next up, stacy donahue of the omidyar network. stacy donahue, what is the omidyar network? >> guest: it's a philanthropic investment firm that was founded on the principle that every individual has the power to make a difference. it was founded by pierre omidyar, the founder of ebay. >> host: and what is your jobsome. >> guest: my job is directer of investments focused on government transparency which is one of five investment areas of the network. >> host: well, so if you're informing in government -- investing in government openness, what are you investing in? >> guest: we invest in both for-profit companies as well as nonprofits that are focused on creating technology platforms that make data available to citizens on government activities in order for citizens to hold government accountable. >> host: an example, please. >> guest: sunlight foundation is one of our core grantees. they do a number of things including creating open data applications on government data as well as advocacy work to promote open government. >> host: why are you investing in these? these are not

after him, stacy donohue, an investment director. her foundation invests in technology to increase access to government were applied. and finally we will talk with ory okolloh. she uses her blog to increase access an awareness of politics in africa. first up, david eaves. what did you do in vancouver? >> open government is this idea that we can have better access to decision making, to information, and to the machinery of government. citizens are more informed and better able to impact decisions that influence their community and try to create services and help themselves, rather than just relying on government. >> how this technology help that? >> a lot of governments have always strived to be open, and right from the beginning there was this notion that we are going to print and share everything. in canada, there has been a strong history of trying to open up government as well. technology has changed how we can do that. we live in an era where we are able to transmit huge quantities of information to citizens who are interested. t

stacy herbert as they clear the smoke screens and expose rampant fraud riddled the financial world the kaiser report is next right here on r.t. . max kaiser this is the kaiser report if you'd like a copy of storm still blowing is now available at max keiser dot com records and tapes for ninety nine for a christmas special hopefully bleeped out all the offensive bits hey let's get to the news stacy herbert you're looking fetching tell me something good or bad exists only bad news these days you know that i'm going to start with this headline hind capitals ben davies global day has peaked and there is no exit so the title of his report ben hind and of course you can see in this photo here that it's a still from which show our show we make the news and then report the news that we know. but here is the title of his report debt there is no jubilee and of course he's talking about the fact that like in biblical times when debt became too big. there used to be a debt to billy l. debts would be written off so now we're not allowed the debt to billy's no no no where in forced into slavery so h

the next as i say max kaiser and co-host stacy herbert to look at the case of a u.s. credit company accused of setting up a fake court and judge to force debtors to pay up. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get the human voice ceased to face with the news makers. and this is the kaiser report you know back in the one nine hundred sixty s. they used to say question. now nobody questions anybody's authority must talk to states in order to get more details days in every tax way you can see this in the first headline fake judges use fake deputies to collect fake debts and fake courts that's right the attorney general of pennsylvania

and this is the guy has a report i'm max keiser this is stacy herbert what about the golden nutcrackers tell the people tell the people well max that's your version of this headline from the financial times first to get a look at the pictures of the golden nutcrackers and why are these needed headline reads zoellick seeks gold standard debate world bank chief heirs disquiet with the system of course max we've been warning about this for quite a while here that the gold standard would be imposed upon the world trading system and sure enough robert zoellick on the eve of the g. twenty meeting and seoul says that a cooperative money system including the dollar the and the pound and and they remain. were needed and that quote consider employing gold as an international reference point of market expectations about inflation deflation and future currency values although textbooks may view gold as the old money markets are using

i have asked guys are this is the kaiser report markets finance and scandal i'm max kaiser this is stacy herbert get a good shot of states ever get. stay sending him the rarest element known to man connie and you know stacey speaking of rare elements i was reading about how in hong kong it's rumored to be true that most of the brokers there are snorting lots of cocaine and it brought back memories to my days on wall street back in the eighty's when the market was making new highs the new york times estimated that ninety eight percent of the professionals working on wall street were doing cocaine and of course the market kept hitting new highs now hong kong keeps hitting new highs why because the brokers are blitzed tunku now america dealing with the depression what are they mining what are they growing for lithium that's right afghanistan lithium opium downers. you understand drugs drive the global economy more on that later let's get some of the headlines this day see talk to me oh max talking about the global economy first headline is stiglitz we have to throw bankers in jail or the ec

up next max pizer and co-host stacy herbert take a look at the case of a u.s. credit card company accused of setting up a fake court and judge to force debtors to pay up coming your way next in the kaiser report. max kaiser and this is the kaiser report you know back in the one nine hundred sixty s. they used to say question. now nobody questions anybody's authority let's talk to stacy her to get more details studies in every tax well you can see this in the first headline fake judges use fake deputies to collect fake debts in fake courts that's right the attorney general of pennsylvania is suing you know credit america incorporated for allegedly using civil subpoenas to summon consumers to a fake courtroom which allegedly contained furniture and decorations similar to those use an actual court offices including a raised bench area where a fake judge would be seated two tables and chairs in front of the bench for attorneys and defendants a simulated witness stand and seating for spectators and legal books on the book shelves it was all fake in order to put the

ok it's time now for the kaiser report imax guys are checking in from connecticut is stacy herbert stacy her of can you hear me i can hear you max keiser a lot's going on let's get right to what hit me with a headline well first max i have to tell you you know the f.b.i. might walk in on any moment because i am in connecticut and their rate is going on all over the place here at a connecticut hedge fund guys apparently have been you'll be shocked at this max that apparently they've been manipulating markets and insider trading yeah right of course the big headlines are coming out that the hedge funds are involved in insider trading and market manipulation you know the funny thing is that to report the kind of returns that they've been reporting the only way you could do that is by training of inside information by definition what they do is trade out inside information of course goldman sachs lloyd blankfein all say well he calls it making a market that's a euphemism for breaking the law now the f.c.c. and others are coming down on these guys but i doubt it'll be more than a slap on the

kaiser and this is the kaiser report the blazing war around the world of savers versus back in later stacy harbor tell me max that is the big theme this year and we see it in the currency war we see it through the whole emergence of the g. twenty replacing the g eight the creditor versus debtor nations the first headline however me pads in tow moody's response today gongs downgrade of the u.s. by upgrading china they're gong yes well moody's upgraded china but this is two days after china's new state credit rating agency de gong downgraded the u.s. and they wrote the downgrade reflects america's de terrier rating debt repayment capability and drastic decline of the government's intention of debt repayment gosh i was dig around ten years ago or fifteen years ago they would have given lehman brothers a poor rating and said of moody's giving it a plus rating they would have given bear stearns a poor reining instead of moonies giving it a high rating they would have given all these credit default swaps and mortgage backed securities bad ratings instead of moody's giving it high ratings moody's

you understand drugs drive the global economy more on that later let's get some of the headlines of stacy talk to me well max talking about the global economy first headline is stiglitz we have to throw bankers in jail or the economy won't recover so this is nobel prize winning economist joseph stiglitz saying that the reason why the economy's not recovering is none of these bankers are in jail. now there was one thing that he said in particular that made me think of the rest of the stories in the headlines i have the legal system is supposed to be the codification of our norms and beliefs things that we need to make our system work so this codification of our norms and beliefs can be seen in the very first headline i have following this shameless britain lacks embarrassment about debt so these are our norms we are not embarrassed by debt anymore according to a new survey coming out of britain britain has become a shameless nation where a third of adults are not embarrassed to discuss their debt and eighteen percent feel no shame about bankruptcy they have a debt addiction and they're in

. >>> así es entre nosotros, stacy era como de la familia.s tengo algunas cosas que quiero probar. >>> no quiero que juegues sin mi, tigre. es la hora, hay chalecos antibalas en el auto. es la hora, hay chalecos antibalas en el auto. >>> vámonos. ♪ (disparos). (gritos). >>> ¡cúbranse, cúbranse! >>> ¡todos al suelo! ¡dije abajo! (gritos). (disparos). >>> ¡cálmense! abajo, todo el mundo abajo. >>> ¿creíste que no iba a encontrarte? >>> ¿qué te pasa imbécil? >>> ¡levántate! >>> ¿qué te pasa imbécil? >>> ¡levántate! >>> ¡al suelo! ♪ >>> ¡vigila a estos! >>> los tengo vigilados. >>> ¿cuándo entregas el dinero? >>> no lo sé. >>> ¿cuándo entregas el maldito dinero? >>> cuando haga la llamada. >>> ¡arriba! haz esa llamada y usa el teléfono satelital. >>> malditos cerdos. >>> ¡date prisa! y no juegues con palabras clave, las conozco de memoria. (suena el teléfono). >>> es nueva york. >>> hay una reunión, quiero ordenarles una pizza. >>> más fuerte imbécil. >>> ¿la quiere enseguida? >>> sí, la fiesta ya empezó y tenemos gente muy hambrienta por aquí >>

