greece were these dominoes one after the other you know that the government is ceasing to function certainly as a democracy and it seems to be ceasing to function as an organization that it can serve its people and so having a construction of oil supply is almost. like a i don't know whether you call it a death blow or certainly yet another domino that's. disrupting and impacting negative we do lives of average greek people and it goes does anybody care about that other than the greek people it doesn't seem to be registering you know at the higher circles of power and wealth in the world right it's a snuff film the folks in the i.m.f. the c b the troika and in berlin they get off on watching this for the whole country die speaking of go back to energy here for a second it's not just we know that gasoline consumption is tanking also energy

across the board is dropping off in terms of demand not tell us about gasoline and other energy consumption data in america and what this is telling us well if you track like master card sales of gas stations those sales have been declining for forty seven weeks straight. and in terms of gasoline consumption it's been it's like kind of fell off a cliff in the last few months and energy consumption has been dropping since you know the housing bubble popped in two thousand and seven so the who energy complex is showing you know unprecedented declines in the u.s. and yet we're being told by this standard you financial pundits and you know financial media and our political class that the economy's growing and we're adding jobs and everything's great and it's all like well wait a minute those two things i can both cannot be true because in an expanding economy

people use more energy i mean that's that's common sense and it's the data proves it and the contract ing economy people use less energy so somebody is lying and i don't think it's the energy statistics well we were talking earlier about the role of the rise of the the spy agencies in america living particularly in the washington area they can walk to work they don't need to drive they can get their instructions on how to spy on people illegally they can go to a neighbor's house and spawn each other they can concoct new stuff film scenarios for countries around the world so they don't need a car there it's energy independent they're so tightly clustered into a cluster of a nest of spying and larceny which is washington then how much it looks like they're really are banging the drum for war with iran. is it is that pretty much that the motivation there is again to secure energy supply even though

the energy consumption is falling off a so i can control supplies to spawn the iranian war drums and i wonder also if it's just to just to keep prices at one hundred bucks a barrel so everybody in that energy complex and the saudis and everybody's benefiting from it and. because the rule of law. used to be awash in oil in terms of like the storage capacity serve our full and who with the u.s. dropping from twenty one million barrels a day to eighteen million barrels a day and other nations showing similar declines i mean those are significant declines in demand and so we'll shouldn't be a hundred dollars a barrel and so you wonder if this constant like the political tension is in fact just a way to make sure that the profit margin say stay immense you know for everybody involved in the petroleum complex now as a countervailing force in all this and the economy in the us do have this sudden

emergence of pop if you well and social networking stocks on nasdaq. facebook's about to go public apple computer new all time high worth five hundred billion dollars now this is i think where a lot of people point to and they say look look at this this is well who we are this is a this is the growth story well where do they get that wrong to get it right in their revenue model facebook and zynga and to social media which is basically advertising in other words facebook is worth because it's based on three billion in basically advert revenues. and so is that a model that is related or similar to intel which pulls in you know twenty five billion in revenues making real things are with revenues fifty billion plus based on making real things in china so i think there's a total miscalculation on i mean how much revenue can be generated from

adverts you know advertising is a small part of the global economy and so yeah it's a visible part but is that a revenue model that's going to construct trillions of dollars of value i don't think so apple of course does does manning from a factor of products. now they've come under fire recently for the labor conditions in their chinese plans and if you saw the new york times story but they're talking about how steve jobs the late steve jobs when he was putting the i phone together he was saying you just can't build something like that the united states because you need you don't have in china they can put together five thousand workers overnight practically and he says those jobs are never coming back so is this basically even though of apple's got one hundred more than one hundred billion dollars in cash and if they made the phones in the united states it would add something like a hundred bucks per one thousand dollars phone it isn't can they really get away

with that justifiably that they're sitting on one hundred billion in cash they don't employ anybody united states on the manufacturing side and they're trying to sell us this idea that you know intellectual property which is coming under fire itself from all the people and sup a crowd is somehow going to sustain the economy going forward do you see that i think we're what we're really seeing and other people are coming in the same thing is the hollowing out of the u.s. economy and the replacement of actually producing goods and services with financialization so and the propaganda that this is a wonderful thing a lot of people did drink the kool-aid because they saw their house rising by hundred grand a year and they took out fifty grand in a you know home equity line of credit and they were living the high right fender and everyone said it was going to you know keep going forever so that's kind of a metaphor for the whole u.s.

