the petition received 100,000 clicks and it was changed. he learned his online petition succeeded when he got a call from the white house itself. tell me about that phone call. must have been you changed the world. >> a tiny part. i got a call from david edelman, one of the white house policy people, he called back and said we're excited to support this. kind of a lucky thing, they answered quickly and was supportive. >> you got 100,000 signatures. that doesn't hurt. >> what did you do before this? how did you come to the cause? >> i've got a bit of a history. i'm personally a startup person. my last company is my third. i've never been involved in politics or activism. it's not something on my mind or i've been active in or had a voice in. i had a history of unlocking cell phones in college in 2003. i was a little strapped for cash. i had a cell phone i brought from the uk to the u.s. for college. i unlocked it. i thought a lot of people had that problem, so maybe i can make some spare cash. >> at this time it was illegal. >> it was an ill

you describe yourself as queer in our petition.experience with bullying been like as an lbgt teen? >> personally my experience has been wonderful. it has been a non-issue. i'm lucky to go to a school where it's not a problem at all. now we work with a lot of people for whom that is not the case but for us our experiences as activists in this movement have been very positive. >> michael: and as your family been supportive of your fight? >> they have. they have been very supportive. i'm very lucky. >> michael: yeah, you are. because there are people who don't experience things in the same way. a recent pew pole shows 18 to 29 people support same-sex marriage. you are 17. is this something that people your age care about? >> yes i would say it has really become an issue that is really gaining wide support, and i think we're really hoping at this point to get more support for other categories within the lbgt community, like transgender rights, and rights for people of color, mostly. >> michael: were your classmates talking about the sa

circulating yeah i'm really glad you brought that up so there is a petition last i looked it had around two hundred eighteen thousand signatures so you know that's certainly what the question is always whether people who have these signatures you know people could sign something online it doesn't necessarily translate into real world action but certainly the fact that two hundred. two hundred eighteen thousand people now are aware of this is is more than say was going on before you see so definitely a lot of things going on here and a lot of information at play and certainly we will keep following the story and in studio with me that was rachel perseus produce security thank you rachel thanks so much for having me. well it's thursday so all although we know what that means it's time to talk technology from internet privacy to cyber security and the future of google glass we'll be covering a lot of this ground on this week's round up here to help me get right down to it a man who is known as one of the fathers of the internet. that this chief internet evangelist of sorts he's a slash vic

even if they do respond oh i should clarify this petition is not in the white house website right this is a route section or we had a launch last week of a petition also to the nobel committee in oslo calling for the conferring of a nobel peace prize on bradley manning the whistleblower who is now in prison by the u.s. government for revealing so many horrific documented events based on the evidence he got as an army private in the intelligence aspect. the u.s. military we have more than thirty five thousand of those signatures i mentioned because ultimately this is about the public changing the perception of what is possible and how we use words it's not a peace prize that it's given to warmakers and likewise we should be giving and honoring prizes to those who are we going to stick their necks out and take risks for peace that's certainly the case with bradley manning so those petitions are symbolic as well in a sense that we're just you guys are trying to get that message out there kind of just show and reveal the irony the terrible irony of the situation and of course the bradley m

now the online group hopes to look to deliver this message through the petition and over the position may not be as powerful as torture itself which forces somebody to do or say something they may not want to the online community has vowed to not stop fighting for him in the name of quote fair justice in this case. well it's a burden weight it's a plane it's a flying saucer that's a fascination with you u.f.o.'s that have always played an outsized role in american imaginations no creatures from another world have taken center stage in movies and film alike calibur there is some truth behind the concept of life on other planets maybe laurie high finance from the resident ask what believe what believes you haven't if the hype. one of my favorite beers hereis ever is the one about the us government having knowledge of us both because oh my god how awesome what was that see if it were true not the whole they're keeping it a secret part but the part about there being aliens that would be on. ok so the f.b.i. recently released an explanation of the most popular file in the f.b.i. involved w

