Venezuela this time using former us soldiers toward 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 valleys plans for potential Contact Tracing but its 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 its the very under reported fact 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 form. And after calm 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 Us Government has decided to target small ians remember back in early april when the United Nations secretary general and tony will get better stick laird 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. There so. See this is this you always see a. Great city this least systemic deception is so much. So youll. Welcome everyone watching the i robot 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 me because when they remain 3rd we will always have but im going to try to disarm a whole population 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 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 mounts total 36. 00 such attacks from 2. 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 al shabaab terrorist whatever but this seems excessive at this point that 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 all the other all the areas that we are 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 that 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 i mean basically this falls into 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 its war against the state or Group Alshabaab the terrorist group to increase the security 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 were very good at killing civilians and extent that we measure. 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 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 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 or into new 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 if the Buckeye State reopens its its economy leaders fear 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 who quit or used to work due to cope in 1000 this internal play would prevent workers from being eligible for Unemployment Benefits kevin beary president of united fruit 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 an established policies and procedures to protect 30000 members. The stickler though also lies in the wording of the states notice to employers saying individuals can not receive 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 ohios prisons with more than 37000 inmates testing positive and a senior scholar 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 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 years 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 its basically you better go back to work or 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 set 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 low income workers already so if they do get sick. Lord help them in terms of being able to find proper care and 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 but. Well 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 oh but 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 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 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 secretly theyre 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 its so twisted because its like when you think about this that 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 siders force thats 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 it but you know if they can thats the businesses fault at the end of the day exactly you should not be punishing the worker but. As you are paying them slave wages that is not the workers fault exactly. But yet we have this twisted backwards thinking that somehow no business is ever at 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 issue is 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 who 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 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 theyre not showing any symptoms to a grandmother to an aunt to an uncle whoever else is in that household you mentioned john hopkins and put up those you know criteria to do you know what 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 reduction in 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 their Health Care 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 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 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 theyre radek ation 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 oh my god if the economy shuts down for 2 months were going 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 her head everybody as we go to break remember that you can also start watching all this on demand through the brand new portable t. V. App which is available on smartphones or google play on the Apple App Store by searching portable t. V. Or you can stream us to your t. V. You dont have cable by ballot loading the portable t. V. Up on the apple t. V. Or online affordable. This will be available for devices coming soon keep up with that coming up its time to look into the recently had botched coup attempt in venezuela by one weibo and the merry band of american mercenaries you do not want to miss this tape to watch it all. You cant be both with the yeah you like. During the. U. S. Forces. There in the us it was a secret war. And for years the American People did not know. How much hes officially the. Country per capita. Human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this Small Agricultural country so i mean we dont know whats happening. Even today kids allows full victims of bombs dropped decades ago this is the u. S. Making amends for that tragedy in laos built to the people need in that little. 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 are pretty new level of bubbling 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 at 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. But 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 in the venezuela is best left to broader thinkers than i am well we here are those broad thinkers lets 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 ben koval of m the 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 to unpack with this story and not a lot of time before its lets 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 be mastermind of this fiasco. He founded this mercenary organization 2 years ago and with that notion of organization its 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 this. Charity event on the colombia venezuela border about a year ago in addition to him. There were colombian paramilitary forces. Otherwise known its debts flights and some. Folks who had left the Venezuelan Military and what we know is that sober for usa signed a contract with a long while. To carry out this operation would be objective being to kidnap president Nicolas Maduro and bring him to the United States most likely to try to team 1000000. 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 and benteke lee 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 involvement 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 if we did it with a very cheap operation we lowball the contract and we were able to give it 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 complete 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 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. Im going to put a price on mother had attempting at the same time with Elliott Abrams and pompei d o to increase the tension on venezuela even when there is a call within the country for negotiations by both sides to try to deal with a pandemic they upped it for regime change in the middle of a crisis that worsened conditions for venezuelans on the ground it truly is really wretched wouldnt 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 car out of florida you know you had mentioned it earlier today and got into that you know whether its headed by u. S. Green beret john grew dro im also curious what are is its ties to the trumpet ministration i mean i know you mentioned that your work security back concert at the was about as whale 8 or whatever was it happened a while back but what are its ties to the trumpet ministration and one weibo. Well again the connections with like you know a very strong theres a contract thats been released in publicized by the Washington Post which. Silvercorp us a sign an agreement. To carry out this operation in return for cash that cash would have come by the way from the United States to i know from money to the u. S. For those and then c. D. s from the venezuelan government they have now given millions of dollars of that did why do so 1st of all its very clear that the money all of 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 someone report that in fact you do have a map with dollars from the white house not too long ago if i if i could mention one other fact you know the one the one thing the media has not. Not talked him out because he would help stop this kid it was ordinary fishermen who helped intercept these people to beat anyone 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 who are married people fisherman on the shore confront them and call and then when according to put down the coup the reason they fail is because why you know and the United States and no Popular Support in venezuela certainly dont. Emma galpin 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 a list approach that they staged a coup in april of 2019 in which they attempted to have a good look out of both a military base and caucus rebel it didnt happen we know that theyve opted to withdraw themselves from the internal political process hoping that the u. S. Would support them that the group of limit would support them that colombia would support them in other words i have little faith in the democrats in the venezuelan people going to and 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 theyve approached this and that their continued support for an insurrection alist policy that is the house model but 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 so. Person by the way hold the hold out and on who ran the campaign for a leaving 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 figure 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 and professor silas like you so much for coming on pleasure having you both on thank you. Already bad as our show for you today were memorable in this world we are not told but we are loving up so i tell you all love you i am tired rovers are the enemy keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night. We go to work so you straight home. Act. Already know how to recruit some good you have on Little People where you can keep bar you member i think that at least we could probably pull him to treat earth week and i was ready to beach. Business if a muslim resident. Know what i mean you knew sus the year and you. Will see ask yourself how are you going to survive how are you going to protect yourself a little to feel cools off your folk live you up with the flu then the of local one and 2 and it will look at what a futile thing to do when the clerk was little or a lot older missiles will know it is a pirate ship. Because it is worse it is going to say but i wont worry about it will you please. Is wrong is using technology where theyve been able to me x. Use peoples private information on the cell phones and see what youve seen if you have crossed thoughts with somebody who is positive want to run a virus and if you are if you had a need he seen your message because ponces somebody has tested positive ps you must be in our n. T. But i think that morsi interesting thing is that us all ok polar or. In the same situation. 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