Citizens truly want what we truly crave is more ways for the United States to spend our hard earned tax dollars on things that we dont actually need but theyre not mr president because if weve learned anything from the boating history of our lovely United States congress when it comes to the pentagon. Its a very hands off style of governing so your great space forswear more than likely become a reality which should scare the hell out of us given the current state of the war on terror which stephanie saval the codirector of the costs of war project at Brown University observed this week has now reached eighty Different Countries around the world and has resulted in the loss conservatively estimated of almost half a million lives in iraq and afghanistan and pakistan alone and that by the end of two thousand and nineteen the one global war in terror will cost american taxpayers no less than five point nine trillion dollars already spent and then commitments to caring for veterans of the war throughout their lifetimes. From the insanity of the war on terror to the truly insanity of the of taking that war into space there is no excuse anymore not to be watching the hawks. But the. Real that this would. Lead to the bottom. Like you that i got. With that we. Would. Welcome aboard the watching the hawks i am i robot and im. Not super excited about rainfall. Yes thats a sounds like a kid with a toy right. Multibillion dollar toy because we buy as anyone who has what space movies now is emory are the ones who take over three place its the same yes. But yeah just kind of feels like something kids come up with and dont really think. Its not a. Its a most ridiculous thing this idea of dominance straight up what we want to be dominant why should we why is that or why does it have to be dominant. With many Different Countries. When you see the past. We are currently living in the failure of the global war on terror nothing about the war has worked since we were promised that back when. Bush launched after nine eleven nothing about the war. Why should we now trust that we can. Honestly run have a new branch of military in space and somehow thats going to run smoothly and not cost us an arm or leg or both soldiers and civilians will happen. The mission. Of the space. Branch the pentagon and. In the statement and that it will be our responsibility to be their responsibility to. The u. S. Space. Which will organize military space. Multiple. Takes in the end masters literally like a doctorate in certain kinds and engineering and certain kinds of science to go up into space so why are we so were just going to get random people and are going to go up there with. Yeah the marines would have against the alien to a bunch of times that didnt work out that well also the cost when you look at the you know when you think about the war on terror this is just another empty hole i feel like they were going to put into i mean when last last september air force secretary Heather Wilson said in a memo that the idea that caustic just that a stablish in this space force just establishing it will cost some thirteen billion dollars over a five year period and heres the Deal Congress has to approve any new branch of the military yes they do thats the thing i think we have a president who thinks im in charge of the military get to do whatever i want thats not how it works there are there are checks and balances and i dont think congress is going to approve that i hope they dont but gosh given their past history of just kind of handing over if it has a military anywhere near the top of the bill its going to hear your stamp here you know that scares me but i do also see what youre saying that they might stop it but i want to i want to show you this because this is everybody at home because this is truly frighteningly sobering about the war on terror which we rarely talk about you know we rarely talk about how huge it is heres a map covering the scope of the current u. S. War on terror take a look at this the u. S. Is operating in roughly eighty countries around the globe that includes forty forty countries with lilypad bases that means your bases they can launch operations from sixty five of those countries speech are either u. S. Counterterrorism training of foreign troops twenty six of those eighty three u. S. Military exercises fourteen of those countries are where u. S. Troops are actually in live come back and seven of those countries are active you know air and drone strike countries eighty countries around the world that is truly thats truly frightening and it presents a terrible image of us its militaristic national yes and you can see it you can hide it up in anything of oh it does this great job to create it creates work for people all of us it is then its not if theres something not quite right about. Militaristic nationalism this idea that our military is what makes us strong is also what weve seen in totalitarian governments and really bad regimes throughout of using those that look at our great military and william j. S. Or actually observed on antiwar dot com and thats the sad reality is this quote us military troops and military contractors weapons dealers have become americas chief missionaries our ambassadors our diplomats our aid workers even our quote unquote peace corps weve become a one dimensional country all military all the time and quite frankly its time to stop. The next time you go for a trim a shave a fistful of breasts make sure you tip your cosmetologist or barber because chances are theyre swimming in school debt and theyre struggling to pay it according to u. S. Department of labor in twenty seventeen the median pay for hairdressers hairstyles and cosmetologist was a mere twenty four thousand