storm the ramparts when the workers a crowd funding platform kickstarter made history on tuesday when they voted to unionize making them the 1st in the industry to do so what a day what a week unions in silicon valley online free speech under attack my friends it seems like a pretty good time to be watching the hawgs. you want to go on a city the streets you want to. play so you would see see the prices joyce state. rolls royce gracie suggests least systemic deception is the late show which. some good deals. for i welcome everyone to watch in the works i am tired and i'm in the wow look at this. talking about security and we've got the potential destruction of section $230.00 and then you also have the unions forming and silicon valley who'd

a thunk. i thought that if it's a different time 2020 have a lot of supply of it appears with with everything that facebook has come under scrutiny for when it comes to all of the all of the ads that they've been running particularly political campaign ads that many feel aren't necessarily the most truthful but in all honesty are most about is a huge leap from endorsing in housing on your platform political ad that doesn't have truth and it to actually pushing to change the law for individuals who may be speaking out against something or who may be shading other individuals on your platform i think that's a very different thing and it also opens up a brand new can of worms because there are people who are literally using their twitter and facebook figures every day to attack other people and it may be wrong in and of itself a nothing a thumping individuals from suing those who pay me their names or she would think that they shouldn't be sharing but you also have to also be able to come after the company is a problem in and of itself i don't agree with that yeah that's where i feel like

there's advocates for this on the democratic side of the republican side you know within the u.s. government like saying look look section 230 which essentially if you didn't understand you know if we didn't understand it from web scrubbing earlier basically like it prevents. average suing somebody if i say i'm a terrible human being facebook you can sue me and say like tiger you're lying i'm a wonderful human being what you are but you can say something right. but then it protects facebook from actually being held liable for anything i might say on it $230.00 what they want to do is get rid of facebook twitter all of these major companies and smaller companies would be held liable for whatever their users do when using. their algorithm online or what they've set up it's really dangerous at the end of the interest and what is what makes it limiting because there are so many people who issue or take issue with things that are said about them in any platform again i think that it's absolutely fine to many people

of already done this going forth and for libel and other things when it comes to individuals making comments about them but going to sue the platform is a little bit of a stretch they think you made this comment earlier we don't do this when people send text messages you can write a shady text or say something people don't like via text message and we're not calling up verizon and sprint and everybody else and looking at the carriers as part of the problem. the messaging service is not the problem it's the message go after the message of go after all the people to do all the slow shaming of women in the make the best threats towards women and things like that like actually investigate. the other big thing too is the union i am so happy to see unions in silicon valley right now i am and i'm excited about this because i'm a big pro-union person yeah they have their problems but i think that ultimately the workers need good representation of someone in their corner and it's nice to see that kickstarter kind of gave in and everybody kind of put a union in that space no i agree with you 100 percent on that organized labor has

a long and strong history across this country and i think that in the tech space pacifically with the large amount of people who work there the advancements that we've seen there was only going to be a matter of time before they should be. and to take hold they think that 2019 specifically showcased so many wins for unions across the country we're talking about of the teacher strikes and the gains that they got in several cities across the country we look at what happened with general motors we look at nurses at chicago hospitals there's been so many wins across the country as it related few workers fanning out for their rights in advocating for health care and advocating for better hours and advocating for wages that actually made sense i think that silicon valley was not going to be too far off but they definitely picked a time that was very bright and then look to silicon valley when you hear those reports about how facebook was was treating their employees and things like that their growth in these people lot of those people and even the companies that they hired are actually facebook employees or like google employees the outside contracting they're driving these people into the dirt so it's good to see this

come forward and say i'm happy to see if i should with an organization like started because a kickstarter as a fund raising the nama there are different from some of the other ones because they do take into effect all of these humanitarian efforts and goals and things like that so to not to not be paying your people fair wages to be working them into the ground it kind of goes against everything that this organization stands for at least in practice totally couldn't agree more. there's no shortage of crisis in america's public school system from out of date teacher training pipeline issues inadequate funding models and school safety concerns all of these things come to mind but students of color and those with disabilities face another challenge exclusionary practice exclusionary practice remove students from the classroom who teachers don't feel they are equipped to manage or are afraid of a troubling case out of florida takes exclusionary practice and concerns for the treatment of disabled students to new heights the mother of 6 year old florida student not a king was left outrage when she learned her child was taken into

