max blumenthal author and senior editor at the real news dot com thank you for your time thanks for having me. the south korean president said he's ready to accept an invitation to visit pyongyang from the north korean leader if certain conditions are met the invitation was delivered by kim jong un's sister who is attending the winter olympics in south korea she's the first member of north korea's leading family to visit the south since the one nine hundred fifty s. she met with president muna for talks that ended up lasting three hours and the opening ceremony of the winter games also saw signs of thawing ties between north and south with the country's teams marching together.

the friendly relations come after the country's recently held their first talks in two years hong kong city university is joseph chung of political sciences professor believes the invitation is a breakthrough. this is a small break through for president moon of seoul korea understands that his people would like to see the escalation of tension in the korean peninsula the conditions normally will be cessation of nuclear power then miss out on the part of north korea and north korea in turn will. terminate of large scale military exercises are on the par of

south korea. and the united states or the two koreas were able to much under a single unified flag and then pick athletes from russia or from the our team as it's known and to the opening ceremony under a neutral flag however although the russian flag was banned by the international olympic committee it still found its way into the stadium are trying to explain. no russian flags at the opening ceremony nations parade. the i.o.c. said some very strict rules and promised no excuses for anyone who'd violate them so who would have thought the russian tricolor would still make it to the ceremony all thanks to a blogger by korean t.v. just as team france were walking into the arena a russian flag i can well while the zero eight our team were carrying the white a live big flag maybe russian flags flashed around the arena at the stands but it

turned out that not only russians brought them there we spoke to one american fan who grabbed one too and i thought it would be nice to you know show a bit of support for them because they've basically worked for years for this moment to represent their countries and now they can't and so i was kind of trying to sort of you know help them feel at home i was trying to sort of send a message that they should be included because the olympics is for all countries i don't exactly know the particulars of the doping thing i don't know what the right decision is really i'm just trying to show a sense of unity i'm trying to kind of put the politics aside i'm trying to support these athletes because we know for a fact that these athletes are clean there's no doubt about it but then they're being punished for what others may or may not have done and so that's collective guilt and i don't like collective guilt i think when you have all so many verses beth's athletes banned just before the games instead of you know just for the game so they can't appeal they don't actually have any they don't communicate directly

what they did wrong but then all their best athletes are sort of banned i think that is to much to be a coincidence or. a slight i serafin stands gender specialist in the u.k. is challenging a university which is blocking was thirty wants to conduct into people who regret undergoing gender change james caspian claims the move by both spy university is an attack on free speech. it's been extremely stressful to find myself embroiled in these proceedings which i think should be of great concern to anyone who values free speech in knowledge i do believe that the research i proposed is important to the well being of the transgendered community there was such proposed by mr caspian was an italy approved by academics back in two thousand and fifteen but was later dropped in december twenty sixth the high court judges ruled in the university's favor without waiting for an internal review of the study according to mr caspian

the university dropped the rest because it fit there would be a backlash on social media not to discuss the issue with walt heya he reversed his decision to become a woman and i've been back now to my birth gender for twenty five years have been married for twenty years you know when i discovered that the this whole that this whole transgender thing is built solely on feelings there's absolutely no objective proof that anyone is a transgender except by no self identifying as a transgender is no medical proof that anyone is a transgender and there's no proof that anyone benefits from the surgery over the long term some people like myself feel like we had a good to employ it lasted but when the truth rears its ugly head and you want your life back you want to live in reality and not in so. you know surgically made transgender life i have found out in my many years of working with transgendered

people that there is a groundswell of people be transitioning i'm working with them all the time now more and more letters from around the world from people who after five seven twelve maybe fifteen even twenty years they wanted to transition back calling the surgery in their gender change just pure folly and bullishness and totally unnecessary so they want to help you transition just as i. well we are sponsored by university to comment on that decision regarding mr caspian's research mr caspian's research proposal was not refused on the grounds of topic but on the methodological approach the investee was not convinced the approach would guarantee the anonymity of his participants and the confidentiality of data there was such a loss the first round of his legal battle leaving him to cover the university's court costs he set up a crowdfunding page to cover the expenses and mount

