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are spending thirty to seventy percent of their time raising money to get back to congress for to get their party back into power of course it's hard for them to keep focused on what their job is supposed to be about and when they do that they lead most americans to the conclusion that money buys results in congress which is why only nine percent of us have confidence in them and you know we should put that in context there are plainly more people who believed in the british crown at the time of the revolution then who believe in this congress today so yes there's a question when is the combs when is the government actually bankrupt and want to just have to admit that it's lost the faith of the people or do you think though that it's just a perception that the people have that you know that money buys congress or isn't that the plain old truth. it is a great question to ask but i think it is pretty overwhelming that the money is distorting and bending what congress does it's not fine congress in the old quid pro quo bribery way nobody is alleging and i don't believe that this congress
are spending thirty to seventy percent of their time raising money to get back to congress for to get their party back into power of course it's hard for them to keep focused on what their job is supposed to be about and when they do that they lead most americans to the conclusion that money buys results in congress which is why only nine percent of us have confidence in them and you know we should put that in context there are plainly more people who believed in the british crown at the time...
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does it's not buying congress and the old quid pro quo bribery where nobody is alleging and i don't believe that this congress is corrupt in the sense that rod blagojevich or randy duke cunningham were corrupt but it is buying or bending congress in the sense that as these members dance to figure out what flushes the most money into the system that then it's just doesn't happen to be the sort of appearance that makes the people have any confidence because surprise surprise the funders of the campaigns are not the people and that's the fundamental fact that makes this government so untrusting so what do you think is going on right now if we look at this deficit super committee right there only has a couple of weeks couple of weeks left until they're supposed to try to minimum of one point two trillion dollars and they've been doing it pretty secretive fashion terms of all those questions that they've had but every report that has come out shows that they're not getting anywhere but the main breakdown right now is over taxes republicans absolutely refuse to budge when it comes to rais
does it's not buying congress and the old quid pro quo bribery where nobody is alleging and i don't believe that this congress is corrupt in the sense that rod blagojevich or randy duke cunningham were corrupt but it is buying or bending congress in the sense that as these members dance to figure out what flushes the most money into the system that then it's just doesn't happen to be the sort of appearance that makes the people have any confidence because surprise surprise the funders of the...
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to do its job where they won't act i will but we're not going to wait for congress. i'm told by administration to keep looking every single day for actions we can take without congress steps that can save consumers money make government more efficient and responsive and help heal the economy and we're going to be announcing these executive actions on a regular basis so i will all of these new moving parts function when it comes to job creation and how will they affect the coming election in two thousand and twelve for more on this i'm joined by jim dean chair of democracy for america and david walgren contributing editor of the daily koz welcome to you both thanks very much a dead both with a thanks thank you jim for joining us jim the president has this new initiative we can't wait should even pushing these kind of executive orders the beginning i think he's really finally getting. well i certainly wish he had pushing this from the beginning and i wish he'd also followed through on his executive order on the disclosure bill or disclosing making corporations disclose
to do its job where they won't act i will but we're not going to wait for congress. i'm told by administration to keep looking every single day for actions we can take without congress steps that can save consumers money make government more efficient and responsive and help heal the economy and we're going to be announcing these executive actions on a regular basis so i will all of these new moving parts function when it comes to job creation and how will they affect the coming election in two...
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all leading congress very proud is returning to congress they would have to protest that both big and the power of money will go back to the people were a lot. of the discontent being seen in the us indicates some things going very wrong in the way the country's ruled that's a view of prominent author and professor noam chomsky his full interview is coming up next hour here on. the streets you can sue. your spot. in the world right so. much like. two thirds of the public thinks the entire congress will be thrown out means that the system isn't working and the public knows. the popularity of the favorable rating for congress and single. president in the same bunch of course all of the. it's a very widespread sense that everything is going wrong that tells you that the system is just not functioning. well this week's headlines in russia have been dominated by the planet reshuffle and the put in bad debt in tandem and the sudden departure of the finance minister well it prompted an unexpected interview from the president as he clarified his decision not to run for the office again but as
all leading congress very proud is returning to congress they would have to protest that both big and the power of money will go back to the people were a lot. of the discontent being seen in the us indicates some things going very wrong in the way the country's ruled that's a view of prominent author and professor noam chomsky his full interview is coming up next hour here on. the streets you can sue. your spot. in the world right so. much like. two thirds of the public thinks the entire...
