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greetings and sally you take us from the horrific attack on columbine back in one nine hundred ninety nine leading all the way up to this year's tragedy of parklane school shootings have grotesquely woven themselves in the now being a continuing threat to the lives and education of our children here in the united states of america and like most things here in the land of capitalism gone wild there is now a new and growing cottage industry being built around the violent shooting deaths of our children i guess we could call it maybe the school shooting industrial complex that according to reports it's now quickly become a more than two billion dollar industry in fact according to reports that a sales conference this past summer vendors peddled turner kits and pepper ball

guns spatial recognition software and a security proposal that would turn former special ops officers into undercover teachers yes the security and surveillance industry hawks have been out in force these last few years convincing government school boards and concerned parents that their latest full proof orwellian contraption in scheme is the true key to stopping any and all violence that could possibly be perpetrated on our children all for the low low price of thousands upon thousands of tax dollars in fact one entrepreneur. fear mongering salesman of bulletproof doors told an indiana school district official quote if you think five hundred thousand dollars is expensive go down the parklane florida tell seventeen people five hundred thousand dollars is expensive that's twenty nine thousand a kid every person would pay twenty nine thousand a kid to have their kid alive yeah he went there but all this leaves out the most

important question do any of these toys and schemes actually work or we once again allowing the fear profiteers to control the debate. let's find out as we start watching. the older you get the. real that this would be. as if you were to fly out of. your sleep. for the day like you know i got. was that we. would. be. pretty. well the watching the harks i am tired robot and times out of the wallace so are those the trucking to you the dog was sudden like the you know the surveillance security industry hawks are swooping in

circling around all the schools and parents and p.t.a. boards across the country oh gosh now i'm am pretty much anybody who's looking for a new revenue stream is going to look to younger people to figure out how to you know sell the teens sell the kids i mean whether it's sugary cereal or fear it's pretty easy and in this case what they're selling is fear to those kids' parents and that's a little disturbing kenneth trump i do not believe any relation or regulation president the national school safety and security services he told seventy four million dollars oregon that the climate is rich for this kind of exploitation he said it's not that they're villains and they don't care and they don't want safe schools i'm not trying to send that message but they're certainly opportunistic at the end of the day they're looking for new revenue streams like this that it's looking for a new revenue stream but i don't know that turning cats and bulletproof backpacks is really an answer and you know it's reminds me

a lot. when you look at it it's almost like a microcosm example of what happened after like nine eleven when you know everyone would like you know that crazy you know all of a sudden light. you know after nine eleven i was like oh my god i'm so scared protect us protect us protect us and that's how we got you know i mean at one point they were trying to sell office executives like parachute packs to jump out of to jump out of a window and you know routes how you get the patriot act oh is this a kind of irrational fear save me thing and then it's what you sacrifice that so dangerous i mean i just i mean. look there's many different ways to solve this problem but one of the more interesting ones was jordan good dro a u.s. army combat veteran he's actually kind of peddling a business that would embed former special operations agents as undercover teachers in order like gather intel on kids and then use their special operations training to react in case there's a shooter situation which ok i mean i get it like that might actually you know not

only no good do you accept i would have to support it he laid out how intel would be game for kids telling the washington post that as an undercover he could be known as just like you know the cool shop teacher and that he would go sit down with a kid who's alone playing dungeons and dragons and i just try to see whether there's any problems so that's an odd statement right for anyone that's ever played. ok first of all. you can't play dungeons and dragons the one that's one that's my already problem also i'm soon tired of you thinking it's the d.n.d. kids right that i'm tired of it so lame years for bringing that up like a level of lame that's like ninety's only. spend your days at o.r.u. joking it's like the tom hanks movie where their buddies go crazy for my playing

time which you do because like the lifetime thing it's really is the same i mean but this is the end but this is why it's so silly it's the idea that you think that some cell special forces green beret ray is going to be able to spot back but the problem is bonkers. and that's what they're teachers so they're not there to teach they're there to pretend to be teachers yes the grade b. the even more of what we need well you know and what's really crazy is none of this is really proven to work at the u. of the the national center for educational studies actually is that during the one nine hundred ninety nine two thousand school year only about eighteen percent of schools were equipped with security cameras but by the two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen school year over eighty one percent of schools had video surveillance so rising as the per the in number the number a percentage of schools that control access to their buildings which are seventy five percent to ninety four percent during that same period so it's they are doing things there are things that are being done since columbine that are there to help

