Allies in the region the allegations were 1st reported by the New York Times but since the Mainstream Media has parroted evidence free claims about weapons of mass destruction in iraq genocide in libya the gulf of tonkin etc many people are now questioning the validity of the Intelligence Communitys latest allegations especially since they coincide with the Trump Administrations pledge last week to pull u. S. Troops out of afghanistan now of course just these are serious allegations they should absolutely be investigated but some blindly accept them as truth without evidence is a mistake lewdly brigitta you know ive been around for a little while now and ive watched my government and my Intelligence Community blatantly lie you covered just a moment ago i remember when Mainstream Media was pounding us over and over and over again weapons of mass destruction and ties to al qaida where Saddam Hussein they use a technique where if they repeated enough times over and over and over again that it then becomes the troops well sure enough it wasnt the troops and then they talked about how this intelligence was also given to the brits well so were weapons of mass destruction and ties to al qaeda in iraq given to the brits it cost tony blair his leadership when they found out it was all bogus so this stuff needs to be investigated before we make any type of response and then we need to look at why. Why would russia choose to do this when were at the point of pulling out what would be advantage for russia to play a game like this in the International Community just for fun i dont think so they dont do saying just for fun and so i doubt i question this greatly the timing of it and the way were responding to it because right away theyre taking it is sure be fact you know that weve got to do this and i just you know theyve lived so often theyve got us in the major wars go back to my war the gulf of tonkin incident in vietnam that never happened be there years later it was shown so we get involved in these big huge wars and remember the military Industrial Complex is out to make money and if theres money to be made in afghanistan theyre going to do everything they can but keep those guns shoot and keep the war going the one good thing ill say from donald trump pull us out we went there allegedly to get Osama Bin Laden they told us we got here so i asked this question why are we still there what is the purpose for them plus look at it this way this is a religious war they dont need money to kill americans i heard the taliban response was precisely that they said we dont need money to shoot americans we hate them because its religion and religion based money dont matter when people are killing for religion. In response to the allegations a Senior Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge tweeted quote an intelligence official with direct knowledge tells c. B. S. News there was an intel collection report and n. S. A. Assesses the report does not match well established and verifiable taliban and haqqani practices and lacks sufficient reporting to corroborate any links so at least to someone in the Mainstream Media is questioning these. But the us once did exactly what have what its accusing russia of doing with operation cyclon in the 1980 s. When the us armed and financed by soviet russia had seen rebels in afghanistan and remember you were talking about Osama Bin Laden osama bin ladin also financed and supported the mujahideen fighting against the soviet union in afghanistan so alliances flip flop all the time whenever its convenient. Im going to do you one better than that in my house in mexico i actually have a photograph of osama bin ladin side by side with the do brzezinski member him he was secretary of state or something way back and i have a photograph of those 2 side by side it looks like theyre singing by yah and thats exactly what we were doing we were paying a lot to fight russia so here it is 40 years later now were accusing russia of doing the same thing to us so again its another case of fight pocker see its ok for the United States to do it but if somebody else does it we cry foul now im going to state this neither side should be doing that its ridiculous on both sides if that is true on both ends but this point of russia being some big villain when 40 years ago we were doing the same damn saying to them how quick guard media forgets and how quick Mainstream Media is c. N. N. And all of them wont talk about that or the fraudulent of the war in iraq at all ive been watching them theyre horrible. We now have to iran where the government has issued an arrest warrant for President Donald Trump over the u. S. Drone strike in january that killed the islamic republics top military commander general. President trump and 35. 