ok back here with r t here's a look at the week's top stories nato is preparing to leave libya saying it's achieved its goals after the killing of colonel gadhafi badar fears the country could now be plunged into chaos mob rule. the leaders are meeting in brussels to brainstorm ways to save the euro zone slash greece's enormous debt it comes after the greek government approved another round of eye watering cuts to secure a bailout the leading to a two day strike and clashes with police. and ethnic serbs revanth natal problem dismantling their barricades at a disputed border crossing in northern costs about a friday peacekeeping troops used tear gas to disperse hundreds of locals who sat on the road to stop them. the occupy wall street movement is now well into its six week and is not slowing down next r.t. talks to author and blogger james costner about the phenomenon and how it could

influence on america's future. archie 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 we've seen many media outlets try to ridicule them marginalize this movement as something that's temporary and really just 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 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 we know where their heads are read 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 right 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 the greater the delusional thinking gets so that you know as the social stress rises the crazy ideas and delusional ideas and 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 applauding the arab spring yes this is somewhat of a similar beginning of some uprising along those lines because until double standard

a little bit so 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 a court room to answer for the tremendous amount of misbehavior in banking and you know this includes facts 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 polit politicians to hold someone accountable if just 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 families they can't feed their families their house gets taken away from them you know these are things that seem to be humiliating and 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 make 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 all said and done he's probably a decent chap but it also appears that he's either a hostage to history or hostin. certain factions most of our culture and economy like the wall street bankers and. 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 court room 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 with missy 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 kind of political economy floating like a when he will loon of costs of sheer fakery how's that balloon pops yeah well i think that the air is 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 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 there's no chance that what happens on one continent is

not going to affect another i think that there 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 that 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 guests 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 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. good 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 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 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 but it can be very very painful and you know there will be a lot of losses involved 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 and. that's where our national

wealth has gone and 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 time. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on holds true today at. least intensely good

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thanks remained pretty to have you with us plenty ahead including this hour in sports today net loss russia's four year wait for a home women's champion up in kremlin cup must go on following the semifinal exit of the alina vesnina. de de new zealand and france are now underway in the twenty eleven rugby world cup final. league all their own alberta pool holes joins babe ruth and reggie jackson in the record books has sent louis cardinals take charge of the world series against texas. let's get going with football where the top two in the russian premier league are an option later today leaders in neat giving sunday's games going away to a rough start this in petersburg many having to get back to winning ways following steel needs in the past too much is after that sports like most school be attempting to move up to fourth place at the expense of rock bottom siberians f.c.

tome and then the big one some. verses second seeded c.s.k. moscow desperately in need of some form sitting need people with just one wind from their previous half a dozen calls. expect fireworks in the english game today and not just from mario balotelli bathroom either he's close to the leading munch sister city hosts cross-town rivals united in the first of sunday's five games italian striker ballots how he was forced to a state from his own hearts when it caught fire late on friday night after he and some friends have been letting off fireworks it's not known as yet whether the twenty one year old will start this afternoon old trafford elsewhere are still will be hoping to kickstart their campaign with victory at home. against stoke fullam close to everton struggling blackburn are at home to spurs third place chelsea make the short journey to you boys q.p.r. but it is the opening clash which books their eyes will be fixed on. i think that

if we leave. it there i think that is good for us and but there it is not. the same for you. you see it was. their biggest rugby clash for four years is on their way the twenty eleven world cup final bringing together all the old favorites new zealand and france to eden park the half time whistle well it's just to go the park with the score five nil to new zealand proper tony woodcock going over with a quarter of an hour on the clock for the scoreline the game repeats of the first ever final in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven which new zealand won the kiwis are seeking just their second ever crime despite entering every world cup as favorites france never and if it were a repeat race profits. to tennis where the weight must go on for

a russian women's champion up the kremlin cup two thousand and seven was the last time a local prevailed upon as richard pound porfiry reports this year the type of won't be resting on soil either. i have a credit card in moscow and russian interest on the inside of a drawer is the last remaining both the minister and i was rushed in straight sets six lawsuits two point slovakia's. double specialist had done really well to reach the semifinals here in moscow which will be discreetly disappointed that she went out and she didn't really put up much of a fight against a slovak opponent and this is great to be in the semifinal in moscow in the home tournament and. it's yeah there was a repeat of that played really not my best tennis today against dominika and i was trying. i was trying to do everything to do what i can and i was fighting till the end and i believe that i can change the magic till the end i had the feeling that

