is twice as high as the us sam bridge. is behind such success. greetings and salutation as the late great whitney houston sang i believe the children are our future so today arc watchers let's turn our collective gazes upon two stories that highlight the reality that many children across the united states based today especially those born in the wrong income bracket and start with the recent f.b.i. announcement that over eighty four children have been rescued from a human trafficking ring and a multi-state staying that saw the arrest of one hundred twenty child sex traffickers for once i think i think we can all truly say bravo and good job to the f.b.i. the sting was part of the innocence lost national initiative which since its inception

in two thousand and three has been responsible for finding and identifying over sixty five hundred children who are in harm's way f.b.i. director christopher ray announced to the media that the sting quote isn't just about taking traffickers off the street it's about making sure we offer help in a way out to those young victims who find themselves caught in a vicious cycle of abuse. but but let's just hope none of them end up in the largest for profit foster care company in the united states where a recent investigation by the us senate committee on finance has revealed that at least eighty six children have died in their care over a ten year period yes the committee found that from two thousand and five to twenty fourteen the for profit foster care giant the mentor network lost at least eighty six children in their care but all only but in only thirteen of those deaths did the company perform any kind of internal review into what led to the child's death

the committee's top ranking democrat member senator ron wyden stated quote the gaps in the system are so enormous that according to the advocates who care and are trying to do a good job there isn't even a way to track the extent of the mistreatment of the kids. they say that you can judge a society by the treatment of its prisoners i think that is equally true for it's children now let's start watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the products if you. like you know that i got. this. week. for the watching the hawks i am

tyrone ventura and joining me today from los angeles is mr sean stone sean always happy to have you on so i got to ask shawn i think most people when they see numbers like you know eighty four children freed from trafficking they're shocked by the size of that number. and you know but for anyone who follows trafficking and especially your child every looks at those news stories this is really hardly shocking isn't it not i mean we've seen these huge number of cases over and over again throughout the years sometimes never reported yeah precisely in fact. when the f.b.i. were in terms of their raids in two thousand and thirteen the majority of the victims of trafficking that they freed the majority of them came from foster care backgrounds of well over closer to sixty percent some cities of up to seventy five percent had been through the foster care system and so you understand there is there is a relationship a correlation here basically between kids that are basically growing up in very very neglected and vironment that are being basically abused by

a foster care system that oftentimes as you know we've all heard the stories but it's about parents who want to collect the money they want to collect you know from the government for having children they have sometimes it's up to you know eight eight kids a dozen kids they'll put them in horrible situations they can live in the backyard just so they can collect money off of care for these kids and then as a result the kids grow up and. quite often more often than not it seems and up in abusive or traffic situations is truly tragic i mean what i'm looking at some of these numbers of just you know child trafficking in general i mean like a twenty seventeen report from international labor organization and walk free fall foundation from the number of children under the age of eighteen being trafficked is estimated to be around five point five million kids right now and while only nineteen percent of victims of trafficking adults and children are trafficked for sex or sexual exploitation that actually makes up sixty six percent of the global

profits of human trafficking i think you and i can both agree that we should be seeing harder you know and i think longer sentencing because you see people all the time kind of just ok they get nailed with the you know all they got to register as a sex offender after like five years probation and then they move on we see it in hollywood with you know people convicted with publicists and casting directors people dealing with young actors all the time corey feldman talked about it even you know and i think that's something that we as a society need to focus on and as you said you know you brought up the foster family i want to read you a couple quotes. in response to the investigations the company at the heart of the scandal told the media that quote the mentor network serves significantly more children and youth with heightened risk factors relative to others and foster care and sustains child mortality rates that are comparable alarms so interesting is that senator ron wyden was on the committee the investigators shot back he said the inquiry dug deeply into the mentor network and

i don't think anybody can look away when you find in a ten year period seventy percent of the kids who died in mentors care and custody died unexpectedly. you know that's some pretty staggering numbers this is a sounding a lot like kind of the frying pan into the fryer situation for so many kids i mean ok the reader you know in bad homes with abusive parents they get taken out of those homes but then they're put into foster care systems and institutions for profit not even just government run and it sounds like it's even worse at times precisely i mean. you know again we're talking about a situation when it came to this bust for example in denver at the f.b.i. denver office these kids were three months old and five years old they were being offered for sex for six hundred dollars and that was what you know that's basically that was a bus that was made mean imagine that three months and five years old the pedophilia thing is tremendous in this country if you look f.b.i. statistics show that most girls get into the prostitution rings around an average

