Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
As a cancer doctor, I find this a horrifically bad idea that won't anything to decrease opioid abuse. What it will do, in contrast, is to make the lives of chronic pain sufferers much worse and make it MUCH harder for their doctors to take care of them. WTF were you thinking?
— David Gorski, MD, PhD (@gorskon) March 20, 2019
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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by artappraiser on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 10:45pm
Came across a site and articles a few weeks ago noting the media continually conflated distinct classes of types of opioids and trends, such that prescription opioid deaths are relatively flat (perhaps a bit high depending), whereas illegal fentanyl abuse is where the escalation is, but they lump it in with the others. Who exactly that serves or why is unclear, but the charts and info are weird.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 2:04am
Found a good article frome more respected site that says basically same thing - the media, CDC, industry are misleadingly conflating disparate drugs, sources and trends.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/21/the-myth-of-the-roots...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 2:42am
Meanwhile as we toy with pot dispensaries and try to get our shit together on opioids, our "just say no" drug policy takes its toll on the rest of the world:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/mar/20/the-campaign-...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 6:45am
Great, thanks, the more on it the better and full articles definitely better than tweets. What Gillibrand & Gardner are doing for ignorant pandering reasons is just plain cruel and is going to steal quality of life away from a lot of sick people.Who needs this kind of lawmaking? Nobody!
There are already more than plenty restrictions on doctors still brave enough to prescribe this stuff, the ones that were the problem are mostly gone and that is precisely the whyfore of an epidemic of even more dangerous illegal products.
Nothing drives me nuts like the stupid Puritan culture of "suffering and pain is good for you" coming from supposed "liberals". I can't see anything here but a cynical "tough on drugs" vote getting ploy at the cost of suffering people, I really do want to say have you no decency?
This is exactly the kind of nanny statism and bureaucracy growing that makes so many not trust giving power to the Dem party.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 10:10am
plus there's the cry wolf aftereffect of stupid overreach like this: when a restriction is really needed, nobody believes them that it is. Because they have a record of just making shit up to pander to certain constituencies to look like they've done something.
Comes to mind this doesn't much help in the Dem effort to sell "Medicare for all" type messaging to the whole electorate. I can just see the GOP messaging: do what the say and let the gummint take full control and then when they have it they will take all your prescription drugs away....
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 10:21am
another p.s. on This is exactly the kind of nanny statism and bureaucracy growing that makes so many not trust giving power to the Dem party.
Perfect example to me: those two docs screaming noooooo in their tweeted replies to Gillibrand. You think they trust the Dem party? There's your swing voter right there, Senators (not to mention possible donors), and you're turning them off big time.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 10:52am
a thought provoking point related to my Puritan meme:
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 2:57pm
Drug nannies hit the art world.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/mar/22/austerity-forcing-arts-i...
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 9:35am
I know, I know... Sigh, it's complicated. Been going on for quite sometime, got some real savvy activist artists on this one, too, far far more skilled than the "De-Colonize This Place" crew. While it's true the Sacklers do appear to be far from angels, not caring a whit about amoral and some say criminal medical marketing plans, it's not like they were supervillians plotting all out murder of the working class, ala Jay Gould's I can hire half of them to murder the other half. They were just working the fucked up money driven medical industrial complex we have, in the same way everyone else that's a part of it does. To be clear: they are not "special". But it's a meme and they are the sacrifice, instead of the poorly trained docs that didn't object and just believed the salesmen as a majority of them do. I'd like to see this kind of energy put toward preventing what they did rather than attack the attempt to wash ill-gotten gains in philanthropic pursuits. All least they are not putting it into more shitty hospitals and huge medical industrial ops that kill people again like most of their ilk! It's just art, ain't going to hurt that much...
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 6:06pm
Meanwhile, outside the box of Puritan moralist thinking. How about questioning whether some doctors even know WTF they are doing, and Congresspersons even less so:
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/25/2019 - 8:02pm