you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean sometimes i believe that i'm still really messed up. and we're all very sorry for some of the people of the. worst year for the legal white house or for the. radio guy and for a minute. what we're about to give you've never seen anything like the color. no load low and added martin this is breaking the set so i don't know you've heard the latest bout of ridiculousness regarding hydraulic fracturing or fracking but colorado governor john hickenlooper recently went to some great lengths to show his

commitment to land endorsement of the practice of fracking in his state ok she didn't know fracking is a process of extracting natural gas from shale rock buried deep below the earth's surface and to extract this gas there's a chemical cocktail of fracking fluid come to the ground during the process well the governor wanted to clear the waters if you will but this controversial practice so what do you do looking goes well down some of the toxic fluid before u.s. senate committee to prove its safety wow needless to say i think he can looper is missing the point here sure bro drink whatever you want once and you'll probably be ok this fence arc facts are going to hit you immediately anyway plus this is nothing to do with the effects of fracking liquid has once it's combined with natural gas and other minerals in the ground before it gets released and seeps into the water supply what would be interesting is checking up on the governor after drinking this stuff every day for. a year well i've had enough of taken looney so

let's get on with the show and break the side. of the to where. ever seen anything like. the devastating impacts of the two thousand and eight financial crisis brought difficult times for people all across america it reawakened distrust in a political system that seems far too keen on protecting all darks at the expense of the working class that same crisis was part of a ripple effect felt all across the world of global financial meltdown that many countries are still grappling with and europe were reminded about the struggle through ongoing protests against economic hardship and government corruption just days ago tens of thousands of people from all walks of life marched on the spanish parliament madrid against what citizens refer to as a crew of the financial markets and with the european markets on edge the last

thing years own needs is uncertainty but elections in italy are stuck in limbo and causing just enough uncertainty to rattle the markets given rise to rumors of an inevitable collapse of the euro zone so help me talk about the return of the euro crisis italy's shaky elections and ongoing unrest against government corruption elsewhere in europe i'm joined by author investigative journalist oh thank you so much so webster let's start with the candidates of this election berlusconi essentially is booted out of office his party is pulling in second place i mean he's a pretty controversial guy here preside over a pretty bad period financial crisis is the fact that he's the only n.t.l. stared candidate the fact that he's so popular still. i think. the thing about berlusconi is. he was the prime minister he's been prime minister longer than anybody else and post with italian history and he is an anti-war candidate his recent campaign was stopped for. closures on homes stop foreclosures on factories

and equipment lower raise the lowest pensions and roll back a very oppressive property tax the i.m.u. that. have imposed the thing about berlusconi that attracts hostility from washington and london is close personal relation with blood in your putin and the fact that this is been conquered this is not just a personal thing but this is the talian taking part in the north stream pipeline right down the baltic the italians being a key part of the south stream pipeline and a whole series of other development deals which have really put a kind of a support underneath the italian economy the italians then became kind of the pro russian element in the european union and began attacking getting attacks from from the u.s. and so forth one key guy the u.s. ambassador in rome david thorne yale skull and bones john kerry's

roommate so the new secretary of state his roommate and his former brother in law is now the u.s. ambassador there and he led a coup against berlusconi in two thousand and eleven which was a coup done not with tanks but with spreads they had mario draghi at the european central bank they said look we're going to we're going to attack the italian government bonds. don't do anything to defend those bonds come in and help us to attack them the spread up up up the italian parliament panicked outgoes berlusconi and in comes this monti trilateral builder burge goldman sachs and he brings in a government of technocrats meaning austerity ghouls and what have they done fifteen months three percent more unemployment youth unemployment thirty seven percent production down ten percent orders down fifteen percent a disaster so that's the background for these elections and let's talk about. the

former comedian a really interesting character here i mean if he won what could that mean for italy this is the. this is a part of the population that has basically gone crazy as a result of the austerity and you can understand i mean you can sympathize with them but good in lieu of course is a right wing cultural populist demagogue and he is also he's he's obscene he tries to have radical anti-establishment cover but when you listen carefully he sounds very much like a tea party fanatic republican here in the united states i mean he's all anti-government party all this stuff not so much anti bank for someone who doesn't want it doesn't want to attack the banks and then you look at his is policies that smash all unions what is that that's a bad bad thing. term limits. politicians infrastructure everybody in the world by now understands the way you get out of

