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greetings and sell you take shims. here in the united states, the air is thick, my friends, it is thick with anticipation as we wait for the final counts to come in. and we finally get a new president crowned. but while that american idol section of the us version of democracy is yet to be concluded, that wasn't the only big decision made by us citizens on tuesday night that will affect the future of lives across this great country. some 32 states, as well as the district of columbia, am puerto rico, had $124.00 ballot initiatives spread out amongst them this year. according to the folks at the national conference of state legislatures these ballot initiatives that initiatives included california as that involves oberon, lips, multimillion dollar fight to keep their drivers labeled as independent contractors rather than employees. because you know, hey, i mean, who wants to provide benefits and protections to thousands upon thousands of drivers when you've got company shareholders to appease and bank accounts to

colorado and louisiana, voters weigh in on the diversity surrounding abortion laws and a woman's right to choose. as we discussed on our election, fallout show just a few days ago. you also had a slew of voters in states across the nation, including washington d.c. vote to decriminalize various illegal drugs like marijuana magic mushrooms. you even had voters in mississippi deciding on giving the southern state a brand new flag, which was, i think, long overdue given that their original state flag up until tuesday night featured the confederate battle cross of civil war era fame. but while the initiatives across the country covered a wide range of important subject, it was 20 twentieth's most notorious party crasher coded 19 who kept many important issues off of the ballots. in this year's elections, the new york times reported that if ever there was a doubt about the coronaviruses impact on american democracy, look no further than the sharp decline on. so this initiative was this year. there

are 38 such measures slated across the country. around half the level in the last presidential election when you saw 32 or 72. so today, my friends, let's dive into and examine some of the vital issues of our time that us voters finally got to weigh in on. as we start watching the hawks she was on a cd. you want to see rises, joyce state. i'll see you grace. see this lady's systemic deception is late show which so you'll be. all right, welcome one and all are watching the hard world and i'm amazed. i love ballot initiatives when they come up every, every election year because those are the, those are the initiatives that people in various states across the country really get to exercise democracy on and say we love this idea or we reject this idea and

you can only hold the people of the state accountable for the for the rejection or the whim of the idea rather than a politician or a lobbyist group or whatever. absolutely, i think that in 2020, these ballot initiatives take on a whole nother type of meaning just because of the sheer amount of people we've seen come out to vote. typically ballot initiatives, even if they're good, don't always pass because you have such low voter turnout in awful lection years that are outside of the presidential election. now we've had hundreds of millions of people show up. so i think that it's spread across the board to really feel what people in they want to, you know, what their policy is to replace a really good point. i mean, and we'll start with the, i want to get your, your opinion on. this will start with the big win by oberon, lift another ride sharing apps essential against employee protections. i mean in voting against proposition $22.00, california voters essentially gave lift the blank check and they prevented the state from enforcing these companies to provide the basic employments to their

driver such as health insurance, minimum wage, overtime and reimbursement for expenses. 58 percent of voters rejected prop 22 and that keeps the oberoi and lift drivers as independent contractors. see this almost brush training and confusing at the same time because a lot of even outside of a lot of cars, more news workforce this contract with a lot of america's workforce is contract. so we would assume that, you know, fighting for the protection specifically around health care around, you know, paid holiday sick day, things like that would be something that people would want. but the thing here that is really important is the amount of money that was put in a different from a campaign, as well as the, the funding from some of the lobbyist groups that really helped to take this. you know, i think that you know, that people weren't really informed about what this meant for drivers. what this war, you know, when would be huge, would have been huge for the entire industry. and you know right now that just looks like it was another opportunity lost $200000000.00 according to lift and

other like based right hailing delivery services to get people to vote against this 200000000. but one interesting thing that also came out when you look at the ballot measures across the country was florida. now florida went red. like they're normally do, they're very republican about, but they did something that's much more in the burning. sanders progressive left wheel house. they voted and approved a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage in florida. the $15.00 an hour from $56.00 an hour 8 dollars $0.56. they jumped it up to 15. so now it's new york, washington d.c. and florida have the highest minimum wages in the country. does that surprise you? it surprises me. but it's also interesting because i want to see how the governor responded. and i say this because the last time a ballot initiative, nobody bought with passed in florida, did it was to provide voting rights and access to those who've been previously incarcerated. that passed overwhelmingly in florida and the governor and the state legislature fought it tooth and nail and developed propositions to make sure that

