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dot com so what is now full the kaiser reports looking at china's controversial a social credit system and if you're watching in the u.k. buba times the financial news. america is or this is the car as a reporter that's my radio voice is so true oh it's so good because you have a face for radio max but for a larry. you know it's hilarious is when michael cohen was in front of the senate this past week or a congress whatever you know testifying he said that donald trump his client made him send up to about five hundred threatening letters and when i was listening to that i was like you know i received threatening letters from lawyers

and i tell threatening to tell lawyers to some threatening letters from me i mean does a lawyer ever write a kind letter right so i went to google to search threatening letter from to see how frequent it is and sure enough threatening letter from lawyer was the first and the second option number three was threatening letter from t.v. license saying i the u.k. where you know it's not state funded b.b.c. but you will be arrested if you don't pay your t.v. license number four was threatening letter from santa. like what was. threatening letter from santa who doesn't that in that home what santa has shaken folks down what's this all about to me to me i don't like the mocha cookies list you so i'm going to deprive you of this year's present what it means writing a letter from santa claus it doesn't make any sense that was the number four option ahead of threatening letter from solicitor which is a lawyer in the u.k.

employer landlord him r c which is the i.r.s. of the u.k. and i.r.s. so centers pretty threatening it could kind of fit in with your casino gulag sort of system is like to me you didn't ask for enough goods you know how we got to keep the. if you're just asking for a little football this is sent to look. for me. you will begin a little red truck this year. due to not only were you not good you know who's naughty very naughty but. we didn't like the way you post in a social media so we're going to have to have the bag of goodies as you know who else was not easy this year in the u.k. who has the headline from just a week or two ago bankrupt businessman set fire to seventy thousand pounds cash after telling creditors he would rather burn the money than pay them court hears official said bird of prey expert david lowe's bird seventy one was consumed with

hatred towards the insolvency practitioners he owed so that julie burned a bundle of cash to avoid paying them right so he burned the money this bird of prey expert burned his more you should burn the money off of money should be burned in the best the way it goes i mean that's what we need to do we need to burn the ships we need to burn any connection if you have money organizing as part of a magical crypto conference in new york city coming up this think it's may or june i forget which one i think in june because i may it's a day or a i'm organizing a mass burning in times square so i want to get people to come to times square in new york city and want to burn up to a million dollars and feel have money you can take any pounds dollars again whatever but we're going to burn it all because we need to when you see the out money you should get a physical illness you should have a reaction of vomiting to reeducate yourself all three out is poison just so you know it is illegal to burn money in the united states it is not illegal in the

united kingdom where he got found guilty of was the fact that he owed thirty thousand pounds to these insolvency guys and he refused to pay he was actually paid eighty thousand pounds and some insurance payout and he decided rather than. give this insolvency company the thirty thousand pounds he would burn all his money his name is bird he ran an outdoor adventure and paint balling center in a way in west wales and that kind of went horribly wrong and said he decided to remove the money from his bank and burn it all he was sentenced to six months in prison suspended for twelve months and recorder simon mills condemned lowe's birds actions as quote wicked arrogant and actually very stupid well it's new when you visit them all money eventually is going to go the way of all free up money and that is to zero none of survived i mean the bank of england pound has been around for three hundred years but they used to be worth it's the british pound has

dropped in purchasing power by ninety nine point five percent so it's affectively gone does era you can't really say hasn't gone to zero all fear money is gone as are all the average lifespan for paper money or for your money is twenty seven years none have survived you know don't put any money into the money ok there's there's alternatives to money if you burn your free money that's ok because the value of the gold and bitcoin will go up as a result the more you burn the greater it is on a net basis for your gold and bitcoin why my add that bankers are doing a far far far far far far better job than this guy he's merely burned seventy thousand pounds bankers burned to seventy trillion dollars in the last global financial crisis and this is part of the ongoing situation we have is that they've burned so many trillions of dollars that the central banks have to print up another seventy trillion dollars to make good for all the stuff that got burned in you know