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was this is a big of america all you congress then call is returned to congress they will help approach that both big piece in the power of money will go back to the people who were. james corbat editor of independent news website corporate report dot com says the police brutality may provoke an escalation of violence. there could be that possibility of escalation at this moment i would say that the momentum and the probably the p.r. win is on the protester side because no one likes to see the police going in and and breaking up a peaceful protest movements like that and especially now that we're getting reports that the protesters were actually lured on to the bridge and then trapped it's quite obvious by this point that the monetary system itself needs reform but i think if we leave that in the hands of the regulators and the people who have been in charge of the system there are really just going to try to consolidate more power for themselves so we see that for example playing out in the euro zone by the european central bank arguing for more power rather than less power because bec
was this is a big of america all you congress then call is returned to congress they will help approach that both big piece in the power of money will go back to the people who were. james corbat editor of independent news website corporate report dot com says the police brutality may provoke an escalation of violence. there could be that possibility of escalation at this moment i would say that the momentum and the probably the p.r. win is on the protester side because no one likes to see the...
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it's not time for congress to start saying to the supreme court things like. you know no more political decisions or clarence thomas your wife can't be allowed in and you would be deciding cases i don't think so i think would be very dangerous because if you think about it every time a different political party got the upper hand in congress they would simply remove the court's jurisdiction from some issue they care about that's exactly what's happened in the court well in time the court swings one way or the other you know whether it's in seventy three phyllis schlafly and i agree on that it's clear there is and there's actually a fair body of folks out there who are saying marbury was wrongly decided judicial review is wrong because this is the of the constitution i mean if you go back to the federalist papers federalist seventy eight alexander hamilton the judiciary from the nature of its functions will always be the least dangerous of the political rights of the constitution they can make no act. resolution whatsoever the simple view of the matter so just
it's not time for congress to start saying to the supreme court things like. you know no more political decisions or clarence thomas your wife can't be allowed in and you would be deciding cases i don't think so i think would be very dangerous because if you think about it every time a different political party got the upper hand in congress they would simply remove the court's jurisdiction from some issue they care about that's exactly what's happened in the court well in time the court swings...
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lost how money corrupts congress and a plan to stop it or as i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and you know we will get into what's happening right now in terms of populist movements are people rising up but first let's just start with what we're seeing our government do and our congress do or do you think that they have that they forgotten that they're actually supposed to rule by consent of the government of the governed excuse me do you think that they really represent the needs or the interests of the people anymore. when members of congress are spending thirty to seventy percent of their time raising money to get back to congress for to get their party back into power of course it's hard for them to keep focused on what their job is supposed to be about and when they do that they lead most americans to the conclusion that money buys results in congress which is why only nine percent of us have confidence in them and you know we should put that in context there are plainly more people who believed in the british crown at the time of the revolution then who believ
lost how money corrupts congress and a plan to stop it or as i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and you know we will get into what's happening right now in terms of populist movements are people rising up but first let's just start with what we're seeing our government do and our congress do or do you think that they have that they forgotten that they're actually supposed to rule by consent of the government of the governed excuse me do you think that they really represent the...
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to decide the constitutionality of its own laws it would be crazy you let your next congress do that it's called elections it's the will of the people that's not the way it works ok or clerk rather we're going to leave it there thanks for dropping always a. very interesting conversation seven years after he left the presidency thomas jefferson lamented about the state of the supreme court and eight hundred sixteen letter to his. friend samuel courage of what he wrote the judiciary the judges of the highest court started pena none but themselves and a government funded founded on the public will this principle operates in an opposite direction and against that will we have made them independent of the nation itself their irremovable but by their own body for any depravities of conduct and even by their own body for the imbecility imbecilities daughter it's time to take our supreme court judges and in fact all judges in america and make them accountable to the people just as jefferson the man who wrote the declaration of independence desire let's end the judicial monarchy in america an
to decide the constitutionality of its own laws it would be crazy you let your next congress do that it's called elections it's the will of the people that's not the way it works ok or clerk rather we're going to leave it there thanks for dropping always a. very interesting conversation seven years after he left the presidency thomas jefferson lamented about the state of the supreme court and eight hundred sixteen letter to his. friend samuel courage of what he wrote the judiciary the judges of...
