that's ok we're doing ok and the example you mentioned where we managed to impersonate the dow chemical company on the twentieth anniversary of the bhopal catastrophe the world's largest industrial disaster for which dow chemical has met responsibility and we announced to the world that it was finally taking responsibility for this disaster and as you mentioned the dow stock price tumbled by several billion dollars when the world believed that that was true which kind of points to the problem with having markets decide what's right and what's wrong there's something running parallel with culture jamming it could be called capitalism jamming and situation like. crowd funding platforms like kickstarter are kicking the traditional capitalist models and opening it up to for. makers like yourself so it would seem really in the keeping with what you guys are doing tell us a little bit about actions switchboard what's that all about the action switchboard is a platform a human staff the platform that we're building that is going to be available to anybody to launch their own direct actions or get plug

you said there are actually a private spying company there like a private cia they spied on everything from the yes men to people who were opposing dow chemical for what happened in bhopal to organizations like they did work for the cia for the israeli army private security company revolving door with other government officials and they allegedly hacked into that jeremy hammond is accused of various computer fraud crimes which could amount as you said to a thirty seven year to life to life sentence he was part of this group allegedly called anonymous interestingly there was a government informant in that group a man made a name so blue and it's very arguable here that. the actual crime was in fact like many other entrapment we've heard of in recent times set up by the f.b.i. they bought the computer for their informants who they actually knew these documents were being allegedly were uploaded to my client wiki leaks and they let it happen in fact they facilitated it so you already have a crime that may not have actually been a crime but the worst aspect i saw was when i went to the bail hearing for jeremy hammond i saw a judge there who was v

chemical maker dow chemical was among the weakest in the materials sector as the company held an investor forum today. shares fell 3% on heavier than usual volume. while c.e.o. andrew liveris said they've seen signs of chinese manufacturing picking up in recent weeks, the company continues to plan for slow growth around the world next year. as part of dow's re- organization, the company plans to sell businesses that bring in $1 billion of revenue. competitor dupont also saw selling pressure today, falling 1.7%. this was the biggest percentage loser among stocks in the dow jones industrial average. database software company oracle isn't immune to the dividend gold rush we've seen as companies move to pay shareholders ahead of the new year and the likelihood of higher taxes. but oracle did not declare a special dividend. instead it will pay three quarters worth of pay-outs later this month. it means shareholders will get $0.18 per share, the equivalent of three quarters of regular dividends, in one payment. instead of paying the dividends on a regularly schedule quarterly basis next year, a

taking a look here, dow chemical, its ceo andrew liver speaking at the company's investor forum today saying that the company is taking "swift and decisive actions to protect its growth plan and to drive near-term value." specifically, they are cutting a number of things. they've accelerated interventions to reduce costs. they expect to deliver $1 billion in cost interventions in 2013. >>> 108,000. that is how many civilian defense jobs are at risk if we go over the fiscal cliff. that's according to the center for strategic and budgetary assessments. >> the defense industry is sounding the alarm. dozens of industry leaders are in washington, d.c. taking their case to congress and the president and going over that cliff could be a threat to our national security. let's bring in david hess, president of pratt and whitney. david, how severe is the problem? critics will say that the defense industry has grown pretty much every year for the last 20 years and that we probably spend way too much on defense anyway. >> it's hard to understand that comment. quite honestly what often gets missed

dow chemical. of coke, not coke the beverage company. but this was something that was hotly disputed within the romney campaign. he really let this stuff go because the romney campaign had some very big givers that were chemical companies. >> do we know, say, very bad, how much will prices conceivableably go up if we become an exporter of natural gas? is it that great a difference? >> we burn offer more natural gas than we use. burn off, in other words literally, you see those flames, we flare more than we use. so we got a real excess of this stuff. >> the government says that the -- 6.6% of current u.s. consumption. >> why would prices move that dramatically at all? wouldn't they just come down globally? >> the average, our $16 goes to $4. it costs $7 to get stuff from the united states. >> you should argue that they should go down because they went be the only one. dominion has brooif cove, that's the one that's most ready to go. the gorgon numbers, this is the gigantic l & e experts. it's not going to cost $60 billion. these plants co

we are seeing this dow component, this chemical maker, liz and dave, moveing to the upside dramatically. it's breaking news, and as we noted, announcing a share buy back of the companyk, something that they talk about, the fourth quarter performance, expected at the high end of the previous guidance. this is basically saying dupont saying, we're doing great, giving nice numbers here, and as a result, the stock's jumping. back to you. liz: thank you, nicole, very much. david: s&p futures closing now, back to lair at the cme. what do you think? >> what i sense is an interesting fact behind me, closing exactly where we were right before the election, and we fell, as you know, we fell 6.5% and rallied since then. what's the moral of the story? we had time to digest obama's misguided policy and adjust the cliff with the hill, and the market marchs on. twelve reasons the market will go down, but concentrating on multiples, the market's healthy, and the trade pain is on the upside. david: don't fight the market or your ideological beat the system. liz: true, thank you, lair. david: capital hill less than three weeks for a solution to the crisis. any republicans republicans