A simulation thats just a giant hole the ground though this is real well you know evidence is pouring in that that could be so. Weve seen this unfolding of the supply chain getting hit by this corona virus or couvade 19 as they call it and it kind of reminded me when looking at the World Health Organization refusing to call it a pandemic even though the entire like 790 people are under quarantine in china people all over the world and these cruise ships getting quarantined with hundreds of people infected on it not a pandemic just like the fed whatever theyve been doing since september its not q. E. So were not printing money were not quarantining a huge percentage of the global population i think it was 10 percent of the global population was at one point at least under quarantine and max keiser at his new twitter handle real max keiser he tweeted coronavirus proves Global Economy died in 2008 and has been kept animated with money printing this hasnt been clear until now and supply lines stop and shops empty but markets go higher on basis of more money printing right thats the i think a very interesting point to delve into in other words in 2008 weve said you have actually the Global Economy stop because the credit froze they bailed out the creditors a 3rd of the debtors and those creditors simply took all that money and bought really expensive property around the world and expensive art pieces but the economy itself the real economy died and its dead were living. Just like the famous gamer who took the. Man game all the way to the end after gaming for 15 hours and then you just see the raw source code at the underneath the pacman game we saw up by the economy that it was actually a simulation nothing was going on and people would not accept that to be true but the coronavirus now has proven this point because even though all supply loans supply lines are choked and deliveries of critical parts are not happening stocks are still stable or going higher because its fed by cheap money right its all cheap money that cheap money is is created out of nothing to create the simulation going and so it just electrons the cost of electrons are virtually 0 and thats all that is behind this cheap money and so the simulation continues and its in this simulation people are buying apartments in new york for 200000000. 00 you know jeff bezos is buying a yacht for 400000000. 00 thats that this all part of the simulation in the 2nd half we speak to Peter Mccormack who is just recently in venezuela and you might find shelves empty there youre also finding shelves empty here but the fact is you know stock markets are are continue to be at all time highs it seems like everything is booming in singapore and hong kong and china they have no toilet issue there was a story of somebody robbing a shop a supermarket in order to just get some some toilet tissue so this is the same so it is its no different than whats happening in venezuela a different cause perhaps but at the end of the day were in the same situation and at the end of the day for the ordinary person you know i hearken back to famous essay written by Dmitri Orloff back must be now 12 or 13 years ago 20062006 he wrote something called the collapse gap and you saying the soviet union and United States are similar they both bankrupt of themselves with military budgets the soviet union collapsed and we know the story of that and. In the us would collapse at some point well i would say you know its basically true except that instead of the us collapsing its really the globe the globe collapsing everyone has followed this neoliberal capitals model of money printing but no profits no jobs no growth no health. Mortality death rates you know thats the collapse that were suffering now for the same reason weve bankrupted ourselves with the Energy Industry to feed the pentagon which is now running out of energy just like the roman roman legions essential when the denarius coin became worthless the roman empire collapsed and of course as the roman empire collapsed they ran out of ideas people are running out of ideas the only idea they have is more and more printing as you had pointed out in your tweets and of course janet yellen stepped in and basically agreed with you by saying yellen says fed purchases of stocks and Corporate Bonds could help in a downturn so of quantitative easing and printing money and buying treasuries and other cheaply government bonds well then were going to start buying corporate junk again like here we have nature fighting back we have antarctica at 68 degrees for the 1st time in recorded history we have these coronaviruses these sort of bad inspired deadly viruses that have been emerging over the past 20 years ebola sorry smears. 19 so it seems like no matter what like we get more and more elated and more and more like you know the stock markets just go higher and higher and it has to fight back nature is fighting back harder and harder right there a lot of people on wall street rooting for a coronavirus wipe out of half the worlds population because that would prompt such a banks to print ever more money and force their stock portfolios higher and it is so gross and disgusting the incentives for this economy have become in. Quite perverse and disgusting and theres doubt yellen whos reinforcing the idea that we live in a in a neo monarchy we live in a royal courts where those who janet yellen z are friends of janet are friends of jay powell the current fed chairman get unlimited bailouts for just because theyre friends of jay powell for doing for being a friend of j. P. L. They get unlimited credit is 0 percent Interest Rates and theyre what else is living as a president we live in a global peasantry and if youre not a friend of jay powell you are a peasant well exactly i did ask in a tweet to that could help you she was saying it could help she didnt specify who and of course it will help the people behind the moats the people who are have pulled up the drawbridge since 1971 since they went off the Gold Standard since theres no honest metric and you know again tying it into this coronavirus of course nobodys talking about the big situation america is a lot of these people who end up in hospital its a 20 percent of those who get hit by coronavirus have to go to hospital and the average stay is like 10 days to 3 weeks. Thats going to cost you half a 1000000. 