it could be argued. that we're now in the midst of a could in slow motion. democracy is weakening. conference's it is strengthening. and none of us has chosen this route for our society. in spite of which our elites quite happily continue down that. this is a multi-lane highway. kind of savage laceration. that runs directly over the center of camden new jersey so that commuters in and out of philadelphia never have to see this city this sacrifice.

i am. and that's what we've done we've rendered those trapped in the sacrifice sones invisible. these people have been not just rendered invisible through infrastructure but they've been rendered invisible through a media which doesn't report their story at all. and we should also know that they're completely true. they can't get loans rents

are actually quite high in camden although you're living. conditions. and this was one of the major manufacturing centers of the united states. you used to have r.c.a. victor. the famous italian tenor caruso used to come here to. campbell's soup one of the largest companies in the country. this was a major force up until world war 2 lot of battleships were built here and then just in the ford in world war 235000 people were employed.

who are. coming great admirer of the canadian intellectual john ralston saul who use the term corporate coup d'etat in his book the unconscious civilization was a very important book for me because it it gave me the vocabulary to understand that corporate d'etat how it was carried out and how it expressed itself in our society. 9095 writing something like that felt really risky because i was

saying you know mostly won the 2nd world war it was his proposal corporatism that seriously was defeated war and i was really arguing that was the way of organizing society which he had become more and more powerful please raise your right hand and repeat after me. donald john trump do solemnly swear and i was slightly covering my bad saying that it was a coup d'etat in slow motion because i was feeling my way into no one ever said anything like that. when i sign this bill into law america will have the lowest marginal tax rates and the most modern tax code among major industrialized nations . where i guess i was wrong was that it wasn't slow motion was really very fast when you think about it's really a matter of a couple. donald trump do solemnly

swear i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states he also is president of the united states. and there's no question that. we're well into that world we're well into a corporatist world but this crisis there were is maybe we want to call it a legitimacy crisis right the status quo or the legitimating framework of capitalism right that has sort of guided us over the past 3 decades and this kind of organizing system has really lost legitimacy the main reason is simply that it's been a project that has benefited elites enormously and despite all of the kind of rhetoric of how much you know market flexibility will help workers how much free trade will help you know average people become more skilled and get better jobs the reality is

ordinary working families are not doing well in fact they're doing substantially worse than they were doing a few decades ago and i'm getting jews who used to be. you're getting. your little 21 inch screen. there is no. so this kind of ruling has created. at least in its political. and

that gave rise to. the elites look at trump is an embarrassment i mean he's idiotic he's. competent he's lazy. at least was a stupid enough to realize that he had to give the corporate c.e.o.'s wall street what they wanted which was the tax cut. deductions that. are temporary for the middle class but are long term for. private equity he gave the military 10 percent budget increase which then even asked for. and he deregulated industries like the e.p.a. . judges and so they tolerated. a number of. hard core economic libertarians particularly and individuals like the koch brothers. made very clear since the early seventy's that

they would like to see a system that rewards property owners that is a democracy to represent those with money those with economic power. and that's the government we have today because it's. shapes and crafted by billionaires they're hoping to ensure that democracy doesn't exist but instead we have just a constellation of powerful interest groups. it was basically saying individuals cannot be the source of legitimacy in society it has to be done on the basis of self interest. in town and space specialist groups it's astonishing when you read this and you see the extent to which that idea of group interests versus the responsibility of the citizen has become increasingly are the day.

it is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep that's a famous mussolini quote you're a tweet it was a lead it was was a lady i'd say ok don't go it's a very good quote it's a very interesting quote and i know it's i saw it i saw what i know who said it but what difference does it make whether is was to leave me as somebody else and so certainly a very interesting quote that you want to be associated with a fascist. no i want to be associated with interesting quotes i think this particular time in american history including trump is one of the most important

periods of the history including the revolution and i say that carefully as historian because they're run out of options and what you see is donald trump is the end of the option of a corporate dominated system it may go to fascism it's not at fascism yet thankfully the possibility of something approaching fascist. particularly if there is violence particular is in the black community something of repression attack on civil liberties is certainly possible and could be very ugly could be very ugly when you have a system of power where a tiny group of people have all of it are messed up and you have 8 people who control half the wealth when you have a tiny group of people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the rest of us don't get together and take it back. you can see that the logos been superimposed on the other fighters face but all these 22 reveal 'd about the thinking of the most powerful man in the world and his priorities and some would

argue his humanity by now it is obvious that trump is actually a bad negotiator this symbiotic relationship between trump and his so-called adversaries and c.n.n. . b.c. it's kind of phony when you get right down to it i mean c.n.n. made a 1000000000 dollars last year cable news companies will steadily gain and make money during the course of the elections is that and then as soon as the election happens their profits will drop off that did not happen with trump he gets 2 scoops of the no i scream with his chocolate cream pie instead of the single scoop for everyone else they've continued to make money they're making bank like never before and trump is definitely the reason everybody understands this. is the symptom is not the disease the system was already so corrupt and the anger towards the elites in both the democratic and republican party was so pronounced. that his vote garrity

actually gave voice to a large segment of the american public that was sick of being betrayed and lied to we know from 2008 that the segment of the population that has suffered the most economically are african-american households. because they can put forth a black face or a woman in functions is a brand that's an obama once obama was a brand and that's why after he won in 2008 advertising age gave obama its top annual award which was marketer of the year. i. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

conservative media tell us the political left in the united states has become radicalized by well sure in an era of socialism profoundly changing the country on the other by many in his orbit nothing would fundamentally change so we should visit or is it as always just. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area russia. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil.

take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there as well. reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. the corporate state doesn't mind having some you like trump around and sort of embarrassing but they don't really mind providing you bring and providing the. contracts and providing that he does what they want if it gets too annoying to get rid of it. isn't clear to what extent he understands

that he is the sort of. dancing. is so good to be here again sean you're the greatest ratings when i'm on your show about people who spend a lot of time and money getting the supreme court to remove controls on spending elections in place laws that have to do with how corporations run those people are watching carefully to see the extent to which is this boy our boy or not can we really get enough use out of him. anymore on the real. election i don't we have ever seen you get we will make america strong. we will make america will be again we will make america proud and we will make america safe because.

people like you are. going to give up. that there's no words on. it that i want back there and i think last week out. they were strapped down here so we got a house like 9 years ago when i'm going out and i'm going out and i have been proposed only this day here because this close to his backyard. every night. it seems there's no good news when it comes to the housing market sales of existing homes plunged 8.6 percent in november as compared to october just 6 months 3 of the 5 biggest independent firms on wall street have now disappeared 9 years they are apparently went downhill broke apart their family their house their. work during

the month. i was woken by one day and the peak of here was it was still dark out though the sun had come up and came up and i seen a guy just should not there kind of look like he was sleeping or whatever so i just kept all day and the guy was up there and he was overdosed and he was dead he musta sat there on my knee must survive either froze to death already overdose itself kill them. destroy the needle and you know his arm and then everybody comes running by like oh my god where do you get that is everybody wants to go to this well you know i mean

it's it's a pretty sad situation going on out here right now i want to park i think i'm coming on your block i see you is this my guy that you know they can think a white that we were that. easy. so these are sacrificing. places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit. and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation. are you.

with. what have you seen in terms of patterns like over or let's say the last couple years are is unstable or things getting worse wow would you describe i know within i've been here going on 9 years and over the past couple years b.r. feeding more families and i'm talking my husband the wife and the children 20 percent might be actually living on the street. the rest of them may be in low income housing or something like. $200.00 people might come in on the 1st day of the month and $400.00 people might come in on the last day that much but it's the

people that are coming in towards the end of the month with the children and they tell us i'm here because i can't pay my electric bill and feed my kids why why do you think that is because they think that in spite of the fact that the economy has improved for a segment of the population the people that are at the bottom life really hasn't changed and probably gotten harder for them. and the rest are you know now you know that everybody calls madam says adam i graduated from our program got how many years ago at actually 2000 and where were you in prison i was a southern state southers my son was right that's where all the eric white area guards are would one go and has leg is hanging from a tree had seemed to me was. yes were you doing before you want. i was selling drugs i was using drugs and i made the claim that was my lifestyle

