greetings and salyut ation. well hello hello hello and welcome back everyone to a brand new week of hawk watching and my goodness is the august news cycle started off with a bang a quite literal and deeply tragic bang for the people of lebanon over $200.00 souls and counting of lost their lives to an ammonium nitrate explosion in the port of beirut in the aftermath and fall out of this tragedy of the peers to be the dire results of government negligence ignored warnings and failed infrastructure it is

now being reported that the lebanese government is resigning amid all of the outrage over the blasts there resigning meanwhile here in the land of milk and honey in coded leaders of the united states of america are still deadlocked in the goshi ations negotiations over how little they should have to spend on the care and safety of u.s. citizens in a time of pandemic and how much they can funnel to special interest groups and corporate bailouts instead of u.s. citizens but thankfully over the weekend u.s. president donald trump finally took action from his underground bunker on the 9th hole of the trump national golf club in bedminster new jersey from up on high the president signed a series of executive orders and proclamations that well according to the hill extend unemployment benefits suspend payroll taxes and offer federal addiction and student loan relief well woohoo this is wonderful this. great great new. kind of

really you see despite all the legitimacy a ball room full of golf club members brings you many legal experts and news outlets are questioning whether trump's executive orders are actually constitutionally legal the new york times is reporting that it was not clear what authority mr trump had to act on his own on the measures or what immediate effect if any they would have given that given that congress controls federal spending even the wall street journal got in on the game their editorial board chimed in writing mr trump is commandeering the power of the purse but the constitution reserves for congress. so my friends while lebanese leaders are resigning in shame for their failure to protect their citizens from tragedy u.s. leaders are governing from golf resorts while brandishing election year band-aids for an empire in collapse. i think that's

a good place to start watching the whole. you want to go on a city u. street you want to. see the rises you always state see. graves see this sleaze systemic deception is complete show which. some things are just as. well going to watching the hawks. and i'm well well well let me look at this brand new slate of executive orders don't really know if they really will amount to anything but let's dive in and see what they're all about show. it's interesting because republican sort of these executive orders that trump did over the weekend are getting kind of attacked from all sides even republican sides republican senator ben say it's so nebraska he called them the pen and phone theory of executive lawmaking called it unconstitutional. slop but it's

a pretty hefty thing to mount and i think that one of the most interesting things that you point out is that trump is taking fire from both sides on this because congress doesn't like being overstepped. so you have people on the democratic side a lot of house members who are taking trump to task but you also have a lot of republican senators who feel as though they are no longer part of the conversation what trump has done in this and i think that you point to some interesting things here. he is using this to basically circumvent congress and congressional powers but also i think to bolster this authoritarianism that he personally believes that he thinks that the buck stops with him and he's fine with doing that this is the same president who when obama was in office talked over and over again tweeted over and over again about his use of executive powers about him signing so many executive orders and how much of a problem it was and now we're seeing him do actually more than what obama did and he is trying to make sure that. he basically sizes things up for this election he

knew that it was going to take a long time for anything to get through congress the deliberations were not anywhere where people expected them to be and i think that he is using this to say ok well maybe i'm doing something for the american people even though that something is outside of his powers in the exact something of the great forget about executive you know executive orders there and they're not laws they're not passed by congress they're not things that every citizen has to obey or every u.s. business has to but in truth they're really just for government employees at the end of the day they're really just like here's the president's kind of idea of the direction the government is going to go in but and that does eventually filter out the citizens but they're not like they're going to get in trouble let's say with the tick-tock ban that's a private company have to go that way it's not like you can ban tick tock it's absolutely ridiculous but when you dig into what these things you know what's what some of these executives really it's you know it's not what they appear to be especially on the mirrors they have years ago and you know trump is a great advertiser he's

