Aerial vehicles in military Service Worldwide today and while were on the subject of technological terrors that we vastly underestimate and their negative impacts on our lives sovereignty and well being lets talk about the westmoreland family of milwaukee wisconsin who came home one quiet september afternoon to find their smart home was hacked fox 6 news reports that their thermostat had been turned all the way up to 90 degrees a voice speak again speaking to them from a camera in the kitchen and then started playing vulgar music. In the 21st century you dont need ghosts to haunt your house just these 2 folks from the ninetys now lets go to the show and start watching the hawks. To. Get the. Real deal with. The bottom. Like you know that i got. This week. With. The one watching the hawks i am i wrong or right today we put dialogue over the fate of the walls myself bring you 2 distinct and informative discussions between a variety of topics and guests with unique political viewpoints starting my very own perception and perspective. And joining me today to bring a very unique mix of perspective to this to these stories is the founder of truth the media bias one legal and media analyst line a line all media on the host of the big picture the one and only alan cooke thank you all for coming on i want to start with military drones now being found being used in operated militaries in close to 95 close to 100 nations around the world ben i start with you you actually made headlines all way back in 2012 when you questioned president obama about his drone kill list is this proliferation of drone use something that you saw coming something that you know when you questioned obama you about this was the young game every country battling with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle aerial vehicles. I think we all kind of knew it was going to head that way you know back in 20112012 youre right 2000 was when i questioned the president on the legality of it and especially on the killing of u. S. Citizens using those drones you know drones at the time they were the new hot form of warfare everyone talked about how this was the future of warfare and they were right but i think back in 2011 if you look at the articles that were being written at that time the question was about what country should the United States sell drones to who should they give them to well now were living in a time when the 3 Top Countries that produce drones are the United States israel and china and as you said 95 countries have these in their militaries are developing sophisticated drone programs and lets not forget i mean these are countries by the way like as your body shop and i geria that happens as well but not just that but not just nation states but even like drug cartels have their own drone fleets and drone programs through which theyre training drone pilots so it is larger than just the nation state issue it is truly become the future of warfare and its a pretty scary thing it is rather scary. Why do you think you know us could learn all and why why do you think that we have suddenly moved into this idea of ok its easier to use of drone its and does that make getting into warfare easier when you dont have to worry about the pilot you dont have to worry about that its just some guy you know in a winnebago in arizona in our case pushing buttons is it easier to go to war no are you going to mind control thats exactly what im going to say 3 things that concern me number one semantics we call it drones you e. V. A. s just did you see this see this is a basically a plane that this is the now 1525 and this is not a drone number 2 its not so much of drones that scare me its the Artificial Intelligence aspect where somebody may read a link wish one day to these things to get to work operationally when you see fit but the 3rd part which is most important which you allude to city of edge of the longbow when people. Scented themselves and remove themselves from mano a mano if youve got some kid wearing a weird suit and a quantity one in vegas playing a toggle game switch on something it may not have the same feel of war you may not see that the children in the body splayed in and vaporize you may just see you might use words like engage in story hes in and that so all of those things this is a prescription for on mitigated disaster and here it was sort of well you know and whenever he talks about Artificial Intelligence i get the willies because remember in Battlestar Galactica dont let the computers talk to each other through but what you said about the bow and arrow were really on a continuum of Technology Member in the president ial debates where mitt romney says we have fewer ships in the navy and obama quipped yeah we have fewer horses and bayonets too so weve seen warfare now go from boots on the ground eyes on the sky and to lionels point we trivialize the kill you know that somebodys child out there its a little too easy to remember too is that were seeing the same amount of p. 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In the Drone Operators that you see in the regular soldiers at the end of a bay they know its not a video game when i hit that button and that person disappears on the black and white or color screen in this in this in this trailer and i just took a life and plus theyre working wanted to let you go but yeah because it is a lot easier to make mistakes using drones and weve seen that happen with drone pilots as well you know we know there are a lot of documented cases in fact there was a drone strike i believe it was just one week ago where 10 people were killed in afghanistan who were not fighters they were not taliban or al qaida these were actual people at a wedding who were killed by a drone by accident happens far too often so even though drones and we hear about them being promoted as well its safer because theres fewer american or pilot deaths or soldier deaths that may be true but whats not true is that there are fewer deaths associated with them in fact the number of deaths because of. Lateral damage is actually higher with drones than it is in conventional warfare again it goes back to semantics and benj right we talk about super smart bombs and smart this one now there are weapons us need to make concern and basically we will get hope that we hit on target and then when we make a mistake and to be called friendly fire or Collateral Damage this sounds almost like a carlin routine but we will literally absented ourselves from moral responsibility by giving it a different name to remove ourselves and then again just to say look this is the way it goes actually youre not going to see fewer vietnam memorials fewer americans so those are the breaks if you want to make an omelet you gotta break if you are one of the dangerous look up Collateral Damage in the dictionary theres hiroshima you know at least this is a laser beam you know its interesting you know i want to also move this other topic this was really intriguing and actually lionel you brought this to my attention this week so you have this couple like all good modern couples today they buy their nest camera on their doorbell when their thermostat in their living with the smart home and its these computer will run and everything and the hackers command they hack their wife i leads into their nest and. Suddenly youre living in a Haunted House where your voice is coming over your speakers and you know people are turning up your thermostat summit it really shows of a very you know macro level this is really dangerous stuff were playing with when when strangers could enter your home through these devices have we given up i mean we know that weve given up personal privacy you know for the kind of home gadgety gimmicks but are we giving up too much of our safety as well oh yes absolutely in fact lets take this next to insulin pumps to pacemakers to use different types of brain implants that can affect seizure disorders if i have one of these and i can override a persons house i can override your heartbeat you know your brain i can do a lot of things so this is this is almost like a very kind of funny but this is precisely what were looking at right now because we have created a situation which by the way theres no return you dont come back you know say you know. Hold it stop it lets go back to the key back to the carbon paper its not going to happen it is you know and that to me that raises a question. You bet imho and how to how do we balance still kind of our need for the fun gimmicks and the leisure things that we like to experiment with that we like to have with the need for our own safety and security when it comes to this but im. Sure well a couple things number one and levels absolutely right were not going to ever go backwards the question is how do we go forward in a safe way or one of those ways is i would almost guarantee that this family you know bought a router for their wife i probably never even changed the password they probably kept every password was on it when they bought it at the store so they were probably easily hackable a lot of people do that right there very easily hacked well because they think i would anyone want to be on my wife i well because now your door locks are on your wife or your fridge raters on your wife and so everything is connected to that and so is the more connected you become through a wife i say you can be so basic steps of protecting that insecurity and you know those wife i log ins are very important and thats the most basic thing you can do protect yourself when youre when you buy a router when you set up your internet and change your password great great points now on the lighter side you know shunned me at thanksgiving dinner for telling this story but my brother in law did this really to get a place down in hilton head and they told my brothers go ahead use our place while were about home meanwhile back in connecticut mark is turning the thermostat up of a 9 and my brother kept turning it down maybe a sort of a story i think it was in New Hampshire guy comes home and sitting in the driveway crated up a water heater had been delivered and they ascertained that the parrot and alexa were having a conversation which was misinterpreted as ordering the water heater and of course the guys credit card was on file so it happens you know it does and thats a great point and on the lighter side of it and i think that what i agree with what everyone is saying here is that we you have these technology. Understand what youre buying understand what youre allowing into your home and take the necessary precautions if you want to buy it we need a Manhattan Project we need a kind of a Russell Committee we need Citizen Input we said back like slaves and say look theres nothing we can do whether its gene splicing whether its any kind of d. N. A. G. M. O. It doesnt matter we sit back and we feel like well look if and if industry is going to come up with that theres nothing we can do wait a minute yes we can there has to be either i want to bring government into it but a subcommittee a russell here or something from a tradition here a little while we can say explain this and not feel like we just have to sit back and watch as passive victims of bulls that is definitely something none of the 4 of us on at this table do is sit back and watch things possibly i want to thank you all for coming out today ben swan Lionel Holland cocos of the big picture always a pleasure having the 3 of you on thank you so much all right everybody as we go to break our watchers dont forget to let us know what you think about top cover well be sure to check out watching the hawks the podcast available on spotify apple music and everywhere you look at the podcast coming up cohost with the most the opens the gallery on the man in your state and a new childrens ball line whose lack of sexualization is causing controversy among adults you definitely dont want to miss this conversation stay tuned for more. 