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Pro-Trump & Russian-Linked Twitter Accounts Are Posing As Ex-Democrats In New Astroturfed Movement
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North Miami Beach officer fired after allegedly kicking pregnant woman in the stomach
When unwarranted aggression and violence on the part of officers of the law becomes less common place this society will be a much, much safer place.
As long as behavior like this is tolerated and not roundly condemned by all members of law enforcement, everyone wearing a badge neither protects nor serves, they actually pose a danger to everyone around them.
Actor Ving Rhames said neighbor called 911 to report him as ‘a large black man’ living somewhere she was too racist to believe he lived
[Rhames] was watching television in his Santa Monica home when he heard noise coming from the backyard. …It was police.
…”I get up, I open the door, there’s a red dot pointed at my face from a 9 millimeter,” Rhames said …on Friday. “And they say, ‘Put up your hands.”
…”My problem is, as I said to them, what if it was my son, and he had a video game remote or something? And you thought it was a gun, just like you know, I don’t know, Trayvon had a bag of Skittles,” he said in the interview.
Actor Ving Rhames said neighbor called 911 to report him as ‘a large black man’ breaking in
Actions that negative effect others should have consequences.
On that note, two things….
One, there should be punitive legal consequences for civilians who call 911 because of their own racial profiling. Call the police on your neighbor? The police should come for you instead.
Two, the officers clearly did not look into who residing in the home before they arrived. Bad police-work like that gets people killed. They should face punitive consequences for not doing a better job of assessing the actual situation before they went into action. When the police don’t think before they act, people get killed and that can not be tolerated.
It doesn’t matter if they, the officers, were not being overtly racist by responding to this call. They did a shoddy job of performing their work responsibilities and -like in any other industry- that should merit negative consequences.
“SNL” star Leslie Jones defends other comedians
“Our job is to make the ugliest things funny, we come out and we make a terrible situation laughable … stop walking around so offended, you’re not going to be able to survive life if you walk around offended,” she added.
“SNL” star Leslie Jones defends other comedians
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Stanford study links depression to blood biomarker
The collaborative study conducted by Stanford University and The Rockefeller University found people with depression had low levels of acetyl-L-carnitine, which helps the body produce energy.
…Rasgon said further research is required to determine whether supplementing patients with acetyl-L-carnitine could improve symptoms.
Stanford study links depression to blood biomarker
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Police fatally shoot Bronze Star recipient after he saved his family from a home intruder
“Mr. Black goes and gets his sidearm and shoots the intruder and saves his grandson,” Rathod said. “Mr. …Black’s wife had called the police and ran outside. She specifically told the police what her husband was wearing and there was a naked man attacking her grandson. Mr. Black walks out and is shot by police.”
Police fatally shoot Bronze Star recipient after he shot home intruder – ABC News
Simply unacceptable. If an officer can stay calm in a situation like this he should not be there (or wearing a badge) in the first place. If the officer was not informed of the outfit the resident of the home had on then those who did not pass that information on should be tried for murder right along with the sad excuse for an officer.
Erdogan: There was no deal to free US pastor Andrew Brunson
Erdogan: There was no deal to free US pastor Andrew Brunson – CNNPolitics
Trump is really bad at negotiating.
Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Released, But Experts Say Israel Has Bigger Problem
“Ill-treatment of Palestinian child detainees by Israeli forces is widespread, systematic and institutionalized throughout the Israeli military detention system. Three out of four Palestinian children experience some form of physical violence following arrest. Israeli military law provides no right to an attorney during interrogation, so Palestinian children like Ahed often typically arrive to interrogation rooms bound, blindfolded, frightened, and sleep deprived. Children often give confessions after verbal abuse, threats, physical and psychological violence that in some cases amounts to torture,” he added.
…”Since 2014, Israeli forces have increasingly used live ammunition to quash protests throughout the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. This increasing use of live ammunition combined with complete lack of accountability for Israeli forces’ unjustified use of lethal force helped to foster a precarious situation where Israeli forces routinely unlawfully kill Palestinian civilians, including children, and enjoy complete impunity for apparent war crimes. Israeli forces killed 25 Palestinian children in the first half of 2018, nearly three times the number of children killed over the same period last year, with an additional nine children killed in July alone.”
Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Released, But Experts Say Israel Has Bigger Problem
Sigh….
Minneapolis police shooting: No charges to be filed against officers in death of Thurman Blevins
14 shots at someone who is fleeing and not shooting back? that’s not self-defense. That’s murder, clear and simple. Hope the family sues the city into bankruptcy.
