if you go into the places where petro ecuador operates it's like going to. times. these people are ruthless they care about nobody. in one thousand nine hundred two when i got here i was one of the first ones to arrive and there was absolutely nothing only a mountain. one day i went to work in a road construction and when i returned i found five tractors destroying my farm. but when i went to petroecuador to protest they insulted my mother and told me to get out of here he treated me in an awful way there was nothing i could do. but. power. the military comes in and beats us up and nothing is done about it. in the end we're better off dying. i am. i am i am. they are terrorists armed with dry falls and dynamite. they have a stablished a reign of terror. thinking that the government will continue to put up with them so why do you believe. they won't have their way sirs the anarchy is over the party is over we will apply the law order for the well being of ecuadorians i will not hesitate. the cause is a revolt by the area's residents who put a barricades and closed t

state owned petro ecuador was the want to inherit all texaco facilities and infrastructure as soon as the company left the country afterwards contra pet expired unfortunately as a reality shows petro ecuador also inherited the bad practices of the past. if we had any kind of alleged responsibility it stopped existing eighteen to twenty years ago when petro ecuador took charge of all tech school facilities. petro ecuador has cost eight hundred eighty two oil spills in six years why don't they do anything against petroecuador say look if they were interested in people's health and in nature then why are they doing nothing against petroecuador. why only against a multi-national company that left twenty years ago and has been acquitted by the government i'll tell you why it's what americans call the deep pocket. that's the only possible explanation if you simply use. their strategy is simple they left ecuador in one thousand nine hundred two but we only began the trial in the us in one thousand nine hundred three when they couldn't accuse the state oh company of anything. in the past eigh

so up ok but there's another dynamic here so i understand that you've got oil companies corrupting petro states and people are tired of having the resources stolen from them and living in poverty in so-called rich countries with this is not why we saw the riots in tunisia and egypt and other places ways and we're seeing riots is because the price of food and oil are skyrocketing not because of the oil companies taking over the government but because they're running out of oil and the prices so high the food is so high in other words nature itself is becoming a factor here these peak oil stories becoming a factor independent of how corrupt all companies are the price is still going higher and therefore these revolutions are going to happen regardless of the corruption in the oil companies because there's no more cheap oil there's no more cheap food because you grow cheap food with cheap oil and fertilizer that's the but seems like the predominant theme here more than corrupt governments and corrupt oil companies you know we have to totally disagree ok because you're assuming that mother n

mother nature is doing or not however much there is on the ground we are petrus we are now under a petro dictatorship and that's very important to understand we have to get off the oil because we have to get it because otherwise they have the whip hand of us and i just don't see it as a question of what nature is doing because we haven't gone down to nature's price yet there's a ham in australia and i think you know stallion they went to nature's price the cyclons the forest fires that's the result of burning oil that's the result of an inefficient oil market and as a result of peak oil but greg palast thanks so much for being on the kaiser report again max you're the best all right well thanks so much a great palace for being on the kaiser report and of course i want to thank stacy herbert and i want to invite you to send me an email if you'd like to do so kaiser report r t t v are you until next time this is nice guys are saying bye you know. frustration with governments reaches borning point across the middle east and north africa has protesters push for change at the same time egypti

painting these petro dictators in power when we maintain them authority it's going to come back and bite us when those people are in the streets they want their share they don't want their resources stolen and if we what we've been doing is guaranteeing these puppets a place on stage i was just in the caspian sea reaching like i was just busted in the caspian sea region doing the story by one of the democracies we support there's only a few months ago that hillary clinton flew into the caspian and assured the dictators around the caspian sea where that's the massive new oil find that the united states is going to continue to back them up so for all our discussions democracy like any egypt i'd be looking at the caspian sea i'd be looking at those places where we still support dictatorship including by the way in saudi arabia you know one hand we you know are saying it's time for move or mubarak to step down because that support by the people what about the dictators in saudi arabia mubarak's problem is that he hadn't developed as well quick enough. but you know if there's an oil state we'

