Here is a summary of the foreign policy for the empire of Zionist US kleptocracy: Build military bases all over the world, create proxy rebels in every nation, and support proxy regimes worldwide. When anyone disagrees with the US empire, then declare the person to be a terrorist. Then use anti-terrorism, liberation, human rights, and democracy to justify more expansion of the US empire. Then more international refugees and global immigrants move to the liberating nation of USA, and then US commoners complain about dysfunctional multiculturalism, while the US oligarchy live in exclusive and decadent privileges. Repeat until every natural resource and every worker is controlled by the US empire's cartels and proxies. Dumb-mock-crazy elections fooled the masses into thinking they actually have political freedom. It’s generally the same under, “They hate us for our freedoms, so we must fight them over there instead of over here. Mission accomplished! Stay the course,” “Hope and change we can believe in, yes we can!” or “Make America great again!”
Speaking of MAGA, once again Trump talked about America’s problem with drug abuse, but the Trump presidency has offered zero real-world solutions to solve this addiction: “Trump calls opioid epidemic an ‘emergency’ but offers few new resources to combat it” (http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-opioids-20171026-story.html). Trump and his acolytes refuse to admit America has significant problems with gun accidents and gun crimes. They might as well say, “Now is not the time to talk about controlling drug abuse. People are suffering and dying from drug addiction. Don’t be insensitive. We must focus on providing aid to the victims. Drugs do not kill people. People kill people. If you make drugs illegal or you put more restrictions on drug access, then you will only punish the responsible and law-abiding drug users, because the illegal drug users will find various means to bend and break the law. The US Constitution does not talk about preventing and managing drug addiction, and, based on the Tenth Amendment, this means people have the natural and God-given right to freely use drugs.”
Trump said too many Americans are dying from opioid addiction and other drugs, and he shifted some of the blame on China. China exports drug-manufacturing tools to the US: “‘Truly terrifying’: Chinese suppliers flood US and Canada with deadly fentanyl” (https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/05/fentanyl-traced-to-china/). China also exports fentanyl to the US, and fentanyl is an opioid that has a fast and short-term effect: “Underground labs in China are devising potent new opiates faster than authorities can respond” (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/underground-labs-china-are-devising-potent-new-opiates-faster-authorities-can-respond).
The United States of America has a longer history of importing lots of recreational drugs from Latin America: “The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking” (http://origins.osu.edu/article/shifting-terrain-latin-american-drug-trafficking).
Here is my conspiracy theory: America’s pharmaceutical corporations do not want Americans to consume lots of cheap drugs from foreign sources. America’s pharmaceutical corporations want their expensive drugs to be the main or sole source of addiction for Americans and people worldwide. However, over the long-term, Americans (nearly everyone on this planet) cannot afford big pharma’s costly drugs, thus, Americans turn to cheap foreign drugs, whether legal or illegal. The moral pretext is a much more persuasive argument than corporate profits for corporate elites, thus, American corporations and their non-profit organizations convinced Trump to exaggerate the dangers of foreign drugs and magnify the benefits of drugs from America’s pharmaceutical corporations.
America also has fake morality regarding drug users. Wall Street and Hollywood enjoy recreational drugs with zero to minimal punishments. The unofficial rule is that America’s professional athletes are allowed to secretly use recreational drugs and performance enhancing supplements and drugs (e.g., pro-boxers like Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield; MLB players like Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa; endurance athletes like Lance Armstrong, his teammates, and his European competitors; NFL players; professional wrestlers; and professional body builders).
However, unPresidented Dumb-Old Tramp is too dumb and arrogant to understand that America’s drug abuse is fundamentally caused by America’s culture of consumerism gone wild. America’s central banks, major corporations, and government officials are all money junkies, thus, they make lots of money by selling overrated and costly products and services to the average person. Thus, the flood of junk food that causes long-term health problems, false advertisements that persuade people to buy what they don’t need, toxic medication that trades one illness for side-effects, hypocritical regulations that favor some and disfavors others, propaganda news, blockbuster special effects that sell agitprop with simple or pointlessly convoluted stories, etc.