nine hundred dollars per year average hourly salaries topped in at a leavened dollars and ninety seven cents which is what sparked a reporters Meredith Cole and her and sarah blue trim out of the western are reported to investigate the inequality and lack of protections for those in the Beauty Industry specifically in iowa where they found was that the state regulated School System for cosmetology licensing is dominated by privately funded schools that are more than willing to take a students money while leaving them on equipped to make a living regulation seems to be at the heart of it first while most states require one thousand to fifteen hundred hours of training to be certified iowa requires twenty one hundred and the schools take advantage of this by making students work a large portion of these hours in the schools to launch not only for no pay or no tips but students have to pay to work and not flaunt and as well as vegas attorney leon greenberg put it without the revenue coming from those salons most of these schools would be profitable or it would be marginal but the iowa caucus. Mythology School Association puts the blame squarely on students saying quote we have students graduating with minimal debt because they made wise choices which makes one wonder why there is so much regulation for students and future workers while private schools reap the profits leaving students broke and undertrained twenty one thousand dollars to get a cosmetology degree a license to learn how to do this in ohio or iowa have you seen the haircuts of iowans this doesnt match the money. Seriously well this is the thing when you look at it. Right its very odd to sort of figure out where because when you look at Someplace New York New York city new york state has some of the lowest its less than a thousand hours to be certified and so its not a matter of what works where. One of the things are. Arizona arizona weve talked to some people from there that are trying to loosen restrictions a little bit because people like in arizona you have to be license even to blow dry someones hair in a salon or brush it so like assistants have to be fully certified but they make very little money which is why you have a lot of these people in the problem. And one of the things the governor and i asked for less regulation senator michel a gentleman scotsdale had in arizona had put it this way as she put it we dont have a chef license. I think what could go wrong if you prepare food incorrectly so think about the licensing as a lot of people are. Thats how the licensing regulations but if youre going to make a license for someone to. Why do you need twenty one hundred hours hair thats a really good observation and thats kind of one of those. Things we have in this country a lot of laws or a lot of the customs we have set up really. Dont make sense problems like this i mean the median hourly wage for barbers made twenty seventeen was twelve dollars an hour i mean hairdressers. Less than a barber do more work right because the farmers only come here theyre not. Doing theyre not expected this is not expected to manicures and all of these things. You need all of that. Drowning in debt. Doing something that clearly takes a passion and is a good job to have and also its a good secondary job if youre trying to pursue something bigger is atrocious right and heres the thing its something that does require skill but its something that if youre going to be require that much regulation much licensing then you should have an option a Public College option available or public training option available not only private schools and thats one of the problems because in iowa there is this little rule that you can public publicly funded businesses cant compete with privately funded businesses so they wont let the. Association fighting Public School in tech School Systems but they should have things in there that are making more affordable. And one of those is International College they run about six or seven of the whole state only has about twenty seven of these beauty schools they run six or seven of them and in twenty. And they were investigated by the Iowa Attorney Generals Office and what they found was a whole bunch of really bad business and not treating the students in these customers they were done that so they pleaded no contest which essentially means they want to make guilt but they agree that they cant prove very good and theyre not they cant prove theyre innocent so what they pled no guess it did to forgive over two Million Dollars in School Student loan debt and pay the state over five hundred thousand dollars in fines each of the two owners had to do twenty five thousand dollars in fines but one thing that they are barred from doing is requiring students to recruit customers and or sell product to receive credit or pay the school for clients so theyre starting to kind of go in there but i think there needs to be a Public School option for people because twenty thousand dollars in debt is just not doable for most working class people and youre not going to pay that off make an eleven ninety five an hour thats just not going to happen the student debts whether they be Cosmopolitan College e. Or major you know a plus huge you know were going to be historian and i was younger i dont know how to be affordable its actually for a working class skilled job like most stuff and i couldnt agree more it is going to break caulk watchers dont forget to let us know what you think about top of the government Facebook Twitter and you tube and see our poll shows at our t. V. Dot com coming up we welcome jack allowing jackson and Jesse Jackson jr to discuss her new book on the physical but the spiritual toll the u. S. Prison