Look at the thinkers behind the capitalism next after the news I'm Eileen Alphen dairy with news headlines the White House is ratcheting up pressure on the Russia and us a geisha in the White House announced a top f.b.i. And Justice Department officials agreed to meet with congressional leaders and review highly classified information Republican lawmakers have been seeking on the handling of the probe White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Chief of Staff John Kelly will broker the meeting between congressional leaders and the f.b.i. Justice Department and director of National Intelligence Office It wasn't immediately clear which congressional leaders will be involved or whether it will evolve any Democrats during a meeting yesterday with Donald Trump the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein and f.b.i. Director Christopher Ray also reiterated the Sunday announcement that the Justice Department's inspector general will expand an existing investigation into the Russia probe by examining whether there was any improper politically motivated surveillance as Trump has claimed the agreement came after Trump made an extraordinary demand that the Justice Department investigate whether the f.b.i. Infiltrated his presidential campaign Adam Schiff is the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee the Los Angeles Democrat has called Trump's claim of an embedded spy nonsense shift tweeted that Trump's demand that d.o.j. Investigate something they noted the untrue is an abuse of power and an effort to distract from his growing legal problems she has referred to the concern that trumps congressional allies will leaked details of the f.b.i. Probe to Trump and his attorneys cannot be a conduit to supply investigatory materials to the Trump legal defense team that would be a terrible abuse of power without substantiation Trump tweeted in March of 2017 that Former President Obama. Had conducted surveillance the previous October at Trump Tower where Trump ran his campaign and transition and maintains a residence the Palestinian foreign minister has asked the International Criminal Court to open an immediate investigation into alleged Israeli crimes committed against the Palestinian people Riad Malki said there is a culture of humanity when it comes to Israel he called the referral to the International Court a historic development I want to be clear that Palestine took this. You to the intensification of the rate and severity of the crimes committed against our people including settlement expansion of land grab and the legal exploitation of top notch of the sources as well as the brutal. Thought of gifted. Protesters articulately in the Gaza Strip Israeli snipers have killed an estimated 120 unarmed to Palestinians in the past 7 weeks of protest at the border fence of Gaza thousands more have been injured some of them severely. California lawmakers approved a measure that would let school employees or coworkers ask judges to temporarily remove guns from potentially dangerous people the vote on San Francisco is some a member of filled Tang's measure came in the wake of Friday's Maskell shooting in Texas and this year's earlier school massacre and Parkland Florida both of which taking referenced we've seen numerous shootings occur like the one on Friday unfortunately at schools people who clearly knew that a student was potentially a person who shouldn't have a gun a should have access to a gun would have been able to help with the kind of situation that potentially could have happened in parkland in Parkland we had a individual who clearly the principal knew the teachers knew that they could have used this type of. Training or we also see it in instances around coworkers so that's why we want to have the intention of expanding it to coworkers employers as well as people school administrators teachers faculty professors things Bill would expand on existing law California is already one of a handful of states to allow immediate family members and law enforcement officials to request gun violence restraining orders if a judge issues the order the gun owner would have to surrender their guns and ammunition to law enforcement Republican Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez says she doesn't think things Bill gives gun owners and off opportunity to defend themselves in court she said otherwise she might have supported it I don't have an issue with this bill were it not for the fact that it is x. Parte and here meaning that. Your weapons could be taken away a judge could decide that without you even being there to share your side of this story that could take 21 days for you to be able to do that and that is concerning to me San Diego Democrat Shirley Weber referred to mass shootings says she delivered the prayer at the opening of the day's Assembly session we have seen 27 violent acts in our schools and there has not even been 27 weeks in this year. In the past 9 years we have witnessed 288 school shootings the largest in the world and the 2nd largest is only 8 shootings in Mexico we've had more deaths in our schools this year than death among the men in uniform around the world and our schools are not supposed to be war zones Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King has introduced what he's calling the mayor live the shafts Act It's a response to the Oakland mayor's warning earlier this year that federal immigration agents were planning a massive roundup of undocumented immigrants in Northern California echoing Donald Trump King says that shaft action amounted to obstruction of justice his legislation would provide that government officials who tipped off what King calls illegal aliens about imminent federal immigration enforcement could face up to 5 years in prison and dependent legal analysts have said they generalized a warning about a pending immigration raid rather than a specific tip to targeted individuals does not amount to obstructing justice the u.s. Supreme Court ruled $5.00 to $4.00 that employers can prohibit their workers from banding