denuclearization of the region was discussed when the north korean representative heard that he said he shouldn't have said that and then he made it perfectly clear we have no none of our major weapons nuclear weapons atomic weapons i c b s nothing aimed at japan or south korea only aimed at the united states and i think that's what this is all about that was the message and that's a very telling message and that's was very interesting because it seems to me the you know kim jong room in his government you know kind of making these inroads into south korea you know releasing a statement like that saying look we're only really concerned about the united states our weapons are only pointed in that direction does that help him kind of paint the united states you know as the aggressor which if you follow the twitter wars we we are coming across as an aggressor as as they are. well i respectfully disagree i don't think we're coming across as an aggressor we've had test after

test after test by this. nad man who's done like a fox in violation of every kind of international agreement and he's been sanctioned sanctioned heavily for it and i think that's what's prompting all the things we're seeing now but i think that it's not true what they're saying if we're to believe that their weapons aren't pointed at the south as they've been pointed at the south every kind of weapon they have has been pointed at the south for decades and to think that they're not pointed at the south that a longer you know we'd have to be pretty stupid to believe that so they could say what they want to set the north koreans are still the north koreans and now i think we're going to find out very soon you know these joint exercises between the south and the united states have been postponed till april i think kim is buying time i think he's going to eventually test missile intercontinental ballistic missile

with a warhead that's not loaded and launch it into the south pacific and if it reenters the atmosphere and doesn't burn up then he's going to have proof that he could reach the united states and that's the ball game he's a threat to the security of the united states of america can i ask you this let's say this plays out the dominoes fall tragically and we see you know and kim jong un is removed in one way or another in north korea when you're talking about a people there who really have no real outside contact with the world have kind of grown up in almost a cult like status whose are going to fall apart and you know in terms of rebuilding that community you know if this happens if it goes down the way i've been many many i'll be honest warmongers kind of see it go going rather than peace will go to war will get rid of this guy we've heard that kind of talk who can help you. rebuild north korea who who acclimates not society which is a bomb well let me make it clear i think i don't think there's anybody who well i

shouldn't say that i certainly don't i don't think donald trump would like to see war i think we'd like to resolve this peacefully but that means the denuclearization of north korea and kim wants to be accepted as an equal player a nuclear power but to your question if this does result in war i don't see it as getting rid of kim i see it as an as basically a severe annihilation of most of the country i don't see how you you pin prick and pin point you know will do this it will take out kim and will do that i mean they have nuclear weapons all they have to do is flip a few switches and the missiles launched to the united states so if this is going to be an attack this is going to be a massive attack and the question of you know who would succeed is something that would be way way way way way down the list. i think we can both agree is that i mean i don't think anybody wants to see war at all they're going to want to see nuclear war for that matter and i think that's what makes this such an important

part of foreign diplomacy here and you know let's remember it's hard for us to stay on as the u.s. it's hard i think for us to kind of stand being the we're the only country that has used nuclear weapons so it's hard for us when it comes to nuclear policy to say don't have those oh you know we used them before you know i mean that's not so hard negotiating point i would hope that we could all just remove nuclear weapons that all countries would would say i'm not because and we don't want to use weapons are going to destroy the world three times over in just one exchange. well i don't hold it against us for using the atomic bomb when we did i think we saved american lives we saved many many lives that war had ended and we ended it and our first concern was saving at thout tens of thousands of american lives if not hundreds of thousands in the long run but the world is never going to be that kind of place if i mean we've got to steve we've got to fight for the for the world. that kind of place you know we go to how do you do that where you don't sacrifice your miss you

don't sacrifice your nukes and hope that the bad guys will then do the same i mean there's bad guys are going to be bad guys and they're always going to be bad guys and you have to have defense against that i just i just don't see that when you have a country like iran who doesn't know usually assured destruction there because there are more laws believe armageddon will send them to heaven well you don't even have the old soviet union mutually assured destruction. of iran iran doesn't want to see that kind of violence because they've watched us do that in afghanistan and iraq we try to do it in syria they don't want to see that at the end i've got them all awesome about it all as the religious one and then a lot of a lot of folks here believe that it should be the end times and that they're waiting to get up and they have and you can't you can't make foreign diplomacy based on religious beliefs you know what i'm saying about well well wait wait what when when the people who control the missiles have that kind of belief you do have to take it into consideration of course and maybe people here who believe in armageddon and want to see it but they're not in the government and they're not what you know about what you know of steve that we've got to be on the lookout out

