it's one you can only see if you have the right set of eyes that can read between the headlines and catch the flashes of lightning in the distance as february came to a close blood blood was in the economic water here in the retail states of america as four major brands announce the closing of more than four thousand shows stores nationwide in a forty eight hour apocalypse now in retail but but but but wait tyrrell the economy is doing great you will all say to me all our talking heads on t.v. are republican and democratic elected leaders and officials and wall street bootlickers are all telling us that it's jobs jobs jobs go lower that the economy is booming. much like author of the capitalist comeback and their wrote in the washington post he said quote the latest numbers confirm what americans can see all around them the trump economic surge it is still in full swing and beating

expectations. well you might be the only half right and we are really you might just be one percent right because there are two different americas my friend one is the rich and booming land of opportunity that your politicians and mainstream media assures us exists and the other is the one all of us are actually living in one where inflation has been rising exponentially faster than wages with the cost of an education and health care will put you into debt for the rest of your natural life despite working forty hours a week. it's the america where major brick and mortar retailers like gap j.c. penney footlocker and victoria's secret all just announced the closing of four hundred sixty five stores nationwide and just twenty in just forty eight hours it's the america where department stores have lost eighteen times more workers than coal mining since two thousand and one. now my friends the only real question is what happens next for all those poor souls who just lost their jobs and the millions

more when the retail and service industry this country has spent the last sixty years living off of goes the way of the dinosaur and the video store. and it's questions like those that keep us always watching the whole x. . forty. three the. real with this week. as part of. what they like you know what i got. this. week. well tomorrow watching the harvest. and downtown while if so our retail mall dreams of childhood while if so our

retail mall dreams of childhood. still leave. you i mean look i don't mind i understand you know the way society works you know technology automatically moves beyond things we're talking about a recently tablets like you know you know the horse and carriages went the way of a dinosaur the moment cars came in and brick and mortar retail is probably going to disappear change in some dramatic fashion because of online buying and all of that but. the thing that nobody's doing nobody's talking about what's going happen with these jobs going to the people who work at these places what happens next especially when you see these you know forty eight hour bloodbaths like we just saw right and it is i mean these things are going to get bigger and bigger you're seeing larger malls closing you're seeing shopping centers get smaller and you're seeing more and more real tellers even tesla went to a place so it's it sort of the brick and mortar only works in certain areas you know target somehow target does really well yeah so is this

a matter of the industry isn't working or is it that. the money just isn't there to buy stuff that the big say is that. the money just isn't there to buy its. that's the big question so when you look out here and you have gap they announced it's going to close two hundred thirty of its name stakes in namesake stores so that bigger gap stores over the next two years and despite showing a good fourth quarter footlocker announced friday that it would plan to close about one hundred sixty five stores and. will brands which victoria the owner of victoria's secret have to close fifty three stores this year though i feel like that's a very small number i think you're going to end up saying a lot more and j.c. penney announced it would it would to shatter eighteen of its department stores and i'm saying i'm like i'm surprised there's a j.c. penny left because most cities are connected to malls and you just don't see them as much growing there isn't all of this there's actually about eight hundred fifty some odd juicy dinners left and these are eighteen closing but what's interesting

is bob bibs the c.e.o. of new york based consultancy the retail doctor you actually said jason you buy these latest store closing it is mind boggling the jersey still thinks they have time when the clock is right now and there's no real plan for them he went on to tell parkes business that we still desperately needs an inspiring vision words brand as more and more coasters are heading to the targets the wall marks and the amazons you know look we all saw this coming of thousand miles where are we newman's not going about it for ages right but nobody else is it's like everybody in the streets talking about it like hades you know so all these major stores are closing up with no one is really coming in to put those place i mean you know they say warehouse jobs are going to like make up for it i guess but there's a big difference between being someone who sells clothes for a living and going and likes put you know packing boxes where this is going to wal-mart come segues i thought wal-mart wants their workers to be more like amazon workers in a warehouse now so one of the things they're changing you know where member they

were they had put out a big announcement last year during me. hoax tax plan i mean republican tax plan and so they had said we're going to fifteen dollars an hour well now we know how they're going to afford it they told greeters around the country that their jobs would be eliminated and expanded. it's a more physically demanding what they call customer host or also they'll have to lift twenty five pounds to climb ladders they stand for long periods of times and what that means is people are a little bit older people who have disabilities who have physical ambulatory issues they can't work a wal-mart so that's how you afford your fifteen dollars an hour you just dump the whole bunch of people in the thing but i think the question isn't. a lot of people as usual will blame the people buying the horse i mean when you look at like the reporting on these kind of things like there's an example in reporting the story

about the split between big gap and old navy you know old movies doing great because they're cheaper spinoff says about america's cheap clothing addiction look . sorry it's not an addiction to cheap clothes it's because we can't afford anything but cheap clothes because there's no middle class imagine. the political upheaval in haiti has been largely ignored by the mainstream media but the internet helped to elevate the stories coming out of the island republic and what merge was a tale that seems straight out of a nine hundred ninety s. action movie a group of armed american mercenaries slipped into haiti amongst a violent protests and then got caught by the haitian police to help us better understand the story that no one but social media seems to be truly reporting on is watching the hoax social watching the hawks social media producer devon springer thanks for joining us to have him every time of course excited because we've been

