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Cracks that have developed in g. E. s now evaporating profits in recent years cracks that have led General Electric chief executive larry culp to start freezing its pension plan for about 20000. 00 u. S. Workers and offering pension buyouts 2100000 former employees of the conglomerate joining the ranks of u. S. Companies phasing out a guaranteed retirement. And while bad Business Decisions and corporate belt tightening are being take it out on retire on the retirement of g. Ds workers their c. E. O. Was well a theyre still doing quite well not only did g. E. Shill out a 10 1000000. 00 golden parachute to its last c. E. O. The new c. E. O. Mr copes new 4 year deal signed just a year ago could not have as much as 21000000. 00 a year. My friends i think its safe to say that its a good story watching the whole. The for. Real that this would be. As good a part of. The day like you that i got. Was that we. Would. Be. Excited i. Welcome the world watching the hawks i am a robot and im taffeta lawless oh gee golly gee. Its interesting as we were talking earlier about this the 1st time i really understood why i really got why corporate conglomerates were bad it was during a stint in the mid to late eightys and was d when you had mentioned that g. E. Bought n. B. C. Yes and David Letterman famously kind of rest on that and you know we showed up to you how to think about toaster ovens and part of what he was making a point of saying even told Johnny Carson im on another and be a see a show that was owned by g. E. This idea of this company that sells toaster ovens and all this at the time having control over and not just what David Letterman says on a chat show but what the news says and how that is and that the news is playing and theres a commercial and he made those points and connected and so its interesting there we are 2030 years later. Its much worse i know that there are those in g. E. Im shocked especially as a military contractor they are on the brink apparently if you talk to certain people i mean look back in 2000 g. E. Was one of the americas most prominent country come companies to its entire career i mean in the year 2000 they were valued at 600000000000. 00 and the fact that now their belt tightening now theyre worried just you know 19 years later about that scary time they employed over 300000 employees in 150 u. S. Back to 176 manufacturing plants in 30 other countries their original pensions plan which was very good brought people to the middle class brought People Retirement they worked there employed 485000 employees allowed them to retire on the original pension plan. Well and this is where all of you know as were going into the night and the next election and the next sort of season. Here in america starting a new season soon. Next fall one of the or things that keeps coming up is this idea that you cant afford insurance unless you have in last year employed you cant afford a Retirement Plan unless youre employed and your employer kicks in well part of the reasoning that youre pushing in seeing more of this to have universal health care and a universal pension of some kind is tax them then theyre not paying for it out of pocket and then they cant use the workers as an excuse of why they cant pay them decently they would also keep costs down so when businesses change over the years as i said things have been shifting from a partridge pension that you see more at like state and local municipal jobs so you have these as they go from traditional pensions into these 4 a one k. Is they effectively sort of shifted the volatility or risk volatility to their workers so were not responsible if your pension ends up not having any money on it or you lose it all so but it made it less the for a one case for cheaper for them to put into and they werent putting on them their. But only by 2017 yachts the only 16 companies in the fortune 500 offer a traditional defined benefit plans to new wires and that was 238 that was down. From that its one of the bernie made off connection i want to make sure we got you know its interesting too because the one person is kind of sounding the alarm and this person is basically saying that g. E. Could go bankrupt in the next few years its Harry Markopoulos and he was the guy who actually blew the whistle on the burns he made of problems the scheme hes basically saying theyre engaged in accounting fraud in the g. E. Is going to go bankrupt now you put it together 169 page report now a lot of people are saying oh well hes just trying to let you know boost his own investment because apparently when he figured this out about g. E. He then sold that information or gave that information to a hedge fund and is now short selling g. E. In the idea that theyre going to go bankrupt so everybody is making money off tragedy right now it just it breaks my heart it really does so as a little. Short change them yes. China has rejected us president called to investigate joe and hunter biden regarding possible corruption and Trump Campaign and administration has alleged recently. China spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry told the South China Morning Post that quote china has a long pursued the principle of non interference in the International Affairs of other internal affairs of other countries it is that person of principle causing so much friction between china and the u. S. This week r. T. America correspondent here in france act has just. Its not looking good at all over in china with hong kongs