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Except us. President s out of town. Vice president s out of town. The house and the senate are all out of town as are most lobbyists and staffers and anybody with any sense, obviously we dont have any. Big news today on the Law Enforcement area in the Law Enforcement area on three different fronts. First of all, attorney general eric holder says correctly that too many people are in prison for too long for offenses which dont deserve any prison time and he calls for changing our sentencing laws so prison is only reserved for the most serious offenses. A new york judge has said that new york ci...

In unity, thats where our strength is, as a united movement. If we all just, like, want to challenge the system just individually and just, like, individually negotiate our employment contract, good luck with that. It is the only way possible, on a united and global scale. And on the outcome of this global movement, is workers, like, taking control of things. And this is about workers demanding more rights and inevitably it has to lead to workers, you know, getting to a point where they can not just that, you know, we have more rights but they cant be taken back because there is nobody elses t...

Making at mcdonalds, guess how much they are making. Can anybody guess . Throw a number out there. You all know. Faceb facebook. The power of facebook. Oo so denmark is making 21 an hour at mcdonalds and also have a union. So pretty much what this [ applause ] yeah. So by us going global is showine that the workers in america are sick and tired of being sick and tired and the workers on the oe other side of the world is liket what the world is going on . How do you have these workers working for this amount of money and dont, you know, give them o no type of benefits, dont give us nothing . No...

Cenk ralph nader got a democrat to admit the most important line ive seen in a long time in politics. What is it . Well tell you tonight on a whole different online show we do on theyoungturks. Com. Well see you there. Stay right here right now because viewpoint is next. John good evening. Im John Fuglesang and tonight on viewpoint, congressman paul ryan has presented a new version of the paul ryan budget but im calling it the agoraphobia budget because it is never leaving the house. Were joined by Louise Slaughter and alan grayson. The papal conclave begins in rome. Weve got a big conclai. Ev...