liberty requires opportunity to make a living a living decent according to the standard of the time a living which gives man not only enough to live by but something to live for a necessity this man is not a free man so what does that mean basically it means if you have necessities that are not met if you're in need then you're not free if you're hungry and don't have food you're not free if you're homeless you're not free if you don't have health care you're not free if you don't have a job you're not free that's why shortly before he died franklin roosevelt laid out his second bill of rights so that more and more americans could enjoy that freedom that should come with living in the united states. this second bill of rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity and we established our own regardless of

speech or rates vary among the how the right to use will and remunerated job in the industry rush drops the bomb mind go out and the right to learn another grow guide and it with food and clothing and recreate right of every farmer razan sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living the right of every businessman large and small on the trade in an atmosphere of freedom freedom from one pair of competition going to dominate ny monopoly is the moral braun right of every family to have peace and own right and equipped medical care in the opportunity to achieve and in good i would go right to adequate protection. romney economic

miracle both very sick mitt action and unemployment the right to a good day to be. right but own security and while f.d.r.'s second bill of rights never came to fruition his new deal did and so too did lyndon johnson's great society and from after world war two until reagan our nation spent spread freedom to more and more americans by caring for each other by everyone pitching in to create a social safety net including the rich who paid an income tax rate over seventy percent for the first million or so and most of the time above ninety percent and what happened was more and more americans were free to chase down their dreams be artists and inventors to find that perfect job to teach and to build they were free to spend more time with their families to take vacations they were free to dream and to pursue those dreams and the explosion of innovation and opportunity in

america during the period from the one nine hundred forty s. to the one nine hundred eighty s. was the result of that freedom that's because they weren't constantly living on the edge constantly living in need they weren't and assess if this men and women they were free to quit a dead end job because they knew it wasn't the only way they could get health insurance which all the states back then required to be offered by nonprofit companies and so was less expensive than today they were free to start a small start a business because they weren't living paycheck to paycheck and they could take a risk without fear that their family would starve in the business went bust and because of all this new freedom provided for by government policies our economy boom and the middle class thrived and the united states became a superpower and a beacon beacon of freedom to the rest of the world then it all changed. reagan called f.d.r.'s concept of freedom nonsense he called it communism and he pivoted the nation toward a new definition of freedom the one republicans like ron paul and rick perry

promote bill clinton continued the redefinition of freedom and ended welfare as we know it today half the great society has been repealed and the new deal centerpiece of social security is under attack regulations to keep us safe are being repealed taxes on the rich and corporations that pay for the social safety net are being dropped and despite republicans like to claim americans are more free from the government than they've ever been since the great depression. and what do we see happening working people's wages are going down more americans are living in poverty than in any other time in this nation's history at least twenty million americans are unemployed fifty three million americans are without health care more than forty million americans can't afford to put enough food on the table for their families were free all right free to go hungry free to be poor free to be jobless free to breathe toxic air and drink dirty water free to get sick and die and all the while free from the government helping us we need to once again ask ourselves

what it means to be free because for the vast majority of americans this new definition of freedom just isn't working anthropologically speaking historically speaking humans have never bought into this bizarre new republican or i and rand motion of freedom for thousands of years we've organized ourselves into groups and families and tribes and cities and nations just so we can all collectively provide each other enough basic protections and safety to live more freedom rides that's the point of a democratic government in a republican like ours to guarantee our freedom both from government intrusion but also from want us to to asian disease and from the corporate predators around us it's in our biology to live in we societies so let's tell rick perry and ron paul and the rest of the republicans to go build their libertarian these societies somewhere else like the libertarian paradise of somalia where the government

provides only the most basic of services and the rest of us can be free to recover our society from the damage of reaganomics and restore true freedom here in the united states of america. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com free speech or get out to dot com also check out our two you tube channel is there a link to tom harkin background since our show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free tom hartman i phone and i pad app in the app store you can send us feedback at twitter it's on underscore aardman facebook it's on underscore of and blogs message boards and telephone comment line at top of the dock and don't forget to mark receive begins when you get out there and get active tag your it.

