here's no living earth. how can you even imagine the earth lives? w can other species -- they're just inferior creatures of god. and you've got to have man's empire over god, over the earth." the idea that everything is this hard matter, unrelated to each other is still guiding a lot of science. genetic engineering is based on that hard matter, genes in isolation, you know? genes determine everything. there's a master molecule that gives orders. old patriarchal stuff. the real science -- >> patriarchal? >> the real science is the science of interconnection. whether it's going to -- >> of what? >> of interconnectedness, of non-separation. that everything is related. farming, for example. you must see the soil, the plants, the pollinators, the food that's produced. all of it in the whole. >> let's take that to the system of economics. because some people have said that globalization, the movement of ideas, of people, of money, across arbitrary boundaries, as if they didn't exist, also reflects the interconnectedness of everything. that globalization is

there's no living earth. how can you even imagine the earth lives?ow can other species -- and u'o ve man's atur t everytng is thisher is still d old patriarchal uf >> of interconnecdns,f you mustnterecte. anyocat opt eah" i b er tado l fd, ecset is naic and an eluonf pelea killing of their humanity. it is not an accident that with the rise of cporate loliatneha snhe rise of religious conflict, ethnic conflicts, where people get divided, more and more and more. w ae ei han divisions. you're seeing a deeper division earth, and all you see is a global reach. we are seeing a drop in our sense of a common humanity, andh planetary consciousness that we need to have. and for me, those are the two elen omangea with the earth. reclm nity and reclaiming our recognition that we are earth's citizens. >> the last time you were here, you were fighting coca-cola in india over the privatization of water. now your bulls-eye is on moano. why is monsanto so crucial to this fight over seeds? >> monsanto is crucial to this fight because they are the biggest seed company

most recent financial scandal gives the term bank robbery an entirely new meaning the meaning of live earth is the largest economic scam in world history and the largest insider trading scandal ever it would appear the global banking system is synonymous with corruption. and. to cross-talk the most recent banking scandal i'm joined by william black in kansas city he's an associate professor of economics and law at the university of missouri kansas city and author of the best way to rob a bank is to own one and in london we go to richard wellings he is deputy editorial director at the institute of economic affairs all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want ok william and i to go to you first here it looks like the global banking system is one big cartel illegal operations and controlling the global economy would you agree or disagree with that statement. now it's not one big cartel but there are a series of large cartels and this scandal makes clear that the city of london is controlled by an enormous cartel and it's made a terrible mistake from

tinker with a gyroscope or something so it just keeps going on the vector to nowhere we don't need live earth below or above the jamie diamond little solo but the ministry of defense in the u.k. is looking out there for hostile intent when we can look a little bit closer to home to the atmosphere circling our financial system. where we see it back in two thousand and three from this article derivatives have played a key role in almost all of the big scandals and disasters of the past decade from rogue trader nick leeson to enron a long term capital management the us hedge fund whose near collapse in one thousand nine hundred eight threatened to spark a global crash these often baffling financial contracts come with a string of names futures options interest rate swaps credit derivatives the most basic can be understood by the layman the more exotic or baffling even to mathematicians and financial experts so again these credit derivatives have landed they landed long ago this article from two thousand and three they knew there was hostile intent behind it they knew that it was a threat to our

the smithsonian's national museum of american indian here in washington is holding its annual living earth festival this weekend. live music and a cookoff between two native chefs among the highlights and a farmers market featuring native owned farms and a hands on activities on the third floor for the kids. >>> coming up the deadly theater shooting in colorado has a lot of people upset. we'll have some advice how to calm your jittery nerves the next time you enter a dark theater. >> president obama and mitt romney take a time-out from the campaign trail to address the colorado shooting massacre. i'm danielle nottingham at the white house with their reaction coming up. >>> we have breaking news, pepco has just won an $18 million raise from maryland regulators. you heard it, the order at about 5:15 tonight rejects $50 million of pepco's original request. the maryland public service commission specifically denied $8 million for costs related to what it called pepco's past failures. >>> police say a total of 71 people were shot in an a roar ra, colorado movie during -- in an aurora, colorado