but ultimately what they say is that at the end of the day it's really just preparation practice in the drills and then having a good relationship with students teachers and students having a good relation to where they communicate and talk to each other where they can more or you know possibly intervene before anything like this happens we don't need all sorts of fancy bells and whistles and bulletproof doors of the good with the good. you could practically hear the keris of the constitutional commons grind to a halt here in washington d.c. thanks to the latest round the long running soap opera of trump first to c.n.n. and response to cnn's lawsuit against the trumpet ministration for revoking chief white house correspondent jim acosta is white house hard pass president trump slayer's and are arguing that no journalist has a first amendment right to enter the white house they went on stating the president is generally free to open the white house doors to political allies in the hopes of perth furthering political agenda and he is equally if free to invite in only

a political foes in the hopes of convincing them of his position the first amendment simply does not regulate these decisions so basically what team trump is arguing is that a u.s. citizen is constitutional. rights when all the grounds of the white house mysteriously fall upon the discretion of whoever our current reigning king or queen it is meanwhile c.n.n. finally found a first amendment clause worth fighting for themselves seven to say but this past monday that quote if left unchallenged the actions of the white house would create a dangerous chilling effect for any journalist who covers our elected officials there you have it hard watchers whose side you fall on and the brain busting grandstanding first amendment war between trump and team c.n.n. which oh that's a tough question. i've said this on social media as well and i just want to make this point is that. i use i supported the

first amendment i supported the first amendment in taking this support of the first amendment in getting into this line of work i supported the first amendment even when our press passes here at r t were taken away and while i doubt my personal opinion about jim acosta's behavior and how he represents journalism especially mainstream journalism right now is sort of beside the point so here we are and we finally are seeing them see something that's the major problem you know what's interesting to me is when i look at the issues with this is it does feel like kind of two children fighting over something really important you know when i see c.n.n. i'm trying going out of it's like. you're both acting like five year olds at the end of the bed because look it's interesting the justice department does point out that ceiling is hardly burdened by the a cost of decision to revoke as hard as they are something like fifty c.n.n. journalists have the same hard pass they could just as easily say another

journalist in there or not jim acosta but then do you want a president of the do you want a president with a president. so that way this fast do you wind up. students so that if they have a bunch of hard passes well i just don't like that reporter will keep kicking them out until we get the one we want and that's a great that is a really great argument for that because it is good to know the president shouldn't be deciding who gets to talk to him and who gets to answer questions or gets to question him or her or any of the those are put in her or him to do that the president shouldn't be able to do that is that because the press ultimately is s'posed to represent the american right now a lot of corporate mainstream news doesn't really represent the american people the more but that doesn't change the fact that at the very core the first amendment still says everybody right you know. that's the biggest thing that's about but what's really interesting too is that this whole battle actually has united two sides i never thought i'd ever say you're not really it's funny yes so fox news

actually came to c.n.n.'s defense as well which i think is a really they should that they shouldn't because if you'll remember years back barack obama when he was president wanted to take away or tossed out the idea of taking away foxes' masses and banning them from the white house and you know c.n.n. stood up for them to be able stood up for that and said that's not right. in this instance you had fox news which actually supporting them saying fox news supports c.n.n. and it's legal effort to regain its white house reporters press conventual secret service passes for working white house journalists should never be weaponized. while we don't condone the growing antagonistic tone by both the president and the press at recent media avails we do support a free press access and open exchanges groupoid. to the boom but now what's also interesting though is that the tucker carlson our good buddy decided to like he weighed in on all of this is a mean this is like one of those like great circuses that you only find in

washington d.c. if you're a city of mainstream writer it's like oh my god everyone's got to give their two cents on this right dr carson chimed in and said you know it's telling the see in the you know the kind of they really only push the first amendment when it's. search them and then they kind of ignore it in other cases for people that they may not like like alex jones or something like that then they're not out there fighting for first amendment rights matter people only c.n.n. and he brought up the point last year the cable network threaten an anonymous reddit user for creating an anti c.n.n. means you can threaten to expose his identity and ruin his life without ever criticized him again now c.n.n. is claiming to defend free speech only when it is their speech so again it's kind of wide i look at all like everyone can throw stones because we all stop acting like children at the end of the day and actually respect the first amendment and what it has what it means and why it's so important freedom of the press in this country for all of us not just the really rich or not just the corporate backed and

i'm sorry pres but you're supposed to face tough questions. all right as we go to break croucher's don't forget to let us know what you think at the top of the building on facebook and twitter and see our old show at our teeth coming up we discuss the scourge of evil with them and also the overcoming of disability in the importance of respecting personal dignity with police brutality survivor offer activist leon org so stay tuned for more. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to get us to the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you the.