industrial system has on prisoners and the families stay to the bottom of. The. The list on. My side is that. In. So there is a building also up. In the him about nutrition without him but then i. Look. It up and i. Dont want out of the modern i dont want to worry about. Something thats pretty much a. Mystery. Phone call for the. Art of a shuffle stemming with. A little warmth and you know what. This i will do. When the old maid gets manufactured to sentenced him to the public will. When the ruling classes protect themselves. With the final merry go round to be the one percent. We can all middle of the room sick. Room in the real news room. Political activist journalist and u. S. Prisoner movie a boojum all once stated that prison is a second by second assault on the soul a day to day degradation of the self and oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours hours and days currently there are an estimated two point two million souls incarcerated in jails and prisons across the United States in fact if the amount of people locked up in the us for a city it would be the fifth largest city in the country behind New York Los Angeles chicago and houston but what isnt represented often forgotten in these staggering statistics is the incredible amount of suffering inflicted on not just the two point two million prisoners but the unknown numbers of family and friends connected to them author equal rights activist mother jacqueline l. Jackson who is also the wife of same civil rights activist Jesse Jackson knows firsthand the effects of losing a Family Member to the prison system when her son Jesse Jackson jr was sentenced to thirty six months behind bars in her new book loving you thinking of you dont forget to pray letters to my son in prison she reveals to the reader a collection of letters and thoughts she shared with her son in order to help him survive and overcome his time behind the wall but jack line and her son jesse join us now from chicago to discuss her new book and the real effect prison has on the people and communities that reaches and to welcome jacqueline and jessie thank you for joining us. Thank you thank you thank you so much for having us jack what i want to i want to start with you what part of this or or do you all that you your sort of your family went through was the catalyst for inspiring you to share these really really personal very brilliant correspondences on with the public sure and what the world what what was the inspiration for wanting to share. Well first let me thank you for having us on this program today i was a little embarrassed when my son told me after reading them again once he returned from prison that he wanted to publish a small book and present it to me for my birthday after reading the book he and some young ladies down in North Carolina got together and said its we should share this with the rest of the world so they started out with a self published book but the demands were so exciting they made an offer to. A company skyhorse and they said they wanted to publish it for me and im very excited to share this private. Experience with those who suffer as i did and thats a whole still families my son went to prison for nonviolent crime. He. And my concern is that nonviolent crimes should. Be considered expressly when you have talented young people that these people and we need to find another way to resolve. The issue of punishment. Or more. Just the how important is that corresponded with. The outside to someone on the inside trying to survive this the seventh is was there any resistance. Or fear in having that kind of interaction with your mother while serving us that. Tabitha once again thank you for having us. Besides the embarrassment the humiliation. That i thought in my heart that i brought my family the shame the blame the guilt the resentments and all of their grants i think thats how most people into the penal system they know that theyre leaving their wives and their families behind and i was actually in a very very dark place the media had camped out in front of my mothers home they camped out in front of of my home and quite frankly i couldnt wait to go to jail i went to jail in fact a day early because i was just overwhelmed by the amount of attention i wanted to be abandoned i didnt want people to constantly remind me of what i had done and how i had done it but when i got to prison tabitha i met many men who were going through the exact same emotional process the shame the blame the the guilt the embarrassment the humiliation and i wanted my mother to just leave me alone i wanted her to abandon me and at about four oclock every day for thirty six months that i was in prison at mail call the guard would say Jackson Jackson jackson and all of the men would gather as if they were waiting for correspondence to come but i was the only one that they were that was receiving letters and i would watch their heads drop and their spirits become despondent so i started reading my letters to the entire into the fire population listen let me tell you what my mother had to say today and they all became part of the family and i got the host wonderful gift tyrrel the other day when an inmate that i served time with sent me a copy a picture on facebook of him holding the book reminiscing upon the letters that my mother sent us that lifted all of our spirits an incredible gift from in and im glad that you did the for your fellow inmates because because i i personally think that you know prisons are should not be but prison that should be about rehabilitation it should be that kind of thing that tragically has taken a different turn because many would argue that prisoners are there to be punished for their crimes you know why should we care about their families what or their mental or spiritual well being behind bars i want to hear what you both you know your opinions of that kind of argument its all about punishment rather than rehabilitation because many believe that very strongly. Will once we do with the judge says do or in the case in my case accepting responsibility offering a plea so if i could save the taxpayers money and not take my family through that which i accept the responsibility for and did or even following the obligations of what the jury says do once we do with the judge says do the time is served we should Reenter Society as whole human beings and quite frankly forgiven there really shouldnt be felon ization in the life liberty and happiness system and coming out of that system for as tabitha said the two point two million souls that are presently in corporate course are incarcerated and the sixteen million men and women in our country who have paid their debt to society im going to do everything within my power to fight for their forgiveness they should be they should be pardoned they should be granted forgiveness their records should be cleaned if they in fact if they have in fact accepted responsibility for their behavior and healthy societies are created with families and institutions not just individuals so we should try to do everything in this country to enhance family and building them to be strong and new and more united i agree more absolutely agree and one of the things is we see that in your family and your family has spent decades upon decades working for civil rights and equal rights causes in the United States and you faced an unbelievable amount of hardships in that fight because of that fight has this experience changed your familys work in the fight for equality has this made any major impact on you. I can tell you this it has not been me bitter it has it has made me better my sister once told me that what doesnt break you definitely makes you and without a test there is no testimony and so i have shared with my mother that prison was the best thing that ever happened to me to spend time with my. And women from different walks of life my wife my wife my exwife as you know served twelve months twelve months under the same offense so i went in then she went in and we have children that we are obviously raising and the difficult strain that we were feeling imagine that times every man and woman that enters the system and so i think the rededication comes and in the recognition that men and women who serve their time are really the least of these they are the biblical least of these and when we solve the problem of shame blame and guilt in a life liberty and happiness system i promise you we will be on the road to building a more Perfect Union for every american and this is not a Correctional Institution i think that is something we must strive for it to become historically weve been told that it was designed to refashion and repurpose people and that that is not happening no its not happening at all with a little bit of time and i just want to ask for a quick jog on what advice or both of you what advice do you have for someone with the Family Member or a friend on the inside what is the best advice you can give them only about a minute left. Make your sons and daughters feel that they have not left home we can do this not by making that expensive phone call in this little book we are showing you i am showing you how to write letters these letters contain the everything that i was doing every day in toll of the people who had passed in sudan in the occurrence in a community you want the child your child to not feel abandoned you want your child to feel whole when they return and reach into society so they need to enter their communities. Knowing what has happened during the time they have been away tyrrell and have a thought i dont think i can improve on that i have been told her i was worried about income so i further comment on the day that was truly incredible that has everyone who can find this book a bunch of noble and amazon that you most definitely love are you thinking of you dont forget to pray letters to most of the prison jack love just george through thank you so much for coming on today things are really so much for having me think. The phrase Better Living through science isnt just a jungle and it could be a reality for those suffering from severe depression researchers at the university of california San Francisco were treating a forty four for a woman with her for epilepsy by placing hundreds of these sesame seed science electrodes in the outer layers of her brain first they looked for the signs of seizures but they noticed the possibility to learn more and with the patients permission the perfect purposely set off electrical earthquakes in different parts of her brain and while most did nothing when they is that the area of the brain right behind her eyes the world opened up the pace and said she felt calmer lighter and had more energy and when the experiment was repeated on other patients it was the same they felt positive and alive what all this means is that a non pharmacological answer to treating severe depression is much closer than we think it also means that science is discovering that while depression is intrinsically linked to emotion emotions are intrinsically linked to our brains heres to using our brains to help us better work with our own brains there are true alright that is our show for you to very well remember in those worlds we are told that we are loved and loved so as tell you all i love i am a robot im top of the wall if you are watching those hawks out there remember great day and night. 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