jim kelly the executive director of the open rights group and he told us that snowden showed how the n.s.a. surveillance weakened security technologies and exposed exposed us all to criminal activity. i think it's really important that he have this opportunity to tell everybody in the u.k. about what he's what he's been able to tell us so that we can start to think about how we reform surveillance in the u.k. that would start in the show to seize that every ball be as fundamental as a result of the kind of surveillance that's taking place not only we've gotten a bill from security agencies but because they weakened security technologies in general they ain't ordinary people bundle to the activities of common criminals who can use the same vulnerabilities that the n.s.a. have introduced to hack people's computers steal their identities take information from them. with less than a week say twenty four seen west something out the most people saw news of the outgoing get. these local to be. braving the elements in order to stand on u.s. soil giants chevron. this comes after a massive hun

but for more on this story let's cross live to london and talk to jim kelly from the open rights group sir this is the latest revelations from the n.s.a. do you do you do you really think this means we can't trust our own laptops i mean sometimes it will mean some people shouldn't trust their laptops and i think what we need but also governments are. into their own security organizations in what. part of what they're discrete on articles describes today is a government of the n.s.a. our. mexican government in order that they can find out more about. seconds and dealing with drug issues and so on so i think it's really quite. dangerous and problematic because again the government the n.s.a. appears to be making its own decisions about how well the democratic governments should be operating their policies and not trusting them to do their job. well who could be the target of this too to intercept. the communications of the of these laptops are we talking foreign governments or just individuals mean how far reaching could this go do you think. well i think it is if you if it would turn al

them all by having at that stage and told them about privacy today and then there were still to jim kelly executive director of the open rights group and he told is that side that showed how the nsa surveillance weekend security technologies and expired that expires this or to criminal activity. really really uncalled many have this option it seems as though i've been putting uk i will be sth what he's been able to tell us that we can stop the bad hair we reformed surveillance in the uk to study showed it seems that every both these vulnerable as a result of the kind of surveillance is taking place the lady we bought a pool from security agencies but because they weakened and security technologies in general did not paint poisoning people. one of the activities of common criminals. you can use the same and abilities that the nsa big teams. heck people compete says he learnt that these take information from. as in the weeks to twenty four scene when summing up the modest be the tony's of the upcoming day. however great the eggs in one exists not to us oil giant step one. this comes after a

hedge fund manager jim rickards is my guest for this hour. kellyit, my colleague, is here as well. hedge funds are closing out the worst your relative to stocks since 2005. -- out their worst year relative to stocks since 2005. it is hard to get 29% returns no matter what you are doing, but that is the job of hedge fund managers. >> on the one hand, we had stocks of had a huge rally boosted by continued fed policy and stimulus. but on the other hand, it seems hedge fund managers had a bit of a hard time because they were a bit defensively positioned or if they had a short book they probably did not do that well. and they probably asked -- and made did not expect fed policy to continue as long as it did. that, because they could not quite predict what the fed was going to do this year, a lot of them did not see those outside schemes like the market. >> how do you judge your peers? how do you adjust people who are not a global fund and do not outperform the stock market? >> you are not supposed to outperform the stock market every year. hedge funds a

and fedex are a lot like jim kelly here.reat deal of patience for these explanations. >> they haven't given us a whole lot to work with here in terms of why this actually happened. so, first of all, u.p.s. will not tell us how big the problem is. they plan for an 8% increase in shipping and clearly they got way more than they expected. in comparison, the u.s. postal service told me today that they got a 19% increase in package volume. and they actually had their mail carriers out on christmas day, delivering those extra packages so that they could keep up. >> in your article you said a woman tracked her package and found it left tennessee and arrived in ft. worth, texas, december 20th. how can u.p.s. explain that five-day delay? >> they can't. basically what happened was they did not have sufficient drivers to get the packages out. and so the packages are sitting there. and it turns out that they're not allowing people to go to the depot to pick up their own packages. >> why is that? >> they're just sitting there. they haven

