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That might be OK if the settlers would follow Palestinian law and not have criminal intent.

The Palestinians were hoodwinked into the 1993 Oslo deal, which was supposed to be a two-state solution. In 2002 the Saudis seconded the two-state solution, but the US and Israel ignored them.

If it wants to be a democracy, Israel should have a constitution that assures equal rights to all. Aside from far-right US Evangelicals and ultra Orthodox, most Americans will eventually figure this out.

Don't forget about the 1994 massacre perpetrated by an American MD on Muslim worshippers in Hebron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre

Since you mention the Peel Commission, this Wikipedia entry shows that it was not accepted by all Jews, either, and Ben-Gurion and Weizmann saw it "as a stepping stone to some further expansion and the eventual takeover of the whole of Palestine." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission Arab countries saw it as a betrayal of the promise of an independent Palestine. Furthermore, what really happened in 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians fled from a newly created Israel, came to light in the 1980s through the efforts of Benny Morris: https://www.akevot.org.il/en/article/intelligence-brief-from-1948-hidden-for-decades-indicates-jewish-fighters-actions-were-the-major-cause-of-arab-displacement-not-calls-from-arab-leadership/?full

It was later reported that the first policeman who tried to pull Nichols out of his car, tasered him as well, was white. As this incident developed, there were quite a few other police and first reponders present. That makes it all the more shocking.

More like Biden licking N's boots!

Unfortunately at the moment the video is not available: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/101-east/2021/5/6/swedens-thai-berry-pickers

It will be interesting to learn the background of these wayward cops. People with an authoritarian bent are not good candidates for community policing, so more care should be taken in hiring people who have served in the military, where the "us vs them" mentality is perhaps understandable after posting in Afghanistan or Iraq. Maybe existing policemen should be individually and thoroughly examined by psychiatrists to determine whether they are fit to be in contact with the public.

From the linked article: "Genomic tests can aid in the diagnosis of difficult diseases such as cancers. Genomics is the study of an organism’s entire genetic makeup, including all of its DNA sequences. By analyzing an individual’s genome, scientists can identify genetic variations that may be associated with a particular disease, leading to a precise diagnosis." This is modern medicine. Cancers may arise through genetic pathways in certain individuals, so analyzing a patient's genome may indicate which treatment is appropriate. Furthermore, immunological approaches to cancer treatment depend on sequencing the cancerous cells to produce a tailored upgrade to that patient's immune system. Moderna and BioNTech are working on cancer vaccines as well, which presumably would deal with more common cancers.

The article mentioned nominees (who front for foreigners).

If the Chinese arrive at Angkor temples by the busload as they were doing when I was there is 2015, you have to get up around 5 AM and finish your touring of popular sites by 8:30. Then continue at sites not visited by them.

I went yesterday to the Neurological Hospital around 11 AM. There was hardly anyone there, and the whole process getting a Pfizer booster took less than 30 minutes.

Maybe the sensible solution is only to allow individual travelers from China. Also, if there is any faking of vaccination certificates, that would be in the tour groups.

From the link ThaiPBS world: "At Chiang Mai International Airport, the first direct flight from China will land on March 15th. There will be about 200 flights during the three-month period, with 42 flights in January, 84 in February and 74 in March." So when are flights coming to Chiang Mai from China? Are the flights in January coming via Hong Kong?

The older mRNA vaccines work in reducing incidence of severe disease, hospitalization, etc, but are not very effective in preventing infection and transmission.

Rapid tests and swabs of the positives for sequencing could make up somewhat for the lack of transparency on the Chinese side. Thailand could be the sentinel for the dangerous variant the proves the exception to the rule of decreasing lethality. Chinese refusal to accept mRNA vaccines from the EU is very shortsighted considering the inadequately vaccinated population and insufficent facilities to treat serious cases.

The owner of the dogs should go to jail.

A certain number of excess deaths could have been caused by people who went untreated for other diseases because the health system was overburdened by COvid, etc.

Maybe he mixed up with Rick Scott, the Florida senator.

Florida is such a litigious state that the big insurance companies will no longer insure homes there. So now he wants to accomplish what by creating more phobias about vaccines? De Santis complains about misrepresentation. It's ironic because he had a 2-hour televised presentation with the three academics promoting the Great Barrington Declaration which advocated that unvaccinated people get infected while isolating old and other vulnerable people. Experience with infected nursing homes, long Covid, and multiple infections of the unvaccinated showed that Great Barrington was bogus, yet De Santis gave these people another opportunity to mislead ignorant Floridians.

I read the JHU article and reviewed the referenced Science article . The inference of early cases in proximity does not take into account the other virology lab located 300 yards from the market. These articles are by no means a "death knell for any alternative theories". It seems too late to uncover any smoking gun on site, but further understanding of differences between wild strains and the Wuhan virus may help to understand how the Wuhan virus emerged. This review is a good analysis of spillover vs lab leak: https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2022/02/11/book-review-viral-the-search-for-the-origin-of-covid-19/#more-16352 Here is another that has generated a lot of interest: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/covid-origins-investigation-wuhan-lab

There is no firm evidence for zoonotic transmission, and direct transmission from bats to humans was known by Batwoman for several years before the pandemic.

The last time I looked, Fedex was going to cost around $100, so I was going to try USPS Priority Mail International ($42 and up), said to take around 10 days. It was sent instead by regular international mail and finally came a month or so later. While waiting for that and being in a hurry I tried Priority Mail Express International ($71 and up). That took just a few days, and there was tracking. https://www.usps.com/international/priority-mail-express-international.htm#2 https://www.usps.com/international/priority-mail-international.htm

Just to maintain the context, we are discussing Lindsey Graham's proposed Federal law limiting abortion to 15 weeks. The Court could just as well declare an Act of Congress unconstitutional as declare a previous opinion of the Court as wrongly decided, since it has now created a precedent based on originalism and the power to regulate abortion now goes to the states by default (10th Amendment). So the law formalizing a right for same-sex marriage was drafted so as not to infringe on the newly created Dobbs precedent. The debate about states' rights go back to the beginning. The original attempt to unite the states was the Articles of Confederation, in which the states were sovereign. During the drafting of the Constitution, there were concerns about the Federal government being a threat to individual rights, so the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights, were passed in 1791. While the main concern was individual rights, the 2nd and 10th Amendments clearly concerned the rights of the states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#To_maintain_slavery Court decisions (until recently) and Federal law have generally tended to protect individual rights, in conflict with state laws that were/are oppressive. This is a total turnaround from the expectations when the Constitution was promulgated. After all the machinations of the Republican-controlled Senate in preventing Obama from appointing to two Court vacancies, I suggest that it's no longer the GOP but rather the ROP, the Reactionary Opportunist Party. Just as with the Senate, the "principles" that you mention, can be flipped by the Court depending on the opportunity presented by lower courts. I'm not clear which decision you are thinking of when you mention "voting rights" (Voting Rights Act of 1965?).