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facebook news feed. when you let me. in the east of ukraine. residential areas injuring civilians and forcing children in a local primary school and kindergarten to run for. president obama by critics offer a speech on foreign policy praises his country's exceptionalism. this could mean other nations. germany drop a criminal probe into u.s. spying saying it just find proof of any wrongdoing that's despite revelations the. surveillance. and american warships sail to libya as a cia affiliated a renegade general wages a war on three fronts with denial coming out of washington and.
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for the headline international with me rule research from the news team welcome to the program eastern ukraine has once again woken up to gunfire and explosions as the military crackdown gets underway yet again a residential area has been hit in the latest attack at least nine people have been injured among them a four year old locals now say they're being used against them many are already fleeing their homes. because when you let me. go i feel. like. i don't want everybody to think you know my life you see my god. i'm not.
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you there should this you would also there are an artillery shell was all that was cast onto the roof of our school there was a break between classes when it hit so no one was injured but our children and teachers from the school and the nearby kindergarten had to take cover in a basement. we ran with the first year children of. course they heard loud bangs and just move very scared. everyone was screaming and we didn't know where to run. it really was this is my son was crying he had a panic attack it's awful that children are being put through this how could they sell the city without making sure there were no children there and are still in the capital of the dissenting region that have gone yet city has been under siege by the army for several days over the port there's
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a lot of concern among residents here in donetsk that this military crackdown shows no sign of easing when you walk around on the streets what is particularly noticeable is just how few people are out and about there are few cars and those people that are going to work only those who are really have too many of them i actually heeding the call to remain indoors and when they do so to stay away from windows is at the moment no efficient evacuation from didn't it skol though i have been talking to people and they say that they are considering moving to the outskirts polars there at the very center of events in eastern ukraine you can go to her twitter feed for the very latest updates. now one of the leaders of the my done movement that klitschko who is now the mayor elect of kiev he says he wants to pull down the blockades in the center of kiev of regarding the barricades were protecting the people from police when the food again. they fulfilled their
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function now to go an icon of the revolution he says the capital no longer needs protesters clogging up its central square or the activists than thouse they think otherwise. people force against you for you know you are the authorities the police protect you and they keep attacking people as they did before and it's not up to the new mayor to make the decision to clear demonstrators from the square at least that's what his former supporters made clear to him they say he's no longer welcome at the protest camp you are telling me i've made a mess of your city you've made a mess of my country my feelings are deeper and while the new mayor argues with his former supporters parts of the capital remain at a standstill protesters are still occupying the city hall and even if they leave the building will take weeks to repair before lawmakers can go back to work. this r.t. international the u.s.
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must keep its exceptional role as an indispensable country in the world so said president barack obama during an address to a prestigious military academy but as artie's guy nature can reports his ideas didn't go down too well. president obama's message to the world the us is the one indispensable nation on earth and must intervene wherever it can america must always lead on the world stage. if we don't. know one well it's well. the united states will use military force unilaterally if necessary when our core interests demand that. making some wonder whether the u.s. recognizes other nations right to do the same president obama has named countries switching his view challenge to international law russia china iran although he spoke persistently about the us his rights to use military force unilaterally the us president admitted not every problem is
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a military solution just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail president obama's major foreign policy address was far from home but because of america's efforts because of american diplomacy and foreign assistance as well as the sacrifices of our military more people live under elected governments today than at any time in human history washington takes pride in bringing democracy to iraq. and now you train. these countries are in chaos. empires typically you know the romans talk about the emperor of divide and rule you know if you could cause chaos you could more easily rule president obama was also speaking to some of his opponents here who say he hasn't been to being the no in world affairs but his speech indicated
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that moving forward u.s. foreign policy is going to be as interventionist as ever in washington i'm going to check on our team well richard becker from the coalition he thinks obama was way off the mark. so your lead in said president obama again saying the united states is the indispensable nation i don't know what that makes the other hundred ninety countries in the world i guess they're all dispensable but i think the only way you could really. wreck to reconcile that is if you consider the word indispensable as synonymous with invasive because there's no country that has invaded more countries more other countries in the world that is violating human rights and international law more than has the united states contrary to all of the nice sounding words that came out of president obama's mouth. and i'll be mocking picks through obama's speech and breaking the said program that's a bit later in the day for a preview. every single time he chose to kill
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a human beings with drones of his because americans faced an imminent threat and also somebody sends drones to kill only when there is a near certainty if no civilian casualties it really means by that if you're simply of military age in the vicinity of a strike well then you're just another dead terrorist not worthy of due process the oft repeated no civilian casualties line gets or more civilians dead are stacked up investigative journalism up to five thousand two hundred sixty one people died by way of drones thus far and also according to peer of investigative journalism the vast majority of drone strikes target domestic homes in pakistan over sixty percent in fact all this criminal on accountability is ok because of one supreme notion. of the.
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it's already international german prosecutors have given up on investigating american about surveillance of germany saying they just can't find the evidence they need that despite the chancellor's phone number being found on an n.s.a. list of people whose phones have been targeted. is in berlin he's been following the investigation peter is so open and shut case is the investigation really over that easily. well it does seem like the german federal investigator is about to terminate this investigation into why it spread surveillance that is being carried out by the n.s.a. and by their british colleagues g c h q against german citizens they said well there's just not the evidence available for them to continue with an investigation this is despite the controversy over angle americans private cell phone having being listened to and hacked comments from mrs merkel's office in which she says a friends don't spy on friends all of this apparently going by the wayside also the
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fact that among some of the documents that were leaked by edward snowden was direct reference by name to the head of the b n d the german secret service that he was more than compliant with the n.s.a. when it came to looking into german citizens it does seem that all of this has been brushed under the carpet now the federal prosecutor is said the reason for this isn't that they can't get the evidence they say that they they can't contact edward snowden. to speak to him in person this is despite edward snowden having been looking for months for a way to try and speak to german prosecutors german investigators also the fact that well the media doesn't seem to have had any problem finding mr snowden many an interview be it in newspapers news magazines or on t.v. have all come out with him but what this is all left though is those this work in data protection here in germany again asked they've greeted this news with the will demand and essentially said well the good work that they do in the future has been
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reduced to absurdity the announcement that it seems that this investigation into widespread widespread surveillance on german citizens is going to be counseled. still to come here on r.t. international the heights people can reach when they work together. a three man crew has just arrived at the international space station on the program we report on what makes this mission. cool. wheels. on a b.m.w. motorcycle videos of him in the saddle have just been spreading across here on the program we're going to be just a much. finer
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. and the rest. will be. full of wonderful moment a lot of. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today.
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if you're just joining us welcome to the program and the international. all american citizens are being urged to leave libya as u.s. warships of coasting to the country's shores the sporadic violence there has given way to a sustained violence with a cia affiliated a rogue general now leading his forces against the mists and the elected government auntie's more important i reports now on how it's come to this the united states together with the international community is committed to the libyan people you have won your revolution people in libya today have an even greater child spot after this news of building themselves a strong and democratic future. three years after the so-called liberation of
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libya. u.s. citizens are being told to depart the north african country amid uncontrollable violence and unrest moving towards libya's coast a warship carrying some one thousand marines and several helicopters ready to evacuate u.s. diplomatic missions on a moment's notice that was a step that was taken to be prepared to protect u.s. personnel and facilities and u.s. installations in north africa. the two thousand and eleven western military intervention and subsequent ouster of libyan leader moammar qaddafi turned out to be a gift to militias the country gravely destabilized allow the militants to expand exponentially as the nation's military and police forces remain weak nato member states are good at destroying nations but never good at. making good
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democracies oh so they can do they can. destroy a nation but not put it back together again. the violence in libya has been raging since last summer almost three years since revolution and libya is a country awash with weapons and militias with competing agendas. however concern over the chaos has spiked after dissident general. launched assaults against the libyan parliament and islamic factions some of the worst violence that country has seen since the overthrow of moammar gadhafi the libyan government called his assault and attempted coup ordering the arrest of those taking part and islamic militant group based in benghazi has accused washington of backing dissidents and fueling unrest in a statement the head of and sorry. shari'a warned the u.s.
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against meddling in their country saying quote we remind america if they intervene of their defeat in afghanistan iraq and somalia because they would face in libya something much worse. while western forces sold their two thousand and eleven bombing campaign as a humanitarian mission some critics say instability was the end goal peaceful you don't steve start work in their use of the function of x. not. this time keeping war we're going to keep you know army troops sometimes army both sides doesn't matter main point is to break up which is a receiver any kind of missions to have any kind of three sole source so this is part of u.s. strategy libya's parliament currently remains split by rivalries the country is under the rule of its third prime minister since march and a new constitution still isn't ready worst of all the past three years have shown
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very few of the democratic reforms that were promised when western forces celebrated libya's liberation marina port r.t. . so who is the enigmatic military figure behind all of this all the new york times and other media outlets have been doing some digging so general. thought a man who in his youth helped to bring colonel gadhafi to power only to part ways with him and defected to the united states with the help of the cia for two decades general have thought of reportedly live within walking distance of the cia's main headquarters is thought he received training there and very quickly became a u.s. citizen he returned to libya during the uprising though against his old friend he's now into his second attempt this year but this time he supported by power units and a massive p.r. campaign as well and that's left some media questioning just how such an obscure figure rose to such prominence so quickly. now the leaders
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of russia kazakhstan and belarus have agreed to set up a new eurasian economic union at a summit in the capital. these are really good been following the talks for us now joining me live with details here good to see you what makes this deal so important well the russian president has called it nothing less of a milestone deal really and that is we see russia signing a major trade cooperation deal between some of us go with some of its closest neighbors and this is something that has been talked about for years russia russian leaders among others of course have been talking about the need to put an end to western hegemony when it comes to trade and economy cooperation and this is something finally that we see coming to fruition we're talking about kazakhstan belarus and russia when put together the countries have between them fifteen percent of all oil reserves in the world and twenty percent of gas reserves so definitely
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a major milestone also of course this is coming fresh in the back of gas deal that has been signed between moscow and beijing and according to the russian president this gas deal was just the first in an entire string of major trade cooperation deals to be signed between russia and china so we can expect to see more of such progression when it comes to moscow and trade relations turning away from the west towards the east and of course coming. coming at them on the back of. constant promises and threats of new or sanctions coming in from the west this this recent development looks especially more promising and. to use for lack of better euro for lack of a better word really is a historic agreement. egypt's four former military chief. is heading for an emphatic victory in the country's
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presidential election this according to the early results exit poll suggests you see has secured more than ninety five percent of the vote the final results are expected to be announced inside five days. reports on the fears that the new president won't be able to deliver on his promises well certainly those voting in support of general abdul fatah sisi told me at the polling stations where they held parties and sung and danced in the streets he was the only man for the job they said they needed a military leader to take egypt through this very difficult time you see a spike in terror attacks which is negatively affected the economy however there has been some issues of turnouts in the last few days the egyptian government has panix that the turnout might be as little as ten percent so they've extended the voting by an extra day which technically bens electoral law the prime minister announced that people might be fined seventy dollars if they didn't vote so this was definitely an issue that they were talking about because egypt is a c.c. needs that stumper just to mislead the nation the high turnout would give their approval for his candidacy and also the last ten months of
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a crackdown on his opponents more than forty thousand people have reportedly been arrested and hundreds killed in the last ten months and the missing brotherhood's saying that this is an intimate poll and they are boycotting is the elections in addition to other secular youth groups who have come under the crackdown of the security forces they say that sisi will not live or the freedoms that they demanded in january two thousand and eleven and in fact will just continue a military rule we'll have to see how the nation goes in the next few months to see how sisi does run the country and whether he delivers the promises of freedoms and also improvement in the economy and security. reporting right there online for you this hour japan could build a great wall of its own that are to dot com the company in charge of the notorious fukushima nuclear plant considers building an underground ice wall to. for years. to clear up the rush. of detroit.
