mike rupert of collapse net dot com you can send me an e-mail at kaiser reported r t t v r u you can follow me on twitter just go to max kaiser and until next time this is max keiser saying bio . i. poland the country signs up to a global pact to take down internet piracy is making their mark in the protests. people fear that these documents will give corporations too much power to take regular users offline i'll explain why in just a few moments. heavy clashes in syria as a resolution to president assad is laid on the un's table but russia pledges to put any stop to any possible intervention. in the battle for russia's top job goes viral with internet campaigns on you tube video is becoming more powerful tools than conventional t.v. debates. worldwide news live from the center of moscow this is our rule research showing in poland right now key websites are being hijacked while thousands of internet freedom supporters are marching outside in a major two pronged protest it's because the country's just signed up to a global web piracy pact covering everything from movies and music to f

back to the kaiser reports i'm not to go to california and speak with author radio show host mike rupert of collapse not dot com mike welcome to the kaiser report max great to be back with you again all right mike rupert you're in california home to both hollywood and silicon valley what is your take on the soap people debate how is it playing out in the local news there in california clearly in california my take is that the press and the people perceive that sopa and pipa are in a dire straits and i don't think there's much hope to resurrect these bills the opposition has been pretty uniform i just made a trip down to l.a. recently and met with a number of people in the movie industry and i did not see a lot of concern about it so i think there's another agenda being followed right well clearly. it's an assault on hollywood there's a venture capital firm now coming out saying kill hollywood with new ventures that will undermine the hollywood copyright cartel it's an assault on freedom of speech and there's a bit of a civil war because the technology is in northern california the conten

of any way we can destroy it in our own way but in this sounds very punk on my part but rupert murdoch scares me. because you literally he's a media mogul who controls most of the world and he also has a ninja assassin as a wife but he literally is like a. character you know like you. really can't really say maybe bob on it was one of piers morgan's or purse bronson's one and it was a very good but still it was there so nothing there you know what about this i mean what about this idea that only that the owner of that you know the most successful cable news network a very successful newspaper you know is engaging in a policy debate certainly that doesn't suggest that he's telling the writers what to say or telling the anchors what to say on era but do you think you don't think it's crossing the line at all. you know because i feel like of the other things he's been accused of breaking into people's phones fox news in general jim tweeting is the least of his offenses up he has a ninja assassin is what it was like he just. has the least thing he's tweeting us a big that's not to do it's

rupert has more. >> on tahrir square today, they came out in their hundreds of thousands. the young egyptians to lead the revolution one year ago. this is part celebration and part protest. many egyptians are angry that one year on, the military is still in control. one man lost his brother and his eye in the process. this is just beginning, he says. the revolution is not over. we want a civil state, not the muslim brotherhood. but tahrir square is not where the future of egypt is being decided. it is in villages like in faraway upper egypt. poor villages like this is where most egyptians still live. they are the heartland. this couple, they want and egypt where islamic sharia law is applied to every aspect of life. >> islam is clear. if someone steals, his hand will be cut off. killers will be killed, and adulterer's will be put to death. >> a 20 minute drive away, engine ruins. this place draws thousands of tourists from across the world. since last year's revolution, tourists have deserted egypt, and now they must deal with the new power. i just sat down at this cafe on

right thank you i'll write it like you did you just go there kill less people did you just compare rupert murdoch to saddam hussein i'm sure you didn't. like it i just did but it's better the complete comparing him to hitler i think i'm a saddam hussein at least current ok there you go would love to talk to you more certainly lots of interesting stuff unfortunately we're out of time comedian and filmmaker as seen smith in new york city. well speaking of a lack of civility in journalism i want to take this time just briefly to address something we told you about last week radio host and paid c.n.n. contributor dana lash agreeing with those marines in afghanistan remember the ones caught on video urinating on dead militants on a radio show last week dana said that she dropped trial and do it too those are her words but when our team put a link from the audio from her show on to our web site she tweeted us and accused us of not doing our job of gathering news and spinning what she said even though we simply posted the audio from her show her words she also said we didn't reach out to her whi

