Are coming across as an aggressor as as they are. Well i respectfully disagree i dont think were coming across as an aggressor weve had test after test after test by this. Madman whos dumb like a fox in violation of every kind of International Agreement and hes been sanctioned sanctioned heavily for it and i think thats whats prompting all the things were seeing now but i think that its not true what theyre saying if were to believe that their weapons arent pointed at the south as theyve been pointed at the south every kind of weapon they have has been pointed at the south for decades and to think that theyre not pointed at the south that a longer you know wed have to be pretty stupid to believe that so they could say what they want this said the North Koreans are still the North Koreans and now i think were going to find out very soon you know these joint exercises between the south and the United States have been postponed till april i think kim is buying time i think hes going to eventually test missile Intercontinental Ballistic Missile with a warhead thats not loaded and launch it into the South Pacific and if it really enters the atmosphere and doesnt burn up then hes going to have proof that he could reach the United States and thats the ballgame hes a threat to the security of the United States of america can i ask you this lets say this plays out the dominoes fall tragically and we see you know and kim jong un is removed in one way or another in north korea when youre talking about a people there who really have no real outside contact with the world have kind of grown up with almost a cult like status whose are going to fall apart and you know in terms of rebuilding that community you know if this happens if it goes down the way up in many many ill be honest warmongers kind of see it go going rather than peace will go to war well get rid of this guy weve heard that kind of talk who can help. Rebuild north through who acclimates the society you would as a bomb well let me make it clear i think i dont think theres anybody who would welsh and say that i certainly dont i dont think donald trump would like to see war i think wed like to resolve this peacefully but that means the denuclearization of north korea and kim wants to be accepted as an equal player a Nuclear Power but to your question if this does result in war i dont see it as getting rid of kim i see it as an as basically a severe annihilation of most of the country i dont see how you you pin prick and pin point you know will do this and will take out kim and will do that i mean they have Nuclear Weapons all they have to do is flip a few switches and the missiles launched to the United States so if this is going to be an attack this is going to be a massive attack and the question of you know who would succeed is something that would be way way way way way down the list. I think we can both agree that i mean i dont think anybody wants to see war at all theyre going to want to see nuclear war for that matter and i think thats what makes this such an important part of foreign diplomacy here and you know lets remember its hard for us to stand as the u. S. Its hard i think for us to kind of stand being the were the only country that has used Nuclear Weapons so its hard for us when it comes to Nuclear Policy to say dont have those oh you know we used them before you know i mean thats not so hard negotiating point i would hope that we could all just remove Nuclear Weapons that all countries would would say im not because and we dont want to use weapons are going to destroy the world three times over in just one exchange. Well i dont hold it against us for using the atomic bomb when we did i think we saved american lives we saved many many lives that war had ended and we ended it and our first concern was saving at thout tens of thousands of american lives if not hundreds of thousands in the long run but the world is never going to be that kind of place if i mean weve got a steve weve got to fight for the for the world. Be that kind of place you know we go to how do you do that well you dont sacrifice you are miss you dont sacrifice your nukes and hope that the bad guys will then do the same i mean theres bad guys are going to be bad guys and theyre always going to be bad guys and you have to have defense against that i just i just dont see it when you have a country like iran who doesnt know usually assured destruction there because there are more laws believe armageddon will send them to heaven well you dont even have the Old Soviet Union mutually assured destruction chemical weapons if iran iran doesnt want to see that kind of violence because theyve watched us do that in afghanistan and iraq we try to do it in syria they dont want to see that at the end ive got them all awesome about it all as the religious one and then a lot of a lot of folks here believe that it should be the end times and that theyre waiting to get up and to have and you cant you cant make foreign diplomacy based on religious beliefs you know what im saying about well well wait wait what when when the people who control the missiles have that kind of belief you do have to take it into consideration of course and maybe people here who believe in armageddon and want to see it but theyre not in the government and theyre not what you know about what you know of steve that weve got to be on the lookout for this out of that i was a pleasure talking to you will go back and forth all day long on this but its good always to have the good argument thank you but it is for crank you thank my pleasure. Technology can be both mankinds greatest savior and greatest villain depending of course on how we humans wield it this is especially true in the world of medicine and Health Care Medical technology can and will bring us closer to curing major maladies with each passing year but the cap but but the capitalism we practice may forever condemned those to put those too poor to afford the cure for example arties david miller looks at a possible cure for a form of blindness but it comes with a very controversial price to. Spark therapeutics has developed a new gene therapy which has the potential to treat l c a disease that causes rapid visual degeneration were blindness the drug namely. Tarn it is a huge leap forward in finding the cure for blindness however the transformative genetic treatment will come with a price tag of four hundred