tonight on our t.v. jobs jobs jobs it seems these days that's what's on everyone's minds or to find them what the new jobs report means and is the economy really turning around we'll ask what the numbers really tell us about the state of the u.s. economy. and usually it's hollywood actors who are fighting off the bad guys and playing the hero but now looks like the industry itself might need to be saved from the so-called evil internet from k. street to temple town i'll tell you how this business how our lawmakers and star struck. and if the occupy protesters felt used and abused by the man before woman got another reason to be upset we're only geishas are coming out the police officers are actually providing drugs to protesters to study the effects so you're part of

a documentary that claims to have proved. good evening it's friday may fourth eight pm in washington d.c. my name is christine and you're watching our t.v. well it is the first friday of the month and that means we got the jobs numbers for last month to ponder to predict him to dissect here they are according to the bureau of labor the unemployment rate fell slightly to eight point one percent in the month of april that is the lowest since january two thousand and nine the month president obama took office now last month nonparty farm employers added one hundred fifteen thousand jobs to their payrolls still that is well below the one hundred seventy thousand jobs economists predicted would be added and as far as that slowly declining unemployment rate experts say that was largely due to the three hundred forty two thousand people leaving the labor force altogether. and to

talk more about all of that earlier i spoke with max kaiser host of the kaiser report featured right here on r.t. . the numbers to an economy that is in grave jeopardy of collapsing there are no new jobs being created of any significance and more importantly look at the wages wages are continuing to deteriorate and the purchasing power of the average american is continuing to deteriorate so this is a con i'm a very very troubled although you know of course everyone is getting this in several different directions some people say you know what there's been a twenty six or so straight months of growth in jobs in the private sector and americans more importantly are learning to live with less what do you say to those people who sort of see the funny side of all this. well the the numbers are routinely massaged that come out of washington and what i look at are

wages and the wage number and the purchasing power is going down the number of people the absolute number of people who are not working keeps going higher so they say it's an eight point one percent is the unemployment number that's not really significant because it doesn't relate to anything of of meaning it's a number that it's cooked up to as propaganda the actual numbers are a lot higher they're getting worse the wages ember is horrible purchasing power is collapsing so everything that we saw that started in two thousand and eight all those themes of corrupt banks falling apart economy and america losing competitiveness all of this is just continuing but getting much worse yes certainly it's a different story for people who had a job had a career of making you know sixty seventy eighty thousand dollars and now they might still be working full time and they're making you know ten eleven twelve dollars an hour that's certainly

a very different for them and affecting their ability to spend as you say i think it's also important to look at what's going on overseas i want to put some video of what we've been seeing in greece greece is a place where there's more than twenty percent unemployment that talk to me a little bit about your take on what's going on there and if you think it will come to that here. well i had a chance to talk to some people in the occupy movement area new york city and i believe as i explained to them that the front line of this global insurrection against the corrupt banks is in athens it is in greece the occupy protesters there really should be several thousand of them in athens joining that battle there that's the front line it's not necessarily wall street although wall street is responsible for all of this as well as the city of london but the front line is in greece and greece now is openly talking about pulling out of the euro and of course that would have an incredible consequences over the eurozone in a crown the global banking system because of course that would mean default on

major bonds that would ripple through germany and around the world and you'd see another lehman asked moment if we're going to have one it's baked into the cake the question is only when because there has been absolutely nothing done to stop that from recurring but much worse because the policy from coming out of the obama administration and coming out of out of the european countries has bent to exacerbate all the problems make them worse increase the debt load increase the instability and then don't prosecute for the accounting fraud of the banking crime so of course we're heading into a much worse collapse that's had it's very near on the horizon now these employment numbers are giving us a little view into what's to come and the global insurrection whether it's in the europe or in america that people are in the streets and you say that people in america are now getting used to living with less well that's not true at the top is

