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Order is crumbling under corona shock can you explain. Yes you know i mean its 2 Different Things on the one side i think people the general public have come to understand that this austerity model has left populations otherly unprepared to deal with. Endemic and there will be more up and its a little bit more inward in the cities and if theyre not prepared for this one its certainly not going to be for the next one unless you change things whether that link to this is you know the language of essential workers and the idea that medical workers nurses doctors or janet do ambulance drivers accept a censure is actually news to this sector because theres been at least 2 decades of the Union Busting against nurses against ambulance drivers and so on so i think theres a general understanding in the lack of resources lack of respect basic respect of these workers and when things are no longer an emergency will be remembered that i think thats a very important i believe that the memory of being in a crisis and seeing these essential workers must outlive the crisis itself linked to this of course is move seemed the biggest general strike global general strike which should now reveal to people that its a liver that creates wear and not on to bring ers and once you remove leave work in the billions from the economy everything collapses its labor that creates whether this is a valid issue marxs major work in the 19th century you have spent you spent time in many countries yasser study many countries and written about them how is how is india dealt with this pandemic has it been different in different areas of the country. India is the mirror of its i mean the Indian Government has a sort of new nish or as the words you know these kind of events and it has been. You mean it sent hundreds of millions of workers Migrant Workers on the road some of them to walk almost a 1000 miles. In the green but they had to be pockets where you see a completely different act in the indian state of get a little resistance in the southwest its ruled by a bonus there the government science based approach there was a lot of public action the state more or less resources exactly were moving under the tricon only institute for social research which youre the director of you put out a platform of 16 steps to confront this crisis i wanted to just talk about a few of them that you are said the the state must assume the cost of the wages during the korean team the immediate socialization or nationalization of hospitals and medical centers that theyre now worrying about profits and the Immediate International Cooperation Amongst them to find a vaccine easier testing and then the abolishment of intellectual property in the medical field can you talk especially about that one because that is something we hear nothing about on our Corporate Media airwaves. You see when a crisis in woods is governments come in with trillions of dollars of big money to bail out the private sector if youre building out of the private sector you know sensually beginning it could be in the private sector why not just you know why would you build it out and then we drop it specially in that piece of the medical field and you know pharmaceuticals of president s and you see pharmaceutical Companies Drugs where there is dissipated profit in other words for. The rich more than that this is just a limited capitalism thats what a promise or a little governments do they all stoop would go back to on their drugs and therefore the price of the drugs a very high what if you look at this carefully but most of the research for raw. Heather battle is done with money in the United States the national suitable government gives you no finance universe the primary research which resulted eventually in a drug back to did by a private company a private company doesnt dilute any benefit to the government for the kind of money that is used in developing that drug because of that essentially this happens or intellectual Property Rights critics private companies it doesnt predict people we need to ask what critics people that should be the primary focus for humanity is whats best for the people who know whats best for profit yeah thats a great point that were its our tax dollars that fund the research and then they exploit it and. Wont allow people to get access to it without spending our own money to get to buyback of a vaccine or the medicine weve created the platform also includes the suspension of the dollar as an International Currency why is that important right now. Weve seen what happens again in a crisis and you know crises leader ready or because theyve demonstrated whats normal in a room all of this crisis began and it looked like they had you know generally. A lot of rich people around the planet played really nice and into the u. S. Brought forward all those abandoning of. This creates a big problem around the world do you whats happened is because the United States dollar by and large is used to settle. Outside the United States the u. S. Government essentially brind as much money as it wants without having to bear the cost of its leases you know essentially exporting inflation to the rest and this is a ited States Government its not good for the rest of the planet and you know we have a sort of International Currency for the standard drawing rights we just use by the International Monetary fund but since the i. M. F. International Monetary Fund is essentially controlled by the u. S. Treasury department d the i. M. F. Cannot make the s. D. R. Distended growing rights and International Currency in fact theyve just rejected an application by the government of venezuela to have access to its all on standard in order to grow rights which just sitting in washington d. C. So their own money theyre not able to access this means we dont have the ability to have i dont see outside the dollar the dollar that having the dollar as an empty vessel suitable for the American Government its to go to wall street but its not so good if you live in calcutta yeah but im glad you mentioned venezuela one of the other planks on the platform is to end the economic sanctions economic war on various countries and the u. S. Is doing exactly the obvious and where were amping im up we recently announced like a 15000000. 