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congress to do their job to your. ok instead of focusing on jobs house republicans are saying you know what's going on i look i think this is all in. part of political demagoguery going to two thousand and twelve i think what we really need is looking ahead and i wish we did that from the very beginning i think a lot of businesses are sitting on the sidelines a lot of business people are afraid don't know where we're going to be we should not be looking at you know with these kind of small. side they are have already are saying they are going back to the matter is that they're either not sure i mean they're not sure we're going to be settled by any one business person in america with customers who have money in this market and want to buy their product and that uses a lot of these going into you and i don't know if you're going to u.s. bonds that is money because they're scared they're scared of where were things are going and they're not sure if they're going to put it somewhere stable and see what they see is relati
congress to do their job to your. ok instead of focusing on jobs house republicans are saying you know what's going on i look i think this is all in. part of political demagoguery going to two thousand and twelve i think what we really need is looking ahead and i wish we did that from the very beginning i think a lot of businesses are sitting on the sidelines a lot of business people are afraid don't know where we're going to be we should not be looking at you know with these kind of small....
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the public and the entire congress. system. popularity. rating for congress and. of course all of the. widespread sense that everything is going. to be just. it without the light from moscow now this week's headlines in russia have been dominated by the planned reshuffle in the putin made a good time them coarsely a sudden departure of the finance minister it prompted an unexpected interview from the president as he clarified his decision not to run for office again but it's not easy it could've been a picture of what reports the pre-election period in russia may still hold even further surprises. i think this week's headlines have been all that it hooten putin that it the news of the japs was brought up polemic switch russia hasn't seen for quite some time while some criticised others applauded the tandems deal and the kings of photo shop rolled out some of their best work yet with the general mood being that the deal had been done long ago but it was an exciting for just a few days until the first rich shuffles in the corridors of power began to move if you thin
the public and the entire congress. system. popularity. rating for congress and. of course all of the. widespread sense that everything is going. to be just. it without the light from moscow now this week's headlines in russia have been dominated by the planned reshuffle in the putin made a good time them coarsely a sudden departure of the finance minister it prompted an unexpected interview from the president as he clarified his decision not to run for office again but it's not easy it...
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bush was pushing his outrageous tax cuts for the rich through congress senator bernie sanders saw this trend of unequal influence and he wrote an article on his website saying at a time when more and more americans are giving up on the political process and when the wealthy and multinational corporations have unprecedented wealth and power it is imperative that we lacked launch a grassroots revolution to enable ordinary americans to regain control of their country exactly ten years and one month to the day when senator sanders wrote that article on september seventeenth of this year people began camping out near wall street to protest an equal corporate influence in our political system the occupy wall street movement was born and like with dog movements standing on the shoulders of the giants who preceded it. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered this in our web sites tom hartman dark on free speech dot org. also check out our two you tube channels the links of tom parker this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes
bush was pushing his outrageous tax cuts for the rich through congress senator bernie sanders saw this trend of unequal influence and he wrote an article on his website saying at a time when more and more americans are giving up on the political process and when the wealthy and multinational corporations have unprecedented wealth and power it is imperative that we lacked launch a grassroots revolution to enable ordinary americans to regain control of their country exactly ten years and one...
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this is a bank of america only the congress does if that call is returned to congress they will have to protest to vote fake this because the bank is will be sustaining it too big to fail ones will literally be just middle and just middle if they should be in the power of money will go back to the people who are a lot more there are many people who are saying when it comes to for example the eurozone in the ongoing crisis with greece that it should just be allowed to default on forcing some sort of a reconstruction of the financial system that steve in london a radio host and author i would love to talk to you thought about all the time we have for many thanks indeed thank you very. well twenty four people have now been arrested in boston after the protest spread there as well check out of the pictures on our web site r.t. dot com thousands have been a rallying of the bank of america's main office at the company's repossession policies that are turning people out onto the streets and we're going to r.t. dot com to stay on top of the story. this week's headlines in russia have been do
this is a bank of america only the congress does if that call is returned to congress they will have to protest to vote fake this because the bank is will be sustaining it too big to fail ones will literally be just middle and just middle if they should be in the power of money will go back to the people who are a lot more there are many people who are saying when it comes to for example the eurozone in the ongoing crisis with greece that it should just be allowed to default on forcing some...