Effect of Opioid vs Nonopioid Medications on Pain-Related Function in Patients With Chronic Back Pain or Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis Pain
Pain intensity was significantly better in the nonopioid group over 12 months (overall P = .03); mean 12-month BPI severity was 4.0 for the opioid group and 3.5 for the nonopioid group (difference, 0.5 [95% CI, 0.0 to 1.0]). Adverse medication-related symptoms were significantly more common in the opioid group over 12 months (overall P = .03); mean medication-related symptoms at 12 months were 1.8 in the opioid group and 0.9 in the nonopioid group (difference, 0.9 [95% CI, 0.3 to 1.5]).
Conclusions and Relevance Treatment with opioids was not superior to treatment with nonopioid medications for improving pain-related function over 12 months. Results do not support initiation of opioid therapy for moderate to severe chronic back pain or hip or knee osteoarthritis pain.
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A Comprehensive Review of Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia
4.2 Clinical Evidence
Similar to basic science evidence, supporting clinical evidence has also been established (14,21,30,43-55). Clinical OIH has been described after intraoperative remifentanil infusion (30), in patients with detoxification from high dose opioids with improvement in pain (43), and increased pain sensitivity with methadone (21).
…6.4 Practical Considerations
The treatment of OIH can be time-consuming and at times, impractical. Weaning patients from high dose opioids usually requires time and patience (for both the physician and patient). While reducing the opioid dose, patients might experience transient increases in pain or mild withdrawal which can exacerbate pain. The hyperalgesic effect might not be mitigated until a certain critical dose of opioid is reached.
(21) Compton P, Charuvastra VC, Ling W. Pain intolerance in opioid-maintained former opiate addicts: Effect of longacting maintenance agent. Drug Alcohol Depend 2001; 63:139-146.
(43) Baron MJ, McDonald PW. Significant pain reduction in chronic pain patients after detoxification from high dose opioids. J Opioid Manag 2006; 2:277-282
(45) Hay JL, White JM, Bochner F, Somogyi AA, Semple TJ, Rounsefell B. Hyperalgesia in opioid-managed chronic painand opioid-dependent patients. J Pain 2009; 10:316-322.
(47) Fishbain DA, Cole B, Lewis JE, Gao J, Rosomoff RS. Do opioids induce hyperalgesia in humans? An evidence-based structured review. Pain Med 2009; 10:829-839.
(48) Mitra S. Opioid-induced hyperalgesia:Pathophysiology and clinical implications. J Opioid Manage 2008; 4:123-130.
(49) Cohen SP, Christo PJ, Wang S, Chen L, Stojanovic MP, Shields CH, Brummett C, Mao J. The effect of opioid dose and treatment duration on the perception of a painful standardized clinical stimulus. Reg Anesth Pain Med 2008; 33:199-206.
A Comprehensive Review of Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia
There appears to be some connection with withdrawal and experiencing the sensation of pain. According to the above, continued opioid use has the capacity to increase the level of pain a subject experiences.
So…. when we are giving pain medicine recipients turn opioid dependent people more opioids, like methadone, wouldn’t it follow that we -in effect- worsening the pain problem they had originally? …And the longer they are on opioids, the worse their pain situation and the further into addiction they are sent?
Swedish activist who stopped Afghan being deported would act again
Eventually, people on the plane took her side and Miss Ersson became emotional.
First, a man stood up behind her and said he supported her – before an entire football team at the back of the plane did the same thing.
She said: ‘It felt good, when the Turkish guy started talking to me and making sure that I knew I wasn’t alone.’
Swedish activist who stopped Afghan being deported would act again | Daily Mail Online
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New Manafort docs appear to contradict own lobbying claims
New documents filed in court by Paul Manafort’s lawyers appear to contradict his legal team’s own claims that the former Trump campaign chairman’s team only lobbied on behalf of the Ukrainian government in Europe.
The revelation could be important as Manafort is trying to fend off charges from special counsel Robert Mueller that Manafort failed to register as a foreign agent in connection with his lobbying work for the Ukrainian government.
…Several exhibits included in the court filing seem to contradict Kilimnik’s assertion that the Hapsburg group never lobbied in Washington.
New Manafort docs appear to contradict own lobbying claims – POLITICO
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EPA worried about Scott Pruitt’s toxic desk but chose not to warn or protect the public from the exact same risk
Former EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s staff planned to take precautions to protect him from the toxic effects of formaldehyde in a fancy new desk – but months later, his top aides blocked the release of a report on the health dangers of the carcinogeno.
…Pruitt was wrapping up a more than $9,500 redecoration of his office when a top official noticed a California warning on a desk the administrator wanted to order saying it contained the chemical.
…Although an EPA regulation limiting formaldehyde emissions from such items had been put on hold by Team Trump, California regulates the chemical.
…A few months later, top EPA officials took steps to block a health report produced by another division at the agency that found the levels of formaldehyde that many Americans breathe every day are tied to leukemia and nose and throat cancer, among other ailments.
EPA worried about Scott Pruitt’s toxic desk but not enough to warn public
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