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Weeks of this pandemic is. Revealing yes revealing you see because its in times of great stress obstacles and fear that often show us who we really are especially who are chosen leaders really are like us congressman richard burr who in his position of Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman heard the news of the impending pandemic before the rest of us and chose to save his own ass sets while selling our physical and financial safety up the river or what about the United States department of justice who instead of seeking to help protect all of us is instead taking a page out of the bush administrations post 911. 00 playbook and is looking to decimate our legal and Constitutional Rights under cover of National Catastrophe politico is now reporting that according to recently uncovered documents submitted by the d. O. J. To congress that the Justice Department has proposed that Congress Grant the attorney general power to ask the chief judge of any District Court to pause Court Proceedings whenever the District Court is fully or partially closed by virtue of any Natural Disaster civil disobedience or other emergency situation. As norman l. Reimer executive director of the National Association of criminal defense lawyers correctly notes that means you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decide that the emergency or the civil disobedience is in fact over and that decision my friends may never come as weve learned from the u. S. Congress is continued obedience to reauthorizing the pay authorizing the patriot act and the National Defense authorization act oh read over and over again despite the emergencies that spy on them being long finished and over. So as this interNational Catastrophe continues to reveal the good from the bad and the ugly i think its a good time to start watching the whole. You want to. See this joyce. Graves see this least systemic deceptions show. You. Welcome everybody to watch your hearts i. And i when the. Well well well theres a lot of bad guys theres a lot of ugly but theres some good going on in the last few weeks. A little if we can dig deep enough to find it obviously as you know the coronavirus has everybody up in arms and were seeing a lot of back and forth between Congress Members on both sides of the aisle the poor get left out obviously and so do those apparently would be the to think. This is just a 6 push and pull right now its an Election Year and were just were kind of caught in the mix really is and thats when you see these stories come like blazing through and you know those of us who lived through you know what were in our twentys at least to know you know gone through the 911 experience where all of sudden you had the patriot act and the National Defense authorization act you are overweight whats going on because usually during these crisis thats when people try to push through the most like constitutionally damaging stuff that they want to do for a while because ironically those are the times where fewer people are watching because of what everyones off 911. 00 particularly with the patriot act and how much of that mitt towards taking American Security away and privacy now people are a lot more attentive so youre not going to be able to push things through as much under the current if you were able to do with 911 were watching one more Advocacy Group speak out against this right now youre seeing people that are basically thing you should be worried of. Trying to make sure we have enough hospital beds enough math we shouldnt be trying to roll back more rights for people we shouldnt be trying to take away what it means to be an american citizen no we shouldnt be i mean just to give you an idea of some of the things that theyre trying to form in the d. O. J. Also asked congress not only about the kind of like well you know let us kind of indefinitely hold people without charging them but as long as the emergency takes place which could be forever and the barman also asked congress to pause the statue of limitations for criminal investigations and civil proceedings. For at least a few for at least one year they also looked at change the federal rules of criminal procedure when it comes to Video Conferencing hearings and to let those hearings happen without a defendants consent meaning that like ok lets say if you want to you know if theyre going to have any hearing in regards to a court case you defendant wouldnt have to have their consent in order for it to be done over Video Conferencing so on one hand youre like well you know conferencing hearings are smart idea in a time of virus but shouldnt the defendant whos there to defend himself be able to say i want to be there live or over video conversely stuff some say its passionate i think the timing is problematic but its also the fact that were supposed to be in this new era of criminal Justice Reform and were watching more and more of those reforms not looking very much like reforms that all were talking about pushing through things like this that automatically turn turn every all of our progress on its head when it comes to many people who are already incarcerated actually being able to not only have their day in court but have a day in court that is actually foundational to their Constitutional Rights and the least of it would also be protected from the virus too because were also seeing that 2 words like well. Exactly and my other question is what do you if you were to hold these people would you actually hold them our prisons in our jails are already overcrowded when we saw the part you know we saw what happened down in mississippi with partner in prison and i go whats happening down there thats already a mess i mean theres a 1000000 Different Things at work here and one of things that got under my skin the most and that really. I mean was the