it should have been banned again which begs for a question if these guys are advocating for a clean sport how would they want clean sport to be in russia if they don't want the agency tasked with providing that clean sport to operate normally in the country that's something i'm failing to grasp. here now today to the latest world news so have your headlines in just a thirty minutes time. country's gone into a nihilistic fever that's what you think and he's gonna hit the road and get the traveling across america but what makes america the charlottes and the jesus. era this is a point from which i understand so we always are on the verge of something. else

or. we're starting last with. the beginning heading east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gone down than that we may be completely different but in the. greetings and salutation is one of the great historical and psychological quandaries the human condition is whether we are by nature peaceful roar like this is one of the good questions that has plagued humanity since we crawled out of the primordial soup are we by nature are hardwired to kill each other and mass or is

murder war conflict just simply symptoms of a very tragic learned behavior that can thankfully one day be undone untaught and driven from our existence i bring this up because this week a news item crossed our desk that contained both sides of this long running debate in all contained in one news story and that is the story of yes killer robots no i'm not talking about science fiction fantasy i'm talking about military industrial science fact. killer robots are the cute shorthand for a new fast growing segment of military technology and hardware called autonomous weapons weapons that are run by artificial intelligence that require no human involvement when selecting and executing targets imagine predator drones operating themselves patrolling a border war zone and dropping bombs on targets it's a i was programmed to detect as a threat no human operator in the mobile home r.v.

in new mexico involved whatsoever if this frightens you you're not alone as a new polling released on tuesday by the campaign to ban killer robots revealed that sixty one percent of the globe agrees with you and opposes the use of these autonomous weapons and killer robots or autonomous weapons frighten most of the some of the top nations in the world including russia south korea and of course the united states of america recently blocked a move that the united nations to potentially ban the use of these new improved weapons. the greedy war like nature of a few once again winning out over the many desire for peace so today let us ask ourselves are we hard wired for war or hard wired for peace as we hard wire robots for war and start a brand new chapter in watching the hawks. the

older you get the better i realize that this would be. as if you were to fall out of. your sleep. for the day like you that i got. was that we. would. be. taking sank. the world the world was a dark science i robot and i am to have the wallace and against killer of are you against killer robots i'm not i'm not a fan of acrylic. it's a look of punk band killer robot i would i would probably buy their album but i don't want to i don't want to log on you know i never thought that the pure there's . been this conversation with about killer robots like these it's one of those things that like you have seen terminator i'm seeing all the movies would like to

play because they were warnings right and that's what i mean i've kind of figured we just wouldn't go that route our program like most generation we grew up in the eighty's and even before you know west world wasn't a new suit that came out a long time ago target audience has been right action has been warning us of autonomous machines sense the beginning of science and. you know when you look at the survey results most people kind of knew about same way that it was insurgents that so sixty six percent in the survey said that they oppose lethal autonomous weapons systems and then their biggest concern was this idea that they would cross a moral lion and because machines should be not should not be allowed to kill. and fifty four percent of those opposed said they were concerned that the weapon would be unaccountable so if you're putting on the idea being that we're going to pump it full of this algorithm and say when you see this when you see this that it will just kill people based on what facial recognition or something and then who is

accountable for that death if someone is killed. and correctly and infer and you know it's funny we have a hard enough time and you know your group we have a hard enough time holding politicians accountable when they commit war crimes around the world yeah do we even care about work arms anymore it doesn't even say we can't even hold real life people accountable for their crimes. and live and let alone are we going to even begin to start holding them was trying accountable. this is crazy there is there's been a battle of the us for quite some time now over there's about twenty eight countries including coast rica palestine and pakistan support a ban on killer robots funny palestine and pakistan would be against this woman those are two countries that have suffered a lot from you know it's very. hard to science out of yards the eggs ackley in fact was a brazil chile and austria formed formally proposed

a legally binding agreement to prohibit the use in the future of autonomous weaponry. interestingly enough though amnesty international was russia israel south korea and the us indicated an annual meeting of the convention of conventional weapons great man who had it in november of twenty thousand that they would not support negotiations for a new treaty that would ban these items whatsoever is real solve career u.s. that's pretty incredible and when you look at public support in those countries the we won't support this by him. publics actually against their own leaders you know generally and even here in the united states very looking as the polls show is that the states blocking a ban on killer robots are totally out of step with public opinion government should be protecting people this is from russia. the acting director of amnesty taki said about government should be protecting people from the mary address that killer robots and i think what this is is that we're using this idea of this killer