, absolutely. >> what do you think rupert meant by values do matter?o you think, the core traditional values of the republicans perhaps better than any other candidate? >> well, he really is a very conservative guy. everybody will say that. he's very, very conservative in so many different ways. and his stance on between birth control and gay marriage and lots of other things, life, i mean, he's -- you know, he's definitely over there. there's no question about it. and there's a group of people that find that very, very appealing. and bob was one of those people. and you know, that endorsement was great. somebody like rupert murdoch who's somebody who i have a lot of respect for. he's an amazing guy, a great guy. you know, that means something. i think it means something to a lot of people. >> mitt romney yet again is hovering around 25% of the vote. and he only got just a few less than he got last time in iowa. so he can't seem to break this 25% barrier. what does that tell you, donald, about mitt romney's standing with his own party? >> well, i think

she mentions soros with no mention of rupert murdoch. why?, for one thing, rupert murdoch's publishing firm killed my second book, harpercollins. "new york post", "wall street journal" have never published me. i have never worked for fox news. don't tell me rupert murdoch is the savior of conservatives in america. i hear he puts on, he does some great media and, i enjoy consuming it but, he is also not, you know he only recently become a nationalized american, right? he like soros, born in another country. that is usually the, people, actually involved in day-to-day politics who are liberals have foreign accents. and i would recommend that they stay here a few generations. you don't see, rupert murdoch putting out media that people manifestly want to read, which is why fox news ratings are through the roof. and although i don't work for them, i like appearing on their network and their ratings are twice what cnn or msnbc. "red eye" comes on 3:00 a.m. on fox news and higher ratings prime time on than cnn. this is more than hiring david brock t

rupert also owns "the australian." he owns the "wall street journal." bloomberg sprung from nowhere to create progress of journalism online. i will respectfully disagree on that. >> thinking about california watch, we feature them regularly, and they are doing excellent investigative work. is anyone familiar with those, and can you talk about the success and where you see that going? do you think that we will see more of these kinds of outlets? >> i think that paying for news journalism and especially for news journalism with a variety of political agendas, historically in san francisco, was paid for by real estate and automotive and help-wanted advertising. it was not paid for by the circulation nichols of the subscribers. if you think about government- boned journalism compared to the rich, benevolent owner boulders of journalism or the public opening of journalism, i think there is a time now where you do not need quite as much funding as ever, but some of the people who today are seen as barron's -- barons started off with a pretty defined journalis

filtering rupert murdoch has decided to join the fight by taking to twitter and attacking both obama and google but is this one battle the old man is destined to lose so by antipas supporters like harry reid and the top lawyer for n.b.c. universal have been peddling a few myths about the legislation which we need to break down and wikipedia has announced that they are going to blackout their site on january eighteenth so the opposition is proving they will not rest so let's analyze some of these developments joining me to discuss it is declan mccullagh chief political correspondent for seen at second thanks for joining us tonight and first i guess what your comments on the white house coming out this week and releasing this statement that as it is they will not support these pieces of legislation resupplies it all. a little surprised because they announced their opposition it's qualified opposition it is they're not saying we hate it there's no way we'll ever support it they're saying right now it's really not the best approach and generally what happens is that there's a formal proc

for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert and thank my guest mike rupert of collapse and net dot com. you can send me an e-mail at kaiser reported r t t v r u you can follow me on twitter just go to max kaiser and until next time this is max keiser saying by all. i i. tonight the polish people on a march against their country signing up to a multinational where. we've got the latest. people fear that these documents will give corporations too much power to take regular users offline i'll explain why in just a few moments. violence flares in syria as a resolution to oust president assad lands on un desks but moscow vows it won't let foreign forces into v. . and the battle for russia's top job goes viral with internet campaigns and you tube videos becoming more powerful tools than conventional t.v. debates. live from moscow at eight pm you're watching r.t. will welcome my name is kevin now in our top story this key websites are being hijacked on a day that thousands of internet freedom supporters marched outside in a major to protest it's because the country

