tv Documentary RT February 5, 2013 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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you know what they're trying to do to us and everybody else at the body say it's about saving a million dollars next year what do you think that this kind of notion is really about this kyra negotiation is about destroying our standard of living this is cooperation is trying to get what they want that they've been trying to get for the last twenty five years and we cannot let them and that's why not you by wall street's message and on message are exactly the same corporate greed is destroying this country that we cannot let it slip we have built very close ties with the communication workers before september seventeenth we were already supporting the fall markers and they responded by supporting us we went to their last rally at the headquarters they marched back to the park with us and some of them slept there they're going to be in a tough struggle that's why we're getting this relationship with labor labor scenes is relieved they are i never expected when i first started contacting unions that the response would be so enthusiastic but the labor movement has been kicked around
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now for quite a while and they have to fight and they see people fighting and they see their fighting the same enemy and they see them reaching out this movement has shown such an eagerness to reach out to the mainstream of the american public and the unions represent the organized part of that the focus on the one percent and the first time in an american movement i don't even think in the thirty's that the communist party did this in their mass work i don't even think they identify the enemy as the ruling class mr speaker. mr vice president. members of congress distinguished guests and fellow americans last month i went to andrews air force base and welcome home some of our last troops to serve in iraq. together we offered a final proud salute to the colors under which more than a million. of our fellow citizens but. in several thousand gave their lives
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we gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the united states safer and more respected around the world thank you. thank you to want to get a standing ovation from both democrats and republicans just to be the bottom line of the military industrial complex which just so happens the benefits of every congressional district in the country somebody really believes that the undisputed greatest mayor of violence in the world actually makes us safer and more respected i mean come on that kind of attitude is not concern anyone any nobel peace prizes or thank you distinguished members of the norwegian nobel committee. citizens of america. and citizens of the world. i receive this honor
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with deep gratitude and great humility george orwell would have had a hard time coming up with this are we really this delusional you see the more honest we are with ourselves about exactly what our foreign policy is the better chance we have to stop some of the truly horrific conditions it visits upon many of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop change. there is. that damn hard. to. see. it was not right. i started in
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iraq in two thousand and four in two thousand and six i was in the second battle of . allusion november two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a reason to be there that there's a reason for the million iraqis that died in the five thousand troops said that we say we're the greatest country in the world but we go into you know people in their country but we don't stop genocide in africa we don't help people that we can help that would be the greatest country in the world if we can save a million people instead of killing them and people if you're not convinced our foreign policy is morally bankrupt perhaps we should talk about money tax payers in the united states had need one point four trillion dollars for total war spending in iraq and afghanistan since two thousand and one never wondered what one point four trillion dollars would buy well it could be the annual energy costs for every household in america five years but i hear you saying that would not do very much
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to decrease our dependence on foreign oil and there are enough. one point four trillion dollars could convert every home in america to one hundred percent solar energy. over or it could convert every home in america to one hundred percent wind energy knowing times over for groceries for everyone in the country free for two years or to provide scholarships to every college student in america and award them a fifty five hundred dollar grant seven times over the war turn all volunteer firefighters into full time employees and pay them a full salary for twenty three years or pay the full time salaries of every public school teacher for the next six years instead we took one point four trillion dollars pay a small black ops team to hunt track and kill osama bin laden. we even had money left over in the budget to decimate two countries launch hostilities resulting in
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over one million innocent civilians dead and counting ask yourself how many orphans going today clenched fists tonight in afghanistan or iraq who grow up willing to fly a plane into the building and how many trillions are we prepared to spend on avenging that. can do everything go to school and not just go to school but excel in school work really really hard and i graduated and really had the feeling a lot of the time very consciously in my head that. i might as well. you know i mean. was there reason for me to be in debt good evening of all the time bombs on the american economy set to explode with dire consequences this is a big one staggering debt from student loans everyone is told a college education is a way to get ahead college tuitions though keep going up so does the borrowing and we just hit an awful milestone our nation's combined student loan debt has now hit
