There is no American Culture i mean the only american cultural artifact would be jazz you know or Something Like that of course thats not even the majority of the population is its a minority of the population so what is there really that america stands for in terms of a cultural or artifact its about consumption overconsumption obesity we have a winner take all mentality its a lottery mentality in america either winter or youre dead and the pharmaceutical companies of course lobbies to come to washington to change the laws of a possible to peddle whole cost in america and nobody frickin cares because it ever learn the lessons of World War Two did they say lets do it again jeff bezos of course over were worth over one hundred billion dollars his Company Amazon just emerged that theyre one of the Top Ten Companies in america with employees on food stamps and they also get into the pharmaceutical selling business so you can be a get an opiate drug deliver to your home by drone thanks jeff your fricken opiate hole cost provoker well weve got more coming your way after the break stay right there. Something that is very important for us. Not to be only a common market. As we say to be a community of that dont adopt this view was of proselyting as if you twitter is so good to power that from moscow pride stood damini to it why did it their way to be unsettling to communities it is so. Young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million are doing so today. This culture led to the development of bolivias new liberal and highly controversial childrens code in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances one doesnt have to miss. His own nose. No. Not. Eat one of them without having the end all. Of the things here. But there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operation completely outside the local. Mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but its never in force and that means the school boy minus here continue risking their lives for the money they need to survive. Welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser time natural turn with tyson slocum hes with a group which calls themselves a Public Citizens Energy Program i want to ask you first of all tyson because i am fairly new in washington d. C. Now you are a lobbyist or youre a quasi lobbyist what are you exactly well im not technically a lobbyist in order to be a lobbyist under a law called the lobbying disclosure act which actually was championed by then speaker Newt Gingrich back in one thousand nine hundred five you got to spend at least twenty percent of your time. Contacting members of congress and executive Branch Officials i usually spend about ten percent of my time doing that so then i says to Public Education and awareness and karate and things like thats correct so a street is where lobbyists are is that is that where a lot of the corporate for hire lobbyists are weve got our office up on capitol hill so theres a bunch of my colleagues lobby but you know i recently testified before congress but that doesnt count towards lobbying because when youre invited to publicly testify its more for Public Education than private law ok n. S. E. Sit down with members of congress and you you know are talking to them about whats going on as you see it and hear sector and hopefully to influence their vote right thats correct in addition to talking to the media and working with grassroots activists you know the there are three main pillars to advocacy media grassroots law where congress you find that the ear most sympathetic to what youre talking about a senator or congressman who can you name an a. P. Say this guy really is the guy we go to because hes really in sync with what we were thinking about i think senator Bernie Sanders is a big champion he also is on the Senate Energy committee. So hes got relevant jurisdiction to Energy Issues and im a big fan of him and his work i actually think that hes a very effective legislator senator Maria Cantwell who is the Ranking Member of the Senate Energy committee i think is also a very effective advocate for families ok we are in washington d. C. Youre you know in this industry so to speak whats the scuttlebutt on the straight what the Current Administration and what it going to twenty eighteen and twenty twenty what what is like trying to come up with some opposition thats going to get some traction not a feint some big flashy names in the celebrity arena but you know thats not the you know the here we are in the actual belly of the right so were kind of trendy see what worse that word is an effective pushback against this Current Administration because it appears as though theyre gathering some momentum theyre not collapsing like people thought that they would theyre actually gaining some momentum so where were the pushback going to be i actually would challenge that theyre gaining some momentum just because they had this tax bill victory i dont think its a popular measure donald trump remains deeply unpopular hes the most unpopular president in recorded history at this point and residence exactly where obama was in his cycle in the white house in terms of popularity versus own popularity and where i live in North Carolina it is the only game in town no instruction talking about anybody on the other side of the aisle and thats and i drive all over this country georgia alabama tennessee North CarolinaSouth Carolina theyre there trust from country through and through they love them well but in alabama which is probably as as deep trump countries you can get they just elected a democrat for the first time in twenty five years and i think they see that as a seed of a you know every election is different you know roy moore was an insane candidates but you know the fact of the matter is that trump. Didnt really help matters there. Is a lot of movement going