said moody's downgraded was a punch in the stomach at a time when the new government has done everything demanded by the e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors well that's part of the rocket motors is a publicly traded company warren buffett's one the biggest shareholder they manipulate that stock price they manipulate their ratings they telegraph what the regs are going to be before they make them so the insiders can profit from the inside information inside information is legal in washington they're lining their pockets they're disenfranchising the people live in these countries who are left of austerity measures imposed upon them for things they never did and debts they never incurred and this is continuing unabated because nobody stepping in to represent the interest of the people the government like puppet joy in greece is in the pocket of the terrorist proper drill you are a terrorist you are a financial terrorist do your country a favor and top yourself so minor flaw spec director of the u.n. office for world trade and development said the agency should be dissolved before they can do any more damage or at least banned from reading countries or they should create their own rating agencies nothing stops portugal from creating the

portuguese bond rating agency and issuing a rating on american debt as d. is technically in default and therefore it would shift all those hedge fund capital reserves into portuguese debt and greek debt and out of u.s. worthless debt but also the other thing we see here max is that none of these rating agencies were held accountable for their crime wave leading up to the two thousand and eight financial disaster none of them saw jail time none of them faced any criminal charges and because of this you see them able to hijack and hold hostage and terrorize nations around the world are able to continue doing this just like rupert murdoch will continue to terrorize and all sorts of people throughout britain because he's able to tap phones because he's friends with david cameron and who knows what his phone taps on david cameron's phone have on david cameron and why david cameron is that label to act against rupert murdoch so this is the same situation all these oligarchs in this neo feudal system are you. to get away with

fines or the like little slaps on the wrist for doing anything wrong right well we have further proof that moody's is committing acts of fraud and terror and that the icelandic economy is bouncing back after they kicked out the bankers and where is the upgrade well that's my next headline you know max credit raters who didn't predict iceland crisis miss rebound so the credit agencies that fail to see the icelandic economic collapse coming in two thousand and eight are now refusing to recognize this arrest or action of course this shows that it's a racket because iceland had a aaa rating up to four months before its collapse why because it was doing exactly what the banks want this is part of the racket they they were loading up the country with what fourteen times its g.d.p. in debts and now because they've kicked out all the banks there is they're never going to get there any sort of rating back but in the real world when iceland held an auction recently it was two times oversubscribed great lesson for greece greece

says oh my god if we default on our debt no one will buy our bonds again that's false look at iceland two times oversubscribed for their latest traunch of debt default now rebuild their economy but keep your song over to me your sovereign see what is go younger saying oh we don't think that the greek people should have their own sovereignty we think it should be self germany we want to run the entire european show they do already they've already been occupied by germany once you go in for twice now what are you in this icelandic regard waldemar armin an economist at reykjavik based asset manager gamma says when you look at how successful that option was it's clear that investors are now crunching the numbers themselves and that the credit grades from the rating agencies are less relevant well that's because they are committing massive acts of fraud and you know you can't just say it's to wall street banks who are committing this massive fraud with impunity and it's entirely their fault because after all you want them to. be aggressive in

their attempt to make money the really the the blame falls on the regulators which means the u.s. government in this case or the u.k. government and barack obama are again david cameron and this is where the two stories dovetail with cameron because in the case of britain not only are they lax with financial terrorism but now is lax with murdoch who is the dog poop of major media yeah but i maintain that we actually don't have governments max that these regulators are not operating on behalf of the people because they are actually are only a wing of those corporations who they're allegedly regulating it's just a facade for the people there is no such thing as government in our world today no not in a club talk r.c. you can rightfully refer to the people sitting in those offices as a government you know you're right of course when moody's downgraded portugal by four not just to junk. spreads on irish debt food and irish begged to buy fridges to boost the economy so the eleven ten year bonds rose to record amid

increasing speculation that the nation's credit rating may join greece and portugal being downgraded to junk and the only thing that could rescue them they're saying is consumers but the consumer savings rate is over twelve percent look this is a complete disconnect between what a sound economic policy should be and the benefits or harm it may impose upon the population the people in ireland should not be out incurring more debt to buy a consumer non durables and white goods like refrigerators and washing machines they want to save money and they want to higher interest rates and they want higher wages so why is the government or whoever at the club to crowd a class encouraging that they go deeper into debt oh let's see because it allows the policymakers to legitimize more quantitative easing which keeps interest rates artificially low that helps to oh the speculators the speculators in the rating agencies and the cook to kratz and the syndicate. it's who are destroying the

