sad to say that congressman miller infinite wisdom to get behind michelle obama's. push to get better schools are big took the money from the snap program which is the food stamp program so i mean this is or that's what they were planning on doing last time i looked at it but i mean there's just so you know congress is going to take money from people who don't have anything to give the fact kids better. well you know there's a massive deflation in the united states and i think of people are confusing the rise in food prices as in evidence of inflation of course that's not evidence of the complete lack of competition in this industry there's no increase in demand there's a shortage of supply which is causing food prices to go up which is not inflation this is a bad byproduct of the deflation and they have no money to spend in this way now your recent post is called americans need local leadership for the war at home tell

us about the war at home what sort of response have you received regarding the call for local leadership your highest profile blogger huffington post what was the feedback you get the comments and from other folks to your recent blogs there is a good response from from some people. that's what was posted on you rather. it was pointed out to me that this is one problem. people should really start thinking about. that's getting back to basics. right well of course the entire economy is geared toward moving in the complete opposite direction so i was going to take a herculean task to overcome the forces of centralization and now globalization all right well mike johnson thanks so much for being on the kaiser report. already that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser in form of max kaiser and stacy herbert i want to thank my guest mike johnson if you want to send me an

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led surge instead of staying in. the siege of st petersburg was one of the darkest chapters of the second world war it lasted for nine hundred days during which the city lost over seven hundred thousand people next we meet the men and women who survived that blockade stay with us. this is no ordinary tramp it's a rare sight on the streets of st petersburg historians only a cunny of a remembers what it was like writing these trams nearly seventy years ago in nine hundred forty one german troops encircled the city then cold leningrad to isolated

from the rest of the country the siege lasted for nine hundred days. leningrad was the country's second most important city up to moscow at the time. nazi leader out all fit to his troops to capture the soviet union's european territories by november nine hundred forty one leningrad was a priority objective in that plan a. million strong german army hundreds of tanks and thousands of backup were massed against the city. at the same time finish troops advanced from the notice the nazi advance was halted in september nineteenth. by then enemy troops and already encircle.

a massive bombing campaign was unleashed on leningrad in the ultimate nine hundred forty one. the diocese warehouses one of the first time. the gates of the german asteroids. they housed most of the city's food supplies. all of the warehouses were destroyed that is in all their modern facilities here. of smoke as she looked out of the window of her flat. and. at first trees caught fire. and then the flames spread to the wooden buildings. the facts that file wiped out government supply of sugar reserves those adults in those us the most distressing thing with the city's population idea. lay tell going

to come here along with many other piece together earth and make tea out of it to change leningrad residence all the destroyed warehouses as a terrible omen soon after the air raids food in leningrad was worth more than its weight in gold. was introduced in the city the front line lay just a few hundred meters from makeshift checkpoints people believed they would be able to hold out hoping that help would soon be on its way everyone was trying to survive as best they could. and the sound of a metronome was broadcast through loudspeakers in the streets and it became a symbol of the leningrad siege a fast rhythm and. if it slowed it signaled a retreat. by the first winter leningrad had no heating power to abandon trams stood motionless in the streets the water supply system froze in the

pipes inside apartment blocks burst people had to get water from a hole in the nirvanas ice less is what the care in the water was a big problem let alone to the sixth floor where i lived the staircase was the slippery because of spilt water. they couldn't make it and had to go back. leningrad residents and anything they could to try and stay warm. and furniture went into the stove firewood was very expensive. there were food shortages to residents were issued with rations affixed. the russians were just a fifth of what they had been at the start of the. citizen was entitled to two lumps of bread a day weighing just one hundred twenty five grams each the bread was made from chemicals. in order to survive people. and cookies made from wood glue fried with pine tar oil based paint.

and. one. gets dressed up decorates his jacket with his medals and goes to a school. that joins us to talk to schoolchildren the same age he was during the siege. everyone will have their piece of bread the siege survivors bring a few loaves of bread for the children to see exactly what a daily ration look like. bread weighing one hundred twenty five like schoolchildren everywhere they're full of curiosity and have a million questions to ask. difficult how did this send letters to the front where were the young children considering all the preschool this. led to their their homes warm.

