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  • @MacNucc11
    Funny how the deranged Kevin Williamson so offhandedly dismisses Trumps curing the opiate addiction facing this country. Who knew his speeches had that much benefit?

    “Trumps curing the opiate addiction facing this country.”

    When did he do that, and how did he do it? The FDA and DEA are currently committed to banning a southeast asian botanical, kratom, claiming that it is an opiod, but I’m unaware of anything else being done by the Trump admin to even address the existence of an opiod addiction epidemic.

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  • Funny how the deranged Kevin Williamson so offhandedly dismisses Trumps curing the opiate addiction facing this country. Who knew his speeches had that much benefit?

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    "Trumps curing the opiate addiction facing this country."

    When did he do that, and how did he do it? The FDA and DEA are currently committed to banning a southeast asian botanical, kratom, claiming that it is an opiod, but I'm unaware of anything else being done by the Trump admin to even address the existence of an opiod addiction epidemic.
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  • @Malcolm X-Lax
    I don't think she thinks she was putting anything over on us. Here at Unz I'm pretty sure Ileana knows "da goyim know", to borrow a phrase.

    actually, Mercer-Issacsohn closed down comments at her site some time ago precisely to prevent race-realists like you and I from roosting there and spreading enlightenment on the Jewish Problem . And as Vox Day has pointed out (his Jew-wise site used to be linked at hers; not anymore) Jews, members of a wandering, trans-national Tribe, cannot be a member of any nation but their own. So, in calling Yascha M. a “German”, she was quite definitely dissimulating.

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  • @Haxo Angmark
    no more so than pointing out that

    Ilana Mercer is also a Jew.


    it's even possible that Ilana's failure to mention that Yascha

    is a Jew

    is related to the fact that she's a Jew.

    I don’t think she thinks she was putting anything over on us. Here at Unz I’m pretty sure Ileana knows “da goyim know”, to borrow a phrase.

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    actually, Mercer-Issacsohn closed down comments at her site some time ago precisely to prevent race-realists like you and I from roosting there and spreading enlightenment on the Jewish Problem . And as Vox Day has pointed out (his Jew-wise site used to be linked at hers; not anymore) Jews, members of a wandering, trans-national Tribe, cannot be a member of any nation but their own. So, in calling Yascha M. a "German", she was quite definitely dissimulating.
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  • @Malcolm X-Lax

    You guessed it. Mr. Mounk is not an American from the prairies; he’s a German academic, ensconced at Harvard, and sitting in judgment of American and European populism.
     
    I suppose it's completely superfluous to point out that Mounk is Jewish.

    no more so than pointing out that

    Ilana Mercer is also a Jew.

    it’s even possible that Ilana’s failure to mention that Yascha

    is a Jew

    is related to the fact that she’s a Jew.

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    I don't think she thinks she was putting anything over on us. Here at Unz I'm pretty sure Ileana knows "da goyim know", to borrow a phrase.
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  • You guessed it. Mr. Mounk is not an American from the prairies; he’s a German academic, ensconced at Harvard, and sitting in judgment of American and European populism.

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    no more so than pointing out that

    Ilana Mercer is also a Jew.


    it's even possible that Ilana's failure to mention that Yascha

    is a Jew

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  • @CK
    Ileana:
    When you see someone important/relevant/human from the USA saying: "... it is time to recognize and take in the South African farmers as they are victims of state sponsored genocide.", then you will know that the dialogue has changed. Until then: Same shit, different millennium.

    We will do exchanges from Atlanta, not outright import. The Africans need the Atlantans, as about as large a professional class of blacks exist in Atlanta as anywhere in the world. We southerners want these professional Atlanta based blacks to begin to care about their own people more than their ongoing litany of complaints against the native whites. We will consider trade of Atlanta blacks for white Afrikaners.

    BTW we do not need the Afrikaners, but Africa desperately needs the professional class of blacks that are found in Atlanta. A trade seems apropos should the various parties express interest in such an arrangement. The Afrikaners interest in local based agriculture is needed in various areas and as such they will likely find our continent to their liking.

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  • “Strongmen are in power in several countries that once looked as if they were democratizing … The United States—the engine room of democratization for most of the post-war period—has a president who taunted his opponent with chants of ‘lock her up’

    “Lock her up” was based on Hillary’s documented breaking of the law regarding classified information, an investigation carried out before Trump was elected. Herr Dr. Professor Mounk also neglects to mention that Trump also stated he wouldn’t prosecute Hillary- although she clearly broke the law.

    and refused to say if he would accept the result of the election if it went against him.”

    As opposed to Hillary’s refusing to accept the results of her losing the election.

    Does Herr Dr. Professor Mounk make lame arguments? Yes.

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  • Terrific article and comments. I like the guts that Ilana Mercer always shows in telling it like it is. It bothers me that some 64,000,000 or so voted for Clinton, a definite sociopath or psychopath but the DSM in medicine doesn’t have a diagnosis of such -paths now. Most of the haters I see vote strictly along a party line called Democrat. This does not mean that I believe Republicans have much to show either.
    The die hard Democrat Bolsheviks that I observe get all their news from one newspaper and some news shows on the TV . This is my observation. They would have nothing to do with this interesting site (Unz Review) and others. TRUTH IS IRRELEVANT. TRUTH IS WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE.
    What has gone on reminds me of the Spanish Civil War. South Africa and Rhodesia already got toppled by the USA mainstream media and the European snobby Bolsheviks disguised in “democracry”. The Bolshevik and anarchist groups and others tortured and killed over 6000 Roman Catholic priests and near 400 nuns starting around 1935 and ending in 1939.
    I see the Trump haters and the haters of deplorables like me getting hysterical with the hate they showed since 2016. I do believe the masses of these SJWs and leftists would resort to murdering many common people.
    I do not belong to a party but I guess I would be a populist.

    During Vietnam I studied up on what the Rhodesian Army would do. I followed the fate of South Africa and Rhodesia since the late 60s when I was in the US Marines. Ilana Mercer updates us on what the mainstream media won’t tell about South Africa and Zimbabwe.

    Ivy Leaguers are often smug and they start most of our wars. When I was in med school I was degraded by many Ivy leaguers when I outscored them on exams. I quietly watched the behavior of the privileged haters who were never told to clean their own houses because they always had some illegals coming in to do it for them. I came fro a poor area. I kept quiet. My brother dabbles in physics and math. I had an IQ of 143 and a dean knew it (he was a terrific man) but I always let others talk their talk. They don’t know what the walk is- they live in a fake world brought to us by the mainstream media. they adhere to human traits like greed, envy, jealousy, avarice.

    Terrific comments here and the quote about populism is terrific. Where did that quote come from?

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  • When leftists complain about reduction in democracy, what they really mean is reduction in mob-rule. The media dictates to the compliant mob what to think and how to vote.
    Populism is when people stop listening to the media and start believing their own eyes.

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  • Ileana:
    When you see someone important/relevant/human from the USA saying: “… it is time to recognize and take in the South African farmers as they are victims of state sponsored genocide.”, then you will know that the dialogue has changed. Until then: Same shit, different millennium.

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    We will do exchanges from Atlanta, not outright import. The Africans need the Atlantans, as about as large a professional class of blacks exist in Atlanta as anywhere in the world. We southerners want these professional Atlanta based blacks to begin to care about their own people more than their ongoing litany of complaints against the native whites. We will consider trade of Atlanta blacks for white Afrikaners.

    BTW we do not need the Afrikaners, but Africa desperately needs the professional class of blacks that are found in Atlanta. A trade seems apropos should the various parties express interest in such an arrangement. The Afrikaners interest in local based agriculture is needed in various areas and as such they will likely find our continent to their liking.

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  • Finally, what would an academic be without a brand of demeaning, economic reductionism? The lumpenproletariat are economically distressed. That’s Yascha Mounk’s final diagnosis. That’s why populism is surging.

    When you’re really important, as is the really important person mentioned, you need somebody to look down on. Else why bother thinking great thoughts? Why bother with being really important?

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    “Bafflegab” Another great stinger, Ms. Mercer. You express more wisdom about dsmocracy and American history than all those bafflegabbers put together.

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  • The public denunciation by thousands of women and a few men that they had been victims of sexual abuse by their economic bosses raises fundamental issues about the social relations of American capitalism. The moral offenses are in essence economic and social crimes. Sexual abuse is only one aspect of the social dynamics facilitating the...
  • First, could the author try a more expository style of writing, rather than simple blunt declarative sentences? Please?

    Second, the saying is “they rent you, they do not own you”. Every single hopeful young job seeker is empowered with the ability to tell Harvey Wienstein, or whomever the creep of the day may be, to go fuck him (or HER) self, and walk out of that office.

    Every job interview is a two way street; it’s as much about them as it is about you, the job seeker.

    An abusive job interview is an early clue that you probably really don’t want to waste your precious time working for a bunch of creeps.

    And yes, lawsuits do tend to focus the mind. I am strongly in favor of evening the score via the use of lawsuits, lawyers.

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  • OK some good points, but many would be disputed by various libertarians and conservatives who think current capitalist arrangements are just fine. For example you say:

    “This concentration of power produces the ever deepening inequalities between the world of the billionaires and the millions of low-wage workers.”

    Some libertarian and conservative types would see this as the natural and proper state of affairs. Those ow-wage workers are probably where they are because of their own inadequacies and lack of effort. The billionaires should be celebrated as innovators and “can do” persons, who DO , rather than complain and look for “government handouts,” or so some of the standard narrative goes.

    What would be some of your solutions to these issues? And how would you meet similar objections above?

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  • The entertainment industry amuses the population across class lines with increasingly vulgar and violent offerings, while the moguls of film entertain themselves with their young workers – who are depersonalized and even raped.

    These “young workers” are simply whores, as actresses across all ages always have been. And isn’t it very interesting that every #MeToo Hollywood harlot is past the wall?

    Can anyone say with a straight face that the US remains a nation of free and autonomous citizens?

    Most people freely enslave themselves. That doesn’t mean we should make their chains weigh more heavily on them (or worse, outright try to replace the working class with foreign helots), but let’s not kid ourselves–”workers” are workers for a reason.

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  • Drive-in theaters are practically extinct, diners are dying, but go-go bars are still common in working class neighborhoods across America. It’s wholesome afterwork entertainment for the sweating man. When I was a housepainter over twenty years ago, our crew would hit The Office in CenterCity or Penn’s Port Pub, on Christopher Columbus Boulevard. After a...
  • @Montefrío
    Well, I suppose because once inserted in place, so to speak, I found much of it dreadfully provincial and boring, complacent and self-righteous, patronizing and as dull as dishwater, notwithstanding exceptions such as the Explorers Club, the NYAC and other now-nearly-moribund institutions. My NY is now nothing but footnotes in obscure history tomes, so rather than remain in what I saw as a subculture in danger of extinction, I set out to discover different pastures, so to speak. No regrets, I assure you. I'm pushing 72, no more adventures on the horizon as far as I know, but a daily peace and tranquility I could barely imagine back when inclusion in the Social Register still seemed to provide some sort of societal validation.

    Interesting. I’m a guy in his late 20’s with a side hobby of making digital family trees, and one of my clients/friends was about as WASP as you can get. His ancestors included Presidents of Ivy League Universities whose tenure preceded the existence of the United States, knights that rode with William of Hastings, and, of course, Mayflower colonists. To the best of my knowledge, the last person in his lineage with an actual financial need to work did so just right before the American Revolution. This was all fascinating to a California boy that viewed “white people” as a monolithic bloc, as it represented the type of “traditional America” that I had imagined the generation before me had to conform to, but no longer existed.

    The funny thing is, this guy isn’t exactly proud of his WASP heritage; actually, he’s quite liberal. While he closely associates with other elite whites, he doesn’t express any desire to maintain any of the ethnic traditions of the previous generations, and his new wife is Catholic. He thought the culture was stuffy too. Today, he drinks liberal progressivism Kool-Aid by the gallon. Nice enough guy though.

    You are correct in stating that your New York doesn’t exist anymore. The New York of 10 years ago doesn’t exist anymore. ‘Tis a shame.

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  • @Kokusen'ya

    the validity of which I now question
     
    Why?

    Well, I suppose because once inserted in place, so to speak, I found much of it dreadfully provincial and boring, complacent and self-righteous, patronizing and as dull as dishwater, notwithstanding exceptions such as the Explorers Club, the NYAC and other now-nearly-moribund institutions. My NY is now nothing but footnotes in obscure history tomes, so rather than remain in what I saw as a subculture in danger of extinction, I set out to discover different pastures, so to speak. No regrets, I assure you. I’m pushing 72, no more adventures on the horizon as far as I know, but a daily peace and tranquility I could barely imagine back when inclusion in the Social Register still seemed to provide some sort of societal validation.

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    Interesting. I’m a guy in his late 20’s with a side hobby of making digital family trees, and one of my clients/friends was about as WASP as you can get. His ancestors included Presidents of Ivy League Universities whose tenure preceded the existence of the United States, knights that rode with William of Hastings, and, of course, Mayflower colonists. To the best of my knowledge, the last person in his lineage with an actual financial need to work did so just right before the American Revolution. This was all fascinating to a California boy that viewed “white people” as a monolithic bloc, as it represented the type of “traditional America” that I had imagined the generation before me had to conform to, but no longer existed.

    The funny thing is, this guy isn’t exactly proud of his WASP heritage; actually, he’s quite liberal. While he closely associates with other elite whites, he doesn’t express any desire to maintain any of the ethnic traditions of the previous generations, and his new wife is Catholic. He thought the culture was stuffy too. Today, he drinks liberal progressivism Kool-Aid by the gallon. Nice enough guy though.

    You are correct in stating that your New York doesn’t exist anymore. The New York of 10 years ago doesn't exist anymore. 'Tis a shame.

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  • @Montefrío
    Good God! Maritain and Elderts Lane joined in a paragraph! And Maritain's final testament ( a favorite book I have in my print collection) at that!

    Sincerely, God bless you. I admire your consistency, although can't help but wonder how you manage to hold on. My maternal grandfather (R.I.P.) was a NYC fire boat captain living in Sunnyside, but the paternal grandpa (R.I.P) was a wealthy NYer whose name you'd likely know, and he was the dominant influence in my youth, so I pretty much missed out on NY's ethnic Irish neighborhoods while growing up. He intended that I merge into the WASP "ascendency" and I did so by education and marriage, the validity of which I now question. I found it all terribly boring and somewhat ridiculous, so now I live as a semi-hermit in a small South American village a bit west of the middle of nowhere, albeit in a style reminiscent of an Irish (I'm a citizen) country squire. There are worse lives.

    If you choose to continue communicating, please write me at teejaysee46 at the email service provided by the "g" folks; if not, please accept my very, very best wishes. God luck and God bless!

    the validity of which I now question

    Why?

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    Well, I suppose because once inserted in place, so to speak, I found much of it dreadfully provincial and boring, complacent and self-righteous, patronizing and as dull as dishwater, notwithstanding exceptions such as the Explorers Club, the NYAC and other now-nearly-moribund institutions. My NY is now nothing but footnotes in obscure history tomes, so rather than remain in what I saw as a subculture in danger of extinction, I set out to discover different pastures, so to speak. No regrets, I assure you. I'm pushing 72, no more adventures on the horizon as far as I know, but a daily peace and tranquility I could barely imagine back when inclusion in the Social Register still seemed to provide some sort of societal validation.
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  • A sense of betrayal seems to lie just behind today’s political discourse—a feeling of being left behind, a suspicion that those at the top, in media, corporations, politics, academia, and finance, have motives and goals at odds with those of the broader population. Put simply, Americans of all backgrounds fear and loathe a hostile elite....
  • are you intentionally shilling for the Jews?

    Don’t you realize that once Marijuana was legalized in Colorado in 2012, the Mexican cartel had to switch to a different product, and one of their new products were opiods/heroin?
    The Democrats/Jews have been letting Mexicans and central Americans into the US by the boatloads since 2012.

    There is a very large criminal Mexican and central American gang network throughout the US, they are dealing in heroin/oxy/meth and fentanyl. they are also trafficking in women and children.

    do some actual research on this
    WAKE UP

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  • @NightOwl
    "A greedy pharmaceutical industry"? This explains nothing. An entire industry is "greedy"? Why isn't the same true of the lumber or sugar or steel industries? Why isn't it true of all industries? A greedy pharmaceutical industry. Not the ridiculous FDA. A greedy pharmaceutical industry. So we're race-conscious Bernie people. Got it.

    Yes. The entire industry is greedy. That doesn’t mean they don’t produce some good products, allow some good deals. Or that some employed in it are not good people. But the people at the top, who run it, are there to make money. I once heard of a naturopath doctor whose herb field was destroyed by government agents after he claimed to have cured cancer, and made his cases public. The agents told him, “Cancer is our industry. Leave it alone.”
    And looking at the power institutions supposedly devoted to curing cancer, and thinking of the money made by all the personnel, do you think they really want to cure anything?
    Most doctors say they themselves would never do chemotherapy if they were diagnosed with cancer.

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  • @Alden
    I don’t want to argue with you, but if the goal of the CIA is to reduce the population, why are other branches of the government bringing in millions of immigrants every year?

    The easiest way to stop population growth would be to just end immigration including foreign students completely. Then deport everyone not born in this country.

    For many years it was said that the eugenics and depopulation crowd wanted to target Africa.

    But in fact they are targetting Europeans/whites. check the tiny fertility rates. So they take people from outside countries cause US has room and needs labor for the liberals and neocons.

    Kissinger met with China and they introduced 1 child policy.

    I remember a Native American saying they will do with you, as they did with us.

    Replacement in the name of money and power.

    (simply put European and whites test subjects, and we know the CIA has done several tests on people and cities, and replace with foreigners slowly).

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  • @KISS
    Yeah, about those political memes: “the Deep State,” “the 1%,” “Drain the Swamp,” “the Davos Set,” and “Masters of the Universe.” They capture alienation, suspicion, and helplessness, all right. Know what else they do? They divert public rage away from the state. Sackler's commercial predation would not be possible without a state that institutionalizes malversation and rights derogation. A formal kleptocracy like the contemporary USA is only possible when the state has impunity. The one institution with absolute sovereignty, the real state, is CIA. CIA has infiltrated every other agency, department, and branch with "dotted-line reports," clandestine domestic agents or officers of CIA. With impunity for crimes up to and including systematic and widespread murder and torture, CIA is in a position to control all policies in which it has an interest. The Sacklers' drug-based extermination initiative would not be happening without CIA approval.

    So what's CIA's policy objective in drug-based extermination? CIA nomenklatura are sympathetic to eugenics but that's just the icing on the cake. The overarching goal is to reduce the US population to its dwindling carrying capacity. The littorals are going under water, the interior is subject to increasingly violent storms, and agricultural productivity in in decline - because of carbon and nitrogen cycle imbalances, as Exxon has known for 40 years.

    But why would CIA choose Jews and Israelis as domestic agents? Israel is going down for the third time. It's a pariah state bleeding legitimacy, and CIA's about ready to cut it loose. After their policy has taken effect, CIA will ruin and purge the Israeli loyalists, blame it all on them, and stay in power. If you recall, Apartheid South Africa was a big help too, in its agonal stage.

    You may be right. But the opposite could be true. Im still not sure.

    Remember the secret society Skull and Bones? They have a major connection to the CIA pparently.
    Rockefeller, Bush, Kerry,Taft, and others.

    Is the CIA putting Jews in the forfront to make people see them easily?
    CIA could probably assissinate major banking families.

    Or the Mossad could be looking into the CIA. And the money connection keeps the Jews and CIA together.

    The Rockefellers, Kissingers were behind eugenics. They are succeeding in many ways on the depopulation front. (connected to the SSRIs which mess with sex in all ways for just about everybody,
    the cultural revolution and degeneracy, contraceptives, etc).

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  • @Anonymous
    Alcohol kills (and have been killing for decades) more people than opioids and no one seems to be overly concerned about it. Just the most direct alcohol-related deaths, alcohol-induced liver cirrhosis (20,000 per year) and drunk driving (10,000 per year) get to a number higher than overdose from opioids, with hard to calculate but unambiguously high alcohol contribution to many, many other causes of deaths.

    Alcohol kills (and have been killing for decades) more people than opioids and no one seems to be overly concerned about it.

    Alcohol has been part of human culture for thousands of years so it lacks the impact of foreignness that newer drugs have. Those who drink think “I can handle it”, whether they can or not. Life is painful risky and some people opt for a way to deflect that.

    Non-drinkers who are impacted are too much in the minority, so the effort is to mitigate the worst effects.

    This is not an objective, rational process, but a subjective one. Objective, rational analysis is useless in this instance.

    Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

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  • @Twodees Partain
    This is funny: the Sassoons, eevull joos that they are, FORCED the hapless Hindus to grow opium poppies, then they also FORCED the Chinese to smoke it. They inflicted this drug, which nobody wanted to use, upon an entire Empire against the will of everyone who later became junkies. What nonsense.

    This tale is ridiculous on its face. People use drugs because they want to. Nobody forced the junkie you see in the park to use heroin, or whatever he uses. He made a choice, and he makes a choice every day to remain strung out, instead of kicking the drugs and learning to live without them.

