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6 climate change, it would shrink the entire global economy down to the point where these bankers would stop getting bailouts and they can't ever stop the bothers me. so that's, that's the rhetoric behind that, that's the methodology behind that. that's the psychosis. ah hello in welcome to cross stock. we're all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . how is the economy working for you? we are told this is the time of the great reset and build back better. what does this mean to you? how does the green new deal play into this? it seems the richer only getting richer. but what about the rest of us? i
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cross talking the great reset. i'm joined by my guess jeffrey tucker in austin. he is the founder and president of brownstone institute in bristol, we have shante bar, she's the deputy leader of the workers party of britain in author of the drive to war against russia and china. and here in moscow were joined by tony ewing. he is managing director, conquer risk capital, as well as advisory board member of our c investments. right, cross sac rules and effect. that means you can jump in any time you want. and i always appreciate the 1st thing i want to ask all of you and i want to else. i'll start with jeffrey in austin. what is the state of the economy as the pandemic is fading, of course, in a different parts of the world. it's there is different status of the pandemic, but as we it it, as it ebs here, where we standing are because the prognosis was the economy should roar once it was on la from the law downs. now there's different opinions of where going jeffrey,
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you 1st, it's not electron locked downs and, and we're suffering those result broken supply chains, hold world port clogged and worth empty shelves, shortages high inflation and you know, an aggregate. but if you look at the individual sectors of construction or beef prices, bacon gas, you name it, americans are suffering dreadfully. hundreds of thousands of businesses were destroyed during the pandemic. they're not coming back. and now you've got the vaccine mandates that are being imposed through a regulatory, judicial, a c art. and you've got the biden administration, ignoring judges that are condemning them. so i'm telling you in my lifetime, i've never seen such a sadness and chaos and brokenness across the board. just a year turned go ahead in bristol. i think it's really important to notice that i'm right at the beginning of the pandemic when the look downs were brought in. there
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was actually a financial crash, a financial crisis, a crisis in the system that was covered over by the locked down. and when we had a big bailout, it wasn't a cove it bailout. it was another big business bailout like we saw in 2008, but it was covered over because of course, the anger that would have arisen on the streets if people had realized were bailing out big business again. because as another financial crisis would have been really extreme, and that crisis has not been recovered from it. fundamentally caused by the fact that the mass of the working class have not the money to put the demand into the economy. they can't buy the goods that they themselves have been producing. and that hasn't changed. we've come out of the pandemic and the pandemic will exposed the huge inequality in the system. led to a huge amount of anger amongst people as they saw how an equally they were hit by the pandemic. how unequally, their health care, how unequal are the effects of the disease on people, and how unequal the distribution of work,
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and who gets paid and who doesn't work. but what's really noticeable now is there's a, you know, inflation is going up people's wages or not keeping her tabs with that. and we have a more pain to come. okay, well i think it's so far very interesting this problem, jeffrey, agility or probably is the i'd i a dime i to repose ideologically as possible. and i saw jeffrey nodding his head the entire time. this is interesting, this is why we're doing the program. all right, tony, your turn, what is the state of the academy? go ahead. i think i would also agree with my colleagues here. i think that the economy is supposedly coming back. i would, i'll add something new, perhaps a discussion which is just that. i think this is highlights once again the, what i believe is, is the problem in measuring the quality of growth and the quality of an economy. we see g d p numbers. don't look that bad. generally, it looks like it's like with the economies returning to its pre coded trend. but
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the reality on the ground is that people are still looking for work. we have massive underemployment, which masks the unemployment problem. we also have issues where small businesses are struggling more or are dead as different mentioned, but and big businesses, which i think are the ones that are holding up the g, b, g, b number. the giant businesses have gained dramatically. and i think that that masks a lot of pain, that we're not seeing, we, those, those companies, they, they did math layoffs during 2020. they benefited from different types of tax write offs as well as benefited from being able to withhold investment the they kept the profits and in many cases just paid out dividends. so what we're seeing is kind of an artificial set of macroeconomic numbers that make it appear as though things are doing fine or things are on chart to recover when in fact i think we've,
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we've got to severely damaged economy. ok, well it's very interesting that we're all pretty much on the same page, at least so far. ok, well the name of this program i've titled it what reset. so now we'll see what the differences are. jeffrey, i mean we hear build back better the re reset. what does that mean to you? i mean, it's, these are bumper stickers. what does it mean to you? yeah, the rubber sticks that anything. what we really need to address is, is the dramatic and balance of power that her, that the pandemic response exposed. and basically you have a ruling class out there. there wants to be every, every 1000000 zoom and, or they're, they're, they're managing the political and economic systems according to their own interests and totally comply with complete disregard for the, for the working class. and or, and, and your guess is correct about the g d p. can eat to g, d p can drive the g, d p, the g d p is not gonna, he'll you, when you're sick? yeah. i mean, these are, these are fake numbers. you know?
