Capitalism as Mental Illness (tags)
As to the stress mechanism, Adam Smith supplied that with his theory of “selfish interest” providing collective benefit. And while it’s inarguable that being forced to compete in a self reinforcing and ever accelerating rat race has provided us with many industrial and technological milestones, we must ask ourselves: at what cost? The fracture of social cohesion?
Comprehensive List: Coronavirus threatens luthiers/guitar builders everywhere (tags)
Because of the pandemic we are experiencing, and because no one really knows who may be struck next with the virus, or who may die as a result, it seemed appropriate to provide a list of artistic luthiers/guitar builders who make beautiful handmade custom built guitars.
Exitosa jornada m?dica de APROQUEN y Hospital Ingenio San Antonio (Nicaragua Sugar) (tags)
El Hospital del Ingenio San Antonio y la Asociaci?n Pro Ni?os Quemados de Nicaragua (APROQUEN), realizaron a finales de mayo la X Jornada M?dico Quir?rgica ?Por los Hijos de Mi Pueblo? en la que fueron operados gratuitamente un total de 60 pacientes con secuelas de quemaduras y traumatismo, labio y paladar hendido y malformaciones cong?nitas.
The Radiation Poisoning of America (tags)
(and the world)
Iraq’s Health Ministry Directed to Withhold Mortality Figures to United Nations (tags)
News Item: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki’s office has instructed Iraq’s Health Ministry to stop providing mortality figures to the U.N. in an attempt to keep the number of civilian war dead a secret. This comes in the wake of an American epidemiologist study which indicates that 650,000 more people have died since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq than would have died without the invasion. I have come into possession of a letter from U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, to the Iraqi Prime Minister on how to deal with this subject. Here is the letter.