mission writing the laws and regulations to tax corporate bankers their health. care is just to flood threat is a society. that. what's happened in part of people i'm abby martin and this is great in the set so you may have heard of a little company called goldman sachs you know the investment bank that was behind one of the big his players behind the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent financial catastrophe well take a listen to what goldman sachs c.e.o. lloyd blankfein had to say yesterday on c.b.s. says this morning. income inequality is a very destabilizing thing in the country in other words it's responsible for the divisions in the country the divisions could get wider if you can't legislate you can't deal with problems you can't deal with problems you can't drive growth and you can't drive the success of the country it's

a very big issue and something that has to be has to be dealt with oh look while it's great the world's richest banker actually recognize that income inequality is a real thing or to take someone who had millions of people in the financial ruin seriously not to mention income inequality is exactly a pressing problem for blankfein last year goldman sachs's top man took home a cool one thousand million dollars in stock options and bonuses on top of his two million dollars salary and i guess it to be expected considering that a new study from the economic policy institute found that the average c.e.o. pay is now fifteen point two million dollars that's a nine hundred thirty seven percent rise since one thousand nine hundred seventy eight according to a f l c i o c.e.o.'s of fortune five hundred companies now earn insane three hundred thirty one times as much money as their employees so if lloyd blankfein truly wants to change the fact that the u.s. has the worst income inequality in the developed world he can start by looking in

the mirror let's break this. they are very hard to take kindly. to. that fact that hurt their little. league. so it looks like transparency has become a growing trend and government well at least the facade of transparency last week

the central intelligence agency held its first public press conference at georgetown university under the theme the ethos of profession and intelligence but that's not all the shadowy secretive organization also joined twitter that's right and announced its presence on the social media site with an attempt at humor tweeting quote we can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet cute but despite the cia's the latest attempt to appear open and transparent it can't run away from its truly horrifying track record which has as journalist john pilger put it waged a global war on democracy and as much as the shady organization wants to appear likable in modern no amount of white washing can hide its despicable history take for example some of the more well known cia operations i've covered on this show first there's operation mockingbird launch in the one nine hundred fifty s.

which aimed to spread u.s. propaganda during the cold war by placing well established journalists. directly on the cia payroll then there is the cia's a little experimentation with psychedelics around the same time called operation m.k. ultra or agents and those each other and unsuspecting americans with alice dean and let's not forget operation paperclip another post world war two program during which the cia recruited former nazi scientists and provided them safe harbor in america lovely and well all these domestic programs have since been a hold to the darker cia operations conducted on foreign soil of the decades have had long debilitating impacts consider some of the most well known cia backed coups that have disrupted the democratic evolution of countries in nearly every corner of the earth like in one nine hundred fifty three when the cia along with the m i six hours to be wrong as first democratically elected leader prime minister mohammad

most a deck because most of it was just too keen on notions like nationalizing iran's resources you know the things of the global capitalism stablished didn't just cannot condone or you may remember in the case of chile where nine hundred seventy democratically elected marxist leader salvador allende was elected his subsequent push to nationalize industries within the country led the cia to orchestrate a coup broadcast a speech from the palace promising never to resign and give up on the chilean people however he was dead by the end of the day and it's still not clear whether or not he took his own life or was outright assassinated by the cia of course the u.n. day was replaced by an even worse dictator augusto pinochet who oversaw the deaths of at least ten thousand chileans then there's the coup just miles from america's coastline in haiti where the cia helped ousted democratically elected trend are a stud aristid not once but twice in one thousand nine hundred one and again in two

thousand and four. but you know guys these fairly well known cia coups and operations are anything. but seldom and in fact there are dozens of lesser known mindblowing plots extensively documented by historian william blum in his book killing hope cia interventions since world war two started in latin america where the cia launched operation condor in one nine hundred seventy five with the goal of propping up right wing military dictatorships across the region including in chile argentina uruguay bolivia brazil paraguay the list goes on the us joined forces with these countries to assassinate and disappear leftwing dissidents politicians and journalists including a car bombing that took place right here in the nation's capital and yes operation condor encompassed all the usual suspects and psychopath the included and then secretary of state henry kissinger all know at least sixty thousand deaths going to officially be attributed to the operation moving on to africa specifically the ones

