democracy and all communities so hundreds o

happen in the future but if people who actually think that they can get behind i want to see a common cause because you never really know how things are going to move but it's not that hard to go and find other people on the internet who share the same interests and beliefs of you and to carry out a mission with them and the whole point of view has bring people together right and it certainly does that the world wide web of course you know one thing the. that is quite interesting is that it's hard to paint them in a bad light because what they're doing yes is a label but at the same time when they're helping out a rape victim it's hard to say that what they're doing is the worst case scenario where producer andrew blake thank you so much for weighing in on this topic of course thank you so we wanted to know what you think about the hacktivist group anonymous how the americans even heard of them or if they have do they even think that this vigilante style justice is just as well served lori harshness of the resident dot net hit the streets of big apple to find out. the hacking collective ano

happen in the future but if people who actually think that they can get behind i want to see a common cause because you never really know how things are going to move but it's not that hard to go and find other people on the internet who share the same interest and beliefs of you and to carry out a mission with them and the whole point of the year has bring people together right and it certainly does that the world wide web of course you know one thing the. that is quite interesting is that it's hard to paint them in a bad life because what they're doing s is a label but at the same time when they're helping out a rape victim it's hard to say that what they're doing is the worst case scenario r.t. where producer andrew blake thank you so much for weighing in on this topic for a second well we've all had those moments the ones where you just want to wring your boss's neck or at the very least slap some sense into them in the past those frustrations found an outlet around the water cooler you complained get it off your chest and then go back to your desk and continue your work but being the d

we thought the most common cause we call post lumbar puncture headaches. mong young men in their 20's. occurs 10 to 30% of the time after lumbar puncture. >> bill: all of this stuff happened because he was treated poorly in the mexican prison, correct? >> he was just so severely he did not have access to enough food and water. we found multiple mosquito bites through the his entire body. he lost a lot of muscle tone. he lost over 15 pounds as well. he was in a bad state. nothing notifies for him going forward? fortunately it's very positive. good thing he came out of prison at the time he did. truth is that diarrhea is one of the most common cause of death around the world. one in five deaths occur around the world from diarrhea it's very fortunate he came out at the time that he did. >> bill: all right. we're happy that happened. i'm surprised at his condition. he comes out of that prison he is in as you put it very serious shape where he had to be in the hospital. he gets out of the hospital. you get ahold of him. so one can just imagine if he had remaine

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this woman says the demonstrators share a common cause with the journalists. if we do not support them, she says, no one will speak out for us when something goes wrong. all chinese media is censored. in this newspaper has a reputation for pushing the boundaries, making it china's most respected newspaper. when propaganda officials changed and an editorial calling for political reform to one praising the communist party, journalists said it was the final straw. they sent more than 1000 stories for censorship last year making and in this routine unjustifiable censorship. it is an early task for the chinese leader, she sean penn -- xi jinping. >> he is interested in liberalizing certain aspects of the economy. we have not seen anything about any intention -- intention of liberalizing the media. >> how will the dispute of this newspaper be resolved? the decision will give us a clear sign of how china's new leaders will run the country. >> when you think of opera and the great houses of sydney may come to mind. not south africa. the discovery of an opera cd change

will acknowledge that is not common cause. i think we need most important diplomatic and how pakistan works quietly within you to find the necessary accommodation to inhibit the possibility of a reckless toxic or i could scarcely threaten calamity both in the region and of the global import. and i fear unfortunately, that there's too little movement in this area and is not in a focus on that in the region. as a consequence, progress and understand by the u.s. and the western in some of these areas after the 80% solution to the global catastrophic problem of terrorism from bin laden's al qaeda in the growing problem of the looming proxy war and civil war in afghanistan is evolving since my time of writing but not fast enough and not near enough. and i really worry and am concerned that we do very diligent work in the next weeks and months to craft a residual diplomatic and military component in afghanistan that is sufficient enough to show concern, strong enough to show bonding in an otherwise factious military, and strong enou

