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Cake day: August 1st, 2024

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  • I’m not an American but the truth is as follows:

    A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and December 31, 2024. As a result, life expectancy in Gaza in 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. An update of their analysis, produced after the publication of the study, revealed that the current violent death toll likely exceeds 100,000.

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    ‘As a result of this unprecedented mortality, life expectancy in Gaza fell by 44% in 2023 and by 47% in 2024 compared with what it would have been without the war—equivalent to losses of 34.4 and 36.4 years, respectively,’ the researcher says. The study also found that the age and gender distribution of violent deaths in Gaza between October 7, 2023, and December 31, 2024, closely resembled the demographic patterns observed in several genocides documented by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). As genocide is a very specific legal term, certain additional criteria must be met for it to be applicable. This was not the focus of this study.

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    ‘Our estimates of the impact of war on life expectancy in Gaza and Palestine are significant, but probably represent only a lower limit of the actual mortality burden. Our analysis focuses exclusively on direct, conflict-related deaths. The indirect effects of war, which are often greater and more long-lasting, are not quantified in our considerations,’ explains Gómez-Ugarte.

    […]

    Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life and Life Expectancy

    100,000 is the low estimate because indirect death that are not combat related are not included (starving, …).

    There where 2.1 million people in Gaza. Adjusted for the US population, that would be at least(!) 16.5 million dead Americans. Apparently, no big deal for Hillary Clinton.

    I do not need to see any videos and in fact I haven’t.



  • Is it ready for a ‘brain drain’?

    My guess is: We are. Auto-translated:

    Acting Education Minister Cem Özdemir has called for the admission of US academics to Germany and Europe. This would require a European concept

    The acting Federal Minister of Education and Research, Cem Özdemir, wants to recruit scientists from the USA. ‘If researchers from the USA - but also from all over the world - are interested in working in Germany, we see this as an opportunity for our excellent centre of research and innovation, which we want to take advantage of,’ the Green politician told Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). The German university and science system offers numerous research programmes and scholarships.

    Leading scientists in Germany had previously called for the targeted recruitment of researchers from the USA, where they are suffering under President Donald Trump’s government policy. The so-called Meitner-Einstein Programme is aimed at scientists whose work cannot be continued in the USA, or only to a limited extent.

    European concept for the admission of researchers

    Özdemir said that there is “a broad understanding that Germany and Europe need to be strengthened now”. This would require ‘a broad concept, preferably a European one’. He had already exchanged ideas with his French counterpart and signalled to the EU Commission ‘that the EU should use existing measures to support talented scientists from countries suffering from political and financial influence’. The future German government could follow on directly from this.

    In the USA, hundreds of leading scientists from the fields of engineering and medicine recently accused the US government of a ‘major attack on American science’ in an open letter. This could set back research by decades and threaten the health and safety of Americans, it said.

    https://archive.is/fGhTJ


  • I would like to see more opinions from the Greenland locals, but I doubt that they want to exchange Denmark with the USA.

    I do know that they want to go independent and it seems as if a majority wants to be part of the European Union:

    According to a poll (auto-translated):

    40 years after Greenland left the EU, the mood is perhaps turning.

    In a survey conducted by Nasiffik – the Centre for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on Ilisimatusarfik – 60 percent of respondents say that they will vote ‘aap’ if a referendum was held on Greenlandic membership of the EU.

    • It is a surprising result that there is now a relatively large majority in the Greenlandic population who believe that Greenland should join the EU, says Rasmus Leander Nielsen, head of Nasiffik.

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    https://knr.gl/da/nyheder/flertal-vil-have-groenland-tilbage-i-eu