last week after a four month long siege and massive airstrike campaign that essentially left the once vibrant city in ruins the devastation of rock and even caused the russian spokesman for the defense ministry to spark up a little controversy by stating publicly that rocca has inherited the fate of dresden in one thousand nine hundred forty five wiped off the face of the earth by anglo-american bombardments alice of course caused a massive string of denying his denials from the u.s. with reuters reporting that the u.s. led coalition says it is careful to avoid civilian casualties in its bombing runs against islamic state in both syria and iraq i'll chase i mean that that settles it for me i mean how can you argue with careful bombing there they're being very careful when they bomb very carefully but despite all the controversy over the execution of the liberation of iraq u.s. president donald trump our body was quick to take credit for the victory exclaiming

we have made more progress against these evil terrorists in the past several months than in the past several years. maybe not entirely accurate donald because except maybe except for the fact that the plan to retake the city was hatched two years ago as former secretary of defense as carter admitted to has been executed pretty much in the manner and the schedule that was foreseen then so kind of started before you took office as look as i said at the top of the show the twisted narratives twisted logic twisted truth that this is syria and i haven't even gotten into the latest chemical weapons controversy brewing there. so let's start watching the hawks. with. as you see the bottom.

like you know that i got. all the watchdogs i am i wrote for and i don't want syria seems like every couple weeks syria creeps back up and they're like assad was to crazy wild headlines are you serious on this idea like oh we're really careful of them not kill people careful by you when you bomb to the extent that iraq has been bombed when you are bombing building after building street after street what do you think's going to be a last well i mean look at this look at look at look at look at the reason is that he was right here i mean look at look at these bridges were syria we did not get careful strategic by this is a bombed out shell of a community and i'm sure there were no people in any of the no they're totally

empty i mean well that's part of the problem that isis was using a lot of human shields and kind of you know you know putting themselves in places where there's i think that i am out of population is still there we haven't been able to write this is why you shouldn't bomb it exactly that it was terrorists are using people as human shields here don't bomb innocent people they're victims and hostages i mean by the you know this kind of for five months siege we've been seeing you on high commissioner for human rights saeed rod all the same side that you know even his office that documented one hundred fifty one civilian deaths in six instances alone just back in august those were due to not only air strikes but ground attacks as well the u.s. led coalition has said it conducted nearly eleven hundred air strikes on the horn in iraq a. in august which was up from just six hundred in july i mean this isn't i mean we've dropped so much you know implements of doubt the problem there's to be that it's a joke or save it. if you're here evolving in the that you know no civilians we didn't

try to talk of course you can try to target syrians but you really you know did you really tried you know going about their homes you didn't care about the infrastructure you didn't care about schools you didn't care about hospitals you know this is the problem with war because every side does this isn't just an american problem this is every single military across the unit across but the whole of the world that is involved in efforts like this it's always this excuse of we're really careful while we're destroying an entire area while we're destroying history while saying we're trying to stop people are doing that since the the siege of rockets started is what june twenty seventeen air war is estimates that there is over one thousand nine hundred civilians have been killed and the group rock of being slaughtered silently estimates over thirty eight hundred airstrikes have hit the city in that same time frame and what this reminds me i was when you go to tokyo and you talk to people about the tokyo blitzes that went through worse like the most massive murderous bombing campaign in history was done in tokyo and that

not even putting into into any of your hiroshima nagasaki this is the straight bombing sixteen square miles one hundred thousand people dead just a nihil a good oh yea we was known as i know here and what it's going to do we know what it we would have a chemical weapons attack so they're not going to us there's a little new wrinkle in the syria tales of everybody's been by all sides a recent state department in syria travel warning because apparently they need to send out travel warnings to people not to go there but almost no many people like really it shouldn't go to syria this time of year or skip the winter but the. controversy the state department did because amidst the standard warnings of don't travel to syria right now because it's a hot mess there's curious little acknowledgment tactics of isis heigho. other violent extremist groups include the use of suicide bombers kidnappings. small

kidnappings small and heavy arms improvised explosive device devices or wait for chemical weapons what what what what do you say almost how we've been told over and over again that nobody there except for the syrian government has been using chemical weapons but it goes on the letter that points out that the groups have targeted major cities such as road checkpoints border crossings government buildings shopping centers and open spaces like damascus aleppo. would lead but you know know what we have to do for good is that. one of the groups of those mentioning in this morning and the other groups were in control of the you believe province. when we have the most recent round of. chemical weapons attacks there that they said was the syrian government but other peoples of which not so you can see it's kind of what he said he's going to write about yeah it's going to be better i'm going to keep an eye on the devil but on this developing story. for more than a century of the united states supreme court has made some well pretty big mistakes

like dred scott versus sanford eight hundred fifty seven this ruled that anyone descended from slaves wasn't protected by the constitution or the nine hundred thirty eight supreme court ruling that allowed the sexual sterilization of patients in mental hospitals that we got rid of that one eventually the culture of ignorance of times past reversed the horrors of these decisions but what happens when the supreme court's errors in judgment are based on their own errors and research and they're happening right now pro publica recently reviewed a small sampling of cases the supreme court has heard from twenty eleven to twenty fifteen and while some of the errors they found could be deemed simply minor it's one those errors were at the core of the decision that should worry everyone one example was the twenty thirteen case that ended up having a unanimous ruling that affirmed the right of using the actions of drugs sniffing dogs as a reliable opening to search and seizure here's the problem there is no organization that is certified to train drug sniffing dogs dogs that even bothers tracking. or

testing for false positives so they can use rested on the notion that drug sniffing dogs are so reliable that they can be used to prove probable cause but they are and case after case reveals the same kinds of errors legal scholar kenneth culpa davis told an audience at the university of minnesota on the subject back in one thousand nine hundred seventy one the court lacks the needed information it usually makes guesses much of our laws based on wrong assumptions about legislative facts. boy oh boy oh boy this is one of those like well i mean look at the supreme court decisions as makes for better or worse the bedrock of a lot of our lives and systems are shown through it all runs up to the supreme court and so the supreme court's making fatal errors that are based on truth that are usably. to fact checkable you could walk up and say ok let's make sure this is accurate. or not we're just going to let it go that preserves a little bit of a problem i would think yes and when you look at each of these case i mean you said

there was a small a small sampling that pro publica did but when you look dig a little bit deeper and a little bit deeper into these cases these factual inaccuracy these are really important to the case so in twenty in two thousand and two you had justice kennedy that had noted that within the u.s. criminal justice system only six states allowed during this case it was only six allowed death sentences for defendants convicted of rape committed against a child oh well that only six that was you know it all we can't do this is very important then we can't do that because there's only six and here you go the problem with that is that those crimes are punishable by death in military courts and under a law passed by congress two years earlier in the decision so what they're doing is not understanding the. pieces of information that are that are leading them to decisions well i'm leaving i'm putting this here because the court says those that because i don't see a lot of them you know like when the military courts. that's all right the other

was two thousand and eight it was during an immigration case. so the solicitor general's office told scotto told the supreme court that the government routinely sends back to sort of make anybody laugh or know something about immigration and they told the supreme court hey you know we were team to bring people back when we've accidentally deported them and it turned out they were wrong guess what totally untrue totally untrue but that was the core of the decisions and they accepted those things as well government so this or this person said. we're the checks and balances of this is going to reveal credible i mean really is that they would let these kind of like huge gaping holes through or the other one is that this is clearly political because what you have is a two thousand and twelve case again with anthony kennedy that claimed citizenship checks the ones that were happening in arizona that were such a good deal back and two thousand and twelve that were illegal because of the threat illegal immigrants face any use statistics say you know it was respond that

despite the fact that these aren't authorized this is most populous county these aliens are reported to be responsible or disproportionate share of serious crime estimating maybe an authorized aliens comprise a point nine percent of the population are responsible for twenty one point eight percent of the felonies and the maricopa county which includes phoenix guess what. i told you got those numbers for the set he got those numbers specifically a supreme court justice got those numbers and used them in his argument from the center for immigration studies an anti immigration bill that i got to ask you know why you know why are we seeing big. brother and look where it is because really it comes down to mean over the last two decades the amount of cases the court puts their premiums going up by half why because that it's an old record right there also it seems the other problem there is there delegating all of the responsibility to like these clerks law clerks for fresh out of college the in return for twenty years which got a lot of folks in their early twenty's but don't be you know making the. already

