i don't think you. greetings and salutations since the start of the pandemic amazon dot com has quickly become one of the most essential tools of survival during these bizarre and brutal stay at home times from groceries to face masks to board games you can damn near find anything you may need or desire to help you survive and get through living in these sequestered in this sequestered era but apparently one thing not available to order of the on line giant is workers' rights and a little thing called courage at least that's according to top engineer and now

former amazon vice president tim brady the washington post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top $1000000.00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that's comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the little things like oh workers' safety climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to worker safety in conditions have been fired during the pandemic in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p.r. executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the world's richest man jeff bezos planned to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee christian smalls for simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former vice president amazon

tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblowers isn't just a side effect but that it's evidence of a bane of toxicity running through the company culture is. is it really that big of a surprise i mean who can blame bay's oser amazon for treating their warehouse workers like easily replaceable cogs in the machine i mean after all we are living in a society that is right now right now as i speak seriously fighting for the right to sacrifice the weak and elderly just so the gods of wall street can start making money off of all of our indentured servitude backs again. it's a good place to start watching the us. if you want to know what's going on in a city street you want to be there so you can see the crisis you always see. graves see this least systemic deception is going to leak so

which. brings up the bill as. well what. i robot and i'm on these across you know me shot i think amazon perfectly encapsulates the america in the united states experience right now because think about it we're all dependent on a service we all love using that you can find anything there. while we choose as a society to kind of look the other way while we hear screams from amazon employees saying the conditions here are a nightmare for us you know at the bottom you know us in the warehouse please help us where they won't even let us unionize if we stand up and say hey something's wrong here we get fired that's kind of a nutshell of what's going on in a broader sense in the entire country absolutely and i like that you use that analogy the thing about this amazon situation is that workers have been making these comments for years and they are now getting the air and the light of day that they probably deserve a while ago as you probably recall when amazon was originally talking about their

expansion projects in new york and looking at other states that they were interested in building factories and things and a lot of the pushback from workers was based on that that they didn't feel like they were already being treated fairly that the working conditions were what they were and that they weren't you know being supported in the way that they needed to and amazon by and large you know has enjoyed this very strong relationship with those who enjoy their services which is the majority of america yeah it's easy for us to look the other way wouldn't when we're being treated well you know i mean it's like we love that we that we don't want to think about the you know the child labor of the slave labor that goes into the products that we know and love because you know them that makes us forces come to the realization that maybe this thing that i love that i use all the time is actually hurting people over here it's interesting because braves letter actually came 3 days after employees at amazon were also joined by workers at trader joe's but a whole foods and into the car for a may day strike basically you know over public over there you know strike over

wages low wages public health precautions and working conditions that all of those companies i mean i think we're seeing i'm hoping that we're seeing kind of labor suddenly rise up during this and say hey it's time that we take our needs seriously because we're the backbone of your company not the executives exactly and it was extremely smart for all of those corporations all of those workers to join together because i think that when it was announced that is to is to court workers. going to do it for instance it didn't receive the amount of fanfare attention or anything that it probably deserved when you started adding on amazon when you started seeing people who work for or work in factories at wal-mart when you started seeing people who work in factories across the conglomerate of things that the american public uses every single day and then it started to make sense it started to reach people in a way that i don't think that it would have if it hadn't been soley you know a piecemeal here and they are type of situation with you get more groups does it surprise you that your brain is in this kind of post to put up this you know long blog post of his but does it surprise you that he makes a really interesting point every single whistleblower amazon has fired was you know

either a person of color a woman or both. that's so that's interesting to me i don't you know it's kind of like what does that say about this work environment over an amazon it shows the amazon plays a very interesting line because amazon was one of the corporations that came out last year and they were advocating for having more women having more diverse people on boards so they're fine with doing it upstairs where people are making the decisions but when it comes to the folks who are actually putting in the work to make sure that amazon is running they are not bind with making sure that those people are taken care of and for the individuals to be the 1st ones that are kicked out for being whistleblowers to be with and people of color i think that it says something about the values that amazon holds because it's also we've got a member it's not illegal to talk to a union at your job site if you want to talk to union workers rights they can't hold you accountable for that that's perfectly legitimate conversation that employees can have between each other that's protected our imagination to be having

