A savior obama was supposed to be that savior and he wasnt and what happens after a savior fails you you look to something very different they set the table in my opinion for donald Trump Success do you find this contradictory in any way to the. Cabinet full of millionaires a situation where some of them have been accused of misusing their offices in terms of the of lavishness of those artists or so on and so forth. To trump state a promise to drain the swamp if you will i dont think you drained it i think you move to going to the white house. So they didnt drain the swamp and just moved to dinner. I think every politician is probably abuse there are. Why dont we totally drain the swamp. Why are we the people more actively involved. Major contributions of far has been completely devalued the idea of regulatory oversight. Of department of education or scott pruitt d. P. A. And these people who are essentially trying to dismantle government oversight from within the e. P. A. Is regulators people that are jeffs. Hundreds of thousands and then you add to it smudge a slate of gambits like the tax cut like this recent Bank Lobbyist impartial repeal of the dot frank act theyve been on their wish list for ages the stuff thousands tens of thousands of lobbyist essentially are writing the legislation every once in a while a bill will be submitted and the the lobbying firms name will be on it because the congressman messed up you know by not taking her off my question represent god well someone hears what represent me im just curious does it have does the legislation have some connection to alec this bill didnt come to me from alec it answered your question but the reason i ask is because earlier you passed out a handout that says got walt at the top and it says Health Care Compact and theres a logo right in the middle of that page and i went to the elec website and there is exactly the same the same file the same size in the same logo. Pane promised after the president that out to quote do a big number on the dot frank act oh here is the plan that shows that the lobbying has succeeded in persuading the house of representatives. To prove the biggest rollback of banking rules instilled frank. In the Bank Lobbyists came to capitol hill and pressured lawmakers to weaken their safeguards to rollback those regulations although it was mostly republicans who voted for this measure democrats who are some of the biggest recipients of bank money also voted with republicans to roll back the signature accomplishment of the Obama Administration. Made jim a 2nd when i was a leaf on our corner with the intercept. Hi my name is leaf on. Why is Congress Moving to remove some of those dodd frank protections designed to prevent another crisis those pensions were actually extended into the Community Banking Center Ground which did not have a cascade effect and i helped write the right and i defended it for 9 years and like a lot of people i think that there were areas in which Dodd Frank Zappa little heavy on our smaller institutions and youre in some instances having difficulty lending making small loans to Small Businesses so i know you have a history in the Banking Sector work to Goldman Sachs do you think that any influence on your decision about this what this is not a wall street bill this is a bill about providing relief to smaller communities to suntrust in face of so many other regional stadium banks now sarah was small right no no they dont as installed were 10 years after the financial crisis but congress has moved to repeal some of these big you voted with republicans softer bill as i write i voted to support the Community Banks the bill was entirely about you sitting group along with some of these Community Bankers and other big trade associations really had the hill they had a lot of lobbyist working on this to have it work and so you do you think that the banking lobby and their Campaign Donations had any influence on the 2000 a fiasco that the bank said no no right. Im mad today you ask me that do they have any influence over the vote. And banking lobby have any influence on this vote and shall go to see office and he will along the lines of that were thrilled with this its the Community Banks that like yes i did support the Community Bank bill and i think when people mention this to others and what things are that makes it really hard to write one last question you said the regional banks are doing very well thank you all right. Are you concerned that the banking lobby Bank Lobbyists had influence over this bill that they have too much influence here on capitol hill absolutely i think the banks. Be the pharma lobby all have too much influence here in congress this bill 252500 1000000 in the kinds of things j. P. Morgan so you think the kinds of things that talking about are not small banks so i dont know that anybody with a straight face can say this is an answer to that question this is. Couching small banks in order to give big banks relief from these write necessary regulations thank you so much take care. In response to obamas one effort to clean up influence peddling in washington lobbyist simply deregistered became more secretive thousands of lobbyist said were not even going to comply with the Registration System and were going to move out into the shadows and continue to influence government but without disclosing what were doing on paper there are Something Like 9000 or 10000 registered lobbyist but in reality that the number is closer 2100000. On paper lobbyist spend about 3000000000 or so every year influencing the federal government but in reality that number is closer to 9 or 10000000000. Who served in the Bush Administration now. And. General Company Better see if a lot of military contracts what do you how do you feel about this issue of senior military officials government officials going to a large firms that receive Major Military contracts. As executive Vice President of a major defense for vets receive billions of dollars in defense contracts. To interface with the pentagon have you spoken to either Obama Administration officials or travel ministration officials on contracting issues. Excuse me Fran Townsend here with just a quick moment i dont want to take