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Human about their unemployment status many of them waiting as long as 8 hours just to be turned away were going to tell you all about that all right its time to meet my new. Tension is building over International Waters near the coast of alaska after the United States says it intercepted another fleet of russian bombers but while the u. S. Claims the flight was too close for comfort russia claims it went according to schedule argues Rachel Blevins is joining us now to break this all down for us so rachel what does russia said about this incident so far well the Russian Defense ministry is saying this was a scheduled flight and they say that a no point did they deviate from their plan to fly off the coast of siberia and alaska and they actually released footage from this incident which shows one of their 14 you know. 5 bombers on the mission and it then shows the u. S. F. 22. 00 fighter jets that shadowed their aircraft during part of the patrol now take a look at just how close those fighter jets get to the bomber now here is what a Russian Air Force commander had to say about it. She would you cruise a strategic and a so caring bomber performed flawlessly today 35 and my g 31 fighters provided support in the most complicated stages of the wrote the post exercise permanent control of the mission along the entire row now we saw a similar incident play out last week where russia said that they were on a scheduled flight yet the u. S. Decided to intercept claiming that they were simply too close for comfort ok so we heard what the russians had to say what about the u. S. How they responded right will the u. S. Is saying that they stand by their claim that they wanted to intercept those bombers because of their proximity to alaskas coast now a statement was released on twitter by the north American Aerospace Defense Command or norad in which they posted photos of the aircraft and claimed it successfully completed to enter a subset of russian bomber aircraft formations and during the alaskan air Defense Identification Zone they went on to say quote the Russian Military aircraft came within 32 nautical miles of alaskan shores however remained in International Airspace and at no time did they enter the United States sovereign airspace so basically theyre saying it was too close but not so close that they wanted to turn a doubly action ok so weve heard about the planes now where does that leave Us Russian Relations lately well former National Security advisor john bolton recently made headlines for saying that russian president putin views President Trump as someone he can play like a fiddle and someone he doesnt take seriously but thats actually the opposite of what we have seen you know we saw. The i. N. F. Treaty last year and hes really dragged his feet on wanting to renew the new start treaty even though russia said it was willing to do so with no preconditions before it expires and february but instead trump has said he wants china to be included in a brand new treaty and hes really putting the last remaining Nuclear Treaty between the United States and russia at danger by waiting for that and then at the same time we also. Seen increased tensions in syria where moscow has called out the United States for keeping troops in a country where they are not invited and they have also called them now for wanting to still theory as Natural Resources now the Trump Administration Just Announced a new round of sanctions against top syrian officials so there are a lot of questions about if the u. S. Is going to try to ramp up its interference in syria and if that would then put them in direct conflict with russia definitely not matching up with john boltons statement so we will see how that plays out Rachel Blevins thank you so much the United States war on drugs was ramped up in the caribbean and eastern pacific with the u. S. Military targeting cocaine trafficking on the high seas meantime a new u. N. Report indicates that the amount of land being used to grow the coca plant in colombia has actually decreased so what does that all actually mean for that lets turn to our t. Correspondent john how he was live in our miami studio with more on this so john whats going on. Well manila the u. N. Office on drugs and crime as its called released a report on wednesday showing that the amount of land and you touched on this in the intro the amount of land being used to grow the coca plant in colombia dropped by 9 percent in 2019 from 169000 hectors to 15154000 so thats basically the equivalent of 380500 acres heres the thing though while the amount of land being used to plant coca has decreased in colombia according to this u. N. Report the output of cocaine has it if you look further down in the report youll see that the a total the total amount of cocaine seized in 2018 was 413383 kilos and then in 2019 it was 433036 kilos so thats almost basically thats the equivalent of about 500. 00 tons of cocaine despite the drop in land use for coke the u. N. No deal. He said that the estimated cocaine production actually saw an uptick of 1. 5 percent from an estimated 1120. 00 metric tons to 1137. 00 so despite less land being used there was still an increase in the overall output of cocaine according to the un d o c that said the Trump Administration has ramped. Efforts in the caribbean going after narco traffickers you may remember back in march the us indicted venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and several other current and former high ranking venezuelan officials including military officials are narco trafficking charges and accuse them of conspiring with the Colombian Rebel Group far to quote flood the United States with cocaine the secretary of state might pompei o tweeted today that quote the us is taking action to bring justice bring to justice former fork members involved in International Narcotics trafficking the colombian people deserve an enduring peace accord with former members who are specked the rule of law and commit to peaceful reintegration into society after the march indictment of madeira President Trump announced also in april that the u. S. Was sending u. S. Navy warships to the caribbean and towards the coast of venezuela to intercept narco traffickers well speaking of these types of interceptions the u. S. S. Prabal and Navy Destroyer with help from the u. S. Coast guard seized a smuggling vessel in the eastern pacific earlier this month that was carrying 2000 kilos of coke thats worth more than 40000000. 