not only survive but the flourish and you will not have an educated public without proper teachers which is why lately here in the united states the hubris of american exceptionalism doesn't begin to fade when you enter its education systems this week in oklahoma more than thirty thousand educators staged a walkout in protest of the state's low education funding and even lower public school teacher salaries and the statistics back up these these teachers according to the national education association oklahoma ranked forty seventh among all fifty states in per student expenditures and forty eighth an average teacher salaries and twenty sixteen this comes just a month after teachers in west virginia successfully fought their state legislators for a five percent pay raise after staging weeks of massive strikes with the skyrocketing cost of living in the soul crushing income bludgeoning student loans scam that's gripping the throat of modern education in the us it should come as no surprise

that training for and becoming a teacher in the united states has not been a high priority over the last few years causing a shortage of eligible teachers in all fifty states of the union so as the teachers in oklahoma try and teach the first amendment basic basic math and civic duty to state politicians let us crack the books and start watching the hawks. if. you. like that i get. that. we. are. and watching the hawks i am

a robot and i'm to have the full senate looks like we have a really interesting situation now when you look at the top and bottom. earners in the teachers' salaries was interesting we had done a poll on our twitter at the washington it's twitter page and you know out of we asked you know what people thought like what was your impression do you think that u.s. teachers made more or less than those and developing nations and you know you know even out of you know a poll the first twenty people eighty one percent said no they make was like a good sort of common knowledge the top five highest paid median salaries for teachers are new york was seventy nine thousand california van with seventy eight thousand massachusetts seventy seven d.c. seventy six and connecticut seventy two obviously some specific places in the world that we kind of look at that but then on the inverse we sort of look at now what are the bottom five lowest paid places for teachers and you look at colorado forty

six thousand dollars a year that's median of not a starting salary west virginia forty five oklahoma city starts about forty five thousand mississippi and south dakota and a lot of people say are we only have to work months out of the year but you have to remember that these teachers are often supplementing school supplies supplementing things to do their jobs out of their own pocket really great point in fact one of the protesting teachers in oklahoma ray loveless a single mom third grade teacher third grade in a limo but she she stated if i didn't have a child by. food stamps you know you don't want to i don't want to see teachers on food stamps terrible priority urgent action to have you've told me over the years many times that teachers played an important role in your life. or all our lives i mean one of the reasons you're so good on this show was the fact that you had a history teacher american history teacher took the time to teach you real history when you're right and public school in public she was. and out of our own like did

a lot of things that are on time brought him books out of you know out of her pocket and and gave that understanding to her students where this where the school or the school system or the school district wasn't equipped to financially handle that burden i always knew teachers that dead did bring up that they are we all sort of work together and hoping to keep our teachers there and there was an appreciation also you know where i come from you know in the midwest and we're all environments being a teacher is a very like that that's up there with one of those like top three you're off some person no matter what if you become a teacher because we need them seems where they're not i think big and that's awesome because they know that you have to put up with a bunch of kids all day and raise how as you know in certain situations and i mean whether they be little kids are teenagers you know a teacher's job is not just the fun of seeing a child learn you know in terms of also has to follow a bunch of other things and tragically in today's day and age they also have to dodge bullets right we can't forget about that aspect too and to me it's like that

is the most one of the bed rugs. i think of civilization. is education be a proper culture about education and we're seeing teachers leave the workforce now in a in an amazing way simply because we look according to a sixty report by a nonprofit learning policy institute in the u.s. between two thousand and twenty fourteen teacher education roman saw thirty five percent drop those people getting trained to be teachers thirty five percent drop from six hundred thousand almost seven thousand to four hundred fifty thousand that massive shortages that we got to watch out nearly eight percent of the teaching workforce leaves every year but the majority before the retirement age oh yeah that's incredible and if we lose our teachers then what we got to rely on facebook to teach your kids right from wrong. probably not going to work out so well no i think there's an interesting because when you look at you know we got so caught up i think of the last two decade. about you know did testing and there's this idea

