the headlines here on all to israel's prime minister orders the country's withdrawal from unesco despite having several recognized sites. the u.s. olympic gold medalist revealed years long abused by a team doctor and accused high ranking sports officials of buying her silence. and facebook admits that it's fake news read like system is having the opposite effect by attracting even more views to suspicious articles. you can find out all about those stories on our website i'll be back with the headlines again in around an hour and in the meantime the kaiser report talks magical thinking crime fighting robots and the rapid melting of alaska's permafrost.

well either imax dies or this is the kaiser report magical thinking what's the hold up the singularity pixie dust hallucinations l.s.d. let's find out. oh ho ho merry christmas this is our pre-christian episode it's going out a few days before christmas we don't actually have an episode this year on christmas day but you know a lot of people say santa claus is not real they think it's just magical thinking so i thought my headlines today would reflect this magical thinking obviously sent as real because we're all getting a lot of presents right magical thinking of stopping us from taking to the streets this is from truthdig and they were looking at this tax reform policy and how it's big huge giveaway for the wealthy and taking from the poor again and they're asking why is nobody going on the street and part of it is the magical thinking that you

know russia gate hoax will save us or or one of their various magical thinking is that if we go to the voting booth and will elect somebody and somehow that person is going to fight for on our behalf rather than the corporations we have. zero zero yeah so in other words there is no there there there's no help coming there's still cavalry there's no plane like hole there's only ruby slippers that you can click three times and take you over the rainbow to fairly magic land of the sticks and leprechauns where only cryptocurrency is grow yes of course you can take to the afterlife and to your friend to sea world when you call big coin a fantasy currency well those are not my hell mines i'm going to look i'm going to . answer the question of why people aren't taking to the streets and i'm going to

talk about these fantasy headlines and the first headline here might be one reason why people are not taking to the streets ruled bots are being used to deter homeless people from setting up camp in san francisco and san francisco autonomous crime fighting robots that are used to patrol parking lots sports arenas and tech company campuses are now being deployed to keep away homeless people the san francisco business times reported that the san francisco s p c a an animal average kids see and pet adoption group put a security robot to work outside its facilities in the gentrifying mission neighborhood the robots presence is meant to deter homeless people from setting up camps along the sidewalks so the robot is known as canine and it's there to prevent crime while this is obviously part of a dystopian nightmare where robo cop you have autonomous robots and

machines and drones targeting human beings economically they're not participating in the grid they haven't purchased anything in six hours therefore they must be almost therefore they must be killed and swept up into an open pit lighter fluid doused on them set a fire and what's great is that these new autonomous robots will probably be all jacked up with face recognition technology and all kinds of databases so they just come up to be like hey bob. we notice you haven't bought anything in your credit card in over fourteen hours so you're no longer used to society and then they put a hypodermic needle into they inject him with cyanide and they sweep the road is a stress there are ho ho ho merry christmas emphasis on green so i think green is people so of course. they do have all our tracking devices and our smartphones are

keeping gas where you fall maybe that's why they don't want to go to the streets but in terms of this canine robot when our robot overlords become more advanced this one's not quite advanced because it was deterred show you the interesting merry christmas story here is that the canine robot circling the san francisco p.c.a. has drawn mixed responses within the first week of the robots appointment some people who are setting up a homeless encampment nearby allegedly quote put a tarp over it knocked it over and put barbecue sauce on all the sensors according to jennifer scarlett the president of the s.p.c. as a writer they are damaging corporate property which is becoming a felony so then the next with the flying robot was moved in and the flying armada of tanks moves and the aerial bombardment of hell fire missiles is targeting remember a song about homo says because there is no such thing as home i mean we're all on planet earth we all share the same home it's about commerciality if you're not if you're not using your credit card that's defined as quote unquote homelessness and

you're no longer used to society you're not putting yourself into debt if you're growing your own food if you're sustainable in any way you are targeted for death this is the new eugenics slash fascism which is coming out of the global elites in order to keep their sidewalks clear so that may better access their. you know castles made from all the ill gotten gains that they've stripped out of the economy over the last thirty years thanks to a corrupt fed and central bank policy ok so now we're moving on from magical thinking to on real thinking our own real reality and that is. is this city and alaska is warming so fast algorithms removed the data because it seemed unreal last week scientists were pulling together the latest data for know was monthly report on the climate when they noticed something strange one of their key climate monitoring stations had fallen off the map all of the data for barrow

