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it could be argued. that we're now in the midst of a could in slow motion. democracy is weakening. conference as it is strengthening. and none of us has chosen this route for us in a way in spite of which our elites quite happily continue down. this is a multilane highway. the 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. 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. 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 here. this was a major force up until world war 2 a lot of battleships were built here and then just. you know for in world war

235000 people were employed. i am. some great admirer of the canadian intellectual john ralston saul who used 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 he won the 2nd world war it was his proposal corporatism that seriously was the financing war in iraq is 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 spy 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 . patty murray i guess i was wrong was that it was a. slow motion it's really very sad when you think that this is 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 that to put it. well in that world we're well into the story but this crisis there were in 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 they're getting injuries that used to be. you get up on your little 21 inch screen. and. 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. he's incompetent 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 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 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 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 a leave me of 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 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 approach. in 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 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 this is the logos been superimposed on to the other fighters face what all these tweets

reveal 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 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 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 and that's what obama was obama was a brand and that's why after he won in 2008 advertising age gave obama its top ward which was marketer of the year. i love you to i i.

say wrong but all just all. just to shape our day to educate and in. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

the corporate state doesn't mind having somebody like a trump around in sort of embarrassing but they don't really mind providing he brings taxes down 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 a sort of. dancing. is so good to be your you're in short 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. being wasted on real. work if you don't we have ever seen you do it we would make your america strong. we would make america will be again we will make america proud and we will make america safe we. give up if you are. going to give up. that there's no word one. that i want back there and i think. they were strapped down here so we got their house like 9 years ago. we were going on 9 years ago but i have to propose them when they hear people close to this crap they're. a.

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 come out just repeat 9 years ago families went 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 survive either froze to death already overdosed itself kill them. destroy the needle and you know i was armed and then everybody 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 want to park i think i'm coming here walk i see you this time i'm ok they can think a white that we could at. least

. sacrificing. places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit. and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation. are. i. what have you seen in terms of patterns like over or let's say the last couple

years are is an unstable or things getting worse throughout would you describe i know within i've been here going on years and over the past couple years be feeding more families i am 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 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 despite the fact that the economy has improved for a segment of the population the people that are at the bottom if life really hasn't changed probably gotten harder for them. and the rest are you now you know that everybody calls

a madam says adam i graduated from our program got how many years ago at. where were you in prison i was a southern state southern baghdad saddam was but of right that's where all the eric white area guards are would one go or has leg bibi's hanging from a tree had seemed to me a lot yes what were you doing before you went to prison i was selling drugs i was using drugs and 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 yeah certainly 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 be. teaches but if you stay ahead good trade but just between mental health from drugs you know they gradually put in the system.

i was. out how many kids i have 66 kids are you work and yes where you work all possible guards but can't you people do what you saw how many hours a day do you work. where you are in prison and what where which one on the south would you. please i'm trying to get my way but it's kind of 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 cameron 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 not far 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 have had very eloquent writers people on crown royal can call in canada laid this out. with you know incredible lucidity and to somehow attack this critique by calling from. engages in the kind of trash

talk and alluded to corporate our way out right 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 often defrauding their own shareholders so this is the bill right here that i consider this very much a bill for the middle class have a bill for jobs and jobs are produced or companies and corporations and you see that happening corporations are literally go to 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 and buybacks this year that is the most famous scene of this far into a calendar year ever why because if the stock goes up the compensation

packages for the managers of these corporations. 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. that's what. the 62 year old wall street tycoon raked in nearly a half $1000000000.00 between 200-2007 the start of old school free market 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 means 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 a. time just like the blues a good friend. is for you i remember grandpa worked here all this life back in the sixty's i was a kid he used to tell me that one day this mill would close down and his belly would cry i said there's no way it's too big it's huge it goes from miles just way to we mouse now it's never going to close and by golly is word for true this used to be the pride of the nation it's gone it's gone along with. hundreds of other mills just like it but this one right here is where this was right.

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 of 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 is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news addiction chaz where you know as we

always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. an entire village in alaska. if another country trying to wipe out an american town . we do everything in our power to protect the. water then escaping climate change is the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast paced the river is $35.00 closers and how. long was a year of war i think were a part of america 1st from across.

in the headlines this afternoon a rally in support of the better russian president hassan the way in the center of maidan square the opposition expected to hold a counter rally in the about an hour's time these are live pictures right now it's been a week of protests marred by violence for the country where some are refusing to accept the outcome of last sunday's election bring up speed a way that's likely to go this afternoon our correspondents across in just a bit also in more of the stories that shape the wake of russia launched production of its corona virus vaccine the 1st in the world to be registered but concerns over the speed with which it was developed assist. the lebanese government including the prime minister resigned in the wake of the civil unrest in beirut.