Finally got to weigh in on. As we start watching the hawks, whats going on in a city street. You want to see the crisis. You always stay on see a great city, this least systemic dissent says the late show which would bring the bill. All right, welcome one and all to watching the horse. And i mean, so michelle, i love Ballot Initiatives when they come up every, every Election Year because those are the, those of the initiatives, the 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. But in 2020, these Ballot Initiatives take on a whole another type of meaning just because of the sheer amount of people weve seen come out to vote. Typically Ballot Initiatives, even if theyre good, dont always pass because you have such low voter turnout in awful lection years that are outside of the president ial election. Now weve had hundreds of millions of people show up. So i think that its spread across the board to really see what people in each state, what, you know, what their policy is to replace a really good point. I mean, and well start with the, i want to get your, your opinion on. This will start with the big win by the lift, another ride sharing essential against employee protections. I mean, in voting against proposition 22. 00, california voters essential e gave a 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. 00 and that keeps the lift drivers as independent contractors. See this almost brush rating and confusing at the same time because a lot of even outside of a lot of californias workforce is contract until a lot of americas workforce is contract. So we would assume that, you know, fighting for the protections specifically around health care around, you know, paid holiday sick days, 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 disapprobation 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, there were people more fully informed about what this meant for drivers. What this mit were, you know, a win 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 normally do, theyre very republican about, but they did something thats much more in the Bernie SandersProgressive Left wheel house. They voted in approved a Ballot Initiative to raise the minimum wage in florida 15. 00 an hour from 56. 00 an hour 8. 56. They jumped it up to 15. So now its new york, washington d. C. And florida have the highest minimum wages in the country. Does that surprise you . It surprises me, but its also interesting because i want to see how the governor respond when i say this, because the last time a Ballot Initiative. No buy pot. What path in florida did it was to provide Voting Rights and access to those who have been previously incarcerated. That passed overwhelmingly, in florida and the governor and the state legislature bought it tooth and nail and developed propositions to make sure that it never thought eliab. It so im interested in seeing the devil in the implementation and 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 protections. The amendment prevents state lawmakers from declaring that abortion restrictions are unconstitutional. Should the Supreme Court ever decide over turn roe v wade reads quote, to protect human life and nothing in this constitution shall be constructed to secure a protected right to abortion, or require the funding of abortion. No. Converse of the 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 prochoice controversy in the abortion controversy. Absolutely. And louisiana is trying its level best to be mississippi, made a phone 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 activists open, and we also have to think about the fact that in the majority of cases, most women do not find out that theyre pregnant until theyre already a least 12 weeks along. So i think that theres some confusion or just again disinformation when it comes to republicans who are trying to push these laws irrespective to what they think may or may not happen at the Supreme Court. Little good boy and but you know, its nice to see though i do love to see the states voting on issues like these. Its not just left up to elected officials. You never know what youre going to do it with them, especially with lobbyists involved exactly happens though the us president ial 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 to wait, took a deep dive into the torture abuse and trumped up criminal charges. Black contractors are facing abroad. In one case, nicodemus, accosted a black navy veteran explained how his experience in kuwait doesnt jibe with President Trump the narrative of love and protection of u. S. Troops. A cough that recently spent over a year imprisoned in kuwait for a crime, he didnt commit. But regardless of his military service, and the lack of consequential evidence, in the quakes 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 intially victims to know not raid 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, kuwaits 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 theyve done nothing. Now generally, the treatment of American Service members abroad is a matter of national security, and theyre 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 arent currently listed and dont have the protection 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 havent been enforced in particular, in cases like a cost is. The reason seems to be obvious because this is black. The majority of arrested, tortured and abused are as well. But what will the American Government do to protect those, serving its interests in kuwait who find themselves at the crossroads of prejudice and torture. If history tells us anything, these contractors there on their own, and theyre 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 youre absolutely correct. And these contractors do a variety of things for the military. Some of them are that intelligent. Some of them are analysts. Some argue no working in tech and influencing social media and things like that. Others are involved in some of the higher level operations and 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 theyre 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 being left out to dry. I mean, its one thing when you see, you know, mercenaries and contractors involved like that massive square shooting where, you know, theyre being charged with major crimes because theyre shooting up the place to the committing crime like committing very heinous crimes against humanity. But theres a situations where the crimes are not these, they are evil. These are trumped up charges and low level trumped up charges. So were talking small possession of wheat. Were talking things that honestly in america you would not really thin time, you know, in prison for specially so were still web recent election. Exactly. So its 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. 9 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 job 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 shouldnt 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, youre in a foreign country, you have to respect the laws of the country. You know, if youre there, as an american citizen, or even if youre working there in respect to, you know, youre paid to be there by, by american corporations, america itself. But isnt the state departments job to kind of step in and say, hey, lets pull pressure on, lets get these guys let our lives and we see that theyre taken care of while theyre serving the sometimes that theyve 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 africanamericans or those of african descent in general. And the state department in the u. S. Government has not stepped in, even though they know that these cases are extremely heinous. And they have evident the 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, the president , these contractors, as of the 2001000, Congressional Research service report, estimated the contractors are comforted to 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 havent 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. There are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess, to crimes. They didnt commit. I dont even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to the person who falsely confessed, actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior. Once a false confession is taken, the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession. And one that is the world is driven by a dream, shaped by those dares thinks we dare to ask the impossible suit, pulled their sleeves, pushed into the body of clubbable. It was you who are sure to keep the i. Q. On board. It doesnt actually matter. Benchtop would have been murdered by hugo that when you discuss all of this, going to use the bunkers, those stories could be game we will see in the movie. It is with the it seems all see to most news, but is the most severe. Some