35 Burst results for "U.S. Government"
AP News Radio
Debt limit deal heads to vote in full House while McCarthy scrambles for GOP approval
"The debt ceiling and budget deal worked out between House speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden has advanced to the full House, where a vote is expected Wednesday. I'm Ben Thomas with a look at its progress. The House rules committee voted 7 to 6 to advance the bill, chairman Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican calling it a product of compromise. And reflects the realities of a divided government. We shouldn't allow that to overshadow what this bill accomplishes. It would restrict spending for the next two years while also suspending the nation's debt limit during that time, and the nonpartisan congressional budget office says it reduces deficits by $1.5 trillion over the decade, but South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman also a member of the freedom caucus was disappointed. We had a real bill that was going to make a difference. We did in the original bill. This being watered down is completely takes the teeth out of it. And I see why the Democrats vote for it. I see it now. He and Texas congressman chip Roy, who earlier in the day, said not one Republican should vote for this deal. Join Democrats in opposing the bill's advance. Ranking Democrat Jim mcgovern of Massachusetts accusing the GOP of weaponizing the debt ceiling, saying it's a precedent that will forever haunt the nation. One party can use the full faith and credit of the United States as a hostage to pass their widely unpopular ideas. Adding, someday, hopefully not in my lifetime, but someday there will be a Republican president. And you will remember this moment because what you are trying to do is get things enacted that you could not get done through regular order. Ben Thomas, Washington
Crypto Curious
Debt Ceiling News Pumps BTC
"Let's go straight into some market talk. Is it all around what's happened with the debt ceiling, do we think? Or is there a bit more to it? I'm not sure, but that news about the debt ceiling has really pushed up all asset classes, and Bitcoin had a bit of a shakeout last week. Even you had a bit of a panic sell trace, but we're back to the races now. Police. I don't know if I had a panic sell. Come on. We're back to the pre -sell -off levels. I guess it was the debt ceiling, which you can give a bit of an update to. Let's talk about that. Crypto prices had a nice little pump on Sunday night with the news that the US lawmakers had ended their stalemate over the government's debt ceiling debate. As part of the deal agreed between President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the plans are a 30 % tax on crypto mining also has been shelved as part of this deal. So I think what exactly was the deal as well? There's no debt ceiling until January 2025? I mean, that's interesting. It's the kicking the can down the road scenario that every country is doing basically, but particularly America has been leading the way for well over a decade. I'm certainly no financial expert, but what I do know is if you keep printing money, money is going to be useless. Absolutely. We've been on the way there for a long time. I'm sure that's why many people are in crypto. I didn't see this coming. I thought they'd sort of let what needs to happen happen, but how much further can they go? They sort of keep making their own rules and, like I said, keep kicking the can down the road. So the inevitable will happen at one point or another. All they're doing is, in my opinion, making what will inevitably happen
The Breakdown
Debt Ceiling Deal Gives Unlimited Debt Until 2025
"All right, friends, well, today, as I said, we are hopefully wrapping up or at least putting a big momentary pause on the macro story that has dominated markets for the past few months. Yes, a deal has been reached in the debt ceiling standoff with both President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy making major concessions in order to move the matter forward. The deal on the table would suspend the debt ceiling entirely until the 1st of January 2025. Presumably this puts off the next dispute over federal borrowing until the middle of that year and uncapping the debt limit in the interim. The core of the argument is a two -year cap on federal spending, although each side is presenting the story slightly differently. The White House claims the spending cap would reduce spending by around $1 trillion over while the GOP argue that spending cuts are twice that level. New York Times analysis puts the spending reduction at around $55 billion next year and another $81 billion the following year. So let's talk about what's actually in the deal. The set of tradeoffs in the deal have caused outrage among numerous groups of ideologically aligned lawmakers and special interest groups on both sides of the aisle to the point where there are few truly happy with the compromise. Now that of course might mean in America's polarized politics that it's actually a good compromise deal. IRS funding has been cut, with $20 billion of the $80 billion in additional funding to bolster the tax department now being repurposed to fund discretionary government programs. And what's worth noting here is that early in the negotiations, this IRS funding was a red line for the president. You will no doubt remember when he said that he would not accept any deal that benefited quote wealthy tax cheats and crypto traders. Another aspect of the deal was that work requirements for food stamps recipients will be expanded. However, the cohort of people this will affect appears to be small. Only impacting recipients aged 50 to 54 while exempting veterans, the homeless and people who grew up in foster care. However, negligible the effect on the budget, the expansion of work requirements within the benefits program was an important symbolic policy for hardline conservatives. And small as the concession might seem, there are still many on the left who are very, very against
Mark Levin
Kevin McCarthy: Dems Will Say There's Nothing in the Bill for Them
"First McCarthy cut to go Right because at this point you guys only Republicans only control one half of one branch of government So for you to get what you got was great For the most part because the Republicans did much better in this than the Democrats did obviously And to your point Joe Biden tends to negotiate Go ahead There are going to be You know a bunch of Republicans on the big vote are going to vote now You're going to need a bunch of Democrats to say you know what I can't believe I'm doing this I'm going to vote with Kevin McCarthy Well normally when you make when you come to an agreement with two different parties you have people on both parties vote for it But the difficulty that's different than any time before is the Democrats will tell you there's nothing in the bill for them Nothing The president numerous times He kept asking for tax increases new government programs and I just said no And he says well there's nothing in it for us to vote for That's debt ceiling I'm not sure people want to go past that deadline and interest rates go up in others I think this is a good first step but we can go much further And I have a plan for that coming forward where we can look at the entire budget and tackle our problems especially in a bipartisan way This is reasonable This is sensible but it's also responsible thing to do He's among the most popular Republicans in the country And there's at least one common cause he's talking about making a motion to remove him as speaker So I don't follow the kamikazes
AP News Radio
Israeli army says Palestinian gunmen kills Israeli civilian in West Bank shooting
"The Israeli armies has Palestinian gunmen have shot and killed an Israeli civilian near the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, paramedics, say a man in his 30s was in a serious condition with a gunshot wound, while troops pursued the suspected gunmen. He was later taken to a local hospital which later pronounced him dead. The incident is the latest in more than a year long surge of violence that has racked the West Bank under Israel's most right-wing government in history during that time Israel has expanded near nightly military raids throughout the area in response to an increase in Palestinian attacks. I'm Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
Humanitarian group MSF calls for support for refugees in Kenya affected by cholera crisis
"Refugees in Kenya's dadaab camps are believed to have been hit by a cholera outbreak as the population in the facilities grows rapidly. Doctors Without Borders says 2786 refugees have been affected so far, and that there's an imminent risk of outbreaks of other gastrointestinal diseases that adapt camps, host more than 300,000 people and with a biting drought in neighboring Somalia, the numbers are on the rise, straining water and sanitation services. In 2016, the Kenyan government had announced plans to shut the camps over concerns that extremists from Somalia's Al shabab group were hiding there making the camps a conduit for smuggling weapons, but the United Nations had urged Kenya to reconsider the plan and continue to offer refuge to victims of violence and trauma. There are plans to open another camp in the complex to accommodate new arrivals and ease overcrowding. I'm Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
Police fire tear gas and protesters burn vehicles near home of Senegal's main opposition leader
"Clashes between police and the supporters of Senegal's main opposition leader have continued days before a court verdict is expected on charges against the politician. Police fire tear gas and demonstrators burn cars near usman sonko's home. He's being tried for rape and death threats against a woman working at a massage parlor and could face up to ten years in prison if convicted he would also be barred from running in next year's presidential elections. But sonko and his supporters accused president Mackey Sal's government of trying to derail his candidacy. The clashes come a day after police stopped sonko's freedom caravan from traveling from his hometown in the south where he's mayor to the capital where he was forced into his duck our home last week, one person was killed and others were injured in similar clashes between police and sonko's supporters in the south. Senegal's government says it will stand firm against any attempt to disrupt public order. I am Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
