undermine our institutions are blocked cim is being undermined by these people being paid by the central bank to discard currency you know because we're like bring it on like nothing's going to take it down we have faith and our foundations and our institutions and our and what we believe in we have faith in it we don't like you can say whatever you want to about it you can say all the fund you want in the world doesn't matter we don't have that same sort of conspiracy theory minded absence of faith and our own beliefs such as michael pollan but quite exposed they were just a little bit criminally minded and a little bit psychotic and run by bad actors and serial fraudsters but bitcoin exposed central bank of poland to be outright fraudsters and criminals so thank you but going to a central bank of paula now has no credibility well in the second half we have a really special guest and i'm really excited to find out who it is stay tuned don't go away well see about.

the rebuttal stephen. hollywood guy. wrote american first of all i'm just george bush and. this is my buddy max bemis financial guru where he's a little bit different i. think. with all the drama happening in our country and. every day americans. we start to bridge the gap this is the great american.

predicted. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words and hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one

different person i speak to now because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker. welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser time now to turn to one of america's preeminent journalist a follower of the new journalism school talked about by tom wolfe i think gone back to the seventy's. as a go next very good thanks for being on the show and as i make that comparison to the new journalism school new journalism because at that time just as a quick digression here this idea that the truth versus facts and facts can be kind of plain and necessary give the truth and writers like yourself that are gifted with the language can offer a truth that is transcendent and that we saw this in your bank

a rolling stone in times like goldman sachs and you galvanized people's imagination with the fam pyar squid that's a great turn of phrase i mean it really put into context what this is all about and now subsequently what your books in your article as you've continued in that vein bringing really good journalism to the fore and so let's get into what you've been talking about recently as a new nucular posture review the n.p.r. you'd never know it watching cable news but you're right that this n.p.r. shows that the president and the people around him believe in the usability of nuclear weapons to talk about this right that would be one of the main features of the president's new nuclear posture review is this idea that they should completely revamp our nuclear arsenal and they should focus on more flexibility in our nuclear by which the socially they mean they want to design nuclear weapons that have a smaller payload like her she must pay would so that they can countenance the use

of nuclear weapons without completely destroying humanity which is crazy basically because anybody who's in the scientific community will tell you that a very very limited exchange of nuclear weapons potentially destroys the entire world for a. environmental reasons but the trump posture review pretty much says this openly and i go to the present this country because there's only one story in this country and it's you know trumps ongoing you know scandals right down going from scandal they rush again story you know this is interesting you know and i guess part and parcel of the you're talking about here is that you know the end of the cold war featured with with reagan and gorbachev some agreements between the two countries to scale back on atomic weaponry and there was an agreement not to go east with nato and there was a detente and there was. and there was peace in the valley and that lasted for

a while but then apparently there's been heating up recently the cold war is back i guess because it does time to nuke question and what how do you how did that for people say how did this cold war and becoming hot again like what triggered that in your view i think it's a variety of factors going back to what you were saying you know it's amazing to think that even at the very peak of the cold war when reagan was calling the soviet union an evil empire and you know gorbachev was this is the precursor of that is that they were coming up with agreements like start and salt. because even at a time when they were most motivated financially politically in every respect to keep building nuclear weapons they knew that it was a bad policy and they had a number of near misses both did over the years and all the way up through two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve russia and america continually work

to kind of scale back. the nuclear arsenal even at the height of the cold war there was an idea to scale back on atomic weaponry because it was so crazy yes read it in both countries realize that you know michel this destruction was assured if the wind went down this path and they were but that somehow that got flipped now and now there's this. idea under tromp the current posturing is that actually tomic weapons it's acceptable if the scale if you do that is right and i rolled out a small nuke so it goes to repudiate an entire line of thinking so that's very very dangerous and yours and stop being covered because the mainstream media seems focused elsewhere so talk a little bit about i guess how dangerous is it i mean you've done the work on it so what are we talking about here how what level of danger are we at well i mean i talked about this before the election with trump the one thing you know when you're thinking about donald trump getting elected potentially this is a person who has almost no attention span who acts almost before he thinks he tweets he bypasses his entire staff to go do things he speaks directly to the

