interview's is worse her or her brothers we are we are looking at is. measures to. say you know you're. in the usa while hurricane trump has been brewing up a storm over north korea and cuba he's kept his fingers firmly off the buttons of twitter about his decision to send thousands more troops to afghanistan just one of the broken campaign promises that litter the right to his presidency we are going to and the era of nation building and instead focus on just strongly strongly does strongly isis funny that because he shot down two syrian aircraft in the past week maybe all this intervention is a good way to please the military industrial complex and to justify the near trillion dollar defense budget over in the middle east where a new study has revealed that a reign of terror and showers of bombs from nato was have killed an estimated four

million muslims since one nine hundred ninety there are allegations of kidnap and. torture of yemeni citizens by close u.s. allies the u.a.e. while the us are arming u.a.e. forces and teaching them how to bomb they've also had quite a bit experience in torture as well but questions are being raised over whether information forcibly cleaned by those incarcerated in these camps is being used to bomb yemen where the most recent attack overseen by the new crown prince of saudi arabia killed twenty five civilians in a market one of the companies who supplies weapons to the saudis is be a systems you know the guys who brought you cluster bombs and wrap the drones they've been taking advantage of the u.k.'s lax export rules by sending over more than just killing machines to repressive regimes freedom of information request discovered that massive valence technology powerful enough to spy on entire countries and track people through their mobile phones is being exported to countries such as saudi arabia the u.a.e. and katsav. so next week make sure to wrap up warm and take an umbrella because

we're expecting a downpour of this information. about the impact of their own covering this week's news after the break. democratically accountable housing across the u.k. has been allowed to deteriorate tearing apart working class communities as the private sector profits from human suffering and. luxury apartments to residents. the director of the new film. the great social housing swindle. is going underground. hello peter and i've been living in russia for about seven years and this is just some of the crazy things i've got.

that's undercutting what's good for the market for the global economy. welcome back at seventy two hours since hundreds of day of rage protesters marched on britain's parliament in the shadow of the tragic some say emblematic inferno of grunfeld tower here in kensington in london but as grief turns to anger and tourism is post-election chaos and lack of transparency from local councils and private developers how did margaret thatcher to new labor lay the foundations on which the housing crisis is constructed today here's going underground senior producer pete bennett at the screening of a new documentary dispossession the great social housing swindle to talk with key figures in what they consider a class war against social cleansing. early one nine hundred eighty s. people living in u.k. social housing has dropped forty two percent less than eight percent with an estimated one point four million currently on the council waiting lists get despite

rising property prices and the growing demand for affordable hards successive governments to slash investment in social housing just as council of whole estates to private developers. state a controversial regeneration scheme which residents have forcefully re housed people are being sent into off to london especially people reached take a children that. they've been good you know to some of the towns outside of london and council is so brutal force to us because this is a class division after the middle class people they don't care about the class you know the king class people we know that stoppage that so we do not expect anything and i know that they are but he didn't tories well from new labor to the current of physicians i asked grassroots activists and then council housing member fred milt.

and has jeremy corbin's manifesto fares ahead of the upcoming grenfell tower inquiry enough course jeremy jeremy called an initial plan promise to buy a boat to build five hundred thousand council house in five years was very well but i have to say that in the course of the election that was watered down watered down watered down what does prove what is the true of recent events from going from tower serious that we need council housing we need council housing one by a. responsible manager not intended not held out self by the council but actually it's a core function of the council to. run their housing properly and that means keeping them safe for houses allowed to happen in the first place i spoke to greenland assembly member and comes in councillor for highgate sean barrie about the causes of the housing crisis dealt with was this capitalism you know that the

market is saying has been unregulated and they regulated the faulty lol we're saying rising costs were saying look the problem with people buying homes simply to run them out there distorting them off and then they develop this business model really is failing and we're saying lots of hands to our belts no no londoner could ever want to buy those of us that just about scrape enough to rent then the damage our chances of buying it's genuinely broken either way you've got powers like you've got the mass of a car is rolling back and some of his promises to people on estates to rentals when it comes to things like rent controls and having a vote on whether or not you have is to manage however the crisis goes beyond the capital to communities across the u.k. heavy duty grew up in scotland schools and a housing estate he says has been ignored by power given voice by films like dispossession the great social housing swindle people the god and god and the.

