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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered..."
"History has stopped."
George Orwell - 1984
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Richard Osman has nailed Russell Brand here all ends up
Explaining Brands spin of playing a victim trying to be silenced by the establishment who don’t like him speaking the truth
The real truth was he knew he was a sexual abuser and the walls were closing in on him
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UBI is not socialism by any stretch of the imagination. It is redistributive and would have a significant impact on government spending and taxation policy, but it is also one of the most market-oriented approaches to addressing poverty.
This is consistent with Milton Friedman's proposal for a negative income tax: rather than having the government determine what people need or how they should spend their money, UBI leaves those decisions to individuals, preserving consumer choice and market mechanisms.
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On December 12, 1952, a nuclear reactor in Canada went out of control. Someone had to go inside and take it apart. One of the young men who did it would later become President of the United States.
The reactor was called NRX, at the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario. It was one of the most important research reactors in the world at the time.
That day, a series of mistakes caused its power to surge. Part of the core overheated and melted, and about a million gallons of radioactive water flooded the basement. It was one of the first serious nuclear accidents in history.
The reactor had to be dismantled before it could be repaired. But the radiation inside was so strong that no one could stay near it for long.
At the time, the United States Navy was working on the first nuclear-powered submarines, and its engineers had a strong interest in learning from the accident. A young Navy lieutenant who was working on the program was sent to Chalk River with a team of American sailors to help.
He was 28 years old. His name was Jimmy Carter.
The plan was carefully worked out. Each man could only be exposed to the radiation for about 90 seconds. So the team built a full-size copy of the damaged part of the reactor on a nearby tennis court.
Over and over, they practiced every movement until they could do their part perfectly and fast.
Then, one at a time, they went in.
Carter later described being lowered into the damaged reactor in a protective suit, working as fast as he could on his task, and then being pulled out. In those 90 seconds, he said, he absorbed the maximum amount of radiation considered safe for a whole year. For months afterward, his urine was tested for radioactivity.
Years later, he would joke that he and his men were "hot" for a while afterward. But at the time, nobody knew exactly what the long-term effects of that much radiation would be. The young sailors volunteered anyway. They knew the reactor had to be fixed, and they knew someone had to do it.
The work took weeks. Team after team went in, each man doing one small job in his 90 seconds before the next man took his place. Slowly, piece by piece, the damaged parts were removed. The reactor at Chalk River was eventually rebuilt and ran for decades afterward.
He later said the experience changed the way he thought about nuclear power and nuclear weapons for the rest of his life. He had seen with his own eyes what happens when something that powerful goes wrong.
Carter rarely made a big deal of it. In his memoir, he described it in a few plain sentences, the way a man describes a job that simply had to get done. Many Americans who voted for him never knew it had happened.
The following year, his father died, and Carter left the Navy to go home to Plains, Georgia, and run the family peanut farm. He went into local politics, then became governor of Georgia, and in 1977 he became the 39th President of the United States.
After the White House, he spent decades building homes with Habitat for Humanity, monitoring elections, and fighting diseases in some of the poorest countries on earth. In 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jimmy Carter died on December 29, 2024. He was 100 years old, the longest-lived president in American history.
Few people knew that before any of it, as a young officer, he had once been lowered into a broken nuclear reactor with 90 seconds to get the job done.
Did you know this part of Jimmy Carter's life?
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Starting tonight at 1 AM, we’ll be sharing the real radio transmissions from the night the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior, 50 years ago.
These posts will follow the timeline as it happened, from the first reports of rough seas to the ship’s final transmission.
We share them in remembrance of the 29 men who were lost, and in respect for all who work the Great Lakes.
Transmissions from: ssedmundfitzgerald.org/fitz-…
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🎶 “Two of Us”: quando i Beatles ci insegnavano che perdersi insieme è il modo più bello per ritrovarsi
🚗 A volte non serve sapere dove si sta andando. Basta salire in macchina, scegliere una strada a caso, lasciarsi alle spalle la routine e avere accanto la persona giusta. È proprio questa la magia di “Two of Us”, una delle canzoni più intime, dolci e nostalgiche dei Beatles. Un brano che sembra fatto apposta per accompagnare un fine settimana senza programmi, tra ricordi, sorrisi e voglia di libertà.
