number of hours, such situations are said to occur on a regular basis in the med, but this, the 1st time we know of a migrant both leaving lab and on has been targeted. this year has seen an increase in the number of faithful mediterranean crossing attempts with the majority headed to ripley. over 2200 individuals have died at sea in the 1st 8 months of 2023. that is the highest number and half a dozen years. family members of the tain people, i'm officials, blame lab, and on this economic crisis for the search and attempts to reach your out of the so how many little omen my am. how much had it on the bose, the older brother of hunter on the bush who is currently missing. the space remains unknown after he left the 11 east coast in a boat from a car province. a year ago, his wife and 3 children left an ocean, one of the most to follow them. so he contacted and paid some people who smuggle all those abroad. and on august, the 11th, the bowed this and bought the trip included lebanese to see, re,

i'm out posting and how much they paid to go is taught to tell around 5 or $6000.00, but posts. and today's slides a she told us that the breach cypress is original waters. we have not heard anything since we can contact him or find out whether he's still alive. despite is unknown health cause the people of libya abroad, those are false. we have one language and one bloods, what forces the liberties people to migrate to the economic crisis, but currently living in low salaries, unemployment, and the lack of health care and education. she paid his live savings so that he could be lost like this guy, but i'm out of going up to this to the of the dates of its departure was about a week or 10 days ago and contact was last 4 days after it set sale the 1st group of passengers was able to get on board and sale. the other group was cooled by security forces. the full days later, there was no sign of them, and later it turned out that they were held in libya. they were conflicting reports

about the circumstances of their detention, whether they were being held by the or for it to use or last year or minutes in group. this is a very bad economic situation. people started to risk their lives in search of a better life, because lebanese people are used to this kind of humiliation caused by the economic crisis about the country kind of the faces. i assure you there are entire families that if they knew that they would be in the situation, they wouldn't have married or had children. this is a terrific situation that causes spa, this to take their wives and children, put them on a boat and risk the lives in the sea. look, it's a seal, see trade, let's call it what it is. it's a silver tray that has a new fixed price. it's between the smuggler, the boat, and the citizen. and the members of the exclusive g. 7 club tried themselves as being the rule makers of the global order. but are they still what they think they are? the next option were tons of the offers his take on the organizations future. in our show, they modus operandi. they close the

the hello, i'm manila, chad. you're tuned into modus operandi today will s for one of the world's most exclusive clubs. they exist, but not officially. there are strict rules to enjoy, but their founding was based on an outdated model of the world, so their membership is actually shrinking. today will be discussing the g 7. who are they? what do they do? and why do they still exist? all right, let's get into the m o the

they get together for an annual meeting and jointly decide who they will impose financial pain and pressure on the group of 7, better known simply as the g 7. now to join, you must meet certain domestic economic criteria, put plainly and you've got to be rich. your country, that is your g d p has to be one that can inflict pain on others. if you take this financial path or another. next, you have to be so called a democratic society. your mode of governing has to, in effect be in line with how western countries defined democracy. now i understand that definition has constantly moving goal posts, but regardless, you'll have to be considered a democracy. the last major tenant to join the g 7 block is this. you have to be an industrialized capitalist society. your country's economic philosophy must be

based on capitalism. good or bad? i'm not making that distinction for you, but the g 7 requires your country's economic model. be a capitalistic one. the members today consist of these countries. in the united states, canada, the u. k. germany, france, italy, and japan. as recently as 2014, the g 7 was actually the g 8. the group kicked out russia after crimea voted to secede from ukraine and joined the russian federation. russia was a member from 1997 to 2014. so to talk more about what this existing group does, how they wield their power and so forth, will bring in veteran journalist, host of the international show going underground action with times the action. first. let's review the latest g 7, summit 2023,

which took place in at ocean by japan. and they were the chair of this year summit . so unsurprisingly, the meeting revolved around in the pacific issues. more specifically, the role of china in the region. the groups communicate has now been released and it reads in part like of this, quote, a building on our resolve in l. now to increase vigilance and enhance our cooperation to address risk that undermined global security and stability. we will enhance collaboration by launching the coordination platform on economic coersion to increase our collective assessments preparedness deterrence and response to economic coersion and further promote cooperation with partners beyond the g 7. we will deepen our strategic dialogue against malicious practices,

