how much do these strikes cost kaiser?oming up. >>> delays are developing sfo nearly 70 minutes. ?t?t?t> you can see >>> waiting for the opening bell. stock futures pointing to a higher start on new hopes that i second bailout is on the way from greece. the latest from early trading live from the new york stock exchange in 15 minutes. that bell is going to tart ringing in a couple of seconds there it is. good morning i'm eric thomas. >>> and i'm kristen sze. less than 30 minutes from now more than 20,000 kaiser employees are expected to walk off the job for a one-day strike. amy hollyfield joins us live from kaiser medical center in oakland. what kind of impact do we expect on patients? >> reporter: they tell me elective surgeries have been cancelled. patients will be dealing with replacement nurses at your optical appointment you might be dealing with a manager. otherwise, they say it is going to be business as usual. even though more than 4,000 nurses in northern california are expected to walk off the job today. it goi

kaiser offs want to emphasize they will be open -- kaiser officials want to emphasize they will be open for business this happened in september, the national union of health care workers. today will be their fourth walk-out strike since negotiations started in 2010. 4,000 members are in negotiations with kaiser. two other unions have agreed to walk out in solidarity, the nurse' association and building and equipment workers local 39. the sticking points center around health and retirement benefits and patient care and whether there is enough staff for all patients. kaiser says it is committed to providing fair salary and benefits for its workers. and they would prefer to negotiate at the table not on the picket line. kaiser has brought in replacement employees. [ inaudible ] you can expect to see a picket line and a lot of security officers this is expected to kickoff 7:00 this morning. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> walnut creek bar and restaurant owners will meet to tackle growing violence after another round of brawls over the weekend that left serious injuries. terry mcsweeney is li

kaiser a busy -- very good. kaiser a busy place and even more busy today. thank you, lisa washington live in oakland. >>> those strikes are happening at kaiser facilities all over the state. this is what it looks like in vallejo this morning. workers are striking at kaiser hospitals in sacramento, modesto and in stockton, as well. >>> today there are new allegations that san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi kept his wife confined to their home on new year's eve. the "chronicle" reports that eliana lopez finally left their home and went to a neighbor's house when mirkarimi took a shower. that was 18 hours after he allegedly caused a bruise on her arm. prosecutors now want to use video taken by the neighbor in the domestic violence case against sheriff mirkarimi and they are seeking exceptions to the hearsay rule. >>> a federal judge has ruled that an oakland police officer violated court-approved standards when he covered up his name plate. now, this happened during an "occupy oakland" protest in early november. officer john hargraves was captured on video w

welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time now to go to london and talk with former compliance and market supervision director of the international petroleum extremes chris cook welcome to the kaiser report. already cursed could you predict the eminent and of the oil market why and how well in simple terms the oil market has become like several of the markets almost completely financial are used by the participation was being called passive investors by god almighty masters he calls them passive investors in the they also called inflation hedging investors and the participation of these investors in not just in the oil markets but commodity markets and they. have completely distorted the operation of these markets right now ok talk about the financial ization of these markets it's a curious term the word passive because. as warren buffett calls it these are weapons of mass destruction financial destruction. there's a very aggressive destabilization going on to make a very few people on wall street the city of london exorbitantly rich while destroying the underlying fabric of th

max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report one of the great things about doing a show on our today is that new year lasts oh seems like almost two weeks they serve are now maggs is only eight days they're a lightweight we're still partying here. but it's better to stick well that's because i found what's considered to be a shot in russia a shot of vodka but at the cannon ball though this is just a typical russian vodka but a few of these and you'll be taken off a few days or so yeah i think hey max i learned how to say happy new year in russian here it goes i'm good i'm the best friend tester. that's really going bilingual well yes max this is our eastern european special here we're going to start with the headline here on russia russia economic growth bodes well for putin the election this is from forbes and they're reporting on the new statistics which say that g.d.p. is that nearly five percent year over year ending september the key indicator they say to watch going forward will be corporate investment the latest figure of seven point seven percent year over year shows companies have s