bogus derivatives products and various fraudulent packages of fake debt so here we have a situation where he's just merely reflecting the larger society around him another great quote the british you know. i always do these great quotes he's a very naughty boy right well glenn wicks the chief investigator for the insolvency service said david lowe's bird could have paid the thirty thousand pounds debt owed to the insolvency practitioners however his hatred towards them sense of injustice was his motive which ultimately led to his downfall and it's justifiable hatred i mean look at the royal bank of scotland what they've done to tens of thousands of businesses in the u.k. they burned them they killed them they put them out of business to sell their houses for pennies on the dollar and there's no reason why people shouldn't be burning their feet on mouse it's merely reflecting the economy around them so during the financial crisis two thousand and seven two thousand and eight two thousand and nine what we witnessed on mass was trillions of dollars being burned

to the ground our economies being burned to the ground and then intervening in that were central bankers and treasuries around the world bailing out the other side and basically they were buying the ashes from the bankers and we had. an opinion piece in the financial times this week that got a lot of attention that was from david mcwilliams the financial times is behind a paywall so i'm going to look at michele locks version of this which is he said ben bernanke the father stream us socialism writer david mcwilliams penned an excellent article in the financial times called quantitative easing was the father of millennial socialism mcwilliam notes that the fed chairman ben bernanke use cash for trash q.e. scheme drove up asset prices and bailed out the baby boomers the cost of course was pricing millennialist out of the housing market so policy penalizes the asset poor report has reported on this over the years we had bankers burning all this cash and

then we had what was the response was trump was breaks it was you they shone with is the desire by many. cat asset poor who did not benefit from this is to burn the system down where there's burning a pile of cash which. is showing the meaningless of the currency that you know central banker can just print up another trillion let alone seventy thousand pounds and we have the burning down of our political system all around us based on this notion of socialism for the very very wealthy and the bankers and poverty for everybody else well i mean there's a differentiation between burning cash and printing cash ok ben bernanke is david mcwilliams points out and the central bankers they print money burning cash essentially well they print money and they devalue it so that it becomes worthless but that's not the same as pulling fear about your money and setting it on fire

which is what i'm saying people should do in other words to combat the central bankers and their money printing skiing's which has devalued the value of money and so your purchasing power is being eroded in the price of a house keep going up and up and up and up to stop the central bankers from having any control you need to just openly start burning their poison like monsanto's around or cigarettes they're carcinogenic fear money is the same thing as financially carcinogenic and you need to eradicate what's left by simply getting lighter fluid throwing it in a big pile and setting them on fire ok the value of gold you can't print gold you can't print bitcoin again the value of those things are going to go up the people almost things are going to be the owners of the economy not the central bankers that's why i would intervene here and yes you can make a statement at least in the u.k. by burning money but i personally i have like the cash app and any time i feel like burning money i just take twenty five dollars and buy

a few suppose she's on the cash app which is going to be worth something one day rather than the worthlessness of the fee out that continuously is printed and devalued on behalf of bankers you could buy gold you can buy silver you could buy between so that's what i am as a people who are going to buy a big call and if you haven't bought it by now then you're probably not going to buy it so. we need those people need to be cast to cast overboard the people who own it now they need to get serious and start burning their fear so that the value of their gold and big going starts going up i want to also point out that in this article from the shed last talk dot com ben bernanke the father which stream us socialism so you know he's talking about the rise of alexandria cortez and the millennial very socialist remember this is the actual reason why hillary lost is the base the millennial base all those that came out for bernie sanders wanted they didn't want to continuation of the devaluation of currency

because they don't own assets like i'm saying if you can own an asset like bitcoin like gold like silverlight property then you're you're benefiting they obviously can't and this is why hillary lost because she wanted to accelerate that destruction of the value of the currency through these trade deals and through more money printing and war war is the most inflationary its war has destroyed more currency than anything else in history even more than bankers even more than bankers fraudulent debt products that blew up one of the good the dubai burning the actual fifth they buy a tomahawk missile or they blow it up that's just same thing as burning fear but i'm saying goes for war just out just go right to the source and burn the fish out the rectally don't wage a war it's peaceful this way the article by mission also points out that one of the other things that has happened to the united states in particular for the millennial population is not only have they've suffered from this system all feel

that system not tethered to any hard asset or currency like gold is that they've also been the victim of you know as we accelerated all these wars george bush the second he passed the bankruptcy reform act of two thousand and five. which as miss points out would better have been called the debt slave act of two thousand and five so that they could not from two thousand and five these money as we're not allowed to write off any student loan debt so they've now been saddled with all this is that and they can't escape that in a way it kind of protects them from the private equity model i may have they've already loaded up with debt there's no asset for a private equity firm to strip their they they have no future the next thirty forty years has already been collateralized by themselves and spent you know on some overpriced apartment right so the message they say is she's already living in a socialist paradise right there's already massive money printing going on and

