Media are wall to wall with trump impeachment but what is the state of affairs there also in this half hour cyber singles q where as the federal trade commission accuses the Biggest Online meet up sites of scamming the love lorn what sign are you im hala cook in washington sagittarius this is the big picture on r. T. America. Coverage of ukraine what trump and biden accuse each other of is noisy but 1st things 1st the government there wants us to know its ukraine its not the ukraine the ukrainian and. See here in washington ask us to avoid soviet style cliches and the semantics are not trivial in russian and ukrainian means borderlands but ukraine has been an independent nation since 1991 how independent lets ask journalist and Consortium News editor in chief joe lauria joe ukraines new president asks our president for javelin missiles to defend against russia but you have recently characterized the routine way the u. S. Government conducts Foreign Policy as with bribes threats and blackmail tell our viewers who dont know much about ukraine what is the geopolitical value there and why what happens there means to our viewers well if you go back to ski who was of course the nice curative eisenhower president carters big yes big as big wrote is big book about. The grand chessboard and he called ukraine the gateway to eurasia whoever controls ukraine controls the rage and land mass this is the battle that were seeing in our age the United States around it and china and russia are except for the nato troops on the border to try to put pressure i think on russia to bring down the government there certainly to put a guy in that they prefer like else and so this is the big prize eurasia and thats what were seeing being played out right now so for the United States to have moved in and back the coup detat 2014 and i dont want to hear that that didnt happen hes got plenty of evidence that it did sure and that evidence includes of course the famous call that was intercepted and put on you tube between Victor Newman is just secretary of state european and your Asian Affairs and the then u. S. Ambassador to the ukraine jeffrey p. On which they talk about midwife ing this new government so they were talking about and stuart ever going to install before it was brought down newman said 25000000000 habits back. Over 10 years to change the system in ukraine to put a government in thats friendly to the United States and thats what one soon as a victory on a covert elected president said that he was going to go with a russian deal rather than an e. U. Deal the plans to overthrow him were put into place and he was overthrown and we need to see this far and as the opening act in this entire drama being played out right now here in washington right because as soon as that government overthrown within 2 months joe bidens son is sitting on the board of the largest Gas Producing country were going to company now if the u. S. Had overthrown the government of venezuela and then pence puts his son on the board of the privatized not oil company it would be exactly the same thing and this is the problem with saying that this is the way and what weve seen is both sides including trump is a big mistake was to personally get himself involved in this investigation into the origins of the hoax of russia gate and the bidens he should have stayed out of this and let the d. O. J. And his personal lawyer giuliani do it this is the area that he made of not really his style to stay out of things other than this nato buffer is there a resource play there you mentioned gas and everything. To venezuela as what is to ukraine well coal we industry. Things that monsanto for example got a deal a contract right after the coup that they probably would have gotten. So there is a lot of it but its more of a strategic thing than an economic but they were economic interest it was no question about well who could make this line the pipeline who could make this up ukrainian president selenski is a comedian turned politician after playing one on t. V. And he flatters mr trump by telling him hes followed his example is a landscape crazy like a fox is he crazy is he out of his element governing is trump seems either or both neither well in many many ways hes like trying because he promised to drain the swamp i mean im not casting aspersions on all ukrainians were by saying that one of the most political elite corrupt class of Political Class the most corrupt in the world. So he tried he went in saying he was going to clean this up thats like trump now trump hasnt done a great job in my view this guy is probably hamstrung by a lot of pressures from a low guards etc but hes trying to work with trump as they announced today that they wouldnt do this investigation the issue is by needs to be investigated rush again he does need to be investigated but trump cant be seen to be in there because its opened up this way for the democrats to plow when it was a huge huge project mistake on his part you know well he obviously recognizes trumps ego is so lets keep playing trump like a stradivarius i dont know about all i know is that when he and when he boasted that he withheld a 1000000000. 00 in u. S. Credit to ukraine or to get this prosecutor fired and that prosecutor victor show said in an affidavit that the u. S. After the coup started to control who they should investigate who not in other words they took over basically the Attorney Generals Office in ukraine of the entire neocolonial project basically put the Vice President s son and by the way biden was mentioned in that new one tape having a key role so he puts his son in there months under gets a contract they take over who they can investigate who they cannot this entire context of this story is being lost right now because in the fox news wont say this either they want to play one of them wont say that the americans started this mess by seizing this geo political prize and putting the country of war because the people in the east ukraine voted for you on a coverage and they were resisting this coup detat in many ways their defenders of democracy