max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know we hate banks there but we hate hollywood even more stacey max there's been a call to revolution kill hollywood this is a headline from the reformed broker dot com and josh brown says when the revolution begins and becomes apparent one doesn't sit on his porch and watch one gets his gun off the mantel and kisses the family goodbye on his way out to the field oh yeah all the wars on the kill hollywood campaign has started you know we have the occupy wall street movement on top of the arab spring movement but this kill hollywood movement is really interesting because it sets the stage for a civil war in america yet domestically in california with think northern california silicon valley the tech community versus hollywood the old oligarchic neo feudal caste system but so reformed broker however josh brown is that talking in particular about why combinator this is a startup seed funder and they looked at this situation they saw sopa and they said hollywood appears to have peaked if it were an ordinary industry film camera say or typewriters it c

i max kaiser welcome back to the kaiser report i'm not i got a lot of it as speak with ameritech a bit going consultancy amir welcome back to the kaiser report hey max all right now me or saw from acting as a bit coin consultant you were a computer programmer a video game developer and a hacker you recently wrote an article the future cannot exist without the past tell us about how the internet and software started out as an essentially a libertarian free movement and how we got to where we are today ok so you mentioned just now about. the one thing to realize is that a lot of people think because the people break into computers this is a time that's been abused and bounded around incorrectly so hucker is someone who has a love of technology and. a playful curiosity a scientific inquisitiveness about technology so a lot of the technology that we have today the we use in this very fundamental to our life was made by hackers was made by individuals on the internet ok so the term hacker then is inaccurately bridge or of i mean you could call thomas edison and albert einstein or in their o

max kaiser there's a kaiser report today we're going to be talking all about copyright. sounds exciting max first headline why the movie industry can't innovate and the result is sopa so but is the stop online piracy act but the article mentions that the total two thousand and eleven movie industry revenue was eighty seven billion dollars. thirty billion of that was from box office and only a third from the us the other fifty seven billion came from sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business pay per view t.v. cable and satellite channels video rentals d.v.d. sales online subscriptions and digital downloads well hollywood is run by horrible business people there are two industries in america that attract the worst management talent in america one is the banking industry as we see the incredible collapse of that industry due to peabrain overrated managerial nincompoops the same thing in hollywood as one of hollywood is not even a business it's just a way for rich guys to get dates and they don't mind if they lose incredible amounts of money

a spokesperson for kaiser says they are ready for this.-day notice from the workers union that this job action would take place today over a contract dispute with mental health and optical workers. kaiser has tapes and barriers up at their oakland location. they tell me to try the keep the sidewalk clear for patients. last time they had a strike there was a pretty big crowd. the union has support from the nurses association and another union that will strike in sympathy. for kaiser it's the second strike they had to teal with since september. they have hired replacement workers for this, both now and in september. and it's very expensive. here's how a union worker responded. >> kaiser's mission is to care for the working public. and if one of us bleeds we all bleed. kaiser has had a long history of being favorable union employer, and we feel that the current leadership has strayed far away from the core values. >> reporter: i asked those workers which locations would be affected and they said pretty much all of the locations across the bay

max ties are this is the kaiser report. in the news. news. that's right from barry ritholtz the word of the day be at or a zombie deader is a noun and indebted consumer who is only able to pay the debt interest each month writes the debts never go away they only pay the interest they're always in debt and this applies throughout the entire economy not just on credit card debts but mortgage debts anything that touches the consumer now if you look at the bankers of course they're involved in a very interesting situation in that they never pay interest on phantom debts they loan into existence phantom debts that are on collateralized that they themselves only understand they can figure ation there of but they never have to pay interest however they get awarded john norma's fees so here you have the two pillars of society zombie debtors who never escape and clown bankers who never have to pay debt so the zombies and clunes yep wherever there is a zombie debt or you can be sure there's a zombie creditor and as zombie central banker feeding the mom

