the jewish people he promised to erect a monument to hitler and. the holocaust during world war 2 resulted in the deaths of around $17000000.00 people of which $6000000.00 jews and that accounted for more than hoffa of europe's entire jewish population marc schulman editor of history central and a newsweek columnist says the organization organizers of the event in israel have every right to decide who should be given a platform was clearly the 1st country that was invaded during world war 2 it was the place where you know the largest number of jews were killed in poland so that's the fact that you know the polish jewish population was totally annihilated while in other places it was only partially annihilated so there's no question poland was central to the holocaust but that's only means that the current polish president should be the person to be speaking i mean everybody comes i'm sure wants to speak there about 50 heads of states are coming and i guess then the organizers decided

which ones were more important than which ones had a greater role to play and which ones have been most helpful in remembering the holocaust again and in some levels the idea of you know i'm not coming if i don't get to speak is almost childish well that is your news update i'll be back at the top of the out with a roundup of the headlines see that. greetings and sell you taishan. welcome to 2020 hawk watchers i hope i hope you all had a beautiful fun safe new year's celebration with your favorite family friends and your pets i have missed you will admit i've missed you all so what so let's ask

ourselves now though what has been happening since we last saw each other well it appears that just a few days before we were drinking champagne and kissing strangers in times square the wheelers and dealers inside the white house and the pentagon decided it was a good time to drop some bombs on iraq and syria once again last sunday the guardian reported that according to the pentagon the attacks were defensive strikes against the kottayam the hezbollah militia group which u.s. officials said was backed by iran 2 days after a u.s. civilian contractor was killed in a rocket attack on an iraqi military base and as physics has taught us for every action there was a reaction and in reaction to the united states air strikes killing at least $25.00 of these militia fighters in response to the death of just one u.s. contractor many in iraq took action and that actions was a massive $6000.00 plus protest in front of the u.s. embassy in iraq a protest that included a small siege on the embassy the washington post reported that members of the u.s.

trained iraqi security forces stood by as supporters of the qatari but hezbollah militia surged into the usually heavily guarded green zone breached the main embassy reception area and then set it on fire naturally all this led to a tweet off between u.s. president donald trump who blamed iran for the protests and embassy and the embassy siege and iran supplying leader ayatollah ali khamenei who called bollocks theory tweeting out that guy has tweeted that we see iran responsible for the events in baghdad and we will respond to iran 1st you can't do anything 2nd if you were logical which you're not you'd see that your crimes in iraq afghanistan have made nations hate you. yes my friends it appears that despite our best hopes twitter will still be the diplomatic tool of the 21st century so with tensions once again rising it appears the war and conflict in the middle east may well be washington's

new year's resolution as we roar into the roaring 2000 twenty's and start watching the hawks. like you that i got. to. welcome everyone watching the hawks i am tyrone been turn joining me today by our weekly panel discussion on the news of the week as the host of the world according to jess the former minnesota governor jesse ventura author and editor at large for salon dot com the one and only be walk ins are to america correspondent rachel blevins an artsy american sports correspondent stephen christakis shows and we've got a full show for you we go from war to new year's eve shootings to n.b.a.

commissioners we've got a whole lot to get to but 1st let's start with the recent protests and siege of the u.s. embassy in iraq and i look almost immediately since the start of this the u.s. spin machine jumped led by president trump put all of the blame on the protests on iran and iranian backed militias in iraq let's get the big huge monstrous elephant out of the room and me ask this panel. are what we're seeing happening in iraq right now harbinger of a potential war with iran using iraq as the battlefield i'll start with you jesse. well of course it is you know you have to look at it the congress just appropriated $800.00. $50000000000.00 to the department of defense which should be called the department of off friends and they've got to have a way to spend all that money now allegedly they're trying to get us out of afghanistan but we're

