it's something that all workers should should have so certainly there's an effort. on the part of this administration to reduce the voice of unions and to reduce the voice of workers that maybe some of it but i think the main thing is the post office takes in seventy billion dollars a year in revenue and those in the private side want to take that and turn it into a profit making machine rather than public service and maybe set their own postal rates well think think think think about if you don't have to go down there were road then maybe the only way you get there is a twenty dollars surcharge ouch what do you see going forward from a business perspective and how do you see postal customers impacted well that's a great example if they have to pay a surcharge for going that last march of the last ten miles or for example if you had to pay for a forwarding your mail when you move there's a whole host of options out there you know the post office does a passports except for the one that the inspector general noted back in two

thousand and fourteen was banking services holland and from one of the same reasons that the postal service is so important getting to that underserved area seven percent of americans and these are primarily rural americans are unbanked no banking whatsoever twenty percent of americans are under banked so if you could have banking services people know that you can get a money order but you can get prepaid cards in south korea for example the postal service will take deposits to private banks so that is the area that the inspector general said may have the most promise for the postal service but there's other ideas that they can do now what doesn't make sense anymore is what maybe did twenty five years ago and that's getting rid of saturday delivery because as we discussed at the top of this segment they're making money the postal service is making money by delivering for the other contractors on the weekends and now even sundays and sunday absolutely amazon even if they don't private ties mark is saturday

delivery saturday post office hours say for now. i think that there's bipartisan support strong bipartisan support for a vibrant public postal service including six they and sometimes seven day delivery and there's some growing support for expanded services in the financial side and in other ways the post office often is the heartbeat of that neighborhood the heartbeat of that community and there's so many more things that the post office can do should do and we look forward to being part of that process they take away saturday and the switchboard on the hill will explode that's right vox populi mark kimmitt steen bart chilton thank you for stepping into the big picture thank you hala. coming up live in disease it's real scary and this summer you are at higher than usual risk this is the big picture on our t.v. america.

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it's summer time summer time some some summer time and while we're out there having fun one of the biggest buzz kills is so small you can hardly see it this little critter is the deer tick and if you're sharing the great outdoors with bambi you could pick up one of these ticks simply by brushing up against the same shrubbery blood is on this little buggers menu and it will gladly swap some of yours for the bacteria that causes lyme disease and the threat is particularly bad this summer how to avoid lyme disease and how to know if you've contracted it in time to prevent serious long term consequences let's ask dr joe alton who with his advanced nurse practitioner wife amy has authored among other books the survival medicine

handbook the essential guide for when medical help is not on the way their website is doom and gloom dot net it has over a thousand posts and podcasts and videos doctor welcome well thanks for having me obviously the best way to avoid lyme disease is not getting a tick bite so wear long pants when hiking in the woods and look real closely all over yourself in your clothes afterwards but doc what to do if you spot a tick on your skin. well first i want to say congratulations because even though having it sick on your skin isn't the best news you could possibly get by being observant you've just reduced your chances of getting lyme disease exponentially now here's how to remove that tick use a fine tip tweezers like what i have here and grab the tick as close as you possibly can to your skin your goal is to get the entire tick including the head and the mouth parts then what you do is you raise it up in

a straight even motion and get the entire tic out of the skin if you jerk or you twist what happens is you break off the mouth part of the mouth stays in the actual skin which in cause more inflammation afterwards of course what you want to do is you want to clean the area with soap and water and you want to. of course if you want to wash your hands now what about the urban myth you're supposed to light a match and then blow it out and then touch them with a match. well that probably won't be healthy for them but it will be probably even less healthy for you if it actually is not known to be as effective a method as simply removing the tick gotcha ok now if you don't spot it tick and you have been bitten what are the early symptoms and how long do you have to sidestep long term complications and what is the treatment. well the good news is

that ticks usually don't transmit even if they bite you they don't transmit the disease for a good twenty four maybe forty eight hours takes them a while to get the bacteria that causes lyme disease to go into your body now of course if symptoms do happen though usually occur probably about three days to a month a even a month after the actual bite and what you'll see is a spreading rash that oftentimes looks like a bull's eye and this is followed afterwards by fever and chills by muscle aches joint aches and certainly fatigue and other you almost feel like you have the flu now a by the time you get to that point is it still time to avoid lifelong complications yeah actually the truth of the matter is is that it can be treated if it's diagnosed early antibiotic like doxycycline are very very effective in treating the infection and curing the infection if they're used early but that's the thing

