out that after several straight years of modest spending twenty eighteen was a banner year for lobbying firms clients spent three point forty two billion dollars on lobbying in two thousand and eighteen the largest since the all time peak in two thousand and ten yes i am not lying to 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 on politicians this year and rounding out the top three was the pharmaceutical research and manufacturers of america yes your favorite neighborhood

drug dealers 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 ash on our barbara humble civil servants just what is the average citizen to do but start watching the honks. get a. real good. to see. what it's like you know that i got. this. welcome everyone to what i wrote to and i'm happy for alice. wow hardcore lobby and on the on the hill last year. i'm not i'm really not surprised that the three

pillars of problems in the u.s. where the tough love is. i know you told me that this morning. right leg it is those really when you really look at the major issues facing this country its goal kind of stems from earth's least under the umbrella of these three major 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 is you can see there 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 a 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 there is also big

big real estate which is what was responsible for a lot of that crash the national association of realtors law lover will be 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 the only u.s. chamber of commerce they came in a 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 record in two thousand and nine well yeah a spending twenty eight million in twenty. and the number doesn't include individual lobbying of trade organization. members and that

includes pfizer at eleven point three million johnson and johnson six point six million the 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 can't get better like their products out of the way they can't they can't pay their workers better they can't give good. tariff. giving this idea that. they can spend twenty million a quarter we can hit the fifteen an hour the. crippled cripple business lobbying is only one to three point six billion dollars and we all know why last year what midterms right everybody is running for office they've got to be out there had an. exactly when you look at when you look at the industry twenty eighteen top ten lobbying industries this isn't like individuals it's just the

industry the most money on lobbying boom right there big pharma two hundred myth. number two believe that. point eight million dollars. electronics manufacturing one forty four gas real estate nursing homes was in their . early questionable and. you know we can't forget that it wasn't just like the big conglomerates in the big the federation's in the trade organizations we also had individual the big individual it was those young upstart young upstart young upstart. original o.-g. of lobbying. well the biggest change actually doubled its twenty seventeen total of sixteen point one million. point five million dollars. because that

money doesn't pay people to do things i like and i have that kind of money and you know freedom works run the right side freedom works lead from one hundred thirty thousand to one point eight million team that's a lot of money and then they tell us that they're all doing our business so. what would you do if you want 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 now imagine you're a south american nation and an economic and political crisis looking to withdraw your country's billions in 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 us well as a country grapples with two leaders vying for power in the united states russia and

the world picking sides are to america sarah montessori joins us today now to discuss the latest on venezuela's quest to get its gold back from the bank that sounds like a harry potter mystery. what is going on. well i want to start with just hours ago u.s. secretary of treasury steve nugent and optional secretary advisor john bolton came out made the announcement again disavowing other words venezuelan president and saying that other nations encouraging other nations and pressuring them to also really. take president self proclaimed president. and acknowledge him as president of venezuela well in the speech and on some oil sanctions that are being placed on venezuela and this is what he had to say. so when there is a recognition and i paid a visa is the property of the rightful. rulers the life of rightful leader

president then indeed that money will be available to the wider this is working with them on the money at that in the blocked account and whether that can be used for them. so venezuela has the school's 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 chin just said that the gold could be released to presidents so not nama duro but. 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. blocked to this transaction i don't call that it went. so just 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 runnable right 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 it in we only will accept it if you put our guys right and then you're going to have a better way was 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 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 in the u.k. and the united states have never used anything like that any money or anything for personal gain thank goodness we women because a great democracy we don't have the you know the problem for a fact about how we've. seen this kind of denial of to 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 think i mean former member of parliament for the u.k. george galloway talked about him having to negotiate to release get told 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 good aussies 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. though i want to. thank you so much for coming on great very informative 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 tab wallace talks politics and female empowerment with author and actress stormy daniels and her lawyer michael avanti she was on the red carpet stay tuned watching the whole. thing. lately. illo. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is also a spearing dramatic development that only really i'm going to resist i don't see

how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. to me let me let you know you. see it's one of the things about. those whom you know most of the best to be in yours and yours was notable to be a very good month but would you. please not believe that was the idea but this religion as though i'd. like to use the meaning. of. these will get. you know it's a movie you know you can. join

