Good afternoon, good evening. Welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you all for spending you tuesday with us. Im joe could ross has been an important member of the institute, since our founding, hes been or media fellow and helped coordinate some of our events, some of our more contentious events. Youve may have seen ross was involved in. Were super pleased ross is joining today on i think the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know ross as one of the moe commenter men taters of the american culture, on the New York Times opinion page, written more than a few books and seem to all at least 0 couple of. The have the title of how we became something. Might want to steer clear of that or explain that. Anyway, today the format will be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book, i actually had the pleasure of reading it and its an interesting book. In my judgment not the sort of typical conservative harangue on the way things are but takes a nice tact to explore wha
And thats it for me Andrew Farmer 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 r. T. International. I am max keiser this is the times a report you know. Is a truth. If youre predisposed to being crazy crazy or if you predisposed being honest. More honest and in the case of some politicians in washington who are predisposed to being crazy off the wall. Who more so well of course and i to say says the government by and for the people a lot of our officials especially in congress dont believe that the people are smart enough to know whats best for them so we have brad sherman be an imbecile again in the past week and a half and the thing that i think is quite important for this is the process of de dollar is a sham that is going on and a lot of the stuff you see the turmoil in the repo markets the turmoil in the gold markets the turmoil in certainly political and geo political realities is rev
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A proper part of d. Dollars ation and end run around sanctions and weaponization of the Dollar Financial grid and of course ross nafta as we covered the largest gas and oil company in russia is now doing all their contracts in euros they dont the dollar and brad sherman from California Well congressman warrens big point is the threat to the u. S. Dollar cryptocurrency either doesnt work in which case investors lose a lot of money or doesnt cheviots a perhaps and displaces the u. S. Dollar or interferes with the us dollar being virtually the sole reserve currency in the world said Brad Sherman Sherman covered multiple benefits of the us dollars dominance over other currencies for americans such as the profits generated by the Federal Reserve for the us treasury the senior and the ability to influence other countries policies and actions through the use of economic sanctions so weaponization of the dollar so the dollar as a weapon and sanctions are an act of war other countries feel that
Control to treat people they should treat people. Without question. This is our International Coming from russias capital city my names you know neil alone welcome 30 minutes of news. Start. Our top story the u. S. Justice department charged 2 former twitter employees with spying for saudi arabia prosecutors claim per american citizen. Still use their positions to collect Sensitive Information about users global users critical of the kingdom i discussed the case a little bit earlier with our correspondents quarter. Well its 3 people being charged here 2 or former employees at twitter one being a u. S. Citizen and the other a saudi citizen and their 3rd accomplice also a saudi citizen now the duo are being accused of using their positions at twitter to access the personal information of thousands of twitter users in the interests of the saudi government and against to be used against critics of the monarchy now on wednesday the Justice Department filed a criminal complaint against all 3