i think having humans around would be part of their plan but big pharma isn't thinking about the long term of course there's a lot more to it trials making sure the vaccine isn't dangerous once it's available the government has to provide incredible incentive to get these pharmaceutical companies to work for it by publicly funding drugs and they have since the 2003 sars outbreak the united states has spent nearly $700000000.00 of taxpayer money on coronavirus research more than any other country and it's possible that a vaccine will be developed with the help of public money but it will not be available or affordable because the government grants exclusive licenses to drug companies these exclusive licenses allow drug companies to enjoy a monopoly and charge exorbitant prices for medical technologies developed with public funds also big pharma companies like johnson and johnson and finds are focusing less and less on research and instead of inquiring smaller biotech firms with promising drug candidates that rely on public funding and spending more on strategies to inflate executive pa

like big pharma i want to know i don't know maybe your competition necessarily but big pharma what's their role and solving this or government's role in solving pandemics are they helping. solve problems around the hampering in or in of innovation. so i would say the big picture is that we're all in this together because we all care about our families our loved ones and the global economy that we all live in the big pharma to have this producing medicines like vaccines and they're doing that quite well but that will take a team months maybe a little less to deliver there are are also some big farmers working on antibodies although we believe our technology is much faster we could use more help from the government and potentially partnerships with big pharma with our drugs so we are leading our engineering in the next few weeks and worsening the medicine to the military to test it the bigger is in its ability to neutralize this virus but after that in order to get the people who need it globally as quickly as possible we need to run a phase one slash 2 study and that needs to be done i

execs from big pharma to show he's on top of the crisis. >> we have nobody in this country vaccinated for coronavirus right now. so that if it-- >> the same vaccine could not work. you take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that would have an impact or much of an impact on corona? >> no. >> probably none.

vaporizing words and our 1st amendment is at risk your report labels google a trojan horse for big pharma and i guess i was more disturbance. prize to read that google's parent company alphabet has pharma subsidiaries absolutely i say that google is a drug company now and so for me the most startling find was that they had invested in vax attack which is out of oxford and they are developing a one size fits all flu vaccine which means that they are not on during our personal fingerprint and fingerprint we all have different bio chemistry and we can't all take a one size fits all what do they have to do what does google have to do with drugs well now they're own by pharmaceuticals and all the dots dr mercola has lost 7099 percent of his traffic on the calling dot com has lost 76 percent of our traffic a lot of controversy about vaccination which you mentioned is google contaminating the conversation is it corrupting the exchange of ideas about vaccines i think there's a global network that are working to mandate vaccines and there is vaccine mania and i don't like the word anti backs or i

are really challenging the mainstream narrative when it comes to western medicine and challenging big pharma have been suppressed by google and i call this techno fascism so we do not come up in search engines that say green med info mercola dot mcallen dot com honey colony unless in google you add honey colleen dot com given someone who is who we are we will not come up and we used to have 500000 unique visitors a month we were doing really well based on our content which was as c.e.o. positive you use the term techno fascism. suggesting this is more than algorithmic the suppression this has to do with losing our privacy surveillance manipulation social credit system that similar to you know chinese social credit system it's about mind control it's about censoring freedom. speech it's about inverse ing the truth it's orwellian we're seeing i'm seeing research disappear in real time we're vaporizing words and our 1st amendment is at risk your report labels google a trojan horse for big pharma and i guess i was more disturbed than surprised to read that google's parent company alphabet has ph

made a big show this week of getting the heads of the big pharma companies together to work on vaccines and therapies for a corona virus. from glaxo smith kline our priority is to make sure we make available as possible this one team pandemic of the new technology to take more people that we've already announced 2 collaboration's and hope to announce more basically she said working together is the best way to save the most people sharing technology sharing ideas sharing proprietary data which is the opposite of how it normally works these companies do everything they can to hide their info hide their technology hide your advancements because that's how they make the most money they hoarded cures like joe biden or did barbie dolls so we can smell their hair. this presidential panel is in the admission that working together and sharing ideas between companies saves lives but that's not at all what they normally do if there wasn't a global pandemic big pharma companies wouldn't 'd ever help each other create a vaccine or a therapy not to mention we've now been told the vaccine when availab

