feeling well on the end of course not symptomatic, this situation will continue to become more dire and ongoing, and it will impact patient care tremendously that you can read more about that where the debate is heating up the op ed section of r t dot com. i swear we like to uphold our mantra up question more. thanks for joining us. we are bax. ah ah. ah. july, an annual festival in st. petersburg, dedicated to dostoevsky. ah, the great writer, a thinker and psychologist, people often tend to his work to understand russia and russians,

perhaps even themselves. they put, they sing on, what do you see, what they think about the writing, the april of quality, any that changing a reader, transforming them as they read that? does the estes unique ability to stay ascii wants to tell us you can better yourself. he makes you face your true self or we could man beyond conventions, rules of schemes, beyond boundaries and time. dostoevsky is a global brand whose classics, everyone knows. i'm never out of stuff with . over the past 2 and a half years, russia, nato agreed on very little. if anything, however, both agreed to meet for a high level meeting and they did in brussels both. i mean, there case,

nothing was really resolved. lots of words. what happens next? maybe action ah, what started on just a few items missing from grocery store shelves has turned into empty aisles and long lines at the self check out. what happened to america, the bountiful. in the last time, americans had images of this darkness was during times of world war and depression, but with all of the affliction to be experienced by americans. why does this administration continue to talk aggressively on a global issue that when they have yet to deal with the problems facing americans at home? sure, our military budget might be the highest ever at 750 $3000000000.00, but with recruitment at its lowest point in recent times, what did the us is a forced to put military action behind their incendiary rhetoric?

i'm sending out huge and on today the news news here. we're going to look at what is causing the problems at grocery stores across the country. and why politicians are blaming the business community rather than their own, a suffocating regulation. we're also going to look at the large bonus, the army has a just put into it back, all in hopes of retaining and recruiting their force. bought the same time, continuing to discharge those who refused to get the vaccine. should we have done that sooner? we are doing it, but sure we have done it. so we are doing a plug by nathan down on a damage control or once again following a another communication mix up a by the vice president. this time regarding at home kobe testing. there's a lot to discuss, including the supreme court delivering the largest blow to the bided administration . with them striking down the vaccine mandate on a large businesses. let's get started. for

blue america, the meager from empty shelves to lack of test shortages of workers to yes, even a disinterested join the military, the united states, people are left wanting. meanwhile, politicians are in searching themselves in a foreign conflict. any foreign conflict, it seems it is russia, as you have heard, that has a stark choice to make d escalation and diplomacy, which of course remains our preferred course or confrontation and consequences. our goal remains the complete the nuclear zation of the korean peninsula. and we continue to believe that serious and sustain diplomacy is the only way we'll be able to make a tangible progress towards that. and i still can't decide of the focus on foreign conflict is more about getting money back into the greedy hands of defense

contractors or to distract from the situation here at home. but one thing is for certain, if a 2 year old virus and a few inches of snow can cause this big of a disruption in a supply chain. just imagine how upset americans will be if we go to war and we completely break the chain altogether. now shortage is that u. s. grocery stores had become more and more common on the recent weeks. as the fast spreading, alma kron variant and severe weather have piled on to the already existing supply chain issues and labor shortages. so for more on that issue and what we can expect moving forward, we bring in our t correspond it paxton boyd shelves are empty. a beef chicken eggs, fruit and vegetables even non perishable items, hard to find in some grocery stores. now in a normal year, 5 to 10 percent of food items may be unavailable today, roughly 15 percent are out of stock. that according to jeff freeman, president and ceo of the consumer brands association,

official say things may not get better for the next 12 to 18 months. now, there are many reasons for this, including an increased demand for groceries, whose families choosing to eat at home during the oma kron serve. as we saw here in the d. c. metro area last week, winter storms have effected major interstate. and a shortage of as many as $80000.00 truck drivers are out nationwide. that's a historic high, according to the american trucking association. because of this experts say to expect price hikes and food shortages. similar to what we saw in 2020, in colorado, nearly 8400 employees that kroger own stores have gone on strike, overpay and working conditions. now here's what you're seeing as a result on tuesday, wal mart, colder. and albert's in stocks didn't albertson's. taking the biggest hit, indicating a trend among major grocers being affected by the supply chain issues. also, the strips to the grocery store going to cost consumers even more with inflation. soaring to 7 percent for the 1st time and for decades. now with the united states,