twenty five thousand dollars per eye or double that for both after approved by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration sparks said it will offer discounts based on whether or not the drug works initially and remains effective for the estimated one thousand to two thousand patients in the United States with this rare form of i disease caused by a mutant gene and sparks shares continue to experience gains in the stock market and the company has formed multiple agreements with Insurance Companies on how to best provide those who suffer from this rare form of blindness a potential cure with what approach is fairly straightforward and eye surgeon makes a small incision in the eye and the treatment is infused onto the retina and the hope is that they will take a single treatment to stop the degeneration several of the thirty one patients tested in the Clinical Trials of the therapy said that they saw unexpected and dramatic improvement in their vision very quickly and sparks is rolling out several programs to spread out the cost over the years or give rebates to payers if the benefits decrease with time sparks has also proposed selling the gene therapy directly to Insurance Companies or pharmacies and this process would sidestep the current one m. Place that requires hospitals or Health Care Providers to buy expensive therapies upfront gene therapy has made tremendous advancements globally and now the question remains are Insurance Companies ready to cover a potential six digit medical bill when according to a recent survey most americans cant handle an unexpected five hundred dollar medical bill reporting from washington d. C. David miller r t america. David joins us here on the talk about his report always a pleasure and you said they were the most americans come up for even a five hundred dollar medical bill let alone the price to you talked about in that report. How are they just applying this allows this layer in a tie they just buy it from the c. E. O. Standpoint he says this is a science and revolutionary science and theyre saying that the breakthrough is and a plain investment so we keep going with this gene therapy you know technology in that therapy so theyre saying that you know these breakthroughs lead to investment in the costs of initially would go down eventually would go down now the other interesting play at this is also you know Health Insurance you know there used to kind of paying for medicine that happens over the course of a long period of time or all report patients entire life but this is basically a one time kind of american treatment how does this present a challenge to you know the Health Insurance was and those who can afford the drug thats where it comes into play so much time because its such a rare disease it doesnt cure all blindness you know thousand people in the United States would benefit right now from this drug so the companys working with Medicare Medicaid programs throughout the United States or china to figure out i guess and stalin plan but they cant tell you how many installments whats the full cost of this price going to be and the drugs in it or if in state right which means you know so much that eventually the consumers are the one taking on this burden and the government and the Insurance Companies are discount theyre in their hands up and saying here you go and part of the problem with this too is because the United States sits in this kind of white you know capitalized version of health care you know capitalism version of health care as opposed to you know single payer opposed to social health care because like the Government Health care thats also plays into that plus you know as you said this only affects a small amount of people but a bad surely this is the kind of thing that could have breakthroughs in the long run for more people exactly i mean were talking about a breakthrough that can cure blindness you know our generations past generations we didnt think wed see this now so why not invest more if youre the government if you ensurance companies to cure blindness for the Overall Global Health conscious the United States this could be a global phenomenon again its an orphan stage drug so we dont know all the of. Spence but you know leading up to that it does have an immediate benefit right now and youve also reached out to people who would see the benefit as well you know sufferers of those who said you know this we could please help us figure out the way to do this and be theres all that now are Insurance Companies also worried too about like you know always a one time payment for us and then suddenly this person could just suddenly leave and go join another Insurance Company i dont like guys without greed and thats why viewers loving time because he or you can see right through you know you can switch to a provider and also the Insurance Company is stuck with all this coverage you know or hundred twenty five thousand for one i double that if it works for two and again if it works they kind of work with you with payments if it doesnt use still kind of stuck its for such a tremendous drug its up in the air yeah well david thank you very much a club report always a pleasure all right as we go to break Court Watchers dont forget to let us know what you think the topics covered in facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are coming up we want to know only max woman ball interview us to discuss the latest details of israels move to deny entry to organizations and activist groups who support the b. D. s group with can imagine now becomes worthless fish so stay tuned watching the. Next geysers financial survival bill they say maybe the bella. Lets take it easy this is a central plank support diet bellamys kind of problem right now so you stopped. In two thousand and sixteen the Panama Papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets to trailing and United States dollars passed through most. In the amount of time that weve been in Panama Papers exposure thats what it shows a lot of money it really is. Journalism its an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret in an ass. Why would they want to keep these things secret. Millions of phone psycho dont you months where examine. The all the people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of newspaper. And probably other politician which what. Other politicians the media would point to find targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. And russian president Vladimir Putin the coolest. Oh my god ive had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things dont just happen by chance it was very striking there were no one american single specially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that their special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. Of the panama chronicles. Unfortunately it appears that once people learn that youve reported in a Sexual Assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared if you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. The pushback against the boycott divestment and sanctions movement picked up momentum over the last year among u. S. Based supporters of the Israeli Government policies the government of israel is now taking this opportunity president of level. However stealing the ass out of sanctions and imposing some of its very own and not as one might expect against suspected terrorists who could be considered National Security threats against anyone in the world with one of the twenty organizations promoting a boycott of israel over its controversial human rights record so hawk watchers want to make a bizarre we do something entirely new assault on free speech or is this simply the harsh reality of real politic to help us answer that im joined to bay by Max BlumenthalSenior Editor of gray zone project always a pleasure max good were going to you so you know the headlines on this issue almost make you do that double take you know just how far reaching is the scope of this decision by the Israeli Government well for years and years israel has denied entry to hundreds and hundreds maybe thousands of arab americans simply because of their ethnicity their suspected of you know ideologically being opposed to the state of israel and so many prominent activists intellectuals and regular arab American People with family members in palestine have been humiliated upon entry at Ben Gurion International airport another border crossings detained for long periods interrogated and then deported thats also happened to Many Americans who are not of arab heritage who are just activists but its happened in kind of an arbitrary fashion now israels formalizing its plans to deny entry in one of the organizations that theyre targeting through the ministry of Strategic Affairs which is this new ministry aimed at countering the b. D. S. Movement which it views as an existential threat to the survival of the state of israel is jewish voice for peace which has fifteen thousand members is a jewish Peace Organization thats almost two decades old and most of those members are jewish so israel has formalized plans to detain and deport thousands of jews. Americans and thats something we havent seen before it suggests panic on the part of the right wing Israeli Government you know and one of the things going to ask is how is do you know how is the reaction actually inside of israel to this know if theyre potentially deporting you know. The people the jewish heritage who are going to be american you know support b. D. S. Now theyre going to deport or not allow him these people into the country whats the reaction inside israel because yeah great question i mean israels government is more right wing than ever the right controls over eighty seats in the knesset out of one hundred twenty seats thats Israels Parliament and so the opposition parties which are pretty far from pro peace i would hardly describe them as you know left wing have made some noise about this proposal or this new policy guideline and thats because the labor party which used to traditionally rule israel until the rise of likud is more concerned about israels image internationally and about currying favor with you know the liberal democracies of western europe and the United States but weve seen through the kind of trump netanyahu axis that israel no longer feels like it even needs to be concerned about its image among you know jewish liberals and you know the mainstream American Media its going for an entirely different constituency internationally christian zionists and the european far right and so this policy really is of no concern to the leaders of israel how you or the other question every view you hear about the b. D. S. Movement and things like that hasnt been successful enough to warrant this kind of response i mean really really think about because you see a lot of people you know hey they forget a lot of people just go to israel they dont protect you know they dont participate in the movement has the movement as big of a threat to justify this kind of reaction yeah i think obviously it has and you know theres a psychological component to b. D. S. As well getting the new zealand pops. Lord to drop or trip to tel aviv is a major triumph because it sends the signal to israel that its not a normal country and that its you know educated cosmopolitan upper middle class that wants to have concerts like these can have them as long as they have an occupation in a system of apartheid now look at jewish voice for peace is a jewish based organization thats increased its membership by Something Like five thousand in the past year since it really made its call for b. D. S. More open and that really tells you where younger American Jews are going theyre going away from the right wing Israeli Government and the right wing Israeli Government is in a state of panic i mean there are these reports that have been issued by government linked think tanks like there are a huge institute which call for actually applying a price tag to b. D. S. And targeting activists with surveillance style measures and black operations and that so this is part and parcel of that its designed to intimidate American Jews who might think of joining jewish voice for peace but who also want to enter israel palestine and i think they need to understand that this cant be fully enforced and that they shouldnt be intimidated one less the question also true is how do you implement this i mean i cant imagine that a policy like this is easy to implement and what happens you know what happens when that first person is detained you know what what what happens but i mean its this i was such a weird ludicrous response to words to a Political Movement an activist movement out of dangerous violent you know can this be even be inforced jewish voice for peace at the