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Unprecedented workforce crisis in NHS with over 100,000 vacancies – Justin Madders

Justin Madders MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to the latest NHS vacancy data, said:

“Theresa May has overseen an unprecedented workforce crisis in our NHS, with over 100,000 vacancies across the system. These latest figures reveal in the starkest fashion how serious shortages have become, with new trainees put off from joining and existing nurses increasingly retiring early.

“Even in her own backyard, the situation is desperate. Thames Valley managed to hire just five nurses for 1,957 advertised posts - just one in 400. On the day her own Foreign Secretary has called for emergency funding, Theresa May must get an urgent grip of this escalating chaos in our NHS.”

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John McDonnell comment on revelations HMRC instructed not to be "too hard" on Amazon

John McDonnell MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, commenting on revelations that HMRC was instructed not to be “too hard” on Amazon over its enforcement of VAT law, said:

“These are deeply worrying revelations. If true, the Government has serious questions to answer over why it continues to let big corporations off the hook.

“It further suggests that the concerns about the cosy deal struck with Google over its tax bill only a few years ago was not in isolation. And it also explains why this Government continually refuses to truly clamp down on tax avoidance in our country.

“The next Labour government will implement thorough measures to crack down on tax dodging under our Tax Transparency and Enforcement Programme. Unlike the Conservatives, we will create a country and an economy that works for the many, not the few.”

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The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

Noam Chomsky is well known for his illustration of the “Propaganda Model.” Chomsky’s model includes five filters that expose how the media is controlled and completely infiltrated by corporations, governments, and the elite.

1 OWNERSHIP Mass media firms are big corporations. Their end game? Profit. And so it’s in their interests to push for whatever guarantees that profit.

2 ADVERTISING It isn’t so much that the media are selling you a product — their output. They are also selling advertisers a product — YOU.”

3 THE MEDIA ELITE Governments, corporations, big institutions know how to play the media game. They know how to influence the news narrative. They feed media scoops, official accounts, interviews with the ‘experts’. They make themselves crucial to the process of journalism. So, those in power and those who report on them are in bed with each other.

4 FLAK If you want to challenge power, you’ll be pushed to the margins. When the media – journalists, whistleblowers, sources – stray away from the consensus, they get ‘flak’.

5 THE COMMON ENEMY To manufacture consent, you need an enemy — a target. That common enemy is the fifth filter. A common enemy, a bogeyman to fear, helps corral public opinion.

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“All books, everywhere, affect all other books.  This is obvious: books inspire other books written in the future, and cite books written in the past.  But the General Theory of L-Space suggests that, in that case, the contents of books as yet unwritten can be deduced from books now in existence.”

- Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies

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Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Be Subject to Life in Prison.
Women who miscarry or get legal abortions out of state could also be imprisoned.
Slate Magazine

Did y’all miss this news? It’s a literal Handmaids Tale law.

“Even women who seek lawful abortions out of state may not escape punishment. If a Georgia resident plans to travel elsewhere to obtain an abortion, she may be charged with conspiracy to commit murder, punishable by 10 years’ imprisonment. An individual who helps a woman plan her trip to get an out-of-state abortion, or transports her to the clinic, may also be charged with conspiracy.”

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WHAT THE FUCK

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Article published May 7th, 2019.

Men, die soon

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“But they’re witches.  I don’t like to ask them questions.’
‘Why not?’
‘They might give me answers.  And then what would I do?”

- Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies

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“He’d tried to introduce Ephebian democracy to Lancre, giving the vote to everyone, or at least everyone “who be of good report and who be male and hath forty years and owneth a hosue worth more than three and a half goats a year,” because there’s no sense in being stupid about things and giving the vote to people who were poor or criminal or insane or female, who’d only use it irresponsibly.”

- Terry Pratchett - Lords And Ladies

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“I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult,’ said Granny firmly. ‘Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.’

‘But all them things exist,’ said Nanny Ogg.

‘That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ‘em.’”

- Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies

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“Mustrum Ridcully, the current Archchancellor, liked to wander around the sleepy buildings, nodding to the servants and leaving little notes for his subordinates, usually designed for no other purpose than to make it absolutely clear that he was up and attending to the business of the day while they were still fast asleep.”

- Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies

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“It used to be so simple, once upon a time. because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain stream, looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of unreason, the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged swimming things of superstition.
Occasionally he would straighten up and say things like ‘Hurrah, I’ve discovered Boyle’s Third Law.’  And everyone knew where they stood.  But the trouble was that ignorance became more interesting, especially big fascinating ignorance about huge and important things like matter and creation, and people stopped patiently building their little houses of rational sticks in the chaos of the universe and started getting interested in the chaos itself – partly because it was a lot easier to be an expert on chaos, but mostly because it made really good patterns that you could put on a t-shirt.”

- Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad