come who and her daughter are now part of the 1st population, boom pratt to craft us since 2015. 13 people have moved here in the last year. the advertisement campaign seems to be working. natasha n. e l t 0. prior to comp doth spain. an extreme cold warning has been issued from much of west in canada, a number of cities are reporting a record low temperatures with the coldest. reaching minus 50 degrees celsius forecasters expects the extreme conditions to last for several days. ah no. again, i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al jazeera, south africa is beginning. 7 days of mourning for nobel peace prize, laurie a desmond tutu who's died at the age of 90. a series of events had being planned to marcus passing, including a state funeral on january, the 1st. there's $1.00 to $2.00 rolls to prominence in the 1980s as an opponent of

apartheid during white minority. both. we have lost, the person will carry the burden of leadership with compassion, with dignity, with humility, and with such good humour. we are comforted and the knowledge that he has left an indelible mark the lives of millions of people who had the privilege and honor of knowing him. lo, committee of his time. he was a witness to the gray roost injustices and most intolerable cruelty that our country has ever witness. cape town, city hall and table mountain have been lit up in purple in honor of the archbishop, and they'll remain late until the seats funeral. purple is linked to the archbishop

because it was the color of his clerical robes. now the new staff shortages due to coven 19 have for sale lines to cancel. hundreds of us flies for the 3rd day in a row. health officials in new york have reported an increase in the number of children being admitted to hospital in australia, the most populous states, new south wales has recorded its 1st death linked to the covered 19 omicron variant testing sites are overwhelmed as the state recorded more than 6000 cases for a 3rd day, and somali as president is calling for the prime minister to be suspended, saying he plans to open a corruption investigation against them. both accused each other of holding up ongoing parliamentary elections. those are the headlines coming up next here on alger 0, it's all hail the long down. exploit it protects the people all the profit, stay with us. sediment and development have altered the course of the rebel. it no longer flows to the sea,

and around 10 years ago it became more susceptible to red tights. the boom of l k calls as discoloration in the water ominous scooped up as water out. and you can see there's a rust colored tinge to it. tests by the fisheries department show the l he in the gutting river is of the alexandria species, which produces talk said raw sleep in a bro. him is a fisherman from malicious don't. but district in collect that in the 1990s, the good he river was clear. you could say the said we didn't have any problems here. now the river is polluted and it smells bad. fisheries officials have a should notices. banning people from selling or eating wallace found along the getting river. the area affected by the red tide is small, but news of the algae bloom has affected seafood trade is in the area. the world economy is headed for recession. china won't be there to save at this

time. northern islands health service at breaking point. south korea sit for one of the worst groups periods in half a century. the richest person in the world just gave $98.00 and a half $1000000.00 to help the homeless. why am i reading these headlines to you? well, it's to prove a point. these could all of these leaving post pandemic 2020 headlines. in reality though, they were all published in november 2019 a month before cove at 90 had even been hurdle. because well, before the current of ours pandemic hit, much of the world was already deep in a crisis of capitalism. and now with millions out of work in top, industries out of the stagnant and health care systems, scrambling for vaccine. the question is, did capitalism turn the coven emergency into a disaster?

lou: o capitalism. it's an ideology and economic system, a political. but how the system based on private ownership and profit 3rd world in a ton of crisis. when the situation demands, we cannot the individual gain a collective benefit, stay at home and protect lives. but they said test test test without preventive measures, that could be a spiking cases. all these cancellations are away to flatten the curve could 19 hasn't been like any other crisis. job losses, health care strugglers, a critical need for relief from the state level struck segments of society that normally don't face these kinds of grave economic stresses. in short, all of a sudden curtis pandemic, once in a century type of crisis, it's become evident to many that pre code the time in crisis. as

entire countries went down, the i spoke with a group of people whose work has been all about dissecting and analyzing capitalism . when people say they want to get back to normal, who complain? that sounds pretty good to me right now. the thing about morality actually inc and politics, you think actually produce a lot going to be one to pretty one out. not even in other people have in there would have to be parenting. keep hungry to come in and talk, and he's from one of the richest in history and we didn't have the money 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 of exploitation of working people. busy that's the paradigm, that's the context that says the stage for our current calamity. this fires has intensified a 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 is the one in the united states. american healthcare is largely privatized and lacks pricing regulation, both key traits of the 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 of free to charge whatever they like. this makes staying healthy in the united states, a scarily expensive proposition. there's a small percentage of the population about 18 percent that 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 and gaps that mean even in short, americans can be left with hefty medical bills to pay. that's why. before the pandemic, it was estimated that 87000000 americans were uninsured, or underinsured, 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 when someone like the crown of ours hits a population that is indebted your devastating population that has no savings, right? 40 percent of americans before the crisis were reported to not be able to handle a $400.00 emergency. america's health care crisis has intensified during the pandemic. a tidal wave of layoffs had meant that as many as 27000000 americans have