economy well irish rescale sales are falling at more than twice the pace of the average in the euro region after the government increased taxes and reduced salaries for state workers by fourteen percent to the irish economy is only fifty three percent consumption and the us a seventy so imagine what happens when these austerity measures are introduced to the u.s. right now we're in a death spiral in greece ireland and portugal because of all the austerity measures that the economies are just spiraling into nothing and we're chumps these irish are because remember when they were the first to go into the austerity butchering they didn't revolt in any way and then when athens started to revolt in the street the people in ireland are very proud of themselves oh we're in the greek we are thinking that we're not out there actually defending our interests and you see that there are no plans anywhere where the greece portugal or ireland to develop a real economy at all irish finance minister michael noonan has pleaded with

consumers to replace their clapped out refrigerators and tumble dryer so where are these tumble dryer is in refrigerators made probably china or germany it's not going to help their economy at all consuming does not help their economy producing helps their economy companies that the irish government is encouraging to relocate to ireland and in dublin now are companies like zynga that create virtual currency which is a backdoor way into gambling they just figured out a way to go around gambling laws this is what the irish government wants they want horse racing they want zynga gambling and they want to really collapse so i guess i know the government can do this they can pass a law that allows people to cash in their sink of dollars for guinness this way you keep them in a bread and broke good going so over in the u.s. a response to deficit has been an attack on workers as well union workers replaced . with prison labor under scott walker's collective bargaining law to state

employees in wisconsin make an average of fifty thousand dollars a year and this includes all of the white collar workers all the executives working for the state and includes their pension benefits and health insurance so fifty thousand dollars a year now wisconsin prison inmate cost thirty thousand dollars a year so they're using free scott walker is calling it free labor for maintenance work landscaping and painting jobs so they're paying thirty thousand dollars for these prisoners to do the work that's right this part of the global contraction and conflagration and wages in china the wages are moving up in the united states are aggressively moving down and so mike scott walker who is there in madison wisconsin and in wisconsin he's a he's an acolyte of the koch brothers who we know from recent revelations are in bed with the energy companies they themselves being an energy company to speed

up the effects of the ecological hola cost that we're witnessing and so his solution to the labor unrest is to put everybody in prison well max we were just talking about the casino element of the casino gulag economy this reminds me of the gulag economy is that like north korea you have a command and control gulag economy emerging in wisconsin using slave labor to perform your work it never works it doesn't work for north korea north korea probably started out forty years ago down this road on austerity measures that probably started as a way to cut the deficit instead they have a dilapidated economy that relies on the sugar daddy of china. because they can invade the only other way to pay for a gulag economy as germany did was you invade other countries dear leader scott walker but talking about powerful men britain's richest man to build giant arctic iron ore mine britain richest man lakshmi mittal is planning a giant new opencast mine three hundred miles inside the arctic circle in

a bid to extract a potential twenty three billion dollars worth of iron ore the megamind includes a one hundred fifty kilometer railway line and to newport and it's believed to be the largest mineral extraction operation in the arctic and it relies of course on melting sea ice destroying open casket mining operation because the earth's ecosystem is dead this guy knows it and he's just excel he's basically what he call the guy who rapes a dead person and necrophilia the point is that with the final headline here melting ice caps open arctic for white gold rush scott walker for example he's using prison gulag they're introducing a gulag economy but he's also a climate change denier for example but there's a gold rush up into the arctic you have all of these forms of britain's richest man probably a man who finances some of these denying industries because they don't want any competition so you have a whole gold rush whole swathes of the arctic across from greenland canada finland

they're all opening up their mining rights there are also small entrepreneurs going up there they find no ice there remarkably a lot of the denying industry is actually telling people that there's growing ice is so much ice up there we're entering a new ice age and yet the facts on the ground the business on the ground the people benefiting from this are actually you know up there operating and making money so yeah the deniers are adamant that there's more ice building at the same time they're exploiting the fact that the ice is rapidly diminishing all right well stay server thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max ok don't go. so much for coming away right after the break.