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good congress those who are very proud of is returning to congress it will help to produce the both big boost in the power of money and people were a lot. of the discontent being seen in the us indicate some things going very wrong the way the country's rules that's a view of prominent alter and professor noam chomsky has full interview is coming up next hour. for the streets. of support. from the world's. two thirds of the public. to be thrown out into the system working in the public mood. particularly good for a girl reading for congress in one single. person in the same bunch of course all of the. sort of widespread sense that everything is going wrong in the polls or the democratic system is just part. of this week's headlines in russia have been dominated by the planet reshuffle and upwards in baghdad in tandem and the sudden departure of the finance minister prompted an unexpected interview from the president as he clarified his decision not to run for the office again but that is a good. mcgrath's over reports that period in russia may hold more surprises but this week's headlin
good congress those who are very proud of is returning to congress it will help to produce the both big boost in the power of money and people were a lot. of the discontent being seen in the us indicate some things going very wrong the way the country's rules that's a view of prominent alter and professor noam chomsky has full interview is coming up next hour. for the streets. of support. from the world's. two thirds of the public. to be thrown out into the system working in the public mood....
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morgan does this is a big of america all either congress does if they had paul is returned to congress they would have to protest the vote bank just because the bank is whoa piece misting it too big to fail. well literally just needed just a little if he should eat. a lot more there are many people who are saying when it comes to for example the eurozone in the ongoing crisis with greece that it should just be allowed to default forcing some sort of a reconstruction of the financial system they're going to a radio host and author i would love to talk to you further that's all the time we have for many thanks indeed. but a twenty four people have now been arrested in boston after the protests spread there as well check out other pictures on our web site r.t. dot com or thousands have been a rallying of the bank of america's main office at the company's repossession policies that are turning people out onto the streets and we're going to r.t. top con to stay on top of the story. this week's headlines in russia have been dominated by the planned reshuffle in the put in nigeria of tandem a
morgan does this is a big of america all either congress does if they had paul is returned to congress they would have to protest the vote bank just because the bank is whoa piece misting it too big to fail. well literally just needed just a little if he should eat. a lot more there are many people who are saying when it comes to for example the eurozone in the ongoing crisis with greece that it should just be allowed to default forcing some sort of a reconstruction of the financial system...
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some see this as more of an eviction notice and say there could be clashes with police also yesterday congress passed the three free trade agreements with south korea colombia and panama meanwhile they blocked obama's jobs bill two days ago so does this show us where their priorities really lie at harrison's going to join us for that one and a new gallup poll shows the support for the death penalty in the united states has hit a thirty nine year low so we're going to talk about yet another execution that's coming out or guilt might be in doubt we'll have all of that for you and i am more including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. our as we just wrapped up the latest g.o.p. presidential debate earlier this week where it became pretty clear i think who the probable front runner is going to be and yet a new poll has everybody just blown away republican presidential candidate herman cain as pulled ahead of the pack we do have a new front runner at least for this month as herman cain he's the first choice of cain with a four point lead ov
some see this as more of an eviction notice and say there could be clashes with police also yesterday congress passed the three free trade agreements with south korea colombia and panama meanwhile they blocked obama's jobs bill two days ago so does this show us where their priorities really lie at harrison's going to join us for that one and a new gallup poll shows the support for the death penalty in the united states has hit a thirty nine year low so we're going to talk about yet another...
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concerts of the public for its entire congress would be thrown. into the system isn't working in the public mood and so. popular and your favor ability to reading for congress in single point you to present the torah in the same rooms across all of the. sort of very widespread sense that everything is going wrong because you would know the protocol system is just not right for. thousands have marched through the northern or british city of manchester and another protest at austerity cuts to public services and pensions the rally in opposition to the governing coalition and organized by trade unions coincided with the ruling conservative party's conference in the city or peace or it was there. the conservative party conference has started ten months ago and the moment that politicians and delegates started to arrive this happens overnight and that's made the fifty thousand people are turning out for this march through the streets of munches to protest what the coalition government is doing in the way of and you've literally got pools full of people
concerts of the public for its entire congress would be thrown. into the system isn't working in the public mood and so. popular and your favor ability to reading for congress in single point you to present the torah in the same rooms across all of the. sort of very widespread sense that everything is going wrong because you would know the protocol system is just not right for. thousands have marched through the northern or british city of manchester and another protest at austerity cuts to...
