actually be you know what start watching the whole us. wonder what. the. real thing is what. the part of. what they like you but i got. with. this. because i. welcome everyone to watching the hawks i am a robot and i'm happy to wallace. this has been a long time coming i have to say for both of these men to at least have the sort of light shined on them and sort of you know pulling the vampire out of his putting him out in the sunlight you know where it burns off a little bit and it does something and these are two men who really i mean their crimes are unconscionable what they're accused of is just it does it's

truly stomach churning and frightening at the end of the day that they were allowed to get away with it for so long well we all knew about it while pop culture made comments about it you know and one of the things you look at these two cases and as you mentioned you have you know r. kelly who's was charged with ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and abstain who was indicted in two thousand and seven for abusing more than thirty underage girls and this is one of those things that young women are just when it comes to you know sexual harassment sexual abuse sexual exploitation like in these cases. the law just doesn't protect the victims of that the women who were used in the view is most definitely doesn't what's fascinating when you look at these two individuals is that i see it maybe it's just me but i see that it's interesting that now everyone is going to. so hard

after r. kelly right it's very similar crimes marry some of them but like when it came to epstein i mean alexander acosta giving him this like amazing sweet deal when he was it was attorney and you know avoided a life sentence for his crimes by just you know gave him immunity to all of his coconspirators their absence or just thirteen months in county jail and get out you know went to his office have visitors and all that kind of stuff right and this is what you do when you live in the palm beach mara lago set of very very white very privileged and very protected people the key and it's interesting because in a blog chicago called chicago history cop former criminal investigator ridges and actually observed the arc if r. kelly is a convicted of only one of the crime scene allegedly committed his punishment will be ten times as severe as the rich sicko from florida meaning upstream and by the way don't expect kelly to get such a great deal nobody should but he's making i think a really interesting point between the two cases right here you have epstein who i

guess because he's chummy with bill clinton and a lot of you know higher ups and all these lawyers he got you know they talked about the case and it got it got to have lives but then it just kind of despair when i rang went away because it was very close as nothing to the way and they're going down on him really hard no obviously they should but there is a racial element here that no one wants to talk about i think right and it's why who was you know you mentioned this to me earlier you brought up this point who was the first person we really saw be taken down fully down and put in jail under me to bill cause bill cosby and so i want to make this point is that when you look at the sentencing sending the u.s. sentencing commission they found that black men who commit the same crimes as white men tend to receive federal prison sentences that are on average nearly twenty percent loom so marc mauer an executive director of the sentencing sentencing project a group that. a group that we're is working to reduce the bias in the criminal

justice system which is kind of what we're talking about here and also this does i want to say before i read this quote so what we see is that the charging decisions of prosecutors are key whether done consciously or not prosecutors are point that also young women of color or young poor women which were many of epstein and r. kelly's victims are often brushed aside by law enforcement and they're not taken seriously and this is what happens you have years of abuse and the both these men were allowed to do it because at one point a woman's body and that is just something to be used and thrown away when we're done with it and that has to stop yes it does we it most definitely house to stop but i think it's very key that we we punish these crimes regardless of skin color regardless of financial wealth behind the person you do charge and you bring that person in the door and if they are probably guilty you punish them regardless of what background or what big powerful friends they are all many great grammys they have on their show. the first casualty of war is truth well now

it appears in the age of drone warfare this second casualty of war is transparency u.s. president donald trump close the steel doors on drone war of transparency in this week after he used an executive order to end a three year old rule forcing the government to disclose the amount of civilians killed by drone strikes outside official war zones or to america stand cohen has a story. back in two thousand and sixteen then president barack obama was under pressure to be extra judicial assassination of civilians and secret wars across the globe he signed an executive order saying that each may the defense intelligence agency had to release its figures of how many civilians were killed by drones thanks to president trump's latest executive order the public won't have any knowledge is that figure rises signed on march sixth this executive order drops obama's requirement to. in the u.s.

