THE SECRETIVE FAMILY MAKING BILLIONS FROM THE OPIOID CRISIS

These guys reminds me of the 19th Century Sassoon family.

From Esquire:

To a remarkable degree, those who share in the billions appear to have abided by an oath of omertà: Never comment publicly on the source of the family’s wealth.

That may be because the greatest part of that $14 billion fortune tallied by Forbes came from OxyContin, the narcotic painkiller regarded by many public-health experts as among the most dangerous products ever sold on a mass scale. Since 1996, when the drug was brought to market by Purdue Pharma, the American branch of the Sacklers’ pharmaceutical empire, more than two hundred thousand people in the United States have died from overdoses of OxyContin and other prescription painkillers. Thousands more have died after starting on a prescription opioid and then switching to a drug with a cheaper street price, such as heroin. Not all of these deaths are related to OxyContin—dozens of other painkillers, including generics, have flooded the market in the past thirty years. Nevertheless, Purdue Pharma was the first to achieve a dominant share of the market for long-acting opioids, accounting for more than half of prescriptions by 2001…

By any assessment, the family’s leaders have pulled off three of the great marketing triumphs of the modern era: The first is selling OxyContin; the second is promoting the Sackler name; and the third is ensuring that, as far as the public is aware, the first and the second have nothing to do with one another.

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Variety: ‘A TV Executive Sexually Assaulted Me: A Critic’s Personal Story’

Maureen Ryan writes:

I told a lie in 2015. A lie to save my life.

I wrote a post in May of that year telling people I was taking two months off to deal with family issues. It wasn’t entirely a falsehood. My father had died about a year earlier and my mother was dying (she passed away last fall). The last few years were a difficult, grindingly draining time that changed me enormously.

Still, my parents’ illnesses and deaths didn’t break me. The television executive who sexually assaulted me in 2014 broke me.

And that was the real reason I took that leave in 2015: I needed to heal, mentally and spiritually, and I had to think about whether I even wanted to stay in this industry…

The television executive who assaulted me was the boyfriend of someone I’d known in the industry for some time. I did not think the boyfriend of someone I knew would assault me. I did not think he would do it at an industry-adjacent event. I did not think he would make a sexually crude, harassing remark about me in front of dozens of people, which was extremely embarrassing.

I did not think that, a short time later, he would put his hands on me and say utterly disgusting things. I did not think he would come after me again, and then, when I’d moved away, grope me again, and hiss more even more crude, humiliating things into my ear. He came after me three times in total. He hunted me. The word predator works on so many levels.

This guy is not friendless. Before he attacked me, I thought he seemed like a reasonable, regular guy. Just know that he is not some outlier, not someone whose demeanor or cocktail-party chatter would indicate that anything was amiss. He seemed utterly normal.

I know what it’s like to be shocked by what a fellow human is capable of, because that night, and for so long after, I was stunned into disbelief. After I finally got away from him, we exited the venue together — me, the guy, his girlfriend. I’m not much of an actress, but my performance as “Person Who Is Holding It Together As If Everything Is Fine” was credible. The process of falling apart was a long one.

It took me weeks to accept that what he did that night fit the definition of sexual assault. I looked up legal codes online for months. An old draft of this piece — I’ve written so many versions of this story — called it sexual harassment. That was part of it. But when someone puts their hands on you, certainly in areas in which you do not want and have not invited their hands, that’s assault.

I reported him to his company. Spoiler alert: Nothing happened.

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A Night at the Garden

Youtube: * In 1939, New York’s Madison Square Garden was host to an enormous—and shocking—gathering of 22,000 Americans that has largely been forgotten from our history.

* I believe after this disgusting spectacle in the Garden as they exited a crowd of loyal Jewish Americans attacked them and gave them a thorough ass whupping which they most definitely deserved. This rally looked very much like the many rallies Trump had during his campaign and continues to have. Eventually this alcoholic Kuhn was discovered to have embezzled something like fifteen thousand dollars from the coffers of this disgraceful German-American Bund and was deported to Germany where he died in ignominy from the alcoholism he was plagued by.

