ah ah me the readings and value taishan. here in the united states of america, we are not just entering into the heart of summer. but we are also now officially neck deep. in our most patriotic time of the year, you see fresh off memorial day where we celebrated all us soldiers who lost their

lives while serving in the u. s. military industrial complex comes june 14th flag day, which as you may have guessed, celebrates the old red, white, and blue the star spangled banner, old glory. i'm of course, talking about the united states flag. and while raising and waving the u. s. flag would be celebrated as a very patriotic act, at least on tv. behind the scenes here in washington, d. c. real patriotism. that doesn't come in red, white and blue. no real patriotism here in d. c. that comes in green, green, and well, even more green. according to a new report compiled by the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, public citizen, the $55.00 large corporations that paid 0 in federal corporate income taxes in 2020 spent $450000000.00 on lobbying and political contribution in recent years. and

that the company's paying 0 also received $3500000000.00 in tax rebates money that they can then turn around and spend to influence tax policy. you see how that works? that my friends in some good old fashion capitol hill? patriotism? yes it is. but it wasn't just the big corporations, like fedex and charter communications were flexing there. check writing patriotism? no, no, no. are good friends on wall street? oh, yes. wall street. well, they were right there along with them as well. americans for financial reform reports that in the 20192020 election cycle, wall street and banks and financial services, interest reported spending 29b with a b to influence decision making in washington. and that money my friends were spent on both the donald and sleepy. joe, they both got that money,

so waive your flags, burn. you're brought on the grill, my fellow americans. because unless you've got the greenbacks that's about as close as you are ever ever going to get to true democracy here in the united states. and that is why we are watching the hawks. if you want to know what's going on a city and you want to rush, let me show you what we always the roy gross, right. matt grays, and leave them a deceptive manipulate so much with these weapons. so open up your welcome, everybody to watching the hawks. i am hi robin, and i'm a mr cross. you know, i'm sure will all the other networks w w e to hell out of the upcoming meeting between joe biden and russian president vladimir putin. to me, this is the real story that we have because this directly affects us all the fact

that most americans, if not all americans, except for a very small percentage, pay their taxes dutifully, but really they're not getting democracy back unless they got the green to influence washington, that to me is what's more frightening than anything going on in the world today. you're right. and i think that that needs to be amplify more. we hear in the context of certain progressive leaders, how corporations aren't paying their fair share. what we don't here is how those corporations in the corporate leaders have basically funneled money into campaigns on both sides for very long time. and one of the reasons why they've been sheltered from tax reform is because it's hard to tag someone for their taxes when off the top. they've been paying you millions of dollars over time, basically to get exactly what they want. and it breaks my heart to cuz when you really get into these numbers like you, like i was saying at the top of the show it's like they're also then getting rebates back. and then using that money to turn around and influence washington more, it's

a great so you don't pay any taxes. take money out to you and eyes and all of your pockets. and then use that money to then influence washington. so you don't have to pay anymore taxes, it's an terribly ugly, vicious cycle. it's ugly and it continues it. and again to you, to your point, it doesn't matter what 5 the elected official is on because these contributions are happening for republicans and democrats. i guess the only people who don't benefit for them from them are 3rd party candidate. but everyone else seems to be getting a piece of this bag. and it is very hard to come back and employ any type of restrictions what you have provided for and what you are basically getting phone calls from these corporations in the corporate leaders who have really funnel money to you for decades now. and i think that it's very important to continue to elevate just how much to the tune that these corporations feel as though they pretty much can do anything. yeah, and elevating is the key word susan harley, the manager, director of public citizens congress watch division. she actually declared, spoke along what you're saying is, and she said, quote, it's critical that the public understand that while pang thing to support the

upkeep of our government, these companies have been spending huge amounts of money to try to keep the game rigged in their favor. that's like something that everybody needs to be shouting from the mountain tops because to me, along with a lot of the institutional racism in this country. the other things like that. but these are the things the terror away, the fabric of any kind of representative republic and making a citizen in this nation feel like they actually have a say in their government, be on the american idol, and they vote for every 4 years. and that's why we'll never see camp true campaign finance reform in true lobbying reform. because at the end of the day, this is representative democracy that we have is largely funneled by corporate c o . 2 are making these backroom deals with elected officials again on both sides to create policy, the benefit them, not the policy of the people who actually voted to get them in office speaking a back room courtroom, a, c e o is the highest spender on wall street blackstone, c, e o. steven schwartz mon spent more than $33000000.00 alone on campaign contributions

