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Bill Still on the new IMF research paper entitled "The Chicago Plan Revisted" that supports monetary reform.

Russia Today talks to Max Otte - professor of general and international business administration. He's discussing the current EU financial troubles as well as Germany's role in the crisis.

The countdown is on. At the end of the year economists say the US will hit a fiscal cliff. But it seems that not too many people seem to know what that really is.

Keiser Report's Max Keiser makes an appearance on BBC's The Daily Politics show, discussing the rigged markets destroying economics, the failed regulators, and the politicians that have enabled all this fraud and corruption - they get the kickbacks from it one way or another.

The Republic of Venice is planning for a glorious comeback. Supporters of Venetian independence from Italy are gathering for a rally to demand the region goes it alone, tired of being saddled with Rome's austerity. It's the latest in a number of European regions to consider independence, including Scotland and Catalonia. RT talks to Professor Lodovico Pizzati, who is the chairman of the separatist Indipendenza Veneta party, which has organised the rally.

Reservists from Greece's special forces protest the visit to Greece by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on 9 October 2012. The servicemen demonstrated in uniform during a mass rally in central Athens, attended by tens of thousands of protesters.

Police fired tear gas as angry protesters clashed with officers in Athens as thousands rallied in the Greek capital in protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit. Merkel is in Athens for austerity talks with the country's Prime Minister.

Greeks turned out in their thousands to protest the six-hour flying visit of the bankers' emissary and all-round German frump, Frau Merkel, to the bankers' latest colony.

A short film that chronicles the events of September 25-29th in Madrid, Spain where tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand the resignation of the government and an end to police brutality. Many of the protests ended in clashes with the police.

Eliot Spitzer — who built a reputation as the Sheriff of Wall Street for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New Yorks attorney-general and then resigned as the states governor over revelations he had paid for prostitute, seemed to agree with Dylan Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to Americas greatest theft and cover-up ever.

Greece is asking for more breathing space to implement financial reforms and spending cuts, which have sparked years of widespread protests.

The Prime Minister has to convince the Eurozone top brass later this week that he's done enough to receive the next bailout installment. It's worth 31-and-a-half-billion Euros, without which Greece will default and potentially exit the currency union.

The PM's expected to ask for two more years to get reforms in place. Economist Yanis Varoufakis says getting the delay will do more harm than good.

IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China.

4 sec: "Do we all work for Central Bankers? Is this Global Governance at last? Is it One World.. with the Central Bankers in charge?"

1 min: "To answer your question: We are absolutely slaves to Central Banks."