too much of your time. Shake and i host a welcome to washington fundraisers for you my law firm on k. Street absolutely at 500 dollars and you can pick up 2025 grand get started in the. History of the species very much a history of domination exploitation no pressure in the hatred contempt and then the kalama veiling forces the count of milling voices against domination against a tree against and so youve got this struggle going on but thats what democracy is all about how do you interrupt the dominance cycles of domination oprahs and hatred in b. N. Resent we is concern for compassion and the specially concern for the most vulnerable. And the weak. And the history democracy is like the history of the blues. The blues is about catastrophe overwhelming catastrophe that seems to suffocate a great efforts. Of improvement. And yet one steel keeps keeping one steel tries to tell the truth one steel tries to fight for justice looks like you dont make a breakthrough good morning hard to cure it is again. I was but its also one in which you recognize no im so surprised when you have bring to the breakthroughs a real and so it isnt democracy. One step forward 2 steps back 3 steps forward 2 steps back thats the history of who we are as a species both wonderful and terrible. Aspirational and visionary on the one hand. And no precedent. In the blue zones then you cant you check both polls at same time and always preserve not your optimism preserve your hope your prisoner of hope the corporate elites they want to divide. They want to divide and conquer it is a strategy as old as the links who emerged from the cave in the history of speech. In some cities in california los angeles and San Francisco in particular but their biggest threat are criminal. Black males who are involved in this crime and violence so keep the political commentary to yourself or as someone once said shut up and variable. Will be right back. Thats the fundamental threat. They do all that they can to cultivate divisions all that they can. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race in this very Dramatic Development only closely im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very. Time to sit down and talk. Seemed wrong. Rules just dont call. Me you get to shape out these days become agitated and engage with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. An entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. We do everything in our power to protect the. Wanted data skimping Climate Change poses the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. It is fast and that means the river is 35. 00 closer than how it was for i think were part of earth for. The pandemic no certainly no borders and just blocking 2 nationalities. Has emerged we dont have a theory we dont have the facts in the whole world needs to be. Judged as coming a crisis with christiane to modern times we can do better we should. Everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been much so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that were in it together. Big mosaic is the regulator work that we started 1st ours was roebuck cousin and his brother was the producer. My nephew had killed and were going to video youll see to stand in front of well be doing makeshift sheets of rest in peace at his name and all that is. Being discussed. And then 7 days later my cousin who i was close with more like a brother he was shot down in front of his kids he was walking into his house somebody walked up and he had his daughter his girl. Just man 11 times in the face of them said and proceed to shooting who is autograph. One of her. First. Period. Its like you know our family was a good family you know me and you should come to our environment. And its just like that reality im so tired of best cycle that we see in the city this happens you know i mean we had to eat some nights so i had to go do what i had to do you know maybe in the streets and ran the streets for. You know and im just blessed that im able to be here and be a parent now i guess my whole focus in life was just to give market a better life to my. President we have to understand its because of course were talking about. More production you know is talking about. Realities because a profit maximisation is one that it lead to concerned about gaining access to low wage markets were that has devastated so many poor working people of all colors places like camden where you have precious Black Brothers and sisters youve got White Supremacy shot through this is the same capitalist process. And of course as historically the case slave holding capitalism for over 200 years jim crow cabalist the former 90 years and the jim crow jr had to do with what not just devastating industrial working class as a do the escalation of mass incarceration only to to cripple the educational system on to indecent owing to communities and families. Out there racism is. Terrifying its core to the problem so is the sexism which we dont talk about enough they are essentially promising to for store hierarchy in which people know their place which men get their place this is what we refer to as patriarchy this is a society that runs around the sort of structure of a family where the man is the head of the family except the man is the head of society jam to get d. s White Supremacy forces capitalist forces patriarchal forces almost checkmate. Precious brothers and sisters. Were not accidental bits and pieces in different places. Together in a very Old Fashioned way. Its all really about taking us back. To essentially a pre democratic period. It was all really about a battle that the losers after 900 never accept. And portrayed as a defeat of their right as the owner as the most powerful people. By then they put it back together again. And thats why you know in 1905 i felt i had to say things like were in the midst of a coup detat in slow motion. The world is a. College of corporations. Inexorably determined by the. Immutable laws of business. The world. Is a business mr bush. Has been since man crawled out of the slow. Chase. Weve lost the ability to think. Images on screens are ubiquitous. The truth is they want to ban it. In america certainly illegal immigration is 