of the seventy five eighty thousand goal that that that the army was aiming for in fact the army national guard has about eight thousand under its three hundred forty three thousand recruit total while the army reserves down nine thousand from its almost two hundred thousand new recruits goal when asked why the army was failing to fill its ranks to slight offering up to forty thousand bonuses to year in list months and student loan repayments sergeant first class michael t. peppers the commander of a recruiting station in urbandale iowa told the new york times simply we're competing with other businesses offering the same things beth asked a senior. economist at the rand corporation who studies military recruiting backed up peppers claims adding that you have fewer people who can serve they have more opportunities in the job market that makes it very hard on the army. so according to those excuses or excuses it appears that u.s. president donald trump is big talk of booming economies and big league armies might not be able to co-exist as the world's biggest employer struggles to fill its ranks

as more and more citizens are now watching the hawks. it looks like. it's going. to get out of it. like you know that i got. that we. would. welcome everyone watching the hawks i am i wrote them for joining me today today to discuss the recruit fails of the u.s. military on the current state of the war on terrorism journalist and see their other theories on project max blumenthal and the director of the answer coalition brian becker thank you both for coming on the baby interesting interesting story so let me start asking you both were either of you surprised to see the u.s. army going to fail in the fillets its roster so to speak. you know given that the

u.s. army is increasing its recruitment goals to half a million by two thousand and twenty four which is really just outlandish i mean i don't know any country that needs an army of five hundred thousand people although we have constantly heard in the ninety's about saddam hussein's million man army it's going to be harder and harder for them to recruit people i don't know how much of this has to do with the economy but there are strong indications of taking a less favorable view on u.s. foreign policy there was a chicago global affairs council poll this august that showed that only fifty one percent of millenniums actually support the u.s. taking a active role in the world. that's like that's in strong contrast to baby boomers you know even trump voters and but i don't even know how much of that has to do with this i mean the army of the military typically targets the poor and working

class populations even you know undocumented migrants now and i think this has to do with you know changing conditions that might actually have very little to do with how millennial see the u.s. role in the world. was probably not shocking in that and we see cycles of this in fact. right after the the two thousand and seven two thousand and eight financial downturn the army wasn't having a problem at all so of course desperate people are going to do stupid things like join the army or join the marines and it does seem stupid when you're facing the prospect of two three four even five tours in iraq war in afghanistan a war that doesn't and so there's there's parents involved when you see military recruiters you see them there lurking around high schools and working class and poor areas predominantly poor white rural areas who are in black inner city areas they're trying to talk to the kids without the parents present because the parents

will say no we don't want you to go to afghanistan yeah you're having a hard time getting a job we don't have money to send you to college or almost anything else but this is not a good deal so it's a combination of yes there's a tighter job market people in the us can get jobs and wages are going up a little bit but also there's a fear that your son or your daughter are going to be sent to a countries thousands of miles away to be killed in a war that you don't understand against the people you don't know and for what and i think we have even though it's a limited part of the population that's actually served in iraq i mean it's a couple percent where i've served in afghanistan the fact that those are the population groups that the military keeps going back to him back to and back to in the stories of people coming back and committing suicide. people coming back and being homeless people who don't come back because they were killed all of this adds up and is an accumulating factor the only thing the pentagon could have going for it right now is that there will be another recession there will be because of the

nature of capitalism by two thousand and twenty or twenty twenty one millions of people will lose their jobs for no good reason and then their kids or they themselves may be forced to enlist in the military you know that's the interesting thing about it so i want to ask you is that what's fascinating is for years the military would never kind of come out and say like brian was talking about that we target the poor you know because they're the ones who have the most to gain i guess for lack of a better term but like we target after that i mean is this kind of admission well we can't get as many recruits because people are finding jobs regardless of how bad the economy truly is is that their admission now finally that yeah we do go after the poor and like the lower classes and because it's easier to rope them in to do much stuff first of all i think the last time i remember a major surge in recruitment was right after nine eleven for ideological reasons that have zeal and that was the last time that there was a transcendent kind of national cause. people were inspired by bush's state of the

