well we made it through oct watchers we made it through to the other side of capitalism's greatest calendar day of the year one in only black friday and boy oh boy oh boy oh boy was it a doozy with all the receipts counted on line sales once again dominated the day with consumer spending over 7000000000 dollars this year is black friday smartphones tablets and computers tech crunch reports that according to analytics from adobe consumers spent 7400000000 online yesterday buying goods online the figures were up by 1200000000 from the previous black friday in 2018 but as we sit in the warm glow of us capitalism's favorite day of the year things are things are not as warm and cheery as they seem here and corporate in the corporate states of america you see a new report out of cornell law school has found that since way back in the year 99990 the year kevin mccallister was left at home for christmas way back then

63 percent of the production and non-supervisory jobs created of the past 30 years have been in low wage and low our positions and that in the past 3 decades the us economy has become increasingly dependent on jobs that offer you or hours of work at a lower relative wages my friends these are the jobs like the $15000000.00 leisure and hospitality non-management jobs that pay maybe o'loughlin $360.00 a week or one of the $13500000.00 retail jobs that bring home an average of $500.00 a week those are some real living wages my friends especially when the average rent for a $1.00 to $2.00 bedroom apartment in 2018 was anywhere from 121-201-2120 extension 0 dollars a month but all our politicians tell us is that the u.s. economy is strong blah blah blah blah street is doing great blah blah blah blah

blah just trust that the economy is better than ever blah blah blah blah blah. and it's backed economic white noise that has all of us watching. the. real thing it's like. what is it like you are going to. the police. well tomorrow and watching the hawks i am tired robot turn joining me today to discuss this big online spending of black friday and the u.s. economy based on you know low paying jobs i guess is the host of our team boom bust it's the always a pleasure so why are we seeing since 1900 till today why are we seeing such low

wage job creation here in the u.s. this is not a new story this has been consistent and something that we've been saying every single month in every single monthly job report every single month in the trump has brag that we have more jobs than ever employment is at an all time high unemployment is at an all time low we've been seeing that every single month but what we really dissect is the in the employment or unemployment job report that we get every single month we found that the quality is not there and exactly what you said is low pay wages and low folie jobs are predominately the $5.00 main factor the main driving force and that includes everything from everything the hospitality industry to the food and beverages to even some of them and the medical services industry as a big portion of that comes from the fact that america has lost a lot of manufacturing jobs americans have lost 5000000 manufacturing jobs that basically created the entire middle class and this was basically due to outsourcing infrastructure to cheaper labor over in asia a lot of it was due to that but then another significant portion was also due to

education over 2 thirds of the work. of the work american workforce do not have a college education and that prohibits them from attaining a higher managerial position that you offer higher wages. what is i mean one of the questions i always love someone who studies the economy like yourself what is the actual state of the u.s. economy and i'm not talking about the state the politicians tell me on t.v. or going to see is that going to bang their chest over this it would go great we are what is the actual state of the us economy for the working man and women vote for the working man as he said wages have consistently been poor even with inflation wages have not kept up we have experienced stagflation in that category because consumers have not been able to keep up with the economy's inflation as you said retail and the entire housing economy has gone up in the past 3 decades however wages have not kept up and on top of that you have a significant slowdown not only is the trade war a huge drag on the economy but today we just the manufacturing numbers out the i

have been in contraction for now 3 months straight and this is significant because right now we've been relying on the entire consumer segment to pretty much hold up the entire u.s. industry if the trade war is prolonged it's going to affect american household previously the estimate was that the tariff is gone in effect american household by an average of $600.00 with the addition of the december 15th tax that's going to increase to between a $12300.00 per year for every single american household and when you get american households you know making. the worst then where they work in the 24 hour week for $300.00 or $600.00 that's a monstrous hit to that house and you know one course i had to is you know when you look at black friday we've got record breaking online number everyone's bind some point $4000000000.00 worth of movement of cash how can we have that massive amount of consumption power when we just talked about how are you most people are

struggling with low wages and bad conditions well that there was very surprised when we actually looked into. numbers out how the same question how are these people able to afford all of this what drove them to consume things that they cannot afford and most simple fact is most americans are and that in fact 48000000 americans right now today are still paying off credit card debt from their last black friday spending spree and so that is that to me a tremendous and that kind of goes to show that this year one of the best performing industries has been credit cards mastercard visa american express simply because they've been racking on enormous consumer debt now is that one of those industries to the we have to watch out for because that bubble will pop i mean at some point people can pay their credit card bills what happens is that the. consumers have been the main spending engine behind america so that's why america has been on a boost to lower credit limits and everything to him able to drive up consumer spending that's been a major portion because now people are like interest rates are an all time low it's easy to take on more credit it's easy to take on more debt so consumers keep on

