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berternste2@diasp.nl
Bert Ernste • NL | BR

A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore

I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare —SICKO — for FREE… and let’s end and replace this so-called “health care system” NOW. (...)

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Luigi Mangione

Here’s a sad statistic for you: In the United States, we have a whopping 1.4 million people employed with the job of DENYING HEALTH CARE, vs only 1 million doctors in the entire country! That’s all you need to know about America. We pay more people to deny care than to give it. 1 million doctors to give care, 1.4 million brutes in cubicles doing their best to stop doctors from giving that care. If the purpose of “health care” is to keep people alive, then what is the purpose of DENYING PEOPLE HEALTH CARE? Other than to kill them? I definitely condemn that kind of murder. And in fact, I already did. In 2007, I made a film – SICKO – about America’s bloodthirsty, profit-driven and murderous health insurance system. It was nominated for an Oscar. It’s the second-largest grossing film of my career (after Fahrenheit 9/11). And over the past 15 years, millions upon millions of people have watched it including, apparently, Luigi Mangione. (...)

Complete manifesto

Tags: #english #us #united_states #health_care #health_insurance #insurance #luigi_mangione #for_profit #sicko #michael_moore

A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore

I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare —SICKO — for FREE… and let’s end and replace this so-called “health care system” NOW

berternste2@diasp.nl
Bert Ernste • NL | BR

Disappearing Genocide: BBC ‘Balance’ Between Perpetrator Israel And Palestinian Victims After Damning Amnesty Report

Media Lens

(...) By contrast, last week’s devastating Amnesty International report stating that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, detailed in a carefully-documented 296-page report, received only token ‘mainstream’ media coverage. (...)

In a sane world, such a powerful indictment by the world’s most prestigious human rights organisation would receive intensive, widespread and continuing news coverage and commentary. (...)

In the real world, when they covered the report at all, ‘mainstream’ news reports gave ample room to Israel’s crazed denunciations of Amnesty as a ‘deplorable and fanatical organisation’ that had issued a report that was ‘entirely false and based on lies’. (...)

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Israeli Holocaust Scholar Says This IS Genocide
Finally, consider the recent powerful statement by Amos Goldberg, an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

‘For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

‘And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.’ (...)

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Tags: #english #amnesty #genocide #gaza #israel #palestine #palestinians #occupied_territories #war #war_crimes #bbc #guardian #lobby #media #news #journalism #journalist

Disappearing Genocide: BBC ‘Balance’ Between Perpetrator Israel And Palestinian Victims After Damning Amnesty Report

Imagine that the world’s largest and most respected human rights group issued a report detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and concluding that Russia was committing genocide. Western news media would devote massive coverage to the report....

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hernanlg@diasp.org
HernanLG

#Wordly today for #Spanish + #Dutch + #English

Adiviné esta palabra española de 5 letras en 4/6 intentos.

⬛🟦⬛⬛🟧
⬛🟦🟦⬛🟦
⬛🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

¿Puedes adivinar esta palabra?
https://wordly.org/es?challenge=anVlZ28

Ik heb dit Nederlandse 5-letterwoord geraden in 4/6 pogingen.

⬛🟧⬛🟦⬛
🟧🟦🟦🟦⬛
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬛
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

Kun jij dit woord raden?
https://wordly.org/nl?challenge=aGF2ZW4

I guessed this 5-letter word in 5/6 tries.

⬛🟧⬛⬛⬛
🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟦⬛⬛🟦⬛
🟦⬛⬛🟦🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

Can you guess this word?
https://wordly.org?challenge=YWJib3Q

#Puzzle #Puzzles #Wordly #NotWordle #Wordle #languages #es #ñ #nl #en #Dutch #Nederlands #Spanish #Español #English

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berternste2@diasp.nl
Bert Ernste • NL | BR

I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways…

The Guardian

The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media.

Bluesky may make those feeds more congenial, but it won’t change the fact that we are still reduced to communicating in channels with a bandwidth not much wider than that of smoke signals.

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Tags: #english #social_media #mastodon #bluesky #x #twitter #algorithm #democracy

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sascha@loma.ml
Sascha 😎 🏴

The Daily Show: Scientists Have a Solution to Climate Catastrophe, But You Can't Have It

Humans have repeatedly ignored warnings about carbon pollution, so scientists have created a self-sustaining spaceship to give humanity a fresh start. Filled with movie theaters, restaurants, and good bar trivia, the USS Told Ya So has it all… except all of us.

youtube.com/watch?v=BgzBfxy-5m…

Info: Gerade bei @Kurt Lupin gesehen und für gut befunden. 😀

#The-Daily-Show #Donald-Trump #Climate-Change #Scientists #Spaceship #English #Satire #2024-11-09

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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
Radio Free Trumpistan

Alright, that rips it. Calling Grandma Grammer!

#English language is ever evolving and I'm typically forgiving of people whose second language is English, typos, transpositions and such but I've run into too many toots in a row with fingers-on-chalkboard annoyance. The latest example to come across my newsfeed is how Ron Howard finds J.D. Vance "concerning. Concerning what? Concerning whom? Nah--they meant DISCONCERTING.

Just prior to that, someone who shall remain nameless was calling for fedi-mathematitians to translate an analytical treatise on reconciling quantum physics/computations with what's been math-us receptus for decades...and when I clicked on the link to read the paper, I run across THIS atrocity:

"Planck time is intimately linked to Planck length is the Planck time, which is denoted by tp. "

If you don't understand that, it's not because you're not a mathematician. That's Clue One that the mathematician himself doesn't have a grasp on what the hell he's talking about.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr