also included is the remarkable percy schneider, a former that took on monsanto. he is considered a rock star in germany. he was being asked to speak in city after city. we urge you to call right now and let us know if you are in the house. the number is 866-359-4334. if you would like to get the two dvd set of the thinker activists in germany, pledged $100 and it is yours. we urge you to call and stand up for independent media. your call makes a difference. in 1998 percy and his wife received a letter from monsanto claiming that they had used monsanto seeds without license in planting the 1997 crop, however they had never purchased monsanto seed and never intended to have it. it turns out that genetically modified canola seeds had blown over from passing trucks or from their neighbor, so these genes that they claimed to own roundup of monks their own. monsanto threatened to sue for infringement of patents, thinking -- seeking damages of something along $400,000. the schneiders decided to turn the tables on to monsanto for non-minating their genetically modified c

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forty one years ago i was a player coach in ohio always thinking percy. had a negro catch best hitter on the team. so he laid low. broke because of the color of his skin and i didn't do enough to hold myself. or something unfair. at the hearth. and i had no. time came when i could no. i guess harrison ford forty two is now playing why did is a great film and he is great and it's your dad became advocate of conservation international is the obama administration doing enough in the area of the environment. they're doing. what they can. tell you with that you know the biggest issue now is. funding of course. and the funding for international conservation has not been as. as fulsome as it as needs to be. but there is a response to an understanding now. that hadn't. been there before which is an idea that conservation international has been advancing which is that there is a direct link between international conservation failures and the united states national security issues and economic issues so. you know that which means that. if there is a failure of. nat

ice was so thin that it began to sink under them into the water there was huge losses around groove percy thousand pups. however there is more than one reason for the massive deaths man is actively invading the habitat of the harp seal. brylin the ropes raise the ramp. on the ropes raise around. every spring. it receives reports on animal breeding grounds from the headquarters of the ice operations of our. alternate routes are then drawn on the nautical charts and they are adjusted along the way this is all done in order to avoid crushing the white coat. and then you cannot cover every area and see where they are exactly it's just that the majority of them are here but the rest are spread all over the the sea. situation is constant. and any time a change in course can occur even because of one seal it's a living being of course the way you feel especially stories since there just pops . out here preparing helicopter for winter conditions of a minus twenty five degrees celsius is a long and difficult process. a good protein organizes expeditions to the birthplace of the harp seal he has to

forty one years ago i was a player coach a high horse thing percy. had a negro catch best hitter on the team. so i'm late lol. broke because of the color of his skin and i didn't do enough to help hold myself. it was something unfair. at the heart of the game by. and i know. the time came when i could no. i guess harrison ford forty two is now playing why did is a great film and he is great and that you are an advocate advocate of conservation international is the obama administration doing enough in the area of the environment. they're doing. what they can. tell you with that you know the biggest issue now is. funding of course. and the funding for international conservation has not been as. as folsom as it as needs to be. but there is a response to an understanding now. that hadn't. been there before which is an idea that conservation international has been advancing which is that there is a direct link between international conservation failures and the united states' national security issues. and economic issues so. you know that which means that

search engine start page says the government's obsessions with surveillance might bring about and to percy as we know it i think if we start going down this road of saying that it anyplace people are where there is privacy they need to be watched by the government then we get to the point where we will not have private hotel rooms we will not even have private bedrooms or private showers in our own homes and eventually you know we're going to have nostril cams looking up our noses so i think in some point we've got to say just like the founding fathers of the united states said in the in the bill of rights no you can't go rifling through a law abiding citizens privacy just because on the off chance someone might commit a crime down the road truly what if if law enforcement wants to find people who are doing bad things it's not looking for the people who are going online looking things up it's really the people who are doing bad actions and i think that mindset that everyone needs to be watched is how we've gotten into the trouble that we're in right now with the n.s.a. creating back doors

months into his rules often find themselves at the wrong end of lawsuits like toronto based farmer percy smiles or who seven year battle with monsanto nearly took the family farm smiles it was a canola farmer and sea breeder for fifty years one thousand nine hundred ninety seven months and to develop canola seed ended up on his farm the origin of the roundup ready seed remains unknown but smiles are adept at the seed and harvested it in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight months into learned that smiles are was growing a crop of roundup resistant canola and took him to court for pet infringement. when the farmer wouldn't pay a licensing fee for the seats the case went all the way to the canadian supreme court which voted five to four in favor of months anto much it will go and see the farmers whether it be organic farmers large you know armors savers. and they'll sue them for all their money or you know as much as they can. patent bridgeman in they were eventually you know put that person out of business and i just find it crazy because number one these people they don't even know wha

washington keeps percy keesing whistle blowers and in return more more whistle blows come out and speak who's going to win this one do you think is well it's really up for grabs that the obama administration has prosecuted persecuted more than all the other with whistleblowers have been prosecuted persecuted by all creepiest presidencies so i think it is a cycle and yet the awareness and understanding that we need to challenge that sort of repression is increasing in the united states i think very fast again if you go to your roots action dot org you'll see a manifestation of that where people are joining and so it is a spiral it's a battle between the forces of repression and the forces of democracy that's what we're dealing with here in the united states right now are we do have to leave it there thank you very much for coming on to r.t. that's norman solomon a journalist and antiwar activist thank you and give you our government surveillance was among the key issues touched upon by president putin within the past few hours during a question and answer session here at the r.t. new cen

