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1 May 2012
A couple of hours after being ‘stented’. Photo by Tonxti Vazquez
Quality of food was atrocious but to be expected. Worse was the minute quantities so I was constantly hungry. But then food along with everything else has been ‘outsourced’. My pillows for example were one grade above sack cloth. Meals no doubt can’t cost more than 35p (see the 2nd Media Lens piece for details on the disgusting privatization which is eating the NHS from the inside, out, like something out of ‘Aliens’.
I thought you were a man in his sixties Bill, you look about thirty-eight in the picture!
I have a stent or two myself. I didn’t have a heart attack though, just cursed pains in my chest caused by a blockage. They say the stents are painless. After two years, I can still feel mine if I move too far and in the wrong way.
Living as I do in Cambridge, I am indeed fortunate that I have two world-leading cardio-vascular centres virtually on my doorstep, namely Papworth, and Addenbrookes, but I fear for other parts of the country that are not so fortunate.
Obviously, I don’t know the severity of your own condition, and I hope the prognosis is good, but having been through this particular mill, I am reasonably sure you’re in safe hands, despite the shortcomings of the NHS.
Regards
Tad
The camera always lies but thanks. Actually the following day a doctor said to me that on the day I did look 67 but by the next day I’d lost 10 years. Feel great today, if a little tired but much less anxious. And thanks for the compliment.
I don’t want to mention the actual hospital as I’m working on an essay about the NHS but the treatment was absolutely marvellous and especially the hard put upon nurses whose dedication and compassion is incredible. The female principle in action.
hey Bill. Got this link from Vauneen. You’re looking great. Glad you got it sorted.
Hi Jasper,
Actually, it’s just the beginning. I’ve gotta long road in front of me.
B
25 April, 2012 – Media Lens
In Part 1 of this alert, we exposed the sham of UK ‘democracy’ in opening the door to the corporate ransacking of the National Health Service.
Every day, researcher Éoin Clarke runs a check on the number of parts of the NHS that have been ‘carved up and offered to privateers that day. The sad news is that the NHS sell off is indeed accelerating.’ Clarke has identified 81 NHS contracts worth a total of more than £2 billion that are set to be privatised, or have recently been so. He adds that there are over 2,300 ‘chunks of the NHS that private companies can now bid for.’ Amazingly, ‘cuddly’ Richard Branson’s Virgin now controls 18 NHS contracts across 15 English counties.
30 April 2012 — williambowles.info
A pathetic excuse I know for no new posts but I had a heart attack last week and got out of hospital yesterday. Story to follow coincidentally? the Media Lens piece soon. Not so much on my experiences with the wonderful, beautiful NHS workers who saved my life and took such loving care of me but precisely WHY the NHS is so important, vital and central to all our lives and why we HAVE to save it for all!
Sorry to hear about that. Please take it easy and recover
Thank you Julian though ‘taking it easy’ is proving very difficult to do as it transpired that moving on is like breaking an egg to make an omelette only this case it involved breaking my heart.
Bill
I wish you well, and a speedy recovery
Dear Tad,
Thank you and I’m on the mend, though it will, I’m told, take some time.
Bill
11 April 2012
“How can you make a war on terror when you are actually the terrorist?” (Unknown.)
America’s 2003 assault on Iraq, already devastated by thirteen years of sanctions, infrastructure destruction consequently unrepaired from the 1991 bombing was, in the ridiculous annals of names the US military gives to their slaughter-fests, entitled: “Shock and Awe.”
23 April, 2012 — Media Lens
Few political acts have exposed the sham of British ‘democracy’ like the decision to dismantle the National Health Service. In essence, the issues are simple:
20 April 2012 – Information Clearing House
Unplugging Americans From The Matrix
By Paul Craig Roberts
Americans have lost control of the government, and governments that are not controlled by the people are not democracies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31134.htm
Apologies for the ‘break in service’ this past three weeks but my medication started to attack me and put me completely out of action.
April 19, 2012
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The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation. The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”.
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4 April 2012 — Global Research Humanitarian wars, especially under the guise of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),” are a modern form of imperialism. The standard pattern that the United States and its allies use to execute them is one where genocide and ethnic cleansing are vociferously alleged by a coalition of governments, media organizations, and non-governmental front organizations. The allegations – often lurid and unfounded – then provide moral and diplomatic cover for a variety of sanctions that undermine and isolate the target country in question, and thereby pave the way for military intervention. This is the post-Cold War modus operandi of the US and NATO. |
4 April 2012 — The News Dissector
Every year I trek down to a nondescript office building near Wall Street with a bag full of receipts and a belly full of anxiety.
3 April 2012 — Media Lens
George Galloway’s stunning victory in last week’s Bradford West by-election afforded a rare opportunity to witness naked imbalance, establishment scorn of any challenges, and blatant anti-Muslim propaganda in the corporate British media.
26 March, 2012 – Global Research
This article is part of a longer essay on Depleted Uranium weapons, nuclear reactors and their environmental health impacts.
In this article the long term consequences of radiation contamination from unilateral aggression of the US and NATO countries on South and West Asia are discussed. Afpak region is being bombed daily and the cold blooded murder of nine kids out of the seventeen killed is just a small blip when billions are done in.
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29 March, 2012 – Media Lens
Erich Fromm understood that ‘selective inattention’ was at the heart of the problem. He devoted his life to exposing man’s capacity for ‘not observing what he does not want to observe; hence, that he may be sincere in denying a knowledge which he would have, if he wanted only to have it’. (Fromm, Beyond The Chains Of Illusion, Abacus, 1989, p.94)
27 March 2012 – Global Research
Michelle Obama, the fashion style icon wife of US President Obama, is to have travel sanctions imposed on her by member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, including Russia, China and SCO associate state Iran.
Mrs Obama’s annual six-figure budget for designer clothes and accessories is seen as an affront to moral decency at a time when her husband is overseeing foreign wars of aggression, mass murder in several territories using aerial drones, and ordering the assassination of individuals such as nuclear scientists in Iran.
27 March 2012 – Stop NATO - The Nation
US geostrategy has been embroiled in Afghanistan and Iraq; now it seeks to extend the war to Iran-Pakistan. Of course, the real war is against Russia and China, the opposing alliance. Washington sees China rising, Russia resurgent, the Islamic world defiant (with the Arab Spring likely to turn anti-Western) and Israel endangered, besides Western economic decline.
27 March 2012 — Global Research
The Western mainstream media continuously beat the war drums for Libya-like treatment of Syria, using body count statistics to attempt to paint the year-old Syrian conflict as a humanitarian disaster crying out for NATO and its allies to bomb the government’s military forces into submission. Ironically, under the guise of “responsibility to protect”, the NATO powers and their Gulf Arab proxies are supplying weapons, training and logistical support to the armed “opposition” forces.
Congratulations! I myself had a stent put in a few years ago after what turned out to have been a pretty mild heart attack. I actually enjoyed the stay in hospital, once I was unplugged enough to hobble around on my own. Even the food wasn’t that bad.