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Afghanistan and got to witness some of these failures firsthand on the ground theyve been articulating a lot of things that were in the Washington Post report for years literally years and i think again vindication is the best word to describe how some of them are feeling because after what they have witnessed and the fact that over a majority of our veterans dont support this conflict maybe people are finally going to start listening to the folks on the ground who had direct experience there its sad because thats usually the 1st people they stop listening to especially in was washington policy makers and people like that you know bob crowley an army colonel who served as a senior counterinsurgency advisor to u. S. Military commanders in 2013 and 14 he told interviewers as part of this report every data point was altered to present the best picture possible surveys for instance were totally unreliable but reinforce that everything we were doing was right and we became a self licking Ice Cream Cone can the america. Can people in your opinion or the world for that matter even trust what a current or former us official tied to the Afghanistan War says today now that we have in writing that they got everything wrong and were out lying to us. Well i think that unfortunately this is a pattern of behavior so when you talked about some of the altering of statistics and Foreign Policy professionals and the hawks just kind of floundering to present a more favorable picture than exists this rings very familiar to a lot of us citizens and a lot of veterans in particular vietnam to your point about we often stop listening to the folks on the ground 1st when those are the folks that we should be listening to this is a classic example of history repeating itself we saw this with the vietnam conflict as well as far as the level of trust i think this gets at a much Bigger Picture for the u. S. Government this isnt just about the department of defense and what were seeing in afghanistan but were seeing this type of issue with all sorts of things that ties into the impeachment proceedings the government isnt always the good guys and for years were taught at School Children that we trust our institutions and that they can do no wrong and were just seeing over and over again that this isnt necessarily the case so i think you raise an important point for both citizens of this country and citizens of the world they do need to question more when they see some of these Foreign Policy interventions and statistics that are being put up there because at their core bureaucracies are selfserving and the department of defense is a very large bureaucracy its the largest Government Agency that we have in the United States so they have a vested interest in making it look like everything that theyre doing is legitimate and unfortunately again weve seen throughout history not just with this recent report about whats going on in afghanistan that they have their own selfpreservation at heart as opposed to truthful reporting and transparency on the types of things that theyre doing its interesting too because a lot of the a lot of people that this report you know as im covering news interviews roll people you know didnt expect that these interviews would ever be made public this would be internal documents internal communications. The light. I also want to get to a little bit of something new to him just that i understand the Washington Post i understand this is a big story but it does feel like a lot of us both journalists veterans people of the you know people who were kind of speaking out against this war for a long time and saying hey not all is out is as it seems this is i think you mentioned earlier this is a pretty good vindication of everything that a lot of these journalists independent journalist a lot of the veterans and one else has been saying over the years why do you think it took the us Mainstream Media mainstream Corporate Media so long to catch on what everyone else has been saying. Well i think that weve seen and again you know we see this in a context outside of just this report but with a lot of Current Events that are going on lately the Mainstream Media is kind of its own elite club and theyre almost in their own echo chamber where they believe what they want to believe in they have people that they go to and theyre still trusting a lot of these Government Institutions as being truthful and weve just seen over and over again that this isnt the case and addition to the media i think a lot of the blame here lies with congress i Mean Congress has Oversight Authority as well as the ability to allocate funding for these types of kong conflicts wheres the oversight i Mean Congress should be the ones asking the hard questions and getting this information so the Washington Post doesnt have to i think its a really big failure of the congressional committees that had oversight over these sorts of things because if they had been doing their job this information would have gotten out there and it wouldnt have taken a 3 year legal battle for the Washington Post to get it so i think in addition to the media we have to look at the fact that yet another Government Institution congress has failed us in this context as well i could not agree with you more that you were right on point with that i want to say roy thank you so much for coming on today hopefully we will see some accountability for these lives in the future im not holding my breath were going to hope thank you so much for coming on today roy toppling over topping. Always a pleasure to have you on thank you. Thanks for having me. Since the 2016 election of donald trump as president of the United States many have remarked that his presidency is assured in a new era of unbridled ego and disrespectful carom door by modern politicians that we are now living in the era of the political juvenile delinquent mind set when it comes to taking questions from the press and us citizens here is our to america with an indepth look. Its no news that President Donald Trump is kind of you know suits from the hip just says it like it is you should let me run the country you run c. N. N. All right and if you didnt well your ratings let me ask you im ok so the guy legit has no filter but lets take a stroll down memory lane shall we you call women you dont like fat pigs dogs slobs and disgusting animals your twitter account only wrote as you know donald. I dont know what i said i dont remember someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country because youd be in jail secretary clinton where i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters ok dont be rude youre not going to do i am not going to give you a kind of you are a fake news Server Alliance of biggest liar you probably are worse the jeb bush. Said but i want you a lot of us. In a state of shock im not thinking of that so i think you never do im sorry. Nothing like the truth but at the spiel great to get past all the political jargon and hear the truth every once in a while i mean after all donald trump says the democrats dont do that sent your son over there to get a job and work for a gas company that he had no experience with yasser nothing. Thats not true and no one has ever said that. Way that he just dont care that i think about it you see it on the t. V. You know its like you know i know you do and by the way thats why im not sedentary i dont i get up and do not let another go then go but the reason im running is because ive been around a long time and i know more than most people know and i get things done thats why im running and you want to check my shape on lets do pushups together and how did it go from ukraine to push ups what i dont say you were doing anything wrong i mean said i set up my sunday working on oil company gas company. He said gas company. The company your son works for yeah its a gas company but keep going you know what you said i thought you were straight jack what 7. Is this like that time joe biden had to tell of corn cob oh speaking of telling off the notion. I dont blame anybody looking good and usually. They dont accuse her i mean i get it it does look like speaker of the house nancy pelosi might hate the president but you know what she doesnt know why shes being honest she went straight for the juggler she brought religion into this to this is about the constitution of the United States and the fact that the president violation of his oath of office and as a catholic i resent your using the word hate in the sentence. I dont hate anyone i was raised in a way that is full of heart full of love yeah hard full of love so as a catholic i have a lot of questions though on some of the positions you know you know what lets just table that for another day and always pray for the president and i still pray for the president ok is it just me or are the democrats ripping out a page from the trouble a book no filter shoot from the hip just say it like it is. Home maybe these 2 parties can agree on something after all just telling it like it is in washington. Dont forget to let us know what you think of a topic to go over to the social media be sure the trickle watching the hawks on throw snowballs and theres another word this in your book the progress coming up we build in the some of the causes and failed solutions to the problem homelessness to the park to cities across the country. Studies of troops are so heard about the Program Director for street medicine it will join to stay true to what should. Be. The same wrong but all roles just dont hold. Any belief yet to shape out this day comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Choose to look for common ground. When arizonas johnson. And i just got out of prison for. 41 years. Im 72 years old now i got arrested for too many for something to. Feel like just everything was taken out of. My work in the hospital it was a. Government decision on man that looks a little bit like me. I would have a call about. Homicide want to cars. Now. And work hard tough in the unit so youre going. To go system because. I didnt do normal 5 years trying to frighten kids right give. Me argue something i didnt. Right oh i was. Trying. To cover the im trying to go how do i do. I dont really do 0. Ok thank you. I think. We are in the season of giving hawk watchers so between now and Christmas Day mark my words you will see countless feel good stories on the local and National News about how individuals and groups are helping those less fortunate than themselves and while those Good Samaritans are definitely worthy of praise and News Coverage a 1000000 kind acts for Television Cameras are not going to solve the problem of homelessness here in the United States and elsewhere around the world currently in just the u. S. Alone more than 550000 souls will go to sleep on any given day without a place to call home or have a roof over their head and while some cities try to solve their problem of homelessness through food and shelter programs other major u. S. Cities are instead closing the social services these people so vitally need the Atlanta Journal constitution recently reported that at least 18 almost people died from hypothermia since atlantas infamous homeless shelter known as peach tree pine officially closed in august 2017 according to an internal city report meanwhile other cities are simply shipping their problems of homelessness off to their neighbors in fact the city of newark new jersey is now suing new york city for the big apples big policy of coercing their homeless shelter residents into moving to various other cities across the country as part of their special one Time Assistant programs. And dont even my friends dont even get me started on the numerous laws cities and states of america to make homelessness essentially illegal well joining us today to discuss some of the causes and solutions to the issue of homelessness both from Atlanta Georgia but also in the rest of the country is ties a trauma grad student with the Urban Studies Institute and with help with how students taking action together to have a baby who is the Program Director for street medicine i want to thank you both for coming on a day its an honor having you thank you. Thank you for having us lets start with atlanta where you are where you both reside ties to why didnt lana decide to close one of its biggest homeless shelters the peachtree pine and did that play a part in the recent hypothermia ducks as some are some are saying. Yes so the closure of peach tree and pines homeless shelter was absolutely i think a cause of a lot of the hypothermia deaths that have been happening teacher in pine with a shelter that pretty much didnt turn anyone away they didnt have a lot of barriers to entry and they had about 800 beds on any given night willing to accept you know whoever needed whoever needed shelter on a cold night. I think that the city closed the shelter essentially after years of spending millions of dollars actively seeking to shut it down because of the capitalist interest in the land i think the shelter sits in a pivotal place in midtown atlanta and the fact that it had been bought by emory hospital a private institution. As sort of a way to turn around the neighborhood to make the neighborhood more palatable for a catalyst investment are definitely driving factors as to why they would want to displace the shelter. Youre involved in youre involved in medicine youre your medical folks in atlanta and then the rest of the United States could be fixed if we actually put the time and effort in to truly take care of these people. Right thats a good question so partially what you want to magine is that a lot of the people who are living on the street are dealing with chronic medical conditions that require very close fall of the crime require very close medical management and so you can imagine how life on the street makes that difficult even for someone whos living in very stable housing they are confused by their medications at times it requires you know the help of a caregiver even sometimes and so you can imagine how life on the street could make that even worse you know whether its diabetes