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raging waters and landlines have devastated entire communities, washing away houses and destroying businesses. south africa, the president says the week of violence and losing him, which at least 212 people were killed, was planned, not cold, and coordinated on a visit to the scene of looting and dub. and cyril rom, opposed to the security forces of identify 12 ring leaders. 25000 soldiers have been deployed onto the streets of major cities. price began after the former president, jacob's duma, was sent to j a last week. it is clear now that the events of the past week were nothing less than a deliberate, a co ordinated, and a well planned attack on our democracy. the constitutional order of our country is under threat. the current instability and ongoing incitement to violence constitutes

a direct contravention of the constitution of our country. and the rule of law covered cases arising in all us states and officials say the surge is largely in unvaccinated people. factions are up 70 percent in the last week. and deaths have jumped by 26 percent. evangelist county is again, a making mosque wearing mandatory from this weekend menu diversity, the need acting fully inoculated staff and students return to campus. and the u. k is reported its highest number of new covered cases in more than 6 months days before restrictions that eased across england. u. k. government data shows that was close to 52000 new cases. all the virus reported on friday a day earlier u. k. prime minister boys johnson's at the was the pandemic, would be behind the country if it was castle, and that lifting restrictions would help the economy bounce back. we'll have analysis on that story and then use our that's coming up at 2100 gmc with myself. i

will see you then all have locked down. is the program coming out? i the world economy is headed for recession. china won't be there to say that this time. northern islands health service at breaking point. south korea sit for one of the worst growth periods in half a century. the richest person in the world just gave $98.00 and a half $1000000.00. del. why am i reading these headlines to? well, it's to proof of these could all of these leaving poor pandemic 2020 headlines in reality though they were all published in november 2019 a month before close at 19 had even been hurdle because well, before the current of ours and in the kid much of the world was already deep in

a crisis of capitalism and now with millions out of work in the industry, suddenly stagnant and health kicked and scrambling for a vaccine. the question is, did capitalism turn the close emergency into a disaster? me capitalism. it's an ideology and economic system, a political state, but how the system based on private ownership and the prophet says the world in the time of christ. when the situation demands, we act not the individual gain, a collective benefit, stay at home and protect lives where they've said test test test without preventive measures, it could be a spiking cases. all these cancellations are away to flatten the curve curve at 19

hadn't been like any other crisis. job losses. health care struggle is a critical need for relief from the state of all struct segments of society that normally don't face these kinds of grave economic stresses. ensure all of us haven't heard this pandemic once in a century type of crisis. it's become evident to many that pre code the times in full across as entire countries went on to look down. i spoke with a group of people whose work has been all about dissecting and analyzing capitalism . when people say they want to go back normal to complain. that sounds pretty good to me right now. the thing about morality actually inc and politics actually pretty. a lot of people want to be pretty well not, not even in other people in there with the

parents, keep the money out to come in and talk and he's from one of the richest in history and you know, we didn't have the money to do that. in my opinion, capitalism is the pandemic. that is the root cause of so much of the suffering we're experiencing now. i mean, i want things to go back to normal. i want to be able to go to a cafe. i want to be able to see my friends. i don't want things to go back to the normal that we've been living with for the last 20 years. wells, concentration pace, networking people. that's the paradigm that's the contact stage for our current calamity. this fires has intensified as spotlight on health care, what it costs, who gets access and its ability to respond in a crisis. one system that runs shockingly counter to the needs of so many it's supposed to serve. if the one in the united states american health care is largely

privatized and lacks pricing regulation, both key traits of a capitalist system. this means not only is every element of the health care system from hospitals to drug manufacturers, owned and operated by the private sector. but those businesses are free to charge, whatever they like. this makes staying healthy in the united states. a scarily expensive proposition. this is a small percentage of the population about 80 percent does get some state support for medical costs. but for the vast majority, private health insurance is the only recourse they charge, notoriously expensive premiums, making them unaffordable for many and filled with loopholes. from gaps that mean even in short, americans can be left with 50 medical bills to pay. that's why before the pandemic, it was estimated that 87000000 americans were uninsured, or under insured, and medical bills were a leading cause of personal bankruptcy. you know, in the united states, people can access health care because they can't afford health insurance, even if they have insurance. they are buried in debt after the fact. what happens