lost employer provided health insurance. and without that cover a hospital stay to treat cove. it could cost as much as $73000.00. this is despite a government plan announced in march to cover some, clifford 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, mosques, 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 with are being on e bay with 50 other space bidding on a ventilator. the hospitals are and for profit. and so they don't have adequate staff, right? because that would feed into revenue and they don't want to have extra medical supplies, just languishing not being used. 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, the lack of access to protective here, we're going to see people who don't seek 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 corona viruses. i knew that existed in humans since 19 sixties. and they cause a range of different illnesses from the common cold html lethal varieties such as the outbreak of sars in 2002 and merge in 2012 in 2015 the world health organization. even mr. corona viruses as being among the top possible causes of a major epidemic. so how is it that pharmaceutical companies have been caught? so off guard by this virus, it may, this year, brussels based research center, the corporate europe observatory, published

a detailed investigation into the effectiveness of the innovation medicines initiative. i am i, it's the world's biggest public, private partnership in life sciences. and it directs billions of dollars worth of funds to buy medical research at the world's biggest pharma companies. what the investigation uncovered was that not only did firms in 2017 turn down and e u proposal to work on vaccines for pathogens like karone of ours. but 2600000000 euro of i am ice funds were transferred into projects that represented much more commercially profitable avenues for the pharmaceutical industry. this investigation reinforced to point that big pharma insiders and whistle blowers had been making for a while. that serious matters, like pandemic preparedness, of being held hostage by commercial considerations. on march 5th, les karone, of ours cases, spread across the u. s. a congressional hearings taking place. we also took on a decade ago. the interesting problem of making karone of ours vaccines because we

recognize these as enormous public health threats. and yet we have not seen the big pharma guys and the biotech st. rushing into the space. so dr. pita hurt is one of america's leading vaccine. scientists said that a vaccine his team had created 4 years ago in response to the south outbreak, may have been able to provide patients with cross protection from the virus at the heart of this. but it simply hadn't been commercially enticino for 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 capitalists, direct investment. the capitalist say, you know, it's really important biograph, because that's a huge market. even though the corona virus exists, not in best in a vaccine because that market doesn't really exist and also didn't really want to vaccinate the whole world in this preemptive measure. no,

let's create something that we can sell now. so, you know, we like capitalists, me direct investment at or o'clock the peril whenever a vaccine is hopefully 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 point holds of the american health care system, where unlike in almost every other nation, basic pricing controls simply don't exist. and it's not even as though this is a secret and you're saying it, oh, for sure, the affordable for anyone who needs it. i'm saying we would, we would want to ensure that we work to make it an affordable but we can't control that price because we need the private sector to invest. that was donald trump's health and human services. secretary alex isn't a congressional hearing in february this year, an interesting side, 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 a governments and pharmaceutical giants investing in the so called super heroes of the corporate world, have all stepped into the fray. the ceo of netflix is donating $30000000.00 toward research for a corona virus vaccine. microsoft co founder bill gates has continued the fought against garage of ours investing billions of dollars on the construction of factories working through, develop a coven 19 vaccine. some of the wealthiest people on earth found isn't ceo's of make of corporations on making headlines for donating to cove. it 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 magus has written about it extensively in a book. no such thing as a free gift. i think we have to move past the headline. sometimes mr. gates did

talk about the need for mass testing at an earlier stage than some u. s. officials and that was a good scientific approach to take, but i really didn't question whether or not their efforts were anything more than a bad day. a solution is because there was no evidence that 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're applauding when we see a dipping into their own trousers pockets and giving annie or some cash is we're building that makes the copies. and what's the every walk that anyone can beat up in a baby ordinary guy. i'm supposed to money, and that's not the case. there. billions. all a collective creation, not their own individual question. every bringing a sign of doctors and i. yeah. because no one should have money when other people

are sleeping on the streets 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 wealth. and so when the philanthropists among them contribute to causes, it's often only a missed liver of their net worth. jeff bezos is $100000000.00 donation to us food bags, for example, amounted to 0.07 percent of his estimated well, moccasin bugs, $25000000.00 donation. again, just 0.05 percent of his net. what's the point of all these numbers? isn't that 1000000000 it should be giving more. that's another discussion entirely near the point here is that philanthropy, capitalism is too often used as a distraction from meaningful possibly more expensive systemic changes ramp in corporate tax avoidance. the suppression of minimum wage levels, reliance on 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 act. the frightening, 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 the cumulative, 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 state is, right, the loss is able to provide basic services, the lessons able to protect our public health. the more ammo there is for the corporate sector to say, hey, look, the state is inefficient. the state is incompetent. we, with all of our resources, can save the day. that big philanthropic power to influence is a point that's not lost on 1000000000 is light 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. i role in the foundation, i don't have to raise ah, political campaigns. i don't have the frank elective, i'm not term limited to 8 years odd for, but it's a very nice office and i don't doubt. bill gates is motifs that the boldness very tease hadn't got long history be invoking these things, but he's not beholden to. boats is he in making decisions, his monthly rate, that he wishes there is not when we get roughly 40 that's that's, that's not the constraint works. so what he does is that he's not replacing the pool in a complex won't looking for simple narratives benevolent de leon. is a great,

