"Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth." "Schizophrenia can not be understood without understanding despair." "The way out is the way you came in." R. D. Laing. "The majority of men are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and are not accessible to reason, but only to authority." "A pessimist is an oponist in full possession of the facts." Arthur Schopenhauer. "Civilization is a helpless race to discover remedies for the evil it produces." George Wilhelm Friederich Hegel. Fierce knocking on my door. An unknown religiously dressed woman asked me to help a cat that got hit by a car, an emergency, the cat screaming with pain. I went to have a look, further down the road than I expected. There was some blood seeping out of the mouth, couldn't discover more injuries at first sight, but obviously lots of pain. Not sure whether any bones were broken, so I tried to place the poor feral victum as gentle as possible into my transport box. A young man and two ladies went with me to catch a taxi. It was Friday afternoon, couldn't reach my vet, tried 3 times in vain, we therefore travelled to a nearby veterinarian clinic. Their diagnosis : The cat is under shock, traumatised, concussion, tongue and mouth injured, his eye pupils (1 big, 1 small) in addition show there is something wrong with the poor treasure. Bones probably not broken, needs to be examined at a later stage. The cat received infusion with various medications and I was told I could take him home after 2 hours and than return the next day. I decided that it would be less stress for the poor darling to stay over night, and after consecutive treatments the next morning be taken to his "nursing home." I wasn't sure how my crowd of foster ferals would react to the new patient. Since the black beauty (male, approx. 3 years old) wasn't fit to leave the transport box, the introduction was a bit easier. Next problem feeding with a syringe, due to the injuries, and medication (3 different types of tablets, including pain killing pills, plus antibiotics), I was lucky the boy is gentle, no aggressions against me, thank heavens. I named him Jimmy. Meanwhile 3 people inquired about Jimmy's well being, speaks for them. The young man, who went with us to the clinic, by the way, paid the taxi fare. Still, I hope the word doesn't spred that I deal with the cost for injured street cats (I definitely can't). The veterinarian said they at least receive one cat a day hit by a car or motorcycle. Don't I know it!!! Speeding is around here unfortunately a big hobby of the folks, not just youngsters. Jimmy is slowly getting better, still a bit wobbly while walking. Thank heavens, nothing broken, but the neck was also effected by the crash (not visible, just sore). Further improvement of Jimmy's condition. He manages to eat croquettes meanwhile and simply loves his pieces of cats' sausage, even asks for a second helping. Only medication now is Tetra B for a month. Sweetie, a kitten young kids brought to me, after it nearly got hit by a car, has been with us for several weeks. Looks like she decided not to grow. After all, she's the only Baby in my house. May be she sees a certain advantage in this. The children were very persistent that she needs to be protected and they wanted to know her new name. I appreciated their empathy. Perl, a regular visitor to my Cat's Table, Persian blood, lost one eye due to an unknown cause. In addition she now also lost a tooth or 2, bleeding from her mouth. I tried to clean and treat her mouth with the blue stuff veterinarians prescribed for gum infections, mixed a pill against pain under her food and gave her antibiotics left over from Jimmy's treatment. . She remained very gentle, no aggression, better than some of my foster ferals indoors. She appears to be getting better, 2 days later. - The new "Emporer", Donald Trump, has big plans to reshape the world, supported by Dollar Billionars. Stopping the war (not just a cease fire) in Palestine and Ukraine has yet to happen. "Every idiot can start a war, but it takes hundreds of geniuses to end a war." Wise words of a former Russian president. Anyhow, Mr. Trump decided that the WestBank belongs to Israel and this is "God's will", biblical dominion. I thought that the Pope is supposed to be God's deputy on earth (at least according to Christian believe) , it will be interesting to hear what the Pope has got to say about this subject. At present the violence of Israelian settlers into the WestBank is escalating, more than 750,000 are - corresponding to international laws - living illegally on occupied land. Against some violent settlers the former US government (and several other countries) imposed sanctions. Mr. Trump now lifted those of the US. The UN humanitarian official, Tom Fletcher, advised that up to 1 million children in Gaza are in need of mental health support. In view of what they have experienced and seen, what no innocent child should be subjected to, nearly 15 months of bombardements, parents that can't protect them, their homes reduced to rubbles, nothing to look forward to, their anxiety, depression and even suicidal thoughts are hardly surprising. Oh Lord, have mercy. - The population of the United States once all arrived as immigrants, in several waves, the First Nation (Indians) came from India, people from West Africa were probably the first who discovered America, much later mainly Europeans came (majority driven by famine or religious prosecutions). The Trumps originate from Germany, but Germans are not proud of them and Mr. Trump is aware of this. Strange, this urge to deport (illegal) immigrants. Effected by Trump's deportation orders are approx. 11 Million people, about 41 % work in 3 sectors: agriculture, building trade and health service. Deporting them not only reduces human resources in US but also largely increases costs and prices, creates suddden vacancies of unattractive badly paid jobs. It will be interesting to see how folks who applauded " the biggest scale of deportation the US has ever seen", will react once they realize the consequences. Manipulation of public opinion has never been as easy as nowadays, thanks to social media, more or less smart fake news and artificial intelligence. What goes around comes around. Heavens help us all.
Siames beauty, once the most expensive cat in the world and only the Royal family in Siam was allowed to have her. 
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