union about fighting. you know al qaeda and this global totalitarianism the same way we fought naziism in world war two and you saw a lot of people at a time of a good economy a pretty decent economy right before the recession kicked in starting to you know join up there hasn't been a transcendent national cause since then and now you do have a growing economy at the same time we're not seeing wages increase the jobs that are being produced i mean there are new jobs being produced here trying to talk about it every day they're there to drive jobs in the gig and con to me so they're not the greatest job so we do have to wonder why the military is having such a hard time i can tell you you know in my own extended family having had a member of the family in afghanistan every time you know there was news of a u.s. troops committing a massacre or something. horrible happening in afghanistan it would reverberate throughout family circles and while there was a pride about this member you know serving. from a more fortunate background there was

a deep concern and very like desire to have a return to civilian life and i think that's something that goes on in every military family especially. after the experience of iraq and afghanistan that's interesting because it kind of put or both of us were saying is what do you think the economy and those reasons that they're giving you think that's kind of the cover story but let's blame it on the economy and blame it on the fact that there's new jobs in the market rather than blame it on the fact that you know what the mission is and attracting the volunteers well they'll never say that ok so that's that's often what is the mission because you know what the mission in syria and what's the mission in afghanistan the mission is don't lose the mission is you're going to keep going there and going back there and you might die but there's been no definition of what the real purpose is so yes there is no mission is is max it's a nothing that's you know convincing to people to people hear horror stories about what's going on inside the military either crimes committed against indigenous

populations in iraq or afghanistan or what what's happening to soldiers in an enlisted people themselves but there is the other issue which is that the military minus a convincing national cause like nine eleven or pearl harbor it really can't convince right thinking people to go into the military to go thousands of miles away to fight in these wars that people perceive to be wars for nothing or wars of aggression so bottom line is that it's economic inducements and if people can do anything but do that and still find a way to make ends meet they probably will again we have to see this is it in an aggregate kind of way the rich the upper middle classes they don't send their kids into the military they're more prone to be like donald trump. you remember he got those terrible bones for his right when he was coming off the best couple of court that's why he couldn't go to vietnam dick cheney said he had better things to do and member said oh i'm going to go into the maryland national guard because we're

going to lose in vietnam and i don't want to waste my life and losing after as true as. options available to middle class people or affluent people again the military prefers a volunteer army as opposed to a conscripted army because the conscript conscripted army when it's draws in masses of people who don't absolutely want to be there leads to rebellion and one of the reasons why the vietnam war actually ended something people don't know is it was the g.i.'s who helped lead the antiwar movement in one thousand nine hundred seventy one and seventy two that's what the military's is is trying to avoid so yeah let's give people forty thousand dollar bonuses and say will pay off your student debt again a form of bribery is it a mercenary type sort of a arrangement in a way though that's an interesting point too because a lot of what these young recruits don't realize that once you put your name on the paper the government owns you and they can change that deal any time they see fit you saw with you know a continuing and listen you know after stop loss and things like that in iraq and

you know they can change the deal no matter what they offer these kids and you know have something called the first amendment when you're an enlisted person so you're absolutely right in that they did do that they were going to extend your tour you're going to go back for the third time fourth time fifth time that happened to thousands of people you know one of the interesting things about this is that you have a new generation now that they're trying to recruit the were born essentially of the year of war after nine eleven so they literally grew up in the war on terror in this perpetual war that doesn't stop is that a factor when you look at like these young kids who specially with social media you know they're communicating and there's garbage yeah i mean i think we've passed the mark where people who were born after nine eleven are now eligible to serve in afghanistan you have a forever war at the. it was not accomplished where else are u.s. troops syria that was actually i mean i hear that being mentioned more publicly now by public officials but they can't explain why because isis has been defeated and

so you hear the general saying well there's still some residual pockets of isis out there we got to keep we got to stay there then john bolton comes out last week and says we actually have to stay there forever it's a long as iran is there i don't know many americans who want to go out and fight iran there were some americans who wanted to go out and fight isis because they committed terror attacks in the west as more understandable i just don't know anyone who wants to get gets up in the morning and says we got to fight the iranians because of what they did to us and that's what the mission is being defined as along with maintaining this archipelago of bases in places like south korea so where you there's a desperation there in the recruitment drives the county that suffered the most per capita deaths in iraq was l.a. county as far as i know i was i lived in l.a. county for five years i was getting into journalism i was a substitute teacher in public schools in the hamburg school district there was military recruiters were coming in and out of our classes pulling kids out to do our classes all the charm the calendars the lanyards we had were supplied by the

