on the corpse of a taliban fighter someone who was a part of an organization murdered over three thousand americans. i dropped around to a chill that's me down certain time so the first case led to someone getting suspended but the second case it seems it is possible that makes us well i mean roland martin is in a pretty small brotherhood of african-american journalists here in the united states i mean i know him a lot of people my friends know people line up on weird sides of this but the bottom line is this and this is this is just my theory roland martin was not hired by c.n.n. to make provide that of crazy comments dana loesch was people like erick erickson are i mean i know that sounds strange but hear me out they were hired to basically provide that kind of talk radio lunatic point of view especially with the marines

peeing on the taliban and i spoken about this on r t before that kind of sensationalism and that kind of of news product dominates the airwaves united states and c.n.n. was just taking advantage of it when erik erikson talks about how it's great to see another hippie taste that wasn't what roland was doing he was at a super bowl party stupidly tweeting some fairly pigheaded comments because those comments go towards you know traditional cultural abuse even death of gay people. so you know so there's the difference so roland was suspended because of this kind of you know with this and then tweeting it to the university the power of social media personified there they that's their dana loesch that's her character that's her role this wasn't rowland's role role and stepped out of that role and role and got smacked for it now maybe they'll be a. threshold of professionalism now at some of these cable networks where people

will chua stuff like that i don't know if that's going to happen frankly i think roland's going to be back on the air next round of primaries and her saying well he certainly is paying the price at least for the time credit thank you so much nice to have you on the show as always that was journalism professor at georgetown university christopher chabris. well you've heard about the military and just really complex but there's a system that's pumping in that's pumping money into corporations while harming average americans another system that some refer to as the obesity and us rail complex and it's this system that contributes to the obesity epidemic in the u.s. so while the health and well being of americans suffers who is benefiting a lot of you'll see big corporations are raking in the dough from the fattening of america and not only are politicians not stopping it it seems they're feeding the problem. would bring. and we need to stop the out of control spending spree that's

growing our washington d.c. as the debate over cutting government spending rages on billions of taxpayer dollars wasted each year on junk food between one nine hundred ninety five and two thousand and ten over two hundred fifty billion dollars was spent on subsidizing foods that are making americans fat seventy four percent of all the subsidies go to just ten percent of the agribusinesses these are not the small farms public funds go to agra giants like monsanto the company produces genetically modified seeds and claims more than ninety three percent of soybean and eighty percent of the corn market in the u.s. but this is not what americans are consuming the crops are turned into products like high fructose corn syrup which end up in most processed foods the effect on american health is devastating seventy five percent of americans are now overweight and advertisers today target can't the most important part of the mcdonald's back

in there is you pay superman this is kryptonite for. the results one in five kids in america are obese they like sweets and they like all the additives that are added to fast foods and sodas and snacks meanwhile corporations are profiting from the fattening of america they spend millions each year lobbying congress to up hold policies that keep the big businesses profitable david rosin calls the system the obesity and duster guilt complex that this system is essentially it's you know it's a pay to play system and if you can pay. to support your local congressman or senator you have a stronger opportunity to both not only influence the laws that are passed but actually draft the was like congress recently declaring pizza a vegetable agribusiness is spend a lot of money lobbying on capitol hill and making sure that the funding is going towards things that are going to drive down the products of the most profitable products also cashing in on the. of america pharmaceutical companies the u.s.

spends one hundred forty seven billion dollars each year treating obesity related illnesses countries from china to hungary require labeling of g.m.o. foods with the power of corporations and lobbyists to influence politics no such laws exist in the u.s. today in washington liz wall r t. well for more on the fattening of america and the fat cats that benefit from it i spoke earlier with raj patel from the institute for food and development policy he's also the author of this book you see on your screen stuffed and starved the hidden battle for the world food system i first asked him about the about obesity and the fact that many people really don't have a choice these days when it comes to ingredients in the food they take a look. great point there is i mean if you cruise the aisles of the supermarkets you'll find that. if you go to the breakfast cereal aisle the sort of