fact that like you had senators congressmen or president all knowing in advance all knowing in january all getting briefed over and over and over again and not really sounding an alarm and to what mid late february because the president believed he could contain it and other members of congress were so busy doing well one again Election Year trying to get somebody else to let be that they were on the democratic side but also just not paying this attention the but didnt start with didnt stop it president ial there was so many other levers that also ignored oh they were also for and they were also making a lot of money at the stock market to burn them 1700000 may say you got Kelly Loffler republican out of georgia 1300000 you got Dianne Feinstein in that mess so when stocks left and right they all knew and they all got busy on the stock market at the end of the day but again what i put you know the needs of the people above the needs of their pocketbooks. And you can see the group of them there thats just some of them were going to use the trading stocks. In what spurred whats to come with this virus. The Novel Coronavirus is Touching Every aspect of our lives stay at home orders have been issued in several places in addition to curfews pop up testing clinics social distancing mandates and the list goes on and on for america workers its layoffs industry collapse and wondering if they will be able to weather a storm thats beginning to raise the same types of fears we saw in the 2008 housing and economic crash trouble desperately tried to take advantage of the economic gains obamas recovery at creating now its 40 fives turn to work the economic magic of his own weve seen the child administration ideas about a 1200. 00 direct cash payment to americans but that just doesnt go far enough workers across the country have already lost their jobs and many more face unemployment is coping 1000 ravages the us forcing closures of the. Bars schools and other areas of public life nonessential Employment Projections look bleak and the lasting effects could cripple states for example Goldman Sachs forecasts that the economy will contract by 2. 5 percent over the 1st half of this year translation a loss of 3000000 jobs by june bush bank and j. P. Morgan actually see things a bit worse suggesting 7500000 jobs could be lost the hospitality and Retail Industries are poised to take the hardest its affecting states like nevada florida and hawaii at high rates. But according to a quirk by the Economic Policy institute all things are going to feel the pain california is positioned to lose over 600000 jobs while texas could lose 400000 my home state of illinois up to 200000 jobs this summer. The job loss knows no region and respects neither rule or urban areas with equal opportunity with the white house boiling every step of the way as they attempt to get a coronavirus recovery package together with House Democrats and Senate Republicans in a power battle americans are left hanging in the balance governors mayors and other local leaders will be tasked with not only fighting for their sake that qana me but developing policy plans to restructure after the colossal downfall and its an Election Year and a lot is at stake but nothing matters more to voters than their pocketbooks can stay policy makers reduce job losses and mitigate harm and what measures can make take to lessen the blow. That is one of the most important questions that we can ask ourselves right now. Hurt like whatever everywhere i look you see the Economic Impact happening left and right you cant escape the present thats only from the stay at home orders to the closures of certain businesses if you tell the drivers of the American Economy in many cases the Small Businesses that they can no longer operate or they are out for weeks at a time they will have cash reserves on hand there is no bailout waiting for them many of them are not going to be able to open their doors again and were already looking at industries that were suffering before the corona Virus Outbreak were talking about the Retail Industry if youre talking about you know the traditional Hospitality Industry all of those things were having their own they had their own bits of construction before coronavirus it and now this impact is something that many of them cannot weather its its brutal in that sense and then that and thats kind of the big question thats now every kind of were proposing which is you know is congress is anybody in our government really prepared to handle this economic crisis. What you know if were talking about earlier today its going to rival 08 if not if not go past what happened what we saw in 2008 absolutely and we know that this administration isnt necessarily equipped to handle a president since his inauguration has been running on the economy being great these numbers being amazing job loss not really being us being out of that pressure section of 08 and him you know basically doing a nonstop campaign on how great the economy is doing now all of that is turned on its head in a year where he is fighting for his own life in terms of reelection this is something that a lot of people projected could be the turning point regardless of what his approval numbers were if the economy was to take a major l. Things were going to look different so i think theres a lot of fear there as well and the economy is taking a major l. And the sad thing is you see washington go lock step right away into what they know right ok pay off the big donors ok bail out this group bail out boeing bail out all these companies boeing was doing bad before their sever happened remember they have there was a 737 magazine there was a bunch of companies now who are jumping in like disaster capitalism like we might be affected by this what still some money from the American People would steal some money from the tax dollar taxpayers