Average life expectancy both sexes worldwide is 73.2 years of age. In the United Kingdom it is 81.7 and in France 83.1. There are 10 countries in Africa which don’t even reach 60 years of age. Sometimes it’s good to put things into perspective of how lucky we are.
@NiallHarbison This is so sad. Can’t explain why I felt a connection with this particular dog. She seemed so lovely. Thank you for all the work you do.
I wrote something about that American woman who moved to France and was so upset at the state of the celery, she's going home. Also, she was so busy putting up shelves she forgot to learn French.
60,000 Americans die unnecessarily every year because they can't afford to see a doctor.
1 out of 4 cancer patients in this country go bankrupt or lose their home.
Insane. Cruel. Wrong.
We need a health care system that works for all of us.
I usually don’t comment on Pakistani politics. I disagree with IK on many political issues. But this is not about politics- it’s about my children’s father, his human rights & international law. For the past few years, I’ve been bullied & harassed into silence by PML-N goons, including rape threats & countless conspiracy theories. Meanwhile Twitter/ X is banned in Pakistan, PTI party members & civilian supporters have been abducted, anyone with a platform who was speaking out is now in jail & silenced, Imran Khan’s photo and name have been censored on state television (they have even redacted his image from any coverage of Pakistan’s World Cup win of 92!)
I owe it to my children to try to create some awareness about what is happening in Pakistan. Please help in any way that you can. Thank you.
In a heroic move, Gisele Pelicot fought to make public the videos of her unconscious rapes at the hands of over 50 men and won. She wanted the public “to look rape straight in the eyes.” Shame, she said, must change sides —from the victims to the perpetrators.
Police found more than 20,000 videos and photographs of Gisele drugged and being raped by various men on her husband’s devices in a folder titled “Abuse.”
On Friday, the judge complied with Gisele’s demand and showed the evidence “necessary for the manifestation of the truth.”
12 rape videos and 10 photos were shown over the courtroom’s three flat screens and projected into the overflow room for members of the public while the perpetrators in the videos sat in shame watching their own despicable criminal acts being exposed.