She posted a bit of that one last year on the New York Times website. Build social networks for everybody. That turns into the graph then you index all that data to that graph which means you can pull out a community, that that gives you an outline of the life of everybody in the community. And if you carry it over time from 2001 up, you have that ten years worth of their life that you can lay out in a timeline that involves anybody in the country. Even senators and house of representatives. All of them. The dangers here are that we fall into Something Like a totalitarian state like east germany. Working with toplevel sources like that former nsa employee, uncovering government secrets, shooting and producing her films all over the world, laura poitress, the documentarian, she has been busy. Shes been doing traveling for her work, for her films, she found she gets stopped a lot at the airport and not anything like what you might get stopped for at the airport for. Shes been stopped dozens and dozens of times at the airport. For interrogations that sometimes last for hours. Miss poitress started taking extraordinary precautions with her data using encrypted email, working on computers that were not connected to the internet. Stashing her notes in safe deposit boxes. She kept on, though, getting stopped at the airport. Starting in 2006, she was detained and questioned like that more than 40 times. In april of last year, salon. Com wrote about what had been happening to laura poitress as she tried to travel, then finally, finally after that public attention, and that article from salon. Com, the airport interrogations of Laura Poitras stopped. She found, okay, she can get on a plane again, more or less like the rest of us. The author of that article in salon about Laura Poitras was the loyal, blogger and Civil Liberties journalist Glenn Greenwald who teamed up with the subject of the article he wrote, teamed up with Laura Poitras along with reporting from the wo washington post. Exposes detailed much that we did not know before about the reach of americas intelligence agencies into the lives of ordinary nonterrorist, nonsuspicious People Living in this country. The way u. S. Intelligence can and does track our phone calls, our emails, virtually all of it all the time. Laura poitras and Glenn Greenwald have done this reporting based on classified documents, who has temporary asylum in russia. It is Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald who know what their source has to tell. Its they who have been telling his story, making news out of the documents hes given to them week after week now since june. Yeah, their source may be in russia now, but theyre not. Glenn greenwald lives in brazil with his partner whos brazilian. Laura poitras has been living in germany, to work on her documentary about u. S. Surveillance without worrying the u. S. Government will try to seize her material. Earlier yesterday morning glenn glen wou greenwald got a call, informed him his partner, personal life partner, his boyfriend, had been detained by authorities in uk at the heathrow airport, David Miranda, hes brazilian. He was on his way home from visiting Laura Poitras in berlin. British authorities held him at the airport for nine hours. Questioning him about the reporting that Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras had been doing about surveillance. They seized mr. Mirandas electronics, took his clell phones, thumb drives, video game play e they took a laptop. With the Guardian Newspaper lawyers at the airport, they finally let him go after nine hours of detention. The british law that allows that kind of detention does not require Law Enforcement to have a reasonable suspicion about the person they are detaining, but this seems important. The law only exists explicitly for the purpose of determining whether that person is or has been involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Thats what that law is for. That is the grounds on which they stopped him. That was the Legal Authority under which they held Glenn Greenwalds partner in detention for nine hours. Acts of terrorism. Journalism is not terrorism. Journalism can be enraging to people in power. Journalism can sometimes even be brightening to people in power. But journalism is not terrorism. Reporting on what governments do, even when those governments prefer to keep those actions secret, is not terrorism. Terrorism is a real and discreet thing in the world. It is not an allencompassing term that you apply to everything the government doesnt want you to do. The white house, today, said it had been given a headsup in advance that the detention of David Miranda was likely to happen. Britain gave the u. S. A headsup before it happened. The white house went out of their way today to say that it was britains decision to detain Glenn Greenwalds partner. It was not something the u. S. Asked britain to do and, okay, fine, but the white house did know about it in advance and it still happened. We have that kind of special relationship with britain where if our government were outraged that this detention was going to happen, we could have objected, right . We could have at least asked our dear friends, the british government, to not do this. Maybe in the interests of not intimidating the activities of the free press, if not for any other reason. Did our government make any objections when they got advanced notice from britain that this detention was going to happen . Did our government protest . And if not, why not . I tend to think that we did not protest since it went ahead. I know the u. S. Government is not happy about Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald and the reporting about u. S. Is surveillance. The president said it has led to a disorderly debate about these issues and though we ought to have a debate about these issues, it ought to be more orderly. Fine. If the United States wants to convince the world that the Glenn Greenwalds and Laura Poitrases of the world is correct when they say the u. S. Government is going too far, underline and put flashing red lights on the reporting that says counterterrorism is being used to justify all sorts of things not justified by the actual threat of terrorism and have, in fact, green lit gross government overreach and intrusion and intimidation of legitimate activity including journalism, then putting journalists and their families through marathon interrogations and seizing all their electronics is a really great way to start convincing the world that all that reporting is accurate. Letting our closest allies do it while we stand silent is the same thing as us doing it. A dangerous affront to who we are as a country and democracy. Its an absolute outrage. Hey kevin. Still eating chalk for heartburn . Yeah. Try new alka seltzer fruit chews. They work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. These are good. Told ya im feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. 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When the financial crisis happened at the end of the george bush sww. Bush president and the economy went down the toilet across country, there were a million manifestations that were material, for individual families, people who lost their jobs, us as a country. In 2008, our Economic Growth rate was negative 8. 3 . That was the negative growth rate that quarter for the whole country. One of the weirdly unsettling manifestations of that very dark time in our recent history was when some towns and some counties and some states decided they had to unpave themselves. Do you remember this when we decided that the United States of america could no longer afford paved roads . 38 counties in michigan started grinding their paved roads, their asphalt roads into gravel because they could not afford to keep them paved. In south dakota, 100 miles of afault road ground into gravel. In ohio, they couldnt afford to grind down their roads. Ohio counties made an official decision to let their paved streets erode into unpaved streets. This started happening in 2009 when the economy was still just spiraling downward. By 2010, it was a nationallevel story that was covered to great effect in the wall street journal and some other places including on this show. Its happening in ohio and its happening in alabama and its happening in pennsylvania. Which means that somewhere in china, it is entirely possible that a businessperson sat down for a ride on a 200 mile an hour state of art levitating bullet train and cracked open the wall street journal and read about how in america, weve decided we cant afford paved roads anymore. That is one of the stories that we did on show that really stuck with me from that time in and after the financial crisis. Right . That was is ssummer of 2010, th years ago. A symptom of how badly we were hit by the financial crisis and the recession it caused. Now it is 2013 and the economy is the not, you know, shrinking 8 anymore. The economy is growing. Of course, it would always be better to be growing more than it is, but comparatively were doing much better than we were and have been for a few yearses now. And yet, today, in texas, another round has just begun of unpaving the roads. Seriously. In four counties in south texas, and two counties in west texas, today is the day state started converting paved roads into gravel roads. Texas state department of trn transportation made the announcement last month. Since paving roads is too expensive and theres not enough funding to repave them all, our only other option to make them safer is to turn them into gravel roads. T its not like theyre saying gravel roads are better, figured out grounds on which gravel roads are pleasing or sound, or get the most out of your performance car. Those are not artisanal roads. Roads in texas are being unpaved because pavement is something we cannot afford there anymore. In this part of texas its happening because of the sharp increase in heavy traffic due to the oil boom. The damage related to Energy Development has become so extensive that state and local authorities lack the funding to make all the repairs. The problem increased heavy equipment and heavy truck traffic to service the Energy Industry in texas. Oil companies, Energy Companies are doing great. That is why theyre generating increased traffic. They are doing more business. Theyre making more money and theyre tearing up the roads in the process. And youd kind of think that wouldnt be the end of the cycle, right . Youd think there would be kind of a sort of cyclical arrangement. Making more money. Wr using up the roads to do it. Need money to fix the roads. Roads help us make more money. You think it would connect as a cycle, right . Right. But