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A majority of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal, but the federal government refuses to take action. Instead, they’ve classified marijuana as one of the most dangerous drugs in the country, alongside heroin and LSD. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/17/is-marijuana-legal-why-feds-are-taking-so-long-to-change/72537426007/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A majority of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal, but federal government, well, they refuse to take action. Instead, they've classified marijuana as one of the most dangerous drugs in the country alongside heroin. God almighty. I mean, really? Tell that to Willie Nelson. Right. Call Willie Nelson. Did you know how dangerous it is, Willie? Pick it up. Yeah. This is ridiculous. We're in the year 2024 now and marijuana is still scheduled as a schedule one drug, meaning the federal government says there are no medicinal values in this at all. It is dangerously addictive. It is deadly. Marijuana will kill you just as quickly as heroin, according to the government. Even though, as far as I have seen, and I've researched this a lot, I have not found a single person that has overdosed on marijuana. Well, full disclosure, I'm in the business in Florida. We have the license, one of the licenses in Florida. We started off with this, doing this, because we found that CBD oil would stop children from having epileptic seizures. So we were approached and they said, well, look, would you invest in this? Can you get it out? Can you talk about the value of CBD? And we did. And all of a sudden it was legalized. We had medical marijuana legalized in Florida. Lot of different reasons because finally scientists were willing to come forward and say, yeah, we're not, we don't have all the studies yet. We can't and I can't tell you 100% that everything's okay, to tell you the truth. But I do know that there's enough history to know that it's not like heroin. Right. And so, but this, so you have a government that they won't change the rules at all. And just, this whole issue remains in limbo. Right. And people in the business have a tough time even staying in the business because the tax rates are so high that companies can't even keep up with the tax rates. 82% or some ungodly number like that. Right. It is absolutely ridiculous what they're doing because we don't have federal action on it. And anytime you don't have federal action, what happens? Which a great example of that is with Covid. We'd had no federal Covid regulations to get everybody on the same page. So just like with legalization of marijuana, we end up with a patchwork of different states with different rules where it's legal here, it's kind of legal here. It's mostly legal. We're gonna look the other way here. But it's not really. Right. And nobody knows if you're crossing the border from one state to another, suddenly you could be committing a serious felony. Oh, it's a federal. I mean, it's a federal law that says, yeah, this is a controlled substance and it's as dangerous as heroin. And if you use it, you have the risk of going to prison. So. And the government says it's also more dangerous than cocaine and meth. Yeah. Interesting. And those are schedule two drugs. Yeah. 70% of the American public supports it. You know, as I look at it, the studies that are coming out, I think are quick. There's some real signs that this could be a problem. I mean, heart attacks, heart problems. But it's, at this point, there's not any empirical data. There's not epidemiology that says one way or another. But the government, I can tell you, they're not going to change this law. That's the DEA. They're not going to change this law. Really, it helps support the DEA doesn't it? I mean, it's kind of. Oh, yeah. It's their bread and butter. That's where they get their money. We arrest these people. The private prison industry is fighting to keep it illegal. The pharmaceutical industry is fighting to keep it illegal. Oh yeah. They're. So you've got these two billionaire.

Google was recently forced to halt the rollout of their AI image generator, Gemini, after claims of the software's bias against white people. Mike Papantonio is joined by Independent newspaper publisher Rick Outzen to discuss.