being given away for an earned income from the central bank so what she needs to do is to get in that group of people that's getting all the free money because right now she's not but it's not about socialism vs capitalism we already live in socialism that capitalism for decades but that's what she needs to modify her thinking a little bit like i've said she's really smart and she'll go far she just needs to modify or thinking slightly anyway we're going to take a break and then we come back much more coming your way. my seven years doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one

in the united states is drug abuse started going to the users in the prison population so we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. when the war on drugs was on the scene. i think there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivably long sentences for being a minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time medic brett scott who is the author of the heretic's guide to global finance hacking the future of money as opinion

pieces are often found in the guardian and other publications warning about cashless society brett scott welcome back to all right bret the world has seen the spread of digital money you call it gentrification of payments elaborate if you think about. gentrification process what you normally hope is a lot of influence you know people who live in these informal sort of economic situations you know street markets peer to peer relationships they find a good neighbor who gets taken over by a large chain store and very formal institutions that operate from a distance so i was using both of them how do you think about payments think about cash transactions they often operate at small scale informal situations of peer to peer relationships but those little payments always operates with huge corporate entities operate at those things and try to get in between people so with the

eradication of cash you say we're being herded into a digital net who and what is driving force behind this and what does the future look like with only digital payments available i'm thinking about facebook they're going to launch a digital payment form i would imagine that would qualify brett you know absolutely sort of a traditional story that's always given by the digital technology industry a little payments industry and by that i mean the sort of the mainstream digital payments industry not not the cryptocurrency community but the sort of the these is a must the costs of this will be what they tend to say is that this is a bottom up process ordinary people want to have the convenience and speed of their total payments and it's been driven by. this kind of groundswell of popular uptake but if you actually go back and you look at what's been happening over the last few decades the digital payments industry and the banking industry and also various states have actively been trying to push people into digital payment. this takes

the form of you know on the one hand propaganda campaign to conflict convince you to move but also take the form of you know slowly degrading the cash infrastructure most slowly making it harder and harder to use the alternative such that you start to get pushed into the system and there's many many examples of companies working actively with state to help push the interest of the digital payment industry and i would imagine all such a thing morgan's j.p. m. cohen recently announced it also fall into that category now what about the role of these other credit card giants any day monetization scheme that happened recently in india yeah i sure there's people who've been trying to look into the background of what inspired that what happened was that the modi government and initially claimed that you know it was trying to get rid of certain banknotes out of circulation in order to prevent what i call black money or you know money being

hidden by the criminal underworld and then later changed the story to say that actually what they wanted to do was to sort of push in there into the twenty first century and create this new cashless society ever to use digital payment companies . and the first thing that actually happened with when that announcement was made of all the big digital payment companies in india. took i front page advertising praising modi for his great actions and so on and of course they the greatest beneficiaries so the low speculation as to how much lobbying was going on in the background for the process these for example in it twenty seven seventeen annual report actually of it he talks about how it worked with the modi government to help. with you monetize ation process and you know give them advice and there's also a institutional code to better than cash alliance which is funded by citibank. because the bunch of other institutions that actively works with governments to promote the

digital payments what you're describing there are sounds like a standoff is brewing between the dentist digitization of mine a and the facebook coin and then j.p. morgan coins and they remodeled to zation efforts and and these are these are quine's that are put forward by the state and corporations and then on the other side we have as you mentioned crypt of coins this is a centralized consensus agoa them as proof of work out rhythms and it would seem that we're headed for a bit of a standoff between these two i received les heard john mcafee who is very very visible in the crypto space mentioned that he foresees a quote war between these two elements certainly john is now stranger to hyperbole but maybe maybe not so much in this case brant what do you think yeah

well if you think back into the history of the cryptocurrency systems all the original components came together to form digital currency crypto currency systems . a lot of the early community around that actually looked into the future and they saw what was happening with digital payments and electronic. bank systems and they saw this potentiality all large scale so they learned in the age of the internet with digital payment companies and the early pioneers like david chow who was behind many of those innovations actually you know diverting talk about. nothing. states. being able to supply digital payments but also very large corporations would want to use the date of the. originals of the vision of the cryptocurrency community was predicting a cashless society you digital payments run by banks and try to build an