of that i was a pleasure talking to you will go back and forth all day long on this but it's good always to have the good argument thank you but it is for crank you thank my pleasure. technology can be both mankind's greatest savior and greatest villain depending of course on how we humans wield it this is especially true in the world of medicine and health care medical technology can and will bring us closer to curing major maladies with each passing year but the cap of but the capitalism we practice may forever condemned those to put those too poor to afford the cure for example artie's david miller looks at a possible cure for a form of blindness but it comes with a very controversial price to. spark therapeutics has developed a new gene therapy which has the potential to treat l c a disease that causes rapid visual degeneration were blindness the drug nameless. tarn it is a huge leap forward in finding the cure for blindness however the transformative

genetic treatment will come with a price tag of four hundred twenty five thousand dollars per eye or double that for both after approved by the u.s. food and drug administration sparks said it will offer discounts based on whether or not the drug works initially and remains effective for the estimated one thousand to two thousand patients in the united states with this rare form of i disease caused by a mutant gene and sparks shares continue to experience gains in the stock market and the company has formed multiple agreements with insurance companies on how to best provide those who suffer from this rare form of blindness a potential cure with lux turn a fairly straightforward and eye surgeon makes a small incision in the eye and the treatment is infused onto the retina and the hope is that they'll take a single treatment to stop the degeneration several of the thirty one patients tested in the clinical trials of the therapy said that they saw unexpected and dramatic improvement in their vision very quickly and sparks is rolling out several

programs to spread out the cost over the years or give rebates to payers if the benefits decrease with time sparks has also proposed selling the gene therapy directly to insurance companies or pharmacies and this process would sidestep the current one m. place that requires hospitals or health care providers to buy expensive therapies upfront gene therapy has made tremendous advancements globally and now the question remains are insurance companies ready to cover a potential six digit medical bill when according to a recent survey most americans can't handle an unexpected five hundred dollar medical bill reporting from washington d.c. david miller r.t. america. and david joins us here on the talk about his report always a pleasure and you said they were the most americans come up for even a five hundred dollar medical bill let alone the price you talked about in that report. how are they just applying this allows this layer in a time they just buy it from the c.e.o. standpoint he says this is

a science and revolutionary science and they're saying that the breakthrough is and a plain investment so we keep going with this gene therapy you know technology in that therapy so they're saying that you know these breakthroughs lead to investment in the costs of initially would go down eventually would go down now the other interesting play at this is also you know health insurance you know there used to kind of paying for medicine that happens over the course of a long period of time or a report patients entire life but this is basically a one time kind of american treatment how does this present a challenge to you know the health insurance is and those who can afford the drug that's where it comes into play so much time because it's such a rare disease it doesn't cure all blindness you know thousand people in the united states would benefit right now from this drug so the company's working with medicare medicaid programs throughout the united states or china to figure out i guess an installment plan but they can't tell you how many installments what's the full cost of this price going to be and the drugs in an orphan state which means

you know so much that eventually the consumers are the one taking on this burden and the government and the insurance companies are discount they're in their hands up and saying here you go and part of the problem with this too is because the united states sits in this kind of what you know capitalized version of health care you know capitalism version of health care as opposed to you know single payer opposed to social health care because like the government health care that's also plays into that plus you know as you said this only affects a small amount of people but a bad surely this is the kind of thing that could have breakthroughs in the long run for more people exactly i mean we're talking about a breakthrough that can cure blindness you know our generations past generations we didn't think we'd see this now so why not invest more if you're the government if you ensurance companies to cure blindness for the overall global health undersea united states this could be a global phenomenon now again it's an orphan stage drug so we don't know all the event. spence but you know leading up to that it does have an immediate benefit right now and you've also reached out to people who would see that benefit as well

