i mean you know this is this this is so completely the typical left right game you know the g.o.p. has its favorites mitt romney needed to win really bad so he would spend the day there and he was he was announced the winner i you know i think the good news is ron paul in two thousand and eight his performance wasn't even close to what we're seeing now in two thousand and twelve so you know even though even if he comes in second even if you just remains in the middle of this pack of four i think his support is growing because his message is legitimate and it's the best thing for this country and his message is certainly very different from sort of the standard line of the republican party a lot of you know kind of old school republicans are a little bit uncomfortable by the idea of ron paul not just by his message but the fact that he is unwilling to you know preach what they want him to preach i want to put up something that was on c.n.n. the other day and they were really really interesting it shows you not just how the

people think but look at this this is a poll that shows ron paul having the highest percentage fifty two percent his own obama on romney's on top i mean maybe this just goes to show how the mainstream media views things but this is a picture actually taken from some of these television screen on c.n.n. what's going on here i mean why it's not just the republican party it seems it's also in this wasn't fox news this was c.n.n. it's also some of the mainstream media that has a sum of all of all the mainstream media you know you want to treat them like your crazy uncle you know and you can you can you blame a lot of reasons for this i mean if you want to go to conspiratorial route which is you know the route i'm going to write here it's that eighty or ninety percent of the media the mainstream media is owned by a very very small group of corporations about half a dozen corporations control ninety percent of the news that is disseminated in this country in the west and it benefits them to have this fake left right. between

so-called the conservative republicans and liberal democrats christine we know that there is absolutely no difference you talked about some of the topics that were this week you were talking about abortion gay rights you know these things are important you know i'm not trying to belittle these things but the fact of the matter is we're still engaged in the longest military in the history of this country we borrow forty cents of every single dollar to fund this military expansion and there's only one candidate in the perceived left or perceived right there is speaking against this and that's ron paul we have not declared a war in this nation since nine hundred forty two but for the last decade basically for the last two decades we have been on a constant war footing he's the only one with that message of we need to bring our troops home we need to have some money we need to get our own house in order and start playing policeman around the world and that was charlie mcgrath the founder of wide awake news dot com. so what do you think you know a lot of recent polls show ron paul not only gaining steam in the republican presidential contest but actually dominating in some states so is ron paul really

a viable candidate the resident dot net show host laurie harshness took that question to the streets of the big apple. according to some polls rand paul is now that good in the u.s. republican presidential candidate the way he does he really have a chance this week let's talk about that do you think rand paul had a chance i personally don't looks weak just physically get i know you look like an old man and said to say it maybe is value to agree on everything but. that's interesting to do you think the battle up back the way people vote that's affecting the way i buy a aluminite is going to have whatever they want though do you think they're going to use them to pry give about obama not a chance why not but it's just too much on the fringe for the rest of america but he has such a strong contingent among the you. for now well i'll tell you that any changes

he'll bring forward will be on obama's goodwood that's what i'll tell you that he's laying down a foundation for the next president whoever he is exactly that's my belief in our and i and i mean the strength here i think he's got as good a chance any i think about the sense of loss effect to the public the novelty of his candidacy we're off within about twelve months of his arrival and rand paul certainly would be a novelty in office keep in o.t. with that sort of world politics is based on the moment i think he's interesting is a non politician speaks very honestly but i don't agree with his policies and so if i were living here i wouldn't vote for him no he gets more independent then both then all three candidates of the carriage so why does the media not pay attention to him well basically because he's against this guy which means he's against everything as having a stance for his against the military industrial complex is against the federal

reserve do you think he has a chance here oh he is there a chance here or why he doesn't have the finances and he doesn't have the team necessary to put together a serious campaign. so you were just talking about how he's running not actually his policies or whether or not he'd be good for the country well if he could doesn't have the team and the money to get his message out nobody's going to hear whether or not you think ron paul actually has a chance to become the next u.s. president the bottom line is if elected he certainly would shake things up and that seems to be something everyone is looking for. it is the end of the week and for a lot of us the one thing that gets us through the long weeks helps us stay standing on two feet is caffeine did you know that americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day that number means the united states is now the