alaska the northernmost city in the united states was missing and this was because the temperature in barrow was rising so fast that the data was automatically flagged as real and removed from the climate database it was done by algorithms that were put in place to ensure that only the best data gets included and no as reports there handy to keep the data sets clean but this kind of quality control algorithm is only good in average situations with no outliers the current situation in barrow alaska however is anything but average an algorithm is white this town off the map off the data doesn't exist. this of course could help many people would like to deny. that there is no warming in alaska even though you can see we all saw the video of the polar bear starving to death right before christmas we also can see even from the photo in this article that barrel aska has no snow it's no

less and it's the northern was town in america where you can you can deny reality all you want and it seems the algorithms i will help you maybe they don't want you to do anything to fix it maybe because these robot overlords want to take over in the first story we have robots that can drive away the homeless so you can pretend that there are no homeless that there is no poverty created by silicon valley and blah blah blah well it's the equivalent of a head donek adjustments you know in economics when the government doesn't want to pay any more to social security recipients and they can't or they don't want to pay the cost of living adjustments so they change the way they calculate inflation by substituting what's a stake for hamburger is a classic example let's call it doc adjustment and then they look at that data they say see inflation is not. accelerating so we're not going to raise rates we're not going to have to pay any more money out for cost of living because there is no cost of living increase you see that's what the data tells us so here you've got manmade global warming incinerating planet earth and causing an eco hole

a cost but the corporations feel like you know what that might cost us a penny at the end of the year so we do have donek adjustment to our algorithm it will take out the city of alaska that would flag us to take action appropriate for survival of the species and we're going to instead rely on our balance sheet and our algorithm like i'm going to g.p.s. monitoring a car that's pointing over a cliff they're saying i don't care if the cliff is there my algorithm says it's not there so i keep driving i'm going to foment always going to go right over the cliff because after the data tells me i'm now flaming ball of wreckage at the bottom of the canyon i'm dead i'm incinerated i'm cooked but you know what i did it because yeah for the algorithm i salute the algorithm so i think when america jack with people jack with similar. numbers are my god numbers are the key i support the numbers even if it kills me as we established at the top of the show santa claus is real a lot of people think it's magical thinking but he is up in the arctic circle so

there could be a real world consequence of this absence of snow up a parallel aska is that he might not know it's christmas because he assumes you know once the snow comes that's when all my little helpers come out and help me and i put together all the packages of our christmas presents on the back of the sleigh and then rudolph you know flies us around the world and we deliver all these packages but he doesn't see the snow we might not get our presents well rudolph is transitioning this year. becoming a different species well you better not become a polar bear this is not good for them though a red nose to help santa through the storm because there is no storm there is no christmas. just a grinch the great range of cars that you were on the great kaiser board is going to be no christmas this year has been cancelled and then finally here's another a fantasy i guess it looks like that oh susan whoville going to be torched all this so the lorax is gone all these robots and algorithms taking over

of course apparently they also need to be entertained and amused just like humans algorithms oh ai artificial need to be out of the chain robots well that's what this next headline suggests here's what happens if you let a whimsical robot write the next harry potter chapter watch out writers artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs just take a look at this chapter of harry potter fan fiction the robot called it harry potter and the portrait of what looked like a large pile of ashes is a three page after of literature produced by an algorithm trained by bought an exterior on the meat of rallies expanse of magical universe as an author a sister predictive text document creator jamie brew and. other writers help nudge the algorithm in the right direction the result is just as weird and uncomfortably for some of us readable as you might expect filled with the characters and whimsical vocabulary notable to rousing the logical plot however is not as great

a strain so it does like come up with a whole bunch of bizarre sentences and realities of worlds we might be replaced you know about it all the way and doris you know naked lunch and other classic texts i think he was right there be a crisis he was on heroin. you know ripping apart of pages and counting them and rearranging them in the collage technique of literature and the fantastical nature of his otherworldly. science fiction informing us about the future that it would be without any connection to what we would identify as human species as we've become cyborgs and it's going to be harry potter and the flaming train wreck as the future comes out at breakneck speed and just plows over everybody with futuristic police bots injecting cyanide into our children and processing them for frozen food and you have fetuses armed with guns shooting at people so that they're not aborted

they're going to actually shoot people trying to abort them with gun wielding fetuses that's going to happen in twenty eighteen i predict. oh merry christmas everybody out there. be a new year also do it for the second half a whole lot more coming your way. russianness leaks take. pics remains controversial what awaits the olympians in sales career and more importantly what awaits them after they get.

hey welcome back to the kaiser report i macs guys are time now to continue our conversation jim records author and now he's a big data guy and it wasn't just now big data welcome back thank you max just to wrap up from our previous conversation you know you he went to the intelligence community and he said hey you know the markets they're off a lot of data and if you know how to read it correctly it helps you know predict the future or as you would say wall street discount the future and then you read a lot more data and you've come up with this. and you are the chief global strategist there and artificial intelligence wouldn't touch on that at all and so does that a key part of the product as such right this is actually where the quote artificial intelligence is really third wave so first the first wave is sort of you know big

data second wave was machine learning so that the machine with conclusions which would then it would simply put it back into the room so now the machines teaching it so third wave is external inputs from something like watson the other machines are kind of to read plain language so you know every every ten q a. you know ten ks footnotes hundreds of millions of pages of information you can read a lot more than any of this or all wall street combined could do for meaning we work with a fringe team of cognitive scientists linguists to to advance this to the or in terms of word identification like i could read it because as you know we're from marks and cars are in the same sentence probably you ok but you can get way more sophisticated in that we're doing all of that. is there a risk i just saw a video on china you know they there have a remarkable data gathering ability and they are essentially surveying the entire population. they people living there have given up the notion of privacy more or

less just said you know we're willing to. privacy completely to the state and. is this a risk in other words you're in the intelligence community you're looking for attack vector you're looking to keep everybody safe from the trade off is that you put in a lot of data and there is coming from a lot of sources social media obviously we're people are pouring in their lives into social media and you know how much privacy factor how do you weigh in on that is it or is it the same world we lived in thirty or forty years ago is the world changed or are these things still valuable it's absolutely changed radically it's not the same where we lived and thirty years ago it is in some ways that human nature doesn't judge human nature hasn't changed in fifty thousand years we're we're base of the ice age k. people could digression but if so many machines are imploding the data aren't we in fact leaving kind of a human based. society and moving more toward

a machine basis idealizations are informing the data and then the data is making decisions based on the machines who are then taking that data and acting out their machine worlds and then it goes in this loop feedback loop of machines to machines are we advocating our humanity here a big guy and the whole you know your heart you know you're a christian you know you're a big fan of jesus you know this is this seems like we're forsaking our humanity for the for the for the mark of the beast this is the devil jim are you are you caving into the devil came into the devil but i think you're on to something your description of this and this were a curse word because the singularity is the merger of man and machine so you know this is pro-trade in the blade runner of twenty forty nine which i saw those great mood by the way everyone hated it i just i love i love three hour movies where nothing happens i was kind of but it was it was very very deep in the you know that's what we're merger now we're. in the government's mob this of course but the

private part of it from you know the google face but we all know who they are yahoo and amazon and all that. and we just did money like crazy and you know on the books about a lot of books you know buy a book and says oh you bought this one might want to buy this one so well often it's you know that's interesting and maybe i will buy it so there i was the on the something privacy's gone you know you ok so just to stick just a facade otherwise the question was one of privacy and you have a feeling there is a privacy has gone wrecked and you feel comfortable with that and no i don't i'm not i'm acknowledging your point i know that they're carried out for security is privacy in other words if i felt like i would be surveyed last another nine eleven what happened i'm since i'm a new yorker i'd say i don't give i don't care let another nine eleven happened because you know stuff happens big big deal you know i don't get it i don't understand of that huge response to nine eleven to begin to use ears which i was may i was i would not care if the n.s.a. surveyed everything i do they don't actually do that but they you know they they suck up a lot of medic data we're on i wouldn't really care about that if i had confidence