right now ok i got 30 seconds so i need the super short version but give me the best and worst case situations for ukraine. Well the extreme best case would be that this minsk accord is followed and that the eastern provinces get autonomy on the war ends and the worst Case Scenario is that a government after trump comes in and starts to really have the arm ukraine and the war starts up again and it could lead to conflict with russia between United States thats the absolute worst scenario but i think were going to see the status quo for some time joe lauria editor in chief of Consortium News dot com thank you for this on his steranko perspective historic i am going to ukraine. The federal trade commission has sued match group inc which owns and operates online meet someone websites match dot com tinder ok cupid and plenty of fish whats at stake other than that steak youre about to buy a company stranger lets ask the author of among other books the truth about of voiding scams attorney professor and 8 scam busters stephen Jay Jay Wiseman his website is scam aside dot com where his scam of the day recently alerted us to this f. T. C. Crackdown steve this federal trade Commission Report tells us that over a half a 1000000 people in 2 years subscribe to match dot com after hearing from fake members the t. V. Commercials are so inviting see for free whos waiting to meet you whats the beef. Yeah this is really really startling holland when i read the complaint of the federal trade commission against match and like you said it isnt just match up i never even realize how many of these Online Dating sites which are so prevalent today are really owned by match and so what they did was you could get a free profile on match but you couldnt get in contact with anyone who might see your profile and be interested in you unless you paid and this is what would happen is there would be people who would want to contact a profile match would tell the free subscriber that you have to pay and then you can get get the contact the problem was that anywhere from 35 to 40 percent of these contacts were fake they were scammers and the romance scam which has grown incredibly it is now the number one scam as far as dollar losses in the United States today was 143000000. 00 that was lost to romance scams last year and that figure is probably low because a lot of people are embarrassed and dont report it so here match was absolutely they were getting money from the scammers but they were complicit in this they were using these phony scammers to get people to pay for match dot com and these people a lot of them were getting scammed out of a lot of money fake members perfectly floss teeth great complex chins their hair color and makeup is perfect but there are models i guess these dating sites warn members about meeting strangers online and in person offer some guidelines for the cyber love lauren. Yeah you know one of the things is you know these these web sites do prey upon people who are lonely who sometimes are desperate and you know that just plays into the scammers so 1st of all a. Anyone who says who just falls in love with you so fast thats something to be wary of anyone who falls in love with you so fast and suddenly needs money for some kind of an emergency someone who falls in love with you so fast needs money but cant meet with you these are all things that you you want to be wary of in addition a lot of these scammers are from all over the world and so sometimes you may find that the grammar is not really correct and this becomes an issue if someone says im an american but im working in africa right now which is why i cant see you but none of the other the jargon the language the grammar the syntax seems appropriate there are also websites like can i dot com where you can take the picture and see if it turns up anywhere else on the internet and so you can find like you said the pictures of models that are being sent to you and instead of the attractive 25 year old woman it turns out its a not so attractive 55 year old man. If you ask him to send a new selfie of them holding up todays newspaper thats the last time youre going to hear from am correct. Exactly and you know thats a its a good thats another good way of doing it to find out if its someone legitimate the other thing is run it by someone it was a recent study by the f. B. I. In which they said people who fell victims to scams like this rarely talked about these things with other people so you gotta have that good amount of skepticism particularly with these romance camps and they prey upon a lot of people there was a woman in texas who just last week committed suicide after realizing shed been scammed out of her life savings you know its easy to say we should recognize this scams but sometimes were just a little bit too vulnerable were talking with attorney and author Steve Wiseman scam aside dot com steve im down to about the. Seconds but we cant let you go without noting that october is Cyber Security Awareness Month dating sites aside give us some bullet point steps. Ill tell you the biggest thing you can do for Cyber Security have a unique password for every account that you have use dual factor authentication so that even if someone gets your password theyre not going to be able to get it your account and the big thing is dont click on the links and dont download attachments no matter who they appear to be coming from unless youve absolutely confirmed theyre legit thats where the malware comes i urge everyone watching to hit scam aside dot com steve updates every single day with the scam of the day and youve saved my butt a couple of times thank you attorney author professor and a 6 scam buster stephen Jay Jay Wiseman. Coming up the world map is being redrawn economically and politically and not with a sharpie this is the big picture on r. T. America. Make or break the entire proposition financialization new because without a baseline to value risk and to value time you have no basis to value this financial eyes post industrial economy whatsoever its all basically a guessing game. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic to follow only closely and going to exist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. No other big picture show we have done in my 2 plus years at r. T. America has been seen more than our september 6th show when we dared to ask despite president trumps bluster is the usa losing its leadership position in the world order have we already lost it to date over a quarter 1000000 people have watched that show on you tube alone and if you have not you can where youll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture our t. V. This week an update after a violent hong kong protests mar the 70th anniversary of communist rule in china neighboring kashmir is tense militarized and divided between factions representing 2 Nuclear Powers that claim that territory india and pakistan all this is new eurasian coalitions and run old alliances dominated in u. S. Dollars how will all this play out lets goop to senior Asia Pacific International relations policy specialist at the institute for china american studies here in washington and longtime pentagon official Michael Maloof who contributed to that september 6th show gentlemen welcome after trademark trump bombast in the president s recent speech to the United Nations General Assembly france and iran are working on a nuclear deal and iranian president rouhani met with lead amir putin this past week in armenia to discuss nukes and the situation on the strait of hormuz michael iran being able to sell oil despite u. S. Sanctions gives economic breathing space is this evidence of increasing u. S. A irrelevance but i think ever since the United States dropped out of the Iran Nuclear Deal the j c. That was the benchmark. Moment accelerated the problem toward what is now becoming a multipolar world order an alternative world order if you will and were seeing iran china russia all along with all the other countries in the in the eurasia region India Pakistan turkey all coming together in a variety of forms orchestrated by china through the c. E. O. Or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the belt Road Initiative in the new silk road along with russias Eurasia Economic Union what is interesting is that the belt Road Initiative to me is the catalyst for china now to become what could become the new superpower 525452055 using the belt Road Initiative in which already 100 36. 00 countries have joined another one and it is a projection maybe 160. 00 with it within just a few years and they all will be working together and and toward help not only helping china economically but helping the companies within those countries and to flourish and all of this is is part of a pattern of china to expand and extend itself not only in euro in not only in eurasia area itself but Africa Latin America youre going to see companies in peru which will be dealing with companies in europe asia because of the of the built Road Initiative i think that this is a dynamic thing that would be trading in their own currencies away from the dollar away from the western Financial System and dealing in their own currencies that seems to be the direction theyre going and which you just mentioned in terms of the deal between china and. Iran was a 400000000000. 00 deal and for oil and Infrastructure Development within iran is china basically telling the United States we dont care what youre saying that map we just showed i didnt see. The usa greenback anywhere there rob is there a way that the belt Road Initiative the s c o. This new silk road can somehow lead to a long term political solution for afghanistan which in our lifetime has never seen peace while up to a point i would say it 1st let me emphasize the importance of belton road you know what the american student 1945 they went overseas they had surplus capital they invested overseas that took managerial know how and talent overseas sport Economic Growth us kept its markets open so when these countries began to develop and grow they could export their products to the United States and it created its own network that with this exactly what china will do with the britain ruled its going investment surplus capital going out investment managerial talent going out and china as it keeps liberalizing and becoming a more consumer Oriented Society is going to suck those imports in and these countries are all going to be tied together so there is much more than just an e. Its not just about economic connectivity but i will say this in afghanistan the issue of afghanistan at the bottom at the end of the day is it is afghanistan the problem in afghanistan is that it is an intra afghan conflict which has not been solved for a long period of time nor ethnic group has a majority in the country the pashtuns at most have a plurality each of the ethnic groups has a larger core at bread the wran across a site across the border tajiks uzbeks pashtuns across the border so all they do is when they find something unfairly they retreat they dont come to build their own country together and so that creates great and of course overlaid on this weve had ideological cold war cold war ideal ideological warfare believe had. Then religion intrude into this mix its just its a small misstep in a big way and the bottom line is that at the end of the day you need a political framework to stabilize afghanistan and if that political framework exists then the belton road can be a huge provider of providing that infrastructure on that basis to grow richer but we need that to see that stability in 1972 ended 25 years of no communication no diplomacy between the usa and the peoples republic of china Richard Nixon became the 1st american president to visit the p. R. C. And every president since except jimmy carter has been there back to the future trump tweets about us china trade tensions are rightly blamed for the roiling Financial Markets we suffer here but in a recent Talk Media Forum on u. S. China relations in new york speakers made the point that china has 3 deep down problems panelists pointed to 3 ways in which they suggest china is not