preponderance of cereal that we are encouraged to feed to our children has sugar as a primary ingredient and we've been noticing in the united states really over the past forty years an increasing trend towards obesity and overweight to now now to the point that the majority of americans are overweight and about a third of americans are obese now that's a that's a relatively new phenomenon and it's one that has. some level it's about consuming more calories that you burn. encouraged certainly by the industry's the profit from this to think of this as an individual failing we need you know we are encouraged to think of the fact that we are so overweight in this country as a sign that we are deficient in willpower and so that there's a big industry not only in selling us food that makes us fat but also a billion dollar industry and selling us food that makes us thin as well and

sometimes these these industries exist side by side unilever for example owns ice cream companies as well as weight loss brands but the fact is that the choices that we have are structured much more by the companies that make money off selling us calories and they're selling us the means to get rid of it than they are individual to do about our individual charts and speaking of choice there's a lot of times it's the poor people that apple last choice has talked about how often it's the poor that fall victim to this. well that's it i mean it seems paradoxical that in the united states where as i say i mean the majority of people are overweight and in the united states at the moment and people are often shocked to hear this about fifty million americans. go hungry that's a got me for forty nine million the most recent year were what's called food insecure but it's not surprising that hunger and. obesity and overweight are

neighbors and the reason that we're the way it works is like this that if you are on food stamps on supplementary assistance in order to be able to make ends meet for you and your family then what you're going to do is try and spend money on on as many calories as you can you try to spend money on as much nutrition as you can get and a dollar will buy you about four hundred calories of coke but the dollar will only buy you about seventeen calories of lettuce and when roughly you know a dollar fifty is what you get in terms of food stamps per meal of course you're going to try and make those that make that dollar count in terms of calories and if your calorie options are limited then of course you're going to be heading towards buying food that rich in the kind of empty calories that are going to lead to overweight and obesity i mean this is a global problem of course and but certainly in the united states we see it very acutely that overweight and poverty are often go hand in hand and meanwhile it's

the big business as the big food and pharmaceutical companies that are raking in the big bucks why do our politicians allow this to happen well i mean it's clear that in the united states we have the best government that money can buy and the power of the agricultural lobby is immense now while we do have some shifts in the most in the obama administration toward supporting the kinds of food that are slightly healthier than industrial the pretty produce food we still are having you know we're at the labor level of having fights over whether. ketchup on pizzas can be considered a vegetable and you know when debates that the u.s. department of agriculture at this kind of level it's not surprising that i mean that's a sign of the power of the agriculture industry to to buy out concerns at a federal level around the food safety and that that the health of american citizen

at. that was raj patel from the institute for food and development policy well the alona show is coming up in just a half hour let's check in with a lot to see what is on today's agenda hi there alone at well can we look forward to. well we've got quite a story for you today just two days ago we had a man named tenet colonel daniel al davis on the show who had submitted a classified report to congress telling them that he thought that the pentagon had been misleading to both congress and the public about this idea of success in afghanistan so he wanted to tell the real story he came on the program told us what he could like i said this is all classified and i asked him if he thought that they would go after him for this because nobody likes critique and what do you know it turns out the reports are saying today that indeed an investigation has been launched by the pentagon so we're going to talk about this expanding war and whistleblowers and speak to two of them themselves peter van buren and lieutenant colonel tony shaffer tonight and i know you're going to be talking about tensions

with iran well we actually we scratch that story about tensions with iran because this investigation about whistleblowers and about coming up and we just thought it was more important for the day because this is something that we constantly on here on this program from bradley manning to thomas drake to now lieutenant colonel daniel davis well that's ok because we spent a lot of time covering that story a lot to look forward to your show coming up next that's going to do it for the news for more of the stories we covered you can head on over to our t. dot com slash usa and you can check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america you can also follow me on twitter at liz wahl the alona show is coming up in just half an hour we'll see you right back here at seven and what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through get through to be made. no one. with the global reach