yes a charlie when you're working in factories totally i want to end this with this of the former the great kind of also wrote it towards the news blog who says at the end of the day it's all about power balances the warehouse workers or we can getting weaker what with mass unemployment in the us job and tell them sure so we're going to get treated like crap because because basically of capitalism any plausible solution has to start with increasing their collective strength and for example in france amazon workers do actually have unions were like the only country on the block the treats the very essence of our society you know blue collar workers like garbage but then manipulates them into thinking that somehow being treated like garbage is what having a job is all about and understanding that these blue collar workers are the people who are what keeps america going. maybe they aren't receiving the attention or the respect that they deserve but without them all of our supply chains will be done

through. mo money mo problems is one of my favorite songs. and apparently it's also the things that are wealthy republican senator kelly locklear the georgia republican is embroiled in her own scandal over pandemic related stock transactions to refresh your memory loss who practiced a bit of insider training when she liquidated a number of assets just before the coronavirus pandemic spread the timing was more than a little questionable because she did it within hours of attending a private briefing. giving her information other shareholders didn't have access to similar loffler received recently launched a 4000000 dollar t.v. ad buy with 3 different spots you think that a republican senator who is essentially a villain appointed by the governor but not supported by the republican national committee or the leader of the party president of the united states that will trump would focus on her policy goals and try to gain wide range support in advance of

the november election where she's going to face competition but no that's not locklear is game plan instead she spend millions defending her stock market smash and grab these just might be the 1st ads in history where a politician defends themselves amid scandal by touting the use of their own private jet so essentially everything is supposed to be ok because she's rich and the rest of the ad basically covers all the can sort of talking points we know well with words like witch hunt liberal lies and conspiracy take a look at it. untrue unfairly targeted because she's a strong conservative woman true julie listener donated her senate pay to help georgia fight coronavirus chiles to her personal plane to bring stranded georgians safely actually gave them dollars to help the georgia save the. cheerleader for. georgia and it showed us every day i'm kelly lefler i approve this message.

we also love him that insider trading that comes with the position of power in congress and she's not alone there's a lot of congressmen and women on both sides of the aisle over the years that have traded you know the information that they get as a lawmaker for stock market success oh absolutely and in her case she claimed that you know her husband is in charge of all of this and he's the one who's invested in the stocks she always ever talk about exact moment issues why would a married couple ever talk about money issues between each other right in the time frame is just suspect even if we were to believe ok her and her husband don't converse at all about money you know take us back to the 1950 s. where women didn't matter and men managed all of the money and the interesting part here is that within hours of that briefing that was only with certain congressional members she decided soup pull out she decided to get rid of her stocks knowing what was going to happen because of the pandemic that's

a problem it is love the 2 because it's like you know there's parts of it that i'm kind of them you know when you bring up the plane aspect of it again it's kind of this like great capsule a shot of the country that we live in right normally with a world where it's like you know look i'm a rich person flying the poor huddled masses in my private jet to save them like even a great person but it's an interesting theme that he's creating it is ok well i don't need this many millions i'm using my own private jet to help people i care about those who are going through the recovery efforts i'm giving up my own money in the recovery efforts but you're also taking money mayo you're also engaged and being provided funding from some of these shady organizations that are making money off of the pandemic so i think that you know kelly loffler she's a very interesting character to begin with but to use this and to use those campaign ads is something to try to you know climb above this scandal i don't think that is going to work for her plus i've always hated campaign ads especially warms the you see it in both parties

a lot of people are guilty of this from both parties is that idea of like. take a look at how great i you know doing my job or being a decent human being like i would kind of look at that and say well if you can afford a private jet i hope that you're doing those things i don't need you to brag about them for me you know i don't need you to say well look at how good i am for doing this like that's the other 2 it's like i'm against you know raising taxes i'm going to you know we see this in campaign ads i'm going well you know those are those are part of the normal parts your job don't brag about just being a good human being or doing the job that you're elected to do also there are many millionaires and actually most millionaires and billionaires give money to charity you know it's a good way to get a tax write off i don't think that she deserves any bit of extra you know handclaps because she gave money as somebody who's also running in georgia and wants to get you know georgia people to vote for her it's interesting too because you mentioned as well that she's not really with the republican party like she's not trump's pictures not that she's kind of the outsider looking in correct exactly so she's not a pick but trump trump actually had somebody else in mind and advocated and actually

