Senate joined together to pass the usa freedom reauthorization act of 2020. Not surprisingly the usa freedom reauthorization act has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with codifying indorsing and ultimately legalizing once again the National Security and surveillance state that we all call this current version of the United States of america you see after expiring back in march the freedom act reauthorization restores government powers that lets Law Enforcement collect tangible things tangible things related to National Security investigations without a warrant requiring only approval from a secret court the buys a court that has reportedly rubber stamps many requests not reportedly they have these tangible things include things like oh. No warrant less access to your internet browsing and Search History without having to prove you were under suspicion of doing anything wrong because you know who doesnt want folks like Christopher RaySteven Elliot or william barr digging through your Search History online so all those supposed freedom protectors route storming state capitals armed to the teeth with guns and pretend patriotism you know the ones who got scared away from rain you know fighting for the right to reopen the bars and nail salons our elected officials in the us senate were busy shredding even more of our constitutional protections and bill of rights seriously by stay at home orders they it has nothing nothing on the United StatesCongress Says when it comes to removing personal rights and freedoms here in the United States which is why my friends we are always watching the honks. Whats going on in a city. That are so lets see the crisis you always see a. Great city this least systemic deception leaks so which. Brings up the bill as. Well going to watch the entire world winter and im a nice across the mesa Goodness Gracious so when everyone was out there on Capitol Steps across the country in state after state saying we won our rights back we want to go outside we want to not have to not really be you know at home all the time. And then washington like passes actual things that violate peoples rights they pass things that actually reauthorization act which is an extension of the old patriot that actually does violate u. S. Citizens rights regardless of what you know fancy lawyers want to say in congress or you know people justify that and nary a peep or rally 8 that the interesting thing about this is that it did hit certain news ways cycles but it didnt get a lot of attention so i think a lot of americans arent necessarily aware that this is happening what i did see on social media was a few libertarian groups come to speak out against it but thus far its a can a fail like a tree in the forest nobody heard it so i think that part of the reasoning is that there hasnt been enough Media Attention paid to it but in addition to that this is a very interesting time to push something a reauthorize Something Like this in congress more and more people are still looking towards another round of stimulus package theyre trying to figure out whats going to happen with the economy so for this to come up now and theyre not really be a large discussion in the grander speare about it i think is largely in part because of the timing in the framework that makes sense implicit you often see that happen whether by choice or happenstance you often see these kind of interesting bills that strip away rights kind of always being passed through the cover of some other bigger issue going on the kind of keeps everyone distracted and then thats the time where its like hey you know what the old freedom act was reauthorized which i was funny freedom when they labeled these bills they often label them with the exact opposite of the content of the bill when it comes to stuff thats controversial theres nothing freedom about allowing people like william bar or whoever these agencies down the line to start digging into our browsing history at all i think you know absolutely and it also brings to the question why because the process of you going through and getting a warrant is not extremely long we think cases where within 24 hours one was given why would we need to obfuscate that process to go ahead and do things sooner and what type of not only violations of liberty and personal. Obviously but other things that this lead to because i know that there are a lot of people who probably dont want their browser history out there for the world to fear for anyone to see but in addition to that what gives you the leveraging power to do so outside of our current process i think that you know weve seen this this is a reactor i think in so obviously weve had this process for your butt since the original time frame i think that the American Public has moved a lot more you know progressive when it came to ignore it when it came to forcefully pushing against having this level of scrutiny this level of privacy invasion and so its very interesting to me that even beyond all the protests began all the conversation weve seen over the past 67 years were now back in the exact things space it is really interesting to see that there was a few people that put up a little bit of a defense of this in the senate it now moves over to the house to see what happens there and you know was it steve dames republican of montana ron widen out a democrat or oregon and you know one of the rare times they get together and things they did offer up an amendment that would have prevented the use of section 215. 00 for warrantless surveillance of internet searches which is what were talking about but that failed by just one vote for didnt show up one of them including Bernie Sanders didnt show up to vote that day failed by one vote some of the would have prevented that rand paul of all people surprisingly rand paul of kentucky he proposed an amendment that would have actually exempted americans from being able to be under fire as the Court Approved surveillance which is actually i think something that we really need to discuss and should be brought up that they all just go 51128585 senators voted against that from keeping americans exempt from the court which is what we saw abused during the whole russia gate controversy so its very interesting to see how you know theyre all joining up to crossfires that you know to keep the court intact despite the problems that weve seen with it over the years and what is the narrative around the necessity here because i know that sometimes in these arguments there is the we want to protect this nation against terrorism terrorism threat so we want to be able to intercept that type of communication. Or those different codings before incident actually occurs. But do we have evidence that this actually works i mean weve been weve been using this process for a long time now and then you know most of the evidence that youll see is usually the f. B. I. Paying some homeless person and then giving them the weapons and the idea in the bar you know i mean you obviously theres entrapment things or i look at and say thats clear entrapment you took some guy or some disgruntled some discreet almost person maybe well lets and gave them all the technology gave them the bomb and said look we caught a terrorist plot you know thats not actually stopping terrorism very rarely do you stop a crime before it happens thats only in the movies and t. V. Shows. And flowers bloom wildlife run free and waterways and aquatic life enjoy a time of little to no Human Interaction coping 19 has provided a respite from Mother Nature but this is not a time for environmental activists to take a rest actually its time to sound the alarm even louder across america the u. S. Environmental Protection Agency has food cities and industries forcing them to clean up their act reducing pollution that threatens our air and Water Quality for example in my home state of illinois the wood river refinery was sued by the state and federal government for releasing toxic waste water directly into the Mississippi River 2 years ago they settled one lawsuit agreeing to spend 10 1000000. 