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I can do it in one: cover it up.

 

Didn't we go through this already?

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Then who's gonna run HR?

 

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“The only thing worse than having allies is not having them” British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

 

I doubt the "55 out of 100" quote is true, but it's interesting, nevertheless

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Yep, I've seen similar but not the 55/100 bit at the end.

 

This is a thought that's been going around in my head quite insistently. How many catastrophes have been forgotten through the generations because people either "want to forget" or because we think that they are so extreme and outrageous (Nazism comes to mind) that we believe all lessons have been learned and that therefore there's no need to insistently hammer them down to our children? ... I'm seeing the same decadent pattern nowadays in the whole civilized world (and not just east or west) as has been repeatedly shown in the history books. But people either don't care about the past because they're too busy with the present, or they simply want to remain willfully ignorant because Truth goes against their own personal interests.

From cough medicine to deadly addiction, a century of heroin and drug-abuse policy​

A century after its introduction, heroin continues to pose complex medical, legal, social and public health questions and to resist efforts at control. “We seem to have a peak in heroin use every 20 to 25 years,” says Dr. Musto. “Some have explained this as ‘generational forgetting.’

 

There are lots of old bottles collected here in our historic district. One of the most common is the distinctive Blue bottles used for Phillips Milk of Magnesia. Why? Because there were a LOT of constipated people who used Morphine! Following the US Civil War, Mexican American War, the 1st World War, and the Spanish American wars there were a lot of people addicted to Morphine. You hear a lot about the opium wars in China and now china providing the precursor chemicals, pill presses, and even finished Fentanyl to the world drug illegal trade and I can't help but feel it is china's way of payback for what was done to their country by the English establishing the illegal opium trade in china in the early days of intercontinental trade and colonialism.

 

There are lots of old bottles collected here in our historic district. One of the most common is the distinctive Blue bottles used for Phillips Milk of Magnesia. Why? Because there were a LOT of constipated people who used Morphine! Following the US Civil War, Mexican American War, the 1st World War, and the Spanish American wars there were a lot of people addicted to Morphine. You hear a lot about the opium wars in China and now china providing the precursor chemicals, pill presses, and even finished Fentanyl to the world drug illegal trade and I can't help but feel it is china's way of payback for what was done to their country by the English establishing the illegal opium trade in china in the early days of intercontinental trade and colonialism.

And even today, some "progressive" politicians believe that the solution to drug addictions is ... more drugs!

 

Well, in rural impoverished areas it does generate a hell of a lot of revenue exchanged in the local economy which isn't an altogether bad thing in some politician's eyes... Here in the States the old local corruption of politicians has been becoming a thing of the past. I grew up in a time when the "High Sheriff" and his minions were in charge of the local gambling, prostitution, illegal alcohol, and even drugs. The county and city commissioners and even some judges were all in on it as well. Those things have mostly slowly faded into the past in most areas of the US today. Paying bribes is becoming rarer as well. The county "road crews" used to rotate among the commissioners and when they were in his district the commissioner would direct them to perform whatever construction tasks he had taken bribes to complete when it was his turn. That, at least in this county, is a thing of the past and any commissioner caught taking bribes will spend some time in jail now.

 

And even today, some "progressive" politicians believe that the solution to drug addictions is ... more drugs!

Like he said above, drug addictions are big money for some in power. There are billions being collected in taxes for the drugged out, mental illness caused homeless here with no accountability of the effectiveness of treatment or level of housing from those tax dollars.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health...s-overlap-is-compulsory-treatment-compassiona
When homelessness and mental illness overlap, is forced treatment compassionate?

 

 

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https://katu.com/news/nation-world/...paycheck-money-funds-cash-us-labor-department
Auto shop owner who paid worker in 91,500 oily pennies ordered to pay nearly $40K more

“Unfortunately, emotionally charged decisions can come back and bite you in the rear end.”

 

We are all just dinner for something.

 

Nowadyas hell on earth situation for medias and web had been predicted by famous novel " The Evil Hour" about 6 decades ago...for the reason I hope writer's soul to be out of hell right now. :/