to protect global supply chains from illegitimate influence espionage listed knowledge leakage and sabotage. in the digital spear, we're firm, our shared responsibility and determination to coordinate on preventing the cutting edge technologies we develop from being used to further military capabilities to threaten international peace and security. why that was a mouthful. okay, action. it doesn't take a genius to read between the lines here. they are referring to china, implying that china has engaged in what they would call economic co workers and of sorts. but isn't that precisely what the g 7 themselves do? i mean, look no further than the g 7 price caps on russian crude. it's absurd, isn't it? i mean, altogether, when the whole idea of the g 7 is containment of other countries, progress and development. i mean, the fact that it was only the other day,

a g 7 for administer anthony blinking was in saudi arabia desperately trying to order around. mom had been settlement to do much failure because we heard that very shortly afterwards. he was on the phone with letting my boots and, and know that boiled prices were talked about. so the oil price cap is about $1.00 attempt by the g 7 to control of the countries to control their modes of development to control their democracies and g 7 for g 7, just read nature, the idea, it was a russian of all places where that's the only atomic bombs to kill so many thousands of people. hundreds of thousands of people when japan, it already surrendered in world war 2. in any case, the idea that the d 7 should meet in the russian where it was, was a telling attempt to try and show power around the world because it

failed. so what's the relevance of the g 7 today? i mean, they have a g 20, doesn't the existence of the latter supplant? the former or you know, is the smaller grouping this exclusive grouping? it's better because it's so exclusive. it is an exclusive club, the g 7, because if you think about it, they have a disproportionate amount of blood on their hands. a given to the g. 7 nations comprise those that and committed such, made him all around the world. tens of millions killed or wounded or displaced from was enough canis johnny rock libya, syria, and, and so on. and attempts it goes all around the world. you have the g. 20 is 3, 5th of the will population. and who did everyone come running to of to lehman brothers went bust to the 20th. a price is not the g 7 because it was the crime was committed for which settlement advocate settlements who made were in g 7 countries,

but it was a g j, a n d meeting that really came to the forward to try and desperately save the from the predatory capitalism that it was worldwide recession and slum so absolutely. i mean the, the, it's clear that the g 20 is more representative and i should just say a british engineer walks fans of the g 7. those the global south, 13 trillion dollars in development in climate assistance. so actually the g 7 wouldn't be the g 7 is that they that use all the g 7 do is a daily us for deaf debt from the 4th countries in the world, at a rate of 200 and $32000000000.00 a day in a refigured debt, but saving to call the trillions they owed for what they've done to the developing world countries. they wouldn't be g 7. they wouldn't be the 7 most powerful economic countries in the world. they'd be debt to even more designations than they are now. yeah, excellent. point on the financial crisis of 2008. so this so called exclusive

g 7 club, they invited ukraine to attend their summit this year. ukraine is not a member state, nor does it meet the economic bar for accession, not before the military operation. and certainly not after. i mean, does this country even pass muster as an economic driver in the world? why was born where zalinski invited to attend this year? oh, usually zelinski is a products of langley virginia and the military industrial complex in the united states. so perhaps you did have the right to be at the g 7. and he is emblematic and what the g 7 are infamous for. for most of humanity that is staffed and sanctions fast and sanctions. because obviously we know that they freeze people's money and threatened to give it to zalinski. that's what they have been saying. they froze and russian. let me g 7 countries have stolen money from venezuela and

of course it's the g $7.00 countries at the sanctioning desperately sanctioning economies trading with russia with venezuela, with i mean how many sanctions does the do g 7 countries have against other countries in the world trying to target that population so that the children go to school and get textbooks and use jewel use graphite pencils and they're like, so it's a lensky arguably should be there. the supervisors clearly with his forces on the ground, i like to neo nazis in ukraine. and so therefore he is and then bloom of g 7 values and the fift and mud and sanctions. the v 7 is known for coming up next david rockefeller's legacy. think tank the council on foreign relations has made some interesting comments about the g 7 block. as of late. we'll discuss it when we return with action returns. the 5th type,

the m o will be right back the the american voters are rarely interested in the world policy during election cycles. but a said the issue between maybe the exception this time around, particularly among t o p voters, much of the republican base us our w brain policy. they see it is vice for the solutions may be able to turn to atrocities. another comes, the united states of america is different wherever people long to be free. they will find a friend in the united states, the,

