there should be more. terrorists chel than you few monitary in corridor in the syrian region of eastern preventing civilians from leaving the water own district. israeli soldiers arrest ten people in a raid on a palestinian village including a fifteen year old boy you severe head injury was allegedly inflicted by the i.d.f. two months ago. found a computer recycling expert in the u.s. faces jail and a hefty fine for pirating microsoft software but he says he was only trying to refurbish old p.c.'s. i think it was helping people extend the life cycle of their electronics to combat planned obsolescence and to make sure that we keep as much working product out a plan feels. before more of those stories go to our call at the top of the hour my

colleague will be sushi i will be here with a full news bulletin becoming up next here on r.t. it's the kaiser report. i am asked as or this is it guys report they'll never stop me they'll never stop me not even a three hundred million dollars from the congress to give more of a to fight me never democrats russia gate fake hoax. i guess you have to talk about them is let's consult. have no idea how you just open the show but it is extremely early in new york city every thing in new york city is extremely early all the time right but one thing we always recount and recap when we travel to new york city is as we get the chance to watch cable news

and it helps us understand the divided american population and it's been very fascinating to watch that each side now has their elaborate conspiracy theories which i find quite interesting i do believe it's very lucrative especially for cable news they need to sell advertising and it's quite lucrative it appears to sell conspiracy theories so in the united states we've had in yet another mass shooting there probably will have been another one by this imus era so don't confuse it with that one this is the want to park on florida and you know you tune in to any of the right wing the republican base. cable news and they say that there are crisis actors and that this is a false flag this shooting this mass shooting that killed seventeen teenagers or into the democratic loyalty party news and you find out that is actually puton we

did this so like they're like this is bizarre like it's so weird to be outside the conspiracy theory and outside of this sort of party loyalty that you just look at them both and go what the heck is going on here like this is a connection to the shootings in parks were the product of the n.r.a. the national rifle association was ok there's some logic to it you know they've been lobbying to put guns into every american and you know for decades including fetuses you know to try to shoot their way out of the womb in case they get a you know the boarded but then they also went down the path of saying that putin is financing the n.r.a. therefore the parkland florida shootings are the fault of putin the thing that's quite interesting to me is that there seems to be a total it's like watching t.v. series last member of the others on the other side of the aisle and they're each the same people inhabiting the same island but each side now after decades of this

sort of programming of you're either republican or democrat that neither side seems to like they seem totally foreign and afraid of each other they're so terrified of each other obama was you know actually born in kenya member all his birth ers and he was born in kenya and he's a secret muslim and all sorts of crazy stories about him now the same thing from the democratic press that some there's something really uniquely crazy uniquely un-american about trump member obama uniquely un-american uniquely un-american and see other side responsible and i want to read this quote from a new yorker piece by mark masha gessen and the headline was the fundamental uncertainty of the. always russia indictments in that she looks at the american people the one just pointing to and she says while most people believe themselves to have a solid grip on reality they imagine their compatriots to be gullible and chronically misinformed this in turn means that we no longer have a sense of shared reality

a common imagination that underlies political life in a society with a strong sense of shared reality a bunch of sub literate tweets and ridiculous ads will be nothing but a curiosity even the fact that russians put money into organizing rallies and demonstrations across the political spectrum would be absurd surely they didn't force people to join these rallies sincerely held beliefs brought people to the rallies that it makes no difference to the broader political life whether someone paid for an actress to take part this notion that. you know the otherness of the other side of the political spectrum here is it's just bizarre to see if you're not part of it if you not like if you see them both as american both sizes american a uniquely american it's a shakedown you know they want more money to spend on themselves in the political classes because they're greedy so they make up an enemy in this case russia that makes sense if you look at a logically because how is russia grown as economy from two hundred billion to two

trillion through trade and who's the biggest trading partner in the world to us so russia's been reaching out for decades for years now under putin saying look we've got a trade more there's more trade and america is like no no you're an existential crisis because we have to give these deadbeats in congress a lot more money and they're going to create a fake enemy called putin with a demand three hundred million more dollars meanwhile you go do trade with china and the east and create a new silk road and become a fortune in a five trillion dollars economy all america shrinks you say there are two ships passing in the night russia and america america is going to soviet is asian and russia is going to basically what the way america wasn't a fifty's hooten if you want to make a comparison is more like eisenhower or is this weirdo in office now it's like khrushchev so that was arms. vaishnav what i see on m s n b c one i see on fox two crazy conspiracy theorists shouting at each other about how uniquely crazy the other side is one side basically elects kenyans who are secret muslims trying to bring shariah law to america the other side things like they're secret kremlin

puppets so let's talk now about the financial press here's a crazy story from the financial press how people are like literally there's a mental breakdown here commodities expert is nonsense and i'll never buy any two months later i bought stock in a fake blog chain company that was exposed as a fraud and dropped thirty three percent in a single day that was jamieson tweeting about dennis gartman dennis gartman is a very well known guy on wall street he writes the gartman newsletter lots of big banks here on wall street by his newsletter for his expertise on commodities he was on c n b c two months ago dissing hard how big cowen is nonsense and i'll never buy any well apparently he had to inform his investors that he's basically made a disastrous bet and lost big time on riot block chain remember this it was like a biotech company that suddenly out of the blue changed their name to a riot block and that they were going to become