00 i think bounty on president maduro has had to which is basically unheard of for a country or. Ostensibly not at war with can you talk about venezuela and why the u. S. Is so eager to attack it well you know just when the bennett was developing the un security of the un secretarygeneral and only we did it has made a very important point he quoted part of the global ceasefire he said nor was it lets focus on dealing with this Global Pandemic well the United States has been at war with and it will its not a conventional shooting war but its what we call a hybrid war its an inflammation or its an economic war its a diplomatic well its sort of what is in store and why it is going to have to venezuela is an important its not a recent issue this is goes back to the election rule which i was in 1990 and the opening of a cycle of governments across latin america that for essential for their resources to be used for their own you know right up to the job is going to elected the head of the addict who or which is one of the Worlds Largest Mining Companies in canada the head of this company mr das rule all inch i was addicted to why this show is if he did it because he was going to prevent bad of gold for treating venezuela like its all property he wanted to and its really people who see him and his will as their sovereign property imagine that you live in your own post the spot is a better word is concerned if you live in your own house during it yeah theres nothing more horrible to the corporate titans than the idea that a country might own its own resources and give the profits to their people. You know think of things are very grim right now for a lot of people are grim for workers grim for the environment grim for those of us who want peace where do you see hope in your in your work here youre studying so many of these issues and seeing this crisis unfold where do you see hope. Well you know there was a green or lebanese marxist by the name of my d. M. S. Who was assassinated in 1970 in one of his writings you know he lived in Beirut Lebanon or one of his writings about the devil wrote as long as you are resisting you have not been defeated and i actually think thats almost a talisman we are existing therefore we have not been defeated therefore history isnt who you know it would like to tell us that we have an extremist the things you say are crazy or whatever but that has no bearing on me what is suffering is such that our resistance is essentially in fact moral and the very fact that were assisting means were not being defeated it means you know for the future if i want to create the future and this cynicism is of no consequence to us it doesnt bother me. I agree and thank you so much i know youre always writing i think you have Something Like 30 bucks really you should work a little harder out there where where can people keep up with your writing will be should be good books really going to do mental they are all very much book leave that when my next book comes out its called washington blitz with a preface by evo morales oh. It will come out after the lockdown ends and id like to come back and talk with you a part of washington bullets that sounds great thank you so much thanks arrests we have to go to a short break but if your 2nd home looking for something to do check out my podcast alien or versity and check out the free r. T. America app app portable that t. V. Slash down will be right back. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Yes don the witch is dead Warren Buffett extortionist private equity that job is recorded Game Changing record breaking losses as Berkshire Hathaway is Holding Company goes belly up more or less. Something like because shes taken a whole new cohost coming up to take arms. To try to defeat. Really loose. Remember this is her close to the c. E. O. The city street scene the. Welcome back i mean we care about me the government set aside almost 600000000000. 00 to help Small Businesses large and some troubled Companies Got bailout money in the Small Business loan program 10000000. 00 of Small Business money went to shake shack. Shake shag you know that Old Neighborhood haunt created mr shape and his wife miss shaq i just love their original take on frozen crinkle cut fries the l. A. Lakers one of the richest franchises in the n. B. A. Received 4 point 6000000. 00 of Small Business funds yet such a Small Business sometimes Le Bron James has to clean the stadium hes just so good at getting those hard to reach places treasury secretary Stephen Newton the leader of the program and robot annoyed by human existence responded to the confusion over who and what qualifies as a Small Business certain people on the p. P. P. May have not been clear in understanding the certification so we will give people the benefit of the doubt were going to put enough a q. Out to explain the certification finally and f. A. Q. What are the questions like number one do you want to identify as a Small Business do you say like shake shack have about 6000. 00 employees are a publicly traded franchise and with a 15000000. 00 net profit and pay your c. E. O. 3800000. 00 a year then no youre not a Small Business you might have low selfesteem but if youre a big business you really are belief in yourself after some serious backlash the l. A. Lakers and shake shack pledge to return the money to the government so to 14 other publicly traded companies of which some have c. E. O. Pay higher than their multimillion dollar relief packages now whats in the governments plan for all that money that went into the wrong hands while. Theyre going to ask were. So so mr secretary are you going to request of those other companies obviously she was not alone in being a big company that got money in this regard youre going to ask them to return the money you know youre going to harvard to pay back the money. They should be taking harbor its going to you have a number of im going to hear the names harvard has a 40000000000. 