this syria usa today is reporting that $48000000.00 americans are still paying off debt from the last black friday and the holiday season that followed it with all of our money going north to the corporate billionaire class so that we can buy our family holiday gifts should we then also be giving them our most precious political votes as well or should we start watching the hawks. like you that i got. this. welcome on watching the hawks i am i robot or joining us today it's discussed yet another rich old white man who was decided to run for the presidency of the united

states and washington's obsession with the super rich as legal and media analyst lynell of leno media thank you for coming on today. thank you sir so why don't look every u.s. citizen who has lived here for 14 years and who's 35 years old or higher can run for u.s. president so i get it bloomberg has every right to run but does the united states need another billionaire businessman president. you know tyrrell this may shock you but i don't know what's worse a person who is a billionaire who has his own money who can't be bought off or somebody who doesn't have any money in his own by george soros i don't know but if i could let me tell you what should perhaps scare you even more i live in new york city and was here during the reign of michael bloomberg by the way tyrrell he's mike bloomberg this man is i mean this this is a friend of mine called him thurston howell the 3rd now he's mike this is a guy who was never in new york in the. we can because he took his his planes and

went to bermuda where we went and by the way this is a guy who was the consummate poster child for climate change. and the whole a holy. man he was never here and basically has the largest carbon footprint but let me just say this quickly because this is what people who understand you know tyrol did there's something that bothers me more really than the anything and that's a politician who doesn't stay in his only who forgets what a mayor was busy with this guy did in 2012 there was a program he came up called latch on and why you see now get ready sit down hope your seat buckle yourself in for this one because this this this officious intermeddler decided that he ought to champion breastfeeding which i think most people would agree is a great idea what does it have to do with the mayor i have no idea so he gave up on this program called latch on and why you see in 2012 which basically prohibited and hid baby formula from new mothers in city hospitals so that they wanted formula for

one particular reason they opted against breastfeeding or utilize their constitutional right i believe to breastfeed i if there's not a right for that i think is presume they would have to sign out. i mean this man also banned 16 ounce sodas that he wanted to recycled plastic and he forgot about that if he cared about salt so not only is that but also he is a hypocrite because this is a guy who went through every permutation of political ideology from republican to conservative to democrat to independent ran 3 times paid to have the charger run done this guy just if you can figure out what he is rich got withstanding let me know and he doesn't have a chance but the real message of the entire role and why the democrats should be really afraid more than just another white rich guy or whatever is the fact that he is signaling to the democrats you don't have a message you don't have a world view you don't have a chance that's what his candidacy means me thinks that's

a very interesting point to me and i suppose you were you brought up about you know bloomberg has always kind of jumped sides whenever suited him not that you have to always be one political ideology in your life i can understand if you know as things happen you might change where you want to side with but remember there's a guy who wouldn't doris the 2nd term of george bush. so it's not an interesting conundrum there for the democrats. and also you know sometimes you know we have a thing here in new york a stop and frisk stop and frisk is a very very controversial issue but by the way stop and frisk is a codification of terry against ohio 1968 case and stop and frisk wasn't a problem it's police officers perhaps being overzealous and just grabbing people irrespective of what you called it but what he did was you can hear him on day one say when he wanted to run for mayor i was responsible for stop and frisk i brought down the crime precipitously i made new york safer and stop and frisk is

a good thing cut to last week i believe he appeared before the obligatory i guess black preachers to for his apple logia and he apologized he said this a man who took credit for this said this is one of the biggest mistakes of my life so there's question their head of state is this mike bloomberg is this but by the way on a lighter note the only reason tyrrell you should ever want him to be president and this is the only reason. wait until you hear him speak spanish even cory booker sell a record amount about his nickname in new york was. when he spoke spanish they actually had subtitles in spanish for people who didn't know what he would say but that notwithstanding but tyrrell let let me be the historical. thread through a counterpunch at you george washington at the time was one of the at the time by

