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it's at the bottom. of. what they like you know that i got. this. week so. well they were on the watch of the harks i am i robot and on top of the wall it says hire out here we are i really haven't seen this covered in the mainstream media as much as i would have expected to i don't and i can't find a really good reason for that it's odd isn't it i mean you see these stories cover they'll get the headlines they'll get the play but you would expect them to be covered as much as you know a donald trump tweet you'd expect them to be covered as much as like a kobe bryant you know rape trial from back in colorado all the near wall to wall o.j. simpson style this is big huge news that goes beyond just sports right and yet you
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don't see this cover you don't see this you know wall to wall every day wow this is the latest of what's happening and i think because it really it i think it because it hits home and it scares people that institutions can can just turn a blind eye to this whether knowingly or not although i think you really shouldn't be surprised at this point that that these kinds of things go on and it's not as if nasr was some kind of angel as if this is the only thing wrong i mean. as you said there's not just one charge not just two charges these and even just this case this man away for a very long he's already been sentenced to sixty years in jail on federal child pornography charges you know this round of sentencing where there's hundreds so women are getting up to stand up to look him in the eye and tell you know their story what happened what he did to them this is for guilty pleas multiple counts of . so i mean there has to rain could be in or another forty mother sixty years added
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to his already sick i mean this guy is going away for a long time which i'm happy to see because a lot of times in these cases you see the child you know the pedophilia the child predator go away for maybe like ten years twenty tops sometimes and it breaks my heart when i see things like that i mean jeffrey epstein so what are your fairly you know it's absolutely ridiculous. to me the biggest most important question of news stories like these is should any culpability fall on the major institutions in this case usa gymnastics or powerful individuals who kind of look the other way when they are when they are involved with or found to be you know employing sexual predators like nasser absolutely absolutely you don't get a free pass he was there long enough for you to know it's the same thing that was in the penn state and to pretend as if you had no idea i mean there is a huge difference between did people know that harvey weinstein was
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a criminal rapists know a lot of people didn't they just thought he was a scumbag right and that he was you know about a person they didn't know they didn't have that information so most of the people were covering it up in this situation there are multiple people at multiple levels and the thing that bothers me is that i've seen this happen. it when i was a school age an incident something like this where it was a trainer but it was for the men's men's team and i watched that get covered up so nefariously from the day even like got out and stories and that part that really hurts because that's what hurts victims that's what hurts fixing these issues one of the two time olympic gold medals mckayla maroney she's known for being the one who made that face and now i wonder when she was on the stand and now i think maybe that's because she saw him standing there. she wasn't able to speak because her settlement with this is where you know there's culpability you know the u.s. jim that usa jim now. stix had her sign an n.d.a.
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and i gag order so she wouldn't talk because of it so the agreement was a confidentiality clause and it not only was a confidential cross call clause but it also said that she would be fined one hundred thousand dollars if she spoke so she wasn't going to be able to speak at this hearing. without getting fined which is interesting it took some you know hot someone from hollywood to actually step up model chrissy teigen offered to pay the hundred thousand dollar fine for her and actually it's interesting because christie again has done a number of things like that we're stepping up for women in situation that's really like this and putting our money where our mouth is which is what everyone should do at this point the courts actually did the right thing but usa gymnastics and the u.s. olympic association doesn't fact need to deal with this and need to take up ability just as the church had to take a call so if you want to happen then and penn state had to and i would even venture say that the church still hasn't taken all to make culpability for the you know for what they did especially in moving guys around so they wouldn't be charged with
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this and to me this is one of those things yes the crime as egregious guess no one wants to believe that this could happen in their community or with this you know great institution or with this great man that piles around and flies and we're jets with movie stars and other moguls but at the end of the day they're attacking kids what you need to say i'm out of is enough. social media is buzzing but not from the latest round of celebrity gossip or political foot and mouth and this week at an unrelated senate hearing twitter's director of public policy and philanthropy carlos monday announced that the company is now working hard to identify and inform individual users if their feed is was or has been exposed to those notorious kremlin propaganda trolls we've all heard so much about parties david miller has this story. amid pressure from capitol hill twitter is exploring how to notify its users that they saw
