lation with the release of the multi year long investigation mccaskill summed up the big pharma price gouging quite beautifully stating can you imagine if you went to an auto dealership and last year's exact model was being sold at a twenty percent markup and then you went back the next year and it happened again that's exactly what's happening in the prescription drug industry where the cost of identical drugs skyrockets a year after year after year the report also highlights that despite big drug companies being prop it's increased by eight point five billion over those five years the actual number of prescriptions during that time decreased by forty eight million julia johnson a spokesman for p. little h r m a r criticized the report telling the media that this is yet another misleading report that ignores the robust negotiation that occurs between medicare part d. plans middlemen and bio pharmaceutical companies. juliet i believe

that's a thankless job being a spokesperson for a big pharma company as top and i feel that you're right it is misleading i mean big pharma would never dream of inflating costs lying about their products or buying off doctors to overprescribe pain killers to the country that would they would yeah they would do that all right. but they wouldn't do it as well if we were all truly watching the hawks. but. that's. just the bottom. like you know that i got. it so. well that we're going to watch the science i robot

and how many. more pills expensive red ones blue ones right ones left one do i take and which the world gets turned up side right side right again the green color of the red at purple yeah you know whatever it takes people kind of want to know why why is the story important while a we're all going get old someday and be no one wants to see you know old people swindled because of the day they worked all their lives put into social security and a lot of times i was whittled most american elderly folks are living off of their social security checks and maybe whatever little bit of retirement they have. according to the centers for disease control and prevention ninety one percent of individuals over the age of sixty five are reported to take at least one have at least one drug prescription that they have to take sixty seven percent of all seniors take at least the reaper scription drugs that you have to take in your in

order to live you know forty one percent taking five or more so when you hear about corporation and corporate greed because it can be anything other than that i'm sorry now stepping in and saying oh well we know that you have to take these pills to survive you have to at least ninety one percent of you have to take one of these pills and then we're going to up the prices on these you're appear despite making massive profits. perhaps you can report that. medicare beneficiaries out of pocket spending is. expected to rise forty one. percent of their social security income in two thousand and thirteen twenty thirteen people paying out of pocket medical bills things like that. that's going to rise to fifty percent in twenty thirty incredible in twenty thirty medicare ages eighty five and over our projected. seven percent of their social security income.

for health care on average. by twenty thirty so we don't. that could be me i care about that. we should only be around in your. time time. well this is one of those things that's happening is a very large boom are the baby boomer generation which is getting older and older and older. these are the people that are going to need this stuff. people are going to have a lot of ongoing issues specially with the increase and all timers to mention those kind of things in that age group so it's going to be a big cost to everybody and i think the funny thing is that medicare and medicaid numbers and everything all these prices are based on trying to get a little more profit out of each layer of those middlemen that they talk about and one of the things where the increase for every brand name every single brand name

drug that was in the top twenty drugs every single one of them has had price increases over the last five years and prices for these drugs increased twelve percent every year for the last five years on average which is what gives you that about ten times higher than the. do you know that you're asking our our country's elderly to pick up this cost or someone else to pick up the costs when everybody is you know our generation is going to have to figure out a way to pay for all of this shit man again re that's going on and the thing is if you're making those kind of profits but your first private was it means you're go out and there is no other explanation prices your way around there but every time you see in that industry it's all a lot of finger pointing oh the pharmaceutical companies no no no it's not it's the pharmacies themselves a little it's a little bit over a little bit everybody wants to point fingers but nobody actually has to get to the

real root cause they were say it was like one of them they were saying that six out of twenty of those drugs that we talked about has had their prices increase over increase of over one hundred percent and in one case just to understand how crazy the says the weighted average wholesale acquisition cost for a single drug increased by four hundred and seventy seven percent over that five year period just imagine everyone even the middleman the small pharma suppose all fall pharmacy owner down to his customers is losing while everybody along there's gotta stop them the world yeah gotta stop. venison is the new kale that's the chalkboard message outside of a restaurant that let a small group of even activists in toronto canada protest chef michael hunter. hunter is actually is well known for his meat loving menu at his restaurant after