a depression is to have massive infrastructure projects you get people hired you get people working you restart the economy that's how you get an economic recovery there's no there's a there's a project to build a fast rail from two into the french border goodloe says no and he's got black block he's got violent protesters out there there's a plan which i think is a great idea to build a bridge from calabria to sicily so you'd be going over the straits of messina with the bridge. says no part of the cheese comes from the opera comes from a great place they need a modern subway says no so it's a no no no every one of those tens of thousands of jobs so he's basically wrecking the economy and how does agenda twenty one fit into this. the concept if you can imagine an italian working class family they've been attacked by monti and the i.m.f. and the european. central bank and you know their taxes have gone up they're unemployed

and they're looking for an alternative and they look at google and google or says energy austerity he says what they call dig deep growth i mean the word for that in english is atrophy or in italian atrophy they don't like to call that atrophy because a living organism is the president you don't want to but that's that's exactly what it is so it comes from some french professors there is left to. and there are some others but above all it's this agenda twenty one right left over from the rio conference at the beginning of the ninety's al gore this kind of stuff the idea that you can have energy austerity and believe it or not one of good laws planks is to lower the total consumption of energy in italy by ten percent so he wants less production less energy less raw material use and then he turns around and says i'm going to give everybody a thousand euros per month so the nobody commits suicide but you can't do that in

the woods you don't have the you have the wealth you don't have the resources to do that actually good thing everybody gets a guaranteed income and free wi-fi so it's like bread and circuses right of the roman empire it sounds like bush's check to everyone after i got out of office here . the guy is all the world like a republic a couple of other things he wants to take if you're if you're a convict take your civil rights away just like a republican governor in the american south anchor babies if you're born in italy foreign parents you don't become a citizen so you get racism going form two he wants to do everything with referendums is that democracy well the guy in european history who did that the most was napoleon so that doesn't sound very democrat let's move on to just the situation in public debt and italy this is just putting it in perspective for the audience of how bad the says amount to more than one hundred twenty percent of the country's g.d.p. i mean how can we i wouldn't i wouldn't make that to be. i think it's terrific that

is the last act the joblessness the unemployment how do they get out of this process i mean all these candidates kind of seem like they're not really pushing for a viable solution here monty is the i.m.f. austerity right that's failed now he's out goodloe is this new energy austerity which if anything is even worse berlusconi today said his main point is anti austerity of oh he doesn't really he means by that austerity for the government not for the private sector what you'd have to do in italy is look there are three million unemployed and that's what greed low draws and he's basically fuelled by the despair of three to four million unemployed so the answer would be i would say five to six million new productive jobs at union pay scales doing what doing exactly what. not to do build that infrastructure and this is how you could destroy could you could say look italians we have a program here five million new jobs we're going to rebuild the infrastructure

we're going to do how is doing we're going to do fast rail we're going to do modern electric production we're going to do. y. five sure do that do all that and then lead pretty low say no because that violates my agenda twenty one program you could basically cut them off at the knees and we only have a couple minutes can't help but talk about this in the broader context of how if the eurozone does collapse i mean if this crisis is unable to be quelled here how is this going to affect the united states let's always remember the crisis of the euro is artificial it's a result of a us british plan to destroy the euro so that the dollar and the pound could live and it starts with a very you know well organized attack on european government bonds now i regard the euro as like a convoy suppose you are in the north atlantic in world war two if you stay together you can survive but if you drop out of the convoy you're going to be destroyed because there are nazi submarines everywhere and today. if you drop out

of the euro suppose you're greece or italy what's going to happen is goldman sachs will come after you with credit default swaps and they'll drive your currency to the point where it's worth nothing you'll have hyperinflation if you're germany they'll do the opposite they'll drive it up into outer space so that you'll be you'll be deflated to death so i would say stay in the euro but now we ought to have a movement and i think greece is the leading edge of this force the european central bank to cough up trillions of euros of credit to rebuild the infrastructure of the continent starting a bubble with housing but then with all these other kinds of infrastructure schools and hospitals that we've we've been mentioning rebuild everything and create jobs that way we have the rocky at the european central bank he gives is basically zero percent credit but only if you're a zombie bank how about if you're going to build some bridges and some housing let's get zero percent credit for those people and then you make sure that you don't get these these characters like coming definitely a conversation that needs to be had and you know it's

a context that we don't hear much on the corporate media thank you so much thank you this story investigative journalist webster tarpley appreciate it it's. like we see so far go to our facebook page at facebook dot com slash breaking the set to do it thousands of already down like. daily there with links to past segments as well as reaching out to you for ideas of what you want to see covered on breaking the set and also check out behind the scenes photos when we're on the road or ones taken right here at our studios like this one where manny was guest hosting said to our facebook page and check out all that and more i left take a break from my featuring but for now stay tuned to hear about the effects of the coming sequestration next.