and get out get our big bailouts i think was a mark cuban actually said it best he said anyone who takes money from the government during this time of crisis should not be allowed to do any kind of start buybacks or you know feather ness of any executives whatsoever because we cannot allow that to happen as we saw in the aftermath of 2008 and it should have been an automatic given it should have taken mark cuban to say it but i think that that definitely was something that put a lot of elected leaders on alert as well so now theyre including that in their packages i think that there was Something Else interesting that came out this week earlier today actually congresswoman jodi she had some very interesting comments i think that we have the tweet lets see this tweet oh my goodness. So she is going to call them and go and businesses closing unemployment soaring hysteria and fear which is workers steelman. Or to a boy thats going to that which is worse the illness or the i think that is the crux of the tweet and the issue here is that there are a lot of people particularly on the conservative side and the president as well right now who are looking at the fact that businesses are going to be threatening clothes and looking at a lot of the big business looking at you know the capitalist market they were set upon and looking at those jobless numbers we talked about they are willing to stop the 2 to stop be the stakeholders they are willing to stop the social distancing because they dont feel they can get the economy back on track should we do that though you also risk people literally dying in the streets id its an easy choice for me if it comes down to the economy or people dying in the streets im sorry i want to save the people dying in the streets because guess what you dont have an economy of people are dead but it actually can remember i was thinking that maybe i understand you have this is this is not a this is not a 0 sum game you have to say people 1st you know we can develop all of these ideas about you know how to get our economy going again and hopefully our Governors State legislators and others who are involved at a local level do have an understanding that they have to start making these policies now because they cant depend on the white house to do it this is an Election Year clearly they cant depend on a lot of people to do it they are the ones who their their populations are going to be looking forward to to make some type of sense of all of this you sort of dont put dont put put put people over profits thats really awesome awesome work as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t. V. Available on smartphones from google play on the off web store by searching portable t. V. Or stream us to your t. V. By downloading the portable t. V. You have farm apple t. V. And online affordable to you the more devices will be available soon for that and we keep an eye on that coming up author and human rights lawyer dan kobler joins us to discuss the true nature of us remember terry interventions around the world. To watch a global. Yes. Your government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know whats going to happen and when its go but they havent told you and they havent told me they havent announced. Imagine something as big as the earth is going to cause tidal waves earthquakes volcanoes are going to wraps and its going to help. So were in for a while right. My great grandfathers. Nobody would care about the law or prison so youd have lawlessness should have. A terrible life between now and the. In modern discussions and speeches and United States Foreign Policy youll often hear the words humanitarian intervention thrown around quite a bit its the phrase of choice by many a television d news pundit both democratic and republican politicians beltway think tankers and former pentagon types alike especially when discussing the need for u. S. Military involvement in faraway places you often cant find on maps youve heard the term used extensively by the administrations of george w. Bush barack obama and donald trump when discussing u. S. Involvement in sovereign countries like iraq syria liberate libya and iraq but what exactly is humanitarian intervention the encyclopedia brittanica yes that one defines it as actions undertaken by an Organization Organizations usually a state or a coalition of states that are intended to alleviate extensive human suffering within the borders of a sovereign state. But is that the truth labor and human rights lawyer baron cohen would believes there was a lot more that meets the eye when it comes to the rallying cry of humanitarian intervention and he joins us now to discuss his new book on the subject titled no more war how the west violates International Law using humanitarian intervention to advance economic and strategic interest thank you for joining us today deb. Thanks so much for adamy you ben as the title of your book suggests you know i want to ask you 1st what recent or or what good examples of this humanitarian intervention you know best exemplifies the misuse of phrase by the United States what are some examples that weve seen recently and. Well i think the one that really stands out as libya. Is one will recall in 2011. 