army they were all over the place trying to rope up as many kids as possible i'd see them at latino festivals mexican festivals they bring out a hummer and they'd have a latino soldier trying to pull young people over so there was a desperation there they were targeting the poor and the working class targeting minorities targeting undocumented migrants because there is no ideological pole and just think of you have right now if you're giving a nineteen year old again outside of the earshot of their parents or an eighteen year old hey you want forty thousand dollars bonus and you're still not meeting recruitment goals i mean this is a this says a lot about what's going on and openly says a lot thank you for coming on over this conversation with us always a pleasure thanks. as we go to break or quaters don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics rick. facebook and twitter. see our poll shows that our teeth dot com coming up as the f.b.i. breaks down the walls of the i phone ten does that put our privacy rights in danger

the civil rights attorney in the keep the levy pounds joins us to sort it out and then our tease racial problems looks at the one year anniversary of the los vegas mass shootings to stay tuned for watching the. nor make us manufacture them sentenced to public wealth. when the running closest to protect themselves. in the final merry go round certainly the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing. the road a simple they want to be gotten lost and i won the last post on this but i have many of them look for refuge in the so called sentries sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person asked bank of mom. mostly to point out. that next time i get i'm in a lot of class and i want that. they can watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all for political rivals. both of you what is the who beat up to the government affairs it struggles of many couples won't. deal with the push to put impulse response both of you up with approval of

the. welcome back court watchers we start the second half of our show today with some startling moves for all you folks out. just upgraded to that brand spankin shiny new i phone accident here's my friends that the federal government in particular the federal bureau of investigation has discovered a foolproof way to get past the new i phone tens facial recognition security features and access your private photos and messages and just what insidious and ingenious hack did they discover well how about just physically forcing you to put your face in front of your phone and bingo it's unlocked and apparently they

recently use this rather old school hack during a child pornography investigation uncovered by forbes in what may very well be the world's very first instance of law enforcement forcing a user to walk their i phone using apple's facial recognition technology but while the agents in the case were going by the book using authorization to access the phone through a search warrant this case and the f.b.i.'s actions are raising troubling questions at the crossroads of protecting the people's right to privacy and law enforcement's need to collect evidence joining me today to help us navigate those crossroads a civil rights attorney and a chemo levy pounds from minneapolis to chemo thank you so much for coming on today . thanks for having me so right out the gate i just want to say my my right feeling like there's some kind of wrong with this you know about the f.b.i. forcing someone you know using force in some way to use their face to unlock their personal i phone i mean despite what the crime as i understand this guy's child

pornography no one likes that but even with like the warrant apparently saying it's all right this still leaves a bad taste in my mouth for some reason. it's definitely troubling to see that the government has so much unchecked power in a situation like this when apple first introduced biometric authentication process these initially it seemed as though our data and our information would be safer however they use of some of these biometric techniques such as being. able to use your finger to unlock your i phone or to use your face to unlock your i phone actually could undermine our legal protections particularly under the fifth amendment to the constitution which protects us against self incrimination you know it's interesting you know the supreme court did rule that law enforcement needs a warrant to search your smartphone your i phone whatever but in your experience

civil rights is law enforcement following the line are they getting warrants or are they still kind of just using the old you know cop on citizen pressure to unlock their phones were garble civil war and like you to do this you have to do this that kind of treatment. what i think that it depends on the particular jurisdiction and so we've had a number of situations in which police officers police officers have confiscated people's phones and depending upon the technology that's available to them it's very possible that they're able to access the information contained within people's phones now and some of the most recent cases like the one that you referenced law enforcement did in fact get a warrant in that situation but we know that it's not extremely difficult for them to get warrants they're able to find a job please basic facts and to use those facts as a justification for being able to access people's private information now apple is

doing its best to get ahead of law enforcement by putting in various security measures such as if one doesn't access his or her phone within forty eight hours of trying to use facial recognition technology then the i phone would require a pass code to access the information and then some of the other data will not become available unless the i phone is actually connected to a computer however. the law is severely behind law enforcement as far as the use of technology is concerned and so we need to make sure that congress gets ahead of these issues and that state legislatures are also paying attention in order to strike a proper balance between law enforcement's need to do their job versus protecting the rights of the public you know one of the questions that really gets lost in all

of this conversation is what should a citizen do when faced with this citizen suddenly has law enforcement coming at them saying we want to see your phone. if let's say for example if they have a warrant what should a citizen look for in the warrant and so that way the citizen knows to protect their own personal rights and their own constitutional rights so they don't just give them up you know when they wouldn't have to in that situation what should a citizen do in the in these situations. well a citizen should look for specificity within the warrant so making sure that the officers who are bringing the warrant forward have enough information to describe the devices that they're looking to search and any information contained within those devices beyond that if officer officers are able to access their their phones at that point it's going to be important for individuals to make sure that they