that you know if we can get them to test the right way then everything will be fine and then we get these scores up and we get more budgets and nobody really thought about encouraging people to become teachers and also with student loans the way they are it's. making you know an average median salary of you know fifty sixty thousand dollars a year when you have one hundred thousand or you know close to it and soon loan debt from becoming a teacher this is one of those jobs that we should subsidize as a country to me it just seems silly no one should have to pay to be educated to be a teacher that should just be given. certain that serve their country well yeah you're serving the youth and future of your country without without without your kids being smart the country falls so you know yes teacher unions things like that everyone can be greedy so beings obviously need to be negotiated but let's not shortchange the teachers especially the public school teachers and the good work that they do. with health care costs guy rocketing and big pharma licking its chops

three u.s. senators are bucking the trend and putting pressure on one pharmaceutical company after the price on its cancer drug was raised fourteen fold and los angeles r.t. correspondent joshua sweet has more. of the cancer drug lomas team designed to treat brain tumors and hodgkin's lymphoma is nearly a gram per pill so now three senators are probing the pharmaceutical company hoping to better understand the factors behind the rising cost of the drug the miss teen was first approved by the federal drug administration in one thousand nine hundred seventy six burstall myers squibb sold the company to next source in two thousand and thirteen and since it's been sold the prices have skyrocketed in two thousand and thirteen after the company was acquired by next source the drug was raised to seven hundred sixty eight dollars per capsule then in february the price was raised again this time twenty percent to nine hundred twenty two dollars a capsule but the cost of the highest dose before the company was sold to. next

source was only fifty dollars a capsule for the highest dose all the sparks senator susan collins of maine claire mccaskill of missouri and katherine cortez master with nevada to send in letters to the chief executive of tri source pharma the senators are asking for a better understanding of why the price hike is taking place interestingly enough there is no competition against the forty year old cancer drug now the miami based pharmaceutical company has a deadline of april sixth to provide the senators more information behind the price increase and as you may recall this isn't the first time the country has seen a drastic price hike for pharmaceuticals convicted fraudster martin scrawly who was sentenced last month was known for raising the drug prices five thousand percent when he was running turning pharmaceuticals and off angeles and hottest sweets r.t. or tab you know we've seen this story over and over again there you see and i'm kind of excited i don't know if anything will come from it i hope of well but in

provo excited i've seen senators elected officials actually standing up to the pharmaceutical companies. wow i didn't think i would see that there was they don't feel like that last the main these are ones are at it obviously the senators are ones who weren't you know they're not the ones getting six figure checks from big pharma and a lot of that has to do with lobbying i mean it's the reason you bring up the price of the drug on a retail market is so that you can get as much as you can out of medicare and medicaid and federal and state local drug programs where tax payer dollars will subsidize the cost of medication a lot of that has to do with if they raise the drug on this side it means they can sort of build more out of where they make the most of their money which is there if they can raise that it could be a little bit more expensive in their biggest market but folks are fighting back though there are so there's still there's definitely states that already have they have laws in place legislation in place that mandates that when

a drug company does raise the price of something like this that's so you know important and so critical lifesaving drugs like cancer drugs or that organ recently passed a law it was about drug this drug transparency law that they're not the i was for mont marilyn louisiana north carolina nevada have someone was what they say is that if you raise the price of this drug more than say ten percent depending where there are percentage of how much more more than one hundred dollars per thirty day supply that you have to then submit to them a reason for it and i think that's created step one but then there needs to be you know there needs to be sort of the drug police the pharmaceutical bullies are sitting there and working with their justice department in each state or a federal level to say you can't do this because ultimately what they're doing is bilking taxpayers because most of this stuff is subsidized for medicare medicaid all these other things we alternately all end up paying for pharmaceutical companies to make more profits they also hold the list for good to the whole blood

the patent on the one drug so there can come out with more desire you know generic drugs that offset the cost of you see this. over and over again what's interesting is you know one of the first states to kind of jump on board with like calling them out and saying you've got to be above board with why you're raising the price. you know they call out like fifteen drugs up to fifteen drugs annually like every year . when their wholesale price rises fifty percent or more over the previous five years or fifteen percent or more over the previous years so you see a lot like taken the lead like they're like now these are the drugs and the companies that make sure that are really trying to bilk you but again it's like trying to get that political push to do this i mean you're going to see the news because they get all the rabs from big pharma sank you know it's got to come from like within almost and politicians aren't going to be necessarily on a local level are going to be. excited to jump into this i mean sure that they'll call them out but are they really doing anything to stop it and they really could

because the truth is especially you know with things like cancer drugs things with alzheimer's drugs and eventually drugs that we've been talking about those prices are their future profits for a big pharma so watch a lobbyist for who and who's actually doing some art as we go to break across as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of topics covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are too dot com coming up journalist and author enough these are bad talks with the intelligence community's deep tentacles of social media and silicon valley for the very own sean stone stay tuned. for that coming up. we're going to pull you out of the.

