Court documents to reveal that a Big Pharma Company conspired to aggressively push its i. P. O. Painkillers this is led to accusations that the pharma cost americas biggest drug epidemic well the companys also accused of damn playing the risks of addiction and this led to doctors prescribing its pills to patients even with only minor pains as more. The usa is in the midst of an ongoing Opioid Epidemic. In the. In response to the Opioid Epidemic 48 different us states have taken action against produce pharma a drug manufacturer owned by the Sackler Family now even the company itself admits that those affected should get help as soon as possible while purdie farmer is prepared to defend itself vigorously in the opioids a geisha the company has made clear that it sees little good coming from here so its a geisha and the pills that people and communities affected by the opiate crisis need help now now its certainly commendable the focus on helping victims rather than simply avoiding blame whats a 1000000 emails that have just been released show the Sackler Family and produce pharmaceuticals in a rather negative light Richard Sackler then the president oversaw the creation of some Public Health advocacy groups its implied that the American Pain Society and the now defunct American Pain Foundation operated almost as front groups then president Richard Sackler explained his motives our goal is to buying these organizations more closely to us than here to for but also to align them with our expanded mission and to see that the fate of our products are next to it could be boned up with the trajectory of the Pain Movement that these organizations works to convince the us public that pain related issues were not being properly addressed however thats not all the emails have shown dr Kathleen Foley a neurologist who was also a paid speaker for produce pharma urged Richard Sackler to expand and to collaborate with other Drug Companies who stood to make a profit from an expansion of pain awareness. Im thinking of an alternative strategy of bringing together all the members of the pharmaceutical industry who have drugs out there and try to come together as a sort of hes if recognizing that your particular drug has been recently identified in the newspapers as a drug issue the Pain Awareness Campaign may have resulted in giving some people a temporary buzz but the pain felt by us society in the aftermath of the resulting Opioid Epidemic is far greater in serious clear that Purdue Pharma and other manufactures from very early on were interested in one thing in that was their bottom line being really indifferent to the well being of patients who would actually be taking the opioids that they were peddling and their wanted gender was to make money so hopefully manufacturers played a major role in the current american hope you would have to demick they were not the sole and to do you responsible for the epidemic but without their involvement i highly doubt this epidemic would have come to pass it was their misrepresentation of the risks and benefits pain killers that led 1st and foremost to an epidemic of overprescribing pain killers for minor in chronic pain conditions which ultimately gave way to the curb appeal the current to epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose death we did ask the pharmacy comment on this story although so far we havent received a response that was not just perfect just being accused of prioritizing profits over Peoples Health later on and ill put it in look at how Agro Chemical join some type has been trying to discredit its critics and. Now were looking at some live pictures here from hong kong where thousands of people are marching in defiance of the authorities which banned an antigovernment rally that was planned for today. The fisher reason for the ban is the violence thats been seeing previous demonstrations in the past groups months the police are warning that those taking part in the march could face prosecution although when i reports of arrests at the moment President Donald Trump has commented on the current tensions between homecoming china saying the anti beijing price for should be handled in a humane fashion. I think it will work for the trade. On the gun would be a much bigger drop i think it would have been but for about what i really believe john wants to make a deal and they know it puts us in a very bad position if theres not a new way of handling the problems and id let them know that. It is a humane fashion the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed discontent with the white house for showing empathy with what it calls radicalized protest as on friday to more protests leaders were arrested on suspicion of organizing unauthorized rallies but were released on bail one of them rose to prominence 5 years ago during the Umbrella Movement price god. Was. I. Os. We will continue i will fight no matter how democrats. Or just showing who we just saw there is one of the leaders of the current protests but apparently he cut his teeth protesting not just at the demonstrations 5 years ago is in a prank he explains. Hes only 22. 