these anomalous help them, and in literally, people are getting up in the morning and squeezing and attributing it to a syndrome maybe because it's so bang. with joe biden plans to position american troops in eastern europe and a show of force against russia, despite and nato's chief, admitting that there is a quote, no certainty about whether russia would invade. ukraine used to be a pollution if it depends on the russian federation, then there will be no wall. we don't want any wars, but we will also not allow our interest to be rudely trampled on and ignored amid a growing stand off with the west over ukraine. russia's top diplomatic stress as moscow does not want conflict, but in fits, it's security must be in short and health staff soon. the u. k. government has tens

of thousands of faith. the fact that they don't get the coven jap by next week. because they're headlines, i will be back in just under an hour's time with another look at it with our international law on this week. show why human trafficking is up during the pandemic and how it's contributing to supply chain problems. and i will show you how to do something with your bare hands that could save your life. but 1st, while the world is watching you crane other hot spots are smouldering. where and what's at stake? i'm holland cook in washington. this is the big picture on our t america. ah . with pessimist sick predictions from both sides and attention hungry

mainstream media fanning the winds of war, the world is watching ukraine. where else should we be watching? let's ask, john said ladies, geo political strategist trilogy advisors and a diplomacy consultant to the department of state and former pentagon official and rti contributor michael maloof, a china iran. russia recently carried out 3 days of joint naval drills in the gulf of oman. their 2nd such exercise since 2019 the defense ministry, and beijing said the exercise was to quote, jointly safeguard maritime security and promote regional peace and stability. a john, there are disputed waters, half a world away in the gulf of 4 moves, is one of the world's most strategically major choke points. what is that stake there? that will impact us here? well, we have here 3 very important countries on different parts of the ration continent

tolerant. and so russia seeks to displace the united states from the western part of your asia in europe. china seeks to displace the united states from the eastern part of your asia along the western pacific region. and iran seeks to displace the united states from the middle east. the 3 powers are working together in different ways. i believe, between russia and iran. it's more tactical, especially on russia's part where iran is a useful partner in syria and engaging in operations against the sunni arab allies of the united states. and keeping the united states very much focused on the middle east when it wants to pivot to both asia, and especially now with russia regarding ukraine for china. it's a little bit of a different story. i would say because china actually has very tangible interest in the persian gulf region and the indian ocean. this is a maritime superhighway that connects chinese markets to natural resources not only

in the middle east, but also to africa and to markets in europe. and so china is working with iran, they do have maritime security concerns in the indian ocean. and of course, iran has now entered into a 25 year 400000000000 dollar oil for infrastructure investment arrangement with china. and iran recently just sent proposals to russia to shore up the strategic collaboration on a number of issues for the next 2 decades. so this is going to be a very difficult situation for the united states and our regional partners. because iran really is a hedge, a monic aspirant in the middle east. and it's going to continue to destabilize our allies and supply lines in the middle east and beyond. for years to come. yeah, this has supply chain written all over it. just this past week a u. s. navy f 35, see crash landed on the carrier us as carl vinson before falling into the south

china sea. those are deep waters, so it may take weeks to salvage the plane. michael that lockheed f. 35 c is in the automotive parlance loaded. what if the chinese get a hold of it before we do? well, i don't think they're going to, the united states immediately would surround that. that's that area with all kinds of warships to, to do exactly that to, to protect it. so they can retrieve, it can retrieve it, eventually dependent on how deep it is. and they don't take time. but it's an international waters. and i think that us warships will certainly guard that because of the types of technologies and, and capabilities that, that the chinese, which is love to get their hands on. but they've got a pretty good job on their own, the aircraft, the j 20 and, and, and then derivatives thereof. and i think that, but i don't think the chinese will make

a very active effort together because of that. but to get back to what you were talking about just now with john, we have, we have something here that is, is showing a, a, a potential explosion worldwide. we have the united states up against 3 other countries now. and if, and it's also related to the ukraine, and if this thing a blood blows up in the ukraine, it could have a, a domino effect. and with china, russia and iran as well. and we could potentially have not just a 3 front, but a forefront war hours. it would, it would bring in 11 on once house, below tax israel because of iran. and i think that we, we are somehow, that just seems to be a war. we don't like, and we just got to stop doing this math because you got those 3. those 3 countries right now are all members of the shanghai cooperation organization. and they are

