part of life in sweden. >> now i have a big family. i have less garbage, and now i cook food. >> routine it is the result of decades of work by sweden to encourage citizens to reduce, reuse, and recycle. the amount of trash they produce is minimal and it is put to good use. this is where the rubbish ends up, any waste processing center. every year, about 300,000 tons of waste is burned, providing 200,000 homes with heat. >> 50% is household waste. 50% is industrial waste. >> the plant relies on sweden's rubbish to heat the city. >> that takes the waist up to the boiler. >> the rubbish is piled up, sorted, then burned. >> a look inside, this is 1000 degrees. >> the heat warms water that makes its way into radiators that make its way through the city. sweet it is so efficient at recycling that it actually imports some rubbish -- sweden is so efficient at recycling that it actually imports some robbers from neighboring countries. >> we have done some test ses ad it works, so could be a market of the future. >> the idea of burning waste fo

has allowed sweden to continue to sell them. well, from alternative tobacco products, we turn to alternative energy. in the world of energy, the holy grail is a power source that's inexpensive and clean with no emissions. many start-ups in silicon valley are working on it. and one of them is bloom energy. they want to put a little power plant in a box literally in your backyard. for nearly a decade, the company had been unusually secretive about its bloom box. but in february 2010, its inventor, k.r. sridhar, invited me to take a look inside his much talked about but never before seen creature. what could this power? >> this could power a u.s. home. average united states home. >> entire house? >> entire house, 24/7, 365. >> something that small? >> the way we make it is in two blocks. this is a european home. the two put together is a u.s. home. >> [chuckling] 'cause we use twice as much energy, is that what you're saying? >> yeah, and this will power four asian homes. >> so four homes in india, your native country. >> absolutel

i would prefer sweden to norway because sweden -- i am totally serious, sweden has done something no other country has done. they have forced paternity leave as well as maternity leave. if i had my way we would skip phase 1 and go straight to the things that are gender universal, namely if we have maternity leave we also have paternity leave and talk about child care, so we try to do this in as neutral a way as possible. the problem with the american workplace is the penalty women pay more often than men because women have the lion's share of child care but the american work force punishs you severely for doing things for your family. not in every sector but many sectors do that and if you're a man they punish you worse. try to be an american man who asks for paternity leave you are almost worse off than american women. >> i have read that in some countries that offer paternity leave men don't take it. >> in sweden it is difficult not to. they're doing a weird experiment that works wonderfully. >> in the interest of moving along and leaving time for audience questions i did want to s

there will be a solution to this situation but i'm sure i let me put it another way to think sweden will be the first port of call. well it depends i mean that has been the. urgent message to the swedes too to make given assurances that if julian goes to sweden to face the question that he's wanted for keep that in mind most charges being brought forth against him that this was the tories will give an assurance that he will not be extradited further to the states and they have not been able to give the us europe but. it's probably possible and it's one of the question about julia himself reporting a couple of weeks about ago concerns about maybe his mental health being holed up there for six months and affecting him you know him you've seen him you deal with him how is he. he's fine i mean he is. busy working he had a. rather bad cough the other day which turned out into a major news story. and i'm sure the mentally ill is coping with it yeah he's coping with. it well yes. the last time we saw him kristen was on the balcony of ecuador's embassy cues the u.s. of carrying out a witch hunt

sweden the u.s. and ecuador arcee correspondent on a stasia truck and takes a look back at what the past year has been like for julian a sausage. at least i have a voice. prisoners rarely even have a voice six long months and counting in a tiny room in london's ecuadorian embassy julian assange keeps himself busy been many messages from we. distinguish between them and we of course always. to increase individual privacy as well as overseeing corruption with. secrecy continuing to release secret cables put out not one but a million documents in the year two thousand and twelve they tried to cut off all his funding he's continued to function they haven't been able to arrest him and he seems to be doing quite well. addressing the world from his balcony speaking to the u.n. to museum history did not begin in december two thousand and ten and mohammed bouazizi did not set himself on fire so barack obama could be reelected and publishing a book on cyber security just some of the results of the last six mon