leader kerry lam she says the city is survival is at stake at a press conference tuesday alam not only said that the Tourism Industry has taken a hit which is an obvious one no one wants to travel to hong kong right now but its also a tack. Sign businesses by protesters were talking retail banks shops or whats worse better a local investment manager francis lund says that investors there were in their money out of hong kong the only good sign however is that hong kongs share prices stay pretty stable Tuesday Morning when the markets open thats because investors see hong kong shares is totally cheap now but as far as tourism kerry land projects the 3rd quarter to be a really bad one no one is going to hong kong anymore and you have the golden week that is normally a huge week for hong kong tourism but retail and tourism is down by more than 50 percent and then its not sued. Be. Into new find insurers and their beef is menu he. Signs him. From hong kong to defy major said. So you not only saying hotels and visitor arrivals down youre seeing some of hong kongs own citizens theyre looking to leave the area theres reports of people who obviously arent coming forward with their full names because of political sensitivities but theyre looking to emigrate to the u. K. Or to the u. S. Its really wherever they can get to sooner and its mostly young millennial is looking to leave the area many of them wanting to have a stable job in a place thats not going to be in the middle of these riots happening many that want to start a family as well but it gets even worse all of this happening in hong kong is 28 chinese corporations have been blacklisted here in the United States now these ones here that you see on your screen there this move is just days before President Donald Trump plans to resume u. S. And china trade talks and to this what it seems like a never ending trade war now these companies are now banned from buying u. S. Products or importing American Technology so these are some Big Companies were talking about and another big company the n. B. A. Theres also this growing controversy of whats going on with the Houston Rockets again this all happening after the rockets general manager daryl morey tweeted then deleted the stand with hong kong tweet so the rockets obviously under fire now and its personal because the head of the Chinese Basketball Association meeting he played his entire hall of fame career with the team but today the Chinese Television network c. C. T. V. Theyre not going to air the n. B. A. Preseason game set to be played in the country a schedule of c. C. T. V. Programming on its web site shows that 2 n. B. A. Preseason games between the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers are no longer slated for broadcast again this all happening and adding to a wave of censure from Chinese Companies including a major sports merchandise for a tailor and news site that have halted its partnerships with the rockets and even having rockets merchandise and gear not showing up on websites anymore and washington for watching the hawks im farren fronsac. Massive massive massive story and i want to get this quick group were going into the 13th time. A renegotiation with china the u. S. And china 13 times. But not so lucky david powdrill executive director of the Hong Kong Apec trade policy study group he wrote an opinion piece for the South China Morning Post that this will be lucky number 13 he wrote but in reality it is likely to prove a painful and pointless destruction forcing dislocation and costly restructuring of many complex Global Supply chains and delivering few of the intended benefits to the us economy to its companies and its workforce harming us competitiveness and its reputation as a reliable and trustworthy trader and best partner partner this is blowing up in so many Different Directions i cant even keep track of all m. B. A. Blackboards you mention china is now going to blacklist people i think even apps no one your phone are going to be affected by all of this well there and there is a certain amount of things that are already happening and i think thats the idea of this idea of you know as i said you know we dont interfere in other countries we dont interfere in with each other and thats sort of been the u. S. Stance at the point as well we cant really get involved in whats going on and hong kong because weve also got to deal with whats going on in Mainland China so one of the things that came out about a month ago the guard again got a leak from tick tock which is the app that everybody all the kids are playing i thought is something to do with making a bit of funny videos or something but heres the deal if you or anyone in any place around the world use this and that they put on your picture it will or you put on anything that. Say i support hong kong it will probably be taken down so what the guardian revealed is that the popularity. Network instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention tannen square Tibetan Independence or banned religious script shown. So that was a leak things and this is happening as i said to all users not just in china and then of course south park. Got banned and had everything taken down. Because they had done a story about how movie is like the recent red dawn remake that was changed from the china invading to north korea invading the recent top gun movie had to change things on it and so yeah so south park and now one of our available in china as well. 