If it feels like Congress is doing less work than ever, it’s not your imagination. Last year, Congress passed fewer bills than ever before, and one of the main reasons is the refusal of the two parties to actually work together. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CONGRESS/PRODUCTIVITY/egpbabmkwvq/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. If it feels like Congress is doing nothing, it's because they are. There's no imagination here. They're doing nothing. Last year, Congress passed fewer bills than ever before, and one of the main reasons is the refusal of the two parties to work together. It is the most divided politics in American history, and this Congress is doing less in American history than have ever been done. I've got Farron Cousins to talk about this with me. Farron, what do you think? This is not surprising at all. I mean, look, we were at the point where in a span of 10 months, we almost had five government shutdowns because Congress was so incompetent and so incapable of working with each other that they couldn't even pass just regular, let's keep working budget bills. So, because, you can't even get past a budget, let alone try to work on something like another infrastructure package or revamping healthcare or literally anything, because they can't even do the basic, fundamental job that they have of passing a budget every year. Yeah. Did you just say in less than six months, it's happened eight times? Well, it was 10 months, five times. Okay. 10 months, five times, either way. So every other month we're on the verge of a shutdown. That is way crazy. So they were successful in passing a record level, low level, dysfunctional, disgusting, low level of 27 bills. It's the lowest in American history, right? Yeah. Usually every year Congress will pass hundreds of pieces of legislation, or at least they had in the past. And some of those are minor. They're let's pass a quick resolution to do this. Let's do a quick resolution naming this day, you know, Mike Papantonio day. But we can't even do that anymore. 27 pieces of legislation and when you're looking at a group of people that only work about 150 days a year, it's insane how little is getting done. And like you said, it's getting worse. We've done even less this year than we had by this point last year. And it is, you've got political scientists looking at this, you've got historians looking at it, and they've all kind of come to the conclusion, the number one factor is these people hate each other so much they won't even talk to each other anymore. Actually, what's so amazing about it is most of these folks don't have to work. We've got a congress that has, as far as people who had to work for a living, labor people, what, we did a story on this couple of weeks ago, was it 3% or 8%? Something like that. It's insane. It's in the single digits. Single digits of people that actually had to work for a living. So these people, our Congress that we have, well, they might not have started out like that, but they're multimillionaires because of insider trading, because of all the scams they're running. I mean, these are stories we've done. I'm not just saying this, we've done several stories about the insider trading. How somebody has started off and they got a hundred thousand dollars in the bank and within years, within a couple years, they've got $10 million in the bank. So they don't have to work. So what they do is, what is it, they go home on Thursdays, right? Usually, yes. Tell us, in other words, no matter what's pending, they're gonna go home on Thursdays and come back Monday, supposedly. Right? Right. Congress is technically in session three days a week. Okay. Seven day week, Congress has to be there for three. They show up Monday evening. Sometimes they'll do a couple of votes Monday evening. They'll work a full day Tuesday, Wednesday, about a half day Thursday. Then everybody flies home. Now sometimes when you got a busy week, they don't get to fly home until like Friday morning. So those are the really rough weeks.

via WEAR-TV: PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says there's zero-tolerance for hatred against Jewish people. The governor addressed the campus protests on Wednesday, saying students and administrators at Florida colleges and universities will be expelled for pro-Palestinian demonstrations that cause violence or spark hate speech. Pensacola Attorney Mike Papantonio says he and other lawyers around the country are preparing to fight back against these universities that he says don't have the courage to stand up for its students. Order a copy of Mike Papantonio's new book at https://www.amazon.com/Suspicious-Act... Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: / @theringoffire Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: / theringoffire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: / theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: / ringoffireradio Twitter: / ringoffiremedia Instagram: / ringoffirenetwork *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Pro Palestinian protests are escalating at universities in the US, here in Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says there is zero tolerance for hatred against Jewish people. The governor addressed the campus protests today saying students and administrators at Florida colleges and universities will be expelled for pro Palestinian demonstrations that cause violence or spark hate speech. Now Pensacola attorney Mike Papantonio says he and other lawyers are preparing to fight back against these universities that Papantonio says don't had the courage to stand up for its students. Tanner Stewart joins us to explain. Sue, Bob, on Friday Levin Papantonio Rafferty will host a series of seminars on how to sue universities for a lack of anti-Semitism policies and other ways in which they facilitated a campus-based anti-Semitism. speaking with Papantonio today virtually, he tells me it's not just about keeping Jewish students safe, but also protecting democracy. People misunderstand the First Amendment. Okay. The first amendment does not allow any group of people to engage in the kind of hatred that's being driven on, not just Colombia, but all over the country. I mean, whether it's NYU, whether it's Harvard, whether it's Berkeley, you name, this has taken place all over the country. Attorney Mike Papantonio says school administrations like Harvard, Yale, Columbia University and more are cultivating a dangerous environment for Jewish students by allowing pro Palestinian demonstrations, many of which have gotten out of hand. Many students though feel they're within in their rights. We're standing here today because we're inspired by the students at Colombia who we consider to be the heart of the student movement. Papantonio says the protests are a coordinated charge against Western democracy. I want you to understand this is not random. This isn't a student who says, you know, I think I'll go out and protest this today. This is organized and it's driven and it's driven by big money, by big money that would just assume Israel disappear from the face of the Earth and it's been going on for a long time and now we're seeing the very face of it with these demonstrations. Now Mike Papantonio and many of the top lawyers around the US are joining forces to fight back against University presidents, professors and administrations where Jewish students have faced anti-Semitism and racism over the Israel Hamas conflict. A recent survey from the Anti-Defamation League found nearly three-quarters of Jewish college students in the US experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism on their campus since the start of the school year. Until we can get their attention where the government does their job and says, you know what, this is not a breeding ground for anarchism. This is not a breeding ground for a Jihad against Israel. This is not a breeding ground to where any jackleg can simply take to the streets and say whatever they want to say, incite whatever they want to incite. This is not 1960s anymore. But nevertheless, these professors and these administrators have so, they're so incapable of leadership, that the only thing we can do is sue them and we're going to be suing them at a record rate. Officials at the University of West Florida declined to comment on the issue, directing us to this October memo from the Board of Governors.

