Friendly reminder that Israel sterilized Ethiopian Jewish women who were trying to invoke the Law of Return and migrate to Israel.

Here's an actually insane life. Tura Satana from cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a Japanese silent movie actor of Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of Native American (Cheyenne) and Ulster-Scots background ... a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California ... just before her 10th birthday, she was reportedly gang raped by five men. According to Satana, her attackers were never prosecuted, and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off ... Over the next 15 years, Satana tracked down each rapist and exacted revenge. "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them." ... Around this time, she formed a gang, "the Angeles," with Italian, Jewish, and Polish girls from her neighborhood. ... Because of frequent delinquency, she was sent to reform school. When she was 13, her parents arranged her marriage to 17-year-old John Satana in Hernando, Mississippi, which lasted nine months. ... using fake identification to hide the fact she was a minor, began burlesque dancing. ... became a photographic model for, among others, silent screen comic Harold Lloyd, ... She claimed that after singer Elvis Presley saw Satana perform at Chicago's Follies Theater, the two began a romantic relationship that some reports say ended in a marriage proposal she declined ... although she kept the ring. ... Satana then starred as "Varla" in the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ... created by Russ Meyer ... Meyer said Satana was "extremely capable. She knew how to handle herself. Don't fuck with her! And if you have to fuck her, do it well! She might turn on you!" ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tura_Satana

If you read this article, start from the halfway point. The first half is absolute fluff.

Arguments against:

• The executed needs to breathe. Author believes this will cause stress as they may attempt to hold their breath.
• An ill fitted mask for nitrogen delivery may be a safety concern for occupants in the same room. Article did not have details on how much nitrogen is delivered or how much would be need to impact a small room.
• if an execution fails, first responders may have difficulty treating the patient due to the prevalence of nitrogen gas.
• When terminated by nitrogen, a study found mice elicit a fear response indicating that more research is needed before using this as an ethical means of terminating mice… or people.

Author also argues that since other states don’t use this method, it shouldn’t be used… which feels more like a chicken and egg problem.

Xmas was never intended to be a more secular alternative, it was originally created by scribes wanting to save space so they used the first letter of Christ in Greek, “Χριστός”.

I feel like it's worth mentioning here:

DO NOT MIX BLEACH AND AMMONIA. You can die.

On the next page or two it goes on to say that whole story is probably fictitious and Bill was likely never there.

Here are the +972 articles that I have personally read through and compiled at this point:

July 31, 2015: Palestinian baby burned to death in West Bank arson attack

July 31, 2016: A year since the Duma murders: Navigating justice and pain

October 12, 2020: For Israel, tens of thousands of Palestinian newborns don’t exist

June 8, 2021: Settlers shot Palestinian and mutilated his body as he lay dying

July 15, 2021: Joint militias: How settlers and soldiers teamed up to kill four Palestinians

April 5, 2022: Israel charges Palestinian journalists with incitement — for doing their jobs

April 10, 2022: Israel’s false promise of security

May 25, 2022: Israel says this book justifies Masafer Yatta expulsions. Its author begs to differ

July 8, 2022: This Israeli forbids Palestinians from building. He lives in an illegal outpost

July 11, 2022: Classified document reveals IDF ‘firing zones’ built to give land to settlers

August 11, 2022: ‘We killed a little boy, but it was within the rules’

August 30, 2022: Israel destroyed Palestinian village for luxury settlement that was never built

September 15, 2022: How Israeli media reported a ‘lynching’ that never happened

September 26, 2022: ‘We built the Palestinian Authority with blood. We won’t give up on it’

November 8, 2022: “He asked me how many children I have. Then he said: ‘Now you have one less.'”

October 5, 2022: In Jenin and Nablus, resistance and despair go hand in hand

January 24, 2023: A coming out party for Israel’s religious Jewish left

February 16, 2023: The theft of Harun Abu Aram’s body, home, and life

February 27, 2023: The pogrom is the point

March 2, 2023: ‘They were burning our house with kids inside. The army didn’t let us through’

March 5, 2023: ‘I couldn’t see if my brother’s murderer was a soldier or settler’

March 13, 2023: ‘Who hits a 64-year-old woman with a bat?’

March 22, 2023: Armed settlers break into Palestinian family home under cover of darkness

May 3, 2023: Revealed: The IDF unit turning ‘hilltop youth’ settlers into soldiers

November 13, 2023: How a hasbara group’s sham investigation put Gaza journalists in the firing line

November 23, 2023: What Israelis won’t be asking about the Palestinians released for hostages

November 30, 2023: A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

December 8, 2023: ‘It would’ve been better if they shot us’: Palestinians recount prison abuse

December 11, 2023: ‘Diseases are spreading rapidly’: In Jabalia camp, thousands shelter in one school

December 19, 2023: Gaza’s rescue workers are haunted by those they couldn’t save

December 19, 2023: A Palestinian student briefly deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit

December 28, 2023: Palestinian Christians in Gaza fear being ‘swept under the rubble or into the desert’

January 2, 2023: The ‘second Nakba’ government seizes its moment