and that is the paint on the gene has priority over the ownership of the planet. but it says rise or loses a court battle to monsanto and as i said just was talking to another lawyer that it could be the biggest win for us or for the people concerned about most and time only tell and i'm sure that this ring court in for a five years will have to revisit because where the results of their decision could mean that a corporation could control almost anything that the put your genes into anything the put their facts are that's the way it stands right now also some people legal people have expressed that maybe it was a white decision that eventually now monsanto will be faced to be able to have to control what they put into the environment for although i built the issue and if they put up an environment that the pair ate and it's no they can't control dell

take a second look at it if they put something in there and they're going to end up with massive lawsuits which can break the company. i was just been talking with nathan busch the wonderful until yesterday and he was really telling me he said i had a great victory yesterday and he said that we should own up dairy and really given encouraging encouragement but he said what now has happened is that monsanto could farmers could break monsanto. hey if every farmer would pull up on its hand and say i think they're some of your g.m.o. canola or soy beans or my people come and get it we don't want it here or i've i we take some of your g.m.o. seeds up controllers to our being sorry my seed and get it how it wants how to be able to take a plant out of

a farmer's field how would they know if it could all plant when it's to see just say and the flowers the same so much how to couldn't they couldn't do it. so. companies the ground of appeal that we were wanting to win on was the one that would say that you know just because you have a tattoo or gene or a cell that doesn't give you a pattern to a plant the other part of the problem is what what responsibilities do biotech companies have to farmers for patented material that escapes and causes damage that issue is yet to come up although the you know in that respect the legal battle as far as percy is concerned is drawing to a close and many many people around the world had paid their hopes on that ground of appeal in the hope that we would succeed but i don't think it ends the war the war is going to continue continue in a different form i think this is

a matter that parliament needs seriously to look at the impact if and now we're going to say in this country that you can give patents to people that allow them to control organisms that spread themselves around that raises implications that were raised in this case that need to be addressed by parliament and i hope their advice to do so. but i want to ask you a question has been reported by our national broadcaster this morning that the supreme court ruled that you deliberately. supplanted it jeanette. we ought of modified monsanto's seed in your crops and i just want to know if this is a correct report or if you could straighten the record for that for once and for all in my view if you're not planting something intending to grow around a brady crop meaning some crop you're intending to spray with round up. you know i

don't see where that goes but as far as the supreme court was concerned that the lower courts. to that to that the cultivation of plants with the gene in it was sufficient to be infringement today as a personal as i said it's a personal victory. six years of legal battle when we stood up to monsanto back in one nine hundred ninety eight we never realize it would ever go this far and then when the other point i'd like to make. especially comments from the about the biotech industry you always have to remember monsanto late the lawsuit against me i did not lay the lawsuit against monsanto they were the ones to start it and then we took my wife and i took the position that a farmer should never ever mooses rights who's used to seed from year to year and that was the basis we fought that for the rights of bombers who didn't.

want to hear that things. are. one sad post cotton on the gene is valid and wherever that you know rise by whatever means in any higher life form they all will and control that light form and when i used the term higher life form i don't only mean seeds or plant it's bird species animal even a human being so now we have more questions than we have advisers it canada in regards who owns the life. if you. really believe it. since two thousand and four percy schmeiser has not

planted canola on his farm and is growing wheat oats and peace instead but increasingly there are volunteers are browned up resistant canola on his fields he informed monsanto which tested the plants and confirmed them as being their patient and canola but they would not remove the plants unless a full release a non-disclosure agreement was signed. and in that release form first of all they said we can never ever talk to anyone to the press our new burst what the terms of settlement work and he wanted us to sign give all or rights away well that was no way we're going to do that this new way we give our freedom of speech or we edit it and that take they would. they wanted us that we could never take them to court for the rest of our lives and it wasn't only pretty myself it was our children they want that they would have that the side the two that they would never speak if

you're wrong it's been sent and that's a reason why we want to sign it because there's no we want to give it right away to a corporation. my father said ok we won't remove the plants then that i call points out will then we are going to remove my will get help and we will move remove the plant and we will send you the bill my sample immediately send us an e-mail and said you're not allowed to do to those plants whatever you want because they're our property so i told them it's your property it's on my property we want the land we pay that back to get your property off our land. percy hired a neighbor to remove the plants and sent the bill to months on to over a total amount of six hundred canadian dollars monsanto refused to pay and luis mizer filed a claim in the local small claims court. can you imagine the end there is going to

