Lurker > CobraGT

Sounds good.*squeeze lime*

Business as usual in Israel though:

As the strike drew mounting global outrage, the Israeli military said it had targeted two senior Hamas leaders in Rafah and that a full investigation would be conducted into civilian deaths "in the area of the strike."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-ministry-reports-killed-strike-hit-civilian-tents-rafah-rcna154136

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/26/israel-gaza-war-anti-government-protesters-clash-with-tel-aviv-police-and-demand-hostage-deal

Protestors across Israel are demanding action for the hostages and an election.

Thousands. Based on what the protestors are saying pro-peace and pro-war are uniting on saying that the current government is not directing its efforts whether negotiation or war on bring the hostages home.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0c88809d.jpg

The envoys should make Blitstein watch a 3 minute clip of patients that were in a Palestinian Hospital where the staff was forced to evacuate by IDF.

sfcalimari posted...

I mean literally half of the American population now supports it.

Not funny but I had to laugh because it is true. I live in a neighborhood, Pilsen, that is mostly Mexican. I am talking to lots of random people because I want to know why Trump is getting support.

Like why would a man who emigrated from Mexico and struggled 30 years to get citizenship think Trump is a good idea?

Anger is part of it. Trump connects with angry people. I believe Hitler connected with angry people.

I have never done it but it sounds good. Btw Velvet Taco has a a burger taco.

Let us be bigger minded!

Homemakers tend to be isolated. We would be a more democratic society if we found ways for homemakers, seniors, homeless to connect.

My first (kneejerk) reaction was to be judgemental but I thought this over. Even hanging out on CE is better than being a stay at home mom.

The fact that she was crushed by this experience shows how alone she is!

I live in Chicago. I like Pizano's and Jet's. I loved a place in Lakeview which closed due to the rent.

I think Nella's is the best and Nella's is Neopolitan so I voted Neopolitan.

Hornezz posted...

ICJ orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive and open Gaza border crossing

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/icj-live-court-rule-israels-offensive-gaza-2024-05-24/
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-69055989

Good to hear.

What can Biden do? Compromise. Let Israel continue murdering and maiming but the roads stay open and electricity, water, sanitation are turned back on.

ICC. I am hyped for the arrests to take place but it could be months before the panel of judges decides whether to issue the warrants.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/22/israel-netanyahu-hamas-arrest-warrant-icc

*exerpted*

This review process has taken weeks to several months in past cases.
If the warrants are issued, Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas leaders would face severe restrictions on their ability to travel, as they could be arrested in any of the countries that recognize the ICC, which includes most of Europe.
The travel restrictions would likely affect Netanyahu and Gallant far more than Hamas leaders. The U.S. has designated Sinwar, Deif and Haniyeh global terrorists, and they are already under travel bans and other sanctions.
The outstanding arrest warrants could be particularly damaging for Netanyahu and Gallant, as other government officials may hesitate to offer backing or assistance.

Now if there was a reward for turning them in ...

Easy. We have a world finance capital economy. The economy is strong for people in the 0.1%

As for lower echelon capitalists and working people

Wages are the smallest amount that you can pay and fill the job
Prices are the largest amount you can be charged and still sell

But when 0.1% is buying price is lowest amount you can pay and get the material.

Finance capitalists work on a world scale.

I doubt their pets get a toy more that needed to assure their affection.

LeoRavus posted...

I'm so ready to watch this clown lose again.

Me too but I am planning how I can leave as a plan B.

Crimson_Corsair posted...

It is fucking wild to me that people continue to hold water for Hamas. Do you honestly believe the political leader of fucking Hamas is engaging in good faith peace talks? You can't possibly think that.

Allow me to remind you that little gems like this are contained in those "peace talks"

- Hamas freeing 33 Israeli hostages, alive or dead, in return for Israel releasing 30 children and women for each released Israeli hostage, based on lists provided by Hamas according to the earliest date of detention.

Above is *expletive* irrelevant! Wrong topic maybe? Pretty sure you cannot have peace talks with Hamas without a Hamas leader

The requested ICC warrants would be for

Netanyahu
Gallant
Sinwar
Al-Masri
Haniyeh

My concern is that Haniyeh is participating in peace talks. Perhaps he would be paroled to continue them?