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welcome back to kaiser report time now to go to new mexico and talk with guy macpherson professor emerita tests of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology his blog is nature bats last welcome to the show guy macpherson thanks max it's great to be on with you ok now guy in two thousand and eleven it's looking to be the worst ever for climate disasters certainly worst of two thousand and ten now the us has seen the worst droughts in recorded history the worst floods in u.s. recorded history the most tornadoes in history the biggest fire in arizona state

history is this all just freaky coincidence or is there something else at work here i strongly suspect or something else at work here climate change is underway and is ratcheting up i don't see any evidence that this is not driven by answer general climate change in that it's not going to get a lot worse in the years ahead ok so you've taken the past the mystic view for the moment but. my next question herr you started out as a climate scientist twenty five years ago but stopped researching ten years ago as part of a transition tell us about it but ten years ago i was editing a book on climate change it was my most conferences assessment to that point in it became clear to me then just over a decade ago we had probably committed ourselves to extinction at our own hand i mourn for six months to the curious amusement of the three people who noticed and that's when i stopped doing primary research on climate change because i thought it

was fairly hopeless however shortly thereafter i discovered global peak oil and. the likelihood of reduced energy supplies at the global level bringing down the industrial economy and therefore forcing us to reduce emissions by eighty percent or so so peak oil and how does it also impact markets as a whole oil affects the market in in a way for more significant then you would think based simply on the amount of oil in the ground each of the six worldwide reese economic recession since one thousand nine hundred to have been preceded by a spike in the price of oil and that the more profound the spike the deeper the economic recession and i don't think we've worked out yet the spike from two thousand and seven two thousand and eight that led to what they call the great recession which i call the great depression i don't think we've worked all that out

yet and i foresee another spike on the way could very well bring the bring the whole system down in the united states ok now let's talk about the future of these oil markets we now that the u.s. department of defense consumes awfully four hundred thousand barrels of oil a day or something in the order of two hundred thirty million dollars worth of barrel every barrel of oil every day. when the time come when they simply declare force maze you are and say we're no longer interested in price discovery and free markets we just we're just going to take the oil i think this will been doing since the carter doctrine of the late one nine hundred seventy s. the last decent man in the oval office will be known by history for his statement that was respect to the middle east as our oil over there this occurred so i would argue we've been doing that for a generation or so now. that we're involved in six wars from this country primarily

because those countries have the materials we think we need to survive i don't see much change over the course of less thirty years we're doing the same thing we've always been doing which is to play other countries for their materials now going forward from the carter perry and through the great expansion we've had in g.d.p. which is come also with an even greater expansion in credit or debt. it seems as though the peak oil scenario has arrived at the same time as this peak debt more peak credit scenario roughly in the same time two thousand and two two thousand and eight seven period now going forward sense much of the trade is done in u.s. dollars does the peak oil scenario in the peak credit coterminous scenario play out is this a net negative or positive for the u.s. dollar i think it's net negative we see a few countries already abandoning the u.s.

dollar at least trying to abandon the u.s. dollar as the reserve currency and starting to conduct transactions in other currencies. i refer to this relatively frequently as the titanic of people will smashing into the iceberg of u.s. debt you're right the interaction between those two is a really big deal that is being ignored marginalized covered up by governments in the media or. around the world now let's talk about an emerging hotspot in the arctic area the arctic ice sheets are melting and of course this is exposing more possibilities for development but also read knighting geo political tensions you've got people saber rattling now trying to take control of these newly exposed areas it's interesting because of course exploring and extracting and processing the energy will exacerbate the speed at which the climate in the arctic is melting so

again the short term interests of a gallon of oil today seem to be trumping the long term interests of survival of the species is that a fair statement absolutely we're a global society though we're inflator right are we seem to be showing up for the next the next dollar the next barrel of oil in the future beat him and i don't know you know half a dozen people who think that the future of their children depends more on climate change that it depends on ready access to cheap oil and this is incredibly shortsighted. now i speaking out of a big government year of exited empire why and how well i was a professor and a very successful one the head nine books published and the twenty year career at the university of arizona i was at this research one institution i was well paid so people wonder why would you leave a gig like that. but at some of the most fundamental level this came down to

a question of morality for me i view cities and tucson as the classic example of a big city in the desert southwest cities are the apex of empire. tucson arizona extracts all of its water from well beyond the boundaries of the city extracts all of its food from well beyond boundaries a city essentially steals resources from other populations from other cultures and from the future just to survive. at some point you do that long enough and you start to look under the covers you pull back the screen you realize that this is not really all it's cracked up to be in terms of what culture would have us believe and so once you see that you can't unsee it so it became increasingly difficult over the last five years for me just to talk about the costs and consequences of industrialization and continue to live there at the apex of empire

