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a bill to. you know it's legal. for the financial news. this is. tries a report. they say hey max in the second half you continue talking about cash and cash flow societies and the possible totalitarian aspects of that because you're in a system controlled by the banks and you cannot exit it without cash i think that's an interesting way to look at it now i want to look at a headline out of china and then compare the story from china to our own you know

corporate controlled world so china bans twenty three million people from buying travel tickets as part of social credit system china blocked twenty three million quote discs credited travelers from buying plane or train tickets last year as part of the country's controversial social credit system aimed at improving the behavior of citizens according to the national public credit information center's twenty eighteen report seventeen point five million people were banned from buying flights five point five million barred from purchasing high speed train tickets because of social credit offenses three poor released last week said quote once discredited limited everywhere so this is the realisation of what i've been predicting for a number of years the casino good lag so in china if you are

not complying with an ever encroaching an oppressive state intrusion into your life you get discredited and the only way to keep yourself from being put in deeper layers of the gulag is to. play on the video games essentially to swear your allegiance or play video games or earn big you know virtual gold this type of thing so you'll end up with millions of people now where to their monitors in this casino gulag model and it's highly profitable and the. people who are stuck in the casino good legs are are never going to get out really they'll be born in they'll die in the casino and it's coming to america well it's already here because let's look at this from the other side this is not just the government of china imposing this upon the people the people themselves also

want it they don't like people getting on a train for example without a reservation and first class and somebody is sitting in your seat and your reserves see and they refuse to get up well this you get a mark against you on the social credit system here in the united states we have platforming who operates at the platform where is the agitation for d. platforming coming from but those with the biggest voices the loudest voices and the most influential voices to the corporations like facebook like twitter like any other social media network that is. vulnerable to boycotts or to pressure from say m s n b c with a big platform so if they're saying we don't like this guy wears a make america great again have a mag a hat he should not be allowed to speak to anybody else in the community certainly

not on the you know the public airwaves that we feel we control if he feels like speaking maybe he can go to speakers corner somewhere over in london right will there be platforming in the us that's for sure and then they have the world's biggest prison population with over two million bigger than china and of course those people are working on slave wages so you have slavery in in the actual prisons and you have the platforming and you have this drift toward putting more and more the population in the prison so it's you know i think china has a system of the casino where you can you don't have to be in an actual prison you can just be imprisoned by your mobile device and you can be trying to work your way out of a better social credit so it's i think it would maybe be for the population a less onerous than being a natural sell but the end result is pretty much the same i agree yeah the end result is the same when you see that with facebook has recently admitted for example that some people they haven't had the platform and nobody can actually see

their stuff so they're allowed to shout into the wind somebody on twitter who i was saw in my stream was saying well isn't this like is the next pressure on the mobile phone or landline networks like what if that maggot hat wearing guy is able to speak to his neighbors on his phone shouldn't we imply you know apply static so nobody can actually hear him like aren't there shouldn't we just silence these voices and hear you're having the same thing here and in terms of prison of course yes the u.s. has the highest prison population in the world this is avoiding that in a way so they do. no i mean china's proud of this they if they're publishing it like they're not trying to hide it it's not something they're saying like these are secret documents released by wiki leaks they're the ones actually publicizing it saying once discredited limited everywhere so you know what the likes of rachel maddow that sort of person is proclaiming the same thing but they

think there is not somehow equivalent to china because it's these are private networks shutting where we're asking to shut down the voices and in china what they found is like they did raise you know tens of millions more in taxes that have been avoided for example so you get a bad social credit score if you fail to pay your taxes here in the u.s. obviously you go away for two three four five six up to ten years well or in the case of man a for i guess twenty years or so the social credit system aims to incentivize quote trustworthy behavior through penalties as well as a rewards according to a government document about the system dating from two thousand and fourteen the aim is to quote allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven all making it hard for the discredited to take a single step and of course the country is massively indebted as as is the world

and once they bring in digital coins whether it's a china state coin or a j.p. morgan coin or a facebook coin they'll be able to bring in negative interest rates so part of voiding being discredited is earning enough digital gold by clicking on advertising for facebook so that you don't get discredited and if you don't do it fast enough then the value of your digital coin goes down so it's one big great because you know google it video game they have millions of millions of chinese people are leading the way and they love it and the u.s. is like envious like facebook likes to be i wish we had a casino like show you know so they get introduced facebook point yeah and again i want to say that quote again that they themselves brag about it isn't in order. to allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven making a hard for the discredited to take a single step so discredited opinions in this country for sure that those exist like you are shut off from social media that's where it is right now but who knows

