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i'm max kaiser this is the kaiser report santa didn't bring me nothing sin is on my black list now santa's air travel. yes it's christmas day a great part of the world celebrates this as some sort of holiday i were my reindeer shirt and that's not a reindeer that's bambi there's a random deer in the forest on rudolph or reindeers or christmas events that's alive that's fake news fake news from the forest that's a close as i can get and this is my closest i can get to tinsel it looks like my tinsel jacket and that is what i'm wearing for you know we had began twenty eighteen with the stock markets in the first six months of the year and nine months

of the year really were on a tear they went up and up and up and up and many millennial zx were showing their robin-hood app screens showing how much money they were making also at the beginning of last year you had a lot of bitcoin bros and when lamb bows and to the moon story it's in the bitcoin space who are like you know we're driving our lembo is and we're so rich well the end of the year hasn't been so kind to them i want to go through some of these screen grabs here from the millennial is that the beginning there who are sharing their portfolios being up these are some pretty dramatic yolo year of living you only live once say you've been dangerously gentlemen it's been a pleasure to yolo with you this guy shows this portfolio is down to four dollars and eighty one cents from thirty thousand six hundred ninety five dollars that's

down ninety nine point nine eight. and this guy gentlemen is been a pleasure to yellow with you forty six dollars and seven cents and his started at sixty thousand three hundred sixty one dollars down ninety nine point nine two percent well this is the magic of capitalism because the capital that greases the wheels of capitalism comes from the losers that's the beauty of it you know you need to have a losers big. then that money is redeployed into the economy that that's the magic works that's where the money should come from not from money printing and that's been part of our problem is that on the social side everybody wants to say everybody is a winner all children when they're raised all you know people are as good and as great as everybody else and the fact is. as you said you need many many losers for the few winners that come out of these markets but this of course should bring some to stalins or to you because this is. day of christmas day but here this is

many in the comments on these said it looks like they were trading options yeah options trading generally leads to mass of ninety nine percent losses that's an axiom that one i was the third biggest options producer in the shares of lehman and the system that your clients look like today there are some look like that and some look the opposite of that you have winners and losers some people start off with thirty thousand and end up with three million mean that's the options business is highly leveraged business and but that that say is the way capitalism should work not have a few people print money and then jack the price of assets and leave everyone else begging for crumbs back in the eighty's when you were trying to get some clients when you were trying to close some clients did you tell them you'll oh you only live once go on try it. well you know it's a matter of leverage and you know you have

a lot of leverage in the system the the millennial is on the robin hood up are bringing to mind a phrase we used to use on wall street which was sheer don't slaughter you know this is the idea that you want to share your customers not slaughter them because if you slaughter them you can never share them again so you know these these these millennial as though they seem slaughtered so they might not be returning to the robin hood at any time soon which is too bad for raw. the robin hood app but you know as a professional you would want to stop your clients from losing one hundred percent of the money in trying to stop them when they're down eighty or ninety percent you know so there's little left over to share them again as they were that sounds kind of like the korean market but we're not going to get into that right now i want to show you this chart that is actually an image from one of the national parks in america and it is really fascinating and it really just reminds me of the big sector the voluntary ism

a lot of people are libertarian they say they're you know they're all about voluntary exchange and do no harm and i think this chart shows that instinct of path animals like humans this is an image of g.p.s. tracking of multiple wolves and six different packs around voyagers national park in minnesota which shows how much the wolf packs avoid each other's range it's remarkable that's one two three six different wolf packs and that is how they all stay in their own sector they have seemingly come to some sort of agreement somewhere that you stay in your area i'll stay in mine and i don't know that really struck me as very colorful images to show for christmas but it also showed that you know this seems to be how peace could be made or shows that animals are self-governing and that anarchy with this is an example of anarchy is a political system that works and has worked for millennia throughout the entire

plant animal and stellar systems that we already live in a natural order governance the application of man made order on top of our natural order almost never works and currently we're in a system right now where it's breaking down tremendously various theories of governance like democracy or other forms of governance or attempted. throughout the hundreds of years going back a couple of thousand years but none have yet proven to be as effective as simply allowing the natural order to assert itself in a chaotic manner managed chaos and to manage anarchy and you see right there it's a symbiotically controlled ecosystem of forces that balance each other out at the end of the day and it's a beautiful reflection of the pristine balance we find in the universe man unfortunately has is burdened with consciousness and that consciousness is used

