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Correspondent Natalie Mcgill will talk about some mind blowing old news from Medieval Times the era the eatery then i will go into how big businesses are taking Small Business support good news for people who like breathing and how the virus is remaking the College Process College Education process but 1st lets go to that interview between we camp and d. J. For sure thank you so much really there. Im a big fan of your writing you wrote an excellent article recently in which you said during a pandemic the private sector austerity model has fallen apart weve seen such a tremendous collapse of the capitalist state institutions that are supposed to help people during a crisis the guidelines for what to do have been all over the place the medical gear is not available the hospitals are overwhelmed that the test still arent widely available in the u. S. Can you talk about why it is that our institutions have failed us so it thoroughly. You see you. Really. Should. Reply did it or government how do you know what is still gallus legal austerity should actually leave. The United States government since the financial crisis of 2008 has deeply cut into these areas the area of education and social safety which is why on the one side there was no real preparation for the emergency on the other side you know you have a relatively hallucination driven Political Class just not scientists you know they dont actually have an understanding of reality it seems to me so right. That the World Health Organization theyve led a group endemic donald trump and alex is expected 3 were going to try to convince the public that this is not a big deal this was right up to mikes 11 so when you had a hallucination driven political blast really not going to mobilize whatever the source of that was the mood and because of austerity there are very few indeed you would try to mobilize these resources of course they didnt they did nothing this ad only hence and now theyre back. Yeah its a great way to describe it a whole use a nation driven class that that that Political Class not the ruling wealthy class youve said they are their world order is kind of crumbling the neo liberal world order is crumbling under corona shock can you explain. Yes you know i mean its 2 Different Things on the one side i think people the general public have come to understand that this austerity model has left populations otherly unprepared to deal with. Any living and there will be more up and its a little bit more inward in the cities and if theyre not prepared for this one its certainly not going to be for the next one unless you change things whether that link to this is you know the language of essential workers and the idea that medical workers nurses doctors or janet do ambulance drivers except censure is actually news to this sector because theres been at least 2 decades of the Union Busting against nurses against ambulance drivers and so on so i think theres a general understanding in the lack of resources lack of respect basic respect of these workers and when things as im no longer in emergency will be remembered that i think thats a very important i believe that the memory of being in a crisis and seeing these essential workers must outlive the crisis itself linked to this of was move seen the biggest general strike global general strike which should now revealed to be that its a live look at it creates where im not allowed to bring ers and once you remove live work in the billions from the economy everything collapses its labor that creates whether this is overvalued this is a. Major work in the 19th century you have spent you spent time in many countries yasser study many countries and written about them how is how is india dealt with this pandemic has it been different in different areas of the country. India is the mirror of its i mean the Indian Government has a sort of 2 nish or as the worst you know these kind of events and it has been. You mean it spent hundreds of millions of workers Migrant Workers on the road some of them who are almost a 1000 miles. But they had to be where you see a completely different act in the indian state of get a little distance in the southwest its ruled by a bonus there the government. Used to it was a lot of action the state more or less resources exactly were moving under the try Continental Institute for social research which youre the director of you put out a platform of 16 steps to confront this crisis i wanted to just talk about a few of them that you are said the the state must assume the cost of the wages during the korean team the immediate socialization and nationalization of hospitals and medical centers so that theyre now worrying about profits and the Immediate International Cooperation Amongst them to find a vaccine an easier testing and then the abolishment of intellectual property in the medical field can you talk especially about that one because that is something we hear nothing about on our Corporate Media airwaves. You see when a crisis in woods is governments come in with trillions of dollars of big money to bail out the private sector if youre billing of the private sector you know sensually beginning it could be in the private sector why not just you know why would you build it out and then withdraw it specially in that piece of the medical field and your pharmaceuticals of residence and you see pharmaceutical Companies Many drugs where there is dissipated profit in other words for him and the rich more than that get the book this is just a limited capitalism thats what i promise you a little governments do they all stoop what happened on their drugs and therefore the price of the drugs a very high what if you look at this carefully but most of the research for rightly headed back to is done with money in the United States the national suitable government didnt see this you know finance universities that do that primary research which resulted eventually in a drug back to did by a private company a private company doesnt dilute any benefit to the government for the kind of money that is used in developing that drug because of that essentially this happens or intellectual Property Rights critics private companies it doesnt predict people we need to ask what critics people that should be the primary focus for humanity is whats best for people not whats best for profit yeah thats a great point that were its our tax dollars that fund the research and then they exploit it and you know wont allow people to get access to it without spending our own money to get to have to buy back of the vaccine or the medicine weve created the platform also includes the suspension of the dollar as an International Currency why is that important right now. Weve seen what happens again in a crisis and you know crises ready or because theyve demonstrated whats normal in the city remove all of this crisis again and it looked