trying to talk about this story for some time and this is an important story that again not hardly anyone is out there touching i mean in the midst of this massive anti-government corruption protest which we did talk about on the show all cross eighty one group of people particularly stood out it was shocking there's this former u.s. military members who were arrested now why is this particular group causing so much speculation why were they rested why. they there right well and you're right we have been trying to talk about this on the show for forever i've been following the story so closely basically there were five former u.s. marines and one serbian national who were arrested in haiti about two weeks ago in the midst of the countrywide protests happening and they had a large cache of military grade weaponry this is everything from machine guns a.r.s. pistols drones and even communications. communications devices now the speculation online is that these people were there to either arm the governments or

to sort of even themselves be mercenaries to squash protesters they were u.s. citizens and former u.s. military personnel we know that the u.s. is a strong ally of the corrupt haitian government. so the mainstream media the story which involves five u.s. marines now in the pen that media in haiti specifically on twitter has been monster mental in reporting on these kind of things actually the haiti in fro project what you can see a tweet of theirs on the screen they were the ones who broke the story essentially it's all citizen journalists local in haiti and the haitian government has cracked down on free press very very hard so what do they do they take to twitter haiti info project and others online actually expose the weapons the names of some of the people who were arrested for the conspiracy with the military grade weapons and still mainstream media like c n n m s n b c took them days to even write an article about it and most of them haven't even talked about it on air at all. to me well

that's the next thing you know you've got these weapons and these people and they're arrested down there and. the question next to this has there been any charges or punishment did they actually break any law like what what's the situation with these people because you know at the end of the day we don't really know if they did anything bad until we thank you. well the judge is really psyched out but again it's kind of like we don't you know i don't now i'm ready to do anything. i mean this is the question everyone's asking is where are they now they were originally detained and were going to be tried in haiti for a conspiracy of course people running around with military grade weapons in a foreign country right it's i mean seems like the specialists in the area the haitians times actually reported that one of them told local haitian police that our boss will speak to yours and then within forty eight hours later they were actually sent back to miami with no charges and they've been released last so it's

pretty much a wipe our hands clean of a situation let's just ignore the story and let it disappear into the water. like wow can you imagine now for bunch of. men the arab mercenaries with. machetes and night yeah and they want and machine done everything that was roaming around montana right you know i'm here i'm i'm here i got worried about it with machine guns what i wrote yeah they want to know what it really was. it is a really interesting story and it's wonderful because it's interesting like why they were even caught in the first place because a lot of times these types of actions especially if it is covert whatever that was going on there usually they're in and out you never see it yeah you know and the thing to remember too is that the u.s. government strongly supports the haitian government and many say that they even meddled in the elections to sort of install the government. so of course they're not going to support the protesters who are pro to the. producer always

a pleasure thank you so much. i was going to bring court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the proper couple of facebook and twitter that r t v dot com coming up we delve into the united nations human rights council before dawn is real potential war crimes those wall street to washington. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. my son doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it

was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse you started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivable sentence in this for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. same wrong. we're all just don't call. me. yet to shape

out just because that's ok and engagement equals betrayal. when something you find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. the government military of israel is in hot water again after an independent commission of inquiry mandated by the united nations human rights council found that israeli soldiers did indeed commit war crimes along the israeli palestine border during last spring's march to the return protests chair of the commission

santiago cunto of argentina told the media that quote israeli soldiers committed violations of international human rights and humanitarian law some of those violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity and must be immediately investigated by israel the commission found that israeli military sniper shot more than six thousand that's right six thousand armed demonstrators and killed one hundred eighty three with a live ammunition thirty five of which were children joining us now to discuss these tragic findings as well as the fall out is investigative journalist ben swan thanks for joining us ben yeah hey. let's start with the commission's report what exactly did the human rights council uncover regarded in the israeli military's actions during those those very bloody demonstrations that you know i wish more of the saw last year because it was not about much coverage all over there really wasn't that much coverage of it and when you take a look at this report and i brought the report it's about twenty two pages it's

pretty staggering not just of what was found but the level of detail that's in this report it is in no way some kind of generic report but just to go back to reiterate some of what was was just said that there's this report found that israeli forces killed one hundred eighty three palestinians and all. almost all of them were killed with live ammunition so these were not people who you know were were casualties of a vehicle crashing into something they were not casualties of some kind of explosion these this is live ammunition that's killing these individuals also the dead included thirty five children twenty three thousand people were injured and over six thousand of them were shot by live ammunition so again a report that is heavy on detail detailing every individual name age incredible levels of detail in this report. is there now when we look at

the response obviously israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu responded to the report in an away i think is pretty not surprising really declaring that the report at the u.n. human rights council was quote setting new records for hypocrisy and mendacity out of an obsessive hatred of israel the only democracy in the middle east ben does israel's arguments hold up in this report that they soldiers were in a sense just defending themselves from in this report that they soldiers were in a sense just defending themselves from as they put it potential hamas aggression during the protests. right so a couple things on that number one it should be mentioned that the report does not only document dead and injured palestinians it also documents injuries to israeli soldiers and so the report did not ignore that it does include that however as we know in these cases many times the use of force on the israeli side is much greater than it is on the palestinian side the other thing is i want to give you an idea of