about a dozen protesters came for four days holding up signs saying murderer animals are not our c.e.o. also citing that quote ever serves the cruel flawed they also farm animals meant to run in the wild like deer and quote. hunters respond he brought an entire dressed in butchered venison leg and his equipment to the front window of his restaurant proceeded to cut steaks from the meat he then went back. into the kitchen cooked it up and ate it in the front window in front of a view of all the protestors and while protesters were flabbergasted and deeply offended by chef hunter's actions diners were more amused been moved by the protest saying it only made them want to eat there more chef michael hunter's antler restaurant focuses on local seasonal and wild food such as forage leaks and mushrooms as well as bison boar rabbit duck and deer and a quick look at their menu actually shows far more vegan and vegetarian options that most meat focused

a south was from and i've been in so i want to responded the e-mail to the toronto star stating quote these protests are not unusual for the restaurant industry and therefore we're not surprised by the actions of protesters we are operating business as usual our identity as a restaurant is well known throughout the city as is our ethical farming and foraging initiatives we stand by our restaurants identity and the identity of myself as a chef which leads me to wonder if the factory farmed pigs cows and chickens might be worth the fight if they were meant to run in a field like deer so hawk archer's let me ask you what just under our blind or have these big protests or simply lost the thread of their own narrative. question of course and i know it's a very controversial sound like all the things we talk about. this. this is actually one of the things that we talk about and it's good to be. i don't

think anybody can sit around and defend factory farming and you know i had my and seven hundred thousand and we were talking about this story. it really made me brought up that it. was venice and locally grown locally sold in like that whole i mean when you look at like the difference between. an example venison is more vitamins and minerals per serving than three ounces of lean beef contains two hundred forty seven calories and fifteen grams total three hundred thirty four cultures together so it's already healthier and it's not like we have a lack of running around you know and and i think that it's one of those cases where it's like i hate. pointing out protesters as a protest is always good for speeding but it's misnamed. this doesn't sound like a restaurant was out there like trying to destroy the world and. it sounds like. like you said it's got local ingredients is making

a small as small programs. and bigger fish to fry gold. really big companies that you know. right now they treat their animals and treat the food that eventually they send out too much steroids all of it that's i think where it becomes a do the protesters actually want. some kind of dialogue or is it just to sort of have a diatribe about it there's a difference because i think everybody here is vegan and they assume oh my god why active egan's running around and this doesn't help is what part of that doesn't help because the truth is the goal for all of for everybody is the same and i think for health reasons everything we should be eating these cows and chickens and pigs that we're eating because they're domesticated but the thing that was interesting to me was that chef hunter again that's actually his real name. invited the

protesters to come along with him on a foraging thing which is what they do instead of going to a store and doing all the zentral he goes out into nature and literally forages for things like leaks and he doesn't stay nibley make sure they're doing making sure that they're not doing in places makes goes out and gets maple syrup all of these things and hunts and fishes everything is some ethically as a glee as it could be done and is absolutely against all of the we're talking about these. factory farms what he did after the day was invite them on a foraging with no meats and marni ugur who actually was the woman who put together the protest refuse the invitation which i thought was really terrible because you could have really had a dialogue because when she was asked why her her group doesn't focus on factory farms why are they going after the little guy and why are they all on this like the commute is a mess of she said they don't because which i think is strange you know why are you out. doing you know going against these genetically mutated seriously

abuse nutrient poor disease and a biopic steroids stuffed animals cows and chickens i guess because one my assume is you know it's they don't run through fields correctly or they're not cute it goes back to the dentist larry thing they're not cute enough you don't see them but seeing as she said i won't get through to them and then when you would move original plan for them. to proceed as it was when this so the whole venison is calle it happened back in december do you know why why they didn't do the protest back then because it was too cold to hold the same animals that there's something every time i see where you're coming from a lot of things argue about this what you go that is where dialogue has to have people are going to be you've got a dialogue and you want to change somebody and get them to see your viewpoint thing you go out on the forging thing and say hey you know what let's have that

conversation maybe i convince this person that even the killing of animals and is bad you know and it's a process so i'm going to a court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter. dot com coming up teacher author and speaker of the walk and walk in the center of the hawk's nest to discuss mass media celebrity obsession with mass shooters stay to watching the whole. you understand. it's just two charts overlay them one is the u.s. dollar one is the big prize as the u.s. dollar has moments of strength in the otherwise long multi decade bear market. you see a pressure on going as the dollar will just bear market and its new all time lows on the dollar and seven day you'll see it going to new all time highs but the dollar is the devil's currency the dollar is different currency that supports the