Right to collective bargaining goes by state. Alabama may be 'backward enough' that they do not have laws which promote union busting.

Illinois only recently recognized collective bargaining as a right.

Go for it Tuscaloosa!

DnDer posted...

@CobraGT -- about those laws on who can drill what oil, regardless of location?

facts of law ---plead ignorance
facts of politics --- we all know this
facts of ownership --- anything in your hot little hands belongs to you until someone takes it away

RndmNmber1 posted...

"Coincidentally" 3 of the gas fields are just right next to the border line huh.

The drilling site may not be the gas field. All I know is that there is an issue.

The issue may be that there is a gas field by Gaza that promises more productivity or the issue may be that the Chevron/Israeli drilling taps into the Gaza gas field.

There can be legitimate reasons for accessing the gas many miles away from where it is. Due to rock being too hard, rock being too crumbly, high pressure and so on

Drilling is highly technical.

But sweet corn, cherries, blueberries and just get out early in the morning ( or play games til dawn)

hmnut7 posted...

Biden should demand Trump take a 4th grade Spelling test before the debate.

Better idea

I am not claiming to know more than you. I am pointing out that Gaza has a claim on the offshore gas which will be acted upon when Gaza gets full UN status.

I only know enough about mineral rights to know that ownership is based on where the resource is located. Age old dodge is accessing the mineral bed from a location you own.

Foppe posted...

...what does the Tamar gas field have to do with Gaza?
It is already in the Israel economic zone, it is being drilled and it is far away from Gaza...

Are you sure you want to side with Chervon and Israel on this? Because

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine-israel/2023/11/19/us-envoy-hochstein-tells-the-national-offshore-gas-belongs-to-the-palestinian-people/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3bb79623.jpg

Tamar Gas Field

I think the reason Israel refuses to stop killing off the the men, women and children in Gaza is the Tamar Gas Field. It gives a motive and it gives Israel the backing of the entity that is drilling it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamar_gas_field talks about the gas field from a geological point of view.

It looks to me like Israel is not going to stop until everyone in Gaza is dead or unable to function. I have been asking why and I think Tamar is the answer.

The natural gas off the coast and the oil under West Bank
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80757425

Say that Israel is going to keep this going.

Mother says high school student with pole was only defending himself. * Quoted below*

One of those assailants was On, who rushed into the middle of the fray with his pole. When CNN showed Ons mother a video of him attacking the protester, she said Edan, who she confirmed is a senior at Beverly Hills High School, was only defending himself.His mother who previously described a smaller group of UCLA students protesting the war last year as human animals on social media said dozens of his schoolmates had also gone to campus on the 30th and that her son intends to join the Israel Defense Forces.

West Bank has oil and continental shelf has natural gas

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-brutal-drive-seize-palestinian-gas-reserves

There is more to this than Netanyahu and greedy settlers. Netanyahu and greedy settlers are just a means.

PeteyParker posted...

I use these on my wisdom teeth. Makes it easier to reach them and the bags come with a lot.

https://shop.colgate.com/products/colgate-max-fresh-wisp-mini-toothbrush

They should sell them anywhere, I usually grab it at Target and the bag is a couple bucks.

Buying them Thanx

Gag reflex here too.

cjsdowg posted...

This should be it's own post. Biden is getting hurt by this , and still helping the. And I really want to know point blank what would Trump do that is worst than this .

This is not about Biden. [Wrong topic]

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-says-apply-intervene-icj-genocide-case-against-israel-2024-05-14/

Trump is not going to ban the porn industry.

He might pass a law forcing you to buy your own.

I want to live in a democracy. I believe history shows us that

death penalty <- lower regard for human life <- closer to fascism

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7406fc51.jpg

My alderman [Chicago] Byron Sigcho-Lopez spoke at a proPalestine rally in March. He is being criticized because an American flag was burned before he arrived.

There is currently a Palestine flag aloft on Chicago city center in honor of Nakba Day.

Illinois put a graduated income tax on the ballot -> voted down

Chicago put a mansion tax on the ballot which would have lowered the tax on the first $1 million you paid for a house -> voted down

People live vicariously thru rich or celebrities? Or think what they tell you is more reliable?

Lead the way to Brotherhood.

Punishment is overrated.

Songs Around The World https://a.co/d/4G8pqEq

(Everyone in my family has more income than I do. They feel bad for me if I spend money on a gift.)