book his piece of board it's a petition launched by an organization called roots action and as of today already has over ten thousand signatures so to talk more about this effort to have parker see behind the award in the media's facilitation of the war is peace mentality i'm joined now by norman solomon co-founder of roots action dot org and author of war made easy how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death thanks so much for coming on norman lead to be with you so first of all for people who don't understand why it's so hypocritical for obama to have a peace prize and break down what he's done that stands in direct opposition to this award. well president obama a triple the troop levels in afghanistan after he took office as president it was in december of two thousand and nine when he went to us low to accept the nobel peace prize since then what we've seen is an expansion of what the u.s. government sometimes calls a war on terror. choosing to exercise a perceived corroborative to send cruise missiles and drones and other weaponry into a number of countries irrespective of

to the white house chief of staff denis mcdonough and the petition started by the progressive on that action community firedoglake it's already garnered more than six hundred thousand signatures since it was published wednesday morning now the online group hopes to deliver a powerful message to this petition and all of the petition may not be as powerful as torture itself which forced the someone to do or say something the online community has vowed to not stop fighting for him in quote in the name of fair justice in this case. well it's a bird it's a plane wait it's a flying saucer the fascination with u.f.o.'s has always played an outsized role in the americans magination so creatures from another world have taken center stage in movies and films alike however there could be any truth behind these this concept of life on other planets laurie harf and us from the resident asked do you believe all the hype. one of my big fears theories ever is the one about the us government having knowledge of us both because oh my god how awesome what with that would be if it were true not the whole

we have the constitutional right to petition our government. to petition our government. that is what they are doing, petitioning their government. no way to legislate? >> you do not deny that -- >> no, i am not arguing that. of course you have the right to petition, to demonstrate. when you are looking at actual legislation -- >> i want to say something here. you are suggesting that you look tes,hatmanchin's that somehow affected him. right after the newtown massacre, he said, we have to change things, see if we cannot do something. he comes from a big guns state and he deserves some credit. >> i do think we have to change things, but i want change that will have an effect. i think the more effective thing we can do is control what psychotic people like the tucson shooter, the guy in aurora would do and the fact that they are out -- >> i would argue that it is not beindriv by emotion, but by cultural shift. i think the american people are ready to do something. there is support for the cultural shift. why not legislated? >> moreover, i do not think it is a matter of focu

if you'd like to sign the petition, go to the address, the website is there on your screen and i hopeadd your voice, your signature and your support. thank you very much for being here. god bless you all and we wish the best for the outcome. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> coming up, the president of -- foster, will be responding to the disgraceful testimony of a planned parenthood representative who said the decision to provide medical care to a baby born alive during a botched abortion, that that's up to the doctor and the mother who wanted to abort it. that shocking story is next.eac. details at mikehuckabee.com. >>> earlier this week, planned parenthood finally clarified that it is not in favor of killing babies who survive a botched abortion. that statement came several days later after last week's shocking testimony from planned parenthood lobbyist in florida where lawmakers proposed a bill that requires abortion doctors to provide medical care for a baby that's been born alive during an attempted abortion. here's some of the exchange that snow had with lawmakers during

in fact, two parents who were dismaid by this submitted a petition with 140 signatures. it was very impromptu they put together. in one day they put together this petition of parents who wanted to save her and no response came from the district. these two petitioners were attacked by the group of parents trying to oust her principal and were told they had no right to have a petition. so no one at the district came to the school to talk other parents or teachers or the staff to hear the other side of the story. the hatful parents refused our principal's request to meet in mediation

in fact, two parents who were dismaid by this submitted a petition with 140 signatures. it was very impromptu they put together. in one day they put together this petition of parents who wanted to save her and no response came from the district. these two petitioners were attacked by the group of parents trying to oust her principal and were told they had no right to have a petition. so no one at the district came to the school to talk other parents or teachers or the staff to hear the other side of the story. the hatful parents refused our principal's request to meet in mediation and to this day, most of the other parents at the school do not know the truth about how and by whom our principal was attacked. so after enduring a couple of months of this hostility, the principal did submit her resignation and decided to leave our school and we consider this to be a tragic loss. she has been a very strong advocate for the large population of african american, ell, special needs with whose families do not have a strong voice at the school. these are the groups of people that

