if is just one of the many horror stories to emerge from the now notorious stafford hospital evil that sandy would have described to be nothing. wrong. in the most horrible stand still seems. to. be she'd have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and . that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as in all the hospitals it's emerged that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand people never got to see them discharged from this hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without

painkillers it's the biggest scandal to hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages britain's health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer the hospital's chief executive has said west sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives and needlessly lost. stuff

that. buckles razor close to the heart all of the syrian capital still ahead rebels and government forces pressure control of a vital supply road all off to almost a week of u.s. combat as the opposition says as we're praying for the final assault on the seat of bashar assad. science technology innovation all the moves developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. the government no longer represents the. people we're going to determine.

the way are. we. here with our team on saturday purchases flooded the streets of at least six is t's in our lives and the tens of thousands of people demonstrating against austerity

measures across the country the public phase a years of severe cuts off to the states and banking system was crippled by the financial crisis might go up a drop only a financial adviser says that despite all the government's effort ireland is still on the road to ruin. i think it's going to be difficult for the on. going to campaign. difficult because of course all the comes. from relief. from the. from the europeans the irish. have ended up. most countries to the bank for. suffering a great deal. with the presidency. to be able to. months or months.

because the power remains that the german. right for more news you can head online that bush had access to the private lives of a former president gets access to the e-mail accounts of the bush family publishing some personal photos online read more about it at our team. and in the army now they are foreigners and rochelle will now have to give military service if they receive citizenship even if they already served in another country's forces more online. the syrian capital damascus this week saw some of the heaviest fighting in months as rebels advance on government strongholds the latest battles where over control of a key highway you should ignore cut off by the opposition forces they've also seized several army checkpoints and moving to within a mile of the heart of the capital the rebels say they are preparing for

a dig site decisive assault in damascus but a satisfactory result is unlikely even if this person sees in toppling the president says dr ali mohammed from a serious news website. just i mean it's just like the rules of. life here and the sun will be nicer ones different than it is now and that's not really having t.v. we cannot actually control victims in detroit even when the user has listed. it on its black moves the not of. it because they know they cannot control the coalition will only be able to do the work it's founder and main financing. we asked them to do and if they don't do that they will lose this financing and be able to support so they have to do this in zimbabwe both know how to who and they come out because they are not united and they don't have the same abuse so it's a big mess and the west would like to see this big mess for in the country. let's

take a look at. other world headlines in brief right now a massive explosion has ripped through the roof of a gas plant in texas one person died while another was hospitalized with burns to over thirty five percent of his body a spokesman for the plant's operators says that the cause of the blast is unknown but an investigation is under way to stress that no hazardous substance was released into the air and there is no threat to the general public. bus traveling in a mountainous area five hundred kilometers south of the chilean capital son diego has plummeted down a ravine it killing sixteen people most of the victims were teenagers one baby among the did state media says the bus had no c. bills and was only meant for use in cities not for long trips. in india scuffles have broken out between activists and human rights protesters

calling for the end of the death penalty this comes a day after grew was hanged of for supplying arms for a two thousand and one attack on the national parliament that left nine people did it's only the second time in the last ten years an execution has been carried out in. your financial stage of sex life and personal relationships apparently all that information is relevant to us national security according to the cia thousands of people in america have to answer very intimate questions while taking of a good gauge republique graph test every year or it is marina looked into the story . for more than three decades john sullivan worked as a polygraph examiner for america's central intelligence agency today the retired cia employee is offering some strong opinions about the nation's lie detector policy too many honest people are too many people who should be passing their tests

aren't and there's no there's no accountability for that. last year more than seventy three thousand americans were reportedly required to undergo polygraph tests in order to get or keep jobs with the federal government according to an investigation by mcclatchy newspapers a growing number of u.s. agencies are asking employees and applicants intimate questions that extend way beyond the realm of national security probing matters such as sexual conduct financial matters and past personal relationships a woman was pressured to talk about her experience being molested as a child and when the polar bear for said that he refused to go on with the interrogation he alleges that he was pressured to go back and continue interrogating our scientists found that polygraphs aren't reliable enough to prevent innocent people from failing and deceptive candidates from passing i think

it's important to understand that the polygraph is not just. for screening it's an interrogation tool lisa ribicoff is an independent polygraph examiner and investigator who uses the polygraph program designed by homeland security she contends that it's ninety eight percent accurate i do think that there are some questions pertaining to some emotional aspects and personal situations should not be included but i do understand why they're included on the basis of that the government needs to see how exactly what their breaking point is however applicants who are denied a coveted position after failing up. polygraphs are prohibited from accessing the records of their interrogation and are often barred from contesting the results were filing complaints in federal court in two thousand and four the cia veteran who conducted lie detector interrogations for thirty one years failed his own screening there was absolutely no question in my mind that the test was right you

know it's this was a terrible test sullivan lost his security clearance and was denied a job with a federal contracting agency he claims his examiner falsified the results possible retribution for solving his book detailing america's polygraph system the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security bring up or not our team new york. and up next how to make a million dollars and i'll talk to an author of a book exposing wall street's super profitable schemes that's after the big states change for that.

secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said you know things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have

caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chatting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidently or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. mission creep. patience three. three. three.

three. three live live . 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 had funs get away with siphoning off america's wealth what is the purpose of this book what was your motivation for writing it

well i wanted 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 some of the 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 versus 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 sounds 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

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 work 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

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 they 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 we have to do we have to break apart the notion that these people are quote unquote 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

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. next 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 the rising inequality between the rich and poor in america the widening inequality is a match a man made disaster absolutely it's

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 gap 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 pulls up the inequality and that's what has to be stopped now a large part of the income now wall street receives is virtual it comes from trading financial instruments it's not backed by commodities how big is that

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 that is 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 is. 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 but 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 as long as we allow it it's a creation of human beings it's not an act of god we deregulated we could

reregulate for example if we put a financial transaction tax on every single buying selling of a stock or a derivative 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 the 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

didn't matter whether given your skill and education whether you worked on wall street or worked in manufacturing your and 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 they 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 taxed at twenty percent instead of the new rate of thirty nine point six i mean it's outrageous that they get a tax break why they are the richest people on earth getting a tax break why would

a billionaire need a tax break and they're not even creating any jobs 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 break 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 in the way to do it is through a financial transaction tax called a robin hood tax europe is several countries in europe now are moving in this direction. a because they need the resources and b they have no patience for this speaking of the hand crisis financial crisis do you believe the u.s. is exposed to that potential crisis or 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. and by the way they're larger than they ever were before and what's the consequence of the consequences are we're very likely to face another crash and

this is the killer we're going to bail out these institutions i guess we're going to this is i'm only going to make one prediction here other than if you stick with me and use these twelve point guy you two will make a million dollars an hour other than that. i will guarantee that we will if this goes on regulated we will face another crash and we will bail out the very institutions were saying we would 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

a movie star tom cruise or see you that's not enough that's only seventy eighty million a year you've got to want a billion years 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 then designing bets that would fail and i wrote in my piece that why if this person so smart why are they engaged in a near criminal conspiracy next thing i know. they threaten to sue me for saying that person was involved in your criminal counts in a criminal conspiracy and i said wait a second is near criminal that means like nearly having sex isn't there

a difference between merely having it and the real thing is there a difference between being in a near criminal conspiracy in 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 leslie a paul thank you very much for your time thanks so much for having me.

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