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loose should do a blog. i didn't mean to tell you don't step too close to the event horizon the greek event horizon brooke i'm broke i'm back oh my god i can't tell you what i saw in the black hole it was the tragedy that the humidity the gold that's all gold in there and clearly going through that in a moment pressure on greece's recession stricken economy has intensified after international debt inspectors admitted an additional fifteen billion euros would be needed to fill a newly discovered black hole in the country's finances yes well we have been saying on this show for moms if not years that the game being played at the bank or level is that they put a gun to that of the government is there any more bailout money and then a few months later they say oh look we found another trillion dollars in debt we

need more bailout money and this is recycled repeated and recycled again and the amount of debt in the black hole of debt will never subside because the bailout money used to try to equalize the effects of the black call of debt is in fact itself more debt. so. there is only going to increase the only thing different is that the words coming out of the duplicitous horrendous psychotic newscasters and bankers that you see in the mainstream media is that they confuse debt with equity well regarding greece you know its on off on off strikes violence all over the place i know you're going to be speaking to a.m.'s verified in the second half further about that but so let's move over to the united kingdom we've still got a few quid then the bank of england's glittering stash of one hundred fifty six

billion pounds in gold bars stored in former canteen under london yes according to the daily mail max cash strapped british people will breathe a sigh of relief when they see these impressive treasure troves despite the financial crisis it seems the country still has some money left in the bank of england's vault underneath london well this is such a incredible law i think not of the financial press to maven report this isn't it all seriously because it would mean that the u.k. as the second biggest gold position in the world four thousand six hundred tons they claim they found at the very very very very very bottom of the article they do mention but sadly not all of it belongs to us some is deposited by foreign governments as well as our own it's a complete farce i mean we know that most britain has three hundred tons of gold a gordon brown sold three hundred tons of gold when the during the period of the

effects of the euro and britain would love to have four thousand tons of gold because as we enter this period of global currency war those who have the most gold are going to be the big winners like germany for example. well speaking of german gold one thing you have discussed with jim rickards is this notion that the united states could just see these all of germany's gold because germany doesn't actually keep most of their gold in their own country they keep it in new york or over at west point so. is this just like a test the water is maybe you know the bank of england is saying hey look we have four thousand six hundred tons of gold how do we get it and pretend that where they came from yeah i think they are testing the waters to see if anyone claims that if anyone steps forward and says wait a minute that's our goal we've got better as well it took all of its gold back germany obviously is exposed they have sixty percent of their gold is actually held in the new york fed so this is leading up to get to this currency were gold is the

central pivot around what's the global currency wars fought speaking of the bank of england there in the next headline bank of england to print further fifty billion pounds so the bank of england's monetary policy committee is set to announce today that it is expanding its quantitative easing program from two hundred seventy five billion pounds to three hundred twenty five billion pounds so even that fake gold that hologram they presented in the previous headline that's worth half of what they've already just printed but all the quantitative easing so far quantitative easing one quantitative easing to quantitative easing three it hasn't produced any inflation it hasn't produced any job growth it hasn't produced any real uptick in wages i mean there's a big controversy in the us about the latest jobs statistic and whether it was an increase earning griese of the testicle number of people with a job or without a job which is what got the nonsense moot point going nowhere because the bottom line is that the wage real wages are flat to down so who cares about

a monthly statistical anomaly from the b.l.s. bureau of labor statistics who are notoriously incorrect and false in their reporting to begin with the but here you have a situation of more quantitative easing which is more debt which means that the british economy will contract it's going to contract because you're adding more debt but they don't want to call it debt they call it. money they call it's equity where it's just more debt so it's a psychotic a suicide mission you know. this country needs you know what this world needs we even meet we make that movie charles bronson deathwish with a guy a vigilante who goes after bankers that would be a fantastic movie and i wouldn't put myself forward as a storing in the film and being the charles bronson character hollywood call me i'm willing to do this film for scale oh no i think it's coming out of the black hole that facts are g.v. after he has come up with the film just like that here's

a little clip of you confronting timmy g. hanky p. we're going to gaining her thing there is. no whores were. those i agreed. to do many. yes ok that was charles bronson and a sergio leone western spaghetti western then bronson went on to make a death wish series which i'd like to be in a death wish moving mass kaiser in the charles bronson moving stalking bankers in

new york with a big prick and go. well max you did confront mervyn king their bank move could make pensioners poorer savers on the verge of retirement are facing the prospect of becoming permanent really poorer as the bank of england prepares to expand its program of quantitative easing otherwise it is q.e. by fifty billion pounds this week so a person about to retire will be hit by the banks who because the value of the new eighty's ball on retirement is based on returns from u.k. government bonds called gilt these investments are bought by the bank during the easing process thus driving down the yields the phrase permanently poorer stands out all of the quantitative easing program so far have failed and stoking growth and wage appreciation they have made a few bankers extraordinarily wealthy they would like to increase the rate of

