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I used to work for a medical gas company that had its own oxygen plant. I delivered and set up O2 delivery systems and worked with respiratory therapists. I saw how sick people can get from respiratory illness. It was pretty gross sometimes. And so many people on oxygen still smoked! Beyond the health issues, they could blow themselves up. Amazing. I was just diagnosed with COPD. My voice has become just a rasp - it's very hard to talk. I quit smoking (everything) 25 years ago. My blood sats are always in the low 80's. I could probably do with some O2 myself. And a proper diagnosis. But I have medi-cal. Government standard medical care. It's a joke. When I told my new shrink that I had lived in Ireland he asked me if I could go back and live with family there to get better healthcare after I told him about some of my experience here. He was serious. Just sayin'...
ugh, sorry to hear that. What a bummer. If you can, maybe you should.
I used to work for a medical gas company that had its own oxygen plant. I delivered and set up O2 delivery systems and worked with respiratory therapists. I saw how sick people can get from respiratory illness. It was pretty gross sometimes. And so many people on oxygen still smoked! Beyond the health issues, they could blow themselves up. Amazing. I was just diagnosed with COPD. My voice has become just a rasp - it's very hard to talk. I quit smoking (everything) 25 years ago. My blood sats are always in the low 80's. I could probably do with some O2 myself. And a proper diagnosis. But I have medi-cal. Government standard medical care. It's a joke. When I told my new shrink that I had lived in Ireland he asked me if I could go back and live with family there to get better healthcare after I told him about some of my experience here. He was serious. Just sayin'...
Freedom House, a conservative think tank, argues that the Cuban government keeps the country technologically backward and censors dissident websites as part of repressing political dissent.
âCuba remains one of the worldâs least connected and most repressive environments for information and communication technologies,â according to a Freedom House report on internet usage.
That claim plays well to those who assume that governments led by communist parties must, by definition, be totalitarian. As Rojasâs ready access to a wide array of sites shows, however, Cubaâs reality is far different.
As of January 2020, in a survey by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), an international group monitoring internet censorship, the Cuban government blocked only 36 websites.
Most are sites created by U.S.-supported dissidents such as blogger Yoani Sanchez and the Ladies in White, a group that organizes anti-government protests in Cuba. However, Cubans who really want to read such sites can easily download a VPN (Virtual Private Network), which allows unfettered internet access.
Ironically, as part of enforcing the unilateral embargo of Cuba, the U.S. government prohibits Cubans from using hundreds of commercial websites, including Amazon, computer companies and banks. The U.S. government blocks more websites than the Cuban authorities, says John Nichols, a Cuba expert and professor emeritus at Penn State University.
It’s bad enough to be so reckless with such dangerous rhetoric. But when this is all accomplished through the shoddiest of “reporting” – mindlessly repeating what anonymous intelligence officials tell journalists to say without a whiff of evidence – then it’s clear that the same journalistic pathologies that led to front-page reports of Saddam’s nuclear stockpile and alliance with Osama bin Laden continue to shape corporate journalism today, particularly at NBC and MSNBC.
because russians
some of the older cubans here used to claim something similar
castro and company had something they called "the woodpecker"
some sort of tech they said could make people crazy (from a distance)
obviously it was pointed at south florida/keys and it worked pretty well
Itâs bad enough to be so reckless with such dangerous rhetoric. But when this is all accomplished through the shoddiest of âreportingâ â mindlessly repeating what anonymous intelligence officials tell journalists to say without a whiff of evidence â then itâs clear that the same journalistic pathologies that led to front-page reports of Saddamâs nuclear stockpile and alliance with Osama bin Laden continue to shape corporate journalism today, particularly at NBC and MSNBC.
Same old, same old. Some dictators are deemed 'beyond the pale' (esp. if they do not conform or compete in the right areas), while others are 'our closest allies':
Having power (in some places) is also lucrative, and according to one well-known war criminal, apparently even an aphrodisiac. Votes (for one or another puppet) often seem to matter far less (the result might indeed turn out to be remarkably similar nowadays vis-a-vis policy).
Saying something is a (net) courageous step (esp. in a regressive, conservative climate) doesn't immediately amount to swooning, though there are certainly enough that do (whether for their Prez, their Party, their military, their country or their ideology).
It's what happens when the critical faculties take a leave of absence.
