back to the broader issue of copyright itself copyright needs to be the extensions the term extensions of the past couple of decades should be repealed to keep to be in keeping with the constitution and the idea of fair use the fact they've been allowed to extend out to a lifetime plus seventy five years is a heinous misuse and misinterpretation of what a copyright should be. in that camp or do you see it differently absolutely i think that you know we live in an era of shortages and one of the big shortages out here is access to good reliable critical information by large numbers of people who can benefit from it and this is a choke on that ok so as a content creator yourself you're weighing the the the benefits of perpetual copyright as lawrence lessig would call it versus open free communications and you feel that the critique communications uncensored communication far outweighs in terms of importance in terms of protecting a few

a couple hundred thousand filmmakers and porno makers and in l.a. now the national defense authorization act the n.d.a. has also making its way through congress at the same time as sopa are these two related do you see that a relationship. indeed in that both are serious assaults on basic liberties protected by the bill of rights in the u.s. constitution you know and they come at it from different directions but it's part of a broader overall agenda which we've seen since the patriot act in two thousand and one of the government of corporations having ever more control on what we see here what we could say and now chris and his is one of these guys that i would imagine the government would love to marginalize even more than they've already marginalized by not having him on mainstream television he thinks that the n.d.a. is basically allowing for the indefinite military detention of american citizens.

it relates to the upcoming financial collapse so they're kind of making some some moves here because they know that this u.s. economy is in the process of free falling do you see that absolutely no question there has been and we've been tracking this a collapse not for well over a year now as as as this tightening down has taken place and we saw it with the occupy movement also in which i was deeply involved that that the government through whether through homeland security or any parts of the federal government and state governments are are doing everything they can to choke off and preemptively prepare for what they know is going to be civil unrest and i also think they're trying to stir it up themselves so that they can dig advantage of it where the brutal crackdown so now earlier we were reporting on india circumventing the u.s. sanctions on iran by using rupees to buy oil this follows on similar is from china

and russia. so these big trading blocks are bypassing the dollar completely and shunning dollars walters' of currency and of course that's one of the keys for the american empire to continue if that goes then the u.s. loses that senora edge on having the global currency and it's another nail in the coffin there's a make any sense for that policy in the u.s. well clearly what's happened here and i think united states is is really getting pushed back severely on all fronts what if the u.s. gave an oil embargo and nobody came and that's exactly what happened china japan korea india have all said no we're going to continue to buy iranian oil and in fact chinese purchases of iranian oil is gone up thirty percent in the last year which is confirming for the basic theory and concept of peak oil there is no place to go to replace iranian oil the saudis cannot be. production now what's happening with

this and you're absolutely right is we're seeing major moves sometimes on an adequate basis but i think some are more orchestrated. for the far east where there's a dollar free zone truth for nations clearly to liberate themselves from from the dollar denominated trap that's there and those moves i think are taking place very quickly and i think what we're seeing now is are only going to accelerate that there is clearly a shift of economic power away from the west europe and the u.s. obviously in decline with relatively speaking china more ascended more powerful certainly they have a lot of cash and a lot of power so i think that all these moves by the west detached from reality as they usually are are just accelerating the decline of western economic power and influence our let's start by air for a second get your take on this again kind of my my thought exercise care is what

you think here you have a country greece they were tricked into the europe by goldman sachs and committed massive accounting fraud we now know that there's no no doubts about this as a result they now are being asked to suffer through massive austerity measures while outside governments and corporations seize control of their income producing assets now on top of this we now they're being told that they can a poor oil from iran because of the this skirmish between that rabbit israel they don't get a loan so greece can't have anymore oil what's a course going to crush their economy even more who decided that greece suddenly had to go the way of all flesh and be terminated what why is grace and how did that happen it's the same bunch of idiots that have been running everything else but i notice in the stories today it's big breaking news that the e.u.'s supposedly banned iranian oil imports that's going to be a joke and it's going to. nobody except europe because nobody else is going along