robots killer robots or drones and the thing is what made them. how little ball of a cell was taking people out of the equation it's just a machine in american lives aren't russian lives aren't hurt north korean lives aren't are hurt we are putting lives at risk but at the end of the day if we had put the amount of effort into you know infrastructure and feeding these people and fixing what had already been destroyed in these countries instead of designing better killing machines we would not worry about the killing machines being automatic on a metal killing machine for one superpower because you know no no there's going to step up and say i'm done with this it was one. nobody does and. in the united states as in many other countries minors are not legally capable of entering into a business contract but in the case of facebook if a minor makes

a purchase without the parents' approval they say it's valid the center for investigative reporting has revealed him launched a legal effort last year to unseal documents from two thousand and twelve class action lawsuit filed by parents against facebook for profiting from transactions with children in an improper manner last week the court agreed to unseal certain documents which included internal facebook memo stating quote in nearly all cases the parents knew their child was playing angry birds but didn't think the child would be allowed to buy anything without their password or authorization first and that a transaction on facebook doesn't necessarily look like real money to a minor but employee concerns were of no concern to facebook with the document show referred to these children as wales in reference to big spenders at casinos and while the case was settled twenty sixteen the judge who unsealed the records wrote in his opinion on the matter quote this information would be of great public interest particularly since it relates specifically to facebook's transactions with

minors so water is while many platforms brag of their parental control functions facebook already boiling in their own bad judgment as decided that they are looking babies deserve a like. this is one of those ones are tough for me because on one hand you know i'm a stickler for good. parents if you let your kid play with a video game when the kid rocks up six thousand dollars because you are supervising the playing the game or like paying attention that's that's your own fault but at the same time. i also know how incredibly greedy and horrible facebook is in my opinion. trying to bilk people whether it be their method and in this case their money sir is one of those ones or my mind is kind of. you know it and i think the one thing about the we often forget because i think my first reaction too was this idea of well why are you letting your kids on your i pad with the stuff like that get off my lawn you kids but then you realize that you know i'm

not a parent road ok so i don't know what wanting to take a shower and meaning five minutes to myself and also a lot of these games and these apps are actually helping kids with certain things and their teaching. hand eye coordination reading all these things but if parents are being told by this app it's for your kid and there isn't that kind of control on there when it's apple doesn't allow janitors certain things you know like other platforms don't so this original lawsuit was a class action lawsuit because you had two children and their parents who were part of the lawsuit and the reason they were suing is that they were led to believe that that these kids were it lead to believe that purchases using real money would need parental approval and that the children were purposely led to believe through the game that they weren't using real money that when they were buying thing this didn't clarify to them and they were doing that so each child racked up a mom was a little over a thousand dollars but you could see sixty six ease or sixty six hundred dollars

and the judge agreed so that was on may twenty sixth the sixteenth facebook was forced to introduce a feature that allows users to request funds for purchases made by minors and remember what the thing is you're not supposed to be your sister at least thirteen to have a page but again yes you know it's interesting when you see facebook's kind of response to all because as you said they referred to these kids as well as well you know what apparel good would say wow there's like six thousand dollars the charges are only approved twenty yeah and they're like we can't do nothing about it sorry i mean that's just greedy that's cruel not fair i get it part of you is like well anybody could then call up and say wal-mart kid ran up these charges even though they actually are. case by case basis brooke responded and told variety to quote facebook works with parents and experts to offer two rules for families navigating facebook and the web as

a part of that work we routinely examine our own practices and then twenty sixteen agreed to update our terms and provide dedicated resources for refund requests related to purchased purchases made by minors on facebook response to my rig is a little ridiculous and they're covering their tracks like they do with everything they want to be the tastemaker they want to decide what we're all supposed to like and who should be elected president which political party should belong to and what you should think about as they don't want to look at their own hypocrisy i mean this is a company that's on it currently on its own site talks about the exploitation of minors this is we do not this is from facebook selfish we do not tolerate any behavior contact that exploits them online and we develop safety programs and educational resources more than four hundred organizations around the world to help make the internet a safer place for children of course if you buy into. ten year connected to facebook pay then yeah not so much everybody but we are going to

exploit a child that is yeah we can examine why your kid will make sure no one else and no one else because we're facebook yeah but if you're one of those parents there was a class action lawsuit filed look into it in california you might fail to get some money back all right as we go to break court watchers learn something every day as we go to break cockroaches don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics you couple the facebook and twitter shows at or to dot com coming up we delve into the discontent in our rage over the recent sentencing in the chicago police saw the search struggle police officer who shot to death to control what the civil rights act was very red state to to watch michael.