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do not watch my new show search like why, why something that's so different several opinions that he won't get anywhere else to give it please, or do have the state department, the c i a weapons, bankers, multi $1000000000.00 corporations. choose your fax for you. go ahead. change and whatever you do. don't want my show stay main street because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called stretching time, but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the way in the welcome back to the hmo. i'm in l. a chance. there's a prominent thing take here in the us called the council on foreign relations, but dates back to 1921 founded by david rockefeller, grandson of the american oligarch, or sometimes described as robert baron john

d. rockefeller. now david was an unofficial adviser to every us president from eisenhower to nixon and is said to have influenced a great deal of how the world is organized today. so his c, f r, a think tank carries great weight when they issue commentary. the action, red tons, the host of going underground is back with us. thank you for sticking around action . so according to the council on foreign relations of all places, they recently put the aggregate g d p of this block at roughly 44 percent of the global economy and nominal terms. that's actually down from 70 percent just 30 years ago. the trend is not going in the blocks favor. if we put the g 7 toe to toe against emerging bricks, nations who emerges victorious. clearly of even the council on foreign relations,

which is just a spoke st tag, even may recognize the g 7 rule as a percentage of the global gdp is folding. it really must be fully. and if g 7 nations, like germany are already and recession, the proportion of global gdp is clearly desperately following because it's rising in other countries like russia and china and the brakes countries. and i think on pvp relative pricing. what is it? the bricks nations have overtake the g 7 in any case. so yeah, increasing of the g 7 is shown to be what it is. it's not even the economic powerhouse of the of it is known for at home in the g 7 nations for growing and a quality slower and you're selling life expectancy in some cases of the largest prison. you know, if you look at the united states imprisoning up a capital more than now or scotland, you're going to see the g 7 countries is going completely the other direction that

the rest of the world is going on, which is really why. anyway, breaks is something that everyone wants to join, isn't it? yeah, see how far dest spiral predictions isn't that something? so let's talk about the groups, identity crisis. now they were formed in 1975, we're talking back then they were called the g 6. it was the us, france, italy, japan, u. k. and then back in west germany, the alliance was actually formed to address recession sparked by the growing strength of opec to counter opac. now, economic concerns were the primary purpose. but before long, cold war politics crept in. it would appear, we have come full circle action after russia was kicked out of the block in 2014 and they joined back in $98.00. so which is it? is this group, and economic block or a political one?

it's an interesting question where the blocks of political or economic would block in terms of geopolitics comes through ingram. she and he always said it was political in the 1st place. so even though the shanghai cooperation organization might say, oh, we know political breaks. oh, it's not political multiple, our it is no political of course it is. and the g 7 is absolutely political because a g 7 nations each. so each of when it comes to the mass, it was in iraq, afghanistan, and syria, and so forth. and the wars against anything different, any different economic model, that's what defines the g 7, not just the declining economic power of their declining g, d p, as a proportion of global gdp. it is the political cloud in trying to overthrow democratically elected leaders all around the global south in latin america in africa and south east asia in the caribbean. that's what defines the g 7. it's

ability to covertly hiding from their own popular g 7 populations. the i here also deliberately sabotaging any kind of democratic families in the global south. so they benefit those d 7 elite needs within the g 7 countries because obviously the people in the g 7 countries a suffering terribly from, from what's going on. so it's a political grouping, like many others, but the kind of politics of practices as well. i mean, what's the politics get? some people might say like capitalism as a complement to what too many in the global south suffering today see is g 7. so i'm calling record of mass killing, torture and the creation of mass and equality in countries around the world. right? i mean, at this point, money seems inextricable from politics, doesn't it? so it may come as a surprise to many viewers,