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as for in the halls of congress has become almost zero and i don't believe for a man agree with that to a certain extent i mean i think that reagan's economic policies were very successful we could debate that at length i don't want to do that right now i mean twenty five million jobs are created i'll think clinton was very successful in a certain respect but you're right that the portion of productivity gains that goes to labor has decreased you're right that there are some basic structural problems i think they've largely been caused by misguided government policies particularly regulatory policies and this is where we're going to go to her age policies are taxation policies well i think our tax code has been a total disaster and it's with she's the sort of special interests and lobbyists and i think we need to have a low flat rate i don't think that you can fix the problem see what i did raise taxes a rate for people i want everyone to pay at a low flat rate i think that if you do that the system can't be gamed it's much more simple you know so you were taken on a say you're sayin
as for in the halls of congress has become almost zero and i don't believe for a man agree with that to a certain extent i mean i think that reagan's economic policies were very successful we could debate that at length i don't want to do that right now i mean twenty five million jobs are created i'll think clinton was very successful in a certain respect but you're right that the portion of productivity gains that goes to labor has decreased you're right that there are some basic structural...
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won't let you now you can't hide behind congress this one's on you you have all the power to stop this thing it's an environmental disaster twenty of the top climate scientists have come out and said so several of them got arrested alongside us in washington d.c. including james hansen and so now we're waiting to see what obama. is that. i mean here's a major political move from the united states again to the bill because that is by and large driving although there are a lot of people involved with it is there are. in canada because this is you know that's the source of this oil absolutely and there was a there was there was a solidarity action in ottawa even though it isn't up to our government whether this happens it's up to the u.s. government whether this happened our government has made it absolutely clear that they want this to travel back and forth to washington like traveling salesman pushing this thing so we're under no illusions that our government will stop this but there was a big action in ottawa where i think four hundred people were arrested so this is happening and it i
won't let you now you can't hide behind congress this one's on you you have all the power to stop this thing it's an environmental disaster twenty of the top climate scientists have come out and said so several of them got arrested alongside us in washington d.c. including james hansen and so now we're waiting to see what obama. is that. i mean here's a major political move from the united states again to the bill because that is by and large driving although there are a lot of people involved...
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movie and this is a big american there's always a congress goes if there is returning to congress it will help approaches to both big beasts in the power of money legal where good people were blogs sara flounders from activist group international action center says the u.s. is preaching democracy around the world while violently disperse a grab at home. this is really our police are heard to shut down mass dissent here see u.s. government they claim to speak for democracy all over the world while dropping bombs on people and many many countries and here at home when people are involved in democratic protests and demonstrations against the domination of wall street representing really the interests of the vast majority of people the latest polls today show that seventy five percent of the population is sympathetic to these protests. thousands of march through the northern british city of manchester in another protest that asserted katsu public services and pensions the rally in opposition to the governing coalition and organized by trade unions coincided with the rule the conservative
movie and this is a big american there's always a congress goes if there is returning to congress it will help approaches to both big beasts in the power of money legal where good people were blogs sara flounders from activist group international action center says the u.s. is preaching democracy around the world while violently disperse a grab at home. this is really our police are heard to shut down mass dissent here see u.s. government they claim to speak for democracy all over the world...
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get the country out of financial ruin forget about the fact that the chances of them actually getting congress to pass that legislation and not those tracks programs are slim to none but they're still running for president right they want to know that they have ideas and so rick perry has been blowing it as they believe lately when it comes to the debates he's finally decided to join the club and release a flat tax plan of his own. rick perry lays out his plan to fix the country's economy perry and his cut balance and grow proposal the focus his proposal for a flat tax option this is the size of what we're talking about right here thanks players will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on the texas governor says he could go into the budget by twenty twenty a ten year budget cycle it is an optional twenty percent flat income tax that people could choose to replace the existing i.r.s. tax code that includes giving taxpayers a choice stick with the current rate or take a flat rate of twenty percent a flat tax would preserve some popular deductions mortgage interest and charitable contri
get the country out of financial ruin forget about the fact that the chances of them actually getting congress to pass that legislation and not those tracks programs are slim to none but they're still running for president right they want to know that they have ideas and so rick perry has been blowing it as they believe lately when it comes to the debates he's finally decided to join the club and release a flat tax plan of his own. rick perry lays out his plan to fix the country's economy perry...
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congress dared to sign a piece of paper that said we don't believe in assassinating our own citizens without due process and i'm happy that you brought that up because yesterday on our show we were discussing an op ed by legal scholar john terry who not only talked about obama's horrible civil liberties record but he actually said that obama just may have killed the civil liberties movement here you know something that we saw a lot of organization for a lot of passion for towards the end of the bush administration there was hope obama ran as a presidential candidate and promised to abide by the rule of law and i wonder if you agree with that that he's killed the civil liberties movement that no one ever is going to really stand up and away the finger anymore. i don't know that i would go as far as to say that he's killed the civil liberties movement i do think though that given that he is a constitutional law expert his policies have been shockingly terrible given what we've seen unfold and both domestically and internationally but i the reason that i say i disagree with that is beca
congress dared to sign a piece of paper that said we don't believe in assassinating our own citizens without due process and i'm happy that you brought that up because yesterday on our show we were discussing an op ed by legal scholar john terry who not only talked about obama's horrible civil liberties record but he actually said that obama just may have killed the civil liberties movement here you know something that we saw a lot of organization for a lot of passion for towards the end of the...
