yes i think that i go back to the under cutting of social welfare by the inequality of distribution of wealth and income over the last thirty years that also allows the rich to have much more influence as the corporations have that's what we call neo liberalism on shaping government policy and that includes central bank policy what we've had since two thousand and seven when this crisis hit is what we used to call trickle down economics the central bank together with the treasury or with ever the government agency is bails out those at the top the biggest banks the biggest insurance companies the biggest corporations and it hopes may be that it will trickle down to everybody else we now know as we enter year five of this ongoing capitalist crisis that the trickle down didn't happen as most of us predicted it would not so now we confront the fact that we've wasted a lot of money dealing out the top keeping them in a place they could call recovery while everybody else suffers through this crisis and now they have the nerve to suggest that having failed in this trickle down policy the sol

the u.s. economy social inequality and corporate influence on u.s. politics these protesters say if american leaders can't act it will be the american citizens that stand up for their rights reporting from wall street or you know for not artsy. and here now to talk about this is allison kilkenny she is a reporter for alter net who has been covering the wall street protests and she was on the brooklyn bridge saturday so she can tell us exactly what happened thank you so much for being on the show i've been following all your coverage and you've been doing such a good job it's great to talk to you thanks very much and actually covering it over the nation excuse me i'm so sorry about it ok well for the nation now first of all i know that you were out there on the brooklyn bridge and there's been a lot of confusion and different accounts over just what happened that led police to arrest more than seven hundred protesters. why were so many people arrested you were there i actually i wasn't there but from what i gather from other reports and other journalis

speaker. >> the leader of the opposition. >> inequality is growing in canada. the middle-class is paying more and more. people are fed up. the finance minister is saying all this good, all is well. move along. why want to the prime minister listen to them and cancel his tax cuts? [applause] >> as part of our economic action plan, we put in place reductions in taxes for all canadians. we have taken almost 1 million low income canadians completely off of the tax rolls. we have 650,000 more canadians working than at the end of the recession. the economic action plan is working for canadians. i would remind everyone that the ndp will regain every aspect of that. [applause] >> the honorable member for dartmouth. >> this government has a track record as a bad negotiator. i am afraid they are at it again. with respect to the canada-year trade negotiations, people are saying canada will -- canada-eu trade negotiations, people are saying canada will come out badly. why does the government negotiate bad trade deals that put jobs at risk? >> mr. speaker, trade negotiations

they're making the point of inequality. have you could change the tax structure or something to change the way things are shared in this country. >> the president has to govern. that's a complicating factor. a protester who has a set of grievances but no particular agenda, that's easier for them. that's a huge number one difference. the president also understands or at least until the american jobs act that he should have to deal with the congressional republicans. with the american jobs act, that is a pivot point. i'm not going to deal with you. i'm going to argue with you. i'll argue on my basis and even if i lose down stream or i compromise, i want this argument to define you and me. i would say in the month since the american jobs act and i didn't think this would happen, i think the president has gotten more of his voice and has become more resonant on this topic then i would predict. chris: the 10-point shift toward the democrats in congress, dramatic shift. >> it shifted six points, who would you like to see in contro

that if i had to take a guess one of the main reasons would have to be this growing gap about the inequality in income within this country you know i think once in a while though and we talk about it all the time the race in america getting richer . for getting poor once in a while it is good though to see how this country compares to other countries in terms of wealth on a global scale so i want to put this graph up on this basically shows ultra high net worth individuals we're talking people with net assets of bob's fifteen million dollars out of all the countries up here the u.s. totally dominates being home to forty two percent of the group i want to get your take richard what do you think we should glean from figures like that you know certainly we can talk and talk about how this country of the u.s. is suffering our economy's suffering but when we see this we still have a lot of rich people there. well we have plenty of rich people but you know the interesting thing is there's even maps of the inequality in this country now among rich people we talk about we are the ninety nine percent