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and i, i watch the stuff, you know, every day i, man, i am a data. maybe i love going through mission of find out what's with actually going. i mean, you have to look at labor participation for gothic in the us. we're, we're missing 4300000 workers. you know, they're just gone. are mostly a taken from the community of women and minorities during the pandemic locked downs . and, and it's, it's, it's been absolutely exploitive. and you talk about big business. i mean, basically for large zooming, you know, digital companies are buying up manhattan on the cheap, you know, it's, it's, it's an internal, believable scandal and, and something. so there is going to be a great reset of some sort or and, and, but i don't know to tell you what is going to look like. but, but we have to address this problem of, of the imbalance of, of power based on the, on the, and the class structure. and by the way,
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i didn't even know this year. i am good. a lot of things i believed about world that turn out to be false are things that are true that i'm just now learning or but i've been an absolute scandalized at the, at the policies of the last 20 months and, and such me, i'm, this is this is a, a populous movement that's all cross country. i'm in the world that you're in georgia, there's going to be a reset, but it, who is gonna define it and control it. and we have the people that benefited the most that are doing it right now. but i don't think the odds are very good for them . okay. because they're, they've only served their own interest here at the expense of everyone else. that's why i said in my introduction, what about the rest of us? because a lot of people are being left behind here, there's going to be a reset. it depends on who's gonna make make that possible. and i'm, i'm not putting my, my odds on the powers that be right now. go ahead in bristol. i mean either, i mean, your last speaker actually gave a really nice description of monopoly capitalism. that's how that system this
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system works. you know for me, these buzzwords and they are, it's a, it's a p r campaign. great reset. build back better green new deal. and these are marketing slogans for what actually to justify another huge dep, move of public money into the hands of monopoly capital they're claiming to be addressing the concerns that of people make it. it's like a recognition of the anger of the masses, right? a recognition of the anger against inequality, inequality between classes, inequality between countries. this sucking up of all of the world's wealth into the hands of a tiny monopolist elite. people are angry about that. and so there's a kind of recognition in the buzzwords that people are angry or they say things like, we were gonna build in resilience, we're going to make things more equitable, more sustainable. what they actually want to do is persuade us to let them
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spend a huge amount again, of public money on popping up big capital. this time they'll call it in the, in the i'm of being green. right? they want to persuade us to throw away things and buy new things, and this is green. they want to persuade us that we should give huge amount, billions in contract, a companies who claim to be delivering green things for us, you know, climate neutral, carbon neutral addressing climate change, whatever they'll, they'll put it under all these banners. but what it means is a whole load, more of public money is going to be going on. so just me. so when you're, when you're up, what you're saying is like the, the new green deal is that all the green goes to a small group of people. is that what you're saying? i'm saying, but there we are just nation a justification. yeah, absolutely. i want to get i want to get tony and here go ahead. jump in, tony. you were you. i won't lose my joke. i hope you liked elaborate. go ahead. yeah. well again, i agree with my colleagues and i was going to, i think job my,
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my, my little separate plug, which was about the green issue that none of us noticed have been talking about the climate crisis or anything. and i know the guardian and some other newspapers actually change their wording to make it a climate emergency climate crisis. and instead of simply climate change, like you see in the state and, and yet no one really is talking about that because i, i'm not sure that that really affects people when they're trying to put food on the table when they're, they're working when they're getting a job and so, you know, i'm not trying to belittle people to care more, more or less about the environment. but if we talk about the great reset, we're talking about the impotence for this and for the world. economic for meeting was, was offensively about climate change. and about this climate emergency. so they are prescribing that post code, but we should somehow be thinking about how we can we can make more equitable outcomes, but also preserve the environment. and i still can't wrap my head around how those
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2 things seem to fit together. and i think now that we are at least post 1st wave of cove it or 2nd wave of coven. i think it's even harder to wrap my head around it . i don't, i don't see how the great reset has anything to do with, with global warming. ok, well we'll get into that. we'll talk about in the 2nd half of the program. but one of the things that i would propose is that we just delete the word equity forever. i'm sick and tired of hearing it. ok it's, it's just, it's just a cover. i mean, it doesn't mean anything. ok, it's, it's a cover you for people to do what they're told to do, or i'm going to jump in here. we're going to go to a short break and that's about your break. we'll continue our discussion on the great reset. stay with our team. we can now look into people's minds, read the thoughts. the question then is what kind of consequence we can take from this? i think you take the example flying, it would prevent us from like we wouldn't be able to lie anymore if everything
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becomes transparent, but what we're thinking as a korea professional sport is much tougher on some than others with the euro. he might by everybody. so why would somebody believe me, i was just a little girl. the price of to, to, to achieve really was, was approaching a read on the paper this morning. usa swimming coach, arrested, literally had sex with a 12 year old girl. this happens almost every week. we get calls at the office. i get informed about one of my greatest fears is someone is gonna start linking all this together is going to be a 60 minute documentary about youth coaches in sports like gymnastics swimming here, is that documentary? see it on our t we're empowering ourselves to be more
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efficient or quicker with our transactions. we can make mobile payments from our stars. the truth is that every device is a potential entry point for security attack. i think you can, but i don't want to much manage that clear with leaving but only eventually there's a man where thousands, maybe sometimes millions each day. they use the cyber. they use the technology as an extension of traditional artificial intelligence has not many main threat. this is due to the 3 laws of robotics. one of the things that is happening at the mini cyber implants right now, i'd be where it really worried about it. most people would equally be you calling for a chip in my brain. so there has been a lot of progress from the hacker side using ai and using other advanced technologies. they're on the defensive side. ah,
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ah sir, your cheap creature, the temper scientism. oh, true believers. usually highly committed to this world view songs and i recall scientific fundamentalists, they know they're interested in the evidence about psychic phenomena or about the value of spiritual practices because it goes against our world view. that the evidence is very strong, spiritual practices and religious practices make people happier, healthier and live longer. ah ah, welcome back across stock were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle to him and you were discussing the great reset. ah,
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okay, go back to jeffrey and another one of my pet peeves. and all of this here is that the same people, they created the mask of 2008, mismanage the locked downs, bailed out big business again, monopolies as jobs. he's pointed out, and now they have a bumper sticker to say, give us another shot to do it. i mean, why in the world would anyone believe in that? i think fewer and few people actually do. okay. they had we, we have were ruled by inc. competent, greedy people with a very short sighted a lot of a short sightedness. the horizon is right, it there know is the rest of us have to live differently. go ahead jeffrey. the ruling class definitely own played their hand during the lock dance exposing to the world. you know, what's really going on the new york times every day would say, if there's a lot of cases in your neighborhood, you need to stay home and have your food delivered best. very interesting that they didn't say there's a lot of cases in your neighborhood go deliver food. right. so right,
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because because the paper is designed for a particular class interest, that's it. you know that the people can don't have to engage in the physical world . don't have to actually like work with anthem encounter the physical world rather it's not living there, the zoom life. and they wanted to reconstruct the whole world operation of the global economy for their own benefit. and that is so incredibly obvious right now. and the loss of trust, and i'm very concerned about this. i don't think of anything. i'm gonna submit the loss of trust and ill leafs in expertise in the law of the courts are big business, you know, is immense in each other. and we have a huge amount of rebuilding to take place and not gonna be guided by the people who created others, wreckage in which we're with or under which we're living right now. so i don't know and i forget meant loss of trust and politics. you know, which has just become