    The Japanese managed to sweep up most of the privately held gold in Manchuria by offering opium to the Chinese people who had gold to trade for it. Addicts choose to use drugs. The people who supply the drugs don't have to force addicts to buy them.

    Are you on smoking pot? eevull joos, What is dis? Such a phenomenon does not exist and never existed since the universe began and never will in the future. Always remember, it is always the dumb evil goyim who bring trouble upon themselves, ALWAYS. Put down the pipe now, please.

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  • People are now doing H?

    ‘Same big pharma that hooked people on opioids now profits again from addicts’ switch to heroin’

    https://www.rt.com/usa/414759-pharma-opioid-crisis-profit/

    The same pharma companies that profited from the opioid epidemic in the US by hooking patients on their drugs are profiting again as their victims migrate to heroin and participate in needle exchange programs, an attorney told RT.

    The opioid epidemic is one of the biggest stories of 2017. The number of people dying from big pharma’s prescription narcotics has skyrocketed. But the same pharmaceutical companies that profited from creating the crisis in the first place, and received a slap on the wrist for it, are now profiting from it again, attorney Peter Mougey said in an interview with RT America’s Mike Papantonio.

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  • @Jonathan Mason

    My proposal is that the problem for the White working class is a greedy pharmaceutical industry that has manipulated government regulating agencies and mainstream opinion in the medical profession.
     
    Spot on, that is exactly what has caused it, and that is why there is not the same problem in Europe.

    Now if we ban or heavily restrict access to these drugs, for example they may only be used in hospital, many, but not all users will switch to illegal, black market sources, then we have Prohibition all over again, but with patches and pills instead of whisky stills.

    However with the Supreme Court that we have in place, the right of corporations to make money will always trump anything else.

    Perhaps we should ask the Mexicans to come in and sort out our bad hombres for us.

    “A greedy pharmaceutical industry”? This explains nothing. An entire industry is “greedy”? Why isn’t the same true of the lumber or sugar or steel industries? Why isn’t it true of all industries? A greedy pharmaceutical industry. Not the ridiculous FDA. A greedy pharmaceutical industry. So we’re race-conscious Bernie people. Got it.

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    Yes. The entire industry is greedy. That doesn't mean they don't produce some good products, allow some good deals. Or that some employed in it are not good people. But the people at the top, who run it, are there to make money. I once heard of a naturopath doctor whose herb field was destroyed by government agents after he claimed to have cured cancer, and made his cases public. The agents told him, "Cancer is our industry. Leave it alone."
    And looking at the power institutions supposedly devoted to curing cancer, and thinking of the money made by all the personnel, do you think they really want to cure anything?
    Most doctors say they themselves would never do chemotherapy if they were diagnosed with cancer.
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  • @Malla
    No Jewish Sassoon family?

    The Jewish Monopoly on Opium Still Fuels Chinese Resentment Today

    http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/sassoon.htm

    The 99 year British lease on Hong Kong expired in July, 1997, allowing China to take over its land once again. Hundreds of newspaper stories and TV reports covered that event but not one revealed how England first gained control of Hong Kong.

    The truth lies buried in the family line of David Sassoon, "The Rothschilds of The Far East," and their monopoly over the opium trade. Britain won Hong Kong by launching the opium Wars to give the Sassoons exclusive rights to drug an entire nation.

    David Sassoon was born in Baghdad, Iran in 1792. His father, Saleh Sassoon, was a wealthy banker and the treasurer to Ahmet Pasha, the governor of Baghdad. (Thus making him the "court Jew" - a highly influential position.) In 1829 Ahmet was overthrown due to corruption and the Sassoon family fled to Bombay, India. This was the strategic trade route to India's interior and the gateway to the Far East. In a brief time the British government granted Sassoon monopoly rights to all manufactured cotton goods, silk and most important of all- Opium - then the most addictive drug in the world.

    · The Beginning of the Opium Trade

    In the beginning, David Sassoon wanted to trade cotton cloth with China in exchange for tea, but the Chinese did not want the cotton that Sassoon wanted to trade. They were however willing to trade tea for silver. However, Sassoon considered that the Chinese might be susceptible to opium. With this knowledge Sassoon sailed back to India and then England to sell what little tea he had, and to make a new proposition.

    Britain had an insatiable appetite for Chinese tea, but the Qing Dynasty and its subjects did not want to buy anything that the British produced. The government of Queen Victoria did not want to use up the country's reserves of gold or silver in buying tea, so, on the advice of David Sassoon, she decided to forcibly export opium from the Indian Subcontinent to China. The opium would then be exchanged for tea.

    In Order to boost the trade David Sassoon forced the farmers in Bengali to stop farming food and turn to growing opium poppies. The climate in Bengali was very good for growing opium and Sassoon's business flourished. He became a member of the East India Company, a firm owned and run by Jews out of the City of London. So successful was the opium business that the tax the East Indian Company paid to England paid for all English wars between 1831 and 1905.

    · Opium Was a "Jewish Business"

    The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1905 states that Sassoon expanded his opium trade into China and Japan. He placed his eight sons in charge of the various major opium exchanges in China.

    According to the 1944 Jewish Encyclopedia: "He employed only Jews in his business, and wherever he sent them he built synagogues and schools for them. He imported whole families of fellow Jews. . . and put them to work."

    Sassoon's sons were busy pushing this mind-destroying drug in Canton, China, and their trade expanded alarmingly. Between 1830 - 1831 they trafficked 18,956 chests of opium earning millions of dollars. Part of the profits went to Queen Victoria and the British government. In the year 1836 the trade increased to over 30,000 chests and drug addiction in coastal cities became endemic.

    In 1864, the Sassoons imported 58,681 chests of opium which brought in over 20 million pounds. By 1880 it had skyrocketed to 105,508 chests, making the Sassoons the richest Jews in the world next to the Rothschilds. The Sassoons were now licensing opium dens in each British occupied area with large fees being collected by their Jewish agents.

    And many of these Jewish agents were the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng. These Jews had immigrated to China along the Silk Road hundreds of years ago and had so intermarried with the Chinese that they looked entirely Chinese. But they still were practicing Jews and were thus the perfect Chinese agents for the Sassoons.

    The entire trade was controlled by Jewish families only. Sassoon would not allow any other race to engage in "the Jews' business" of importing and selling opium. Opium was strictly a Jewish monopoly. But these Jews were working under British passports.

    This is funny: the Sassoons, eevull joos that they are, FORCED the hapless Hindus to grow opium poppies, then they also FORCED the Chinese to smoke it. They inflicted this drug, which nobody wanted to use, upon an entire Empire against the will of everyone who later became junkies. What nonsense.

    This tale is ridiculous on its face. People use drugs because they want to. Nobody forced the junkie you see in the park to use heroin, or whatever he uses. He made a choice, and he makes a choice every day to remain strung out, instead of kicking the drugs and learning to live without them.

    The Japanese managed to sweep up most of the privately held gold in Manchuria by offering opium to the Chinese people who had gold to trade for it. Addicts choose to use drugs. The people who supply the drugs don’t have to force addicts to buy them.

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    Are you on smoking pot? eevull joos, What is dis? Such a phenomenon does not exist and never existed since the universe began and never will in the future. Always remember, it is always the dumb evil goyim who bring trouble upon themselves, ALWAYS. Put down the pipe now, please.
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  • @Alden
    Absolutely agree with you. Anyone who believes the anti White, liberal Jewish propaganda program 60 Minutes any other TV fake news program or a word of anything published in the anti White liberal Jewish print media is a naive credulous idiot.

    Who believed that Darren Wilson and George Zimmerman willfully and joyously murdered innocent black “children”?

    No commenter on UNZ believed this.

    So why do you all believe this latest propaganda blast from the anti White, liberal Jewish media?

    I don’t, any more than I believe that Hilary Clinton is a philanthropist who wants to help the wretched of the earth.

    About the horrors of opioid withdrawal.
    Have any of you never had stomach flu, colds, flu, morning sickness , mild to severe hangovers?

    The symptoms are the same as the infamous opioid withdrawal. Aches and pains, a feeling of weakness, nausea, headache, some vomiting and or diarrhea.

    Some people will believe anything if it is presented well.

    That’s true about withdrawals from opioids. I was on high dose of Dilaudid after a car wreck for 4 months while in a hospital, and later in a nursing home. My doctor said that I would probably need to check into a drug treatment facility to get off of Dilaudid, and that I should let him know when I was ready.

    I decided to do it on my own, so I didn’t fill the prescription for the large dose (12 hour intervals) when I came home, and took the smaller doses, that were meant to be taken at 4 hour intervals, at 8 hour intervals for a few weeks, then just stopped.

    I had the symptoms you listed for a week or so, then they eased up. I haven’t taken Dilaudid or any other opioids or opiates since and have even stopped using aspirin and NSAIDS as well. Withdrawal was bearable and I was determined not to be dependent on pain drugs.

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  • @Jack Highlands
    Just to be clear on the potency issue: oxycodone is approximately the same potency as morphine. Heroin is about five times more potent than that. Fentanyl is at least ten times more potent than heroin, ie at least fifty times more potent than morphine.

    Bayer introduced heroin as a cure for morphine addiction, which was known then as “The Soldier’s Disease”, because of the number of addicts who used morphine for pain from wounds after Lincoln’s war, and became addicted. Jesse James was one of them. It seems to have exceeded expectations.

    Fentanyl has to be administered in tiny doses to keep from killing the patient. It isn’t safe as a street drug at all, if any street drugs could be viewed as safe.

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  • @FKA Max
    Chinese Drugs Are Killing Americans | China Uncensored

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsnNpfZNCMI

    MacDonald is barking up the wrong tree. It’s not Jews to blame, it’s Chinese.
     
    Both parties/cultures are culpable, in my opinion, and have similar attitudes towards whites.

    Similarities Between Chinese People and Jewish People

    Modern Chinese became aware of the existence of a Jewish people across the world in the 1830’s, following the Protestant missionary teachings and Bible translations.Since then, various Jewish stereotypes took form including how the Jews were victims of the white man just like the Chinese.
    [...]
    The Chinese have no reason to dislike the Jews because they display the traits that they admire for themselves. A Jew visiting China will feel the affinity that is palpable thanks to the commonality of traits, a common attitude towards adversity, and life.
     
    - https://www.laowaicareer.com/blog/similarities-chinese-people-jewish-people/

    The Night New York’s Chinese Went Out for Jews

    On the night of the show, Maine spoke first and declared strong sympathy between Jews and Chinese, “as both had been persecuted.” New York rabbi Joseph Zeff, an early Zionist, focused, in Yiddish, on Russian atrocities against both groups.
    - https://forward.com/culture/134950/the-night-new-york-s-chinese-went-out-for-jews/

    I found this:

    How a little-known patent sparked Canada's opioid crisis

    Published December 30, 2016
    Updated November 12, 2017


    Once OxyContin was replaced by OxyNeo, a host of stronger opioids began flowing into Canada to feed that appetite, and organized crime filled the void. Illicit fentanyl began appearing on Canadian streets in 2013, just months after Purdue began withdrawing OxyContin from the market.

    Fentanyl and carfentanil – a powerful opioid used to tranquilize elephants and other large animals – slipped into Canada from China, from manufacturers who shipped it through the mail.

    Suppliers in China had figured out that Canadian border guards were prevented by law from opening packages weighing less than 30 grams without the consent of the recipient. That created a loophole to ship drugs through, using innocent-looking envelopes.

    With fentanyl being 100 times stronger than morphine, and carfentanil many times more powerful than fentanyl, just a trace amount of powder could be sold on the street and do considerable damage.

    The illicit drug makers also understood another key thing about their market – OxyContin was where it all started, and it was still in demand, even though it was gone.

    So when they turned fentanyl and other powders into tablets, using pill presses similar to those housed at big pharmaceutical factories, they dyed them green and stamped each one with a small 80. The look was designed to replicate the 80-mg OxyContin tablets that were so addictive. It was, after all, what the market wanted.

    In December, the federal government, in a bid to stem the tide of illegal opioids on the street, unveiled legislation that would give border guards more power to search envelopes weighing less than 30 grams coming into the country. And the importing of pill presses into Canada was also banned.
     
    - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/oxycontin/article33448409/

    “The Chinese have no reason to dislike the Jews because they display the traits that they admire for themselves.”

    That reminds me of a line in an article I read years ago that described the Nungs (ethnic Chinese peoples living in Vietnam for centuries) as “the jews of Vietnam”. IIRC, the description was based on their work ethic, clannishness, and talent for business pursuits.

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  • @Anonymous

    Pro tip for anyone who gets cut off due to this zeitgeist: Kratom. Lots of kratom.
     
    If you don't mind: in what form did you take kratom and how much? Apart from kratom, did you have serious physical withdrawal symptoms?

    I’ve used red vein kratom in powder with a dump & wash ingestion. About one heaping tablespoon per dose and 3-4x/day. It tastes like ass. Then again, so does tea and they’re pretty similar. Diet Coke extinguishes the taste and grapefruit potentiates the effects.

    Understand that kratom is NOT an opiate (nor yet illegal). It appears to have some alkaloids that interfere with the brain’s opioid receptors however and thereby mitigates the severity of detox. But the detox is still happening. Where without kratom you may not sleep (at all) for seven to ten days, with kratom you may sleep two to four hours every night.

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  • low impulse control pleasure lovving poor basque british american = opiod deaths

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  • @Renoman
    They're stupid and weak, the only good junkie is a dead one.

    Hi Rodrigo. That’s a bit harsh, mental illness being no real fault of the sufferer.

    That said, if of a junkie dectect, nine members were found face down in the LA River, I shouldn’t inquire too urgently about the fate of the tenth.

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  • @FKA Max
    Indeed, in some cases various SSRIs, including citalopram, have been found to increase premeditated aggression (Breggin 2003, 31). Again, this is something to be borne in mind when considering SSRIs as a moral enhancement intervention: what SSRIs stand to improve with respect to one kind of aggression, they may in fact worsen with respect to another (Wiseman, 2014, 27). - p. 106 The Myth of the Moral Brain: The Limits of Moral Enhancement by Harris Wiseman

    The studies I have read on this subject found that more serotonin (due to low-activity MAOA) in the brain predicts aggression in high but not in low provocation situations
     
    Here is another study on the role serotonin plays in (reactive/provoked) aggression, and it comes to the conclusion that it is not as cut-and-dried of a matter as many want it to be, particularly the pharmaceutical industry:

    An fMRI Study on the Role of Serotonin in Reactive Aggression

    Behavioral data showed an aggression diminishing effect of ATD in low trait-aggressive participants, whereas no ATD effect was detected in high trait-aggressive participants. ATD also led to reduced insula activity during the decision phase, independently of the level of provocation. Whereas previous reports have suggested an inverse relationship between serotonin level and aggressive behavior with low levels of serotonin leading to higher aggression and vice versa, such a simple relationship is inconsistent with the current data.
     
    - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3218006/


    School shootings. Muggings. Murder. Road rage. After decreasing for more than a decade, the rate of violent crime in the United States has begun to inch up again. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, violent crime rose 2.3 percent in 2005 and 1.9 percent in 2006, the first steady increase since 1993.

    Aggressive behavior can be divided into two types: proactive and reactive. Proactive aggressors plan how they're going to hurt and bully others. Reactive aggression, however, is not premeditated; it occurs in response to an upsetting trigger from the environment.
    [...]
    The brain chemical serotonin has long been known to play an important role in regulating anger and aggression. Low cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of serotonin have even been cited as both a marker and predictor of aggressive behavior.

    New studies from the Netherlands, however, indicate that this serotonin-deficiency hypothesis of aggressiveness may be too simple. "Serotonin deficiency appears to be related to pathological, violent forms of aggressiveness, but not to the normal aggressive behavior that animals and humans use to adapt to everyday survival," says Sietse de Boer, PhD, of the University of Groningen.
    [...]
    "Our findings support meta-analyses of serotonin activity in aggressive humans," says de Boer. "That data showed that serotonin deficiency is most readily detected in people who engage in impulsive and violent forms of aggressive behavior rather than in individuals with more functional forms of aggression."
     
    - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071106122309.htm

    Low cerebrospinal fluid 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid concentration differentiates impulsive from nonimpulsive violent behavior.

    Relationships of impulsive and nonimpulsive violent behavior to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamines and their metabolic concentrations were studied in thirty-six violent offenders. A relatively low 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA) concentration was found in the CSF of impulsive violent offenders. This was not true for the offenders who had premeditated their acts. Other CSF monoamine or metabolite concentrations were not significantly different between the two groups. Of the groups studied, impulsive violent offenders who had attempted suicide had the lowest 5HIAA levels. A low CSF 5HIAA concentration may be a marker of impulsivity rather than violence.
     
    - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6198573

    A relatively low 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA) concentration was found in the CSF of impulsive violent offenders. This was not true for the offenders who had premeditated their acts.

    This study seems to confirm that (higher serotonin level) offenders who premeditate their criminal acts and violence are more psychopathic, which seems to confirm my claim from my first comment in this comments thread that SSRIs produce more psychopathic societies: http://www.unz.com/article/opioids-and-the-crisis-of-the-white-working-class/#comment-2129422

    Comparison of impulsive and premeditated perpetrators of intimate partner violence.

    Violence occurs in four to five million intimate relationships each year in the United States. Past research has investigated the concept of batterer subtypes based on the nature of the violent behavior. To extend this research, the present study used the Impulsive/Premeditated Aggression Scale (IPAS) along with a battery of relevant self-report measures in a sample of men (N = 113) convicted of domestic violence and court ordered into an intervention program. Batterers whose violence was classified as premeditated scored higher on psychopathic traits and a measure of treatment rejection. Batterers whose violence was classified as impulsive in nature reported a wider range of serious psychopathology. It is suggested that the use of a bimodal classification (Impulsive/Premeditated) in batterers may have significant clinical and legal policy implications.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19039796

    Psychiatric Drugs Are More Dangerous than You Ever Imagined

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  • @FKA Max

    I do know that SSRIs increases serontin in the brain. That alleviates depression which less[e]ns volatility and irritability which are medical terms for aggressive bully looking for a fight.
     
    The studies I have read on this subject found that more serotonin (due to low-activity MAOA) in the brain predicts aggression in high but not in low provocation situations:

    Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation

    There is some evidence of a main effect for genotype and some evidence for a gene by environment interaction, such that MAOA is less associated with the occurrence of aggression in a low provocation condition, but significantly predicts such behavior in a high provocation situation.
     
    - http://www.pnas.org/content/106/7/2118.long

    In my opinion, SSRIs "supercharge" psychopathic personality traits:

    The Effects of Sertraline on Psychopathic Traits


    Consistent with our hypotheses, personality traits of psychopathy as measured by the PPI changed during 8 weeks of treatment with sertraline, but in opposing directions. Specifically, PPI-1, “Fearless Dominance” scores increased whereas PPI-2, “Self-centered Impulsivity” scores decreased. These findings bolster recent suggestions that psychopathy is not a unitary syndrome, but instead may reflect a configuration of at least two independent causal processes, namely fearless dominance (boldness) and disinhibition (Fowles DC, Dindo L, 2009; Patrick CJ et al., 2009). The changes in psychopathy scores were only weakly correlated with changes in depressive symptoms. Our findings suggest that, in addition to improving symptoms of depressive symptoms, SSRIs may enhance adaptive personality traits traditionally observed in psychopathic individuals, such as social charm and interpersonal and physical boldness. Conversely, psychopathic traits often considered maladaptive, such as dysregulated impulsivity and externalization of blame, were reduced by SSRI treatment.
     
    - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202964/

    However, analogous to drugs that numb our sensitivity to physical pain and therefore make us more vulnerable to injury, the SSRI’s may have hidden dangers. The use of Prozac and similar drugs may induce a subjective state that mimics that of a high-status individual. Being highly self-directed and fairly oblivious to other people may work well for a truly high ranking individual, but for a low ranking individual to feel and act this way may prove problematic if not disastrous. For example, the SSRI-using employee that begins to habitually ignore their boss and to modify their work activities according to their own whims may find themselves among the unemployed [and then retaliates for the perceived "injustice" by shooting up the office, that he or she thinks provoked/wronged him or her].
     
