thank you very much for joining me dr stein it's great to be with you can really really appreciate it thanks for coming i read you said you'd be the underdog candidate for the underdog voters who are these on the docket voters it's certainly most of the american public people are losing their jobs wages are declining millions have lost their home another million are in the pipeline to lose their homes this year the cost of health care is skyrocketing public higher education is increasingly out of reach we have thirty six million young people who are students or recent graduates who are effectively indentured servants because they don't have the jobs or the wages to repave these unforgiving debts and the political establishment is not doing anything about it while a very small segment of the american population the one percent we say is making out like bandits so neither party is fixing this i just want

to make this clear you're going to be on ballots but not in all states can you explain what is it in the system in the u.s. that makes it so hard for a third party to break into those two horse races exactly the american system is designed to eliminate political opposition like some of the you know dictatorships that we criticize that have rigged political systems in many ways the american system is also rigged but in ways that are not as straightforward so you have to actually see what it takes to get on the ballot if you're not already on as one of the big machine parties each state has its own set of rules which are very demanding very detailed and bureaucratic and require lots of signatures in order to get on the bow. so for the most part you need

a lot of money many millions of dollars to buy your way on to the ballot basically by hiring signature gatherers and people to keep track of this is getting seems that money is too powerful here in washington is there a way you see to go against money the power of money absolutely i mean the voters don't like this the voters repeatedly are calling for getting big money out of politics. in my home state in massachusetts we passed a law to get the big money out we don't voters the supreme court passed and another law which it just and living all limits from contributions and invalid and what i was going to add was that in our state when we passed it by voter referendum that the legislature which was eighty five percent democratic party they repealed it you know so the entrenched system is is very hostile to the needs

of the american people the green party often described itself as the party that represents main street versus wall street as you just been say in what way do barack obama and mitt romney represent wall street that is against the interests of the american people mitt romney doesn't really pretend even to do anything other than advance the economic elites agenda he has a track record which is to advance the likes of his own you know to acquire enormous amounts of wealth by tearing down other companies and businesses and firing workers and offshoring jobs and gobbling up the profits himself so he's got a track record which is pretty clear and he's you know he's pretty much straight ahead wall street agenda with barack obama on the democratic party it's. it's

a little harder to see clearly what they're about because they do talk a populist line but to actually look at their record it's pretty clear who their allegiances are to so george bush provided about eight hundred billion in bailouts for wall street but under barack obama it's been many trillions some four and a half trillion dollars worth of bailout that has already been dispersed and then there are many more trillions worth of loans and emergency loans and guarantees and then quantitative easing through the fed and all kinds of back doors to basically funnel either out in out bailouts or free money to to wall street so mitt romney has wall street you know he's the wolf in a wolf's clothing. barack obama that will finish and clothing but they both essentially have the same agenda dr stein can you talk a little bit more about your involvement with the occupy movement has the movement

been big enough to make sort of a took tonic shift in u.s. politics i believe that that tectonic shift is happening and occupy is one of the indicators that it is happening and it's happening because one out of every two americans is now either in poverty or low income americans are really hurting and are desperate for foreigners for solutions which they are not getting so there is a rebellion that is in full swing occupy speaks for that rebellion we saw in the polls early on that a majority of americans a substantial majority of americans was very sympathetic and supportive of the agenda that occupy was are but really i mean it's kind of a silent rebellion right exactly we are silence. you know i believe it is not

silent but our voices are continually muzzled through all kinds of ways we can't speak out politically the media is very much in the hands of big corporations congress' approval rating is alive and present so it is people are unhappy but it's a silent by design because right so that people have to work very hard to break through and occupy got to critical mass by assembling you know in our public squares and they were very effective in breaking through until the public relations campaign began to be conducted against them and we saw that because that p.r. campaign actually got leaked it was a many many hundreds of thousands of dollars campaign that was constructed even before the counterattack began so you had both a media counterattack and then you had a a counterattack by way of police brutality in the suppression of our civil liberties as people were brutally attacked let's talk foreign policy but switch

gears for many years now probably since the collapse of the soviet union every u.s. president every administration took the idea of the you was being the wall police sort of to the next level president obama was no exception what is it what is of the basis of this wall the police policy as you see it and would you carry on with it as a president. this world police policy is bankrupting americans we're spending about a trillion dollars a year on the military industrial security complex that budget has roughly doubled over the last ten years and we are certainly not more secure for it we spent trillions of dollars. when we withdrew from iraq how did we do it we withdrew from iraq in the dead of night. the secret undisclosed date because we