Debt ceiling takeaways: Biden's invite to liberal skeptics to 'talk to me,' McCarthy's balancing act
"Congress is back and topping the agenda is a debt ceiling deal. No one claims to really like. I'm Ben Thomas with a closer look. Democrats who have reservations about this compromise bill. Talk to me. President Biden acknowledges not all Democrats, particularly those on the left, may vote for the package, Congress is taking up. But I spoke to a whole bunch of people and it feels good. We'll see when the votes start. His debt ceiling deal with House speaker Kevin McCarthy runs 99 pages, both can point to provisions they can call victories, funding medical care for veterans and changing work requirements for government aid and streamlining environmental reviews for energy projects. But each side has a job to do to win over enough lawmakers in their parties to pass it. Some conservatives are concerned the deal doesn't cut future deficits enough. Meanwhile, Democrats have been worried about those changes to programs like food stamps. Ben Thomas, Washington
AP News Radio
South African president appoints judge to oversee weapons-for-Russia inquiry
"The South African president Cyril ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations the country supplied arms to Russia. The U.S. ambassador to South Africa claims weapons and ammunition were loaded onto a Russian flagged cargo ship that secretly docked at a naval base near Cape Town in December last year, ambassador Ruben brickett indicated that the allegations were based on U.S. intelligence and that he would bet his life on the accuracy of his claim. The container carrying ship named lady R is already under U.S. sanctions for being tied to a company that has transported weapons to aid the Russian war effort in Ukraine, South Africa has denied there was any government sanctioned deal to provide weapons to Russia, although it hasn't categorically ruled out that an unofficial transaction took place involving another entity. The South African president's office says the panel has 6 weeks to complete its investigations and another two weeks from then to provide a report to ramaphosa. I am Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
Jan. 6 rioters are raking in thousands in donations. Now the US is coming after their haul
"Some January 6th rioters are raking in thousands of dollars in donations, now the Justice Department is coming after that money. For those who stormed the capitol on January 6th, 2021, it's not just a prison sentence they face, hefty fines are also going along with it. That's because prosecutors appear to be ramping up efforts to prevent them from profiting from their participation. The Justice Department, in some cases, questioning whether the money they have been raising goes to their legal defense when they're getting government funded lawyers. Daniel Goodwin, who participated in the January 6th riots and was convicted, promoted a website to raise money, the feds now want him to give up more than $25,000. I'm Julie Walker.
AP News Radio
Biden and GOP reach debt-ceiling deal. Now Congress must approve it to prevent calamitous default
"An agreement on the debt deal has been reached. Now that President Biden and House speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement in principle, a House vote has been scheduled. We're going to put the bill on the floor in 72 hours and facet. But democratic congressman Jim heims on Fox News Sunday isn't so sure. It's not done yet, and all you need to do is check the social media of the freedom caucus who are just obliterating this deal. A House vote is expected to take place Wednesday, support from both parties will be needed to win congressional approval before a projected June 5th government default. I'm Shelley Adler.
AP News Radio
Biden, GOP reach debt-ceiling deal, now Congress must approve it to prevent calamitous default
"A debt ceiling deal has been reached by President Biden and the GOP now Congress must approve it to prevent a potentially disastrous U.S. default. Negotiators agreed to some Republican demands for increased work requirements for food stamp recipients, but stopped short of greater spending cuts overall that Republicans wanted, House speaker Kevin McCarthy calls it an agreement in principle worthy of the American people. As historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms and lift people out of poverty into the workforce, Rey and government overreach, there are no new taxes, no new government programs. In a statement, President Biden says the agreement represents a compromise, which means not everyone gets what they want. Central to the compromise a two year budget deal that would hold spending flat for 2024 and increase it by 1% the following year in exchange for raising the debt limit for two years. Support from both parties will be needed to win congressional approval before a projected June 5th government default. I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
US: Chinese agents paid bribes in plot to disrupt anti-communist Falun Gong movement
"Too suspected Chinese agents have been charged in the U.S. with bribery to disrupt an anti communist group. On Norman hall, federal authorities have arrested two suspected Chinese government agents in connection with an alleged plot by Beijing to disrupt and ultimately topple the exile at a Commodus falun gong spiritual movement. John chin and Lin thong were charged in an indictment on sealed Friday with scheming to revoke a New York based falun gong organization's tax exempt status and paying bribes to an undercover officer posing as a U.S. tax agent. Prosecutors say evidence includes war tapped conversations, the Justice Department has made a series of prosecutions in recent years to disrupt China's efforts in the U.S. to identify locate and silence critics and pro democracy activists. I Norman hall
The Dan Bongino Show
Michael Loadenthal: Asking for Money to Censor Conservatives
"And this meeting they're talking about how exactly if I could just sum it up how they can censor their political opponents conservatives They don't even talk about it and coded language The strangest thing about this is that this group is working with the DHS Now the grant they got is after this When I'm about to play the audio which is shocking it's from 2021 I have two bits from it right They submitted this audio video to the GHS to get a grant which according to this Fox News report came in 2022 and the school didn't notice inclusion of the seminar and its grant application So I want to be clear because I don't want to explain that in a little bit of confusing manner in my apologies This is such an important story I don't want to lose it This is a bunch of people on tape talking about how to censor conservatives sending the tape to the government to get money and the government then giving them a grant to censor conservatives Got it Easy explained that way Here it is Here's cut one It's about 20 seconds Here's Michael lodon doll Suggesting that they're trying to censor them conservatives that this may be illegal you should send us some money and that he's spoken to the FBI about it This is crazy Check this out To go back to your question about what can liberals do And I feel like it's a trait and simple answer but you can give money That's always really appreciated We have legal defense funds because we get trouble A lot of the things we're doing are illegal What I'm saying what I'm telling you a lot of it involves breaking the law And this is what the FBI will say I've had many conversations with the FBI about this So nuts This is so insane That this guy was like this is amazing I saw this on heritage's Twitter feed this morning And I'm having again it's a quote my friend Neil from the Secret Service How do you get your arms around that It's not that he said it It's that this was apparently in a submission to DHS
AP News Radio
Biden releases new strategy to tackle rise in antisemitism, says 'hate will not prevail'
"The White House has unveiled a new 100 step government blueprint for fighting violence and discrimination directed at Jewish people in America. Noting an alarming rise in the country. Vanished semitic incidents are at a record high. President Biden is outlined more than 100 steps, government, business, and community leaders can embrace to counter bias and hate. Their centered around increasing awareness of anti semitism, improving security for Jewish communities, reversing the normalization of anti semitism, and building solidarity across communities. At last week's reception, marking Jewish American heritage month. The president said there's an increase in physical violence and intimidation. Anti semitic flyers and driveways and banners on bridges. Anti semitic conspiracy theories rampant online. It's unconscionable. It's almost unbelievable. It's despicable. He says the recommendations send a message, hate, will not prevail in America. I'm Jackie Quinn.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Government Cannot Continue Spending the Way It Is Now
"To be straight with you about something Jim is like oh wait no I'm worried Whenever I start off with something like that you know this show the show can go any one of a thousand directions at any given moment Depends on who emailed me during the break No but seriously I need to be straight with you about something I'm very passionate about economics and finance I personally passionate I just love it I don't know why I don't know I like making money I don't know And I just started reading some books and it turned into read more books and then it turned into self help books It turned into like Friedman books and jump eater books and soul books and Hayek books on economic theories and then I started reading somehow out of the left these think about Keynes and read a great book why Kane's was wrong one of my favorite books then I went to business school and focused on finance I'm just fascinated with the plane pure numbers of economics and why people rationally try to maximize their positions in the world and how they do it by how they allocate their money Economics is called the dismal science and some of these segments people like some don't but this is a simple one Because the premise of it I'm going to start with is absolutely factually accurate We are going broke as a country And we are growing broke at a rapidly increasing rate You know herb Stein famous economist once said what can continue won't I want to state to you in unequivocal terms that the amount of money the government is spending right now In contrast to the amount of money it takes in it can't continue We are over $30 trillion in debt I want you to understand what that means