100 percent about 24 hours a day. Push their narrative collusion. We are bombarded with images. And those images are confused with no. Clothes no water. We confuse how we are made to feel. We cant success thats what its all about success trump stakes are by far the best tasting most flavorful beef youve ever had because when america is United America is totally unstoppable. Really honest with you even if its not united were unstoppable. In understanding how systems of power work which you can only grasp. By investing yourself in a print based culture reading John Ralston Saul reading noam chomsky. But in a post Literate Society the books are still there but nobody picks them up anymore. Oh brother dylan great to meet you good to see you yeah really great to meet you the great owner now known as mine no. Question which american. But without tool of magination vision and courage shattering the indifference and shattering the callousness and thats the challenge i discern fight back in texas but also how did you conceive of every day people actually sees with the fire for a better world alternative but i think they are if they can figure out how to do it if they can feel that they are involved that its about then and i think the great disaster of the last. 30 years is that a large part of. The liberal elite has basically given in to a large part of the themes of being basically anti democratic elite and so they they they theyre then created to discourse a top down discourse which excluded people is it which really made those people who are the who are the guarantors of democracy the holder of the citizen made them feel excluded and once they feel excluded they start getting mad and they get mad or theres a new day coming those signs of hope a Younger Generation concerned about not do psychological crisis the planet concern the bugs the walls. People how do you think its a knowledge fussin though its unpredictable in Indian History is a mystery just like love in life you just dont know we none of us have control you know when the the ruling classes think that there might be but they did not almighty theyre going to fall sooner or later we dont know what form we just hope isnt neofascist we hope that it doesnt return to the most mulberry can be still love. Of aspects of our condition the human condition that its inside of all of us thats inside the hatred and the gangsta like proclivities inside every human being. And i think theres a. Present there is. Yes were almost there so its all kind of. That whereas i was hungry and i think then date i help everybody here dont quote whatever advice. Ok they were god. Theyre sent out there to. Pick up. Right now kind of tell me i have to be here and help the people here versus. When i went on that then. I put other people far. You know ive always been fascinated by them are modified. Strictly in august and you see them heading south. And of course theyre going to head south across the United States to mexico where theyre all winter. And it takes about 3 generations to do the round trip so in fact known butterfly can be a guy. There is no butterfly who knows how to do this who knows where to go. Theyre part of a civilization theyre part of out of a community theyre part of something which understands without knowing. Their reminder to me of really how civilizations work were all part of something just deeply deeply injured and this is the enormous flaw in the corporatist argument that you can sort of slice everybody up into their Interest Groups and then get somebody who is a kind of you know miscellany and trump like figure who uses emotion to hold it all together and isnt actually the way Society Works and all. Some fosli grossmans great novel once and she. Writes about the evils of both communism and fascism the evils of idiology still seek to exterminate whole numbers of opponents people whether theyre condemned by because of class or race. And in the novel he talks about the power of human kindness which he witnessed as a war correspondent he was installing red. Went all the way to baghdad. And he said that the power of that human kind of smooth steady. It is not humankind that has empathy in the face of evil. But evil that is impotent in the face of humankind. Because it is never able to crush that small kernel of class. And i think thats right. I think that. We probably only save the world one person at a time slowed down so years ago. That those small unheralded acts of compassion. Are what keep us human and ultimately are the seeds by which we can rise up together. They are a little more a reality was. Planted larry. Larry. Believe me when we were. All made it was. A war on our. I dont. Even some of my school jane dishes if youre meeting. The most youre going by each. Moment. Our life. Is going to. Change or more. Change. To us economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. You can work 40 hours d in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of were not financially equality and the lack of Affordable Housing living minimum wage give many people no choice. Thats been a problem with the city always turn. Out a little bit. Before. The most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible. You know in a month in which we were meant to have the 2 Party Conventions officially nominated. Joe biden for the democrats the pen demick in the election and even more chaos than usual so joining us is greg palast journalist author of many books including the latest out now skyrocketing up all the bestseller lists its called. 20. The u. N. Security Council Rejects a u. S. Sponsored resolution to extend an arms embargo on iran with only 2 members voting in favor. The e. U. Rejects the Election Results and says it will kill the country with sanctions meanwhile the thousands arrested during the mass antigovernment protest begin to be released and made claims of Widespread Police Brutality this week. Shares her experience. As the women were on the floor and the men were in the next house they were constantly being so badly. Tensions in the mediterranean as france says it will bolster its military presence there to monitor turkeys activities industries borked
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