stacy did review this memo, it seemed to meit seemed to me thaa continuance was to receive the information with the possibility of having a vote based on addressing the information that was added to the record, that that did not preclude addressing alternatives. on the other hand, if what you did was turned down the project in a way that it cannot be revisited at a subsequent hearing without starting the process over, i totally agree with miss hester that you don't study alternatives when you basically have refused to certify eir and some final way. i guess i'm asking for clarification from the city attorney, but my understanding of the memo was in doing to continuance action, you were leaving the door open for revisiting the question of certification based on the adequacy of the information we supplied. commissioner antonini: well, thank you. i kind of agree with the fact that what i was hearing was there should be alternatives analyzed, rather than the adequacy of the analysis itself, although there were comments both ways. i feel this is a continuing discussion, in my mind, of this my m

they were her world. >> and stacy cochran hill worked at university of chicago hospital. so she was on medical leave recently because she had foot surgery. her daughter joy was a sixth grader at roseland christian and daughter jade was a senior at morgan park high school where crisis counselors are now on hand. live in morgan park. nancy loo, wgn news. >>> a bond hearing going on now for the parolee charged with murdering a chicago police officer in another man. police say 19-year-old timothy herring served time for armed robbery and was out on parole. his neighbors, steve peters owned a customized ford mustang. herring broke into that car last week and stole some parts and when police officer officer michael flisk showed up to investigate, herring shot and killed both men. there will be a wake for the officer from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. at brady and gill funeral home in evergreen park. funeral set for tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at st. rita in chicago. visitation for steven peters will be friday 6 to. funeral services are still pending. >>> authorities say the boy who held his cla

. >> reporter: joey and stacie headed straight to the airport today, where stacie's dad met them with a basket of treats. >> way to go. >> reporter: the couple were married last saturday. the carnival splendor was supposed to be their honeymoon. today, they couldn't wait to get home. people tend to think that an endless buffet an open bar make these vessels hotels on the high seas. but there be dragons in the high seas. crew ship disasters have become a youtube staple. like what happened to this ship off the coast of australia. or here, as passengers are given a rough reminder they're not on terra firma anymore. former senior carnival cruise liner officer jay herring shot this video as he suffered through a 24-hour hurricane. >> here's some big spray oh, goes over our heads. so, we're in the crew bar right now. it is a river in here. >> reporter: and the carnival splendor has had its own issues in the past. like this swimming pool on another stormy night. >> we just banked hard right. >> reporter: this youtube video was taken on board the splendor last year after what was called a nea

next us all the way to scandals in the financial world with max carr's euro stacy herbert. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on the. geyser and this is the kaiser report this show's going over one hundred thousand views on you tube if you make it happen you know there's a global insurrection against the banker occupation going around around the world. because it has been discovered that the global banking cartel has a soft underbelly at j.p. morgan j.p. morgan has one point five trillion exposure in derivatives to a rising so for a price as so over prices rise j.p. morgan's life is on the line we have the ability to take down a giant this is fantastic stacy herbert tell me more max kaiser crash j.p. morgan by silver yes out of office on the way into the studio but before we go to your vile campaign of crass j.p. morgan buy sell for i want to set the stage for revolution i have king eric in the headlines can tone up collapse the banks pop kopi k. so this is eric cantona france by the way complicating er

