beijing weeks of massive strikes. with the skyrocketing cost of living in the soul crushing income bludgeoning the student loan 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. want to. get the. real thing. as a part of. what it's like you know that i got. this.

week so. ok we're going to watch the hawks i am a robot and i'm traffic along the senate looks like we have a really interesting situation now when you look at the top and bottom. earners and the teacher salaries was interesting we had done of color on our twitter at the washing out twitter page and you know out of it we asked you know what people thought like what was your impression do you think that us 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 class like you did 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 that not a starting salary west virginia forty five oklahoma as we start about forty five thousand mississippi and south dakota and a lot of people say we only have to work nine 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 so really great point in fact one of the protesting teachers in the oklahoma ray loveless a single mom of a third grade teacher third grade in olympic gold and she she stated if i didn't have a child by the boob stamps 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. 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 at it and public school in public she did it out of her own like did a lot of things on time brought him books out of you know out of the her pocket and and gave that understanding to her students where the square 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 breaking up or 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. that's up there with one of those like top three you're awesome person no matter what if you become a teacher because we need a scenes 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 you know in certain situations i mean whether they be little kids are teenagers you know a teacher's job is not just the form of

a. being a child learn you know in terms of debt also has to fall in the bunch of other things and tragically in today's day and age they also have to dodge bullets you're 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 said earlier i think of civilization if you're not of 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 us between two thousand and one and two thousand and fourteen teacher education roman saw thirty five percent drop as people getting trained to be teachers thirty five percent drop from six hundred thousand almost seven thousand to four hundred fifty thousand but that sudden massive shortages that we've 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 you know i think there's an interesting because when you look at you know we got so caught up i think of the last few decades 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 learned that from becoming a teacher or this is one of those jobs that we should subsidize as a country to me it just seems silly now when you have to pay to be educated to be a teacher that's just the government that's a brilliant study that service i'm sorry 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 the go. but let's not shortchange the teachers especially the public school teachers and the good work 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. the cancer drug lomas 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 a letter 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 scrolly who was sentenced last month was known for raising the drug prices five thousand percent when he was running turning pharmaceuticals in off angeles and hottest sweets artsy

. boy tabular we've seen this story over and over again there you see it and i'm kind of excited i don't know if anything will come from it i hope of well but of grover excited i'm seeing some of those elected officials are actually starting to go 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 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 built 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 that's there's a state 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 but they're not the i was for mont marilyn the louisiana north carolina nevada how someone was what they say is that if you raise the price of this drug more than say ten percent depending on where there are a 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 great at 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. yes your medicare medicaid and all

these other things we alternately all end up paying for pharmaceutical companies to make more profits and then they also hold to you know let's not forget too that then they'll hold like the patent on the one drug so there can come out with the desire you know generic drugs that offset that cost and you see this over and over again what is 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 and usually 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 year or so you see of 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 it in the news because they get all their ads from big pharma sank you know it's got to come from within almost and politicians aren't going to be necessarily on

a local level are going to be. excited to jump into that something 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 big pharma so watch who lobbies for who and who's actually doing some art as we go to get across as we go to break our bloggers don't forget to let us know what your pick of topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are three dot com coming up journals that offered up these on their talks with the intelligence communities deep tentacles of social media in silicon valley for the very old stone stay tuned.

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be. the two going to be press to supply them before three of them or can people go. i'm interested always in the lines about how. question. whether it be in sociology seminars or around thanksgiving tables few topics of conversation are as common as a debate over generational differences are in other words how today's youth is just plain old horrible compared to their successful parents or brave immigrant grandparents these arguments often devolve into accusations of laziness and

somebody pulling out a you tube 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 nothing is ahmed doesn't think so and he told chance don't exactly why. 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 compassing 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 repent to go on 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 mindless to gratian uncovered that google had she 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 a stanford university and they were part of this program that was called the d.d.s. the massive digital data systems program this was 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 is

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 you know 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 i meet a corporation. and she actually can fire her and a particular cia official by the name of rick stein. had met regularly with brin during the one nine hundred ninety s. to manage their funding of some of the research that they were giving to stanford

university and specifically had given to support sergio 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 indeed yes. which was being managed by professor to raising them 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. and to raising them were meeting brin 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 was quite interesting is that that alignment with that part of the us military intelligence community was was very early on. founding and this is not particularly unusual i mean this is quite a normal thing to see. them and so the us 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 with the cia for example that we see with google where we have some very clear documentary evidence of a direct connection of some thought 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 is the 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 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 what 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 counter-terrorism and counter-accusations and that's often so those quite. i . say that have a low in here in moscow sort of breaking into regular programming we're taking you live to russia's permanent representative to the o.p.c. w. alexander shield in speaking right now addressing the media after a lengthy meeting on the script all case it's translated let's listen it.

if you will first of all this is mr coleman of. the pizza minister. but i'm waiting for industry and trade. the head of the national russian well you know i thought. for the o.p.c. w. . look on my right hand side. this is mr victor the whole story. the head of. an article of research center for the chemical weapons convention and. also the ministry of industry and trade and also next to us this is. a defense ministry expert professor by. you know i would suggest that we organize our press conference as follows me being in they had of their

russian interagency delegation at the special meeting of the council will first say a few. words give some general remarks. then mr column out of will continue he will share. our views and then we would like to ask. us a few words. then victor whole stuff will say a few words and then i will take your questions. so. at the voting. booth or in the movie. we are inviting at the. head of the mason when we.

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call. me. on. it dirk he wouldn't so to terry in the hague we had a special meeting. of the p.c. w. executive council. this session was called by the russian federation. to consider the situation. we were. to britain sec you see sions against a russia written accuses russia of using chemical weapons on british soil and also violating the chemical weapons convention including having declared chemical weapons stockpile in russia.

the reason. why. you know he is. only you know. the. well. despite of the existence. of elections as defined in the chemical weapons convention our british partners. as we call them. used procedural tricks. and asked for technical assistance from the technical secretariat of the old p.c. w. . in order to confirm through an

independent study of the results of national investigation and the results of the national and to give. i hope all of you remember well when you promised to threesome me in nouns those results just a few days after the incident even though the national investigation would take several weeks if not several months. with. the conclusion that three some may gave was that. russia. like you committed in the attack on the united kingdom using chemical weapons. which she said. nerve agent was used in souls very. it has substance that belongs to the never talked family that was only manufactured

in the soviet union and in the russian federation that's where it was stored so it is definitely russia's fault she said. and you know if. you don't. you know that. makes you know. if you know the result. well you know we all know. that it was. for a few days and. oh. we can.

tell. you we've. been. anything you. come to know me. really me well. that's. all. the same i do still miss the interaction between the technical secretariat of the o.p.c. w. and the united kingdom he is. transparent russia just like other member states of the executive council have not been included in the investigation. the only tell us that they will let us know about the results of the

investigation and they will show us what the c.w. experts did in the u.k. as long. as the u.k. agrees but since we know that but your british group was so to say partners conduct themselves we don't truly expect them to show us any good will. and going to the right. path as our math. problem here that we. have now back. in three counties. could be a week. but now. we have. but i think it's good.