Which ones were more important than which ones had a greater role to play and which ones have been most helpful in remembering the holocaust again and in some levels the idea of you know im not coming if i dont get to speak is almost childish well that is your news update ill be back at the top of the out with a roundup of the headlines see that. Greetings and sell you taishan. Welcome to 2020 hawk watchers i hope i hope you all had a beautiful fun safe new years celebration with your favorite Family Friends and your pets i have missed you will admit ive missed you all so what so lets ask ourselves now though what has been happening since we last saw each other well it appears that just a few days before we were drinking champagne and kissing strangers in times square the wheelers and dealers inside the white house and the pentagon decided it was a good time to drop some bombs on iraq and syria once again last sunday the guardian reported that according to the pentagon the attacks were defensive strikes against the kottayam the hezbollah Militia Group which u. S. Officials said was backed by iran 2 days after a u. S. Civilian contractor was killed in a rocket attack on an Iraqi Military base and as physics has taught us for every action there was a reaction and in reaction to the United States air strikes killing at least 25. 00 of these militia fighters in response to the death of just one u. S. Contractor many in iraq took action and that actions was a massive 6000. 00 plus protest in front of the u. S. Embassy in iraq a protest that included a small siege on the embassy the Washington Post reported that members of the u. S. Trained Iraqi Security forces stood by as supporters of the qatari but hezbollah militia surged into the usually heavily guarded green zone breached the main Embassy Reception area and then set it on fire naturally all this led to a tweet off between u. S. President donald trump who blamed iran for the protests and embassy and the Embassy Siege and iran supplying leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who called bollocks theory tweeting out that guy has tweeted that we see iran responsible for the events in baghdad and we will respond to iran 1st you cant do anything 2nd if you were logical which youre not youd see that your crimes in iraq afghanistan have made nations hate you. Yes my friends it appears that despite our best hopes twitter will still be the diplomatic tool of the 21st century so with tensions once again rising it appears the war and conflict in the middle east may well be washingtons new years resolution as we roar into the roaring 2000 twentys and start watching the hawks. Like you that i got. To. Welcome everyone watching the hawks i am tyrone been turn joining me today by our Weekly Panel Discussion on the news of the week as the host of the world according to jess the former minnesota governor Jesse Ventura author and editor at large for salon dot com the one and only be walk ins are to america correspondent Rachel Blevins an artsy American Sports correspondent stephen christakis shows and weve got a full show for you we go from war to new years eve shootings to n. B. A. Commissioners weve got a whole lot to get to but 1st lets start with the recent protests and siege of the u. S. Embassy in iraq and i look almost immediately since the start of this the u. S. Spin machine jumped led by President Trump put all of the blame on the protests on iran and iranian backed militias in iraq lets get the big huge monstrous elephant out of the room and me ask this panel. Are what were seeing happening in iraq right now harbinger of a potential war with iran using iraq as the battlefield ill start with you jesse. Well of course it is you know you have to look at it the Congress Just appropriated 800. 00. 50000000000. 00 to the department of defense which should be called the department of off friends and theyve got to have a way to spend all that money now allegedly theyre trying to get us out of afghanistan but were a war culture now so we have to stay at war so they off the develop a new war if theres not going to be one in afghanistan now all get political for a moment defy were president i would welcome back to 850000000000. 00 did the department of defense but rather than spending about aircraft carriers and rockets and weapons of mass destruction i would go out you spend 200000000000. 00 on those machines that clean up the ocean then id spend another 50000000000 training the United States navy how to use them and we would start a war on cleaning up the ocean guess what the rest of the world might like or sergei but what are the chances of bad no of course were going to go to war again because the military Industrial Complex hastur spend that budget theyve got there spend it or lose it what you guys feel should we be fighting the war on climate or should we be fighting another war with iran do you guys see a war with iran coming down the pipe or 2021 is interesting because there are just a few months ago the top u. S. Officials like my pump a 0 d and then john bolton were all saying hey watch out iran is going to use these smaller militias to go and attack u. S. Troops and they kept warning about that even though iran was saying we dont have any plans to do this and now all of a sudden you have a one tack i stack with the smallest of the killed one you know u. S. Servicemen and now all of a sudden theyre going off in our honest saying hey we didnt do this it lines up with that narrative that they have in place and so now theyre able to say oh look at this and of course how dare these protesters come and star in this embassy and speak out in a country where the United States has invaded and has been for several years with no sign of leaving in the forseeable future goes through