. and now how can the average citizen computer steven clearly schwartz is clearly getting a seat at the table when it comes to decide what happens in this country? no other citizen. absolutely. if i pay $33000000.00, i'm expecting you to pick up the phone every time i call every time i call, it doesn't matter what party they're going to be like, hey buddy does what that 33000000. yeah. you bought a lot along, you bought a lot of yard signs with that 33000000. so oh me that call. no one can compete with that. and that's why i think that's crucial. moving for this country has to, we as citizens, have to start demanding that kind of reform exactly. american democracy has been heralded around the world, the north star. that is until the perils of america failures to adhere to its own creed from a plain former president, trump and the g o. p. are still hard at work trying to be value. disrupt and spread lies about the election results, the 2020 presidential cycle in so doing this chapter of american democracy is unraveling with fail challenges aimed at states where voted the color tip the feels

for the in can. did joe biden bought it? the bowed conspiracy theories and now water suppression bills designed to in the cornerstone of a democratic government. boating access. to top it off, the january 6 insurrection was largely driven by both claims of voter fraud. but even though those issues put america democracy in the international spotlight, according to a new piece by former congressman jesse jackson, junior american democracy, is quote, hobbling on one broken leg and drunk. the former congressman argues none of this is a new and it isn't solely a trump era phenomenon, either a toxic combination of racism, right wing etiology and states. right. create the, we can democracy. we're in today. if jesse jackson junior is to be believed america, democracy has always been dysfunctional in one that honestly isn't a true democracy at all. he might be on to something america is defined by its racism, from slavery in jim crow laws to housing and banking in equity. and of course,

police brutality, jackson junior, all of these truth years prior to trump election were multiracial voting rights were threatened. the state level, the right wing body politic has been attacking the right of people of color, specifically black voters for decades. now, under the bail of states rights, democrats have either been complacent or only use symbolism to try and stop the threat. jackson junior finds that progress toward racial equity, labor rights, and social justice is often at odds with speaks rights roadblocks. these roadblocks undermine the core of a function, democracy leaving america one in name only is that you are capable of becoming the democracy. it's health abroad. or are we doing by white supremacy and states rights, a policy that institutionalize paid? that's that's, that's a good question. because when you look at the direction we're heading, i don't see it's turning that around and mostly because i don't see any real

opposition from, from the left in a real way. i mean, there's opposition from the left on an activist level, on a progressive love, but there's no real opposition beyond leg word salad. you're right. i think that there is a rhetoric game here that is being played and i think wisely, by the advocates on the ground when it comes to democratic elected officials meeting time and time again. since basically african americans gain the right to vote where it has been threatened day in and day out, none of this is new and none of it is a trump era reality. it's been going on for general record for years and how america back this is with the backdrop of more and more black people getting kicked off the boating roles. this is that the backdrop of more and more election pulling places being shut down in black neighborhood. this is that the backdrop of a president, a former president and a party that still wants to believe and wants to spread the live that the last election was stolen. even though i radically republicans won all the down ballot raises. but the top of the picket their problem and they got challenge largely in

areas where the black vote was a deciding factor. so again, this is an issue that preceded trump, but it's definitely one that became amplified on a world stage during the last presidential election. and to me that such an important distinction to make because i think it's very easy for, for washington dc politics right now to kind of fall back and look at the last 4 years of trump and say, well, that's all our problems. now that he's gone, those problems won't exist anymore moving forward and it becomes, you know, it's sad. i think that one of these things are talking especially voting rights and things like that. i don't want it to become like roe v wade for the right. you know, like where the right, i don't think they'll ever truly overturn roe v wade because it's a, it's a hook to get people out to vote. it gets their base probably get them out. who we gotta, you know, voted make sure democrats don't do that. and we got to overturn it, they're never gonna overturn it because it's a hook to get there based off the boat. and i worry that the left is now doing that like, hey, keep voting for us. so we can try to get these states to get these votes back. you'll get these voting rights back, but we won't really try as hard as we want to to your point. i don't think that roe

v wade actually needs to be overturned at the supreme court level. at the end of the day, the republicans are getting exactly what they want to let us through with make like mississippi that only have one functioning abortion clinic for the entire state thinks that are currently penalizing and providing criminal liability to providers that are reducing, reducing access on a regular basis, they don't have to worry about the, they've already pretty much the amount goes back to the states rights that you're talking about and how you give states too much weight to make these moral decisions . that creates a problem exactly my my mike issue with this is that the larger argument here we focus so much on the filibuster, which does need to be gotten rid of, got thrown by the wayside. it is also a, a relic of essentially apartheid against african american. we also need to diminish or at least look at through a different lens is states, right? because asked any black person in america states right to have been used to create a system that basically lead black people a 2nd class citizen. since its inception,

