person who is now without boot stamps but guess what that $9900000000.00 might be on the low end of estimates group global president of business intelligence brian weezer told the media that quote our understanding is that in the typical campaign 60 percent of funds raised may be deployed in the media spending consequently we recognize that the current political cycle could lead to higher levels of spending than we currently incorporate into our forecast that means that by tuesday nov 3rd our illustrious political parties could spend well over $12000000000.00 just to get themselves elected do you really do you really think they spend numbers like that because they really really really really really want to be humble public servants. not a chance and that is why my friends we are always watching all this. like

you know that i got. to. welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrone been through and joining me today is award winning journalist chris hedges to talk about the how our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battle fronts on the war in the port thank you so much for joining me lowers i accordingly the federal elections commission total federal election fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we haven't even started the primaries yet what do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal election spending at this point chris it's more about what it says about the state of politics what it's what benjamin demat called junk politic. if you

look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas it's about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. about making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think what's so interesting about the 2016 election is that trump for all of his deficiencies is a least good at that reality television show in a way that jeb bush or hillary clinton is not and so it is about conforming to a particular model that is anti political anti thought and and really corrosive to. politics itself and it affects the media so c.n.n.

where is this money going it's going to networks like c.n.n. who perpetuate the. kind of moral and intellectual deterioration masquerading as politics because they turn it into really just you know 2 sports teams fighting each other and that's conscious you know that zucker quite consciously model out of us p.n. is that is that dry. $12000000000.00 just to really kind of like you said you know shrink what actually is being talked about really it's just spending to get recognition for the name recognition and to impart the way advertisers are quite skillful at doing an emotional response to elicit an emotional response we see it with bloomberg. you know what are the commercials are there content less like all of them bloomberg you know surrounded by children holding you know whatever it is. but that's so it's it's politics has just become

another species or another arm of the advertising industry which of course. corporate advertisers have flooded the airwaves with lies and then this is just another lie i mean if you look back at hillary clinton campaign in 2016 there was almost no policy discussed of the more policy discussed by trump ironically but it is about. focusing everything around these manufactured political personalities and how you how you are made to feel about them and the media is. essentially complicit in perpetuating these narratives which are which have been so corrosive to the political system. her name is laid it out and you know what's fascinating go read back and read his book propaganda it's he's a they're quite up front about it they're quite do you go back to wall to lippmann

i mean. public opinion that if they know what they're doing they know how to do it and it's just part of part of the spin and there's that. playing off of each other is one giant big brother show it really is. interesting lee you also came out with a fascinating article recently titled the new black codes which which delves into you know and i think it's going to an extension even of what we're talking about here but kind of controlled by the powerful you go into how long forstmann agencies across the united states are centrally being used as. for laggards are brutal tools of social control over the poor and the minorities in this country how how does that manifest itself through the police department well let's begin with the fact that both of the political parties were complicit in carrying out deindustrialization in the liberalism and austerity which affected certainly most

severely poor people of color in these d.m. just realized urban centers what malcolm x. called internal colonies so how do you then keep these people under control they don't have meaningful work they're forced into the illegal economy it's through omnipotent police powers including carrying assault style weapons this kind of stuff and the ability to use them a 1000 people a year almost all unarmed are killed in the united states by police that's one every 8 hours and mass incarceration these are the 2 mechanisms by which you keep the underclass so that this kind of propaganda it doesn't work to people live there they're just never going to feel good about you know hillary clinton or joe biden because they get it they're living under such severe economic and you know i would even argue political oppression and so you have you know these these pockets in

essence are stateless they've been stripped of their rights 94 percent of the people in our prison population never had a jury trial. and that's what hannah arendt called the stateless people with and she said when you have a segment of any society that is stripped of their rights rights become privileges but the real danger is you set up both the legal and the physical mechanisms should this unrest or potential unrest spread to the rest of the population it can be used against them and so this is part of this creeping. kind of road to american tyranny that's call minator in a figure like trump disregard for the rule of law which hardly began with a trumpet ministry in fact many of the far more agreed. impeachable offenses that trump committed including i think it's 11 illegal wars that never been declared by congress and. reinterpretation of the authorization authorization use military force act under obama as giving them the right to assassinate american citizens