public is an extremely impulsive individual and he starts things with other countries potentially you know but with through tweets or whatever this is the worst case scenario is an early use of nuclear weapons the one thing he would want to make sure of if he got elected was that this question was paid attention to constantly and it's not mean we he's with his various kerfuffles with north korea and with this nuclear posture review he's made you know the kind of the world is significantly more dangerous place but we're not paying as much attention to it as we probably should i think this is the one area where everybody should be keeping an eye on trump constantly how do you see overall so far in the tromping era what was been kind of the biggest surprises for you so far in the first year now that he's been in office the first thing i would say is that i expected. this huge reckoning within the democratic party yeah after after the loss to the after trump

got elected my first thought was wow they're going to look back and say how can we lose the sky today we have to completely rethink how we do business and overhaul their entire apparatus. and that didn't happen and we've what we've instead have is were kind of stuck in a kind of perpetual two thousand and sixteen this sort of russia good scandal has kept us sort of frozen in time continually reliving getting all the issues of a bad election season and trump trump's administration has essentially been frozen in place by this one over a chin crisis that has dominated the news dominated his presidency dominated politics i mean everything has to keep coming back that's one story and it's been it's been amazing and strange to watch you know you're a shrewd observer of the media and you write about it and you're part of it and i want to get a comment on something that seems like something remarkable this happened you know

thirty years ago in texas on public access cable a little known guy named alex jones started this thing and he became very big and before the twenty sixteen kicked off or trompe visited alex jones and kind of kicked off his campaign and a lot of people would get put alex jones in the camp of a conspiracy theorist and someone who is constantly you know bending the facts to suit a narrative that is some may consider wild but then you look at cable t.v. and like the rachel maddow who is number one in cable today and she now sounds exactly like alex jones she's got nothing the conspiracy theories so we just become the defacto model for news america what do you think of that observation and what does that tell us i think you're you're right on i mean i might not characterize rachel exactly that way but you know i saw this coming in the summer of two thousand and sixteen that there was a very very sharp polarization that was going on within the media community we were

reporters were talking about it they were discussing the idea that we had to become more actively partisan. trump was so much of a threat that we had to quote unquote do more to. prevent his. and c and so that kind of old school boring third person let's reset the news dispassionately version of journalism just vanish from the landscape and now everything has gravitated towards what you know what you're exactly right it's the alex jones model it's the sort of fulminating. anger inducing kind of rhetoric that is very very popular and makes a lot of money and also i mean this is a key factor in the one thing that people forget about the trump presidency is that he's making the media a fortune i mean c.n.n. made a billion dollars last year in the media has has been looking at the climbing fortunes for decades no but soon a stroke came along he's he's made us all a lot of money and i think that has affected coverage tremendously. as leading up

to the campaign and you know over the c.b.s. in the way broadcast an empty podium waiting for john and he would say this guy is probably very dangerous i'm paraphrasing but nonetheless he's making us lots of money so the media you know that famous from of the you know the tail wagging the dog with dustin hoffman talking about the campaign and they kind of cooking up the . paranoid schizophrenia kind of crazy schemes to get people in office and the media that doesn't often playing a movie producer to concoct a story and so that's become the go to scenario now it's just all this think this is all you think about this phrase fake name is like what does that mean exactly yeah it's interesting because one of the problems is the entire kind of modern system of commercial media. designed to make fake news or something like fake news viable its financial viable to do it to do short blasts of

angry rhetorical journalism right increasingly every single year we see more and more people are getting all their information from mobile devices not just tablets now but especially phones so what people. are looking for something they can see on their phone and watch for like ten or fifteen seconds or thirty seconds and the stuff that's really really popular is alex jones style journalism that's the stuff that really really works with this medium and so it's these little means little little you know sensational headlines that's what everybody is trying to do is what the quick and right now you write typically a piece of rolling stone is what three thousand words four thousand more in six thousand words i say doesn't fit on a tweet it doesn't fit into a you know twitter friendly environment and you know people like me were dinosaurs and you know every generation says that the political divide in america seems to go sharper and sharper but you know this generation you know is watching this group of the students in florida who have been now tragically gunned down and they that they