next max kaiser looks at recent financial scams that have left many on the breadline in the kaiser report. max keiser this is the cuz the report everything appears to be sinking stay server talk to me it's more like listing to the side everything is the max i have this great headline here south african police rescue asian pear kidnapped in for one nine scam after hundreds and hundreds of billions of e-mails sent by nigerian scams here's somebody apparently answered one of them a south korean man received an e-mail promising him tens of millions of dollars in a lottery scheme and he traveled to south africa when he fell for it of course the scam serves then promptly kidnapped him and his daughter and held them for ransom now the offer turned out to be a so-called four one nine scam on an scale the article says the term for a one nine scam is used to describe a confidence trick and it refers to section four one nine of the nigerian criminal code for taining property through fraud wow so all the spam finally paid. only five trillion spams later. they're really pioneering the nigerians on the

two rallies have been proposed for one here at kaiser hospital, and one at kaiser in sacramento. >>> a clear start to the morning. temperatures slightly cooler compared to what we had yesterday. it's a pretty mild start out there, as we head into the afternoon. we'll see partly cloudy conditions, breaks of sunshine. the temperatures have really trailed off, most locations really struggling to see any 60s today. temperatures could return into the 30s tonight. the potential for some wet weather, but that potential sticks north of the golden gate bridge. highway 101 through santa rosa, that gray on your screen indicates between two and five miles of visibility. you can see some of that fog product really beginning to form over the coastline, so places like san francisco, half moon pay, could shortly be impacted. wide spread 40s for the most part. however free month, san jose, coming in -- freenont, san jose coming in in the 30s. a little warmer for places like san francisco, and as we dance closer to lunchtime, all of that blue on your screen does indicate most locations making it into

i'm max kaiser welcome back to the kaiser reports i'm not to go to california and speak with author radio show host mike rupert of collapse not dot com mike welcome to the kaiser report max great to be back with you again all right mike rupert you're in california home to both hollywood and silicon valley what is your take on the soap people debate how is it playing out in the local news there in california clearly in california my take is that the press and the people perceive that sopa and pipa are in a dire straits and i don't think there's much hope to resurrect these bills the opposition has been pretty uniform i just made a trip down to l.a. recently and met with a number of people in the movie industry and i did not see a lot of concern about it so i think there's another agenda being followed right well clearly. it's an assault on hollywood there's a venture capital firm now coming out saying kill hollywood with new ventures that will undermine the hollywood copyright cartel it's an assault on freedom of speech and there's a bit of a civil war because the technology is in northern

max kaiser welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to colorado and talk with investment advisor michael kroger michael's writings can be found at zero heads dot com michael welcome back to the kaiser report thanks for having me nice great to be back all right michael kroger you have dedicated yourself to campaigning for ron paul tell us why that at this point i have and you know as you know as things are sort of progressed in this sort of awakening or global uprising against the current status quo there are different battles i think there are necessary to find different times and you know both of us have done so refined and i think that's still something that's extremely important but i do think that is two thousand and twelve is here i'm sure a range of democrats for us republicans red versus blue let's not talk about any real issues and a non issues and get people all riled up about emotional side issues i think that it is extremely important just sort of try to get the weight awakening in the political sphere now so that people that actually just don't have the background or

that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert and was i guess ameritech day you can send me an e-mail at kaiser report at r t t v dot ru until next time x. guys are saying viral. syria's president says he still has the people support and will not step down as he blames the unrest in the country on foreign forces promising to clamp down on so-called terrorists with an iron fist. iran dismisses washington's criticism over its nuclear program is ludicrous as president received strong backing from his close allies on his south american tour. saving the euro the leaders of france and germany pledged to boost growth and give more power to brussels to stem the debt crisis but critics say when it comes to watching the pennies the e.u. itself sets a bad example our top stories this hour.

for this edition of the kaiser a par with me max kaiser and stacy herbert and i thank my guests constantine girl yeah you can follow constantine are on twitter g t c o s t r g t cost you can follow me on twitter as well that's just max kaiser and of course you can follow us to. is that herbert you can send me an e-mail kaiser report at r t t v dot are you stacey read it until next time that's the max guys are saying. ratcheting up the tension the pentagon says u.s. warships will continue to sail in the gulf despite an iranian warning to stay away from an area around his recently fired missile. but between israel and palestine in fifteen months with no breakthrough. there's been a positive atmosphere. on the russian military is on the monish to restore its former glory but the kremlin seems to reboot the armed forces.

