by a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul corporate body that we might as well use. against an album which we. deny category four hurricane harvey it makes landfall in texas and continues to public houston and the surrounding areas with severe flooding and fifty four years after the i have a dream speech ministers meet and march in the nation's capital to confront racial prejudice and the iraqi army remains on guard for militant traps in the recently liberated city of tel afar artie's murat god has exclusive coverage i'm going to chance sitting in for ed schultz here in washington d.c. you're watching r.t. america. good

evening we start tonight in texas where hurricane harvey is still pouring rain on houston and the surrounding areas over thirty inches of poured into parts of houston and the storm is expected to affect the state of louisiana into tomorrow are trying to be charged as has the details search and rescue missions are still underway an estimated nine trillion gallons of rain how fallen and more rains are expected to continue through friday with an additional fifteen to twenty five inches of flooding in the region now eighteen countries in the state of texas have made a federal disaster declaration list and that number of may increase in the coming days this hurricane has devastated communities throughout texas the houston chronicle reported two hundred seventy six major roads are high water locations and over eighty thousand people do not have electricity according to fema more than four hundred fifty thousand people are expected to seek federal aid in the recovering. this catastrophic catastrophic event and over three hundred thousand

people will seek emergency shelter there have been at least eight deaths and more than a dozen people injured houston officials are working together to do everything that they can to ensure the safety of the public and get those who are in danger out to safety and at a press conference earlier today the houston police department say that they have completed the rescue of over two thousand people and two hundred ninety of those rescues were water rescues that just occurred overnight the fire department has responded to over five hundred five thousand five hundred calls for service just in the last twenty four hours and as of this morning they have about one hundred eighty five critical rescue requests that they hope to complete today not too long ago the governor of texas says that this is just the early stages of responding to the storm and says that this is going to be a new normal in the recovery process let's take a listen importantly this is a place that texas and fema will be involved in for

a long long time we will be here until we can restore this region is back to normal as possible or as we discussed in our meeting earlier we need to recognize is going to be a new normal will be a new and different normal for this entire region but we will not stop until we get as far as we can the governor announced today that he has authorized the deployment of all of the twelve thousand texas national guards the president also just spoke moments ago and he said protecting the lives of our people is his highest priority tragic times like this bring out the best in america's character he will be visiting areas of texas tomorrow and is expected to return on saturday and also is expected to visit louisiana as well on saturday besides being the nation's fourth largest city texas is also the heart of oil and chemical industries many are worried that the hurricane will create long. long term public health

problems and if there is an accidental toxically due to the storm which can contaminate the waterways and have detrimental effects the federal agency management agency addressed some of these concerns at a press conference today and here's what they had to say. it's very early in this but what we do know is that the water in corpus christi and in victoria area recommendation for boiling of the water before before consumption the good news is that the work that's been done the pre deployment that's been done as brock says there are significant assets water assets they are that are available for folks and that's the challenge that we have is getting them to people looking for oil spills we have not detected in the oil spill yet but we are actively monitoring that an oil and hazardous response now although right now it is too early to tell whether or not there has been any pollution government officials say that most refineries had exercise voluntary shutdowns before the storm made landfall which will help with any environmental issues. meanwhile hurricane harvey has already impacted oil

prices for more on this we're being joined now by bart gellman he's the former u.s. trading commissioner thanks for being here this evening we saw big oil and gas price impact back in two thousand and five right after hurricane katrina hit the the oil coast are we beginning to see that again due to this storm i think we are in manila i mean the prices are only up a few cents since friday average gasoline price on friday was to thirty five is just to thirty seven but the futures price that is the wholesale price the markets are used to regulate it took the largest uptick seven points in overnight trading last night in two and a half years it went back down settled if you want to buy wholesale gas is going to have to pay a dollar seventy one to gallon about dollar seventy two rather but i think we are starting to see it it was up forty cents after katrina disagree on the gas but i do think we're going to see some of that coming up here because the harvey how how high are these going to go if i've read about everything i've looked at all the

experts and they're saying maybe fifteen to twenty five but i got to say the extent of the damage when i look at refineries and what's going on i think it could be thirty or more cents a gallon and that could last for at least a month. this is not something that's going to go away in a matter of a couple of weeks well i mean is that is it going to be because of refineries perhaps being shut down our ally what should people do should be should they be filling up their cars and trucks now they should be filling up their cars and trucks now and in unfortunately you know in the houston and corpus christi the whole oil coast they're having tough time because so many of the service stations are closed but people across the country i think you know if you want to get save a few dollars i'd go ahead and fill it up now that's a common thing for people to do before labor day anyway but definitely prices are on the rise i wouldn't be surprised if we're not up by a nickel within the next couple of days over where we are now so keep an eye on

a performer i'm glad you brought up labor day because as we know americans go driving on labor day weekend prices go up anyway is there a danger of price gouging and if so what can people do about it well there is a man effect in texas they've already have five hundred complaints to the attorney general and that's who people should call whether or not it's in texas or louisiana the attorney general five hundred complaints about price gouging now that's not just all of gas but some of it is some people are saying that people have charged a charge of service stations have tried to charge upwards of four dollars even as much as ten dollars a gallon is that really it's not a legal matter of fact you can be fined twenty thousand dollars and if it happens to be the person you're getting is over sixty five years old it's two hundred fifty thousand and good for the texas legislature for doing that but they're also getting people i know with regard to hotel rooms with regard to water big case of water was sold this is said yes was said to have sold at

a gallon price of ninety nine dollars at least they tried to sell it at ninety nine dollars so consumers need to be where i know it's a tough time for the people down there and the rest of us need to not only have our hopes and prayers with them but let's also cross our fingers a little bit and hope that these refineries do get back on. line and that there are no new oil spills or anything and the price of gas remains pretty low we've been fortunate so far the last couple years hope it doesn't go up too much with your eagle eye what are you going to be looking at in the coming days the state of these refineries the like you were asking about whether or not there's more damage and we think literally i mean even one of your producers i was speaking with that they cannot make it to work at these refineries and so it's not even the question of what the damage is really old midnight oil song how can you sleep when our beds are burning well they can't tell they can't do an assessment right now because they are in the middle of this calamity so it's going to take a few days to even get back there to do an assessment so watching the extent to which some of these refinery from injuries come back on line will be important and

lastly there is the largest refinery in the u.s. in port arthur the place is called mo to go up port arthur and if that goes off line they're trying to decide right now if that goes off wind that's going to be another bad sign for gas prices or not be a big trouble for us ok i guess we've got to keep a close eye on this former u.s. try to pressure bart chilton thank you as always. the pentagon is confirming north korea has launched a missile over japan south korea's joint chiefs issued a statement north korea had fired a missile near pyongyang eastward around five fifty seven am local time norad quickly determine the launch was not a threat the missile flew almost seven hundred miles reaching a maximum height of three hundred and forty one miles the launch comes two days after north korea fired several short range missiles into the sea. now protests and berkeley descended into chaos over the weekend anti-fascist demonstrators broke

through the police barricades during a rally against hate and clashed with right wing activists six people were injured during the un rask thirteen arrested artie's came up and was there as the report. for here outside of right place civic center in downtown berkeley california. as you can see around me there's a huge crowd of people calling themselves anti fascist protesters these are people that assemble to counter a right wing rally that was called for today for this afternoon under the slogan say no to marx's well these are posts here that object to a number of the people involved with that recorded right wing rally are considered to be white supremacy and fascism assembled to denounce it while the nazis may have a right to demonstrate we've got a right to show that there are really employees who are far sooner than any time a group preaches the hatred that you've seen from the out right i think it's only human to match that even if it's not the most mature reaction it's only human to match that with some kind of anger and aggression really want to stand for nonviolence who would take the side against people that speak for violence

including politicians such as donald trump one grouping that is widely present is the folks who call themselves at and t. some of them also would call themselves the black bloc people with masks over their faces are you know helmets goggles they're here for a fight almost i mean they give that impression we've seen repeatedly from folks try to come into the crowd began you know begin spent sending out their message state making statements in support of doll trial out of the crowd kind of circling up the police moving in and scuffles breaking out. the track of their own it's just one illustration of the ongoing division that continues to take place across the united states especially in the aftermath of charlottesville a lot of different views being expressed here a lot of anger but a lot of folks that just say they're worried about their country than quite a crazy scene here in downtown berkeley california. and today marks the fifty fourth anniversary of dr martin luther king's famous i have a dream speech