seem like they're motivated now they're coming out and saying you know you're threatening us we are fighting for our lives like the generational divide at this particular moment seems really the sharpest has been in a long long time how do you think of what your thoughts on that i think we're becoming more polarized than ever for sure but you're right this next generation the younger generation the morning older generation and younger they're more politically active. in a specific way and maybe my generation was in other words we what we had the sixty's then we went in like the eighty's there was a very go go raw raw reagan esque top gun was a big movie and of django istic and then we went to a very heavy pop says' like pop became like the prevailing cultural norm of mixed a little hip hop but now i mean seems like we're all the way back to maybe the kent

state days these kids are like you're trying to kill us yeah we don't want to get killed you know is that what it is that a possibility it's really interesting because i think. in my generation or it kids in my generation grew up listening to your. parents who were the sixty's kids and they had a more ironic take on everything right like you know their parents had been incredibly earnest you know fighters for causes and then they of course grew up and went to business and their kids saw them as kind of phone use and fakers and they had this kind of jaded ironic take on everything which is why you know the eighty's and ninety's were a generation that was really ripe for like stand up comedy and humor and offbeat tyrell explain magazine that kind of thing and now we're the pendulum is swinging back the other way i think this next generation of looking at my generation and saying you guys didn't take politics seriously enough you left us with with idiots like trump that office and now we have to get serious and clean up your mess and i think that's what's coming is

a new wave of kind of earnestness and seriousness and anger and you know it's not it's not might be dead it might be did irony is dying yeah exactly these differences are going to absolutely all that's going to this edition the kaiser of course famous kaiser stacy when i guess that day me if you're right just on twitter it's kaiser report and. fifty years ago breaking within to come together as a sleeping pill. this is. something that thinks what terrible. will be here. across europe. legal battles demanding at least some compensation. to wait till the physical times

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getting to you my name is the. international and this hour we start with syria where terrorists shelled a humanitarian corridor that was established to allow civilians to leave the war ravaged. eastern ghouta just outside the capital damascus that's according to russia's defense ministry which helped to set up the route before it was attacked just minutes later and here are pictures from the cold or checkpoint on the side of the government controlled territory but jus to terrorists shelling not a single civilian on tuesday was able to use the opportunity to leave the area r.t. arabic correspondent wafa brulee is on the ground in damascus for us hugh visited the checkpoint. that they had last night and this is billions have come out in the corridor yet minutes after it was held in the area was challenged by the time said

that several syrian soldiers were injured now bruce had last been firing at those trying to quiet like you know why civilians are in use and there's route out. at least in kuta is located just outside the syrian capital and has been occupied by various rebel and terrorist groups for years it's the area that we have located here in red violence there's recently escalated both sides of accused each other of targeting civilians to the north that's where the humanitarian corridor or has been set up by russia is located in the. district now the humanitarian efforts to provide safe passage for those who are desperate to get out they're being coordinated with the syrian red crescent buses ambulances are on standby to help evacuate the civilians people inside the rebel enclave are being notified about the location of the corridor of leaflet text alerts and loudspeakers first aid points have been set up near the exit to help those in need of the most urgent medical

assistance but despite these efforts it's feared that civilians will be prevented by rebels from leaving the war zone with more details he is our correspondent gets the. civilians dying they're dying from rebel shells from government bombs from bullets shrapnel and crossfire in damascus and in east ghouta the u.n. cease fire is dead on arrival no one stops shooting so the syrians are trying their own way humanitarian corridors backed by russia thousands of these leaflets being dropped over east ghouta by syrian helicopters there are instructions for civilians on how to get out of the war zone maps with arrows follow them if you dare women of all the jews and children reportedly continued to be forbidden by local armed groups from leaving the area for security