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we bomb petro chemical plants and fertilizer factories spreading mercury. other carcinogens on the landscape and end to a canal that lead into the danube river it will take the eco systems decades to recover. forests are among the ecosystems that are most often damaged or destroyed in combat itself the main reason for that is because they're very useful for guerrillas trying to find concealment from forces with superior firepower forty years ago when the united states was trying to prevail in vietnam and its enemies the viet cong were using the forests for concealment the american forces tried through fire and chemical defoliants to clear large parts of the forests of vietnam. not invulnerable. they think of themselves as wrong and they have. seven days in the week fifty two weeks and. most days in the planes to spew out a total of nearly eighteen thousand gallons of people. from one nine hundred sixty to one thousand nine hundred seventy one the u.s. military conducted a large scale defoliation dr code named operation ranch hand planes helicopters and tank

we bomb petro chemical plants and fertilizer factories spreading mercury. other carcinogens on the landscape and. lead into the danube river it will take the eco systems decades to recover. ecosystems that are most often damaged or destroyed in combat itself the main reason for that is because they are very useful for guerrillas trying to. concealment from forces with superior firepower forty years ago when the states was trying to prevail in vietnam and its enemies the viet cong were using the forests for concealment the american forces through fire and chemical defoliant to clear large parts of the forests. seven days a week fifty two weeks. from one nine hundred sixty to one thousand nine hundred seventy one the u.s. military conducted a large scale defoliation drive code named operation. planes helicopters and tanker trucks sprayed nineteen million gallons of herbicides on south vietnam. i should mention agent orange which was also one of the main ways that the way and was ravaged a place that had been sprayed would would die and the sometimes the we us

board we'll work a lot in st petersburg i'm going up to petro squad tomorrow so and it's a great business opportunity i met a lot of finnish business leaders here in st petersburg today and their basic message was that more finns should plug into the wonderful market resources that you have here so yeah i mean i do my main core business with saturday lover of in moscow that's the diplomacy that i do and then the grassroots diplomacy here on the border is very important finish for a minister alexander stubb talking to us from st petersburg spotlight will be back shortly after a break we'll continue this interview don't go. below this the gate to history. he was trying to store. data. but sprung the trap stay late for he came up on the radio we have the surge blogs around the. always through always miss. one shot turned to take. out the global drug industries godfather became the most want to trophy the world to hunters. the escobar to grace hunt and parties. and discoveries to be. communicate with you want to. test yourself and become free. nature can give you the. welcome back to spotligh

sort of source of exchange we work a lot in v board we'll work a lot in st petersburg i'm going up to petro squad tomorrow so and it's a great base is opportunity i met a lot of finnish business leaders here in st petersburg today and their basic message was that more finns should plug into the wonderful market resources that you have here so yeah i mean i do my main core business with sergey lavrov in moscow that's the diplomacy that i do and then the grassroots diplomacy here on the border is very important finish for mr alexander stille of talking to us from st petersburg spotlighted will be back shortly after a break we'll continue this and he don't go. well when one deals with water it has to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by obama's by napalm. coming from the city whether it's sonic boom six tractor marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields in iraq or it's destroyed reefs in the pacific for landing purposes the list just

the site isn't even within city limits, but it is right next to a petro chemical planet, and by the way, the site is highly toxic. >> staff in this city has -- >> reporter: one of the recent assistant managers gave the city council an unusually blunt public crashing two months as as she was pushed out. >> in the two invoices that i reviewed were charges for extra leg rooms, car rentals in cities on the east coast. $3,000 for the miss hercules pageant, and ads in city publications to add a few. >> reporter: and former mayor balico dined regularly at bay area restaurants and was reimbursed for it all even though he regularly failed to turn in receipts as the law requires. the former mayor was rushing out of his house when we caught up to him to ask him about the controversies that are now coming to light. >> they are all good projects. they should know better if that's what they're telling you. >> reporter: don keeney says he is not going to resign. >> i wish i would have taken stronger action sooner, but i too didn't realize how big this issue would grow. >> reporter: council member joan

sort of source of exchange we work a lot in v board we'll work a lot in st petersburg i'm going up to petro squad tomorrow so it's a great business opportunity i met a lot of finnish business leaders here in st petersburg today and their basic message was that more finns should plug into the wonderful market resources that you have here so yeah i mean i do my main core business with sergey lavrov in moscow that's the diplomacy that i do and then the grassroots diplomacy here on the border is very important finish for a minister alexander stubb talking to us from st petersburg spotlight will be back shortly after a break we'll continue this interview. we'll . bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've got the future. covered. discovery. with the wind. and become free. see what nature can give you on the. welcome back to spotlight algor narbonne just a reminder that my guest today is finnish foreign minister alexander stubb. mr stubbs welcome back to spotlight well let's talk about a political issue that is maybe a stumbling block in the russian finnish relations wh

