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Video: Impression of China from Kazan’s Gen-Zers. Russia’s Kazan built its first Chinese language research and teaching institution more than 100 years ago. 喀山一代對中國的印象. 俄羅斯喀山一百多年前建立了第一所漢語研究和教學機構.
https://rumble.com/v5jzyut-impression-of-china-from-kazans-gen-zers.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP884jNV1/

Video: While Canada’s been pointing at China, it was India who was “interfering”! 加拿大一直對中國指手畫腳，而印度卻在「干涉」!

https://rumble.com/v5jzuzp-while-canadas-been-pointing-at-china-it-was-india-who-was-interfering.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP884YCQT/

Canada and the US spy agencies have been making copious accusations of interference by China, but not finding evidence. Now both western nations are saying that India has been committing a range of transnational offences in their countries! 加拿大和美國間諜機構一直大量指控中國干涉，但沒有找到證據。現在兩個西方國家都說印度在他們的國家犯下一系列跨國罪行!

Is there a difference between how US treated the Native American Indian and Israel treating the People in Palestine? Both committed crime against humanity and ethnic cleansing! Both reduced or planned to reduce their victims population by 90% to cockroach their lands. Both are doing it in the names of their Gods. Therefore the answer is no. 美國白人對待美洲原住民印地安人和以色列對待巴勒斯坦人民的方式有不同嗎？兩者都犯下了反人類罪和種族清洗罪！兩者都減少或正在計劃減少90%的受害者人口以便佔用他們的土地，兩者都是利用他們神的名義大開殺戒，血洗美國原住民和巴勒斯坦人，因此答案是美國和以色列是同一樣人.

Canadians turning to Euthanasia as solution to unbearable poverty. New poll shows that 1/3 of Canadians approve of Euthanizing the poor 加拿大人轉向安樂死來解決難以忍受的貧困。新民調顯示1/3的加拿大人贊成對窮人實施安樂死. 加拿大多年來是美國一條狗，七成經濟要看美國老闆的面色，美國現正走入未路，你認為美國會讓加拿大好過嗎？

https://archive.is/169pS
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-maid-assisted-suicide-homeless#comments

One third of Canadians are apparently fine with prescribing assisting suicide for no other reason than the fact that the patient is poor or homeless.

The results were contained in a recent Research Co. poll probing just how comfortable Canadians were with the current state of the country’s MAID (medical assistance in dying) regime.

Starting in March 2021, Canada became one of only a handful of countries to legalize assisted suicide even in instances where a patient does not have a terminal illness. Ever since, a Canadian can be approved for MAID simply for having a “grievous and irremediable medical condition.”

Research Co. found that 73 per cent of poll respondents favoured the current regime, and only 16 per cent opposed it.

Pollsters also found not-insignificant numbers of Canadians who favoured assisted suicide in cases where no medical condition of any kind was present.
If a Canadian’s only affliction was “poverty,” 27 per cent said they would be fine with legalizing that person’s access to MAID. Another 28 per cent pegged “homelessness” as an appropriate bar to qualify for MAID.

Interview with soon-to-be homeless man who has requested MAID

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

— Belgian doctors are advised to avoid mentioning euthanasia to patients since it could be misinterpreted as medical advice. The Australian state of Victoria forbids doctors from raising euthanasia with patients. There are no such restrictions in Canada. The association of Canadian health professionals who provide euthanasia tells physicians and nurses to inform patients if they might qualify to be killed, as one of their possible “clinical care options.”

— Canadian patients are not required to have exhausted all treatment alternatives before seeking euthanasia, as is the case in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Euthanasia “cannot be a default for Canada’s failure to fulfill its human rights obligations,” said Marie-Claude Landry, the head of its Human Rights Commission.

Landry said she shares the “grave concern” voiced last year by three U.N. human rights experts, who wrote that Canada’s euthanasia law appeared to violate the agency’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They said the law had a “discriminatory impact” on disabled people and was inconsistent with Canada’s obligations to uphold international human rights standards.

Tim Stainton, director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia, described Canada’s law as “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.”