When most people think of human trafficking, they likely immediately think about sex trafficking. But there’s another form of human trafficking taking place right here in this country, and some of the biggest companies in America are taking advantage of it. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

The immigration debate is one that has been going on in America for decades with no end in sight. And part of the reason that we never get any real solutions is because immigrants mean big money for corporations, and now the private prison industry is trying to cash in on America’s immigration problems. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

House Democrats have given more than a million dollars to a dark money group that has been actively fighting against lowering prescription drug prices. This group is being run by a former Pelosi staffer, and has ties to all sorts of industries and former Democratic officials. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://readsludge.com/2024/03/14/house-dems-donate-to-centrist-group-that-undermines-their-agenda/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

As lawmakers in Washington push to ban TikTok in the United States, angry constituents are lobbing death threats at them. These threats aren’t going to change minds in Washington, and could actually make the situation much worse. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/tiktok-banned-montana/ Link - https://theintercept.com/2024/03/16/tiktok-china-security-threat/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

The Department of Labor and OSHA are conducting an investigation into the death of a 16-year old at a poultry processing plant. The company responsible has been cited countless times for safety violations, but they always manage to get away with paying a small fine. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/safety/teenage-mar-jac-poultry-workers-death-leads-to-federal-citation Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

The US Department of Justice has teamed up with 15 states to file an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple. The lawsuit claims that the company has created a monopoly with their devices that squeeze out competitors and make it harder for independent developers to get their apps in the app store. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/21/apple-doj-antitrust-lawsuit-smartphone/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

A new lawsuit claims that the prison system in Alabama is engaged in a form of modern day slavery. The state has been leasing out inmates to private businesses and then taking their wages to keep for themselves.

New reports have revealed that the company that operated the vessel that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore have a history of punishing whistleblowers who point out safety violations by the company. And as this investigation continues, we’ll probably be hearing more stories about the company’s gross conduct. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.levernews.com/feds-recently-hit-cargo-giant-in-baltimore-disaster-for-silencing-whistleblowers/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. New reports have revealed that the company that operated the vessel that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, well, they have a history of punishing whistleblowers who point out safety violations by the company. And this investigation continues. We're probably gonna hear more and more stories about the company's gross misconduct. I've got Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins with me to talk about this. So, Farron, what struck me about this story, okay, I get that there should be no, you know, we represent whistleblowers. I understand that very, very well. I don't understand what the problem is if an employee says, look, you got problems with the boat and he tells the employer that, and at the same time he tells the Coast Guard. What's, tell me about your take on this story. Maybe I'm missing something. Well, we've got this law called the Siemens Protection Act. And what it says is that, hey, if you're working on the water, on a boat, whatever it is, you go to the Coast Guard when you have issues with the company rather than going to company management. So it is a bit weird. You have the federal government saying, hey, listen, if you see a problem, don't go to your boss. You come tell us. And it may have to, it's a confusing law. And again, like you said, I'm not sure it makes total sense. It doesn't. But if we're trying to rationalize it, it might be because of what's at stake. Obviously, when you're in a very large barge or vessel out there, a problem may immediately need a regulator to come in and fix it before the company could. Maybe. Right. Think about what you just said. We're saying go to the bureaucracy first before you tell your employer. Yeah. The employer, I guess maybe this was done to protect the potential whistleblower, but the whistleblower has protection anyway, whether they go to the employer and say, look, you got something on barge that's gonna kill people. And that's what happened here. Six people were dead. And they had all kinds of problems on this barge. They got fire control problems. They had mechanical problems that were overwhelming. They had seaworthy problems that were overwhelming. So you go to the employer and say, you got these problems, at the same time you go to the Coast Guard. But I'm just not following this when they're saying, go to the bureaucrats first. Right? Go to the labor department first, especially if it's something as important and timely as this, it's kind of exigent kind of problem, isn't it? Yeah. And when you are talking about problems like this, obviously the person or or group who's in an immediate position to be able to fix it would be the company itself. But with this particular whistleblower in question, it wasn't necessarily about that particular boat. But this whistleblower had told the company, he said, listen, you've got problems with the safety features. You've got problem with the boats themselves. You got people drinking on the job. And they didn't do anything. Right. That's different. Exactly. So that's the distinction in this story. Yeah. And so that's what is weird about it is you've got this law that almost conflicts with common sense. It does. It totally conflicts because, I get in the end, the employee is paid $700,000 in damages and back wages, which should be. I mean, look, we have handled horrible whistleblower cases where the employer just victimizes whistleblower. But to say, wait, don't tell the employer, tell the bureaucracy first. That is just a non-starter to me. I just don't get that logic in this case. Yeah. It is really weird.

