but getting 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of copyright itself copyright needs to be the extensions the term extensions of the past couple of decades should be repealed to keep to be in keeping with the constitution and the idea of fair use the fact they've been allowed to extend out to a lifetime plus seventy five years is a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 and 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 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 in 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 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. as

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 news 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 signore and 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. not production now what's happening with this

and you're absolutely right is we're seeing major moves sometimes on an ad hoc quick 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 my era for a second and get your take on this again kind of my mind thought exercise curious

what you think here you have a country greece they were tricked into the europe by goldman sachs who 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 poil from iran because of the this skirmish between rabbit israel they don't get a loan so greece can't have anymore oil what's authorises 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. has supposedly banned iranian oil imports that's going to. a joke and it's going to

hurt 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 think get it 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 and. 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 build up 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 can't stop there and back off what i 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 your thought is that it come 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 and thank my guest mike rupert of collapse and net dot com. you can send me an e-mail at kaiser reported r t t v r u you can follow me

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i i. tonight the polish people on a march against their country signing up to a multinational where. we've got the latest. people fear that these documents will give corporations too much power to take regular users offline i'll explain why in just a few moments. violence flares in syria as a resolution to oust president assad lands on un desks but moscow vows it won't let foreign forces into v. . and the battle for russia's top job goes viral with internet campaigns and you

tube videos becoming more powerful tools than conventional t.v. debates. live from moscow at eight pm you're watching r.t. will welcome my name is kevin now in our top story this key websites are being hijacked on a day that thousands of internet freedom supporters marched outside in a major to protest it's because the country has just signed up to a global web piracy part covering everything from movies and music to fashion and pharmaceuticals but it's not stretches wide. in warsaw to explain. well this document called the courtesy trade agreement which has been signed by poland and many other countries other countries in fact including the united states. new zealand and others is the reason why tens of thousands of people are taking to the

streets in poland is the reason why most of the governmental websites in this country have been hijacked by the hacker groups including the anonymous group which is well known across the world basically this agreement is all about protecting the intellectual property including movies books pharmaceuticals designer clothes and things like that but ordinary people fear that the big corporations will use it to police the web and to take regular users offline so we've seen lots of protests in poland as i mentioned in the last several days we are also seeing protests being held today in the cities of new berlin and in central poland we are expecting more protests tomorrow on friday more so the problem about this document is not it was worked out in complete secrecy bypassing all governments and the general public had no access to it so that's why the regular users are afraid that this document would be used against them i'll just give you a simple example for instance you create

a website and you put links to your favorite movies on this website and big corporations can in fact start a criminal case against you saying that you violate the agreement so nobody knows to what extent the corporations can go in using this document in fact misusing this document as the protesters here in poland and everywhere they protest against it certainly has some resemblance to the american soap bill which is also being discussed in the united states but the difference is that the bill is a moral american local thing the act is definitely international and it will concern all countries which sign it in we are certainly in possibly for more protests across the european continent. what a key problem see with her is that it's completely bypassed people in the government says polish liberty activists cartagena share many of which has been explaining to r.t. this same exactly the same tendency we see in both internal and to piracy laws that

were attempted to rein in the us and the naacp time and that the main problem is that we see. the ignorance for the real problem of piracy online the politicians avoid talking about reforming intellectual property or are they avoid the very concept that something might be wrong with the law as it stands now there was not have a debate at all marked people when they identify good friends it was extremely linked so we all thought excluded from the debate and this is why we see this hottest this this discourage people to express their opposition to this political trend. the rounds threatening to switch off its oil supplies to europe before the e.u. embargo comes into force in july parliament will discuss whether to make the move next week the e.u. decided to stop buying iranian oil hoping to force to back to talks over its nuclear program let's talk about these latest developments now with show face in the campaign against sanctions and military intervention in around sure

a very good evening what message does this move send to europe do you think now. well i think there are three main points to guarding the initiative by the rain in parliament one is that the grace period that they had in vision for six months for it is going to take place may actually not be that graceful so iran is taking matters into his own hands another issue is that it shows the complex city of feeling in domestic politics and the power that iranian parliament holds and that is accountable to its people and it's not going to just sit back and watch of us going to happen to the national sovereignty of iran and then the it shows the disconnect between. his harlem and him people because this is a model is not something which is going to be to the benefit of european people and there's also a disconnect between european governments and their parliament as well sure the big

three awards that iran would try and close as they threatened the whole move straight this kind of looks no the maybe backing away from that with this new preemptive move. well not really because the initiative is just taken out by the way and parliament is off a different nature and threat or. warning this was given by the rain in defense force but of course not the different. nature itself and regarding the iranian capacity to close off the strait of hormuz actually it anyway indian commander said something which was not covered by the news outside iran this is a foreign forces are welcome to go to the other countries in the in the gulf for example on the omanis side but unfortunately for them they do graphical fact is that the waters on the omanis flies are shallow and ships have to go from the rain in territorial waters to get to the persian gulf so they are not going to be allowed