research we've talked a lot about on the show the greatest factor behind social mobility is wealth inequality as in the less equal a nation is the harder it is to move from being poor to being rich just like how our nation ranks dead last in social mobility we also ranked at last in wealth inequality in the developed world not something to be proud of back when forbes magazine released their top four hundred richest americans list a few weeks ago the problem a wealth inequality in unfair type station was brought to the forefront and that's when tom gave his take on the unfortunate direction our nation is headed and it's the subject of tonight's daily take. most americans learned about feudalism in high school it's that economic system that plagued medieval europe for most of the population lived as peasants toiling day in and day out just to get enough to survive while the small ruling elite class of landowners and nobles control all the wealth and property and basically were the only ones with any rights to learn about feudalism as though it is a primitive economic system something that's lo

the social gain from inequality to consumers of those goods probably dwarfs the entrepreneurial gain by a factor of ten or 20:1. >> reporter: so you mean the incentive for great wealth had steve jobs and bill gates create products which created so much value that it far outstripped the compensation to them? >> yes. and one of the fundamental mistakes about the egalitarians is they're so interested in trying to minimize differences that they don't understand the completely adverse effects that it has on the size of the pie. >> reporter: epstein worries about attempts to raise marginal tax rates-- that is, the percentages paid on higher amounts of income. you can tell the difference between a liberal and conservative by the following test: a liberal believes that changes in taxes have very little effect on production but huge effects favorable on distribution. folks like myself believe it's exactly the opposite-- very high tax rates or even small changes in taxes have very adverse effects on production and they do very little to produce redistribution because the money gets dissipated

system in the country in terms of the rich and poor the inequality got growing in terms of you know bank bailouts and the i. unfair system but one thing that has really started to happen is something that you know several communities in this country say they've been experiencing for decades and that is police brutality and you know the treatment of police that it's really kind of shed light on this what do you think in terms of denver and what you've seen and i'm sure that you do the website which you've been watching this sort of develop around the country do you think that some real changes some permanent changes in terms of police treatment of of the public will change i think it's inevitable at this point i mean i think it's usually so we could work overnight but the police response in new york i know this word and all those videos are sort of muscle drilled so i think. we see our numbers growing at the march is sort of equal or closed that particular show is on the table and we can see at least in general changes you know i guess is my last ques

and from bridging the gap of income inequality to fighting corruption to wall street control over washington tensions continue growing between main street and wall street so as the seeds for revolution are planted we'll explore the root causes behind these protests. video it's monday october third seven pm here in washington d.c. i laurin lyster and you're watching r t well occupy wall street protests continue in new york despite a weekend that song more than seven hundred activists arrested and jailed for marching on the brooklyn bridge today protesters remain camped out in lower manhattan undeterred going into a third week they're standing their ground over wall street riven says now aside from questions over whether police were too aggressive with the weekends or russ the questions remain about just what we're seeing with occupy wall street is this a radical left answer to the tea party a turning point in american history. we be seeing the start of a true revolution channeling the arab spring but the occupy wall street movement claims to be inspired by and response to the inequality pover

well we have plenty of rich people but you know the interesting thing is there is even massive inequality in this country now among rich people we talk about we are the ninety nine percent but if you take the ninety ninth percentile the that average tax form shows five hundred thousand dollars in income according to the study but if you go to the ninety nine point nine percent file it's more than four times as much and if you want to be on there i'm sure it would continue to get more and more and even you know the top four hundred families in wealth in this country in one thousand nine hundred five they paid thirty percent of their income in taxes which is much too low and at last report they paid sixteen percent so we're allowing this massive accumulation of extreme wealth and you know we're not doing anything about it well there's enormous need and enormous unemployment so people are wondering why. people are wondering that i don't know that but it's funny people do wonder why the department of treasury seems to be running dry and i guess that could be one of the reasons i want to take