00 on the street according to the u. S. Southern command well thats just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cocaine trafficking last june actually almost a year ago today more than 60 tons of cocaine was see from seized from a cargo ship at the port of philadelphia thats worth more than a 1000000000. 00 i said it right a 1000000000. 00 well a day later 333. 00 pounds of coke worth 10000000. 00 was seized at the port of baltimore. So figure for the amount of cocaine being found and seized there certainly as much if not more flowing into the u. S. Europe and other parts of the world so the war on drug war on drugs very much rages on and im about to him. There are numerous ideas being thrown out there regarding Police Reform in the wake of these nationwide protests following the death of george floyd in minneapolis lawmakers like rand paul looking to end the nationwide use of no knock warrants which rose to popularity in the mid 1990 s. During the Clinton Administration rand paul a republican president bill clinton a democrat but that came on the coattails of the war on drugs during the crack epidemic of the 1980 s. That led to the 1994 crime bill that doubled the u. S. Prison population Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author host of on contact chris hedges wrote an essay about just that called gaslighted by the ruling class which you can find on share post dot com he joined me a little earlier heres our conversation on how he sees the new wave of social change. To major to mix defunding the police and policy the police are both black lives matter demand the problem with defunding weve seen the blogs you do this in new york if you can just play numbers though so the new York City Police department has a budget of 6. 1000000000. 00 a year and de blasio is talking about moving a 100000000. 00 of it to community you know Community Support or something. And i sense to you know the people who are carrying out these protests understand that this is far more and police seem reform i think this is a class and a generational revolt now its been exacerbated by code and the economic misery that many of the protesters are suffering. I think has led him to a situation where certainly in economic terms theyre much closer to these communities of color that have been during this for decades you know i mean change is going to come off the streets changes by organizing you know amazon where ours is for strikes. Fast food workers all these low wage workers and i think we are seeing a kind of uniting between workers especially frontline workers and these groups so i look at this is far more at least if you look at it from the perspective of the people in the streets far more than simply calls for Police Reform remember black lives matter has been doing this for many years. You know for 5 years and and so theyre pretty savvy i mean day there is its going to be much harder i think for the ruling elites to gaslight them as they have in the past certainly touched on a myriad of topics and i think you really get down to the point of how this all erupted in the past couple of months so go check out his post at share post dot com chris hedges we got to leave it right there thank you so much for sharing that insight. And out in the gulf of oman iran has test fired some cruise missiles according to officials this happened during a naval exercise and those missiles reportedly shot as far as 170 miles the missile test comes after a tense naval encounter earlier this year between iranian and u. S. Forces in the persian gulf. And over to india now where some Major Companies are calling for a boycott of chinese products this comes following mondays border clashes that resulted in the deaths of about 20 indian troops their Companies Want to target chinas toys and textiles which could result in an estimated 13000000000. 00 in losses for china. And back here stateside you are looking at aerial footage of firefighters battling. Large wildfires across the state of arizona the states currently really hot and dry weather along with high winds are causing the fires to spread quickly on rugged terrain so far about a half dozen Rural Communities remain under evacuation notices thankfully at this point there are no reports of any casualties or structure damage. And dr recipients can finally have some peace of mind after the Supreme Court decided to block President Trump attempt to end dhaka in a 5 to 4 ruling the justices decision now means about 650000 young immigrants will be able to maintain legal status in the u. S. President Trumps Administration argued that dhaka is illegal and that the courts had no role to play in reviewing the decision to end the program. And kentucky residents wait long hours in very very long lines just to talk to a person about their unemployment status many of them also got turned away were going to discuss that with investigative journalist ben swan later and over in sports regina hampshire years down to the wire title race that the a. M. A. Supercross round 6 make sure you keep up with all the latest news and anything you might have missed by downloading our brand new free app portable t. V. And watch their 247 will be back into. It like a boy you get questions we. Actually live to be sure. That you know folks douglasville or a new show. On the larry king question being listening learning you know ive always said ive never learned anything when i was talking its important to listen. Question more. Seeing the horrors that arise when money and evil. Corporate criminals who trash countless lives there just one more dollar to their billions. 