Why are we the people more actively involved. Major contributions of far has been completely devalued the idea of regulatory oversight. Of department of education or scott pruitt. And these people who are essentially trying to dismantle government oversight from within the e. P. A. Is regulators people that are jeffs. Hundreds of thousands and then you add to its much a slate of gambits like the tax cut like this recent Bank Lobbyist impartial repeal of the dot frank act theyve been on their wish list for ages the stuff thousands tens of thousands of lobbyist essentially are writing the legislation every once in a while a bill will be submitted and the the lobbying firms name will be on it because the congressman messed up you know by not taking it off my question represented god well somewhat heres what represent me im just curious does it have does the legislation have some connection to alec this bill didnt come to me from alec it answered your question but the reason i ask is because earlier you passed out a handout that says got walt at the top and it says Health Care Compact and theres a logo right in the middle of that page and i went to the elec website and there is exactly the same the same file the same size in the same logo. Pane promised after the president that how to quote do a big number on the dot frank act oh he is the Financial Sector lobbying has succeeded in persuading the house of representatives. To prove the biggest rollback of banking rules installed frank. Into the Bank Lobbyists came to capitol hill and pressured lawmakers to weaken their safeguards to rollback those regulations although it was mostly republicans who voted for this measure democrats who are some of the biggest recipients of bank money also voted with republicans to roll back the signature accomplishment of the Obama Administration. Made jim a 2nd when i was a leaf on our corner with the intercept. Hi my name is leaf on. Why is Congress Moving to remove some of those dodd frank protections all designed to prevent another crisis those pensions were actually extended into the Community BankingCenter Ground which did not help a cascade effect i helped write the right and i defended it for 9 years and like a lot of people i think that there were areas in which Dodd Frank Zappa little heavy on are smaller institutions mature in some instances having difficulty lending making small loans to Small Businesses i know you have a history in the Banking Sector work to Goldman Sachs do you think that any influence on your decision about this what this is not a wall street bill this is a bill about providing relief to smaller communities to suntrust if theres only so many other regional stadium banks now sarah was small right no no they dont as installed were 10 years after the financial crisis but congress has moved to repeal some of these big you voted with republicans softer bill as i write i voted to support the Community Banks the bill was entirely about you sitting group along with some of these Community Bankers and other big trade associations really hit the hill they had a lot of lobbyist working on this to have it work and so you know do you think that the banking lobby and their Campaign Donations had any influence on the 2000 a fiasco that the bank said no no right. Im mad today you ask me why do they have any influence over the vote. And banking lobby have any influence on this vote go to see office and take. A long months until they were thrilled with this its the Community Banks that like yes i did support the Community Bank bill and i think when people mess with this service and what things are that makes it really hard all right one last question you said the regional banks are doing very well thank you all right. Are you concerned that the banking lobby Bank Lobbyists have influence over this bill that they have too much influence here on capitol hill absolutely i think the banks the gun lobby the pharma lobby all have too much influence here in congress this bill 252500 1000000 in the kinds of things j. P. Morgan so you think the kinds of things that talking about are not small banks so i dont know that anybody with a straight face can say this is an answer to that question this is it couching small banks in order to give big banks relief from these write necessary regulations thank you so much take care. In response to obamas one effort to clean up influence peddling in washington lobbyist simply deregistered became more secretive thousands of lobbyist said were not even going to comply with the Registration System and were going to move into the shadows and continue to influence government but without disclosing what were doing on paper there are Something Like 9000 or 10000 registered lobbyist but in reality that the number is closer 2100000. On paper lobbyist spend about 3000000000 or so every year influencing the federal government but in reality that number is closer to 9 or 10000000000. Who served in the Bush Administration now. And. General Company Better see if a lot of military contracts what do you how do you feel about this issue of senior military officials government officials going to a large firms that receive Major Military contracts. As executive Vice President of a major defense for vets receive billions of dollars in defense contracts. To interface with the pentagon have you spoken to either Obama Administration officials or travel ministration officials on contracting issues. Excuse me Fran Townsend here with just a quick moment i dont want to take too much of your time. Shake and i host a welcome to washington fundraisers for you my law firm on k. Street absolutely at 500 dollars and you can pick up 2025 grand get started in the. History of the species very much a history of domination exploitation no pressure in the hatred contempt and then the kalama of veiling forces the count of mailing voices against domination against a tree against and so youve got this struggle going on but thats what democracy is all about how do you interrupt the dominance cycles of domination oprah ssion hatred in b. N. Resent we is concern for compassion and the specially a concern for the most. Poor and the the weak. And the history democracy is like the history of the blues. The. The blues is about catastrophe overwhelming catastrophe that seems to suffocate a great efforts. Of improvement. And yet one steel keeps keeping one steel tries to tell the truth one steel tries to fight for justice looks like you dont make a breakthrough good morning hardy kirit is a good. I was but its also one in which you recognize no im so surprised when you have bring to the breakthroughs a real and so it isnt democracy. One step forward 2 steps back 3 steps forward 2 steps back thats the history of who we are as a species we both wonderful and terrible. Aspirational and visionary on the one hand. And all present. In the blue zones then she cant you check both polls at same time and always preserve not your optimism preserve your hope your prisoner of hope the corporate elites they want to divide. They want to divide and conquer it is a strategy as old as the leaks who emerged from the cave in the history of speed seats. In some cities in california los angeles and San Francisco in particular but their biggest threat. In this crime and violence to keep the political commentary to yourself or as someone once said shut up and variable. Will be right back. Thats the fundamental threat. They do all that they can to cultivate divisions all that they can. L. Look forward to talking to you all. That technology should work for people. 