rabbinical board as a board of rabbis one of them rabbi alysa wise was detained not in israel but actually before she even got on her live tons of flight by Israeli Security agents who prevented her from entering and i think that might have been the first time it happened to a jewish person certainly to a rabbi. Now we have to ask how that makes israel look at they start doing this regularly. To jewish based jewish member based organizations it means theyre seeking to define judaism along the lines of support for israels project of apartheid and that is going to deep in the International Crisis that israel has as it attempts to define itself as a jewish state while it finds itself in conflict with growing numbers unprecedented numbers of left wing liberal and humanitarian minded jews thats really i think a fight that israel has never wanted to have and thats what they face now is incredible do you think were going to see this reverse to resist the kind of. You know because im also thinking what becomes mine too is the amount of surveillance its going to take you know to you know emir mineiro and keep all these people from across the border thats a lot of surveillance and thats a styles are relevant here were going to look at your place but media post got a look at those what organizations do you belong to you know do you support this did you ever do you know someone who supports us a lot of surveillance so how do they know that youre a member of any of these organizations well that means that that people in the Palestine Solidarity Movement are already being surveilled possibly in their own homes possibly in coordination with the f. B. I. We dont know theyre being surveilled through facebook through twitter and so people need to keep in mind that their social media postings are going to alert israeli authorities to what their ideological guidelines are and what their intentions might be in israel has used facebook previously to detain people who planned to come in as a group to work with refugees in bethlehem for example but we also know that the n. Y. P. D. Had a demographics unit which coordinated closely with Israeli Intelligence and was run partly by a former cia officer and that demographics unit was actually surveilling students Muslim Students who were not even in the n. Y. P. D. Jurisdiction at yale at rutgers at places like that going after their so. Media postings so israel has a very wide net and the fact that they can implement a policy like this suggests that theyre confident that they can surveil people on a grand scale that thats another extremely troubling aspect as apologists most definitely has a thing i want to get through to is lets talk about the u. S. Reaction to this i mean you know youre going to be talking about you mentioned you could be talking about you know American Jews going over there and suddenly being detained by a foreign country or you know flown out of a foreign country if theyre already there you know how do you expect the state department to react to you know you dont even can even be a legitimate advocate for affected americans considering the relationship between trump and netanyahu at this point i think a dog of reporter might go to one of the state Department Briefings and ask that very question its an excellent question the state department has in the past did refused almost across the board to provide Consular Services and Legal Services to americans who have been detained by israeli. Security at border crossings particularly arab americans and this is really i think an act of discrimination against arab americans and now its going to be put to an additional test as israel seeks to apply these same guidelines to American Jews who are members of jewish voice for peace and to mainstream peace activists from groups like the American Friends Service committee the quakers who save jews saved thousands of jews during World War Two and are now an official target of the israeli state thats was pretty incredible too when you look at some of the groups on this list like you mentioned you know your code pink is on this list of the quakers the breakers. These are like you know hardened criminals that you dont want entering your society these are people who just simply disagree with what youre doing and theres a lot of people in this world that do do that what do you see is going to be the end result of all this you know long game how is this going to play out in your mind next israel. Well its no longer going to be perceived as the only democracy in the middle east i mean it isnt already theres tunisia and other countries but that deve the image of israel is going to suffer massively it already is and we saw David Rothkopf yesterday in haaretz this is the publisher of of Foreign Policy magazine one of the most mainstream Foreign Policy minds in washington say that israel is an illiberal thaw gawkers see that he can no longer support. Will bags will go pink he was always were coming out also thanks so much for having to thank you. Judging by the twitter feed of a certain real donald trump the first instance of light snowfall in december is all the science we need to once and for all banish that pesky Global Warming hoax so hawk watchers perhaps a a quick thought experiment is in order what would be the logical inverse of that golden rule is to prove Climate Change is real well dont think too hard for us because australia has apparently stumbled upon the answer. Chris christie squirrel corpse was raining down from the sky burnt to a crisp by what turns out to be a pretty darn stubborn and if a torrent of burning animals wasnt up for the apocalyptically inclined the Global Warming hopes keep pressing its point literally melting australias pavements and setting off fires across the continent who nature my friends made sure it appears may be tiring of subtlety in its war on the ignorance of Climate Change and that ladies and gentlemen is our show remember everyone in this world we are told we are loved up so i tell you all i love you i rolled and keep watching those hawks and have a great day. A cursory glance at the media environment could easily give you the impression that the vast majority of journalists studied psychology at university so many are convinced donald trump is not mentally fit to be president or the same journalist suffering from trump arrangement syndrome. 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