a mental health facility without her knowledge not only was the mother not contacted nor did she provide consent before her child with this court into the facility after she got there her 6 year old was given anti-psychotic drugs and if you think the torture is chain of events in there you'd be wrong the young child was also kept on lockdown at a facility for 48 hours. 48 hours officials at lovegrove elementary school where young lady is a student claimed she was so out of control that she had to be sent to the mental health institution a counsellor at the school gave the recommendation for not to get to be committed under the florida mental health act of $171.00 commonly called the baker act under this law the social workers have the power to have children as young as 2 years old committed without parental permission sounds like the people behind this legislation need to be committed themselves at the very least this needs to be revisited in the light of civil and human rights abuses it clearly violates if you

don't see the problem for what it is i'll paint a clearer picture florida kids are getting sent to psych units in record numbers under the baker act the shaadi of valuation kids as young as 2 are receiving have resulted in the removal of thousands of florida students from the classroom and as a $29.00 teams over $32000.00 mental health evaluations were conducted outpacing child population growth statewide cases like young audience are rare and only with vigilance camp lorna finally sunset this devastating loss. wow that is a brutal law i never even like but you know what really shocked me when i was reading up on this when you brought this sort of attention today is i assume that the baker act came into being like in response to the school shootings and things like that i assume it was like one of those like laws that you know you just kind of put out there hoping to quell a problem in society but this is this has been around for 5 decades or a really long time and there wasn't a or at least it doesn't appear that there was a shockwave factor like school shootings that actually made this come about this

was utilized at a time where florida schools that actually take them apart some of the integration issues they had in their schools at the time that this came about it was in response to a lot of different counties were using to have minority students in their schools and so there was there's an interesting back story to this that has absolutely nothing to do with mental health at all what's interesting is in the time of the school shooting will say 20 euro 2012 on the it's been used 7500 times with children it's the numbers of rapidly shot up recently in the times it's being used which blows my mind because this this law essentially if i read it right was really about only intervening in a child's well for you know grabbing a kid and something to get into a psych evaluation and say well this was only in cases of imminent danger and when i think of imminent danger i don't think of a 6 year old a 6 year old does not come into my brain when i'm thinking of imminent danger from a child absolutely but imminent danger when it is left to be described by the

teachers themselves imminent danger and imminent threat being an entirely different thing and we've seen this also happen with law enforcement when it comes to people with mental issues but also when it comes to minorities specifically and here we have a case where the 2 actually collide so one of one of the other big problems is who is determining whether or not there is a mental capacity issue or something that should be actually treated in 9 out of 10 cases in florida the person who makes that decision is somebody in law enforcement it is not an actual count. it is not someone who is trained to find these things and young people it is literally one of your school resource officers these people aren't skilled or trained in anything mental health specifically and a lot of this is is basically flagged by a teacher in the majority of cases there are teachers who literally have classroom management issues so a kid may not be sitting down all the time or good maybe or they may not want to do nap time or they may be distracted in class which is very common specific or kids who have a.d.h. d. which young not does. and this is what ends up happening you know it's also

incredible to me to the fact that like both the police officers who are them driving to do essentially the funny farm sorry i know that's not to see where they're driving over this place they're both shoes really cool she doesn't seem like she's while the moment she doesn't seem like she's a bad kid and the fact that you can't call a parent during that entire process to me that's the 1st person you call if your child is acting up in school in a way that you need to call in the authorities wouldn't it make sense to call the parent say hey your daughter or your son whoever we're having a hard time can you come to the school absolutely because if a child falls and injures themselves and needs to get any type of medical attention at this and the school has to the school is authorized to notify the parents like you have to do that so to remove a student and take them to a mental health facility and not tell the parents and then furthermore for that mental health facility to administers psycho drugs to these kids is

a huge problem one you don't know how this might interact with any medication this child has already taken you don't know their health or their family history there is nothing on record for this child and you're giving them these really high level drugs at 6 years old and the majority of psycho cycle psychotic drugs are not even regulated to give to a child that young and then this child is locked away for 48 hours and in that case just kept getting worse and worse and think of the damage you're putting on these children and their child you know other children like not here but the bad ones are put on them so would you ever want to go by. school you know if your school did that graduate of a class sent you off to a psych psychiatric ward middle class just because you didn't want to listen the teacher provides minutes that's pretty brutal and you have an absolutely going to think that one of the other issues is that this isn't a new story florida has been doing this for a while but they actually picked up between 20112018 again thousands of students have undergone this process and nothing is being done. all right everybody as we go to break cock watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered of social media be sure to check out our watching the hawks podcast

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a high stakes election year president truck ran on improving the lives of veterans but the agency at the forefront of doing just that is unraveling before our eyes last week the deputy secretary of veterans affairs was fired email better ins with sexual assault claims are being ignored and reports of wrongdoing are being met with their tally action against will blowers not to mention veterans health initiatives are going underfunded it's hard to imagine how things could get any worse in or afghanistan the long awaited and highly anticipated u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan could be on the horizon after all the on and off talks with taliban leaders and the state department things finally seem to be moving in the right direction. but things aren't always what they seem the truck administration has not been forthcoming with details of the deal with taliban leaders or a clear timeline for withdrawal they have asserted goals much the same as in previous administrations stopping violence on the ground sustaining dialogue and mutual respect between the taleban and the u.s. backed afghan government and ongoing efforts to dismantle the islamic state and al

qaida but troop withdrawal is complicated when it comes to running for president and not just for donald trump if you've paid attention to any of the democratic presidential debates contenders for the white house have been vocal on this topic from their pete to joe biden amy club which are all have advocated born into america's longest running war but with the cabinet that so form of limited special operations and intelligence remain in the region joining us to talk more about veterans affairs the myths and realities of troop withdrawal and taliban talks is veterans' advocate and political analyst riley conflict thanks for joining us thank you roy thank you as always for coming i want to. has there been any word what what is the reason behind the kind of surprise firing of james burton the deputy secretary of veterans affairs that essentially came out of nowhere for a lot of people to follow the what's going on over so yes it does come out of nowhere and the v.a. has not put out any official statement other to say that the secretary has lost

confidence in mr burns ability to do the job however the scuttlebutt on the ground is that v.a. recently had fumbled a very high profile investigation into a sexual assault claim that involved a staffer on the house veterans affairs committee and by way of background the staffer reported a sexual assault at the d.c. v.a. medical center the v.a. came out and said after the office of the inspector general investigated that they could not substantiate the claim that was not true what happened was when they looked into it the v.a. is security cameras were not working so they couldn't substantiate the claim because the security cameras were not working for the spin that the a put on that was very negative and there were also rumors. the secretary had tried to dig up dirt on the background of this particular female veteran who had made the claim and there are some talk that the deputy secretary burns had pushed back against doing this and that is ultimately what led to his firing v.a. has denied those claims but that is what some other stakeholders have hypothesised

. terrible things go without saying yeah i mean it may be to err you don't want to take these things lightly and you know for a white male secretary to you know approach a female veteran that way i think that's indicative of you know a lack of respect unfortunately. the department referenced in the entrance to the segment they're really dealing with some problems in terms of how they're handling sexual assault claims this ties into d.o.d.'s because a lot of these are military sexual assaults and how you get proper v.a. benefits and treatment for that a lot of female veterans are saying when this is how investigations are handled they don't feel comfortable going to the v.a. they don't want to go because if they're going to be assaulted and then they're not going to be believed that reinforces the military sexual trauma that they're supposed to be getting treatment for and that in turn compounds the problem because where are they going to go for help if they can't go to the v.a. . why do you think things are falling apart so quickly as you spoke of the sexual

assault claims these are things that we've known about when it comes to better and when it comes to being a military officials to begin with for decades and you know in the era of need to the expectation is that women are going to be able to vocalize the more they're going to have more support that doesn't necessarily exist or women in the military what is that what does the pathway look like for them so i think it's important to note that big picture you know the v.a. has been a mess for a long time and it's as much as people want to criticize the trumpet ministration here a lot of these problems are longstanding and so with the military sexual trauma issue in particular a lot of this stems. from the machismo culture that's so prevalent in the military and we just the military in particular has not caught up i think with other segments of society in terms of how they view the power dynamic between men and women who are serving together and while we still have that very hierarchical structure and still some of that again just that really strong machismo culture

