network operations in order to gain any decision advantage for the united states and its allies under all circumstances that's the official explanation other less government operations manual sounding words of the n.s.a. basically it's the i squat of the us ready and willing to protect the nation from cyber attacks all while analyzing and collecting basically everything we do online or over the phone but what happens when the n.s.a. zone technology is used against the very people supposedly there to protect that's what the city of baltimore is now asking after new york times investigation revealed that a tool developed and created by the n.s.a. may very well be at the heart of a cyber attack by digital extortionists that has frozen thousands of computers shut down email and disrupted real estate sales water bills health alerts and many other services. called eternal blue tool takes advantage of a bug in the old versions of microsoft windows operating system opening a door for other malicious code to be run from the infected computers the bug was

leaked online back in 2017 by a group calling itself the shadow brokers baltimore city council president brandon scott told the baltimore sun quote the federal government needs to have a larger role in supporting the city's recovery including federal reimbursement for damages the fact that the root technology that enabled this attack came from our own federal government just miles away only adds insult to injury and when he says miles he's not going around the n.s.a.'s it's just i'm here 17 miles from downtown baltimore so with a cyber frankenstein of n.s.a. creation causing drama on a u.s. city just miles from our nation's capital i think it's a good time to start watching the hawks. you. want to. treat this like real that it's good. for the bottom.

like you that i got. to. predict how. well they were going to watch in the i robot and on top of the wall and wow this is incredible. yeah i mean like baltimore doesn't have enough going on now you can't pay a bill. man all because of as i say a creation of the end of the day i release that's what the you know wall street journal new york times is alleging that there's and it's a creation was being used to basically shut everything down i mean when you're the established like you know thousands of baltimore city's government computers were frozen after all the files became digitally scrambled like you said baltimore residents have been able to pay utility bills parking tickets they came pay their taxes online site frozen all of baltimore and you know ultimately comes down to

extortion is the criminals are basically demanding like bitcoin essentially at the end of the bailout 100000 worth a bit coin or to stop what they're doing or 3 just 3 bitcoins to to release specific systems and a classic kind of extortion scheme naturally baltimore and everybody basically said no we're not going to do that and the f.b.i. and it will try to fix the problem as we speak yeah i think what's interesting is some security experts are kind of saying if. attorney blew the. software the small way created by the n.s.a. ends up being involved. it's. it's the organization in baltimore so it's every organization in baltimore that didn't patch their systems to the level that it would have kept this and i say tool which i'm sure are ready has you know systems in place for all of that so jake williams a former n.s.a.

operative actually said what was really interesting had said. should the victims have pap sure but that's like me putting a gun in the hands of someone intent on killing a police officer if the officer isn't wearing a bulletproof vest but should have been and that doesn't absolve me from playing a role in is death. so. yeah i think it's really interesting to say about these you know this idea that you have all of this stuff that was meant to go suck up all or information and you know keep us secure that when it gets in the hands of somebody else this is what happens it is that is incredibly dangerous when you think about it and i don't think we've really given enough i mean maybe i don't think we've really given enough thought at the end of the day of just like you know we're so dependent on the internet and we're so dependent for the you know these alert you know internet in the system the internet of things to kind of run everything it's the equivalent of what dropping a bomb on somebody right now if you but one of these virus viruses in the end of the spear and then you know what you said people get the wrong people get the wrong

items on it it is it's like it's like a very w m d people's cases where i mean with those shows you how deep most of the . cyber security. world has gotten pretty much everything it is and things to keep you safe it isn't fire walls that are better it isn't systems alarm systems in place there are just figuring out they spent a very large part of the last few years the n.s.a. the last decade or so is all about spying on americans all about spying on everybody else so we can just get all the information that maybe we can figure out how to go through it but i think this is one of those if you keep building machines that destroy things you're going to and it's going to end up coming back to haunt you as we sit here and now the oh we dropped the brunt of the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki and that stopped the war like this will be the other thing it will be oh well we're doing these cyber attacks like somehow that's ok. you know the