the bill the trumpet ministrations sponsors because of it its impacts from big pharma in that they may be able to charge what they like for any possible seen or cure for coronavirus despite the fact the taxpayer is funding the research what do you think of those responses in these economies to coronavirus you know it may or may benefit the bottom line of big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of the population well i think that's merely the latest sign of the fact that we are living in an age of rentier capitalism in which the owners of property including intellectual property are making most of the money while most other people are struggling with low wages with fluctuating wages and loss of benefits and lack of entitlement to social services and i think that this pit in my eyes is the fragile nature of the international economy with household debt in the united states and a record high corporate debt and also a record high the disruption to the world economy by the outcome of the virus could tip all of the the world's economy into a deep recession that will will be very similar

coronavirus money being funneled into big pharma profits we are told the home office minister norman baker told us of all coming up about 2 are going on the ground. descriptions sound up even for the owners so how to choose the pet food industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us and what's necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be as healthy as people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders allergies we are actually creating these problems it's a huge have a democrat problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats to larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making it a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. max kaiser and stacy herbert dig into the burning questions of this

>> here is why big pharma isn't doing it. if they have a brand name drug, most of the funding that goes into that is for the r&d. and for them it's not -- it hasn't been worth it to invest in this advanced manufacturing technology. and it's also habit. so they've been really slow to the game here. but where there is urgency around generic drugs, again, talking about generic drugs, the lower cost products that are off patent. they don't have that much margin in them as the brand name products do. and generics are 90% of what it is we take. so there isn't that much margin. that's why we need new entrants into the market place who have great capability but just need a leg up so they can get in and start making medicines for all of us. >> one thing i keep hearing when i hear you talk about medicines as a strategic asset is government. >> yeah. >> government control maybe of medicine. is that something that we should have? is that to the -- should the government get involved in controlling these necessary medicines? >> i think the

coronavirus money being funneled into big pharma profits we are told the home office minister norman baker told us of all coming up about 2 and going on the ground. a fairly significant portion of the role that was attracting and news media at the saw in the china style will ensure a stitch keep focused feel and i mean the steel wool for the program or not and i do it is made for bush but i will push the council could issue i mean he got us no . 6 and he's. kind of financial for a long shot today with all the money laundering 1st to visit this gas into 3 different. oh good that's a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do we know all these banks are complicit in the kleptocracy who decide to give my phone and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got a nice laundry watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about. luxury automobile again from that you know what money laundering is highly illegal don't be a watch guys reco

coronavirus money being funneled into big pharma profits home office minister. the symbol coming up about 2 and going on the ground. the world is driven by shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. join me every day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back his nature nations arguably fall into a state of panic amid coronavirus fears which threaten to rock the global economy what actually makes nations fail joining me now via skype from chicago is the british economist and author of why nations fail professor james robinson thanks so much jane for coming on how resilient da the economies with a 20 can only get to a genetically began to a real contagion literal contagion like coronavirus well what you mean china i think from ups but. there's a lot so there are lots of problems about. how resilient china is you know child china has what we call extractive political institutions and they're good at doing some things but they're very bad at doing other things and g

of a company at the forefront of the fight against the virus if big pharma as profit driven approach is obsolete when it comes to a global pandemic bus how are capitalists set to make a killing out of coronavirus all the small can we have a days going underground for us to morrow sees florida ohio illinois and arizona vote in u.s. presidential primaries but how much scope for change does saunders or biden really offer the people of the united states especially as the world faces a climate change emergency co-founder of the us green party and count these bodies front runner to be the green party presidential candidate in november how hawkins joins me now via skype from madison in wisconsin thank you so much ari for joining us before we even get to the presidential campaign your thoughts on the reported attempted suicide of a wiki leaks whistleblower chelsea manning refusing to testify against or for using to incriminate joining us on java wiki leaks currently here in london the u.n. . who's been on this show alleges that the u.s. is currently engaged in psychological torture of chelse