towards the rapidly escalating anti wall street movement protesting all against corporate greed and the inequality. greece on the brink. scramble to secure more bailout cash for the crumbling economy with just a week to go until meltdown this is a french president warns of a global crisis. and an explosive standoff serbian blockades at a disputed border post and. hit hard by nato troops leaving several people. right now a special interview with no out. of the mit professor that's coming up for you right now. r.t. sitting down with world renowned scholar at linguist author and mit professor noam chomsky professor trotsky thank you very much for taking time to speak of our team square that with you the first shot to speak with you about is there recent clashes that have taken place on wall street between americans who are turning out to demonstrate and police officers from what i read you recently sent a message to support the activists of this group called occupy wall street you've called them courageous and honorable you can you talk to me about your take on occupy wall street well in the world i

a system they call unfair are succeeding in part with more discussion in the public eye about the inequality gap as well as the campaign finance system for example but many protesters say the country the country is still on the wrong track and they also started discussions about the extent to which so many here feel imprisoned and about how freedom is no longer a given in this country i want to dig deeper into this notion as today is the one hundred twenty fifth anniversary of the commemoration of the statue of liberty it was of course a gift from france to mark the friendship between the two countries and that old lady liberty is also a symbol of freedom and opportunity in a country that calls itself the land of the free and the home of the brave people have a very different idea though about what this means earlier i spoke to two people with two very different opinions molly president of less government and jesse an activist with the occupy wall street movement in new york who's been making his way around other movements around the country now i showed them a map this shows that if land in

the distribution of income, the inequality, is in the final analysis and national security issue, and it has to be examined that way. >> colby, if charles krauthammer were here, he would say that socking it to the rich would not make a difference in the debt could what we need is honest to god tax reform. >> he would say economic growth as well. it is not a matter of soaking the rich, it is a matter of people paying their fair share. with the earlier estimates of of those earning more than $250,000 a year, a substantial amount of income would come into the treasury debt would address some of the program's they want to support. >> what about the tax plans of the various candidates? >> romney, perry, 9-9-9-, or 9- 0-9, all skewed towards the upper income level. >> huntsman actually has a great plan -- it is charles' plan. out of the tax code. all economists agree that is the way to go. aid is getting no attention whatsoever. huntsman notns getting attention? >> he missed his great chance, chris wallace's one will question, would you accept $10 of cuts with $1 of increased, and all the r

new york city one of the most inequal place in the country. is going over very well. cuomo is in opposition to it. he was explaining his opposition. he says my father was governor of the state. he was against the death penalty. everyone in the state wanted the death penalty. everyone. it was near 80%. he said he was governor of the state. he wasn't going to sign it. the governor isn't a big poll taking a main the fact that everyone wants it that doesn't mean all that much. what do you think of his opposition to millionaire's tax and him comparing the moral righteousness of standing up for people on death true millionaires. >> how can you fathom an equestion valence on those two issues. in terms of new york state they are talking about extending tax ballisticses to weightier folks that should have been extended. andrew cuomo is wrong about this. the consequence of his opposition to the sort of ration enamel tax policies that should be put in place we're caught our investments in education, health care, infrastructure, the very sort of investmen

the u.s. on a social inequality and corporate influence on u.s. policy these protesters say if america's leaders and it will be the american citizens that stand up for their rights reporting from wall street reform party. so just what happened up as battle on the brooklyn bridge and what are we seeing take shape and laura manhattan and spread across the country joining me to tell us is marcel carty a he's a rap artist and occupy wall street protester thanks for being on the show now i know you were on the brooklyn bridge this weekend and you were arrested describe what happened. well the first thing that i want to do before we get into the details of the situation is just to address the role of the police in a capitalist society and we have to be clear on that the role of the police in the calculus society is to protect the property owners the billion the bankers the ones who are referring to as the one percent so it's no coincidence that while they were locking up our seven hundred brothers and sisters j.p. morgan chase gave the four point six mil

the inequality that exists in society. >> think that we just need to change, we need to do what we supposed to do, we need to worry about our un

