the top five worst states when it comes to income inequality or new york at number one followed by florida connecticut nevada and wyoming this means the one percent have exceeded one nine hundred twenty eight twenty three point nine percent share of income this also means the top one percent of families took home an average of twenty six point three times as much income as the bottom ninety nine percent which increased from twenty five point three in two thousand and thirteen to be in the one percent nationally in two thousand and fifteen the family needed to make an income of just over four hundred thousand dollars before tax and according to the study nine states have income inequality gaps wider than the national gap labor economist at the keystone research center who coauthored the study mark price said the top one percent is capturing a bigger and bigger share of income that raises questions were voices often determined by access to money our concern is that a healthier economy is one where incomes are growing much faster at the bottom than

they are and with president trump's recent tax cut bill giving breaks to all americans may not be enough to close the ever increasing wealth inequality between the rich and the poor inequality has reached new levels of absurdity there are some towns in the city of miami where the rich are being ousted by the even wealthier where changes in poverty levels and golden beach indian creek and miami dade are being gentrified even further most notably in property values in the one nine hundred twenty s. half of the population lived in rural areas across the u.s. and all that time has shifted with people flocking to metropolitan areas we remain far from bridging the gap with stagnant wages and lackluster legislation in washington there montevideo are to. change would be we've gotten better or even better at equality than we were at that i remember apart from early early bird and all sorts of. good. this is not

a wake up call the people that they still want to push this over to trickle down and over that oh yeah we've been wage war and i'm sure we give back to the poor well no it's not happening now at all no no no it's not going to happen one of the things i think that's interesting is you know we were just talking about an article on c.n.n. money a bad people are prepared to march care should never brag why aren't they investing which i don't know where you get those ideas those idea that we're not we're we're just saving too much money and letting it sit around it should be invested and that's kind of where this goes the one percent gets rich when when when the ninety nine percent and drops to everything is a little bit and then it grows to them make a while but it doesn't come back to those and when you're talking about people in rural communities. it's a much bigger issue and i think it's kind of ridiculous to think that people actually spend a good exists it's pretty ridiculous at this day and age are if we go to break our bloggers don't forget to let us know what to think of the topics we've covered of facebook and twitter of zero four shows at r t v dot com coming up comedian

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business i'll see you then. the. supporters of julie masand have been on pins and needles this week after reports surfaced that the clock is indeed ticking down on the wiki leaks founder is time inside the ecuadorian embassy after the new president of ecuador lennon merino implied as much as so much has been living inside the embassy since seeking political asylum back on june nineteenth two thousand and twelve that's over twenty two hundred days rumors abound that if expelled from the embassy assad could be arrested by u.k. police for skipping bail on

a now drop swedish sexual assault charge and probably extradited to the united states to face long rumored charges on indictments earlier we were joined by a long time supporter of a sondre and wiki leaks activist and comedian randy credico. randy always a pleasure to have you on i want to start by asking where do things currently stand with with the possible impending expulsion of julian assange from the ecuadorian embassy you know are we truly at the any day any hour any minute point. well it seemed like that last week when president clinton was in spain and england and he made a couple of statements to the spanish press about we've got to do something right away it got a lot of us worried there is a growing movement out there right now there are demonstrations people are coalescing in support of julian as sons and all over social media and i think limit and no saw all of that and he's in

a very tough position he can either mollify the brits and mollify the u.s. or he could just be you know one of these guys that stands up rather than being like but tista he'll be seen like a butt tista or a trujillo or somoza if in fact he would return julian assigned over so it's really not in his interests in terms of his legacy to do this and he'll be the scorn of south america he's got one card to play to maintain his dignity and that is not giving julian a signs over but you know i don't know there's a lot of pressure being exerted on him by the u.s. state department by the british government they have a lot of dirty laundry they don't want to get out that assad it may have his hands on i don't know what it is but you know and what's going to happen but the ecuadoran president under a lot of pressure

a so far has not turned him over the day put out a statement today saying it's got to be negotiated but eventually he's got to get out of there he can't i mean right now it's like one hundred degrees a london there's no air conditioning in that embassy and it's a very tough situation for him i can imagine they're going to madrid know randi no one knows but a lot of people are threatening that if he is forced out of the embassy that that jillian will be at thirty and to the u.s. as one of his. you have been one of his most ardent supporters what do you feel is the most egregious act fact of this scenario of him being kicked out of the embassy like that for extradition well if he's kicked out for extradition first of all he'll be debriefed he'll be put away by the brits may not have access to his lawyers he's got one of the greatest legal teams in the history of the human race at his disposal so there would be a big tug of war and england if in fact there is an arrest warrant on signs from

