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In a cruel twist of fate, these three top prostate cancer experts have ALL been hit by the disease. Their stories are vital reading for men - and their loved ones
Every year (in the UK) 40,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer — and more than 10,000 die from it.
Treatment can cause anxiety and side-effects such as impotence and incontinence. Many ask: what would the experts do in my shoes?
In a remarkable coincidence, three of the UK’s leading experts reveal that they, too, have the cancer and here they talk about their experiences . . .
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Ending comfortable myths about "job creators"
We hear it continually; it is the mantra of the neo-liberals: "We must give tax breaks to the wealthy so they can create more jobs … and higher taxes will stifle economic growth … because the rich are the job creators. … "
We constantly hear about the poor rich people in the countries like Britain and the US. The poor rich people, unless we give them their tax cuts, they won't create jobs for the rest of us.
The poor rich people, unless we allow them unlimited, unregulated bonuses and salaries, they will abandon us, go offshore, and thus keep us, the poor masses, in poverty. The poor rich people, will then, lend their unique talents to Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, creating wealth and jobs for them. The poor rich people, our hearts should bleed for them. How ungrateful we have become. Shame on us. We are just envious.
But now the good news: A super-rich debunks “job creator” myth
See also “Wealth Inequality in America”
Breaking Down the 'Half Pay No Taxes' Myth
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Despite an abundance of ‘talking heads,’ a nation in need of wisdom finds
the public intellectual missing from action.
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“Today the thinker is an endangered species. All our universities are turning into book-balancing business schools or results-driven scientific research centres, treating students as client-customers who deserve to see an investment return in the form of increased living standards and higher salaries in exchange for spending their student loans, and funded by patrons and public bodies wanting to see practical results. Once you joined a university to service the global advancement of ideas. Now you employ it to make you more employable. The notion that thinking about abstract ideas like art and life might be an end in itself is being priced out of existence and legislated into oblivion.”
Never mind endangered animals – it's the thinkers that we need to save
“Once thinkers were everywhere, like butterflies, sparrows and bees, which have also virtually disappeared.
As late as the early 1980s, you'd still come down in the morning and find some Marxist literary theorist had been on the doorstep and pecked off the top of the milk. But no one under 40 can be expected to remember the ubiquitous abundance of pure thought that once characterised our culture. It has disappeared incrementally, like roadside wildflowers and sticklebacks in streams, as if it never were.
In the early 50s, everyone was happy because there was only one TV channel and it was programmed by patronising and benign paternalistic liberals. Their crazy beliefs were encouraged by the hoary establishment buffers who held the purse strings and who saw arts, thought and culture as hallmarks of a civilised society, even as they retched in secret at the increase in downwardly angled thought ducts like cheap Penguin paperbacks, red brick universities and Play for Today.
In those halcyon days, the entire nation would sit down with bottles of stout and plates of dripping to watch a programme in which an enthusiastically cigarette-smoking Bertrand Russell, or someone of similar super-intelligence, sat motionless in a chair and discussed for hours the finer points of philosophy in incredible detail with an equally un-televisual man.”…Continue to read