you know sufferers of those who said you know this we could please help us figure out the way to do this and give us all that now our insurance companies also worried too about like you know always a one time payment for us and then suddenly this person could just suddenly leave and go join another insurance company i don't like that's where that greed comes in and that's why viewers love the time because he you can see right through you know you can switch to a provider and also the insurance company is stuck with all this coverage you know or hundred twenty five thousand for one i double that if it works for two and again if it works it kind of work with you with payments if it doesn't use still kind of stuck it's for such a tremendous drug it's up in the air yeah well david thank you very much a club report always a pleasure all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think the topics we've covered at facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up we want to know only max woman ballinger of the oxalis to discuss the latest details of israel's move to deny entry to organizations and activist groups who support the b.d.s.

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what to make of this are we facing an entirely new assault on free speech or is this simply the harsh reality of real politic to help us answer that i'm joined a baby by max blumenthal senior editor alternate gray zone project always a pleasure max good we're going to you so you know the headlines on this issue almost make you do that double take you know just how far reaching is the scope of this decision by the israeli government well for years and years israel has denied . entry to hundreds and hundreds maybe thousands of arab americans simply because of their ethnicity they're suspected of you know ideologically being opposed to the state of israel and so many prominent activists intellectuals' and regular arab american people with family members in palestine have been humiliated upon entry at ben gurion international airport in other border crossings detained for long periods interrogated and then deported that's also happened to many americans who

are not of arab heritage who are just activists but it's happened in kind of an arbitrary fashion now israel's formalizing its plans to deny entry and one of the organization that they're targeting through the ministry of strategic affairs which is this new ministry aimed at countering the b.d.s. movement which it views as an existential threat to the survival of the state of israel is jewish voice for peace which has fifteen thousand members is a jewish peace organization that's almost two decades old and most of those members are jewish so israel has formalized plans to detain and deport thousands of jewish americans and that's something we haven't seen before it suggests panic on the part of the right wing israeli government you know and one of the things we're going to ask you is how is do you know how is the reaction actually inside of israel to this know they're potentially deporting you know. people with jewish

heritage who are going to be american you know support b.d.s. now we're going to deport or not allow him these people into the country what's the reaction inside israel because yeah great question i mean israel's government is more right wing than ever the right controls over eighty seats in the knesset out of one hundred twenty seats that's israel's parliament and so the opposition parties which are pretty far from pro peace i would hardly describe them as you know left wing have made some noise about this proposal or this new policy guideline and that's because the law. aber party which used to traditionally rule israel until the rise of likud is more concerned about israel's image internationally and about currying favor with you know the liberal democracies of western europe and the united states but we've seen through the kind of trump netanyahu axis that israel no longer feels like it even needs to be concerned about its image among you know jewish liberals and you know the mainstream american media

it's going for an entirely different constituency internationally christian zionists and the european far right and so this policy really is of no concern to the leaders of israel how you or the other question every viewer you hear about the beauty yes movement things like that it has of been successful enough to warrant this kind of response i mean really really think about because you see a lot of people you know hey they forgive a lot of people just go to israel they don't protect you know they don't participate in the movement as the movement as big of a threat to justify this kind of reaction yeah i think obviously it has and you know there's a psychological component to b.d.s. as well getting the new zealand pop singer lord to drop or a trip to tel aviv is a major triumph because it sends the signal to israel that it's not a normal country and that it's you know educated cosmopolitan upper middle class that wants to have concerts like these can have them as long as they have an occupation and a system of apartheid now look at jewish voice for peace is

a jewish based organization that's increased its membership by something like five thousand in the past year since it really made its call for b.d.s. more open and that really tells you where younger american jews are going they're going away from the right wing israeli government and the right wing israeli government is in a state of panic i mean there are these reports that have been issued by government linked think tanks like there are a huge institute which call for actually applying a price tag to b.d.s. and targeting activists with surveyor. measures and black operations and that so this is part and parcel of that it's designed to intimidate american jews who might think of joining jewish voice for peace but who also want to enter israel palestine and i think they need to understand that this can't be fully enforced and that they shouldn't be intimidated one less the question also too is how do you implement this i mean i can't imagine that a policy like this is easy to implement and what happens you know what happens when