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Take a listen to almost any major Politicians Campaign stump speech and it sandwich somewhere between americas great and jobs jobs youll always hear promises to spend more on education and while proper funding and accountable bookkeeping are indeed important issues to be resolved are also a host of other needs and issues in the us educational system that are woefully ignored but equally important especially for children parents and guardians living in low income neighborhoods one of the most important is a better understanding of a parents or guardians rights within the Education System from having a child improperly labeled as having an emotional behavior disorder by the school or being unfairly or harshly disciplined to having a child denied access to gifted or talented Educational Programs based on the color of their skin or Family Income level many parents have no idea or a properly trained in how to use and protect their rights in these kinds of situations here to do that today to discuss her work in education justice and helping parents and children better understand those rights is civil rights attorney mickey levy armstrong thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me the cream of you know from what i understand is youre actually running right now with your knowledge and your background in law and activism in everything that youve been working on your whole life youre running a clinic and educational justice in minneapolis this october what are the what are the main points that youre teaching parents guardians of children who show up to this clinic about their rights their legal rights within the School Systems in the u. S. Well particularly in the state of minnesota we have some of the worst Racial Disparities between white children black children and other children of color in terms of educate. No attainment High School Graduation rates high disciplinary rates for children of color and specifically high rates of children who are designated as needing special Education Services we see far too many children of color being labeled as having emotional behavior disorder for example and being pushed out of classrooms so a big focus of the education justice clinic is to ensure that parents know their rights they know how to advocate within the Public School system on behalf of their children and to have Legal Support when needed and so part of my role as a civil rights attorney is to assess a childs. Which is an individualized Education Plan if that child is a part of a special Education Program within a school and to make sure that the eye is narrowly tailored to meet the needs of the child so that that child will be able to succeed academically too often are not nearly tailored to meet the childrens needs and a lot of times the teams who help to facilitate the ip process are not culturally competent i have said and many rooms with all white educators and. Seeing them talk about whats happening with children of color with a lack of cultural competency and so as an africanamerican attorney being in the room it makes a huge difference in terms of being able to advocate and ensure that parents know their rights in those situations another issue that we encounter here in the state of minnesota are high disciplinary rates facing children of color particularly black boys are many applets Public Schools has been the subject of a federal investigation in terms of the high rate of School Suspensions that have impacted children of color and africanamerican boys who. More likely to be suspended for nonviolent offenses and these are problems that were seeing all across the country to yes i mean its injury you said that because one of things we came up with one of things that came across obviously going through this is is that me major Racial Disparity and discipline and so one of the examples i was i was just this Page Middle School in minnesota africanamerican students there were 338 percent more likely to be suspended than their white peers youre doing this work to help you know theres theres some guidance there on what black parents and students can do with dealing with that and i think your program does that but i wonder what should all of those i mean we talk about white educators and white parents what do we need to do better in those situations when we see this happening or become aware of it. So a part of my work also includes hosting workshops along with my husband in the twin cities we have a series right now called antiracism for educators and many of the folks who attend our workshops are white educators within the Public School system who are learning about these underlying Racial Disparities that exist here in minnesota as well as nationwide and connecting them to what has happened historically and terms of the levels of anti blackness and White Supremacy that have been present within our public Education System from the beginning so were finding that knowledge is power in terms of helping people understand that these issues are not happening in a vacuum that they are a manifestation of our unresolved racial issues that exist in this country that have seeped into our public Education System and were asking teachers to be conscious of things like implicit bias and how it plays out in the classroom in terms of which students are being unfairly disciplined designated for special Education Services or placed in alternative school. And even circumstances in which a school decides or an educator decides to call a School Resource officer which is essentially a Police Officer to handle