a west coast swing featuring a $3000000.00 bay area luncheon to be followed by a $5000000.00 beverly hills dinner he'll bring in a musical an additional $7000000.00 on wednesday with a breakfast in los angeles and another luncheon in san diego before he visits a section of the border wall and it was during this multimillion 'd dollar fundraising trip the president trump took to took the time to comment on the massive problem of homelessness in california and other states telling reporters quote we can't let los angeles san francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allowing what's happening from went on expressing sympathy to property owners and investors who are forced to deal with the homeless stating in many cases they they came from other countries and they moved to los angeles or they moved to san francisco because of the prestige of the city and all of the sudden they have tents hundreds and hundreds of tents and people living in the entrances to their office buildings and they want to leave trump's tirade of promise to crack down against the blight of the homeless ruining the prestige of

the west coast cities like los angeles and san francisco naturally dryer from democratic leaders in california from california governor gavin newsom to san francisco mayor london breed many rightly called foul on trump's remarks while. at the same time forgetting that those in glass houses should never throw stones let's find out why as we start watching the hawks. as. they like you know that i got. sick as. well but when the watching dogs i am tyrrell been for years and have a lot less oil boys let's let's talk presidential i i have lived them i see and the

idea that you know the press. i'll tell you when the tent cities got bigger i'll tell you when that happened it's when the economy went belly up. like there was already a problem they were working on it as much as they could but after 2008 you had a whole families moving into tent cities and you saw them everywhere but that got crushed under the table and it's like well if you didn't do anything about that situation then if you didn't look at development. then don't don't accept prize surprised don't throw the stones i mean donald is a. statement was what you said i just had heard about this prestige nothing i mean they're just human beings ok let's not let's not get all you know pollyanna about it if they're just you know human beings but. it's such a good one but it's interesting because the response of traumas read san francisco bear london bridge stated that simply cracking down on homelessness without

providing the housing people need is not a real solution and. the mayor is right but according to a survey in san francisco homelessness by chris herren ph d. candidate of the university of california berkeley 70 percent of separate schools homeless have been forced to move by and by a police officer 69 percent have been cited by a police officer 46 percent of their terms rather borg's complicated by city workers he went on to point out that only 12 percent reported that they had been offered services and even less than 5 percent tab so that they actually were offered a shelter with a bed to go to war is always criminalize being poor yes we have on every level i mean somebody has a debt they have got cops showing up at their door you have someone who is homeless to through any number of situations that you may or may not know and understand is forced to be in a situation to be living in their car to be living in a tent city doing this thing some people don't even have that much and nothing to

criminalize a you've made it a crime to be poor. and that's the part that no matter what you do you're going to have this cycle of people throwing money at certain things and putting people in jail and then going i just don't know why this keeps happening except the policy obviously when at the university of california berkeley. there a law school found that california cities each have an average of more than 10 anti homeless nyssa laws. like los angeles has 17 san francisco has 24 and these are just normal law under stand like there's already laws already things on the book books about certain things that ing going to the bathroom and public manner sorts of things are happening but what they're doing is making it so you can't sleep in your car you can't do this you can't do this and it comes out of this idea that you litigate the streets and then somehow if you if you put these people in jail or you scare them enough they'll stop street

sleeping on the streets i'm not sure how that works. if this. range logic i'm just not seeing the end being anything that's close to what it supposed to be in san francisco again more than half of the $10.00 to $15000.00 citations that were given for home given to homeless people each year which said it's setting camping loitering they're not going to get paid you're policing for profit on an entire swath of the population that literally has no money. like you can shake the change out of them but you're not going to get it so the ideas will make this money and then that'll pay for homelessness by. so that of course they can't pay it whichever knows you can't pay it then they get arrested then they get a warrant then they get suspension if they do have a driver's license it suddenly puts up a bunch of barriers for them to get out of the place there and there's no bootstraps for anybody to pick themselves up because what the city's done is cut

