so it's seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. the world to get to shape out this day and you can stick to it and in games with equals betrayal . when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. readings and salutations we all love us some good scientific breakthroughs hawk watchers i mean where would we be without the history changing discoveries of copernicus as revelations around the sun tesla's alternating current past tours

bacteria einstein's relativity russell of franklin's double helix and whoever invented the marshmallow i love marshmallows but brawl of science is greatest heights and achievements there have been some pretty low lows in fact very dangerous lows like the manhattan project d.d.t. and leaded gasoline and it's these mistakes from the past that have many in the scientific and health care community so worried about our future yes and what will probably be listed in what in the what the hell were they thinking section of today's pewters history two scientists whose work to make the h five n one or agent bird flu virus radically more dangerous for humans by making it easier for us to catch and pass between us well they were given the big green light by the national institutes of health along with funding as well science magazine reports that a u.s. government review panel quietly approved experiments proposed by two labs that were previously considered so dangerous that bedroll pencils had imposed an unusual top

down moratorium on such research. research that is so potentially dangerous and many argue unneeded that hundreds of scientists and researchers signed a letter opposing it all the way back in two thousand and fourteen harvard university epidemiology just mark lipsitz told science mag quote after a deliberative process that cost a million dollars for consultants external study and consumed countless weeks and months of time for many scientists we are now being asked to trust a completely opaque process where the outcome is to permit the continuation of dangerous experiments. secrecy on top of highly dangerous research what could possibly go wrong. this is why we are watching the whole x. . thirty. three the.

real thing it's like. at the bottom. like you that i got. with that we. welcome everyone watching the hogs. and i'm topical and i do not have a clue that's a start with this very day i may catch it. isn't this one of those things that just breaks you out it's like oh it's like why are we funding this study like i understand the study but why the study of infectious diseases i understand that this particular study yeah i know the idea that we're focusing on this asian bird flu it's

a bit odd to me it seems like something that of all these first of all flu this whole like during the civil instead of focusing on. the people that are most and how to make them healthier and do that i just sort of it seems that we're on this idea that we're going to find this magical cure all for flu out of this one bird flu which it's not as if it's an epidemic it's not as. we're in a place where it's this horrible horrible thing and shutting down. but when you super charge the virus which is what these scientists are doing are two separate places right from park sides of the world water wisconsin with the you know. the when they supercharge the virus they're essentially making this virus into something even worse or more deadlier than it already is which is how what you have to do in order to study at which i think is the n.h.s. is sort of my idea is that we have to do this in order to study how it will develop and so that we are prepared down the line but as you said that's very dangerous and things that we've seen this kind of stuff before as have bad consequences but in

response to the controversy of an h as the director of the national institutes of house released a statement online writing the h.h.s. framework formalizes robust oversight for federally funded research with enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential consistent with the h.h.s. framework these proposals were deemed to be scientifically sound i would say once again we're in a position where much like foreign policy and much like the military industrial complex much so. i think that there is we're in a new generation of people who are saying i don't think those guidelines that you're working off of very very good to begin with i don't think the guidelines yes to follow the guidance follow up and that's not enough yeah and there are for our thought that's what a lot of people. who share a ross miss universe and medical center rotterdam but our lives these are one of the that's one of the groups working on this and your cicutto. of the universe and

wisconsin i'm out of the university of tokyo the other two working on theirs they actually had separately modified the five n one influenza virus. back in two thousand and eleven so that it could be spread between ferrets right now it's just spread between birds now and then it's gotten to humans but not the level to be truly concerned up a bit aware of but no talk of mammals and ferrets some you can spread of just with your brother you know and water droplets that's dangerous but as you said top of the claim with these is this kind of game of function technique is what they're using like you give good functions and more functions so you can better study it. helps us better understand how viruses might spread and plan for pandemics but there's a lot of argument against that yes and that was one of the things that when you look at it it's a standard idea that we've been working on. trying to study pandemics by making things worse and then saying what they do but bloomberg distinguished professor of biomedical engineering computer science and biostatistics heck of

