the moon, the the stories of the week here are not here at the national italy temporarily exempted citizens of neighboring san marino from needing colbert passport if they had a rushes put in a vaccine. this, by the job not yet be recognized by the e. u. of the program that we speak exclusively to son marino's, health minister, we have some day, some data guarantee of the a p c and c. we are closer to a 100 percent of the tcl see massive accusations and homes bar to the ground apocalyptic seeing. a devastating wildfires raging throughout the world from tokyo in greece to russia and america. also in the weekly a jailed hacker who exposed abusive conditions of the prison. he is in and has

denied telephone access to his lawyers, his wife called the move and active retaliation. your present lawyer tells me that she can only let him speak to them if they have upcoming court deadline where she's not applying that requirement to any of the others. ah, well, it's been a busy week the a worldwide headline through an autism national. so let's run him down in the weekly program here on this. italy has temporarily exempted residents of sun moreno from needing coven passports to travel at the tiny country sits entirely with an italy borders and has almost completely now immune immune eyes, its adult population using rushes. sputnik v vaccine, which is not on the

e use approval list of brussels and recently agreed to accept covert job certificates issued san marino and vatican city. but only the ones it's given. the green light to the part is allow free movement between those 2 non e you states and the block. however, with the sputnik vaccine still most given approval, we did have a chance to speak for the nation's health minister. our green pass a recognize this from you, but only for the people in summary. know about naked by pfizer. so the people and it is 94 percent of our population that's would be seen as the problem to move into the service or italy bar or restaurant or ok. and the

italian government to, to find a solution to this problem. they use all of sputnik very and san marino has shown that has an efficacy rate of more than 91 percent. 2 percent of those jobs suffered side effects with less than half. and people over 60, the health minister, either that or all those injected with sputnik and san marino have all developed antibodies against coven, will have some strategies about the cmc of the vaccine. we have some day, some back guarantee of the fees in see we are closer to a 100 percent off a ccsp. and so all our people different off antibodies and which is splitting be maxine ation after one week from the start of research on those is maybe we

started to, to, to free our, our, our accounts and, and now we have people in, in, in the roof because some are called it's just some unreal seen some all around the well this week from turkey to america, russia, italy, devastating wildfires a raging worldwide in greece. this week, at least 2 people were killed and surging, fires me the

many people were just forced to leave their homes outside. the great capital, massive accusations of being carried out also on the nearby island of area with hundreds fleeing via phone via, via a mix of any boats available on friday. the nation said it was struggling to contain more than a $150.00 wildfires. prime minister warned that a heat weigh a ton grease into a pound. okay. well also being described as the worst in decades. enormous. blaze is causing havoc in turkey as well. at least 8 people have been killed and around. 10000 evacuated,

emit extreme. wildfires burning all along the coastline. a popular tourist destinations like both the room and my motto is to be hit. one local describe the scene, there was raining ashes on saturday. heavy rains brought at least some relief to various parts of the country. meantime, there was some a so real scenes in california this week or one town in plumas county looks like an apocalyptic hollywood movie. attend to dr. vegetation and strong winds. the dixie fire, as its been named a rip through greenville the remains of homes and cars burnt out, are common sight. buildings, dating from the gold rush, were destroyed along with a school, the church, a hotel, and a museum. and all the way to russia's siberia also being hard hit by the master of wildfires. a large scale evacuations in place of villagers with firefighters battling raging inferno while in the russian republic of your pious blanketed lodge areas in acrid smoke. well that computer

engineer is currently studying a prison sentence in america, a hacking a hospital, a martin got his veiled says he did not to draw attention to a custody battle between the hospital and the parents of a child being kept without that consent. mister goddess failed recent returned to us here at r t c. after he was denied telephone access to his lawyers. me . mister got his help wife claims communication with his lawyer was cut off shortly after he wrote an article that was published on the website in the piece, he described cases of alleged mis treatment at the prison he's being held out. well, the authorities though, would say that his lack of phone access, or miss treatment, was simply down to changes in their coven policies. or the activists wife says, well, that's not good enough. they read all of his mouth. so they had a heads up on what was coming. they shouldn't it's legal privilege mail,

but i guess i guess they were aware he had multiple attorneys who were trying to get in touch with him for meetings about strategic matters. he answered an appeal and other ledger and other stuff in court and they just can't reach him. they're telling him that they can't. francere felt his that bureaus prison lawyer is telling them that she can only let him speak to them if they have upcoming court deadlines. whereas she's not applying that requirement to any of the other inmate. we contacted the officials on leading rights organizations for the take the european court of human rights and human rights watch told us a kind of comment on the issue. well, let's take a look back now, how the whole situation unfolded me. i please let me know. right now i