this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i want to thank my guest mike rupert of collapse net dot com you can send me. the mail at kaiser reported r t t v r u you can follow me on twitter just go to max kaiser and until next time this is max keiser saying by all. a call for action the u.n. faces arab pressure to adopt a resolution on syria to push president assad from power. plants to enforce an anti piracy the war in poland thousands of people onto the streets and a wave of cyber attacks on government websites. lasts for votes online a new dynamic in russian politics borrowed videos and creative work campaigning could prove pivotal in the forthcoming presidential election. it's midday here in moscow your with r.t. welcome to the program our top story now in syria government forces are reportedly assaulting the city of hama with dozens of people allegedly killed across the country over the past twenty four hours the u.n. security council is expected to vote over the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the escalating conflict the draft calls on the s

rupert or >>pam: would you really feel about the game this weekend?similarities with the 49ers team? >> we were kind of an offensive juggernaut. but this is not the team yet. i truly believe this is the best defense in the in. romper room with the 49ers. i think this great defense will rise up. cliff they can keep them under 24. at candlestick i like it chances. rupert robert >>pam: and i felt all card says that i am 62 to because i wrote it in that way. so it is a stretch. but as for drew the height is not a thing. he is a master at picking apart the defense. sean king can call a combination of place.-- plays. >>gary: have you ever seen a coach in one season it is big a difference in a football team like harbaugh? >> there are others that come to mind, they do not come to mind right away. but there are others. this the team that has been building a good player. the interplay the team on all levels so that they could play. >>gary: were you and alex this fan before this season? >> i felt for alex smith. when he met with jim harbaugh and the set i'd cal

we have seen a lot of efforts, but things like rupert murdoch's daily have not excited us on a journalistic level. but i think we are laying groundwork for some institutions that they possibly do that in the next three to five years. >> i'm wondering what you think it would take for it to go to that next level and provide quality journalism. >> i just want to offer a slight difference of opinion. i think that we are seeing a couple of things happen right now. they are positive things that are happening. while it may be true that the first wave of online-only journalism tended to be national and international criticism and opinion, which got the name of blogs, what we are actually seeing of the local level is something even more exciting than that. as newspapers have become challenged, and we have seen, sadly, the destruction of capabilities of newspaper and local television stations and other media in the local arena, we are seeing a new layer journalism being created at the local level. some startups such as the "bases and close " in san francisco, "texas tribune" out in texas -- there hav

what rupert murdoch is tweeting about and how many followers he has. >>> a body found in the snow ater national park is the man that killed a park ranger yesterday. a plane searching for benjamin barnes discovered his body lying fosdown on the mountp this morning. the 24-year-old is believed to have fled to the park after a shooting at a new year's eve house house party. authorities suspect he later shot ranger margaret anderson. >> kind person. hard worker. always had a smile. >> benjamin barnes had training and armed when he entered the park. authorities evacuated 100 visitors while they were searching for him. the mother of benjamin barnes' child said he was angry and sue cital and may have suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder. >>> a debate that allows loaded weapons in a national park. gunneras lowed in all but 20 of the park services 392 locations. before 2010 fire arms at mount rainier national park were required to be put away so they weren't accessible. >>> rupert murdoch joined twitter. he began two days ago and has 56,000 followers. he tweeted about the steve job's b

it's a tabloid owned by news interactional, of course, the organization run by rupert murdoch and his news corp organization. the other is a police man said to be arrested when he was at work in a central london police station earlier today and charged with corruption, misusing his public office, and with conspiracy. the other individuals have been charged as well. so these are very serious crimes they're alleged to have committed. in some ways it rented an escalation of the campaign to try to get to the bottom of the hacking scandal and to the extent that the police and the journalists involved worked together in what essentially were illegal practices, christi. >> how difficult has it been to try to obtain a lot of this information for investigators? >> well, it's historically been, you know, incredibly difficult. this has been a very closed corner of the media, a very close corner of the police work as well, the extent to which the police and journalists cooperate. it's something that obviously takes place very much under the surface behind closed doors. but this incident along wit

not even rupert murdoch would come up with that. we just did that because it is what made us feel good. now we are thinking, with the burning man project -- it is interesting. my partners and i are thinking beyond our lifetimes. it is a bit of a legacy project. which is really interesting, an interesting exercise. that makes you feel differently about the present. so what would make something that durable? what would keep it alive that long? we have been alive and have grown for a quarter-century. it may not be hard to imagine an entire century at all. now we are found in an institution that will house and generate culture, and function as a community. wondering how we can be sure that it is not perverted, subject to internal divisions, will not perish. and that is a really good exercise, too. think about doing something that will last 100 years. >> thinking about the next couple of minutes, we should have questions from audience members. who ever has a question, start lining up. i'm going to ask one more and then we can start going