    - http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/TheBiochemistryofStatusandtheFunctionofMoodStates.htm

    Jordan Peterson: Serotonin, cortisol, your health, status, and what you can do about

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfl98_tQqDY

    Jordan Peterson: Darwin & lobsters

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1m87XsMgI

    Indeed, in some cases various SSRIs, including citalopram, have been found to increase premeditated aggression (Breggin 2003, 31). Again, this is something to be borne in mind when considering SSRIs as a moral enhancement intervention: what SSRIs stand to improve with respect to one kind of aggression, they may in fact worsen with respect to another (Wiseman, 2014, 27). – p. 106 The Myth of the Moral Brain: The Limits of Moral Enhancement by Harris Wiseman

    The studies I have read on this subject found that more serotonin (due to low-activity MAOA) in the brain predicts aggression in high but not in low provocation situations

    Here is another study on the role serotonin plays in (reactive/provoked) aggression, and it comes to the conclusion that it is not as cut-and-dried of a matter as many want it to be, particularly the pharmaceutical industry:

    An fMRI Study on the Role of Serotonin in Reactive Aggression

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    Behavioral data showed an aggression diminishing effect of ATD in low trait-aggressive participants, whereas no ATD effect was detected in high trait-aggressive participants. ATD also led to reduced insula activity during the decision phase, independently of the level of provocation. Whereas previous reports have suggested an inverse relationship between serotonin level and aggressive behavior with low levels of serotonin leading to higher aggression and vice versa, such a simple relationship is inconsistent with the current data.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3218006/


    School shootings. Muggings. Murder. Road rage. After decreasing for more than a decade, the rate of violent crime in the United States has begun to inch up again. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, violent crime rose 2.3 percent in 2005 and 1.9 percent in 2006, the first steady increase since 1993.

    Aggressive behavior can be divided into two types: proactive and reactive. Proactive aggressors plan how they’re going to hurt and bully others. Reactive aggression, however, is not premeditated; it occurs in response to an upsetting trigger from the environment.
    [...]
    The brain chemical serotonin has long been known to play an important role in regulating anger and aggression. Low cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of serotonin have even been cited as both a marker and predictor of aggressive behavior.

    New studies from the Netherlands, however, indicate that this serotonin-deficiency hypothesis of aggressiveness may be too simple. “Serotonin deficiency appears to be related to pathological, violent forms of aggressiveness, but not to the normal aggressive behavior that animals and humans use to adapt to everyday survival,” says Sietse de Boer, PhD, of the University of Groningen.
    [...]
    “Our findings support meta-analyses of serotonin activity in aggressive humans,” says de Boer. “That data showed that serotonin deficiency is most readily detected in people who engage in impulsive and violent forms of aggressive behavior rather than in individuals with more functional forms of aggression.

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071106122309.htm

    Low cerebrospinal fluid 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid concentration differentiates impulsive from nonimpulsive violent behavior.

    Relationships of impulsive and nonimpulsive violent behavior to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamines and their metabolic concentrations were studied in thirty-six violent offenders. A relatively low 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA) concentration was found in the CSF of impulsive violent offenders. This was not true for the offenders who had premeditated their acts. Other CSF monoamine or metabolite concentrations were not significantly different between the two groups. Of the groups studied, impulsive violent offenders who had attempted suicide had the lowest 5HIAA levels. A low CSF 5HIAA concentration may be a marker of impulsivity rather than violence.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6198573

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    A relatively low 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA) concentration was found in the CSF of impulsive violent offenders. This was not true for the offenders who had premeditated their acts.
     
    This study seems to confirm that (higher serotonin level) offenders who premeditate their criminal acts and violence are more psychopathic, which seems to confirm my claim from my first comment in this comments thread that SSRIs produce more psychopathic societies: http://www.unz.com/article/opioids-and-the-crisis-of-the-white-working-class/#comment-2129422

    Comparison of impulsive and premeditated perpetrators of intimate partner violence.


    Violence occurs in four to five million intimate relationships each year in the United States. Past research has investigated the concept of batterer subtypes based on the nature of the violent behavior. To extend this research, the present study used the Impulsive/Premeditated Aggression Scale (IPAS) along with a battery of relevant self-report measures in a sample of men (N = 113) convicted of domestic violence and court ordered into an intervention program. Batterers whose violence was classified as premeditated scored higher on psychopathic traits and a measure of treatment rejection. Batterers whose violence was classified as impulsive in nature reported a wider range of serious psychopathology. It is suggested that the use of a bimodal classification (Impulsive/Premeditated) in batterers may have significant clinical and legal policy implications.
     
    - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19039796

    Psychiatric Drugs Are More Dangerous than You Ever Imagined

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  • @Stan d Mute

    What does opioid dependency really mean? A patient in severe pain, such as with terminal cancer stops taking the pain killer and the pain comes back.
     
    I’m not sure the term is defined and suspect that’s deliberate. But in addition to the resumption of pain, and often worse than the original in case of chronic sufferers, is the incredible sickness. It’s nearly indescribable what happens to your body and brain when cut off from long term opiate treatment. I’ve undergone brutal chemotherapy (so brutal it’s only given to young adults or stage IV kids/seniors) and cold-turkey unassisted detox after two decades of opiate treatment at a dose that would kill 99.9% of humans. The detox was MUCH worse.

    Pro tip for anyone who gets cut off due to this zeitgeist: Kratom. Lots of kratom. Stock up before the feds criminalize it. Some say it helps with pain too, but I don’t get that effect.

    Pro tip for anyone who gets cut off due to this zeitgeist: Kratom. Lots of kratom.

    If you don’t mind: in what form did you take kratom and how much? Apart from kratom, did you have serious physical withdrawal symptoms?

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    I’ve used red vein kratom in powder with a dump & wash ingestion. About one heaping tablespoon per dose and 3-4x/day. It tastes like ass. Then again, so does tea and they’re pretty similar. Diet Coke extinguishes the taste and grapefruit potentiates the effects.

    Understand that kratom is NOT an opiate (nor yet illegal). It appears to have some alkaloids that interfere with the brain’s opioid receptors however and thereby mitigates the severity of detox. But the detox is still happening. Where without kratom you may not sleep (at all) for seven to ten days, with kratom you may sleep two to four hours every night.
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  • @Alden
    What does opioid dependency really mean? A patient in severe pain, such as with terminal cancer stops taking the pain killer and the pain comes back.

    So the patient needs his or her next dose to block the nerve impulses to the brain.
    I guess that’s the liberal media definition of addiction.

    I wonder if insulin is next on the liberals list of necessary meds to be banned because it’s addictive.

    What does opioid dependency really mean? A patient in severe pain, such as with terminal cancer stops taking the pain killer and the pain comes back.

    I’m not sure the term is defined and suspect that’s deliberate. But in addition to the resumption of pain, and often worse than the original in case of chronic sufferers, is the incredible sickness. It’s nearly indescribable what happens to your body and brain when cut off from long term opiate treatment. I’ve undergone brutal chemotherapy (so brutal it’s only given to young adults or stage IV kids/seniors) and cold-turkey unassisted detox after two decades of opiate treatment at a dose that would kill 99.9% of humans. The detox was MUCH worse.

    Pro tip for anyone who gets cut off due to this zeitgeist: Kratom. Lots of kratom. Stock up before the feds criminalize it. Some say it helps with pain too, but I don’t get that effect.

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    Pro tip for anyone who gets cut off due to this zeitgeist: Kratom. Lots of kratom.
     
    If you don't mind: in what form did you take kratom and how much? Apart from kratom, did you have serious physical withdrawal symptoms?
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  • @Alden
    Exaggerating opioid deaths resulted in

    1 there is a problem of Whites dying from opioids.

    2 we must find a solution

    3 restrict Whites from getting opioids is the solution.

    Ok but then what. The liberals are always ranting about old Whites in nursing homes. The medical insurance companies have been advocating “death with dignity” or assisted suicide for decades.

    Hmmmmm

    1 don’t give pain meds to old people in pain from cancer etc.

    2 give severe pain sufferers the option of assisted suicide.

    3 those old White people in nursing g homes will opt for assisted suicide and Noel Ignatiev, Reuben Navarro and the rest of the exterminate Whites crowd will have their wish fulfilled.

    1 don’t give pain meds to old people in pain from cancer etc.

    2 give severe pain sufferers the option of assisted suicide.

    3 those old White people in nursing g homes will opt for assisted suicide and Noel Ignatiev, Reuben Navarro and the rest of the exterminate Whites crowd will have their wish fulfilled.

    It’s not just geezers in nursing homes. It’s anyone with chronic debilitating pain.

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  • @Krastos the Gluemaker
    The NYT did not undertake a study and did not examine 60 million death certificates; they effectively lied about how they queried results on a website for data entirely collated by others. I would give the author more benefit of the doubt but this pernicious myth has spread so rapidly that the original source can't be said to be blameless

    The amount of ignorance on this subject is shocking.

    I see comments that “fentanyl is ten times stronger than heroin” and other nonsense when I fail to see a single reference to carfentanil.

    The addictiveness of opiates has been well understood for over a century (longer if you include the opium itself). It’s also known that NOTHING else works for severe pain. Military combat medics carry morphine, not ibuprofen.

    The physical dependence that comes from long term opiate use is very very real. Withdrawal is worse than chemotherapy (I’ve experienced both). And if you have chronic severe pain, add that ON TOP of your paralyzing sickness.

    So, the original piece is pretty good but glosses over the fact that there are millions who need opiates to have any quality of life whatsoever and glosses the fact that millions go on and then off doctor prescribed opiates with little trouble. Lazy doctors let prescriptions go too long and did too little to help patients through detox.

    But most importantly, our unsecured southern border allows limitless supply of cheap Mexican heroin and we will never stop drugs like carfentanil and “research chemicals” like U-47700 and W-15. These are here to stay and will require us to adjust as we have with alcohol.

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  • @Alden
    SSRIs DECREASE what the medical texts call volatility and irritability.

    By volatility and irritability they mean a nasty grouch always ready to start a fight. They used to be called mean drunks.

    So by decreasing the irritability factor the mean old grouch stops picking fights, bullying and generally being a nasty bully always looking to start trouble.

    When I was a probation officer we saw a study done about murder victims who died because of fighting, not robberies or domestic violence.

    The study discovered that these murder victims generally spent the hours before their deaths being aggressive bullies and starting fights. A lot of them went from bar to bar trying to start fights until they finally met their match.

    I don’t know how reliable that study was.

    I do know that SSRIs increases serontin in the brain. That alleviates depression which lessons volatility and irritability which are medical terms for aggressive bully looking for a fight.

    SSRIs stop fighting, not cause it.

    So SSRIs cucked America?

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  • @Wally
    I wonder what Jews thought about their own Lenny Bruce and his addiction?

    Or Lou Reed? (Louis Rabinowitz)

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  • @FKA Max
    Here they studied how an SSRI (citalopram) affected moral judgement:

    Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion

    A citalopram-induced harm-avoidant bias was also evident in behavior during the UG. Complementing our previous finding that serotonin depletion increased rejection of unfair offers in the UG (16 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/320/5884/1739.full ), we found that citalopram affected UG behavior in the opposite direction, reducing rejection of unfair offers. The nature of the motivation underlying punitive rejection behavior in the UG is ambiguous. Rejecting unfair offers is simultaneously prosocial at the group level, because it enforces fairness norms (50 http://www.brainstimulation.columbia.edu/doc/journal_club/papers/knoch-ann-NYAS-2007.pdf ), but antisocial at the individual level, because it harms the proposer (22 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19580555 ). The present findings imply that serotonin promotes prosocial behavior at the individual level ( but anti-social behavior at the group level; blogger hbd chick calls this behavior "clannishness" https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/clannishness-defined/ );
    [...]
    The fact that the prosocial effects of citalopram were stronger in more highly empathic individuals also has consequences for the pharmacological treatment of aggressive and antisocial behavior. Serotonin has been implicated in a wide range of psychiatric disorders with antisocial and aggressive symptoms, including intermittent explosive disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and psychopathy (59–61), and these disorders are often treated with SSRIs such as citalopram (62). Our findings suggest that trait empathy measures could predict whether patients are likely to respond to SSRI treatment and imply that such treatments are less likely to succeed in psychopaths and patients with vmPFC damage, both of whom show a marked lack of empathy (63).
    [...]
    This study demonstrates that altering central serotonin function in healthy volunteers has selective causal effects on moral judgment and social behavior. Blocking serotonin reuptake with citalopram influenced moral judgment in emotionally salient personal scenarios, making subjects less likely to endorse harming one person to save many others, and also made subjects less likely to harm others via punishment in an economic game, effects that were stronger in highly empathic individuals. This pattern of results implies that serotonin promotes prosocial behavior by enhancing the aversiveness of harming others, an effect that drives both moral judgment and behavior.

     
    - http://www.pnas.org/content/107/40/17433.full

    The takeaway from this study seems to be that higher brain serotonin levels (either through carrying low-activity MAOA, 5-HTTLPR-s (short) and/or taking SSRIs) make one less utilitarian. I personally feel that being more utilitarian indicates a more advance level of moral judgment and long-term planning/thinking.

    A Utilitarian Defense of Free Speech on College Campuses

    https://theantiochvoice.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/a-utilitarian-defense-of-free-speech-on-college-campuses/

    Serotonin transporter genotype (5-HTTLPR) predicts utilitarian moral judgments.


    Results showed that, relative to long allele homozygotes (LL), carriers of the short (S) allele showed particular reluctance to endorse utilitarian actions resulting in foreseen harm to an innocent individual. LL genotype participants rated perpetrating unintentional harm as more acceptable (M = 4.98, SEM = 0.20) than did SL genotype participants (M = 4.65, SEM = 0.20) or SS genotype participants (M = 4.29, SEM = 0.30).
    [...]
    These results may aid in understanding why people disagree about the acceptability of causing foreseen harm to meet utilitarian goals.
     
    - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025148

    Norman Finkelstein: On J S Mill's "On Liberty"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt3WmzLM5G0

    Sean Gabb on Freedom of Speech (2006)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVLXmwA6280

    Typo: … being more utilitarian indicates a more *advanced* level of moral judgment

    Great article:

    Can pills change our morals?

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    We found that the SSRI influenced people’s moral judgments. On placebo, subjects were less likely to endorse personal harms, relative to impersonal ones, just as other studies have shown. When we enhanced serotonin function with an SSRI, this difference became even more pronounced: the SSRI made people significantly less likely to say it is morally acceptable to kill one person to save many others, especially in those emotionally salient personal scenarios. In other words, the drug made people less utilitarian.2

    Pause for a moment and consider that the debate between utilitarians and deontologists has been raging for hundreds of years. Yet we were able to shift people’s judgments, from more utilitarian to more deontological, by manipulating their brain chemistry. Could the difference between Hume and Kant boil down to a few chemicals in their brains? And what implications might this have for other ethical questions?

    https://thinkneuroscience.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/can-pills-change-our-morals/ Archived version: http://archive.is/LGNhw

    More confirmation, in my opinion, that SSRIs are probably not contributing to the betterment of humanity and the human condition, because they cause and lead to dogmatism and moral absolutism:

    Moral Absolutism: The Detriments of Deontology

    All deontological ethics eventually lead back to a rule. In the case of some religious ethics, for example, homosexuality is considered immoral. The reason for this is not anything specific about homosexuality that is bad for society, it rests simply on the notion that, in various religious texts, there is a rule against it. Some authoritarian governments and philosophies have historically been rather deontological–some Marxists attempt to evaluate right and wrong based on adherence to Karl Marx’s writings. In fascism and racism, the ethic is often deontological in nature. An example would be the logical formulation of the fascist notion that Jews should be exterminated:

    – Jews are bad
    – Why are Jews bad?
    – Because book X, leader Y, or law Z says so

    https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2012/08/27/moral-absolutism-the-detriments-of-deontology/ Archived version: http://archive.is/cNZzy

    Finally, to test the creative abilities of the presenters I confronted two of them and demanded they tell me what was the most creative idea humankind had ever come up with.
    [...]
    What is your candidate idea?

    My candidates, after about 2 minutes of thinking about it, would be “Freedom of Speech and Thought” and Utilitarianism, in that order.

    https://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-secret-in-your-eyes/#comment-1817667

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  • @epebble
    Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States

    https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htm

    Compared to tobacco, opioids are a much smaller problem; horrible though they are.

    Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010. Further, excessive drinking was responsible for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20-64 years.

    https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

    Abuse of alcohol is much more of a tragedy than the number of deaths that result. The real tragedy is the terrible impact it has on the families of the alcoholics. Of the physical abuse that results. Of the money spent on alcohol that is so much more badly needed for food and shelter. Of the victims of drunken drivers. And on and on. Deaths from tobacco use or opoids cannot compare with alcohol in terms of the negative impact on society. .

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  • @FKA Max

    I do know that SSRIs increases serontin in the brain. That alleviates depression which less[e]ns volatility and irritability which are medical terms for aggressive bully looking for a fight.
     
    The studies I have read on this subject found that more serotonin (due to low-activity MAOA) in the brain predicts aggression in high but not in low provocation situations:

    Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation

    There is some evidence of a main effect for genotype and some evidence for a gene by environment interaction, such that MAOA is less associated with the occurrence of aggression in a low provocation condition, but significantly predicts such behavior in a high provocation situation.
     
    - http://www.pnas.org/content/106/7/2118.long

    In my opinion, SSRIs "supercharge" psychopathic personality traits:

    The Effects of Sertraline on Psychopathic Traits


    Consistent with our hypotheses, personality traits of psychopathy as measured by the PPI changed during 8 weeks of treatment with sertraline, but in opposing directions. Specifically, PPI-1, “Fearless Dominance” scores increased whereas PPI-2, “Self-centered Impulsivity” scores decreased. These findings bolster recent suggestions that psychopathy is not a unitary syndrome, but instead may reflect a configuration of at least two independent causal processes, namely fearless dominance (boldness) and disinhibition (Fowles DC, Dindo L, 2009; Patrick CJ et al., 2009). The changes in psychopathy scores were only weakly correlated with changes in depressive symptoms. Our findings suggest that, in addition to improving symptoms of depressive symptoms, SSRIs may enhance adaptive personality traits traditionally observed in psychopathic individuals, such as social charm and interpersonal and physical boldness. Conversely, psychopathic traits often considered maladaptive, such as dysregulated impulsivity and externalization of blame, were reduced by SSRI treatment.
     
    - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202964/

    However, analogous to drugs that numb our sensitivity to physical pain and therefore make us more vulnerable to injury, the SSRI’s may have hidden dangers. The use of Prozac and similar drugs may induce a subjective state that mimics that of a high-status individual. Being highly self-directed and fairly oblivious to other people may work well for a truly high ranking individual, but for a low ranking individual to feel and act this way may prove problematic if not disastrous. For example, the SSRI-using employee that begins to habitually ignore their boss and to modify their work activities according to their own whims may find themselves among the unemployed [and then retaliates for the perceived "injustice" by shooting up the office, that he or she thinks provoked/wronged him or her].
     
    - http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/TheBiochemistryofStatusandtheFunctionofMoodStates.htm

    Jordan Peterson: Serotonin, cortisol, your health, status, and what you can do about

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfl98_tQqDY

    Jordan Peterson: Darwin & lobsters

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1m87XsMgI

    Here they studied how an SSRI (citalopram) affected moral judgement:

    Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion

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    A citalopram-induced harm-avoidant bias was also evident in behavior during the UG. Complementing our previous finding that serotonin depletion increased rejection of unfair offers in the UG (16 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/320/5884/1739.full ), we found that citalopram affected UG behavior in the opposite direction, reducing rejection of unfair offers. The nature of the motivation underlying punitive rejection behavior in the UG is ambiguous. Rejecting unfair offers is simultaneously prosocial at the group level, because it enforces fairness norms (50 http://www.brainstimulation.columbia.edu/doc/journal_club/papers/knoch-ann-NYAS-2007.pdf ), but antisocial at the individual level, because it harms the proposer (22 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19580555 ). The present findings imply that serotonin promotes prosocial behavior at the individual level ( but anti-social behavior at the group level; blogger hbd chick calls this behavior “clannishness” https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/clannishness-defined/ );
    [...]
    The fact that the prosocial effects of citalopram were stronger in more highly empathic individuals also has consequences for the pharmacological treatment of aggressive and antisocial behavior. Serotonin has been implicated in a wide range of psychiatric disorders with antisocial and aggressive symptoms, including intermittent explosive disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and psychopathy (59–61), and these disorders are often treated with SSRIs such as citalopram (62). Our findings suggest that trait empathy measures could predict whether patients are likely to respond to SSRI treatment and imply that such treatments are less likely to succeed in psychopaths and patients with vmPFC damage, both of whom show a marked lack of empathy (63).
    [...]
    This study demonstrates that altering central serotonin function in healthy volunteers has selective causal effects on moral judgment and social behavior. Blocking serotonin reuptake with citalopram influenced moral judgment in emotionally salient personal scenarios, making subjects less likely to endorse harming one person to save many others, and also made subjects less likely to harm others via punishment in an economic game, effects that were stronger in highly empathic individuals. This pattern of results implies that serotonin promotes prosocial behavior by enhancing the aversiveness of harming others, an effect that drives both moral judgment and behavior.

    http://www.pnas.org/content/107/40/17433.full

    The takeaway from this study seems to be that higher brain serotonin levels (either through carrying low-activity MAOA, 5-HTTLPR-s (short) and/or taking SSRIs) make one less utilitarian. I personally feel that being more utilitarian indicates a more advance level of moral judgment and long-term planning/thinking.

    A Utilitarian Defense of Free Speech on College Campuses

    https://theantiochvoice.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/a-utilitarian-defense-of-free-speech-on-college-campuses/

    Serotonin transporter genotype (5-HTTLPR) predicts utilitarian moral judgments.