virtue of the land ownership to his wife primarily one of the richest people lever the forebears our constitutional forebears these were not poppers you know these were the landed gentry these were the elites so you could one could almost say that being rich and a rich white guy he's african or phrase is is american as apple pie. i'm just i'm not and i understand that but that's also i think one of the reasons what we have some of the major problems that we've had in the history of this country is that we've only really been represented by one demographic or one you know socioeconomic demographic in this country and we need a little bit more variety especially in the top spot like you know and it's interesting when you have i mean that forbes estimate that the combined current field of candidates total is 50 they all have roughly the worth of about $58000000000.00 between all of the candidates that's from bloomberg to trump down to gabardine but a judge who's financial worth they've both said about the low bid 6 producers you know are we are going to be

a point where the pitchforks are going to come out where the you know if these policies keep failing and we're only pulling from one class of individual i mean that's that's a dangerous precedent i think moving forward. only if the american population reads or pays attention let me also leave you with this one little historical anecdote one of the greatest populists presidents of all times was perhaps the last in true real patrician f.d.r. this man was head and shoulders above everybody in terms of whatever patricians mean most people don't know what that is but yet tyrrell he was able to speak to the common man and one could say brought us out of the depression so sometimes these rich these rich why do a deal for you but not in the case of l. boom. gallow they knew about york mike bloomberg trust me on this one i'm an expert witness you go one him near the wife and i thank you very much for illuminating us america current on the new i'm a new man running for democratic office of the presidency but there's so much as always line of why no media thank you sir thank you. still in jail awaiting its

february extradition hearing for charges related to the united states espionage act we could be expounding an award winning publisher and journalist joining us on that is not doing well both physically and mentally on monday more than 60 doctors were on the world called on the united kingdom bushels to act immediately and i'm sure that begin receiving proper medical care even arguing that under current conditions he would not even be fit to stand trial in miami are to americans john how to use the story. a group of more than 60 doctors from the united states britain italy sweden germany and australia among others have written the open letter to the british home secretary demanding that a songe be removed from belmarsh prison and taken to a hospital for treatment immediately after swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation into the 2000 and rape allegation against the signs he's still fighting a us extradition bent on charges under the espionage act in which it found guilty he could spend the rest of his life in prison assange has been held at the maximum

security prison in southwest london after being evicted from the ecuadorian embassy in london earlier this year there have been numerous protests and demonstrations outside the prison. by members of the public human rights groups and officials over the sagas incarnate incarceration now his health has reportedly deteriorated deteriorated while in prison to the point that the group of doctors write in the letter 3 and they have serious concerns about his physical and mental health along with his ability to stand trial writing quote such urgent assessment and treatment not to take place we have real concerns on the evidence currently available that mr a songe could die in prison the medical situation is thereby urgent there is no time to lose so they base their assessment on harrowing i'd witness accounts they write of his october court appearance in which he looked frail and confused and and also a nov 1st report by mills melzer the united nations special wrapper tour on torture who concluded with a team of experts after examining

a songe that he exhibited quote all the symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture at his most recent hearing this month songes lawyer argued that he was unable to properly prepare for the very challenging case ahead because he was given the wrong type of computer and that they needed more time to investigate claims that the u.s. had intruded into conversations between a songe and his lawyers while still in the ecuadorian embassy the judge in the case ruled there could be no delay in it however and said the u.s. extradition case will proceed asked scheduled february 25th but again at this point the concern remains about a songes health and welfare and if he is fit to stand trial or if he needs as this group of doctors a saying a media medical attention and transfer to a university hospital rather than remaining in a maximum security prison for watching the hawks john hardy. all right as we're going to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you put a topic you covered over social media be sure to watch and off the podcast with

over one spotify albums are going everywhere you will see your favorite or not so favorite part goes coming up author and salon dot com editor at large of the walking dogs to discuss a wave. i will article about u.s. presidential candidacy but a judge is showcasing the blindness political leaders have toward what's really happening in the education system in the united states take to the watching. and we're going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people and promise to be you know we've all pots to. be. pretty.

