don the news 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 of course 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 the few track like master card sales at 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 the 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 there are so tightly clustered into a cluster or a nest of spying and larceny which is washington then how much it looks like there 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 they still want to can control supplies to spawn the iranian war drums 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 they were a little. to be awash in oil in terms of like the storage capacity for for full and 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 and all that's in the economy in the u.s. it did 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 where 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 illian dollars 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 apple 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 if 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 this man for many facts are 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 is

a 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 some crab 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 commenting on 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 good 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 incentives 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. robson receives why are 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 play anymore and you know they're going to shake down 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 citizenship for twenty or thirty thousand dollars anyone can be a citizen of ice like you know 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 be approving it marketing strategy make it open offices in l.a. new york shanghai and beijing because you know china is not as stable as everybody thinks and people are buying houses in vancouver british columbia you know to establish themselves so yeah you could get a very nice chunk of that market yet why can't citizenships trade on an exchange like everything else if they're so keen on financial lies in every little frickin part of our lives why can't i buy some my own citizenship and go wherever the country is it'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 icelandic 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 run time trials us with 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 lead to tehran as the syria crisis deepens and of the violence intensifies and 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. has rejected a proposal to make russian its second official language of the country's russian community which makes up about a third of the population initiated the referendum to draw attention to what they call decades of discrimination. as euro zone many nations struggle to get to grips with their financial troubles and the idea of

a united europe is losing ground but some schools in the bloc are accused of brainwashing people's into believing the union is still going strong. and broadcasting live from moscow russia this is r t seven o'clock in the morning let's get to 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 a more aggressive policies artie's last month 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 for many years all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that would definitely weaken iran at all 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 rainy and how sad and replacing it with the opposition because you've already said they did talk to nancy terror on foreign policy neutralizing nuclear 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 or cornered iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program prospects are easing its. interference perceived interference in other countries in the region press bahrain probs 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 even 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 the possibility of a conflict between major western powers and iran becoming a conflict between the world's major powers is on the horizon a 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 ritter 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 in 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 get after 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 with most of the votes counted it seems that has rejected the option of making russian the country's second official language but the outcome may have been different if three hundred twenty thousand stateless russian minority residents in the country were allowed to vote and as artie's oleksiak cheska reports many from the russian diaspora simply wanted to draw attention to what they describe as decades of discrimination. the lady from a lot of years 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 in the school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught in latin 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 that if you are not to it to be like russia then lion not going to russia and leave us be however three hundred twenty thousand residents were not allowed to vote those are ethnic russians who asparagus 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 will do for regaining independence because. in the huge bulk of people who write no aliens are also voted for in abandonment and afterward see women friends in the shade and it's a fraud it's a problem of this society it's a problem of mutual trust it's a problem of relations between the state and national minorities the newly appointed council of europe's commissioner for human rights believes that its readers' handling of the russian community that should be changed give the human rights suspect of stateless children being born in latvia. clear

norms in the convention on the rights of the child every child has a right to citizenship from birth regular living language use in the private sphere this also has human rights implications raise issues of proportionality here i think that we think should be reviewed like this 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 without 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 russia. reporting from riga in latvia. and you are with r t coming up in the next few minutes. driving force with thousands of motorists in circle central moscow in support for a presidential bid. control if you.

are to be manipulated by somebody telling you to do something rather than questioning what they say as china take a larger role in the international arena we asked people in new york there's 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. reports. but what do you know about your country and the capital is your own not just some lived with a pizza. with. a spanish french and english and i would have to tell you these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen european schools set up 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 the more 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 that point do you think that will succeed convince people of both of your members here in you if you do not early enough with young. people that the prejudices. of the world there's no push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums apply now live 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 it's pouring out to you propaganda into our schools we say it's 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 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 to promote

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 made that 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 tens of thousands of people have been rallying across russia to back prime minister putin has been 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 in the city center along with a number of prominent citizens who addressed the crowds r.t.c. got a piece going off as more. the last few months we've seen

a real jump in public activity with various times 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 tents almost on saturday many cars are decorated a lot of flags sometimes music and it will be nice and. really turning into someone of which joe on the road sometimes and resembles perhaps celebrations always successful game by the national hockey team but in fact this is the drive has been organized in support of prime minister and presidential candidates like him to put in a 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 for elections this particular drive is taking place on the scene ruth

pretty much around the garden ring which is one of the biggest in mean friends for arteries off the city and is should end up near 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 one since russia's seen since the early nineties and with the presidential election now just around the corner this activity is increasing in fact the next such event which is actually being organized by the white ribbon movement is going to be in support of the book fair elections that drive is going to take place as soon as on sunday. that was our t.v. got a piece going off reporting there from central moscow. now there is more arable land

in russia. then in any other country in the world but consumers especially in big cities struggle to find fresh part farm produce however the appetite for organic products means that more and more people are taking up farming in an attempt to raise the standards of what's on offer in the country supermarkets but as our push cover reports there are still a long way to go. the feast for the eyes but not necessarily for your stomach and 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 your get was bottled they would be very upset and would stop buying anything at all at the shops. perhaps that's why there is a growing demand among people in russia's main cities organic products unfortunately for them russian shops have little to offer what is sold as eco and bio friendly is often far from it. by abroad as have found a niche in the market think starboard environment and in here fashion for

a healthy lifestyle. there are no legal standards also defied labeling schemes for organic produce in russia. so individual farmers define it in their own way but it's really on every farmers own conscience. alexander is a computer programmer who turned to working the land what started as a hobby is now a mini industry with several farms in the moscow region covering livestock fish vegetables and habs he's even aiming for his first harvest of black caviar from sturgeon as he breeds not far away from us go if you're ever on the big business simply can't afford to produce ecologically clean product they use pesticides to boost growth and lower the cost of everything i do is pure without a drop of chemicals. in this new market in moscow had said and ambitious task.