i am. with. a leading pharmaceutical company is accused of fueling america's opiate epidemic by aggressively pushing its painkillers and downplaying the risks it calls the release of e-mails as part of a multi district lawsuit. the hong kong is gripped by protests for the 13th weekend running with riders throwing fire bombs at police responded with tear gas and water cannon we look at how a figurehead of the opposition is going to skills abroad. also this hour leaked e-mails reveal how chemical giant months conspired to discredit a group of mothers who criticize the company's use of pesticides.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. recently unsealed court documents reveal that per do pharma conspired to aggressively push its opiate painkillers screenshots of email correspondence published in a multi district open lawsuit have led to accusations the giant corporation calls america's biggest drug epidemic the company is also accused of downplaying the risks of addiction this led to doctors prescribing its pills to patients even with only minor pain with further details here is killed muffin. the usa is in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic. with the.

in response to the opioid epidemic 48 different us states have taken action against produce pharma a drug manufacturer owned by the sackler family now even the company itself admits that those affected should get help as soon as possible while purdie farmer is prepared to defend itself vigorously in the opioids a geisha the company has made clear that it sees little good coming from here so wasteful it's a geisha in the pills the people and communities affected by the opiate crisis need help now now it's certainly commendable the focus on helping victims rather than simply avoiding blame but some 1000000 e-mails that have just been released show the sackler family and produce pharmaceuticals in a rather negative light richard sackler then the president oversaw the creation of some public health advocacy groups it's implied that the american pain society and the now defunct american pain foundation operated almost as front groups then

president richard sackler explained his motives our goal is to buying these organizations more closely to us than here to for but also to align them with our expanded mission and to see that the fate of our products are next to it could we pound up with the trajectory of the pain movement that these organizations works to convince the us public that pain related issues were not being properly addressed however that's not all the e-mails have shown dr kathleen foley a neurologist who was also a paid speaker for produce pharma urged richard sackler to expand and to collaborate with other drug companies who stood to make a profit from an expansion of pain awareness. i'm thinking of an alternative strategy of bringing together all the members of the pharmaceutical industry who have drugs out there and trying to come together as a sort of he's if you recognizing that your particular drug has been recently identified in the newspapers as a drug issue the pain awareness campaign may have resulted in giving some people

a temporary buzz but the pain felt by us society in the aftermath of the resulting opioid epidemic is far greater it's very clear that purview pharma and other manufacturers from very early on were interested in one thing and that was their bottom line they were really indifferent to the well being of patients who would actually be taking the opioids that they were peddling and their wanted gender was to make money so hopefully manufacturers played a major role in the current american hope you would have to demick they were not the sole and to do responsible for the epidemic but without their full i highly doubt this epidemic would have come to pass it was their misrepresentation of the risks and benefits to pain killers that led 1st and foremost to an epidemic of

overprescribing kelley painkillers for minor in chronic pain conditions which ultimately gave way to the current epidemic of opioid addiction an overdose death we've asked for their pharma for comment and we'll bring you any response that we receive. clashes have erupted in hong kong where people took to the streets on saturday the spike a planned protest having been banned by the authorities. the 1000 started marching peacefully earlier today through the city center however unrest broke out with police resorting to tear gas and water cannon infuser who died of fires were started in the street. the official reason for the protest ban is the violence that's been seen at previous demonstrations in the past weeks and months police have warned that anyone taking part in today's action may face prosecution u.s. president all trump has commented on the current tensions between hong kong and

china saying the anti beijing process should be handled in a humane fashion. i think it will work for the drake. song john would be a much bigger job and i think it would have been much more a ballad i really believe john wants to make a deal and they know it puts us in a very bad position if there's not a you me way of handling the problems and i'd let them know that look. handle it as a you may set. in response the chinese ministry of foreign affairs has expressed its discontent with the white house for showing up the day with what it calls radicalize protesters on friday 2 more protest leaders were arrested on suspicion of organizing unauthorized rallies that were later released on bail one of them rose to prominence 5 years ago during the umbrella movement protests. was the

was. close to. the. we will continue. no matter how democrat that was. joshua long who we just saw there is one of the leaders of the current protests as well but apparently he learned the art of protest not just at the demonstrations 5 years ago it explains. he's only $22.00 but he's already backed himself at least a few lines in the history books joshua wong has already served several prison

sentences he's a leader of a political party he's followed 530-0000 users on twitter is invited to speak on the most prominent international news channel clearly your message to anyone who has demonstrated previously is disregards to come out and demonstrate again. yeah that's what our police bring us now on the phone is pro-democracy activist from hong kong joshua wa he was an independent inquiry into police abuse you've been very critical of the police tactics he has just got out of prison at 3 and a half hours ago just so how does it feel to be free to issue a warning is frank he'd love a bit of western support i hope u.s. politician days should take a more active road to support hong kong democrat high station to ensure the interests of you asked citizens in hong kong that and the prolific go and economic

