they're it's which are very hard more common to go into the thinking about criminal activities if you talk about integration of immigrants it's a dialogue and once for integration you have to build perspectives and give them the chance to be one part of the society but on the other hand you have to hear the worries about germans and find together with those people who have worries solutions which can help for a better future together. now the u.s. national security advisor has his knives out for the new year with a call to reveal what he describes as insidious russian meddling master here says that pulling back the curtain might be a vital first step to prevent their interference the russia blaming trend hit full throttle almost a year ago with the release of a us intelligence report that kept the momentum going throughout the whole of

twenty seven think. arguably the biggest story of twenty seventeen was russia it was on the lips of world leaders and politicians but this wasn't always the case this was obama's analysis of the country back in twenty fourteen russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength but out of weakness regional power weakness well that was the past in the last year we've seen russia propelled to be the greatest threat on the planet in the words of the former f.b.i. chief what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process given what you know about russia's behavior. well certainly that in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth well here's how it all began on january

sixth of last year u.s. intelligence agencies issued a report saying that russia had tried to influence our elections with this russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in twenty sixteen aimed at the us presidential election russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the us democratic process denigrate secretary clinton and home her electability and potential presidency we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explained exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments to based on high quality information from multiple sources high confidence does not imply that the assessment is fact or a certainty such judgments might be wrong well after the report the word got around

that blaming russia was now a thing and that opened the floodgates in twenty seventeen hardly a lection went by in europe without russia being accused of meddling. in the balance disruptor covert food in two thousand and sixteen covert disruptor. part of our responsibility. the russians about what's going on in the united states germany france the other one in montenegro. from hacking into the danish defense ministry to trying to meddle in the maltese elections russia has had a truly diverse collection of accusations thrown at it russia is accused of influencing the braggs it vote through social media probably yes sure i don't

believe all of this it's russia they're crazy right russia was accused of intervening in the french election yeah you know what i believe that to the german election sure i catalonia separatism yeah yeah i believe that to all take all of them about sending bots after a star trek star trying to take him down with sexual allegations star trak no star wars i would believe if i had my doubts about a box so i would say no. they were actually accused of that was. russia hacked into the us irish and british power grids fake russia was influencing the braggs it vote through social media fake russia hacked into cataloging a separatism and was promoting cataloging a separatism in spain real how about buying ads on social media in order to influence u.s. public opinion yeah yeah why not make up the budget actually all of those

allegations were leveled against russia do you believe that do you think that they're actually doing these kind of things from what the seventeen u.s. . intelligence agencies syndicate and the strong possibility that they did i feel it's just i saw the news that to sell newspapers people just run and one story then put it on everything else that listeners showed new yorkers is dwarfed from an actual file of things that russia has been accused of it turns out that if you point the finger at the kremlin you can find a convenient scapegoat for almost any trouble that you're dealing with they will mop. r.t. new york. germany has started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but it's already being criticized for blocking the twitter feed of a satirical magazine and its american law explains applying this kind of legislation can actually be a legal minefield. well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crackdown on his speech extremism and of

course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect presidents but so far there are attempts haven't exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face a fine up to sixteen million dollars well the first case a far right politician of the alternative for germany party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users flagged her tweets as hate speech against muslims now that's after she lashed out against german police for putting out a new year's tweet in arabic and prosecutors are now examining whether or not her tweets do in fact incite hatred then on top of that twitter banned the account of a magazine that was actually mocking her but in doing so repeated her line now the magazine's editor said he was shocked by the decision and the association of german

journalist said that it qualifies as censorship adding that they've warned of this danger when the law was drafted last year a private company based in the united states decides the boundaries of freedom of the press and opinion in germany now this is even going on in the u.k. where twitter and facebook are facing sanctions after m.p.'s that said that they failed to thoroughly investigate how russia supposedly swayed the brig's that vote but the has to be them there's some mechanism of saying if you fail to do that and if you ignore a request to arms if you fail to police the science effectively and deal with highly problematic content then the has to be some sort of sanction against you. so the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads worth less than a dollar however the idea that maybe russia didn't influence the election is apparently off the table so who exactly polices the internet is it government or is it the social media companies or is it the government through social media companies that's all very unclear at the moment so mary kom that will mean the french

president has said he plans to crack down on fake news by targeting foreign media we'll have a look at the details on that in just a bit. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the senate with the long. view only show i go out of my way to you know the really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of mark two your marriage is doing the same we are apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of love jack the next president of the world bank so very . seriously send us an e-mail.

again the french president is going to combat fake news with the goal to regulate media influence by foreign state. and then it's the plan to journalists empowers. it was initially tween fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed presidential campaigns and almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with

a response where he wasn't specific about which countries he thinks could be influencing french media but russian media including r.t. and the sputnik news agency have already been in chrome's firing line both were denied accreditation during his presidential campaign last year and were later labeled by him as propaganda and let's push it is russia today sputnik have been influential outlets which have several times spoken mistruths about me and my campaign that's why they have not been invited in my headquarters. the r.t. family though did have a little christmas present for the for you french speaking world with the launch of our newest channel r.t. france and it immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers to several french public figures published an open letter calling for r.t. france's license to be revoked they said r.t. had repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries to political commentator though adrian yelland

believes that mccrone should perhaps be careful about taking legal measures against any media. i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press conference today a threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the narrative of the conversation to make this more about the use the pedal what he calls false news fake news and i think you need to tread very carefully i think that it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and what have their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you're not careful meanwhile macaronis facing a bit of flak at home at the moment because there is criticism that his wife bridget here is breaking protocol in behaving like a french queen because she stands next to her husband advents as opposed to you

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now donald trump's lawyers are threatening legal action against the former adviser steve bannon he reportedly made explosive comments about trump family members in a new tell all book about the president earlier publicly lashed out at his former right hand man and he said that bannon had lost his mind and it only worked for his own interest and was never part of trump's in a circle the white house press secretary then added fuel to the fire. it was curious what you were to receive orders so. i think furious discussed it would probably certainly fit when you make such outrageous claims and completely false claims against the president his administration and his family well the spot is over what biden reportedly revealed to the author of a book called fire and fury inside the trump white house he's quoted as saying that

a meeting between members of trump's camp under russian lawyer during his election campaign mr treasonous and also on pancreatic he also allegedly hits to the president's daughter ivanka trump christie fan and left the white house in august the year after joining trump's election team as his chief strategist about him was a pivotal figure too for the president during his campaign through to taking up office legal the media analyst line or thinks the trump reaction though is par for the course there is a simple rule if you don't go after trump he doesn't bother you go after him in any way insult him criticize him take him to task and he's on you with the death grip you've never seen does anybody think that anybody in the drug administration cares one i older about this i mean it's what it does

is it throws the mainstream media the washington press corps and the mainstream media news troops it throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannon he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does everybody not pay attention trump for arrives on this he loves this. meanwhile with his first anniversary in office fast approaching the u.s. president has been talking up his economic record in typical style economic miracle created more than two million jobs unemployment is at a seventeen year low the stock market is at an all time high fantastic for the economy or economy has already surged to three percent growth unemployment is at least seventeen year old little of the american economy and our economy doing very

well well one man who doesn't share trump's optimism there is the former u.s. congressman ron paul he told us that the growth in the u.s. is principally benefited those already at the top. if you're in the stock market no wealthy person here doing quite well but what we're forgetting here when we listen to this rhetoric of all this optimism is that there's a large segment of our population that's haven't a difficult time where there is prosperity and more jobs it depends on death yes an individual can feel very good if they have a line of credit to the bank but eventually that line of credit runs out we in this country benefit because we have the reserve currency of the world we can run up a lot of debt and we can spend a lot of money and even with that we've had a great deal of difficulty is last eight years trying to get out of the recession and i see everything we do is a big bubble and almost we have dealt with in these last eight years of just

created a huge bubble and everything is in excess whether it's our military budget our overseas engagements whether it's the welfare state and that bubble will come to and then we're going to have a sudden cataclysmic and which is sort of what happened to the soviet system it's not going to be identical and our states aren't probably going to break up but i do sincerely believe that we will no longer be able to afford our empire around the world so that brings you up to date thanks for being with us tonight don't forget you can keep cross developments to tell website.

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hello there friend. this is the guys report. the new pocket book. sometimes you just obviously this is the ninth birthday week of bitcoin so i'm going to stick on this but i know also a lot of people have not only. from the new year still but they have indigestion from the you know baptism by market crashes and volatility you know most people got into big coin twenty seventeen and they only saw up up up up parabolic and it was like it was like pennies from heaven it was like wonderful and then a lot of volatility hit over christmas so i'm assuming there's

a lot of indigestion and fear and panic and self loathing and all sorts of stuff happening so we're going to look at this article that jamison lup as we mentioned when we were hanging out with him for the big queen birthday party last night and i want to talk about take a step back to understand where big queen came from and by understanding the genesis of the genesis block that happened on january third two thousand and nine understand where the future might be what might happen in nine years from now and the rise of the cipher punks this is an important term to understand in the cypherpunks because right now most of the tension for all the newbies involved in cryptocurrency is all about the corporate side everything and c. and b. c. bloomberg where they're focusing on and took for us to watch c n b c and bloomberg is quite interesting because it's it's not at all what most people although like

the original gangsters of bitcoin nobody really talks about these aren't what are important to the big point community but it's a corporate side and that's their side of the story but we're looking at the origin what happened from bitcoin to block chain to distributors ledgers the cryptocurrency space is fast evolving to the point where it can be difficult to see which direction headed but we're not without clues on many of the innovations in the space are new there. built on decades of work that led to this point by tracing this history we can understand the motivations behind the movement that spawned it coin and share its dition for the future so he starts with the history which was in the seventy's and at that time cryptography was invented and created and developed by the u.s. military by the likes of the n.s.a. and cia mostly n.s.a. so they developed cryptography and it was at that time that all of the guys with the knowledge of that this was considered basically state secret is like you know