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Hundreds of people in the state of kentucky lined up for the chance to speak to a human about unemployment and all happened wednesday outside of the capitol and in frankfort kentucky with some people waiting as long as 8 hours just for a chance to speak to someone so joining us now to discuss that is the west coast an investigative journalist and swan so ben why does suddenly did so many people all these people show up outside of the capitol you know its kind of interesting manila because heres how it played out this long line of people as you said happened on wednesday because on tuesday there were protests across kentucky over the fact that people who need unemployment help have no place to get it and they cant talk to anyone they have to get on the phone and they have automated phone calls and so they demanded and protested saying there has to be a way that were allowed to speak to a human so the state of kentucky set up this and as you said on wednesday people started lining up at 5 30 in the morning heres a crazy thing they had to cut off at 9 am with you were in line by 9 am you didnt get to be seen people waited 8 hours in line there were people who drove 4 to 5 hours just to get there to find out you didnt make the 9 am cut off and so the state is now talking about setting up another day like this but theyre not telling people when it will be or where it will be. Thats interesting phrase approach ok thats ok that this is i dont even know what to follow up with that one like not tell your constituents ok that doesnt make a lot of sense but all right well see what happens there ben so what exactly is happening in kentucky and how many claims have they processed out there given that so many people were in line yeah thats a really good question so a according to the city of kentucky theyve been processing most claims heres what theyre saying theyre saying that in march the claims that were filed they. Process 94 percent of them the claims that were filed in april they processed 94 percent of them and the claims that were filed in may they say again they processed about 94 percent of them but they say about 10000 claims are still outstanding right now the fact is are there are 10000 only that are outstanding perhaps but the reality is is that for many people part of the problem is theyre not getting answers as to how long this will go on what they need to do in order to file and the frustration is not just in kentucky to be fair for a lot of people across the country is that theyre filing unemployment claims or theyre asking for help during this time remember so many people are out of work were talking about about 40000000 people out of work because of coronavirus shutdowns who are not able to talk to someone that theyre getting processed or they go into a pipeline and they dont hear anything for weeks at a time yeah absolutely like you said thats its not just kentucky its all over this country i have friends in california who are makeup artists and you know as you know many of them are 1099 workers theyre their contract workers they file for claims and theyre going to completely turn down in the state of california when they pay taxes these you know they pay taxes for this isnt their money they should be able to get some sort of help but thats not happening i guess in the state of california at least kentucky is making some sort of an effort i guess but then the fed chairman Jerome Powell weve been talking about him all week he Just Told Congress that it should extend those increased unemployment payments i mean well past july i would think what does that mean for the workers yeah well its a tough question because heres the thing is that as you know congress when they pass these Unemployment Benefits and extend of them to everyone they increase them by 600. 00 per check which means that for a lot of people who are out of work or who have lost their job as a result of these coronavirus lockdowns are actually making more on unemployment than they were in their job slee thats a good thing for workers in the short term but its a bad. Bad thing when it comes to saying to people its time to cut off that unemployment for you to go back to work because i actually have to take a pay cut if im if im a worker in order to go back to work and so what drone policy is extended past july 31st thats when the cut off right now is july 31st he said extend well beyond that so the question becomes if congress does that number one can you afford to do that number 2 how many people get that additional money but at the same time to your point a minute ago how many people are still being left out because they dont fall into the traditional system of what is designated as unemployment and when you have to 99. 00 workers and independent contractors who are completely left out why are you giving extra to one group and nothing to another group its a mess absolutely i mean they really have not thought through this process very well because there are so many contract workers out there that are not traditionally employed and they they pay taxes you know this is so unfair to so many people then and most of all people are wondering when are these lockdowns gonna end i think people actually want to get back to work and thats one of the biggest problems here too right is that a lot of people do want to get back to work were seeing lockdowns being lifted slowly but even as theyre looked at slowly in a lot of cases restaurants that are coming back are only at half capacity hotels are only allowed to be at half capacity and then on top of that you have all this talk about whether or not there is going to be a resurgence of will that create even more lockdowns remember nobody nobody who is in the workforce created the lockdown and nobody in the workforce demanded it was imposed upon them and so it is up to government to do something to provide relief for those people still a lot to hash out ben swan always appreciate your reporting thank you. But you know. Now to the latest coded 900 numbers worldwide cases now topping 8400000 with about 450000 reported deaths the top 3 countries with the most cases the u. S. Leading the way followed by brazil and then russia taking a closer look at this countrys numbers now at 2100000 cases with about 118000 reported deaths. And the World Health Organization says there was a glimmer of hope as a medical trial in the u. K. Showed an inexpensive steroids drug called dexamethasone was able to reduce the number of coded 1000 deaths however w. H. O. Officials caution that the drug must only be used under close medical supervision and only for the severely sick patients now the steroids say is not a treatment for the virus itself. And over in peru where Health Care Workers are protesting for more personal protective equipment as the country emerges as the worlds worst qubit 1000 hot spot because of the lack of people more than a 1000 doctors and nurses are now infected and more than 60 of them have died the medical and nursing unions are asking the government for bonuses as they continue to put their lives at risk. And back here stateside a small city in Washington State is dusting off an old program in order to keep their local economy afloat city officials in 10 you know are once again printing what in money yes you heard that right recently resurrected their wooden Money Program to help its 800. 