however. this morning we learned that oregon we have another one in forty thousand private sector jobs in november to be unemployment rate went down low whoa slow down there mr president don't pat yourself on the back too soon as the white house tells its so-called economic progress millions of americans still have nothing to celebrate this holiday season. but the bank sure do record profits secret bailouts and that's just the tip of the economic iceberg well air out wall street dirty laundry. and if your laundry is not your thing we have some protesters who are baring it all

to show the naked truth behind the exploitation of women. it is friday december second eight pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy well new jobs numbers out today paint a slightly better picture of the nation's unemployment the labor department reports a jobless rate fell to eight point six percent here's how the mainstream media is reacting to the news today. i think we're going to drop in unemployment for november going from nine percent to eight point six percent unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level since march of two thousand nine hundred five in the white house this morning at least have to be breathing a sigh of relief shows you that there's hiring there's hiring again slow but steady hiring well it certainly is good news in that the trend is moving in the right direction to get good news like this every month that his reelection path will get it will get easier certainly. well on the surface the decline in unemployment looks

like positive news out there all of the lowest levels of unemployment in the u.s. since march of two thousand and nine and one hundred twenty thousand private sector jobs were created in november but if you dig deeper you'll find there's really not much to celebrate that's because about half the decline is due to people giving up on finding work three hundred fifteen thousand people simply stopped looking then there are currently thirteen million people out of work here in the u.s. so what is the real state of unemployment today well i spoke to gerald celebs a publisher of the trends journal a little earlier to ask just that take a look well look at the stock market yes dow jones how it related he was today on the first blush of the news it went up zero points and then it ended the day flat and when you look at the real numbers in who got the jobs it's.

food stamp employees oh there were jobs created in retail you know those wonderful jobs we take people's money and you say have a nice day and there were jobs in hospitality that's another word for cleaning up somebody who's room oh when there were jobs in health care you know working in nursing homes making sixty to fifty a week by that slime after taxes you know so these are real jobs this is a plantation economy and the big law that no one's talking about as they pump up this week number is that lives in need a hundred and twenty five thousand jobs a month a month just to account for the new people moving in to the economy and population growth so that leaves all the people that have lost all these jobs since the great recession hit still out of work and while these numbers are really

good news for president obama because when it comes to getting reelected these unemployment's really matter so is this kind of a victory for president obama i mean the election is not too far away sure he's well you know whether time the election comes around this will be long forgotten but any little boost in the numbers and you see the way they spin them or lawyer about them i should say spin is a polite word for lawing you know sure he's going to look better because then you have the republicans on the other hand say. you know we've got a you know we're going to cut social security were to do away with medicare you know so you have the republicans on the other end promising nothing and obama pretending to deliver a lot when he's coming up with nothing and that is why you predict that president obama is going to win the presidency. at this point. you know gerald i want to

bring another point up here you would think now with the economy the way that it is that that would be the focus on repairing the economy but just yesterday the senate passed a bill six hundred sixty two billion dollars defense bill so money is being pumped into expanding the military setting up military bases considering the economic state of the nation why is more money being pumped into military operations. well there's that other bill to you might want to mention the senate bill that passed ninety seven to three that gives the military the right now to you know arrest anybody a person like me that really does a dig what's going on in a lot of places and call me a terrorist i have no lawyer no rights i'm gone. you know anything so why is it happening it's very simple it's a very old story it was told many years ago by general de white and how our five

star general supreme commander of the allied forces two term presidents a republican at that hardly what you would call in those days a pinko liberal and warning the american people that the military industrial complex is taking over the country does anyone need any more proof than the bill that you just talked about and the one that i just talked about this is unprecedented in american history and why are we seeing that wire we seeing more money being pumped into the military and not more money being spent on job creation i mean what does it say about about the priorities well that's what i'm saying the military is taking over the country just now i did say it just as general de white d. eisenhower warned follow the money how could america be in all of these foreign countries as you pointed out now expanding into oil. as you know look what's going on in the

choice to going bankrupt look what's going on in the bronx and cincinnati in st louis hey how about taking a couple walks away from d.c. over there and walk into the ghettos if you want to have a lovely evening and not make it home and night you know how come they're not bringing the money at home it's very simple it's the people in charge have a different agenda and their agenda is war low. on this new bill that was just passed that i mention this is lindsey graham or grammy a lindsey the cracker from south carolina he said he had knighted states is a battle zone could you imagine so that's what's happened they've turned the whole country into one big homeland security and the priorities on military. but well in gerald you you are a master of predicting things you predict successfully predicted things in the past

