hazmat make. little drama begins his maiden speech at the u.n. general assembly with his first. horace's boosting security measures by constructing a bulletproof glass wall around the world's most popular monument the eiffel tower some say that the measure serves only to increase fear. one hundred percent the government doesn't make fear people it's just a way to keep. people feel like it would be a little paranoid to the. security forces raided warehouses in catalonia to

seize materials for an independence referendum proclaimed illegal. delivered his first address to the un general assembly he began by emphasizing that his priority was promoting the interests of his nation. as president of the united states i will own was put america first yes as you just heard donald trump opened his remarks at the un general assembly by invoking the phrase america first and using some of the nationalist and isolationist rhetoric that is largely a credited for getting elected he invoked the need to put the needs of the usa above the needs of the world his focus on america's sovereignty and american jobs

in america's economy however from there he shifted and began talking about a number of different countries around the world let's take a listen to what came next the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its our lives we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea it is time for the entire world to join us in demanding the veterans government and its pursuit of debt. and destruction in fact our country has achieved more against isis in the last eight months than it has in many many years combined yes donald trump after invoking america first went on a tirade against a number of different countries he criticized venezuela he talked about the option of totally destroying north korea he talked against iran he talked against cuba he criticized the government of syria and accused them of using chemical weapons

a number of statements were made and many people noticed that when he talked about the role of the united states in confronting countries he didn't approve of his rhetoric was not that different from that of his predecessor let's listen to donald trump talking about the role of the united states on the global stage we will fight together sacrifice together and stand together for peace the united states cannot solve the world's problems alone we must work together to make sure the benefits of such integration are broadly shared so quite a bit of contradiction in donald trump's speech he talks about patriotism nationalism the sovereignty tells people to be loyal to their country however that doesn't seem to apply to countries that he doesn't approve of be loyal to your country reject globalism unless it's a country that he doesn't like. the french capital is boosting security with the bulletproof glass wall to be erected around the eiffel tower.

reports from paris. this is the world's most famous landmark the eiffel tower a symbol of paris and also a symbol of freedom and co but staunching this week these metal barriers will be replaced with a bulletproof glass. to the tune of more than twenty million euros this new gloss will rise some three meters in length as the government's latest attempt to try and address the on going to have a place that is fawns giving in to the threat of terror is the french government amid an ongoing state of emergency igniting more fear among christians that the government is trying is responding to try to make it seem more safe. but i also feel like the government at the same time is using these as measures to impede on our privacy and our personal security in order to make it seem like it's more

secure it's one hundred percent that the government doesn't like fear people and doing security measures that are over overbearing even if you just you see the soldier on the fence is. going to do another wall is going to just make you scary to just come in i think that's just a way to keep pressure on people in easing bars makes me more afraid than anything like seeing the way this is structure right now makes me feel almost calm because it's so blocked up with a barrier. glass to me it's more inviting to me it shows hey we're looking out for your protection but also we don't want you to feel like this is an enclosed environment i feel like we're getting a little bit paranoid about all the. things that are going on i feel like if it starts with a wall here. people are afraid to leave their houses and their homes and that's not something. i feel like it would be a little paranoid to. their faces move comes off to

a string of terror attack. i have. to. tell. you this last one now. european cities generally have also been. counterterrorism. and milan are among those that have installed special concrete barriers in their streets berries after the bus the day lorry attack there britain also introduced measures after attacks in the heart of london we spoke to and he's director of studies at the institute of democracy incorporation in paris he says the e.u. should focus on its external borders rather than on bolstering internal measures we have taken down in europe national border.

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conservative m.p.'s have been subjected to pretty nasty abuse so examples of the types of abuse that politicians had during the last election campaign was one conservative candidate being racially abused at a polling station another conservative m.p. cheryl laurie her election posters were actually covered with swastikas and a labor m.p. a former labor m.p. he was actually physically assaulted at the polling station when he was delivering leaflets and because twitter is such a major conduit for a majority of the abuse that these politicians get this suggestion for the from the electoral commission has been being seen as a potential deterrent so maybe get people to stop and think before they type their poisonous messages on their keyboard but on fiercely it comes with a big caviar so it might work as a deterrent in theory but how would it work in practice it's a bit of a gray area about how you implement this law or what is the red line just how nasty

to someone have to be online in order to be banned from voting in the general election. users were quick to react to the potential by pointing out that the country's heading down a dangerous path to the social justice company george barda believes that the u.k. already has enough laws to punish internet to buz. there are plenty of laws already on the statute books that are used week in week out month in month out to prosecute people for offenses on on twitter and on social media so it's not as if the government lacks tools at this stage to punish people there is incredible worry a loosely that any law that tried supposedly to deal with this problem ended up punishing lots and lots of people for simply expressing views that are contrary to the establishment views and where to reason may said in her statement on the issue that there's a clear line between personal abuse and political scrutiny i'm not sure in practice

that that would work out that way. syrian government forces have successfully crossed the euphrates river you dare a sore effectively securing their advance against the islamic state in that area take a look at our map here and you can see the territory controlled by arsenal is reducing the the area grey there from the north also i still being repelled by kurdish rebel fighters there our correspondent is in syria he brings us now more on the operation . heavy units such as tanks and. across the east. spend days clearing the way i see resistance in the area as well as destroying isis . cross was. various sources i see this a detachment that is deployed and trained to fight against isis exclusively his

apparently tough. villages on the eastern side of the euphrates river isis have carried the counterattacks and resisted fiercely sending suicide bombers as well as vehicles packed with explosives in an effort to destroy the advancing syrian forces isis has also according to reports suffered significant casualties a number of. captured but. the pressure. to . back it crossed the euphrates river. that the russians have said they've set up a bridge and temporary military bridge across the euphrates river. the syrian military could move the coming days will be. because the syrian military is now. u.s. forces so it will be important to watch for any sort of escalation to avoid any

unnecessary incidents. drew it is redoubling its efforts to prevent catalonia from holding an independence referendum next month spanish prosecutors have started to question the first of more than seven hundred mayors in the autonomous region over their support for the vote and while the civil guard as raided several warehouses and sees promotional material for the referendum the national government very adamantly opposed the push for independence despite significant local support security officers have been ordered to seize ballot boxes however not all police departments are responding in the same way. and there are three security departments active in catalonia both the state civil guard and barcelona's urban garden taking part in preemptive searches but the regional department of catalonia has largely abstained from them speaking about the order to

seize ballot boxes and to approach voters one of its officers said that the raids could lead to unnecessary violence you can't enter a place and just start hitting people who aren't acting violently if one of our officers faces resistance at the polling station he will take photos and attach them to the case now the prosecutors nor anyone else will be able to cuse him of not following the order the spanish government has between the referendum illegal and unconstitutional and catalonia held its first symbolic referendum in two thousand and fourteen again your thirty's in the two weren't happy they lambasted the voters being unconstitutional they even threatened to kick barcelona football club out of the national league but that didn't deter catalonians leaders or dent their popularity then after a pro independence party secured a majority in catalan his parliament it insisted that the region quote would secede anyway turn in march madrid up the pressure and even bar council on officials from holding public office for organizing that referendum. so why does spain fear

the vote well if catalan goes its own way spain would lose almost seven percent of its territory the richest part of that as well it would also lose more than seven million terms of population in other words a fifth of tax innings twenty percent of exports would also go as would a quarter of all spain's tourists in dition incidently catalonia has a third of all of spain's a limping medalist over the past few years supporters of separatism have been pushing their message through colorful headline grabbing rallies.