00 others including u. S. Military and political officials face murder and terrorism charges. We want to ask the International CriminalPolice Organization to help detain the suspects but interpol has denied the request stating that it does not intervene in political acts and echoing u. S. Claims that the warrant is a propaganda stunt this isnt surprising since the u. S. Is the largest single contributor to interpol just you and i have covered this story from the very beginning what do you make of a b if latest Development Well you know i find it interesting again bridgette are where we break our own rules i mean have we declared war on iran no has the congress voted to go to war with iran no so how can we arbitrarily go out and murder and kill one of their gender roles in a neutral country or anywhere else what gives us the right to do that we havent declared war had we declared war id say we have the right to do it with a declaration of war but we dont do that anymore we dont bother declaring war we just kill the people that trouble us now so it doesnt surprise me that irans attorney general would bring these charges but nothings going to happen as you said brigida were the big payoff people did these theyll turn the other way and amazingly not look at it but its wrong it was wrong when we killed this guy and its wrong that we continue to be haven that manner if were going to go after ram then lets declare war and do it but we dont have we shouldnt do it and we dont have the guts to do it because we never declare war any more we simply go fight them for the military Industrial Complex now lets turn to the pandemic drug manufacturer gilliatt sciences has announced the cost of ramdass of beer and experimental treatment for cove in 19. 00 but the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases says can reduce coronavirus hospitalization by 4 days now the price tag for their. Recommended 5 day course of severe is a whopping 3120. 00 patients with private Health Insurance will pay out of pocket expenses for the drug while the government will reportedly reimburse hospitals for treatments administered to uninsured patients due to privileges in the cares act as long as the funding is Still Available and patients meet certain criteria Regulatory Filings related to the drug reveal that gilliatt received over 70000000. 00 from taxpayers to develop severe so far the drug has not demonstrated is statistically Significant Impact on survival rates still its the only treatment authorized by the f. D. A. To treat hospitalized 1000 patients the Trump Administration has now secured a contract with for 5 100000. 00 courses of the medicine nearly all of the companys supply meanwhile other developed countries are expected to pay 25 percent less severe because gilly had his license to generic manufacturers abroad. People are now going to have to calculate whether the money spent on a 5. 00 day supply of this drug is less than the cost of roughly 4. 00 extra days in the hospital so theyve got to do a lot of math or decide whether they want to use this trench healthy. Well bridgette isnt it interesting they use our tax dollars to discover and use the drug and find the drug and all that stuff and now theyre going to turn around and just theyre going to create the drug and gougers for it well you know this this is like war profiteering you know you got the caliber whenever theres a war be it vietnam be it iraq 6 whatever it is halliburton makes a ton of money well youve got war profiteers in the drug industry too when theres a pandemic like this youre going to see profiteers they dont care all they look at it as an opportunity to make more d and more money and the unfortunate thing is we live in a world where thats accepted this is outrageous that people outside the United States will get it cheaper than people inside the United States and especially over the fact they did it with our tax dollars if we want a government to do something heres a chance to do it against pharma but we wont touch pharma you know i have to laugh on t. V. Every day when you see all the pharmaceutical labs where they tell you to tell your doctor you need this well shouldnt the doctor be telling you how much money does farmer spend on advertising if youre telling the doctor the doctor is no longer the doctor hes a dealer and so get rid of pharma advertising on t. V. And the prices will drop tremendously we wont have to pay for it doctors can simply perscribe it and its ridiculous in a time like this that youve got profiteering at its worst going on with this company. Its time for a break when we return jeff is its down to the activist gene barrett to discuss how the labor force is doing during the. Endemic specifically in the Meat Industry well be right back. The world. Should. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to a guest in the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. We go to work. Straight home. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area at rush up. What is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. Take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have Nuclear Weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so thats why were going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly its time to do news again. Thousands of american men and women choose to sin of in the countrys military the decision that has shot at lives every team to complete. The deal and im afraid ill be instructed. You told the shot what theyd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me me me coming. Even me to this bird thinking if you take into account. That women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tapping but ive never seen trauma like ive seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished than the offended by hand and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave the target of sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of power and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats men or women. The lord be with you. Gene bauer is a bestselling author and world renowned Meat Industry activist hes exposed to abuse by the Meat Industry for 35 years and he joins me now to discuss the impact of covert 90 on our food system which seems to me to be very very important now gene Meat Processing plants have become hotbeds for the coronavirus how has it impacted the workers at meat packing plants. Well these slaughterhouses are as you said hotbeds of disease they are stressful crowded violent places and people are working right next to each other and theyre working very fast theyre enduring horrendous conditions and as a result many of them have fallen ill and over 100. 