what should be a basic disciplinary matter so were seeing a lot of our children of color brought into the juvenile Justice System through the School System by virtue of the use of Police Officers within those settings. School to prison pipeline you hear a lot of people talking about these days and how that sets it up to you know basically put these kids right into the system and grow them right and throw them in jail the moment they turn 18 we see that over and over another issue that youre tackling which is interesting is the you know the educational justice is to aggregate individualized Education Plans for children with special needs what are the problems found in those plans and how can you know how can parents you know look to solve them have a sister was special needs and have to go through that education and theres a tough time theres a very hard time trying to figure out how to help these kids. Absolutely well most of the time what we see is that parents often take the schools word for it and terms of determining what the needs are for individual children and when parents blindly trust the system unfortunately at times that means that their children are not always getting the support that they need so there might be children for example who have issues as far as literacy are concerned and those children might need additional time with the one on one instructor or being pulled out of class for reading time so that they have the Additional Support that they need but a school might cut back on those services if they feel that they dont have the Financial Resources to make that possible so as an advocate after speaking with the parent and learning about the childs needs from the parents perspective showing up in an ip meeting as an attorney might mean advocating and in some. Cases demanding more reading time or reading resources and also ensuring that some of the specialists are people of color to the extent possible in order to build that connection with students parents often feel that theyre not alone when they have a legal attorney or law student in the room with them helping to decipher a lot of the jargon thats being used and written into the documents that again the average person does not understand so we try to decipher those things we try to ensure that parents voices are being heard and that they are receiving the treatment that their children deserve at the end of the day most overheard probably arent even aware that they can even bring their own Legal Counsel to me even though i think its one thing that i have seen through my whole life and ive noted it was one of the things that i was always taught my family and my mother was very she went to every Parent Teacher read and she knew her riots she also worked for attorneys as a legal secretary so she came in you know ready for any kind of fights and i think i wish more parents knew what rights you have for your children and what youre allowed to request from even Public Schools and all of that what do you think we came in looking forward on this of you know your group doing these amazing work and people starting to learn more about it what do you think is the most important fix that needs to be done you know on a political level here in washington to solve 7 some of the problems that youre seeing in this u. S. Education system. Well i think that the federal government needs to step up more to protect the rights of children again especially those children who are being unfairly disciplined and targeted within the schools we cannot just trust schools to govern themselves when it comes to pushing certain children out of school and not designating those children who should be. Allowed to participate in gifted and talented programs with those opportunities because of the color of their skin pushing children into alternative schools and also the use of School Resource officers. Im sorry the use of School Resource officer officers within Public School settings some of that money come a come from the federal government other times it comes from local jurisdictions and we know as tyro said that its leading to the school to prison pipeline our federal government has not done enough to put forward bills that would protect the rights of children in these situations our children deserve protection we need our government leaders to Pay Attention and for them to take action on behalf of some of our most Vulnerable Children we most definitely do i want to thank you again for coming on civil rights attorney mckubre levy armstrong keep up the great work out there thank you so much. Thank you. The car sized curiosity rover was designed and sent to mars in 2011 with the express purpose of exploring the 100 metre wide gale crater now nearly a decade into its 2 year Mission Curiosity has found evidence of an ancient away says on the surface of the red planet the rover found rocks containing mineral salts and deposits that work like water marks showing the possibility that shallow salty ponds and streams once sat within the gale crater overflowing and drying up as a mars environment went from a wet planet with live to the desert one we see now the salt water ponds are estimated to have been on mars about mir 3 and i have 1000000000 years ago and these new findings could help scientists estimate just how long it took mars to transition from a life supporting planet to be dry air and one we see today. While there we go what about 150 years before we look like that or i rarely think our earliest. 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