in something like the current of our hits, a population that's indebted your devastating population has no savings, right? 40 percent of americans before the crisis were reported to not be able to handle a 400 dollar emergency. america's health care crisis has intensified during the pandemic. a tidal wave of labels have meant that as many as 27000000 americans have lost employer provided health insurance. and without that cover a hospital stay to treat clothes. it could cost as much as $73000.00. this is despite a government plan announced in march to cover some close related medical bills. the lack of coordination and the need for medical supplies to keep turning. a profit has led hospitals into bidding war. so if a crucial supplies like p, p e masks, tests, and medical equipment, doctors and nurses warning that critical protective gear is running low. this is a hospital where the health care workers have taken to wearing garbage bag. it's

like being on e bay with 50 other states bidding on a ventilator hospitals around for profit. and so they don't have adequate staff, right? because that would feed into revenue. they don't want to have extra medical supplies, just languishing not being you. so what we're going to see is a lot of people who are going to perish, not because of the virus, per se, but because of the lack of access the adequate health care or the lack of access to tech. the year we're going to see people who don't speak treatment because they're afraid of not being able to pay for it. it's already been reported by emergency room doctors that you know, people, the last, their last words are literally, but who's going to pay for this? corona viruses i knew that existed in human cincinnati, in sixties. and they cause a range of different illnesses from the common cold, to more lethal variety,

such as the outbreak of saws in 2002, and met in 2012 in 2015. the world health organization, even listed corona viruses as being among the top possible causes of a major epidemic. so how is it that pharmaceutical companies have been caught off guard by this virus? in may, this year based research center, the corporate europe observatory, published a detailed investigation into the effectiveness of the innovation medicines initiative. i am in the world's biggest public private partnership in life sciences . and it directs billions of dollars worth of funds to biomedical research at the world's biggest pharma companies. what the investigation and comment was that not only did firms in 2017, turned down and you proposal to work on vaccines for pathogens like run of ours. but 2600000000 year old eyes funds were transferred into projects that represented much more commercially profitable avenues upon the surgical industry. this

investigation reinforced point that big pharma insiders and whistleblowers had been making for a while. that serious matters, like pandemic preparedness, being held hostage by commercial considerations on march 5th as corona bars cases spread across the us, congressional hearing and aching play. we also took on a decade ago. the interesting problem with making corona virus vaccines because we recognize these as enormous public health threats. and yet we have not seen the big pharma guys and the biotech se rushing in into the space of dr. pito. it is one of america's leading vaccine scientist said that a vaccine his team had created 4 years ago in response to the sauce outbreak may have been able to provide patients with cross protection from the bars at the heart of this p damage. but it simply hadn't been commercially enticino. the drug companies to invest in the bottom line is, had we had those investments early on to carry this all the way through clinical

trials. years ago, we could have had a vaccine ready to go, you know, one of the big problems of capitalism, the capitalist, direct investment, the capitalist say, you know, what's really important biography, because that's a huge market. even though the current environment exists, what's not invest in a backseat, because that market doesn't really exist. and also you really want to vaccinate the whole world in this preemptive measure. know, let's create something that we can sell now. so, you know, we like capitalists, direct investment at our collective peril whenever a vaccine is culturally created, the next battle, at least for patients in the united states, will be over affordability. and that's when we're back to one of the fundamental potholes of the american health care system, where i'm like in almost every other nation, basic pricing controls simply don't exist. it's not even as though this is a secret and you're saying it for sure, be affordable for anyone who needs. i'm saying we would, we would want to ensure that we work to make it affordable, that we can't control that price because we need the private sector to invest that

with donald trump's health and human services secretary alex is on a congressional hearing in february this year an interesting site before he was appointed to his rolling government. as i worked as the top lobbyist for the pharmaceutical firm, eli lilly, and company. the hunt for a corona virus vaccine has now suddenly become one of the most well funded areas of biomedical research. not only governments and pharmaceutical giants investing in it, the so called super here is that the corporate world have stepped into the fray. a ceo of netflix is donating $30000000.00 toward research for a corona virus vaccine. microsoft co founder bill gates has continued to fight against corona, vars investing billions of dollars on the construction of factories working to develop the code of 19 vaccine. some of the wealthy people on us found isn't c major corporations and making headlines for denying to proven causes through their