illegal and it certainly was in the last it's only oh they're having him there having these. whatever but you know they're having these people that are like i said right out of college just the learning just understanding the real world and you know supreme court justice well just write the argue that well just tell me whether that's going to not there literally sifting through and deciding what cases come for the problem the other problem too that we have in this country is that. we give too much kind of power to the supreme court you know even three branches of government they're all supposed to act as a check and balance to each other in a president. supreme court the problem is that because congress is filled with majority of lawyers who were elected officials they just kind of like what the supreme court even though they also are a counter to the supreme court right you know and we have to remember that the. courts picking up these weird facts and not doing their job exactly i must not forget the supreme court is here to protect the constitution and the rights of

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by now we know that the opioid epidemic is one of the greatest threats facing our country but underneath the political blame game now directing our approach to this crisis the question remains of how exactly we got to this point where the roots of addiction really lie many had the responsibility on doctors overprescribing pain medication for elements that used to be treated with nothing more than an aspirin while the more conspiratorially minded lay the blame on our own governments as sturrock relationship with drug cartels and the narcotics industry but as overdoses continue to skyrocket hypodermic needles pop up in playgrounds and on beaches like gum wrappers again sunstone sat down with dr jane orient executive director of the association of american physicians and surgeons to sort the facts from the media spin surrounding this issue. and so what is it that sparked your own personal interest as a doctor into the opioid epidemic. i think just from where i sit with the

association of american physicians and surgeons we've been very concerned about the number of physicians who has been prescribing for chronic pain patients in good faith who've had their lives ruined who've been sent to prison like a drug dealer when they were just writing prescriptions that are on the record they thought they were following the guidelines that were current at the at that time and they were blamed for all of this drug trafficking you put the doctor in prison and what happens to the drug trafficking not a thing. because the doctor is not responsible for it it used to be that the gateway drug was marijuana but now that marijuana is being legalized. say that the gateway drug is pain medicine and in some cases maybe most chronic pain patients although they may be dependent on the drugs are not addicted to them they're not selling they're not holding up your your drug store or yours or your circle k. to get money to buy drugs that this is happening you know. in the black market

primarily. but you're saying that you don't see your. opiate addiction as a major concern that. oh absolutely it's a major concern people are dying of it they're dying of it at rates higher than they were dying of aids at the very peak of the aids epidemic i'm just saying that getting doctors to have to call up a prescription drug benefit come every time they want to to prescribe cough syrup or testosterone or vallium or some of the controlled substance is not going to stop it it's happening on the streets it's happening with very highly potent fenton know and heroin that are being imported as certainly we're looking at an opium war essentially taking place similar to what happened with china in the nineteenth century talking about two hundred thousand plus american deaths as a result of these various drugs and drug abuse and so what use what would you

suggest what would be your. resolution to this issue. i think we need to focus on the main source of the fatalities which is illegal heroin and sentinel find out where it's coming from and at what level is government corruption contributing to or allowing or enabling this practice to go on i mean have to keep in mind though that course as much as really dangerous to arrest a drug dealer the police was likely to get shot and the courts are likely to let the perpetrator go it's much easier to kick down the door of a doctor's office and point point guns at his trembling patients than it is to go after the drug dealers but that's where the fatalities coming from is from the transnational drug cartels if you know the argument can be made that yes there's certainly a level of collusion that goes on by the government but the same time the argument be made that you know where there's a demand there always be

a supply and that we cannot simply stop all forms of you know drug drug use and abuse from taking place how do we work to basically rehabilitate people that have addictions through things like heroin for example. well of course this is a cultural problem that the demand side is terrible. and the drug rehabilitation industry is also profiting from it because oftentimes the course of treatment are extremely costly and very ineffective people remain drug free for only only of a short period of time and then they're back on to the drugs many of them are using more drugs to try to get people addicted to other drugs and there are there are efforts like the one carried on and message dr to sure at his network of many clinics that were using a primary care model an abstinence based model with maybe sixty percent success rate up to sixty percent of people remaining sober at one year and the messages

