processes of the lower middle classes of the united states to see how it's going to . reconcile larry thanks so much for being on the kaiser report it's a pleasure being on thank you for having me all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i would think my guest gonzalo lira if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser reported r t t v dot ru until next time this is max kaiser saying bio.

the cia comes under fire as one of its operatives goes to court for minor offenses despite being wanted for a string of terror attacks also. the rescue operation to free this still trapped in the ice of precious. weather conditions as the ice breakers play one ship leaving one awaiting rescue. the u.s.

finds that paying afghan militias to hold back taliban influence is not enough to buy their loyalty. and in business mergers and acquisition activity is in russia more than doubled in twenty ten that made the country the namin a leader in eastern europe or in twenty minutes. around the world and indeed around the clock this is r.t. a former cia operative whose wanted in venezuela and cuba for terrorist attacks throughout latin america has gone on trial in the u.s. but that's not why there were specific arenas in court instead he's being charged with lying to me gratian offices t's office looks at why the u.s. is turning a blind eye to an alleged terrorist. the. miami florida

white sandy beaches miniskirts and bikini. this vacation spot is also home to a convicted international terrorist luis posada could be less coined to bin laden. of the americas the anti castro cuban was the cia's dirty secret in south and central america trained as an explosives expert at the new tory a school of the americas beside as acts of terrorism spanned five decades and impacted half a dozen countries. over seventy people were killed when cuban airliner for fifty five was bombed in one thousand nine hundred ninety six a terrorist act posada plans from venice and according to cia documents the agency was aware of it before it happened this was a mastermind of the of of all we know the. top flight and still he's here posada was convicted in absentia and then as well of masterminding the bombing

however not only did the us government refused to extradite posada to venezuela to serve his term the cia continued to employ him as a key element in the contra wars which clean lines of seventy thousand civilians in nicaragua. he was a leading figure in the iran contra affair in the one nine hundred eighty s. had the cia stop assad in his tracks just off in my shoes my my brother was killed in libya distil most brother fabio would still be alive put yourself in the place of the us of a victim of the family victim of terrorism and it's absurd distil know an italian businessman was murdered in one nine hundred ninety seven bombing orchestrated by posada it was one of a string of hotel and nightclub bombings in cuba distil know describes as a monster created by a country that is. their government officials to push their agenda are

willing to go for any or any wrote after jailing poseidon upon entering the u.s. illegally law enforcement agencies warn the justice department up aside is terrorist past but he was set free anyway. ah now prosodic is on trial in el paso texas the charges against him not international terrorism but immigration fraud and perjury we unleashed him on the world peter kornbluh of the national security archives obtained dozens of documents pertaining to poseidon's involvement with the cia he says the case is about whether the united states truly can hold real terrorists although in this case a terrorist who was once our terrorist accountable livio acknowledges the importance of poseidon on trial but insists it's going to be too little too late and it wasn't the only acts of terrorism poseidon was involved in there was the two thousand assassination attempt on cuban leader fidel castro and

a series of attacks across latin america the legacy of luis posada is that he is a cia created frankenstein and he went out and committed murder and mayhem the cia once described posada as a reliable asset to the u.s. government a man of good character pro-u.s. who would make an excellent official in a post castro government their evaluation of him could not have been more mistaken half a century after posada could be less again doing the cia's dirty work in latin america his bloody legacy lives on for the countless victims and as the u.s. government continues to fight the so-called war on terrorism extraditing kidnapping and assassinating suspects in other countries it continues to harbor one of the hemisphere's most notorious terrorists are t. washington d.c. around one hundred activists gathered for us and one of the people's tribunals ahead of monday's trial to hit terrorism charges against assad and his accomplices

. campaign that brownback was also that he believes the wanted man is being protected by american interests. the american government has harbored terrorism they finance terrorism luis posada carriles is there a terrorist who's been protected particularly by the bush family he was imprisoned in venezuela but escaped his imprisonment now going israel is demanding he be extradited and yet the united states government won't extradite him to but it's way worse because they say they fear that the venezuelan government will torture luis posada carriles said it's nonsense is just shows the absolute hostility towards a minute's wailing government towards the cuban revolution and of course showing the world that the united states is above the law above international law there is no good reason moral reason political reason or legal reason not to extradite luis posada carriles to venezuela where he escaped from prison for blowing up a civilian airliner that had cuban athletes on it. while the u.s.

