back in the public coffers so with big pharma once again dodging responsibility for the opiate crisis they created i think it's time to start watching the whole it's. pretty. good looks like. it's really. just a lot of. what they like you know that i got. was that we. would. be. one of them on the watching the dark side. and i'm tapping a lot of the it is far out in the headlines again yes have they ever really left the headlines have they ever really left our systems after all these years and now it takes place today and months and years it's them yeah i know i can something

about it i talked about it here i was shocked to think that they would actually give up that sort of family fortune and this huge thing and i just don't think they well i think they go they'll go down kicking and screaming because they're going to try to do this thing where they save save themselves like look at all the philanthropy we do we have foundation and that's the thing right like it's like oh no we were going to a structured bankruptcy would have saw money come back instead although we're going to go straight bankruptcy dissolve the company and more things i found out which you even properly predicted to me when we were talking about their software was the fact that one of the other sticking points was this stock was not going to pay out of pocket but also the threat of losing their chinese the potential chinese company move move to pharma your act which you know as we pointed out it's like the people who decided that a new opium epidemic would be great for china so surprised that these things happen it is well moving forward to those bringing the suit paul hanley

a lead lawyer for the group of local governments unions hospitals and others suing the drug industry in public court he told the media that. breakdown in talks did not concern his group of clients and that they will continue to explore resolution of our client's claims against the south whether whether with or without the states within or without bankruptcy court they're moving forward regardless of what happens i mean it's not as if i mean i think the soccer family is just kind of seems to be the whole thing everyone in a but as a whole seems to just be so ignorant of the fact that it's out everybody knows. you saw this week in new york city during fashion week the really interesting story that comes up about the soccer somehow how big this family is so on monday. sackler who is married to a 3rd generation secular david showed her clothing line which i have never heard of

and no one i've ever known of art of l.t.v. care of just ocular at the fairy terrace for new york fashion week one of the things i came up well 2 things came up one is that no one wanted to say nobody was going to have anything to do with that nobody of any any like. cachet in the fashion industry was going to set their society published as our core hey told the new york press she believes there's no way and he just says even while his pals would risk sitting in the front row she told new york post i don't think for one minute that these girls would willingly risk their reputation here is the other was courtney love turned down $100000.00 to attend this show they offered her not only a custom down makeup hair driving to and from what you should know is that courtney love is barely a year or so for. many a time from her. addiction she's been very open about this to go after someone

whose husband died of heroin who's you know whose child was left without a father because of an opioid and then has struggled very famously as she calls herself one of the most famous junkies in the world it's like how do you not know even courtney love is like that's gross it was like no come to our fashion we'll give you enough money are you really good old songs about how awful this stuff is and you're like is it really still put up to this day talking about how they don't believe that they're responsible. with all those who made the poison exactly and you even see that on the news too they are always going to say well they played a role they played it was it would a very big role and they they made the thing that they knew was dangerous didn't not only not do something to stop it but kept doing more and more kept lying to the american public then went and lied to the chinese public and to the chinese government and

a whole host of other governments in places like india and china and said hey you've got aging population you know what they need an addiction to pills. from president richard nixon and watergate to w m d's in iraq to the monthly. even weekly scandals coming out of the trumpet ministration the united states has a long history of corruption and scandal in our federal government but despite all the headline making scandals coming out of washington that doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to corruption found at our state and local levels of government take for example the wild tale coming out of massachusetts this week where 27 year old fall river mayor just failed korea the 2nd was arrested on friday for quote allegedly operating a scheme to help marijuana vendors get approval to operate in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes yes apparently the young mayor of the over $80000.00 citizen town south of boston had orchestrated and ingenious scheme to bilk 6 figure payments from for marijuana vendors looking to open up shop in the

city and return korea would sign non opposition letters allowing the businesses to operate in city limits but these aren't the only charges facing he was arrested last october on charges claiming he defrauded investors of an app company by pocketing 64 percent of their payments to bankroll what prosecutors called his lavish lifestyle a political career and. even 30 yet people say bill enables or lazy watchers is the case of just sail correll yet another example of just how important it is to pay attention to your local politics yes i believe it is because most of the politicians you see who are the most corrupt on capitol hill well they had to learn the tricks of the trade and usually that was in local or state politics and then they learn how to game is played and they bring it to washington and see if they can be as good as washington it is absolutely incredible when you see this