of twelve years old and they're out and they're basically out of prostitution by fourteen so it's here i mean there's a week it's hard for us to fathom this is happening that states but then you go to the inner cities and you go you know you basically look around in places that are not covered by the mainstream news the issues that are not covered on the nightly news and it's right there and it's it's literally happening before our eyes in this country and as he talks about the amount the number of children that are going around in prostitution under eighteen also you know some domestic but also those who are brought here from different countries so it's not just the world problem it's it's an american problem and i think that i really hope that this country does choose to kind of lead the way in terms of fixing our lives move on to our second interesting topic of the day. twenty one who takes their civic duties seriously and has been watching mainstream news coverage it should be it should by now be an unassailable truth that russia with the help of one hundred

thousand dollars and facebook ads was able to swing the twenty sixty eight election and help elect donald trump. and it goes without saying that such an agree just act requires a very very very serious response from the u.s. government well not to worry hawk watchers because senator john mccain yes senator john mccain not one has a solution for all our election meddling problems and at first glance what what can possibly be misguided about a bill called the honest ads act that extends typical campaign ad disclosure requirements to digital advertising well for one thing the the twining of anti russian rhetoric and the arguments for regulating political communications such some alarming precedence for the first amendment and more importantly once you dig into the details mccain's bill turns out to be much more radical than its very innocent title suggests so hawk watchers just what is this high minded bipartisan solution to our election meddling troubles. let's first start with job i don't want

to get into what's actually in this bill this bill starts off with the actually common sense solution extending the rules that apply the political ads to their digital counterparts and mandating you know paid for disclaimers it's hard to disagree with that i think anybody you know if you've seen a political ad of facebook could be nice to know that oh this is a political ad it's not a it's not a news story but things get ominous rather quickly with you know tech companies and campaigns also forced to present to the public copies of all politics related ads that audiences what audiences they were geared for and even the number of views and clicks they generated i ask you sean is this taking things too far especially when you compound it would like the you know anti russia hysteria sweeping capitol hill . sure i mean it well it seems to me that the anti russian hysteria is merely a way to impose tyranny within your own country we've seen this before we've seen

it historically this is the nature of how tyranny is imposed it's done by the method of fear mongering if you have a foreign enemy that allows for more and more fascist type of dictatorial powers by the government over its own people right war is ultimately not designed against enemies but is really designed against your own population and so this to me is like a foot in the door because it begins with you know sure at the same name your backers and your political sponsorship but then it becomes you know down to not only the likes and who's who's watching and monitoring that which we know the n.s.a. is surveilling and has the ability to surveil but also it gets down to the issue of what becomes political advertising if journalists who are not working for the mainstream establishment papers are trying to cover stories or to you know tell stories that deviate from the establishment perspective does that then become politically motivated are they going to become branded as some kind of subversives who all can who have to be working for the russians you know why can't they simply

why can't suppression be allowed in this democracy you know i think that's the whole point that the idea of subversive being subversive is should not be a danger to a democracy or a public that we're supposed to be and i want to give a little perspective too of what they're asking is like i said i'm fine with putting a little you know paid for by like you see on television ads that's fine for me in the you know this company put up you know whatever but to bring some perspective the equivalent of this would be the government demanding that campaigns publicly disclose assumption of what neighborhoods they're going door to bore him you know who they're canvassing what particular voters they're looking to connect with on any given day it is kind of ludicrous and i guess if you're going to do it on facebook then they make campaigns do that and see how long it takes before democrats and republicans start going crazy with that kind of disclosure i want to ask you before we go about a couple minutes left i want to get to this you know. this impulse to kind of tie every hot button issue to russia i mean now you're seeing it with black lives matter with a trying to tie that you know russia was involved in propping up black lives matter

and you know causing dissension in the into the you know the rush to get married it was kind of this ominous sign for our nation's public discourse journalist glenn greenwald mentioned this trend the interview with tucker carlson this week where they're talking about why mainstream media is continuing to go along with this i'll ask you sean why do you think mainstream media just kind of eats all this up well i mean mainstream media we i think you can look at who owns it it's actually it's a few corporations that are tied together to what is considered the establishment so that perspective is going to be you know we need an enemy as i said for we next to the enemy that we can then have more controls within our own population and the consensus that dictatorial power essentially within our own country but i would say that you know it's you seen it over and over where they've accused russia of doing things and then retracted it but the retractions are so minor that it's already it's too late so it was actually was russia for example like hacking the u.s. electricity grid or attacking twenty one states and then it's like well the next day they say well actually that may not be accurate but it's like it's already made

the announcement is truly right wolf people are buying it it's truly ridiculous sean thank you so much for joining us today all right as we go to break. don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are coming up with present part three of sean stone fascinating discussion with pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg and our new chavez brings us the latest twists in the opioid epidemic rampaging across the united states stay tuned to watch from the. so we have received this information and we agree with some of the issues raised in the report there was some others who don't agree. clearly we have never had a state sponsor system in russia which is the primary accusation in the report we

have never had any institutional conspiracy. by then. to not. want. so. you know support was if you have the multiple injuries among can connect to so the kids if you look at the shows you know your mothers are going to die though not. even the people from the c.d.c.

