Sort of. Like you know that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrone 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 lowers i accordingly the federal Elections Commission total federal Election Fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we havent even started the primaries. What do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal elections but. Its more about what it says about the state of politics its 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 abou
Because visionary. During times when its hard to say what next week. In one thing in. The world change. For the. Thomas wright executive director into near futurist at colorado its been changed its just great to have you with us so much to talk about you know all the conveyance of the moment that stuff to condemn make will never be to say like it was like post 911 will there will be a past corroding world but why are we so sure because they did back the world not after 911 it really didnt end up being that much different. Yeah. There are several factors that make mr different 1st of all the coal economy was never designed to just shut down and be restarted and yet. Were going to start saying all kinds of whole send in things from the start. Start up again our supply chains are going to be all messed up. But people go back to work a lot of people on earth have had time to think about what their job was and what they were doing and a lot of people are going to decide that they dont want
I mean 67 years you know theyve been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow the thunder nothing they have no protection yet as soon as we take the dog and you just wants to kill. Me just say you know wants the affection. To get you. Its ok. Mom and dad will probably live their entire lives on that facility in a pin whether its smaller or larger size but theyre not themselves hence they are breeding stock they they typically dont come in the house and snuggle on the couch. They have no idea what life is is about because they spent 247 in a cage when you came into one of these puppy mills. You would just see one on top of another in these Little Chicken wire crates. You know how cramped it is when youre when youre flying and i was thinking about and i thought it must be like that for the puppy mill dogs that are in these cages being able to get up and move around and i think that the 740 sevens comedy 400 people
Not too far behind at 48000 now taking a closer look at the numbers here in this nation some 580 americans have now died due to complications with the virus so in an effort to fight the rising numbers of cases here in this country the u. S. National guard has been activated in new york california and Washington State almost half of all the u. S. Cases are all in new york alone and here in the Nations Capital republicans and democrats are still clashing over the senate bill on the coronavirus rescue bill brauns out is joining us hes been following the the clash coming out of capitol hill so where does it look like theres any chance that the senates going to vote on this anytime soon unfortunately manila actually doesnt look that way there is some growing optimism though from the key negotiators of this deal as this relief bill is now going into phase 3 after the bill failed to pass sunday night and then again monday night before treasury secretary Stephen Minucci and Senate Minority lea
A beach front Beach Front Park rather in los angeles and many r. V. Dwellers are not really happy about it a live report on that straight ahead now russia sends 9 planes packed with medical aid and supplies to virus stricken italy the mission being dubbed from russia with love all right its time to boost your news i q. First up amazon boss jeff bezos saved himself over 300000000. 00 by dumping 3400000000. 00 in amazon stock before the coded 1000. 00 pandemic hit the United States and hes not the only one a number of high profile execs have done exactly the same just under 10000000000. 00 worth collectively of stock was dumped by corporate bigwigs between february 1st. And march 19th leaving many wondering if anything suspicious was going on so joining us to explain investigative journalist and cohost of boom bust ben swan weighs in all right ben so bezos made this transaction in early february so he was way ahead of the coronavirus curve taking center stage do you think he was just i g