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stories that. are now in the program. successfully docked with the international space station three crew members made it to the only. reports on what's in store for them during the trip. these days it's easy to lose sight of the fact there's a constant human presence in outer space but it should be moments like this that remind everybody of the heights that we can achieve when we all work together. this is the expedition up to the international space station led by commander maxime sariah from russia and he's joined by flight engineers reed wiseman from the united states and alexander gerth from germany while up there they're going to be
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conducting three space walks and fifty one experiments experiments running a wide range for example ones with obvious commercial potential for example working with fishing trawlers to locate new fishing grounds also conducting more technical and scientific experiments like the effects of electro magnetic levitation on different materials and the effects of his zero gravity environment on certain cells of viruses and bacteria after all this work is done they're set to return to earth in about one hundred twenty days time landing them sometime in early september our time for a global snapshot now let's get into the odyssey welled up. pictures are right there the crowd to angry with the demolition of ghosts what. well they destroyed so they clashed with the riot police eight people were arrested after attacking police vans and setting the garbage cans on fire at protests that offer authorities began to dismantle the building where school has had been living for the past seventeen years. three firefighters are being killed while putting out
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a fire in the city of how bad off skin brush is far east a full story office building collapsed off the flames took hold in the morning six firemen were found under the bed three of them managed to survive because of the accident under investigation. the u.s. house of representatives has now approved a bill to introduce sanctions against the venezuelan all claiming they're involved . in human rights abuses the measures include a travel ban for some politicians as well as freezing their assets in american banks the u.s. has accused the venezuelan president of failing to put an end to public protest though nicolas maduro has actually blamed america for being behind the unrest. well if you will meet stitch canine sensation and first russian member of the biker dogs motorcycle club. since he became
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a you tube sensation thanks to videos posted of him riding a very sleek motorcycle like any respectable biker he's got the custom made a leather jacket the sunglasses the half helmet as well but this cool canine favorite toy the yellow b.m.w. motorcycle was recently stolen and according to his own or robert morris states now feels like an orphan lassies neil harvey got in touch with them to find out. let's start with the unfortunate aspect of this story first the robbery this must have come as quite a shock to see. yes the theft of my bike came as a shock actually it was similar to the one on one b.m.w. k. twelve hundred r s the bike was stolen from my garage next to my house luckily our friends at the biker club provided us with this round and a say to seek the stitch how would you describe his personality i thought because he likes riding motorbikes he might be a bit of a rebel. sticks cannot be considered to be robin liss some people joke that he does
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have chemical instincts i can assure you that the only murder he can commit is by licking you to death in all honesty situations you can see him running around and playing but it seems he gets on a bike he gets in his own and everything changes he feels confident i'm proud to be on a motorcycle well other dogs are just messing around and barking. a lot of animal lovers will be a little bit concerned they will think motorcycling can be a dangerous hobby how many precautions do you take to ensure thinks the safety. that i know when we go on long rides has special crosses to protect them from the window. like any self respecting animal owner i treat is safety is the number one priority let me time and straight. he is used to these classes and has been wearing them since he was a puppy. or their custom made and this is how he looks in that they have a special anti for ventilation system. and of course like any real bike he has his
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own helmet here it is. let's put it on with all his gear on his ready for the road as you can see he's just tired of sitting on prefers to be on the move. this is how he looks with the helmet and the governance. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international for now it's time to go after the big bankers the money makers and comes the kaiser point. remember back to in the n.d.a. was fresh and new you know on the very last day of twenty eleven when obama who pledged to veto the bill signed it into law anyways yeah that's that thing that document that allows the government to instantly detain people link to quote
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terrorism i've heard all sorts of opinions on how that language got into the bill ranging from conspiracies like obama's evil to apologetics like well the bill was really long in that language came out kind of vague regardless of how or why that abducted with no trial language got in there and it is flagrantly unconstitutional so house or present it's adam smith and justin amash recently put forward an amendment to fix this little oversight note this tiny amendment would only fix the infant attention issue and nothing else but even then when push came to shove and when congress was given the chance to just change that little bit of the n.d.a. about infant attention they shut it down two hundred thirty eight two hundred eighty two so what does this mean well it means that either they have zero concept of what the constitution means and even it's looseness to dirt potations or they really like having the power to make certain people disappear to mr facilities but that's just my opinion.
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welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser dravid saying that g.d.p. . renzi you better watch your speed trouble ahead. but you know your economy just started a line of those things on. max it's all going higher for italy cocaine sales to boost the talian g.d.p. in boon for budget italy will include prostitution illegal drug sales and the gross
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domestic product calculation this year a boost for its chronically stagnant economy and prime minister matteo renzi efforts to meet deficit targets ok so adelies going to include cocaine sales and prostitution but this is a chorus a trend that makes sense given the context the way the economy's been going the past thirty or forty years. and this is going to of course spread to other economies as well if it does that then of course colombia mexico and afghanistan will be like jump leap up the league tables of global g.d.p. and of course during the financial crisis it is true indeed that the italian mafia did keep liquidity in the global financial system that had seized up there was no liquidity other than their money and mexican drug lord money that's true also the the numbers that are used to report the economy whether it's g.d.p. or it's c.p.i. or productivity or unemployment these numbers are fungible these numbers and
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indexes whether it's the dow jones index or the puts you one hundred index or some other oil based and x. they are completely fungible on a month to month basis based on the need of the banking kleptocracy in league with governments to project an economic tablo that accomplishes two goals number one keep interest rates near zero and number two. looks as if there is a little inflation but the fact is that interest rates at zero. in turn facilitate. cocaine and heroin use in terms of its impact on the economy and that course that spreads to the global geo political situation where. countries like america and up invading afghanistan taking control of the poppy crop which has never been higher which supports the heroin use around
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the world and then they're going to include that in g.d.p. so they get a ged people who's from the militarization of afghanistan from the heroin use from people strung out on smack from the degradation effects of prostitution and gambling this all contributes to g.d.p. according to this new world paradigm well according to this new world paradigm of how one calculates c.d.p. in fact silvio berlusconi apparently is the number six the biggest economy in the world by himself with all his bunga bunga it i mean i'm resisting the temptation to take the low road on this asset or i did. you know cocaine is now included in g.d.p. . because. it is remarkable believe destructive to society as a whole when prostitution and drug use and cocaine use are considered and it's all fueled again by this extraordinarily cheap money that comes out of these central banks so when they say it's
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a victimless crime that the bank of england mark carney keeps rates near zero well it feels the heroin and the prostitution that and that and they in the codification of this in the indexes and statistics that the say the office of national statistics here in the u.k. is as responsible for the deaths and destruction perpetrated by this economy as any other element so any way you know italy is competing against the u.s. which has the u.s. dollar and wall street and that is by many measures all fraud and they get to count that in their g.d.p. numbers london we have all the laundering of money into the house prices from crooks and thieves around the world gets a little. on to their money here so in a way it's fair enough that italy gets to count this in their figures but also you know it also shows the hoax that is any government statistics show that they promote any of it as we know is embedded with grains and granule of cocaine something like over ninety five percent of all the paper money has coach traces of
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cocaine than h.s.b.c. the bank in the u.k. relies extraordinarily on laundering cocaine money they were busted for laundering mexican this mean they're going to repeal the. b.c. no longer have to pay the fine for laundering mexican drug money because now they're considering drug use as part of the g.d.p. so it'll be another bailout for a just basic exactly so let's go back to what i was going to say about the hoax that is the government statistics because when z. thirty nine is committed to narrowing italy's deficit to two point six percent of g.d.p. this year a task that's easier if output is boosted by portions of the underground economy that previously went uncounted even if the impact is hard to quantify it's obvious that it will have a positive effect on g.d.p. says seppi detour on so therefore renzi will have a greater margin this year to spend without breaching the deficit limit to borrow another arts area of debts in italy ours zooming higher just like the debts in the u.k. and never been higher they're close to two trillion pounds out the national government
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the deficit is relatively flat but the indebtedness of the country is now continuing you know george osborne assaf added five hundred billion pounds in debt since coming to office same thing with united states the debt has reached over seventeen trillion dollars approaching eighteen trillion dollars so to make that debt number look less scary you say well as a percentage of g.d.p. it's not so bad so let's recalculate how we come up with g.d.p. we're going to include cocaine and prostitution you put those two in the mix and suddenly g.d.p. is higher so the ratio of debt to g.d.p. is not so bad meanwhile the debt continues to skyrocket if you use the same calculation for debts did. b. that you used twenty years ago and italy in europe and the u.k. then the debt to g.d.p. in the u.k. would be well over one hundred percent in america it would be well over one hundred percent but by statistically trying to make that fact go away you open the door
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toward continuation of a bifurcation of society interest rate apartheid and basically scapegoating of the poor setting them up for extermination well speaking of prostitutes wall street finds new subprime with one hundred twenty five percent business loans john made us made a fortune selling a mortgage company to do it the bank months before the u.s. housing market collapse now he's found a way to profit from loans to business owners with bad credit from an office near new york's times square people trained by a veteran of jordan belfort boiler room call truck drivers contractors and florist across the country pitching loans with annual interest rates as high as one hundred twenty five percent when borrowers can't pay nate is this world business lenders seizes their vehicles and assets sometimes sending them into bankruptcy right well why shouldn't the apostles of the wolf of wall street committing fraud learn their trick from oz born cameron pank paulson. obama you know
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they they've learned how to rape and pillage on a global basis so why not just do it on a small scale recreating all the excess remember bradford and bingley and northern rock there are one hundred twenty one hundred twenty five percent loan to equity that they were putting out there here in the u.k. just before the two thousand and eight two thousand and eight bust so there was no reform there was no attempt to rein in the fraudsters so they've repeated the exact same fraud again on a much wider scale and the result will be a much bigger crash so that's the best the problem when you have no deterrent for committing financial crimes so in fact wall street banks are helping the industry expand. by lending originators money they're starting to package loans into securities that can be sold to investors just as they did for subprime mortgage lenders now the amount being loaned is more than three billion dollars which is twice the volume of small loans by the small business administration so the
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government include who it's with perhaps google and goldman sachs who are two of the big players in this field lending money to these belfour at like four firms the subprime where do they get the money from they don't have that comes from the central bank yet that's where the money goes yes yes carney says that it within the central bank has no responsibility to raise interest rates to rein in the housing bubble he's also saying they have no responsibility to reign and drug laundering to reign and this type of fraud mis selling you know all this stuff because it includes our g.d.p. exactly how they go i like mark carney who's been so brain down with the pocky pox to his brain by being a goalie there yale university who comes out and says such nonsensical statements to the b.b.c. and there's nobody to give him any kind of pushback whatsoever so what you're saying is a bald faced lie dark army and as a result of your lies you just republicans are so low you're fueling the biggest crime wave in history you need to either commit ceremonial sucker or step down those are your two choices but stop abusing that you could publish the way that you
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are and what is i say we looked at the guy for mad men so all the british women in their big three hundred lives are waddling down sheffield's ways they say oh i've come to come and do we should be out there protesting yes but here we have a situation of not only does it get to flatter g.d.p. and therefore the government can borrow more to commit more wars abroad to keep the flow of heroin and cocaine coming but also on the other hand you have a situation of a smash and grab here they're aiding and abetting a smash and grabbing of the assets of a small and medium sized enterprises across the united states across the united kingdom and the s. i mean these are where all the jobs are so they're destabilizing the economy that's relying on a situation where you. no more illegal activity will have to thrive as the central bankers condone prostitution. they are aiding and abetting it but i don't if they're saying it's good for g.d.p. yes it's good for g.d.p. it's not a plot of their families their daughters and wives yes but let's look at this situation here in the united states so there they have these new subprime business
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loans and one of the costs here is that our industry is absolutely crazy said steven delgado who left world business lenders last year to become an independent loan broker there's lots of people who have been banned from brokerage there's no license you need to file for is pretty much on regulated but just like with the subprime crisis and all those crimes that happened what happened is goldman sachs j.p. morgan all the if it big too big to fail banks bank of america citi group they were able to claim deniability you know they didn't have any responsibility for the crimes because they didn't actually do all the crimes they lent to these small pop up firms plausible deniability possible deniability teller norse scenario that's right so they outsourced our fraud just like a global banks outsource our fraud to london london and outsource those fraud to the bank of england the bank of england basically condones prostitution and warmongering and drug use as the g.d.p. boosting element to make the debt of the u.k.
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look smaller the air with all the hair with the cocaine if you put a cocaine down the mal vertu in trafalgar square in buckingham palace six feet high and two feet wide of pure cocaine and you lined up sixty million brits with straws and they. way they store their way from trafalgar square to buckingham palace with a mountain of cocaine then marconi was a you see i'm making the economy improve. the b.b.c. would be all over it saying wow best for us to look at all those strong out heroin addicts in the u.k. that must mean we're doing well thank you mark carney drug pushing addict well you know we have something to look forward to the i would imagine even the queen's corgis will be there out. store and go ok to help the g.d.p. and made little baby the little baby royal little baby boy looked on the mile soaring cocaine how did you do pig help the g.d.p. baby baby little what does it say george baby george what a loser all right thanks so much i once again it for being here stacy well get
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ready for the subprime business loan crisis. and stay tuned for the second half of the show a whole lot more. it was a. very hard take i. want to get on here. that are back with the earthquake here.