economy did that the big money is made in financial izing things and just that the basis of a strong economy when you when you no longer make anything and there's no incentive to make anything and i think that's where steve jobs was making a point that he he failed to make to carry through to the next step was why are its why are the incentives to ship the. obs overseas why are there so few incentives to create anything and produce anything anymore in the states then are speaking of jobs thirty six billion. dollars in new airport security fees. for the these to basically tollbooths now what is going on here because the entire economy is becoming riddled with the is shakedowns. is that sustainable that's a that's a brilliant term for it because if you you add in like what i call the junk fees you know like now you've got

a parking ticket that used to be twenty bucks now it's sixty five dollars so yeah the shakedown mentality. is is it's rampant and i know one hundred people i mean i just saw statistic that u.s. airlines are flying the least number of flights since two thousand and one and you wonder gee is there a connection between people deciding they don't want to fly anymore and you know they're going to shakedown yeah i notice also that the report just came out that the number of people americans who are renouncing their u.s. citizenship and moving to different countries because of the political oppression in the united states has never been higher says they started keeping records i mean would it make sense let's say for a country like iceland who got totally screwed by the global banking system to open up to economic censorship for twenty or thirty thousand dollars anyone can be a citizen of iceland you don't get the vote but you do get to have the that passport in place to there turn around and renounce the present state when it doesn't that good economic sense is not

a good business model that would you know that marketing strategy and they could open offices in like l.a. new york shanghai and beijing because you know china is not as stable as everybody thinks and people there are buying houses in vancouver british columbia you know to establish themselves so yeah you can get a very nice truck about market yet why can't citizenships trade on an exchange like everything else if they're so keen on financial lies in every little fricken part of our lives why can't i buy some my own citizenship and go wherever the country is that's offering me a nice mix of civil rights and entitlements so-called program i don't have to be stuck in a fricken police state what these guys spying on me twenty four seventh's so that somebody in hollywood can get closer to scarlett johansson. i think it's a group. and he could probably get decent form you get like a three percent discount or ten percent discount this one time you're iceland so this is shipped and then part of the do as you said would be that we guarantee

we're not going to spy on you and there has to be some guarantee of civil liberties in the deal well brought time trials to smith thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max george enjoyed it very much as always and that's how to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey everett our thank my guests charles who smith trust i mean email please decide to report it r t t v dot ru until next time x. guys are saying bye i'll.

all roads that lead to tehran as the syria crisis deepens and of the violence intensifies concern grows that if the assad regime falls it's a key ally iran would be left isolated and forced into a more aggressive position. deciding on the rights of minorities lafayette holds a referendum on recognizing russian as a second language the countries of the russian community which makes up a third of the population says it wants to draw attention to decades of discrimination and open dialogue with the government. as

a euro zone nations have struggled to come to grips with their financial troubles the idea of a united europe is a losing ground but some schools in the bloc are accused of brainwashing people's into believing that the union is still going strong. and that you are watching r t glad to have you with us let's get your top stories with syria becoming a further engulfed by conflict one of its key allies in the region iran is also feeling the strain experts warn the unrest could cross borders and impact on the middle east as a whole analysts are concerned that the collapse of the assad regime would be a devastating blow to iran leaving it isolated and potentially forcing tehran to adopt more aggressive policies archies last met has more. iran's military is

put through its paces but how long will this carry on being a drill as the conflict in syria gets bloodier by the day western powers range against president assad ally iran the strategic position looks increasingly shaky which some suggest is no coincidence there is a proxy conflict between israel and its western allies and iran which basically only has one ally in the region which is the syrian republic so if you can get syria away from iran either through a diplomatic deal which they're trying to really is all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that would definitely weaken iran and all the roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts are calling the last thing deployed and hope that bring down throw it rainy and ask that and replacing it with the opposition because they've already said they did talk to nancy tehran foreign policy neutralizing iran is the most powerful ally