watch commercials. you know sway people to build in that direction what she happened to be with somebody who is a good brand and someone who in some ways has some favoritism from the governor of georgia right now so he's the one who appointed her against the calls from trump to do otherwise and she's actually going to be up for election in november. i'm just looking at they're going like how people could look go to an election poll and say hey you know i'm going to vote for the rich person in the private jet brags about trying to help people with their private jet with the same time as profiting off of them and that's causing all these problems i see that's a tough that's a tough asset have so many coronavirus in a state that has massive unemployment right now it's just not anything that i think is going to work you know it's a tough task at the end of the day that i hope that we're going to see kind of that revolution take place at the polls this year i hope that people start seeing through the kind of lives of the were given to over and over and over again from these you know profiteers whether they're war profiteers and working with the

defense industry or their you know virus profiteers or. yes we can call now you know making money off of this off of this tragedy either way it was their watch that's now allowed what 70000 absolutisms to die and somebody always makes money off the pain and tragedy that's gross that's very very gross all right as we go to break remember you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new portable t.v. app which is available on smartphones through google play and at the apple app store 'd by simply searching portable t.v. or my friends you can stream us yes stream us to your t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. on the apple t.v. or online affordable t.v.'s for those folks don't like cable or satellite t.v. will be available on the vices coming soon so keep your eyes peeled coming up with hurricane season quickly approaching the question now being asked is how do we handle natural disasters while fighting a pandemic flu good question director of the florida catastrophic storm risk

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jerry thinks. we dare to ask. thank you thank you thank you thank you. thank you thank you we just can't get a break code 19 continues to ravage the globe estates open back up in ease stay at home borders meanwhile no backseat lack of virus testing kids and no real way to contact trees are still issues we face. the odds are stacked against us but coburn

19 is joined by another 3 natural disasters and what happens when a pandemic is joined by natural disasters and fortunately we'll find out very soon the u.s. is ground 0 leading the globe in coronavirus case counts with nearly 640000 can burn and america's outbreak is already overwhelming our health care system state budgets and supply chains we've already seen tornadoes whipped through the southeast killing at least 34 and leaving half a 1000000 people without electricity as we move into the late spring early summer months things are only expected to get worse from elevated risk of flooding across the midwest and the south to the ongoing threats of stronger and more frequent hurricanes and tornadoes america can't seem to get a break in all of this among a backdrop of a global pandemic lacks resources and dwindling funding to support is that the relief and recovery efforts it's a perfect storm joining us now is the director of the florida catastrophic storm

risk management center jack nicholson. and afternoon. good afternoon jack disaster preparedness and relief has been a sticking point for the u.s. for years now with criticisms from hurricane katrina new orleans to hurricane maria and its devastation in puerto rico fema was only able to pay for 10 percent of the destruction of the most recent hurricanes with combined damages of over $265000000000.00 how can the agency responsive day in light of its recent budget cuts. well i think there's a lot of issues that. have never been addressed before in this current situation. there's a lot of differences that have to be accounted for and planned for and i think that worse we've been so focused on the virus and solutions so that we really haven't given adequate. planning to the hurricane and. virus scenario.

there's a lot of things that go along in a normal hurricane disaster or any disaster that relies on a lot of people a lot relies a lot of coordination and effort both the federal state and local level you also have tremendous support from family and friends along the way and problems are generally solved although they may be solved slowly in inadequately. certain resources available and we've become accustomed to. know what those response resources are and they have a plan on something being there for support but with the current coronavirus it's a little different situation i don't think we are fully aware of the resources that will be available because we don't know what's going to happen to the the virus during the hurricane season and i guess it could reignite it could. come back

around in the fall hurricane season is not over to the end of november so we have a long window of time here and we have a lot of vulnerable people that. are facing a very uncertain environment. that's not of the reasons i want to have you want to there is because you know i i'm curious as to what types of challenges does this pandemic pose for disaster relief i mean that's something that you worked a long time in and it you know when you have to social distance or you have to stay at home how does that affect you know you know coming in after like a hurricane rolls through and you got to fix that area you got to save people there . well that indeed is the problem i think it starts as the storm is coming. i would say 3 types of people you've got young people you've got very bad people and you've got a lot of people. that are people can automatically fat in the case of being you

