Click on the q a icon at the bottom of the screen in the chat column find a link fors, purchasing his book. As peter does in his prologue many people at the lives of billionaires outlandish tidies, the trophy estate the divorce settlement. We watched fiction live tv shows based on their excessive lifestyles, applaud their philanthropy and elect them to Public Office peter makes a detailed case that the richest people in the world have done great harm to the rest of u us. And describe how installing philanthropy and social justice deliberately engineered systems of business and government to serve their own interest in doing so and the expense of the welfare and Economic Security and many, many others. The more that peter search during the pandemic. Implications of this peter argues they havent simply been a widening of economic inequality there been political consequences including intensified public anger and threats to democratic governments. To illustrate and personify peter focuses
Welcome to pnp live. Im brad graham the coowner of politics and pros along with my wife Alyssa Muscatine and we have what promises to be a very Engaging Program for you this evening featuring journalist Peter Goodman here to talk about his new book davos, man how the billionaires devoured the world. A couple of brief housekeeping notes first though to post a question at any point during the discussion. Just click on the q a icon at the bottom of the screen and in the chat column, youll find a link for purchasing copies of davos, man. As peter notes in his prologue many people do a lot of ogling at the lives of billionaires. We marvel at their outlandish parties their trophy estates the details of their vastly expensive divorce settlements. We watch fictionalized tv shows based on their excessive lifestyles applaud their philanthropy and occasionally even elect them to public office. Peter makes an impassion and detailed case that these richest people in the world have done great harm t
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a lighter sentence. German chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed russian president Vladimir Putin for the recent naval confrontation between russia and Ukraine Tensions between the two countries have risen since sundays clash off the coast of russian occupied crimea ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko called on nato to intervene to ensure the free passage of ships in the as of c. President trump has canceled a meeting with President Putin blaming russias seizu
If he was beaming into this news story from some other distant backwards planet where this was good news. Mike flynn pled guilty to a single charge of lying to the fbi. And he simultaneously agreed to cooperate fullsomely and without limit with the special counsels investigation on all other matters. And white house lawyer ty cobb greeted that news by praising, quote, the conclusion of this phase of the special counsels work. As if oh, the mike flynn issue was all done now. Its as if you went to see a movie and as soon as the starting credits opened you stood up and led an applause and tried to get everybody in the theater to join in with you. We came to see the title, right . S that watt first odd response from the president s lawyers. Greeting the mike flynn news as if its done. As the flynn is a cooperating witness chapter of the investigation opened, the president s lawyer praised the special counsel for wrapping up that part of the investigation. Super weird and a sign that they w