to get more into your an area of energy lets talk pipeline politics the u. S. Is that exporting natural gas liquid natural gas russia has just opened a new mammoth l. N. G. Liquid natural gas terminal whats happening in this area the Natural Gas Prices are pretty depressed right now there was a time several years ago. Whered l. N. G. Prices were extremely high and so the market was very lucrative right now the elegy market is fairly saturated prices are sort of low but countries and and investors understand that there are theres going to be strategic growth here so as natural gas is positioned as more and more that go to fuel in electrical power markets those nations that are positioned to supply natural gas globally are going to be in a good position and so the obama strayhorn was actually fairly supportive of elegy exports they did a number of things unilaterally at the department of energy which is one of the primary agencies that oversees the approval of liquefied natural gas export facilities. The obama straight should actually put into motion the rules that fast track the consideration for these its also important to remember that coal like natural gas its cleaner its cleaner than coal i think that there that would be a positive for trump in for your in your view not necessarily because i think. Because at the same time hes also doing things that are very negative for the way drilling in the National Parks opening right arctic which are clearly stupid and is what it is to bulldoze terms i cant its just frickin stupid right and hes also proposed a vast expansion of offshore drilling right on the pacific ironic its ridiculous you know theres a lot of things. With trump where hes and disciplined and a little unfocused and sometimes sloppy in the execution of some of the policies that theyre put on this isnt a political you know grand game as its called something so is it true as i understood from rating various reports that the us affectively is becoming the center of price and Energy Industry no more are we going to see opec and saudi arabia filling that role in other words the us through this natural gas through the fracking boom thats taken place and theyre now to position to be the swing vote. At the price maker the market maker and energy and the price of Energy Saudi Arabia youve got a new regime there who for some reason because hes depriving people of their rights and keeping them in a hotel and threatening to kill them and behead them thats called being a reformist apparently but they are now going to be a vassal more than ever before of the u. S. In terms of energy is what is that it is thats going on yes no its something theres no question that fracking has fundamentally transformed Energy Production in the United States and the two thousand and fifteen law change signed by barack obama that ended the forty year ban on exporting crude oil and of course weve always been able to export liquefied natural gas that has been a big variable in Global Markets but i dont think its the chief variable i think that theres a number of other things that are that are competing here you can never forget about trends and demand one of the big factors going on right now thats sort of keeping a lid on oil prices at around sixty bucks a barrel is the fact that people are really uncertain where the chinese economy is going and the chinese economy was the big reason in the mid two thousand that we saw this huge increase in Global Crude Oil prices. With an search. Mt about demand growth in huge economy like china and even india for that matter thats thats keeping a lid on prices but there is no question that that United States production is a global variable for the first time in an awful long time but i wouldnt i wouldnt assign it the primary economy three opec i mean i mean the seventys at the petrodollar always came about yet the crisis the Energy Crisis the seventys right seventys you had a huge recession the biggest since the depression and so then the rise of the petro dollar and that quid pro quo going to let saudis sell us their energy theyve long as they take their dollars and buy u. S. Treasuries with them so they had this quid pro quo they had this this this this relationship going on so is that it seems like thats now out changing the global relationships are changing a bit because now china as you mentioned is a big big into this mix and the middle east is dealing directly with china chinas now at odds with the u. S. And. Does you work in the Energy Business as such do you get into how the u. S. Dollar is rolled reserve currency plays factors into all of this. Not directly but you know clearly there have been some moves by other countries to price of oil in. Currencies other than they were theyve gone hammered whether its. Gadhafi who else who a try to break free of the u. S. Dollar right i guess i dont see right now another currency you know the euro has taken a big credibility hit so i dont see anything d. For owning the dollar at this point i think a lot of that talk was happening when the euro see a word is a what china is really threatening to pull out of the dollar as a way of challenging the Trump Administration assertion that there may be layers and bad actors in the trade if they go out and dump u. S. Treasuries. Dollar takes a massive hit Energy Prices go up pretty dramatically but then that would be good for the environment right it could be us but you know thats like hammering a nail with a sledgehammer you might achieve your goal but you create a lot of Collateral Damage its also interesting that the big rumored investor in the potential saudi i. P. O. Of its state old company is Chinese National round of funds rate so you know whether or not that i. P. O. Is actually going to happen i dont know that it will its clear that i think china is just you know theyre aggressive in all of these