greetings and salutations today arc watchers let us look to the sky as we take a plunge. into the unfriendly world with the latest on all things drone warfare that beautiful technological gift from the heavens that brought us nothing but flowers and rows of the battlefield drones starting with the news that the u.s. navy is apparently assembling a team of avengers that includes engineers researchers and even hackers to take on the deadly scourge. of cheap commercial drones really yes defense one reports that james hunt hogarth's the out of the navy acquisitions wrote in a memo that this is necessary to enable the navy to game the combat gain a competitive advantage over the commercial advancement of unmanned systems technology and potential for nefarious use against facilities and assets with the navy my friend so freaked out over all those nefarious cheap small commercial drones currently buzzing around in the market that they needed to build

a whole team to figure out ways to stop them i wonder i wonder what the navy would do if they were say controversial journalist and us citizen below abdul karim who is currently fighting in court for his rights and probably even his life after allegedly being targeted five times for assassination by the us military is super expensive high tech non commercial grade military grade bad but drones. i wonder how the navy would handle that if they were and if they were in his place yes in the latest drone news for mr creme's trial it appears that the u.s. government in a motion to dismiss the trial is trying to rewrite the constitution and burn down our right to due process by arguing that mr kareem's due process rights would be satisfied simply by allowing him to present evidence that he has been wrongly placed on the government kill list and that the government was under no obligation

to respond to him no obligation to respond. that's like so hey you know maybe we're targeting you maybe we're not but you don't have the right to know but you can ask but we're not really going to tell you even if you do but you can have the right to ask my friends it's that level of smug superiority by the us government that encourages us to always be watching the hawks. were pretty. good looks like real that this would be. as if you were to pull out of. the day like you said i got. with. the. world the one watching the hawks i am

a robot and them to. if you need to remain competitive i'm really tired of like the military using this this these words and all of a of an ocular of a corporation as if they're out there you know we've got to keep a competitive advantage on the market. it's not a competition here as are supposed to be you know to save lives and those are to take her shot so this isn't exactly it i mean this all stems from what reports the terrorists have been using you know commercial grade like over the counter bought drones strapping a bomb to or whatever and try to take people out with it that happened with those i mean i'm you know i haven't seen that really were that would have been on on you know at least one of the big three i guess would have been a bigger deal of a terrorist and strapped a bomb or is this just another one of those things that we've all seen since desert storm since oklahoma city since the first nine eleven or the first world trade

center bombing to nine eleven is this really just more of that oh well there might be more you might put it. it might be in your lip. and all of us i prefer to appreciate this the digital service service color drone project is called. german or so after the main character from the star wars. where we have a we're paying attention to the plywood about movie when she was on the rebels fighting against the evil giant empire him she would be considered. anyway a freedom fighter. what would saleratus is there they've been trying to like their fear of drones for a while though yes and one of the things we've found that they had which is you know. they aren't sharks had but it isn't the first and this isn't the first time they've kind of that the navy's been excited been wanting to get involved in this whole you know way to protect ships from supposedly swarms of

small drones so in twenty fourteen i know where they're coming from but you know in the reporting the navy deployed what was called a thirty kilowatt laser it was called x. and one. was the abort law as you asked it was aboard the unfit b s transport dock ponce in the persian gulf so they would navy sort of lie above this idea fending off and a meter own swarms with a laser that costs about a dollar every time you shoot at as opposed to seven hundred fifty thousand dollars per missile that's a lot you're saying to him as wow you know it's there it's very cost effective i'm really excited about this so the navy one bought two more of the lasers at one hundred fifty million dollars e. and they're not even scheduled to be deployed until twenty time anyway so they're like hey it's cost effective to take saw about a dollar we don't want to be spending seven hundred fifty thousand dollars on a missile so we're going to go out and buy three hundred million dollars worth of

lasers to save the money some one hundred fifty but i was and i just wonder it's like your do they think we're trying to catch carry not herding cats here we're trying to save lives out of the laser is the bad but you know this does come back at the end of the day we would be switching gears over to karim in the journalists american journals american citizen who we talked about that last summer with be on the show you know we talked about how you know this is a guy he's controversial for his coverage and what you covered in syria right and you go he's it was a he was doing work for the mainstream he was doing or for very corporate mainstream c.n.n. and that and then c.n.n. kind of threw him under the bus point over something so yeah you know and so basically i want to read you what his defense team is kind of has said in response to the u.s. government's arguments basically to dismiss by saying hey all he had the right to complain that doesn't mean we have the right to show more secrets because if we show our secrets and put the world danger except he's an american citizen you potentially are targeting him he might be on the drone kill list that's

a big deal that's due process you're ignoring. the u.s. government's argument reprieves jennifer gibson co-counsel for mr creme stated quote the government's assertion that it has the right to market some citizens. based on secretive information without affording them the legal protections offered by the constitution is chilling denying mr creme his right to meaningful due process and the grounds of national security would so they dangerous and terrifying i could not agree more. in a five four decision that is being called barbaric by death penalty opponents the us supreme court ruled that the missouri death row inmate russell buckley who can be executed despite underlying medical issues buckley who it was and convicted in one thousand nine hundred six of slaying his in the one thousand nine hundred six laying of his ex-girlfriends partner michael sanders he was also convicted of kidnapping rape and stalking buckelew who was sentenced to the death penalty has

a condition called cavernous and man gianni mum he contends that if given a lethal injection the tumor in his throat which is from this condition would burst causing and choke on his own blood in his case to the skin went to the screams poured out what it did is centered on his eighth amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment attorneys for the state john sauer argued that ruling in favor of baku could make it easier for others to skirt the death penalty. not want to be able to seek a de facto exemption from the death penalty or. certain people from the death penalty the mentally ill the incompetent. people who are young. we haven't seen that are suppose the death penalty we see it as as an as applied exemption to killer person who are individual for whom this method is cruel and unusual. robert hup an attorney for russell buckley make clear this wasn't an

argument against the death penalty but the math that. you have prior rulings of this court that make clear that. constitution in general does not define death the death penalty as cruel and so there has to be a way to kill you know this claim about this individual person doesn't call that into question at all. and today justice neil gore sic stated in the supreme court's decision that. about that the eighth amendment does not guarantee a prisoner a painless death so how quaters when the highest court in the land feels the need to defend the state's right to kill are we trading life for the able or a safety. move out of that is a tough one that's a tough tough call and you know i want to we got to step back of our i want to first look at like you know who voted for and who voted against this because this

is a controversial bit the majority use chief justice john g. roberts justice clarence thomas senator alito brett kavanaugh you know basically also a very positive servant of all the conservative judges dissenting you had sort of my or kagan is just a good burger. who has continued to and justice breyer was also as well i'm outside so you know that's basically wow this kind of shape but it's interesting when you look at you know the arguments that this is because of the big argument is was this torture was this an exciting extraneous amount of torture that was put on this guy right so right and one of the issues is that this wasn't this wasn't a. case about sort of the broader issues of the use of lethal injection and it wasn't even a broader issue of just lethal injection and it's specific or the death penalty although if you watch the show you know it's like no we should be really having this conversation my god my and what a lot of our opinions is this is just silly to begin with we shouldn't it's just so

cruel and barbaric but what it's doing is it's challenging the methods in relation to that exit particular prisoner. as sort of my you are pointed out we do make. exceptions we make exceptions when someone is incapable mentally of really understand the gravity or really understanding the gravity of being killed. but what he did the issue that became really for even for corsica i don't consider this like a conservative decision it's more like technicalities so what it was was he had to come up with an alternative and he had any alternative to pick from that's available but he chose one at least as legal team dead that is not been has never been used in many states and pointed out i mean we don't know how this works we don't know this and what he wanted so what he wanted to. choose the method of his dad and we wanted to do was have a gas mask put on and he wouldn't help here nitrogen through it until he died now