people are you going to see in this film what can we offer the tory. party enough and i told them we know they don't care politicians and those trees are mean cousin . what do you make of all the ones that she's brought on board and the care that is going to make a difference now that's not going to make a difference it's going to be listening to. her parents show selfishness less. not care for anyone else if you do if you actually think the tory party in this country believe in social haitian italy believe in society margaret thatcher said there is no society there's only people that she's not just a movie that she's trained moche she's dennis paw this is a boy from her black stuff this is a saying of the times this is a show clone creativity documentary film camera and get on people tell the truth for some time in this country put on a screen expressing the human cost of the housing crisis on the big screen this

documentary explores the cats struck phase that led to a chronic shortage of social housing. essentially we've had. simply haven't seen the road for social housing and they've been cutting it. senior producer peter bennett there i'm outside the ground fell to our north kensington in london now with the director of dispossession of the great social housing swindle paul first of all just your reaction to. be here lots of the mainstream media cameras here anymore. looking at the building obviously you can't really comprehend what went on . when i found out about i was in sheffield and i was seeing the images on t.v. and initially like my space where you just feel sympathy and empathy for the people that it's affected and then afterwards you know shock and anger the fact that it been allowed to happen i think there were a dozen counts so inspections of that building and saying it's this all come out in the last. few days it just draws you back to systematic neglect not only of people

in council housing but of working class people of poor people of vulnerable people all over the u.k. . the thing i keep going back to is the seventy odd tory m.p.'s that voted against the landlord bill to make homes fit for human habitation and i think that you know this terrible incident just raises more questions and more anger about why we have a government why we have a system of parliament that isn't representative of people who's going to do the film because of course again and again even just after the aftermath. when the. still raging we were told not to politicize. was the conservative and labor policy of right to buy so popular and yet so much part of the current housing crisis in britain i think it was popular because you know working class people like anyone else wanted to own their own homes and there's nothing wrong with wanting to

own your own home you know it's a desire that goes back years and years and years and so the right to buy in principle wasn't a bad idea but the problem was they didn't replace like for like i think that you said that they would be in every place to for everyone they didn't even do one for one and so you know that goes into the blair and brown administrations as well in the combined period of thirteen years of new labor they've built fewer houses in total than thatcher's government averaged every year so it's it's an issue across both parties and it's a policy now i think needs to end because we do have a housing shortage you know we do have problems with council housing but continuing to sell off that stock and not replace it is just senseless and you tackle the issue of labor councils up and down the country blaming not accountable but blaming central government for. housing storms yeah i mean that's the thing i mean it's very it's very easy to blame central government and say this all comes down from the states. local authorities to have to be

a bit smarter i mean obviously their budgets have really been cut to the bone you know announcing things as in the case of lambeth council where they announced the demolition of cresting the gardens on twitter you know that's not very clever that's actually deeply insensitive it's actually an offensive so you know not only do councils have to communicate better but they need to explain why they do in these three developments and you know working with property developers is always a very murky area because at the bottom the bottom line for a bob is profit but why do you think if you'd like to subsidize move it is a way to make housing more equitable gets going the common currency in media and yet in your film it comes out. all it does is to make housing more on affordable housing did used to be a permanent safe secure home you know in the fifty's and sixty's my family when they got council housing they were proud of it they lived in i knew it was their home for life but the problem is now you know with the housing and planning out there we're going to be no more you know last time tendencies in the film that when

a person dies in social housing it's a requirement to just sell it on to the private sector yeah that's part of the new house and i'm not sure we see with that's going to be the case for you jamie solicitor from st james who appears in the film as. of the view that a lot of that policy may or may not actually be in force i mean there are still campaigns to try and repeal that so i think we're still in very early days but what it can do in principle is bad enough i think in the film you talk about social stigma or a bit like in rio's village people don't admit to living in social housing so. polarized this is class in britain today yeah there's a lot of stigmatized around it and you know that comes from the media it comes from t.v. programs poverty polling shows where you know council tenants are depicted is on benefits that depicted as somehow being as stupid and that's not the case you know some of our brightest my. and some people came from council house in town. it's

