States have been suffering from chronic shortages of prescription pain killers we know that how an ambitious project and one is turning the situation around. For myself on the whole team here at the altie International Headquarters of. The president. Lots of stories for you starting with this one the u. S. Democratic president ial candidate Michael Bloomberg has admitted his campaign made use of prison labor although the billionaire claims he was unaware it was happening his team hired a farm to help with his 2020 and run which in ton employed female inmates to make campaign calls. We learned about this when the reporter called us but as soon as we discovered which friend a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hire them imagine being so rich you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you agence being so rich you dont even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. Rita reading we sad indeed when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor used prison labor we did know about it and we never would have allowed it we dont believe in this practice and we immediately stopped working with pro com and the people who hired them so how do you do it pay someone to pay someone to tell them Mike Bloomberg is a big spender he was last to do in the president ial race and he has already outspent all the other democrat candidates on Campaign Advertising i mean the guy has so much money he doesnt seem to have the time to check what he spent a good dog but they his credit Michael Bloomberg did promise america more work just to. Get it. For president jobs creator. Right america more jobs in any of the prisons in the states a private run for profit and there are laws that force people to work so if you are in a jail and you are told to work you have to youll be punished sometimes they pay you as much as 20. 00 a month thats right 20. 00 a month now heres the irony Mike Bloomberg billionaire one of the richest people in america was essentially paying for what is a slave labor to cool people apparently tell them the easy good guy wait the bloomberg is he was paying someone to pay someone to tell everyone what a good guy he is trump says he wants to run the nation like hes running is business god help us. Everybody says stuff that comes back to bite them but when billionaires do it its generally an order of magnitude. It gets worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media bloomberg. News sent. Thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own this is the sort of person mike. Mike bloomberg started as a middle class kid to work his way through College Business for. Creating. Good paying jobs on the way to stop there. He probably shouldnt but he didnt let me continue he became yeah he made selling bank is new to christie priced gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 20085 actual crash depriving tens of millions of people of own life savings and jobs. Michael bloomberg president. And best bits of john David Lindorff believes that despite vast wealth hes not he not a particularly strong count. It really shouldnt be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor its forced labor bloomberg is a multibillionaire hes worth like 54000000000. 00 hes made his money by you know not paying attention to things like that. That hes not concerned about the little guy. Which i guess becomes you know if youre if youre supposedly a democrat youre concerned about the little guy and its enormous a packer see it a big problem because i think its going to hurt him a lot i dont know where people get the idea that bloomberg is the great savior for democrats in the race in the race to get struck he has almost no poll support only has his money. Billionaires have not traditionally done that well running for office its. You know you got to have money to run for president but when you have that much money i think that most. People are pretty suspicious of your motives in running for office. Well paula thought the west and wild enjoy an opioid addiction crisis many african nations are left struggling to get enough he medication to relieve the pain of patients. I did. In the. End she was not even able to take. The pain. Weve both been in my not judgmental. Human right if people are dying in pain in the country and that. Human rights. Crisis that has featured far fewer headlines. Is the nonmedical use of the painkiller tramadol particularly for. Tramadol a synthetic not standards are still controlled is a substance of growing concern particularly in North Central and west africa closer regions of africa now account for 87 percent of pharmacies cry poor seas worldwide and not the recent rises jew almost entirely to trafficking in china to. Come into the mission its only. Now the numbers are pretty stark the International Context control board says the majority of all morphine used is consumed by just 17 percent of the worlds population who live predominately in parts of the western parts of the world at the same time african and Asian Countries can only satisfy a tiny fraction of their medical needs but its on the status on joe bruno says but at the end of the day its all about one thing and thats money. Perma Suitable Companies are businesses big businesses with many salaries to pay they need and a lot of them are listed in the stock market here other words they have shareholders they have to take care of so because these western companies are focused on the expensive medicines theyve reduced the availability and demand for the natural cheap ones thats why the subject of morphine again is such a not just controversial its unusual its something that people dont talk about very much its sad to say it cynical but lyme stick a 2nd seat to profits and earnings and the the the entire capitalist system contributes to that its always a matter especially since in the last 25 years. Stock Market Performance has taken precedence over everything else. With the National Strike and france over proposed Pension Reforms heading into it for 4 week a dont trip in paris and stepping out of the theater i want the streets to make that clear. What the girls have shown you with swan lake is 15 years of sacrifice and its daily work every day every morning and there is a limit to how long its possible to remain at that level if you want to continue to see pretty dancers on stage they cant go on until theyre 64 its not possible and perhaps the most beautiful protest that paris this step but i dont see what actions like behind them they had back right. Culture in danger h u n out the latest sick work of a pension report by the french government this strike is now into its 4th week it showed support for signing up and they according to process independent Pension Advisory Committee despite our Pension System this being a sustainable this is the only way to like i mentioned that hes reacting hes doing all right still. Forms a definite will write into more than 17 if youre risking the next is nothing its done while the focus may be on fronts right now time of crisis is a global problem some like it slowed seeking to find but its the baby boom but chip ration continues to wear tight Pension Systems across the world a straining on the price of costs as a result other countries to have been slow in raising that a time or warning of soaring up tension texans the problem is that the demographics have changed in 1906 when the system was invented you had people paying for one pension and today youve got 1. 