that it was only being used for national security purposes but i don't we saw during the obama administration with you know lois lerner's surveillance the tea party and prosecutions general petraeus international says i'm not saying that they both pleaded guilty or must and they do anything wrong i'm saying they were singled out for political reasons there's a lot of that so i have no confidence that while the government collecting the data ostensibly for national security purposes all it takes is somebody like obama and valerie jarrett to target you and then all of a sudden that's a whole different world so that's troubling to me the other thing i think we're people can resort to self-help this stuff is addictive and that's you know it's just very basic biochemistry so you know why are people there to her long as it feels good well that's you know endorphins and things well those endorphins are triggered by a lot of things other than drugs and there are sex addicts their alcohol addicts are gambling addicts there are many many kinds of behavior that are all addictive the same biochemistry or it's pretty clear at this point that the whole thing the thing to hand so i've started just you know i go out leave my cell phone home you

know just try doing that more and more by social media. they were against a higher touches on the same and the art of this is right i think so somewhere it is addictive in that we would think that it's the devices themselves back to the world for most people see marshall mcluhan's of the medium is the message it wasn't so much the content was the medium that you were getting a through some of the new york. can down here to the studio today and i have myself in my pocket was often turned on later but if it's working well you see oh you all know it my talk to bridger i recall of the blue faces poor people in the back of the car in the row stare of the screens in their faces or blue in the dark with an auto rather understood so so you're you've opened up a thought here the where you have your conflicted your so you feel a bit conflicted about all this others if the dividing line for you is that the data has to be safe and used for the say national strategic interests sure ok but you know the data gets hacked all data gets hacked right we haven't seen

a database not get hacked the government database has to know that you're going to be on your own obama say targeting folks i mean obviously that's clearly a dictatorial breach of the constitution to act. when that's bad but there but the data gets hacked all the time so how do you resolve that conflict over do you feel comfortable that your work which is heavily dependent on data surveillance in the end you've given up on privacy and you admitted that this is seemingly like with the work of the devil how do you use your own records you know what what institution in america today do you trust in other words you trust the system and you can say you know what all the stuff troubles me but i know that x. is unimpeachable and i'm and i salute the flag to that what is that institutional i'm a member of the most counter-cultural organization on earth which is the catholic church were so out of fashion with your conventional wisdom so that's that's an

institution i trust but getting back to my work versus the work of the n.s.a. we're using completely. open source data so we're we buy a price free from the chicago mercantile exchange in your star anybody can do i thought free but anybody can get that information you have twitters out there if i you know i use twitter a lot i have an open twitter account you don't have to belong to twitter to be my cow so i choose to put that information out there and so do hundreds of millions of other people so that's that's really where the process our enemies are troubling to you know they are those can be programmed to make money on wall street you know they pick a price and then they do the trades that meet that price sure they manipulate markets so it will go the algorithms can be used to manipulate social behavior you know facebook card manipulating social behavior i was in this way absolutely right so you're right you're developing a well more sophisticated weaponized version of this with this product in fact getting into some more trouble we're doing something very specific which is you are going to whether it's going to be tomorrow answer whether it's going to be in six months what the fed's going to do in six months you know how the economy is going

to do those are we're sort of long or kind of intermediates a longer range predictive analytics and capital markets we're not trying to sell you a book we're not trying to you know we offer this to us to let us serve actor you say oh there's a bomb coming in from jihadi he's ok we predict it so we're going to drown them yeah ok does the database say wow you know we invaded their country a few years ago to take all their oil and resources and we're addict out of control empire and work murdering people for money this is a model suggests that maybe the actions of the u.s. military should be curbed in that sense and maybe there should be a more comprehensive foreign policy that doesn't prize a genocide in this way but ok so we're not policymakers can't tell the pentagon what is in the data if the data is blind and it just looks at specific outcomes you're facilitating and exacerbating a failed policy and you making death for a higher a norm normalising and one thing we don't do is get our blood pressure of we're