when it goes to the public roads or the public airwaves or the well yeah they are banned from public airwaves of course and not allowed on any of the channels but that's that's coming to you and according to the report other penalties for individuals include being banned from buying insurance real estate or investment products companies on the blacklist are banned from bidding on projects or issuing corporate bonds as well it was somebody's got to be slaving slaving legally clicking on ads they don't want to be buying property or having any real assets that would be distracting you know it's a really interesting duel between two dystopian nightmares brave new world in one thousand nine hundred four because they say you know you're in heaven there and that's like a brave new world thing where the soma is essentially you're clicking on discrediting yourself and and then recreating yourself to video games that would be more like i think brave new world to soma of of digital don't mean and then the us as more of a ninety four where they put you in an actual cell an actual google ad with

surrounded by t.v. cameras so these two dystopian visions are kind of competing each other with each other the twenty first century haven't really seen which one wall will win in the end or whether it be a dual dystopia. of course you know you're blocked from issuing a corporate bonds and it also depends on who is determining what correct social behavior is one would think like all the behavior of two thousand and eight in two thousand and nine would shut you off from the corporate bond market in this country and they got rewarded they got even more there was consolidation and bad behavior and they got to be in control of more of the. bond and more the government bond system like the likes of j.p. morgan and goldman sachs but i want to turn to facebook and compare it to what facebook is doing facebook filed a patent for quote civil political debate form facebook has applied to patent a system where people would comment on laws that might affect them then have that

feedback worked into a formal political proposal creating a way for people to quote meaningfully engage in civil discourse on line the concept would build on facebook's earlier attempts at promoting civic engagement and it sounds similar to other existing crowdsource democracy tools but facebook's vast scale could put tremendous weight behind any kind of private political form they already have their reputation scores you could be deep platform so it's more again it's a it's a corporate private business was shareholders it's not government ron and so if you get shut out from if you get pulled from the political system it's not the government doing it it's facebook and their shareholders. right you know i suppose all developed wolf packs of gangs kind of roaming the streets and tipped them off in terms of which homes are being removed from any kind of like nest type security

apparatus you know say the home number in this location look at their g.p.s. we're shutting off security wolfpack attack and they'll be like oh ok look at we're going to. get all the movie reference for you clockwork orange remember they have those wolf packs of gangs kind of terrorizing the neighborhood that could be facebook's muscle you know if you don't comply with the facebook going they call up the drug easily ultraviolence so they sent over your home security is often like oh wow beautiful and you know facebook essentially is rewriting the constitution i states we don't need facebook to rewrite the constitution and i says all that or what they're talking about they are completely overrides. the constitution so that's that's that's completely you know so let's move on to the next one because in china again if you're if you're not if you're discredited you're not allowed to buy insurance here of course you're forced to buy insurance who matter what no matter how many maggette hats you wear you've got to buy obamacare so this is

a headline a plans denied nearly one in five in network claims and twenty seven thousand affordable care act marketplace plans deny nineteen percent of claims submitted for in network service and twenty seventeen only zero point five percent of those denied claims were even appealed according to a new kaiser family foundation report so you're forced to buy this insurance product and are cases like thirty thousand a month nearly thirty thousand dollars for the two of us you get a deductible five thousand dollars but even if you even these in network claims they're denying nearly twenty percent of them and that's all of them some of them only have like a one percent a mile some of them have over fifty percent denial rates and people are so subdued and they're they're afraid to be discredited and locked out of the system that they don't even fight it less than one percent or even fighting these claims i mean i don't know the emergency room is like a bunch of ghouls you know salivating over the victims i think we'll lay there like

three thousand three movable ok and it's quite disgusting and again they're like the walking dead so what if you get sick i mean that's why life expectancy in america is crashing it's like you can't the people in the hospital now are actively trying to sell your organs on e bay it's disgusting. i might also add that you know it comes to the point where you don't even want to go to the doctor just for a simple thing you know it's way better to just fly to mexico or europe and just go visit a private hospital there because you know the avalanche of paperwork and confusing paperwork. but you my over fifty thousand dollars but we negotiated that you know the five stitches you got it might cost you fifty thousand but we're only going to charge you two thousand and by the way we're going to deny that you know go to france go to france the american hospital it's cheaper for them using local health care much better as well because you don't want to be sent you know deep platforms

from the entire system so you see the dose syllabi there because only about two hundred thousand of the almost forty three million denied claims were appealed remember you're forced to buy this product from the private insurers who have no restrictions on how much they can charge you how much they can fleece you how much their executives can charge forty three million deny claims for a service yes thank god i live in a socialism wink wink all right well we're going to take a bit of a break and when we come back much more coming your way.