a fresh legal challenge against the university and so far raised almost fourteen thousand pounds while taylor again believes that it's a politically motivated decision or i think it's political absolutely i think it's totally political are afraid of b l g b t which is so powerful it would probably overwhelm university if they start studying this like james cares wanted to do at the university what they would find out is there's a bass number of people who are be transitioning because they regret having changed their gender so i think they're fearful of the truth coming out this is their way of preventing research from being done more news after this short break. the bond market will not crash and this time it will continue to go even lower and negative yields on various bonds will increase from the multi trillion dollars but

the negative yielding sovereign debt now the even more multi multi multi trillion dollars of negative yielding sovereign debt and we're going to go down the rabbit hole even further but it certainly smells lie with the panic cash withdrawal in places like china and with the sell off and all these various markets and with the oil prices climbing higher and gold looking better than we've got here an old fashioned reversal. that's in american interest to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive.

welcome back tensions are high in italy with less than a month to go until its general elections hundreds of supporters of a far right party clashed with police in the central italian city of match your darter just a week before matter of art a suffered a racially motivated shooting which left six injured. and. the shooter was targeting african migrants police found a copy of hitler's mine kampf in his apartment as well as a flag with a far right symbol the shooter said he wanted to avenge the death of an italian woman allegedly killed by

a nigerian asylum seeker. while the incident has fuelled concerns about the rise of neo fascist sentiments in italy national as well as foreign media have been weighing in the shooter's lawyer told journalists that his client was greeted as a hero in prison police say racial and religious violence has soared in recent years we can show you the disturbing numbers from the italian police force hate crimes have jumped more than ten fold in just four years the issue is raising concern at the highest level with italy's justice minister revealing he was threatened when he visited the match year after shooting victims in hospital. i received threats against me and my family but i was the first is to go away when the time comes to take action so i. mean while a video has appeared in the media showing the mattered are to shooter shaking hands with the leader of the right wing leader know what more is that the shooter stood

as a candidate for the party at local elections last year we invited a little note councillor to debate the issue. if this guy did what he did he became a creaminess so we. are very strict about it and. we pons and sit in the next election the people will use it to vote and this is the only way we act any violent act carried out by an immigrant it seems like the response is is also considerable surely this is not good for the country as a whole how do you feel about what's been reported the rise of nationalism and fascism in italy we are just telling the people we need low we need contra county we cannot lose our identity because italy if

these mood of immigration will rise and we will lose. the ally of your party the former soviet belasco and he's called migrants a time bomb now is fairly aggressive rhetoric is only going to further divide people you said your weapon is your your pension should be trying to bring people together we found always the right way to act together and when we have been in the government the last time in two thousand eighty two two thousand and eleven we practically stopped their arrival of illegal immigrants in two thousand and eleven we had. only four thousand in one year in last year we had more than forty thousand arrival of illegal immigrants in italy so you can see the difference and this is a bomb because the most of those people are illegal they will never go get the.

paper refugee because just the five maximum ten percent of them is a real refugee. brian may they were announced guitarist from rock band queen who also happens to have a ph d. in astrophysics discussed space exploration and the politics surrounding it with artie's afshin rattansi you can watch the full interview in the latest episode of going underground throughout the day donald trump. is going to send people to mars as far as we know that his plan he's going to try was your reaction to him saying according to leak draft budget that the administration will end financial support for the international space station well that's politicians for using you know they're saying one thing over here and over here you know i think everybody in our circles doubted that funding was going to be put in you know the money is going to go with a mouthpiece trump is trump you know politics is politics and people say things for expediency and they say things to to get a reaction so i don't think there's

a great belief that this is going to happen in the near future if there's an intent then great you know if it helps the current research of nasa that's great you know it's nice to have someone who's actually saying. you know there is some support for this but comes down to money doesn't it. and here in our city we're always happy to hear your thoughts on all of our stories they do get in touch by following us on social media i'll be back in about thirty minutes with the latest headlines of the you then. global war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't. produce offspring to tell you that what we gossip and tabloid by itself of the most important news today . mock the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough and that's why their products. are the hawks that we along with our

