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oh man it stars are oligarchies once the. bernie sanders does. i want to call your attention to this headline from last week and this is a headline that could only be ripped from a conspiracy theory site but in fact it's from the guardian and it's bernie sanders saying it bernie sanders warns of international all the darky after paradise papers leak bernie sanders is one of the world is rapidly becoming an international oligarchic controlled by a tiny number of billionaires highlighted by the revelations in the paradise papers that was the first thing i thought when i saw about these paradise papers leaked because all of it is technically illegal all of this shelter in the money offshore

you know you can do those venn diagrams of not even that just like connect the dots sort of rachel maddow esque sort of thing that there are all linked together whether it's hillary clinton or donald trump or every single head of state and every single head of major corporations in that state or domus island in that state they're all connected through these the banking system that is like a separate banking system unique just for them the social justice network to study just recently and they concluded that there was between twenty and thirty trillion dollars the old offshore was part of the parallel economy that's left times the g.d.p. of america they concluded it's about two hundred thousand people they pay no tax they invest in assets that could go higher in value because the central banks print

money. in a way that makes the assets that they own go up in price but no wages the wages don't go up that's financial engineering deregulation post rager reagan thatcher so the psyche of a huge field irrigating that field and the water disposed to irrigate the crops it just is diverted only to the folks that are in that twenty to thirty trillion dollar offshore parallel financial universe so wage growth is not their job growth has been transformed to part time jobs. jobs actually. and the taxes are born to pay for society by those people that are not. part of that illegal apartheid state you know before it's it's a part time unless you're committing fraud others say it's not it's legal but the folks who used to be illegal but they change the law to make it legal if it's legal

because you know it gets back to what boss jet said about looting if you let looters control the top we'll have looting throughout the economy john locke said seventeen times they know if there's a if the social contract is for you don't need to get under i mean i'm not of them gone when you're not here. you can just give me a simple to you know me to whip them out as it were and like to try to distract me it would suffice past only if you type but you meant these paradise papers and again you know and then the luxembourg is the panama papers leaks and everybody shouts but nothing happens and then let's say the same they have their alternative system and financial system and tax system they also want in these trade deals to get their own justice system the investor state dispute settlements so they would be justice which remember the very severe justice is harsh taxes are harsh obamacare is harsh education costs are harsh their system is like so smooth no

barriers no ease of movement no taxes in every no no justice for deferred prosecution or prosecution unicorns and lollipops free money from the . price is up for today and that beautiful world they live and that's what the world they live him and then but we were stuck in these like border sort of countries where yeah. yeah ghettos you can see arc whatever nation you live in you're essentially stuck in a ghetto and yet our media will like set up these paradigms of like here's a right here's a left choose. one of the teams and you know your news media will hail things like tim cook and steve jobs and apple as these great wonderful people and they should protect us from protect our democracy from evil voices and keep evil voices out of things like that so i want to turn to one of the what the paradise paper showed about what apple did in terms of setting up one of their divisions one of their tax

loopholes one of their offshore havens through jersey and this is from john christiansen and he of the director of the tax justice network and he tweeted that apple be apple chose jersey these are the key criteria guiding the choice what does this say about jersey but what does it also say about apple because remember the news here says apple should be one of the corporations that protect us from you know any fake news or things like that so they wanted it in writing for example there were a few things that they wanted like in writing that they are guaranteed like this like no taxes but the number four point is quite remarkable because again they are being asked that all these tech giants are being asked to protect their democracy here's what apple wanted guaranteed from jersey is there a credible opposition party or movement that may replace the current government so they were afraid of a credible opposition party they wanted to make sure there were none there in order

to before they would set up their cash there before they would put i was i was it's a longer hide but again as legal all the stuff is legal for them you try to go there and set it up yourself you'll be like arrested and thrown in guantanamo but there you have it. fall in the category of election interference. or either other overtly or covertly here you have tim cook c.e.o. of apple engaging in the united kingdom election interference the biggest company in the world soon to be a trillion dollar company strong arming theresa may like she don't know i don't know if i can cook tim cook's weinstein and to you know theresa may say we don't want this long as you control your government this is the opposition we want to pay taxes i get we want you to do i was like a wine steve ok ok theresa may interest me like. come on over to you can't come on

