really that's not unlimited i mean i've had my own problems. over the years but i mean basically that's that early it's like it's not a bottomless cup of coffee if i only get three it's not unlimited data if there's a limit to the data but what i found most disturbing is that in a moment when you know that there are all over your things going on in california you can see that it's a fired army could explain to him this device that has this data plan needs to work they need to work fast that does to not just know for there not to be a policy in place to tell customer service that if a community has fire department or police calls and. maybe deal with that maybe don't worry about the limits. it really is it really is and they have lost all trust no oh sure you know and this is the thing with you know kind of putting.

how this stuff affects really on the on the on the far end of things it's not just about but the fire chief bowden had said county fire believes it will likely it is likely that verizon will continue to use the exit nature of public service emergencies and catastrophic events to coerce public agencies into higher cost plans even if that means risking harm to public safety during negotiations and before i was twenty fourteen then f.c.c. chairman tom wheeler told arisan that he was deeply troubled by viruses plan to throttle four g. users with unlimited data plans telling the company that reasonable network management concerns the technical management of you're not work it's not a loophole designed to enhance your revenue stream so the idea was you have to figure that out on your own you know maybe you don't pocket so much money maybe invest a little in your infrastructure and then you can provide the product that you save yourself. but it means that there's not a port. the broadcasting board of governors

calls itself a network a global media agency that is in fact the united states of america's government funded news agency with a twenty eighteen annual budget of six hundred eighty five million dollars and over twenty five million a year is allotted to the u.s. government funded international broadcaster t.v. and radio marti and that number is expected to double if their words with voice of america latin america as the board is planning established in one thousand nine hundred three t.v. and radio marti were designed to fight against communism in cuba with the weapon of information so familiar but as the idea of a cold war propaganda seems less and less appealing radio marti has been much criticized for its effectiveness a committee on foreign relations reported twenty ten said that less than two percent of cubans listen in and now after years of failing through radio and television the miami based office of cuba broadcasting which oversees radio and t.v. marti described a new way to get their message across and it involves everything facebook and its

users have been railing against since the two thousand and sixteen election here in the u.s. according to a new investigative report from jerry lim ellie at the miami new times the u.s. government in cooperation with the office of cuba broadcasting plans to use facebook to spread a hidden propaganda in cuba discovered in the broadcasting board of governors twenty eighteen congressional budget justification they will begin quote to encourage more engagement on facebook b.c. will work with on island digital teams that have created local accounts which will disseminate branded and naan bread content native pages and create the chances of appearing on cuban facebook users newsfeeds when asked for clarification nazareth karun spokesperson for the broadcasting port of governors claims she did not know what that meant what it meant by branded her on branded content even claiming that the project never got off the ground but commented to the miami new times reporter that quote it's nothing the fairy is not like russian. or anything like that you

see in january of this year the trumpet ministration created something called the cuba internet task force also sound familiar which is supposed to use government and non-government actors to promote the free and regulated flow of information to cuba however t.v. and radio marti have long been considered outdated cold war artifacts that do more to harm the perception of u.s. values and broad more than any tyrant so as facebook congress and the mainstream media clutch the pearls over a few hundred thousand and twitter facebook ads here in the us taxpayers are paying millions a month to send broadcast propaganda and to cuba that barely any cubans are even listening to wow this is an incredible story and it's contemporary and it's happening right now and the fact they're going to relay hey we're going to create facebook site you know sides we're going to create profiles on facebook to spread propaganda country not nefarious i've never heard of or don't worry everyone is

not nefarious it's just branded non-branded which means it will not say that it is from t.v. marti that is from the broadcasting board of governors that it's mostly that it's part of paid by the by the united states government. how is that any different. than what they are yelling and screaming and hollering and like you said there pearls over the over what the. blows are more of john is nichols of the book one best in radio broadcasting said it's small mean and not worthy of a great power other countries say if the us is willing to buy a late international law why should we have obey our treaty obligations i think that this is a long term negative effect and given what radio and t.v. marti might be doing right now it becomes hard for us to complain about what other countries might be doing to us yeah we've learned from. yeah sorry i.

didn't you know. on the hill footing with you when you're doing it ourselves and according to the actual budget they are. the office of keeper broadcasting the average monthly number of cubans i'll me i'm when reach is approximately fifty thousand and that they reach they were really excited in saying that they reached a total number of seventeen thousand subscribers from five hundred fifteen on you tube. which is the current platform and what i thought was amazing is things that when you find out things your taxpayer money goes to and you really are like i don't remember voting for that apparently the office of cuban broadcasting distributes waves or it d.v.d. is with t.v. and radio marti content on them and they have nine copies signers eighteen reception points and eighty five distribution points on in cuba just to give people a d.v.d. is of their content can't believe it and as we're saying it's on the budget has