with it but in the fine print which i found in a reuters story this morning this ban does not take effect until july and there are side pocket exemptions being granted all over the place so this is a toothless embargo but you know it's it's if we expected sanity to work in these markets max you and i would have been crazy a long time ago i mean there's none of this makes sense from from an overt plainly logical step by step analysis. every nation in europe is going to get hurt and i don't they get you know. all the system is capable of doing right now because it's so detached from honest. dealing with the reality of the world around that it's shooting itself in the foot and that's what we've seen since two thousand and eight and i my group you mention oh these markets are insane they're getting more crazy i mean this is actually a theme of davenant's this year they're saying that we need to re-examine this

entire model of capitalism and also that david cameron is the prime minister of britain has come out recently said we need to move toward another what he called moral capitalism so the entire model of capitalism has been understood is now under threat. what what is the what's the problem number one and number two other any simple tweaks changes that could be applied to kind of recalibrate this this is this freight train a capitalist capitalism gone off the tracks. for for me to make it easier for me to function safely with the question i would replace the word capitalism with organized crime and all that we're seeing from the movies from davos david cameron and everybody else you and i both know this is the organized crime people trying to exert more control and somehow smooth out the wrinkles in their criminal mechanism . like a very easy for me last august when conceptually i just took a step back from. everything that was happening in greece in the buildup to the

european crisis which is here now and i said wait a minute all these trillions of dollars of bailouts which are being printed right now require growth above two thousand and seven levels and with the i don't know how many thirteen fifteen twenty trillion stupid number floating out there the physical growth required to satisfy the obligations in the infinite growth paradigm repaying with interest is not possible because of resource limitations whether it's oil energy physical goods or the raw materials used the kind of growth required to pay all this off is just not possible and i got to stop there and back off but i'd say i'm just going to watch these idiots shoot themselves in the foot because we know what the end game has to be because of physical law rather than press releases right that's an interesting point there the way the g.d.p. growth needed to work off the present load of debt would require a certain number of barrels of oil to work its way through the economy roughly one

trillion barrels of oil and that one trillion barrels of oil does not exist therefore it would be impossible to work off this debt so debt jubilee at some point is a dead certainty i would imagine you know your thought is if it comes sooner is better than later i gave a speech in portland oregon september eleventh in which i said that mass universal universal debt forgiveness between. sovereigns and corporations that includes the banks between corporations and corporations and people and and corporations is going to have to be wiped out you have to hit that reset otherwise you create the same rickety italian cruise ship that's ready to hit on the rocks the moment the wind changes all right mike rupert rattan thanks so much for being on the kaiser report always a pleasure max and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i want to thank my guest mike rupert of collapse net dot com you can send me. the mail at kaiser reported r t t v r u you can follow

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a call for action the u.n. faces arab pressure to adopt a resolution on syria to push president assad from power. plants to enforce an anti piracy the war in poland thousands of people onto the streets and a wave of cyber attacks on government websites. lasts for votes online a new dynamic in russian politics borrowed videos and creative work campaigning could prove pivotal in the forthcoming presidential election.

it's midday here in moscow your with r.t. welcome to the program our top story now in syria government forces are reportedly assaulting the city of hama with dozens of people allegedly killed across the country over the past twenty four hours the u.n. security council is expected to vote over the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the escalating conflict the draft calls on the syrian regime to comply with an arab league proposal which would see president our side see the power paving the way for a coalition government with the opposition when it comes as the arab league's crucial monitoring mission to syria suffered a setback after six countries pulled out on the u.n. to act russia has made it clear to veto any security council resolution would allow foreign military intervention an estimated seven and a half thousand people have been killed since the nest began ten months ago killing civilians rebels and government forces. is the latest now from damascus. saying

they'll get by and heading home they've said it's from the gulf states leave the airport then mission incomplete leaving behind a country in a deepening crisis is never going to be easy they want the arab league monitors to stay i don't want them right from the word go the missions prove problematic the opposition accused the monitors of being too closely aligned with the government the government's now accused of being part of a foreign conspiracy and they were just tickled complaints to the observer seemed ill equipped on the ground and there were concerns that they were simply too few numbers to undertake such a major task but if things were bad at the beginning now they seem even worse following in saudi arabia's footsteps all the gulf states withdrew their observers after damascus rejected their recent proposal that included president assad cede

