the farm soviet union cal companies tide these pillings weren't addictive. doctors, well meaning but probably hadn't looked into it as well as they should, tended to prescribes these quite liberally. as the numbers of pills and more and more pills were made available each year, more and more people began to die of overdoorses. about 2010, what hand wares that pill oxycontin and users scrape the bill down to powder and either snort opowder oar inject it to get a stronger feeling. so the farm soviet union cal companiesed -- pharmaceutical companies came up with a reformulation of oxycontin so they couldn't break it down into a powder, just turned into a goop. for well-meaning things sometimes they lead to unintended consequences. what happened almost meet with he arrival of the -- people used to use oxycontin switched to hairs heroin. they're very much the same check chimp heroin was surprisingly much more widely available and much cheaper than the pills so as we saw another big uprise in the deaths, and then i'll talk but this more later -- we had the arrival

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union and become it's own country. joining us today is the former leader of the cal exit movement. how are you >> great. thank you for having me on the program. >> yeah. you just launched your campaign. your platform is different to say the least. what exactly are you running on >> very simple plan. the plan is to become governor and declare california an independent country. >> so, a vote for you is a vote for leaving the united states >> exactly. that's exactly what this campaign is about. it'll be the first time in history that the people of california will actually have a chance to vote for leave independence from the united states by voting for me for governor. >> and what is your pitch for why that would put california in a better position >> so many of the california problems. if you talk about problems budget issues, financial issues, homelessness, a lot of them sprout from the fact that california is a donor state and we are losing tens of hundreds of becomes of dollars every year that get funneled from california to washington dc and then redistributed to other states. we are sponsoring paying

covid and i've seen that in many other places as well, in north beach, chinatown, in union street and in the marina and cal hallow and haze valley it's been like this amazing advice and it's been really good for the tax revenue for the city and small businesses and jobs and so i hope that you can consider it and support it and make changes as necessary but also try to keep it moving so we have certainty for our small businesses and one thing that was touched upon was the fact that we did have a public park let program that was for the public but it had very little usage and one thank, it was a matter of bad incentives. why would a small business create a public parklet where they cannot use it when they do not have a great excuse for themselves so most businesses, you took at this program and decided to pass on it. if you really want spaces for the public, that sort of action should come from the city not from individual businesses and so, things teaming up and it seems really weird to assume to put the cost out and thank you very much for your comments. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> caller: hello my

the government and the representatives of unions and the representatives of the -- get together and decide who will do what. that is completely ant athletic cal as far as i'm concerned to competition to an opportunity society to meritocracy to excellence to striving. who is locked out? it's he immigrant who done belong to a union. who is locked out in the small business person trying to get in and can't because there's no space left by the major expansive organizations, corporations. the people that are being under the boot of the bureaucratic society and its adjuncrts in unions and large corporations other i couldn't be a whole lot less complimentary of corporatism as it has been substantiated or most people would describe its. >> thank you, professor brooks. let me invite you to wrap it up. i you want to have any closing statements sounds formal but encapsulate or reflect on this debate i would like to give you each an opportunity do this now. professor brooks do you want to start first. >> sure. start again where i -- going to finish where i began disney thanking richard for come ago our community here -- coming to our community here, abig

cal tech, investigate it. these aren't trumpers. >> yeah, i get it, but think for a second, like, the soviet union used to do this stuff all the time? when the leftist narrative feeds off these foreign narratives, that's what creates a real problem here. it's because what the chinese are doing is leveraging and in turn what the american left are doing is leveraging the chinese message or the russian message or the iranian message. that's what's killing us. elizabeth: how about 600,000 people died in the u.s., more than that in how about 3.5 million people died worldwide from covid-19? don't we deserve to know what happened? lieutenant colonel, thank you to your invest -- for your service to our country. >>> still ahead, the owner of a michigan restaurant jailed for defying governor whitmer's lockdown restrictions including the mask mandate. she says she was sack shackled, strip searched and cavity searches, going to sue in federal court. the story next. >> [inaudible] stop! >> do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth under. message -- [audio difficulty] and it's not something we just achieve at th