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do you think dad if last continues to face sanctions a senior economist with the south writes of such. situation is getting. are going to be the reason. there is no respect in the will suffer more than other countries because of because of the. extensive trade and the investment. that's.
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right on the scene. first street. and i think picture. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. the the in. yeah mast eyes are this is the kaiser report back here we are trying to go down under and speak with dots author of extreme money thus welcome back to the kaiser report nice to be with you max write to us you write about titles debt problem where is the problem specifically with governments banks individuals etc. well it's mainly governments and banks and to
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a large extent corporations but it's pretty even across the board and the problem in china is i can't really separate the government from the banks or from the corporations because they won a morpheus mass the only thing that's very clear to me is the data levels are now somewhere between two hundred to two fifty percent of g.d.p. and there are four indicator of debt stress the first is any country which is increased to g.d.p. by roughly thirty percent in a five year time horizon tends to have problems the sickening what is we call the credit gap which is the rate of credit increased relative to g.d.p. if that's much higher that tends to create problems china's currently seventy percent is you now need somewhere around six to eight dollars of debt to create one dollar of g.d.p. that ain't good a lot of the debt is now recycling existing assets that ain't good and the debt service ratio in other words the amount of money in terms of g.d.p. that's going to servicing debt is that twenty percent that ain't good so all in all
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it's not looking good is the best where to put it but at the moment the chinese have a bit of time on their hands being a pretty closed economy but one senses the dinu moment to this crisis as the french would say is coming at some stage and it's in the not too distant future well economic growth in china is to have been by two factors one of course is their ability to finance their growth and this is coming under some constraints another problem is that the growth in china. has caused an ecological holocaust in china so the soil is on you is a ball the air is on bury the ball this is also a constraint on growth and it's time to their monetary policy in other words to make all that free easy available all they've created a ecological holocaust in their cooking under their own stupidity one point is the ecological holocaust in china basically finished their economy because now they're scrambling madly for food overseas they can't feed themselves and they've backed
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themselves into a poisonous corner thus well i think there are two issues that you're talking about but they quite interesting one is the ecological disaster is certainly true and if you just extra plate that say a billion people want to have west and living standards in china the actual overload of the environment would be catastrophic the chinese themselves have admitted that and you're quite correct discrete basis constraints on grades because they have to import food and other things but i think the subtler issue here is the fact that everything they doing is to accelerate growth whether it's dead or environment and that points to a critical thing in chinese politics because the given the of the chinese communist party in terms of politico dominance is built around economic growth so they're willing to sacrifice everything to get economic growth and that is also creating problems in the reform process because as you will no doubt know at the recent
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plenum and recent announcements from china they're all talking about reform but the problem is the reform inevitably leads to a question about growth so good bacteria ecological issues one of the ways to cut down all the toxic air and i mean the air in beijing is fairly toxic i have to say twenty years ago when they were burning charcoal thirty years ago when they were burning charcoal it was a much better but the crucial thing here is you turn off a lot of the coal fired. power plants which they keep building but if you do that then there's a huge problem of growth that is also a huge problem in terms of the fact that these coal mines and the pa generators have borrowed bucket loads of money from chinese banks and delta fold which will have other problems so only spoke in extra complete linked and the question is the chinese gods i don't think have multiple limbs like india gods so i don't keep all these bulls in the air at the moment to be honest this struggling well does he
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mention the chinese will do any sacrifice anything for growth isn't this part of the global problem of market fundamentalism that western economies are engaged in a certain form of market jihadism there are extremists in the west down wall street bankers are committing suicide for this growth bankers are killing other bankers for the insurance money we find out now from j.p. morgan others to achieve this growth so in other words it's a suicide mission there's no there's no economic underlying assumptions that make any economic sense these are just fundamentalist suicide bankers doing what they can to kill themselves and their country for what they define as growth which i guess means virgins in heaven or some other crazy philosophy that they pursue but it's not economics das let's be clear about it it's not economics your thoughts. i think fundamentally you're right this obsession with growth is at the heart of this
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problem but i don't necessarily agree with you it's a problem of bank is because everybody wants a living sand it's to improve they want more things to buy they want greater prosperity so growth and those two things have gotten linked damage to us your outlook your outline specifically how every single facet of the economies can become finance allies and that are you know doing but bankers everything is for collateralized debt spawn resolved repack as we've all become financier's there's no underlying economy to the economy it's all debt repackaging as your book explains so in china they do the exact same thing and that's a philosophy of self-destruction so explain how that doesn't work with your book that you in your book explain splay zero words max you're right i think it excitement there but look you're absolutely correct the bank is essentially the dealers which served up the heroin for this whole mess but coming back to the issue of growth it would have be the environmentalists once remarked that mindless growth
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is the ideology of a cancer cell and that's the problem we have but there's a second interesting process underlying that which is equally dangerous if you look at the two things you mentioned one is date and the other is the environment they actually have a very common theme which is you enjoy the consumption today you enjoy the grapes today and you defer the problems whether it's of payment or environmental catastrophe down the track and that is fundamentally something that we have actually not only embraced but we keep increasing because if you look at all the strategies the central bank has and everybody else and now following this idea of kicking the can down the road is exactly that so until we actually address this fundamental obsession with growth the fundamental obsession with financial is ation and this fundamental off deferred basic paid and accelerated. again it is not going to work and but i can't see any consensus anywhere in the world to change
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that i mean people vote in elections now to perpetuate the system so it's not actually changing fundamentally and i don't know what will make it change i want to talk about one other thing you mentioned which is the debt and how debt relates to china and how much debt they can absorb and is the debt level at the threshold now that would curtail growth etc because it is a question that comes up in other economies it could be the u.k. economy which is the most indebted economy in the world right now japanese economy which is obviously played with debt to two to three times the g.d.p. i wanted to rector attention to a story that came out last week about how belgian is suddenly taking on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of debt and so my question is is it possible that when the federal reserve engages in their tapering by cutting their quantitative easing by half over the past few months isn't it possible in today's connected world as you explain your book how all these things are connected that the european central
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bank can be assisting in america's quantitative easing through their proxy in belgium by simply buying hundreds of billions of dollars of u.s. treasury debt in other words isn't the e.c.b. now simply going to expand their balance sheet the same way the fed has done in these past years so that there is no real tapering the tapering is a canard that's my point and i want to know what you think about that you are absolutely correct that tapering is a canard and let me explain why the tapering is actually unwinding the q.e. which really did nothing for the real economy anyway and if you look at what it was doing it was doing two things the major one it was financing the government and as you know it the government deficit in the united states has come down to read about five hundred six hundred billion dollars so they can actually afford to taper they bump says because there's actually less on office that's number one number two they were doing it to devalued the u.s. dollar which is a way of gaining competitiveness but also reduced. being the actual wealth of foreign holders of treasuries and you're quite correct that over rule when you look
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at the actual systems we're going to see japan probably do further quantitative easing down the track and the europeans will not probably to peel quantitative easing but they will actually provide excess liquidity so overall the cup is going to be very very full and the critical thing here is the actual currency was because the japanese a case trying to devalued the u.s. had been trying to devalue and now that you hearing from the europeans that they think the euro is a valued and they want to push it down but the point is that everybody can have the cheapest currency so that tapering is actually more about the currency was now at but overall the i expect the liquid conditions to stay liquid for the foreseeable future so we are going to see these accommodative conditions for a very very long period of time and the point is as you said to me before it's a ponzi game and you've got to keep increasing the actual base because otherwise the whole ponzi game comes to an end and we're going to see that going on how this
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ends i don't really know because we've never been here before but i guess like my question is and you're alluding to the answer i just want some clarification there is a possible all or do we see through the dark market or through the shadow banking system some collusion going on between central bankers so that when the federal reserve bank can say we are tapering they are in fact simply passing the buck over to europe or belgian who suddenly bought two hundred billion worth of u.s. treasuries are almost equivalent to something very near their g.d.p. and i mean it's an it's astronomical amount so do we see some behind the scenes collusion i think that would be answering to the global audience to kind of dwell on this for a second that these banks globally kind of work together to keep this debt burden continuing to grow so terms like taper are completely meaningless dost i think fundamentally if you look at the way the global i could. makes a system is run all the central bank is meet together at the b i s very regularly
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about once a month for about six weeks apparently they have very good wines and the meals are absolutely scrumptious in the back of their national settlements just have a clip that's right the bank of international settlements so clearly they say things to no minutes are kept it's like a secret cabal basically that meat so whether or not they collude they certainly feel very very very much aware of out of what other people are doing so under those circumstances the policies perhaps more coordinated than would first appear because obviously they know what each other is thinking and what they doing but i'll give you an insight into exactly this in a sort of mine away which is in china as you know in china everybody is going on and on about the shadow banking system how dangerous it is and what they have to do about it and you hear the people's bank of china which is the central bank making all these noises about controlling the shadow banking system what the earnest analysts among the investment banks don't seem to understand is the reason the
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shadow bank exists is because of the actual structure of the chinese banking system and it's grown up like anything in china we the approval tacit or implied explicit off the chinese central bank and of course the chinese communist party. is not off there because they're out of time but we will follow up with a shadow banking system in china next time thanks for being on the kaiser report good to be with you max all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser stay here but i like to thank our guest das author of extreme money if you like the antis tweet us the ties the reports and i stand by . go off base and try to come to. a point to make sure you don't want to get
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the full scale military ground down begins in eastern ukraine with a craft and all scenery mobilized against the dissenting regions where number of civilians have already been killed and eight hundred by the army. president obama is strongest and by critics of the speech on foreign policy praises his country's exceptionalism sparking debate a lot of base could mean for other nature. also germany for no probe into u.s. spying just find proof of wrongdoing that despite revelations that go in as america's troops and they've been strongest in europe.
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this is also international life for most and welcome to the program eastern ukraine has woken up to strikes on the shelling of the only resumes will it calls an terrorist operation the alteration is focused on slovyansk and comma towards fighting is reported in and around the two cities with smokes rising from industrial and residential areas onto government forces calais they have managed to take down an army helicopter that we can't verify those claims on reality to deny the graft orkut strikes are also reportedly being carried out by the army that's an area where a number of civilians have already been caught in the fighting a residential area was hit in an area that's honk at least nine people were injured among them a four year old many are already fleeing that. just want to let me tell a class that seriously is not just what you think you know what i was doing like
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you know my life just like you i was. just local not very good but. if did you question the shit you watch. and also that i'm all serious shall logged into the roof of a school that was a break between classes when it hit and no one was injured children and teachers from the school and a nearby kindergarten had to take cover in a basement. was that you who ran with the first year children are. also heard loud bangs just will move very scared. everyone was screaming because we didn't know where to run. the bullet was decision my son was crying he had a panic attack it's awful that children are being put through this how could they shell the city without making sure there were no children that. and our correspondent paula clear is on the campus of the dissenting region donetsk in the
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city has been under siege by the army of several for several days now over to poland. a lot of concern here in the city of donetsk talking to residents many of them are very fearful that the military operation by the kiev government will resume and resume what force the streets by and large are a lot quieter than they usually are and particularly in the late afternoon when you usually expect to see the outdoor cafes and the parks full with people now they're practically empty there has been pamphlets distributed in some neighborhoods outlining where are the closest bomb shelters and giving people instructions in terms of what to do if they go to the shelters there has as of yet still been no official evacuation but talking to people here in the city many of them are keeping this as an option saying that they are considering possibly going to the city's outskirts should the situation deteriorate now there was a mad scramble at the supermarket earlier in the week particularly after monday's massacre of some one hundred people people earlier in the week worse stocking up
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with cereals with tinned food with bottles of water there is a curfew there was put in place from yesterday so from eight o'clock in the evening until six o'clock in the morning every day there is now a curfew in place and that is to try and stabilize the situation in the evenings certainly a lot of concern here in the city of donetsk people are afraid. callie's there the sounds of a balance in eastern ukraine you can go to our twitter feed for the latest updates . u.s. must keep its exceptional role as an indispensable country in the wild so said president adama during his address to prestigious military account to me but as also he's going to church account reports his ideas didn't go down so while. president obama's message to the world the us is the one indispensable nation on earth and must intervene where every ten america must always lead on the world stage if we don't. know one well it's well.