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you would have. if you people out of the streets in new york city. because something is real journalists be out here. oh it just. has so many. young people. on a global stage with affordable education. and it is a challenging justice that they're using a whole student loan debt credit card debt when congress raises the loan limits schools respond to those increased long limits by raising tuition because they think that students can afford to pay more because they're actually allowed more money nobody really has the option to expect to get
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a comfortable john. go to college we don't have an unskilled workforce anymore we are for the workforce that we have right now it's socially irresponsible not to go to school because the entire workforce is predicated on higher education i think our education system hasn't caught up to our economy yet and that's one of the problems and that's that's where this problem is coming and that's why people are speaking up that's why that i inquired here there are no bankruptcy protections for any student loans this is the only one and all of us history that you can't ever default on you can't ever discharge this invade privacy the idea of do you debtors union is based on the labor union model and what they did effectively when our economy was very different when there was a so-called unskilled labor they negotiated with the factories for better working conditions so that they could go back to work just that same way do you debtors union could renegotiate a better contractor arrangement with our lenders so that we can repay our loans is employing an autonomous strategy of refusal so you were fused to do something
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you're saying no to something in favor of making things better. know great code like this you know it's really about do we believe in this you know we. just all these effects are so many also whether it's you know. the tar sands i think of the size of florida just from an alberta i was really interested in the tar sands protests this summer because to see thousand plus people getting arrested like that willfully it's pretty amazing that
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a message to all of you. is tarzan's oh no it's not ethical in order to get our standpoint out you have to destroy the art and so i think that you know find some of the pipeline but what happens after that you know i know there's a standoff with big oil i think so i think so i don't think it's the environment is going to magically go itself because we stop a pipeline and the thing about the pipeline and one reason that makes this so urgent is that that nasa scientist james hansen the brokaw boring are actually a few decades back or whatever says the piper i mean it will be game over. game over me inside and i you know how to boil right you know sometimes you see a story and it seems. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is all. i'm trying hard is
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a big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donor. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country music star our you know what kind of my terrorist cells but no one he was saying the feature is not the only limbaugh the crystal ball can stick your beliefs about it but. you know the corporate media
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distracts us from what you and i should care about because their profit driven industry that sells us and facials that garbage because that breaking news i'm not me martin and we're going to break that. download the official publication so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from outside if you're away from your television or live just doesn't do so now with your mobile devices you can watch or see anytime anywhere.
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want people to be able to say look it's going to take time. but we can't force we're not to let the scanner away because we see a better world. we have a vision. you know this organization of the center for the american dream. we're creating i i. i. i i i i i. i i i. ok it's time to put in a bit you know. i have to see this intervention at the end you know they show you all the same stuff and then they sit around somebody who has issues and problems and they talk about you know how badly that person has done and what they're going
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to do if they don't change their behavior and for us we're dealing with folks who have a serious addiction to corporate money was now when cheney said them to get off it on their own even on that and the smoking a crack open my door was. cracked up to be very easily addictive somebody who was cool six years ago snuck up on a crack rock this is not the occupy movement has become a conduit to venue for talking about this corruption and so folks that move to amend that are really in my mind i. said in the bar for the critique that corporations are not persons property not speech and constitutional rights are for people over eight hundred fifty six and dred scott the same supreme court so that people are property dred scott affirm slavery in two thousand the supreme
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court said property is people write those decisions and see was was was was done for some kind of tunnel i'm telling. you. that i mean she was the culmination because individuals are getting the issues coming together with a secular purpose to get to where they come to show night to make it clear. because. they didn't know how you can hear him yelling about how. money he is not political speech. today and probably he's coming tempo's doctrines must be abolished he cannot