mothers with strollers the rich the poor people of all religions and races joined together in common cause in peaceful cause a million armed people do more to bring about revolution than three hundred million guns in america so let's be sure not to fall into that hysterical argument being pushed by alex jones and other gun nuts that our nation's salvation depends on each year. being armed to the teeth and ready to take on our own government that was never the intention of the second about you say want a revolution join a grassroots peaceful movement and that's the way it is that i tuesday january eighth two thousand and thirteen don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your. mission. critic ations three. four charges. arrangements three. three. three. moseley braun quality video for your media projects free media. government no longer represents the freedom. of the people who are going to take the term. traditional look into the issue the money. the way our economic system currently is not going. to. want. to. let me let me i want to let me ask you a question fro

not only that -- there are divisions among these groups, and not a common cause. the have had a history of conflict among themselves. getting a formula together to end this of band -- to end this advance, which has taken the whole of the north of the country under the command of rubles -- that is unsure, realistically. but they insist that a military, political, and diplomatic level that there is some sort of blueprint coming together to end this conflict. there are warnings from an international force that if the rebels advanced on the capital, that is a declaration of war. some say it is war already. the president, who came to power in a coup d'etat a decade ago, could face the same fate himself. >> the number of child soldiers in the central african republic is rising. an emergency coordinator for the country is now in cameroon. she says both sides are involving children in the conflict. >> right now, we have a series of credible reports -- reports that children are being recruited by both armed forces, in areas in control of the armed group, but also in the ci

. >> reporter: according to campaign finance watch dog group common cause unlike washington, d.c.un lobly is not particularly strong here in california so gun control proposals have a good chance of passage. sacramento, nannette miranda, abc 7 news. >>> the oakland city council has a new look tonight. [ applause ] >> three new council members were sworn in to offense today. two of them -- into office today. two have never held elected offense before. dan caldwell and lynette gibson mcilhaney. >>> nasa says make us an offer. coming up, the space agency's going out here is an extreme form of intervention. a chinese father was worried that his son was spending too much time online so a dad hired down virtual hitmen to hunt down and kill his son in the games. the 23-year-old son is unemployed. his dad says he wants him to get a job. >>> five people were injured in new jersey when a packed escalator kicked into reverse. it was going up and suddenly stopped and sped back ward. cell phone video shows people piling up at the bottom of the escalator. others tried to jump over the side to e

met great religious leaders and the ones who really are deep in their own faith can make that common cause. can really be enriched from other people and learn from other faiths and so we want to keep that point up front. i mean we haven't touched from anyone in the class. perhaps some folks in here have no real particular religious concerns and you might be here to get three units of humanities credits, which that's what we're about. we're a university or you may be here for a number of different reasons but still as we move through this fascinating journey, looking at different beliefs and believers, it's a good thing to keep in mind and we'll touch on that. we brought up some great points on why it is, you know, that we should study religion. you know, why it is we might this is a good thing to be doing? you know, we're not wasting our time here. it's a good thing. but, i want to introduce one of the major world experts. in fact, as you'll see - and we'll go over in our second class - the sixth dimension of worldviews, i studied with professor ninian smart, chair of the department of rel

>> according to the group common cause, california does not have-07>j a particularly stg gun lobby.ve a better chance of passing here. >> tonight's money matters wall street starts the week on a down note after a surge when lawmakers reached a deal on taxes. dow jones lost 50 points today. nasdaq down two. s and p fell four and a half points. 10 major bank as greed to pay $8.5 billion to settle the complaints they foreclosed on thousands of people family who's should not have been forced out their homes. some homeowners could get up to $125,000. apple said the app store sold 40 billion a. ps. nearly half sold last year two. billion in december alone. >> a marin county man went to court to fight a traffic violation. it resoflz corporate personhood. it was just after 7:30 in the morning last october. a silver station wagon was head heading south on 101 in the carpool lane. >> i'm always in the carpool lane. i know there is another person in the car with me. >> he had paper work for his nonprofit corporation. the state vehicle code definition of a person includes a corporation. so that

