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 hard word 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 would involve whatsoever if this frightens you you're not alone as

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 wild killer robots are 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 moves at the united nations to potentially ban the use of these these new improved weapons. the greedy war like nature of a few once again winning out over the many's 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. what are. the players like i realize that this was. as

good a part of. what they like you that i got. was that we. would. be. taking her. world we're going to watch the arc so i am i robot to run and i'm tired of the wallace and the 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 have i don't want to log on you know i never thought that i'd be sort of pure there's. been this conversation with about killer robots like these it's one of those things that like you have seen terminator obscene 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 westworld 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 somewhere a lion and because machines should be not should not be allowed to kill. and fifty four percent of those opposed that 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 well you know it's funny we have a hard enough time you know your group we have

a hard enough time holding politicians accountable when they commit war crimes around the world and i don't even care about workarounds anymore doesn't mean it's like we can't even hold real life people accountable for their crimes. and lead and let alone we're going to begin to start holding them was trying to accountable. this is great there is there's been a battle at the u.n. 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 when 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 in austria form formally proposed a legally binding agreement to prohibit the use in the future of autonomous weaponry. interesting lee enough though amnesty international was russia is real

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 we're 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 and all the other continental killing machines for one superpower because you know no one no others who was going to step up and say i'm dealt with this is 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 documents 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 on sealed records wrote in his opinion on the matter quote this information would be of great public interest particularly since it relates specifically to face of 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. minute this is one of those ones are tough for me because i'm one hand you know i'm a stickler for good. parents if you're letting 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 you are right and i think the one thing about the we often forget because i think my first reaction too was this idea of why are you letting your cards 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 were using real money that when they were buying thing this it 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 then again yeah. 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 with you know with apparel good would say wow there's like six thousand dollars the charges are only approved twenty yeah and they're like what we do know the bottom sorry i mean that's just gravy that's cruel not fair i get it part of you is like well anybody could then call up and say wal-mart ran up these charges actually are . and didn't get it but it was case by case yes facebook responded and told variety that quote facebook works with parents and experts to offer tools for families navigating facebook and the web as a part of that work we routinely examine our own practices and in twenty sixteen agreed to update our terms and provide denigrated resources for refund requests

related to purchased purchases made by minors facebook we cannot response to our it 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 you should belong to and what you said think about ads 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 isn't facebook so we do not tolerate any behavior content that exploits them online and we develop safety programs and educational resources is why than four hundred organizations around the world to help make the internet a safer place for children of chorus if you buy into. and you're connected to facebook pay the yeah not so much everybody but we exploited it child as yeah we get exactly what your kid but will make sure no one else and no

one else because we're faced with yeah but if you're one of those parents there is a class action lawsuits a 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 called rogers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover the facebook and twitter poll shows that are to dot com coming up we delve into the discontent in our rage over the recent sentencing in the chicago police dog of the search struggle police officer who shot to death he drove with fun mcdonald the civil rights activist for a red state to move to watchable. when the whole make us manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the running

clubs doesn't protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent of. the time doing the whole middle of the room signals. dealing with the ground running real news. oh. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent slice last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need

to remember is one to one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only . reflect there's someone else living inside of me like controlling my body. the byproduct of that drug is the cause like some fear depression. because it will meet him into a zombie is crazy. you know we don't have to do anything it's not this is crazy and all that. years. ago.

in the late fall of two thousand and fourteen seventeen year old the quad mcdonnell was horrifically shot to death by chicago police officer jason van dyck 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 thrown when the officer shot him fifteen more times and i was finally charged with first degree murder three others are cagr 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 macdonald 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 of neighborhood commissioner here in washington d.c. perry red thank you for joining us today yes thank you farai i was a pleasure no parent to ask how many in chicago and around the country are calling are they're calling foul over you know cook county circuit. judge vincent go graham sentencing. you have it down basically a six year sentence for the murder of a quad mcdonnell why do so many feel that justice has not been served in this case won't simply put 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 and granted he was convicted and that's rare on its own. but just delimit 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 definitely not 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 but few in the live like the guards that

sort of them and so there is an injustice even beyond the injustice now parry one of the things that they 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 is 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 know you. well sadly enough and it's par for the course and then when we need the law enforcement officials and sometimes even elected officials a prosecutor. they come off as extremely defensive they come off as indignant that 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 and just to think the quine mcdonnell his family will never see him again in this of course in a video and so this is a sad proposition for america and the only thing they can correct. the only way we can take a correction course is to begin the process of treating every human being like a human being including police officers training 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 the mention like that it 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 a hey this guy might be very innocent but 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 lead should 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 and law enforcement reform at the end of the day. then is this somewhat ridiculous. but you know we hear it so often and it's sort of like our so-called president and if you say it enough times it becomes true you know we're not settling for that. in the activist community it is it is imperative the we we make it abundantly clear that that. it's it is beyond me. how we can. allow in any case.

these these votes to have free reign to do what it is. first of all you have a job and it 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 there procedures fail when the when the processes that are codified in put in place when they fail. we as activists in the community in particular those legislators who are pushed toward a progressive form of governance we ask that you execute those implement those policies and practices and for those who don't. we demanded to be fired and if indeed a prosecutor to expose this they need to be prosecuted to the food seemed low and something you mentioned earlier about being relieved you think about really strong and he was not healed in two or two are most americans are when we talk about

moving of another human being is a great point that is a very different structure and also you know he has a police union behind him that can 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. because this officer linda when he was put on suspended without pay if police they hired him as a janitor so you know just the idea that you can kill someone it would some sense of impunity you can be covert your back is got by the police union and you understand a new state in america. and the under attack a new drive to destroy unions from from the legislative branch to the supreme court but the police do not believe either one so that only celia and i'm putting them at a time for all it's interesting if there's any good news that came out of this this

is the first time now in half a century that an on duty police officer was actually convicted of murder in chicago and just a few years ago we had 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 went on moments of people getting convicted of people actually being charged as police what do you see is the the biggest form of hope 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 bottom line the key to true change in to justice in america. comes to messy democracy so what we're looking at is like former president barack obama used to 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 in get a different result and so the key in the hope in all of this is that the people will say i am damn tired of this and i will not vote for folks who do this to me. former mayor emanuel one realisation on we're going to look on the ground was was murdered in so. we keyed in i'm glad you worked it out and i implore all of the viewers watching the hawks. you must vote and 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 gotta vote your our conscience of the you have a base you know if you don't vote your heart and conscience and the hope is that you hope your heart is in the right place yeah that's key that's what if you don't well you hope incompetence this is this is the fact it will one day become you and it is a very very real problem is him when we see mothers and in daughters crying on t.v. or when we see white women. just boosting it to scenes in two years because the challenge has been cuba with its own set of cigarettes when change she explains that there are battling but sadly it is would probably rather go 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 mentally immolate eight hundred ten and twenty fourteen what is being hurled as 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 nineteen as 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 you say good descriptions to get

a reaction. but only think of it. only because you already know about it i was watching a bit like she's brilliant. chemistry we don't know how to read that's cool hundred fifty years so we celebrate the periodic table because it's amazing you know. awesome stuff. far better is going to remember every one of them lives world really really love the love side so you all i love you i am tired robot on top of the wall and keep on watching those hawks out there and have a great day and night at. because.

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