they have to be use early if you have reached the late stage of live disease well they don't work as well and the truth of the matter is a you'll need to treat based upon the symptoms that you wind up getting things like nerve damage and gosh other major issues that can occur with chronic lyme yeah you anticipated my next question talk some more about the long term complications is this a disease you have for a life. well yeah so far it appears to be something that may be very very long term they have. found people have a lot of issues that seem to affect nerves and they have not only with motor nerves and things like that but also with the central nervous system with your brain people wind up feeling confused having difficulty focus people wind up having almost a type of dementia in the really severe cases and so this is something that is

a big issue a very complex and the problem is is that we failed to diagnosis since lyme disease has the look of a lot of other diseases a lot of physicians over look at a lot of patients of course of they don't see the tick they overlook it as well they don't find it and they wind up getting themselves in trouble but look for that bull's eye it almost looks like the target department store logo right it's a circle with a dot in the middle yes yes exactly it's called era thema migrans and it's bread's out over time and it's or it's an interesting rash to look at over the course of a few days because it changes a little bit every day now about our pets we live in a real woods area and frankly one of the reasons we chose a yellow lab was because it's easier to spot ticks then if roxy is a black lab or a chocolat so that ted holler is real important but even with one we still flick

ticks off for often i know you're not a vet but our pets are at risk too right. absolutely you know dogs cats even horses can get lyme disease and a pet owner would be very wise to be concerned about ticks not only for their animals health but also for their own i would say to these people to try to keep your pets out of high grass or shrubby areas that's where ticks like to hide so it's something that you definitely want to avoid if possible and also before they come in from their outdoor adventure make sure that you check those dogs and cats and other animals carefully especially around the head the neck and the ears now the rash that bull's eye isn't going to be as a parent what symptoms to look for to indicate that you missed a tick in your pet for instance well the pet actually acts sort of sick they don't

really get that bull's eye rash that you see that the. dog will for your cat will lose appetite will be sluggish and this is a probably a good. indicator that you my they might deserve a trip to the vet hey. i can't resist the temptation while we have quality time and the doctor is in ca and based on all the stuff in your book caution of us about some of the other summertime woes that you have covered in the survival medicine handbook sun exposure for instance it's serious business right. you're absolutely right holland sun exposure is serious business you know they he kills hundreds of people in the united states every year and hospitalized is thousands more and in this situation we actually see more injuries and deaths from the heat than we have from any other natural disaster maybe outside of hurricane katrina. you know people

know to use sunscreen but very few of them know how to use it appropriately of those have to apply it fifteen minutes before you go out in the sun to let it absorb it not once you're out on the beach and in the sun also you have to frequently reapply it during the day that is so important you know you sweat you go in the water perhaps and that sunscreen loses its potency you absolutely have to reapply it frequently poison ivy if you know you've been in contact you have a bit of a grace period to go us scrub up with soap and water right. yes as a matter of fact i recommend a specific so that soap is called fell's nafta f e l s hyphen and a p t h a and that is a so that was used once as a laundry detergent you find it in the ads in old magazines back from the one nine hundred forty s. but it is an excellent way to get resin off of your hands and off of your skin even

off of your clothes the problem is that you have to do it within an hour or so of coming in from your poison ivy adventure and once you get it don't scratch it right. oh absolutely i'll tell you it will be almost impossible not to have an overwhelming urge to scratch but if you do you wind up breaking the skin and break the skin you know the skin is your armor and any defect in that armor can lead to infections some of which can be pretty serious had a friend a couple of summers ago who got it so bad she ended up in the emergency room and i guess they gave. her something to fight back because she had been scratching but the calamine lotion works if you see that you've got it right. it works to to some extent it's not going to get rid of all of your symptoms and it doesn't really

speed up recovery but the good news is that even if you use nothing at all you will be better in about two to three weeks we started out talking about lyme disease and the centers for disease control and prevention now reports a tripling of the number of disease cases resulting from mosquito tick and flea bites nationally over thirteen years c.d.c. says rising temperatures are partly to blame and i'm reading that maine leads the nation in lyme disease incidence over the past three decades their summers are growing hotter and longer so we're definitely seeing some fallout from a creeping climate change with lyme disease are we. you're absolutely right you know summers are indeed getting hotter and hotter and when the summers are warmer than the ticks have the opportunity to be active in other words looking for people to bite for a much longer period of time during the year and so for that reason you'll see more cases of lyme disease the other reasons why we're seeing more is that there believe

it or not is a virgin ng mouse and deer population mice field by are the most popular target for juvenile ticks which can spread the disease and the deer are and the favorite target for the adult ticks and one other thing is what i call suburban sprawl you know their farms nurseries are selling their properties to developers and what's happening is now your gardens in a lot of cases are closer to the forest closer to where the ticks are and you're exposed to them more often so it may be multi-factorial but i'll tell you that hotter summers are a big part of dr joe alton doom and gloom dot net and the highly recommended survival medicine handbook thank you for your time. thank you for having me. and thank you for watching that is the big picture if you missed any part of this