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that people who are sexual gender minority should not be percy outlaws for the state. this process began after world war ii, begin with mainstream voters interesting enough, begin in gay and lesbian bars but it began with political movements that culminated, started in 1961 with illinois repeal but achieved its greatest victory in the early days anyway by the repeal in california. and by its partial invalidation in massachusetts. massachusetts and california with the great pioneers of in sodomy reform. the rendering legal consensual features of sodomy between private individuals within their own home. unfortunately, or perhaps for my book fortunately, the story doesn't end in 1975 with the great california repealed the story i tell them great detail in the nearby willie brown and a number of other important and very admirable straight allies. because very soon after the california repealed, the traditional family value movement that we've come to appreciate really was born in full force. it's caricatured as a reaction to rural -- to roe v. wade but it's only a small pa

the lectern, brush the ashes, percy ashes away, looked down and find the remains of donald kueck lying in the ashes crushing a rifle -- clutching a rifle, and that's the end. >> roger ransom smores of domestic and foreign policy would have been different if this several -- civil war was won by the south. his book is "the confederate states of america," and he spoke with book tv while we were in palm springs, california. >> the premise of the book is exactly what the title suggests, what might have happened if the south won the civil war. it i think that is something worth worrying about because the truth of the matter is, the reason we were so much about the civil war is the south did not win, and the north did. and so i am trying to go back and reconstruct, from what we know about the way the war actually once and the reasons for it and say, now if we changed a few things to -- and he would have to change more than one, but a few things. what with the world be like. >> the first things you look at. >> well, the first thing a look at is why did we fight this war in the first place? i w

my best friend in life for 60 years was walker percy. he had exactly the opposite.he said, "if i knew what was going to happen next, i wouldn't be able to write. i wouldn't be interested in writing if i knew what was going to happen." i'm the other way. c-span: so you're never edited? >> guest: no. there's no real need. i may take out a comma or put in an "and" or something, but very minor stuff from then on. c-span: do you have this arrangement with your publisher? >> guest: yes. my editor at random house for 35 years now has been bob loomis. he's a good editor, and our arrangement is that he will encourage me, he will do everything in the world to make me feel that i'm doing well and this and that and the other, but he doesn't mess with the text. c-span: do you know many authors that have this kind of arrangement'? >> guest: william faulkner had it. i've seen a faulkner proof. somebody presumed to read the galley proofs and make a correction of something and faulkner scratched it out. the next time he got to one, he saw another correction mark, and he wrote, "godd

. >> reporter: and percy is the museum's curator of drawings. >> this is one of the best known artists. william edmundson. he was a hospital worker in nashville tennessee. he had a vision from god who told him to take up carving tombstones. he did for his local african-american cemetery. >> reporter: a few outsider artists did achieve some fame in their lifetime, like howard spinster, a baptist preacher, known for his proselytizing paintings. he even designed album covers for r.e.m. and talking heads. william hawkins who worked as a part-time plumber, a truck driver driver and sometimes a brothel manager was not so well known when the couple bought his painting called yakel building. that was your first piece? >> yeah. we went into this shop. it was folk art, antiques, and there was this hawkins high up on the wall. i asked the person how much is is that? she told me. i said okay i'll buy it. she almost fainted. couldn't believe. >> reporter: i'm going to faint if you don't tell me. what was the price of that original. >> that was $2300. reporter: just for the world that doesn't know t

and as his physics teacher at harvard, percy bridgeman, wrote to rutherford in cambridge, you know, oppenheimer's a very nice, very clever young man, but not particularly good in the laboratory. .. his real name was to be a research physicist. to begin with, though, they made fun of him, to repair the holes in his ability in the laboratory, and they appointed one of rutherford's bright young things. patrick blackette, to teach oppenheimer the ware0s experimental physics and the ways of laboratory. and this was the most unhappy period of oppenheimer's life. he couldn't master that. he had his first taste of rejection. now his first taste of failure, and for the first time in this life he couldn't do the things the was expected to do. he just wasn't very good at it. and it induced a kind of nervous breakdown. towards the end of 1925. he was undergoing episodes you have to call psychotic. people at laboratory remember him standing in front of a blackboard, supposed to be giving a presentation of his work. and he stood in front of the blackboard with a piece of chalk in his handrepeating over and ove

that all of you had to respond to, he didn't remember first but finally he gave me the title of the percy spoke to. .. -- person he spoke to. .. ski doo do you have any other names of people you contacted, that you spoke with, that you received e-mails, can you provide those? i'll just start with -- say your name one more time -- could you please provide me with any names you can think of that you had communication with? >> yes. the first agent on my case was sheila may robertson. my case was switched to the desk of the mr. ron bell, and he was the one who was waiting on guidance from his superior at his organization and other similar organizations. i was then passed to a mr. mitch stehle, and them the most recent letter, which came as recently as may 6 was from a woman from a name who i can't pronaps. >> we'll get if from you later. >> thank you. >> hear was the only one. >> we had a couple from the inspector general's name. i'll provide those. >> mitch steel. >> other names possibly? >> holly paws comes to mind. >> okay. >> i'll provide that. robert, chow i have an id number, ronald bel

percy come from? this is his first time before congress in this capacity. just go he's been mainly a career guy. by most accounts he didn't have ambition to become a political appointee leahy is now come even though this is a temporary position, it is still a political ploy meant. he worked for the white house budget office says the controller. he handled financial management, contracting, said i.t. matters and is also involved in an initiative called the camp came to cut waste, where he held basically stopped payments to fraudulent government contractors and that sort of thing. >> host: we heard on the sunday talk shows yesterday about new developments in the irs story. irs halted on conference spending. true sense of the scope of what it danny werfel will be asked about? >> guest: i don't know that he'll be asked about the irs conference spending again because he's new to the agency, it may be more about what are your plans to fix some of these problems rather than what if these problems occur? and maybe he's probably just learning about the causes of the