how life has changed one hundred percent but at least for me the mine has changed my life one hundred percent because before i lived next to the national road you know about it. and at the moment that what i see them and now i have a house in one of and tura and now i don't depend on the government to send me five thousand pesos instead of them sending it i got to find gold and many times i earn over one hundred thousand pesos in place because it's a little so this is what we look for the minute they chase us away. hunger will hit one of ventura what will come everything will come. there are much bigger players beyond the ordinary gold diggers trying to survive. drawn by the high prices of gold they claim the lion's share of the country's legendary gold bearing deposits. they are made up of the multinationals and the government the guerrillas the former paramilitaries and the drug cartels. the hunt for gold in colombia along with cocaine fuels the country's civil war which has been raging for over forty years. my motto is a gold mining town. it resembles a building site choked with no

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forget how many hundred seventy three. i'm not sure i mean i don't know how many times as a lot but still nothing to match up with the amount of paper liabilities out there yes because of paper liabilities it's not just currency i mean other liabilities we have food stamps we have government title net entitlements and as the u.s. unemployment rate improves as we've seen in recent months. take a look at this other trend the amount of americans becoming eligible for food stamps has increased to a record forty seven point seven million americans. manton is one of a record forty six million americans now on food stamps an increase of twenty million people since the great recession in two thousand and seven according to the u.s. department of agriculture forty one percent of food stamp recipients live in households where someone does earn a paycheck the so-called working poor and the very sad part about the recent data we got from the u.s.d.a. is that while we've been somewhat excited or seen an exciting reaction to some of the

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eisenhower in the elections in one thousand nine hundred two in one hundred fifty six so apparently both obama and eisenhower were doing something right that a clear majority the american people liked but what could that be we're all pretty familiar with the platform on which obama won reelection but what about eyes you know well a simple read of the republican party's nine hundred fifty six platform gives you all the answers you need they started out by noting that the republican party of nine hundred fifty six was in support of all the people not just the millionaires and the corporations they wrote our government was created. by the people for all the people animals serve no less a purpose we are proud of and shall continue our far reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs expansion of social security really broadened coverage and unemployment insurance while whole improved housing and better health protection for all our people we are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people. first this was befo

two thousand eight hundred people living in a four hundred of them roma. gypsies all live in the same area on the fringes. it's like hundreds of other gypsy ghettos across hungary. discrimination has led to an eighty percent unemployment rate. a criminal some people who the state benefits the gypsies throughout history have always been the perfect scapegoats. as a community leader during the attacks he was on the front line for you to see that house with white lines then there was a closest extremist group to us and not house. but in the village they had several houses. down there. a basement or stay over there right next to my house. the extremists in the village for several long weeks a show of force videoed by the gypsies themselves. paramilitary groups paraded in front of the gypsies houses often carrying whips like this. we're going to press charges. on the internet. what you do cut press charges. the roma here. to reassure the community but he doesn't want to brush the weeks of tara on the carpet at home he's made a clip reel of his video indictment

s gold at three hundred seventy seven four hundred times six percent what's that everybody's forgotten about what gordon brown did and he made not the queen's use down in the vaults as you were going around like did we have more gold at some point what happened to all this gold that's were out of time ok to say goodbye great to have you on again soon the book is right here this is it this is i gotta recommend this book wholeheartedly i'm going to read it myself it's called planet ponzi mitch fireside is the author thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thanks for having me i know it's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i want to thank my guest misfires stein if you like to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser reported r t t v dot are you and the next time i stutter saying you know. divine power in action activate the sacraments. i am just so we need these we are under the control of those governing us before we are at the service of a space mafia i found on that date the magnetic field of the sun will be for us and they

dollar it's gone from way over three digits like one hundred ten or one hundred fifteen down to seventy seven dollars so people have made money on that and. the trade actually worked but now you're getting an on and winding and you've got a new prime minister who's got a real big job on his hands there who's just walked into the job it's the second time around hopefully he'll be able to make some significant changes but the changes he wants to make are the keynesian changes where the keynesian model is just to print more money now that works and surpluses and i think this is where we get to the point you wanted me to make is in a surplus environment that works fine but when you have large deficits it doesn't help you can't deficit you can't spend your way out of debt with borrowed money ok japan interesting because of course for many years post world war two there were export powerhouse of the balance of trade was in their favor that is now recently reversed so they're now net importers so they don't have that cash to rely on to float their bond market and they've had of course their do

