shows that you're opinion it's effectively allowed to do politics without any reference to national populaces so the fact is that this is a piece of you law it's a trade agreement that will. not be gracious on european countries to make you know in certain ways but it still is europe it's european law making effectively by proxy i want to show is that the european union have affectively created institutions and procedures which have prevented these kind of agreements coming under any kind of democratic scrutiny whatsoever but the real problem it's true that countries have signed up to it but no point of national populaces have any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's with a really troubling aspect of the fact that it's fundamentally antidemocratic. its future in doubt oh europe's pirate parties have agreed to team up for elections to the european parliament in two thousand and fourteen in order to promote internet freedom this hour here on our two year time barton speech to. the founder of the swedish pirate party he says the failure of similar legislation in the us sh

you're paying union it's a photo of lee allowed to do politics without any reference to national populaces so the fact is that this is a piece of. you know it's a trade agreement that will. be gracious on european countries to make it go in certain ways but it still is europe european all making the. back to be by proxy and what it shows is that the european union have affectively created institutions and procedures which have prevented these kind of agreements coming under any kind of democratic scrutiny whatsoever that's the real problem and it is true that countries have signed up to it but no point of national populaces had any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's why the really troubling aspect of it is the fact that it's fundamentally antidemocratic. but in today's article for you tom barton speaks to you recall when you're founder of the swedish pirate party and his ass internet freedom isn't something governments should take lightly. he's woken up these rallies are huge i mean if you look at poland there are these rallies that have already been are absolutel

the real problem with it is true that countries have signed up to it but no point have national populaces have any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's what really troubling aspect of it is the fact that it's fundamentally antidemocratic. now coming up next hour in our tease interview tom martin speaks to rick founder of the swedish pirate party and he says internet freedom isn't something governments should take lightly. people woken up these rallies are huge i mean if you look at poland there the rallies that have already been are absolutely astounding and people are frankly demanding their rights act that means censorship of and there and that is not acceptable not to the generation growing up not of the people who understand what the net is about and that it's the greatest equalizer that mankind has ever invented and that's not something we're ready to give up frankly we're discovering things that just shouldn't be that the euro be european commission one the other day is that this is no big deal everybody will be free to keep sharing governmentally approved th

voice of the antiwar movement which by the way was a majority position of the american populace at their word so they couldn't even handle phil donahue i don't think julian the sun is exactly their cup with the journalist on the ball thanks so much for joining us on the outskirts of the q three we're. live from moscow this is our new photos of american soldiers posing with afghan corpses and most in the u.s. the images appear to be another example in a series of extreme breaches of discipline by u.s. troops which dangerously undermine their position with the afghan people. very sensitive moment and these images are quite grim so grim that the u.s. department of defense did specifically asked the l.a. times not to publish these photos but the paper said that it was for sponsible to report a captive late on the u.s. mission in afghanistan and decided to move forward publishing these photos now in these photos that were taken in two thousand and ten you could see u.s. paratroopers grinning either holding body parts of afghan corpses or squatting beside afghan corpses and they were smiling o

the real problem with it it's true that countries have signed up to it but no point have national populaces have any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's a really troubling aspect of it is the fact that it's fundamentally antidemocratic how important is was the only piece of his recommendation on this treaty does that mean now that they have got it is dead in the water or not is still progress well it is truly disturbing that the words of one man can effectively shape the future of copyright law in europe and that's a real problem i mean i think his recommendations are going to be extremely influential i think it's effectively starting a death blow to actor and that's a real problem in my view because it shouldn't be the words of one man deciding the future of copyright law in europe it should be the populations of european countries. last quick one of europe's pair of parties agreed to team up for the elections for the european parliament in twenty fourteen the stories kind of brought it all out doesn't it one of their chances of winning seats to give the topic of t

that's the real problem it's true that countries have signed up to it but no point have national populaces had any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's a really troubling aspect of it but it's fundamentally antidemocratic. man with head in britain and the largest spy center in the world targeted and even siege by protesters for almost three decades a complex u.k. and the u.s. one of those the communications of dozens of other countries there are fears its operations could lead to a new kind of international power again there's reports. it's a little piece of america in the middle of the yorkshire dales it might look like some kind of pin park but it's actually a spy based and part of the early warning system for the ever expanding u.s. missile defense shield he's a part of this huge kind of. gripping. and it surfaces you get from places like that which is connected to is the american military base paedo base in menwith hill since the nineteen sixty's growing all the time until the site now comprises thirty three of those goals like structures inside each one a satel