it because the people on wall street are getting used to living with more so than other very that disparity is causing conflict and that conflict can only be resolved either peacefully or a violently and to resolve it peacefully you would need a leader that america doesn't have a leader they have a lobbyist in the white house named barack obama is a lobbyist for wall street. we don't have a leader is there representing the people therefore there is only one other alternative and it's not the nonviolent alternative let me ask you a question because i know you speak with countless people on your show the kaiser report people who you sometimes agree with sometimes disagree with in terms of laying out solutions other than violence uprisings in the street i mean who has put something out there that you think is feasible. to improving if there is one very obvious solution there is one very obvious solution and that is to squeeze out the speculators from the system who have co-opted the system and you do that by raising

interest rates or at least raise the margin rate which is the rate charged to speculators to borrow money we saw this in the seventy's late seventy's early eighty's when the interest rates in america were. risen quite dramatically and it set the stage for a robust growth in the bull market of the eighty's and ninety's that's really the primary way to squeeze out the speculators raise interest rates it's something within the purview of the fed right now the fed won't do it because they are in the pocket of the speculators who have convinced the fed that they need to keep interest rates near zero even though this is causing catastrophic effects to ripple through the economy and it is absolutely the worst thing that the fed could be doing is keeping interest rates near zero. or max rather i want to repeat a slogan that i've heard time and time again today and that is where are the jobs and as you say and i think it's really important to pay attention to wages people are still working in some cases in lower wage jobs in retail and fast food things

like that but one out of the good jobs where are they ok here's a way to increase tell you how to make a jobs appear in one week break up the too big to fail banks bank of america wells fargo break them up into three or four banks now you've just increased the job factor by a substantial amount break up the monopolies break up coca-cola it's a do up list break it up into five or six new competitors break up the monopolies in america you increase jobs exponentially get rid of the kleptocrats get rid of the monopolies who get so i mean how do you do that now because clearly you know the c.e.o.'s of coca-cola of citibank some of these large companies which most people in america probably do agree that these companies these banks especially are too big but it seems that the people running these corporations are all powerful and won't let anyone touch them so how do you then deal with that. right yeah the robber baron area in america the gilded age it was broken up by teddy roosevelt you need to trust buster you need

a leader you need somebody to come in there representing the people it's not barack obama we know that's not going to happen it's not rich mitt romney somebody has got to come forth and be on the side of jobs and the people and wages and they've got to start to bust up these trust these monopolies and that will create jobs increase competition and this is exactly what's needed so we need a leader there somebody in america has got to be somebody in america who's got the leadership qualities to step forward and to assume a leadership position and to help the united states it's a sad day to think that of a three hundred thirty million people in america not a single person it has the leadership qualities to lead this country as of today as of this moment that answer is no there's not a single person in america that can lead this country who is not co-opted drug addled deep in debt or has some scandal over hanging them from mr sexual profit delos and i barely it doesn't exist i guess we'll all just have to keep looking for

that economic superhero i know you'll leave no stone unturned their host the kind of report thanks so much for being on the show today. well let's turn now to the latest crack in the foundation when it comes to internet freedoms this week brought about yet another ruling this one in the u.k. where the file sharing website the pirate bay was blocked to millions of users the u.k. high court ruled that the leading i asked p.s. around the country must censor the pirate bay website saying both the site and its users were breaking major copyright laws this comes on the heels of the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act or cispa passing here in the u.s. house of representatives just a week ago and with many more rules and regulations regarding the internet in the works so to look deeper into this i was joined a little bit earlier by david seaman journalist and host of the d.l. show i asked him why this is an issue that we should care about here in the u.s. i think the fight against quote unquote piracy is global we have these powerful

but dying entertainment corporations that are putting tremendous pressure on legislators and on law enforcement on our government to crack down on what they see as piracy but piracy is not the same thing is theft when you go out and you steal money from a bank or you steal somebody's car they no longer have that car it's gone it's now yours when you distribute a piece of music or you know a comedy show or anything like that and other people see it it's not as if the original creator has lost anything in fact there's a lot of evidence that those artists who receive a lot of play over the so-called piracy networks. and i'm doing quite well because they reach millions of people who would not have even known about them otherwise so i mean that we should mention though david i mean just you know their side of the story they say what they've lost out on is the you know x.