hire a competent lawyer who is able to review the information and to make sure that due process was followed and that the officers did in fact have probable cause in getting that warrant signed in the first place do you feel like you mentioned a little bit earlier i want to kind of expand on that it's interesting how the law it feels like it's playing catch up to the technology and that's where you get this gray hair. such abuses by authority what is the law got to do to catch up in your eyes. well i would recommend that congress stablish a committee that focuses specifically on emerging technologies if anyone watched the congressional hearings that happened earlier in the year we saw the founder and c.e.o. of facebook being questioned extensively by members of congress and we also saw that many members of congress really had no idea how facebook actually functions

what types of privacy protections are in place how much data are being revealed to outside companies etc and so congress is going to have to get a lot smarter about the use of various technologies and also work harder to protect the public by changing the laws that are in place to not just keep up with the new technologies but to actually get ahead of technologies articles usually come out in enough time to alert our folks and government that changes are on the horizon however with so much gridlock in washington it can be difficult to get anything done especially when it comes to protecting the rights of the people and particularly those who have been suspected of committing heinous crimes like the one in question because we know we often have to remember that we are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law so charges do not equal guilt and i really hope people pay attention

to their rights thank you so much for coming on today and it's always a pleasure to have you on and lightning our audience thank you so much. thanks for having me. this week october first marks the one year anniversary of the tragic shooting that took place in las vegas in about the last year at the route ninety one harvest festival that left fifty eight more than eight hundred injured from a gunman's violence and the ensuing panic the horror and tragedy. left las vegas its citizens out in the nation with more questions than answers in the aftermath the months that followed yours are to you america's rachel blevins with an in-depth look at the one year anniversary and the questions and concerns that still have yet to be answered. one year ago today vive sadly a smash shooting in modern u.s. history took place and as the survivors struggle to move on we are all left with questions about why this massacre happened in the first play all of the marquee is on the las vegas strip will go dark tonight as part of

a memorial dedicated to the shooting victims at ten o five pm the same time the shooting started volunteers in downtown las vegas will start reading off the names of the victims and exhibit has also been opened at the clark county museum where more than fifteen thousand artifacts have been collected the exhibit includes portraits of the fifty eight people whose lives were lost i don't want to throw over there by volunteer artists from across the country and throughout the world all of america is grieving for the lives lost and for the families. they left behind so to all of those families and to the people of las vegas we love you we are with you we're working with you very hard as americans mourn the victims who were lost in the shooting there are a number of questions that remain about why it occurred after a ten month investigation the final report from polio stated that they were still not able to find a motive for why a suspect stephen paddick transported dozens of firearms and thousands of rounds of

ammunition to his hotel room and then open fire from the thirty second floor while some of the footage shows that officers were instructed to turn off their body cameras other footage from the officers who entered politics hotel room shows that they made comments about the windows being fully intact with no broken an f.b.i. affidavit revealed that not only were federal agents aware of politics large stash of weapons before the shooting but he sent e-mails advertising the weapons were for sell as if he was an arms dealer reports also found that while police and security were in the hotel they were delayed in responding to the shooting and there have been crucial changes to the timeline of the events from the nine so as we were a member the lives that were lost and forever changed on this tragic day in twenty seven scene the public is still left with countless questions about whether police

are being fully transparent in washington rachel was and are to see. this little piggy went to market this little produce stay to hold this little piggy where we are all the way couldn't actually go we are all the way home because she was brought in factory farming and now i was prolapse. guardian is now reporting the death rates are surging for female pigs in the united states due to a tragic rise in prolapse or what is essentially the collapse of the animal's uterus which. a little bit. many experts are partly blaming the rise in mortality rates on the fact that an estimated ninety seven per cent of the seventy three million hogs in the us are raised in closed barns or confined in feeding operations and as professor of animal science at colorado state university

temple grandin points out there are breeding the saudis to produce a lot of babies well there's a point where you've gone too far you see late as john like a cow before it appears we've now brought our pigs into permanent convalescence and death. i think we all need to think about that during our next bacon cheeseburger. i mean seriously that's truly truly awful all right everybody that is our show for you today and remember everyone in this world we are not told that we are loved and so i tell you all i love. tyrrel keep watching those hawks and have a great day and make everybody.

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