“The government has big plans and the most outrageous part about this entire scheme is you don’t have a choice – your data is entered.”
“Treatments with no side effects, but which might not help, are considered worse than methadone and buprenorphine. 3,400 people died from methadone overdoses in 2014. The CDC does not track deaths from Buprenorphine. The American government financed clinical trials of Buprenorphine. It cost $28 million to win FDA approval. This is another story of the revolving door of doctors who go in and out of the FDA and private practices pushing and prescribing drugs. The FDA gave the company a seven-year monopoly on Buprenorphine. Over 10% of doctors authorized to prescribe it were sanctioned for misbehavior, including insurance fraud and excessive opioid prescribing.”
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/fda-treats-homeopathy-as-more-dangerous-than-opioids/
“In 2006 the FDA put limits on how much pseudoephedrine, a nasal decongestant, you could buy and also required a photo ID to do so. Despite adding a lot of hassle into the treatment of stuffy noses, meth only became more pure. What on earth makes anyone think that going down this same road with loperamide will have any kind of positive benefit?”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/once-again-the-fda-is-making-life-harder-for-sick-people/
“If you want a justice system that prevents and solves violent crime, stop voting for the enforcement of victimless crime laws. Detective Baeza’s example models a path towards such a system of true justice.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/former-narcotics-detective-blows-whistle-on-the-justice-system/
“They left out the biggest domestic terrorist organization of all. In 2015-2017 American police killed a total of 2,945 people. It took only three years for police to kill more than seven times the number of people killed in all domestic terrorist attacks in the last ten years.”
“Yes, there was ‘collusion – except it wasn’t a pact between Putin and Trump but rather an alliance between Hillary’s campaign and the national security bureaucracy to get her elected.”
Read more: https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/02/04/fisa-gate-plot-destroy-republic/
“200,000 Salvadoran refugees who were granted U.S. Temporary Protected Status – some of whom have been living in the U.S. for nearly a generation – are being thrown under the bus. The federal government is stumbling over a problem of its own creation, having made it almost impossible for the Salvadorans who lawfully have lived, worked, paid taxes and raised children under TPS to acquire permanent status.”
“Minor missteps—a traffic violation or a workplace dispute—can turn lethal for unauthorized immigrants.”
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence
“‘I refused to secretly spy,’ he said, ‘because my honor meant more to me than my freedom.’ His prosecution was political, he said, an extension of the bitter rivalry between the nation of his birth and the one where he’d chosen to spend his life.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/05/ahmad-sheikhzadeh-spy-iran-nuclear-program-fbi/
“They say the strategy led by DoD policy wonks could lead to dangerous nuclear escalation.”