it never thought the light of day. so i'm interested in seeing the devil is in the implementation, how that minimum wage is actually going to come to light in florida and if it ever will. speaking of the devil in implementation, this is to me more than 62 percent of louisiana voters voted support an amendment to the state constitution that would limit abortion for actions the amendment prevents state lawmakers from declaring that abortion restrictions are unconstitutional. should the supreme court ever decide over turn, roe v wade, the new member reads quote to protect human life and nothing in this constitution shall be constructed to secure protect the right to abortion, or require the funding of abortion. no. converse, lee, colorado, voters and citizens. there struck down proposition $115.00, which was a measure that sought to ban abortions, 22 weeks after pregnancy. so you could see the states are still divided about how they want to play out the pro-choice controversy in the abortion controversy. absolutely, and louisiana is trying its level best to be mississippi fresh rating to watch this

happen because what we know is that on both sides of the aisle when it comes to women, specifically women who are still of reproductive years, they want to see abortion rights acts this open and we also have to think about the fact that in the majority of cases, most women do not find out that they're pregnant until they're already at least 12 weeks along. so i think that there is some confusion or just again this information when it comes to republicans who are trying to push these lawless irrespective to what they think may or may not happen at the supreme court level, schoolboy. and but you know, it's nice to know, i do love to see the states voting on issues like these. it's not just left up to elected officials. it works. you never know what you're going to get with them, especially with lobbyists involved. exactly. see what happens though the u.s. presidential election continues to dominate headlines. a very disturbing story from the new york times dropped just 5 days prior to election day. the article titled arrested tortured imprisoned. the u.s. contractors abandoned in kuwait took

a deep dive into the torture abuse and trumped up criminal charges. black contractors are facing abroad. in one case, nicodemus, acosta. a black navy veteran explained how his experience in kuwait doesn't jive with president trump's narrative of love and protection of u.s. troops. a cost that recently spent over a year imprisoned in kuwait for a crime. he didn't commit. but regardless of his military service and the lack of consequential evidence in the kuwait case against him, the u.s. government left the casa to fend for himself. but like a casa, a total of $28.00, americans have served time for drug offenses over the last 5 years, with little to no help from the state department at all. and their cases are eerily similar. all 28 are private contractors supporting u.s. military operations in the middle east and all worth in chile, victims to know not raids in the dead of night where they were arrested by the way, the police, many of these contractors were forced into both confessions through torture methods

and extreme brutality. kuwait's police files often support this and the state department is well aware. in fact, the state department has been aware way to torture of americans for years. yet they've done nothing. now generally, the treatment of american service members abroad is a matter of national security, and they're considered a protected class. but over the past 2 decades, the us military has expanded its labor force dramatically due to outsourcing to the private sector. this created a new class of citizens serving military interests that aren't currently listed and don't have the protections of enlisted members. and that brings us back to the issue in kuwait, under the trump administration. the basic responsibilities of protection of u.s. citizens abroad haven't been enforced. in particular, in cases like a cost is, the reason seems to be obvious, a cost this is black. the majority of arrested, tortured and abused are as well. but what will the american government do to protect those serving of interest in kuwait who find themselves at the crossroads

of prejudice and torture? if history tells us anything, these contractors they're on their own and they're on their own because they are contractors, they are mercenaries. that is what the whole idea. and remember, this started way way back, you know, during the bush administration and dick cheney and donald rumsfeld and all of them said, hey, rather than spend money on our own u.s. military, we can make deals with the military defense industry corporations and start having contractors do all the work centrally mercenaries and you're absolutely correct. and these contractors do a variety of things for the military. some of them are data intelligence, some of them are analysts. some are, you know, working in tech and influencing social media and things like that. others are involved in some of the higher level operations in some of the most dangerous zones across the middle east and other areas. and mind you, many of these people over 80 percent are folks who have served the military have had long and steady careers in the military. and now they're serving in this element. but they have no the protections they did while they were enlisted members

know, and this is one of those sad moments that you see where you see guys be it left out to dry. i mean, it's one thing. when you see, you know, mercenaries and contractors involved like that massive square shooting where you know they're being charged with major crimes because they're shooting up the place of the, committing a crime like committing very heinous crimes against humanity. but there's a situations where the crimes are not these, they are evil. these are trumped up charges and low level trumped up charges. so we're talking small possession of wheat. we're talking things that honestly in america you would not really thin time, you know, in prison for special, you know, we're still recent election. exactly. so it's one of those things where especially in a cost this case, what ended up happening was that he was convicted of basically having a quantity of marijuana that was over the limit. and the reason why is because they arrested him based on some text messages. they found between him and a friend of his who was also in the military. and they had small of that we nothing