say yes but in the book the loss of. my. own image but i'm not going to laugh aloud make. something. up on the wrong or something. and then look at my. what i can now maybe maybe maybe that's. the reason p.b.s. series by ken burns in the vietnam war has drawn an overwhelmingly positive reception but does it really cover all we need to know about one of the most

painful chapters in our nation's history for perhaps the first time in u.s. history the public came to see the glaring dissonance between what the government told its citizens and what was really going on behind closed doors from modeled reasoning to our involvement in the conflict to the outcomes and cost the government secretly foresaw the lies and deception fueling the vietnam war and there are eventually eventually discovery by the public now help color how we perceive our government and our relationship with it earlier sean stone was joined by pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg to discuss just how much of this angle the p.b.s. documentary series failed to relay to the viewers the major thing that the. film does not tell and which the public to this day i think is quite ignorant of is this that not only could we have ended it in fifty six had we agreed to the elections that the geneva had called for in one thousand nine hundred six film doesn't show

that. and then again i think it could have ended if it had kennedy lived in sixty five people thought that after the tet offensive of sixty eight that was going to be ended quite that it was to be expected that it would be ended very quickly even before seventy three or before seventy five within a year or two by whoever was the next president especially if it was nixon actually he promised to get out and so forth to someone with inside information on the white house and i happened to be in that position because of my fact that i'd worked even as a consultant to the nixon administration early in its term and i had friends in the white house specifically mort helper and was deputy to henry kissinger i knew that the way to bet was that the war was not going to end until nixon was out of office either and that after four years or eight years that if he were re-elected as he was the war was almost certain to go on and get larger than it was and six you know

i'm in. throughout one thousand nine hundred six in seventy seven the election year of seventy six and it might continue after that i think for a few people realize that that war. to an insider if you had the inside information the way to bet was not certainly but the way to bet the odds were that it would get much larger than it ever did get and it would go on longer than it did go on when nixon was reelected in sixty seventy two with a with a massive landslide. no one foresaw that he would be out of office in seventy four facing impeachment i think he didn't and no one did and that was almost as much of a miracle in the sense of something unforeseeable with unimaginable as the coming down of the berlin wall when it did or let's say mandela is getting to be president of south africa without a without

a civil war. the ending of the vietnam war when it came was as unforeseeable to someone with the inside information not surprising to people on the outside they've been expecting it but they've been lied to they've been misled it's the nixon's intentions which were to continue the bombing after our troops were out and he was prevented from doing that really by our constitutional system actually working for once the way it was intended. leading to his facing impeachment for crimes that he had committed and the antiwar movement played a major role in that process it would have gotten larger in particular in sixty nine hundred sixty eight if there if the president johnson in the nixon had not understood that he would be facing an uncontrollable and he war movement reaction if they'd been large it as they expected to do and later the pentagon papers and more than that nixon's fears that i would reveal truths about his own nuclear

threats and his own plans for nuclear war which for their lead him to commit criminal acts to shut me up to silence me blackmail me or even quote incapacitate me. physically in one thousand nine hundred two. those acts were criminal and when they were exposed which was not likely to happen but did happen. it was not likely really that he would face impeachment but he did and critically to show just how one person can make a difference here. alex butterfield from the n.s.c. staff had been in the oval office and knew about the taping by nixon which almost no one else did know except halderman nixon erlichman his domestic counselor did not know it henry kissinger did not know it alex butterfield was almost the only person who could have revealed it was likely to reveal it and he chose to do that

without that nixon would have stayed in office and the war would have continued it was hardly likely to bet that a good republican long term aide like alex butterfield would reveal that the watergate committee but he chose to do it in a period when he was feeling very hostile skeptical let's say to what he'd seen in the oval office as a republican but so in serving nixon but he was disgusted with the performance he was seeing and he chose to do that without that the war would have continued for years or probably would have been no offensive facing us air which would have rich would have been come back their power and thus. it's attributed to the unusual actions of a lot of different people fifty one hundred maybe. it was unlikely very unlikely that that would lead to an ending of the war but it did happen and it shows a challenge to us that resistance to these policies nonviolent resistance is what