a resume at johns hopkins university steven saul for that this reacher of research is so potentially harmful and offers such little benefit to society that they fear that and the age is endangering the trust that congress places in it if the research succeeds and one of the newly designed highly virulent flu strains escapes the damage could be horrific so that is where i think people are why are we doing this why is it such a high risk and it's literally a moment of it could get out of the lab somebody could walk out they're going to have these things happen and looked at these in the past in the room you know and then we created people feel that's where lyme disease came from things like that you know this is this is not new yeah. a new report from the daily beast found that from two hundred twenty thirteen to twenty eighteen emergency services was called to amazon warehouses in the u.s. at least one hundred eighty nine times according to and nine one one call logs it was found that suicidal thoughts threats and gestures prompted most of the calls by

management one man in ohio told police he was threatening to harm himself at the amazon warehouse because as he told lawn for us. quote the company told him they valued his employment and would be treated as if he mattered and not just a number however while amazon has been the focus of the harshest criticism suicide rates among the working class have actually been rising with every successive industrial revolution since the mid seventy's hundreds according to the c.d.c. suicide rates among american workers increased thirty four percent from the year two thousand to twenty sixteen as automation artificial intelligence threaten an already unstable job market coupled that with unrealistic expectations of productivity from c.e.o.'s and management and you have a dangerously miserable working class in fact a two thousand and nine study of factory workers found that of the one hundred seventy three factory workers they interviewed thirty three point five percent of them have poor mental health with anxiety insomnia at the highest levels at twenty nine point five followed by twenty eight point nine percent with somatic or

physical symptoms twenty three percent with social dysfunction and a whopping twelve point one percent of factory workers with severe depression that is three times the national average so hop watchers is the problem really amazon or is it that america continues to treat workers like me are stepping stones to the coming era of full automation with failing jobs failing wages job insecurity and obsession with wealth rather than work. there we do have that obsession with shiny things here it was culture don't want you but we respect wealth we respect you made all this money but if you see somebody who's worked their whole lives and has a decent house we don't think of them a successful middle and that's why do people of middle class you know you're talking about working class people blue collar they do have higher suicide rates going on for a very long time do you know it's one of those things when you look back at you and you look at the workforce here in the u.s. we have a basket of workforce everybody wants to work every i mean there's nobody out there

says i don't want to work everybody wants to be proud of something and work five days we can ignore the living blood. when you when you drive people into the ground mentally physically with the work you are doing you've got to ask that question you know where are our values you know and i think you are is a good point this isn't just an amazon problem in that question here because i mean look amazon is a monster it's a beast that employs more than six hundred forty seven thousand people around the world one hundred twenty five thousand employees working at the film and summers in just the u.s. and that was and what do you know they did say that they would raise minimum wage for their workers the fifteen an hour but yeah obviously when you see the nine one one calls and things like that conditions are brutal in these warehouses still do to a certain extent. crouch a former employee at a warehouse in lakeland florida had a mental health crisis on the job it was on he told the daily beast quote it's this isolating colony of hell where people having breakdowns as

a regular occurrence mentally taxing to do the same task super protect our ships ships four or five days a week that's what you know that's what he basically says the conditions are there but i don't i don't think. it is the exception to the norm and there's no obligations i mean what do you think of an assembly line was anybody who's worked and factories foundries you know making trucks making cars making widgets it doesn't matter you're doing the same thing it's a repetitive job that's what it is and i it made me wonder because at one manager had said to vox last year that amazon never trained us in how to communicate with associates we weren't trained to be understanding of their struggles or communicate with them it was all about mechanics here's my thing though when did your floor manager is at a warehouse become required to have therapist training because that no point in history and we have a carrot and that's the thing we've told people first century is that this is how

it's supposed to be you're supposed to work yourself into the ground you're right and now they're saying well if we're going to put all these machines and make it easier for me. then why am i still running around doing this and not getting paid decently right so but this is a problem from the beginning and that's where you are now i want to go i want to make sure we get a chance to do it so there is this nine hundred forty nine cold war era film where they were trying to make sure that everybody sort of understood how valuable the worker in capitalism was to the whole thing and how bad communism was but you get a little glimpse into how the machine age of industrial revolution and patriotism are used to convince american worker that they were lucky to have what they had let's take a listen. if you will have hundreds of wars or at least culturally joined with the machine to multiply your strength in the patients in the thousand time. this makes it possible for you to learn more than any worker in history.

