but if you're being pumped full of these chemicals that are illegal in much of the world well your chances of fitting into that bathing suit are ironically slim but that's just my opinion. and us in this case is the us and its minds on just about everyone in the world including its so-called friends and allies washington seeks total global information dominance and this is being done we're told to find care. if the us monitored its intelligence community rather than snoop on the rest of us an infinite number of people coming who are taking jobs that pay over one hundred thousand a year you know they're going to pay taxes we create lots of other jobs around those people in my view is that the country should welcome as many of those people as we can get and what the corporations and during the tell congress or there's a shortage. of engineers is

a shortage of scientists we can't find any this is all absolute total law would be a chore many corporations will go to any lengths including these legal but deceptive practices to hire cheaper foreign labor look at this video clip recorded at a seminar conducted by an american law firm for human resources professionals and our goal is clearly not to find a qualified to be interested u.s. worker and you know that in a sense that sounds funny but it's what we're trying to do here i get fifty resumes my god this is the last thing i want to do is interview these fifty people does the law require that i actually interview each and every candidate you know everything if it gets to the point where the somebody is that they might do very well the five we asked them to have the manager of this specific position step in and one of the policy patients within this necessary stage of the interview is in the process to find a legal basis to disqualify them for this particular position that whoever was displaced

workers yourself or whatever talk with this the fact that i'm thinking this means the answer is either no or almost no. i can't offhand remember. a case you know we professors tend to be ivory tower types. what they've done for the last twenty years is destroy the ability of people who work hard play by the rules to decent retirements. big business was not satisfied with just outsourcing jobs and getting huge tax breaks to increase their profits. also set their sights on eliminating guaranteed pensions. to iona i don't even know what they are. in the one nine hundred fifty s. . stuck it's marketed like another consumer item at the same time pension funds are

starting to change why for example should a company have to put away that kind of money. as a liability to pay off its retired workers when instead they could take some out of the paycheck every week and then make you go invest yourself and that's what they did so why not put your money to work. put my money to why that's right. you can all the share of american business you know there's a joke that compensation executives tell each other what's a four letter word that starts with nafta ends with a k. and stands for screw your workers for a one k. for when times are a subtle kind of pay cut and they're bad economics. defined benefit pension plans were on top of your salary that made you work for a company for thirty years or so you were tired you knew exactly how much money was going to get paid out of the pension because the company kept this pension fund and

it kept enough money in it to pay you well under a four one k. plan you have to save money out of your paycheck so you have less money company may give you a match but these plans typically save a company fifty percent or more in the plan. then you assume all the risks of investing your money if the average person. could manage investments then why in the world would be paid the gigantic salaries that they do want wall street. today state governments are beginning to shift public workers and shins before a one k. plan it's. their

total victory were they mad. there are exactly government workers who are further in most of our campus security. and. that i'm here to support the social security benefits that my parents get and i'm here to support the social security benefits that i hope to get and my children hope to get social security is not just every tired man benefits it's a three tier benefit so it helps millions millions of seniors stay out of poverty and live a decent life in their retirement but it also helps disabled people will be here when disabled people need our support as a society and helps them function and just as importantly is the survivor benefit so that if working people are killed unfortunately in some circumstance their children will have a source of income. the. the

. the good of the greatest pieces of idiocy ever suggested was privatizing social security. why do just with pensions if it works for pensions take the whole social security fund the one element of the new deal reform plans and still remains and put that in the stock market this had been a goal of the anti franklin roosevelt anti new deal conservatives from the one nine hundred thirty s. all it actually came as pros lee close to happening as it ever could have under the presidency of george w. bush. the economic president i think he calls himself your younger worker i believe he should be able to set aside part of that money in your own retirement account so you can build a nest egg for your own future. under reagan the mandated gender included not only deregulation of main street industry

but the financial industry as well this set the scene for a future disaster on a scale previously unimaginable starting with the hundreds of savings and loan bankruptcies of the late one nine hundred eighty s. the financial razzle dazzle that thirty years later takes down the economy really starts when wall street starts inventing all kinds of new gimmicks and the regulators give all this stuff a free pass. everything and ghouls you know baseball has rules right down to how many stitches are on the baseball. and when you remove the rules you enable people who behave badly the purpose of rules is not to regulate sites it is to deal with people who are sinners. once wall street was deregulated their profits mushroom large commercial banks like

citicorp watch with envy and in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. they too began fierce lobby to get their slice of. thirty three congress passed a law called the glass steagall and that was said well you know it doesn't take a genius to figure out if allowing values to invest in speculative securities brings down the banking system in the market fails then maybe we should do it it was very simple it maintained the commercial banks that were responsible for individuals deposits and savings and lives were kept separate and were backed by the government from the more speculative risky trading activities of the investment banking community it works so well. the people forget. and in one thousand nine hundred nine a genius by the name of phil gramm aided by a brilliant president named bill clinton who signed the bill and pushed by