suddenly using drugs you go to prison you're going to come out there you might come out better you might come out crazy you yes finally come out was enough but you're going to change this place is. based because you see the people call me and some of these people would come a hey used to do and. teach is buy a few things they had good trade there but just between mental health and drugs you know they gradually put him in the system. i. know how many kids i have $66.00 kids in my work and yet it's where he worked oh plus the guards but can't do it people do what so how many hours a day do you work while this is where you are in prison and what where which one on

the south would you. please i'm trying to get my way but if i'm hard you know nobody want to help you i mean. you see cities that have been sacrificed youngstown ohio one of the steel capitals of the world. what these capitalists have done in cities like camden in cities. like youngstown in southern west virginia they're doing everywhere reconfiguring the global economy into an incredibly wealthy global oligarchy class don't take this the wrong

way but you sound like a left wing nut bar i don't usually go on people defend character assassination if you want to discuss issues that's fine but i mean the found by fox news and i don't go on look you have had very eloquent writers people on crown royal can call in canada laid this out. with you know incredible lucidity and to from how attack critique by cohen someone. engages in the kind of trash talk and alluding to corporate airwaves all right well thank you so much for joining us here i don't know it will be. thank you all for being here this very incredible group of world class business leaders that's what you are these c.e.o.'s are in some cases pulling compensation packages in the billions of dollars often defrauding their own shareholders so this is the bill right here. because there's very much

a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs and jobs are produced through companies and corporations and you see that happening corporations are literally go it wild over this these corporations and banks what do they do with the tax cuts will be bought back their own stock $170800000000.00 that's how much in buybacks this year that is the most seen this far into a calendar year ever why because if the stock goes up the compensation packages for the managers of these corporations goes up. it's not good for the economy it's not even good for their company.

cooperations are literally go it wild over the years. there's a business trying to harvest their harvesting themselves. the 62 year old wall street tycoon raked in nearly a half $1000000000.00 between 200-2007 the start of old school free markets low taxes low everything government doesn't provide anything for anybody kind of conservatism that is the policy preferences of the tiny 8 rich doods who own half the wealth and the you know layer of rich people underneath and it is not popular so you have to get it by other me and so you see things like voter suppression building more prisons and disenfranchising people who have spent time in you see gerrymandering you see all sorts of undemocratic practices

that are used to make sure that people who might vote their own interests can't vote aren't represented when they do vote and then you just see people running like trump promising to bring jobs back to their states and then what they do once in office is a big old bait and switch and it's this kind of insane attitude where they're just looting and stealing as fast as they can as everything collapsed. this used to be it was going to i'm just like lose a good friend. in florida i remember grandpa worked here all his life back in the sixty's i was

a kid we used to tell me that one day this week this mill would close down and his growly would cry i said there's no way it's too big it's huge it goes from miles this way to we miles an hour it's never going to close margolies word for true. could be the pride of the nation it's gone it's gone along with. hundreds rather miles just like this one right here is who this was. the thing is that when you have money printers in charge the act of printing all that paper money to hang round eyes themselves really fills their head with dreams of its feet supremacy that's the ultimate form of supremacy is i print therefore i am and if you can pull the levers of political power with their fear of money if

you can acquire assets with their fat money it gives you that god complex that we have so much other around the world and countries and big corporations and now it's all going to come crashing down to. 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 if. it's going to be people because they copied him he's so good that even such a bad ending. i'm not anybody and. i'm still to find the next guy. top live again to any human being done the in philosophy and let god she went down

plenty of. the clicks and moves for the c.e.o. saying to the deflection what is happening save. that is going to be better than i got are for many observers. that he and others are going to write about. that that he can bank on you probably get nothing like a. long long while and he doesn't want to bottom is a bonus which i would control not all. sandow a new person and they are turning $100.00 gandhi a new normal gandhi on the face. to go to you then go to mock you name and join you.

greetings and sal you take it's boy it was a celebration of political grandstanding partisan hackery and outright lying to the public it was on full display in full swing this week from both democrats and republicans as everybody's favorite befuddled looking presidential bootlicking yes man u.s. attorney general william barr took the stand in front of the u.s. house judiciary committee to answer for a wide range of questionable and possibly.