latest news and the week's top stories here on r.t. a blood stained end to an era in libya with allegations colonel gadhafi was executed by the interim government's troops. breaking point this week volley clashes erupted in greece as people were hit with more sturdy measures e.u. leaders up against the clock me to try and resolve the debt crisis. battle over barricades nato forces failed to remove roadblocks of the disputed serbia cause of a border as ethnic serbs guard the blockade to stop the peacekeepers advance. its weapons up to date for the moment. with morphine about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime the ongoing occupy wall street movement which started over a month ago shows no signs of slowing down back start to talk to author and social critic james costello about the phenomenon and what kind of impact it's going to

make on the future of the united states that interview for you next. i. can't thing down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler so thanks so much for joining us and it's nice to be here and 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 advocates 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 know 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 there's a little unfair. what's more you can tell just from the placards that they're carrying around when you know where their head to 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 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 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 on 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 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 palate 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 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 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 and 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 they're hoping best and 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 charm 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 certain factions most 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 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 eighteenth 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 that to 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 if 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 floating like a when he that boogaloo not gusts of sheer fakery how's that balloon pop chadwell 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 moon 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. it was 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 it's a fabric of faith and confidence that the system is meaningful and sustainable and people are beginning to doubt that that it 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 just 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 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 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 person 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 but it can be very very painful and you know there will be a lot of losses and vault 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 of 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 how in concert thank you so much for welcome your time.

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the latest news in the week's top stories in r.t. a bloodstained end to an era in libya with allegations colonel gadhafi was executed by the interim government streets. breaking point this week clashes erupted in greece as people were hit with more austerity measures e.u. leaders up against the clock to try and resolve the debt crisis. battle over barricades nato forces failed to remove roadblocks of the disputed because of a border as ethnic serbs called the blockade to stop the peacekeepers advance. i'll be back with more no stories when this and fifteen minutes from now meantime to reach is next with the latest from the world of sports. part of their walk into this course of the eighteen actually thanks for joining us this hour first let's take a quick look at what's making the sporting headlines around the globe. blackout new

zealand's are crowned rugby world cup champions for the second time following a close eighty seven victory over the fronds. across in russia the exciting game from north america draws a lot of new follows across the ocean. and has passed by career doublets a title the records a book of big sky canapé in the women's singles final to make becoming top ten in the russian capital. so new zealand twenty eleven rugby world cup champions the all blacks traveling by the narrowest of margins of the french team in auckland it may have been the love with scoring decide ever it was also one of the most exciting mantra place for the sides return of the kowtowing ever for the house fifteen minutes in our french captain to read just one touchdown eight minutes after the break of the stephenville penalty prove crucial eighty seven final school ends and popped the all black stuff to celebrate the second world

crown. you guys are one. and there is a state. i would be in through a lot together as richie would see. a lot of the guys try the last group. and fell a quarter final and the witnesses. is not words for it quite frankly who complies with the mature certainly we have always thought we have always said that the all blacks were the best team of all time but tonight i think our team was great even tremendous for you but it was difficult when you did just a tiny bit more here. now football when the russian premier league leaders in it have retained their top spot following a three one away victory to restore faith we visited nihilists open this scoring has done it registered in a logo there to militant defend smaller front of the fire from the area so the

referee had no other option books a point to the sport but it's a look which make no mistake. by the second minute extended early to three goals headed home after a cross to become want to go back straight after the break but that was it for the house so we want to finish still on top of the standings. sponsor moscow meanwhile have got fourth in the standings has a fresh f.c. tone at the luzhniki stadium fully opened the scoring for the muscovites ten minutes brazilian striker double delayed just before the break se had plenty of time to fire his powerful shot into the top right corner after the break spotter substitute matric a human contributed with his career first go for the team to make a free will and finally the nets once again for the home side two minutes before the whistle to seal the final result before. the late game