a lot of disparity in wealth fuels of the inequality and on fairness. >> i gave up a career as a political journalist and decid there was no way to fix congress or the white house but a lot being done in the financial world. what can the private sector do to respond to some of these issues? >> first of all, the private sector has to listen and try to understand. i think is missing p people even if their mesessages s are modeled you have to listen them and begin a dialogue. as this pain grows in this kind of ecomy, wewe are not growing jobs. is a problem that we ought to start a dialogue. anything that we can do to really address and create jobs has to be done. in my opinion, it is the private sector th will do that and not governmement. to the extent that we can band together and thehe private sector can fina level of confidence which i think is going to come from the policy makers, if they say we will keep our hands off go out there and be creative entrepreneurs, those jobs will be created. it is a bit of a chchicken and egg, but listening to these folks isery important. >> a former o off

the total inequality of our system. they are at the right place. this is main street versus wall street and i'm glad to see this. this is the same thing we have seen in wisconsin, ohio and thank god it is now hitting wall street and getting the national media and getting everyone's attention and the fact it is spreading to boston, to san francisco, this is something that can be the creation of a movement that we need in this country to basically readdress what's going on here and basically go after the tea party. >> mr. hoffa, there's been all kinds of descriptions from the right wing. i want you to see this. this is paul brown describing the protests today. >> i see people angry in my district, too but this attack upon business, attack upon industry, attack upon freedom and i think that's what this is all about. >> what's your reaction to that, mr. hoffa. >> that is typical tea party language that basically, you know, they can send our jobs overseas. they can horde money. they can lay off americans and that's okay, but if you say anything about it

the capitalist equally with the downside insofar as occupy wall street is protesting against the inequities of the capitalist getting the upside that we the people get in the downside i am with them but i think that they are not that's not exactly what they are protesting i think they are not after a proper capitalist revolution something very different though they do say they complain about bailouts really quickly we're almost out of time but you've cited the stuff bank of boston as an example of opposite today were directors were personally responsible for mistakes is this a model breaker everyone should be moving towards and should government regulation be aimed towards that. yeah we need less government regulation and we need more ownership thanks no need more capitalism we need more capitalism there's this constant demand more capital the banking system what is banking system desperately needs is more capitalism and less regulation and we're out of time for now i would love to hear your ideas about how to get there we'll have to have you on again if you'll come that was james grant edi

and operation occupy wall street and the inequality of corporate influence grows in the u.s. as protests have into their third week fury has turned towards the police following a series of arrests and allegations of little behavior. and that's my take you wanted for to the picture perfect of the board a melting pot of russian a swedish and finnish culture do stay with us. hello and welcome to the program on this week show we continue our exploration of the old men evil to out of the bag ok said in the northwest of russia after st petersburg it's a popular tourist destination because so much harder old cobbled streets and picturesque orthodox cathedrals there's plenty to see to do in the region. typical of a looks like there's a storm coming here soon and with the umbrella is always a good thing for tourists to have joining autumn in russia and weather aside one thing that has certain iraq to debug recently is growth opportunity and an increase in businesses the bench is an important transport hub connected by the railway network to st petersburg moscow karelia and finland's a

tavis: speaking of inequalities, we focus on the salute and on the black glove. what we never talk about are the beads, the bare feet. walk me through symbolic parts of the attire that you had on that day. >> let's start with the black gloves. we felt for the first time ever they had been televised worldwide. the second thing, the fact that it was in color. no games had been shown in color before. we wanted to be understood that we were representing america but black america in particular. that's why we put the black glove on. the beads around my neck indicated there were so many blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings. then the black socks emphasize the fact that we had so many blacks. the greatest country in the world running around in poverty every day. had to walk 20 miles to and from school every day with no snuse the greatest country in the world. we wanted to bring attention to the fact that we had so many zeals taking place that we could have -- deals taking place that we could have brought about c