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Venezuela's healthcare system

dimanche 21 avril 2019 à 02:00

"Collapse of Venezuela’s healthcare system could fuel spread of malaria and other diseases across region."

The article does not mention that Venezuela before Chávez did not offer medical care for the non-wealthy. The doctors served the middle and upper classes, those who could pay, and did not try to serve the poor. Chávez set up a medical system for all, which still exists but is not working very well.

I see no reason to think that Guaidó would care about the poor enough to make that system function. He might just as likely abolish it.

Rejecting fast fashion

dimanche 21 avril 2019 à 02:00

Some Britons are rejecting fast fashion and buying clothes to keep, trade, and occasionally modify.

The story idiotically says that this is a "new way to consume clothing", when the whole point is to treat clothes as durable goods instead of consuming them.

New fossil fuel plant

dimanche 21 avril 2019 à 02:00

Australia's greenhouse gas reduction fund will be used to pay for a fossil fuel plant, which was going to be built privately anyway.

The Australian government does not really want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It is run by planet-roasters.

NAFTA and safety regulations

dimanche 21 avril 2019 à 02:00

NAFTA contains a system that quietly eliminates safety regulations including for food safety.

Anti-vaxx cult in Japan

dimanche 21 avril 2019 à 02:00

In Japan, the anti-vaxx cult includes an actual religious cult which seems to resemble Christian "science".