that's the real problem it's true that countries have signed up to it but no point have national populaces had any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's a really troubling aspect of it is the fact that it's fundamentally antidemocratic . back to his future in doubt europe's pirate parties have agreed to team up for elections to the european parliament in two thousand and fourteen to promote internet freedom later this hour here on our tom barton speech to rick. now the founder of the swedish pirate party says the failure of similar legislation in the us shows that people's voices can be heard only as soon as politicians realize that their jobs are at stake. so for people i think that was the first case where the general population really woke up through realizing that while we have been saying all along isn't wolf cry we are actually warning for a very real danger out there you have the key element that politicians started to fear for their jobs if that hadn't happened people would already have passed but politicians sort of saw the floor crumble beneath their feet a

the real problem with it is true that countries have signed up to it but no point have national populaces had any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's a really troubling aspect of it but it's fundamentally empty democratic. and a few moments we'll talk to one of the main contenders hold france's top job that's just after the headlines coming up on us. on the. hundred. years. we have died in forty eight first's and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be a great place to find themselves a home and retire. their sheer. we call it our new neighbor neighbor nine o seven. we have seventy acres and i can't convince them that they need to drill somewhere besides two hundred feet from. the needs of our growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are vital fuel for transportation electricity and manufacturing this is before any problems before we do the right thing and then answer. you know our flaws are not toxic and we did a lot of there's a lot of mis understanding of what x. actually in the flow it's. time to say you c

together i think is important we need to have government we need to have private industry and we're populace that is informed and excited about what we're doing. it's i guess we have to remember that it's all part of one giant thought of combined or hell thanks so much for joining us tonight thanks again alone. that's ahead as a cybersecurity complex without to make a profit off your peers or to explain as night falls and on top of happy hour lawmakers will do anything for exactly the precious defense department and hockey fans here in d.c. create a birth and say to. download the official tee up location killed on the phone the one called touch from the on choose option. the child's life on the go. the. cheese month old comes. in the registry now in the palm of your. machine on the com. leg. or news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada the jungle for a shelter ruled the day. the lead. the mission. couldn't take three months for charges free arrangement the free. free spirit free. the old free blanquita cullum vi

you want to get making that money back many times over not just for profit but by building up a populace that's educated in science and technology which is so critical to our lives these days so all of this all together i think it's important to have government we need to have private industry and we're populace that is informed and excited about what we're doing i guess we have to remember that it's part of one giant thought of our combined with helping so much for joining us tonight thanks again to one. just ahead as the cyber security complex is out to make a profit off your ears are being played it's nice and on top of happy hour lawmakers will do anything to for exact a precious defense department and hockey fans here in d.c. create a birth and start taking. action is that similar to happen to you should be sitting on the market can the u.s. and its allies put a stop to the downward diplomatic spiral with iran and seek ways out of the current deadlock more talks are still. the close up team has been to the spirit little screenshot. where blacksmithing has developed from a craft into

the 25 most populace areas for women's well being. women here are better educated, better paid and live longer. the bay area was second only to washington, d.c. area. >>> gearing up for may 1 protests, what will be different this year about the mayday actions. >> the showers are gone, the sun is back and the temperatures are going up. i will have all the details coming up. >>> occupy protesters are planning demonstrations in oakland on may 1. protesters will converge on downtown oakland for a rally then they will march to the barts station for a immigration rights rally. it is part of a mayday occupy general strike across the country. >>> the mayday rally will have a new alley today. ktvu's robert handa is live in the san jose area with the big push behind the protest this year. >> reporter: that big push by groups is to put immigration reform back in the national spotlight. today many groups began sending out messages promoting the san jose march and this year it will have a different look. >>> the demand for reform at the protest is

that way the framers would be representative of the populace as a whole. some you like and some you are dismayed. jenny who made the original proposal set by democratic voting process for delegates i assume you mean a conventional election which -- with transitional campaigning followed by a vote in which people choose from a list of candidates. if that is so than those with the most money to campaign and get their message out would likely be elected as delegates. that would mean those elected to the framers would not be those who are most representative of americans. the advantage of a selection process for gathering delegates at long as the random sample is large enough is it a shores there will be a true cross-section of americans serving as framers. sylvia says i was a member of students for democratic society in the 1960s. anyone here was a member? she is referring to the new student activist movement found in 1960 and she had with her a copy of the original sts constitution. this preamble approved at our convention in 1962 states that ours was a, quo