the last thing big pharma wants is a free market. after all, these were the same folks who loved obamacare so much because they knew it mandated another revenue stream for their products. now, we all know how obamacare has turned out. and yet, they made a deal with the white house to back that bill. now, big pharma is also warning that any reforms would hurt research and development. in fact, my bipartisan legislation with senator wyden would result in less socialism, a more competitive marketplace, and wouldn't put a damper on innovation. and that's according to something that i call god around here, the independent congressional budget office. these are professional people making these judgments. they judge most all of our legislation, particularly if there is a monetary cost to it. for those who may not believe a politician, let me point out to the work then of the professionals at c.b.o. that they have done on grassley-wyden. first, the updated grassley-wyden bill will save more than $80 billion and result in no fewer cures. c.b.

gillian: so a couple of days ago a doctor said in congressional testimony that big pharma companies needp to the table. take a listen to what he said, and i want to get your reaction. >> we've got to figure out what the ecosystem is going to be to develop vaccines that are not going to make money. big pharma companies are still not going in, some of the biotechs are starting to because they're trying to really accelerate their technology and, hopefully, to flip it around with something that will make money. we need a new system in place. gillian: basically, big pharma doesn't think they've going to make enough money. >> i disagree with that. we actually feel we're competing with the large players. they have very good technology, they have very deep pockets and all, and they're able to move very quickly and all. and i think working in conjunction with companies such as geovax, we could move much quicker. and i personally am not a believer that anyone would be hesitating because of the degree of profit that's out there. i think this is a very important medical need. i know of no one in the

capitalism while more and more quarantine and major leaders paving the way for big profits from big pharma all the small coming up part 2 of going underground. for the super bowl for sure but all the little tractor and news media if the saw on the internet to start with. you feeling i mean just these full bore for you to want to know i don't know i do it is named for bush but i will push it i mean you know she is going to. be. welcome back in part one we have to meet all jacks with the vaccine company c.e.o. glanville who suggested that even a big pharmaceutical companies were willing to produce a vaccine they might not be able to do so quickly enough to make a difference so why are countries like the u.s. and the u.k. paying them so much money and it did and as the director of global justice now joins me now nick thanks for coming back on next year in the united states why should we not expect the u.s. health care system such as as it is to respond well to the coronavirus well it's one of the most market driven health care systems in the whole world i mean it it is more expensive than any

the big pharma companies are not interested in these products, making them, because there is not that much margin. they can make more margin in the innovator products, brand-name products. if the good news is there are smaller companies that are innovative, don't have legacy looking at this, and say, let's bring this new technology and make our medicines here. how soon can we get going? companies i talked looking at td start within days to begin to make the active ingredients here and make all those active ingredients totally in the united states shortly thereafter. it takes some money to good people that want to do it right, but it cannot be tax credits and hope something happens. we have to be targeted and specific that whatever we fund, companies have to produce products cannot make generic drugs in the united states to help us meet our national security needs. host: i want to read from a story that came out from cbs earlier. the fda on thursday said that for the first time since the outbreak, it drugmaker reported a coronavirus-related shortage right undisclosed drug because they

we can try to take on big pharma -- big pharma and ring down the cost of prescription drugs.n take on the nra and we we went -- when we were in charleston this past week, once again, you see that church and think about what happened in that church with the worshipers when a white walked in and gunned them down. you know what bill is sitting on mitch mcconnell's desk right now? a bill to simply give law enforcement time to look at background checks. the only way we get these gun safety bills done and so many other things i have talked about today is by winning, not just eking out a victor at 4:00 in the morning, north carolina, , we do it byl you winning big, by taking back the senate and sending mitch mcconnell packing. [cheers and applause] senator klobuchar: you know what else we've got to do? we got to make it easier for people to pay back student loans and make it easier for people to afford college, and in a state in the tradition of governor hunt, a state that understands how important education is, i found 130 seven things that a new president can do in her first 100 d