refuses to extradite posada to venezuela claiming he would face torture their looks at america's interrogation tactics england town of bay this hour we talked to the rights lawyer. who views cases that come down to around international secret prisons. as methods of interrogation the enhanced interrogation techniques as they're so referred are not are not the did not happen to the minority they happen to the majority so what happens is you get instructors who are interrogators and guards for the trained in these techniques that are actually used in military training. to help army men and women resist interrogation being used on these men in guantanamo bay so the majority of our clients have have had at least one of these techniques used on them.

a refrigerator vessels stuck in frozen waters off russia's far east is nothing tode by two. ice breaker boats against harsh weather conditions and other supply ship with three hundred. dollars to be freed. a fortnight several other vessels being rescued over the last week was their first. day the. area they put about. and then of course they have to go back to collect. three hundred. from the. press conference today. the helicopter. flew the helicopter. in the area. the best.

possible. reconnaissance helicopter sent by the emergencies ministry as observed through the canals which before would regularly freeze and i'm clear in stable the ice breakers captains have decided to turn around and come back for the supply ship leaving the refrigerator vessel for now to try and get the supply ship out the operation has now entered its final and most difficult stage according to our calculations it will conclude within forty eight hours to get both ships out. of course the timing of this rescue operation coming to an end. very dependent on a number of factors most of. the weather we've seen that this is really had an impact on the operation since the very beginning they've had strong winds up to. this incredibly poor visibility so that is an estimate we know that it's taken it already to. the other. place where the vessels are stuck with

the current. being an incredibly dangerous marine area and the reason. a lot of the ships travel into that area is because the large profits but. not having many of. the big incredibly thick as he said the weather conditions recently have these conditions but there's certainly been questions as to why exactly that but. and of course as we said it's not and. this is being alone a rescue operation and every day that the by vessel the incredibly large the blood vessel if it's close to fifty thousand dollars it's an incredibly expensive operation at the moment the every official authority will be picking up the bill for the rescue operation but one thing. there are big questions about the company this is why this is that whether they take a minute risk into sending them into the area and then possibly go be

a mine on the back of the maybe the main focus really on getting the refrigerator to be a cool time of covering up. from a sea of ice to well snow in a few minutes takes you to eastern siberia. going around one of the coldest regions of the planet is not only return after i'm sure thomas in new york coming up will show you how it's done. twenty two year old man charged with attempting to assassinate u.s. congresswoman and two murders could face life in prison or death penalty if convicted the court ordered to be held without bail he's accused of backing the shooting rampage outside a supermarket in the state of arizona democratic governor giffords was shot in the head means in a critical condition. district judge were among the six p.r. consultant says this incident politicians to distance themselves from public

appearances. there's going to be so much more scrutiny for people going to public events the average congressman for you. yours has received death threats these are usually just from kooks and not taken very seriously well now they take on a whole new light and i predict many members of congress are going to be much more skeptical about public speaking events they are going to want the trappings of a presidential speaking event presidents have these elaborate security mechanisms they have security guards secret service they have metal detectors to detect guns so unfortunately it's going to really shut down a lot of the communication voters have with their elected officials because our elected officials in america are now running scared americans have passionate love affair and it's basically politically impossible for any politician to try to propose limiting handguns and just recently rules were rewritten to let people

bring guns into schools in arizona so that is an extraordinarily difficult political challenge because the gun lobby basically controls congress in america and the legislatures as well so it is going to be tough what i do predict is you're going to see some change in the rhetoric of american politicians. or activist david swanson blames american mass media for promoting violence is the song society's problems. but we do condition people to engage in this kind of violence in our wars and occupations and then we don't on condition them to live again back home but it's it's not just veterans it's americans from all backgrounds we don't we don't have mental health services we don't treat drug abuse as something to be cured we don't provide health care we don't provide job security we don't provide the things people needed terms of education in terms of nonviolent resolution of conflict because largely because we're driving all of the money into those who have too much