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one else seemed wrong. just don't. let me. get to shape out just becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

because er this is the kaiser report yes i looked up you from the dest because that's the way mainstream media anchors connote seriousness. i'm serious say a let's go to stacy. that's true is specially prevalent i've noticed on the b.b.c. they always do that oh yeah i'm working oh hey hey. actually i have a headline here quick tweet about santa because we do often mock the corporate media but they did come through with quite an amazing piece and i don't know if it was just on their website c.n.n. dot com but the tweet is from tim schork and he says a graphic from c.n.n. identifying civilian massacres in yemen with the bomb makers raytheon lockheed

martin and general dynamics this should be standard in war reporting searing images here's yemen and here is the various raytheon bomb that's the general dynamics bomb so that's pretty impressive that they did that you know they don't because they're typical of the war channel you know the company itself martin marietta was simultaneously running some advertisements for how socially conscious they are with little kids running around playing while they were at the same time you know dropping bombs on kids elsewhere yes they were sending around a tweet saying send us your selfie so we'll put it as part of our thing and of course a sent a bunch of people son tend to them responses of children in yemen being blown up something of how this town reporting before because it's obvious and people are on the ground they shall stop shots of flak you know pieces of shrapnel these bombs with filmmakers name on the bomb and whether it's phosphorous in l. from the u.s.

showing up all over these war zones or here in yemen. has been kind of known for quite some time the us is in the u.k. our arms dealers sell those arms are going to show up somewhere so overseas we have these arms dealers and this horrifying graphic in new haven connecticut we have drug dealers which are pharmaceutical companies many of them private because they make so much money like the family in connecticut who sells oxycontin well here's a new wave of insanity the zombification of the american population and you can't read this and think that something horrible horrible is going wrong here is the headline it's not just new haven mass k. to overdose symptom of national crisis at least ninety five people in new haven overdosed on the drug in two days a similar events become more common across the u.s. they call it a mass rapid fire overdose event ninety five people overdosed in the new haven

connecticut on k two which is the synthetic marijuana they all like passed out in the green the new haven green right outside yale university one of the most prestigious ivy league universities in america where many of our presidents attend school there and it was a mass scary horror like it's a horror film right that's that's a classic scene from a horror film that people are just dropping the color falling out well you know what i thought of immediately was i want digress to lengthily at this moment but dimitri our last essay the collapse gap and when the soviet union collapsed because of us meddling and boris yeltsin and all that's going on they had the skyrocketing alcoholism and social toss trophy and here in the us because you've had this enormous financial at reengineering to take all the money being printed and put in the pockets of a few folks and leave the vast majority in the state of zombification this is the collapse gap he was talking about the u.s.

and the soviet union both collapsed in the one nine hundred eighty nine one nine hundred ninety piri. it just took a stake in the u.s. as she describes it you no longer to realize that collapse but for the same reasons and for the same time the political machinations were saying the same results yet in the soviet union when they collapsed the institutions around you collapsed and you notice that the mainstream media will project the concerns of the elite and the elite often say that they explain russia gay as getting the american population to not trust institutions around them and i think what you're seeing is that there's the institutions around them their entire society the fabric of the society has abandoned them but it hasn't it hasn't been as obvious and dramatic like since the financial crisis you could actually see this situation from two thousand and so from the crash of two thousand basically ever since and not only have incomes declined but rapidly but the wealth and income gap from two thousand really went out of control spiraled up to the top and something happened from that crash from

how they dealt with it from the federal reserve something i mean this is for a bigger topic for a. bridge came up and whoever was on the inside is now left in the spine of yale university having a spontaneous zombification event courtesy of the pharmaceutical corporations and it's just so appropriate that yale is one of the primary institutions of elite. power so that basically they have to go to yale or harvard and those to control so much of the fabric of our power centers so right outside yale and they also mention and this has been covered but it is still shocking to see these numbers and twenty seventeen drug overdoses killed nearly two hundred people in america per day according to the centers for disease control and prevention data released this week a new record driven by the deadly opioid epidemic since k two is first detected in