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expulsion of russian diplomats from the west and putin's next to them is off to a rocky start with you with. every story needs a villain that holds true not just for t.v. shows or hollywood blockbusters but to a viral news story as well but when that villain is clearly pure evil does it make sense to bestow on them a spot in history's pantheon of murderers terrorists and all around horrible people whether it be parkland pulse nightclub or any other deadly tragedy we often spend news cycle after news cycle dwelling and obsession over

a single madman's myriad of entirely hypothetical triggers and motives and once we pass the initial phase of a sighting partisan values and politically self-serving markers to a perpetrator's crime we then pass on to the next stage politicizing the victims taking advantage of the followed in every way imaginable and spinning the narrative as thoroughly as possible to make sure no tragedy goes to political waste to help us understand how our coverage of tragedy has become so corrupt and we're joined today. why do you walk and author educator and welcome the hey how you guys done good always a pleasure now you know whenever you see a perfect attack like this take place as to what they were saying the media's m.o. was always a wall to wall coverage of the perpetrator you know why did they do it let's have a panelist guest as to why they did it if there's no you know reason right away and everybody kind of jumps on board and you're not about this person and their name over over and of course people are curious i mean there's a natural curiosity there. but when does you know it but is this

approach ultimately harmful in your opinion you know to us as a society i believe it's super harmful in this culture of needing to be remember. something people will throw themselves in front of a truck for social media likes and it's disgusting and it results in even more disgust and i mean think about it let's just make this really simple two thousand and twelve a coward walk into a school murder twenty children six adults and himself right now with sandy hook since then we had over six hundred mass shootings. eight hundred people. and over sixty four hundred people was injured all right all of these people and it's always the same story is some body lone wolf where he was picked on he was a trouble whatever crappy narrative they give this person they blast his face all

over social media all over the internet and then we start talking about this person that congress does nothing but i think that's our job and this is why i have the main. a lot of these monsters memorize but i'm not going to give them that credit we don't we don't need to blow images or share their stories but make it a point to talk about them in their perspective who cares about their perspective we've got to stop that because we're adding fuel to the fire and we're creating a tradition of copycats. and i think that's true and this is something i was warned of movies like natural born killers it's an idea fame above all else and of course the sort of culture of fame or infamy that comes out of this great thing so how the question now is how do we balance. factual extensive coverage of a crime to a point that's needed and the desire to deprive those killers of the notoriety and

fame what is it is it not showing the pictures what are the steps we need to take started being so hungry to find out information about the shooter family's gone into their homes we should be promoting the narrative of the young people especially the young kids from popular who are really really really putting themselves out there to try to challenge government to do something because these. you know. they say that. maybe is not a. given to the people of the time but this might really be. going to saying over and over again they started going to same results the definition of insanity they really have. i mean good but it's. the same thing over and over and over again and we're not getting any results so we have to shift the narrative we have to talk about the people the surviving victims and tell their

stories because then we can create a different type of empathy that you know because people actually oh my god this this shooter he was he was always alone i just. that is instagram account he only had three followers. it was said. disturbing. that this idea that if the victims had just been nicer as if every one of those kids in parkland still has injuries that those people had just been a little bit nicer you know what i was picked on at school. to know my school and to say that these kids this sort of this blaming the victims while making victim out of the perpetrator is. something to be gained from understanding that person to where that way you can better predict or better. person coming again isn't there something we said we should be recognizing who these people are what potentially cause them to do what they do whether the mental situation they were in

that way the kids at the next school can say oh. adults who are maybe whether school or whatever may be able to recognize who this person could be could end up being like that maybe i need to reach out to that person or maybe i need to tell somebody. yes but we're doing it and people about this last shooter and they still did nothing. right we have information and we have really really really. conversational mental illness we're not doing a good job at treating people who are problems. politician and how they feel about it especially when they take money from especially when they want to try to justify ok we. need to hear from them anymore who cares about. we need to we need to shift the conversation.