monsanto a billion dollar corporation coming to court for six hundred dollars but five minutes before the trial might sadhu agreed to settle out of court and they agreed that there would be no gag order my wife and i could talk about it i could talk to you about it here tonight so it was not only a great victory for ourselves but now it opened it up for all farmers. in every part of the world if you are contaminated you know have an avenue where you can take my cat and not only monsanto you could take scent jetta dupont to court if you are contaminate contaminated because now if president has been established. when i travel around the world and i meet so many people so many organizations that

have such a dedication they won good food they want safe food and they don't want the environment our air our land our soil contaminated with poisons and then when i see how hard these people work and for what they believe in he gives me the courage and the strength to carry on.

all right. governments and journalists with his release of the standing video along with countless classified documents and now julian assange has another surprise up his sleeve we'll tell you all about his next adventure and why it has the mainstream press all worked up. the one who tells you they don't want. anyone who tells you that america is in decline or that our influence has waned doesn't know what they're talking about. realities through rose colored glasses with an outlook like that it's easy to forget an economy that's in the dumps and

the country's countless wars obama's speech may have been about hope and change but we'll bring you the real state of the union. and live from the world economic forum in switzerland capital account host more lyster will bring us the very latest coming out of the meeting of financial minds and elites. good evening it's wednesday january twenty fifth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy calf enough and you're watching our t.v. . now before we move on to our stop top story the state of the union i wanted to take a moment to discuss the gloomy state of the mainstream press network evening news continues to lose influence in the so-called big three networks a.b.c. n.b.c. and c.b.s. lost nearly twenty million viewers since the one nine hundred eighty s. that's when the half of the audience that they once enjoyed cable news networks

have picked up the slack but despite lofty mottos like fair and balanced partisan and divisive seems to be the name of the game the news does seem to take a back seat a back seat to spin and opinion and you can barely heyer the real issues over the shouting talking heads now back in one nine hundred eighty three ninety percent of the american media was own by fifty companies last year that number shrank to six think about that six megacorporations like g.e. and disney owning ninety percent of the media that you consume now print journalism is also struggling to stay relevant at a time when tweets blogs and online media floods through the gates with that which the newspapers once kept and it's not just the influence but in revenues that are influence but revenues and readership that they're losing these are just not market factors that say nothing about the quality of the news now it seems like there has been a transformation of sorts from watch dr arnall ism to laptop journalism corporate

officials war general generals lobbyist senior administration officials are all taken at their word or treated with respect for those who lack good standing with the establishment and good luck their margin and marginalized ridiculed just think of occupy wall street one paul of course julian a songe which brings me to wiki leaks. i have all of you to see. that's right the release of this video the collateral damage video showing an apache helicopter attack in baghdad ended the era when journalists decided which leaks but through the light of day the establishment media had blocked we covered the story the day it came out and put julian assange on air at first the other outlets stayed away after all a songe was described by our own government as a terrorist but market interest it seems took over and then everything changed before long a songe became a media darling gracing the screens of the cable news networks major publications

even partnered up with wiki leaks to catalog and help release the countless previously secret documents now it's not a stretch to say that julian assange is a controversial figure after all he's been driven off the internet deprived of funding placed under house arrest as he fights extradition attempts over sexual allegations but what do you love or hate the man himself it's difficult to deny that his actions for ever change the face of the media as we know it now two years ago we invited mr saunders just speak on air and two months ago in two months we'll bring him back starting in march a songe will host a ten part series interview of programs on this network r.t. you can love it you can hate it you can watch it or you can skip it the decision is yours the show is his the topics are of his own choosing and so i found it a little bit difficult to understand the headlines when i woke up this morning. the kremlin's mouthpiece selling out to the russian government

a kremlin pawn the cold war part two you know it's funny i didn't remember seeing those headlines when the major papers worked with wiki leaks to release information nor do i recall allegations against a songe as a stooge of general electric for appearing on amazon b c i guess as the saying goes all spare and love and war and i suppose when you're bleeding dollars viewers and ratings easier to throw mud at others and to clean up at home. well back to the real state of the union is the speech dripping with the rosy optimism president obama's third state of the union address laid out a vision of america in which everybody gets a fair shot at economic success and everybody including the wealthy plays by the very same rules as the average citizen a populist president tapping into the discontent of the occupy wall street movement brought about by a depressed economy corporate greed and unemployment woes and in foreign policy no