oh dear if you flew it's so disgusting duplicity from that media where they come out of the i'm sorry to bring reality into the mix jersey has their own their sovereign so they have their own. you know step one of a giant and i'm a woman k well let's go on to the next headline again so here again is another story about. you know this to steer it sort of system that they have and they say and yet the people stuck in the ghetto to borders the border ghettos you know we keep on fighting for like the the guy the tim cook's of the world that say the right thing they sound all cool in groovy and they're aggressive so here's another headline about how you know those pharmaceutical giants who help us they they do so much work for us they invent all these great. you know drugs and pharmaceuticals

that will save us and cure us and they make all these cute commercials about all the help they provide for little children protect your family you know all the hit list of the symptoms and the symptoms what the what they call me though the side effects side effects every so every agree that it's like every single minute there's a new drug and for some phantom disease like shaky like center that they make up then they get a grant for. some you know corrupt congressmen in america billions of dollars and the side effect is always make main do suicide may induce suicide may induce suicide what you know that the american flag is inducing suicide because you look at that you say oh it's a former cocker say it's a form a cocker say let's look at one of the ways they managed to get away with such high cost of drugs is that they say they need to research and develop new drugs so that's before we rant about that let's look at the headline the headline is most new drug patents are for old remedies research shows the u.s. patent system was designed to protect new innovations but drug makers are mof and

they're not using it to protect old ones at least seventy four percent of drugs associated with new patents are medicines already on the market according to research by robin feldman director of the institute for innovation law at the university of california hastings college of law the percent just reach eighty percent in three of the years studied in two thousand and five to twenty fifteen so as soon as ever greening so they make a slight change or in the manufacturing process of the same sort aspirin say and they say well we need to extend our patent by another fourteen years so basically they're saying that seventy four percent of them are just evergreen it's money there's no new innovation patents and trademarks is limited but not all the time for a limited time. they abuse the system to create perpetual patents perpetual copyright it's a complete subversion of the constitution which says explicitly article seventeen authored by thomas jefferson the original copyright for examples fourteen years and

seven plus seven years patent similarly for a limited time you get a monopoly protection when you stand out to infinite amount of time you're effectively giving your country america a look bottom e. and that's what these pharmaceutical companies are good at they're reaching into our craniums and they're ripping our brains out and stepping on them with a big black boot and they call that can. because it's not it's you know and of course you know barack obama and hillary clinton as secretary of state and they were going around the world and they were trying to basically get these trade deals they were calling them trade deals t. p. and t. tip and those were really for pharmaceutical companies to basically extend these patent copyright protections around the world but remember we covered this at the time all these pharmaceutical giants were trying to do tax and versions so here they were benefiting from the system this particular ghetto in the us where we have very high pharmaceutical and medical costs and they were trying to get the

protection of this country to maintain these high medical costs pharmaceutical costs and yet didn't want to pay taxes to this system where it's bankrupting still hundreds of thousands of americans go bankrupt every year because of medical costs and here they you know this is the same system and it's this financial oligarchy this internationals archita as bernie sanders calls it this is the same class and it's happening it happens right in front of our face all day long and our in our headlines actionist eugenicists and tim cook runs america's fortune five hundred and five pfizer blue bottom ists but as it says this study definitely shows a stifling competition is not limited to a few pharma bad apples rather it is a common and pervasive problem endemic to the pharmaceutical industry and democrats are just you know national oligarch and this is their business. it's well we got to go to break and you know if it gets really bad don't don't bother us stay right

there. in the cradle of jazz. we have. to take. the night. to the best place in the world. welcome back to the guy's report imax guys are time now to turn to max blumenthal senior editor alter net's grey zone project co-host of moderate rebels of ben

norton welcome exponent oh good to be with you right now you know there's a few journalists in america that i really pay close attention to matt taibbi for his one year another one meeting early on the front line of investigative journalism in this country it's a craft that is diminished it with the rise of you know shouty journalism which i'm part of what you're actually doing stuff and investigating and bringing you know shedding light on in a in a in a moment of darkness in a in this country's history journalistically in my view. let me pick your brain live here in twenty sixteen les moonves of c.b.s. said the trump may not be good for the country but he sure was good for business. can we say this about russia gate a little bit when i rush when i watch rachel maddow she seems to be cashing in on the russia gate thing like you know what was to say alex jones was taking things to a level of ratings milking is this happening on the left now next yeah i mean it all started in the two thousand and sixteen campaign and i started watching c.n.n.