seeing more than 700000 cases of cobra 19 per day on average. during this o micron surgeon, slowing down food manufacturers and causing grocery store workers to call out sit. we heard reports from companies talking about. they had more positive tests in the past 2 weeks when they had in all of 2020 grades to shut down manufacturing lines preemptively. and it's leading to just simply not enough supply. now, expert se store shelves may not return to normal until this pandemic lets up. staffing returns to normal and the global food distribution network is restored. for r t america, i'm paxton void in washington dc. so let's discuss further and again our panel, richard wolf, economic professor, and author of the sickness and the system when capitalism fails to save us from pandemic or itself, as well as steve gail form or ustr official under bush and clinton. thanks for joining me gentlemen. thank you and the u. s. government and devoted for in 5

trillion dollars in total aid spinning to combating the effects of the crone of ours, including the economic effects. yet america has a bare shelves and lack of workers. so dr. wolf, with all the money devoted, why didn't work. we have systemic problems in our economic system. they've been accumulating for a long time. they've been down the road. we have imagined that we have the best system in the world, and therefore all our problems will be solved. it's childish, we should not have done it. we should have gotten a wake up call with how badly we've done in managing this cold. it compared to many other countries, we didn't look a supply chain. everybody who runs of business knows you have to take steps to cover the eventuality that your input so your labor can come to work. we're in the middle of a total disaster for 2 years. you must have understood yeah, bad back up that bad workers that will come from buying doesn't you have to take

those steps and they're gonna cost you money and they're gonna eat into your profit . but if you don't do it well, then we get the situation with which you opened the program. and i think one of the things is most frustrating about this dr. wolf as even if companies had those backup plans ready to go. they were, i'm, they were not anticipating how much the government was going to involve themselves, and that's fine. only 30, this hash tag hash tag bear shelves biden is being used. so is it fair to put all the blame on this administration? the decisions made by congress just this past year. well, it's fair to put most of the blame, certainly on them, but i agree with dr. wolf that you know, this has been a problem that's been building for a while. we've had companies in the us that have increasingly relied upon just in time delivery. and when there's any disruption in that process just in time becomes not enough time. and we're seeing some of that. but you've also seem to buy and administration not spend all that covered by the hundreds of billions of dollars

that was supposed to go to, to buying tests to, to buy the therapeutics, to help ease the process. and then of course, we now get reports that the cdc and others were blocking the use of ivr back in and out with therapeutic hydroxy clark. and because it didn't fit politics. so the politics of the by did ministration, including cutting off the pipeline of our fuel, our oil, that has helped raise prices if the grocery store helps slow the price of, of, of goods coming back down even when oil prices stop by rising. and maybe just kind of pause for a moment. all of the policies the budget ministration have done so it's a difficult situation into a catastrophic situation. and that's where we are saying yet we're looking for answers or how to solve it. or more importantly, politicians are looking who to blame, centralize with warren, actually tweet out what happens when only a handful of giant grocery stores, chains, i, kroger, dominated industry. they can force high food prices on to americans while ranking and racking in record profits. we need to strengthen our antitrust laws to break up

giant corporation from lower prices. that term problem, but dr. world considering their fixed nationwide change over 50 brand underneath them as well as hundreds of notable local chain stores and each have to buy the product from someone else. why put the blame of high cost of food on the grocery store and saying that that's the monopoly rather than looking at your own policies that you put in the, in the regulations that you put into cause these costs to be so high in the 1st place. well, it's not your right, it's not an either or, but we've had a long tradition going back at least to 89 in the sherman antitrust by 1914 the clayton act. we are a nation that at least verbal lee says it is dangerous to allow a handful as in this case for a 5 monster supermarket change the have that kind of old. busy they had the other major buyer for the farmers to sell their goods, and then the other major sell it to us that puts them in a very powerful position which we are on record as a nation,

