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Journal is reporting that spending on political advertisements is projected to hit a new high in 2020 surging 3600000000 above the most recent president ial Campaign Year and how high you ask 9900000000 according to group am the Worlds Largest Advertising Media company so a close to 700000. 00 americans will soon be without Food Assistance just to save the federal government a buck or 2 Political Parties and their gilded corporate sponsors are more than happy to waste close to 10 1000000000. 00 on campaign commercials. That works out to a little over 14000. 00 per person who is now without boot stamps but guess what that 9900000000. 00 might be on the low end of estimates group global president of Business Intelligence brian weezer told the media that quote our understanding is that in the typical campaign 60 percent of funds raised may be deployed in the media spending consequently we recognize that the current political cycle could lead to higher levels of spending than we currently incorporate into our forecast that means that by tuesday nov 3rd our illustrious Political Parties could spend well over 12000000000. 00 just to get themselves elected do you really do you really think they spend numbers like that because they really really really really really want to be humble public servants. Not a chance and that is why my friends we are always watching all this. Like you know that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrol been through and joining me today is Award Winning journalist chris hedges to talk about the how our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battle fronts on the war in the port thank you so much for joining me is always ours i accordingly the federal Elections Commission total federal election fundraising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we havent even started the primaries yet what do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal election spending at this point chris its more about what it says about the state of politics. What is what benjamin demat called junk politics if you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas its about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. About making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think whats so interesting about the 2016 election is that trump for all of his deficiencies is a least good at that Reality Television show in a way that jeb bush or Hillary Clinton is not and so it is about conforming to a particular model that is anti political anti thought and and really corrosive to. Politics itself and it affects the media so c. N. N. Where is this money going its going to Networks Like c. N. N. Who perpetuate the. Kind of moral and intellectual deterioration masquerading as politics because they turn it into really just 2 sports teams fighting each other and thats conscious you know that zucker quite consciously model out of us p. N. Is that is that dry you know 12000000000. 00 just to really kind of like you said you know shrink what actually is being talked about really its just spending to get recognition for the name recognition and to impart the way advertisers are quite skillful at doing an emotional response to elicit an emotional response we see it with bloomberg. You know what are the commercials are there content less like all of them bloomberg. You know surrounded by children holding you know whatever it is but thats so its its politics has just become another species or another arm of the Advertising Industry which of course. Corporate advertisers have flooded the airwaves with lies and then this is just another lie i mean if you look back at Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 there was almost no policy discussed of the more policy discussed by trump ironically but it is about. Focusing everything around these manufactured political personalities and how you how you are made to feel about them and the media is. Essentially complicit in perpetuating these narratives which are which have been so corrosive to the political system. Her name is laid it out and you know whats fascinating go read back and read his book propaganda its hes a theyre quite upfront about it theyre quite do you go back to wall to lippmann i mean. Public opinion that if they know what theyre doing they know how to do it and its just part of part of the spin and theres that. Playing off of each other is one giant big brother show it really is. Interesting when you also came out with a fascinating article recently titled the new black codes which which delves into you know and i think its going to extension even of what were talking about here but kind of controlled by the powerful you go into how Law Enforcement agencies across the United States are centrally being used as. For language are brutal tools of social control over the poor and the minorities in this country how how does that manifest itself through the Police Department well lets begin with the fact that both of the Political Parties were complicit in carrying out deindustrialization in the liberalism and austerity which affected certainly most severely poor people of color in these d. N. A. Just realized urban centers what malcolm x. Called internal colonies so how do you then keep these people under control they dont have meaningful work theyre forced into the illegal economy its through omnipotent Police Powers including carrying assault style weapons this kind of stuff and the ability to use them a 1000 people a year almost all unarmed are killed in the United States by police thats one every 8 hours and mass incarceration these are the 2 mechanisms by which you keep the underclass so that this kind of propaganda