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Expat Discontent in Thailand
That's nice of you to be concerned but I'm 77 years old and certainly fitter than many men 20 years younger than me, a couple of months ago I climbed onto the roof of my house via the garden wall then onto the garage roof and then scrambled onto the roof from there in order to clean the rain gutters. I speak 3 languages and keep myself mentally fit by listening to podcasts on physics, archaeology, spirituality etc. Of course the end isn't too far away but I only need another 3 to 4 years to pay for the completion of my sons education, I'll be satisfied with that, as the Buddha said, 'All is impermanence, all arising is due to interdependence'. If I was 40 I would get further tests but at my age that would be undignified. The bow has been drawn tight and only the archer knows when he will release the arrow. -
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Report Aussie Women Get Green Light to Sue Qatar Airways for Airport Ordeal
A so called "opening of a Pandora's box" has nothing to do with this if it is a legitimate case! If it is legitimate then go ahead and to hell with any so called whataboutism! -
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Middle East Israeli forces kill 63 Palestinians in Gaza within hours of ‘humanitarian pause’
No, it's survival for which Jews have a "lust." It's survival that spurred the early Zionists in the 1880's, led to the founding of Israel in 1948 and today drives the IDF in the defense of Israeli Jews in their homeland. The deaths of Palestinians in Gaza are NOT the result of genocide but of warfare in a dense urban environment. That's a tragedy but it's not genocide. Most of the civilian casualties are a result of Hamas terrorists hiding among non-combatants or using civilian infrastructure as weapons' depots or firing points. Genocide is determined by intent, not the number of deaths. The Israeli government isn't trying to eliminate Palestinians as a group. The civilian deaths are collateral damage from attacks against legitimate military targets. The roughly 60,000 deaths of Palestinians since October, 2023, include 20,000 to 25,000 Hamas terrorists. One to two civilian deaths for every terrorist killed is not out of line with what could be expected in urban warfare in a tightly populated area. During WWII, the U.S. and U.K. killed an estimated 500,000 German civilians through aerial bombardment, while 350,000 to 450,000 Japanese civilians died due to U.S. bombing. In both Germany and Japan, the majority of victims were women, children and the elderly. During a 48-hour period in March, 1945, at least 100,000 Japanese civilians died in the USAAF fire bombing of Tokyo. The RAF and USAAF got 37,000 civilians in Hamburg, while the RAF wracked up 20,000 in Cologne and 25,000 in Dresden. No one accused the U.S. or U.K. of genocide because it wasn't their intent to wipe out Germans or Japanese, only to kill a lot of them. Same-same with the Israeli bombing of Gaza. How is it any different than the U.S. bombing of Tokyo or the RAF bombing of Dresden? Moreover, it can't be genocide if the size of the target population keeps increases. The 2.1 million Arabs with Israeli citizenship, 21% of Israel's total population, are descendants of the 150,000 Arabs who remained or returned to Israel in 1948-49. It seems logical to assume that if Israel wanted to wipe out Palestinians, those are the ones it would begin with. Obviously that's not the case as the number of Arab Israelis has increased significantly in the past 77 years. In the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinian population has grown from less than one million in 1950 to about 5.4 million today. So when exactly did the genocide begin and how many Palestinians have died in it? -
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Chronic disease in old age
in their 70's already? so cannot complain another 15 years would put them in their 90's bit of daft thread really -
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Report Aussie Women Get Green Light to Sue Qatar Airways for Airport Ordeal
Arab logic. More like basic biology. A woman who has just given birth has some tells. -
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Chronic disease in old age
Types of sugars are important to consider - sucrose vs fructose vs nonsugar alternatives. More evidence is accumulatingt hat nosugar sweeteners are not all good. Example, erythritol has recently been shown to have not good effects on the blood-brain barrier of mice (mammals) , research needs to be done on humans (mammals) to see whether these bad effects affect people. Fructose is bad in excessive amounts (although, other components of fruit are good e.g vitamins, micro-nutrients, minerals, fibre), our bodies are not adapted to dealing with high levels of fructose in the diet unlike monkeys & bears.. So yet again, balanced eating is important for health
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