This is. It. This is i. Welcome everybody to watch i havent allowed in writing and that is that it could a. Tyrant and. My goodness the kids have gone crazy we need to blast them with sound energy now. But i think the un had a thing about the movie theyre bad for people. I believe. Looking at these numbers so its produced by the vancouver based moving sound technologies and its this little the as you were talking about the machine called the mosquito and it emits this what they call violently just comforting sound that is in a range of 17 and a half to 18 and a half killer hertz which is supposedly older people because we have apparently listen to too much rock music too loudly in our ears we cant hear this because of damage but Anyone Around you know in and around 25 years of age can still hear this and its right because the sound is then supposed to be so bad that it would disperse young people a 130 feet around but causes no damage to their ears or anybody else a few odd to you. John you know whats really if this is true its like adults can hear this and then what happens to like lets say a mother whos like pushing her toddler through a park and this things on and you know the toddler goes nuts and she cant even hear it so she has no idea. Why why her child. Is being attacked by this sound and i mean this is absolutely nuts that we would actually do this in this kind of like lets say harm or discomfort on kids for hanging out in a park after 10 pm Goodness Gracious because kids are also the. Graffiti or have crimes its only teenagers as weve learned from movies like longer games and Battle Royale he majors are the enemy teenagers in russia its pretty much a. Apparently apparently and in cities across the country and but you know its an old story parents are always afraid of the young why because the young will eventually become them and then the old people eventually die right but. Right philadelphia councilman helen geny. Mentioned earlier she described the devices literally the College Women sonic weapons and told the morning edition in philadelphia in a city that is trying to address gun violence and safe spaces for young people how dare we come up with ideas that are funded by taxpayer dollars to turn young people away from the very places that were created for them. Brings up on the credibly great point to ask what message are we sending our youth what its like hey if you hang out in the park after 10 were going to blast you with a sound weapon for being there right and what does it say to you know obviously they have not thought about those teenagers who may live in and around the park that could still be affected by these sounds theyre not thinking about teens who are homeless who may be homeless or to you know anything from Domestic Violence to drug abuse at home they cant even go to a park at night to feel safe because they would have this 17 year old west philly resident lamar reed actually told one of the papers that while they must really hate teenagers it does feel a little discriminatory against teenagers and makes us feel like animals so back in 2010 interesting enough the council of europe a human rights Monitoring Organization that oversees all of the European Court of human rights declared the mosquito this exact device violated International Law and they banned it because they considered a humane and degrading treatment. So maybe well have it here. We all know because we all were teenagers we all know the teenagers are borderline sociopaths we get it sure has. But i guess you know what ted i guess we shouldnt be surprised because when we have 2 governor when we when were dealing with the u. S. Government the bills fine with putting families in cages along the border i guess you know hey whats with shooting a sonic sound weapon at kids after dark i guess thats ok in the new United States that we live in today of course i mean thats the strange thing is that you know were always sort of its always us like were trying to keep graffiti away were trying to you know lower gun violence and all they can think of to get rid of violence is more weapons more violent things i dont know i think its i think its a little silly we got a clip of 30 seconds left what do you know any last thoughts or. Well you know i just i just think that we need to really i mean its kind of goofy and its funny but lets remember at the end of the day these are kids that were doing this to and were saying were sorry as a government as a City Government were saying sorry kids rather than ask your parents to be good parents and keep in the house after 10 or no where you are no were going to unleash weapons on you and make you uncomfortable and discomforted because hey we can you know that thats the message this is sending and i think its a very dangerous precedent at the end of the day that were willing to fire sonic weapons at our children just because theyre out after dark when really parents should be parenting we should allow the government to do anything like this to us in the 1st place youre absolutely right thank you so much for joining me today from minnesota cant wait to have you back here in the studio tyrrel ventura coast watching. You. Weapons seem to be one of the only Recession Proof Industries these days multibillion dollar arms deals around the world are in the works this week sparking fears that could signal increased tensions between world powers like china russia and the United States its also putting strain on those the u. S. Considers allies has control of the arms industry slips away from the good ole usa our team error to americas Rachel Blevins has the story. China has sharply criticized a proposed 2200000000. 