protests on the streets of greece turned violent paralyzing for the second day of its biggest general strike in years the parliament is due to vote on more punitive cuts to services its record. breakers and nato forces clashed with serbs in northern kossovo for control over a disputed border area the serbs consider their territory. and over the occupy wall street movement showing no signs of abating arche talks to author and blogger james counsellor who says president obama is a hostage to big business his interview is up next. i. archie sitting down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler source thanks so much for joining us it's nice to be here let's get started with the occupy wall street movement we've seen many media outlets try to ridicule them marginalize this movement as something that's temporary and really an artist

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 hell areas that all of these scolds in the media are shaking their fingers at these young people and saying oh you don't you can articulate your position you 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 is a little unfair. what's more you can tell just from the placards that they're carrying around when you 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 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 taking this seriously i don't know if we're capable of really interpretating what's going on politically in our country right now 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 send 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 on the mainstream media plotting the arab spring yet this is somewhat of a similar beginning of some uprising along those lines isn't the 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. there's has been that nobody on wall street has had to sit in the court room to answer 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 politicians to hold someone accountable if just you know 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 their job they lose their income they can't support their families they can't feed their families their house gets taken away from them you

know these are things that tend to be humiliating in shameful 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 hosty. to 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 and in your forecast for twenty eleven you said that the number one question really is can a political economy be floating like a when he will 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. in this balloon you know where where 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 balloon. it's been remarkable that the fabric of this bubble was so strong but when all is said and done it's a fabric of faith and confidence that the system is meaningful and sustainable and people are beginning to doubt that that it is if we could return to the role of the

media you return to to the 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 days 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 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 trust. news bringers they all appear to have an agenda of some kind or another whether it's a left wing right wing capitalist socialist you know we never want 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 per store i prefer to call it a reset because i don't think it's the end of the world or the end of culture or the end of america i think it's a reset of culture 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 what 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 what i think is going to happen is america is going to be dragged kicking and screaming into a reset of daily life james howard kunstler thank you so much your time.

a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the bolts printer they have. ladies and gentlemen you chose to choose instead to get the status of the human experiments good. to see this right here is what it snows to movies lizzie trying to make sense of global economy and it's on changelings us financial template the responsibility to maintain zero confidence in long kids and. wants to be seen trade imbalances recession look keep the nations close to collapsing in some like moon for close. to fail simple a balance against sealevel i think is

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has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. top stories on our t.v. get in with breaking news a fall and direct dictator but it has been a really stupid claims by libyan officials the colonel gadhafi has died from his injuries after being shot by government troops during his capture earlier today the news comes from the city of sirte it's been reportedly free from gadhafi loyalists after two months of fighting are still waiting for independent confirmation of the colonel's death ruled libya for nearly forty two years before being ousted by revolutionary forces assisted by nato air strikes this august. protest saw the streets of greece turned violent paralyzing the country for the second day in its biggest general strike in years the parliament is due to vote on more punitive cuts to services. and at peace breakers nato forces crosman

serbs in northern kossovo for control over a disputed border area which are serbs consider their territory. i'll be back with more on all those stories in about fifteen minutes time but first kate will tell you all about the big night in european football. a lot of thank you for joining me for the latest sports update and here's what's coming up. david the century look i want to use that one hundredth european fixture with the great police showdown it happens we have the way to school here in moscow . while sweet home wall number one yani tseng is tied for the lead on the. ladies tournament in her native title one. daring to go favorites new zealand are taking nothing for granted frogs hold an open training session head of sunday's

rugby world cup final showdown. but will first there and in the europa league ecuador strike a funny because say they have started on the bench for the launch of moscow as ike athens in their one hundredth european fixture to me. on top starting out from for a long time and the school as a whole time. josie crucero is looking to avoid the second you can't offer advice for months of the. others besides to notice the two and electrons timeouts while the belgian team are themselves about to kick off storm in austria. well meanwhile russia strike out roman pavlyuchenko will make a rare start for second place top of group eight is rubin was on the house spent just seventeen top flight minutes on the pitch so far this season but has been a regular starter in the europa league netting the equaliser in last month's three one win over shamrock rovers tottenham trial robin only on goal difference in group by spurs manager harry redknapp is what every of the russian side. joe's dream what

you can read all the videos on him and everything. is up to speed. to do good solid well over noise good character check into a very good. greek side palko welcome dublin signed shall not write this up and yet you think that test points of the campaign when a total of twenty four matches are taking place across europe just as they are going to come to mind all the time is p.s.v. eindhoven are happy well to be the group elitists joke post another is writing something like a rake and i'm like yes and turkish ship tash all settings where you think french johnsbury side your man are in slovakia english championship side during a concert on the group i there is a battle of the joint leaders between let it go where did i deny using the scottish john celtic on bronze to rent in full and travel to the polish side because well. you may want to wednesday's the meet coach trying to split he was disappointed not

to have claimed all three points that shot in the champions league off the side street to two in ukraine romano missed a penalty for zero eight off to just eleven minutes and the visitors were punished as priyanka shatov in front of four minutes later however we deemed to yourself by levelling to start the ball now at least i did on i put the home side to one up on the strength of time i woke up with an hour gone victimising equalised way again pulls in a level two two that's how it finished russian champions stay second behind after well three one wants of course a. lot meanwhile fernando torres struck twice as chelsea recorded their biggest champions league victory with a five nil thrashing of belgian side games at stamford bridge. he will sell a team from the europeans and the blues chelsea remain top of group eight point four violated his and he wants a lot of time to volunteer to not lose my job i'm very good as far as things his team jelling i stay. i'm very very happy with the performance. not only the way you