justification that we always do and there's a big debate too of like look if you developed this this software the problem this whole in this operating system 2 years ago but you sat on it for like 5 years up until you were outed by like a hacker group. having it what's your should the government be telling these companies a hey we found a hole we're going to exploit it you know what there's this huge debate certainly circulating around that but i don't think it's far from over in time so that of course i'm not so we decide privacy is important again i wish we could go into the really do. well. but legal battle between big pharma and its role in the opioid crisis here in the united states has begun watchers on tuesday and in norman oklahoma courtroom opening statements were given in the state of oklahoma scase against medical company johnson and johnson for their role in the overprescribing of painkillers which many believe directly led to

the current opioid crisis that led to a record 47600 related deaths in just 2017 o r t america's john heidi has been following the trial today and joins us now with the latest. job thank you for coming on. i got to ask you how did things go on this opening you know what what you know how are things going what happened today i mean that's the biggest question i have because it's pretty historic. today was for the opening arguments opening statements in this as you said historic and major case that certainly not only are other states that are suing big pharma companies such as johnson and johnson and purdue among others but also big pharma you know both are watching this you know very closely and there were definitely some sharp comments made by both prosecutors and the defense attorneys who were who were battling it out you know going toe to toe today for instance pain anguish heartbreak some of

the descriptions that prosecutors used in saying that johnson and johnson basically is created in oklahoma that pain the heartbreak of ruining families creating so much destruction by its medication and by selling. the opioids that it makes in oklahoma among them some of these drugs include fenton all in we know the ravages that have been created by fenton all the trial by the way kicked off today in norman that's a city in a county that's been ravaged by addiction in oklahoma one of the hardest hit states by the way in the united states the trial is described as the 1st major test of whether or not a state can really force a pharmaceutical company to pay damages linked to the opioid epidemic in this case the state of oklahoma is asking for $17500000000.00 saying vats the financial toll that the epidemic has has taken. in oklahoma guys whenever we've

heard these opening statements what case is the state of oklahoma making against johnson and johnson and what has the medical giants response to the state's accusation that. you have so prosecutors are basically all kind of walking through this they're alleging that johnson and johnson was motivated by greed and competition in selling its drugs and thus creating a quote unquote public nuisance further they say that they contend that by marketing the medication a safe and effective prosecutors contend that johnson and johnson made them to widely available and they say that the company was in competition with oxycontin maker purdue over opioid sales thus 2 fueling the epidemic that as we know and as you pointed out tabitha continues to rage in the united states and oklahoma and

particularly in the midwest purdue has already agreed to a $270000000.00 settlement with the state of oklahoma and by the way an update on this on sunday teva pharmaceutical industries the big israeli pharmaceutical company agreed to an 85000000. dollar settlement so defense attorneys at this point in the oklahoma case you asked me about this what they are saying well they argue that the pain medication is needed by 50000000 americans who they say deal with chronic pain many with debilitating or terminal diseases and that the drug maker shouldn't be held liable for what pharmacists prescribe if they're over prescribing the medication or how patients react to it and that basically that argument is in line with what a north dakota judge ruled in another case in which she dismissed complaints by the state of north dakota against produce but these are you know certainly these are some arguments that raise a lot of eyebrows among people considering what we're seeing in the united states

with the opioid epidemic oh they most certainly do every day we're looking at each other when. they're little bugs there are downs absolutely would be it's kind of like leave your house at the morgue. and you have that work with weed killer and everything out eventually you have to be responsible for something that you put on the market you know i mean i go to the barracks question is there so they're opening statements to be obvious there's probably going to be a warm trial but what what what what's the next phase of this trial. you know it's a good question so basically both sides will start arguing over the facts they'll argue over the numbers they'll likely call witnesses you know if this is any indication how the defense is going to proceed the main defense attorney in the case said in his opening statement that facts are stubborn things and so basically they'll be criticizing the allegations of course made by oklahoma and again going back to what i said earlier this contention that well don't hold us liable don't

hold us liable for what you know what's being prescribed by the way pharmacists are you know some of the bad operators out there we can't be responsible for a single person you know i think that's going to be a big part of the case and by the way this is a bench trial so it's not a trial by jury but instead a judge will ultimately be making a decision so all that said this is a historic trial it's a very important trial some say this could set the precedent for many other states 45 other states that have legal cases and legal action pending against these big pharma companies so we'll see how we'll see how day 2 you know shapes up and plays out we rolled on the other a moment thank you so much for joining us to burden. you're welcome. all right as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook you tube and twitter shows that r.t. dot com coming up we dive into what's been called one of the worst prison systems

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that you type into the search bar it will always be one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power and democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more growth we give them the sooner we're all. each week it seems politics across the aisle continue to become increasingly divided with new abortion bans war potential and grand debates pushing us further and further apart but if there's one problem the people of all political affiliations are increasingly agreeing on it's our prisons after years of

independent journalists exposing the inhumane conditions at america's prisons and jails and activists demanding something be done to fix the issues politicians and lawmakers seem to finally be feeling the pressure on april 2nd the u.s. department of justice investigated the living conditions in alabama prisons and said that they essentially violated the constitution the report says the violations are quote severe is systemic and exacerbated by serious deficiencies in staffing and supervision overcrowding and effective housing and classification protocols and adequate instead it reporting including the use of segregation and solid. very confined meant to both punish and protect victims of violence and or sexual abuse and a high level of violence that is too common cruel of any unusual nature and pervasive . the report stated that the d.o.j. could sue the state of alabama if they did not immediately address these conditions concluding that the a.t.o.c. is failing to adequately protect its prisoners from harm in violation of the 8th

amendment which bans cruel and unusual punishment now the alabama department of defense of released a 3 year plan that aims to address some of the human rights and constitutional violations which includes hiring more staff consolidating prisons and increasing health care staffing here and down to join us to help discuss the pressing issues of prison conditions in alabama and beyond is civil rights activist and founder of the ordinary people society pastor kenneth glasgow thank you so much for joining us today pastor gaza. thank you for having. someone who is a civil rights activist who has been both incarcerated previously and who works to help incarcerated people were the findings of this report shocking to you or was a sort of confirming what many many activists have been saying over the years about our prison system especially in alabama. you know the sad reality is that it wasn't shocking to us and no as matter of fact we have to give all. those guys

in the free alabama movement those guns and cost. alabama prisons who get the complaints to me over to when they have years ago and i was able to in president obama's administration to get them to carry mason who was deputy to live with and lived in eric holder with during that transition and amy solomon who helped get some of us up there me and my colleagues in order to speak to them in the federal into a to see reentry council and they got them to the proper authorities so far too and they have years you know we was shot with the shot was not the 5 things the shot was doing to the new president you can and the president has an office and also with jeff sessions go in and be in the attorney general we was shocked with the investigation was ongoing in last these 2 and a half years that's what shocked and you know lot of people have to look at these

could this is always exist always existed especially here in alabama and some of the southern states is kind a hard when you're in the northern states because there you are locked up behind the wall so it's kind of hard for you to see the preexisting slavery replicated x. is that's taking place here in the southern states because you here you have people out there on the chain gang on the farms with a guy with a horse in the shot and most of the prisons if you look at them they are that meg. really similarly to those places. which we call plantations so it's nothing new to us. but this sort of did that with it was new to us is that the form of justice actually quoted in a statement that we were corrected not for. no in the a.t.o.c. a 3 year plan one of the main ways they seek to improve the conditions is through increased staffing fair hiring more guards hiring more cops however

a lot of people are wondering if that's really enough to tackle sort of the full scope of issues you know you see they don't mention actually creating ways to lessen the prison population just hire more guards you know do you think the a.t.o.c. a 3 year plan will be enough to fix these problems or are they missing key elements . of course not the a.t.o. see what they're doing is called bait and switch which is a common factor down here. again they are sitting up there saying we're going to hound these new officers that's supposed to make him say that's the pose to compensate for what you say about their in adequacy in management there in adequacy in their security in providing a safe environment however what you don't see them address in their 3 year plan that i look forward all those pages that i happen to read which really really was waste a term because they don't address their inhumane treatment at all if you know the stat they don't address how they're going to fix the problems or the conditions of

