it hurts. because. you. greetings and sal you. welcome back everyone to another start of another week's worth of hawk watching here on our t.v. you know there is so much out there to cover so today let's kick things off with a story about coverage a little too much coverage if you will i'm talking of course about the news that last week both republicans and democrats in the u.s. senate joined together to pass the usa freedom reauthorization act of 2020. not surprisingly the usa freedom reauthorization

act has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with codifying indorsing in ultimately legalizing once again the national security and surveillance state that we all call this current version of the united states of america you see after expiring back in march the freedom act reauthorization restores government powers that lets law enforcement collect tangible things tangible things related to national security investigations without a warrant requiring only approval from a secret court the buys a court that has reportedly rubber stamps many requests not reportedly they have these tangible things include things like oh you know warrantless access to your internet browsing in search history without having to prove you were under suspicion of doing anything wrong because you know who doesn't want folks like christopher ray steven elliot or william barr digging through your search history

online so all those supposed freedom protectors route storming state capitals armed to the teeth with guns and pretend patriotism you know the ones who got scared away from rain you know fighting for. right to reopen the bars and nail salons our elected officials in the u.s. senate were busy shredding even more of our constitutional protections and bill of rights seriously by stay at home 'd orders that it has nothing nothing on the united states congress when it comes to removing personal rights and freedoms here in the united states which is why my friends we are always watching the home. on a cd. player so let's see this is joyce. graves see this lady's systemic deception is so.

well corner watching the world and i'm a nice across goodness gracious so when everyone was out there on capitol steps across the country in state after state saying we won our rights back we want to go outside we want to. really be you know at home all the time. and then washington like passes actual things that violate people's rights they passed things that actually you know it was real there was a she was an extension of the old patriot act like that actually does violate u.s. citizens rights regardless of what you know fancy lawyers want to say in congress or you know people just apply that kind of thing and nary a peep or rally 8 interesting thing about this is that it did hit certain news wave cycles but it didn't get a lot of attention so i think that a lot of americans aren't necessarily aware that this is happening what i did see on social media was a few libertarian groups come to speak out against it but the far it it cannot be

all like a tree in the forest nobody heard it so i think that part of the reasoning is that there hasn't been enough media attention paid to it but in addition to that this is a very interesting time to push something a reauthorize something like this in congress more and more people are so. looking towards another round of stimulus package they're trying to figure out what's going to happen with the economy so for this to come up now and they're not really be a large discussion in the grander speare about it i think is largely in part because of the timing in the framework that makes sense you often see that happen whether by choice or happenstance you often see these kind of interesting bills that strip away rights kind of always being passed through the cover of these either or some other bigger issue going on the kind of keeps everyone distracted and then that's the time where it's like hey you know what the old freedom act was reauthorized which i was part of funny freedom when they label these bills they often label them with the exact opposite of the content of the bill when it comes to stuff that's controversial there's nothing freedom about allowing people like william bar or whoever these agencies down the line to start digging into our

browsing history at all i think you know absolutely and it also brings to the question why because the process if you going through and getting a warrant is not extremely long we think cases where within 24 hours one was given why would we need to obfuscate that process to go ahead and do things sooner and what type of not only by legions of liberty and personal privacy but other things as this lead to because i know that there are a lot of people who probably don't want their browser history out there for the world to see or for anyone to see but in addition to that what gives you the leveraging power to do so outside of our current process i think that we've seen this is the reauthorization so obviously we've had this process. but since the original time frame i think the american public has moved a lot more progressive when it came to ignore it when it came to forcefully pushing against having this level of scrutiny this level of privacy invasion so it's very interesting to me that even beyond all the protest beyond all the conversation

we've seen over the past 67 years we're now back in the exact same space it is really interesting to see that there was a few people to put up a little bit of a defense of this in the senate it now moves over to the house we would. it was there and you know was it steve dames republican out of montana ron widen out a democrat of oregon and you know one of the rare times they get together and things they did or offer up an amendment that would have prevented the use of section $215.00 for warrantless surveillance of internet searches which is what we're talking about but that failed by just one vote for didn't show up one of them including bernie sanders didn't show up to vote that day failed by one vote the memo that would have prevented that rand paul of all people surprisingly rand paul of kentucky he proposed an amendment that would have actually exempted americans from being able to be under fire as a court approved surveillance which is actually i think something that we really need to discuss and should be brought up that they all just go 51128585 senators voted against that from keeping americans exempt from the court which is what we