and we need to. elevate the. even more because i think that. these kids are young and. their speeches. and how this is being organized and people are actually trying to trying to really make change so i'm inspired but again how do we continue to elevate the voices of the victims instead of creating many celebrities of these little. mentally disturbed people who are doing these all of the same thing do you think though the. danger in because whenever you shine the spotlight of media on something it very can easily become that magnifying glass on the. burn and kill the can really is shining that media spotlight on the victims. a lot of people want to jump in and politicize everything they do whether they're against what

they're saying or more what they're saying or the victims don't have a message and they're just trying to like go on with their lives and heal shining bright in ten spotlight can also there are those folks so do you think this type of coverage helps promote a productive discussion or politicizing children. politicizing children and the survivors hurting it in the long run. i'm glad you said. alice has been getting attacked by alex jones and. they have been getting attacked and that's all we think but also. learn as they get older that putting yourself out there but i do feel wholeheartedly i feel like we don't give enough attention to the real victims

and that's going to come. a lot of media praised and it's going to kind of. broken into pieces it's going to come up so it's like you know. it's give and take but we have to do something different because you know. ok so many big story deliveries happen in charleston we know. he was like a nazi want to be we know he was a little junior white supremacist we know he had a stupid haircut we know all of these things about him but the smaller part of the story is again as soon as those police officers pick them up they took him to get a burger because he was hungry you know what i mean instantly taking these people that have done these things that burger from my perspective was like a silent thank you like a sound that you took a stand because i mean i've been thrown in the back of a paddy wagon you know. and there was no hot burger really waiting over me on the way no it was that sandwich inside central booking with that little thin layer of

many than that modi and the one thing that is a danger and you know there are three very different people at this table and i think as if we start sort of figuring out how to look for it you become you know we have to figure out the the profiling and i think you understand this if we start profiling you are the most dangerous person in the room you know you the white male i know sometimes you know i don't know if it's there so when there is this is called me i'll be alone you. know whatever but that's not what i'm and i think i like what you were saying earlier actually though that i think all of this does need to focus more recognizing the mental health failures we have in schools across this country and how we kids and how we you know how we help kids i think that's the most important thing that's missing from a lot of this conversation and we can get into the gun debate another time because we're run out of time now but realistically all that's what's really missing i

think is the mental health in schools that debate needs that that debate needs to happen as always thank you so much for coming on a day always a pleasure talking with your great subject matter to man. crazy crazy stuff out there but those were the watkins author educator always a pleasure thank you. for anyone with a love of spays advanced technology and throwing g.i. joe parachute figures into the sky when they were a kid i've got great news for you this week nasa announced it will once again be testing it supersonic parachute for its next mars rover mission on thursday march twenty eighth and it's quite the spectacle of human engineering and science fiction awesomeness the advanced supersonic parachute inflation research experiment also known as a spider will be ferried some fifty one kilometers into earth's atmosphere the thin air is similar to the conditions on mars by the eighteen meter tall terrier black brant nine rocket aspira will then be traveling faster than sound as its parachute

unfurls and we get one more step closer to nasa scheduled twenty twenty new rover mission to mars that's an incredible when i first saw that the last time the test it i think it was back in the fall you know and you saw and that's what so this was comes from you sort of thing open up like that's incredible bit of human genius right there that makes me as again we talk about the dark side as humanity was shooters but then we got to you always go talk about the best things we can do and that's one of them is the using a badge a nation of mathematics involved in putting together something like this it's amazing and it's fun because i'm sure they were the kind of people who put perishables on their g.i. joes and barbie dolls and sent them down all day long i doubt that and well that's our scope and if they remember everyone in this world we're not told them open up so i tell you all i love you i am i robot and on top of the lala keep watching those hawks another great day and everybody.

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