their houses people used furnace. iron stove. they used all the. residents burned furniture. and newspapers well yes. they made the rounds of basements. to pick up whatever he could find what. i thought. this is people. give them when they didn't. they kept the faith. and he really does change is good i wonder how people could survive on such a tiny piece of. their parents gave it to their kids they could have children. it was just a fascist took the life of my father just needed to vent his death and the destruction

of leningrad tempi i swear i will fight the nazis some help our troops at the frog to be fed and i will defend the city you. look. at the time he says if people wanted to survive in the besieged city they had to force themselves to stay. here. instead of lying in bed. because they spent all their time lying in bed by drinking a lot of water. they were too weak to. cost them their lives. one thousand nine hundred people were dying in increasing numbers. anyway. many people but once they felt the ground. back up.

on. the ground. you couldn't. because if you tried to do. somehow you yours out a little town boy. but life in the city never came to a standstill the composer dmitri shostakovich was putting the finishing touches to his seventh symphony due to be performed at the heavily damaged concert hall of the leningrad for the monic society and. historians or economy ever was in the audience. she recalls that many people defied the bombings and went to the concert hall to listen to the classical music. people were everywhere. but they were in require khulna and they were on the balcony as new year's day

some people were even standing behind this chants those they added that's how badly they wanted to he is now using the that is the symbolized so we would one of the first victories is so won by leningrad resident isn't all that outs of. the symphony was heard not only in the concert hall a radio broadcast carried it to the front line of the leningrad. and. germans in the trenches heard it too. late and german soldiers wrote in that diaries that they'd been amazed by the steadfastness of the people of leningrad. please please. please.

give that history many of the musicians locust were some months from the fronts for that they sell that's what it. there's a little but marcus trunk is full nature the stock which seemed funny after only if you rehearsals is what they get out of. the music was in harmony allows of them would need to send these for them with. this route was known as the road of lines and became the only one of the six people. first columns of cops because interesting over the lake not a good choice of supplies to the city in november nine hundred forty. this and subsequent convoys brought sinden to community people out. there out of a directed traffic on this vital road. just because that was the starting point of

the road edge which are let's say it all began on november twenty second two that's nine hundred forty one. a monument now stands on the site where the lifeline that saved so many lives began their old river often comes here to pay tribute to those who died during the tragic war years but that as the broken ring of the road of life kept that ring from ever becoming who we used to skew the water from the polls made by falling shells and ordover the tragic is made then ice later in order to ensure a safe passage for the trucks. she says that each time she visits this place she recalls the horror of the first winter spent under siege. and. tense pitched on the ice house people looking off to the road while enemy troops attempted to cut what was a vital artery. in. the road of life was bombarded several times occasionally the ice cracked sending trucks and that precious cargo to the

bottom of the might well of the i deceived it will mushroom the driver couldn't see the cracks because it was covered with snow the truck and its driver went down beneath the ice. the truck's headlights were shining beneath the water for a long time after that. in the past year they found schools of. the appropriately named museum. these tires were produced in germany in january of one thousand nine hundred thirty four. can you imagine. star sixty three sixty four years under the waters of lake. the museum's director. expeditions. he says lifting many of the. takes time

i. one of the trucks sank with a load of schemes for air. skis are scattered within a radius of one and a half meter. will pull them from the water and they'll be one of the museum's most valuable exhibits. the road of life remained operational for eighteen months during that time over a million people were evacuated from leningrad some four hundred thousand tons of food and other supplies will brought into the besieged city just as the ship knew there was a mission that when you're good at twenty thousand people work hard it's easy to move food supplies in a bottle and grandma is drug through this and she evacuated children though it's a little besieged city and the country's interior doors are open and. despite the selfless efforts of those who help deliver them the food supplies that reach the

blockaded city were not enough to meet the needs of all of its residents. meanwhile the nazis persisted with the bombardment of leningrad they dropped bombs together these leaflets saying that in the bombing today you bury the dead tomorrow nobody in the city knew how long the blockade would last. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money and it is a shame it is a lot of people at area economic recovery in the developed world is sluggish at best and there are fears of a double dip recession hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. in one hundred forty three million people called leningrad home. by the start of nine hundred forty three one in five residents have died of starvation exposure or

shelling. and. the people of leningrad suffered most during the first winter of the blockade but even then many continue to work among them was stop of the plant cultivation institute. its offices and seed bank are in the city center since it was impossible to evacuate. the institute's vast collection of seeds during the scientists kept watch to protect the unique collection from faffed and rats. during the blockade the collection was stored in boxes like these. there is a hole right here. on the other side of the same one that. rats may told them them in devour the seed. is one of the institute's oldest workers now she and her colleagues tell the real