actually democratic republic of congo and one nine hundred sixty the congo elected its first democratically elected prime minister patrice lumumba unfortunately for the west of the mamba was a staunch nationalist who advocated for national liberation both politically and economically yet when member was faced with the us and belgian backs the session of a resource rich part province excuse me he turned to the soviet union for aid in holding on to the territory so of course this move put him on a cia hit list according to global research declassified american documents establish washington's role in attempting to kill the mamba by smuggling poison toothpaste into his bathroom and ultimately among those caught by opposition forces and executed by firing squad fast forward today or congo remains a hotbed of instability in the bloody civil war resulted in the ongoing genocide of nearly six million people but in other cases sometimes all it takes to win yourself

a covert invasion is being opposed to u.s. militarism which is exactly what happened in the tiny island. of. the population of just sixty two thousand people say in one thousand nine hundred eighty six socialist france alberta ne came to power in voiced opposition to the u.s. airbase located in this country and immediately the cia and south african government began plotting how to get rid of what had just become another the war in their side so in one nine hundred eighty one after a failed plot ouster in a two years prior forty men disguised as a rugby team flew into the country in an attempt to overthrow the leader but once their weapons were found upon arrival a gun battle ensued at the airport and get this the men had to actually hijack an air india flight in order to get back to south africa papers all across south africa broke details alleging the cia had bankrolled the entire invading force although the u.s. of course maintains that the box operation was all an internal conflict there were

days ruled was by no means democratic has decades long rule resulted in the country becoming the most of elop nation and africa according to human development index but if you think i've heard it all when it comes to the lane the cia will stoop to insure us in gemini even hold on to your seat because a failed plot in indonesia takes the cake sukarno the country's first president probably the most absurd character assassination plot of all time happened to him use of cargo threaten the u.s. goals for southeast asia in the one nine hundred forty s. by aligning with its cold war enemies but instead of ordering a simple sasa nation the cia got a little more creative believe it or not the agency crafted a plot to produce a porno film starring actors who resembled sukarno in his russian girlfriend hoping that the circulation would hurt his popularity in the muslim country according to blues book production went as far as developing a mask designed to resemble the president alternately this scheme only produced photographs and sukarno's constituents didn't fall for the fraud he was ousted by

a military coup regardless the following year u.s. involvement in indonesia didn't end with the. failed sex tape according to journalist kathy caden who interviewed former officials from the u.s. embassy in jakarta the state department and cia quote systematically compiled comprehensive lists of communist operatives from top echelons down to village hargraves and as many as five thousand names were furnished to the indonesian army that's the same indonesian army that carried out the murder of up to one million people during a yearlong massacre look i can go on all day about what the cia has done to subvert the world and evolution of humanity but i only have a thirty minute show so please keep all of this in mind the next time the cia attempts to play nice and interact with the public it has nothing but contempt for because it's hard to fit it's a long list of war crimes subversion and extrajudicial killings into one hundred forty character trait.

new york city is the center of the world and features some of the most prominent galleries in the world from moma to the guggenheim but some of the best art can't be seen in any gallery instead it exists solely in the streets and the next guest has made it his mission to document new york street art and just released a book of photographs of works from forty six different street artists untitled outdoor gallery join me now to discuss his book as well as the wall street art and promoting social political activism as photograph or an author you know absolutes and thank you so much for coming on. thanks for having me abbi so you've compiled an amazing book of photographs of the most prolific street art in new york one spire to create the project. actually it's a pretty personal story. i got injured and i couldn't do a lot of the activities that i had to do that i wanted to do and i was playing tennis and training and i was just into sports so what i did was i decided i'm

going to do the only thing i can do at the time which is walk and then i just took my camera and started walking everywhere in new york city within different communities and that's what expose me to so much art and i just enjoyed. documenting it i was just blown away what is it specifically about street art that you think resonates more with viewers different than met to a typical gallery maybe. others so much i can talk an hour about this but for me street art is on the edge of of the artist abolition meant it's the real voice of the people street art is a form of communication way before we had twitter instagram facebook it's a real form of communication and it's creativity that serves as a kind of nonviolent form of rebellion against systems that we all that you talk about a lot in your show. and you know what do you think new york is a city that inspires so many artist to take their work to the streets and how do

