country in the world is asking an adversary for help providing heating assistance to needy americans i guess uncle sam should have thought about the heating bill before saying give me your tired or and humbled masses. bands caught in the act mainstream media is all tangled up in the election coverage these days and busy chasing down g.o.p. nominees for exclusive interviews there's something missing from the news like the facts for instance well explain. and fighting the system can be difficult but mixed martial arts icon just monson isn't one to back down from a tough match our two will get in the ring with the snow man himself. well it's friday january sixth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine friends out there watching r t well there was some celebration out of

the white house today in response to the latest job numbers it was not only a lowering of the unemployment rate but it exceeded expectations by nearly everyone here's president obama just a little earlier. this morning we learned that american businesses did another two hundred and twelve thousand jobs last month all together more private sector jobs were created in two thousand and eleven than any year since two thousand and five. according to the labor department employers added a net of two hundred twelve thousand jobs and the unemployment rate fell to eight point five percent so good news and of the year spike let's look also at last year's numbers for the same month the unemployment rate also fell but last year it fell to nine point four percent with an increase of one hundred three thousand jobs so a little bit of a difference here and i don't think you're going to hear many people saying you know this year's numbers are bad news but you also won't hear too many telling the

whole story so we want to try to do that for you earlier i spoke to max fred wolf a senior analyst for the green crest capital about this i asked him if these added jobs were simply a seasonal stuff temporarily hired for the holidays or if this was really good news here's his take. i think it's somewhere between those two things so we know that the e-commerce space or eat tailing did very well people ordered an unusual number of things online and bought them online for the gift season here in november and december and we also know from today's jobs report that about fifty thousand are one of every four new jobs created was created warehousing and transportation is almost certain that some of that will come down we also know that most of the jobs we saw hundred sixty eight thousand of the two hundred thousand jobs that we learned were created over the month of december two thousand and eleven were in the service sector that's about eighty two percent services that does tend to be a little bit more volatile that being said these are better numbers than we've seen in their part of the strengthening trend which is guardedly good news although i

think the verdict is still not in and it does look like we have had a pattern now for three years where the first few data points in the new year so the december january are often pretty good and then the economy has some trouble going forward and there are some reasons to believe that that may be the case again this year visit the tensions with iran and the ongoing serious problems in the euro zone i want to take a look at some other things happening right now in this country max here's a story that we should be seeing everywhere right now in wichita kansas boeing has announced they're going to be shutting down its eighty year old plant there so this means that two thousand one hundred sixty people will have to look elsewhere for work although if you know anything about wichita there really isn't anywhere else to look and some of those jobs are going to be going to other factories in other areas but here's what the company says in a statement it said in this time of defense budget reductions as well as shifting customer priorities boeing is decided to close its operations in wichita to reduce

costs increase efficiencies and drive competitiveness all right so this is happening but guess what last year the chairman and c.e.o. of boeing jim mcnerney got a little bit of a raise just about one of the half percent but that puts him in the nineteen point seven million dollars range and only twenty million in salary for one person well more than two thousand people who build airplanes lose their jobs what is going on here. well i mean i think sadly that wichita boeing decision moving some of those jobs to illinois and washington state will be will hit particularly hard in part because as you did point out boeing jobs are very good jobs in there very few high paid manufacturing jobs for those folks to look for next to in the wichita area and they just do it it's kind of consistent with the pattern we've seen which is part of the reason i think some of the cheerleading around these job numbers is a little premature and that is we've had a hard time finding jobs for people but we had a much harder time creating jobs with a living wages in the united states one of the reason those boeing jobs are so

widely sought after is that the unionized boeing manufacturing job is still one of the best benefits one of the best paid jobs out there so while for the u.s. macro economy it's good news that those jobs will probably end up largely in washington state no noise state on the other hand for wichita it tells a story of communities that are still very vulnerable and it highlights that we're even less good at producing good jobs than we are producing jobs over the last few years i think it's a really important point to bring up something i don't think i mentioned which is that in these all these new jobs created last month i think the majority of them were jobs for current couriers drivers you know truck drivers and people who deliver things so i think that tells a story too you know it's interesting max the other day we were talking about whether or not america is ready for a multimillion dollar president and mitt romney of course i'm talking about and i want to put up this quote that i saw that suggests you know maybe maybe now we are mit professor paul osterman said think about who gets their cover on the cut who

