Runs directly over the center of camden new jersey so that commuters in and out of philadelphia never have to see this city this sacrifice. And thats what weve done weve rendered those trapped in the sacrifice owns the invisible. These people have been not just rendered invisible through infrastructure but theyve been rendered invisible through a media which doesnt report their stories. At all. And we should also know that theyre completely trapped they cant get loans rents are actually quite high in camden although youre living in jaded conditions. And this was one of the major Manufacturing Centers of the United States. You used to have r. C. A. Victor. The famous italian tenor caruso used to come here to. Campbells soup one of the Largest Companies in the country. This was a major port up until world war 2 a lot of battleships were built here and then just in the port in world war 235000 people were employed. Who are. Coming great admirer of the canadian intellectual John Ralston Saul who use the term corporate coup detat in his book the unconscious civilization was a very important book for me because it it gave me the vocabulary to under. Stand that corporate today tom how it was carried out and how it expressed itself in our society in 1905 writing Something Like that felt really risky because i was essentially saying you know mostly won the 2nd world war it was his proposal corporatism that seriously was defeated and war and i was really arguing that was the way of organizing society which he had become more and more powerful please raise your right hand and repeat after me. Donald john trump do solemnly swear and i was slightly covering my bad spot saying that it was a coup detat in slow motion because i was feeling my way into no one ever said anything like that. When i sign this bill into law america will have the lowest marginal tax rates and the most modern tax code among major industrialized nations. Where i guess i was wrong was that it wasnt slow motion was really very fast when you think about this really a matter of a couple. Donald trump do solemnly swear i will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States he also is president of the United States. And theres no question that the coup detat. Were well into that world were well into the corporatist world but this crisis there were is maybe we want to call it a legitimacy crisis right the status quo or the legitimating framework of capitalism right that has sort of guided us over the past 3 decades and this kind of organizing system has really lost legitimacy the main reason is simply that its been a project that has benefited elites enormously and despite all of the kind of rhetoric of how much. You know market flexibility will help workers how much free trade will help you know average people become more skilled and get better jobs the reality is ordinary working families are not doing well in fact theyre doing substantially worse than they were doing a few decades ago and im getting through to you is to be. Your get up on your little 21 inch screen. There is no. So this kind of ruling has created. At least in its political. And that gave rise to. The elites they look at trump is an embarrassment i mean hes idiotic hes. Competent hes lazy. At least was stupid enough to realize that he had to give the corporate c. E. O. s wall street what they wanted which was the tax cut. Temporary for the middle class are long term for. Private equity he gave the military 10 percent budget increase. And he deregulated Industries Like the e. P. A. And so they tolerated. A number of. Hard core economic libertarians particularly and individuals like the koch brothers. Made very clear since the early seventys that they would like to see a system that rewards Property Owners that is a democracy to represent those with money those with economic power. And thats the government we have today because. Its been shaped and crafted by billionaires theyre hoping to ensure that democracy doesnt exist but instead we have just a constellation of powerful interest groups. It was basically saying individuals cannot be the source of legitimacy in society it has to be done on the basis of self interest. Down on space specialist groups its astonishing when you read this and you see the extent to which that idea of group interests versus the responsibility of the citizen has become increasingly are. It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep thats a famous mussolini quote youre a tweet it was a lead it was was a lady id say ok dont go its a very good quote its a very interesting quote and i know its i saw it i saw what i know who said it but what difference does it make whether its was to lead me or somebody else and so certainly a very interesting quote that you want to be associated with a fascist. No i want to be associated with interesting quotes i think this particular time in American History including trump is one of the most important periods of the history including the revolution and i say that carefully as historian because theyre run out of options and what you see is donald trump is the end of the option of a corporate dominated system it may go to fascism its not at fascism yet thankfully the possibility of something approaching. Particularly if there is violence particularly in the black Community Something of repression attack on Civil Liberties is certainly possible and could be very ugly could be very ugly when you have a system of power where a tiny group of people have all of it are messed up that you have 8 people who control half their wealth when you have a tiny group of people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the rest of us dont get together and take it back. You can see that this is the logos been superimposed on to the