>> well, none have is 00% committed in doing so, except the uk and sweden.ers have indicated that they will look into it and there's the expectation they will join. maybe not immediately, maybe somewhere down the road. but at least they want to join. it remains to be seen whether they can join from the word go. in terms of which banks are being supervised, i think this is a typical eu compromise and maybe not a bad one. remember, france wanted all 6,000 banks being supervised. the germans said only 30 or so. we ended up with something closer to 150. and the option for the ecb pinpoint ago problem, even if it's the smaller banks saying, we have a problem there. we have to pull that into our supervision, they can do that. that seems to be the provision that we have here at the moment. so i think everybody could be out there and say, we won a little bit and that's how eu decisions usually work. you have to end up in a consensus that everybody can live with and at least we get a law that deserve tess name on track and then it could become operational in terms of

>> for bladder, we have done this -- >> trachea, they did it in sweden. >> we are going to intest andt valve. pancreas, liver and nerves take longer. but this is going to revolutionize. the fact that you can take someone's cells and regrow it into many cell, put it on a scaffold and let it grow and implant it, that's going to change the transplant field. because it's your cell, you don't need the steroids or medications that we used to give you and the rate of rejection is going to be really small. so this is great. >> eric: a medical miracle. >> that's amazing. back with sunday house call, do you have a fear of needles? stay tuned. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ breathes deeply ] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth! >> welcome back. are you afraid of needles? forget to take your medication on time? a wireless implant could help address these

. >>> three guys from sweden, taking a dip in northern australia. litchfield national park.ething is about to pay them a visit. it is that something's home turf. not happy about these guys intruding. >> i don't like how you say something. >> the guy has the camera filming his buddy felix anderson. felix over here this side of the screen. >> you think we can go through this? >> i think you may already see the something blending in. >> oh. >> why get closer? why get closer? >> watch this. you think he might be playing freeze. no boom! >> oh! >> did he attack that guy? >> he jumps at him like a flying ninja. look at this. and just a split second, that thing launches itself over the rock, almost slaps felix right in the face with its head. look at that. >> get out of the water. >> this one is small. what's to say there isn't a much larger one nearby keeping an eye on his baby. >> i don't know if he knew what was on e other side of the ro in the first karate tail whacked him. >> nothing gets your adrenaline pumping like a crock ka dial ninja. >>> check out this video captured out

when we had the first record we were in sweden but the future king of sweden.l kind of people who were kings and queens. and there were. tavis: you hated that first -- which raises the obvious question. you have that first single. it raises the question, which won the you absolutely adored? i know you'll love all. >> i have to say because diane sang the lead, i never got into the lyrics as much. now that i am seeing them i realize some of those songs that were released in the 1960's are so relevant today. and my being 68 and a half or more than a half but anyway, 69. seeing all the songs now i realize how wonderful the lyrics are. songs like "reflections," "you can't hurry love," these are heavy songs. you cannot say which you love best like children or grandchildren. this was we had great songs like "stoned love," those were really wonderful. it is hard to say which ones. tavis: when diana ross left the group, what made you continue? you took it up to 1977. and diana ross left in 1970. >> what happened was i always say this. we wanted - dared to dream and we m

the only thing is you have to go to sweden to get one. check this out. a commercial for this product. guy and a girl having a little coffee, latte on a bench, get up, jackets come off. shirts come off. oh, boy. pants come off. these guy and gal are completely nude. >> like the perfect gift. i was looking for something like this. >> this isn't the gift but it's close. as you see they're walking around here, the streets just have shoes on, high fiving and that pixelated affect over their private parts. eventually as they go on, they put some pants on, that keep the pixilation going. you can see there, these look like underwear they're wearing that have sort of a pixelated graphic over the his and her naughty areas. you could say. this is actually a commercial for byorn borg pixel pants. known for his style and fashion. here's the thing. you can get a pair of these pixel pants in long john form. all you have to do is show up at a bjorn bourque store and say pixel pants and you get a pair while supplies last for free. >> is it just me or do the lady pants ju

