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Everyone should go down. >> reporter: now there are facebook pages calling for protests in countries across the region, including syria. which has a reputation as a brutal police state. and the problem is, governments can read facebook, too and other forms of social media, and can even use them for misinformation. so, activists warn people to be careful. but this really is a fascinating phenomenon here, think of it as a tea party movement in the middle east. run in poor societies where people are trying to rise up against authoritarian governments using the most modern of conveniences, the pho...

For granted. the internet, which we didn't even have 20 years ago. these actually improve our lives in ways that we just sort of take for granted. but you can shop, save money, do these things really quickly. i just compiled a bunch of these different measures and by a lot of these measures we're doing okay. >> okay. except when you look at the unemployment numbers. 9.4%. which is -- >> absolutely right. >> -- nothing to be optimistic about. >> absolutely right. and the only thing we can say is good about this is the economy's nose dive seems to be over. we're probably going to be adding jobs ...

The radio. along with that came advertising. now you could hear babe ruth hitting home runs anywhere in the country while someone was telling you about a product. thomas edison brought us movies. you know when it really started to take off? in that same era. mickey mouse was introduced to america by walt disney. the first cartoon with synchronized sound. conveniences like the telephone had been around forever. but in the 1920's, it became less expensive and more commonplace. more americans in the 1920's had iron, and vacuums and washington washing machines, and refrigerators. all of these new ...

Scared the snot owrt of the progressives. especially that everyone benefited from the bottom up. evidence? leon trotsky. know this guy? markist revolutionary in the soviet union with lenin. love him. love the beard. looking good. he lived in new york city in 1917. he fought all his life to help the working class. when he arrived in new york, here's what he said "we rented an apartment in a worker's district. an apartment that is $18 a month that was equipped with all sorts of conveniences that we europeans were not used to, electric lights, gas cooking range, bath, telephone, automatic service...

Scared the snot owrt of the progressives. especially that everyone benefited from the bottom up. evidence? leon trotsky. know this guy? markist revolutionary in the soviet union with lenin. love him. love the beard. looking good. he lived in new york city in 1917. he fought all his life to help the working class. when he arrived in new york, here's what he said "we rented an apartment in a worker's district. an apartment that is $18 a month that was equipped with all sorts of conveniences that we europeans were not used to, electric lights, gas cooking range, bath, telephone, automatic service...