big corporations and special interests whether it's big oil big pharma the gun industry are essentially creating our policies with their money and what bernie sanders doing is trying to take the power away from the big corporations and give it back to the people like god's people are struggling right now people are falling into homelessness for the 1st time in their lives because rents are too high. housing homes guarantee candidate like center centers. and i believe that we need to invest in mass public housing after the rally at meo is tackled a popular place in the we need christian a run up policy director at the latino community foundation school it is to make sure that everything let's he can vote he's hoping for a high turnout on super tuesday latinos have been traumatized living under the top administration you know if you look at the child separation crisis he tried to end the doco program i feel like latinos in this particular action arse are seeing this as a moment to really fight back and actually stand up to what's happening in our country today. and super tuesday seems lik

other businesses can be charged with price gouging, big pharma should, too. this is ridiculous.ust said to gerald what i'm hoping for in that regard media attention on the process i would like to think is going to keep it all in check. what do we have from twitter? herd immunity is the only sustainable approach to this kind of disease like it or not. look, i'm not a scientist and i'm not a physician but it's an intriguing concept, right? and it's not something created out of whole cloth. the chief science officer in the uk was the one who first spoke openly of this idea of isolating those among us and recognizing many of the rest of us are going to get it but herd immunity will take hold and protect society at large. i leave the science to the physicians but the two cents i think i know something about are the politics. i don't know that you could sell that, that you could sell that to the public and we recognize that and will lose some in the process. on balance we'll be better served. in any event let me make this crystal clear. the u.s. has gone in a different direction, i th

the complex drug pricing system has allowed big pharma and these pharmacy benefit managers -- you may have seen the chart that senator cassidy just laid out showing some of these complexities. these pharmacy benefit managers are the middle men responsible for negotiating drug prices. but in doing so, they take advantage of the secrecy of the pricing supply chain. and the bipartisan reforms that we are fighting for and advocating for today would help fix the secrecy and save taxpayers more than $80 billion. these reforms will cap out-of-pocket costs in medicare, and that provides our seniors some enhanced financial security. one of the great moments of anxiety for our seniors is financial security. when you think about their financial situation, they can be devastated with the out-of-pocket costs for a single prescription drugs. our efforts would reform the payment incentives and ensure that big pharma and the pharmacy benefit managers have more skin in the game. these are the product of more than one year of bipartisan negotiations. and though this may not be what you hear on the news

essentially asking the questions that big pharma big insurance handsome which is to discredit the whole idea of universal which we know from statistical studies like physicians for a national health plan you know we spend far more money system and we have the worst health care system in the industrialized world because i can remember the exact 40 percent or something goes towards administrative costs. i mean half of all bankruptcies because of medical. emergencies for those people haven't surance but they essentially as soon as you have serious medical conditions you're priced out so all of this is is i mean it's symptomatic of the entire within the whole system but with the emergency of the corona virus a lot of people are going to pay for their lives because these corporations have put profit ahead of human life do you think we have the capacity to handle the coronavirus or did we respond to what we definitely responded to i mean there's no question about it we saw it coming. house didn't see it coming but all the medical establishment certainly saw it coming so we actually could have

pharmaceutical company would be in a position to invest the $1000000000.00 the development would cost but big pharma is interested hopefully it won't be long before medicine can be launched. sols coronavirus 2 is the official name for the new corona virus a persistent myth is that face masks can protect us against the virus that's not to stand up masks don't protect against the new coronavirus they are not designed to keep virus particles and they're not designed to fit flush with the face and even if they are the virus can still into the body through the eyes through the eyes however this mask can prevent infected persons from spreading the virus further well at least that's a very good thing but how can you protect yourself the most effective way is by washing your hands properly. that's quite enough because water and soap destroys the virus entirely you don't even need any disinfectant but this may help if you further link by a bus or train speaking of travel is it still ok to go on a journey today or can you get infected on a bus a train or a plane. exotic cruises and sunny beaches images from h