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Ronald reagan once said government exists to protect us from each other where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves more and more these days we are inundated with government backed legislation to curtail the things we do from vaporing to straws were seeing the solution to Public Health and environmental crises. Is to ban and its why crazy widespread bans on small itty bitty sections of our allies and while parents in new york are faced with a School Banned for not having their children vaccinated one chicago area couple nearly lost custody of their newborn baby for refusing a vitamin k. Shot often given to newborns to help with blood clotting in the event of an emergency thats right a few short moments before after giving birth angela bauer told a nurse about to give her newborn a vitamin k. Shot that she had already spoken to the doctor and in chosen to sign a waiver legally refusing the shot on religious grounds power alleges that the nurse refused to give her the form and instead reported the couple to the Illinois Department of children and Family Services it was over 12 hours before bauer was able to hold her newborn for the 1st time after this law was rescinded requiring this about a year later it was revealed that of the 138. 00 families that were investigated regarding the vitamin k. Shot refusal only 7 showed any signs of neglect most often having nothing to do with medication or lack thereof but it isnt just the government that feels the need to poke their nose in other familys affairs mattel is being accused of trying to pander to the woak agenda with a new line of dolls called create a ball world the dolls come with short hair and a long haired wig 2 sets of clothing including pants and a skirt giving them 1000 different options for outfits and looks what has some concern is that the gender of the doll is not obvious it could almost be called gender neutral a dirty word in todays climate so lets look into the flip side of p. C. Culture run amok and step into the gallery. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks for joining me today our correspondent regina sports producer regina hamm. And artie corresponded ferran thank you so much for joining me ladies thanks for having us so i want to be. First when i talk about i want to give a vote of the idea of the baby thing because thats where gets me because i think a lot of the conversations normally about these kinds of things are about vaccines things that are facts you know Public Health that you can kind of say there is a reason why you would say you either have to do this or you cant participate in certain at certain areas but in the case of the vitamin k. Shot its not medically necessary and there are so many more things with parents do you think there is something wrong with the idea of the government jumping to conclusions requiring certain things because its supposed to be good for the child taking the parents decision out of that so its hard for me to understand this issue because i come from a medical family and i was the smart one that didnt go into medicine but youre seeing cases like the measles pop up and we have cured the measles and now its parents that are wanting to vaccinate their kids so in those cases i completely understand however when researching this a little bit more and looking at the baxters versus the vaccine i will say when you do see newborns where theyre getting 1215 shots at a time thats a little much and i dont know if a newborn baby is going to be able to tolerate that because their newborn baby but when it comes to the vitamin k. And this whole situation i think calling d. C. Fs was a little bit much yeah you dont need to have thats known as an overreaction the mother clearly stated i already talked to the doctor i dont want this done in the nurses a lot of care what you think i think youre neglecting your child and you do see you know when people cite religious grounds the people who say you see in the world cancer cases there they dont want their kids to go through treatment because you know god you know thats fine country stand on really religious freedom you have a right to do that but to overstep someones explicit wishes is then turning into the territory where like someone could just walk on the street they yell at their child is the one who called ifas org. Another you know jessie division of Child Protection go shes abusing them and then youre making a giant molehill and some issues and issues that are going to end up being the state maybe going well maybe were just best to carry a child in 1st place but when you have all this they can do a much better job i mean they do settle it was all the kids a little bit but you also said that situation in california happening though where youre having doctors that are just handing out waiver after waiver because the parents just theyre either. Or i mean maybe their child does have something but now california is looking at a bill where only doctors doctors can only hand out 5 of those waivers i believe its a year because they were handing him out like skittles and so again that is where you start seeing more of these cases like the measles coming back when we this was a disease that was gone in the 1910s or whatever it was so i do see both sides didnt let me ask do you think our parents would survive in this world as parents when we were kids because i feel like my my parents would still be locked id be visiting them in prison and i think that im going to definitely be in prison i you know jumped off a swing set with a rope tied around o