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the united states well use military force unilaterally if necessary when our core interests demand it making some wonder whether the us recognizes other nations right to do the same president obama has named countries which in his view challenge the international law russia china iran although he spoke persistently about the us is right to use military force unilaterally the us president admitted not every problem is a military solution just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail. president obama's major foreign policy for us is far from home because of america's efforts because of american diplomacy and foreign assistance as well as the sacrifices of our military. more people live under elected governments today that if you're with us from washington takes pride in bringing democracy to iraq.
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the. great. countries are. empires typically the romans talk about the emperor of divide and rule. if you could cause chaos you could more easily rule president obama was also speaking to some of his opponents here who say he hasn't intervened in wall that fails but his speech indicated that moving forward u.s. foreign policy is going to be as interventionist as ever in washington i'm going to take on our team. and. pick three obama speech and how breaking the set has a preview. for a single time he chose to kill human beings with drones it was because americans faced an imminent threat and also somebody sends drones to kill only when there is a near certainty you have no civilian casualties it really means by that if you're
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simply of military age in the vicinity of a strike well then you're just another dead terrorist not worthy of due process the oft repeated no civilian casualties line gets or more civilians dead are stacked up on that bureau investigative journalism up to five thousand two hundred sixty one people died by way of drones thus far and also according to bureau of investigative journalism the vast majority of drone strikes target domestic homes in pakistan over sixty percent in fact but all of this criminal on accountability is ok because of one supreme notion. german prosecutors have given up on investigating american mass e-mail and saying they just can't find the evidence they need that despite the chancellor's phone number being found on an n.s.a.
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list of people whose fires were targeted on a vase and palin and has been following the investigation well it does seem like the german federal investigator is about to terminate this investigation into widespread surveillance that is being carried out by the n.s.a. and by their british colleagues g c h q against german citizens they said well it's just not the evidence available for them to continue with an investigation this is despite the controversy over angle in miracles private cell phone having being listened to and hacked comments from mrs merkel's office in which she said friends don't spy on friends all of this apparently going by the wayside also the fact that among some of the documents that were leaked by edward snowden was direct reference by name to the head of the b. and d. the german secret service that he was more than compliant with the n.s.a. when it came to looking into german citizens it does seem that all of this has been
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brushed under the carpet now the federal prosecutor is said they can't contact edward snowden. to speak to him in person this is despite edward snowden having been looking for months for a way to try and speak to german prosecutors german investigators also the fact that well the media doesn't seem to have had any problem finding mr snowden many an interview in newspapers news magazines or on t.v. have all come out with him but what this is all left though is those this work in data protection here in germany again asked they've greeted this news with the will demand and essentially said this well the good work that they do in the future is being reduced to absurdity the announcement that it seems that this investigation into widespread it widespread. until german citizens is going to be counselled. american warships have sailed to neighboring shoals that as a renegade genuine reported in the cia wagers awarded frequent washington denies
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any responsibility for his deadly campaign also. hides people can reach when they work together three months through the times just to write of a canonical space station or reporter what makes the mission one of a kind. egypt's former military chief abdel fatah i'll say c. is heading for an emphatic victory in the country's presidential election according to early results as a poll suggests estate has secured more than ninety five percent of the vote the result will be announced within five days. reports on b b is that the new president won't be able to enable his promises. well certainly those voting in support of general abdul fatah sisi told me at the polling stations where they hope parties and some advance in the street he was the only man for the job they said they needed a military leader to take egypt through this very difficult time you see
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a spike in terror attacks which is negatively affected the economy however there has been some issues of turnouts in the last few days the egyptian government has panics that the turnout might be as little as ten percent they've extended the voting by an extra day which technically bens electoral law the prime minister announced that people might be fined seventy dollars if they didn't vote so this was definitely an issue that they were talking about because egypt is a c.c. needs that it's a stumper just to mislead the nation the high turnout would give their approval for his candidacy and also the last ten months of a crackdown on his opponents more than forty thousand people have reportedly been arrested and hundreds killed in the last ten months of the missing brotherhood's say that this is an illegitimate poll and they have boycotted is the elections in addition to other secular youth groups who have come under the crackdown of the security forces they say that sisi will not deliver the freedoms that they demanded in january two thousand and eleven and in fact will just continue a military rule we'll have to see how the nation goes in the next few months to see
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how sisi does run the country and whether he delivers the promises of freedoms and also improvement in the economy and security so just who is a chip's likely future president x. general abdel fattah el-sisi as head of the armed forces played a leading role in ousting president mohamed morsi who had been democratically elected given quelled protests across egypt which resulted in hundreds of deaths but hey clearly have support in april he managed to muster eight times the number of signatures needed to register as a counted in the presidential elections l.c.c. also managed to win the support of trade unions and businesses in the country. and a huge trade union has seen the line today russia want its regional allies together to pull that i'm sure white house set up a sun tell they can all make power want to stay tuned for more of the right.
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you're watching are seeing to nationals good to have you with us let's move on now our leaders of russia kazakhstan and belarus have agreed to set up a new regime economic union at a summit in the cannes our capital astronaut and our shoes kate appeal has been following the talks for us and joins me now live here in the studio with the details how that casey is or what does it mean what makes this deal so well it's a lot of money at stake in it so her story could fill as well so to break it down all the details for you just sound so this still it represents a new era of trade of the russian president said the signed agreement has landmark
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historic importance as you can see that now the ex soviet neighbors will now enjoy the free movement of goods capital and services as well as the free movement of people one hundred seventy million people in total and trade is set to accelerate in industries such as energy industry agriculture and transport now i spoke to david gray from p.w. c. for his reaction on the deal i'm very positive about the prospects for russia and for the other members of the parts is well i think. if you look at the e.u. for example i think the reduction in trade barriers within the e.u. had a significant impact in terms of making it easier to do business which does encourage investment and i'm looking forward to similar results in terms of the year a should do. now already over the last three years trade within the customs union has increased by nearly fifty percent and the group is set to get even bigger with
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armenia and kyrgyzstan expected to join the union later on in the year and as you can see geographically where these countries sit and how close they are just there it makes economic sense for these guys to partner up and this is purely an economic a range of the russian president vladimir putin he's made it clear that while taking the country's corporation to a new level as he said the sovereignty of each country will be respected and this arrangement comes the same month that russia's trade with china has accelerated to a historic level of course we had that four hundred a billion dollar gas deal signed in shanghai and the president where he spoke a further few to deals as well such as a second pipeline to china to talk in big numbers between those two a congress so it's opened a new doors with the east and searing to dish north ties with x. soviet states as well. all
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american citizens are being urged to leave libya as u.s. warships close to the country shows this sporadic violence there has given way to sustained violence with the cia affiliated a rogue general leader in this forces against islam it's the elected government not on our report on how it's come to of it the united states together with the international community is committed to the libyan people. you have won your revolution three years after the so-called liberation of libya. moving towards libya's coast a warship carrying some one thousand marines and several helicopters ready to evacuate u.s. diplomatic missions on a moment's notice that was a step that was taken to be prepared to protect u.s. personnel and facilities and u.s. installations in north africa the country gravely destabilized allow the militants
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to expand exponentially as the nation's military and police forces remain weak. they too little say so good at destroying nations but never good at making good democracies. however concern over the chaos has spiked after dissident general khalifa haftar launched assaults against the libyan parliament and islamic factions some of the worst violence that country has seen since the overthrow of moammar gadhafi and islamic militant group based in benghazi has accused washington of backing dissidents and fueling unrest. for western forces sold their two thousand and eleven bombing campaign as a humanitarian mission some critics say instability was the end goal peaceful you don't steve start work in their use of the function they are not. part of the main
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point is to break up and it is a receiver any kind of missions how are you going to raise sole source and worst of all the past three years have shown very few of the democratic reforms that were promised when western forces celebrated libya's liberation marina port nine r.t. . so who is the enigmatic military figure behind all because while the new york times and other media outlets have been doing some digging so. meet. a man who then his use held bring colonel gadhafi to power only to part ways with him and defect to the united states with cia help for two decades general reportedly lived within walking distance of the cia's main headquarters is thought he received training there and became a u.s. citizen he returns to libya during the uprising against his old friend and he's now into his second terms this year but this time he's supported by air power units and
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a public relations campaign and that's led some media questioning how such an obscure figure rose to such prominence so quickly. now japan could build a great a wall of its own on live t.v. company charge of the notorious push him a nuclear plant considers building an underground ice move to stop radiation from spreading. to other calls to restore a city that's forming in parts of the u.s. government is launching a giant project to clear out the rushing industrial sounds of detroit but it will come to quite a cost to taxpayers while the story online. as we use carrier rocket has successfully docks would be international space station the three crew members made it to the i says and just six hours transit reports now on what's in store for them during the whole theater trip. these days it's easy to
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lose sight of the fact there's a constant human presence in outer space but it should be moments like this that remind everybody of the heights that we can achieve when we all work together. this is the expedition up to the international space station led by commander maxim sariah from russia and he's joined by flight engineers read wiseman from the united states alexander gerth from germany while out there they're going to be conducting three spacewalks and fifty one experiments the experiments running a wide range for example ones with obvious commercial potential for example working with fishing trawlers to locate the fishing grounds also conducting more technical and scientific experiments like the effects of electro magnetic levitation on different materials and the effects of his zero gravity environment and certain cells of viruses and bacteria after all this work is done they're set to return to earth in about one hundred twenty days time landing them sometime in early
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september of it than we do to someone else who around the globe. and we would be demolition all those court and. clash with riot police eight people were arrested after a talking police vans and specially garbage cans on fire the process started out all sources destroyed with building destroyed the building while there was question as had been a bit of an. refined find who had been killed while pushing on to find in the bottom skin russia's family a four story office building collapsed after flames took hold in the morning six women were found under the debris three of them managed to survive because of the accident is on joining us to gauge. the house of representatives congress approved a bill to introduce sanctions against the venezuelan oil source he's claiming they
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are involved in human rights abuses the measures include a travel ban for some politicians as well as freezing their asses in american banks but he was has accused the venezuelan president of failing to put an end to public projects nicolas maduro however has blamed america for being behind the rest. up next on a martin discusses controversial u.s. immigration policy is that from breaking this at the. cost basis try to. make a point of going to want to get fired for
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going pretty well at the moment i've got a loving and caring partner who understands my situation. for. him to have and he was in the right time. i need to think about it. this is still one of the most isolated and mysterious places in the world old legends of countable is make many people afraid to travel here are they going to put this on the menu that europeans have been here for less than a hundred years few people know what secrets lay hidden within these forbidding mountains. they said a bunch of cannibals killed and ate a group of shamans a russian plane one of the biggest in the world flies as
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a pup when they get these wild mountains for the very first time. villages have never even seen a come. what will they make of this huge steel. european workers are told never to venture out alone. truth said miss the nutsy. has a go on guys happy monday i'm happy martin and this is a break in a set so washington politicians love the scapegoat illegal immigrants for this country's economic woes but almost never do you hear about the illegal actions taken by border patrol agents themselves on two thousand and twelve an independent report on this very topic was commissioned by u.s. customs and border protection or c b p it was completed in february two thousand and thirteen except fifteen months later the report still hasn't been made public last week we learned that c.p.s. refused to comply with an open records request to release the report in order to
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protect the quote free and frank exchange of information among agency personnel right i'm sure has nothing to do with the fact the report offered up a poll was staring picture of how immigrants are actually treated in this country too thanks to an investigation by the arizona republic we know that at least forty . five people have been killed by c.p.b. agents and two thousand and five but in three teenagers that were shot in the back and perhaps most stunning is that no agents have been reprimanded for their actions furthermore according to leaked documents were provided to the l.a. times from the report the investigation found that border patrol agents do everything from intentionally stepping in front of moving cars to justify using deadly force to firing bullets at rock throwers when they could just move away so if you think it's unacceptable for an agency to hide its own report out of sheer embarrassment join me and let's break the set. the. please take