a war culture now so we have to stay at war so they off the develop a new war if there's not going to be one in afghanistan now all get political for a moment defy were president i would welcome back to $850000000000.00 did the department of defense but rather than spending about aircraft carriers and rockets and weapons of mass destruction i would go out you spend $200000000000.00 on those machines that clean up the ocean then i'd spend another 50000000000 training the united states navy how to use them and we would start a war on cleaning up the ocean guess what the rest of the world might like or sergei but what are the chances of bad no of course we're going to go to war again because the military industrial complex hastur spend that budget they've got there spend it or lose it what you guys feel should we be fighting the war on climate or should we be fighting another war with iran do you guys see a war with iran coming down the pipe or 2021 is interesting because there are just

a few months ago the top u.s. officials like my pump a 0 'd and then john bolton were all saying hey watch out iran is going to use these smaller militias to go and attack u.s. troops and they kept warning about that even though iran was saying we don't have any plans to do this and now all of a sudden you have a one tack i stack with the smallest of the killed one you know u.s. servicemen and now all of a sudden they're going off in our honest saying hey we didn't do this it lines up with that narrative that they have in place and so now they're able to say oh look at this and of course how dare these protesters come and star in this embassy and speak out in a country where the united states has invaded and has been for several years with no sign of leaving in the forseeable future goes through this with clear display of why we need the leadership. and everything it's just he said just the whole idea of the military. industrial complex wall as a new one every year and it's been that way since this country began and it doesn't work for the people it doesn't see what you're thinking on this i mean well we could talk about whether this militia was in you know where they were on the inner

just iraqi people and what whether it was justified the bomb there or not but at the end of the day like rachel said we've been there since 2003 in iraq and unjustly so eventually people are going to rise up and when the bully keeps on punching you down and kicking you are going to punch back in the mouth and i think that's what happened and the u.s. is being a bully over there and they're bound to get get what they have coming it's interesting too because what you see happening too is remember they didn't know it was thankfully killed in the siege on the embassy was mostly just property destruction they didn't get into the actual part of the embassy where people were i mean you know so one of the interesting things to the jump out at me is the iraqi security forces actually let these protesters into the green zone like these are the these are the security forces that we've been training for over many years we've been there. and then respond then you also saw that in response to the original u.s. airstrikes that killed these 25 iraqis they may have been in this supposedly has been iranian backed militia there's still 25 iraqis that we killed iraqis iraq's

prime minister adel abdul mahdi stated we have previously confirmed our rejection of any unilateral action by the coalition forces or any other coalition forces or any other forces inside iraq and we consider it as a violation of iraqi sovereignty and a dangerous escalation that threatens the security of iraq in the region are we seeing in real time the united states kind of lose its control over the country that it toppled its government like we said back in 2000 to 2003 are we are they losing control of this country jesse tyrrell i'm still waiting for the day dick cheney told us we would be greeted in the streets like a liberator i'm still holding my breath let's dick cheney out here and explain. to us why it's nearly 20 years later and we're still not being looked at by the liberators you know when your country goes out and they wage war simply for regime change years this is the blowback you went up with so everything that's happening

now is the result of the misguided law war the iraq war was and that's all they do now is live to get us into war now we've learned afghanistan's been a big live from start to finish where the people going to wake up to these lies and finally say no to the wars i don't think dick cheney has ever been greeted anyway every. detainee has the greed in his own country let alone somebody else's of it kind of mix. and i know we've removed but we consume easy on the bush administration. trouble comes in this is goofy and out of control and we kind of for get like those years if you want to talk about him and how much damage was wrought they want to imagine being a citizen in iraq you know you had the united states come in way to this war and all this and it starts coming out that this weapons of mass destruction claim was all a big lie and yet they're still there there's no accountability for any united states

basically says hey guess what we're camping out here and if you try to do anything about it we're just going to come in launch more airstrikes in this country where we aren't even supposed to be in the 1st place i mean that has got to be incredibly frustrating point then i think you know we use the narrative as that isis is our biggest threat and there are these big scary boogie men over there but i would if i heard correctly this militia was fighting leading the fight against isis as well and we're bombing the militia that is leading the fight against our biggest threat that's not very i don't know if they actually were they were what i will be. ok let's throw in there to there would be are you serious if we hadn't invaded iraq in the 1st place did not exist until we invaded iraq there are the leftover of saddam's regime that we didn't pay or keep on the payroll when we got there they went up north reformed themselves so our use of suits our frankenstein's it always has but it's very interesting to like in response to the protests and the burning of the guard stand at the embassy president trump and all of his glory treated iran