markets so let me ultimately air lobbying for the environment right and for working families we kind of take an approach of Energy Policy as sort of Economic Justice because energy costs represent a huge chunk of the utility and Energy Called the consumer family not the work consumers consumers and workers i think. You know when when trump is unveiling the rollback of the b. P. Safety rules for offshore drilling that were implemented in the wake of that disaster in two thousand and ten you know that is an environmental issue but its also a safety issue eleven workers lost their lives on the deepwater horizon rig and so we want to see Strong Public HealthPublic Safety and Worker Protections when it comes to big cant you get this whole idea of green energy being a huge environmental film plus a wage blown right right i mean why is that message not is it is it because the corporate i guess you message rick perry is saying that you know im going to i got a protection racket for the Energy Industry the coal is tree so and ive got the president s air so were not going to let the fact that the Green Energy Revolution would be great for wages and great for the environment and protect our National Parks which is our National Assets that we should be protecting. For dear life the fact that these are being raped by Energy Companies is a travesty beyond words so why cant the message gets through because now youre trying to get the message through what. Will go what do you need like what do you need what more do you do what other help would be helpful for you to get that message through like im totally on board of this message you know like what can how can we get this message through to this guy in the white house that hes missing the best financial play of his presidency the biggest you know the art of the deal the best deal ever seen as frick and a life right right Global Investment is all going to wind up right now slocum its down the scale oh it gets the thing thats going on right now thats it for this edition of the kaiser partly my skies are a stage there were times i guess. It was Something Like a lobbying group if you want to catch us on twitter at kaiser report the next time. The new Global Economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education is being supplanted by the right. Education. High education is becoming just another product the fortune sold but its not just about education anymore its also about running a business where you know most of those you can look at these songs. I mean this really could if you. Want to use the place of students in this Business Model before college i was born now and im extremely bored education the new Global Economic war. The two thousand and eight economic crisis turned some countries into paid. These are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies. If you are in a situation of flow gloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesnt work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline often almost a decade how good are the results she saw in new york citys will by the people gathered in which the why dont all get people to see what i joined a choice. To be in full view she thought the climate was i mean to for legal. Challenge must be more than this she did not know it was always think they see something and not get it. While the same mission is still in place to one of the consequences to weaken bluebirds lucas movie will first be one of the sluice the truth the consider is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision making. I dont know what a little bit. Later long enough to please. Me to. Your room with. The headlines on r. T. International the war on terror is no longer americas top Foreign Policy priority instead the u. S. Will focus on a global power play with russia and china which are its main threats on the world stage that its according to the secretary of defense james mattis. This is second year in office the government is said to be shut down over a funding bill to take a look back at the highs and lows of the president s tenure so far. On the war. As a witch hunt against communism appears on the rise tell the story of a student whos been bashed for saying in the media that communism never actually failed. Time just turning eight am on saturday here in moscow youre watching r. T. International from all of us here a very warm welcome to you. If you challenge us it will be your longest and worst day those were the words of the u. S. Defense secretary james mattis as he unveiled americas new Foreign Policy priorities shifting from fighting terror to deterring russia and china. Picks up the story trumps new defense doctrine could probably be summed up in just three words bring it on if you challenge it will be your longest and your worst day the war on terror is now secondary the priority is the new great game of proportions Great Power Competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of u. S. National security the logic here is that technological and hard power gap between the u. S. And the competition is narrowing and washington simply cant let that happen it cannot expect success tomorrow. With yesterdays weapons or equipment. Investments in space and cyber Space NuclearDeterrent ForcesMissile Defense advanced Autonomy Systems and resilient and agile logistic will provide our high quality troops what they need to win. I. That is a new arms race or races a Nuclear Arms Race at me races cyber race space to what has that ever made the world a safer place what im really concerned about is that were going to be seen. At a drain and i drain resources to something we really really dont need already theyre talking about a hypersonic fighter who needs it that really requires billions upon billions of dollars of research and development and again its really aimed at keeping the Defense Industry in