00 but hes already backed himself at least a few lines in the history books joshua wall has already served several prison sentences hes a leader of a Political Party hes followed 5300000 users on twitter is invited to speak on the most Prominent International news channel clearly your message to anyone who has demonstrated previously is disregards to come out and demonstrate again. Yeah thats what our police bring us now on the phone is prodemocracy activist from Hong Kong Joshua wa he was an independent inquiry into police abuse youve been very critical of the Police Tactics he has just got out of prison at 3 and a half hours ago just so how does it feel to be free to issue a warning is frank hed love a bit of western support i hope u. S. Politician days should take a more active row to support hong kong democrat high station to ensure the interests of you asked citizens in hong kong. And probably to go and Economic Freedom in hong kong can still be guaranteed in the future and apparently hes highly admired by many in America Joshua wall went to washington in 2015 to get an award from Freedom House and n. G. O. S which power gets most of its funding from u. S. Government grants and a couple of years american lawmakers nominated the young man and his associates for the noble peace prize this month it was revealed his in touch with american diplomats in hong kong after he was photographed meeting the political unit chief of the local u. S. Consul general the activist said he thought theres no big deal about it but even went to washington several times so whats so special about mit in the u. S. Consul chinese authorities though have been making it clear they are firmly against other countries getting involved in the hong kong situation would you that we are strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposed to carping remarks in the g 7 leaders statement acting as the backseat driver on Hong Kong Affairs we have time and again emphasized that Hong Kong Affairs are purely the internal affairs of china and no Foreign Government organisation or individual has the right to intervene however some of the protests skills George Szell Wong and his fellow activists have. Their sleeves were picked up from abroad in the build up to the 2014 hong kong uprising the folks from the socalled old slow Freedom Forum shared their protest expertise with joe show wong and cope today hes confident Democratic Political reforms are the only way forward for hong kong and he says he wont shy away from challenging the most senior officials at home and in beijing in a prank that when we spoke to chinas special 200. 00 nun who says that the unrest in hong kong is being stirred up by external activists its been reports of some of these voters this is the middle of the train in the all slow Freedom Forum. Which of course is in all the most of these theres a lot of trading whole trading ready on tactics of some of. The establishment the socalled civil disobedience that its so i think that and also the funds. Supported by the International Organizations including the National Endowment for democracy of the United States of course are not as they say as a democratic country and this organization has an n. C. O. Support the policies around the world but on the other hand is to link the richly. Kind of inputs but only had those though doubt that the militants are highly trained to look at the way that their formation and the bonin and also policy in those sort of sending messages and so on. That group of military experts is calling on congress to force the disclosure of the number of u. S. Bases overseas in the less said they describe the information currently provided by the pentagon as limited and frequently incomplete. The pentagons annual a base Structure Report provides some information about the number and size of base sites overseas however it fails to report on dozens of well known installations in Countries Worldwide and frequently provides incomplete or inaccurate data many suspect the pentagon does not know the true number of installations abroad. Spoke with a retired u. S. Army colonel and signatory to the left and right she says u. S. Citizens are often surprised in the location of american things. They received this letter requiring asking the pentagon to be more transparent about its u. S. Overseas bases why did you choose to sign that leather well im on a u. S. Army colonel i spent 29 years in in the u. S. Military and i think its very important that american citizens know how many bases we have where they are and how much it costs to run them most americans dont realize we have over 800 bases now and that we have new bases that are being established particularly in africa do you think that this is a problem thats specific to the u. S. Do you think other countries are more transparent about the amount of bases they have well there are very few countries have bases outside their own countries i mean the u. K. Has the french. Russia has a few many china has a few not many but its primarily the United States overwhelmingly has the overseas bases or bases in other peoples countries in that letter it says that there are some 800. 00 insolation throughout the world and those roughly cost u. S. Taxpayers about 20000000000. 00 per year but do your implying in the flutter that thats not an accurate number how much bigger do you think is the actual amount of money that is used from u. S. Taxpayers well we think it may be double that up to 15000000000. 