very much involved in economic, political. and they are trying to do power projection. china, especially with russia and iranian systems. yeah. the world's getting to be a smaller place and other than what we cannot find on supermarket shelves lately. much of what's in short supply requires computer chips and it's getting worse. comrey secretary gina romando says we aren't even close to being out of the woods as it relates to the supply problems with semi conductors. in normal times, manufacturers have a 44 o day inventory. now we're down to 5 days with what romando calls, no room for error. john, during world war 2, my dad was an ordinance bombs and bullets back to the future. have computer chips been weaponized? i'm not certain that they've been deliberately weaponized holland. i think it's

important to look back at the last 2 to 3 years of the semiconductor sector on the world stage. we began to see a significant increase in demand for semiconductors, for chips around 2019, especially as many countries are beginning the roll out towards 5 g telecommunications technology and also an increased demand and electric vehicles. and of course, the semiconductors are essential components of almost anything that runs on an electronic system or a computing system today. i think what happened is that with the cobra lockdown around the world in 2020 going into 2021. we had severe disruption, workforces in many important countries, especially in taiwan, but also in china and other asian countries. keep in mind how we, we used to produce most of our own semiconductors, here in the united states that was out sourced over the last 15 to 20 years. asia today, producers about 87 percent of the world's semiconductors and tiwana loan producers

about 60, to 65 percent. but 90 percent of all of the most advanced semiconductors are manufactured in taiwan. so as those economies were disrupted by coded locked downs and china continues to perhaps unwisely maintain a 0 covert policy. i don't know how long that sustainable will continue to have locked down to 2022 and perhaps into next year. we're probably going to see continued disruptions in semiconductor supplies, but with the work from home, a strategy now that's been adopted here in the united states. and in many western european countries, we have an increased surge in demand for semiconductors. that is only exacerbated the supply disruptions that we've already had over the last 2 years. and we're especially seeing this now in the inflation rate for automobiles. the probably accounts the auto industry and all of its attend industries for about one 3rd of the installation hike that we seen in the us and in the west in just the last

several months. we're looking to see what we can do to reassure manufacturing of semiconductors. the senate now has passed a bipartisan bill in june of last year. it ships act to try to put about $52000000000.00 into the economy to help promote semiconductor manufacturing in the u. s, unfortunately the house and build its version several days ago. and it looks to add several $1000000000.00 and climate related policies. republicans claim that it's a green energy slush fund, which means it's going to be very difficult for the senate and the house to reconcile their respective versions of this bill any time before memorial day, which is the scheduled day for passage of the bill. so i think we may find continue disruption of us based manufacturing of chips. well beyond this year. unfortunately, keep an eye on taiwan. north korea is added again, 6 missile tests this month. according to south korea, michael,

take us inside the pentagon. what sort of readiness uptick does this trigger? i got about a minute. yeah, we're going to be watching very closely. i might add even north korea now is beginning to realize that it's shooting off of missiles as having very little impact. and what i'm really concerned now is that north korea could resort to something even more drastic and even more, a more threatening if they don't get there isn't some kind of an arrangement made and, and, and close a cooperation between the us and the, and the north koreans and certainly with the south to rooms and the japanese. so this, all of this is another area that is potentially a hot spot that we have been ignoring recently. but it could easily play in and play off the other crises that i mentioned the little earlier. the up michael maloof johnson, the ladies thank you for stepping into the big picture. appreciate your time and perspective. the situation in ukraine makes strange bedfellows sober on fox news.

