Good question. Why the hell would someone go into debt and spend several years to learn a vocation in health care, such as an x-ray technician or nursing, if the end result is a wage equivalent to an illegal sweeping the floors? That $25/hr is a minimum wage, meaning that all the other wages are going to have to take a significant bump up increase to reach some manner of "fairness." That alone will take the already high medical costs in California and shoot them into the stratosphere. The problem with liberals and commies is that they never think of those pesky impacts on the economy or the fair market value of a wage.
I wonder if those minimum wage increases also apply to contracted service workers or are they only for those employed by the health institution itself. Many hospitals contract with outside companies to provide housekeeping, food, security, and maintenance services.
Like the loss of home owner's insurance due to the cost for carriers, private medical insurance carriers may also decide that the cost of doing business in CA is simply too high and decide to pull out. Bring in single payer government health care - what the socialists have dreamed of all along. So, is this move by CA's officials just socialist incompetence or a deliberate attempt to destroy private health care in CA? Looks like a little of both to me.
It saddens me to sit back and watch the State I called home for almost 4 decades degrade into the commie hell hole that it has become.
I had a close friend with end stage breast cancer. She was diagnosed at stage 4. She had not even wrapped her head around the idea of having cancer before they were trying to get her to agree to a DNR. and other end of life protocols. Without morphine we got her pain stabilized and got her out of the hospital and into hospice. In less than 24hrs she was taken back to the hospital unresponsive. Hospice had put her on morphine, after being expressly ordered not to use morphine - and she now had a DNR in place. WTF?
It looked like a drug overdose to me. When questioned about what happened and how the hell she now had a DNR, which she vehemently did not want, the doctor at the hospice said that he talked her into it. I was furious.... you mean you doped her up and then got her to agree to it. They tried to kill her. Granted, she was terminal, but this shit show death production line was too much.
Correct. This is a joint US and Israel project that has been around since the 60's after the Arab-Israeli war. In addition to the canal, there are massive gas reserves off shore. You guessed it - right near Gaza. Oh, and there is also a pipeline deal between Greece, Italy, and Israel in the works that will move that gas to the EU. Russia supports the Gazans - why? They don't want the pipeline or the canal. Nothing is ever because of the reasons they are trying to sell us. It always boils down to the money and power.
As a side note: Why is the US government beating the war drum against Iran? Could it be because they have their own central bank. Go figure. The globalists have been after Iran ever since the Iranians ousted the globalist puppet and told the cabal to take a hike. The US took out Libya and Iraq for much the same reason - defying the global central banks. Follow the money.
In other words, especially in Europe, the realization is setting in that they are screwed and they did it to themselves.
On her way to work one morning
Down the path alongside the lake
A tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew
“Oh well,” she cried, “I'll take you in and I'll take care of you”
“Take me in oh tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake
She wrapped him up all cozy in a curvature of silk
And then laid him by the fireside with some honey and some milk
Now she hurried home from work that night as soon as she arrived
She found that pretty snake she'd taken in had been revived
“Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake
Now she clutched him to her bosom, “You're so beautiful,” she cried
“But if I hadn't brought you in by now you might have died”
Now she stroked his pretty skin and then she kissed and held him tight
But instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite
“Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake
“I saved you,” cried that woman
“And you've bit me even, why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in
”Take me in, oh tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in oh tender woman,“ sighed the snake
Honestly, those pics look like typical narco executions to me - low caliber head shots. It doesn't make a huge mess. This was not a shoot out. I suspect that someone on the inside set these guys up - that's why it doesn't appear to have been a struggle. These types of executions are not uncommon in Mexico. I also think it is a message to others that no one is untouchable - typical turf war stuff. If they did not want those pics out there circulating, they would not be.
There is not one single criminal organization in operation in Mexico and Central America. There are constant turf wars that take place because the stakes are so high - billions of dollars involving all manner of contraband. They fight with each other over control and the citizens are always caught in the middle. Life is cheap. The cartels are imbedded at all levels of government and law enforcement. You can't trust anyone. They struggle for power to be part of the contraband supply chain with the apex predator being the Western intelligence agencies. This is a huge part of how intelligence funds their operations. It is all one big grift.
Mexico is a narco state and has been for a long time. They are very efficient at what they do and law enforcement is often in on the grift. They eliminate those that cause them any difficulties or know too much. This is nothing new and has been taking place for decades. Anyone that even tries to bypass or restrict the cartels' operations is taken out - often along with their family. These guys don't mess around. I have seen their work first hand. Although, IMO, they don't hold a candle to Ukrainian and Russian operators. They take sadistic cruelty to a whole new level.
When I was in El Paso, it was not uncommon to have people executed on the streets of Juarez in broad daylight. It takes care of what ever issues the cartels have and keeps the population in fear at the same time. No one steps out of line. Juarez had a van that drove around the city every day picking up the bodies - they called it the meat wagon. Those vans were kept busy. It was an daily occurrence to see a body or two thrown onto the street from some vehicle and left there. In fact, there was a huge 3 story market place that had been there for years burnt to the ground over some internal turf struggle. I don't remember how many people died in that fire. These people don't give a shit. Some of the violence occasionally spills over into El Paso. That's usually when American interests apply some pressure to have them scale back - because the American interests don't like the attention. As long as all the BS stays South of the border, its all good. Out of sight, out of mind.
Sorry, but I don't buy into the WH operation stuff. Things are not that simple as good guys versus bad guys - everything is more a shade of gray with varying degrees on a continuum between good and evil. The lines are not that clear. It is a nice thought because people want to believe in heroes - but the reality is much different. There are several entities behind the scenes all struggling for power and control, often with the same financial backing fueling the entire structure. Puppet masters and their puppets. That is not to say that occasionally there isn't a well placed monkey wrench thrown into the machine. But large scale operations conducted in well entrenched enterprises are too hard for me to believe. I just don't see any evidence for it. Thanks for the link.
One of the weird things I noted was the information on Ventusky compared with what I was seeing on College of DuPage. I like COD because I can easily bounce through the different ABI bands. Otis seemed to have turned into a beast in just a few hours. I can't explain the discrepancies with other sites other than someone is jacking with information. Unfortunately, I did not record and download the feeds I was watching.
I have seen some crazy spikes emanating from NEXRADS on COD - especially when it appears like manipulation of systems. I have seen what looks like the directing of major systems for several years now. I don't think I have seen any major event in the US from the last decade that did not look like there was some manner of interference in either direction, intensity, or timing.
Back during the CA fires, on the COD NIR you could see beams appearing to hit the multiple hot spots where the fires were - multiple fires that seemed to ignite simultaneously. The NIR was the only band where it was visible. I have no idea as to the source of those beams - satellites? On some bands you can see strange wave type patterns in the atmosphere that appear very similar to what you see looking at water in an ultrasonic cleaner. I cannot explain the observations.
I take everything with a huge grain of salt because there is no source out there that can be taken with certainty given the level of control. We end up having to put multiple pieces together in order to give us some kind of picture of what is actually taking place with any event. What is clear to me at this point with regards to Acapulco, is that there has been no attempts to create a follow-up narrative being spun my media. The entire event dropped from coverage. This makes me think that this was for Mexico. Why?
I am still looking into this, but it seems that the timing of Otis could be linked to Mexico's recent balking on some aspect of the latest round of a North American environmental cooperation agreement. Nothing surprises me anymore.
At this point, nothing would surprise me. I can only go by what others like Jeff and Max are saying about where they live. I think they would have noticed by now if there had been lots of people leaving. Although, I fully expect there to be some moving north given what has happened there. Mexico has no social safety net. They will have to do something if there are no jobs in Acapulco.
Thanks. I don't watch Max or Jeff on a regular basis. The only reason I found Jeff's stuff is because it seemed like he was the only one getting any information out there about this tragedy. Jeff said his home in Acapulco was damaged as well - he had been trying to sell it in addition to his boat. It's all moot now. Jeff also has not been able to get in contact with a gal he had hired that is like family. They had built a place for her on his ranch to move her to after the house was sold, but so far have not been able to find her. Max and Jeff both moved there to be safe? So much for that.
The problem is that no news about this is getting out - at least not here in the States. So no one is aware they need help. Jeff has an organization already set up and on the ground to help people. There are ways to help through his charity group. Other than Jeff, I don't know of any other organizations down there trying to help. People just simply don't know they are in trouble.
Hard to say what they have that we don't know about. The disturbing thing is that whatever the hell they have, it seems they can wield it at will on whomever they wish. I also saw a bunch of DEW'd cars from a "sudden fire" last month - I think in Argentina. It was a massive amount of cars near some beach completely torched. Palms still standing with leaves however, even though palm trees are usually torches. The report I saw was claiming 20K cars. I can't verify that count, but the video was showing a hell of a lot of cars that looked like they belonged in Lahaina or CA. It may have had something to do with their elections. They were sending a message to someone - don't think your going to get any ideas about moving out of lockstep with the mother WEFers. Either that, those bastards were just having some fun playing with their toy.
Actually the real unemployment rate is somewhere around 20-25%. The government stopped putting out the numbers because they were so bad - and that is after they were massaged. The youth are so fatalistic that there is a huge movement called "laying flat." They are watching the wealth that their parents struggled to obtain over their entire lives being taken away in the blink of an eye through disasters, corruption, and outright theft. They see no need to follow in their parents footsteps so they have essentially checked out. They do not want to get married or have children. China's population is in a death spiral.
The infrastructure is literally crumbling due to corruption that has led to tofu dreg construction. The real estate financial bubble they built that is around 35% of the country's GDP is imploding - it is one big ponzi scheme. A huge amount of all water is polluted and undrinkable. Food is being counterfeited with all manner of adulteration. They really don't have the money for ambitious belt and road projects and countries that have made deals are realizing they did not get what they were promised. Ask Sri Lanka.
Years of communist control have eroded all morality and ethics - it is every person for themselves. Xi's agriculture policies are decimating food production and poverty in rural areas is rampant. Much of the technology they have presented to the world is fake. They have a national propaganda machine that is far worse than the West - if that is even possible. They are a paper tiger attempting to show their teeth to the world. China is in bad shape. The face they show is not the reality.