Had a legacy i was playing while i was super creasing hair the blonde exploded and so shrapnel flying down to actually some towards me and then stumbling around the home only to find out that many family had a mother and father and brothers and sisters they were all down. At the time because of the war the number of all friends has risen so much that the orphanages cant house them its bleak for this children many of whom have to live rough on the streets. But there are countries who the u. N. Sees are specifically responsible for the crisis in yemen in a recent report that accuses america britain and france of selling arms to parties involved in the conflict and the dirge is them to stop. There are certain states who are well known to be supplying weapons that includes United States it includes the United Kingdom and it includes france to name but 3 the group of experts has recommended that 3rd states prohibit the authorization about arms transfers and refrain from providing arms to parties to the conflict this is because of the prevailing risk that such arms will be used by parties to commit or facilitate serious violations of International Humanitarian and human rights law the us is the main arms supplier to saudi arabia followed by britain and france between 201518 washington sold weapons worth around 10000000000. 00 to the saudis but the u. K. And france trailed behind 2100000000. 00 and 500000000. 00 respectively one of the authors of the latest u. N. Report shows garraway told us the continuing flow of arms into yemen is whats perpetuating the war. This is a collective failure of the International Community as a whole and it is the responsibility of the International Community as a whole and inevitably those people who supply all of us have a greater influence on the parties and therefore have a perhaps a greater responsibility to take action to try to prevent violations there is no doubt that it is the continuation of the supply of arms to yemen that is prolonging the conflict and the horrors they continue can follow up story online r. T. Dot com for now 133 we are through moscow times kevin i would starting off let you know column brazier for next 6 hours to navigate you through the news of the day plenty to get across today at r. T. Dot com as well stop by next programs on air now. During the Great Depression which im old enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working class there wasnt it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness there isnt today. Inequality is really unprecedented im sure that total inequality its like the worst periods in American History. But if youre a find it more closely inequality comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population fraction of one percent. There were periods like the gilded age in the twentys and the early ninetys and so on when a situation developed by the similar to this. Now this period 6 trillion because if you look at their Wealth Distribution inequality mostly comes from super wealth. Literally the cup 110th of a percent are just super wealthy. Not only is it extremely unjust in itself. Inequality as highly negative consequences on the so it is. Because the very fact of inequality has a corrosive harmful effect markers. To open by talk about the American Dream or the American Dream is closed and diluted it will infuriate you or kurt. Ridge it was possible for a worker to get a decent job. In a corps of children to school. To a collapse. Imagine yourself in an outside position looking for mars. What do you see. In the United States when there are professed to like democracy. In a democracy Public Opinion is going to have some influence on poesy. And then the government carries out actions determined by the population and thats what democracy means. Its important to understand that privileged and powerful sectors have never liked democracy and for very good reasons. To not proceed puts power into the hands of the general population and takes it away from them. As kind of the principle of concentration of wealth and power. Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the Political Parties into the pockets of major corporations. And this political power. Translates into legislation that increases the concentration of wealth so fiscal policy like tax policy deregulation. Rules of Corporate Governance a whole variety of measures political measures designed to increase the concentration of wealth and power which in turn the yield more political power to do the same thing. And thats what weve been seeing. So we have this kind of vicious cycle in progress. You know actually it is so traditional that it was described by adam smith in 776 he read the famous wealth of nations. He says in england the principle architects of policy are the people on the society in his day merchants and manufacturers. And they make sure that their own interests are very well cared for however greed is the impact on the people of england or others. Now its not a merger of manufacturers its Financial Institutions and multinational corporations the people who adam smith told the masters of mankind and theyre following the vile maxim over our selves and nothing for anyone else. Theyre just going to pursue policies that benefit them and harm everyone else. And in the absence of a general popular reaction thats pretty much what youd expect. Right through American History theres been an ongoing clash between. Pressure for more freedom and democracy coming from below and the efforts that elite control and domination coming from above. Because back to the founding of the country. James madison the main framer who was as much of a believer in democracy is anybody in the world that they nevertheless felt that the United States system should be designed and indeed was his initiative was designed so that power should be in the hands of the wealthy. Because the wealthier there are more responsible set of men and therefore the structure of the formal constitutional system placed most power in the hands of the senate or the senate was not elected in those days it was selected from the wealthy men as madison put it had sympathy for Property Owners in their right. To read the debates at the constitutional convention. Madison says the major concern of the society has to be to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. And here argument suppose everyone had to vote freely as they will the majority of the poor get together and they would organize to take away the property of the rich and he said that would obviously be unjust so he cant have that so therefore the constitutional system has to be set up to prevent democracy. Which is of some interest that this debate has a horrid tradition goes back to the 1st major book on political systems aristotles politics. Is. Is of all of them the best is democracy and it any point set exactly the flaws that medicine put it out if ason to or a democracy for free men the poor would get together and take away the property the ridge well same dilemma they had opposite solutions earth settle for posed with we would nowadays cool a welfare state is it try to reduce inequality so same problem ive to sit solutions one is reduce inequality will have this problem the other is reduced democracy if you look at the history of the United States its a constant struggle between these 2 tendencies at democratizing tendency thats mostly coming from the population a pressure from below and you get these constant battle going on periods or gratian peris of preggers in 1060 s. For example were a period of significant democratization for sectors in the fuck you lay sure that were usually passive apis it it of became organized to acted story chris he their demand and they became more and more involved in Decision Making and activism and so on it just changed consciousness and or ways minority rights in the 3 dont wire womens rights. In terms of the. American. Safety net survival opposition to aggression through to those who criticize us. They are serious about law. And the vietnamese people black people and what people can turn for other people. People in america when you begin. To raise a. System of distribution of wealth the restructuring. These are all symbolizing say. That caused great