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‘Gun Crazy USA’ by Vice – Shocking Legal Gun Deals

Vice made a documentary in Florida on the truth about you can legally do under current gun laws. Think regulations are too tight? Think again. Vice’s “Gun Crazy USA” shows first-hand how easy it is to buy huge amounts of ammunition and guns without background checks. And its all legal. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss.

Watch the original video from Vice here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KNZO30lPGm4#!

Keeping Members Informed 02.07.13

Hour 2 will go up first today, Hour 1 will go up when Hour 2 usually goes up.

The Live Stream is now playing clips from all our network shows and the full show.

If you enjoy having links in the member content posts, thank Irina for making that happen, she put extra time in and added them.

How can you thank Irina?

Tweet @jayarjackson and tell him to thank Irina for the links. (She doesn’t have a twitter but Jayar sits next to her).

-Mark

Keeping Members Informed 01.28.13

Good evening members,

Kimani has moved on to pursue other goals.
I am now in charge of listening to your concerns, posting member’s content, and informing you of what’s happening.

What’s happening:

1. v2.0 of the site is going up mid-late February. Dave and our developer have been working very hard on this and they have addressed a number of your concerns. Things I know about the site so far: The site will have a forum & member’s content will be easier to navigate.
2. TYT Archive will be going up one show at a time Monday – Friday. I am ingesting, editing, encoding, uploading, and posting old shows into our new system from CDs, DVDs, and LTO tapes. It is a time consuming task, please be patient.
3. Any announcements and changes will be in this post “Keeping Member’s Informed” at the top of the blog feed.

I want to share the moment I realized I wasn’t working for a good guy with a solid team, I was working for a great leader with an organized army behind him:

“…as we do this segment ‘what would Jesus do,’ morality is a shifting thing. I was able to take that tough stance, why? For the same reason that I was able to get onto MSNBC in the first place, you guys. Because I have the TYT army behind me. I got a show that’s sittin here at half a billion views, up to a million views a day and that’s because of you guys. So I can come back here and do exactly the kind of show I wanna do and kick ass and give you the actual truth and take it to power. And let them know they’re not coming for me I’m coming for them, and that’s because of you guys. The first time I got the MSNBC job was because of you guys, you wrote in the letters, emails, etc. and I can’t thank you enough for that. Power is very strong and tends to have some degree of influence in our media but here at The Young Turks we’re gonna fight back against that.”

Thank you for giving your time and your resources to support The Young Turks.

While I am in this position I will give you my time and my resources to support you, the members, the TYT Army.

If you have a TYT Army moment that you would like to share please do so in the comments below.

-Mark Register

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LIVE from TYT on Current: The CIA’s 9/11 warnings and an exclusive interview with former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman

Could 9/11 have been prevented by heeding CIA warnings? (Part 1 of 2)
“We have been told over and over again ‘Well, there was nothing that could have been done,’” Cenk says. “Well that turns out to be untrue.” On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, Cenk tears into the Bush administration, which ignored repeated warnings of a terrorist strike against America from the CIA. Some of these warnings were even delivered in person at George W. Bush’s ranch in Texas. “You know what Bush’s response was?” Cenk quotes from a Washington Post report: “Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied ‘All right. You’ve covered your ass now.’”
http://bit.ly/QN1oye

Could 9/11 have been prevented by heeding CIA warnings? (Part 2 of 2)
Cenk delves deeper into Kurt Eichenwald’s New York Times investigation on the CIA briefings that warned of terrorist attacks in the months leading up to 9/11. According to Eichenwald, the Pentagon declared Bin Laden’s threats to be an attempt to distract the American government from Iraq, which they saw as the real threat. “Because they’re obsessed,” Cenk says. “They gotta go to Iraq. That’s what they came to do, start a war with Iraq. Who cares who’s actually gonna be a threat to us?”
http://bit.ly/PgKkkm

Michael Shure’s #DNC2012 exclusive interview with former Alabama governor Don Siegelman
Michael Shure presents his exclusive DNC interview with former Alabama governor Don Siegelman on the day that Siegelman is to report back to federal prison. Siegelman feels that he was targeted by Karl Rove and the Justice Dept. for being a successful Democratic politician in the South. The problem with the charges is, as Cenk puts it, “they wound up going after him for a bribery charge, on a case where he didn’t get a dime.” Siegelman and his family were at the DNC, and his daughter Dana got a chance to speak with Rove in person. “He cut me off right away,” Dana says. “Started shaking his finger in my face and said ‘Tell your dad not to use my name to make money’.”
http://bit.ly/RJSDVy