american economy it came after the british parliament who are mostly shareholders in the british east india company after the british parliament gave the largest corporate tax break in the history of the world to the world's then largest corporation the east india company so that corporation could pull a walmart and put out of business all the local tea sellers up and down the east coast of the colonies and rage by the blatant example of crony capitalism which was known as the tea act of seven hundred seventy three this giant tax cut for these two company colonies put feathers on their heads and dumped the tea overboard and the rest is history our nation has a history of and in fact was founded on rebelling against corporate monopolies and rage about corporations getting huge tax breaks from government. which brings us to today when tens of thousands of americans across the nation have taken to the streets to once again protest too much corporate power and the corporate corruption of our government they're protesting against massive tax breaks for job outsourcers tax subsidies for insanely profitab

yes so when exxon bought mobil they bought a series of small wars in that kind of east india company where we were talking about earlier one of them was a separate a struggling with many decades of history behind it but which it was in a particularly violent phase when exxon took over the prize in that war was a gas field the gas field was protected by indonesian forces who detained and tortured some young men who were suspected of being guerrillas finally the bush administration intervened went to the guerilla group group and said you know we have terrorism lists if you don't stop attacking exxon mobile we're going to put you on it even though you're just a local separatist organization and literally the american bush administration diplomat said to the guerrilla leader do you really want us as your enemy in specific reference to stop targeting exxon mobile so that shows that even though they're very independent when they want the u.s. government to help them they know they know how to make it effective yeah and it's truly remarkable in just a little snapshot in the last thirty seco

we won the founders started this country the idea was we don't need to be run by the british east india company anymore because basically the north america had been a colony of that corporation and we don't need to be answerable to other governments we can take care of ourselves literally take care of ourselves the first president to sign laws or doesn't sign legislation that appropriated money to pay for housing food and medicine for poor people in the united states was george washington the next coming of the night comes from matt in auckland new zealand are second from that island nation matt had this comment on how the government doesn't really listen to the people it's supposed to represent it frustrates me how a government whose role is to represent their population will never use the very best ideas that come out of that same population like for example james anson's carbon tax idea instead they make often secretive decisions on the population's behalf and both the press and the populations themselves are left to retro engineer from the outcomes what those original decisions were like th

you see, at that time they remembered and they knew about the enormous power of the east india company which ruled india with an absolute iron hand for many years with devastating human casualties. they knew about the hudson bay company that was in north america. and while the modern form of the corporation wassing with established, the textile mills some years after the constitution was ratified in new england, their reference point was the menacing power of these gigantic corporations. they didn't want a replay in proliferating form in the country that they thought would succeed their constitutional structure in the usa. now, what is important here to realize is that there has been a whole series of ways to fight back. people have fought back. they've fought back as workers, they've fought back as parents, they've fought back as buyers and shoppers, they've fought back as farmers, they've fought back as women, they've fought back as slaves. they have fought back. and we have in our history the following ways that they've fought back. they've fought back trying to use the vote. they'v

higher in india further making recruitment in the west more attractive to some companies while washington has repeatedly spoken out against offshoring of american jobs it looks like the east might just be bailing it out from its jobless crisis preassure either our team bangalore india. still had on r t police officers are supposed to serve and protect but what happens when they get caught on the other side of the law in a country where the level of obedience towards cops are next to none why do these scenes keep repeating. the line of american power continues. things are so bad. might actually be time for a revolution. and it turns out that a program or drug or starbucks has a surprising him really here. welcome to the capital encountered i'm lauren lyster. very likely. but in the alone if you're the real headlines with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer the