that maybe you've moonlighted for nipple tearful or sold one of your lungs on bargain, oregon discount bin dot out. i may have made up a solid half of those. not really sure. but the point is the same. a 3rd of all americans earn some or all of their living as a gig worker and corporate america. and the corporate media will tell you that freelance short term employment is wonderful. the wall street journal said the giga economy is coming to the rescue. and forbes magazine said it's helping women learn how to make the gig economy work for them. pulling is the so called a gig economy is too big to be ignored in good, 59000000 americans and according to gallop 29 percent of american workers have gig work as their primary job. and i have to admit

a lot of it is convenient, right? why go get food when someone can bring it to you? why wait for a cab? when an over will arrive in the next 30 seconds and smell marginally better and there's always new apps appearing and solving every problem you never knew you had . for example, the one that combines door dash and uber, so you can get a ride to your friends house, and the driver gives you an order of indian food on the way. i mean, i love that one. of course, there are just as many failed app startups like the one that combine task rabbit and farmers only into something called farmer rabbit. where you could use the app to order a farmer who would come over and either fix your lawn mower or you. but you didn't get to choose which got it. got mixed mixed reviews, mixed. point me the gig economy is a major factor in our workforce and there's a reason corporate america. i love it, they of it. in fact, there are 7 reasons

a lot. well, there's probably more than 7 put, i was too lazy to keep going after i got to 7. so for now there are 7 rays in the corporate rule. those love to give them a many of these are coming from the great research of brian backer and economist, richard wolf. number one, there are no unions union though the only reason workers achieved any kind of right, any kind of regulations in various fields without unions, you'd still be losing your job to a 6 year old because his little hand fit more neatly inside the screw, cutting late by the boot poly block on the assembly line, you know, something got jammed up there without a union. no one would have a weekend. and without the weekend there be no because 90 percent of it happens on the weekend. so next time you're having sex. thank a union later, i mean, not during wait until after actually don't,

don't actually don't do it at all to just they think it in your head. just just thank him in your head because otherwise that will be an awkward conversation that i fell the other day. i thought of you. i was knuckle deep in my, you know, what? never mind, never, never mind for now. the 2nd reason, corporate rulers love the gig economy, know health care back when health care didn't cost an arm and a leg pun intended, you deal with it. that's how i me that on you. back and those companies realize they could get away with paying workers less by agreeing to cover their health care . but nowadays they have covering your stupid health care. so they find ways to get out of it. and what better way to do that, then to not technically have employees, but these so called free lancers are employees. if you drive for over or live, you are an employee of over or lift,

but they don't call you that. and therefore they get out of giving you benefits, but it is a crazy idea of just the football football here that about that. thank you. call you whatever the hell. 2 i one, i don't care if they call you liberal. rocky is still a boy. they can call you their favorite inside out, but no go monkey start chlorine off are fortunate. i've heard back and one matter. but apparently, a lot of our ruling late act like it doesn't matter. here's an easy way to find out if you're an employee of a certain company. are they exploiting you in one way or another? then you're an employee. that was reason number 3, no hurdles to firing someone that even remotely annoies them. a lot of jobs that are unionize or have basic regulation or someone secure. a school usually can't just fire a teacher because they don't like the noises he makes when he breathes. but in the

gig economy, they ab can just stop talking to you like a middle school break up. and despite supposedly not being a gig employer, amazon has totally gotten in on this action. amazon bought have been firing people, contract drivers, say algorithms, terminate them by email even when they've done nothing wrong before 3 in corporate america loves the gig economy along the same vein as easy to fire. you're also easy to replace. they don't have to get to know you work with. you learn anything about you, and they hardly have to train you to them. each worker is a nameless thing that delivers, tie food, or whatever. number 5, gang workers don't work together. most kick jobs are done as a loan worker. are you driving cars or fixing something that someone's house or are catching a rogue ferret lucian and elder care facility? as my 1st job out of college,

this means workers aren't talking with each other. they can't plan together or educate each other. there is no community which means they can't unify or unionize . you'll notice that none of these gaps try to create any kind of community among workers, even though it would make a lot of sense for a veteran drivers to tell the new folks. here are some tricks of the trade. you know, hey know, guy. when you're driving on saturday night, have a bucket with you for when the 25 year old, any it is about to spray long island ice tea chunks across your back fate. you can thank me later. the gang economy, once you all separated and atomized, it's a brand new plan called divide and conquer. always. that's right. it's as old. it came, man, and they still work and still we're still falling for a number 6. it's very easy to control the worker if they are only doing

