the recurring metaphor in lawrence lessig's new book about how u.s.omplicates got corrupted, the recurring alcoholic metaphor in his book is boris yeltsin, president of russia. boris yeltsin, president of russia, hammered all the time. just a hopeless drunk. yeltsin's drunkenness is in n fact a key part of what happened and why in 1990s russia and what we understand about it. por ejemplo. >> for the first time in the nuclear age the russians actually opened up the nuclear football. they went to president yeltsin. they opened up the command and control launch codes, the button, put it on the desk, and said, we're under attack. fortunately, yeltsin wan't drunk, and he didn't believe what the military was telling him. he said, there must be some mistake. >> in lawrence lessig's "republic lost," he uses the idea of drunk yeltsin, the metaphor of drunk yeltsin to convey the seriousness of what's happened to our politicians, to our congress, to our political system. money in our politics is so absolutely unconstrained now. it has so occluded every other thi

now it's time to speak with lawrence lessig about the occupy movement and his new book about how money has corrupted our political system and lucy cavanagh is going to give us a few updates from zuccotti park now the protesters are allowed to have tents and are talks of forming a different type of political structure then security researcher christoffersen going is going to join us to talk about the risks of the technology and constant government monitoring pose the confidentiality between journalists and their sources if the time the journalist starts beef up their own computer security skills are going to fall back on morphy tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. i think they're all well aware by now that i mean for me they kind of suck that it's job as in forming the public seeing the bigger picture talking about fundamental shifts that are happening in our country and said they like to focus on partisanship for tat on a daily developments in elections stuff that nobody really cares about the last two days i think it

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is on getmoneyout.com as well as with suggested revisions by renowned constitutional scholar lawrence lessig. we'll be continuing to post revisions to this draft throughout the fall. this is an open process and we will debate that language in public on this show, on the web, and, of course, on our thursday night fights for weeks, if not months, to come. the key is our singularity of principle and our agreement that we will align around that principle. do not forget that if you are invested in this process now, it is gut check time, because it is only for us to inform others that we believe this is important and why, so that they are given the privilege and the respect of being able to choose for themselves as to whether or not they want to join us to get money out. >>> straight ahead here, we ask the twitterverse if occupy wall street had its own ben & jerry's ice cream flavor, what would it be called? the story behind the question and our favorite responses with some ice cream flavors right after this. with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced. i don't always have time to eat like i s

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