could operate democrat mayor by the way democrat a quality. of marijuana makes more sense which is that because it's like a burgeoning industry that could bring so many jobs and money. but it's still like shoe shooting up their poop. on where you have guys like this that can swoop in the message was a room was another way to figure out how we can make a few extra bucks so part of your story and scandal was he was 1st elected yeah so it's it's quite a bit of. yeah there's a whole story involved and how this all the accusations the charge it's amazing and it starts in 2050 it does it does it it starts in 2015 was 1st elected he faces 24 charges now $24.00 total charges 13 from last year's arrest that you mentioned in the lead been brand new charges including bribery extortion conspiracy extortion and aiding and abetting what they're brought to. this is incredible he was excuse

he was also a get this on top of all of this he was also accused of extorting old $3900.00 in cash in a batman style rolex worth roughly somewhere between $7512000.00 for a property owner in exchange for activating the building's water supply great guy. federal prosecutors also came korea demanded his chief of staff give him half of her salary which is a close to $80000.00 in a return for appointing her and allowing her to keep her job with the city whoa wow this dude seriously i mean if these charges honestly are half of them are true there's 2 thirds mess this is invaluable this is like the worst parks and wrecks up and. says far worse already this is worse and i step out into one of the things i thought was really interesting to it was how much money was coming in and out of this and how much money you could have so one of the process prosecutor said an exchange for his signature to vendors agreed to pay 250000 another grade to pay him

$150.00 and a 4th $100.00 that's not talking that's a heck of a house in most places so he actually reads out an ordinance that sought to cap the number of recreational marijuana license of 11. claims that he vetoed the ordinance because it's suppressed competition. which isn't so here's this kid like i said they called millennium goals lazy here's a here's a kid i can call my kid because he's younger than me he's survived an effort to remove him from office last march he lost a recall vote but then was elected back as mayor the same night by finishing 1st among 5 candidates vying to fill that may or vacancy from his recall where he was so he's running for a 3rd term in november. if you feel like buy in this guy a beach house maybe elect him back to mayor because maybe it's one day donna called

him going to help him got reelected even after he was recall the same. because when they put a man who you want to replace him they said no just put the same kid back in. the special election or a group somebody's been eroded but this is why you have to be running for congress and like i don't yeah that's going to like. all over and doesn't want this dude like he's he's going to go right up there for you as if you're going to get a lot of the panels on the side of you know it's got to be you that is incredible but if you listen to the voting public this somehow works if you just keep saying i'll fix the no no i got i got like this i don't know if he's quite got it we always say that this is why we have to pay attention to local and state elections and also why everyone shouldn't get a trophy thank you thank you that's we've got a bright wow as we go to break our quadrants don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on our social media be sure to check out watching the ox the podcast just melbourne spotify apple music and everywhere you see this

in the podcast coming up r.t. america is the talk show sweet brings us the 1st part of the series. bringing us the lowdown on california's drinking water we also give you the latest controversy rubble protests in hong kong from our to america correspondent schoenberg's stay tuned to watch. seemed wrong. to me. to shape

out just because to add to it and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. the barbarians the vandals of wall street are now actively plundering your bank account with a negative interest rate an astonishing amount of policy there's no economics behind it that would cue to any school of economics that has ever existed as dr michael said since the bronze age it's just out right. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was right. you know.

kill me and i see i would destroy. any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my own and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing have happened but i've never seen trauma like. women who are veterans who suffered military sexual trauma rape is more likely to get the victim punished. and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there whether that's men or women.

the protests continued on over the weekend despite the recent move by said. leader carrie lam last wednesday to formally remove a withdraw the controversial extradition bill that originally inspired many of the protests in a move that chinese anglos language newspaper china daily supposedly reveals the hidden hand of the united states government behind these protests thousands of demonstrators marched to the united states consulate urging u.s. president donald trump to liberate their city this controversy over whether the united states is oren is not acting in some way to support or even orchestrate these protests are at the center of this new report by r.t. america correspondent michelle greenstein. resist beijing. that's what these protesters all round here are they're demanding that the u.s.