liking up that debt and so before next year comes along consumers are still going to be paying for debt 420182019 next year and so forth it just breaks my heart when i see stuff like this because to me i see an under educated population about how these credit card histories and also you know how they're kind of being used and abused in terms of like the wages that they're getting and things like that people don't a lot of times don't know any better it's like ok well i guess i have to take these multiple jobs i guess i have to put on the back of this credit card i guess i have to take you i can't buy my car i'll just make payments on my car a vicious cycle it is a horribly vicious cycle that is actually going to the fact that 2 thirds of the american workforce are stuck in this position because they never went to college or student loans right now is one of the biggest debts that people carry yeah and so those that didn't go to college they're still going to have be under the boot so to speak because at the end of the day they've got to then pay that student loan debt off with that comes out of their paycheck if they choose to pay it right away exactly so once you're stuck in the vicious cycle of debt it just kind of component

compounds itself and it's so hard to dig your. out so that's why a lot of these americans right now they're getting sucked into these deals they're sucked into retail consumption i thought by mass media marketing and it's been doing a very efficient job at targeting ads and targeting consumers who aren't as educated because everybody has these programs oh get some financing payoff this that within 12 months 14 months very cheap financing and that's kind of the incentive to get consumers to open up their wallet this season and live it just hurts it hurts i want to ask you just before we go just one last thing where do you see all of this going like when you take a look at this and you see these trends where i mean i don't want to speak out of turn or what you don't know but but where do you see it all headed i see this as a massive bubble because right now even if we don't count this holiday season right now corporate debt is at all time high consumer debt is also at all time high in the u.s. and these are 2 very concerning things because once you are in this debt bubble it's so hard to dig yourself back out and not to mention right now we are in pretty

much one of the record low interest rates of that we've ever experienced right now and if you can pay off our debt well when debt is so cheap and so easy to come by right now if we do manage to pick up the economy if we do get ourselves out of recession and the fed then start to slowly gradually raise interest rates well that's just going to compound even bigger right now we're looking at trillions of dollars in debt. kristie i guess if they do so much for coming on always a pleasure having you on christiane boom bust awesome work thank you. with all the smoke and mirrors and daily ambulance chasing junk food that is passed off as the important news of your day it's not surprising that one of the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time is still going strong and still in need of desperate help but no one is still paying attention i'm talking of course about the ongoing war in yemen where this week a new report by the international rescue committee estimates that over the course of the next 5 years yemen will have an estimated $29000000000.00 will be needed just to sustain the current levels of humanitarian aid in that war torn country are

to americans for. brahms' arcos more about story. the war and chaos in yemen has left more than 100000 people dead and has created the worst humanitarian crisis the world has ever seen millions suffer from food shortages medical shortages the basic necessities needed to survive and now the world might not have enough money to help now according to the international rescue committee 80 percent of the population needs humanitarian aid that's 24000000 yemenis and another 60000000 people are living in extreme poverty on the verge of famine what's even worse the report says yemen's economy shrunk by 50 percent and at the current rate that humanitarian aid is coming into the war torn country it would take nearly 20 years to bring yemen back to where it was before the war how long has this been going on and is it the world has no money to help yemen well this all dates back to 2014 with the takeover

of yemen's capital by iranian backed who the rebels who now control pretty much the entire northern part of the country well saudi led coalition which is backed by the internationally recognized government has been fighting against the who with these since march 2015 since this all started 3000000 people have been displaced and that's on top of the 350000 people displaced just in 21000 alone but let's take a look at the numbers and how much money now according to the 21000 a global humanitarian assistance report the numbers of how much the world is giving to help countries in crisis is going up back in 2014 when the conflict in yemen 1st started the world had $22200000000.00 as conflicts around the world started to rise including the one in yemen you can see the numbers went up with 2018 seeing just under $29000000000.00 now when it comes to where the money is coming from and where it's going to the united states gives the most followed by germany the e.u. and britain 12017 the most money was given to syria followed by yemen but again the

