greetings and salutations one pill makes you larger one pill makes you small but the ones that the sackler give you well you cannot trust them with all the alice in wonderland twists and turns over the last few weeks in the search for justice against purdue pharma on the sackler family for their role in the opioid epidemic has been one doozy talk watchers well now my friends finally finally it is a bit shall we the we don't have to wait any longer as part of a deal struck last week on september 11th of all days per group arm of the maker of oxycontin filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on sunday evening as the new york times reports this move is up the center of the company's efforts to shield itself and its owners from more than 2600 federal and state lawsuits after voting on sunday to

agree to the settlement in chapter 11 steve miller now out of the band the chairman of produce board of directors told the media quote this settlement framework avoids wasting hundreds of millions of dollars and years on protracted litigation and instead will provide billions of dollars in critical resources to communities across the country trying to cope with the opioid crisis. better late than never stevie wonder late than never oh and speaking of billions it appears that a 1000000000 is exactly what the state of new york's attorney general lateesha james is accusing the sac lawyers themselves of squirreling away in case of a rainy day like today james told the media while the sack was continue to lowball victims and skirt a responsible settlement really refuse to allow the family to misuse the courts in an effort to shield their financial misconduct and the greed and corruption the pharmaceutical industry in the unbridled avarice of the sackler family make for

a tough blue pill to swallow but thankfully. you could take the red pill instead and start watching the hawks. to. get the. real thing this would be. part of. what they like you know that i got. which we. would. be. welcome on the watching dark side i'm to roll them and. so here we are finally yes . to a place where. they're taking restaurants. now kind of maybe sort of hasn't even started maybe i don't know. is the good word for this you know

it's interesting because the settlement deal requires produce to file for bankruptcy and dissolve but does not require them to admit to any wrongdoing whatsoever none a new company would form from the best solution of purdue and it would continue to sell oxy cotton but the sales revenue would go to the plaintiffs these many states and the all these people filing today was a multiple tariff. and the company would also donate drugs for addiction and overdose treatment so that's kind of where all that sits and not a lot of these states are playing ball in new york connecticut and a few others are saying we're not going to be part of the settlement we're right because we're we feel that it didn't go far enough it didn't go strong enough it didn't truly hit them hard no and that's what especially the new york attorney general i mean that's what you have to look at and she's not the only a.g. in the country that has found that they were doing this you said they're sort of squirreling away money so part of what it was is the settlement and the bankruptcy filing come just 2 days just today is after the announcement that. new york

a.g.'s office had uncovered almost just almost in just over a 1000000000 dollars worth of wire transfers from per do to private accounts bank accounts owned by mortimer sachs moreover he doesn't he could go either way with that if it weren't for those durned kids who doesn't have a brother i know but he does sound like a like a scooby doo villain so this isn't the only one there was a number in states like ohio where they had found that subsidiaries and multiple shell companies of per day or the door the sackler family had been putting money through swiss bank accounts and you know anybody who has a skate bank account is totally on the up and always you can trust them completely so they're kind of saying this idea that purdue had all these shell companies that they're hiding money and that's why they're doing this now is so that they actually

do have billions have no way and they won't really lose anything and there'd be no personal personal effect for for the people that were spreading that is a grow addiction around the world there's incredible i mean i'm out there and it's illegal you can't you can't move money blood to hide money that's wildly illegal but spokesperson for. more or body more have been denied any wrongdoing by family and told the media quote gore's ready this is a cynical attempt by a hostile odor attorney general's office to generate debate amatory blindness to try to torpedo a mutually beneficial settlement that is supported by of so many other states and would result in billions of dollars going to communities and to individuals across the country that need help billions like the sucker from. and i'm sure the agio is a rural hospital. their whole office and everyone in there and i bet all those states are law and cynical toward the my god you're so cynical you can show us

billions. dollars lives wasted families destroyed all because the so the sac lawyers could have a few 100 extra $1000000.00. that's really what it comes down to i'm sorry for cynical and we're a little we're a little hostile towards you and your family mortimer i mean at the end of the day you've destroyed some was a because you weren't alone there was a lot of other big brother sort of probably about your limits of places like india and china that went into china and tried to sell opioids addicted oh addicted addictive opioids to the elderly. if that alone doesn't. have hostile oh no that you've heard the end of hostel. and as sad as it is to have i don't know if this is going to be the end of the secular family i feel like i feel like this is one of the stories that is going to keep going on and. probably will. in 1958 the united auto workers union was called quote more dangerous than sputnik

or anything soviet russia might do by barry goldwater when they dared to suggest the idea of profit sharing in the auto manufacturing business at the time journalist mike wallace even argued that auto industry executives deserve their exorbitant salaries and bonuses because they bear the risk and they run the company while unionized worser workers asking for profit sharing was an accidental threat to the free market system here is the new u.a.w. president walter walter ruther a serious response to mike wallace well you'd have a very difficult job convincing ford workers and chrysler workers and general motors workers who are unemployed if they don't risk anything that they don't suffer a loss when the company's in bad condition they also suffer but here's the thing you need to understand that this principle is being applied and through art in general motors and chrysler years the executives are carrying in the profits now