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it. was. that he was the reason levy about to provide freedom and democracy but people say they're afraid any criticism of the new government will be met with severe punishment. france and germany stand down calls for greece to be kicked out of the euro zone as the third anniversary of the two thousand and eight financial crash raise concerns another is close at hand. and r.t. travels to norway spitzbergen archipelago an area that used to be that northern front cold war but is now becoming a base for russian something and city into the arctic.

and am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina josh welcome to the program the leaders of france and britain travel to tripoli today in a show of support for the regime there were planes helped put in power on the eve of their visit had of the national transitional council asked for more weapons to fight pockets of current and obvious loyalists still in their strongholds the rebel government thinks the ousted dictator is hiding in southern libya and planning to fight back however the new authorities asserting an increasing level of control over the country for some that's cause for celebration but as artie's maria phenomena found out others aren't so optimistic. and months after tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant the tearful in parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened how did so somewhere else. that we will do anything for mama oh mama even if we

keep our life. seven support for the ousted leader dissolves once they see our camera it was a. like it was a weird feeling how could you tell about. why. it's the same situation with others to. go if he's come to present good we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we are from television so we couldn't tell the camera no no way it's right here on the camera they will send the food to my room all the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after your appeared on t.v. don't do that. eve legs new slogan is news pages. the rebels were out celebrating again this week when the head of the national transitional council

libya's new authority a rise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really. the those who don't support mr fogg those of you and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago packing khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards here there. the old guys. would. have. tough it is affectively gone then you all sources have settled down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is you free country but it seems that there is at least one thing that still remains of all the beer fear. one youngster finally agrees to talk. tripoli is now under the control of the national

transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or to express an opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi who can kill us and the rest of us of course money and. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about a new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the dark is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim that. the rebels think only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their hobbies are covered in blogs and list international has recently accused both gadhafi is regime and the one which you plaisted of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by some here that more is in store regional ssion r t tripoli

libya the rebel government in the area has a hard job ahead with this warning to freedom and peace are a long way our london based middle east political analyst dan gray's work told r.t. that with the new libyan leadership africa may face acco of its colonial past. but the real fear of the west is the africa unite and is able to break free from its colonial village been in for hundreds of years and who was the leading force behind uniting africa was libya under gadhafi is ruled so nato want to a government that will this unite africa that will rule north africa or away from its southern neighbors so it is very important to nato that a government is a racist one but will not continue with this looking project of uniting africa so there is no mistake that this uprising been characterized by racist violence this

is sarah way north and south. more opinions first hand reports and a timeline of the libyan revolution just one click away at r.t. dot com and for the latest updates on the story and check out our twitter feed and facebook profile. the leaders of france and germany have declared that greece's future allays was the euro they are a common scam as the second bailout for athens considered to be its last chance to avoid a disaster as the fault of the balance missed deadlines and

a full scale recession have left little patience for greece among its neighbors they are now threatening to stop bailout payments for the embattled economy economists are also pessimistic and calls for athens to drop out of the euro zone are building as economic analysts demetri athena's tells r t the future of greece is far from secure i doubt carries potentially great consequences for the global financial system. we're hearing a lot more rumors about of the fall which is frightening but i think the most likely scenario is that they're going to again kick the can down the road france and merkel have been saying that france germany and angela merkel have been talking about how they want to wait until at least twenty thirteen when the european stability. mechanism is in place so they have some sort of institutional framework to go with with the bailout so i think that eventually greece will default but i think that it's not going to happen on a couple seventy they're not addressing they're not creating a scenario where greece or greeks can say ok in five years and seven years whatever

we have a viable plan to exit this this large that burden and go back and to grow because right now the greek economy is in a collapse mode so there's no way they can service that a lot of the american banks on the other side of these derivative fields so they were ensuring that that was on the poker books of european banks so that in the in the event of a default the european banks would they would they would lose out on their bonds and then they would go to the american bank and say give us the money because when you wrote the insurance so the u.s. banks would be on the hook no one really knows and again that's the problem with the banking system there's a lot of uncertainty about counterparty risk the global financial problem is something that's spoken about before there's a problem the global financial system and there are different philosophies as to how to address that u.s. one often bretton woods and facilitated environment where you could run these chronic current account deficits because it was it's an empire that has the imperial curd see so yeah in that sense the centrifuge has been here and that's where the real financialization has kind of expanded. the debt crisis the broader