there is nothing good to be seen for states, right? that you happen to be a person who is black or brown in this country. and to that point, i think that states have been able to get away with a lot of civil rights violations based on the fact that they are their own independent entities. that's a really great point because i think originally, when people think of state rights, they don't think of it. like you said they got to reexamine. we look at the exciting, well most people think of it's like, oh, well yeah, state should figure out what highways to build, to better support as population. what schools need to be put in what area it shouldn't be left up to the federal government. do that, and that's all fine, but it's when it crosses over into that area that you're talking about, that suddenly it takes that ugly turn. you like, wait a minute, that we don't need to leave morality up to an individual state. they shouldn't be able to decide who can booked, they shouldn't be able to decide who can get married. they shouldn't be able to decide, fundamentally who have the right to own a home in which neighborhood, and we're seeing that happen. and we're seeing these restrictions get elevated on a daily basis as it relates to the blacking and browning of the country. great

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guy that i, i the, the, me, the new a former peer with them is benefited greatly by a broken grid system and computer networks that make breeches as easy and enticing is making an ice cream sundae, cyber terrorism and ransomware are making headlines in america where the attacks are becoming more frequent, and the cash demands continue to grow. cyber security has been a talking point since the internet exploded in the mid ninety's and cries grew stronger in the early 2, thousands. yet here we are in 2021 and fiber security standards are pretty much nonexistent. breach of them banking have gone on for years. it most recently, we see cyber attacks against the colonial pipeline resulting in gas, ga, follow by solar winds, and meet supplier j b. s. these breaches served as

a fire alarm fire with millions being paid to hackers and leaving us law enforcement out of its depth. some elected officials have argued just stop paying the ransom in the same vein. they say america doesn't negotiate with terror. but what can corp to do when they are attacked? are there avenues currently available to to them aside from paying one security firm, tracking ransomware attacks estimated that there were 65000 successful breaches in 2020 alone in fat during the colonial pipeline breach, homeland security secretary alejandro. my orcas estimated that $350000000.00 in ransom payments were handed out to engaging in ransomware plot. over the past year . ransomware attacks involve malware, then encrypt files onto a device or companies network, making it in operable criminal. then the main ransom in bitcoin, or some form of crypto currency. without bipartisan reforms or cybersecurity

systems, and public private partnerships to protect the grid system. more attacks. more money in greater threats are coming. international president of high crime technology investigation association, todd shipley joined us now with more welcome thought. welcome. thank you. todd. know that ransomware attacks are shaping up to be the new $911.00 with implications from water and gas and security, and mash george's hospitals in transport. why do you think we're seeing greater instances of ransomware and what can the us do to prevent them? while we're seen, part of the increase in ransomware because it's so effective for the bad guys to attack our systems. define weaknesses, because we're all susceptible to the problem in email comes in and we see something that looks like it should be something we need to respond to. we click on a link, fill out a form, download a pdf file, and also now we are the access to a company. and that causes so much problems for the smaller companies in the bigger

companies. now, because there's no ability to stop it, because we constantly get into our email accounts, these kinds of emails, trying to persuade us to, you know, click on a link and it's just, you know, tremendously a problem. got fiber crimes and the need for stronger cybersecurity standards. have been a talking point here in washington d. c for years. why? why haven't, we've seen a substantial movement on capitol hill and what needs to be in a policy that could actually protect corporations and smaller businesses from ransomware attacks? well, i think part of the problem is always been that you know, the i t function, the information technology function within companies has always been a, you know, not a profit center for the companies. so they don't put the funding in that needs to go there. and there isn't legislation that requires them to do that. i think what we're going to end up seeing if we end up having hearings on this topic, we're going to have some sarbanes oxley kind of, you know,

law pass that forces these, you know, c suite personnel to actually take the seriously. because if we look back on things like sony from a number of years ago, we saw that they didn't take it seriously and they got attacked. and we haven't seen it being really taken seriously by most companies, up to even colonial, where they didn't have things in place that should have prevented this simple kind of attack with some, you know, software that detects these kinds of things. and they didn't have it. and taught, should corporations pay, we know that the colonial pipeline did meet supplier j b. s did as have others, but in 2019, the teamsters were hit with ransomware and they were used to pay and took a totally different approach. what is the difference in these cases? well, i think if you look at the, the, some of the companies haven't paid, and there's been a number that haven't, they don't make the news. because they get back their data, they view, they're backed up correctly, or they, they move forward and, you know, re,