00 deal between the u. S. And taiwan and has called for it to be cancelled immediately beijing has also claimed that it sees this deal as a direct National Security threat from the u. S. Now the location here is notable because taiwan is a small island nation around 1300 miles off the coast of china but china considers taiwan to be one of its territorys the controversy over whether taiwan is part of china has been ongoing following the countrys split into the peoples republic of china in 1949 while the us recognizes taiwan as an independent nation china still claims ownership and it is now claiming the us is intentionally interfering by proposing the latest arms deal with taiwan the United States is the main arms supplier to child one and it has a history of working with the island nation but in terms of arms cells with the u. S. Taiwan falls behind countries like saudi arabia australia the u. A. E. And south korea meanwhile the United States issued its own warning to India Following news that the country plans to purchase russias s 400 air Defense System and it is arguing that india moves forward with the deal it could have serious consequences but instead of backing down the latest reports claim russia is offering india even more Cutting Edge Technology which includes advanced submarines and the latest generation of fighter jets that would be produced locally in india as part of the deal the u. S. Has previously offered to sell india weaponized drones and there is speculation that the u. S. Could offer access to its latest generation of fighter jets if india refrained from working with russia now russia has announced that it is now in the process of delivering its us 400 air Defense System to charge this has occurred despite continued protests from the u. S. Claiming there russias system poses a direct risk to nato as a Department Official was quoted as saying we underscore that turkey will face very real and negative consequences if it completes its 400. 00 delivery now its not clear exactly what those consequences will be but it could have a major impact if the u. S. Decides to retaliate against its nato ally and washington Rachel Blevins art. As we go to break watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics weve covered on facebook you tube the twitter and make sure to check out watching the hawks the podcast now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you list the podcasts they are all shows that are coming up are the new sanctions on cuba any different than a blockade of the past and a new test for cancer shows how stay tuned it was. During the Great Depression which we must remember that it was most. People there wasnt it was bad you know much worse. But there was an expectation that things were going to get better. Because your real sense of. Reason to do these america where shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. Reduce democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to know on. One set of rules for the rich opposite. Thats what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as youd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. And youre trying to be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put in the comma compartments in the eyes its new bright and so you can forget about it but little by little these. These little respects come and for me it was actually putting some ice into my wifes glass of gin and tonic and the saw it and the sound i screamed to the glass reminded me of how we had all these cool in bali which was with bags of supermarkets on its. Why so when you hear the word diversity its at the expense of unity then there is inclusion but only inclusion when you agree with a certain political body and world view and of course we can forget about identity politics if you disagree then youre called a dog whistle i did to get here. Until or thing. This year the u. S. Department of foreign assets control announced the elimination of group of people to People Educational travel to cuba by u. S. Citizens in addition they ended license x. Exceptions for passenger via the soles such as cruise ships this was all of course a reactionary measure to the failed coup in venezuela which is being blamed in part on cuban involvement according to the Us Department of foreign assets control these actions those putting on more sanctions will help to keep u. S. Dollars out of the hands of cuban military intelligence and Security Services the hope by interventionist hawks like u. S. National security advisor john bolton was that by crippling cubas tourist industry they would force yet another coup in the island nation which despite u. S. Government media is best efforts to paint cuba as a broken Economic Disaster and its people as begging the us for freedom from socialism it isnt quite that simple or accurate in june of this year the director of Foreign Investments for the Cuban Foreign trade ministry deborah rivest of address told the Washington Post that the u. S. Wants to attack the cuban government and destroy the revolution and make socialism fall but the one being affected are those Business People that the United States supposedly wants to see benefit so its cuba failing or we only getting half the picture joining me now today to discuss sanctions in their real world effect are 2 people who have recently traveled to cuba has spoken to actual cubans and are here to help us learn more watching the social media producer Devin Springer and Co Coordinator for the black alliance for peace not to friedman thank you both for joining me today thank you for having me. So last week we had all of these you know theyve added cuba state run oil company the key boil union to the sanctions left trying to sort of drive this wedge between venezuela and cuba because according to them you know the cuban military is so brilliant