them off at the bootstraps and said well you're stuck now or a bad person you're a failure as a human being in the trumpet ministrations report on this they actually make make it the idea that well you know we have to be careful building new shelters because that may incentivize people to you go to shelters rather than paying rent at some point. nobody wants to live in a shelter yet one of the homeless oh you didn't notice it's the coolest thing to do to go hang out at shelters. specially homeless both sides of the poor glowered see this. before occupy wall street there was occupy general motors for 44 days from 103621037 over 100000 members of the then rookie united auto workers union supported a sit in strike of the flint general motors plant the national guard was brought in tear gas was shot into the plant and at least 14 strikers were shot with guns during the standoff but in the end the union brought the largest automaker in

america at the time during the great depression to its knees and that one strike changed the course of u.s. history. unions are probably jurors so much security and freedom and because 2 it isn't easy even to recall repairing the person that came to an end with the wedding a visit that was right. well made a middle class we could have decent food we could live in a decent place. where decent clothes. and on september 15th the u.a.w. once again called for a strike that now has over $45000.00 workers picketing the auto giant and the days following the strike to kick off general motors has stopped paying their share of health benefits for employees and are pushing the cost onto the union and what many are calling leverage against the strike however it isn't stopping workers who are now seeing temporary nonunion workers often called scabs brought in to plant and threats of arrest here is u.a.w. member sean crawford with a view from the flint michigan picket lines over

a decade after the historic plant set in everybody has been showing your support we appreciate it. they're talking about possibly arresting picketers right now for blocking traffic and preventing scabs from filling in the plan with truck assembly . joining us now for the latest on the u. a g.m. strike is r t america correspondent fair and proper thanks for joining me here a lot has happened since i was here on monday right it's incredible how much you know what's taken place last $40.00 just up on this and actually a bit of a question is how much could this costing general border. how much could the strike cost them when you know they've also reported to the reporter that they've made over $10000000000.00 the profits last year right so actually it's just coming down that the strike it is slowing down production and actually g.m. canada is going to be temporarily temporarily laying off $1200.00 employees at the plant and ontario now canadian workers there they're a part of

a different union so they're not striking there so they kind of have a little bit of a break but after day 3 production losses they're looking at $23000.00 vehicles by the end of this week it could be up to $43000.00 but when it comes to money it's estimated that they're losing $50.00 to a $100000000.00 per day now because we had we had a graph where we were showing the last strike in 2007 it lost $23000000.00 g.m. again if we're going to the conservative route with 5xw1c5xw by the end of today 350000000 by next monday 700000002 weeks from now now one of the longest strikes which is actually covered by an r t photo journalist here was back in 1988 were 9000 workers went on strike for 54 days g.m. lost 2000000000 that that's like yahoo c.e.o. salaries you're right one of the board. or one.

it's interesting to see how much you know stuff is stranger looking for me 80 some odd years later or since the ninety's how that's changed and the amount of money and that's why strikes are so effective a lot of times of getting something because you know if all it is is the bottom line and there's something and there's that whole thing now there was something else about this story that isn't getting as much attention as the strike itself so . some u.a.w. executives and some general motors executives are under investigation for embezzlement among other things what's going on with that so how do you guys notice how the president the current one hasn't been in the press at all ghosted ghost is busy and drinks and donuts in the back sort of or he might be kind of just sitting on his couch while the f.b.i. raids this home that to. happen again on august 28th the home of president.

gary jones rape his home was raided by the f.b.i. in detroit they seized a golf clubs and $30000.00 in cash allegedly he was staying in luxury hotels golf outings steak dinners with champagne and cigars something we could all use living a very lavish lifestyle allegedly also on that same day out in california it was the former president dennis williams now as this is all going on ok the top u.a.w. official who's actually been at the bargaining table in detroit vance peter humi vance pierce and he is going to court later this week down in missouri on money laundering charges so there are federal prosecutors they're charging him with helping orchestrate the embezzlement of more than a $1000000.00 in member dues as this is all going on and you have a lot of u.a.w. other officials and chrysler officials that were all found guilty