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welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to return to a conversation with brett scott he's the author of the heretic's guide to global finance hacking the future of money and he writes a lot for the guardian and other publications brett welcome back graveyards all right if we were picking up where we left off about china china as their credit score seems to be tied in with their digitalisation of money that is a concept sweeping the globe as a way to keep tabs on folks and to enhance the surveillance state i know in the west for example financial services like pay pal and visa cut off activists like wiki leaks. truly on political grounds and asian massive censorship which is unconstitutional your thoughts absolutely if you actually think about what a cashless society is. it's just sort of call it a bank payments society. it's

a system run by the banking sector in which you actually can never escape the banking sector because you can have an exit system and of course that basically means that the bank is always between a buyer and a seller and that means they can watch what's going on they can potentially stop what's going on and they can also get lots of data from the process to try and influence you and steer your behavior in various ways and it's not just the banks are involved in this it's also that it's all the payments companies a lot of technology firms are not getting very excited about this this is why you know apple and google and facebook are also all trying to get into the payments business because they know they can get between people and markets they can actually just start to influence them and watch their behavior right and another feature for having this digital money for state sponsored is that it'll make it easier for them to introduce native interest rates and that will allow them to keep their ponzi schemes going longer let's talk about another part of the world here

brad so the spread of digital payment via phone credits throughout africa and other parts of the world this is a myth like digital money more of a positive thing can you talk a little bit about that you know the best way to think about this is you know if you are living in an all cash economy it certainly helps to have some new option available to you as you know i'm not saying it's terrible to always have it all payments because what digital payments do allows it allows for you to interact with people that are far away from you so you can actually start to do internet commerce and so on. but a lot of what's been happening in the what's called financial inclusion which is attempt to push digital payments into. places. you know and african countries and various places where people lack access to bank accounts that actually many of the big digital players like master card and these are behind those pushes and they're often trying to strong arm governments into pushing their private corporate

interests and sort of masquerading them as public you know the development projects for the for the greater good and so we need to be careful when you start to see oh those are good. stories a heartwarming stories about digital payments in kenya is actually many activists on the ground in those countries are very concerned about that yeah you know this centralization of these coins of course a corporate agenda is pushed by titans like amazon and i just read that labor for example all their technology goes through amazon web service cloud and every single override gets fourteen cents to amazon so there's a huge initiative to centralize all this for the cloud like amazon and others now getting back to facebook for a second and their face coin or whatever that they're going to call it i don't think it's been announced yet but they are already in hot water for harvesting data

from billions of people around the world and the platforming tens of thousands of activists they're already acting as a hugely bad actor and on so many different fronts and now they want to bring in their digital coin do you see this on par with what's happening in china what you make a differentiation brad when you think oh absolutely it's you know what big companies like facebook realize that they've created online ecosystems which have millions and millions of people and they also run large messaging platforms like what's up and messenger and their eyes they can turn these entered into digital payment systems or black folks digital payments bear in mind that facebook is not a bank it doesn't have the right so you. issue money and actually hold digital money so what's going to happen in the background is that companies are phrasebook will be plugging into the banking sector much like paper. plugs into the back banking sector and then runs a sort of cry ecosystem on top of it as it were so actually the banking sector

always i'm depends all of these digital payment systems and then these new companies are kind of inserting them so between you and the banks and you i guess you want to decide you know do you what do you rather want facebook monitoring your payments or do you want j.p. morgan doing it or do you want to have authentic means to actually be to escape those systems entirely right that brings us back to bed coin big point being of course its own its own ecosystem it's not tied to the banking system so it's still the way to go if one wants to escape the the surveillance coins of these banks and of these platforms like facebook and will it be able to compete in your view in two years three years four years down the road you've got some great scaling initiatives now for bitcoin as adoption rate is increasing the volume is increasing by you know the competition now from the state coins and then of course

