and i gather this is the latest news on the week's top stories now in libya so gracious and all stained by bloody accounts of the death of that clegg leader as a negations american all done it was executed by a lynch mob of rebel point is made while the post gadhafi future looks in flats now as ethnic and tribal divisions emerge among levy and wants to hide it in revolution . will street violence in greece this week as the country's government approves more tax hikes as well as cuts in wages at the beginning of the e.u. and they have made our european leaders on the run as a lengthy brussels meeting of the resulting the growing threat have put off talking all major decisions until another summit on wednesday. and also over barricades nation forces to remove roadblocks and the dispute or somebody else will board it as a it's got the located to stop the these people is it one of those headlines up next

in the program also interviews also on social critic james caan sloan big growing anti corporate movement in the u.s. and its potential in contra the future of america. 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 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 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 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 got i think there'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 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 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 that as the social stress rises the crazy ideas and delusional ideas pinned 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 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 has been that nobody on wall street has had to sit in a court room to answer for the tremendous amount of misbehavior in beijing 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 some 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 saving america to. better place at least in terms of pushing politicians to hold someone accountable it's 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 a 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 they're hoping vested 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 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 a certain faction in 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 been is 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 floating like a when he will loon of gusts of sheer fakery husband gluepot 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 prick in this balloon you know where we are it seems to be located at the moment there's 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 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 to the 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 where institutions. take various forms

acquire a certain would you timoci 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 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 her story 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 in the 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 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 mall is in 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 when 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 for welcome time.

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a leave their celebrations are changed by bloody accounts of the death of a plague as indications imagine this and thank you to the rebel fighters and about the president the future. it's one of the ethnic and tribal divisions and much among the bins once you know the thing that you like. most treated on its increase this week as the country's government approves more times hikes as well as cuts and wages at the briefing i'll beat you out of the on a lead in my european leaders that are running ads and they think brussels missing a result of the crisis that have put off twenty one major decisions until another summit on wednesday. under basel over the barricades nato forces failed to renew the road notes of the disputed seven forcible border as ethnic serbs going to be ok to still but these people sit on. those headlines assad next on all she the world a weekend sporting action with victory.

part of their walk into this course of dates here are three things joining us this hour first let's take a quick look at what's making the sporting headlines around the globe. blackout new zealand crowned rugby world cup champions for the second time following a close eighty seven victory over france. backcross in russia the exciting game from north america draws a lot of new followers across the ocean. and have passed by career w.t. types all the records a book of big canapé in the women's singles final becoming top ten in the russian capital. so new zealand eleven rugby world cup champions the all

blacks tried thing by the narrowest of margins of the french team in auckland it may have been their love with scoring decide ever but it was also one of the most exciting one trial pace for the sides really trying to look over for the house fifteen minutes in a french captain to read just touchdown eight minutes after the break of the stephen don't tell to prove crucial eight to seven final school ends and part of the all blacks starts to celebrate their second world crown. the guys who get one. and then there is a state. that we're going through a lot together is richard c. and a lot of the guys played in the last world cup and fell with the quarter final and the witnesses. there's not words for quite frankly the accomplice of the disease certainly we have always thought we have always said that the all blacks are the best team of all time tonight i think our team was great even tremendous for you

but it was difficult we needed just a tiny bit more here. now i thought we were in the russian premier league leaders really have retained their top spot following a three one away victory to restore visitors needed nine minutes to open this scoring has done it registered in a logo there for two minutes in depend smaller and it's front of the fire from the area so the referee had no other option but to point to the spot else on a look which make no mistake that by the thirty second minute extended their later three goals higher headed home after a process to become known to hold one goal but after the break that was it for the house so for one to finish still on top of the standings i. still think most good meanwhile have gone forth in the standings as if fresh put some f.c. at luzhniki stadium for nail opened the scoring for the muscovites with ten minutes

brazil and striker double dealing with just before the break se had plenty of time to fire his powerful shot into the top right corner after the break spots are substitute mitri kai you must contribute to his career first go for the team to make a free meal and finally tonight once again for the home side two minutes before the whistle to seal the final result before. the late game so mail it to start with the home defeat by second place is a scar northstowe that was finished five three two then it's a man there in which clarke. with a hat trick to his name. to the english premier league now where manchester city have threshed cross-town rivals united six one at old trafford marable a tele and. with a double there for the visitors while tara bludger added the consolation girl for alex ferguson's men. city five points clear of their closest rivals united.