a block chain company instead and their share price like soared risky crypto bet blows up dennis gartman retirement account making big bets on speculative assets with retirement money is something most advisors warn against but big point fever is prompting all sorts of puzzling decisions for sixty seven year old dennis gartman the longtime publisher of a namesake daily investing newsletter and television commentator that was putting a volatile stock called riot block chain into his very own retirement account the wager is proving to be painful o'gorman has a worse track record than james cramer it is notoriously wrong and just makes catastrophic only bad calls and this is just the latest because it's like a rock. test from saying that correctly i haven't studied psychology in a few years but it exposes people's sub conscious and unconscious desires and what they actually are so he's a moron that he's been made to look more of a moron people who are maybe quasi nycole become full blown megalomaniacs are

seeing even the big point space with the rise of big cash which is a project to feed megalomania this was drawn out by the genius that is a toshiba invention if you are calm patient investor with not aspirations to run the world you get rewarded spectacular like jeremy gardner our friend out in san francisco who is just a nice guy who saw something that looked good and now he's you know billionaire so it brings out who you are but in a more exaggerated way and so this is flaming all of the nincompoops who don't know anything about financial markets and rewarding those who are simply patient and saying this is a world changing game changer that it is it's also called foam oh and foley's to be you being wrecked so this guy had fear of missing out. you also can't trust a lot of people are saying he was shouting he was telling people two months ago that big question is nonsense it's insane don't get involved it's stupid what it is stupid investment and it turns out that he put his money in the the most clearly

obviously stupidest of them all like everybody we set we talked about. all the red flags that were raised about this so-called investment it was listed on the stock exchange and people poured into it for no reason at all they didn't lose all mark if he had done his homework and studied what bitcoin is he would not have chased this dragon down the rabbit hole to mix a few metaphors metamorph that sounds like a smore that sounds like a cookie that's another good dessert oh my god we're talking about he would be more credible had he done his research but he did not so he's chasing this fake company nonsense and it's a catastrophic failure but that's what they pay him for to ridicule him he goes on to. so people can ridicule him he's a punching bag as a human punching bag it has nothing up here but like stalemate balls. inside is burnt out many years ago continue with my theme of this fake news of each side has fake news and accuses the other side of fake news fake news is advertisements now

everywhere you walk around new york city you hear ads for this is not fake news are chicken cutlets are the best you know they everything is like that t.v. series lost means naked lunch is like people at last reached naked lunch i want to be in that film this is what so of course he blames fake news friday it was one of the worst days we have suffered through in a very long time he wrote in the guardian letter on tuesday we were along a sizable position in a block chain focused company that was the victim of a c n b c exposé which sent the shares down more than twenty percent and which sent us down for the year to date having been up six percent previously he's a masochist i mean if there were more on futures on the cboe he'd be rich because he himself is the biggest moron of all and then here's another big going story again you know many governments in the world are trying to protect us from social media they're trying to protect us from twitter they're trying to protect us from facebook. that you should only tune in to m s n b c to get your official democratic

news and you should only tune into fox to get your official republican news and don't listen to those ordinary shows out there on twitter and facebook and your like your cousins and uncles don't listen to those people there because their minds might not be able to contemplate and understand fake news because here's another headline poland central bank secretly paid you tube burgers to slander kryptos so a polish youtube or with around one million subscribers was paid about thirty thousand dollars by the central bank of poland in collaboration with the polish financial supervision authority to portray crypto currencies and the negative light without disclosing the payment and the video now here is the difference between. paying you know you tubers to descript o.-o. d.c. any bit corners crying saying oh my god big queens being undermined 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 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 paul and that 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 we'll see about.

the rebuttal from stephen. hollywood guy that. wrote american first of all i'm just george bush in our view this is my buddy max bemis financial guru with just a little bit different. going to. go the drama happening in our country and have fun everyday americans. we start to bridge the gap this is the great american.

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 don't 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 nuclear posture review the n.p.r. you'd never know it watching cable news but you write that this is 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 we 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 go in terms can't all 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 a 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 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 sides 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 says even at the height of the cold war

there was an idea to scale back on atomic weaponry because it was so crazy yes right both countries realized 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 is. idea under tromp the current posturing is that actually tomic weapons it's acceptable the scale if you do the right way roll down a small nick 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 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 trump 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 after trump got elected my

first thought was wow they're going to look back and say how can we lose this guy and say 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 those sort of frozen in time continually reliving getting all the issues of that 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 that happened you know thirty years ago in texas on public access cable

a little known guy the mouse john 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 sure and someone who is constantly you know bending the facts to suit a narrative that is some may consider it 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 theory so we show it has 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 this prison. see and so the kind of old school boring third person lets recites the news dispassionately version of journalism just vanished 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 but the media has has been looking at the climbing fortunes for decades and oh but soon as trump 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 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 crazies game to get people in office and the media had they had 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 it's financially viable to do 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 peace. you 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 me little little you know sensational headlines that's what everybody's trying to do is what the quick and right now you write typically a piece of rolling stone is what three thousand words were more in six thousand words i said 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 i was watching this group of you know 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 the 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 as dick and then we went to a very heavy pop says' like pop became like the prevailing cultural norm of mixed in with a little hip hop but now i mean it 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. a possibility it's really interesting because i think . in my generation written kids and my generation grew up listening to you. our 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 wanted to business and their kids saw them as kind of phony isn't 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 but it might it might be did irony is. yeah exactly. absolutely all that's going to do with this edition the kaiser of course famous ties or stacy when i guess that to me if you're a just on twitter it's kaiser report it's like. china six million. and that's to me it's eighty thousand since i want to reach refugee now living greeks. you know just. to get into you know full. many self just to make ends meet.

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ha ha. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. right here i'm parked chilton and coming up today we talk currencies and sovereign systems with david merkel all with investments and ashley banks tells us how cars in germany are changing by law plus russia now holds more gold than china and has moved near the top of the list of nations with large gold reserves chris martenson explains why we do it all but first let's hit the headlines in his first.