gets their picture on the cover of fortune he used to be the ones that were admired the ones who treated their workers as a family now it's all about reengineering downsizing and shareholder value so talk about this shift max i mean is there no turning back. well i mean things can always change and there's one thing you learn from a study of history it's that predictions are mostly a way to hang yourself and so the future's not unknown it's unknowable that being said we've been on the long thirty to forty year trajectory toward being kind of more and more short sighted in a little bit more materialistic so the best of american business involves building enduring brands and production and distribution methods they really contribute to both job creation but also to the meeting of human needs and desires and the sort of least good elements of american business tend to be to get rich quick schemes where everything is the zero sum game and you grab as much for yourself as possible building nothing to last and doing nothing for anyone else and we certainly seem to

have gotten that balance wrong of late i don't think it's impossible or unthinkable that we get back toward greater balance than we are at the present moment i certainly hope so and there are occasionally someone carving signs along the way although it would have one would have to be honest and say that has not been the trajectory we've been on and that was max fred wolf senior analyst at green crest capital. well by the end of this month a whole lot of people in this country will be losing the ability to heat their homes this is a result of the budget and you may remember quite a bit of funding was cut from the federal low income home energy assistance program while our own marine important took a look at another program that's helping some of those people hundreds of thousands of them actually but where that help is coming from from is not welcomed by everyone. winter morning in the south bronx new york city outdoors the temperature is near freezing indoors. seventy seven year old alice many otis is bundled up

brewing up pot of coffee and raising the heat just enough good to take the chill out of the air the retired grandmother of seven lives alone on a fixed income and each winter as federal programs continue to be slashed the struggle to. come for gets harder i go around screaming and waving i mean all they do was raise raise raise raise and i mean it's the same dollar you get in so how far can you push it one hundred gallons of oil one hundred fifty gallons of oil is about right now about close to six hundred dollars however venezuela has been stepping in to make alice's life a bit easier by delivering one hundred gallons of free heating oil each winter she is a four year beneficiary of the citgo venezuela heating oil program which provides free heating oil to five hundred thousand more americans living in low income neighborhoods and shelters throughout the country president chavez often demonized

by washington march the program in two thousand and five following hurricanes katrina and rita all i know is that he was caught and he was crying to the people of the united states and i'm sure he he he ruled differently like obama differently and who we to tell these people how they should live or how i mean are they good invading our country with their not being generous to give us what comes out of their earth at no charge so could you really have ill feelings against them. i'm thankful for it. i really am in an interview with the venezuelan newspaper el universal america's leader well sort of expressing similar sentiments of gratitude president obama recently accused the chavez government were strict in human rights and taking frightening steps. democratic values the venezuelan leader didn't mince

words while responding directly to his u.s. counterpart you know want to i feel sorry for you just toss the black communities in your country what you mean to them you the greatest disappointment of recent years the poor people of your country and you're a great disappointment to them it's time that we stopped minding everybody else's business and took care of business we have children that are graduating from college with eighty ninety one hundred thousand dollars that they have to pay back it's dippy it's looming in them just and they can't get a job a struggle getting that much harder in the land of opportunity really important r.t. . all right let's talk now about the presidential campaign now dow what we see and hear could impact the economy in the future and from twitter to facebook to the dozens of debates there's two this week and by the way this race is being covered.

