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Public health services in Greece on the brink of collapse


defenddemocracy.press
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:24 UTC
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Greece health crisis
Employees at Public Hospitals warn: "Greece's Public Health Services are on the brink of collapse" Six years of economic crisis, loan agreements, austerity cuts and freezing of new hiring threaten the primary care health care system. A report published by the Panhellenic Federation of Employees at Public Hospitals (POEDIN) draws a dire picture of the situation and furthermore blames the Health Ministry and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

"They implement the bailout agreements by the book and dramatically shrink expenditure for the Public Health sector, thus awaiting from us to thank them for the nothing they offer instead of humbly apologize," POEDIN stresses in a statement.

"Hospitals, medical centers, EKAV [ambulance services] are in a state of dissolution," the statement warns, adding that the premier and Health Ministry officials will "soon have to answer for the destruction of ESY."
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Low definition in higher education

Lyell Asher
The American Scholar
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:59 UTC
When college students are told what to think and what not to say, who suffers in the end?

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Every year for nearly a decade, I've assigned Anna Karenina to students enrolled in my course on the novel. At more than 800 pages, Tolstoy's saga can invite hurried reading, so a lot of class time is spent applying the brakes: "Not so fast." "How do you know that?" "What's it look like from her point of view?" There's a useful speed bump in that famous first line: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In its own way. Don't assume you know who these people are, Tolstoy cautions, however familiar they may seem.
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Cuckolding fetish relationships: Men wanting partners to sleep with other men reaches new high

Rachel Hosie
Independent
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:30 UTC
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A self-confessed cuckold has revealed how he gives his wife 'points' based on the sexual acts she carries out with other men - one of the thousands of males turned on by one of society's most taboo subjects.

The fetish of cuckolding - where men allow other men to have sexual relationships with their wives - is on the rise.

The cause of the rise isn't clear, but psychologists have suggested everything from repressed male bisexuality to men being proud of their wives' liberated sexuality.

Comment: More about the West's slide into moral decay:

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Parents protest against Common Core urge Donald Trump: Return 'control over education of children' to us

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:16 UTC
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An organization of parent activists, retired teachers, and other professionals from around the nation has released an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump, urging him to do all within his power to return control of education to parents.

Parents Against Common Core, which consists mainly of the heads of state groups that have been fighting for repeal of the controversial standards, writes:
Though primarily parents and not policy experts ourselves, there is no escaping the fact that our individual and group research, writing and lobbying efforts have caused Common Core to be either repealed or modified via law and/or policy all across the nation. It is also an inescapable fact that the majority of our success in opposition grew spontaneously and fully from the interactions with our own children and schools and therefore hold specific and direct experience no mere "policy expert" could possess.
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Policing for profit: Illinois residents forced to cough up nearly $725mn in civil asset forfeitures


RT
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:48 UTC
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Over the course of a decade, Illinois and federal law enforcement took in more than $319 million and $404 million, respectively, from state residents who were merely suspected of having committed a crime, a new report has found.

"[E]very year, Illinois law enforcement agencies take tens of millions of dollars in cash, vehicles, land and other assets from state residents - in some cases without bringing criminal charges, let alone obtaining convictions, against property owners," the Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-IL) and the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) jointly wrote in the introduction to a report outlining how much money law enforcement has made off of civil asset forfeitures since 2005.

Illinois law enforcement averaged approximately $31 million in confiscation a year on the state level between 2005 and 2014. Some asset seizures were never reported, the report found. The federal government averaged more than $36 million in asset forfeiture.
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Mexican churchgoers claim to have seen Virgin Mary statue crying blood

Mark Hodge
The Sun
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:23 UTC
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The statue, with ‘blood’ covering its, has astounded churchgoers in Mexico

The 'miracle' happened in the same Mexican town where the preserved body of a child saint supposedly opened her eyes in September

Churchgoers in Mexico claim to have seen blood pouring from the eyes of a statue of the Virgin Mary.