report shows that this year our number 5 years of fire. they would have humanitarian aid given to gammon that would surpass syria and countries contributing to this fund would have to give much more to foot that bill back in september or saudi arabia started talking with with these which focused on temporary agreements like opening yemen's international airport and the international rescue committee says that this could be the beginning of a rare but small window of opportunity for peace talks for watching the hawks i'm fair in front there. all right as we go to break or quarters don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics you've covered over social media be sure to check out watch of the hawks the podcast which is now available on spotify up with music everywhere listen to your favorite or not so paper podcast coming up we delve into the u.s. military's world of science fiction soldiers with legal with video i was lying all of why no media of them are to correspond to rachael brown this brings us the latest on the cia versus julian assange stay to watch the whole.

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tucked away on the quiet idella banks of chesapeake bay in beautiful maryland is the aberdeen proving ground which is home to the united states army combat capabilities development command or often called r d e. for short. part of the united states it's all part of the united states futures command is one of those many military think tanks charged with creating integrating and delivering technology enabled solutions to the modern united states army and other words come up with new exciting ways we can use technology to better kill our enemies and lots of people all around the world what that really means and recently the daily mail is reporting that our d. com experts are selling

a number of possible future technologies that could be used to enhance soldiers on the battlefield by 2050 these include enhanced limbs for increased strength and eye that provides infrared and ultraviolet vision and an audio device that provides ultra and subsonic hearing and of course we can't leave out neural devices that would optimize a future soldier's brain power and allow them to control weapons with their mind. sighting but is the idea of creating cyborg soldiers truly possible feasible or actually really ultimately needed not to mention the incredible moral questions that arise from combining man and machine for the specific job of killing on the battlefield wherever that future battlefield may be well joining us now to ponder this moral and military future thought quagmire is legal and media outlets lynell of lynell media always a pleasure sir and days or so love to get this one out the way our half cyborg

soldiers with super strength and hypersonic hearing in infrared eyes actually necessary and a real possibility in the next 30 years 2050 is only 30 years away. and what moral or legal quandaries do they is this creating if they are truly this close to being developed. yet. getting. tired of this is this is this is already 5 years old while we know we always talk about it whenever it is leached whenever news is extravagant stated in doubt and oh by the way we're thinking about this too it's already year but let me ask you this question less kind of plea whatever you know could we you and i avail ourselves where we could say we don't want to be the you know what in the punch-bowl but could we maybe ask

a little question you know years ago when war became war and somebody came up with a notion of the long bow the longbow was the 1st time that man distanced himself from others and or lost the mano a mano look you in the eye i can smell you i can and all of a sudden war got easier so we never looked back so here's a couple of these i want to bring up let's talk about trends humanism tyrrel whenever something happens in our on the battlefield it's happening here next so if all of a sudden we get into real good eyes we'll good hearing we'll good limbs real good skin real good eventually you're going to have somebody saying i'm going to replace my old arm with a new one you're going to see talk about dysfunction dysmorphia you're going to see people removing. human eyes baby blues for computerized if you think i'm kidding you haven't been around next there's

something called posse comitatus we talked about this from 878 rutherford b. hayes the idea that there was a fire wall between civilian law enforcement and the military. t.v. do you think that maybe somehow there may be a confusion and that what we see on the battlefield one day shows up in the streets of d.c. baltimore but says where you see real robo cops were all of a sudden this citizen runs into one of these folks and when you give this kind of equipment with all due respect to the great men and women who make up our law enforcement let's say we get a 19 year old who says how would you like to know where the coolest stuff anybody's ever seen you know tyrrell when you have something that can take out

a lot of people a one time. tends to be a tendency sometimes of using it i mean what i just gave you 3 or 4 different moral issues and that nobody's talking and they're great moral issues to bring up because as you see you know how many times we talked about it in ferguson when the you know u.s. military you know what the m. raps suddenly all the police departments have them and that's also the i think that's one of the things that's most interesting about this report is the moral quandary of what do you do with the soldiers when they leave the military so now you have this person with a hyper eyes vision you know a robotic arm that makes him stronger all of these things what we have a hard enough time dealing with our vets now what are you going to do when the vets are are half machine and half and half human i mean and you know that's a major issue. you know you've just been very interesting you mentioned m. raps and nobody's talking about that now but you know one of the funny thing was the n.b.a. the national defense are authorization act the n.d. divil a came up with this idea where we could sell or provide surplus get