00 in down and i feel like they were just taking the money and make sure some businesses go under steve maneuver laid down the law if you pay back the loan right away you wont have liability to the s. B. A. And to treasury but there are severe consequences for people who dont test properly the certification there are severe consequences i dont know what they will be right now but they will be bad. And then he said oh no not this that Big Companies should apologize for taking Small Business loans now you go to your summer home in the hamptons with your mistress and you think about what youve done on that jet ski. A trump donor and multimillionaire Monte Bennett who own several Hotel Companies 1006100000. 00 in their Paycheck Protection Program loans and runs he said he given the money back the loans were originally intended for employers to continue to pay their workers when theyre shut down thats why it was called the Paycheck Protection Program and companies wouldnt have to pay the loans back of 75 percent of the loans were spent on employee payroll but monday isnt paying its tab partly because of the distribution of loans have been outsourced to big banks who collect fees for each loan they make but dont have to monitor whether the recipients used the money appropriately on monday when the fed injected another 300000000000. 00 into the fund computers crashed but its likely that money will go just as quickly. But our nations mechanical father Stephen Nugent admires the speed with which this program was carried out we launched a Brand New Program and incredibly short period of time and the fact that we ran out of money just goes to show the success of this among the applicants for loans from the Small Business administration stimulus is Freedom Works a conservative operation that advocates small government and made its name opposing bailouts see they hate free money except when its for them when its for you thats dirty socialism now a story for people who would like to breathe after many realize that high air pollution increase over 1000 death rates european cities would like to get rid of some cars even if they are fiats milan is to introduce one of europes most ambitious schemes reallocating streets based from cars to cycling and walking in response to the crisis the city will turn 22 miles of road over to cyclists and pedestrians what is Italian Culture going to be like with scooters and i got. The pandemic has forced colleges to a vic their students and pull all operations on line but the problem is that students are still paying full price to ition some students are now suing their schools including california state universities the lawsuits claimed it was unfair and unlawful for u. C. To keep fees to cover the cost of certain on Campus Services which are no longer available to students paying exorbitant amounts of tuition for learning ancient greek must have felt like a scam before but now paying thousands of dollars to log on to your colleges version of you tube must feel extra scam me if you want to learn Animal Husbandry through videos staying home at your parents you want applying to college and now that creepy professor is extra creepy. Because hes not wearing pants people are starting to worry will anything be the same or will the only businesses thats arrive be the places that can afford to create its own patrons like this Baseball Club in taiwan that has cardboard cutouts of fans and thats all the insanity i have for you today we now go to redacted correspondent Natalie Mcgill with some mind blowing old news. Unless you have a peloton bias or an indoor track in your house you may find it hard these days to get rigorous exercise without fear of catching the plague thats what might be hard to believe there was once a plague that actually increased your cardiovascular exercise. Until your heart gave out it was called the dancing plague also known as dancing mania a phenomenon in europe between the 14th and 17th century and which break outs of spontaneous dancing were spurred by just one person before afflicting thousands of europeans one of the 1st recorded occurrences of this literal boogie fever was in germany in 1374 when describing the scene in germany just this hacker author of the 888 book the black death and the dancing many a road they formed circles and in the band and appearing to have lost all control over their senses continued dancing regardless of the bystanders for hours together and while delirium until of late they fell to the ground in a state of exhaustion. Actually that sounds less like a plague and more like a Bachelorette Party in new orleans as silly as a dancing plague sounds it was a real Health Problem and unfortunately in the 17th century treatments were as medically sound as a game of operation played on an active fault line. But this lack of medical know how it was apparent during a notable july 1518 outbreak of dancing plague and straw which is now modern day france author and history Professor John waller told the b. B. C. That in search of a solution authorities were convinced that the afflicted would only recover if they danced day and night basically it was turned into an episode of soul train except will likely weigh less rhythm or coronation and if youre having trouble picturing this just remember that soul train minus rhythm and coordination equals most dancers on american bandstand. Even though the dance mania started with one woman dancing in the middle of stronger the number of people who joined her group so much that by the end of august 1518 about 400 people had experienced the madness not until Early September did the epidemic recede after many of their hearts literally stopped beating it works just as important as the strange compulsion to dance is the mass hysteria the fuel to give in the dance and played in 1518 occurred during the prolonging period of famine and disease while the 1374 dancing playing coincided with another and much more infamous plague called the black death which killed up to 200000000 people according to waller it is much more likely for someone to enter a trance such as a never ending dance when your mental and physical health is under attack and here in america weve been known to embrace mass hysteria its the reason why mccarthyism still exists today and why y2k