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post only what really matters. to your facebook you st. but. what's happening guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so it's pretty clear at this point the age of privacy has gone the way of the dodo bird but at least there's one area where people still feel secure with their doctors when i can kiss that notion goodbye as well so a new report from bloomberg business week outlines a questionable new practice being employed by carolina's health care system a health care provider that operates over nine hundred medical centers across north and south carolina turns out the hospital chain is actually mine mean a credit card information of two million patients in order to predict one that will get sick and get this the providers even using patient purchase information to have doctors preemptively intervene in their lives now carolina's health care is defending the practice by saying this type of data collection allows doctors to get

a fuller picture of their patients there by decreasing readmittance rates but conspicuously the company won't disclose the provider of the data now thankfully the affordable care act outlaws the use of personal data to lower or raise insurance rates but that isn't stopping other health care providers from using big data to bolster their bottom lines take the university of pittsburgh medical center for example the health care providers information the vision and i'm sorry insurance division is using demographic data to zero in on those who make less. fifty thousand dollars a year because poor people tend to go to the emergency room or listen i am all for preventative health care but invading every aspect of people's private lives sure as hell ain't the way to go about it as assistant director of health care ethics at santa clara university puts it if the physician already has the information the relationship changes from an exchange of information to a potential inquisition about behavior indeed for the for profit health care system

firmly in place the last thing we need are insurance predators itching to exploit the last bastions of privacy we have and it's great to set. the look leave the earth they don't leave very hard to take that leap into the air. that you ever had sex with that hurt there are those. that believe. such was. the little the little the at least.

the way. under the freedom of information act or for it's the right of every us citizen the file requests and every year the u.s. government receives thousands of inquiries for the declassification of documents now even though obama declared that his administration would be the most transparent in history according to a study by the associated press the administration's denial of requests has actually gotten worse over obama's presidency in fact last year saw a twenty two percent increase in national security exemptions from the previous year now many of these requests are for relatively recent documents but documents dating back decades on the statute of limitations for new classification every year millions of documents are automatically released to the public when they reach twenty five years old unless an agency's six an exemption for secrecy the twenty five year rule has helped the story as clarify moments in american history ranging from the vietnam war to the cuban missile crisis but even with over

a billion pages released by the government to date many of these historic records are still shrouded from public view now theoretically any american citizen can file a formal request to access this information including government officials which is a. actually what one former cia agent did his name is jeffrey scott or former cia officer with the agency's historical collections division and his job was to convert documents into searchable digital files back in two thousand and seven he stumbled upon thousands of articles that were listed as public but were not actually searchable within the national archives that related to world war two when cold war era intelligence and espionage not doing only his job scott or attempted to have the documents released by the cia only to be blocked by the oversight review board so he did what any american has the legal right to do he filed for you except what he did is set up a chain of events that would completely ruin his career going to great miller of the washington post scott or was confronted by supervisors and accused of

mishandling classified information while assembling his foyer his house then raided by the f.b.i. as families computers seized that his home was raided for simply filing a four year even though the investigation didn't lead to a single criminal charge scudder had his job and security clearance strict he was forced to retire to not lose his pension and i would happen to scudder's becoming an increasingly familiar story given the government's ramped up one whistleblowers are really here's the takeaway this is what happens when you try to call it abuse within the proper channels of government so the next time you hear people criticizing edward snowden for not working within the system tell them to take heed of scudder's tale. because rather than being rewarded for trying to improve the system you'll be crushed by it instead of.

internet change the world and profoundly impacted the human experience and now that we're all well into the age of online communication for rights to the future of a free and open internet abound take for example the ruling by the european court earlier this year granting a so-called right to be forgotten within days of the ruling google has already scrubbed countless links from search results among them a b.b.c. article about the ousting of a former merrill lynch c.e.o. stan o'neal two thousand and seven a critical piece of reporting perceiving the global financial meltdown google removing his article from it and has sparked criticism that the right to be forgotten is actually an open invitation to rewrite history and censor the internet on behalf the powerful i mean to talk a little bit more about the larger implications of this ruling on the biggest threats facing a free and open internet internet user producer and well probable oh i love. that man so let's start really quickly talking about this ruling what wire precedent do

you think this sets i think like you said i mean it encourages the sort of white washing of history the sort of rewriting of history encourages censorship and even though that this merrill lynch story this article that was kind of scrubbed by a google search you can't search on google you can still search on other websites what we need to look at is the fact that this isn't an isolated incident like you mentioned in the days following that really there were thousands of requests to have articles individual profiles kind of scrubbed and not being searchable so this is this is something that a lot of people are wanting a lot of individuals are or seeking to do and this really is kind of a result of that so there are negative implications like you said right now but moving down the road the longer this goes we're going to i think continue to see even more negative implications of it right. and unfortunately everyone who had is remotely in the public view has her horrible things about them on line i could attest to that but the thing is only the rich and powerful can really take the initiative to scrub their history and rewrite it so you know i don't have the means to really scrub all all the negative things about me on line so it just once again