since the iran iraq war iran and syria have developed all sorts of ties cultural and economic included but crucially iran uses syria as a conduit for support for hezbollah in lebanon and how mass in the palestinian authority both declared foreign terrorist organizations by the u.s. state department take that away and iran's influence in the region could weigh in all cornered iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program prospects are easing its. interference perceived interference in other countries in the region press bahrain probably lebanon perhaps palestinian territories. and that will be the way that iran will react so you can make a case for suggestion that the removal of assad will make iran even more protective or more dangerous it's a knife edge situation and one which grows more. carious is events in syria worse

than the us even says israel could attack iran in a matter of months but the possibility of a conflict between major western powers and iran becoming a conflict between the world's major powers is on the horizon storm clouds are massing over the region reports of emerge that the qataris and saudis are already funding arming and covertly operating with the syrian opposition iran looks increasingly isolated with a hostile israel perilously close norris may r.t. london. jason litter of antiwar dot com says it's likely that if the assad regime were to fall it would not be a pro-democracy government that would take over and damascus. a lot of nations particularly the g.c.c. member nations saudi arabia qatar united arab emirates have been looking for an excuse to cut assad out of the picture in the arab league and particularly now are

also hoping that they can leave use this as an opportunity to possibly replace him with a more friendly regime and much much as we saw in libya foreign intervention is not a cure all if if anything is complicates matters and creates new power bases where there were none before we saw in libya of course the national transitional council and some of the militias that nato was backing ended up going on extremely bloody retaliatory rampages in the wake of the fall of the gadhafi regime large numbers of people killed and so in some cases entire towns depopulated. nominally because they were seen as pro get off all these other nations are trying to secure the opposition to their interests and certainly al qaeda could be expected to do the exact same thing and. we don't really know who's going to come out on top in

this sort of fight for the control of the opposition but it seems pretty clear that the pro-democracy forces in syria the original protestors probably will not be a major part of the picture in a future government if assad does fall. around two thirds of a registered voters and a lot of them have taken part in a referendum aimed at deciding whether or not to make russian the country's second official language with ethnic russians making up almost a third of love vs two million population remains that reluctant to grant to the language of equal constitutional status ickes oleksiak cesky reports on the tension fuelling the debate on the status of language in the baltic states. the lady from a lot of the russian minority says his country's government has gone too far having lived in law to be all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to

a full passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family this time and that his children and their education was a pass through legislation that school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught in latvian language but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get it even in your own language and it does create a lot of problems for the students at the moment and of course it does lowers their results it was the threat that these schools where at least some lessons are taught in their native russian would be closed down for good that scared the russian minority which constitutes one third of the country's population they initiated a referendum on making russian law to be a second state language something radical right wing parties call a threat to national integrity to fit into this vote is against our constitution which says life is a man

a national state and always be it it splits our society which has to have one solid foundation if you are not to it to be like russia has been lying going to russia that leave us be. at least three quarters of a million people must vote yes for a constitutional change to take place but with support predicted to be just half that seems to be unlikely the outcome however could have been different if another three hundred twenty thousand residents were allowed to vote those are ethnic russians who spare and grandparents came here after nine hundred forty five they were denied citizenship after a lot of it became independent and are still carrying allien passports people who are gaining independence because. in the huge bulk of people who are right now ellen's also voted for in a moment and afterward see when a friend is in the ship and it's a fraud it's a problem of the building society it's a problem of mutual trust it's

a problem of relations between the state and vested minorities the newly appointed council of europe's commissioner for human rights believes the vote will not solve the discrimination problem and that its readers handling of the russian community that should be changed give the human rights aspect of stateless children being born in latvia. there's clear norms in the convention on the rights of the child that every child has a right to citizenship from birth regulating language use in the private sphere this also has human rights implications raise issues of proportionality here i think that things should be reviewed though it is widely accepted here that the russian language referendum will fail the russian minority hopes that the vote will bring their struggle out of the shadows and force the government to at least open a dialogue a lot of russians are contemplating another vote to introduce changes into the citizenship law that is to abolish the so-called allien passports and grant citizenship to those who are living with it and many say in this case they have