i don't think shafi from the radical independence campaign joins me live on the line now good evening jonathan police have been ordered to intervene on october first when the referendum takes place are you anticipating violence in catalonia. well i mean i think the place to start is just with a looking at some of the place of may shows the spanish he is meeting you know here i mean intervening on anyone who seems to be count painting through taking we posters the detail means that there would be a ballot and they are looking at arresting about seven hundred fifty meters democrats it relate to me most of course this is now becoming a problem not just for people in cuts when you was becoming a question for democrats and really across you because surely this type of behavior from a state intervening to subvert

a democratic process can't be stood for and yet i mean i think when it comes to the question of violence i mean it seems to me that these seem to be trying to provoke people and to that kind of behavior and i think the counseling people are very strong they have a very clear mandate and see what happens and it took a force to be only you have not recognizing the results of a referendum that would be one thing actually now intervening clamping down taking tough matches that's another how do you explain this what seems to be a very tough stance coming from that. i mean severe. good question and of course there's a history to this i mean there's been about eight hundred six occasions and which the spanish to has tights and to be retired to undermine or to stall in some way and a referendum taking place in council and independents and paid does seem to me that what we're seeing now is the sort of the last cards being played by the spanish state because it's really not much more they can do and equally there's not much we

bought for that for spain when it comes to these kinds of activities i mean if you look at support for independents and cuts it's only increasing as a result of these kane's of measures so it does seem to me that this is somewhere towards the end of the life and for the spanish government and as i say the first is not going to be dec united we know that it does become a question for the european union becomes a question for european countries and to becomes a question for democrats and to nationally and because we can't stand by while this kind of behavior takes place stopping and p.d.n. democratic process he said that madrid is not going to accept the result as being legal do you still fail others there's a good reason for people to turn up in vogue. absolutely i mean apart from anything else given of the range of repressive measures that have taken place tony up to vote now as an act of resistance to and those kinds of fame measures that been by

the by the spanish state so i think that's important but i also think it's important that we do the hague nice that the has to be some kind of crusades you know which takes place which allows democracy to flourish in council when you mean what's being asked here is they simply to let the people of council wanted to say and to detail in the future of their country or should it be a should it stay part of spain of course seems to me that because spain know that there's going to be an overwhelming majority in favor of catalan independence they want to stop it before. the process even stops. is this going to be as complete a standoff or is it possible at any stage along the way to have a compromise between catalonia in madrid. it's increasingly difficult to see that type of a situation a marriage i mean when you are stopping as they are doing to the ordinary commuters traveling to boston intercepts their cars to see if they have any. of the

definition to be when you get to that stage it's very very difficult to come from very very difficult to think any kind of compromise and of course all cuts only is asking for is great to make the decision for themselves and that's what's being stopped but as i see it as of mention p.v. asli it really does reduce very important questions for the european union i mean what is the european commission was the european union one member states going to see if it were meant to be part of a democratic union which is a source of values and the spanish if anything. can a frank. and that's a strong what to see actually that's how extreme the situation is jonathan appreciate you coming on giving us your analysis jonathan scharf is my guest from the radical independence campaign. us society pays to be getting more politicized with nothing and no one off limits seems the latest victim being

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are also involved in exercises from western media has led to the drills are not being performed in a transparent manner international observers invited by the russian side gave their assessment. the soyuz actually was given during debriefing we sold the scenario that was originally prepared also the figures we were presented before we sold to be didn't look like yeah i'd take on terrorists groups more defensive and hard to take action i'm all for good combination of all kind of course. you are right up to date tell me about the latest news headlines see top of the.

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live live . greetings salutation it's too often in our world today hawk watchers far too many journalists choose to go along to get along when they are confronted by a story that if reported honestly could and most definitely would bring down the

wrath of the powers that be upon their career credibility and character thankfully and lucky for us there are still many reporters out there who are not afraid to report the truth despite what the corporate news media's daily doses of paper thin reporting and celebrity gossip gossip would have us believe with tensions once again rising to cold war level levels between the great nuclear powers of the world we need honest journalism to break through the wall of silence now more than ever i recently sat down with john pilger a journalist and documentarian who has spent a lifetime breaking through the wall of silence to port the truth as he saw it from his days as a war correspondent vietnam to covering the real intentions behind the united states asian pivot policy in his new documentary becoming war on china john pilger as one man who has spent his career watching the hawks.

that i got. to watch in the tyrol but to recently i had the pleasure to sit down with john pilger in new york. city to discuss the united states's recent pivot to asia and the state of journalism today and his latest documentary the coming war on china here's a quick preview of his film followed by our interview. the world as being a crime to regard china as a new enemy. the great power game is called put petrol war. first president george washington said if you want peace

prepare for war. where are we going to stop this process before it starts a war. that's film is to break and silence a nuclear war is no longer unthinkable. the equivalent to what. was exploded in the xylem every day for twelve years. they're not trying to run the world they want to keep america from dominating we need an enemy for all this money and china is the perfect enemy. pity a country that would come up against us and we get better and better and better. john thank you for sitting down i want to start and ask you you know even in your in your long career as a journalist and documentary filmmaker what was the point you know early on where

you realize the the world wasn't as we were sold at the you know governments didn't act the way we dream them to act the military didn't have the best intentions for their countries or the people of their countries what was there a specific moment or sequence of and it's the kind of open your eyes to that i don't think there was a particular but there's no doubt that when i. left australia as a young man and went to england and then they can i korea as a foreign cars. going to countries where people have to struggle just to live was a shock to me i never imagined the world was like that. i suppose is the second point of suppose a piton if you like was spending. the late sixty's and

seventy's and many years off that in this country in the united states i reported. four or five presidential campaigns. but i didn't place myself in new york didn't buy some soul from washington travels the country and i knew i think i had a glimpse of another america. and i would say that my political education was completed in the united states because it. was. the what whatever happened had an enormous ripple effect across the world usually on people who had power in their own lives to influence the fake and that was probably the greatest influence and i've been coming back to the states that since and the few hasn't

triage that bad ripple effect you speak of for lack of a better term or the correct term he calls that kind of had an american empire the you know kind of dominating the globe is plays a huge role in this new documentary that you did the coming war with china i want to ask you what was the inspiration to tackle that subject what was the thing that said ok i need to get this documentary to debate this i need to put this together because people need to know about this it's really inspirational i suppose. this was. was my own experience and the part of the well i covered the vietnam war and the wars in indochina on and off for a nano ten years until the very last day and so asia and america's invasions of asia. had had a great impact on me as

a reporter. and some of my i suppose. part of my interest part of my heart was always been in that part of the world and when in two thousand and eleven president. travel to australia to announce is a cold pivot to asia although he didn't actually call it that which was really what he was say was way going to move most of america's naval and air forces to the pacific to confront the second biggest economic power in the world. to sort it out dominance of china already is surrounded by four hundred u.s. bases that extend all the way up from australia through the pacific. through asia. japan korea and across asia but now america was really

