Social Issues

Opioid prescription painkillers, doled out like candy by Big Pharma’s drug dealers, are now claiming more lives per year than two of the hardest illegal drugs in the nation — surpassing both heroin and cocaine in their total related deaths. It all has to do with how these prescription pharmaceuticals work in the brain, and how many individuals around the country are easily acquiring them to feed their deadly habits. Whether society considers a certain drug immoral or medicinal doesn’t have any influence on what it actually does to your body.

In addition to the "great rotation" taking place in investor mindsets, as the world - at least in theory - shifts away from monetary easing to fiscal stimulus facilitated by that other "great rotation" in the White House, a third such rotation is supposedly taking place in capital markets as investors dump bonds to buy stocks, i.e., a "great rotation" out of equities and into bonds, incidentally this is the 5th consecutive year when strategists have predicted such a trade is about to take place only to be soundly rejected.

A former spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders has blamed the vicious attack on a white disabled man in Chicago, that was carried out by four black assailants and broadcast live on Facebook, on President-elect Donald Trump. CNN commentator Symone Sanders says the attack was not really a hate crime but the result of Trump’s rhetoric. Police on Thursday charged four African-American suspects under hate crimes statutes in the alleged kidnapping and torture of a young mentally handicapped man in Chicago.

Almost exactly one month after taking the unprecedented step of suspending withdrawals from the Dallas Police and Fire Pension (DPFP), the Dallas city council is looking to "clawback" what it views as ill-gotten interest payments made to pensioners to the tune of roughly $1 billion.

A judge denied bail Friday for the four people who are accused of torturing an 18-year-old man with special needs and streaming it live on Facebook.

The so-called 'Facebook-Four' - Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and Tanishia Covington, 24; were each charged with four felonies each including 'hate crime'.

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