Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. We are gathered today for a meaningful and important event. The great composer and prophet Hannibal Lokumbe has been moved oratorio in tribute to a crucial event in our national history. Dr. Kim phuc, who is here today, was the young girl in vietnam in 1972 who was pictured running down the street after a napalm attack. That photograph so transfixed the world that it helped lead to an end to the vietnam war. And dr. Phuc has gone on to a distinguished career, advocating for children who are the victims of war and in recognition of her extraordinary achievements, she was honored earlier this year with the dresden peace prize, one of the most important in the world. [applause] when hannibal wrote to me and said that he wanted to present a preview of his performance at the constitution center, my immediate answer was yes. Because hannibal, a year ago, wrote and said he had been moved to introduce a similar piece that he ha
Was fired. We sort of pretended that it was okay. That it was meant to be celebratory so we kept it that way. Let me start what i think about the future of intelligence for normal times and then and with d with comments about where we are. This is very different times, but i never quite imagined or expected might be. First on my list to kick off, five or six things. First on my list is the challenge of doing strategic analysis. Strategic intelligence by which i mean, intelligence that tries to put pieces together, say how important issues are relating to each other. Often looking forward in time. That was the Traditional Mission of the National Intelligence council when i was vice chair. As scott said i was vice chair 20 years ago. So i am a very slow rise are, 20 years to become chairman. Then we mostly did National Intelligence estimates, more forwardlooking pieces. Hard to put together. We worried were we relevant . It takes a long time to do these things and try to catch a window o
And china will sign a pact which will see beijing buy more American Products in return for greater access to its markets but questions remain over when the greater part of the tariffs imposed by washington will be lifted. From the conversation on todays top stories at r. T. Dot com of the report is international and in the u. K. And ireland coming your way stay with us. Im max kaiser this is the kaiser report we are in rehearsal for cars report the musical. Got the congas we got the guitars i got the band i got the drummers write the song Stephen Sondheim i dont know hes going to fail or not hes ill but weve got some major folks involved in this project going to hit broadway oh man im excited stacy i want to talk about its a good story that relates to your congress because of course you need the congress for a you know war to beat the war drums of war exactly because what is the old saying on wall street dont fight the fed. I feel the 1st song of our musical coming together. To fit. We
Eric holder tim geithner remember in 2008 they came out with the holder doctrine so about moral hazard institutionalized moral hazard they said every time you banks commit fraud every time jamie diamond commit fraud we are going to cut those laws out of the books were going to eliminate laws against financial fraud whenever you commit fraud oh by the way of jamie diamond by citibank or travels corp violates classical oh well well just get rid of glass steagall to accommodate jamie dimon because thats the eric holder doctrine thats the Jimmy Geithner doctor and thats the ben bernanke you doctor and thats the doctor thats a jay powell doctrine is forget all rule of law for people with a lot of cash from the food. In terms of fighting the fed and this war with the fed and this war with economics and Business Cycles for example. Were in this sort of benign totalitarianism is where they dont have to lock up short sellers for example remember during the financial crisis it always emerged tha
Takes half of our taxes and for them to keep getting more money from us the taxpayers are going to drop bombs everywhere they do it willy nilly without any thought about what theyre doing whatsoever they had a few it commercial airlines i dont care and then the fed prints tons of money and then they go blow it again and that money printing leads to the stock market going higher which makes everyone think theyre geniuses and that the god like and that see our strategy of bombing innocent people makes sense really just a crock and print more money and then the fed accommodates of course because we do so for National Security and the stock market hits a new all time on that everyone gets really smart and think oh my genius im making so much money is go bomb more people go kill more civilians in school submersed olders print more money and then the stock market goes i or thats the cycle that were in now its called genocide for profit its school of america. Well of course one thing the fed