the boys going to say to try and. west still the big guy on the block be careful it was probably the most provocative most aggressive and yet the most under-reported strategic decision made in the modern era in this country i say the other one of course is a similar position which wasn't my. but. certainly is an invasion and it was an invasion of ukraine when the us overthrew the elected government and your credit in the whole point of that was to confront russia so the strategy was the encircled months. to what they saw as the two great rivals russia and china. and. this i think but really

where is. the whole. essence of the us russia so cold conflict was part of the cold war and so was the chinese but china has grown spectacularly in less than a generation america's biggest trading partner it is it is now the biggest power in the country they own the planet so this was an extraordinary story. and very dangerous move. i have to say something that the present president has yet to equal. and i think it's very astute when you point out that it was very underreported for what it was you know and anybody who kind of follows real u.s. history could kind of see that movement and what they were doing but that's one of

the big problems i see is that we don't have. a very good education of what the reality of u.s. history is in this country for its own people and i was curious to ask you you know you see that with how you know the main populous kind of views china or the you know the words you used about china or russia is that a uniquely us problem do other countries kind of shield the their their real motivations throughout history as much as the u.s. does is this just the u.s. of cool yes they do of course but. the u.s. is the multi imperial power and as we were discussing at the beginning what happens here matters but the most striking thing always since i first came to the united states is that the u.s. intelligence. almost never takes responsibility for the consequences of its actions across the world there's

a kind of intellectual it's the bereft of of an intellectual let alone a moral on the sky and they can it's quite a craven situation you see it in in the the great old goodness of the intelligence is the new york times and the washington post you see it coming out of the great academies in the united states we're about to have. a massive so-called retrospective on p.b.s. public broadcasting about the vietnam war done by the acclaimed. so. sort of the the wood of this is that the scrapes. quoted in the new york smalling. the the. describes. the war in vietnam as being begun by decent people with in good faith there was no

good faith there was no that's that's not an opinion there was no good it was a deliberate attack on that country now and i mention that because that's terribly important. vietnam because. viet the maze defeated the united states but it's never been forgiven that has to be constantly put that's not. and the collaborator in this suppression. of all the obvious to all the major truth a truth that unless it's on the steward allows for more wars more bombings to go on and all. we're about to have that again. one of the interesting things i noticed and speaking of vietnam them china in the similarities that we're seeing is you know from what i understand is that i reached out to the u.s. for help before you know the revolution to get out and as you made the point in

your documentary that the leader of china was also reaching out to the u.s. to deaf ears again today so much the british the vietnam. sent messages to to roosevelt. the declaration of independence one hundred to clay of north vietnam was that had become independent and was was based almost word for word on the u.s. declaration of independence and he was it was he was helped by committees patsy who was an american special forces officer who believed that what the united states was doing in vietnam was actually wrong you know the same thing happened as i pointed out my film out said to him. he tried to get in touch with three presidents he tried to get in touch with roosevelt

and truman and then eisenhower and when you read what he actually wrote to them it's extraordinary it's a. is. the china and the united states had so much in common we can't develop without the assistance of the other great power across the pacific it was the kind of geo political overture but ordinary people men face and it was rejected those who carried these massive messages for themselves these american foreign service offices were themselves pilloried before the hearings and so we get to the point in the late fifty's there was no one in the pentagon. in the pentacle and so it may but no one in the department of state who could speak mandarin who could speak who could speak the language of the greatest power in

the world the most populous nation in the world. as we go to break cork watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter and see our poll shows at parties dot com coming up john pilger and i continue our discussion on his new documentary becoming war on china and we also talk about the state of journalism today as we continue watching the whole.

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just because something doesn't mean it's. do you see this becoming a cold war as in times it was with the soviets or is this going to turn. i'm not a futurist make those predictions in the spot one only has to go to the people who study. the plan all headed by general. tried some years ago who spoke of a window of decision making and when people. with the responsibility for strategic nuclear weapons have to make a decision and that window has closed it's something between eight and ten minutes so

a miscalculation mistake and accident. the way the the the the progeny of of of of the kind of provocation that we're seeing at the moment they're also they're also. continue in that analogy is that the old spring of propaganda. propaganda or uncensored ship is the real problem here you know we have now putting aside fox news but we have now the major so cove respectable organs of the media in this country who've given up real journalism i've been a reporter for quite a while. my work has been acknowledged i've never known a time when basic osprey porting has been so abandoned when the new york times the other day could run. a lone so-called investigation

by someone called scott. who was a apparently a reporter the about about these russian trolls that subverting the great american bureaucracy to democracy one of these trolls is a sixty six year old. post in the midwest though someone who believes that hillary clinton was a war monger while she was aboard mungo but that apparently qualifies this person as some sort of russian troll the absurdity. it's it's worthy of joseph heller of catch twenty two of any kind of satire but unfortunately. we're not speaking about satire we're speaking about a campaign of wall mongering aimed at what is a day and that it's aimed brilliantly at eventually breaking up the russian

federation. the enemy is independence all states that are independent they do not follow an american diktats ron used to be. libya used to be iraq syria is how long. russia and china big crime is their independence and to see the media as such and all be a sixpence. emanating out of washington. and yet and yet some fool of it's own sense of importance as a bastion of free speech. i think i've never known that kind of censorship in the united states even at the height of the great war as in the

china mentioned earlier that kind of eight to ten minute. you know window and the fear of nuclear war and you wrote recently an article that referenced the classic novel and film on the beach in which the star gregory peck is wonderful film i like the very much it tells the story of kind of the world in a in a post nuclear exchange and you know i have to ask you as a how how close are we to that beach right now you know from being on that beach. i think look we are close there's no question about whether that that final gap will close is i don't know as i say i think the the point made in by never shooter in this book and of course in the film was that that it. there was it simply wasn't there there was there was one where they were all sitting around near the end saying half of this still involved russia or china or

in the united states and i think held by an a or something and no one knew no one was sure war hell would actually stop what triggered it well that's if nuclear war stalled i think the same will be true i don't believe. although there are some truly. being and possibly inciting people. in charge of strategic weapons i don't believe that any of them wants to blow themselves up yeah. i mean north korea no doubt is following a very clear strategy that it's only by having nuclear weapons but we will not be attacked it's the mad and it's the mad theory of war that has

become the madman the survey of the whole yes but there's a lot of to that are we poking him to kind of poking north korean can join room to justify that encircled moment of china you know to give it that kind of a we have to worry about north korea and that the meantime so nobody knows that we're kind of moving this military machine to china's doorstep to potentially choke tried off of resources to put them in their place so to speak you know are they you think they're using north korea as that excuse to kind of put these pieces in place . they could well be that's what you just described as rational. and is a real a real possibility there's no doubt about it and there is it is a strange combination in my experience of a logik a rational but then the rationale ceases and there is a kind of ideological. logical impetus. to move

it forward and you get this. certain public official rules like obama's secretary of defense ash ashcroft was probably the most aggressive of his kind really now have. when. you go to the three you go through the matters and all of the three generals but it it's. there's no doubt that north korea is used to assert america's dominance that the world needs america to protect it from madmen. like they are of. but that's the message to all this japan needs the united states asia needs it of course if you go actually go to asia so it may to china and to japan and that's the last thing they

need the whole island of okinawa which has twenty eight u.s. military bases on. where they are almost as i showed in my film almost by the order it was given to nuclear missiles at china and the pressure. they want none of this the people in the region want none of this and what has been demonstrated ninety ninety two ninety ninety four there were agreements between the south and the north and denuclearizing korea there was what was called a framework agreement but even george w. bush. agreed to lay off north korea if the if the north koreans would stop their development of nuclear development and they agreed. that clinton actually a clinton to begin with if they went into the george w.