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favorable rating for congress. on the same roads across all of them to conform to the widespread sense that everything is right. that's just not hot for. thousands of march through the northern british city of nashville star in another protest at a certain public services headsets the rally in opposition to the governing coalition organized by trade you has coincided with a really conservative party's conference in the city lore and that was there. the conservative party conference is started ten months is the moment that politicians and delegates starting to arrive this happens. guys estimated fifty thousand people are turning out for this march through the streets of monticello to protest what the coalition government is doing in the way of and you've literally got pool full of people hey you've got the older generation saying hands off our pensions you got to sort of middle age generation who feel that their job because as money it's a public service isn't slashed you go it's did very very young who are worried
favorable rating for congress. on the same roads across all of them to conform to the widespread sense that everything is right. that's just not hot for. thousands of march through the northern british city of nashville star in another protest at a certain public services headsets the rally in opposition to the governing coalition organized by trade you has coincided with a really conservative party's conference in the city lore and that was there. the conservative party conference is started...
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and republicans in congress as it is against this white house this white house has been loyal eli with the street from the very beginning not only stocking it's the white house itself with people close to wall street making policies that are that are made to defend the interests of the power of wall street from bailouts to the president trying to stop serious crackdowns on executive pay and banks that were bailed out to the president and the administration watering down it's up as measures of so-called financial reform legislation so the grievances expressed by occupy wall street are as much against the obama administration is as they are against the republicans in congress and the white house doesn't seem to really recognize that what i want to talk very quickly to about what's going on in congress right now you know there are parts coming out there that there are members of congress that are actually upset and angry about the supercommittee being killed i think creative because everything they're doing our honest is being held behind closed doors and no one is being let in on this pr
and republicans in congress as it is against this white house this white house has been loyal eli with the street from the very beginning not only stocking it's the white house itself with people close to wall street making policies that are that are made to defend the interests of the power of wall street from bailouts to the president trying to stop serious crackdowns on executive pay and banks that were bailed out to the president and the administration watering down it's up as measures of...
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coming up congress passed one of the biggest trade agreements in nearly two decades so could this be the boost our economy needs or another transnational corporate ruse. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions it's come to create through it if you may who can you trust no one who is in view with a global missionary zeal where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sachs imperturbably hartman coming up in this half hour democrats republicans finally agreed on something last night and not just naming post offices but instead on free trade so this be a good deal for our economy or is congress to strengthen the same old free trade kool-aid that's been devastating this nation for two decades now and then instead today we take tunbridge down with the occupy wall street demonstrators have on their side of the banks are one percent doesn't.
coming up congress passed one of the biggest trade agreements in nearly two decades so could this be the boost our economy needs or another transnational corporate ruse. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions it's come to create through it if you may who can you trust no one who is in view with a global missionary zeal where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. welcome back to the...
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the popularity of the favorable rating for congress to do to the president not want her on the same runs across all of their institutions it's a very widespread sense that everything is going wrong and the tools to the credit system is just not functioning. thousands have marched through the northern of british city of manchester and another protest at austerity cuts to public services and pensions the rally in opposition to the governing coalition and organized by trade unions coincided with the ruling conservative party's conference in the city parties or and it was there . the conservative casa conference was a star say ten manchester and the moment that politicians and delegates started to arrive this happens overnight is estimated thirty thousand people are turning out for this march through the streets of manchester to protest what the coalition government is doing in the way of caucus and you've literally got full sorts of people hey you've got the older generation saying hands off pensions you've got the sort of middle aged generation who said that their job see because as money
the popularity of the favorable rating for congress to do to the president not want her on the same runs across all of their institutions it's a very widespread sense that everything is going wrong and the tools to the credit system is just not functioning. thousands have marched through the northern of british city of manchester and another protest at austerity cuts to public services and pensions the rally in opposition to the governing coalition and organized by trade unions coincided with...
