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Obama's Own Drug Use a Backdrop to More Lenient Sentences Since taking office, Obama has rarely characterized the anti-drug campaign as a war.. Instead, he has emphasized the need to address systemic injustice in drug sentencing and focused on meeting the health care needs of addicts that would boost prevention.
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Regenerative and Non-Regenerative Anaemias In the clinical approach to the anaemic patient, the initial step is to determine whether the anaemia is regenerative or non-regenerative. Regeneration refers to the production of new erythrocytes from the bone marrow and their subsequent release into the circulation.
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WhiteHouse.Gov Petition Calls For Treason Charges Against President Obama WhiteHouse.Gov Petition Calls For Treason Charges Against President Obama. Archives. By Rusty | Featured Contributor | March 13, 2015 1:42PM. Turnabout is fair play it would seem. A newly issued petition on the whitehouse.gov web site is calling for charges of treason to be brought against President Obama. It sites three main arguments for the treason charges – surrendering war-making powers to foreign entities, refusing to secure America’s borders, and giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
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- Obama on His Islamic State Resolution. 1  President Obama described the resolution he submitted to Congress for authorization to use military force against ISIS. He said it did not authorize a ground war like those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Obama's ISIS plan = America's third Iraq war President Obama should do the same. The American people are nervous; half of us feel less safe now than at any time since the original September 11th attacks. President Obama’s Plan A strategy for dealing with ISIS is, in effect, a new Iraq War. It’s America’s third Iraq War in a generation, and it will: - Last a long time -- well past Obama’s term in office.
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war-on-drugs_0.jpg war-on-drugs_0.jpg. June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a war on drugs — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of or demand for drugs in the United States, and has contributed to making America the world's largest incarcerator.
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Can Obama Wage War Without the Consent of Congress? WASHINGTON — As a U.S. senator from Illinois running for the White House in 2007, Barack Obama sponsored a resolution to prohibit President George W. Bush’s administration from taking military action against Iran unless it was explicitly authorized by Congress.His idea died in committee.ASHINGTON — As a U.S. senator from Illinois running for the White House in 2007, Barack Obama sponsored a resolution to prohibit President George W. Bush’s administration from taking military action against Iran unless it was explicitly authorized by Congress.
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Obama Has a Curious Definition for the End of War President Barack Obama declared the 13-year war in Afghanistan officially over on Sunday, praising the troops and claiming that Americans are safer for their efforts. In Kabul, General John Campbell folded the flag of the International Security Assistance Force, and unfurled the flag of a new mission, Resolute Support.For more than 13 years, ever since nearly 3,000 innocent lives were taken from us on 9/11, our nation has been at war in Afghanistan,” Obama’s statement about the changing missions read. The president highlighted the “extraordinary sacrifices” of troops, some 2,200 of whom have died to date during the $1 trillion war.
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President Obama gives himself permission to kill Federal laws against murder apply to the president and to all federal agents and personnel in their official capacities, wherever they go on the planet. Obama has argued that he can kill Americans whose deaths he believes will keep us all safer, without any due process whatsoever. No law authorizes that.
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A Progressive Perspective: Why Congress Should Approve the Presidentâs Request to Punish the Use of Chemical Weapons A Progressive Perspective: Why Congress Should Approve the President's Request to Punish the Use of Chemical Weapons. I began my work in politics and the Progressive Movement working for civil rights and the end of the Vietnam War in the 1960s. And I worked hard to end one of the greatest foreign policy outrages of my lifetime -- the War in Iraq.
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Obamaâs overlooked war and lethal Presidency The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama. Sure, we as a nation have always killed people. A lot of people. But no president has ever waged war by killing enemies one by one, targeting them individually for execution, wherever they are.
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War on drugs The War on Drugs is an American term commonly applied to a campaign of prohibition of drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the stated aim being to reduce the illegal drug trade.ccording to a 2008 study published by Harvard economist Jeffrey A. Miron, the annual savings on enforcement and incarceration costs from the legalization of drugs would amount to roughly $41.3 billion, with $25.7 billion being saved among the states and over $15.6 billion accrued for the federal government.
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- So what's next for the War on Drugs? For starters, rebranding. National drug czar Gil Kerlikowske (shown left), Obama's drug policy coordinator, has called for an end to the War on Drugs terminology, and an attempt to rebrand federal antidrug efforts as simple harm-reduction strategies.
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Legalizing Marijuana May Help Save the US Economy, Reduce the Prison Population, and Stop the Drug War Death Toll Buzzflash Headlines. Legalizing Marijuana May Help Save the US Economy, Reduce the Prison Population, and Stop the Drug War Death Toll. (Photo: Penguin Books)For his book Too High to Fail, author Doug Fine took off to Mendocino, California, where growing marijuana is big business.
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- US wingnuts believe Obama will 'invade' Texas. The Obama administration plans to invade Texas, Utah, and five other conservative leaning states in the American heartland and impose Martial Law on the region. Barack Obama (File Photo).
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- The War on Drugs is an American indie rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 2005. The band consists of Adam Granduciel (lyrics, vocals, guitar), David Hartley (bass), Robbie Bennett (keyboards), Charlie Hall (drums), Jon Natchez (saxophone, keyboards) and Anthony LaMarca (guitar).
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How to Peel a Potato in 10 Seconds Step 1 Cut the potato skin Make a cut all around the potato, lengthwise. Try to slice only the skin, not the actual potato. Step 2 Boil it Put the potato in a pot of boiling water. Boil until it is soft inside. Step 3 Cool it off Plunge the potato in ice water for 10 seconds.
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Illegal Drug Sales in Nation Put at $40 Billion WASHINGTON, June 19— The Bush Administration's top drug policy official said today that Americans spent more than $40 billion last year on cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other illegal drugs.irst Analysis in Decade. The report, which analyzed statistics from Federal agencies, was prepared by Abt Associates, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. It represented the Government's first attempt in a decade to estimate how much money people spend for illegal drugs.
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Allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices.. Such a provision was not included in the final health care law that passed both chambers of Congress and was signed by the president, but other provisions went in the same direction.
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- The War Powers doesn’t give power to attack IS. Only Congress can do that so Obama is on his own. Congress should either support Obama or tell him to stop his new war. $500M was given by a bipartisan majority in the House and Senate to support moderate Syrian rebels.
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Obama moves to demilitarize Americaâs police Today, President Obama is expected to announce some major policy changes in the 1033 Program, the federal initiative that transfers surplus military equipment from the Defense Department to domestic police agencies across the country.
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- The Obama administration plans to invade Texas, Utah, and five other conservative leaning states in the American heartland and impose Martial Law on the region.
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- Almost forty years after the War on Drugs officially began, we don't appear to be close to winning. Like Prohibition, the War on Drugs has achieved a real measure of success in reducing overall drug use. Proportionally fewer Americans smoke marijuana today than they did in the 1970s, for example.rohibition (with a capital P) may have been gone, but prohibition (with a small p) has remained the cornerstone of American policy towards illicit drug use ever since. President Richard Nixon coined the phrase, War on Drugs, in 1971, but the federal government's drug war truly began 40 years earlier.
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Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
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Drone Zone President Obama signed an executive order allowing the use of the U.S. military against American citizens. See Example(s) THIS IS TREASON!!!: Obama Signs Executive Order Allowing SOLDIERS To Use Military Force Against U.S. CITIZENS!!
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- The War on Drugs forces police to focus on nonviolent drug offenders, rather than on violent criminals. 3. 82% of all drug arrests are for possession only, according to the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). And a large number of them are for marijuana possession: