yes kurds are not the ones to be blamed school what is happening in the rest of iraq and the direct wrong directions that iraq has gone through. i am asked kaiser this is the kaiser report oh my god we're just in the hurricane erma my hair's a mess you know they've got sharks coming down now with a hurricane like shark motto my favorite picture of all time i'm actually scheduled to be in sharknado part seven which will start shooting sometime in two thousand and twenty four looking forward to that what's happening stacey maxwell thank you for all of that data because we having an episode here about big data that i don't know i said we have and we have it we have to study it go big data big mama big

mama that it would do it a big data episode with a rat version right here downtown you act like you like and like and like you know and exercise black and of course you know our crew is all going down to cover. the disaster guys about the way so this is a bit of a pre-record so that you know this is why max is crazy but you know i'm looking at the big data and one thing that i've noticed is that the data on hillary clinton is looking worse and worse and worse she is now even you know more unpopular than donald trump donald trump's ratings have been declining but hillary's have been declining further so despite all of their hoaxes they're pushing the russia gate and all these conspiracy theories that she and her minions and crazy people like louise mensch and peter dow are pushing her data is looking worse and worse even possible because she was already at the bottom and she's underneath the bottom

looking up you know she's like she's at the bottom of the ocean i wasn't even possible how can trump be such a horrible and hillary clinton be even less popular than ever it's a real challenge she's got i guess. being the. failed wife of a psychopath a wall street loving commodity futures enabling nut jobs bill didn't help well usually there's a bump for a sympathy bump after somebody loses an election but she's been such a bad loser but the data is also not looking good for the rest of america first we're going to look at a story from the dreamers you know those kids the children of the dhaka so the children who were brought here from mexico central america latin america as children who are still technically not u.s. citizens or do not have papers under a barack obama they were given some sort of. not some sort of legal protection some

sort of protection that they wouldn't be sent away well look at if. you know what god is here but i'm going to explain it erika and viola he handed over a stack of personally identifying information to the federal government back pretty well. documented in the friend who came to the u.s. from mexico when she was a kid and they all had been trained to keep a low profile sharing her home her way to other details all in order to receive protective order taken under an obama era policy called the furred. what's. active in the kurdish others to do with. this measure and now we have eight hundred thousand names of fingerprints photographs addresses all the details of these undocumented immigrants.

by executive order one. of. the sessions were able to. check them. and they say ok it's going to be just people were it's go round them up and try to start hiding the rest is history so. when you. get to government because. and sometimes you end up being fascist dictating incinerating lunatics so again like that was done to protect allegedly and well was actually done the government of the netherlands was doing good they were trying to identify people by their religion that you had to list their religion so then there was a deed in the netherlands which is why they had one of the worst exterminations people they were members of the country and into auschwitz you know here what.

about. but their whole lives worked here well when the obama administration was designing daca privacy was a chief concern for immigration advocates who worried about having undocumented immigrants identify themselves to the government so u.s. c.i.s. that would it would wall off that data protecting it from other agencies including immigration and customs enforcement that wanted to use it for deportation purposes deportation of course in this context as you mentioned from the one nine hundred thirty s. as a. policy well that's why this this this particular dreamers . you know scandal is so important for every american is that it shows what happens when governments go rogue so the american government under obama went rogue they went in they violated the constitution the bill of rights by collecting data in

a way that violates privacy and violates you know most of the bill of rights and so this is it's not an immigration issue it doesn't matter how you feel about immigration or the wall if you're an american you would take side with these eight hundred thousand or so that are being essentially put on boxcars effectively in the twenty first century and sent to in many cases death that's your america today now if you want something if you want to different outcome there's got to be different political dialogue but not amongst the current crew running washington they have been completely corrupted as they brownshirts were in italy by corporations yet corporatism that's what you have in america today. big corporations big data corporations with the government creating corporatism and they are killing people is on an industrial scale so the corporatism applies to the next story we have equifax everybody knows about the equifax hack now just to put it in terms

that our audience can understand a lot of our audience are crypto currency mavens and juiciest. in america you have a social security number that is like your private key but in america under this neoliberal corporate structure you must give your private key over to ha wallet after hot wallet that you don't know if they are able to secure your trusting that they can secure it you have to give it over to get any credit card or a bank loan you have to give it over to get health insurance you have to give it to people all over the place to access services throughout the economy particularly the financial services industry so equifax had one hundred forty three million social security numbers tied to a name addresses and locations in america and they were hacked the headline reads

massive data breach at equifax as many as one hundred forty three million social security numbers hacked now everybody knows all the details of this and they're being. the hackers went six hundred bitcoin or something like that in order to release the data and not into the wild but back to equifax now my uncle actually worked with them as a big advisor under well known corporate accountancy sort of firm and he said they were making fun of their bad security only a few years ago in his meetings with them now here they are on their own website referring to this hack in a question and answer section zero hedge covers this they were asked does this cybersecurity incident impact your capital allocation priorities going forward because of course the cap their capital allocation and the shareholder returns are the most important thing not the the fact that one hundred forty three million americans have now basically had their private key released into the wild or

capital allocation was their answer priorities are unchanged at this time as we have previously indicated our investment priorities in order of an. poor insights are one internal investment to dividends three acquisition for share repurchase we do however expect to increase our capital spending in an effort to further accelerate i.t. infrastructure systems and data security i mean still and see improvement actions so there reassuring their shareholders that we're going to continue to share buybacks before we do anything to protect all these americans that we have to give over their data because there's only three of us there's equifax experian and one other the smaller ones so you're right to make an example of this as being corporatism and the wholesale industrial murder of ordinary citizens equifax certainly the murder of their credit rating now yes they've been put at risk and this will result in deaths and four hundred forty three million people but in

a couple of things so there was insider trading before the hack people dumping shares. that's true three executives including you know the mainstream media here will say they were managers there was the chief financial officer three days after the hack there equifax is claiming that they didn't know that there had been a hack but it came out three days after they sold three days after well that's clearly a lie i mean they're lying the so they were dumping by insiders which brings up the question did the insiders orchestrate the hack i doubt that but of course they did they did use the information but you know i want to get back to the fact that here you have to in order to engage in this neo liberal system you have to continuously hand over all your private information because they're just trying to help you get credit they're just trying to help you buy a home start a family all this stuff just like we said with the first story with the dreamers in the dock and they're just trying to help you be part of the economy might also it's

up an interesting dichotomy because there are people in society with low credit ratings who say i'm i don't care yeah but if you're trying to get a high credit rating you're at risk just a quick note you talked about bitcoin which of course is blocked chain many langham is a south african bitcoin entrepreneur introduced civic which is an initial coined offering and in a way to solve this problem putting a centrally your data on a private key yes which would replace this system don't condemn crypto and bitcoin result of this ransom look look at the corporatism in america and the wholesale slaughter of folks and we've got to go to a break we'll be right back after this don't go away. piece years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if the bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have. i

don't know i think they are inheriting whatever my my baby's says my book was published in the year two thousand. million americans have been killed in the us. this is a middle school we go through drills we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see. him. return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years who god. but we are not.

well known by. the martial. islamic states claims it was behind the manchester terror attack by the. front so kill the priest every time a terrorist attack happens all these people are out there screaming ice is so bad someone needs to do something against them. why don't. you. go home for. the. check if. you kill innocent.

welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to james howard kunstler of consular dot com james welcome back a pleasure to be with you max all right so james howard kunstler you say and i quote we're in a hot mess of his disaster you're right the public has been conditioned by frequent natural disasters to think that nobody has to eat the losses so that in effect lost doesn't exist elaborate well we seem to think that we have a magic fountain of money that is limitless and that it really doesn't come from anywhere it just sort of comes from magic elders or something and you know showing you know hundred eighty billion dollars it's no small feat if you go back

cut twenty five years ago or so you know that was. almost the entire federal budget and you know now we're we're that's what the cost of one storm is so it's kind of hard to imagine how we're really going to do that without taking a hit somewhere and i imagine the hit will come in the value of our currency you know that deaths are the squishy is thing in the whole picture here yeah you know it's an interesting phenomenon as the world has become more financial ised and sense the one nine hundred eighty seven crash when the federal government stepped in and started managing stock prices through they. were plunge protection team as some call it there is no market reaction anymore so these hurricanes that come along they don't cause any real market damage so people because people view the world through the markets and that's their filter to view reality they sense that there's no danger because markets are great so they have a completely warped view of the world right i think there are two things going on

there max one is that the. machinations and interventions the federal reserve and other authorities have destroyed the idea of prices sky every in markets you know and that was their primary function to tell you what the value of things is and that no longer happens the second thing is that you know we've abolished risk as well and so you know these these things are no longer in our lexicon or even functioning in our world risk in value they're gone well james talked about abolishing risk let me give another angle to this to get your reaction starting in the nineteen seventies and then taking shape in the one nine hundred eighty s. we had they options pricing volatility formula we had the interaction of derivatives we had the separation of risk from reward we had the ability of let's say an energy company that you follow quite closely to take the extra anality of

their business that is the economic ecological devastation take it off their balance sheet and wrap it up and put it into somebody else's pension account or we see that fracking right now in the u.k. and around the world all the fracking devastation doesn't accrue to the c.e.o.'s of the companies that do the fracking it's repackaged and dumped into a pension account somewhere where it faster as it goes to zero and bankrupt people so risk is there but if for the first time in history it's been able to be separated from reward traded separately and dumped into the public domain and pension accounts are thoughts yet there's another externality there and that is the inability of these well fracking companies that actually earn a ricin in their operations and somehow you know the cost of that is being fobbed up on the public in some way that i personally don't understand you know but there's no other way to explain the reason why these companies remain in business yes and the governments are in league with big media and you know and in. but of

course this is our parcel of our energy industry go. back decades where we find out that exxon discovered the problems of global warming in the seventy's but didn't disclose because there is no penalty how about this for a concept. james that there's no penalty if wells fargo is found committing larceny on an industrial scale stealing money from millions if there's no penalty if there's no deterrent if they just get a deferred prosecution of a slap on the wrist two questions one why would they stop committing mass illegal activities and two how does the government get away with imposing any penalties on any larceny or looting anywhere in the society unless there's a two tier justice system howard well this is what happens when you develop a culture that's reality optional in which anything goes and nothing matters and that's where we're at right now now we've got warned in your book the long emergence

a the ecology and we're going to bring it back to the ecology here because we have in this country a remarkable climate change denial industry fed by complete frickin idiots like rush limbaugh who has the doesn't as i used to saying great school is brains would be big enough to power an answer motorcycle to travel the inside of a cheerio that's a good insult from the third grade that applies to rush limbaugh in this context because he's an infant and he's a jerk and he's a dangerous terrorist in my view. so james what about the industry of climate denial i mean these are the one point if you going to be like hillary as bunker still do you think he's going to win the war right before you blow his brains out is that what america can look forward to james. yeah i think it was schopenhauer who formulated this idea that you know how ideas that are uncomfortable for people present themselves and also if they're true they present themselves and their first greeted with ridicule and then they're violent leigh opposed and then

they're accepted a self-evident and actually you know. what's going on now may may be the tipping point we're going to you know where between hurricane harvey and hurricane earl and we'll see how people feel when you know that event is complete but there is no tipping point look worse limbaugh says that the these events these wildfires that are aiding los angeles accent are designed to sell climate change hoax i mean rush limbaugh now is this icon bay of the eco holocaust why it should not be a law against rush limbaugh should we start with washing them out should they be taken up on nuremberg like devastated up holocaust charges this guy is a menace james well maybe you could send him up in that fleece circus you know riding his bicycle or into cheerio that would be kind of interesting. you know i think that reality has many dates of its own and it will compel us to behave in

certain ways. you know when the time comes and until that until that moment arrives you know we're just going to continue doing what we're doing that is the old herb stein formulation that you know things go on until i can't and we're going to you know. one thing about what we were talking about five minutes ago about finance and and the oil companies and banking and all that you know these questions are extremely abstruse and hard to understand normally so you know when when they become. normal it's even harder for people to understand what's going on so they're not. yeah and i started jump in james but you know while we're in the middle of center view i love your writing style much here you're on a par with matt taibbi in my view in terms of your use of the language as well as the message you get out there how can people find your work what's the best way

that will continue but what's the best way people can find your work time. well i write a weekly blog actually is twice weekly mondays and fridays. can slither dot com on this case un is t l e r dot com. my most recent book about these issues is called too much magic wishful thinking technology and the fate of the nation and that's available you know at the usual places from the atlantic monthly press and my book about the the coast economic collapse future their sport there's four books in the series under the rubric world made by hand and they're also available from the same publisher in the same places that i call let me continue now doug can would look at the national income accounts and found that net public infrastructure spend in the us is just point five percent of g.d.p. versus two point six percent in the one nine hundred sixty s. and even one point six percent as recently as two thousand and seven so

infrastructure interest structure spending seems to be collapsing and that the same sustainable your thoughts you know i don't think they're we're going to do anything until stuff really starts breaking in then we may be too broke to fix our stuff and you know life is tragic this is one of the things that has is no longer taught in the universities you know the the tragic sense of life that's been replaced in the humanities by postmodernism and post-structuralism and you know the idea of the tragic sense of life is not that everything turns out badly it's that there are consequences to the things we do and to the choices that we made and we made a lot of bad choices in the united states in the last thirty forty years and they. you have consequences and now we're beginning to feel them right when i went to college and we studied europe and a sophocles greek drama test and tragic deaths and it was part of an education and you learn now in colleges they have snowflakes that if you were to mention anything

that is interpreted as demeaning to the stuff like they squat down in a puddle of their own urine and start crying so there's no sense that there is in life a broad spectrum of experience it's either got to be bright shiny i phone friendly i am me fantastical narcissism or death it seems like those are the two options james i'm very concerned about what's going on in the campuses and i think that we're on the verge of destroying the intellectual life of this culture. and. you know i'm not sure that's going but you've got a really despotic forces that are acting like the regard under mao tse tung in one nine hundred sixty six you know that their behavior is very similar shutting down public discussion shutting down free speech and persecuting people you know who who have something to say so we should be very concerned about that and. you know the whole pocker see this involved in it is titanic i know i mean i can't believe it it

seems that any cursory look at history whenever you see the books being burned in statues torn down that's generally the arrival of the death pots of the vandals of the barbarians american seems to me like bring them on we know longer represent anything intellectually salient anymore or simply a despotic nightmarish cheerio gas pump running and culture of some ike was ice is already being. what's the what's the solution of a thing if you had let's say james you were given a trillion dollars tomorrow to begin to reverse some of the damage where would you start i realize this is kind of a maybe a tough question but where would you where would you start if you had that opportunity in unlimited funds absolutely the first thing i would. it would be to reach rebuild the conventional railroad system of america because you know i know i'm not sure how many years of happy motoring we have ahead of us and this is a very big continent and we're not going to have any way to get around if we don't do that and it's too late for us to be tough to it it's too late for us to build

high speed rail we missed the window of opportunity and you know when there was a lot of real capital not capital sloshing around in the world that's done now but we really need to rebuild the conventional railroad system ok i guess a lot of the events warren buffett to sell it back to america after he took it after using borrowed money anyway james howard kunstler thanks for being on the kaiser report you're welcome ok and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser states ever like think our guest james howard kunstler of consular dot com john to catch us on twitter it's kaiser report hey the handle for the great american pelican made me and stephen baldwin it artesia coming up is she a pilgrimage that's on twitter it's a next time i. read

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