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a decades long debt. studying so hard it requires druggists. going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and parching to death sometimes quite literally. wants of the true colors of universities in the us. the bond market will not crash and this time it will continue to go even lower and negative yield on various bonds will increase from the multi trillion dollars worth of negative yielding sovereign debt now to even more multi multi multi million dollars of negative yielding sovereign debt and we're going to go down the rabbit all even further but it certainly smells like what the panic cash withdrawal in places like china and west sell off in all these various markets and what the oil prices

climbing higher in gold looking better that we've got here an old fashioned reverse top. yes. we have. run a good. show where americans in america talking about american news are called foreign agents. as you surely know this week the stock market at its worst single plot day plunge in history sixteen hundred points down in a single day and all your corporate media whores ran around trying to tell you that everything will be ok no pay it don't go you'll still get your ohman want tell you whatever you're still doing your begun freezing i will still be able to afford it many pennies ok it's all fine and i tell you that they're not telling you the

censored side of the story all right they're not telling you that this is an economy at its core which is based on dad and misery and hardship it's not based on the health and happiness and life when it's humming along perfectly when it's all we're all going well it means our obliteration of the planet is running full steam ahead and the average and the average workers are appropriately suppressed and held down and hoping to just you know make it through their day and collect enough food stamps to paper maché a cast on to their broken arm. in fact the washington post admitted admitted that much this week and they acted surprised when they said it many analysts pointed to a seemingly unusual cause for the turbulence rising wages no that's not unusual alright that's not unusual all you oblivious to change when we start

when we start doing better when wages go are still going up wall street themselves are right that they only sound. race we're. what it is when workers don't have the ability to demand better wages to demand better treatment at a man health care and coffee breaks and last hand the boss is all right that's when the stock markets around the world panic is when workers are strong the stock market is not it's not for the rest of us the richest ten percent of americans now own eighty four percent of all stocks it's like a game of monopoly except the regular people or the little pieces doing all the grunt work run around the board going straight today jail right work at work and on the working on the pennsylvania railroad just common honda to nothing but a thimble full of stupid for dinner you know. and then the rich or the giant flashy

hands that come in to wrap up all the money and let your house off the board. over over the past year as the dow broke twenty four thousand and then twenty five then twenty six and every news anchor was out there with the other and on their party hats and they're just right you know robin or nepalese on prime. want to toss out hands will. trump tweeted gal rises five thousand points on the year for the first time ever made other than. during all of that it wasn't a rally for us it was not a rally for the planet or the animals it was only a rally for the parasites at the top the regular humans work their ass off and the viruses are the ones reaping the benefits and not even paying taxes going to. the

same god. and i'm pretty sure i'm i to mix my metaphors there but still i think viruses should pay taxes again. and i think i think tapeworms should do jury duty also. no more proof in a two thousand five in turn will leak citi group a memo the parent company of citibank they said and the world is divided into two blocks the plutonic me and the rest futon meets our economies powered by the wealthy there are rich consumers and there are the rest of the non rich only accounting for small bites of the national pie we should worry less about what the average consumer is doing when that consumer is less relevant to the aggregate data then how the wealthy feel and what they are doing this is simply a case of mathematics not morality morality that matters to them as much as.

they have in skid marks on their underwear and then they toss it off to the side never think about it again. and then the memo puts the nail in the coffin of the three levers governments and societies could pull on to and plutonic me are benign citigroup is saying the levers of the state cannot stop us the rich from doing what ever the we want because we own the government there are gimps on a chain in the basement all right in the case and in case you've forgotten it came out in the wiki leaks e-mails that citi group chose nearly all of obama's cabinet and trump also has surrounded himself with citigroup and goldman sachs makes it makes you wonder if citigroup had really tested out their power bill. for his secretary of housing and urban development we need you to choose carrot top surrey. packed to be carried out. and then at night they're all just get going to

