No Journalist can be trusted

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/12/africa/somalia-journalist-terrorist-executed/index.html

            This very interesting article was written about a man named Hassan Hanafi who used to be a very respected journalist that was until people out he was working for Al-Shabaab terrorist group. This man who was such a respected journalist working in Somalia got caught using his media connections to spy on and betray other journalists that he used to work with. He would give other journalist false information, and even was convicted of assassinations. After being convicted of assassinations he got put on death trial, which his last words were, “today, I’m being killed in the way I chose, which was to die for the sake of Allah. I don’t fear execution”. 

            Hassan worked for Holy Quran radio as a reporter and news broadcaster from 2003 to 2005 before grouping up joining Al-Shabaab, but four years later they overtook that radio station and put out airwaves of what they were going to do. When this got found out so did Hassan working for this group. He wasn’t only caught working for this group but he was a senior commander in the battlefields and even got promoted to midlevel militant commander.

            He got away doing this for years, which is really such a shame. This man who should be putting out the terrible things this group does, was actually working for them the whole time doing all the bad things they do. This honestly makes me scared for this world that people can do such a thing as he even got quoted saying, “I personally killed one journalist, and that was Sheikh Nur abkey, while the four other were murdered by my fellow fighters” when I read this I honestly didn’t think it could be true. This man got his fellow journalist killed and even killed one for this awful group. If this dosent truly scare everyone in this world I really don’t know what will.

medical spending

I recently read an interesting article on CNN about Obama trying to fight the drug war and use of opioid epidemics. This article goes through the things Obama and the U.S want to do to try to shut down the use of this terrible drug. This is not going to be cheap to do but I believe this is a serious problem that we as a country need to do whatever to fix it.

            This leading cause of unintentional death for Americans has risen 14 percent from 2013 to 2014. Doctors are saying with medication help with drugs such as methadone and buprenorphine is a serious way to get rid of this terrible drug usage. Doctors are also saying that these patients that start taking drugs that help and start to see therapist make a huge improvement in weeks. The doctors that did prescribe these drugs were only allowed to sell them to 100 people, but Obama just passed a law to 200 people, which will make a huge difference.

            The White House just announced adding 11 million dollars to go toward state efforts on expanding this medicine. Then to add another 94 million in new funding’s for new treatment services. So after spending almost 100 million dollars on this problem I truly believe that it will all be worth it and could seriously help this country with a serious problem.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/29/health/obama-war-on-drug-abuse/index.html