market that we enjoyed in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. in the one nine hundred ninety s. returning well what about something like the jobs act which i've talked to so many people that say the jobs act just opens the door to so much fraud but on its face what it was supposed to do was it was supposed to roll back some sarbanes oxley regulations some disclosure requirements to allow smaller companies to have an easier time going public does something like that help that child talking about you mark me as one of the skeptics along with some of those people you've been talking to first of all the the the incremental cost of complying with financial regulations and making financial statements vailable is measurable but it's not killing exempting what are called emerging companies with revenues up to a billion dollars from the acquirements for financial disclosure i think was of was a major mistake and i don't think it will in any way reconstruct the institutional environment that in name. merging companies at the scale of less well under one hundred million to gain access to t

of three hundred metres. you try not to make it too heavy so you can walk. it depends. there are times you make two and a half to three million that's twelve hundred euros and if the mine is rich you can even make four or five million. good middle of the gold miner works hard for fifteen days to one month. and then he goes and in one week spend. it all on drink on women on passions be everything he made in a month. it's a little good when you okey. that is why in a place so rich there is such great poverty. often the mines are a stone's throw away from homes the residents dig wherever they think they can get lucky. up on. this one hundred ten meters about forty five degrees. for the time being we haven't reached the vein we're getting closer to us by then production will be twenty grams a load. they were rich it will have a good yield. right of we can provide for our families as well as for many people here in our neighborhood. but we know in which places there are gold veins. we go there and it worked i'm go

people forced evictions outside of detroit four hundred thousand plus seven hundred thousand is you know one million a one point one million population numbers so we must deal with the fallout of the foreclosure crisis to trade policy center manufacturing from michigan to mexico and so we've got to put detroit is back to. been building cars for years and now that the economy has shifted we need retraining and then we need to connect citizens who are trying to the jobs that are available we must stabilize the school system the charter school movement siphoning off children from the public school system and buildings are rotting and children are being failed in the process we must stop the hemorrhaging out of the school system so many things that could happen in the city what's right to bring your describing is basically a reversal of thirty two years of reaganomics it seems to me i mean i don't i don't catch anything there that wasn't i mean you're if we just took us back to where we were in one thousand nine hundred eighty two it was a fairly prosperous that's what we had rational t

and israel signs off on twelve hundred more supply homes in east jerusalem as it continues to defy global condemnation in the aftermath of palestine to integrate. if you just joined us for good morning to its kevin i would hear the new center the smalling on top story sound has been busy doing the rounds of course hopefully you got what you wanted for christmas although there's been more window shopping it seems than people actually parting with their hard earned cash they see iran and even the catholic church trying to expel the pope holding a more spartan mass than usually in some places. costs for this year's more frugal nativity scene two were mostly picked up by donors as for elsewhere in europe pedro has been looking at whether the wish lists of those in charge could be just too much for some says little help. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it's busiest time of the year santa is taking a little bit of time out from clear delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me here in central. if not come on the sled that i see it's just

from five hundred to fifteen hundred grams. see how much is that in terms of money. on. then. fifty thousand dollars. about one hundred million pace us. seventy five percent of the gold in colombia is produced in this area. you. said well you know if it was you go via has been built on one of the largest natural resources of latin america with a couple of local one but if it is considered one of the largest gold reserves in south america. let's go to the state has long abandoned. the moon a little bit but. also companies didn't help society here at all this business with road building this is the supply of water education i mean anything. with a. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew. i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. pastime. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial hea

the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are leaving. green line would become part of is well within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offered schoener in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace we'll be standing one hundred thousand is where it's which we'll have to go and be accepted and we. were compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes within the national interest of the majority of israelis egypt's president is trying to rally people behind the new constitution which got over sixty percent backing a controversial referendum of the turnout was low it clears the way then for a parliamentary election in a country that remains deeply polarized with opponents insisting both a poll on the charter a deeply flawed and a threat to freedom. angry protesters