as part krugman at the new york times says the state. coins have have the military behind them they have men with guns you know they can they can come to your home and shoot you so this is big coin where you see that now in the next few years in this new environment well bear in mind that the state systems have more than just the military behind him they have a gigantic network of sects and huge amounts of dependence that people have in those systems so the entire american economy for example everybody there depends on using your own currency to actually survive and to enter the market so in many ways what you're trying to do is build a new. some have this other network effect and one of the main problems but trying to save the many other sort of smaller consequences of space has been trying to compete with that and in order to have to do that you have to attention to get enough people to start using them but it creates. those new networks and right now

it still remain very nice actually every time i write an article about cashless society and one about the various dangers of it i get a lot of people coming to me and you know responding and saying all but you know don't worry you know because now so this problem we've dealt with this and now is you know respond by saying so and there you you've built something that might be an alternative but in reality the vast majority of people do not know how to use that they don't have enough places to spend it not yet viable so we still need to be rid of protecting the cash system up until some point where you maybe have some outside of the digital system all right in america i think as fifty percent of the population our sound is dependent on the state through food stamps and other programs so that's a captured audience right there now the international monetary fund the i.m.f. recently proposed a means of imposing severe negative interest rates on cash by forcing consumers to convert to their eco again in order to make purchases now it looks like we could

all be forced to shop in the company store just like in the old days of indentured servitude breath so that one of the big debate that occurred around around the push to move to digital payments around negative interest rate. and this is that the best way to think about this is that. if we take too much the currency cash is a all fly home of money once you hold it a company remotely from a distance change the edited where is you know you did your digital bank deposit that you use the card for and so on that is actually held in the data center somewhere by a large bank and they can be edited and changed remotely her potential bank. that want to be able to implement negative interest rates whenever they try to do that people withdraw their bank deposits and turn them into tash so to avoid that negative interest rate so if they could get everybody to actually only be able to use digital money they could then actually do things like negative interest rates

and big economies like kind of rogoff have been actively pushing this right i mean i just watched the whole series of mr robot and they had evil coin and it seems like they took it right out of that plot of that that show anyway finally how can any imagine the cashless future really happened in a world where gold still exists beyond because of gold how do we fight back against the cashless society red cell what's the go forward here is there any hope sure i mean there's actually really been some campaigns that people have tried to run on this on this issue and you know often it takes two to form a quite small thing for example in the u.k. there's a lot of pushback right now as the banks are trying to get rid of a.t.m.'s and branches out of remote rural towns or not to the elderly people finding them so shut out of the dust them and look you know the best way to think about it is when banks are shutting down a.t.m. so branches what they're basically trying to do is to prevent you accepting the systems or at the a.t.m.

is a place where you go to exit the banking system and yet tend to so shut down that infrastructure is trying to keep you in in their own internal ecosystem and once people start to understand that they can start to see the power dynamic much more clearly and that actually thought to demand a lot a lot more into mom the right to be able to exit the banking system right good point how how could you build on that i mean to exit the banking system these guys i guess gold is still a big client an a.t.m. and i mean ourselves the day of the holy trinity have bank exiting what do you think i mean i know you're busy with exiting their pain union but as far as exiting the banking system does seem to be the three primary ralph yeah absolutely so in the theatre. money's it's just i'm a cash in the a.t.m. system is the way that you get out of the bank money system if you want to go completely out of money space of course then it's the realm of crypto and gold and all those types of things and in that space the big challenge is to actually make them usable to the everyday person and i guess that's a lot there's

a lot of scope for all creativity there to form new systems local systems alternative currencies so you know that on the one hand this is a big problem but it's also a big opportunity for people to start forming creates the resistance all right that's going to do it thanks for being on the cas report bret's got a mixture of all right and that is going to do it for this is episode of the kaiser report with me max kaiser stacy haven't liked it i guess brett scott is the author of the heretics guide to global finance hacking the future of money trying to catch us on twitter it's kaiser reports and i stand by all. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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alone are welcome to worlds apart as the syrian war winds down so does the moral grandstanding around its conduct having spent the last eight years denouncing serious treatment of the rubbles and their families many western powers are now eager to leave their own citizens in syria including the most vulnerable how come human rights are so absent in the discussions about the fate of isis fighters and especially their children well to discuss that i'm now joined by samuel ramani a doctoral candidate in international relations at the universe there of oxford mr money is good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you very much for inviting me now if there is one phrase capturing the western trail of this syrian war that would be assad's killing his own people that was the main promise for his suppose the ellipse.