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Realities because a profit maximisation is one that it lead to concerned about gaining asses to low wage markets were that is a state that so many poor working people of all colors places like camden where you have precious Black Brothers and sisters youve got White Supremacy shot through this is the same capitalist process. And of course as historically the case slave holding capitalism for over 200 years jim crow capitalism former 90 years and the jim crow jr had to do with what not just devastating industrial working class as a do the escalation of mass incarceration only to to cripple the educational systems own to indecent owing to communities and families. Out there racism is. Terrifying its core to the problem so is the sexism which we dont talk about enough they are essentially promising to for store hierarchy in which people know their place which men get their place this is what we refer to as patriarchy this is a society that runs around the sort of structure of a family where the man is the head of the family except the man is the head of society jam to get d. s White Supremacy forces capitalist forces patriarchal forces a most checkmate. Precious brothers and sisters. Were not accidental bits and pieces in different places it all fit together in a very old fashion way. Its all really about taking us back. To essentially a pre democratic period. Was all really about a battle that the losers after 1900 never accept. And portrayed as a defeat of their right as the only as the most powerful people. So bit by bit they put it back together again. And thats why you know in 1905 i felt i had to say things like were in the midst of a coup detat in slow motion. The world is a. College of corporations. Inexorably determined by the. Immutable laws of business. The world. Is a business mr b. It has been since man crawled out of the. Chase. Weve lost the ability to think. Images on screens are ubiquitous. The truth is they want to ban every drug in america certainly illegal immigration is 100 percent about 24 hours a day the democratic push brusha narrative collusion narrative. We are bombarded with images. And those images are confused with no. Clothes no water that turned up. We confuse how we are made to feel with. A game we cant success thats what its all about success trump stakes are by far the best tasting most flavorful beef youve ever had because when america is United America is totally unstoppable be totally honest with you even if its not united were unstoppable. In understanding how systems of power work which you can only grasp. By investing yourself in a print based culture reading John Ralston Saul reading noam chomsky. But in a post Literate Society the books are still there but nobody picks them up anymore. Bill great to meet you good to see you yeah really great to meet you need a great owner well known as mine no. Question which american. But without to imagine is in vision and courage shattering the indifference and shattering the callousness and thats the challenge i discern fight back in the attacks but also how do you conceive of every day people actually seize with the fire for a better world alternative but i think they are if they can figure out how to do it if they can feel that they are involved that its about then and i think the great disaster of the last. 30 years is that a large part of. The liberal elite has basically given in to a large part of the themes of being basically anti democratic elite and so they they they theyre then created to discourse a top down discourse which excluded people is it which really made those people who are the who are the guarantors of democracy the holder of the citizen made them feel excluded and once they feel excluded they start getting mad and they get mad or theres a new day coming those signs of hope the Younger Generation concerned about not just like the logical crisis the planet concern the bugs the walls. People how do you make us in though its unpredictable in Indian History is a mystery just like love in life you just dont know we none of us have control you know when the the ruling classes think that there might be but they did not almighty theyre going to fall sooner or later we dont know what form we just hope it isnt neofascist we hope that it doesnt return to the most barbaric and beast. 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Their reminder to me of really how civilizations work were all part of something just deeply deeply injured and this is the enormous flaw in the Corporate Star judgment that you can sort of slice everybody up into their Interest Groups and then get somebody whos a kind of you know miscellany and trump like figure who uses emotion to hold it all together and isnt actually the way Society Works and all. I am. Soon vasily grossmans great novel liason for she. Writes about the evils of both communism and fascism the evils of idiology use that seek to exterminate whole numbers of opponents people whether theyre condemned by because of class or race. And in the novel he talks about the power of human kindness which he went bust as a war correspondent he was in stalingrad and went all the way to balance. The budget and he said that the power of that human kindness means that the bit is not humankind that is and that in the face of evil. But evil that is impotent in the face of humankind i am because it is never able to crush that small kernel of class i and i think thats right. I am not i i think that. We probably only save the world one person at a time as well and i was aware years ago both. That those small unheralded acts of compassion. Are what keep us human and ultimately are the scenes by which we can rise up against. The. The a. Cool. Oh. Do you know how do you. All you get is a rule to do you know you. Are lucky. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those better. Than. The day or thinks. We dare to ask. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy to confront a shim let it be an arms race is all off and spearing dramatic developments only personally im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. A little lull. To feel. Let. Alone just. Connection to moment laugh and