If I understand

The original trial found the DEA cop guilty of negligent homicide.

The ninth court of- is sending the case back instead of upholding the judgement.

The court is trying to sit on the fence. They did not uphold the negligent homicide conviction.

Lots of drug laws are unconstitutional. Court knows this.

I had an awesome gift idea and I forgot what it was.

There is a physician from Chicago working in Rafah and now the group that sent him there cannot evacuate him. Just read this in the local newspaper.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/05/08/doctor-rafah-gaza-crisis

*Think link below does not have a paywall*
https://tinyurl.com/Suntimesshared

An American doctor volunteering in Gaza says the humanitarian crisis is becoming increasingly dire as the Israeli army begins to invade the southern town of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are trying to shelter.
Our patients are dying because of the lack of supplies, resources and shortage of staff, the doctor says in a video dispatch shared with the Sun-Times from Gaza.
The situation in Rafah has become so dangerous that global medical relief organization Syrian American Medical Society wants to evacuate the American doctor serving there but cant.

Were very concerned with their safety, said Dr. Mufaddal Hamadeh, Chicago-based president of the organization that includes the American doctor stranded there.

This photo is from the article. I am trying to wrap my mind around how skinny the child's arm is.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/91614276.jpg

My summary of the interview with Scot Anderson, deputy UNRWA Director [ty CommonStar]

UNRWA is out of fuel and cannot do anything except hear the shooting and look out the window.

There were strikes outside the evacuation zone. There is chaos. Some people move to places others have moved from. People everywhere are moving carrying their stuff. The westmost place is on the beach, obviously, and lots of people are moving there.

And the safe place designated by IDF? IDF did not make any arrangements. There are already people there.

The military operation closed 2 roads. I believe those are the only roads into Rafah.

UNICEF said there are 600K children. They all have a parent or a guardian to see that they eat right but no food.

I think I could get 30%.

Typically, the first reaction is "what just happened?"

I doubt that every woman or girl it happens to reports it. There are now laws and oversight committees that require cops to file complaints like this.

So more of it. *sigh* More cops filing the report "yay". More women and girls going places by themselves in broad daylight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_(cat)

DnDer posted...

"Join our community and you're more likely to survive than you were, as long as you follow the rules of our social contract," feels like... a pretty obvious conclusion to draw for how a community grew and gained prominence in a region.

Is there a bigger takeaway that I'm missing from this? I can sometimes miss entire forests if I'm looking at the wrong trees.

Yes. You have a chance to learn something new and you passed it up. I believe that you assumed people are never smart and are always stupid.

sfcalimari posted...

Northern Africa is certainly arid and infertile but the people there were forcibly converted to Islam after waves of conquest by early Muslim caliphates. Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia/Malaysia are not mostly arid or infertile, and have zillions of Muslims.

Dates and places? For your blanket statement?

Boomers! Let those immigrants in and give them work permits.

They will prop up up the social security system during your retirement.

If you are on social security, then you benefit.

Of all places I found a study in PubMed Central.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8046173

In this study we explore the historical determinants of contemporary Muslim representation. Motivated by a plethora of case studies and historical accounts among Islamicists stressing the role of trade for the adoption of Islam, we construct detailed data on pre-Islamic trade routes, harbors, and ports to determine the empirical regularity of this argument. Our analysis conducted across countries and across ethnic groups within countries establishes that proximity to the pre-600 CE trade network is a robust predictor of todays Muslim adherence in the Old World. We also show that Islam spread successfully in regions that are ecologically similar to the birthplace of the religion, the Arabian Peninsula. Namely, territories characterized by a large share of arid and semiarid regions dotted with few pockets of fertile land are more likely to host Muslim communities. We discuss the various mechanisms that may give rise to the observed pattern.

It is one explanation for why Islam has been successful. I prefer explanations that involve religions like Islam and Christianity spreading due to providing a life style more workable than the previous life style.

There are scholars who say Islam provides credit law and contract law which makes trade easier.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/3/1/in-new-york-israeli-conscientious-objectors-find-community-after-ostracism

And it is really, really scary to be against the war in Israel right now. People are getting arrested for standing with signs on the street. People are getting arrested for their Facebook posts.

Quoted from an Israeli now living in New York.