00 here in america most americans have about 400. 00 in savings so what is going to happen here. Forget the fact that most of these hospitals in america dont even have medical masks anymore because theyre all made in china this mass are made in china and china is keeping it for themselves here we have a situation where the anybody who gets sick. How is that going to unfold where people will be too afraid to go to the hospital so theyre going to continue Walking Around the supermarket looking for toilet tissue right you know people say that Northern Europe is a sign of capitalism with a strong welfare state and thats the model in america is capitalism mixed with a death cult and thats the difference you know we worship death so we make medical attention and. Care so inaccessible that we glorify and deify death its a death cult in america thats what thats our number one export in a different way than what mexico might have where they have a day of the dead and they speak to their ancestors where a kind of more of a you know that early protestant sort of vengeance full you know if if you can afford it then you deserve to die sort of thing but you know i have mentioned hard money that we went off hard money in 1071 and all of these crazy viruses and all this like the fact that we were able to bring decades and decades of future growth forward to today and weve spent it all and i think that thats these are the signs that were seeing around in the environment and that is that weve actually lived the next 50 years for 10000000000 people you know weve already live their lives and now were in this weird stace this. You know i want to compare it to the story that Mike Novogratz tweeted about and that is that the average woman in the usa is 5 foot 4 inches and weighs 167. 00 pounds the average man is 5 foot 9 inches and weighs 195 pounds we need a new National Diet i cant believe the female numbers but ive double checked time for country fast what im saying is that here weve had. Like on the mainstream Financial Press theyll tell you well this is great food prices all the spot processed food it helps the poor just like our feet money we could continue to give people money we can we know we could airdrop the money so easily because we f. E out because were no longer on a Gold Standard we can just drop them and as i just pointed out not only do most americans have less than 4 100. 00 in savings and in fact about the bottom 2030 percent of the population has negative net worth but were always sold on the idea that we cant let Interest Rates rise because it will hurt the poor we cant have hard money because it will hurt the pork we cant have real food because it will hurt the poor but here youre seeing that this this is starvation this is an absence of nutrients that youre receiving from the food youre being fed whether its in the Monetary System or the actual nutrients food system yeah i love the way safety and imus talks about this in his book the bitcoin standard and i really recommend it talks about this idea of keynesianism and the fake money syndromes kind of carrying over to the fake food syndrome and they just look at the calories and say well the poor eats 2. 00 or 3000. 00 calories a day they dont care that the calories are actually dangerous excess carbohydrates fake sugar death molecules essentially its just calories right and the results are National Health crisis and then when you go to the hospital for treatment then thats part of the death cult so is this the loop of death unlike mexico where its theyve incorporated death into their aesthetic and artistic expression here its part of the every day the capitalist model that you need to die for Michael Bloomberg the greatest thing you can do for Michael Bloomberg is die i mean thats essentially his message and thus live from the obvious racism and its pretty pathetic with. The cheap food that were told is good for the poor it obviously adds a huge health. Their burden to them but also you know lost work wages things like that in terms of dealing with their health the same with cheap money they have a massive accumulation of debt that they can never escape and thus never build capital a must never invest in a future theyre always running in the same spot since you know i know we staying still so thats why im saying we need hard money we need hard food we need it coined we need gold you know just because the government might say you can now sell a kidney for money doesnt mean its a good idea even though youre desperate for some sugary breakfast cereal to impair your health and end up in the hospital and not be able to pay and then go into debt servitude its a Michael Bloomberg can feel good about himself by an election because Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 and were only in the 3rd or 4th stage of the 7 stages of grief oh my god hillary what are going to put us through what do we have to suffer because youre such an ego maniacal idiot well we got to take a break and when we come back much more coming your way. To. The nature. In the. Story tries to break decided to show. Some from some sort of hope for this to. The point is should we actually be charging for it because this is when we charge for things is because its a big benefit to the person whos bogging it thats the audi you always you took over introduction about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education walser. Originally that education is a benefit to society in general i wouldnt want to live in a Society Without. Seeing a benefit in ignoring the public. Ignoring that the skill basis we need for a Sophisticated Society and putting the burden of that skill on the individuals and what weve turned it into is just another trying