but other candidates really being investigated or does the mainstream media simply pick and choose the best soundbites and just replay them over and over remember when the media was supposed to have a responsibility to the public what happened to that to really get to the bottom of the candidates to ask them hard questions and i select their answers not in one hundred forty characters but in a way that calls them out when they're wrong and presses them on the things that they're not clear about well earlier i spoke to christopher chambers a journalism professor at georgetown university and i want to get his take on this and also i asked him what we can expect from now until election day take a look. let's let's pick a couple of examples by these lovely men who have been together entertained for the last year with it and so she draws no more bachmann she's out so let's start first with rick santorum where over the weekend on meet the press. i would be saying to the iranians you to open up those facilities you begin to dismantle them and make

them available to the inspectors or we will degrade those facilities through air strikes and make it very public that we are doing that the president has done so yet and lay out a red line and if they passed that airstrikes by president sent sent to our iran will not get a nuclear weapon under my watch all right here is rick santorum singing his old song about bombing iran and all that right and he's talking about the nuclear facilities thing that's getting out n.b.c.'s david gregory knows that iran's nuclear facilities are already under the inspection of the i.a.e.a. but he didn't correct then why not well you have to understand that this is four years ago during the two thousand and eight campaign and i came up with this theory about kind of the sports sort of model of coverage and twenty four hour news cycle that's been tracked later this recently this week by pat hurty in the atlantic really talking about e.s.p.n. as the e.s.p.n. eyes ation of of news and you know part and parcel of that because it fits the economic model you know you don't have to put

a lot of you know investment in investigative reporting it can be all entertainment is that you go for the visceral you go for the stupid you highlight the stuff that will keep somebody from taking that remote and going somewhere else you don't get that by correcting a candidate who's either dwelling in the murk of a very complicated issue or out and lying i mean this is one example we're where he is he's basically crossed the line from merck to lying you know there's been numerous situations in the republican debates. you know from months ago until very recently where you know you mentioned it when your intro ing i mean how many debates have there been not by fox news but by news outlets which are supposedly hostile to the republican candidates and they've just let them talk and let them say just a some of the most outrageous things not. just in the murk but bordering on lies might cause you you need to engage that audience and then pull them into that you

don't want to be the person that you know would be sickly old siskel and ebert and give spoil the plot you want to push it along i think you said a couple of things chris that really stick out in my number one it is very expensive to pay reporters to pay journalist to actually do investigative work not something that can be done in one day or one week in a lot of time it takes a lot of phone calls to take digging and dirt and knocking on doors and still paying that person to do it and that's why we see that so the less i think that's interesting i hadn't heard that the e.s.p.n. as a nation it does seem that a lot of sports you know journalist that i know kind of our buddy buddy west with the athlete well it's and that's that's just that's one aspect of it it's the buddy buddy aspect of it it's the not drilling down into the deeper stories aspect of it is taking the sensationalistic stories say penn state and simplifying them and not really drilling down so you take you move it to the to the political field it's

a perfect fit it's a perfect slide and you know in there and there you can really develop the whole pundit sort of situation where you have so if you're seven people arguing well that's that's a sports bottle and it doesn't even matter so much what they say as how they say it if they say something that's going to generate discussion that's all the matter exactly imette to you be said with rolling stone it doesn't matter what you say it's how you say it what your cue score is and how you can connect to that target demographic and that's what's going on here you don't get that interrupting people they don't want people to be egg heads or or annoying you know me you know the ironic thing is that meet the press itself forty fifty years ago when i got him lawrence spivak was the first host he used to interrupt people always helmet or he would give the you know you know a look let's take the scenario and if something seemed a little off kilter because he did his research he would call them on it. that changed when tim russert took over that is little that i had

a bloody sometimes but i think russert had a couple examples anyway to moving on from for meet the press we'll take a look at another interesting example this is mitt romney the other current front runner and something he said the other day that he also wasn't really called out on . heartbreakers are people my friend we can raise taxes that of course they are every day corporations are and also what it goes to people so where do you think it goes. what i mean at least the people in the audience were calling out and let some people like him right exactly exactly that i mean this is just another example of you know so so what what's going to change or what are we going to say we're just going to continue to see that for the next eight nine months i think we are i mean because even when you have. like political or. other mainstream media directed organizations i mean even the the outlets themselves of the three networks and then the cable giants coming back later and say say well this is