federal government has something called the wrong on the right and democracy act the hong kong human rights and democracy act let's the u.s. sanctions officials that are obstructing human rights or democracy in hong kong these officials could have their assets frozen and be denied entry into the u.s. we have been urging them to congress to pass the hong kong democracy and human rights act marley's the founding chairman of hong kong's democratic party part of a coalition widely reported to have organized this summer's anti-government protest movement i asked another founding chairman and the former vice chair about the party's relationship with washington democratic party keep out of the you know say groups all different and different groups in my observation. some people relationship with mr usa official one of those people would certainly have to be martin leave whose relationship with the us goes back decades and who's the

recipient of an award from the national endowment for democracy critics of the energy point out that co-founder alan weinstein admitted that a lot of what the endowment does today was done covertly in the past by the cia a high ranking hong kong government official tells me it's possible the hong kong democratic party has received money from the ne d. . let's go you know definitely gray areas and cio you know giving money in the course of democracy there's nothing we can do about it additionally last month martin lee met with a state department official from hong kong's u.s. consulate julie later that same day 8 i met with joshua long who appears in the press as a leader of this protest movement both he and martin lee are the recipients of another award this one from freedom house a subsidiary of the ne d. wang became the face of the n.t. china movement in hong kong several years ago during 20 fourteen's protest movement during this time the b.b.c.

reports he was in daily contact with the oslo freedom forum a u.s. based outfit that brags about training people to overthrow governments for good to talk to a government for good you have to be organized and to plan meticulously and activists here have been involved in helping to organize the current protests in hong kong talking to the hong kong students not on a daily almost hourly basis the b.b.c. reports that 10000 protesters were trained by this freedom forum before 2014 so it's possible a similar thing happened in the lead up to this surge of protests and it looks more and more every day as if what they're being trained to do is provoke the police to react and win over public opinion one protester even disclosed the strategy to the new york times. and sure enough after singing the us national anthem and marching to the u.s. consulate asking president trump to liberate hong kong some protesters got violent

and destructive. they broke windows they damaged public property and engaged in arson and sure enough the riot police showed up with tear gas to disperse the crowd allowing for headlines like the journalist and filmmaker john poser says this is just the latest chapter in the u.s. led. war on china there was a war already on china maintaining the supremacy of the u.s. in all areas of human affairs economic affairs cultural affairs is what this particularly this really regime in washington is committed to and regina it says these protesters are actually acting against their own interests and have been manipulated as pawns in this great power conflict there is rising if it turns that hong kong is being used as a pawn because president kept changing its tune some time he says this is an

internal metal for china you know but sometimes. you know the trade dispute if it were not for the trade dispute hong kong would be in worse shape you know clearly linking home call with the with the trade dispute which is actually as you say the geopolitical struck the people of hong kong do have legitimate grievances such as increasing economic inequality and the lack of affordable housing this sets the stage for civil unrest and gives foreign forces the chance to manipulate such sentiments in furtherance of their own goals damaging china's image internationally trying to delay china's rising political and economic influence and trying to delay the inevitable loss of us hegemony for watching the hawks michelle greenstein our t.v. . our fresh water infrastructure is in crisis for watchers from flint michigan to newark new jersey and other cities big and small across the united states many

residents are living with contaminated and even dangerous water supplies. in a new series of reports r t america's natasha sweed puts the quality of water in the state of california under a microscope to discover what dangerous chemicals are hiding in the water supply of the world's largest economy she begins with a massive cover up of a partial nuclear meltdown in sydney valley california. simi valley is known for many things like the ronald reagan presidential library i mean a place where families raise their children outside the city what you likely won't hear about is a chemical in the brown water that has some residents can start least 70 lives just outside of los angeles in the city of simi valley the mother of 3 says the reason a chemical called perchlorate is in simi valley is ground water is from a partial nuclear meltdown only 17 miles away exposure to high levels of her chlorate lowers by word activity and has