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a look very hard to take kindly. to. that fact that hurt me their little. league. well today was graduation for hundreds of elite students attending west point academy new york one of the most prestigious military schools in the country and at today's commencement ceremony president obama himself gave this speech but not to wish graduates luck in their careers instead he used the platform outlined his
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entire foreign policy agenda for the remainder of his term he started by prepping us for another cold war both steen for the millionth time about he killed bin ladin and put an end to bush's wars even though he's leaving almost ten thousand troops in afghanistan past the quote two thousand and fourteen withdrawal but that he had some words to share for all those naysayers out there who say that engaging in constant warfare and military meddling around the world is actually hurting the country. has rarely been stronger relative to the rest of the world those who argue otherwise. and suggest that america is in decline or a scene that's global leadership slip away. either misreading history or engaged in partisan politics. yes apparently we're just mr reading history guys america's never been better anyone who says otherwise is just trying to be partisan that's funny i thought that calling out both democrats and republicans alike for
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perpetuating policies that will cause the inevitable downfall of the american empire is the opposite of partisan but obama also went on to talk about how important the international community is an engaging in future foreign policy excursions. factional opinion mass matters that america should never ask permission to protect our people our homeland or our way of life. international opinion like the enormous outcry from world leaders and americans alike over the near bombing campaign in syria and pretty sure syrians aren't interested in taking away americans right to shop at wal-mart or eat fast food but of course his contempt for the international support wasn't the only orwellian things said obama's roundabout justification for the continued use of killer drones held zero water. take direct action we must uphold standards that reflect our values. that means taking strikes only when we face
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a continuing imminent threat. and only where there is no certainty there is a near certainty of no civilian casualties for our actions should meet a simple test. we must not create more enemies than we take off the battlefield. wow so basically what he just said is that every single time he chose to kill human beings with drones it was because americans faced an imminent threat and also somebody sends drones to kill only when there is a near certainty of no civilian casualties it really means by that if you're simply of military age in the vicinity of a strike well then you're just another dead terrorist not worthy of due process the oft repeated no civilian casualties line gets or more civilians dead are stacked up in the bureau investigative journalism up to five thousand two hundred sixty one people died by way of drones thus far and also according the bureau of investigative journalism the vast majority of drone strikes target domestic homes
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in pakistan over sixty percent in fact but all this criminal on accountability is ok because of one supreme notion. i believe in american exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. but what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law it is our willingness to what. this is an infant nation with an out of control superiority complex and the idea that americans are better and are given the moral authority to use military force anywhere in the world is perverse and toxic and no other leader agrees with this they simply go along with it out of sheer bullying from the world's largest military bigger than the next ten countries combined in fact don't even get me started on the double speak. welcome to you to push to close gitmo because american values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders obama wants to close gitmo so badly that he hasn't
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actually using his executive power to do it empty platitudes about how much you want to doesn't mean too much when you can easily sign national security waivers impose it today isn't just care about get mode detainees having the right to due process he's also done everything in his power to make sure american citizens can legally be indefinitely detained first by signing and two thousand and twelve which included an unprecedented provision allowing the military to indefinitely detain u.s. citizens without charges or trial and when he was sued over it he placed an emergency stay to make sure the measure stayed in place and given the global upset over the n.s.a. spying machine obama speech just wouldn't be complete without a commitment to the surveillance state. that's why we're putting in place no restrictions on how america collects and uses intelligence. because we will have fewer partners and be less affected if a perception takes all that we're conducting surveillance against ordinary citizens
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oh my god obama you are spying against ordinary citizens it's astounding that he can get up there and say all of this with a straight and stern face but i guess it's to be expected because in a country that's more exceptional than the rest we better have the best liars to. be male genital mutilation or afghan is a horrifying practice involving a partial or a hole in the oval the woman's genitalia the practice is primarily associated with populations in sub-saharan africa or northeastern africa because of immigration it's now growing in western countries as well the extent of that jam in the western world is largely unknown due to a lack of research so one woman who is a survivor of afghan has just received more than one hundred thousand signatures on a petition calls for the us government to commission a report on the issue and earlier i was joined by the author of that petition. and
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i started by asking her to outline some of the biggest myths associated with that g.m. . you know i'm not a people are sitting here in the religious instant better cmyk not that bright and really muslims all christian and you know back home where i'm from they do it purely to keep women chat on terror of marriage because they believe that that right will mean that it would make you free of religion until you get married and are married it works great books you heard that and that reason where you are. because they believe that you need a woman here and it also makes you clean that one man would do. that you know have been just that you know from generations the generations and now it's just been around so long that it's still hard to get rid of it and change the minds of the people that they're full and they mill reason right and you want. right
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and bring it back to your story i mean when girls are mutilated to talk about what happened to you physiologically physically psychologically. and whatnot in other women as well. for me personally it happened when i was a week old and because of that i've been you don't remember the physical pain aspect of it but just growing up and when i got my first. and opened back up that to me felt like this is the first time this has happened in the end because of that and just knowing that something cool crash is something that was a part of me was taken away from me something that i will never get back and something that i don't know what it will feel like if i hadn't gone to. you know about it actually you know listen to what doctors and experts be a part of but as implements i want to experience what that would have been been
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like and i feel like it's my god given right i was going to find it got something really wrong with me he would have you know not given me if there is an effect that that was. taken away from me is just something that you have to live with and something that you have to think about it. you know it makes you so conscious about your body and i know that most women that i've been to at can feel exactly the same way that i do where is jim currently progress in the world and would you say that it's on the decline or rise overall. jim is right in twenty eight countries and this includes africa and the middle east run when you have western countries like america and look here you have people that migrate to both countries and they have been big cultures and traditions and then do not think that they can easily abandon them to practice in western countries as well as a lot of people don't realize how widespread it is it's kind of internationally condemned in the media and political establishment but it's still being practiced
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were happening every day around the world to get us to give us a little bit of the insight on the scale here. it is estimated that the million woman to s.g.m. every single year and when you think about that and if you happen not only in other parts of the world like where i'm from in the dance that well there's nothing wrong with the can a group group of girls and putting them through s.g.m. because that's their clothes and that's something that they've been easements and pens that most of the united states that this is part of the movie. you know they still practice it and it's just something that these people believe and a lot of them think that it's a religious obligation that they have to do to kind of you know because. some kind of we are a lot of people have been being rushed to think that this is something that you must do and anytime someone comes again it's a problem and then we have something called a culture of violence where and when i'm out
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a lot of folks about this picture are the two women i met lots about how they feel when we have a woman comes up and say that well there's something wrong with my body now or feel good about it they've been people that judge in your people back so in bad about you and i think that's why s.g.m. continues to happen because there's not a lot of the vibe with that is really standing up and saying this is long this is not this has affected me and i don't want this act and my daughter i don't want this happening to my youngest this isn't being actually institutionalize and being done by medical professionals are being done just off the radar here no it's jim this is not performed by medical professionals united done in secret and most of the time kids being sent abroad with him and being done to them and then they are brought back in only when it happens is normally happens by the midwife in the community is that not medically trained and sometimes they use the same ways that unloved kids and this was invented and in these and other do these is that they can be exposed to so it's something that we all need to be worried about as human this
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is not just the issue it's everyone issues like human issue and i think a lot of people need to care about this issue will and do more to help these girls that i have read the long and well you should get going you know message and still be going through something as intimate as a. nigger a activist survivor a female genital mutilation really appreciate coming on. thank you. coming up i'll talk about even more bad news for the city of detroit. do you think dad. continues to. sanction approach this in your economy the rights of such it's not so sure. these. are going to be the reason. there is a respect in the will suffer more than other countries because of because of the.
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extensive trade investment we have with. feel bomb administration consistently touts the fifty straight months of private sector job growth and falling unemployment rate is a sign that the us economy is back on track but of course the unemployment rate is declining almost exclusively due to people dropping out of work force out of the workforce out of desperation and hopelessness and perhaps no city in america
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exemplifies the havoc that the two thousand and eight financial crisis continues to wreak in the city of detroit back in july detroit became the largest because a pallet in u.s. history to file for bankruptcy thanks largely to a collapsed auto industry and predatory wall street banks that took advantage of the city's economic desperation now beyond the fact that the city's eight hundred twenty billion dollars in debt detroit's pension system for city employees is is broken beyond repair and during bankruptcy negotiations city officials have offered up everything from selling out the city's art collection to slashing pensions by forty percent to keep detroit's finances afloat keep in mind that pensions are supposed to be guaranteed retirement funds and thousands of former detroit employees depend on for their day to day livelihood university of massachusetts economics professor richard wolfe came on the show a few months back to discuss this very issue. the bailout at the highest estimate of the city's obligations to the pensioners is estimated to be three and
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a half billion dollars by contrast the federal government gave to general motors fifty billion dollars general motors is a company detroit is a city which at that time of the bailout almost a million people democracy alone would say if you can bill out of company for fifty billion you could find three and a half billion to save thousands of people's. but it turns out that really made you know i'm guaranteed pensions are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the motor city's economic grief just yesterday a stunning report from detroit a light removal task force found that nearly eighty five thousand buildings are indicated nearly half of them need to be destroyed at a cost of two billion dollars and that's not just the monetary cost of this cleanup effort that's depressing the entire city the report notes that quote a light or urban decay is a drag on community energy to siphon on city vitality life is a strong return to economic investment and
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a proven threat to public safety like can be a source of despair or cynicism for people who've witnessed a decline of a particular building or neighborhood over time and consider that even if detroit demolishes seven thousand structures a year would still take a loving years to rid the community of these abandoned buildings but the broken windows theory at its finest it's leading to an fathomable crime rate in the city detroit the violent crime is five times higher than the national average and its murder rate as a leavened times higher than new york city police even told people to enter the city at your own risk of course any capital investment detroit is this from the state of michigan would help at this point except that many of the same powerful forces that created the crisis are now trying to prevent even minor economic relief from happening check of this out americans for prosperity a political group backed by the koch brothers are actually lobbying against a state plan that would inject one hundred ninety five million dollars into detroit all to teach detroit's politicians
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a lesson because of course they're the ones who are really suffering here according to scott how strong the michigan director for americans for prosperity quote detroit has behaved like this for thirty years politicians there won't change their behavior if they keep getting bailouts from the hard working taxpayers of michigan wow because i'm sure michigan residents would rather have their once prosperous city fall further into despair you know with the amount of money the koch brothers have spent lobbying against this effort they've been. we're going to see the city's pension system themselves but hey every predatory capital of system has to has to have its sacrifice sounds in detroit it's just the latest city in the crosshairs. from fast food employees receiving poverty level wages in the u.s. to near slave labor conditions by bangladeshi garment workers all around the world labors rights are being diminished and just last week the international trade union
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confederation published its annual report outlining the countries where the working class fares the worst and the best the report ranks countries on a scale of one to five with five million the worst protection for workers of the list denmark was the only country in the world to pull off a perfect score but sadly in a country where the american dream was once attainable the u.s. scored a dismal for disturbances to stick that reflects systemic efforts nationwide to stifle workers' rights over the findings of the study and what it means for american workers i'm joined now by labor and employment attorney ben victor thank you so much for coming on ben. thank you for having me so ben after reviewing the report yourself what sort of working conditions lead to such a low ranking on the list. well i think that what we can really glean from this study is that bad laws beget bad conditions and there's sort of a link to relationship between the two so where you have laws that don't protect workers' rights to organize you wind up seeing you know a furthering of those bad laws and the cycle continues so in the united states for
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instance the lack of protections for workers to engage in collective bargaining and to form unions and to associate freely with one another i was really over decades of time now resulted in the condition that we see workers in today and denmark and europe why are the leading the way when it comes to workers' rights i mean what sets these two countries apart. was sure what the study looked at was what laws were in place and also. mechanisms were placed to enforce those laws when there are violations of way presents a really interesting example because of a law that was passed in two thousand and nine that really strengthen collective bargaining rights but also created some very interesting mechanisms for enforcement when say a union and an employer reach impasse on bargaining over a contract or wages the government can actually get involved and you know either party can sort of bring them into the picture to help settle the dispute and unions have relied on that since its passage and have really fought back particularly in