what is your prediction for the future here i mean going back to the unemployment numbers are we seeing the beginning of a trend or is this just a slight uptick and you know we're going to see ever aggression in the months to come what is your prediction oh it's going to get much worse is a matter of fact we're coming out with our top trends for twenty twelve and one of them is going to be economic martial law we're going to go into an economic nine eleven what's the work you're doing is they're pumping this up to get the people to spend the last pennies that they don't have on christmas junk and you would all the hype with this black friday they're not solving the problems over in europe the european union is collapsing the european monetary union what did they do they just came out with credit ratings that showing fifteen of the banks have lowered their credit ratings they've been degraded the same day they come out and the central banks around the world are pumping trillions of dollars into them to keep it afloat when the new year comes the winter of discontent is going to set in and reality is

going to bite wow jerald pleasure to have you on the show as always that was publisher of the trends journal and director of the trends research institute. well wall street has faced the ire of protesters across the country for a couple of months members of the movement are calling out the wall street fat cats for contributing to the economic decline by being greedy and corrupt their. also angry that the same people seemingly get rewarded with big bonuses and while the movement has brought some attention to the issue of income inequality and corporate corruption there may be much more wall street doesn't want you to know about one columnist has evolved six shocking revelations about wall street secret government let's take a quick look at them. the first one the big banks and hedge funds were in much more trouble than we were led to believe number two wall street secret government made sure the largest banks would grow even larger aided by secret funding number three

the bigger wall street becomes the more government it can buy the next wall street secret government serves to protect its own and wall street is a clear and present danger to democracy and the last one is that occupy wall street is fundamentally correct but we need more so i spoke to the man that's helping bring this all to light a communist and other less leopold i asked him just how are wall street and washington pulling this all off here's what he had to say well the fundamental way that it's done is through a ball big door where the wall street executives become the head of the treasury and the higher the crisis unbeknownst to anybody in congress. the secret government provided wall street with. seven point seven seven trillion dollars of loans meanwhile we were told the tarp program of seven hundred billion was all there was to it and those people who were trying to regulate the

banks were considering legislation to go back the glass people the break up of our experience those people were not told those congressional leaders were not told of the incredibly bad condition that the wall street banks were in and of these secret loans. and so the banks you all say that the banks there they were getting and bigger trouble than the public knew about what do you mean by that well without this seven point seven seven trillion dollars of money they would have been toast they would have been on the verge of bankruptcy or bankrupt and the case for breaking them up and reorganizing our banking system would have been much greater instead the desire to create stability was first and foremost which meant financing we actually financed the large banks to grow even larger while we were complaining about too big to fail we made them bigger and it was done secretly

that's the bad part because it means that our democratic process these are being subverted even from our congressional leaders so this is all happening with public taxpayer money and this is all happening these they secretly so congress doesn't even know about it or who doesn't know about it. well it's a very small cabal it would be the treasury secretary the head of the federal reserve and the top bankers are the congressmen there was serious discussion about breaking up the large banks after all they had caused this crash it wasn't you know consumers getting fat on loans it was the gambling spree that wall street went on of these banks were in serious trouble so the idea of breaking them up in reinstituting glass steagall separating commercial banking from investment banking was on the agenda was being discussed now if those congressmen knew. that these secret loans were being given out then they might have acted more forcefully

instead they were told oh no these banks are fine. we need go do compete in the world economy they produce jobs blah blah blah. that was a communist and author lezak leopold but we've shown you some of the shocking images of police brutality throughout their crackdown on occupy wall street protesters police have resorted to using pepper spray beating protesters with the times and arresting them by the dozens we've seen their massive presence at the sites decked out in right there as if it were a war zone some call it proof that the police force is becoming militarized in the u.s. but not all cops are jumping on the police brutality bandwagon and fact some are coming forward and speaking out against it are to correspond over in a corner and i have takes a look at police officers that are standing up to their own. occupy wall street has become an undeniable american household name. and police crackdowns against the democratic movement have become something of the norm not so

normal is seeing one side endorse the other. retired philadelphia police captain bray lewis became the game changer on nov seventeenth arrested while demonstrating with occupy protesters on the streets of new york city the twenty four year veteran was held in police custody for eleven hours and received one comment from a new york cop nobody in this one individual said that i had the testicles of an elephant although all of america's police force is part of the ninety nine percent captain lewis says cops secretly supporting ws face dire consequences by going public tremendous fear of losing their job being disciplined being fired and then what do they do everybody in the ninety nine percent figure and police officers also they cannot risk they have children. what would they do once you're fired there are no jobs available the nighttime raid on zuccotti park and subsequent

arrest of dozens of journalists covering the story are among many reasons captain lewis says he temporarily transplanted to manhattan that's close to dictatorship when you exclude the media. that's what dictators around the world and that is very scary brutal scare tactics such as pepper spray the tongs and flash grenades canisters has been used against occupy camps throughout the us oakland california resembles something of an urban war zone this fall leaving a war vet in critical condition and the eyes of an eighty four year old burning from tear gas oakland police officer fred chavez is the only active cop who's gone on record with his support but totally agree with occupy. even to understand what i am a part of it. for the most part people are peaceful and i want to see change many believe the biggest change could come when or if u.s.

