join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics this i'm show business i'll see you then. greetings and sell you take. the decision to voluntarily join the u.s. military or any military for that matter is and should be a hard well thought out decision one's life family and future are quite literally at stake it's one of the biggest decisions a teenager you're in the united states will ever up to make which is why i want to business decides to target that fateful decision just to make a buck one has to wonder have we finally hit the moral rock bottom of capitalism

recently the federal trade commission announced the seizure of nine websites designed to look like military recruitment pages according to p.c. mag the websites which appeared to be affiliated with the us military but were in fact not asked prospective military applicants to provide personal data quoting their full name email addresses phone numbers and education history in exchange for information about joining the armed forces and despite promises not to share any of the applicants personal information sun keep publishing and fan mail dot com the two companies behind the scam wouldn't back turn around and sell the data gizmodo reports that the companies would contact the potential recruits and encourage them to enroll in specific for profit schools under the false impression that the u.s. military endorsed the organization's so if the poor kid looking to be all he can be sounded the least bit interested son he would set the. reel them in and then sell

their private info to private schools for anywhere from fifteen to forty dollars a hit netting a total of eleven million dollars since two thousand and ten making big bucks off the future of foot soldiers in america's military industrial complex you know you might be shocked if you weren't already watching the whole. thing. but that's. the bottom. like you that i got. to watch i robot for a while and. goodness man this is

a monstrous monstrous mess they've got going on here it's pretty incredible how big is that. i mean it is it's wild companies as centrally bought internet ads that the you know the they describe them as official recruitment sites just to suck all these kids in there anybody looking to join it was started in twenty ten but you know you get this what was until twenty sixteen that a statement saying the government private sponsored web site was then added to the sites the websites actually stated the personal information would not be shared with anyone else but basically they did share it with everybody else it's pretty incredible and then some of we can go through the lists. that were used and you can see that some of them actually look pretty i mean they look somewhat i mean they look older but they definitely love budget to somebody because it's army air force dot com army and the list. dot com maybe and list dot com

arenas in list dot com coastguards and list dot com national guard you get you get the picture airports on lists and then also army resigned dot com so it's sort of this way of getting people's information and then it sort of is wrapped up and up by go well we're doing it to be patriotic not to make a buck but we have to make it so yeah i was leaving the company's big excuse right like oh you know guys go look prior to twenty apparently sun key the in a statement to gives mode so that like they actually did provide online recruiting services agencies for the military but it was to the ad agencies didn't like some cumin didn't even have a direct contract it appears with the military and so they were working for a way out agencies where the contract but then those out agencies due to budget cuts essentially like lost the gig and so then sun key got cut out of ninety percent of their revenue and sort of make up for this last night the percent they

decided well we've got the information resource for kids that know more about recruitment we'll just start selling their information to private schools will give them a call list a bunch of schools out if they're interested then we can go get all the information but give it wasn't even known of the private schools actually had it got to deal with the military at all and the advertising to it sort of strange that these advertising agencies that i would assume since it's the reason they were doing it was no it was they were putting up ads probably recruitment ads for army and as you often do so that's where they were making all of this money but. it seems that they were charged with violating the federal trade commission act as well as the federal trade commission's telemarketing sales through roll and there was these two poseidon key publishing have been reached a settlement with the government and they didn't have to give back but their whole side of it was they didn't have to give back the eleven measured million because they had no ability to pay it which means they just spent it. so they took eleven

million dollars under these very strange false precess protests and of course a lot of these aren't just you know they're not i just you know when you're tired of the golden parachute right i mean and so i mean twenty million dollars should be true you know groups fighting for this for me too and all of it is is a lot of money but for a guy like les moonves who has made probably would close to a billion and those were in his whole career the just be way more money than twenty million dollars i mean the hundred twenty million his owed by his contract will be put in escrow pending the end results of the investigation even if he never sees that money moves made over six hundred fifty million dollars working for c.b.s. since two thousand and six he's a net worth of over seven hundred million dollars you know and you know it's like tab you know you've told me about you know look at the what people have to go through when they're victims of this kind of thing you know regular psychological therapy and treatment for survivors of sexual assault cost an estimated fifteen to

