things around the employment issue i mean that's an easy call as you know mr tell it would tell you of course you can't predict the black swan events because they are by definition the black swan of vents the things that you can see now that the latest book a while ago with yeah the witches here on which we allot we mentioned it a couple weeks ago and i understand sales spiked enormously based on that program so it's an excellent but but that's all the time for we have today james our consul thanks for being on the kaiser reports pleasure are a let's go do it for this edition of the kaiser report i want to thank stacy herbert and of course my guest james howard kunstler you want to send me an e-mail please do so have kaiser reported r t t v dot ru until next time this is max kaiser saying bio.

sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched a street fight. to free him from a colonel in the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. sergeant in the us army. trying to become an american by getting bored in the. ranks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once made is a big. your

asylum policy is on the fide the latest spike in the arrests over suspected terror plots triggers accusations that it wants tracks provide terrorists with a fast track to the content. point to why sound heavy snow falls on stalled when schools move comes in the most crude region or natural sixteen is a walk around the clock trying to restore to christmas or to thousands. on celebrating breakouts with a bomb squad off american marjorie's and a divorce would tell you why a celebration of freedom of fun and even calls for its. up next being stories of

soldiers and officers who choose who actually comes home for conscience rather of the army orders on the prize they paid for that decision in the first part of a special report. right. can you hear it. it's coming from. it's the sound of despair despair and. north and south millions of men children living in appalling conditions in extreme poverty extreme violence extreme exploitation. orphans of the technological age. at the table of the rich and

powerful. some are shocking. but in their own right. extreme. as extreme as the compulsion for soldiers to disobey orders of their convictions. this is the story of three soldiers in three countries and. each was compelled to break his pledge. was. cut up. by that i got the to do that i do such i doubt

either i that i that. i thought that. was what i thought was. in the army we were supposed to submit willingly to our superiors ordered committee and i observe their rule in my entire life until that infamous september eleventh is see i knew that blood was being spilled in the streets and. that courses were floating in the river for people. to sit down to vent crimes for being committed. which can. mean i could no longer be a member of an army that was responsible for these injustices sickles you can let

it but then if you know it the kids it will. eight this is the fishing. show whenever i deal comes a nightmare. shine your good lord turns into satan to full fitness the town and day turns into night you should selfishly like that. i. you have the obligation to refuse to sell it but i guess when you no longer believe in what you are doing womanhood and you can no longer stand up for your actions you must refuse.

it. if you don't have a good reason to go to war. if you don't have a purpose if you don't feel that you're doing something noble. if you don't believe deep within yourself that you fighting for freedom if you don't believe deep within yourself that you're fighting for democracy. if you don't believe that you're fighting. to make the world a safer place and you're left without a purpose you're nothing but my mercenary. and that's why i'm sad not to go back to my unit in iraq because i completely disagree i think this works the moron criminal

and i don't want to be a part of it. but .

when you're a soldier. basically what makes you a soldier in legal terms is the fact that you sign a contract one month once you steve sign a contract. you are supposed to do everything they tell you to do you're supposed to follow orders. when there is a war. and they give you your give me your orders. it's very hard to see a human being to accept that because you're not really taking part of in the process of. deciding whether or not war is legal or it's illegal or if

it's moral or immoral. but such believe such moral view. has absolutely nothing to do with what you have to do as a soldier you have to follow your orders. and that is one of the most frustrating things among being a soldier and that you have no say.

though that after fifteen days in the states i was supposed to go back to iraq. better nor would better the decision not to report to you know military commander. was not easy to make it was very hard and that i'm risking a larger starting with my freedom i'm exposing myself to humiliation. i mean risking my immigrant status in this country that's huge because i have a daughter who lives here and i. stop with all of this has turned my life upside down for example i had to leave my home i stopped using my credit cards and my cell phone with me but i couldn't see my daughter for fear of being arrested that i had to live with friends or relatives and that i contacted lawyers my whole life changed when i was in free anymore i

couldn't go back to college and get a job all this caused a lot of emotional turmoil in my life. that i was in that area. as a practitioner of military law over the last twenty six years i've returned many people to military control and it is never easy for someone to go bad it's never easy it takes great courage for camilla to do what he is doing today because he does not know what he faces upon his return to military authority thank. god. i did not prepare a statement because what i have to say i have to say from the heart and it's a very simple message and a message and it simply says that i am saying no to war. we're dying

there iraqis are being killed every day and then here people are you know reading us about janet jackson's breast or the super bowl or whatever when there is a war. going on right on there are people die and people lose perspective very slim hurts me deep inside because i'm a soldier and i saw the suffering firsthand and i'm making this stand right here not. to prove that i'm right or anything like that but because of the soldiers in iraq who disagree with this war but don't have the strength to come forward so i'm doing it for them i'm not trying to my back my comrades i have the side i'm not going to be a part of that war but i'm going back to the military today i have really no idea what's going to happen but whatever happens if they try to say that i'm a criminal and they give me many years in jail. i know that that i made the right decision in the god has forgiven me already thank you. the military now once he returns to military control has the discretion to decide

what to do with him they can choose the administrative route that is processing his claim for conscientious objection or they could choose a judicial route to resolve this matter if they were to choose the judicial route then there is that strong possibility that he would face trial by court martial. after this press conference what we intend to do is to take a bus and we intend to travel about thirty minutes from here to hanscom air force base while we arrive at the front gate we don't know where he'll take him there are many unknowns.