actually the social problems created by a society by system of government the problem but when it comes to who the government listens to in your film it appears the. very very rich state agencies recommend to the government policies like destroying four hundred thousand special housing homes and the government listens to reports coming from estate agents that that will win from that pool of yemen i think there was a report from samples that came out and it was any day i think they put a figure on someone's worth in london i think you've got to be earning about seventy thousand pounds to be worth your spot in london that was the average figure you know i don't know too many people that much money and so what you have then is the colonize ation of space you have and the idea that to be in this city you have to justify your place here by earning a certain amount of money which means you can afford to pass or rent or mortgage

and also spend this much on you know what is the london economy and that's you know that's just it's nonsense isn't it. your film outlines how areas are socially cleansed initially we heard that there would be real housing there for the survivors of the greenfield tragedy the latest i think is will to resume said in london nash is saying that borrowers or neighboring bars how do you think adding policymakers are going to we have to hold them to account and if they've moved some residence into some nearby luxury apartments which have a concierge service which have a gymnasium and a simple on the people that move into that property to get those services i mean whether they're in a separate section i don't know whether they're think they will be in a separate. area for so-called affordable housing just describe what a poor door is yes i mean a poor door is an annex to luxury apartments which is where the social rent tenants . even and there are all sorts of reasons for that used to justify it. part of the

agreement with the builder is that they'll only make a certain amount of social grants available if there is a separate and entrance it also reduces the cost down for everybody so you can argue economically that you know there is a reason for it but then on the other side of it you can look at it as being a systematic microcosm of our society that the rich going one way the poor leave another way and then you've got two people that were in the press complaining about the price of property complain about how they've worked so hard and now they're going to have to mix with you know all of these you know working class people and i despair that you really despair and it just shows you where we've got to where we've sunk to as a society because you know we're all culpable in this as a society we all need to actually take responsibility and if we don't have those views challenge those fees. and that's it for one of your favorite shows of the season we'll be back with all new episodes are going on the ground on wednesday the

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head to the dot com stay with us for the kaiser report talking about stock market panic buying and if you're watching us in the u.k. is next. and i'm max kaiser this. is a report of the show that seeks to educate inform mesmerize it's still your trip to waltz while your not watchin. while you're watching but unaware. oh no. you see what happened there max tuned in to the last episode his hands are in my shot but he tuned into the last episode and what he found was an explanation for why all his big question were missing at. oh my god why did you do it to me

so you know we have another christmas present over christmas and that was from donald trump and many people particularly in the markets anyway equity markets and the dow jones and the s. and p. five hundred they had a very good christmas because techs phoria sparks stock buying panic dow does something it has never ever done before the dow closed at its seventieth record high of the year it has never done that before in its one hundred plus history just so you can see that number down months versus the number of months see down months or in red this is going back to zero about nineteen eighty eight and green is up months donald trump is the only one has had never ending up months in the dow jones while he's been in this first year president well it's hard to explain why please explain x.

guys or you know markets tend to go up and down based on things like the business cycle which is tied to interest rate cycles tied to global trade imbalances and trade cycles but what we've seen in the last twenty years in america and in the last ten years in particular with interest rates near zero effectively the federal reserve bank has opened the door to the vault of the s. and p. five hundred and allowed a few corporations to run him. all stocks. euro cost to them through mergers acquisitions stock buybacks this is what i call america being taken private through a massive leveraged buyout financed by zero percent interest rates so there is no i don't i don't think the world there will ever be a down market in that one we're we are leaving the era of a free market capitalist system in america we're entering neil feudalism so they'll

