as rebels in libya try to push west towards towards the capital tripoli there are conflicting reports about just how far they've advanced opposition claims of controlling colonel gadhafi hometown of sears have been dismissed by reports on the ground which say the city is still held by government forces who've been putting up heavy resistance. russia's foreign minister says the international coalition is taking part in the civil war in libya acting beyond the limits of what's been allowed for in the un resolution sergey lavrov has also expressed concerns about the protection of civilians which was the reason for and of the sole goal of the mission agreed at the u.n. security council. russian authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with the january terrorist bombing in moscow's dome objective airport in which thirty

seven died seventeen militants were also killed in a special anti terror operation by three different russian federal agencies in the southern republic of english audio. workers at the fukushima nuclear plant in northern japan are frantically trying to dispose of radioactive water after officials warned of the surrounding sea water and soil that is contaminated elsewhere japanese authorities are becoming overwhelmed by the massive number of tsunami and earthquake victims in need of burial with the death toll estimated at ten thousand so far and more stillness. next our financial analyst max kaiser explains just how much the u.s. military operation in libya will cost america and how the country can survive this . we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia.

we've got the future covered. max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report listen to the own kin and hear that these are the so over the cars are oh yeah twenty solar chargers these are now available and being available training all over the world that's right people are joining the silver liberation army and they are basically financing the global insurrection with the. yeah. let's bring in stacy herbert max kaiser there's a war on and in that case you can never have enough arms as a t.v.

presenter troy take my silver cars or turquoise so we're closer here's a little video i want you to see gets us in the mood for this broadcast here as a libyan t.v. presenter oh yeah. i'm ready at any time away as we could jesus ranting about protecting the homeland and all this guy he's got a big gun he's got a bird he doesn't is so over closer but of course is being presented as a man who's being he's pretty crazy but is it any crazier than the country doing the bombing because the headline reads us spending on military operations in libya drains pentagon the u.s. military operations in libya will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and force congress to seek help next week for the cash strapped pentagon which is operating on short term funding resolution so remember the financial crisis where the banks were operating on short term funding as well and that's what led to the whole

collapse of the banking system are we about to witness the collapse of the whole military industrial complex i mean look there that ceiling in the u.s. is being raised again it's up. fourteen and fifteen trillion that's those include the words that they do off the balance sheet like super enron you know afghanistan and iraq war just emplaced are invading libya ok that's all off the bell and they don't actually include it on the official balance sheet so america actually has not just fifteen trillion dollars and that well forty five trillion and then you add in fannie mae that's fifty trillion many add in social security medicaid that comes up to about one hundred trillion dollars in debt and they just think that by printing more money they're going to be able to survive this catastrophe this was sooner is going to fly. but they do make you know in this article that none of the war funding for afghanistan or iraq are put on the defense budget these are all supplemental funding and it's out of temporary short term funding resolutions but

carl levin a senator from michigan chairman of the senate armed services committee he said wednesday that he had asked the defense department for an accurate estimate of the cost of the mission in libya since the ballpark numbers being circulated including one of nearly one billion seemed too high so he's only reading in the newspapers what the war is going to cost in libya he's the head of the senate committee where of course barack obama should have gone to seek authorization for a bombing another country america doesn't need to get authorization to start a war barrack obama doesn't need to get congress to sign off on invading people and committing mass murder no more it's all good is all this is best bullet wounds in the final four well that's about the craziness of it the libyan t.v. presenter he might look crazy but so does the u.s. going to war while their president i don't like that it sir i don't like. it but speaking of war if there is a war in the monetary world and that is silver and gold versus the u.s.

dollar and all the other currencies so you know you take a look at the silver chart here and it's of course taking up arms heading straight up. that's really attractive max but you know taking up arms against who is silver taking up arms against but this next headline max special report the revolution in central banking on a warm lisbon day last may john cloud tree shade the ice cool president of the european central bank was asked whether the bank would consider buying euro zone government bonds and the open market he said at the time i would say we did not discuss this option well four days later the e.c.b. announced that it would start buying bonds so just as lunatic as all these wars being declared. on a weekend when nobody else this congress isn't sitting nobody knows any war is being declared the same craziness has gone on with the central banks they have

