in nineteen thirty six franklin roosevelt was president and he spoke to the nation about a war now this was three years before germany invaded poland so he wasn't referring to world war two instead he was referring to a war with in america a war against the same economic forces that it crashed our economy a few years earlier in one hundred twenty nine and had corrupted our institutions of government it began in one nine hundred twenty one with a republican warren harding administration widely regarded as one of the most corrupt presidencies in american history then it continued through the republican coolidge administration and into the republican hoover administration complete with his stock market crash in one nine hundred twenty nine so by one nine hundred thirty two when f.d.r. came in the american people finally had enough to kick the republicans out of office and as roosevelt. it is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization it is more than that

it is a war for their survival of democracy we are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world to roosevelt our democracy hung in the balance in one nine hundred thirty six and he referred to the enemy trying to destroy us to destroy our democracy as economic royalists they were the banks toure's the corporations the industrial giants of agriculture and machinery. they were the forces that screamed that roosevelt's new deal with things like social security were communism yes they literally called social security was communism and they fought to stop the development of a middle class to the union movement they explicitly wanted a nation made up of the very rich and the working poor these economic royalists even recruited a few hundred men and tried to get marine general smedley smedley butler to stage

a military coup against president roosevelt so he really really was exaggerating it all when he talked about it being a war in regard to the tactics being used by the economic royalists roosevelt said this. they. ignore law maker royalists complain of that way saying though up throw the institutions of america what they really play into. is that we seek to take away the oh and famous they seek to hide behind the flag and because. then the line miss they book guess what the flag on the constant was and found. this is

a very important clip for us this that that moment and this moment because mitt romney the man who will likely be the republican nominee for president is an economic royalists except today we don't call it economic royalists anymore if we refer to these royalist as the one percent and mitt romney's trying to hide behind the flag in the constitution. here's what he said on thursday to a man who asked romney what he would do if you were president for the ninety nine er's ninety nine percent. of america is a great nation because we're united nations and those are trying to drive them if you know if you're trying to do here as our president is doing or in this country seriously the right course for america is not to divide america drive divide is between one another on ways to come together as a nation that if you've got a better model if you think china is right or russia is better. or north korea is better run right here are my hero you're right and you're wrong. america is

right and you're wrong and if you know why can't they just go live in north korea that's essentially what romney just said and this is the strategy of today's one percenters this generation's economic royalists their strategy is to deny that there is any quality in the united states to deny that they live in an america that they live in which is vastly different than the america that the rest of us live in and they hide behind the flag by saying that any criticism of there are enormous wealth and political influence is somehow un-american as romney says america's right but you're wrong but it's a lie if mitt romney wants us to believe there's no such thing as the one percent i'd like to hear his take on why is it that the top one percent have seen their incomes grow by two hundred seventy five percent since one nine hundred seventy nine while the majority of our incomes of fall are why the top one percent share of

national income has skyrocketed while the middle classes has collapsed or why it is that eighty percent of all the new wealth created in america since one thousand nine hundred eighty since reaganomics has gone to just the top one percent. or why there are four hundred billionaires in america who are more wealth than the bottom one hundred fifty million americans combine or why the six walton heirs own more wealth than the bottom thirty percent of all americans or why the one percent pay a different tax rate than the rest of us a tax rate that like romney's averages around fifteen percent with no payroll tax paid one percent versus ninety nine percent it's not it's not campaign rhetoric it's not a slogan from occupy wall street it's math it's right in your face the only people in america who pretend they don't see this conflict who say they don't see their

own class warfare or the one percent themselves according to a recent pew research center poll two thirds of americans across party lines across classes and across races strongly believe that there is a class war in america today as billionaire warren buffett said there is a class warfare in america going on right now and it's his class the rich class the romney class that's winning but i guess you can't blame multimillionaires like mitt romney or newt gingrich or billionaires like the koch brothers for not being aware of the class warfare because they live in a completely different country than the rest of us. they don't care about paying their fair share of taxes to make sure our roads aren't potholed and our bridges aren't crumbling and they have their private chauffeurs their private jets they don't care of police budgets are getting cut they have their own private security they don't care of our public schools are running out of money and failing our kids

they have their own private schools they don't care if our health care prices are skyrocketing their top notch insurance plans are just pocket change for they don't care if young men and women are being sent off to die in the middle east because they know their kids will never have to go they don't care if a generation of young americans are saddled with over a trillion dollars in student loan debt because their kids will never need a student loan they don't care if seven million homes have been foreclosed on and another five million homes in america right now are on the verge of foreclosure they've got homes all over the planet but one percent have already seceded from the united states which is why the romney presidential campaign is so ironic this guy doesn't really live in america at least not in the same america that the rest of us live in the one percent have retreated to their mansions protected by iron gates and private guards and are sucking dry the middle class and then moving the money

into their offshore bank accounts in the cayman islands they've become a cancer and are just as big a threat to our democracy now as they were in one nine hundred thirty six when president roosevelt first warned us about his generation's economic royalists is generations one percenters in fact they're a bigger threat now because of the supreme court citizens united decision because that decision has given the power to literally by our elections to that one percent . and that's where we have to start right as citizens united right at the idea that corporations are people and money is speech if we hope to turn the tide in this war the roosevelt started more than seventy years ago and the warren buffett warned recently is all that lost today federal courts across america were occupied by the ninety nine percent i showed up and helped occupy the supreme court here in d.c. an action organized nationwide by move to amend or to carry all of us forward in

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breathing life into hopes for a peaceful solution to the syrian crisis as russia's delegation to the country sees signs of both sides are ready to anger the dialogue. the rift between the e.u. and the u.k. grows into a kassam after european court of human rights ordering the release of osama bin laden's right hand man in you up. and washington's top military official heads to high road to try and suspend criminal charges against american ngo members as egypt's military leaders down the western activists to help them to powerless here . in business russian firms flush out record amounts on

advertising despite the crisis prices of billboards and t.v. commercials are expected to grow details coming to you in a business bulletin. it is not i am in the russian capital you're watching our marina joshie welcome to the program both the syrian regime and the opposition have signaled that the solution to the bloody unrest may why at the negotiating table rather than the battlefield that's after russia's foreign minister met with president assad in damascus the leader told the delegation that he is ready to implement reforms while the opposition says moscow should provide a roadmap for dialogue are these workers going off explains. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov and the head of the foreign intelligence service meet helfer of course have met with president assad and with syrian political elite and

according to the foreign minister president assad says that he is ready for dialogue with the opposition with russia being the mediator now this stephen was me to right after the meeting in damascus earlier on tuesday by russia's foreign minister and we've already had a reaction from the syrian opposition specifically from a senior member of the syrian national council george summer who says that russia has strong enough time as would the syrian people and it's being the mediator actually may be quite effective so quite a positive reply there now the foreign minister sergei lavrov has also stressed once again that both sides of this conflict must put their weapons down immediately our approach is based on a clear and simple goal to stop civilian deaths the region needs peace syria needs peace it is clear that efforts to end the violence need to go along with the start of a meaningful dialogue between all political sides today we've received confirmation

from the syrian president of his readiness to participate in that process we will continue to work with various opposition groups but anyone who has more influence on them than russia should also work with them another issue discussed at the meeting was the new constitution of syria currently still being prepared and according to the foreign minister. of president assad says that the time of the nationwide referendum on this constitution is going to be announced in the nearest future and the important thing about that document is that it's supposed to cancel the political monopoly of the ruling party now all this comes amid a major diplomatic standoff between russia and china on one side and the west on the other side with the west pushing for tougher sanctions against syria and regime change in the country and russia standing for peaceful dialogue between both sides