00 that are being spent by the u. Yes government to how equip train have military operations for. Men and women in our military and also department of defense affiliates that are assigned to these spaces you know we have large numbers of bases still in germany and japan and south korea but most people dont realize that we now have some in Eastern Europe right on the border of russia and then fact the military exercises that the United States has been having both in Eastern Europe and in scandinavia is one of the concerns that we who signed that letter have do you think that disclosing such information as the number of military entities abroad will enhance u. S. National security or could it be a risk is that why its not necessarily about transparent well thats probably what the pentagon will be saying but we would say as citizens we need to know where our military is we are surprised sometimes when young men and women are killed in places and no one even knew that we had a military installation there so the fisher study then that some 800. 00 u. S. Installations are located in 80 countries around the world but the signatories of the letter b. Who do say the number could be hugely understated they insist a special report now should be included in the 2020 National Defense authorization act is meant to increase transparency and avoid Excessive Military spending we spoke to the investigative journalist David Swanson about this he thinks it is normal for tax pays to want to know where their money is going. The u. S. Does something very strange because it both brags about its reach and its extent of its dominance of the world and tries to hide it and cover it up so if you watch a sports event on t. V. In the United States they thank the troops for watching for 175 countries and theres lots of celebration of that but if you ask in washington d. C. Exactly where are the bases and what are they costing and what purpose are they there for its very hard to get answers if this is not a radical claim a proposal that the u. S. Public ought to know where its paying for what and how much its a you know what the purpose of those things is if youre going to wage all these wars and extend all these bases in the name of democracy why not have a little bit of democracy around the issue. Democratic president ial hopeful joe biden has been making his case as to why he should get his partys nomination but some of the stories hes been telling while campaigning about when he was in afghanistan have turned that to be not entirely true not the 1st time. This. Young navy captain up in the mountains of colorado around afghanistan one of his buddies got shot fell down a ravine the sky climbed down or a green card this guy up on his back under fire general wanted me to pin the silver star on. I love this place i would look whats not to like about the long term the beauty of the term want to leave town. To. Watch with populace can support them came up to see in the last post present the one thing that in some some you covered. International leaders spoke about you had people like Margaret Thatcher you had people like the pitch i know every one of these leaders except i dont know the new Prime Minister oh book of of england looks like donald trump i dont know. 4 kids or just the strangest tallis white kids and certain timeframe issues of things for them my friends. And. Whats not international about good morning is just awful. Globalist record as banker occupation which started that. Before occupy wall street before the revolution in cairo before obviously this year in france or the protests and theyre all connected all these protests are connected theyre all connected to a rebellion against the out money and banks are all global and treasury is bankrupt. Again you without saying the newly released emails reveal how and chemical john. Attempted to discredit an action group campaigning against its weight killer Homes Across America had raised the alarm over the use of one of the companys leading products called roundup thats your enemy out of them and put them on the defensive and you want to have this problem i have been arguing for a week to beat the shit out of them and i have clearly lost we dont want to be seen as beating up on mothers nobody will listen to it anyway it has to be done by 3rd parties. Well in 2013 the action group sent an open letter to monsantos top management calling on them to stop selling g. M. A. Seeds in the spring crops with life phosphate and other pesticides moms across americas director told us why the organization promotes organic farming. All we need to do is to take matters into our own hands and to make sure that the food supply is safe and that our families are not exposed to toxic chemicals and what weve done is created a moms across america Gold Standard and so this is a new seal of approval that brands can get to show that theyre not only organic it not but theyve gone the extra mile and gotten some pesticide testing done their packaging might even be bio degradable so your trade is used to mean the raised animal products is used and they support the transition from g. M. O. Chemical farming to regenerative organic farming and so as a mother and mothers by 85 percent of the food we believe that they are listening to us and that it does make a difference and we ask all the consumers out there to continue speaking up and to go to moms across america dot org and find out more about our Gold Standard that will be launching next month but its not just moms across america thats been targeted by monsanto documents also reveal the company also operated a socalled Intelligence Fusion Center its a mystery monitor and discredit critics who claim that life phosphate the main ingredient in monsanto is weed killer is extremely dangerous to human health of life say it is a herbicide and crop drying agent after it is sprayed on crops that can end up in food air and