business to create jobs if you will and i think that this is whats appealing to to tromp its been said that budget cuts have done more damage to the u. S. Military than anything else they say is an attempt to undo that damage but these are ambitious plans remember the f. Thirty five or the columbia class submarines lethal weapons at least when it comes to destroying budgets but then thats what friends are for you know it Winston Churchill it once said the only thing harder than fighting with the allies is fighting without them the growing economic strength of todays democracies and partners dictates they must now step up and do more making everyone else pays as as much. Part of the plotinus all the fancy toys europeans especially havent been all that enthusiastic about spending fortunes in defense understandably but then theres a new domain to fight in the cyber world this is a wild west right now as you know people in their bedrooms can be doing things that are causing your bank account dire problems at this point an urgent challenge and the u. S. Is going to overhaul and boosted cyber forces giving them greater capability to deal with the random guys in their bedrooms i think weve got some serious challenges ahead we dont have the resources for the kind of spending that they want to do and i think we need to be a great deal more sort of about how do we find our resources are going to be allocated and we need to be meeting immediate threats and thats terrorism. Trumps first year in the white house is being marked by a government wide shutdown thats after the Republican Controlled Senate refused to approve a bill to fund the government its been a bumpy twelve months for the president. Takes a look at how trumps tenure has unfolded so far. When trouble is sworn in a year ago emotions were running high on all sides. The us media described it as a Pivotal Moment in American History youre not having a terrible terrible dream also youre not dead and you havent gone to hell it will be very bad americans and others will now die washington d. C. The establishment is terrified and they should be they call that the trump revolution from promise to completely overhaul u. S. Foreign and Economic Policy he promised a brave new world that was cheered by his supporters and dreaded by his detractors as a distro be an apocalypse so a year on where are we well with all this America First rhetoric you might have thought that would have meant less interference in other countries well thats not exactly how it played out tonight i ordered a targeted military strike we are so proud of our military that it was another successful event we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary on the home front some promised a new level of protectionism against mexico and china but the usa is increasingly buying more foreign goods and producing less of its own the trade deficit with mexico is up by eleven percent the trade deficit with china is up by seven percent unemployment is low but so are wages there is record amounts of Household Debt in the United States right now and Retail Stores are closing across the country and heres one thing that didnt change between trump and previous administrations during the election trump talked about Getting Along Better with russia and his detractors called him a kremlin puppet but now one year later things which we washington and moscow are about the same as they were before bad for their action by the. Congress to put these sanctions in place from the way they do best the decision they made that made it a very overwhelming. Except we may be at an all time low in terms of the relationship with russia this is built for a long period of time now trump promised to drain the swamp of corruption we are going to drill. Washington d. C. But it looks like that swamp is still here and deeper than ever policy stay the same our Foreign Policy is the same the Monetary Policy in the Federal Reserve is the same spending as the same deficits are still rising so there has not been any significant changes in the direction of our country which i had been hoping for is that he has perpetuated so many of our deeply flawed policies especially in Foreign PolicyForeign Policy is a little bit more confusing im very pleased hes at least made an honest effort that hes reduced the amount of regulations and i think thats one of the reasons weve had an economic boost. And that is that is good and hes made an effort to reduce taxes thats quora from perfect but lower taxes less regulation is good and the marketplace is reflecting that oh and dont forget about that wall were going to build the world we have no choice we have no choice. Yeah hows that going we have some wonderful. Prototypes that have been put up now despite the president s ambitious timetable for construction it remains unclear when the wall might actually go up on the surface donald trump looks like a president like no other hes allowed brass he doesnt care about Political Correctness is even turned twitter into an official white house channel but if you look a little bit closer and judge him by his political actions hes a little bit more the rule than the exception. Artsy new york trumps presidency so far has also been mocked by a string of quirky catchphrases and diplomatic moves which certainly kept the world and media guessing what he was going to do next. Donald trump so through office Means Nothing this is one of the most radical it might be not your all speeches weve ever done im not going to give you i couldnt you say kind of you are fake it is. Donald trumps incoherence is all a direct result of the potential clues in russian u. S. Officials are growing increasingly concerned about possible russian intrusion. Weve Just Launched fifteen. Heading to iraq where were headed to syria. Heading towards syria. You just got back from the middle east to