no. The way that it is working in texas right now is the Oil Companies are making more money. They are grinding the roads into dust in order to make their more money. And then the end is there cant be roads anymore. What . What is going on here . Its like nobodys ever been able to figure out the missing link. The relationship between private enterprise, private individuals making profit, and there needing to be Public Infrastructure to facilitate them making that profit. What could possibly connect those two things . What does private profit do to contribute to Public Infrastructure that it needs in order to quoting from the texas tribune, efforts to increase taxes on the companies profiting from the energy boom to cover the road repair costs failed to gain traction. In texas politics. So texas as of today has started converting its roads to gravel. The state in some cases will be reducing speed limits on those roads to 30 miles an hour because, you know, they are not paved roads anymore. President obama was back at the white house today. His eightday massachusetts vacation was marked by republicans angrily denouncing the fact he want on vacation at all. Also the president making a sober statement from his vacation about the bloodshed in egypt. There were candid photos showing the president breaking the rule that president s should never be photographed with anything on their heads. But also he doesnt look all that dorky. Bike helmets are much cuter than they used to be. The president s vacation, though, also reportedly marked by some protests. Low key local protests where the president was staying that were aimed at catching the president s eye. Dressed in a polar bear costume, jerry, the field director for the center of biological diversity has been all over the island trying to catch the president s eye as his motorcade drives past. At alis general store, at bunch of grapes bookstore in vineyard haven. You name it. Polar bear s not pipelines, h said, removing his bear head to talk to the boston globe. Wherever he goes here, we want him to see an antikeystone sign. There were reports last week that locals put up signs against the Keystone Pipeline in their front lawns during the president s visit hoping hed see them when he drove past or road by on his bike in marthas vineyard. The Keystone Pipeline decision is pending for this president after he put it off last year to allow for more study on the issue. When it comes to our country dealing with canadas dirty oil and its byproducts, one american fight against one giant pile of oily canadian mess has actually quietly just been won. It started right here on the banks of the Detroit River in detroit, michigan, and yes, that is a giant nasty pile of something called pet coke. Back in may the New York Times highlighted what they described as a black mound of canadian oil waste rising over detroit. That oil waste is something called Petroleum Coke, a high sulfur, high carbon waste byproduct of canadian oil sands. The petcoke that residents started spotting was put there by a company that owned it, a company call koch carbon, owned by the koch brothers. They started piling up all of this pet coke on banks of the Detroit River before preparing to ship it off to other countries to be used as fuel. In addition to be a hideous eye sore, the pile also posed a potential health risk. Weve got some video shot last month. Look at this. Look at that along the banks of the Detroit River showing the black dust from the pet coke pile being kicked up in a storm that hit the area and just spreading everywhere. That black dust started blowing into nearby homes in detroit coming right through the windows. One local resident telling the Detroit Free Press her apartment, is a dusty place but it had never been that thick or dark. Last month she wiped up a new coating of the dust with a sponge and provided it to the Detroit Free Press. Subsequent testing ultimately confirmed the dust, indeed, contained pet coke. That same building in detroit also happens to house the office of a local state legislator named rasheeda talid. She told the press, ive seen complete chaos with pet coke flying everywhere. The company storing the pet coke on that site on the riverbank never bothered to get a permit to store it there. After months of wrangling with the city, detroit officials have now finally had enough. Detroits mayor may not have much power anymore, now that the city is controlled by an emergency manager, but the mayor has, never thels, ordered those pet coke piles be removed by the 27th. If they fail to remove them by the deadline, quote, well come down and padlock the facility. The koch brother Facility Plan to move the pet coke piles to ohio. The urging of local detroit residents and representatives, the coke piles that remain will be covered until they can be transported away. State representative rasheeda, said, quote, the mayor agreed with concern it needed to be covered immediately so its not flying all over our may neighborhood. Ageold question in politics about the balance of power between the people and rich corporate interests, right . I mean, in our age, the richest corporate interests are Energy Companies. Oil companies are the most profitable industry ever known in the history of keeping track of human profit. What is the balance of power in our country right now between us and them . Between