a free market ideology that had been pedal to the united states people since the day ronald reagan was elected said we don't need glasses legal anymore we haven't had bank panics glass steagall was the longest lived and most successful on anshul law ever passed protecting consumers and investors a lot within a year of glass steagall is repealed in one thousand nine hundred nine president clinton signed the deceptively named commodity futures modernization act the regulating shadowy financial products known as derivatives one of those instruments known as the credit default swap became the prime culprit in the two thousand and eight worldwide financial crisis the head of the federal reserve bank at the time alan greenspan endorsed these changes giving the green light for wall street to once again become a casino was alan greenspan was an extreme conservative and there was a period you know in the ninety's when greenspan was widely praised as yunus and he

got out just in time he got how much just before the crash and his policy of deregulating everything and financing all of this speculation with very cheap money that's going to look a lot worse in light of history than it did at the time he wanted to give wall street really a gift at the time which was cheaper money which is why he cut rates and all the speculators take advantage of the very cheap money and they invent a whole bunch of new toxic stuff like sub prime in the last ten years something crazy happen a multiple of the value of housing to people's incomes went through the roof and that was a classic case of a speculative bubble and this was engineered on wall street because there was so much trading there appeared. would be a demand for mortgages which meant it appeared there was a demand for homes being sold which inflated the actual cost of homes there was

some sounds that well maybe even if it goes down we won't be the last company holding the bomb wall street pay their chief executives hundreds of millions of dollars for screwing us up. being our money would pay them a huge premium for this reason boy this is a really smart guy it's going to spark guys you and i would never have made those worlds. where do you think you made a mistake that i made a mistake in presuming that the sofa interests of organizations specifically banks and others for such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and the equity in the firms the consequences of this mistake are huge again it was an accidental this wasn't just random delusion it was prevalent because so many people were making so much money as soon as the casino cause biased they want government to bail them out now that's not

a free market but that socialism on the downside and capitalism on the upside if greenspan and ruben had really believed the ideology that they preached they would not have bailed out the s n l's the way the greenspan did they would not have ruben would not have bailed out the wall street holders of mexican bonds in one thousand nine hundred five greenspan would not have bailed out the stock market in two thousand and two thousand and one the only explanation i can have for this is that it's a class question these people were protecting their class. wall street and the wealthiest one percent now tell us that government is running out of money they want us to believe that social security and medicare cuts are needed at

the eligibility age for social security should be increased to seventy. permit me to start with one number. fifty three trillion dollars in today's dollars is what the country owes is projecting. between our future liabilities our national debt and our huge unfunded promises. programmers life so security and medicare the peterson and the concord coalition come in and say oh my god we've got these enormous deficit that's instead of focusing on the cause of the deficit which are the reagan in the bush tax cuts they then say we have to take an axe to all of these middle class and time and programs. sigrid laboratory kirby was able to build the news most sophisticated robots which

all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on. the civilized world produces more food than it needs. while people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where a meal is the most value treasure. was all. these flood or droughts to blame. if was a bad year without a train. we couldn't plods anything. but there was great tongue there. is it that help comes too late and without good intentions.

charity diplomacy and business model to. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. peter g. peterson a multi billionaire who was one of the founders of blackstone which was a private equity company he gave a billion dollars to set up the peter g. peterson foundation which hired the former head of the g.a.o.

government accountability office a man named david walker it's the price we go around the country and crusade for the idea that what is wrecking the economy is not people like me mr peterson but what is wrecking the economy is so security. we are trying to convince these eighteen people the social security is solvent it is not affecting the debts it is not the way to solve the debt the way to solve the debt is to create more jobs. i think we're in a situation now where i have where i have to modify my philosophy. a little bit and maybe maybe a lot i'm just been totally as the guy comes up and says i'm going to do away with

medicare i will campaign against him like you have never seen because i'm a beneficiary of medicare the guy who wants to get rid of social security i put a whole lot of money in those social security i want mine back. and i'll tell you what i think i may be going out on a limb on this but i think that the obama administration is very worried about what we call a capital strike. a strike of capital in the sense that if you really push these guys to halt they can say oh really you don't want us to get bonuses you want us to be accountable you want to know about our illegal behavior well tell you what we're going to do we're going to freeze up credit completely your column is going to go tank and good luck to you mr president the big banks can make such threats today because they operate with no fear of criminal penalties folks who are in charge of

running as economy ran a red light after red light actual red light and caused car wreck after car wreck after car wreck and no one's held accountable for hasn't even been a conversation about accountability in two thousand and five the u.s. supreme court stacked with pro corporate justices overturned a conviction won by the justice department against accounting firm arthur andersen implicated in the enron scandal now incredibly the government tells companies to police themselves the justice department's current position is that a company can escape criminal prosecutions if they just promise to change their behavior. as of two thousand and eleven not one corporate c.e.o. bank executive or politician has been criminally prosecuted for crimes leading to the economic meltdown of two thousand and eight if you really did the investigation

of the democrats would not be able to simply say always those george w. bush it was him well you know what it was a lot of bush. but i'm afraid the republicans will be able to say sorry not just loss take a look at robert rubin second third treasury under bill clinton and all of the rubin guys they were working with alan greenspan they were working with phil gramm to deregulate all of this stuff so you've got true bipartisanship everybody wants by bob is a you got it. and the memory of what a waiting game shrine in this country is some kind of a great leader is a crime. and the memory of any of the republican leadership or the democratic leadership for that matter over the last twenty five years being as anything other than conspirators in the theft of america is a crime or some a look at the we didn't actually clean up yesterday we actually didn't slay the beast but we actually put them on life support and they've been off healing in mending themselves and doing quite well.