    Results showed that, relative to long allele homozygotes (LL), carriers of the short (S) allele showed particular reluctance to endorse utilitarian actions resulting in foreseen harm to an innocent individual. LL genotype participants rated perpetrating unintentional harm as more acceptable (M = 4.98, SEM = 0.20) than did SL genotype participants (M = 4.65, SEM = 0.20) or SS genotype participants (M = 4.29, SEM = 0.30).
    [...]
    These results may aid in understanding why people disagree about the acceptability of causing foreseen harm to meet utilitarian goals.

    http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025148

    Norman Finkelstein: On J S Mill’s “On Liberty”

    Sean Gabb on Freedom of Speech (2006)

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    Typo: ... being more utilitarian indicates a more *advanced* level of moral judgment ...

    Great article:

    Can pills change our morals?

    We found that the SSRI influenced people’s moral judgments. On placebo, subjects were less likely to endorse personal harms, relative to impersonal ones, just as other studies have shown. When we enhanced serotonin function with an SSRI, this difference became even more pronounced: the SSRI made people significantly less likely to say it is morally acceptable to kill one person to save many others, especially in those emotionally salient personal scenarios. In other words, the drug made people less utilitarian.2

    Pause for a moment and consider that the debate between utilitarians and deontologists has been raging for hundreds of years. Yet we were able to shift people’s judgments, from more utilitarian to more deontological, by manipulating their brain chemistry. Could the difference between Hume and Kant boil down to a few chemicals in their brains? And what implications might this have for other ethical questions?
     
    - https://thinkneuroscience.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/can-pills-change-our-morals/ Archived version: http://archive.is/LGNhw

    More confirmation, in my opinion, that SSRIs are probably not contributing to the betterment of humanity and the human condition, because they cause and lead to dogmatism and moral absolutism:

    Moral Absolutism: The Detriments of Deontology

    All deontological ethics eventually lead back to a rule. In the case of some religious ethics, for example, homosexuality is considered immoral. The reason for this is not anything specific about homosexuality that is bad for society, it rests simply on the notion that, in various religious texts, there is a rule against it. Some authoritarian governments and philosophies have historically been rather deontological–some Marxists attempt to evaluate right and wrong based on adherence to Karl Marx’s writings. In fascism and racism, the ethic is often deontological in nature. An example would be the logical formulation of the fascist notion that Jews should be exterminated:

    - Jews are bad
    - Why are Jews bad?
    - Because book X, leader Y, or law Z says so
     
    - https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2012/08/27/moral-absolutism-the-detriments-of-deontology/ Archived version: http://archive.is/cNZzy

    Finally, to test the creative abilities of the presenters I confronted two of them and demanded they tell me what was the most creative idea humankind had ever come up with.
    [...]
    What is your candidate idea?

    My candidates, after about 2 minutes of thinking about it, would be “Freedom of Speech and Thought” and Utilitarianism, in that order.
     
    - https://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-secret-in-your-eyes/#comment-1817667
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  • @Anon
    I swear , how old are some of you dorks ,70, 80 you guys are so out of touch . Lenny Bruce was a d list , drug addict comedian who died over 50 years ago. He was an embarrassment to Jews. No Jews revere him , most Jews would have no idea who he was .

    I seriously bet most of you guys still get WN news letters delivered by the mail man . Wake up White man !!!!!

    You must be used to talking with idiots (insert “yeah, like you, here on unz.com” etc). Rolling Stone Mag (coincidentally founded by a jew and one of the most influential pop culture outlets of the past 50 years) has Bruce at #3 on its list of greatest comedians of all time after Pryor and Carlin. In any case, I’ve heard innumerable Jewish comedian/performers–from Woody Allen to Howard Stern to Joan Rivers to Louis CK–express admiration for Bruce. P.S. I’m not a white nationalist. In fact my non-white wife and I are about to get ready to go get a 3D/4D ultrasound of our biracial baby.

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  • @Alden
    SSRIs DECREASE what the medical texts call volatility and irritability.

    By volatility and irritability they mean a nasty grouch always ready to start a fight. They used to be called mean drunks.

    So by decreasing the irritability factor the mean old grouch stops picking fights, bullying and generally being a nasty bully always looking to start trouble.

    When I was a probation officer we saw a study done about murder victims who died because of fighting, not robberies or domestic violence.

    The study discovered that these murder victims generally spent the hours before their deaths being aggressive bullies and starting fights. A lot of them went from bar to bar trying to start fights until they finally met their match.

    I don’t know how reliable that study was.

    I do know that SSRIs increases serontin in the brain. That alleviates depression which lessons volatility and irritability which are medical terms for aggressive bully looking for a fight.

    SSRIs stop fighting, not cause it.

    I do know that SSRIs increases serontin in the brain. That alleviates depression which less[e]ns volatility and irritability which are medical terms for aggressive bully looking for a fight.

    The studies I have read on this subject found that more serotonin (due to low-activity MAOA) in the brain predicts aggression in high but not in low provocation situations:

    Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation

    There is some evidence of a main effect for genotype and some evidence for a gene by environment interaction, such that MAOA is less associated with the occurrence of aggression in a low provocation condition, but significantly predicts such behavior in a high provocation situation.

    http://www.pnas.org/content/106/7/2118.long

    In my opinion, SSRIs “supercharge” psychopathic personality traits:

    The Effects of Sertraline on Psychopathic Traits

    Consistent with our hypotheses, personality traits of psychopathy as measured by the PPI changed during 8 weeks of treatment with sertraline, but in opposing directions. Specifically, PPI-1, “Fearless Dominance” scores increased whereas PPI-2, “Self-centered Impulsivity” scores decreased. These findings bolster recent suggestions that psychopathy is not a unitary syndrome, but instead may reflect a configuration of at least two independent causal processes, namely fearless dominance (boldness) and disinhibition (Fowles DC, Dindo L, 2009; Patrick CJ et al., 2009). The changes in psychopathy scores were only weakly correlated with changes in depressive symptoms. Our findings suggest that, in addition to improving symptoms of depressive symptoms, SSRIs may enhance adaptive personality traits traditionally observed in psychopathic individuals, such as social charm and interpersonal and physical boldness. Conversely, psychopathic traits often considered maladaptive, such as dysregulated impulsivity and externalization of blame, were reduced by SSRI treatment.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202964/

    However, analogous to drugs that numb our sensitivity to physical pain and therefore make us more vulnerable to injury, the SSRI’s may have hidden dangers. The use of Prozac and similar drugs may induce a subjective state that mimics that of a high-status individual. Being highly self-directed and fairly oblivious to other people may work well for a truly high ranking individual, but for a low ranking individual to feel and act this way may prove problematic if not disastrous. For example, the SSRI-using employee that begins to habitually ignore their boss and to modify their work activities according to their own whims may find themselves among the unemployed [and then retaliates for the perceived "injustice" by shooting up the office, that he or she thinks provoked/wronged him or her].

    http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/TheBiochemistryofStatusandtheFunctionofMoodStates.htm

    Jordan Peterson: Serotonin, cortisol, your health, status, and what you can do about

    Jordan Peterson: Darwin & lobsters

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    Here they studied how an SSRI (citalopram) affected moral judgement:

    Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion

    A citalopram-induced harm-avoidant bias was also evident in behavior during the UG. Complementing our previous finding that serotonin depletion increased rejection of unfair offers in the UG (16 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/320/5884/1739.full ), we found that citalopram affected UG behavior in the opposite direction, reducing rejection of unfair offers. The nature of the motivation underlying punitive rejection behavior in the UG is ambiguous. Rejecting unfair offers is simultaneously prosocial at the group level, because it enforces fairness norms (50 http://www.brainstimulation.columbia.edu/doc/journal_club/papers/knoch-ann-NYAS-2007.pdf ), but antisocial at the individual level, because it harms the proposer (22 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19580555 ). The present findings imply that serotonin promotes prosocial behavior at the individual level ( but anti-social behavior at the group level; blogger hbd chick calls this behavior "clannishness" https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/clannishness-defined/ );
    [...]
    The fact that the prosocial effects of citalopram were stronger in more highly empathic individuals also has consequences for the pharmacological treatment of aggressive and antisocial behavior. Serotonin has been implicated in a wide range of psychiatric disorders with antisocial and aggressive symptoms, including intermittent explosive disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and psychopathy (59–61), and these disorders are often treated with SSRIs such as citalopram (62). Our findings suggest that trait empathy measures could predict whether patients are likely to respond to SSRI treatment and imply that such treatments are less likely to succeed in psychopaths and patients with vmPFC damage, both of whom show a marked lack of empathy (63).
    [...]
    This study demonstrates that altering central serotonin function in healthy volunteers has selective causal effects on moral judgment and social behavior. Blocking serotonin reuptake with citalopram influenced moral judgment in emotionally salient personal scenarios, making subjects less likely to endorse harming one person to save many others, and also made subjects less likely to harm others via punishment in an economic game, effects that were stronger in highly empathic individuals. This pattern of results implies that serotonin promotes prosocial behavior by enhancing the aversiveness of harming others, an effect that drives both moral judgment and behavior.

     
    - http://www.pnas.org/content/107/40/17433.full

    The takeaway from this study seems to be that higher brain serotonin levels (either through carrying low-activity MAOA, 5-HTTLPR-s (short) and/or taking SSRIs) make one less utilitarian. I personally feel that being more utilitarian indicates a more advance level of moral judgment and long-term planning/thinking.

    A Utilitarian Defense of Free Speech on College Campuses

    https://theantiochvoice.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/a-utilitarian-defense-of-free-speech-on-college-campuses/

    Serotonin transporter genotype (5-HTTLPR) predicts utilitarian moral judgments.


    Results showed that, relative to long allele homozygotes (LL), carriers of the short (S) allele showed particular reluctance to endorse utilitarian actions resulting in foreseen harm to an innocent individual. LL genotype participants rated perpetrating unintentional harm as more acceptable (M = 4.98, SEM = 0.20) than did SL genotype participants (M = 4.65, SEM = 0.20) or SS genotype participants (M = 4.29, SEM = 0.30).
    [...]
    These results may aid in understanding why people disagree about the acceptability of causing foreseen harm to meet utilitarian goals.
     
    - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025148

    Norman Finkelstein: On J S Mill's "On Liberty"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt3WmzLM5G0

    Sean Gabb on Freedom of Speech (2006)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVLXmwA6280
    , @FKA Max
    Indeed, in some cases various SSRIs, including citalopram, have been found to increase premeditated aggression (Breggin 2003, 31). Again, this is something to be borne in mind when considering SSRIs as a moral enhancement intervention: what SSRIs stand to improve with respect to one kind of aggression, they may in fact worsen with respect to another (Wiseman, 2014, 27). - p. 106 The Myth of the Moral Brain: The Limits of Moral Enhancement by Harris Wiseman

    The studies I have read on this subject found that more serotonin (due to low-activity MAOA) in the brain predicts aggression in high but not in low provocation situations
     
    Here is another study on the role serotonin plays in (reactive/provoked) aggression, and it comes to the conclusion that it is not as cut-and-dried of a matter as many want it to be, particularly the pharmaceutical industry:

    An fMRI Study on the Role of Serotonin in Reactive Aggression

    Behavioral data showed an aggression diminishing effect of ATD in low trait-aggressive participants, whereas no ATD effect was detected in high trait-aggressive participants. ATD also led to reduced insula activity during the decision phase, independently of the level of provocation. Whereas previous reports have suggested an inverse relationship between serotonin level and aggressive behavior with low levels of serotonin leading to higher aggression and vice versa, such a simple relationship is inconsistent with the current data.
     
    - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3218006/


    School shootings. Muggings. Murder. Road rage. After decreasing for more than a decade, the rate of violent crime in the United States has begun to inch up again. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, violent crime rose 2.3 percent in 2005 and 1.9 percent in 2006, the first steady increase since 1993.

    Aggressive behavior can be divided into two types: proactive and reactive. Proactive aggressors plan how they're going to hurt and bully others. Reactive aggression, however, is not premeditated; it occurs in response to an upsetting trigger from the environment.
    [...]
    The brain chemical serotonin has long been known to play an important role in regulating anger and aggression. Low cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of serotonin have even been cited as both a marker and predictor of aggressive behavior.

    New studies from the Netherlands, however, indicate that this serotonin-deficiency hypothesis of aggressiveness may be too simple. "Serotonin deficiency appears to be related to pathological, violent forms of aggressiveness, but not to the normal aggressive behavior that animals and humans use to adapt to everyday survival," says Sietse de Boer, PhD, of the University of Groningen.
    [...]
    "Our findings support meta-analyses of serotonin activity in aggressive humans," says de Boer. "That data showed that serotonin deficiency is most readily detected in people who engage in impulsive and violent forms of aggressive behavior rather than in individuals with more functional forms of aggression."
     
    - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071106122309.htm

    Low cerebrospinal fluid 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid concentration differentiates impulsive from nonimpulsive violent behavior.

    Relationships of impulsive and nonimpulsive violent behavior to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamines and their metabolic concentrations were studied in thirty-six violent offenders. A relatively low 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA) concentration was found in the CSF of impulsive violent offenders. This was not true for the offenders who had premeditated their acts. Other CSF monoamine or metabolite concentrations were not significantly different between the two groups. Of the groups studied, impulsive violent offenders who had attempted suicide had the lowest 5HIAA levels. A low CSF 5HIAA concentration may be a marker of impulsivity rather than violence.
     
    - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6198573
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  • Abby Martin on her show “Empire Files” recently interviewed a lawyer acting for four Ohio counties who are suing the manufacturers and distributors of Oxycontin. The lawyer made the point that white communities were targetted. A pity that Abby didn’t react but this fact may have caused her a little bit of cognitive dissonance.

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  • @Anonymous

    So far only 2 people who have actually experienced serious pain and taken any kind of pain killers have commented. Haven’t seen any posts by medical people who see patients suffering from pain.
     
    I can comment both semi-professionally and as a patient who has had a misfortune to have numerous acute surgeries and a chronic pain condition.

    The current panic is getting dangerously close to throwing the baby out with the bath water. Opioids are godsend! So far, we have more or less nothing that treats serious pain. Opioids are not going anywhere as far as acute pain goes - there is no substitute. Alas, there is already a trend to severely withdraw their use for chronic pain. Which, as applied to the hospice care, basically means increasing suffering in people who already suffer and may well wish that they died instead. If the anti-opioid movement gets more traction, we'll end up with a lot more people suffering needlessly. Think terrible toothaches over weekend, doctors not believing you that NSAIDs do nothing to your terrible arthritis pain while you are waiting for an operation, etc. You might be healthy now but you will get chronic pain at some point - and no, the pot does not work and no, there are no safe ways of treating debilitating pain.

    That said, of course opioids were massively over-prescribed (10 days supply "just in case" after a minor surgery was not uncommon). I don't know about Jewish conspiracy and stuff like that but someone did drop the ball - the scale of the problem was genuinely not widely known, and the feedback to the prescribing doctors in cases that did result in dependencies was almost nonexistent.

    There is very obviously a strong genetic component to opioid addiction. It's very likely to be less complex that IQ. Hopefully studies with N>100,000 are forthcoming. That ought to be part of the solution. Another is removing the stigma and societal punishment for reporting dependence. A lot of overdoses are simply due to the fact that doctors are unaware of the patients' history of opioid exposure. And the thing with opioids is just that: the longer you use, the easier it is to overdose.

    Pain is a warning that your body is damaged in some way. It’s not good to ignore such warnings.

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  • @Alden
    Fascinating!! Cynic that I am I always assumed Falun Gong was a subservient group backed by some outside force.

    I assumed the backer was Japan, the USA or one of the major Christian churches

    When I’m home I read the Jewish publications. Every article about China, Chinese Americans or Chinese carries the subtext of America is dead. It’s time to move onto our next victim.

    Some of the publications totally applaud the Chinese woman Jewish guy marriage thing. They’ve discovered the ancient Persian Jew traders in China. Of course it’s people of color non Christian, non blue eyes unite against the White goyim.

    I noticed those “Jews have more in common with Chinese than White Americans “ theme 20 years ago.

    I assumed the backer was Japan, the USA or one of the major Christian churches

    Yeah Jp is always in cahoot with its murkkan master,
    Dont forget another sepoy country, India either !

    http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/india-to-celebrate-falun-gong/article19260879.ece

    You’r right that FKAMAX is only good for ‘copy n paste’,
    While the kid yaps about Chinese/Jew romance, [sic]
    Its the Indians who are elevated right up there with the Wasp/Jew ruling class !

    Exhibit A

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  • @Alden
    Fascinating!! Cynic that I am I always assumed Falun Gong was a subservient group backed by some outside force.

    I assumed the backer was Japan, the USA or one of the major Christian churches

    When I’m home I read the Jewish publications. Every article about China, Chinese Americans or Chinese carries the subtext of America is dead. It’s time to move onto our next victim.

    Some of the publications totally applaud the Chinese woman Jewish guy marriage thing. They’ve discovered the ancient Persian Jew traders in China. Of course it’s people of color non Christian, non blue eyes unite against the White goyim.

    I noticed those “Jews have more in common with Chinese than White Americans “ theme 20 years ago.

    I typed subversive but spell check changed it to subservient.

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  • @FKA Max
    Thank you very much, Professor MacDonald!

    I have been commenting on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), and there is a link between these medications and mass shootings:

    Speaking of pharmaceutical companies. I just posted a comment on another potential contributor to this negative trend mentioned in this article on one of Mr. Thompson’s other articles. Maybe “Big Pharma” is causing the rot?
     
    – http://www.unz.com/jthompson/does-the-rot-start-at-the-top/#comment-2125687

    These serotonin level-increasing ( SSRI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor ) antidepressants produce “warrior gene”/psychopathic societies
     
    – http://www.unz.com/jthompson/does-the-rot-start-at-the-top/#comment-2126776

    and here: http://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#comment-2125529 , http://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#comment-2125890 , http://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#comment-2128088


    Mass Shootings: The New Manifestation of an Ancient Phenomenon and their link to Psychiatric Drugs


    http://kellybroganmd.com/mass-shootings-the-new-manifestation-of-an-ancient-phenomenon-and-their-link-to-psychiatric-drugs/

    Antidepressants linked to murders and murderous thoughts

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/25/antidepressants-linked-murders-murderous-thoughts/

    I wonder how many white, militant AntiFAs, SJWs and feminists/transgenders are on SSRIs? Probably an above-average number of them when compared to the general population.

    Transgender, Asexuality and SSRIs

    In recent weeks RxISK has had several emails asking about possible links between transgender issues or Gender Dysphoria and antidepressants. In one a woman wondered about a brother who went on antidepressants and soon after became convinced that he should transition. The woman talked about an epidemic of gender dysphoria where she lived and wondered if that too had something to do with antidepressants.
     
    - https://rxisk.org/transgender-asexuality-and-ssris/

    Antidepressant Use Among Persons Aged 12 and Over: United States, 2011–2014

    Figure 2. Percentage of persons aged 12 and over who took antidepressant medication in the past month, by sex and race and Hispanic origin: United States, 2011–2014

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/251-300/db283_fig2.png

    Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db283.htm

    4.10.4 Antidepressants consumption, 2000 and 2011 (or nearest year)

    http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2013-en/images/thumbnails/g4-10-04.gif

    Source: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2013-en/04/10/index.html?itemId=/content/chapter/health_glance-2013-41-en

    The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Mass Shootings Dr. Peter Breggin, MD

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feoLOs121bQ

    SSRIs DECREASE what the medical texts call volatility and irritability.

    By volatility and irritability they mean a nasty grouch always ready to start a fight. They used to be called mean drunks.

    So by decreasing the irritability factor the mean old grouch stops picking fights, bullying and generally being a nasty bully always looking to start trouble.

    When I was a probation officer we saw a study done about murder victims who died because of fighting, not robberies or domestic violence.

    The study discovered that these murder victims generally spent the hours before their deaths being aggressive bullies and starting fights. A lot of them went from bar to bar trying to start fights until they finally met their match.

    I don’t know how reliable that study was.

    I do know that SSRIs increases serontin in the brain. That alleviates depression which lessons volatility and irritability which are medical terms for aggressive bully looking for a fight.

    SSRIs stop fighting, not cause it.

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    I do know that SSRIs increases serontin in the brain. That alleviates depression which less[e]ns volatility and irritability which are medical terms for aggressive bully looking for a fight.
     
    The studies I have read on this subject found that more serotonin (due to low-activity MAOA) in the brain predicts aggression in high but not in low provocation situations:

    Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation

    There is some evidence of a main effect for genotype and some evidence for a gene by environment interaction, such that MAOA is less associated with the occurrence of aggression in a low provocation condition, but significantly predicts such behavior in a high provocation situation.
     