amount of dollars we were talking earlier in our newsroom about you know the cost of a cd used to be you know sixty ninety nine seventy nine nine so when you pirate the whole album or you take the whole album you're not stealing it away from anybody but a lot of those artists would argue that they deserve the money from having a mile i mean these huge media companies these huge media companies want to invent a time machine and go back to a time where we would pay seven hundred ninety nine for a stupid cd or we would only have a handful of options when we turn our t.v. at night in terms of what kind of news we can get and you know if a musician or an artist isn't on the today show or m.t.v. they have no chance of success and that's just not the way it is anymore they have these laws in place to attack piracy and i think ten years from now it's going to seem laughable and that our government went after pirates when there are legitimate digital crimes happening online there's identity theft there's credit card fraud

there are very serious things happening there's online harassment all these things are happening and i think that's what our law enforcement agencies should be focused on i don't have much focused on taking down piracy sites i think that's a fair point certainly things have changed and one of the another laughable kind of thing is the initial impact that this particular ruling had and that is that twelve million more visitors than the pirate bay has ever seen went to its site the site was given to tauriel isn't kind of how to circumvent some of these imposed blocks this was of course the initial reaction but i'm wondering david what do you see as some of the longer term domino effects coming from this ruling in the u.k. . well the twelve million user surge you just mentioned is really interesting because that proves the point that you can't really stop you can't stop people's behaviors online information wants to be free and intertainment wants to be shared that's just the way it is back in the day you know when you finish listen who's listening to a cd you and handed off to a friend and these networks do the digital equivalent of you know

a way that i read that makes a lot of sense they said you know if you want to crack down on hardcore like cocaine dealers you don't go after the company that makes their plastic bags and shut down the factory that makes those bags you go after the dealers and in the same way when they shut down one of these websites if that is their goal to stop you know sharing of content without it being monetized in some fashion they're not going to be successful because something else is just going to spring up overnight like a mushroom i think i mean you can't stop sharing it is an interesting analogy and i do want to say i mean we are dealing with something similar in this country with a you know a long list of proposed privacy infringing regulations in the bill so this and unlike what we saw with buy the stuff i'm online piracy act not as many people are coming out quite so vocally against it but there have been a few including mozilla mozilla told forbes magazine that quote suspect has a broad and alarming rates that goes far beyond internet security the bill

infringes on our privacy includes vague definitions of cybersecurity and grants immunity to the companies and governments that are too broad around information misuse i should also say the c.e.o. of cheeseburger put it simply in an interview with pro publica they simply said this but it's so close cousin who works for the cia but i'm wondering david why are more people not coming out against sissified already passed like we said in the house last week the senate is working on their version and we're not hearing quite as much criticism of it. well christine the big reason why you're not hearing more criticism is that most americans i talk to don't even know about this bill when you turn on the news at night i mean thankfully archie america is all over this and there are a handful of other networks that are covering it but the vast majority of news networks that americans turn to and even large news websites just are not mentioning system. and unfortunately it's already passed the house and i'll go to a senate vote and you can oppose something you don't know about when that was david

seaman journalist and host of the d.l. show. all right here's a story a lot of people might find shocking apparently some police officers in minnesota have been picking up young people on the streets giving them drugs and then studying their reactions to help those officers better understand and detect drug impairment and it turns out many of the subjects are actually activists with the occupy wall street movement in minneapolis this sounds crazy i know but it is explored in a new documentary called m.k. occupy minnesota drugs and the d r e program at peavey plaza here's a little excerpt becoming to. get in the spirit young people who do. you know if. they give you food if you think. you know now if i may give you a choice or for your view about this what you you were going to go through to crime not necessarily but yet loses the you know she wants to you do it every one of them

and that's it and. for that we're going to see everyone who never was there like. one of them told me with something more personal and. so that was a sneak peek of the thirty five minute film and i spoke with one of the filmmakers dan fight he's a journalist and occupy wall street activist and he gave an in-depth discussion on what he discovered while making the film take a listen. well essentially once we caught word that something very strange was going on at p.v. plaza in downtown minneapolis everybody kind of started working together and we sprung into action to basically asked many people as possible film what was going on and we saw it was a real shift in the atmosphere in the plaza because of this program called drug recognition experts or drug recognition evaluation d r e and essentially people who participated in the program claimed that they had been offered marijuana they've definitely been offered cash cigarettes that type of thing all of which is