what's so so sudden this debate is what so it's us and the speech and taking it apart they get they don't you know it's not at the point of contact a lot of this stuff takes place in the bates right there in the press conferences and nobody presses them on it what they try to do is separate that out so you'll go to their website or so you listen to the pundits that night argue about it but there's no depth you know and that you know you compound that with the fact that they've got embedded journalists with these people which is nothing new there were people following abraham lincoln around from harper's weekly the difference is that these people actually tried to dig up not only the substantive stories but the human interest stories what is it like to be a candidate what's that like in your family they don't do that anymore again because they want the kind of super physiology the quick news because you know fast information is the commodity so if they can break the gossip not the not the policy issues not the investigative stuff not checking and fact checking or what these

people are doing then they serve their purpose and then the networks can say oh we've got somebody embedded with mitt with mitt romney you know kind of keep up with the joneses kind of thing they're not doing anything but just following him around ringing wording and selling what he said. it's actually worth reminding that i saw a funny quote the other day on bloomberg it said in the restaurant or with cantaloupes you're probably looking for the best among a variety of appealing options however at the caucuses or in the voting booth you're probably thinking the least objectionable among a group of yes i am although you know that's a really well well put way to say i mean with what's going on with our system sadly chris we're out of time sure always trying to have you here especially at the end of the week to round things out thank you christopher chambers a journalism professor at georgetown university well these are troubled times we live in despite those positive jobs numbers we talked about a little earlier in the show the economy is still in many ways in shambles and with the presidential campaign in full swing there are of course plenty of ideas being

thrown around about how to fix things but few people are offering real think outside the box new ideas so we decided to look elsewhere and we want to introduce you to an american mixed martial artist and political activist jeff monson. all right so if you follow m.m.a. you may know him as snow man he's a two time winner of the a.t.c.c. submission wrestling world championship also a brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion jeff is also a self-proclaimed an artist and he's very outspoken about some of his views about this country and its place in the world just a little earlier he joins me from our miami studio i asked jeff what's his recipe for change and here's what he had to say. for you that work in this country right now you know the police department the fire department those kind of things they're really social energies and you know we have a bank we have you know u.s.

banks that only charge like one percent interest and you know guaranteed loans to people and was a nonprofit organization and we did this with the health care you know those are things that could help this country right now. and jeff i know that you've said in the past that we need a political revolution we need a social revolution what do you mean by that talk a little bit more about. well you know you know whether it's obama or the republican candidate that you know gets in there as as president it's going to be the same thing you know obama came in with all these high expectations of you know which change in the health care system changing the way you know our economy is ron you know green jobs all this and he ran into a brick wall and he's finding that out now he's having to sacrifice a lot of his ideals for you know the status quo you know party as usual so you got to get all those people out you have to have the people make a decision you know we live in

a democracy supposedly but it's not really democracy it's core proxy and the corporations are the ones that run the country and the government goes along with it because that's where the money is. you say that president obama had to sacrifice some of those ideals what do you think it is you know what what is in place in this system that made him i mean he certainly came in i remember four years ago all the speeches he made he came into office you know with a lot of big ideas what do you think happened between the time that he was inaugurated as you know and before that and now. well i remember when we were news in our great in and i was actually doing a speech that night for a left wing group and people in the group where there was some liberals in there they're actually crying because they were so happy and they thought the world was going to change the united states were going to change and you know bush was out but i was you know i won and i think that things are going to stay as usual and. i

think he just the reality set in you know he had to take a lot of he earned more money for his campaign in any other president in history people realize and so they want something in return for their contributions he you know he's in power because of a reason not because necessarily had the best ideas or he's the best speaker he was the best candidate for what the corporations thought they could get. and mccain and he's in there and he owes them and he kind of run into a brick wall like i said and he's got to pay him back and you know the corporations really run this country you know it's back when hillary tried to chevys sweeping idea that she was going to change the health care system and guarantee health care for every american citizen and i remember her talking to congress and they were literally laughing out or i'm like you don't understand how things work here so i think obama is running in the same situation to be fair though jeff i mean you're not a person that necessarily embraces government as it is i want to put up