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a russian propaganda during the two thousand and sixteen election the director of public policy for twitter did not elaborate how twitter would do that or if the company would alert users who solved weeks from russian accounts or only those targeted with ads also the question remains of twitter would seek to impose a notification towards r t after recently the company has been banned from sponsoring tweets on the site and after sharp criticism that it has failed to respond to lawmakers demands twitter's announcement does come amid pressure from capitol hill urging the company to do more to battle allegedly russian this information twitter failed to meet a deadline to answer questions sent from members of congress and previously reported that it found roughly two thousand seven hundred accounts tied to the i r s a and also ran a number of and during the two thousand and sixteen election purchased by r t and democratic senator richard blumenthal has been a sharp critic of all social media concerning meddling and wants a platform soon notify all users who had unwittingly viewed what he calls russian
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propaganda twitter pushed r.t. for a large ad buy for the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election but the channel did decline the offer the exclusive twitter offer was eventually declined by r t due to the excessive price tag and a lack of confidence on behalf of r t that this campaign would benefit the network . correspondent david miller religious. so gets under my skin at this point because i'm sorry with the amount of money that the democrats republicans parties spent on this election in social media advisers probably got far more influence by something coming out of the hillary camp or the trump camp than some independent troll factory just basically by getting putting out click click so they can to pay at the long run it's so absolutely ridiculous this propaganda this russian propaganda scare that they're seeing here. about israel and
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to me it's like that we've been wrong but to me it again goes back to that you get the feeling in the back of your mind like are you guys still looking for some kind of an excuse like from here on out because now the big twenty eight what will happen over twitter users so stupid that they'll fall for this to me it's like it's like now the catch all campaign failed because i didn't do a good job i can blame somebody else i can blame trip twitter trolls i can blame the democrats for telling people that i'm a t.v. individual tried to date children you know there are so many so many things i think it's interesting because fundamentally congress and members of congress do not understand how the internet works they do not understand how social media works because by this continued like well we can invest a can of us this you know the internet research group magic there are so great that they can't hide themselves from twitter apparently they're so good they can change minds of people millions and millions of votes and minds get into them but that's
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some serious return on investment for online advertising and quite frankly i think that hillary clinton should have used the internet research company. and she might have won. i don't really think i think this is sort of what that strange thing of saying at some point you have to look at it like if this is our newspaper and this is just the newspaper stand of. the twenty first century. if you start saying what can be sold on those newspaper stands which is essentially what they're saying but you can't put a russian newspaper or a chinese newspaper you can't but that if we started doing that we would be appalled that you would be telling people what they can't see that newspaper because it says bad things that we don't think are true about america so we have taken our stance there's something tangible to that was social media people look at it like it's not as tangible it's just this a family thing that you can just protect and a little bubble and manipulate and manipulate i think that's i think it's just as unfair you shouldn't be telling people that is our choice to make as americans that
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is a god given or god's given whatever you believe in or an atheist the universe gave us these things as human beings these are our liberties these are our freedoms yes that's ours to do with what we are not when it's not are you but you don't get to tell me what i'm supposed to think and you don't get to say i can't read something i can't look at something and that i think it brings up the bigger thing where does this all this does feel like you know this new pressure on social media companies to root out fake news and like all of that it's like leave it up to educate the audience to be able to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake and then but let it be out there because this to me seems like backdoor censorship at the end of the day all right as we go to break or quarters don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter and see our poll shows at our dot com coming up we present or to drug stores or to be well off the survival of the richest jeff we want to miss that so.
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you do believe him and we will resume folding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education alone higher education is becoming just another product that can beat bush and so on so there's not a. it's about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you know most of. the good is also. going to follow economy. which is the place of students in this business model for college i was born now and i'm extremely bored my education the new global economic war. i don't think that any country can push a button and get rid of trade this is far too important there before i wish to political backlash money is
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a very fungible thing and i think it will be very quick before people found ways around it because as i say it but it may be damaging it might cut it back but the idea that you could do anything nearly even this is very unlikely. it was the most populist of times it was the greediest of times and they quite make sense in our conflicting world where socialism populism and unrivaled corporate greed seem to thrive all at once in a world where the hottest political trends setters are the socialist stirrings fueled by bernie sanders and the populous undertones of donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign yet a resurgent wall street boom on the news of what many may call the biggest corporate giveaway in modern history just when it feels like we're magically taken
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back to a centuries old popular economics movement pioneered by william jennings bryan and he long the public wakes up once more to a policy making team dominated by you guessed it the omnipresent wiseguys from goldman sachs so when a complicated world like ours who are the politicians a true populace can turn to for inspiration this is just what sean stone asked of donald jeffries author of survival of the richest. well there not too many of them left in congress i love something mechanic who was in congress when she was run out of congress i love dennis kucinich he was in congress he's not there any longer either. i'm not sure there are very many i'm sure that i don't keep up with the politicians much that he's there because i've become very disillusioned with them but. on that issue as far as i know he longs out there and there was i wish you luck they'd have a whole chapter huey long as i look at most people will not even have heard of him unless they're from louisiana certainly he was considered a bit like i did say
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a populist right would be a charge as my of the present day might be to become apparent to huey long but his whole you know concept of basically trying to create a socialist but really to a noble the working man the poor to make every man a king was a slogan. what were the positives of his regime as as governor well you can look online and see this stats from the he lawn website that he saved and this is why it would differentiate him between from an f.d.r. who came to oppose strongly or later like l.b.j. and his you know it's great society and so forth he didn't he wasn't looking to create big bureaucracies he wanted to change the tax code dramatically and that's what he didn't louisiana but the average family saw i mean i have the stats in there but they saw significant savings and utility bills foreclosures pretty much stopped personal property taxes were eliminated for almost everyone in the state only the very wealthy pay them anymore so the average family saw savings whereas
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under like l.b.j. type of plan the average family didn't notice that this because war and poverty was obviously lost their whatever war was going on but he likes tax plan he's been he's been derided as a communist or socialist when in fact the american communist party the american socialist party hated him in fact the left hates him when he looks like he was really walking the walk of what the left claims and wants to do with his tax plan to share the wealth plan he wanted to exempt. first million dollars that income from taxes and this was in the one nine hundred thirty s. that's about twelve million now so just imagine i mean everyone with i mean what rich person would love that plan to not pay any taxes so virtually no one would wind up paying taxes under his plan he recognized where the money was it was concentrated at the one percent of the one percent and that's who he was looking to go after and that's why he was much more dangerous than f.d.r. or any other kind of left as of this time because he he was really doing things and people to put that's why the poor and he didn't play racial politics unlike any
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other southerner was time. he was just he was an honest guy and he's my political hero and i wish we had someone like him and he was he was populism defined. do you think you could apply this kind of mean you know obviously huey long was assassinated he was never able to really make to really make a presence on the national stage but do you think that there is a pop inability for anyone at this point in our history in the way that our government is designed and it's just so interconnected between the congressional and you know the congressional class the major corporations that finance them the presidency as well it's sort of it's sort of been stripped emasculated is there any way for any for anyone to get to a position of being you know an f.d.r. a kennedy at this point and say we are going to make reforms that would impact the entire country for the benefit of the taliban while i think the country is so deeply divided and you have perhaps you have the people that are still supporting trump i mean that conservative base who hated him they began with this kind of now
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coalesce behind him the people that like this plan and you had the people on the left that are called the social justice warrior types that are there in their own little thing it's hard to find anyone that would agree on that but i think if someone came up with a tax plan that said the first twelve million dollars in the first million today were you don't pay any taxes i don't know who would support that especially if you showed it could work i mean he long had economists that show. because the money is consolidated top and people realize how much money is and he was also looking already at the time it foundations and things like that we look at the gates foundation the rockefeller foundation the carnegie foundation things like that we don't even know how much wealth is in there let alone what they're doing but so you have to free up money to go to the masses so they can spend it and live like you a long wanted to he wanted everyone to enjoy the blessings of you know prosperity things grates if you read his speeches today or listen to him he's fascinating the stuff he was saying is that he was advocating a thirty maybe twenty hour work week in the one nine hundred thirty s.