AP News Radio
Companies are finding it's not so simple to leave Russia. Others are quietly staying put
"Global companies are finding it's not so simple to leave Russia. Others are quietly staying put more than a year after many companies left Russia in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, something became clear, leaving Russia was not as simple as it might have seen, increasingly, Russia has put hurdles in the way of companies that want out, requiring approval by a government commission and imposing painful discounts and taxes on prices. Feeling the push and pull between western sanctions and outrage public opinion on one side and Russia's efforts to discourage and penalize departures on the other, some companies are staying puts. Meanwhile, Russian consumers are not feeling a big difference, as many companies that have left, are taken over by Russian owners, providing almost identical products. I'm Karen Chammas
The Dan Bongino Show
Vivek Ramaswamy: 'America First' Agenda Belongs to the People
"You're out there you're busting your butt knocking on doors I saw you just got some nice endorsements out of a very important key state out of New Hampshire It's got to feel pretty rewarding I mean you came in you know to be honest with pretty low name ID compared to at least president Trump has got universal name ID and a couple others and you seem to have some momentum and when did your sales there Yeah we're doing well It's early days Dan but the last month has been incredible We're now polling at third place if not tied for third place in most polls and that's rewarding early on But it isn't about me I think that's actually the thing we got to remember at this It's not about Trump It's not about desantis This is about the people of this country And I'll tell you that in America first it doesn't belong to Trump and it doesn't belong to me It belongs to the people That's the way we're running this campaign And what I'm trying to do is take the America first agenda even further than my friend our friend Donald Trump took it If we're doing it based on first principles and moral authority I think we go even further than if it's just based on vengeance and grievance And one of the things I'm doing is we're speaking the hard truth is unapologetically Yes I think we can use the military to solve the border crisis at the southern border Yes I think we can actually shut down government agencies that should not exist rather than just claim to reform them End affirmative action There's a lot we're doing then that's outside of what you're allowed to say in a debate like this LinkedIn actually just yesterday censored me for one of the things that I said on their site about how Bannon the climate agenda that's driven by China they censored my account U.S. presidential candidate but that's okay We're going to take that because that's what it means to speak hard truths and do it without apology And that's the way we're running the race
The Breakdown
"u.s. government" Discussed on The Breakdown
"What's going on guys? It is Sunday, April 2nd, and that means it's time for long reads Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation. Come join us on the breakers Discord. You can find a link at the show notes or go to bit LY slash breakdown pod. All right Friends, happy Sunday. You know, I think when I think about it, when we look back at what this week was about. There are a number of possibilities. It could be the week that binance was sued by the CFTC. It might be the week that do Kwan was arrested. But I think one of the contenders certainly is that this was the week that Elizabeth Warren, a U.S. senator openly declared war on crypto. What do I mean by that? Well, senator Warren took an article headline from February, which read Elizabeth Warren is building an anti crypto army and put it front and center in her fundraising materials for her reelection campaign. The phrase they used was literally anti crypto army. If that doesn't seem like a declaration of war, I just don't know what does. Which brings us to this week's long read Sunday piece. It's by the coin desk editorial team, specifically Kevin Reynolds, and is called it sure looks like the U.S. is trying to kill crypto. The subheading is the federal government's recent actions against crypto are rightly or wrongly, widely perceived as a coordinated attempt to maim digital assets. This risks sending a vital industry overseas without actually protecting investors. Now, as you'll see, what makes this a little bit different from other coin desk pieces is that this is not just the opinion of one author, but instead is presented as the editorial position of the coin desk staff itself. As I mentioned, it's written by Kevin Reynolds coin desks editor in chief.
Simply Bitcoin
"u.s. government" Discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"The Bitcoin conference. That was Steve aoki hyping the crowd, man. I don't think people know that, bro there's a musical element to that as well, right? Yeah, absolutely. And I was there. I remember when that happened. Shortly after, he decided to go and grab some cakes and just absolutely take people in the crowd. So that was super fun. But yeah, yeah, there's a huge cultural element to our conference from music to art. With Bitcoin comes culture, obviously. And we can't reject the culture side. So there's lots to do with culture, there's many activations for whichever kind of interest this year's. Absolutely. Man, well, I was telling Chris off offscreen before the show. It's amazing how quickly the conference has sprung up on all of us. I think Christian 80 days away from the conference. So we'll be seeing you guys in Miami. But we had Chris on the other day and he kind of dropped some sauce on us about what to what to be excited about at the conference. So what can you add on this? Chris, what should the people be focused on? Experiences are we going to see this year? Is it going to be as big as last year? These are the questions people want to know. Yeah, 80 four days away to be exact, it's right around the corner. The team is really in gear to prepare for this conference and we're really excited to host everyone in Miami again. Let's admit it though. We're in a bear market. Everybody knows that we're in a bear market. And that is actually beautiful about Bitcoin that we're not just in this hype mania phase that we have these years to build as a community. So it's going to be very focused around that around the bear market around the bitcoiners that have stuck around and are not just here for the hype that are not just here for the CNN articles. For the ones that are really here for Bitcoin in the long term success of it. And that is kind of what we're gearing our conference around.
Simply Bitcoin
"u.s. government" Discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"All that being said, now does it make sense or the SEC is doing these types of moves. Anyways, all you have to do is you look under the hood, the answers are all there. They're not playing fair. And they're using the guys of the climate, they're using the guise of equity and inclusion. And they're using the guides of you need the regulators to help us. Well, guess what, guys, no banker went to jail for 2008. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. What about that? Why didn't you guys do that? How about all the warnings about FTX? Why didn't you guys step in sooner, huh? You guys didn't say anything about that. You guys are more interested in protecting your own moats than you are interested in protecting the American people and that's what it's about. And you know what? Bitcoin exposes all incentives and this is no different. Anyways, opti, what are your thoughts, bro? Give me some horns for that one. I mean, I'm going to take a different little different angle. Obviously, stablecoins are wrecked and as a Bitcoin show as a Bitcoin or this is just more proof. And how much more proof do you need that you should only be holding Bitcoin? As Niko laid it out, it's very obvious what is going on. Once you're paying attention. But you know, I'm a Bitcoin. Like sats are my stablecoin. And I'm going to double down on what you said. You know, stablecoins give people a false sense of safety. They're only stable until they're not. I kind of agree with that little point that they're saying there. But I think it's hilarious that, of course, the angle this has CBDCs are the answer to all of this when it's just like, just the amazing amount of doublespeak coming out from the U.S. government and politicians and bankers and stuff about Bitcoin. And like Nico said in the past, man, every time they omit Bitcoin from research papers, that's pure signal. They can't talk about Bitcoin because Bitcoin blows everything out of the water. So as a bitcoiners, unaffected, bitcoiners stay winning, our incentives are still pure, just take your Bitcoin into self custody and all of this is just us watching the popcorn. But man, I would not want to be holding shit coins nor stablecoins at this point in time because it seems like we're going to see a lot more fireworks in that arena coming up in this year 2023. So hey man, hold Bitcoin and take it in the self custody and you can avoid all this. Absolutely. Chris, what's your take on this, bro? Yeah, there's a lot to unpack for sure. One thing that I find very interesting is just the idea of the post kinesia economist. And when you really dive deep into who these people are, they're not very, I guess, discreet about saying that they're kinesin economists.
