deal arguably president obama's only accomplishment in office effectively voting against his own party and to top it all off as recently voted for the countering america's adversaries through sanctions act that imposed sanctions on russia and north korea in iran so maybe it just might benefit the u.s. and its foreign policy if a neo-con war hawk like menendez is found guilty of corruption and kept out of the us political scene. russia iran and north korea convoy the international order without consequence many sanctions i wrote included in bipartisan bill. reports and that's how the news today money's.

greetings and salutation with all the news of the giant storm smashing into the united states these days it's rather easy for many to miss or outright choose to ignore the twisting and churning of financial storms have been a brewin here in the land of the free since the great banking crisis of two thousand and eight take for example the twisted and fascinating tale of the banking institution known as wells fargo and their stagecoach full of controversies ranging from employees opening fake bank accounts to bill sales quotas to forcing auto insurance on customers who didn't need it yes there appears to be quite a carnival of financial injustices taking place that your friendly neighborhood wells fargo. that has the that has cost the banking giant hundreds of millions in

fines over the last two years in two thousand and sixteen they paid out one hundred eighty five million in fines for fraud julie opening a columns which then c.e.o. john stumpf claim to congress was limited to certain team members within the community banking division. back in july this year they got hit with having to refund eighty million dollars to auto loan customers who were charged for auto insurance without their knowledge and we can't leave out the hundred million in the red and gold paid out to the feds to settle allegations that the bank which is overcharging military veterans for refinance loans. and now now wells fargo has admitted that according to the new york times it had opened as many as three point five million on one of the accounts for customers one point four million more than previous estimates and that they enrolled more than half

a million accounts into its one hundred line bill pay service without customers permission and we know a bunch of fun online bill pay services are or can be when they get screwed up so what can we public do about these kind of abuses well our value in the elected officials stand up to the banks. yeah let's find out as we start watching the harks . it looks. like a lot of. like you know that i got. this . so. welcome everyone to watch so i wrote the story and i'm happy

to let the banks acting the shady your thoughts. i mean or again i'm surprised that it's taking this long for anybody to know that's the thing that concerns me the most as someone who is a person i mean my first concern is for consumers i've been one of those people that's been through big banks adding fees in. doing things before any of this came out and i would always be treated as if i was crazy person as if i was this criminal i'd be like where's my money and why am i being charges and i never said this and always this you're trying to scam the bank kind of attitude and now seeing that that wasn't true most of us are right all along we were getting scammed but i was you know i worry about what that's going to do eventually because these are stockholders are going to be wondering what kind of ponzi scheme is this entire banking system set up on which it kind of it really is when you really i mean not just wells fargo but the entire interview again there's three reasons and one giant ponzi scheme as we've covered on this show numerous times i mean when you look at

wells fargo i mean the list is incredible you know from oh you only do about you know about one point four million of these fraud accounts were basically were kind of like taking people's existing accounts putting a little money into a bank account under that person's name keeping it open to build a certain kind of like sales quota and then like giving the money back i'd assume that the other come before no one notices that particular two accounts that jumped three point five million after they told congress that this was just you know it was related how do people do it. then you got sued over the charging and that's concealing this misconduct from the u.s. department of veterans affairs to obtain get this obtain guarantees for the loans bedroom mortgage refinancing program this is according to their recent settlement so overcharging for overcharging veterans and then on top of it in order to trick the government to giving them more money to give that are in store you remember that magical day we're. making money for banks you know them or they were

just about storing your money and keeping it safe was that with the knights templar when they rode around with bags of gold maybe. i don't remember a time i really don't remember a time when banks except for a small community banks that are sort of nonprofit if that isn't you know. savings and loan a small small community is that her family oh no i don't know about banks that are just send it to make me look they've been going after small businesses as all your . little sort of small businesses. apparently wells fargo allegedly went after small businesses over charging them for credit card processing over billing scheme that targeted less sophisticated moment pop shops and couldn't keep up with the auto insurance i mentioned charged more than eight hundred thousand people for auto insurance they did not mean which then led to two hundred seventy four thousand customers becoming delinquent on their loans resulting in twenty five thousand

vehicle repossessions this is a. that should have never happened so people lost their cars probably jobs probably a lot of other things all because they didn't want to bother to buy if there's anything the congress should be doing something about this just because the obama administration sort of punted on actually doing something about the bank and you know and i don't just blame the obama administration but. a woman with a mandate to fix this problem and pretty much we all just said we'll just keep doing what we're doing which is a really great thing that's been working this is why one of the things that we need to have a new a new hearing yes we do get a lot of consumer advocacy to consumer advocacy protection organizations the americans for financial reform and public citizen that's total of thirty three organizations have joined together in this call to have congressional hearings and joint letter to the leadership of the senate banking committee and the house finance services committee so amanda warner arbitration campaign manager for

americans for financial reform a public citizen said for quote the first step is to have congressional hearings to determine the extent of the cover up the american public wants wells fargo to be held accountable and i have to say i would much rather they spend a million two million three million dollars of taxpayer funds to investigate this and and practices like this that are really messing with every day i'm working. americans rather than have the recent e-mails or who had dinner with some russians . i mean like i don't care whether you know the benghazi or the russians but this sort of stuff is number one there's no doubt if i were able to a bit is noble and i applaud you for wanting to see hearings and potential congressional calling downs of reforms because you know the slapping on the wrist with fines they go do it no more i mean something like twenty two you know billion dollars in the first quarter of twenty seventeen the amount of fines the bad blood pay for all those maybe gets to about four hundred million which is nothing i don't care you know so i did spend an eighteen month span i want to get this before we

move eighteen months six point four million lobbying in just eighteen months alone . who. at a world where a college degree is practically a prerequisite for a normal adult life one could think of many good uses for a federal department of education making sure colleges are ripping off students for example or that students are unfairly discriminated against or even helping students make smart choices about what exactly they're signing up for when they take out student loans all these and more are supposedly the mission of the education secretary betsy to vasa billionaire political donor with zero real world experience in education and in pursuit of that mission team hasn't just announced it will stop sharing information with the consumer financial protection bureau the government's consumer watchdog agency why well certainly there must be a reason for tearing up such an important partnership you ask well there was apparently this c p p b had been overly zealous in actually going after fraudulent

colleges and student loan collectors in other words just another day in washington . truly again not shocked like you were not shocked with you know banks doing shady business i mean i'm not really shocked with the department of education. we don't want you going you know for sure these students are contractors that are about is that are all these people that are we're grafting to everybody with education i mean it's really about. i mean look first you go out of drug money now you go after like our kids money the moment they get out of school. it's just it's graft i'm sorry every time i hear about to go we need more private schools maybe but at the end of the day. you know just what parents keep forking no more and more money right and then they won't be able to taxpayers will be paying for it because then people if they can't afford it out of their own they're going to want some

sort of kick back some for sort of. money from the government since they're not providing it this is the thing everybody wants to get rid of these people who want to get rid of public education but their answer isn't that we just don't pay for it make everybody pay for it themselves if they want a handout from the government so they can get the education they want you know my parents did my mother worked two jobs so i could go to a private school go go maybe support yourself off from the bootstraps and stop asking well and and the other the other thing too is it's like more or just to be clear we could just have properly running public schools that actually serve the community and their kids would be to just i don't i went to public school one of my whole family would have my life in public schools are great if if they're if the department of education actually allows them to do was to. put money were should be instead of trying to hide the fact that there's graft in one part of the system by just kind of throwing out the consumer protection bureau which is a lot of the graph in these student loans that they're talking about the reaction

from a lot of education advocates and watched groups has been pretty unanimous and this is horrible in the words of national consumer law center persis you said quote divorce is prioritizing the interests of predatory for profit schools debt collectors and troubled student loans services over the interest of student loan borrowers now the reason that the c f p b was put in place in the beginning was because. officials at places like the department of education and financial watchers weren't doing their jobs they're all too cozy with lobbyists they all have their finger in the cookie jar and now she does want to try me entire education department into a cookie jar. and she decides who gets cookie well the thing i love do is it's always about what we need smaller government and less oversight because when we privatized everything the nothing bad will happen. but. we might want to ask the people in russia our viewers in russia just let us know how privatizing everybody it's all very private is the case and where you know it and it's also interesting isn't it if you worry about this kind of lack of qualification to be to be.

running the department of education have no fear he's going to hire the best people because you have some real world experience to boston's hired julian schmoke to you that was cracking down on those fraudulent practices by colleges he seems familiar smoke's experience is nothing if not real world he used to be a dean for the for profit university college recently charged one hundred million dollars in fines for ripping off but students so smoke no heads up the unit responsible for investigating institutions like the employer for schemes and practices that may or may not have been likely involve himself ironically some of the charges against the bright. exactly parallel charges that were behind that gives a member of the wonderful university thinking we're about yeah yeah the rebels of

advertising you know made ridiculous promises to protect it was all to take now this is the guy so money from the us government they stole dreams from people they stole teachers from people and now we're supposedly i mean maybe maybe maybe we're all crazy maybe this is all one of those like hire a burglar to put your security system in your house no no they're going to know all the tricks work that's the idea. i don't trust about the p.r. on here but maybe maybe. i'll think of that as we go to break. a lot of. good cover the facebook of polls shows that r.t. dot com and we are excited to announce that you can join us in watching the harks and all and watch all the whole of your favorite r t america shows on direct t.v. channel two. coming up. yourself the truth and just how much plastic yes plastic is in our drinking water and something queasy this way

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you know that the united states doesn't have any kind of standard for the safety of plastic in our drinking water no not yet the e.p.a. is contaminate candidate list which catalogs substances that are in tap water but are regulated doesn't even less plastic as being in our tap water or a washington d.c. based nonprofit digital newsroom conducted the world's first global scientific study of micro plastics in drinking water called invisibles the plastics inside us and what's inside of us is quite frankly horrifying by collaborating with the state university of new york and the university of minnesota or tested one hundred fifty nine drinking water samples from sources on five continents and found that eighty three percent of the samples contained microscopic plastic fibers which isn't hard

to imagine when you realize that since the human discovery of plastic polymers around six billion tons of plastic has been created and dumped in sea the shining sea to shining sea and back again so what are these microscopic plastic fibers and where are they coming from well there are six major areas that plastic fibers end up in our tap water first. clothing synthetic fibers fabrics like fleece especially acrylic some polyesters expel microsoft plastic fibers every time we wash them and as that water drains it discharges one million tons of those fibers into our waste water each year second tire dust i know this seems weird but specifically a substance called chrome rubber or styrene beauty which is the synthetic rubber used in tires and things like artificial grass so as tires run on the road they expel twenty grams of toxic tire dust for every one hundred kilometers or sixty two miles they travel terrifying thirty is pate from the road lie in this two houses

paid contributes to a full ten percent of micro plastic pollution in the world's oceans the fourth area is what's called secondary micro plastics and these are things like plastic forks bags and the very success stories for your convenient takeout order these are things that get shredded up and sent to landfills and a full eight million tons of these often mishandled plastics washed into our oceans rivers and lakes around the world every year. probably the most disturbing are synthetic fibers in the air sea those cosy fleece and polyester clothing fibers that you're wearing also break off when we wear them much like pets shedding for expels them into the air like dust. and then they end up in our food and the beverage is sitting in from me you know it's estimated that the friction of our bodies causes between three and ten tons of those airborne fibers in just the city

of paris each year finally microbial it's now banned in the u.s. and canada these little beads became extremely popular in face grubs and cosmetics over the years and are estimated that eight trillion microbial polluted u.s. waterways in twenty fifteen alone these six areas have contributed to the orb study sample showing that eighty three percent of tap water in five continent concedes microscopic plastic fibers now let's look at it by country by country it breaks down like this in first place because the waves of the love ruin of the thirty three samples taken across the u.s. a little over ninety four per cent of those came back contaminated with micro plastic fibers lebannon they route ninety four percent as well new delhi india eighty two percent of samples had plastic microfiber as of them kampala uganda eighty one to garbage in tunisia seventy six percent and quito ecuador showed

seventy five percent finally when you go to european countries about seventy two percent of european sample showed the plastic so here's the thing plastic is redefined our culture how it will be analyzed by archaeologist centuries or even a lineage from now see most plastic has a five hundred year lifespan before it will even start to biodegrade in the whole of the united states there are only a few recycling centers that can safely recycle all types of plastic it's said that besides the nuclear bomb detonations in one nine hundred forty five plastics cause the most significant changes to the earth's makeup in all of human history but if the pleasant planet doesn't make you sweat what it does to the human body may see a reason. study published in environmental science and technology found that the most common types of consumer plastics act like sponges and they absorb the most chemical so the plastic fibers from your fleece jacket end up in the waste water

which absorbs all of the worst chemicals along its way to waterways which is that by the thing is switch you then eat these chemicals have been proven to cause infertility infertility obesity cellular damage and birth defects in women they can cause breast cancer in men infertility prostate cancer low testosterone decreased penis and testicular sides. greg trina's founder and executive director of the nonprofit adventure scientists told the n.p.r. if you're eating fish or eating plastic there's no proven causal relationship with health issues but i don't want to spend the next fifty years eating get and the learn i should have been i shouldn't have been we asked people here in d.c. their reaction to the studies finding here is what they had to say. i wouldn't be surprised to be honest with you on this one the only country on earth that doesn't recycle of water really wants. to do that. job.