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when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . a new article at the root dot com by senior writer michael carey it is causing a social media firestorm walk watchers and titled people to judge as a lying out there for years as a newly discovered clip of a 37 year old u.s. presidential candidate to make a salient point about the current u.s. political class his blindness to institutional racism and the true causes of poverty and lack of education in many minority neighborhoods in the 2011 clip would have hit states kids need to see evidence that education is going to work for them and there are a lot of kids especially in the lower income minority neighborhoods who literally

just haven't seen that work there isn't someone who they know personally who testifies to the value of education twitch the roots michael eric responded this is not a misunderstand. this is not a misstatement people to judge went on to went to the best educational institutions in america has to offer and he knows that everything he just said is a bald faced lie he goes on to write men like him are more willing to perpetuate the fantastic narrative of negro neighborhoods needing more role models and briefcase carriers than make the people in power stare into the sun and see the blinding light of racism joining us now to discuss this blinding light of racism that is affecting our political class is author educator and salon dot com editor at large of the walk and thank you for joining us a lot ahead not only with this but with some other interesting political moves but you know start with this is the criticism that michael carey and others now leveling at a candidate who judge and his statements regarding education in minority communities accurate oh he's right on point he's right on point i thought it was

a brilliant article in me some great points i think and that's the big problem when people talk about experience then they're always talk about you know. not just talking about. when you come from but in talking about your life experience didn't lead with people solving problems understanding different situations every time maybe you confront it with the issue dealing with race he always said the wrong cookie cutter thing that a person was saying which proves that he just doesn't even think about other people outside of his own social context and he doesn't really have like. you know it's not at the bottom of his priority list you know it's interesting because if you look at a recent study on race and economic opportunity us found that poor white men graduated high school about 78 percent of the time while black men whose families have the same income graduated only 70 percent of the time entire 8 points lower d y y

d why is that why are we seeing those kind of disparities in the educational systems you know even just to go back and. the article out of role models in the world is not going to help you learn in a school it's 2 degrees inside and outside of the classroom you know it's freezing outside the classroom and you go inside the classroom and you have to leave your coat on and the ceiling is falling in and the toll it's not on the head just like you know these these the whole the way the whole system works it's just bad it's a system that's designed to not. to prohibit success it works perfectly the way it is for a person who doesn't want to see black people poor people in neighborhoods and you know you know that there. is he's blaming victims but he's going to victims so they don't fly so what the numbers be enough like i

understand it's so easy to matt graduate high school because not only do you not have the examples that p. actually did talk about but you also don't have infrastructure even if you wanted to make anyway it's just it's not there because you're you know i want to ask you about this because you know you're someone who did come from nothing and made something in your life and so it's like that's i think what's important to people listen to what you have to say on this because you're literally one hand you're the person that they felt look this is someone who pulled up their bootstraps and all that but what is the actual reality you know it wasn't you just pulling up your bootstraps to let you know wasn't you like anonymous everyone can be be watching you know i mean like both abstractedly you know. you know like many people this is similar to my story is america it's not about it's not about paying attention it's not about getting there early and showing up late of course all of those things help and i went away from anybody but you know there's times when i made the level as an avenue and my friend made the right he got his head blown off in essence just

this is the country that we live in this is where we live this is our country needs on the problems that we face. a lot of people who look like me deal with these problems at a high level but at the same time. p. has to understand that if a person looks like me is going through it then it affects him too if you love this country like you say you do. it's interesting his campaign issued a statement to newsweek on the criticism and they stating pete's point is that we have to recognize that structural barriers persist in our public education system in these barriers disproportionately impact low income and minority. and of these is that what we were supposed to get from his statement because i didn't get enough for visiting him and best to clean that he cleaned it up and that's what i'm saying one thing i will give him credit for is he is perfect and his family supposed to say when it's 2 days you know what i mean like he's a green he's the guy when the party's over he shows up with beers and you know a big bottle with jack when the party everybody's heading home and that's that the

