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calls and set the tone for cia hopeful john brennan's confirmation hearing for the bombers hand-picked spread tougher questions over drones torture and targeted executions. turmoil in tunisia thousands gather at a funeral for a murdered opposition leader is assassination unleashed anti-government sentiment. tens of thousands march on spain streets and calls for the government to go after a fresh round of budget cuts sees a spike in university fees and the end of free prescription drugs for pensioners. draft a bill in the u.k. aims to open up private online communications voices their concerns it's making national security a step too far. from
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moscow twenty four seven this is not. well it wasn't quite the grilling that many had predicted as president obama's choice to head the cia face the senate in his confirmation hearing the session began with. for the protestors were removed by lawmakers then prodded john brennan on themes ranging from torture to drones but appeared to be somewhat timid in their attack is going to change account reports now on the questions that were not asked. what most people expected to hear was how does the u.s. government make decisions as to who should be on their kill list and mr brennan would certainly be the most appropriate person to ask because he is known to have been in charge of the kill list and he's known as the architect of the administration's targeted assassinations program so the question of who the drones are targeting was critical and one of the senators asked john brennan whether there
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should be at least some judicial oversight over those executions by drones and here's what he said none of those actions or to determine past guilt for those actions that he took the decisions that are made or to take action so that we prevent future action to protect american lives so the rationale that john brennan gave for not going to court is that the administration is not in the business of punishing individuals but it's in the business of preventing attacks and he basically says the u.s. government could execute people who are what they haven't done yet and you would expect a follow up questions from lawmakers as to how the administration determines the level of threat as these people constitute let's imagine an angry yemeni man who writes in his blog dad he hates america as you can see why died in a drone strike and he wants to take revenge is that enough to justify him being killed by a drone there are so many questions about how the administration decides to put
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someone on their kill list and yet there was not near enough grilling on the part of the senators to gets recidivist answers prior to the hearing a memo was released which the justice department handed over to congress and according to the memo the government can kill people overseas even without evidence that they are actively plotting against the u.s. the paper states that the u.s. would be able to kill a u.s. citizen or non-citizen overseas ones to go to court and informed high level of social of the u.s. government determines the target is an imminent threat to them here for also suggest that such decisions would not be subject to judicial review and outlines a broad definition of what constitutes imminent threat. at the very beginning of the hearing as john brennan was delivering kids were marks he was interrupted five times or so by protesters who stood up and express these shouted out whether their opposition to those executions senators had to take a recess for the protesters to be removed from the hearing and these protests are
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steered by numerous reports that the drone strikes kill innocent people as well not just suspected terrorists everybody expected tough questions on drugs but that did not happen john brennan got away with very broad answers like the program if saving lives and that you should take the administration's word for it. but a private hearing now awaits john brennan in order to and technicalities given his performance at the senate scholar and author common cavil says brennan's appointment could set a dangerous precedent. this is a complete to our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment do grant so those are more an equal protection of the law and here with the little solution is doing here is they're usurping the constitutional right nominated to the american citizens and so we can be judge jury and executioner we can show american
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citizens abroad without them in their court we can say they are jurors and we can go there and the danger is this is we're going to look good ministrations says we can determine who the jurors did and that means they were in any american citizen without any drugs without any problem and that is a very dangerous precedent. drone warfare its consequences and the morality of it all are up for debate in crosstalk today coming up next hour we hear how drone strikes may be breeding the very terror they seek to destroy. it's quite horrific in africa but it's getting worse i mean there's a new new drawn be a snow in nigeria close to mali so that you've got the west of african i as well and so it's trucking up so that we're going to have drawn b.s. is all over africa and i'm not sure what a surprise really why are we doing this well isn't it. the most effective
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recruitment tool for insurgents in the world david what do you think about that drones are an improvement on torture drones are you might have meant a ground war theater the arguments were being given and yet we didn't have a ground war in yemen we might need one eventually half with the damage the drone strikes are doing but this is beat we're being told that this type of murder is better then all of their human rights abuses. now thousands of people have gathered in tunis is capital for the funeral of a key opposition figure who's assassination became the catalyst for the latest wave of anti-government yury country's authorities are bracing themselves for more unrest or trade unions have launched a general strike. is that the funeral and joins us live on the line now or maria we understand that crowds have joined the funeral procession what's