analysts we get that we get the information we do we do consider geopolitics additional capital. markets i can't tell rex tillerson what to do in north korea can't tell general mattis was doing korea but we can analyze it using a basis to this is a priority hypothesis but the probability of war in north korea we update the probability all the time actually within the last twenty four hours my probability we're going to korea which was seventy percent went down a little bit i extended the timeline i had before the end of march now coming out to summer based on some things that rex tillerson said yesterday to an account so that's an example of good basing updating don't get married to a particular conclusion but increase or decrease the probabilities based on income do so we do analyze it we do advise clients to know what we see coming but we don't change the outcome i'm not something that i'm not pushing the chairs on to draw missile sometimes we get a rent a car we did the geo locating system i never gives out working and i says drive into that brick wall drive into the first of all i override this is this happened

to me recently i was with my wife we were in australia we were in the outback we had a dry red very bright guy and i sky could have been nicer but he had one of those g.p.s. kind of things we're driving all the sudden he turns off the main highway we're going to dirt road and then gets on the tertiary road and i'm like is this guy going to take it somewhere or turn around shooting some mob decide what's going on or seem like a nice guy he gets to offensive. things as i can keep going but i can hear just turn around all the way almost like i might so it would your right but i never do i use maps i'm actually a little you know you know. my point is i want to cut down a couple of things here on the kaiser four years ago the u.s. first pulled the trigger on weapon izing swift i remember with all international you know i guess they're ready for a while. and you any of the alternative you predicted that alternative payment systems would erupt that's kind of what's happening right correct iran russia venezuela these countries that are being sanctioned and they're abusing swift there have been venting thanks to algorithms thank this technology thanks to crypto

currencies they're inventing their parallel systems sure is that a good. not for the states is good for them i mean this is this is geo political hardball among the the board of a think tank in washington called the center for sanctions and a list of finance and my colleagues are great people these are people who kind of invented the financial war on terror meaning they were they were in the white house in the treasury after nine eleven during the bush administration all the laws that that we live with today the other wrote those laws or what the regulations are of course and they've been extremely effective the stuff is really powerful but i tell them because what you wish for because if you keep hammering people with this disrupting them which you've done the number of countries they're going to do the work around will they're almost there so i would expect russia and china to come up with a serial leisure technology not because by the way because it's a sideshow a serial ledger i mean i mean they say this is a bit of luxury that's the new name. if you like to religious technology just a real leisure military grade encryption and maybe we'll have a putin corners equal it won't be because of the club of their own coin and then

transact among themselves right so maybe russia is paying for china with this putin coin and china settling it spills into the dollar as a cigarette which you predicted for any extra that's where it is now happening technologically and that's and that's and so your view as as a predictive analytic guy is that that six deaths becoming a bigger factor does the u.s. and we've got to go actually fortunately we're out of time all right all right it's affecting on thanks matt weston if the addition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy i would like to thank our guests jim records if you want to catch us on twitter at kaiser report until next. all see we have a great team we need to strengthen before the freefall. of an election to keep it

so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waving spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best form since my last will call him the story. of an old joke. here i called russia. i fly strike. left left left more or less ok stop that's really good here's what people have been saying about rejected and that it was actually just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are

apparently better than blue nothing's better since i see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight not the president of the world bank so they can describe it seriously send us an e-mail. or. phone and welcome to worlds apart but less than two months to go until the peeling chung olympics the participation of athletes from russia remains trial did in controversy that mission criteria have been sad the international olympic committee has drawn up a whole manual on how the sporting uniforms should look like but what awaits the russian ellyn p.m.'s in south korea and most importantly after to discuss that i'm

now joined by the champs russia strip. well john gold medalist at the in one thousand nine hundred five world indoor championship in barcelona. mr chen it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. first of all let's talk about the latest developments of the international paralympic committee said it was maintaining its suspension of the russian paralympic committee to make the final decision on whether the russians can compete against twenty winter games in january vote i think it's paralympic athletes are in a tougher situation than the catholics from russia can spot why do you think that just shouldn't they be treated in the same way since one top human or two world anti-doping agency reports started the whole thing where do these differences in conclusions and policies come from the way agree the treatment is very different as you remember our paralympic athletes were banned from the rio games which is very strained.