it was constructed in the 5th century b.c. and dedicated to the virgin goddess athena.ing it today is awe-inspiring, but imagine how striking it must have looked when it was completed, nearly 2,500 years ago, in all its carved and brilliantly painted splendor. the adjacent erechtheion is famous for its porch of the caryatids -- six beautiful maidens functioning as columns. dedicated to athena and poseidon, this was one of the most important religious buildings on the acropolis. this, rather than the parthenon, was the culmination of the panathenaic procession. at the foot of the acropolis, the ancient agora, or marketplace, sprawls out from its surviving temple. this is where, for 3,000 years, athenians gathered. while the acropolis was the center of ritual and ceremony, the agora was the beating heart of ancient athens. for some 800 years, starting in the 6th century b.c., this was the hub of commercial, political, and social life. visitors wander the remains of what was the city's principal shopping mall and administrative center. exploring the agora, it's fascinating

of the nine eleven terrorist attacks in new york right after nine eleven and of course probably just b.c. . bankers working in the twin towers financing terrorists quote unquote that in turn came down and not those building down and killed the edges be backers but funded by their own choice to buy their own petard are funding they funded the variax that destroyed them that's why i say it's a misnomer to say that everyone perishing that day is quote unquote innocent a lot of those bankers were financing the saudis who ended up coming back and attacking the towers and is that poetic well i leave it up to history to decide well after the suicide bombing in damascus this week donald rumsfeld former. minister in his office praised it they say he called it a martyr event he said this is the first suicide bombing we should call a martyr event so the same thing could be said if you look in the the treasury department are they saying these sort of suicide bombings are ok that these sort of you know reckless destroying of the global economy is is a martyr event but bob diamond is a suicide banker

will mix after a few laps maybe tomorrow but obviously for b.c. believe me i'm thinking about these for weeks with at the start of it from so i'm pretty hot. well writing could also be a factor but german made a strange case is china has probably dishing for this one it's his fourth of the season after edging out ben spies during a wet qualifying session while stoner's honda teammate dani pedrosa will complete the front row stoner coming lead to the riders championship of enzo the start. with major sport in russia why a rally has got underway with more than one hundred competitors setting off from moscow's iconic red square for the grueling week long race this is the fourth edition of the insurance event there it is more than four thousand kilometers long i want to take the drive the southern russia the final stage in the black sea resort town of blend into outside sochi next friday although the region is why there is devastating floods russia's commodity other perennial favorites for the overall title in the fox category however last year's winne

is announcing huge downdraft at the same time barclays just b.c. two biggest bank in the world both in britain they announced massive money laundering for mexican drug cartels and library manipulations ghana's is this why the economy is shrinking yes there's george osborne note this in any of his speeches no because he's also a joke paternal character aiding and abetting financial rape by the biggest banks around the world thanks georgie porgie we love you too. and you can catch the kaiser report throughout the day right here on our team. the olympic games in london have gotten off to a shaky start with political controversies security failings and traffic concerns and now it's some of the athletes in the main spotlight and not only because of their sporting scales it's their toned bodies that are grabbing the headlines as our team is honest it cannot reports. faster higher stronger bodies built like machines and olympic extravaganza of athletes grace magazine covers baring it all it would be nice to tape like to not look at these athletes like you

is announcing huge downdraft at the same time barclays just b.c. two biggest bank in the world both in britain they announce massive money laundering for mexican drug cartels and library manipulation scandals is this why the economy is shrinking yes does george osborne note this in any of his speeches no because he's also a joke paternal character aiding and abetting financial rape by the biggest banks around the world thanks georgie porgie we love you too all right stacey never thanks much because reports thank you very much more coming away stay right there. in the. it. in the. welcome back to the kaiser report on max kaiser and my guest is states ebert stacy herbert we had a guest lined up but it didn't happen because well it was leah mcgrath good minute she has a great story about being banned from the u.k. because of her reporting on the child sexual abuse happening down in jersey but she has a p.c. with microsoft products so we always have a problem with that whenever somebody has a macintosh there's never a problem once and all the years and

