liberal republicans like john cornyn helped write it. so the question is , will the second half, will it makehe community safer? emphatically yes, said joe biden, quote, it s going to save a lot of lives. how many lives exactly when the characteristically modestct words of connecticutrd senator chris murphy quote, what we are doings will save thousands of lives, thousands then makes a kind of sense because now that we re going to have red flag laws in all l 50 states, laws that allow the government to disarm you byn force, that charging you withit a crime without bothering with due process. once we do that and we bith are doing it, mass shootings like the one we saw in buffalo this spring will never happen again. that s what they promised a us . and the media assured it wased true . every word of it. what they everwa mention was it was not only ridiculous and false, it was provably false. ybecause actually gun control does not stop bad people from usingon guns. it s not a tal
pomellato by the people who built and fed this country for generations. hundreds of thousands of them have died from opioids and their still dying more than a hundred thousand drug deaths last year from fat and all. smuggled through china and mexico. if you live there you probably know someone who is died from fat and all probably someone s child. what you may have forgotten in the face of all the sadness is the opioid epidemic was not organic, it didn t just happen one day people and sparsely populated people in kentucky this of me felt sad and took dangerous drugs. no. this particular disaster was greeted by drug companies. that is true they kicked it off. they did by aggressively marketing oxycontin. they sold it to doctors and doctors solely to the patient s on the false claim that it was nonaddictive. it was very addictive. what happened next? what drive through upstate new york you could see the carnage. ultimately purdue pharma fixed lawsuits and criminal charges in th
on his car, but he escaped assassination after switching vehicles following an event outside moscow. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello, and welcome to the programme where british journalists debate the week s news with the correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline: london. living with double digit inflation is an unwelcome, if familiar, experience in many countries. turkey, argentina, zimbabwe and iran started 2022 under that yoke. for the british, it had been a distant memory, but not any more. in the united states, presidentjoe biden signed into law the optimistically titled inflation reduction act. would it were that simple. another bad memory from the 1980s, the threat to kill the author sir salman rushdie, came close to being fulfilled. liberals are relieved he survived, but have they helped to fuel intolerance? to discuss all that, in the studio are maria margaronis, a documentary maker who, among other projects, has ch
his foot stuck in the petal clipped and fell to the ground. he got right up but it s not the first time biden has had a physical mishap. you may remember he stumbled at least twice while climbing the stairs to aboard air force one. that was just two weeks ago. still come the left-wing media took very little notice of my mike biden s bike fall. they were quick to dismiss thinks about his age. what is false is that he is not capable of doing the job right now or he is not mentally in tune with the demands of the job. anybody, any aide who engage with him or reporters, we can see this. the gears are working, that is an issue pushed by right-wing media, but it is not correct. emily: this, of course, is a far cry after president trump appeared to walk down the ramp slowly after his commencement address at west point some two years ago. a lot of clues and there but no conclusions. is at balance problems? are there some weakness there? is there numbness in the feet perhaps wit
sacred, the only truly sacred obligation we have is to prepare and equip those women and men we send into harm s way and care for them and their families when they return home. and when they don t. this is an obligation that unites americans. and brings us together to make sure the women and men who are willing to lay down their lives for us get the very best from us in return. i want to acknowledge that we re making progress in key areas like bipartisan legislation advancing in congress that would deliver health care services and benefits to veterans and to survivors impacted by toxic exposures. you don t know how many americans and service members may have died because of what they re exposed to in the battle field. toxic smoke from burn pits near where they were based. burn pits that were incinerated from the hazardous material and jet fuel and so much more. we have a duty to do right by them. and i m determined to make sure that our brave service families and members that