make this manufacture to send to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fines merry go round the sun be the one percent. of the room see. the real news. greetings and sal you take. 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 can try. action and 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 entrepreneurial 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 park when 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 honks. pretty. good that's. what it's like. as. to.

what they like you know that i got. with. this. well the watching the hogs i am tyrone but and times out of the law lists it's out of those it shocking to you the da 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 now gosh now i mean 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 detained. i mean whether it's sugary cereal or fear it's pretty easy and in this case what they're selling is feared to. kid's parents and that's

a little disturbing kenneth trump i do not believe any relation to revelation present in the national school safety and security services he told seventy four million 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 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 it 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 crazies you know all of a sudden you know after nine eleven it was like oh my gosh 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 i mean you know routes how you get the patriot act oh you know 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 it you 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

. it first of all. you can't play dungeons and dragons alone that's one that's my already problem also i'm soon tired of you thinking it's the d.m.d. is right i'm tired of it it's so lame. for bringing that up like a level of lame that's like ninety's lame. oh are you joking like the tom hanks movie where the bodies go crazy for more playing time which you do because of the lifetime of the it's really isn't on i mean but this is but this is why it's so silly it's the idea that you think that some soul force is green but ray is going to be able to spot back with 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 actually work at the u. of the now the national center for educational studies actually is sad that during the one nine hundred ninety nine two thousand school year only about a million teen percent of schools were equipped with security cameras but by the two thousand and fifteen twenty 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 and run in the drills and then having a good relationship with students teachers and students having a good relation to where they can communicate and talk to each other where they can warn 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 government that

. you could practically hear the keris of the constitutional commons grind to a halt here in. washington d.c. thanks to the latest round in 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 past 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 furthering political agenda and he is equally 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 us citizens 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 senators 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 in the brain busting grandstanding first amendment war between trump and team c.n.n. oh oh of course. war. 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 the support of the first amendment in getting into this line of work i supported the first amendment even when our press passes it here at r t were taken away and while i do have 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. when i look at the issues with this it does feel like kind of two children fighting over something really important you know when i see c.n.n. in trouble going out of it's like you know come on you're both acting like five year olds at the end of the day i mean because look it's interesting the justice department does point out that c.n.n. is hardly burdened by the acosta decision to revoke as hard as they are something like fifty other c.n.n. journalists have the same hard pass they could just as easily send another journalist in there not jim acosta but then do you want a president of the do you want a president with a president. so that two of us asked do you wind up precedents 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 going to the president shouldn't be

deciding who gets to talk to him and who gets to answer questions who 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 if 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 of 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 showed that they showed it because if you 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 all stood up for that and said that's not right. but in

this instance you had fox news which actually supporting them saying fox news supports c.n.n. and its legal effort to regain its white house reporters press. anshul secret service passes for working white house journalists should never be weaponized and while we don't condone the growing antagonistic town by about the president and the press at recent media avails we do support a free press access and open exchange at this point. in 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. and new york city and main street mayor it's like oh my god everyone's got to give their two cents on this right tucker carlson chimed in and said you know it's telling the see in the you know the sudan is kind of they really only push the first amendment when it suits 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 that 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 i 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 or crotches don't forget to let us know what you pick at the top of the government on facebook and twitter to see our poll show that are. coming up we discuss the scourge of cable listen and also the overcoming of disability and the importance of respecting personal dignity with priest police brutality survivor offered activist leon for the state to watch.

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nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that in this population of . any interrogation out there bill c. is threat promise threat promise threat while i lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept. she said if i would. send a statement that i would be home by the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on

top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand this is just the right questions and demand the right answer. question. pranking gave americans a long job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year so it shows that there are people who rush to a small town in north dakota was among the employment rate of zero percent it was like the gold rush is very very similar to the gold rush but this beautiful story ended with the pollution and the bus station a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore it's just slowed down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is

changing that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality to deal with. there are certain things in life there almost always true death taxes in 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 four 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 to belling he was given a one liter water bottle and the cabin crew then attempted to charged. 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. it is one of those major issues that is just it does hurt would you see the over and over again when you see those videos of somebody who no one no one is their goal of this person go through the airport no one's going to do this i mean that's absolutely ridiculous 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 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 could 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 wise on the person's weight so you're talking about people who hardly 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 and 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 by. when they first were able to get the flight the disabilities act was passed right on the night in 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 finally that we're still there i mean that now finally we're still dealing with this over and over again it's like c'mon we can move beyond this i think is a lot also to think about when i 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 centuries old this is a cultural thing back at the turn of the century in victorian times when off we had they institue what were called ugly laws and what these laws davis said that anybody who had any kind of deformity that might upset other people or had something to eye 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 you to join us to talk about this very end to discuss a blizzard and the importance of dignity is police brutality survivor and author activist and beyond for thank you for joining us today. thanks for having me so. the recent incidents in the media with the leads. to lead some airport strikes you know strikes a chord with

a lot of people who have visibly or invisible disabilities what these incidents say about how society as a whole towards interacts with disabilities of all kinds. well. i think that one thing about accessibility. we have to understand that accessible. vanessa's the main convenience and watch and just 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 it 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 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 how much do you think that matters and how much that would help people understand the issue of dignity. it matters

a lot you know when we when we think about awareness and how much awareness changes the way people think you know thing in a paris we thing you know christopher reeve's he was a hero and he changed the way people view. individuals with disabilities and this era we need representation even for people who. i may have been born with disabilities to see them to have that understand that i can have to live a life even though i may have a disability i think awareness is definitely necessary we need more record representation and the more representation that we have the more awareness that we can spray to avoid situations like death there you know i want to ask you obviously you're running for office in pittsburgh and one of things i want to ask you is obviously you know police reform given what happened to with the police and where

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 and 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 wiltshire user and being a wiltshire user is 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. we people to think about things that people with disabilities experience on every day . and 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 that 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 in order to be better allies in this fight and be better about it we have about a minute left. it will five people came. eggs questions you know engage in conversations around disability rights and also don't assume you know i think you know even forward your users myself a lot of people assume that they know what i experience based on what you know you're in a world share and that's it but there's so many different things that i experience

beyond my inability to stand and walk or run you know those you know 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 be an advocate speak and use in our different platforms to create more awareness. i want to 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 you 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 sized iron asteroid struck greenland that's right and it took researchers

over two decades to find the crater of the asteroid kautz 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 suggest the site is one of an impact crater the crater is nearly twenty miles wide making the asteroid that had 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 him so he would be. see bigger than paris we have and there's like melted ice in the beds i'm like this i know this movie where. they remember going to. tell you all i love you. and have to keep on watching those hawks and a great day to go. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure. i'll see you then.

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