of it already and the war machine and through the war machine we're educating people through our criminal justice system and the death penalty we're educating people through everything that our government does to handle problems and everything that hollywood movies tell us solve problems we're teaching people that violence is the answer and of course it isn't because we make guns so readily available the violence is is more deadly it's an incredibly destructive state that is part of the whole mentality that drives the wars that our criminal justice system and our intertainment and everything about our culture is just saturated with violence. the u.s. army's training mission gangs to secure outposts in afghanistan's most dangerous areas for a few dollars a month washington hopes to keep the fighters on the side against the taliban base and that ferrante their loyalty is not so easily bought. as the southern gateway

to kabul and home to a long stretch of afghanistan's national highway has been a focal point of the taliban's comeback in recent years in early two thousand and nine overstretched afghan forces were struggling to hold back some military planners decided to raise a local militia to help cover the most dangerous gaps sides a kia quit a better paying job to join because he was tired of the fighting around his village in the valley nicknamed by u.s. troops the valley of death for its deadly ambushes and firefights. the situation was bad and i needed to do something for my family before it got worse. there are hundreds of militiamen like him spread across wardak province now the afghan government and u.s. military are about to launch dozens of new militias in hotspots around the country the minute this outpost were trained for three weeks by american special forces units if you kalashnikov rifles and are paid about two hundred dollars a month to keep watch over their own community they are approved by the village

elders and they work within the district there from which gives them not only do they understand the dynamics and the people that they're working with their understand the community and and the threat in the area two years ago it was a taliban stronghold where u.s. forces and armored vehicles came under fierce attack nearly every time they tried to drive through it today attacks are rare in the afghan local militia travel freely in pickup trucks from the beginning however critics of argue that arming militias in place of government forces could create vigilante groups which are impossible to control militia forces will be loyal to the government a problem with president karzai they will certainly be loyal to those who would be able to replace united states. former head of the program in wardak shady ex taliban commander name go on mohammed has already been replaced some u.s. officials privately suspected he was playing both sides and of the twelve hundred men that began the program nearly four hundred have quit taking their weapons with

them it's believed that dozens of join the insurgency if the militia continues to be under-resourced or their governor for die worries it could backfire to the taliban's advantage these forces if they are not supported india not addicted it is sourced it could be used against the government because he will join those groups will get support elsewhere in afghanistan government backed militias stand accused of murder theft and rape in northern province locals say they are worse than the taliban with support for the war effort flagging the u.s. military is looking for a quick fix of forces can leave but hasty decisions risk making a bad situation worse it is more militias are raised in the year ahead it appears there will be more risks to manage jason in the joe is valid for r.t. . let's update you now on some of today's other well he's been bracing itself for the worst floods in over three decades as heavy rains course just to swell the rest

was history and it's not a city officials are warning that one of six thousand penalties may be in the next few days affecting some fifty thousand raging torrents have been sweeping through eastern australia for two weeks and nine people died and more than seventy two missing. japanese and south korean defense leaders holding talks in seoul about boosting their military ties its protests rallied outside self defense ministry headquarters and armed forces parents remains a sensitive topic in the cell phone going resentment over to parents occupation which ended in a life. both countries worry about growing strains on the korean peninsula following the vendors to exchange. ivory coast's internationally recognized president says he's put into that the support system to his kind of

islam was incumbent on the steps down president elect promises to be open about setting up a unity government both men claim victory is disputed elections that. it's just a system he's been sworn in for another time despite global to concede defeat. but coming up next a day max keiser and stacy herbert how one european government faces some diesel style for one thing tax night. maybe years which is curse income tax ruling so because of the financial crisis and the collapse of the banking systems and g.d.p.'s around the world romania's government has started taxing witches and fortune tellers from the first of january this year and because of this the witches are basically cursing the government now queen which brought her a booze they is furious about the new law and she says that she plans to cast a spell using a particularly effective concoction of cat excrement and