unfortunately to debitor and of trying to organize well there is one wolf it looks like in that pack in this pack that keeps on going into the other territories so there is always one trouble maker that brings it all down well there is always one alpha male who attempts to assert influence over the competing cells of power and they're typically either they succeed and they expand their network or they killed off but it doesn't invalidate the idea that nature or is already composed of a perfectly balanced hierarchy of ecologically evolved needs and wants and within our genetic code as as animals that has never ever been improved upon by any human being in speaking of chaos and anarchy one thing that we have been grateful for is basically

a demonstration of the breakdown of order has been the nonstop russia gate this is i'm thankful for her this is rachel maddow this is a screen grab from one of her episodes connection and i think it's been quite interesting because for us we've been talking about the financial collapse and the intervention that happened post two thousand and eight this is our tenth year will be going into. and kaiser reports which began at the beginning of the financial crisis and we're really starting to see this sort of effect that you can't basically everything they've said and everything they've believed that the elite the social media the you know the media commentators and the elites they love and hang out with they've basically created this cantillon disaster that we see all around the world that's why we've had a breakdown in our order and i think this is part of it like. anybody who is saying

russia about every single disruption that's happening around the world is basically them admitting that they don't understand. the rules anymore they don't understand the people that they're supposed to basically govern you know the soviet union had a brilliant description of the people like rachel maddow or the washington post or or the new yorker or vanity fair or saturday night live or or alec and billy baldwin they call them useful idiots and trump plays them like useful idiots they distract the populous away from what he's actually doing by focusing on something that the vast majority of americans and we just finished just incredible cross-country journey the vast majority of americans don't care at all about so they fulfill the purpose of providing cover for trial starts away there are going strong but nobody who was truly against trial would do such a favor to try to distract the population away and toward something that has no

residence no proof no evidence is meaningless and would just fade away speaking a fading way. basically there we've seen in twenty eighteen huge trends now of d. platforming and trying to silence all these voices that they might hear as voices in their head they're definitely obsessed with how they got it so wrong and the people the people the ninety nine percent of the population understand the world way more than these people do but i also want to talk about on our last few minutes here christmas day is that this year twenty thousand has seen what you've said for years is you can't taper a ponzi that is true apparently because the fed has been trying to taper this ponzi they've been trying to raise rates only said have some rates to cut for next year and the other trend is in terms of algorithms and this ai that you've talked about twenty eighteen is then the beginning of this a trend i think we'll see go in for years into the future now is hotting up a i artificial intelligence i think that's really starting to emerge this year not

getting back to the wolves having balance out there in the wild and not stepping in each other's. territory ai is essentially the intelligence the aggregate intelligence that we've inherited in our species humans that came to us through the magic of cosmic consciousness and now the ai layer is going to do an end run around us so the ai that's been evolving in the background it while americans and people around the world try to figure out how not to commit massive suicide whether it's bragg's it which is a suicidal political event or other countries pulling the string on their suicide vests the ai is still you know in the background working to usurp humanity i think in twenty one thousand you'll see ai break out and dominate will be soon taking orders from ai and they thought it was impossible but the event horizon is here ok

that's in twenty one thousand we'll talk a little bit about that in january the first week of january will be doing some specials on the future twenty one thousand but again in twenty eighteen we've seen as i said that they can taper ponzi that has resulted also in the giago global insurrection against banker occupation again that's something that we started ten years ago noticing a kind of died down for a while as the greek riots occupy wall street arab spring these were the beginnings of the own of the protest across europe today it was all connected it's all based on the exact same concept of bankers printing too much money creating this wealth and income gap and it's a delayed or deferred riot you know sure that the violence was baked into the cake and now leaders like micron are getting their just desserts well i think those are the gifts that has been giving most saturday and give me nothing you know probably

because santa went along bitcoin at eighteen thousand so in response i get enough i'm ok i told you had a dollar santa you and your fricken reindeer mrs claus mrs claus is loaded up on ripple. all right well we're going to take a break when we come back much more christmas poppers and goodies and presents coming your way don't go away. welcome to max keiser plentiful survival guide. looking forward to your pension account. yonks this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watch kaiser report. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that

strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. well i think it certainly makes sense for for moscow to think. in its context with the united states i just fear that the dominant view in this city is that it is merely impossible until the united states kind of settle this domestic divide the environment and in d.c. he's you know i hate to see these laws work toxic but that's exactly what it is and then i think it's in a way. you know you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to go to john mill ackerman john welcome back to the kaiser report and max this their merry christmas awfully started out now yeah to a new president of mexico lopez obrador the media hate him for the population clearly thinks differently how are his first days in office john well well first of all max you did remember you know you were you were the guy who you know made smokers over there is campaign internationally according to this like dirty campaign against you and many of us. so it's quite funny how this all of this all turned out it turned out that it was no actual manipulation and this election to the contrary well there actually was something to place and there was electoral fraud there was you know cambridge analytic and lots of infiltration of the networks but it wasn't a fair look was over a lot of it was in favor of you know the you the pro u.s.