our guest kevin phillips made a name for himself in the late one nine hundred sixty s. as a g.o.p. operative who coined the phrase and wrote the book the emerging republican majority predicting the rise of the republican party by securing the south for a generation fast forward though and now he's writing about revolution in particular seven hundred seventy five which he says was a good year for it that was of course when the american revolution was going on and when it comes to this war he gets into economic factors that may not have gone down as saliently in mainstream history as taxation without representation but were major goals nonetheless among them was the inability of colonists to manage their own monetary affairs because of british policies also over indebtedness that was in part the result and the brits control of trade which required certain commodities to actually pass through middlemen always over london now sell them to what we can learn from this history as the u.s. faces its modern economic problems earlier i spoke to kevin phillips he's a former white house strate

and building up trouble israel faces renewed criticism rising to green lights twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem. on air and online twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. on kerry johnston. now whether you prefer to hit the high street for the best deals or snatch off was online this is the day to do it britain is a boxing day bargain hunters are out in force. keeping the u.k.'s tills ringing you might be surprised to know whose pockets are being lined has been finding out. proud to be british brits and terrorists alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i assumed it was wholly owned by british people. never mind everything's ok now you know the reason that things are getting. almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers have a march of th

from five hundred to fifteen hundred grams to. see how much is that in terms of money. then. fifty thousand dollars. about one hundred million place us. seventy five percent of the gold in colombia is produced in this area. is that with you go via has been built on one of the largest natural resources of latin america i think at the local one but if it is considered one of the largest gold reserves in south america. let's go to the state has long abandoned. the new book but. also companies didn't help society here at all this business with road building this is the supply of water education i mean anything. with a. six . goals with. the experience before theories with the power. to fall short of. the force sponsorship. relations the foreign policy. they are all here to make it possible. to chimp and the flying. wealthy british style stock. markets why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global economy which might stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our feet. and. look. and. look. at. the bag. and.

five hundred gained a very respectable twenty five percent we'll hear from commodities legend eric sprott about that and about silver too plus u.s. and u.k. regulators have reportedly published a joint paper they wrote about it on the pages of the op ed pages rather of the financial times to deal with too big to fail banks that need to while they held its first cross border plan it includes losses for shareholders removing senior management and converting debt into equity to provide capital now capital is one solution to mitigate the liability of massive credit expansion only we had hard money though we'll break that down for you one of the day and while we're on all that glitters check out this trip to the vault. it's enormously impressed see it's it's a big road like a movie where the dead go to sit to wait for people to remember it's. kind of a funny video you'll never guess where that was we'll tell you and have more in loose change let's get to today's capital account. we have plenty of news events like some i mentioned in headlines to create uncertainty in this economy to send inves

sizeable default more this will matter to hundreds of billions of dollars worth of defaults it'll be something to worry about within the next twelve months. ok now it failed to play out as she seemed to indicate it would over the following year in turn pretty much ever since we have seen a spate of headlines similar to this murder of whitney unocal was one hundred percent wrong according to a bond pro there however between two thousand and ten and now we have seen cities and counties run into trouble and in some cases file for bankruptcy they reportedly have included san bernardino mammoth lakes both in california central falls rhode island jefferson county alabama a few others have filed for bankruptcy but had their claims rejected and over the summer stockton california was poised to win then subsequently did file for bankruptcy in line to be the largest u.s. city to fail with the city council halting bond payments so hurriedly talk about what is going on in muni land the risks the rewards the reality is kate long she's a guest contributor to reuters dot com where she writes the mu

today the two hundred grams were sold for ten million pesos or about three thousand nine hundred euros nowadays ruben and his thirty eight partners are earning more than ever. in order to sell the gold z. kill needs to first get rid of the mercury which is stuck to the precious metal. they must burn it off and there are dozens of little shops in the center of town which do that i mercury is released into the atmosphere when burned and when it rains it falls on to homes fields rivers and lakes i said is the town most polluted by mercury in the world according to the world health organization with measurements up to one thousand times above acceptable levels. but it's a very dangerous job. that men everyone who works with mercury must get treatment but that you know because you have mercury in your system and my brother has it and must keep on getting treatment. it's the easiest process for getting the gold out of that and. then the everything else is much more difficult. yet you don't know if there's another method you won't find it here here mercury is used by the ton from unless. what

food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around the world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control particularly over our energy companies which means decisions about our energy could control and supply and that made in london they're made in paris and or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of that was perhaps the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved to in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds in corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine billion so burden is then place