will be held responsible for lives lost or damage incurred as any of our pows sylvie's they will pay out of very big price this is not a warning it is a threat happy new year should the year. literally under the tree would have prevented this. so the us president or any other elected representative or official from the united states is very serious be threatening nations or nations people or anyone whatsoever on social media savvy allowed at this point know why oh my now is in the zone and it. was the element of surprise my point are you 2 years old come on a man like you is a contrived think that you know enough and is i think the president should be kicked off its what it yes i'm surprised because you know we live in a day and age where white trampolines becomes headline news as a result of the mainstream media take that they carry this narrative write all this

and they say well the president claims that iran was behind these attacks so now we have to go forward and spread that claim and spread that claimants one of those things where honestly they weren't behind them so it's a lie that spread enough times and eventually becomes the truth and regular americans sitting at home are watching this on fox news or c.n.n. and the like well they said iran is after us and they're killing our soldiers so now we have to go after them good point good point just going to say oh but he. just his job but i am. allowed last let's rip. member this is the twitter of a draft dodging power when it was time for this guy there serve what did he do he paid big money and got out of that that's why you said tough guy because he himself never would ever fight himself he told your colt and let you fight tough guy on twitter but not in real life it's not exactly what i say just a example of a bully who should not be a leader in any way shape or form at all because like i said earlier when you if

you eventually are a big rival you're going to get hit back in the mouth and he it's just a bunch of empty threats it is it is and that 3 is the danger i see in that kind of thing it's like look i don't i have i'm fine with you want to talk policy on twitter you want to tweet out what your ideas are for the country want to have that communication with your base directly and not have to go through the media fine you can do all that but we don't need to turn twitter into like a 16 year old war that i see in high school between countries i mean see and then they all run as leader fire back at donald donald but i get that i'm tired of it i don't want to see it anymore and i honestly don't like a lot of people who go to the social media his tweets manner yeah i don't know i don't think we're going to get mad and they have this viral implication and until until we get a president who doesn't own a cell phone or doesn't is not on social media i don't think we're going to see that end anytime soon all right we're going to move on as we go to break card watchers don't forget to let us know when you think of the topics we've covered on our social media be sure to check out watchdogs the podcast which is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you listen to your favorite amounts of paper podcasts coming up the panel that's discuss the violent start to the 2020 here in

the united states and then finally we've joined the land of basketball and look into the legacy of be a commissioner david stern and stay tuned to walk to. school . but if she will when you press the button and i did the dishes at. bazemore there's no nudist beach in simi we do you believe true. and about that some of them when he does he has been. in the news that he that is or that instance involved. a lot of people see as it fights about who could teach us both sides. as it is to me as if.

the. last. taboo that foundation doing is so. new. to him. as a guy. i'm honest he. is the sum of my ex from the future cracka. on january 1st while most of us were waking up with a hangover and some vague memories of what was or glitter champagne or beer and pizza some of us were not so lucky some of us waking up with

a loved one in the hospital or even worse the morgue thanks to a friend stranger or loved one who misused or on purpose used a gun to inflict hurt in fact the new york times reported that in just the city of st louis by new year's morning the police were investigating 10 shootings including 5 deaths across that city the times went on to highlight the during the 48 hours of new year's celebrations a man in cleveland firing off a gun to celebrate accidentally killed his girlfriend in florida 2 men were killed in the shooting inside a nightclub. and in baltimore which closed 2019 with the city's 2nd highest number of homicides on record the police were investigating 2 killings that happened a few hours before midnight and these were just a few examples of multiple shootings and killings that took place across the country just in time to welcome the new year so as we start this new decade with what appears to be no end in sight to gun related violence i asked this panel what would you like to see over the next decade take place when it comes to curbing gun