what the actual committee looked at here they said it was it was heavy in detail the commission conducted three hundred twenty five interviews and meetings with victims witnesses government officials members of civil society from all sides and gathered more than eight thousand documents including affidavits medical reports open source reports social media content written submissions expert legal opinions video and drone footage and photographs so the idea that netanyahu was saying that this was just another smear an attack against israel by an organization that doesn't care about israel and hates democracy is just flatly untrue again this was not a one sided report but there were atrocities committed here that is what the u.n. report finds and essentially so far it's fallen on deaf ears it is really incredible i mean we we watched and witnessed

a lot of these things happen and you saw people getting you know with the coverage there there wasn't there was a little bit of response from a record of being back at the time people were a little about rage back then a lot of people just kind of chills to look the other way so well of the reporters come out what has been the international response to the report and in particular i'm very curious is how is the united states handling this news because you know when you were going oh that's our soul mate over there that's our best buddy our buddy buddy over there well i think that's part of what you know when you look at this story you have to look at the fact that so far i have not been able to find one mainstream network in the united states that's covered it. this report came out on thursday we're now on monday the only source that you find for this are you know independent media and non-mainstream sources international sources are covering it but here in the us it's not being covered first of all the israeli response as you guys have talked about is essentially that the report is bogus and the israelis don't believe it they're not going to believe it the israeli government's not going

to recognize it and the fact is that the u.s. government hasn't even bothered to respond to it i haven't found anything so far where the u.s. government has made any kind of formal response to this report why would they need to because it doesn't matter to them if this is the case you know that's really incredible especially given all the outrage and things like that over represent people and omar and now we're going to drown. us all talking israel right now this might come up in that conversation it's pretty shocking boy can't it can't come up in that conversation because that's not a conversation that's a conversation that is let's hear what she says and then that's take a look at the facts and now you defend this position and that's not happening as she is being smeared every time she speaks out and not in the anti-semitic way as you guys know that that term anti sematic is used all the time for anyone who questions the israeli government it is not anti semitic to question the israeli government and its israeli policies as a nation and yet that's the slur that's used against her on a regular basis and we're seeing more of that as a u.s.

representative today. the thing about the alien omar and it actually is that it would sort of shock me that he said it out loud he said it that it's sort of un-american alluding that it's un-american to question our relationship with israel at all and that leaves me as my next question which is. netanyahu is literally in the middle of a reelection campaign and in the last week aside from this he has been rocked with potential indictments on corruption. he was buried for really took a tougher even from a pack of people here in on the side for aligning himself with the sort of racist ultra nationalist political party in the country. looking at the way the wind is changing does do you think he has a chance in this next election are we going to see a major shift in israel and tiredly i think we may see that shift it won't be the results of this report it won't be the result of any actions that the u.n.

has is calling it for and the reason for that is because that actually is netanyahu strategy his strategy has been in the past it continues to be continuing to push the idea that israel was hated around the world has has no allies must be insulated from attacks and essentially is protected only by the united states and so as as netanyahu kind of fosters that feeling you know one of the things that as you guys know he's been doing this kind of pushing for the war with iran and it seems like he's taking a page out of that neo con playbook here in the u.s. that says when things go badly for you bomb something blow something up because all of a sudden you can get a lot of attention back on yourself in a positive way be seen as the hero defending your people and so it seems like he's leaning heavily into that i don't know if he'll survive this election but that's it won't be because of any of this it will be because of of those corruption charges and scandal surrounding his administration would be interesting to see all that's

going to play out you know finally when you look at this report like sort of so detailed and you know clearly the reports are everyone around the reports saying look war crimes need to be investigated but i've heard that happen a lot in my bay where you see the report come out whether it's i mean mr national with the u.n. human rights committee where we need to investigate these war crimes will we actually see an investigation of this or is this a kind of another one of those reports that just comes and goes and the country is too powerful too well connected no one ever sees it as i international. i was going to say you know in in in journalism you guys know we call that a throw away question because you already know the answer to united states is never going to be punished by the u.n. for a war crime and i did not misspeak when i said the united states. israel will never be prosecuted for any of this or or there will never be tribunals held because israel is an extension in the un of the united states us its veto power over anything the un decides to do and would never allow that to happen so absolutely

not i don't expect to see anything come from it other than the continued refusal to accept that people people matter right people's lives actually matter israeli lives matter palestinian lives matter and yet it is not treated that way certainly in our media certainly and our governmental apparatus whether they have a are in front of their name or a d. in front of their name lives don't matter unless you fit into that political spectrum of being wholly and fully aligned with israel you know thank you very much it was a great great piece and couldn't agree more which is so the very there and you know at the end of the day it might be a throwaway question in journalistic terms but you know it's an important question as other people need to hear that answer and i don't want to ask it exactly what exactly thank you so much for coming out today but always a pleasure having you thanks guys. where and how would we back up the whole of human history and case earth why damage happened well the

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