or hypertension that requires that close monitoring or even Something Like inhaling the irritants from a barrel fire in the winter to try to stay warm these are all some of the social determinants and physical determinants of the health of folks experiencing homelessness started in the city of atlanta or other cities like your close virtually all of the public homeless shelters it leaves it up to the private sector like nonprofits churches and even businesses to take responsibility for helping Homeless People is that a good thing does that actually help you know alleviate this problem in the in the long run. Absolutely and i think neoliberal management of any social Service Provision especially something so necessary as like outreach for Homeless Individuals and shelter for people without homes should not be handled by private entities is absolutely not more a fish and a more efficient way to get our resources i think it creates infighting between interests and sort of institutions to say you know we need a bigger chunk of funding to provide more services or to provide services for a very particular groups of people so for. Sample instead of having one large or a few large shelters that do not have barriers to entry you get a lot of small splinter shelters scattered about the city especially in a place like atlanta where transportation is not easy to come by especially Public Transit so you can imagine just the difficulty of getting people into shelters when they are scattered this way not to mention if this shelter only serves women or only serves mothers or only serves children or only serve single men you know losing somewhere like they did not have these sort of barriers to entry are is just its an atrocity to a city like this and so i think when they do these things and they rely on the private sector. Edges it does a lot to not only impact the folks who need the services but also the people who sort of go out and do all hands on outreach on the streets its difficult to find folks to connect folks that the resources that they need and to continue to take care of people on a sort of continuous around the clock schedule days without perfectly frank you. I dont see how anyone could say like the bruce things are in the long run helping the way by the way you know real policy from cities could actually help and government funded you know which is ultimately i think what we need here i want to ask what youre the Program Director for something called street medicine and its really fascinating and i want you to tell our viewers what exactly is street medicine. Of course so street medicine originally was born out of a need you see folks experiencing homelessness dont receive traditional care in the way that you or i might whether its due to a lack of transportation communication not having a fall and lack of insurance or just overall poor access to primary Care Services folks experiencing homelessness largely elicit their primary care needs in fact their their entire medical needs are listed from the Emergency Department and so this kind of puts Emergency Departments in a sticky situ. Ration do you practice compassion and allow someone who would have otherwise been out in the cold to take up a bed in the Emergency Department is safe if in fact an emergency its terribly cold outside or do you open up that bed for someone who might be having an acute medical problem in the waiting room longer and overcrowded waits in the waiting room are associated with poor health outcomes. A longer time to treat pain etc so basically from that came the more the more fair and comprehensive care that homeless folks require which is an overall intervention through street medicine and so street medicine operates on a couple of fronts its a mobile medical care unit composed of physicians nurses social Workers Health practitioners from all over the spectrum including researchers and medical students that go directly to the site concentrations of folks living outdoors to treat them right there and connect them more broadly with the resources and continuity of care that they need. I want to ask you both what what do you feel is some of the biggest solutions that we are overlooking right now in order that not only help Homeless People but also get them on their feet help these people in any way we care and that were just were ignoring or were thrown to the side you know what do you feel is the most you know what do you feel you should be done. I think one of the biggest issues especially here in atlanta is the overall access to low Income Housing and Affordable Housing so you cant divorce the homelessness crisis from atlanta being the 1st city in the country to completely eliminate all of these Public Housing proper Public Housing apartments i think not having this crucial sort of space for people who make between 0 to 30 percent of the area Median Income people with special needs people who used to be served by public state funded hospitals people who used to access like state. That Mental Health Services People who were able to more readily access sort of subsidized prescriptions and medical care i think breakdowns in the Overall Public Service system around Housing Public Health and health care together and sort of putting all of these things in the hands of the private sector has ultimately led us to this place where even a homeless shelter is not absent from the sort of land grabbing that happens in an urban environment. That is very true that is very true what do you what do you feel. Right so i like what tasia had to say and just to add to that there are specific ordinances which the city has that disproportionately targets the homeless some of these are bans against urban camping which allow Police Officers to straight up season toss out the belongings of homeless folks in their absence or even while theyre right there this includes stuff like their identification their personal belongings like prescriptions or referrals medications these are all things that we regularly see on the street medicine unit that are simply lost because theyll tell you someone threw it out of then that there are also what they call moving your goods at night this is a taser maybe you know a little bit more about this ordinance but basically it disallows folks who are largely living outdoors from arranging their living situation or even moving about at night and so some of these ordinances are ways that we can help repeal the criminalization of homelessness thats a great i was doing that i would have thats a great point you bring up is that criminalization of homelessness i tragically run out of time but i want to thank you so much for coming on and giving your 2 cents into this very important issue because i think its something that you both are exceedingly excelling at in terms of bringing awareness and also talk helping solve the problems that you see in your city thank you so much for coming on treasure trove and sue hyperbolically always a pleasure please come back and keep up the great work out there. Thank you thank you. 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