well story dominating our headlines this afternoon r.t. libyan officials claim colonel gadhafi has died from his injuries after being wounded by government troops during his capture earlier on today and use comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been freed from gadhafi loyalists after two months of fighting that is the main news this afternoon just to update you again we hear that colonel gadhafi has been killed trying to get more confirmation on that throughout the afternoon other top stories piece breakers nato forces clash with serbs in northern kosovo for control over a disputed border area which the serbs consider their territory it's the latest outbreak of violence in the region but international peacekeepers once again supporting the cost of inside in the conflict. the greek parliament prepares to vote on tough austerity measures protests turned violent paralyzing the country for

the second day. now with the occupy wall street movement showing no signs of abating ulti talks to offer a blogger james counsellor who says the presence of a hostage to big business that interview coming right up. i. are sitting down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler so thanks so much for joining us it's nice to be here let's get started with the occupy wall street movement is seen many media outlets try to ridicule them marginalize this movement as something that's temporary and really anarchist teenage behavior and you've essentially called this bogus in your blog let's talk about that what is your take on occupy wall street well first of all it's hilarious that all of these scolds in the media are shaking their fingers at these young people and say oh you don't you can articulate your position you don't have any agenda we're living in a time in the united states when the consensus about reality is so fractured even

among people who are supposed to know what's going on that we cannot construct a coherent story about what's happening to us and what we're going to do about it so to expect the young people to be able to construct a coherent narrative when nobody else in the culture is capable of doing that i think it's a little unfair. what's more you can tell just from the placards that they're carrying around we know where their heads are at the the most significant or telling one that i saw said. i have seventy thousand dollars college debt twelve thousand dollars in medical bills i'm twenty two where's my bailout and that's a good enough reason to be out there i think so and i think what it represents is very clear it's the idea that this younger generation feels like their future

has been sold out from under them but with major unions joining we've seen a much more kind of mature knowledgeable group of people come out onto the streets thousands of people do you think that's reason enough for the media and politicians to really start. seriously i don't know if we're capable of really interpretating what's going on politically in our country right now and you know i have a pet theory that the more social and economic distress a culture goes through the greater the delusional thinking gets so that you know as the social stress rises the crazy ideas and delusional ideas tend to increase it's not a very. good it's not a very good set of conditions for you know arriving at a picture of reality if we compare occupy wall street to the arab spring we saw american politicians and the mainstream media plotting the arab spring yet this is

somewhat of a similar beginning of some uprising along those lines is until double standard a little bit too obvious yeah it's amazing it's amazing that we were cheerleading for all those people in the street in tahrir square you know anderson cooper was down there and you know all the other. usual media suspects were there cheering for the protesters in spite of the fact that there was a very good chance that the outcome of the revolution might not be so good let's put it this way you know the outstanding feature of the politics in the last three years has been that nobody on wall street has had to sit in a court room to ensor for the tremendous amount of misbehavior in banking and you know this includes acts that can only be described as swindles and

frauds well people have been talking about the lack of accountability ever since the financial meltdown took place three years ago but we haven't seen anybody come out onto the streets why now and do you think that this movement could end up taking america to a. better place at least in terms of pushing palin politicians to hold someone accountable it's just that i do think there's a reason why we haven't seen a lot of protests the kind of things that have been happening to americans are very shameful they lose or draw up they lose their income they can't support their family they can't feed their families their house gets taken away from them you know these are things that tend to be humiliating in chain full and i think that because of the way our system works where you know this is the land of freedom and liberty people blame themselves and they internalize the lot of the bad feelings and then you know they suppress it because it's shameful the combination of the

shame and the anger that's all kind of mixed up with that has not really expressed itself and it may take a bit more to shove it over the edge and may take you know a bit more hardship now in one of your articles you say the hope invested in obama will end up in a museum of lost hopes along with the integrity of t.v. news i want to ask you if this were to be obama's only term as president what would he be remembered like in history well i voted for obama i think that he's probably when all is said and done he's probably a decent chap but it also appears that he's either a hostage to history or a hostage to a certain factions in our culture and economy like the wall street bankers. remember over a thousand people were successfully prosecuted for the misdeeds in the savings and loan scandals of the late one nine hundred eighty s.