ministers gathered in washington d.c. today to speak on the outbreak of recently racially motivated violence across the nation our he's actually banks was at the event today and she has the report now so manella ministers from all over the nation they gathered here in d.c. today they were marching from the dr martin luther king memorial all the way to the department of justice in order to make their presence known and to honor dr martin luther king jr's i have a dream speech i want to quickly take a look at my reporting of the events. kitty for you. i'm here at the department of justice in washington d.c. where behind me you will see hundreds of the ministers that have gathered here today to march for justice many of them are saying that they've seen an uptick in hate crimes once president donald trump and attorney general jeff sessions took office right by god that's a guide many people who gather today are unhappy with the injustices that many people face in this country our criminal justice system is one of the places that

we have to start the mass incarceration of black and brown people in our country. feels like a systemic form of oppression and how that then is an act and has created a new sense of slavery a new jim crow i would like to see an honest and open conversation about the role of white supremacy in the founding of our country and how it's interwoven into all of our systems and i once to see a kind of a mass. kind of reconciliation process that helps us to heal the wounds of slavery and to create a society that space upon equality and honor and privileges of certain groups of people. and of course today people across america mark the fifty fourth anniversary of dr martin luther king jr's i have a dream speech one hundred year.

one hundred years. we're going to grow it. and. discriminate it feels really important to come together on the anniversary of the i have a dream speech and recommit to the important issues. voters' rights and then franchise men of people killed absolutely crucial that faith leaders of all kinds i'm a rabbi from the jewish community are here to send the message loud and clear that dr king's dream is not yet fulfill and we need to march until it is and the jews were with king fifty four years ago and this is our fight for justice as much as anybody else's. actually with the recent events in charlottesville has the

debate to remove the confederate statues has that come up has that added urgency to dr king's words all these years later events and troll and spill it seems like they're becoming more and more frequent and of course that's due in part to technology and the fact that there are social media so the word gets out a lot faster than it did back in the day but reverend al sharpton jesse jackson's i mean moms and some of the rabbis you just heard from they're just fed up with this so they figured they had to do something because the naacp isn't enough so these people came from places like atlanta philadelphia they've come from safeway california came all the way. to march for just as a lot of these people want donald trump an attorney general jeff sessions out of office but they're saying that if that's not practical if it's not feasible that that's going to happen they need to make their voices heard and they have to influence these communities so that things like what happened in charlottesville when these hate groups trying to come up with these rallies all over the country

come to an end so it was just as much about honoring dr king as well as speaking up about the violence happening now all right thank you so much actually banks. a month this theater is facing backlash after announcing it would discontinue its annual screening of gone with the wind the orpheum theater group decided the film was racially insensitive and pulled the film after public comments. has the details orpheum theater group in memphis tennessee has screen the classic film. gone with the wind each of the past thirty four years this year screening on august eleventh coincidentally coincided with a white nationalist evening march in charlottesville virginia ahead of unite the right rally that ended in three deaths according to theater group president brett batter since the screening prompted numerous comments that led to a decision not to run the film next year patterson said as an organization whose stated mission is to entertain educate and lighten the communities it serves cannot

show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population the one nine hundred thirty nine film takes place in the american south against the backdrop of the civil war long criticized for glorifying slavery when the orpheum theater group announced its decision to pull the movie memphis resident wendy thomas praised the decision saying slowly but surely we will read this community of all tributes to white supremacy backlash after the announcement was much louder katie hydro not sure if anyone really complained or your feet are just decided to be cowered cheap and given to madness they you should be ashamed underneath dixie grey pointed out how do you make daniel was the first black american to win an oscar with her costarring role as mammy in gone with the wind i guess her achievement and also gone with the wind sad how do mcdaniel was not only the first african-american to win an academy award she was the first to be nominated for acting it would be more than two decades before

another african-american actor would win now the comments continue to pour in with outrage and calls to boycott the theatre orpheum c.e.o. said the screening of this film is something that's questioned every year but the social media storm this year really brought it home we reached out to the theater representatives for reaction to the backlash against their decision and have yet to hear back from the news with ed schultz i'm cmon dollars aria. on friday. as hurricane harvey made landfall president pardoned former arizona sheriff joe arpaio and today the president defended his decision so for more on this let's go now to our political panel for the night mitch caesar former democratic party chair of florida and we have conservative radio show host andrea kay thank you both for being here tonight ok so let's go with that here sheriff joe is pardoned he's trump's very first pardon arpaio he's eighty five years old would have faced

sentencing on october fifth but he's received his get out of jail free card ahead of that the obama d.o.j. had found guilty of criminal contempt in his failure to comply with stopping racially profiling and detaining latinos in arizona now both people on the left and the right have disapproved of this move andrea kay your thoughts on this first. well i'm not really sure i understand what all the hysteria is about you know it's not like he pardoned a terrorist a domestic terrorist who was responsible for killing six americans or pardoning the world's greatest tax cheat and then turn around taking millions of dollars for his foundation you know i think hoping everybody knows who i'm referring to which was obama's pardon of the domestic terrorist out of puerto rico and bill clinton's famous pardon of mr rich and those were just two of the what i consider to be far more scandalous pardons by the obama and the clinton administration it involved murderers and drug dealers that preyed upon children but here we have president

trump doing the right thing by pardoning a man who was targeted by the court system strictly for his politics and we cannot go down the road in this country to where our courts are weaponized to punish people for their politics which is pardoning our pio just deepening the rift between america americans right now. absolutely and let me also say that i learned in third grade two wrongs as in the case with bill clinton don't make a right here these two guys trump and sure of cho they're bromance began in the birth of a movement which of course has to do with the fact that you know president obama might not have been born the united states which we all know if we're thinking at all is ridiculous and since obviously been proved in reproof the problem is is that by pardoning him you're you're passing on on the value of law your role so we're ignoring the fact that it's saying just the wrong message if the charlottesville

where we were talking about a racial insensitivity by the by the president either what he said or by words of omission and there you know the problem is is the fact that this invisible investigation of share of cho began in the bush justice department we have to remember that and what has transpired. and since then he's he's sending out a dog whistle the president is not only to groups such as the banning folks by saying hey he may be out of the white house but i haven't forgotten you but i'm much more concerned having lived through watergate that he may be sending signals to people who are under investigation in the white house either presently or in the past saying i got your back all right that concerns me let's switch gears here to to nafta since we're speaking about mexicans in mexico already mexico has gone public with their disapproval of trump's nafta comments trump saying through twitter that maybe he'd just cancel the agreement entirely and seems to be tying

the border wall to nafta which is that a good idea. well you know the president always is looking for another deal and he also is in a long term think your only things about the immediate the problem with nafta and most specifically even with the wall is the fact that he's saying now we even said today or we'll call and of pay for it we'll get it back later the question is i thought republicans were supposed to be good stewards of money and trade where's the money going to come from he wants tax cuts he wants to build the wall we have to give aid to all those folks who suffer the tragedy of the hurricane in texas where is the money going to come from nafta is an ongoing negotiation i think the republican congress is going to pass a bill which may have a skeletal structure of beginning to from the wall but i am sure america is paying for it and here i'm going to give you the last word on this we can't negotiate via twitter how is this going to pan out. well first of all i have to backtrack and say what in the world is the birth or movement which was started by hillary clinton by

the way in charlottesville any of that have to do with what happened with joe arpaio with the left really cares about the rule of law they will look at the merits of that case and realize it was nothing but a witch hunt he was actually denied his six remember right to a jury trial in regards to nafta nafta is everything that the left says that they don't they don't like everything that they cues the g.o.p. of being for it was a one thousand page bill that was nothing but special privileges to big investors and big corporations to incentivize businesses to outsource jobs lower the wages of american workers and as a favor to big business it even had secret settlement panels in there as a way to avoid the u.s. national labor laws and environmental regulations so i don't understand why the left continues to defend this except that it's really about you know. big global movement on the part of the left and absolutely the wall should be tied to it of course the mexican president doesn't want this taken to the public because he doesn't want the public to understand the truth about nafta and that it is

