lester brown uses scientific and economic studies together with data from the world bank united states government m.p. united nations to draft a global budget for restoring the earth we look at the two sort of major components of what we think it's going to take to create a sustainable future one is poverty eradication and population stabilization and then we treat those as one because we think they're closely related when we put the budgets together for eradicating poverty stabilizing population plus what we call the earth restoration budget it comes to a total of one hundred sixty one billion dollars now that's a lot of money it's a third of the u.s. military budget. it's a third of the u.s. military budget and the u.s. military budget is half of the global military budget which is now about a trillion dollars and if you asked the question could we reduce the u.s. military budget by a third. and shift those expenditures into poverty eradication population stabilization earth restoration i think it's clear that we would do far more to insure our future than if we just stay with a half

to be lester brown used the scientific and economic studies together with data from the world bank united states government and the united nations draft a global budget was storing the earth we look at the two sort of major components of what we think it's going to take to create a sustainable future one is poverty eradication and population stabilization and then we treat those as one because we think they're closely related when we put the budgets together for eradicating poverty stabilizing population plus what we call the earth restoration budget it comes to a total of one hundred sixty one billion dollars now.

cheap loans into the banking system to begin with so in the fed's mind and ben bernanke he's world they're actually created a better situation more stable situation for the united states bank and now they're helping the rest of the world when in fact all they're doing is yes they're printing money they're deflating the dollar they're encouraging but by short term lending a situation that is inherently unstable rather than taking a look at how these banks are really operating and what assets are really there and what potential frauds have been caused by what things are truly valued and being realistic about a situation they do the same thing here they let banks continue to remain big to get bigger to to keep bad assets to continue in manufactured bad assets without looking at the problem pretending that throwing all of this money the fleetingly dollar was somehow going to be helpful and they have decided that it was even though it hasn't been and now they're basically doing the same thing so they are acting like the global hero when in fact all they are doing is creating more of a global catastrophe and you know of course one of the things too that we've spoken about o

well at the end of world war two the main driver was the robber baron banking families in the united states in 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 i always since its founding the power has resided as you pointed out with the security council and the rest of it is mainly a debating society and the west has used the un 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 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 who 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 baits so that's why the west mainly the u.s. and israel in england are now moving to try to even reduce t

united states are together. for almost half the votes in the army from the world bank so even if you made a voting system they would be able to get their candidates in providing to collaborate with each other but you don't want to system where it's assumed that one organization would be run by one country and the other would always have european and how do you think all of that have acted a year and personally i think the world is going through some very important structural changes and of europe is showing signs of strain i think is appropriate that the fund should do what is necessary but it's also appropriate that europe should bear a very large part of the burden and the cost and that's what's happening because the i.m.f. is working collaboratively with the european central bank on the world i think stability is very important for all of us and so far. they've done i think is the right thing but looking ahead as new sets of problems arise i mean there's always an issue that the fund must be not dominated by the concerns of any one part of the world or a trip be should be seen to be reflecting global interests a

united states are together. for almost half the votes in the i.m.f. and the world bank so even if you made a voting system they would be able to get their candidates in providing to collaborate with each other but you don't want to system where it's assumed that one organization will be run by one country and the other will always have your opinion and do you personally think that the euro is going to survive the creation of a single currency for europe was a pretty major. step i think is generally recognize that if you want to have a single currency it needs to be backed by a single fiscal authority now since euro zone is different countries they obviously don't have a single for school authority but to back a single currency they must have a very shared understanding of who's going to pay the bills if a problem arises that will become a substitute for the single part. i think that's been sufficient people killed i think that in the first flush of. a good feeling about the euro there was an assumption that a lot of benefits that come to european countries from having t

henri paul giving his views only old banks and world cup campaign more russia playing fields not available i mean. the feeling they really need parents with united states as they prepare for their next marriage against italy which you probably don't see blade in new zealand. but all that hand in the russian premier league president must be told on saturday to have any real chance of finishing in the top weight by the end of the regular season the top eight teams will progress to the championship rounds to fight the phillies tonight all the rest will go into the relegation rounds to decide which two teams will go down cousins are currently ninth in the table with something days left to play space other game sees a struggling lonely spot acknowledge it. now and in the meantime coach kelly clarkson's says spartak moscow and not happy after the league cup star striker balloting is banned from six games to three but didn't overturn it the brazilian forward is penalizing last month's moscow darby for attack like this and russian goalkeeper either what i can say is it's left a shot stopper sidelined for at least six months with a knee injury billiton is deter

giving his views only all banks and world cup campaign or russia they all returned to the playing field on saturday on. friday following make gruelling encountered united states as they prepare for the next march against italy which you probably don't see live in new zealand. football now and in the russian premier league clubs are must beat time on saturday to have any real chance of finishing in the top eight at the end of the regular season the top eight teams will progress to the championship round to fight for the title the rest will go into the relegation rounds to decide which two teams will go down that's not our partly not in the table with seven games left to play saturday's other games he's got involved in the response of nashik in the meantime coach for larry carpenter spartak moscow and what's happening after the star striker ballots is banned from six games to three didn't return it the brazilian for what it was penalized in last month's moscow darby's attack want to stop russia a goal from ego i can play of which left a shot stopper sidelined for the six months with a knee injury. now he's determined to resume playing the same as possible. exce

views on the old banks world cup campaign where russia will return to playing field on saturday after having a day off on friday following their grueling encounter with the united states is very prepared for very mixed marriage against a truly. blend in new zealand. football match and in the russian premier league cross no doubt must be told on saturday to have any real chance of finishing in the top eight at the end of the regular season the top eight teams will progress to the championship and the fight for the title the rest will go into the relegation rounds to decide which two teams will go down and are currently ninth in the table with seven games left to play saturday's other game sees the struggling involved spartak now shaking. hands in the meantime coach larry copping says spartak moscow i'm not happy after the league cup star striker balloting is banned from six games to three but didn't overturn it the brazilian forward was penalized in last month's moscow darby for a title on taste and russian goalkeeper either what i can face which left the shot stopper sidelined for at least six months with a knee injury. is determined to resume playing soon as possible

world bank president says time for muddling through this crisis is over. he says that the rest of the world is watching and waiting for the eurozone and the united states toort out their economic problems once and for all. our max foster asked him if he agreed with the irs view that the situation was getting more serious. >> i think that they're suggesting the odds are increased, and i agree with that. but what we started to see in august was the contagion effects of the issues in europe and the united states. and so for emerging markets, debt, for example, the bond yields in the spread increased some 70 basis points, about three-quarters of a percentage point. the equity markets, the stock markets, took hits as the developing countries did. the developing countries have already been suffering through the slow exports to the developed world. and the issue that i suggest that we have to watch closely is the domestic demand in emerging markets so their consumer confidence, the business investment, if that also starts to get influenced like developed countries do, then we'll lose what's really been in the bright spot in the world economy, the emerging market

united states of america. the united states of america has no capital requirements in its banking system. it has rigged trading agreements with the entire worldt is for sale through special interests in the congress. and i think the expectation is, whoever is the president, we would like for you to address the dysfunctional systems of america and money and politics. do you think i'm missing that? that the base frustration, people are aware that the military spends a bunch of money and is not giving us what we need. that health care spends a bunch of money and not giving us what