they're not sharing in the profits and stockholders they're hearing in the profits as employees because they run the company but they're still employees they're high paid employees. over 60 years later at 11 59 pm on sunday september 15th 21000 nearly 50000 members of the united auto workers union went on strike shutting down some 33 manufacturing plants and 22 parts distribution warehouses from michigan to texas. and profit sharing low wages and exorbitant c.e.o. salaries are at the core once again joining us now from more on the story is our team america correspondent karen fried sack thank you for having me on welfare and well this is a home it's amazing to see problems you know of yesterday still front and center in problems today and so i'm very curious you know we saw the clip mentioning the c.e.o. and things of that nature of what those of the c.e.o. of general motors make these days and is there a plan for both sides to come to the bargaining table in this situation so we want

to pay the price is right game to figure out how much the c.e.o. mary barra the mayor says we're ok so well she is one of the top 20 highest paid c.e.o.'s and let's just let's just take a guess per year. 10000000. i'm going to go with her cool 30. all right so kind of right in between both of that she makes $21000000.00 she made 21000000 last year and 2 years ago before that she made another $21000000.00 at that now g.m. made 8000000000 dollars last year and that's kind of what's coming to a head with this so workers really want to piece of that pie especially since if you remember back in 2014 there was the major auto bailout where g.m. was given $11200000000.00 to fix itself those workers stayed and they helped that company come back up to where it is now and so again the talks were scheduled for

today starting at 10 am everyone's been following this but this you know kind of workers are trying to really hope that this is going to help because the last time this ever happened it was a 2 day walkout left in 2007 that was like shooting darts at a tank really did not happen and workers they are trying to they are planning to see this all the way till the end until they get exactly what they want it's interesting because this this strike is very similar in what's happening is it almost word for word on exactly what happened and. 58 and what happened multiple times in the sixty's seventy's and some of us remember in the eighty's there was even you know these these auto workers strikes and i think there's something really interesting about the fact that they they they took they didn't get raises they didn't get extra things they didn't get the things they had worked for and were promised under that guise of we'll take a little less so the companies stays going tell me what is it that the united auto workers are actually asking for so the workers they want and you will pay raises for financial security in case the economy were to see a downturn at all or

a recession they want better health care they want safer working conditions because g.m. has to update a lot of their plants especially now since they're going to be introducing on the line of electric cars and things need to be updated for their secure for their safety and security they want jobs for workers who are going to who are working at the 4 plants right now that are set to close they want them to come back with jobs for them and they also this was interesting they want temporary workers to be made permanent workers because employees said that they had some of them work temp workers for years at a time when even being 3 years and you know one of the picketers was saying earlier today you know if you need them for more than 2 years they're going to employ you know now g.m. this is what they're offering they're offering $7000000000.00 worth of those u.s. factory investments higher profit sharing better health benefits and $8000.00 paid to each worker once that contract is signed but again right now both sides are at a standstill who knows when each is going to come to an agreement the thing is very

fascinating and it's also interesting when you hear that ok we'll give you a 1000 per worker like a broad obsidian who just stay off the picket lines come back to work because they $1000.00 at the end of those quit money that's not really going to solve long term problems for these workers and sounds like the workers are saying we need long term solutions and long term employment and that kind of thing that's very frustrating and like i said this happens over and over and over again and so we'll see what happens now and we've got so many unions get crushed over the last. no 6 a year is an collective bargaining be something that's just ripped out of the hands of everyone from public employees to people like the auto workers union who take who who does they stand where they take less pay they take these things when when companies are doing bad in order because they care and they care about the whole industry and what's also interesting is this is a 4 year contract what we have every 4 years we have an election interesting exactly and that was my dream going out earlier just work out a deal guys you know get it done it does well you know you've already for

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saudi arabia's biggest oil producing facility was attacked over the weekend and now the trump administration is all in his mind iran being the culprit r.t. america correspondent rachel blevins is at the white house with this story. when there were reports citing u.s. intelligence officials claim that the drone attacks on the world's largest oil processing facilities in saudi arabia came from abroad and president trump is now saying that he's ready to respond he took to twitter where. he wrote quote there is reason to believe that we know the culprit are locked and loaded depending on verification but are waiting to hear from the king them as to who they believe was the cause of the attack and under what terms we would proceed now saudi arabia has confirmed that the drone attacks on their facilities did halt oil production by more than 50 percent and was from did not initially name the suspected culprit secretary of state mike pompei it was quick to place the blame on a wrong he also took to twitter where he wrote quote we call on all nations to

publicly and unequivocal we condemn iran's attacks the united states will work with our partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and iran is held accountable for its aggression but iran is denying all accusations about these attacks and the country's foreign minister is instead alleging that the united states has delegate its maximum pressure campaign and so now it's turning to a campaign of maximum to see a spokesperson for iran spoke out and he says that there is no actual proof the country was behind the attacks take a listen to what he had to say. as the countries that are dependent. on those that take advantage of the situation and make such comments to reassure themselves to feel secure that they can move ahead with such comments are condemned. baseless however the rebels and then have claimed responsibility for those attacks and all intelligence officials are saying that the drone strikes did not