for thirty years we've been purring up that heat on average americans slowly and it's been turned up at such a slow pace that if you say this is a crisis people look at you as if you're weird when the majority of the american public can no longer feed their families what do you have a crisis and that's where we're headed we don't want to see our way of life we don't want to see our standard of living decline that. that's what's at risk. what we've seen over the last thirty years is a deliberate transfer of wealth from middle class and the forward to the very

wealthiest people in our country the. game is fundamentally rigged and the ordinary people who do everything right for the play by the rules still end up with the short and the stick. i don't think people have gotten ashamed of how low incomes are in america from work. one third of jobs in america pay less than fifty thousand dollars a year now that includes part time workers and people with two small jobs but half make less than twenty five thousand and three quarters make less than fifty four thousand ninety nine percent make less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars. in reality working americans have been pushed to rely on credit to make up for the lack of growth in wages even as corporate profits skyrocketed wages have stagnated since one nine hundred seventy three despite increased worker productivity instead

but the benefits of americans hard work have gone to executives and shareholders. everybody was shocked by hurricane katrina and by the you know these images of poor african-americans and other people abandoned still you know stuck on rooftops waving american flags for two three four days holding babies without a drop of water without the u.s. government the richest country in the world being able to get them a scrap of food after three four five days people were shocked. and it was shocking but what nobody wanted to address was it was a logical necessary inevitable outcome of thirty years of public policy that both parties and championed saying if you're poor you're on your own if you're poor sink or swim. and it's better for you it's morally right that we won't

help you if you're poor you should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and if you can't cut it you should be left to sink or swim. your wife passes and she's had a heart attack on the flu you call you call the local government and you expect the local government to do something dumb it's not evil government is sometimes in top and i think government is on responsive government is in how to it and sensationally tight mandate the government can do things that private citizens cannot do. related primary. there's no. problem if we pay fifty one i mean great just way they can be accomplished then fine but i don't think recruiting by the government it. creating the kind of good we would create the emergency of the war when we did all the great

things that we did in this country we did it as a matter of national security and collective self-interest so you look the book at the the railroads you look at the interstate highway system you look at the internet you look at any of the things that really fundamentally changed the way our economy worked it wasn't. fundamentally a market basis. there are only two kinds of power in america there's organized money and those organize. people. one thing is really clear and the powerful corporate interests have had a good for so long they're not going to let go without a fight and i said to think that we have to be very clear about that and ready to fight back and i say we fight back with organizing we fight back with good policy we fight back with what strategy said about achieving victory just people who do the work you're not the privy in. the problem is the political system the trying to

divide us the political system that's given tracks breaks to the rich and the old term rich but they don't damn well be that. empty. to speak to. the stars. to me what the american dream was about more money isn't what the whole business is that people get to live up to their full potential you get to have created ideals and to me that hasn't been lost what's been lost is the part of american dream that was this sort of white picket fence two point five kids and some big s.u.v.s the driveway you have to recast with and now have a much more inclusive dream and vision about what it is to him to be in this

country to making a life in this country there's an opportunity to reframe the american dream. one of the things that faces americans is to build something beyond traditional capitalism beyond traditional socialism that is american and character the builds an unbelievable american tradition. that. the question will be asked and the question will be answered what kind of species we are. now are we locusts just are a curse on the planet we're busy we're working but what we're doing is so heedless and so destructive we leave with nothing but disaster on our wake or we honeybees honey bees work hard too but they fit in with the system and they actually are a blessing on the planet they're a blessing to all creation because their work actually makes more life possible now

that's our challenge just as a human species to be honeybee. like cole. has made. it. to. me to see him. play. the. game long. trying. to build long in. a film. review. a. long.

long long way to. bring. a long. long. long. long. long long long. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported

because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're. are open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker sleep it's a step forward for the oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent on all this oil spill. i'm not used to the tundra to freedom i am my dear. oh.

in second grade i ran away from the boarding school with to my friends will be around to the tundra. come meet. the tundra is just a new skete oh that's practically i don't know how people can live there to get in there no t.v.'s in the tenth how can i send my child to boarding school i won't be able to sleep at night after that. they enter a life without knowledge of how to do basic things they don't get that in school. he. used. to eat.

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