euro to its knees began three years ago when the unthinkable happened america's fourth biggest bank lehman brothers declared bankruptcy nine a worldwide economic crisis that's still raging today but have a lesson self-made been learned more important i takes a look. lehman brothers has filed for bankruptcy stocks all around the world are taking because of the crisis on wall street the more things change the more they stay the same how will lehman's bankruptcy filing really change the landscape of the entire banking industry in two thousand and eight wall street's bad bets and risky speculation led to the collapse of america's housing market and a financial crisis around the globe today banks have grown more powerful and profitable while the threat of a double dip recession has deepened if part of the problem was too big to fail and if part of the problem was high dependence on the financial sector if you fast forward three years we have even bigger financial solutions which were at least

equally dependent so the structural problems are probably worse and certainly not a whole lot better washington saved wall street with nearly one trillion dollars in government bailout yet in the past three years critics say that washington has failed to effectively regulate wall street the financial industry can still trade brundle debt and bet the same way it did thirty six months ago is still the same the only difference is great they are worse it's because. has been trillions of dollars worth. of the subsidies that were really in a worse position than we were before this is what. america's great recession has chipped away at the middle class exacerbated homelessness and resulted in at least fourteen million unemployed citizens. just last month zero jobs not one was created meantime wall street executives broke records last year pulling in

one hundred forty nine billion dollars in pay in compensation according to analysts the u.s. is approaching its highest level of inequality since world war one if you're not in the top ten or twenty percent you're significantly poorer than you were in two thousand and eight. i mean two thousand and eight you were making one fifteenth as much money as the wealthiest people in united states we've seen you know corporate profits profits record breaking profits in some cases three years after the crisis and why is that they're taking the same risks with investor you know investors' money depositors' money that they were taking before and why because they know they'll be bailed out if there's a problem in two thousand and eight u.s. credit agencies fail to forecast the problem reading lehman as a secure investment just one week before its historic bankruptcy very little has changed their business model the only thing that really has changed is that there

is once more skepticism towards them the collapse of lehman brothers ignited a perfect storm of economic distress in here around the world three years later problems that caused the crisis remain unsolved many economists are predicting that this means another economic collapse isn't just probable it's inevitable. we're not artsy. as a world laborers to avoid dreaded double dip recession things are looking much brighter on wall street the construction of an underwater cable between new york and london will speed up market trades by some six million seconds and that calculates to roughly one hundred million dollars more in annual profits for big investors and that's not sitting well with artie's financial guru matt speiser. is it fair to say trading in this three hundred million pound project i mean high frequency trading is looting ok now this is what i don't understand why david cameron in the u.k. he castigates the looters and the rioters but all they're doing is emulating j.p.

morgan bankers they're looting this is a high frequency trading looting and they're getting the government they're getting these people who are looting you know sticks of juicy fruit gum on the street because they're having their money stolen to pay for i frequent you trading looting of course are going to be looting of course you invited this. into your own homes because you support looters of the banks in the city of love it because david cameron lives alluding he is in fact a terrorist as well they say that not to be glib i say that as a political hack cameron and all the world are terrorist or financial terrorists. and in casual chis reported seven thirty g.m.t. here on our team. tensions are increasing in northern ca some of the breakaway regions prime minister accuses serbia of planning to prevent the takeover of two disputed border crossings by using violence service administration has called for an emergency un security council meeting to prevent a possible repeat of july's clashes back then rest was sparked by

a similar move by casillas authorities and one policeman was killed russia's representative to the u.n. told r.t. the international forces in the region seem to be taking side and that isn't helping the balance of the situation the full interview with him is coming up in about fifteen minutes time here's a preview. concussion was announced by the course while being you know sort of his and pushed and basically to take over the north of course it will by force citing all sorts of arrangements about the customs situation of the administrative war between the serbia proper the province of course of what potentially may create clashes and crisis the another very disturbing element of the situation is that the international presence is there which of the in order to preserve peace they seem to be cooperated with pretty dangerous play. so we hope that this meeting is going to take place in order to prevent those dramatic developments soon course of the book to me this will be