bush period and was torn up. so we've had plenty of examples of. the united states the region in the world coming to terms with a country whose history explains why it is like it is always want try to finish on a positive note because i think that's important in this world so i ask you you know do you do you see hope in all of this and one of the things that struck me in your documentary why. as the people standing up to the base in okinawa for the for the a resident example and so i think the there is still hope to kind of roll this back and to keep others from happening but it's a very good example and if you want to know the corrupt version of her that is become a campaign slogan. promoted. but i think there is real hope. in

a place like where since the second world war people. almost entire island is united in wanting to be a peace peace with its with its region. the same is true in korea when they cross the waters the island of jeju which. has been. demonstrating its its need for pays for many years. i think all around the world there is no question it's almost a given it's not who. it's it's who would want to invite or break a nuclear war particularly into the region those who stand up to it are really i think the heroes felt time it is making their voices heard so is that so many others of us hear the and join with them as has been done in the possed in this

city in new york in the nineteen eighties a million people filled the streets of manhattan in the freeze movement. and that was to freeze the stationing of nuclear weapons in europe we now have according to nato documents circulating in germany. the intermediate range nuclear treaty is about to be torn up that means they'll be able. two to base it. into media training nuclear weapons across europe. great man great interview great show with matt is. how is our show for you today remember everyone in the world love them up so i tell you all i love you i. keep on watching those hawks and i have a great night. well

you know the thing we've kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long . i mean they're in this small ball and sticks it hard pulling shapes and it's just . the little self the big fish already ninety percent of the dot and he won't encounter.

fifteen's. toms they do it several times a day with a big fleet so no you get an idea on why. we have to understand we can not stay still and just. be with him this is the deal for you. i'm doing this because i want them for the future world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. i. i. i don't. know that.

i. will trump begins his maiden speech at the u.n. general assembly with his america first mantra but sounding all that like he's pretty dismissive. paris is bursting security measures by inserting a bulletproof glass wall around the world's most popular monument town but some say that the measure serves only to increase fear. one hundred percent bad the government doesn't like fearing people is just a way to keep pressure on people feel like it would be a little better no it's classless. and security forces raid warehouses in catalonia

to seize materials for an independent rendering proclaimed illegal by madrid. good evening to you. watching all international. donald trump has to live with his first address to the u.n. general assembly he began by emphasizing that his priority was promoting the interests of his nation. as president of the united states i will own was put america first yes as you just heard donald trump opened his remarks at the u.n. general assembly by invoking the phrase america first and using some of the nationalist and isolationist rhetoric that is largely a credited for getting elected he invoked the need to put the needs of the usa above the needs of the world his focus on america's sovereignty and american jobs

and america's economy however from there he shifted and began talking about a number of different countries around the world let's take a listen to what came next the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or it's our lives we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea it is time for the entire world to join us in demanding a veterans government and its pursuit of debt. and destruction in fact our country has achieved more against isis in the last eight months than it has in many many years combined yes donald trump after invoking america first went on a tirade against a number of different countries he criticized venezuela he talked about the option of totally destroying north korea he talked against iran he talked against cuba he criticized the government of syria and accused them of using chemical weapons

a number of statements were made and many people noticed that when he talked about the role of the united states in confronting countries he didn't approve of his rhetoric was not that different from that of his predecessor let's listen to donald trump talking about the role of the united states on the global stage we will fight together sacrifice together and stand together for peace the united states cannot solve the world's problems alone we must work together to make sure the benefits of such integration are broadly shared so quite a bit of contradiction in donald trump speech he talks about patriotism nationalism the sovereignty tells people to be loyal to their country however that doesn't seem to apply to countries that he doesn't approve of be loyal to your country reject globalism unless it's a country that he doesn't like. oh of the criticism of the iranian nuclear deal was not supported by everybody here's what french president among your own had

to say. you can do to define nuclear of it i would like to defend the nuclear agreement with iran our engagement on nonproliferation allowed us to work out on the fourteenth of july two thousand and fifteen a solid robust and verifiable agreement that enables us to ensure that iran does not obtain nuclear weapons renouncing it would be a great era for you let's be more demanding but we must not cast aside what we managed to secure with previous treaties thanks to dialogue we have managed to resolve the iranian situation that this could apply to north korea to immediately dialogue control and multilateralism these are the efficient weapons this is the only way forward trump mentioned the problem with rogue states in the world and in my view the united states is the biggest rogue state on earth i don't know what work using iran of to be honest it's lost upon me they do. gauge on their borders they do have regional interests that they protect. but i

don't see them as a threat to anyone they are abiding by the nuclear deal everyone agrees with that we begrudge north korea for having a field nuclear weapons when we have more nuclear weapons in any country on earth and of course are engaged in a one trillion dollar modernization of those weapons so you know not only are we accusing them of things that we do we are accusing them of doing things that we do one hundred times over. the british capital is boosting security with the bulletproof glass wall to be erected around the eiffel tower on explicitly reports from paris. so as the world's most famous landmark the eiffel tower was a symbol of paris and also a symbol of freedom and koch lists but staunching this week these metal barriers will be replaced with a bulletproof glass. to the tune of more than twenty million euros this new

gloss will wise some three nieces in mittens as the government's latest attempt to try and address the on going to have a place that is fawns giving into the streets of tara or is the french government amid an ongoing state of emergency igniting more fear among parisians that the government is trying is responding to try to make it seem more safe. but i also feel like the government at the same time is using these as measures to impede our privacy and our personal security in order to make it seem like it's more secure it's one hundred percent that the government doesn't like fear people and doing security measures that are over overbearing even if you just you see the soldier on the fences and you're going to be on the other wall is going to just make you scary to just come in i think that's just a way to keep pressure on people it's very sad that they're going to be putting

a fence around it very last long that is detrimental to the beauty of the type of town where i don't think it would it would help the security if something's going to happen it's going to happen on this side of the glass wall as well as if it was on the other side so i feel like we're getting a little bit paranoid about all this there are things that are going on i feel like a free put it starts with a wall here but it ends like people are afraid to leave their houses and their homes and and that's not something we should root for so i feel like it would be a little paranoid to the glass while their faces move comes off just. of terror attacks have instead over the past two years have missed more than three hundred people to the terror threats in the city let me try and this last one now complement i know we were meant for the school's. policy our.

