tv The Alex Salmond Show RT February 22, 2018 1:30pm-2:01pm EST
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palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in bill for the commission to do it love me feel like human beings this is my compass fifty years ago and i know for study hall meetings there are no shot without a doubt over the ship the only palestinians you gets the most help from is jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision could not only could give us. and the earth is all of your knowledge gather this lady in the muscle that you have i know if you continue muslims you know do more. don't piss off. me. right now. sixty years ago pregnant women to a concert go on as
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a sleeping pill does this is what i mean because i like to does this thought the side effects were terrible but not on earth as shown in god shown for boardwalk here not that warm. across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in something in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well the concept in mind that the people who actually perpetrate this crime has never been able to justice and there has been a couple of.
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oh hello again max to answer here was day zero. zero zero it's going to be some interesting. i threw a mispronounced my second name hare bet and it's actually hurts my god but you know on the ride over to the studio this morning you mentioned that during the last vacation period in america which is thanksgiving the bait the great migration of america you know when everybody goes on holiday they go visit their family they have thanksgiving dinner they usually fly that actually went from twenty three percent took road trips like last year and twenty sixteen and then in two thousand and seventeen it was something like thirty nine percent and why did they take road trips instead of flying to their destination well they didn't want the hassle of the u.s. dilapidated airports and the t.s.a. you know the whole security apparatus which is now kind of defunct because nobody actually even talks about the war in terror anymore everybody's forgotten that because now we have russia gate so what like why we have this remnant that's the
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last remnant of the last fake hoax scare was the whole war on terror but you know in order to. you know fix the infrastructure of america trump has proposed a one point five trillion dollar infrastructure plan two hundred billion of that is going to come from the u.s. government and the rest is supposed to come from the private sector so the therefore mostly charging tolls any plan that might be able to recoup their income back from the users of the infrastructure so it's going to you see where it will go will go to the richer areas that don't even need the funds as much as the poor areas of america so i'm going to compare this to china where they also they don't have these grand announcements of infrastructure plans and hope that in twenty years that might come true maybe the private funds will come from somewhere they just do it and it's quite remarkable because bullet trains are transforming the world's biggest migration millions of chinese cram on to train to make the annual
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pilgrimage home for the lunar new year holiday as a crowded and often uncomfortable experience that is rapidly being transformed by the country's push into the world of high speed rail china already has the globe's longest bullet train network but it is plowing three point five trillion un or five hundred fifty six billion dollars into expanding its railway system by eighteen percent over the next two years to one hundred fifty thousand kilometers or more than ninety three thousand miles underground thousand miles of the two years that's amazing those chinese people are ready to rock n roll the twenty first century high speed trains home of grandma's house is just two hours for the whatever they are they're delicious stuff jim so my guess grandma's got the best in time of all yeah so here we have you know america's needed an infrastructure plan for the last twenty years a lot of it you know some of the network actually has not been replaced for one hundred years if you look at new york subway system like the train under the hudson
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the tracks under the hudson they are one hundred years old so nothing's been touched so. this infrastructure plan that we have in america is just to replace some of the old stuff not to expand any sort of high speed rail like they're doing here and remember that just ten years ago they had almost no bullet trains at all in china and here they have the biggest network in the world suddenly within ten years and we're still twiddling our thumbs trying to determine whether or not we can afford it. part of it is that railway building is local and you have to pay people big wages real wages not minimum wage to build stuff locally in america is an economy that's been created by financialization of everything and outsourcing manufacturing to countries like china totally ignore asian just made that word up means to ignore something. of your local
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infrastructure build now trump saying we want to do infrastructure we've got to go borrow a trillion or two trillion dollars through our biggest creditor would be china again showing as owning all the cards now in the twenty second century in america can't even get from point a to point b. because amtrak is just going to skip a pub over the rail you can't go anywhere and interact with every single day and try to do real good deals again because it's junk well but we also have a plunder class so no plan no national policy like china has an industrial policy we've come to that before we have d.n.a. policy here and it is a plundering like how to plunder any of the assets that are there this is the private equity model became popular on wall street while you were there in the eighty's and now it's our national economic policy is to plunder as much as possible and you know a few guys get to keep it and then the rest gets you know whatever their needs are the plunder class whatever their needs are they just outsource it to china to make in the meantime vast fortunes are being made in china here we have even the
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policies that are being presented by donald trump's administration you see their original plan. it's already kind of they were created by wilbur ross and one of the guy from the administration long ago like a few years ago and it's basically a way to plunder because hundred billion dollars from the u.s. government just like that two hundred billion dollars said to afghanistan or iraq it just disappears it evaporates into thin air into the pockets the offshore bank accounts of some of these guys and then it trickles down so of the two hundred billion dollars going towards the u.s. infrastructure maybe two billion will make it to the ground to paying some laborers to paying for some tar or for the makah dam roads out there for that you know that's that's all that will make it to the ground so there's a huge you know you have to throw a lot of money just to get a little tiny bit to the ground here because there's middlemen all along the way taking their cut you know same thing in the medical industry obviously it costs the most expensive any in the world because of all the middlemen the administrators the