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he wanted everybody to have a month off vacation every year he was and he was responsible because of the pressure in life for the one hundred thirty eight and the national labor relations act which we take for granted now that's what adopted the forty hour work week and over time and started the pension started now they're being limited of course but these are the things that were all especially republicans they're wanting to eliminate a lot of these things they would love to get rid of over time and these are the way people make more money and. i think that standard because he wanted would not believe what was going on now because you know they're going to get rid of these things would be disastrous i think what he was forcing i mean his whole point was look we have greater technology already this was the one nine hundred thirty s. but he's basically we've got a technology we should you know you would think that we that would allow for us to have more leisure time to have you know to depend more on machinery and not upon manual labor and man hours to get as much output and yet we have to this day we have people having to work more hours for less money and it just doesn't make sense
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but the overall. internet and machinery revolution that we've seen of cross the board why is it that people are having to do so much more labor if we have the technology to actually as we know it's make things so much more rapid that's actually give us more leisure time or relaxation it doesn't make any sense the main the main benefit of all this technology in the last twenty thirty years this bill. incredible executive bonus program that seems to be how much of a bonus can they get every year goldman bro and things like that but you're right i mean with the technology we should probably have a ten hour workweek by this point because there are you know there's not with with the dances we've made and they're not even considering what the impact is going to have on with the artificial intelligence out there they don't even have automated trucks automated for there are so many jobs that can be done now without any human beings but again we don't have any foresighted leadership at all they're not even thinking about what the impact that they just kind of cavalierly say well you know
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maybe ten million truckers all lose their jobs or something more one of those truckers going to do for a living there i mean it's great i guess but and that's why i think probably benchley we're going to have to come down and i know it's not going to happen for half of this country but you know if the economy goes down the drain americans may eventually come to agree to adopt some kind of modified universal income or something because that and that's why that's kind of ideas been floated out there because they're just not going to be enough jobs for the people there so you can either let people die in the streets or you can come up with some kind of basic income and i never thought i would you know advocate something like that but i don't see any other way to do it because the way society is going i mean salaries are dropping for the average citizen when half the country is making a wage that can barely get a one bedroom apartment in most areas i don't know you know the dream of having a home and are owning your own home and what the real estate impacts of the tax law mean there are so many things that are going the wrong direction it's just trying
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not to be too cynical about it but i don't see anything happening that that's positive a very little and. i agree with you i think that the universal income actually makes a lot of sense when it comes down to it but the other question then becomes in dollars always critical of going back to this issue of people who criticize those who are on the dole and they're lazy and don't want to work but you know what fascinates me is where is where do our taxes actually go because it's really not going out to people on welfare. it's not it's going much more to massive government bureaucracy as we know in a massive military industrial intelligence complex not that we don't end with those budgets are still secretly know how much money is spent on the intelligence agencies but you're right and i that's why i want i don't fall into the left right paradigm and most people would you know right in this book they'd probably call me a communist but i'm i'm far left far right whatever i'm on different issues i'm a populist and. you know when you have the kind of situation you have you have to look at things i think you know independently and look at each issue and right now
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we're just we're not doing things the right way and i think we did have awful leadership at the top and i think it's shortsighted and it's basically based on whether it's you know ignoring the crisis is going to come in social security and all the baby boomers retire and there's not enough money going into the system but i mean that that goes back to b.j. and certainly to reagan it started dipping in the security fund but we're already here was one of the republicans dropped i guess a hand rubio i guess it was dropped a hint that this is the plan is to do is to eventually get rid of security in medicare so how i mean i don't understand what they think is going to happen to because their pensions have been all but eliminated the idea is to work yourself to death we've already seen that yeah you know people retiring older and older ages you know the spread of cancers and other diseases anybody living on it long enough to enjoy their retirement it's a it's a very scary world for a lot of people it is and i think that there are usually these these are typical solution of these things is let's keep it and keep raising the retirement age and
