welcome back to new world next week i'm james corbett of corbettreport.com and i'm james evan pilato of mediamonarchy.com fighting a little bit of a cold so I'll do the best I can as you bear with me and they are tracking and tracing the homeless coming soon to a decaying metropolis near you we got that story plus arresting Bitcoin users but first we head back to Silk Road as Xi Jinping's new Silk Road summits will step up China's endorsements of globalization this comes via Bloomberg whose article title is only slightly different from Corbett's there she's new Silk Road forum sets Chinese tone for globalization 2.0 China will ask 28 world leaders to sign on to President Xi Jinping's signature initiative on globalization bolstering a range of Chinese foreign policy objectives the belt and road forum is Xi's cornerstone initiative to connect China with Europe Asia and Africa through infrastructure projects not only is it a showcase for Xi's globalization credentials that he championed and speech at Davos back in January but the high-profile event will also serve as a counterpoint to America's inward pivots under President Donald Trump a draft communique combines commitments to open international markets with endorsements of China's diplomatic goals but Dennis Wilder former Senior Director for Asia at the US National Security Council during the George W Bush administration said of the draft likely to backfire a little on the Chinese there will be some sense in Europe and the u.s. that China is making mistakes a little bit full of itself and enthralled with its new position and it can be tone-deaf to others this document includes a pledge to oppose all forms of protectionism language which was removed from a communique issued by a group of 20 finance ministers in March at the insistence of the Trump administration James we talked about Silk Road back in September of 2016 here on new world next week Yulin and china agree on the Silk Road initiative cooperation so here we are back on Silk Road James that's right and as you point out I just recently wrote for the forecaster globalization 2.0 China assuring a newer shinier happier new New World Order which is exactly the point and this globalization 2.0 that's being thrown around right now isn't my formulation it is the Chinese government's formulation through their Chinese state mouthpiece media which Ranna recently ran a an article about how the Silk Road is going to be globalization 2.00 it's it's the happy nice cooperative version of globalization against as opposed to the American you know barrel of a gun globalization that we've seen in the past few decades so it's going to be everyone's going to be happy with this at least that's what the Tricon media is trying to tell people so in the run-up to this forum which is going to be taking place next week and involves a lot of world leaders there's going to be 28 different nations represented here including potentially North Korea I see in the latest headlines they're going to be hammering out what the what the shape of this Chinese LED globalization may or may not look like so they've come up with some draft formulations of texts of about what this is what these nations are going to be signing into and in preparation for this China has been striking sort of miniature deals with Greece and China and India and Russia and Iran and all these other different nations so it is an important initiative that's moving forward for people who don't know this is about the Silk Road economic belt and the maritime Silk Road ie the one road one belt one road policy or abour you're going to be seeing that a lot more OBO are is the way that this is being referred to and it's China's idea for creating this giant infrastructure for trading along its trading routes basically between China and Western Europe so everywhere in between and all the the sea ways around there as well China is trying to extend their influence by developing all these infrastructure projects through things like they're a IIb Asia infrastructure investment bank so they're pumping in up to a trillion dollars they've so far committed to various projects along this one belt one road corridor and basically to help build everyone's infrastructure and make the trading go smoother though by the way it kind of helps the Chinese economy – yay win-win right so this is the idea and this is what it's being sold as but as always the third level – this 3d chess is things like Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi having met just late last month with guess ooh Henry Kissinger yes it's always the same slime balls that are stuff floating around in this swamp that are really directing this process and I want people to understand that this is what it's about the AI IB just signed a new cooperation agreement to deepen their cooperation with the World Bank which they've already signed agreements with before and the BRICS Bank of VP is an IMF executive director I mean it's all interlocking at the top so all of this rhetoric about always opposed it's opposed to the NATO as opposed to World Bank it's opposed IMF is a charade at the very top level there are interconnections so this globalization 2.0 is globalization 1.0 with a new face and I think people have to understand that so that's I'll direct people over to my article where I wrote about this in some more detail but I think this forum that's coming up next