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an excuse to surveil and incarcerate black americans in fact one controversial case of hip hop used to incarcerate is now attracting united states supreme court attention back in two thousand and twelve hip hop artist may have a model whose real name mr maule knox was arrested by pittsburgh police back in twenty twelve on going to jump start gun charges after his arrest according to the new york times mr knox and a friend recorded the song his title which included a vulgar word directed at the police was partly in no mas to an end to a classic with some learning after the song was posted to you tube and facebook a law enforcement charged with making terroristic threats and intimidating witnesses joining us now to help us better understand this attack on have pop culture and the first amendment implications involved is a civil rights attorney from minneapolis to chemo by pound thank you so much for joining us. thanks for having me. with this is one of those wild situations that i think people really don't understand the scope of that in the sense that this is from what i understand happening quite

a bit and in this particular case with jamal marks the arguments for the prosecution of persecution prosecution of knox over his lyrics are that he called out his the rest of the officers by maimane the saw him and these officers so felt so frightened frightened they couldn't do their jobs and and he wrote and said the cops informant should be killed in his lyrics do any of these arguments justify you know these charges they brought against him and the two year prison sentence that he's facing down or are they all do they all fall under the first amendment rights . in my honest opinion i believe that the song that was made by jamal knox should be protected freedom of speech under the first amendment unfortunately we have over their lives prosecutors and folks who work in the court system like many of our supreme. or justices who are out of touch with hip hop

culture most of whom are older white men who have not grown up listening to rap and hip hop nor do they typically have experience with life in the inner city and it's out of that context in which jamal knox recorded his song i actually took time to listen to his songs and he you could clearly hear from the lyrics that jamal knox is using wordplay to articulate what he experienced his frustration with the system and a lot of pent up venom and frustration with the officers in question as well as law enforcement in general now that is not unusual for people who live in communities that have faced unfortunate contacts with police that have faced violent encounters and over criminalize ation to have a lot of pent up anger and venom that's directed towards law enforcement but the reality is that that anger and frustration in many instances is justified in

a should not lead to criminal charges. that's just a really hard part about this is it's about expression of your speech expression of your your life experience and the one thing about hip hop is that it opened the world and those of us who didn't grow up in those areas who were like from small white crime and only white towns but we learned about what was going on it opened our eyes by listening to hip hop because it's an art form now courts have ruled that the first amendment does not protect all speech obviously there are some exceptions that you know libel incitement certain kinds of obscenity what they call fighting words and truth that threat so for those of for those people who maybe don't get hip hop or don't listen to it why do you believe that hip hop music and especially in this case doesn't fall under this exception. well in this and. as jamal knox and his lawyers have articulated jamal had actually adopted

a person. that is different from his normal person you know beyond that at the time this was a nineteen year old kid using the platform of rap and hip hop to express his frustration and unfortunately the courts took a fleer x. as being true and accurate in terms of threat being issued towards the police officers at hand and just as someone who grew up in the inner city of los angeles from my experience if someone were intending to carry out real threats against police officers or to encourage people to do so they're certainly not going to take it to the wrap platform to do it right they're just going to do what they need to do but the reality is that even with all of the frustration that people have in inner city communities and particularly young black men in their encounters with law enforcement they are not running around shooting and killing officers as par for the course most of the time people tolerate the violence in the abuse that goes

on and often people don't even file lawsuits in the face of the abuse that they encounter and so it's important for the supreme court justices to have the cultural context in which jamal knox recorded his song they also should lift into the police by n.w. way to gain an understanding of this jhana of music you know i couldn't agree with you more because again this is this is and this is somebody an artist expressing their life experience they're not asking people to go out in harmony but it reminded me a lot of the attacks after columbine you know back in about what two thousand two thousand i mean you know if there is you know if you just praise is right on makes rock n roll is going to make people listen to more subsite and kill their parents and all that kind of insanity but what's interesting is when you look at this particular case it's actually indicated. you know is that indicative of what actual larger effort by law enforcement maybe not cord made of but just kind of happening

