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stumble upon a 1000000 different plot lines whether it's another bumbled us lead could tempt in venezuela this time using former us soldiers turned mercenaries to the very real surveillance state inspired fears that are gaining ground with each new revelation coming out of the us government and silicon valley's plans for potential contact tracing. but it's the plotline that is with unfolding in the african country of somalia since the birth of 2020 that we will focus on today in particular it's the very under reported fact that since january 1st 2020 the united states government through the pentagon's africa command has been conducting a brutal barrage of air strikes inside the battered nation just security dot com reports that in the 1st few months of 2020 the u.s. has already conducted at least 39 air strikes in somalia to put that in perspective africa carried out 63 airstrikes during the entirety of 2019. in

fact nick turse the fantastic journalist who has consistently been a thorn in africa side he points out that u.s. africa command has conducted more air strikes in somalia than it did during all of barack obama's 8 years in office. yes my friends it appears that while the world has been targeting cold with 19 the u.s. government has decided to target small humans remember back in early april when the united nations secretary general and tony will get better declared to the world that quote there should be only one fight in our world today our shared battle against cold with 19 we must mobilize every ounce of energy to defeat it well get this according to an africa press release the very day that the un leader called for a global ceasefire the united states military was dropping bombs on somalia. wonder

what our priorities are let's find out as we start watching all this. in a city. like. this you always see. great city this least systemic dissent says so much. so that you feel. welcome i've been watching the. winter and i was well made to look at this apparently during all this time fighting viruses we still have time to drop some bombs on some brown people around the world one thing us love to do that started because when they remain buried we will always have but i'm going to try to defame a whole populations of people particularly those that we pull for good good point very good point it's crazy i mean last year under president donald trump the u.s. conducted 63 air attacks in somalia that was the most ever in

a single year since the beginning of the year africa when i was 39 air strikes in somalia the command announced total 36 such attacks from 2017 i mean that's saying they were seeing these numbers rise like that i mean in 2016 it peaked in her bottle with just 19 i don't know why we're dropping bombs on somalia. 1st place like no one's quite you know al shabaab terrorist whatever but this seems excessive at this point that was going to be my question what is the reasoning i don't know what the reasoning was under the obama administration either but the reason for the uptick with all the other all the areas that we're involved in all of the international conflict all of the resolution they were supposed to be binding in areas across the middle east but also you know the global economy and all the different intricacies there why had to choose somalia and why to continue to utilize our our military forces in that way also the cost associated with it and i have no answers as to why this is the plan of action and think that people should start asking those questions well i'm sure you are in luck because the pentagon has

some really wonderful answers for you are you ready for this ok there we go. the april 3rd strike that just recently happened. in somalia u.s. marine corps brigadier general brad verjee gehring of africa these the deputy director of operations so he might have some answers he says quote it's our commanders responsibility to support our partners so this terrorist group al-shabaab can expand and strike the u.s. homeland as its leaders desire to do. ok but i mean basically this falls under the same thing of what the u.s. says you know that their air strikes are assisting the government of somalia in order to you know when it's war against the state armed group al-shabaab the terrorist group to increase the security of smaller people in the you know to keep them from coming to our shores and tackling us and also to keep the terrorists from indiscriminately attacking innocent civilians and so what extent has that success

been measured. well we're very good at killing civilians and extent that we measured i mean it's really it really blows my mind because to me it's like it's the standard tired excuse to use all the time it's we have to attack these terrorists over here because they might come back here and hurt except the more. people that we kill on the ground the more civilians we kill in these airstrikes the more terrorists we create and the more people and i mean al shabaab has grown dire i mean astronomically since the u.s. spurstow operations in africa why because of our influence there and the more you do it the more you increase the you more the more you destabilize that area and i think that there is something to be said about that as well and the amount of trust that somalian people have with the u.s. the u.s. government knowing that these casualties a naga war and continue to happen on a regular basis that's a really good point it's you can't build trust when you're killing civilians i mean it really does it really does hurt i mean amnesty international reported deaths of 14 civilians in just 5 airstrikes last year that they were able to even begin to

investigate you know africa says they investigate but they don't actually talk to families they don't talk to people find out actually who was killed they just claim it was all terrors it sounds a lot like what we were claiming you know what was going on in iraq right after the war although everyone is an insurgent. where there's a will there's a way and where there's a big business the little man will always come up short at least that's what we're seeing in ohio where the state government has concocted a way to continue putting workers at risk for covert 19 meanwhile abstain from paying them unemployment benefits if the buckeye state reopened its economy leaders fear some will refuse to work or quit due to the threat of coronavirus so be clear workers should be afraid considering mitigation efforts are minimal and a mutated strain of the virus was recently announced. ohio seems to what workers to

pay that no mind at all and get back to work or else the ohio department of job and family services website now has a form that allows employers to confidentially report employees who quit or fused to work due to cope in 1000 this internal flag would prevent workers from being eligible for unemployment benefits kevin beary president of united food and commercial workers local 75 said it's unfortunate that people are being forced to make a decision between losing their jobs and exposing themselves to the virus adding that the local union has been able to create and establish policies and procedures to protect 30000 members. the stickler though also lies in the wording of the state's notice to employers thing individuals can not with the unemployment benefits if they can work but refuse or quit without good cause but what constitutes good cause if you think all of this sounds harsh it is right here watchers we recently reported on covert sweeping through ohio is prisons with more

than 37000 inmates testing positive in a similar style are from the johns hopkins center for health security found that not a single u.s. state has met the key criteria to open safely what would you do if you're tasked with either going to work and putting your health at risk or advocating for yourself and losing your livelihood that is the most important question of the day as we have in the may june when everyone talking about lifting all the stay at home orders and everybody needs to go back to work and to me with this sounds like it's basically you better go back to work or you know we're putting a gun to your head you have to go back to work and that's essentially what it they might as well it said it because these people have families they have other folks that they're taking care of they many of them don't have health insurance a lot of these are are low income workers already so if they do get sick. lord help them in terms of being able to find proper care the other part is and i think that we talked about this a little bit earlier is that ohio is probably not the only state with this type of interesting laws right now are forcing people to go back to work they're trying to

get their economies opened back up they're not really taking into consideration all of the health precautions that are necessary before you can open up safely and that puts people at risk but they don't want to pay them unemployment benefits that's what really gets me with this it's like you could you can't have a both ways you can't put the gun to the american workers had or any work around the world forced to go back to work under these kind of conditions and say you need to work we need to get our economy you need to put your life on the line for me but then say at the same time over we're not going to take care of you at all if indeed you do get sick from going back to work or in. you choose to stay home and keep yourself and your family safe potentially because that's what you believe in that's what medical science is telling you but we're still not going to help you and that's the wrong choice and how dare you say no it absolutely was ridiculous so unemployment claims are typically subject to review you already know this. but there were a view does it typically state the types of things we're seeing here and the

problem with that is that the employer gets to decide whether or not what what your unemployment claim not only is legitimate but also using coronavirus as a mechanism to determine who gets unemployment funds and who does not in secretly they're doing a lot of these businesses are because if too many people claim unemployment they cannot claim the small business small business funding from the federal government so they need people on the job and it's so twisted because it's like when you think about this it's it's. it's that thing of like if we just don't want to give anybody any kind of break we don't want to give anybody any kind of money and this tired old excuse that you hear over and over again from people who are against like on employment benefits and things like that the targets as well then they'll just stay at home and they won't want to work at all or you know they'll make more money for employment than they will of their jobs well guess what that's not the government's fault that's not siding force that's the jobs fault if the jobs can't pay their workers a livable wage and they can get it from unemployment even if they really care but i

mean if they you know and they can that's the businesses fault at the end of the day exactly you should not be punishing the worker because you are paying them slave wages that is not the workers fault exactly that's the male who it's like but yet we have this twisted backwards thinking that somehow will no business is ever a fault for mistreating workers you know that businesses are never you know you can put a gun to their make and come to work in a time when they shouldn't and pay them garbage wages but oh god we never should help the worker we only should bail out the business the other issue is that we're learning more and more about coronavirus every day 9 about how it passes about the people that are more 6 up. about now you know the latest news about young children and how it's affecting them there are a lot of reasons why people who are set to have some very serious precautions particularly the communities that are affected the most right now we're seeing that be the african-american and latino community what we know about those 2 communities is that a lot of their households are multigenerational and so the person who is going out working could bring back over 1000 even if they're not showing any symptoms to