meeting already scheduled to talk about drug prices and now says he'll use that time to talk with the big pharma companies about developing vaccines for coronavirus and things the federal government can do to fast track any new medications that could be used to treat the illness. jose >> kelly o'donnell at the white house. thank you very much. >>> the coronavirus has the world on edge. the spread of the disease creeping into even more countries causing major disruptions to everyday life. bill knee lneely reports from hard-hit italy. >> reporter: unprecedented action by south korea tonight. not just decontaminating cities but asking its entire population of 51 million to stay indoors. and reporting hundreds more cases of the virus today. in iran, anger at the highest death toll outside china and panic. a crowd setting fire to a clinic said to be treating virus patients an infected lawmaker, the latest to die. italy is the viral epicenter of europe. soccer matches today canceled the u.s. travel warning will hit its and south korea's economy. italy not only has the highest number of cases in the we

we'll see what comes of that meeting with president trump and the big pharma executives happening later today. frances? >> hopefully we see the progress there. thank you. >>> the spread of this virus is already having a major impact on daily live overseas. in france, the world's most popular museum is now closed to the public ple pl employees at the too great what can you tell us about the impact of this crisis. >> good morning, phillip we've reached a grim milestone the number of people killed by the coronavirus has exceeded 3,000. globally there have been almost 90,000 confirmed cases with the numbers outside china now growing faster than inside china. still in china there are 202 new cases, 42 more deaths. south korea has reported another jump and four new deaths, bringing the country's total to just over 4,200 cases. while the mayor of seoul is suing a religious group in south korea who have been accused of keeping its members' names secret in italy, there have been at least 34 deaths and almost 1,700 confirmed cases. amazon said two of its employees in italy have contracted the vir

. >> special interest,t, whether t is b big oil, big pharma, the gn industry, are essentially creatingur policy wiwith their money. and what bernie sanders is doing is trying to take the power away from those big corporations and give it back to the people like us. >> people are struggling right now, people are falling into homelessness for the first time because rent is too high. homes guarantee candidate. i believe we need to invest in mass public housing. reporter: after the rally at leo's s taught go truruck, a por place in the neighborhood, we meet christian, policy director at the latino community foundation whose goal it is to make sure that every single latino can vote. he is hoping for a high turnout on super tuesday. >> latinos have been traumatized living under the trump administration. you look at the child's operation crisis, he tried to end the dadaca program. i feel like latinos in this election are seeing this as a moment to really fight back and actually stand up to what is happening in our country today. reporter:n super tuesday seemsms like an important first step to

for our pharmaceutical manufacturers to invest and locate domestically worried yet with all of big pharma profit making schemes in the past the outrageous lifelong cost of hiv treatment in the u.s. spiking the prices of insulin it doesn't take an economist to wonder how the already high price of drugs might skyrocket the destruction of the supply chain is what drives the work it we have you know short many of these production of items not maybe the product itself but maybe a component of the product that's very basic and anyway come to united states to get more you know manufacture so clearly it underlines how vulnerable we are as a 1st world country you know in china to produce these basic products so while you and i see the coronavirus pandemic as a tragedy of world significance big business will try every which way to turn it into a profit making extravaganza for themselves of course whenever there's a crisis someone is always there to make some money off it come on you know now you're going to start seeing people going to be at home you're going to see netflix go up or other you know

of a company at the forefront of the fight against the virus if big pharma is profit driven approach is obsolete when it comes to a global pandemic plus how are capitalists set to make a killing out of coronavirus over small can we have a disease going underground before us to morrow sees florida ohio illinois and there isn't a vote in u.s. presidential primaries but how much scope for change does saunders all biden really offer the people of the united states especially as the world faces a climate change emergency.