to try and get some of those petro dollars back that we've been shifting in the world i mean well you guys are right i mean again today it is this comes down to oil them but so what happens if this goes farther in some of these other countries. one of the big factors is going to be the economic situation in the different countries i mean in egypt i forget what the unemployment rate is but it's enormous you know forty fifty percent very very high so there's a lot of people out there that have no means to support themselves that are out there in the streets the same is not true in say saudi arabia although the dictatorship there it's very much of a dictatorship still very much what do we still support democracy if suddenly all of our allies start toppling i think you pick one out of that you pick one out of three would be human but i guarantee you the leadership will bring out the force and kill people so you know a little bit concerned about it catching on in yemen because i don't think he will stop at all and bring on the ball now very quickly before we finish this hour we spoke in a

and show you a vonnegut quote that assigned that was given to us by his artistic collaborator, joe petro. it says, don't know what it is about hoosiers, but wherever you go, there is always a hoosier doing something very important there. this quote was in the book, cat's cradle, and it is a very funny exchange that the main character has with a fellow traveler on a plane and that fellow traveler gives this quote next we have possibly his most famous piece of artwork, the. vonnegut, in his humor, he associated the asterisk with this anatomical feature and we actually have used this asterisk and other pieces of art exhibits, including our timeline which you may have thought had stars in the sky but they are actually vonnegut's asterisk in the sky. we also have life is no way to treat an animal. this is the tombstone for his famous character, kilgore trout, who appeared in many many of his books. it is understood that kilgore trout is based on vonnegut himself. interestingly, the character kilgore trout died at the age of 84 and vonnegut also happened to die at the age of 84. >> what did ku

there don't seem to be any shortages of food or petro or anything of that sort. there's still, of course, communication problems. but by in large, despite all of the changes that have occurred, life is fairly normal, although you see lots of demonstrations. we got caught in a very large anti-gaddafi demonstration where the demonstrators were so enthusiastic, it took half an hour just to drive very slowly through the crowd. there is this fence here that, after 42 years, people can finally express themselves and sometimes they express themselves so much that you simply don't have time to listen to everybody's individual story and their individual grievance against the 42 years of muammar gaddafi. >> what are the circumstances that will bring him down? >> possibly the most critical support for his regime has been tribal alliances, through a variety of sort of patronage and what not. >> and we have seen slowly major tribes have defected to the anti-gaddafi forces. if we see this process continue, if more of the prescribes that traditionally have supported him defect

develop their oil production infrastructure, while simultaneously, preventing the development of a petro-dictatorship, over the longer term, as oil revenues increase. how will our programs going forward help iraq withstand pressures from iran? is the lanned u.s. civilian presence in iraq sufficient to achieve our objectives and are we confident that the security arrangements at the embassy and others in iraq are adequate and will allow american personnel to carry out their mission. i appreciate very much the efforts of master jeffrey and general austin. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, senator lugar. gentlemen, again, we welcome you, we're glad to have you here. ambassador jeffrey, we were commenting that you were here with condoleezza rice when she was testifying. glad to have you back. thank you. we go first with ambassador jeffrey and then general austin. >> it's good to be back, senators. chairman kerry, ranking senator, memberer lugar. senators, thank you for having this hearing and inviting general austin to appear before you to discuss the transition from military-led to a civi

to develop their oil production infrastructure, while simultaneously, prevenng the development of a petro-dictatorship, over the longer term, as oil revenues increase. how will our programs going forward help iraq withstand pressures from iran? is the lanned u.s. civilian presence in iraq sufficient to achieve our objectives and are we confident that the security arrangements at the embassy and others in aq are adequate and will allow american personnel to carry out their mission. i appreciate very much the efforts of master jeffrey and general austin. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, senator lugar. gentlemen, again, we welcome you, we're glad to have you here. ambassador jeffrey, we were commenting that you were here with condoleezza rice when she was testifying. glad to have you back. thank you. we go first with ambassador jeffrey and then general austin. >> it's good to be back, senators. chairman kry, ranking senator, memberer lugar. senators, thank you for having this hearing and inviting general austin to appear before you to discuss the transition from military-led to a civilian