a grandmother to an aunt to an uncle whoever else is in that household you mentioned john hopkins and you know criteria you know the state should look at before they open a business what are those criteria. absolutely so one of the criteria is that for 2 consecutive weeks you had to have in coronavirus cases some states have that not all states the sticking points were the other 2 reasons that there had to be enough public health capacity to conduct contact tracing currently no state has that that there has to be enough diagnostic testing available for everyone no one has that and that the health care for capacity has to be there to be able to treat everyone safely and effectively as you know there are a lot of hospitals and clinics that have been shut down the capacity isn't there beds are going to be too specifically a rule areas. where does the funding come from people are asking for you know so much more from the state and the federal government to be able to support coronavirus cases and yet we're still reopening. you could you could totally see by

just going over what you just listed there for the we are in no condition actually to reopen even on any kind of infrastructural level to actually handle reopening exactly and that's what we're most afraid of it is not you know 8 there radek a sion of the virus in and of itself is that we do not currently have a health care system that is prepared to handle you know taylor spread its current levels much less to get worse nor do we have an economy that can kick the can handle this apparently because like grandma got a crowd of ships down for 2 months we get a certain bill every business except for the american actually american workers and american people. that's the saddest part about this entire problem all right everybody good report thank you howard everybody as we go to break remember that you could also start watching dogs on demand through the brand new portable t.v. app which is available on the smart bombs or google play on the apple app store by searching portable t.v. or you can stream us through your t.v. you don't have cable by downloading the 4 ball to the apple t.v.

or online affordable. this will be available for devices coming soon keep up with that coming up it's time to look into the recently had botched coup attempt in venezuela by water and weibo and there's a merry band of american mercenaries who do not want to take to the watchable. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed you know told to shut up what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about

half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tat happening but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. if we have something like she's taken to mean the one who coasts coming up we'll take arms. to try to defeat. truly needy loose. remember this isn't a coaster can be slow and the city's street scene needs not going to have.

died a financial survival job today with all the money laundering 1st to visit this campus into 3 different. oh good this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman islands and it will all these banks are complicit in a kleptocracy if we decide to give up all and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we get a look at a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy own beautiful jewelry and how about. luxury automobile again for a match you know what money laundering is highly. watched kaiser of course.

all right welcome back everyone as i mentioned earlier at the top of the show the united states' efforts to remove venezuelan president nicolas maduro from power have reached who a pretty new level of bumbling brilliance my friends on may 4th yes may 4th the venezuelan government announced the capture of 2 former u.s. special forces soldiers now turning mercenaries were involved in a failed plot to invade the country and lead a coup to remove venezuelan president nicolas maduro from power apparently dubbed operation gideon and run out of a florida security company titled silver core usa some have called this the keystone kops version of the bay of pigs in fact according to the washington post a mysterious strategic committee run by juan jose rondo and their political advisor

to one weibo involved in these efforts actually compiled a dossier on the failed bay of pigs attempt to liberate cuba from the government but all castro to which journalist charles pearson esquire magazine upon hearing of this news observed i can count on the fingers of one hand the number of accounts of the bay of pigs operation since 1962 that did not also contain the word fiasco why someone in 2020 would compile a dossier on a disastrous attempt to invade cuba as part of the preparation for a commando raid into venezuela is best left to broader thinkers than i. well we here are those broad thinkers let's break down this latest attempt to remove the democratically elected leader of venezuela from office and install mr corporate democracy itself one guy though as we are joined by author and human rights attorney dan koval of m the author and professor of latin american history from kimono college we go to go solace thank you both for joining me today thank you so there is an incredible amount to unpack with this story and not

a lot of time before it's let's start with the basics down as of this broadcast who do we know where the players involved in this botched operation beyond just the 2 captured u.s. mercenaries. so in addition to them yet have the. founder of silvercorp usa and jordan do drone who seems to being the mastermind of this the asco. he founded this mercenary organization 2 years ago know that irish a new organisation is been involved in for example the 0 elections in 2018 which resulted in the election of ball scenario and also the. they were involved with richard branson. charity event on the colombia venezuela border about a year ago in addition to him. there were colombian paramilitary forces.