the second spread is a timeline, and this is also 1000 b.c. so once again it's color-coded. this is an example, the foundation of the hebrew kingdom went unnoticed by the great powers of the region but it was a fundamental importance to judaism, christianity and islam. the estimated total population of the world is at the bottom and at that time it was approximately 115 million people. the key map shows all the world in different colors. the timeline is arranged in horizontal bands by topic, economy, religion and science and technology, art and architecture. q. can see the purple left, the head of gilgamesh. the blue is an -- from mexico and the to on the right is the derbyshire england. flipping ahead, this is 907 a.d. and you can see the difference in the world, the colors of the map. baghdad has 900,000 people in constantinople has 250,000 people. a city in china has 200,000 people and japan, 200,000 people and cordoba had 200,000 people. by this time iceland and hawaii were subtle but not new zealand. china is divided into kingdoms. charlemagne empire breaks up. we are l

at a now as you say kevin another bank bad news for hey just b.c. today the financial will acknowledge and apologize for letting clients loans of money through the lender now the u.s. senate is expected to question executives as part of its hearing called vulnerabilities to money laundering drug and terrorist find out saying hey just b.c. case history it comes out of the export there's balls dive in said story for the bank consistent they re going interest rates. for your apartment right four and a half million more jobs could be lost in the region that's what the international labor organization is full costing and that the e.u. continues to full of parity the ilo are calling for job creation policies instead the director general said unless told to measures all taken to increase real economy investments the economic crisis. and the employment recovery will never take off so with that in mind it's going to have to be european markets to see how they closed up today we can see that resource retailers they had a bit of a bit of a nightmare at you tod

on earth anecdotal evidence back to one hundred fifty b.c. to reach the conclusion that they had i don't think that scientists really didn't i that there were warming periods around two thousand b.c. and then again i think believe it was five hundred to one thousand a.d. so you know the issue is not whether the earth is warmer than it was one hundred fifty years ago few years you is whether humans are causing our current i know you look at those well i mean it will in cycles you find that they happen far more gradual you know more experience no that's not true no it's not and you know you guys are are are digging your heels in both of you you're so i think over the last day when you're there i am not you know my family science is no no no i'm not defying every scientist on earth there are a number of militant climatologists who flatly disagree with this and this is the point you guys talk about this in a way that is partisan and political rather than in a way that scientific why don't you want to just follow the evidence and let the conclusio

an arson team has been called in to investigate a fire in northeastern b.c. it broke out inside webb elementary school that has been vacant since 2008. no one was hurt there, but firefighters did have to be pulled out for safety reasons. new developments in the campaign scandal involving d.c. mayor vincent grey. of his former campaign workers is expected to plead guilty. she made several contributions under different names. we are outside federal court in the district with brianne carter. >> cynne she is expected in front of a judge at 1:00 this afternoon. we know that this is just the latest in what appears to be a growing scandal. accused of violating federal campaign laws, harris is expected for a hearing. she handled communication for the mayor's 2010 campaign and is conspiring -- convicted of making additional contributions. she made contributions to his 2010 campaign and was reimbursed. >> they are responsible for their own actions. >> this is the latest in an ongoing scandal investigation surrounding d.c. leaders. the residents we spoke to said somethi

succession before the referee ended about it means gutsy it takes account of the title and holds his b.c. crown isn't beaten the record stretches to twenty four victories fifteen knockout. russian kid walks all german a has claimed another what crown that after beating germany's don't know dora for the w.-k. a title he did it in front of hundreds of fans at the so-called us is our championships in moscow which also is saw several european title fights on the night these rabbit i don't know. once upon a time in the midst. of the most. of the best hand to hand fighters from the former soviet republics came face to face to find out who was the toughest there is how these keep books and tournaments stirred nine years ago neo has grown into the open air showdown with international titles at stake. some domestic affairs first though the twenty twelve event supercard opened with the russian light welterweight. five rounds of it to from both. clue now the victory over his competitor at. some big again i swear next to do battle with the w five european cruiserweight title at stake. versus how. th