extremely unethical whether or not they were actually given drugs as they as multiple participants claim it's still very unethical to encourage people to to take drugs with incentives and that's why this program has no institutional review board has no oversight there are no systems to protect the safety and interests of the the training subjects in the program and we should say that the police as so far are not totally admitting that this went on they said they're going to look more into it but they're saying that a lot of the claims here are exaggerated and in this video i didn't see any. video evidence at least of this actually happening only of them sort of in the aftermath how do you know that all of this is true. well essentially we talked to many different participants many people were willing to talk about what had happened and sensibly put the video out it's a large discussion around town and many people are starting to talk about how they have been offered drugs in previous years in previous iterations of the program so

there's a very large you know corroboration among all these different people when it makes sense for all of these people to sort of you know have a conspiracy to claim that this it happened now what was going on was we definitely clearly documented that people left in a real state of sobriety and then when they were returned they were definitely highly intoxicated and that is incredibly unsafe and it's been creating a public health a public health and a public safety issue in this p.d. plaza space and space it's making it unsafe for everyone and it's a stream lead irresponsible so there are multiple different levels of this story all of which i think bear further examination and we're just you know hoping that everyone can get out there and start documenting drug corruption like the d r e in their own communities this video expresses how the drug war dehumanizes people in trains officers to treat people like objects and so whether or not they were directly handed marijuana if they're being paid cash or cigarettes or food that's equally as bad i thought it was really interesting to you said that there are many layers to this story and there are one of those layers is that apparently some

officers are trying to you know you know get these new found friends high get them some food from mcdonald's then try to get them in some cases to when they return to the occupy protests to be informants to be spawns to talk a little bit about that aspect of us yes well essentially one of the most troubling aspects of the war on drugs is the way that the state essentially uses chemical dependency as a way to try to control people and so what really was going on there is you can see how people that are at a weak point in society are being trained in the programs like say look we can help you out if you give us information and they're using occupy as the ready example as a test and that's essentially what's going on and also just quickly want to add this is a large collaborative project i helped at it and pretty. the project in poll segments together interviewed people but people from four different organizations occupy minneapolis communities united against police brutality media and twin cities indymedia all participated in this project and then you've used the phrase now a couple times the war on drugs this is one that i've been hearing i think since

back in the eighty's what can be said though about a war on drugs when if all this is true that those who are supposed to protect and serve are behind it you know giving drugs. well it's very troubling i mean the war on drugs is an incredibly dehumanizing system and we know at the global level that the united states federal government has benefited from driving up the price of drugs so that in certain geopolitical situations they can exchange guns for drugs as they do in asia south of russia of course and so there is an overall pattern of you know using administrative control to intervene in the lives of people with chemical dependency and in many different ways and that's what's so it treats people like objects like i said and so that's what's troubling about it and whether or not they're handing out the drugs there's so many different ethical levels that have to be challenged is a huge waste of money that we can't afford right now now i've got to say most people here this story are pretty outraged by it they say what's going on is

illegal it's shocking but there are a few people who have seen this story of heard about this story and sadly this is a win win situation the people that want pot get free pot the police get to you know learn more about the impact that drugs has on people what's your response to those people well simply put if it's true that when the president say that marijuana is being handed out if there's no oversight or testing of the quality of the marijuana it could be laced if it was seized from somewhere if you be you know filled with other substances and we know that e.m.t. personnel who are independent of law enforcement were not present at the facility in richfield near the minneapolis international airport and so without emergency medical protection without vetting the quality of any drugs that would be distributed which of course is denied you can see that there is a lack of oversight in checking to make sure that those things are not laced or otherwise dangerous and even if they're not doing that they're still not taking the right medical safeguards to protect everyone and i do want to mention when you when you look at this program the drug evaluation classification program this is not