european cities in general have been boosting their counterterrorism measures spur lynam alon are among those that have installed special concrete barriers in the streets nice introduced berries after the blast field day long time there britain also introduced measures following attacks in the heart of london let's discuss this issue in more detail now with a look reveals editor in chief of the purple a magazine joins us on the line very good evening luke speaking in particular this countermeasure do you think it will be effective does it have a real chance of preventing future attack. well yes and no you must know that of course under the eiffel tower there is always a crowd there night so it's very important to protect economic places like eiffel tower or pick out of a circus in the north or a red square in moscow of course governments have to start there with these a comic places where there are crowds but then of course terrorist can attack anywhere any metro station any event any concert we've seen in london and of places

the problem i think is that these governments of ours need to improve the steps before the tempting the terrorists before they hit the population and there is no it's dangerous though thirty present everywhere we've seen it in london recently we've seen in paris the problem is of course on the one hand the fact that we have many terrorists imbedded in muslim communities in europe on the one hand and the think that the police force the security forces don't have the arabic speaking specialists the people knowing islamism well to to look into these issues before it starts so i understand they protected conic places like the eiffel tower and that they put their mobile forces somewhere else we've seen numerous cities around europe recently introduced heightened security measures for

example concrete barriers have become now. more than the vehicles have been used as battering rams do you think that these measures approving effective. i think they are look at. the terrorist where this truck killed tens of people i mean it would not have happened if the barriers in blocks blocks worth their salt the blocks are needed in many places to protect people where there are large crowds from attacking terrorists in a truck like in berlin like in other places so it is unfortunately needed it is a sign of our times we are at war in europe with islamic terrorism and we need to protect ourselves sorry it doesn't look good it doesn't look nice but it's needed. do you do you understand those people who are very mentally against. bullet proof glass by the awful teller they think it's an eyesore they think it actually

intimidates people like you said you're only going to we can say you're moving the focus on to the awful tower but actually there's lots of other places the exposed. i understand the ice or idea i feel or two of course but. in this place look at the economic place that the eiffel tower is it is absolutely needed to protect the crowd which is there all the time it's a crowd control issue there so by putting this bulletproof glass at least they. give the view on the on the grass behind you know it remains as it is as a view partly at least and they protect the space under the eiffel tower from attacking trucks so it's a step in the good direction and it's not part and lawyer the danger is there all the time look at london not do you think there is any better alternative out there

. security will turn to seem to be just putting lots of policemen on the ground with machine guns can you think of anything else. i think prevention again it is very important to have the the experts understand the language spoken by a terrorist that know these people that these people be followed tracked traced it's a huge cost to our societies but we need to have the skills because otherwise there will be more of the practical attacks or like in brussels airport or the metro station very close the few meters you know it happened here to pick up so it's find it difficult to protect our cities but we need to do our utmost governments know what the problem is of course before the attack we need to improve prevention and we must certainly stop migrants from coming in without any check thanks for joining

us this evening is my guest editor in chief of le purple a magazine. now internet trolls should be banned from voting in elections this is according to a new proposal made by the ukase electoral watchdog and after revelations that the vast majority of british m.p.'s faced online abuse in the twenty seventeen general election campaign. we know that the internet and in particular the twitter sphere can be a pretty nasty place if you're a public figure you've got to have a thick skin to be on there and more so if you are a politician so this suggestion to stop online trolls from voting in general elections it's come from the electoral commission because we know that some eighty seven percent of politicians experienced pretty horrifying abuse in the last general election campaign one politician that's been particularly affected by it is the veteran labor m.p. diane abbott had just threats of people to single out should you choose to go not

just because you can see we want you. to do this yet she's right to let. me put it in the you know not to put a stamp on it and that you go to the post box press button and she's read was abuse because people who can switch and to write down and it doesn't really matter what side of the political spectrum you're on there are both labor and conservative m.p.'s who have been subjected to pretty nasty abuse so examples of the types of abuse that politicians had during the last election campaign was one conservative candidate being racially abused at a polling station another conservative m.p. cheryl mari her election posters were actually covered with swastikas and a labor m.p. a former labor m.p. he was actually physically assaulted at the polling station when he was delivering leaflets and because twitter is such

a major conduit for the majority of the abuse that these politicians get this suggestion for the from the electoral commission has been being seen as a potential deterrent so maybe get people to stop and think before they type their poisonous messages on their keyboard but on fiercely it comes with a big can of the at so it might work as a deterrent in theory but how would it work in practice it's a bit of a gray area about how you implement this law what is the red line just how nasty to someone have to be online in order to be banned from voting in the general election . twitter users were quick to react to the potential ban pointing out the country's heading in a dangerous direction activist and social justice campaigner george barda believes that the u.k. already has enough laws to punish internet abuse there are plenty of laws already on the statute books that are used you know we can we can't month in month out to prosecute people for offenses on on twitter and on social media so it's not as if

the government lacks tools at this stage to punish people there is incredible worry over slee that any law that tried supposedly to deal with this problem ended up punishing you know lots and lots of people for simply expressing views that are contrary to the establishment views and where to reason may said in her statement on the issue that there's a clear line between personal abuse and political scrutiny i'm not sure in practice that that would work out that way. the dritte is redoubling its efforts to prevent catalonia from holding an independence referendum next month spanish prosecutors have started to question the first of more than seven hundred mayors in the autonomous region over their support for the vote of the civil guard has raided several warehouses and sees promotional material for the referendum the national government very adamantly oppose the push for independence despite significant local support security officers have been ordered to seize ballot boxes however not

all police departments are responding in the same way. by that i mean there are actually three security departments active in catalonia both the state civil guard and barcelona serban guard they're taking part in the preemptive searches but the regional department of catalonia is largely abstained from the speaking about the order to seize ballot boxes and to approach voter is one of its officers said that the raids could lead to unnecessary violence. you can't enter a place and just start hitting people who aren't acting violently if one of our officers faces resistance at a polling station he will take photos and attach them to the case neither prosecutors nor anyone else will be able to cues him of not following the order the spanish government has proclaimed the referendum illegal and unconstitutional when catalonia held its first symbolic referendum that was in twenty fourteen again your thirty's in madrid weren't happy they lambasted the vote as being unconstitutional

they even tried to kick bassler football club out of the country's national football league it didn't deter catalan these leaders though or dent their popularity then after a pro independence party school the majority in catalonia parliament insisted the region would secede anyway in turn in march madrid up the pressure and even barred catalan officials from holding public office for organizing such a referendum. so why the spain fear the vote well there's plenty to loose a catalonia goes its own way spain would lose seven million of its population in other words twenty percent of tax innings a fifth of exports they would also go as indeed would a quarter of all spain's tourists in addition incidentally catalonia has a third of all spain the olympic medalists jonathan shafi from the radical independence campaign told us he sees desperation in madrid's actions against catalonia. it does seem to me that what we're seeing is the use of the

last cards being pleat by the spanish state because there's really not much more they can do and equally there's not much we bought for spain when it comes to these kinds of it to the tax i mean if you look at support for independence in cuts when you only increasing as a result of these measures so it does seem to me that this is somewhere towards the end of the line and for the spanish government. to see first it's not going to be dec united we know that it does become a question for european union becomes a question for european countries and becomes a question for democrats internationally because we can't stand by while this kind of behavior teach police stopping impeding democratic process. of british photographer has won a copyright case against an animal rights group that's over a selfie snapped by a monkey during a photo shoot of this is the image that sparked a lawsuit talk for david slater now agreed to donate twenty five percent of future

revenues from the image to a charity in support of the indonesian mark kark a pair to suit him back in twenty fifteen arguing that the monkey owned the copyright he spoke to me they can't cheat a pet a director of international programs she believes that animals should have the same rights as people. no ruutu absolutely deliberately and intentionally was pushing the shutter button and examining his reflection in the lens and then responding accordingly so if it were. a baby for example our toddler that had taken the photograph it wouldn't matter the toddler was still own the copyright under copyright law so there's no reason why not shouldn't either these are individuals that are in every way that matters the same as us they are capable of feeling joy and love they have families they get scared they feel pain and fear and all of

