Month: July 2024

TEHRAN, Jul. 07 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Sunday, July 7.

Joe Biden is being treated far worse than Donald Trump by the two institutions critical for deciding the outcome of the 2024 election: the political parties and the media.

The RepublicanParty has closed ranks around Trump — despite the fact he’s a convicted felon, twice-impeached con man, sexual abuser, fraudulent businessman, self-described aspiring dictator for a day, pathological liar, and ringleader of an attempted coup against the United States.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is in a panic about Biden. Many party insiders are trying to force Biden out now, at the last minute, because he had a bad debate performance.

Democratic leaders in Congress aretellingtheir members they should “feel free to take whatever position about Biden’s candidacy is best for their district,” according to people involved in the conversations. For some, this means blasting Biden’s debate performance and calling on him to withdraw or suggesting he seriously consider it.

The media is just as bad. It has normalized Trump’s nonstop lies during the debate as “old news.” Rather than treat those lies as further evidence of his proven dishonesty and criminality — and emphasize that another term with him at the helm will ruin the country — the media has focused on Biden’s halting speech and vacant gaze as evidence he’s incapable of running the country.

Almost every member of the chattering class says Biden must go. None says Trump must go.

They say Biden has another — perhaps “last” — chance this evening when he’s interviewed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

But even if Biden is coherent tonight, I doubt it will stop the uproar because the uproar feeds on itself: Some of it may be responsible for Biden’s waning polls. If Biden decides to stay in the race, the tumult will hurt his chances even more.

All of this demonstrates the discipline of authoritarianism and the messiness of democracy. But that’s the nature of these two systems. Authoritarian fascism, such as Trump and his coterie are now peddling, is even more disciplined.

All over the world (except in the UK), voters are choosing discipline over messiness, authoritarianism over democracy.

To restate the obvious, we are living in dangerous times.

• This article was published at Robert Reich’s Substack

Few would have staked their political fortune, let alone any other sort of reward, on a return of the British Conservatives on July 4. The polls often lie, but none suggested that outcome. The only question was the extent British voters would lacerate the Tories who have been in office for fourteen years, presiding over a country in divisive decline, aided by policies of austerity, the galloping cost of living and the lunatic tenures of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Predicted numbers varied from a return of 53 seats to what was forecast in the more accurate Ipsos exit poll of 131 seats.

As the night wore on, the laceration became a ballot massacre. It was clear that most voters were less keen on Sir Keir Starmer’s dour Labour team, supposedly reformed and devoid of dangerous daring, as they were of voting against the Tories. Any other option would do.

A whole brigade of senior Conservatives suffered a rout. Commons leader Penny Mordaunt lost her seat, as did defence secretary Grant Shapps. That manorial relic of Tory tradition and privilege, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, was also ousted from his seat. The Liberal Democrats made huge inroads into traditional Conservative territory, winning seats held by two former prime ministers – David Cameron and Theresa May.

Recriminations, long readied in reserve, came out. Former party chair, Sir Brandon Lewis, pointed the finger to his leader, Rishi Sunak, whose decision to call the election was considered monumentally ill-judged. “I suspect right now that’s weighing on him very, very strongly … He will go down as the Conservative prime minister and leader who had the worst election result in over a century.”

Other Tories thought Sunak’s efforts to push the Conservatives further to the right to stem the leaching of votes to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK a serious error of judgment. Former Tory universities minister Lord Jo Johnson, also famed for being the sibling of that buffoonish wrecker-in-chief Boris, called efforts to make the Conservatives “a Reform-lite kind of party” a “big mistake”. Only a return to the “centre-ground of British politics” would spare them a lengthy spell in the wilderness.

The strafing of the more liberal Tory members does, however, place them in an unenviable position. Are they to, as Lord Johnson suggests, alter course to “appeal to metropolitan, open-minded, liberal voters”? Or should they, as Rees-Mogg insists, dig deeper into the soil of Conservative values, what he calls “core principles” that had been essentially pinched by Reform UK? Amidst the debate, former lord chancellor Robert Buckland could not resist quipping that this Conservative “Armageddon” was “going to be like a group of bald men fighting over a comb.”