Simply Bitcoin
"u.s. government" Discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"Scan and display QR codes directly on the device, the sign transactions, and verify addresses with ease. Use your blockstream Jade with your favorite wallet software, such as the blockstream green, blue wallet electrum and sparrow. Get yourself a blockstream Jade today and take self custody of your Bitcoin. All right guys, so connect this with what we were talking about during the numbers. The next target, I believe, for the U.S. government, specifically. And I think they needed the FTX debacle as ammunition. So they did a bunch of things the Caitlyn longs crypto Bitcoin bank in Wyoming that was taking advantage of the Wyoming legislation shout out to Cynthia lummis. Was denied a federal banking charter. They slow walked her for a while, initially those applications take two weeks to approve. They moved the goalposts. They changed the regulations. She got into a lawsuit. We're going to try to get her on the show to talk about it. But, you know, there's a shadow war. And I don't think that this is a popular, a very popular issue, specifically for the younger generation, the younger generations that have a large portion of their net worth in Bitcoin, right? So this is a great piece by Nick Carter. We've covered it many times on the show, but it just kind of gives you a context, right? Because I want to give you context because if you just look at all these individual pieces of news on the surface, it doesn't paint the broader picture. I really believe that they're trying to capture stablecoins. I think that they want people using Central Bank digital currencies. That's what this is about. Is stablecoins are dangerous, stablecoins are unregulated, stablecoins aren't backed by anything. So therefore what we need are Central Bank digital currencies. I'm going to make the case for that today. But first, let me risk because it kind of sets the tone. So Nick Carter goes on to say, what began as a trickle is now a flood the U.S. government is using the banking sector to organize these sophisticated widespread crackdown against the Bitcoin and shitcoin industry. And the administration's efforts are no secret. They're expressed plainly in memos, regulatory guidelines, and blog posts. However, the breadth of this plan, spanning virtually every financial regulator, as well as its highly highly coordinated nature as even the most steely eyed crypto veterans nervous that the crypto businesses might end up completely unbanked, stablecoins may be stranded and unable to manage flows in and out of crypto and exchanges might be shut off from the banking system entirely.
Simply Bitcoin
"u.s. government" Discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"And it's really good to see members of Congress and not only him by all the members of Congress that actually commented on his bill. In support of his bill. And this is just a start, but also part of me thinks that, well, are we coping here, right? Are we trying to find a middle ground? Are we are we trying to say, okay, well, you can have your CBDC, but it can't do this, or it can't do that. And ultimately, we as bitcoiners, I believe that we should completely reject the CBC. The CBDC in and of itself has no ability to even exist without an invasion of privacy and invasion of monetary right. So I think this absolutely is a step in the right direction. And it's awesome to see members of our leadership talk about this. But we shouldn't just settle with this one Bill, right? We should keep pushing them forward and keep pushing them towards Bitcoin, which ultimately is all three of us know and many in the audience know would be the ultimate form of self sovereignty, freedom money, and really where we want to where we want to get to. But all in all, I think it's great. This is great progress. And of course, anything that goes against what Nancy Pelosi has to say. And Elizabeth Warren has to say, I'd be a fan of. Absolutely, man. The status to put it nicely. They want to force you to use the money that steals from you. It's crazy and we must we must keep hammering that point home, you know? Anyways, opti, what's your take on this? And then we'll get to the news. Yeah. Well, first off, level Chris said, couldn't agree more. But I think those tweets that you brought up, they're really eye opening. There's still some decent politicians out there that seem to, you know, I know I take a very negative perspective when it comes to politicians. I don't trust them at all. But I think Nico said, this is a good sign and it kind of reminds me of what Pierre rochard said on an IRL. And it's back to this idea that many politicians think just like us bitcoiners and they're seeing exactly what we're seeing. And I mean, they even use the same meme that we talk about on the show all the time. Unelected bureaucrats. We say that what? Every single day, Niko. So I think it's important to remember that politicians are still human. Or at least I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they're still human. And there is a loud small minority that wants to take your freedom and is against Bitcoin, but a lot of people are seeing the writing on the wall.
Simply Bitcoin
"u.s. government" Discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"Guys like I already told you you don't want to miss Bitcoin 2023. It's from May 18th through the 20th, 2023, and sunny sunny, Miami Beach, Florida. You can use the promo code simply to get a major discount on your tickets. Let's check out some of the speakers because it's going to be absolutely bonkers. We have Matt o'dell Lin Alden, Stacey Herbert, Alex gladstein, Jack Mueller's the Chad Michael saylor, Corey clipson, Arthur Hayes and many, many more. You definitely don't want to miss this Bitcoin celebration. Anyways, at
Simply Bitcoin
"u.s. government" Discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"So absolutely bonkers, it could be. I don't know for sure, but the U.S. government was responsible for the latest pump. Absolutely nuts. I know, right? Every time I go on an ico Jones rant, bro like all of a sudden like clipped, Niko, Niko needs to be Nico needs to go away. Service provider, bro and his words are dangerous. He's dangerous words. Anyways, opti, what are your thoughts on all this bro? Well, my first thought is Uncle Sam, please pump my bag, sir. Thank you very much. Man, I don't know. It's a wild conspiracy theory or coincidence or whatever you want to talk about. But I think my point is as much as Tucker has been talking about Bitcoin a lot. He kind of painted Bitcoin and negative light by saying, all ransom in this nature are paid in Bitcoin. And I'm sure that the normies out there, the average person listening, is leaning into the narratives of Bitcoin is for criminals, Bitcoin is for money laundering. And then also, if you add that with this bit toe exchange, nothing burger thing, like an exchange that no one has ever heard. It's very, very interesting considering what's going on with another exchange that has been in the news for a while. FTX, the biggest explosion of 2022. And SPF is running wild. They clamp down on an unknown Russian exchange. That no one's ever heard of. But I mean, it must be nice having good friends and having friends in high places. But to me, this is just narrative control. This is back to the idea of framing Bitcoin and shit coins. As only used by criminals, as only used for money laundering, and also they use the R word. They use the Russian exchange and of course they're painting it in this light of you can't let the bad Russians do things with their money. We must sanction them. And again, man, it was a nothing burger. This is pure narrative control. And it's just back to what we talk about all the time. Like Bitcoin is terrifying the powers that be because they do not want you to have freedom money. They do not want you to opt out of the madness and opt out of the Fiat system because they want to control everything about you. And again, this isn't us just being tinfoil hat wears. We continuously bring the receipts of this nature. We continuously connect the dots to tell you these people don't care about you. They don't want what's best for you. If you still think that the government has your best intentions in mind, please wake up because if they did, they would be pushing Bitcoin. They would be telling you to take Bitcoin in south custody. But this is all about control. We continuously bring the receipts that this is all about control. It's always been about control and it's always about you being a slave of the Fiat system. Harsh words, but it is what it is, man. Again, back to the beginning. Please pump our bags. It's just going to make our narrative that much better. Come on. And again, who knows? It's a wild theory, but that's something I say all the time. You know, the powers that be the talking head, they continuously have to talk about Bitcoin. Bitcoin has stolen the narrative, Bitcoin is truth. And it is our meme world and everyone else is just living in it.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
"u.s. government" Discussed on Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
"Today's featured story is an opinion piece by Matthew Homer, a coin desk columnist, and executive in residence at NYC partners. He previously served as executive deputy superintendent at the New York State Department of financial services. Today's piece is entitled does the U.S. government have monopoly on trust. In remarks earlier this month, U.S. securities and exchange commission chair Gary gensler argued that the crypto economy quote will not take off unless you have some trust. Then last week, in a report issued in response to The White House executive order on crypto, the U.S. department of treasury noted that one benefit of a potential Federal Reserve created Central Bank digital currency or CBDC is that it would be issued by a quote trusted source and quote. Implicit in both statements is a belief that trust is automatically achieved by involvement of a government entity. As someone who worked at the federal deposit insurance corporation, U.S. aid and New York State Department of financial services or NYDFS, often with the goal of supporting responsible innovation, I've observed firsthand how government intervention, including through regulation, can help ensure the integrity of financial markets prevent bad actors from harming consumers, and incentivize entrepreneurship and innovation in financial services. But still, I've become increasingly concerned by statements like the one that I've just quoted, which assume that public trust in government can always be taken for granted. In my experience, trust in government imposed solutions is not a natural endowment, but a privilege that government regulators must earn and actively maintain. One of the most intellectually exciting aspects of crypto is the opportunity to revisit the foundational principles regarding money, including the source of our trust. Why? For example, do we trust that a piece of paper with a president's face printed on it has value? Ask most people, and those who have an answer at all will likely say it's because our money is issued by the government, and the banks and intermediaries that manage it are subject to strict laws and oversight. But that sort of trust in government can't be taken for granted, a fact that's been documented by the Edelman trust barometer, an annual report on a regular survey of societal indicators of trust. According to the most recent addition, 48% of people globally say that government is a dividing force in society compared to only 36% who say it's a unifying force. Government is also ranked behind business, non