to mail it to. their home defeat by a second place a scar north go that was finished five three planets is man there in his collar. with a hat trick to his name. to the english premier league now where manchester city have threshed cross-town rivals united six drawn at old trafford rehabilitate and. with a double there for the visitors while turn added the consolation girl for alex ferguson's men. sixty five points clear of their closest rivals united's. three one win is against the. and you know our picks up all three points that fill them in other games back on the winning track as they defeated to go through one well placed chances surprisingly last leads people with screens are rangers. right now let's take a look at brazilian football where current champions luminaires the last. two goals

and chance to move third in the table open this scoring eleven minutes into the game. i thought from the test come oscar midfielder found a note from the power to create a strike appeared to be too strong for four minutes as goalkeeper diego the third to give and went in the first half injury time to wallace crossed after the helm at the net post. to finish the miserable night for the health referee in culver city lap central using several minutes before the final whistle. over to tennis now where it's a bulk of the has won her first ever career double it a title the kremlin cup that's after beating in the women's singles final here in moscow i think our turned out to bear three setter it was a stunning player to open a rather easily six three but the eighth seed for the storm back in the second as she won it on

a tie break so vocal was also betting the decider taken it seventy five the match and that trophy. in the men's game it was. claimed the title following a straight sets victory over country and defending champion took to try to keep top secret service to the opening seven six four that was a more confidence and the second one was dropped only two games there to win the cup. now the north american sport of lacrosse has become an unlikely pastime in russia the exciting game drawing a lot of new followers here this year but up of now explains. why cross is recognised as the all this north american sport with origins in the same should be needed for americans to get to be heard even went as far as calling it little brother roof war many moments have occurred since then alone routinely yes indeed world wide to flourish. is

a team game so it's got that competition thing is in the air so it's not here three dimensions it is more scope for dinner clever stuff i like there you know you've got you've got your stake in this but you play to the stakes of yourself you know i think it very. well because i think it's kind of funny as well gave you had it up you may not really get there and really if you see there's no like i got the ball and suddenly like four guys around i think it's critical to me you know is a really good cross has been a surprising revelation for russian audiences despite having a few domestic players in just to be quirky one each in moscow. this poor statue is growing in every measure between the royals is a big event at the moment flooring fans are in the majority in the stands. i think it is russia it's a it's an upcoming school it's you know it's a brand new sport and i think you know we have a lot of americans a lot of british people here who are trying to play with the russians and teach the russians how to play the cross and hopefully integrate it into russian culture is

a great game for young people because it's it's i thought again and if you know it's going to be out there to become. a stronger and to make friends the reality well cross has been a tool in big games in nineteen zero four in late in the weight with canada topping the podium on both occasions it's also the national summers poor becomes the physically demanding pastime with its full context downs not too dissimilar to the country number one sport ice hockey oh i was looking for team mates to play hockey and got into lacrosse and now i like it not a lot of people here know anything about the game and i like to watch people's amazed faces when they see my stick and helmets in the streets it has a lot of common with hockey so i mean there's hitting i mean the game itself strategy involved it's pretty similar to hockey in hockey is popular here so i mean i think you could definitely grow in russia there is still a long way to go for course before lee comes a well known sports on russian soil play for the enthusiasm of the people really

playing it here is anything to go by the signs and it will happen sooner rather than. archie. and follow very sad news to tell a rider marco simoncelli has died after a crash at the malaysian in sepang they twenty four year old will sit by two bikes a ton of heaven after hearing that awful lot of words and put it in a rossi the american right also fell but this tape serious injury fellow italian russell was able to return to the pits the race was immediately stop after the tragedy so in the challenge and noticed the rider thought. two seasons following at the checkered career in their classes so yet another chance three and i just bought . it when i was in our medical staff arriving on him he was unconscious on the ground with us because their heart that arrest them started this c.p.r. there coude your partner not under suspicion we clone joe mask immediately the

medical center he told the doctor of our staff they can come out and look i'm not those he was incorporated was possible to with luck wait to take off some blood from the thoughts and the c.p.r. was a continuity that for a forty five minutes unfortunately it was not possible to help him and the first six hundred fifty six we had to declare he was bad. ok up to date now more sports news from rather globe. taylor not say whether is next.

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