The most staggering feature of these elections, leaving aside the ritualistic savaging of the Tories, was the wholly lopsided nature of the share of votes relative to the winning of seats. “This election,” the Electoral Reform Society solemnly declared, “saw Labour and the Conservatives receive their joint lowest vote share on record, with a combined 57.4%.”

That did not prevent the two major parties from snaring the lion’s share. Labour received 33.7% of the vote yet obtained 63.2% (411 seats) of the 650 on offer, making it the most disproportionate on record. The Tories, despite the bloodbath, could still count on 121 MPs with 23.7% of votes winning 18.6% of seats in the House of Commons.

The Lib Dems burgeoned in terms of representatives, gaining a record number of MPs (they now stand at 72), despite only having a vote share of 12.2%. It was a modest percentage hardly different from the 2019 election.

Reform UK, Farage’s rebranded party of Brexiteers, had every right to feel characteristically foiled by the first past the post system that is always defended by the party that wins majority, leaving smaller contenders to chew over its stunningly unrepresentative rationale. Having netted a higher percentage than the Lib Dems at 14.3% (over 4 million votes), they had only five MPs to show for it. “That is blatantly not a properly functioning democratic system – that is a flawed system,” a resentful Richard Tice of Reform remarked on BBC 4 Radio’s Today program. “The demands for change will grow and grow.”

The Greens, similarly, received 6.7% of the vote (just under 2 million), but returned a mere four MPs to Westminster. Despite this, the strategists will be seeing these wins, the most successful in their party’s history, as stunning, bettering the heroic if lonely exploits of Caroline Lucas. Tellingly, the party pinched two seats off Labour, and one from the Conservative stable.

Given that Labour proved the largest beneficiary of a voting system that should only ever apply in a two-way contest and given the prospect of Reform and the Greens posing ever greater threats from either wing of politics, appetite for electoral reform is likely to be suppressed.

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Каковы симптомы нехватки витамина B12?

Специалист по питанию Роузи Миллен (Rosie Millen) рассказала в интервью Express.co.uk об основных симптомах дефицита B12, на которые необходимо обратить внимание.

По словам Роузи, утомляемость и чрезвычайная усталость — главный признак.

“Также следует насторожиться, если у вас одышка, если возникает ощущение предобморочного состояния, частые головные боли, бледная кожа и учащенное сердцебиение”, — объяснила она.

Кроме того, симптомами дефицита этого витамина являются бледный язык, запоры или метеоризм.

Нехватка B12 может вызывать проблемы неврологического характера, ухудшение зрения, депрессию и провалы в памяти.

Что из себя представляет витамин B12?

Витамин B12 относится к группе активных веществ, называемых кобаламинами. Он играет очень важную роль, потому что участвует в построении ДНК, а кроме того, в процессе созревания эритроцитов.

В среднем взрослый человек должен получать 2,4 микрограмма B12 в сутки. Рекомендуемая доза для беременных женщин — 2,6 микрограмма, а для кормящих матерей — 2,8 микрограмма.

К чему приводит дефицит B12?

Если дефицит этого активного вещества сохраняется достаточно долго, это может спровоцировать проблемы со стороны нервной системы. Лечение необходимо начать в течение шести месяцев после появления симптомов.

В каких продуктах содержится витамин B12?

Витамин B12 содержится в говядине, курятине, печени, рыбе, морепродуктах, молоке, йогурте, сыре и яйцах.

Если вы не едите продукты животного происхождения, можно употреблять специальные добавки с содержанием этого витамина.

Кроме того, Роузи рассказала о симптомах дефицита железа — так она ответила на вопрос о том, нехватка какого вещества является наиболее опасной и частотной.

“Наиболее распространенным является дефицит железа, который приводит к анемии, и на это следует обратить пристальное внимание”, — сказал Роузи.

По ее словам, развитие дефицита железа зачастую становится следствием резкого изменения питания и образа жизни. “С нехваткой железа зачастую сталкиваются те, кто резко меняет рацион и полностью отказывается от красного мяса”, — объяснила она.

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