military even less public oversight obviously the obama administration made more effort to appear to be transparent and accountable but the numbers of deaths especially the numbers of civilian deaths that the us was willing to acknowledge have never been more than a tiny fraction of the true number of deaths being killed by drones or by other us military operations this applies to countries like yemen libya pakistan the geron somalia among others it's a seemingly endless list of countries the us is waging undeclared wars in hard to say how many civilians have been killed since the weaponized drone program began in two thousand and four so messam its range in the hundreds others in the thousands cording to this report leaked classified documents show that the military designated people killed in targeted strikes as the. enemy killed in action even if

they were not the intended targets of the strike whether obama's executive order had any teeth let's debatable trump administration official called the requirements a perfect and said it distracts intelligence officials from the primary mission so far democrats have mostly been quiet as they've been occupied with congresswoman maher's comments about the israel lobby however house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff called it quote a troubling retreat from transparency former cia agent ned price was obama's spokesperson for the national security agency said the requirement allowed the u.s. to counter dissin from ation from terrorist groups with facts about the effectiveness and precision of our operations reporting in washington dan cohen r.t. . so one of the things our we just popped out of that and i hope we can talk a little bit about this isn't the trumpet ministration head had it not worried our previous. yeah an entire previous deadline that was made to

a two thousand and eighteen for the annual accounting of civilian and enemy casualties i think that's what's interesting is that what critics are wondering is that the trumpet ministration will now be able to expand the use of drone strikes overseas with even more with even less not more or less oversight which is something he gave you know he gave the generals more time more opportunity a bomb and all of this it doesn't seem like there is a plan to do about two words like ok there's a rule place that says you have to release the figures by you know maybe twenty you're damn. you know no we're not isn't and of course on this is outside of dots of what is that thing that's what's outside of the war zones this is drone strikes that you know this is our clandestine drone assassination program out we're the anwar going all the way battle you're an american citizen but you're being killed by a drone strike it's interesting because when you look at the statistics according to the bureau of investigation journalism the current estimated number of civilians

killed in the u.s. drone program is between seven hundred and sixty nine and seventeen hundred civilians these are civilians these are people that have nothing to do with terrorism literally got vaporized by a drone program this is one of the worst i think extensions of the u.s. military and the u.s. intelligence that i've ever had i wish i didn't have to live through it because it gives you such a there's a level. that they just don't care you know it's a drone it's not a human pilot targeting somebody they're in a you know they're playing a video game in the arizona desert. i think one of the other things that really is very sad about this i mean there's so many levels of this that you have to pop when you're looking at what war it does to civilians and one of these that that is always and should always be on people's mind is the children who are caught in one and the thing about those numbers that are really important is that the number of children killed and those that say we're going to time from drones was between two hundred fifty three and three hundred ninety. a very poor family probably in

a developing nation that is already being you know bombarded with war they're outside of the war zone and there's still losing their children and this is what perpetuates terrorism war hate anger fear it just goes over and over and over again it is it's a self-perpetuating loop because for every you know cause and wife or child who gets killed by a drone or something of that nature then their cousin is going to you know that person's relatives going to say well the u.s. all i know for members that they dropped a bomb on me so i'm going to get up and start by and to me there's too much of an excuse for drone warfare like i said earlier it's there's too much it's too easy for a president say oh i'm not putting an american boy in harm's way or girl in harm's way so just go launch a predator drone madam and i'll feel ok about what i write amounts of thing you can't just save the lives of you know people of color and especially living and developing areas that are only that way because of war you can't that's not democracy that's not the american way and we have to shift in our thinking that's

what i just couldn't agree more all right as we're going to break card watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook you tube and twitter and see our poll shows that are. coming up we're joined by two women women looking to save lives and change the way our society is the world's oldest profession stay tuned to want to go. my son was doing drugs my nephew's 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 he started going after the users in the prison