00 slaughterhouse workers in the u. S. Have now died from coronavirus so this is a system of oppression its abusive to animals its also abusive to workers and i think the coronavirus is really exposing that now now what about our food supply is there a meat shortage right now you know its interesting that some of these large Industry Groups are talking about immediate supply problems and i think one of the reason theyre doing that is to try to get more government money into their own pockets what is really telling i believe is that while there is this discussion about a shortage of meat weve been exploiting more meat than ever before to china so i dont think it so much a matter of a meat supply issue more of a marketing issue and there will be a blip in terms of the number of animals being killed and interim the food supply but i think the industry is going to try to trump that up in order to get more government money which is what they tend to do unfortunately now have prices gone up for beef or chicken right now. In some cases i believe the price of animal products has gone up you know but i also believe that part of this has to do with manufacturing a crisis or manufacturing a Market Challenge in order for the industry to you both for their profits and which is sadly what they tend to do and this is an industry too by the way thats dependent on government subsidies to the tune of billions of dollars every year in order to produce meat milk and eggs and to sell those to consumers at well below what they should be caustic now you save a covert 19 didnt break the food system in america rather it expose systematic weaknesses what are those witnesses that got exposed. I think one of the most obvious problems is just how inflexible our system is where you have animals being raised by the billions you have people who own farms but theyre actually indentured servants on their own land they dont control their own destinies and theyre all part of this machinery and when you have slaughterhouses that are forced to shut down because of coronavirus you then have disruptions in the supply chain which has led to disasters for farmers disasters for animals millions of animals who have been killed and disposed of in some cases with wood chippers in some cases theyre being buried alive and so this is a system that is inefficient fundamentally and its one that depends on government subsidies and i think we need to move towards a more diversified Community Oriented food system which will be much more resilient and making food more accessible to people in a healthier more Sustainable Way now how much meat and dairy do we produce in the United States and how much do these industries get subsidized public funded number a lot on it yet these industries produce way too much meat way too much dairy in fact we have less of these products in storage and were spending money to build more storage instead of changing the supply side of things and and they get billions of dollars every year there was a study that came out a couple years ago talking about how over 70 percent of dairy industry income was from Government Programs now thats just not sustainable but unfortunately its been the case for many years agribusiness is very entrenched in washington d. C. And in state capitals and they have been very good at what they call farming the government so im hopeful that this whole disaster with the coronavirus and the pain that farmers and people are experiencing will cause us to rethink our entire for. System and move away from this industrial consolidated busy model which is very government dependent towards a more diversified market based consumer oriented and Community Oriented food system than towards eating plants instead of animal products so if. No Animal Welfare groups say slaughterhouses are review maimane do any methods of euthanasia spare the animals from suffering. Well unfortunately in light of the corona virus where there have been millions of animals killed the industry has tended to do it in the way that is the most convenient and in some cases this means turning the heat and turning off the ventilators and having animals basically die of overheating and its horrendous to consider but any way of killing animals when its not necessary i think is cruel and even its lauder houses when theyre working at their best are still killing animals in very violent ways and while that may be less bad than burning them alive none of these is very ideal and if we can live well without harming and abusing other animals i think that thats something we should seriously think about doing pretty back to mad restaurants and fad food fast excuse me fast food franchisors now offered no meat burgers another vegetarian option what kind of difference an impact do you think this will have on Climate Change if we start eating less meat and more vegetables i think that eating less meat and more plant food is very good for the climate Animal Agriculture is one of the top contribu