which they did. 2 weeks later the 16 year old son the the wholesale surveillance and so it is about the breakdown of the rule of law and the kind of imposition of far more draconian tactics which the poor in this country already suffer from. for control it's interesting too because one of the things that really jumped out at me in that article that you wrote which i again i highly recommend people going take a look at and also my book on the death of eric garner it's a great it's a great for a very good book it's a very good book you write that more training body cameras community policing the hiring of minority members police officers a better probation service equitable fines and special events to investigate police abuse are really public relations gimmicks and i think it's important for people to realize that and. explain how are these gimmicks because i remember you've got you know n.b.c. c.n.n. all of these political leaders and politicians saying oh this is the answer this

will make police better in america quote unquote more professional in fact has a done historically it has swelled the power in the arsenals of police as well as the ability of police to carry out agree just assaults especially against people of color when we're talking about. heavily armed swat teams with kevlar vests and long barreled weapons kicking down doors and terrorizing people in apartments for nonviolent drug. arrests not going to change the camera on there but well you know how that works is they got the guy in the camera back and they and the they're beating the hell. out of whoever it is they want and someone is yelling stop resisting stop resisting look all of these all of these are gimmicks you know you well you were read your miranda rights i mean i'm going to be in court next week in camden new jersey for one of my teach in a prison one of my students arrested at the age of 14 put in

a room with 3 detectives all night long forced to sign a confession that he committed a murder that he didn't commit because the detective told him it would take 10 years off a sense he goes in at 14 tried as an adult he's not eligible for parole until he's 70 years old this is a recent thing hearing we're trying to push through but this is common and so but the argument is you're read your miranda rights you know you were read your miranda rights you were alone in the room 20 minutes before the tape went on the confession you were told what to say and you said this is the experience of being a person of color poor person of color in this country and one of my frustrations with the media is that that reality and even the reality of the white working class which i come out of in maine is just not reflected at all it's and that gets back to where we started it's all a big carnival act it's burlesque it's vaudeville it's a show and that's why the impeachment hearings have not moved a segment in fact they've probably helped donald trump because however distasteful

trump may be. the lies that he told are nothing compared to the lies the democratic party in the liberal elites told that created this oligarchy ecstacy vast social inequality and forms of pressure and let's never forget that it was joe biden and bill clinton who doubled the size of our prison population in the 1994 crime bill. tripled and quadrupled senses including the 3 strikes you're out law so for 3 nonviolent offenses usually drug offenses we're talking about low you can go to prison for the rest your life this was the democratic party that is the democratic party and we're not going to clear it with biden who. brad about how because there was a 10 year decade period we didn't execute anybody in this country how it was we went from one crime that the death penalty to 50 and he bragged about that on the campaign trail are going to say thank you so much chris always a pleasure of anyone great words of wisdom to assault thank you.

thank you. i'm going to fulfill it focuses possible to the people. you know we've all but the interest. rate. cut.

you want to 1st. no. doubt. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed. and it wasn't it was bad you know much worse objectively today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. and there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shape by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy at tax. engineer elections manufacture consent and other prince holds

according to. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the. narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time. speaks about the modern civilization of america. all right welcome back watchers the man who shot and killed 17 year old trayvon

martin back in 2012 mr neighborhood watch him self george zimmerman is back in the headlines again for a lawsuit that is almost too unbelievable to believe the washington post is reporting that zimmerman has filed a $100000000.00 lawsuit wednesday against the teen's family and a publishing firm and a law enforcement agency for defamation and malicious prosecution yes my friends george zimmerman the man who shot and killed trayvon martin the man who dodged a guilty verdict by claiming a 17 year old with some skittles put him in such fear of his life that he had to gun him down is now suing the family whose child he snuffed out he's suing that then we broke $100000000.00 the lead dependent in zimmerman's suit is so beautiful and martin's mother martin's father tracy is also being named along with their lawyer ben crump publisher harper collins various members of the prosecution team and the florida department of law enforcement according to the washington post the lawsuit claims all defendants have worked in concert to deprive zimmerman of his