young tucker carlson has irked viewers by rationalizing rushes border build up saying vladimir putin does not want belgium. he just wants to keep his western boarders secure. that's why he doesn't want ukraine to join nato and carlson says that makes sense until otherwise potent points out that his military remains in his country and it is others arming up just miles away. and we felt the same way during the kennedy khrushchev stared down over soviet missiles in cuba. just a year earlier, our president offered a warning. we should all heed. now. every man, woman, and child, lives under a nuclear sword of damocles hanging by the slender list of threads capable of being cut at any moment. by accident, or miscalculation or by madness. the weapons of war must be abolished

before they abolish us. common up while we argue about teaching our children, the history of slavery, modern day human trafficking is up and the pandemic is contributing. an supply chain is impacted after this break. you will meet a survivor, and i'm going to show you something that i want you to show your family and friends at something you can do with your bare hands. and it could literally save your life . this is the big picture on our t america. ah ah

l look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such order does that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about personal intelligence at the point obviously is to race truck rather than fear i would like to take on various char, i mean with artificial intelligence, real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with now, you know, you need to see, is this fear in your fast you're far enough and, and the other side of it came from and you're back home. so, i would like to envision that the, also the universe, if you live in,

is just like that, your one direction. you're going to and from the other side, is the earth still large enough to satisfy the ambitions of jeff bezos? you know, it's got its tentacles in so many aspects of the economy. there's nothing that amazon is. i'm trying to get into the step by step, the amazon empire has extended its group on the world that walks by conduct inquired why conduct gets it. so amazon looks like monopoly trades like a monopoly makes money like monopoly behaves like monopoly. amazon essentially controls the market place. it's not really a market as a private arena, a world where a single company controls the distribution of all day, the products and the infrastructure of our economy. is this the world according to amazon? ah, ah,

january is national hot tea month, national oatmeal, month and national sunday supper month. but comfort food is foreign to some 25000000. mostly young women and january is also national slavery and human trafficking prevention month. john harvey reports the ongoing pandemic is only making the threat of human trafficking worse worldwide. criminals are adjusting their business models to the new normal created by the pandemic, especially through the abuse of modern communications technologies. most importantly, the pandemic has exacerbated and brought to the forefront the systemic and deeply entrenched economic and societal inequalities that are among the root causes of human trafficking. of the estimated 25000000 people worldwide bank trafficked 65

percent are being forced to do domestic work, construction work, agricultural work, or manufacturing work. last year alone, we seized nearly $1500.00 shipments of merchandise made using forced labor, including things like clothes, and like tonics, the value, nearly $500000000.00. to be sure, the economic impact of forced labor is significant and it undermines our own supply chain. displacing american workers driving down american wages and creating an unlevel playing field for responsible american businesses, president biden signed the national action plan to combat human trafficking. back in december, it's a 3 year plan to fight human trafficking nationwide, by among other things, increasing the prosecution of traffickers, enhancing victim protections, and also preventing the crime from happening, both within us orders and abroad. for our t, john, honey, sexual abuse,

drug addiction, rape, prison, and domestic violence. our 1st guest experienced it. all right here on the streets of washington, d. c. and again in new york city, most of it before her 16th birthday. she's the author of nobody's girl, a memoir of lost innocence, modern day slavery and transformation on audible or in paperback and kindle on amazon, and the forthcoming life lessons from the street. a girls guide the survival and you can find her powerful ted talk on youtube. she hear sirens in the background and she knows what that means means run the police come and they chain them altogether and take them down to the police station. and she's kind of worried because she's addicted to heroin and she knows she can't spend that many minutes in the police station. so she breaks the programming that the trafficker has drilled into her head and she says, i'm barbara a maya. i'm not 21. i'm 15 years old and i'm from fairfax,

virginia. please help me. please find my family. i just want to go back home. and they do. they say we found your family, they're coming to pick you up. they take me to the room where my parents are going to be waiting. i opened the door and i step inside. and it's my trafficker in the room, not my parents. just chilling barbara maya is a rare survivor now, a leader in the movement to end human trafficking and violence against women. barbara, welcome. thank you. it's just an honor to be here. thank you very much. tell us why you ran away from the life you left at home as a girl in virginia. well, you know, i ran away from home from my fairfax virginia home. because i was experiencing things there that really no child ever should. and sadly meaning children are today