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earlier this week i told you about the radioactive soup leaking from six underground tanks at hanford nuclear facility in washington state take a look at some of the coverage so far. that massive leak that happened this morning at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site it's in south central washington state six tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste they are leaking at the hand for nuclear reservation and for it's on the columbia river it's had radioactive leaks from many years but the department of energy had thought it contained all those leaks not so well governor inslee says the currently exposed no immediate risk to the public the

cleanup at hanford goes on it seems to be to do it will take at least forty years at a cost of more than one hundred billion dollars while that is one hefty price tag and guess what those workers assigned to the cleanup may be out of a job come this friday because of none other than the sequester here's the deal sequestration is the result of congress' failure to produce a deficit reduction bill of last year's debt ceiling crisis because of this failure to act spending cuts of approximately eighty five billion dollars will be split evenly between defense and domestic programs come this friday unless a compromise is reached before then so the talk about the implications this could have on things like this nuclear cleanup and other industries i'm joined now by our team producer ramon believin dough from our l.a. studio thanks so much ramon. thanks for having me i mean so room before we even get into the sequestration stuff let's talk about this nuclear site two days ago i extensively covered the aspects of the site to give us

a sense of how bad this really is because i don't think the corporate media is really touching upon the extent of it. sure well i gave the department of energy a call today they've yet to respond but we do know as you mentioned in the intro there are six large tanks that are full of radioactive sludge are leaking right now you know last week we got the word that there were six tanks that we could for that the deal he was only saying that it was a one tank so there's some people wondering if there's more tanks leaking department of energy has been. has revealed so far what they have said is that up to three hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge may eventually leak out of just one of these tanks and we have to remember that hanford reservation there are fifty million gallons of nuclear waste through the facility so there's still a lot of concern that some of this nuclear waste is going to be getting into into the soil and eventually back into the columbia river which has unfortunately

suffered quite a bit of pollution from. unbelievable and also the bins to hold this nuclear talks and waste they expired twenty years i mean we're talking about waste that does not decompose for millennia i mean we cannot get rid of this so it's just absolutely insane to think of them store in these bins that expire ramon let's talk about how much this cost me one hundred fifty billion dollars price tag of course we know that's probably the lowest estimate possible until the year twenty ninety of course that's probably way more than that i mean let's talk about the sequester though and how this could affect this cleanup effort. right i mean well the governor of washington has called this a pretty perfect radioactive storm and it really is when you take into consideration that just at the same time that we're hearing that these tanks are leaking sludge there's a possibility that the department of ed or department of energy excuse me will house or furlough some of the workers that have been working at the hand for

reservation in order to clean this thing up and as you mentioned the department of energy is estimating that this project to clean up the site will cost something along the lines of one hundred fifteen billion dollars to a year twenty ninety but that price tag could go up very easily i mean the price tag to build the plant to turn some of the sludge into a more manageable substance has already gone over thirteen billion dollars of budget and it's way behind schedule and costs continue to rise you know which has really caused a lot of concern. among congress that are starting to question what it is that we're throwing that money at absolutely and i think the thing that's most irritating to me ramon is hearing them talk about this eighty five billion dollar cut as if it's the most serious thing the world really a total drop in the bucket when you're looking at our trillion dollar deficit in this country you know we're hearing from everyone these defense cuts are going to be a doomsday scenario for us how could we afford these defense cuts ramon we can't afford

to cut our military bigger than the you know largest military in the world because the next ten countries combined there's what is rhetoric and talk about why this is not the case sure well first of we have to remember that these budget cuts are not necessarily a cut to the department of defense budget it's really only reducing the rate that it will be growing over the next decade also you have to remember that many of the people that are kind of scaring us about the effects that the defense cuts will pose are defense contractors themselves and congress people who happen to. have these defense these defense plants in their districts so we have to remember that there are some alter motives to some of these people who continue to tell us that our military is not going to be ready or that we're going to be losing a lot of jobs if these mandatory cuts to go into effect and you also did a recent report on about how the job creation thing is