it doesnt work to people live there theyre just never going to feel good about you know Hillary Clinton or joe biden because they get it theyre living under such severe economic and you know i would even argue political oppression and so you have you know these these pockets in essence are stateless theyve been stripped of their rights 94 percent of the people in our prison population never had a jury trial. And thats what Hannah Arendt called the stateless people with and she said when you have a segment of any society that is stripped of their rights rights become privileges but the real danger is you set up both the legal and the physical mechanisms should this unrest or potential unrest spread to the rest of the population it can be used against them and so this is part of this creeping. Kind of road to american tyranny thats call minator in a figure like trump disregard for the rule of law which hardly began with a trumpet ministry in fact many of the far more agreed. Impeachable offenses that trump committed including i think its 11 illegal wars that never been declared by congress and. Reinterpretation of the authorization authorization use military force act under obama as giving them the right to assassinate american citizens which they did. 2 weeks later the 16 year old son the the wholesale surveillance and so it is about the breakdown of the rule of law and the kind of imposition of far more draconian tactics which the poor in this country already suffer from. For control its interesting too because one of the things that really jumped out at me in that article that you wrote which i again i highly recommend people going take a look at and also matt taibbi book on the death of eric garner its a great its a great for a very good book its a very good book you write that more training body Cameras Community policing the hiring of minority Members Police officers a better Probation Service equitable fines and special events to investigate police abuse are really Public Relations gimmicks and i think its important for people to realize that and. Explain how are these gimmicks because i remember youve got you know n. B. C. C. N. N. All of these political leaders and politicians saying oh this is the answer this will make police better in america quote unquote more professional in fact has a done historically it has swelled the power in the arsenals of police as well as the ability of police to carry out agree just assaults especially against people of color and were talking about. Heavily armed swat teams with kevlar vests and long barreled weapons kicking down doors and terrorizing people in apartments for nonviolent drug. Arrests are not going to change just because they have a camera on there but well you know how that works is that what the guy in the camera the back and they and the theyre beating the hell. Out of whoever it is they want and someone is yelling stop resisting stop resisting look all of these all of these are gimmicks you know you well you were read your miranda rights i mean im going to be in Court Next Week in camden new jersey for one of my teach in a prison one of my students arrested at the age of 14 put in a room with 3 detectives all night long forced to sign a confession that he committed a murder that he didnt commit because the detective told him it would take 10 years off a sense he goes in at 14 tried as an adult hes not eligible for a parole until hes 70 years old this is the re sensing hearing were trying to push through but this is common and so but the argument is you are read your miranda rights you know yes you are read your miranda rights you are alone in the room 20 minutes before the tape went on the confession you were told what to say and you said this is the experience of being a person of color poor person of color in this country and one of my frustrations with the media is that that reality and even the reality of the White Working Class which i come out of in maine is just not reflected at all its and that gets back to where we started its all a big carnival act its burlesque its vaudeville its a show and thats why the impeachment hearings have not moved a segment in fact theyve probably helped donald trump because however distasteful trump may be. The law is that he told you no are nothing compared to the lies the Democratic Party in the liberal elites told that created this oligarchy ecstacy vast social inequality and forms of pressure and lets never forget that it was joe biden and bill clinton who doubled the size of our prison population in the 1994 was crime bill. Tripled and quadrupled senses including the 3 strikes youre out law so for 3 nonviolent offenses usually drug offenses were talking about low you can go to prison for the rest of your life this was the Democratic Party that is the Democratic Party and they were never going to clear and it was biden who. Brad about how because there was a 10 year decade period we didnt execute anybody in this country how it was we went from one crime that the Death Penalty to 50 and he bragged about that on the campaign trail are going to say thank you so much chris always a pleasure of anyone great words of wisdom to assault thank you all right as were going to break off watchers dont forget to let us know what you think the top 3 cover of our social media be sure to check out watching the podcast which is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you look at the podcast coming up the one and only jimmy door joins us to discuss the New York Times new 2020 president ial campaign reality show no thats not hyperbole there really is going to be a New York Times election t. V. Show coming for us all stay tuned watch for the whole. Humanity is on the edge of the precipice thanks to continuing destruction of the natural well. 