leading consumer of coffee in the world and might be great news for starbucks but is there a chance that this love is a little dangerous as r.d. correspondent marina portnoy reports your health might be threatened by something that now seems normal and that is in large part the result of food corporations stopping at nothing to get you and millions of others addicted to their products. in the city that never sleeps or perpetual craving for energy never eases on your early every misshapen street you'll find two things a coffee shop and customers cupping their fix a liquefied legal stimulant that most can't envision quitting i feel like now i get it again. so i just have to are both of these really. i don't know if i could give a little i love. it five or six cups a day yes but not good to much of anything good. is the going to drink three cups

of definitely. americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us the leading consumer of coffee in. world according to medical experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three hundred milligrams or fifteen ounces of coffee one large cup of starbucks contains more caffeine than the daily maximum recommendation however in recent years the country's addiction to caffeine has grown both in portion size and means of consumption consumers no longer have to down twenty ounces of starbucks or sixty four ounces of soda to get an energy high. unconventional products such as five hour energy drinks and stimulant least gum have made caffeine america's most marketable legal drug because of the workers' paradise in america who are working really long hours people are chronically sleep deprived also so they're reaching for stimulants to get amid

ongoing economic instability u.s. energy drink sales increased more than thirty percent between two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven. the newest stimulant hitting the market is a slim plastic inhaler called aero shot each squeeze dispenses around forty milligrams of caffeine in your mouth no one country ordering. a caffeinated nation we know the generation of americans. consume that caffeine meanwhile multi-tasker is feeling for the biggest serving are turning to a product called fifty one fifty juice one gallon contains sixty four thousand milligrams of caffeine the equivalent of four hundred red bulls whole objective for frequent reasons is to create repeat customers to get people to keep their product can be clearly an addictive substance and by creating all these products they're

definitely appealing to a wide range of consumers and feeding into the larger problem which is you know happy over consumption of coke in a can because while going after new consumers one u.s. company really did national controversy by packaging caffeine and liquor together there's nothing crazy about ok we took two legal products that americans love and combine them kept being a butt load of alcohol heavily marketed among college students it turned out to be a deadly mix one family in florida who say four loko killed their son police say dozens of students had been sent to the hospital from these drinks amid lawsuits mounting criticism and eventually a federal ban the company subsequently removed caffeine from the drink. but the national demand for the natural stimulant remains on compromise with more and more americans looking for their legal hot arena porn on r t v. well be sure to tune into our next week for a brand new line up now this week we showed you how contractors are making big

bucks on america's internet insecurity now the pentagon says cyber attacks could be met with a physical war response the measures congress is taking seem to be aimed at foreign threats but its biggest enemies just maybe within the united states itself the hacktivist group anonymous has already taken down several government websites this month alone temporarily of course so who is the government more afraid of foreign threats or domestic hackers and that's not all the u.s. is afraid of these days the drums of war are beating more and more toward iran but much of the rancor and rhetoric comes down to the good old fashioned fear mongering so what's with these scare tactics we will explore and americans sure love their action films big explosions valiant heroes impossible feats what's not to love but what you don't see in the movie or its ending credits as

a powerful recruiting tool for the american military we'll show you how hollywood is helping the pentagon. and of course you heard us speaking earlier about the show on the show private first class bradley manning will be on trial next week facing twenty two counts for allegedly releasing thousands of classified documents to the online site wiki leaks we have been covering this case since day one and we'll bring you the very latest those are just a few of the stories we've got for you on tap next week along with a whole lot more news and in-depth interviews so you should keep it tuned right here to r.t. that's going to do it for now on this february seventeenth that is the five month anniversary of occupy wall street for more on our stories go to aa carty dot com slash usa or youtube dot com slash r t america thanks so much. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera .

russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. up.

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as of this is the cause a report where do the one percent live really i mean where do they really live. max that's our first headline here where the one percent live the fifteen richest counties in america and this is from census bureau data and my answer is that pretty much they live within an hour's drive of washington d c ten of the fifteen are within an hour's drive of washington d.c. either virginia or maryland so number one richest median income in america is

virginia looting county it's a one hour four minute drive to washington d.c. median household income is one hundred one thousand thousand five hundred forty dollars of the top ten employers in the county number six is the department of homeland security but number two max is fairfax virginia of course this is home to langley and. they watch our show that's why demographic but all of the intelligence community much of the intelligence community is there the u.s. government is actually the number two employer in the county booz allen hamilton s.a.i.c. which is of course a science applications international corporation which is a lot of work for the n.s.a. there guys. freddie mac. northrop grumman and lockheed martin so it appears that being part of the surveillance state makes you very wealthy well if i were living in looting virginia and i were looting people for