constitution and other related legal rights so let's turn it over the panel was it all one big conspiracy against zimmerman was it a hoax that was built upon witness broad to frame him up to charge him for the trayvon martin just 1st of all i would like to see it doesn't bother me that harper collins is in this lawsuit because they're the book company that wrote the. defamation book on me with the navy seal sniper yes so if they take harper collins as money i have no problem with that being a little tongue in cheek sarcastic but anyway getting back on this is so outrageous there is no judge in the world that isn't going to throw this out my opinion how could a judge at least i certainly would tell you any of the 73 that i appointed while i was governor of minnesota would laugh right out of court i would freak that's what will happen i hope that's what will happen to a d.

i want to go to your what are your thoughts on mr zimmerman making headlines again he's a clown he's a coward he's an idiot he's a full every and any and everything that makes them up is the reason why people outside of america and a lot of people in america hate this country he's a joke like the whole idea that that this is even a thing is beyond discussed in it's crazy it's crazy he's out of his my i don't even understand you know his whole story. you know his fame and what because it's the same guy who was autographing bags of skittles and a gun conference this is how disgusting an evil this man is. you know i know sabrina and you know i know tracy and they're great family and they're good people and they lost their son and they've been through a whirl of just pain and you have this clown out here playing what it is is the problem this is same thing what a person like trump you let these clowns run wow what i'll stop him they may spiral

out of control and look look at the mess we live in right now that is a good point he said it's a good lawsuit because i saw some pretty evil things about his careful isms like he said also thank god he said thank god i never bumped and. you have part of the problem is we have an issue with giving every paul blart want to be mall cop a gun in this country that's a huge problem 2nd of all my brother was murdered and going through the legal proceedings in a criminal investigation is devastating for the families involved and like everything they have to go through so he already got away with it and watching him sued the families like devastating for me to watch this is completely devastating it's adding insult to injury it's like you already lost a loved one why why come back and do this there's no reason for whatsoever he didn't look you know mr neighborhood watch as we call him this is someone who is going to be as twenty's now who could have been in college contributed into the betterment of society grown in

a community and instead someone who thought that he went against the cops orders and trailed him further for no reason made a completely biased and races assumption on a person and took a life is like you know what you guys hurt me like that if that doesn't make your blood well maybe you're not a human maybe you're a robot which is why trump probably would be best friend well you know and that's and it's going to it's like the a student is obviously a social and i know for a fact it with doctors i've spoken to social pass can't be cured that's the one you know if you are one you are going to be one always and you develop and become one clearly that's what this. because this is soul utterly ridiculous like i said i can't see this even any judge is going to look at this i would think and toss it immediately there's a question that i have that's interesting is that you know we talk about men like zimmerman in the other kind of as you do so these kind of clowns and people that

we've seen over the years come up what what what is where is this coming from where are these people coming from that they believe that they can kind of get away with this and i want to what are your thoughts on that of like why you know how are we giving rise to these type of people you know their only other one i think i don't know yet even then but why but why is trump getting a rise you know i mean there is there's obviously something behind all of that and even that there's people who think oh my gosh someone who finally agrees that what i believe is in a public light and because they say it's ok i it's ok for me to do and that that's just wrong this is wrong on so many levels 3 justice system is incredibly broken he got away with it he got away with other things too you know he has a history with the law things that he's been accused of and gotten away with and that's just the society we live in sadly and we live in a litigious society you can sue anybody you want it does not mean you're going to win i really don't see him winning this case and no i don't either i mean it's it's pretty ridiculous let's go back to what he said he would not say. why are we seeing this you know rise the guys. you know you know at the end of the day it's

a win for of racist people it's the wind for people who hate oprah's people it's a big win. you know zimmerman who is of hispanic descent got a lot of praise from a whole lot of different races organizations and people in a rally around him he's their champion he's the regulus schmoe then and i'm going to hire him and i'm not going to be around him but they can cheer for him or they can go to the gun show again to send a little bag of skittles and it's just sad s.s. and knock against america as an act against cultures and people who have different social contexts and it's just it's sad 'd and you know i agree with mr ventura any. judge is going to look at this and he or she is just going to laugh and for what out but the fact that a lawyer would even consider it is is just you know they should be disbarred i want to bring in all or even or ject do you need to understand remember something the