alternative to try and create what they might call digital cash as an alternative well there seems to be another split interesting warring factions going on in this space you have the damage charms of the world what you would really have to look at the history of cypherpunks and the history of crypto currency they were very much interested in creating digital gold a scarce digital distributed decentralized equivalent then on the other side of the coin you have people like craig wright who believes he is. but every time he speaks it sounds like he's shilling j.p. morgan coin or facebook coin or any other of the state coins centralise coins so even within the community itself there doesn't seem to be. really a good understanding of what the white paper suggests want to talk about cash if you'll if you understand the history of cypherpunk you understand you could replace

the word cash in the white paper with gold but if you listen to craig right he thinks it means payments but as you're describing payments that's a gateway toward censorship and state control brett your thoughts mentioning before safely about that about but cash used so this notion of digital cash being used a lot and. a lot of people actually think that it's cash has gone down in society what's actually being occurring is that cash usage for tron factions using it to go by i think the stores have gone down but cash usage has actually overall gone up. in many countries and the reason for this is that many people especially wealthy people people who do not trust the banking sector. take cash out of the way to hedge themselves against the banking sector going down

a barren brown mind cash right now as one of the only forms of money that exists outside of the banking sector so it is the currency but it's also a currency that you can keep in your own control where there's little money in the banking sector is essentially promises issued by banks and it's not within your direct control so actually there's many. of most of the pacific so many countries sure the cash usage is going up for people trying to hold it quote unquote as a store of value just keeping it outside of the banking sector. that was out of mind and you have that in the crypto circles with those tougher debate as well the you know the use of crypto currency for everyday transactions versus the use of crippling currency to sort of just. hold of some kind of acid out of the banking sector i mean i think one of the problems in the crypto space is that the original bitcoin white paper. is an extremely elegant. you know groundbreaking piece of

work but what it really describe goes away to issue tokens and move them around between a network of people without the central party but it didn't really ever describe all the things you need around that to actually make it into a couple months or a system so the big thing right now in the cryptic crypto space and i love the battles that occur around people you know trying to work i ask you know how do we make these tokens become something that's accessible and usable to a large number of people in a way that they actually do become a phone digital cash cow that the so called scaling the bank and we say technologies like lightning networks now enter and solve a lot of scaling issues interesting point about cash and the actual hoarding of cash has gone up and has. directly we know that after nine eleven the attacks in new york a lot of those cash dollars were taken out of the system they were panic hoarded by people which led to banks needing to issue more credit it's under a lot of reasons why the banks are even more unstable than they are today than ever

before is because a lot of cash has been removed by paying it people panicked out of the banks after nine eleven and let's talk about china first second we've got about a minute and then we'll carry you over for another segment but china has introduced a social credit score which is seen tens of millions cut off from accessing public infrastructure your thoughts on this and so you know this seems to be part and parcel of this surveillance system digital cash system china is well ahead of the pack rat yeah absolutely so in china there being a big uptick in the use of digital payment systems and it's actually intervening largely by mobile payments so those two companies that i pay and we chat. it's run by ten percent who take in a huge position or take a vote again dominance in digital payments and many small scale merchants and stuff in china use these systems but of course especially what you've got now is two huge companies other than so is it themselves

a tween or green buyers and sellers in the chinese market and the chinese state has access to all that information that comes from those companies that of course the chinese state is slowly trying to build those social credit system which is i'm finished but it's still a work in progress. where they're trying to get all these different types of data sources that can be used to combine profiles of people and give them sort of school was to. i guess rank them in terms of how good a citizen they are and then you can use those go if there is a give people access to benefit a kind of a you know a carrot and stick approach and you can then you know to use it to you know punish them. so that's happening in china but actually this process is occurring in many other places in the world and there is fullness that we might actually recognize it very easily but you know in america and europe you're finding many of these types of parrots and stick. i got to cut out they're all carry over to

a second segment thanks for being on the kaiser report all right that's going to do it for our parwan and this edition of kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey i would like to thank our guest bret scott easy all star of the heretic's guide to global finance if you want to catch us on twitter it's kaiser report until next time. traditionally in the foreign policy blog with the assistance of the legacy media define an immediate threat for a foreign military intervention or coup their name has been to manufacture public support today it's different with virtually no public debate been is wally is the target before. the problem is force regime change has

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