own philanthropic organizations. but it's not just about the money. it's the perception that it comes with all the trappings of the corporate world efficiency returns on investment, streamlining of operations. all of this is transformed what was wants simply charitable, giving into something else. philanthropy, capitalism, lindsey miguel lee has written about it extensively in a book. no such thing as a free gift. i think we have to move past the headline some time mr. gates did talk about the need for math testing at an earlier stage. us officials and that was a good sign approach. but i really can question whether or not their efforts were anything more than a band aid solution, because there was no evidence, but they were really having much of a positive effect on the sort of really deteriorated and ramshackle approach that was underway in the us. more generally, i think what we are planning when we see the opinion to their own trial,

to pockets and giving me some cash is we're frauding the mix that capital what every one that anyone could be a be the ordinary guy and the money and not not the case there 1000000000 all a collective creation, not their own individual creation every being a failure because no one money when other people are sleeping in the street or going about inequality is one of the defining factors of capitalism. it's meant that the world's top one percent now hold close to 50 percent of global both. and so when the philanthropists among them contribute to causes, it's often only amused sliver of the network. jeff bezos is $100000000.00 donation to us food banks, for example, amounted to 0.07 percent of his estimated both markets. arkenberg is $25000000.00 donation. again, just 0.05 percent of these networks. the point of all these numbers isn't that

billionaire should be giving more. that's another discussion entirely near the point here is that philanthropic capitalism is too often used as a distraction from meaningful possibly more expensive systemic changes ramp and corporate tax avoidance. the suppression of minimum wage levels relied from state subsidies, precarious working conditions. i mean, the list of what actually needs to be addressed is long. and it can often get obscured by flashy headlines or new segments about billionaires and the generosity . q 2 stepped up and you're providing $25000000.00. we didn't have the money to do that. and i just want to thank you to. this is not an app this right? this is the product of a political strategy that's been going on for the last 4050 years, whereby you taxes are slashed and private. what accumulates? and what that private well does is it concentrates power and that threatens democracy. so we have this really negative feedback loop where the more

dysfunctional, the data's right. the last, it's able to provide basic services, the lesson able to protect our public health. the more ammo there is for corporate sector to say, hey, look to state is inefficient. the state is incompetent. we with all of our resources can save the day that big philanthropic. i would, it is a point that's not last on. 1000000000 is like bill gates. when asked in 2012, if he would ever run for president of the us, he responded, i actually think, you know, maybe i'm wrong that i can have as much impact in that role as i could in any political role. my role in the foundation, i don't have to raise political campaigns. i don't have to try and get elected. i'm not term limited to 8 years. it's a very nice office. down to being boldness is very long. it could be invoking the think that he's not beholden to any

both to make your own decision money the way that you wish, if they're not going to get credit for that that that's not the construct work. what he does, if it's, you know, replacing all in a complex, will you, people into narrative. benevolent delete is a great, they have name recognition, they appear heroic, and they've got the cash. however, this pandemic has also shown on like on the other end of the economic spectrum to the key worker delivery drivers, supermarket, shelf deckers, nurses care is the pin demick momentarily appended the hierarchy of labor. and yet in the u. k, a set of proposed post breaks it, immigration controls, and february deemed many of these exact essential workers to low paid and quote, low skilled to receive a visa to work in the country. i think that is at the heart of catholic. those who were deriving the value from the economic are not the central workers,

because what is keeping our economy going right now? are the lowest workers who are really, are most indispensable part of the workforce. work is the need help. and they've got enough people on this one. i'm not enough doctor's not enough, nor organize that. it has to be destroyed and people working station system are often not enough to live. what do we do? because it was just me and my wife is going out and applauding the health care workers and i was unable to do so on down the street. we got the car, the resources that were going in today, and i just told her that gaines renewed currency during this pandemic

disaster capital from canadian activist and author, naomi klein came up with the years ago. and her book, the shock doctrine went viral during the 2008 great recession. it points to how disasters recession were appended aren't necessarily catastrophic across the board . in a capitalist system, they can also present an opportunity for the money minded. and we've seen a lot of profiteering during the current condemning already. i don't think we the limit that, that opportunity that we've got in early, which dr. companies are starting to, for example, write out when it comes to be better, for example, being charged for 15 times the usual price. gouging is one manifestation of disaster capitalism. and during this lockdown, it's done everything from cause a temporary spike in the price of hand sanitizer to effect the number of ventilate, it's available to the u. s. government, according to

