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Purdue Pharmaceuticals
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Know people that have died as a result of the Opioid Epidemic? Chances are it wasn't Heroin. In fact, chances are the blame could be directly laid at the door of the Purdue Family of Pharmaceuticals.
Addiction is only legal if it's monopolized by Big Pharma:
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/08/the-making-of-an-opioid-epidemic
and: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
and, with patents about to expire, you extend your lease by creating the competition: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/after-illegally-pushing-oxycontin-super-rich-family-set-up-2nd-opioid-company/
What do you do when tens of thousands of people die yearly to support your Billionaire lifestyle? You patent a cure: https://www.ft.com/content/a3a53ae8-b1e3-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c
While their being sued, this is the endgame of Capitalism, and money doesn't bring anyone back from the grave.
The Red Hand Files
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"If we love we grieve..."
Nick Cave offers poignant advice to a grieving fan.
Link: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/communication-dream-feeling/
Otherwise, the blog is full of interesting thoughts: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/
Forgotten
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And I'm trying to find old music, links, information that I dimly remember from a decade or so before.
An old music video, popular in Prague, Fall of '93. Searching, searching, I can find nothing.
Another, an old piece of music from Paris, bookmarked on a computer that died a long time ago. And a long list of favorite links that died with it.
To watch a home movie, recorded on an old webcam, format not longer supported, or the blistering foil on the CD making it unplayable.
Trying to find these lost souvenirs of my life, lost to time and place and increasingly the failings and shortcomings of the digital age. Lost, lost, the digital afterworld proving to be a an unreliable shifting memory...photos, however bleached, can still be held, records can still be played and film can be restored, but these early years of internet and innovation, they're somehow both dimly remembered and lost forever...
End of D&D
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Finally, the sad and necessary end to the this portion of Kootenay adventure. To live here I need to increase my income by a couple of orders of magnitude. Find a different livelihood. A year, maybe 2 in Calgary to wrap up my affairs - see the daughter off to college - empty my locker, reduce my baggage, wrap up countless creative projects and make my plan to return. Finally, after 2 years living on sofas, under bridges, in buses, guesthouses, trailers, dingy staff accommodations, by the side of the highway and off logging cuts, tents and roommates, time again for a place of my own.
The pub, I'll miss it, sort of, some of the people, the more unique characters and nut-jobs that fill the area, some of my co-workers, but this is not why I came here and it's worn it's own rut, time to move on, when I return it'll be to the Valley side, a place, however humble, of my own, but I've a couple years now to plan for that.
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