if you'd like to sign the petition, go to the address, the website is there on your screen and i hoped your voice, your signature and your support. thank you very much for being here. god bless you all and we wish the best for the outcome. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> coming up, the president of -- foster, will be responding to the disgraceful testimony of a planned parenthood representative who said the decision to provide medical care to a baby born alive during a botched abortion, that that's up to the doctor and the mother who wanted to abort it. that shocking story is next. [ woman ] we had two tiny reasons to get our adt security system. and one really big reason -- the house next door. our neighbor's house was broken into. luckily, her family wasn't there, but what if this happened here? what if our girls were home? and since we can't monitor everything 24/7, we got someone who could. adt. [ male announcer ] while some companies are new to home security, adt has been helping to save lives f over 135 years. we have more monitoring centers, more of tomorrow's technolo

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if you'd like to sign the petition, go to the address, the website is there on your screen and i hopeur voice, your signature and your support. thank you very much for being here. god bless you all and we wish the best for the outcome. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> coming up, the president of -- foster, will be responding to the disgraceful testimony of a planned parenthood representative who said the decision to provide medical care to a baby born alive during a botched abortion, that that's up to the doctor and the mother who wanted to abort it. i'm sorry for your loss. still doesn't feel real. our time together was... so short. well, since you had progressive's total loss coverage, we were able to replace your totaled bike with a brand-new one. the tank, the exhaust... well, she looks just like roxy! you know, i'll bet she's in a better place now. i'm sure she is. [ ethereal music plays ] [ motorcycle revving ] getting you back on a brand-new bike. now, that's progressive. details at mikehuckabee.com. >>> earlier this week, planned parenthood finally clarified that it is

voters told us they never signed the petition.aid to be forged there are questions if the obama campaign actually qualified with enough legitimate signatures to get the candidate on the ballot in the first place. back then, during the election the petitions weren't challenged. they left telling fox news, "had they been challenged successfully you probably would not have been on the ballot." two other board of election officials previously pled guilty and testified for prosecution of the trial. observers say the case struck at the very heart of our country's electoral democratic process. follow this case and many more you can follow me on twitter. there's my handle. >> heather: because you are on fox. >> heather: i guess that's why they picked it. >> eric: we like it. >> heather: coming up, new concerns over the unexplained sea lion death on the west coast. now scientists worry whatever is killing the animals could be hurting people, too. star-studded event in washington, the white house correspondent dinner. washington and hollywo

. >> laurie has started a petition in support of gun control on the website moveon.org. >> within 24ours after the sandy hook shootings and that petition grew. >> by the time she arrived on capitol hill to deliver the petitions there were 1.3 million signatures. >> americans understand that gun violence hits home. it hits our schools. it hits our movie theaters, our grocery stores our neighborhoods our family and friends. and americans are sick and tire of the carnage. >> with move on national director garland gilchrist hawes visited the offices of senate democrats. they did not get to meet with the lawmakers but they told staffers what they want. >> the background checks bill. the limit on high magazines capacity and to regulate and ban assault weapons. >> now hawes delivered the petitions to six senate offices -- in clued thing office of mark warner from virginia. >> they need shoring up. they need encourage jinx and some needy manneding. the realty is americans are dying. americans are dying. >> her daughter is a survivor. she has gotten married and she is now a school teacher. >>

now sixty thousand people signed a petition for the u.k. to speed up granting asylum to afghan interpreter against held british troops are now finding themselves at the mercy of the taliban which has branded them anime collaborators. and more than two hundred people have been killed across iraq this week in a series of six terrorist attacks one of the deadliest to place in hell which are near the northern city of kirkuk on tuesday when an intense firefight broke out as security forces raided a sunni anti-government protest camp the clashes stoked anger between sunni and shia muslims that al dragged the country into civil war president nouri al maliki said on saturday the violence in neighboring syria is fueling religious tensions political analyst dan lazar burke says a wave of violence comes as a direct result of the occupation of iraq i think what we need to understand what we're seeing here in iraq is that we're seeing the fruits of this policy that was adopted about six years ago by the u.s. and saudi arabia in particular and if you loo

sixty thousand people signed an online petition for the u.k. to give asylum to obgyn interpreters left at the mercy of a bench for the taliban after working alongside british forces. and china and america trade a scathing human rights reports with beijing laying out just why washington isn't fit to preach morality to the wild. international news live from moscow this is assy with me. hello and welcome to the program the surviving suspect in last week's boston bombings has reportedly admitted he was involved in the blasts which killed three people and left almost two hundred injured some of us music lanes nineteen year old john hartson i have.