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a joke, you know, in the u. s. and, and around the world. so we have an enormous job to do in the coming years to rediscover basic principles of civilized living and, and a fair market functioning and normal freedom. so we've taken for granted for literally hundreds of years. well j, i white out geoffrey, i hope you're not holding your breath. i really hope you're not holding your breath . you know, after every great crisis in civilization, civil war rover water, something dramatic or happens. i agree, i agree with that. i don't know. i don't know what is it worries me because it can . i think it could go either way. it is i think so that's why i keep saying there's going to be a reset. it is that what they're expecting? you are the, one of the things you know in and, you know, you and i have known each other for a while here. and, you know, i, everyone knows my politics. everyone knows your politics here. but you know, the thing that's missing in this conversation,
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this propaganda message we get on both sides of the atlantic is, you know, the issue of class is almost never mentioned and that is intentional. go ahead and bristol, thanks peter. you know, well, your last guess was talking, i just wrote down the word class in big letters a box around it. you know, you were saying there's no push back, you know, and you're right, there is no push. these people can get away with it endlessly. because the ruling class for the last 40 years has been waging war on the working class. and they've been winning. and particularly in the us and britain where the, the ruling class in periods have been particularly strong. and on the offensive though, they've been, the working class has been in a period of war, i call defeat and retreat. and i think we're coming to the bottom of that. now things are starting to turn around again. and you know, the crisis and, and the situation at workers find themselves in is changing that. but for their to be pushed back, i'm going to say something which is going to be popular with the rest of, of your
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a panel, i'm sure. but the working class needs to be organized, we knew were ended, and then working class organization, the loss of trust, i think is a good thing. we shouldn't trust in people who are our enemies. the fact is, there are 2 great classes in society and the interests are diametrically opposed. you know, what happens to profit when wages go up, profits go down. what happens when profits go up? we've seen a wages go down. so we have to understand that that is the way that the capitalist system works, that it doesn't and cannot deliver for the mass of the people, we have to regain our concept of class. if we're going to push back even a little bit, we're have to do it by force of numbers. there is no other way for these people who have currently all of the power and no pushback. there's no other way to, to stop them from just carrying on looting. our treasurer is and dis, boiling our planet. yes and destroying the future of all of us her, you know tony,
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the, you know, i, i like ecology. i say plant trees, you know, don't let her i'm, i'm a big green guy in kind of been maybe like a 19 seventies fashion. okay. like earth day. yeah. that, that's my kind of our new green deal. but what bothers me again, this bumper sticker is that this is a continuation of dealing with the 2008 financial meltdown which the ruling class got concierge service. then we go into the pen demik, we go into an economic crisis. again, we see the same kind of bail out here, and now i see the green new deal. and again, i am not against the college, but what they do, they're getting us attuned to a crisis environment. everything is a crisis. that's why you have no rights. that's why you can't do anything. all you have to do is obey because it's a crisis, everything's a crisis and this is what they're trying to paralyze us and accepting less what we don't deserve less. go ahead, tony. yeah, i would also, i would agree with peter, and i would also say that what i don't see is again, this connection between these green investments and helping the people that need
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help the most natural, you know, the guys that are manufacturing solar panels or coming up with these latest screen technologies are probably not your poorest people on the street, and they're probably also not hiring a lot of the unskilled labor. and if you go globally, you're not hiring people that are in that are below the poverty line in the manufacturer, in the development, in the process of providing those green technologies. i'm not, i'm not aware of tesla hiring large amounts of, of low wage workers and some of those wages because they've made record profits despite having a product that struggles. and so, so what i don't really see is how this green connects with without assistance. what i would say i would want to comment it on job statement. i agreed to a certain extent, that labor workers, they need to be perhaps more aware. i don't know about organized, but i, i come from a small, still town in ohio and i, i saw that spilled town destroyed by organized labor. but again, it's,