    - http://www.pnas.org/content/106/7/2118.long

    In my opinion, SSRIs "supercharge" psychopathic personality traits:

    The Effects of Sertraline on Psychopathic Traits


    Consistent with our hypotheses, personality traits of psychopathy as measured by the PPI changed during 8 weeks of treatment with sertraline, but in opposing directions. Specifically, PPI-1, “Fearless Dominance” scores increased whereas PPI-2, “Self-centered Impulsivity” scores decreased. These findings bolster recent suggestions that psychopathy is not a unitary syndrome, but instead may reflect a configuration of at least two independent causal processes, namely fearless dominance (boldness) and disinhibition (Fowles DC, Dindo L, 2009; Patrick CJ et al., 2009). The changes in psychopathy scores were only weakly correlated with changes in depressive symptoms. Our findings suggest that, in addition to improving symptoms of depressive symptoms, SSRIs may enhance adaptive personality traits traditionally observed in psychopathic individuals, such as social charm and interpersonal and physical boldness. Conversely, psychopathic traits often considered maladaptive, such as dysregulated impulsivity and externalization of blame, were reduced by SSRI treatment.
     
    - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202964/

    However, analogous to drugs that numb our sensitivity to physical pain and therefore make us more vulnerable to injury, the SSRI’s may have hidden dangers. The use of Prozac and similar drugs may induce a subjective state that mimics that of a high-status individual. Being highly self-directed and fairly oblivious to other people may work well for a truly high ranking individual, but for a low ranking individual to feel and act this way may prove problematic if not disastrous. For example, the SSRI-using employee that begins to habitually ignore their boss and to modify their work activities according to their own whims may find themselves among the unemployed [and then retaliates for the perceived "injustice" by shooting up the office, that he or she thinks provoked/wronged him or her].
     
    - http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/TheBiochemistryofStatusandtheFunctionofMoodStates.htm

    Jordan Peterson: Serotonin, cortisol, your health, status, and what you can do about

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfl98_tQqDY

    Jordan Peterson: Darwin & lobsters

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1m87XsMgI
    , @Hare Krishna
    So SSRIs cucked America?
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  • @KISS
    Yeah, about those political memes: “the Deep State,” “the 1%,” “Drain the Swamp,” “the Davos Set,” and “Masters of the Universe.” They capture alienation, suspicion, and helplessness, all right. Know what else they do? They divert public rage away from the state. Sackler's commercial predation would not be possible without a state that institutionalizes malversation and rights derogation. A formal kleptocracy like the contemporary USA is only possible when the state has impunity. The one institution with absolute sovereignty, the real state, is CIA. CIA has infiltrated every other agency, department, and branch with "dotted-line reports," clandestine domestic agents or officers of CIA. With impunity for crimes up to and including systematic and widespread murder and torture, CIA is in a position to control all policies in which it has an interest. The Sacklers' drug-based extermination initiative would not be happening without CIA approval.

    So what's CIA's policy objective in drug-based extermination? CIA nomenklatura are sympathetic to eugenics but that's just the icing on the cake. The overarching goal is to reduce the US population to its dwindling carrying capacity. The littorals are going under water, the interior is subject to increasingly violent storms, and agricultural productivity in in decline - because of carbon and nitrogen cycle imbalances, as Exxon has known for 40 years.

    But why would CIA choose Jews and Israelis as domestic agents? Israel is going down for the third time. It's a pariah state bleeding legitimacy, and CIA's about ready to cut it loose. After their policy has taken effect, CIA will ruin and purge the Israeli loyalists, blame it all on them, and stay in power. If you recall, Apartheid South Africa was a big help too, in its agonal stage.

    The CIA is the espionage arm of the bankers. That does not mean every person in the CIA is corrupt, it is just that they have people (a lot of people) in key positions in the organization.

    Richard Grove at Red Ice Radio – 9/11 Insider Trading Whistleblower & Voluntary Servitude
    where he says that the U.S. govt and the CIA are at the end of the day run by banking families. This whole democracy is a facade.

    Retired HEAD OF FBI Ted Gunderson Tells about CIA Secret Illuminati Connection

    Hollywood and MSM are the propaganda arms of the Satanic banking elites.
    Hell, even NASA is involved!!!

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  • Something on the news about pregnant women using weed for morning sickness.

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  • @AndrewR
    Some people have a psychological need to concoct conspiracy theories. The dumber and/or more dishonest subset of this group doesn't even bother trying to form an argument. It's just "it's a conspiwacy!!!" We see multiple examples on this page of completely argument-free allegations of a conspiracy.

    I mean it's certainly healthy to be skeptical of the Hebrew media. But really, who on earth has anything to gain from exaggerating opioid deaths? Methadone producers? If the media said two and two make four, these defectives would claim it was eight.

    Exaggerating opioid deaths resulted in

    1 there is a problem of Whites dying from opioids.

    2 we must find a solution

    3 restrict Whites from getting opioids is the solution.

    Ok but then what. The liberals are always ranting about old Whites in nursing homes. The medical insurance companies have been advocating “death with dignity” or assisted suicide for decades.

    Hmmmmm

    1 don’t give pain meds to old people in pain from cancer etc.

    2 give severe pain sufferers the option of assisted suicide.

    3 those old White people in nursing g homes will opt for assisted suicide and Noel Ignatiev, Reuben Navarro and the rest of the exterminate Whites crowd will have their wish fulfilled.

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    1 don’t give pain meds to old people in pain from cancer etc.

    2 give severe pain sufferers the option of assisted suicide.

    3 those old White people in nursing g homes will opt for assisted suicide and Noel Ignatiev, Reuben Navarro and the rest of the exterminate Whites crowd will have their wish fulfilled.
     
    It’s not just geezers in nursing homes. It’s anyone with chronic debilitating pain.
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  • @llloyd
    Colored populations are less hypochondriac and thus take less opiods. I have heard physicians are discreetly taught to proscribe less opiods to coloureds because their nerve level is less susceptible to stress. That has spared them this pharmaceutical holocaust.

    That’s Asian men. Drs and nurses are taught that White and Asian men are macho and think it’s unmanly to admit pain and take pain pills. They are taught that women in general admit pain and don’t mind taking pain pills.

    Blacks as a rule tend to be hypochondriacs. Some are superstitious. For instance some black women wont take birth control pills because they cause cancer or something. Some blacks refuse to use seat belts because “ if the car bursts into flames the buckle might get stuck and I couldn’t escape.”

    As a group, blacks tend to trust drs unless they get some idea such as birth control pills cause cancer. Then problems arise.

    The purpose is to teach drs and nurses To probe a bit more when a White or Asian man claims little or no pain. For instance pain raises blood pressure much higher than normal, as much as 60 points for severe pain.

    That’s not helpful in an ER or for a new patient But very helpful if the medic can compare normal blood pressure with present blood pressure.
    There are other physical symptoms of pain but I forget them.

    Monitoring blood pressure is how pain is monitored in those studies on pain and pain tolerance. The person being tested is hooked up to a blood pressure monitor. Then the pain is applied.

    BP is a totally accurate measure of pain, much better than a scale of 1 to 10.

    I think maybe that scale is part of the
    “Let the patient participate in his treatment “ thing which is very big right now.

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  • @FKA Max

    I wonder how many white, militant AntiFAs, SJWs and feminists/transgenders are on SSRIs? Probably an above-average number of them when compared to the general population.
     
    This therapist reports that women who take SSRI antidepressants do better in stressful, hierarchical and competitive workplace environments, but she is worried about the costs and consequences this competitive advantage comes with... :

    Antidepressants Make it Harder to Empathize, Harder to Climax, and Harder to Cry.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EMg12QBUx4

    Transcript: The main kind of antidepressant that is the most popularly prescribed are the SSRIs and these are medicines that increase serotonin transmission. [...] So these antidepressants do scale back a lot of expression of emotion and feeling emotion even sort of thinking emotional thoughts.[...] But what I’m worried about is more and more women deciding to go on antidepressants because their friends are doing it and that’s what’s, you know, more and more women who are at work are taking these SSRIs so that they cannot cry, not get flustered, keep going forward. You know I think it jives with this sort of forward momentum agenda that so many of us have and especially in the workplace. But, you know, I would say at what cost? [...] So there does seem to be some component of serotonin affecting dominance hierarchies and, you know, the ability to move ahead or to lean in.
     
    https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385969998l/19095288.jpg

    Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in

    It would be interesting to know if Sheryl Sandberg, who is Jewish, I believe, has naturally high serotonin levels or if she is taking an SSRI in order to "lean in". Jewish, Chinese and African persons, on average, carry the low-activity MAOA allele, which elevates a person's serotonin levels, more frequently than white Europeans, and women carry it less often than men, on average: https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/ashkepathy/

    White European women therefore are globally among the groups with the lowest rate of the low-activity MAOA allele, which could explain why so many of them are taking SSRI antidepressants. They are naturally not very "warrior-like", and in order to succeed and "survive" in today's globalized, competitive economy, where they have to compete with men and women from other ethnic groups with naturally higher serotonin levels than themselves, they have to "shut-down" their emotional, caring and empathetic natures with the help of these highly controversial and likely physical-and-emotional-health-harming drugs.

    Deeper Than Skin Color: Warrior Gene (MAOA)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjflwJUJP8

    Acknowledging that race has a genetic component seems like common sense. However, that was disputed by the many reactions I saw once the conversation was brought up. This is not meant for any camp to push a worldview, but simply to show that there is a genetic way to approach problems we see in society.

    So you want women climaxing abd weeping at work?

    I believe climaxing at work is sexual harassment and certainly grounds for dismissal.

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  • @FKA Max

    I wonder how many white, militant AntiFAs, SJWs and feminists/transgenders are on SSRIs? Probably an above-average number of them when compared to the general population.
     
    This therapist reports that women who take SSRI antidepressants do better in stressful, hierarchical and competitive workplace environments, but she is worried about the costs and consequences this competitive advantage comes with... :

    Antidepressants Make it Harder to Empathize, Harder to Climax, and Harder to Cry.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EMg12QBUx4

    Transcript: The main kind of antidepressant that is the most popularly prescribed are the SSRIs and these are medicines that increase serotonin transmission. [...] So these antidepressants do scale back a lot of expression of emotion and feeling emotion even sort of thinking emotional thoughts.[...] But what I’m worried about is more and more women deciding to go on antidepressants because their friends are doing it and that’s what’s, you know, more and more women who are at work are taking these SSRIs so that they cannot cry, not get flustered, keep going forward. You know I think it jives with this sort of forward momentum agenda that so many of us have and especially in the workplace. But, you know, I would say at what cost? [...] So there does seem to be some component of serotonin affecting dominance hierarchies and, you know, the ability to move ahead or to lean in.
     
    https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385969998l/19095288.jpg

    Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in

    It would be interesting to know if Sheryl Sandberg, who is Jewish, I believe, has naturally high serotonin levels or if she is taking an SSRI in order to "lean in". Jewish, Chinese and African persons, on average, carry the low-activity MAOA allele, which elevates a person's serotonin levels, more frequently than white Europeans, and women carry it less often than men, on average: https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/ashkepathy/

    White European women therefore are globally among the groups with the lowest rate of the low-activity MAOA allele, which could explain why so many of them are taking SSRI antidepressants. They are naturally not very "warrior-like", and in order to succeed and "survive" in today's globalized, competitive economy, where they have to compete with men and women from other ethnic groups with naturally higher serotonin levels than themselves, they have to "shut-down" their emotional, caring and empathetic natures with the help of these highly controversial and likely physical-and-emotional-health-harming drugs.

    Deeper Than Skin Color: Warrior Gene (MAOA)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjflwJUJP8

    Acknowledging that race has a genetic component seems like common sense. However, that was disputed by the many reactions I saw once the conversation was brought up. This is not meant for any camp to push a worldview, but simply to show that there is a genetic way to approach problems we see in society.

    Have you ever had a job that involves working with other people as co workers or clients?

    Who would you rather employ or work with?

    A volatile emotional hysteric who wastes time involving everyone in their emotional problems?

    OR
    A quiet, competent person who just does his or her work with no fuss?

    Come to think of it, have you ever had a job or any interaction with other human beings?

    Affirmative action has numerous bad effects. One of the worst is the black women who turn their workplaces into arenas for the display of their psycho dramas. They are always upset about something, always blaming others for anything that goes wrong, always looking for trouble

    They need meds to calm them down and shut them up. Their co workers need meds to endure their continual outbursts and trouble making

    The workplace is no place for the display of emotions.

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  • @Dutch Boy
    Studies years ago indicated that adverse reactions to medications were one of the leading causes of death in the USA (>100, 000/year). That was for properly prescribed and administered medications!
    http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(98)23016-9/abstract
    The pharmaceutical industry is a murder machine.

    So you’ve never been sick or injured? Had your wisdom teeth pulled without novacaine or anesthesia have you?

    New Age and natural medicine is great until you get sick and need modern medicine.

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  • @FKA Max
    The International Pain Foundation (iPain) which is affiliated with the Pain News Network (PNN) https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/affiliates/ , for example, "only" puts the number of chronic pain sufferers at about 700 million globally instead of the 1.5 billion claimed by PNN.

    There are over 700 million people living with chronic pain, and it is not talked about much. We are trying to change that with your help! At the iPain, we know that education and knowledge can transform a person’s future. - https://internationalpain.org/about-us/

    This number seems more realistic to me, and would probably put the number of chronic pain sufferers in the U.S. at about 50 million. Even this number still strikes me as rather high, but not completely inconceivable.

    Then there is also this:

    Efficacy, Tolerability, and Dose-Dependent Effects of Opioid Analgesics for Low Back Pain
    A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Low back pain is a common health problem and the leading cause of disability worldwide.1,2 While management guidelines encourage the prescription of simple analgesics for low back pain (eg, paracetamol or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs [NSAIDs]), many people with low back pain are prescribed opioid analgesics.3,4 Findings from the United States show that more than half of the people regularly treated with prescription opioid analgesics have chronic low back pain.4 Similarly in Australia the 3 most commonly prescribed drugs for back pain are opioid analgesics or opioid analgesic combinations: oxycodone (11.7%), tramadol (8.2%), and paracetamol and codeine combination (12.1%) (percent of all prescribed medicines for back pain).5,6
    [...]
    Our review challenges the prevailing view that opioid medicines are powerful analgesics for low back pain. Opioid analgesics had minimal effects on pain, and even at high doses the magnitude of the effect is less than the accepted thresholds for a clinically important treatment effect on pain. Importantly, the magnitude of the treatment effect we observed is similar to that reported for NSAIDs vs placebo in the Cochrane review of NSAIDs.
     
    - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2522397

    Do you ever do anything but clip and paste? Do you know what the keyboard is for?

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  • @unpc downunder
    There is no link between SSRIs and suicides/mass shootings. Usually these drugs only have a mild effect. SSRIs are indeed a bit of a con, but not in the way you are thinking. Side-effects are usually milder than with previous classes of anti-depressants but the benefits are greatly exaggerated. Like many people, I've taken them for reactive depression and they had no effect whatsoever. Doctors are over-prescribing these expensive medications because the mental health industry has removed the category or reactive depression and simply lumped bio-chemical and reactive depression into a single diagnosis. Many people get over reactive depression without drugs or therapy, so there are lots of false- positive responses to SSRIs. People with full-blown, bio-chemical melancholia have to take very high doses to achieve benefits, and even then they often do very little. Hence the reason why electro-shock therapy is making a comeback. For some people, it's the only thing that works.

    FKA MAX believes anything he reads on the internet.

    Side effect of SSRIs is that they build up serontin in the brain and curb appetite.

    Wonderful!!!!!

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  • @denk
    Here's just one source,

    https://steemit.com/falungong/@pagandance/is-falun-gong-another-jewish-initiative-like-christianity-to-turn-the-chinese-into-sheeple

    Tip of an iceberg !

    Will be back tomorrow barring unforseen circumstances,

    Fascinating!! Cynic that I am I always assumed Falun Gong was a subservient group backed by some outside force.

    I assumed the backer was Japan, the USA or one of the major Christian churches

    When I’m home I read the Jewish publications. Every article about China, Chinese Americans or Chinese carries the subtext of America is dead. It’s time to move onto our next victim.

    Some of the publications totally applaud the Chinese woman Jewish guy marriage thing. They’ve discovered the ancient Persian Jew traders in China. Of course it’s people of color non Christian, non blue eyes unite against the White goyim.

    I noticed those “Jews have more in common with Chinese than White Americans “ theme 20 years ago.

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    I typed subversive but spell check changed it to subservient.
    , @denk

    I assumed the backer was Japan, the USA or one of the major Christian churches
     
    Yeah Jp is always in cahoot with its murkkan master,
    Dont forget another sepoy country, India either !

    http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/india-to-celebrate-falun-gong/article19260879.ece

    You'r right that FKAMAX is only good for 'copy n paste',
    While the kid yaps about Chinese/Jew romance, [sic]
    Its the Indians who are elevated right up there with the Wasp/Jew ruling class !

    Exhibit A

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoS57lMfcR8
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  • @KISS
    Yeah, about those political memes: “the Deep State,” “the 1%,” “Drain the Swamp,” “the Davos Set,” and “Masters of the Universe.” They capture alienation, suspicion, and helplessness, all right. Know what else they do? They divert public rage away from the state. Sackler's commercial predation would not be possible without a state that institutionalizes malversation and rights derogation. A formal kleptocracy like the contemporary USA is only possible when the state has impunity. The one institution with absolute sovereignty, the real state, is CIA. CIA has infiltrated every other agency, department, and branch with "dotted-line reports," clandestine domestic agents or officers of CIA. With impunity for crimes up to and including systematic and widespread murder and torture, CIA is in a position to control all policies in which it has an interest. The Sacklers' drug-based extermination initiative would not be happening without CIA approval.

    So what's CIA's policy objective in drug-based extermination? CIA nomenklatura are sympathetic to eugenics but that's just the icing on the cake. The overarching goal is to reduce the US population to its dwindling carrying capacity. The littorals are going under water, the interior is subject to increasingly violent storms, and agricultural productivity in in decline - because of carbon and nitrogen cycle imbalances, as Exxon has known for 40 years.

    But why would CIA choose Jews and Israelis as domestic agents? Israel is going down for the third time. It's a pariah state bleeding legitimacy, and CIA's about ready to cut it loose. After their policy has taken effect, CIA will ruin and purge the Israeli loyalists, blame it all on them, and stay in power. If you recall, Apartheid South Africa was a big help too, in its agonal stage.

    I don’t want to argue with you, but if the goal of the CIA is to reduce the population, why are other branches of the government bringing in millions of immigrants every year?

    The easiest way to stop population growth would be to just end immigration including foreign students completely. Then deport everyone not born in this country.

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    For many years it was said that the eugenics and depopulation crowd wanted to target Africa.

    But in fact they are targetting Europeans/whites. check the tiny fertility rates. So they take people from outside countries cause US has room and needs labor for the liberals and neocons.

    Kissinger met with China and they introduced 1 child policy.

    I remember a Native American saying they will do with you, as they did with us.

    Replacement in the name of money and power.

    (simply put European and whites test subjects, and we know the CIA has done several tests on people and cities, and replace with foreigners slowly).
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  • @Sane Left Libertarian

    Hasn’t marijuana been outlawed in most states since the 1930s? You probably meant that big pharma lobbies against legalization of weed for medical and recreational use.
     
    Yes, that's what I mean. They lobby to keep it illegal where it is illegal now.

    The states and counties want weed legalized so they can get more sales, income, corporate and other taxes from legal weed operations.
     
    And yet the federal war on drugs continues. Even among "states' rights" hypocrites. It's been a complete failure at everything except making a few interest groups really rich.

    You obviously don’t know anyone who used weed for pain. You obviously don’t know anyone who needs pain drugs. You are a typical internet “ researcher” who believes everything he reads on google, Wikipedia and the MSM
     
    I know at least a dozen who were able to get relief from pot sufficient to get them off of oxy.

    Were they working, driving etc?
    There are not many jobs that can be performed while off in a euphoric marijuana daze.

    They’ll either be falling off roofs and ladders, injuring themselves or going off in a dreamy daze instead of doing what they are supposed to do.

    The big construction companies have the health and safety guys roaming around all day. They’re not just checking gloves, googles etc. They’re looking for marijuana use. And if they note it it’s off the job for the day, an HR write up and maybe fired.

    Companies don’t want employees getting drunk at lunch or spending the day in a marihuana daze.

    From aspirin to Vicodin the pain killers subdue the pain and allow people to work.

    Marijuana, like alcohol is probably all right for after work, but not for people cutting 60 pd slabs of meat into 1 pd pieces or up on roofs or ladders, driving delivery trucks, cooking in restaurants, stocking shelves, pushing tubes through the trachea or anything else that requires concentration, eye hand coordination etc.

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  • There is no hope, there is no future for people like me in the USA.

    My entire industry has been gutted destroyed and shipped to China, I haven’t had a raise in over 20 years and I see no end to this trend. So why not check out?

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  • @polaco
    It's funny how everybody seems to blame anything but the junkies and their vices for their plight. Drugs are there for the taking for everybody. Just like in politics, if Sanders had gotten the chance to destroy what's left of America, this Jewish communist from Poland, not the millions of white trash idiots that wanted to vote for him would be blamed. I always blame the junkie, not the drug dealer. This article mentions JFK, when on his campaign trail, his wife would meet and greet supporters in Spanish (but also in Polish), and that alone should have raised red flags with Americans- who are these people pandering to aliens, and yet he got elected and was a factor in the demoralization of America. Sure he cut taxes, but they were much too high since FDR anyway and long due for a decrease. The KGB acknowledged their goal of demoralizing the USA as a successfully accomplished mission, Americans are stuck with the degenerate generation they would say, but here again Americans themselves are to blame. You can lead a horse to water, but he has to drink himself.