a lot of controversy on what exists whether he exactly deserves it or not now there's a growing petition that would provoke that award that story straight ahead. and a tale of two worlds the streets of the homeless in poverty will on the other side the lavish lifestyle of the rich are to explore how the rich have gotten wealthier while millions of others have gotten poorer. well it's wednesday april third eight pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret held in there watching our t.v. . well r.t. has reported in the past the department of homeland security is conducting surveillance on peaceful protest groups like occupy wall street the advocacy group partnership for civil for the civil justice fund release new documents that show the surveillance here's a snippet from the fall of two thousand and eleven good morning please send me an update on the occupy movement in your respective regions by levon thirty s. t. the director is extremely interested with the movement and how it will affect federal facilities. so just who is in the department of homeland security spying on these days teach us is s

you know those, we the people, petitions at the white house, you get 5,000 people to sign a petitionte house says it will respond to the issue that you brought up. they must respond if you give them 5,000 signatures? awesome idea. heart in the right place kind of stuff. but eventually that meant that the seat of power in the most powerful country on earth, the white house, was coming within a thousand signatures of having to answer the request to, quote, nationalize the twinkie industry. when that happens, maybe it is time to raise the bar in terms of things they must respond to. even they though started with 5,000 signature plan the white house eventually upped the threshold to 25,000 signatures. that still wasn't high enough to filter out stuff like this. invite neal boortz to spend an hour talking with the president about tax reform. okay google neal boorhz. come on, america, the president is busy. so it was 5,000, then the 25,000. that couldn't clear the boortz hurdle. now you have to get 100,000 signatures on your petition for the white house to respond to it. but it was back in

-- and is petitioning the court for his estate. >>> tomorrow the state senate public safety committee is scheduled to hear a bill on the issue and the issue of drones is the issue of privacy. they are considering new laws that could require law enforcement when using drones. >>> in an emergency, even seconds count and in the south bay, the place that serves santa clara they are coming under heat for failing to keep up. >> santa clara ambulance celebrated on the exclusive 911 and a year and a half later, they are coming under scrutiny. we asked people how quickly an ambulance should response when called. >> i don't know how long you should wait. 20 minutes, a half hour, it depends on what is wrong. >> reporter: the county said they should arrive in less than 12 minutes after being dispatched. but that did not happen. >> when we saw they had missed the required level, you know obviously between expressed serious concern about that. >> reporter: santa clara ambulance said it was a fraction of the percentage off in making the 12 minute time but they still took the matter seriously. >> we

you have this petition up at white house.org.elp me understand what kind of a response you're getting. are people sympathetic to your cause? yes, we have to fix this, or are you being ignored? >> everybody who hears about this gets it. they understand this is a need. when something like this happe happens, people think they're giving money to the families and they are being helpful. unfortunately that is not always where the money ends up. everybody loves the idea. we created the petition slate threshold is 100,000 signatures and if you get 100,000 signatures in the white house says it will provide a formal response. we are proposing something that is to be conducted at the federal level, people sign on. gerri: thank you for coming on tonight. please keep in touch and let us know when you get some traction on this, we appreciate your help. >> thank you. gerri: we have a new addition to "the willis report" wall of shame. check it out. reality star chloe kardashian ander husband. the charity they run was set up in honor of odom's m

i have a letter that broadly explains our goal and intent and then the petition, and the diagram of the floor plan, that is what we are hoping to do. >> for those of you in the audience, there are a lot of things that effect, and why don't we hear from the policement, i understand that expecter fong and darcey keller are here. >> okay. >> thank you very much, sir. >> good morning, inspector, (inaudible) with the san francisco police department, avc, the liaison unit. >> on behalf of ferdon olive oil has filed an application with the department of beverage control speaking a type 42 on sale beer and wine license, located on the south side of chest nut street. >> the police calls for service, from december, 2007 and 2012 is one, and there are no police reports in that same time period. notification, dates and the 500, first mailer was on january 28th, 2013 and the notice to the public was posted on january 29th, 2013. >> san francisco plot information this premise is located on plot 507, the applicant location is located in a high crime area. the census track, the premise is located in ce