when you look at other parts in the world, my view is you can gauge how innovative a populace you're going to generate by the way they educate their people. >> you know, i would say that he has a great point there. i think it in fights collaborative approaches to problem-solving as well -- it invites a calendar to the approaches to problem-solving. we are having a great conversation in san francisco about this shared economy, a collaborative thing. it began to me by car-sharing. i was a big fan of car-sharing and the electric vehicles to see if we could get less emissions. now we're looking at companies, including smaller innovative companies, looking at shared space and how to complement our environmental goals here with new economies that are merging out. i think that is challenging the way our tax structure has been and the way we look at certain industries, but inviting a collaborative spirit of new ideas that would create literally new jobs and new economies. it is exciting. when you allow collaborative approaches to be focused on. >> i promised the last word on the panel. >> gr

the distance between the fact and a record, about an improving economy, versus the feeling of a populace that does not reflect the fact. you're not talking about the reality of the record, i think you're talking about the perception and the narrative. >> i think ultimately the engine of self-governance, democratic representation should link at some level. and the fact to me it seems the place where we get anchored to the bedrock of economic reality is the economy improving that's what all the political science models say about predepicting. >> but two challenges, one is that the 2008 campaign will become a fresh narrative as we work into this re-election campaign and that was about the possibility of what america can become under this particular president. and so even with shoring up what they're doing throughout the states for this campaign, is about going back to the reality. and that i think this specific election won't be about the way the record breaks down and it won't be about the foreign policy and the domestic policy gains. i think it will be about who is best placed to frame a

different workshop scenarios to handle crowd and responses and getting ready for all of the anticipated populace that will come into the city. while we enjoy of course the big economic contribution to the work force and to business, we also have to be focused on everyone's safety. that is partly what makes the event so successful. the more that we do that with all of our partners here, the more the event will be safe, therefore more successful. i am also very interested in every type about reach that we do in our neighborhoods and thank you, supervisor cohen, for joining us. i know that we are trying to be creative and constantly reminding people about to the equipment and products that they should have. there is going to be another effort to make sure that we have a campaign to educate our public to get the right equipment and have it available to them. this is being planned and it is called "what are you shopping for?" we take every opportunity to remind everyone. thanks to our fire chief and his wife and to her work that we properly use the month of april. this takes advantage of the commemor

only law change sarajevo was in power war started it is still an order and a teacher reminding the populace. it is still one thousand nine hundred two things really haven't changed much and moved on since even though it's been twenty years there's a myth about bosnia that it was a concept that ran rampant on its own and at the west had to step in and stop it in fact there was a bosnian peace process that had actually been a results it was a constitutional event it compromise between do we have parties are represented throughout the community and if it was set for a peaceful resolution of the craft of a constitutional crisis and then it was being too numerous testimonies and information the american ambassador stepped in council to the muslim party to these even egged on to react and we intend go at it long and it having been promised american vaccine which is what ended up happening in this week or so if you dated the war. coming up with r t environmentally unfriendly. are taxpayer money going into the air destroying thousands of acres they're actually heard in the environment. california r

in the heat of an electoral campaign to pander to the lowest common denominator of the american populace with cold war rhetoric that's exactly what mr romney is doing i tend to wonder how thoughtful he would be on these larger issues if he were to get into office and it also says to me that he's not particularly sophisticated when it comes to foreign policy it's almost as if he's been handed lines by his advisors about what to say and that it's intended not to necessarily make progress but to get himself elected the fact is that america and russia much better as allies ultimately whoever is in the white house will ultimately go away from the extreme come toward the center and make some sense in what he's talking. stay with us here on r.t. still to come this hour of violence erupts again in the middle east. brutal clashes in the middle east market landay commemorated by palestinians who see it as a symbol of the struggle against israeli occupation. and france for the french ideological arrests imprisonment deportation country's presidential campaign turns to a hard line competition as pol

in the heat of an electoral campaign to pander to the lowest common denominator of the american populace with cold war rhetoric that's exactly what mr romney is doing i tend to wonder how thoughtful he would be on these larger issues if he were to get into office and it also says to me that he's not particularly sophisticated when it comes to foreign policy it's almost as if he's been handed lines by his advisors about what to say and that it's intended not to necessarily make progress but to get himself elected the fact is that america and russia much better as allies ultimately whoever is in the white house will ultimately go away from the extreme come toward the center and make some sense in what he's talking. so to come as our friends for the french ideological arrest imprisonment and fourteen inch of the country's presidential campaign terms of the war are blind palpitation politicians under realistic solutions to very real problems. but first some of the biggest riots in decades swept across spain this week with mass protests coinciding with a nationwide general strike over austeri