son sought refuge behind the doors of the ecuadorian embassy it was a bid to avoid extradition to sweden where he's wanted for sexual assault allegations that he continues to refuse to travel to sweden because if it will be extradited to the u.s. america investigating the wiki leaks website for publishing documents including dossier on the wars in iraq and afghanistan now despite having twenty four hour round the clock action it's been a busy six months to t.v. and we've had him publish a book we steamed concerns over his health who seem to live in a sound addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal calls police. say and of course we've had the on going process vigils in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website and in the next couple of days today the sun is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of mourning but in this case julian assange would be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what is that remains relatively unknown we see in the dramas unfolding over the last six months so yo

russia has not had the same experience so it is not as poss materialist as germany or britain or sweden but i do see a generational change toward that beginning to emerge in russia so it's tearing it started or needs to its head in early years and it is again what your experience then sweden but it's starting to move in that direction says a right old and will hide a renowned american sociologist and political scientist spotlight will be back shortly talk to a break so stay with where you are and we'll be back in the. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. choose your language. calling me kevin o. influential clinton today still some of the. treatments that is the consensus here can. choose to opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that entire life. choose access to often. olympic gold olympic. athlete. the speed. limit. which. league. plummets good

>> host: a lot of people say the northern european countries, norway, sweden, et cetera, is socialists. is socialism a term that is outdated? >> guest: i think it is. let's take an example. car companies going bankrupt during the last cycle. america, big capitalist country, doesn't have a social safety net. so if those companies were out of work it would be a social catastrophe so the company had to bail those companies it0. sweden had a car company that went bankrupt, saab, and because of the social safety net and restraining program, they let saab go bankrupt and let the market take its course. which is more capitalist, the country with the safety net that can allow the market to do its thing or the country without one that couldn't afford to let the market do its thing. >> the title, "inc." is this a oh-too? >> i suppose you could read it that way. it's more of a cautionary tale. it's a story how the growth of the power of private actors has spent dramatically, not just in the past decade but over the past thousand years. it's a historical trend just like the evolution of democracy

so i guess if the impact of my book can be to make goldman sachs partners feel like sweden has some things to recommend itself i'll be pleased that that sort of introspection though is probably rare i mean just in general it's where the but particularly in these circles it seems f. scott fitzgerald famously said you quote him in your book you know the. public paraphrasing a badly but the very rich are different from you and me from the rest of us. so he did say that and what's kind of interesting is the difference is not the one that fitzgerald identified in the rest of that quote he goes on to say essentially i'm paraphrasing like you that the rich are different because they're born with money they're born rich and that changes them what's interesting and i think actually central to the self identity of today's super rich is not all of them but quite a lot of them are people like leon kuperman they are the working rich and they are at least to some degree self made now when i say self-made you know i don't want to lean on that too heavily if you wish to become a plutocrat it is wis

in april this year in sweden coffee and it was delivering a lecture and at that time he was trying to broker some sort of agreement in syria in fact his whole lecture he was confessing his importance so if coffee enema himself could not bring down the players to the same table and work out an agreement specially because the syrian opposition didn't want it it's not the lock that brahimi who is going to do what kofi annan did you know so this ng will be going on and it's becoming like the lebanon civil war going to go on for fifteen years instead of just two it's all or as president assad says he's staying put whatever our correspondent sophie shevardnadze spoke to at length a couple of months ago remember a single one of recalls a twenty twelve. she asked him if he was afraid he said no he's not afraid it looks like he's going to stay also just just to point out that going into this last year now we're at least here in moscow two thousand and twelve almost everyone predicted that he won't make it and he made it. ok so it's judging and bringing in everything we've said it looks like he