know that of an upper class but there are some younger people that are vulnerable as well and there's some young people that are healthy and they're not the ones when you look at the statistics they're not the ones that are dying necessarily but if you're vulnerable or older you are so you have to make the decision do i stay or do i leave this is practically impossible to leave nowadays because where would you go and even if you go to a shelter you may be going into a situation where you contact contract the virus and that's not good so there there is one possibility that you have kind of thought about lately and that is we don't have a whole lot of hotel occupancy in the state right now and that could be you know if the government plan correctly or have some backup plans that perhaps could use some of those as a major city shelters on a temporary but temporary basis for people that are highly vulnerable and of course

they need to think about that because if they the sad to shelter in place they're going to need. perhaps generators flashlights food ratter medications you know. they're going to plan for their family members and pets and all that's very complicated even in a normal scenario but when you have a. virus that plan to make threatening. it changes the whole complex of that because you don't have as many people to help just think of what it takes to get the power back on i mean we've been sagen as lately that we have our trucks from other states allow any up you see them coming down the road they don't even know where the hurricane's going to hit but yet they are able to dispose of. certain places and stage resources and we do the same thing with a ladder and other supplies and other types of assistance but with those resources being available from other states we don't know that we don't know you know exactly

have bad the. break will be if there is a hurricane is again going to be just me one hurricane or several hurricanes this year is projected to be a bad average average is 12 tropical storm 6 are kings and 3 major hurricanes however this year one look at had possibly $13.00 to $18.00 tropical storms. 7 the nad hurricanes until the floor. powerful hurricanes that exceed 111 mile an hour winds as a category 3 or greater hurricanes and they're the ones that knock down has us like you showing in your in your video that you're right now so. it's an unusual situation and i'm hoping that the state considers a lot that's happening and i think it simply needs difficult to plan for because you don't know what this is you know the exact scenario is going to be. i did

a bad thing you might see management website for it and there were as a couple of. mentions of the run of bad spelling to see any any elaborate plans or any extraordinary warnings other than what normally comes along with hurricane season you know jagger after said well 1st i want to thank you for the good work that you do down there and helping all those people and thank you so much for coming on the show today and kind of illuminating this this impending problem that i think that we as a society on a federal and state level are going to have to look at moving forward you know there's a lot of issues affecting the world viruses one of them but we also have to look at these other things that are coming down the pipeline like you said some major major natural disasters on the way thank you so much for educating our audience today. thank you for having me. singe h.g. wells as war of the worlds we denizens of bertha been fascinated and intrigued by the idea of life on mars or little red older brother in our solar system mars

spanish forming roughly but you know 10000000 years before we did so technically older in an exciting bit of news it appears that the question of life on mars is drawing ever closer to an answer thanks to a team of japanese scientists and some martian groundwater that was hiding in antarctica yes i did say antartica organic compounds found on a 4000000000 year old martian meteorite that broke free from the angry red planet some 15000000 years ago and went on to collide with earth in that article and was then later discovered by humans in 1904 that's quite a journey to get here has revealed according to these japanese researchers traces of ancient oceans that were rich in carbon and nitrogen the key ingredients to making life pi or at least the life by that we know the recipe to learn stuff. that that. everybody that is our show for you today remember in this world we are told that we love them up so it's all you all i love you i am tire over there and

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one on one with former senator and one time vice presidential candidate joe lieberman on this edition of. politicking on larry king president trump now says the u.s. death toll from cold at 19 could reach 100000 others are saying higher this is much higher than he predicted just weeks ago the same time his administration is stepping up its pandemic related attacks on china we'll get into all of this with former senator joe lieberman he also ran in the 2nd slot in the 2000 democratic ticket that ticket was by the way elected it was defeated by the supreme court 5 to 4. really really more or better. ok recent polling shows show most americans disapproving of president trump's handling

of the virus what do you think. yeah it's a mixed record it's kind of surprising because 'd leaders tend to go up with a time of crisis because they're given an opportunity to really do what the people . need them to do because no one else can do it so i mean it's a long story larry but i would say that the trump administration was a bit slow at the outskirt but it wasn't all their fault because honestly they were not left with a lot in place for the preceding ministrations i can tell you by coincidence that in 2014 tom ridge the former secretary of homeland security and i were asked to co-chair a commission a bipartisan commission on bio of the fence and a big focus of it was are we 'd ready for an infectious disease been.