me every thursday on the elec simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you the. 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. two things 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 and 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 kirby for both of you know. what this is great actually it doesn't work because the touch of her time is always it's great so the question i'm asking is 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. 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 yeah right. now there were a lot of fun there a lot of i'm not going to i'm not going to lie i'm not going to lie like a politician and they were a lot of fun for a. definitely. there's a there's

a public image i think that the mainstream media loves to play about you know adult film stars and how 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 the biggest industry is probably the biggest understeer in the world also known as the long you know the oldest career in the world the oldest industry and there are still judging are because of what because of the industry it's pretty incredible and you know you were there and i thought that that was a really fascinating thing to look at is that when you look at popularity between things which you know later this week you're going to present you know everything that you learned. your temper not everything about everything else. this is a family show. because it is interesting how you know where politicians 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 early 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 on that's twelve point five videos for every person on the planet every person on the planet. and according to covenant filters adult size 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 primetime viewers for cable news in the united states amounted to just four point seven six million people compared to what was it ninety two million the average daily visits yes that's a huge gap of when you break it down per day like daily that's one site one site pornhub 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 a team 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 t.v. look at. these three stations only play they play around the world but realistically we're talking about the strictly measure definitely biased towards

domestic issues. you talk about a country of two hundred three hundred sixty 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 if they don't believe you're not a mainstream media like sycophant you're considered likely 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 the first question i asked megalodon on the actually very interesting because the other thing i found there is that there's so much stuff what we saw 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. haven't i heard 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 the over their own work it's not

a contract to things so they're getting more important and that's what we'll see this friday are not coming later on to have lots more i want you or you're going to present i think some pretty incredible stuff i can't wait to see it i mean that was that would that interview alone looked like it was fascinating entertaining and a lot of fun so i can't wait to see what you've got up your sleeve and i just. 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 it 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 fowle this supposedly historic deal r.t. america's natasha suite has more from los angeles. when the united states or its

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 computer had to say when the six day of striking came to an end so it's a historic day today in los angeles a vast super majority are voting yes for the agreement that we made with our u.s.d. but if you check facebook hours later there was a different reaction from teachers when teacher writing this is the historical agreements this is the same as what they had on january eleventh has tag i want my six days that i wasted on this back another 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 their raises aren't adequate kim

petersen said in our district or ten percent raise included in the 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 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 computer proles sample to attacks on public schools as well as the union's lawsuit against them a key factor of the california policy center points out teachers in charge of 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 and sweets are. deep in the once pristine landscapes of the arctic tundra ice that has locked in 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 founded gene responsible for some of the world's deadliest superboy in its first covered on the surface water in indian cities it's just two short years later it was found in the arctic over eight thousand miles away there. reason apparently in our global waste management water supply is polluting everything even the arctic and while scientists say it has to do with the huge amounts of antibiotics used by

humans and on farm animals i have to wonder do you know all those cold weather horror movies like the blog the. alien versus predator or the thing from another world and the x. files movie teach us anything whatever freezes in the eye you see depths. that is very true it's pretty true i want a monster that we look locked away in the cold and then she worries literally they're going to end it's all so crazy that they don't know yet still want to go it actually got into the soil up there due to the super bug 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 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 getting stronger and stronger because we use more antibiotics good wardrobes good thank you all right. get out of our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told will love them up so i know you all. rolled into the down time people are watching those parks and it was great to. see it. go jump. in as a two town terriers and it was. time to say scott you know facebook should rename itself as space crime because they are assisting in. baby this move toward totalitarianism and the question i guess is why why now why the child's right ism rearing its ugly head in america at this time of the.

us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulated branch offices we're going to attack and destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy mess for peace. rather stand. over them what. good armor are

far over the rather rough across the floor for them to care that they're. going to let combat and i don't question them you can keep an. eye on it is a channel for truffle that it. will never make them. give its whole full push push for gun the i'm here for your pay i think time in syria says. the british. civil. farther than africa will fuck around with mr hates it for jim and then i hope that our freedom and for. the money.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you loan to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and that one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only.

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