well it's a part we just of the. greetings and sell you to us when it comes to big pharma in their world of money power and pills there was only $1.00 certainty auk watchers that public accountability for these corporate drug dealers is going to be harder to get than a prescription for oxycontin that is way multiple multitude of state attorney generals across the nation are discovering as news of settlement talks between pro to farm and the over 40 states and 1500 cities and county governments suing the pharmaceutical giant over their role in the opening up a democrat ground to a halt the talks are grounded to a halt at issue according to n.p.r.

is the family behind purdue pharma the sackler family but the waltons are to wal-mart the sac lawyers are to purdue pharma and b. are reports that according to the state attorney general's negotiating with the company the talks have stalled because the salaries of rejected a demand they give up 4500000000 of their personal wealth the saddle the o.p.o. they claim settle opioid claims against the company in an e-mail sent to state attorney generals involved in the lawsuit and obtained by n.p.r. north carolina state attorney general josh stein and his counterpart in tennessee herbert slattery predict that purdue will be filing for bankruptcy imminently going on to write that the sackler has refused to budge and they've declined to offer any counter proposal. this is a startling turn when just recently on this very show we discussed one proposed settlement that would have seen the sackler pay over 3000000000 out of pocket and produced pharma put into a structured bankruptcy that could have seen 10 to 12000000000 dollars awarded back

to the public over time many experts now feel however that with this new twist we could see very little money is actually find their way back in the public coffers so a big pharma once again dodging responsibility for the opiate crisis that they created . i think it's time to start watching the whole x. . 40. 3 the. real thing it's like. the plot of. the day like you that i got. with. the. well the one the watching the hawks i am a robot and i'm typing a lot as 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. yeah i know i can something about it i agree talked about in the air i was shocked to think that they would actually give up that sort of family fortune in this here 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 with a soft money come back instead oh no 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 which 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 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. a breakdown in parks did not concern his group of clients and that they will continue to explore resolution of our client's claims against the south whether with or without the state within or without bankruptcy courts are moving forward regardless of what happens yeah i mean it's not as if i mean i think the fact our family is just kind of seems to be as a whole thing everyone in it 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 sackler somehow how big this family is so on monday so job

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 sackler at the battery terrace for again new york fashion week one of the things that 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 that there is no way any justice 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 one so 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 that 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 did a whole songs about how awful this stuff is and you're like is it really still put up lights to this day talking about how they don't believe that they're responsible . for what the labels are made the poison exactly and you even see that on the news too they're always going to say well they played a role in what it was it would a very big world and they then they made the thing that they knew was dangerous then 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 4 marijuana vendors looking to open up shop in the city and return korea would sign non opposition letter. allowing the businesses to operate in city limits but these aren't the only charges he's 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 a lavish lifestyle and political career and he's even 30 yet people say bullet holes are lazy off watchers is the case of just. one 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 something i learned something usually that was in local or state politics and then they learned how to game was

played then they bring it to washington and see if they can be as good and dirty as washington is you know it is absolutely incredible when you see this could operate democrat mayor by the way democrat mary yea you know the quality. was marijuana so you know. which is sad because it's like a burgeoning industry that could bring so many jobs and money. you've got guys like base but it's still like shoe shooting up their poop on where you have guys like this that can swoop in the mess that was around was another way to figure out how we can make a few extra bucks so part of the extortion scandal was he was 1st elected just yeah so it's it's quite a bit of. yeah there is a whole story involved and how this all the accusations the charge it's a maze and it starts in 2050 it does it does it it starts in 2015 we was 1st elected he faces $24.00 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 her broader. 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 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 out of them are true there's a mess this is invaluable this is like the worst parks and rec step of. it says far worse already this is worse than i step out into one of the things i was really

interesting to 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 leads out an ordinance that sought to cap the number of recreational marijuana license of 11 he claims that he vetoed the ordinance because it's a prast competition. which is under so here is kind of like i said they called millennium goals lazy here's a here's a kid i can call my kid because you know. under the may he survived an effort to remove him from office last march he lost a recall vote but then was elected back as mayor the save 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 good on how they 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 i yeah that's going to like. all over and doesn't want this dude like he's he's going to going to be as if we're going to get a lot of handles on a lot of you know it's got to be that is incredible the pure pleasure of 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 election was there and also why everyone shouldn't get a trophy but if you voted you it's critical to break wow as we go to break our

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a printed banner but actually we were like yes i can do this kind of laughter politics gone wild like music. ok crosstalk is not about hype it's about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. peter if you want to change something why don't we get rid of the bow tie you know that is too much. the protests continued in hong kong over the weekend despite the recent move by city leader kerry lamb last wednesday to formally remove what's rather controversial extradition bill that originally inspired many of the protests in a move that chinese english 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 or in 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 are demanding that the u.s. federal government has something called the wrong on your right to democracy act the hong kong human rights and democracy act let's the u.s. sanction 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 battle for. you know say groups different and different groups in my observation. some people like. 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 ne d. 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. no. cio you know giving money in the course of promoting democracy that's the thing we can.

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 a few times that hong kong is being used as a pawn because president kept changing its tune some time he says this is an internal matter how far 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 through watching the hawks mashal 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 sweet 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 simi valley california. simi valley is known

for many things like the ronald reagan presidential labor. 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 concerned 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 way of 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's 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's enough to keep him from scratching and he would just bleed and puff all the time mashburn was born and raised in simi valley and believes the water is safe there is a state standard on 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 right in the groundwater he doesn't believe rock a dime is the culprit as a child growing up out here the insect slides and fertilizers. an airplane

stropping chemicals on the citrus trees so there's 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 level perchlorate in water isn't just about me it's not just about people in simi valley and 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 ignaty has moved she's instilled a reverse osmosis system in her home and says her son no longer has rashes on his skin here mashburn says the city is still years away from making a decision on whether or not their own or freight from the simi valley is ground water into their drinking water in simi valley and not just we are here. august mark the beginning of aurora borealis season 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 excited 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 steve where the strong thermal emissions velocity enhanced meant was 1st seen in 2016 by citizen scientists and now science us led by researcher d.m. giles' 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 in a war a they create these laws for pinkish purplish tones unlike auroras that usually display green ones not some theory suggests that sees color is due to the energetic

electrons flowing into the. i almost fear causing friction heat and a pinky warm glow give a way keep your essence. to go steve do you were in one of whom were steve best seemed like i was short steve out i want to check out this it's a benzo you see in the you can actually be seen further south than most northern lights which are usually in the the circle if you're looking at the globe it's a circle so at the top now these can be seen further toward the equator than you busy would notice elsewhere he'll also oftentimes see steve with aurora borealis the little green picket fence looking ones but you won't 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 it makes sense and how this happens and what is it they think it has to do with it heat and friction of what's coming and we don't know what effect it could have on humanity way down now face things could be steve's or weird that

seems there where that would kind of the for you leverage going on the moment steve's will have very strange effects on there will be a world presidency if i can be and i'll have a memo you know those will crack me up to about the stars and right we're going to have a member of steve although it's even going to say i'm strong thermal emotions of awesome enhancement that's your new celestial phenomenon steve i love looking to the sky so you know there is a reason the ancients kind of stirred up more because there's a lot going on up there the stars are beautiful when you get rid of all the white noise around us and think about that where the ancients saw what they saw and even now steve was just discovered 2 years ago especially that is a you never know already i'm not fascinating no we will end our show for you today in the remember everyone in this world we are told that we are loved up so i tell you all of these i am very well i'm topical and keep on watching all those hawks out there and the great things in the.

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