a picture we have a photo of you taken in olympia washington and this is you spray painting the capitol building there talk about your idea of an arche and i also how these views affected your career. well people always ask me the anarchy has a name kind of with the media you know when people go break things in a story things are like i was anarchy it's chaos but really anarchy to me means. everybody has absolute freedom and what i mean by absolute freedom is that absolute freedom to do what they would like to do with their life you know when you look at it as not just the economy's bad in america you've got to look at the world people don't you know take their world view sometimes and i see you know the u.n. says a fifty four percent of the world goes hungry every night lives on less than two dollars a day but i also see the people that you know maybe in america that are of the working poor and stuff like that they can never like what i call self actual lies what they want to do you know how many people want to work at wal-mart or want to

work at a gas station or want to be a cab driver maybe that's what they want to do and great but so many what i think is the worst thing of this is you know people united states around the world are not be able to do what they want to do with their lives you talk about you know medicine and you know the next great a limp dick athlete or maybe even the next great m.m.a. fighter or you know the next painter or a great teacher all these things get lost when people are just trying to survive trying to get you know something for their kids or themselves they either put a roof over their head or you know simply have enough to make it through the day so actually contributing to society we waste you know our potential as human beings and i think that's the biggest crime of you know what we call capitalism and these views just don't seem that outlandish to me i guess but i know that these views and some of the things you've been associated with have had an impact on your career i know that i was reading you were spoke out a deal with

a nutrition company and that got paul talk a little bit about what i mean you're a world famous fighter and a lot of organizations don't want to be associated with you why do you think that is. well like i said i said the media has kind of idea what anarchism is and this i was right you move people ask me what it is i said what do you think an ideal society would be like if you could make your utopian society and everything idea what would you want and people say well you know everybody's workin and you know there's health care for everybody and schooling for people that want to go to school and secondary school and people have a roof over their head and transportation and i said that's where anarchy is people have the. are able to utilize these things that we have enough for everybody that that's really what it is and it's it's a system of absolute justice is what it is as far as my career has been hurt me fighting the fight all over the world and no organization if you're outspoken you

know it draws fans so they're not going to turn you away but there's far sponsorship is very difficult me to get a sponsorship right now because. of the way like i said it's been portrayed you know spray paint the capitol building and get arrested for protesting this kind of thing and you know sponsors don't want to be associated with that so money wise it's it's definitely cost me as far as being a part of organizations actually fighting it hasn't and yet you still do it. you happy you got a you got a bill look at yourself and i'm here in the morning right now i've got kids and i want them you know i want them to be able to grow up in a in a world where you know they have you know there's justice and they have the potential to do what they want to do and just real quick jeff i let's talk about the presidential campaign unfolding right now i'm wondering do you like any of the candidates is anyone saying anything that's that sort of resonating with you. you know i guess everybody has like ideas that goes on or i like you know if you had to

choose one i mean some of ron paul's ideas are you know gone strictly on the constitution and this. you know they sound really good and in my opinion he's the one that's probably luis likely to be affected by campaign talk contributions or being swayed by you know people giving him money and that kind of thing but then there's you know the talk of his you know racist ideas as well and immigration and that when you when you vote you're putting someone else's. idea of what should be instead of your own you know you're given someone else permission to make decisions for you and it's kind of strange to me that people would give that kind of power to someone else you know because we vote for someone and then we kind of complain and everything's every four years something always remains the same it change change change that's that's everyone's key words because they don't like what went on before and you know the new candidate says we're going to change or it

may change but when is it ever really going to change that's why i say we need a social revolution not a political revolution we've got to change the system all right make it you know like that said people say capitalism isn't working it's falling i say it's working perfectly and that's why we have the trouble that we have now all right very outspoken american mixed martial artist and political activist just months and we appreciate you being outspoken with us today thanks so much well that's going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered go to our g dot com slash usa and check out our you tube page you tube dot com slash r g america you can also follow me on twitter at christine for example we'll be back here in thirty minutes. they there still believe the option of. what a test nobody seems to know. that never

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