need to be home. my family ah, in she has been totally medically, abuse, finally, common sense prevails use . i just don't know how it's really happening because it doesn't feel like it's, it's real good to be home. me use

the we talked with j a political analyst, patrick tension, and mr. brown, a journalist who was also imprisoned in connection with a data leak. marty himself, over throughout the entire him is imprisonment, has been retaliated against 4 other particles. he's written or lawsuits. he has filed against a system against individual wardens and so forth. having done for years and said myself, that roper's in the u. s. for my activism and having written, calling from prison, i've been in prison where there wasn't a lot. i've been in prisons where, you know, i was,

i was pulled off the phone. what was doing interview media interview and put an issue for doing that interview and then release after investigation. you know, 2 weeks later i was re arrested because these orders in 2017 for getting interviewed advice after i got out of prison. no one has been involved in activism should be tried in the us, north gosh, where there is just a record of the u. s. saw it on this is just a mentally vile. the harm should be proportionate to the sentence, not that potential harm. and increasingly, what we see, certainly in the us justice system, is this kind of trend of symbolic convictions and symbolic sentences, whereby the politicization of the justice system and the what used to be due process is become increasingly politicized. and i think we can see that in so many different cases, especially with the area of cyber crime or hacking,

it seems that i think maybe this just really speaks to the ability of hackers or hacked of ists to threaten the power structure which has become increasingly dependent on digital networks, we only have to look really at the julian assigned case as, as the sort of top level. sort of case in this area. he is absolutely and political prisoner, and it's not so much about what he did. it's about what he represents and the ability of an organization to get around the powers of the state. me well, you can call it a stock warning from the un if you like. it's a special envoy for honest on says the country is ascending into a situation of catastrophe, so serious that might have very few parallels in this century. meanwhile,

the u. s. and the u. k. are urging that citizens just to get out of afghanistan as late as taliban offensive in the country seized a tara group making sweeping territorial gains. now, after a series of rapid advances in various rural areas, over the last weeks, the soldiers now are targeting the big city. you can see on the map, the key northern town of conduce right there, the northern region becoming now. the 3rd provincial capital seized interest the last 3 days. the taliban has taken the governor's office and police headquarters are under that control battle is still going on in some parts of the city. according to reports, at least 14 people have been killed, including women and children, and more than 30 people so far have been injured. these are seniors over destructions and can do with buildings in ruins or ablaze. now in the meantime, at least $700.00 former taliban fighters were released off the group captured another regional capital that should have begun. and we're talking up here in the

central northern province. this was on saturday when the offensive happened. and if, despite us heavy bombers being sent to the country to strike at the taliban positions, particularly here across the northern border of afghanistan, there's heavy fighting as well between security forces and the taliban in another northern africa providence, that of the coon, our region here is left around 50000 people in the region displaced in just the last 2 months. while dozens of families from canada found shelter in our local school, women and children are making due and very cramped classrooms with pretty tough living conditions. or the refugees told us about their plight. mongrel, you know, wasn't we had a good life in our village. we had everything. but due to the fighting between security forces and the cal about everything has been destroyed. the bottom line off isn't the county been detect our area and we had to flee a village. we saved only ourselves without any belongings or clothes. now we are

living in this school building in the jungle initiative taliban block, texas all village around 2 months and was heavy fighting with leather homes due to the fight in and out of hunger. after walking for 2 nights we arrived here. we spent the 1st night in the park, then we came to the cool. here were facing problems been a little while in the east of the country. the capital is also in the taliban site with a number of attacks targeting government figures. aqaba has seen the funerals of the countries media chief in fact, he was shot dead on friday, last spokesperson for the group says he had punished him for his quote, deeds claiming it had sent a special unit to carry out the assassination. his killing came days after another target a taliban assault on the african defense ministers home, also in the capital capital. we bought the latest on the spiraling situation just a short time ago from a local reporter below, start wadi and analysis from and he will activist kennestone the fall of going to