a very particular task, and you can monitor their every move. most famous example probably is amazon, even though they are slightly different than the gig economy, but the concept is the same. they put a tracking wristband on their workers that starts beeping when they're going even a few seconds to slow workers. they're not allowed to pause or chat with others, tracking every move or workers. so any remaining humanity out of the humans. and yet the gig economy is shown to be able like it's a new level. 6 of freedom, we're going to pray, we are dig where it gives you the freight on the work when you want your number, i'm a by, you still have a boss. it's an algorithm and if it's and then have you number 7, which sums up all the others gig work, killed the balance of power even further to the corporate rulers. every gain workers have made over the past few 100 years,

was done with collective action. you have collective action to thank for fighting back against the corporate tidings, who only care about profit. the gig economy destroys the collective nature of labor . once we switch away from the employer employee relationship, none of those hard fought labor protections count anymore. it turns the worker into a loan bag are not even able to plead their case to a human boss. instead, it's just a sol as app with smiley face emoji, on your phone, letting you know that you can go yourself. won't even tell you why. there's a reason the corporate sociopath love the gig economy because it gives them even more control over you company from watching the see the belly debates this redact to deny the

i welcome. i'm like can now think the news remind. we're going to squeeze a lot in to hang on to your see. one of the most well known and respected professors in the nation, cornell west was forced to resign from harvard this week due to his support of palestine. but let's remember, harvard university has a reputation to uphold ok, and that reputation is as a factory for war criminals and prolific human rights abusers and court. l last was ruining their brand totally. if they let him stay on before, you know, it's harvard would be associated with, with, with, with doing good thing in the world. and then where would they be? i probably take a re water out of a bucket under a branch. you know it and i know it was corner way were being held down for his moral fortitude, billionaire, neo liberal tax g richard branson,

was being propelled in through outers have in a very interesting experiment. branford became the 1st stack of to break the earth's atmosphere. this gives humanity a lot of hope that we may be able to shoot enough of our sacks into space to keep our environment and world livable. speaking of facts and the f, b, i reached out on twitter to try to get more people to snitch on their own family. they said family members and peers are often best position to witness signs of mobilization to violence. help prevent home grown violent extremism. visit our site to learn how to spot suspicious behaviors and report them to the f. b i. mobile is zation of vital lives. that's right. someone you may know someone you may be related to call it right now. be an f

b i agent. or nearly as bad, they could be a police officer. tell us, tell the tell tale signs are too tight. shirts. do you sunglasses? and whenever you go to eat, one of their parent putting pops that they bought. they respond. what the point, bob down double. why, from the point and pop gabrielle, there's divergent thinking and murdering. that's every time that happens. you know what the f b i failed to say in their tweet is that most of the time? terrorist activity is census walk or it's them. a large investigation in 2012 by researchers and fordham law school discovered that every single one of the 138 terrorist incidents recorded in the usa between 212012 involved as b. i informant who play leading roles in planning out supplying weapons

instructions and even recruiting islamic terrorists to carry out terror acts on us soil. under the guiding hand, the informants provided the weapons suggested the targets and even initiated the inflammatory political rhetoric that later elevated the charges to the level of tourism. every single. why did you say the criminal syndicate has really got out of control? i hope someone's got some. 6 does anyone have any ideas? how we could stop the reign of terror? anyone? anyone having the f b i in charge of stopping domestic terrorism is like putting rowley ruiz in charge of timing the boston marathon? rosie really is one the boston marathon in 1900. 80 only problem was she didn't run

the boston marathon. she just showed up at the end and said she did, which is far smarter honestly than actually running the damn thing. she should have gotten some kind of trophy anyway. do you get the analogy now? i'm not sure i do either. but speaking of law enforcement, we found out this week a 27 year career of cop thomas nolan admitted police are trained to lie in reports and frame themselves as heroes. well, least there framing themselves once. and these fake police reports are particularly a problem in cases where the cars are accused of brutality or criminality. sometimes murder, thomas nolan is decided to be a whistleblower after spending decades. decades training fellow cars, how to successfully lie on their reports. he routinely advise them to incorporate

a short list of buzzwords in their reports to frame themselves as the hero and the 1st and the suspect who might have been injured or killed. as the aggressor. words like, resist overcome, vigorous, violent, subdue fear and attack. nolan said, even if they were exaggerations lucky for cubs, many of those are still single syllable words. they're not thinkers. i know that hearing cobs lie is about a shocking is hearing your uncle rufus once a fried squirrel testicles, he'll like. i'd be more surprised if he hadn't room anyway. we're happy when he's busy eating coral death the goals because i mean there's not grew up in the neighbor's dog. but even though it's not shocking, whistleblowers like thomas nolan are still important because just think about how many people's lives have been ruined by those false police reports. how many people are in prison this minute because of lying cobs in the largest prison state in the