lawyers simply operate on money if you've got the money and you hand the lawyer the money and he just you know he's going to represent you and i long as you know well i there's a quote from days from zimmerman's lawyer too that i want to reach it's very interesting he said george zimmerman seeks justice not just for himself but for all those others victimized by dishonest prosecutors who seek convictions to further their political and other unethical agendas to advance their careers what i found interesting about that quote is while zimmerman's case in this particular example is a ludicrous example of that. the lawyer isn't lying there are a lot of district attorneys in this country a lot of prosecutors in this country who do further cases and who do prosecute people dishonest lee bakley to my family same thing exactly you know so how do we how do we let let's take something as stupid and heinous as zimmerman's issue but let's bring it over to the other discussion where like you're saying was you know how do we stay. these prosecutors from going after people and from putting their

own career 1st as opposed to actually process executing the law it goes back to the system that we have we value money over everything people value getting further in their career having you know more media presence the fact that the stories even back in the news and he can get in his jabs to try to discredit the family in their defense because he's saying that they had false witness that alone just shows you how these people get away with it and until we start valuing something other than money and society there's no way we can fix it because everybody is just trying to crawl up to the top and of course that money funds them and lining their pockets in order to win you know district attorneys some of them that's what they want they want to become the next attorney general these are all political positions and you have to play a political game sometimes they'll just get a conviction because they want a conviction whether somebody is guilty or not because it looks good for them to have a 1000 convictions was one of the nurturer yeah it's very do you only go about 30 said i just wanted to acquit well and that's from you ok well what doesn't help is

when you make him the poster child for fighting the issue this is how you lose you lose it the issue when you make this clown the poster child of the fight it's a justice and the prosecutors to actually do their job the way it's supposed to do their jobs they you and you've run up with this guy then you lose that $100000000.00 out of he's never done anything in his life that has even warned him the extra $100000000.00 for anything. like that as this is a joke that's a great point that's a great point d.l. want to thank you for specifically for coming out and there you go to run always a pleasure having you on the thank you very much my duty for your support you for your contributions to the great stuff you know when we look at this case it really i want to hit this last little bit to kind of plays off of this also is. in the. county in the state of new york recently they outlawed any behavior this is passed in this in this in this legislation that they all want any behavior that intends to annoy alarm or threaten the personal safety of on duty. lease officers

and other 1st responders many people are concerned by the term that they use the day should we be annoyed by the vague language of you could be charged with annoying a police officer of course they fear someone who lives in a minority community they say are just you know making the annoying sound annoying is a a very vague definition because something i personally find annoying a cop may not find annoying vice versa so if someone from a community that is minority dominated they can find themselves in prison probably they could find themselves in a dicey legal situation and that will only further the problems we have within the justice system that doesn't make it better is making it worse i just have to simply say how can simply be annoying be against all the already if we were started with every new york they're going to start walking up people for being annoying. we better build a whole lot more prisons because half of the country can be annoying it's true republicans are annoying right now a lot of supreme courts have upheld the public's right to be annoying and to harass

police flip them off whatever it's not illegal in many states according to their supreme court also look at sandra bland she was smoking a cigarette that was annoying to the cop and she ended up getting arrested on a charge of obstructing arrest or resisting arrest and she ended up dying by an alleged suicide you know there's a lot of questions about whether it was or wasn't she did have some emotional problems with the bottom line is she was smoking a cigarette and it pissed off the cop it was annoying to her was it illegal no it's dangerous and you get into those kind of things i want to thank my panel today just i don't want to see flipping the bird against the law well it shouldn't be against what i want to thank you from the world according to jesse the co-host of jesse ventura bridges of those thank you so much an hour to american sports producers always a pleasure everybody thank you all right everybody that is our show for the day remember in this world we have told were about so i tell you. i will listen to that keep on watching those arcs out there an upgrade.

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