* Reading the comments on here, I assume that Marshall Curry got exactly what he wanted. This is by no means a “documentary” as there is zero history of what is going on other than a rally. No mention of the protests outside, only the footage of the plumbers helper trying to say “death to Hitler”

This is all about attacking Trump and trying to tie him into a Nazi movement that is NOT happening. I guarantee you there were more Nazi’s in the USA pre WWII than there are now.

Trump may attack the media that are attacking him, HOWEVER he does not call them “the Jewish controlled media” and in fact, he does not want to divide this country between the races, he wants us to all live in peace.

It is the liberal agenda to bash Trump any way they can. Associating him with racism is just one of the ways they are doing it.

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Does Dodger Pitcher Yu Darvish Infuriate WNs?

Every WN I know admires the Japanese, sees Japan as a model, perhaps the model for an ethnic state, and has more positive views on Iran than the average American. So no, Yu Darvish, doesn’t infuriate WNs.

I notice that at the end of his performance last night, Yu Darvish saluted the umpire. This is the sort of good manners that cultured people appreciate. I wish more Americans had the good manners and good looks of Yu Darvish.

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WW: Two Decades After Author Jim Goad Fell From Grace In Portland, He’s Re-emerged As an Icon of the Alt-Right

From Willamette Weekly:

Twenty years ago, Jim Goad was Portland’s hottest new writer.

When he gave a reading of his first book in May 1997, fans spilled onto the sidewalks outside Reading Frenzy, the downtown counterculture bookshop owned by now City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly. They were there to get a look at the 35-year-old author with a rockabilly bouffant and a heart tattooed on his sculpted biceps.

“There were people out the door, peering in the windows,” he now remembers.

Goad was then a breakout name in Portland, where he lived for 11 years. The Temple University graduate arrived here with a bit of notoriety as the creator of a crass zine called Answer Me! that printed “ironic” essays in favor of rape and abusing women. In Portland, he wrote his first and most infamous book, The Redneck Manifesto, which earned him a $100,000 book deal from Simon & Schuster.

Early reviews of Redneck—which opened with a chapter called “White Niggers Have Feelings Too” and uses the N-word a total of 76 times—were mostly positive. Florida’s Sun-Sentinel called it a “furious, profane, smart and hilariously smart aleck defense of working-class white culture,” while Publishers Weekly said he was “writing at the top of his voice” and “merits a listen.” Kirkus Reviews wrote that while Redneck was “sure to infuriate the liberal reader, he is also likely to make that same reader laugh ruefully, and often.” WW praised the book’s “brutally candid critique of American race relations.”

That book was the closest Goad got to mainstream success.

Twenty years later, Goad has become instead a leading figure in far-right fringe media. Best-selling author Michael Malice called him “godfather of the new right.”

In 2016, Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of Vice Media who later founded the Proud Boys—a far-right men’s organization whose members dress in MAGA hats and Fred Perry polos—called Goad “the greatest writer of our generation.” McInnes lists The Redneck Manifesto as one of three “required” books on modern Western culture, alongside Pat Buchanan’s The Death of the West and Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray.

“This is Proud Boy Holy scripture,” reads a review of Goad’s book on the Proud Boys’ website. “This book could be our bible.”

Goad’s popularity during the Trump era has seen a resurgence. Goad says his former publisher doesn’t give him figures, but The Redneck Manifesto’s sales are accelerating. It’s been through 17 printings, and its Amazon sales rank shot up 200,000 places between 2012 and 2017. It’s currently the No. 30 top-selling book in “minority studies.”

“People see that Trump got elected, and they want to know how this monster came to power,” says Goad. “They come to me for the etiology of the disease.”

Portlanders often view the alt-right that elected Trump as a phenomenon foreign to our city. But the “bible” of the Proud Boys was written right here. If you want to know where the angry white men of the alt-right came from, it’s important to try to comprehend Jim Goad.

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