A little thing called courage at least thats according to top engineer and now former amazon Vice President tim brady the Washington Post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that is comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the Little Things like oh workers Safety Climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to worker safety in conditions have been fired during the pandemic in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p. R. Executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the worlds richest man jeff bezos planned to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee christians. Smalls were simply organizing a small walkout over employee safety concerns so one former Vice President amazon tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblowers isnt just a side effect but that its evidence of a bane of toxicity running through the company culture. Is it really that big of a surprise i mean who can blame. Him for treating their warehouse workers like easily replaceable cogs in the machine i mean after all we are living in a society that is right now right now as i speak seriously fighting for the right to sacrifice the weak and elderly just so the gods of wall street can start making money off of all of our and ventured servitude backs again. Its a good place to start watching the horrors. Go on a city street you want to. See see this joyce state. Great city this leaves systemic deceptions so much. So youll. Welcome everyone to what you are. And im of the you know im. Perfectly encapsulates the america in the United States experience right now because think about it were all dependant on a service we all love using that you can find anything there while we choose as a society to kind of look the other way while we hear screams from amazon employees saying the conditions here are a nightmare for us you know at the bottom you know us in the warehouse please help us what they want even let us unionize if we stand up and say somethings wrong here we get fired thats kind of a nutshell of whats going on in a broader sense in the entire country absolutely and i like that you use that analogy the thing about this amazon situation is that they that they probably deserve a while ago as you probably recall when amazon was originally talking about their Expansion Projects the new york and looking at other states that they were interested in building factories and things and a lot of the pushback workers was based on that that they didnt feel like they were already being treated fairly that the working conditions were what they were in that they werent you know being supported in the way that they needed to. And amazon by and large you know has enjoyed this very strong relationship with those who enjoy their services which is the majority of america yeah its easy for us to look the other way wouldnt when were being treated well you know i mean its like we love that we that we dont want to think about the you know the child labor or the slave labor that goes into the products that we know and love because you know then that makes Us Forces Come to realization that maybe this thing that i love and that i use all the time is actually hurting people over here its interesting because braves letter actually came 3 days after employees at amazon were also joined by workers at trader joes but a whole foods and into the car for a may day strike basically you know over public over there you know strike over wages low wages Public Health precautions and working conditions that all of those companies i mean i think were seeing im hoping that were seeing kind of labor suddenly rise up during this and say hey its time that we take our needs seriously because were the backbone of your company not the executives exactly and it was extremely smart for all of those corporations all of those workers to join together because i think that when it was announced that is to is to Court Workers were going to do it for instance it didnt receive the amount of pamper attention or anything that it probably deserved when you started adding on amazon when you started seeing people who work for or work in factories at walmart when you started seeing people who work in factories across the conglomerate of things that the American Public uses everything will day and then it started to make sense it started to reach people in a way that i dont think that it would have if it hadnt been slowly you know a piecemeal here in their type of situation with you get more cops does it surprise you that the you know break in this in this kind of post to put up this long blog post of yours but does it surprise you that he makes a really interesting point every single whistleblower amazon has fired was you know either a person of color a woman or both. So thats interesting to me i dont you know its kind of like what does that say about this Work Environment over amazon it shows the amazon. It was a very interesting line because amazon was one of the corporations that came out last year and they were advocating for having more women having more Diverse People on boards so theyre fine with doing it upstairs where people are making the decisions but when it comes to the folks who are actually putting in the work to make sure the amazon is running they are not bind with making sure that those people are taken care of and for the individuals to be the 1st ones that are kicked out for being whistleblowers to be with and people of color i think that it says something about the values that amazon hold because its also got a member its not illegal to talk to a union at your job site if you want to talk to Union Workers rights they cant hold you accountable for that thats perfectly legitimate conversation that employees can have between each other but thats protected internet and they should be having yes a chilly when youre working in factories totally i want to end this with this of the former the brave kind of also wrote it towards the news blog who says at the end of the day its all about power balances the warehouse workers or we can getting weaker what with mass unemployment in the us job and tell them sure so were going to get treated like crap because because basically of capitalism any plausible solution has to start with increasing their collective strength and for example in france amazon workers do actually have unions were like the only country on the block that treats the very essence of our society you know Blue Collar Workers like garbage but then manipulates them into thinking that somehow being treated like garbage is what having a job is all about and understanding that these Blue Collar Workers are the people who are what keeps america going. Maybe they arent receiving the attention or the respect that they deserve but without them all of our supply chains will be done through. Mo money mo problems is one of my favorite songs and apparently its also the things that are wealthy republican senator Kelly Locklear the Georgia Republican is embroiled in her own scandal over. Pandemic related stock transactions to refresh your memory loss to practice a bit of insider training when she liquidated a number of assets just before the coronavirus pandemic spread the timing was more than a little questionable because she did it within hours of attending a private briefing. Giving her information other shareholders didnt have access to similar loffler received recently launched a 4000000 dollar t. V. Ad buy with 3 different spots you think that a republican senator who is essentially a villain appointed by the governor but not supported by the Republican National committee or the leader of the Party President of the United States that will trump focused on her policy goals and try to gain wide range support in advance of the november election where shes going to face competition but no thats not walkers game plan instead she spend millions defending her stock market smash and grab these just might be the 1st ads in history where a politician defends themselves amid scandal by touting the use of their own private shit so essentially everything is supposed to be ok because shes rich and the rest of the ad basically covers all the conservative talking points we know well with words like witch hunt liberal lies and conspiracy take a look at it. Untrue unfairly targeted because shes a strong conservative woman true julie listener donated her senate paid to help georgia fight coronavirus. Personal plane to bring stranded georgians safely actually gave them dollars to help the georgia save. Julie the killer. Georgia and it showed every day im kelly lefler i approve this message. We also love and that Insider Trading that comes with going to position of power in congress and shes not alone theres a lot of women on both sides of the aisle over the years that have traded you know the information but they get. As a lawmaker for stock market success oh absolutely and in her case she claimed that you know her husband is in charge of all of this and hes the one whos invested in the stocks she always over talk about it and exactly i mean your shoes why would a married couple ever talk about money issues between each other right in that time frame is just ultra suspect even if we were to believe ok her and her husband dont converse at all about money you know take us back to the 1950 s. Where women didnt matter and men managed all of the money and the interesting part here is that within hours of that briefing that was only with certain congressional members she decided soup pull out she decided to get rid of her stocks knowing what was going to happen because of the pandemic thats a problem it is love the 2 because its like you know theres parts of it that im kind of them you know when you bring up the plane aspect of it again its kind of this like great capsule a showing of the country that we live in right normally with a world where its like yes but look im a rich person flying the poor huddled masses in my private jet to save them like even a great person so its an interesting theme that shes creating it is ok well i dont need this many millions im using my own private jet to help people i care about those who are going through the Recovery Efforts im giving up my money in the Recovery Efforts but youre also taking money mayo youre also engaged and being provided funding from some of these shady organizations that are making money off of the pandemic so i think that you know Kelly Loffler shes a very interesting character to begin with but to use this and to use those campaign ads is something to try to you know climb above this scandal i dont think that is going to work for her always negative campaign ads especially warms the you see it in both parties a lot of people are guilty of this from both parties is that idea of like take a look at how great i you know doing my job or being a decent human being i would kind of look at that and say well if you can afford a private jet i hope that youre doing those things i dont need you to brag about them for me you know i dont need you to say well look at how good are you him for doing this. Like thats the other 2 its like im against you know raising taxes im going to you know we see this in campaign ads im going well you know those are those are part of the normal parts your job dont brag about just being a good human being or doing the job that youre elected to do also there are many millionaires and actually most millionaires and billionaires give money to charity you know its a good way to get a tax write off but i dont think that she deserves any bit of extra you know handclaps because she gave money as somebody whos also running in georgia and wants to get milk apart like shes not trumps pictures not that shes kind of the outsider looking in and correct exactly so shes not a pick but trump trump actually had somebody else in mind and advocated and actually watch commercials. You know sweep people to vote in that direction what she happened to be with somebody who is a good brand and someone who in some ways has some favoritism from the governor of georgia right now so hes the one who appointed her against the calls from trump to do otherwise and shes actually going to be up for election in november. Theyre going like how people could look go to an election poll and say hey you know im going to vote for the rich person in the private jet brags about trying to help people with their private jet with the same time as profiting off of them and thats causing all these problems are so thats a tough thats a tough asset have so many coronavirus in a state that has massive unemployment right now its just not anything that i think of going to work you know its a tough task at the end of the day that i hope that were going to see kind of that revolution take place at the polls this year i hope that people start seeing through the kind of lives the were given to over and over and over again from these you know profiteers whether theyre war profiteers and working with the Defense Industry or the you know virus profiteers i guess we can call it now you know making money off of this of this tragedy either way it was their watch thats now allowed what 70000 absolutisms to buy and somebody always makes money off of pain and tragedy and i suppose thats very very gross all right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new portable. 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And you have a little weight can keep blurry im going to members i think that leads. To the problem girls body in the feet in the earth and i was really grew earthbeat beat. Most of them. And then. They mean you. Will ask yourself how are you going to survive how are you going to protect yourself. And you have not the one in. Sure there are more there but if you or do you want to cooperate with the world or a little store you know it is a pirate ship that will go far as does others or is it just going to say but im not where you go to israel. Is wrong is using technology where theyve been able to name x. Used peoples private information on a cell phone and see what youve seen if you have crossed hearts with somebody who is positive and coronavirus and if you are if you have a meeting your message because part of somebody is just a positive tease you must be in arent even home. But i think that there was interesting to me is that all the people around them or are in the same situation. We just cant get a break code 19 continues to ravage the globe estates open back up in ease stay at home waters meanwhile no back soon as we face. The odds are stacked against us but coburn 19 is joined by another threat natural disasters and what happens when a pandemic is joined by natural disasters and fortunately well find out very soon the u. S. Is ground 0 leading the globe in coronavirus case counts with nearly 640000 confirmed americas outbreak is already overwhelming our Health Care System state budgets and supply chains weve already seen tornadoes whipped through the southeast killing at least 34 and leaving half a 1000000 people without electricity as we move into the late spring and early summer months things are only expected to get worse from elevated risk of flooding across the midwest and the south to the ongoing threats of stronger and more frequent hurricanes and tornadoes america cant seem to get a break in all of this among a backdrop of a Global Pandemic lacks resources and dwindling funding to support Disaster Relief and Recovery Efforts its a perfect storm joining us now is the director of the Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Management Center jack nicholson. And afternoon. Good afternoon jack Disaster Preparedness and relief has been a Sticking Point for the u. S. For years now with criticisms from Hurricane Katrina new orleans to Hurricane Maria and its devastation in puerto rico fema was only able to pay for 10 percent of the destruction of the most recent hurricanes with combined damages of over 265000000000. 00 how can the agency respond to day in light of its recent budget cuts. Well i think theres a lot of issues that. Have never been addressed before in this current situation. Theres a lot of differences that have to be accounted for and planned for and i think that worse weve been so focused on the virus and solutions s