the prisons at all what they do address is how are they going to try to build new prisons get a $900000000.00 bond which we all know is really up to buy the $1000000000.00 in the have and they're going to use that now here's the problem that don't nobody want to know and they don't want us to bring out the public that who gets this contract and of course it's going to be favorable to whoever knows somebody that knows somebody that knows somebody and tell people all the time advocacy here in the south is different from advocacy in the north and what i mean by that is here the resources in the north may be money but the resources in the south is relationships so the plane know who you know and who you know and who you know so who gets this contract is not only going to be the land owner but also going to be the building owners who ever have like 10000 inmates of your mates and sadly the state is going to be beholden to that one person that one contract are there to

contract or the 3 contractors and as big as the biggest dollars that's going to go to them that's going to be holding our prisoners hostage they don't address that part either and they don't want the public to know that of them increase in the officers who is a good 1st step to do you know. but one of the things that they did stop and we had to get rid of death of the commission a couple of who tried to stop what the inmates were already doing themselves if you look at when they had convicts against valid inmates that were inside these prisons that would give about this they stopped a lot of the killed in the night of the stabbings and everything that just happened we just had some more killers that just occurred over this weekend i want to ask you a stab i want to ask you about the inmates in particular because in 2016 incarcerated people with the free alabama movement the incarcerated workers' organizing committee initiated the largest prison strike in u.s. history to address some of these exact issues the department of justice named could

it be. less. could it be that this strike and others like it are actually working more than the powers that be would like to admit and actually help move lawmakers to look in the prisons despite you know not admitting to the problems that we're seeing in them. most definitely when you have representatives such as myself i was on it with them choosing me to be their representative unless quality was the free alabama movement that organize against racial barriers against religious barriers against incarcerated barriers that organize over 20 states and 40 to 50 prisons it was not. you know it was free alabama the inmates inside and i don't want nobody to take that away from them not even me they just asked me to represent them and do that and i was able to take those complaints to the department of justice doing president obama sr now with

that being said they also have the solutions one of the biggest things that i tell everybody all the time is that there's a lot of organizations and there's a lot of government agencies that are committing malpractise and what i mean by that is when you go to a doctor and the doctor actually when it's wrong you know that's the 1st thing he actually. you get people out here trying to make programs or trying to make a one size fits all for everything that's approved with the do with the person that's getting out of prison that's formerly incarcerated in that actually know what they need not do a proper evaluations are asked me so that's malpractise you cannot make a proper diagnosis unless you ask the patient or the people you're trying to help what are the symptoms so that's where we go wrong 1st and foremost 2nd the bow when you have these same individuals that were able to do a national prison straight from inside the prison that you call your serve securing care because of you control and they able to do this then of course they got the

solution to your problems as well so did you have to me they were talking about bringing in more officers when the officers of those prisoners they wore the pin the on the inmates then the inmates all of them because they were told the out number we had a lot of officers matter of fact we just one in the march we just made 13th in the state capital about the did the part of the justice report that was with us and told us that he was totally reliant on some of the inmates because his administration a.t.o.c. did not have any backup plans or any security plans for those officers in particular especially when you get 7 officers or 12 officers to about 1500 inmates . that's incredible i mean there's so much i wish we had more time to sort of cut through all of this i want to thank you so much for for coming on today and helping us work to talk a little bit about the press and the president and she is definitely

a thank you so much from the ordinary people people society pastor kind of glasgow thank you so much serve our pleasure to have you want to marry. and thank you for have. when it comes to cleaning up the massive amount of plastic in our environment we get a lot of lip service from major companies but very little action. one corporate giant is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to cleaning up the plastic choking our oceans or rather they're putting their money where their feet are in 2021 should join us will be introducing the future craft loop a running shoe made entirely to be remade so the materials used in the shoe are designed to be part of a closed loop or circular manufacturing process meaning once you've worn the shoe down if you were term the shoe to a diva's it will be melted down a remolded into another pair of running shoes rather than finding their way into a landfill and center rater or ocean floor and it turns out a lot of the materials being used for the. are actually from plastic from your

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