u.s. of the tremendously economically through the clout of the wheels of the world bank and the i.m.f. the fact we're giving you the power to impose structural adjustment on the countries over the eighty's and that is so fundamentally doesn't understand how these of these are useful tools of u.s. imperialism of the facts right so it's not clear what is right is i mean it's true that these institutions are deeply unfair they're not unfair to the u.s. they're unfair it's there to the majority world in the global south and that's really the reason these reforms are.

there certain things in life they're almost always true death taxes and the fact that at some point in your life either due to age or illness we all almost all of us become disabled and yet we are still in the twenty first here we are in the twenty first century struggling to provide full access to both able bodied and disabled people in a twenty seven thousand survey of their customers by one eight hundred wheelchairs dot com it was found that twenty percent of respondents encountered a barrier to a building is service or transportation at least once per day in new york city there are over half a million people with ambulatory disabilities however only ninety two of new york city subway systems four hundred. twenty five stations are wheelchair friendly than their airports their ice athlete their unveiling of australia was recently forced to urinate in a bottle on

a flight due to the fact the airline didn't have an onboard wheelchair narrow enough to make it down the aisles according to value was giving a one liter water bottle and the cabin crew then attempted to charge him for a blanket so we could cover him self while he used that bottle in his seat and bellies instead it comes just a year after international wheelchair athlete just some of the ins self-propelling wheelchair was lost by an airline and he chose to make a point about the need for dignity by refusing to be strapped into the hard backed wheelchair the airline offered as his only choice he then dragged himself through the airport by his arm by his arms now in the case of the vien he is an athlete who is physically capable of doing so many others would have had to take the option of being put into a device that resembles a straight jacket on able to even adjust yourself and be wheeled by someone else to an airport so why are these the most basic examples of the need or per personal dignity being overlooked let's talk about that today. it is one of

those major issues that's just it does hurt would you see that over and over again when you see those videos of somebody who no one no one is there go let this person go through the airport no one's going to do this i mean that's absolutely ridiculous at the end of the you know we see this over and over again and there's a lot of things i mean there's just it's a lot of pieces there's things that people don't realize and one of those things like you that comes up a lot of times is doctors offices a lot of doctors offices don't even have scales that are that are in a that are set up in a way that you can always someone properly who's wheelchair bound so what that means is now imagine this all of our medication are things that we the pills we take anything any kind of injections any kind of treatment is usually has to be based dosage y. is on the person's weight so you're talking about people who already have illnesses and they're going to a doctor who can't waive it was guessing at their weight which means they're

gassing up a lot of other things and that's just the tip of the iceberg in the in the medical industry and this is one of those issues that look at the end of the day you know we've had a long time and i remember back when they first were able to get the fight the disabilities act was passed right on the night of the night when it was finally oh ok well we took this long to build the ramps. buildings and things like this so it's really incredible that only now. that we're still there i mean that mel finally we're still dealing with this over and over again it's like come on we could move beyond this i think is a lot also to think about when it has to do with how people think because a lot of studies are showing that a very large portion of the population is uncomfortable in speaking to are interacting with with people who are disabled in some way you know you have to understand this is said to result this is a cultural thing back at the turn of the century in victorian times when off we had a institue what were called ugly laws and what these laws davis said that anybody who had any kind of deformed. any that might upset other people or have had

something to with them. that those people weren't allowed to be in public they could be fined for being in public and you know we've come a long way from victorian era you know ugly laws as they were called and now we're moving into a totally different different space where we have activists and people who are doing that so i want to actually yes i want to actually introduce them to join us to talk about this very and to discuss a blizzard and the importance of dignity is police brutality survivor and author activists and beyond for thank you for joining us today. thanks for having me so. the recent incidents in the media with two athletes in. the lead some airport strikes a you know strikes a chord with a lot of people who have a visibly or invisible disabilities what these incidents say about how society as a whole towards interacts with disabilities of all kinds. well.