twenty five thousand dollars every year often out of their own pocket you know and that comes out to about three hundred thousand dollars over a twenty year period and all this guy can cough up with you know for the average person all this dude can cough up is twenty and the golden parachute and he's not even paying for it c.b.s. this pay or anybody else is simply taking it out of the money that they may legally be obligated unless they can find a way that they're not legally obligated and the idea is that well if he gets the hundred will give twenty that to charity but it's not les moonves he's not going to have the money. it's a very different thing and i guess the other big question is you know what does this hurt the shareholders does anyone get hurt in this apart from west of the victims oh well i mean. you know i mean no essential you know really it's just the victims the companies get money they get money everybody gets money it doesn't really matter what i think it doesn't matter it really just there is a point where. it's just you know he's

a liability but it's the he's still made them a lot of money and they'll make more money because whatever i think is it true that like you told me earlier that he actually gets to stay on. he will stay on for up to two years as a transition to help with the transition he gets in office he gets probably women he will abuse and then he also gets a security detail because someone has to explain to him about you know i guess the casting couch and how to use women and get away with and how to make sure you get enough money but you know so unless the investigation proves that they he really did like originally i think this was what they're saying is that you know it was a voluntary he's saying look step down now before we have to go any further and we'll figure this out but now i guess if they if you know it's like they've been barrister if it is embarrassed the company my thought is he's probably there going through it again and if they find anything else no they won't give him one hundred million and they'll probably but the guy has gotten over six hundred fifty million

dollars in his twenty three twenty four years at c.b.s. he's hardly is not going to go broke but we'll see i mean it's like twenty million is like a summer home for these people you know the end of the day and you know ultimately really we hope that somebody else on the bus to join this group to somebody will learn from this because they're not going to learn it but keep going to have it all go berzerk. all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of a proper to cover up facebook and twitter your full shoulder or to dot com coming up all of them called what drives us to discuss the reports that there's talk of a u.s. backed coup in venezuela so we've got to stay tuned for this the want to miss of state to watch.

too which was successful for at least a couple days when chavez was kidnapped by military some rogue military officers taken to an island and finally brought back actually on easter sunday due to street protests so this is really very much in line with general us foreign policy oh damn oh yes and there's a lot of people at home who aren't familiar with. how this sort of clandestine policy works so you know is this kind of fomenting a military coup typical of u.s. foreign policy a specially in south america particularly in venice way where we're talking about right now is this common. why absolutely i mean the u.s. if we focus on latin america itself has been very deeply involved in coups since the one nine hundred fifty four coup in guatemala with which in which the cia overthrew a democratically elected president this led to

a series of military juntas which killed approximately two hundred thousand people mostly mine indians and what is now generally regarded as genocide and again the cia initially. rejected claims that it was involved but has subsequently admitted it was involved in that coup and you can go down the line the cia supported a coup in brazil in one nine hundred sixty four the us supported the coup very violent and tragic two against salvador allende in one nine hundred seventy three you can go down the line this is been standing operating procedure of the united states certainly since world war two and even before that in the case of venezuela . recently is many people know the president nicolas maduro barely escaped in assassination attempt by bonds that were. thrown against him by drones in the. reaction of the media worldwide you can check this out was to say

he was a victim of an alleged assassination plot they wouldn't even given the credit for being the victim of a sasa nation attempt even though you can watch the videos where it's very clear what happened and it's very clear that those that attempt to which was done by rogue military officers was certainly encouraged by these meetings with president trump. and again the u.s. will deny this but it's very clear the u.s. has been encouraging this type of activity against madeira for some time both the trump administration as well as senator marco rubio have openly talked about the need for a coup in venezuela. and yet. this is i think an e.u. it said this about it being you know these are pro millet in the venezuelan people

that if they elected nicolas maduro in the elections the u.s. would increase sanctions against venezuela which it did including possibly cutting off venezuelan oil imports to the u.s. which would devastate venezuela and again trump threatened possible military intervention if they voted for nicolas maduro there is no greater intervention or meddling and then election than this this is a form of extortion against an entire people saying that we're going to sanction you or possibly invade you if you don't vote vote the right way there can be no greater form of intervention this you have you said you recently you know were in venezuela and observing the elections what do you feel is the biggest misconception about the country and its government that is being preyed upon by u.s. politicians and the forces of so you can regime change regime change there. why i

think there's a number of misconceptions i mean one is that there's a you know huge claim that somehow the government doesn't have popular support when it does in fact have that. you know nicolas maduro ran for office earlier this year he received sixty seven percent of the popular vote. nearly fifty percent of the population voted in that election shelling that is sizeable support that country moreover it's very clear to me that contrary to what we're being told. in twenty four to you know bloody revolution to include the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still or here i mean your list put

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