That since january 1st 2020 the United States government through the pentagons 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. 00 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 Obamas 8 years in office. Yes my friends it appears that while the world has been targeting colbert 19 the u. S. Government has decided to target small humans i 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 u. N. Leader called for a global ceasefire the United States military was dropping bombs on somalia. Wonder what our priorities are lets find out as we start watching all this. In a city. Theres. This you always see a. Great city this least systemic deception is so much. So that you. Welcome everyone 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 to me because when they remain married we will always have but im going to try to disarm a whole populations of people particularly those that we pull for good good point very good point its crazy i mean last year under President Donald Trump the u. S. Conducted 63. 00 air attacks in somalia that was the most ever in a single year since the beginning of the year africa. 39 airstrikes in somalia the command announced total 36 such attacks from 2017 i mean thats saying they were seeing these numbers rise like that i mean in 2016 it peaked in her bottle with just 19 i dont know why were dropping bombs on somalia in the 1st place like no ones quite you know alshabaab terrorist whatever but this seems excessive at this point i 6 was going to be my question what is the reasoning i dont know what the reasoning was under the Obama Administration either but the reason for the uptick with all the other all the areas that were 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 im sure you are in luck because the pentagon has some really wonderful answers for you are you ready for this ok here we go. The april 3rd strike the just recently happened. In somalia u. S. Marine corps Brigadier General brad verjee gehring of africa and he did these the Deputy Director of operations so he might have some answers he says quote its our commanders responsibility to support our partners so this terrorist Group Alshabaab can expand and strike the u. S. Homeland as its leaders desire to do. Ok but i mean basically this falls into the same thing of like the u. S. As you know that their air strikes are assisting the government of somalia in order to you know with its war against the non star state armed Group Alshabaab the terrorist group to increase the security to smaller people in the you know to keep them from you know 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 were very good at killing civilians you know extent that we measured i mean its really it really blows my mind because to me its like its the standard tired excuse to use all the time its we have to attack these terrorists over here because they might come back here and her 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. Or the u. S. Government knowing that these casualties a knowledge of war and continue to happen on a regular basis thats a really good point its you cant build trust when youre 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 dont actually talk to families they dont 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 theres a will theres a way and where there is a big business the little man will always come up short at least thats what were 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 at the Buckeye State reopen that if the economy leaders fears thumble refuse to work or quit due to the threat of coronavirus so be clear workers should be afraid considering mitigation efforts are minimal and the 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 quit or used 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 its 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 states notice to employers saying individuals cannot with eve Unemployment Benefits if they can work but refuse or quit without good cause 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 thing will us state has met the key criteria to open safely what would you do if youre 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 had in the may and june when everyone talking about lifting all the state of homeowners and Everybody Needs to go back to work and to me with this sounds like its basically you better go back to work you know were putting a gun to your head you have to go back to work and thats essentially what it they might as well it said it because these people have families they have other folks that theyre taking care of they many of them dont 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 theyre trying to get their economies opened back up theyre 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 dont want to pay them Unemployment Benefits thats what really gets me with this its like you could you cant have it both ways you cant 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 were not going to take care of you at all if indeed you do get sick from going back to work or if you choose to stay home and keep yourself and your family safe potentially because thats what you believe in thats what medical science is telling you but were still not going to help you and thats the wrong choice and how dare you say no its absolutely ridiculous so unemployment claims are to pick. Subject to review you already know this. But the review does it typically state the types of things were 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 and secretly theyre doing a lot of these businesses are because if too many people claim unemployment they can not claim the Small BusinessSmall Business funding from the federal government so they need people on the job but its so twisted because its like when you think about this its its. Its that thing of like we just dont want to give anybody any kind of break we dont 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 theyll just stay at home and they wont want to work at all or you know theyll make more money for employment than they will of their jobs well guess what thats not the governments fault thats not the jobs fault if the jobs cant pay their workers a livable wage and they can get it from unemployment even if they really care but i mean if the you know if they can thats 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 thats the mail its like but yet we have this twisted backwards thinking that somehow will no business is ever a fault for mistreating workers you know good businesses are never you know you can put a gun to their make and come to work in a time when they shouldnt and pay them garbage wages but oh god we never should help the worker we only should bail out the business the other issues that were learning more and more about coronavirus every day about how it passes about the people that are more susceptible about now you know the latest news about Young Children and how its affecting them there are a lot of reasons why people are set to have some very serious precautions particularly the communities that are affected the most right now were seeing that be the africanamerican and Latino Community what we know about. 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 theyre not showing any symptoms to a grandmother to an aunt to an uncle whoever else is in that household you mention john hopkins and put out the you know criteria you know that state should look at before they open a business what are those criteria do we know. Absolutely so one of the criteria is that for 2 consecutive weeks you had to have coronavirus cases and 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 isnt their beds are going to be too specifically and rule areas. And 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 were 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 thats what were most afraid of it is not you know 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 tailless rated 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 got to sit and bail out every business except for the american actual the American Worker the American People thats the saddest part about this entire problem all right everybody good report thank you for her but as we go to break remember that you can also start watching dogs on demand through the brand new portable t. V. Which is available on a smart google play on the Apple App Store by searching poor. 