a reality chip whether indeed the security council we in the united nations are interested in preventing disputes and peaceful mediation. a deal to deploy an american writer system in eastern turkey has been agreed by the two countries as part of nato backed missile the fans' glance comes just a day after washington struck a similar agreement with romania under which interceptor missiles and over one hundred military personnel will need based on rumanian soil the u.s. says the carver for plans are designed to withstand europe against the possibility of attack from states like iran and north korea. global now word against weapons and nuclear power in space believes that's not what the defense shield is really about. he wes is using nato and nato expansion as the i think the ploy of a carrot to draw in other countries like turkey in romania making them feel like

they're going to be taken care of by the european union. what clearly we're talking about here is major tensions in the region between united states missile defense deployments that are now going into poland and romania turkey and other countries in the county near us as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're seeing basically in sort of moment of russia at the same time the u.s. is doing the same thing in china with the spaces in missile defense deployments in japan south korea token our. u.s. is deploying patriot missile defense systems are there i don't want and so this is clearly about trying to control the contain both russia and china. now look at some other stories from around the world the palestinian president mahmoud abbas sowed nod to retreat from plans to push for statehood and the u.n. next week that's despite reports that the palestinian leadership has decided to water down your application senior u.s.

and international envoys are in the region trying to revive sold peace talks with israel and make the palestinians drop their plan. around six thousand students joy a march for free education in sheila's capital the majority were peaceful although police did resort to tear gas and water cannons against some demonstrators a new round of governmental talks to resolve the issue are continuing thousands of students have been skipping classes for months to show their discontent at risk of losing scholarships. hundreds of protesters calling for un troops to leave haiti have clashed with police it was allegations of sexual assault on an eighteen year old local man by un peacekeepers the stone throwing crowd was dispersed with tear gas uns twelve thousand strong garrison has been the target of complaints ever since they arrived in political turmoil in two thousand and four. hundred. the commander of the twenty eighth expedition to the international space

station has handed the station over to his successor mike fossum leader of expedition twenty nine praised his colleagues leadership saying it perfectly overcame every challenge and faced or sank his team and their mission undock and head back to earth on friday. well sometimes you have to leave russia if you want to get to know it better this week a special series of artes russia close up reports from outside the country from norway spitzbergen archipelago russia owns about a third of the territory having developed a chile coal mining community there during the soviet period boyko when there and found out following the collapse of the u.s.s.r. the area is actually become more important for russia. it cluster of violence between the devil and they'd be blue sea but they used to sarve bergen archipelago was a lot like puerto rico for the us not entirely its own yet not food for in a form pulls between north america and western europe and as many hope

a future base for the russian advance in the arctic. just a few words about this monument in. their lives and of course. of course all of. the most western tourists face morning meant is a testament to the failed soviet ambitions the town of barons worked once a flourishing mining community is in a series they. give behind this appealing facade one can also see a freshly painted writing on the wall that russians on a living in fact their back. it's a russian birthright to be here. the second summer in a row that cough is standing watch pittsburgh and decorating this kindergarten the diction of russia as an arc is not to project an image of an unshakeable stay emerging from dire straits of history in a time that still experiences difficulties with running water and electricity this

choice of priorities would have been questionable if it wasn't geo politically timely it was. there was a time when the soviet union was feared and respected you can't turn back time but russia should also position itself as a strong state or people who visit parents should feel like they've stayed russian soil. technically that's already the case russian settlements and spitzbergen have greener grass because of the several loads of black soil that was brought here from siberia in soviet times it legally belongs to norway and nine hundred twenty agreement guarantees its signature is the right to conduct industrial activity on the archipelago an option fully utilized only by. moscow that for decades has been mining coal here. coal produced here has always been pretty expansive but back in soviet times it was not an issue of economics but rather politics plus needed to

maintain its mining base here is bergen at any cost but now production volumes have been built just a fraction of what they used to be but one t.v. russian presence here is still considered a matter of strategic importance of the subject matter it's diehard the minds equipment hasn't changed much in the last fifty years while the athlete composition of the workforce could makes a viewer feel solvent nostalgia about the symmetry of this is i'm twenty seven years old so i don't have clear memories of the soviet union but i just assume that spirit is very well preserved here we have people here from ukraine central asian and we all feel like citizens of one country ironically the attitude toward the mines profitability is not so inherently soviet it's been a loss making venture for decades he is increasing its efficiency is politically inconvenient. coal mining is one of the russian president's a profitable.