to work or. not it's. isn't salutations today are 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 those who brought us nothing but flowers and roses to the battlefield drones starting with the news that the u.s. navy is apparently assembling a team of adventures 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 the out of the navy acquisitions wrote in a memo that this is necessary to enable the navy to gain the complete gain

a competitive advantage over the commercial advancement of unmanned systems technology and potential for nefarious use against facilities and assets you know 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 by times for assassination by the us military super expensive high tech non commercial grade military grade bad but drones i wonder how to 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 us 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 have the right to ask. but burns it's that level of smug superiority by the us government that encourages us to always be watching the hawks. we're already. hearing that the. real that this would be. as it were to pull out of. the day like you said i got.

with. the. water when watching the hawks i roll over 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 this 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 heroes 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 reports that 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 going to have i haven't seen that really were that would have been on on

you know at least one of the big three i believe this 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 bombings and the nine eleven is this really just more of that oh well they might they might they might put it. it's you know might be in your lip. and all bus i prefer to appreciate this the defense digital service service color drone project is called. german or so after the main character from the star wars was really they weren't paying attention to the plight of movie when she was on the rebels fighting against the evil giant empire. him would be considered. by the other anyway a freedom fighter of their right of. 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 heads 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 abort was late in the us it was aboard the unfit b s transport dock ponts in the persian gulf so the navy sort of lab of 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 especially if you're saying oh 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 each. and they're not even scheduled to

be deployed until twenty two so they're low 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. save the money that seven hundred fifty but i was and i just wonder it's like you're the think we're trying to catch carry not herding cats here we're trying to save lives right out of the laser is the bow but you know this does come back at the end of that 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 his 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 for death based on secret information without affording them the legal protections offered by the constitution is chilling denying mr creme his right to meaningful due process in the grounds of national security would so they dangerous and terrifying press and i could not agree more going. in a five four decision that is being called barbaric by death penalty opponents the u.s. supreme court ruled that the missouri death row inmate russell buckley who can be

executed despite underlying medical issues buckley it wasn't convicted in one thousand nine hundred six of slaying his in the one thousand nine hundred six lang of his ex-girlfriends partner michael sanders he was also convicted of kidnapping rape and stalking buffalo who was sentenced to the death penalty has a condition. called cavernous head 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 his case to the skin went to scream support at 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 is a publishing the death penalty we see it as as an as applied exemption to particular 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 the 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 into question at all. and today justice neil gore sic stated in the supreme court's decision that. about buckley that the eighth amendment does not guarantee a prisoner a painless death soha 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 stick to. 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 and 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 and our alito brett kavanaugh you know basically also a very positive servant of all the conservative judges dissenting you had sort of my or kagan guinn's just given birth. who has continued to and justice breyer was also as well on that side so you know that's basically wow this kind of shaped 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 a case about sort of the broader issues have. of lethal injection it wasn't even

a broader issue of just lethal injection in the pacific or the death penalty although if you watch the show you though it's like no issue of the women having this conversation a lot of our opinions of this is just silly to begin with it's just so cruel and barbaric but what it's doing is it's challenging the methods in relation to that it was a particular prisoner. as sort of moira 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 gore sick i don't consider this like a conservative decision it's more like technicality 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 the legal team dead that is not been it has

never been used in any 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 that we wanted to do was have a gas mask put on and he wouldn't help here nitrogen through it until he died here's the problem with that is there's 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. burst or all of that. you know at the end it's. been easier to just like rather than put this other method he could have just said like look just like. going to the firing squad. and it might have actually been they might have gone with the right maybe. you know and it was you know and looking like how things went out it was very down party lines you know we have five conservatives and four. or. liberals and liberals and

so what you ended up having was something that was very much on the side of conservatives like go there so make people not murder people right which is never been proven to ever be the do no never but a deterrent for that 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 while out in her fight against the death penalty said of this case today the courts often hide behind legally is to avoid the real world consequences of their decisions and that's what this is it's a fair 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 lock watchers don't forget to wear the snow would you think of the tougher to cover the face but where's your poll shows that are t.v. dot com coming up watching all the social media producer for bringing us the latest new narrative being pushed pushed about the internet but is way lower than r t

international correspondent chris burns was a new wrinkle in the controversy surrounding joe biden stay true to what. i feel says the decision you can win the politics of this is in the what's in the closet with movies because of hollywood movies you do not know what the next step on that you have to develop and because it is just like. that's a must but you know i also have a poem idea like a few. elections and you have the violence a lot of developments which would not be possible to have in what you would know this is this is why you can you politics is so interesting.

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a little help in the high speed wilderness ones and zeros and trolls one getting to cut through all the noise find the facts so we thankfully have our brilliant social media producer demonstrator help us navigate the internet of things and find the stories that are buried behind and between the lines and this week one narrative about venezuela seems to be. hiding and plain sight thank you welcome very joy here . thank you for joining us for you know calling me brilliant i love the yes i know you are because we 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's 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

have video pieces now with like different journalists and the loggers and stuff so they published a piece by a drawn out houseman who is a venezuelan american who in the video is essentially openly calling for regime change us regime change in this way without outwardly saying it she even goes so far as i say that there is total chaos and it's way learn that my dear as a violence or random call 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 you know you can see right now you just saw the folks in the laws out people like bernie sanders. what's also fascinating talks a lot about election fraud however we know from dan koval who's been on the show in 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 in this one as economy completely collapsed in twenty sixteen after decades of corruption and incompetence of chavis him alone as norco kleptocratic government. right so those are some pretty harsh words that are actually all fact checkable and not completely true but what's fascinating about john houseman is her family and her specific ties to venezuela so i want to just go through real quick and show why it's important to know that new york times did not disclose his information so first as her father ricardo ousmane he's the author of this piece called dave in a slayer which is really eerie and even in november two thousand eight hundred he actually kind of predicted the exact day that glide though was going to claim power

and start the coup he also was meant towards the one going to a 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 on a holy father who work for a group called two month the 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 bread regime change around the world. women's dollars and great work sort of exposing that then finally there's our own brother leo daughter who is a lawyer and 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 is clearly a biased source this is

a biased opinion just her views are going to boil over that's when i also there's something sort of jumps out at you when you see the difference between the people who seem to be bitter and the people who seem to quite know and i can't white put my finger on it but i think it's there. begin to be more on the european end of event to say that and what for a the car you call the sort of. or and but i think it's pretty obvious i mean when it's like i'd ask you you know why do you think they did the new york times is that obvious 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 large and respected 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 this show every day you disclose this kind of information they didn't tell me it has to be intentional there's no other way around it and like you said the opposition is

majority white blonde haired blue eyed. thank you so much for bringing us the latest going to controversy making waves on the internet they are so much watching talk social media producer devon springer thank you so much. former vice president joe biden is back in the headlines again but not for what you think hawk watchers you see while the world has rightfully been examining and calling out the former president's rather hands the approach when standing next to women and girls in photo ops mr biden has also been catching fire over rather curious role the firing of a former top prosecutor in the country of ukraine joining us now with these stories are two international correspondent caleb mopp and thank you so much for coming on today caleb's pleasure to have you. sure pleasure to be here so caleb biden back in february twenty fourth 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 a pretty contentious time to be overseeing that part of the world and 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 them 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 this the brits my 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 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 have 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 him 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. i was a very good point. great report on this keep up the great work go. through but for this group we're looking up this story. always a pleasure. sweden loves wood and scientists. 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 nanotechnology they were able to extract water which makes up about half of the volume of wood pulp the cellulose five worth of the pulp are what makes trees

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