i think what we think about accessibility. we have to understand and accessible doesn't necessarily mean conveying it and watch it and just in a video of him. lifting themselves through the airport it made me think about the situations that i've been in you know where every person may say hey somebody's pushing that but why why why. let somebody have to let somebody push me when there should be something at the airport or wherever we go to accommodate. you know accommodation you know how we want to live our lives. we can't be forced to be in a box where you know we we have to change the way we were regularly do regularly do things to fit into a box or something that's not really convenient. i want to ask you

a little bit about the entertainment industry because we talked a little bit about it and we've talked on this show a lot about representation and how that makes a huge difference rarely do you see actors who are actually disabled play disabled characters and in fact around sixty able bodied actors and actresses have been nominated for oscars for playing characters with mental and physical dos disabilities how much do you think that representation in movies and music and sports you know athletes going through this and showing. what it's really like what i do you know how much do you think that matters and how much that would help people understand the issue of dignity. it matters a lot when we when we think about awareness and how much awareness to change the way people think you know i think in the past we are seeing you know christopher reeve he was a hero and he changed the way people view. individuals with disabilities and this

era we need representation even for people who may have been born with disabilities to see themselves that understand that i can have i can still live a life even though i may have a disability i think awareness is definitely necessary we need more rapid representation and the more representation that we have the more awareness that we can spray to avoid situations like jester. you know i want to ask you obviously you're running for office in pittsburgh and one of them is i want to ask you eaves obviously your police reform given what happened to you with the police everywhere that's brought you today but also is is you know right is that representation you're talking about is that one of the platforms of your run for office in pittsburgh. yes yes in the. you know being

a police officer is one thing but often times because i've been an aspiration that people forget the fact that i'm a will use here and been and will tell you there's so many different things beyond the actual sight of me being in the will experience i mean just today mostly. because there was. a dip in the sidewalk that i didn't see you know and so when we have awareness we have representation and where there is politics sports or in fair . we people to think about things that people with disabilities experience on every day. scientists estimate that over eighty five percent of people who are are out there with disabilities that are not they're not visible by the outside world you know if someone's in a wheelchair it's obvious but a lot of people even in

a wheelchair may have other disabilities may have other struggles mental illness physical illness. so we can't always it seems able bodied people can't always see what's going on so what can be able bodied people do or do not do it in order to be better allies in this fight and be better about it we have about a minute left. oh it people came in. egg questions you know engage in conversations around disability rights and also don't assume. you know i think you know even for users myself a lot of people assume that they know what i experience based on what you know you're in a world chair and that's it but there's so many different things that i experience beyond my inability to stand up and walk or run you know to other medical things that one may not see that i have that's a part of my everyday process not assuming. you know becoming more knowledgeable on

the experience of someone with a disability and also being an advocate speaking out using our different voices or platforms to create more awareness. well you know i want to say thank you very much for coming on and allowing us to give you a voice on our own our show we look forward to having you back on the future could do to continue to give your voice thank you so much to for coming on today and educating our audience. all right thank you for having me. picture it it's the world's largest island twelve thousand years ago when one kilometer size iron asteroid struck greenland that's right and it took researchers over two decades to find the crater of the asteroid caught using radar sending data collected over the decades scientists noticed a depression in the land under an ice sheet and the fact of the ice sheet and the

crater are together strongly suggests the site is one of an impact crater the crater is nearly twenty miles wide making the asteroid that hit it at least a half a mile wide and they think that it hit greenland with a force of a seven hundred megaton warhead however taking samples of the crater will prove even more challenging than finding in the first place seeing as the crater and the melted ice inside the sheet are under another half mile of most importantly used to killer asteroid would have filled the sky with a fireball it's debris would have gone as far away as north america that may have even set off the cool period at the end of the last ice age now they're trying to find ways to drill into the ice to study whatever mineral deposit space dragons or fossils they find below one of those. it's a big crater to integrate as a d.c. but of the paris where there's like most of those immigrants like this i've got

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