. >>> coming up -- >> the death of our brother luke recalls the brevity of our lives on earth. >> a funeraland a wedding, both behind the walls of indiana state prison. >> i told them we wanted to get married october 7th. >> that will work. october 7th. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> the high walls and razor wire that surround a maximum security prison leave no doubt that this is a place where you pay your dues for terrible decisions. but even in these stark environments, inmates will still find ways to celebrate life's milestones. >> we've covered all kinds of events in prison, from an inmate's birthday to an anniversary to a wedding, even a funeral, and nothing symbolizes the futility of committing a major crime more than seeing an inmate die in prison. >> during our "extended stay" shoot at indiana state prison, we were told a memorial service was being held for an 81-year-old inmate who had been at the prison since 1979. when we arrived, we realized it was someone we knew. we met willard lucas inside the prison barbershop when we shot at indiana stat

all say that by two thousand and fifty you're probably going to be around nine billion people living on earth the second important driver is the consumption per capita and there is an enormous disparity in the index between developed and developing countries of the velo countries consume on the average fifty verrall spur person or year developing countries are more on the range or are of five to ten and if you take india for example the average consumption in gay's one point four barrels per person per year so as we bring economic development to the bric countries we're going to see millions of additional consumers come into the market so that is putting tremendous pressure on the man's side so the consequence for that is that oil prices will necessarily continue strong will see volatility but prices will come continue a strong so despite the volatility of the tendency will be plus i mean it will then see all of the blood is ok but will the industrial economies given the tendency to talk now will they be trying to cut their dependency on import of oil and gas what it means that they have to c

. >> it was 200 years ago that the number of people living on planet earth finally reached the 1 billionark. but that figure has been continually rising. much more rapidly since the second world war. there are now 7 billion people on the planet. the un forecasts 10 billion by the end of the century. what is more is there is a very uneven distribution of the world's population with some 60% of people living in asia. after that comes africa with 15%, followed by europe with 11%, latin america home to 9% of the world population, and north america, 5%. >> that means the vast majority of the world population is living in developing countries. the consequences of that is often extreme poverty and lack of living space. in the venice with it is one country facing such problems -- >> venezuela is one such country facing problems -- one country facing such problems. >> a view like this is not affordable for most residents of caracas. in his high-rise, things are different. construction work was halted when the economy went sour. the 45-store -- the 45-story building was empty until these squatters

we want another four years of stagnant job growth where the president said actually, he's not living on earth. >> mr. chairman, arguments that are made here, this election about president obama or mitt romney's policy and how he would be different. i want to show you something that speaker boehner said in wheeling, west virginia virge how do you fall in love with mitt romney? 95 percent of the people who show up in november will vote for or against president obama. mitt romney has people going to vote for him. this election will be a revverundum on the president's failed economic policies. is that an indication that the alternative in the election doesn't matter and chairman of rnc, are you prepared to fight a negative campaign all the way from now to november. >> first of all, the president claimed to be bringing everyone together. and he's the most divisive and nasty and negative campaigner that the country has seen. >> what about mitt romney though. >> sure. >> the alternatives put up there is just tearing down the president. >> wait a second, mitt romney first two ads what would mitt romn

right well hopefully we will be seeing some more light shed on these syrian files thank you sheriff earth live from london. the fact that these syrian files are making headlines despite all the criticism julian assange john wiki leaks have faced prove the group significance not just a letter radix us national security and human rights director at the government accountability project if these leaks were meaningless fluff or not in the public interest in knowing cared no one would report on them and they would see julian assange djoser crackpot and no one would pay any attention to it the fact that they're being reported on inherently shows their worth despite the fact that credit card companies that chilled doll financial support to wiki leaks and that he is holed up in the embassy this organization is continuing to function which is a testament to the by weekly leaks as an organization especially at this time and i find all of this to be very interesting because it shows number one the leagues is alive and well despite the best efforts of so many countries to shut it down and number two that