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the public sector i heard something from from a top stock analyst said that a mcdonald's workers and denmark make four thousand dollars a month six weeks vacation and how things like a pretty good deal compared to the dismal working conditions for fast food workers here shockingly the u.s. received a ranking for on par with kuwait which according the index means that quote these countries have reported systemic violations against workers the government and our companies are engaged in a serious effort to crush the collective voice of workers putting fundamental rights under continuous threat i mean that's pretty strong language and as you said i mean collective bargaining rights and pretty much been under assault since the one nine hundred thirty s. can you give us just a brief timeline of how we got to this point sure i mean really unfortunately the high water mark for collective bargaining rights in the united states was the wagner act in one thousand thirty five and before that time it was criminal in many states to engage in union organizing federal law eliminated those criminality is
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that it gave considerable rights to workers to organize and protected them from retaliation but since that time legislators have really chipped away at those rights and the state that we see today you know we have really a dismal situation in terms of what you are especially certain subgroups of workers rights are in the united states when they try to either form unions or collectively bargain unlike why when you reach impasse in the united states there's very little you can do you have the right to bargain but frankly the mechanisms for. making that bargaining mean anything in terms of you know real gains by workers anymore has really been chipped away at the tools that unions used to have especially the right to strike has been so strongly undermined in the past that in the decades after the wagner act that really there's not much left of that today and you know crushing of the unions and also just the phrase right to work is very confusing and people don't really understand what salt is that's going on from these lobbying efforts at the huffington post compiled some pretty stunning global comparisons to the u.s. for example many people have no chance of retirement to barely get paid time off
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work longer hours and more days then aside from just kind of this collective assault on a federal level how do we get to the point culturally where we are living to work it seems more than most countries. well again i lot of it i think has to do with the relationship between the decline in rights and the decline in unionization you know we have something like just over six percent of the private sector workforce is unionized and where you don't have organized worker power you tend to see right slip away you know a pension used to be something that americans associated with their job you know you work hard your whole life you retire comfortably and today that's no longer the case people in my generation have no concept of what a pension is and as the huffington post article points out many americans responding to a survey tell you that they'll work until they die you know that's that's quite a distance from the era where you had a pension for life yeah and i think a lot of people look at look at things like pensions and they're like oh i don't want to get anything for free even though it isn't they have this mindset that
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you've got to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work for what you have even though that really isn't attainable anymore ben and they're kind of forgetting about all these things that did exist for the last couple decades in your area of focus is the right for undocumented workers you've noted that the u.s. technically gets a collective bargaining rights to undocumented workers but there's no way they can exercise them can you expound. sure just over a decade ago the supreme court ruled that while undocumented workers have. the bargaining rights under the national labor relations act they aren't entitled to the fundamental remedies under that act that it forces right so essentially an undocumented worker can be fired in the course of an organizing campaign and be left with no remedies but you could have the national labor relations board step in and say oh well their rights were violated so it's sort of in a sense meaningless but this shouldn't in any way dissuade workers from organizing because the only way we're ever going to get these rights back and the only way labor is ever going to be able to protect its gains and regain ground is if workers continue to organize and continue to fight back like we see them doing in the fast
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food campaigns and in a variety of other campaigns especially right here in new york city but as an employment attorney i'm sure that you see a lot of things firsthand the struggle in the streets the report gives us a good idea of what countries are doing right what they're doing wrong but little in the way of how to improve the conditions i mean give us some tools here of what workers can do to improve their lives here in america. they have to organize i mean there's a very simple answer to that question and it is that they have to organize you have to remember that like i said before the ninety five wagner act it was unlawful in many places to organize it was considered a criminal conspiracy to try to organize a union to try to fight for better wages and it was because people broke those laws and because of the massive waves of organizing that happened in the first decades of the last century that we were able to make legal gains this isn't a fight that's one in the courtroom it's one in the streets so workers really need to hit the ground you know there's going to be plenty of fights in the courtroom for lawyers to handle but the reality is all of the historical gains of labor have
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been made in the streets absolutely well said thank you so much benjamin victor labor and employment attorney really appreciate it thank you. to close out the show you guys we want to bid farewell to the most revered literary icons of our time my honorable ingenue passed away at the age of eighty six in a north carolina home earlier this evening you can behind her life's work a collection of poetry novels and music that earned her pulitzer prize and three grammys. among dozens of other honors having worked alongside some the most important civil rights leaders in american history. also leaves behind a legacy of social justice that has transcended generations aside from seeing beauty in all things perhaps the most important message she ever gave us was to remember to love my aunt was words we spend precious hours fearing the inevitable would be unwise to use that time adoring our families cherishing our friends and living our lives.
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indefinitely and is in the right time. this is still one of the most isolated and mysterious places in the world old legends of cannibals make many people afraid to travel here but they can't put us on the menu that europeans have been here for less than a hundred years few people know what secrets lay hidden within these forbidding mountains. they said a bunch of cannibals killed and ate a group of shamans a russian plane one of the biggest in the world flies over a couple of guineas wild mountains for the very first time. villagers have never even seen a come. what will they make of this huge steel bird. european workers are told never to venture out alone. truths and myths oh no it's the.
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ukraine's acting president says the army has lost a helicopter carrying some scenes servicemen and a general says the full climb down on to government dissent continues in the east of the country. also the president gone waste on he said by critics of the speech on foreign policy praises his country's exceptionalism sparking debate i would want his could mean prominent. and johnny drops a criminal probe into the u.s. by setting it just kind of find over the wrong doing that despite revelations that as america's troops a vain and strong get in europe. this
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is all seen to national coming to a line from moscow and we start with breaking news this hour from the east of ukraine. where kiev is on the report of the last one of the dragon rules in charge of the crime down on dissent ukraine's acting president has confirmed the army launched a helicopter carrying fourteen soldiers to general. the military down which gave calls an on to terrorist operation is now focused around slovyansk had come i thought as witnesses report fighting in around the two searches with smoke rising from industrial and residential areas and here's what i was source told us about the situation.
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just want to let me try to show you that so you know what do you think you know what that was you know you might be right my god. look a lot. to do there should be should you watch. the west. will bring our source later the army is employing heavy weapons in its quantum down and here is an unverified video of a multiple rocket launcher allegedly employed in the operational although military officials deny they yes that's an area where a number of civilians have already been caught in the fighting a residential area was hit in an earlier time at least nine people were injured among them a four year old many are already fleeing their homes that also
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that in our series shall load into the roof of a school and that was a break between classes one of hate and no one was injured luckily children and teachers from the school and a nearby kindergarten had to take cover in a basement. was the last we ran with the first year children not. heard loud bangs just will move very scared. everyone will scream and we didn't know where to run. the rule of logic is if you just my son was crying and he had a panic attack it's also children are being put through this how could they show the city without making sure there were no children there. the middle. of calls and on to terrorist operation is now focused around the cities of the commodore school and witnesses report finding in around the two sixes with smoke rising from industrial and residential areas and here's what our source told us about the
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situation now we are able to bring you this report. i have just received information that terrorists of short down one of our helicopters with a handheld surface to air missile fourteen of our servicemen were killed including general could cheat ski. president elect a rich enough but was that breaking news from the east of ukraine this hour care was on they reported a loss to one of the generals in charge of the quad down on dissent ukraine's acting president has confirmed the army lost a helicopter carrying fourteen soldiers and a general. at the. time i went to a place where an explosion had been reported to show the private homes it's an old man was hiding in the basement into our house was destroyed and they were there very sore think they stopped the car and you were taught there was a man under all that you told me here in the helicopter there before you know i've
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heard the reports of the helicopter was shot down i tried to go where the smoke was coming from you started your and then i saw a military plane above it was trying to get a view of the site. and our correspondent paula clear is on the campus of the dissenting a region donetsk the city has been under siege by the army for several days now over to paula. there's a lot of concern here in the city of donetsk talking to residents many of them are very fearful that the military operation by the kiev government will resume and resume with force the streets by and large are a lot quieter than they usually are and particularly in the late afternoon when you usually expect to see the outdoor cafes and the parks full with people now they're practically empty there has been pamphlets distributed in some neighborhoods outlining where are the closest bomb shelters and giving people instructions in terms of what to do if they go to the shelters there has as of yet still been no
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official evacuation but talking to people here in the city many of them are keeping this as an option saying that they are considering possibly going to the city's outskirts should the situation deteriorate now there was of mad scramble at the supermarket earlier in the week particularly after monday's massacre of some one hundred people people earlier in the week worse stocking up with cereals with tinned food with bottles of water there is a curfew that was put in place from yesterday so from eight o'clock in the evening until six o'clock in the morning every day there is now a curfew in place and that is to try and stabilize the situation in the evenings certainly a lot of concern here in the city of donetsk people are afraid. in while outrage has gripped my don square in the center of care protesters are angry with one of the leaders of the opposition movement vitale klitschko who's now the mayor elect here and he says they blow caves that have served their purpose and now need to be pulled down to bring god who produced the young you're forty four minutes and it
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wasn't your words origen words for you. to school. with the new president's inauguration approaching and sings the mayor doesn't want approaches cound clogging up the central square but the acts of his themselves are making clear that they think their elected officials. these you. know you're going to be remembered by us now for the hour we're going to boycott or is it your. protesters on the square say it's not up to the new med to decide to make them or leave however my done has become a home away from home and they've made it clear they don't want to go. when you know that your story is a some of us a lot of i don't want to show but you're stuck on the roads the only way you're choosing over luke. perhaps to show their anger the protest is apparently a rip this cell phone from the hands of the elect and he's that photo of the
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incident that's emerged on the internet as the heavyweight boxer didn't seem to mind too much the agreeing with purse hester's that he can just buy himself a new one. if you are some ice skate with exceptional role as an indispensable country in the wild so said president obama during his address to a prestigious military academy but as aussies ghana chicken reports his age is didn't go down so while. president obama's message to the world the u.s. is the one indispensable nation on earth and must intervene wherever it can america must always lead on the world stage if we don't. know one well it's well the united states well use military force unilaterally if necessary when our core interests demand that making some wonder whether the u.s.
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recognizes other nations right to do the same president obama has named countries which in his view challenge the international law russia china iran although he spoke persistently about the u.s. is right to use military force unilaterally the us president admitted not every problem is a military solution just because we have the best her word does not mean that every problem is a nail. president obama's major foreign policy address was far from home both because of america's efforts because of american diplomacy and foreign assistance as well as the sacrifices of our military. more people live under elected governments today that any time in human history washington takes pride in bringing democracy to iraq. and now i think. these countries are in chaos. empires typically the romans talk about the emperor of divide and rule.
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if you could cause chaos you could more easily rule president obama was also speaking to some of his opponents here who say he hasn't been to being in world affairs but his speech indicated that moving forward u.s. foreign policy is going to be as interventionist as ever in washington i'm going to check on our team. and. the speech and how breaking the sat program but he has a preview. every single time you chose to kill human beings with drones of his because americans faced an imminent threat and also somebody sends drones to kill only when there is a near certainty you have no civilian casualties it really means by that if you're simply of military age in the vicinity of a strike well then you're just another dead terrorist not worthy of due process the oft repeated no civilian casualties line gets or more civilians dead are stacked up
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on that bureau investigative journalism up to five thousand two hundred sixty one people died by way of drones thus far and also according to bureau of investigative journalism the vast majority of drone strikes target domestic homes in pakistan over sixty percent in fact but all of this criminal on accountability is ok because of one supreme notion. of the. german prosecutors have given up on investigating american mass surveillance saying they just can't find the evidence they need that despite the chancellor's file number being fired on the n.s.a. list of people whose firings were targeted on a vase underlain and has been following the investigation for it well it does seem like the german federal investigator is about to terminate this investigation into widespread surveillance that is being carried out by the n.s.a.
