reading's and sal you taishan is. the great secret not really here in washington d.c. in other government capitals around the world of the politics is about power and power my fine feathered hawk watchers is money the wise old saying goes he who has the gold makes the rules and that was never truer than in the purling corridors of power here on capitol hill so to help you the average citizen to better understand who is really pulling the strings of your favorite us politicians from camel harris to ted cruz that chuckie schumer to mitt romney let us present to you the latest findings from the good folks at the center for responsive politics who recently we recently released to the world via their award winning website open secrets that org the two thousand and eighteen numbers on the heart and soul of washington d.c. the lobbying industry yes our friends they found out that after several straight years of modest spending twenty eight team was a battery year for lobbying firms clients spent three point forty two billion

dollars on lobbying in two thousand and eighteen the largest some since the all time peak in two thousand and ten yes i am not lying to you you heard me correctly three point forty two billion was spent on lobbying are supposed to public servants . that's almost almost enough to build the great wall of donald trump as my cohort tabitha wallace mentioned to me earlier today and just who are the biggest perpetrators of the great lobbying boom of two thousand and eighteen you may ask well holding a commanding top spot was the u.s. chamber of commerce at ninety five million continuing their epic run coming in at number two was the national association of realtors who dropped seventy three million politicians this year and rounding out the top three was the pharmaceutical research and manufacturers of america yes your favorite neighborhood drug dealer spent about twenty eight million on politics last year fighting to keep treated and

addicted at every turn so with these three lobbying power houses and so many more dropping record breaking oceans of what are far from humble civil servants just what is the average citizen to do but start watching the honks. get the. real thing. to do. what they like you know that i got. to. welcome everyone to what i wrote them to and i'm happy for alice. wow hardcore lobby and on the on the hill last year i'm not in the right i'm really not surprised though that the three pillars of problems in the

u.s. where the top javi and. i know you told me about this morning you know is that she's right leg it is those three when you really look at the major issues facing the country it's all kind of stems from earth at least under the umbrella of these three major raw industries and so you have the u.s. chamber of commerce which is not a chamber of the u.s. government it's a business organization that. mostly goes to how they sort of play this game of trying to be like we're just for the little guy but the truth is you can see they're at the top and one of the things that they were big and pushing in the last quarter of last in the fourth quarter of last year was the focus on getting steel and aluminum tariffs taken off men were put out by the truck administration now the u.s. chamber of commerce has almost exclusively tended to push republicans that were for less regulation and less interference in the business but it's ok for them to jump in and so you know if if big corporations haven't gotten you know there's also big

big real estate which is what was responsible for a lot of big crash of the national association of realtors law levered pretty hard . with a realtor friendly legislation or mortgage tax and mortgage reform so they can sort of keep it going and once they put in they actually were a little higher than the u.s. chamber of commerce they came in at twenty six point four million in the third quarter and then if those two haven't gotten your if those two then you're probably going to need pills which is where the pharmaceutical industry comes in. they put in just about the pharmaceutical research and manufacturers of america broke their previous records in two thousand and nine well yeah a spending twenty eight million in twenty. or so and the number doesn't include individual lobbying of trade organizations or members and that includes pfizer at eleven point three million johnson and johnson and johnson

six point six million and ab the other pharmaceutical company six point one million so it's a lot of money to get things that they but they can't pay their workers better and you can't get better like let's say their products out of the way they can't they can't pay their workers better they can't give good you know it's just it's tariff lariat. that they keep giving this idea that we're so they can spend twenty million a quarter that's a great point you know we can hit the fifteen an hour the eighteen in our little crippled cripple business lobbying is only want to spend three point six billion dollars and we all know why last year what midterms right everybody's running for office they've got to be out there handing out checks left and right right to left exactly when you look at how would you look at the industry the twenty eighteen top ten lobbying industries this isn't like individuals it's just the industries who spent the most money on lobbying boom right there big pharma two hundred eighty ms