you build the data. the problem is a lot of these companies haven't sufficiently backed up their data to cover themselves. if something like this happens in, you know, ip people, security people like me, have been seen for years back up, back up, back up, and make sure that you got backups off site so that they can't be affected. but apparently these companies are doing that, you know, that's the simplest fix to do this. another thing is i think that the government needs to come up with some guidelines on what they need to do. we've done that within the government because if you remember in the mid to thousands how many times the u. s. government was attacked, the army was getting attacked and they had to change how they looked at their functions and put a lot of red teams in place that were actually going out there and looking at at their, their computers. i think we need to start looking better at a lot of these companies and how they're actually doing their protection to make sure that they're putting things into place properly. really got about a minute left, but i want to ask you this as, as, as the cyber terrorists become more advanced, you know, whether they're working on behalf of nation states or are, you know,

subnational terrorist groups, or, or just simply criminals. just trying to get a get a bit coin, buck, where i gotta ask, where is like an essay and all of this and things like that because don't we haven't, isn't the same national security agency, isn't there the ones we should be out actually stopping this from happening and protecting our shores the way we've been told they're capable of doing well, you would hope so. and i hope this week when you know, president biden present food and get together, they have this conversation about this very thing. because right now we've not done those offensive projects that i think we should like. you're suggesting the units a do i think we need to look at that kind of thing. i mean, we could even go to the extreme and, and issue letters of mark to the hackers to stop some of this stuff. but you're right, the essays there. why are they doing what they need to be doing? they should be, it seems like they spend more time spying on all of us than actually doing that. thank you very much for joining us today. mr. shipley, looking forward to having you on the future. thank you. have

a good day. as i mentioned at the top of the show here in the united states between the end of may and memorial day holiday and the 4th of july, the us independence day celebration we are, we here in the us are in the holiday season, the patriotism. so it's only fitting that as we and the show today to look at one more. one of the more controversial uses of language in what's considered one of the oldest acts of patriotism here in the u. s. and that my friends is reciting the pledge of allegiance while it's not mandatory. the pledge in its current form has been recited by us school children across the nation since 954. and it goes, i pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all will. joining us now to discuss the constitutionality of the controversial line of one nation under god in the pledge is legal media analysts line l. lionel. well, there's

a lot to be argued about about having school children recite a pledge of allegiance on a daily basis. you and many others feel that including the phrase, one nation under god as unconstitutional, enlightened our viewers. and why you believe this? and i'm the only one apparently who thinks that let me explain a couple of things. first friend, if you want to spend some great time learning the history of this flag, did you know that there were various iterations of the pledge in particular, not the flight, but the pledge. and there was one, the one that we know is the bella, me pledge, this was a christian socialist. never mentioned god at all. and let me tell you what the bellamy pledge was. can i do this for you? this is watch because we all do this, right? you don't want to bellamy pledge was this. now, this was okay until the twenty's, when they said it. and you could maybe flip your hand up or not. but it did all these kids standing up by pleasurably. so that was developed pledge, so i mean just the iterations of this in 1954 today. dwight eisenhower sign the

under god edition 2 years after, in god we trust trust on all paper currency, the official motto, why? i don't know. now there are 2 provisions of the 1st amendment that we must, as to religion, the establishment clause, and the free exercise clause in violence, right? the free exercise clause, congress shall passion a law that affects the free exercise of your faith unless it pay oh, the snake handling. no father, things like that. certain drugs we don't like, but other than that yeah. in general. now, the establishment clause doesn't necessarily mean the establishment of like and the pisca ball church, you know, the church of england. it means friends when the government endorses ratify or passing judgment on the validity of a faith. if on our coinage we had, there is no god,

god is false or, and you go that would also in my mind be unconstitutional. even though i might personally agree with my, my thoughts me nothing. because the government violates the establishment clause. i love it on the validity of it. i love it, and that's 2 great points. and i want to have you back on later this week to continue this discussion on patriotism in this, please line. i'll thank you so much for illustrating the differences between the 2 . brilliant art everybody. that is our show for you today. and remember in this world, we are definitely not told we are loved enough, so i tell you all i love you. i am robin anatomy. across, keep on watching all those hawks and have a great day and night. everybody. ah, me the

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a whole the setting the tone for the summit that even puts in points to the anti russian rhetoric coming from washington that he's grilled on american tv about jail, the position later lexia valley cyber attacks and moscow's military build up that we've been accused of provoking the black lives matter movement. that would have been a good line of attack. but we didn't do that. when i had the geneva summit biting cold put in a worthy adversary get avoid. just giving a direct answer about whether or not he still thinks polluted is a killer. is that still your beliefs are that he is a killer? especially the 1st question i'm laughing to.