journalists to endorse factually false claims that quickly spread and become viral and thus can never be adequately corrected. the quest for money and popularity are probably going to suddenly bring about the death of the first amendment long before any tyrannical government takes over which is why we are and always will be watching the hawks. to. get the. real thing that would. keep the buttocks it. looks. like you know that i got. this. week so. welcome over to watch the hawks i am a robot and have to have a law list so. i have to ask. how dangerous among the

many things that can corrupt a good journalist soul and how dangerous is that kind of is money and popularity you know the quest for popularity and the need to make your paper money or your news outlet money how dangerous are those to well i think that's just human nature it's pretty dangerous in general when you're talking about something that you know we're not making ice cream it's new it's there it's really you know we're talking about getting information to people about a platform that is literally a you know intellectual x. tension of our of our democracy so when when money gets in there there's just certain things you know now i feel like i should add to the list of things that shouldn't be for profit ventures and needs now is you know on top of prison and health care i have to put news on their news was never meant to make money it was a public good it was put on it was you know a license or given out the idea of you this is for the public good this shouldn't

be about making money but this sort of shows that idea of you make your little blog gets but bought out and this is what eventually happens the minute it's not just free easy money they're going to go away and it saddens me that a bunch of journalists you know goes beyond is like unless you're a top top name journalist you're not going to make a lot of money in your life. maybe middle class then go lower middle class well probably you have to do it in a big city it would medal going to house and the works residences are your living pay if i mean it's like when when this billionaire decided to close the door and got the u.s. d.n.a. info you know this was just a week after twenty five of twenty seven workers in the new york office voted to join the writers guild. which meant that management would have to you know bargain with them as part of the union they would have to treat them like people treat them like people would see what it's meant to be a spokeswoman well as well as a spokeswoman for b. of a sudden the statement the decision by the editorial team to unionize is simply another

competitive obstacle. making it harder for the business to be financially successful yeah i'd ask a spokeswoman how much she's making right no other you know to make it so financially well i would hope that the first thing that you spend money on is your joining hers or in the article is that's be number one and who told you going to get rich having a newspaper or having a ball you don't suppose anybody who sits there goes you're going to make a ton of money and be so profitable with this blog the thing about who to also who told anybody that local news was profitable and he's a billionaire he doesn't need to do what is needed profitable who are you know this is this idea of being you know this decision didn't just put the people who said we'd like to join a union you didn't just put them out of work and put one hundred fifteen people out of work with you know those that unionized that chicago los angeles san francisco and washington that didn't unionize so that's why i find this whole why i went to bed to do it if it weren't for those darn unionizing kids in that van. it's kind of

ridiculous because these people now don't have a job they're getting paid administrative leave full salary plus four months ever so three months of paid leave. this is the thing these are these are web sites that over the years the reason why someone buys is because it gets traffic they were getting nine million readers a month in new york and other cities where they were operating this sort of satellite versions of each of a. lot of traffic and he claims so i've lost money if you were losing money on that that was your mistake that was your about business if you couldn't find a way to pay writers in local areas to do this somebody wasn't somebody was well i'm not you know your average size is a million hits a month pretty ridiculous moving over to the other side of the equation the kind of popularity of politics and for my journalistic decisions which look you can't ask people to be robots but you have to know when to draw a buck namely that comes as glenn greenwald recently exposed how quickly these false words travel twitter we saw donna brazil thing you know. journalists kind of

tweet to be part of the cool crowd before you actually check the story and it's a lot of opinion based stuff where it just seems very childish these days i think that the greatest threat to journalism is journalists acting like it's junior high lunchroom on twitter you got to be put on a weekend ahead as we've all but you know we've all we've all been guilty of being snarky on the person is like sometimes i get a little snarky i go you know you're right but here is my point there's a lot of people out there not giving journalism a good man and that scares me because it's working the bar lower there are definitely those that would definitely go. with all the talk about tax code it's important to know just what it is in the tax code that truly constitutes an attack on the rights of citizens in this case the women and men who are victims of sexual harassment and assault see half a century ago is illegal for a business to deduct any expenses that was deemed a violation of public policy meaning if the payment was used to commit or cover up