. >> is there a process to make sure those that serve our reflective of the populace? >> is long as there was not a super committee to take care of our problems over budgets are deficits. >> you did not like the super committee? [laughter] i hear that to quite a bit. i don't mind in theory a democratic process but i doubt one good tea party or the moveon.org people. is there a way to have the democratic process for choosing the framers? if we freeman new constitution you may not want a democracy. we are not even the democracy we are a constitutional republic that means those that office are to appear to the constitution. >> i think the solution maybe parliamentary. going back to jefferson's brilliant weaving of the deal is of his time. when john lott said any form of government becomes the is the right of the people to write to -- to alter or abolish it. but with the constitutional convention, benjamin franklin put a great deal of his insight into the iroquois a democracies which were council based. with much smaller communities but recognizing the elder with experienc

working the oil and gas sector who have perished on this flight was really galvanized the local populace here and that's resonated in a relief effort when it comes to blood donations this is something that many people here in this region i've been taking part in today are we three days of mourning carried out in this local area starting on the fourth of april we're just getting more and more snippets of information as to what happened zero to be young age twenty seven due to celebrate his birthday today who were not for this air disaster now there are being questions being asked as a wide this plane wasn't d.i.'s properly and given the weather conditions here in western siberia experts say that that would affect the functioning of the wings of this plane immediately after takeoff this plane encounter problems at play a pilot being unable to make contact with air traffic control and here we are differing accounts by witnesses saying that they were of smoke billowing from these engines well investigators a few percent probably didn't. all they think happened was this plane hold about two h

we continue to sell this excuse me this horrible profitable prices it's going to really upset our populace they're not going to be able to drive we're not going to be able to irrigate we're not going to be able to do a lot of things that oil allows us to do so that by taking control it gives them much more control over the prices now is this a long term solution absolutely not it's a solution borne out of desperation yes absolutely there is nothing good about it but you know you raise the question between energy and nation and national security you cannot separate the two if you don't have control of your energy supplies you do not ultimately have national security on many levels and that's just the way it is and i not just nation is this corporations too i saw an interesting report that delta's on the verge of buying a refinery they're buying a shuttered refinery in philadelphia are trying to bring that this can help them save some of the billions of dollars that they spent on jet fuel each year so it is the same for corporations. well yeah obviously i mean you know basically the refined

go in because we're afraid of what they might do now we have the same no should be applied to the populace in this country if you haven't done anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about it's better to check everybody you know it's better to put everybody through the security apparatus just so we might be able to catch somebody the problem is it's a rounding the liberties of this nation and and the boiling pot frog analogy is perfect it is got to the point now where we have dozens of police agencies in this country using drones we have the border patrol using drugs we have universities wanting to use drugs to get deeper and deeper into your personal life and this their water is literally boiling and it is it's about time that we stand up as a people as a nation and say you know what we don't live in east germany you know three nine hundred ninety we don't want to start you police state in foresee these recalling a lot of people and we don't want to be strip searched every time we want to fly from little bitty bozeman montana to maybe somewhere like denver right or even strip sear

forced you towards more of a spiritual populace to try to deal with what you've experienced i think that i think that religion faith whether it's muslim christianity doesn't matter how the way unifying people as a way of connecting and see that there is a creator who connected people from my point of view and. i find human rights abuses the only untolerable in any way shape or form and religion has been a form of therapy for me i think and so certainly for me it's fundamentally changed my life and i think a lot of soldiers are veterans are coming back from these wars are turning to it just as well as they did before people can say religions are reason for wars and maybe that's the case but all religions also profound way of peace and reconciliation you saw this with martin luther king so i was with gandhi that sort of thing so. yeah religion religion means a lot to me you know perhaps when you don't have the option to turn to the v.a. or the pentagon for help when you return spiritual help might be what what works for something i really want to thank you for spending time with us and sha

the creators of our nation said that we have to have a very educated populace in order to take advantagemocracy that we have. we need to emphasize that. the other thing is the reading rooms. we need to focus on title one schools because a lot of those kids come from homes with no books. they go to school with no library. they will not leave readers. those are the people who drop out. we have to concentrate on that. that is what is all about. we're having our big banquet in two weeks. we have three banquets next week. michigan, alan i., and pennsylvania. the week after that, we have our big one here. there are still tickets available at $85. it is always sold out to get in there quickly. it is one of the inspirational things. >> before you go, we will remind them again. i want to talk about "america the beautiful." you authored that with your wife. >> your wife is quick to mention is the only book that we have ever written together that got on the new york times best- seller. [laughter] i was very concerned about what was happening with our nation. it seemed like we were going from a can-