and i started noticing they were having basically like infomercials for millennia businesswoman entrepreneur model you know they were pumping up trump on c.n.n. so much and it was jeff zucker who understood the appeal of trump to the american pop to the american public this is the former producer of trump's apprentice which introduced trump to a national audience now he was the c.e.o. of c.n.n. and he was going to pump trump up and then as soon as trump gets elected c.n.n. decides we're going to tear him down and appeal to this resistance crowd which represents everything to the left of the far right trump including you know neo conservatives were never trump republicans they had a big audience jake tapper who does the. time times show for c.n.n. his ratings are up fifty three percent because he's pushing that resistance model of just anything anti trump while promoting war and rachel maddow is a really fascinating character i mean this is someone who you know i personally almost have a seizure every time i watch or just her it's just very difficult

a static lee the audio it's really hard for me to tolerate watching her but a lot of people i think from an older demographic baby boomers they really enjoy her right now but if you actually look at her numbers prior to the election compared to now it's one of the most dramatic shifts we've seen in the history of cable news she's now the number one cable news host prior to the election or ratings were in the toilet she was talking about actual republican antics actual right wing media the koch brothers robert mercer the actual people who influence right wing politics in the u.s. now according to a content study done by performed by aaron maté journalist for the intercept the majority of rachel maddow is content focus is on russia gate. and only after as you point the narrative is like the it's winnowing down the you know it gets because there's no evidence there's no smoking gun there's no proof and they're there

they're just seeking every little tidbit that comes across somehow it's russia gays become farcical and but as you point out the ratings are going higher and they are you know i it seems like this glenn beck you know introduced the idea of crying on television and then you know to him ik imitate alex jones and these are considered to be outside of mainstream by a big factor and yet now this is what the the part of the way that rachel maddow is now kind of bringing in the stylistics at the same time criticizing people like alex jones but there's there's just no there there right i mean what's the status now this russia gay story it seems like there's just it just does nothing to what's currently going on. yeah i mean what we've seen in the past few days is to paradise papers really did this should be an explosive exposé of international capital and corruption tax shelters should be really the heart of this investigation but instead we've seen very little about that why because the international consortium

of investigative journalism which also did the panama papers has refused to release these documents to the public and instead they're leaking them out to mainstream publications like the new york times that it's filtering out through m.s.n. b.c. and c.n.n. and they're focusing almost with laser light perception on anything russia related and what we've seen you know i have no sympathy for any of these international oligarchs but what we've seen is pure unadulterated mccarthyism focusing on figures like yuri milner who is an apolitical silicon valley oligarch who happens to be russian jewish oligarch and what the guardian did was pate connections between yuri milner and gerrard cushion or in a company that gerrard vested in as some kind of nefarious evidence of collusion when in fact yuri milner has close ties to the clinton family he did a panel at davos with eric schmidt the c.e.o.

of google and chelsea clinton he is given an award to morgan freeman who's become one of the kind of spokesman for russia gate through a neo con front group i mean yuri milner is a friend of mark zuckerberg so he's pretty much what we're talking about is oligarchs doing business with each other and it's framed in terms of anyone who does business with anyone who is a russian national being scandalous that's mccarthyism i mean even in the mccarthy era people who were not were drummed up at least for communist suspicions not on the basis of simply coming from a country that we don't like and so this is what we're seeing in the past few days but if you look at any of the things that rachel maddow or any of these figures have been covering for example that russia temp. to hack voting systems in twenty one states when these stories fall apart and when the secretary of states of california texas and one was constant say no the russians actually didn't try to hack our voting systems there's never any follow up and so people are left with the impression that these stories are true even when one on one after another they fall

apart last time i saw the risks this type approach takes because i was watching these cable stations this week and i was tuning in and like i want to find out what's happening in saudi arabia there's like there's a coup going on there are people getting killed the helicopters are crashing there's nato was a big story here and moving government yeah you know that so the risk is not only. journalism but they're not expose covering stuff that's actually important your thoughts on yeah that's a great point i was actually watching a miss and b. c. last night not there any fault of my own but i just happened to be in a place where it was on and there was no coverage of saudi arabia where a purge is taking place where mohammed bin selman has taken the heads of all of the media agencies that are responsible for all of the media in the arab world except for al-jazeera and put them in a defacto internment camp at the ritz carlton in riyadh this would be a huge story beyond that donald trump has sold them something like one hundred