candidates that depend on the pretty but the mexican population you know grows up really sort of demolished so that you know there'd be authoritarian tendencies during the campaign looks there are one with you know thirty million votes three percent of vote thirty percent ahead of his second place i could place was on the twenty two percent so you know i he just took power on december first and there's a lot of excitement like you said the media you know corporate media particularly is is this go against him but the mexican people are very optimistic yeah i mean you mentioned that i was responsible for him over to our big elective course terry first back to the media in mexico accusing r.t. and max kaiser of having some influence in the election you know i went to mexico city when i heard that and i made myself available to any journalist in mexico city who want to talk to me to talk to me about it not a single one showed up the exact same thing with practice it they. zach same thing with trump media cases russian meddling i go to these places i say let's talk i'm

right here you accuse me of meddling let's talk and nobody shows up not a single person because they're all full of complete to killa they're not doing. their job right anyway so what about the economic policy changes any coming yes i would definitely look show is you know really going to transform the neo liberal approach he's very interested in investing in education and healthcare and infrastructure and it's particularly in the poorest regions those you know the south part of mexico which has been. abandoned by these new liberal policies last you know thirty years there's a serious problem of course now the neo liberals you know have really sort of left the mess in government and shambles the budget is you know so mexico only collects forty percent fourteen seventeen percent of g.d.p. in taxes. we have a new liberals have you know shot up the debt the public debt is now you know ten

fifteen times it was twenty years ago and we're paying. incredible amounts of money eight hundred billion pesos about how that translates to dollars and just servicing the debt for this year fifty three percent of g.d.p. is now in public debt international banks which is one of your big topics of course macs are you know rare into you know try to stop and ruin the looks or the presidency any little announcement he makes which might affect the banks or the national finance capital they you know i mean the attack the peso and the credit ratings and so you know he is navigating through dangerous seas lots of sharks out there but he's definitely changing things and two thousand one thousand will be a crucial here to see whether how much mexico actually stand up to this international need look at consensus all right let's talk about the oil sector specifically the national oil producer pam x. has for decades for via. and not only a lot of corruption mexico but also

a huge percentage of government revenue now over two hours prior to sesar as had begun they privatization what's the current state of that john well the the laws are passed across is for a forty five and yet the previous president basically you know allows a sitting president to hand out you know long term one hundred year contracts to which can be counted and all treated that they were property to the tibet house and all companies started to do that but look start on. said he did he has got to stop or course with this other business short term and really invest in public investment in creating new refineries revive reviving the one who already exist because mexico is a big well company country but it imports over fifty percent of its gas so that you know one of the major things the books i want to change you want to increase them out of production a little as crude oil as well production has gone down since the private anything from it i think reforms not up to this basically done against of what was was probably promised and. you know if that is so these reforms don't sort of course

the president to private and yeah you've got going to revoke those concessions there are contracts that have been given out he's been very clear about that he's you know in general actually very respectful credit property is not going to be expropriated he's not even going to be raising taxes he said nor is he going to affect the central bank then spending the central bank he wants to get the job done with you know the general capitalist system as it is and with mexico that is that is you want they want the kind of corruption cut out waste and bring that investment to the people so you know he's announced a major scholarship program for use up to almost three million scholarships between university students and apprenticeships and existing businesses for use and so you know that is he's really trying to get things started again without directly confronting you know confront. trump actually it's actually really interesting he's going along with the wrong on this is going against all expectations on the left on

the right at least up till now they're there they're working together and realizing that they actually do have some common interests in terms of you know providing development and opportunities to mexicans and the whole americans so they don't have to migrate now i john i saw a headline that mexico i just raised the minimum wage to five dollars a day now this is quite remarkable considering that mexico such a major trading partner with the u.s. and canada what's going on with wages john well you know i mean that this was a is that actually is a story for raises much higher than any racism in the last twenty thirty years with a new liberal arrows sixteen percent increase. it's still very low mexican minimum wage. move up again this is definitely look for those a policy in this has to happen in terms of the crew creating situation for justice for working people in north america and trying to make you know nafta too which is coming down the road into a real development initiative and not just you know

