Local news station. Now in i just minutes ago the Senate Passed a 2 plus trillion dollar economic stimulus package. Thanks for joining us. Everybody, im grant lotus and i think you will kiss this historic bill was just voted on minutes ago. The highlights include direct payments of up to 1200 for working people. An additional 500 per child married couples earning up to 150,000 will get 2400. This bill provides billion in Small Business loans. 250 billion in Unemployment Insurance benefits and billion in loans for distressed companies. This stimulus package now heads on to the house which is expected to vote on it tomorrow. The latest coronavirus numbers in the bay area Santa Clara County continues to have the most trouble locally 459 cases along with 17 deaths. Tonight we also know that the Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office has 5 confirmed cases in that department. The latest case there deputy who had been assigned to the Custody Bureau that deputy is now selfisolating at home meanwhi
Stephen graham who wrote cities under siege the new military urbanism. He spoke last november on democracy now describing the level of equipment out sensible to Police Departments in the United States. Theres been a longstanding shift in north america and europe toward para militarize policing using helicopterstyle systems, using infrared sensors, using really, really heavy militarized weaponry. That has been longstanding fuelled by the war on drugs and other sort of explicit campaigns. More recently, there has been a big push since the end of the cold war by the big defense and security and i. T. Companies to sell things like Video Surveillance systems, things like geographic mapping systems, and even more recently, drone systems that are being used in the assassination raids in afghanistan and pakistan and elsewhere. That is stephen graham, author of, cities under siege the new military urbanism. Your final comment . Expressing weaponization in the way we live. Policing is one of the
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