being opposed to i think elizabeth warren is absolutely right. that's part of the story, but that's what i meant before. when i said these things we've allowed to develop without opposition, neither by trump nor by abiding or the ones who came before. and now we're gonna see how we have to reap the whirlwind, that our failure to impose anti trust is going to bring down on us. well, it's interesting you today because you have to look at what the fed is thing all this and steve, you know, you're now hearing the china is possibly going to lockdown their ports. and so there could be, this could be just the beginning of an even bigger supply chain issue on this. and but what role is the fed playing is we're talking about rate increases and tagged into the heights that they're talking about rating raising their hikes. there is that possibly going to help or is that going to continue to her? is that what the fed needs to be doing right now? well, 1st of all, i'll disagree with dr. wolf. elizabeth warren is absolutely clueless. she and the

by the administrators are spending too much time trying to point the finger of blame rather than actually solve the problem. they have created a 1st ever blame in the, the ranchers and meet growers. they were blaming the packing plants and they were fighting the grocery stores. the bottom line is none of this stuff gets to the grocery stores unless or until you can transport it from the farm to the packing houses and then to the grocery stores and restaurants. when fuel prices have increased over 50 percent in the last year because of the policies of the by did ministration, we shouldn't be surprised at the inflation and the high cost of everything going up . it just, there isn't a magic energy policy, but we did see the destructive energy policies of the by the administration now sticking it to us in the, in the pocket book. i'm very concerned that inflation and what the fed is doing. we're going to see the interest rates go up, keep in mind we have borrowed trillions and trillions of dollars. and when those interest rates go up, the cost of what our government has to pay for bonds to pay the interest on the debt. they've run up again. both parties have done it,

but we're now in the trillions and trillions of dollars. that's going to raise the price that the government has to spend just on paying interest. and they can't spend it on buying stuff for the american people. and when those credit card bills start coming out, be interesting to see if the workers then decide to jobs if those jobs will still be there. steve, dr. well, the thanks for the conversation. now despite multiple issues here at home, representatives from the united states continue to speak as though they are ready to fight if their wishes are not acted upon. but just like every other industry in america, our military forces are also facing a labor shortage. so much so the united states army is now offering the largest investment bonus ever at $50000.00. and this incentive is for qualified recruit to sign up for certain career path. and they must agree to a 6 year active duty enlistment. now the blame for low numbers is being put on the pandemic in the lack of recruitment allowed in schools. is there more to it? so let me ask, rob, manage a 32 year old usa combat bent and host of the rob man

a show rob, thank you so much for joining me on. this is money actually, the reason why, unless my numbers are down right now, i didn't know that you could put a price on patriotism. no, it's not money. yeah. cobra, it may be part of the issue, but quite frankly, we have an all volunteer force. and if you look at things like casualty numbers from iraqi freedom, 3465 white males died in that of the 4418 americans killed in iraqi freedom. and the military as opposed to white males right now. my white male son just left the active duty this year and his peers, hughes in c o, a non commissioned officer. his peers are leaving the military in droves. and of course, when you fire people for not taking the vaccine, it's very difficult to get boats that don't want to take the vaccine for various

reasons. most of them legitimate dick joined the all volunteer military and they're not going to be able to put their money where their mouth is about ukraine and taiwan or anything else. my opinion, they're talking too much about that and making more of a deal out of it. than really, well obviously fear is one of the best factors that they use right now to motivate or to scare people with whichever one that they want to do. and i think it's about the diversity. i agree. diversity is very important within all forces. but what the wolf miss, i think it's what is scary and people with this idea, it's not even just about talking about racial lines. it's also about every other kind of line that are military focused on rather on actually creating a strong military, $50000.00. great. signing bonus in the us military says that allows them to compete against private corporation. but that makes people think that the military, that typically 8 to 5 job therefore, do you think it's actually gonna change anyone's mind who hasn't already considered? so we'd say, i'm not going to take a cushy computer job because i'm going to get $50000.00 to go put my life on the