this isn't even the 1st one this is after a fact here they are terry jones took over for the other guy because of yes you have ones that were you know indicted on one conspiracy federal tax crimes misleading tax returns accepting money you know trying to cover and trying to hide all of this the most that it's former fia chrysler vice president he's going to jail for 5 and. half years there's actually one in january he's being sentenced on the bottom one of my crimes he is could be facing 5 years and federal prison so there's a lot here we're going to have to keep an eye on this and i will say it's interesting than you if you start to save the auto makers side now and coming together and find out there's some shady business. we're digging into that one thank you so much for walking us through this there and thanks for having me thank you. or i was going to record watchers don't forget to let us know what you think it proper to cover the social media be sure to trick or watching the hawks this podcast spotify apple

because everywhere you loose your paper podcast coming up we'll begin to the latest results from the elections and it's real to see who will be assuming the position of prime minister and what the latest election means for the people of israel and most importantly people powered by the author to go for a true watcher. exit something that's happening. big countries accumulate big positions and gold that's an exit. because we know that over the past 300 years no body has survived.

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things might be looking at tad bleak for the continued reign of benjamin netanyahu as prime minister of israel hawk watchers after an eventful election day on tuesday that netanyahu was likud party on the party of his main rival former israel army chief of staff benny gantz come to a dead heat now according to n.b.c. news netanyahu on wednesday canceled a visit to the united nations general assembly in new york. amid political uncertainty in israel well both parties appear to 'd have fallen short of the 61 seats needed to form a governing coalition in the 120 seat israeli parliament against blue and white party has a $32.00 to $31.00 seat edge on netanyahu which could give gantz an opportunity to form a coalition with other public parties in order to reach the $61.00 c. goal for netanyahu with potential indictments on corruption charges hanging over his head losing the prime minister's seat would not just remove him from political power but it could also set him on a collision course with israeli law enforcement there is

a lot to unpack and joining us now to help us better understand the political impact of this election and what its outcome means for both the israeli and palestinian people is israeli peace activist and author of the general sun thank you so much for joining us and as you think you both you know i have to ask you you're looking at these election results were you were those netanyahu stem to. have been the big question is you know are we going to see this going to continue to be prime minister of israel is a word is all the standard. well i think there are 2 issues here there's the gossip and then there's the reality so the reality is 2 and a half 1000000 people living in gaza without water food or or access to medical care 30 minute drive from to the fever of people hanging on the beach and having fun. that's the reality 3000000 people in the west bank in the similar conditions and these 5000000 people were left out of this election in other words they don't get to participate in their lives will be affected by the next government and all these other governments. the gossip part is yes and you know maybe on his way out i

doubt if he's the better horse trainer he knows how to negotiate he's got more experience than anyone. so my guess is he's not going away any time soon and they still have the absentee ballots in last in the absentee ballots made made quite a difference to the want to see that he needed. i think i think we focus too much we tend to focus too much on the gossip because. it's kind of you know it's kind of fun but the reality is that for the palestinians who are living under this oppressive brutal regime for 7 decades there this was going to change we did see an increase in the number of seats that the joint list which is a primarily palestinian list of political parties who are present israeli postings israeli citizens. but then again they are such a such a minority that even if they had doubled the number of seats they still would be completely ignored so in other words a very even even if they even if they do have

a larger presentation as perhaps they should nobody needs to pay attention to them because out of a 120 see if the government has a majority they can completely ignore them and they will continue to ignore them. there are some issues that i saw online this people saying you know this would be the moment. you know perhaps being the 1st country to sort of pull vote out a thorough terry and like regime or authoritarian like structure it's like could israel be that democracy that shows the rest of the world that you don't have to live in the so you don't have to have a horse trader is your leader what do you think politically that means for the metally like if. if they do start to say we're not going toward netanyahu goal and that they actually do start opening this up what could that mean for the middle east at least well nothing whatsoever because on the main issues and ideologically there's no absolutely no difference between any of the major players you know benny gantz was army chief of staff he was bombing and killing people in