like they had general luck a lot of rich people around the planet played really nice and came to the us brought forward all those abandoning of. This creates a big problem around the world do you whats happened is because the United States dollar by and large is used to settle. Outside the United States the u. S. Government essentially ruined as much money as it wants without having to bear the cost of inflation you know essentially exporting inflation at their best and this is ited States Government its not good for the rest of the planet and you know we have a sort of International Currency or the standard drawing rights we just use by the International Monetary fund but since the i. M. F. International Monetary Fund is essentially controlled by the u. S. Treasury department d the i. M. F. Cannot make the s. D. R. Distended drawing rights an International Currency in fact theyve just rejected an application by the government of venezuela to have access to its all standard or to grow rights which just sitting in washington d. C. So their own money theyre not able to access this means we dont have the ability to have i dont see outside the dollar the dollar that having the dollar as an empty vessel suitable for the American Government its to go to wall street but its not so good if you live in calcutta yeah but im glad you mentioned venezuela one of the other planks on the platform is to end the economic sanctions economic war on various countries and the u. S. Is doing exactly the obvious and where were amping im up we recently announced like a 15000000. 00 i think bounty on president maduro has had to which is basically unheard of for a country or. Ostensibly not at war with can you talk about venezuela and why the u. S. Is so eager to attack it well you know just when the bennett was developing the un security or the un secretarygeneral and only we did it has made a very important point keep order for the global ceasefire he said nor was it lets focus on dealing with this Global Pandemic well the United States has been at war with and it will its not a conventional shooting war but its what we call a hybrid war its an inflammation or its an economic war diplomatic well its sort of what it is and so on why it is going to have to venezuela is an important question its not a recent issue this is goes back to the election rule which out is in 1990 and the opening of a cycle of governments across latin america that for essentially for their resources to be used for their own you know right up to china is going to be elected the head of the addict who or which is one of the Worlds Largest Mining Companies in canada the head of this company mr das rule only keep calling job was a dictator why this show is if he did it because he was going to prevent bad of gold for treating venezuela like its all property he wanted to and its really the people who seem as well as their sovereign property imagine that youre gonna live in your own opposed this is a better word is concerned if you live in your house during it yeah theres nothing more horrible to the corporate titans than the idea that a country might own its own resources and give the profits to their people. You know the thing and things are very grim right now for a lot of people grim for workers grim for the environment grim for those of us who want peace where do you see hope in your in your work here youre studying so many of these issues and seeing this crisis unfold where do you see hope. Well you know there was a very lebanese marxist by the name of the i met who was assassinated in 1970 in one of his writings you know he lived in Beirut Lebanon one of his writings about the devil wrote as long as you are resisting you have not been defeated and i actually think thats almost a talisman real resisting their call we have not been defeated therefore history isnt who you know it would like to tell us that we have an extremist ego the things you say are crazy or whatever but that has no bearing on me what suffering is such that our resistance is essentially in fact moral and the very fact that were assisting means youre not being defeated it means you know for the future if i want to create the future and this cynicism is of no consequence to us it doesnt bother me app or i agree and thank you so much i know youre always writing i think you have Something Like 30 bucks really you should work a little harder out there where work and people keep up with your writing will be sure good to try going to mental they are all very much book leave that when my next book comes out its called washington blitz with a preface by evo morales is. 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Receive 4 point 6000000. 00 of Small Business funds yet such a Small Business sometimes Le Bron James has to clean the stadium hes just so good at getting those hard to reach places treasury secretary Stephen Newton the leader of the program and robot annoyed by human existence responded to the confusion over who and what qualifies as a Small Business certain people on the p. P. P. May have not been clear in understanding the certification so we will give people the benefit of the doubt were going to put enough a q. Out to explain the certification finally and f. A. Q. What are the questions like number one do you want to identify as a Small Business do you say like shake shack have about 6000. 00 employees are a publicly traded franchise and with a 15000000. 00 net profit and pay your c. E. O. 3800000. 00 a year then no youre not a Small Business you might have low selfesteem but if youre a big business you really are and believe in yourself after some serious backlash the l. A. Lakers and shake shack pledge to return the money to the government so to 14 other publicly traded companies of which some have c. E. O. Pay higher than their multimillion dollar relief packages now whats in the governments plan for all that money that went into the wrong hands while. Theyre going to ask were. So so mr secretary are you going to request of those other countries obviously she was not alone in being a big company that got money in this region. Youre going to ask them to return the money yeah yeah were going to harvard to pay back the money. They should be taking harbor its going to you have a number of them are going to other things harvard has a 40000000000. 00 in down and i feel like they were just taking the money and make sure some businesses go under steve maneuver lay down the law if you pay back the loan right away you wont have liability to the s. B. A. And to treasury but there are severe consequences for people who dont test properly the certification there are severe consequences i dont know what they will be right now but they will be bad. And then he said oh no not this that Big Companies should apologize for taking Small Business loans now you go to your summer home in the hamptons with your mistress and you think about what youve done on that jet ski. A trump donor and multimillionaire Monte Bennett who owns several Hotel Companies 196100000. 