of what is in your speech, comes off the news. The in the 20th century was thing in or of revolution. The Great Depression and world wars, the 21st century of mental illness. Those arent my words. Thats what surfaced some psychiatrys to tell us. The only question is, should we accept it as a fact . Or no. The election dissections and postmortems continue journalists, pundits twitter selfappointed, 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 for the overwhelming loyalty and historic turnout in this election cycle . In article titled freedom rider black people lose in 2020, presents a grim reality for the black policy agenda. In her opening, Margaret Kimberley doesnt mince words saying, quote, black people will get nothing from a job. I did ministration except this school austerity and the poor kid that comes with it 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 president ial black america, and the president s black agenda reporter, editor, and senior columnist, what the market did to be back. While your piece is no chaser view of what black america can expect moving forward in your view, neo liberalism is a problem for the Democratic Party that continues to win even when progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders rise up. With that being said, though, we just saw a record turnout for an election in america. Hundreds of millions of voters, many of them 1st time voters, younger voters, and the boat margins for 18 to 29 year old, heavily favored by. Is this evidence that neo liberalism isnt dead even among young voters . But they were voting for the new candidate, the Democratic Party, clear that they were going to be left leaning with their art. And so there was a conservative group. Im 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 do 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 . And thats what people want. But the democrats are determined not to give back to them. So in enduring the penick, we had joe biden time and time again, committing himself not to medicare, which is what the people in your new not to do the things that people want. Not to talk much about the people whove been dead devastated by the demick not just by behind death rate, but by the unemployment konami devastation. And he doesnt mention that at all. So we knew he was not always one of them wants most conservative democrats anyway, as a senator, thats what i was chosen as obamas running mate back in 2000 me. So we know when he tells you openly what it is hes going to do, and people want to get rid of strong. And now the system where were 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 theres anything else you want it just to bed, i dont be a spoiler or your only choice is to vote, and its especially appealing when the republican is someone like donald trump, that means new. Even if some things now will get a new group of black faces in high places, but the people will be no better off. You know, its interesting, ive got to agree with what youre saying, at least from my perspective, because it makes a lot of sense. I want to also jump of the other side. So the moderate dr. And, you know, make America Great in the code of language held with the mat took hold in a big way across this country. You know, it was originally attributed to, you know, political rednecks of the all right, an 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 trumps failures with covert and all of the more you know more people believe or accept but maga bactrim than 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 base that big would have to change their policies. They always hope to win by just noodling around and not doing anything different, not promoting what people want being that strong we do in the end. But look at what we got more this year then he did in 2016. This is that after 2 something biden, we nominee not going to bat after 200000 who think thats after the catastrophe they did even better then they didnt before because they dont offer anything. So you can get a lot of rogues running against some, but you have to stand for something. But that would mean we were in what you dont, your class doesnt want. And they were hoping that this man who was elderly, has some sort of calm, need to be an airman, who was never very bright to be needin with was always very conservative, hoping that he would bring enough people out. But strong people have strong appeals to millions of people. And in order to fight against them, youve 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 and employed by them 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 didnt talk about that because hes back through the war, austerity. They want to have peak will mean 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 ring in when they dont do what margaret, you cant touch on this debate in your last answer. But what does a policy that benefits black america look like . Weve 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 . Whats very simple look things. Some of the things i just mentioned, things that workers, things that raise peoples 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. Biden said, i am committed to reducing the prison population, especially since he is one of the people who was responsible for increasing it in the earths plates. So this is the sneakiness that brings out the rappers in the celebrities who dont know what theyre talking about. They have a little grain of truth justice. Yes, thats 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 theyre talking about doesnt 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 didnt see that very much, but im 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. Having margaret mazing, im like, oh, well people have heard this before. They went voting on election day and i just was really more candidates need more candidates than just the 2. And i think wed 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 to tell you all i love you. I am tired, old winter and im in the keep on watching those hawks out there and have a great day and night. Everybody else seemed wrong. Wrong. Just dont let me get to shape out these days, become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. When something you find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. Is your media a reflection of reality . In a world transformed what will make you feel safe . Isolation or community . Are you going the right way or are you being led . So direct. What is true . What is faith . In the world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. During the vietnam war, us forces also bomb to neighboring laos. There was a secret war. And for years the American People did not know our thelma is officially a mouse. Can rebound country per capita all human history. Millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this Small Agricultural country. Jordyn wieber went on a canal which happened there. Even today, kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago. Is the us making amends for the tragedy in laos. What help do the people need in that little land of mines . Lets compare biden. He comes into office potentially. And this means that i believe were going to see a repeat of 2008. Remember, Obama Took Office and because obama was a pretty young guy at the time and didnt come through finance, a law student then very good with constitutional law. But he didnt know anything about wall street. He kind of threw the keys of wall street over Larry Summers and all these other folks. And they went to head and they created the Global Financial crisis. After a fact that seemed to benefit the heirs in a remarkable way. Remember that billionaires after the 2008 crisis quadruple and or more of their wealth, while a move fast, some American Population went bankrupt or lost their house. So im pretty sure going to see a repeat of that by this is a story of women. Women was troubled histories and complex called cruises. You know, some of us did leave leave who lives out there, who were naturally, the person that hears the cheesiness of the day are considered the most dangerous of criminals. Shes in a still all the office, 23 hours of the day. Tell me that its not enough punishment. It will give women on death row. Join me every 1st day on the all excitement chill and ill be speaking to get us out of the world of politics, sports business, im show business. Ill see you then. I hope that all the steps we have taken recently will lead to the establishment of a long term peace for the benefit of both azerbaijan and armenia. Russian peacekeepers, head to the not go to conflict zone after a peace deal is signed by armenia and azerbaijan. But the agreement doesnt go down well and you have the protesters stormed the parliament and government buildings in the armenian capital planning. The treaty a defeat