. >> the most important thing to the country is to have an informed populace. you think the american media is doing a very good job? >> that is a pretty complicated question. >> did you know there could be something there that could harm or even kill your kids? >> are your kids being brainwashed? >> the end of the world -- >> with respect to media, i think we have in the course of democracy, a lot of the ways we see me and operation. >> a new gallup poll showed media credibility at its lowest point in decades. 55% of respondents say they either are not very much confidence or none at all in the media's fairness and accuracy. >> i think pbs does a good job, i think other news organizations and not do a very good job informing the public. >> people find it news sources to confirm their beliefs. >> americas these days see it -- for support, rather than elimination. more and more people are turning to news sources that are essentially echo chambers to support their own beliefs. if you are conservative, you get news from fox news. if you are of another world view, y

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american populace. flip-flop doesn't begin to do justice to what this man has done. blowing in the wind. his policy is bob dylan like. the determination with which mr. obama acted again as our two distinguished colleagues have indicated has taken the wind out of the policy of the conservatives. his responses would be acceptable within the realm of reasonable moderates and he has played that trurp card already. he sow he denies them the comeback. that's a brilliant kind of peremptory strike. he takes a bush doctrine but he strikes against the conservatives. when it comes to romney he has nothing to do but talk about an apologize tour but these are the same people who refuse to apologize for slavery. they refuse to apologize for mistreating women and native-americans. no surprise then that they are averse to apology. what obama did was not apologize for america. he apologized for american excesses and promises to be a better america. the man is brilliant when it comes to designing policy with some caveat. >> indeed. the romney campaign had a conference called prebuttal

. >> don't know we're at the fiery populace at the moment that the left, you know, lean based in theparty thinks we are. there there's an authenticity issue. to the extent he seems like a guy who is trying to relate and be regular and it underscores the idea we don't know who mitt romney is and he seems to be of a changeling where the moment calls for it. that would undermine his candidacy. to the point he can make an argument and say yes i'm successful and i'm here to defend success and it's consistent with where he is down the line as candidate it's less damaging to him. >> candy, when the romney team drew up the playbook for this campaign, i think that they assumed his profile was good for these times, obviously. a person who had been in business, who had helped to turn around things, who had a record of success. not overly ideological. he's lost some of this through this difficult primary fight and what the obama campaign has been able to do. the we is can he get back to that? >> thank you both so much for coming by. >> thank you. >> next, the serious side of bill cosby a convers

. >> and saying we're not going to do anything to educate our populace. grants. >> romney is connected to that? >> he's tied to that. he also had this situation where he's wedded to the bush policy, which is tax cuts. if you look at the 57 proposals that he has for fixing the economy, almost all of them are tax cuts. we tried that, ed, and it failed. when he tries to make the argument that his tax cuts are the way to get the economy going on a better track, the president is going to be able to say been there, done that, didn't çwork. >> finally, mitt romney has had some awkward moments with people out on the campaign trial. one this week dissing the cookies and not responding when some of the people that are hand picked middle classers saying it's okay to raise taxes. we don't want to lose the farm. we don't want to lose public exand he sat there with no response. i thought it was telling. sgh he's not a good candidate. we won't get elected if they bring up what they call his candidate skills. you can't diss somebody's cookies made by an independent bake

expressed that hard purpose of skepticism that the experts of the state tried to instill the american populaceinstead he let out his intermark , that fragile bubble of hope and optimism perry will let him into the trap of fury but also what led him to believe he had a chance of succeeding , two stories that would never have happened without large measure of the gullibility. certainly this credulity is as essential to american apology is a self-made man, but the ventures of norfleet go further to suggest that the market inside is the first requirement for narrative itself. what he did cultivates the characteristic until it became knowing self aware of, perennially game for wide awake deception. he came to represent the personality type that best fits american and guarantee, the sophisticated soaker. thank you. [applause] >> i would love to hear questions, stories of your own, any kind of discussion we can have. [inaudible question] >> i was curious, and please forgive me if i ask a question you answered earlier. curious first of all how you initially got interested in the subject. when you disc

>> i love to get ron in on this as well, this is shaping up as the populace versus budget cutting general themes of the campaign. >> no question, andrea. look, the white house and the obama campaign believe they have something with the buffett rule. you have the president speaking about it today in florida, vice president biden speaking about it late in the pledging it's a center piece going forward. the thing i say, and i continue to say this when i see paul ryan is speaking publicly, if he's trying to be the vice president, he's doing the kind of things that mitt romney would need a vice president to do. he's using pretty hot rhetoric, tantrums, pixie dust, pushing back very hard on the president of the united states which is traditionally that kind of attack dog role that the vice president assumes. i'm not saying, i'm just saying. >> you're just saying. speaking of just saying, here's george w. bush at bush institute conference in new york today talking about those bush tax ut c cuts. >> i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. if they're called some other body's tax cuts they're