a revolution in central banking. well i don't know who saw the news let me just break out of the thing did you see what the going on with the bank of japan on that front now they're going out say that bank of japan said that they're just going to start to issue bonds essentially and float money directly from that we talked about that the last episode yeah so this is just another continuation of central banks going crazy and taking the law into their own hands and deciding just to print funny money without any authorization as you point out if barack obama can simply invade a country with no authorization central banks are using the same model here they're just saying oh we can just print trillions of dollars of trillions of euro's or trillions of yen we don't need anyone authorization we don't need any collateral we don't need any accounting we don't need any oversight we don't need anything in the central bank other than the toxic waste that we inherited during the last one answer crisis why because we use mathematical formulas that some pimply faced fifteen year old kid at mit says makes this trillion dollars with

a worthless garbage worth something other than worthless garbage guess what is worthless garbage and that's why silver is going to five hundred because you're all for it in delusional the article points out by reaching for its nuclear option. e.c.b. also helped rewrite the manual modern central banking calling it a revolution but i would say that in fact it's skip the revolution part and just gone straight to the reign of terror these are what central banks are doing it's a reign of terror that they are raining down upon us well they think they can reinvent the entire idea of economics from scratch because they're deeply in debt and they are really interpret ing the fact that they're in debt and they're calling it something else it's delusional it's to stockholm syndrome. it's highly illegal according to any dictates that would cover counterfeiting what these banks are doing these central banks are doing are counterfeiting their counterfeiting why they're trillions and trillions and they're doing it electronically well then the

article finally wraps up since the early days of the financial crisis in two thousand and eight the european central bank the u.s. federal reserve and the bank of england have all been forced to adopt policies it's kind of like the human shield thing where just human shields through this whole crazy monetary and fiscal disaster and economic disasters around the world that just a few years ago they would have dismissed as preposterous exactly they just term force as if somebody is got a gun to their head and saying we you must commit fraud on behalf of the ones who supposedly are protecting over there the central bank and that's false of course they're not being forced by anyone to commit fraud they're doing so for one simple reason they're making a boatload of money doing it because they're essentially pirates of the digital age these are the pirates of the digital caribbean age you've got bernanke. and the bank of japan who are just out there stealing they're just out there larson

mystically pilfering without any recourse whatsoever and that's why so vers go on a five hundred did i say that yes well yes you have but this is also in the way that the norman bates. syndrom it is just says the u.s. is fighting itself in libya it's fighting itself in afghanistan it's fighting itself in iraq all of the enemies there that they themselves created the central bank is fighting itself it's forced to fight itself so it's in a battle with its own consequences of its own actions well that's just a definition of quantitative easing is actually eating your own definition you know the central banks definitely need out bonds and then they swallow those bonds back that's what quantitative easing is it's quantitative definition swallowing the notion of a prosperous chavez says capitalism may have ended life on mars this is venezuelan president hugo chavez he was speaking last week and he said i've always said heard that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on mars but maybe

capitalism arrived there imperialism arrived and finished off the planet so be careful he continued here on planet earth where hundreds of years ago or less there were great forests now there are deserts where there were rivers there are deserts he said sipping a glass of water well yeah i mean i think he's making kind of an interesting insight there in terms of capitalism being unsustainable you surely see it in the fukuyama. meltdown in japan that's a direct result of capitalism gone crazy it's gone no longer has any self-serving purposes it's just using humans as the product of a mission to make profits out of dead people and you see this happening in all over the world so he has a point there but you can't criticize the u.s. for being capitalist because it's not a socialist it's a bunch of banks and corporations to get huge welfare bailouts from a corrupt federal reserve bank that's not capitalism that's socialism i don't think it socialism i don't think it's capitalism those are just isms they're just like

a religious text or whatever it's the crazy madman who have hijacked it they don't realize there's no room bates here we talked about the european central bank the u.s. federal reserve the bank of england fighting themselves they're for. to fight this demon of this crazy markets collapsing that they themselves caused norman bates and you remember norman bates on the psycho esau's reflection in the mirror and couldn't understand that he himself was attacking and doing all the violence that's exactly right you've got all these central bankers looking at themselves in the mirror printing trillions of dollars and wondering why the economies are exploding and going bad well it was actually don't want bases mother. those are the particulars but i remember the title of the film was psycho and i think that's a good description of who's running the show we are a bunch of psychos life on mars may have ended apparently due to these psychos and this takes me to the next headline of might not be so preposterous maybe they're perhaps listening to hugo chavez sales of lux doomsday bunkers up one

