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To keep folks incarcerated. This age of mass incarceration is violating our Core Principles in so many areas. We proclaim to be the land of onedom and liberty to have of four people imprisoned goes against our core ideals, and now is the time we need a revolution when i comes to issues of crime and punishment. Nowe are at a place right where we are several decades into focusing on punishment and being more punitive. It is a billion dollar people their odds of returning their investment, and im going to put money into it, how my going to get more money out of it. Washington, 20 of more of the people have been diagnosed as seriously mentally ill. According to the department of corrections have drugs or addiction in their life. I think primarily based on race and socioeconomic status. Discuss this conversation. Obama one in every 35 africanamerican men, one in 88 latino men is serving time right now. Among white men, that number is one in 214. Into many places black boys and andk men, lat
Testing. There was an attack last december. I should imagine the security has been pretty tight. Yes, there has been. Up until now it has been relatively quiet inside. This is the first major attack or any attack since that big one last december on the army public school. Having said that, there has been a security alert for the last three weeks. There were signs or reports an attack could be coming. It seems that that attack has now arrived. There is rell copt helicopters. They know that area is a residential area. That air force base is not operational. There are heavy militar military offsets. It seems that has been the cause of the attack. At this stage we dont know if the 16 killed in the mask are civilians or military personnel. Croatia is struggling to deal with thousands of refugees that made their way into the country. Its closed seven of its eight border crossings and threatening to close the last, the ninth. Its become a route after hungary shut its border. Thats creating a
Government will be with who controls internet traffic. Then the communicators, on Telecommunications Issues including marsha blackburn. Colorado democrat jared polis and Louisiana Republican steve police. A look at a new initiative to help veterans get Mental Health services. What we are seeing right now, embedding computational capabilities more and more into our environment. Some technologists disagree, but i personally consider the smartphones that we carry around with us are 70 of the American Population carries to be a trademark example of the internet of things. We are becoming human sensors because we are carrying around an extremely powerful computer in our pocket. It takes the form of different sensors that exist in the physical world. It takes the form of radio frequency leaders that we pass underneath when we access e zpass on the new jersey turnpike. It takes the form of sensors all around us. Certainly surveillance and cameras that collect data and send that somewhere else
Thats where we are. In politics news, the major headline today, what will actually i think go down in the books in terms of president ial politics history, is the fact that the president last night did just abruptly announce the cancellation of the Republican National Convention Next month to renominate him to run for a second term. One day after that surprise announcement from the president or about 24 hours after that announcement now, it is still quite unclear as to whether there will be anything that looks like a Republican Convention at all next month. I mean an american president ial Campaign History there have been good conventions, there have been bad conventions and boring ones and scary ones. In modern times though theres never been one they just couldnt get it together to actually do, and it seems like that is a real risk here. I mean well see what they pull off, but the republicans and the white house being in denial about the coronavirus, first in North Carolina where they