Prevention is better than cure. Deal with the causes of poor health

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Britain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHS, experts say

Exclusive: Health service estimated to be spending £50bn a year on effects of deprivation and child poverty

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As Randeep Ramesh argues:

'The British state is not broke; it is being deliberately starved, not by financial markets, but by its own managers...

This is austerity by amnesia. A government elected to change Britain instead parrots the scripts of decline'!

The Bank of England's bond market are a mistake that the Govt. could halt if it wasn't in thrall to the financiers arguing for market 'deficiencies'.

Time for Labour to grasp the levers of economic power!

#politics
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Labour could find the money it wants without raising taxes. This is austerity by amnesia

Starmer and Reeves need a fresh approach to enact their vision, and I have a plan for that, says Randeep Ramesh, the Guardian’s chief leader writer

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Liberal women on social media are starting a new trend promoting how great Sharia law is.

This is exactly what they want. We must stop it now before it continues to spread

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A 45-Year-Old Man Marries a 6-Year-Old Girl in Helmand: Crimes Against Female Children Escalate Under Taliban Rule :

In a deeply disturbing incident that has sparked outrage among human rights advocates, a 45-year-old man has reportedly married a 6-year-old girl in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The case, though shocking, is emblematic of a broader pattern of violence and systematic abuse against female children that has intensified since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021.

A Marriage That Is a Crime

Sources from local civil society organizations confirm that the child bride was handed over to the man through an arrangement sanctioned by local tribal elders and justified using distorted interpretations of religious and cultural practices. No government body intervened to prevent the marriage, and no legal protections were afforded to the child.

Such cases are not isolated incidents but part of a growing crisis where girls—some as young as five or six—are forced into marriages under the Taliban’s de facto legal framework, which largely ignores international human rights norms. In many parts of Afghanistan, particularly in rural and Taliban-controlled areas, girls are treated as property, traded to settle debts, disputes, or in the name of so-called honor.

Taliban Rule and the Collapse of Protection

Since taking power, the Taliban have dismantled much of the institutional machinery designed to protect women and children. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs was abolished and replaced with the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a body infamous for policing women’s dress and behavior rather than safeguarding their rights.

International aid groups and UN agencies have been largely sidelined, their access limited or monitored by the Taliban. According to recent reports from UNICEF and Human Rights Watch, child marriages have increased significantly since 2021, especially in provinces like Helmand, Kandahar, and Uruzgan. Poverty, displacement, and the complete absence of education for girls further compound the vulnerability of children.

The Cost of Silence

The global community has often responded to such atrocities with muted concern, citing diplomatic complexities and geopolitical interests. But silence only fuels impunity. With no accountability mechanism in place, the perpetrators of crimes like child marriage face no legal consequences. The victims, meanwhile, suffer lifelong trauma—physical, psychological, and emotional.

Child marriage not only violates international human rights laws, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child (to which Afghanistan is a signatory), but it also robs girls of their childhood, education, and future. The long-term effects include severe health risks from early pregnancies, domestic abuse, and social isolation.

What Must Be Done

Immediate and coordinated international action is needed. This includes: •Pressuring the Taliban through sanctions and diplomatic channels to outlaw and prevent child marriage. •Funding and supporting underground and local organizations that provide safe havens and education for girls. •Ensuring that perpetrators of such crimes are documented and, when possible, prosecuted under international law.

The case of the 6-year-old girl in Helmand is not an anomaly—it is a harrowing reflection of daily life for many young girls in Afghanistan today. The world must no longer look away. For every day that passes in silence, another child becomes a victim of a regime that has institutionalized misogyny and child abuse.

LIVE: Israel’s attacks on Gaza kill 47, including children and aid seekers | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
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- Iran feels Netanyahu ‘can break ceasefire anytime’
- Photos: People flee eastern Gaza after Israeli evacuation threat
- Number of deaths around GHF distribution points ‘extraordinary’
- Today’s death toll in Gaza rises to 47
- Israeli cabinet to discuss partial deal for Gaza amid fears it could become permanent

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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LIVE: Israel kills 60 in Gaza, claims senior Hamas official among dead

Israel says Hamas’s Hakham Muhammad Issa al-Issa is among dozens of Palestinians killed in Gaza.