a dead dog get well goldman sachs collateralized debt obligation most of it is cat extreme it and dogs this is what they're finding the federal reserve bank's balance sheet in washington the reason why they're afraid to do an audit at the request of ron paul is because they know that they've got basically dead beatles eye of newt some old chicken bones some dead cat extra meant that's about all they got of the federal reserve because the u.s. is technically. grow up and solve so these witches are fighting fire with fire yeah the. dog poop. life is tough remote eastern so. area surprising for a place which is the coldest and having. reports from. landscapes for features to their advantage. room temperature call for extreme modes

of transportation i found one whole region around the pirate we decided to pick our form of transportation america through time star trek. and one of. these dogs can live in an extremely harsh environment they can stand easily winter temperatures going up from minus fifty to minus sixty degrees with strong winds and very hot summer temperatures from plus thirty to plus forty degrees celsius they're well adapted to the local climate. perhaps because of their versatility travelling became part of the a tradition. like the dogs are all are you could get like us the quick in like is one of the oldest aboriginal breeds that exist on this planet these dogs have been used for i don't know how many thousand years a sledge and hunting animals there in demick to cull them out and the polar area. travelling by dog sled is necessary for those living their lives here but there are

many others who come from all over the world for this experience thank you it's just you and the dogs in the forest for the white snow and the snow capped mountains and if dogs are your style well you could choose going by reindeer or there's even a special type of course you could hear in a horse specific to this area that can handle the temperatures but no matter what animal you choose you're going to have to pick a sleigh all the way they're going to go with a new order because i know my ancestors would deal breeders in hunters too my grandfather was a sniper in germany during world war two he was a hero of the soviet union he returned to dia breeding after coming home from the war. in total there have been about ten generations of deer breeders in our family ok this is a market here not goods and it ends the debate of fresh or frozen because here fresh is frozen and it just lets you know that even the food around here has

something to do with ice. stroke and you know it is a specially prepared fish dish where the frozen meat is shaved it directly from the fish onto the plate here even the milk is sold in frozen blocks and if you're looking for a quick afternoon snack although none of it is all of the year for it but what this is called meat the culture of the greens was slow to them in autumn and freeze the meat we eat at frozen because frozen meat preserves more vitamins than when you boil it for convenience we mince the meat in a meat grinder then it's easier to pick up the hamburger and put it in your mouth if the temperatures in this part of the world are sometimes as low as minus sixty two have shaved every aspect of people's existence from their parents how they get around to the very food they eat life here is on ice. in yakutia sean thomas r.t. . ok all stories are right it's what's. called

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trip next to business news with the book. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program mergers and acquisition activity in russia more than doubled in twenty ten a thomson reuters study says six to seven billion dollars worth of deals were done making the country and a leader in eastern europe telecoms chemical and the ship and sectors more than main drive is the global everday market again this year with new highs with eighty three a billion dollars worth of consolidation signed in the first ten days of january that's a twenty one percent rise from the same period last year. but of course is raising the transit terror for russian oil by twelve and a half percent starting from next month increase was agreed by both parties at the end of last year following months of talks but of course expects eighty million

tons of oil to be pumped through its territory curing twenty eleven that's roughly the same as in twenty ten. gas production russia jumped almost twelve percent in twenty ten compared to the previous year the vast majority of this came from gas problem which accounted for around eight percent of russia's output. and a quick look at the markets for being the stock markets have opened for my with banks leading a higher knowledge of stocks such as siemens gaining about two percent after an optimistic statement made at investor conference and in london puts his high point nine percent but barclay out about four hundred percent and arm holdings has just jumped six and a half percent off it's been dry. commanded by sea a big seas led by as one of cell technology to take over targets. and here in russia the markets have reopened after a ten day break for new year the indices are making only modest gains on the back of the strong well priced the r.t.s.

is up a fifth of a sound my six is trading zero point three percent higher energy stocks are mostly on the rise but look boyle up more than two percent. of the oil company is among analysts top picks for investors looking to take advantage of the country's recovery of an it's going to sound from bernay since capital also believes russia is likely accession to the world trade organization will also boost . the wider energy industry its improving its information flow it's starting to. publish very good very strong very strong numbers and another big driver for you is that it's almost like russia is going to go into a w w two membership drive for reform. could be very poised to fall for. products exporters last year saw a real.