you seen it evolve over the years to reflect the change in attitudes. while i'm not an expert on how the graffiti movement started but i think it started out of a out of a certain kind of boiling point. in the late sixty's and seventy's where people just wanted to be heard and that's how graffiti started with a simple act of a few people writing down their names and from there just snowballed into different kinds of graffiti pieces throw. and then it kind of morphed into more abstract work and actual art in the to see so new york is as the empire city it attracts the best of the best and for many people graffiti has a negative connotation but you've managed to throw to show excuse me through your work the immense potential for beauty and social commentary through this art form what are some of the images an artist that stood out to you the most in representing these ideas. so there's the point of my book is really to show

a vast diversity of the artist so you can see artists do a simple tag and artists that use different mediums like printing paste. freehand spray paint so there's a vast and very wide kind of diversity within the graffiti and street art community the negative aspect has to do is what is private and what is owned by the people and that's why i really love graffiti because it puts that into question what is owned by everybody and what is owned by corporations and private people and compiling the book you interviewed over forty new york street artists are there any common political and social themes you discovered in how these types of artists approach their work. i mean i think all of the artists were. extremely intelligent extremely creative extremely critical of

a lot of the policies that are going on today whether it's social or economic policies. like i said graffiti came from communities that were suffering the most from policies. from social and economic policies that hurt the weak so naturally that's where you're going to get the most creative the best artists and my book kind of celebrates those first taggers who just started tagging in the seventy's this is where to arrive to this incredible renaissance here in new york city right now. really quickly about twenty seconds left where can people find out more about your book and get involved. there's a facebook gallery n.y.c. dot com instagram. that's my. then i have my own. website your column and there's many many blogs out there thank you so much i

really appreciate you coming on thanks happy coming up i'll talk about an amazing announcement from tesla motors stay tuned. and i decided that i'm. trying. to. do. it all about money and i was specially politician last. year just. in the worlds of commerce and science one of the debates focuses on patents

a patent gives an inventor a corporation an exclusive set of rights to an intellectual property and exchange for a detailed public disclosure of their invention a person can own a patent over an object design or the ingredients of a specific medicine and while there's a perfectly rational need for patents such as securing investment for experimentation production and marketing of a new product there's a larger debate over the effect patents have on slowing down innovation examples of this abound one only needs to look at the pharmaceutical industry and the massive profits made by drug companies that hold patents over lifesaving medicine which is why this next story is such a huge deal tesla founder and c.e.o. in lawn musk just released all the patents on his cutting edge electric vehicles the move to open source all of tussles electric car patents is truly without precedent in the auto industry. and completely sidesteps the whole debate over whether or not to reform u.s. patent laws these laws have created countless lawsuits from many industries over

patents concerning everything from operating systems to us that ics just check out how many companies are suing each other over smartphone patents alone so what does a billionaire entrepreneur have to say about why he decided to release the priceless patents technology leadership is not defined by patents which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor but rather the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers wow what a concept provide the world with an amazing invention that gives an alternative to polluting the planet and then make that technology freely available to your rivals and the company isn't even expecting to lose any sales since they are after all on the cutting. edge of the industry and back the only predictable outcome is an increase in the sales of electric cars in a move away from fossil fuel burning vehicles how can anyone possibly think this is a bad thing think of one swedish auto designers that volvo patented the modern day seatbelt and invention that's now a standard feature on any vehicle not only was this design made free to the public

but became recognized as one of the most important safety devices ever invented the recent decision by tesla motors to share a lector vehicle technology for the common good and the health of the planet patents be damned also reminds me of the story of dr jonas salk the man who created the world's first polio vaccine after effectively saving the lives of entire generation of children sauk was asked who would own the patent to the new lifesaving medicine his response was short cutting could you own a patent on the sun. so why did the rest of the world get that some patents are too valuable to be hoarded. it's not often that i get to feature a musician on the show was actually from washington d.c. the band's head rock love is d.c. through and through and he's seen up close and personal the effect gentrification

has had on native washingtonian and some of the guys of economic development as a result he uses his music to promote social awareness of the most pressing issues facing the city so we're performing a song with superbad three solution as head rock. to say you want to. kill it all for the sake of three you want to. do better this. year. you want to. do good. books all you want to joe's. she played soccer you bet i'm going to say the very very great that the sole be open to her because she's les paul if you don't know the truth in slavery. up aristocratic keep a bit of youthful despair for good plays ball with take it day by day i think the pulse is up to no good to top the poll says up to no good three times pay the