you can't just sell somebody u.s. military technology this was considered military technology to tell them about cryptography to tell them about encryption so in the seventy's was crypto war one script to war one the cryptographers against the government they wanted to open source and share this christian technology and order to keep the internet and communication private this notion of privacy not secrecy privacy for the individual participating online the idea of privacy isn't shrine and in the constitution clearly you can interpret there the right to assemble as the right to assemble and communicate privately. if that were not the case pretty for the american revolution if there were no private meetings to think about the american revolutionary war without george washington's ability to message privately there in the the colonies

to organize the the war against the empire yeah well he obviously needed secrecy these were secrets he was keeping from the crown and there is a legitimate reason for secrecy and all these early cryptographers did understand that you wanted secrets kept from your enemies and you know it was during world war two we didn't want the nazis to have our. our knowledge we use those you know native americans so they spoke the language that they not going to speak we were keeping information secret from them however there's privacy these curtains are open right now behind us because where everybody's going to watch us on you tube we're not trying to hide anything we're happy for anybody to walk past there and look at us but if we were walking around naked or in our underwear or you know just hanging out with our friends here we do watch. you can file simply read dutch if you've ever been to answer them they don't seem to have curtains they don't seem to

mind not having much privacy but nevertheless we're not we're american and we're in america and you know you you want to keep some things private you want your own intimate private space this is what they want to maintain for the people so then he goes into the one nine hundred eighty s. he lists a few of the key people remember this the title of this article is on the rise of the cypherpunks it's really we can't get into it here we don't have enough time but you should go read it and find out the history of it but it was in one thousand nine hundred two where the term cypherpunks was first coined san francisco of course everything happens there in one thousand nine hundred two eric hughes timothy c. may and john gilmore founded a small group that met monthly a gilmore's company cygnus solutions in the san francisco bay area the group was humorously termed cypherpunks as a derivation of cipher and cyberpunk the cypherpunks mailing list was formed at the same time and just a few months later eric hughes published

a cypherpunks manifesto he wrote privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age privacy is not secrecy a private matter is something one does not want the world to know but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world so this is the birth of the cypherpunk movement this these are the. people the cypherpunks who invented the technology that is that is the foundation upon which bitcoin is built right there we're getting into the how we got to genesis block and the idea of having private messages sent require electronically required adventures in technology and i believe at some point in the story the government's work in creating encryption was kind of released was it was so that out and into the while it was

released finally after a big battles between these guys in the ninety's in san francisco and the government and there were threats to arrest there were threats that they were revealing state secret some and that's important to understand that's in the documentation here that he's talking about but then the technology here just like member in the last episode we talked about the pre-cambrian explosion of all these ideas are merging here here were the ideas that went into it in in the you know biological life there were creatures with seven eyes creatures with ten eyes creatures with three eyes you know there were all sorts of attempts had various configurations but you could see that eyes were going to be a good evolutionary design it was it was useful and eventually to eyes was the one that was settled on that was the standard upon which many biological creatures emerged. that is what those guys those cypherpunks were laying out the

basically the standards upon which bit queen was built and one of the things of how to keep your messages private how to secure it was it to set incentivize people to keep it private and he mentions that in one thousand nine hundred seven dr adam back created hashcash which was designed as an anti-spam mechanism that would essentially add a time in computational cost to sending email thus making spam. on economical he envisioned that hashcash would be easier for people to use then dr charles digit cash which was created a decade earlier says there was no need for the creation of an account hashcash even has some protection against double spending then later he mentions that dr de published a proposal for the money a practical way to enforce contractual agreements between anonymous actors he described two interesting concepts that should sound familiar first a protocol in which every participant maintains

a separate database of how much money belongs to a user secondly a variant of the first system where the accounts of who has how much money are kept by a subset of the participants who are incentivized to remain honest by putting their money on the line so obviously copies some of those in the evolved it evolved from those concepts right well you know i say often that if you look at gold as a periodic album number seventy nine it has unique attributes that make a great for money these are you a big point that it would not born in a vacuum it has got forty years of history to it as evolved to all these technologies it's a unique protocol and it like gold is attracting a huge amount of capital force for the for this achievement and you can't say that you can simply go out there and create another one there are competitors of course just like there are competing species on planet earth for energy and survival but there's only one the apex predator or that is man at the moment before he dies of all the garbage. that he goes into the two thousand as you mentioned gold and

that's one of the ideas like all the ideas from our history of money from our history of privacy of being humans and evolving higher intellectual you know speaking freely amongst each other in these groups and speaking about ideas no matter how crazy or stupid they might seem and they invention emerge into powerful you know robust systems so he mentions how funny. who recently passed away he in two thousand and four created work which was called the reasonable proof of work which built on the backs hashcash and then of course in exile though in two thousand and five he did big gold which was digital collectible so these ideas obviously you know bitcoin is often called gold two point zero zero it's in fact i.r.s. does qualify it as a commodity as a property an asset like gold so these are this is.