a bad deal for the american public and hopefully they actually get on the horn and speak to one another not tweet each other thank you so much for sharing your insights with us mitch caesar and andrea kay thank you have. a rocky army says most of the city of tel afar has been liberated from islamic state militants but as our guys you have reports deadly surprises are around every corner . then the islamiya by the islamic state will remain you'll find graffiti like that plastered whenever the bridges and buildings inside a frog iraq he sent his haven't yet gotten around to covering them up what with being busy fighting a day off to the victory was announced here in thailand fighting still hasn't died down isis hygiene throughout the city and why are there any geographic areas or dishes exude they're hiding in basements and buildings and timers underneath the

city waiting to ambush patrolling iraqi soldiers. why do. you want to know you didn't want them. well i says has been beaten in tal afar they're made sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps everywhere intel a five they have ten the city interests up as night met and coming in here we were bloomed multiple times not to touch anything no matter how innocent it might seem for we know behind any of these. could be explosives booby traps behind the time even in the right switches. i would be one where officers went into a house and sat on a sofa exploded along with the house they had booby trapped the sofa another

example they were explosive to light switches when you turn on their lights the house explodes they were bombs into refrigerators and even the door handles when you open the door and explodes. i've just come back from tel afar and you can didn't lie down on the bed without cyprus check and first drop bombs and was never where we don't touch anything. i will do all we can to disarmament but there's only so much we can do some houses will have to be destroyed. this bomb was intended for does but the planes and helicopters destroyed the roads and i still couldn't get the combo out engineers found it and dismantled it if it had been used it would have done as great damage they disarm the explosive canisters and detonated them in a controlled explosion but it's strange isis folded almost too quickly.

there is evidence that around four hundred families of isis fighters were allowed to leave on august twenty fifth in an unspecified direction the rumor among iraqi troops is that as many as two thousand isis fighters have been given safe passage out of. into syria again this is a rumor and because confirm it but it would explain the and expectedly easy fight iraqi troops wouldn't let us into the center of tal afar saying would still. but having spent some time in the suburbs we haven't seen a single civilian most of them ran when the opportunity presented itself was the proper bagram bring room the must for the present in order to get away approve the

rocky ministry in the u.s. led coalition brits. might. miss the three of their combat the question is how much of qualified will be left to come back to more i'd guys dia. from iraq and breaking news an active shooter situation has developed in clovis new mexico there are multiple fatalities being ripped. ordered at the clovis carver public library police have surrounded the library where the shooter still remains we'll have more for you as the story develops and that is the news tonight i'm going to let chanting in for edge shoulder here in washington d.c. we'll see you back here tomorrow and they have a great night thanks for watching. larry

you're watching our. first student war. i'm lindsey francis is the boss broadcasting around the world right here in washington d.c. tonight oil and gas prices respond to hurricane harvey as it hits the gulf back you asians oil platforms a shutdown of facilities and some supply lines wiped out also crypto currencies are on the hot seat in china and canada it's

a sector still operating in the gray zone some want it to come out into the light and some wanted to be outlawed even as big corn has been millionaires overnight and artificial intelligence and the sharing economy my gas details crowd based capitalism here in the united states and around the world stand by right now. the widespread devastation of hurricane harvey which hit texas over the weekend has dealt a devastating blow to the state's refinery rich coasts about two point two million barrels per day of refining capacity is projected to be brought down according to analysts at s. and p. global now key facilities along the gulf coast are temporarily shut down drilling

platforms and rigs are evacuated and flooding in the houston area has serious and supplies many shipping capabilities have been taken out even before harvey hit the prospects of supply disruptions and gasoline futures to one dollar seventy four cents a gallon the highest level since april. retail gasoline prices push the national average up to two dollars thirty seven cents a gallon analyst for gas buddy predict that the dominos are starting to fall and it is slowly turning out to be the worst case scenario. the euro has reached its highest level since the beginning of two thousand and fifteen it rose to one dollar nineteen cents from one dollar eighteen cents after a speech by european central bank president mario draghi at a meeting in jackson hole wyoming analysts predict that the e.c.b. may announce a tapering of quantitative quantitative easing at september seventh policy meeting euro strike can hurt shares of exporters because it can erode revenue made overseas

surge pushing lower shares of exporters across europe today goal to hit its highest in more than one week as we watch the euro plunge ahead as u.s. gold futures were up point three percent at one thousand three hundred one and ninety cents also president donald trump made threats to scrap the north american free trade deal and then expressed disappointment in meetings but that's trade partners canada and mexico which further supported gold price this comes as british officials arrive in brussels hoping to push the e.u. to talk it brags that divorce or the e.u. has refused to accept before talking preach transition issues such as expatriate rights. but every generation new technology has made life easier in the washing machine to the car however when we talk about new technology invariably the topic leads to

drops protections for workers etc joining me to discuss this is aronson darren john professor of business at new york university and author of the sharing economy thank you for joining me on this when your opinion is there any real limit to what an ai could do for businesses or for society is for is not only making making it more our lives more convenient but also helping you know expand the type of jobs we have. well we're certainly going to see a great deal of advancement in you know convenience and comfort because of artificial intelligence and robotics. to be solving the problem of perception being able to see what's around you and make sense of it and of natural language processing in able to communicate like humans so across a wide range of both businesses and in the household we're going to see a lot of convenience but in many ways every generation that has this kind

of revolutionary for their time technology. like you know enjoys the same kinds of benefits and so the dishwasher or the washing machine were received with the same kind of joy you know our intelligent agents are being received today. well some fear that ai could be the death of the american worker but others say that it will actually bring in even as it replaces workers what do you think about that because obviously if it replaces jobs there's going to be some lag time there and people don't have time for that sort of talk right now. you know well lindsey it's going to be a little bit of both. you know there are certain kinds of jobs that are going to see a steep decline over the next ten to twenty years jobs in retail jobs that involve driving jobs and things as sophisticated as financial compliance the combination of robotics and is going to render

a lot of these jobs done by machines rather than humans but you know again like you know one hundred years ago forty percent of the u.s. workforce. was engaged in farming in some way today that number is under two percent the machines replace the humans there the machines have been steadily be placing the humans in the manufacturing sector in the united states and so you know as these jobs are destroyed new jobs are created because new industries are created things that used to be informal become formal new human aspirations are met you know in one hundred years ago there was no tourism industry to the employees eight percent of the world's population two hundred years ago there was no health care industry today it's twelve percent of u.s. employment so it's going to be a destruction of a lot of today is jobs but a creation of a lot of new jobs because new industries the new capabilities come along well it's

look at china it's pushing hard on ai technology it wants to become a world leader by two thousand and thirty probably sooner than that if it can swing and how does the u.s. compared to its development versus a i in china. well china has certainly got one big advantage today which is that there is a centrally sort of a government coordinated effort to become a leader in the next decade sort of in the same way that there was a concerted effort to win the space race in the u.s. about fifty or sixty years ago but as in. the united states a lot of research is happening in pockets at universities that companies like google so china is almost certainly going to be the world leader in artificial intelligence over all but there are going to be capability is that the u.s. is going to be ahead of the rest of the world and simply because we've got the deepest bench of academic researchers and the deep bench of industry

researchers who are individually sort of like you know top of their field in different sort of slices of. the thing that makes me think about china and sort of like you know more saliently is the fact that. you know china employees more than any other country in the manufacturing sector that over eighty million manufacturing workers in china you know at its peak the u.s. which was the largest manufacturing base in the world at the time had twenty two million manufacturing workers a lot of these jobs are going to be automated over the next twenty years and so on the one hand while there are big investments in x. i think that it's imperative for the chinese government to also start thinking about transition strategies mid career transition strategies that will allow the people who are currently employed in manufacturing and even some services to be able to sort of leap from where to the next generation of work as and when that's

created. well let's take a look at some information we've got here this graph we see that while. you know many many factory jobs are on the decline since the ninety's you and i talked about that as you point out the health care industry has been thriving those are big numbers we could see a similar pattern in what new jobs and industries would thrive and grow as a i you know becomes more common and we start counting for them in our economic models as i mentioned there's going to be some lag time but what do you think. the jobs that are going to continue to be secure i'm guessing it's sort of you know bedside manner with with regard to health care and things like that what do you foresee. the pattern that i've seen through history. is that things that used to be informal become formal and so health care used to be something that was done a toll. as me to farming and as we sort of got beyond the

point where we had to spend all our time protecting ourselves and feeding ourselves that emerged as an industry so i certainly think that there's a tremendous amount of growth potential in the care industry i certainly see a lot of potential for growth in the education sector right now education while we've made great strides in the last hundred years is still higher education is largely sort of for a small slice of society with the technology is i think it will become a lot more ubiquitous it will be something that you can access the different points in your life and i think that this will be a bit a big growth engine. but i also think that there are always is more and more human aspirations that as we automate the things that occupy our time to be can all be posts you. there are challenges to the planet in general climate change you know

threats from outside. that could potentially take up a lot more of our time if we shift away from more spending time on now so i have no . i talked about this in that article that you sort of pulled the graph from that you know the future of work has always seemed to the people who are seeing the technological change they look at the machines and they see well if the machines do what we're doing now what are we going to do but if history is any indicator the old school with the well this time is different now because the technology is a way that they say that a lot worker protections and things like that but if workers have new jobs the fight to protect them is on and important obviously to fight that that's no argument for not pushing forward with technology at least in my opinion and i'm sure you know a lot of people one of the things i've got a question about is in your book you take detail you know the sharing economy and how it comes into play you even talk about when you wanted to take your daughter to

school and you notice all of these cars on the side of the road you live in a big city and you're saying i wish you could just borrow one of these cars and now you can how is the sharing economy feeding into this in a very rapid rate. well i think the fact that the sharing economy is changing what it means it's changing how work is organized and so because of platforms like. the labor platforms like poor even sort of platforms for lawyers like up for consultants like cattle and what we're doing is we're taking the traditional full time job and we're breaking it up into projects each of which can be done by a different people a different person so the need for companies or the need for full time employees starts to go down the reason why this is important when you're thinking about automation is that if the work is broken up from jobs into these tasks automating a couple of is

a lot simpler than automating an entire job and saw the sharing economy and together that's what we have to look at if we really want to predict the future of work very interesting to hear thank you so much erin sadar john professor of business at new york university and author of the very interesting book the sharing economy thank you. we're going to go to break now stick around because when we got back groundbreaking cancer treatment company has been bought by galleon scientists important to watch there and cryptocurrency is could face a crackdown in china and elsewhere as we go to break here the number to.

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friday president donald trump issued more sanctions on venezuela that decision got a negative reaction from embattled president nicol nicolas maduro government but now some of that as well as allies are coming to the country's defense. has got more on that for us. trying to pick up the pieces here wellness particular case we're talking about trying they sort of have a two part argument here on the one hand they think these sanctions are simply not going to work and on the other hand perhaps more importantly they think it could make the situation in venezuela even worse and make their venezuela's relationship with the u.s. also worse so they don't have much faith in sanctions days after the white house announced more sanctions on venezuela the chinese government came out in support of its close ally and beijing made it clear it doesn't have faith the sanctions will have any impact whatsoever during a press conference on monday a spokeswoman for china's foreign ministry said the president problem in venezuela

should be resolved. by the venezuelan government and people themselves the experience of history shows that outside interference or unilateral sanctions will make the situation even more complicated and will not help resolve the actual problem considering the close ties between both countries the comments aren't too surprising earlier this month china defended ben as well as constituent assembly saying it was quote generally held smoothly those remarks stood in stark contrast to those from the u.s. and europe accusing the assembly of severe or voting irregularities and part of that is due to the business relationship between venezuela and china especially work concerns energy they currently have an oil for a loan deal venezuela hasn't been able to keep up its end of the bargain in fact the shipments are behind schedule and china is owed over sixty billion dollars despite the setbacks relations are still strong right after those sanctions were imposed by the u.s. officials from venezuela immediately traveled to china during that meeting both

sides began working on a new investment fund to offset the boy that the u.s. government is trying to expand venezuelan president nicolas maduro ordered state run firms to increase the ratio of shares held by chinese investors ok so they ran to china these sanctions that different from the ones previously brought on venezuela yes so basically the difference between these sanctions and previous ones are just the scope of the target initially the sanctions were attacking president during his inner circle and you know the relations that they could have with people in the u.s. with their business opportunities but this time it's basically an attack on venezuela's economy so essentially in the entire country instead of just his administration and american businesses cannot give money to venezuela or their state run oil company and of course the intention there is if the approach is a default they would have a harder time raising cash that. so you know on top of that of course we know that

from verbal expressed that he would be open to military action that was of course not in the official sanction statement but he did say that he would be open to that which is why then as well as taking these sanctions even more seriously than before these ones are a bit harder aside from china though if any other nations come forward to support as well i mean i can imagine it's just one yeah it will china it's great to have in your side pinch. it certainly not just china in fact the former heads of state from spain the dominican republic and panama recently got together and formally condemned the sanctions said basically the same thing as china that one they're not going to work and they're just going to make the situation harder to deal with and approach in the future and i mean in terms of south america countries have been kind of divided but we've seen pretty solid agreement in the caribbean nations to support venezuela so it really different throughout latin america but then at the

same time you have the organization of american states which include many latin american countries and they have come out many times to keep issuing sanctions on venezuela because they want to right and so we're also looking at a situation with civilians where a lot of the allies of it as we level say yep this is going to trickle down to them too nicholas materials because government has got such a stranglehold on the power there nothing's going to happen is that right yeah i mean he right now there's nothing the outside forces feel kind of powerless so that's why they know they have to go right after the money they can't say ok well we're just not that we're going to cut off diplomatic ties that's not going to change that's why they're going right for the economy and if they eventually do approach or to fall which a lot of analysts are suggesting that could mean a lot of trouble for his administration because people there are we know already struggling enough all right thank you so much. and michelle coyne offerings on crypto currencies such as big coin may face

a crackdown. by the chinese government these digital currencies allow anonymous peer to peer transactions without the need for banks or central banks the chinese government has issued draft regulation broadly aimed at illegal financing which it says includes virtual currencies as it calls it now in important detail for the first time illegal fundraisers will be accountable for their own losses couple this with stiff prison sentences participating in digital currency funds a used to be punishable by death now with life in prison illegally absorbing public deposits will get you ten years in jail though also crypto currency is massively popular in china big coin has hit all time highs this year it most recently levelled at four thousand two hundred ninety six dollars a theory of big coin neo like coin ripple stratus and a range of others have created overnight millionaires with many of their creators pushing for initial coin offering some order to create an exchange. but as china is

certainly not alone let's head to canada with few rules and regulations currently in place when it comes to a national court offerings some are worried that if not controlled both businesses and investors may be playing in a grey area where problems may arise artie's alison heil of it is in toronto with more for us alex both canada and the u.s. are approaching this issue in a similar fashion introducing rules on how crypto coins can be used in these terms what can you tell us about that it's big business and we're seeing a booming right now crypto cohens are basically using what we're hearing is called old sword and michelle coin all four it looks like an i.p.o. and what instead of a shares you have crypto currencies which fluctuate much like shares so this basically takes the game out of the game because we have all kinds of rules and regulations when it comes to shares but with i suppose this is a bit of a different area right now but let's go to

a couple. graphs just to understand just how big this is getting if you look at the first graph here you can see that the monthly i.c.a.o. funding college just skyrocketed month after month this year and then this other graph shows something very particular here that actually i see zero funding has surpassed angel investors and seed capital funding in many areas so the problem is though is the uncertainty with this area so when we talk about i.p.o.'s and we talk about shares we know that there is disclosure of that's necessary for companies have certain things that they must disclose there are certain rules and regulations to not only protect companies to protect investors as well so now since this new area has popped up the governments are trying to react to it and they're trying to figure out is this a coin is that a currency or is it a share but the american government has just recently made a decision and it's moving along the same lines as the canadian government we know that u.s. regulatory regulators they use securities and exchange commission recently. ruled

that a major crypto currency was offering it which raised one hundred fifty million dollars u.s. last year will in fact this is a securities offering not a currency offering so that really brings that into a realm which is understood by these type of regulators so the question is are they going to do this doing this in every circumstance or are there circumstances where this can be viewed as a currency instead of a share but we know the the winkle vi. have been trying to push this through the s. the f.c.c. with their crypto currency in keeps coming back and saying look if you cannot protect investors we got nothing for china as i mentioned earlier a very heavy handed approach but can you tell us a little more about this fascinating and heavy handed approach china's taking will try to have the same concerns we do really and that's the people might get ripped off in this whole big scheme of things and the fact of the matter when it comes to china look a sixty five i suppose this past year four hundred million dollars involved hundred

