That lets Law Enforcement collect tangible things tens of all things related to National Security investigations without a warrant requiring only approval from a secret court the pis a court that has reportedly rubber stamped many requests not reportedly they have these tangible things include things like oh you know 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 on line 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 u. S. Senate were busy shredding even more of our constitutional protections and. Writes seriously virus stay at home orders that it has nothing nothing on the United States congress when it comes to removing personal rights and freedoms here in the United States which is why my friends we are always watching the us. On a city street you want to. See. This you always see a. Great city this least systemic dissent says so which. Brings up your. Corner watching the world winter and im a nice across the Goodness Gracious so everyone was out there on Capitol Steps across the country in state after state saying we want our rights back we want to go outside we want to. Really be you know at home all the time. And then washington like passes actual things that violate peoples rights they passed things that actually you know it was real there was a she was an extension of the old patriot act like 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 coburn and nary a peep or rally 8 interesting thing about this is that it did hit certain news wave cycles but it didnt get a lot of attention so i think that 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 it cannot be all 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 and congress more and more people are still looking towards another round of stimulus package theyre trying to figure out you know whats going to happen with the economy so for this to come up now and theyre not really be a large discussion. The grander sphere about it i think is largely in part because of the timing in the framework. You often see that happen whether by choice or happenstance you go up and see these kind of interesting bills that strip away rights kind of always being passed through the cover of darkness usually theres some other bigger issue going on that kind of keeps everyone distracted and then thats the time where its like hey you know what the old ones reauthorized which i was pretty funny when they labeled these bills they often label them with the exact opposite of the content of the bill when it comes to stop its controversial theres nothing freedom about allowing people what william bar or whoever these a. G. s 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 if you the process if you going through and getting a warrant is not extremely long weve seen 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 types of not only violations of liberty and personal privacy but other things as 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 thier 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 since obviously weve had this process before your but since the original time frame i think the American Public has moved a lot more 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 protest 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 of oregon and you know one of the rare times they get together on things. Did offer up with 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 the memo that 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 5 the Court Approved surveillance which is actually i think something that we really need to discuss and should be brought up that failed just so you know 51128585 senators voted against that from keeping americans exempt from via 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 joined 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 they 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 you know those those different codings before an 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 then giving them the weapons and the idea you know i mean you always see those entrapment things or i look at and say thats clear entrapment you took some guy or some disgruntled. Almost person maybe and gave him all the technology gave him 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 on t. V. Shows. And flowers bloom wildlife run free and waterways and aquatic life enjoy a time of little to no Human Interaction with 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. Lauter across america the Us Environmental Protection Agency has sued 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 10000000. 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 in f y i 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 were born premature suffer from abnormalities and lived with a Life Long Health issues equated with the disaster now you think the e. P. A. Pressure and plans will push the factory to do better but not so fast to look 66 the company that owns the wood river refinery has suspended all work on the little bit program they were required to complete this means that the thousands of lives the factory has put it risk over the years are still subject to lead unhealthy water and poor air quality the reason. 90 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 it 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 really think were all relieved a little bit when we started seeing you know because of the state and all borders and all may just get a little cleaned up and like hey theres less air pollution is a good but you kind of got really been thinking that hey by the way theyre still cleaning up but no under this cover of like oh oh well we cant. You know its too much money watch oh were just not cleaning anything exactly and these were major phased out plans the one in illinois for example had 7 different phases to it and 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 you know regular standalone homes but in addition to that it is now you are pushing more people to be threatened even higher from covert 1000. 00 because now they have they have this consistently poisoning in addition to the fact that they cant go anywhere so these individuals are in 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 lead poisoning to begin with its brutal when you get it when you lay it out when you really think about that because its like yeah ok now you go to stay at home you know contaminated home you know these are things that are proud of people we were talking about public help that doesnt begin and just with covered 19 Public Health those across the board Environmental Health those 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 wording you know. Throwing out the lord 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 get 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 they have caused with oil spills and other things. Now they are basically sitting pretty unable to start a lot of the regulations because theyre there nor boersma checks during this time of covert 19 and shelter in place stay at home orders no one is actually coming out to make sure that they are following the regulations that were designed for them give out one of what theyre properly shut down and theyve got their employees at home. Theyre probably no ones really working married so you dont have to worry about it but on the other hand you know that 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 is the families are there not what your needs are people who are basically getting screwed over because no one is cleaning up their exactly and these are families who have protested these are families who would march 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 a 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 for the past 35 years because of this plant and they were just beginning to see some level overleaf 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 to you know basically right their wrongs was a multistage process theyre not even finished with phase one and now they are basically issuing it it is showing statements that they cant do the other 6 or 7 because of covert 19 and it really is garbage and so if you care years of excuses. I have to ask you when you were in working on it too its like were going to see this job or 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 Consent Decrees in the United States for major corporations for these 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 theyre 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 water. 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 oh man and i always remember to 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 were 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 t v 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 iran this time over venezuela are 2 mergers Rachel Blevins brings us the full story stay tuned watching the whole. Thing. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy people in sunday shouldnt let it be an arms race on all sides very Dramatic Development only mostly and. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. And plan on this one if i was in my town the way you dont think thats an. Advantage itself move to see if i. Was in this way got to do its really hard not to think. You know how the decide this the work of a coward and i dont mean to start then if. This is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights in his own way. The floor you can feel the feet without a visible priest would be eliminated you have a whole movie about a lot of the Death Penalty on the. Books but i think is this is the found that is a constant thanks. Montes Holiday International memorial awards and now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist terms of media or part of the global News Platform to participate in the show published works in video or written for. Go to award dot com and then to now. 2 of the countries that have been the subject of rigorous sanctions from the United States are now working together if iran ships fuel to been 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 raise 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 sending u. S. Navy ships out to the Caribbean Sea to try to stop these 5 iranian tankers that are carrying more than 45000000. 00 worth of gasoline and supplies so they could try to stop them in their path before they even get to venezuela now the u. S. Has yet to confirm that but we do know that they have these incredibly strict sanctions a most iran and venezuela and they really spent the last year trying to cut these countries off from the rest of the world its really breaking my heart here in this because it sounds like my dad used to describe the way we used to sanction cuban we still