sign of candidate obama the one who campaigned against the wars against the country's waning influence abroad this generation of heroes has made the united states safer and more respected around the world for the first time in ninety years there are no known american spiting in iraq. first time in two decades osama bin laden is not a threat to this country. most of our kind is top lieutenants have been defeated the taliban's momentum has been broken and some troops in afghanistan have begun to come home. you can blame the guy for being optimistic but the president didn't mention the fifteen thousand u.s. diplomats federal employees and contractors who still remain in iraq and it took the new york times to fact check his incorrect claims of victory against the taliban of course there's no talk of the loss of freedoms and protections here at

home or failed promises broken and forgotten an optimistic speech that focused on improving job growth manufacturing a declaration that america is back and will continue to get stronger in two thousand and twelve was it on point or was it out of touch well it's pose that question to the brilliant nomi prins she's with us from our l.a. studio she's a senior fellow at the think tank in davos and also the author of the book black tuesday based around wall street crash of one nine hundred twenty nine you know me well before we get to the specifics i know you have a long list of issues that the president didn't touch overall impressions of the speech. i think a little bit of what you just said in the intro here it was oratorial optimism which he's very good at and which a hollywood actor could equally have stood in and done instead of him and a lot of repetition he basically took a collection of what worked for him i think or what seemed to work for him in the

in the opinion polls etc from his prior speeches and sort of mix them together and that's really what we got last night we got nothing particularly new we got a sense that he's conveying that our economy is better is going in the right direction that there are problems but the biggest ones he's dealt with like regulatory inept and this like like wall street and so forth and we can look forward and it will all be rosy and fine so it was really it was a campaign speech it was a lot of repetition it was a lot of oratory and it was pretty meaningless well on the issue of wall street no man want to bring up the point i mean the president did say that he will not go back to the days where wall street writes their own rules and plays by their own rules and he even announced a new financial crimes unit to crack down. on presumably crimes both in washington and wall street so what's your impression of that. well first of all to mention

another financial crimes unit well what is the f.c.c. supposed to be doing what is the department of justice supposed to be doing what's the f.b.i. supposed to be doing we have a lot of bodies that are supposed to be looking at financial fraud and financial crimes that were inept when they were being perpetuated that are. at indictments or convictions and that have levied in the meanwhile minor amount of settlements and fines that have been acted no change in how these wall street banks operate and for him to say along those lines that wall street is somehow better or cleaned up or will be or whatever our top five banks have increased for example their derivatives production of the most riskiest components of what they do by twenty percent in just the last year so if obama thinks that having five banks consolidated incorporating more risk into the world is his definition of things being better he's on

a different financial planet and you which he is in your point of view i mean is this sort of not really wanting to level with the american people or is this more of not really understanding the actual factors that contributed to to the crisis and the actions by his own administration. i think he may get the connection between the housing market and the crisis he mentioned that last night is mention that in other speeches he has put forth plans to help borrowers mitigate their fallout from the housing market crisis that have been spectacularly useless the reason they have been useless and not helped as many borrowers as were promised not help the five million only help a half a million borrowers is that they rely on the banks doing the right thing so somehow because wall street does support obama did in the last election is his largest funder of campaign contributions for this election because he has had the consistent leadership in office he helped confirm ben bernanke he for

a second fourteen year term running the federal reserve he's got tim geithner as the treasury secretary who was an architect of bailout economics before obama and during the obama administration he's not going to step back and say hey wait a minute all that stuff is wrong i'm not doing it right here's the real problem he's going to pretend to the american public that the problem has been solved that risk is under control that he knew would happen that wall street banks are somehow magically going to in his terms make up the trust deficit which is absolutely ludicrous jamie diamond j.p. morgan chase is going to turn around and be like hey all you borrowers you know i'm sorry if we misled you i'm sorry if we created toxic assets on the back of faulty mortgages you know what i get it you don't trust us let's let's change all that refinance you all this is going to happen even if he did say whoa woke up yesterday with a brand new outlook generally wanted to change at the core of things the way washington is run is it too little too late i mean that's the if he doesn't win reelection

