tv Documentary RT August 15, 2020 1:30pm-2:01pm EDT
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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 trout they can't get loans rents are actually quite high in camden although you're living in la potato conditions. and this was one of the major manufacturing centers of the united states. oh i used to have r.c.a. victor. the famous italian tenor caruso used to come here.
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i am. 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 today ta how it was carried out and how it expressed itself in our society in 1905 writing something like that felt really risky because i was essentially saying you know muslim we won the 2nd world war it was his proposal corporatism that seriously was the scenes in a war in iraq is really arguing that it 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.
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that's by 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 or america will have the lowest marginal tax rates and the most modern tax code among the major industrialized nation. but i guess i was wrong was that it wasn't so most it's really very. when you think it's really a matter of. donald trump do solemnly swear i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states also this president of the united states. and there's no question to tell us how we're well into that world we're well into the corporatist world but this crisis there were in maybe we want to call it a legitimacy crisis right the status quo or the legitimating framework of
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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 they're getting jews who used to be. and. there is no.
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so this kind of. 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. incompetent he's lazy. at least was 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 wealthy friends in real
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estate private equity he gave the military 10 percent budget increase which then even asked for. and he deregulated industries like the e.p.a. . with corporate friendly judges and so they tolerate. 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 been shaped and crafted by billionaires that are hoping to ensure that democracy doesn't exist but instead we have just a constellation of powerful interest groups. it was basically saying
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individuals cannot be the source of legitimacy in society it has to be done on the basis of self interest. down on space specialist groups it's astonishing when you read this and you see the extent to which that idea of group us versus the responsibility of the citizen has become increasingly are. 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
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a lady i'd say ok don't go it's a very good quote it's a very interesting quote and i know what i saw i saw what i know who said it but what difference does it make whether is was to leave me as somebody else's or 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 his story and 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. not at fascism yet thankfully the possibility of something approaching fascism particularly if there is violence particularly 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
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have a system of power where a tiny group of people have all of it are messed up that 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 to the other fighters face all these tweets 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 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 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
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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 guarantee 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 poppy. that has suffered the most economically are african-american households. because they can put forth a black face or a woman in functions as a brand and that's what obama wants obama was a brand and that's why after he won in 2008 advertising age gave obama its
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top annual award which was marketer of the year. alone i. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spirit dramatic development the only place i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. to us but it's put it this time not just today but the style of. which that. even. the. first year march.
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want if it gets too annoying to get rid of it. isn't clear to what extent he understands that he is a sort of. dancing. is so good at the you're a good 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 putting 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. anyways on real. work you don't we have ever seen you do it we would make america strong. we would make america go well again we will make america proud and we will make
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america safe we. give all we can. get to give up. that there's no word on. it i want back there and i think. they were strapped down here so we got their house like 9 years ago now where they're going you know. what i have to propose when they hear people close to a scrap yard. a 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 and just 6 months 3 of the 5 biggest independent firms on wall street tough now disappeared 9 years. went
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downhill part of their family or how they're. now working a month. i was woken by one day and i just happened to pick up here was it was still dark out though the sun had come up came up and i seen a guy just should not there kind of looked 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 must have sat there on my knee must either froze to death already overdosed itself kill them.
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destroy the needle and you know his arm and there were body comes running by like oh my god where do you get that is everybody wants to go so this was you know i mean it's it's a pretty sad situation going on out here right. i wish you park i think i'm coming on your luck i see you this time. that they can think a white that we get it. so these are sacrificed souls places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit. and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation. are you.
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with. i. think. what have you seen in terms of patterns like over or let's say the last couple years are is up and stable 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
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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 i think that despite 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 probably got harder for them. and the rest are you know now you know that everybody calls madam says adams i graduated from our program got how many years ago at actually 2000 where were you in prison i was a southern state southern baghdad southern was but it was a right that's where all the area white area guards are would one go or has leg bibi's hanging from a tree had some to. yes were you doing before you want. i was selling drugs
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i was using drugs made game that was my lifestyle and 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 we've come a hey used to be and. teach is but if you stay ahead good trade there are just between mental health and drugs you know they gradually put in this says. i. i. i how many kids i have 66 kids are you work and yes where you work all possible
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guards but can't you people do what you saw 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 body from the heart 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
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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 out here to go on people defend a 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 had very eloquent writers people like john ralston saul in canada who 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 alluded to corporate are what i write well thank you so much for joining us here i don't know it will be well. 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
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often defrauding their own shareholders so this is the bill right here that i consider this 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.
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her issues are literally go and 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
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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. a warning time just like lose a good friend. i
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remember. back in the sixty's i was a kid who used to tell me that one day this. would close down in his belly would i said there is no way it's too big it's huge. miles just wait. it's never going to close and by golly his words were true this. nation. is. along with. hundreds of other mills just like. one right here this was a. if
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summer solutions series imax guys are here with stacy herbert you know in a month in which we were meant to have the 2 party conventions officially nominated donald trump for the republican and joe biden for the democrats the pen demick has thrown the election and even more chaos than usual so joining us is greg palast journalist author of many books including his latest out now skyrocketing up all the bestseller lists it's called how troll stole 2020. i don't know. no shots no. action you.
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someone to go to. brussels threaten sanctions over belarus is heavy handed response to antigovernment protests minsk in turn says they will cut all ties with the e.u. . to demonstrate a very apologizes after failing to tell 900 people they had the coronavirus it comes as countries across europe see covert infections spike. u.k. holiday makers scramble to get home after france is added to britain's coronavirus quarantine list but but with only a few hours notice given is spock's chaos for travelers we play. well.
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