abby martin r. t. washington. well the capital account is up next on our table let's check in with laura lister to see what is on today's agenda lauren what you have going on over there hey liz let me ask you a question if you had to choose a year in recent times that two thousand and twelve would be like what year would you least like it to be in your recent memory of a least like two thousand and twelve know what year would you like at least to be like this year what year would you like to go back to the least given our recent history go back to maybe two thousand and eight yes exactly i think that's what most people would say but we're going to ask if that is exactly what we are headed towards chris martenson has predicted these things in the past he says he sees the same signs going across his screens when he's looking at the market this year that he remembers back in two thousand and eight and we're going to look at why and maybe we can't predict when work is actually what that will look like but he's going t

abby martin r. t. washington. and that was our r.t. correspondent abbie maher and she joins us here now live in the studio for more so abby anymore scandal and monsanto's history yeah there's so much scandal is hard to put all in one package but going back to aspartame it's an artificial sweetener that's two hundred times sweeter than sugar first owned by cyril who the c.e.o. is donald rumsfeld at the time and then when he joined reagan's cabinet they passed through aspartame when the national association of soft drink association said we do not want this passed all the tests that cyril have presented to us are full of holes shoddy at best so that was passed through santa later acquired cyril and then you see the f.d.a. commissioner who was appointed during that time that passed aspartame later joined the public relations firm for months sandow and cyril so there's just a revolving door that goes back decades with these companies also d t it was a pesticide that was produced by monsanto that was banned in one thousand nine hundred eigh

r t america check out our website and you can also follow me on twitter at abby martin c. and a half hour. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm more in the store here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for june fifteenth two thousand and twelve as we all know greek elections are sunday greeks choose among political parties and the world assesses what the outcome will mean for the hellenic republic and the eurozone but are we really looking at a choice between a catastrophic and for greece and lists chaos catastrophe at this point can nothing outweigh the benefit of a default we'll talk about it and on the crisis management side the european central bank reportedly stands ready to act if there is market turmoil the u.k. reportedly will unleash aggressive monetary policy in the face of a worsening euro zone debt storm so central banks are threatening to turn on the spigots. thanks. that's what they aim to do but will they drown us all in liquidity pumping an extra liter of liquidity into a container losing gallons by the day does nothing to change the deflationary dynamic we'll discuss plus it's friday we'll show you the incredibly creative way one of our