kind of that two tiered justice system essentially and this and this ruling pew research center's recently identified four kind of standing threats to a free open internet i want to go over the first one which is just a nation states clamping down on an open internet many right no this is this is pretty comprehensive they did a study of fourteen hundred different experts and kind of what they saw as being the biggest threats like you said the nation state control and when we think about that i think the first thing that comes to mind is kind of the attack on free speech that this has and good examples of that would be like egypt pakistan syria countries turkey exactly where one day you have an internet kind of a mobilization of an uprising next day the internet suddenly gone and this this is happening this isn't isolated just in the middle east it's happening everywhere were were countries governments are taking kind of the reins of you know what's on the i don't know what you can see what you can see we've heard of the great firewall of china we know that bloggers are having to register with the with the russian government another kind of big study that i was looking into was won by the

open net initiative where twenty five countries they looked at a ton of countries and twenty five countries have almost total control of what you can see and can't see on the internet in another report of the u.k. where one in five websites are filtered where you. whether it be pornography or whether it be kind of educational material it's almost arbitrary but twenty percent one in five websites by this i speak called talk talk so this is very prevalent and it's something that we should take notice of and realizing that there is a sort of attack on the on the freedom of there absolutely is that whether just be they are right banning of social media or or the registration process or the firewalls another major threat happening right now of course is the government surveillance and the corporate. and those two forces working conjunction with each other right i mean the surveillance aspect of it has a sort of chilling effect when we when we go online and we before we didn't think that we were being watched not even being watched but just the thought of being all of our information over private communications being catalogued it sends

a chilling effect and we have we change our behavior as a result we we change our habits and i think that the longer that this goes on it's going to have a long a perfect example when we found out about the n.s.a. leaks we saw corporations we saw governments kind of change the way that that they operate within the realm of the online world and we're going to continue to see these restrictions being being placed on the internet than a lot of them like i said are kind of arbitrary restrictions and they're they're hurting us and they're hurting the people that are putting the restriction the strictures in the first place anyway and then know exactly where you hit on the head when you say that people act differently when they know that cameras on them you would act differently and right now because they're on t.v. and we act differently online when we know that we're being searched and when we're being exploited all of our pride information from engines like google facebook data mining our messages etc obviously this dovetails into the thread on net neutrality and the corporatization commercial commercialization of the internet talk about that right i mean i think that this is probably the most the biggest threat is the

continued corporatization of the internet because it goes back to the net neutrality debate it goes back to the argument whether or not information should be free and copyrights patents these are all things that are being fought for online aggressive lawsuits are being fought online over over over patents and copyright and whether or not data storage and communications are products of that that this consolidation from the already the sixth corporate conglomerates that are now consulting with make it foreseen you know netflix in the pain google taking over you tube and all of these different investigations encourages the sort of online surveillance corporate surveillance where where your online profile your digital habits your behavior online is catalogued and then sold to the highest bidder and so on and on the end of feeds a vicious. as someone you and i have grown up in a generation where we've seen the internet take off and it's changed to we aren't really gave us a chance to flourish as individuals and i just feel like with privacy gone and now this kind of takeover i don't know what the future of the internet's going to be manny thank you so much for coming on breaking it down man will rob lowe b.t.s.

producer. and i will talk about why there's over forty five thousand swat team raids every year in the u.s. stay tuned. it just like. they would like to do it's just that you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy trek albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked why handful of transnational corporations they will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once still just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and

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imagine the following scenario you're happily sound asleep in your bed dreaming of sugar plums and fairies your significant other sleeping soundly curled up next to you your children deep asleep under blankets in your dog an arrest in powell fur at the foot of the bed suddenly there's a deafening explosion followed by thunderous noise that startles your entire family more explosions smoke completely traumatised you leap up to find your entire family being stared down by about twenty paramilitary troops point the barrels of semi-automatic rifles and sixteen's squarely in the faces of those who hold most dear then your home is violently ransacked as you and your loved ones that they're shaking uncontrollably if you object in any way to what's happening in your tear gassed handcuffed and be no i didn't just describe

a night raid in iraq i'm talking about the swat team raids that happen on average one hundred forty six times every single day in homes across the u.s. according to a recently released a.c.l.u. report that equates to a whopping forty five thousand swat raids every year not just for context back in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. militarized police units were only deployed about three thousand times a year so how do we get to this point in the one nine hundred sixty s. the los angeles police department former special weapons and tactics or swat units in order to better handle situations involving gunmen hostages or risks of deadly violence now swat units have spread nationwide further militarizing local police forces see in addition to being given access to military equipment like armored tanks and fortified weaponry police officers are also being trained as if they're just an extension of the military right before the. occupy oakland crackdown the