come from yemen the united states does have a history of criticizing braun's ties to this now the u.s. has also assisted saudi arabia in a brutal deadly campaign in yemen which they claim is targeting these but that has also created the world worst humanitarian crisis over the last 4 years now this all comes as president trump is meeting with the crown prince of bahrain here in washington d.c. today they say. that in this meeting they are scheduled to talk about topics that include maritime security countering press from abroad efforts to promote peace in the region and counter terrorism now it is not clear exactly how the united states plans to respond to these attacks but republican senator lindsey graham is already calling for a military force against iran and trump claims that he is waiting for verification from saudi arabia in order to decide how to proceed has received backlash and criticism from independent congressman just in

a marsh who responded by noting that under the u.s. constitution quote the power to commence war allies with congress not the president and certainly not saudi arabia we don't take orders from foreign powers no i was just last week the president announced he was parting ways with his national security advisor john bolton and that created some hope that maybe the united states would embark on a path of easing tensions with iran but the trip in ministrations a latest quest to blame a wrong for these attacks already has sent both fears and oil prices soaring. joining us today to discuss the implications of these last few days of fire in the middle east is author and former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense michael now live thanks for joining us thanks for having me you know by always a pleasure i mean i think 1st the biggest question i have coming out of all this is do you believe in looking at in your analysis of these events do you believe in what the administration is saying is iran behind this i think it's going to be

difficult to show. for one reason even though they they claim that it was iran immediately where is the evidence i remember 2003 you iraq's w m d i was at the pentagon at the time was one of the few who said they don't have that and we should not be using that as a basis to go to war well that took care of that we know the rest is history but they would have produced the intelligence we have we absolutely light up that country and we would have had some indication to go public to say this is what they have done from this from this area that hasn't been forthcoming i haven't seen it now but who these have that capability even though even though no one wants to believe i'm. faster i'm going to say you don't want to believe that these very vests and besides it's their country in the yemen that's been attacked by the saudis and i might also point out the who these have

a history of being able to hit the saudis they had a pipeline about a month or so ago so they have that capability now the other thing is that iran's in the east but now experts are saying that the attacks seem to come from the west or from the northwest while something something's wrong with this picture so i think i think the president and also the president has made some interesting comments he's he's still waiting for verification from the saudis and waiting and that's not what it's like out here because 1st a couple of interesting things. happened in the land as much as a hit i want to hire about social media but now send it so our policy happens is one of the things he said in response to a trumpet tweet out that we the united states are locked and loaded depending on verification but are waiting to hear from the king as to who they believe was the cause of this attack that matter what terms that made a lot of people really angry and

a lot of people pointing out it sounds like he is subservient it's a weird thing for a leader at any point in history to say something like that is not an acknowledgment of where i have any after 2003 and begin i would question that as well but you are but you don't rely on the saudis i might also point out we don't have a defense arrangement with the saudis not going to give them up as a basically saying you know it's really up to the saudis to deal with this problem but if but that could ultimately drag us in indirectly but you know we obviously didn't sell them the right equipment to to deal with these drones right so it was interesting because also presidential candidate gabbert also went so far as to tweet that trump awaits instructions from a saudi masters having our country act as saudi arabia's. x. whatever it is not america 1st so while the anger is righteous it's not only. how

that. issue as you rightly point out one of the worst in our resource we are not we should not be there doing this kind of thing now and the iranians you know have vehemently denied but also the indications the indicators are showing it may not have been them now they may have you know they may have provided some of the technologies and know out over time but we do that for everybody else as well so the blowback of terms of how they're a concern to. they don't have x. amount of weapons or not this is not something to fall on our sword the american people will not support it and and there are calls in congress now that if the president is to launch anything you better come to congress for that and we have to remember too is that there is a we have this weird relationship with saudi america in the you know we also from member to right now there's lawsuits pending over their potential role in 911 you

know at the end of the big summer time everyone is suddenly answer the question about why those pages were redacted specifically and specifically that they want to embarrass the kingdom and so when you suddenly have a fight against honor king a long time ago did anybody get the memo right you know because it's all dollars it all has to do with dollars and at that time it had to do with oil now and and they of course are a great market for our weapons programs yes very true that's very true a lot of our weapons so i just hope that trump is just calms down he should be listening to the chinese and to the others who are saying take a breath and he needs to do that because this is not something you go to war and now i do recall back in. the reagan years there was some limited response when we knocked out some platforms in the gulf so i wouldn't rule that out as a possibility but who's going to do it the saudis they you know given their record

in yemen and. yet now having a trusted head and i think that if the saudis did react then then the iranians may just take off and they i think within 48 hours they could bring to their knees really when it can cooler heads prevail we have john paulson down and everything out and i think i think they will get the you when meeting this much we're not going to do any attacks during the u.n. not the u.n. general assembly you know gosh that no no no gosh no. and i still think what is prevailing in all this is that indeed wants to meet with rouhani even if it's to have a cup of coffee just to try and get something some dialogue going i like to see that happen because there is an opportunity for us to start back channels for coming to a much greater preschool resolution. and dealing dealing with the iranians they're

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