. by thousand investors i mean this is happening very rapidly and quickly and there's literally you know they're going to five star hotels people are renting out these huge rooms and they're packed with people wanting to invest into this game the fact of the matter is though that the chinese government saying look this is again something that we're not too sure about we don't want to see things like pyramid schemes popping up from because they know that there could be some type of illegal actions that when you're moving into something that is regulated so the chinese government is saying yes we are trying to put some regulations together but they're going as far as to say that they might shut this thing down altogether this type of investment the i c o's that they won't be able to move left or right they're going to shut it down until they can figure out how they need to regulate it properly what do you think about all of these new cryptocurrency spazzing out they want to piggyback off the success of that coin that coin is upwards of forty four thousand dollars i'm sure you're aware right now do you think that it's there

there drown out that the market only has room for maybe three or four i was wondering about that earlier today i mean look at there it was a big one and that's more business to business but corn i mean i wish that i listened to my friends at work so google right now five years ago i would have been one very wealthy man the fact that matters but it's still a new game out there so who even knows if this is going to last i really think me very much sorry about that i got a lot to offer got to go alex my overall toronto thank you sir. it's over to greece now for its first line for over four thousand years and it's one of the top producers but for two long years most citizens of them buying it illegally in two thousand fifteen greece created a special fast on all wine whether it was produced locally or imported the government was trying to generate additional state income but of course prices soared wine that used to sell for about four euro zone around six dollars john closer to seven year olds or eight dollars because the taxes so just. many turn to

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a stage we all. player. on larry king now brigid every time i'm forty five and my career is just sort of really kicking into gear i think any time you're a little bit different to wake the people up and let them see you and it's just taken a while i think that's part of like by my act is so. large and aggressive and sexualized because i i feel like i was being ignored or not really getting opportunities because i have this body i look different than you know i don't know holly perry years or. somebody like that but. i have something to say to i want to be a rock star and like a storyteller and somebody that has to sing and drink around a piano that is create. plus put so wrong she should. have once my

mom's favorite it's called what i got to do to get that my mouth. i can't believe i just said that to larry king live at the all next on larry king now. larry king now my special guest is bridget everett comedian actor musician we're now down cabaret perform and she's been named the most exciting performing new york city by the village voice and roll and riotous by the new york times bridget's band the tender moments as an album available on i tunes she tours the country with her comedy act and she stars in the new movie patty cakes about on the spiling rapper from new jersey had a case will be in theaters august eighteenth we'll talk about the tickets in a bit but cabaret act is that a lost art. you know it's funny and i have a hit at home and you don't hear it too much but when people first started saying

like you know if i would go to like a comedy festival or whatever they'd be like what do you do in my friend because she's a cabaret singer should know. because it's not like a cool term really but in new york it's it's really thriving this is on or there's a ton of people doing you know just a different version of like the standard old so i was like what is a cabaret well to me a cabaret is singing and telling stories you know it's like the combination of those two. you know there's like the old guard that would do like show tunes and reflective stories and i do the same thing but i just sort of. you know it's a little bit runs here as i meant but it's doesn't have to be bronte a great deal of the day barber cook yeah she's a good boy yeah we had this dream there were my friends call a school and us and the v.m. bon and we all wanted to team up like old school new school and bar because for cole and i was going to be with a paddle on and it was i don't i think she's old school i think the pollen is

legendary and it's all about her i mean you said a few years ago the wilder i become on stage the quieter i become in real life yeah what i mean i don't know i think that i spent my formative years trying to like get noticed in karaoke bars that was crippled like the only job i could get it's not really a job but i just found myself like going wild in my shows and you know like ripping my shirt open and like i interact with the audience a lot and i think that i just the more i put out the less i have left of me and so i would just sort of when i would go to a party or something i'd be like what am i doing here is yours and like anything goes yeah it's like a motor scale it's a risk but it's not like for the sake of being risque it's sort of it's just my way of like interacting with people and getting to know them and sort of seeking them alive in a way. but i call. tender like you do

a couple the roxy songs and then you course you have to have a heart to balance it or it's just as is the sex was so wrong she's like well i have one is my mom's favorite it's called what i got to do to get that my mouth. i can't believe i just said that to larry king live isn't a joke. but you know i had difficulty. but i have a song like my most popular song is called and it's about i wrote it for my mom actually when she got breast cancer she's fine but she when i grow up we use a color beaver tails because she had these like long well hang in there. yeah but i. you know i was saying about the loss of my sister and my my dad and so it's not just all just you know pounding you are also a large woman yeah most people groom and try to play bad yeah you have a lot of body confidence right well i think that's part of like why my act is so like large and aggressive and sexualized because i i feel like i was being ignored

or not really getting opportunities because i have this body so i wanted to i wanted to present the full all of me because i feel like that it's you know it's i look different and you know i don't know how it pairs or jessica testing or somebody like that but. i have something to say too and it's just in a six foot tall package that likes to make friends of people in the audience i guess are you first funny and then saying oh do you sing for i consider myself a singer i studied opera. yeah but i i hung that up when i realized i couldn't. have to have a real clean living have a clear crystal voice so you mention patti wood poem and perform with her carnegie hall like. it was incredible i was at the bank deposit in my tips i waited tables for twenty five years and my friend scott whitman called and he has

a patio opponent seats in a show that we did together and he and he's in there like he which one if you'd want to sing a song with patti at carnegie hall like six months before i just told my agent that i was like you know i'm never going to sing at carnegie hall and here i was given an opportunity to do it with somebody who i think is just the queen to do one so more than i did one song was saying me and bobby mcgee and then after i left the stage she stopped the show and she talked about me for several minutes and just telling people that what i was doing was unlike anybody else and people said come down and see me just pop so it was pretty cool what was it like to share a stage with. heaven she's gracious. just so she's like by onic you know she's like a broad and but incredibly talented i just saw her do warpaint on broadway and her voice is better than ever it just keeps getting better she's a she's a force she just stands at the end of the stage and it just comes out and she just it's effortless and and i just aspire to have like the longevity that she's going

to get all perfect acoustics right is incredible to me the mike you don't. it's what it's like a moment i'm sure you've you know been on essays many times and it's i've been on it twice and you stand there and it's like this is this is like a seminal moment when all those you had that just kind of all wondered about going to church itself which so tell me about this year it's about a new jersey girl who's an aspiring rapper yeah pattycake says patricia dunn brodsky and she's. she's not a typical engine hoover she wants to be a rapper she's trapped in small town in new jersey and i play her alcoholic mean bitter mother who had dreams of being a rock singer some other comedy not well it's a funny movie it's like serial comic but my part is dramatic so that was a first for me to get it. well they're part of the sundance labs and called me was like do you want to go work with this first time writer director sunday as i was

like no because it's not because i didn't want to work with them but because i thought i would fail and i have a habit of self sabotaging myself but my friend convinced me to go and. the worst thing that happens is i spot robert redford walking around those well jean shorts or is talking about that i'm doing all right but i fall in love with and it's been a life changing experience of war no movies yeah yeah in fact like when i was there i was surprise you know like with any comic or comedian or funny person you know the play at the pain sort of is right at the skin. and i think that this gave me an opportunity to access that i wasn't that hard let's watch a clip from petty gates. for me it's. legit ditch to die would come sit on good joe's left i want to count you frank rich

. they said think of the ship. oh hey this yeah it's a real treat to night. patricia but if you are going to grease pipes you know your old lady was a real piece of a back in the day and still got it. one more. seriously when you might have a nice time to. deliver them up there you go. through. all. one more. with the sprint now. not. it's got a fuckin period or something oh oh oh oh oh i'm so you right. i'm on.