theyve outsmarted all of us way and all of the u. S. Military. Let me ask you rob what that meant you were just in cuba how can you sleep kind of the restrictions of travel and how that works yes so i was there for about 2 weeks as a trip as ive made many over the years and what this new is things specifically 1st on their oil company does is theyre attempting to stop venezuela from sending oil to cuba flat out this is an attempt to make the island a dark island cut off from the rest of the world by you know oil is what you need to run a country essentially nowadays right on top of that theyre as you said trying to drive a wedge between venezuela and cuba you know the 2 countries have a longstanding material solidarity where they have doctors medicine internet infrastructure back and forth so this is another sort of longer in that long list of actions there and its coupled with the things in the restrictions on travel to theres new restrictions on travel that you mentioned a little bit essential a group of people to people travel is the way that most people went to cuba to engage in torture is im under the guise of it being people to people which is a sort of relatively vague term right so by ending that 1st and foremost it puts out the perception american citizens that they cant go to cuba and then for people who do a little bit more research they say oh i still can go to cuba its just a lot more difficult now so its it stops an immediate cash flow into the Tourism Industry and sector which is really a huge part of the cuban economy and thats just to understand its us had a sense traveling there so if someone has you know has said its been shipped in one country obviously if youre not a u. S. Citizen and canadians are still traveling there theres a Chinese Market of people who are traveling there and thats nothing new thats always that yes so what nestle will probably tell you as well as you know its americans who pretend they dont know anything about cuba and all the rest of the world travels there on holiday on vacations during the summer. And so this is an. More so its a rollback of just a few years of easing of tensions and so theyre trying to sort of make us not know anything about the island again because if they do you keep people from going out and they dont know the true. What is there how are you how are cubans how to commence react to that. New sanctions and these things keep going on it seems that they sort of be used to it by now yeah i mean i think the sanctions and also what we refer to as the multifaceted and protracted war against a country is 60 years old and so most of the the cubans have had to withstand this for a long time so it actually only fortifies their resolve theyve gone through at the end of the eightys into the ninetys what they call referred to as a special period because of the dissolute the dissolving of the soviet union and the tightening of the blockade under the helms burton act and torricelli act and so theyve gone through hardships and also the cubans are very politically most people around the world are very politically astute and understand what it really means to capitulate things they wont get better just because you give in to the United States. Designs for head to money but nothing came up an interesting talking to you when you came back and just looking into the story is this idea that there seems to still be this idea that they dont have social media that there is no fighting back this idea that we have to go in there and save their democracy and their freedom that they dont have social media or social media campaigns and they dont have the internet that they dont have these things and that they dont communicate to their government and it doesnt affect any change is that true this is on its face falls right youll youll hear you often hear stories that i wrote a headline earlier today that compare the cuban government to the Chinese Government censoring internet in both cases while in a layer of propaganda the truth is they have internet they have 3 g. They even have for doing a lot of areas there on social media just this past month there was a sort of campaign along. So you engage in dialogue with local government authorities about getting faster speeds rather than having direct communication with their local elected officials and authorities are campaigning for change and theyre getting either going to communication and getting more than we get here or do you think that if i misread it at your local congressman that you would get a response and i dont think i would. Probably not. So the changes to these policies a lot of these policies were changed when there was that. Tax on it attack that turned out to be one of 2 things either cricket or the u. S. Where interacting with other electronics there been no proof of the sonic in fact it was sort of used as a precursor of saying oh theyre going after our people and closing these embassies how does that affect travel both for us citizens coming in but more importantly for cuban citizens trying to travel out how does. Was made it very difficult in fact a lot of the cubans trying to go to come here they have to go through a 3rd country and it also encourages extra costs for them to do so to get a visa to a 3rd country to come here and then also has to be approved by somebody in the United States and so theyre very a lot of scrutiny in order to be able to come into the United States for things that are really innocent reasons and also which affect people here we have to realize that we live in the world depends on cooperation and global in the interaction and so while the powers that be may benefit from some sort of controlling of the country particularly in this case being cuba we dont benefit we dont get