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happening right now where you are. hi catherine i am right now right in the middle of the funeral processions and they get tired of certain right thousands have gathered for the funeral of chuckling ha been a very well regarded man a very popular here in tunisia and he's also been vocal very harsh critique of the government and it's actually also islam is to. make the coffee a local branch of the muslim brotherhood and this is why people come here they're chanting from time to time and the government. and some of the. we've been able to speak to are accusing constantly the leader of another person in the second nucci or been responsible for the assassination these accusations are very serious understand but we've been hearing that from too many people today what the mood is very transparent albury right now quite peaceful here the army is protecting the people who die and the ira probably i guess you can now hear there
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are helicopters also it was a big big day here in tunisia. but it's a very dangerous situation and turn in for an hour for the country's history because there was we've seen today was really witnessing now or is it today just very similar to patient for all with what we saw here two years ago algerian the arab spring revolution and tunisia was the country over our present was people are fighting against completely different region right now but again they are not asking for the government to step down well and it's a it's a it's a it's a real crisis here if you speak to one of the opposition leaders alpine village and he tells us that what they need right now is the arab. the gallon and the government and the opposition especially as they are now the party dominating this images rather than call it should on the wise men appear as tears and blood will
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come. detainees actually we've seen some tears in from blog. agassiz rather than glad to die because following the assassination on one day there have been many protests not only in the capital but throughout the country and they have been many questions between police and opposition supporters and at least one. person died but there have been many injured people of course well it's a very tense here on the ground and but the right spin is that there are no signs are any political solution there because there is an internal crisis an internal division within the government as. the ruling party has rejected on that in their own prime minister to form a nonpartisan government from our son and figure is a nonaffiliated a political process and it's a great national strike here all the capital it's empty everything is quiet and we
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are hearing that quite has been canceled well. it's a very serious situation and we have to wait to understand how it will affect the future of the country but it is the key trick moment for the country. ok maria thanks for the heart of the story there thank you for that. georgia's parliament is edging the president out of power is preventing him from making is an address even though he's term in office doesn't end until october it all comes for a crackdown on the centers and revelations of human rights abuses with details coming up. by works in a spectacular gonna show roundoff a day of celebration russia's black sea resort of sochi walking one year until the most expensive winter olympics ever. there are tens of thousands of students and teachers have taken to the streets of spain the largest day of protests so far and
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it calls for the government to step aside spain's public sector is facing fresh cuts to education expected to be nearly five billion euros bullshit producer the media agency spoke to some of the demonstrators. hundreds of people are gathered here in madrid to complain about cuts in education they are mostly students parents of students and teachers but the education is not their only concern they're also demanding the resignation of the government the government of money i know the horse has been accused of receiving bribes from private companies and opening bank accounts in switzerland look at the people you can see buttons saying calling spain the last vegas of the european union and also complaining about the lack of democracy that people are protesting and there is no solution to their complaints the salary of a teacher. if i have to pay a mortgage and everything i can to send two kids to university i will have the
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money and how he's privatization in the educational sector hourman education in spain well they see everything us business know that no matter what you do it ok sure should be an occasion for people to make money out of it today don't see it does a public service or not you know the whole service is the same they save you get ill if you have a problem you are a customer and you are you are good they're going to make money out of you it's just a reaction they did the money and everything to their budgets we have. no provision for the public system this has become a trademark of the funniest and most gracious enough to have three large do sweeping trucks come rapidly and sweep all the streets leaving no evidence that there was a demonstration against the government. well a budget battle in brussels as a fresh e.u. summit kicks off two of the blocs traditionally though it is seeing eye to eye with
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britain leading calls for cuts to the budget france accuses the u.k. of people kristie more on that just ahead. u.k. government is trying to get its hands on private web information it's drawn up a document referred to by some as the psni charter which looks to give authorities more rights to spy on its citizens online the spy concerns over invasion of privacy or to sarah firth looks at whether such measures could enhanced national security. the main area of concern surrounds this the draft communications data bill and proposals in it that critics say could see the public left wide open to having their facebook accounts or twitter e-mails read anything that they visit online the websites that they gayety logs by the government now understandably those plans simply have a hugely controversial with critics labeling it the snoop is charter now perhaps more concerning is the latest report by the intelligence and security committee may
