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The counterargument is that students are potential victims of doxxing if their faces can be researched in social media. They can be shut out of jobs in finance and other business fields. This "fear" of masked students is a pretext, IMO.

Democratic presidents were in charge when the Hegseth "miracles" took place (except 2017): 1917 - Wilson, 1948 - Truman, 1967 - Johnson. To that I would add 1979 - Carter (an Evangelical), who deleted text from the treaty between Israel and Egypt which referred to the principle of non-acquisition of territory by force, so that Israel's taking of territory from Egypt, Syria, and the then Jordan West Bank would have been acknowledged as contrary to international law; and 2000 - Clinton, who tried to force Arafat to accept a "Swiss cheese" statelet without sovereignty. We can now see how things are going for the Palestinians in the West Bank - economic strangulation and creeping annexation. It's no wonder that some Muslim voters prefer Republicans, and, after the Biden performance, even Trump despite the record of his previous time as president.

Drunk on the job is not a good example to set to the Boy Scouts, nor is violence against women.

Hegseth advocated the construction of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during Trump 1.0. He said that 1917 was a miracle, 1948 was a miracle, 1967 was a miracle, 2017 was a miracle. Video available here: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-us-defence-secretary-called-building-third-temple-jerusalem 2017: the Balfour Declaration, the UK promise for a Jewish state in Palestine; 1948: creation of Israel 1967: the war that seized East Jerusalem 2017: the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Third Temple is a goal of the extreme right in Israel and far right Evangelicals in the US who see it as part of the coming of the Messiah heralding the end of the world.

Such as Thais in LA. IS Thaitown far from the flames?

There are hundreds of designs underway, but only two are under construction in CHina and Argentina (125 and 30 megawatts). https://aris.iaea.org/publications/SMR_catalogue_2024.pdf At a cost of around USD4mn for a 3 megawatt wind turbine, this would require 42 wind turbines at a cost of around USD168mn to equal the power generated by the Chinese SMR cited above. Time will tell whether these small reactors cost that much. The concept is assembling them in a factory and installing them onsite in a concrete shell (see designs in linked publication). Low maintenance compared to turbines.

My US card was recently compromised. I have used it for some recurring charges in the US, but here only in ATMs. So I checked whether there was any way my card details could have been captured here. I use Bitdefender since last year when Kaspersky was outlawed in the US. I have learned that there are vulnerabilities, nonetheless. 1) Using older wireless devices such as keyboards and mice with Bluetooth, the transmissions are not encrypted, so someone fairly close by can intercept the data. Some current wireless devices, from Logitech for example. They use their own Logi Bolt dongle to send encrypted signals. Google "Mousejack". 2) Another danger is through a fake CAPTCHA popup where you click to confirm that you are a human. There is not the usual display of a photo divided in 9 sections where you have to identify a specified item appearing in certain sections. This is called Lumma Stealer. https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2024/10/20/unmasking-lumma-stealer-analyzing-deceptive-tactics-with-fake-captcha Antivirus programs including Bitdefender cannot detect this activity. One solution is using virtual or burner cards as much as possible. Also, avoid storing sensitive data such as passwords in unencrypted files on your computer. Aside from concealed cameras at ATMs, I wonder whether there is any way that bank employees or the authorities can intercept the transmission of chip card details and what details are in the transmission. Does anyone here know?

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.