that carries over into how the v.a. does things because most high ranking officials that come from a military background so that culture isn't grained in them and they bring it with them to the v.a. so like many things they think the v.a. just culturally needs an update and because they cling to this outmoded culture of how things are that leads to many of these other problems that we see within the department you know you've studied this for a long time with a little bit about the kid for change therefore tell me how do you make those changes is come with you know a new appointments to the top of the heads of the department was just one of those things it's going to be generational and it just kind of we don't know well i think it has unfortunately been generational as somebody who studies the v.a. history i think you see from the beginning v.a. was plagued with issues when v.a. 1st before was a cabinet department it was just the veterans administration the very 1st administrator of the department was martin scandal in the harding administration

and was involved in selling contract goods at a higher price that perry bill depot to his friends went to jail and that's kind of you know the v.a.'s over in a store that's the eighty's opening act explain what they were never really fully recovered and so when they elevated v.a. to a cabinet department in 1988 the thought process was well this will bring more accountability you know the secretary will have direct access to the president they'll be more awareness but unfortunately i think what we see is as a policy issue in this kind of transitions into what you guys are talking about with afghanistan we have a civilian military divide people think the v.a. is somebody else's problem i support the troops but i'm not going to get really into. vested in this and so politically i mean people don't often win elections on whether they're supporting veterans benefits everybody says they support veterans they don't necessarily want to do the hard work of holding the department that cares for them accountable and in the meantime it's going to continue to be a problem because again we continue to be at war do we do great transition for me

thank you i because that is the other thing i want to talk about today is that we've seen multiple presidents over and over again talk of this big game above we're going to pull our troops out of afghanistan i'm going to be the guy trumps the latest in a war was going to be the guy are we ever really going to. war and do you give weight to these talks from all the you know you've followed this for a long time are these talks any different from what we've seen before i don't know that they're any different than what we've seen before however what is different is that it is now an election year and trump knows that people are paying closer attention to this now that it is an election year than they have perhaps in the past couple of years and so when it comes to foreign policy we've seen the candidates running in the democratic primary have very similar talking points of we're going to pull our ground troops out they talk a lot about we're going to take our combat troops out and that's really just a semantic difference because of the nature of combat now it's not hand to hand fighting that we had in previous generations so saying we're going to maintain some

presence but remove our contract combat troops i mean that's kind of a distinction without a difference and so it's a talking point that i think makes candidates think that you know they're going to win support that this is a concept that people support but very few of them offer specifics on how they're actually going to do that and i think we've seen not just with these current conflicts but you know going back to vietnam as well where a lot better at starting wars than we are finishing them that's for and that's a problem that's very true that's very true that is what we've heard the democratic candidates speak out about utilizing special forces pulling out combat troops as you spoke of one of the interesting that they always have is that this is to make sure that they're stabilizing the region that there's a certain level. section isn't there and that our allies will state as well what do you think about that so i mean to a start next time i think that that is valid however if we haven't stabilize the region in 20 years i don't know that we're going to suddenly stabilize it now and i think that that's an important consideration and i think when you look at some of the more in-depth reporting that's been done our allies have indicated that they're

they're kind of ready for us to go america is like that the guest who stayed too long in the party. so roy i guess i thank you so much always a pleasure having you want to bring in your knowledge and expertise to these subjects thank you so much for coming thanks for having me. our look i can't stand the cold nor do i like sleeping in the cold which means that me and mehmet toads living in the permafrost of siberia have absolutely nothing in common except they give my utmost respect because not only did these microscopic worms survive the freezing cold of the siberian permafrost but they did it while being frozen i'm lying dormant for over 42000 years yes these siberian mimic toads i believe that's where they called a bend in the state of deep earth's pleistocene era and are now the 1st living evidence of multicellular organisms returning to life after being frozen in the arctic so for all those fans of science fiction classic the thing these nematodes

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