the u.s. government is there one is it a bluff i don't know nobody knows for sure i've heard both sides of the coin and what would happen if he were to be extradited to the us it would be a very bad precedent and the biggest problem here is is that the mainstream media is not circling the wagons they're circling the firing squads on the signs this in the end is a is basically mass suicide they're committing by not supporting assad they must support him just to protect their own and many of these journalists of course are on corporate payrolls or on government payrolls we're talking about the mainstream media but at the end of the day they will be next if a science is brought here and tried under the espionage act but you know it's possible they'll find a way to do it you know show me the guy and all find a crime that he committed that's that's

a kind of. a mole that they're running on another thing is is that the u.s. has a long history of trying to repress the scent particularly with journalists to go back to the alienness sedition acts and seven hundred ninety seven matthew lyon and jedidiah pak they were jailed for criticize and the alienness sedition act people were killed like allies a lovejoy who was against slavery and many others mark twain was under a lot of pressure for criticising the philip. in war and it's gone on for ever they want to kill the messenger the u.s. government does and it is during the two red scares how many journalists were jailed so this this is not unprecedented and i know that this leads me to in my next kind of question is how vital is julian assange has freedom in the fate of wiki leaks four of the sanctity of the euro of our u.s. constitution is first amendment and the future of whistleblowers at the end of the day if he goes down if wiki leaks is taken down you know about that's

a big problem it's a huge terrible message about the state of the first amendment it's a huge that's a fatal blow to the first amendment because if they can find a way to get him they can find a way to get anybody so this is a dire warning to people out there who have not been in support fully in support of julian assigns you better get on board because we're all in the same boat if you're a journalist you'll be next there and maybe tabitha being next who knows maybe even shopped odd to get him you know what i am down here when you grow there on that slope you never know and one of the things that's really kind of nerve to makes me think that this could happen this extradition of the you know whatever they're going to charge him with and all i could have it was a you know we're dealing with trump's people which might pump a zero called wiki leaks was a non-state hostile near news agency or something like that i mean it's ridiculous these guys yes right

a non-state hostile agency something like that now but him and you've got jeff sessions you have a neo con cabinet look america and richard nixon said that american america's business is business what it should have said was america's business is war that's what america's business is and so these people their business is war join the signs puts a mirror to war crimes to torture acquisitions. invasions all of this they don't want that stuff to get out there because it's their business and people who are connected to it you see it on television you see these guys you know clapper and brennan in a word and have that into t.v. then you have you have these reporters like delaine ian and chuck todd and the two guys scioto and the cost that they're pushing for basically having

a war you know what do they want a war for and so and so they're going at the response they have been his friend they've been attacking him so like i said these guys have an interest out there we want to continue look at adam schiff in congress he gets money from this russian not russian but a ukrainian arms dealer by the name of igor pasternak a lot of money and forty percent of is donors are from the military industrial complex they have a vested interest all of these people most of them were moved over and assad's poses a threat sons and whistleblowers pose a threat to those interests and that's why we need to like i said circle the wagons around julian assad's this could be the most important case and a century in this country before a group of. what are they you know what do you think because they've been you know we haven't seen the new york times we haven't seen the washington post who are so

out a man about press three men so adamant about our amendments and upholding all of our civil liberties at least their own do you believe that any of those corporate out will at some point come to chile and defend and if they try and i do that i really do think so i think like i said right there is a was a small drink now it's a growing international movement and supporter julian assigns i've never seen anything like this take. it really is big there's a demonstration in front of the ecuadoran embassy in san francisco this wednesday every single day in london people are organizing and the press at the end of the day has got to be fearful if they were to drag this man who has committed no crime at all it's like a guy who's been in prison for twenty years and he gets out on d.n.a. well the d.n.a. here is called the first amendment that's the d.n.a. that should clear him of any wrongdoing he has been one hundred percent accurate

has not even made one mistake as a journalists he set the high bar for and a lot of journalists are embarrass those who have sold out their embarrass joining us on to set such a high bar an example that they can't even touch they've gone for the easy money and the stardom but they too could be very possible could be victims of this war on the press he's just a first person. you know what you know what's also interesting true is that when you look at the media how much money they've made off of what drew what wiki leaks has provided to them to remember the element to be an enemy but they're always willing to take and so right now knowing. exactly what they know no one can but please feed us more thank you leaks you know something about also plays a big deal i think at the end of the day is that i think they will come around and i think the those heads i think immediate will prevail they're still going to be