. with the insurance industry number two believe that hundred fifty six point eight million dollars or electronics manufacturing one forty four gas real estate nursing homes was in there they're right on. questionable industry to begin with. you know we can't forget that it wasn't just like the big conglomerates in the big groups of the federations in the trade organizations we also had individuals the big individual those young upstart young upstart young upstart george soros. the original o.-g. of lobbying soros. the biggest change actually doubled its twenty seventeen total of sixteen point one million. one point five million dollars and. spent

that money to pay people to do things i like and i have that kind of money and you know freedom works can't run to the right side freedom works leap from one hundred thirty thousand to one point eight million in two thousand and eighteen that's a lot of money and then they tell us that they're all doing our business now. what would you do if you went to your neighborhood bank to make a withdrawal and were denied your own money because they were worried that you or your friends might steal it i'd imagine one would be slightly upset it is after all your money you now imagine you're a south american nation in an economic and political crisis looking to withdraw your country's billions and gold out of a bank halfway around the world and you're told no sorry we can't give you your gold that is the current situation facing the country about a swale as a country grapples with two leaders vying for power and the united states russia in the world taking sides are two americas they're a modest so he joins us today now to discuss the latest on venezuela's quest to get

its own gold back from the bank this time going to harry potter mystery that's i don't have a lot of a good one it's what is going on but ago well i want to start with just hours ago u.s. secretary of treasury steve new chin and national secretary advisor john bolton came out made in the announcement again disavowing motherhood venezuelan president and saying that other nations encouraging other not nations and pressuring them to also really take president self proclaimed president. and acknowledge him as president of venezuela well in the speech some oil sanctions are being placed on venezuela and this is what he had to say. so when there is a recognition that stated is the property of the rightful. rulers the life of rightful leader president then indeed that money will be available to apply to

working with them on the money at the in the block to and whether that can be used for them. so venezuela has these pools reserves in the bank of england worth a lot of money and they have been blocked from president mother to retrieving and accessing them and as you heard a new tune just said that the gold could be released to presidents so not nama general but quite a few of them to stop so why don't i actually wrote a letter to prime minister theresa may and to the governor of the central bank of england and ask them to stop the illegitimate transaction he said that if the money was transferred it would be used by president nicholas mother to repress and brutalized the venezuelan people so the fact that the u.k. block to this transaction quite a call that it went wow. just survived how much gold is actually there i mean

how much are we talking about to a country that by the way is facing these major sanctions and it's sort of like now you've got to get to like the rainy day fund to feed rightful. how much how much are we talking about well this is the first time that they've tried to retrieve the gold venezuelan official went to london in mid december to try and retrieve the gold that back then was sixteen point five tons which was worth about five hundred fifty million dollars now since then that amount has doubled so we're looking about thirty one tons that's about one point one billion dollars worth of gold that is being taken away or not allowed allowing that as well as to actually hostage saying look put in we only will accept if you put our guys and then you're going to have venezuela's gold in my humble opinion you know the u.k. the bank of england holding hostage the talks in december with the venezuelan official who went to try to access the gold those were obviously unsuccessful so

they were unable to retrieve them once again model now trying to retrieve them to help feed his people why those saying that if they're released to mother. they're not going to help feed people that and the central bank or the bank of england is also concerned that venezuela is going to use this money if released tomorrow for personal gain. right because politicians are in the rest of the world and the u.k. and the united states have never used anything like that any money or anything for personal gain thank goodness we live in because a great democracy we don't have the right we've talked about it we've. seen this kind of denial of monetary resource in this kind of politicking with the countries essential money and resources before we ever seen this in history before we've seen it actually more so than you'd think i mean former member of parliament for the u.k. george galloway talked about him having to negotiate to release get gold released

to other countries in england before so he did say that if other world leaders are watching that he hopes they learn their lesson to not borrow from are not hold their assets in the bank of england but we also saw this in two thousand and eleven during the libyan former libyan leader gadhafi was ousted now the those were their assets were frozen by us there were sanctions place with the help of the u.n. and to this day prosecutors are still investigating where those millions of dollars went they were kicked off these sets and they're trying to figure out who exactly has access to those millions and it not only was worth the millions it was still yielding interest so that's that's still under investigation. so much for coming. you. money go as we go to

break our cultures don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics covered on our facebook twitter and you tube pages and those that are today. coming up our own taboo wallace talks politics and female empowerment with author and actress stormy daniels and our lawyer michael avanti she was on the red carpet stay tuned watching the whole. thing. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk.