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overturn the functionality and still allow wealthy individuals to stand out enough the money how. have. i. pad i. have all. these away he was not satisfied that ha it was all but if the law could be law city look around at the power monopolies have you noticed people are like this double our society safe we get treated like let's use with the excuse that someone's gotta lose with some corporation the way it as if it's not going to go be all that they don't build on the backs of all morris brothers were all forgotten
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the face we're all taught by our mothers have been the people out there today going to the playoffs cluelessly well the here we have the most usually all of bull run to the pulpit parikh rocks but if the film looks better if we just remember the corporations pallas creation is he will be somebody just quoting really good because it is at least those people who go to college that was because i. believe people. yes and people are realizing it very least that the way our economic system currently runs is not democratic it's not beneficial to the vast majority of people and till we have some kind of economic democracy where in the vast majority of
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people in their communities and in their workplaces if more decisions over what these corporations do if we want to have corporations at all then political democracy is a sham in that you look at the military budget you don't see the military budget that uses it as much as the whole world somebody at a time when our infrastructure is literally a deep level grave the core of the american society of civil engineers we get a deed in there these days is the future of our economy our infrastructure is going to work and so if you face of those two issues which are you know just war going on here the one percent in the military industrial complex suddenly your solution is to tell you she's going to lose money to invest in the new resisting the world. no certainly there is money to reform and whom we see energy so you can turn roads into solar power and that's where possible we think that's why we put our money back on the right it was right that. it was frightening.
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that this was this was our target like the rest of you. you're right. we were right. here. and. they say that the occupy. movement's major victory to date is that we have changed the conversation that people are now debating issues such as well some quality at this point i think we can all agree there is no debate there is inequity when it comes to wealth period full stop and it is growing and the super rich are not super rich because of some force of nature like summer morphing into fall or heat always
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going to the polls they are super rich as a result of their active participation in or their willingness to be accessories to you criminally rig the homicidal force of a system what the occupy movement has done and why people armed with nothing more than an idea are being suppressed often violently is to acknowledge that most only issues are connected to the war activists who are through healthcare reform advocates or housing or labor rights advocates will thank the reform advocates you name it are now all shining a light on the root cause of inequity you see our foreign policy does in fact limit our options when it comes to health care reform a shareholder capitalism one that demands growth every quarter is directly contributing to the assault on collective bargaining issues the american dream itself the way it is understood by many as a mistress rags to riches anyone could be a millionaire greed is good grab the most toys before you die each rose should be
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euthanised for the greater good and the birth of a new american dream based on equity sustainability and the general welfare of the people should be brought into being and by people i mean people not corporations i was out here during the day before inauguration. it was a martin luther king day and two thousand people total strangers were out of each other on the streets were having conversations across class and race lines and all the sudden we felt. well some of us knew better you can't there's no messiah going to get elected but this is. and deliver open change we can believe so how will the occupy movement that has wisely staying away from promoting political parties or individual politicians navigate the minefield of the potentially co-opting force that is the presidential election cycle now this year is just going to be nuts we've never seen this much money spent on
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a political process in the history of the world. and this comes at a time for a movement that is determinately to. this mad influx of money and politics so it's going to be a really scary contrast and the challenge of this movement is to create a counter narrative is to show that the justice of its cause is more interesting than anything these candidates can put on television i mentioned at the beginning that this movie is an invitation for you to join the occupy movement but there are no membership dues no papers to sign all that is required is the willingness to see the world as it is and decide that you are going to be part of the solution occupy is less of an organization and more of an organism a living breathing multi and force that refuses to find mishka will be pushed into a corner of this organism is still a baby and the narrative that will be telling in the years to come is yours to
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write. what you all turn it into good to talk to somebody just to get the audience you know to get the image something tough to get the feel and believe to be. intelligent. didn't. do. it. thankfully in the senate better myself so when they say why occupy what will your answer is the first time in decades. well we're really discussing the world how the media play and how to bring a better. this is still a whole lot from the good life of freedom fighters they had to combat and come back a little bit that. they could safely place actually sitting there playing something that i.
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