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greetings and sal you take. a long time ago last april to be exact the president of the united states of america one donald trump got up in front of the press the country and the whole wide world and declared quote will be coming out of syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation. well my friends now less than a year later apparently our plans have changed regarding syria rather drastically because according to the washington post the administration has now switched course

saying the troops will stay in syria pending an overall settlement of the syrian war and with a new mission to act as a bold wark against iran's expanding influence well how bout a merry christmas to you to their warmongers yes some four thousand u.s. troops along with multiple bases occupying roughly a third of the entire country have now been ordered to stay and if i might add they've been ordered to stay without invitation by the syrian government and under the limits the thin excuse is we must stop iran's expanding influence that's the best they got he smells a lot like johnny bone you know love the iranian government or hate them at least they had the common courtesy to be invited into syria by the syrian government at the end of the day and let's face it we are not exactly winning hearts and minds over there either for example after bombing the city of rocket into the stone age

killing how many thousands we decided the good idea is not to actually help the innocent city citizens there rebuild their city in fact the money that would have been used for iraq and other cities like it that we bombed and helped destroy in syria we decided to keep yes it was back in august that the trumpet ministration decided not to spend the two hundred thirty million allocated by congress to repair syrian cities devastated by this seven year long war instead trump in the game to hang decided to just keep that money not even giving it back to the us treasury instead the administration of decided to spend it on other yet to be determined priorities or whatever in the blue hell that could be i have no idea so buckle up my friends. because the birds of war are circling over our heads once again which means we had better start watching the hawks. wonder what.

the. real with this would. be the plot of. the day like you know what i got. with that we. would. be. welcome aboard watching the hawks i am tired robot and the wireless. here a you know what's amazing is that one of the big things that got for those people that went from being sort of progress. on the left to voting for trump and one of those big things that was that the made those people sort of make that switch. was this idea that he was the least anti intervention last i know a lot of people like to believe ed see it now because of some eons or whatever but

you know a lot of that change in people where they said you know what i'm just angry and part of it was that you promised all of this and that's when you're looking at what happened with you know the former secretary of state now bolton completely different for you and so it's i mean i hate to be the person or seven going out where's that oil and gas guy again he was good you know but at least he wasn't starting wars right there or not that's really what it is a thing and you're dead on the point is i remember you know what donald in the campaign and all but i was one of those people were like maybe five percent slips out you're like oh it's actually not that you know the other ninety five percent is garbage that like garbage but like there's like a five or something a bloke i had that works out you know one of them what you said was not being it was a money and power trip in syria that was the main reason that a lot of. those on the left who had a problem voting for hillary clinton you know after bernie sanders was out in the primaries that was why because she's an interventional and yeah and here's the thing look we have no authorization whatsoever to be syria or operating in syria or

staying in syria i mean remember we went we were to go fight isis under like you which was garbage like that was about fighting al qaeda which al qaeda was fighting isis it made no sense for us to be there congress does not authorize military action in syria the united nations is not given any kind of a mandate or any kind of things saying yes go u.s. troops can be in serious serious self has not allowed us has not said yes you can be here and fight within our borders. two thousand two thousand two did not give permission to occupy syria in any way even david french of the national review despite agreeing with the idea of occupying syria he says that trumps trumps wise policy is blatantly unconstitutional he isn't gauged in the invasion and continued occupation of a hostile foreign state against that state's consent even under his administration is quite expansive definition of its military powers that's an act of war that

we're choir's congressional consent. we have rules for these yes i mean i know we have been following them for ages but it would be nice if we actually you know rules for these things and follow them and that's what's upsetting because when you look at what happened you here you have you know the united states has been building military they have a dozen or more military bases including four airfields which is amazing you can't fix potholes. but you can't build a new bridge you can't fix anything at home you can't feed people at all but somehow you can afford half a dozen you know a dozen bases and four airfields in syria in an area so now you have to understand so the united states military now controls pretty much all of syria east of the euphrates so we're talking about the area the size of west virginia so imagine if syrian army came and took over was over again how would we feel well you know.

georgia has been encroaching on its. you know i mean it just doesn't make any sense right i mean it just puts you in this position of so here we are you have all of these bases all of this money also you can't just say oh well i know that was earmarked for that but will use it for something else you can't do that either you know it's ridiculous is that you can't use you lose money any way you want that otherwise we wouldn't have budgets right otherwise we wouldn't bother that's the redundancy was on the whole of this. but meg and kelly argue that black face was acceptable if it was part of a cost to most people agree she was wrong including her that employer and d.c. who who ousted the conservative firebrand once she who once famously tried to get kids the santa just is why eight angering many who felt perhaps you should have thought twice about making a magical holiday tradition into an issue of race relations now would see it's the

famed luxury brand prada wasn't paying attention either to meghan kelly's debacle or in history class or to america's trees chavez has more. italian fashion brand product pulling a collection of products after facing allegations that it was using blackface imagery the products that sparked the backlash resemble a monkey with large red lips prada use the figure on phone cases key chains necklaces and shirts and even the large versions of the animal team's trinket in window displays the brand has removed all trinkets in question from its stores and displays after facing fierce backlash around the world it's quite obvious to me to . weave a black face and big red lips it's pretty obvious lookin back for any i mean. of ethnic origins especially a black person to see how can you how can such a big brands nowadays when divesting such a big issue get it completely wrong the company slammed on social media for