safety where the taliban have been able to take control of most of the city as well, as government buildings come in, a quick succession, the city of title upon which is the capital of the province just next door, also fell to the taliban. and what we are also hearing from one officials in a place like condos in the hot. there are also strikes by the americans, as well as by the african government. the cause of this war for ordinary ones for businesses, is simply too much. we also heard from the tall about issuing a statement in the city of telephone, instructing its fighters not to take revenge, not to torture anyone, and not to go to people's homes. title cotton is a city which was the home of former normalized leaders and commanders who fought against the taliban in the 1990 s. these are also provinces that have provided soldiers to the african national security forces. but the worry of ordinary ones,

even in a place like call is quite clear. john of the americans made a bad decision because the left abruptly and paved the way for the taliban to launch an immediate attack. the taliban don't differentiate between the government and public property and infrastructure. they burned down below. in the current situation, the withdrawal of americans is pretty very costly for us guns. the fighting has gained the ferocity. it spread with high intensity across all of our gas stem. i'm going to go from when the americans came to the dentist on. they came to defeat terrorism, but 20 years have passed and the americans haven't defeat the terrorism. instead, terrorism has strengthened and regional and global terrorism has turned to finish down into a hub of terror. the people of afghanistan are being looted and mercilessly kills, and public infrastructure is being destroyed. now you're seeing people standing up

to the taliban is some areas. these are former normalized leaders and commanders not necessarily only nor in other parts as well. that gets mile hahn is fighting against them. now, 4 weeks actually in the city, hit odd. as well as the african government and then the americans are carrying these strikes. but it is important to point out that urban attacks are becoming more and more regular for the taliban. the americans are continuing their bombing in order to try and hold the taliban in advance. but it's not working and they're trying to prop up their government in kabul, such that the taliban might find it useful and important to make a coalition. ready government with them, the important thing to remember is that for the, from the point of view of the entire world is that the reach of the u. s. empire is shrinking. so now the u. s. empire has failed in try to subdue afghanistan,

and they couldn't, couldn't continue. it's illegal occupations because it was unpopular from the very start with the afghan. he's and it was a violation of international law and still to come here on our t accusations of german police brutality. a protests have seen the un special records on torture. say actually there are grounds for intervention, moral and life discussion with us these mexico. and after the break, the so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk

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be with us for the weekly program here. when i see the us recently hit its self imposed debt ceiling. that is not stopping democrats from pushing ahead with an infrastructure package worth a trillion dollars. the senate has even silenced the debate on the legislation. on top of that democrats, a feeling bullish enough to ask for another spending package totaling 3.5 trillion . roll ultimately require having to increase the debt ceiling. republicans are having none of it. if they don't get more of a say on how the money is spent. if they don't need aud, our input, when we had our help, was the deadline that increase that recklessly. because he's reckless planned, you will require the debt ceiling limits, the amount the u. s. government can oh it was reinstated last week off for a 2 year suspension. it was automatically recalibrated to equal the current debt level, forcing the treasury to cough up for government bills. but analysts say this will

buy at most a couple of months before congress will have to raise or suspend the ceiling. failure to do that could see the us default on its loans. oh dear thats cross live . now what is that max kaiser? joining us here. the host of the kaiser report. great to see you max. the us already. oh, $28.00 trillion, at least another democrats, one to add to that. i mean, i don't know. the demons been spiking the fruit punch bowls. what are they thinking? all right, we've been down the star before rory. the dead feeling has to be re often because the us economy in conjunction with most of the west is one enormous ponzi scheme that need fresh money to keep that ponzi scheme going. if he's in the context, you understand that 0 percent interest rate and global debt to g d p is over 300 percent and the ability to pay back any of these loans is virtually darrow. you can

understand why. now the debt in the u. s. is going to start to become hyperbolic, and this is having an interesting corollary. and that is causing a real inflation because it's all that money printing attempting to tamp down the debt is causing people at the shops and at the gas station. and notice that the price of living is going up precipitously. and this is causing a real, causing a real damage in america right now, roaring back. so what is the point of having a debt ceiling if it could just be hyped whenever needed? i think that's an excellent point, rory, i think they're going to get to the point where they're going to eliminate the idea of it's dealing and they're just simply going to say that we're going to engage and unlimited on encumbered money printing and dec creation quantitative. anything to forever or infinity, they'll simply just take all the breaks off and drop the pre fence at all. if there's any responsibility, because you can't paper a ponzi scheme,

