He just got back from the middle east egypt saudi arabia is. Going to go. Like. Totally prepared for the second option totally destroy north korea is a sick. The north korean regime is calling the president troubling words a load of nonsense obviously hes a pretty smart cookie. He wish you a very happy i dont. Think you know that what is going on and the love thats both because youre. All about jerusalem. And some of those issues are already seeping through into the second year of. Absolutely shocking thats how a group of us republican congressman reacted after seeing a new top secret intelligence document they believe it details the abuse of surveillance powers under the Obama Administration i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our Justice Department and this f. B. I. Thats how serious this is that there has been a real attempt to undermine this president that is the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately the American People deserve they mosques they want to know whats in this document sadly much of the Mainstream Media will not be covering this today but in this house on this day let us know that indeed we are still one nation under god and willing to protect life. So the content of the secret document is obviously unknown and its still unclear whether or not it will ever be released but judging by the comments made by republicans its thought it could potentially outline a serious political bias within the f. B. I. And department of justice during the investigations or during the whole socalled or trump russia collusion claims now democrats also were quick to react to that memo denouncing its content and they call the document a profoundly misleading set of talking points which attacks the f. B. I. And gives a distorted view of the bureau of t. V. Host and political commentator Steve Malzberg things the democrats have a reason for wanting to hide the memo from the public. I think its going to put a bigger cloud than already exists there has been a lot of talk that some members of the Obama Administration illegally and without any reason or rhyme went and got warrants against american civilians who were affiliated with trump with absolutely no reason to have those obtain do you think obama didnt know about any of this this was his Justice Department his f. B. I. They were trying to get hillary elected i think this is going to go right to the top and by the way if this is such a bunch of nothing and thats bad talking points blah blah blah blah blah from adam schiff and the democrats on the committee then why not vote to release it so you could clear all this up whether everybody see it the democrats want to hide this document and we better get to the bottom of it and we all need to see it this is auntie International Just a moment here were going to take a break and come back with a large mix of stories in the make start of a u. S. Disability Rights Foundation hitting out at film directors for failing to cost people with disabilities to portray the disabled but back and. Make this manufacture consent to stick to the public will. When the ruling classes protect themselves. With the famous merry go round if suddenly the one percent. We can all middle of the room sick. Be relieved to. Have a winner take all bent out of its a lottery mentality in america you know what are are your dead and the pharmaceutical companies. Lobby is to come to washington to change the laws of a possible to all of america. Because it ever learned a lot as a World War Two they said lets do it again. International a british student has been making headlines after appearing on a radio show and confessing her sympathies towards communism twenty four year old. Told the b. B. C. Programme she felt communism was never given a chance to develop in the soviet union and didnt actually fail now the story whipped up a storm of debate over how universities are luring students to the left with one professor of repeatedly quoted as saying shes down playing the crimes of stalin but we spoke to her ourselves about the story. I think its completely hypocritical and very typical of academics like him to kind of passionately you know talk about the death under the same but i think this is you know very much selective outrage the media in general. Obviously dont paint marxism socialism or really any kind of left wing politics in a positive light and thats because obviously in you know the media is owned by some people in the media is owned by a billionaire i have certain interests they want to protect i think people can think for themselves and i wouldnt take their headlines general opinion of the British Population perhaps its not surprising this story was seized upon. Have been flashing in the british media more as of late much was made of that picture right when the Prime Minister was that bracelet featuring frida kahlo a communist known for her concerns about the poor elsewhere. A buzz feed science editor was forced to lock down her social media this softer abuse softer writing she wanted communism for christmas but does the public share the red fear of the media well according to a new opinion poll nine percent of young adults view communism as a danger to the world compare that to big business and nearly a quarter think actually poses the biggest threat and political activist george bada shared his view on the story what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and older in this country and certainly in the u. S. And across much of the west identifies communities in the soviet union and this any time like hard last or extreme left as pretty much different aspects of the same thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. When when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rights of Economic Growth the mainstream Foreign Policy journalists were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try and explain away why the demonized of assistive was apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the propaganda and the historical reality. Italy has launched a website targeting fake news the move comes ahead of marches general election if somebody wants to report a fake will they have to do is click going to special going online. The service will allow users to identify fake news online teams been set up to analyze the authenticity of anything flagged up by using special software the italian interior minister has been heaping praise on the system but some experts saw a little more skeptical. Its an entirely transparent and legitimate Public Service tool aimed at protecting citizens from unfounded news there is not even the slightest intention to enter the political debate you