gaza and he was working for that and yeah so in other words when these when the when the when the trials begin at the hague for these guys are going to be sitting on the bench right next to each other defendants been writing to each other because they're both guilty of the same crimes you know i mean that's and you know gave the orders and guns pulled the trigger if you will but there's no difference on the issue of palestine there's not going to be a difference on the issue of the fate of palestinians there won't be any issue in the. tied regime which allows for democracy for an israeli jew and keep out of the democratic process if you're a palestinian that's not going to change whatsoever because none of the major political parties want that to change they all subscribe to that same that same racist brutal regime you know it's interesting when we talk about but it goes because you know when you hear of the news articles about him or about his campaign you know the kind of campaign trail promises a rhetoric or whatever you want to say you know you always say you know he's saying oh you know he's he's running on social harmony he's running on pursuing peace with palestine 'd you know is that is it really just about his or is it really just kind

of a campaign lip service but you know we're going to see if you can be able to white women out and become prime minister it's all that service he said he will he has no problem sitting in a coalition with the likud party only doesn't on its own the out there so in other words ideologically there's or we know there's no difference he tends to be a little more forceful when it comes to dealing with the orthodox communities that these are the orthodox. communities and things like that but these are these are really cosmetic differences on the major issues they're quite happy to sit together and i would ask you know we heard the news and you know is not coming to the u.n. jay that's because on that day the president of the state of israel which is really a symbolic figure but he has one job and that is he gets the results and he calls on the 1st person to try to put together the government the coalition government and that is the same day so that's a now wants to be there he doesn't want to be absent when the president gets the list and picks up the phone is hoping he's going to call him so that's why he's not

coming but my guess is they're all going to hold hands in the end and say you know for the good of the country we all have to sit together because they didn't get into this to be the opposition they want to see to the table and they want to have you know they want their influence on policy. it's sort of it's interesting because if you look at the same thing where you know in the united states where congress has everything it sat out is that you can have a president who doesn't have the power of congress. it's you know he doesn't have the ability to make something happen and that you essentially have a system that's set up for obstruction how does that if that different how hard would it is it going to be to crack israeli politics in a more progressive way to open it up so that palestinians can see that we can move toward that and i know it's a really big question might how do we fix everything well i wear that i wear the badge for a reason it says boycott divestment and sanctions i think the call the palestinian call for boycott divestment and sanctions is precisely how we do it when the state of israel like apartheid south africa has no choices no where to go can't

participate in the olympics is not invited to participate in any any international . events the israelis boycott it sanctions are imposed on israel and they have nowhere to go then the reflection will begin and then they will open up they're not going to open up all entirely and in fact the rhetoric leading up to this election and the previous election it was a rush to the right i mean everybody had to prove that they are with the more right wing than that guy and if they wanted to put somebody down they said well that guy is a leftist you know they said that and he out was a leftist i mean it was that absurd because people wanted to show that he that they are you know even more to the right than him so there's no there's no signs of anybody wanting to open up there's no nobody talks about the palestinians you know nobody talks about them other than saying we need to bomb them we need to kill them we need to stop their. taking away jewish lands and stealing jewish water you know and so that's that's that's the discourse so i think it would take it would take a serious you know the boycott divestment sanction campaign. for the world to take

it seriously and then i think there are great to be a great hope for israelis and palestinians you know from the outside looking in it's sometimes hard you know i've never traveled to israel or or a whole story and one of the things that's interesting i think a lot of people be curious about who's never kind of but is there is there any push to help powell starting from within the israel community it's not being there. resulted in the politics well here's the here's the conundrum the. the joint list which is made up of primarily palestinian citizens of israel. they cannot run on a platform that calls for a real democracy with equal rights for everyone because that will disqualify them one of the list has in his platform a call for all of these really citizens to be treated equally and even that was cause for them so the recalls for them to be disqualified for that just among the

israeli citizens include the palestinians and as treat them as israelis and the almost were disqualified because of that so there is no call for that i mean other than on the very very fringe there is no interest whatsoever in that kind of an inclusion well at this point well how i mean i hope as we see this is sort of the last gasp of a vessel around the world and i think we are starting to see that little bit little bit little bit and it's not enough but one day it will be what i thought i think i think stopping the congressional delegation from entering israel has harmed it to a point where i think you're right i think that is precisely what's going to be going to say thank you so much for coming on the leisure for the over your circular things that sound much like. when men go off and bavaria to have this year's schnitzel festival they had but one concern dominating their minds one of the biggest netflow in the world succeed we answer was. the world's largest metal as certified by the guinness world book of world records took

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