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the bentley that's what it will come down to because that's the only thing they can think of they want to address the real situation which is i mean if something like social security should be means testing and they're all in the people or us whatever rest of taxes security is it only taxes the first hundred nineteen thousand dollars in income so bill gates and warren buffett people are paying tax on one hundred nineteen thousand dollars and that's i don't i don't understand democrats don't make much of an issue of it either. they say few things but i don't know what why isn't you know all the income is taxed for other purposes why isn't it taxed for that and as ross perot floated back in ninety two he wanted to voluntarily so i don't need security why am i taking it but. they went nuts over him he was attacked yeah that was he was provoked saying he was advocating voluntary means testing where we can get that done i don't know if you said the country is divided and i now understand half of the half of the country or more is going to be opposed to a lot of what i'm saying in the book and certainly anyone that's doing well should
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read it but i hope they do. yeah. thanks so much for joining me to talk about some of the richest thank you thanks for having. the same cold air from the same storm eleanor that blew one hundred mile per hour gale force winds across the alpine slopes of italy left a rare present on the sands of the sahara desert the european space agency's copernicus sentinel two satellites snagged these images of the tangerine snowed snow in the sahara one of the hottest places on earth is not unheard of but extremely rare having only occurred four times and the last forty years which makes sense that only it almost never gets below forty degrees fahrenheit during january now the sahara is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after antarctica and the arctic that's right antarctica and the arctic are technically desert so sadly unlike those desert snow doesn't last very long in the sahara the sixteen inches melted by nightfall so when the weather seems to be
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getting a little flaky try to remember their snow way around. snow in the third desert but you know that's like all those things where you hear the term you know what hell freezes over you know when the center is suddenly is presumed to have a. trainer's present politics most know or like you go on in the. world all right out of our show per year to remember everyone who lives world we love you so it's all you all i love you i robot and on top of the wall and keep on watching those talks over three.
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is iran must going to fit into steve jobs which is by coming up with innovative products you know the electronic gadgets market is a little bit different in the car business because the car business is you know you kind of bound by the highway system and you're bound by the whole infrastructure that is the automotive industry and the lobbying of the automotive industry so it's a bit difficult to be disruptive in that industry in a way he's going to open up his charging stations with one nine hundred fifty style burger and shake joints with servers on roller skates ok that's that's an idea that might take off that might be a new like starbucks like third place that people go to to have an experience that might work. closer to you know when you don't. see the teachers who are. then equipped to do. what they need not through only ten space. let alone.
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said. come into no servant is messy that. alex used to be friends. most of us who want to be here and send them all to new. busy them to see. i don't think that any country can push a button and get rid of trade this is far too important there be farmers to political backlash money is a very fine people think and i think it will be very quick before people found ways around it because they say it but it may be damaging it might cut it back but the idea that you could do anything nearly the same in the south that it is very unlikely.
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i think that is what drove needs confidence and confidence is based on on common goals i strongly believe that and the u.s. and europe at the new place to be croly and the united states has been a partner in creating that fool based system. i'm afraid that's. true if forwards and especially language person from past been using. i'm not that confident that the contribution of the united states to that school based system is sort of as relevant as superspeed. young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million doing so today. this culture led to the development of bolivia's new
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liberal and highly controversial children's code in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances one doesn't have to miss. these only. eat well without. in the end all. those things years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operation completely outside. mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but it's never enforced and that means the school boy minus continue risking their lives for the money they need to survive on.
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turkey demands the u.s. ends its support for syrian kurds amid a spat between the two countries over washington train pulled of forces. hundreds of prison guards go on strike over unsafe what conditions under french jails thought to be a hotbed for islamic radicalization. and dante obtains a new leak from the fancy bad scripting group that raises concerns over how don't think case is doing the rio olympics in twenty sixteen.

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