Trump, himself, has a history of decadently living way beyond his means with a luxurious inheritance, foolish investments, hiring lawyers who created shell corporations that privatized his large gains and socialized his larger losses. During his presidential campaign, Trump boasted he knows the American system better than anyone and only he knows how to fix it. Then Trump won the presidential election and soon admitted, “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”: “Donald Trump: ‘NOBODY KNEW THAT HEALTH CARE COULD BE SO COMPLICATED!’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN1kJV59QCw).
Instead of realistically learning from trial and error, Trump prefers to whitewash history to massage his large and fragile ego. America spends more and consumes more prescription drugs than all other nations: “Why do Americans spend so much on pharmaceuticals?” (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/americans-spend-much-pharmaceuticals). This legal consumption includes prescription opioids.
Here is a Consumer Reports article on America’s addiction to prescription drugs: “Too Many Meds? America's Love Affair With Prescription Medication” (https://www.consumerreports.org/prescription-drugs/too-many-meds-americas-love-affair-with-prescription-medication/). See below for quotes from this article:
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The total number of prescriptions filled by all Americans, including adults and children, has increased by 85 percent over two decades, while the total US population has increased by only 21 percent. . . . It’s a culture, say the experts we consulted, encouraged by intense marketing by drug companies and an increasingly harried healthcare system that makes dashing off a prescription the easiest way to address a patient’s concerns. . . . The percentage of Americans taking more than five prescription medications has nearly tripled in the past 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And in our survey, over a third of people 55 and older were taking that many drugs; 9 percent were taking more than 10.
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After four days applying the drug, Goehring suffered a stroke, according to a lawsuit he is part of against AbbVie, AndroGel’s maker. He’s one of more than 6,000 people nationwide suing six drug companies that make testosterone products, claiming that they suffered a heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular event after using one of the drugs.
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Two years ago, Diane McKenzie’s doctor recommended metformin (Glucophage) to treat a blood sugar level that put her at the high end of normal but still below the cutoff for diabetes. Concerned about developing the full-blown disease, McKenzie, then 44, agreed to take it. But almost immediately, she began to suffer from diarrhea and vomiting, known side effects. . . . Her experience illustrates another trend that’s putting more people on drugs: diagnosing them in the ‘predisease’ stage of a condition. . . . But “lowering the bar for what’s considered normal” can also get people on drugs before they need to be, says Allen Frances, M.D., a professor emeritus at Duke University who studies how the medical profession sometimes expands the definition of diseases. And treating people with drugs at the very early stage of a condition “often harms more people than it helps,” Frances says.
That’s what McKenzie, a nurse practitioner, says she worried about when she began experiencing side effects. After a few months, they were so intolerable she stopped taking metformin.
Research actually supports that approach. A 2015 study in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology found that for people with prediabetes, regular exercise plus a low-calorie, low-fat diet cut the incidence of developing type 2 diabetes by 27 percent; metformin lowered it by 18 percent. And the side effects of exercise and a healthy diet are other health benefits, not diarrhea and vomiting.
McKenzie decided to make lifestyle changes to lower her blood sugar. Key to her success, she believes, is the stray puppy she adopted, who motivated her to take long daily walks, helping her lose 70 pounds. Today McKenzie’s blood sugar levels are under control.
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Even though America has an opioid addiction problem, Americans are more vulnerable to alcohol abuse and tobacco products. Here are some data from “Statistics on Drug Addiction” (https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-statistics/):
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According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 21.5 million American adults (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in 2014.
Almost 80 percent of individuals suffering from a substance use disorder in 2014 struggled with an alcohol use disorder, NSDUH
In 2013, adult men in the United States struggled with an alcohol use disorder at rates double those of women, 10.8 million as compared to 5.8 million, NIAAA
The 2013 NSDUH reports that American Indians and Alaska natives had the highest rate of substance abuse and dependence at 14.3 percent.
Approximately 11.3 percent of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders suffered from substance abuse and dependence in 2013, NSDUH
According to NSDUH, Hispanics and whites suffered from substance abuse and dependence at similar rates in 2013, around 8.5 percent, while about 7.4 percent of African Americans struggled with it.
Asians suffered from substance abuse and dependency the least at rates around 4.5 percent, per the 2013 NSDUH.
A study of undergraduate college students published in the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse found that whites and Hispanics were more likely to have issues surrounding drug abuse than their Asian and African American counterparts.
Prescription drugs are abused at high rates. NSUDH reports that the most common types of psychotherapeutic drugs abused in 2013 were pain relievers, tranquilizers, stimulants, and sedatives in that order. Pain relievers are the most common cause of a substance use disorder among prescription drugs.
According to NCADD, alcohol is the most abused addictive substance in America.
In 2013, only 10.9 percent of the individuals who needed treatment in a specialized facility for a substance use or dependency concern actually received it, NSDUH
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Rush Limbaugh (bloated white guy) is a popular radio commentator for the Zionist Christian Republican Party, he boasts he is a leader of superior morality and politics, he supports Donald Trump, and he illegally consumes lots of OxyContin (which is an opioid), other painkillers, and other types of medication (e.g., Viagra for his foreign trips to promiscuous locales). Because Rush Limbaugh is wealthy and more socially connected, he was not punished for his drug abuse. Instead, Rush Limbaugh was sent to rehabilitation. Source 1: “Rush Limbaugh Arrested On Drug Charges” (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-arrested-on-drug-charges/). Source 2: “Warrants Detail Rush Limbaugh's Drug Use”
(http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/warrants-detail-rush-limbaughs-drug-use). Rush Limbaugh publicly and hypocritically advocates harsh punishments such as imprisonment for illegal drug users and illegal drug sellers. Source 3: “Rush Limbaugh drug-war quotes. Hypocrite windbag! Audio and banners, too!” (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/10/12/16528341.php). Source 4: “Bill Maher Rips ‘Drug Addict’ Rush Limbaugh’s Freddie Gray Hypocrisy” (https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-rips-drug-addict-rush-limbaughs-freddie-gray-hypocrisy/).
Rush Limbaugh is not the exception. He is the norm. America is suppose to have rule by law, but the law is created, interpreted, redacted, and enforced by America’s hypocritical oligarchy and its loyal servants. “White people are more likely to deal drugs, but black people are more likely to get arrested for it” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/30/white-people-are-more-likely-to-deal-drugs-but-black-people-are-more-likely-to-get-arrested-for-it/). There are various legal studies showing how the US court system is more forgiving or less punishing toward people who are wealthier and more socially connected, and the US court system is less forgiving and more punishing against people who are poorer and less socially connected. Compared to white Americans, black Americans tend to have less wealth and less political influence.
In addition, many drug abusers are peaceful people, thus, they should be sent to rehabilitation, but rehabilitation is expensive in America, thus, wealthier people and debt-burdened people pay for rehabilitation, and others are sent to jail or prison with violent criminals. This is obviously a double standard. Hypocrisy and unrealistic beliefs are major hurdles to solving America’s most expensive and largest consumption of prescription drugs and recreational drugs.
Throughout America, pharmaceutical corporations are allowed to (a) excessively charge for their medication, (b) use false advertisements and fraudulent science to hype up the benefits of their medication while censoring, downplaying, and misreporting the side effects of their medication, and (c) bribe medical doctors with various benefits (e.g., costly lunches and dinners, fancy vacations, counterfeit credit for scientific research, corporate investments, deceptive donations, prostitution, and revolving doors) in order to persuade medical doctors to over-prescribe pharmaceutical products to patients. Once and awhile, the so-called US justice system superficially or significantly punishes this deep and widespread corruption. The corporate leaders of Insys Therapeutics were accused of bribing doctors to excessively sell the company’s fentanyl spray: “Big Pharma Mogul Arrested For Bribing Doctors To Prescribe Fentanyl” (http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/26/big-pharma-mogul-arrested-for-bribing-doctors-to-prescribe-fentanyl/).
The dotard-in-chief has not and will not properly restrict the unhealthy profiteering by America’s pharmaceutical industry. Trump hired Scott Gottlieb to be the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Before leading the FDA, Scott Gottlieb has been a physician, assistant professor, and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Scott Gottlieb has a history of accepting legal bribes from pharmaceutical corporations, including those that dishonestly sell opioids. He also has a history of defending and promoting aggressive marketing and sales plans by pharmaceutical corporations, including those that dishonestly sell opioids. Trump wants us to believe Scott Gottlieb will solve America’s overuse of legal and illegal opioids and other drugs, but he has a history of trying to cancel the FDA’s regulations and facilitate pharmaceutical corporations’ chicanery: “Donald Trump's Pick to Oversee Big Pharma Is Addicted to Opioid-Industry Cash” (https://theintercept.com/2017/04/04/scott-gottlieb-opioid/).