gone down slightly twenty seven was about twenty seven million in two thousand and sixteen twenty eight million and twenty seventeen and their requests last year was only twenty three million which is slightly down but the budget also suggests that they're talking about merging the voice of america's latin american spanish with them which means it could double or triple that budget now imagine of russia or china did something like this and led tomato country or something you know to be able to go where we would be you know exploding. politicians be losing their minds on t.v. if that was going on right now it's all based on this idea that there is no independent media that there is nothing that people in cuba have no access to anything that they have no idea how to get any information that isn't all pro cuban government problem that's not true because i know there's a money there's like cyber cuba the r.t.o. de cuba are all critical of the government but available be on the island in fact just this week to tell. communications company people read

a test of their upcoming three g. capabilities and while it was slow and only allowed people like seventy megabytes to use for one day they were able to download videos they were able to go through music and news and have the internet write and download things from you tube which means they're getting there it's not an easy process but they're not trying to keep anybody out and most people on the island of learned a long time ago to use v.p.n. and things like that to counteract they know how to get around it and they don't like outsiders like we said with sanctions telling them how to feel about their own government i think that's the biggest thing yes that is that's the most important thing all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics you cover the facebook and twitter surf all shows that r t v dot com coming up journalist max blumenthal joins us to discuss another u.s. government funded political meddling organization that he shed some new light on a new documentary and then look at the future of office cubicle interesting stuff stay to watch.

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from one form of us meddling in a sovereign countries politics to another this week journalist max blumenthal unleashed a new short documentary that shines a light of the rather curious work of the united states government funded national endowment for democracy or ned founded in one thousand nine hundred three by then u.s. president ronald reagan the ned was started under the guise of promoting democracy around the world and is funded primarily by the u.s. congress in the form of a grant awarded to the united states information agency however with its deep ties to me or conservatism and the cold war era ideologies many claim the group is more of a mechanism for influence peddling and propaganda than promoting any kind of democracy cia whistleblower philip achieve one stated nowadays instead of having the cia going around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process by inserting

money here and giving instructions secretly and so forth they they have now a sidekick which is the national endowment for democracy now joining us now to discuss his investigations into the national endowment for democracy is investigative journalist and senior editor of the gray zone project thanks for joining us thanks for having me and thanks for saying i on lease to document and i . just and i don't know these documents so i don't just release it i'll. go through this was a boom other for a lot of people because i think when you look at like the national endowment for democracy it sounds so nice and wonderful i'm sure we'll hear that moves in and tell me exactly but no one but i want to ask you you you know kind of women do it and look to what it was really doing and you know what is the measurable bellwood for democracy really doing around the world and what inspired you to actually take a look at it the first voice the first time i wrote about this organization was actually in two thousand and four an article i wrote for salon dot com called the other regime change and. was about how the national endowment for democracy and its

republican partner organization the international republican institute which was run by john mccain had effectively toppled the government the elected democratically elected government of haiti john bertrand aristide the liberation theology preacher who was socialist oriented in his love a last movement which was a big challenge to american control of domination of haiti and they funded all these opposition groups they controlled them they strategized and they got them to basically sabotage the political system and create the context for a violent coup so i learned about it back then i returned to this subject again and again but most explicitly this summer when i attended an awards ceremony that the ne d. hosted on capitol hill with a bipartisan cast of members of congress four korean defectors and activists who were funded by the u.s. government dedicated to promoting regime change in north korea and what was

significant about this event was it was timed for the day of the trump him summit to sabotage plans for peace between north and south korea so you've got to give us government funded organization undermining a u.s. government initiative which actually threatened the organizations it was funding because if you have peace you don't need to fund these groups anymore don't you don't you really where's the fun and yeah i mean what we do with all these hundreds of millions of dollars if we didn't use them for that how what i wonder is how how is ned work that different than what has been accused of in terms of meddling in foreign countries politics so what's what's the difference between these two things while give you one example. you know i was just in nicaragua reporting on a another coup very similar to what took place in haiti where the national endowment for democracy and its partner groups were heavily involved in funding opposition media opposition civil society groups and i've. found that you know

through public filings it's all public this is all in the open as philip agee said the national endowment for democracy had spent over four million dollars between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and seventeen to fund opposition to the elected send a nice the government of daniel ortega along with the usa id and other state department related group which does the same spend about five million ok so now let's take there are six million people in nicaragua that's about two dollars for every citizen let's imagine that russia and china got together and spent one billion dollars or about two dollars for every american citizen to fund civil society groups and the media in the us including groups that we don't know they fund to topple the american elected government can you imagine the uproar can you imagine what would the united states do russia has actually banned the national endowment for democracy because it was seeking a color revolution in russia. how would americans react the thing is americans

don't know that they do this they don't know that their taxpayer dollars fund this and they don't know the consequences the consequences in nicaragua were dire a country that was growing at a five percent rate a year the economy was very productive which had no migration crisis which was not contributing to drug trafficking is now been d.c. has now been destabilized its economy has gone from five percent it's contracted to one percent there is a migration crisis now and criminal gangs are slipping in because the country's been destabilized this is partly the work the handiwork of the national endowment for democracy you mention were taxpayers don't know who jumped over to mention the curious timing obviously avoid hey we're going to do this north korea meeting and all that but what do people need to know one of us tax payers need to know about meds were.