“Tighter blood pressure guidelines from U.S. heart organizations mean millions more people need to make lifestyle changes, or start taking medication, in order to avoid cardiovascular problems. At the new cutoff, around 46 percent, or more than 103 million, of American adults are considered to have high blood pressure, compared with an estimated 72 million under the previous guidelines in place since 2003. Potentially deadly high blood pressure can be brought under control with a wide array of medications.”
Tag Archives: Dr. Government
Government Is Addicted to Banning Substances

“Kratom has no psychoactive effects and no physical dependency – it’s just a harmless plant. Despite being an overwhelmingly better alternative to opioids, the DEA, FDA, and CDC continue to propagate kratom as dangerous. They’re wrong.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/government-is-addicted-to-banning-harmless-substances/
With Gun and Medical Marijuana Registries, Hawaii Starts Disarming Patients

“Hawaii is one of 29 states that allow medical use of marijuana, but it is the only state that requires registration of all firearms. If you are familiar with the criteria that bar people from owning guns under federal law, you can probably surmise what the conjunction of these two facts means for patients who use cannabis as a medicine, which Hawaii allows them to do only if they register with the state. Some of them recently received a letter from Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard, instructing them to turn in their guns.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/29/hawaii-which-requires-registration-of-al
Tennessee Judge Jailing People For Smoking Cigarettes

“Drug courts are a very blunt tool with which to address drug dependency. They become even more questionable when used as social engineering to punish people who aren’t committing any crime other than a social faux pas by smoking.”
Read more: https://www.alternet.org/drugs/jailed-smoking-cigarettes-tennessee-judge-abuse-drug-court-system
IRS To Extract $207 Billion From Small Businesses By Enforcing Obamacare

“The employer mandate is lucrative for the government. It is expected to bring in penalty payments of $207 billion over the next decade, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office. Businesses will generally incur fines of around $2,000 per employee (excluding the first 30) if they do not offer qualifying coverage to nearly all of those who work an average of 30 or more hours a week. The penalty is activated if at least one employee then buys insurance on the health law’s marketplace and receives a subsidy for it. The per-employee fine increases each year, and can add up quickly: A company with 100 workers that ignored the law this year would owe a penalty of more than $158,000.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/business/irs-health-insurance-mandate.html
‘We the People’: The New Permanent Underclass in America
“It’s not just the government’s endless wars that are bleeding us dry. We’re also being forced to shell out money for surveillance systems to track our movements, money to further militarize our already militarized police, money to allow the government to raid our homes and bank accounts, money to fund schools where our kids learn nothing about freedom and everything about how to comply, and on and on. Are you getting the picture yet? The government isn’t taking our money to make our lives better.”
Calif. Mother Threatened With Arrest At Bus Stop For Not Vaccinating Children
“One morning she walked her kids to the bus stop and she was approached by an official from the Claremont school district and a police officer. In very intimidating fashion, they began questioning her about whether or not her children had been vaccinated. When she refused to answer and started recording the interaction they walked away, but that wasn’t the end of it. Later she called the police department and explained what was going on, and she was told that she could be arrested for refusing to vaccinate her children.”
Pentagon Explains Why It Was Collecting Biomarkers of Russian People

“The US Air Force’s largest medical wing is not targeting Russians with its study on biomarkers, but rather is taking Russian samples in order to match a control group of samples originally provided by a US company, Spokesman for Air Education and Training Command Capt. Beau Downey told Sputnik. Senior Russian officials as well as President Vladimir Putin have questioned why US researchers were collecting genetic material from Russian people, noting that the purposes of the research were obscure.”
Jacob Hornberger: The JFK Autopsy Cover-Up
“It’s important to keep in mind that all of this was kept secret from the American people from 1963 to the 1990s. Military personnel who participated in the autopsy were required by superior officers to sign written secrecy oaths, in which they promised never to reveal what they had seen during the autopsy. If it hadn’t been for Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, everything surrounding the autopsy would have remained secret, most likely forever.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2017/11/10/jfk-autopsy-cover/
$500,000 settlement for nurse arrested for opposing forced blood draw
“Body cam footage from the scene shows University Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels calmly telling the officer, who was trained for the task of blood withdrawal, that he cannot take a blood sample because the patient, who was involved in a vehicle crash, had neither been arrested nor gave consent. Then the cop lunges and grabs the nurse as she was fearfully backing away. He rushes her outside the hospital, and handcuffs her. All the while, she’s screaming that there’s no reason for her detainment.”