freedom in hong kong can still be guaranteed in the future and apparently he's highly admired by many in america joshua wall went to washington in 2015 to get an award from freedom house and n.g.o.s which power gets most of its funding from u.s. government grants and a couple of years american lawmakers nominated the young man and his associates for the noble peace prize this month it was revealed his in touch with american diplomats in hong kong after he was photographed meeting the political unit chief of the local u.s. consul general the activist said he thought there's no big deal about it even went to washington several times so what's so special about mit in the u.s. consul chinese authorities though have been making it clear they are firmly against other countries getting involved in the hong kong situation. we are strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposed to carping remarks in the g 7 leaders statement

acting as the backseat driver on hong kong affairs we have time and again emphasized that hong kong affairs are purely the internal affairs of china and no foreign government organization or individual has the right to intervene however some of the protests skills george szell wong and his fellow activists have up. their sleeves were picked up from abroad in the build up to the 2014 hong kong uprising the folks from the so-called always low freedom forum share their protest expertise with joe show wong and cope today he's confident democratic political reforms are the only way forward for hong kong and he says he won't shy away from challenging the most senior officials at home and in beijing we spoke to china specialist andrew long he says the unrest in hong kong is being stirred up by external actors distin reports of some of these though this is the middle east is

that the train india or slow freedom forum. which of course this is all because most of these. trading whole trading is this ready on tactics of some of. the establishment tactics the simple civil disobedience that it's so i think that and also the funds. supported by those international organizations including the national endowment for democracy of the united states of course are not as they say as a democratic country and this organization so they support the policies around the world but on the other hand is to link the rectally this kind of inputs but only had it was those. militants are highly trained to look at the way that. the violin and also policy in the city mistress and so on.

newly released e-mails reveal how chemical giant month santo attempted to discredit an action group campaigning against its weed killer moms across america had raised the alarm about the use of one of the company's leading products called roundup. that's your enemy beat the out of them and put them on the defensive and you won't have this problem i have been arguing for a week to beat the shit out of them and i have clearly lost we don't want to be seen as beating up on mothers nobody will listen to it anyway it has to be done by 3rd parties back in 2013 the action group sent an open letter to month santos top management calling on them to stop selling j m o seeds and spring crops with life phosphate and other pesticides moms across america director told us why the organization promotes organic farming all we need to do is to take matters into our own hands and to make sure that the food supply is safe and that our families

are not exposed to toxic chemicals and what we've done is created a moms across america gold standard and so this is a new seal of approval that brands can get to show that they're not only organic and not g.m.o. but they've gone the extra mile and gotten some pesticide testing done their packaging might even be bio degradable so your trade is used she namely raised animal products is used and they support the transition from g.m.o. chemical farming to regenerative organic farming and so as a mother and mothers by 85 percent of the food we believe that they are listening to us and that it does make a difference and we ask all the consumers out there to continue speaking up and to go to moms across america dot org and find out more about our gold standard that will be launching next month. but it's not just moms across america that's been targeted by months sento documents reveal the company also operated a so-called intelligence fusion center its name was to monitor and discredit

critics who claim by foss the main ingredient in monsanto's weed killer is extremely dangerous to human health. is a herbicide and crop drying agent after it is sprayed on crops it ends up in food the air and tap water and several lawsuits monsanto's by phosphate based product was ruled to have caused cancer even over the company states that its product is perfectly safe to use and it's appealed against those burdick's moms across america as director again told us this shows the company's discreet disregard for public health this is an example of the type of mentality that g.m.o. companies have and that shows a complete disregard for public health and this is jerry disturbing considering that our government would like to now go into the hands of regulation into the hands of these companies they are proposing to allow g.m.o. companies to dish sellers determine whether or not their products are safe or not

and so as a mother does doesn't make any sense to me at all that the mentality of these tests were the type of people will have control over whether or not our supply is safe that's extremely disturbing to me and must not happen at all our government must regulate g.m.o. those and they must be able to determine whether or not they're safe or not and these e-mails are a very good example exactly why that must happen. us democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has been out making his case as to why he should get his party's nomination but some of the stories he's been telling wacom painting about when he was an afghanistan and others have turned out to be not entirely true and not for the 1st time.