wealth transference from the many who will now become permanently poor to the very top one percent the top one percent i submit to you that this is neo feudalism this is feudalism how do you know been full of black plague we would never would have the middle class to begin with if you recall your history this is why lords paid the peasants a few extra bucks because they had been wiped out of the plague well now the lords want to go back to the fifteenth century or the fourteenth century and say you know what we're back in charge forget the middle class it's all about indentured servitude and being permanently poor well dr ross alben director of solid over fifty's group says that savers retiring today are being locked into a lower pension for life becoming permanently poorer because of the drop an annuity rates q.e. is supposed to provide temporary boost to the economy but we need to find less damaging ways of providing such a boost so. dr altman is suggesting that instead of right now the bank of england

is going to the middleman the bank stores giving the banks to the money and saying here banks go give it to all those peasants out there and they say it's about that so if they really wanted that however why don't they just why doesn't the bank of england actually just give that money to small businesses and small business loans it goes part and parcel with this whole the way we have knew of feudalism runs on tollbooths throughout the economy that are handed these these cartels are handed to certain select elite. connected to the king in this case literally connected to mervyn king so these guys whether it's hollywood or goldman sachs if they are the middleman between the king and you the peasant it's a very profitable business so they're arguing about what's the most humane way to euthanize the middle class and poor they think well you know if we top their heads off in the public square that's

a bit too harsh so we're going to give them the needle instead which is quantitative easing or financial all pression well but speaking of central banks max facebook has filed for an i.p.o. and i want to turn to this headline here is facebook a central bank to edward castronova a telecommunications professor in indiana university says he's fascinated by the rise of what he calls wildcat currencies such as facebook credits facebook's build up of credits to just more than just some minor dalliance facebook already takes payments for credits and more than forty currencies ranging from the euro to the vietnamese dong exchange rates are just a daily and probably won't be long until some economist tries to calculate the inflation rate money supply velocity or other traditional dimensions of the facebook economy now max you are the world's first virtual central banker you are doctors zero say h s x so what are your thoughts on the story that's absolutely right this is a virtual currency then you need

a virtual central banker to deal in the monetary policies that will affect the virtual become of me but this is basically inflationary on the one side of the equation but the net result will be hours and hours of loss from the productive economy from people wasting time on facebook so in a way it's deflation because although you can flood the facebook economy with more credits the net result will be people not working but wasting time so it's a way to increase the deflationary trend by issuing a credit. not backed by debt but it's backed by wasting time this is the first currency well not the first i trade the first one of course back in one thousand nine hundred six with a hollywood dollar and the central banker but this is a currency backed by time wasting well finally on this headline max is the currency traded on facebook and the question i think is answered that when facebook filed their i.p.o. market in his letter did say that was ingo was crucial to the success of facebook

zynga soared sixteen point four percent and then two and a half percent in the after market on the news so i think it does answer the question whether or not facebook is a central bank thank you so much stacey obvious speaking with yanis varoufakis after the break a greek economist. should be a fantastic thank you thank you ranks go way much more coming why stay right there . in los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses to man those there to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a for further i didn't want to i started out i want to just do our part it's about eighty two percent of what we do the for the problem it's medical. to risk you

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question on the altie dot com. fifty. fifty fifty. the. first. fifty. welcome back to the kaiser report keyser time to go to athens greece and speak with a catalyst professor and author dr yes vero yanis welcome to the kaiser report thank you to delay being here. here's the headline no reforms no bailout what's the latest drawing in the greek belov drama up with that is simple story this deal is. going to fail just like the previous one in may two thousand and ten because you have it a bankrupt entity that exists and you keep piling you debt on and on condition that

the this country is going to shrink its g.d.p. its national income through which was this will have to be paid for that and at some point the german taxpayers have had enough and this is the problem the german the german political elites arleen and kind of. come to the general the german elected and all these drama enough is completely besides the point it's aims like a case really a financial sadism in other words. there are a number of ways to extricate greece from this problem one would be for example to prosecute the bank the bank or say fraud certainly god greece into the air out to begin with but none of the obvious solutions are being pursued instead they're going down the path of very slowly beating greece to death and in.