Learns valuable early lesson on the predatory nature of the State.

He wants to target doctors and pharmacists profiting from demand for opioid painkillers.

While it’s important to gain control of how many new patients are prescribed opioid pain pills, targeting doctors and pharmacists will do nothing more than invigorate the black market for heroin, which will mean more fentanyl and carfentanil-related deaths, as well as the enrichment of black market criminals.  At least the pills have a known concentration of opiates.

Someone is going to get rich off of the skyrocketing demand for opiates.  Sessions, in all his hubris, cannot stop this.  It would be better for addicts to have access to a legal, clean opiate as opposed to a black market product of unknown purity, possibly laced with deadly additives.  Since most overdoses happen when the addict is alone and helpless, it would save thousands of lives just to provide a safe, sterile facility for the addict to satisfy their addiction.

From The Guardian:

“The Saudi air force has carried out indiscriminate attacks that have caused the majority of civilian deaths and injuries during the conflict. Airstrikes have targeted civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, farms, schools, water infrastructure, markets and the main port of Hodeida. They complement a Saudi-led naval and air blockade of rebel-controlled areas that has caused shortages of many essential items, including food, fuel and medical supplies.

It was not until four weeks after the start of the outbreak that the first plane carrying medical aid was allowed to land in Sana’a. The government no longer pays public employees working in rebel-controlled areas. About 30,000 health workers have not received a salary for almost a year. Sanitation workers and water engineers in Sana’a have been on strike for months, leaving uncollected rubbish on the streets and municipal drains clogged.

So it is not surprising that rebel-controlled areas are disproportionately affected by the cholera outbreak. About 80% of cases – and deaths – have occurred in governorates controlled by the Houthis. In rebel-controlled areas the attack rate – the number of cases among every 1,000 people – is 17, compared with 10 in government-controlled governorates. The percentage of people with cholera who die is 0.46% in rebel-controlled areas, compared with 0.3% in government-controlled governorates. Thus, a person living in areas under rebel control is 70% more likely to contract cholera and, if they do, 50% more likely to die.

These numbers indicate that the outbreak is not simply an inevitable consequence of civil war. It is rather a direct outcome of the Saudi-led coalition’s strategy of targeting civilians and infrastructure in rebel-controlled areas. Criticism of the US and UK governments’ support for the Saudi-led intervention, this has not led to a policy change. In December 2016, the Obama administration banned the sale of precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia due to concerns about civilian casualties in Yemen, but in May 2017 the Trump administration agreed to sell $500m such weapons as part of a $110bn deal. The following month a bipartisan effort to stop the sale failed by a few votes in the Senate. Last month in the UK, the high court rejected activists’ claims that ministers were acting illegally by continuing to sell fighter jets and precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia when they might be used against civilians in Yemen. In the absence of strong international condemnation of Saudi-led operations, it is hard to foresee a quick end to this public health emergency and the broader humanitarian crisis.”

Video depicts nervous badged warrior on the brink of murdering two compliant, defenseless people in their car.  Also note how he angles his body to obscure his body cam.  Also note the standard “officer safety is paramount” excuse for the cop’s flaky behavior.

Do they really believe their lives are in danger? Or are they looking for an opportunity to kill someone?

The less that a worker is paid, the cheaper the result of his labor will be.  That’s the economic theory in a nutshell, and it’s playing out throughout the US in the form of undocumented immigrants. One in twenty American workers are undocumented, and they contribute $11 billion to the US economy every year.

The same argument for an undocumented workforce also applies to the emerging robotic workforce.  Rather than “stealing” jobs, prices will dramatically be reduced, and will free up human labor for more productive work.

The coming automation of commercial truck-driving is a case in point.

Robots don’t need to be paid, they don’t have families waiting for them at home.  They don’t need sleep, they won’t unionize, they don’t feel pain, or any other emotion.  That may sound like an argument similar to the one that presaged the rise of the Cylons, but it’s true.  A robotic workforce should be welcomed, especially be the most vulnerable in society.

Only in the sense that it’s a gateway to freedom from dependency on other, more dangerous drugs.

“Abas argues that while marijuana is seen by some as a gateway drug to harder stuff, it has actually been helping people get off some of that stuff. Indeed there are people using cannabis to ease out of opioid and alcohol addiction. The journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research just released data from a University of California, Berkeley-Kent State University study that supports that notion. The study found that pain patients are successfully substituting cannabis for their pain medication.”

After two separate incidents emerged depicting officers planting drugs:

“Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis ordered street officers not to “recreate” body cam footage in a Tuesday memo that follows a turbulent two weeks for the agency in which at least two body cam tapes have come to light showing officers staging crime scenes.

“In the event your body worn camera is not activated during the recovery of evidence, under no circumstances shall you attempt to recreate the recovery of evidence after re-activating your body worn camera,” Davis’ memo (PDF) said. “If you must deactivate your body worn camera during an incident, merely explain the reasoning on camera (e.g., to protect the identity of a witness who wishes to remain anonymous, etc.).””

Two years into a Saudi-led onslaught against the defenseless Third World nation, the result has been 10,000 deaths, 7 million slowly starving to death, and the worst cholera epidemic on record.

The Guardian reported back in March: “Aid agencies have warned that Yemen is “at the point of no return” after new figures released by the UN indicated 17 million people are facing severe food insecurity and will fall prey to famine without urgent humanitarian assistance.

A total of 6.8 million people are deemed to be in a state of emergency – one step from famine on the five-point integrated food security phase classification (IPC), the standard international measure – with a further 10.2 million in crisis. The numbers reflect a 21% increase in hunger levels in the Arab world’s poorest state since June 2016…

…“The numbers affected are absolutely extraordinary,” said Mark Kaye, Save the Children’s Yemen spokesperson.

“We keep on talking about a country that’s on the brink of famine, but for me these numbers highlight that we’re at the point of no return. If things are not done now we are going to be looking back on this and millions of children will have starved to death, and we’ll all have been aware of this for some time. That will shame us as an international community for years to come.”

Al Jazeera now reports that the Saudi military is blocking fuel for UN aid planes destined for Yemen.  This is even after it has become public knowledge that over one million severely malnourished children under the age of 5 are on the brink of succumbing to cholera.

The cruel Saudi blockade of Yemen’s ports is to blame for the cholera epidemic, the starvation crisis, and will be to blame once this genocide of Yemen’s civilian population escalates.  In a year, there will be at least 7 million fewer Yemenis on this earth.  Blame can clearly be placed around the neck of the Saudi government.  Blame can also clearly be placed around the necks of the governments that freely arm these butchers.  The US government, the largest weapons dealer, by far, in the world, has as its number one customer, Saudi Arabia.

This US-funded genocide of a poor nation is occurring in broad daylight.  The facts aren’t hidden from view.  Genocides throughout history take on a different light after understanding the Yemen crisis.  “Why did they let it happen?” is the first question after learning about some historical atrocity.  It happened, and continues to happen, because no one really cares.

Severely malnourished, all under the age of five.  They will more than likely die, all due to the Saudi war of attrition on the poor country.

Weed-related catering business is booming in states where it’s legal.