this can change because played against the many times she was up through a lot in the third set and i won both of the matches so i knew that everything can happen in the situations and it was an exemplary performance upon the slope. and structure of every game that he plays here in moscow especially after a three hour marathon encountered spiros one of the organ before the finals on friday all of the noise sublethal were so taken things that some feelings before i know i saw you were well you know i was just playing too fast for her and that's why she was making the mistakes you know and it's never easy if you were in such a setting and then you just have to be yourself and in the being of a second sitting i was just living life to sleep you know and i thought i had to begin to imagine just start living again i must say the russians left on the winning side of the draw and away we might go on for another year the. last one ladies singles here. in germany is never one of the beauty tournament's will get

another chance trying to win her maiden title on sunday when she plays kind of connect in the final. people being. not a final sin in two weeks you know and it's just there's a great feeling in and of course i know i don't have any ability title but i'm sure sooner or later it will come so i don't want to make a big deal about it than. just try to go out there and play my play my best tennis is often plenty of twists and turns and she is trying to come just one of course the russian made that will be a new name and a trophy because the bulk of the take some time i made a mistake. artsy. there will be an all serbian men's final in moscow with yankee sort of it's set to take on defending champion viktor troicki russian three time champion on able to make the ultimate rounds after going down two tips are of h.

to overtake who had been struggling with his serve in the russian capital as he paddled nagging left leg injury the thirty year old broken three times in the opener alone allowing to form it's to take it six two with the home crowd rolling tank who looked more composed in the second going five four up to the start of each holding his serve when it mattered most before an inspired effort led him to a six two seven five win. troitsky meanwhile has already shown his liking for the kremlin cup cts winning the title last year on likely semifinalists european tour de did his best thing and threw him in champaign troitsky though written a frenchman late in the first step to take it six for the twenty five rule then got hearts wrapping up the second on the same scoreline with six for six who are. baseball's world series where the spotlight is shining firmly on albert cuckold today they sent louis cardinal hitting three home runs to help the side go ahead

overall against texas in a big score a sixteen seven win on saturday the cards quickly getting to grips on their road adventures having migrated. texas for the first three games david freese making it to nothing with a double in the fourth before mike not police throwing or allowed salutes to total the other advantage the rangers though fighting back to make it five three still in the fourth but then prove all stepped up to show why he's won the m.v.p. award three times i three run home run in the six making at eleven six a two run effort followed in the seven before us to run in the ninth the historic outing putting all the alongside some illustrious company only babe ruth and reggie jackson have hit three homers in a single world series. goal fun world number one doll's chances of securing the pj's money cry and have tipping up big hits following run three of the children's

miracle network classic the thirty three year old falling five shots behind leaders just in leonard rookie kevin chappelle far from a magical ride for double the art of disney losing ground to webb simpson in the p.g.a. tour money title race despite a few solid approaches a job a bogey on the fourteenth on a bogey on the sixteenth marred his scorecard being michelin needs to finish in a tie for second to cash in leonard meanwhile is in the share of the lead for the second straight day the thirty nine year old had six pretty such as this chip in on the night but also hard for bogeys chappelle joins lenard with a one shot lead seven birdies for him the day including this on the twelfth. motor sport fans are paying their last respects to a racer who will go down as one of the most electrifying men in open wheel racing two time indeed r.p.'s five hundred tonne of welded laid to rest in florida after a fetal crash in las vegas took his life wild and was thirty three years old fellow

indy car driver story front keady scott dixon twenty kane and serving as paul bearers while numerous colleagues from across the recent spectrum also attended the funeral the englishman leads a life run tucson's ejb two years and seven months are all behind weldon won the indian uplift five hundred in two thousand and five and again this year he died while competing in only his third indy car race of the twenty a level calendar world and falling victim of a multi-core crushing lot of eleven of the season finale at the las vegas motor speedway. and finally to. claim pole position for the malaysian grand prix the spaniard setting the fastest lap time of two minutes one point four six two seconds up the supplying circuit producer will lead all repsol hundred front through in sunday's race. is closest rivals and team mates keystone are under the see also who are second third

respectively still mercer cured this year's title last weekend in his native australia two races early. working on not only just pension only does he do to get the best. possible for them out of race and train hire only on the ball i was in one section i was coming faster but then i got some traffic i could improve my life then but the able to the second time was good but hoping to do even better tomorrow under age all right that is your sport but just before i go i can tell you it is half time in the rugby world cup final new zealand leading five nil in what is the lowest scoring first half of a final ever more coming up in two hours time.

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