cal, your question to president reagan? >> mr. president, you often described the soviet union as a powerful evil empire intent on world domination, but this year you said, and i quote, if they want to keep their mickey mouse system, that's okay with me? which is it, do you want to contain them and establish detente or roll back their empire? >> i have said on a number of occasions exactly what i believe about the soviet union. i retract nothing that i have said. i believe many of the things they have done are evil in any concept of morality that we have, and i also recognize that as the two great superpowers in the world, we have to live with each other, and i told them, we don't like their system and they don't like ours, and we are not going to change their system and they sure better not try to change ours. but between us, we can either destroy the world or save it, and i suggesttd that certainly it was to their common interests along with ours to avoid a conflict and to attempt to save the world and remove the nuclear weapons. i think that perhaps we established a little b

covid and i've seen that in many other places as well, in north beach, chinatown, in union street and in the marina and cal hallow and haze valley it's been like this amazing advice and it's been really good for the tax revenue for the city and small businesses and jobs and so i hope that you can consider it and support it and make changes as necessary but also try to keep it moving so we have certainty for our small businesses and one thing that was touched upon was the fact that we did have a public park let program that was for the public but it had very little usage and one thank, it was a matter of bad incentives. why would a small business create a public parklet where they cannot use it when they do not have a great excuse for themselves so most businesses, you took at this program and decided to pass on it. if you really want spaces for the public, that sort of action should come from the city not from individual businesses and so, things teaming up and it seems really weird to assume to put the cost out and thank you very much for your comments. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> caller: hello my

cal tech, investigate it. these are not trumpers. >> i get it but here is the dynamic that changed. think for a second, the soviet union. we knew they were lying. the chinese did it before. nobody paid attention. what changed? the leftist narrative feeds off these foreign narratives that is what creates a real problem here. it is because what the chinese are doing is leveraging, in turn what the american left are doing leveraging the chinese message or the russian message, or the iranian message, that is what is killing juice how about 600,000 people died in the u.s., more than that? how about 3 1/2 million people died worldwide from covid-19. don't we deserve to know what happened? lieutenant colonel, thanks for your service to our country. thanks for coming on. good to see you. >>> till ahead a owner after michigan restaurant jailed for denying gretchen whitmer's lockdown restrictions including the mask mandate. she was shackled, strip-searched, cavity searched she will sue in federal court. >> stop. do you promise to tell the truth and nothing but the truth under penalty of perjury? yes or no? (vo) ideas exist insid

cal to the mission. police cause trauma and the presence of police reactivates that trauma. let's invest in community-led safety teams. let's support union jobs. let's uplift patients. let's staff more nurses. there are alternatives to policing. there are good alternatives to policing. we keep us safe, so let's invest in us. thank you. >> thank you, caller. and, commissioners, another caller has called in so we will unmute you. please let us know that you're there, caller. >> hello. my name is lj. i'm reading on behalf of catrina seraldo. >> clerk: i'm going to pause because you've been on before. we're not able to let the same people read and provide public comment more than once. >> this is actually a comment from a different person. >> clerk: okay. >> she couldn't be here today because she's working and is a provider in our hospital system. >> i'm sorry. i'll start the two minutes again. >> thank you for adjusting for me. this is read on behalf of christina seraldo. she writes, i take care of patients who are disproportionately affected by the war on drugs instead of being inappropriately responded to by policing. i had a patient with

cal to the mission. police cause trauma and the presence of police reactivates that trauma. let's invest in community-led safety teams. let's support union jobs. let's uplift patients. let's staff more nurses. there are alternatives to policing. there are good alternatives to policing. we keep us safe, so let's invest in us. thank you. >> thank you, caller. and, commissioners, another caller has called in so we will unmute you. please let us know that you're there, caller. >> hello. my name is lj. i'm reading on behalf of catrina seraldo. >> clerk: i'm going to pause because you've been on before. we're not able to let the same people read and provide public comment more than once. >> this is actually a comment from a different person. >> clerk: okay. >> she couldn't be here today because she's working and is a provider in our hospital system. >> i'm sorry. i'll start the two minutes again. >> thank you for adjusting for me. this is read on behalf of christina seraldo. she writes, i take care of patients who are disproportionately affected by the war on drugs instead of being inappropriately responded to by policing. i had a patient with