a great marker of himself and i think that he's selling things that the general public doesn't understand know one of his new orders allows employees that make less than $104000.00 that's the majority of america to delay their payroll tax until january he no january is obviously x. after election day but to do that you would also have a massive bill post-election trying doesn't care of itself well it was already over you know these are the 1st payments meaning rental you do have to pay them exactly but his argument is he can change the federal laws to make those those into a permanent tax cut that would permit tax cut only happens if he were elected and the payroll tax funds would come directly from social security and medicare and jump has been wanting to pull away from payroll taxes since before he got elected he doesn't believe in social security or medicare and he's fine with getting them both it's interesting too because the other order that he talked about that's a great great point made from a she brought up the other order of the $400.00 a week which is in the $600.00 extra that we're getting the word we were getting but now the $400.00 extra that would come in. federal unemployment goes up to pay

for that though he's going to pull from the 44000000000 in federal funds that have been set aside for natural disaster relief while we're in the middle of hurricane season or about to be where experts are now predicting over 2525 named storms named storms that little ones may be going to are going to be hitting the atlantic coast and possibly the pacific this is not something you want to do plus states are going to chip in to as much as $100.00 about $400.00 as well and states are broke from fighting coves they are cash strapped already there are so many states florida being one of his favorites that has only paid out 2 percent of its unemployment benefits already i don't know how this is going to actually be helpful for states where the money comes it really is and at the end of the day we've got to get away from this executive order obsession because look at the bush administration started the start of the obama ramped it up hugely in his administration and slowed clearly taken it even further down there we've got to pull back from that because at the end of the day we're not we're not governed by a king or queen congress is there to do that we don't executive orders are being

abused you know 3 presidents now and we have to start using congress for what it's for yes. with kobe 900 numbers surging in cities across america round about now many local leaders are faced with some tough decisions ship they reversed course on the openings of restaurants stores nail salons and here salons how can they begin interstate travel effectively and what will people stop having house and beach parties even with the news of rising coronavirus cases americans still seem to be living their best lives this summer is that the pandemic is a joke my hometown chicago seems to be fed up with the lack of vigilance tourists are taking during this time chicago is known as the jewel of the midwest for its skyline its downtown area fine dining shopping and beaches. summertime shy brings thousands of tourists and more importantly poorest dollars last year alone chicago

a tourism record of $58000000.00 visitors generating over $140000000.00 in hotel spending alone the tourism is big bucks but with coded it's also risky business. in walks the chicago department of health public health authorities shared an update this week stating officials may start checking social media profiles to collect evidence on. this is supposedly meant to help track their behavior because many travelers post pictures and videos of their gatherings on facebook twitter and instagram. but privacy advocates are already calling foul the american civil liberties union a.c.l.u. is prepared to file a lawsuit against the city of chicago for any application of social media monitoring that threatens liberty and privacy. privacy on digital platforms isn't the only issue coburn 1000 is bringing to light and us as vaccine drug makers are fighting against the clock to get a vaccine ready and on the market the big legal question is could the government requires people to get it or will people actually do their jobs if they don't get

the vaccine and the answer may startle you legal precedent dating back to 1905 allow states the 40 to impose fines and other wish if a vaccine is refused this all begs the question when do individual rights and liberties outweigh public health. that is the question that has been on the tips of people's tongues since the start of the bet is what you always hear whenever people talk about whether they want to wear a mask or whether this is going to happen my individual liberty my individual liberty it's a hard question as do i think the state should be fining individuals for not getting vaccines and things like that that's a tough question to answer that's one of those ones where it's like well once we actually get a vaccine it's good to think about it ahead of time but once we actually get it once it's no longer mysterious and magical bring down the road then maybe we'll cross that bridge but as far as the state or city of chicago monitoring tourists what tourist who's traveling to chicago right now in the midst of all this

craziness with cobra to go take pictures in front of the great lakes you would be surprised really there have been thousands of people who have traveled to take pictures and part of the being which as a chicago i don't understand the fascination with bend metal thing but ok and they are flooding the beaches as soon as the mayor reopened the beaches they were closed for the 4th of july but they opened immediately that next week more and more people showed up but then with this digital monitoring is that we see city governments and state governments try it for various things and when you open that pandora's. it's hard to close it better so there's a reason why a lot of the advocates are pushing against the digital and social media monitoring because no one can tell we don't know how far this data collection is going to go and even if it's said to be used in a public health crisis who knows how long it's going to be mined or if it will affect people long term or you know what could actually happen and how does that open the doors of the future abuse over things not as important as a pandemic you know where we need to monitor everyone social media because of this