here is the problem with that is there is no real way of knowing and no medical information or anybody who can say that that will actually be a less of a risk for him that this tumor my burst or all of that. you know at the end it's so it's totally good or bad news or had it just so blood rather than part of the could just look just like ten. years later that it was going to the firing squad. i might have actually they might have gone with the right maybe i'm going on there what you know and i was you know and looking at how things were how they sort of went out it was very down party lines it was you know we have five conservatives and four. liberals and liberals and so what you ended up having was something that was very much on the side of conservative like. those will make people not murder people which is never been proven to ever be the deterrent for them but i think you

know in the course of things it's keep having the conversation keep bringing it to the supreme court and sister helen prejean who is well known in her fight against the death penalty said of this case today the courts off. hide behind legally is to avoid the real world consequences of their decisions and that's what this is it's that there are go well you know we don't have a you don't have a right to do this and the words are like this it's still about life and still about life and all right as we go to break clock watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics to cover the facebook twitter see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up a watchdog social media producer double burger burgers the latest new merit of being pushed pushed about the internet but is way lower than r t international correspondent who will blow up a bridge was a new wrinkle in the controversy surrounding joe biden stay true to what you call.

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in the world of information superhighway overload it's nice to have a little help in the high speed wilderness ones and zeros and trolls when getting to cut through all the noise to find the facts so we here in washington thankfully have our brilliant social media producer kevin springer help us navigate the internet of things and find the stories that are buried behind and in between the lines and this week one narrative about venezuela seems to be propaganda fighting and plain sight thank you welcome very joined here seventh grader. thank you for joining us for you know calling me brilliant i love it and yes i know you are going to be subjected to torture every day you know what i'm going to make you go but this is a fascinating story that you brought to our attention and there's a video i guess from the new york times that's going viral right now and claims to explain what is actually happening in venezuela but you file that there some history behind the person that made the video that the new york times accidentally

on purpose probably i don't know the whole left out of her bio in presenting her opinion of this yeah so essentially the new york times opinion section they also did a video. pieces now with like different journalists and the loggers and stuff so they published a piece by john a houseman who is a venezuelan american who in the video is essentially openly calling for regime change us regime change in this way live without outwardly saying it she even goes so far as i say that there is total chaos and it's way learn that my duro is a violence or randall dictator you can see sort of images that they use in the video shoot she's compiling like videos and images from protests and she's sort of trying to very creatively you know kind of subvert a lot of the popular quote unquote hands off in this way with that's been happening right now you just saw folks and it was out people like bernie sanders. was also

fascinating talks a lot about election fraud however we know from dan koval who's been on the show and the thousands of sort of election auditors around the world that it was like an example of what good elections could be i think we actually have a quick video to show the viewers actually what the video looks like. some pundits of the left claim venezuela is economic ruin because of u.s. sanctions but they are wrong when it was economy completely collapsed in twenty sixteen after decades of corruption incompetence of chavis and a little as narco kleptocratic government. right so those are some pretty harsh words that are actually all facts out of all the not completely true but what's fascinating about john houseman is her family and her specific times to venezuela so i want to just go through a quick and show why it's important to know that new york times did not disclose this information so first as her father ricardo hausmann he's the author of this piece called do you dave in a slayer which is really eerie and even in november two thousand and eighteen he

actually kind of predicted the exact day that it was going to claim power and started the coup he also was a mentor it's of one going to. large leader in the opposition and then on top of that he's an i.m.f. economist so she's not biased that all right. he gets on her mother. who works for a group called two month to month is actually founded by the endowment the national endowment for democracy which as we've talked about on the show before is funded by the u.s. by essentially the cia and the u.s. military to help red regime change around the world. women dollars and great work sort of exposing that then finally there's broad leo daughter who is a lawyer and a businessman who is actually currently serving a prison sentence for extortion and financial crimes against the government who at the time of his arrest was found with twenty five thousand u.s.