he's essentially a lame duck president. yeah i mean he's he's he's he's effectively got very little done but been able to to spin it from a verbal perspective as having accomplished a lot as as with the issue of wall street as with the issue of health care where insurance costs are now twenty to twenty five percent higher than they were before his health care bill was passed and so forth but he spends it is doing something because there is legislation on paper that he signed but that doesn't actually change what wall street did it doesn't change what's happening on the insurance side and so forth so even if he were to do something and he mentioned towards the end of his speech that he was going to get money out of politics and we're all like oh ok fine you can actually do something really and he went on to say well the should be insider trading with congressional members which is absolutely true but what he didn't say was oh and i'm going to take all that bundling money that i've been getting from the financial community i'm going to say you know i don't need that because i'd like to independently create legislation that will keep you guys and checked so he'll say something and then he'll do something or or say he will do

something that is completely in opposition of that you know me as a citizen as an economic expert what did you want to hear from the president yesterday. i wanted to hear some culpability i wanted to hear you know what it's been three years actually the economy isn't so great actually these foreclosures have continued to rise and what i've tried to do hasn't works i'm not going to try to do the same thing more. student loans and education is important which he did say but you know what the banks have been in control of the private loan insurer loan market for students and their defaults are rising and i understand that and i'm going to basically look at the financial infrastructure of this country in terms of how it impacted the the economy of our country and i'm going to get it this time i'm going to get rid of tim geithner i'm going to basically stand up to the banking community i'm going to take more of a leadership role in real change and real reform for it obviously was going to say

any of that because that's missing as we said a lot of things he's been doing wrong and in opera tending to gloss over you know all the things he says are fixed that aren't but it would have been nice to have honesty and i think that's the thing with all of these speeches and it's part of our political process and in any of the campaign speeches that i think individuals know that what is coming out of the males of these people is what they think they should say to a particular moment to get an impact they're trying to get and not really trying to dig in and fight fight for america and fight for real policies that will help but to say what's expedient at that particular moment. there's so much disillusionment here honesty in politics certainly sounds like a revolutionary notion or oxygen or so much so it i wish always thankful to have you on the program thank you so much that was author of the book black tuesday nomi prins. well the rest of us may be left out in the cold at least economically speaking but the so-called one percent seem to be flocking straight to it several

thousand of the world's political and economic elites have gathered in the swiss town of davos for the annual world economic forum between the champagne the caviar informal discussions aimed at resolving some of the world's biggest issues but while record snowfall may have dampened the climate at the resort it's a gloomy climate for the economy to the eurozone crisis is of course stroking fears of another return to a recession developing countries seem to be losing economic momentum and the forms own global risks report discussed the possibility of a downward spiral of the global economy and a gathering of economic elites of course who wouldn't be complete without an occupy wall street camp which in davos came in the form of an igloo village a handful of demonstrators have a directive the village sounds like a crazy scene but instead of talking about it let's turn to someone who's actually on the ground our own lauren lyster the host of capital account is with us and she has been tracking these developments for us laura and i hope you're staying warm

there not broadcasting from the village as i see. not broadcasting from there but i have been there i went there for a leg fascinating won't let us let's talk about the actual themes rethinking capitalism is the theme this year which seems to be a little bit ironic when you have a group of rich elite well capitalists at an invite only event hashing out the future of the free market how is this actually playing out. well you see there is an official agenda at davos and then there is an unofficial agenda at davos which is one that you also hear about and also that you see when you're on the sidelines and not in all of these sessions that are kind of the official program as far as the official program yes it did open up today with a debate over capitalism but as you mentioned this is a gathering of capital as this is a place where business leaders come to advance or corporate interests become known as kind of a premier opportunity for networking for c.e.o.'s of some of the biggest multinational corporations wall street banks to network amongst each other also with political

leaders central bankers and all of these big wigs so back to debating capitalism yes we heard on the stage some concerns about capitalism some criticism about capitalism also we heard some defenses because of course at davos there are plenty of people to defend the current system of capitalism which they have benefited from brian moynihan the c.e.o. of bank america of america is one who was saying you know the western capitalism is subject to boom and bust this is part of it but come on there are so many people that we talked to an interview on our show that talk about how long and how painful the costs are of this bust that is it here by accident and has a lot to do with maybe some of the bailouts that his bank has benefited from and the boom years of easy money that they did as well so there obviously are plenty of defenders and we'll have to see if anything really comes out of that conversation i've seen some reports of billionaires defending they're concerned about inequality .