stable president penn is not named a successor chinas one child policy has resulted in a worker shortage and nudes in quotes from the party is viewed as propaganda not transparent and young people know it communist rule in china has lasted 70 years whats happening in hong kong suggest a generational divide can. China accomplish Economic Freedom without Political Freedom ultimately no it cannot but i think that to slightly separate questions or to know the issue with hong kong and it was this issue a couple years that were taiwan also real grievances but the grievances in hong kong in taiwan have more to do its more like a rich country disease its about social mobility and a lot of the youth in those countries do not see that social mobility on the horizon but coming back to china i wouldnt freeman missileers Political Freedom but i will say that china needs to create a much more in large political say a civic space for its own citizens and here is where i see china is going to face immense difficulty over the next 1015 years its making that transition from a investment heavy and manufacturing led model to a consumption and services led model that station model has not been able to make that Successful Transition be a japan korea china its easy for the east asian model doing throwing throwing bodies and capital and doing that initial growth is whats flying but theyve not been able to make the trade transition well in those countries and china is going to have immense difficulty making that but the bigger one is this you know democracy tears of talked about when a country which is kind of upper middle income which is between 10. 00 and 20000. 00 per capita you have a property middle class you have a sophisticated class and they want certain rights chinas on the cusp of getting to that point over the next 10 years Chinese Society is becoming very sophisticated and it is not clear that the communist party is as sophisticated to do and communicate with that country in that but its its an tree and you know in late developing issue an authoritarian societies be it. Korea or taiwan sure that period of transition has led to huge social interactions and democracy or a wide web you know stuff gets out there and im like little given these challenges some of which are just plain demographic is a quietly nervous china a militarily dangerous china yes short term and long term number one in the in the short term in its in its near near eurasia area it is showing a superiority and advancement in technologies that even the pentagon is concerned about and i would say that china could develop a literally a superiority in their own region within the next few years and or at least be on par with in the next few years with the United States what theyre going to have a problem with i believe is power projection how do they protect those investments through the b r i in in. Latin america in africa where but were already seeing Something Interesting were seeing china working with developing ports and strategic ports like in pakistan working with india all part all which will be part of the b r i they could end because pakistan controls the taliban and what have you in afghanistan i think that china ultimately is going to basically say dictate what happens in not only afghanistan but also in that region in the very near future im down to 30 seconds but the biggest question of all kashmir youve got 2 Nuclear Powers staring each other down should we be nervous about this to do the beatles of all this you know this is the biggest risk of internal autonomy in a province and Slobodan Milosevic rescinded cost of autonomy its not going to get down to a balkan war but i mean things can also be bad and frankly at this point of time. Right now theres a theres a silence out there but that silence will not last and all it takes is just one match to lie. And you didnt even know what the consequences for environmental reasons alone and the Nuclear Conflict as a world war thank you saurabh and Michael Maloof pleasure stepping into the big picture and thank you for watching the big picture if c. S. Somewhere else you can also find our a t america live under red t. V. Channel 3. 00 to 1. 00 pluto t. V. App theyve just added a bunch of channels and youll find us there at 279 and if youre on the dish network we are 280 and of course all our shows are available any time anywhere on any device at youtube dot com slash the big picture r t as i said earlier if you missed the september 6th show check it out im holland cook in washington and at holland cook on twitter where if you follow me ill follow you question more. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Or this is the kaiser report we get into it like you probably are used to so if youre not used to it get ready stacey hey max well you know what we have a topic today that is right in your court and that is i know you used to be an options trader and wall street so we have some stories from the Options Market and the topsy turvy world where the black in shoals formula was supposed to get rid of risk it was supposed to help separate risk and reward this paper was published in 1983 the black initials options formula and negative rates are rewriting the rules of modern finance negative Interest Rates have quite literally broken one of the pillars of modern finance as a columnist and such a banker as weigh the pros and cons of sub 0 rates and their impact on the world traders have been contending with a rather more mundane fundamental issue how to price risk on trillions of dollars of Financial Instruments like Interest Rate swaps when their complex mathematical models simply dont work. Right now the black themselves model didnt get rid of risk or separated risk from reward so i make the analogy to the atomic weapons or the atomic power of the whole idea of einsteins discovery that energy equals mass and by understanding that you could create an atomic weapon that was based on a fusion exciter 0 so in the financial world. The black controlled model basically pried open
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