featuring it in the first place one user taking to twitter saying that ignorance is not an excuse another one calling for the boycott of products however some did feel like the outrage was unfair coming to the company's defense and calling the black face resemblance unintentional i think prada has made it perfectly clear that they had no intention of presenting this says is any kind of racist message or or blackface says it's come to be commonly call prada now issuing an apology the company said in a statement the group of boars racist imagery the problem ali are fantasy charms composed of elements of the prada who've they are imagery creatures and not intended to have any reference to the real world and certainly not blackface prada group never had the intention of offending anyone and we have bore all forms of racism and racist imagery and this interest we will withdraw all the characters in question from display and circulation a lawyer in new york city first drew attention to the products with

a facebook post saying that she was shaking with anger she went on to say when i asked a prada employee whether they knew what had plastered black face imagery throughout their store in a moment of surprising candor i told was. that a black employee had previously complained about black face up prada but he didn't work there anymore now prada says they will improve their diversity training that they have learned their lesson from this incident and vow to do better reporting in new york trinity charges r t. you know. i'm tired of hearing a skit can i just say stop saying who. makes up a stick. very wrong if you looked at this and someone in your room did go hey i remember in history. but i'm sorry because none of it matches with the other thing that's in the collection that's my biggest problem from a design perspective you have a bunch of things that look like robots and then you have this which clearly not

now this is it's a it's a terrible excuse all the time especially for a brand like prada to spend all that money and diversity training if you don't know that you probably shouldn't put that up. and you know that's what muslims will go to you know bring the marketing department and then whoever okayed the marketing i mean this is one of those things where it's like no so it's like well we're going to do more diversity training you know what i bet you're going to train more like you know low level employees on this rather than the people who should be you know because this isn't something like some store manager says hey let's put this this usually comes down from the top right you know this is our campaign and this is going to give it didn't look so much like specifically like this sambo imagery which you know at home was a sort of child's do i mean there's blackface menstrual shows obviously but this one there's a small dolls that look that were supposed to be it's sort of like a lawn drop is they love the idea of slaved peoples and it was supposed to be

a joke and i'm like if it looks literally just like maybe don't do it. this is because the idea of blackface the thing that meg and nobody understands is that the thing about blackface is it was specifically done specifically developed specifically done to mock people of color. you know the thing about blackface and sambo and all of those as and your lawn jockeys as i think of this idea of that blacks are lazy ignorant superstitious hypersexual prone to thievery and cowardice is how the smithsonian listed it was mimicking slaves mimicking they were mimicking where they came from mimicking their their their backgrounds and so it's if you don't know that it's a no everyone reminds you of it i don't care if it was an intentional intention i'm tired of hearing hoops i didn't know i was breaking the law so i didn't know you shouldn't but racists. and shit come on come on already as we go to break card watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on

facebook and twitter and see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up we sit down with just foreign policy is hassan. to discuss the capitol hill's ups and downs and the u.s. involvement in the euro. war and then my friends there's a new way to remember your loved ones after they are gone and trust me. not going to believe your eyes on this one stay tuned to watching the hawks. thank you. imagine being a six thirty five and you have a career and a career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an

office and perhaps she sort of killings have it circular to have to stop doing all this under this kind of you lou the minutes must be for. my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up running it in a box. or out at a very strong magnetic field on a card held in my head. think of it like a real hard pressure on my skin burns and that wireless access point there just continues all day with our students in the schools. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. what politicians do you shop to. put themselves on a lot. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury.

or somehow want to be rich. that you'd like to be for us that's what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the holidays. there should. be. a war in yemen is considered by many to be one of the biggest tragedies of the . the twenty first century and since its inception the united states has been indirectly and sometimes directly involved through its partnership with saudi arabia but recent events like the brutal murder of a journalist. has freed the u.s.

saudi relations after years upon years of blind trust and allegiance this has led to a historic moment on capitol hill last week as the u.s. senate took a stand and voted to end u.s. military involvement in the yemen war but right when things were finally looking decent again and in d.c. the u.s. house of representatives through some shady political maneuvering tucked into a farm bill ended that was able to pull off having to follow in the senate's footsteps and u.s. involvement in yemen essentially throwing a wrench into the gears of peace to help us shed light on where things now stand on saudi arabia yemen and what the future will bring we recently sat down with just foreign policy it's a song l. tell you tell you one of the hard working citizens who actually help premium and legislation to a vote on the senate floor is the first part this fascinating interview. so i want to thank you for coming on the show today and i want to start by observing that it has been a very very up and few weeks politically for the the plight of yemen here in

washington d.c. after the offsetting votes that we saw between the senate and the house where do things currently stand in the u.s. congress on the u.s. involvement in the war you know you know well it's been a historic week in one nine hundred seventy three call has passed the war powers resolution and in that time it's never actually passed the senate so what happened yesterday was absolutely historic fifty six senators voted to end u.s. involvement in saudi arabia's war in yemen so it's a wonderful moment just before the day before that actually the house of representatives they had a similar vote on each corner as one forty. too. through some kind of shady behind the scenes rules votes they actually killed that bill's privilege stuff the farm bill. merrily lost it was two hundred sixty two and three so.

