and today labour is in hock to the trade union barons, after their government stipend, 95% of labour's money comes from unions. most of it from just four of them. let me be clear, the values of trade unionism are as relevant as ever. supporting workers. fighting for fairness at work. but i don't think the unions should be able to buy themselves a political party. ed miliband says he wants to loosen the ties between labour and the union barons who helped him beat his brother. let's see him put his money where his mouth is. let's see if he'll support radical reform of party funding. every previous attempt has been blocked by the vested interests in the other two parties. we are all stuck in a system that we know is wrong. we've all been damaged by it. but if we learned anything from the expenses scandal. it is surely that if the system's broken. we should not wait for the next scandal. we should fix it and fix it fast. so whether it is securing the economy, sorting the banks or cleaning up politics, we are making the big, difficult decisions. not easy, but right. that's what it means to

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driver was the robber baron banking families in the united states and england and they got the vanquished european nations to sign on and russia signed on to a certain extent the soviet union and that's why always since its founding the power has resided as you pointed out with the security council in the rest of this mainly a debating society in the west is used that you in as a place to basically get all the world leaders in one place so they can have the i.m.f. and world bank come in and attempt to buy them off or set them up or use different sex operatives on them but more and more the un has become a more than a debating club and it's become a place where opinions not popular with the ruling elite get voiced by the majority of other nations and see israel as an apartheid state regardless of which side of that debate you're on and so now more and more the un is being shown to be ceremonial and to be basically nothing but a arena for these fake debates so that's why the west mainly the u.s. and israel in england are now moving to try to even reduce the power of the u.n. more because more and more it's not going along with their different directives so that's basically m

the labor union, and together, those threesomes doing something. you can't take government out of the picture because government is collective will of us. if you want to go back to the rugged individuals and the robber baron19th century, that was great, government was nothing and we were terrible back then. >> tom, you advocate a third paty. mayor michael bloomberg in new york has said on this program no way, no how is that going to happen. he would be among the strongest contenders to try to carry that off. >> well, it does seem to me that we do need a shock. lik the shock therapy we administered to the soviet union at th end of the cold war. the system needs a shock. i agree with paul, i hope the next election will be on a big idea, but i hope it's not just big government versus small government. i hope it's our formula for success and getting back to it. people come to michael ame say does your book have a happy ending? and we tell everyone, it does have a happy ending. we just don't know it's fiction or nonfiction. that really depends on us. but what makes me optimistic is that this country is still fu of people who just didn't get the word, and they are starting things and inventing things and creati

baron's board bergen archipelago. well that wraps up our special coverage from our spitsbergen but you can still find this and other reports we have of the northern most outposts of the soviet union all of that of r.t. dot com and also online for you right now a soft landing and a warm welcome home for a team of space travelers who returned to earth after six months to. international space station. and air show tragedy in the u.s. as a seventy four year old stunt pilot crash this is vintage plane to spectators you can get the full story at our dot com. i'll be back with a recap of all our top stories but first the business news. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update three e.u. energy majors have agreed to take a fifty percent stake in russia's project the natural gas link will go on to the black sea and then on to italy and austria it's meeting europe's growing energy demand italy's any will get a twenty percent stake while germany's whole and the french firm will each get fifteen percent. of the signing wealthy saul stream pipeline deal spells bad news for ukraine when completed russian gas supplies to europe will bypass ukraine and reduce its ability to leverage

the labor union, and together, those threesomes doing something. you can't take government out of the picture because government is collective will of us. if you want to go back to the rugged individuals and the robber baronf the 19th century, that was great, government was nothing and we were terrible back then. >> tom, you advocate a third paty. mayor michael bloomberg in new york has said on this program no way, no how is that going to happen. he would be among the strongest contenders to try to carry that off. >> well, it does seem to me that we do need a shock. lik the shock therapy we administered to the soviet union at th end of the cold war. the system needs a shock. i agree with paul, i hope the next election will be on a big idea, but i hope it's not just big government versus small government. i hope it's our formula for success and getting back to it. people come to michael ame say does your book have a happy ending? and we tell everyone, it does have a happy ending. we just don't know it's fiction or nonfiction. that really depends on us. but what makes me optimistic is that this country is still fu of people who just didn't get the word, and they are starting things and inventing things and

back in the day, back in the 19th century before i was born of course they used to call them robert barons. barons. malakhov and job creators. this is not just a union fight again. this is a fight of middle-class, this is an attack on the middle class. we're under attack. shared sacrifice. i'm going to answer your question briefly. [laughter] but the talk by shared sacrifice interstate. i say okay. we sacrifice and a shared. $800 billion has been taken from education. voter id, voter registration, i call the voter suppression. reducing state income tax credits. $65 million over the next two years was taken from single-family homes. struggling, barely making it. 12,000 women that went to planned parenthood, not for abortion bridges for basic care, taken away. off funding for planned parent that is gone. our child labor law, if you're under 18 years in wisconsin you can work longer hours, more days. so this is not just a get a unified but one of the greatest strengths of the nsa from one of of the greatest is that we have developed and sustained a strong middle class pick the best middle class in the country. the unions, that's our job. we protect the