There is no American Culture i mean the only american cultural artifact would be jazz you know or Something Like that of course thats not even the majority of the population is its a minority of the population so what is there really that america stands for in terms of a cultural or artifact its about consumption overconsumption obesity we have a winner take all mentality its a lottery mentality in america either winter or youre dead and the pharmaceutical companies of course lobbies are going to washington to change the laws of a possible to peddle whole cost in america and nobody frickin cares because it ever learned the lessons of World War Two did they say lets do it again jeff bezos of course over were worth over one hundred billion dollars his Company Amazon just emerged that theyre one of the Top Ten Companies in america with employees on food stamps and they also get into the pharmaceutical selling business so you could be a get an opiate drug delivered to your home by drone thanks jeff your fricken opiated hole cost provoker well weve got more coming your way after the break stay right there. 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Welcome back to the kaiser report imax kaiser time that returned with tyson slocum hes with a group which calls themselves a Public Citizens Energy Program and i want to ask you first of all tyson because i am fairly new in washington d. C. Now you are a lobbyist or youre a quasi lobbyist what are you exactly well im not technically a lobbyist in order to be a lobbyist under a law called the lobbying disclosure act which actually was championed by then speaker Newt Gingrich back in one thousand nine hundred five you got to spend at least twenty percent of your time. Contacting members of congress and executive Branch Officials i usually spend about ten percent of my time doing that so it was just a Public Education and awareness and karate and things like thats correct so a street is where lobbyists are is that is that where a lot of the corporate for hire lobbyists are weve got our office up on capitol hill so theres a bunch of my colleagues lobby but you know i recently testified before congress but that doesnt count towards lobbying because when youre invited to publicly testify its more for Public Education than private law ok n. S. E. Sit down with members of congress and you you know are talking to them about whats going on as you see it and hear sector and hopefully to influence their vote right thats correct in addition to talking to the media and working with grassroots activists you know the there are three main pillars to advocacy media grassroots law where congress you find the the ear most sympathetic to what youre talking about and a senator or congressman who can you name an a. P. Say this guy really is the guy we go to because hes really in sync with what we were thinking about i think senator Bernie Sanders is a big champion he also is on the Senate Energy committee. So hes got relevant jurisdiction to Energy Issues and im a big fan of him in his work i actually think that hes a very effective legislator senator Maria Cantwell who is the Ranking Member of the Senate Energy committee i think is also a very effective advocate for families ok we are a large and decent year you know in this industry so to speak whats the scuttlebutt on the straight what the Current Administration and what it going to twenty eighteen and twenty twenty what what is like trying to come up with some opposition thats going to get some traction ottley fane some big flashy names in the celebrity arena but you know thats not nothing oh here we are in the actual belly of the right so were kind of trendy see what worse that word is an effective pushback against this Current Administration because it will appears as though theyre gathering some momentum theyre not collapsing like people thought that they would theyre actually gaining some momentum so where were the pushback going to be i actually would challenge that theyre gaining some momentum just because they had this tax bill victory i dont think its a popular measure donald trump remains deeply unpopular hes the most unpopular president in recorded history at this point and residence exactly where obama was in his cycle in the white house in terms of popularity versus some popularity and where i live in North Carolina it is the only game in town no instruction talking about anybody on the other side of the aisle and thats and i drive all over this country georgia alabama tennessee North CarolinaSouth Carolina theyre theyre trust from country through and through they love them well but in alabama which is probably as as deep trump countries you can get they just elected a democrat for the first time in twenty five years and i think they see that as a seed of a you know every election is different you know roy moore was an insane candidates but you know the fact of the matter is that trump. Didnt really help matters there just want to get more into your. Area of energy lets talk pipeline politics the us is that exporting natural gas liquid natural gas russia has just opened a new mammoth l. N. G. Liquid natural gas terminal whats happening in this area the Natural Gas Prices are pretty depressed right now there was a time several years ago. Whered l. N. G. Prices were extremely high and so the market was very lucrative right now the elegy market is fairly saturated prices are sort of low but countries and and