ignore that social pressure and in the USA where there is no universal medical insurance, meaning that surrogates could pressure people the sick and elderly into killing oneself so their relatives don't end up with medical bills.
And don't forget: The recent articles in medical journals saying hey we can even take their organs, meaning another way to pressure the depressed to end their own lives.
There was a big scandal of a young depressed woman killed in Spain and whose organs were taken from her: WHy did she chose death? Depression after a gang rape in a government facility for troubled teenagers.
So if Elon pays someone to make another version of the Odyssey, which one would you watch?
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Someone on line mentioned the movie Quigley down under, which I had never watched, and so I found it on Internet archives and while checking it out found a lot of louis L''Amour type westerns there too.
ah, remember when movies had people you liked trying to do the right thing and the films actually had a plot?
but if you do a search on youtube for the Phila shipyard you will get lots of videos for the hoax Philadelphia experiment.
Which says a lot about what Youtube thinks I am interested in.
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Rubio is in Manila for a big ASEAN meeting and has this pithy answer to the never ever biased MSM:
QUESTION: Have you made any progress on Ukraine today? Is Russia serious about peace this time?
SECRETARY RUBIO: I mean, you think we settled the war in Ukraine in our 30 minutes here in Asia?
there is a big push for technology in the Pax Silica plan, ere is a including an AI site, using the old Clark AFB site, so the usual environmentalists who never complain about China destroying fishing in the west Phil sea are complaining about it in the SCMP> which used to be a good news source before China took over Hong Kong and it's media.
The state of the nation address will give more information and I probably should post more about this, but it is to the west of our area: Our area is more famous for the huge solar energy farm to supply electricity to Manila.
In the meanwhile, because Rubio is here, China decided to attack another Philippine vessel in the West Philippine Sea, just to show they can cause trouble.
Sigh.
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Finally, there seemed to be a big astroturfed series of attacks against JD Vance, including one report in a major US MSM complaining he missed a meeting (luckily X added a content explanation: He wife was having a baby).
In addition one of his SSA was leaking information on his location to one of the MSM news sites. Even I am aware he had to move to a military housing for protection.
But anyway, I was wondering WTF was causing the hysterical and coordinated attacks at this time. Maybe because as a veteran he has questions about the war in Iran pointing out that people there do not think like Americans.
Then my automatic feed that I was listening to (I run discussions and podcasts in background when I sleep) sent me to his interview on Joe Rogan. I awoke to this part with a discussion on unions HERE. About unions and the minimum wage and how Europe pays new employees below minimum wage as apprentices, but it is illegal in the USA.
Imagine a discussion without empty rhetoric.
And he is also on other non MSM podcasts discussion his latest book in which he goes into losing and then finding his religion.
The actress with a masters degree who plays Helen of Troy in the new movie apparently never read the book. DUH.
But one good side effect? Lots of discussion about the movie, both pro and con, and also by experts in archeology, history and literature, mean that the clueless are now aware of the story.
The best thing that has happened to Greek literature since Percy Jackson
Here is a discussion at EWTN to give you an idea of how the movie is getting a discussion of various ideas that it brings up.
I haven't seen the movie although it is at the local mall. I'll wait til it's on Netflix.
The constant propaganda out of Gaza is always ignoring the dirty little secret:
That the war was started by Hamas.
That Hamas stole aid supposed to go to civilians to build tunnels and buy weapons and rockets.
That if Hamas had arrested those behind the attack and given them to either Israel or a neutral third country, the war would never have gone on.
And of course the leftists who hate Israel are parroting the propaganda without examining if the news reports put out by Hamas are true.
But what is worse is that conservative Catholic sites are busy parroting the same line. A remnant of anti Semitism of Belloc or Father Coughlin? Who knows.
But there are even claims that Israelis dancing at a festival never happened, or if it did happen it was okay because all Israelis were enemies so it was okay to kill them
and then farther away from that party, there were Asian casualties who had nothing to do with the war but were killed. And these farmworkers are rarely part of the discussion.
Why were they killed? Envy.
Local farmers are hiring Asians to help with the harvest.
This displaces jobs that could be done by local non Israeli Palestinians who no longer were hired for fear of terrorist attacks.
What has not gotten much attention is how the west uses third world farm workers, from Mexicans picking tomatoes in the USA to Indians working in northern Italy.
So the story no one in the west wants to remember is that Hamas didn't just kill the Israelis, but these workers.
Some 46 Thai migrants were killed when Hamas attacked on 7 October. Another 31 were abducted, with three dying in captivity in Gaza. In northern Israel, five were killed by Hezbollah rockets. Despite this, most chose to stay and continue to provide an essential service to Israeli agriculture.
so farmers no longer wanted to risk their lives hiring locals
Thai workers constitute the largest contingent of foreign migrants currently in Israel. The first began arriving in 1993, when the Israeli government started issuing temporary work visas to reduce Israel's dependence on Palestinian agricultural workers for security reasons, in the wake of the first intifada, which broke out in 1987.
no it did not spontaneously break out. It was a decision by their leaders, who weaponized hatred while stealing aid money and getting rich, but of course no one bothers to follow the money stolen in this or many other so called foreign aid help from richer countries.
when I searched for a video discussing the story of the kidnapped Thai farmworkers, I found a few videos from eight or more years ago complaining Israel was mistreating these workers, and a dozen recent videos complaining about Israeli tourists in Thailand.
But I found exactly one video from Australia about one of the hostages.
which says a lot about the zeal of the human rights activists who only condemn Israel.
OR as one sardonic Jewish carpenter quipped: You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
American biologist who testified for PH in South China Sea arbitration killed
(1st UPDATE) Dr. Kent Carpenter provided expert written records on the environmental harms of China’s reclamation and destructive fishing practices in the West Philippine Sea
Slay Magazine reports that Arthur Caplan has discussed how they are using "Grain dead" patients to use for experiments.
Professor Caplan revealed that NYU Langone Health operates a research ward using the bodies of neurologically injured patients for experimentation.
Caplan referred to the patients as “neomorts” and the experimental facilities as “bioemporia.”
since I am not familiar with the site, I will post the podcast from Youtube.