for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey herbert our thank my guest constantine girl yeah you can follow constantine on twitter g t c o s t or g t cost you can follow me on twitter as well that's just max kaiser and of course you can follow stacy herbert you can send me an e-mail at kaiser report at r t t v dot r.e.o.'s stacey read it and so next time this is max guys are playing by our. own home. arab league observers say syrian leaders have pulled have the weapons out of key cities and release prisoners but the group is still looking for ways to handle going violence. egyptians are casting their votes in the country's third round of parliamentary elections but with the recent raids on foreign n.g.o.s it's fear the military is grip on power could remain a strong as ever. at iran's missile test in the gulf drop western condemnation but critics say the u.s. will go to the prom by slapping down ever more sanctions.

max kaiser this is the kaiser report payday loans pawnbrokers and the paranormal. max they're all connected in today's headlines first bill gross and a memo says towards the paranormal in this memo he says markets are slowly imploding because there's too much paper and too little trust kill the paper bugs kill the paper bugs kill the paper bugs. all paper books both. now let's turn to the first stories here coming out of the u.k. u.k. house prices stay resilient despite pressures that average u.k. property is there worth one percent more than at the start of last year it is a remarkable performance considering the crisis in the euro zone the average price of a home x. in the u.k. is now at one hundred sixty three thousand pounds eight hundred twenty two whereas the average income for a working age household is thirty three thousand pounds oh let's use the titanic analogy. the economy hit the iceberg in two thousand and seven there was a hole in the hall of the global economy to patch up the hole and to right the situation would require higher interest rates but wha

we are at the oakland kaiser permanente location.ual strike doesn't begin until 7:00 this morning. but you can see already there are a number of security guards and security officers here as they are preparing for this strike. you can see that several areas have been roped off with a caution tape and, of course, those orange cones. loss of media presence. -- lots of media presence. the union has been bargaining for a new contract since 2010. this is the fourth time kaiser workers have gone on strike since they have been bargaining and more than 17,000 registered nurses will join them on the picket lines today as well as 650 stationary engineers. this dispute involves wages, healthcare coverage, retirement benefits, patient care and staffing for the 4,000 clinical psychologists, mental health workers, psychiatric social workers and the optometrists. kaiser representatives say all their facilities will be open throughout this strike and that they will be fully staffed to provide the best care for their patients. >>> thank you. 6:40. na

. >>> kaiser permanent amedical workers are staging a massive one day strike today. they're angry about their health and retirement benefits and what they believe is a staffing shortage. we're live in oakland where a rally is just getting underway. >> reporter: good afternoon. there are hundreds of union workers right now holding a noontime rally behind me. it's loud and boisterous. extra hospital security looks on. the number of employees on strike keeps growing. the national union of health care workers started their 24- hour strike marching through the neighborhood serpen tine and surrounding oakland's kaiser hospital. >> we spent $14 million on briging in replacement nurses to take care of of our patients and our members. and what we'd much rather do is to spend that on patient care and spend that on our employees. >> union employees say kaiser would not be in this position if it responded to their key demands like better staffing for members of the jury health care. it make the difference between somebody really going downhill, losing their mortgage, home, or ge

max kaiser this is the kaiser report scientist saying now that cognitive ability declines after forty five years of age and in fact mine is speeding up. i'm becoming clearer voyant i can see you and what you're thinking stacey however hello max kaiser i have a great headline here is the front page actually of the economist magazine see the city go threats to the world's most global financial center and as you see this the city of london being blitzkrieg there but i thought as a civil war a good idea would be to destroy the city in order to save the city yes let's destroy the city to save the city this is the american way that max i'm going to read a quote from this economist piece and i want you to interrupt any time that you were just so offended by this quote ok london is by many measures the world's biggest financial center and weakening it is in nobody's interest well look at financial center by that i mean financial fraud center and by wakening it is a no bankers interest yes least of all britain's they go on better regulation of banks is certainly needed especially to protect br