dollars and a plan for a terrorist attack in venezuela and then we get the job so why would the new york times not disclose these ties to her family she was clearly a biased source. of the biased opinion she has her views are going to fall over that's when also there's something sort of jumps out at you when you see the difference between the people who seem to be mature and the people who seem to know and i can't white put my finger on it but i think it's there. they tend to be more on the european end of n.s.a. that and what for a the kharia call the sort of get out or and all but i think it's pretty obvious i mean when it's like i'd ask you you know why do you think the defending our time is obvious say like why would they i guess you know standards i mean there's no really do that anymore any and then there's no way that such a larger respect to at least formerly respected him i've been there losing a lot of respect lately but i would like new york times wouldn't know this already and know that under the rules of journalistic integrity which we practice on the

show every day you disclose this kind of information they didn't have to be intentional and there's no other way around it and like you said the opposition is majority why. blonde hair blue eyes yeah well thank you so much for bringing us the latest going to controversy making waves on the internet thank you so much watching hawk social media producer devon spring thank you so much for. former vice president joe biden is back in the headlines again but not for what you think watchers you see while the world has rightfully but examining and calling out the former president's rather hands the approach when standing next to women and girls and photo ops mr biden has also been catching fire over a rather curious role the firing of a former top prosecutor in the country of ukraine joining us now with these stories are t. international correspondent caleb mopp and thank you so much for coming on today caleb's pleasure to have you sure a pleasure to be here so caleb look biden back in february twenty fourth teen was named by the obama administration is kind of the point person on ukraine when all

the troubles and things like that were happening there which is a pretty you know it's pretty contentious time to be overseeing that part of the world in the united states' relationship to it what exactly are the accusations coming out now from ukraine about you know that mr biden is being accused of. well it's widely known that joe biden's son hunter biden is heavily invested in bristol holdings and that's the largest non-governmental natural gas company in ukraine and back in two thousand and fourteen that raised some eyebrows and it raise some more eyebrows when joe biden visited ukraine in april of two thousand and fourteen and basically told him to stop relying on so many natural gas imports from russia but now the latest is that we at this point have video from one joe biden was speaking at the council on foreign relations last year and in that video he brags about getting the general prosecutor of ukraine fired he says there was some money that was going to ukraine and he called him up and he does this whole you know his joe

biden working class tough guy thing and he says you know i told him that unless that guy was fired the money would go away he got the general prosecutor of ukraine fired he brags about this well what it turns out is this prosecutor this. general prosecutor of ukraine that joe biden brags about getting fired was investigating his son's company on three different counts the general prosecutor was actually investigating the brits small holdings the company the joe biden son is heavily invested in so people look at that and they say whoa that kind of reeks reeks of a conflict of interest but it gets to a bigger issue which is at this point russia's economy is centered around selling oil and natural gas in the international markets they've got two state controlled corporations they are gazprom and ross nafta and every ounce of oil and gas that russia sells is oil and gas that somebody is not buying from b.p. from exxon mobil from wall street in london based natural gas and oil corporations

and the energy markets have a lot to do with the geo political tension that is going on there's a big incentive for wall street in london energy corporations to push russia out of the market. you know it's not as if by doesn't have enough aside from being a two time loser in the primaries and going out for a third time is running for president do you think this could be an issue for him as he gets and once eventually actually says i'm running and runs you could be an issue for having the. well the crazy thing is you know joe biden just like his proclivities with women he does this out in the open he doesn't try to cover it up he's sitting there in the meeting basically saying that he got the general prosecutor of ukraine fired that he called him up and you had him on the phone and told them he told them they wouldn't get the money unless the guy was fired but what's more interesting is where was joe biden speaking he was speaking at the council on foreign relations one of the most powerful think tanks in washington d.c. that's basically where u.s.

foreign policy is thought up and i actually have here in my hand the list of funders of the council on foreign relations the institute that is thinking of u.s. foreign policy they think it up at the council on foreign relations and the cia in the pentagon carried out and this is like a laundry list of powerful corporations the rockefeller's boeing the carlyle group i mean this is who is writing foreign policy and this is where joe biden is lecturing the world about corruption. of argo as i reckon great report on this keep up the great work go. through the budget for this group look up this story. always a pleasure. sweden loves wood and scientists the three of the royal institute of technology. and commerce university of technology and the wallenberg would science center have found a way to create everything from windows to bulletproof vests from wood by using

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