panic convinced americans the stock up on top go on me because the world could end on january 1st 2000 and it also explains why we currently have thousands of people across the us who feel compelled to yell outside their state capital because they literally want to die for a decent man a cure and a night out at red lobster. But before coronavirus came along there was still plenty of widespread hunger and preventable diseases in our developed country to suggest that swamps of america should have been afflicted by the dancing played by and. Oh no. Oh no its happening oh god also the library how every why is music playing. On a. Reporter from a temporary discotheque. This is that of the mcgill 3rd act its night and that is the show thank you for joining us watch out for a brand new episode of redacted tonight tomorrow night check us out on you tube dot com slash redacted tonight where the portable t. V. App also you can check out my podcast fail university a podcast work comedians talk about academic subjects the best they can and no its not a Real University it is a scam but thats not on like most universities right now thanks for tuning in good night and keep fighting at home. So he 5 years ago the scourge of fascism was defeated in europe the soviet union and its western allies were victorious what is the meaning of that victory today what explains freezing temperatures to rewrite history when it counts the efforts to diminish the sacrifice made by the people of the soviet union. Time of the time called her ration to repeat the same mantra sustainability its very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay number man at a more equitable and sustainable well. They claim that production is completely harmless. The be. Done because. It does not the present Companies Want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is Something Else this must be done to me even as i made much of. This is the moves of news to me didnt anyone and im stymied seem to be the best understood look to going in. The well the truth seems wrong. But old rules just dont fall. In the world yet to shape out just didnt come out to. And in the game trade equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart if we choose to look for common ground. This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. In washington coming up americans file more jobless claims as the u. S. Braces for a historic Unemployment Rate plus tensions between the u. S. And china as the crown of her threatens a new cold war between the 2 countries we have a packed show for you today so lets go and dive right in. We began by tracking the spread of the Novel Coronavirus the brics nations brazil and russia seeing sharp rises in their cases brazil topped 127000. 00 infections leading to an even gloomier outlook for the 2nd largest economy in the western hemisphere this as analysts at Capital Economics have predicted at least a 10 percent decline in the nations quarterly growth this due to the outbreak while russia still seeing a surge in cases with most of its capital and largest city moscow the virus lock down combined with the global drop in oil prices well theyve contracted russian economy activity by one 3rd according to the countrys federal tax service chief meanwhile the u. S. Still the global epicenter of the disease the us unemployment numbers are still growing a last week another 3200000 people filed for jobless claims bringing the 7 week total to 33500000 this while President Trump has renewed his calls for the Supreme Court to strike down the countrys Affordable Care act also known as obamacare this is a move criticized even by his own general attorney or attorney general rather according to sources. Obamacare is a disaster but we wrote it very well were going to we place obamacare with Great Health Care at a lesser price and preexisting conditions will be included and you wont have the individual mandate which was expensive and terrible and very unfair to everybody and it was very unpopular. Well the u. K. Has the most the most deaths in europe with more than 30000 fatalities some experts are forecasting a 14 percent drop in the nations g. D. P. In 2020 the worse in 300 years meanwhile the food and Drug Administration u. S. Biotech firm a durned has now now has a green light to move on to phase 2 trials for the coated 1000. 00 vaccine which shares jumped on the news the stock is up 150 percent year to date this comes as some scientists discovered slight mutations in some strains of the virus it remains unconfirmed whether these mutations will lead to an increase in contagiousness 1000. 00 still taking its toll on the Global Economy as unemployment and business failures continue to pile up for more numbers and formation on the coronavirus be sure to check our portable dot t. V. Up and look for the section at trucking coronavirus. Jobless claims still on the rise as we just mentioned new numbers released thursday showed 3. 2 more 1000000 americans filed for unemployment in the last week of april the total to 33500000 filings over the past 7 weeks thats now one in 5 americans on friday the Labor Department will release the number of payroll jobs lost in april now economists are predicting 21000000 lost jobs that would bring the Unemployment Rate to 16 percent skyrocketing from the 4. 4 percent in march and its highest levels since the Great Depression well for more were joined by boom bust cohost christine i. Cite are former fed insider and c. E. O. Of cool intelligence danielle de martino booth ladies thank you for joining me today christie lets start with you it looks like markets didnt have that big of a reaction to these new unemployment numbers what are we seeing on the surface day. Well on thursday the markets completely ignore the new unemployment numbers and was actually up in fact as it was massively in the middle of the day and it marked one of the 1st time one of the major indexes the nasdaq was up year to date the entire krone pandemic led to the closure of all the nonessential businesses so essentially we had all of the tech rally and all of the good earnings from Google Facebook essentially all the fang stocks it basically let all the market back up and we are