don't make common cause as mitt romney did during the campaign. let's not get involved here with this sort of tactic. >> i don't think they're going to be doing it any time soon. they're taking their lead from the nra. and the nra came out and said it's prepared to do the battle of the century. barack obama, joe biden and their gun allies only want to blame you, vilify you and strip you of your second amendment freedoms. these lines are pretty clear here. is this where the republican party wants to go? >> no, and it's certainly not the party that i want to be a part of in the future, if that's where the party is going. i think that, you know, what the president has laid out is a common sense position to start with. a lot of the things the president has talked about in his 23 points today, are things that the nra, republicans have supported in the past. let's be opposed to it and sit down and get something done. >> michael, you're like a minority of one. i'm waiting for others to come out who are still elected representatives of the party. one, to

in a statement, the public advocacy group common cause denounced the agreement as a capitulation and vowed to continue challenging the filibuster in court saying -- the u.n. office of the high commissioner for human rights has announced a new investigation into the civilian toll of u.s. drone strikes overseas. in emerson, the u.n. special rapid tour on human-rights the counter-terrorism, unveiled his inquiry thursday. >> the central objective of the investigation i am formally launching this morning is to look at the evidence that drone strikes and other forms of remote targeted killings have caused disproportionate civilian casualties in some instances and to make recommendations concerning the duties of states to conduct thorough, independent, and impartial investigations into such allegations. >> the u.n. probe comes as the obama administration appears to be escalating its drone warfare abroad, launching more than a dozen attacks in yemen and pakistan already this year. this week the u.s. launched at least five drone strikes in yemen in as many days, according to some reports, the

also a leader of the democracy initiative, a coalition as progressive and varied as the naacp, common cause, the sierra club, greenpeace, jobs with justice and the afl-cio. along with an affiliated campaign called fix the senate now, they are working hard to change the filibuster rules. take a look at their ad. >> as climate change threatens the world we leave to our children and good u.s. jobs move overseas, time in the senate has expired, as women earn less for men in the same jobs, time in the senate ticks by. it ticks by with no results because the system is broken. but we can fix it and make the senate work for us again. if our senators vote to end the silent filibuster and for common sense reforms. >> they have only hours to do so. unless the senate reforms the filibuster on tuesday, the minority wrecking crew remains in charge for the next two years. larry cohen, welcome. >> great being with you. >> if the democrats were back in the minority, would you be making this fight to reform the filibuster that you're making now? >> absolutely. because we believe that what a democracy means i

the question will be, are there some areas where the president can make common cause with republicansnd advance some parts of his agenda. imfrags reform. his political interest with political imperatives need to get right if they want to win presidential elections in the future. on guns. there are some areas in the gun debate where you might be able to make some headway on the background check issue, possibly on high-capacity magazine clips. congressman gingrey, who we just talked about, said he could be open to some sort of legislation on high-capacity magazine clips. that's a potential area of compromise. there will not be many, and we'll face a brutal fight over spending and the debt limit unless the president finds some way to use executive authority and get around it. >> i think you are right as always. good to see you. >> you too. >> peter alexander, the network's newest white house correspondent in this week's "office politics." i talked about the pressure with the best in the business watching you and the west wing staffers. but we started with a behind-the-scenes look at the

just coming together for a common cause. >> suarez: this person looks to the problems establishing stablend wanted to see a freely elected president sworn in for herself. >> i'm originally from the middle east. this gives me a chance to really be part of something much bigger than myself which is kind of a democratic process, inaugurating a president into office. given what's happening in the region right now and people fighting for the democracy, i think this was a great chance to come out here and show i'm part of the process in the u.s >> suarez: now let's be honest. most of the millions of americans who wanted somebody else to take the oath today didn't make an effort to get here. so you couldn't really find people unhappy about the outcome of the election on the mall. it was a celebration, joyful and looking forward to more productive politics in the next four years. >> i would hope that the people are able to make some rational decisions and really think about the future, about what's going to happen, you know, instead of just kind of like hunkering down in their beliefs that they r