The billionaire Sackler family (Jewish) made most of their fortune from the pharmaceutical corporation Purdue Pharma that dishonestly sold shit-loads of OxyContin (which is an opioid) to gullible patients, corrupt doctors, and misguided doctors, and this toxic scheme started in 1996. In other words, your losses and suffering are their profiteering gain. They started America’s modern addiction to various types of legal and illegal opioids. Before the start of their 1996 success, the Sackler family has a decades-long history of fraudulently selling lots of overrated drugs (e.g., various types of opioids, antiseptics, psychiatric drugs, and over-the-counter remedies) to unsuspecting customers. The Sackler family used their ill-gotten wealth and trick accounting to legally and illegally acquire and donate lots of ancient Chinese artifacts. The Sackler family did the same with ancient artifacts from various international cultures. The Sackler family also donates lots of their sickening money around the world, but the donations are not motivated by kindness, educational values, and artistic appreciation. The donations are based on showing off their so-called greatness. The Sackler family donates to both the Democrat Party and Republican Party, and their associated non-profit organization, think-tanks, foundations, etc. See this article, which is one out of many, about the parasitic and secretive Sackler family: “The Secretive Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis” (http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/).
Here are some quotes from the previous article:
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Between 1996 and 2001, the number of OxyContin prescriptions in the United States surged from about three hundred thousand to nearly six million, and reports of abuse started to bubble up in places like West Virginia, Florida, and Maine. (Research would later show a direct correlation between prescription volume in an area and rates of abuse and overdose.) Hundreds of doctors were eventually arrested for running pill mills. According to an investigation in the Los Angeles Times, even though Purdue kept an internal list of doctors it suspected of criminal diversion, it didn’t volunteer this information to law enforcement until years later.
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Over the next several years, dozens of class-action lawsuits were brought against Purdue. Many were dismissed, but in some cases Purdue wrote big checks to avoid going to trial. Several plaintiffs’ lawyers found that the company was willing to go to great lengths to prevent Richard Sackler from having to testify under oath. “They didn’t want him deposed, I can tell you that much,” recalled Marvin Masters, a lawyer who brought a class-action suit against Purdue in the early 2000s in West Virginia. “They were willing to sit down and settle the case to keep from doing that.” Purdue tried to get Richard removed from the suit, but when that didn’t work, the company settled with the plaintiffs for more than $20 million. Paul Hanly, a New York class-action lawyer who won a large settlement from Purdue in 2007, had a similar recollection. “We were attempting to take Richard Sackler’s deposition,” he said, “around the time that they agreed to a settlement.” (A spokesperson for the company said, “Purdue did not settle any cases to avoid the deposition of Dr. Richard Sackler, or any other individual.”)
When the federal government finally stepped in, in 2007, it extracted historic terms of surrender from the company. Purdue pleaded guilty to felony charges, admitting that it had lied to doctors about OxyContin’s abuse potential. (The technical charge was “misbranding a drug with intent to defraud or mislead.”) Under the agreement, the company paid $600 million in fines and its three top executives at the time—its medical director, general counsel, and Richard’s successor as president—pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges. The executives paid $34.5 million out of their own pockets and performed four hundred hours of community service. It was one of the harshest penalties ever imposed on a pharmaceutical company. (In a statement to Esquire, Purdue said that it “abides by the highest ethical standards and legal requirements.” The statement went on: “We want physicians to use their professional judgment, and we were not trying to pressure them.”)
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In 2010, Purdue executed a breathtaking pivot: Embracing the arguments critics had been making for years about OxyContin’s susceptibility to abuse, the company released a new formulation of the medication that was harder to snort or inject. Purdue seized the occasion to rebrand itself as an industry leader in abuse-deterrent technology. The change of heart coincided with two developments: First, an increasing number of addicts, unable to afford OxyContin’s high street price, were turning to cheaper alternatives like heroin; second, OxyContin was nearing the end of its patents. Purdue suddenly argued that the drug it had been selling for nearly fifteen years was so prone to abuse that generic manufacturers should not be allowed to copy it.
On April 16, 2013, the day some of the key patents for OxyContin were scheduled to expire, the FDA followed Purdue’s lead, declaring that no generic versions of the original OxyContin formulation could be sold. The company had effectively won several additional years of patent protection for its golden goose.
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In May, a dozen lawmakers in Congress, inspired by the L.A. Times investigation, sent a bipartisan letter to the World Health Organization warning that Sackler-owned companies were preparing to flood foreign countries with legal narcotics. “Purdue began the opioid crisis that has devastated American communities,” the letter reads. “Today, Mundipharma is using many of the same deceptive and reckless practices to sell OxyContin abroad.” Significantly, the letter calls out the Sackler family by name, leaving no room for the public to wonder about the identities of the people who stood behind Mundipharma.
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America’s international war on drugs has been a very expensive and painful failure. Here is one example out of many: In 2012 at Honduras, 4 innocent civilians (1 man, 2 pregnant women and a 14-year-old boy) were shot to death by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (US DEA) (Source: “New Evidence: US senators raise questions over casualties in DEA operations” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyCF06Ra1Q4)). Initially, the US government insisted its DEA agents defeated dangerous drug smugglers, but, after years of propaganda and debate, the surveillance video of the incident was released and indicated the DEA agents fatally fired on the wrong suspects. The US government continues to insist its DEA agents acted appropriately or deserve minimal punishments and the victims deserve slanderous accusations or minimal compensation.
Here is another example of America’s counterfeit war on drugs and double-standard war on terror: “The Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade” (https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils-of-war-afghanistan-s-multibillion-dollar-heroin-trade/91). Before the US military invaded Afghanistan during and before 2001, the Afghanis were effectively wiping out opium farms. After the US military invaded Afghanistan during late 2001, the Afghanis started to produce record amounts of opium. The US war on terror has been an economic disaster for many Afghanis, thus, these Afghanis turn to opium to make easy money. The US corporate-government turns a blind eye to Afghanis who farm opium and obey the US empire. In other words, one regime’s partner is another regime’s criminal. The US corporate-government has a history of secretly supporting drug production and drug usage for America’s upper-class and their loyal servants.
Rhetorical questions: Is Trump smart enough to truly fix America’s addiction to legal and illegal drugs? Does Trump have the moral backbone to genuinely stand up for all Americans and “Just Say No” to America’s deluding corporations and misleading non-profit organizations? Trump is proof that there is a sucker born every minute, and we’re suppose to believe voting converts the average idiot into a national and international genius with strong moral convictions.
The fundamental reasons for why so many Americans are in pain are because many Americans pig out on large quantities of junk food (instead of eating balanced meals of natural ingredients and controlling Caloric intake); perform incorrect techniques and/or leverage inadequate tools during manual labor and physical recreations; do not obtain adequate rest (e.g., pace yourself: if you are a bit tired, then rest for a moment, and if you are very tired, then go to sleep, but excess rest is bad for your health; moderation is key); have been brainwashed into believing in the exaggerated benefits and understated drawbacks of surgery and medication; use excessively harsh cleaning chemicals or have filthy standards for hygiene and sanitation; frequently wear cosmetics (e.g., makeup, perfume, deodorants, nail polish, lotions, and hair coloring) that contain poisoning ingredients; apply sunscreen lotions that are made of poisoning chemicals; either absorb too much sunlight or not enough sunlight (even though the human skin, eyes, and biochemistry need moderate exposure to sunlight); fail to find and/or develop constructive hobbies (e.g., sports, exercising, gardening, cooking, challenging video games, painting and drawing, music, dancing, photography, and foreign languages) and choose self-destructive hobbies (e.g, drug addiction, eating junk food, and watching Zionist liberal Hollyweirdo agitprop); etc.
The American way of life should be peacefully improved and customized for every peculiar individual and each unique community. The improvements should enhance each person’s mental and physical health and fitness. We could use statistical analysis to obtain realistic data about a person and his/her lifestyle. Then we could develop scientific solutions to help each person's specific problems. In the real world, we have fraudulent improvements that are based on maximizing profits for the corporate-government elites and their loyal servants.