investors understand that there are theres going to be strategic growth here so as natural gas is positioned as more and more the go to fuel in electric power markets those nations that are positioned to supply natural gas globally are going to be in a good position and so the obama strafing was actually fairly supportive of ellen g. Exports they did a number of things unilaterally at the department of energy which is one of the primary agencies that oversees the approval of liquefied natural gas export facilities. The obama strayhorn actually put into motion the rules that fast track the consideration for these its also important to remember that coal like natural gas its cleaner its cleaner than coal i think that there that would be a positive for trump in for your in your view not necessarily because i think. Because at the same time hes also doing things that are very negative for the way drilling in the National Parks opening right arctic which are clearly stupid and he is put it in the boldest terms i can its just frickin stupid right and hes also proposed a vast expansion of offshore drilling right on the pacific ironic its ridiculous you know theres a lot of things. With trump where hes and disciplined and a little unfocused and sometimes sloppy in the execution of some of the policies that theyre put on a system of jim political you know the grand game as its called something so is it true as i have understood from rating various reports that the u. S. Effectively is becoming the center of price and Energy Industry no more are we going to see opec and saudi arabia filling that role in other words the us through this natural gas through the fracking boom thats taken place and theyre now to position to be the swing vote. At the price maker the market maker and energy and the price of Energy Saudi Arabia youve got a new regime there who for some reason because hes depriving people of their rights and keeping them in a hotel and threatening to kill them and behead them thats called being a reformist apparently but they are now going to be a vassal more than ever before of the u. S. In terms of energy is what is that it is thats whats going on yes no its something theres no question that fracking has fundamentally transformed Energy Production in the United States and the two thousand and fifteen law change signed by barack obama that ended the forty year ban on exporting crude oil and of course weve always been able to export liquefied natural gas that has been a big variable in Global Markets but i dont think its the chief variable i think that theres a number of other things that are that are competing here you can never forget about trends and demand one of the big factors going on right now thats sort of keeping a lid on oil prices at around sixty bucks a barrel is the fact that people are really uncertain where the chinese economy is going and the chinese economy was the big reason in the mid two thousand is that we saw this huge increase in Global Crude Oil prices. With an search. About demand growth in a huge economy like china and even india for that matter thats thats keeping a lid on prices but there is no question that that United States production is a global variable for the first time in an awful long time but i wouldnt i wouldnt assign it the primary in conakry opec i mean i mean the seventys at the petro dollar always came about yet the crisis the Energy Crisis the seventys right seventys had a huge recession the biggest us depression and so then the rise of the petro dollar and that quid pro quo of going to let saudis sell us their energy they long as they take their dollars and buy u. S. Treasuries with them so they had this quid pro quo they had this this this this relationship going on so is that it seems like thats now out changing the global relationships are changing a bit because now china as you mentioned is a big big into this mix and the middle east is dealing directly with china chinas now at odds with the u. S. And. Does you work in the Energy Business as such do you get into how the u. S. Dollar as the World Reserve currency plays factors into all of this not directly but you know clearly there have been some moves by other countries to price of oil in. Currencies other than theyve really gone and murdered whether its. Gadhafi who else would try to break free of the u. S. Dollar right i guess i dont see right now another currency you know the euro has taken a big credibility hit so i dont see anything d. For owning the dollar at this point i think a lot of that talk was happening when the euro see a word is a what china is really threatening to pull out of the dollar as a way of challenging the Trump Administration assertion that there may be layers and bad actors in the trade if they go out and dump u. S. Treasuries and. Dollar takes a massive hit Energy Prices go up pretty dramatically but then that would potentially be good for the environment right it could be yes but you know thats like hammering a nail with a sledgehammer you might achieve your goal but you create a lot of Collateral Damage its also interesting that the big rumored investor in the potential saudi i. P. O. Of its state oil company is Chinese National around funds right so you know whether or not that i. P. O. Is actually going to happen i dont know that it will its clear that i think china is just you know there are aggressive in all of these markets so let me ultimately air lobbying for the