we have common cause. we trade with china we don't have to buy china's friendship. we trade with russia, we don't have to buy their friendship. trade is a great thing. >> greta: we have to buy it a little bit because it's important to us that egypt keep he a lid on the trouble to the extent they can with israel. we don't want egypt firing up everybody against israel. >> it's in their interest to keep things peaceful and keep down radical jihad, but my fear is maybe they're going to be part of that. the statements from the muslim brotherhood have not been moderate statements. these are people calling an entire race a descendent of apes and pigs and i'm concerned about that and i'm also concerned that these are weapons that could come back to haunt us. this isn't the first time we've done this. do you know who the biggest funders of the mujaheddin were? the united states. mo was part of the freedom fighters? bin laden. we gave stingle missiles, all kinds of weapons to the mujaheddin we thought they were the enemy of our enemy. in the end it back fired. supporting radi

they don't even get a vote on it because house republicans can't make common cause with even the senateepublicans on this issue. >> indeed. david corn, whose wife is from holland, tony car dane naday na congressman, thank you. >> if anyone thinks gun safety can get done, say hello to the 113th congress. stay with us. >> obama's got republicans in a compromising position and now he's ready to push his package through congress. ♪ push it, push it good ♪ push it real good ♪ you know my heart burns for you... ♪ i'm up next, but now i'm singing the heartburn blues. hold on, prilosec isn't for fast relief. cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast. ♪ oh what a relief it is! cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast. [ female announcer ] some people like to pretend a flood could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 hours can go by before i realize tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 that i haven't even looked awa

the joint chiefs share a common cause on the needed to start this now and to do it right. we are committed to a purposeful and principled approach, specifically, we would extend opportunities to wick in a way that would maintain readiness. and we will uphold the trust and confidence of the american people as we go forward. our nation demands no less. we'll also integrate women in a way that enhances opportunity for everyone. this means setting clear standards of for everyone in all occupations based on what it takes to do the job. it also means that ensuring these jobs are gender neutral. as we introduce women to closed occupations we must make sure there is a sufficient number of females entering the career field and already assigned in the leadership positions in order to sustain the positions overtime. these patrols will guide the work ahead. -- these principles will guide to the work aheadwe'll expand the number of units to those units this year. so we can start assigning personnel to previously closed occupations and they will take the time needed to do the work witho

muslim brotherhood an other islamist grups as well as those principles in jordan, do they find common cause? >> well, i think it's notsd for me to speak on their behalf. i am its jordanian ambassador so i suppose i speak on their behalf in terms of -- >> but i'm not their spokesman. i think what his majesty has been saying, and it's very clear s that we are a plura plurallistic society. we all have our views. we have much that bind us together so let's work together. let's work together in a parliamentary context. and work through all of this. and i-- it's very clear that i think had they participated in the elections they would have done well. and from the standpoint or from the point of being in parliament, they could then convince others that their view and their outlook is the correct one. i think of course in the future they look back and they would probably regreat that they didn't participate. because it was and is an historic event that we should have now a prime minister basically elected on the basis of the results themselves. but this is our hope and what his ma swresy said will

in fact, pneumonia is the most common cause of death. children who are severely malnourished appear anorexic. they do not want to eat. they're often very depressed. their heads are low. they stop talking. they stop walking, and they're severely dehydrated and suffering from infectious diseases. perhaps the most extreme case of malnutrition the team witnessed was annis-- a tiny wisp of a girl, two and a half years old. annis is just skin and bones and a head. and i looked at her, and i looked at the weight, and i asked the mother how old she is and the mother told me. and i said, "it's not possible." so i took annis myself back to weigh. i saw the scale, it said 4.2 kilos, took annis off, measured her height, put her back on the scale. i still couldn't believe it. it was amazing to me that annis was still alive. the highest mortality for children so severely malnourished occurs in the first few days. if you overfeed these kids they will die from electrolyte changes in their body. so you have to be very careful. we immediately started her