story about the heroism of a scientist on the verge of starvation who never touched one potato seed in the collection. the institute's seed bank is still a national asset. bank values the collection at eight trillion dollars. there was a lot of edible material around we. barley and plays lots of it we . took place nobody ever touched it. starving people. that's why. they never thought they might eat from the seed bank. russia's largest museum of fine arts was ready for evacuation. crates for exhibits

and being brought into this building on the embankment of the at the very start of the. priority was given to paintings and objects from the collection of antiques to wagons with paintings and sculptures was sent to the urals but another wagon was left behind as the city became encircled the museum's valuables was stored in its basements. just empty frames hung. despite the hardships of the blockade. and science conferences to inspire the people remaining in the city. and. museum director. says that quite often participants were brought in on stretches unable to walk themselves because they were too weak from some of the. poets

translators and scientists were brought in from the front it was a formidable task. to people here but if. imagine people coming from the. front line though where the city's fate was being decided that's a whole different story. a historian and a blockade survivor has fitted memories of those events. in the spring of one nine hundred forty two leningrad has announced the start of a seed sowing season they said leningrad residents would have to supply themselves with food to that end. of land to be used as vegetable gardens as well as providing grain people in the city center were given plots in the main square just outside. you want us but you want. to ask. those units and they've brought

in the new but i want to because nothing. would do as it is these greens. where we grew county chooses this it would be about it south is a good reminder. of how it used to be. the crop lived up to people's expectations people turn down to reap the harvest in nine hundred forty two somewhat easing the food problem even in such harsh conditions people never lost hope and help one another to survive during the siege. on the verge of death from starvation when a friend. saved. a life how are you still held on see you i could hardly get here didn't i get here on foods.

sixty. min a for helps to survive. using crutches. goodness me even still touring with this little thing. it's my truck you know can't you walk without using or you fight but drive on. the rope each time they set to this table they talk about how many foot was saved but women recall every single event of the day when nina came to visit but only to find that her friend was dying dear good money for it was too weak to go to the shop to collect her bread russian. roulette is going to put on my coat and filled the boots got into a good cupboard myself with a couple of blankets and was ready to die when suddenly i heard somebody walking down the corridor it was i know you covered yourself with the smaller landed here and when they go away to the cures that is where we are born holding on to

a chance as it was there was. only a few weeks later when they found a job but the kid. i most of leningrad industrial plants turned out weapons even during the siege. i. guess they yell on the bus this is where i stood guard with the rifle we patronize the saw no one could pass through as they did. when she started the young man a foe but on the night she stands at one of the factory shops where she used to she says production was never halted journey begins of struggle the plan turned out tanks shells and minds at a rate of three million items a month people that work for sixteen to twenty hours a day despite the cold and hunger i. see here i slipped in fact to an

shell close to the warm boiler if it was like living in barracks lit up never went home because of the children bombardment is just that many were. guus lived at the factory is doing its own little. occasionally some of the perceived city's inhabitants mustered enough strength to go to the theatre after their excruciating day. in. the musical comedy field take up performances going to they always play to a full house until a shell hit the building. but it didn't bring the curtain down completely they just moved buildings and carried on. mubarak emerged good lord girl of. god you. are boring me. i don't know

little girl fall ah god are going all. the theatres oldest actress is one hundred years old this year. used to be a beautiful girl it's a series of these photographs speak naturally i should have seen how beautiful i was. when the phantom was bombed she moved to the front line to a pedophile soviet troops giving more than four thousand performances during the little voice was so powerful that sometimes the soldiers even asked her to sing more quietly in case the enemy had to. get the record that one somebody visited this theater to ask me to come to smarten it was a hospital that anyone did in sick people who played there with mind you says the boss no applause for you why not i said when you know hands it was

a truly festive occasion in the spring of nine hundred forty two when electricity was restored in leningrad and trams one small run along its streets and. that. share of friendship dating back to the blockade came the end of the tragedy by riding in a time tramp. this is the law this is the only tramp over the blockade to hit. the tram is a symbol of the siege stirring up many memorable stories. at one time i was on board a trans am when the shelling started i jumped out and fell to the ground that moment a shell hit the tram blowing it into pieces i was incredibly lucky i just made it out of the tram. trams on the street signalled to

people living under siege life went on. police said to each other the tram is running again. this must mean we're still alive despite the blockade. we will live it will survive all of us but confident of victory but the winter came along. and. by the end of nine hundred forty two the germans realized they were likely to capture ground and stepped up their artillery assault on the besieged city. in january the soviet army broke through a small section of the inserts. used for sending supplies to the besieged city by rail. operation in january from the storm.