cannot three one win is fair game. city editor in the wild takes up all three points that following another games taught them a speck on the winning track as they defeated by two girls three one third place surprise in the last two leads new boards queens park rangers. but now let's take a look at brazilian football where current. as a last to lead to come an era by two girls and mr charles to move third in the table open this scoring eleven minutes into the game. i thought. moscow midfielder found the net from the power to create a strike appeared to be to throw in full for a minute as goalkeeper diego thirty five and went in first half injury trying to cross. at the net post by philip to finish the miserable night suffer the hosts referee in car with central figure and several minutes before the final whistle.

i would say is now where dominic it's a bulk of that has won her first ever career w.t. title of the kremlin cup that's after beating in the women's singles final here in moscow i think counted turned out to three sets it was a stunning play to open a rather easily six three but eight seed for the storm back in the second as she won it in a tie break through google was also betting the decider taking a seven five match trophy. in the men's game with. ravage who claimed the title following a straight sets victory over come true and defending champion detroit the top seed tips ravaged opening set six four that was of no confidence in 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 as consider now explains. lacrosse is recognized as the all this north american sport with origins in leafy it century the native americans could take it to their hearts even went as far as calling it little brother off war many amendments have occurred since then along its popularity in the us indeed worldwide to flourish. is a team game so it's not that competition thank is in the air so it's not here three dimensions it is more scope for dinner clever stuff like that you know you've got a very it's take a look at you like an extension of yourself i think very. and because i think it's kind of fun is ok you think padded up you know nothing about her really because he doesn't i like about the boss suddenly like four guys around i think it's kids funny you know it was like ross has been a surprising revelation for russian audiences despite having few domestic players

and just to be caught one each in moscow and st peter's not this poor state sure is growing in every match between the rivals is a big advantage at the moment for him fans are in the majority in the stands. i think in russia it's a it's an upcoming story 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 trying to play with the russians and teach the russians how to play the cross and hopefully integrate into russian culture it's a great game for young people because it's it's a but i don't know if you know it's going to be out there to become. a stronger and to make friends the reality like ross has been or two in big games in nineteen zero four in late in zero eight with canada topping the podium on both occasions it's also the national some a sport of the country the physically demanding pastime with its full context stands not too dissimilar to the country number one sport ice hockey ball i was looking for team mates to play hockey i got into lacrosse and now i like it not

a lot of people here know anything about me going and i like to watch people was amazed. faces when they see my state can help me to the streets it has a lot of common with hockey so i mean the shooting i mean the game itself strategy involved it's pretty similar to hockey hockey sparkler here so i mean i think you definitely grow in russia there is still a long way to go for course before it becomes a well known sport in russian soil leaves the enthusiasm of the people replaying it here is anything to go by the signs i did it will happen sooner rather than as a medical or a cheat. and file a very sad news to tell and ride a marker symon child has died after a crash at the malaysian military to play that in surpassing a twenty four year old was hit by two bites a turn of evan after hearing the clip by the reds and bullets in the aussie the american rice also fell but the straight serious injury while fellow italian water was able to return to the pits the race was immediately after the tragedy in

a challenge and a rider for two seasons following a checkered career in the lower classes so yet another charity and i just thought. our medical staff arrived on him he was unconscious. because their heart rest and started c.p.r. . but association we will not ask immediately the medical center. of the doctor of our will stop written come on local doctors he was integrated it was possible to. take off some blood from the toilets and the c.p.r. was continental that for forty five minutes unfortunately it was not possible to help him and six hundred fifty six we had to declare he was dead. ok up to date now more sports news from around the globe internalised taylor not say whether he's next.

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