finish there similar free flowing movement see the home side of what it pouncey on the mark after said b.c. mark was felt in the box claiming he's brace from this sport is in it to know when is and looking every inch deserving title holders. things started badly for guus hiddink side. needed only forty five seconds to open the scoring deflected off on g.'s defend. and looked over capable dinner a good ball of into the net thirty minutes later got an equaliser after some strong pressure and of the first half ivorian striker last seen it scored in his debut game. for them which side against his former club and proved to be the winner. while chris evert of. terror courageous to a one all draw a leg of an off putting the grozny side in front after fifty six minutes he scored with a long shot that keeper together and call shot a hand on but was unable to save it for eight minutes before the final whistle the head of terrorists defend adelson in the palace area forward. parity and it. finished. and there was more there's one more match in the opening game we've shared before monday night former

will mix after a few laps maybe tomorrow but obviously for b.c. believe these are always worth it to start over from so pretty hot. could also be a factor the german may take a strange case of stone cold position for this one is his fourth of the season after edging out ben spies during a wet qualifying session bastone this one the teammate dani pedrosa will complete the front row stone a cover lead to the riders championship will get started. and he also praised his mechanics for grabbing poll position. with major sports on rush is still quite a rally has got underway with more than one hundred competitors setting off from moscow's iconic red square for the grueling week long race this is the fourth edition of the insurance event the route is more than four thousand kilometers long and will take the place in the southern russia the final stage is you know if you're in the black sea resort town. outside sort you next friday although the region is covered by those devastating floods. are the perennial favorite for the overall title in the trucks ca

the story like having us inflation rising food costs will make russia lift its key interest rate just b.c. bank it'll happen by the end of this year or going drought in major food exporters like the us proces for corn and soybeans a record hoy's owners expect the situation to worsen further making russia's twenty twelve inflation tollbooth of six percent or more realistic later in the day primitive but if we hold a meeting find ways to support the countries for all those this chick at the morgue is pointing north as investors welcome earnings related games from local majors shares of electronics join us all it was almost five percent of the board's likely move back to profit in the second quarter u.s. stocks finished monday's low volumes that you would want to deploy that's ahead of the e.c.b. and fed meetings as well as the monthly jobs report later in the week j.p. morgan chase the full two percent of. a downgrade from your bag more problems for the lender claiming its earnings estimate might be too high the euro is bouncing back from earlier losses as for the ruble it finished mixed ag

subsidiary based in new york hey just b.c.'s management has acknowledged lapses in . compliance promises to fix all right moving i would check out those european markets and investors there awaiting the much anticipated testimony from the us federal reserve chairman ben i q later on in the day today they will host the bill heads of economics to mr right now with little mix if we check out the common currency then as we can see the markets are resisting themselves to further action by these ten to brings us to the very work remains strong against the balls of currencies and staying with russia the gains continue to alter of course or believe that the ends are still production going three point one percent for the first half of the year the salt is which i was still getting i would see two point eight percent down by default and go spread by gun even though that's the biggest financial hey i have a one percent and gas from the sun imposed to have territory whereas i would gather mixed mixed color spectrum for us oil is getting us you can see that trading near the highes

highest level since the founding of the euro zone banking including the world bank of scotland and has b.c. weighing on the footsie and of course all of that is really putting pressure on the european currency and what you see there is that you're always sliding against the u.s. dollar at the moment and the russian ruble is also shedding value to the currency basket and in fact to the of the the euro is trading at eleven year low against the japanese yen on the russian equity market at the moment what we're seeing there is also a sea of red and the r.t.s. at the moment is losing three and three quarters of a percent and of course now moving on the what we're also see is. as i mentioned sharp losses on the equity markets and some of the biggest movers on the my six at the moment include the t.d. bank and drop more on that next hour what we're also seeing is capital outflow for a third month in a row. russian related funds are losing more than eighty one million dollars grant and the w t i also shedding value major losses almost three percent each for both of the benchmarks this hour and in