7 people going from one the pension the circles that is completely unsustainable so it needs to be resold and i basically i think youve got all these demonstrations of people saying yes but not yet you know not now i dont want to be the best one to to have the worst situation so its clear that the world right now. As you know theyll need more money to retire on well not so fast according to process independent Pension Advisory Committee this is the c. E. O. Of all the situation is that perhaps its doing is the clintons government has been suggesting its own findings showed that the over whole cost of front susPension System has in fact stabilized even reduced and that huge deficit government is being warning about it could just be a blip shrinking down to 5000000000 you rates by 2030. This is a miserable sensitive for the public government one of its 1st measures of world was to suppress tax on words. Its called by the french the president of the rich but if you tax bill you know so you must not forget to add an Exchange Controls in order to curb the toxic evasion that is because there is a lot of the leniency with specs evasion in this country but a very very few people trudge people want this new feudal american style dystopia that is the very program of president franklin but dont want that absolutely new days of strike action have already been announced that france has this standoff with the unions and the gov it is tim ewing in the meantime artists and to time and just see the bait to scare away thank you. Thank you thank you. With britain yet to free itself from the European Union on the backs of process dragging on some have decided to take matters into their own hands and split from brussels themselves at least in the grocery aisle. Most emotions to see if these taste any better tried brussels sprouts. This problems have the right to their own identity they are from yorkshire so there. Im self identifying as a yorkshire sprouts in solidarity even the one from lancashire bit one with you in a sprout. Youre sure sprouts taste really nice if theyre cute in the salty tears of remain or else. Many of our customers are interesting knowing where their food comes from lincolnshire sprouts lincolnshire sprouts because theyre from lincolnshire yorkshire sprouts are called yorkshire browns because theyre from yorkshire many of our customers like to know that. The u. K. Ministry of defense finds itself in hot water what activists call decades of discrimination well get reaction in that story off the shelf break. You know world of big. Law and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now were watching closely watching the hawks. And stacy our continuing our south american tour and as you can see behind me we are in Rio De Janeiro oh my god so beautiful so much going on this is a country in transition. Same hammer i can use to snare someones head is the same hammer i can use to build them a home but thats a human choosing what to do with thats me expressing my values for the tool and thats what we need to do with Artificial Intelligence as well. Welcome back rights activists in britain according on the ministry of defense to compensate over 150 people who claim to have been expelled from the military because of their sexuality. Campaign a say that the armed forces pasta policy of discrimination did untold damage to the lives of many stops personnel and the victims must receive receive redress. Many people suffered horribly under officially sanctioned discrimination and as a result of the on the edge of beauty plus people in the armed forces the minister of defense has been for too slow to offer proper apologies and fans for this suffering ministers should be doing all they can to prove this right gay people were not allowed to salve in the British Armed forces until the town of the millennium when the European Court of human rights ruled the policy on your fall since then that has paid out 4000000 pounds in compensation and says it has settled 51 cases of discrimination over 100 other claims have been either rejected or withdrawn. Activists insist though that many more military personnel are likely to have been affected by the ban according to peta touching a leading campaign to thousands of gay people were forced out of the military between the late fortys on 2000 in the 1980 s. He says as many as 300. 00 people were kicked out because of their sexuality each year in many cases this had a severe impact on Service Members lives that miti for its part accepts that its previous policy was unjust. Life now see to top campaigner who researched the issue on andre walker is a columnist at new York Observer and political commentator bank you both for joining us peter i want to start with you im going to play devils advocate here why is that we could say that theres been a statue of limitations things have moved on society has changed were obviously not the same side of that we were back in those years is it time maybe to just accept that this is all in the past and do we really need to redress the issue. Very easy for some people very nice to do that but i think we need to recognize the real pain suffering that was subjected to these men they not only lost their job and their income but because theyre in the forces they lost their forces accommodation home they also lost their pension rights and many of their friends the end result was a many of them found it very difficult once they were dismissed from the armed forces to get subsequent work because their military reference said dishonorably discharged with disgrace so Many Employers were very reluctant to take them on and many of these men lived in great poverty for many many many years some had mental breakdowns as well so i think it is fair and reasonable to say that these men do deserve compensation were not talking about billions but we are talking about you know reasonable amount commensurate with the suffering and justice that they serve and im sure i want to get your take on this we know that these people will smith they lost their homes their friends the pensions potential opportunities for employment in the future is it not right that we take some steps towards at least in some part writing that role. Well i dont particularly mind the fact that we compensate them is only a small number of cases and i imagine what peter is saying is is probably right but i think there is a concern here that we need to just. Highlight and that