gazes upon two stories that highlight the reality that many children across the united states base 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 boster care company in the united states where a recent investigation by the u.s. 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 two thousand and fourteen the for profit foster care giant the mentor network lost at least eighty six children in their care but 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 its children now let's start watching the hawks.

that's. the part of it. like you that i got. within three. weeks. well we're 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 see collects you know from the government for having me children they have sometimes it's up to you know eight eight kids a dozen kids they'll put them in horrible situations that make them 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 i 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 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

scandal i want to read you a couple quotes. because getting 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. norm's so interesting is that senator ron wyden was on the committee the investigators shot back you said the inquiry dug deeply into the mentor network and i don't think anybody can look away when you buy into 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 astounding 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 i 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 and 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 literally happening before our eyes in this country and as he talks about the amount of the number of children that are going around in prostitution under eighteen also you know some of them some domestic but

also those who are brought here from different countries so it's not just the problem it's an american problem and i think i really hope that this country does choose to kind of lead the way in terms of fixing but let's 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 in 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 it was 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 baseball 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 anti russian hysteria is merely a way to impose tyranny within your own country but 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 it's 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 you're backers in 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 were not working for the mainstream establishment papers are trying to cover stories or you know tell stories that deviate from the establishment perspective does that then become politically motivated are they going to come branded as some kind of subversives who 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 and 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 also 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 the mainstream media just kind of eats all this up. well i mean mainstream media. i think you can look at who owns it essentially 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. we can have more controls within our own population and. 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 he was russia for example the u.s. electricity grid or 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. true right wolf . 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. coming up part three of. the latest twist in the rampage and across the united states.

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the reason p.b.s. series by ken burns in the vietnam war has drawn an overwhelmingly positive reception but doesn't really cover all we need to know about one of the most painful chapters in our nation's history 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 costs the government secretly foresaw the lies and deception you. in the vietnam war and their eventual e eventually discovery by the public now help color how we perceive our government and our relationship with it earlier solid 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 a major thing that the film does not tell in which the public to this day i think is quite ignorant of is 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 but 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 had worked even as a consultant to the nixon administration early in its term and i had friends in the white house specifically more help than was deputy 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 then after four years or eight years that if he were reelected as he was the war was almost certain to go on and get larger than it was in sixty nine in. throughout one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 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 that many 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 a 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 did in large 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 were there 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 there 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 out and no us might or sense in a substantial way so. for sure we need more chelsea manning news and 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 of 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 good from so but also the threats sim 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 to 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 claim to do that there will be some retaliation for that illegal act by the way because no matter how bad he is the u.s. 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 determine who governs other countries that is that is the definition almost of imperialism and that's what we are. yeah and it's exactly 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 finally discovered what those of us following independent news media have known for quite some time now that the united states congress big pharma and hundreds of thousands of pain prescription happy doctors and pharmacies around the country played a major role in the current opioid epidemic that is rampaging across the fifty states. now marty's turn to be chavez brings us yet another wrinkle in the ongoing tragedy that we've been following from the very beginning. the use of that 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 to 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 it's kind of all of the last year or two from going just as like an out of the if 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 sugar packet if it were filled with that you know that would be enough to cause one hundred forty overdoses and 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 in a. 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 i'm a tribute to either her lace to trundle or fed a lot of soul and being sold in a pill form or just sold on it's own is from the 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 overdose deaths 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 fennell and that number is rising at a dramatic rate rhythm or of our citizens are being killed by federal firm family rugs 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 big help the media leave because often times the user doesn't know exactly how deadly that role could be reporting in new york

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