morgan's life is on the line we have the ability to take down a giant this is fantastic stacy or tell me more max kaiser crashed j.p. morgan by silver office on the way into the studio but before we go to your vile campaign of crass j.p. morgan by silver i want to set the stage for revolution i have king eric in the headlines can tone up collapse the banks pop kopi k. so this is eric cantona who was french by the way complicate. a much football star so here's a video of him and he is talking about the people with placards out in the streets and how old fashioned that is he says we don't pick up weapons to kill people to start the revolution the revolution is really easy to do nowadays. what is the system the system turns around the banks is based on the power of the banks what we know. so it must be destroyed starting from the banks this means that the three million people with the placards on the street they go to the bank will withdraw their money from banks and these ones will collapse well yes he makes a good point if it's a step in the right direction isn't taking your money out

coming up in just a bit join max kaiser and co-host stacy herbert for another look behind the financial headlines this time they look at whether the u.s. federal reserve is about to become the mother of all pyramid schemes find out why coming up after a short break right here on our. it was that so much as i can recall on the years. as a member of the poll it would appear that nothing is going to join the republican party and hot tea tea partiers for the g.o.p. . time now for the kaiser report markets finance and scandals all the scandals that are driving the global economy into the ditch let's get more details from stays there or heard max kaiser the first headline reads pimco likens us to ponzi scheme this is bill gross who manages two hundred fifty billion dollars pimco bond portfolio he wrote in his newsletter to his clients check writing in the trillions is not a bondholders friend it is in fact inflationary and if truth be told somewhat of a ponzi scheme so he argues that creditors have always expected to be paid out a future growth but now he says growth in dow it seems the fed h

what's the first thing you did when you got on that ship, stacy?> we got on a little bike ride, strait to get some pizza down the road. >> some of that hot food? >> we were dieing for hot food. we were so sick of sandwiches and salad. we were ready for something different. >> we heard that no spam. no spam for you guys, either? >> we didn't see any on the ship at all. we had cold meats and veggies. >> tell us, joe. let's go back to when the ship was disabled on monday. was there panic? did you all know what was going on? >> he announced over the radio, john announced over the radio -- >> who is john? >> the cruise manager. >> that there was a problem with the engine room. and there was smoke filling up in the lower cobbens. we were on the first deck. we were asleep. and we had to go up to the ledo deck where there is fresh air. there wasn't too much panic. it was arranged nicely. >> and thankfully, no one was injured or killed when that happened. so, stacy, compounding this, you're pregnant? >> yes. >> you're a few months pregnant. without going in

nine for a christmas special hopefully bleeped out all the offensive bits hey let's get to the news stacy herbert you're looking fetching tell me something good or bad haggis it's only bad news these days you know that i'm going to start with this headline hind capitals ben davies global day has peaked and there is no exit so the title of his report ben hind and of course you can see in this photo here that it's a still from which show our show we make the news and then we report the news that we know. but here is the title of his report debt there is no jubilee. and of course he's talking about the fact that like in biblical times when debt became too big. there used to be a debt to billy l. debts would be written off so now we're not allowed the debt to billie's no no no where in forced into slavery so he's saying how do you get rid of debt without jubilee you can only do it for three or four things grow your way out belt tightening currency devaluation or for explicit default however if you look at the headlines that you and i have been talking about max there is no exit obviously for

base whatsoever he inspired no one except the health industry to extract billions of more subsidies stacy ever thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max now don't go away we've got plenty more coming your way so. the issue was that some of the pressure was on the market because of the taliban and we keep being in journalism we're going to pick organisation with an understatement to. what is the difference between. welcome back to the kaiser report sign out to go to san francisco to talk with james scam analogy to third who has been writing about the tea party movement james as a former civilian intelligence analyst who worked for the department of defense where he specialized in putting an indicted war criminal is of prison in bosnia he also specialized in counts or organized crime and counterterrorism james cavanagh to the third welcome to the kaiser report thank you marry me max glad to be on all right now you've been writing about the tea party movement and their platforms it's all guns gays god as karl denninger says not do they have any policies on wall street and t

all right stacie over thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max don't go away much more coming your way so. welcome back to the kaiser reports i'm not to go to new york and talk with commodities expert kevin carey who is author of a new dragon's metal report china's resource monopoly on the world's growing resource addiction kevin care welcome to the kaiser report good to be here thank you all right can care rare earth metals have been all over the news lately thanks to china's bull brief ban on exports tell us what are rare earth metals well they're basically the seventeen elements you were told in high school didn't matter they're the ones at the bottom of the your attic table but you know more importantly they're in things we use every day and we don't even realize that a lot of the electronics that we buy in the new hybrid and green technologies the big windmills that you see when you're driving on the countryside or in the desert in california a lot of these things and it's used in defense items that we rely on so these rare earth metals have been around for a