is then you get like a trickle down effect you know there has to be clear consequences for violating surveillance rules and pos and and policies and the tragedy is there's not a lot of surveillance rules to begin with you know there's not a law protecting the constitution was shredded with the patriot act when it came to light and you know the 4th and 5th amendment so we're kind of in this dark area right now we don't really know what the rules of surveillance by our government will be and it's pressuring them because social media is one of the easiest ways to surveil someone and in all honesty companies businesses people's employers are already doing that without the permission of individuals themselves so i think that you know what they use it for is more of the question than whether or not they're surveilling because we're getting survey filled every day and i mean i think that's the big question i want to kind of ask you because it is like are we really that bad as a society that we need laws to tell us to be civil but we need laws and need government watching our social media just to make sure that we're not out spreading the disease but i don't think we're going to

a level of big brother isn't that scary because it's a certain point we have to believe that the public is going to do we tell them to do people are dying there is this virus that's spreading around everywhere in order to decrease that you need to social distance that should be all that we have to tell people you know clearly it isn't so i think that you know cities and localities they are grappling with this because america unlike a lot of other nations who literally follow the rules and seems to have a very hard time putting other people ahead of its head of themselves you know we were very selfish. i think the pandemic is kind of exposed to selfishness it's interesting when you get into the like the legal precedent for vaccines because mandatory vaccines because there's all goes back to as you mentioned 100005 which was the supreme court case of jacobson versus massachusetts and that set the legal precedent for mandatory vaccines through fines and loss of social access due to the spread of smallpox smallpox was no joke back then now we have a vaccine no one really gets that that often we hope states have the authority to

mandate vaccines but this could create a patchwork of states that require them but then some don't so then it becomes like well if i go to town to see i got to get the vaccine but if i go to illinois suddenly i don't and that creates a big problem when it comes to trying to contain this thing now absolutely it would end up looking the exact same is the mandates and you never know where you have people in places where it's absolutely mandatory for you to wear them and then you have some where it's not a think that it's hard when you don't have a federal mandate or you don't have states that are all on board with a public health crisis and we're just not seeing that they've turned this into a political football and states are choosing it and when they want to mandate anything and you know we could avoid mandating vaccines and we could avoid all of this mess or monitoring tourism social media by simply being civil to each other and wearing a mask and staying away from each other 6 pete that's all it takes are i know all right as we're going to break remember that you can also start watching dogs on the man do the brand new portable t.v.

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75 years ago the united states of america became the 1st nation in history to unleash the horror of nuclear weapons when towards the very end of world war 2 the us dropped not one but 2 nuclear bombs on the japanese cities of nagasaki together these 2 weapons killed an estimated $226000.00 people and left the world reeling not just in the shock and awe of the technology and power as many mainstream historical outlets would have you believe but in the pure horror of how efficiently and devastating these weapons truly are and how very easily they could bring about the end of the day and of days for all mankind this horror was at gold in the 75th anniversary of the bombings by the mayor of nagasaki while giving a peace declaration warning the world that after years and years of disarmament following the collapse of the soviet union the united states russia and other

nations may once again be on a path towards nuclear weapon proliferation in no small part thanks to the recent this dissolution of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty and other agreements like it so what does our 21st century look like when it's threatened by the 20th century's most dangerous weapons joining us now to discuss the 75th anniversary of the dropping the atomic bombs on japan and the future of nuclear weapon proliferation is the history of a professor is the professor of history of american university and director of nuclear studies institute peter couche nic thank you peter always a pleasure having you on sir. let's let's be out with you throughout so peter 75 years later what do you feel is still the biggest misconception this current generation has about the united states the use of atomic weapons at the end of world war 2. well the older generation in particular still clings to the myth. that the talmud ended the war that they were

necessary to avoid an invasion. in order to defeat japanese fanatics because half a 1000000 american boys would have been killed in the aviation. and the reality is just the opposite. in fact susan rice had an op ed she might be our next vice president. and she ended up dead in the new york times last year which she said are her father as toys to go 'd over to japan and he was spared combat by president harry truman. decision to drop atomic weapons on era 7 and nagasaki provoking the japanese surrender. obama said the same thing in hiroshima in 2016. chris wallace says the same thing in his new york times bestselling book countdown 1945. people want to spread that myth. but it's not true.