those things images of mechanics and pans lisette hughson all nice like children that is easy to fail so much haas and walls full of them said would you go to the same lens if it was a selfie of a crocodile oh and animal that's not so cute absolutely you know we are an animal rights organization and just as we we don't distinguish between people based on their their sex their color their religion we don't discriminate against animals based on what they look like either you know crocodiles might not be as cute and cuddly as as the dogs perhaps that we some of us live with and consider part of the family but again in all the ways that matters these animals are the same there's no difference to if you stand on a cat's tail or if you if you put a chisel into a crocodile's neck all of these are animals with the same same fundamental feelings . lachelle law and again specify loading the settlement with money mocking the organization. i mean you're spending how much you're taking

a photographer to court with donations given to you to save animals i watch this day and say what are pet as the monkey if you wanted to tell her for it to be see you so a photographer trained a monkey to take selfies and it was. on behalf of the monkey claiming the monkey owned rights to the pigs taken the photographer to court over a monkey selfie is just stupid beyond words does the monkey give head to need a hobby. while in protest of a look at the georgia institute of technology in the united states after a student was killed by campus police. this is how the incident unfolded the georgia bureau of investigation said that the call was made to police around eleven twenty pm caller said the person was carrying a knife and possibly a gun shortly after campus police arrived to find

a twenty one year old armed with a knife and matching before this description of all phone video appears to show police yelling at scout shields the put down the knife he was carrying shields was wounded after a single shot and died in hospital. vigil was held by georgia tech students to celebrate chills his life the twenty one year old was the leader of the community. very. angry that the cops don't have non-lethal ways to deal with things like they could have taser guns you know the killing was totally unjustified. and i do think just

a fling needs to expire discussions about the police brutality how police officers are trained to deal with. these types of things that there are a lot of discussions to come out this is what it's about mental health whether it's about r.g.p. t.q. a representation or it's about police brutality that's for the turbulent few months in the united states with process spiraling out of control amid ever deepening divisions in the country. thank. you very. much was thank you. was well i think it signals to the government of the united states that there's a lot of people in our country whether right or wrong that are upset about some

things and i think this extends more out of what's considered an injustice and i think the issue here is that a lot of americans are conflating the reasons they may be suffering some sort of social economic pain and they're certainly putting that on police in these riots that we see culturally we're very divided and as we're divided that means we're no longer able to empathize with the other side of our arguments and what we're seeing is all of that exist in a plate in each use different groups. in august trump expressed mixed views on charlottesville saying that both sides are to blame that up to criticism that the u.s. president wasn't able to call out neo nazis sees now signed a resolution condemning want supremacists and other hate groups but has no definition of what exactly a hate group is activist group the southern poverty law center as its own hate group of nine hundred operating in the united states on the list along with want

supremacist neo nazis in the k.k.k. there are christian organizations included for that and he gave us you talked to founder and chairman of liberty council staver who believes that lists of hate groups will only lead to more violence. we know for a fact it's not hypothetical that this list as caused attempted mass murder. attempted mass murders have been stopped and the one person is serving time in prison the other person was shot dead but their attempt at mass murder was linked to the southern poverty law center i think it does add more fuel to the fight regarding the issues of violence when you put in the is different organizations as hate groups that are not hate groups it doesn't solve the problem it creates a problem that doesn't even exist we need to focus on the real violent organizations i think we can all agree we don't want violent organizations or

groups to engage in or encourage violence against other people. ok you all bang up today with the latest news headlines at the top of. this with me and many of. those. who was. on you but i. know both of you want to but i guess we're kind of it was time to see if. she refused.

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generation do you remember on television a while ago advertisement for a famous credit card company with karl malden and he'd say you're about to witness a crime you know and then they see this all pickpocket thing unfold. well today you are about to witness a crime once again oh yeah stacey yes you know this is quite important because in the second half you interview jim rickards and it's an amazing interview and he you guys talk about china and china basically destroying the petro dollar so at this sort of moment in time i think it's quite important that the u.s. starts to take care of itself and figure out how to stop destroying itself how to stop committing economic monetary and financial suicide and yet the rampage that private equity the entire economy from the corporate sector to the private sector

to the public sector is all hollowing out everything and it goes down to as you talked about being a little child a little child now while destroying all the hopes and dreams and fun of little richard just in the in the second half rickard solution alone people he tells a story about the cia gift shop the less about eight minutes you can get through that entire no i find it very interesting because he got me an amazing gift from there are not allowed to tell you what it is whole story i was in some place in langley by kids who was there a lot of people were there what we did what we talked about but trust me it was interesting it has a helicopter and like well that's the worst story i've ever heard i liked it because he got me a gift there i'm not allowed to say what it is play here you know this is like ok the story is this has no promise no details and no punchline oh that must be the cia wow that's hilarious so here speaking of gift shop brick and mortar milltown toys r us hires bankruptcy law firm as the headline says toys r us is about to see bankruptcy now as in so many cases the brick and mortar retail meltdown there is

a private equity angle to it firms kohlberg kravis roberts k k r ver nado realty trust and bain capital partners acquired the publicly traded shares of toys r us and a leveraged buyout during the. l.b.o. in two thousand and five in a deal valued at six point six billion dollars they funded the acquisition in large part by loading up the company with debt hence leveraged buyout and then i'll go over the details in a second but they stripped the cash from the company they loaded it up with so much debt they've done a runner they've bought lots of real estate probably all the stuff behind us in new york city and they're happy but the little children of america have no choice to buy. right the levers buy out of course really came of age or the one nine hundred eighty s. with michael milken

a truck sober alum there and the spread she was available on everyone's desktop the new computer revolution and you could go down to mike milken's desk and he'd say i want to take over let's say r.c.a. was bought by general electric or with general electric mark r.c.a. and or you know michael milken he had. all the corporators ron perlman you know carl icahn and they they borrow money against the assets of the company that they're going to acquire that's the collateral for a loan they say this company is worth ten billion i want to give me ten billion going to buy the company and i'm going to take that ten billion and i will start selling stuff off to pay back the loan right that's a leveraged buyout so they've been active ever since the what what the deal is that basically the private equity firm in the case of toys r us they acquire the company with a loan and then they pay themselves

a multi-billion dollar dividend. essentially extract. cash and a bird in the come i'm going to go over the debt i'm going to go over the details but i just realize all you are saying that. they also did this to the federal reserve bank basically there's been a leveraged buyout of america via the federal reserve they've loaded it up with debt they stripped the assets and if you want to why the economy still sucks it's because you're in a shell called the former country called america which has been run itself remember philip green arcadia not shop in the u.k. you know his wife they did it through his wife's account in monaco yeah a billion pound debt extraction he paid himself a lot of government debt now they're in trouble to pension accounts of gone bankrupt because he. reed steel that cash and so here is what the three p. e. firms did to toys r us they stripped out cash and loaded the company up with debt

and these are the results at the end of its fiscal year two thousand and four the last full year before the buyout toys r us had two point two billion dollars in cash cash equivalents and short term investments by q one twenty seventeen this had collapsed just three hundred one million dollars over the same period long term debt has surged one hundred twenty six percent from two point three billion to five point two billion so somebody has to do a stop to this eventually like in the second half you talk which in rigorous about china and china has done this basically they were being stripped asset strips by all these oligarchs taking all this billions and billions trillions of dollars again a lot of it sunk into new york real estate but they've said boston they keep on shutting it down every angle they they try to get more money out. even through big court exchanges they're shutting those exchanges down the conversion of yuan into the big coin because they don't want to be siphoned out of the country like the human body the organs on the resale market are worth probably two thousand dollars

