The Emperor of #Gaza: Norman Finkelstein: #Netanyahu DESTROYED Global Order - With #Trump's Help
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Urgent Action: Third States Must Intervene to Stop Israel’s Mass Starvation and Intensified Genocidal Attacks on Gaza alhaq.org/advocacy/27977…
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IS CATHOLIC HEALTH GENERAL COUNSEL JAMES O’BRIEN A BRAZEN LIAR?
There are Causes and there are causes: upper-case “C” such as a genocide and lower-case “c” such as a worker unjustly sacked.
Herewith is a small “c” story. However, it is illustrative of what has become of our country when a medical doctor is treated as if he were an undocumented worker by a depraved medical system.
The dramatis personae include a lecher, a shyster, and a gaggle of nondescript, gray-on-gray bureaucrats, on the one hand, and a devoted and beloved pediatrician, on the other. If this story sounds Dickensian, that’s because it is: pristine Evil versus pristine Good.
Rudolph Baldeo came to the U.S. penniless from Guyana. When he took my course in political theory at Hunter College 35 years ago, Rudolph was a shipping clerk by day and a biology major by night. A brilliant student, one semester he took six science courses with ten labs and earned straight A’s.
Rudolph eventually won a full scholarship to Columbia University towards a PhD in biology but decided instead to pursue a medical career.
In sum, Rudolph’s life trajectory traced the proverbial American Dream.
For a quarter century, Dr. Baldeo invested his professional life in Pediatrics ER (Emergency Room) at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was loved and respected by his colleagues, staff, and patients alike.
Good Sam is owned by Catholic Health Long Island. Its subcontractor at the hospital is Progressive Emergency Physicians (PEP) headed by Dr. Raio. Raio’s claim to fame is that he was caught in an act of fellatio with his subordinate (and mistress) in the hospital parking lot.
One day, out of the blue, the Fellatio King decided to terminate Dr. Baldeo. It was speculated by hospital staff that Catholic Health/PEP was “getting rid of the dinosaurs” (Dr. Baldeo will turn 60 this year) and that Raio wanted to open up a spot for his golfing buddy.
Dr. Baldeo proved faithful in the wholeness of his being to Good Sam. It treated him in return as if disposable trash to be deposited in the gutter.
He was the perfect victim: diminutive stature, soft-spoken, and dark-skinned. It was just assumed that he would go quietly into the night.
But he wouldn’t. Dr. Baldeo decided to fight back.
I myself contacted Catholic Health General Counsel James O’Brien. O’Brien threatened me with a libel suit if I revealed all the sordid and squalid goings-on at the hospital: it was credibly reported that Good Sam overbilled Medicare/Medicaid patients and underreported child sexual abuse allegations.
Then O’Brien did something even more brazen: he purported in a letter to me that “Dr. Baldeo was not employed by the Hospital at any point.”
But Dr. Baldeo received multiple “Catholic Health Reappointment Approval” letters that “approved your application for reappointment as a member of the Medical Staff” in the “Department/Division” of “Pediatric Emergency Medicine” as an “Attending.”
How could Catholic Health at one and the same time “reappoint” Dr. Baldeo as a “member of the Medical staff” at Good Samaritan Hospital as an “Attending”—yet not be Dr. Baldeo’s employer?!
It is a sorry day indeed for our country when a major medical establishment carries on like a Las Vegas fly-by-night craps joint.
To be continued
If you would like to express your outrage at this gross injustice, you can contact these individuals at Catholic Health/PEP:
James O’Brien
James.Obrien@chsli.org,James.Obrien@chsli.org
Bronwyn Pepple
bpepple@williamsweese.com
Christopher Raio
christopher.raio@pephealth.net
Cornelia Munteam
cornelia.muntean@chsli.org
Andrew Sama
andrew.sama@pephealth.net
Jennifer Brown
jennifer.brown@pephealth.net
Cathy Cahill
Cathy.Cahill@chsli.org
Justin Lundbye
Justin.Lundbye@chsli.org
There are Causes and there are causes: upper-case “C” such as a genocide and lower-case “c” such as a worker unjustly sacked.
Herewith is a small “c” story. However, it is illustrative of what has become of our country when a medical doctor is treated as if he were an undocumented worker by a depraved medical system.
The dramatis personae include a lecher, a shyster, and a gaggle of nondescript, gray-on-gray bureaucrats, on the one hand, and a devoted and beloved pediatrician, on the other. If this story sounds Dickensian, that’s because it is: pristine Evil versus pristine Good.
Rudolph Baldeo came to the U.S. penniless from Guyana. When he took my course in political theory at Hunter College 35 years ago, Rudolph was a shipping clerk by day and a biology major by night. A brilliant student, one semester he took six science courses with ten labs and earned straight A’s.
Rudolph eventually won a full scholarship to Columbia University towards a PhD in biology but decided instead to pursue a medical career.
In sum, Rudolph’s life trajectory traced the proverbial American Dream.
For a quarter century, Dr. Baldeo invested his professional life in Pediatrics ER (Emergency Room) at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was loved and respected by his colleagues, staff, and patients alike.
Good Sam is owned by Catholic Health Long Island. Its subcontractor at the hospital is Progressive Emergency Physicians (PEP) headed by Dr. Raio. Raio’s claim to fame is that he was caught in an act of fellatio with his subordinate (and mistress) in the hospital parking lot.