00 residents get through the economic fallout because of the pandemic each president meets low income threshold is given 301 dollars each month to spend within the town the last time the city used whatever money was during the great depression. Or lets head over to regina ham at the sports h. Q. Regina youve got a wild title race at the latest supercross of not is one of those you know wooden money so pretty fun and there is. Just one race left in the supercross season and with the title on the line cooper webb did the only thing he knows how to do when around 16 for 50 main action some really ideal start for you i tell mike who finds himself at the back of the pack husk of our in a factory sings back off Bourne Osborne takes the whole spot as the early lead rebel katie is raising cooper web gets in position for a push getting around Justin Brayton after the train on the 2nd bed hell make moves again on the 2nd train portion this time all were nearly falls off his bike while talks lies in the 3rd position that 123 would be your winners as webb cruised his way to his 3rd wednesday night win in a row. Second and 3rd respectively on the web also 24 points behind standing head of the Season Finale on sunday to the 250 east then to we go and its Monster Energy berenson am with the early lead but. Is just creeping up behind him as they enter the 1st round of the train portion making a power grab around the 2nd bed and will hold the whole spot for a significant period of time though eventually hell lose it chase sexton in a pretty aggressive way sexton will end up hanging on to his lead and taking 1st place maybe it is 4th win of the season 21 year old going to the east west showdown with a 6 point lead over in the gallery of. Soccer fans across the world are seeing the return of their top flight clubs to action and now the European Football Association made their announcement on the Champions League you have to confirm that this years edition of the Champions League will be played in a little bit of a different format it will be an 8 Team Tournament based in Lisbon Portugal that will take place between august 12th and the 23rd 2 games of the round of 16 will be played in early august before quarterfinal start on the 12th the finals match will be played on august 21st 23rd and then if you get the study of the rules after the 12 day gauntlet to be determined though are the states your. Calls Health Measures and other decisions that impact players and coaches one things certain though there will be absolutely no fans allowed into games a Sticking Point for all of this the effect of finishing domestic season may have a bit of an issue in competing in the Champions League. 2 league in action extra baseball is needed to find a winner in the dramatic gave it to me in the low take giants and the q. And heroes in a game that was off to a wild start the k b o from the get go bomb the 2nd runners on that in their want out dance really is wild pitch skips away from jungle as you along came a song with a one nothing to lead but lets take a look at replays young tries to get in front of it but just a tough cop on him to bring home run number one of the game later at bat. With a sacrifice like down the right field line hell young you up with the 2 nothing score and the heroes are in the lead top of the 6 though giants right fielder sawn up with a r. B. I. Single down the left field line is 28 of the season actually it was good with the giants 1st score of the game top of the 9th giant 2nd baseman home with a high fly ball to left center for an r. B. I. Double scoring dicks machado and were all tied up at 2 runs apiece that means we get some extra base ball so top of the tent here is a pinch hitter song with a double goes all the way over the head of the giants right fielder runner on 1st part being waved around 3rd comes in just under the tag of a team of 3 to lead and the win with the win the hero sitting 4th placed in the Overall Standings and 4 games back a bleeding nose and manila were still not making headway in and ill be up there audience who might be sitting on bated breath and by now we would know what im going we know nothing we are we just know nothing and i korean baseball we have korean baseball we might have american baseball. Some point it seems that theyre still saying he said she said and then they kind of come to an agreement and then theyre like no no no and its a giant mass but we will have the analysts n. B. A. Back in a little over a month so theres hope there and i think everyones getting antsy and bored of watching netflix so netflix is going to tell us at some point. Sorry all right thank you for that update regina and that does it for right now make sure you keep up with everything and question at all times by downloading our brand new free app you can watch their 20. 7 its called portable t. V. Right there right behind me because ill check it out follow me on twitter at no i cant. Expound. In seoul you cant get away from advertisement to change your appearance as many local people see Plastic Surgery thats a prerequisite for a successful career. 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Camp today i talked with journalist photographer filmmaker and creative activist eleanor goldfield shes also the cohost of my podcast common sense or but she has a new film a new documentary out called hard road of hope about the long term destruction of the land and the people of West Virginia its a beautiful and powerful film but she has also been covering the recent protests against Police Brutality so well be getting into that as well later in the show naomi cure vonnie will break down the militarization of our police and i wonder is only will get into the insurrection act of 18007. 00 which trump said he wants to use to go to war with protesters but 1st heres my interview with eleanor goldfish eleanor thanks for journeying all the way from our podcast to my show i appreciate it. Thanks so much for having i want to get to the new film and a moment but lets start with the nationwide black lives matter protests