yes to see. the answer. and it. was betrayed. when something themselves well it's a part. of the common ground. readings and salutations we all love us some good scientific breakthroughs hard 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 asian 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 it's well science magazine reports that a u.s. government review panel quietly approved experiments proposed by two labs that were previously considered so dangerous the federal prisons have 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 lips that 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 us. wonder what. the. real thing it's like. as you put it out of. what they like you know what i got.

with. this. because i. welcome everyone to watch your dogs i am tyrrel them turf and i'm topical and i did not have a hand bird flu that's a start with this raid i might catch it. isn't this one of those things that just freaks you out or it's like oh it's like why are we funding this study like i understand the study but why you know the study of infectious diseases i understand about 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 most of all these first of all flu this whole like doing most of it instead of focusing on the people that are at rest most and how to make them healthier and do that 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 if where in a place where it's this horrible horrible thing and shutting down travel but it could but when you super charge the virus which is what these scientists are doing in two separate places right from park sides of the world water wisconsin with you know. when they supercharge the virus they're essentially making this virus into something even worse or more deadlier than it already is why. just 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 you know we've seen this kind of stuff before as have bad consequences but in response to the controversy of an h s 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 that we're in a position where much like foreign policy and much like the military industrial complex much so full of them. i think that there is 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 if you follow the guidance follow up and that's not enough yeah and there are for our thought that's what a lot of people are saying we. share of eros masoud aversive medical center rotterdam but our lives these are one of the that's one of the groups working on this and you're cicutto a couple of the universe in 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 the level to be truly concerned up a bit aware of but no talk of mammals and ferrets some you can spread it just with your brother you know in 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 function as a more function 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 i. 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 in danger and 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. look to. you know and then we create a people feel that's where lyme disease came from. you know this is this is not new . a new report from the daily beast found that from two hundred twenty thirteen to twenty eight thousand emergency services was called to amazon warehouses in the u.s. at least one hundred eighty nine times according to end 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 law enforcement 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. 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 about 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. you know we had we do have that obsession with shiny things here in this country don't worry about 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 no and that's why do people of middle class you know you're talking about working class people blue collar they do a fire service and rates going on for a very long time do the you know it's one of those things where you look back and you look at the workforce here in the u.s. we have a massive 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 a week and you know earn a living but 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 were is a good point this isn't just an amazon problem in that question you know because i mean look amazon is a monster it's a beast it employs more than six hundred forty seven thousand people around the world one hundred twenty five thousand employees working at the film and centers in just the u.s. and that was and twenty eighteen now they did say that they would raise minimum wage for their workers to fifteen an hour but you know obviously when you see the nine one one calls and if they see things like that conditions are brutal in these warehouses still do. to a certain extent. crouch a former employee of the worlds in lakeland florida had a mental health crisis while on the job it was on he told the daily beast quote it's this isolating colony of hell where people having returned 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 of the job machines 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 it no point in history of we have a carrot and that's the thing we've told people for centuries 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 so but this is a problem from the beginning and that's why we're now want to do i want to make

sure we get a chance to do it so there is this one thousand nine hundred forty nine cold war era film where they were trying to make sure that everybody sort of understood how valuable the worker and 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 workers that they were lucky to have what they had let's take a listen. few hundred good lord. bring in the big. thousand times. this makes it possible for you to earn more than any work year in history. and still have leisure time each day to enjoy life. man alive all right as we keep cell not life as we go to break card watchers don't

forget to let us know where you think about topics mcgovern on facebook you tube and twitter see our poll shows that r t dot com coming up it's the first amendment or bust a civil rights attorney in the cayman levy powers joins us to discuss the criminalization of hip hop music stay to watch and see. whether you're for or against the venezuelan government for or against socialism it is obvious the mainstream media are committing a lot of journalistic malpractise once again mainstream media echo the policy preferences of those in power if it comes to still another military intervention

will need to be held responsible. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed. there wasn't it was bed much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness isn't tray shrug wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch who is dedicated to increasing power for just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

when the whole make this manufactured sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. control middle of the room six. million more you don't need. well political news junkies and talking heads on both the right and left have been correctly and sometimes not so correctly losing their collective minds over social

media platform censorship these last few years the latest fury over facebook take down of alternative news site zero hedge as an example that there has also been a growing real world censorship an attack on hip hop music and culture you see despite being one of the biggest and most moneymaking musical genres in the world here in the united states many claim of the culture of hip hop is now being used as 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 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 this song whose title which included a vulgar word directed at the police was partly a no mas to an end to a classic with some learning after the song was posted to you tube and facebook law enforcement charged knox with making terroristic threats and intimidating witnesses

joining us now to help us better understand this attack on head pop culture and the first amendment implications of volved 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 gitmo marks the arguments for the prosecution of persecution prosecution of knox over his lyrics are that he called out his arresting officers by name when this 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 and his lyrics to 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 as freedom of speech under the first amendment unfortunately we have overzealous prosecutors and folks who work in the court system like many of our supreme court 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 all 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 and it should not lead to criminal charges you know that's that's a really hard part about this is that 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 stage 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 me as i can especially in this case doesn't fall under this exception. well in this instance as your monarchs and his lawyers have articulated jamal had actually adopted a persona that is different from his normal persona 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 its lyrics as being true and accurate in terms of being issue 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 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 the monarch's recorded his song they all. so should listen to ask the police by n.w.a. not to gain an understanding of this john or 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 he reminded me

a lot of the attacks after columbine you know back in about what two thousand two thousand i mean you know if they were you know to just praise right on makes rock n roll it's 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 it indicative of what actual larger effort by law enforcement maybe not cord made but just kind of happening to some sir use hip hop culture to justify the surveillance and prosecution of black americans as i slave or is this happening across the country. i believe that it's happening across the country but in different ways and so if you recall when and in what way brought forward they're hit if the police if there was widespread outrage particularly among the government officials and law enforcement officials because of the lyrics and because of the animals 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 oftentimes 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 it could neck to 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. on. you're lying since i'm it that's couldn't ective 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 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 online a mall and charged with get this felony obstruction criminal trespass and disorderly conduct for allegedly selling mix tapes at the mall 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 amount of money right now being made off of these black artists in the world is astronomical 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 often when mccann absolutely even economic sanctions against the model law that i was involved in this incident became are going 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 believe he 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 in something like three hundred plants across the world and they are rarely seen anywhere as pasts mostly subsisting on flower nectar and if it 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 walk to the skies for this megamart gratian because there hasn't been one like it since california had record breaking rainfall in two thousand and five comes together to have this mean that we could be potentially maybe southern california could see some actual rainfall this new year they're almost out of the drought moving the butterflies probably show that you know. when the butterflies come back like this that means the water's coming back things are coming there's like lines that feel better than looking at somebody or flies at the end of the barrel and we talk about a lot of dark stuff and sometimes you've got to got to have a little bit of lightness so that you have you got to have a little smile on your face when you leave matters are so pretty they remember

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