a crime it was not considered a normal cost of doing business but in the one nine hundred sixty nine the code changed and now only excludes a deduction if the payment constitutes an illegal bribery illegal kickback or other illegal payment under law of the united states it's not technically illegal to pay someone a settlement for illegal behavior it is however illegal to deduct the hush money from a company's taxes and to make matters even more perplexing the victims who are often silenced and intimidated in seeking these payouts have to pay taxes on the money they receive as peter j. having a professor of law at wayne state university stated in a piece for the online publication the conversation there are no surefire ways to end sexual harassment and assault in the workplace but making it cost more to hide this much misconduct might help make it less commonplace so do you think c.e.o.'s should be able to buy their way out of trouble at the expense of the country's bottom line no no no no no. lol lol lol lol lol no times

a quadrillion there is no this is so. every fiber of my being says this is wrong and i can't imagine who's out there going to defend this so your guy this company breaks the law lets say i'm sexually harassed maybe even start sickly assault someone rather than take it to court you make a settlement with the corporation make settlement with this person let's say rights of a big check fifteen thirty million dollars oh we're so sorry that we sexually harass you and we don't do anything about it or anything about it so here's your charge be quiet don't say no then you're out the door then the corporation can turn around and deduct that from their taxes at the cost of the cost of doing business just to cut you know what sexual harassment of the soul in the workplace is just the cost of doing business as they've told women for decades and decades and decades well you know you're going to want to be in the workforce falls on the taxpayer that is because everything is going up the bill and what's more ridiculous is the fact that

they're taxing the victim here and it's in this really shady way that it gets done and it's usually what happens when someone tries to fight and someone says ok i'm going to do a law suit i'm going to take you to court and make you do this so the terms not only have to pay on the pay you know on settlements that are made outside of like a core procedure but if they choose to take it to court they're going to get hit twice so they can take and get tax the way we're talking about it getting as income but then if you take it to court your attorneys fees are considered income even though they're separated and usually in these kind of if you will of course that is right so you have to pay the taxes on it so you get double dipped then the another tricky thing is that you can only right now the way the laws work is that only physical damages like only end for only money given to you for physical injuries and damages are tax deductible not emotional ones however and there's a trick if you can prove that you're

a mother. damages were triggered by you physical injury as in like you know. pushing whatever they could be to ask for a while so if you end up deciding to take an agreement to do a settlement just ask your attorney do you have going by personal physical injuries physical sickness and emotional distress arising out of such physical injuries or something there of because you could literally end up paying twice as much in taxes because it's emotional pain not when you need to bring these things above board and there's a california senator. is proposing legislation that would actually make these secret settlements that we hear about all the time young please above board like ok you're absolved the open if you sexually aroused in your company had to pay your victim off right you're going to be put on it your name is going to go through in secret and do it in secret she told variety quote we really need to remove the curtain of secrecy about what's happening ultimately that's what hurts victims and

the ables perpetrators to continue to do this and remain hidden senator levin is a first term senator also fought and won to end the statue of limitations of rape in california she's doing a lot of good work out there for this kid out of our first lottery and all of this sort of runs because we're basing certain things on the idea of a public has a right so we have laws in place that prohibit confidentiality of provisions like non-disclosure agreements which are a part of almost every business somewhere another but these the idea is that you can't use that confidentially provisions to cover instances of a public house or when you know a therapist here is something that might be a danger this is that same situation so what of course right now is sexual harassment assault or not considered public hazards and i think that's the problem folks if we live in a society that does not define rape assault and sexual harassment of women and men in public i don't know what is. i mean yeah that's that boggles my mind and i'm

sorry but don't our exams double does send their brand their creditors and don't and don't make us pay for your screw up like does something at the end of the day if you're out there assaulting women that company dive don't make the taxpayers or if you're going to go to go out there having to pay for the grass horrible right now as we go to break walk watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of a proper true government facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are dot com coming up parties natasha sweet and david miller bring us the latest from the tragic mass shooting in texas then sean stone talks with my about her new documentary on human trafficking stay tuned to watch. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. in terms of for them lee was literally coming unglued we were doing what the doctors told us to do we were being responsible and what the real side effects . was was sure likely all to what i did was done on a cocktail in the illegal drug. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's safe. for once there might be a dash of truth in what is usually a boilerplate talking point from the much reviled national rifle association namely that what our country needs is not more gun control measures but rather just better enforcement of the laws we already have there certainly wasn't much to that argument after the massacre in las vegas last month where