environment right and for working families we kind of take an approach of Energy Policy as sort of Economic Justice because energy costs represent a huge chunk of the utility and Energy Called the consumer family not the where consumers consumers and workers i think. You know when when trump is unveiling the rollback of the b. P. Safety rules for offshore drilling that were implemented in the wake of that disaster in two thousand and ten you know that is an environmental issue but its also a safety issue eleven workers lost their lives on the deepwater horizon rig and so we want to see Strong Public HealthPublic Safety and Worker Protections when it comes to big cant you get this whole idea of green energy being a huge environmental plus a wage boom right right i mean why is that message not is it is it because the corporate i guess you bet rick perry is saying that you know im going to i got a protection racket for the Energy Industry the coal is tree so and ive got the president s air so were not going to let the fact that the Green Energy Revolution would be great for wages and great for the environment and protect our National Parks which is our National Assets that we should be protecting. For dear life the fact that these are being raped by Energy Companies is a travesty beyond words so why cant the message gets through is it because now youre trying to get the message through what i think works well go what do you need like what do you need what more do you do what other help would be helpful for you to get the message through like ive totally on board of this message you know like what can how can we get this message through to this guy in the white house that hes missing the best financial play of his presidency the biggest boom if you know the art of the deal the best deal ever seen as frick and a life right right Global Investment is all going to play were going to wind up right now slocum its down the scale youre like oh it gets the thing thats going there right now thats it for this edition of the kaiser porfiry mass geysers days there were reports i guess like a tyson slocum it was some trick in lobbying group if you want to catch us on twitter its kaiser report and i thought. 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This culture led to the development of bolivias new liberal and highly controversial childrens code in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances much as anything this. Is all news. Eat but without the end all. The things years. But there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating completely outside the local. Mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but its never enforced and that means the school boy minus here continue risking their lives for the money they need to survive on. The book well thats probably what i am i think you know. We. Know that. The war on terror is no longer americas top Foreign Policy priority instead of the u. S. Will focus on a global power play with russia and china which are its main threats on the world stage thats according to the secretary of defense james mattis. Trump enters his second year in office the government is set to be shut down over funding bill we take a look back at the highs and lows of the president s tenure so far. And the new red alert as a witch hunt against communism appears on the right we tell a story of a student whos been bashed the saying in the media that communism never actually failed. A very warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me and he aaron good to have you with us this. Forget the war on terror its russia and china that are now americas biggest threat thats what the u. S. Defense secretary james mattis spells out as he unveiled the countrys new Foreign Policy priorities are his more advanced you have picks up the story. Trumps new defense doctrine can probably be summed up in just three words bring it on if you challenge it will be your longest and your worst day the war on terror is now secondary the priority is the new great game of good lobel proportions Great Power Competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of u. S. National security the logic here is that technological and hard power gap between the us and the competition is narrowing and washington simply cant let that happen because not expect success by the tomorrows conflicts with yesterdays weapons or equipment. Investments in space and saber Space NuclearDeterrent ForcesMissile Defense advanced Autonomy Systems and resilient and agile logistic will provide our high quality troops what they need to win. I. That is a new arms race or races a Nuclear Arms Race at me races cyber race space to what has that ever made the world a safer place sure we can have competition and all of that internationally but we should be working more cooperatively with each other because last time i heard the cold war was over what im really concerned about is that were going to be seen. Draining i drain resources to something we really really dont need already theyre talking about a hypersonic fighter who needs it that really requires billions upon billions of dollars of research and development and again its really aimed at keeping the Defense Industry in business its been said that budget cuts have done more damage to the u. S. Military than anything else they say is an attempt to undo that damage but these are ambitious plans remember the f. Thirty five or the columbia submarines