a living whether it's at the airport through the homeland security or the t.s.a. or whether it's old down there on capitol hill where they put together all because of bills to. all sales from people you know i have an above average standard of living in that one mile radius of washington d.c. and this is where all the one percent is now this is all relatively new because it wasn't until nine eleven the most overrated attack in history did you find that the u.s. government needed to create seventeen or eighteen new agencies pay them billions and you know they made jamie diamond look like. restraint of litter in fact luden county now it's not looting but it sounds better as looting it was an agricultural county up until only the one nine hundred sixty s. so yes it has you see the emergence of the new the one percent they are there they're the ones that are basically the tollbooth operators between you the people

the ninety nine percent and the government so they own the government behind their toll booth so that that's the key point is that the life in the u.s. and around the world is being obstructed more and more by these especially these tollbooths where you've got these in privileged sort of we're privileged class that are set up by the government to basically take money from folks as they're trying to get from point a to point b. so it becomes extraordinarily. going to rewrite the some of the songs like america the beautiful they're going to write it like america the prism but also like what sort of wealth do these people create a service economy is in which the service being provided is spying on the citizens that doesn't add any wealth to the economy these people obviously are very wealthy they're making income from it but it's not creating wealth for the economy and

that's why you see an economy that is collapsing it's a drag on wealth it's a drag on wealth and they justify it as you need to have this one percent in these counties looting because again going by. so this theory of trickle down economics going back to reagan's day that meant one thing but now it's just trickle down looting and we see this now in the g. twenty nations whether it's the u.s. but in the u.k. the u.k. is you know the really primo example of the so going back to fairfax county virginia now this is a thirty minute drive to washington d.c. and the median household income is one hundred three thousand and ten dollars now business on cider says this government will be excited to learn langley headquarters of the cia is within the county line so government employees must be making a decent amount of money these days also the unemployment rate in the county has been astoundingly low historically hitting one point four percent in one thousand

nine hundred nine so there's no end to the jobs available in a global war on terror state right and of course it's more government but you know all these presidential campaigns are saying we want less government but this is more government they love government there and by the way let me make a quick aside here about mitt romney he is a liar he says he's only worth two hundred fifty million dollars that's wrong he's worth at least a billion dollars because he made twenty million dollars last year as investments interest rates on ten year notes around two percent it's all passive investment managers passively in a blind trust there's no way he could have made six or seven percent. for the million dollars he claims to have mitt romney is a billionaire and he won't say it because you know there spark incredible backlash against that lawyer now number three on this list is howard county maryland fifty eight minute drive another one of the top employers there is s. a i see so these are the science applications international corporation which provides services to the n.s.a.

and the department of defense monitoring i guess web sites and things like that oh yeah it's science they they love science except what it proves things like manmade global warming then of course they hate science but. and it's about the science of picking people's pocket and spying on people they love science but you see that it's mostly the security apparatus these are the guys making money these are where the money is flowing is just observing you so now here are the rich guys ok now i'm going to look at the the people being observed google offering to pay web users to track their every move by signing up for screen wise and installing a browser plug in you'll be given five dollars in store credit on amazon for every three months you continue to provide google with browsing data you'll earn an additional five dollar gift card up to a total of twenty five dollars only those over thirteen can participate and

perhaps not surprisingly sign ups are currently on hold due to overwhelming interest womyn used to be forty acres and a mule you know they give you five bucks to spy on you and i would be surprised if you have people from overseas rushing to america to get five dollars from google the people in greece for people in greece five dollars twenty five dollars that's a whole six months of pay and it shows you the whole neo feudal system ok now these economies these the rich people the rich communities are those who are doing the spying who get paid to spy on you google is one of the biggest corporations in the world because they spy on you you are poor because you take whatever dregs whatever bread and circuses they trickle down to you you'll take whatever you get you'll accept the being spied on they think of the average person says they're getting free twenty five dollars oh it's a free twenty five dollars never for

a moment considering that the apparatus that allows them to get that twenty five dollars has disenfranchised them so horribly that the u.s. competitiveness is crashing and the standard of living is crashing and there's no health care there but you got your free tortillas. five dollars i like that also google says you have to be thirteen or over to participate i mean what sort of a thirteen or fourteen year old is signing up to this and do they need their parents' permission or who it seems totally bizarre thirteen years old then you know we're ten years old five years old. well you know these people are at least receiving thirty five dollars to be spied on i however was spied on yesterday and performing my service here to the kaiser report researching some headlines u.k. now seizing music blogs with american domains over copyright claims so the site in question is r. and b. exclusive dot com it's a dot com domain but it's based in the u.k.