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grandparents these arguments often devolve into accusations of laziness and somebody pulling. a u two compilation of generations the earth swallowing tide pods but there is a more serious answer that's occasionally thrown around and that's the willingness of newer generations to share and some say over share personal information in an increasingly digital age but in a world where we've allowed facebook and twitter to become unavoidable in our daily lives and google is the answer to anything and everything do we really understand who were sharing all this information with journalist and author enough if our mad doesn't think so and he told chance down exactly what i. mean it's a big question in first talking about two different social media platforms and one is a social media platform one is a big data platform both become very very well in compas ing in our lives but both of them have got connections to the intelligence community i would say

google has a very direct connection and i did a big exclusive in this a couple of years ago where i looked into the relationship between google's kind of find financing and elements of kind of u.s. government agencies like the pentagon and others that have been very interested in harnessing all sorts of big technologies for the purposes of must surveillance and analyzing vast volumes of data and that sort of thing and mind this to gratian uncovered that google had actually received seed funding from the cia back in the mid ninety's and this was when one of their founders brin. and also larry page they were at stanford university and they were part of this program that was called the d.d.s. the massive digital data systems program this is basically run by a number of us government agencies including the cia and the national security

agency and it was managed by a private company called the meta corporation. a well known u.s. defense contractor and this program was basically about trying to put money into potential big kind of. new innovative kind of digital technology outfits startups. innovations that will basically be of use to the pentagon in some way now this time i spoke to a source from the university of texas professor to raising she heads up the cyber security center there and at the time she said she had actually been one of the chief data scientists that meet a corporation. and she actually confirmed her and a particular cia official by the name of rick stein. had met regularly with

bryn during the one nine hundred ninety to manage their funding of some of the research that they were giving to stanford university and specifically had given to support grin in the development of various elements of their kind of search program that would go on to become kind of the core of google particularly page rank and it's quite interesting because this was corroborated by a paper that brain wrote around the same time he actually acknowledged that he had received funding from the m.d.'s which was being managed by professor to raise him at that time so it does appear very clear that there was this sort of direct involvement and this was before google was actually created google was incorporated i believe it was ninety six. so several years of this went on and rick stein highs and to raising them were meeting several times

a year and he would reports of reports of them or brief them. on the progress of his research quite regularly. and this continued all the way up to group was incorporation as we know after that. there were several kind of tranche is of funding that came in from external investors all of them were connected to in various ways very closely connected to darpa for example the defense advanced research projects agency and several other pentagon agencies they had they had ties to companies that received lots of funding from them and they had that sort of history so what's quite interesting is that that alignment with that part of the u.s. military intelligence community was was very early on in google's founding and this is not particularly unusual i mean this is quite a normal thing to see. them and so the u.s.

military intelligence community playing a very big role in all sorts of things in silicon valley that's not particularly amazing to hear i think what is interesting is how closely involved they were in google far more closely then in relation to facebook where we know facebook again there's no direct connection i would say with the cia for example that we see with google where we have some very clear documentary evidence of a direct connection of some sort with facebook it was a lot more it again in direct in the way in a similar way that we saw who having kind of neutrons of funding coming in by people who had passed over linemen to his facebook again we saw some of the early seed funding came from peter thiel for example the c.e.o. of palantir we know that peter thiel is very very closely aligned with with some of the kind of more right wing elements of the pentagon has a close relationship with parts of the military industrial complex and so on

a so forth so it's that alignment that we see again with some of the early stage funding that comes in to facebook. we see this very kind of this money which is aligned with those particular interests and that kind of makes sense because when we look at some of the documents that have been coming out over the years not only back then for example we look at the documents we have for the massive digital data systems program it's very very clear talks very clearly about. analyzing vast amounts of data. kind of looking at population behaviors there are concerns about counterterrorism and counted out equalization and that's often so those kinds of concerns are very very prominent in intelligence community and we see how these sorts of platforms and increasing these sorts of platforms that allow agencies to have that kind of access to a large populations kind of just makes a lot of sense of course but we're google and facebook they're obviously two very