violence start with the panel that rachel. why i think it's one of those things that is going to take a cultural shift and you know we look at places where they've there are some cities where they've tried to enact gun control and they're trying to enact different one simply hasn't worked you know specifically when you look at chicago and there are other places where it's just a cultural thing and there's going to be a number of ways in answers that work for different cities and i think that whenever you look at these places you have to look at how well the police are dealing with this when there have been dealing with and all whether they're just looking at it and letting it go by and not really whether they're spending more time you know sending their swat teams to these huge marijuana bust than they are looking at these different homicides and i think that's something that we're going to have to tackle over the next decade most of all and most of it i just see what do you see what can actually curb gun violence in your mind as i know you're a big 2nd amendment advocate. well here's the deal look at it you know let's take a look at mexico for a moment mexico practices strict gun control there's big signs at the border you

can't bring in a weapon you can't even carry ammunition or you go straight to mexican prison you don't even get 200 bucks for cash and go but the point being is that the point being is that they practice strict gun control it's the old cliches the good people don't have them the bad people do because how many people died of gun violence in mexico now clearly we need to do better background checks people that are on drugs pharmaceutical drugs and mental drug should not have access to weapons and guns we need to would do a better job of that but it could start with our own government our own government setting the stage for us we are the larger seller of weapons throughout the world today what's the difference between a gun death or a rocket death somewhere else both of them kill women and children in the end and our government should take the example by getting off their high horse of being the

largest arms dealer. in the world then talk to be about my god. i live in baltimore from baltimore this has been one of the most. ever closing with 349 murders. you know understand every argument for the 2nd amendment i get it it's just hasn't been working even when you tried tough gun laws to police officers out playing guns on people that didn't have to go to lock in the people who actually shoot people so it's almost like we've gotten to a place where we need to put a policy on the 2nd amendment so we figured it's out me i'm a shot before it doesn't doesn't feel good. when i really hear stories about how old because this person had a gun they saved this family over because this person had a good that wasn't this mass shooting like you always hear something bad happening nothing good is coming from it it's empowering

a lot of collards you know beyond everything that happened on new years just look at all of the mass shootings that happened even. in the past 10 years like it's like the number is it's almost it's a part of our culture now it's something that we that we know is going to happen in we need to figure it out because the way it is now working with all 3 of everybody on here on the panel you know i think a little bit everybody's writing a little there's a lot of it's very complex of course you want commonsense gun control but you also want to respect the 2nd amendment but that was also so long ago there might need to be some revision to that obviously because i was in a different time period there's been a lot that's happened since then but i think with common sense like jesse mentioned background checks closing loopholes like a gun shows and all that because you do want good people with good intentions to be able to have guns for whatever reason they want but maybe not an a r 15 or you know you know the automatic joins in then was that a gun show sign a bag of skittles like this this is what we need that i mean it's easy to talk

about different things than to say we need a possible 2nd that men or we need enjoying this. not with us to assume that the government is actually going to carry that out in a legitimate way 1st of all and then at the same time we'll have to realize we have millions of guns in this country so let's say that we put out a new gun control legislation we say are we're banning all air 15 who's going to go and take those a ar 15 that's going to create a whole new war on itself that well i guess there 1 are a lot of problems at the same time guns do save lives and there are instances where when you look at the texas shooting there was a man who came out shot off 2 shots before he was shot in the head by another man who was there was a god i didn't man and man did not have a gun and there were at least 5 other people that had their guns drawn the same who would have easily taken him out whereas if no one else was armed then he would have been able to do whatever he wanted to do for police to get there just you know so you try to weigh in on what you observed. well let's also look to mass stabbing now too aren't they. right not now you're seeing the trend of people going in like that

at the jewish place of mass stabbing so it's beyond weapons this is a mental problem that's out there that we've got to deal with because it takes a mentally deranged person to do any of that in the 1st place i want to i want to finish off the show today and this week we saw the death of and be a former n.b.a. commissioner david stern the 77 year old passed away of wednesday after a 3 week hospital stay up or you know suffer every suffered a sudden brain hemorrhage back on december 12th starting served as the top man in the business of professional basketball here in the u.s. for 30 years serving as an n.b.a. commissioner from 1900 or 2014 eat oversaw the billions of dollars rise of the n.b.a. during his tenure but also he was witness to many a controversy i want to ask the panel it's curious to see a guy like this is at such an impact on popular culture in this country he brought the n.b.a. and made it into a powerhouse he also had the help of a lot of big n.b.a. players along the way namely michael jordan and le bron james and everyone else