following up on this and talk about the am back with renowned journalist terry bull don't go away stacy thanks so much for being on the cars report thank you matt that's going to do it for this segment stay tuned much more don't go away. sweet and clean. and fair useful. radioactive and dangerous. and even dead and desolate. they only keep their unique secrets their bottoms unique lakes on our team. brighton if you need to move from phones to pressure. screens tontine don't calm. down the official auntie up location on the phone and called talk from the top story. on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s money fuel costs and o.s.'s features now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. welcome back to the kaiser report yeah you know those nasty banks on wall street and around the world the reason we got into this all global financial meltdown principle is because they were involved in hundreds of billions and even trillions of mortgage related fraud well let's go to new york city and talk with investigator financial journalist and forbes contributor terry bull terry welcome back to the

monetary policy will remain this free money down upon these bankers who will bless us with more loans stacy herbert what we're talking about here we saw with americans pushing the indigenous people into reservations with the manifest destiny then rolled across the plains of america now the wal-mart of koala indians the people who live at wal-mart waiting for their food stamps coupons to renew it the stroke of midnight will be put on reservations and be you know basically put out there to die we saw this in the forty's when they open concentration camps the final solution to get rid of all these poor people that they've they've made poor this fascist made the people poor and they get rid of their crimes they burnt them now in america to get rid of these poor people. going to come up with their own final solution is going to cut them all from the current supply co to the t. i'm going to go to the a.t.m. for their food stamp to go down to the wal-mart company's store to get a slice of processed cheese will do that. and you are no longer an american please die in the mud well how these people a

following up on this and talk about the am back with renowned journalist terry bull don't go away stacy thanks so much for being on the cars report thank you matt that's going to do it for this segment stay tuned much more don't go away. to brighton. from funds to pressure. for instance on t.v. don't. welcome back to the kaiser report you know you know those nasty banks on wall street and around the world the reason we got into this whole global financial meltdown principle is because they were involved in hundreds of billions and even trillions of mortgage related fraud well let's go to new york city and talk with investigator financial journalist and forbes contributor terry bull terry welcome back to the kaiser reports hi max is great to see you great to see you again terry ball and back i was filed for bankruptcy tell us about am back who are they what bankrupted them and what is j.p. morgan's relationship in this case and back as one of our larger insurers residential mortgage backed securities you know those toxic loans that they went out and sold and told you that were aaa rated

laundering scam so i mean that's what we're talking about here remember in two thousand and eight stacy herbert at the nadir of the financial crisis when no bank on earth had money to meet repo and overnight obligations the only place that had money were the organized drug cartels who supplied the cash to keep the global economy running for those critical forty eight hours those are the only folks with actual cash of course they're in the pocket of goldman j.p. morgan citibank of course they're all part of the same for. natural infrastructure and of course they're all abusing the products of these drug cartels all over the world and of course that's one of the reason why the stock market's going higher because the brokers themselves are still crack out of the mind on drugs while the final headline is relating to this quantitative policing the u.s. government will spend five hundred eleven million dollars to expand its embassy in kabul the u.s. ambassador said lazy or something you know the resale market on the on the opium this is a this is a sell financing embassy expansion five hundre

is where the headlines now next max kaiser and co-host stacy herbert look at the story behind silva shortages and discuss talk of ditching the dollar. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. ok it's time now for the kaiser report imax guys are jacking in from connecticut is . here me i can hear you max keiser lots going on let's get right to hit me with a headline well first max i have to tell you you know the f.b.i. might walk in at any moment because i am in connecticut and they're raids going on all over the place here all the connecticut hedge fund guys karen lee i've been. you'll be shocked at this max that apparently they've been manipulating markets and insider trading yeah right of course the big headlines are coming out that the hedge funds are involved in insider trading and market manipulation you know the funny thing is that to report the kind of returns that they've been reporting the only way you could do that is by trading on inside information by definition what they do is trade out inside information of cour