there's not any gold left essentially in the earth's mantle i predict as i've said before that once the central banks find it difficult to buy any gold whatsoever they're going to start buying bitcoin demanding that point to their strategic reserves of course russia's been rumored as a possibly the first to go down this pass and we don't know the details but someone of the major central banks will start putting big client along with gold into their strategic reserves and this will set off a mad scramble for bars gold and that. in

the late fall of two thousand and fourteen seventeen year old the quad macdonald was horrifically shot to death by chicago police officer jason van dyke initially officer van dyke was not charged for firing sixteen rounds into the black teenager after the chicago police department in a four hundred page in four hundred pages of reports ruled that the shooting was justified but after police dash cam video emerged more than a year later showing that mcdonald was actually walking away from the police when ben dyke first shot him and then that the teenager was on the ground prone when the officer shot him fifteen more times then dyke was finally charged with first degree murder three other chicago police officers who allegedly attempted to cover up these events surrounding the shooting were also charged now flash forward to today and many still feel that justice for look quote mcdonald is still an elusive dream even after a guilty verdict was handed down to ben dyke last october joining us now to discuss the implications of the recent sentencing and the down in the macdonald case as

well as the not guilty verdicts for the officers allegedly involved in its cover up a civil rights activist the newly elected the visor it neighborhood commissioner here in washington d.c. perry read thank you perri for joining us today yes thank you very was a pleasure and up our want to ask you know many in chicago and around the country are calling are they're calling foul over you know cook county circuit court judge vincent gogin sentencing of van dyck i mean he handed down basically a six year nine month sentence for the murder of a quantum mcdonnell why do so many feel that justice has not been served in this case well i'm simply putting history the history in america has shown that when law enforcement authorities execute. a life of black life in particular this is what the result looks like down and granted he was convicted and that's rare on its own. but just in length of sentence. speaks to the the worth or lack of words to shown to black americans some two subjects i think they're saying you know what

we did about three years realistically right you know and i'll essentially be in protective custody the whole time it's not like he's going to have your normal run of the not present experience differently no he's going to eat well he's going to make sure he's exercise well he's going to play in the sunshine and like so many other inmates in the system it's a sad proposition i know and i may have mentioned but i'm a formally convicted person who served time in a federal system and i've seen many elected officials come through and some even law enforcement offices not many good few in the live like the guards that sort of film and so there is an injustice even beyond the into office now parry one of the things that came up and tax attorney daniel herbert said after the sentencing that quote unquote he was not just relieved he was happy it's the first time i've seen the guy honestly since this whole or deers deal started where he was

happy. perry was this another police violence case where the perpetrator of the crime became the victim in this sort of narrative because this idea that oh well he's happy now you know where does he get the right i mean how dangerous is this practice that we're setting her worried about you know you know was sadly you know in the is par for the course when we need law enforcement issues and sometimes even elected officials are prosecuting. the of is extremely defensive they'd come off as indignant then i could even be charged with such a thing in and so it is not unusual to hear something like this oh my family's been put through hell no in just to think the quine mcdonnell his family will never see him again in less of course it's in a video and so this is a. proposition for america and the only thing they can correct. the only way we can

take a correcting course is to begin the process of treating every human being like a human bein including police officers like the human being they are rather then being treated as if they are above approach very good very good you know it's interesting you mention like that he was obviously do i wish that every person put on trial got treated that way you know because it's actually i go the other exits like hey you're innocent until proven guilty of this country even if it's on video right so shouldn't every person who is basing this not just police officers not just this you know get treated with hey this guy might be very innocent and you know even to a busy audience one of the interesting things perry's of many. many argue that given the rampant violence we've seen in chicago and other cities around the country over the last few years that we need to give police you know the longer leash and not shorten that leash up what do you say to the to that argument and do we really need to pick between you know quote unquote safer streets and police

