there may finally be starting to crack and the other end of these cracks can be found in the numbers the numbers of new recruits to be precise recently the u.s. army revealed that it fell thousands of troops short of its recruiting goals this year the first time it has done so since the height of the iraq war thirteen years ago this news comes despite the army spending an extra two hundred million on its already massive recruiting budget and the falls weren't contained to just active duty recruits. who fell about sixty five hundred short of the seventy five eighty thousand goal that that that the army was aiming for in fact the army national guard is about eight thousand under it's three hundred forty three thousand recruit total while the army reserve is down nine thousand from its almost two hundred thousand new recruit goal when asked why the army was failing to fill its ranks despite offering up to forty thousand bonuses to year and 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 were

competing with other businesses offering the same things that 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 excuse the excuses it appears that u.s. president donald trump's big talk of booming economies and big league armies might not be able to co-exist as the world's biggest employers struggles to fill its ranks as more and more citizens are now watching the next. forty. three this. is. what they like you know that i got.

well tomorrow watching the i robot for joining me today to discuss the recruit variables of the u.s. military on the current state of the war on terrorism journalist and see the road with his own project max blumenthal and the director of the answer coalition brian becker thank you both for coming on the very 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 it 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 struck you. 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 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 the 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 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 talk 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 retarget up. but i mean is this kind of admission well we

can't get as many recruits because many 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 into doing this stuff well first of all i think the last time i remember a major surgeon 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. to you know al qaeda and its 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 the 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 the 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 could have put it 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 fire. 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 is about you know what they're going to shoot in syria and what's the mission in afghanistan the mission is don't lose the mission is you 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 as maxa say nothing that's you know convincing to people to people here 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 and 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 that 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 bone spurs not meeting recruitment goals i mean this is a this says a lot about what's going on up and he says a lot thank you max thank you brian for coming on having 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 we've covered a facebook twitter. sphere of our coming up as the f.b.i. breaks down the walls of the i phone does that for our privacy rights and danger of civil rights attorney mickey beloved joins us to sort it out and then our. looks at the one year anniversary of the last vegas. i shouldn't be watching.

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startling news for all you folks out there just upgraded to that brand spankin shiny new iphone accident peers 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 ten's 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 on 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 in my in 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 that despite what the crime as i understand this guy's child pornography no one likes that but even with like the war and 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 introduced biometric authentication process these initially it seemed as though our data and our information would be safer however.

the 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 or gargle 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 plead 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 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 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 what 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 nevada last year at the route ninety one harvest festival that left fifty eight more than eight hundred injured from a gunman's violence in the ensuing panic the horror and tragedy. left los vegas said citizens around 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 year old people whose lives were lost and 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 foley stated that they were still not able to find a motive for why suspect stephen paddick transported dozens of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition to his hotel room and then opened 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 glass 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 emails 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 night 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 see. this little pretty went to market this little produced a to hold this little piggy where we all the way could actually go. civil war in africa's newest country claims close to four hundred thousand lives according to the u.s.

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