pac endorse liberty and he looks a little different and he's also very different in other ways peter thiel is openly gay is given to a lot of other organizations that you may have never heard of like in the foozle a foundation that seeks to expand the human lifespan to one thousand years he's not your typical money man then again ron paul is not your typical presidential candidate. so jean there is now there's a new proposed law in the u.k. that's making some waves there and it looks like it may pass it would give one of britain's national security agencies the power to monitor all phone calls texts e-mails and online activities all in the name of quote investigating serious crime and terrorism to protect the public and this is interesting because it means internet companies would be required to install kind of a special kind of hardware that would give the agency the ability to access who an individual or group is in contact with how long they've been in contact with them and how frequently now they would still need to get a warrant to gain access to the content of the e-mails and phone c

million dollars around between mitt romney and karl rove's super pacs libertarian pay pal co-founder peter thiel who bankrolled ron paul's campaign with two point seven million and banks are foster freeze who propped up rick santorum for a couple million bucks and then there are the anonymous donors out there with the american people will likely never know about spending tens of millions of dollars on right wing super pacs these massive amounts of corporate and billionaire spending in our elections should worry all americans who believe in a democracy responsive to we the people and it should concern our lawmakers many of whom are trying to do the right thing yet have to worry that all it takes is one billionaire to take an interest and beating them just one billionaire to the side to carpet bomb their district with negative ads and then boom they're out of a job sadly that's politics in america now houses and united in just to in just a few minutes we'll be speaking with congressman ellison about this issue. but first in screwed news the federal reserve is out with its new economic forecast in

then at the far end here peter thiel former the head of clarium capital a henl fund but much more. peter earned his ba and jd from stanford the later in 19926789 he's an original in all respects as a kid he was one of the highest ranked chess players in the united states although i gather jean mayer can give him a run for his money while at stanford he founded the stanford review at a time when there was little outlet for students. he clerked for judge edmund sen and co-founded pay pal. the rest is well known. peter created a place for himself as an innovative hedge fund manager and venture capitalist with aniston issuing eye for ventures including most famously and now in film facebook. he also created a place for himself as a poub intellectual and is also well known for his support of the singulrity institute and the thiel fellowship for young entrepeneurs which is for young people who may be better served not going to college. he teaches an occasional class at the law school as long as i can persuade him to take the time to do so and the way i think of that class is the world acc