of the conflict. you're pissing off importing there and in the light of recent u.n. security council fallouts r.t. spoke to russia's ambassador to the body. and he says that piling pressure only on the yasid regime gives a unilateral advantages to the rebels who are also to blame for inciting violence in syria. the latest round of military confrontation in syria started a couple of days before that resolution draft resolution was put to vote and the reason i'm here i'm not trying to justify anybody but simply trying to be analytical is that as the money during mission of that i believe was there and as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain towns or certain quarters and in cities that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the the armed confrontation will continue and escalate and that was the reason for which were

brought our amendments to the text of the draft resolution which would not only require the government to pull out its forces from from the cities but would also would also require the opposition forces to show restraint and not to exercise their military coup out every conflict. needs to be resolved through negotiations there are two ways really in my view one is a frontal attack against the regime something which i'm afraid the has been happening lately including from some international important international players the advocates of regime change they have been trying to. resolve the crisis through frontally the toppling of the government in the mosque but this is this would mean bloodshed and civil conflict and. conflict which would be spreading beyond the borders of syria but the other the more rational way the only way which the

international community should be supporting. trying to put the parties to the table to bring them to the table and to arrange a dialogue among them in order to find a political solution without further bloodshed. while russian made mediation efforts in syria other nations sought to further isolate the arab country by withdrawing their ambassadors. mass among them are the gulf states along with some european nations including britain france and italy the gulf nations also said they were expelling syrian and boys in protest against the regime the u.s. has closed its embassy there washington has also said it's not going to our military gangs however adding that no option is off the table president of the arab lawyers association salahuddin with our believes the movie shows the west has little interest in a peaceful resolution to the conflict. this is very clearly an attempt by the worst to thwart any effort of settlement because i don't think the western powers whether it's the u.k. u.s.

france or the europeans and certainly the other countries the gulf countries really playing according to the rules that are being laid down designed by the americans they are the people who are trying to explore any possibility we've seen this before in the. other when the west was something the opposition and they were i mean. anybody who wanted to have a dialogue with the government regardless of whether they were. not they were accused of being. stooges of the government or their agents of the government or they are not the path between now and this is that they are doing now at the present moment i think in terms of the opposition in syria and i fear that this is really why of the russians are trying to get the opposition to talk to the government because that's the only way you can resolve the problem i think they will stop those people from even the opposition from discussing with the government

sitting with them and this is really where they've done the same thing in libya where civilian and peaceful protests were converted into an armed conflict so that it gives the pretext for the west to intervene. so the bottom of the program here in r t the green economy goes on sale fresh clashes erupt in athens as yesterday ravitch public rails against what they see as a buyer sale of the nation's future. and frozen to death buying cold its brain in an icy grip as the country suffers its most severe winter in years with more than a hundred people die over the last week. britain after the european court of human rights ordered the release of dubbed some of bin laden's right hand man and you are it's the latest in a string of judgments that have overruled domestic decisions reinforcing the

opinion that the e.u. is interfering in matters it has nothing to do with an authority as laura smith reports patience with the e.u. is running thin. as sovereign land with its own queen its own currency and its own parliament laws made by someone else this building house is what we in the u.k. call the supremum court but in practice it supremes in name only despite being the highest court in the land when it comes to human rights if you don't like the way your case is going or you can take his abroad to france and decisions made in strasburg could overrule any may taya the european court of human rights was set up after world war two to avoid the persecution of minorities by the state but now it's been de railed and it was never never anticipated of the circle or war after

the holocaust off the terrace perpetrated by certain tyrannical governments but the court now would be protecting the criminal and not the victim. delays in control of a sea have dogged the european court in stroudsburg there's a backlog of up to eight years and when cases are decided judgments are often bizarre in two thousand and ten the court decided to give prisoners the right to vote after a petition by john hirst who spent much of his life behind bars after killing his landlady the u.k. is still refusing to implement the ruling it makes me physically ill it would probably mean again the vote to anyone who's in prison knows the aside it could also cost a fortune but the last time that we looked at this the cost of complying with judgments under the european convention of human rights was about two point one