the. go. to family right. now i was thinking. the hollywood reporter wrote of your performance also outstanding is everett he had a four known as a leading new york cabaret singer still looking on the younger side of middle age she was nonetheless not afraid to come on here as gross and repellent of frustrated woman who never had the career she wanted his letters of gold is done nothing to with her daughter for a better life than she's had this could send you on your way to a new type career and we'll see. i mean it was it's a great experience and it's a really wonderful movie i'm happy to be a part of how did you feel about the role how did you get into. well she's you know

like i said i waited tables for twenty five years so like that feeling of frustration i feel and trapped in your life and like things got away from you it wasn't really that hard you know and i had. my mom you know she's a single mother drank off i just really related to her sort of instantly it was really more about just getting over the fear of. being an actor or whatever because i write my own stuff i you know i write direct i do everything for my own so so it was it was interesting to let go and let somebody else you know if you had someone direct you well i mean you had jeremy that wrote and directed this he wrote all the music and the lyrics all the raps and everything it's his first movie and. i just immediately trusted him and if and i felt comfortable and safe with him if it weren't for him i never would have been able to do something like this some of our viewers know you best probably from inside amy schumer yeah what have you done with her. change your life she's changed my life she's another angel what we've got it

just for laughs comedy festival maybe two thousand and nine or something and she asked me to go out on some road dates with there and i was like i'm a cabaret singer i'm not really like i'm not going to work in a comedy club and she's like trust me they're going to they're going to like you i like you they like you so she took me on some road so's and then she started her show up in she would feature at the she would close every season with me singing a song in joe's pub and so it's incredibly generous for somebody to let somebody else close out their the season other sell and see and i've toured all around the country with tell me you have your own show premiering on amazon called love you more when those that comes out september first i wrote it with bobcat goldthwait michael patrick king and. yeah it's love you more what's it about it's it's about it you know like a woman with like a messy personal life that's great at her day job but she has a big heart and she's working towards feeling like she's worthy of love and measurement is played by loni anderson here. how is she doing oh my god she's

incredible she's so her performance of this is funny and beautiful and really touching and she's like an angel i'm sure you've met her along the way this is all your baby right yeah yeah you know what you'll be a big time now baby well have described a pageant and scratch and crawl and getting beyond cabaret. something that bridget on her seemed good telling her guilty pleasure creating old words will be right back. it's. called the feeling of freedom to. everyone in the world should experience flamingo and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just. welcome the modern world to come along for the rock.

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them what to make dialogue is far more valuable than to be. back with bridget ever and patting cakes opens all this day teens and you said recently sometimes you have to create this thing and give people the reason to see in you what you see in yourself yeah so you'd like creating your own work yeah i just did it out of necessity i think like that's of the stage show. and i want to be a rock star and like a storyteller and somebody that gets to sing and drink around a piano so how does this create have you had rough patches yeah who doesn't who doesn't or does d d h d stand for well l.l. cool j. . one of those classes that she does. you know as it stands for

dreams on have deadlines and something that he's he says and at first i thought that was so corny but like now i just want to tattoo it all over my body because it's true i mean my i'm forty five and my career is just sort of really kicking into gear so you know you have to hold on to something when you're not living the dream and i are bigots to live the dream but at. you know when tables wasn't something that i thought i would be doing for twenty five years and you're good where it was yeah i was good and i was you fair by fake i mean it was pretty horrible but i did all right you're funny with the clientele. we play a game of if you only knew i can't wait who is your childhood celebrity crush barry manilow still mike still my crush secret talent. i can make my boobs going. to start interesting when you're with someone and. most of that other person you trade places with is for

a day. after the board in. bed with his job you've ever had. past i can't think of anything right now nothing weird ok guilty pleasure. is it go to i like to stay home on saturday nights and drink wine and watch documentaries of my dog poppy you know your dog like the documentaries to. actually what we both do as we go on petfinder dot com because you know i love to look at rescued animals like out that's my dream is that i have a houseful of them while you home on saturday night because like my my professional life is the social life you know you go i'm going to date. i'm single. who never fails to make you laugh. amy. schumer best piece of advice you ever got. to jump off the cliff and take

a chance on yourself. what's your go to karaoke song. that you are in all honesty or is that the worst piece of advice you ever got. that ideas are stupid don't listen to your stuff something you wish you were better at. golfing best compliment you ever got my mom came to see my show and she said that that was freedom and mouse and. good line strangest fan encounter. gloria steinem came to one of my shows set up a little late as he was coming from a premiere and i see walked in late i turned around i was like going. just never i've never really respect recovered from that because she's the queen is this something you belong to believed to be true and realize wasn't.

finds its way to everybody. you're right tell me something we don't know about you . i didn't know that about the breasts revolving. something you don't know about me i. don't know i'm such an open book i guess. we are open book yeah maybe that's it i don't know secrets there's no secrets we have some social media questions i guess god s do you ever get nervous about interacting with the audience at your shows things can get physical what does he mean well i mean like the motorboating and i pick women up and play him like a guitar because a says that once its. enclosures show by

sitting on someone first me do the airplanes like the big you know like you know i file on them and then i was on their face i know that that sounds like very involved but it's really just to make everybody feel alive. or rather it's not it's not meant to be erotic it's meant to be something else but. i don't get nervous i feel in charge how do you decide to do that sit on someone's face just seem like a good idea and i've never been able to shake it oh jeez stink baby what's your favorite kind of pizza. mushroom fresh mushroom don't like us suffer macan no thank you. garvin eighty seven i would love to hear your thoughts about growing up in rural kansas i worked for your brother bread and you two are polar opposites we are our very different my brother has four kids he's a republican i'm you know lefty. it was good i grew up in a cause town and city met in kansas the little apple university yakin state

university is a great place to grow up. but i cannot wait to get out i love to go on a visit but it's just. i don't know i'd like you know walking to the park and being on the swim team and all that cool stuff and my brother was the mayor so is my dad so i'm basically like kennedy except for other things and they are yes it was my dad did you go to kansas state no i went to arizona state i got a scholarship for saying in and i was out liza foster is sixty eight tweets why aren't you a superstar yet. well that's a good question it is a good question i think you're no not wow she's super not and i think any time you're a little bit different you have to wake the people up there and let them see you and it's just taken a while but i'm not going anywhere where your act is very different right yeah but you know it's people come and they come back again and again and again so. we would

you try a lot of things right dramatic actually you know you adventure some now i'm terrified that's the thing that people don't know about me i look don't they i have i'm terrified but you see it on people's faces. it does seem like a little bit contradictory yeah now that i think about it but it's like in my personal life i'm so i'm not as assured as i am on stage or as a performer for some reason that this feels like the superhuman part of me and for sure in control because i'm in control and when i'm not in control that i guess that's why i stay home with my date night is the mexican side of my dog poppy is that something you would like to try but i haven't. maybe the dancing with larry king. wakil we do that when you're performing

anywhere near here i'm not going to do that you know. yet i've got to you've got a great life and. you're a legend you know i want to put a about i want to be the black mark on that new goals changed over the years yeah my goal is always just like whatever the thing is in front of me and i think the last couple years have proven to me that i can be better and go further than i ever dreamed of he said about patti cage i'm really excited up how to cakes i'm excited about love you more because it's it's like the funny side of the serious side of me and you know in writing and everything and. i'm just constantly waiting for a new thing to happen so some of you get in arguments with your family over politics. my brother brad and from kansas is a triumph and he's not i thought i found out that nobody in my family voted for term which is really stressing me out like i can't go home you know especially now

the you know the more the tide swells it's really difficult but. my nieces there are feminists and my and i would rather voters so trumbo he didn't i think he voted for the i'm sure he voted for the third party and there's no way voting for hillary but. yeah we. we disagree on some things what do you make of trump. i mean if feels like he's a a little boy with big toys and he's not really thinking about the consequences of his actions and it's really scary do you use him in your act well i wrote a song that for all my girlfriends actually have the ring on it's called back. grabs but yeah and all the proceeds go to planned parenthood and you can get it on my website but that's really i'm not like a political comedian or singer is i mean i am in the way that i am what i am and

sexualize woman is political in itself but i don't really like to comment on things specifically but but as you know a feminist and a woman when you know when that happened like with the you know gone by the you know whatever as i cannot live with this and a mandatory tae is a writer and humorist and she coined that phrase and i make that into a song so my band and i wrote it and it feels very cathartic to sing it and people love it great many of which is a pleasure. thank my guest bridget byrd batting cages in theaters august eighteenth you can always find me on twitter with things things to see in x. time.