governmental organizations or NGOs, and the media in its perceived ability to solve societal problems. And government leaders in particular are trusted the least of any type of societal leader. In the United States specifically, only 39% of people express trust in government. So what happens if public trust in government continues to decline as the Pew Research Center says it's done for the past 60 years. Will people's trust in financial products or services still be as heavily influenced by whether or not the provider of those products or services is regulated by the government. As a former financial services regulator, I've become convinced that the public's trust in our traditional financial system is coming under significant threat as a result of the loss of public confidence in government writ large. And in government regulated institutions like banks. The striking successes of cryptocurrency illustrate the fact that this threat is not illusory. If people don't trust their government or government supervised private institutions to look out for them, they can and will vote with their feet, or their wallets, and turn to alternative products and services that they believe are more deserving of their trust. When their money. Zengo crypto wallet is an unchain crypto wallet with no private key vulnerability. Leveraging advanced cryptography called NPC, which until now has only been available to multi-billion dollar institutions. Zengo is the most secure web three wallet, and the best place to keep your digital currency, NFTs, and assets secure. It's also fully recoverable using the wallet's biometric recovery kit. Get started at zen go dot com slash markets and use code markets to get $20 back on your first purchase of $200 or more. Terms and conditions apply, C site for details. Historian Yuval harari has said that money is a quote system of mutual trust and not just any system of mutual trust. Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised. This innovation has allowed us to move beyond the limitations of barter society, permitting things like urbanization, specialization of labor, and commerce at a distance. It is thus made possible to commingling of different peoples, unconnected by familial religious and other bonds that might normally engender trust, giving rise to the complex mobile civilizations that we know today. So if trust is key to determining the success of a financial or economic system and we're seeing an enduring deterioration of public trust in governments, both in the U.S. and abroad, how can crypto help fill the void? I believe that there are at least four key considerations that will determine whether or not crypto is in ephemeral experiment or the next great system of mutual trust in financial services. The first is reliability and security of the crypto products themselves. Do the products whether centralized or decentralized in their design, promote trust through transparency and resiliency. Are they reliable and predictable? What safeguards are in place to give the public confidence that they won't lose their money to a rug pull or governance hack. While bleeding edge crypto enthusiasts may be happy to undertake their own due diligence, giving rise to the term DYOR or do your own research, cryptocurrency is not going to fill the trust void if everyday users have to audit lines of computer code or Peru's Discord or telegram threads to understand whether a product is secure and reliable. The second is the public's faith in the competence and honesty of those who build and maintain the ecosystem, whether they're developers, infrastructure providers, virtual asset service providers, better known as vasp, decentralized autonomous organizations, better known as daos, investors, or others. Even if the goal is to automate as much of the system as possible and distribute ownership and control across as many people as possible through smart contracts, recent experiences shown us that crypto remains subject to the fallibility of human beings. What can be done to objectively monitor those participating in the ecosystem and shed light on those actors who exercise the disproportionately large amount of influence over it. The third is the reaction to crypto by government policy makers and regulators. Will government view crypto as a threat to the centrally controlled monetary system and use statutes designed for a bygone era, which are often ill suited to the realities of crypto markets to stifle innovation. Will it focus only on crypto shortcomings, ignoring its promise to justify draconian rules that scare away entrepreneurs and venture capital. Or will policymakers take a holistic forward looking approach, recognizing the crypto may have a very constructive role to play, particularly of trust in government, continues to erode. The fourth factor determining whether crypto emerges is a lasting system of mutual trust, may depend on how society is changing, and the preferences of the next generations of consumers. This is undoubtedly the most important part of the equation, even if it's the one least frequently discussed. America's population is changing. Gen Z or those born after 1996 is the most racially and ethnically diverse generation in American history. And the first to grow up in an entirely digital age. It may also be the generation most consistently failed by the dominant institutions of its time. Just consider what this generation has lived through, 9 11, the Great Recession, the alarm bells of climate change, the scourge of opioids, school shootings, COVID-19, record high inflation, the bifurcation of society into red and blue communities, and the rolling back of women's rights. Not surprisingly, this generation is also one of the least trusting and institutions generally, including but not limited to the government. Years from now, it would not be surprised to look back at the early 2020s as the time when consumers started to place more trust and decentralized software to manage their money than in government regulated financial intermediaries. Based on this framing of the issue to realities become clear. Money is inherently a social construct built on trust and public confidence in the institutions that have historically provided that trust is that a monumental low and continues
Talk Is Jericho
"u.s. government" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"Out there. That's the volcano they believe is a dormant volcano that these craft uses. A base. And I'm kind of like, okay. But I can't explain it. It's cloudy. There's no rain. There's no thunder, but there's these lights pulsing in the clouds above volcano. So I start thinking, all right, this is atmospheric conditions, right? There's got to be gases and heat coming up from even a dormant volcano. It's going to be releasing that, playing off the low pressure system of the clouds. We're just getting that. So I kind of dismiss it, but in the back of my head, I'm like, that's weird. That is still very weird to see. And then I come back the next night, clear night. We're watching these things moving through the sky and they come flying over in a straight line and then bank off at a 90° turn and take off like a bat out of hell. They would blink at us flashing us and then take off so the third night I go out in the field and instead of looking at mount Adams, I turn around and I face everybody. And I'm looking at the back part of his property and he's got all these pine trees and tall trees back there and I'm watching and we're out there for about an hour. All of a sudden, Chris, I see this thing come out from behind one of the pine trees. It's flying like it's swimming in the sky. It looks almost like a manta ray without a tail. It swims out across the sky. It's blue. And it's like that ice pack blue, so it's got that iridescent glow to it. Yeah. It's not lighting up the sky, but it is self contained light and it flies across the sky. It was so weird. I thought this looked like a bad 1980s music video effect. I think he's projecting something. There's a screen between those trees. He just suckered me, so I start running towards it. Yeah. I grab up some rocks as I'm running towards it, and I'm throwing rocks between the trees waiting to hear that something slapped nothing. And I'm out there and I walk all the way and I walked a long way to get to that area and I walked through the trees and there's nothing there. And I come back and James is just very calm, has this kind of smirk. What'd you see? I go, I don't know, James. He goes, we'll just grab it to me. And I said, well, it was glowing blue. And it didn't fly it looked like it was swimming across the sky. It looked like it was alive, and he goes, oh yeah, he goes, those are half living half biological craft. That's how they get in between dimensions. Wow. And my brain just froze. And I looked at him and I'm like, I saw this thing. I can't think of a better explanation than what you just gave me, but how high are you? Because he was so, and then he said to me, he goes, and now that you've seen him and now that they know you're sincere about looking, you'll see them again, you'll see more. I've looked to the sky so many times and I've seen amazing light shows and weird things in the sky that once you open up to it, man, I firmly do believe there is some kind of connection that you start to get. And it's easy to write it off as you want to and maybe you're projecting and thinking and what's a normal light system or a normal craft in the sky you're allowing yourself to believe as UFOs, but if I were the only one I think I'm nuts, but I've been around other people that have witnessed these things with me and there's no explanation for it. But yeah, he talks to him. These friends with these aliens. But even whitley strieber, who wrote the book communion and movie communion, when I first had him on the show, I know our listeners were really psyched, and I was a skeptic. I'm like, this guy writes movies. Right. He was a screenwriter before this. And he wasn't a very successful screenwriter, but he was a screenwriter, and he had written before, and he had stuff out there. It wasn't until he connected with communion. So I asked him on the show, he said, so whitley, if this happened, why did you write it as a novel? Why wasn't it just your experience? He goes, oh, publishers wouldn't touch it if it was real. You know, I had to write it in a novel form. And I'm like, okay, and it's the interview progressed. He's even questioning his self on his Israel or did he imagine it? And then I ask him something and he starts, yeah, it was real. It raped me. It raped me, it hurt me. It touched me. It did these things. And I'm like, my God. Okay. We visit with him. Again, years later, totally placid about it. He said, no, there are friends. And I said, well, when you visited us the first time, you said that they were, I didn't understand what they were doing. They were just checking me out. That's what they do. And I'm like, this is weird. It's just so weird. Using the word rape takes it from checking me out to something completely different, right? Exactly. Yeah, is he like this kind of, what's that syndrome? I can't think of it. Not Nuremberg syndrome. Stockholm syndrome? Stockholm syndrome. Right, is it just that he's been visited so many times? He's just like, oh, they got to be friends, right? That's the only way they can process what they're doing. So I don't know. Each one of these claims is more bizarre than the one before it, but they're fascinating. And the people telling them, I think it's equally as fascinating to hear their story and why they believe what they believe. So as we start to wind down here a couple more things about the congressional hearings that they said that there were.