so if i go to the bank and i say lend me two thousand dollars and i'm going to go murder somebody in the street and sell their organs to pay back your loan the bank would say ok great here's two thousand dollars go murder people ok when you remove the organs and sell them that person dies and when you do these leveraged buyouts for the private equity firms you blow out the jobs you ruin the competitiveness of the economy you stick a dagger into the heart of the u.s. economy and you're laughing while you're doing it and you're being funded by money and zero percent interest right from the federal reserve unlimited quantities of money they say there's no inflation of course is don't fly because they want to keep interest rates near zero to give private equity firms like k.k. are that was around. during the one nine hundred eighty s. every kravis is a financial terrorist said many times i care i know i know you say that all the time but here i mean they can they pick if they are in court offend the actual time

they are repeat offenders so let's say bain capital who is involved in this destruction of toys r us also help mitt romney yes and he also destroyed bain capital also was behind the destruction of timber which was one thousand two hundred eighty one stores which filed for bankruptcy in june although it's now are on opiates yet or in the heart shooting up smack because of mitt romney's bain and company creating the thousands of dead drug addicts certainly there will be no shops. to which chinese manufacturers can ship all these toys for america's children this christmas but also these guys these three p. e. firms that own this turkey called toys r us did try to dump it on to the stupid chump of american investors the i.p.o. through the i.p.o. market also extracting enough cash from toys r us and loading up with debilitating pile of debt the three p. e. firms try to unload it to the unsuspecting public in an i.p.o.

in two thousand and ten they were hoping for an additional payday the icing on the cake so to speak but they had to scuttle their efforts due to challenging market conditions and yet by the way they're they're going bankrupt bain capital's other gymboree another child's toy store sort of retail outlet has gone bankrupt despite the fact that industry sales have been robust growing at five percent in two thousand and sixteen and a compound annual rate of five percent since two thousand and thirteen so they've managed to go bust on their this is these are the captains of industry these are the people that hang out with hillary and trump and elect our presidents and this is the model that they have for us and i think at this sort of point when the petro dollar is ending as you'll find out in a few minutes you know i think we need to start actually building wealth not having it stolen from us over and over and over and over and over and over again well the interest rates are going negative which is another way to steal wealth and these

guys when they get power and they get money they go to washington and they change the laws like all the crimes are being committed today on wall street or talked about like lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs will say we're not committing any crimes even though he's doing the same crimes that sent them to these bankers to jail in the one nine hundred eighty s. during the savings along crisis they got government to change the laws so that those crimes are not illegal anymore so he's right he's not breaking the law anymore because he changed the law to make what was illegal or legal but the fact. is that he's undermining the economy along with all the other private equity firms and washington bureaucrats in the federal reserve bank in the treasury department and their minions in the global banking system to extract wealth and the social cohesion risk as the economist magazine would put it is rising when people are on the streets rioting shooting at each other stabbing each other and that's the global insurrection against banker occupation right there buddy i don't think

that's going to happen because while last headlines are more violence there was in the sixty's a lot more you used to live here in new york city like panthers you were the only real left wing group in america because you live here in new york city what was the murder rate in the one nine hundred eighty three thousand the year over three thousand is three hundred now so it's not there it's not there because this final headline where have all the workers gone opioids the u.s. labor force participation princeton university economist alan krueger presented his latest paper where have all the workers gone an inquiry into the decline of the u.s. labor force participation rate at brookings institute in washington last week this is the result of these recent invest private equity extraction vulture funds destroying the u.s. economy labor force participation rate as you see through the sixty's and seventy's boom times for participation people were participating in the market that's a lot of women also going into the market and now it's turned over that with the

time to look correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation but there's a direct link he says alan krueger study shows between opioid addiction and unemployment and absence of participation in the market so he doesn't know which comes first but they definitely are linked and suggest as are solution that perhaps there should be more jobs and therefore opioid addiction will probably go down because they are linked together however if we have private equity extracting interests. weighing all these companies how are we going to ever have jobs if they just destroy everything so this is a new phillips curve so instead of trying to fill up her time employment to inflation your entire opiate addiction to tune to employment just to stay speaker while we just create a new curve is called the stacy curve are you just could be repeating that i don't usually ask herbs stacy was right or as they say has curves the stacy has yet to earth what is this the stacy curve so krueger's have i'm finding is that an

increase in opioid prescriptions from one thousand nine hundred to twenty fifteen possibly accounts for about twenty percent of the observed decline and men's labor force participation so that's a huge impact yeah well. bobby seale and the black panthers i mean that's civil rights increase jobs for women and blacks and then they put them in jail and they and they cut out women's rights and reproductive rights and it's all messed up well we got to go to a break but we're back don't go away. when almost seems wrong. why don't we just don't hold. me. yet to see. this day come out to. engage me equals betrayal.

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lugo lou. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time now to turn to economist author lawyer spoke jam records author of currency wars the road to ruin the new case for gold welcome back jim thanks max great to be with you this is true are you a spoke well depends on your definition but. you know work for a long time for the u.s. intelligence community the cia director national intelligence got one of my. outs

on today this is probably the viewer can't read it says the united states director of the director of national intelligence you know i once. i once recruited a friend i'm not going to mention the name but a very very prominent. hedge fund operator new york stock exchange specialist one of the saddest guys ever to set foot on wall street to come with me to langley headquarters to do where's a red team exercise we were working on involving a terrorist finance and really good guy he asked me if he could lend us helicopter then i said no i said even the president the united states does not get to fly zone copter langley have to go by car so we can go to a nearby airport and we got them and we're sitting in. a conference room and because most of the rooms have no windows for security reasons they're there but they call them vaults and i said i turned and i said you know we take

a break i'll take you down the gift shop you can get some souvenirs because there's no gift shop here this is cia headquarters says langley there's no gift shop i said yeah that's a good shop as i can i mean i can't mention the number of employees there i said this like you know in some ways like any other office you've got not everybody is the director essential tells us you've got like a starbucks in there you know there's people like to buy at ceasars you know this because there's no good he kept saying there was no guitar so there was well of course it was a gift shop we would then and this particular individual hits seven children and he left with seven shopping bags you know a t. shirts hats so a lot of memorabilia so i got a bunch of stuff like that but but you can't buy the anywhere else and very very rarely sold online so it is kind of cool souvenir yeah ok great anecdotal story you know i read this headline and i merely thought of how to get on.