unique to minnesota from what i read i think forty seven states plus d.c. even planted a participate in this program i guess i'm wondering you know what have you heard i mean it has been a success. full program what's going on here well there are you know a lot of criticisms out there the ari officers have been very well known to claim that people are intoxicated when they're actually not and that's been imperiously studied and we'll have more information about that forthcoming but also the program was orchestrated imported by an organization called the international association of chiefs of police and he is actually a very important or his asian because it is one of the main groups that got the entire fusion center system rolled out across the united states so what the i.p.c.c. does is takes advanced military industrial complex technology and advocates to get that into local police departments and escalate things like the war on drugs and that's a major systemic part of this whole issue are identified journalist and occupy wall street activists keep us posted if you will on what comes out of the us appreciate

you letting us use your film yes absolutely thank you very much well it is may the fourth so may the fourth be with you now really today is the unofficial star wars day and people around the world are celebrating in many different ways so we're going to take today to take a look at a russian media mogul who's working to make a science fiction science fact his team are creating androids that can not only imitate real people but they also see and respond to objects and faces and as our correspondent peter oliver found out the development can also help those with limited abilities. all over the world scientists are making leaps and bounds in robotic technology in a small lab just outside of moscow a team believe that they are on the cusp of creating a robot body that can be controlled remotely with a human brain and soon stiffness itself i think in the next few months we will make

a robot that will be able to move around on wheels on the next step is to make a robot that can walk controlled by the movements of a human operator which we hope to do by next year if you want to see what our ultimate goal is you can watch movies like avatar or surrogates robots controlled by human thought you know at the moment a couple recorded the lego this is the team's current prototype it was designed to test the robot's eyesight each is an individual camera which observes and remembers the surroundings obstacles and faces underneath the latex lines a complex system of motors and electronics the design is hoped that this robotic skeleton could be the first step towards creating the next generation of artificial intelligence perhaps even robots that think for themselves. exciting stuff however there are those that are asking the question just because we can does that mean we should make you a. scientist are not always able to answer these questions clearly and all

these projects are on the borderline between science and human morals but a scientist is always tempted to play god to create a symbol and serve themselves with an artificial human and as far as i know projects of that sort of all veiled questions of morality are of little worry to vladimir and his team their only concern is the advancement of science. i don't think there are any serious issues of morality here we are trying to create life only further our knowledge and understanding of what is capable we're not all the projects being developed here sound like they'd come straight out of a saif i movie like this robotic arm actually being used to help people that have lost limbs. this definitely can be used to help the disabled people will read or in some experiments the subject without hands tried this technology he said the hand was working for him all it takes is to teach electrodes to the undamaged part of the arm so they can read the must look to the team. the dream of one day having

a humanoid robot that can be controlled remotely is shared by more than just the scientific community back teves suffers from cerebral palsy highly educated driven and creative his condition leaves him trapped in his own body. this technology would enable people like me to do the things most people take for granted household chores doing the laundry cooking moreover if this made it possible for us to go out to live. this would be astounding progress for people like me. it's hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five lee. it's years before we could see science fiction become science funked. well that's going to do it for us for tonight but don't forget to tune in next week we've got

a brand new line up going on the offensive russia is ramping up its rhetoric against the u.s. going as far as to threaten preemptive military action if president obama doesn't change his ways the obama administration has been changing some of its policies but apparently not fast enough to keep its russian counterparts at bay next weeks well next week we'll bring you the latest in this missile mellow drama and we told you a few weeks ago about the michigan department of natural resources actually raiding farms and threatening to slaughter pigs across the state all of this because certain types of pigs are deemed feral and therefore not fit to keep and not to sell by the government but farmers there are devastated and pointing their fingers at lobbyists and large corporate farms well we had to see this for ourselves so we sent our correspondent liz wahl to michigan to find out exactly what's going on there next week we'll tell you what she found out plus the f.b.i.

has a message for internet companies don't get in their way the government agency is trying to pass a controversial proposal that would require companies including microsoft facebook yahoo and google to build in back doors for government surveillance intimidated yet we'll tell you all about this cyber scandal and those are just a few of the stories we have in store for you next week of course along with much more news and in-depth interviews so keep it tuned right here to our take but that's going to do it for us for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america you can also check out our website r t dot com slash usa and you can follow me on twitter at christine. for now have a great night and a great weekend. that i.