to some sir use hip hop culture to justify the surveillance and prosecution of black americans is this ice labor or is this happening across the country. i believe that is happening across the country but in different ways and so if you recall when. you weigh brought forward there hit the police there was widespread outrage particularly amongst government officials and law enforcement officials because of the lyrics and because of the animists that was directed towards law enforcement they tried to ban n.w.a. which only made them stronger in the eyes of the public but in day to day instances in communities of color what we see are police officers pulling people over for playing their music too loud people in boom cars for example and often times those people are pulled over they may be issued a citation they may be frisked and have their car searched sometimes their cars are

towed and sometimes they're actually arrested because of the racial profiling that is couldn't acted to hip hop culture and this notion that folks who ascribe to hip hop culture are engaged in criminal activity so i think that that is the. underlying sentiment that's connected to the way in which people are treated when they embrace rap and hip hop culture particularly african-americans and other people of color and the reason of this one thing while we look at this you know you have a nineteen year old or we talk about when and at which i do remember and that's literally was my introduction and i have back and back in the day as was the n.w.a. and how much of that now i look and i see recently a twelve year old's rapper we'll see you know who has performed on ellen de generation's show for featuring for you know spreading positivity and he was arrested and alana mall and charged with get the. felony obstruction criminal trespass and disorderly conduct for allegedly selling mix tapes at the mall the key

moment what this is a twelve year old what kind of message does this send to young black people and young black artists. well it continues to send the message that in american society and culture black lives don't matter and beyond that folks who do not like black people or who do not like rap music who do not like black youth often have the power of nine one one at their disposal and they have the power of law enforcement the laws the policies and the courts to back them up this is a part of a longer history of anti-black sentimentality that has occurred throughout american history that continues to manifest in many different ways and rap and hip hop are the newest targets of this anti-black sentimentality but let's think about the other implications connected to this why do african-americans in particular use rap and hip hop as

a platform it's because in many instances their voices are not being heard in other venues within society not in government typically not in the media not out in the larger community and so rap and hip hop is the perfect vehicle for people to be able to express themselves as jamal knox did in this case at hand and you know it's interesting too is that the the amount of money right now being made off of these black artists in the world is astronomical like there's a lot of corporations making money off this i would hope that these corporations maybe ellen de generous if she's going to feature someone her so would step up with instances like what we're seeing with jamal knox or this twelve year old and say you know what we're going to pay your lawyer fees we're going to fight this alongside you because you're making us money you're being you know you're expressing your life we shouldn't be seeing the police be badgering you over this i hope that we could see that happen in the future. most stuff from the mccann absolutely even economic sanctions against the model law that i was involved in

this incident became i want to thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure having you on and your insight thank you so much. thank you. butterfly butterfly where do you go apparently the answer is southern california this week our friends are greeted with a billion with a b yes a million butterflies traveling from mexico to oregon to breed these are cousins of the monarch known as painted lady is and can be found in every continent at some point during the year except for south america where they're very rare they and their yellow green and black caterpillars can be found on over one hundred food plants and something like three hundred plants across the world and they are rarely seen anywhere as pasts mostly subsisting on flower nectar and if the honey do they will fly in groups of two to eight in circles to symbolise court trips so if you're on the west coast just what diverse skies for this mega migration because there

hasn't been a one white get since california had record breaking rainfall in two thousand and five comes to get top of the screen that we could be potentially maybe southern california could see some actual rainfall this is near there almost out of the drought i bring the butterflies probably show that you know when the butterflies come back like this that means the water's coming back things are coming back there's like lines that feel better than looking at some butterflies at the end of the bear and we talk about a lot of dark stuff on the show sometimes you got to got to have a little bit of lightness at the i've got to have a little smile on your face when you leave them out of our show prove that they remember everyone in this world we are definitely not told but we love to tell you all i love you i am tired old winter and on top of walla keep on watching those hawks out there on our great day and night everybody.

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