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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 cops version of the bay of pigs in fact according to the Washington Post a mysterious Strategic Committee run by juan jose rove and only a political advisor to one why go in volved in these efforts actually compiled a dossier on the failed bay of pigs attempt to liberate cuba from the government to put out castro to which journalist Charles Pierce and 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 be asco 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 am well we here are those broad thinkers lets break down those latest attempt to remove the democratically elected leader of venezuela from office and install mr corporate democracy itself one guy joe as we are joined by author and human rights attorney dan koval like an author and professor of latin American History from Pomona College we go to go solace thank you both for joining me today. Thank you so theres an incredible amount packed with this story and not a lot. Lets start with the basics ben as of this broadcast who do we know were the players involved in this botched operation beyond just the 2 captured us mercenaries. So in addition to them yet have the. Founder of silver corp usa. Jordan do drone who seems to be the mastermind of this fiasco. He founded this mercenary organization 2 years ago and their International Organisation its been involved in for example the 0 elections in 2018 which resulted in the election of balsam there oh and also the. They were involved with richard branson. A 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. Usa signed a contract with a long way to carry out this operation with the objective 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. Thing just keeps getting deeper than this next one is for you miguel the United States secretary of state might come pale in the u. S. President donald trump have both distanced themselves from this operation with pump ale in that equally 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 op. I think the key word there is direct involvement what i perspective my perspective is that the us knew about the program and knew us greenlighted it if it succeeded fantastic we were able to remove motherhood 0 and it we did it with a very cheap operation we lowball the contract and we were able to give it a mother 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 28 and 2020. In his own program the Vice President the former Vice President and 2nd in command in venezuela 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 didnt 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 u. S. Established the context with increasing the sanctions against venezuela during a pandemic attempting to put a price on mother was 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 worsen conditions for venezuelans on the ground it truly has really wretched when you think about it in that context to see that were still trying to do these kind of operations especially during a worldwide pandemic emergency youd think ok lets put all these things aside im curious dan about this Company Silver corps out of florida you know you had mentioned it earlier today and got into that you know would be inside of my u. S. Green beret john grew dro im also. What are is its ties to the trumpet ministration i mean i know you mention the work security back concert but is way way or whatever was it happened a while back but what are its ties the trumpet ministration and one weibo. The connections with a very strong theres a contract thats been released in publicized by the Washington Post which shows. Super 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 its very clear that the money. 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 i met with 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 fishermen on the shore confronted them and called the venezuelan the warnings to put down the coup the reason they failed is because. And the United States has no Popular Support in venezuela certainly dont. Miguel 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 list approach that they staged a coup in april of 2019 in which they attempted to have a good look out of wrote a military base in caucus rebel they didnt happen we know that theyve opted to withdraw themselves from the internal political process hoping that the us 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 us 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 theyve 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 its incredible how far that rabbit hole goes i want to thank you professor so especially so much for coming on pleasure having you both on thank you. Art of what hes about as our show for you today were memorable in this world we were not told but we loved him up so i tell you all i love you i am tyrone for the enemy to keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and im. Yes ding dong the witch is dead for about that the extortionist private equity nutjob. Recorded Game Changing of record breaking losses as Berkshire Hathaway is all the company goes belly up. Something like this is taken to mean the holocaust coming up will take arms. To try to defeat. To relieve the loose. This is an acoustic this long the city street scene leads to good. Should businesses be protected from coronavirus related lawsuits thats the direction in which the g. O. P. Is leading former republican congressman Bill Mccollum is here with his take on this controversial issue on this edition of. Welcome the politicking im larry king should businesses be protected from coronavirus related lawsuits Republican Leaders have said any future economic aid package will pass or fail on this issue well start the conversation with former republican congressman Bill Mccollum of florida he also served as the attorney general of that state and he joins us from florida all right bill should businesses be protected from future lawsuits. Well i think most of them should be there even because the fact is that we are trying to cover our movie trying to come out of a severe Economic Situation in which Small Businesses particularly are vulnerable already and i have litigation going on about connections to the virus itself particularly those that may be charged with some aspect of the of the actual disease or some precipitation or aggravation of it strikes me that that thats wrong the same things true the doctors the hospitals and all the care givers them out there giving care its not easy in normal times youd never do that but in this situation i think its absolutely essential which you put the lawyer in a dim of those spot what about those maybe few who do do wrong where people who are obsequious have done wrong in the sense of simple negligence so maybe the standard shouldnt be a total prohibition but it ought to be some willful negligence or some something of a higher standard than what we call simple negligence which means that a person does something that a reasonable person might not and thats actually a very low standard but its the standard in the civil court of law today for most things so if you raise the standard then maybe you dont have to actually prevent the lawsuit you just simply restrict it to those really bad that violations that were somebodies grossly negligent or willfully d negligent move to other areas trump on opening up the economy said will people be affected yes will some people be affected badly yes but we have to get our country open art is that putting economics over health actually i think theyre both go together in this case the real reason we went to the shutdown and most of the places around the country