other fighters face what all these 22 reveal d about the thinking of the most powerful man in the world and his priorities and some would argue his humanity by now it is obvious that trump is actually a bad negotiator this symbiotic relationship between trump and his socalled adversaries and c. N. N. B. C. Its kind of phony when you get right down to it i mean c. N. N. Made a 1000000000 dollars last year cable News Companies will steadily gain and make money during the course of the elections is and then as soon as the election happens their profits will drop off that did not happen with trump he gets 2 scoops of the no i scream with his chocolate cream pie instead of the single scoop for everyone else theyve continued to make money theyre making bank like never before and trump is definitely the reason everybody understands this. Is the symptom is not the disease the system was already so corrupt and the anger towards the elites in both the democratic and Republican Party was so pronounced. That his vote garrity actually gave voice to a large segment of the American Public that was sick of being betrayed and lied to we know from 2008 that the segment of the population that has suffered the most economically are africanamerican households. Because they can put forth a black face or a woman in functions is a brand and thats what obama was obama was a brand and thats why after he won in 2008 advertising age gave obama its top annual award which was marketer of the year. I love you try. The world is driven by. The dares thinks. We dare to ask. The us economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. You can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the lead up to the reality of it were not financially equality and the lack of Affordable Housing for a living minimum wage gave many people no choice. Thats been a problem with the city always turn every child told me stay away oh miss. This is the food that there is no answer because yes the 1st resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible clubs. Seem wrong but all in all just dont call. Me cold. To shape out this day comes to educate and engage with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. An entire village in alaska has had to if another country threaten the wipe out an american town. We do everything in our power to protect. Wanted me to skipping Climate Change is the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fuss just coastal erosion in the world lost about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. Is fast and that means the river is 35 closer than how it was before i dont think were part of the 1st for. The corporate state doesnt mind having Something Like a trump around and sort of embarrassing but they dont really mind providing he brings the taxes down and providing money gives them contracts and providing that he does what they want if it gets too annoying thing get rid of it. Isnt clear to what extent he understands that he is a sort of. Dancing puppet and all is so good to be here again sean youre the greatest ratings when im on your show about people who spend a lot of time and money getting the Supreme Court to remove controls on spending elections putting in place laws that have to do with how corporations run those people are watching carefully to see the extent to which is this boy our boy or not can we really get enough use out of him. Anymore on the real. Have i like you i dont we have ever seen you get we would make america strong again. We will make america will be again we will make america proud and we will make america safe again. If you are. Going to give up. That there were one. And i went back there and i think. They were strapped down here so we got a house like 9 years ago. With a guy you know 9 years ago when i have been proposed only this day here because this close to his backyard. A very i mean. It seems theres no good news when it comes to the Housing Market sales of existing homes plunged 8. 6 percent in november as compared to october and just 6 months 3 of the 5 biggest independent firms on wall street have now disappeared 9 years they are apparently went down hill broke apart their family their house. Their work during the month. You. You. Know. I was woken by one day and i was shocked to be got here was it was still dark out though the sun had come up came up and i seen a guy just should not there kind of looked like he was sleeping or whatever so i just kept walking and the guy was up there and he was overdosed and he was dead he must have sat there on my knee must either froze to death already overdosed itself goal. You saw the needle and you know his arm and there were body comes running by her like oh my god where do you get that is everybody wants to go so this was you know i mean its its a pretty sad situation going on and youre right. I was you park i think im coming out here walk i hear it this time im ok and they can think a wipe that we could at. Least or sacrifice some places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit. And left behind misery poverty environmental devastation. Are you. With. I. Think. What have you seen in terms of patterns like over or lets say the last couple years are is unstable or things getting worse wow would you describe i know within ive been here going on 9 years and over the past couple years b. R. Feeding more families and im talking my husband the wife and the children 20 percent might be actually living on the street. The rest of them may be in low Income Housing or Something Like. 200. 00 people might come in on the 1st day of the month and 400. 