Episode description

Happy New Year, Unusual whales, railroad strike, America’s for profit prison system, Cyber Ninjas, Peter Kalmus a climate scientist at NASA, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Quick Clips -
- How about an inflation adjusted living wage?
- Nobody is trying to fix the problems we have, everyone is just trying to make enough money so the problems don’t apply to them.
- Unusual whales shows politicians true colors.............AGAIN!!!! - source
- U.S. railroad potential strike - source

America’s for profit prison system now involving children - source 1, source 2
First case - The infamous “Kids for Cash” case. Victims of two now-convicted former Luzerne County Judges are seeking financial damages. A federal judge in Wilkes-Barre will hear testimony in a long-awaited civil hearing against former Luzerne County judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan. Hundreds of juveniles were sent away for minor offenses as part of a kickback scheme involving Judges Ciavarella and Conahan. They were convicted of accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks in exchange for sending juveniles to private juvenile detention centers.

2nd case - In 2016, the Rutherford County juvenile judge Judge Donna Scott Davenport had 11 young children arrested for not stopping a fight. The specific instance investigated was the arrest of 11 children back in 2016 for not stopping a fight, even though the police sent to arrest the children didn’t clearly know the identities of all the children. 

Cyber Ninjas, firm that conducted Arizona election ‘audit’, shuts down - source
Cyber Ninjas, a firm hired by the Arizona state Senate (paid with your tax money) to conduct a review of Maricopa County’s election results, on announced that it is shutting down after a county government report slammed the firm and a judge ordered it to pay $50,000 a day in fines. The firm was hired to conduct an audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County following former President Trump's claims the election was stolen from him. 

I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day - Peter Kalmus - source

Lead pipes have contaminated water for decades. - source
It's been 35 years since Congress amended the Safe Drinking Water Act to prohibit the use of pipes that were not lead-free in the country's water systems. But for decades, lead pipes and lead paint have continued to impact millions of people in their homes, schools and daycare centers, contaminating drinking water and producing toxic chemicals in the air.

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