Social Issues

Government officials in the Czech Republic have urged citizens to take up arms to protect against a coming ISIS “super-Holocaust”. Following Czech President Milos Zeman’s warning of an imminent ISIS-led bloodbath, the country’s interior ministry is pushing through a constitutional change that would allow citizens to use guns against terrorists. Zerohedge.com reports: Czech president Milos Zeman had previously proposed that economic migrants should be deported from Europe to “uninhabited Greek islands” or to “empty places” in North Africa.

With the Obamacare repeal process having officially started (the replacement of the Affordable Care Act is a different matter entirely, and will likely take years to be enacted), outgoing president is watching his biggest legacy slowly melt before his eyes, and has started to point fingers. And one place where he is casting blame is criticism from the far left wing of his own Democratic Party which he says helped feed into the unpopularity of Obamacare.

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.