Frazee cited the case of Candice Lewis, a 25-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy and spina bifida. Lewis’ mother, Sheila Elson, took her to an emergency room in Newfoundland five years ago. During her hospital stay, a doctor said Lewis was a candidate for euthanasia and that if her mother chose not to pursue it, that would be “selfish,” Elson told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Roger Foley, who has a degenerative brain disorder and is hospitalized in London, Ontario, was so alarmed by staffers mentioning euthanasia that he began secretly recording some of their conversations.

In one recording obtained by the AP, the hospital’s director of ethics told Foley that for him to remain in the hospital, it would cost “north of $1,500 a day.” Foley replied that mentioning fees felt like coercion and asked what plan there was for his long-term care.

“Roger, this is not my show,” the ethicist responded. “My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying.”

Foley said he had never previously mentioned euthanasia. The hospital says there is no prohibition on staff raising the issue.

Some disabled Canadians have decided to be killed in the face of mounting bills.

Before being euthanized in August 2019 at age 41, Sean Tagert struggled to get the 24-hour-a-day care he needed. The government provided Tagert, who had Lou Gehrig’s disease, with 16 hours of daily care at his home in Powell River, British Columbia. He spent about 264 Canadian dollars ($206) a day to pay coverage during the other eight hours.

Health authorities proposed that Tagert move to an institution, but he refused, saying he would be too far from his young son. He called the suggestion “a death sentence” in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Before his death, Tagert had raised more than CA$16,000 ($12,400) to buy specialized medical equipment he needed to live at home with caretakers. But it still wasn’t enough.

“I know I’m asking for change,” Tagert wrote in a Facebook post before his death. “I just didn’t realize that was an unacceptable thing to do.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/paralympian-trying-to-get-wheelchair-ramp-says-veterans-affairs-employee-offered-her-assisted-dying-1.6179325
https://archive.is/A0eR0

When you find even Amercian Chamber of Commerce is supporting HK, you realise how absurd and groundless the attacks on HK by US politicians are. 當香港美國商㑹也撐香港時，你便理解到美國政客詆譭壓抑香港是如何沒道理和不得民心!

Video: Chinese Ambassador to UN criticizing US of double standards on crimes against humanity in Gaza & Palestine 中國駐聯合國大使批評美國在加薩和巴勒斯坦反人類罪問題上採取雙重標準. 在新疆無中生有，在中東美國提供炸彈殺害婦女小孩視若無聲.
https://rumble.com/v5jvufx-chinese-ambassador-to-un-criticizing-us-of-double-standards.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP88ChEBY/

Anyone want to give it a try?

Please cry for me Palestine

It won’t be easy, you’ll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That we still want to live after all that you have done
You won’t believe me, all you will see is a girl taking bullets & bombs
Although she’s undressed by the wars
As sick and wounded by you
You had to let it happen, I can’t change
Couldn’t stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the guns
So I chose to live, running around trying to stay alive
But nothing available at all
I never expected it to
Cry for me, cry for Palestine
The truth is, I never left you
All through my wild days, my mad existence
I kept my promise
Please keep your distance
And as for living, and as for pain
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I not desired
They are not illusions, they’re not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I hate you, and hope you are gone
Please cry for Palestine
Please cry for Palestine
The truth is, please leave us
All through my wild days, my existence
I kept my promise
Please keep your distance
Please cry for Palestine
The truth is, I never left you
All through my wild days, my mad existence
I kept my promise
Please keep your distance
Have I said too much?
There’s nothing more I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do is look at me to know
That every word is true

When we have time to watch the sunrises and sunsets 當我們有空的時候，對我們老一輩來說，這大概是退休後或事業有成才有空看日出日落，年輕時要賺錢，太陽還沒有升起已經在辨公室，太陽下山了很久才離開 (我爸爸和爺爺也是一樣) 那有今天的年輕人可以看到日出日落，還投訴工作多，工作長，很多員工還惡過老闆，在不久的將來這些人不被人工智能，不被人工智能機器人取代才真的無天理. 真的是一代不如一代. 怪不得香港不少老闆請中國內地的年輕人工作，比本地土生土長的香港人努力工作得多。換過來看美國，這個國家不玩完才怪！ 建房子要二年才可以拿到許可申請，話說工作八小時，不少工作六小時，薪水拿八小時。現在很多工作不是外判到印度或菲律賓，或用人工智能。如果要做研究, 一個美國高科技博士的工錢，在中國可以請四個，而且比美國人勤力. 有人問是否 Cheap Labor, 當然不是，在三藩市租一個三房公寓要月租四千美元，開車到 Silicon Valley 上班耍二小時，來回四小時。年薪二十萬美元。同一份工作在深圳，年薪六萬美元，住在中山，租一個三房公寓耍月租八百美元，走剛剛建成的全新中山到深圳公路，單程半小時。所以不是拿多少錢，而是你手上的錢可以在當地買到什麼。我們英文叫 Purchasing Power Parity, 或稱為 PPP.

Video: Layoffs at John Deere blow up investment thesis on food shortages; US farmland to see liquidation at huge discounts. Bill Gates is big loser 約翰迪爾的裁員推翻了有關食品短缺的投資論點；美國農地將面臨巨額折扣清算。比爾蓋茲是個大輸家

https://rumble.com/v5jtw49-layoffs-at-john-deere-blow-up-investment-thesis-on-food-shortages.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP88QxtRD/
https://m.made-in-china.com/ (best China sourcing website)
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/equipment/article/2024/10/17/deere-announces-new-layoffs-amid#
https://www.agriculture.com/john-deere-announces-more-midwest-layoffs-8730278
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2024/10/16/john-deere-layoffs-announced-in-quad-cities-davenport-iowa-ag-economy/75706525007/
https://www.politico.eu/article/world-food-crisis-ukraine-russia-war-global-warming-united-nations/
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/agriculture/our-insights/a-reflection-on-global-food-security-challenges-amid-the-war-in-ukraine-and-the-early-impact-of-climate-change
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3270808/average-chinese-national-now-eats-more-protein-american-united-nations

Venture Capital and Private Equity firms poured tens of billions of dollars were poured into shares of farm equipment makers, fertilizer companies, and even indoor vertical farms and cropland. Conventional wisdom was that these were very safe investments that would yield outsized returns as the world struggled to feed itself over coming decades.

That investment thesis has now collapsed, amid plunging global food prices and soaring farm productivity. The ag sector of the developing world produced record crops, and did so without the expensive equipment produced by major Western farm equipment makers, such as John Deere and Case New Holland.

As VC and PE firms are now seeing double-digit annual declines in cash flows from their investments into the agriculture theme, we should expect them to sell their positions, and return to tech sector investment. Venture Capital and Private Equity firms poured tens of billions of dollars were poured into shares of farm equipment makers, fertilizer companies, and even indoor vertical farms and cropland. Conventional wisdom was that these were very safe investments that would yield outsized returns as the world struggled to feed itself over coming decades.

That investment thesis has now collapsed, amid plunging global food prices and soaring farm productivity. The ag sector of the developing world produced record crops, and did so without the expensive equipment produced by major Western farm equipment makers, such as John Deere and Case New Holland.

As VC and PE firms are now seeing double-digit annual declines in cash flows from their investments into the agriculture theme, we should expect them to sell their positions, and return to tech sector investment.

創投和私募股權公司投入數百億美元投資農業設備製造商、化肥公司，甚至室內垂直農場和農地的股票。 傳統觀點認為，這些都是非常安全的投資，在未來幾十年世界難以養活自己的情況下，它們會帶來巨額回報。

隨著全球食品價格暴跌和農業生產力飆升，這一投資論點現在已經崩潰。 發展中國家的農業部門生產了創紀錄的農作物，並且沒有使用約翰迪爾和凱斯紐荷蘭等西方主要農業設備製造商生產的昂貴設備。

由於創投和私募股權公司目前投資農業主題的現金流每年出現兩位數下降，我們應該預期他們會出售頭寸，回歸科技業投資.

Beautiful Hawai’i sunrise on 10/23/24 6:33am before heading back to San Francisco today. 返回舊金山前欣賞美麗的夏威夷日出.