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and by their british colleagues g c h q against german citizens they said well there's just not the evidence available for them to continue with an investigation this is despite the controversy over angle in miracles private cell phone having being listened to and hacked. merkel's office in which she said friends don't spy on friends all of this apparently going by the wayside also the fact that among some of the documents that were leaked by edward snowden was direct reference by name to the head of the b. and d. the german secret service that he was more than compliant with the n.s.a. when it came to looking into german citizens it does seem that all of this has been brushed under the carpet now the federal prosecutor has said they can't contact edward snowden thought to speak to him in person this is despite edward snowden having been looking for months for a way to try and speak to german prosecutors german investigators also the fact
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that well the media doesn't seem to have had any problem finding mr snowden many an interview in newspapers news magazines or on t.v. have all come out with him but what this is all left though is those this work in data protection here in germany against they've greeted this news with the will demand and essentially said well the good work that they do in the future is being reduced to absurdity the announcement that it seems that this investigation into widespread it widespread on german citizens is going to be cancelled. american warships have sailed to libyan shores that the renegade general is in links to the cia wagers of war three fronts and washington denies any responsibility for his deadly campaign also. the heinz people can reach when they walk to gather a three month has just arrived at the international space station for important
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make the mission one of a kind. egypt's former military chain abdel fattah is heading for and in fact technique train the country's presidential election according to early results and as it pulls the chest to say has secured more than ninety five. percent of the vote the final results are expected to be announced within five days is about true polls now on the fear is that the new president won't be able to nibble on his promises well certainly those voting in support of general abdul fatah sisi told me at the polling stations where they hold parties and some in advance in the street he was the only man for the job they said they needed a military leader to take egypt through this very difficult time you see a spike in terror attacks which is negatively affected the economy however there has been some issues of turnouts for the last few days the egyptian government has panicked that the turnout might be as little as ten percent they've extended the voting by an extra day which technically bens electoral law the prime minister
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announced that people might be fined seventy dollars if they didn't vote so this was definitely an issue that they were talking about because egypt is a t.c. needs that's a stumper just to mislead the nation the high turnout would give their approval for his candidacy and also the last ten months of a crackdown on his opponents more than forty thousand people have reportedly been arrested and hundreds killed in the last ten months of the missing brotherhood's saying that this is an illegitimate poll and they are boycotting is the elections in addition to other secular youth groups who have come under the crackdown of the security forces they say that sisi will not deliver the freedoms that they demanded in january two thousand and eleven and in fact will just continue a military rule we'll have to see how the nation goes in the next few months to see how sisi does run the country and whether he delivers the promises of freedoms and also improvement in the economy and security. so just who is a chips like your future president next gen you up to also say as head of the armed forces have played
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a leading role when ousting president mohammed morsi been democratically elected is that in quelled process across egypt which resulted in hundreds of deaths but he clearly how support and april he mohnish to muster eight times the number of signatures needed to register as a count of that in the presidential elections l.c.c. also managed to win the support of trade unions and the business is in the country and huge huge trade union has seen the light today russia at its regional allies get that support after national weight and set up a center of economic power they turned from off to the great. sigrid laboratory. was to build the world's most sophisticated robot which really doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about you
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this is our international welcome back leaders of russia kazakhstan and belarus have agreed to set up a new year asian economic union at a summit in because our capital astana assays case appealed it has been following the talks still represents a new era of trade the russian president said the signs agreement has learn a stark importance amongst other things not the ex soviet neighbors will now enjoy the free movement of goods capital and services as well as the free movement of people one hundred seventy million people in total and trade is said to accelerate in industries such as energy industry agriculture and trans will know i spoke to david gray from p w c three his reaction to this deal i'm very positive about the prospects for russia and for the other members of the part as well i think. if you look at the e.u. for example i think the reduction in trade barriers within the e.u. had
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a significant impact in terms of making it easier to do business which does encourage investment and i'm looking for to similar results in terms of the ratio. now over the past three years trade within the customs union has increased by nearly fifty percent and the group is set to get even bigger with armenia and kyrgyzstan expected to join the union later on in the year it now as you'll be able to see geographically where these countries sit and how close they are will it makes economic sense for them to do business together and at the moment this is just purely an economic arrangement russian president vladimir putin made it clear that while taking the country's cooperation to a new level the sovereignty of each country will be respected and this arrangement comes the same month the russians trade with china has accelerated to a historic level of the sea in shanghai we had the four hundred billion dollars i guess still sides and the president while he spoke of further future deals as well
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he mentioned a second gas pipeline to china so opening a new doors with the east and sealing to dish more times with x. soviet state. all american citizens are being urged to leave libya as u.s. warships close to the country sure they sporadic violence there has given way to sustain violence with the cia affiliated rogue trainer or leading this his forces against islamist and elected government marina porton i reports and how it's come to this united states together with the international community is committed to the libyan people. you have won your revolution three years after the so-called liberation of libya. moving towards libya's coast a warship carrying some one thousand marines and several helicopters ready to evacuate u.s. diplomatic missions on a moment's notice that was
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a step that was taken to be prepared to protect u.s. personnel and facilities and u.s. installations in north africa the country gravely destabilized allow the militants to expand exponentially as the nation's military and police forces remain complete . nature a little safe so good at destroying nations but never good at making good democracies. however concern over the chaos has spiked after dissident general khalifa haftar launched assaults against the libyan parliament and islamic factions some of the worst violence that country has seen since the overthrow of moammar gadhafi and islamic militant group based in benghazi has accused washington of backing dissidents and fueling unrest. while western forces sold their two thousand and eleven bombing campaign as a humanitarian mission some critics say instability was the end goal peaceful you
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don't states that lurk in their use of your own tax and not. main point is to break up and it isn't receive any kind of news due to how very very brave souls or worst of all the past three years have shown very few of the democratic reforms that were promised when western forces celebrated libya's liberation marina port on a r.t. . so who is the enigmatic military figure behind all this while the new york times and other media outlets have been doing some digging for it's so made a journey of. a man who is it his youth helped bring colonel gadhafi into power only to part ways with him and defected to the united states with cia help for two decades trego hearts are reportedly lived within walking distance of the cia's main headquarters is thought he received training there and became a u.s.
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citizen he returned to libya during the uprising against his old friend and he's now into his second term to this year but this time he is supported by air power armored units and a public relations campaign and that's led some media questioning how such an obscure figure rose to such prominence so quickly japan could build a great wall of its own online the company will be notorious for pushing with nuclear plant considers building an underground on the small to stop radiation from writing. and how much does it cost to restore a city that's forming in parts of the u.s. government is launching a giant construct a clear obviously rusting industrial center of detroit that will come as quite a cost taxpayers over store only. so use carry a rocket has successfully docks with the international space station the three crew members made it to the isis in just six hours transit reports now what's in store
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for them during their half year trip. these days it's easy to lose sight of the fact there's a constant human presence in outer space but it should be moments like this that remind everybody of the heights that we can achieve when we all work together. this is the expedition up to the international space station led by commander maxim sariah from russia and he's joined by flight engineers reed wiseman from the united states alexander gerth from germany while out there they're going to be conducting three space walks and experiments experiments running a wide range for example ones with obvious commercial potential for example working with fishing trawlers to locate new fishing grounds also conducting more technical and scientific experiments like the effects of electro magnetic levitation on different materials and the effects of his zero gravity environment and certain
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cells of viruses and bacteria after all this work is done they're set to return to earth in about one hundred twenty days time landing them sometime in early september. well let's look at some other news from around the globe. and where it would be demolition of a school bus alone i have clashed with riot police eight people were arrested after talking to police vans and setting garbage cans on fire the protests started off so forces destroyed the building where squatters island had been living for the previous seventeen years. were foreign fighters have been killed while putting out a fire in the city of homs box could russia's far east the whole story was a warehouse collapsed after flames to hold early in the morning expire and were found to the degree of the monish the surviving because of the accident is under investigation. he was house of representatives has approved
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a bill to introduce sanctions against him but he's a little sore as he's claiming they are involved in human rights abuses the measures include a travel ban for some politicians as well as freezing their assets in american banks the u.s. has accused the venezuelan president of failing to put an end to public protest nicolas maduro however has blamed america for being behind them rest. and up next it's our financial show boom bust here and also international. coffee society where the same people who are going to be going to want to get
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fired for. changing every minute. of the money on our last hour web. m.i.l.f. why the hell. most of us think there's so many times. these jesus. words. sometimes for nothing which. is something that ends in. it's not just any other story it's will be just if you see a stage take the t.v. which was going to kill others. and this. is. the. one to have an abortion before this creature looks like he
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may be. a career is going pretty well at the moment i've got a loving and caring partner who understands my situation. for. him definitely is in the right time. think about it. this is still one of the most isolated and mysterious places in the world old legends of kind of bulls make many people afraid to travel here but they're going to put us on the menu the europeans have been here for less than a hundred years few people know what secrets lay hidden within these forbidding mountains. they said a bunch of cannibals killed and ate a group of shamans
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a russian plane one of the biggest in the world flies a couple in the guineas wild mountains for the very first time. villages have never even seen a come. what will they make of this huge steel. european workers are told never to venture out alone. truths and myths oh no it's the. peasant over there i'm marinated this is beyond us and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up why is facebook asking the european union to review with the what's app deal we look into it coming right up and while economists of market analysts and experts are all trying to figure out when the fed should raise interest rates professor mark thoma believes the fed should raise rates at all and he's telling us why you coming up on the show with edward harrison and then in today's big deal edward harrison and my fellow are
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talking about loan sharks oh wait sorry excuse me i meant to say subprime business lender that's what they like also you want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. wednesday an unexpected twist in the nineteen billion dollars facebook whatsapp deal came to light facebook which acquired what's up in february has asked european union antitrust regulators to examine its deal to buy the messaging service what's up now the social networking giant is doing this in order to avoid other antitrust reviews by individual countries facebook is seeking one hearing that will cover all
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twenty eight nations in the block but what makes this move unusual is that the deal has already been approved in the u.s. and facebook wasn't expected to see any further scrutiny by the european commission now generally companies that need approval for mergers from several national regulators in europe they prefer to take their case to the european commission in order to avoid the hassle of multiple reviews from multiple countries now in the u.s. the federal trade commission approved the facebook what's out deal in april under the condition that facebook and what's out give notice and get permission to share information beyond their existing privacy settings which pretty much share all your information now european telecom companies may pose the biggest threat to this merger and carriers are rightfully concerned about this big deal because texting is a high margin business for them and what's app is all about texting so will this preemptive strike work in the social networking giants favor or are they just poking a sleeping dragon only time will tell. with
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a constant market analysts and experts are all trying to figure out when or if the fed should raise interest rates now rather would. i mean interest rates create inflation or when they act as a drag on aggregate demand professor mark trauma of the university of oregon believes the federal reserve should not raise rates now mark's blogs he blogs at his make the economist view that's the name of the blog and he explained to us what he believes the fed should be doing now i started our conversation by asking him if income inequality is the defining issue of our time take a look at what he had to say. i think it is and i think it's simply because it's been growing for the last three decades and the middle class has been stagnating the lower income classes have even perhaps lost
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a little bit of ground in real terms over the last three decades and i think we're starting to worry that the rise in inequality might actually have economic impacts for a long time and we came out of the you know the communism of the sixty's in the worries about that the idea was that if you have more inequality it creates the right incentives you get more growth more innovation all the right all the sorts of things you want that kept us economy and one of the big questions we have to address as a profession is are we getting to the tipping point where inequality is so large that it actually turns around and has a negative impact on growth that it doles the incentives of some people in the lower middle class if you're not going to get anything for your hard work if you're not going to get raises when you're more productive in that sort of thing why should you work hard and so there's all sorts of questions to answer now about whether we've reached a tipping point where inequality actually is hurts the real economy and i think for for me that's the defining issue and there's also the equity question which is what is fair how should income be distributed that's something that economics has
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a lot to say about that so that's a matter of opinion and a matter of value judgments nevertheless i think it's a question that the society and the politicians are going to have to address and so yes i think it is a defining question of our time and we'll see how it plays out mark when should the fed raise interest rates in your opinion. i think they're going to do it at the first of next year i think they should be very patient in doing so and they should wait until unemployment has clearly. neared full employment i think if they pull the trigger too soon they could blunt what's already a too slow recovery so you know within that when they're within a point half a point of full employment then i'd really start thinking about beginning to raise interest rates if there's any sign of inflation then i think they have to consider raising interest rates but right now there's just no signs of inflation anywhere on the rise of so that's not a worry so for me the main question is when has unemployment recovered sufficiently
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to interest rates to rise and we're not there yet i think full employment is probably in the five five and half percent range we're getting close to that but i just don't think we're we're to the point yet where we need to start worrying about an overheated economy i mean if they were worried about inflation if the economy recovers faster than they raise interest rates until we see sides of that inflation on the horizon i'm just not at all worried so let's keep interest rates low let's do it and let's do it we can to make the recovery go even faster. recently you wrote a piece on for reasons the fed should not raise interest rates now you have four broad categories rules versus discretion helping savers threat of a full of inflation skinny threat of inflation and the threat of deflation now can you one pakistani audience. sure my main motive was the last two there's been a debate out there about whether the correct way to raise inflationary expectations and hence inflation is to raise interest rates or something called the fisher
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equation that says the nominal interest rates the real interest rate plus the rate of inflation according that equation if the real interest rate stays constant and some people think it's relatively constant if you raise the nominal rate up that should raise the rate the inflationary expectations and then if inflationary expectations go up then inflation should go up the other view out there is one that when you raise interest rates it slows investment it slows consumption a durables it makes net exports worse that slows aggregate demand and that puts downward pressure on prices and inflation and so i was really trying to unpack that debate and say look we have a lot of empirical evidence on this we know we already know what happened this is what chris simms won his nobel prize for is that when in part is that when you raise interest rates inflation goes down so so when you raise interest rates it's not inflationary it's deflationary and so to me that's not a real debate but it's one that's put out there in the blogosphere the other two were just thrown in partly to fill up the eight hundred words i had but also
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because i think the real issues we've also heard that savers are very disappointed that if we raise interest rates your interest rates are so low that savers are getting hurt but i think that that misunderstands the nature of the disequilibrium we're in because of the recession if savings is greater than investment as it does as it is now the right prescription is to lower interest rates to bring those closer together that would lower savings and raise investment but you're at the zero lower bound like we're at right now you can't lower interest rates any further and raising them simply makes that gap between savings and investment even worse and it slows the real economy and so to me the notion that you should raise interest rates to help savers is not the correct thing to do what you really need to do is create profitable opportunities so that people are willing to pay a higher interest rate for. for the money that they borrow and the last one was just a rebuttal to john taylor of taylor rule for fame who's also been calling for raises
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in the interest rate and his view is you ought to follow and no surprise here the taylor role in the taylor rule says that interest rates should go up and it's more important for the it's important for the fed to follow rules and not just do whatever it feels like in his rule says interest rates should go up so it should to me that's just you can't just blindly follow rules rules can't cover every possible contingency we had a great recession that his rule didn't anticipate and it doesn't surprise me that the best prescription is to deviate from the rule that he has in place i want to ask you are should you saying that the low rate environment could quote provide tender for a build up of leverage and risk as madame janet yellen once put it. i think there's a there's a possibility that i think jeremy stein on the fed while he was still there he's retired was very right to raise these issues about are we seeing bubbles within financial markets due to the fed's low interest rate policy they've been keeping a pretty close eye on that maybe they see a little froth here in there and so it's certainly
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a possibility but i just don't see much on the horizon out there that makes me worry that we're creating bubbles through the low interest rate policy and creating financial risks that are going to blow the financial system apart like it did before there may be some of that type of behavior out there but it doesn't appear to be so much that it's something the fed or the public in general ought to be worried about so i think it's a real concern but i don't think it's a concern that's been validated yet that was university of oregon professor mark. time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return we're bringing you part two of our interview with paul brodsky brodsky is talking to us about tail risks banking and inflation in the euro zone and the u.s. then in today's big deal edward harris and i are discussing predatory business lending katie folks that practice it for we go here are a look at some your closing numbers of the bell stick around for our look at summer
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closing numbers of the bell stick around. these numbers and indexes whether it's the dow jones index or the footsie one hundred index or some other oil based index they are completely fungible on a month to month basis based on the needs of the banking kleptocracy in league with governments to project an economic blow. the interview.