at kaiser report it r.t.t. dot are you or you can follow us on twitter or facebook so next time this is max keiser saying by all. and bring you the top news headlines from. moscow russia this is are you with us it's a good look at those headlines right now. between a rock and a hard place london now owns up to spying inside russia using an electronic gadget inside a fake stone founded by russian security services in moscow six years ago it is the first british conformational with a former top aide to axe prime minister tony blair saying it was embarrassing the british have been caught. with the arab league mission in syria seeking to broker peace drawing to an end the bloodshed continues with sixty dead on thursday alone and around six hundred killed by security forces since the mission began a month ago meanwhile the e.u. urges more tough sanctions against the assad regime. plus rage on the streets of romania with crowds demanding the resignation of their government for imposing austerity measures and higher t

this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert and i thank my guest constantine girl yeah you can follow constantine on twitter g t c o s t or g t cost you can follow me on twitter as well that's just max kaiser and of course you can follow stacy herbert you can send me an e-mail at kaiser report at r t t v dot ario and stacey read it until next time this imac eyes are saying by our. own home. turning up the tension france calls for tough new e.u. sanctions against iran accusing it of developing nuclear weapons while temper and says it's ready for dialogue. israel and the palestinians head back to the negotiating table for the first time since peace talks broke down more than a year ago. and the russian military is on the march to restore its former glory with the kremlin known to reboot the armed forces and cut out corruption.

i am ask eyes are this is the kaiser report sexual favors for chicken the nuggets. oh my goodness i can hardly wait to get that story but first let's talk about the sinking the ship max you're not talking about the global economy or are you because that's our first headline cruise ship captain refused order to return to a ship so more information is emerging about the coast to can korea and the captain's role in abandoning ship now when something first went wrong the port in italy called the ship and he said no no problem is there's no problem here in fact it's just a technical error so let's draw a parallel to the global economy because what happened when the stuff first started going wrong for years we knew there was something wrong and what did jamie diamond what did lloyd blankfein what did they say nothing's wrong you know just carry on they're telling the regulators oh nothing to see here people are dropping off drowning in a sea of derivatives and they're doing nothing about it so this guy abandon ship and he jumps in the life boat trips into the life boat pe

max kaiser this is the kaiser report yeah it's just one big sting sponsored network c.b.s. fox news c.n.n. it's all the same it's all government propaganda states you're ever well it's more than government propaganda it's military industrial and banking industrial complex propaganda and we see that in this first headline c.b.s. didn't mention ron paul once during an entire political segment so we're going to turn to this clip from c.b.s. this is on the eve of the new hampshire primaries expectations are high and what has become romney's adopted home state a new suffolk university poll shows him with a commanding lead in new hampshire at almost thirty points about his rivals at the same time newt gingrich and jon huntsman have faltered what comes next we're going to have mourners in front of the tomb of the dead american media outlets welling like the. funeral of those who were gone american media is. you know this is absurd of course obama those saying about it he's like well max obama really has no place to even get involved in the media the media should do this themselves

report thanks and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser a par with me max kaiser and stacy herbert our thank my guests constantine girl yeah you can follow constantine on twitter g t c o s t or g t cost you can follow me on twitter as well that's just max kaiser and of course you can follow stacy herbert you can send me an e-mail at kaiser report at r t t v dot ario and stacey rate it until next time that's the max guys are saying. the official location. pulled from the. lights on the good. video. feed now in the palm of your. code. welcome bob this is on to the headline. obama authorizes the law giving the military more proud to detain people indefinitely without charge or trial of cloth as terrorist suspects critics crime naming the new bill violates basic democratic rights the u.s. seeks to trump elsewhere around the world. warning to the west as iran successfully testifies long range missiles during naval exercises in the persian gulf the islamic republic says it's prepared to head back to the times and this comes as.