the u.s. in two thousand and eight clusters of overdose out. breaks have become more and more common about fifty six people overdose from k two in brooklyn i'm a one hundred overdose in lancaster county pennsylvania and july twenty seventeen and forty people overdose in dallas texas i'm a twenty fourteen so it's there aren't as many deaths from this to but what happens is they have mass elucidations and they turn into like zombies and they just fall over in the middle of the intersection like those shows we see coming out of hollywood the walking dead or the movies various horror movies the popular culture is reflecting the guise of the zombification of the american population and cashing in on the box office while the pharmaceuticals cash in the cash register while the politicians cash in on insider trading while the media cashes in on high ratings but unfortunately nobody in the real economy is cashing in they're all

going bankrupt and here again like where in this crisis situation of the institutions failing the american population a great majority of them the elites are concerned they recognize that the population does not have faith in the institutions and yet they're having faith and all sorts of stuff in fact that comes into this next paragraph because they're saying that you know says that that cannabinoid cannabinoid. marijuana but it's the portly they said it's the mix of different concentrations of other drugs that who have the makers puts in these and they say despite the mystery of each batch k two is appealing to drug users because its cost is low as chemicals aren't detected on standard drug tests that they might have to take out work and it's changing mixtures make law enforcement efforts more complicated than with pure drugs such as marijuana so despite the mystery of what they're about to take they're willing to take that they're willing to believe fake news they're willing to take

a synthetic marijuana they're willing to take in. anything that might dull their pain now just a mystery substance and by being it's a lottery to oblivion and as an escape from the reality that their institutions their american institutions have turned them into chattel human chattel i think that's the right word yeah well there's a you know there's it's a great article because there's loads of quotes about how terrifying it was all these people dropping at all at the same time you know you're just on a stroll through the the public green the public spaces a public area and people are just dropping as you're watching and i'm i don't want to you know get to you know controversial and whatnot but i mean this is been going on in the poor neighborhoods for quite some time yet what makes this newsworthy is that you know yell university that's not a poor neighborhood that's a rich neighborhood that's what makes it suddenly newsworthy and that's why they

call it like spontaneous overwhelming can of been this syndrome but up until recently it would just be called not a gnat in the hood nobody would care because those folks were already marginalized meanwhile in chicago where the advanced stages of this are taking place you've got wholesale slaughter going on of the murder rate skyrocketing that's the next step well here we have the people falling out as they call it now and the dean of the school of public health stand firm and said my fear is that the synthetic cannabinoids might be a new wave occupying the fire department the emergency room an e-mail you can imagine the pain and suffering the patient's family on the patients themselves is quite a big burden on a small city it would be a big burden in a big city remember these are public health you have to treat these people because they might be dying and that yale university medical school which is one of the best in the entire united states very expensive this the city has to pay for the taxpayer has to pay for it so here we have this crazy situation where who are these

taxpayers paying for this of the obama pair care folks are paying full boat like. a oh you me i'm supporting like a thousand cannabinoid addicted losers out sob yeah yeah yeah well this is a no this is another this is the general taxpayer and this is important to note because this is going in to my final headline here which ties the first one where you're seeing the bombs drop in yemen linked to lockheed martin linked to general dynamics linked to raytheon here big media companies are branching into health care here's why and they point to comcast remember where rachel maddow works a member comcast cares well because of this sort of huge profits because remember we have we because we say we're capitalists so we can't fix any prices but we can force everybody to buy these prices where there's no limit to how much the health how much is going to cost you to walk into yale university medical so you and i could never go into yale medical into the emergency room because we would be stuck

with a one hundred thousand dollar bill just for walking in there right somebody who passes out without any health insurance in the green well they're going to be treated in the taxpayer's going to pay for it so our taxes will pay for that but here you see these media companies you see all sorts of telecom all the old billies that run the media that run the telecoms there that run the internet so google facebook these people are getting into the health care this this racket of a system that we have like obamacare like this no cap so the medicaid costs like they're getting in on it so they're pouring into it and that leaves the question of is it going to take all those years at c.n.n. that loves war they love the countdown to war right it took them all these years to finally say who's benefiting from it are they going to cover this health crisis in america if they're profiting from it now they won't contest obviously one of the evil.