a simple yet terrifying. modification in the form of a bomb stop allowed the shooter to legally turn his weapons in the equivalence of machine guns but in the aftermath of the latest tragic sure church shooting and sutherland springs texas a shocking revelation actually gives that argument much more credence as revealed by a us air force spokesman the shooter who was found guilty of domestic violence and should have been precluded from purchasing the weapons he used was actually able to since the air force neglected to enter his name into the f.b.i.'s background check database let's take a look at how our gun control laws failed to prevent this attack but first let's check in with our tears in the taj suite on how the southerland springs community has been coping with this tragedy. for circles popping up all over in monday night's vigil in sutherland springs remembering the twenty six lives that were taken from this too soon and still see some really i don't have all the world to be saved. you know you just got to keep

moving on and for antonia rash that also means remembering her friend fourteen year old annabel palmer morey pastor's daughter who was among the dead and that's why we're all here united as a you you know. and we lost you like a sister to live with sanibel you know and attending the church was like well like i said is a manly the man many are calling a hero for engaging in a shoot out with the church gunman is a former n.r.a. instructor living just blocks from the first baptist church steven will afford said his daughter alerted him about the gunfire she was hearing all the ford says he dropped everything grabbed his rifle and ran out there foot to the church even though david kelly was reportedly wearing tactical gear well afford shot the gunman twice once in the torso where there was a gap in his gear and another gunshot to his leg people bad church. the prism are apparently. there were times i heard

a new that there probably represented a life. scared. scared or not will afford jumped into johnny car a stranger at the time well they chased down kelly until his car eventually crashed authorities say he then called his dad said that he wasn't going to make it then shot himself in the head. the shooter may be gone but the pain in this tragedy remains presence and the people in shock but surrenders yes it's quite a shock especially folks being in church on a sunday morning never would think that anything like this would happen in our little community never. and joining us now in the newsroom is r.t. correspondent david miller with the latest revelation on the air force error guys the department of defense has requested a formal review from the inspector general and the air force over the handling of

devon kelly's criminal records in two thousand and twelve kelley was convicted and court martialled on two charges of domestic assault against his wife and stepson under the uniform code of military justice according to air force records kelley repeatedly struck kicked and choked evolves but kelly's bad conduct discharge does not prohibit him from owning a gun under federal law all anyone convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than a term exceeding a year is prohibited from possessing a firearm the same is true for anyone convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic routes and kelly's conviction they qualify under both those categories the air force may have violated the brady handgun violence prevention act also gazi lots of amendment this investigation will determine whether information about kelly's conviction was properly entered into that national criminal invest of our information center and the database of all the

millions why did the air force protect the soldier and not give kelly at this honorable discharge. it's a great question thank you david are one of the most troubling and under-reported issues of our time is perhaps the extent of human trafficking issue is truly universal ranging from the visible and much talked about underage sex industry that could be seen in southeast asian countries such as vietnam and thailand or the underground noticeable pattern of young eastern european women ending up in slave light conditions in the middle east and other parts of europe or even the constant swirl of rumors about sex and labor trafficking with them united states itself and across its southern border but some of endeavor to shed light on the stories such as t.v. personality jeannie my executive producer behind stopping traffic at a recent documentary exposing the wide reach of human trafficking gina joined sean stone to discuss what inspired the film here's a preview of their conversation we covered where trafficking takes place in mexico

thailand just to name a couple countries we actually hosted some of the women that are helping some of the survivors that have come from all over the world to just help rebuild and therapeutically empower these women to be back in normal in their lives so we had also victims that have been trafficked before we also had a traffic agent kind of come to country fashion about what it was like to traffic women and why he took part of it and why he was actually trafficked himself i think my favorite story that is really rare that you hear today is dr john king who is a trafficked victim himself as a kid by his own parents and then today realizing at the age of forty what he went through and now today being able to talk about what it was like to be a male raped trafficked and involved in really dark sexual schemes with his family so his story was really rare to just hear in public is you don't hear men talking about being sexually abused period and number two is just someone who is just going

through his healing as. locally and very aggressively is going out there did make the changes that need to happen with human trafficking so the film yeah it does really cover some really in-depth interviews with people that are firsthand in line with either the trafficking themselves or with the victims that are that are still trying to process but you said you had a personal experience with sex slavery tell us about how you came to understand the nature of the scope of this horror oh man it was almost eight years ago and every time somebody brings it up it's just so gives me chills because i'm so. healing myself just learning that this happened in my own family so i have a cousin she's a really close family friend and now is a cousin of ours and actually my mom just adopted her and her family so she's a family member of ours but she has grown up in the house my mom has grown up in vietnam so that being like a relative i send her clothing i write her letters on one facebook opened up in

