m. sixteen is squarely in the faces of those who hold most dear then your home is violently ransacked as you or your loved ones that they're shaking uncontrollably if you object in any way to what's happening you're tear gassed handcuffed and be. no i didn't just describe a night raid in iraq i'm talking about the swat team raids that happen on average one hundred forty six times every single day in homes across the u.s. according to a recently released a.c.l.u. report that equates to a whopping forty five thousand swat raids every year just for context back in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. militarized police units were only deployed about three thousand times a year so how do we get to this point when the one nine hundred sixty s. the los angeles police department formed a special weapons and tactics or swat units in order to better handle situations involving gunmen hostages or risks of deadly violence now swat units have spread nationwide further militarizing local police forces see in addition to being given access to military equipment like armored tanks and fortified weaponry

of r t m eric does the big picture and the syndicated radio talk show host tom hartman tom is also a new york times bestselling author his most recent books the credits of two thousand and sixteen in the book you say that the country's in the midst of an economic implosion the make the great depression seem small are you an economist still lives is come from. i'm a reporter earlier and and a commentator and better on the block a few times over in a couple of books about economics but i'm not credentialed as an economist but i think that. pretty much everybody there's a growing consensus i think pretty much everybody has figured out that our economy has been rigged it's been gamed it it really got taken apart badly in the late ninety's nine hundred ninety nine and two thousand with graeme leach gladly which blew up the glass steagall act with the commodity futures modernization act both of which were promoted at the request of ken lay of enron and allowed the ultimately the banks to get into this derivative business and all these other things these to these too big to fail banks so and you know it crashed in two thousand and seven and instead of fixing it we just kind of threw b

and find out more about the tragic flight m h seventy nine the controversy surrounding it online at r.t. dot com the ukrainian military has killed at least sixteen civilians with unguided grad rockets and that could amount to war crimes that's according to human rights watch which documented full tax on the opposition held city of donetsk. the group warns the gratis system is too inaccurate to be used on the populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind these kind of weapons systems if they want to save civilian lives the use of unguided rockets is also being labeled a violation of other international treaties one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian military should be called to account for killing civilians. neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or injured and when he uses these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk for solutions to the danger and killed and that's what we saw in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets and you were able to by looking at the crea

of r t m eric does the big picture and the syndicated radio talk show host tom hartman tom is also a new york times best selling all his most recent book the credits of two thousand and sixteen in the book you say that the country's in the midst of an economic implosion that could make the great depression seem small are you an economist still lives is come from. i'm a reporter and and a commentator and bear on the block a few times i've read a couple of books about economics but i'm not credentialed as an economist but i think that. pretty much everybody there's a growing consensus i think pretty much everybody has figured out that our economy has been rigged it's been gamed it it really got taken apart badly in the late ninety's nine hundred ninety nine and two thousand with gramley. which blew up the glass steagall act with the commodity futures modernization act both of which were promoted at the request of ken lay of enron and allow.