you know that these hierarchy of needs and i'm sure that is you know i jump on something that jeff bezos has a war on people that there's no logical need is being exploited by the corporation in the largest monopoly because he ends up putting these people in these highly stressed positions you know what i'm saying is the breakdown that we're witnessing and that you and i have been talking about here in kaiser report for the past year is that what they know they know those if those basic physiological needs are not being met that leaves the entire economy and political system vulnerable and they know that because that's how they look at all their political systems so they know we're vulnerable because of that so that's why they're coming up with all these that's why there's a genuine panic when you look at cable news it is genuine panic and i think this is part of it oh you mean we're all palestinians hey you know it says. you know safety is number two but that's obviously wrong because number two should be why five you know that is definitely needed and also what is at the top self

actualization that's very karl union isn't it i mean this is a lot of psychobabble who wrote this like some academic princeton grad student now that's from decades ago but the point is obviously like once your basic physiological needs are met once you can sleep and eat and poop then you start to think about ok how do i make my house safer how do i make my economy or my community safe and then you then you're concerned about love and you see that across the world like you know the whole fact that we have these trigger warnings and safe rooms here and that's a very high need like that's a an economy in a culture where that everything is already taken care of for a certain sector of people so they have so to most of the world they look crazy because they're still worried about where they're going to put that and i think about philosophy that wasn't almost invented by descartes who simply you know got this entire pyramid chart down to i think therefore i am and i thought that one.

people had to go on for hundreds of years you know during the whole history of philosophy well now act a little fricken pyramid that's being exploited by terrorists like jeff bezos is milking the system and buying influential newspapers and bribing politicians and creating it dystopian nightmare people living in their cars so that he can be like he has more money than he would ever mean with it doesn't want to do it at all i mean it's like he's horny he's a hoarder there's people who are from books in their apartment and they just they can't live there anymore because there's nothing but phone books this guy is like just around he's hoarding cash is the nothing to do with it he's just a hoarder i want to quickly turn to the last headline which i think ties together all of those growing wealth gap between young and old remember jeff bezos newspaper washington post as democracy dies in darkness and one thing you could say about democracy is you know the more vote you have the more you win and the more you gain and we've seen the baby boomers turning sixty five as of what two or three years ago and this growing wealth and income gap is really down to age so they said that

elderly households have much greater wealth in child households which is to be expected because older households have had more time to accumulate wealth the trouble lies in the growing gap between the two types of households in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine elderly households had a median net worth that was approximately three point eight times that of child households i households with children under eighteen by twenty thirteen their median net worth was now twelve and a half times as high as those with children under eighteen in the house whenever a situation are approaching me for pennies and nickels i scoot get out of here you go where you poor children. but baby boomers are not given anyway but anyway that point is that it's only natural that baby boomers were vote for policies that help them i house price booms and stock price things and it disenfranchised the bottom you know age groups but this is. well we're dealing with tough luck buddy get

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welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser let's go to boulder colorado and speak with michael krieger of liberty let's create a dot com michael welcome back hello max it's great to be back on with you all rather than colorado home of the resistance movement not billboards for the g.o.p. but the zero is a place with a hammer and sickle to go big red billboard the red scare is michael here in aurora colorado what's happening you know i saw i saw that headline i just checked real quick as you were it was it's in parents out in grand junction and i'm not sure who's responsible for the grand junction is really far away it's all the way in the western part of the state i'm not really even familiar with the area so much was not like it was in denver or boulder or anything like that yeah it's just you know it's this is russia gate it's a pretty it's a weapon that's all it's just a weapon of the establishment that they're trying to they're trying to use to keep their power and their relevance that it needs it's such an obvious scam i don't

even know how anyone falls for it but hey that's the environment we're in properly not enough people are falling for it because trump's ratings are through the roof on the up side and the democrats are putting together any kind of opposition whatsoever now what does underline this political doraine threat michael kraig or it cable news ratings driven we've made that point on the show before is it just a part of natural of saturday that befalls the ruling class during a disintegration of empire. wow if you would where would you put this sure ratings is is something that you know keeps it alive for sure but i definitely don't think that's the driver i think your second your second assessment is absolutely you know it's the nail on the head that's exactly what it is that's all it is needs to be seen in the context of a lot of different things but primarily essentially empire right an imperial system that has been had that has been run for decades now by donors and corrupt politicians and bureaucrats that have completely destroyed. the country allocated