to be a leader is to get ahead of these stories to be on top of the situation is to address these issues before we got to go bigger than the past and see what how you really feel i will never forget that video from him in south bend in a lady who was upset about that police shooting and she said you know even listening to us you want to you want to both the you when he was really smug when he said i don't need you to vote for me and i want you to vote for me and then he apologized the next day on morning joe but he didn't apologize to them lady who knows that she was innocent you see 2 o'clock sir guantanamo now but he apologized to al sharpton and i'm i would have found something had to do with the lady who lives in your district who lives in his city who was feeling pain in. what is al sharpton have to do with it not a thing going to work nessus problem at all and it's interesting because this is a problem that hits across the political spectrum this isn't just a democratic candidate problem it's also a republican problem as well because i don't think that either of these 2 parties are really operating at least a majority of these 2 parties are really operating with the idea of truly helping

the people that they always want to appeal to. when you take a look i want to look at this clip was the 1st lady melania trump took the stage to speak about the opioid crisis a crisis that the be more you some in baltimore let's take a look listen what happened when they announced it is my. turn to. that's a lot of booze for a 1st lady going to talk about the crisis but to me there's something inherently that's part of the problem is you have the 1st lady regardless of. what the 1st lady know about the opioid crisis affecting baltimore you know what

you know why are these people trying to pretend that like oh i can come there and speak to these kids and say don't do drugs and that's really going to solve the problem. take some some money from. family and fix some of these schools and some of these roads in the city people want action nobody cares about your speech open you know we've been dealing with this for the long solutions over i don't understand what they don't get about that and i don't understand why she was chosen to live in a speech that's so random to me and totally. pass my radar i've said it well it's one of those things dean that really gets under my skin that i really do feel like i kind of mentioned it earlier when we were talking about bloomberg there seems to be a major disconnect between the political leadership in the country today and the actual problems of the people on the ground. how could they get it i mean you know the invariant is an american success story has been so very much for so long that he just doesn't get it they don't they don't get it. and i bet one thing that.

both billionaires which are allegedly a billionaire but the one thing that they have in common is they probably colleagues of one of my god is 2022 for what this will be the year when people thought of shame and. right i wonder because it's like i mean it's like when i mean to me it's like you feel another uprising and feels a lot like 2016 again you feel another up right you know well. well. you see it you see it and people are getting tired of people want to you guys are hoarding money and not paying taxes people are out here starving starving so. i want to be. poor leadership breeds revolutionaries straight up there's even i mean you sent me an article early today got about a minute left or you sent me an article earlier today talking about the people are so desperate to find anyone to speak to people that now they're talking about michelle obama again is like jumping into the race really like this tucker carlson

is article about tucker carlson segment last night and i will say that that was the most disgusting poorly put piece of news ever saw my life i'm going to do it is not to do during the live in use in tucker carlson as the star. parable it is it is it is truly blowing my mind. i'm just seeing the same right he's running because see a journal version of our book came out my god i mean she's in the race you know the tragedy of it is how many people we see now put books out and suddenly that's the reason for going in the right. every candidate you've got to have. hope and change comes. in sane and i want to say thank you so much for coming on today always a pleasure having you keep up the great work out there thank you. finally today we end things on a bit of good news to talk watchers according to a new study from the university of washington school of aquatic and fishery

sciences the humpback whale yes the humpback whale is making an astounding comeback from the brink of extinction in the south atlantic after the early 1900 whaling industry butchered the humpbacks in the region down to just $450.00 whales researchers believe that thanks to protections put in place in the 1960 s. as well as the 1980 s. moratorium on all commercial whaling by the international whaling commission that the humpback whale population has now rebounded back to just over 25000 whales. however my friends that doesn't mean that we are all off the hook now because croll the humpbacks main food source is being adversely affected by the warming waters of climate change. but for now all for now all of those let us just be thankful with the little with with just a little bit of conservation and care in milling that little conservation care we

can still make a difference to those animals we were so quick to engage are in danger for nothing more than greed and the hunt for the almighty dollar. always in german that is our show for today remember every one of this world we have not told the reluctant nuff so i tell you all i love i am tired old winter of keep on watching the hawks and have a great day and night all. young elephants have come to us. myspace leap through so pledging incidence because sadly the baby elephants often do see their mouths as. killed but also be caught up unfortunate. i do believe and laugh and smile

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