saw abused during the whole russia gate controversy so it's very interesting to see how you know they're all joining up to crossfire's that you know to keep the court intact despite the problems that we've seen with it over the years and and what is the narrative around the necessity here because i know that sometimes in these arguments there is the we want to protect this nation against terrorism terrorism threats so we want to be able to intercept that type of communication or you know those things different codings before an incident actually occurs. but do we have evidence that this actually works i mean we've been we've been using this process for a long time now and then you know most of the evidence that you'll see is usually the f.b.i. preying some homeless person and then giving them the weapons and the idea in the bar you know i mean you obviously there's entrapment things or i look at and say that's clear entrapment you took some guy or some disgruntled some discreet almost person maybe well let's and gave them all of the technology gave them the bomb and said look we caught a terrorist plot you know that's not actually stopping terrorism very rarely do you

stop a crime before it happens that's only in the movies and t.v. shows. and flowers bloom wildlife run free and waterways and aquatic life enjoy a time of little to no human interaction coping 19 has provided a respite from mother nature but this is not a time for environmental activists to take a rest actually it's time to sound the alarm even louder across america the u.s. environmental protection agency has sued city and industry forcing them to clean up their act reducing pollution that threatens our air and water quality for example in my home state of illinois the wood river refinery was sued by the state and federal government for releasing toxic waste water directly into the mississippi river 2 years ago they settled one lawsuit agreeing to spend 10 $1000000.00 for necessary upgrades and monitoring of the refinery as well as $500000.00 to clean up the low income homes and buildings that were affected just an f. why these low income homes and buildings were home to young children and pregnant

women who have been profoundly exposed to lead and other toxic emissions for years many of the children are born premature suffer from abnormalities and live with a lifelong health issues equated with the disaster now do you think the e.p.a. pressure implants would push the factory to do better but not so fast to look 66 the company that owns the wood river refinery has suspended all work on the lead abatement program they were required to complete. this means that the thousands of lives the factory has put at risk over the years are still subject to lead unhealthy water and poor air quality the reason tobit 1000 and the department of justice seems to be helping the polluters issuing a problematic new policy the deal j. recently said it would suspend the collection of penalties for violations of consent decrees and other enforcement orders as david baron managing attorney at the environmental nonprofit justice said settlement agreements and civil litigation

are only as good as the government's willingness to watchdog the consent decree and make sure that the parties comply. that that is huge news because i think we're all relieved a little bit when we started seeing you know because of the stay at home orders the majors get a little cleaned up and less air pollution is a good but you kind of got relieved in thinking that hey by the way they're still cleaning up but mellow under the cover of like oh well we can't find anybody. too much money watch out we're just not cleaning anything exactly and these were major phased out plans the $1.00 in illinois for example had 7 different phases to it in addition to obviously the money that was going to be used towards revamping some of these homes that were extremely damaging a lot of those are public housing projects some of them are regular standalone homes but in addition to that it is now you are pushing more people to be threatened even higher from covert one team because now they have they have consistently poisoning in addition to the fact that they can't go anywhere so even

the vigils are at their homes the water is definitely not clean water and on top of that they are dealing with a lot of the residuals from the live poisoning to begin with that's brutal when you're going to when you lay it out like that when you really think about that because it's like ok now you've got to stay at home in your lead contaminated home you know these are things that are priority people we're talking about public health that doesn't begin and just with cope with 19 public health is across the board environmental health is across the. and this is ridiculous but you know at the end of the day we've seen its big businesses over and over again kind of flirting. throwing out the law or throwing out common sense just to kind of maintain not maintain any kind of corporate responsibility absolutely and it's good that you point that out because b.p. is probably one of the ones one of the larger corporations that would get that the most from this term from the department of justice because b.p. has had a lot of regulatory issues particularly as it relates to environmental awareness and the environmental issues that they've caused with oil spills and other things.

now they are basically sitting pretty and able to start a lot of the regulations because there is there are no important checks during this time of covert 19 and shelter in place stay home orders no one is actually coming out to make sure that they are following the regulations that were designed for them i mean i do about one like ok they're properly shut down and they've got their employees at home and they're probably no one's really working there are so you don't have to worry about it but on the other hand. you know that you've got to keep these people's feet to the fire because they will do anything anything to not have to be responsible or be held accountable for their actions in the past but the thing that suffers most of the families are your new people who are basically getting screwed over because no one is cleaning up their backyard now exactly and these are families who had protested these are families who had marched these are families who wrote letters to the editor these are families who came to d.c. i used to work for the e.p.a. in illinois and one of the most interesting things about this is that it takes years for