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administrators of growing exponentially the doctors are not as same thing and infrastructure built so china is a state. directed infrastructure project from the state america would like to bring in private enterprise but private enterprise unfortunately is unregulated there are no laws that apply to private enterprise of particularly in the financial industry so therefore the cost skyrocket even compared to the government famous five hundred dollars hammers that we hear about at the pentagon if you throw to private equity all they're going to do is extract all the money and send it off shore so yes they are going to hear it in the private companies there would number one obligation is to their shareholders or their investors and. it's way more profitable just to plunder like y. actually the cost of buying the steel paying the workers finding the workers to lay the track to fix the that's like really expensive and time consuming we could just
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like throw a piece of old steel out there and hope it doesn't and the train driving over it doesn't and instead just take the billions of dollars we have the same system in hollywood that's why our films here cost two hundred million dollars because there's a thousand middle men many of them rapists apparently that they're like they're like plundering that system every single system in america has like thousands of middlemen just the education system it's now the cost of education university has exploded like a thousand percent since you and i went to university because we have now a whole bunch more administrators not new more teachers not more professors a lot more ministers. look i mean the united states at a state directed infrastructure project under eisenhower the interstate highway system which set the stage for the american century we haven't. put a man on the moon which was created intel google apple i.b.m. you know created america's technology superstars but you know the government is now gun shy about doing anything for two reasons it's broke and there's no talent there
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. yeah you might say he was general eisenhower so a military man republican right wing and the highest tax rate at that time was ninety percent so it was you know a different sort of time and we were compete like we weren't yet clearly the empire because that was after world war two and you know. britain still kind of had like the remnants of empire they still had some of their holdings but back in china here they're you know their their infrastructure is like a quite amazing the numbers are amazing almost nonexistent in china a decade ago high speed rail has exploded with more than half of the twenty five thousand kilometer network built between two thousand and thirteen and twenty seventeen the plan is to expand it by my. than fifty percent by two thousand and twenty five with eight main bullet train lines running from east to west by twenty thirty train intense have another eight main lines running from north to south as well and actually the cost is very competitive that's why more people this this
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past chinese new year has traveled by high speed rail rather than the conventional rail but you compare that to like new york city which has been trying to build that subway line with the number two on for about seventy eighty years and it went like ten times over by and it was just like a mile long it was like hardly anything and it took years and so many layers of administrative you know like they went over the cost was a great article recently where they went over the cost of why it was so expensive to build in new york city and they had to have like three people who operated the elevator but there was no elevator there that there's no actual there was a elevator a lift but it was automatic so there was nobody at that actually needed to press any button but they had to have them by law in these three guys that were elevator attendants who just stood there all day making one hundred fifty thousand the air. so that's not a very efficient way to run an economy that is for sure and so. competitively this
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is you know we've put a. price ok that was good on china's not to concerned about that but yeah because putting a tesla into outer space makes a great extravaganza but those extravaganzas like hyperloop and the private sector is only going to deliver to billionaires like moscow have no money to blow and sending tesla's into outer space here china national you know they have the industrial plans they have five year plans they have they don't want to leave. the entire rural class abandoned because they know they have to include them into their economy to sustain and and maintain their position at the top of the global economic infrastructure so the. they need to include these people in and it costs you no money to bring them in just like western we had to bring in east germany and spend a trillion dollars here china is also mercantile a state just like germany and they have to include all these people america where
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she slept abandon those people out in the rust belt out in the middle of americas like. let fend for yourself dude's but i mean the u.k. is kind of similar right the whole northern area the country they keep discussing should we build a railway to the north for twenty years including the people from manchester and birmingham and sheffield should we include them into our economy in london and yet for twenty years i've been having this debate and there's still this division going on. the chinese are saying you know what we're going to grow the economy by actually making it inclusive economy and building infrastructure appropriately yes so they're basically there they're bringing in the west and a lot of naysayers and the western world the western economy the likes of you know the. academia economists from new york have always liked their plan for high speed rail but they've been building across china saying the peasants will never be able to afford it but apparently according to the data from this past year that they
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peasants are affording it so it is actually becoming viable and people are using it because their incomes are going up because we've outsourced all our jobs there right maybe they'll build the stuff on the railway system right here at the cars the report well don't go away stay right there a little break when we come back we're actually going to go to china using the magic of television and talk with someone in china say right there. similar to the. beautiful us good books i'm talking to you but you know you don't close this material i do you know because you know my friends are the story you know sometimes . you know some of.
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