Pictures show dry blood covering the face of the figurine which is considered a 'sign from god' by devout Catholics.

Comment: Virgin Mary Statue 'Bleeding' in Louisiana

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Williamsburg bargoer detained for hours by NYPD and Secret Service over vaguely threatening joke

Rebecca Fishbein
Gothamist
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:43 UTC
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Though it's apparently acceptable enough for a presidential candidate to intimate that people should shoot his opponent, it is apparently not a good idea to casually joke about killing Donald Trump, even in the comfy liberal confines of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Such was the lesson learned by one local bargoer, who was carted off by the cops after making one such joke to a friend last weekend.

Greg Chang, 28, was at Roebling Sporting Club on North 8th Street near Roebling Street this past Saturday afternoon with a friend when the incident happened. He says the two were chatting and trading jokes, and Chang, a U.S. History teacher at a public school in the neighborhood, made one about Trump: "The offending joke, I believe, was 'If Donald Trump becomes president, I would pursue an early retirement—life in federal prison. Lucky for me I know the two parts of the country a President Trump would spend most of his time in: the Beltway and the City."

Chang and his friend continued to chat, but unbeknownst to them, someone had overheard his joke and called the cops. "The cops showed up, they actually physically came into the bar and asked me to step outside," Chang said, noting at least one sergeant and one officer were on the scene at around 5 p.m. "I stepped outside, and literally the first question out of the sergeant's mouth is, 'Did you make any comments about Donald Trump today?"

Comment: It appears our culture of tattle-tailing to authorities when our safe-spaces are violated by microaggressions disguised as jokes has caught up with us.

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Pirates

Standing Rock Report: Planes, helicopters spraying chemical weapons on tribal land

Erin Elizabeth
HealthNutNews
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 22:32 UTC
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Please watch the video. This is frightening. They had crop dusters and were allegedly spraying them with pesticides on their private tribal land.

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California: Carcinogenic white foam floods streets due to airport hangar malfunction


ABC 7
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 22:29 UTC
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© KGO-TVA malfunction at the San Jose International Airport resulted in foam flooding the streets of Santa Clara, Calif. on Friday, Nov. 18, 2016.
San Jose fire department says a malfunction at the San Jose airport in a new hangar has caused a malfunction which has resulted in a foam flooding the 300 block of Martin Avenue in Santa Clara.

San Jose fire says the foam stemmed from an alarm malfunction inside an airplane hangar near the San Jose International Airport.

Foam stopped flowing out of the vents of the hangar around 1:30 p.m. Friday.

If you are near the substance, San Jose fire department warns that you should not go in it as it is a known carcinogen. The fire retardant can cause an irritation to the skin.

The foam has flooded the hangar at San Jose airport and is blowing into surrounding surface streets. San Jose fire says the hangar deals with jet planes. San Jose fire says that a fire alarm malfunctioned releasing the foam.
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Myanmar: Exorcist 'possessed by a dark spirit' kills three children


Yahoo News
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 22:08 UTC
Tun Niang arrest
© AFP/Romeo GacadTun Naing (left) arrives at a Yangon court compound on November 18, 2016
A self-proclaimed sorcerer who allegedly beat three children to death in an exorcism ritual appeared in a Yangon court on Friday, telling reporters he was possessed by a "dark spirit" at the time of the killings.

Police say the black magic practitioner, Tun Naing, punched and kicked two toddlers and an eight-month-old baby to death last month in a tiny village outside Myanmar's commercial capital.

According to witnesses he told villagers the children were possessed by evil sprits and then killed them over two days as their families watched.

Speaking as police led him away from the court hearing, Tun Naing told reporters he had been possessed when he attacked the children.

"I did it because I lost control of my mind at that time as the dark spirit took over me," he said.

The uncle of the dead boy, also named Tun Naing, said the villagers lost their senses after he fed them "blessed" water and made them stand in a circle as he recited incantations.

Comment: More exorcisms gone terribly, horribly wrong:

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