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To 2020 president ial Campaign Season couldnt get any more well what reality show bubble gum grim you know what the any leibovitz vanity fair covers to the and this and b c tell about sorry debates the New York Times just said to hold my beer and whats left of my integrity because it is now being reported that the once highly regarded and revered times Editorial Board and opinion section will open up its president ial endorsement process to television and online audiences yes politico is reporting that in a pitch to unnamed president ial campaigns deputy Editorial Page Editor kathleen kens bery wrote for the 1st time interviews with the Editorial Board will be filmed and portions may be broadcast as part of a special episode for the times new documentaries series the weekly and that the show will also feature the Editorial Boards deliberations and the final decision on whom the board chooses to endorse will be revealed on Television Just 2 weeks 2 weeks before the iowa caucus and it gets even better because not only will hulu and f. X. Audiences where the weekly currently plays be subjected to the riveting television that are the corporate steps that make up the times Editorial Board but politicos also reporting that some editors and writers from the opinion section will be invited to candidate interviews because nothing says must see t. V. Than watching barry weiss the lena dunham of politics throw gooey softballs to pete booted judge and a. V. Club which are well joining me now to discuss the New York Times new 2020 election reality show and the rest of the game show that is our president ial election process is the host of the jimmy doors show the aptly named jimmy door thank you for coming on jimmy. Hey thanks for having me that was hilarious it was very well done segment i enjoyed it thank you thank you means a lot well i want to ask you what what are you most looking forward to with this new New York Times democratic president ial nomination reality game show that were about to be subjected to well im looking forward to seeing it very wise to look up that were totally and she knows what that means yet because she famously when i joe rogan show and she was asked about her feelings until she gathered and she said oh shes an assad toady and when joe rogan asked her what does toady mean she didnt know what it meant couldnt give a definition and then they had to look it up on the air of what the word she just called the president ial candidate what thats been editorial writer for the New York Times so im really looking forward to some more ridiculousness barry white and i feel like its one of those things thats only going to give us more nuggets of just insanity you know as we see these people kind of parade their intellectual with someone on reality t. V. Who in the facts in her letter to the campaigns deputy Editorial Page Editor kathleen kingsburys i mentioned before defended the times decision to televise their process writing saying putting these interviews on the record is a Public Service to our readers and that this show gives voters insight into the criteria experience character knowledge of issues that inform our endorsements as well as allow us to showcase the research and reporting that will direct this indorsement process i mean look weve been in this game a long time ive been to cynical jimmy is this open process actually what the times is after is really more about ratings clicks and kind of pushing the times of political agenda. Yeah this is the times is pivot to digital right thats what theyre trying to do and a if people want to watch their reporters interview someone they would be on t. V. Already nobody wants to see it thats why there are print reporters and not t. V. Journalists write or t. V. Talking it no but i think in a sense actually this probably will backfire on them because the only. Time it will probably make news or one of their clips will become newsworthy is ways want to get happens in their reporters or interviewers or will be used to show how bad their interviews are or if you know they also. When they interviewed bernie remember right so it would be good to actually see the raw footage of them interviewing bernie as opposed to how they write what happened in the interview so actually in a sense this probably will backfire on them will reveal their own biases in that sense because people can see the raw footage you know and then theyll see that story they wrote and it probably wont match up. So i have you know im open to see the New York Times shoot themselves in the boat again i think its going to be fun but it puts the other the thing that makes me sad those at the end of the day is what Television Political news reporting has i think really you know the what it what it has become has really destroyed our electoral process or helped kind of bring it down its been one of the many you know coals in the fire and now saying you know like you said print journalists kind of jumping into the bandwagon just for the clicks and for their their you know online i think thats a dangerous element to going to bring into the system of like ok now now our newspapers are going to be competing now online print journalists are going to be competing for those all important clicks. Yeah i mean i dont know how it could get much worse said the New York Times the Washington Post or c. N. N. Or m. S. N. B. C. Theyre all. Theyve gone beyond being establishment guard dogs and now theyve turned into stablished which meant attack dogs right so ill just get back to go back to the. Very wise example right or ill go with the person who even covers whos assigned by the New York