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it's about leadership. so the same problem that we're, we're all agreeing in agreement with, which is having people at the top who want to call the shots. and really they shouldn't be the ones calling the shots. they shouldn't be there controlling everyone else. that's the same problem that happened with organized labor and my own town. if you get people that are the blind lead, the blind and both fall into ditch so. so i think, you know, i believe that it's, it's very important for us to recognise and for the world to recognize that a lot of these talk about the great reset is really, in my opinion, a way of kind of trying to take to extreme sides of the argument, take me, those people that what a complete lazy for economy, those people who would like maybe a marxist sort of or socialist type of economy and try to, to divert their attention by talking about something that really is to daugherty and really something where they they believe they're in the position to lead and tell everyone, you know, how should we share everything? i think that's, that's an interesting description, but the end, the way, you know,
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you look at the, the extremes there. but it seems to mean that that's what the p r campaign to maintain neoliberalism. you know you'd be afraid of those guys been rated those guys. let's keep on the course that works for a smaller in smaller group of people. jeffrey, what give me about give us some hope, jeffery, where, what, where do we go? well, if i play in my lifetime i've, i've, i've, i've experienced most cities, probably artificial divisions been the right and the left. and, you know, these ideological category as we throw around the term social capital one such, but what we're dealing with right now is something that's unfounded, mentally unconscionable. like when you watch the hunger games, you know that what's going on is wrong, right? so that's supposed to be fiction, but this seems like the world that are creating, ever more segregated, ever more with, with the, with the top, i call it then i call it the new surface in. that's what i call it,
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keep go and yeah. so yeah, so in other words, i think what, what we need is a, just an, a generalized emancipation as movement. you know, and i, i think that, that is growing, you know, at the browser and to which i, we started a few months ago. i've gotten like 3000000 visitors to, to our, to our webpage, just looking for an alternative point of view. and i'm, i'm dealing with read an influx of submissions from, from, from dissident intellectuals, basically all over the world who are just, just fed up with what we've seen over the last 20 months. that includes like scientists. so i think, you know, what's been happening, the last name of the tiny elite has been presuming the right to rule over everybody else as if it's their destiny by virtue of their wealth or i don't know what it is, a but, but that system is unconscionable and, and it will not last, the good thing is i think people are aware of it. now, as i said earlier, i think that overplayed their hand and, and now we see the,
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the wreckage all around us. and you know, you have to go far in this country, decided to go down to a local local up market. you know, a family on business or just any merchant who's trying to get through it gets arrive on our times. you're going to get an earful. i got it. i mean, let me, let me give me give chelsea the last word here about about 40 seconds shall go ahead be a prognosis. what needs to be done. 40 seconds. solve the world's problems better. you know, the only hope for the future. peter is planning is a plan socialist economy. we have everything that we need. we have the technology, we have the ability, we can feed people, we can close them, we can house them, we can educate them, we can take care of their health and their education and give them a decent culture and a decent life. if we get rid of the profit motive and plan what we produce to meet the needs of the people. well, i think you know, they were ending on a know where we could have have and, and a whole series of programs here. this is what i thought was going to happen, which is fine because i like debate and i love difference on this program here. i
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don't think the other guests would disagree with you, and that's why i'm going to invite all 3 of you back to continue the conversation. and i mean that. ok, but all as all the time we have right now. many thanks to my guests in austin. bristle and here in moscow when thanks. so our buick for watching us e r t. so you next time and remember crosstalk rules ah ah or an ally ourselves to be more efficient quicker with our transactions. but with that comes a trade off. every device is a potential entry point for security into any machine because it's an extension of traditional time. the defenders have always been one step
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