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way out. to. her in the lower lows sure the only way i am. a on the taxpayer thanks to our. joining me every so straight on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there thank. you thank you. thank. you thank you. thank you thank you last april congress made the site online sex trafficking act in the stop

enabling sex traffickers act the law of the lay on the bill got most of its support from the internet association a lobbying group founded by companies like google expedia air b.n. b. and pay pal what it did was change the communications act of one nine hundred thirty four to allow law enforcement to go after the publishers of ads for sex work this makes the websites that host ads for sex work legally responsible for the exploitation of women and children being abused in the world of human trafficking but what happens to the sex workers who aren't being trafficked when capitalism and the patriarchy combine to decide what we can and cannot make money off of what do we do when men are exalted as heroes for. storing their bodies and brains playing american football but if a person uses their body to make money from pleasure their victims a subject the subject of legalizing sex is a necessary one not just here in the united states but around the world is

estimated that forty two million people are sex workers worldwide and over one hundred billion dollars per year market a market that is in the u.s. almost entirely legal and regulated today we welcome two women working to improve conditions for sex workers social justice attorney and policy and advocacy associate for hips to me because that meant i thank you both for joining us today thank you for the salute we present having you on you know it's interesting when congress debated the boston at the top at the mention a few sort of a few moments ago a number of anti harm organizations kind of criticize the legislation is just more criminalization in a letter to congress actually the national center for transgender equality along with fifty other organizations stated quote taking away a sex worker safest option to find and screen clients does not create a living wage jobs access to housing or any other stable income to me go on to start with you what is the biggest misconception about sex workers in the united

states and what is the difference between sex work and sex trafficking i don't think a lot of people know the difference between the two. the difference between thanks work and thanks try thinking is the thing i do it in the sense that there are people that choose to do sex work for a variety of grief of their own accord that are not trafficked i've never been trafficked i'm not a victim of trafficking i don't personally think i've ever encountered anyone that's been trafficked so. when we're talking about the language of this law we're looking at the fact that police are using this as an excuse to go back out and to target sex workers here in the district of columbia we just had an operation in january where one of our clients has been captured by this supposed trafficking operation that the police were calling it which was nothing but another lie to entrap you skiing that the police use took out the collar traffic sex workers.

i'm looking at this from a different angle because everybody in this world has six and why we is americans have this fascination and we're monitoring what other people are doing with their crotches but it is a gray area that is absolutely especially you know in especially women and somehow we're responsible as if the criminalizing of sex work falls on a women not the customer not anybody else. one of the things i want to say i wanted to ask about is over the last two decades one statistic has barely changed in sex work and all of this is that sixty eight percent of sex workers report having been raped eighty two percent report having been physically assaulted and that's sort of an average of all of the studies over the years in addition according to sex workers outreach project. twenty five percent of prostitutes identify their rapists so quote as

a police officer it's statistically safer to be an alaskan fisherman a coal miner any of these things than to be a sex worker let me ask you now first how are lawyers like foster. and what the police are doing and those laws that allow them to this how does this how to explain this to people why that makes people even more unsafe so they can try to stop human trafficking but what you're doing is making people more safe yeah i think firm what to me is saying around like it's overbroad it it's over regulating of the conversation that americans like to have but not really talk about in a healthy generative ways i think that. one thing i can say is that something we need to look at is the root cause of trafficking across industry because there's trafficking across every industry there's nothing unique about the sex trade other than like it has to do with sex and so there is this hyper focus on that thing and so what these laws did were actually having over fifty. now over one

hundred websites close down their websites these are websites where people screen their clients these are web sites where people get dates these are web sites where sex workers or other folks share information about bad dates and it's a form of protection right so you're criminalizing ways that people have organized themselves to keep them safe and even before foster ancestor there was this conversation about about back page in california and every statistic every report that came out said that there are still people on the street you know being caught up in trafficking and so when we look at the root cause of trafficking majority of the people who are more vulnerable to trafficking are black girls yeah right and these are people who are running away from foster homes these are people who are running away from group homes these are people who are running away from abusive households and so and are looking for housing so if we're in d.c. . where the fastest growing rate of incarceration is among black girls under the age of eighteen for the reason of prostitution the word prostitution that's in the