now i followed the link to the story about it being seized and here is the image of what i was presented with soca which is the serious organized crime agency has taken control of this domain if you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offense which carries a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under u.k. law this is your ip address and then goes on to say the above information can be used to identify you and your location soca has the capability to monitor and investigate you and can inform your internet service provider of these infringements put that together with the google story and the ability to farm all of the information images and photos of the next time it'll be a picture of some greasy grease ball from washington with your grandmother and a gun to her head and say stop or blow your grandma's head off. and look at the

also this is the serious organized crime agency and look at the treatment they give you look at the words look at the threats they issue and yet london is where bernie made off happened where lehman brothers happened where a i.g. fraud happened where m.f. global fraud happened and how do they talk about these people oh we don't want to chase the business of the city out of london oh we must molly coddle them oh we don't want to banker bash you bring up m.f. global they still haven't recovered the one point six billion missing still hasn't been and there's no investigation john corazon is getting his toenails painted so one of the court those are there's no there's no prosecution well let's look at the math the fact that this is called soca the serious organized crime agency where is the racket max look in the city of london is it the banks working with the credit rating agencies working with the regulators in a conspiracy to defraud the global investing and savings world no absolutely and

they end up pushing all their losses and to countries like greece and elsewhere where people have to suffer real austerity measures now to make up for all that criminality also i mean these people basically the site was brought in just a way you could listen to the music ok. which is a lot like radio ok you could accidently hear radio all over the place now is it going to be an organized crime if you happen to be walking past somebody is radio playing a song and i thought maybe workers you know that these soca and n.r.a. and all these guys could start pushing i think their burkas is a good idea they'll probably put that through the pass a law in washington you know easy peasey nobody will stop it and they'll say it's for the young musicians and they'll charge huge fees and then the reverse collateralize on the open futures market and then the play themselves over huge bonus and then and more austerity measures will come along and you won't be able to hear music to it it will be all quiet and finally max from the u.k. a lot of this is about our innovation economy we're supposed to. innovators and

that's the way of the future right well cameron has a suggestion that innovative solutions to the drinking problem in the u.k. david cameron to launch attack on britain's boozing scandals cells known as drunk tanks this is his innovative solution max which detain in the breed of people until they sober up could be introduced to towns to tackle the nation's growing alcohol problem. that's all in time for the queen's jubilee that is the claim floating on the thames and there's a bus full of drunken louts urinating on themselves go brittania all right stacy ever thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max don't go away much more coming your way so stay right there. well. technology innovation all the developments from

around russia we've got the future covered. mission. couldn't take three. more chargers. maintenance three. three. two two three. three broncos loading p.t.o. for your media project free media oh don carty dot com. imax has a welcome back to the kaiser reports i'm not to go to california and speak with charles who smith is website is of two minds dot com charles he is best welcome back to the kaiser report thank you max i charles used to have before we begin to

address the financial and economic situation we need to take a look at social fractals and finance all fractals and how we got to the position of rot that we find ourselves and this is a recent story you've been working on social fractals very interesting to tell us more the idea fractals usually we refer to them in nature like the way that a clothesline looks ragged at thousand feet and then it looks ragged at ten thousand feet and so these b. structures ourself so same we calmly look the same to matter what scale you're looking at so like in social fractals if you take for honest people and you put them in a house in that household is more than likely going to be honest because that's the only that's the only characteristics that are available to that household so if you take a household it's hard working and honest and responsible and caring you can have

a community that has the same characteristics so then you go ok let's take i was communities and put them in a country well then how come the united states is so good that we corrupt at every level so you have to wonder how come basically honest people end up with a politically corrupt nation. then you start asking well how did that happen and i think the answer is when the top level of the society and economy is totally corrupt then everyone belittles starts realizing they're going to have to game the system by becoming corrupt themselves to get ahead so if you have a living at the top you have living at the bottom and so these these things are all connected to a need some kind of role model some point now speaking of social fractals greek prime minister look at us papademos said that if the estonian measures were not passed by parliament there would be a social explosion your thoughts i think as we discussed on my last visit when you deny democracy when you put.