a verse effects on the skin and cardiovascular system it's an issue santa field lab also known as rocketdyne began testing rocket engines and operated nuclear reactors here in the 1950 s. we didn't know about it when it happened that's a story about the department of defense holding on to the information for 10 years after they received it simi valley residents either get their water from the city or from the golden state water company which is a private company city used to live in an area of simi valley where she received ground water from the city well she says that she had 2 of her boys there and no major health problems but when she moved to her new residence she began receiving her water from the golden state pregnant with her youngest son she said she noticed a difference in her thyroid and when her son was born he had issues his other brothers did it including severe skin rashes and 24 different food allergies we had to cover him in little on one seems to keep him from scratching and he would just bleed and pos all the time mashburn was born and raised in simi valley and believes

the water is safe there is a state standard. and how much perchlorate you're allowed to have been drinking water and golden state meets those standards do you think this state standard is safe well i think i certainly think it is i trust that it is mere mashburn says while there is preclear rate in the groundwater he doesn't believe rocketdyne is the culprit as a child growing up out here the insecticides and fertilizers and airplanes dropping chemicals on the citrus trees so there is a huge amount of farming that went on and a lot of chemicals that were spread throughout the city but city says she's concerned since the city is now talking about using the ground water as drinking water this fight here for to bubble perchlorate and water isn't just about me it's not just about people in simi valley in our thyroid issues it's about people all

over the united states eating the lettuce that we're producing here in california and getting it that way since city has moved she's installed a reverse osmosis system in her home and says her son no longer has rashes on his skin care mask burns says the city is still years away from making a decision on whether or not there are more great some of simi valley is ground water into the retreating water in simi valley and joshua suites are 2. august mark the beginning of a roar of borealis seas and also known as the northern lights which will be visible in high altitude regions from canada to norway for the next 7 months now during that time charged particles from our galaxy sun excite electrons in the earth's atmosphere creating the celestial phenomenon of aurora borealis or northern lights but there isn't just one celestial phenomenon out there now to blow your mind steve is here and he's official do you or the strong thermal emissions velocity enhanced

meant was 1st seen in 2016 by citizen scientists and now scientists led by researcher d.m. dials. from the university of calgary has officially confirmed that steve is not an aurora it's made up a light from across the spectrum but with slightly more in the red range that is one of the main reasons scientists say steve isn't an aurora they create these small pinkish purplish tones unlike auroras that usually display green ones now some theory suggests that these color is due to the energetic electrons flowing into the earth's ionosphere causing friction heat and pinky warm glow. us is because. it's a bug you see in the you can actually be seen further south than northern lights which are usually in the circle if you're looking at the globe circles or at the top now these can be seen further toward the equator than you would notice

elsewhere also oftentimes. with aurora borealis the little green picket fence looking ones but. you will see you can see them together but you'll see auras without it so they're still trying to kind of figure out how to make sense and how this happens and what is it they think it has to do with its heat and friction of what's coming and we don't know what effect it could have on humanity way down now. the way that we were kind of you never it's going to have. very strange effects on will they will. have a memoir. about the. end of the you will know it's even a grim strom thurmond emissions of awesome and handsome and that's your new celestial phenomenon. of looking to the skies and there's a reason the ancients going to stare it up because there's a lot going on up there the stars are beautiful when you get rid of all the light

noise around us and think about that where the ancients saw what they saw and even now. steve was just discovered 2 years ago. that if they never met already i'm not fascinating no we will end our show for you to be able to remember everyone in this world we are told that we are loved wall. on top of watching all those hawks out there who are great but. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express an injury. or some want to. have to try to be close this is what before 3 of the more people. interested always in the waters of the house.

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no there's no. real. israel goals what you're doing is wrong goals when you were doing. and israel knows you're doing. is a prime minister reveals details of what he claims is a previously undisclosed nuclear weapons facility and he ran just days before he's up for reelection iran hit back saying that yahoo is crying crying wolf and the real possessor of nukes. also this hour hope fiction branded a c.n.n. report that the u.s. secret service has extracted a high level spy from moscow in 2017.