Video - Cuban Doctors in Italy and Africa: A Documentary Screening With Belly of the Beast
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[a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

BotB recently held a screening of two documentaries on Cuban #medical missions. One is focused on #Cuban #doctors deployed to #Calabria, #Italy, and another follows a brigade of #African students from #ELAM (Cuba's #LatinAmerican School of #Medicine), who traveled to #GuineaBissau to provide medical care based on the training they received on the island.

Some of the ELAM students attended the screening and were given a standing ovation.

One audience member said: "Thank you for being heroes, not just of Cuba, but of the entire world."

#OilForCuba!
#CubaIsNotAlone
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
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#LetCubaLive
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I think most of you today see Crypto currencies as what they truly are : a scam. Roughly 4 years ago we took a stand and there was more of a discussion in the team at the time whether we should do that. I am proud of the stand we took then and even prouder today.

Currently Crypto companies are taking an active stand against Democracy, putting hundreds of millions into getting Crypto friendly politicians, adding that to the list of reasons why having anything to do with the technology is plain wrong.

#Vivaldi #Browser #Technology #Politics #EU #Europa #Crypto

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The crisis in care for the elderly in one graph.

In the last ten years while the population of the over 75s has expanded (reflecting the slow if sometime halting rise in life expectancy & better medical outcomes for the elderly), so care beds per thousand of the population of over 75s has fallen.

If you're wondering why hospitals have difficulty discharging the elderly into care, this may not be the only factor, but its also hardly insignificant.

#health #NHS #politics
h/t Nuffield Trust

The Labour Party has presided over a rise in political prisoners in the UK (what else would you call people imprisoned for protesting about environmental issues or the situation in Gaza?).

When we wonder whether the Labour Party is the bulwark against the right that it still wants to present itself as, we might wonder how this differs from what a ReformUK Ltd Govt. might do?

And if you defend Labour as the better of two evils, then we really are lost!

#politics
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WASHINGTON—In a dire health emergency that forced staffers to quickly mobilize to save the Cabinet member’s life, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was reportedly rushed to the gym Friday after suffering a sudden heart attack. “Quick, get him on an elliptical, now! He’s fading!” said HHS staffer Kathy Guiles, attempting to hook the secretary […]

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Raising funds for medical aid for Cuba!
Thanks to connections made in Mexico (and thanks to their affordable and accessible meds as well as consistent aid deliveries), we're now able to have urgently needed #MedicalAid sent directly to the National #Healthcare #Workers #Union of #Cuba. 100% of funds raised go towards #medical supplies (purchased at-cost) to be delivered via the frequent aid ships provided by #Mexico 🇲🇽🤝🇨🇺❤️‍🩹

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The wars of the future are quickly becoming the wars of today, and the Arctic will be one of the most fascinating regions to study.

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🇺🇸 Let’s get this passed this year, and move to finally ban all corporations from making political contributions next :

#Money Out of #Politics group ‘confident’ proposal will make #Michigan ballot

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And as more questions emerge about the Fascist Frog's finances, he seems to have gone to ground, leading one to feel the necessity of yelling ar ReformUK ltd 'members' & supporters....

WHERE THE F**K IS NIGEL????

To which the answer might be that for once the publicity seeking Frog finds himself not wanting to seek out the media.

#politics #NigelFarage #ReformUK

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You get out of a #healthcare system, what you put in. We need to be realistic about how we want to live and how we achieve it. This includes being prepared to accept uncomfortable truths and to compromise... #politics #economy #democracy

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Roy Lilley (NHSMangers.net) sums up the plight of the NHS well....

The fact that this implies the usual critique of the politicisation of the NHS doesn't make such a summary any less salient.

Only when the NHS stops being subject to imposed continual reforms & reorganisation, only when it is funded & staffed properly & not subject to the whims of politicians with 'the answer' can we hope that our health service can once again be the service we acutely need.

#health #NHS #politics

I've said before that the NHS crisis is largely made up of a workforce planning problem - not enough staff attending patients.... but, now it seems that the NHS, under continuing budgetary pressures, plans to reduce recruitment & mobilise AI & associated technologies in treatment.

This is of course Wes Streeting's doing, so one can but hope that it is now recognised for the miss-step it is.

(The new plan is also focussed on staff retention which *is* welcome)

#NHS #health #politics
h/t FT

As Nesrine Malik concludes, the 'anti-migrant right has been given too much space & time by the media & politicians to establish itself as the mainstream. So-called legitimate concerns around immigration have turned into covers for prejudice'.

ReformUK Ltd has (further) corrupted the UK's political discourse & this is already having a knock-on effect for ethnic minority communities. This is a real & present danger that our political class are underplaying!

#politics
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Another concern to add to the list...

"WHO declares international emergency over Ebola outbreak "

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The key problem of British politics is how to manage a country where the population expects a higher standard of living than its increasingly second league status can provide.

In one way or another we all suffer from a form of post-imperial, post-industrial entitled hubris.

The world has moved on leaving the UK with pockets of excellence dwarfed by sectors are far from world class.

Few politicians understand this or have a good plan to escape our predicament (if there is one?).

#politics

"The poor and the middle class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers - and the ultra-rich pay politicians".

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He was saved by his doctor only to die from to his medical bills.

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What if a Prime Minister finally levelled with the country about debt, reform and sacrifice? Leadership is rarely popular when honesty replaces slogans and politics meets reality. #Leadership #Politics #NHS

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