all of the wealth and resources to a tinier and tinier sliver of the population and that created a lot of animosity and then the financial you know crisis and bailouts and how that was all handled was the final straw and so you know as i'm aware as i've said forever a lot of people that voted for trump don't really like trump it was just the middle finger it was just a way to say you know what let's just let's just try something new even though this might be crazy and i'm not even sure it'll work out anything's better than the status quo anything's better than hillary and then you know the trump derangement syndrome in russia gate is just a way for people in power or that were previously respected quote unquote to continue to be respected in power and the reason you know that's all it is the one the final proof beyond everything else in my opinion is the fact that you have neo cons and establishment democrats like rachel maddow joined at the hip now you know at these max boots bill crystal's david frum's like they're they're the resistance heroes now or as some like to call it the assistant's which i think is better so so

that's what it is and it's crazy because you look at the it's the biggest failures in american history coming together and talking about russia twenty four seven to try to root to continue to meet be rodents like and it's like cancer and herpes you know coming together and getting on m.s. n.b.c. with the you know tumors and sores and telling you come to us come to us will save you from putin it's pathetic wow that's not a pretty picture. you mentioned bill kristol there and it is amazing that for a long time he has vilified as a warmonger a bloody bill kristol all of by the left and then because they needa an assassin because they need someone with no moral or ethics at all the last decides to bring him up and say well here's a guy you know well sick him on you we know he's dangerous. is a fairly have no moral compass whatsoever now your latest blog post reads quote us

tech giants are too big to. are full and now are running into serious trouble we have google being able in china we've got facebook banning american anti-fascist activist and calling them russians ok what's going on is to work out a loss if all the stuff what's going on sure and you know i've been a huge proponent of social media even though i haven't liked facebook for a long time i've been able to see that for the most part let's just take facebook and twitter they have been reasonably neutral i mean they've been getting worse over the last few years particularly after trump won but they have been platforms and people have across the but you know the sort of the you know the digital public square and so people throughout you know society have been able to say whatever they want on these platforms and again trump winning is what changed everything as far as politicians view of these platforms because now they realize that oh no when the rabble is allowed to talk to each other and say whatever they want we lose control of the narrative and then we can install whatever presidential puppet we want and so that's a total freak out and and so now you're dealing with

a combination of two things with these tech giants one they're so enormous they're almost like governments in themselves and then to these plot clips facebook in particular and twitter are platforms that allowed people to make decisions on current events on their own and politicians are now very upset about that so they're just going to start saying everything that is not a mainstream media approved talking point is somehow linked to russia and as you mentioned these activists in d.c. had their had their page removed by facebook these are american citizens because facebook decided to they wanted to appease politicians and call it linked to russia they harkens back to recall the arab spring that was called the facebook revolution if people around the state barack was overthrown. with an error so the u.s. came back in a re-install to barack basically. along those lines. so that was

a clear indication that this whole democratization of communication and the democracy spreading from the lawyers of american entrepreneurial is a was fake news that was a fake story but i just focused for a second on it touched on it there. the facebook banning these anti-fascists so there were fastest there were neo nazis on facebook and then a group of merged to confront the nazis and facebook banned the nazis banned the anti nazis and then. maddog picked up the story as if somehow this is tied into russia right so may stream media echoing a blatant miscarriage of speech in the name of a hoax call russia gate. tell us tell us a good good if you want to comment on that so two points on first of all if you look at what facebook did the other day right with banning these thirty two pages

or so across their platforms nay said specifically we cannot link these to russia that's what they set and then of course mark warner you know who's this big russia gator democrat from virginia senator he comes out and says see this is proof that the kremlin is continuing to meddle with our democracy yet facebook themselves said they couldn't tie it to russia so that's what happens is something you know facebook gives them a little bit of a breadcrumb and then they start making up stories linking it to russia it's absolute madness but here's where also gets interesting in that piece that you referred to in his moto you know these activists were trying to figure out well what makes you think these things are suspicious and apparently it has to do with people running these pages using v p n's or tour and then do a question was asked of facebook well is that what you're saying if someone uses a v.p.n. or tor that they're automatically you know have to be russian and facebook wouldn't respond they wouldn't give any other reasons that they thought it was suspicious so it's a really it's

a really sketchy time we live in now where facebook is under tremendous political pressure to find what politicians want them to find and in the process you know if a few activists get steamrolled and we get less free speech who cares right that story that came out this week about air marshals on flights who are now following people off the plane they they anticipate will they have no reason to suspect them but they're just following them as part of the expansion of the surveillance state and the definition of perhaps of why they did follow them what may well they look funny they look they're agitated so now i've got a secret police force of america following people without notification and. who is benefiting by all this michael fare yeah there you go right so it's the quiet skies program that the boston globe yeah so i mean it's crazy you read about this and the good thing it's only good news is that a lot of this. it's coming out because employees of the federal air marshal program are are are doing this job does work and they're saying themselves this is crazy

