Drug companies tried desperately to get Twitter to block users who wanted poor countries to have access to the COVID vaccine. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Link - https://theintercept.com/2023/01/16/twitter-covid-vaccine-pharma/ 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. Drug companies tried desperately to get Twitter to block users who wanted poor countries to have access to the COVID vaccine. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me now to talk about what's happening. This is an ugly story, man. I mean the, the 10,000 foot, give it to us. It's every, every time you hear this story, it's nauseating to think that corporate America operates like this. Yeah. What, what happened is you had a, a lobbyist for Twitter, who over in Europe was saying, hey, listen, we're, we're starting to see a lot of people calling for cheap vaccines, calling for waving the patents so that these poor countries around the world could get the vaccine. Twitter, what we need you to do is we need you to look and, and see how these people are violating your terms of service and get these tweets blocked. You had a lot of hashtags, you know, free the vaccine, things like that going around. So you also had lobbyists from the big pharma companies making these vaccines, Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, who jumped on this as well and said, okay, that's a great idea. We're gonna start sending Twitter these specific accounts because these people have the audacity to want the world to get vaccinated. Well, and, and that's the headline. You had third world countries that said, can't you please share this with us? Because we have people dying by the thousands. And then the company's, I love this statement, the statement, their joint statement is, we take social responsibility seriously. That was their joint statement. How dare you, how dare you say we did this awful thing. Well, it, it, the proof is right there. Now we find out that The Intercept did all this work. Again, it's the same folks. It's Lee Fang with Intercept, great writer, great source of information. And he, he talks about how these bots were created by the industry. And every time anything would show up on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, any of them, the bots would go in there and attack. I mean, big numbers of bots would attack. And they would try to give a rationale so why it's okay for folks in third world countries to die because the American corporation or the European Corporation won't sell in, won't share information with them. This story, to me, is just such an indictment of capitalism. I mean, it, it is. Capitalism, you know, I think capitalism works. But when you see this kind of stuff, and again, there's nothing, no investigation of it. Right. There's no attempt to really understand it. Corporate media won't do a thing about it. Corporate media doesn't cover this story. You understand that? Yeah. You will not see this story in corporate media. It'll show up on, on shows like this. But the truth is, this goes on all the time, doesn't it? It, it really does. And what is concerning here, you know, obviously with all of the releases of the Twitter files, we've seen, you know, the, the partisan stuff come out. We've heard reports of, you know, liberals being silenced, conservatives being silenced. This goes beyond that. This transcends left or right politics. And that is what people need to understand. Because that is, as, as we've talked about for years here on this show, that's the slippery slope. Because if you're okay with it, oh, well, it's okay if it happens to this people, because I'm not this people. It's gonna come eventually. And this is a absolutely horrendous continuation. This story would've never been told and Jack Dorsey would've gotten away with this again, with all the crap he did to try to censor Twitter. This story never would've come out if Elon Musk had not said, you know what, I'm gonna open my files. I want you to see what dirty freaks were running Twitter. The freaks that were running, at least my organization, I can show you. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74r07PZZ-Kk

**Looking to enhance your shower experience? Go to https://nebia.com/rof and the first 100 Ring of Fire viewers to use code ROF at checkout will get 10% off their purchase of Nebia Spa Shower and other great Nebia products!** In a reversal from just a few months ago, Republicans are now the ones attacking the President for meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The RNC attacked Biden by saying that even agreeing to meet with him is a win for Putin. Past and current presidents have all met with Putin, and they've each met with leaders that we don't like, but these ridiculous attacks are just starting to look more and more pathetic. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://theweek.com/republicans/1001598/rnc-without-a-hint-of-irony-slams-biden-for-meeting-with-putin 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 Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store 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: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Joe Biden finally met with a Russian leader, Vladimir Putin yesterday. And wow, everybody's off about that. Um, by the way, the people most off about Joe Biden meeting with Vladimir Putin are the Republicans who believe that A sitting us president shouldn't Meet with Putin. Now I'm sure we all understand the irony of that, right? They allowed Donald Trump when he met with Vladimir Putin, of course they attack Barack Obama when he met with Vladimir Putin. But Putin is a leader of a very, very powerful country. Yes, Republican Democrat, the person person's going to meet with him. Okay. We understand who Putin is. We know what he does to his own people. He is not a friendly guy. Okay. He's not even a good person or a good leader. He is a dangerous individual, but the leader of the United States is going to meet with them regardless of whether or not it wins them political points, but the Republicans and their complete lack of irony after lowriding Trump, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FXQpaRHg2c

Bernie Sanders spoke to a group of evangelicals and it actually didn't go that bad - we'll tell you all about it… Congressional Republicans have wasted $4.5 million of your tax dollars investigating Benghazi, and they still haven't accomplished anything. Maybe its just time to move on… And the Republican Party is officially out of new ideas – we’ll bring you the details in tonight’s backstory… 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! Follow more of our stories at http://www.RingofFireRadio.com Listen to Ring of Fire on Saturdays from 3pm - 6pm Eastern! Listen live via the Progressive Voices Channel on TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Progressive-Voices-s189055/ Or find a station here: http://www.ringoffireradio.com/station/ Watch Ring of Fire every weekday at 8:30pm EST on Free Speech TV! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/golefttv You can also support us here: http://www.ringoffireradio.com/support/ Your continued support keeps Ring of Fire on the air! Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Support us further by shopping on Amazon via our Amazon-Ring of Fire partnership link. A portion of the sales will come back to Ring of Fire at no extra cost to you. Bookmark and follow the link below and continue shopping as usual! Amazon - Ring of Fire partnership link: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=rinoffir-20 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLJ52dG7hR0

The mind of a Donald Trump supporter is a scary place, but we’ll be taking that journey to find out what attracts these people to this megalomaniac… Donald Trump is forcing the Republican establishment to come to grips with the fact that their base of voters really are as disgusting as he is… And the Koch brothers have a plan to win in 2016 – we’ll bring you more in tonight’s backstory… Follow more of our stories at http://www.RingofFireRadio.com 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! Listen to Ring of Fire on Saturdays from 3pm - 6pm Eastern! Listen live via the Progressive Voices Channel on TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Progressive-Voices-s189055/ Or find a station here: http://www.ringoffireradio.com/station/ Watch Ring of Fire every weekday at 8:30pm EST on Free Speech TV! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/golefttv You can also support us here: http://www.ringoffireradio.com/support/ Your continued support keeps Ring of Fire on the air! Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RingofFireRadio Google+: http://plus.google.com/118415831573195648557 Support us further by shopping on Amazon via our Amazon-Ring of Fire partnership link. A portion of the sales will come back to Ring of Fire at no extra cost to you. Bookmark and follow the link below and continue shopping as usual! Amazon - Ring of Fire partnership link: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=rinoffir-20 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYAz5mKJbBk