biggest game of the season for dallas after two days after momo had back surgery and a new coach jim kellie year ago were 4-12. so quarterback nick who began the season as a backup as well. a lot of story lines and eagles up first and goal and bryce brown has a 6-yard touchdown with a 24-16 lead and cowboys answer and kyle finds brian and breaks a tackle and he is gone in the open field. gets the end zone for 32-yard score and dallas for 2 but not able to convert so 24-22 with under two minutes to go and horton had dallas from field goal range and through it behind him and brandon with the pick and eagles take nfc east and headed to the playoffs, for dallas this is the third straight is season and jerry jones lost to a division rival and rogers back in action for the first time in a month after the broken collar bone and this is time against the bears and check it out, aaron gets the touchdown with 46 seconds left of the game and gets the touchdown. last chance for jake cutler and company. going for the hail mary. and this one not going to happen. game over. bears trailing in that and jay c

chip kelly and the eagles facing jim schwartz, the lions, and the snow.it was coming down in the fourth quarter. eagles down 20-14. lesean mccoy, think he was impacted by the elements? i don't think so. 29 carries. 217 yards. two touchdowns. look at the eagles. at 8-5. 34-20 win. >>> and kobe bryant made his season debut for the lakers last night. coming back from the achilles. they lost at home to the raptors. his stat line, nine points, eight rebounds, four assists, eight turnovers. he said afterwards, it felt good the get out there. he said he would give himself an "f" if he was grading himself. the next live "sportscenter," 9:00 a.m. eastern on espn. have a great week, everybody. >>> one more highlight from the lions-eagles game. in the philadelphia snow. it's our "play of the day." featuring one of the nfl's top receivers. >> calvin johnson hauled in a 33-yard pass from matthew stafford. he came up with a helmet full of snow. the man they call megatron doing his best snowman impression. whoo! >> oh, my goodness. one commentator said simply, it looks

like art briles over at baylor, jim moore at ucla, gus at auburn and jimbo fisher at florida state, those are popular names. there's nfl names bantied about. chip kelly today said he wasn't interested and jim harbaugh wasn't interested. there's mike mccarthy from the packers and mike tomlin f get t him. >> quickly, graham, a lot of people aren't talking about mack brown's future. he agreed toght, graham watson m yahoo! sports. thanks for the insight. we appreciate it. it will be interesting to see where mack brown goes from here. >> thank you very much. >>> still ahead, remembering the life of actor peter o'toole, plus. a game changer. how the release of beyonce's new record-selling album and making waves in the music industry. (vo) al jazeera america >> al jazeera'sa america investigative unit has tonight's exclusive report. >> stories that have impact... that make a difference... that open your world... >> this is what we do... >> america tonight next only on al jazeera america >>> nearly a million records sold. sales records shattered and history made when beyonce secretly released her self-titled fifth album early friday morning. it dropped on on

jim how. you doing today? >> well, chip kelly made me happy. how about you? >> caller: i'm doing okay. >> good. >> caller: i want to get your thoughts on china mobile phone. i know the rumor is with apple december 18th. >> china's gotten hot again, but they're going to do a lot of ipos. that was the story over there. my charitable trust bought apple today. why? because i think it's going to be an apple holiday season with the tablet. now, remember, today was a nasty end of the day. and i think a lot of people are going to really take their cue from the end of the day, not the beginning of the day. more on that later. but i need you to understand why people do buy amazon. not in my trust. it doesn't have to be in yours. but at least understand why they buy. i'm here to help you see the forest through the trees. or the drones through the drone. and amazon's got both cases. oh, you know, again, i want to point out. trust doesn't own amazon. just trying to explain why it's near $400. "mad money" will be right back. >>> coming up, forget the fowl. it's time to lea