because. seriously people on the streets are a little split when you hear about it because there's major you know i mean when you hear this it's pretty outstanding you just kind of got taken aback like really that much plastic is in all our water it's incredible sure i mean between two thousand and four and twenty fourteen the amount of plastic produced by the world rose thirty eight percent. and it's frightening how much it's kind of involved with all our lives so the next time you're talking to somebody and it's like man this person is like a really fake person they just feel really plastic or you might not they might you you're probably right i think we are way beyond class i mean look more than a quarter of pish fish now contain plastic according to a recent study which analyzed like the fish the guts of fish that were sold in markets and in the beach in california whoa you know people are going to that you were talk about these little fibrous and they're very tiny and you think oh where they're little that's no big deal it's just this little shaving that's like a millimeter long and it's microscopic but when you put

a lot of those things in your lungs it can cause breathing problems people who work in factories where they make these things where they make this kind of a stick have to wear a lot of safety gear but if that's just out in there i mean what do you do. like when they're saying is that when we're talking a little bit about the fleece kind of how fleece is i love place that got me around but it's actually kind of terrifying as they found that when you wash a j. jacket it sheds up to two grams of these little micro fibers from a fleece jacket when you do it so for reference a paper clip is about one point five grams so if these are microscopic and you're pulling off two full grams the amount like the weight of a paper clip that's a lot and they also found that it was seven times more fibers were washed in top loading washers than in front so here's a few thing because i don't want everybody to go away like we're all going to die in that belief from predator. by god i'm all like we're going to die from plastic

and i run away there are there few things that we can do one as washing fleece not don't wash or fleece as much. and part of that is you know it's a not a natural fiber anyway so it's actually made to handle that stuff you don't wash least as much utilized microfiber cutting laundry balls there are these things that can go in and how to do all this stuff really good for you alternatives to labor these are alternatives to liquid or powder laundry detergent and plastic because with steam metal or glass water bottles containers don't use straws just avoid using plastic and when you do use them make sure you're just closing up them properly good lesson good at us and i want to make sure everything you know i just have a save as though it's not just plastic that's been sneaking into our bodies trying to moan about strong g. lloyd. yes that's the thing for a while but only as a minor health hazard problem predominantly in tropical climates. that all may be changing however and in a very disturbing direction as these go pull the little worms reach the worms may

have been previously underestimated estimates put the global action rate at over three hundred. million people making it a wider reaching problem area along the worms potentially devastating damage to birds across the world are trying to raise awareness of the parasite in hopes of finding a universal code. sure hope they do or two. more story it's a thread worm known as a strong stare chorale is the odd name a toad infects humans through larvae infested soil all it takes is one touch and the worm can penetrate through human skin from there the war makes way into mucus tunnels the blood stream and the small intestine where burrows and lays its eggs the eggs then hatch inside the intestines and after being excluded the worms can reinfect their hosts many people are unaware that they have even been infected

because there are often no symptoms however those who do experience symptoms have things like cramping diarrhea weight loss and rashes and in the most extreme cases the worm can spread throughout the entire body causing hyper infection and death due to changes in the host's immune system the centers for disease control and prevention say soil and auto infection are not the only means of transmission in fact human to human transmission has been reported in organ transplants at institutions for the developmentally disabled and even in day care facilities according to the c.d.c. . has classically been associated with uniform service veterans returning from tropical regions like southeast asia and the south pacific during world war two small domestic studies have shown infection in rural appalachian but the highest rates in the united states come from immigrant populations this is mainly because

of the warm lives in warm moist climates or in rural and agricultural areas and it mainly affects those who are institutionalized or economically disadvantaged researchers suggest that up to sixty percent of indigenous australians carry this infection the worm is incredibly hard to detect but anti parasitic drugs can get rid of the parasites when they are detected however many have now become. drug resistant and therefore they can remain with a host for life researchers say the only way to abolish these parasites is to make sure that people even know that they exist awareness' they say it will lead to more research and better treatment for what they say is the most neglected tropical disease on the planet in los angeles proceed to santos r t. records like glass ceilings were made to be broken astronaut peggy whitson is shattering records and raising the roof in two thousand and seven that nasa astronaut american biochemistry researcher became the first woman ever to command the international

space station earlier this year she broke the record for the most base walks by a woman in the last trip she spent two hundred eighty days in space which also broke the single flight duration record for women in space peggy whitson who at fifty seven years old is the oldest woman to travel in space and the oldest to complete a spacewalk has now spent more time in space than any other astronaut the history of space travel with a record breaking total of six hundred sixty five cumulative days in space over the course of her career oh and do i mention that in two thousand and nine she was the first woman to serve as chief astronaut of the nassau fish she was so the next time someone tells you that women can't do science tell them about peggy whitson who can apparently to think well just like you. remember everyone in this world we're not told we're loved to tell you all i love you i am tired and i'm happy watching those hawks remember a great night everybody. we're

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