billion pounds a year that's three point three billion dollars plus another two point eight billion in a susi dated one off costs in other areas an immigration ruling means a convicted nigerian rapist gets to stay in the u.k. because of his right to a family life. and most recently the european court of human rights ruled hate preacher abu qatada dubbed bin lardons the right hand man in europe can't be deported back to jordan he's now gee to be released on to the streets of britain this is somebody who stands up and publicly. hatred about everything that our democracy is and stands for and yet we can't get rid of him because of the european convention on human rights sitting in strasburg forty seven judges one from each signatory country so far so fair except none of them were elected by the people of the countries they're making law for we've got a system of law and order in this country it's word for many many years for the

seat or the mother of all parliaments why do we need strasburg will brussels to tell us what we can and cannot do the answer is we don't so therefore british law for british people those who aren't calling for the u.k. to pull out of the european convention on human rights altogether are demanding reforms to stop strides burge making decisions on what should be sovereign issues the court has to be more focused on fundamental civil and political rights not interfering in the daily lives. and in the ministration of the criminal justice system and in the member states of the council of europe without reforms there's a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater as nations pull out of the human rights court undermining it leaving those in countries with weaken human rights protections entirely vulnerable laura smith r.t. london. meanwhile a would be riders in the u.k. could soon come face to face with military grade chemical agents the u.k.

government is being asked to clarify its stance on the use of and pass stating there are nerve gas although banned from use in warfare there are fears it could be adopted by british riot police read the full story at r.t. dot com. also on our website a holy war for america enraged catholic priests are preparing for a legal fight with president obama saying his new health insurance policies are an assault on religion. on the brink of bankruptcy in greece as you are crap pm has reportedly said that a draft of the long delayed dad deal could be presented to parliament today however getting approval may be difficult more than ten thousand greeks surrounded the parliament on tuesday clashing with police while protesting the latest reforms and

then to see their livelihoods and the country being sold out with a little benefit for them problem and opposition is also strong with deputies wary of more cuts and tax hikes expected to accompany the deal greece has until march to secure financing or face default but according to investment adviser patrick young hopes of a positive outcome are fading fast. this is truly finally the brink we are only of the great eurostar the troika of the group of people the world bank the european union people there are a lot of the point where they you know there is truly exhaust the issue in the rest of the world as to why they should be paying for a greek economy of a greek state that is totally completely and utterly bankrupt has been completely and utterly mismanaged for decades and ultimately tragically the greek people themselves are going to end up suffer. as they already are the problem is it all went wrong because a group of rather well rather than the scar i kind of dream i didn't fit your first

so that there could be one single europe they rush to compress everybody interest single currency and ultimately none of the countries were actually remotely compatible economically in order to make that giant leap that's where it's going wrong and this is a tragedy for europe and the european union washington is standing at top official to egypt to tackle cairo's crackdown on us now profit groups the groups played a pivotal role in the popular uprising that toppled president mubarak last year but are now falling victim to egypt's new military leadership or if it actually has been following events. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want to is why now the groups menu which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while they were at the vanguard of the uprising against mubarak that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces and no one has ever seems to care

about this sources of income that is until they directed their criticism to the new mutants religious sheep layman or the slow pace of reform some of them are used by this. they are quoting people the. notion that they are the ones that evolution they have. to live there this is very much of the rhetoric this is specie led to prosecutors raiding seventy offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign fines to promote and run in the post mubarak country activists however claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights with the scarf looking for. some agent against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the son of you asterisk protection secretary ray la

hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans or. i don't think that. anything at all so this is a game and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious though has been quick to condemn scarf worn in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of that the continued on flowing that they provide that support also continued all flowing we don't all know washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to stabilize the situation as much as possible in order to guarantee its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car share the council's concerns about the engine whose motives.