world? it's tough to comprehend. hey richard branson got any room for more taxes on the spacecraft. they're a big that craft. we're gonna, we're gonna need a bigger, bigger boat, bigger boat craft, bigger, bigger space, but we have to go to a quick break. but you can watch your doctor any time and portable dot tv and check out the redacted podcast. it's called moment of clarity on i tune spotify instead. sure, i'll be right back a lot more. i don't do it. you know, it's nice to number nobody when we get it. because if you don't, don't don't go down the limit of all using the 40 channels in there. i get the data that i need to find out if i

can have it on the front of it. and then we can just talk to the middle initial with those who knew all along the plan, the person initials going to separate kill me. i cannot. they are to say that in law politicians or under work can even they are to say to, to people, oh, we have to reduce the consumption. this is why. so far the consumption issue did not was not taken up very seriously. so or, but it's a very serious issue. so we cannot address the climate change issue unless the

people are on the word real, that we cannot continue our over consumption as we are doing now. the welcome back. i'm still a camp as goal start to get back to normal after a year of coven, some cities are changing what normal means for their school systems. but not everyone feel happy about it. for more or less turn to our intelligence failure and lay awe . chicago, illinois is finally joining the 90 percent of american cities that have an elected school board. thanks to a new state law. questions about like, why haven't we always had that or what's the school board anyway and is not the thing they hit kids with the chew gum and class. as it turns out,

the windy city has never had an elected school board, but it is in a low for some reason, a number of other major cities don't have them either. and strangely enough, they all happen to be places where public schools are overwhelmingly made up of students of color. that could be for any number of reasons. when the mayor of the city has control over the school board, things are streamlined, which works great when there's not a lot of caucasians, and you only need to buy one kind of film screen. but when you got a bunch of white kid spread out all over the city, you need all kinds 80 s, b, f, moisturizing mineral based water resistance div recognizing you name it. that's why white need an elected school board to make sure that this broad spectrum of some blocks is fully incorporated. on the other hand though, for many parents, teachers and students in diverse, low income public schools, the may orally appointed school board hasn't worked out great. according to chicago teachers union, the appointed board has overseen dozens and dozens of school loaders,

massive expansion of charters was laying off roughly half of black educators, cutting special ed funding and approving no bid contracts that land a c, e o, a manual appointee. barbara bennett, in federal prison. i've heard of the school prison pipeline, but i guess in chicago school board, the prison is a pipeline to. and yes, in case you're wondering, chicago's public school system has a c, e o. makes you wonder what exactly is going on in these classes anyway? our kids trading bitcoin making polish sausage is home ed class, just a garment factory. the ceo thing actually kind of makes sense when you consider what education policy has been all about. for the past few decades in chicago and around the country under the mantra of school choice, corporate education reformers have tried to remake public education in the image of a competitive market where schools compete for education consumers. the emphasis in

public education has been placed 1st and foremost on providing individuals with the skills and habits appropriate for the marketplace. once upon a time, school was supposed to teach kids that there's more to life than money. now that our society has gotten smarter, we teach them that yes, there still is something more to life than money. it's called more money. who needs to kill a mockingbird? when you have how to win friends and influence, people, companies used to have to waste money on trading their employees. but now they can just open up charter schools, which are publicly funded, but privately operated. and at the end of 4 years have a stellar crop of entry level employees. freshly graduated from raytheon success academy. but chicago's new 21 person elected school board to be phased in over the next 6 years. could signal the beginning of the end for this education market is ation boondocks. the shift is popular among chicago residents who by and large, seem to understand that privatization has not made their schools better. it's hard

to argue against the idea that a public school board should be elected by the public. but neil liberals are doing their best to find a way they complain that turn out for school board races is typically low. that gives organized groups like the chicago teacher's union, which calls may oral control and on mitigated disaster, an edge. but one edge isn't that sharp compared to the millions of edges on those stacks of cash that corporate education reformers don't allow to. politicians like chicago mer, laurie lightfoot, although she supported an elected school board when she was running for mayor. now that it's actually happening, lightfoot calls the policy unwieldy as usual when it comes to education, the mayor is doing the strapped for cash routine. sorry teachers maybe be a cop next reincarnation. but if there's any reason that the city in schools have had financial trouble, it's from letting privatized one, the show. rather than tax the rich to fund that the school system long ago