a piece of litigation to come down from the federal government when it relates to environmental policy and environmental protection so you have families who have had issues with their water with lead poisoning for the past 35 years because of this plant and they were just beginning to see some level of relief and terms of in terms of the litigation back 2 years ago and the regulations that were given then for the reopening of the plant for them to you know basically right their wrongs was a multi-stage process they're not even finished with phase one. and now they are basically issuing issuing statements that they can't do the other 6 or 7 because the code 19 and it really is garbage and so if you can use that excuse at the moment i have to ask you when you were in working on a 2 as it's like we're going to see this job all across the board with bart making that decision are we going to pretty much just absolutely so illinois is one example but we're also seeing this in dallas we're also seeing it in different areas across florida right now there are over 350 consent decrees in the united states who are major corporations who are you know smokestack buildings and all

these other things that have really created some problems for the local residents either because they're dumping unhealthy things in the water or because they have serious air quality issues they're exacerbated now by the fact that all of that is actually making it worse for families who are trying to protect themselves from cope at 19 so on the one hand you have regulators who can't go in because of the stay at home waters on the other you have parents and children who are at home but are also being extremely exposed and because of that exposure their risk for 1000 is a lot higher. and always remember to these are also people who are probably in the poorest of communities who are going to have to face this directly head on while the people who own the companies who are living in the rich communities they don't have to worry about letting their water they don't worry about these kind of toxic chemicals in their environment it's gross gross gross gross going to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on the members of the brand new portable t.v. which is available on smartphones through google play an apple app store simply by searching portable t v or you can stream us to your big t.v.

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2 of the countries that have been the subject of rigorous sanctions from the united states are now working together if the raunch spill to venezuela the u.s. is reportedly looking for ways to intervene which could signal a new conflict amid increased tensions parties rachel blevins joins us now to discuss the details welcome thank you for having what is the latest conflict phrase we have these reports that iran is in the process of sending supplies to venezuela and now we're sort of waiting to figure out what the united states is going to do and there are reports of the u.s. is planning on intervening in some way and that could be directly through sending u.s. navy ships out to the caribbean sea to try to stop these 5 iranian tankers that are carrying more than $45000000.00 worth of gasoline and supplies so they could try to stop them in their path before they even get to venezuela now the u.s.

has yet to confirm that but we do know that they have these incredibly strict sanctions a most iran and venezuela and they've really spent the last year trying to cut these countries off from the rest of the world it's really breaking my heart here in this because it sounds like my dad used to describe the way we used to sanction cuban we still do but the way we you know the whole cuba versus the u.s. that back in the sixty's with the blockade and things like that now we're seeing this going how has iran responded to the reports that you wish may actually intercept their ships in korean waters while iran went ahead of us and they submitted a complaint to the united nations and they said look if the u.s. tries to stop or tankers in the sea we would treat it as an illegal act of piracy and any consequences that come out of that will be washington's fault now a spokesperson for iran's foreign ministry is also speaking out and he's saying that it's not up to washington to dictate where aronian tankers are around the world take us no you have to say you have my own kind of what american stated regarding our oil tankers in various locations around the world. it is illegal and

shameful if they make any moves against the legitimate sealing of our ships i would definitely please reaction by the islamic republic of iran. now at the same time iran's supreme leader is also renewing calls for u.s. troops to get out of iraq and syria and he went as far as to say that if they didn't leave voluntarily they would be expelled now it's not clear yet exactly how that would happen but a statement like that is enough to increase tensions even further between the u.s. and iran. very sticky situation how the u.s. sanctions impacted both countries where will the u.s. is pacifically targeted countries that are known for their oil reserves and they have done everything they can to cut off their business and hurt their economies and that has had a major impact specifically on the civilians of these countries especially when it comes to giving access to medical supplies and even basic things like food and clean water now this partnership that we're seeing between iran and venezuela is coming up because they're saying ways that they can work together in

a minimal way because iran has the chemicals the venezuelan needs in order to refine its crude oil but of course because the u.s. does have these things in place it is likely to want to intervene in some way and this is really frustrating at a time when we have a pandemic going on right now in countries around the world have called for the u.s. to back off on these sanctions for the civilians if nothing else but that's only made the terms of ministration double down on it seems and it's said that it's not going to remove the sanctions on iran unless it goes along with its nuclear demands and it's not going to remove the same i'm going to spoil unless they overthrow their government i'm going to go out on the limb of i kind of just look at it and say it makes sense that they're doubling down on that because right now the trumpet ministration even in congress u.s. elected officials are looking for any kind of thing to distract from the fact that what over 90000 citizens but no i mean anything to distract from that whether it's a war or conflict or whatever they want to call it is one of those things right. absolutely and they feel like you know there's such to. around this well we have