chairman rupert murdoch has been even more cutting in his criticism. he says "piracy leader is google who streams movies free, sells advertisements around them. no wonder pouring millions into lobbying." the solidarity the tech industry is showing for this legislation is a change, and industry watchers say it has helped them galvanize public opinion. >> tech companies did a good job of trying to boil it down to one sentence, saying it's going to break the internet. this is going to ruin the internet as we know it. they're really, really strong statements. that's a great way to make it a lightning rod, the same way that occupy became a way that people will spread comments over the news sites, writing on their blogs, on twitter, on facebook. and sopa is becoming similar in that it's a really lightning rod word, and people are taking it and running with it. >> reporter: the debate has been slowed in washington. a house hearing scheduled for wednesday has been postponed, but both sides vow to fight on for what they see as essential aspects of their busines

rupert murdoch's empire will pay at its now defunct news of the world tabloid. actor jude law and his ex-wife and his assistant are among those receiving settlements. >>> the florida department of law enforcement is raising eyebrows as they are shells out 300 bucks to get employees testy to test a breathalyzer. we did that with exstrong coffee. kind of sad. >>> coming up a tragedy in free style skiing. yet another college basketball upset. a shoot-out goal in hockey you have to see to believe. lebron and the heat break away from the outmatched l.a. lakers. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in the weekend forecast, it is highlighted by snow no new england and a wet forecast for the west. that's coming you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports on paper last night's matchup between the lakers and the heat promised to be a great one. in reality, it couldn't have been more one-sided. here is nbc's frr with a early look at all of your sports headlines. >>> good morning. the

police are also searching the london offices of "news international" rupert murdoch's publishing company that's been at the center of a phone hacking scandal. we'll have much more in a live report from london ahead. >>> six passengers who survived the capsizing the costa concordia have filed a massive $450 million lawsuit. the cruise liner ran aground off the coast of italy two weeks ago. the company that owns the ship has offered just over $14,000, the equivalent comes out to $14,000 to each of the survivors. an attorney representing the passengers told cnn's erin burnett what he thought of that offer. >> it is an insult. this was not an incident that could possibly be covered by the ticket limitations. erin, this is an act of horrendous negligence. it was careless disregard for human life and property. this was not covered by any limitations. >> coming up, we're going to talk with our legal experts about the legal fallout from the costa concordia disaster and the lawsuit filed. that's just ahead around 12:20 p.m. eastern. >>> former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky is

well, rupert murdoch to newt gingrich. you've got too much baggage. >>> to the big screen.eryl streep is once again wowing audiences. this time for her portrayal of former uk prime minister margaret thatcher in "the iron lady." true to form, streep did her research and some of the information about the staunch conservative leader might surprise you. let's hear it from the actor herself. >> there's always stuff to be learned, especially many years out from an administration. but i was very surprised to learn that she didn't try to dismantle the national health. she thought that that was right to have the national health. that she was pro-choice. >> she would be drummed out of the american conservative party. there would be no question. >> wow, well, michele bachmann referenced the iron lady relentlessly during her presidential campaign and held her in high regard. with the views streep just mentioned, bachmann might have been first in line to drum her out of the republican party today. >>> up next -- newt gingrich and rick perry are trying to take down mitt romney by calling

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rupert murdoch's media empire will pay millions in damages.ctor jude law, his ex-wife, and his assistant are among those receiving settlements. >>> and finally, the florida department of law enforcement is raising eyebrows for shelling out $300 on jim beam mixers and doritos to get employees tipsy to test with a breathalyzer. >> sounds like us. >> we do that with extra strong coffee. >>> coming up, a tragedy in skiing. a shootout in hockey you have to see to believe. plus, lebron and the heat break away from the outmatched l.a. lakers. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >> the weekend forecast is highlighted by snow for new england. that's coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, on paper last night's matchup between the lakers and the heat promised to be a great one. in reality, it couldn't have been more one sided. here's fred roggin with an early look at your sports headlines. >>> good morning. it was the marquee game of the night. lakers and