but the g 7 is technically an informal grouping. there is no permanent secretary at no charter, no purpose that is set in stone. for example, nato has a charter, a rules of the road and a destination. if you will, but the g 7 has none of these. now i'm struggling to understand why it exists and healthy out here. yeah, it's funny you saying they do as a charger and rules of the road because nature that means north atlantic treaty organization. and last time i looked at a map of ghana, some sit on the the these countries on near the atlantic. what is the nature of peacekeeping force in cost of it for a sort of in the atlantic ocean? is it but any, any days? if the g $7.00 doesn't even have it shot, you doesn't even have any kind of rules whatsoever. then why not just fold it into nato? as the rest of the world sees nato as this bone and joint grouping. and in any case,

that's what nature represents. in terms of uh, um, funding and, and the like. so just follow the g 7 in tomato because you can only clean the declining geopolitically the declining what they have is that military might and then usually a weapons. so yeah, i think the folding g 7 is an age, it wouldn't be a bad idea. and then we can just get on and realize that the g 20 and who knows even the united nations, despite the, the, what i'm doing, you get you air is as done as regards the war in the center of europe as the united states fights russia, 3 ukraine, despite when people think vento and you can tear as maybe we can revise something of what the principles of the united nations were. obviously, we know from edward snowden, with the american intelligence that was a bug senior you in personnel for the past as a way forward for the g 7. it's in a to revive the un look at the g 20 and the u. n. is the

future. when of course, what we know as a reality is it is going to be breaks. it is going to be a multiple, the world devoid of the sanctions. i'm the attempts and all know being uh no blame the economies of the global south that that was the g 7 actually do try and make people suffer. yeah. rest in peace. she said, yeah, well there is talk of japan joining nato as well. and last i checked, japan was still in the pacific. now, one of the rules of membership or accession into g 7, is that your economy has to be capitalistic. but given china is obvious, economic gains under a communist government. the last 40 plus years and, and by many various measures, has become the number one economy in the world. when it behooves the g 7 to revise its rules to joining this unofficial club. but even if they did,

do you think china would even care to join? isaac, china would want to join the g 7 would have given that it's not even though it's ringo biden's phone calls about any kind of symmetry. every time the state department's works was that his daily press conferences is us. when are you going to have that meeting with the chinese? what does that spite balloon story destroy relations pump net to be between the united states and the world's largest creator of goods in the world, a superpower in terms of tackling in the quality and obviously the world's economic superpower in a few years time. why would it want to join the g 's of it? i don't think it possibly would want to join the g 7 and the new countries. brazil would literally luna probably would. but china joining the g 7. i don't think it particularly would want to. it would necessarily join, i suppose, you just because of those gdp numbers. but as you say,

they define something cool. capitalism, as part of the requirements, whatever capitalism is, given the amount of government subsidy to bailout the banks and joints you 8 was, i mean, that was pretty state just wasn't. all right actually. and so to summarize, the g 7 is on official. there is no charter or secretary at their goals, vacillate between economic prosperity and political pressure. their joint economic strength has vastly diminished over the last 30 years. yet last year's summit in germany focused on russia this year on china. could we make the argument that this unofficial block has had the unintended consequences pushing these 2 superpowers together, which would actually, i guess defeat the purpose of existence. i mean, of course a bit had was the nicest thing one can ever say about the g 7 is united,

the world against the g 7 countries. i go back to this estimate by the british n g o l sam. because the idea that these g 7 countries owe the rest of the world. so a teen trillion dollars by their estimations. given what they've done and taken from the rest of the world, shows it at the core and the root of what the g 7 is. it is too big is believe that the so called mainstream media is sent over for this most creating is john is wonder out going yeah, these are the 7 most important because these are the 7 most economically important powers that are talking about a rule based order that govern the world. why did they even both? so as you say, the nicest deputies off as you, as you mentioned, actually would be they've united the world against the g 7, the g 20 countries. most of them are a very suspicious of g 7 countries,

that motives and their attempt ads trying to benefit those g 7 countries that leads at the expense of the rest of the world action red times a veteran journalist and host of the show going underground. thank you so much for your time today. thank you, manila. all right, that's going to do it for this episode of modus operandi. the show that digs deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host manila chan. thank you so much for tuning and we'll see you again next time to figure out the m. o, the, the

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