reasons they've done it before in aleppo is limited rebels wouldn't let anyone out they shot at civilians trying to feed to government held areas they shelled humanitarian crossings and if you made it out that punish your relatives same story in ghouta this has been going on for years the evidence indicates that non-state armed groups in eastern guta and in particular josh islam are also responsible for inflating the price of food and other basic necessities they're arbitrarily restricting the movement of civilians wishing to leave and the ducting and arbitrarily detaining people. you'd think this is important right all those pundits and activists screaming about good and not once have they asked the pertinent question. we welcome the security council's decision regarding a ceasefire because of the burden on our families and he said this suffering must

be lifted the decision to stop the bloodshed caused by the regime in eastern woman the alarm. when the regime is not abiding by the un resolution i cannot stand still and watch and defend myself and our families in good time why are they still there despite their access to the spokes person of the army of islam the jihad this group that holds east ghouta they have not asked him why his group is blocking woman and kids from leaving a war zone it's good press for him to stand there and complain that innocents are dying while meeting that they're dying because his own rebel fighters won't let them leave the armed groups inside east ghouta will not allow those people to leave simply because the little they will be the next target after that it will deprive

them from a very strong media arm because those civilian deaths among the civilian actually created sympathy all over the middle east and all over the world i think human are you as you know a propaganda tool these bloody war in syria so it will continue i don't believe it will stop but definitely with this according to your human humanitarian corridor or actually could do it use that human casualties among those people. ok let's bring in the president of the arab lawyers association in the u.k. that's dark very good evening to you sir. because of shelling we've already said this not a single civilian as i understand was able to leave via the humanitarian corridor or that would allow them to exit east and go to terrorists obviously don't care about u.n. resolutions so what can be done to remedy the situation. well quite honestly i

don't think anybody cares about the u.n. resolutions americans don't care about it the syrian government doesn't care about it and indeed even russia probably doesn't care about the idea that each one has their political objectives they're trying to reach their objectives so as far as the syrian government is concerned they say they are fighting the terrorists therefore what are you talking about the resolution itself talks about corey doors and stopping the bombing but it lists a number of organizations which it calls terrorists and it says that they should not they can the. ceasefire should include them but bombing should continue the idea that somehow that the terrorists are stopping people from leaving who they are injured and children it's a little bit difficult to understand the motives obviously there is the explanation that if this is billions leave then they will become the targets they will be killed by the syrians so you can understand that one but in fact the situation at

the present moment it's stalled for the americans to begin to talk and lecture russia as what to do or the syrians when they were the country that started the whole thing when they decided they want to change the regime in syria so it's it's playing politics everybody's playing politics with the lives of the civilians but certainly the civilians are being killed they're being killed from the and also from the terrorists within the organization russia's foreign ministers compared what's happening in eastern guta to just head to his words. but then the mass evacuation of civilians took place in order to destroy the terrorists who didn't want to leave aleppo and back then everyone said that it was a very risky operation because civilians could leave and never return you might even be considered ethnic cleansings and yesterday aleppo's governor said that two hundred thousand of those who left aleppo have come back that

a third of all buildings damaged by war have been restored and this process is continuing. is it fair to make that comparison do you think is it an accurate one. well quite honestly i don't believe what was being said by the syrian government about returning people and about buildings being restored this is this is just part of the propaganda and the problem we have is that it's everywhere is the same thing i think we are seeing probably the same situation whereby we the syrian government and the terrorists will continue to fire at civilians nobody is going to respect the passage until there is some sort of an agreement between the russians americans and the syrian government to allow safe passage because talking about safe passage is one thing and actually putting it in practice is another we've seen this in other areas in syria during the war but once again when we look at the

americans what they were doing in iraq they destroyed totally absolutely on the basis that they were getting rid of the terrorists they killed more civilians than even the terrorists have done in in the bombing bombing from the air always always results in the civilian casualties because this is the bombs which are thrown from the do not distinguish between fighters and civilians and this will continue as long as there is air bombardment and as long as there is the use of cannons whether it's by the government for by the air forces or by the terrorists themselves the civilians will continue to suffer and i'm afraid that the resolution it's the first step but it will take a little while before everybody begins to put actually the proper steps into implementing that this is so far is just an expression of of intention.