One day, out of the blue, the Fellatio King decided to terminate Dr. Baldeo. It was speculated by hospital staff that Catholic Health/PEP was “getting rid of the dinosaurs” (Dr. Baldeo will turn 60 this year) and that Raio wanted to open up a spot for his golfing buddy.
Dr. Baldeo proved faithful in the wholeness of his being to Good Sam. It treated him in return as if disposable trash to be deposited in the gutter.
He was the perfect victim: diminutive stature, soft-spoken, and dark-skinned. It was just assumed that he would go quietly into the night.
But he wouldn’t. Dr. Baldeo decided to fight back.
I myself contacted Catholic Health General Counsel James O’Brien. O’Brien threatened me with a libel suit if I revealed all the sordid and squalid goings-on at the hospital: it was credibly reported that Good Sam overbilled Medicare/Medicaid patients and underreported child sexual abuse allegations.
Then O’Brien did something even more brazen: he purported in a letter to me that “Dr. Baldeo was not employed by the Hospital at any point.”
But Dr. Baldeo received multiple “Catholic Health Reappointment Approval” letters that “approved your application for reappointment as a member of the Medical Staff” in the “Department/Division” of “Pediatric Emergency Medicine” as an “Attending.”
How could Catholic Health at one and the same time “reappoint” Dr. Baldeo as a “member of the Medical staff” at Good Samaritan Hospital as an “Attending”—yet not be Dr. Baldeo’s employer?!
It is a sorry day indeed for our country when a major medical establishment carries on like a Las Vegas fly-by-night craps joint.
To be continued
If you would like to express your outrage at this gross injustice, you can contact these individuals at Catholic Health/PEP:
James O’Brien
James.Obrien@chsli.org,James.Obrien@chsli.org
Bronwyn Pepple
bpepple@williamsweese.com
Christopher Raio
christopher.raio@pephealth.net
Cornelia Munteam
cornelia.muntean@chsli.org
Andrew Sama
andrew.sama@pephealth.net
Jennifer Brown
jennifer.brown@pephealth.net
Cathy Cahill
Cathy.Cahill@chsli.org
Justin Lundbye
Justin.Lundbye@chsli.org
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Finkelstein, Dr. Cornel West, Richard Wolff, Robinson Erhardt
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A Correspondent Comments on my book GAZA'S GRAVEDIGGERS. normanfinkelstein.com/a-corresponden…
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With Oliver Eagleton on latest episode of Tribune In Conversation: Telling the Truth about Gaza
Norman Finkelstein joins Oliver Eagleton for the latest episode of Tribune In Conversation.
Finkelstein exposes the lies that have enabled the genocide in Gaza and analyses the British government's shift on Palestine.
Watch now: youtu.be/tLFpaP3l7l0
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PROTECTING RIGHTS, PLAYING POLITICS
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Right Navi Pillay was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The choice was widely praised in the human rights community. Pillay headed the UN Commission of Inquiry investigating crimes perpetrated by Hamas and Israel on October 7 2023 and thereafter. The quality of the Commission’s work was mixed. I analyze the Commission’s multiple reports at length in my new book, Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry in Corruption in High Places. Excerpted below is the Commission’s disingenuous findings on the Hamas rape allegations.
The “Patten mission” refers to a prior report by Pramila Patten, who was Secretary-General Guterres's Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict. Patten purported that “there are reasonable grounds to believe” that Hamas committed sexual violence “including rape and gang rape” on October 7. By her own admission, Patten adduced zero material evidence to substantiate her spectacular allegations.
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Former UN High Commissioner for Human Right Navi Pillay was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The choice was widely praised in the human rights community. Pillay headed the UN Commission of Inquiry investigating crimes perpetrated by Hamas and Israel on October 7 2023 and thereafter. The quality of the Commission’s work was mixed. I analyze the Commission’s multiple reports at length in my new book, Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry in Corruption in High Places. Excerpted below is the Commission’s disingenuous findings on the Hamas rape allegations.
The “Patten mission” refers to a prior report by Pramila Patten, who was Secretary-General Guterres's Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict. Patten purported that “there are reasonable grounds to believe” that Hamas committed sexual violence “including rape and gang rape” on October 7. By her own admission, Patten adduced zero material evidence to substantiate her spectacular allegations.
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WHY THE IHRA'S DEFINITION OF ANTI-SEMITISM DOESN'T WORK
@NormFinkelstein on @TuckerCarlson, promoting his new book, Gaza's Gravediggers
@NormFinkelstein on @TuckerCarlson, promoting his new book, Gaza's Gravediggers
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Focusing on the United Nations, the perversion of international law, @normfinkelstein produces an indictment of those who abused their authority to whitewash an unfolding horror.
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"Norman knows what he is talking about. It is urgent and just that the Palestinians have their own State after the Gaza genocide, that they finally enjoy the realization of the right to self-determination."
Review of GAZA'S GRAVEDIGGERS in @CovertActionMag by @normfinkelstein
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Review of GAZA'S GRAVEDIGGERS in @CovertActionMag by @normfinkelstein
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Norman Finkelstein’s Gaza’s Gravediggers is a Tour de Force normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/norman-finke…
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At the UN for The Hague Group meeting with the man who exposed Gaza’s Gravediggers. @normfinkelstein @orbooks
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Hen Mazzig
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Hen Mazzig
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