you can stop upon the game. there's only one way to end and that is through a massive default. and because the us doesn't want to experience that there is simply going to print to infinity. so the us, the us dollar becomes like that as well. and all of our or other hyper inflationary currencies and that's what we're looking at right now in the u. s. and other countries, when you call it a ponzi scheme in washington, how do you think other major economies look at it? do you think people like china, for example, of russia, they also call it a, upon the skin for her. right. well, you know, al byron, be lena who's the head of the russian central bank is the single only banker in the world that's calling time out in raising rate. i have a poster for my while. i admire her so much. you actually standing up to the nonsense and the money printers. she says she's an admirable and best social banker in the world. so we have that happening in russia and china. they are still engaged

in a lot of money printed, but they're trying to come down with very strong one my area and you know, clamped down on a lot of the big companies and other companies as a way to regain a lot more control. and what's happening in china and in debt creation in china, so that the approach that they're taking in the u. s. this completely runaway inflation and america is always relied on good luck. and we've been a very lucky country, particularly since the end of world war 2. and we'd like to roll the dice and to see what might happen. and so we're rolling the dice on unlimited debt creation of money printing. and you know, it could come up snake eyes this time or re max. we know that russia has been dumping almost all of his dollars out of various funds in the government here, china and russia. both of them have been buying more gold than any country over the past number of years. do you think? do you think any other countries around the world are starting to scale back from

the usage of the dollar? of course it is. the kingpin it is the global, currently used for the major transactions around the world. but are you seeing perhaps i lied? countries of america, friends of america starting to scale back the usage of the dollar. right. we just have to look at the usage of the dollar global, and you notice that in the last 20 years has come down every year. every 2 years has come down. russia, as you point out, as completely out of the us dollar and assess them up to be in an interesting situation. as you see more of cooperation with china, russia around, you know, ran a state of their intention to cooperate with the one belt run road initiative. so they're going to cause a or create a trading block that is going to be probably bigger than the year, which is probably the biggest trading block. and so they won't really need the dollar. and so if people just stop using the dollar, you're going to see the dollar trap door open and suddenly the, there's no bids. and people are scrambling for gold as you point out. they are very

shrewdly in both russia and china stockpiling goal that they have done for a number of years now. they're huge gold owners. i think they are preparing for the day when a trap door is opened on the dollar. and suddenly they have to kind of reinvent the global current, the grid. well, you mentioned the one build one road initiative and trying to identify getting all these different countries around the world involved in this super trade chain. as you say, potentially being a trading block, bigger than that of the e you, you mentioned that they don't particularly want to use dollars in this future one bell to run one road initiative. would it be a case of national currencies or, or just a you want, how would all these different countries actually pay and be involved in the one belt one road? right. well 2 points there. first of all. yeah, they don't want to be involved in the dollar because the us weaponized the dollar by sanctioning by interfering and swift, the global money transfer mechanism. and by playing politics and by getting in the

way. so these countries that you know what we need our own system. so they're creating their own system. in my view, what will happen is china rushing around, right simply will create a gold back currency that will be servicing those that into trading area. and they'll go back to essentially a gold standard, and they're perfectly capable doing stuff based on the stockpiles of gold that they have, which are enormous, that the one swing vote, rory, if you want to look at the geo political picture here and play, you know, a certain amount of strategic gaming would be the swing vote of germany because germany does have a huge stockpile of gall there. also, i think, tutoring between their lines, between the us and russia, given what's happening in the pipeline business. right. i think we're going to see some interesting strategic geo political alliances. shift of fascinating dream, political and economic alliances right now. as the d dollar a. d dollarization discussion continues to go on a worldwide max kaiser, the host of the legendary kaiser report. thanks for joining us. here and see we

appreciate it. thanks. alright, thanks. and i thank you for joining us here on this sunday program on our international ally from moscow. 9 30 pm here. we're back at the top of the hour with more the in the me or i don't a welcome join, depart from the early days of culture. humans have known that too much of anything is good for nothing. every major religion once again gluck to me and all sorts of excesses which poisoned the soul and enfeebled the body. pushing before our ancestors scarcity used to take care of that. but what are we supposed to do in

this era of ever increasing abundance? well, to discuss that i am now joined by michael easter, a. visiting lecturing journalism at the university of las vegas and also also a big conference crisis. michael, it's great to talk to congratulations on the grade book. hey, thanks so much for having me on. i'm excited to chat. now let's start with it's a subtitle which tells people to quote, embrace discomfort to reclaim your wild, happy and how fate self. why does it need to be reclaim? well, i think you hit it in the beginning and the intro there, it's that we evolved in these environments of scarcity. and so we developed these drives to always do that, which was most comfortable. for example, we avoid movement. we are wired to be lazy. when we have access to food, we have incentives to over eat it.