that they would even nothing worthy of a criminal charge even there. but when they found them, they put them in a jar and they measure the weight of the jar, and that is the weight of the actual marijuana and from picture evidence and all of the conversations. this should have been ruled out in the jump. he never should have spent over a year in a cell and shouldn't be our state department now kind of fighting for that saying like, hey, look, we understand this man may or may not have broken one of your laws. we respect the laws, you know, examine, you're in a foreign country, you have to respect the laws of the country. you know, if you're there, as an american citizen, or even if you're working there in respect to, you know, you're paid to be there by, by american corporations, america itself. but isn't the state department's job to kind of step in and say, hey, let's pull pressure on, let's get these guys let out or let's leave see that they're taken care of while they're serving the sometimes that they've been charged with the beginning, but you are absolutely correct, and in cases where those charges are caucasian, individuals, we see the state department step in that is the bigger issue. kuwait has

a longstanding history just like america of not being necessarily primly or respect or providing any type of humanitarian here to african-americans or those of african descent in general. and the state department in the u.s. government, it has not stepped in, even though they know that these cases are extremely heinous. and they have evidence that thing about this case and several others is the state department has files on these issues and they still have not moved. and just so people have an understanding of how much our military is now dependent on these contractors as of the 200-1000, congressional research service report estimate of the contractors, a comparability percent or more of the total defense department presence in both afghanistan and iraq. just chew on that number for a minute. all right, everybody as we go to break, remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t.v. app, which is available on all platforms. definitely pick it up if you haven't already coming up author and editor, margaret. kimberly joins us to shed some light on the future of black america in the wake of these now finish 2020 election. so stay tuned,

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exclaimed joe biden, to be president elect someone group. that's not how it works. fine, although towie's make that determination and we aren't there yet. once the election free and fair and what is the possibility that country played election will still be election dissections and post-mortems continue journalists, pundits twitter self-appointed, political gurus, and everyone in between has something to say on the heels of what now appears to be a biden victory. in official call, still outstanding in the words of sam cooke, a change is gonna come. but what kind of change we know that the black vote continues to be the stronghold of the democratic party and also the boat that

provides the strongest support for joe biden. but what will black people get or the overwhelming will to historic turnout in this election cycle? in article titled freedom rider what people lose in 2020. it's a grim reality for the black policy agenda. and her opening, margaret kimberley doesn't mince words saying quote, black people will get nothing from a job. i did ministration except fiscal austerity and the precarity that comes with it. yet in her piece, kimberly argues that america is equally racist and the make america great. again. maga mentality clearly resonates for millions of people across the country. she calls out the democratic party for its starch, neo liberalism, and questions. james kleiber, the kingmaker of the congressional black caucus and the place that laid the groundwork for biden south carolina primary win. the win that eventually led to him winning the democratic nomination. lots to unpack here. joining us now is mark kelly, author of presidential black america,

and the president's black agenda reporter, editor, and senior columnist, what the market good to be back. while your piece is no chaser view of what black america can expect moving forward? in your view, neal liberalism is a problem for the democratic party that continues to win even when progressive can't. it's like bernie sanders rise up with that being said, though we just saw a record turnout borne election in america. hundreds of millions of voters, many of them 1st time voters, younger voters in the boat margins for 18 to 29 year old. heavily favored by. is this evidence that neo liberalism isn't dead even among young voters? but they were voting for the new candidate, the democratic party, clear that they were going to be left, meaning that there are deep and so there was a conservative group. i'm just going to call it propaganda against bernie sanders

and against the border to make sure that he could bring it to me. sure that he was not going to use the nominees and look at who supports the democratic party. they are already the corporate interests as much as the republicans not armed and there are more loyal to their donor class, not more to the people who vote for them. if the people had their way even looks like what you just talked about florida, a state board, trump, but where are the people who voted to raise their minimum wage significantly? that's what people want. but the democrats are determined not to give that to them . so in enduring appendix, we had joe biden time and time again, committing himself not to have medicare, which is what the people in your new not to do the things that people want. not to

talk much about the people who've been dead devastated by the demick not just by the high death rate, but by the unemployment konami devastation. and even to mention that it all. so we knew was not always one of them wants most conservative democrats anyway, as a senator, that's what i was chosen as obama's running mate back in 2000 me. so we know when he tells you openly what it is he's going to do, and people want to get rid of strong. and you have the system where we're told only thing you can be especially black. or that only thing you have the power to do is keep a republican out of office. if there's anything else you want it just to bed, i don't be a spoiler or your only choice is to vote. and it's especially appealing when the