reform or law enforcement reform at the end of the day. and then it is a somewhat ridiculous. but you know we hear it so often and it's sort of like our so-called present and if you say it enough times it becomes true you know we're not settling for the least in the activist community it is it is imperative. we we make it abundantly clear that that. it's it is beyond me. how we can. allow in any case. these. these folks do have free reign to do what it is. first of all you have a job and he has a prescription to it and we as you follow protocol and there are procedures in place and all of these things and when we fly in the procedures for when the when

the processes that are codified put in place when they fail. we is activists in the community in particular those legislators who are pushed toward a progressive form of governance we see to execute those implement those policies and practices and for those who don't. we demanded they be fired and if indeed a prosecutable actually exposes they need to be prosecuted but until food seemed low and something you mentioned earlier about the officer being relieved you think about it he was charged and he was not healed until trial most americans are when we talk about murder of another human being that's a great point that is a very different structure and also you know he has a policing and behind him neck and bail about us and most people because of our cash bail system as you know the literally the courthouse if you're poor you have to wait if you're a police officer you have a politician or enough money if well if you move didn't because this officer when

that when he was put on he was suspended without pay if tutorial police they hired him as a janitor so you know it's just the idea that you can kill someone it would some sense of impunity you can be covered your back is got by the police union and you understand this that in america unions are under attack and they're under attack and they're trying to destroy our unions from from the legislative branch to the supreme court but the police who not only feel well sadly celia and i'm putting them at a time oh if i just asked if there's any good news that came out of this this is the first time now and after. century that an on duty police officer was actually convicted of murder in chicago and just a few years ago we had you know this say forgiveness and going back and saying look we've made mistakes before we want to do this again obviously we're in that situation again now all of these setbacks all this hurdle that still remains what

do you see that this moment happened and we're seeing little moments of people getting convicted of people actually being charge of police what do you see is the biggest form of hope propel it for police reform that we're that we're on that we're at least in on that journey we're on the right path the bone the key to true change in to justice in america comes to messy democracy so what we're looking at is like for president barack obama you should say don't do hope and the key here is we cannot continue to vote for the same thing that does not work you cannot expect to do the same thing and get a different result and so the key in the hope in all of this is that people will say i am tired of this and i will not vote for folks who do this to me. former mayor emanuel one realisation of going to look on

the ground rules was murdered and so. we keyed in i'm glad you worked it out and i implore all of the views of once you know hawks. you must vote and you must take your you know your franchise serious knee and that's one of the reasons why the more conservative minds in this country have worked so hard to destroy the voting rights act. and i and i think definitely too is that we can't we have to also vote your heart and conscience even if you know a lot of times you get caught up in that kind of white vote for the most popular person because they're going to win or vote for the even if they don't actually stamford real police reform or they don't stand for these things you know you got a vote you're our conscience of the bay you know if you don't vote your heart and conscience and the hope is that you hold your heart is in the right place yeah that's key that's what if you don't well you hope in common sense this is this is

the effect it will one day become you and it is a very very real problem this him when we see mothers and in daughters crying on t.v. or when we see white women. just boosted to scenes in two years because the challenge has been cuba but it's all still with us and gradually change she explains that there are battling but sadly it is with her really going to thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure of your own sake you so much thank you. imagine a world without chemistry jokes it could have happened if it weren't for the periodic table of elements invented by russian chemist and father of the periodic table to me tree mendeleev immolate eight hundred ten in twenty fourteen what is being hurled is as the earliest known printed copy of the periodic table was discovered during the clean about bird at a lab at the university of st andrews in scotland the table was annotated in german and how the printing marks of a specific scientific printer in vienna who was confirmed to have operated between

eight hundred seventy five and eighty eight this seat andrus special collections team has preserved the world's oldest classroom periodic table and the document will be part of the many celebrations this year in twenty nine thousand us chemists around the world celebrate the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the periodic table and look taro i tried i tried writing a joke about the periodic table but i just i came to realize the chemistry just isn't my element. about your element. good descriptions to have a good reaction. alone to think of it. only because you already know it i was watching a bit like she's brilliant. chemistry when i want to read that's cool hundred fifty years so we celebrate the periodic table because it's amazing you know. awesome

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