readings of the salyut. officially officially the purpose of the national security agency or n.s.a. is to lead the u.s. government in cryptology that encompasses both signals intelligence and information as cern assurance products and services and enables computer 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 id geek squad 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 is 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 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 7000 miles from downtown baltimore so with a cyber frankenstein of n.s.a. gratian causing drama of a u.s. city just miles from our nation's capital i think it's a good time to start watching the hawks. were getting. good looks like. it's good. for the bottom. like you but i got. sick as. well going on the watch in the. winter 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 an essay 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 this tablets 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 it's like frozen all of baltimore and you know ultimately comes down to extortion of the criminals are basically demanding like bitcoin essentially at the end of the bailout 100000 worth of bitcoin or to stop what they're doing or 3 just 3 bit coins 2 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 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 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 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 in is death. so. yeah i think it's really interesting to say that 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 then you know what you said people get the wrong people get the wrong items on it it is like it's like a very w m d people's cases 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 figured 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 drop the brunt of the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki and that stop 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 or having it what's the you know should the government be telling these companies a hey we found a. all we're going to exploit it. like there's a huge debate circulating around that that i don't because it's far from over anytime soon the course i'm not going to side privacy is important again i wish we

could figure that one out to 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 scaife 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 question how to get them following the trial today and joins us now with the latest. john thank you for coming on i got to ask you how did things go on this opening day you know what was it 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 the 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 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 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 have you now have 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. 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 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 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 per do 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. were looking at each other with their little bugs there are absolutely would be it's kind of what are you 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 i mean i go to the next question is there so the opening statements the very obvious there's probably going to be a warm trial but why. what merrick's what's the experience with this throw. 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 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 or miami 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 properties covered on facebook. shows that r.t. dot com coming up we dive into what's been called one of the worst prison systems of the united states of america what's going on and what's going on to fix it the founder of the ordinary people society or kind of straight through what. he would leads have suffered another humiliating black eye and bloody nose all across europe voters put the leads on notice the status quo is not working for the

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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 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 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 our 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 see. to the state of alabama if they did not immediately address these conditions concluding that they 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 ends to address some of the human rights and constitutional violations which include hiring more staff consolidating prisons and increasing health care staffing here now to join us to 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. 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. where the sad reality is that it wasn't shocking to us and i know as a matter of fact we have to give all all. to those guys that in the free alabama movement those guys and of course. the prisons who got the complaints to me over to when they have years ago and i was able to do in president obama's administration to get them to care with mason who was deputy to the rhythm 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 counsel and to get them to the proper authorities so would to have yours you know we was shot with a shot was not the 5 things the shot was doing to the new president you can

the president has an office and also with jeff sessions go in and be in the attorney general we were. the investigation was ongoing in lasted these 2 and a half years that's what the shock was in you know people have to move 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 in the sub 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 there in adequacy in

the security in providing a safe environment however what you don't see them address in the 3 year plan that i look forward all those pages. then i happened to read which really really was wasted time 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 who gets this contract is not only going to be the land owner but 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 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 there were gives about as they stopped a lot of the killed in the now that the stabbings and everything that just happened

we just have 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 26 to. 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 name 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. well 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 they was free

alabama the inmates inside and i don't want nobody to take that away from them not even me they just 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 a 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 or the people you're trying to help what are the symptoms so that's

where we go wrong and 1st and foremost 2nd the bo when you have these same individuals that were. a will to do with 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 admit they were talking about bringing their more offices when the offices of those prisons they were the in the going the inmates then the inmates all of the 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.o.c. did not have any backup plans or any security plans for those offices in particular especially when you've got 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 for coming on today and helping us work through to talk a little bit about the press and prison issues it's definitely a thank you so much from the ordinary people people society prosser kind of glasgow thank you so much sir pleasure to have you over there. 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 down every molded into another pair of running shoes right. other than finding their way into a landfill and center a tear or ocean floor and it turns out a lot of the materials being used for this are actually from plastic from the oceans it's pretty incredible various they're going to take the plastic out of the oceans but go back around with. no more plastic and no more plastic or notions on 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 we are told walt i love you i rolled with her and i have a lot of people in watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody.

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