republican is someone like donald trump, that means new, even if some things out will get a new group of black faces in high places. but the people will be no better off. you know, it's interesting, i've got to agree with what you're saying, at least from my perspective, because it makes a lot of sense. i want also jumped of the other side. so the moderate dr. and, you know, make america great in the code of language held with them that took hold in a big way across this country. you know, it was originally attributed to, you know, political rednecks or the all writing overly overtly racist people. but in your article, you know how wrong that singular view is considering how tight this election has been. despite all of trump's failures with covert and all of the more you know more people believe or accept the market doctrine that i think democrats assume, or liberals assume, why do you think they were so wrong in underestimating the numbers of a moderate has in this country well be if they faced,

that big would have to change their policies. they always hope to win by just noodling around and not doing in being different, not promoting what people want being that strong we do in the but look at what we got more votes. this year then he did in 2016, this is that after 2 something, biden manana not going to bat after 200000, who think that's after the catastrophe they did even better than they did before because they don't offer anything. so you can get a lot of rogues running against some but have to stand for something. but that would mean we don't, your class doesn't want. and they were hoping that this nanny elderly has some sort of economy to be an airman who was never very bright,

to be hidden with was always very conservative, hoping that he would bring enough people out. but people have strong opinions to millions of people. and in order to fight against them, you've got to bring your people and talk about the things that people need, like we need from student and increasing the minimum wage. and helping the millions of people who are now unemployed, by should have taught by the needs in the people who a stimulus bill that is unprecedented in scope. something that harkens back to the new deal. but he didn't talk about that because he was bathrooms for austerity. they want to have people moving desperate mother, because if you are big will not bornstein, they will not buy with their rights. and that is the most important thing for the democrats. they hope to bridge the needle. and when they don't do that, well,

margaret, you can't touch on this a bit in your last answer. but what does a policy that benefits black america look like? we've heard from celebrities, from the likes of ice cube, kanye west diddy and charlemagne. the god all attacked democrats for what they thought was an a black agenda. what is, and how can democrats incorporate it in their policies? what's very simple look things, some of the things i just mention, things that show workers, things that raise people's income and eat things that give people their suman, rights. nobody is still talking about prince and half the u.s., the biggest pot prison population in the world. and have for a while, the president's here are black. that is something that you could respect that biden said, i am committed to reducing the prison population, especially since he was one of the people who was responsible for increasing it in the earth's plates. so this is the sneakiness that brings out the rappers in the celebrities who don't know what they're talking about. they have

a little grain of truth justice. yes, that's true. and democrats do take the black vote for granted. but the lack of a real agenda that is going to help people allows them to attention what they're talking about doesn't mix. and that is truly was thing. as i look at this election is that you had a lot of opportunities, not just to kind of do battle, you know, rein fire on donald trump, but you had a lot of opportunities to really talk about a vision for a future. and where we can build here in america and what, how we can take care of americans across all the divisive lines. and you just didn't see that very much, but i'm happy to have. it always brings me joy to see people like yourself and others out there fighting to really get good messages out there and fighting to, to really let people get people to start thinking about what is truly right for them and what they deserve, of citizens. and what a government can do for them, as well as what they can do for government. thank you so much,

margaret conley for all your hard work out there and your writing and your work. always a pleasure having you on educating our audience. always powerful when margaret amazing, i'm like, oh well people have heard this before. they went voting on election day. i just was really more candidates need more candidates and just look to win. i think we'd see a lot more of these ideas out there right now being taken seriously. you know, being taken seriously, but all right, everybody, that is our show for you today. remember everyone in this world, we are not told that we love. so i tell you all, i love you, i am tired, old winter and i'm in the keep on watching those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody. lots of people look for to see whether what we're saying is actually playing out yet in the real world. and sort of thing to look at would be the u.s. dollar versus the chinese are the big. ok, that's the main 4 x.

pair that's going to tell you what's happening in the global economy. if this all this debt is going to trigger all this money printing, the dollar will start to drift lower and it's already, you know, looking very weak. i think the last 4 years under they've been able to kind of propped up to a large degree. but i think now going to see a serious decline of the dollar to see the chinese currency start to really outperform the dollar. this is a story of women and women was troubled histories and complex court cases. you know, some of us did leave who lives out there who were not the person that hears that cheesiness and be considered the most dangerous of criminals. she's in a still all the all 23 hours of the day. tell me that it's not enough punishment.

it will give women on death row. for blood's that week after the us presidential elections, to be contested. the courts, democrats declare, open season on anyone who's ever supported the some even demanding the destruction of their rivals. we have to collectively, in essence, burn down the republican party. we have to level an election work from the blows the whistle on alleged fraud in the presidential vote august debate, whether that's a last ditch effort that conservatives are trying to use if you believe that there is nothing going on, then why is it so dangerous to you.