this surplus military equipment to the streets of various cities and nobody thought that i am raps which way about or i don't know a 1000 tons were tearing up the streets because they had no business in the city but i hate to say it and we love our police but there's a kind of folk guy robo cop who in their right mind would say our police force we don't want this really great high tech equipment you want that and when you have it you use it and then this is the worst thing kyra what happens when this military mine which which one thing when you go into full or the helmand province and you going after isis through your back in cleveland there's a guy who maybe is suspected of you know i think of

a liquor store can you understand that law enforcement is share of andy robo cop as a different story police officers serve and protect their part of the community they live their kids they're not soldiers soldiers don't worry about 4th amendment stuff police officers do you think that maybe sometimes the distinction could be blurred it could easily be blurred and as and if we're talking about future technologies that like this report says are only about you know 3030 years away and are as you said there were already 5 years absent probably 20 years away realistically you know i don't mind if you're talking about something used to help someone in a hospital if you're talking about someone loses a leg in a machinery accident we have the technology to build. that man or woman a better leg or someone is blind and you can bring a blind person site these are all things that actually are beneficial i think in the long run maybe there's an argument in the debate to be had down the line but i do have to say the warnings that you laid out today lionel are fantastic warnings

and fantastic things that we should be talking about on a daily basis as we enter into the future of our lives thank you so much for coming on leno always a pleasure having you and indeed thank you sir. all right get ready sir for some surveillance state intrigue combined with some political fireworks my friends because on december 20th coming up wiki leaks founder julian assange is set to testify in a case currently in spanish courts against the security company that many believe the cia had spying on assad well he was living inside the ecuadorian embassy in london here's r.t. america's rachel blevins with more. as the founder of wiki leaks fights extradition to the united states he is also fighting another battle in which the cia stands accused of spying on him while he was seeking asylum in london according to reports video recordings have been released that confirm julian assigns was under surveillance while he lived inside the ecuadorian embassy in london this included a number of microphones hidden throughout the embassy even in the restroom and

special attention was paid to the time spent with visitors from russia in the u.s. all eyes are now on you see global a spanish firm that is in charge of security at the ecuadorian embassy the firm's founder david morel as was arrested earlier this year over accusations that he illegally recorded a song and then turn the evidence over to the u.s. government morale as was indicted in october by spain's national court in connection with the case he was charged with privacy violation bribery and money laundering heaton has denied any wrongdoing and has since been released pending trial now according to court documents filed by spins public prosecutor former employees from u.c. global say that morale is made trips at least once a month to the united states where he delivered hard disk containing footage of a songe inside the embassy he also replaced the security equipment in the building to include microphones and 2017 which just happens to be the same year the trumpet

administration began ramping up its case against a saw much their push for the term a nation of his asylum status was granted in april when the publisher was arrested and dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy as sancia has been in prison in the u.k. ever since he is currently facing more than 175 years in prison in the u.s. on espionage charges related to weekly expulsion of classified documents that revealed the whole prefer killings of civilians by members of the u.s. military many of raise concerns about the implications such as sons could carry for the future of journalist and publishers a group of more than 60 doctors are also warning that a song. his mental and physical health has deteriorated so much he may not even live to see his extradition hearing in february as for the case against u.c. global as sanchez set to testify by video conference on december 20th and his lawyers are hoping that if they can prove the cia violated the saunders rights then maybe it could prevent his extradition to be us in washington rachel blevins artsy

and speaking of julian assange today we close out the show with mr song's chelsea manning and we're snowden's return to berlin so this time in the form of a 3 statue monument created by italian artist down the door mino untitled anything to say originally unveiled back in 2015 in front of the united nations european headquarters in geneva the one ton sculpture then traveled to paris and other cities and beyond before returning to berlin last wednesday as part of an organized event held by the german political party and i link or the left the november 27th demonstration featuring the statues and very speeches including one from massages own father john shipton took place on the day of public hearings in german's parliament on julian assange has united kingdom extradition case dormy no stated his sculpture is devoted to those who dared to say no to global surveillance and to the lies that lead us to war my friends i think that's

a pretty good way to end our show today always saying no to the lies that lead us to war so remember everyone in this world we are not told we are loved up so i'd show you walt i love you i robot and keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night you so much. thanks . the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own personal those words. no

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