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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Free Press, commenting wryly on, well, who we Americans (many of us) have chosen to be at this point in history — what we've chosen to be remembered for.

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #BirthrightCitizenship #MaskedThugs

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Giant crowd at Pride in Budapest, defying repressive Hungarian law - The Washington Post
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"With the support of the city’s liberal mayor, organizers of Budapest Pride took to the streets in defiance of Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orban’s effort to ban the event."

#LGBTQ #Pride #HumanRights #Hungary

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal - The Washington
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"The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials."

#USAID #Sudan

Intercepted call of Iranian officials downplays damage of U.S. attack - The Washington Post
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"The officials were heard saying Trump’s strike on Iran proved less devastating than expected. The administration calls the intelligence insignificant."

#Iran #Israel #USA

#NorthDakota tribe goes back to its roots with a massive greenhouse operation

By The Associated Press
Published: Jul. 6, 2024 at 2:17 PM EDT

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — "A #NativeAmerican tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country’s largest, enabling the tribe to grow much of its own food decades after a federal #dam flooded the land where they had cultivated corn, beans and other crops for millennia.

"Work is ongoing on the #Mandan, #Hidatsa and #Arikara Nation’s 3.3-acre greenhouse that will make up most of the #NativeGreenGrow operation’s initial phase. However, enough of the structure will be completed this summer to start growing leafy greens and other crops such as tomatoes and strawberries.

" 'We’re the first farmers of this land,' Tribal Chairman #MarkFox said. 'We once were part of an aboriginal trade center for thousands and thousands of years because we grew crops — corn, beans, squash, watermelons — all these things at massive levels, so all the tribes depended on us greatly as part of the aboriginal trade system.'

"The tribe will spend roughly $76 million on the initial phase, which also will include a warehouse and other facilities near the tiny town of Parshall. It plans to add to the growing space in the coming years, eventually totaling about 14.5 acres, which officials say would make it one of the world’s largest facilities of its type.

"The initial greenhouse will have enough glass to cover the equivalent of seven football fields.

"The tribe’s fertile land along the #MissouriRiver was inundated in the mid-1950s when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the #GarrisonDam, which created #LakeSakakawea.

"Getting fresh produce has long been a challenge in the area of western North Dakota where the tribe is based, on the #FortBerthold Indian Reservation. The rolling, rugged landscape — split by Lake Sakakawea — is a long drive from the state’s biggest cities, Bismarck and Fargo.

"That isolation makes the greenhouses all the more important, as they will enable the tribe to provide food to the roughly 8,300 people on the Fort Berthold reservation and to reservations elsewhere. The tribe also hopes to stock #FoodBanks that serve isolated and impoverished areas in the region, and plans to export its produce.

"Initially, the #MHANation expects to grow nearly 2 million pounds of food a year and for that to eventually increase to 12 to 15 million pounds annually. Fox said the operation’s first phase will create 30 to 35 jobs.

"The effort coincides with a national move to increase #FoodSovereignty among tribes."

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#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #NativeAmericans

North Dakota tribe goes back to its roots with a massive greenhouse operation

A Native American tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country’s largest.

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‘Heads will roll’: BBC reckons with bias accusations over Israel and Palestine coverage | BBC | The Guardian
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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza #BBC
@palestine

‘Heads will roll’: BBC reckons with bias accusations over Israel and Palestine coverage

As controversy still swirls over Gaza documentaries, corporation braces for further criticism from all sides, including inside

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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
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Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources who leaked Iran report | Donald Trump | The Guardian
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#Trump #Journalism #Press

Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources who leaked Iran report

President dismisses leaked assessment suggesting strikes only temporarily disrupted Iran’s nuclear development

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