a very interesting in story past not only in terms of sanctions but also just our relationship broadly that this is this is par for the course it is very big i mean where do we see this going one do you think that these ships will actually intercept if they get into the caribbean that they know well this is hopefully something that will figure out in the next 24 hours in terms of if there is you know it's one of those things because the u.s. hasn't said anything about it now it's just kind of a waiting game to see are they actually going to put their men at risk and send them right up to these iranian tankers or are they going to do something where they decide to bring in more sanctions or try to take other measures but at the same time it is interesting to see that you countries that have been sanctioned the hardest by the united states right now found a way to work together if it is that way and not surprising not surprising rachel thank you so much for that report thank you. sometimes the course of future history has changed with just a single action or even a single person's demise china's ambassador to israel has been found dead at his home near tel aviv although the circumstances do not seem suspicious the incident

is still bringing china's relationship with israel into the spotlight and the united states is not too happy about that artie's alex mahela which has the story. a seasoned diplomat china's ambassador to israel has died that is a chinese ambassador to israel to way died on may 17th which you according to preliminary diagnosis is due way died unexpectedly of health reasons and the specifics need further verification 57 year old do why was found dead in his residence by an embassy worker shortly after forensic teams and the police were at the location carrying out the investigation into his death according to israel media there were no signs of violence at the scene it is believed that he died in his sleep most likely due to a heart attack but authorities are looking into all possibilities as the investigation continues do y. served which. in his ministry of foreign affairs for more than 30 years and was

married with one son his family was not with him in israel prior to taking his role in israel do y. was a diplomat for china in ukraine for 3 years he arrived in israel to fill his latest role on february the 15th at which time he wanted to quarantine for 2 weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic although his placement was relatively short due i did make an impact as china's ambassador to israel here's a tweet from israel's former foreign minister is they all cots shocked to hear tragic news related to the sudden death of his excellence he do y. and bassett or do was a distinguished career diplomat and during his short time in israel had already contributed to the bilateral relations between the countries according to the chinese embassy in israel in 2018 china's investment in israel accounted for 0.4 percent of all chinese foreign investment and 3 percent of all foreign investment into israel do y. was vocal about expanding this relationship but at the same time defended china

from criticism when it comes to covert 19 in april do y. told the hebrew newspaper israel high ohm in history it has happened many times when the causes of diseases were wrongfully blamed on a specific group of people which is despicable and should be condemned the disease is the enemy of all mankind and the world must fight it together. when it comes to china and israel working together as with china's relation to the coronavirus the u.s. has been very critical due wise death comes just days after u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of visited israel in what appeared to be an attempt to convince the israeli government to limit chinese investment washington is not happy with israel's growing cooperation with china particularly with projects like the haifa port terminal which is being constructed and will be operated by a chinese company but pompei oh and president trump of war does are all but if it does not curb its ties with china the u.s.

may have to cut back its cooperation with israel china and israel however seem to be committed to cementing a trusting relationship and that could even be seen as the investigation into do wise death continues. china is sending a special team to tel aviv to investigate the death and israel's foreign minister told his chinese counterpart that his ministry will help the chinese embassy with anything be a need regarding the passing of the ambassador for r t m alex my love it. to those fascinating work by alex or it's interesting how to help this one man's death is kind of like brought all of these tensions and all of these interesting kind of behind the scenes moving and shaking to the forefront of the u.s. trying to combat china's influence in the world absolutely and the u.s. for its part is trying very very very very hard right now to make sure that china's role is diminished to make sure that they are punishing china to the fullest extent and i think that this is one of those instances where we're probably going to see

a backfire i think so too i mean do you think i mean i want to ask you do you think that like this idea that like we want to blame china for all of this and blame china for the virus is that just kind of more of a smoke and mirrors thing to kind of cover the longstanding summit going back to obama even bush of this push into the pacific into kind of countering china in that region i think that's 100 percent correct this has given the trump administration cover for something that u.s. foreign policy has engaged in actually for very long time unsuccessfully but at this point they think that if you can make another american people feel like the chinese created something toward their demise that it gives the white house it gives the any administration a lot more leverage in pushing against china in a way that we haven't necessarily thing ramped up before or interesting we've got to just understand that china is a big dog on the block you're not just going to get rid of them through other standard old school ways but it's going to get gross before it gets better that article you that is our show for today remember everyone in this world we're not

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