a lot of detractors but i'm hoping that those have to do with the prevailing and said no this is a first amendment issue this isn't a joint massage issue do you think that when our salute both of you actually were quick as i want to know do you feel like it because this is this there's a certain amount of political pandering going on here obviously do you think that if julian it's time to really used donald trump a tax returns. do you think that would be a moment where suddenly they would be like he's a hero. right there it is really and louis is doing it are not what he's doing it through who are you doing it out of and who he's doing it for that's a very good point if i have a few minutes just to address that because i thought he had i had this car week we had this conversation i told him about a lie to love joy i said you're like allies in love joy who was a a real strong anti-slavery abolitionist publisher eight hundred thirty seven slave power send somebody up into illinois drag him into the missouri river and

destroy this printing press and then killed him but that didn't stop the press from continuing and i said that's what you are julie got to put yourself in it and let's sell that he says wait a second it's a lot worse for me because i have angered everybody he angered these neo cons and republicans back in two thousand and ten with the afghan and afghan iraq war logs he pissed those people off excuse the language and then the liberals or the moderates in the democratic party when he released the the protest the e-mails so he's got everybody because he doesn't take sides he's a publisher he got both sides upset with him so i'm sure if he were to put out trumps any try to get them that's the irony right. you know he tried to get trump's taxes he tried to get it from the guy put him out online so does what a publisher does he publishes interesting information important information and we

never got that we did get think goodness we got the stuff on hillary clinton and we exposed we exposed to corruption in the democratic party the democratic party is the one that coded in this election the d.n.c. coded and helping donald trump where if it weren't for them if it weren't for they have a word for the shenanigans in the machinations of the democratic party this would have never happened. as of july thirty first there were at least four major active wildfires in the state of california covering over a quarter of a million acres and most of those fires are currently only between ten and thirty percent contained but while some fires are proving a worthy photo the pasqual fire near san diego was no match for the best of the best firefighters the fire started on friday near the san diego zoo safari park and blistered three hundred sixty five acres coming very close to homes as you can see in this video from ramona california resident brant allen stevens his farm is less

than two miles from the a back to ancient zone thanks to the brilliant flying of these pilots and these specially converted commercial wide body jet air tankers that drop water and the pink dyed fire retardant on the ridge near his home in the farms animals and homes in the area of the valley were saved to the folks out there fighting the california wildfires all of you thank you for your service that's going to mean that i never see the commercial jetliner deployed back close to it before you know that's incredible through the company of thing flying that is really good why are they out of everyone in this world you're told you're in love with tell you all i love you i rolled into the world and on top of the lawless people and watching those hawks another great day and night everybody. the idea of spending money to acquire region to acquire territory to acquire wealth is an oxymoron there is no more wealth to acquire the ecosystem is collapsing the

economy is flooded with worthless paper and the species is migrating over to the digital sphere feasibly these networks and platforms people are uploading their minds into cyberspace and hope to become immortal so every dollar spent on defense every dollar spent by the pentagon is a wasted dollar that's a one thousand eight hundred seventeen so. century mindset it's completely antiquated and it's utterly worthless. there is the most noble political deciders to have more green energy but if implemented in the wrong commercial way. it will over the next few years say within the timeframe of three four five years you will have such a moan some of subsidized projects a drug that will unlikely to be able to stand on their own two feet.

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war on terror. where you can find out more about those latest headlines stories that are calm for now it's time for your code with a discussion on future technologies that in the field of cleavage in. well welcome to sophie. shevardnadze with climate change upon as green technology is becoming all the rage but our being overly enthusiastic about renewable energy while i ask financial guru and. her. wind forms solar fields if you will made from starch or hydrogen cells it seems that the future of never ending clean energy is already

a promise but with the rising of about going green bringing unprecedented question into the young industry are the politicians just writing the green wave without thinking too much about potential pitfalls is renewable energy technology really ready to provide cheaper energy than coal or gas what will be the fallout after the burst of the potential green bubble. pear women are welcome to the show it's great to have you on our program so clean energy is being pushed upon as it seems with climate change now doing things well can no longer ignore but you sound skeptical about green energy as a whole calling this a green bubble so when we first are in amongst should we go up on green energy before it's too late. it's true i've written a book called the green bubble and the whole purpose of the book was to really illustrate that if we're not careful how we allocate subsidies and tax payers money

it will become a bubble that is very likely to to burst costing lots and lots of money for the taxpayers however i do put forward a proposal where we focus on what the technologies and the types of green energy that are likely to be commercially sustainable within the short to medium term and if we do that we have a solid future for green energy i do want to see more green energy but i want to see it implemented in a commercially. inable way but if world doesn't listen to you and it's not implemented the way you see one do you think the bubble will burst but i think if we do it for only these subsidies will just accumulate and build up and build up and build up because there is the most noble political deciders to have more clean energy but if implemented in the wrong commercial way. it will over the next few years say within the timeframe of three four five years you will have such a mountain of subsidized projects that are unlikely to be able to stand on their