on television see him b.c. . so i think what we should probably do is go and split up investment banking from banking. have banks be i should take years to have banks make commercial loans and real estate loans you have banks do something that's not going to risk the taxpayer dollars that's not going to be too big to fail. so and and becky quickly he was talking to us like wait a minute that's more radical than glass steagall and he was like you know let's do this. is he just suggesting this because the banks are under attack and if they were to break them up like much like one thousand. in the antitrust action stockholder equity actually went up as a consequence of that that this might be very profitable for the banks to be taken to don't know what his motives are but i do know it is a staggering admission and i wish we would have a few more admissions about economic policies that we've had and that need to be rolled back so it's a fantastic thing to hear because we do have a too big to fail problem what it does

fourth century b.c. gave the fourth of the five things that you have to have for a good money has to be durable the visible convenient consistent and of value in and of itself. so this is why it's not it's not witchcraft it's not barbarism why people use gold for money is simply common sense this is been on for centuries. all these currency that are floating around the world the little pieces of paper they're all going to disappear in the future and in the future the people that have the gold when gold is once again use them today the commerce as money not necessarily passing koreans are on the will be digital representing specific amounts of gold deposits are going to be the big winners so i urge people to have a significant portion of their assets in gold today ok interesting and when ben bernanke he catches up to aristotle then that cold will be worth something a little bit different than maybe it is right now i'm curious the ago our conference our producer tells me that a lot of the the people there

notch and another six bytes to doctors talking of banks in trouble with europe's largest bank hate just b.c. being accused of helping criminals terrorists and even mexican drug dealers to launder money the u.s. financial watchdog issued a three hundred twelve page report on monday these have been the lack of control at the bank the bulk of allegations all related to the bank's u.s. subsidiary based in new york hey just bases management has acknowledged lapses in compliance and promised to fix it so with that in mind it's going to the markets and see how europe is before me just now unless i watch the effects of them over their ways he really much anticipated testimony from u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke you later on in the day they want some heads of further economic stimulus cash pumping is the system european currency we see how that's three out seen as well. so edging a mall shanghai is just that and the investors are really positioning themselves for further action by central banks or mining optimistic the ruble i was managing to get him against the u.s. in the year stay wit

and b.c. or c.b.s. then let go of the commercial stations so why wouldn't they carry this maybe the government would like it but they do they both you should know that do lots of things which government doesn't like sure. we are not a monolithic country in the united states there's different spheres of interest sometimes these spheres work together sometimes they fight against each other n.b.c. broadcast many stories in which we directly challenge the government in this particular case it was different because it was american soldiers on the ground when we challenge what are our government was doing for example in central america supporting all these terrible dictators n.b.c. broadcast those stories and to some degree these stories helped bring about change and greater democracy in central america and i'm very proud of those stories and very proud of what n.b.c. did but there's other times in which they've chickened out you know people are brave all the time i'm not brave all the time i like to think i

lawyer george catalyst says david cameron's proposal is offensive and illegal i think that everybody in b.c. feels insulted because of these words. but released it could demagogic statement and i am referring to what we use make the demo could see because a prime minister knows that it is currently the european know what he has said the every movement of people is one of the fundamental reforms with the european union it is another the description of any state to grow keep it the movement of citizens of other european states to his third story are going to meet the i mean there's the president that it just want to they're going to put us or he feels because of internal problems that he again now confronts. let's say dangerous you not only going to see but i think ultimately. such big legal action because i say i would just mention this is one of the fundamentals of the european union if we do not cover the movement of people this is of course going to through the european union we are feeling a deep sentiment of national humiliation exactly because they are treating us like citizens or seco

part of its hearing calls vulnerabilities to money laundering drugs and terrorist financing hey just b.c. case history comes after barclays boss bob diamond said. story for the bank consistently regaining interest right now more strive for europe four and a half million more jobs could be lost in the region that's what the international labor organization is saying that if the e.u. continues to force or terrorists eight now they are calling for job creation policies instead the director general said unless told to measures all taken to increase the rate economy investments the economic crisis would depend on the employment recovery will never take off so with that in mind as have a look at the european markets we can see that they are struggling in today's session the dax so it's a change of fortunes it's managed to drag itself into positive territory but is the result on the breeze had is that a really taking a hit meanwhile spanish stocks are rallying the softer drafted by buyout specifications revealed i was also got burberry as well as down to six percent off to sell show to clients