. i was experiencing brutal sexual abuse of course, mental abuse. went along with that, but the sexual abuse. i ran away. i started running away more and more and i was running to find things that i didn't even know i needed. you know, i was a verbal child. every child needs things, they need shelter, they need food, they need love, they need attention, positive mentoring, you know, and all of those things and, and i was running away from what i was experiencing in that home and the foster care system that i was put into as well, but you know, i was running away to find things to that. i, you know, again, didn't know i needed, and i just kept running away from every place i was put into every foster home, every facility,

every group home i kept reading away and sounds tom well, tell us what happened next. was there a gallon maxwell character that found you? yes, very much fitting that persona in stereotype. the person that found me in a park in our nation's capital. i was sitting in a park. i'd run away once again. and a young woman approached me and she began chatting with me and she was very kind and i was very vulnerable. and i followed her back to her apartment where her boyfriend trafficker was waiting. she handed me over to him and they began grooming me for purposes prostitution and i again was a child in i probably, i was so needy and marble at that point in my life, i probably would have done whatever they wanted me to do. you know, this grooming term is something we're hearing a lot. in the maxwell case,

the polaris project found a 125 percent increase in recruitment via facebook and a 95 percent increase on instagram and many our traffic by a family member or a significant other. barbara, you have lived and survived the real life story. we saw it depicted in the movie taken. what is the most common misconception about human trafficking? i think i can, i can talk about 2 things real quick here. one of them is that, um, why i always get asked, why didn't you just leave? why, why did she leave? why, why is the, how's that possible? you know, the brutal exploitation, the very violent exploitation and manipulation expert, i don't want to give traffickers any positive attributes. but at expert manipulation of my young line brought about the trauma on formation. you know, i began to bond with this traffic here, and i really couldn't leave. i didn't even realize i was

a victim. right. and also i wanted to speak real quick about choice. i think people often think if they see a young person in this i don't want to say lifestyle being traffic, whatever you see some young person on the street or somewhere online, that's their choice. and it's not a choice at all. that's a word that needs to be looked at really in more depth, in my opinion. um which think people have a lot of misconceptions. we're speaking with barbara maya, whose website is her name? a barbara. i've got about a minute, but i need you to talk to girls who are watching and listening to this as a podcast. if you feel like running away, do what don't stop. please don't act on that impulse. i know you're very impulsive right now. you're experiencing maybe some horrific things. do not run away. try to speak to someone if,

if you don't have someone positive tearing, trusting in your life, you can speak to try to find someone in your school. someone in your church try to find an adult that you can talk to. you don't have to talk about on your key issues right away. but just fight that impulse to run away. because i just want to say there's some very bad people out there out there. i'm referring to online as obviously as well. i don't run away. yeah, that internet can be a swamp. barbara a my a thank you for sharing your story, which is powerful and poignant. and i again, would recommend your ted talk. it's easy to find on you tube. take care. thank you. bye bye. i wanna show you how to do something that could literally save your life, and i want you to show this to your family and friends. so please share this video

. i took this picture on my flight to washington. this is a sign on the inside of the lavatory door in english and spanish. it says, if you are being forced to travel against your will, help is available. as you can see, there's a hotline phone number or you can text to be free or it says, notify a flight attendant. that could be tricky if you're unable to say anything aloud under the circumstances, but you can alert the flight attendant without speaking a word and i'm about to show you the signal that recently helped felice rescue a 16 year old girl who had gone missing in north carolina, 2 days later in kentucky, a passing motorist saw this signal and called 911. and with the uptick in domestic violence during the pandemic shut down, this drama to zation, you're about to see is important. can you share that that undergrad recipe?

oh sure, it's actually my mom, banana beg recipe, but it's pretty full proof. super easy. well, i appreciated. i know you're rama's agree, baker. so i should be good by this signal created by the canadian womens foundation has been all over social media. and that guy, that car stopped at kentucky, he's charged with unlawful imprisonment. the sheriff's office said he had pornographic images of a child on his phone, so he will also face charges for that. here it is again, do this with me now and show this to people you love and thank you for watching the big picture. we're

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