google and rival facebook of rigging the advertising auction opportunity ambitious texas attorney general ken paxton is leading that 10 state lawsuit accusing google quote a trillion dollar monopoly of brazenly abusing its monopolistic power going so far as to induce senior facebook executives to agree to a contractual scheme that undermines the heart of the competitive process fair charge or bomb rap let's ask attorney sara papen tonio of the law firm 11 papen tonio sara welcome back and 1st things 1st your quick legal leads to english explanation of the trust law. well haul an antitrust law became necessary years ago when we saw the steel industry and the railroad industry really taken off we started seeing major corporations teaming up with one another to fix prices for street competition and to control market participation in

a way that took advantage of us consumers see the united states then realized that since corporations weren't going to act in the best interest of their consumers that we the united states had to force them to so they created what we call antitrust laws and the major purpose of us antitrust laws is to promote fair competition to protect the consumers and to prevent what we call monopolies from forming because when monopolies form it becomes almost like a david and goliath battle against the consumer and the corporation the odds are not good so when monopoly is formed they completely eliminate all competition and get consumers like us no alternative avenues in the market and that competition is vital to our economy lack of competition means lack of innovation box of competition means lack of creativity so the story of facebook and google all boils down to that competition element facebook and google have agreed not to compete and they're essentially forming a monopoly against this anti-trust law reporting by the wall street journal

explains that the complaint filed in u.s. district court in texas alleges that facebook emerged in 2017 as a powerful new rival to google challenging its establish dominance in online advertising and google responded by initiating an agreement in which facebook would curtail its competitive moves in return for guaranteed special treatment in google run ad options the lawsuit claims sarah admittedly my layman's reading but doesn't that run afoul of at the trust. us all and it clearly dies and i trust on its most basic terms so you can't restrict trade you can't monopolize and you can't create anti-competitive agreements with your competitor. see the very foundation of this agreement between facebook and google is the 2 corporations agreeing not to compete in return for special treatment but listen

don't take my word for it there are documents that say facebook and google of new there's agreement which trigger antitrust law but they went forward with it anyway see in their own words they knew it was illegal and that's the most infuriating part about this story hall and it's the fact that facebook and google got together and said yes this is a legal but if we team up together we can beat the federal government if we team up together we can cheat the system so yes by their very own admission this violates antitrust law and they're not being cagey about it anticipating anti-trust accusations google and facebook have according to this lawsuit entered into an agreement to quote cooperate and assist each other in responding to any antitrust action and quote promptly and fully inform the other party of any governmental communication related to the agreement and the journal quotes google

is calling agreements like this extremely common how common sarah. was and what we know is that facebook and google like you said they have agreed to support each other knowing this deal would trigger a litigation say they believe that if they monopolized that they have the resources in the power to overcome the federal government now whether or not an agreement like this is common what i'll tell you is that agreeing to team up is a bad move on the part of facebook and google this all for 11 for all idea is going to open the floodgates to whatever bad evidence that the d.o.j. has on both of these entities see bad conduct that shows intent to monopolized by facebook can easily now be used against google and vice versa so this has the potential to become a litigation disaster for facebook and google but it's also very important halling to note. the deal jay is extremely conservative state governments are extremely careful when they're thinking about bringing cases like this against major

corporations you see they're typically not going to pull the trigger on cases unless they have that smoking gun evidence against these defendants so the very fact that the d.o.j. that these state governments have brought these cases even after facebook has made ridiculous efforts to make them go away means that the d.o.j. has good authority to bring these claims that they have evidence of intent to break these antitrust laws well we're going to keep an eye on this one sarah happened tony 11 papen tonio in pensacola thanks again for stepping into the big picture just now when we are most vulnerable the wise guys are on their game how are they trying to rip you off now let's ask the author of a stack of books including identity theft alert 10 rules you must follow to protect yourself from america's number one crime stephen j. j. wiseman thanks again for being here and while we're waiting our turn for the covert

vaccine scam stirrers are out there salivating what's their wrangle on this. well like any anything else when the public is really interested in it it's fire for the scammers and here with the vaccines we've got a macro problem and a micro problem macro problem which we have probably going to see in the next few weeks around the world is that these scammers these hackers are hacking into the distribution chain and planting ransomware so what you may find is that suddenly we won't be able to get the vaccine because these companies and agencies won't be able to deliver it unless they pay a ransom now on the micro side with the rest of us all anxious for when we're going to be able to get the vaccine that's where we're starting to get the calls and the text messages and the e-mails that purportedly are coming from the federal government from doctors insurance companies and for

a fee we can get ahead of the line and get the vaccine earlier these are all scams other times it may be partly from the insurance company or your doctor saying we just need it for you to give us some personal information in order to get the vaccine and there again it's used to make you a victim of identity theft so you know let the games begin with the scans begin the scammers are out there and they already are attacked in other parts of the world not the united states yet the distribution chain and here the scams for early access to the vaccine they're just flat starting and it's going to be a pandemic of the homes you just said the 3 words that i see often on your web site scam aside dot com that your antenna should go up when you read or hear for a fee now steve while so many of us are working at home and in many cases for keeps zoom has become the new conference room and you're now warning us that these 2