so i could no longer live in those two worlds finally i just had to exit him and i had to leave. sometime this this profound experiment with a couple of partners here on a property in new mexico we have two point seven acres with a little bit of water right now trying to grow all of our own food generator water from rainwater harvesting solar pumps and hand pumps and maintain body temperature and establish good relations are human community is the big four for me for most urban living water. but a temperature in human community so we're going to give that a run but also see if we can set example for. economic collapse that is underway and it's bound to be completely not too distant future a way for people to survive and even thrive in the years ahead now i notice on the polls that are conducted asking people what is the most hated company in the world usually at the top of the list is monsanto monsanto of course has figured out

a way to completely co-opt c s and by having the see them blow around and doing the work for them there see that currency as i like to think of it is infiltrating the seed stocks everywhere so harry our new mexico you're trying community to be self-sufficient you will at some point be relying on seeds so how do you fight against that are you actively trying to fight against that it would you agree that monsanto is one of the most pernicious corporate players out there absolutely grew that months and is one when chemical evil monsters of the industrial global. society has become. they yag controls our seeds and therefore our food begin to gie poisons our water they add controls and messages we receive every day through all we think we're free

of course but we don't have a control over so many of these factors what we're trying to do in this valley and also many of our neighbors is rely on heirloom seeds so we are just a bunch of heirloom seeds and we're going seed to see with our garden vegetables so we save the seeds from this year's tomatoes for next year's tomatoes will be a wash despite that in monsanto seed in g.m.o. jeanette in materials that were not really very happy with certainly no doubt just as we'll also be. pros are only effective global climate change just as will be profoundly affected you can only collapse but there are things that we don't have any control over we're trying to control things we do have to drill over workings in this community and the other parts you know you wish for the best but

there's a lot we can do about some of those doctors right while the increasingly is reports come in from people doing similar projects to yourself getting off the grid are starting to be self-sustained in communities of their own they seem to be coming under greater and greater attack from the federal government who is of course doing the dirty work for companies like monsanto so you're in kind of a conflict there therefore with with the feds so is the hope that the feds go bankrupt before they have enough juice to terminate you i mean is that kind of that's the bet you're making it was alluded just absolutely no doubt about it you know believe don't loosely defined schizm as the merging of the state or gratian i think we're we're there that's a good been there for a while but it's like. this point where they're all right well let's keep the light on for me in case straggle on the night arrives looking for say selter i could be

myself. so we'll do all right guy mcpherson thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you mick separate she had the opportunity and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey herbert and i thank my guests guy macpherson who is a blog nature bats last if you want to send me an email please do so at kaiser report r t t v dot ru until next time this is max keiser saying bye. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially a lot of sounds a little clear weapons on hair trigger alert. focus of the victims to use it as its

rate all as an extra bit but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

three thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines the first funerals for the victims of sunday's closure both tragedy on the boulder river held on a day of national mourning across russia many bodies remain inside the sunken ship including children trapped in a play room when the boat went down negligence mechanical failure and bad weather all being investigated as possible reasons for the sick. the ship that was carrying more than two hundred pounds of. the french foreign minister claims libya's leader moammar gadhafi could be ready to go as paris seeks a diplomatic solution to the conflict they thought would be a simple knockout despite the french parliament backing the military operation

anxiety is growing over the mission that was meant to last weeks and is now into months with no end in sight. controversial wiki leaks founder julian assange returns to a london court to appeal extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes his supporters maintain it's an excuse to hand him over to the u.s. where he's wanted for publishing thousands of classified military and diplomatic cables fit in february the original hearing up held the swedish application for his extradition. coming up it's our interview show spotlight this time al gore and of speaks with. the presidential commissioner for children's rights about how moscow is working to protect russian children adopted by foreigners and taken abroad is coming up after a short break. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. hello

yellow welcome to spotlight the interview show our. guest in the studio is. the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is on an official visit to the united states among other things he's playing to strike a deal with americans concerning the child adoption process just recently several american families have been blamed. toward children adopted in south moscow wants to have a right to examine the living conditions of adopted children what problem does the russian children ombudsman face here is the presidential commission for children's rights part of a. number of scandals where american parents badly treated the children they adopted russia.