15 u. S. Artist paid at nato bombing of libya between march of 2011 and in october 2011. This was under the Obama Administration and the 3 people who really pushed this operation were. Selfish to anoint to him an attorney an interventionist and that was Hillary Clinton susan rice and Samantha Power Samantha Power famously writing a book saying that the u. S. Had to be more active in stopping genocide around the world but what happened 1st of all it turned out that the war was based on lies and all these wars are we werent there to protect human rights and in fact emails that were leaked by week 2 weeks later showed internal discussions where they were in it there was no human rights christ certainly by the time we were bombing libya. Meanwhile in us lied about a number of arrangements for invading one of the law is the worst one. Was that get off it was used in black commercial they are used from an african states to kill those dont think well this turned out not to be true 1st of all i dont know why they had to be black but that with and for. But 2 it turned out there being black mercenaries who were african guest workers that could be invited to work. In libya these 2 are not mercenaries at all in fact Amnesty International which initially had all disli were delayed or stayed there was no evidence of but mercenary this lie was important to continue to think that one it helped pave the way for the intervention which destroyed it or not her of civilian cities like sister which killed the house has to be but also this law and help its just power on an anti african and it antiblack sentiment military and so during and after the nato intervention you saw genocide against african jacks workers african guest worker to hold day will you change the entire black towns were to apia laid it by the forces in us the warden and he and they had to just protect that these were a legit black person aires meanwhile as we know on the streets to libya for the 1st time in memory african guest workers and other african brought into libya are being sold on the streets before 100. 00 of he just as slate this was the result of the humanitarian intervention carried out by the u. S. Under obama and encouraged by a lobby that remote famous humanitarian intervention is in the world. Thats pretty incredible so its a pretty incredible having stuff. When he managed areas that takes all the home turf. And then get well the go ahead sorry. Youre no good how is the United States and others been able to circumvent the u. N. Charter and other human rights laws against aggressive war by using the guise of humanitarian intervention. Yes for what they say so 1st of all any war since 1945 to the creation of u. N. Charter. We have to remember that the un charter was created the un it was created after world war 2 in the sponsored a war would do and the main purpose for between you and un charter boats stopped aggressive war because this with seems to greatest scorcher against humanity and the greatest crime the nazis committed was a quest for. And so to get around that prescription against aggressive war and to get around the do to a girl who seeks Security Council authorization to fight a war to us came up with this idea of humanitarian intervention and the idea its just. If we claim were going to war to stop genocide or going to protect the rights of people against and its danceable dictator. The u. S. Does but that is it doesnt mean you operate they should come to security and. To do that the classic case of the worst was to yugoslavia this was the 1st modern humanitarian intervention carried out by bill maher and it was carried out without Security Council authorization and clinton one of the big when he says he wanted to bomb. Serbia which he did urge 78. 00 days to. Was to show the world the team u. S. Could do it and could do it without a Security Company council authorization and thats what happened the u. S. Did it along with other nato allies and their position was that its not you they can do whatever it wants to in supporting the rights but again in the case he was sloppy and what we saw were 2 things that nato itself carried out war crimes masked war right over 78 days of bombing which mostly focused on civilian targets. But also being human rights abuses to. Stir being there. That you know whats claimed to want to stop action style reagan did in response to the bombing. In fact were spurred on by the bomb so that invasion again itself created humanitarian problems because again its focused largely on civilians and its going to be structured but also to curb the very human rights abuses it claimed to curb act it because. Its we have pretty incredible i want to ask you really quick going got about a minute left but are there any examples of you know humanitarian intervention conducted by the u. S. That actually was justified and didnt have all turned their motives of what profiteering and all the other things you mentioned earlier is there any in the last 2030 years that you can think of the big none of the. 28 there are 3 any. 2 well established or well except examples of humanitarian intervention in the past decades none of them were tearing up out of the United States thats truly incredible that i dont know about not exactly measure which was vietnam which invaded cambodia and got rid of pol pot. Which very few people go. 1 1 into. When they plan into East Pakistan now bangladesh. Action in britain and it up doing a lot to stop the extreme slaughter. In bangladesh and. China and so nina. Rid. Of the big changer in uganda eating meat well im sure its all human rights experts agree sometimes if you have a charity intervention not only cared about out by the us down which carried out by the last little while i would have gotten out was ticked that shouldnt stop the African Child get rid of our broken Mandela Nelson mandela greece. Well we dont i mean i definitely recommend your book and if youre always a fascinating read thank you so much for coming on the book once again is no more war how the west violates International Law using humanitarian intervention to advance economic and Strategic Interests then called what always a pleasure having you on thank you so much. And that ladies and gentlemen. Is our show for you to day. Ever remember in this world we are not told that we are loved enough so i tell you all i love you i am tire over enter and im going to keep on watching those logs and have a great day and night out. 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