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The 'war on drugs' has proven more destructive to Americans in 2016 than the entire Vietnam War

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
war on drugs
For the first time in US history, more Americans have died of drug overdoses in a single year than all those killed in the Vietnam War. The drug war has been exposed as a deadly and violent failure and the federal government shows no signs of backing down.

For the first time in U.S. History, more Americans died in 2016 of drug overdoses than were killed in the Vietnam War. Let that sink in.

Last year's death toll in the War on Drugs was 59,000 killed, while during the entire Vietnam War, 1955 to 1975, 58,220 American service members' lives were lost. And, thanks to the immoral and futile police approach to the drug problem, there appears to be no hope in sight for the tide to change.

As The Free Thought Project had previously reported, drug overdose deaths outnumber the number of Americans killed in automobile accidents each year. Answering the question of who is responsible for so many overdose deaths requires a careful examination of the crisis which has now reached epidemic proportions.
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Alarm Clock

Risk of US stock market collapse at highest level since before 2008 financial crisis


RT
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:57 UTC
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© Brendan McDermid / Reuters A specialist trader works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
American markets are facing their biggest danger of collapse since before the financial crisis, according to money manager Bill Gross. The portfolio manager at Janus Global warns investors are paying too high a price for the risks they are taking.

Instead of buying low and selling high, you're buying high and crossing your fingers," said Gross at the Bloomberg Invest New York summit.

The 73-year-old bond guru blamed central bank policies for low and negative interest rates which are artificially driving up asset prices while creating little growth in the real economy and punishing individual savers, banks and insurance companies.

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Eye 2

The new 'final solution'?: UK Police chief calls for extremists to be locked up in internment camps, says MI5 cannot keep track of 3,000 terror suspects

Abul Taher & Martin Beckford
Daily Mail
Sat, 27 May 2017 19:30 UTC
UK internment camps
Thousands of radical extremists must be locked up in new internment camps to protect Britain, a Muslim former police chief declares today (Photo of the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, built on the site of the Long Kesh internment camp)
Thousands of radical extremists must be locked up in new internment camps to protect Britain from the unprecedented terror threat it faces, a Muslim former police chief declares today.

Writing exclusively for The Mail on Sunday, Tarique Ghaffur warns there are too many extremists on the streets for police and MI5 officers to monitor.

Mr Ghaffur, an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard when the 7/7 bombings took place, proposes that special centers be set up to detain as many as 3,000 extremists, where they can be kept from launching attacks.


Comment: If Ghaffur was in charge during the 7/7 bombings, then he is either an idiot for not realizing that it was likely a Mossad/MI5 false flag operation - or he was in on it. Either way, he is suggesting a solution that seems part and parcel of a long-term plan to demonize and oppress the Muslim world and provide a "solution" to what is clearly a manufactured "problem". You can be sure that interning some real jihadists is just a slippery slope leading to the imprisonment of many innocent Muslims, and political undesirables.


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Rainbow

Trump supporters denied entry into North Carolina Gay Pride Parade

Caroline Fountain
Fox5
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:10 UTC
Charlotte Pride Parade notice
© Fox46
A group says 'Charlotte Pride' is pushing them out of the Gay Pride Parade because they support President Trump.

"I'm very proud of my country, proud of my president, and was once proud of my community," said Brian Talbert, who said he's proud to be gay and proud to be a Trump supporter.

His truck has a Trump-Pence bumper sticker and 'Not a liberal' sign on the back window.

"I'm very proud of my vote. I don't regret my vote. I will vote for Donald Trump again. I'm proud of my president. I don't think I should be vilified because I'm proud of a U.S. president as an American."

Talbert, a member of "Gays for Trump, which is not affiliated with the "Gays for Trump" based in Greensboro, NC, said he and a fellow gay Trump supporter sent in an application to Charlotte Pride so they could have a float in this year's Charlotte Pride Parade.
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Attention

Libyan counter-terrorism force says Manchester bomber radicalized in Britain


RT
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:33 UTC
Salman Abedi
© Greater Manchester Police / Reuters
Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was radicalized in 2015 while living in Britain, according to new information passed to Libyan counter-terrorism investigators by his brother Hashem.

Hashem and his father Ramadan were arrested by Tripoli's Special Deterrence Force (RADA) in the days following the May 22 attack on Manchester Arena.