a lead agreement to avoid these kinds of labor agreements and so so we'll see you know this is a research step forward it's a big step compared to what the new liberals have been doing but we need to push it further of course for the mexican working class to really get their fair share of national production so what's the state of the nafta nafta renegotiations and how's it going to play out twenty nineteen so they could be and yet the present president left office on november of last the group thirtieth of november and he rushed to the deal with with trump who you know close things down. and have the signing ceremony even to. the last day of his presidency. and you know trump was eager about a kind of a deal with was was biting at the instead of with him. so the other bit different ideas about how the economy should be run and honest don't need to be ratified by

both senate or the car or both houses me i think because now there's a special agreement and in mexico specifically by the senate we'll see how that goes forward looks although it has basically been positive about the agreement he says but he is in favor big shift for the mexican left you know we've been against nafta for a long time but now that's not the been all in effect for so long to sort of jump out of nafta now could create a massive crisis and so it looks around looking for the you know democratize and incorporate more issues of justice and national sovereignty and to nafta and it looks like some of those things were achieved particularly important protection for instance for the oil industry and mexico trump wanted to really so. great open even more as a religious jew bookstore though did not accept trump had to back down on that side and so it looks like it might it will most likely come through in the beginning of next year we'll see what the u.s.

congress up to you guys have been going on there but it will change as well and the other big issue on the table north american relations is migration of course trump is threatening. has been threatening to cut off all relief and even asked itself with mexico but america don't know don't do more about these issues look for those didn't playing it cool as well is definitely not going to continue along with this anti migrant policies and they get by not yet though because then yes there has been you know the real instrument for and i tend to american policy in mexico behave you know following the orders of trump and obama's well mr deporter in chief remember that and look so i don't like i think more humanitarian approach towards migration and development and development so we'll see if trump actually you know open his mind to and thinks about development instead of just repression and police control the border. that question to be on the table for next year right imagine

migration there john now many americans say the news of these migrant caravan of but they never heard of the situation in honduras as at how when what the what the genesis of the sol is what's going on there that causes the mass migration and can you give us a little rundown on you know the bigger picture here well you know wasn't america has. been very suffering nations for a long time due to you know radical right wing near liberal policies dictators propped up by the united states most recently an electoral fraud and duress year and a half ago it's a game of the heels of a few years before the coup again in the progress of president sadat and that coup was very much protected by hillary clinton and obama administration and so you know central america has been a real victim of new liberal policies and those imperialism it went through you know civil war very intensive war the seventy's and eighty's and you know i wrote

recently a couple weeks ago in the new york daily news and i was about you know how these caravans even though trump trouble trying to project them as the islands an attack on the ad they are actually using these people are protesting yes but peacefully actually peacefully they're protesting against violence against poverty in their countries against u.s. policies and what they want to do is work they know they want to contribute to the economy of of the americas and i think the central america you know thirty years ago many people who are victims you know took up arms and you know a civil war against these policies and now if there are you know acting with their feet in the in that peaceful way have been sung violence in some of the issues on the border but most of us becoming from the united states out of the police some here gas and stuff and so you know really going to take this stuff from a humanitarian approach that's what they're looking for humanitarian support looking to work that out looking for you know welfare they want to trigger. you know if there's a commie join up with their families you know it's there it's right mexico and so

you know the correct thing to do would be don't respond in a in a humanitarian well way as well because in the end it's an interest of all of us how about you know prosperous and peaceful americas in north america all right john mill ackerman thanks for being on the kaiser report but you're right i'm going to visit us again mexico soon played definitely am a common and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert like to thank our guest john mill ackerman trying to reach us on twitter it's guys are important the next time by all. politicians to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. that you going to be

pretty much like the. people. interested in the war. when our mind when the content of our mind. changed there are. the level of the physiology that is at the level of the brain the brain as a form of plasticity can weave while you're itself and not just the brain but also the rest of the response. time after time so you know what you're going on to grow. while we're away for christmas we're screening some of your favorite episodes of this season coming up

in this room who is to raise a major talk about human rights in the case of jamal khashoggi a lifelong friend of a saudi dissident and fight for the liberation of palestine and i'm telling me on crimes against humanity and off the jury's amazement surveillance was found in eagle by your of what now for bugging of your phone we go to san antonio in texas to told to award winning x. convict veteran brown hounded by the f.b.i. for rejecting a brave new world that's all coming up in the show but first today's seventy is since the leader of africa's richest defacto nation was killed with u.k. backing here was the reaction of the woman who could right now be president of the usa we came we saw he died. clinton nato nation media and to resume support at the end of libya's government even as they profess to love this towering african hero. see does.