i mean i mean i do it again where you know you. look so nobody. goes in one room you know most of the both a billion euros a year was notable just a little bit of money but really you know. please don't please the ways but i did my best religion as the why do. people. use the media this is. one of those little. these get. you know some new you know you. joined me every thursday on the i like simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

thank you. thank you thank you. u.s. president donald trump allegedly called her a woman to be reckoned with but when the world learned not only of an affair between the two but of a cover up that of that affair on the eve of the two thousand and sixteen election author and adult actress stormy daniels became an icon she is a woman who has been silenced and then allegedly threatened by people intent on protecting trump from the backlash to states seem to have kept stormy afloat through all of the attacks against her first her work in the adult industry as she put it on sixty minutes last year being in the adult industry i've developed a thick skin and maybe a little bit of a dark sense of humor but nothing could truly prepare someone for this the second thing that seems to have gotten her through is her attorney michael avenue who

joined her on the red carpet of the adult video news awards this weekend at the hard rock hotel and casino in las vegas nevada i had the chance to speak with them both and started by asking our noddy why the world is still so terrified of power. that's an interesting question but there's no question that it is true that there's this dichotomy between how the world views men versus women when it comes to sex but i mean i think there's a lot of progress that's been made but not enough to show question about my second question i think it will do and we'll understand this and i did a little research because i'm based out of d.c. and it turns out that more people watch adult entertainment than watch c.n.n. and m s n b c r t imus i mean any of them all of us combined and also more people follow adult stars on line and they do politicians what do you think. is a great question for both of you know. what's this great actually it doesn't work because the touch of her time is always a it's

a great question i'm asking and i'm based out of d.c. and i did a little research and it turns out that more people research that means to me a lot but that was before and. so when i found out was that more people every day watch adult entertainment of some kind or erotica then watch m s n b c c.n.n. or see anything anyone has ever it's way more entertaining the people look better and it's just as much. here's the other part more people follow adult film stars on line then do politicians so what do you think politicians could learn from adult film stars to be more honest and don't be so goddamn boring. now or were a lot of fun there are a lot of. america why i'm not going to lie like a politician they were a lot of fun it's definitely a oh there's a there's a public image i think that the mainstream media loves to play about you know adult film stars somehow they like to do that and even with being so anti trump for so

long the mainstream media judged the hell out of this girl over and over and over again and it was simply because she was a woman and because she worked in the sex industry oh you know the big. this industry is probably the biggest understeer in the world often known as the long you know the oldest career in the world the oldest industry and there's still judging are because of what because of the industry it's pretty incredible and you were there and i thought that that was really fascinating thing to look at is that when you look at popularity between things which later this week you're going to present everything that you learned. your tendonitis everything about everything else. some of. the families. because it is interesting how. politicians and news that falls to the wayside when it comes to human entertainment. and i watch and see that trust trust and politicians it's gone

down trust in the media has gone down i think trust in erotica and the sex industry gone up enough they're putting more trust in it so according to porn had they do these reports every year of what their statistics are one of the biggest sites so according to them there were thirty three and a half billion visits to their site and twenty eighteen with ninety two million average daily viewing. and then in twenty six stainless put this in perspective there were ninety one billion videos were watched that's twelve point five videos for every person on the planet every person on the planet. and according to covenant filters adult sites for parents are very anti-porn but they say seventy nine percent of eighteen to thirty year old american men and seventy six percent of eighteen to thirty year old american women watch internet porn at least once per month. men converse. this is where people's you know this is

a commercially according to statistics status two thousand and sixteen the total number of prime time viewers for cable news in the united states amounted to just four point seven six million people compare. what was it ninety two million average daily visits that's a huge gap of when you break it down per day that's one site one site does that much per day but when you look at the per day average and even from the fall look at this from the fall of two thousand eighteen c.n.n. fox m s n b c averaged only about five point three million people a day that is that small i'm sorry look at the. three stations only play they play around the world but realistically we're talking about. definitely biased towards domestic issues right. you talk about a country of two hundred three hundred sixty one million people now only five