a pro public investigation in 2014 the u. s. department of health and human services signed a 13800000 dollar contract with dutch electronics conglomerate phillips to design a manufacturer, a cheap and portable ventilator use an emergency. although ventilated was created and the government ordered $10000.00 of them, not a single one was red. at the start of the pandemic. like many countries, the united states face critical ventilator shortages, while phillips were selling to higher priced commercial versions of the same ventilator around the world. so they never fulfilled this order at the cheaper level for the department of health and human deaths prioritize the more overseas. and it's only been recently that the department of health and human scientist has really negotiated the same order, but it has been forced to pay for the bench later at a higher price. that renegotiation, that lindsey mentioned. it resulted in the u. s. government ordering $43000.00 of the commercial ventilators in april at 4 times the regional price. in late august,

the remainder of the order was cancelled only after a congressional committee raised questions about the expenditure. but disaster capitalism can also be less direct and more obscured from public scrutiny. like who stands to benefit from some tax payer funded bailouts. take the us airline industry, which had its request for $50000000000.00 bailout approved by the us senate in march, while the loans were conditional on job protections. the sticking point for many is that over the past 5 years, the big 4 airline companies, american, southwest in the united have not only made record profits, but collectively spent nearly the same amount. 45000000000 on stock buybacks and dividend 2 ways in which companies can directly enrich their corporate executives and shareholders. so it's not that these bailouts aren't necessary now to avoid mass unemployment, except a substantial part of the current financial problem is arguably of their own making billions of dollars from mobile. i basically,

in an incident to bailout corporate america. this is incredibly ironic because these, these corporations were, you know, in a week financial place because of their own business model. because they had over leverage themselves. because they had engaged in pushing money out to shareholders instead of planning for tough time. meanwhile, regular people are held to that standard. you know, if you haven't said, then it's your fault that you're suffering in the moment. so there's, there's a double standard written into the economic response. so you have a form of packet inch. didn't need to billing because we'll kept reading, cute and say, well, capitalism works when we kiss company goes to the war when, when things aren't watching a bad idea, they fail clearly hasn't happened in any society under this.

and that's probably a good thing. when we come out, i think we can certainly say that the old month for of public bad product. good stuff, nothing. and i think we can also have some questions about why did last the socialize it. and yet outside christ again, boy profit. we need to reach out to the kind of the assets to rethink capitalism, have been going on almost as long as capitalism itself has existed and to be fair. it's practiced in notably different ways in different parts of the world. but one of the most toxic and recurring problems is that in too many cases, the system seems designed to favor a small elite segment of the population. it's the idea we began with that way before the crisis of this corona virus. we will ready grappling, but the crisis of county was we should have this phrase that we need to save the economy or we need to keep business is going,

it makes sense. but i think we have that good, deeper question, which is, well, what's in the economy for look at something like g d, p, gross domestic product. all that means is that there's more affluent, but it has nothing to do with distribution that has nothing to do with the quality of people live. you can have enormously high g, p and, and have, you know, rector, rates of homelessness and unemployment. so we, we have to deconstruct this idea of the economy and, and put people at the center. we are living in the moment and not being clear. because the wealthier nation could not for their own company or their own public sufficiently to prevent going to go on and clearly the welcoming, the sort of mentoring have not been fair to share. they've been ordered by a view, what people are left or more modern by market and other stuff that it's really

not stuff that we will. it's clear that actually everything nearing the whole collective action. individual action is also clear that there are some parts of the a just and she said, pretty much nations, that is why i'm interested in all of this attention. it's being given too close to getting a marching come into a country without thinking too much about the way i think we need to read and i think we need to read the project. so i can i care about helping us engages with the rest of the world. we're really interested in taking you into a play. you might not visit otherwise and feel that you were there.

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a cloud to into southern parts of w way, one or 2 showers over towards perth for a time. but we should sit grassy, brightening up as we go on into where sunday drive in price weather moving across much of south australia. by that statement, we're starting to ease down. but very wet and windy, that as you can see for good part of new zealand, we've got some very wet weather affecting central parts of china. meanwhile, some very heavy rain here, the seasonal range stretch right across the south, west central parts up towards the yellow sea up towards basing some heavy down pulls that is likely to cause some localized flooding that wet weather, staying very much in place as we go through sunday, a few, she was there across the korean peninsula, some parts of japan as well, but to the north that is fine and dry. the who's on counting the cost from internal conflicts, just sanction. political and economic troubles or mounting can prime minister abbey

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