tear gas and arrests more to join us with updates of occupy oakland and occupy san francisco as joshua holland joshua can you tell us about what happened today how did the standoff occur and why was tear gas fired because well it's been a rambling day of protests off the. i mean it's stock different protests today as far as i understand it's there let's start at once some police cars detached the main body your beliefs and in the middle of a bunch of protesters tear gas is reportedly. the climate system right now this morning and i'm. mental health it's old but. it's been shut down and. there's a dozen police officers now standing stock for the moment a lot of. stopped. why did it seem like in oakland it's always the same story these militarized police crackdowns that are so much more harsh than anywhere else in the country i mean is it just what do you why do you think that is why is it so different in oakland than anywhere else. i think it's important to understand that tensions between. protesters and not just the state is which. it's. still too tough just three after . bullets on him just

like fox news are republicans more susceptible to fear than liberals joining me to discuss it is joshua holland senior writer and editor at alter net joshua thanks for joining us tonight and let me tell me you know why don't you start by telling me a little bit more about this research. thanks for having me yeah there's an increasingly room bust body of research that suggests that liberals and conservatives aren't just about it by philosophical differences or policy preferences but actually have different cognitive styles different ways of interpretating the world around them and there are you mention the study of the physical study of the enlarged which is the fight or flight structure of the brain that kind of shuts down rational thought and tells you when you encounter a lie and that you better get out of there very quickly there's also been studies where they showed liberals and conservatives non political images some of which were disturbing and frightening and others we were comforting and nine and they tracked where people's eyes went and they found that conservatives went quickly to the

companies and things which at the very least if somebody was using those tactics we probably would joshua holland thank you so much for the great reporting. thanks don always great to see a wall the occupy movement may be leading the way in today's rallies historically labor and movements have been at the forefront of the fight for workers' rights coming up after the break what role does the labor play in this effort to create an economy that serves not just the one percent but all of us. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old until she told the truth. i'm a contestant i am a total get of friends that i love traveling hip hop music and. she was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without you it's a place. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you saw you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. welcome back to our special coverage of today's may day events may day used to be a day set aside for immigrant workers in

joshua holland the editor of the alternative news portal net in san francisco says that americans realize the financial woes are simply a result of military spending. a lot of discussion we're hearing so much about budget deficits and threats to. our social safety net and i think a lot of people understand that there is a certain tradeoff between the military the military expenditures where. we're expanding on afghanistan and other conflicts and. these budget deficits that we're facing domestically so you know there is a message that we would like to invest in but are rather than guns well do you remember all of our news and updates was available for you online dot com let's have a look and see what's waiting for you there right now for example the hacking group anonymous strikes and yet again this time by exposing private data stolen from the u.s. bureau of justice. also online and gone in a blink president putin takes away flashing blue lights used by hundreds of officials on their cars and we explore what it might do for moscow's horrendous traffic gridlock. it's good to have you with

joshua holland editor at the alternative news portal alter net in san francisco says americans realize the financial wus a result of military spending. a lot of discussion we're hearing so much about budget deficits and threats to cut our our social safety net and i think a lot of people understand that there is a certain tradeoff between the military cost the military expenditures that were that were expended on afghanistan and other conflicts and. the budget deficits that we're facing domestically so you know there is a message that we would like to invest in but are rather than guns in the meantime russia is turning to huge fines to try and make protest safe a new bill could see russian protesters paying the quickness of up to fifty thousand u.s. dollars if they preach the lord demonstrations of details on that coming up in a few minutes. i don't propose an egypt save the uprising leaders have discredited the revolution and driven the nation to the verge of economic collapse that's later in the program here in. the first the u.n. secretary general has called on conflicting sides in

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is going to break it down for us and our conservatives more susceptible to fear than liberals joshua holland is going to talk to us about some new research out there that suggests yes we're going to all of that have more freedom night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the main three media decided to miss. now if you watch our show regularly then you've heard a lot about the f. twenty two raptor and the numerous problems that the stealth jet has had not only cost overruns which we'll get into in a minute but don't forget the entire fleet was grounded because of oxygen problems which were affecting pilots then the air force decided to let them fly again despite the fact that the problem had not been resolved now this weekend sixty minutes actually got to air force pilots who have refused to continue flying the jets to sit down and talk with them about it. when i did make that decision to to pull the emergency action ring i couldn't find it i couldn't remember you know what part of the aircraft that was in the air force's josh's extreme disorientation resembled a condition

better because right now essentially people in washington know about hollande, whatever is reported by the press. >> our next call from joshua on our line for republicans in jacksonville, florida. joshua, you are on the "washington journal." >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to -- i just wanted to ask the question on what exactly is the socialist party in france party platform, and how does it differ from the socialist party or democratic party in the u.s.? >> i mean, we could say that hollande is really -- he comes from the socialist party but he is really a social democrat. so it's kind of centrist. also, clearly in his campaign, he also tried to please the most left wing groups of his own electorate. so what we can expect is that hollande will be moving more towards the center as he gains power and that said it will still be a continental european with a vision for a relatively strong role of the state, even if, of course, this were allowed to be somehow amended in light of the current events. in that sense, i believe it really -- this is where the difference with the u.s. democrats lie. where the dem

hollande and merkel wanted to reassure the financial markets that they will continue to work together. joshua otonabe, nhk world, berlin. >>> timny geithner said that europe is making progress in dealing with the debt crisis. >> the greeks have a particularly unique set of challenges. but we should welcome this new debate about growth in europe. i think it's a welcome debate. they have a stronger set of tools to manage the crisis now in place. that allows them to shift the focus where they should. how they create the conditions for more growth. >> geithner said in a speech in washington on tuesday that europe is taking measures to restore fiscal sustainability at a steady pace. he also mentioned the discussions have begun to promote spending on infrastructure in debt-ridden nations to support their economies. geithner added that europe has become aware of the need to boost the global standing of those countries with excessive debts. but he warned against slowing down efforts to overcome the crisis. >>> japanese companies seem to be reluctant to spend. machinery orders fell in march for the fi