vietnam where i was able to communicate with her innocent little girl at the time fourteen years old and i noticed that as i started sending her some of my clothing she started to dress. more promiscuous lee and just a lot more you know a lot more showy and like what's going on my cousin my innocent cousin in vietnam changing right before my eyes she hanging out with a different group of people i started to get concerned so i slew to vietnam to hang out with her and she just was more closed off and. it wasn't a sign of just becoming a teenager or something greater so i actually snuck out one night and followed her when she said she had to go to work so she told me she worked at a coffee shop and i basically stuck her and found that she was working in a brothel and i saw her servicing different men there and in tears i was like you know what is going on why why are you working here there's so many places that a beautiful smart girl like you could be working and she. then after you

know lying a little bit and we could try to really press and direct she she admitted that her uncle which is a family friend of ours had sold her to the brothel so that she could pay off a family debt. this is the first time i've ever heard that you could do this to sell a human being to now be forced to be in this condition and to do what she's doing because if she didn't do it her uncle would kill her mom which is. a lot of hers and i just i do. the whole web of lies and the guilt and the shame she had now forcing me to promise not to say anything because her mother and father were at risk i just couldn't understand it so as i spoke about this more with different people i learned of the term traffic which really only came about the last ten years and i had to understand it further so i actually then took myself to join an organization to learn what women like my cousin were going

through and i moved ira i lived in thailand for about three months and i disguised myself and lived in a few brothels to understand what. women like my cousin were going through what the whole business is like how much money it brings in what these women are forced to do what age it starts at and that's when it opened up this whole new path that i've now stepped into and i'm not ending until i see changes starting to be made with things like stop the traffic the from. the glorification of poverty as a lifestyle brand is well nothing new when urban outfitters opens its doors in one thousand nine hundred eighty. referred to their demographic as upscale homeless after the two thousand and eight financial crisis struggling fashionistas were rebranded as recession. and they made looking porson posh but only if you did it in

the right way and something tells me that the folks behind it wish recession chic in upscale homeless with love the new every day collection from jewelry giant tiffany's think when the kiddos come home from school they can take out their four hundred thirty five dollars sterling silver an american walnut protractor to do their geometry homework while you brag about a cup of milk into the ninety five dollar bone china version of the branded paper cups they use in their store and of little billy is struggling to sift them out can just give him a three hundred fifty dollars sterling silver and straw are those everyday objects are just too reminiscent of the of the money class that treat yourself to a fifteen hundred dollars sterling silver. and give the kitten a nine thousand dollar ball of twine to play with reality often as beautiful as it is ugly and expensive you know this is this one of those things

it's like it's funny because it's like i'm sorry of some some really really rich goof up there is willing to spend thousand dollars on a ball of toys and. they can go do that. if the person. making that nine thousand dollar ball of twine is a making a thousand dollars off that i don't say that well it will work ok but it's like i mean it's so we were going to buy what a tractor i mean come on like it was like you said there's a certain like there's a certain sickness out there or the like oh hey i want to buy something expensive that looks like it's silk and a thousand or so gets a coffee can that drove me just through everything else i'm like why are fanciest. but a thousand dollars to have a can't like looks like something out of some poor we will use those revises because we don't have money i can get you that can you know i can get you some candles i can spray painted sorry you're good to go or any silver yet or was it what i wear all said. sometimes just to life to at least better and you're

better than i had affairs are up for you today remember everybody in this world will not hold the love that up so i tell you all i love you i am tired well for sure and on top of the all the people are watching those talks of that bridge where a day or night everybody. here's what people have been saying about redacted the neighbors do i suspect it's

the law in austin for all of the only show i go out of my way to lunch you know a lot of the really packed a punch our own elite yampa is the john oliver of hard to be americans do the same thing we are apparently better than blue the things that i see people you never heard of love redacted tonight not the president of the world bank though. on the right me seriously send us an e-mail we'll willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone has signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people i've seen stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not the truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate

every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the berm pits would read literally send to be a pro and they don't want to pay it so the waiting in decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay and. call for help and get the middle finger to be used to model is. delayed and i hope you die. soon just have to keep it to class as i live the good for yourself then. fine. you need. ruhani need to. be done. again. we have many things in this world and this isn't enough for everyone and why some

peoples wants to take our things all the power just for themselves and to see whether. it will be. full of systemic deficiencies that the u.n. security council russia slams a probe into a chemical attack in syria. these are live pictures for you from the pro independence rally that's taking place in the campaign capital flow to the region currently power lies.