want another four years of this stagnant job growth with a president that acts like he's not living on earth guy's just lost in space. since when is 1600 pennsylvania not on earth? i don't think he'll moonwalk this one back. he's not the only right wing space invader. >> he doesn't seem to operate in the same planet you and i do. he has -- this sort of planet obama out there. >> the president must be on another planet. >> you guys are the ones out of this world. folks, let's agree on one thing. both presidential candidates are from planet earth. we have enough problems to deal with on this planet. so let's keep these campaigns grounded. we heard the arguments the president wasn't born in americ now we're hearing these he's from outer space. the real problem is not where they think he comes from. it's where he's at now. 1600 pennsylvania avenue. that's the problem. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> tax bracketology. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm michael smerconish in for chris matthews. leading off tonight, give me shelter. if you're barack

want another four years of this stagnant job growth with a president that acts like he's not living on earth guy's just lost in space. since when is 1600 pennsylvania not on earth? i don't think he'll moonwalk this one back. he's not the only right wing space invader. >> he doesn't seem to operate in the same planet you and i do. he has -- this sort of planet obama out there. >> the president must be on another planet. >> you guys are the ones out of this world. folks, let's agree on one thing. both presidential candidates are from planet earth. we have enough problems to deal with on this planet. so let's keep these campaigns

lives came to respect it, if not love it. more cans of spam have been sold than there are people on earth. spam is still made by the folks at hormel, making america the global leader in canned meats. >>> up next here tonight, another big milestone this evening for something that helped remake our modern world. >>> finally tonight, this broadcast is brought to you by satellite. we're so used to them we don't even mention them any more. 50 years ago tonight the first one was launched and they called it telstar. >> telstar is set off from cape canaveral. >> it was the size of a large beach ball, it weighed about 170 pounds, it circled the earth about every two hours and it changed everything. >> this is the first picture transmitted to outer space and received back again on earth. >> it allowed us to see live pictures from the other side of the atlantic for the first time. >> hello, north america. >> that first broadcast showed big ben, a london bobby and a woman's leg for the most part. while it looks like a fuzzy black and white painting by today's hd standards, back then it was revolutiona

want another four years of this stagnant job growth with a president that acts like he is not living on earth. >> mr. chairman there is the argument that is made is this election going to be about president obama or going to be about mitt romney's policies and how he would be different. i want to show you something that speaker boehner said the other day at a fun fundraiser. somebody said to him how do i fall in mitt romney. he said i will tell you this, are 95% of the people that show up to vote in november are going to show up in that voting booth and they are going to vote for or against barack obama. mitt romney has some people that are going to vote for him. that is not that this election is about. it is a referendum on the president's failed economic policies. is that an indication that the alternative in this election doesn't really matter and as chairman of the rnc are you prepared to fight a negative campaign from now all the way through into november? >> first of all, this president has already shown that he is not who he said he was. he claimed he was going to bring everyone togeth

autism frankly is something that was not seen when most of us were not kids and now it's one in 88 live earths. the implications for that, both for society and for the economics are stunning. at the other end of life come the other thing that concerns us is alzheimer's disease. if you get to be 80 or salt, the chance of having alzheimer's is 25%. the economics of that and is now risen into at the top seven causes of death in the united states. the implication of those two things at the beginning and end of life are stunning. until we begin to identify whether it an environmental her or just other fat person begin to do what does is going to put a huge burden on the cost of health care in both the united states and around the world. >> what recommendations do you do get schools to change lunch menus in vending machines away from junk food and drinks to healthier offerings? >> were very fortunate at the cleveland clinic to have bike race another chief bonus officer at the cleveland clinic and he has reached out into the schools of cleveland and we began to actively help them improve the quality