thousand percent apparently is a big market in the us i'm going to be into my lux. old and that's that's the night i'm going to cover those don't work so there's two different things you can buy your own exclusive one in those cost up to twenty million dollars so northwest shelter systems which offer shelters ranging in price range from two hundred thousand to twenty million they've seen their sales surge by seventy percent on the uprisings in the middle east and then there's this other company you see that in the photo this is one of their renderings of what one of their places looked like they sell rooms in two hundred person doomsday bunkers and they've received thousands of applications since the uprisings and the earthquake and tsunami in japan and you have to deposit five thousand dollars and then pay up to tens of thousands more to actually secure a place in these bunkers of the time and doomsday bunkers and of course the people

who buy these doomsday bunkers for twenty million dollars say you see capitalism works i was able to buy doomsday bunker forget about the fact that your actions created the doomsday to begin with why the. psycho why because you are but your imagination is the sound of your own one hand clapping against yourself because basically an air only when you look down underneath. a dirt all. strata of the barrack owes vain to the operability of your consciousness on any one name that would it here to anything be construed as normal or pathologically ill ben bernanke the lloyd blankfein ben bernanke lloyd blankfein diamond psychologically ill brain damage treated by a straight jacket started off to jail medicated heavily all right thank so much for being on the kaiser report thank you mack and that's going to do it stay right there because there's much more coming your way.

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welcome back to the kaiser reports i'm out it's urn. bloomy ese assistant professor of modern middle east and islamic world history at georgia state university and he is the author of chaos in yemen societal collapse and the new tarion as i'm isa welcome to the kaiser report great to be here all right is a movie while all eyes are on libya what is happening any yemen and why is it happening in yemen the situation in yemen is a direct response to ongoing. power grabbing and realigning of our our alliances. in part a response to what's going on in the south of yemen the traditional struggle between northern and southern yemen it's also the consequence of since the year two

thousand to saudi arabia and yemen i'm tryna greenman to police jointly there from tear the shirt front here which has caused considerable disruption for the people who live on both sides of this who are traditionally has or has remained open people were able to travel back and forth with passports and now suddenly and since two thousand. very expensive project over three billion dollars. as of now is to police the ports of extent were to stop the trade and stop the movement of beings backing for or are least regulated to certain extent and that has disrupted people's lives and people respond to these kinds of this ructions and challenges and this is actually. very well because you can solve this disruption is police actions that he just taking are to enforce the sovereignty of yemen and protect its saudi arabia from the invasion of of yemenis trying

to enter into saudi territory and sell this to its partners both in saudi arabia and united states on its own just give us some geography here where is this wall and where is this the. in a separate exactly if you were to look at a map of southwest arabia you'll see that saudi arabia and yemen share obviously a very long border and it's the border to stems from the red sea on inwards and this is an area that was captured by saudi arabia the one nine hundred thirty s. but they are agreements with the people who live on both side of this border they really didn't enforce the border so people on both sides were able to travel back and forth so if you look at it it's an area called knots and it's called a cedar region and these people are historically yemeni and as this as the saudi kingdom expanded territorially to conquer mecca medina jeddah and then further south here in this region called. because they were they had no means of actually

physically. intimidating and conquering this region they basically left the door wide open for people to conduct their day to day lives back in for so the border didn't really exist unfortunately with the world ruled transforming as it has in the last fifteen years leasing borders ironically enough. while europe is supposedly tearing down borders other parts of the world are encouraged to build fences and police there are no causes considerable economic social cultural disruptions in places like the a suit and so again people whose lives were. disrupted by this and often a very brutal process of policing these frontiers is let's do a reaction from people who are well armed and who are still dignified enough to stand up to. the sort of indication young people are taken in crowds

from dictators and from people who sit in far away places and start to play these kind of show games. with of course you know it's the kingdom of saudi arabia who are. using yemen as a kind of launching pad for all kinds of. things which of course of direct impact on the people on the ground who have just how now for our let's talk about the comparison to the one nine hundred eighty nine for the fall the berlin wall now i think looking back with a lot of historians are coming to the conclusion that the soviet union effectively economically was spent and of course now in the case of yemen thousand arabia you could say that about saudi arabia and you can economy that spent as a matter of fact it's a very strong economy that's a petro. petro whatever you would like to call it a pep talk or see or something of that order it's got huge oil reserves so they're

very well funded so that's that dynamic is missing the saudi yemenis in their quest to push back against this this occupation i guess you could call it are fighting and they're up against a very well funded photo in this sense so talk to me about the chances of this going forward what we're going to see in the next year or two is yemen go. going to succeed as we have seen i think we could say that well we've seen in tunisia is it a success you know we're going to have to wait to see how it out all works out but is that going to be the story for yemen near a year from now i'm afraid not and actually i would. be a little bit more cautious and characterizing any of these events in the middle east the last for the last couple of months as a success cases certainly we have the figureheads removed have you actually had the infrastructure of oppressive regimes. run to societies actually been in the last of

