Installed a device called the mosquito in parks around the city and that the device goes off from 10 pm to 6 am blaring a high pitched sound that anyone over the age of 25 should not be able to hear its currently installed at 31 city run locations in philadelphia the devices are meant to prevent vandalism and loitering by teens and young people at these public parks naturally this is led to some pushback from the community with Philadelphia CityCouncil Member helen jim telling the news media quote i dont think that this project is going to going to go any further until it meets with the full scrutiny to the public and that we have some serious attention paid to whether this is the best use of our money. You know my friends i think its time we to ask ourselves just what are the values of our society that the sides to treat its young people like pests at a barbecue rather than well i dont know human beings now lets start watching the hawks. To. Get the. Real that this would be. As good a part of it. But like you i got. The police. There. Welcome everybody to watch it happen to wiley and joining me from minnesota today is my cohost tyrols and tara. My goodness the kids have gone crazy we need to blast them with some energy no. I think the u. N. Had a thing about the bees are bad for people. I believe youre right looking at these numbers so theres 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 discomforting sound that is in a range of 17 and a half to 18 and a half killer her its which is supposedly was older people because we have apparently listened to too much. Rock music too loudly in our ears we cant hear this because a damage but Anyone Around you know in and around 25 years of age can still hear that and its length as the sound is then supposed to be so bad that it would disperse young people 130 feet around but cause theres no damage to their ears or anybody elses thats. What yeah you know whats really if this is true if like you know adults can hear this what happens to like lets say a mother whos like pushing her toddler through a park and theres things on the toddler goes nuts and she cant even hear that she has no idea you know why why her childs you know this is being attacked by this sound and i mean this is absolutely nuts that we would actually do this and inflict this kind of like lets say the harm or discomfort on kids for hanging out in the park after 10 pm Goodness Gracious because kids are also the you can do graffiti or have crime thats only teenagers as weve learned from movies like i think younger games and Battle Royale teenagers are the enemy thank you teenagers and rush out pretty much. Apparently apparently 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 device is literally the culls women so theyre sonic weapons and told the morning edition 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 the. Other stuff brings up on the credibly great point to ask you know 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 to to you know anything from Domestic Violence to drug abuse at home they can 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 it a humane and degrading treatment. So maybe well never hear. I mean look we all know because we all were teenagers we all know the teenagers are borderline sociopaths we get it. But i guess you dont want to have i guess we shouldnt be surprised because when we have 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 the 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 and more violent things i dont know i think its i think its a little silly we got to live about 30 seconds left what do you do any last thoughts or. Well you know 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 you know 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. Yes 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 400 air Defense System to charity 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 in washington Rachel Blevins r t. As we go to break watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics weve covered on face the huge the twitter and make sure to check out watching the hawks the podcast now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you list the podcast see our poll shows at r. T. Dot com coming up are the new sanctions on cuba any different than a blockade of the past and a new test for cancer for all. The one. That countries for thats part of its a for a while the country a sum of all that youve got. Stock markets that are owned by thats called 10 percent of the population most of the stuff. And there are what else is for. Its a condition that for americans dont want to cop to its hard for me but the fact is. Now you 150000000 people america. If you will not obey the voice of the lord your god will be careful to do all these months and. Then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. And the people. And. The. Only problems will go away. The. People being tortured to death the elderly people in the. White horse will find themselves. In. Teams and greens its all sweat and blood. What are you going to have for dinner to the feeling that they need the. Civil war in south africa. And be in the tone of your and to prove it to. Us. 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 souls such as cruise ships this is 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 busy 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 old 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 Devon 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 to the 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 only one. If you wrote that when you were just in cuba how can you explain 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 and cut it 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 there 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 sanctions and 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 resume 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 isnt 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 i say 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. To the new sanctions and these things keep going on it seems that they sort of used to it by now. I mean i think the sanctions and also what we refer to as the multifaceted own protracted war against a country is 60 years old and so most of 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 called referred to as a special period because of the dissolution the dissolving of the soviet union and the tightening of the blockade under the helms burton act interests 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 because you give in to the united. Designs forehead to money when nothing came up an interesting talking to you when you came back and just looking into this 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 that 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 all right youll hear you often hear stories that i read a headline earlier today that compared the cuban government to the Chinese Government during internet which in both cases theres a wild and a layer of propaganda the truth is they have internet they have 3 g. They even have 4 g. And a lot of areas there on social media just this past month there was a sort of campaign launched. To engage in dialogue with local government authorities about getting faster. Rather than having direct communication with their local elected officials and authorities are campaigning for change and theyre getting other going to communication theyre going to more than we get here and you think that if i misread it at your local congressman that you would get a response and i dont think i will. 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 they were spent no proof 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 also incurs an extra cost for them to do so to get a visa through 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