Times to cover Bernie Sanders. It comes right from the establishment pharmaceutical and wall street yeah right so this is someone thats who they put on sent to cover bernie that so. It cant get worse is what im saying and it can only be in an energy entertaining show so right now we have the shift we had to shift show last week in the congress and they just keep its all the circus its all circus because this stablish meant parties the republicans and democrats neither of them are offering anything to the people to come out and get off the coach and vote couch and vote for and the establishment media is just their mouth piece right so they attack anybody who has an actual message like Bernie Sanders or told he gathered and they prop up anybody whos doing the establishment bidding like Elizabeth Warren or how about pete who gets over joe biden so those people wouldnt be anything without the Mainstream Media and if the Mainstream Media actually did their job they would have been taken care of a long time ago so i yeah i mean i dont i dont was only read the New York Times by the way you had a gentleman on earlier who used to work for the New York Times and then he was disinvited from working for the New York Times which is a nice way to say it because he was he did not agree to stop telling the truth about the iraq war so chris hedges Pulitzer Prize winning journalist war reporter for the day york times tells the truth about a war and they tell me to shut up or you got a lead so that says the New York Times it right right i want to ask and this might be impossible to answer given how much weve had to dig through and how much how many lies and scams have been thrown at us but what do you feel its been the biggest liar scam perpetrated so far on us voters in the race up to this point. Well of course if you watch my show or if you read aaron matea in the nation magazine or read Glenn Greenwald you know that the biggest lie so far in the Trump Presidency has been the evidence free russia gate hoax that was perpetrated by the Democratic Party the Intelligence Community and the establishment media so to me that was the biggest lie that was happening right now the 2nd one would be this impeachment show trial also which is just another show trial right which d is this is not impeachable and its not an Impeachable Offense and does not rise to the level of abuse you bill of bands in fact if you want to ukraine actually did interfere in our lections and it was at the behest of the Clinton Campaign thats according to politico is reporting thats not mine so again its this is just a show this is and again its because the if the democrats want to actually opposed trump they actually have to oppose the establishment well the Democratic Party is the establishment which is why they can oppose him on the things theyre supposed to hold him on they can oppose him on the regulating wall street because they want democrats go along and vote for it they can oppose him on his judges because they want democrats to go vote for it so if they opposed trump on substantial issues they would have to throw some of their democratic colleagues under the bus and their donors which is why they dont do it which is why they spent 3 years talking about russia again and why theyre now doing a show trials in pietschmann its really incredible and i think jim weve got a little bit of time left but it whats interesting is i think theyre kind of failing because it seems like there are attacks that they do on the candidates that they dont like like a Bernie Sanders or tulsa gabbert that actually does more to kind of eliminate what those candidates stand for them their own you know pam selected candidates because when you think of when i think of bernie i think ok Free College Free health care when i think its healthy no resume train wars when i think of rules above warn against little more shaky i guess free college and Free Health Care kind of that sort of. But then when you think about like buddha did your quotes are anyone else its like i dont really know what they ultimately stand for i mean malarkey i think was on the side of his boss. I gotta say and its a pleasure watching you and i am doing great work out there and keep up the great work on your show the jimmy doors show you get a lot of you definitely open a lot of eyes out there and thank you for the comedy during a season the election season that we most definitely need to laugh at the times. Well right back atcha and let me just say its not that im some kind of a genius far from it its just that the news people are so theyre not allowed to tell the truth so it leaves a big late repeatable like that it definitely does thank you so much. Finally today let us bring you this preview of the newest episode of redacted tonight speaking of good political comedy news were redacted contributor naomi carol bonnie delves into what really was responsible for the recent Chemical Plant explosions in texas. The disaster at the t. P. C. Own facility plays with its revenue ministration rollback safety rules meant to protect workers and people who live near a Chemical Plant thats like one of Venice Council rejected crunching smokers and moments later. Or when officials declared pompei a burning hot lava freeze now or when the ban on smoking in this in denver and then soon after well there are a lot of smoking not and still 2 days later were people within a 4 mile radius of the Chemical Plant able to return to their nation and they were thankful that the company the t. P. C. Group took care of them this Holiday Season and blew out their window you can feel the gratitude in the. Face to bring despite the fact that it looks like burning. 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