❤️ Scritta da Paul McCartney nel 1969 e pubblicata nel 1970 nell’album Let It Be, la canzone nasce dalle sue avventure in automobile con Linda Eastman. I due amavano partire senza una destinazione precisa, imboccare strade sconosciute e lasciarsi sorprendere dal viaggio. Linda adorava perdersi, Paul un po’ meno, ma proprio da quelle piccole fughe nacque una canzone capace di raccontare qualcosa di universale: la felicità di stare insieme, anche quando non si sa dove si sta andando.
🎸 Eppure, quando partono le voci di Paul e John Lennon, così vicine e perfettamente intrecciate, “Two of Us” assume inevitabilmente anche un altro significato, perché è impossibile ascoltarla senza pensare anche alla loro amicizia, agli anni trascorsi fianco a fianco, alle canzoni scritte insieme e a quel legame straordinario che stava ormai attraversando i suoi ultimi giorni all’interno dei Beatles.
💭 C’è soprattutto un verso che, conoscendo la storia del gruppo, ci arriva dritto al cuore:
“You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead”.
Parole che sembrano racchiudere tutta la storia di John e Paul, dai pomeriggi di Liverpool alla conquista del mondo. Un passato immenso, condiviso, che nessuna separazione avrebbe potuto mai cancellare.
🌻 “Two of Us” ha il sapore delle cose semplici: un picnic improvvisato, una strada di campagna, una risata senza motivo, una giornata apparentemente qualunque che, molti anni dopo, scopriamo essere stata una delle più belle della nostra vita.
🚗 E allora, questo fine settimana, provate a fare come Paul e Linda: scegliete una strada senza preoccuparvi troppo della destinazione, mettete “Two of Us” in sottofondo e portate con voi qualcuno di speciale.
🎶 Perché, in fondo, non conta dove si arriva. Conta chi abbiamo accanto durante il viaggio.
#TheBeatles #TwoOfUs #PaulMcCartney #JohnLennon #LindaMcCartney #LetItBe #Beatles #Yesterdaypills
🎬︎ #BeatlesInSoundtrack: le canzoni dei Beatles nei film.
✍️ @sabrimasce
Nello spazio con i Beatles.
🎶 Concludiamo questa prima parte della rubrica con il film più recente in cui si ascolta una canzone dei Beatles, e non solo. Parliamo di “Project Hail Mary”, diretto da Phil Lord e Christopher Miller, con Ryan Gosling protagonista e uscito al cinema a marzo 2026. 🍿
🚀 La storia è nota: una missione spaziale, uno scienziato che si ritrova solo a bordo di un'astronave e l'incontro con un essere extraterrestre anch’egli impegnato a salvare il proprio pianeta dalla minaccia del graduale spegnimento del Sole. ☀️
📖 Il film è tratto dall'omonimo romanzo dello scrittore americano Andy Weir, già autore di “The Martian”, un'altra storia di solitudine, sopravvivenza e lotta per la vita nello spazio, anch'essa portata sul grande schermo.
La curiosità, per noi, è che Andy Weir è un grande appassionato dei Beatles e ha voluto rendere omaggio alla band disseminando il romanzo di riferimenti e citazioni, ripresi anche nella versione cinematografica. A cominciare dalle quattro sonde esplorative, chiamate collettivamente “Beetles” (coleotteri), ma battezzate singolarmente John, Paul, George e Ringo. 🪐
🎵 L'omaggio più bello, però, arriva nella parte finale del film, in una delle scene più emozionanti, quando si ascolta “Two Of Us”. Il brano, pubblicato nell'album “Let It Be” del 1970 e firmato Lennon-McCartney, racconta di un'amicizia, complicità e ricordi, lungo una strada che si sceglie di percorrere insieme. 🛣️
👨🏼🚀 Un significato che si sposa perfettamente con il rapporto tra Ryland e Rocky: due esseri profondamente diversi che, nel corso di un viaggio straordinario, imparano a conoscersi, a fidarsi l'uno dell'altro e a costruire un legame speciale. 👽
📽️ Lo stesso Andy Weir, parlando dell'adattamento cinematografico, ha indicato proprio “Two Of Us” come la canzone dei Beatles più adatta a rappresentare lo spirito della storia. 🎼
La musica unisce sempre, anche due mondi lontanissimi…Se poi è quella dei Beatles, l'armonia cosmica è perfetta! 🎆
🎞️ Il film è disponibile su Prime Video. 📺
#TheBeatles #ProjectHailMary #TwoOfUs #Yesterdaypills
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Apparently this segment from SNL’s Weekend Update is upsetting to Elon Musk and his fans.