law enforcement officials stop suppressing the right to assemble and begin supporting it despite his arrest captain lewis is back at zuccotti park showing unwavering support for the occupy movement standing roughly ten or fifteen feet away from him a group of new york city police officers yes there are securing the area but some are beginning to show little interest for the first time i had an officer break ranks yesterday at the barricade line a white officer named officer and introduced himself and if you question i said do you know the risk you're taking and he was so brave they said this is still america and until a supervisor ordered me back to the line i'm going to talk with you i hope to get mainstream america involved the police involved realizing that world of corporate america and america has got to be stopped. r.t. new york. and to talk more about this i spoke to iraq war vet turned activist

michael prysner he was actually arrested this past week during the police raid and infection of the occupy los angeles camp and he told me about has experience there . hundreds and actually thousands of people mobilized to occupy l.a. once the mayor took back the approval for city hall to have the encampment there on the lawn thousands mobilize knowing that innovation was pending just like they did in wall street in oakland and other places but regardless of the people legitimately wanting to express their first amendment rights their freedom to assemble the city came charging in before any dispersal order was given the l.a.p.d. came charging in with full riot gear from city hall onto the city hall lawn anyone who is in their way when they were charging in i was knocked over was be in i personally saw a photographer a journalist who was on the stairs who was thrown down the stairs and b.

and he was actually charged with assaulting an officer even though his back was to them when they charged through the police went around through the camp destroying tents ripping them apart pulling people out of them were in their tents asleep and then surrounded the entire area and began arresting people one by one who are refusing to leave now would you say that most of the cops were participating and that's harsh crackdown. is it just a select few that were resorted to violence are or what what's your take on that. well you know there was over a thousand police officers that took part in this operation when i was in the main square where the main arrests were happening every cop i saw was acting belligerently hitting people for no reason and some very dangerous things as well there are some protesters who went up into the trees to you know get out of this charge that was coming through and the police immediately started shooting at these protesters who were in these trees with beanbag guns and with rubber bullets one

protester was shot and fell about twenty feet before he caught himself on another branch someone who could have died in the fall i don't think that was the most efficient way to tell this person to get out of the street by shooting him and so there's all these incidents of police brutality many many far too many to recount but it wasn't until we were actually jailed and arrested that the real ordeal really began because that's where the city took out its real punishment and started using its real intimidation is on people it's once we were locked up in jail you were intimidated when you were in jail you're saying that's when they're really yes you know bad. right you know i've been arrested and multiple civil disobedience actions but never have i seen treatment such as this for people who were detained we were kept in tight handcuffed behind our backs for about eight hours on a cold cement floor something completely unnecessary people were denied medical attention who needed it when myself and a group of people after about six hours asked to use a restroom the police said if we couldn't use the restroom in our handcuffs that we

couldn't use it and so we were denied access to a restroom some people your native themselves because they couldn't wait and there's a litany of civil liberties abuses that took place once we were in jail first of all our lawyers were not allowed to see us for many many hours when my attorney showed up to court the next morning he was told that the jail was closed and that no attorneys were allowed access i mean this is a violation of the law and the fact that all of the protesters who are charged with refusal to disperse which is a misdemeanor offense were given a five thousand dollars bail california law says that mr miner offenders shall be released on their own recognizance meaning no bail but the city of los angeles intentionally put a very high bail on the people who are arrested with the intention of keeping them in jail as long as possible i am one of the few people who was released but over two hundred fifty people who were arrested are still in prison today and it's very possible that they will still be in jail through the weekend and not get out until monday or tuesday and the reason that the city is doing this the reason that

they're trying to make it so difficult for these people that they put an abnormally high bail on these people that they're trying to keep them in jail that they kept those in handcuffs for so long is very pleased that the city the l.a.p.d. and the mayor are trying to punish us and they're trying to intimidate us all of the young people the working families of people that have taken their first step in political action people who are so frustrated with the with the system and wanting to make their voices heard the city and the government in los angeles is trying to intimidate these people and scare them from ever coming back out again into the streets which is what we've seen in dozens of cities across the united states an attempt by the u.s. government to. these protests by scaring these people with violence and intimidation from exercising their constitutional rights i want to ask you because police presumably they're part of the ninety nine percent so why do you think they're serving to protect i guess this one person. sure well i think the