and early one nine hundred ninety s. no significant figure from the banking community has really been even sat in a courtroom and had to answer for any of their their deeds you know there have been a couple of fluky cases including bernie made off. you know these are outliers these are the marginal cases but really the heart of the system hasn't been touched i think that. mr obama will be remembered as kind of a spectacular failure and i also think that this is a period of history that is comparable to the eight hundred fifty s. in the usa that was the period that preceded the civil war and it was a period in which political institutions were failing you know an interesting thing happens in situations like this institutions lose what's called legitimacy legitimacy a reason to exist and the faith among people who have subscribed to the their

beliefs that they are worth believing in and you know we're seeing a grand failure of legitimacy now in the political system in the usa and it's rather frightening you really sort of forecast every year for the year ahead what the united states should await on your forecast for twenty eleven you said that the number one question really is kind of political economy be flowing like when he that a loon of gusts of sheer fakery has that balloon pop yeah well i think that the air has been going out of it steadily but surprisingly slowly for three years and you know we're the whatever pin prick in this balloon you know where we are it seems to be located at the moment is over europe with tremendous questions about the legitimacy of the european union and the banking sector more more generally but you know all of the banks in europe and north

america are. interrelated and there's no chance that what happens on one continent is not going to affect another i think that there are sooner or later we're going to see similar problems. in the usa the air is going out of the gloom. it's been remarkable that the fabric of this bubble was so strong but when all is said and it's a fabric of faith and confidence that the system is meaningful and sustainable and people are beginning to doubt that it is if we could return to the role of the media you return to this issue in your blog quite often you've written that they shout down invited guest commentators pander to their demographic and dissed their rivals for ratings what role do they play these games well you know culture goes through cycles when institutions. take various forms acquire

a certain legitimacy and then blow it throw it away and i've seen it happen in my lifetime where you know the authority of the evening news on the networks was unquestioned but what's happened is that you know i think that the media has lost its confidence it's certainly in a great state of. convulsive transition we do know that younger people tend not to really get their news from t.v. at all you know they mostly get it from the internet. there are very few kind of vested legitimate authorities on the internet who are trusted news bringers they all appear to have an agenda of some kind or another whether it's left wing rightwing capitalist socialists you know we never won it is and you know i think we have a long way to go before any of these things are sorted out and it's one of the

reasons that we can't construct a coherent narrative about what's happening to us do you think the united states could face its own her strike or i prefer to call it a reset because i don't think it's the end of the world or the end of culture. where the end of america i think it's a reset of culture but it it but it can be very very painful and you know there will be a lot of losses involved of of property and status and you know things that were important to people that they're going to lose and so we have to somehow be prepared for this period of history that's very difficult but i think we're seeing is something that i did expect that we would mount a campaign to sustain the unsustainable because of our tremendous psychological investments in the stuff that we've got running you know we put all of our national treasure into building freeways and building these massive suburbs and building all

of the accessories and furnishings for them you know the strip malls and the malls and all the you know all the stuff that comes with them. that's where our national wealth has gone you know we're not going to just kick it into the garbage can without a struggle. but i don't think that it's going to work very well for us anyway so the final in the final analysis well i think is going to happen is america is going to be dragged kicking and screaming into a reset of daily life how it can start thank you so much for your time.