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welcome back to the show now unlike market time up hope brodsky believes that
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inflationary expectations do drive inflation now he suspects that monetary authorities will soon raise the specter of deflation in order to create inflationary expectations and thus inflation itself now brodsky is a portfolio manager at coburn and global investors edward an heiress and sat down with brodsky earlier to talk about tail risks banking and inflation of the eurozone and the us he started off by asking brodsky about tail risk that could affect the macro and investing world here's what he had to say. specifically i think we know that we cannot have debt deflation we know the. central banks know it monetary authorities may know it. politicians across the world know this and the reason is because. the primary reason i think is because. the assets of banking systems or loans and debt deflation brings down the
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collateral value of their loan books which brings down. the. there where with all and they become insolvent frankly it was a very intentional tail risk then that people would actually policymakers would actually think that we didn't learn anything from the great depression we're going to let this particular detail risk go i mean why that's question had it was going to be about christine lagarde you know she's been very aggressive in pushing a new agenda recently she called for the e.c.b. to. come out swinging against deflation because he's concerned about that this what do you make of christine lagarde weeks of policy statements in that regard i think it's the first of many i think i think that's where we're headed i buy alluded to it before i think that what we're going to start to see at some point in the future and maybe the near future. is global policymakers coming out and starting to fear
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inflation whether or not. the first way to do that is to fear deflation i think so that you can get monetary authorities to begin to act against deflation in a very aggressive manner. their goal is to provide some fear or. within our societies of impending inflation that's how you get inflation recall that greenspan. central bankers before him bernanke he and and yellen are all consistent in saying that what drives inflation most is the fear of inflation so i would argue that we will soon see some. policy that pushes out the fear of inflation and the only way to do that is as ms lugard has begun to do put out there that we should be fearing be flayed which
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would provide cover for monetary authorities to begin really inflating. way to inflate pardon me the way the way to inflate i think is obviously to try and raise the total money stock and so that there is you know there's some type of bank multiplier which leads to monetary velocity velocity and increase and all of these terms that your audience i'm sure is familiar with that creates money flowing in and out of the system and back and forth within the system. that creates some type of price increase that benefits debtors and we are all debtors in the advance to congress well let me give you an opposing view from our mutual friend marshall our back he was on our show recently and his view is that the i.m.f. as a part of the troika made the situation in the eurozone worse by imposing austerity when debt deflation was actually the the potential that we had post two thousand
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and. the greek crisis was hot and heavy what's your view on. so clarify marshall's point for me if you will i mean it is you saying that the real the real risk here is that deflation i think that he's in the real risk is the deflation in fact that you know the europeans both private sector and government sector are in the situation in which they are currency users and that means that they have to get euro's or they default that's debt deflation right there you know the debt is too high they will default and when you impose austerity in those conditions these thing that's negative that creates a self-fulfilling prophecy and a downward spiral and that's exactly what got us in the situation that we're in right now. so i can't disagree with marshall i think i think that's the fear that.
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marshall i think is articulating what christine lagarde said broadly and that is we're waiting for a min ski moment here or at least we're all fearing a minsky moment that being. suddenly out of nowhere. we have some type of default on debt someplace and it triggers an avalanche of further defaults which cascades into through the banking system and that becomes the primary objective of as we saw in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine that becomes the primary objective of all monetary authorities globally is to rebalance the system and the way they did it then was to create base money and monitor and based bank reserves in the banking system my sense is that if it were to occur today because we've already begun to deal ever banks in the united states through bank reserve creation i have a sense that you might see. bank reserve creation in other domains and other
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economies along with. some type of money creation throughout the in the broader system not just bank reserve creation but some type of. money that gets out there for the rest of us joy you know i can't dispute marshall's point i think that's the trigger let's take a step back here for a second and let's look at the currencies for a moment it seems to me that central banks feel obliged to manufacture enough liquidity i think you mentioned this to service the existing credit in the system and this is especially acute for the fed because you know the dollar is the world's reserve currency what impact do you believe that nine hundred seventy one abandonment of the bretton woods will have or has had on systemic fragility in the global financial system. i think what was known then by a few. what may be know now by many more. is that.
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ultimately increases the fragility of our economy because our our money we have no our money is baseless it's effectively debt and not only that. which would be ok on its own but the debt is never extinguished and if we borrow our currency our money into existence it means there's an interest rate that must be assigned to it just that rate of interest that sign to our money. demands that more money be created with which to repay service and repay that debt so it's a compound doing monetary debt cycle and and it was relatively unknown it couldn't be seen as long as interest rates were coming down generally and as long as financial asset prices were rising above the rate of
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inflation and we had that for much of the last thirty years never knowing or month most of us never knowing that. tremendous risk was being built in and bedded in the system that would ultimately have to be reckoned reconciled now a lot more of us get that and so i think what happened in one thousand nine hundred seventy one set the table for what ultimately might happen forty years later or fifty years later or whenever it might happen but i think it's already in there and . you know i don't want to come across as a historian because i'm not but if you look back you'll see it's awfully challenging to reconcile baseless currencies i don't know if it's ever been done. that was paul brodsky portfolio manager at global investors time now for today's big deal.
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with mr ed work you're going to be back on set doing this now today we're talking about subprime business lending so what is subprime business lending well basically it's just a fancy business term for a scam yeah a scam now it's the practice of lending money at high interest rates won't look at that awesome graphics are high interest rates to business owners and bad credit so how high you ask as high as one hundred twenty five percent in fact i think loan sharks might have a better interest rate now sub prime business lending also requires bars to put a quadrille like cars property livestock. and if you don't pay they take away your livestock and all their other stuff now business. first born to your first born yes that's what i hear is that sexual and collateral sometimes business lending it sounds like a lot a lot like loan sharking that is now suffering because this money and payday loans are these companies they like to call them short term capital right on the exact
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short term capital so is this just a form of loan sharking i in my opinion it is but what is their business model that makes it not loan sharking there isn't the business model is the need and you know to a certain degree this is true and all those sorts of market is to string these people all the as long as possible so that they get enough to extract enough to make up for the fall that have been so between the collateral that they get when they actually seized the property backing whatever loan they got and the interest of they've been paying over that they hope that that makes up for the defaults that are going to occur that's definitely going to happen because you're obviously lending to risk your people now according to bloomberg does. nativist the man who made a fortune signed his mortgage company to georgia bank right before the housing crash is involved in this very business today now apparently another guy who got his start under jordan belfort and you'll remember him from the wolf of wall street is
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also in the business so yeah stand up individual you can say about that and can you tell me more about the business of predatory lending and there are obviously some shady characters but apparently there are more household names as well so can you tell me a little bit about them you know you know interestingly enough there is a few businesses that have some backing by the google ventures for example. peter teal who was a founder of pay pal he's involved goldman sachs i think is also involved in some capacity deutsche bank except so you have some big players that have you know lots of credibility in. the bracket sort of thing and they're getting involved in also big names in technology now edward let's take a step back here because what's the landscape look like and in terms of regulatory . bodies that are looking at this right now are there any woods basically pretty much on regulated because you know. they constructed so that it's not really
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a long that they're doing that you know it's short term financing and they have other ways to make sure that they can go to utah as an example where they can work with banks where there are no use weed laws to deal with the whole process and so forth so really it's a very regulated landscape and you as the borrower basically what you get is. an option a call option on your business if the business succeeds because you're in debt in dire straits and you know you can continue on and you say thank you for this i would've gotten a loan through normal channels if the business fails which is often the case you pay the penalty. and you would have paid a penalty to begin with now and generally we all know this that you know higher risk. equals higher interest rate for you if you want to parse out what makes this predatory when does it just become a proper business and when does it become predatory for me this is pretty this is clearly put predatory because you're dealing with people who have no other source
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of acquited they're on the brink and they're not really looking at it from a business numbers perspective they're talking about you know their future their love their business going down the tubes and they'll do anything even if it's something that's going to harm them in the long run to make sure that that doesn't happen and so you're stepping into the void there in order to lend to them in an unregulated market i mean this is why we have consumer protections for exactly this purpose this is why we have used we lost for exactly this purpose so the fact that we're seeing even so-called. good businesses get involved and back these ventures i think that's a very negative so called being the operative word and real quickly before we go obviously no one is forcing people with a gun to their had to take these loans. before we get all up in arms and i am up in arms because this is not a good business but should we let the markets decide how to assign risk right now right see that's the whole thing is that these are these are adults they can decide the risk and so forth but i think that that's actually a bad call i mean this is
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a perfect example of why we have consumer protection and thank you as always you can see all segments featured in today's show on youtube youtube dot com slash from the start we love hearing from you please check out our facebook page facebook dot com slash boom bust our t. and please tweet us. at edward and h. from all of us here at boom bust thank you for watching us the next time by. i knew how to get my passport it's a short changing every minute. cut me up our last hour well. my our last wife had.
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intervention in the right time. i need something about it. back this is still one of the most isolated and mysterious places in the world. old legends of cannibals make many people afraid to travel here are they going to put us on the menu that europeans have been here for less than a hundred years few people know what secrets lay hidden within these forbidding mountains. they said a bunch of calibers killed in a group of. shaman's a russian plane one of the biggest in the world flies a couple of guineas wild mountains for the very first time. villages have never even seen a come. what will they make of this huge steel. told. stories
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others refuse to. face is changing. the picture. from around the globe. to. secret laboratory was able to build a most sophisticated robot. tim's mission to teach me why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care
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