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and just as talons white kids playing around saying time fantasies of things he's been my friend. for. stories from argentina the u.k. and moscow after this short break.

the global insurrection against banker occupation which started that. before occupy wall street before the revolution in cairo before obviously this year in france or the protests and they're all connected all these protests are connected they're all connected to the rebellion against the out money and banks are all global and structural bank right. welcome back to the program with a presidential race in full swing in argentina some appear to be resorting to bribery to get the desired outcome 2 leading businessmen reportedly announced they

would pay their workers $5000.00 each the current president. succeeds in reaching the 2nd round of elections one of the pair is also a lawmaker from walker's ruling party. that follows a landslide victory by opposition leader fernandez in the 1st round of voting the current argentine leader who is seeking reelection lost by a far greater margin than expected however he still well ahead of the 3rd place candidate now whoever wins argentina's presidential election will have a tough job on their plate as the country edges increasingly closer to defaulting on its debt.

if we are talking about them a critic regime after mock receipt that's not legitimate to do it you're buying a person stoat and that you're buying a person's decision that's why undemocratic regions too is not all that democratic but also. it's a legitimate is it involves a lot of. democratic values doing this the way that they're doing it is this just shows the store ation and preoccupation of their own political stance and economic stance today mockeries. approach to the economy resold stuff she's near liberal policies. damaged the country itself the levels of unemployment and the levels of inflation and i mean being play ssion and the quality of life

you know jim tina have gone down. thousands of people have taken to the streets of london and other british cities to vent their anger at prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament people have surrounded government buildings waving even flags and anti bricks at placards on those decision has outraged members of parliament and those opposed to the u.k. is leaving the e.u. without a deal it means there will be less time for m.p.'s to debate so far a number of legal challenges have been launched to try and overturn the move. and on authorized raleigh is currently being held in central moscow more than $700.00 activists have gone onto the streets in support of opposition candidates for the moscow parliament police are urging protesters to stay off the roads and to not block traffic security measures have been strengthened in the city center earlier this month more than 20000 activists also backing opposition candidates attended

a state approved demonstration. that's your global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more. there. it. is 55. and he's going to hold a few lives in egypt. today

or next. week here. why a paradise with sum up all year round turned into a round the experimentation field the agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up

locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people where one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemical. it's continued to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental racism going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed. and it wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. of there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy

attack solid doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no i'm jones to one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. because of this is the report you know this began as

a celebration of our 10 years of kaiser report incredible if i think so stacy if the next quarter we're going to be celebrating our 10 year anniversary you know because i like to do months alongside of celebrations my birthday is officially one month our 10 year anniversary is going to be a whole quarter just so you now and you know one of the themes that kind of has been constant in the past 10 years is this new paradigm shift i remember over it 0 head and liberty blitzkrieg they called it the 4th turning right that there was a huge generational paradigm shift that was happening and you could see that with the meltdown we're having with china and the trade war and it's really about the sudden recognition even though some of us have recognized that for quite a while the southern recognition that they actually beat us and high tech stuff and it suddenly dawned on us hey we are we 2nd rate to them and we have the melt up and

feel i in these negative yielding bonds there's a little melt up happening there and i think it's the beginning of the age of bitcoin and the return of gold yeah i don't doubt that one bit because we have now the globalization and the dollars ation which will be. superseded by the age of individual sovereignty and the way to fund that is through bitcoin if you have your keys it's on confiscated all and it's hard money so this is the 1st time ever in the history of humans that you've had an unconscious capable hard money available to individuals and this will give rise to globe of individuals sovereign individuals and the nation state will subside and the role of money will collapse and we'll have a new era we at kaiser for have been covering this emergence of this new era you

know sometimes you make incorrect observations because you're only predicting what could possibly happen but we've been remarkably accurate in terms of our assessment of what was actually going on we coined it for example global insurrection against banker occupation and the banker occupation is really the central bank occupation it's where it was. rigged the system was riggs and the fact that they could print money and give it to their buddies on wall street to then dispense to us it was like one of these all coins where they have a pretty mind and they give it to their friends and the friends are supposed to disperse it but we've had this situation of the global insurrection against banker occupation and i want to turn to a tweet stream that somebody read tweeted into my stream this past week and that was a tweet i had sent august 26th 2012 so this was a year after we had started talking about bitcoin. a little bit over

a year actually after we started talking about decline on kaiser report as a response to this global insurrection against banker occupation and i had tweeted to john when tonus that other than this bully on basis episode member basis got fired for talking about gold on our show i have to say our big coin episodes have caused the most wrath and havoc so in our comments we would see that over and over especially the gold bugs and the supporters of our fee out system that keynesians they would be very very angry if we ever talks about gold and jumma tonus replied maybe you're on to something value economics is entering a strange new land cryptography is the differentiator well this is always the problem of journalists to meet in the poets the truth is always rejected

but it is the the greatest of the poet the journalist and the comedian to be. truthful you know to be just report what you see the wrath of the online community against our reporting on because at that time because it is universally hated i mean people talk about it now people on wall street are buying it as become of the good you know the fact that the prices rising this people's or status seekers and in concert and can and consumers are buying because because the price is going high that back in 2012 when it was you know less than $10.00 less than $20.00 you know people hated with a passion and they hated the fact that it even we were talking about and you know a lot of people did buy they did become millionaires that was the time period in which j.p. morgan some banker said j.p. morgan in london we know firsthand from somebody who developed some software for them that they were trading coin they're not they weren't allowed to at their office said.