line in a foreign land because a politician wants to send me there. it may change one or 2 people's minds, but it's not gonna change anybody's mind overall. as a matter of fact, americans don't want to die or ukrainians with the russians, and americans don't want to get into war with china over anything that is our bottom line here. and it requires americans to volunteer to serve in spite of bonus incentives and those kinds of things. because you're not going to get the numbers that you need with a monetary bonus like this. $50000.00 bonus. although a free, there'll be a lot of people that do decide to take it, but the real question they have to answer is, do i want to die for this regime that we see now that doesn't even approve of people that support the values in our declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states that is ridiculous and american especially men.

ringback are not going to sign up for it and they've got to come to they've got to come to the realization scotty that it is white males that volunteer most of them from the south. and that, that for this country in these wars, the statistics show it over and over again between 70 and 85 percent of the combat casualties in the united states of america in all of our wars has been white men. and if the department of defense continues to be anti white male, which is exactly what the wolf nis, and the diversity political officers that they're putting in place are doing, they're not going to get the ball tiers. and you know what? i'm going to push my congressman to eliminate the selective service, so there can't be a draft the backup these unnecessary threats of going to war with countries that we don't have to go. well, i want to thank your son 1st or thank you to say for yours as well. and i think

that is important that we have recruitment of all kinds. i think that's the sad part. is it? unfortunately, bullets don't know any color when they actually go in here. we, the enemy is the one that does that. and in this side, i think that it's the irresponsibility that we have come after afghanistan, 20 years of afghanistan, and leaving people behind. i think that right there, what person wants to sign up for that job or just being ponds of politicians. in fact, i want those that believe that if you get elected office, send your kid 1st over to a war that you start before you send mine chrome. and thanks for joining us. when we come back, what does the supreme court ruling on vaccine mandates mean to the bottom ministration? specifically, after vice president harris had trouble responding. when will americans receive at home cobit test? there's a lot more after the break. the it really is happening here and i was dante l. salvatore. then to be known globally as

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ah, welcome back. we want to get to developing news out of this supreme court. the conservative majority court has a blocked of the by the ministrations or coven 19 mandate, in a 6 to 3 vote. this means that the supreme court roll the forcing companies with 100 or more of employees to require vaccine or test to continue working is not constitutional. however, the court did uphold the mandate for health care workers who receive medicare and medicaid services by a 5 to 4 vote. basically at the hospital, received money from the government. the government is allowed to issue the vaccine mandate. so discuss, i want to bring in steve gruber, host of the a steep your show alongside attorney, a line or other line on media. this was based on an osha statute. osha's says workplace requirements, workplace, open saws, lighting to do work,

place to supreme court merely read the statute, read the act and said cove, it is something that we risk on a daily basis that has nothing to do with the workplace. now it didn't say, if you happened to work in a, in a was say, a confined area where you're cramped. that's one thing. but this basically just was common sense as to this 2nd case involving healthcare workers. there oftentimes required to go through a regimen a series of, of basic health health related procedures that makes complete and total sent. so this is not so much the constitution, but common sense. and it sends a message that you cannot extrapolate covey fear everywhere. it has to make sense. that's what today was about. well, i know, i miss common sense. i mean it's almost like in this country, i guess this world's gotten less common sense, like they've gotten oxygen over the last 2 years. gruber, what does this mean?

