Corona containment and capital utilization (tags)
In the Corona crisis, it became obvious that our capitalist economic system is not suited to protect human life. There must finally be an end to eternal growth, the exploitation of nature and people and the shortage of time, an end to "more & more, faster & faster and further & further."
Stolen childhood and The language of violence (tags)
To make the hospitals fit for the "pandemic of the century", the government did nothing... The population will suffer in every respect - with one lockdown after another, inadequate health care, increasing impoverishment and lack of prospects, and presumably with endless depression.
The language of violence and The clinic lie (tags)
"Newspeak" is what George Orwell called a language invented specifically by the Party to control the masses. Today, we are further along. The new language, invented specifically to enforce the Corona measures, seems harmless. Almost unobtrusively, the untruth creeps into our brains through frequent repetition.
June 2020 Honduras Coup and Pandemic Update (tags)
https://sydneywithhonduras.wordpress.com/2020/07/17/june-2020-honduras-coup-and-pandemic-update/ In June 2020, police assassinated a man at a police checkpoint, police brutally bashed transport workers in protest, a newspaper director goes public about knowing of plans to kill him that come from the state, COVID-19 outbreak in prisons have worsened and impacts on political prisoners, only one of whom had been released during June while over 1600 other prisoners were released for COVID-19 reasons. A number more of health care workers had died of COVID-19 in Honduras and cases shot up during this month to upwards of 20,000 confirmed cases.
Homeless Mentally Ill: Some History (tags)
Better medicines were invented in the 1950's, 1960,s and 1970's and the population of state mental hospitals decreased from 550,000 to 110,000 from the 1950's to 1980's.
63 Rural Hospitals Out of Business in Southeast according to USA TODAY (tags)
Over 63 Small rural hospitals have gone out of business in a number of Southeastern states that have not agreed to join Medicaid expansion. Some hospitals have closed child bearing rights in a few instances. IN Ga 40% of the hospitals are losing money and many are vulnerable NPR
Key Declaration about Mental Illness and Homelessness in U.S.A. by E. Fuller Torrey (tags)
Author of the Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill a Text by Harper and Row. Until the laye 1950's most seriously mentally ill lived in state hospitals It became feasible to discharge 100,000's of thousands when medications improved. by 1985 the population had decreased by 80%
Israeli Forces Invade Palestinian Hospitals (tags)
Israel
UN Report Accuses Israel of Crimes Against Children (tags)
Israel
Palestinians frocibly sterilize women with disabilities (tags)
Palestinians forcibly sterilize women they feel are unsuited to be mothers
Healthcare: A Fundamental Human Right (tags)
healthcare
Pharma Corps Act as Mafia Dons by Suppressing Cancer Treatment Alternatives (tags)
The pharmaceutical corporations maintain their monopoly on cancer treatment with radiation, chemotherapy and surgery as the only FDA approved options for those on Medicare/Medicaid by constant harassment of alternative healers and ignorance about nutrition. These strong-arm tactics could be taken out of the script of the Sopranos, the fictional portrayal of an actual organized crime syndicate.
Obamacare Restricts Choice of Hospitals and Doctors (tags)
Obamacare
Deplorable Bahraini Human Rights Violations (tags)
police state
Critical Health Issues in Gaza (tags)
Gaza
BTL:House Passes Bill that Denies Women Emergency Abortion Services (tags)
Interview with Sarah Lipton-Lubet, policy counsel, American Civil Liberties Union, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Green U.S. Senate Candidate: We Need a Single-Payer "Medicare-for-all" Health Care System (tags)
"The so-called 'health care reform' bill signed into law by Democratic President Barack Obama earlier this year was in reality a thinly-disguised scheme to bailout Wall Street billionaires who made huge investments in private health insurance companies that lately had been experiencing a decline in revenues as a result of a rapidly shrinking customer base."
Israel's Separation Wall: A Health Hazard (tags)
The Wall is a weapon of mass destruction
Judge orders $1 Million bail for Mission Hospital EMT accused of raping patient (tags)
Authorities said the 31-year-old female victim was taken by ambulance to Mission Hospital just after midnight on Feb. 21. While being treated at the hospital, the woman told authorities she was raped but was unable to resist
Health Care Reform, Obama Style (tags)
health care reform
Government and Medical Industry Deciding Who Dies in the Event of Pandemic (tags)
The task force members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services. The proposed guidelines are designed to be a blueprint for hospitals "so that everybody will be thinking in the same way" when pandemic flu or another widespread health care disaster hits, said Dr. Asha Devereaux. She is a critical care specialist in San Diego and lead writer of the task force report.
Politician wants to fine hospitals if patients contract infections during treatments (tags)
A leading U.K. politician wants the government to fine hospitals for each patient who contracts an infection during their stay.
Santa Arrives by Wheel Chair (tags)
Kids On Paper Director Brings Comic Books and Holiday Cheer to Children in Valley Hospitals
What if a flu outbreak shut down the highway, airport, hospital? (tags)
The Chicago Tribune reports: The effects of the computer-simulated flu pandemic kept getting worse and worse: highways and airports shut down, hospitals filled to capacity, pharmacies running out of medicine.
PA: Hamas stealing Gaza hospitals' fuel (tags)
More crimes against humanity, this time, agaisnt their own civilians by the so-called "Palestinians"
How the support of other unions will help the CPMC strikers win. (tags)
Solidarity between Bay Area unions is beating Sutter Hospitals.
Nearly 9,000 U.S. troops dead? A NATIONWIDE CALL FOR INFO FROM SURVIVORS. (tags)
Has the Bush administration drastically understated the U.S. military death count by redefining "death"? The following article suggests that it has, and it calls for a nationwide campaign to honor deceased service members by naming and counting them.
Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause Of Death (tags)
Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health reports in a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) titled "Is US Health Really the Best in the World?" how doctors are implicated in medical related deaths in the US:
Governor Foe to Patient Safety (tags)
Governor Schwartzenegger has rolled back patient safety protections, favoring corporate healthcare over safe patient care.
RE-MISSIONING OF DHS HOSPITALS (tags)
King/Drew closure contradicting Thomas L. Garthwaite, M.D.Director and Chief Medical Officer recommendation from 2002
No to Falluja "cover up" (tags)
Dear friends, Are you wondering why/how the reports from Falluja have become so bland? Please read these frightening reports emerging from Falluja, consider sharing them with others, and take action to stop these horrors. jamie
Nurses Vs. Tenet Healthcare (tags)
7/24/03 Business Week reported: Neither the blazing sun nor the rush-hour traffic could deter the angry knot of nurses who gathered on July 23 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, site of Tenet Healthcare's (THC ) annual shareholder meeting. The nurses -- some wearing black bandanas across their mouths -- were protesting Tenet's efforts to prevent the California Nurses Assn. from unionizing some of its hospitals. "We're California nurses!" they chanted. "Mighty, mighty nurses! We will not be silenced!"
Baghdad - Throughout the 13 years of UN sanctions on Iraq that were ended yesterday, Iraqi doctors told the world that the sanctions were the sole cause for the rocketing mortality rate among Iraqi children.
How and why the US encouraged looting in Iraq (tags)
The US military stood by and permitted the ransacking of the museum, an incalculable blow to Iraqi and world culture, just as they allowed and even encouraged the looting of hospitals, universities, libraries and government social service buildings. The occupation forces protected only the Ministry of Oil, with its detailed inventory of Iraqi oil reserves, as well as the Ministry of Interior, the headquarters of the ousted regime’s secret police.
Texas Undocumented Immigrants Face Lawsuit against Hospitals they Receive Limit (tags)
From THe Houston Chronicle by Mark Berger