in the petition that the european union especially in the euro states has done such a lot of things and all. the treaties we made and which we had to be kept all the time that there is no face of evil in in our exports to stabilize or even to defeat a crisis my impression is that we try again you know to convince our european partners you must do it the german way but the other countries especially in southern europe they have to find their own their own to what they want most important to get back to their old currency i think that these countries are all that's on their own they have to manage their problems for it and they'll treat and the troika has the tools specially not into naturally the two it would help countries like portugal spain or greece. well when the euro crisis raging on the clamor to join the union is dying down coming up in the program. we turn to success the way you know one word the opposition is going to win the general election void by its and message. one hundred one town of a bay detainees are now officially on hunger strike and that's the latest number recogni

i have submitted petitions. i have written letters. i have testified about the dangers that this kind of storage of explosive gasses creates when you use salt caverns as the receptacle. and having overturned all stones for redress of grievance, i find that that regulatory system itself is unresponsive and deaf to the petitions of citizens and scientists. for example, given that this company has already had accidents at this site, given that it is dumping chemicals into the lake, and that there has been no response, it's troubling. it's also troubling to me as a scientist that there's some of the knowledge about the geology of this area is considered now by the company as proprietary business information, which means that citizens and scientists who wish to offer comment to our government about the plans of this company have no access to data and information that we really would help inform our thinking about whether or not we wish this company to be one of our neighbors. >> presumably, the driver of that truck was a hardworking man, a

. >> hockenberry: the oregon petition? >> yes. >> hockenberry: the 14-year-old petition is not exactly an exclusive club. a bachelor of science degree is all it takes to get you on the list. this document, skeptics claim, counters the scientific consensus on global warming. now, are they all scientists? >> yes. one-third of them have ph.d.s. look, they are not specialists in climate. >> hockenberry: well, some were celebrities and friends... >> eh... >> hockenberry: it's a time- honored tactic by the skeptics: authentic-looking documents and reports that don't stand up to independent scrutiny. singer also signed the oregon petition. this is not his first time going up against accepted science. >> hockenberry: was the science around chlorofluorocarbons hyped, the science around secondhand smoke hyped, the science around the ozone layer hyped, going back ten, 15, 20 years? >> i'm happy to discuss all of these, since i've been deeply involved in these topics that you mention. let me start with secondhand smoke. >> fred singer

two food bloggers started the "dump the dye" petition. they claim the chemical dye is a carcinogen. it's already been eliminated from products in england. kraft has said the company only uses colors that are approved by the fda. prepare to live longer. a new study shows one out of every four 65-year-olds will live past the age of 90! chris campbell of banker's life and casualty company joins us on set this morning. good morning to you! > > good morning angela. > do you think most people are surprised at how long we are now living? > > it is really dramatic how it has shifted over the last few decades. there are a lot of benefits that come with longer life expectancy, but there are also some risks that we need to look out for. > what did you find in your recent study? > > we found that the conversation around longevity isn't happening today. close to half of people haven't even discussed longevity with their own spouse or a doctor, and only about 20% are having a conversation with a professional adviser. > if we are living longer, it sounds like most people are not prepared for that

rent petitions show a similar thing and the economy up tick and who knows what else is happening but these evictions are going up significantly at this point. >> i have a quick question. i know the board doesn't keep statistics by gender orientation or anything but is it possible for the rent board to do that? if this board makes that recommendation that all city departments keep records by sexual orientation and age and is that possible by the rent board? >> there is a process that we're are talking about. when talking about the rent coal board and talking about eviction notices filed with the board. i think in most cases what we are interesting in -- the task force is interested in is eviction notices and those are filed by the landlord or the attorney and doesn't know if the person they're evicting at that moment -- they might know it, but they don't have a requisite need to know it, so the way that process works. they file the notice and then in the case of ellis the tenant has a right to request from a four month notice another eight months so for one year notice person for the