week is going to be something to keep your eyes on and yeah I didn't know about the Kissinger part there is again so much like the late not great David Rockefeller they all know hey I think China is going to be the model it's going to be the model nation as we move to our second story this week on new or next week episode 310 for May 11th 2017 we go down to the land of slimeballs in swamps Florida the first state to arrest anyone for selling Bitcoin is now passing laws to imprison them this comes via brave new coin whose original headline for this story was Florida passes laws making crimes with Bitcoin money laundering House bill 1379 recently passed in Florida which defines virtual currency and prohibits its use in laundering criminal proceeds the bill adds the term of virtual currency – the definition of monetary instruments under Florida's Money Laundering Act the legislation is currently in the hands of the state's governor and expected to be signed soon the Act defines digital currency as a quote medium of exchange and electronically format that is not a coin or currency of the United States or any other country in quotes previously the Act only applied to money laundering to legacy financial transactions of various types including bank deposits investments in wire transfers the resulting outcome is that criminals using crypto currencies like how they put those together criminals using crypto currencies will be charged with money laundering as well as the underlying criminal activity in the first place cyber criminals have taken advantage of our antiquated laws for too long Bitcoin bypasses the traditional banking system and our state's laws simply have not caught up to the upsurge in criminality in the world of cyber currency in quote claimed Democratic House Representative josé félix díaz a sponsor of the bill now what this all centers around is this passing this legislation brings to rest a multi-year long series of court proceedings and uncertainty centered around the arrest of a seller of bitcoins the bill is a direct response to the failure of miami-dade police to be able to prosecute Mitchell Espinosa a Miami based website designer and local bitcoins seller who was charged with illegally transmitting and laundering thirty-one thousand dollars worth of bitcoins near the end of 2013 in a case that kind of sounds like entrapment at best and in our show notes I will include the link to Florida House bill 1379 of course watching those kind of congressional bills can be a bit of a puzzle but will include that link and you can see where it's at I don't believe it's signed and sealed and delivered so it is somewhat still developing James well last week we were talking about various stories that show how the government believes that it owns you and can control you and what you do with yourself and your body and everything else around you and the way you transact with other people here's another shining example of that because at base these cryptocurrency transactions are exchanging strings of letters and numbers between people I mean that's ultimately all this is and to some extent this is an argument that the worst thing that Bitcoin ever did was advertise itself as a currency I mean of course it can be used as such but all it is is strings of letters and numbers that are being passed around between people but the government feels that it can come in and stop people from doing that and why precisely as Democratic House Representative they Felix Felix Diaz it's quoted as saying here because Bitcoin bypasses the traditional banking system it they are essentially saying it is illegal for you to bypass our banking system now why do you think that is I think so much can be understood about the nature of the world that they're trying to construct for us by understanding what they make illegal for us to do or you can't do that you can't do that you can't do that why exactly why can't we bypass the traditional banking system oh it's because criminals can use this while criminals can use cash criminals can use all sorts of other things criminals breathe oxygen should we outlaw oxygen I mean is is a stupid childish way of framing this but it does I think go to the core of what they're so afraid of which is people transacting outside of their system and that's I mean this is the best endorsement of cryptocurrency I can think of and it's a particularly interesting coming as just as Japan has just made it a you know officially a currency that you can use and now we see Bitcoin starting a shoot to the moon it's passed seventeen hundred dollars now so I do get a little bit of schadenfreude out of the people who were laughing and mocking and all cryptocurrency nonsense back when it was $50 a Bitcoin when I first got my first Bitcoin by selling a DVD and now it's what seventeen hundred plus dollars and I have bought real things in the real world with this strings of letters and numbers so it's it here and the only question is you know if people are going to participate in it or if they're allowed to participate in it by the powers that shouldn't be and this is in some ways I think probably a reaction to you know post 9/11 all the Patriot Act laws that basically said oh we're going to look at all your bank accounts and all your transactions and you know just to make sure you're not a you know a terrorist or something so as we move to our third and final story this