00 for necessary upgrades and monitoring of the refinery as well as 500000. 00 to clean up the low income homes and buildings that were affected just an f. Why these low income homes and buildings were home to Young Children and pregnant women who have been profoundly exposed to lead and other toxic emissions for years many of the children are born premature suffer from abnormalities and live with a Lifelong Health issues equated with the disaster now do you think the e. P. A. Pressure implants would push the factory to do better but not so fast to look 66 the company that owns the way. River refinery has suspended all work on the lead Abatement Program they were required to complete this means that the thousands of lives the factory has put at risk over the years are still subject to lead unhealthy water and poor air quality the reason tobit 1000 and the department of justice seems to be helping the polluters issuing a problematic new policy the deal j. Recently said it would suspend the collection of penalties for violations of Consent Decrees and other enforcement orders as david baron managing attorney at the environmental nonprofit justice that settlement agreements and civil litigation are only as good as the governments willingness to watchdog the Consent Decree and make sure that the parties comply. That is that is huge news because i think we are all relieved a little bit when we started seeing you know because of the stay at home orders the majors get a little cleaned up and less air pollution is a good but you kind of got relieved in thinking that hey by the way theyre still cleaning up but mellow under the cover of like oh well we cant find anybody. Too much money watch out were just not cleaning anything exactly and these were major phased out plans the 1. 00 in illinois for example had 7 different phases to it in addition to obviously the money that was going to be used towards revamping some of these homes that were extremely damaging a lot of those are Public Housing projects some of them are regular standalone homes but in addition to that it is now you are pushing more people to be threatened even higher from covert one team because now they have they have this consistently poisoning in addition to the fact that they cant go anywhere so even the vigils are at their homes the water is definitely not clean water and on top of that they are dealing with a lot of the residuals from the live poisoning to begin with thats brutal when youre going to when you lay it out like that when you really think about that because its like ok now youve got to stay at home in your lead contaminated home you know these are things that are priority people were talking about Public Health. Doesnt begin and just with covert 19 Public Health is across the board Environmental Health is across the board and this is ridiculous but you know at the end of the day weve seen its big businesses over and over again kind of flirting. Throwing out the law or throwing out common sense just to kind of maintain not maintain any kind of Corporate Responsibility absolutely and its good that you point that out because b. P. Is probably one of the ones one of the larger corporations that was gifted the most from this term from the department of justice because b. P. Has had a lot of regulatory issues particularly as it relates to environmental awareness and the Environmental Issues that theyve caused with oil spills and other things. Now they are basically sitting pretty and able to start a lot of the regulations because theyre there are no important checks during this time of covert 19 and shelter in place stay home orders no one is actually coming out to make sure that they are following the regulations that were designed for them i mean i do about one of like ok theyre properly shut down and theyve got their employees at home and theyre probably no ones really working there are so you dont have to worry about it but on the other hand. You know that youve got to keep these peoples feet to the fire because they will do anything anything to not have to be responsible or be held accountable for their actions in the past but the thing that suffers most of the families are there not like i mean the people who are basically getting screwed over because no one is cleaning up their backyard now exactly and these are families who had protested these are families who had marched these are families who wrote letters to the editor these are families who came to d. C. I used to work for the e. P. A. In illinois and one of the most interesting things about this is that it takes years for for any piece of litigation to come down from the federal government when it relates to environmental policy and Environmental Protection so you have families who have had issues with their water with lead poisoning for the past 35 years because of this plant and they were just beginning to see some level of relief and terms of in terms of the litigation back 2 years ago and the regulations that were given then for the reopening of the plant for them. You know basically right their wrongs was a multistage process theyre not even finished with one and now they are basically issuing the issuing statements that they cant do the other 6 or 7 because the code 19 and it really is garbage and so if you can use that excuse that. I have to ask you know you were in working on a 2 as its like were going to see this job all across the board with bart making that decision are we going to pretty much just absolutely so illinois is one example but were also seeing this in dallas were also seeing it in different areas across florida right now there are over 350. 00 Consent Decrees in the United States who are major corporations who are you know smokestack buildings and all these other things that have really created some problems for the local residents either because theyre dumping unhealthy things in the water or because they have serious air quality issues there exacerbated now by the fact that all of that is actually making it worse for families who are trying to protect themselves from cope at 19 so on the one hand you have regulators who cant go in because of the stay at home waters on the other you have parents and children who are at home but are also being extremely exposed and because of that exposure their risk for 1000 is a lot higher. And always remember too these are also people who are probably in the poorest of communities who are going to have to face this directly head on while the people who own the companies who are living in the rich communities they dont have to worry about letting their water they dont worry about these kind of toxic chemicals in their environment its Gross Gross Gross gross going to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on the members of the brand new portable t. V. Which is available on smartphones through google play an Apple App Store simply by searching portable to you be or you can stream us to your big t. V. By downloading the portable t. V. App on apple t. V. Or online a portable t. V. This app will be available on more devices coming soon and coming up on the show tensions are once again rising between the United States and around this time over but as well. As brings us the full story stay tuned watchable. 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Help to the people need in that little. 2 of the countries that have been the subject of rigorous sanctions from the United States are now working together at the ranch ships built in the u. S. Is reportedly looking for ways to intervene which could signal a. New conflict amid increased tensions parties Rachel Blevins joins us now to discuss the details welcome thank you for having what is the latest conflict phrase we have these reports that iran is in the process of sending supplies to venezuela and now were sort of waiting to figure out what the United States is going to do and there are reports of the u. S. Is planning on intervening in some way and that could be directly for sending u. S