cannot create a people shaking news because everything that we are talking about being at the end you can check the region of the news you will never read area independent to see what is truth what is fake so i think we should try to. Fix the all media system. To. Have an independent media system and then we can talk about fifty years or not. But us the disability Rights Foundation has had our good film directors for failing to cast people with disabilities to portray the disabled the groups president says its offensive and humiliates actors with disabilities or group of whom have accused directors of discrimination or something the problem is being exaggerated. I think. You know your voice. Calling is coming at the same communities as everyone else not smart. But i know look here here to get our address for the record back in the closet are we going to screw up this is that you dont shrug airbus or. The computer. Games are ok. In a thirty years since my oscar win when no other actor with a disability has appeared in a leading role in. A major Motion Picture it is clear to us that having actors playing disabled is in a fan take and so many particular community culturally offensive. My name is stephen. When we go down that road towards regulating free speech to that extent we ruin drama we ruin cinema some of the greatest overtures to people with mental disabilities physical disabilities have been given to us in cinema by non disabled people so its all about how theyre being portrayed marlay in that one has been a great example of someone who has participated in comedy about her disability because she thinks that its important to make sure that people of disability are not treated as a separate class but are treated like everyone else so that is i think at the core of what were discussing here today thanks for sharing a saturday with us here on international more of your world news at the top of the. Something good is very important for us. To be only a common market. As we say to be a community of then dont adopt these rules of proselytes as if you twitter is so good to power that for moscow prides dont mean aid to. The their way to be unsettling to communities it isnt so. Prescribe medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything was ashes my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. To commit some sight what or who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the doctors told us to do we were being responsible and what the real side effects why it was chemically altered what i did was done on a cocktail of lethal drugs. Just because somethings legal doesnt mean its saying. This is a boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d. C. Im part chilton. Coming up the north american Bitcoin Conference started today in miami it will head there for a report from arties Nicholas Donovan and then talk live with Jeffrey Tucker of the American Institute for economics was there. And we go to tucson not far from the border wall and talk with todd miller author of storming the wall plus well discuss the Economic Impact of Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry thats all coming up but first lets get to a few headlines. The Intercontinental Exchange ice which owns the New York Stock Exchange has announced that they will join with the start up block stream to launch a data feed that will acquire information from more than fifteen Digital Currencies from around the world and deliver that data to Financial Firms the ice decision related to this Digital Currency space once considered fully on the fringe of Financial Systems shows that more mainstream financial energies could be looking to invest in Digital Currencies and the underlying Block Chain Technology which runs it in december the Chicago Board Options Exchange cboe and c. M. E. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange group started offering regulated Bitcoin Futures products. In a rare joint statement by my former agency the u. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the securities and Exchange Commission and forstmann directors have put out a potentially statement that says potential bad actors should be on notice regarding Digital Currencies yesterday reported on Digital Currencies it would be a focus of financial regulators but today we have this joint statement and it says quote when Market Participants engage in fraud under the guise of offering Digital Instruments whether characterized as Virtual Currencies coins tokens or the like the f. C. C. And see if the city will look beyond form examine the substance of activity and prosecute violations of the federal securities and commodities laws and will continue to address violations and bring actions to stop and prevent fraud in the offer and sale of. Digital instrument reminds me of that scene in meet the parents with Robert De Niro and ben stiller. And now we go to miami where are two years Nicholas Odonovan is at the north american bit coin confort nicolas whats going on there however miami has become ground zero for the Crypto Community hundreds of investors and to c. S. And experts have gathered here for the north american. Conference everything from technology. And regulation is being discussed here actually future regulation is a big topic within the crypto world some say in that regulation is necessary in order to avoid extreme volatility others say that any sort of regulation would kill the idea of a crypto currency then there is the issue of countries such as china and south korea coming down hard on pick point but this is a very new order and many investors are approaching bitcoin perma lets say romantic point of view hoping to hit a big jackpot in a very short period of time experts say the education is the case lets take a listen to cryptocurrency is something that i know is going to be here for a while its going to evolve watching is the Current Technology or might be a new evolution of that technology over time im sure theres people here that are possibly even working on it it all comes down to like the education piece people need to learn what theyre doing and its going to continuously evolve to the getting continuously need to be learning whats happening how its happening and. Learn from the people that are involved so on the one hand we have the debate surrounding the. Point what could we eventually buy with it. Should we regulate it or not how could be a coin or other cryptocurrency help start a company then theres a more immediate approach hows that coin behaving in the markets obviously twenty seventeen was then an amazing year for the big coin that went from nine hundred u. S. Dollars per bitcoin in january to