i think i'm going to have to move to sweden. so when you even have the goldman sachs guy, and the swedish model is the only one that works. that says something. >> thank you. >> i'm not sure i know how to phrase this question. did you see any difference between the people that did create something? like bill gates and the guy from apple. as compared to the people who i just called paper manipulators, is there any difference in their attitude? i mean, bill gates i don't think behaves as though he's an entitled person, but i don't know him personally of course. he's doing a lot with the money that is good. i don't know the people on wall street. >> of course there are differences and certainly what i found quite an was to talk to any of these guys in each one will say in the abstract, guests can rent seeking in the case of garbage. by manipulating the government are very, very bad. i of course am not one of them. every single one sees the world that way. even the russian oligarchs to the world that way. i made my own fortune. all

the united states has fallen to seven in the latest ranks, finland and sweden are in the top five.ok at corruption, the united states ranks 19th in the comparative -- on the one hand, america has been losing us edge. but i'm also struck by the rise of scandinavia, a region that includes denmark, norway, sweden and if you broaden that definition, finland and iceland. these countries broad -- scandinavia is actually a much more free market -- capital is allocated by the market, the government doesn't own companies, regulation is usually light, corruption is nonexistent, companies can hire and fire easily, labor moves around, but these countries do tax a lot and spend a lot. on education, child care, health, and other things. now a recent mit paper suggests that there are limits to this model. it's called can't we all be more like scan nadinavians? brief it points out how the scandinavian welfare system provides a nun of benefits, more vacations, more health care, more equality. but when it comes to innovation, the u.s. still wins, for example if you look at patents filed for a millio

the winner of this year's lottery of life are wee ones births in switzerland, australia, norway, sweden and denmark. which i am sure are one country. this thing is already very suspect. the economist says the index was compiled using 11 statistically ipped caters noting being rich helps more than anything else, but things like crime, trust and public institutions and health of the family life matter too. all of this raises a question, can dogs jump over bottles? >> well, that's all of the evidence i need. dogs cannot jump over bottles. bernard, this is supposed to measure which countries will provide the healthiest, happiest life. but can we trust this study at all? >> well, first of all, let me just say i am offended that the study is racist. >> racist? >> boy, i tell you what it feels so good to be sank sanctimonious. how do you quantify? how do you measure happiness? if you have plumming or a roof over your head? if you are white and uptight and near a ski resort? >> i am all those things. >> don't underestimate living in the bush in south america or in the south pacific with your co

sweden's king carl gustov xvi awarded him the prize. after the ceremony, yamanaka said he enjoyed the ceremony, but has yet to take a close look at the medal. >>> in neighboring norway, the ceremony for the nobel peace prize has taken place. the presidents of the eu three main institutions collected their medals. european counsel president, baraso and eu parliament president martin schultz jointly accepted the prize. the prize committee said the 27-nation bloc turned europe from a continent of war into a continent of peace. rampai vowed to strengthen european unity andverce th economic crisis. however, critics say the prize is inappropriate, pointing out that the eu has failed to limit the impact of europe's economic troubles. those same critics are pointing at italy. what does this say about investors? >> it says that investors are selling bonds. that's why the yields are going up. it also implies these same people are getting cautious, incrsing cautious er the country. he says he will resign once the next budget bill is passed. the ra

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finland and sweden are in the top five. look at corruption. united states ranks 19th in the international transspirnlts index. denmark and finland are the cleanest. you can look at two things. america is losing its edge. each of these countries seem to dominate global rankingsly. why? what is their secret sauce? well, scandinavia is much more free market oriented than people realize. capital is allocated by the market. the government doesn't own companies. regulation is usually light. corruption is nonexistent. companies can hire and fire easily. labor moves around. but these countries do tax a lot and spend a lot on education, child care, health, and other things. now, a recent m.i.t. paper suggests there are limits to this model. it's called "can't we all be more like scandinavians." we've livglinked in paper. in brief it shows how they provide more benefits, a number of vacations, more health care and equality. but when it comes to in ovation, the u.s. still wins. the patents filed by u.s. residents the u.s. has moved far ahead of scandinav