what are your thoughts on the david stern rules that howard stern's are on the david stern legacy of the n.b.a. all star with the jesse. well i just like to have one year of his salary. and. i can imagine how i can imagine how much money david made guiding this $1000000000.00 empire and tip your hat to it i mean yeah you do things wrong bad things can happen that did happen the c.e.o. of any industry over a 30 year period but let's look at the positives david's gone now what he did though he took basketball international now look at the teams in the n.b.a. they are not dominated by just americans now you've got an international field the place you have literally the greatest basketball players on the planet and david stern's directly really respond i want to get to you steve as the r.t.

burke a sports guy what we are what what's your feelings on stern jumping off what jesse was just touching on internationally was a huge aspect of david stern's tenure 30 years in the in the n.b.a. from 84 to 2014 and he organized over 150 international games he struck t.v. deals in over 200 countries in over 40 languages that was huge that was unprecedented for any sports league at the time and now you see the n.f.l. follow up they have games in london every year so he kind of set that precedent and trend but also going off the money that he's made for the n.b.a. the value of the franchise in total of all the franchises as increased over $18000000000.00 since he took over to now so that's a massive game is there a definitely the n.b.a. like i think of a lot of controversy people really had to sit back and say how he caused the expansion of the league and created of so many amazing errors like even before the jordan era sort of showtime that was downstairs and there was no time period probably more m.b.a. and did anything yeah they were auburn reasons a student. rachel your thoughts of david stern's history and you know i think when

you get family and legacy there may be a little going to climb to great things here and there but all of them that landing under him for what he did and forward. you contributed. i mean i also have to say that i still believe the n.b.a. draft is rigged i think that started out a very good stern of the lottery yeah i think it's rigged for the big market teams i think there's a lot of behind this i think anybody who's watched n.b.a. coaching over these now whether this falls on david stern's back is commissioner whatever i think when you watch n.b.a. n.b.a. refereeing over the years you can clearly see n.b.a. referees favoring certain players certain teams certain markets over other teams and players and markets depending on the last time. you know to see the names get the calls of course the browns going to get a call or he doesn't get called for traveling ever but also another aspect to david stern he really changed a lot of social issues such as when people were afraid of hiv when they didn't know too much about it back in 91 when magic johnson was diagnosed and he had to retire stern actually let he was the magic johnson was the leading vote getter for the 92

all-star game and stirred a poll as opposed to even players that want magic johnson play he let him play in that game and shook his hand and that quelled the fears that you're not going to catch this virus from just touching something that had a big impact like across the world yes and you know i don't think. let's look at the bottom line panel look at what these guys are make sure they know and you've got to give credit to a commissioner that was in there 30 years there would build a business to where i've read a $1000000.00 a year now was looked at a shipping fee and how true it's true it's true basketball's an incredible force and i think it holds a lot well it is a lot to david stern and what you put in and also i think we're talking earlier this one touch of us to start also drop all the controversy things like that best but it still allows a lot of the players to be the individuals they want to be and to speak out politically the way they want to and things like that that also started under david

stern and i think it's important thing to know about his legacy with that yeah basketball players coming off as revolutionary about these football players that is there anything about nothing and they think oh no not at all i'm not going to look at him so. credit to him the commissioner any audio audio audio like hey how do you like the fact they're going to let antonio brown maybe set all the playground but they won't like but they won't like tapper there oh i don't know what tapper i'm a good good good topic and we'll pick that one up we're going to have a later date but i want to thank my panel jesse ventura the watkins rachel rachel blevins and steve christakis thank you so much everyone for coming on always a pleasure that is our show for you today remember when in this world we are not told but we are loved enough so i tell you all i love i am tyrrel them too and keep on watching all those hawks out there a great day and night everybody. this

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