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like to see a nationwide surveillance regime implemented now the government say that they need to do this to catch criminals and stop terrorism but there's also the members of the public saying where are safeguards when it comes to what we do online will seek more about this i'm now joined by professor and sneakily to the director studies security and intelligence studies at the university of akron thank you very much for joining us you're in support of the draft communications data bill i heard you describe yourself at a recent talk the skunk at the picnic if these these and these proposals are so unpopular why are the government pushing them through all the time when the government is pushing them through because the government realizes that they're needed some thirty million people use the internet to communicate with each other each day in the united kingdom people in this country fully accept that more than
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one hundred years. their telephone conversations are likely to be mine if they're seen as a national security risk if there is a suspicion that a particular person is engaged in serious organized crime sex trafficking to terrorism the government can then institute through as a member of the public what if i do my emails for a well if you don't want your e-mails. your norm gauged any kind of illegal activity your e-mails won't be productive you want if you want complete privacy don't write any letters to your friends don't speak to the moment and don't send them photographs of yourself in joking i'm looking very much for joining us to fester and see if the has that is the solution maybe is the time for a big log of thing hey someone is actually watching. london well now we want to hear what you think on the subject today we're asking you on r.t.
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dot com what could happen if this stupid charter is adopted by the u.k. government and here are the options will be a mass exodus from social networks email services or maybe a scramble as an encrypted will become increasingly common people reject the practice and fight for their rights so perhaps life will just go on as usual because honest citizens have nothing to fear let's have a look to see how you're voting so far yes here it is well so far majority of you think encrypt it will become more common but far behind the third say people reject this move and fight for their rights twenty percent think social networks email will see a decrease in uses and just a small number so far believe nothing will change that's all on our website but later here in our image is everything people amid the continuing economic crisis e.u. leaders plan to spend big on online propaganda blitz aimed at enhancing the blogs
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reputation by use of social media to beat that shortly. well with. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought. i'm charging market is a big. news
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today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations to rule the day. leaders have started tough negotiations over the books and next budget for seventy is from twenty fourteen financial wrestling comes with u.k. prime minister david cameron in one corner they didn't calls for major spending cuts and crisis hit countries in the other corner. explains what else makes the talks and complex. we've seen some of the leaders who had arrived here already making strong statements first of all david cameron continuously saying that if the
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budget is not brought down to a level that he is happy with there will be no deal we've heard from other countries who are saying that they may use their veto if they're not happy such as the czech republic to simplify the of the current going on right now it would be between northern and southern countries you could say the wealthier nations versus those that actually depend more on the e.u. funding and on the one hand you have countries like the u.k. germany the netherlands denmark these countries are supporting harsher cuts to the e.u. budget david cameron being the most radical and controversial taking this step now he has been demanding since november last year in two thousand and twelve that was the first try today is the second try and since that until now he's been demanding for cuts in brussels bureaucracy for instance but on the other side you have those countries who are dependent on these forums and one of the loudest voices on this is a lot of friends also the u.k. is coming into this summit this is the first time since david cameron announced that in or out referendum that he said that he would pose the question of whether
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he should remain in the e.u. twenty seven. reelected in twenty fifteen of course this is a possibility of a creating even more tension with the u.k. weighing the cost benefit of actually being a member of the e.u. interpreted by the other members as not being a team player in this regard and also as this talk is happening talking about budget cuts on the e.u. level we see the budget cuts on a more local ground level we've seen the protests continuing even until today people very angry at the cuts imposed on them on their livelihoods of their pensions are on their potential jobs while the e.u. cannot agree upon a budget of their own. it said that image is everything in politics and in times of austerity the e.u. is eager to do whatever it takes to maintain a good reputation even if it means spending big with two million euros have apparently been earmarked to spend on a p.r. war with online you skeptics well nigel farage from the u.k.