00 in the Paycheck Protection Program loans and one he said he had given the money back the loans were originally intended for employers to continue to pay their workers when theyre shut down thats why it was called the Paycheck Protection Program and companies wouldnt have to pay the loans back to 75 percent of the loans were spent on employee payroll monthly isnt paying its staff partly because the distribution of loans have been outsourced to big banks who collect fees for each loan they make but dont have to monitor whether the recipients use the money appropriately on monday when the fed injected another 300000000000. 00 into the fund computers crashed but its likely that the money will go just as quickly. But our nations mechanical father Stephen Nugent admires the speed with which this program was carried out we launched a Brand New Program and incredibly short period of time and the fact that we ran out of money just goes to show the success of this among the applicants for loans from the Small Business administration stimulus is Freedom Works a conservative operation that advocates small government and made its name opposing bailouts see they hate free money except when its for them when its for you thats dirty socialism now a story for people who would like to breathe after many realize that high air pollution increase over 1000 death rates european cities would like to get rid of some cars even if they are fiats milan is to introduce one of europes most ambitious schemes reallocating streets based from cars to cycling and walking in response to the crisis the city will turn 22 miles of road over to cyclists and pedestrians what is Italian Culture going to be like with scooters and i got. The pandemic has forced colleges to a vic their students and put all operations on line but the problem is that students are still paying full price to ition some students are now suing their schools including california state universities the lawsuits claimed it was unfair and unlawful for u. C. To keep fees to cover the cost of certain on Campus Services which are no longer available to students paying exorbitant amounts of tuition for learning ancient greek must have felt like a scam before but now paying thousands of dollars to log on to your colleges version of you tube must feel extra scamming if you wanted to learn Animal Husbandry through videos staying home at your parents you wouldnt have applied to college and now that creepy professor is extra creepy. Because hes not wearing pants people are starting to worry will anything be the same or will the only businesses thats arrive be the places that can afford to create its own patrons like this Baseball Club in taiwan that has cardboard cutouts of fans and thats all the insanity i have for you today we now go to redacted correspondent Natalie Mcgill with some mind blowing old news. Unless you have a peloton bike or an indoor track in your house you may find it hard these days to get rigorous exercise without fear of catching the plague thats what it might be hard to believe there was once a plague that actually increased your cardiovascular exercise. Until your heart gave. It was called the dancing plague also known as dancing mania a phenomenon in europe between the 14th and 17th century in which break outs of spontaneous dancing were spurred by just one person before afflicting thousands of europeans one of the 1st recorded occurrences of this literal boogie fever was in germany and 1374 when describing the scene in germany just this hacker author of the 888 book the black death and the dancing mania wrote they formed circles hand in the hand and appearing to have lost all control over their senses continued dancing regardless of the bystanders for hours together and while delerium until at last they fell to the ground in a state of exhaustion actually that sounds less like a plague and more like a Bachelorette Party in new orleans as silly as a dancing plague sounds it was a real Health Problem and unfortunately in the 17th century treatments were as medical as sound as a game of operation played on an active fault line. But this lack of medical know how it was apparent during a notable july 1518 outbreak of dancing plague and strong which is now modern day france author and history Professor John waller told the b. B. C. That in search of a solution authorities were convinced that the afflicted would only recover if they danced day and night basically it was turned into an episode of soul train except will likely weigh less rhythm or coronation and if youre having trouble picturing this just remember that soul train minus rhythm and coordination equals most dancers on american bandstand. Even though the dance mania started with one woman dancing in the middle of strong the number of people who joined her group so much. That by the end of august 1518 about 400 people had experienced the madness not until Early September did the epidemic recede after many of their hearts literally stopped beating yet whats just as important as the strange compulsion to dance is the mass hysteria that fuel it given the dancing plague in 1518. 00 occurred during the prolonging period of famine and disease while the 1374. 00 dancing playing coincided with another and much more infamous plague called the black death which killed up to 200000000 people according to waller it is much more likely for someone to enter a trance such as a never ending dance when your mental and physical health is under attack and here in america weve been known to embrace mass hysteria its the reason why mccarthyism still exists today and why y2k panic convinced americans to stock up on top go on me because the world could end on january 1st 2000 and it also explains why we currently have thousands of people across the us who feel compelled to yell outside their State Capitol because they literally want to die for a decent man a cure and a night out at red lobster. But before coronavirus came along there was still plenty of widespread hunger and preventable diseases in our developed country to suggest that swamps of america should have been afflicted by the dancing played by and. Oh no. Oh no its happening oh god also the library how every why is music playing. On a. Reporter from a temporary discotheque this is that even kill for jack its night and that is the show thank you for joining us watch out for a brand new episode of redacted. Night night check us out on youtube dot com slash or direct its night or the portable t. V. Also you can check out my podcast fail university a podcast work comedians talk about academic subjects the best they can and no its not a Real University it is a scam but thats not unlike most universities right now thanks for tuning in good night and keep fighting at home. 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