why are we doing this we're spying on other citizens in one case i don't know if you if you saw this but they were tracking is southwest airlines flight attendant and they're just like what are we doing so it's become so surge now that at least some of the people being paid to spy on the phone citizens are saying this is crazy i don't want to do this anymore but you make the bigger point which is that it's all about social control if you look at the trends in america and it continues to this day the overarching corporate government established it is obsessed with keeping the citizenry in line keeping them scared keeping them surveilled making sure that they can't you know get out of this overton window of conversation you know as chomsky said the best the best way to keep people acid in obedient is to allow lively debate debate within a very narrow range of issues but not outside of those issues and that's essentially what facebook is now trying to do to the american public yeah i noticed that you can see it you know just anecdotally america's humor the late night comics

and things like this they're they're not funny anymore that they actually get up when they do tragedy or there is a case of a woman who switched from doing standup comedy to stand up tragedy it now in the one thing about in out not to germany for example is that there wasn't a lot of stand up comedy at that dinner and you know in berlin during those years you know that this is what happens when people lose their soul and lose their. perspective on life they become days humorless drones working for the surveillance state and you can sit in the complete lack of humor in stephen call bear or jimmy fallon who have now become just puppets far the state sadly now tell us more about google being evil in china yes so this is another really interesting thing where eyes i mentioned with the federal air marshals some of them are rebelling you know ghouls. had a bit of a saga recently where their executives in particular are very aggressively pushing closer collaboration with government so if you recall project me even is the drone

program that google has it has with the pentagon and the actually a lot of google employees resigned publicly because they were so disgusted with google doing that and there was a huge protest within google from from other employees and google actually at the back tracked that but what you saw from leaked e-mails is that google executives were wanted to do it you know they were trying to you know basically propagandized their employees to say it was ok so the exit where you see now is an interesting split between some ethical google employees and google executives who have absolutely no morals whatsoever and the recent push broken by the story was broke by the intercept yesterday is to specifically create an app in china a google app that will will add here to every single censorship request the chart or terry in chinese government wants banning any searches related to human rights democracy free speech tiananmen square images will be blocked so my point was

essentially if google goes through with this google will be directly helping an authoritarian foreign government maintain its grip on power for money that's a big big deal and people need to be aware of that's very disturbing right now about thirty seconds left can you talk about jeff bezos areas one hundred fifty billion made fifty billion just over the past few erle what's wrong with this good or bad michael yeah i mean i think i think that the days o's and amazon are one of the biggest threats we actually face right now in this country because if you read some of the literature on what they're trying to do they're not just trying to sell you stuff on the internet they're trying to control commerce completely by controlling the platforms of commerce and of course in china they haven't a social scar it's like a root a moody's index for people so if you look at sideways at a. policeman you can't get on an airplane anyway michael krieger. chock full of goodies we're going to keep you on for

a second segment if that's ok with you sounds wonderful ok that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser stacy her we want to thank our guest michael trigger could catch us on twitter as kaiser report that's it for now i. with manufactured incentives to public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. the final. be the one percent. nor middle of the room say. the real news is really.

the saudi airstrike hits a school bus in yemen killing forty civilians mostly children the saudi coalition claims it was a legitimate operation. i really will play ball gaza injuring eighteen people in response to palestinian rocket fire. and so russia condemns the latest u.s. sanctions imposed over moscow's alleged role in the poisoning of double agents pal

and his daughter in the u.k. . facebook gets help from the u.s. government and nato to track foreign meddling we find out what this means for free speech. that's for joining us you're watching international. israeli airstrikes have injured at least eighteen people in gaza that's according to local medics. i. i i one of the latest bombing raids a cultural center in gaza city was destroyed the i.d.f. lewinski operation after palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets into southern israel. there was.

once a night an i.d.f. strike killed at least three people including a pregnant woman as well as an eighteen month old child a local journalist was present at the funeral. we are now and did it by left city in the middle of the gaza city where we are attending the funeral of we ness and bejan in us and by god were killed yesterday during the air strikes launch from gaza strip and that is a twenty three year old mother that was pregnant with a nine month baby i'm expecting him at any minute but yet is the one year and a half old baby as you see thousands of palestinians are participating in the. whining that does the policy here. and the baby oh you see speeches i think the

airstrike came from the side the smell is very bad where blood is filling the place as you see the place is completely destroyed after talking to people in the same neighborhood they said that they found. the mother and the baby shot heard with pieces of their body were they were not in a complete body in the journey run to the most to find out if the explosion was there or in the house ambulances came in the voices of people screaming were heard inside the house we started knocking on the door no one answered we went to the other door a small child opened it he was frightened he ran away from the woman's body blown apart baby was to the ambulances took the victims to hospital the husband was injured in the leg stomach and head and strikes were launched. till dawn the israeli forces kept on singing and strikes where the policy resistance