to pass through that channel and would rather really ever stand a chance against america and the european forces it wouldn't really at the end of the day would it sorry can you repeat that would really in forces really if they ever did try to block the strait of hormuz start the charges against american and european forces. who. are the problem is that they are not afraid of that because as i said they can. close the iranian territorial waters and by doing that this is completely within international law and is within the range in rights to do that so there won't be a. confrontation in that neither you mentioned just just now about the economic effects it would have on oil except trim people but oil consumers around also saying of course that sanctions won't harm its economy. has called economy is now

enjoying stability but hang on inflation is high the currency is dropping how much of this is in just putting on a brave face. well you know you ron is on i mean it's not the most ideal situation for iran because iran has to find different consumers for the customers where it's all about that at the same time iran is going to be to decrease this dependence on the petrol dollar this is a very good thing in the long long run and of course they remain middle class the small businesses that actually do business with your pin businesses that are going to suffer but that is. wrong claims that that is for short term and in the long term this is actually going to lead to more independence for iraq as a whole as as a nation not just not just one part of the society which is investing in foreign businesses cheerless to for a minute about the nuclear talks president reiterated again iran's readiness to engage in talks over its nuclear program the u.s. also voicing its support for

a peaceful resolution why it has there been no progress no real tangible progress yet though. because because the nuclear issues really an excuse for for deepening the confrontation between iran and the west i tell you at the same time that the e.u. is imposing does involve those on iran and you see it as some european countries are selling more arms to the countries after the arab countries of the persian gulf so they are benefiting from the iran the phobia in the region so why solve the problem with negotiations while some countries are cashing in by deepening the conflict already it's a story we're covering extra extensively watching very closely we really appreciate your input as well sure in shy fave from the campaign against sanctions and military intervention in iran thank you. syrian troops have stormed a heavily populated damascus suburb where government forces pulled out earlier this week after clashes with opposition fighters the u.n.

security council could vote in 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 for president assad to leave and pave the way for a unity government russia has made it clear it will veto any u.n. resolution that allows foreign intervention or sanctions in syria itself or obliques crucial monitoring mission has resumed for the first week because of the violence. which saw six gulf countries pull out and call on the u.n. to act artists or a further. saying they get by heading it said it's from the gulf states leave at the airport their mission incomplete leaving behind a country deeply quite. it's never going to be easy they want the arab league monitors to stay. there for right from the word gay the missions problematic the opposition accused them of it is it being too closely aligned with the government

the government's now accused of being part of a foreign conspiracy. and there will it just tickle 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 funny we will talk about. what will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi-party system but what about to do it. the west cannot talk about syria which would be changed and

leave saudi arabia as it is damascus says rejection was a surprise those sides of the conflict of shame equal willingness 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 right to damascus yet you know the remind the spiraling situation. of the visit such a creature of a bid to the country's crisis is seen is controversial the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is good enough everything is concrete everything about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very easy to then take to the u.n. and the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china are compelled to work but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the monitors thing to 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. being slated to increase the number of that service on the ground and provide them with you in training could be a life saving one but for now these plants of interest hold 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. president to start. waving goodbye it's that gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in front of 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 arab league screwed council 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 very surface r.t. damascus syria. where just a few minutes from r.t. doubles vs the crisis. mobile political and economic leaders meet here at the world economic forum to tackle the euro zone crisis and also the arab spring meanwhile those who protested activists they want their voices heard remain locked out. food fuel and a few surprises to the russian rocket heads to the space station for the first time this year thank you some cargo that the crew just can't do without find out what.

the top job in the world's largest country is a highly prized position so beating the other contenders requires some creative thinking goes up than for the russian president so using every available avenue to get the message out he's a country groucho has been looking at the campaign as voted truck to tactics. i swear it doesn't weigh on is that you were right is that was that it was very suits and ties and slogans called out from the poor d m r the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered politically in vogue. today's campaigning has gone online in a hot 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 viewers attention not so although that to me you are police video reach millions of lines it's not a market just mass it also has to be provoked to brazen and sometimes project a whole different image. it's no surprise then that as a character from harry potter became an overnight hit it's an industry doing this you will. see what i see you stuck with some could use that word it but they're going to. make. sure that the word is what you're getting a bit when you. put up a gun there but it will just be them. but i don't compete it's up to you about you

apart from catching images memorable catch phrases are used against those in the corridors of power opposition blogger alex enough while me was the first upload his shot which is a tongue online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party the. and scoundrels the insulting phrase it first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magical media in russia and beyond a year after party won in the parliamentary elections and reworked the catchphrase felicity's of one vote for the party of fees and scoundrels for ten years of economic growth with 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 to abolish the use of being with my aim was to provoke to preen reality darker than that is often.