a very warm welcome to you this is your news today and of protestors on the wall street strange play at. least in chips a good chance that she says it's a good book for example the status of the human experiment. with. your problems isn't this rap music or to expose the military trying to censor global economy and it's our changelings our financial temples these are the research clambering to maintain our confidence in markets and think non-descriptive wants to be easing trade imbalances recession low t.v. nations close to collapsing a subprime loan foreclosed homes people. to fail so we played the game feel level i think is us crash and imminent smash the ceiling teams players apply concepts and

classes in athens free for the i.m.f. for experience just programs increase the total economy stupid. breaking news from r t libyan officials claim colonel gadhafi has died from his

injuries are being mortally wounded by government troops during his capture earlier on today but he was comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been freed from gadhafi loyalists after two months of fighting. peace breakers nato forces clash with serbs in northern cos of a control over a disputed border area which the serbs considered their territory it's the latest outbreak of violence in the region with international peacekeepers once again supporting the course of a side conflict. and the greek parliament prepares to vote on tough austerity measures as protests turned violent paralyzing the country for the second day. this is r.t. . hello and thank you for joining me for the sports and here's what's coming up points drops

a new china split the ruse missed chances as it needs twice come back to draw two two it shocks are in the champions league. wild game as the century prepare for their one hundredth european fixture with a europa league showdown that's how i catch them. and advantage louis the cardinals edge the texas rangers to claim victory in carrying one of baseball's world series . star tennis there were third seed marion bartoli has russian to send back to goes through to the quarter finals of the crown and cup here in moscow the french woman cruised to victory she claims she's used high ranking points to reach the season ending w.t. eight championships however she needs to take the title to qualify well elsewhere universe may not want her all russian in battles with the lady yankovic's conqueror katharina even over eight seeds germany can see both of our lines of a meeting with the top seed was gone over from the straits because like a full other hand finally succeeds that long because it's over for

a quarter final spot that starts out a bit on cuba of old area. and over in the men's side of the draw a french qualifier joining me shaadi ousted ukrainian alexander delegate paul off and later on russian sixty degrees due to a tsunami if you invented so france while another russian eagle commits in faces serbian top seed young pointed star of which lots of those huge. kohlschreiber of germany. football now and say coach here john is for that he says he was disappointed not to have claimed all three points that shocked her in the champions league after the sized too soon ukraine. missed a penalty pause of eight after just eleven minutes and the visitors were punished really on the track telling front four minute. later however she will have we deemed himself by leveling just after half an hour but lewis and two ya know homesites to one up on the stroke of half time how about within our guns it defies the really equalized to again force any level seats it was how it finished the russian champion stake second behind her well it was on her course

a girl meanwhile fernando torres struck twice as chelsea recorded their biggest county is a victory with a five mil thrashing belgian side bank that started bridge there is also right and his european account of the goings chelsea remain top of group a point for violating it isn't one to want to time to balance here but suppose manager and the english boss is keen jelling nicely. and i'm very very happy with it with a performance and some really the way play with the commitment of the. same that everybody expects you to will and you know that when. surprise is. just around the corner and we want to keep the concentration. we normally. would have performance and we're good results but i'll swear defending champions barcelona enjoy day to nowhere as home to victoria genya fastest a second in group h. ac milan's movie to sell it sounds zero meanwhile the spanish champions enjoyed

seventy eight percent of the possession of andres iniesta and obvious scoring goals so not only like philly and all the rest you scored sixteen times already this season but coach that guardiola thought that is a positive image which he was. not just some tremendous food book he knew since one thousand scorekeeping call galoubet keep its achieved and we have got to learn the new since round she doesn't score and i wish to continue for many years. and arsenal are top of choreographed after aaron ramsey netted the stoppage time winner in their long old victory at marseille a new stick the second is just a point behind the. they are better out of the three one highway i've ever received all right and i need to ask in bangor believes his side deserved to be where they are wednesday night's performance. took it off. i don't think it was dangerous in the second half and. in turn as different go will not.