00 people might come in on the last day that much but its the people that are coming in towards the end of the month with the children and they tell us im here because i cant pay my electric bill and feed my kids why why do you think that is because they think that despite the fact that the economy has improved for a segment of the population the people that are at the bottom life really hasnt changed and probably got harder for them. And the rest are you know now you know that everybody calls madam says adams i graduated from our program that how many years ago at actually 2000 where were you in prison i was a Southern State southern baghdad southern was but it was a right thats where all the eric white area guards are would one go and has leg bibis hanging from a tree heads and. Yes were you doing before you want. I was selling drugs i was using drugs made came that was my lifestyle and suddenly using drugs you go to prison youre going to come out there you might come out better you might come out crazier yes finally come out was enough but youre going to change this place is. Based because you see the people call me and some of these people would come to hey used to be. Teach is buy a few things they had good trade their ideas between Mental Health and drugs you know they gradually put in the says. I. How many kids i have 66 kids are you work and yes where he worked all possible guards but cant do it people do what so how many hours a day do you work while this is where you are in prison and what where which one on the south would you. Please im trying to get my body from the heart you know nobody want to help you i mean. You see cities that have been sacrificed Youngstown Ohio one of the steel capitals of the world. What these capitalists have done in cities like camden in cities. Like youngstown in southern West Virginia theyre doing everywhere reconfiguring the Global Economy into an incredibly wealthy global oligarchy class dont take this the wrong way but you sound like a left wing nut bar i dont usually go on people defend a character assassination if you want to discuss issues thats fine but i mean the sounds like box news and i dont go on look you have had very eloquent writers people on crown royal can call in canada who laid this out. With you know incredible lucidity and to from how attack critique by cohen someone. Engages in the kind of trash talk and alluded to corporate are what i write well thank you so much for joining us here i dont know it will be. Thank you all for being here this very Incredible Group of world class Business Leaders thats what you are these c. E. O. s are in some cases pulling compensations cockroaches in the billions of dollars often defrauding their own shareholders so this is the bill right here that i consider this very much a bill for the middle class have a bill for jobs and jobs are produced through companies and corporations and you see that happening corporations are literally go it wild over this these corporations and banks what do they do with the tax cuts will be bought back their own stock 170800000000. 00 thats how much in buybacks this year that is the most seen this far into a calendar year ever why because if the stock goes up the compensation packages for the managers of these corporations goes up. Its not good for the economy its not even good for their company. Cooperations are literally go wild over the us. Theres a business trying to harvest their harvesting themselves. Thats what. The 62 year old wall street tycoon raked in nearly a half 1000000000. 00 between 2002007 the start of old school free markets low taxes low everything government doesnt provide anything for anybody kind of conservatism that is the policy preferences of the tiny 8 rich doods who own half the wealth and the you know layer of rich people underneath and it is not popular so you have to get it by other means and so you see things like Voter Suppression building more prisons and disenfranchising people who have spent time in you see gerrymandering you see all sorts of undemocratic practices that are used to make sure that people who might vote their own interests cant vote arent represented when they do vote and then you just see people running like trump promising to bring jobs back to their states and then what they do once in office is a big old bait and switch and its this kind of insane attitude where theyre just looting and stealing as fast as they can as everything collapses. This used to be. Just like losing a good friend. In florida i remember grandpa worked here all his life back in the sixtys i was a kid he used to tell me that one day this week this mill would close down his belly would cry i said there is no way its too big its huge it goes from miles just way to way miles an hour its never going to close and by golly his words were true this used to be the pride of the nation its gone its gone along with this and hundreds of other mills just like it just one right here is with this was the pride of nation. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person of those great. Thinks. We dare to ask. Is youll be a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation little community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Away. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. Join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. Huge antigovernment demonstrations of still being held about the russian capital after last weeks contested president ial election in which the longtime president Alexander Lukashenko secure a 6 term in office. This person has been in power for 26 years hes long treated with you steve and he doesnt want to marry. Me was probably because shankar rallies have also taken into the streets today in support of the beleaguered president. Her support Alexander Lukashenko i wasnt used to come here this is my personal choice. And the stories that shaped the week russia begins mass production of its new covert