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Why not allow surrogacy for gay couples so that they can contribute to growing the population?

The rate for 29 pounds for USPS priority express international parcel is $245.

No, PA claims that it is attacking Islamic Jihad in Jenin. They are apparently trying to show Netanyahu or US that they would be capable of preventing the reemergence of Hamas in Gaza if they were given "control" over it, but Netanyahu does not want to see any group in control of both West Bank and Gaza.

To transport the lithium and other resources it can capture, China is building a mega port in Peru. But maybe it could double as a naval base.

Not possible. Appeals court is the only route, a chance to have the damages award reduced.

Maybe WHO should have a registry where all countries can report doctor suspensions.

I believe that it was the French who set up the Level 4 lab at the Wuhan Institute. However, the Bat Woman was usually using Level 2 or sometimes Level 3 facilities. This helps explain how a leak could have occured. Some American researchers visiting in 2018 were appalled by the sloppiness in the lab.

When you say "created", that's confusing. The discussion should be about Coronaviruses collected (as the Wuhan lab was known to be doing) and then modified using technology that they got from Baric in Atlanta. Early on somebody calculated that to go from the closest existing (natural) virus to the original Covid strain should have taken 30 years, based on the number of changes to the structure from the natural sample. Perhaps the Wuhan lab possessed other natural Coronaviruses closer to Covid and unknown to the scientific community. Just a supposition.

I have found one of the best anaylses bringing together the information supporting the lab leak hypothesis: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html This is a long but very worthwhile read. Date: January 4, 2021.

Maybe this policy permitted the use of the Lavender AI program: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Your idea that the US government preferred the zoonotic theory is interesting. It's true that the Wuhan Institute got NIH grants which went through Daszak - ECOHealth Alliance, who organized the Lancet article to downplay the lab hypothesis. That the US government may claim that they did not fund dangerous gain-of-function research does not preclude the possibility that there was parallel military research at the Wuhan lab on virus collected from a quarry in Yunnan where around six workers died after contracting Covid from the bats there. Sorry, my links are marooned on a disk drive from a old computer. I'll ask the friend, microbiologist who sent me a link to an excellent article on the lab leak theory, to send again, if he can.

I just tried to access the above link, and FEWS website says "access denied". The November report already indicates a dire situation and is still accessible: https://fews.net/middle-east-and-asia/gaza/alert/november-2024 At that time the population in North Gaza was 75-95,000 people. "A famine can be declared only when certain measures of mortality, malnutrition and hunger are met. They are: at least 20 per cent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 per cent; and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons." https://news.un.org/en/story/2011/07/382342 Actually, the Israeli COGAT & American ambassor's claim of a remaining population of 9-15000 people, means that based on the famine critieria quoted above the situation would be even more critical than with the higher population figure, so the retraction is entirely political, not based on the FEWS evidence-based approach. Mr Lew is just trying to confuse the public. There is an obvious confusion between the remaining population of 3 beseiged camps and the population of North Gaza. The situation in North Gaza is described in the UN report in my earlier post.

There is a recent report from UNWRA regarding around four beseiged refugee camps in north Gaza. "Some parts of the North Gaza governorate have been under a tightened siege for more than ten weeks. Access remains extremely challenging and partners’ ongoing attempts to deliver aid into these besieged areas continues to be largely prevented, leaving 10,000-15,000 people without access to food, water, electricity or healthcare, as mass casualty incidents continue." https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-152-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem This is not the population of the North Gaza governate. Where is your link to your UNWRA claim?

It was a great pity for the country that in 2020 he hid out in his bunker during Covid instead of showing his already declining capacity. It's also too bad that the Dems didn't have a better field of alternatives at the primary stage. Basically they are pretty feckless. They should have derailed the Biden rerun back in 2022. The WSJ article is a good read.

The most likely Republican candidate in 2028 is Marco Rubio.

I have done it in CM, using EMS with return receipt by EMS as well. It's good if you live far from Immigration.

I agree that Kamala's laugh and tone was really unappealing, rather like those young American women with speech and intonation disconnected from any part of the country, Call it metropolitan bourgeoise? Her dismissive retort to Muslims in Dearborn showed no empathy toward people, some of whom had family in the Occupied Territories. Beltway Bubble, perhaps. Anyway, election results there were Harris 37%, Trump 43%, Stein 19%. I thought that Amy Klobuchar would have been a sensible candidate, but she was up for reelection as senator last year. Her speaking is a huge contrast to Kamala's.

In view of Britain's historic relationship to Europe and its proximity, the sensible solution on trade would be to harmonize goods standards or have UK and EU mutually accept the other's goods standards.

The most disgusting was when right-wing AIPAC manipulated two Democratic primaries to get rid of incumbents by contributing $9 million in the case of Cori Bush (MO) and $12 million in the case of Jamaal Bowman (NY).

It does seem like America is going manic as it reacts in the runup to January 20th. Maybe informed foreigners see better what is happening to America than the locals can.

My roommate's thesis was on the Peter Principle. exploring the idea of promoting someone above his/her failed position to see whether he/she would display new competence. So perhaps the Dems should ask her to wait until they could expand the membership of the Supreme Court and then appoint her to it.

The tank firing which killed all the people in the house has been widely reported, so why don't you know about it? Anyway, I should try to ignore the people who keep repeating lies that are not germane to the subject of a thread, so the point of my latest reply was to return to the subject of the thread: Israel's Disinformation Campaign Against UNWRA, and I supplied relevant links on that subject.

You need an eSata drive to record programs for playback anytime later, but I heard that Truevisions is no longer selling them, or even providing replacements for their sat receiver boxes. I saw that they have a new approach, streaming with the possibility of playing any program that aired in the previous 7 days. That's not convenient for me when I go out of the country for a month. Truevisions recently deleted CNBC, but fortunately I only watch Meet the Press which NBC allows us to see online without their streaming subscription.

People in Iran are mostly born after 1953. but they are nonetheless aware that the CIA ran a coup that ousted the democratic government led by Mossadegh and elevated the Shah to autocrat status supported by SAVAK,a rather unpleasant secret police, so like the Syrians, I doubt that Iranians would like the interference of Mossad or CIA to institute regime change.

Now I have found out how to post the link from x.com: https://x.com/Israel/status/1728031404708032701 Trying to get back to where the comment about dead babies evolved from the original subject, UNWRA, I noticed that a lot of your posts replying to comments by others was the demand to post "credible" links. Sometimes people were only making very general statements with no specifics, so why was a link warranted? So here are links related to "Israel’s Disinformation Campaign Against UNRWA". These links report that Israel's claims were unsubstantiated: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israel-unrwa-staff-terrorist-links-yet-to-provide-evidence-colonna-report https://www.reuters.com/world/no-evidence-israel-back-unrwa-accusations-says-eu-humanitarian-chief-2024-03-14/ An UNWRA report says that "some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks." https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-falsely-admit-hamas-links-2024-03-08/ Do you have credible sources (with links) to substantiate Israel's claims?