the forecasts your forecast is coming through ok so here's the headline china has apparently created a yuan priced oil contract that mediately convertible into gold so what's the product one. launch tell us about the defense of this if anyone's read your books including currency wars on the road to ruin x. that are they they now this is right in your wheel house this is jim rickards land tell us about it personal max thank you for mention those books and currency wars touched on this and the road to ruin my most recent book touched on it but the one title he left out which actually goes right to this issue is called the death of money that was my two thousand and fourteen book but they're all they all cover the different facets of the international monetary system and. what we're i get into a lot of controversy i describe this i describe the steps i describe how it's unfolding and people you know seem to have very short attention spans and they seem to think these things happen overnight and you know see a say something in a day goes by and it doesn't happen so you know you're an idiot because it doesn't

happen said no listen to me this is going to unfold in stages it's coming get ready now what are you waiting for i actually got a tweet the other day you know very nice person said hey jim can you tell me how i can store my gold in a safe deposit box so i can convert to cash in three hours. i don't give individual investment as i deserve these things but i don't ask them directly but just from a general term i wouldn't put my gold in said deposit box because you know the time you want your gold the most is when the banks are going to be close so there's a conditional correlation there or put your goal in a place not to be able to get it when you want it but leaving that aside the mentality is you know hey jim call me the day before and i'll get ready and i keep saying no i'm not going to know the day before this is going to cascade out of control you need to get ready now but specifically to your point max what's happening is this announcement was a big deal announced and i agree with you explain it for the viewers but it's

really a matter of china cobbling together two or three different things so some years ago they launched the shanghai gold exchange and this is a wholesale physical cash for gold exchange you can sell them gold you can buy gold it's it's you know very by our standards actually fairly fairly fairly liberal i've been to china recently i met with the largest coal dealers in china i c b c some of the other banks over there you know to talk about this then they launched a gold futures contract. we will know to go futures contract is it's paper gold but you can buy or sell forward and then of course china is the biggest importer of oil in the world and they buy a lot of their oil from saudi rain. and from russia russia is the largest exporter of oil in the world and of course their currency is the warrant so so you have all these different pieces of gold futures physical gold you won russian export and so it's all they did in this in house are they combined all this is ok here's the deal

you sell us oil. and instead of paying you dollars and that goes back to the petro dollar deal of one nine hundred seventy four and we'll well talk about that the mental images finish this explanation but you sell us oil will pay you one but hey russia iran iran's another big oil exporter you guys say what are you going to with the you want so we'll tell you what you can compare your you won spot to gold on the shanghai gold exchange so it says if you sold us the oil from gold and obey the way if you don't like the exchange risk you can go to the go futures market and hedge that risk so now by combining all these different elements in effect we've got a you won and smart price for oil that's a big deal that's the end of the petrodollar deal i was actually my first official visit to the white house was in one nine hundred seventy four and i met with helen sonnenfeld who is henry kissinger's deputy and at that time what we did we were discussing what to do about the original oil crisis which goes back to ninety seven

if you remember nixon took the dollar off the gold standard one nine hundred seventy one that's very well known but the gold standard didn't and overnight it was kind of two or three years of stumbling and bumbling are we going to have gold be going to devalue the dollar go back to gold the new level you know france want to gold the u.s. says was a whole fuzzy period between one thousand seven hundred seventy three but the one nine hundred seventy three the arabs were fed up because inflation it kicked in they said hey we're not going to take we're not going to sell you or oil for dollars anymore because we're not confident the value of the dollar in the iris or by gold and we kissinger secretary of the treasury at the time when simon his chief deputy gerald parsky kissinger step in the helm and some of the others and again sonnenfeld was a guy i met with in the white house where what would we do about this one of the plans when i was discussing with kissinger's deputy was invading saudi arabia sousing security perimeter taking over the oil fields and basically not stealing

the money but just selling at a price we like for dollars and then holding. money in trust for the for the saudis you can get your money going on social security for the whole country. i think the smart that that was not the plan of the us pursued the plan they did pursue is a petrodollar do you know where we said to the arabs say look you guys sell us it will for dollars and we'll take the dollars and put it in the bank and in effect guarantee a stable dollar and then we'll take the dollars and lend it to people who can buy more oil from you so i went around the circle that was the original petro dollar deal with some ups and downs with a spike in gold one nine hundred eighty and some inflation in the united states from seventy seven in one nine hundred eighty eighty one the so there were problems all the way but that petro dollar deal howell's until last week and now we have the you won. the petro you want deal if you want to call it that oil is going to be priced in chinese yuan but the yuan is not particularly desirable currency in china saying no problem with back it up with go well that's reflection of the fact that

china spent the last ten years quadruple in the gold reserves you couldn't do that you couldn't stand up to the market and say bring in your you want we'll give you gold unless you have some gold and china's reserves have gone from about six hundred tons in two thousand and six to officially one thousand eight hundred tonnes but that's a bogus figure there's every reason to believe that china has closer to five thousand tonnes perhaps more that's a little bit of detective work i do some of it others have worked on this problem but we know chinese mining output of four and fifty tonnes a year we know chinese imports to honk on we know swiss exports to china we have enough data and we know they operate through military channels by the way my contacts in the gold dealing community china confirm that for me when i was there in shanghai not long ago i said commutes the army to move the gold around and he said we're not allowed to carry guns i said yeah you're right there's you know in the states if you if you try to rob

a brinks for armored car they have guns but in china no one is allowed to have guns except the military so that's why the military is involved in it we put it all together china probably has more than five thousand tonnes maybe a lot more and so they're now standing up to the market there are some in the role that the united states abandoned in one nine hundred seventy one the problem is we still don't have a fixed price china is still not there saying if you give us you won you can get gold yes they're saying that but it's not at a fixed rate the price of you want still floats the price of gold still flows to nominate dollars your as you want or any other currency so a simple sketchy there solution is wells sell the sell the go forward on the shanghai futures exchange if you want to lock in let's say a dollar price or a euro price or any other price so it's still not. completely rock solid gold standard but it's getting really close we're getting closer and closer to the point where the dollar is like the mexican peso it will be it will be a local currency if you come into new york you'll need some dollars for you know

taxi money but it won't be the the leading benchmark global reserve currency and there i would look for not the yuan so much but the i.m.f.'s you are the special drawing right so jim you know when countries try to sell oil on something other than the us dollar the cia or body stent assassinate him yet saddam hussein taken out by the cia had moammar gadhafi taken out by the cia because they try to sell oil energy in something other than the u.s. dollar so are they going to incur the wrath of the cia and by the way i just checked online to the cia gift shop and they do have copies of john perkins confessions of an economic set man for sale which i thought was kind of ironic but jim. is this going to abide in langley i thought that they were this is the cardinal sin of global finance never sell oil anything but dollars jim. well i have no comment on any of that max and you know nation is illegal under u.s.

law and i have no comment on what any particular agency is going to do but i would i would observe the following by the way i was a little annoyed that the cia get shot didn't have my book i was in the process of talking to them about that but they do a very nice bookstore there i was able to pick up a copy of george tenet's biography and actually had it autographed by a former cia director at tennis that's another. book i keep in my library my my autograph books collection so look let's see how it plays out you know politically i would say the cases you mentioned are interesting in the following sense i look at the not so much as it relates to golden dollars as it relates to the north korean nuclear program because people say you know what's wrong with kim jong un is he crazy he's developing nuclear weapons he's developing in a continental ballistic missiles he's mastered the uranium and plutonium enrichment

process he's meshal technology is getting close to the point where he can miniaturize the bomb put it on a warhead on a missile and take out not just seattle or los angeles but you can't go in new york . let's follow up on that in another sideman if you can hang on there we'll do another segment and get into the north korea thanks for being on the kaiser report you're welcome all right well that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max keiser and stacy i would like to thank our guests jim records famous author and all around nice guy if you want to reach us on twitter it's kaiser report until next time by all. the land of the yes no muscle in the. islamics. states claims it was behind the manchester terror attack by the militants front so kill the priest every time

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