about twenty thousand dollars per because in december twenty seventh pain right now were more or less in the middle around the eleven thousand dollar mark but this is a very volatile our new world but despite this bumpy ride many here a very optimistic lets take a look. You know you get a lot of people that are selling. The smart investors the ones that have been doing this for a while im listening to them there and theyre not panicking so im in it for the long im just going to be looking at other you know all coins other technology i think this is the last year of like crazy volatility were going to have we have these big players big banks that are getting involved in you know regulation but the future of bitcoin itself is so volatile so up in the air that one many here are already preparing for the next years Conference Many say that by this Time Next Year they will be no big going Nicholas Odonovan r. T. For more from ly m e were joined by one of the attendees and the editorial director for the American Institute for Economic ResearchJeffrey Tucker jeffrey welcome back thanks for joining us again whats your take on the happenings there has so Toshi Nakamoto the mystery man appeared or when it would anybody even know. I dont know he he might be here i think and ill be able to you know. Now were not going to talk that way. Hows it going what are you going to wear there its been an amazing conference you know i know from the organizers they expected maybe six hundred forty two hundred people registered and at the last minute they released thirty takeouts which they sold for twenty five hundred dollars each so thats thats a level were talking about here and its been an interesting crowd because you do have intellectuals you do have old world wall street people who are trying to figure out the sector and find out whether what the actions of weve got regular regular investors i had a guy come up to me and say listen you know i used to drive a truck because of you i watched one of your speeches and i moved into the because space now he said im a very rich man and he had tears in as i was when he was talking to me so you know youve got people from from all kinds actually most of the presenters merchants of course floating merchants of course floating new ideas new i c os all over the place so that was most of the presentations by own talk i went back to economic fundamentals i tried to explain what is the source of value. Because of all these Crypto Assets what is the purpose and what is the biggest threat they face thats what that was what my talk was and what did you tell them jeffrey about the biggest the biggest threat. I think you talked about earlier on the show its i think that the biggest threat is the regulators going after peoples property what jeffrey between you know Market Regulation where youre you know making sure somebody doesnt mean to pilate a market and then fourteen innovation i mean i mean well that you know writing code and stuff yeah thats thats the problem i think the sector is capable of regulating itself in fact i know it is i think the other day we talked about the mt gox thing thats never going to happen again its decentralize theres theres Due Diligence being done by all the top investors in the space there are a lot of scams theres a lot of scams in every sector you know but i think as the sector is capable of regulating itself and the regulators have been an annoyance now for years in the space theyre not actually achieving anything what the what the typically trying to do is to get this new Cutting Edge Technology to behave as if its some old Growth Technology and its and its been very costly for for business its made the sector less competitive is driven out this is true its driven a lot of innovation assets outside of the United States ive talked to so many people at this event who want nothing whatsoever to do with any u. S. Bank or any of us and to take anything to do with any us jurisdiction because they assume that i could be favorable to crypto and to me that is crazy thats crazy i mean if the u. S. Regulators had any brains that would be celebrating not issuing these annoying endless press releases dont do bad things dont engage in front right we know we get it right this is these are just weird weird threats that are just chilling the investor climate for a crypto in the u. S. Years ago i mean im africa thing was two years ago i did a op ed for c n b c and it i wrote that perhaps the digital revolution. Should take a key from the development of the the internet where really government was the clinton years of course sort of pulled back and didnt institute all these regulations to try to fuel inject innovation is that something you think should be sort of adhere to here listen i think that is an outstanding point the reason it wasnt regulator you talk about basically the early ninetys up to the end of ninety nine maybe early two thousand the reason it wasnt regulated because nobody to talk with that seriously thats what this is these are nice pictures you can you can look at on a computer screen thats all and most people thought about nobody was worried about a well a chat room right no and no and i guess the first time anybody got really involved in this was the whole microsoft the ridiculous you know wars over the bread the browser wars you know that if you trust decision which is what went on for ten years by which time you know windows that are lost its monopoly and the regulators are not smart enough to move as quickly as it is markets move and we saw we think a move quickly in the in the ninetys of the internet i mean the crypt the world is crazy i mean ive been coming to this conference in north america become a conference now for i guess four years. Most of the vendors that are exhibiting here are gone by the next year and theres all new technology there are things going on today that would have been on the bill last year last year and thats how fast its moving jeffrey thank you for spending time with us i know its a big ask as youve got some distillery a dinner at a mansion but we really appreciate you spending the time with Jeffrey Tucker thanks for being here and enjoy your rest youre tied down in florida my pleasure thank you. Time now for a brief pause for the promotional cause but stick around because when we get back we go live you just north of the border to tucson arizona where well speak with todd miller the author of storming the wall plus well discuss the Economic Impact of Sexual Harassment in the workplace with tell you enough with mirrors as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing. 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