million people watch their news from these three get their news from these three channels that's that's insane but that's about it they don't believe you're not a mainstream media lie sycophant you're considered like when you must be on the fringes and the truth is they're on the fringe and i think a lot of those mainstream kind of trying to fit into one or two malls is really that kind of thing which is funny because however having ben up to and that first question i asked michael of an awning actually very interesting because the other thing i found there is that there's so much stuff what we saw the c.e.o.'s leading up to the women there are very terrified of women right now and i talked to a lot of women there and men who really said of course they are like look what's happening you had cabinet all these things now you have these these younger women coming forward and gaining power and it's also the same in the adult industry that women are getting more power of over their own work it's not a contract kind of thing so they're getting more and that's what we'll see this friday i'm not coming later on a whole lot for

a while you're going to present i think some pretty incredible stuff i can't wait to see it i mean that was that with that interview alone looks like it was fascinating entertaining and a lot of fun so i can't wait to see what you've got up your sleeve. the six day strike by los angeles teachers has inspired many others in education around the country to stand up to a broken system as well strikes votes and demands are popping up all over the nation and for many teachers in los angeles the recent strike wasn't about starting a movement that was supposed to bring changes needed in order to give students the best education but when the united teachers of los angeles the union representing the teachers announced a historic deal had been reached due to the strike many many many teachers called foul on this supposedly historic deal r.t. america's natasha suite has more from los angeles. well the united states. los angeles cried in victory last week a good amount of the teachers themselves are up in arms over the deal take

a listen to what the president of the union alex capriccio pearl had to say when the six day of striking came to an end so it's a historic day today in los angeles a. super majority voting yes for the agreement that we made with all of us the but if you checked facebook hours later there was a different reaction from teachers one teacher writing this is the historical agreement this is the same as what they had on january eleventh hash tag i want my six days that i wasted on this back and other writing this agreement is horrible it was not worth striking seven minutes let alone seven days our union has let us down again some attacking the union president himself and remember alex still got his paycheck the whole time some teachers say they're raises aren't adequate kim petersen said in our district are ten percent raise included enough mandatory extra hours to make it only a three percent raise other issues included mental health what about mental health

for all other schools mental health is important p.s.w. or personal support worker in every school is necessary they are as important as nurses in the deal the district employee to add on a full time nurse in every school but the same deal also ends random searches which could detect students carrying weapons or drugs and according to an article by the california policy center an educational nonprofit they see the new policy making these twenty eight schools as less safe california policy center also dives into what they call computers proles sample to attacks on public charter schools as well as the union's lawsuits against them a key factor of the california policy center points out teachers in charter schools are not required to join the union now we reached out to the union president and have not received a response as of news time the district now carries a pension. liability of six point eight billion for other benefits and retirement

health insurance has now reached a whopping fourteen point nine billion dollars in los angeles costs we are team. deep in the once for scene landscapes of the arctic tundra ice that has locked in a rock and soil for hundreds of thousands of years has melted away and while some items found after the melt is good long lost plants and moss there's one discovery made by newcastle university researchers that does not bode well for humans they found a chain responsible for some of the world's deadliest super bugs first covered on surface water in indian cities it's just two short years later it was found in the arctic over eight thousand miles away the reason apparently are global waste management water supply is polluting everything even the arctic and well scientists say it has to do with the huge amounts of antibiotics used by humans and on farm animals i have to wonder all of those cold weather horror movies like the blog of

the saying alien versus predator the thing from another world and the x. files movie teach us anything whatever freezes in the icy depths. that is very true this is very true. that we like locked away in the cold and then she was later we're going to. go crazy that they don't know yet still would go it actually got into the soil of this superbug they've examined it has to do with water and it's what's happening is we're actually pushing evolution like our use of antibiotics this pushing evolution so hard that as water are so you know how many times our water has antibiotics and it's literally getting into the water and traveling there. because it's an evolved gene it's a gene that's already evolved to be stronger so we literally have super bugs that are going to be stronger and stronger because we use more and of that. good one jobs go ha thank you all right. gotta. get out of our show for you today

remember everyone in this world we are told love them up so it's all you all. keep watching those hawks and i was great. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell those same stories. we're going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defenses office says we're going to attack and destroy the government and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money those with dives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for

a war surely we can risk some discomfort for and easiness for. max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is as if a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has flaws are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for god's guys or for. the stand. that i'm a part of a rather tough it out for fourth. i'm

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we'll continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools to support interim president quite oh how. it's been a son of the us cuts venezuela's financial lifeline slumping crippling sanctions on the country states all company said the country self the third interim leader. president nicolas maduro.