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 help alerts and many other services. called eternal blue tool takes advantage of a bug in the old versions of microsoft's 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 broker. 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 fooling around the n.s.a. sits just him 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. it looks like. it's going. to sit. there like you know that i got. to do with. this. because. well i'm on the watch in the. wind and on top of the hour

wow this is incredible. yeah i mean like baltimore doesn't have enough going on now you can't pay a bell. man all because of and as i say creation of the end of the day i believe that's what the you know. new york times is alleging that this and this a creation was being used to basically shut everything down i mean when you hear the stabber it's like you know thousands of baltimore city's government computers were frozen after all the files became digitally scrambled like you said baltimore residents haven't been able to pay utility bills parking tickets they came pay their taxes online it's like frozen all of baltimore and you know alternately comes down to extortion as the criminals are basically demanding like bitcoin essentially at the end of the bailout 100000 worth of. corey or to stop what they're doing or just 3 bitcoins to to release specific systems and of course that kind of extortion

scheme naturally baltimore and everybody agrees are going to go we're not going to do that but if you are able to try to fix the problems. yeah i think what's interesting is some security experts are kind of saying if. attorney blew this software this mall where created by the n.s.a. ends up being involved. it's. it's the organization in baltimore so it's every organization and baltimore that didn't patch their systems to the level that it would've kept this and i say a tool which i'm sure are already 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 patched 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 that doesn't absolve me from playing a role and 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 alerts you know the 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 viral viruses in the end of the spear and 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 skaters where i mean with those shows you how deep most of the . you know 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 then 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 there's software that there's hole in this operating system 2 years ago where you sat on it for like 5 years up until you were outed by like

a hacker group. having it like what's the you know should the government be telling these companies hey we found a hole we're going to exploit it you know like there's this huge debate circulating around that that i don't because it's far from over any time soon the course i'm not going to side privacy is important again i wish we could figure that one out right now i really do see. the legal battle between big pharma and its role in the opioid crisis here in the united states has begun house 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 overdose deaths in just 2017 alone are to my cost on how to get them 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 day you

know what you know how are things going what happened today i mean that's the biggest question i have this is 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 opioids that it makes in

oklahoma among them some of these drugs include fenton all and we know the ravages that have been created by fenton all the trial by the way kicked off today in norman city and 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 lead to the opioid epidemic in this case the state of oklahoma is asking for $17500000000.00 saying that 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 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 and selling its drugs and. 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 too 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 $85000000.00 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 he 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 over there most certainly. we're looking at each other when. there are little bugs there are absolutely ribbit it's kind of what you're going to 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 anything i go to the next question is there so that opening statements the very obvious there's probably going to be a warm trial but what what what what's the experience with this trial. 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 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 and 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 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 miami thank you so much for joining us today. you're welcome. all right as we go to break clark watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the properties covered on facebook you tube twitter and see our poll shows that are coming up we dive into what's been called one of the worst prison says the united states of america what's going on and what's going to fix it the founder of the ordinary people the society poster kind of go straight for.

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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 in 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 us 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 solitary confinement to both punish and protect victims of violence and or sexual abuse and a high level of violence that is to comment 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 has released a 3 year plan that aims to address some of the human rights and constitutional violations which include 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 the civil rights activist and founder of the ordinary people society pastor kenneth glasgow thank you so much for joining us

today pastor scott. thank you for having. some of the 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. the sad reality is that it wasn't so good to have to now as many of you we have to give. to those in the free alabama movement those guns and cost of. the alabama prisons who got the complaints to me over to him i have years ago and i was able to do a president obama's administration to get them to carry mace who was deputy to the rhythm eric holder 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 agency