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independence party himself we're a skeptic think such actions show the block is unfit for purpose they decided that they got to train in house staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online to look at facebook twitter other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says a lot about the institutions that all brought about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman of the parliaments around the world but he and all the rest of the staff are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact of the parliament has decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing
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this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic and this is all the mcgarvie would do or someone like that so i think many people outside would be shocked by it having worked there myself for thirteen years i'm not surprised at all they are really really scared they're scared that from north to south to east to west all over the european union citizens are saying we've never voted for this thing to become the united states of europe we've never asked to have the majority of our laws made somewhere else and we want to do something about it so they're scared and they're fighting back. online if you today a key document in russia is that recent history disappears because you declaring the soviet union's breakup vanishes and the recent sparking theories that before might stand to make a fortune. also a green light forms scientists claim that our galaxy contains billions of
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potentially comfortable planets or about that r.t. dot com. the georgian parliament has postponed president saakashvili his annual address after his party now minority refused to agree to constitutional amendments removing his rights to fire the government the president's party lost its grip on power in a recent parliamentary vote on a crackdown on protests and claims of human rights abuses against medical prisoners well tis alexia share skee has been hearing some firsthand accounts georgia has performed miracles we moved from being a failed state or be one of the top business destinations in the world while it would be high to be academic freedom according to the world bank i'll be number one fighter with corruption worldwide many people started to believe in these people started to believe them ocracy it was because it is georgia really a beacon of democracy and freedom not from your viewpoint when he's universities
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rectory refused to build a prayer room he helped organize a ten thousand strong peaceful student rally but it ended with his arrest and sentence of four and a half years behind bars. guards could just walk into our cell and start beating us for no reason the even put twenty year old students in wheelchairs and prison one of the inmates went insane because they showed footage of how his wife was being raped. georgie thought he'd be spending his time with murderers and drug barons instead he found himself among academics architects and writers all jailed for having a different opinion to the country's leadership. works as an advisor to the minister of the penitentiary system and used to be classmates with saakashvili she believes the astonishing number of prisoners in georgia during his reign was to a large extent personally driven. he had often been joked out in school he directed his revenge against his former classmates when he became
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president most of them were either stripped of their businesses or put to prison in his presidency we've had twenty five thousand people in jail. shocking video of prisoner abuse in georgian jails went viral and effectively diminished the president's party support by more than a half which lost both the election and control over the country it's not yet known where the secretary will face prosecution of the prison torture allegations but for two hundred political prisoners the change of power meant the chance to walk free because like us really well for many remain as georgia's president until october but his powers have already been transferred to the prime minister it's anyone who has already declared a national wide amnesty of political prisoners but experts say there is socialisation may take several more years. r.t. reporting from belief in georgia. but a brief look now at some other international that headlines a suicide bombing has reportedly injured a government via two in mali the first such attack since french forces began their
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intervention the incident occurred at a military checkpoint the bomber had actually detonating his explains his soldiers becomes a day of the islamist fighters and switch to guerrilla warfare in their battle against french government troops. to back to back explosions have ripped through a busy shiite area. forty killing at least twenty six people on the bombs was hidden in a box at a pet market the other words in a car targeting busy city areas on fridays which is the start of the muslim weekend has become a widespread terror tactic with insurgents. and the ferry carrying around one hundred passengers has gone down in a river in the central bank reports suggest that more than forty people have been rescued or swim ashore but scores remain missing and no immediate reports of casualties very accidents are common in bangladesh to maintain vessels and that
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speculations. after a day of a picture perfect celebrations work in russia's winter olympics host city of sochi is in full swing once again the festive spirit spread not only across russia but reached as far as the u.n. headquarters in new york is it one year until the games. wraps up and they're meant to stay. six kids apprenticed instruction nothing so he sent on time straight into getting ahead of these games that last night a monkey one year to get it and down it was a lavish ceremony here that really caught the final words also to say to shed. light on the big business putting building you can see behind me that was all very impressive can control say well switched on across structure an issue mentioned during the touchy feely experience people beach the mentality. if your fans tickets come on sile now the cheapest ones you can pick up some fifteen dollars if you
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reach the. video come pick up. something like that the hundred dollars might have been lost at the date i'll be very fresh life see the postman benny's an out of the running ninety's staggering city makes me feel scratch the most whatever you consider not just a year to get a story to ski jumping center up in the mountains which you can see yourself. they are slightly behind showed you the budget. if. any member of the russian guests take it over old the message is very positive this is needed except saying we don't just make it from the back seat it keeps winning and that just minutes ago i was fifteen degrees recently the first link to the. bottom of your pinky it's once installed on the table not really enjoyed because it's so nice to get around and delete the copies and scream. you can couple grand old bennies that within
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about twenty minutes basically make you watch something on the actual beat the killing it all escapes me event and then if you want to see the same day you can get on the train within thirty minutes or be up in the mountains to watch the outline of it. the next how to make a million dollars an hour we'll talk to an author of a book exposing wall street's super profitable schemes a softer break. wealthy british scientists. sometimes.