i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta e-mails. and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied the deep n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving

as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories that our critics can't tell and you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that

every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. greetings and salutations pull up any major action movie in the last half century hawk watchers and you can you can probably be pretty guaranteed that about half the city is going to be destroyed before you reach the end credits almost any michael

bay film or ninety's aarakshan pick and you'll see the same formula destroy a city kill bad guy walk off in the sunset with plucky sidekick super attractive costar who is in distress for most of the movie. what's often left out of these films or at least barely acknowledged in any real emotional way is the civilian death toll that every john mcclane or james bond leaves in their wake a family crushed by the plane vin diesel just blew up over los angeles to kill a scenery chewing gary oldman just doesn't make for a good popcorn experience in action films but if you think if you think hollywood is bad at recognizing real world consequences nobody and nothing nothing holds a candle to the head in the sand act the u.s. government and the pentagon plays when it comes to the deadly consequences of blowing up cities to kill bad guys and this was never more on display than in the

three months each taking place in the syrian city of rocco were coalition forces have been bombarding the city with air strikes under the auspices of destroying isis the loss of civilian lives has gotten so bad that we had one anti isis syrian activists from rocket told the intercept that quote the airplanes are heavily strike in the city and many of the places they are targeting are empty of isis fighters and full of civilians the number of civilians being killed today is much. more than the isis members. but if you're not talk watch your spear not because our action hero secretary of defense james mattis promises that the innocent civilians in iraq i know the difference between the good guy the prizes their mother and the bad guy by bribes as their brother he told reporters quote we're not the perfect guys but we are the good guys and the innocent people on the battlefield know the difference. and then secretary mabus marched off into the sunset with jonah hill

cracking wise by his side and megan fox on his our. ballots start watching our. as a lot of. like you know that i got. three . weeks. well everybody was in the dark so i am tired and i was out of the wallet. this is. how do you miss that my hair black why are we dropping bombs on places that. kind of finish up a pack of is that they are you know you got me behind it really is astounding we

were really about it this morning everywhere they would you would you have a secretary of defense who really actually believes that the people who are on the ground being rained you know with bombs dropped or cafes blowing up next the. terrorists or u.s. warplanes or all that can actually tell the difference between like like it's like oh well the good guys drop that bar so we won't be as mad. that's the ideology that they really think so so what we're saying is that matter doesn't understand how war works how terrorism starts. you might want to you might want to look that up you might you might want to spend a little time thinking about that because now when you have people going in and investigating which there has been a lot of talk where are the death tolls why is this what's got what's really going on in iraq you know so donna heller of arrow was a senior crisis response advisor at amnesty international she led the on the ground

investigation into what's been going on there and what she had to say as the battle to rest from islamic state intensifies thousands of civilians are trapped in a deadly labyrinth where they're under fire from all sides so the u.n. estimates that there's anywhere from ten thousand to fifty thousand and a sense of million still trapped in iraq so a lot of them most of them are thought to be sort of holed up are being held as shields but either way you you have the last isis members them innocent civilians and you're dropping bombs on leftover it really is ridiculous and we've seen this from from almost every side of the syrian conflict when it comes to dropping bombs in a place where there's us or russia or everybody's been dropping bombs and then in country you see it in yemen saudi arabia you know there's this idea of the bombs are per site years and they're just not like i mean ok yeah you might be a you know maybe more times than not you get your caravan of bad guys but at the

end i care i'm in a bad guys in the middle of the desert is a little different than anybody block exist at all of a city doesn't really people you look at war one of the things that are really funny is how the media kind of covers this because it's like you know you were going to now they're quoting you know what they love to quote when it came to you know bad things that assad did do his people that the britain based syrian observatory for human rights we all know right. you know now they're having to report that airstrikes in iraq and just last month killed forty two civilians including nineteen children and twelve women are women the odd diverse group rocco's being slaughtered silently said thirty two people were killed in air strikes in one neighborhood alone and all the u.s. led coalition because what's happening is you have what the people that we believe are the moderate rebels on the ground calling in the airstrikes so you know you hope that these sometimes ohio members sometimes and i don't know i'm really

confused about who's on what side over there at any moment as we will or you know are calling him strikes on isis or they could be calling him strikes on people they don't. like you were amiss with the bit where now they're fighting we're just throwing weapons out and seeing what happens and it's not just these airstrikes and it's also the actions of people on the ground because one of the issues has been keeping you know in any war you want to keep supplies away from those who are fighting and obviously go so part of the deal was that a survivor said told people to stand or national the coalition forces were targeting boats anything that was trying to cross the euphrates. on july second a coalition commander u.s. lieutenant general steven j. townsend says. he told the new york times on july july second we shoot every boat we find so that is so route is is an escape route for

refugees this is indiscriminate attacks on the boat is making it harder for people to get out and once all of that rubble that we see is earlier and you're going to find a lot more people you're only how to bodies they can find and identify now once years ago that it was going to get off to it. first they came for the offense of social media then they came for the statues the now they've come for the movies your fiancee. later in memphis has been showing the oscar winning gone with the wind as part of its classic series for thirty four years but today after its screening two weeks ago they announced the film will be polled in the future due to overwhelming criticism on social media so as the nation struggles to decide what monuments are acceptable for public display and what degree of controversy we can tolerate and social media. reports on the latest front in the modern era culture wars orpheum theatre group in memphis tennessee has screened the classic film gone

with the wind each of the past thirty four years now this year screening on aug eleventh coincidentally coincided with a white nationalist evening march in charlottesville virginia ahead of a unite the right rally that ended in three deaths according to theater group president brett patterson the screening prompted numerous comments that led to a decision not to run the film next year patterson said as an organization whose stated mission is to entertain educate and enlighten the communities it serves the orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population the one nine hundred thirty nine film takes place in the american south against the backdrop of the civil war long criticized for glorifying slavery when orpheum theatre group announced its decision to pull the movie memphis resident wendy thomas praised the decision on facebook saying slowly but surely we will read this community of all tributes to white supremacy backlash after the announcement was much louder katie hydro not sure if anyone

really complained or your feet are just decided to be cowered sheep and given to mad this way you should be ashamed underneath dixie grey pointed out how do you make daniel was the first black american to win an oscar with her costarring role as mammy in gone with the wind i guess her achievement is also gone with the wind sad how to make daniel was not only the first african-american to win an academy. award she was also the first to be nominated for acting it would be more than two decades before another african-american actor would win and the comments continue to pour in with outrage and calls to boycott the theater or film c.e.o. said the screening of this film is something that's questioned every year but the social media storm this year really brought it home we reached out to theater representatives for reaction to the backlash against their decision and have yet to hear back in washington cmon dollars r e o r t. fascinating story fascinating

story you know to me there's a difference between a statue that commemorates someone like robert e. lee a general someone who slaughtered people someone representing you know an ideology and then but a movie ultimately you can't escape the fact it's a piece of artistic expression right so that's different that's not saying we're honoring something that's making a movie about a book about a time frame of us history right and that's the thing about that movie is that it's not as if the slave owners it's not as if the white people come out looking so great on a good boy i mean it really shows how utterly ridiculous that all was and hit on some really important issues that the book and also the movie they did that also here's the other flip to this too is that i understand when people say this statue in that part bothers me i have to walk by the stats you're going to praise they are like are wonderful and you know better it in fact was general that's different.

book you choose to go into the theater and watch you choose to pick up a book and read it and to me it's like if for every time you want to criticize the right for you know being morally superior oh you know this books has sex and other this book has witchcraft it like harry potter you know care every time of that side tries to say we need to get rid of this book and not let children suter ban the book now you have the love doing this extreme thing by saying ok this. movie that took place that was you know written in a time in history about a time in history now we need to boycott and ban and not let this movie because of them as i was ridiculous this is where i wonder how much of this is actually a group of people who are really upset and how much of it is people are people who are more on that right who are more in the new free speech movement where it's not really about free speech it's really sort of making a point how many of these people online and how many people are just doing it to make a point like well well what would you do if we said you can't work out not the wind

i mean the internet is one of those places where people don't do things because they really believe that they do it because then everyone else is and you get a laugh and the fire storm and you know and this leader it's a private business they can choose to show this sort of they can take it down or they're not choose to show it that's their right as a private business let's not forget that but to me i think you know it's a different it's a it's apples and oranges and i'm talking about something that you have to walk by that's locked into the public sphere and something that you have to physically go buy a ticket to go in and see no one's forcing you to see this my tax dollars are paying to keep it or if. you are as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are tea dot com coming up radio host author and sociobiologists back across to the park service to discuss the benefits the dangers and the future of predictive analytics it's fascinating you don't want to miss and stay tuned to watching the whole.