open police department was trained next to the israeli military an army of the brittle gulf state of plain comforting thought and these methods have had devastating results specifically when it comes to terrorizing the communities these officers are allegedly there protect because when a department has the equipment and the manpower chances are it will use them even in the most unnecessary of situations they still use in-depth investigation looked at eight hundred deployments of swat teams across twenty different local state and federal police agencies over the course of two thousand and eleven to two thousand and twelve among its findings sixty two percent of the raids were conducted to search for drugs eighty percent happen in order to serve a search warrant let me repeat that an insane eight and ten swat raids were done only to investigate someone who is suspected of committing a crime or no hostages or active shooters in fact only seven percent of cases actually involved anything that could be categorized as such thirty six percent of

the raids resulted in zero contraband being found but according to the a.c.l.u. incomplete police reports could point that figure to as high as sixty five percent . but of course all of this disproportionately affects minorities and poor communities lastly over half of swat raids includes to violent forced entry by way of battering rams and explosive devices like flash bang grenades now these grenades are no joke as the mother of baby bobo will tell you in an editorial for so long a phone savant writes about how a swat team raided her home and searched for drugs but they thought her husband's nephew had there were none but that was only found out after officers broke down her front door and threw a flash bang grenade in her baby son's crib blowing a hole in his chest miraculously he survived but remains in the hospital with the probability of severe brain damage she writes the only silver line. i can possibly

see is that my baby bobo story might make us angry enough that we stop accepting brutal swat raids as a normal way to fight the war on drugs now ironically swat tactics that were initially created to keep the peace are now the ones actually creating violence where there were none before but unfortunately this report only represents a sliver of the militarisation problem considering animals half of the police agencies a.c.l.u. filed public records requests with denied them a court of a.c.l.u. data collected and reported in the context of swat was at best sporadic and at worst virtually nonexistent so one can assume that the problem is perhaps even more dire than this report makes crystal clear but law enforcement reluctance to provide the public information starts to make more sense when you realize that some swat units actually believe their private corporations a million of them open records laws so what do we do what go to you still use website to contact your local reps and local law enforcement to voice your

opposition to this encroaching police state and we need to demand no more tanks am wraps em sixteen's and paramilitary troops terrorizing families over nonviolent crimes crimes like drug use because once you blend the insanity of the war on terror with the war on drugs becomes a war on everything. the last week has seen tensions between israeli and palestinian forces reach a breaking point after three israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered in the west bank last month a palestinian teen was burned alive in alleged revenge killing since then israel's called up forty thousand rivers or i'm sorry reserve forces and today the israeli military bombed at least fifty sites across gaza killing at least sixteen people as of this broadcast and injuring more than one hundred and what's being. called

operation protective which according to government officials the strikes are in response to arm the fractions and gaza firing rockets into southern israel although no deaths have yet been reported as a result of these attacks so you get a better picture of what's happening on the ground as well as the larger implications of the current violence i was joined earlier from jerusalem by me go p. lead the son of a former i.d.f. general grandson of one of israel's founding fathers and author of the book the general's son i started by asking me going to give us an update on the last few days. ever since this this case of these three men that were that were kidnapped. came out these are the army has been has been marching up and down the west bank like roman legions destroying absolutely everything on their path destroying homes arresting people beating people killing people. the situation outside of the west bank in the rest of the country in palestinian communities is very frightening

palestinians are afraid to walk in the streets afraid to go to work they're afraid to go to the stores and talk about palestinians inside israel israel the israeli citizens because there's this insane atmosphere of hatred and that is being fomented from the top of course. and they're using as they always do this as as an excuse to to attack war and in terms of their own thinking they're gaining political points i think you know what it's going to be how it's going to show the next time they go to the polls and i want to read to retreat from israeli prime minister netanyahu from about a rico partially quoting a home by an israeli poet in the aftermath of the death of a very israeli teen vengeance for the plot of a small child the satan has not yet created either as vengeance for the blood of three periods who are on their way home or the parents will not see them anymore hamas is responsible hamas will pay. the sort of inflammatory rhetoric on behalf of government officials are fueling the attacks against palestinians we're seeing now . oh absolutely first of all that cynical good thing the out to use that because he

