Chilean microbiologist Professor Cristina Dorador rings the alarm bell many others have been ringing for decades. The wholesale and indiscriminate use of antibiotics has given those bad microbes it once easily defeated an opportunity to mutate and resist antibiotics killing an estimated five million people a year. We follow Dorador on an expedition to theContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Life Invisible”: Combatting Superbugs and a Lithium Obsession”
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Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: Citizen Minutes: “La Femme Equi-Libre”: Horsing Around with Mental Health
The short documentary “La Femme Equi-Libre” focuses on the Elm Grove Centre in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island run by Josée Gallant Gordon a graduate social worker. Gordon offers equine therapy to mental health patients and in lieu of tranquilizing patients with enough tranquilizers to kill a horse the horse and therapist playContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: Citizen Minutes: “La Femme Equi-Libre”: Horsing Around with Mental Health”
Operation 51st State: Elimination of Canadian Universal Healthcare
The Senior Working Group (SWG) reviewed the basics of Canadian universal healthcare that through the test of time has crumbled giving birth to a partial but more efficient private model. The Canadian medical system besieged by a massive poorly planned influx of immigrants to Canada, governmental cuts to funding and staffing and poor management failsContinue reading “Operation 51st State: Elimination of Canadian Universal Healthcare”
Toronto Hot Docs 2025: “We Live Here”: Nuclear Cruelty: Criminal Negligence or is it State Manslaughter?
The Kazakhstani documentary “We Live Here” unravels a story of criminal negligence or is it state manslaughter? Between 1949-1991 over 456 nuclear tests were conducted by the USSR in a test site area on the Kazakhstani steppes covering an area of 18,300 square kilometers, roughly the size of Israel. Open air testing ceased in 1963Continue reading “Toronto Hot Docs 2025: “We Live Here”: Nuclear Cruelty: Criminal Negligence or is it State Manslaughter?”
Strange Afflictions Besiege White House in Washington: Sanaa, Yemen: Spoof Health News Services: 26March2025
Spoof reports a possible epidemic is sweeping Washington afflicting members of the Republican Party. Dr. Gooey Gupta, prominent celebrity physician, speaking to The Association of Media Loving Physicians addressed the audience remarking, “I find it difficult to speak with confidence about what I am to tell you as the Centre for Disease Control is onContinue reading “Strange Afflictions Besiege White House in Washington: Sanaa, Yemen: Spoof Health News Services: 26March2025”
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Sticks and Stones-Unmasking the Truth of Cyberbullying”
TIDF was a wrap on 16March2025 but I have a couple more documentaries left in my review basket such as “Sticks and Stones-Unmasking the Truth of Cyberbullying” from Australia and Greece. I can’t see this as a classic documentary but rather an educational video directed towards parents of children active on social media. Cyberbullying isContinue reading “The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Sticks and Stones-Unmasking the Truth of Cyberbullying””
27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Sculpted Souls”: Multi Award Winner
TIDF ran from 6-16 March2025. The Greek documentary “Sculpted Souls” by Stavros Psillakis won The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation Award, the FIPRESCI Award and the Youth Jury Award for the Best Greek Film. “Sculpted Souls” describes the journey of Swiss dentist Julien Grivel who travelled to Athens twice yearly from 1972-1998 volunteering to repair the teethContinue reading “27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Sculpted Souls”: Multi Award Winner”
Americans Held Hostage by Greenlander’s Barbarism: The American Full-Bodied People Society Speaks Up: Spoof News Services: Houston,Texas:11March2025
At a news conference today in Houston, Texas Mr. Tony Waddle of the American Full-Bodied People Society declared Americans are being held hostage by the decision of the government of Denmark to impose a 350% retaliatory tariff on the export of maigreism to the United States. Maigreism is a key ingredient in American weight lossContinue reading “Americans Held Hostage by Greenlander’s Barbarism: The American Full-Bodied People Society Speaks Up: Spoof News Services: Houston,Texas:11March2025”
American Pediatric Society Lambasts Elon Musk as a “Baby Dangler”: Creamstone, Arkansas: 5March2025: Spoof News Services
In a keynote address at the American Pediatric Society’s annual conference in Creamstone, Arkansas Melinda Gatehead, Rector of the ABS, lambasted Special Advisor Elon Musk for his shameless “baby dangling” and based on a vote of the board of directors of the APS awarded Musk with the uncoveted “L’Enfant Terrible” Award bestowed each year onContinue reading “American Pediatric Society Lambasts Elon Musk as a “Baby Dangler”: Creamstone, Arkansas: 5March2025: Spoof News Services”
The United States Bans the Sale of All Portuguese Wines: Toenail Fungus Juice a Threat to Americans: Spoof News Services: Porto, Portugal: 4March2025
The President of the United States today banned all sales of Portuguese wine in the United States of America by executive order 1,234. White House Press Secretary Bleacha Blondie advised the nation, “ On the basis of extensive testing undertaken by Bobblehead Kennedy our Secretary of Poor Health in his basement, the only testing facilitiesContinue reading “The United States Bans the Sale of All Portuguese Wines: Toenail Fungus Juice a Threat to Americans: Spoof News Services: Porto, Portugal: 4March2025”
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