financial lived and lost money investing in exotic debt instruments that costs the school system at least $617000000.00. since these payments were themselves largely debt financed to people of chicago via the taxes paid to cps will end up paying wall street nearly $1000000000.00 on these losses. for a generation of students, neal liberal privatize years have called the shots in america's education policy. they've slashed budgets, close schools, fired teachers, and push standardized testing. so far up everyone's. we're all spitting out scantron sheets. and despite all their bold promises, none of this has made the system better. democratizing school boards may be a small step, but it's in the right direction. people are finally starting to get why to the corporate education reform racket for too long. we've let them pass, but now it's time to get them expelled from chicago. i manners li with redacted to

know, and now for all the news, we didn't have time to get to know we've done to get to it. please welcome now me. hello, lee. how you doing? i know you've been following the cupid story that protest on one end in cuba. oh, come on like you haven't seen the news. it's been running 247. q with cuban steps of the streets on sunday to protest their government handling of the pandemic. they had to put and rag underneath anderson cooper and everybody is so excited in western media. they're so excited that cute was having trouble or like, oh and there's so many problems with the coverage that we're seeing. first of all, there's a ton of misinformation. they're leaving the fact that cuba suffers from an embargo, a really in humane embargo. when you look at a pandemic and they're kind of an important point. yeah. and you know, they develop their own vaccine, but they don't have syringes, get it into people though they're, they're suffering a lot from this embargo. but also we're seeing a ton of this information. this is

a micro view of, of the region. so we're seeing a lot of protests in the region, so you can point, you can say, oh, there's a lot of problems with keep us government. but you could also say that about a washington line governments, the protest in columbia been brutal, has been going on for 2 and a half months. 70 people have died 1500 people nearly have been assaulted by the police. and if you count protest starting even earlier, it's gone on for years and hundreds of people have died. exactly. and also in haiti, you know, our guy was in there until last week. and when he, well, they can cover this as an asian. but in terms of the protests before the assassination didn't really cover, not a blip. and really we covered this last week, but how the u. s. has imposed charity in haiti was the cause of the protests. and that's what people were protesting and haiti. but we didn't see any coverage about

that. and so of course you're just seeing just cuba just want to treat and there's a lot of countries who are suffering from the same shortages are suffering from powder out outages. there's that power power outages around central america. right now, el salvador, a guatemalan nicaragua, there's protests in brazil and elsewhere as we talked about. and almost all of them get basically no coverage, but cuba, it's been like 247. yeah, because we, we processed the mouth when we see cuba having trouble hands to the chance to bring down the country that drew off our capital is changing. yeah. so, so appealing. yeah. it's just that the have the different economy and, you know, everybody wants to say, oh, socialism is bad. but then after this, you know, 24 hour protest and maybe a little bit on monday, the president said we're going to list restrictions on some,

on some imports. and he, he said, the president of cuba. yeah, i'm sorry. the cuban president miguel diaz can out and he, he basically said let's, yes i, the embargo sucks for also. we mishandled some things where so the government is responding to these and but the us i think is also saying, but look, we're doing some wonderful things for cuba, for example, we're no longer sending them exploding cigars to try and kill him. so we're helping out. thank you. now me for again to the appreciate it. no problem. i hear your headlines from the future in august. you'll read california hires producers of fire fast to re brand fire season as exciting, steamy 6 months. i mean, i've always said when facing apocalyptic calamity turned to job role. and in one

week you'll learn f b, i tweets request for terrorist planning, anything significant to d. m. them good work. and in early september study 80 percent of us economy is uber drivers, delivering door dash drivers to tender dates. well, sounds like a growth economy to me. now it's our show, but i've just launched a brand new web site read in the media dot com to help you find all of the important news every single day. check it out until next time, goodnight. keep biting the when i see black america, i think of myself. when i was growing up, like america spoke to me. when why destroyed you didn't not to cite

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the runaway money print thing as we've been bank for a few years. so now people are really coming to grips with the fact that yeah, as the reports been right about it, what the so many people devastation and destruction. a major clean up the underway, along with intense search and rescue efforts off the huge flooding in germany and belgium, around the sun. more than a 100 people are dead. but so many more remained missing. toby lands the sicilian region of italy into a property crisis. authorities war, the changing seasons will be even more challenging for local communities. washington accused, as russia and china of running smear campaigns against western vaccine without comes as the us itself is use more warnings about the side effects of its own. just .