Feel like its extreme you know Public Interest the attacks on me a former news week reporter launches a blistering attack on the magazine for fusing to run a story he wrote about the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of doom but last year. Well those are the headlines and thats it for me for now im to follow will be here with you next hour to take you through all the news from around the world and stay with us for the kinds of reports next here on our international. I am max kaiser this is the kaiser report were getting ready for the global showdown central bank that being the i. M. F. In this case versus bitcoin the venue argentina thats why were here were here now were witnessing historic epic proportion of it yes of course when we booked to come here the currency crisis was not in such a full swing now it is we have a new president elect here and he has turned down the last 11000000000. 00 payment from the i. M. F. But i just want to say on our observations im here with the
Relief. And. Stepped up its missile test. To read more about those stories and others at r. T. Dot com coming up next it is the latest casualty with. I am max kaiser this is the kaiser report were getting ready for the global showdown central bank that being the i. M. F. In this case versus bitcoin the venue argentina thats why were here were here now were witnessing historic epic proportion of the vote yes of course when we booked to come here the currency crisis was not in such a full swing now it is we have a new president elect here and he has turned down the last 11000000000. 00 payment from the i. M. F. But i just want to say on our observations im here with the National Color here i look i feel like i look like Lionel Messi Gomez 6 gold bowls must be having. I have been a little bit surprised about how. How would you say posh. Its hours and hours of walking across the city and all sort of directions that it feels probably even more prosperous and living in paris being in paris i
We were both at the wall street journal my partner and i for many years, Peter Fritsch, and the News Business went into a downturn in the late 2000s thanks to the internet. It started to evolve into a less fulfilling job for me. I was in my mid40s and i decided what i really, really loved to do in journalism was investigate complex cases and that there was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news, and so i decided to try to see if i could do that sort of work in a private capacity, as a consultant. Host what kind of stories did you work on at the wall street journal . Guest i started at coming american politics in washington in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and investigating politicians for possible corruption, writing stories about campaignfinance abuses, ethics in washington and government. Over the years that evolved into different types of Investigative Journalism involving financial crime, fraud, corporate cases like enron, scandals like the s
Investigate alleged war crimes in the occupied palestinian territory. Does it for me more news at the top of the hour i headlines coming your way stay with us. Max kaiser this is the kaiser report twas the night before christmas and all over the world people were mining back on seeking individual sovereignty a new poem i just wrote what do you think stacey is not made that oh its lovely i said Merry Christmas in spanish i know that from Jose Feliciano i see youre still wearing your colombian necktie. Now you know i sort i could think about 2 different ways really hopefully it wont be a colombian act by the end of the show that would be quite bloody yes exactly but where in argentina were going to be heading to Rio De Janeiro those will be our next episodes from there as you see were in the Southern Hemisphere where we all it took us decades of my life to learn that its warm down here during the cold christmas up north so from now on i am going to be where its warm christmas much better
A weapon to fight the carpet baggers at the i. M. F. The charlatans like Christine Legarde and that would be bitcoin but i noticed on a local bitcoin use in big coin in argentina is skyrocketing this is were ground 0 is in the big coin versus central bank its happening right here what is there is right here in argentina yes the population of oneness are of argentina has soared since 880 prior to that there were about 2000000 people here and now theres 40 something 1000000 but i just want to go over the date on the economy and just so you understand according to the i guess its the World Bank Data 518000000000. 00 as their g. D. P. In 2018 and thats down from about 637000000000. 00 in 2017 you know this guy makary he was hailed kind of in the western press anyway as a great meal liberal reformer and hes going to bring deregulation and all sorts of boom times for the economy but he did end up taking a 50. 7000000000. 00 i. M. F. Loan in 2018. 44000000000 of that has been dispensed and si