religious the motivated violence and create cultures of peace justice and healing for the earth and all living beings. small bowls. but carried out to many local groups called cooperation circles with over 550 of them in 80 countries over half a million members who each day tried to make some contribution to making that purpose a reality to interfaith cooperation. we are in 80 countries and 550 local groups and over half a million members. >>> the begun here in santa to scope greta that's correct out of an invitation from the un in 1993 to the then episcopal bishop pierre william swing ask him to post a one hour interfaith service from the u.n. charter setting at the grace cathedral and he said he would be happy to and when he was asked to bring religions free nations of the world he realized that the nation's worked together not to make one nation, but for a shared purpose of trying to create peace. the religions of the other hand weren't working together in and out of that can the question and a vision. the question is why aren't religious working together at the vision was of a time when pe

the aging muscle genes responsible at lower levels when scientist targeted these genes back on earth they live longer suggesting found a way to harness the benefits of space travel for longevity next step isolating and altering the genes. back to you >> could get close to fourth straight day of triple digit temperatures tom skilling says relief right round the corner forecast next. and there's lots of cool stuff happening with progressive mobile. great! tyler here will show you everything. check out our new mobile app. now you can use your phone to scan your car's vin or take a picture of your license. it's an easy way to start a quote. watch this -- flo, can i see your license? no. well, all right. thanks. okay, here we go. whoa! no one said "cheese." progressive mobile -- insurance has never been easier. get a free quote today. it has been brutal out here >> hottest spell since 1995. advertising relief on target. we have some beautiful pictures today check this out for kids went out decided to fry eggs a lot of these pictures people proving how hot it is thank you great picture. and animal o

so-called extrasolar planets, all these other, you know, nearby stars that could have living conditions very similar to earth. and so we just have to develop the means to transport ourselves to these places. now, obviously we're not going to do it in the next few years, but we've got to start. we've got to start right now. >> hinojosa: so franklin, before i let you go, i'm sure that there will be some young people who are watching this. and you know the importance of, you know, especially as an astronaut, putting that hope in one of those children who have a dream like you did. so what do you want to say to these young kids who are thinking, "you know, i really want to go to space, but my school isn't good," you know, "my family life," or, "it's just... i find it too hard, but i really want to go." >> well... >> hinojosa: what do you say to them? >> what i say to them, "you know, if i could make it, you certainly can make it." i was not a model student. i never was. i was not at the bottom of the class, but i was not at the top of the class. i was just a regular kid, a normal kid, that had the benefit of gre

peace and justice and healing for the earth and all living beings. small bowls >>> but carry out the many local groups called cooperation circles of over 550 of them in 80 countries and over half a million members who each day try to make some contribution to making that purpose a reality to interfaith cooperation. we are in 80 countries and 550 local groups and over a half million members. >>> began here in san francisco >>> that's correct it came out of an invitation from the un in 1993 to then put the school bishop year william swing asking him to host 01 our interfaith service as a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the u.n.'s charter signing at grace cathedral and he said he would be happy to when he was asked to bring religion to the un lien the nations of the world he realized that the nation's worked together not to make one nation but for shared purpose of trying to create peace and the religions on the other hand weren't working together and so out of that chemical agent and a vision and the question is what are the religion's working

. >>> when we come back on a second look, you saw it live right here on channel 2. what caused the earthto give way under this house in san francisco's sea cliff district. >>> tonight on a second look, we've been looking at sinking san francisco. but sometimes it's not the ground but what's in the ground that's the problem. in 1995 a leaking sewer line created a sink hole that was disastrous to a house. >> reporter: about 2:30 a.m. san francisco firefighters saw storm water gushing out of a broken sewer pipe in the sea cliff neighborhood. then in the dark they saw that the street in front of this million dollars home had begun sinking about 10 feet every 15 minutes. throughout the early morning the gushing water undermined the soil under the home. the house began to crumble, and crumble. and crumble while water continued to gush. then just after 7:30 this morning the ground gave way and within second the three story tudor home was gone. here it is again in slow motion. >>> some neighbors were asking how the sewer pipes could rupture. some say because it was more than 100 years old. >> i