us an open questions though i think people in places like tunisia and egypt are still willing to go and hit the streets when necessary. and you. know it doesn't take much to intimidate a good percentage of those people who have been on the streets so far in yemen it's a different case because people are very desperate and i would suggest that saudi arabia is also not immune from social unrest the money is not just airily and there is a lot of regionalism in saudi arabia case in point was this area around on the border with yemen people have been. are demanding of course not only payments in this kind of caustic run to your state system where oil money trickles down to everybody and everyone just sits and watches watches t.v. like the u.s. model i guess work gets sacked and stupid and don't do anything. that they actually want some kind of participation and have

a direct place in the decisions made in their societies because they see their societies are falling apart and i meant it will in one year two years i don't see things changing the americans in the south is just will not countenance the transformation of yemen in a way that they had in the past you know when ended early ninety's the same dictator who's now chief ally states played. where he was an ally saddam hussein when they invaded kuwait and he was severely punished by the yemen was a million in a house people were thrown out of their jobs in go and in saudi arabia and thrown back to yemen which is one of the real dynamics that led to this chaos this turn towards chaos as my thesis that a bill saw has used violence and used this disk disorder your superstition himself as the too big to fail regime kind of. only ask you this when now barack obama took

office he took a trip to cairo and spoke to the region and seemed to down but hey hey you know america is behind you get up in and seek your freedom and then when the people did what he suggested it he's very ambivalent and i think isn't it would be a nice way to characterize his reaction so far to what's going on and what more and more revealing i think is what we're seeing is how the geopolitics work out here barack obama appears in correct me if i'm wrong that he appears to be completely in a. line with saudi arabia and couldn't care less about these populist uprisings across the region absolutely right based out everybody in the book all these kids very brave kids to stand up to. a story untold in fact that you know that all these media who go and visit cairo or go now looking watching from afar what's happening in libya people forget that the uprisings in tunisia and cairo produced lots of prisoners who are now in military prisons in egypt nobody's speaking on their

behalf nobody's actually even interested what has happened to them. this is my fear is that you know we've we've all kind of odd into this this nonsense the social networking has produced you know some new democratic subjects in the middle east that. they can deal with on their own and we have to. wait and see whether or not they're going to be fundamentalists elements in that and therefore i think the barack obama message which is kind of an ongoing it's united states. interests stakeholders in the in the larger american empire. have lost all credibility and that's for me for america if i were sitting in washington seem actually was concerned about the future of the military industrial complex i would be concerned about because there's only so much you can do. by using the bludgeon of

a dictator puppet or indeed using your unmanned drones to taiko the opponent so. it's some point as we see if you can by the hundreds of thousands show up on the streets and change things overnight whether or not overnight means long term change obviously in the middle east i feel as not you know there's always the potential. no one anymore believes america as they know it's friend no one actually trust america for actually taking the right side on this question this divide between democracy let me ask a final question here should the world let's talk about this it appears as though the u.s. is actually now just openly invading countries area mating east libya they're taking control of the sweet crude in east east libya and they're just on a imperial conquest that sam's. just another another front in the ongoing empire project empire that america is attempting to finance with

a completely. non non respected us dollar expansion there goes one of those classic cases where they hedge their bets too on survival of their dictator of choice and what has happened or after a month of allowing could offer to reinforce his is army with professional mercenaries to bludgeon the. those who dared to stand up to them as now this intervention is too short a two and a half million lead libyans who can never return to living under market naafi will be contained kind of like in a concentration camp one in eastern libya around benghazi an area that has never really supported gadhafi in the first place it's always been a headache for gadhafi so i think the idea of leaving that part is a kind of thomas free zone something like south sudan or someone would be to do have gadhafi no longer i have no doubts that this is you know

a managed crisis and they've done quite well they've saved the regime that. proved to be a very lucrative trading partner for many countries in europe and united states for sure and the same time they contain their potential refugee problem there's nothing worse for politicians in spain italy greece to have a bunch of north africans flooding the war zone i think they've they've accomplished a lot by waiting it out until gadhafi was in suburbs of benghazi you know they have doing this farcical intervention which will not lead to regime change and it will lead to basically creating a new divided libya we're going to leave it there only thanks so much for being on the kaiser report my pleasure by silver. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert thank my guests bloomy if

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