were afraid that we would be ambushed in the process how many friends exactly did we make in this war what kind of a stable democracy did we make in iraq you know iraq continues to teeter on the brink of a civil war it has certainly not become a staunch and reliable ally for the united states or for democracy or for women's rights for that matter the barrel of a gun has not been an effective diplomat and we need to heed that and take a lesson from it unfortunately president obama basically embraced george bush's you know militaristic approach to foreign policy on his third day in office he intensified the bombing. pakistan then went on to spread the drone wars into somalia and into yemen he. surged the troops into afghanistan we still have about twice as many troops as we had under george

bush it has certainly not made afghanistan a safer more secure place we are not in a better position to you know withdraw now and declare victory than we were you know years ago you know that when you have the kind of civilian casualties that you have with drone bombing for example that you would you simply aid and abet those very terrorist organizations that you are trying to go after in the first place what is it that makes you. concerned with regards to make romney's foreign policy plans if anything you know his plans are basically let's increase the military budget you know i mean and. he you know he has a lot of sort of machismo and bravado and he beats the war drum. you know he wants to. really flex muscle against iran but you know so too

does the obama administration though they're a little bit more they're less warmongering about it but they're basically in agreement about coming down very hard on in iran and holding no options off the table so they they both threaten to use war where we should be using diplomacy we talked about money in politics and everyone knows campaigns are not cheap your position your net worth is probably far from mitt romney's two hundred million dollars your party is financing a lost cause basically at this stage what is the goal the real goal at this stage in my view to say it's a lost cause is to say that our economy is a lost cause you know is to say that it's inevitable that we're going to crash and i don't mean that ok i mean the election is i would agree i mean i think that the

the the uphill battle for our election is identical to the uphill battle to rescue our economy we are a real political party you know we're not just you know the store front that looks like it's main street but is actually funded by wall street that's what the other political parties are they are they pretend to really have public support but what they really have is the support of the one percent and then they have a propaganda campaign going on and intensive public relations and psychological warfare that's intended to convince people that they don't have any options doctor saying thank you very much for being here thank you it's great talking with you i. the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul has provided inspiration

for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west the vocal dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe empowers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow the hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing a river like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized sturgeon the source of caviar. the hydroelectric plant has done

significant damage because it stocked fish swimming up river to the spawning grounds. within a year all these houses would have gone fallen into the river depending on how many of the hydroelectric plants turbines are on the water level can change suddenly and dramatically too suddenly for the banks to absorb. control of the river flow by the plant has made building in the boulders floodplain more attractive serious floods are less likely but the water that is put into the drains is taken away from the fish that need it now but last the voice of the voters of color jay might start being heard. the first time in fifty years the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the volga battle. meaning that the mighty vogue is treated with the respect it deserves.

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recent. more for me in fifteen minutes. thank you very much bill welcome to the sports headlines coming up believing it like russia could clear winners from for the world cup twenty fourth in qualifying but as of eyes on push them into the way moscow. come back sweden stunned germany on the footballing world by covering all goals by bankruptcy counting. on medals on that my way catch up with two russia's prime candidates for success in the winter olympic games in sochi. but let's start with football where england are taking on poland in the rearrange world cup qualifiers choose days fixture was postponed due to to run chill rain in warsaw.

just approaching the final whistle in the polish capital and it is one one wayne rooney open for england after thirty one minutes but time will click levelled matters with nineteen minutes to play. meanwhile russia maintained that winning record in world cup qualification is now four wins from four matches for fabio capello's men and they are yet to concede but choose days one victory over azerbaijan was not straightforward which of important explains. russia will finish two thousand and twelve on top of a perfect record of four wins from four games however they were made to work very hard for the latest make sure he has a bias however three points is free points and fabio capello was delighted that his team have yet to concede and therefore qualifying group games so far as the deals today this will be a different game as a budget on or a force to be reckoned with in the first half of games and they don't concede but

the voters organize the very world should this organization tonight but we managed to win and this is a very important. luzhniki was far from full of fans but did turn up certainly did their best to cheer on their respective teams was by john showed from the early encounters of a have you come to moscow to make up the numbers you took the russians into or around a quarter of an hour mark before they started to hit their stride but they weren't helped by playing against a team who really weren't interested in playing football and were very rough to play against themselves they did nothing throughout the game they never looked to attack only trying to stop us is the best they can play i feel sorry for them russia continued to be frustrated in the second half despite the exam because your government should all kovan to be combative all going close but they're finding it very difficult to break down and azerbaijan's side are often putting ten men by high in the ball and have no real interest in attacking themselves well you have a number of close opportunities russia created a number of chances but