otherwise known as death squads and some. folks who had left the venezuelan military and what we know is that silvercorp usa signed a contract with a long way to carry out this operation with the object it being to kidnap president nicolas maduro and bring him to the united states most likely to try to get the $15000000.00 bounty that donald trump put on his head while. thing just keeps getting deeper than this next one is for you my gal the united states secretary of state might come pale in the us president donald trump have both distanced themselves from this operation with pump ale in benteke lead denying involvement declaring that quote there was no united states government direct involvement given the united states history of intervention in venezuelan affairs

do you believe the u.s. government was not involved in this operation. i think the key word there is direct and what i perspective my perspective is that the u.s. knew about the program they knew us greenlighted it if it succeeded fantastic we were able to remove and they we did it with a very cheap operation we lowball the contract and we were able to get a mother with the reality is that they knew about it the experience of what the colombian border as one of the most surveilled borders in the area where you have a constant u.s. overflights and information the fact that the colombians were aware that there was training going on the venezuelans knew that training was going on in fact in march of 202020. in his own program the vice president the former vice president and. 2nd in command i'm going to straight out mention the fact that we have north americans training rebels on the border with colombia so the fact is they knew about it they hoped it would succeed if it succeeded they had achieved

their mission if they didn't they would have plausible deniability which is essentially what they wanted with the bay of pigs as well to have plausible deniability and when in either case but again the context is the us established the context with increasing the sanctions against venezuela during a pandemic attempting to put a price on mother had attempting at the same time with elliott abrams and paul 'd impale to increase the tension on venezuela even when there was a call within the country for negotiations by both sides to try to deal with a pandemic they opted for regime change in the middle of a crisis that worsened conditions for venezuelans on the ground it truly is really wretched when you think about it in that context to see that we're still trying to do these kind of operations especially during a worldwide pandemic emergency you'd think ok let's put all these things aside i'm curious dan about this company silver car out of florida you know you had mentioned it earlier today and got into that you know whether it's headed by u.s.

green beret john good dro i'm also curious what are is its ties to the trumpet ministration i mean i know you mentioned that you know work security back concert at the was a better way way to whatever wasn't happening while back but what are its ties to the trumpet ministration and one weibo. well again the connections with very strong there's a contract that's been released in publicized by the washington post which shows that. silver corp usa signed an agreement one why do you carry out this operation in return for cash that cash would have come by the way from the united states from money to the u.s. . for ohs and then seized from the venezuelan government they have now given millions of dollars of that so 1st of all it's very clear that the money out the money king. from the united states apparently this jordan good has done security for the trump campaign and is connected to

security leaders for donald trump i saw one report that in fact met with dollar trump the white house not too long ago if i could mention one other fact you know the one the one thing the media has not talked about is who helped stop this kid it was ordinary fishermen who helped intercept these people to begin with and the reason they thought they could win and overthrow the government of venezuela is they thought the people would rally around them to help them instead the people ordinary people fisherman on the shore confronted them and called events when the wording is to put down the coup the reason they failed is because. and the united states has no popular support in venezuela certainly don't.

emma gal what do you believe will be the fallout from this in venezuela both politically and socially. well the fallout is that the opposition has lost the last fig leaf they were hiding behind we know very clearly that this opposition has adopted an insurrection alist approach that they staged a coup in april of 2019 in which they attempted to have a padlock out of a lot of military base in caracas rebel it didn't happen we know that they've opted to withdraw themselves from the internal political process hoping that the u.s. would support them that the group of limit would support in the columbia would support them in other words i have little faith in the democrats and the venezuelan people what venezuela needs as many people in the country have said is negotiations to release the money that the u.s. has taken from venezuela and that money be provided by human aid for venezuelan immigrants that are abroad the $5000000.00 immigrants that are abroad as well as the venezuelans within the country but for the opposition i think that even their

most ardent supporters are now questioning what they did how they've approached this and that their continued support for an insurrection alist policy that is about whatever means necessary has really been exposed because they signed that document it was white though it was hope to hold out and go on his campaign manager the same person by the way hold the hold out and go on who ran the campaign for a while even in colombia who ran the opposition in mexico who ran even other campaigns a lot america and who promised he would do as well as again they have no secrets to hide between they supported the coup the way they have previously it's incredible how far that rabbit hole goes on to thank you professor so especially so much for coming on pleasure having you both on thank you. art and what he's about is our show for you today were memorable in this world we're not told but we're loved enough so i tell you all love you i am tyrone for the animal keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night. i

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