this with clear display of why we need the leadership. And everything its just he said just the whole idea of the military. Industrial complex wall as a new one every year and its been that way since this country began and it doesnt work for the people it doesnt see what youre thinking on this i mean well we could talk about whether this militia was in you know where they were on the inner just iraqi people and what whether it was justified the bomb there or not but at the end of the day like rachel said weve been there since 2003 in iraq and unjustly so eventually people are going to rise up and when the bully keeps on punching you down and kicking you are going to punch back in the mouth and i think thats what happened and the u. S. Is being a bully over there and theyre bound to get get what they have coming its interesting too because what you see happening too is remember they didnt know it was thankfully killed in the siege on the embassy was mostly just property destruction they didnt get into the actual part of the embassy where people were i mean you know so one of the interesting things to the jump out at me is the Iraqi Security forces actually let these protesters into the green zone like these are the these are the Security Forces that weve been training for over many years weve been there. And then respond then you also saw that in response to the original u. S. Airstrikes that killed these 25 iraqis they may have been in this supposedly has been iranian backed militia theres still 25 iraqis that we killed iraqis iraqs Prime MinisterAdel Abdul Mahdi stated we have previously confirmed our rejection of any unilateral action by the Coalition Forces or any other Coalition Forces or any other forces inside iraq and we consider it as a violation of iraqi sovereignty and a dangerous escalation that threatens the security of iraq in the region are we seeing in real time the United States kind of lose its control over the country that it toppled its government like we said back in 2000 to 2003 are we are they losing control of this country Jesse Tyrrell im still waiting for the day dick cheney told us we would be greeted in the streets like a liberator Im Still Holding my breath lets dick cheney out here and explain. To us why its nearly 20 years later and were still not being looked at by the liberators you know when your country goes out and they wage war simply for regime change years this is the blowback you went up with so everything thats happening now is the result of the misguided law war the iraq war was and thats all they do now is live to get us into war now weve learned afghanistans been a big live from start to finish where the people going to wake up to these lies and finally say no to the wars i dont think dick cheney has ever been greeted anyway every. Detainee has the greed in his own country let alone somebody elses of it kind of mix. And i know weve removed but we consume easy on the bush administration. Trouble comes in this is goofy and out of control and we kind of for get like those years if you want to talk about him and how much damage was wrought they want to imagine being a citizen in iraq you know you had the United States come in way to this war and all this and it starts coming out that this weapons of mass destruction claim was all a big lie and yet theyre still there theres no accountability for any United States basically says hey guess what were camping out here and if you try to do anything about it were just going to come in launch more airstrikes in this country where we arent even supposed to be in the 1st place i mean that has got to be incredibly frustrating point then i think you know we use the narrative as that isis is our biggest threat and there are these big scary boogie men over there but i would if i heard correctly this militia was fighting leading the fight against isis as well and were bombing the militia that is leading the fight against our biggest threat thats not very i dont know if they actually were they were what i will be. Ok lets throw in there to there would be are you serious if we hadnt invaded iraq in the 1st place did not exist until we invaded iraq there are the leftover of saddams regime that we didnt pay or keep on the payroll when we got there they went up north reformed themselves so our use of suits our frankensteins it always has but its very interesting to like in response to the protests and the burning of the guard stand at the embassy President Trump and all of his glory treated iran will be held responsible for lives lost or damage incurred as any of our pows sylvies they will pay out of very big price this is not a warning it is a threat happy new year should the year. Literally under the tree would have prevented this. So the us president or any other elected representative or official from the United States is very serious be threatening nations or nations people or anyone whatsoever on social media savvy allowed at this point know why oh my now is in the zone and it. Was the element of surprise my point are you 2 years old come on a man like you is a contrived think that you know enough and is i think the president should be kicked off its what it yes im surprised because you know we live in a day and age where white trampolines becomes Headline News as a result of the Mainstream Media take that they carry this narrative write all this and they say well the president claims that iran was behind these attacks so now we have to go forward and spread that claim and spread that claimants one of those things where honestly they werent behind them so its a lie that spread enough times and eventually becomes the truth and regular americans sitting at home are watching this on fox news or c. N. N. And the like well they said iran is after us and theyre killing our soldiers so now we have to go after them good point good point just going to say oh but he. Just his job but i am. Allowed last lets rip. Member this is the twitter of a draft dodging power when it was time for this guy there serve what did he do he paid big money and got out of that thats why you said tough guy because he himself never would ever fight himself he told your colt and let you fight tough guy on twitter but not in real life its not exactly what i say just a example of a bully who should not be a leader in any way shape or form at all because like i said earlier when you if you eventually are a big rival youre going to get hit back in the mouth and he its just a bunch of empty threats it is it is and that 3 is the danger i see in that kind of thing its like look i dont i have im fine with you want to talk policy on twitter you want to tweet out what your ideas are for the country want to have that communication with your base directly and not have to go through the media fine you can do all that but we dont need to turn twitter into like a 16 year old war that i see in high school between countries i mean see and then they all run as leader fire back at Donald Donald but i get that im tired of it i dont want to see it anymore and i honestly dont like a lot of people who go to the social media his tweets manner yeah i dont know i dont think were going to get mad and they have this viral implication and until until we get a president who doesnt own a cell phone or doesnt is not on social media i dont think were going to see that end anytime soon all right were going to move on as we go to break card watchers dont forget to let us know when you think of the topics weve covered on our social media be sure to check out watchdogs the podcast which is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you listen to your favorite amounts of paper podcasts coming up the panel thats discuss the violent start to the 2020 here in the United States and then finally weve joined the land of basketball and look into the legacy of be a commissioner david stern and stay tuned to walk to. 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On january 1st while most of us were waking up with a hangover and some vague memories of what was or glitter champagne or beer and pizza some of us were not so lucky some of us waking up with a loved one in the hospital or even worse the morgue thanks to a friend stranger or loved one who misused or on purpose used a gun to inflict hurt in fact the New York Times reported that in just the city of st louis by new years morning the police were investigating 10 shootings including 5 deaths across that city the times went on to highlight the during the 48 hours of new years celebrations a man in cleveland firing off a gun to celebrate accidentally killed his girlfriend in florida 2 men were killed in the shooting inside a nightclub. And in baltimore which closed 2019 with the citys 2nd highest number of homicides on record the police were investigating 2 killings that happened a few hours before midnight and these were just a few examples of multiple shootings and killings that took place across the country just in time to welcome the new year so as we start this new decade with what appears to be no end in sight to gun related violence i asked this panel what would you like to see over the next decade take place when it comes to curbing gun violence start with the panel that rachel. Why i think its one of those things that is going to take a cultural shift and you know we look at places where theyve there are some cities where theyve tried to enact gun control and theyre trying to enact different one simply hasnt worked you know specifically when you look at chicago and there are other places where its just a cultural thing and theres going to be a number of ways in answers that work for different cities and i think that whenever you look at these places you have to look at how well the police are dealing with this when there have been dealing with and all whether theyre just looking at it and letting it go by and not really whether theyre spending more time you know sending their swat teams to these huge marijuana bust than they are looking at these different homicides and i think thats something that were going to have to tackle over the next decade most of all and most of it i just see what do you see what can actually curb gun violence in your mind as i know youre a big 2nd amendment advocate. Well heres the deal look at it you know lets take a look at mexico for a moment mexico practices strict gun control theres big signs at the border you cant bring in a weapon you cant even carry ammunition or you go straight to mexican prison you dont even get 200 bucks for cash and go but the point being is that the point being is that they practice strict gun control its the old cliches the good people dont have them the bad people do because how many people died of gun violence in mexico now clearly we need to do better background checks people that are on Drugs Pharmaceutical drugs and mental drug should not have access to weapons and guns we need to would do a better job of that but it could start with our own government our own government setting the stage for us we are the larger seller of weapons throughout the world today whats the difference between a gun death or a rocket death somewhere else both of them kill women and children in the end and our government should take the example by getting off their high horse of being the largest arms dealer. In the world then talk to be about my god. I live in baltimore from baltimore this has been one of the most. Ever closing with 349 murders. You know understand every argument for the 2nd amendment i get it its just hasnt been working