is that we should not create a right to be a member of the armed forces the purpose of the armed forces to protect and defend the United Kingdom where the Homeland Defense aware that be going out around the world and fight your behalf of this country you know that is their primary role or my concern is that any organization or group or political view might be able to come forward in the future and attempt to say will get compensation out of the British Government so if this is just writing a historical wrong that its great if it is creating a right to be in the military that i believe that is dangerous peter what would you say to that do you agree it up potentially to say this becomes a slippery slope that people can come forward and say well actually i think i was discriminated against to. Well since 1909 the British Government has accepted that people regardless of whether they are lesbian gay bisexual or transgender do have a right to be considered based on merit for service in the armed forces and that they should not be dismissed because of their Sexual Orientation or their gender identity the sole basis on which personnel are now are judged is can they do the job are they good soldiers sailors in their crew so thats the basis and i think that when we look back historically you mentioned the numbers dismissed from the armed forces in the period that i do you did research in the 1980 s. It was between 10300 every year now if you take the lower figure of 100 and market from 945 until 999 when the ban on gay Service Personnel was farm lifted thats 54 years were talking about a minimum i would estimate of 5400. 00 people were dismissed from the armed forces for no other reason than they happened to be gay they were not bad soldiers or otherwise Perfect Service records they lost their jobs and were booted out to become destitute not employed simply because of their sexuality and that is what the. Do the Ministry Defense already recognizes in the cases that is currently compensating all that im saying is that the numbers currently under compensation is tiny indeed a tiny fraction of the numbers who were victimized by this unjust law and all those men who are still alive and some of them course will have died all these men and women who are still alive should be compensated to a reasonable degree commensurate with the suffering they endured. And on here i want to get your opinion that we have the pizza saying that actually there are still a huge number of cases that are open some wooden where some were dismissed why do you think the british army is being so slow and dealing with these claims i mean we know that its its got undergone a revolution and its now one of considered one of the best places to work for p. T. Communities so whats the issue here. Or i dont know what the issues but it sounds like the movie along obviously pieces of the happy with the speed with which its being done books but you know if the motive is committed to paying compensation im sure that will happen look i think i think there is a bigger concern here and the concern is this i know water parks as i may see more popular at the time the law of the law and people for being in the military there are similar rules that are people being in the military for a variety of reasons medical conditions what have you thrown out what is going to be difficult here if its so at some point in the future we change our opinion then were suddenly compensating people from the past and if you look at the Transgender Community as an example you know there are significant costs with medical treatments associated with. Thats why america has decided that it will no longer allow transgender people and i think when youre talking about people potentially who have huge medical bills you know we need to be able to discriminate against them without without any fear i know that sounds like a tough thing to say but actually it is important given the physical ability of your military is so vital peter i actually just want to pick up on something the underside i mean we could argue that the army always made it clear that we have an intolerance of homosexuality and we have an intolerance to drug use so the army was very upfront about things it was willing to accept and things that it wasnt so occupy the people who than the p. T. Members who signed up knew what they were signing up for so then knowing not do they have a right to be compensated. Well of course some of the people who signed up didnt realize they were gay when they enlisted theyre only realized much later on in their career and it would be very very perverse to punish people on the basis that they should have known they were gay back when they signed up when they were 1617 or 18 years old the real crucial thing for me is if you dont retain these people you are exercising a cost and unnecessary cost on the military services its absurd to invest money in training people to be soldiers sailors and aircrew and then dismiss them after investing all that money in training simply because of their sexuality or their gender identity so it makes economic sense to retain those military personnel and this is one of the reasons that did persuade our ministry of defense in the u. K. To ditch its policy realize it was economically senseless i dont care i just want to set a final round up from you and given us a notice from the government on top of the wrongs of the past governments how do you think that all people can be pleased in this situation. We hear this all the time dont we for various groups that we should treat people in the past as idiots because they were less in lights and those Human Society moves forward we know more today we are more enlightened today the people were a 100 years ago didnt make them bad people fundamentally this is a 150 people i hope the compensation comes through swiftly but ill just repeat my comment from before we must not create a right to join the military what we need is a military that is capable of fighting with the commanders not politicians or gay rights activists to decide who military personnel are and how theyre deployed. Well that was thank you very much i was p. To touch on l. G. Pretty calm paina. 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Guys are this is the kaiser report max and stacy are continuing our south american tour and as you can see behind me we are in korea de janeiro oh my god so beautiful so much going on this is a country in transition i think stacie well that of course is sugarloaf back there behind you one of the most famous scenes of Rio De Janeiro we are here just as strong slap those tariffs on brazil for a legend really manipulating their currency but just like argentina of course they arent manipulating their currency theyre having a hard time maintaining the value of their currency not as bad as argentina here of course but of course but also narrow their new president you know hes been in office for a year hes a huge fan boy of