bosses the old time pay pay pay pay first time the whole get. up all the time the welcome back jack is here goodnight it's time to pull combat couple to join the fight for the dog and man the stuff the stuff a great great great if you book your boat but that's cold you can suck make it ends meet like that this camp top they do to search for your time on the grandson of the people who. did a lot of work to scrape a pretty good ink with this this is ugly had to be gritty and be compared to q three it's a p.d.f. most people do that at a class could treat a cd that we try to get a hit but they take a bit of the big shots up all the we can fairly ban it this is the old cat. suits me out the staple food that i was crazy in the basement up to this sacred we'll take it as best we tasted so coming together the two was sure to place things

before the sun about the pretty true waves that pay for school coffees play ball if you don't know the truth that's all enslaved where the predator the paper of lives that moves back so called what's a good day but i think the public up to no good to topic the false stuff until two or three times a day hit the ball so cool full time. that the whole get that fake fake fake fake there come the whole get your stuff you put a couple in the hole come back. prepare a couple of it hold it down let me say stop missing a step they like to celebrate complex hold up. mates now will we holler we want the same baby canes now will they cut him a grain victories that our will is it will be too plain i was paid the foul with me so we had to leave the old one is not the case closed the best place to stamp out this united by a cold chill but we discovered that those without people we don't want to plug the

gap before that we could you make a deal the whole week it's a practice the board of consciousness tell the phrasing that we talk of every obstacle sepultura there's the branded albright's but those who would still call it is that it want to play despite the old school because we came to the pains we take no for the things they could do peace cold food to put a sail to a cave but oh the trolls are proof that this will be up with their poor cookies playbook if you don't know the truth enslaved. mr praed a bit of the background of this pax the pope would take it day. how do you been rocking out from those two decades here in d.c. born and raised a lot over. the resume what issues here in the city do you feel like you are most politically charged about well the main issue is just the whole snatch and grab of chocolate city i don't know if people know you know d.c. is a faction in affectionately known as chocolate city because of its majority black and

brown population and just in the last fifteen twenty years just the dismantling of our community resources bar and elected leaders. you know that is a few issues so to affordable housing situation here the education situation here. is crazy and then also the selling of our public lands to private developers for pennies on the dollar you know for for you know economic growth supposed to be for all d.c. residents but it's not happening that way i don't think people realize who i mean i don't even realize because i'm new here but the gentrification it's really pushed out and stratified a lot of a lot of different populations here it is really separate and that way it's still very you are also extremely vocal about a wal-mart. and you know i don't think a lot of people realize that wal-mart actually came in here city council voted they wanted to live wage vetoed it what it talk about this issue and why you are

passionate about about a wal-mart he said well you know wal-mart has a history of. you know crimes against against labor unions working working class people pay a fair wage is coming up short on giving people full time employment so they can you know peel back on the you know on the health care and the other retirement benefits and things like that it's not a good situation for them to come here you know with wal-mart in effect is a plantation you know and for me really means some of the council majority blacktown to bring their plantation scheme to a black town is like it's like a slap in the face to me. so you know i tried to work with the with the activist community did a lot in with the help of a few organizations. but eventually you know we lost the effort to keep wal-mart you know out of the city limits because quite honestly just a lot of politicians and there were a lot of organizations progressive organizations back with people who know better

than to try to work with wal-mart also have a song called reparations i want to read some lyrics for audience genocide and slave meant relations set aside for hope medication translation they don't want to cope with the scope of damage to our generation talk about what the song and what it means to you. you know reparations is this the case that the government of the united states of america needs to be involved in repairing the situation that founded the country which is the. imperialism the taking of the land from the natives the natives need to be prepared for that. because general generations later the native you know dire straits rest of us the worse most oppressed population in the country folks really understand that but they are the worst and this is their land and in the other thing is the enslavement of the africans and generational effect of. getting free labor in not to mention the emotional psychological

you know abuses of white supremacy and what it did to the public to the song is really about. the way to government backed enslavement it needs to entire. back reparation an education movement to let the citizens know just how this country was founded so that we can. really believe that education is the key we let people know what happened and especially at the kids age you know kids are very smart very compassionate kids don't stand by for injustice. the horrors the atrocities that plays into that it's a great nation and i think we would have better social relations in today's time thank you so much vance hedi levy have up artist i really appreciate thank you so i started by what you do. the place they sit it seems out of.

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