do you think going forward we have a lot of mayors that have mandates here in washington dc starting on saturday that are shutting down to those are on back. it does, is this going to have an effect? you feel like on some of these mayor saying what you're doing is overreach, and possibly could be challenged in court as well. well, i've got bad news for all of you. your take on it is completely wrong this a catastrophic day for the united states. may i explain the health care system in this country has many small hospitals, 120 beds, 100 and beds is smaller than all now. have a decision to make because the vaccination rate and the small rural hospitals runs at about 50 percent or less. so in order to uphold the vaccine mandate upheld by the supreme court, they're going to have to lose about half of their employees, which means they're going to go bankrupt. or they can ignore the mandate, which means they won't get c m s reimbursement, which is about 70 percent of their funding on these small hospitals. and they go bankrupt. most of these small hospitals have about $200.00 days of resources in

reserve that they can survive. we're going to start seeing small health care systems, clinics, hospitals go out of business in the next few weeks. more devastating is the fact that many these hospitals have the biggest employee base and many of these small towns that, ironically are in what you would call trump's america. red america, you're going to watch. hundreds of hospitals go bankrupt. this is a death warrant for health care in america. it's also the shortest way for democrats to get us to the single payer health care system. i don't mean to pop your bubble, everybody, but the fact of the matter is this is a very dark day for health care in america because he's small, hospitals cannot survive, they cannot survive with half their staff. and if covet vaccines are about about making us healthier, and you get in a car wreck in the hospital that was there. 10 minutes away is now gone. and you have to be taken an hour from a car wreck or a heart attack, or whatever the case may be. you're going to die. people are going to die because

of this misguided decision by the united states supreme court. this is devastating to health care in america bank on that is a debbie down or but you are speaking straight truth and probably when the biggest concerns are right. i do believe this was the goal long to get to a single payer system. this is better than obamacare, this is a better path for them to get it accomplished line, okay, disaster. i'm going to like, i'm gonna throw this back over to you because here's my con, my thought though, because this at least shows of the constitution that we're not giving a dictatorship is living in the oval office right now, or any time in the near future. will there be more challenges? do you think in this as we're seeing problems with getting actual testing with health care as it is? do you think eventually this will cause people just to say, you know what? let's just keep moving forward. however, that is, well, i don't know, i hope so, but let me just explain with the supreme court said the supreme court is not congress. all it did was rule i to say balls and strikes is merely said that in one instance this was acceptable. in another instance. it wasn't,

it goes back to congress, it goes back to the president, it goes back to us. the supreme court is not gonna tailor legislation to make it fit to best to address the corporate situation. all i did was merely say, is this acceptable one of these days? i'm going to give you a list of all the laws that you could pass that would be constitutional muster. and you will be able to sleep at night because the constitution is a wonderful thing. but it's not everything. it merely allows the acceptable. and if you understand what that means, good, because that makes one of us. well, i want to throw real quick back. i got to talk about yesterday, comma harris, where joe buying this morning. i had to go in and clean up something for me after the comma harris said she doesn't know steve. the fact that she went on, craig melvin, she buried into bite administration and she was highly flawed. roll out of these 500000000 covert. she thinks they're coming tomorrow, but they could be next week. but i want you to take a listen. the 500000000 tests that have been ordered that are going to be sent to

every american. do we know when those are going out? shortly though they're going to go out really mean been ordered, they've been ordered. we. i'd have to look at the current information, i think is going to be by next week, but soon, absolutely soon. and it is a matter of urgency for us, should we have done that? so we are doing it the should we have done it? so we're doing how does she not have more direct answers to the river? she is the vice president of the united states. get us these test of our lives that are working on livelihood. meredith is depending on it to be fair, nobody in the administration has the answer. joe biden, without a december 23rd promised test. in the 1st week of january, they were coming 5000000 to us. they don't even have the contracts signed, not today, the contract isn't signed today. they're not making tests for united states government. i mean, i agree, she should know more, but the same answers that are off base have come from jen. saki, i have come from joe biden. exact. i'm from vice president cobbler harris. they have no idea what they're doing and what you to do and far we have both of you on

and thanks for joining me today. and thank you for watching. we'll catch you soon. ah. mm. july. an annual festival in st. petersburg dedicated to dust i ascii. ah, the great writer, the thinker and psychologist, people often turn to his work to understand russia and russians. perhaps even themselves. they put they sing on, laurie, it would be asleep on the matting vehicle and fly the phoenix. changing a rita, transforming them as they read. that's the best i ask is unique ability to stay ascii wants to tell us, you can better yourself. he makes you face your true self. why?

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