well she gets to do with it and. she still is responsible not let us know what the spokesman that he's just he will ship like expose me in the sense that's a little to the fullest isn't it. ratings and salutation. well we made it through voc watchers we made it through to the other side of capitalism is great is calendar day of the year the one and 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 $7000000000.00 on this year's black friday b.-o. 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 capitalisms favorite day of the year things are things are not as warm and cheery as they see me here in 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 1990 yes 1990 the year kevin mccallister was left at home for christmas we have sway back then 63 percent of the production and non-supervisory jobs created over 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 fewer hours of work at lower relative wages my friends the that these are the jobs like the $15000000.00 leisure and hospitality non-management jobs that pay maybe 0 out

of $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 not all our politicians tell us is that the u.s. economy is strong blah blah blah blah wall street is doing great blah blah blah blah blah just trust us 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 deal with. what it is like you and i are going. to sleep.

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 room buzz pretty 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 and 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 working 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 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 will 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 says 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 eye of them 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 out 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 character 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. worse than where they work at the 24 hour week for like $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 of the fact is most americans are in that. in fact $48000000.00 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 is tremendous and that kind of goes to show that this year one of the best before me in the street has been credit cards master card 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 and 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 did 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 yourself 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 fishy. job ad targeting as in targeting consumers who aren't as educated because everybody has these programs oh get some financing pay off this debt when 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

a lot of it just it 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 you to you know speak out of turn or what you don't know but where do you see the other as i see this as a massive public has right now even if we don't count this holiday season right now corporate debt is at an all time high consumer debt is also at all time high in the u.s. in the unit 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't pay off your debt 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 starts 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 of 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 and the 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 our 2 americas firm because more on that 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 them 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 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 $12017.00 the most money was given to syria followed by yemen but again the report shows that this year or nother 5 years of fighting would have humanitarian aid given to yemen that would surpass syria and countries contributing to this fund would have to give much more to foot that bill. well back in september 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

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tucked away on the quiet idella banks of chesapeake bay and 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 dev com is one of those many military think tanks charged with creating integrating and delivering technology enabled solutions to the modern united states army in other words come up with new exciting ways we can use technology to better kill our enemies and lots of poor people all around the world that's what that really means and recently the daily mail is reporting that r.t.e.

com experts are selling a number of possible future technologies that could be used to a hand soldiers of the battlefield by 2050 these include enhanced limbs for increased strength and the eye of the 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 soldiers brain power and allow them to control weapons with their mind. exciting but is the idea of creating cyborg soldiers truly possible be usable 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 the future battlefield may be well joining us now to ponder this moral and military future of thought quagmire is legal and media outlets

lion-el of blind old media always a pleasure sir indeed sir so let's just get this one out the way our half cyborg soldiers with super strength of 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 that is this creating if they are truly this close to being developed. yes. getting. tired of this is this is this is already 5 years old well we know we always talk about it whenever it is. whenever news is extravagant stated in doubt and oh by the way we're thinking about this new it's already here 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 the notion of the longbow the longbow was the 1st time that man to students him self from others and 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. tyrrell 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 say i'm going to replace my old arm with a new one you're going to see talk about disfigured 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've talked about this from 878 rutherford b. hayes the idea tyro 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 well 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 u.s. military gave you 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 tyrrel what happens when this military mine which which one thing when you go into full or the helmand province and you going after isis to 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 or as you said there were already 5 years i'm surprised we're 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 the machinery we have the technology to build. that man or woman a better leg or someone is blind and you can bring a blind person sight 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 assange 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 a son just had 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 julia songe today we close out the show with mr song's chelsea manning and word snowden's return to berlin so this time in the form of a 3 statue monument created by italian artist debbie dorm e-mail and titled 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 have been held by the german political party the diet 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 for me 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 all i love you i robot in turn keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night you so much. thanks . seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape

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