lethal weapons at least when it comes to destroying budgets but then thats what friends of fool you know it Winston Churchill it once said the only thing harder than fighting with the allies is fighting without them the growing economic strength of todays democracies and partners dictates they must now step up and do more. Making everyone else pays this much is part of the plotinus all the fancy toys europeans especially havent been all that enthusiastic about spending fortunes in defense understandably but then theres a new domain to fight in the cyber world this is a wild west right now as you know people in their bedrooms can be doing things that are causing your bank account dire problems at this point an urgent challenge and the u. S. Is going to overhaul and boost its cyber forces giving them greater capability to deal with the random guys in their bedrooms i think weve got some serious challenges ahead we dont have the resources for the kind of spending that they want to do and i think we need to be a great deal more concerned about how those finite resources are going to be allocated and we need to be meeting immediate threats and thats terrorism. Chimes first year in the white house has been marked by a government wide shutdown and i thought the Republican Controlled Senate refused to approve a bill to fund the government its been a bumpy twelve months for the president takes a look at how trump tenure has unfolded so. When trouble was sworn in a year ago emotions were running high on all sides. U. S. Media described it as a Pivotal Moment in American History youre not having a terrible terrible dream also youre not dead and you havent gone to hell it will be very bad americans and others will now die washington d. C. The establishment is terrified and they should be they call this the trump revolution promised to completely overhaul u. S. Foreign and Economic Policy he promised a brave new world that was cheered by his supporters and dreaded by his detractors. As i just hope be an apocalypse so a year on where are we well with all this America First rhetoric you might have thought that would have meant less interference in other countries well thats not exactly how it played out tonight i ordered a targeted military strike. For military and it was another successful event we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary on the home front some promised a new level of protectionism against mexico and china but the usa is increasingly buying more foreign goods and producing less of its own the trade deficit with mexico is up by eleven percent the trade deficit with china is up by seven percent unemployment is low but so are wages there is record amounts of Household Debt in the United States right now and Retail Stores are closing across the country and heres one thing that didnt change between trump and previous administrations during the election trump talked about Getting Along Better with russia and his detractors called him a kremlin puppet but now one year later things between washington and moscow are about the same as they were before bad for their action by the. Congress to put these sanctions in place from the way they do thats the decision they made that made it very overwhelming was a phrase that accepts that we may be at an all time low in terms of the relationship with russia this is built for a long period of time now trump promised to drain the swamp of corruption we are going to drain the swamp it washington d. C. But it looks like that swamp is still here and deeper than ever policy stay the same our Foreign Policy is the same the Monetary Policy in the Federal Reserve is the same spending as the same deficits are still rising so there has not been any significant changes in the direction of our country which i had been hoping for is that he has perpetuated i had seen so many of our deeply flawed. Policies especially in Foreign PolicyForeign Policy is a little bit more confusing im very pleased that hes at least made an honest effort that hes reduced the amount of regulations and i think thats one of the reasons weve had an economic boost. And that is that is good and hes made an effort to reduce taxes thats for from perfect but lower taxes less regulation is good and the marketplace is reflecting that oh and dont forget about that wall were going to build the world we have no choice we have no choice. Yeah hows that going we have some wonderful. Prototypes that have been put up now despite the president s ambitious timetable for construction it remains unclear when the wall might actually go up on the surface donald trump looks like a president like no other hes allowed brash he doesnt care about Political Correctness is even turned twitter into an official white house channel but if you look a little bit closer and judge him by his political actions hes a little bit more the rule than the exception. Artsy New York Times president has also been mocked by a string of quirky catchphrases and diplomatic moves which kept the wild and the media guessing what he was going to do next hes not a take on his tenure throughout the year. Donald trump so the office Means Nothing this is one of the most radical it may not be royal speeches weve ever im not going to give you the why should you speak out or you are fake to do so. Donald trumps incoherence is all a direct result of the potential collusion rush inclusion u. S. 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