Talk Is Jericho
"u.s. government" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"Airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena. Now, airborne clutter can be like a large, massive birds that are migrating and as you're watching on radar can look like a giant craft coming at you. So that is some of the clutter that they talk about when they're dealing with that. Sometimes it's also in a lot of states they're doing away with this now, but at weddings, they've done away with throwing rice. They now send up these Chinese lanterns. And they'll go up into the sky in these huge clouds of orange balls. They're paper lanterns with the candles. And you'll see this. So they'll pick up a mass on camera that is truly, it's false evidence appearing real. It looks like a large craft or multiple craft when it's something very innocuous like birds or a Chinese lantern. Okay, that's a good description. Number two, natural atmospheric phenomena. Right, you're going to have different pressure systems. There are different weather patterns that can create things that, again, on radar and in the sky can give you false images. There's this crazy footage Chris of a ship and you're looking at it out on the ocean and it appears it is hovering a hundred feet in the air above the ocean. And you're like, how is this happening? And it's atmospheric and it's refraction and reflection off of the ocean creating this optical illusion that the ship is in fact above the ocean. It's really weird and there are images of this kind of refraction that has shown like where you see it almost looks like a city in the sky and it might be aurora borealis the northern lights. It's showing these reflections and you might be casting off of buildings off in the distance that we can't see with the naked eye, but the light is raising in the water and the pressure from wherever they're at is creating this illusion of showing it in almost printing out there like a movie projector. Interesting. Okay. And then we have U.S. government or U.S. industry developmental programs. Right, which is a great point that they brought up during this as well. At one point they go, so what kind of clearance do you guys have to do this investigation and they were kind of like, well, what do you mean? And he goes, are you working with everybody? Are we sure we're not going to be chasing our own tail? And yes, yes, we understand and we do have bipartisan support on this and they will definitely let us know if it's something that they're aware of and maybe don't want us to push on, but it's one of our own. And then we have foreign adversary systems. Whatever Mach 5 Mach ten, whatever the hell this thing that China shot off and was hitting with Erie accuracy. They know about those. They know about a lot of our adversaries flights and what they're able to do. And scary thing is they're getting better. They're getting better at making these craft that can fly the low radar. Flight insane speeds can hit with pinpoint accuracy. So they are showing us what they can do. I mean, they still have to be closer to us from the ocean. They're going to have to fire these rockets off and do these things, but it's showing. So we are aware of a lot of what our adversaries are doing. And they're bragging to us about it as well. Okay, and then other which serves as a holding bin of difficult cases and for the possibility of surprise and potential scientific discovery. So when they say for the potential of scientific discovery, it's like cryptozoology includes Bigfoot, sasquatch, chupacabra, until we find it. And then they take it from that bin and they move it over into the science bin of zoology. It becomes a creature we know exists, right? The great apes. And this might blow your mind. We only found the great apes, less than 200 years ago. Right. Up until that point, they were still a myth. Nobody believed that these things existed. Our country has been around longer. Than gorillas have been around that we were aware of. Right. So that's kind of shocking. So could Bigfoot could these things exist? Sure, but they took it from the crypto zoological findings and moved it over. They had the furry fish. They found those. They're real. This wasn't a fake deal, right? They took from the cryptozoological aspect of those fish, the coelacanth that they thought. I was going to bring that up, yeah. Yeah, millions of years ago. And then they find it. So that's all this is saying is that what we've got right now is stuff that we need to test and put new protocol on so that we can take it from the unknown and put it into the known category. That's what they all want to do and they all hope to get those answers for. Well, and that's the crazy thing about it too. So that's kind of a wide open other AKA that would be the alien craft that we are all assuming what we're talking about here, but they're kind of skipping around the edges of it. Well, in the new documentary tear in the sky, and I only mention it because there are a few of these documentaries that go beyond sensationalism and really kind of try to evaluate and examine science of what they're doing..
The Diane Rehm Show
"u.s. government" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"There wasn't open warfare in kabul At the same time you have threats from terrorist groups like the islamic state which was responsible for that awful suicide bombing that killed thirteen service members and more than one hundred afghans outside airport. So look it was. It was a bad chaotic situation But to me is somebody who covered the military. For many years it could have been far worse. It was clear the biden administration hadn't planned well for it. But you know we're really fortunate that the loss of life wasn't greater there could have been a plane shot down. There could have been more bombings. We could have had shootouts with the taliban for days on end so i think in the end the by administration was fortunate but you're right binds going to historically he'll be the one president who said i ended the war unpopular war But he also has to take responsibility for how that how that unfolded so how could hit to have been a better way. Well this is. This is twenty twenty. Hindsight but obama clearly wanted. He promised to end. The war in promised to withdraw. Us troops but if he'd stuck with his original plan to pull out us troops by the end of his second term at that point. The afghan government was stronger in the taliban was weaker. Now maybe in the end the taliban still would have taken over but i think the evacuation could have unfolded in a more orderly fashion. The plan was to hand over responsibility for all security to the afghan army and police during obama's term. And if he truly done that and pulled out. Us troops things would have been a lot smoother. Who knows how long the afghan government would have remained in power but that would have been on them and the us wouldn't have had this direct involvement. So in retrospect that was the clear time to do it. They ended up just postponing for seven years the inevitable which was that the taliban were gonna come back into power. So what do you think could happen now that the taliban is in charge the you as it is gone what the taliban want from the us in order to keep afghanistan quiet. It's a fascinating situation. So here's the enemy. We have been fighting for the better part of two decades yet. The taliban would like nothing more at this point then have diplomatic recognition from the united states. They had asked by administration to keep the embassy open because they want humanitarian aid and economic aid to keep flowing to the country. Afghanistan is highly the the economy is highly dependent on us aid and aid from other donor countries. And if the us turns off the taps to that the afghan Economy could collapse in the taliban very cognizant this and they want support and help from the us government. There's also interesting cooperation on counterterrorism. You may recall this director. William burns recently flew into kabul and met with the taliban leadership and clearly they were discussing among other things whether the taliban and us intelligence could work together against groups like islamic state in afghanistan You know islamic state's terrorist group that is hostile toward the taliban taliban believe it or not is to moderate and not pure enough and the taliban is is fighting islamic state so this could be a situation where the us and the taliban actually worked together on security issues but if the.