Be a shame if this went viral.
Dave 🇨🇦🎧⚛️ ☸️🇬🇧 retweeted
This analysis of Canada's healthcare system by an investment banker and corporate trader may be problematic. Why:
1. We have the fundamentals right for great healthcare
2. We have the money for great healthcare if we don't spend it on dumb things 👇👇👇
3. We have unique differences that make comparisons hard. We need to chart our own course.
4. Keeping the market out of healthcare is the right decision because for-profit medicine is worse medicine
Kiladze first sets up a convenient straw-man argument that "even Sweden" - a "socialist" Mecca - has privately funded healthcare. False. Sweden is a dual (a) highly competitive, free-market capitalist nation and (b) with a robust social welfare state. Socialist politics died in 1990 in Sweden. Sweden is not "socialist".
Next, Sweden is no Canada. Sweden robustly funds pharmacare, homecare, long term care and dental care (huge determinants of health we lack). Sweden has vastly more doctors per capita (to Ontario's credit we've added 2 new med schools). Sweden is small and highly urban. Sweden only has 10.7 million. We have 42 million. Sweden has a true unified healthcare system. We have 13 healthcare systems. So this is not apples vs. apples. We have a steeper hill to climb in Canada.
Hate me for saying it, but we have a very good healthcare system in Canada. And I'm a voice when things go wrong. I'm an urban evening night ER doctor.
I see the best and worst of everything. If I see 25 patients on a shift, 20 have a reasonable experience, 2 not great and 3 bad. I see 6-8 hour waits. I see too much hallway medicine. But I see comfort and cure daily. My adult and pediatric patients could not say a nicer thank you. I see bedside staff and administrative staff daily innovate to make the system evolve.
Even though I often criticize Ontario's government, we have to be honest the median wait time to see an ER doctor is 1.7-2.0 hours. That is solid. The tail of that bell curve can be up to 10 hours, but the median still is meaningful. Canada's healthcare system is not uniformly awful. Not by a longshot.
Kiladze raises "private management" as if we don't do this in Canada. To be clear "private management" is not Satan. There are many privately managed medical clinics that are run by doctors. It's called your family doctor's office. Your family doctor, your ER doctor, your gynecologist - in Ontario at least - they are likely all small incorporated businesses. "Privately operated but publicly funded" is extremely common in Ontario. So nothing new to see here.
Kiladze argues how bad Ontario's finances are. That's because we spend money on dumb things.
-$2.2 billion on an Austrian spa
-$1 billion on a new Science Centre
-$1.4 billion on early alcohol sales
-$3.2 billion on pre-election bribe cheques
If the above $7.2 billion was spent on Ontario's healthcare system, Kiladze wouldn't have to write this article. So - don't be fooled - we have the money. Ontario's hospitals asked this year for $2.7 billion more - far below the money Ontario's government wasted.
Kiladze says we're allergic to "private models". No we're not.
We're allergic to profiteering. We're allergic to paywalls, subscription fees, and hedge fund investors making money off people's misery. We're allergic to the corporatization of healthcare because we know for-profit healthcare is worse healthcare.
When you want to see how for-profit medicine failed (forget the U.S.) just look at the UK and Australia. You couldn't find more fabulous failures than there. It happens that when you have investors involved in healthcare whose sole (and lawful) priority is making money - the quality of healthcare diminishes. This is a proven fact.
Healthcare is simply not a typical market good. The profit-motive leads to increased mortality. Private-pay proponents want to take themselves out of the queue but they pull with them the limited number of doctors, nurses and technicians we have - making the common line longer.