also fired rockets into israel policy that they would confront blood with blood and strikes with their strikes so far there have been announcement but he agreement between the israelis and the palestinian factions where yesterday was a very very tough night on all the palestinians in gaza strip. so why are all the products that are coming for the products you supply to state that there might just return harvest and use continue to grow just did you demonstrate yesterday god was bringing out a new skill a sin and in the war against the palestinians according to the i.d.f. one hundred eighty rockets have been fired from gaza into israel since wednesday in response the military says one hundred fifty years strikes are being carried out targeting palestinian terrorists positions most of the palestinian rockets fired into israel hit open spaces but at least two landed in

a residential area seven israelis were injured. the un's middle eastern voice now warning of devastating consequences for all people if the israel gaza conflict continues to escalate and then of war and that the situation could rapidly deteriorate. the u.s. state department spokesperson face the barrels of questions about the new sanctions announced on wednesday over the poisoning of former double agent in the u.k. but korea isn't a great example of sanctions as a result you want to get rid of their nuclear program again you've got almost of twelve things venezuela you've got sort of clearly i'm trying to understand what your policy is with russia you've got a myriad of sanctions what's your call well i think the president has addressed this and so has secretary pompei o we'd like to have a better relationship with the russian government recognizing that we have

a lot of areas of mutual concern. so washington is handing out punishments to improve relations something moscow sees as twisted logic and that can be said for the whole sanctions regime as discussed with my colleague. the united states sixty two thousand and eighteen determined that the government of the russian federation has used chemical biological weapons against its own nationals despite any new evidence coming to light the us wants to impose sanctions on russia and this is in regards to the form of poisoning of form of double agent sake a script on his door to you back in march now the sanctions will be implemented two sets the fifth sets will ban licenses for the export of sensitive national security goods to russia including electronic items and these kind of exports have been previously allowed on a case by case basis the second round of sanctions there will be more severe this

will be the prohibit of us baron colognes the tim in the nation of carrier landing rights which we could affect flights from russia to the us and fed the restrictions on exports and imports as well but the u.s. says they that the second round of sanctions will come into effect unless russia provides reliable assurances that it won't use chemical weapons in the future and agrees to on site checks by the u.n. but when you say reliable assurances it was last year twenty seventeen the international community the o.p.c. w confirmed the destruction of all chemical weapons in russia exactly the chemical weapons watchdog verified the destruction and can fend this in september two thousand and seventeen but we're still waiting for now evidence as to why sanctions of being imposed now and the u.s. has already implemented measures you might remember that around sixty diplomats

were expelled by the u.s. last spring when this saga fest escalated but when questions at the press conference the state department officials didn't mention any fed the reasoning behind the sanctions whether this was because of old evidence or new evidence let's take a listen to what they had said. ok where are you getting the conclusion that rush is behind this creep are poisoning i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding of the script whole affair we've been very clear that we agree with the assessment that it was a agent and that the perpetrator was ultimately the russian federation. i'll leave it to others to give those kinds of details of what we currently understand obviously from reading the press it appears that their investigation is ongoing in terms of the scope and nature of the details and its implications but i'll leave that to others the key words there from the officials where a leave it to others to give the details so whether the u.s. wants the u.k. to disclose the evidence behind the attack remains to be seen and the u.s.

is now skating around the reasoning at the moment issuing fresh sanctions without fresh evidence and all the while russian officials here in moscow keep asking for transparency for evidence of keeps asking can russia be involved in this investigation and yet are we to understand the basis of the yukos evidence still falls on the quote highly likely stance well the case of views on this always has been highly likely that russia is behind this attack saying that only russia has the motives the means and the record to target the school policy and moreover as well moscow has repeatedly denied involvement with this offering offering like you said cooperation on the investigation which london has repeatedly denied but so far we know that the chemical weapons watchdog the a.p. c.w. and porton down haven't been able to confirm all region of the nerve agents we have not verify the precise source but we provided the scientific

information to the government but you have not been able to establish at porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eat you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular nerve agent is but it's not our job to see where that actually was manufactured to be your not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that as analysis of the p.c. w.'s report i did too far as the country. of origin of the agent use. in this time and now we're left with this highly likely stance from the u.k. and the u.s. is issuing this fresh round of sanctions but we haven't seen any new information come to light here in the sanctions that the be imposed on or around august the twenty second in the meantime the u.k. prime minister's office has welcomed the new batch of u.s. sanctions on russia the russian embassy saying it.