The Diane Rehm Show
"u.s. government" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"So had we not gone into iraq. You think the outcome in afghanistan might have been different. Yes i do. And there's no guarantee. I've had enormous problems and challenges and needs but if there was ever time when we could have really made a difference in strengthening the afghan institutions giving humanitarian aid and trying to put the country on its feet that time was during bush's first term when instead we spend all our attention and focus on iraq. You know the best example of this of of losing our focus it can be found in a memo that donald rumsfeld wrote just a year into the war in two thousand and two he was recounting in this memo. He had gone to the oval office to meet president bush and he told bush to generals in town this week. General tommy. franks. Who is the commander of forces in the middle east. Who is overseeing. The word plans for iraq and general. Dan mcneill and he asked the president. Can i set up a meeting for you. With general franks in general mcneil and bush said yet tommy. Franks i want to meet with him because of course we want to talk about iraq. But who's general mcneil and rumsfeld said. Well sure he's the commander of the war in afghanistan and bush said. Oh well. I don't need to meet with him so there you have it right. The president is completely focused on iraq doesn't want to spend any time on. Afghanistan doesn't even know who his top general is there and to me that that sort of set it all and twenty years later. Remind us of the cost of this war in terms of money and well the cosby still going up and up about two thousand four hundred. Us military service members have lost their lives in the war Probably more than seventy or eighty thousand were wounded there. Another eleven hundred. Nato allies and troops were killed in afghanistan tens of thousands of afghans civilians tens of thousands of afghan soldiers and police and of course. The taliban has taken heavy losses. So we don't have a precise accounting or numbers of how many afghans have lost their lives. Unfortunately but the number of afghan civilians getting killed kept going up and up each year so even as the us started to withdraw. The number of civilians getting killed was getting worse and worse up until the end We've also spent over a trillion dollars so far but when you include the indirect costs like debt payments and healthcare for veterans. And things like that. The estimates are that the war will cost us about two trillion dollars and in the end. There's very very little do show for it with the taliban now back in charge the taliban stronger now than it was back in two thousand one in their concerns about whether al qaeda or other affiliates could come back to afghanistan. What's so fascinating to me. Is of course. The whereas had seen the history of russia in afghanistan finally giving up because afghanistan was such a complex situation. You think the us did not understand that right front the beginning no they did understand that. From the beginning and we know this they. Just how do i say the lesson was right in front of our faces but and we knew about it but we didn't pay heed for very long. There's a good example of this in april of two thousand and two again just six months into the war. President bush gave his speech at the virginia military institute and he addresses this very topic..
The Diane Rehm Show
"u.s. government" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"From the public. You know if they may be had this honest conversation a long time ago. I think the were would have been shortened. We wouldn't have had to be there for twenty years. I will surprise to see name. Michael flan emerge here. Tell me a role. He played sure so today. Most people know. Michael flynn for his politics. He's he's embraced cunanan. And a lot of these conspiracy theories but for most career. He was in the united states army and he became a three star general in charge of military intelligence. He was overseeing military intelligence in afghanistan for the united states and nato during the obama administration and at that time he was very highly respected within the armed forces that he was very. He's spoke very bluntly and he engaged in all this talk that a lot of the other. Us officials did so. I actually that's how this whole project got started in two thousand sixteen. I heard that flynn had given an interview. That was part of the afghanistan papers in which he was very critical about how the war has been fought and in particular how it had been presented to the american people here at that point was just becoming known for his support of donald trump. So he was in the news. I wanted to see what he said. This was part of the lawsuit post filed against the government. we finally obtained. Flynn transcript of what flynn said in contrast with today where he says a lot of crazy things back then. His assessments were really on the mark he kept saying. You know every measurement from the field from headquarters in kabul. Show that we're not winning this war that we're losing all our commanders. It feels like we're losing slowly. So how come we keep telling the american people that were winning so the irony here is. Here's michael flynn who's got a dubious reputation these days but back then he was wearing the few who is actually telling the truth about how things were going. What were the generals themselves saying to each other well again in these interviews. We obtained confidentially. They were telling the government that things were disaster. I was shocked when i read one interview in particular with the general dan mcneill. He was the war commander in afghanistan. Twice underbush two different occasions and he said we didn't have a strategy. We didn't have a campaign plan to go over told to go over there and kill terrorists but there was no there was no plan and i was shocked. I was like what general admits. He doesn't have a strategy right. I mean it's one thing to say. In retrospect the strategy was mistaken or are we made a lot of you know we made errors but he just said we were on autopilot. Fighting this war i thought maybe it was hyperbole on his point but then there was another interview. Transcript with a british general. David richards who oversaw. Us in nato troops in two thousand six in two thousand seven and he said the same thing..
The Diane Rehm Show
"u.s. government" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"America's long as war comes to a close after twenty years. The united states has finally pulled out a bath kenniston but it was not the orderly withdrawal president biden had to hope for that takeover by the taliban the chaos at the airport the isis k. Attack that killed both the afghans and you as servicemembers letting americans in shock matinee asking. How could this happen. Craig quit his hand investigated for the washington post and author of the new book. The afghanistan papers a secret history. The war in he recounts how afghanistan became such a quagmire. And the hell. The american government misled the public about this situation on the ground. Craig join me. Thursday morning craig. The war in afghanistan is now officially over. Many americans were so shocked at what happened. It was in the orderly exit. Everyone expected why was there. Such a disconnect between what we thought was going to happen and what actually happened well. That's a really good question. It may take some time to sort out but in terms of the binding administration. You know the clearly thought that the afghan government would be able to remain in power in kabul for at least a few months and they were expecting that they'd be able to hang on and there'd be a longer transient transition period.
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"u.s. government" Discussed on Reset
"Self-driving cars why is having a hard time. Well i think a lot of it has to do with the fact that over the last several administrations obama and then trump really kind of took a hands off approach when it came to the development of autonomous vehicles. They were very mindful of this competition. That was going on in china. I think there is a worry that cracking down too hard. On the development of autonomous vehicles making committee rules was going to lead the united states to fall behind. Its competitors mainly china. We're starting to see a shift in that behavior. Though with the new administration with joe biden's administration when it comes to these investigations looking into sort of you know how tesla is developing its technology and we saw a recently a new rule came out from nitsa requiring car companies to report crashes involving either advanced driver. Assistance systems like autopilot or fully autonomous vehicles. Were expecting to get a lot more detailed information a lot. More data involved in these types of crashes and that's really a departure from previous administrations have have approached this technology. You know which is not to say that they're still trying to figure out how to approach the whole thing. A lot of this happens at the state level and you can have sort of a patchwork effect but it's pretty clear that the by the administration is trying to have a more nuanced approach to this technology. Which is still very much under development and is not really ready for prime time so the government has opened this robe and it's huge. It involves hundreds of thousands of tesla's what could happen. What happens from here. A number of different things could happen. They could issue a recall We're talking over. Seven hundred thousand vehicles are involved in this investigation across tesla's entire lineup. So that's model three model s. model x. Men why we've got the cyber truck coming out pretty soon so it remains to be seen you know what sort of tax the regulars will take to that vehicle but right now you know the vast majority of the tesla's around the road today so a recall could really sort of hamper the company's ability to market this product in the future it could affect you know the vehicles that are on the road today could require them to update the software to trade out vehicles for for new vehicles that could really end up costing the company a lot of money or they could actually you know or tesla to overhaul this product completely. This is sort of virgin territory for tesla and for regulators. So it's really kind of uncharted in terms of what actually could end up happening here. But we know how the government responds to recalls in the past. And the onus is really on the automaker to make sure that customers know what type of products they have and whether or not there's been a recall issued for those products and what they're supposed to do after that andrew i have to ask. Have you ever been a tesla autopilot. Engaged i have and You know at the time that i was in the vehicle it was working pretty well. But that's also because i knew sort of the rules and how to keep my eye on the road into to stay attentive while i was driving if i actually owned one of these vehicles and i was using it every day you know i might become complacent just like other people have and start to think that the car is a lot more capable than it actually was so you know i don't i don't really blame the customers that much. I mean it's a product that they use every day. It's your car you know you sort of. There's muscle memory involved and there's a lot of psychological behavior. I play but yeah. I mean you know. Tesla's are are exciting really technologically innovative in sort of in the right setting. They could really work really really well but under the wrong settings such as at night with a fire truck in your path things could go really tragically wrong pretty quickly. If you're.