reentry council and they got them to the proper authorities to and have us you know we were shot with the shot was not the 5 the shot was doing to the new. president that's in office and also with jobs. lessons go in that being the attorney general we was shocked with the investigation was ongoing in last these 2 and a half years that's what the shock was in you know lot of people have to look at these conditions always exist always existed especially here in the alabama and some of the southern states is kind of the hard when you're in the northern states because there you are locked up behind the wall so it's color hard for you to see the preexisting slavery replicate the actions that's taken place here in the southern states because you here you have people out there on the train on the forms with a guy with a horse in the shot and most of the prisons if you look at them they are diametrically

similarly to those places. which we call plantations so it's not nothing new to. say but it is something that we're glad it was new to us is that the department of justice has actually quoted and stated that we were correct enough. now immediacy is 3 year plan one of the main ways they seek to improve the conditions is through increased staffing for hiring more guards hiring more cops however a lot of people are wondering at that's really enough to tackle sort of the full scope of shares you know they don't mention actually creating ways to lessen the present population just hire more guards you know do you think that the 83 year plan will be enough to fix these problems or are they missing key elements. of course not they the all see what they're doing this code switch which is a common factor down here in the south again they are sitting up there saying that

we're going to how these new offices that's supposed to make and save best opposed to compensate for what you say about the adequacy of management adequacy in the security in providing a safe environment however what you don't see them address in the 3 years. and 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 and are if you know the stat they don't address how they're going to fix the problems or the conditions of the prisons at our 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 whoever gets this contract is not only going to be the land owner but they're also going to be the building owners and who else would have liked 1000 inmates of your mates inside 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 a big 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. 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 there were gives about as they stopped a lot of the killed in the night of the stabbings and everything that just happened we just have some more killers that just occurred over this weekend i want to stab you i want to ask you about the. 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 the 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 problems that 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 was wrong you know that's the 1st thing he actually do you get people out here trying to make programs or trying to make a one size fits all for everything that's

a problem with the do with the person that's getting out of prison that's formerly incarcerated and not actually know what they need not do improper evaluations are asked me so that's malpractise you cannot make a proper diagnosis unless you x. the patient are 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 of the vigils that we're able to do with national prisons straight from inside the prison that you call yourselves securing care because of you controlled and they able to do this then of course they got to salute to your problems as well so did you have to me they were talking about bringing them or offices when the offices of those prisons they were the pin the going the inmates then the inmates all of them because they are told the out number we have a lot of offices where the fact we just had 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 it ministration

them a b. or c. did not have any backup plans in the security plans for those offices in particular especially when you get 7 offices or 12 offices to about 1500 inmates. that's incredible i mean there's so much i wish we had more time to sort of go through all of this i want to thank you so much for coming on today and helping us work through to talk a little bit about the press and the prison issues it's definitely a thank you so much from the ordinary people people society pastor kind of glasgow thank you so much sir pleasure to have you wonder. 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 she joined adidas will be introducing the future craft loop a running shoe made entirely to be remade see 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 return the shoe to adidas it will be melted. 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 the archons it's pretty incredible various they're going to say we take the plastic out of the oceans put them on the show go back around with no no more plastic and no more plastic it with no shoes and shoes that essentially just forever get really was the roommate over and over again that's really cool all right that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told that your loved one to tell you all i loved you i rolled and turned and on top of the lawless keep on

watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody. no one else seems wrong why don't we all just don't. let me. get to shape out just days after. i didn't get a trip because the trail. went cold let me find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. they are constructing

a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results deiced on what they think you should be seen if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election besan exist the more growth we give them the sooner we are all. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that in this population of a conviction if you look at any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat

promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind to make the uncomfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer and don't accept their denials she said therefore what it. said on the statement that i will be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their crimes.

but. the headline stories of the vis our despite months of u.s. led efforts to overthrow president maduro remains in the cold deadlock washington throwing its support behind the. leader of germany's ruling party islam for proposing tighter media regulation ahead of votes in the country claiming that he should bloggers for her party's heavy losses in the elections. so why rules should apply for digital content these are depressions rubel need to discuss not just. for media policy as a whole in the future of democracy. and a deadline looms for israel's.