what is the one thing that everything that is living on planet earth needs?> food and water. >> water. >> everything needs water that. maize a role in why we see more insects in the summertime because what happens is the way that the insects have adapted to our environment here locally is they take a lot of energy to fly around and it takes a lot of oxygen for an insect to fly around, for it to move around. that process of using the okay general uses a lot of water. so insects are better able to be mobile and not use a lot of energy when it is humid out. they use water more effectively in their bodies. >> it is more yeash for them -- it is more efficient for them. >> it is all about the humidity providing them a more efficient way to move around. >> we've talked about this before when it comes to mosquitos and some other insects as well. they are tracted to the carbon dioxide -- not monoxide. >> got to be a car. >> when it is hotter out and we are moving around and breathing harder and sweating, they are attracted more to that. so not only are they more activ

the view is inspired by her praise termination to live her life to the fullest in spite of the ravages of the disease. she left this earth in 2003 of her legacy lives on in the friends of faith. >>> she founded friends of faith and she realized that the woman who had to choose between paying the utility bills and paying for their cancer treatments. >>> the press cancer emergency fund gives emergency cash grants to amend or often a life saver. >>> the fatigue that time in the cost to cancer brings into life makes it difficult for you to work out some of the home. it is been a big problem for me. i received a $600 check that i put toward the medical copayments as well as my private co-payments that i have for health insurance. i paid my rent with that check in october and was $600 and i was in the studio for $750 and it was a godsend. >>> friends that fit his raised more than a million dollars in direct cash grants and for programs that provide food and transportation and medical assistance. every august around the 10th time of faith for the will of a major fund-raising event. the breast cancer challenge not only honoring

suppression and all the deppization lies in the fact that 2.5 billion of the 7 billion people on this earth lives in absolute misery. are hungry, live beneath the line. so if we look at the bigger picture, i think we need to develop a vision and world leaders should put their hands and their heads together and develop a vision. how do we effectively manage diversity? secondly, how do we win the war against poverty? how do we reduce the percentage of people living beneath the bread line dramatically giving them a better life, giving them hope, giving them opportunity? [applause] >> you are someone who fought and won the peace prize for your fight for workers rights to give people a living wage, to give them decent working conditions, to give them the opportunity themselves to work their way out of poverty. and i think it's actually -- well, i certainly don't want to draw a direct comparison when you look at the youth unemployment numbers in the united states and the difficulty that students even with a college degree now have in getting employment. there is some understanding of what it means to f

and as carl sagan taught us all those decades ago, the earth and every living thing are made of star>> they process and make carbon, oxygen, nitrogen that's in the air, the iron that's in your blood. we are star stuff. every single atom in your body has gone through the life cycle of many generations, several generations, of stars. which is really mind blowing to think about. >> just some nutty stuff going on. >> there are. and i get to do this every day. i love my job. z >> what's the likelihood there is another speck out there, something like us? >> first of all, there is other life out there of some kind. i would even go so far as to say that there is intelligent life out there is inevitable as well. we all know that many, many stars, the majority of stars in our galaxy have planets around them. there are hundreds of billions of planets just in our own galaxy. there has to be life, in my opinion. >> in "the adventures of huckleberry finn," they used to lie on their backs and discuss whether they were made or just happened. >> why is it important to understand the universe? >> well

he is author of, "hot: living through the next fifty years on earth."o-founder of the new group, climate parents. he is joining us from san francisco. thank you for joining us here on "democracy now!" talk about the climate we are experiencing, just in the united states alone and what you are doing. >> that shot from iowa, i was just out during the reporting and minnesota and talking to the farmers, and that reminds me, a quote from a plant biologist from the university of illinois who looked at the drought and heat hitting the farm belt of the country and said, "this is like farming in hell." we will see an enormous impact already on the agricultural output in this country. we forget sometimes, the u.s. is the world's leading agricultural superpower. but this summer, we're already seeing corn and soybean prices are shooting up because of what is going to happen to the harvest. let's remember what happened the last time food prices went up around the world in 2008. we saw food riots in 12 countries that almost toppled governments. these are some of the