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that they trusted the government to do the right thing always or most of the time and the approval for congress just tied an all time low at twelve percent so this point a constitutional amendment to get the corporate influence and money out of politics is just one step in the right direction and next don't respond to a viewer who watched our report on skyrocketing student loan debt in the united states and twenty three said on you tube the one trillion used to fight two pointless wars to make our lives safer could actually have went toward something that could have made america greater and more competitive free higher education now let me start by saying that unfortunately one trillion dollars for both wars is by all accounts a very conservative estimate doesn't account for many the long term costs that are going to be incurred by these two wars and according to brown university's watson institute for international studies the real cost of the wars comes in somewhere between three point seven trillion and could reach as high at four point four trillion. now of course the administration sticks
that they trusted the government to do the right thing always or most of the time and the approval for congress just tied an all time low at twelve percent so this point a constitutional amendment to get the corporate influence and money out of politics is just one step in the right direction and next don't respond to a viewer who watched our report on skyrocketing student loan debt in the united states and twenty three said on you tube the one trillion used to fight two pointless wars to make...
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free trade free trade free trade last night congress passed three so-called free trade agreements giving transnational corporations more access to emerging markets and south korea colombia and panama the three new trade deals combined make up the largest free trade agreement passed since nafta the north american free trade agreement passed in one thousand nine hundred three president obama appeared with south korean president lee earlier today to tout their new trade deal. now i think this trade deal that we just passed the korea free trade act shows that we are happy to work with republicans where they are willing to put politics. behind the interest of the american people. and come up with proposals that are actually going to create jobs the create free trade act we believe will create up to seventy thousand jobs it's a good deal we got good strong bipartisan support free trade is one of those rare things today that both republicans and democrats can seem to agree on huge bipartisan majorities in both the house and senate pass these free trade agreements free trade agreements under the
free trade free trade free trade last night congress passed three so-called free trade agreements giving transnational corporations more access to emerging markets and south korea colombia and panama the three new trade deals combined make up the largest free trade agreement passed since nafta the north american free trade agreement passed in one thousand nine hundred three president obama appeared with south korean president lee earlier today to tout their new trade deal. now i think this...
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if obama's contract to use the harry truman blame an act of congress trick and absolutely if you look at the polls overwhelming majority it's not just americans but republicans support raising taxes on millionaires so hopefully you can get that message to filter through and be like really these tax plans that the. and it's a putting out are massive massive massive giveaways of the sort that we've tried for the last decade plus and it's not going to work but he definitely has a tough hill to climb is he going to get anything else in a little more than a year that he has left and i'm going to get small things done the little housing bit that he released yesterday something that he can do outside of congress the student loan stuff that he's hopefully releasing tomorrow is little stuff that he can do outside of congress but it's really tweaking on the margins these are the sorts of things that will certainly help but are not the big bold ideas that you need to create the number of jobs that we need to create just to get back what we've lost from the recession never mind keeping up with ne
if obama's contract to use the harry truman blame an act of congress trick and absolutely if you look at the polls overwhelming majority it's not just americans but republicans support raising taxes on millionaires so hopefully you can get that message to filter through and be like really these tax plans that the. and it's a putting out are massive massive massive giveaways of the sort that we've tried for the last decade plus and it's not going to work but he definitely has a tough hill to...
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now let's talk about the protect ip act we've spoken about it many times on this show it's congress's way of telling to our way that they care while the r.a.s stop suing individual copyright infringers they have not stopped their efforts and lobbying congress to pass the protect ip act which would allow u.s. authorities and copyright holders the power to seize domains of blog webs block websites and censor search engines to prevent copyright infringement that is a truly scary thought for now a new industry survey out of sweden identified a program that's actually deterring it piracy without all the draconian laws of the claims are necessary to crack down on the evil practice and we know you've probably heard of pandora radio but there's a newer program that streams music called spotify it was founded in sweden and has just hit the u.s. recently so with spotify the user can stream music but unlike pandora you can actually search for the specific songs you want or an entire album you can also make playlists and share them with your friends and it's all perfectly legal with this program
now let's talk about the protect ip act we've spoken about it many times on this show it's congress's way of telling to our way that they care while the r.a.s stop suing individual copyright infringers they have not stopped their efforts and lobbying congress to pass the protect ip act which would allow u.s. authorities and copyright holders the power to seize domains of blog webs block websites and censor search engines to prevent copyright infringement that is a truly scary thought for now a...