is announcing his downdraft at the same time barclays just b.c. two biggest bank in the world both in britain they announce massive money laundering for mexican drug cartels and library manipulations ghana's is this why the economy is shrinking yes there's george osborne note this in any of his speeches no because he's also a joke paternal character aiding and abetting financial rape by the biggest banks around the world thanks georgie porgie we love you tim all right stacy never thanks much because reports thank you very much more coming away stay right there. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes the big picture. shows started here. for going global. choose your place take your stand. and needs to. make your statement. to the world. she points to the line. in the. book i'm back to the kaiser report on max kaiser and my guest is stays ever so serv

trouble pulling on an appositive so they've got a new program that if you open an account they just b.c. sort of a toaster they give you a mexican head and i think well you know what this brings me back to this point that javier bardem had made is like he was asking why the government. is making the people pay rather than the financial sector and we see that's because the government is the financial sector there's a revolving door back and forth back and forth and i have further proof not only did we see tony blair go from ten downing street to j.p. morgan and now he's talking about coming back check this out max in washington blankfein backs dodd frank you know he's claiming he's backing dodd frank that's not the story here the story is mr blankfein did not rule out working in government after his tenure as the chief of goldman is over i have aspirations to be desired he said eliciting laughter from the several hundred attendees by any president i didn't mean to limit it to the united states yes of course well qualified to be part of the global banking disorder you know he's a guy who

part of that hearing called vulnerabilities to money laundering drugs and terrorist financing hey just b.c. case history it comes of the x. box his boss. bob diamond said sorry for the bank consistently regaining investment rights for a million or more people could be losing their jobs in europe that's what the international labor organization to say that if the e.u. continues to force stary see calling for job creation policies instead a less targeted measures are taken to increase the real economy investments the economic crisis will deepen and the employment recovery will never take off that's what the director general is saying and a way i k let's get to the markets will head on into europe a must see that they are tracking the overnight losses that we saw on wall street and asia and it's the result of retailers that are really weighing down the most we want meanwhile spanish stocks are running after the draft specifications were rebuilt also for those of you love that a fashion burberry is down over six percent of the sales in the first course up as good as the common currency and see

is announcing huge downdraft at the same time barclays just b.c. two biggest bank in the world both in britain they announce massive money laundering for mexican drug cartels and library manipulation scandals is this why the economy is shrinking yes there's george osborne notice in any of his speeches no because he's also a joe paternal character aiding and abetting financial rape by the biggest banks around the world thanks georgie porgie we love you tim all right stacey never thanks much because a report thank you thank you much more coming away stay right there. in the secret laboratory to kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which doesn't give a darn about anything tombs mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should want your only on the r t v dot com. to much brighter. from science to pressure. stunts on t.v. don't come. back to the kaiser report on max kaiser and my guest is states ebert stacy herbert we have a guest lined up but it didn't happen because well it's leah mcgrath goo

employed through personal service companies that are allowed smaller contributions dollar deals will be b.c. to sidestep millions of pounds a national insurance company insists the arrangements were funded industry practice but have agreed to review how it pays its big ne let's go live to see how the markets are performing right now if. some initial decoy's on the market did seem brawl the impress and that was by the first installment of the ninety's testimony in the us congress following days of build up where investors happen hoping that the recent flow of bad news would prompt a more concrete signal that the stimulus is on its way but as we can see now we do have gains over the slight ones. that are on the now is that it was that it was due territory of the european market. but we had all the pent up with them in the run up to this solved it did turn around especially loans and six tenths of a said. just about managed to turn it around in the last hour or so. opposed to territory now sticking with the very thing agency moody's has slashed the credit rating of thirty banks just days after