could be shark infested waters a. yeah very much so i mean it's funny because before though i hadn't really know much about zoom before this year and now i'm constantly on it as as are you as well and here is one of the things during a pandemic 2 of the biggest companies that everybody are using is one is zoom and the other is netflix and so we are seeing a lot of skill arms that are tied to those because they know people are using these so what do you get if you get an e-mail or a text message there is a problem with your resume mcafee we're going to have to take you out we won't be able to use your own here here's a link where you can go to fix this problem get the information you need provide us with the information but that links in my motto again trust me you can't trust anyone you click on that link you're either going to download malware that's going

to put ransomware or keystroke locking malware into your computer or phone and make you a victim of identity theft or worse or they're just going to end up stealing information from you maybe even a password that you use on all of your accounts that can end up making you a victim of identity theft so the key thing here is you get anything a text message an e-mail phone call from do if you get an. e-mail and it's not coming from zoom dot com or the u.s. you know it's a scam but even if it looks legit and it's really easy to check out if you have a text message you're an e-mail instead you ignoring you go to zoom dot us and on the 1st page there is a tab for support or you click on that and you'll find out everything you need to know including the fact that the whole thing was a scam zoom you as very cool or speaking with attorney author and bentley university professor and

a scam buster stephen jay jay wiseman steve each year at this time that ticking sound in the background is the time bomb that goes off on april 15th and the wise guys are tuning up i got about a minute left talk about income tax identity theft. a multi-billion dollar problem that's going to get worse this year and the problem is what happens is someone steals your gets your social security number your name they file an income tax return on line with a dummied up count if they get a refund he you end up sending in your tax return and it's all slowed down for months and months and months because they already have a refund refunds been set so the key thing here is get your income tax return in as soon as possible be the identity and the identity thieves are going to be at it even more than usual because so many accountants and accounting firms are working remotely so get your income tax return early. steve

wiseman's website scam aside dot com is free it is full of stuff you need to know and he's got a scam of the day that you'll want to know about and remember steve's motto trust me you can't trust anyone. very good happy news years steve come on up to dry am is everywhere but like everything else during the pandemic it's different now. this is the big picture on our t.v. america.

i got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to 65 place damascus. i was old don't know why young. i've watched it many times a man posing the monuments and all poster of the hollywood premiere of town without pity and a fight in a mock so without bruises. i had my doubts if i should waste my time on this but i came back to that film over and over again tracing a sequence of events happening in syria at the time and most of those who would think the wood on the. curiosity is like a petrol motion machine at the one. still.

seems wrong but all in all just don't call. me old yet to shape out these days and become agitated and in games from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground.

while we have been cooped up during the pandemic there has been an uptick in domestic abuse so we're showing you the number for the national domestic violence hotline and if you're hearing this as a pod cast that number is 8799 safe that's 807997233 we're going to keep that number on the screen for a while and at the website the hotline dot org there is confidential live

chat and when you visit the hotline org you can d. leave it from your browser history when the bars are closed there are fewer bar brawls and less drunk driving when stores are closed there's less shoplifting and not surprisingly the national commission on covert 19 and criminal justice finds that as we're spending so much more time at home burglary and property and drug crimes are down beginning in may aggravated assaults went up and homicide was a 3rd higher during the pandemic and 42 percent higher during the summer compared to 2019 joining us now is long time d.c. metropolitan police officer now a university lecturer and criminal justice ronald hampton ronald to sunny of this data surprise you who know what i was amazed about was to the extent to talk

about. some of the crimes are crimes of opportunity so people are going to participate in consequence if if you can go to the still of you if you're not going out if you. how slow and extended did you write some of those. things are going to we're going to see a decrease but police have never in my opinion been in in a developed in a way. homicide how much as a thing that happened added out of that out of the out of the view and out of the contact the police so without days that as a society we can do some town to to address some of the systemic issues of us happen but i wasn't surprised that homicides and to some degree some violent crime thank rob were not saints when up because of the stress that existed not started since this cult. been in existence yeah it's

a good point cause and effect with stress and nobody's been hit harder by this virus than the big city police departments officers are overworked some are quarantined some have died as ranks have been depleted some departments have been deemphasizing traffic violations and misdemeanors good idea bad idea and if arrests are down does that make this data suspect. well known not necessarily at the data suspect but i agreed police departments have been sort of d f a south and certain danger lab rat on rail and conduct traffic stops for example that really doesn't do anything but so times aggravate certain communities and certain residents and look it used in gays things are slow now so i don't notice dead in this city and one in d.c. also the signal on the sat will they're paying more to it's

a certain thing and they're in the neighborhood sittin round residential stuff i think that's why i asked because while grad of rain in doing that kind of thing that would. it's not going to have an impact on crime the whole idea of the police have been the presence cause or did you see did you see people who since some of them did not get called walk in the neighborhood when i think that's a good idea that's present but just riding on ramp. for example conducting traffic stops isn't going to put dunes in a thing and it's going to create more stress. as various states and jurisdictions have decriminalized or legalized we need. the arrests there have been deemphasized and there in d.c. about a year ago mayor bowzer said she didn't want any more cussed odio possession arrests has that backfired in any way. no i don't think so i don't know i was.