and peter there are a lot of myths and history in our history books particularly as it relates to war and the nuclear weapons do you think the white washing of history surrounding the use of nuclear weapons is unique to the american experience or do you also think that this happens in history books around the world. i think all countries lie about their history satta ties their history whitewash their history but it's not always as consequential as when the u.s. does it because there are right now 2 major superpowers with the capability 'd of ending life on the planet. right now donald trump and lattimer putin both have veto power over the future existence of life on our planet the u.s. and russia control more than 90 percent of the world's almost 14000 nuclear weapons

so it becomes particularly dangerous when the u.s. leaders are. thinking in terms of these kinds of festival versions of history because this version of history says that the atomic bombs were not only necessary they were actually good they were humane they were benevolent they saved american lives they saved japanese lives they saved chinese lives the reality is they began a process that truman knew which was risking the future existence of life on our planet at truman says that i don't lease 3 different occasions when he gets a full briefing at alamogordo potch they have how powerful the albacore to test was he writes in his diary we have discovered the most terrible in history this may be the fire destruction prophesied in euphrates valley era after no and it's

fabulous are not a bigger more powerful box fight the fire destruction and yet it went ahead and use that even though he knew there were 2 other ways to force the japanese surrender one was to change the surrender terms. because it manes obstacle 'd to japanese surrender even though they were defeated was that the us was demanding unconditional surrender and that meant likely execution of the emperor as a war criminal. and everybody around him all the divisors except for really jimmy burns urged him to change to surrender terms. he refused to do so we knew that that was a stumbling block was it broken the japanese codes and we were intercepting their cables truman himself the 1st the intercept the july 12th telegram as quote the telegram from the jap emperor asking for peace. so that was one way to

force a surrender the 2nd way was to wait for the soviet invasion stalin promised that you alter that the russians would commit to the war 3 months after the end of the war in europe that it's august 8th or august night the u.s. intelligence had been saying for months that the soviet entry would end the war the joint intelligence committee to the joint chiefs of staff reports on april 11th if it at any time the u.s.s.r. should enter the war all japanese will realize that absolute defeat is inevitable they repeat that over and over and what did truman know truman said it went to pot stamp to make sure that the russians were coming to the war he has lunch with stalin on july 7th to. ask that which he writes it is diary stalin will be at the

jap war by august 50 city japs without a curse it writes home to his wife bess the next day assess the russians are coming in will end the war a year sooner now think of all the kids who won't be killed while it is an interesting question is why did we drop bombs when we knew they were not militarily necessary and we knew they were marley reprehensible it's united states had a. 5 star admirals and generals in 19457 of the 8 are on the record said the atomic bomb through that militarily unnecessary. or morally reprehensible or both and then we're talking about eisenhower macarthur leahy leahy for example was truman's personal tiffs that and he was the most incensed about it he wrote he also chair that means a joy to step he said the japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender the

use of this barbarous weapon at hiroshima and nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against japan and using it we adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the dark ages while out of the carthage said if we had told them to keep the emperor they would have happily surrendered probably in may we could have saved american lives japanese lives chinese lives if we had and truman knew this. but they wanted to use the bomb and why do they want to use the. us less but if that were to lesley gross who ran the manhattan project general approach said there was never from about 2 weeks from the time i took charge of this project any illusion of my part that russia was

our enemy and the project conducted on that basis peter tragically i got a cold but i want to end it on that note thank you for coming on the bay and absolutely brilliant and educating our our audience thank you so much. thank you it's you're out all right that is our show for you today everyone remember in this world we're not told the word love the mouth so i tell you all i love you i am a rover for i don't. keep on watching all those hawks out there ever great day and night.

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