themselves in a boardroom in new york but i didn't get it. so right. so right about now some of you are probably going to believe when the stock market goes down and hurts productivity it hurts g.d.p. well first of all average americans are not benefiting from the productivity gains in one hundred sixty eight the minimum wage was a dollar sixty according to the center for economic and policy research if the minimum wage had continued to move with average productivity after nine hundred sixty eight it would have reached twenty one dollars and seventy two cents per hour in two thousand and twelve in two thousand severus at seven average annual incomes of the top one percent of households were forty two times greater than the incomes of the bottom ninety percent up from fourteen times greater in one hundred seventy nine wall street stills more and more money and gives less and less to the bottom

ninety percent who then fight over the scraps and we all start to hate each other for a while yes why did you get health care where. i don't get how can. you teach are good you ever done for society all right i voted for whoever taking health care away from the teachers that you are going to born. again go to the top while the stock market soared forty one point two million americans are food insecure meaning they are forced to skip meals or eat less at meals and that includes twelve point nine million children how can you say we are a successful country one eighth of our population is food insecure sounds to me like you don't know what words mean. i mean. how do you how are we rating success here we looked at g.d.p.

right gross domestic product how much we're producing g.d.p. doesn't measure how many kids are drinking. lead water or breathing toxic air because a measure only dolphins or show can doubt plastic ear rings right it only measures how many beers you and i choke down that day it doesn't matter how many trees were planted it measures how many trees were cut down to make the cardboard for coffee cups and condom boxes and i said it is the right help the environment is just how much stuff you buy to keep to. buy a dildo good for the economy throw out a dildo into the ocean get stuck in wells blow hole g.d.p. don't get. paid don't care about bill don't blow it does not.

that's going to ask. you not me they are. going to name my next album. don't blow a hole in it in china the government builds coast cities massive cities where no one lives because the act of building them is good for g.d.p. of course it's disastrous for the environment but who cares you could be feeding on a bald eagle rome stand with giraffes bacon wrapped around it as long as you bought it at the store a good pretty big and besides the fact our factory farms are basically government subsidized pagan cow concentration camps besides that. even if knowing that animal agriculture is the number one cause of greenhouse gases more than cars so the number one thing you can do for the planet is to not eat as much meat recently as recently applied to the black man has been signed by half

a million people around the world it doesn't even say you know me it just says. take a breath our sorrow out all elf for the love of his life the last here my heart did all the way down before you like the way the next morning just give it a second corrected gallic of taylor something. our country what is the one country does it differently the country of blue taunts they measures gross national happiness here's the thing the stock market is the life blind it's also death blind it's misery and starvation and destruction blind it doesn't see people or happiness or art or beauty only profit the only profit countries it is experience are of our system of values who feel like a guy driving a car and only seeing speed completely blind anything else to have to what he's

getting to how many people he's running down there just flying over it just turns on the wind chill wiberg pieces of the car flying off and any it gets to his destination in record time and he says to the townspeople who have all had their family members run over by this maniac he says we did it we got a record drive we should celebrate i gather ok one could say all this country is tell a break it's time to do things differently do you want to be. the way. ok. well there was only care malaka good news room and the british peels court refused to extradite accused

hacker lowry law of the year. it's a big win but they didn't do it because they claimed he was innocent no they refused because they said us prisons are full of torture the course of court ruled it would be oppressive by reason of his physical and mental condition the us prison system is so horrible countries are finally declaring that sending people here would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. so i guess we sooner send him to siberia nothing but a banana hammock or. in other good news good prison news a florida ban on felons voting was ruled unconstitutional. which is which is the right decision because the whole point of frisian is that that's your punishment the prison. and. not your

guy afterwards right you did it and furthermore the idea that because you committed a crime in your past you are able to vote and you have any idea what kind of breaks we have voting in this country like horrible horrible human beings kids don't vote rex tillerson can vote all right debbie wassermann chunk could vote ric flair's can vote they can all float we have all got to did my wild eyed bag of hair brained idiots namrata dingleberry for brains this bucket of ass war profiteers war criminals a war hawk conmen a bamboozling schemers in tricksters frog there's a nicer postures grifters tool. for back and. balance are the least of your worry. alan balance on the one who can actually trust.