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NHS cost cutting

jeudi 31 août 2017 à 02:00

The Tory officials of the NHS told NHS managers, "Don't send so many people to the hospital -- we don't have money for that."

If they can't handle so many patients in the hospital, they must try to optimize the use of the hospital beds they have. But the issue should not stop there. Why is there a shortage? Is it because they cut taxes for the rich?

Darwin

jeudi 31 août 2017 à 02:00

"To blame Darwin for being racist is like accusing Freud of not being a feminist, which is to say both blindingly obvious and slightly beside the point."

Most people never manage to make either a great advance in science or a great advance in ethics. To demand that someone do both in order to deserve admiration is asking too much. If Darwin did the former and not the latter, we can admire him for the former, and recognize that in the latter field he was mediocre, not great.

Fortunately, others since have made the advance of rejecting racism.

Civil rights division

jeudi 31 août 2017 à 02:00

Saboteur Sessions has nominated a long-time enemy of civil rights enforcement for the civil-rights division of the Department of Justice.

Salafist war crimes

jeudi 31 août 2017 à 02:00

Amnesty International and other human rights organizations call on the UN to take action against the war crimes committed by Salafi Arabia with support from the US.

Great Barrier Reef tourism

jeudi 31 août 2017 à 02:00

Tourists are starting to avoid the Great Barrier Reef because they know the Australian government is pushing to kill it off.