attorney general goes after that doctor and puts him in prison meanwhile the he was being successful and the drug abuse a demick can't continues with out without a pause indeed and so as far as the treatments that are necessary one of the basic steps that people can take would say if they have loved ones who are suffering from these types of addictions. i think that the methods or working messages that the person has to be gotten out of the influences in the community that are pushing him into addiction and into a more healthful environment a better people hobbies work spiritual guidance and just get him out of the move you and which he is depending on drugs for satisfaction in his life. and learning to get sad to get gratification from the things that normal people do like their work their family their friends and things of that sort do you have to

keep more of a holistic approach but are there are there any replacement drugs that you would suggest or any kind of programs using just in them in as and in between process towards rehabilitation. well some physicians are using the so. suboxone it's called but although this does seem to help some people the government has put a a lid on the number of patients a doctor can treat the doctor has to go through a special training program to use the drug but then he said restricted to the number of people patients he can help and when you know more people getting addicted and you're not actually forbidding doctors to use a tool that sometimes is helpful what kind of sense does that make. indeed it's quite fascinating to see how the government has basically cracked down so much in a sense on the doctors and people who are trying to basically do good work i mean on them for the most part obviously there's always bad doctors but the point is that they're cracking down on that front but the same time it would seem that

really there's so much money in the drug game itself that's flowing into the major financial sector as you point out in the very beginning that there really is no incentive from the elite perspective in actually curtailing the drug the drug overall drug business and profits that are made there and. i think that's the case when one of the doctors who spent hard time in prison after he went to a drug prescribing course and was taking care of chronic pain patients he still wanted to be a drug dealer and make money i would have stayed in the bronx where he grew up and you know he should have been a great american success story going from this really terrible neighborhood to going to medical school so if i wanted to be a drug dealer i just would have stayed there and i'd be rich and still being bankrupt it's a to see a terrifying tale in a sense because it's very much reflects the overall mentality i think of the

culture that we're in oftentimes blaming those who are trying to do the most work because it's an alternative an alternative fashion than what is prescribed and what rules the american medical association playing if any in trying to push for an advocate for altered approaches to a real rehabilitating people with these addictions. i don't see them doing much except that they're saying oh we need to have more drug monitoring programs that go along with those and maybe we need to train doctors better and make them take more courses on how to get drugs meantime you look at what this some of these things are doing to patients like one patient had some very painful surgery after an injury obstruction of her like she was let out of the hospital with the prescription for i think fourteen days of pain medicine they wouldn't give her any they would give her nothing because they're only supposed to write for seven days and the clinic was closed she could not get another prescription for thirty six hours so she's such an

agony because they wouldn't even give her a day's worth of medicine because they're trying to stop the opioid epidemic you know what is good does do to keep patients in a legitimate patients. and the idea that you're going to stop something that's being driven by billion dollars of of profits to the international cartel you know i have to wonder i mean opium is obviously had a very demonized drug. but it's seems in a way to be a much healthier version than what's being produced as far as the heroin and some of the opioids and benteke drugs that are created. oh yeah well that that's true morphine morphine is a is a wonderful thing to have for our patients who would otherwise be in great agony but them and sense when used as directed is very good to put if it's if it's being sold on the street and being injected then it is deadly and the kids who take it

have no idea of the danger because i say i mean it in the day we just we're not really taught how to properly approach the issue of drugs with our body it feels that we ultimately are dependent upon. doctors and obviously a society that so demonizes drugs and yet can't really stop the overall culture that continues to. well i think they're doing rather demonizing doctors but but look at look at all of the propaganda or all the educational materials about tobacco which is very bad for you but it probably takes fifty years to kill you and do we have similar sorts of education for the effects of say methamphetamine or cocaine or heroin or marijuana where the kids being taught about the dangers of these still illicit high i mean the popular culture hollywood in the and rap music music and so on this is really celebrating this idea is recreation instead of playing with fire we basically are not really approaching how

to educate the culture and trends from a culture as you talked about a much more holistic approach to health which again is not particular celebrated it seems by our current medical establishment. you know so i think that the it really is it's a cultural problem it's a problem with unsupervised children saw their list families all of these are correlated with drug abuse but then i think that we need to look at government tolerance and maybe profit making from the really really evil drug cartels. in seven hundred seventy four french astronomer charles messier put together what could be well very well be his series first spam filter see messi is catalog was a guide of over one hundred celestial objects that could have been seen could be seen from space seen in space but were comments all this was to help comet seekers at the time not get distracted by bright shiny objects they may occasionally see from earth so two and

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