what did it and truth telling is not guaranteed to have any effect either short term or long term but it can it's not impossible and that means it's up to us. after that i think that the exact message of stories like your own and many others that have come after you those one individuals who disobeyed those wanted to vigils or thought for themselves and challenged the system have been able to make history and that's not of no us might or sense in a substantial way so we have a dead right a mile for sure we need more chelsea manning was in edward snowden's yes right now i'm certain for example that inside the government there are many written analyses of the disastrous effects of a good list a number of things on the climate the. moves that the president is making actually get in the civilization by dumping cold. sea wood to from coal burning it and oil

into the atmosphere and opposing end up bringing about manmade climate change which our president is actually denying in denial of the because from so but also the threats him preparations for war with north korea. that's a course that would be a disastrous course of action for him to do i am certain certain allegedly from my experience that there are many written analyses inside the government that say that would be a disastrous course of action and be very specific as just what would follow in the way of the destruction of the city of seoul probably of cities in japan very possibly a nuclear weapon in retaliation delivered by boat from north korea as a result of an attack on north korea or the successful decapitation of kim jong un who is a to be tyrannical ruthless leader who is not crazy not

suicidal and will do anything to remain in power and i pretty confident that he's made provisions that if he is killed as we have prepared and planned to do that there will be a fearsome retaliation for that illegal act by the way because no matter how bad he is the us has no right of regime change which is something we've been claiming for years assiduously the essence of empire that we have a right to carry on our abilities to determining who governs other countries that is that is the definition almost of imperialism and that's what we are. yeah and it's exactly the i call the vietnam war the lesson that we have not learned from that war that thank you so much for discussing that with me. it would appear this week the mainstream media thanks to the washington post sixty minutes and a courageous whistleblower and finally have discovered what those of us following

independent news media have known for quite some time now but the united states congress big pharma and hundreds of thousands of pain prescription happy doctors and pharmacies around the country play a major role in the current opioid epidemic that is rampaging across the fifty states now artie's turn into chávez brings us yet another wrinkle in the ongoing tragedy that we've been following from the very beginning. that yes the mill is especially prominent in staten island and in the south bronx but it is crippling communities all throughout new york because of the dramatic spike in overdose deaths in recent years it's everywhere it's we were that heroin is open there opiate addicts all over new york the suburbs and really all of the united states it's not an urban problem anymore it's it's everywhere so wherever opiate addicts are we see it's a synthetic painkiller originally used to help dying cancer patients which can be fifty to one hundred times more powerful than heroin and the drug is sweeping new

york city streets special agent james hunt who is in charge of the new york division says the drug is driving a surge in overdose deaths just last month his agency along with the n.y.p.d. announced that as a result of two investigations authorities seized two hundred and seventy pounds of fennel heroin and cocaine with a street value of over thirty million dollars over one hundred forty pounds of that was fentanyl traffickers and now realize they can make more money would threaten alone than with her own so they've got a precedent to pills to resemble oxy cotton or percocet to fool the users think if you're getting some that's made a real you know or form a lab so it's kind of all of the last year or two from going just as like an additive or a cut to her when. to be unsold on its own to put into perspective exactly how dangerous this drug is if you take a look at this shoulder packet if it were filled with that no that would be enough

to cause one hundred forty overdoses in the number of overdose deaths continues to increase according to the new york department of health in two thousand and sixteen more bronx residents died of drug overdoses in two thousand and sixteen than any other new york city borough three hundred eight people lost their lives that's more than double the number in two thousand and ten which was one hundred twenty eight fatal overdoses in the borough are now at their highest rates since at least two thousand and officials are attributing much of that rise to fentanyl recent rash of overdose deaths most them attributed to either horrible laced with trammell or felt a lot of soul in being sold in a pill form or just sold on its own is from last year there was one thousand three hundred seventy four drug overdose deaths four hundred thirty seven more than the previous year this marked the sixth consecutive year that overdosed us have increased and the problem goes far beyond the city borders of new york the centers of disease control estimates that more than twenty thousand american citizens lost

their lives in two thousand and sixteen due to fennel and that number is rising at a dramatic rate remember of our citizens are being killed by fentanyl firm family your odds are coming into the country in numerous ways including shipments from factories in china directly to u.s. customers who make those purchases over the internet and u.s. authorities are urging drug addicts to stick to help the media leave because oftentimes the user doesn't know exactly how deadly that no could be reporting in new york trinity charges are two and laser on them ladies and gentlemen that is our show for you today the number one in this world we are not told about the off the top wall i love you i am tyrrel been keep on watching those hawks and have a great day and night everybody.

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