power to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these countries is very interested in democracy and they have nothing and this is the most interesting this is something pani will talk about about syria or will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi parties are but what about to do about the west come up talk about syria which would be true changed and leave saudi arabia as it has damascus is rejection was no surprise both sides of the conflict of shame equal unwillingness to soften their stance even when the daily death toll in the country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the road to damascus yet another remind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial moment in the country's quite serious is seen as controversial the arab

league essentially has no credit. ality on the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is get enough evidence concrete evidence about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very seen to then take to the un the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china will feel compelled to work but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the monitors things and i know more about what's going on the ground and they did. at the beginning and so it all looks like you know we're going back to square one as the death toll rises the proposal being floated to increase the number that is on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving well but for now those plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report that they graded pieces on both sides seems to have been lost in the flurry of diplomatic activity now france and britain have joined forces at the united nations to try to end president assad's rule waving goodbye to

that gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in for the arab league i think. it's diplomacy will give anyone to help the syrian but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not of bleakness could come soon so national dialogue through these reforms despite damascus and the mission to be extended for another month and the observers officially saying that they can continue with the task behind the scenes and the sentiment is much less optimistic. it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreement on what action should be taken to stop the violence and putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a rate so r.t. damascus syria. well have been street demos and cyber attacks in poland and anger at the government's decision to join

a glow. protest to say threatens internet users freedom also is expected to sign up with the us canada japan. proposal similar online piracy act which led to wikipedia as tempy boycott last week. the decision of the polish government to join in with the internet anti-piracy treaty known as the a.c.t.a. has already caused some dissent in the central european state several thousand people have gathered here choose the evening in front of the presidential palace here in warsaw to protest against what they believe could lead to serious censorship on the internet now the protesters held banners saying down with the censorship and also had their mouths shut with sticking tape as of symbolizing their protest against what they believe could be in fact the biggest censorship polish websites in this country but this is not the only step which the protesters took against the signing of this treaty we understand that the hacker group

anonymous also hacked several governmental websites including the prime minister to fix website and digital and cultural ministries. along with a dozen other governmental websites which were also hacked by the group they also published a very stern warning a message saying that they have some very sensitive information about the polish authorities and should they continue with the signing of this treaty the information would then may be published. this far as wonderstone according to many experts there's no turning back and the agreement will be signed the poland will join this treaty we're understand that this will happen during thursday in japan. or so the head of the program the anti capitalist side of the world economic forum in davos to this way to get their voices heard as noble decision makers part of the economic forum the annual business bash. it's the online

election battle front where nothing is off limits as russia's presidential campaign what's up let's call activists on moving away from traditional tactics and embrace on the internet promoting ideas or spreading fears where campaigning is playing a bigger part than ever before auntie's are getting a true story. doesn't want is that you were right is that laws are going to race suits and ties and slogans cold out from the poor d m r the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered politically. today's complaining has gone online in a whole new trend in russia. with programming and bloggers making fun of the opposition portraying them in prayer outside the u.s. embassy on sundays claiming they are connected to the us state department and the opposition filming funny cartoons about politicians made out of lego.

getting information out there is becoming easier all the time but the internet is a very different medium to television while on t.v. it's enough to just look into the camera like this to show viewers' attention not so on the net to me you are video reaching millions of light and it's not it just. it also has to be provoked to brazen and sometimes project a whole different image. it's no surprise then that putin as a character from harry puta became an overnight hit it's an industry doing the symbol. of i don't see what i see you stuck with something yes they're going to. make. sure that the when you're in the world you. put a gun there but it was just beat them so. but i don't compare it's about you about

you apart from catching images memorable catchphrases are used against those in the corridors of power opposition blogger alex enough while me was the first upload his shot which is tongues online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party the leaves and scoundrels the insulting phrase it first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magine of all media in russia and beyond a year after party won in the parliamentary elections and reworked the catchphrase felicity's a vote for the party of fees and scoundrels for ten years of economic growth but the party of these in scoundrels united russia. the mastermind behind that video and state duma deputy robert proved his party can also fight its wars online broke out superpowers the use of being able to my image to provoke supreme reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they

do work but i see these putin that russia without putin would rise why not give away your country your beautiful girlfriend to some foreign guys what will happen to the caucasus nothing because let's just give it away to. spawning a war technically this video is i meet a very professional you can see that highly paid suresh a list it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent first thought is that there is indeed no injury without put but it is from the opposition are just as. an adequate trend of this election season eavesdropping on politicians and posting recordings online or those taking part in a massive opposition rally in december were surprised to find out that one of their inspirations maurice himself described them in a phone as. there are here from each heater of government for. your comfort your. naive to expect from any side when we are living in

election year there are no holds barred in this war you're not even interfering in someone's private life. a lack of privacy for today's politicians is already a modern day reality and with fifteen million russians going online today about forty percent of the adult population if she's the future is predicted to be sure to build with them online political other tars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world even without borders exceeding the catch a one party. well that all of our stories latest videos are much more available on our website at r.t. dot com here's what's waiting few online now just a click away from the web whistleblower to t.v. talk host critics founder julian assange on get citizenship it will be right here on t.v. by the hour what to expect worldwide reaction to the news on our web site. under

celebration of the year of the dragon in thailand went up in flames as one looks exploded setting homes ablaze see how it happened to dot com. more people are expected to protest in the egyptian capital with to where square already full once again a year after the ousting of hosni mubarak thousands of protesters are desperate for the interim military government to immediately relinquish power with dozens have been killed in recent months as troops crank down on several demonstrations the barricades currently on trial activists are angry that some of his key allies are still being screened a new parliament has been elected and is growing a constitution but a military still reigns supreme in the illustrated emergency or has finally been

lifted but egyptian author and filmmaker philip risk says that change is little. i don't see it as being that big of a shift i mean we lived under military rule for thirty years and that gave the government their storage had to do just about what they wanted today we live under military rule so to me it's just a formal matter and that they they lift emergency law while we live under the rule of a military dreamt up since the military took over general twenty eight's over fifteen thousand civilians that we know of have faced military courts and have received trials of anywhere between six months to fifteen years and a formal matter like lifting emergency law means absolutely nothing when we have a newly elected parliament that is still under the thumb of military jointer they've tasted power they have massive economic interests in the country again everything that's happened in egypt really needs to be looked at from an economic perspective in that there's a group of cronies of one box and his government that were in power they've been

moved out of power and there's a new group of cronies that are in place and central to that group of power hungry rulers today are the military generals and they will not just let go and hand over power like that without having guarantees that their interests will be secured. some world news in brief for you now this hour insurgents have bombed a house in iraq killing ten people inside the house fifty kilometers south of baghdad was owned by two police officers who were brothers they were both among the dead as well as two infants the police spokesman says the house was leveled by the explosion. libya's defense minister has arrived in the town of bani walid after this formally magdala seize control of the area on monday the minister has begun to go with militia drove out government forces through things and. people were killed and twenty five feet in the battle retaking of the town isn't the first major challenge to the new government some forty. multi-story building has collapsed in

the center of rio de janeiro with reports saying two people are dead eleven still trapped under the rubble dozens of firefighters and paramedics are working at the scene looking for survivors thick layers of dust and debris cover the surrounding area making this search difficult eyewitnesses say there was a strong smell of gas and an explosion for the building collapsed. one of the owners of the cruise liner that capsized off the italian coast denies telling the ship's captain to change the vessels route it comes after captain francesco schettino told a friend he was pressured by managers to steer the ship to the area where the collision occurred the company says the captain was going far too fast to be so close to shore sixteen bodies have been recovered since the ship ran aground and the search continues for seventeen people still missing. well coming your way this

hour food for thought why america's production has barred debate of whether it ends up on people's plates or at the pumps to help out in nations around. the world economic forum in davos has opened for a second day of debates with power brokers from politics and business bidding to restore confidence in the economy and capitalism itself while some insists that the current downturn isn't the fault of the system of those radical reforms urgently needed from the swiss resort town artie's minister as more. 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 we heard on this stage some concerns about capitalism say criticism about capitalism also we heard some defenses because of course at davos there are plenty of people to defend the current system of capital.