institution. That is no functional. Welcome back to the kaiser report on. Austin texas the Peter Mccormick extraordinary podcast your host of what. Defiance welcome back thanks i mean back. America was. Oh yeah everywhere you went oh actually its going to be left around as well respected respected respect lets talk about that as well oh yes richard tweeting from venezuela and youre a guy who actually goes places and talks to people in real time and does the job a journalist do you know that youre actually gathering information and reporting on it and so lets talk about this you 1st of all just to the question was it tough to get into venezuela there was a lot of logistics planning so my producer keeps a still calling yourself a journalist because it comes with too many responsibilities. Here yeah thats why a lot of people say you know yourself funny because identifies a satirist because satirists get more slack in terms of free speech yeah yeah thats true he said the problem with journalism is that you need multiple sources Fact Checking and said you dont have the infrastructure for that so youre just the man on the street telling people what you see but you know a lot of planning just. Only there for 2 days ive been june 2018 i 1st looked into venezuela on ive been following whats been going there are really going to be a guy i used to write for. So we went to colombia we met up with him and a group of people for venezuelans its actually his birthday but the thing he said is you need to be very quick with your equipment and being considered a journalist so we didnt take any of our quip when we left it all in. The hotel. We tried to arrange it to get shipped to where we would go it was a. So we left it there we took my phone each a d. S. L. Reach none of our mikes apart from pozen to an i phone and then we went we went in separately and he said he was a photographer and i said i was mocking go out of here as a tourist a little bit of grief on the way in but not too much. The real grief happened off that we visited one of the slums. And we left the slums when we got to the highway we the police were following us and pulled us over and you know pretty clear with us of the journalist with a taurus they said whats on the cameras if theres any Anti Government messages youre going to be arrested and put in jail and all fixed it was very good convincing them not even to check the cameras so that was lucky ok so what was the purpose of this because you wanted to find out what were you did to confirm what your thoughts were already and you learned some new stuff and new stuff i mean i go every for 2 reasons ill go for bitcoin and then i get to define it so i want to know whats actually going on somewhere like human rights ok so what did you learn about. That. There is a limited use of bitcoin. So we went to the border in colombia. There was twofold n. G. O. S receive donations but they just its just a way of receiving money is just another currency they can receive and can do what they need it doesnt offer anything special in terms of donation is just another source of money but it is used but again in a very limited amount for people to. Send money back into the country. Again its very limited very small most people on the border are trying to and dollars a ball a vase and taken all taken back into the country to spend so theres very limited use case that most people all theyre really very extra. Levels of poverty i didnt know wolf we met some go actually when i went to interview one of the this spanish guy grabbed me and i didnt speak spanish but these translated he was crying and also to be interviewed he said people need to know what its like from life in there and hed come to talk to a money and he was the. Living on the street with his wife and his baby. Laying on the street sleeping worried about being attacked. Had nothing so we gave him 60 bucks in the end and he was crying his eyes on the guy explained i didnt have an understanding of how poor these people he said well his family can only eat for 3 months. And thats what the meal when we go out right right so the level of poverty is extremely 60 so the idea of these people who are struggling to get by the next 2 or 3 hours you know in the wallet and your brother hes getting your private keys i mean thats not the goal now because they are struggling to survive just a few hours now we know that part of the reason that theyre in the state that they are it has to do with the money with the dollar because thats the currency of occupation. And this is seen all over latin america but typically in a revolution and you see this in countries now different peasant uprisings whether its in france or latin america or even in america in the present uprising with the ascent of Bernie Sanders its usually the middle class that is actually engaged in the revolution in the answer action theyve had it you know up to the neck and theyre willing to stage the insurrection is there did you have contact with more middle class yes in venezuela whats going on there so we did both we went into the east of the west and the east of caracas and the polar opposites you go to the east and it feels like any cosmopolis in the city youve got. The genes we would call garrett. For. He still has problems with security it still has problems. With violence and crime but generally speaking its pretty stable and thats where all the best jobs thats where i soon these people have managed to maintain some level income outside of the us why dont. You know died we then went into the slums in the west and it entirely changes and one of my 1st experience of this is being in a propaganda zone you know huge maturer murals huge chavez murals like graffiti on the wall but very much of a same style everywhere and then we stumbled upon a madeira rally and that was very weird experience because firstly i think that any support but at the same time felt highly staged you know this happened on the same day that i had come back to venezuela and. You know i just felt very stage one of the most interesting