fifty dollars one hundred fifty billion dollars of weapons his foreign policy is essentially controlled by saudi arabia the u.a.e. with respect to the middle east we're looking at the possibility of region wide destabilization because of these moves and m s n b c i mean for two hours they didn't touch it they only talked about trump's visit to north korea and his incendiary rhetoric and this is the real source of foreign influence i mean we just had a week of congressional hearings about russian facebook ads which include you know cute images of puppies and a themed buff bernie coloring book was also featured in one of these ads and you know you had these hysterical hearings but when are we going to. about the real source of foreign influence in washington and that emanates from saudi arabia and the pro israel lobby primarily it's never covered on cable news or very seldom quickly i don't know if you've watched like democracy now but it seems like amy goodman of democracy now watch for years has also kind of fallen under the sway of

this rachel maddow rush gate hoax hysteria is that a fair assessment when he was there when he thought that yeah yeah you definitely definitely seen a depreciation in the quality of democracy now not only reporting various russia gate rumors you know prioritizing these stories in their news that you know they introduce the show with but also bringing in guests like kurt eichenwald who is the discredited newsweek reporter who has had to delete several of his articles as a result of a libel lawsuit which discredited his reporting on some of you know the pieces that went viral during the course of the calculation the causa the mind i mean any good because she's running the show there there's no question about it is still she feel that by compromising her journalistic standards she's somehow helping to undermine trump because she feels it's her duty as a citizen above her to root sponsibility as a journalist that the man must be impeached and she is going to completely change

the character of her show in this effort because i mean why would she make that calculation is so blatantly unprofessional yeah yeah i mean i've known her for years i used to be i would say at least an occasional guest if not a frequent guest i'm not welcome back on for whatever reason and many of my colleagues who you know focused on issues like palestine we're not we're not going on there anymore what we've seen is sort of. critical of the i.d.f. for years yes maybe a cutting edge of all the reporting on israel palestine issues there's amy goodman she's in palestine she's talking to people but there's people are getting occupied they're getting murdered and there she is right now this is. all been washed away it's everything is realistic a big fat kiss from amy good well it's not a big fat kids it's just a shrug of the shoulders i think she's covered it like twice in the past year a lot of the issues that democracy now is known for falling by the wayside and she's you know really an acting kind of

a pale imitation of m s n b c i assume her ratings are up she's becoming more popular with the resistance crowd and she likes it but we're witnessing just across the board a gigantic liberal cultural meltdown in the trump era and the quality of everything connected to liberalism has just evaporated how does how does. the left actually look at its popularity and the jump where you know you the reason actually losing popularity then how is that possible but what what's wrong with these people you have the democratic parties at a twenty five year low according to a recent poll i think it's a c.n.n. poll it's gone down seven points since march alone as it's been cranking up the russia gay conspiracies the numbers are lowest among non-whites and among youth and it has to do with the fact of the that it's elevated candidates like hillary clinton through rig primaries over the most popular candidate in the u.s. and the party refuses to offer a critique of the forces in the system that are driving people's lives into literal

ruin so i think there's just a lack of resonance there with the democratic party there's a major disconnect and they've kind of crafted all of their messaging towards a really narrow contingency contingent of cult of coastal elites that most people don't relate to right we just finished a trip we went all across the country sixteen different states and the russia gatos is completely absent from any discussion you know outside of kind of the coast of new york in like us and people are not really they're not focused on it because they don't see that how that really affects their lives they don't there's never been any proof there's ever been any evidence of it there's nothing going on to suggest that this is something they need to focus on and yet the high. how does that what's the disconnect between the people running the party who presumably want our and their inability to understand that they're losing power like have happened to they've turned the charts upside down and they just look at it like what we're losing now we're winning are they just. that brain dead what's going on here yeah i

think you're looking at a small group of people who are swamp creatures who are living in a very insular bubble whether it's you know liberal hollywood whether it's washington the beltway culture whether it's midtown manhattan or whatever it is they're out of touch with the kind of pain that most people are feeling along with the moral injury of people who have family members who are veterans who served in iraq and afghanistan they're not talking about war and peace and these issues and what they really i think they thought after trump was elected was that number one he had actually won through a secret russian intelligence operation and therefore he was not a legitimate president and therefore they could impeach him through some kind of watergate style investigation and meanwhile they'd all get good ratings and everyone read their articles about these collusion stories right and it hasn't worked to get it out there if you stay on for a second yes well that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me nice guys and stacy i would like to thank our guest max blumenthal if you want

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