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his first book blamed wall street for looting america but now his new book is a step by step guide on how to become a millionaire member of the nation's one percent joining our team for an exclusive interview is author les leopold thank you very much for sitting down with me once again thank you for having me your new book is called how to make a million dollars an hour why hedge funds get away with siphoning off america's wealth what is the purpose of this book what was your motivation for writing it
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well i want to try to get at how it's possible to have such an amazingly skewed income distribution how is it possible in two thousand and ten after the crash for such a hedge fund person to make four point nine billion dollars that year that's over two million dollars an hour how was that possible when i dug into it i found some amazing things that a hedge fund manager can make in one hour with the average american family makes in forty seven years think about the justice in that one hour verses forty seven years i knew something was wrong there and i had to go find out why you say that hedge fund secrets make it possible to hold down a standing psalms in the space of minutes as long as one is willing to bankrupt their morality for the cash remember well one of the biggest scams that was going
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on and i'm sure you've heard of these books that talked about the big short all the ways the smart people that bet against the housing market in the they did so well and weren't they you know geniuses for doing so with they did was they worked with these large investment banks to create securities that were designed to fail they were packaging. decks that were designed to fail then they bet on them to fail so they made their billions of dollars by selling a product and then betting on it failing think about this it would be like designing a car that was going to crash and then you took insurance out on the car so that you could get the benefits of the crash that's what they were doing and i'm not exaggerating the federal government investigated several of these every large bank was involved in this j.p. morgan chase goldman sachs you name it they all did this with hedge funds and they
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to try to make a killing you maintain that wall street gets too big of a portion of the national income and you say that should be changed but politicians are usually more in sync with the financier's. than they are with the average constituents so how can you realistically expect any type of change well here's where the change going to come from from right now most people believe that if you make a lot of money you must be producing value for society being rich means being successful meaning somehow you're doing something important for society with this book is designed to do is to show that that's not true and that's the first thing you have to do you have to break apart the notion that these people are political successful they make a lot of money but when you look at how they make it it's it's impossible to say that they're producing any value for society once we do that it's going to be a little easier to make the case to politicians and the public is as
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a whole that this is outrageous as a matter of fact i think most americans are ready understand that this is outrageous the problem is that politicians are tied to all that money that comes into their campaigns what the american people now understand is that when you let these people play their game they will take down the economy they will on employ millions upon millions of people without batting an eyelash and that's a volatile. it's for the in america i think i think if any politician really had the guts to go after wall street they could ignite the kind of passion that led to occupy wall street people don't like the fact that they're getting ripped off and they know they're being ripped off by wall street you're essentially saying that the u.s. financial elite the majority of it is effectively robbing the people so do you believe that the rising inequality between the rich and poor in america the widening inequality is a match a man made disaster absolutely it's
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a well put it's exactly that a series of policy changes took place in the late seventy's early eighty's and then all the way through that led directly to the growing gap the growing income distribution between the super rich and everybody else and it's precisely the hedge funds that pull up the inequality every look if some thirty something person is making twenty thirty fifty one hundred million dollars a year well then every banker says hey i want to be paid like that to every finance person says i want to be paid like that too and then when the c.e.o.'s of regular companies say wait a second i have got you know twenty thousand employees how come i'm not getting that sort pulls up the inequality and that's what has to be stopped now a large part of the income that wall street receives is virtual it comes from trading financial instruments it's not backed by commodities how big is that
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disconnect huge it's huge they've totally forgot they don't even think about whether or not what they do is good for the economy or any or that it produces a product if they can do what they do it and what if it's more profitable for banks and hedge funds to play in this casino good news for them to put the money in the real economy why is it that lending from the large banks is still so meager for businesses across the country's. because they can make more money playing in these casinos as long as we allow these casinos to operate that's where the money will go because they can make more money there and they have some incredibly ingenious schemes for doing it well how long can these type of. shenanigans or imbalances continue and still we see a possible you know implosion of the global economy and implosion could happen at any time. it will go on as long as and as long as we allow it it's a creation of human beings it's not an act of god we deregulated we could