together to complain about pay and conditions in the workplace the move effectively bans class action lawsuits critics say the ruling will chip away at employees' fundamental rights to sue their employers for wage and working condition violations as well as discrimination bill Gould is professor emeritus at Stanford Law School and chair of the National Labor Relations Board in the Clinton administration he said the ruling means employers get to dictate the terms under which workers can register a complaint. Not between 2 equal for these the trip to forgive it's its employer promulgated over traditions which are imposed upon for workers so this is an enormous search. Former National Labor Relations Board Chair Bill Gould weather forecast for the San Francisco Bay Area patchy drizzle and cloudy this morning partial afternoon clearing breezy heights in the sixty's and Fresno in the central San liking Valley mostly sunny 82 to 87 degrees I'm Eileen out in Derry when you say 94 point one at 8 o'clock it is 7 o 8 in the morning you're listening to up front Bryant of words Tikrit I want to give you a really quick status check on how your radio station is doing we are just over 3 days out from the end of our spring fund drive it's a hard stop for better or for worse we are ending Friday night because we're not going to extend the fun drive into Memorial weekend. As of this moment we are a daunting $256000.00 away from making our goal. There's no way to put a shine on it we are behind. It's been a while since we're behind I think it's been since before the election of Donald Trump. 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And if you want to shop around for thank you gifts everything we've offered during this fund drive is laid out menu style at w.w.w. Dot k.p. F.a. Dot org. This hour we're going to be going through some of the thinkers who are foundational to both explaining and apologizing for in justifying and challenging the economic system that we hold if capitalism is a new documentary series from filmmaker save in 6 parts doing that intellectual history and doing it from a critical perspective and we're going to start where most economy on a one textbooks do with the figure Adam Smith. Here it is what we can see Smith work exercise in putting together an absolutely numerous science of man. Claims that the origin of the economy is rooted in the natural human capacity for treating a barge during. Evidence he offered to savage tribes as he called them of the Americas Adam Smith was the 1st person to really lay it out a laboratory and explicitly Once upon a time when there was no money people would have to swap things directly you know I I would say Tell you what I'll give you 20 chickens for that cow All right maybe 25 chicken. In case there were no shopping. Is. There. We'll make a trade. That when they. Have it made we. Want to go see it come to a deal that's how the economy work. Gradually that becomes inconvenient maybe you don't want my chickens I don't have anything else who wants we settle on one thing that everybody's going to want that to come somebody it was a radical idea for the 1st time economic activity was stripped of its complex social context psychology cultural norms religion and community and studied in isolation as if in the laboratory. It makes perfect intuitive sense the problem is it isn't true. You know one's ever been able to find any place where that's way ordinary transactions take place and if you think about it it's kind of this why they wouldn't because it assumes that even in the Olympic Village everybody's going to be dealing with each other and what Congress called the spot trick I give you something you give me something we walked. Away. At him Smith's idea of barter and trade could have easily been demonstrated by the way these hunters in this isolated community barter and trade to their hunt. In the. Us. The problem however is that they don't and they never have. Just called a system of communal sharing reciprocity. Or the my home as as for most indigenous tribes it is a thing of the past. Today no one in the village will eat these my house will be taken to market a few hours boat ride away and. Adam Smith you can't really blame him well they have the evidence but since that economists have been told over and over again by other pol it is well know people don't actually do the. Job looking for a society like that for 200 years they don't exist yet they still feel obliged to tell the same story so clearly this story is doing something for them which has nothing to do. Reality. The My home is did not evolve from bartering and trading into a market economy no matter what 18th century theory would have us believe. Rather colonization and the market system tracked them down in the 1900 centuries once robber was found in the Amazon. Many My who knows and other tribes people were enslaved and murdered during the robber boom that followed. Only a few fading photographs remain. And the collective tribal memory of their transformation into day laborers. So if Adam Smith's science of man cannot explain the building blocks of a market economy how did the market evolve historically. Capitalism was not the product of ideas but of historical processes. Transformed from my friends and indeed all of us into almost economic us. So while Chinese for ages of discovery were decreed by an emperor Western discoveries began his private initiatives unleashing a completely different process. Of. The conquest of Mexico in 51000 by Cortez is an example of this new link created between Geographic discoveries colonization and money. The fascinating thing I discovered when I started looking at the actual histories of confused is every single one of them was in debt Cortez basically got himself deeper and deeper into debt he's a gambler he said To hell of it I'm never going to get out of debt I have are even more money and gamble everything on this crazy expedition. When asked by the envoy of sponsors Zuma the she could sing about. His obsession with Gould portrays replied my companions and I are