police crackdowns around the country really expose who this government and what its institutions who they really work for right now if this was a government of by and for the people of by and for the ninety nine percent well then the government would respond to these protests by listening to the grievances by trying to take real steps to address those grievances by trying to solve this epidemic of foreclosure the epidemic of them unemployment you know the skyrocketing cost of tuition the slashing of social services if this was a government of by and for the ninety nine percent that the protesters voices would be heard and they would be taken seriously but instead every step of the way and every city we're not patient has taken place we've seen that the government has instead used all of its power to crush the protests to scare people out of the streets and rob them of their basic essential and most cherished rights under the constitution the right to peacefully assemble the right to freedom of speech freedom of the press i mean press was blocked and subject to arrest or covering the occupy l.a. demonstration i apologize about cutting you off we are just out of time that was

iraq war of that michael prysner. we're going to take a short break but coming up nothing says i'm angry and i'm not afraid to show it like stepping down for a good cause coming up we'll show you how baring it all may be the best way to get recognized. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old on that you know the truth. i confess and i am a total get of friends that. have been here and. i think it's kind of the gesture that. i'm very proud of the although just as a place. new

website with twenty four seven live streaming news times what to do about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you may never find on mainstream news. media little. posted on our john. roberts right that just burns your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. it's much stronger than anything you buy a lot. of times and stronger than any kind of bird you ever put you know.

well there's been some talk here in the u.s. on how effective occupy wall street has been and getting their message out well maybe they should be taking some notes from ukrainian they're letting it all hang out in the name of women's rights and finding that taking their tops off is trash attracting a lot of attention well we've all heard that sex sells but do the same rules apply to protesting r.c. followed some of these ladies to find out. oh yes. on a chilly morning in kiev half naked women in racing outfits drink champagne and chant slogans this is how the feminine movement celebrated the resignation of silvio berlusconi several days prior to that that very same ladies were in rome voicing their support to the anti berlusconi protest we've given them until we had staged a lot of protests against berlusconi and his sexual adventures here and here and we

are really happy his political career has finished this inhibition interrupted the last couple somebody who came to tell an embassy not only to celebrate but the say that he needs to go on trial for his sexual crimes. for more than a week the cranium topless protesters have been making themselves heard across europe on a dedicated road trip to draw attention to the sexual exploitation of women in room one of their activists made a revealing protest against injustice towards women in the catholic church in the vatican right in front of the pope. was before that they hit paris storming former i.m.f. banker dominique strauss kahn this residence. one from italy came to us in switzerland and said we know that you're coming to rome and will be staging a protest against berlusconi and the pope thank you they said for sharing our

problems there while draw free rallies in ukraine have been making international headlines for several years now from protesting against the alarming rate of prostitution especially with the upcoming who are twenty twelve for book ornaments exposing flaws in ukraine's politics now they're looking even further afield those of them with doing what they are could be worse what they went through the classic famine is no longer works it is if you excuse me. but what we do. the desired effect that's why not only ukraine me but europe as well who are planning to take over the world. while we see how well you were received in europe remember your colorful actions in ukraine where are you planning to expand now but those. who receive lots of letters telling us to continue fighting against religious injustice towards women especially in the muslim states that's where we want to develop it even ready to go to iran or any other islamic state to stage

a topless protest but knowing all risks it could until. they started out as a few enthusiastic campaigners now they're trying to sprawl just messages. in ukraine alone but have tens of thousands of supporters the family network has been set up in europe and now stretches as far as the united states still they say they've got a lot of demons before i get home. because you from kiev in ukraine. and they shared attendants are the next week for a brand new line up new york city known for the big lights and lavish shopping havens well parts of it anyway but just a few blocks away from all this pomp and circumstance are countless communities rubbing pennies just to get by so how is it possible that two neighborhoods so close physically so worlds apart and this great dichotomy of haves versus the have nots all take a look at the great american divide and it looks like time doesn't heal all wounds

just ask him all thirty years and he's still behind bars for a crime many say he didn't commit so as many rally behind his car case ever get a fair shake. and i spy with my little live whatever the government wants me to see that's right the u.s. is helping out is putting out help wanted ads to keep tabs on average joes like you and me so be careful what you say and write because big brother might be watching you. well those are just a few of the stories we have on deck for you next week along with more news and in-depth interviews so be sure to keep it tuned right here to our t.v. and that is going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to r.t. dot com slash usa and ticket or you tube page it's you tube dot com slash artsy america you can also follow me on twitter at liz wall the big picture with tom harmon is coming up in just a half hour in tonight's conversations with great minds tom is talking to ethicist .