    I'd like to see all drugs legalized and not regulated (drug safety should be in the hands of the industry and the courts of law and public opinion) so at least they would be cheap and not ruin anybody who wants to use them financially. The only druggies I've known about were real deplorables, totally useless people, with the potential to corrupt others who were naive and weak spirited. It's hard to feel sorry for them, some say hard times make them do drugs- has any of them visited a senator in person to inquire about ending Affirmative Action? Once the Democrats give idiots a good song and dance about taxing "the rich" they can do anything they want, and leave morons holding the bag. Forget Pelosi, Clinton, Feinstein, and others, they're not rich, they're not going to tax themselves and their wealth acquired through corruption and insider trading, you're only rich if you don't get any money from the government, so you'll be taxed on your income of $30K to pay for poor Pelosi's government salary and pension. And don't blame her later.

    2017 a liberal progressive crusade against working class un educated (brainwashed) White men taking prescription painkillers.

    1917 the liberal progressive crusade against eneducated working class White men drinking legal alcohol was on the brink of making alcohol illegal.

    Anyone see what’s going on here?

    Then consider that most of the old handicapped people with cancer and other deadly painful diseases are White.

    They are the people who use a lot of painkillers. They are at the mercy of affirmative action drs. If the anti White racists succeed in making pain killers illegal AND convincing drs to stop prescribing pain killers it will be those old Whites who spend the last months and years of their lives terrible pain.

    Given that most of the old codgers ranting against pain killers are just a few years away from nursing homes, they should be careful what they wish for.

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  • @FKA Max
    Thank you very much, Professor MacDonald!

    I have been commenting on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), and there is a link between these medications and mass shootings:

    Speaking of pharmaceutical companies. I just posted a comment on another potential contributor to this negative trend mentioned in this article on one of Mr. Thompson’s other articles. Maybe “Big Pharma” is causing the rot?
     
    – http://www.unz.com/jthompson/does-the-rot-start-at-the-top/#comment-2125687

    These serotonin level-increasing ( SSRI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor ) antidepressants produce “warrior gene”/psychopathic societies
     
    – http://www.unz.com/jthompson/does-the-rot-start-at-the-top/#comment-2126776

    and here: http://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#comment-2125529 , http://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#comment-2125890 , http://www.unz.com/jthompson/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#comment-2128088


    Mass Shootings: The New Manifestation of an Ancient Phenomenon and their link to Psychiatric Drugs


    http://kellybroganmd.com/mass-shootings-the-new-manifestation-of-an-ancient-phenomenon-and-their-link-to-psychiatric-drugs/

    Antidepressants linked to murders and murderous thoughts

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/25/antidepressants-linked-murders-murderous-thoughts/

    I wonder how many white, militant AntiFAs, SJWs and feminists/transgenders are on SSRIs? Probably an above-average number of them when compared to the general population.

    Transgender, Asexuality and SSRIs

    In recent weeks RxISK has had several emails asking about possible links between transgender issues or Gender Dysphoria and antidepressants. In one a woman wondered about a brother who went on antidepressants and soon after became convinced that he should transition. The woman talked about an epidemic of gender dysphoria where she lived and wondered if that too had something to do with antidepressants.
     
    - https://rxisk.org/transgender-asexuality-and-ssris/

    Antidepressant Use Among Persons Aged 12 and Over: United States, 2011–2014

    Figure 2. Percentage of persons aged 12 and over who took antidepressant medication in the past month, by sex and race and Hispanic origin: United States, 2011–2014

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/251-300/db283_fig2.png

    Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db283.htm

    4.10.4 Antidepressants consumption, 2000 and 2011 (or nearest year)

    http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2013-en/images/thumbnails/g4-10-04.gif

    Source: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2013-en/04/10/index.html?itemId=/content/chapter/health_glance-2013-41-en

    The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Mass Shootings Dr. Peter Breggin, MD

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feoLOs121bQ

    There is no link between SSRIs and suicides/mass shootings. Usually these drugs only have a mild effect. SSRIs are indeed a bit of a con, but not in the way you are thinking. Side-effects are usually milder than with previous classes of anti-depressants but the benefits are greatly exaggerated. Like many people, I’ve taken them for reactive depression and they had no effect whatsoever. Doctors are over-prescribing these expensive medications because the mental health industry has removed the category or reactive depression and simply lumped bio-chemical and reactive depression into a single diagnosis. Many people get over reactive depression without drugs or therapy, so there are lots of false- positive responses to SSRIs. People with full-blown, bio-chemical melancholia have to take very high doses to achieve benefits, and even then they often do very little. Hence the reason why electro-shock therapy is making a comeback. For some people, it’s the only thing that works.

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    FKA MAX believes anything he reads on the internet.

    Side effect of SSRIs is that they build up serontin in the brain and curb appetite.

    Wonderful!!!!!
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  • @Alden
    I think you are confusing pain killers and anti depressants.

    You are right, narcotic is the wrong word. Perhaps hallucinogenic.

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  • Yeah, about those political memes: “the Deep State,” “the 1%,” “Drain the Swamp,” “the Davos Set,” and “Masters of the Universe.” They capture alienation, suspicion, and helplessness, all right. Know what else they do? They divert public rage away from the state. Sackler’s commercial predation would not be possible without a state that institutionalizes malversation and rights derogation. A formal kleptocracy like the contemporary USA is only possible when the state has impunity. The one institution with absolute sovereignty, the real state, is CIA. CIA has infiltrated every other agency, department, and branch with “dotted-line reports,” clandestine domestic agents or officers of CIA. With impunity for crimes up to and including systematic and widespread murder and torture, CIA is in a position to control all policies in which it has an interest. The Sacklers’ drug-based extermination initiative would not be happening without CIA approval.

    So what’s CIA’s policy objective in drug-based extermination? CIA nomenklatura are sympathetic to eugenics but that’s just the icing on the cake. The overarching goal is to reduce the US population to its dwindling carrying capacity. The littorals are going under water, the interior is subject to increasingly violent storms, and agricultural productivity in in decline – because of carbon and nitrogen cycle imbalances, as Exxon has known for 40 years.

    But why would CIA choose Jews and Israelis as domestic agents? Israel is going down for the third time. It’s a pariah state bleeding legitimacy, and CIA’s about ready to cut it loose. After their policy has taken effect, CIA will ruin and purge the Israeli loyalists, blame it all on them, and stay in power. If you recall, Apartheid South Africa was a big help too, in its agonal stage.

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    I don’t want to argue with you, but if the goal of the CIA is to reduce the population, why are other branches of the government bringing in millions of immigrants every year?

    The easiest way to stop population growth would be to just end immigration including foreign students completely. Then deport everyone not born in this country.
    , @Malla
    The CIA is the espionage arm of the bankers. That does not mean every person in the CIA is corrupt, it is just that they have people (a lot of people) in key positions in the organization.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFJwVxqD4A4

    Richard Grove at Red Ice Radio - 9/11 Insider Trading Whistleblower & Voluntary Servitude
    where he says that the U.S. govt and the CIA are at the end of the day run by banking families. This whole democracy is a facade.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoM2NiTJq0k

    Retired HEAD OF FBI Ted Gunderson Tells about CIA Secret Illuminati Connection

    Hollywood and MSM are the propaganda arms of the Satanic banking elites.
    Hell, even NASA is involved!!!
    , @polskijoe
    You may be right. But the opposite could be true. Im still not sure.

    Remember the secret society Skull and Bones? They have a major connection to the CIA pparently.
    Rockefeller, Bush, Kerry,Taft, and others.

    Is the CIA putting Jews in the forfront to make people see them easily?
    CIA could probably assissinate major banking families.

    Or the Mossad could be looking into the CIA. And the money connection keeps the Jews and CIA together.

    The Rockefellers, Kissingers were behind eugenics. They are succeeding in many ways on the depopulation front. (connected to the SSRIs which mess with sex in all ways for just about everybody,
    the cultural revolution and degeneracy, contraceptives, etc).
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  • @Malla

    China uncensored = NDTV = Falun Gong = Soros + Zbig ?
     
    NDTV is far from the most rabid anti-China Indian channel. Zee News is worse. Of course nearly all of the major Indian news channels are connected in some way to the globalist news cabal.

    BTW what is the Falun Gong exactly? I mean I know about the group, but what is the 'behind the scenes' info of the group? Are they run by the CIA?
    The Moonies Church and many of the Hindu gurus who flooded the West like Osho/Rajneesh, Maharishi Yogi etc.. were in bed with the CIA. Passionately close in bed.
    Many Wahabi Islamic fundus in the U.K. like Anjem Choudhary are passionately in bed with MI5.

    Here’s just one source,

    https://steemit.com/falungong/@pagandance/is-falun-gong-another-jewish-initiative-like-christianity-to-turn-the-chinese-into-sheeple

    Tip of an iceberg !

    Will be back tomorrow barring unforseen circumstances,

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    Fascinating!! Cynic that I am I always assumed Falun Gong was a subservient group backed by some outside force.

    I assumed the backer was Japan, the USA or one of the major Christian churches

    When I’m home I read the Jewish publications. Every article about China, Chinese Americans or Chinese carries the subtext of America is dead. It’s time to move onto our next victim.

    Some of the publications totally applaud the Chinese woman Jewish guy marriage thing. They’ve discovered the ancient Persian Jew traders in China. Of course it’s people of color non Christian, non blue eyes unite against the White goyim.

    I noticed those “Jews have more in common with Chinese than White Americans “ theme 20 years ago.
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  • @denk

    Chinese Drugs Are Killing Americans | China Uncensored
     
    kid,
    Do you know that ...
    China uncensored = NDTV = Falun Gong = Soros + Zbig ?

    Chinese and Jews are best buddies
     
    These names do not sound 'Chinese' to me ?
    Modi, Nikki Haley, Ajit Pae, Priti Patel, Navi Pillay.....
    just to name a few ?
    [Tip of an iceberg]

    P.S.
    So the GlobeandMail, 'Chinauncensored' is your idea of objective journalism eh kid ?

    Whoever paying you isnt getting their monies worth !
    Like I say they'r scrapping the barrel these days.
    hehehehe

    China uncensored = NDTV = Falun Gong = Soros + Zbig ?

    NDTV is far from the most rabid anti-China Indian channel. Zee News is worse. Of course nearly all of the major Indian news channels are connected in some way to the globalist news cabal.

    BTW what is the Falun Gong exactly? I mean I know about the group, but what is the ‘behind the scenes’ info of the group? Are they run by the CIA?
    The Moonies Church and many of the Hindu gurus who flooded the West like Osho/Rajneesh, Maharishi Yogi etc.. were in bed with the CIA. Passionately close in bed.
    Many Wahabi Islamic fundus in the U.K. like Anjem Choudhary are passionately in bed with MI5.

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    Here's just one source,

    https://steemit.com/falungong/@pagandance/is-falun-gong-another-jewish-initiative-like-christianity-to-turn-the-chinese-into-sheeple

    Tip of an iceberg !

    Will be back tomorrow barring unforseen circumstances,
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  • @Renoman
    They're stupid and weak, the only good junkie is a dead one.

    It’s funny how everybody seems to blame anything but the junkies and their vices for their plight. Drugs are there for the taking for everybody. Just like in politics, if Sanders had gotten the chance to destroy what’s left of America, this Jewish communist from Poland, not the millions of white trash idiots that wanted to vote for him would be blamed. I always blame the junkie, not the drug dealer. This article mentions JFK, when on his campaign trail, his wife would meet and greet supporters in Spanish (but also in Polish), and that alone should have raised red flags with Americans- who are these people pandering to aliens, and yet he got elected and was a factor in the demoralization of America. Sure he cut taxes, but they were much too high since FDR anyway and long due for a decrease. The KGB acknowledged their goal of demoralizing the USA as a successfully accomplished mission, Americans are stuck with the degenerate generation they would say, but here again Americans themselves are to blame. You can lead a horse to water, but he has to drink himself.

    I’d like to see all drugs legalized and not regulated (drug safety should be in the hands of the industry and the courts of law and public opinion) so at least they would be cheap and not ruin anybody who wants to use them financially. The only druggies I’ve known about were real deplorables, totally useless people, with the potential to corrupt others who were naive and weak spirited. It’s hard to feel sorry for them, some say hard times make them do drugs- has any of them visited a senator in person to inquire about ending Affirmative Action? Once the Democrats give idiots a good song and dance about taxing “the rich” they can do anything they want, and leave morons holding the bag. Forget Pelosi, Clinton, Feinstein, and others, they’re not rich, they’re not going to tax themselves and their wealth acquired through corruption and insider trading, you’re only rich if you don’t get any money from the government, so you’ll be taxed on your income of $30K to pay for poor Pelosi’s government salary and pension. And don’t blame her later.

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    2017 a liberal progressive crusade against working class un educated (brainwashed) White men taking prescription painkillers.

    1917 the liberal progressive crusade against eneducated working class White men drinking legal alcohol was on the brink of making alcohol illegal.

    Anyone see what’s going on here?

    Then consider that most of the old handicapped people with cancer and other deadly painful diseases are White.

    They are the people who use a lot of painkillers. They are at the mercy of affirmative action drs. If the anti White racists succeed in making pain killers illegal AND convincing drs to stop prescribing pain killers it will be those old Whites who spend the last months and years of their lives terrible pain.

    Given that most of the old codgers ranting against pain killers are just a few years away from nursing homes, they should be careful what they wish for.
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  • @Biff
    What goes around comes around.

    http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-war-made-asia-how-the-opium-war-crushed-china-19476

    No Jewish Sassoon family?

    The Jewish Monopoly on Opium Still Fuels Chinese Resentment Today

    http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/sassoon.htm

    The 99 year British lease on Hong Kong expired in July, 1997, allowing China to take over its land once again. Hundreds of newspaper stories and TV reports covered that event but not one revealed how England first gained control of Hong Kong.

    The truth lies buried in the family line of David Sassoon, “The Rothschilds of The Far East,” and their monopoly over the opium trade. Britain won Hong Kong by launching the opium Wars to give the Sassoons exclusive rights to drug an entire nation.

    David Sassoon was born in Baghdad, Iran in 1792. His father, Saleh Sassoon, was a wealthy banker and the treasurer to Ahmet Pasha, the governor of Baghdad. (Thus making him the “court Jew” – a highly influential position.) In 1829 Ahmet was overthrown due to corruption and the Sassoon family fled to Bombay, India. This was the strategic trade route to India’s interior and the gateway to the Far East. In a brief time the British government granted Sassoon monopoly rights to all manufactured cotton goods, silk and most important of all- Opium – then the most addictive drug in the world.

    · The Beginning of the Opium Trade

    In the beginning, David Sassoon wanted to trade cotton cloth with China in exchange for tea, but the Chinese did not want the cotton that Sassoon wanted to trade. They were however willing to trade tea for silver. However, Sassoon considered that the Chinese might be susceptible to opium. With this knowledge Sassoon sailed back to India and then England to sell what little tea he had, and to make a new proposition.

    Britain had an insatiable appetite for Chinese tea, but the Qing Dynasty and its subjects did not want to buy anything that the British produced. The government of Queen Victoria did not want to use up the country’s reserves of gold or silver in buying tea, so, on the advice of David Sassoon, she decided to forcibly export opium from the Indian Subcontinent to China. The opium would then be exchanged for tea.

    In Order to boost the trade David Sassoon forced the farmers in Bengali to stop farming food and turn to growing opium poppies. The climate in Bengali was very good for growing opium and Sassoon’s business flourished. He became a member of the East India Company, a firm owned and run by Jews out of the City of London. So successful was the opium business that the tax the East Indian Company paid to England paid for all English wars between 1831 and 1905.

    · Opium Was a “Jewish Business”

    The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1905 states that Sassoon expanded his opium trade into China and Japan. He placed his eight sons in charge of the various major opium exchanges in China.

    According to the 1944 Jewish Encyclopedia: “He employed only Jews in his business, and wherever he sent them he built synagogues and schools for them. He imported whole families of fellow Jews. . . and put them to work.”

    Sassoon’s sons were busy pushing this mind-destroying drug in Canton, China, and their trade expanded alarmingly. Between 1830 – 1831 they trafficked 18,956 chests of opium earning millions of dollars. Part of the profits went to Queen Victoria and the British government. In the year 1836 the trade increased to over 30,000 chests and drug addiction in coastal cities became endemic.

    In 1864, the Sassoons imported 58,681 chests of opium which brought in over 20 million pounds. By 1880 it had skyrocketed to 105,508 chests, making the Sassoons the richest Jews in the world next to the Rothschilds. The Sassoons were now licensing opium dens in each British occupied area with large fees being collected by their Jewish agents.

    And many of these Jewish agents were the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng. These Jews had immigrated to China along the Silk Road hundreds of years ago and had so intermarried with the Chinese that they looked entirely Chinese. But they still were practicing Jews and were thus the perfect Chinese agents for the Sassoons.

    The entire trade was controlled by Jewish families only. Sassoon would not allow any other race to engage in “the Jews’ business” of importing and selling opium. Opium was strictly a Jewish monopoly. But these Jews were working under British passports.

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    This is funny: the Sassoons, eevull joos that they are, FORCED the hapless Hindus to grow opium poppies, then they also FORCED the Chinese to smoke it. They inflicted this drug, which nobody wanted to use, upon an entire Empire against the will of everyone who later became junkies. What nonsense.

    This tale is ridiculous on its face. People use drugs because they want to. Nobody forced the junkie you see in the park to use heroin, or whatever he uses. He made a choice, and he makes a choice every day to remain strung out, instead of kicking the drugs and learning to live without them.

    The Japanese managed to sweep up most of the privately held gold in Manchuria by offering opium to the Chinese people who had gold to trade for it. Addicts choose to use drugs. The people who supply the drugs don't have to force addicts to buy them.
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  • @Biff
    What goes around comes around.

    http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-war-made-asia-how-the-opium-war-crushed-china-19476

    Strange the propaganda piece does not talk about the central role played by the Jewish Indian cabal in the opium trade!

    http://www.ibtimes.co.in/chinas-opium-war-was-completely-indian-enterprise-not-british-indian-author-amitav-ghosh-628177

    China’s Opium War Was ‘Completely Indian Enterprise’, not British: Indian Author Amitav Ghosh

    At this juncture he found that the first opium war in China was an Indian undertaking. “The first opium war (was) planned in India, it was financed by Indian money, it was fought with Indian soldiers. But it has all completely vanished from our historical memory,” Ghosh, whose third book of Ibis series ‘Flood of Fire’ is all about migration in the 1830s, told IANS.

    “The putting together of the expeditionary force took place in India. The British naval ships for the expedition were accompanied by 50 supply ships, all provided for by Parsi merchants in Bombay (now Mumbai). From top to bottom, it was a completely Indian enterprise; all the wherewithal for it came from India,” he added.

    http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=SPOILS-OF-WAR-History-of-capitalism-is-written-27112016018050

    What role did India Inc play in the opium trade war?

    They [Indian companies] played a pioneering part.In large parts, the opium war was financed by Indian money -by old Bombay money. Many of t he bi g Indian families made their money in opium. This is equally true about America.

    Many American compa nies and families have made their money in opium -P resident Franklin R o o s e v e l t ‘s fa mi ly, t he C a l v i n Coolidge f a m ily, Forbes family from where you get the current secretary of state, John Kerry, even institutions like Yale and Brown. Singapore and Hong Kong wouldn’t exist today without opium.Essentially opium was the most important commodity of the 19th century.

    Are companies hesitant to acknowledge their past connections to opium?

    Ve r y h e sit a nt . Ja r d i n e Matheson was one of the most important opium trading companies in the 19th c ent u r y. T hei r close st partner was Sir Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy, who built half of Bombay. To this day, Jardine Matheson does not like this connection mentioned. In fact, they’ve been known to threaten journalists.Similarly, people who’ve been trying to work with papers of various Indian companies find it very difficult to access documents. Let me just say it tactfully that several companies don’t like this to be spoken of in public.

    Would it have been difficult for companies to hide their past if there was social media at that time?

    The opium war was a very modern war. It was sold to the British government by merchants. They collected money and sent Wi l liam Jardine to London to bribe politicians i nto sta r ti ng this war. It’s a collusion between the State and the pri vate sector, which benefited not only from the policies of the opium trade, but also from the whole war being sub-contracted to them, in terms of provisions, supply ships etc. It was the template of the Iraq war. First, you pick up something, drum it up by publishing some articles about it, the people will get worked up, then you start the war. You keep hidden what is actually happening.

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  • @FKA Max

    The Risks of Non-Opioid Pain Medications
    [...]
    – https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/9/29/the-risks-of-non-opioid-pain-medications
     
    I just did some quick searches on the innocuously named "Pain News Network" group/site I quoted above, and they appear to be a pharmaceutical industry propaganda news outlet. What made me suspicious of them was their "About Us" section, in which they claim that "It is estimated that 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from chronic pain --- including about 100 million Americans." - https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/overview/ These numbers of chronic pain sufferers seem exaggerated to me, especially the U.S. numbers, which would mean that about 1/3 of all Americans suffer from (presumably unbearable) chronic pain that requires opioids to be able to manage that pain and cope with it.

    This is what I found on them:


    It was striking that much of the opposition seemed to come from rather mysterious organizations, the Pain Care Forum, Power of Pain Foundation, Washington Legal Foundation, and Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. However, the reporting on these organizations was minimal. Furthermore, some of the news sources reporting on the opposition to the CDC guidelines also were rather mysterious, such as the Pain News Network, National Pain Report, and Legal News Line.

    One recent media article, and some of our previous blogging, though suggest that the opposition organizations all have ties to the pharmaceutical industry, and in several cases, directly to one of the major producers of legal opioids. On December 23, 2015, Lee Fang wrote in the Intercept by way of an introduction,

    The pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and market OxyContin, Vicodin, and other highly addictive opioid painkillers — drugs that have fueled the epidemic of overdoses and heroin addiction — are funding nonprofit groups fighting furiously against efforts to reform how these drugs are prescribed. - https://theintercept.com/2015/12/23/oxycontin-cdc-politics/
     

    - https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/the-opposition-to-guidelines-discouraging-overuse-of-narcotics.html

    This is what the author of that blog post commented in the comments section:

    Roy M Poses MD
    January 5, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    Just a reminder – the original blog post was mainly about stealth public relations/ stealth health policy advocacy. I tried to focus on the organizations which made rather vague complaints about the CDC guidelines, centering on allegations of lack of transparency in and conflicts affecting the guideline development process. Yet these organizations were not exactly transparent about their own glaring conflicts of interest. Furthermore, their opposition was publicized by somewhat mysterious news sites, at least one of which actually appears to be a full-time PR operation by the US Chamber of Commerce.

    I did not mean to discuss the content of the guidelines in detail. Yet nearly all the comments here seem to be about the management of chronic pain, not the issues I brought up. And many comments make all sorts of complex biological or clinical assertions without supplying any evidence, especially from good clinical research, to support them. And this is on a blog focused on economics, politics, business, finance, etc not medicine or health care.

    I realize comments sections often get tangential, but this one has gotten so tangential I wonder if some of the comments are meant as deliberate distraction?
     

    - https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/the-opposition-to-guidelines-discouraging-overuse-of-narcotics.html#comment-2531137

    The International Pain Foundation (iPain) which is affiliated with the Pain News Network (PNN) https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/affiliates/ , for example, “only” puts the number of chronic pain sufferers at about 700 million globally instead of the 1.5 billion claimed by PNN.

    There are over 700 million people living with chronic pain, and it is not talked about much. We are trying to change that with your help! At the iPain, we know that education and knowledge can transform a person’s future. https://internationalpain.org/about-us/

    This number seems more realistic to me, and would probably put the number of chronic pain sufferers in the U.S. at about 50 million. Even this number still strikes me as rather high, but not completely inconceivable.

    Then there is also this:

    Efficacy, Tolerability, and Dose-Dependent Effects of Opioid Analgesics for Low Back Pain
    A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Low back pain is a common health problem and the leading cause of disability worldwide.1,2 While management guidelines encourage the prescription of simple analgesics for low back pain (eg, paracetamol or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs [NSAIDs]), many people with low back pain are prescribed opioid analgesics.3,4 Findings from the United States show that more than half of the people regularly treated with prescription opioid analgesics have chronic low back pain.4 Similarly in Australia the 3 most commonly prescribed drugs for back pain are opioid analgesics or opioid analgesic combinations: oxycodone (11.7%), tramadol (8.2%), and paracetamol and codeine combination (12.1%) (percent of all prescribed medicines for back pain).5,6
    [...]
    Our review challenges the prevailing view that opioid medicines are powerful analgesics for low back pain. Opioid analgesics had minimal effects on pain, and even at high doses the magnitude of the effect is less than the accepted thresholds for a clinically important treatment effect on pain. Importantly, the magnitude of the treatment effect we observed is similar to that reported for NSAIDs vs placebo in the Cochrane review of NSAIDs.

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2522397

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  • @FKA Max
    Chinese Drugs Are Killing Americans | China Uncensored

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsnNpfZNCMI

    MacDonald is barking up the wrong tree. It’s not Jews to blame, it’s Chinese.
     
    Both parties/cultures are culpable, in my opinion, and have similar attitudes towards whites.

    Similarities Between Chinese People and Jewish People

    Modern Chinese became aware of the existence of a Jewish people across the world in the 1830’s, following the Protestant missionary teachings and Bible translations.Since then, various Jewish stereotypes took form including how the Jews were victims of the white man just like the Chinese.
    [...]
    The Chinese have no reason to dislike the Jews because they display the traits that they admire for themselves. A Jew visiting China will feel the affinity that is palpable thanks to the commonality of traits, a common attitude towards adversity, and life.
     
    - https://www.laowaicareer.com/blog/similarities-chinese-people-jewish-people/

    The Night New York’s Chinese Went Out for Jews

    On the night of the show, Maine spoke first and declared strong sympathy between Jews and Chinese, “as both had been persecuted.” New York rabbi Joseph Zeff, an early Zionist, focused, in Yiddish, on Russian atrocities against both groups.
    - https://forward.com/culture/134950/the-night-new-york-s-chinese-went-out-for-jews/

    I found this:

    How a little-known patent sparked Canada's opioid crisis

    Published December 30, 2016
    Updated November 12, 2017


    Once OxyContin was replaced by OxyNeo, a host of stronger opioids began flowing into Canada to feed that appetite, and organized crime filled the void. Illicit fentanyl began appearing on Canadian streets in 2013, just months after Purdue began withdrawing OxyContin from the market.

    Fentanyl and carfentanil – a powerful opioid used to tranquilize elephants and other large animals – slipped into Canada from China, from manufacturers who shipped it through the mail.

    Suppliers in China had figured out that Canadian border guards were prevented by law from opening packages weighing less than 30 grams without the consent of the recipient. That created a loophole to ship drugs through, using innocent-looking envelopes.

    With fentanyl being 100 times stronger than morphine, and carfentanil many times more powerful than fentanyl, just a trace amount of powder could be sold on the street and do considerable damage.

    The illicit drug makers also understood another key thing about their market – OxyContin was where it all started, and it was still in demand, even though it was gone.

    So when they turned fentanyl and other powders into tablets, using pill presses similar to those housed at big pharmaceutical factories, they dyed them green and stamped each one with a small 80. The look was designed to replicate the 80-mg OxyContin tablets that were so addictive. It was, after all, what the market wanted.

    In December, the federal government, in a bid to stem the tide of illegal opioids on the street, unveiled legislation that would give border guards more power to search envelopes weighing less than 30 grams coming into the country. And the importing of pill presses into Canada was also banned.
     
    - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/oxycontin/article33448409/

    Chinese Drugs Are Killing Americans | China Uncensored

    kid,
    Do you know that …
    China uncensored = NDTV = Falun Gong = Soros + Zbig ?

    Chinese and Jews are best buddies

    These names do not sound ‘Chinese’ to me ?
    Modi, Nikki Haley, Ajit Pae, Priti Patel, Navi Pillay…..
    just to name a few ?
    [Tip of an iceberg]

    P.S.
    So the GlobeandMail, ‘Chinauncensored‘ is your idea of objective journalism eh kid ?

    Whoever paying you isnt getting their monies worth !
    Like I say they’r scrapping the barrel these days.
    hehehehe

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    China uncensored = NDTV = Falun Gong = Soros + Zbig ?
     
    NDTV is far from the most rabid anti-China Indian channel. Zee News is worse. Of course nearly all of the major Indian news channels are connected in some way to the globalist news cabal.

    BTW what is the Falun Gong exactly? I mean I know about the group, but what is the 'behind the scenes' info of the group? Are they run by the CIA?
    The Moonies Church and many of the Hindu gurus who flooded the West like Osho/Rajneesh, Maharishi Yogi etc.. were in bed with the CIA. Passionately close in bed.
    Many Wahabi Islamic fundus in the U.K. like Anjem Choudhary are passionately in bed with MI5.

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    You've clearly never had a problem with junkies stealing your stuff. That will get you wishing genocide on the whole lot of them ASAP.

    Junkies aren’t all thieves.

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  • @advancedatheist
    The Jews didn't invent the sexual revolution, Kevin. Havelock Ellis, Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, D.H. Lawrence, Alfred Kinsey and other white intellectuals laid the groundwork for this well before the 1960's.

    Margaret Sanger advocated birth control. All her preaching assumed sex was for married women. She assumed unmarried women would use the oldest natural method of birth control, celibacy until marriage.

    She never, never advocated unmarried women having sex.

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  • @Anonymous

    So far only 2 people who have actually experienced serious pain and taken any kind of pain killers have commented. Haven’t seen any posts by medical people who see patients suffering from pain.
     
    I can comment both semi-professionally and as a patient who has had a misfortune to have numerous acute surgeries and a chronic pain condition.

    The current panic is getting dangerously close to throwing the baby out with the bath water. Opioids are godsend! So far, we have more or less nothing that treats serious pain. Opioids are not going anywhere as far as acute pain goes - there is no substitute. Alas, there is already a trend to severely withdraw their use for chronic pain. Which, as applied to the hospice care, basically means increasing suffering in people who already suffer and may well wish that they died instead. If the anti-opioid movement gets more traction, we'll end up with a lot more people suffering needlessly. Think terrible toothaches over weekend, doctors not believing you that NSAIDs do nothing to your terrible arthritis pain while you are waiting for an operation, etc. You might be healthy now but you will get chronic pain at some point - and no, the pot does not work and no, there are no safe ways of treating debilitating pain.

    That said, of course opioids were massively over-prescribed (10 days supply "just in case" after a minor surgery was not uncommon). I don't know about Jewish conspiracy and stuff like that but someone did drop the ball - the scale of the problem was genuinely not widely known, and the feedback to the prescribing doctors in cases that did result in dependencies was almost nonexistent.

    There is very obviously a strong genetic component to opioid addiction. It's very likely to be less complex that IQ. Hopefully studies with N>100,000 are forthcoming. That ought to be part of the solution. Another is removing the stigma and societal punishment for reporting dependence. A lot of overdoses are simply due to the fact that doctors are unaware of the patients' history of opioid exposure. And the thing with opioids is just that: the longer you use, the easier it is to overdose.

    What does opioid dependency really mean? A patient in severe pain, such as with terminal cancer stops taking the pain killer and the pain comes back.

    So the patient needs his or her next dose to block the nerve impulses to the brain.
    I guess that’s the liberal media definition of addiction.

    I wonder if insulin is next on the liberals list of necessary meds to be banned because it’s addictive.

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    What does opioid dependency really mean? A patient in severe pain, such as with terminal cancer stops taking the pain killer and the pain comes back.
     
    I’m not sure the term is defined and suspect that’s deliberate. But in addition to the resumption of pain, and often worse than the original in case of chronic sufferers, is the incredible sickness. It’s nearly indescribable what happens to your body and brain when cut off from long term opiate treatment. I’ve undergone brutal chemotherapy (so brutal it’s only given to young adults or stage IV kids/seniors) and cold-turkey unassisted detox after two decades of opiate treatment at a dose that would kill 99.9% of humans. The detox was MUCH worse.

    Pro tip for anyone who gets cut off due to this zeitgeist: Kratom. Lots of kratom. Stock up before the feds criminalize it. Some say it helps with pain too, but I don’t get that effect.
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  • @Anonymous

    So far only 2 people who have actually experienced serious pain and taken any kind of pain killers have commented. Haven’t seen any posts by medical people who see patients suffering from pain.
     
    I can comment both semi-professionally and as a patient who has had a misfortune to have numerous acute surgeries and a chronic pain condition.

    The current panic is getting dangerously close to throwing the baby out with the bath water. Opioids are godsend! So far, we have more or less nothing that treats serious pain. Opioids are not going anywhere as far as acute pain goes - there is no substitute. Alas, there is already a trend to severely withdraw their use for chronic pain. Which, as applied to the hospice care, basically means increasing suffering in people who already suffer and may well wish that they died instead. If the anti-opioid movement gets more traction, we'll end up with a lot more people suffering needlessly. Think terrible toothaches over weekend, doctors not believing you that NSAIDs do nothing to your terrible arthritis pain while you are waiting for an operation, etc. You might be healthy now but you will get chronic pain at some point - and no, the pot does not work and no, there are no safe ways of treating debilitating pain.

    That said, of course opioids were massively over-prescribed (10 days supply "just in case" after a minor surgery was not uncommon). I don't know about Jewish conspiracy and stuff like that but someone did drop the ball - the scale of the problem was genuinely not widely known, and the feedback to the prescribing doctors in cases that did result in dependencies was almost nonexistent.

    There is very obviously a strong genetic component to opioid addiction. It's very likely to be less complex that IQ. Hopefully studies with N>100,000 are forthcoming. That ought to be part of the solution. Another is removing the stigma and societal punishment for reporting dependence. A lot of overdoses are simply due to the fact that doctors are unaware of the patients' history of opioid exposure. And the thing with opioids is just that: the longer you use, the easier it is to overdose.

    Finally someone who knows what he’s talking about.

    My motto is only post about what you know.

    Considering the age of most of these old codgers who rant against pain killers it’s hard to believe they don’t have the aches and pains of old age as well as the occupational damage done to the muscle skeletal system by whatever jobs they had.

    The great benefit of medical marijuana is the dreamy euphoria the “patient” gets. They will gladly endure the pain to get the marijuana

    The opioid pain killers just block the pain nerve impulses to the brain. The pain is stopped, but there is no euphoria as comes with marijuana use.

    Marijuana doesn’t block the pain nerve impulses. It just makes the pain more endurable, like alcohol does. That is why alcohol was used as a pain killer for surgery for centuries.

    These old codgers are old enough to remember all the liberal media crusades such as:

    Mid 1980s heterosexual AIDS. Totally false. Then and now AIDS was and is a gay male disease that liberal crusade was an attempt to distract from the fecal aspects of gay male sex.

    1970s eggs cause heart attacks because of cholesterol. That liberal media crusade was a project of Pillsbury mills and the wheat, corn and oat farmers of America. Quelle surprise

    Recently we had the evil White male monsters Darren Wilson and George Zimmerman viciously murdering those innocent children Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown.

    Before that the racist White hating liberal media gave us the Duke Lacrosse false rape accusations.

    But self righteous old codgers love to rant and rave about things of which they know nothing.

    Seriously though, I wonder what the purpose of this latest liberal crusade is?

    Maybe the liberals just want to withhold necessary pain killers from Whites so they suffer more pain.

    Maybe it is the medical marijuana people who want the patients to use ineffective marijuana in lieu of effective Vicodin.

    The force behind the anti Vicodin movement is probably the manufacturererd of another drug, tramodol. Tramodol, just like Vicodin, blocks the pain nerve impulses from reaching the brain.

    The tramadol sales reps are flooding every medical office in the country urging drs to prescribe tramadol instead of Vicodin because the funded by tramadol researchers claim tramadol is not addictive but Vicodin is.

    It’s exactly the same as the beet and cane sugar growers against the corn syrup and aspartame producers.

    Or the chicken and fish producers claiming that beef and pork causes heart attacks. The beef and pork producers fight back by claiming that chicken has salmonella and fish has mercury and it is raised in unhealthy fish farms

    It’s all just marketing. Follow the money and look at who finds the so called research.

    It’s probably the tramadol manufacturers behind the latest anti Vicodin crusade.

    And marijuana isn’t addictive but Vicodin is. Right.

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  • @anonymous

    Poppies can be successfully planted almost anywhere.. . . We certainly don’t need Afghanistan to produce opium.
     
    That may be so, but opium from Afghanistan hits next-door-neighbor Iran first and hardest.

    Drug abuse is a major problem among young Iranians, for reasons similar to those MacDonald states-- poor job prospects --> inability to form families, etc.
    ZioUSA is deliberately seeking to exacerbate those conditions thru sanctions, VOA propaganda, subversive NGOs, and easy access to drugs.

    Persians and other Muslim countries have always been saturated with hashish marijuana, opium etc.

    Many blame those drugs for the historical stagnation and passivity of Muslims.

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  • @utu
    Medical weed is just a fraud so growers and retailers can earn money from weed.

    Follow the money. In Colorado I knew several marijuana dispensaries that were run by Israelis. Then I learned that Israel has big industry and "research" in "medical" marijuana which I did not know at that time.

    How the Booming Israeli Weed Industry Is Changing American Pot
    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/how-booming-israeli-weed-industry-is-changing-american-pot-w499117

    MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS IN 2018 COULD HELP ISRAEL BECOME A GLOBAL SUPERPOWER
    http://www.newsweek.com/israel-marijuana-research-laws-us-fda-cannabis-706515

    The Holy Land of Medical Marijuana
    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-04-11/israel-is-a-global-leader-in-marijuana-research

    The issue of legalization of marijuana and connections to Israel should be looked at just like the issue of gambling and Indian casinos where there are connections to Israel and the times when similar projects were piloted in South Africa's Bantustans.

    American libertarians who were and are at the forefront of advocating the legalization of gambling and drugs not for the first time find themselves as being cast in the roles of useful idiots.

    Very interesting. The medical marijuana dispensaries run by non Israelis will soon be run out of business.
    Aren’t Israelis involved in the ecstasy trade as well?

    I remember NORML the old legalize marijuana lobby organized about 50 years ago. A lot of them were Young Jewish attorneys and activists funded by the numerous do gooder non profits.

    Maybe they just needed a job, maybe not. Maybe it was just Jews bringing lights into nations and doing good as they always have done, like desegregating the schools and subjecting millions of White children to 12 years of bullying and beatings

    Jewish do gooderism, the cause of most of the horrors of the 20th century

    What about a law that prohibits Jews from practicing public interest law? Check out the names of the plaintiff’s attorneys in every desegregation, affirmative action, gay marriage trans bathrooms etc etc etc lawsuit.
    It’s just endless Jewish names.

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  • @Renoman
    They're stupid and weak, the only good junkie is a dead one.

    I sympathise with and understand your sentiment.

    At the very least, avoid them at all costs, I can’t quite bring myself to agree
    with , but it is only my syncretic religious feelings (conservative but disliking Holy-Roller-protestant and liberal Catholic and
    protestant, and some Buddhism, not the crazy post-war sects, except for the sarin attacks, Aum Shin-Rikkyou surprisingly close in doctrine to the others).

    About ten years ago, I had a ‘net friend in L.A. We were falling out because, mainly, I was making a similar comment to yours about junkies.

    It was obvious that he’d been a junky since his late teens or early twenties.

    He was loving oxycontin, or however it is spelt, but it turned out he also had brain cancer by then, blew his brains out with a pistol.

    To paraphrase Spike Milligan,

    And so my friend,
    This is the end,
    A warning to the few,
    Stay clear of junkies ’til the end,
    Or they’ll steal anything you value from you.

    At least my former friend was an ocean away, so never had the chance to be a thief from moi.

    Had enough experience of that from time elsewhere.

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  • @advancedatheist
    The Jews didn't invent the sexual revolution, Kevin. Havelock Ellis, Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, D.H. Lawrence, Alfred Kinsey and other white intellectuals laid the groundwork for this well before the 1960's.

    That’s s very good point.

    Much of the debate about Jews today is vitiated by widespread cultural amnesia and sheer ignorance of the incredibly rich cultural history of the West.

    The Jewish role is to exploit, amplify, and expand preexisting weaknesses of European culture.

    As someone who grew up reading the European classics and who was steeped in Western culture, it’s painfully obvious to me that Jews have not added anything substantially new.

    It’s hugely important to recognize and combat Jewish activity, and that’s an indispensable step back towards mental health.

    But if we don’t combine that with a study of what went wrong wrong European culture, it’s pointless.

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  • @advancedatheist
    The Jews didn't invent the sexual revolution, Kevin. Havelock Ellis, Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, D.H. Lawrence, Alfred Kinsey and other white intellectuals laid the groundwork for this well before the 1960's.

    Sigmund Fraud beat them all, kindoff

    Sigmund Fraud: A Jewish Conspiracy Against Society Even Today
    His nephew Edward Bernays made Fraud proud.

    Capitalism and Sexual Freedom – E Michael Jones

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  • The Clintons have been big in this drugs thingie

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  • @anno nimus
    why should one bother to comment here? is the question. besides prof. kevin would not read it, even if big huge if he read it it would make no difference b/c being well grown up man he has already decided what he should believe or being academic thinks he already knows better than us less educated or inferior (take ur pik) mortals. so commenting here, is it for perhaps for that lone soul searching for the truth online, looking for guidance from comments of strangers? who r we kidding? who r we to advise anyone, who asked for it in the first place! is it for the goons of deep state who monitor our every utterrance and farts so they can use it to assail us or our loved ones? or is it to take advantage of the Democratic safety valve to rant and blow off a little hot steam? or is it b/c one does not have a better thing to do in order to pass time and mitigate boredom? that is the question or those r the questions, to b or not to b.
    the prof mentions the suffering of blacks in passing. he doesn't give a da... about blacks. his main beef is about whites. that's ok b/c charity must start at home. but herein lies his problem, he doesn't believe in charity for he is an evolutionist. i.e. a fake scientist. but if some other clever group uses fake science to attack his favored group, he cries foul. but from his evolutionist view point what is foul should actually be considered what's is fair since everything has to about survival of the fittest at the expense of all those people, organisms, environment, u name it... considered unfit or having lower i.q. or w.q. (w for wealth) or m.f.q. (military force of course, what did u think?!)
    though he pretends to be a social scientist kevin (does familiarity breed affection or else?) is not a logician. the logical conclusion to his darwinism is he should become a jew. yes it is possible... look at the ivankas and where they r today! if this opioid (never spelled down before now, thanks for autocomplete) thing we're happening solely to blacks, kevin would now be proliferating "i told you so, rushton said so, darwin was right, these people r not yet...." etc.
    Seriously though, in the spirit of Christmas, and for the sake of the Truth, let me say this:
    black and white, yellow and brown
    all were created by the Same Devine
    descended down from a single man.
    if defeated at your own game
    don't find excuses that r lame
    recognize that u r to blame
    u look up to Sodom, instead of Bethlehem
    rejecting God, u embrace mammon
    forgetting Christ, u worship man
    may the King have mercy upon your soul and mine
    lest we drink of the cup of wrath vine.
    Merry Christmas!!!

    I find it hard to believe there are still people who do not believe in evolution in this day and age. How do you think germs mutate into resistant stains?

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  • @AndrewR
    So edgy bro.

    You’ve clearly never had a problem with junkies stealing your stuff. That will get you wishing genocide on the whole lot of them ASAP.

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    Junkies aren't all thieves.
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  • @advancedatheist
    The Jews didn't invent the sexual revolution, Kevin. Havelock Ellis, Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, D.H. Lawrence, Alfred Kinsey and other white intellectuals laid the groundwork for this well before the 1960's.

    Not true. Your list is a mere pittance in comparison.

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  • @AndrewR
    The primary solutions to the opioid epidemic are twofold: tougher restrictions on prescriptions, and more widely available and better-funded treatment. Giving more pigs more money to execute their corrupt war on drugs is hardly an inevitable consequence of increased awareness of the opioid epidemic, let alone the only possible consequence.

    said:
    ” Giving more pigs more money to execute their corrupt war on drugs is hardly an inevitable consequence of increased awareness of the opioid epidemic, let alone the only possible consequence.”

    Wise up, they’re already asking for and getting more funding.

    Just search: opioid crisis funding

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  • @jacques sheete

    The Bronfman family became very rich from prohibition.
     
    Thank you.

    I wonder how many have ever heard of Bronfman, (who bought out Newark’s bootleg kings, Zwillman and Joseph Reinfeld), or any of the others, yet everyone and his third cousin knows about the goy, Kennedy.

    I wonder why...!

    “the Bronfman family made millions from bootlegging, accounting for half the illegal liquor crossing the border,”

    http://www.wnd.com/2008/02/57354/

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  • @Alden
    Hasn’t marijuana been outlawed in most states since the 1930s? You probably meant that big pharma lobbies against legalization of weed for medical and recreational use.

    Medical weed is just a fraud so growers and retailers can earn money from weed. Nothing wrong with earning the mortgage payment from the 99 legal plants in the back bedroom, but all the standard pain killers from aspirin to Vicodin do a much better job

    The states and counties want weed legalized so they can get more sales, income, corporate and other taxes from legal weed operations.

    You obviously don’t know anyone who used weed for pain. You obviously don’t know anyone who needs pain drugs. You are a typical internet “ researcher” who believes everything he reads on google, Wikipedia and the MSM

    Medical weed is just a fraud so growers and retailers can earn money from weed.

    Follow the money. In Colorado I knew several marijuana dispensaries that were run by Israelis. Then I learned that Israel has big industry and “research” in “medical” marijuana which I did not know at that time.

    How the Booming Israeli Weed Industry Is Changing American Pot

    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/how-booming-israeli-weed-industry-is-changing-american-pot-w499117

    MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS IN 2018 COULD HELP ISRAEL BECOME A GLOBAL SUPERPOWER

    http://www.newsweek.com/israel-marijuana-research-laws-us-fda-cannabis-706515

    The Holy Land of Medical Marijuana

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-04-11/israel-is-a-global-leader-in-marijuana-research

    The issue of legalization of marijuana and connections to Israel should be looked at just like the issue of gambling and Indian casinos where there are connections to Israel and the times when similar projects were piloted in South Africa’s Bantustans.

    American libertarians who were and are at the forefront of advocating the legalization of gambling and drugs not for the first time find themselves as being cast in the roles of useful idiots.

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    Very interesting. The medical marijuana dispensaries run by non Israelis will soon be run out of business.
    Aren’t Israelis involved in the ecstasy trade as well?

    I remember NORML the old legalize marijuana lobby organized about 50 years ago. A lot of them were Young Jewish attorneys and activists funded by the numerous do gooder non profits.

    Maybe they just needed a job, maybe not. Maybe it was just Jews bringing lights into nations and doing good as they always have done, like desegregating the schools and subjecting millions of White children to 12 years of bullying and beatings

    Jewish do gooderism, the cause of most of the horrors of the 20th century

    What about a law that prohibits Jews from practicing public interest law? Check out the names of the plaintiff’s attorneys in every desegregation, affirmative action, gay marriage trans bathrooms etc etc etc lawsuit.
    It’s just endless Jewish names.
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  • Anon • Disclaimer says:

    Every person who dies from an opoid overdose is one more person who isn’t driving under the influence and plowing into innocent people. You need to look on the bright side, Kevin. We need to get these bad genes out of the pool. How are we going to evolve our species out of addiction otherwise?

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  • @FKA Max
    This could be the reason why the MSM push the opioid crisis narrative:

    The Risks of Non-Opioid Pain Medications


    Two of the most commonly prescribed non-opioid “pain medications” are Lyrica [which is the second most-advertised drug at the moment, see figure below] (pregabalin) and Neurontin (gabapentin), both of which were initially approved by the FDA as anti-seizure drugs. The dangers of these medications are too often minimized by doctors, government agencies, and the media -- and to some degree remain unknown (particularly in the long-term). [...] Compare these potential side effects to those of opioids. When used appropriately, the major side effects of opioid pain medication are constipation and dependence -- both of which also happen to be listed as side effects of Lyrica and Neurontin.
     
    - https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/9/29/the-risks-of-non-opioid-pain-medications

    It is a similar move/tactic to what "Big Soda and Sugar" did when switching from regular sugar to artificial sweeteners due to the obesity epidemic, even though Diet products are believed to be even unhealthier than regular sugar products.

    There is a real opioid and obesity crisis in the U.S., in my opinion, but the solutions the industries which caused them in the first place offer, to supposedly solve and fix these problems, are only exacerbating the situation.

    The only solution to fix these problems is to consume less sugar in our diets and to take fewer drugs in general, but that would hurt "Big Pharma"'s and "Big Soda and Sugar"'s bottom line, and we can't have that, of course:

    Gain weight by “going diet?” Artificial sweeteners and the neurobiology of sugar cravings https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/ Yang (2010)
    Lastly, artificial sweeteners, precisely because they are sweet, encourage sugar craving and sugar dependence.
     

    - http://www.unz.com/isteve/seattle-mayors-paternalistic-plan-to-tax-junk-calories-is-racist/#comment-1864735


    The top 10 advertisers in Big Pharma

    https://www.fiercepharma.com/special-report/top-10-advertisers-big-pharma

    Drug makers now spend $5 billion a year on advertising. Here’s what that buys.

    The advertisers of the top 20 best-selling drugs directed two-thirds of their TV ad spending last year on just four networks — broadcast titans CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX.

    https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/09/drug-industry-advertising/

    https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/The-20-most-advertised-Rx-drugs-in-2015-by-spending-1024x590.png

    The Risks of Non-Opioid Pain Medications
    [...]
    https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/9/29/the-risks-of-non-opioid-pain-medications

    I just did some quick searches on the innocuously named “Pain News Network” group/site I quoted above, and they appear to be a pharmaceutical industry propaganda news outlet. What made me suspicious of them was their “About Us” section, in which they claim that “It is estimated that 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from chronic pain — including about 100 million Americans.” – https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/overview/ These numbers of chronic pain sufferers seem exaggerated to me, especially the U.S. numbers, which would mean that about 1/3 of all Americans suffer from (presumably unbearable) chronic pain that requires opioids to be able to manage that pain and cope with it.

    This is what I found on them:

    It was striking that much of the opposition seemed to come from rather mysterious organizations, the Pain Care Forum, Power of Pain Foundation, Washington Legal Foundation, and Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. However, the reporting on these organizations was minimal. Furthermore, some of the news sources reporting on the opposition to the CDC guidelines also were rather mysterious, such as the Pain News Network, National Pain Report, and Legal News Line.

    One recent media article, and some of our previous blogging, though suggest that the opposition organizations all have ties to the pharmaceutical industry, and in several cases, directly to one of the major producers of legal opioids. On December 23, 2015, Lee Fang wrote in the Intercept by way of an introduction,

    The pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and market OxyContin, Vicodin, and other highly addictive opioid painkillers — drugs that have fueled the epidemic of overdoses and heroin addiction — are funding nonprofit groups fighting furiously against efforts to reform how these drugs are prescribed. https://theintercept.com/2015/12/23/oxycontin-cdc-politics/

    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/the-opposition-to-guidelines-discouraging-overuse-of-narcotics.html

    This is what the author of that blog post commented in the comments section:

    Roy M Poses MD
    January 5, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    Just a reminder – the original blog post was mainly about stealth public relations/ stealth health policy advocacy. I tried to focus on the organizations which made rather vague complaints about the CDC guidelines, centering on allegations of lack of transparency in and conflicts affecting the guideline development process. Yet these organizations were not exactly transparent about their own glaring conflicts of interest. Furthermore, their opposition was publicized by somewhat mysterious news sites, at least one of which actually appears to be a full-time PR operation by the US Chamber of Commerce.

    I did not mean to discuss the content of the guidelines in detail. Yet nearly all the comments here seem to be about the management of chronic pain, not the issues I brought up. And many comments make all sorts of complex biological or clinical assertions without supplying any evidence, especially from good clinical research, to support them. And this is on a blog focused on economics, politics, business, finance, etc not medicine or health care.

    I realize comments sections often get tangential, but this one has gotten so tangential I wonder if some of the comments are meant as deliberate distraction?

    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/the-opposition-to-guidelines-discouraging-overuse-of-narcotics.html#comment-2531137

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    The International Pain Foundation (iPain) which is affiliated with the Pain News Network (PNN) https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/affiliates/ , for example, "only" puts the number of chronic pain sufferers at about 700 million globally instead of the 1.5 billion claimed by PNN.

    There are over 700 million people living with chronic pain, and it is not talked about much. We are trying to change that with your help! At the iPain, we know that education and knowledge can transform a person’s future. - https://internationalpain.org/about-us/

    This number seems more realistic to me, and would probably put the number of chronic pain sufferers in the U.S. at about 50 million. Even this number still strikes me as rather high, but not completely inconceivable.

    Then there is also this:

    Efficacy, Tolerability, and Dose-Dependent Effects of Opioid Analgesics for Low Back Pain
    A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Low back pain is a common health problem and the leading cause of disability worldwide.1,2 While management guidelines encourage the prescription of simple analgesics for low back pain (eg, paracetamol or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs [NSAIDs]), many people with low back pain are prescribed opioid analgesics.3,4 Findings from the United States show that more than half of the people regularly treated with prescription opioid analgesics have chronic low back pain.4 Similarly in Australia the 3 most commonly prescribed drugs for back pain are opioid analgesics or opioid analgesic combinations: oxycodone (11.7%), tramadol (8.2%), and paracetamol and codeine combination (12.1%) (percent of all prescribed medicines for back pain).5,6
    [...]
    Our review challenges the prevailing view that opioid medicines are powerful analgesics for low back pain. Opioid analgesics had minimal effects on pain, and even at high doses the magnitude of the effect is less than the accepted thresholds for a clinically important treatment effect on pain. Importantly, the magnitude of the treatment effect we observed is similar to that reported for NSAIDs vs placebo in the Cochrane review of NSAIDs.
     
    - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2522397
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  • @niteranger
    Ashkenazi Jews mate assortatively which is great for fish but not for humans. One only needs to look at the genetic profile of Jews to see this mess. Ashkenazi Jews have 30 to 40 percent greater incidence of mental disorders according to their own studies.

    These people will destroy civilization. There appears to be little hope because they have used racism and antisemitism to conquer every nation.

    Ashkenazi Jews have 30 to 40 percent greater incidence of mental disorders

    Buggered cousins > degeneracy > homosexuality.
    “Jews more than twice as likely to be gay”.

    http://akinokure.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/jews-more-than-twice-as-likely-to-be.html

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  • Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    So far only 2 people who have actually experienced serious pain and taken any kind of pain killers have commented. Haven’t seen any posts by medical people who see patients suffering from pain.

    I can comment both semi-professionally and as a patient who has had a misfortune to have numerous acute surgeries and a chronic pain condition.

    The current panic is getting dangerously close to throwing the baby out with the bath water. Opioids are godsend! So far, we have more or less nothing that treats serious pain. Opioids are not going anywhere as far as acute pain goes – there is no substitute. Alas, there is already a trend to severely withdraw their use for chronic pain. Which, as applied to the hospice care, basically means increasing suffering in people who already suffer and may well wish that they died instead. If the anti-opioid movement gets more traction, we’ll end up with a lot more people suffering needlessly. Think terrible toothaches over weekend, doctors not believing you that NSAIDs do nothing to your terrible arthritis pain while you are waiting for an operation, etc. You might be healthy now but you will get chronic pain at some point – and no, the pot does not work and no, there are no safe ways of treating debilitating pain.

    That said, of course opioids were massively over-prescribed (10 days supply “just in case” after a minor surgery was not uncommon). I don’t know about Jewish conspiracy and stuff like that but someone did drop the ball – the scale of the problem was genuinely not widely known, and the feedback to the prescribing doctors in cases that did result in dependencies was almost nonexistent.

    There is very obviously a strong genetic component to opioid addiction. It’s very likely to be less complex that IQ. Hopefully studies with N>100,000 are forthcoming. That ought to be part of the solution. Another is removing the stigma and societal punishment for reporting dependence. A lot of overdoses are simply due to the fact that doctors are unaware of the patients’ history of opioid exposure. And the thing with opioids is just that: the longer you use, the easier it is to overdose.

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    Finally someone who knows what he’s talking about.

    My motto is only post about what you know.

    Considering the age of most of these old codgers who rant against pain killers it’s hard to believe they don’t have the aches and pains of old age as well as the occupational damage done to the muscle skeletal system by whatever jobs they had.

    The great benefit of medical marijuana is the dreamy euphoria the “patient” gets. They will gladly endure the pain to get the marijuana

    The opioid pain killers just block the pain nerve impulses to the brain. The pain is stopped, but there is no euphoria as comes with marijuana use.

    Marijuana doesn’t block the pain nerve impulses. It just makes the pain more endurable, like alcohol does. That is why alcohol was used as a pain killer for surgery for centuries.

    These old codgers are old enough to remember all the liberal media crusades such as:

    Mid 1980s heterosexual AIDS. Totally false. Then and now AIDS was and is a gay male disease that liberal crusade was an attempt to distract from the fecal aspects of gay male sex.

    1970s eggs cause heart attacks because of cholesterol. That liberal media crusade was a project of Pillsbury mills and the wheat, corn and oat farmers of America. Quelle surprise

    Recently we had the evil White male monsters Darren Wilson and George Zimmerman viciously murdering those innocent children Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown.

    Before that the racist White hating liberal media gave us the Duke Lacrosse false rape accusations.

    But self righteous old codgers love to rant and rave about things of which they know nothing.

    Seriously though, I wonder what the purpose of this latest liberal crusade is?

    Maybe the liberals just want to withhold necessary pain killers from Whites so they suffer more pain.

    Maybe it is the medical marijuana people who want the patients to use ineffective marijuana in lieu of effective Vicodin.

    The force behind the anti Vicodin movement is probably the manufacturererd of another drug, tramodol. Tramodol, just like Vicodin, blocks the pain nerve impulses from reaching the brain.

    The tramadol sales reps are flooding every medical office in the country urging drs to prescribe tramadol instead of Vicodin because the funded by tramadol researchers claim tramadol is not addictive but Vicodin is.

    It’s exactly the same as the beet and cane sugar growers against the corn syrup and aspartame producers.

    Or the chicken and fish producers claiming that beef and pork causes heart attacks. The beef and pork producers fight back by claiming that chicken has salmonella and fish has mercury and it is raised in unhealthy fish farms

    It’s all just marketing. Follow the money and look at who finds the so called research.

    It’s probably the tramadol manufacturers behind the latest anti Vicodin crusade.

    And marijuana isn’t addictive but Vicodin is. Right.

    , @Alden
    What does opioid dependency really mean? A patient in severe pain, such as with terminal cancer stops taking the pain killer and the pain comes back.

    So the patient needs his or her next dose to block the nerve impulses to the brain.
    I guess that’s the liberal media definition of addiction.

    I wonder if insulin is next on the liberals list of necessary meds to be banned because it’s addictive.
    , @Anonymous
    Pain is a warning that your body is damaged in some way. It's not good to ignore such warnings.
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  • The Jews didn’t invent the sexual revolution, Kevin. Havelock Ellis, Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, D.H. Lawrence, Alfred Kinsey and other white intellectuals laid the groundwork for this well before the 1960′s.

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    Not true. Your list is a mere pittance in comparison.
    , @Malla
    Sigmund Fraud beat them all, kindoff

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyEBMw41-fA

    Sigmund Fraud: A Jewish Conspiracy Against Society Even Today
    His nephew Edward Bernays made Fraud proud.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtfNksBbidw

    Capitalism and Sexual Freedom - E Michael Jones

    , @AaronB
    That's s very good point.

    Much of the debate about Jews today is vitiated by widespread cultural amnesia and sheer ignorance of the incredibly rich cultural history of the West.

    The Jewish role is to exploit, amplify, and expand preexisting weaknesses of European culture.

    As someone who grew up reading the European classics and who was steeped in Western culture, it's painfully obvious to me that Jews have not added anything substantially new.

    It's hugely important to recognize and combat Jewish activity, and that's an indispensable step back towards mental health.

    But if we don't combine that with a study of what went wrong wrong European culture, it's pointless.
    , @Alden
    Margaret Sanger advocated birth control. All her preaching assumed sex was for married women. She assumed unmarried women would use the oldest natural method of birth control, celibacy until marriage.

    She never, never advocated unmarried women having sex.
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  • @Simply Simon
    You are right. If opoids disappear some other equally powerful narcotic will take its place because as the population increases there will be a commensurate increase in the number of people who need something to erase the self-images of their depressing lives.

    I think you are confusing pain killers and anti depressants.

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    You are right, narcotic is the wrong word. Perhaps hallucinogenic.
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  • @Carroll Price
    Jews are proud of Lenny Bruce. How do I know? Because when Jews are proud of other famous Jews (like Lenny Bruce) Wikipedia never fails to mention the person being a Jew multiple times. Whereas, if the famous person is a crook (like Bernie Madoff) Wikipedia usually fails to mention the person's ethnic background or states that the person was "born of Jewish parents" etc.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce

    What do Jews say about Aaron Kaminsky *a Jew who left DNA on the clothes of some of his victims?

    * aka Jack the Ripper

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  • @jacques sheete

    The Bronfman family became very rich from prohibition.
     
    Thank you.

    I wonder how many have ever heard of Bronfman, (who bought out Newark’s bootleg kings, Zwillman and Joseph Reinfeld), or any of the others, yet everyone and his third cousin knows about the goy, Kennedy.

    I wonder why...!

    The Bronfmans got their start as pimps, prostitutes and brothel keepers in Canada. They were the standard Russian Jews who arrived in the Americas in the late 19th century. In those days brothels served drinks and snacks. They owned so many brothels they brought their booze wholesale and then started a wholesale liquor business.

    I don’t think Mexican liquor manufactureres took advantage of prohibition. But the Canadian liquor manufacturers made a fortune selling their legally manufactured booze to American bootleggers.

    The US government constantly badgers the Canadian government to do something about the flood of Canadian liquor in America.

    The Canadian government laughed and did nothing to restrict Canadians liquor manufacture.
    Check out another Jew, Julius Hammer, a founder of the communist party of America and his 200 proof medicinal “ tincture of ginger” sold by prescription in pharmacies.

    Every body made money from prohibition, from Italians who immigrated after prohibition was enacted to descendants of the first English settlers back in 1600.

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