Kiladze's argues Sweden has "a higher life expectancy". 83.7 there vs. 83.1 here (I'm using World Bank data). Really. That's a noteworthy difference? A better diet, more active transport (like bike lanes Premier Ford) and lower wealth inequality would bring Canada on par with Sweden regardless of changes to our healthcare system.
Kiladze argues the private for profit schools know how to do "benchmarking, analyzing, and coming to decisions and getting action". If he doesn't think publicly funded hospitals do this all the time, he is sorely mistaken.
And good luck asking our hard working family doctors to take a paycut. Net take home pay for Swedish family MD is about CAD $105,000. In Ontario, it's about $165,000.
Kiladze has a lot of praise for Aleris Sweden. They're no panacea. They are a leading underperformer in meeting Sweden's statutory healthcare guarantee. There are more problems than just that, like patients feeling they are "numbers on a conveyor belt".
Kiladze cites Aleris has faster knee replacements. Yup - because they skim the easy cases, dumping the harder cases on the public system. Great game.
With the introduction of for-profit medicine - "Canadians would have to ask themselves how much profit is acceptable". I'm sorry, but the equity-fuelled market we live in wants as much as possible. How could this not be abundantly clear. Greed has no bounds. Why should investors make a profit when that money could be driven back into the healthcare system to pay nurses and personal support workers better. A private investor making money off healthcare doesn't magically create doctors, beds or get surgery done. It just lines their pocket. We should cut them out and fund the real people that do the real work.
What is the final analysis?
1. We have the fundamentals right for great healthcare
2. We have the money for great healthcare if we don't spend it on dumb things 3. We have unique differences that make comparisons hard. We need to chart our own course.
4. Keeping the market out of healthcare is the right decision because for-profit medicine is worse medicine
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@picardonhealth @NightShiftMD @alanna_smithh
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Two former female US navy admirals fired by ex Fox News host and now US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth have both won congressional seats in the US . Now they may get the opportunity to impeach him. Karma can be wonderful, especially for manic misogynists!
Dave 🇨🇦🎧⚛️ ☸️🇬🇧 retweeted
Roman Baber is upset that people in Ontario don't have a doctor.
He's blaming Mark Carney instead of his pal Doug Ford.
You know, the guy in charge of Ontario's doctors...
.@MarkJCarney will admit:
- 380,000 new residents per year
- 370,000 temporary residents per year; plus
- 200,000 temporary residents to be granted permanent status (once)
Meanwhile 6 million Canadians don't have a family doctor.
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My maternal grandfather, Albert Tatton. Enlisted in 1914 at age 35. North Staffordshire Regiment. Gassed. Suffered from PTSD for the rest of his life.
Dave 🇨🇦🎧⚛️ ☸️🇬🇧 retweeted
Canada, understand this:
1) We doctors didn't build publicly funded healthcare. You did.
2) You can't afford private, profiteer healthcare.
3) We doctors aren't going to fix this. We follow the money - like you.
4) Only the public can save publicly funded healthcare.
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Judging by the influx of anti-Musk comments today, I am thinking a lot of people began watching the new Musk documentary on @amazon prime. Good! Everyone should watch it and be outraged at how the South African conman has been swindling the U.S. taxpayers!
Dave 🇨🇦🎧⚛️ ☸️🇬🇧 retweeted
Dear Prime Minister:
Please do whatever it takes to guarantee that federal funding for poverty isn't abused and misallocated by provincial governments.
Dave 🇨🇦🎧⚛️ ☸️🇬🇧 retweeted
"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything," - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game
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The tragic irony is Sabrina Apitz-Grossman’s cancer treatment costs the same amount. And Ontario's claim her treatment would set a precedent for $5 billion more is with zero evidence. This government has lost its way.
The Ford government's decision to move the Science Centre to the waterfront came with an extra cost--changing the now awkwardly named Science Centre Station
The bill: $618,000
From @ctv_jon
ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/c…
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I don’t care if a member of Congress takes their oath of office on a Bible, a Quran, or Incredible Hulk #181.
I care that they uphold the Constitution.