. >> now to a good comeback story -- sweden [indiscernible] 1 hydro when a torn achilles' tendon ruiner chance for the olympics. then came the 2005 world athletic championships in helsinki. she made it back from injury and became the world champion. >> my greatest moment on sports and i would say my life was winning the world championship. getting a gold medal was fantastic and the preparation before i tore my achilles' tendon a few weeks before the olympics was my big bill. i don't believe this to start off with leader but i learned how to walk again and eventually i managed to come back. getting a little mental break as well. it was by far the greatest. >> i remember the competition itself. were you always confident? did the fortunes rise and fall? >> i was really nervous because i felt like this was my chance to win a "bridge into a gold medal. during the helsinki games, the weather was horrible. 10 degrees, pouring down and when we walked into the stadium, this guy opened up and it was like the sun came down for the first time. then all my anxiety left knee. >> the first feeling i

we're not quite to sweden yet, but we basically are spending like europeans, but we're not taxed like that. the idea that you can close that gap, i think he figured out if he can make this level of spending permanent, he changes the united states into a european socialism democracy and he'll be the most congress consl president of the last hundred years. >> it seems like we're close. we're right on the edge with all of the predictable results. >> i think you can be spee den if you -- sweden. he's risking ruin on a scale unknown, and of course, the other obvious point is that the youeuropeans are only able to do that because in fact the us army lives in germany and actually picks up their defense tab. you can't do it -- there's nobody to bail out america the way germany's bailing out europe. >> john boehner was on the program the other night. he said hey, i wasn't consulted about this latest offer. i wish i was. this talk about republican conservatives, tea party members that were purged from certain committees because they had a criteria list if they didn't meet or match the leadershi

santa showing off in sweden. he traded the traditional sleigh ride for a motorcycle. it didn't stop him from popping wheelies for the cameras. >> santa gets around doesn't he? >> some of the elves are dressing uplock santa -- up like santa. >> santa's already been here. >> guess what? he's got some pretty good weather here right now. >> he came to my house already. i've been so good that it was loaded with presents. >> he gave you this tie. >> he gave me the christmas tie today. >> you sure he gave you the tie today? >> i've been naughty. >> that was around last year. >> hey folks around the bay area today we got a serious storm headed in our direction. on this christmas day. lot of clouds pouring in across the skies right now not much in the way of rain although we are beginning to see a couple of rain drops show up in the north bay eight now. just some scattered showers out ahead of the main cold front. the winds are going to be kicking up throughout the morning and it looks like into the afternoon. they're going to get a pretty good soaking as system moving on thro

this summer in sweden, and this person saw these kittens in this nest, and was amazed that they wereust chilling up there. not knowing how they got up there, but they seemed to be quite cozy. >> i wonder how the bird feels when it comes back in the spring, hey, um -- this is our territory where we're supposed to be able to escape from cats. >> well, fortunately, the person that recorded this video also rescued the kittens. put them in a bag and brought them down. >> okay. good. >> so -- kittens are a-okay. you can see, very cozy in this bag right now. >> i was afraid you were going to say, mom was going to do like a bird. push them out and say, you've got to land on all fours. >> call 911. and this video, getting closer to christmas, santa's reindeer. >> oh! >> working their way to the north pole. >> warming up? >> getting close. >> stretching their legs. >> yes. >> that's cool. >> training. getting their cardio up. >> i didn't see rudolph. i was disappointed. >> too much of a big celeb. he's got to keep a low profile. >> he's like the bieber of reindeers. >> yeah. >>> a couple of gu