a combination of good goalkeeping and paul finishing the scores goal is going into the final ten minutes it's always difficult to play against such sides who just want to defer me in a way it's easier to go up against portugal who actually want to play football i don't know what they want to do today this. morning and i'm happy we won you can play good news but we got the result we needed i think it's better to play poorly and win and qualify for brazil but as it. well it seemed as well as of ours are we going to hold on to what would have been a completely undeserved points just with minutes from time roman shock of hit home from the penalty spot to save russia's blushes but it seems that russia still having to learn a plan b. just as the euro championships in two thousand and twelve where they really struggled to be in teams or in score against teams who put a lot of men behind the ball amounts reasoning would be a capello's got to work on if his side want to be successful well here are the positives russia has set top of group airth with four wins from the four games they

played so far with no goals conceded and things are looking very good for the fabulous side going into two thousand and thirteen richard. dotsie. well elsewhere in russia's great israel moved up to second place for a routine three no when i have a luxembourg well one of the shocks of the evening occurred important portugal how to a one one draw by northern ireland aside one hundred fourteen places below them in the world rankings an incredible result which has a post russia's chances of securing the automatic place for brazil twenty four saying. they will sweden completed one of the greatest comebacks in the history of international football the house completely on top germany after an hour in berlin mesut ozil score in the fourth goal after a bracer miroslav close up and i pad strike in the first half hour that sweden the shite was only just starting out on abraham of a week our last big element in the us was to the fore in producing one of the most

sensational comebacks of time equaliser coming deep into injury time to send the visiting files to russia's the final school was germany for sweden for. meanwhile in south america where the world cup will actually take place argentina remain top of their group after beating chile two one in santiago the visitors it didn't wait long to show their attacking prowess world player of the year you know messi putting argentina in front of the twenty seven minutes another summarily discard gonzalo it why i added the second soon afterwards sergio aguero could have got his name on the school shape of the woodwork denied him on this occasion surely would pull one back in injury time the three points were to go to the stand alone leaders in south america qualified. now let's move to tennis where

it's been a successful stuff and maria kirilenko at the kremlin cup in moscow the seventy seeded russian history of this. second round having no problems in seeing off his pocket feeling of as you know in the meantime something all that sort of sweden but took place in the third round full of surprise straight sets win over marion bartoli six three six love caroline wozniacki who's the third saying related take on the us get out from the fun stuff. to the ice way in the cat shell lokomotiv yaroslavl claim to know way over time victory over after mobilise the new cattlemen bug the game finished for three dimitri kick off score the wind up with only one a second left in overtime in the other games having god playing out five three winners again spots i can almost well my two have might need to go defeated atlanta three want to go in cup champion son argued the level you fall for so you are currently taking on sas cars to one to the host that. midway through the second pair. now over to the ice again where the sochi winter olympics are now less

than five hundred days away a big eighteen months of sport here in russia training has moved up a gear for many medal hopefuls including the young russian ice dancing pair of the elena a unique nikita cuts off michael caught up with them. with just sixteen months until their own winter olympics in sochi russia is making sure their athletes are getting well prepared and so in ice dancing they've secured the services of legendary coach nikolai morales of to train young hopefuls yelena even . actually coming out. for our first look at the. internet. but. but he has his work cut out for him because the ruling had germany has shifted away from russia in recent years americans meryl davis and

charlie white as well as canadian pair test of virtue and more stole the show in vancouver twenty ten and shared gold and silver at the last three world championships but dilemma is confident about her and her partner's chances this season. like never is the world and after we feel we feel we can do it was in the top five so we were standing in line with like top speed test was going to. make that range so. now i feel with this program we can move forward it won't be easy for the past but coach morozov is a must of choreography and has been tinkering with their programs now the music that men and he tell her training is generic and will be used in the coming season they'll be done soon to specifically made custom music that will be used for the courtesy and done it's something that trained in the climbers of hopes will give them that little bit of extra competitive advantage that the move forward as if no

one has heard this music before which makes it fairly interesting it's a brand new composition where the musicians created music to our specific movements i'm still coming to terms with it but both lena and i really like kids. being one of the only couples to have had music. specifically composed for them is a credit to do it but the big question as always is just how well they get along with each other it was a little we had some problems. was like singles and we have a really tough hard terrorists so we all want to be like like live there so and after right now like in two years i understand how it's so we need to do one couple one like to help each other so right now it's no problem so we having fun no ways on the practice it's always easy for one side of the couple to be happy about the status quo but it always takes two to tango look at all of the plot of during

training there's always going to be disagreements but that's part and parcel of working together you shouldn't be skating and dancing with a ten emotion on this week however on character we want to assure this bunch we've been working together for a long time and we're very comfortable with one another. with a couple of pounds me happy with each other as well as being excited about performing to the new music it's clear they intend to take the ice dancing world by storm and with their trainer threatening to quit if they don't they won't want to disappoint my good chunk of moscow region. and that is all from the water sports now but i'll be back with plenty more in just under two hours time here on r.t. joining.

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