i was involved little organization back in when the d. korean built with pace and there were good they didn't decrypt be alike. marijuana could dismember marijuana couldn't be probable cause for arrest we saw that we saw our police officers abused the net process so the elimination of of that was something that has been positive this whole idea of how much you have been whether or not you for have a personal use or distribution has always been a subject matter for police in the public but to hold our dear de crim is now not only something that that's happening here is happening across the country so there's going to be less and less and less focus on the whole idea of murder one and in. in the context of it being criminal to people just utilizing marijuana for

recreation it's for medical purposes and i happen to agree with that i mean i don't use him but i don't i don't think we are to be locking up people having one step or 2 marijuana sticks that just doesn't make sense and is not a good use of police or. f we are speaking with long time a d.c. metropolitan police officer now a criminal justice lecturer ronald hampton millions are unemployed now and financially desperate and we're reading about stepped up support degas and convenience stores and gas station ronald what is your advice for saying staying safe when we are out and about. well who allan about i think we need a bit set a task of randomness we need to be as we are walking doing what it is that we do what we need to be paying attention to where we are where one who is behind us who

is in front of us we also need to be. less of a target if we go shopping we need to take and put out a shopping gift in our trunk rather didn't put it in the car because people are walking around looking in cost testing condos alternately we need to make sure that we are making last even more of a target in your break because of the times and say instead of one on stress that individuals and families of children have a result of cold but then we're going to seem people who are victims of been victimized by the stress and other things that are happening you're going to we're going to see certain things happen all are happening that. i'm not here in d.c. we've seen a rash of automobile. where. people look for and into a gas station or gas in the car while they go inside it leave their car run into somebody jumps in. it runs off when you need to cut your caught off you need to

take in peas with you and you don't need to have your car long new pumping gas in the 1st place so displaying a little bit more attention just self than your surrounds and the kind of things out of going on can relieve us of summer girls all stressed it is us alone to happen if we don't read sense into what's going on but up i create into i don't write your current we're stuck we have really created some problems for us. oh yeah yeah i cringe when i see somebody run into the post office and leave their car around and outside a lot of what you're saying is common sense watch your 6 if you missed it earlier we are showing you the number for the national domestic violence hotline it's 80799 safe ronald i've been eager to talk to you about what's been called program 1033 i've read up on this transfer of nearly 2000000000 in military gear to local police departments from

a report by the nonprofit nonpartisan american transparency site in the u.s. government database of over half a 1000000 items transferred from the military even small town police departments now possess mine resistant vehicles armored trucks helicopters m 16 zone m. fourteen's infrared goggles and grenade launchers ronald painful episodes in 2020 have demonstrated the need for police to deescalate dizzee quipping municipal p.d.'s with these kind of armaments help or hurt a little over a minute. after you heard. i'm going to do anything to hurt. the image of police. units dillon's try. we can you would quit in the community because policing is a civilian operation it's in

a military operation is total does know who did it salacious past the house. legislation goes to the extent of limits in local police access to their equipment by the government and they have been a practice ever since the war to sort of give just equipment and bombs and i mean i remember back when the l.a.p.d. hadn't. and in a personnel carrier they would use the bus and the crack houses and all those kind of things there and made people yeah very very limited on what that kind equipment but much lost when we don't meet their kind when the local police really don't in assessing the best. yeah i think you've drawn an important line civilian operation ronald hampton thank you very much again for your time and happy new year that to open the books oversight report program 1033 includes

a map which you can search by zip code to see what military gear went where and you can download the whole report free at open the books dot com we who are not among health care workers and others who have already gotten a covert vaccine a waiter turn and as we do this reminder get a flu shot which we should every year and we asked dr william schaffner from the vanderbilt university medical center will we also end up getting a coded shot every year influenza is endemic even though it's seasonal it's it lives with us this virus it becomes more active in the late fall and through the winter then it baits during the spring and the summer but it comes back so it's just part of the life we live you know we do live in a very very germy world so that's what that means the question regarding code it

is is this now a virus that we're going to have to live with henceforth at the moment it looks that way the trick is can we flatten the curve so to speak can we do things to keep this virus the covert virus at bay down at the lower levels so that we can resume the sorts of activities you were talking about in the introduction. even if ill advised christmas travel wasn't spiking new infections as predictably as the ill advised thanksgiving travel did science was already telling us that a dark winter looms and that new more contagious u.k. strain has already come ashore so let's all keep a new year's resolution to avoid that germany world the doc mentioned and that is the big picture we'll be back again with another show same time next week if you

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