suffering from a disease of the heart from which the reason no cure. Is soon as he actually concertinas people took a very and when he divided up the spoils he arranged things in such a way that none of his soldiers actually got any of the money they ended up and the tard for them for the cost of medical care a charge them for replacement weapons you charge them for everything they were on that they were out of an arm serving killing. Minus and look like Ok I tell you what I'm not going to let you off the hook I'll give you 10 year moratorium go off to the provinces and govern and so they became these incredibly rapacious governors who just extract as much money as possible. But I think that sense of outrage and shame. Indignation like we just fought for an entire year and somehow survived 2 of the greatest battles in World History and still not pay me anything I owe them this is crazy. And that out sense of outrage and the limits of power combined turns them into Lost never actually see the guys that Cortez or people like that owed money to you don't really know who they were but that relationship between the financiers are expecting their 5 percent or whatever it is 7 percent a year interest and the entrepreneur as it were the the warrior who goes out there and conquers worlds that relationship becomes the very basis of our modern economic monetary system even though we no longer think of it that way. To spend Compiz to doors with their for racial appetite for precious metals around here amounts. Of silver. They called it settled eco the rich mountain. Over the 3 centuries that followed more than $62.00 metric tons of silver was extracted from Sarah Rico at great human cost. That is you know what if you actually. Like you get that. It was this silver that triggered an explosion in international trade in Britain it's a global market fueled by silver from the Americas at a completely different impact. While in China it encouraged small producers here it destroyed them. As was the silver that flooded countries like Spain created a growing demand for English wool which made raising sheep more profitable. Business were displaced to make room for more sheep the process was called enclosure. It was go us if I would say it was blast if it was just a little harassing a lot of resistance and a lot of policy and people shoved into urban situations which had a very high death rate so essential was and says shows the desperation in emerging new industrial towns was higher than it was Satan and and the countryside. The screw down houses roads Thomas More the pluck downtowns and leave nothing standing but only churches to be made into sheep houses this army have dispossessed homeless and jobless peasants has become a potential labor force helping to create a labor market. Excerpts from the documentary series capitalism by evil and see if this is the 1st installment which is on the work of Adam Smith as well as his historic context and we'll return to it shortly before we do I need to ask for your help. I just got passed a note from the father of 3 of our listeners an anonymous donor in Richmond Paul in Palo Alto in June point raise have offered to double $1165.00 if we can raise the equivalent amount to match it and it says here in 20 minutes. Now for most of the 20 minutes we're going to play you more from the documentary series but if you call right now we can give you a copy of the 6 documentary scent that comprises capitalism for a pledge of $240.00 or more at 180-439-5732 it's a documentary series that does not have distribution in the United States commercially it's made available to institutions they have to pay $498.00 for that schools and libraries it is a rare day that we are able to offer you something through our fund drive for less than the price you're able to find it anywhere else but today is one of those days if you make that $240.00 pledge right now we'll give you the 6 documentaries that comprise capitalism and your pledge will go further because of this challenge 180-439-5732 extension 90 seconds to we go back the documentary series takes you through Adam Smith's work puts them in a historic context that's what you're listening to now is ideas look very different in pre-industrial London than they do in 21st century America takes you through the origins of free trade with David Ricardo points out what his class position was in his society through the major challenges to capitalism the true inspiration with the writing of Karl Marx and the revolutionary moments of the 19th century asks why 20th century communism failed takes you into the intellectual tradition that started with Karl put on gays and sought to move economics past materialism and math and put it in a social cultural and historical context it's not just history they also do field reporting from modern day economic crisis points everywhere from South China to Haiti to Flint Michigan. 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So the amount of terroristic type of laws that are being passed to criminalize poverty to be increasing debt to create new human beings that can be bought and sold that helps bring about a particular kind of market the people who were thrown off the ladder lost that connection to the land if you've got access to that and so you have a certain measure of independence you are your own boss. And you know really beholden to anybody and. Where is one seal alienated from the land you're in a much more insecure situation and. You're less able to contest the forces of the economy now is a situation where you know scape the wheels of capitalism turning they had to persuade people to consume which was kind of one of the problems with people living on their own land on the common land or whatever it was listed they were. That wild about consuming you don't need to come by very much if you actually live in a place like this is just loads to do and keep yourself amazed and eat and so forth actually dispose of. You so the trail of silver and gold began in the new world helps to stimulate a global market that eventually t