A popular heart pump used on cardiovascular patients has now been linked to dozens of deaths and possibly hundreds of injuries – but the FDA refuses to pull the device from the market. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/health/fda-heart-pump-fatalities.html Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A popular heart pump used on cardiovascular patients has now been linked to dozens of deaths and possibly hundreds of injuries. But the FDA refuses to pull the device from the market. No surprise to me. I mean, how many times have we said, yeah, you got an organization that doesn't work. The FDA is dysfunctional. Now lay the case out. Lay this out and let's talk about it just a little bit. Yeah. This is involving the Impella heart pump, which is a small little device that they implant into the heart of heart patients undergoing surgery. It's a temporary implant. It does not stay in permanently. And what the FDA has found over and over and over again is that this thing is tearing the walls of the heart. And when that happens, I think it's what, 80 to 90% fatality rate. You'll die. You will die. There's no question you will die. And there's, is there an alternative? Yes. There's something called a balloon pump. They don't need this thing that they put in the heart. It ends up, as you can imagine, it tears into the artery. Once it tears in the artery, you cannot stop the bleeding there on the operating table. They have minutes to act before its death. Okay. You are gonna think I'm making this up right now. But you read this story. Viewers are gonna think I'm making this up, but it's right here in the story. The FDA said, oh, we have the solution. Let's put somewhere in the warnings that this might happen. This is a warning to the doctor. It's not a warning to the patient. The warnings are this big. Okay. So the patient's supposed to say, well, let me see all the warning. No patient does that, especially when they're under anesthesia and they decide we're gonna use this thing. This is the mentality of the FDA. They are so owned and operated by the pharmaceutical industry, that it's beyond belief. And so medical device industry, same thing. And they're all looking for another job, Farron, they all wanna say, oh yeah, well let's give these people a pass. Let's let 'em keep using this thing that's killed what, 46 people? Yeah. 46 people have died. Other people have barely just barely gotten away with their lives. And they say, well, we're gonna keep it out there because these, what we call key opinion leaders from Harvard or Yale and Princeton are out there on the speech circuit saying, well, this isn't so bad. And all you have to do is ask yourself this. There's already something on the market that prevents this. It's called the balloon pump. It does exactly what this thing's supposed to do. Okay. But the FDA says, no, there's no risk here because we're gonna warn, somewhere in the warnings is this issue. The patient has no way of knowing that. Has no way of saying, doc, wait a minute. Don't put this in my heart. Right? Yeah. And another thing about it too is the FDA does what they usually do. They say, okay, we know it's killing people. We're gonna slap our warning on there. And when the public comes asking about it, we're gonna say, we need more studies. Yes. We need more time. And in that time, people will die. That's what's happening. And you have cardiovascular surgeons before the warning was put on that have now spoken to the press that said. We told them it was gonna be. I'm not, I won't use it because of how dangerous this is. And we told 'em it was gonna be a problem. Yeah. And at the same time, you have these medical whores or science whores that are coming from Harvard and Yale and Princeton. They pay 'em a million dollars and they say, doc, would you go out and talk about how brilliant this is and how important this is? And of course they sign up. Yeah, I'll be glad to do it for a million dollars because I'm only making a quarter of a million dollars, but I'll say any thing for a million dollars.