that first person is detained you know what what what happens there i mean it's this i was it's so loud such a weird ludicrous response to words to a political movement an activist movement not a dangerous violent you know can this be even be enforced jewish voice for peace at the rabbinical board as a board of rabbis one of them rabbi alysa wise was detained not in israel but actually before she even got on her live tons of flight by israeli security agents who prevented her from entering and i think that might have been the first time it happened to a jewish person certainly to a rabbi. now we have to ask how that makes israel look at they start doing this regularly to jewish based jewish member based organizations it means they're seeking to define judaism along the lines of support for israel's project of apartheid and that is going to deep in the international crisis that israel has as it attempts to define itself as a jewish state while it finds itself in conflict with growing numbers unprecedented

numbers of left wing liberal and humanitarian minded jews that's really i think a fight that israel has never wanted to have and that's what they face now is this incredible do you think we're going to see this reverse to resist the kind of. you know because i'm also thinking what becomes mine too is the amount of surveillance it's going to take you know to mail you know in their mind mail and keep all these people from across the board that's a lot of surveillance and that's a styles are relevant hey we're going to look at your place. media post got a look at those what organizations do you belong to you know do you support this did you ever do you know someone who supports us a lot of surveillance so yeah how do they know that you're a member of any of these organizations well that means that that people in the palestine solidarity movement are already being surveilled possibly in their own homes possibly in coordination with the f.b.i. we don't know they're being surveilled through facebook through twitter and so people need to keep in mind that their social media postings are going to alert

israeli authorities to what their ideological guidelines are and what their intentions might be and israel has used facebook previously to detain people who planned to come in as a group to work with refugees in bethlehem for example but we also know that the n.y.p.d. had a demographics unit which coordinated closely with israeli intelligence and was run partly by a former cia officer and that demographics unit was actually surveilling students muslim students who were not even in the n.y.p.d. jurisdiction at yale at rutgers at places like that going after their social media postings so israel has a very wide net and the fact that they can implement a policy like this suggests that they're confident that they can surveil people on a grand scale that that's another extremely troubling aspect here as apologists most of the older want to get through to is let's talk about the u.s. reaction to this i mean you know you're going to be talking about you mentioned you

could be talking about you know american jews going over there and suddenly being detained by a foreign country or you know flown out of a foreign country if they're already there you know how do you expect the state department to react to you know you don't even can even be a legitimate advocate for affected americans considering the relationship between trump and you know who oppose point i think a dog of reporter might go to one of the state department briefings and ask that very question it's an excellent question the state depart. and has in the past did refused almost across the board to provide consular services and legal services to americans who've been detained by israeli. security at border crossings particularly arab americans and this is really i think an act of discrimination against arab americans and now it's going to be put to an additional test as israel seeks to apply these same guidelines to american jews who are members of jewish

voice for peace and to mainstream peace activists from groups like the american friends service committee the quakers who saved jews saved thousands of jews during world war two and are now an official target of the israeli state that's was pretty incredible too when you look at some of the groups on this list like you mentioned you know your code pink is on this list of the quakers the breakers. these are like you know hardened criminals that you don't want entering your society these are people who just simply disagree with what you're doing and there's a lot of people in this world that do do that what do you see is going to be the result of all this you know long game how is this going to play out your mind works israel is no longer going to be perceived as the only democracy in the middle east i mean it isn't already there's tunisia and other countries but that deve the image of israel is going to suffer massively it already is and we saw david rothkopf yesterday in haaretz this is the publisher of of foreign policy magazine one of the

most mainstream foreign policy minds in washington say that israel is an illiberal thug ocracy that he can no longer support who. was always were coming out also thanks so much for having to thank you. judging by the twitter feed of a certain real donald trump the first instance of light snowfall in december is all the science we need to once and for all banish that pesky global warming hoax so hawk watchers perhaps a quick thought experiment. in order what would be the logical inverse of that golden rule is to prove climate change is real well don't think too hard for us because australia has apparently stumbled upon the answer. chris christie squirrel corpse was raining down from the sky burnt to a crisp by what turns out to be a pretty darn stubborn and if a torrent of burning animals wasn't up for the apocalyptically inclined the global

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