week on the road next we go actually I'm sorry I'm getting ahead of myself I wanted to add in a story that just came to me just as we were just about to go to air here via activist post study highlights growing significance of crypto currencies more than 3 million people 3 times the previous estimates are estimated to be actively using crypto currencies like Bitcoin so finds the first global crypto currency benchmarking study by the Cambridge Center for alternatives of Finance you can get that and you can get the PDF and read that whole story now as I was about to say our third and final story this week on new world next week we head to that decaying metropolis of New York City with a story from Wired that notes the city that never sleeps has become the city with the most people who have no home to sleep in as rising rents outpace income growth across the five boroughs some 62,000 people nearly 40% of them children live in homeless shelters and these are rates the city hasn't seen since the Great Depression as New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio faces re-election in November his reputation and electoral prospects depend in part on his ability to reverse this troubling trend in the mayor's estimation combating homelessness effectively will require opening 90 new shelters across the city and expanding the number of outreach workers who canvass the street every day offering aid and housing the effort will also require having the technology in place to ensure that work happens as efficiently as possible to that end the city is rolling out a new tool street smarts that aims to give city agencies and nonprofit groups a comprehensive view of all the data being collected on New York City's homeless on a daily basis and I think this the last line that I'll read the article just has to be read in sort of a commercial voice think of street smarts as a customer relationship management system for the homeless how that sound James tracking and tracing the homeless will this be used to sort of help people aside from that discussion and conversation or will it use to basically criminalize people and track and trace them like the rest of us already are yeah well that's the point I mean they're creating the open-air prison and it's just slotting people further and further into it and as always these things are always rolled out on in order probably of animals and pets and then criminals and or in saying you know psychiatric patients and homeless and those are the way sort of test groups or society we introduce and roll out the the technology you know oh you chip your dog your chip a criminal why wouldn't you chip your son or daughter so that you never lose them or hey we can track homeless people on the street well by the way we could track your your children this is obviously just the test case and it's just the question of steeping people into it and as we've seen over the decades all it takes is the the introduction of the idea the selling of the idea this is part of the marketing campaign for this type of idea and eventually and who can how could you say anything bad about it they're trying to help the homeless they want to make sure they can track them and see that they haven't you know frozen to death on a park bench or something it's a wonderful system for keeping people safe and happy and swaddled in the loving arms of the government what could go wrong we've talked in some ways and I know I've talked about it on my own shows that somehow you know sometimes those people at the lower rungs of society actually can squeak by and not be in the grips of the powers that shouldn't be talked about biometrics and some of these other kind of tracking tray systems that don't actually work really well on people with a dark complected skin it's like what if you put a fantastic gift in some ways that you're going to escape that good god are you tracking homeless pee it's just it it's all the sci-fi movies it's all the dystopic movies any of the references we've ever made back in the show it's all there and that in some ways unfortunately is a lot of what new world next week is we are giving you the stories really before they happen and hopefully giving you the news that you need to know about I want to mention one update James unless you've got any last words on tracking the homes no I just I think you're right I think this is at one of those stories where they're trying to counteract the relative freedom of homelessness if you know what I'm saying they're so yeah there's a lot of sort of psychology and philosophy to unpack there but I'll just mention a update to a story that we covered last week it was our cover story last week but they have arrested a second german soldier in that false flag refugee plot so we'll include that in the show notes just like we include everything else that we say and mention in the show so you can continue the research for yourself and we do this independently non-commercially and we do it with your support and we do it with things like cryptocurrencies in Bitcoin and patreon and other ways and you can of course find those things at mediamonarchy.com slash supports in corbettreport.com the slash support yeah that sounds right people will find it this is it all right James thank you again for three great stories we'll do it again next week thanks buddy take care [Music]
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