Andrea Mazzarino explores how so many of the American military personnel dispatched to fight it and the rest of the disastrous Global War on Terror have suffered until this very day, while this country largely turned its back, leaving them in the lurch.
America’s Remarkable Unwillingness to Support Its Veterans
Tag: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
FDA Cracks Down on Animal Tranquilizer That Is Sometimes Mixed With Fentanyl
FDA Cracks Down on Animal Tranquilizer That Is Sometimes Mixed With Fentanyl
This is why fentanyl is used in black-market opioids in the first place. Users did not demand a substance that is 40 times more potent than heroin for recreational use; prohibitionist policies made it more challenging to procure pain medication, leading pain patients to seek out heroin. Heroin, however, is a crop drug, which makes it expensive to produce, ship, and buy. Fentanyl is synthetic, making it cheaper to produce, ship, and buy. When the law makes it harder to get legal pain pills, everybody adapts, and you get illegal fentanyl with no quality control.
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The new CDC guidelines aren’t much better.
UPDATE: ‘Do not exaggerate importance of America’s equivalent to Wagner Group PMC’ says Russia
RUSSIA’S Press Secretary to the President, Dmitry Peskov, spoke on Thursday, February 2, about the news that the Mozart Group, America’s answer to Russia’s Wagner Group – Putin’s network of mercenaries and de facto private army – was apparently ‘leaving’ Ukraine and said not to exaggerate the PMC’s significance.
UPDATE: ‘Do not exaggerate importance of America’s equivalent to Wagner Group PMC’ says Russia
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Raped, abused, exploited: Ukrainian women seeking refuge in Israel find no haven
A harrowing examination reveals much abuse sliding under the authorities’ radar — or being willfully ignored — while the perpetrators remain free to commit further crimes
Raped, abused, exploited: Ukrainian women seeking refuge in Israel find no haven
US Lawmakers Say Student Loan Forgiveness Will Hurt Military Recruiting
Nineteen members of the US House of Representatives have written a letter [PDF] to President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin cautioning that the partial cancellation of student debts can have the unintended consequence of reducing military recruitment in the United States.
US Lawmakers Say Student Loan Forgiveness Will Hurt Military Recruiting
4yo Boy Kicked Out of School, Police Called — Because He Wasn’t Wearing a Mask
4yo Boy Kicked Out of School, Police Called — Because He Wasn’t Wearing a Mask
Highlighting the utter insanity of these policies is the fact that the very next day, the district switched their stance. The day before, it was illegal to enter the school without a mask but now, 24 hours later, it was no longer illegal.
Even the WHO says children under 5 don’t need to wear masks!
BUT WHY?! Kenya Has Zero Cases But U.S Pharmaceutical Firm To Start Vaccine Trial + WHO Issues Monkeypox Advisory to Kenya
Video via Wongel Zelalem
Tonix will test its monkeypox vaccine in Kenya next year, and no eyes on accelerated path at FDA
The study of Tonix Pharmaceuticals’ live virus vaccine will occur at Kenya Medical Research Institute, or KEMRI, in the East African country, the partners said Thursday. While Kenya has no reported cases of the virus that leads to painful lesions, the country is close to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which had 163 cases as of July 27, according to a CDC tracker.
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Tonix has been working on monkeypox and smallpox for close to a decade, Lederman said. The company’s vaccine, dubbed TNX-801, is traced back to a research collaboration with the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Alberta.
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Just giving your hard-earned pay back to the government.
Troops dump $100 million per year into Defense Department-owned slot machines
7/25/22 John Vaughn on Why People Aren’t Joining the Military
7/25/22 John Vaughn on Why People Aren’t Joining the Military
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by John Vaughn | Jul 20, 2022
A new report from NBC news has generated a lot of discussion about the relationship between the military and American society. Especially from right-leaning commentators, much of the blame is placed on the current administration and the apparent increase of “woke” cultural initiatives and vaccine mandates. Prominent right wing personality and veteran BowTiedRanger lists three reasons:
A Veteran Explains Why People Aren’t Joining the Military









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