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reregulate for example if we put a financial transaction tax on every single. buying selling of a stock or derivative of a future any financial instrument you begin to suck some of this money out of wall street and put it back into the real economy and what you want to do a shrink wall street down to size you want to eliminate these outrageous salaries. and bonuses you want to eliminate that so people will say you know what maybe i won't call wall street maybe i'll go work in health care industry or maybe i'll go work in a university or you know research they're smart people but what they're doing is they're using their talents to produce nothing at all and not only is it nothing but it's it can be a dangerous something that they produce could actually pull down the economy there's a chart that shows wages since world war two in the financial sector in the nonfinancial sector and from world war two up to the mid one nine hundred seventy s. a writer on one thousand nine hundred the two lines are identical other was it
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didn't matter whether given your skill in education whether you worked on wall street or worked in manufacturing your earned about the same that after deregulation the nonfinancial sector goes flat and the wall street sector goes straight up. how did that happen it happened because we we made it super profitable to work on wall street how do you believe the world. should or can react to the information that you were disclosing it's not necessarily all you know but you're saying that it's escalating right i think for starters. step one is we've got to get rid of the tax breaks that they use they have hedge funds and private equity firms use this thing called carried interest where they can claim that their income is really capital gains which is now taxes at twenty percent instead of the new rate of thirty nine point six i mean it's outrageous that they get a tax break while you are the richest people on earth getting
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a tax break why would a billionaire need a tax break and they're not even creating any job as far as i can tell so in fact they destroyed a bunch of jobs so that's step one get rid of their tax base but step two is we need to find ways to suck the money out of the financial sector there's too much loose money floating around there and the way to do it is through a financial transaction tax called a robin hood tax europe is several countries in europe now moving in this direction . a because they need the resources and b they have no patience for this speaking of your hand crisis financial crisis do you believe the u.s. is exposed to that you potential crisis all one system that's money money moves so fast now it's all one system i mean the banks that we're talking about they're all global you know that and by the way they're larger than they ever were before and what's the consequence of. consequences are we're very likely to face another crash
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and this is the killer we're going to bail out these institutions and get we're going to this is i'm only going to make one prediction here rather than if you stick with me and use these twelve point guy to make a million dollars an hour other than that. i will guarantee that we will this goes on regulated we will face another crash eighteen and we will bail out the very institutions were saying we'd never be a lot again because there. bigger now that you know the the five largest banks the united states account for fifty two percent of all the banking assets they're bigger than they were before the crash you think we'll let those five go under no way are we going to let those five go under unless we replace the whole banking system with a government system or what are some of the. steps and points to be able to make a million dollars an hour step one is you have to want to be richer than the pharaohs you can't just settle to be like tiger woods or even oprah or
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a movie star you know tom cruise or see you that's not enough that's only seventy eighty million a year you got to want a billion a year so you have to you have to really think of yourself as one of god's chosen elites that you're good you're going to be smarter and richer than anybody that walks face of the earth so you have that step one you have to have to drive the last step which i kind of want to get to is you have to be willing to crush your opponents you have to be able to deflect the center dissenters i got a taste of this i wrote a piece that questioned one of these hedge fund people about them designing bets that would fail and i wrote in my piece that why if this person is so smart why are they engaged in the near criminal conspiracy next thing you know. they threaten to sue me for saying that person was involved in your criminal can in a criminal conspiracy and i say wait a second is near criminal that means like nearly having sex isn't there
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a difference between merely having it and the real thing is there a difference between being in a near criminal conspiracy and the real thing but you know they're coming after me with an army of lawyers so their goal was to get that piece removed and you know what they succeeded i couldn't fight them two had hedge fund managers very make a million dollars an hour yeah they did more than one while more than one. and by the way by the time this conversation is done had we gotten our proper million dollars an hour we would have earned two hundred seventeen thousand dollars so please talk to your boss about getting a raise. i will talk to him about that last leopold thank you very much for your time thanks so much for having me.
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