they have name recognition, a peer heroic, and they've got the cash. however, this pandemic has also shown a light on the other end of the economic spectrum to the key worker delivery drivers, supermarket, shelf stack. as nurses care is the pandemic, momentarily appended the hierarchy of labor. and yet in the u. k, a set of proposed post breaks it. immigration controls in 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 god is a hard catholic systems of those who were deriving the most value from the if not, are there not in the central workers because what is keeping our economy going right now? are the lowest paid workers who are really, are most indispensable part of the workforce. the work is in the health care system at seen the funds that go to work with here when i'm off people on this more than one of the one of the old one that is torn

people working. so should their system are often not earning enough to to, to live on. what do you plan on? because it wasn't just me, my wife is going out and applauding the health care workers. and now megan is also the prime minister on downing street who is part of the gum. ha, the resources that we're going to do, and i just installed in a chest there's a time that's gained renewed currency during this pandemic disaster, capitalism, canadian activists. ortho, naomi klein came up with a years ago and had booked the shock doctrine and went viral during the 2008 great recession. it points to how disasters back recession war a pandemic, not necessarily catastrophic, across the board. in a capital a system, they can also present an opportunity for the money minded. and we've seen

a lot of profiteering during this current pandemic already. i don't think we are the limits that profiteering, but we've got an early sense of which doctors in your companies are starting to for example, price scouts when it comes to basic necessities like math that are on for example, being charged upwards of 15 times their usual cost price gouging is $1.00 manifestation of disaster capitalism. and during this looked down, it's done everything from cause a temporary spike in the price of hand sanitizer, to effect the number of ventilators available to the u. s. government, according to a pro, public or investigation in 2014, the u. s. department of health and human services signed a 13800000 dollar contract with dutch electronics conglomerate phillips to design and manufacturer cheap and portable, ventilator for use in emergencies. although a ventilator was created and the government ordered $10000.00 of them, not a single one was ready at the start of the pandemic. like many countries,

the united states faced critical ventilator shortages, whilst phillips was selling too high, a price, 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 sciences. it's deadly bridge to prioritize the more expensive overseas orders. and it's only been recently that the department of how human sciences has re negotiated the same order, but it has been forced to pay for the ventilators at a higher price. that renegotiation that lindsey mentioned, it resulted in the us government ordering $43000.00 of the commercial ventilators in april at 4 times the original 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 taxpayer funded bailouts. take the u. s. airline industry, which had its request for a $50000000000.00 bailout approved by the u. s. senate in march,

while the lines were condition long job protections. the sticking point for many is that over the past 5 years, the big for ally companies, american delta, south western united have not only made record profits, but collectively spent nearly the same amount. 45000000000 on stock buybacks and dividends 2 ways in which companies can directly enrich that corporate executives and shareholders. so it's not the things bailouts aren't necessary now to avoid mass unemployment, except a substantial part of their current financial problem is arguably of their own making. billions of dollars were mobilized, basically in an incident to bail out corporate america. and this is incredibly ironic because these, these corporations were, you know, in a week financial place because of their own business models because they had over leveraged themselves because they had engaged in pushing money out to shareholders instead of planning for tough times. meanwhile,

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. do you have a form of packet and didn't need to fill in? because we'll catch, you know, reading cute and say, well, capitalism works when we kiss company goes rolling. when things aren't watching a bad idea, they fail to make sure that clearly haven't happened in any society under this. and then, and that's probably a good when we come out today. i think we can certainly say that the old month for of public product good work. and i think we can all saw some questions about why did last the socialize and yet outside christ, gameboy profit. and 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. if the idea we began with that way before the crisis of this corona virus, we will already grappling the crisis of capitalism. we should have this phrase that we need to save the economy, or we need to keep businesses 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's lives. 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, and put people at the center. we are living at the moment. because the route the nation cannot prepare their own companies or their own public sufficiently to prevent the fear the walking, the sort of venturing have not been fair to share. they've been ordered by a few people or less or more longer by market and other stuff that it's really easy to ignore. it's clear that actually everything near a whole collection fraction. individual action is also clear that there are some parts of the adjustment and should be pretty much nations that i'm interested in all the

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