law and truancy that we have to look at the root causes why is there no housing why are there no alternatives for youth who are experiencing homelessness to go to because if you're under the age of eighteen and you're on the street you will be arrested and so is choosing between getting arrested and going to stay in a jail cell for the night or going somewhere else where you have a place to eat you have a place to live and these are hard decisions that people are making and so i think what the what this law did was over criminalize. perceived behavior and give like. the go ahead for law enforcement and other agencies to over criminalize sex workers or people who are perceived as sex workers right because people who post nude photos brown photos on like patriot on are being like having their websites shut down so this is not just in fact sex workers were any type of obscene material that's the killer tumbler like tumbler know it or. not just impacting sex workers but sex workers are the people who are most harmed but it's over broadly

criminalize. in any type of behavior any type of content when we are actually trying to move in a space where where sex the celebrated where people feel comfortable and safe especially in this me too movement which is really about bodily autonomy respect and consent and sex workers know the best and the most about consent because you have to navigate what it is that you're exchanging and so i think this law is ridiculous i understand how the way it was named could be a red herring for people who think that they're protecting victims of trafficking but the way to protect victims of trafficking is actually provide housing provide jobs provide services. and one of the issues that's often ignored in the discussion about sex workers is gender and race you mentioned a little bit of earlier you know according to the sex workers outreach project one third of sex worker homicide victims are trans women in the mini work report shows that forty percent of black and black multiracial transgender folks who have experienced exchanging sex were subjected to per base of harassment violence and

unrest. how does a these victims where you get numbers like that and focusing more on the mainstream components put people on the margins at risk. this is not something new this is been going on since transgender women have been coming out and specifically women of color. what i'm finding is that this law was created specifically to take sex workers out of the industry that's how i'm feeling about it and when i look at. the amount of black and brown women that are doing sex workers out of necessity. it's hard for us to find jobs it's hard for us to get housing. i'm housing secure right now i'm living in motels

tomato i don't do street based sex work anymore i have enough of a client base to help to keep me stable with my salary but when i was doing online basic sport i was able to protect myself we could not able to protect ourself and more girls are calling me and telling me. i've been approached by a pound they're still getting shot at on the streets this is one of my biggest problems with street based sex work i transition from and indeed online sites where i have never been to drop in my space i have never been beaten in my space i have never been raped in my space but these are the things that happen to sex workers particularly transgender sex workers. great robberies shootings murders consistently and no solving a lot of these cases we're putting ourselves out here because we haven't been.

if we could have the freedom to actually do sex work not being criminalized for doing it maybe the police will actually do their jobs and protect the citizens of this city protect the citizens of this country we are residents here we pay taxes they may not be federal but i pay taxes every time i make a purchase i make good money and i spend my money here in the district of columbia and i should be protected just as any other citizen all transgenders should be protected by christians america this isn't a third world country i could not agree more and i want i want to thank you both of you mean for this one sort of action that's done i think there are so many levels and i look forward to having you both back and getting more into deeper issues. thank you so much for coming and thank you for having me. so much. the party was on in new orleans louisiana this week off watchers as march fifth celebrated mardi gras a fat tuesday and historic city but with all the millions of people and gallons of

alcoholic drinks that descend upon the city during mardi gras millions and millions of small plastic beads the long standing tradition of mardi gras throwing plastic beads down from the floats a balcony onto spectators below has a rather brutal effect on the city's ecosystem and twenty eighteen the city remove ninety three thousand pounds of mardi gras beads from just a five block stretch of the city's trains but thankfully new orleans there is hope in the form of biological sciences professor and hero kotto from louisiana state university concert was developed the first biodegradable mardi gras be made from a species of microscopic algae called diatoms these bees will break down naturally in just one to two years so you can rest easy big easy the beads are here to stay figurative lee not physically that's cool but it's cool keep the party going without destroying the environment so you it can be done you can still have the green imagine. all right it was. already there but it was. it is

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