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the modern era is often referred to as the information age and for good reason as coders replace factory workers and algorithms pushout having machinery we truly live in the area where data reigns above all as a sociologist and futurist rebecca. so eloquently put it in our book on the verge every day our ability to anticipate future outcomes grows more acute more all encompassing and extends further out this sea change has a quick today's leaders with previously imaginable power the power to respond and shape events before they occur we stand on the cusp of what darling darwin himself might have called pre adaptation the ability to adapt prairie we sat down with cost earlier to discuss how the modern deluge of information is changing our ability to shape the future. well i think data is forcing our hand as you know we began with

data production that became the name of the game in the seventy's and eighty's and into the ninety's and then after that we had so much data we couldn't really put it to good use and so we went through a data analysis phase but we've now moved out of data analysis into predictive analytics models which allow us now to forecast with unprecedented accuracy in other words the future you know as much as we like to say the future is unknown there could not be a more false statement the future is in fact unknown and once you know what the future is it dramatically affects how you make decisions today and that is what our leaders are up against and i can give you some examples if you like put into place too. so let's talk about for example the opioid epidemic right

now several industrialized nations are trying to deal with people who are started out with a prescription drug and now are hopelessly addicted to opioids it turns out the company name fuzzy logic so i don't mind using their name they by using medical records and looking at public activities behaviors of human beings they can identify up to eighty five percent of those people who are predisposed to become opioid addicks so that that first doctor's prescription need never be written in this way we can get out ahead of our problems we don't need to have these problems because we have the analytic ability now to prevent them. and it's interesting you brought up fuzzy logic because when they started in the health care field and then now they they actually do predictive modeling for financial

sectors banking. retail all of that and predictive modeling has been very helpful in getting diabetes health related things we're now able to see a little bit better but what i wonder what the consequence is because getting the data is not a problem we sort of give that out for free in our daily lives of social media and everything else what are the consequences of having that kind of power to be able to model these things and predict things with data. and what are the long term effects that that kind of power has on leadership. well it has a tremendous power because it means that those with the data and the analytic abilities those with the predictive models will dominate let me give you an a another example in business a business example because of health care we could look at the fact that we now have genetic profiles on people and we know the previous. position that they have

for certain diseases certain cancers all timers even baldness at the time that they're bored we can do genetic testing and then we can act prophylactic lead to help them in many cases we can do certain kinds of genetic treatments to prevent diseases this is a power we never had before and so we can easily understand that health care but let's look at business once businesses and i'm talking about the largest retailers in the world discovered that as the climate warms milk production in cows goes down so as the season warms up their productivity in producing milk starts to go down as soon as they saw that relationship they began tapping nasa's meteorological data and locking in milk prices before it temperatures went up while the other bats that's getting way out ahead of the curve and so people who have these predictive models are able to use these models to eliminate all risk

and now their words predictive analytics is the and of risk through using these insurance companies will no longer have group health care programs they'll have individual license programs that will have absolutely zero risk because based on your your behaviors the environment that you live in and that you work in based on your genetic predispositions all that data will come together and they will be able to put it insurance plan together that is uniquely adapted to you i have to because asylums both incredible but also. having to anybody just kind of hearing this of this is very you know futuristic can predict them seems also a little invasive with the amount of information that they would have are there any you know downsides to corporations or political leaders or whatever. having this kind of you know ability to see into the future so to speak with what would be the

bell and sides i get asked this all the time and i have to say that any time we come up with any new technology anytime we progress in society there's going to be a downside someone's going to abuse it i mean that would be like saying you know what if we only hadn't come up with the internet we wouldn't have hackers critical or true. if we want to have hackers without the internet you know and we would have people we would have identity theft yes there's always the potential but we can't allow the downside to prevent humanity from progressing what we now have in terms of data allows us to evacuate entire cities in advance of hurricanes as we see going on right now it allows us to to forecast diseases in advance it allows us to to take action when a currency like the euro is being threatened by the debt of greece those were all

predicted boggles what i don't think people understand is this is happening now this is not science fiction this is not going to happen in the future businesses are using predictive models today as we speak so is health care so where the fine is so is the financial industry every industry and every leader every economy will now be able to do something in the present to affect a future outcome now think about this think about this this means that we now are taking action over events which have not manifested yet they haven't occurred yet and this automatically throws it into a political argument doesn't it because half the people are going to say that's never going to happen and the other half are going to say yes but we have data and it is going to happen which is exactly what's going on with climate change it's going to have a political football you know you're exactly wrote exactly one of these things that the. it sort of gets me is when you read all the self-help books you know it's all

you have to do is do you think something ten thousand times or get a certain amount of habits and then there's all this success but failure which is you know failure is the opposite of set of success it's what most of us are trying to avoid we don't want to fail but all failure isn't created equally how has this predictive modeling and big data and the study of it change how we look at how we should look at failure. well one of the things i explain to people is is that in a highly complex environment you have to make friends with failure and that is because the definition i use of complexity is there are more wrong options than there are right ones and the number of wrong ones are growing exponentially now in an environment like this you can't stop and try to call it right. what you've got to do is what you do with your investment portfolio as an example there's an example of a complex dynamic environment certainly you don't go out and put all of your money

on one stock if you have then good luck to you you're just gambling but what you do is in a complex environment you spread it around and as bonds go up stocks come down maybe real estate investments go up and stocks come down you know you hope to have a nuff diversity that you're going to come out ahead in the end and that is also true and in any kind of complex dynamic environment like the one that we're going through right now until predictive analytics can for certain predict the outcomes of virtually everything we are left with trying to daven gate a very complex environment where there are more wrong choices that there are right ones and the best way to do that is to use diversification even venture capitalists only get it right ten or fifteen percent of the time and think of the due diligence that they do right so you know you're not going to call it right all the time make

an allowance and make friends with failure but here is the key fail fast and move on. good bad leg bad good very good bit of advice fail of a move yourself keep going you're going to. read about. one final question because this kind of struck me is weird of something like what you know a chaos theory to predictive analytics knowing that the predictability of the unpredictability of the world were those that fall in predictive analytics. i will tell you that there will be no more on predictability we will know the outcome of absolutely everything in the future the only question that remains is will we take action you know where we're finding out in the to. heiress attacked in barcelona in the paris terrorist attacks in two thousand and fifteen as we go backwards we find

that these terrorists gave us every clue we had warnings on the two thousand and fifteen paris attack from from turkey and from iraq they knew exactly the sounds they knew the actors but the problem is that we find out about this after the fact and so the real question is if we have the data if we know the probability is in the ninety nine percent trial that these no farias actors are going to committed an act what are we prepared to do a great question to rebut could cost american social biologist host of the some record of radio program the cost reporter and author of a new book or on the verge. of interview thank you so much for coming on very very very interesting stuff. thank you so much for having me i appreciate it. a former staff member of the british embassy in paris said on facebook recently that french politicians all look like film stars whereas the stress and fatigue

apparently hiding under a lot of very very expensive make up former president spent a famed eleven thousand dollars a month of french taxpayer funds on a hairdresser while simultaneously pushing through bills that would diminish the rights of workers in the nickname shampoo socialist not unlike his predecessor nicolas sarkozy who is penchant for luxury vacations and pricey ray-bans turned more than a few eyes sideways when he spent eight thousand dollars a month on his make up now french president emanuel. is letting his aristocratic swagger shine through with a big beauty bill of his own french magazine lapointe reported that the president spent nearly thirty thousand dollars on a private makeup artist during his first three months in office but his stint housewares the expenses were a matter of. cnut it still less than what is this predecessors spent i don't know maybe i was born with it maybe it's just fantasy. i think graham i mean i think

most politicians kind of err on the side of these days when you're really with the house and that's a lot of money. a lot of money clearly we're told doesn't look as good as these two and there's not even any way glitter. or a bit doubtful that is cars over the way everybody remember him as world we're not told we love the wall i love you i am i robot and i'm. watching those hawks out there another great but. your launching an r t america special report. that's. basically everything that you think you know about civil society have broken down. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not

be on the normalising mind. we don't need people that think like this on our planet . this is an incredibly situation. i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims. i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied to be n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the u.s. . the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an ethical for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learn. something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the base of iraq. it is vitally important

that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. was. that was. what was going. i want to spend the whole first half of the show on something the mainstream media won't touch with a ten foot pole which is actually a lot of stories i mean and in fact this is c.n.n. storage for.