fear. Her. Hadnt. Anticipated the power of a should have but it didnt anticipate the power of the reaction to the civilizing effects of the sixtys i did not anticipate the strength of the reaction to it. The backlash. Joined me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to the fall of picks spoke im show business ill see that. There is. There. There has been an enormous concentrated coordinated business offensive beginning in the seventys to try to beat back the egalitarian efforts that went right through the nixon years and you see it in many respects and over on the right you see it in things like the famous pell memorandum. Sent to the chamber of commerce Major Business lobby but Later Supreme CourtJustice Powell warning them that business is losing control over the society. And something has to be done to counter these forces course we put it in terms of the defense defending ourselves against outside powers. If you look at it its a call for business to use its control over resources to carry out a major offensive to beat back this democratizing wave. Over on the liberal side something exactly similar to the 1st. Major report of the try. Lateral commission is concerned with this. Told the crisis of democracy. Trilateral commission is liberal internationalists in their flavors indicated by the fact that they pretty much staff the corridor ministration. And they were also told that democratizing tendencies of the sixtys and so we have to react to it. They were concerned that there was an excessive to not proceed developing. Previously passive and obedient parts of the population or sometimes called the special interests who were beginning to organize and try to enter the political arena and they said that imposes too much pressure on the state cant deal with all these pressures so therefore they have to return to passivity and become de politicized. And they were particularly concerned with what was happening to young people young people get into free and independent. In the way they put it theres a failure on the part of the schools the universities churches the institutions responsible for the indoctrination of the young there for it is not mine. If you look at their study theres one interesting never mention private business and that makes sense theyre not special interest theyre the National Interest kind of by definition so theyre ok theyre allowed to you know flub is said by Campaign Staff the executive make decisions thats fine but its the rest the special interests the general population who have to be subdued. When thats the specter its the kind of ideological level of the backlash but the major backlash which was in peril of this was just redesigning the economy. Since the 1970 is theres been a concerted effort on the part of the masters of mankind the owners of the society to shift the economy in 2 crucial respects one to increase the role of Financial Institutions banks investment firms and so on insurance companies. But a 2007 break before the latest crash they had literally 40 percent of corporate profits. Far beyond anything in the past. Back in the 1950 s. As for many years before the United States economy was based largely on production. In the United States as the great Manufacturing Center of the world. Financial institutions used to be a relatively small part of the economy and their task was to distribute unused assets like a bank savings to productive activity buying a car one had on hand money. To monitor on the back of the reserve bank. To be high to providing an. Outing money. To the community by making national. Money for a manufacturer or ongoing hike how many. Are going to money on a 100 why people are always needing more and i havent been. Thats a contribution to the economy. Regulatory system was established banks were regulated the commercial investment banks were separated cut back for risk investment practices that could harm private people. There had been remember no financial crashes during the period of regulation by the 1970 s. That changed. You started getting that huge increase in the flows of speculative capital just astronomically increased an enormous changes in the Financial Sector from traditional banks to risky investments. Complex Financial Instruments money manipulations and so on increasingly the business of the country isnt production at least not here. The primary business here is business. You can even see it in the choice of directors so a director of a Major American Corporation back in the fiftys in the sixtys was very likely to be an engineer as somebody who graduated from a place like mit maybe Industrial Management more recently the directorship in the top managerial positions or people who came out of Business Schools learned financial trickery of various kinds and so on. By the 1970 s. Say General Electric can make more profit playing games with money than you could by producing in the United States. You have to remember that General Electric is substantially a Financial Institution today it makes half its profits just by moving money around in a complicated ways and its very unclear that theyre doing anything that sort of value to the economy. So thats one phenomena lets go financial ization of the economy. Going along with that is the oil sure into production. The trade system was reconstructed with a very explicit design of putting working people in competition with one another all over the world. And what its led to is a reduction in the share of income on the part of working people. Its been particularly striking in the United States but happening worldwide it means that an American Workers in competition with a super exploited worker in china. Meanwhile highly paid professionals are protected theyre not placed in competition with the rest of the world far from it and of course a capitalist free to move a workers are free to move labor cant move but capital can well again going back to the classics like adam smith as he pointed out the free circulation of labor is the foundation of any free trade system but workers are pretty much stuck the wealthy in the privileged are protected so you get obvious consequences and theyre recognized in fact praised. Policy is designed to increase in security. Alan greenspan and when he testified to conquers he explained his success in running the economy as based on what he called greater worker insecurity. A typical restraint. Compensation increases has been evident for a few years but as i outlined in some detail in testimony last month i believe that job insecurity has played the dominant role cheap workers and secured are going to be under control. Theyre not going to ask for say decent wages were a decent working conditions or the opportunity to Free Association meaning unionized. Now for the masters of mankind thats trying to make sure their profits but for the population its devastating. For these 2 processes financial ization im sure are part of what led to the vicious cycle of concentration of wealth concentration of power ready ready ready ready ready. I am sure they need to stop it for continuing to grow. I just never felt very good about the idea of bringing children into the world because i didnt feel like things were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of software programs. Theres no reason were more kids you take things that are to middle. Theres no reason to make Something Else that you need to get their lives and everybodys scared to touch that it serves. Is really dependent on us addressing this issue and if we can even talk about it if we cant even have a conversation that is then. Ready you know world big part of. Lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Look. Then id like to know. The salazar he had lines the United States could potentially be smuggling tons of weapons and ammunitions and militants in syria according to leaked documents obtained by journalist. Global politics to good human. Hosts key leaders from asia on the 2nd day of the keystone Economic Forum in blood. And the un report highlights the potential role of the us britain and france in Human Rights Violations committed in yemen. There are still too well known to be supplying weapons that includes the United States it includes the United Kingdom with. Fronts the name by