they put something in there that was really unprecedented where they had essentially a rule that would kill not just the privileged status for that bill but the privileged status for all yemen war powers resolution is for the rest of the hundred fifteen dollars preventing them from. actually doing their job and reasserting their constitutional worth already and having it up or down vote on whether or not we should be in yemen it seems like it should be a simple thing and right now we're talking about things that are just to be clear for people at home you talk about the difference between now and january you have a new congress and you have this in that recent farm bill that you mention approved that provision that was inserted as you said essentially says we won't vote on this until the new congress when confronted why he's voted yes because there were

a number of democrats who voted yes when confronted on the house democrat of minnesota collin peterson stated he said we've worked for two years on this farm bill and i'll be damned if i let anyone screw it up when asked about yemen he exclaimed i don't know a damn thing about it and it shouldn't be there in the fridge shouldn't be in there and it it didn't do anything anyway what would you say to educate congressman peterson and others on. why we need to take action and why there was nothing of the farm bill was threatened by this. so he certainly should have known about it because they had a vote on it just a few weeks prior and each color is one thirty eight same bill. and that was the house did another rules trick where they stuffed inside the manager will exact similar thing with a stripped the bill of it's privilege so what he says is as far as you know he

didn't know about it i just have to reject that because we've had conversations with his staff and they have all been briefed so the the next piece is. we had a vote to basically an us involvement in yemen we've been deeply involved helping saudi arabia and the u.a.e. in the saudi led coalition since the start of the war under the obama administration helping with targeting assistance midair refueling we have been supporting them giving them moral cover to also do a blockade of the country cutting off the flow of food fuel medicine clean water. over the summer it was about eight million people on the brink of famine that number got revised up to fourteen million just this week that number got revised again to sixteen million people on the brink of famine well over half the country's population to get back to the representatives of remarks. every

every other democrat except five basically stuck with their party and voted for this and we even got eighteen republicans to break ranks and bravely vote for this piece of legislation a lot of freedom caucus and liberty caucus republicans so. what he says as far as it would make a difference absolutely would make a huge difference and. you know i i'm going to just refer to the peace talks that are happening in sweden right now the momentum of this war powers resolution can't be overstated martin griffiths in talks right now he's the u.n. special envoy to yemen and he's in talks with the who sees and hadi government right now and he basically on the same day the senate voted to pass this war powers resolution s.j. rez fifty four he secured an amazing deal.

basically there's going to be a cease fire in the. data province which is where most of the food gets in the country and so potentially could. alleviate suffering of millions of people and also green two sides who agreed to exchange fifteen thousand prisoners and also at the end of january they're going to come back to the table and hopefully agree to do further ceasefire and further truces around the country and the port city where there was bombing the front there is one of the things that was very important because that was literally the only place for you to get anything and amount of lifeline true. and it's interesting i like the point that you made that you know the reason the congress passes these things is yes of course it's not going to like have a big time effect right away but like you said on a political front during these peace talks that has in the congress of how you were no longer back in saudi arabia in this and speaking of saudi arabia. you know

you're on the hill you're fighting to get this legislation passed. the kind of saudi lobby money run in capitol hill. and kind of boxes a block when you're trying to get. legislation passed and things of that nature there's a tremendous amount of saudi money they have. a tremendous amount of power and they are law being. five different logging firms that they use but on top of that there's there's also lockheed martin raytheon boeing general dynamics who are invested in the u.s. saudi lines and they want to make sure weapons sales keep going through and on top of that there's just the inertia of. seven decades of this alliance basically we are getting oil and tying that oil to the to the u.s. dollar and change we're giving the military security assurances. yet it's just

a lot of a lot of stuff to fly a lot of precedents to fight but congress is doing it and the people and they're doing it because of the grassroots pressure that. is just swelling and people just you know they see pictures of almost hussein the seven year old who starved to death in yemen just a few weeks ago and that was on the front page of the new york times and i think i think people really do care about this. it's a little sad sometimes because i must wonder if we don't get that perfect picture perfect perfectly cropped fixer. people don't get how bad it. is a picture of children and a certain certain image is just and vietnam it's always. you know adults can do a lot of can argue and they can have wars but children have nothing to do with that

. and i think that's what makes this different as when you see things where it's really you can't watch kids on that ice floe third kid from the start and not to something i think you know since the start of the war we've seen about a hundred thousand children starved yeah and this is supported by u.s. policy. so it's unconscionable and we've created a hash tag the famine five. courage your users to use that to call out these democrats for not voting with their party and not voting with brave republicans they came out and voted against the rule of their own party. you know and for whatever reason they choose to say the truth is that they had a chance to vote for the farm bill and bowed down this rule regardless of what story they tell you they had that opportunity and even the standing where who is the democratic whip in the house he put out

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