a good chance of succeeding as they would only need a little more than two hundred thousand positive votes let's. see reports. in latvia of course you are with r t bringing you the top news and commentary from around the world coming up in the next few minutes. as healthy living it becomes more fashionable russia's organic farming the books to share with the independent online shops hoping to challenge supermarket supremacy also. fear keeps you in control if you. even if you later by somebody telling you to do something rather than questioning what they say. as russia and china take on the larger roles in the international arena we ask people in new york if there is a good reason to fear the two countries. with some e.u. states on the brink of bankruptcy and the future of the single currency uncertain more and more people are starting to question the eurozone and even the european

project itself but the idea of a united europe is now being pushed through to a new audience children in the classroom parties to reports. but what do you know about your country and the capital is your own not just some lived with. the. spanish french and english i would have to tell these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen european schools that are primarily to educate children of e.u. stuff we are the only system which is able to provide education in twenty three different languages you know that europe is united in their city and that's what we leave every day in the european school but outside the classroom reality says otherwise for now differences seem to transcend unity critics along

accuse the e.u. of brainwashing children through education par for a nail year that they claim promote a stormy eyed vision of the e.u. a comment from a european commission representative at an education fair appears to support at that point the fact that the seat could be full of both of your members here and you if you do not know when you're young. prejudice is. it worth it there is no push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums a plan outlined in a two thousand and eleven report and later adopted by parliament. the european parliament repeats its request to the member states to promote the inclusion of the specific subject on the background goals and functioning of the european union and its institutions which will help young people feel more involved in the process of european integration school curricula responsibility of individual member states to

tailor to their own needs and their own classrooms and the e.u. should not get involved in dictating what individual schools teach you know we don't want the european money wasted on pouring out. pouring out to you propaganda into our schools we see as part of our role to explain to citizens regardless of age how this thing work why we have the european union why it's a good thing but the aim is more information not. propaganda or you know sort of brainwashing exercise that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage the european and global perspective and approach the emergence of a european identity from an early age but the question is what does it stop being education and start being a propaganda when the suggestion is being. a better europe is automatically more europe then i have a problem with that as do angry m e p's he say that targeting youngsters and their education with a potentially one sided political view may just be

a little too sinister tesser cilia r.t. brussels oh of course here with our team a little bit later in the program we embark on a quest for eternal life with our special report. any match one seems. to. ever. eternal is thinkable. do we old wants to see the sun for ever. tens of thousands of people have been rallying across russia to back prime minister putin's bid of for the presidency next month in the capital thousands of supporters took to their cars and circled the city's garden ring chanting slogans and brandishing russian flags and banners while in the premier's native st petersburg

some sixty thousand people gathered there in the center of the city along with a number of the city's prominent citizens who also addressed their crowds are cheesy but peace going to has more. the last few months we've seen a real jump in public activity with various types up around these markers and drives taking place across the entire country for example like this drive with the car owners and drivers gathering in central moscow on saturday many cars are decorated a lot of flags sometimes music and it will be nice and. really turning into so want to show on the road sometimes and resembles perhaps celebrations always successful game by the national hockey team but in fact this the drive has been organized in support of prime minister and presidential candidates like an important head off the upcoming presidential vote on march the poor this isn't really a new format for such events in fact

a similar drive was organized recently by the so-called white ribbon movement that was a to support fear alexion this particular drive is taking place on the same route pretty much around the garden ring which is one of the biggest and mean friends for arteries off the city and is should end up here in the kremlin it's fair to say that this jump of all public activity really began after the parliamentary vote early in december. various times of the rallies have been taking place including some of the largest ones with the really tens of thousands of people gathering. the largest ones whose work has seen since the early ninety's and with the presidential election now just around the corner this activity is increasing in fact the next. event which is actually being organized by the white ribbon movement is going to be in support of both fair elections that dr is going to make waves at school as on

sunday. actually got a piece going off reporting for us there now there's more arable land in russia than in any other country in the world. but consumers especially in big cities struggle to find fresh farm produce however the appetite for organic products means that more and more people are taking up farming in a tent to raise the standards of what's on offer in the country supermarkets and as artie's diet pushkov are reports there's still a long way to go. the feast for the eyes but not necessarily for your stomach many would be shocked to find out what exactly makes its way onto our plates. if only people knew what their sausage is made of or how they yogurt was bottled they would be very upset and would stop buying anything at all at the shops. of yogurt perhaps that's why there is a growing demand among people in russia's main cities organic produce.