Can He Do That?
"u.s. government" Discussed on Can He Do That?
"By they want to build a more permanent presence on and the moon base on the surface of the moon space station in orbit around the moon. And what we know. Now that we didn't know during apollo is that there is water in the form of ice on the polls of the moon and that's important not just to sustain human life but water hydrogen oxygen can be used as a rocket fuel and propellant to allow us to go further. You think of the moon is like a gas station in space and that allows you to go further while at the same time helping to build the sort of commercial space industry and a lot of people think that a space if we can access it more efficiently and more cheaply than that could actually open up a new economic sphere. Not unlike what we saw with the advent of the internet at this point what are these advancements in space. What value do they have from a geopolitical perspective for our country. That's another great question so just think about the partnerships on the international space station. Where you've got things. Something like nineteen countries working together meant an enormous amount of work to keep astronauts alive in space and on the ground. There are all sorts of enormous geopolitical tensions between the united states and russia for example. But when it comes to space and partnering on the international space station they work in lockstep with each other at the same time. You're seen a growing space race. And there's some debate over this. Between the united states and china. China has shown that they have huge ambitions in space. They landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon which no one had ever done. It just landed a rover on mars joining the united states to be able to do that. They launched their own space station into low earth orbit and are talking about partnering not only with russia but with other countries as well at a time when the international space station which is an endeavor effort led by the united states is getting older and it's unclear how much longer that will stay up there. China has shown that it has huge space ambitions and nasa administrator bill nelson has talked about one of the reasons why we need to keep exploring is the you know to make sure there's democratic american values that extend into space all right. Kristen my last question for you. You have been closely following this modern space race. What do you think will be the next phase for space exploration and is the us position to be a leader. I think the next chapter. Is you go from mercury gemini. Apollo space shuttle space station to this commercial space era. I'm really interested in human spaceflight. And it's fascinating to me that you've got not just like a jeff bezos on richard branson going up. But that soon you could have a lot more people and if you think about in the history of the world only about five hundred seventy people have ever been to space and within a five year. Say they're able to do it safely. And reliably that number grows to five thousand ten thousand fifteen thousand over the years and you have a new generation of people who have seen the earth from a distance who have seen the thin line of the atmosphere land masses without borders. that could have a profound effect. I mean remember that image taken from the apollo era of the earth pale blue dot hanging in that inky darkness of space that helped touch off the environmental movement in earth day in it's one of the most reproduced photos in the history of photography. So i think that could have a profound societal effect. And we're starting to see this with spacex and a company called axiom space taking more and more people not just unstable orbital space tourism trips but all the way to orbit as well so i think that is something to look for for sure convinced. You have the coolest job at the washington post stint..
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"You start an end in the same spot right exactly but so. Let's take that from virgin. Galactic wants to do is perfect that get better be able to fly more people higher faster more efficiently more robustly and bring the cost down and then instead of taking off like richard branson just did. It's baseboard america and landing back at spaceport. America you take off at spaceport america and in tokyo technologically. They're not there yet. There's going to be a lot of bureaucratic regulations in terms of managing the airspace. And that's gonna involve different. countries spacex. Wants to do that as well. I mean they say if you're going to go to space why do you have to come down on the same spot. Why not land else. And that's clearly destinations for earth. But if we have commercial space stations in low-earth-orbit to complement or replace the international space station. That's a destination or if now you're thinking out decades hundreds of years and you have destinations around the moon. That could be a place to go as well. Let's pivot to talk a little bit about the politics surrounding us and what the federal government has been doing in the past and is doing now to aid these space efforts so president trump actually appeared to show a big interest in space. When he was in office he put space force in place. Did that interest lead to any substantive advances in american space research so the trump administration standing up the space force and on the civilian side with nasa with they did was create the optimist program and the program is their program to go back to the moon. Originally nasa had been aiming to go back to the moon in about the twenty eight timeframe for the trump administration said no. That's too long time. We will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to mars and perhaps some day too many worlds beyond this directive. Will the problem with space. In politics one administration will come in and say we're going to the moon and then they'll get voted out in the new administration will come in and say no we've been to the moon we're going to mars. And then the next one comes as no going back to the moon and as a result we've got nowhere we haven't been back to the moon. So trump came in a very strongly said we're going to the moon under artists by twenty twenty four and what happened when the biden administration came in even though they laid waste to so many of president trump's programs they embraced artemis through the program. The united states government will work with industry and international partners to send astronauts to the surface of the moon. Another man and a woman to the moon which is very exciting. Because i said we're going to do this. We're gonna take a review. We're going to look at it. Make sure this is viable. But they're holding onto that program in the two thousand twenty four deadline so we have continuity like this for the first time in a long time. And that's giving a lot of people in the space community. A lot of hope i think. Twenty twenty four. Still an unlikely. I don't know that we're going to be able to meet that. There are a lot of challenges yet but at least everybody is aligned to meet that goal. Are there other goals from the biden administration around the space program with fascinating about it is that they are continuing a lot of what happened in previous administrations these public private partnerships to fly commercially. They're embracing that was once not that long ago really controversial and we went from flying cargo and humans to low earth orbit to the international space station and initially the resolve this talk of free nasa to go farther deeper and do things but now under the optimist program for example there are continuing to embrace these public private partnerships to go to the moon for example the lunar lander that would put astronauts on the surface of the moon. That would be a public private. Partnership right now spacex has the contract to develop that spacecraft. Even though at the moment it's touched off a protest and litigation from blue origin a which lost the bid also wants to be able to compete for it so not only do you have is public private partnerships going forward but you've even got immense competition in the industry for it. This podcast is supported by qualcomm greater collectively benefits to greater good and qualcomm invented. Five g breakthroughs that make possible. See us where five g is helping to make remote education more accessible. Join us in making the world more connected with five g so to head. Nasa biden tapped former florida. Senator bill nelson. Who was the second sitting member of congress to go to space. You had a chance to sit down with nelson. What did he tell you. Where his priorities. For biden's nasa wolf a lot of people look at the nasa administrator. And a oh should be an engineer or scientist or maybe an astronaut and not a politician politics should be left out of it but what they bring to the table as the ability to go back to their former members of congress to try to get money to fund these programs and that's what former senator nelson is trying to do right now. Going back to the moon is not cheap. Had requested three point. Three billion dollars for that lunar lander program only got eight hundred and fifty million dollars for this year and so now he's going back to the hill with these budget requests and try to get more money so they can meet that twenty two thousand four deadline to ask you the most basic question here. Which is there are so many problems in this world so many areas in this country alone. That need lots of congressional funding. Why is going back to the moon a priority. Why is this important. That's a great question. And i think that as journalists is something we need to keep asking ourselves and keep asking the leaders about what is the point of all this and is there a return. I mean we went to the moon in nineteen sixty nine and haven't really been back since nineteen seventy two. Why should we do this. And i think what. Nasa would tell you today. Is that particularly when it comes to the moon. They're not talking about an apollo light program. Where twelve men walked on the moon and.