is responsible for the death and of so many children you know every it's interesting everybody is shocked by this particular death of this boy who was kidnapped and burned by you know the people who did this you know i don't know what do they think happens when israel jobs evolves from the air on civilians they burn children and kill them all the time. it's interesting that some of the press in the world has taken an interest in this but in this particular thing is though it's unique and it's and you know thought to apologize for this and so forth he is respond. he and his generals are responsible for so many dead children and burned civilians and so much destruction. you know it's cynical it's sad it's tragic. and i think it's important to realize that israel is giving the palestinians only two options to surrender completely or to resist and all this lead resistance is is what they're doing right now it is very tragic it's

horrifying it is amazing how the western media is finally paying attention when it's an american teen who was beaten but even then you see all the framing is alleged being a parent beating i mean we have video of the beating and i don't know why it's alleged or apparent mico and let's move on to the idea facebook page calling for genocide on a lot of comments i wanted to read it tweeted out screen shot by journalist ron your colic basically invoking genocide of native americans as a model someone aims to find miller says no more peace no more releasing terrorists no more taking prisoners kill them all or like more than one hundred times either people do you think this sort of commentary is an aberration or indicative of a larger sentiment and how do you think the media would be treating these kinds of threads if they were palestinians writing about israel and its. you know yesterday i went to to see the parents and visit the grave of an at the new water who was killed just just before i like i was on your show last time on the fifteenth of may

is one of the two youths who was killed and then afterwards we went to the family's home and there were people there talking and the discussion was very you know very casual very natural but all about seeking justice and finding the soldiers are taking him to court and the fact that this this particular case the murder of that particular child that. does not mean that all these others are bad does not mean that all jews are bad does not mean that they hate all these are these are all jews this was the sentiment this is a discussion everybody reaves home they visit of palestinians. and here in israel i think it has to do with the basic ideology that framed israel the basic ideology upon which upon which israel was established which is a racist colonialists. ideology which is what zionism is and it calls for the replacement of the native population with jews and so we have to remember that the state of israel was established after a horrendous act of terrorism in which more than half of the population of

palestine was forced out and half of the cities and towns were destroyed so this is this was the very beginning of the state of israel and what is happening today is just a continuation of that there's really not much difference. and periodic lee we see these outbursts of of racism and violence peek a little bit more than than other than than other times right it seems like it's framed over events the cycle of violence without getting to the root of how why this is happening neither let's move on your own experiences on the ground last friday you were protesting in the town of o. the land you were arrested why are you there and what circumstances surrounding your arrest believing is become the mecca of the nonviolent resistance the popular resistance in palestine came out of believing it's a small town. maybe half an hour drive from jerusalem a small village actually it's not it's not it's a village and the people began this nonviolent popular resistance and they're mad

with the with horrendous violence by the israeli military arrests beatings and so forth the the protests take place every friday and whenever i'm here i join them they're good friends of mine and i support them completely. and so we walk all the way up to where they built the wall there on the on the lands of what used to be the lines of believing there is now a city a city that was built for jews only it's called medina elites and so they walk up to the to the wall which was built right there on their land then protest and so the israeli army stands up at the top of the wall. shoots. tear gas and shocker unaids at the crowd and then at one point they open this big gate in the wall and they come in with their armored vehicles and they're soldiers dressed with riot gear and full combat you in full combat gear i don't know why because there is no riots going on and there's no combat there's just civilians with

a few flags and you know some students who come and the local palestinians. and when they began shooting they've got these little grenade launchers just not little bigger than a launchers on the vehicles and they start shooting them into the crowd the crowd begins to run away of course and they keep shooting and i stood there by the officer in charge and i didn't move away i stood there and i talked to him and i tried to talk to him and i to tell him that this was illegal and that he's shooting into and into an unarmed crowd and one day he's going to have to explain this in court and which time he turned to me started pushing me and and proceeded to arrest me and i spent the next ten hours with with these soldiers and police and being interrogated and questioned and so forth how would you recommend as someone who was you know your family was intimately involved in the foundation of his or your father and i do have general what do you suggest israeli government do when hamas is saying that they will fire more rockets into israel that they claim on the potential to reach tel aviv. if they don't like the rockets that can lift the siege

on gaza and allow the palestinian fiji's to go back to their homes. furthermore they can release all the palestinian prisoners unconditionally and call for free and fair elections one person one vote for everyone who lives in this country and cancel the apartheid regime in other words topple the apartheid regime this is what needs to happen and it needs to happen immediately and until it happens the world needs to boycott this place safe and impose sanctions on israel thank you so much make up the lead appreciate it. german tomorrow when i break the set all over again . i marinate join me. for in-depth impartial and financial reporting commentary

interview and much much. only on bombast and only on. that i suspect. they would like to do it's job did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned because that you. think that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy which threaten all books. will. never go on i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the nature of what's actually going going on the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try rational debate a real discussion critical issues facing our family member ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. go on tom hartman in washington d.c.

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