Salman is said to have been influenced by members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a small Al-Qaeda affiliate group listed since 2005 as a terrorist group in the UK.

Comment: For more on this developing story:

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Cheese

French actor rehearsing lines in train bathroom mistaken for terrorist


The Local - France
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:01 UTC
TGV train
© AFP
An actor who was rehearsing in the toilet of a TGV train from Paris to Marseille was quizzed by police as a possible terrorist threat after a guard overheard the words "weapon" and "gun", transport authorities said.

The 35-year-old had shut himself away to practise his lines for an English-language stage role.

But a passing train guard who overheard his soliloquy raised the alarm, telling his bosses there was someone talking about weaponry in the WC.

The high-speed train, en route to Paris from Marseille, made an unscheduled stop in the city of Valence where security forces took the man for questioning at a police station. He was later released without charge

France is still under a state of emergency imposed after the November 2015 attacks in Paris, when jihadists killed 130 people in a night of carnage at venues across the city.
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Nuke

Air monitor alarms go off, crews take cover at Hanford nuclear site


RT
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 17:38 UTC
Aerial photo of demolition at the Plutonium Finishing Plant
© Hanford Site / Twitter
Two air monitor alarms went off in a demolition area of the Hanford Site's Plutonium Finishing Plant, causing workers to take cover less than a month after a tunnel collapse at the Richland, Washington facility, the Department of Energy-owned site said.

The Continuous Air Monitoring alarms went off just before 8am local time at the site. The demolition crews in the area immediately stopped work, took cover "as a precaution" and applied adhesive paint as a fixative material that "is used as part of demolition to control contamination," the Hanford Site said in a series of tweets.

Crews found radioactive contamination as they were removing a gallery glove box in a demolition area that was used to process plutonium throughout the Cold War, Hanford said in an email sent to employees. Recovery crews have entered the area to conduct additional surveys and apply additional fixatives "to mitigate any further contamination spread."
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Info

Guantanamo detainee sues creators of CIA's harsh interrogation tactics

Andrew Selsky
AP
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:21 UTC
guantanamo
© Stringer / Reuters
Attorneys for a detainee at Guantanamo Bay are suing the psychologists who created the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques used in the war on terror, aiming to compel them to provide information to Polish officials who are investigating a former CIA jail in that country.

The lawsuit was filed late last month in federal court in eastern Washington state and was announced Wednesday by the London-based human rights group Reprieve. The suit details what it describes as the torture of Abu Zubaydah, who was held in the CIA black site, or secret interrogation facility, in Stare Kiejkuty, Poland, from Dec. 5, 2002-Sept. 22, 2003.

Zubaydah, described in official U.S. documents as a "facilitator" for al-Qaida, has been held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since September 2006.
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Fire

Innocent car crash victim flees wreckage, gets kicked in head by NJ cops who claim they were helping put the fire out (VIDEO)


RT
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:19 UTC
car fire New Jersey
© NJ.com / YouTube
New Jersey police officers are facing termination after being filmed kicking an innocent car crash victim who was on fire after fleeing the burning wreckage. Police say they mistook him for a suspect they were pursuing.

The footage, obtained by Univision and filmed by a bystander on Tonnelle Avenue Sunday night, shows officers allegedly kicking the man in the stomach and head before roughly dragging him away from the nearby burning vehicle.
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Pistol

Police shoot attacker armed with hammer shouting 'this is for Syria' near Notre Dame in Paris - UPDATE


RT
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:15 UTC
French police officials gather at the entrance to Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on June 6, 2017
© Bertrand Guay / AFP French police officials gather at the entrance to Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on June 6, 2017.
Police have shot and injured a man who attacked three officers with a hammer near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris while shouting "this is for Syria." The man, who injured one of the officers, was also armed with two knives, according to French media.

One officer was hit in the head with the hammer, prompting police to fire at the attacker.

"A man came behind these police officers and, armed with a hammer, started hitting one of them. His colleagues reacted with composure...and fired," French interior minister Gerard Collomb told reporters, as quoted by Reuters.

The man shouted "this is for Syria" as he attacked, according to Collomb.

The attacker had also threatened passers-by before targeting the three police officers, according to BFM TV.

Comment: Update: Camera footage of the attack has surfaced:



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