different strategies of collecting data one google being more of an engine but they can also be invasive as they create these apps right in control of apps that have more and more information about us in our activities whereas facebook is pretty clear that if you're posting on facebook you're posting something that you're basically telling people where you are or your beliefs your thoughts are you're you're sharing things publicly so what is the danger with all you know all this section of sector of data mining if we're putting things out there that really is public information. but what we see happening now is i mean edward snowden's revelations were very very clear in confirming that these platforms have actually been penetrated by the national security agency and various other agencies in various ways. some of that some of it is through backdoor some of it is through kind of direct kind of agreements with these companies and so on and

so forth but what's very clear is that these companies like facebook and google and other big platforms have to have given this kind of open playing field for agencies to really be able to monitor in quite a fine grained way the behaviors of populations which increasingly taking place online but that has all sorts of ramifications and one of the ramifications of that . and it's important to recognize that when we participate in these platforms i mean a lot of this sounds insidious but we're participating in it through the way in which we signed these terms and agreements which basically hand our data over to these companies you can't participate in facebook without doing that you can't participate in google without doing that we kind of giving them the key to access that sort of information and what's happening is on the one hand we see that these companies have made there's a whole massive new kind of avenues opened up for profiteering and this is

a pure kind of very rational move by these drive corporations to say well let's let's use this amazing new arena that's opened up with data and use it to make money and that's what we're seeing happening on the one hand where all of this private data that we're putting out there through and through our use of these platforms is being monetized by these platforms in order to just make profit so they take this data and they sell it they can monetize it they sell it to anybody that wants it and they say i mean this phrase that's been going around you know data is the new all people are saying is true data has now become this massively important thing for companies everywhere for them to market the products that they're creating to the right audience so that's one thing the other thing of course is what happens when these platforms have these abilities because of their massive reach into our lives what happens when they have the abilities to influence . the way we think the way we do things the way we organize things and sometimes

it's very subtle we look at the way in which social media is designed and we can see that there are these subtle dynamics to the current designs which tend to be conducive to very very. what i would say on conducive conversations you know the social media at the moment is designed to create pro the rise ation it creates these bubbles of conversation people who communicate very well become very antagonistic but at the same time it allows these big agencies to keep tabs on who is same what who is you know who is using different types of keywords and to do lots of detailed analysis of what they think people might do in the future so that's where it begins to get quite worrying when we look at the kind of pre-crime elements of u.s. counterterrorism and british counterterrorism in particular where we're looking at the way in which they're trying to talk about the national security strategy and

their fears about political radicalization and how this can lead to terrorism and when they're coming up with their models to try and understand how this process works and a lot of the times as models are very very flawed i did some reporting for the guardian which looked at some stuff that was coming out of this thing called the minerva research program as a pentagon. research program where they were working with public universities to basically use academia to kind of like supplement what the pentagon was doing and out of that there were some really interesting facts that emerged a lot to do with the way they were trying to bring academics on to more to offer them how they can understand the process of political radicalization and what was really alarming about that was the political radicalization was really broadly defined so anybody hugh asked questions about government for example who was critical. of of foreign policy or who for example was engaged in activism such as

protesting against say a power plant or something like that you had these very kind of simple examples of things that most of us would consider to be really important to democracy and civil society were actually being viewed by the pentagon as these signals but potential radicalization and they were saying that these weren't necessarily extremists but what they were saying was that they need to they need some one of these types of activism in order to detect how they would then lead to this in a conveyor belt style to more extreme forms of activity for instance but what was really dangerous about this was there was a real risk of demonising and criminalising perfectly normal and as you are what i would say quite healthy forms of dissent are absolutely essential to any vibrant democracy. and that lives as well as our show for you today remember in this world

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at least three people are injured in a shooting at the headquarters of you tube in california police say the female shooter has taken her own life. but the scientists say that they are unable to pinpoint the source of the nerve agent used in the poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter. we know they had a fight the precise source but we provided the scientific information to the government that is despite the u.k. and its allies squarely blaming russia resulting in weeks along a political standoff and a diplomatic expulsion. what did amazes me how from since ninety russia hysteria has come about coolest good morals are going to the c.w. meetings to get the french straight on this whole situation.