i was born in nicaragua into a political family my mother worked for the government. army my father. who sang in revolution. i came to the united states when i was eighteen years old. i had no ties anywhere and that i knew were not going to i felt like a stranger everywhere i went. so when i came here country. i figured i should try to fit into north american society. the heart of this country. for me joining the way of becoming a member of a fraternity.

other country i already had clearly defined political views. anyone who comes to another country. especially in this country which is the jewish homeland supposed to be a place for everyone. to be a part of the israeli society. everyone else. has . to everything.

that's how i became a volunteer paratrooper. i had been accepted at the military school i felt like the proudest man on earth with my cadets uniform. at the end of the first year. and two years later graduated from the. well the rank of artillery officer. i was successful as a soldier i did my job and i was promoted i received several medals. and marks of recognition things were going very well. in the military i was proud to be

an infantry soldier because the infantry is supposed to be the toughest job in the army and the most dangerous job. but. i find those deeply moving but while we're still a child. as i listen to the military and watch the troops march by i mean i relive some of the happiest moments in my life. when i was an officer of the army the army prior to september eleventh. the death of thousands of people civilians the terrorist attacks that's not

something you can forget. very sad when it all happened. at the time that my national guard unit would be mobilized and we would be sent into the field to fight or to carry out a real mission. since there had been so many victims it seems to me that if the situation was handled properly if there was a thorough investigation identify the people responsible for the attacks and then a mission to find them and bring them to justice for all of this a good cause. you know at the time i still thought that being in the army and serving you know we could be done for valid reasons and could produce good results you know we have all the i want.

to come. back. like the voted. off of the military installation. good.

move it back. a. little bit of it back but in fact backwards. to. back. it. up and. get it.

well defined mission. we stayed the edward baghdad international airport for four or five days. then we went to an iraqi air force base occupied by the u.s. army. and. we started talking to people and they told us they approved of the invasion. and they were happy to be free from the oppression of saddam hussein. the same time they wanted to regain back control of their country. they didn't want an extended occupation. the. first real confrontation happened at the town hall and. that's where we had our first

combat experience and there was a demonstration in support of that and against george bush. on. one of the. first there was no violence the demonstrators were shouting their slogans nothing more than seeing. after forty five minutes of protest. they started throwing grenades and it all became very violent. and the my unit was ordered to take defensive positions on the roof of the town hall. we were told if anyone through. the. one point silence fell complete silence all of the demonstrators about two hundred

people started moving from one place to the other. one corner we saw a young man coming towards us he was holding something in his hand. through the telescope. specifically ordered to shoot to kill if anyone threw something. that young man was holding something and he threw it at us. it was a grenade and we all fired. it was the first time in my life the target wasn't made of plastic. it wasn't a picture it was a human being. a living breathing human being. and by the way he couldn't possibly reach us because he was much too far. and.

the. i shot him too and he was killed by our bullets he started bleeding demonstrators through his own blood. for the first time i saw what bullets from a rifle from. to a human body. when those bullets pierced through human flesh and you see blood and death. and you realize one. minor and you understand what all this training was for. i've never seen first hand a human being killed by bullets and it was really hard for me that it's something i haven't been able to forget and i will never forget.

remember the first time to. tell me about it you know why. it was. shows three. or four in the morning three. there were five of us lying in ambush. flat on the ground.

one of us was always keeping watch. because we would always switch every fifteen minutes. all of a sudden i heard the sound of gravel rolling down. i saw three fighters climbing towards us. whether it was very quietly very slowly only. i thought if i wake up the others there will be mayhem. to shoot or not to shoot to be or not to be. i had no other choice but to open fire. i only had two seconds to shoot three men. among suddenly it's not an

exercise any more look at the it's real. track to the bullet hit inside and hit the guy right here if i saw is face explode and if you took off with the thick illicitly shoe i just had the time you see the second guy he had turned to look at his buddy who's had it been blown away i shot and killed him to. the third one who looked toward me to see where the shots were coming from. with the less that he saw me and he raised his collision a cough but it only took me half a second to shoot him down. i got up and went over to see. and just stood there. looking down at the bodies.

for fifteen minutes. maybe longer he's maybe fifty years. could much move all of the ideals i had when i was eighteen or nineteen. all of the good things the beautiful things my dreams. they all started falling apart. i was just an empty shell. with a uniform and a gun. very strong very courageous. but empty. i don't know if he's human being of sane mind gets used to killing. me if i never got used to killing.