convince me created some chances and. of course you will be rewarded for because you keep going. moving on to the regular league we're looking at a full make history later this thursday afternoon glasgow side are preparing to kick off a great outfit like athens in what will be their one hundredth european fixture and reports. look a month before only almost two thirds this europa league clash at home to iraq will begin number one hundred in european competitions for the muscovite side although the railway mills head coach just. cleans this should not affect his players' motivation and having gone it's a good number for the club no doubt but it doesn't really matter much in terms of motivation we treat every game as a crucial one because all the place take it as an owner to defend the colors of the

club. however not all of them will be able to do so if the true cause of a stadium with at least forty members of the school board said to sit on the sidelines and los altos you know we've got a number of injured players and to be honest it is a problem but still the story out of and a story of our sidelines and toby ski is just recovery and also i'm not sure if they said it will be able to help us in the front line but will try to get away with those who are fit all. second placed hosts have won one of their two group games so for having suffered their first defeat under the portuguese skill which is under left three weeks ago and adding three points at home against the greek side who are boredom and have to clean the points off work is definitely a must for local. last two games in use in this competition of course. in the video game of

course it's not everything games. should be next in this game but it is not for us. looking to sue break their european jubilee in style although it's a safe bet i have different plans for thursday night robert berliner on earth t two region. well known as i call rock bottom in group well and have their own selection problems the visitors lost nearly science trying to get johnson for a broken leg over the weekend they still health city rivals and n.p.r. lost to a one one draw to stay joint top of the domestically however they're still without a point in the europa league after listen to great leaders and elect a strong gusts and i coach has outlined what needs to be done. and there are several key points we should stick to the clock much if these are still fully focus for the whole of the match especially when it comes to defending and then be brave

and aggressive for a lot of resistance and eventually take a three point. zero zero meanwhile russia strike out on poverty or make a rest stop it's not known when the north london club host joins pre-pay leaders rubin later this thursday other django has spent just seventeen minutes on the pitch in the english premier league so far this season he has been a regular starter in the europa league games and it's an equaliser in last month's three one win at home to shamrock rovers tottenham are behind rubin only. on goal difference so the winner would take the outright lead and spurs manager harry redknapp is worried of the russian side. joe dream what you can read all the videos on only everything so it is up to speed room but actually a good side will organize the character checking team very good team. pascagoula and it wasn't a good night in europe for russian side who lost a year early opener at home to italian side mount a basket sienna seventy nine points to seventy one the next has dominated most of the game but thirty five

twenty eight up after any don't like counts jump shot. to the side with thirty points night and russian side held a narrow forty four forty three halftime lead but not surpassed it went ahead soon after the restart. struck two three pointers italian team were sixty four fifty five in front of time to win by eight points. sending now and americans out michael phelps once again just one goal from three races later as well as cup stage here in moscow while russian world record holder yevgeny tentative did perform to his best but in the one hundred meter butterfly causing the top of the tightest. despite moving to be formed after the low point is when tuesday for internally champion michael fields produced almost an identical suit a result on day two of the world cup in the russian capital in

a two hundred metres freestyle the twenty six year old american was overtaken in last fifty eight by john a world record holder paul be there monday and had to settle for silver. and phelps and being in moscow for the first time to make it to the boardroom in the one hundred metres butterfly a world record holder game you can argue screen grabs for is always to the delight of the home crowd i mean. it was very important. for me to win today so i can see i want to beto and no matter the strain of war and by that i mean them to know lympics. however just as he did on the opening bell show he's committed to design as he bounced back to claim gold in the two hundred metres backstroke after being fourth for the first one hundred fifty metres in new confounded burst of power and managed to surge to victory it's all working on some of the small things to really get to the end of the year being able to tie together some of the stuff you know the starch turns under waters have i can do that as many

times i can leading up in the bill of a child and we're back south america. the london olympics are just nine months away and preparations are well underway for this we need plans however there are still four steve used to go before the end of the world cup giving press bonbons and swimmers alike the opportunity to gauge who will be clean shindig gold medals at the twenty twelve games is about about r t. and finally the st louis cardinals have ads the texas rangers three teams with the opening game of baseball's best of seven world series and i'm saying once to no luck at the busch stadium and there is one for lance but when you take a page down the line into right field and to run as hang around to school however the rangers were level with one swing of the bat with a man on first mike matheny sprint to her run to makes two two at the top of the fifth inning. but at the bottom of the six allen craig harvey i single one

concept blame two is a game can say there was one for this day. and that's all the sports news i think. well. the latest in science and technology from the realm plus. we've got the future covered.

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