A new report has found that the intelligence community regularly distorts their own findings to fit in the with policies of the administration in power – and they’re doing it for both Democrats and Republicans. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://theintercept.com/2024/03/29/intelligence-community-white-house/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A new report's found that intelligence communities regularly distort their own findings to fit into the political policies of the administration in power. And they're doing it for both Democrats and Republicans. And they've been doing it for generations, haven't they? Yes, they have. Pick up this story. So what the folks at The Intercept found via this new RAND study that came out was that it doesn't matter who was in the White House. And it actually, what they said is it kind of turns the tables on the whole deep state theory, which is the intelligence community's not necessarily the deep state. It is the person in the White House. Because specifically they looked at both the Trump years and the Obama years, and they found that what the intelligence community actually had, the real intelligence ran counter to what the administration's narrative of the day was. With Obama, they found all this horrible stuff about Russia, but he was trying to make peace with Moscow, open up relations. So they went to him and said, okay, uh, it's not that bad. Things are actually pretty good. They left all the real intelligence of the horrible things Putin was doing behind and just told him, hey, they love your policies. You're doing wonderful. Good job, Mr. President. And then when they needed it, when Hillary Clinton lost the election, and they had to say, well, God, that's because of the Russians. They turned all that. But that was driven by the White House, is the point. Yeah. And with Trump, it was with the Khashoggi murder. Exactly. He wanted to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia. They had all this intelligence that they murdered Khashoggi Oh, yeah. Murdered him, dismembered him while the Prince was sitting there watching it on television. And so the agency comes out and says, well, you know, we can't be sure. We don't know. The, we don't know is always the safe haven isn't it? Right. We don't know. But we do know this. We know that that soulless, shameless psycho Cheney manipulated the intelligence organizations to verify that, yes, we need to go bomb the hell out of Iraq, that had nothing to do with 9/11. They manipulated that, they manipulated all the agencies and those agencies came to Cheney and Bush at that point and said, well, what is it you want? Well, we want weapons of mass destruction. It was an absolute lie. The agency knew it was a lie. I mean, the articles that are coming out, books that are coming out now, say, yeah, we knew it was a lie. We knew when we showed up at the UN and talked about these tubes, that was all. We knew that. But that is manipulation. That's the kind of manipulation we're talking about. And Cheney was able to kill a million people. The soulless freak of a person was able to kill 1 million people by manipulating these gutless wonders at the CIA and the NSA and the FBI. That's the headline to this story, I think. Yeah. And I think it created a bit of a culture change within those agencies, rather than Cheney having to direct them, make your intelligence fit around this, they learned, and the generation that came up after them that did serve in Obama and Trump administrations, they knew, okay, rather than us having to be told to cook the intelligence, let's cook it first. Is he still alive, by the way? Is he still? The last time they gave him a pig heart or some kind of mechanical heart, he's like Darth Vader. Is he still alive? He is. I mean, my God, what does it take for this guy just to move on? The ugliest story in American history was the product of this very concept in this story. That is the White House manipulating intelligence and a million people, a million deaths because this shameless psychopath freak Cheney took advantage of.

The state of Florida has passed a major new law that limits social media use for children, banning popular apps for anyone under the age of 14. But can this law stand up in court? Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-child-social-media-ban-faces-free-speech-challenges-19462124 Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. The state of Florida has passed a major new law that limits social media use for children banning popular apps for anyone under the age of 14. But can this law stand up in court? Okay. So here's what you hear in response to this. It makes, again, I gotta look at it from a constitutional standpoint. They're saying, oh, this Wasserman, they interviewed some guy named Wasserman about the First Amendment. Yeah. It's a First Amendment issue. But you begin every analysis by saying, is there a standard where the First Amendment issue can be trumped? Where you can say, yeah, First Amendment's important, but health, safety and welfare concerns are more important than that. And so for this, to say that this is simply gonna be analyzed from a First Amendment standpoint is absurd. It's a ridiculous thing for this guy to say. Pick it up from there. Yeah. So what we've got in the state of Florida, bipartisan legislation, Democrats and Republicans passed this legislation saying, if you're under the age of 14, social media apps are off limits. 14 and 15 years old, you do it with parents' consent, 16 and up, no problem there. So that's the law and it goes into effect January 1st, 2025. And the critics of the law, which in spirit, I like what the law's doing because I think it's necessary. But the critics of it are, like you said, they're saying, no, it's a First Amendment issue. But at least, to the only time I'll probably ever credit the government here in Florida, they're saying, no, listen, we have a duty to protect, like you say, with the police powers. Health, safety and welfare, police powers. Right. And we have reports off the charts of children being harmed by these social media apps. You and I have sat here and talked about some of the horrific things happen. Oh, dozens of stories. So that's why, listen, I don't think this is a violation of First Amendment rights when you consider the police powers, and I think they may be going after the wrong group. It's not the kids. They really should be going after the social media companies themselves. But if we can't get that at this point, maybe this is the route to go. Yeah. I thought the reporter did a terrible job on this story. He focused on one professor, Wasserman, and Wasserman tells the New Times, well, this is all a First amendment. Well, it's not. Okay. It's not. Otherwise, how would you even control pornographic material? How would you control voting? How would you control driver's license? How would you control alcohol or cigarettes? There's some things that fall squarely within health, safety and welfare. And they fall under something called strict scrutiny. Okay. First Amendment is what you would regard as, when an appellate court looks at it, they look at it with strict scrutiny. The assumption is that this violates the First Amendment. You start there, but you say, wait, is there something that overpowers that? And of course, we wouldn't have any of these laws. We wouldn't have cigarettes. We wouldn't have voting. We wouldn't have alcohol where we're driven by age. We'd have none of this. If all you said, or driving, you'd have none of it if you just said, okay, well, let's look at the First Amendment aspect of something like pornography, or let's look at the First Amendment of, you can virtually say that anything, you have some First Amendment in your expression, your desire to do something. But it's just a wrong analysis. I don't know. I think that this was defeated in Arkansas, wasn't it? Yeah. And Utah's got one that's currently going through the courts. But again, they're staying to the strict First Amendment, yes or no questions. They're not trying to make the good argument, which is, we have seen the data.

Republicans in the Senate are sick and tired of their Republican counterparts in the House causing chaos, and they are now urging Republican Speaker Mike Johnson to stand up to the "chaos caucus," and especially to Marjorie Taylor Greene. In other words, they want Johnson to stop being such a coward. But Johnson can't do much of anything at this point and he's already proven that he's not going to stand up to the people destroying the party from the inside. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening. Link - https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4581813-senate-gop-urges-johnson-to-stand-up-to-chaos-caucus/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. You know what's remarkable? Like for many, many, many years, we have talked about the fact that you've got these just godawful Republicans in the Senate, right? You've got your Ted Cruzs, you've got your Rick Scott, your Rand Pauls, your Josh Hawley, just Mitch McConnell's, Lindsey Grip, like just the worst of the worst on the Republican side. So what's hilarious right now is that all of this chaos in the House of Representatives has not only given Republicans in the Senate cover, but it's also made them look like the responsible faction of the Republican Party. In fact, this week, Republicans in the Senate actually came out and finally demanded that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson get his Republicans in line, and that he stopped bowing to the Chaos Caucus. Let me read a couple of these statements from these Republicans telling Mike Johnson to finally grow a pair. First one is from Republican Senator Roger Wicker, who said he needs to count the votes, and I think there's a substantial majority in the House who would vote in favor of the defense supplemental, and he needs to do the courageous and correct thing to stand by our ally talking about funding Ukraine. I don't think there's a majority of the house that will vacate the speaker's position right now. Um, actually you had House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner again in the House, not the Senate, who also came out and said, Johnson needs to stop bowing to the quote Chaos Caucus. Then you had Republican senator Tom Tillis who said this. I think that Speaker Johnson understands the critical importance of supporting Ukraine, and if that means he's gotta look past a few of his members who I think have a different position, absolutely. This is about leadership, right? Everybody talks about being bipartisan. That would give them a really good opportunity to be bipartisan on something that's critically important. Hopefully they will. Mitch McConnell, America's National Security depends on sustained investment in both cutting edge capabilities and expanded defense in industrial capacity. That's why I continue to insist on overdue steps like the full year defense appropriations and National Security supplemental. The Senate passed earlier this year, so even when they're not calling him out by name, they're still calling him out. Like that's what this is. Like, Hey, we've actually done our job. We did some bipartisan stuff over here in the Senate. What the hell are you doing? You're letting the crazies run the asylum at this point, Mike, could you please maybe get on the same page so we can do something to help the world? I mean, imagine for a second when Mitch McConnell is the responsible one. I mean republicans in the Senate are being led by a guy who has like one foot in the grave, a guy who at any random moment, can just totally Freeze up like that, and they're still better equipped to pass bills than the idiots in the House of Representatives. That to me, is just absolutely shocking.

President Biden is taking on the issue of corporate price gouging, and consumers desperately need some relief. But the question is whether he’s serious about tackling the issue, or is this just a campaign stunt? Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.