play but the commitment of the team towards the game that everybody expects you to win and you know that. surprises. are just around the corner and we were able to keep the concentration and focus on all ninety minutes to put a good performance and good results on the one else by defending champions barcelona enjoyed a two no when as home to victoria place in your state the second in age behind ac milan got a two no santa sara from the mile the spanish champions enjoyed seventy eight percent of the possession of andres iniesta that hideous for the goals so i was not alone thankfully and all messi who scored sixteen times already this season have guardiola so that was a positive. image and actually we made a real exhibition tonight to play some tremendous football three nooses when messi doesn't score think over the allowed to keep his achieved we have got to learn all

that the news is wrong she doesn't score which is i wish this to continue for many years but my children and it's all small who are top of group best to aaron ramsey ness of the stoppage time winner and i want to say your step to second is the point behind. third after their three one home when i burst a dormant gun as manager also a bank that believes his side deserved to be where they are wednesday night's performance. took it off or took over. i don't think it was dangerous in the second offertory and. in turn this very different. but you can see the last fifteen minutes we created some chances and. of course you were awarded for because we kept going. moving on to tennis now a third seed marion bartoli has been rushing to send your pet a vax to go through to the quarterfinals of the kremlin cup here in moscow the french woman who used to victory aims to place her ranking points to reach the

season ending w t o championships however that she needs to take the title to qualify elsewhere you name it there's me now one russian battle well eight seats to make it's a book about tribe in straight sets the next place talked a bit as one of my best and final six leaps that are not so it's taken on the spot on a wrong about gold area. and able in the men's draw a local man dmitri to also not converted the first of his five much points in the second set tie break ranks of country julien benneteau the six seed will next play high as they can patrick littleton it's in or serving talk to young to sort of age earlier on the french qualifier surely shaadi ousted ukrainian alexander the overcall of the next place politico schreiber germany would have been better luck to shield miller. now over in america said louis cardinals have edge the texas rangers three two to win the game with baseball's best of seven world series that

i've been seeing went to no off at the bush stadium instant louis off the launch but made it a pitch down the line and into right field since two runners came around to school . however the range is one level with just one swing of the bat the man on first might not police trying to homerun to make it two two at the top of the fifth inning. bugs that's the bottom of the six allen craig's r.b.i. single one the concept just three two games since this game instead there is this statement. of now and despite her pre-tournament nerves world number one jani saying produced a strong finish to the opening round to tie for a one shot lead at the first ever event on the home island of taiwan. the twenty two year old a five time major winner did bogey the first hole back to back in style setting up this birdie on the par five nights and saying held her on the back nine to content

fist birdie in the final hole before the car round sixty eight casing and share the lead with. the japanese while number seven rallied from a bogey at the sixteenth to seem to create. jennifer's song an unordered list and morgan pressel all just one stride behind. and in the meantime france and host new zealand have been going through their final preparations for the rugby world cup decider in oakland this sunday the all blacks trained away from the cameras but they blur held an open session and look into traffic and base their defense they conceded a stinging five tries in their thirty seven seventeen defeat by the home nation who lay however the french know how to deal with a key reason the knockout stages having dealt them out twice before you see him and lifted the webb ellis trophy at the inaugural tournament twenty four years ago but france a two time finalists and are expected to put up a proper fight. don't start giving orders you don't do no good you know

exactly what we've done the roy. roy parker and fly on sunday night nine o'clock. you know it's a two horse race. and. dr james will be doing that and i still want to. shine feelings that we have. and it's a great night ever. my sports now in case you stand i can finally take it easy as the australian rider prepares for his first race since reclaiming his world where to g.p. crown last week my g.p. circus next pitches up in malaysia for the seasons and the ultimate prix but before getting down to business the riders and dollars in a different type of speeding car race around supplying circuit bonding means to lighten the mood to have some serious racing over the weekend however champion stone it seems to be most needed that extra practice the twenty six year old sealed his second world title in front of his home crowd on sunday and this for the

relaxed. you know is a big weight of pressure off and you know we knew in those last races if we made any mistakes that jorge was going to take a big bunch of points office and you know the chairmanship was wide open so you know for us to consider you know a couple rounds to go it's always nice and you know we can go and just enjoy these races. and finally sebastian vettel says drivers calm on the side of caution as the newly crowned formula one world champion was the latest to offer his condolences pulling the tragic death of indic on dr a don weldon thatll spoke at his red bull team's base in england as the german returned to milton keynes for the first time since retaining his point and in japan earlier this month the twenty four year old also said that death is a part of racing drivers have no other choice but to accept that form in the cost series champion weldon died at the age of thirty three all from escalation in las vegas on sunday tragedy that prompted a course of opinion about stepping up safety measures bracing. noticeboards and

it is dangerous sometimes people forget sometimes we get a little bit of. criticism for you know the support beam to say but. yeah it's still accidents in general it and obviously the bad one last sunday remind you of what is really a port of a life i didn't know him. but obviously you know knew him as a driver knew the name. it's a big loss. and those holes foresees life and. breaking

news on our t.v. a fall on a dictator footage that appears to show the body of colonel gaddafi the libyan government says has died from his injuries after being shot by government troops during his capture earlier today the news comes from the city of sirte which reportedly been freed from that often boy lists after two months of fighting. one dead and dozens injured as well as breaks out in the streets of athens while the greek parliament debates topham a sturdy national. and peace breakers nato forces clash with serbs in northern kossovo for control over a disputed border area which the serbs consider their territory.