According to WHO.

6 reasons

Among other reasons, seniors could be growing their medicine rather than doling out over $2,200 annually for their prescription medication.

Estimate out of the Justice Department that I’ve noted before.  It’s just a statistic that’s too amazing to not be constantly reminded of.  Are the cops so fragile that they can’t handle a family pet?  Are they trained to unload on any animal that approaches?  Or are they looking for a reason to get their gun off?  I imagine it’s a combination, depending on the depravity of the thug hiding behind the badge.  And it’s not a statistic thrown about enough, particularly from the vacuous, virtue-signaling, pretentious, ‘friends of animals’, the vegans.  Watching the same video of a cow being butchered for food doesn’t quite hold the same emotional weight after watching a pudgy member of the punitive class flop over a fence only to gun down two tail-wagging pets that previously provided emotional support and companionship for two small children.

Family pets have a right not to be shot to death by a badged thug who hops a fence into a private back yard.  A dog wagging its tail doesn’t deserve a bullet, and the families who love their pets deserve to not witness their canine friend gunned down because a cop is afraid of his own shadow.

Here’s a story of a cop who was too eager to kill a family pet and ended up killing a person instead.

Here’s a story of a woman arrested for standing between her dog (chained up!) and a deputy intent on killing the canine.  She was later acquitted. The dog lives on, thankfully. Watch the video to see the tantrum thrown by the cop for not getting to kill something.

The excuse is that the dogs always “charge” or are “aggressive”, until witnesses and video say otherwise.  The legal consequences are severely lacking, however. Until training improves, and hiring standards rise slightly above ‘functioning sociopath’, thousands of family pets will continue to be gunned down by emotional wrecks with badges.

The recently released bodycam footage of bumbling, clueless, Baltimore officer Richard Pinheiro planting evidence is almost too good to be true for advocates of police transparency.  Pinheiro, not realizing that his bodycam was already recording, only without audio, is seen planting a can of drugs while his badged companions tag along.  They then walk away, when Pinheiro “activates” his bodycam and tells his fellow officers that they should go back and look again, where they “discover” the can of drugs.  This “discovery” led the an arrest and heroin charge against the man they were targeting.  But, and thankfully for us, Pinheiro is not a genius, and he didn’t realize that the previous 30 seconds of footage was automatically saved.  The charges against the arrested man were dropped, but, since he couldn’t post bail, he languished in a jail cell for six months.

The larger question is this: how often do cops plant evidence or otherwise distort facts to frame the innocent?  The casual behavior of the officers in the video suggest this may be far more common than is thought.

A Massachusetts state drug lab chemist falsified results over an eight-year period, resulting in the dismissal of 21,587 drug cases in April of this year.

The fate of thousands are in the hands of authorities like Pinheiro and crime lab tech Dookhan, and they had no moral qualms about using their power to ruin the lives of innocents.

New report out of the GAO skewers the bloated, irritating agency that has a 95% failure rate at detecting weapons and fake bombs during secret tests performed by the Department of Homeland Security.

Pyrrhic “victory” in fight against ISIS, a terror group that sprang from the U.S.-induced destabilization in Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

In just one year.

2,234 homicide investigations were opened by prosecutors in Mexico for the month of June, a 40% jump from the previous June, and an 80% increase from June 2014.  12,155 homicide cases were opened from January to June of this year.

The article points to a rise in demand for heroin as a factor in the increase in violence.  Now, U.S. authorities are cracking down on local heroin dealers, so of course the only thing this is accomplishing is basically protecting the market for the Mexican cartels.  The solution?  Legalize heroin in the US and regulate its use.  Sounds crazy, right?  But if it were legal, the black market would disappear, along with the violence that goes hand-in-hand with underground economies.  The drug would be clean, no deadly additives such as fentanyl or elephant tranquilizer.

Drug prohibition gave rise to the bloodbath south of the border.  End the drug war and the needless violence will end.

Slightly dated, but makes the relevant point that blanket, mass surveillance of everyone produces far too much information for anyone to sift through.  Also, the ability of authorities to interpret actual relevant information is severely lacking.

Before 9/11, there was an abundance of intelligence of foreign individuals wanting to learn how to fly commercial jets.  The flight instructor even warned the FBI about them.

The Pulse nightclub shooter was reported by his own mosque, then interviewed by the FBI.

The moral is that there is no real defense against terrorism that can come from government.  The government has built surveillance/warfare state of unprecedented size on top of the idea that they can protect us, however.

Direct consequence of blockading the country, as well as relentless bombing of hospitals and other critical infrastructure.