a myth as well in fact the defense industry is one of the least you know it's one of the industries that actually creates the least amount of jobs can you talk about that sure well when this whole sequester is talks started last year there was this threat that you know a few million jobs could be affected if defense contractors were forced to cut back . progress or the project on government oversight has been doing some research over the last few years and while the number of dollars going to defense. has gone up exponentially the number of people that they employed has actually gone down and that's because some of these contractors and you know have common sense they're very smart they know that these cuts are coming so they've been were reducing their workforce for a while now and not only are they reducing their workforce to increase their profits but a lot of them are also going to robots to create some of these weapon systems that are being built while pocketing a record profits and bonuses from only have about

a minute left it seems like there's always this looming deadline fiscal cliff and pending cuts why is the media hyping up these really narrow focused things when there's obviously a much larger problem at hand here. no exactly and you know there's a lot of issues with that. the corporate media is created this republican democrat paradigm and they're really just arguing about the same thing they're not really trying to tell you the truth about it and the problem is that a lot of times these networks are able to criticize some of these interests that are getting government money because these are the same people that they have relationships both professionally and commercially their companies like g.e. are relying on defense contracts they're july they're relying on their advertisers so amongst the journalists there's a lot of times has it tends to criticize some of these programs that the government is spending on keep us divided and conquered from fighting against the

establishment thank you so much ramon lindo your time you bet. i do you know what kind of meter you have in your home you know this isn't just my nerdy curiosity this is actually something that you should be considering. over recent years there's been a huge push by energy companies working in conjunction with the government to install smart meters what's a smart meter well it's an electric meter that energy corporations allege will streamline how power consumption is monitored in your home check it out. and this is my power i used to watch my bill only once monthly came in and it got so high i thought i was power in the street out front and i got a smart meter they have a lot of little graphs that tell you on an hourly basis how much energy used to show that to the family i said you see despite that means a lot of money so let's bring next my own our family now is trained we're not using

them. that's why in my house i'm known as the energy come energy chapala sounds terrifying and actually not too far from reality i get this power companies have been sending people to homes across the country to switch out the old analog meters for these brand new all digital smart meters the little guy that used to come to your house to mentor measure energy usage they write it down a little notepad and send you a bill the end of the month well that little guy is out of a job he's been replaced with smart meters equipped with r.f. chips technology that allows power companies to monitor these devices without actually ever coming to your home so just how smart are they well not only do they rapidly record information by the hour but they can determine just what type of energy you're using think about that for one second it may not seem like too much intrusion but consider this energy corporations will have precise data on your

daily routines when you wash your clothes when you watch t.v. when you leave your home and when you come back and it's the notion that they know what you're doing and when you're doing it isn't disturbing enough it's worse because these devices are also capable of controlling regulating and even rationing your energy use take this for example your running your ac during those hot so. months and the power company decides that you're using just a little too much power well they can take it upon themselves to the lower it regardless of ever if you're willing to pay more for that extra usage to the point to consider is what these companies can do with this information. once they share it with law enforcement it can and believe me it will be used against you cops will be able to know just what you're doing at all times in the privacy of your own home who needs a telescreen where you have a smart meter secondly these corporations can sell this information about our daily

lives for data mining and advertising it's disturbing on so many levels yet these little surveillance units are being implemented across the country without the public's consent and in many cases without their knowledge that there are even being installed and it's leading to a ray of problems check it out. this is a smart meter a uses electromagnetic frequency to send information about power use this gets rid of the need for meter readers and notifies the power company about outages but some say such meters are making them sick i could understand why i was feeling so fluid first a warning and so i came back and tried to put my hand in front of them like that then a scuffle and he just kept pushing me away and pushing me away what was the guy after this meter and electric meter he wanted to replace it with a new one like this a so-called smart meter problem was still machar me to want to keep her old one she had put a warning signs to leave it alone but the worker wouldn't listen so charming grabbed

her gun her lights around her electric meter has stopped spinning but this is not due to a storm or for failing to pay her bills it's because the self employed photographer has refused to allow a new smart meter in her home result a lineman pulled up and disconnected her from the grid yes companies are actually a rep in the shut off your power if you refuse to allow a smart meter to be installed in your home look guys it may seem like you don't have a choice in this but these meters are not mandatory but you don't have to subject yourself to unknown health for a certain these two till it costs you most certainly don't have to give a perfect. privacy to private corporations what you have to do is be bold enough to say no.

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