own two feet within the next sort of fifteen to twenty years and that will effectively to lower the burden that will then come pressure from journalist pressure from lobbyist groups and also just from normal taxpayers will say what am i getting for my money we're pumping in so much and we're not getting enough therefore it's very important to be commercially disciplined so if we look back let's say ten years ago green energy was quite costly endeavor but with tech advances in wind and solar energy it's now getting cheaper former u.k. energy minister charles hendry told me it has dropped by house and six years so those costs are coming down these green technologies have a chance of becoming commercial a sustainable no or am i missing something here it is true we've got to separate the green technologies into two groups the group a which is the group that are likely to produce commercially sustainable energy without subsidies within the

medium within the medium term call it seven ideas and the other group which very very unlikely to do so in that period now solar energy specifically is a good example of category a way of actually subsidies health helped courtesy of the bigger the german taxpayer as you have effectively subsidize it so much that the cost curve has come down and you can in certain places have solar energy standing on his own two feet without so. absentees for instance in certain parts of spain and that's why we need to get super soul and she's a great example of that on shore wind in part also in particular if you use big big turbines like six megawatt turbines you will in certain places be able to generate so much energy so much wind that it can actually be economically viable without subsidies and that's exactly what we need to get to that as a whole you're blaming politicians for giving green technologies subsidies without

really looking into whether they can become sustainable why do you think governments do that blind hope or political calculation. i think there's a general sort of desire amongst politicians to be front page front page news and as long as it's green and it looks good and there's an attachment with his good image. i'm not sure all politicians look through the actual economics of it and that's what i'm what i'm asking for we need more commercial discipline here. but that's just political life political life is usually a cycle of four to five years depending on the country and therefore those of us decide to do good or be seen to do good but here i come in as a business person saying listen it might not be so good for the long term for the for the taxpayers so therefore let's be disciplined about how we spend our money and national renewable energy agency says a rapid scale up of investment in renewable energy infrastructure is needed had of the agency i'm not i mean tell me that total investment has already reached two

trillion dollars but he needs to double that before the end of the decade to grow further to more than three times to current level in two thousand and twenty so is this a realistic goal. i think so it's certainly a goal to be desired we certainly need more green energy production and today it's still a very it's a small lower single digit percentage of the total energy produced so there's a bit of a. tasca ahead of us if we don't do it we will run into problems of the year two emissions we have seen it already the effects the melting of the ice cap and the the war with the global warming etc so the symptoms of there so we do need to push ahead on it but it's a mammoth task is going to cost a lot of money globally fortunately we do see some countries really powering ahead now and we look at china for instance was talking about making diesel and petrol cars. with within you know in the in the twenty twenty five or something you seem

frons you see no way of putting forward initiatives in that regard so suddenly the whole transfer say transportation sector have seen a massive shift in political sentiment and decide and even legislation to move our economy towards more green driving economy and i think that's a very good thing he is directly and indirectly subsidizes fossil fuels more than green energy direct subsidies worldwide are bigger than those for renewables so if we apply the same logic here are we in an oil bubble as well. you could argue so i mean energy politics is obviously is very strategic for a country it's very sensitive in a pricing i mean look at india for instance where those massive subsidies mean that that is clearly due to politics because you know your fuel cost is something very important just as well as your living standards so you have seen it also in the area of

a few of those been massive subsidies i think we need to get into an area where we have a more equal level playing field. but in the short term we face the challenge of making green energy more attractive we do need subsidies i do acknowledge there is a need to to assist in giving birth to this massive new sector but it is in the long term interest of people on earth effectively because we're not getting less and less quite in the country is more people consuming more more energy so we do need to have more and more green energy in this world and it does require investments so that part is good but we can we just need to get more bang for a buck. return on our tax dollars invest the power make it what if you like that car you know a thing or two about both money and natural resources what's your opinion which create green technologies in particular are now worth putting money into but one area we like a lot is the whole area of efficiency the. technologies that basically

make you do so use less energy for instance l.e.d. lighting by using that you effectively cost your consumption of energy by ninety percent one zero percent it's huge now these lifeboats would cost you a bit more in the beginning but over time you end up saving so much energy and what saved you don't have to produce so i actually have a look at the whole green energy market efficiency and small house solutions l.e.d. lighting such things actually account for about fifty percent of the whole market so i think that's a. untasted area two to focus on secondly we do like hydro a lot hydro power energy why because it's baseload it's big it's gigawatts and it's green unfortunately you can only do it where you have rivers so you do need to be lucky enough to have a big river running somewhere but hydro power is fantastic and finally nuclear power we consider that.