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against the war in iraq and turn the control of congress back over to the democrats what is the democratic party do it continues to not only fund the war but increase troop levels in iraq by thirty thousand obamacare ends up being two thousand pages written by corporate lobbyist the equivalent of the bank bailout bill to the pharmaceutical and insurance industry four hundred billion dollars in subsidies obama has expanded the reach of imperial wars including proxy wars in somalia yemen pakistan has not restored a.b.s. corpus on all of the major structural issues there is no difference there's a complete continuity and of course the working class and the poor and increasingly the middle class have to pay the price and the end it doesn't matter whether it's democrat or republican and that's the fuel of these movements so how do you see this playing out do you think any for example let's look back occupy wall street and that's going on in new york right now yesterday they saw some of the largest numbers that they had best car and they were met with a police presence right people were arrested
against the war in iraq and turn the control of congress back over to the democrats what is the democratic party do it continues to not only fund the war but increase troop levels in iraq by thirty thousand obamacare ends up being two thousand pages written by corporate lobbyist the equivalent of the bank bailout bill to the pharmaceutical and insurance industry four hundred billion dollars in subsidies obama has expanded the reach of imperial wars including proxy wars in somalia yemen pakistan...
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in mind is that the saudis want the iranians destroyed the israelis want the iranians destroyed the congress in the united states is owned by israel and so the congress wants iran destroyed and this is an opportunity for them to push for war and so i think we have to be very careful until we find out exactly who is behind this plan but an opportunity for the u.s. government to push for a war i mean this is a time when nobody in this country would want war where you know our troop levels are exhausted certainly still in afghanistan iraq and libya to some capacity why on earth would you say that there are people in this government that. a lot more because i've listened to senator graham and i've listened to senator mccain and have a listen to senator joe lieberman neighbor listen to secretary clinton they all want to kill the iranians and drown the iranians and destroy the iranians and the iranians are as much a threat to the united states as my shoes are to the united states but what we don't need is any kind of a conflict with the iranians because what that will do is bring the whole islamic
in mind is that the saudis want the iranians destroyed the israelis want the iranians destroyed the congress in the united states is owned by israel and so the congress wants iran destroyed and this is an opportunity for them to push for war and so i think we have to be very careful until we find out exactly who is behind this plan but an opportunity for the u.s. government to push for a war i mean this is a time when nobody in this country would want war where you know our troop levels are...
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we're going to end the living in the congress policy ideas would die in congress because i keep my ranch you're seeing her that the government system that we have right now has been. we leave hijacked by her dangerous so that is why they have chosen role sure as their target they're not confused about the enemy they know who the enemy it's the economic one percent they keep saying this over and over and over again if anybody's confused by that message at this point it's just lazy journalists who haven't done the basic amount of research i have but the reason they haven't come up with honestly i guess it's because you know we're really in that sense and they realize that the only power citizens have in this country anymore and are acts of several so who are serving you know it doesn't matter if they vote for corporate shill a are for corporate shill be intimately truly progressive ideas die in the congress so that's why they've chosen to embrace the legacy of martin luther king jr of gandhi and taking their message directly to the public good feeling directly to the ninety nine percent an
we're going to end the living in the congress policy ideas would die in congress because i keep my ranch you're seeing her that the government system that we have right now has been. we leave hijacked by her dangerous so that is why they have chosen role sure as their target they're not confused about the enemy they know who the enemy it's the economic one percent they keep saying this over and over and over again if anybody's confused by that message at this point it's just lazy journalists...
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more could join the occupiers of lower manhattan and federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he told congress to get to work helping the unemployed find jobs there's something that bernanke and the rest of the power players in washington just don't tell you what that is and ideally take that first let's go back to the one. we have with this. neil. neil mccabe i've said i'm sorry carl fresh and bright and a new washington post poll confirms that the what the american people have known i think all along that who cares about the haves and the have nots ok. they have nots fifteen percent first of all they were asking who the obama administration is looking for fifteen percent said they have twenty percent said they have nots forty five percent said the obama administration is treating this but that stands in contrast to where people are saying when they were asked about who the republicans are looking out for whopping forty seven percent of the abs publicans one of the ads only seven percent said they have nots thirty two percent said treated the same so nearly half the country believes the repub
more could join the occupiers of lower manhattan and federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he told congress to get to work helping the unemployed find jobs there's something that bernanke and the rest of the power players in washington just don't tell you what that is and ideally take that first let's go back to the one. we have with this. neil. neil mccabe i've said i'm sorry carl fresh and bright and a new washington post poll confirms that the what the american people have known i think all...