kelly. he's one of our super producers. she got a special gift from his step dad, jim. >> she's suspicious already because the cameras are rollingody is quiet and watching. >> dear ginger, i hope that when we suffer through cold winter nights, this gift will remind up of your youth in warm, sunny florida. >> people have told him if you give her this present, she might divorce you. this is a gift he thought was perfect for her. >> oh no! it's an alligator. >> that's right. he gave her an alligator. >> those are really sharp teeth! >> hold it. >> i don't really like alligators. >> she must have been terrified of them when she lived there. >> she has a funny story about gators. >> in florida i saw gators a lot. i jumped over one. >> what is she's supposed to do with this thing? >> now can you have the alligator head poking out of the covers. >> did -- one smart dog. this video is so cute, you'll quickly forgive this guy for shooting it in vertical video. >> this beat boxer is beat boxing to her. and she's captivated by this. so much so that when he stops, she -- >> it's like she's got to give it a shot. >> perfect timing. >> was th

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jim chanos. great to have you with us. >> hi, kelly, how are you? >> we're hanging in there.china. while everyone is focusing on the fed's taper there's a story coming out of china that they should really be concerned about. >> exactly. while everyone was focused on ben bernanke and his exit and tapering and dovish language, we've had a bit of a banking crisis brew up all over again in china this week. there were reports of a major coal company defaulting on huge amount of loans. and then more importantly, a major bank admitted that back in june it had missed overnight interbank payments. that got the market skittish again this week. rates have skyrocketed. overnight the people's bank of china injected some money into the system to calm these fears down. but it just seems like we're going through this now every three to six months in china. >> jim, people are talking about those as growing pains to some extent for this country of almost a couple billion people. it's hard to bet against -- it's hard to bet on china's failure. i guess the question becoming tactically speaking,

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jim will be talking to the founder of avian tequi tequila. i'll see you on "fast money" i'll be speaking to the ceo of lifetime fitness. >> cheers. >>> and welcome to the "closing bell." i'm kellyrk stock exchange where we may yet have another down day with the dow off 62 points. >> looks like it. in fact, today's fun fact, you can write this down or impress your friends at tonight's cocktail party, the last time we started any money with three consecutive down days was back in september 2011. that didn't even happen in 2012 at all. >> that would have been in the middle of a pretty sharp correction as well. >> in fact, that month, september of '11,

jim will be talking to the founder of avian tequi tequila. i'll see you on "fast money" i'll be speaking to the ceo of lifetime fitness. >> cheers. >>> and welcome to the "closing bell." i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange where we may yet have another down day with the dow off 62 points. >> looks like it. in fact, today's fun fact, you can write this down or impress your friends at tonight's cocktail party, the last time we started any money with three consecutive down days was back in september 2011. that didn't even happen in 2012 at all. >> that would have been in the middle of a pretty sharp correction as well. >> in fact, that month, september of '11, we were down 7% in the market. so, we're not saying we're going to see it this month, necessarily, but we are off to a down start for the month so far. >> sure we'll get into that and market reaction. plus, exclusive reaction to the selloff with pimco's bill gross. he has an eye-opening opinion of how investors should be playing this market. he'll tell us what keeps him up at night. >> the minimum wage is back in the news. we have a fast food worker walkout scheduled for tomorrow. the president was demanding an in

auburn and jim bow of florida state and a couple nfl coaches, 2008 super bowl champion mike tomlin of the pittsburgh steelers and mike mccarthy of the green bay packers and look for chip kelliesee some excitement with the position. >> reporter: thank you, several hundred workers for amazon are going on strike again in germany. some of them even traveled across the atlantic to protest outside the internet giant headquarters in seattle and kim reports. >> early morning shift workers arrived before do you know at amazon's warehouse but there was never any intention of clocking on. chanting strike day has arrived. these workers and more than a thousand others across the country walked off the job calling for more pay. >> translator: we demand from amazon they sign a labor agreement with us based on the regulation of the retail industry. this would mean amazon employees starting new in the company would have 7,000 euros per year. >> it pays well according to the industry with wages starting at over $13 an hour and the workers union says compared to retail and mail order industries amazon employees are under paid and faced with permanent performance pressure. germany's is the seco