be a few private equity funds a few hedge funds and a few mega corporations that will own ninety five percent of all the equity and everyone else will be essentially serfs ok this is donald trump like to say but in all kidding aside is that he's engineered meal feudalism in america those who go with them are not opposed to it because they're being paid off it's like when britain burnin into slavery they did so by paying off the slave masters a huge amount of money here in america they're ending free market capitalism and they're doing it by paying off the oligarchs american oligarchs huge sakho money and full stop it we'll get into some more of the particulars in a moment but i want to turn to another headline regarding tax cuts in the past and these you know they call them the tax holidays to encourage corporations like apple which has hundreds of billions of dollars sitting overseas that they repeat treat

their money and bring it back into the united sates and the theory under obama on the theory under you know george bush the second was that this tax holiday would somehow encourage more jobs and growth in the economy well it never did firms spent ninety four percent of two thousand and four tax holiday benefit buybacks and dividends so mr dharmapala coauthored a working paper for the national bureau of economic research that found that after companies brought back cast during a tax holiday in two thousand and four they spent seventy nine cents. of every dollar on share repurchases and fifteen cents on dividends so it just goes back to that you know basically it's one percent of the population or the top twenty percent that own all of the shares of the s. and p. five hundred so it's just going to a few people it's giving back money to the oligarchs take notes here because you're making such excellent point and. it is mr dumbing down of yes university of chicago

this let's talk about the jobs wages of purchasing power so this is not about jobs in the sense that you are creating jobs with wages that are meaningful in any way and additionally because of the massive printing and bailing out of banks. everyone's purchasing power is eroding quite rapidly so they say there's no inflation that's a lie because miss smith interpret saying the salient data one needs to look at to understand if this economy is in fact growing in any meaningful way this is the stock repurchase that you just mentioned again fueled by zero money i can buy this building easily if i can borrow money at zero percent i can to make any offer in the world i want to make i could offer this studio for a billion dollars make a difference if the interest i'm paying on my loan is zero i can offer anything if

i'm if i'm buying a corporation for ten billion twenty billion thirty billion fifty billion dollars using borrowed money and i pay zero on that money then i can make any offer i want i get all the income from the slaves the american slave class the permanent american underclass so dividends the buybacks and dividends most of it went to the rest of it did not much go into capital expenditure i invest ment in the future of these corporations here in america and thus wage growth or job growth in fact a lot of the rest. to mergers and acquisitions so i jobs getting cut because usually when there's a mergers and acquisition you see job cuts because that's how they create efficiency they cut half the jobs so in fact the tax holidays could actually be worse for the number of jobs rather then but it's great for the stock market exactly the mergers and acquisitions you're filling in all the details so exactly

what i'm saying there that the m. and a the mergers and acquisitions are consolidating to the oligarchs that the jobs are being cut some about job growth which i'm says creating jobs ok replace that puckering little orange lip with you know a splinter because he's talking nonsense. in the record proves that the data proves that in a reality driven world that that's clearly proven if you're in the stocks you're getting a big payout america is being sold out essentially and it costs a bunch of money people are taking a sack of money america's dead dead dead dead because of this letter let's talk about the other situation here is that on the one hand you know now the democrats and m s n b c source are saying oh don trump is horrible and these are you know a giveaway to the oligarchs just as we've just said here but the fact is they reduce our taxes mining yours to what we were paying in the united kingdom and the united kingdom has a national health service they have more of

a welfare state than here less so than europe as they're getting dismantling it but that raises the question well how progressive were our tax rates and are they because all of our taxes now anyway whether they're forty percent or twenty percent or ninety percent or ten percent all of it goes to the military industrial complex these connected guys to the military none of it goes any way to health care system or you know. a more equitable distribution or economy is like that protects some of the weakest amongst us so why are they not addressing where the actual taxes go if they want to be progressive you know the democrats are the ones remember just at the in the budget when back in august or september trump had asked for liken it to ten percent increase in the pentagon's budget and they

were like no no no fifteen percent you have to take more so they added like billions that trumpet and even asked for so where that's regressive why what where are they now saying like virtue signaling the how progressive and liberal and and how they care about the poor people like what why now and why did they focus all of their media air time on a foreign country over there you know russia they didn't focus on domestic policy nobody even knew about this stuff until it happened look the corporate tax rate in america for this and p. five hundred adjusted for tax tax avoidance and tax loopholes that last year was roughly five percent yeah post this tax reform.