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Poor dear. I cannot agree enough with Mike and Dow above. Jesus, she must be poor to even be working there, paid less than minimum wage (I'm speculating) and sending home money to her family struggling with a civil war. Now, no functioning right hand

Warty on earth is historic about this load of old codswallop? Nato, 'more powerful than ever'? Hasn't the war depleted all the stocks of arms from even the larger nations? How is it more powerful. Here's gas lighting Biden, lighting your farts.

By the time November comes around all his staff will be scrambling for the exits, including this lying doctor. Plus Parkinson's patients, if they live long enough, get dementia.

Other than reduce democracy the Senate doesn't seem to do anything at all. I have read but don't know if it is true, that attendance is very poor. I would say ditch the whole Senate and it's extremely stupid elections.

I bought a 1974 Fender Twin Reverb for $250 in 1987 with full provenance. Sadly I sold it in 2006 before coming to the East.

I wouldn't want Thailand modelled on what this dictator did. Prime Minister for 40 years. authoritarian, corrupt? Isn't his son now continuing the dynasty? No thanks

A scandal....and they are borrowing to money to fly this corrupt bunch of ne'er-do-wells around.

Answer is yes. Hate speech is BS designed to keep western horror narratives hidden. The atrocities of Israel need to be vilified by all decent humans. Yes cut off business funding to Israelis companies, boycott Israeli businesses.

Let's have a real push in Parliament. Lots of questions in Parliament at PM's question time asking why Britain is still supporting the Israel's slaughter and starvation of Palestinians when international institutions and organisations have referred to these activities as war crimes.

Yankee GO HOME as they say world-wide.

BS....what they lose in taxes they will have to make up for somewhere else, like taxing expats, raising sales tax or BORROWING it. When you have a government like this with a huge deficit you should not be cutting taxes.

I suppose the deeper meaning of this is things may be tightening up on the visa front. More rules will be coming and better enforcement? I don't understand the mentality of people who want to get around the visa rules. They are not that onerous (apart from the 90 day reports.....why on earth can't we report it at the local police station? That or design a revolutionary thing for Thailand....a web site that works). I suppose I don't see how people who haven't got the funds to meet the legal immigration requirements want to live in Thailand. If I was in that situation I would go home.

In that case I am glad I picked it. 6th, where is number #1? I do find it relatively expensive and don't know how other expats manage but I eat no Thai food at all and pretty much all of my diet is Western with high import duties. The shortage of money that this spendthrift government will need for all its gimmicks alarms me. The guy directly above me thinks extra taxes for expats are only a 'proposal'. But when I came Thailand was a low debt nation, the junta transformed it into a high debt nation, and now the buffoon in charge is desperate for extra revenue to pay for his airfares. I am not taking any chances with the tax, I will live in Thailand only so long each year to be non-resident for tax purposes. When PT are through in government, the next government will be unable to borrow at reasonable rates because of poor debt to GDP ratio,.....then the proverbial poop will really hit the fan. I'm hoping to be dead by then 🙂

Be cause the girls/women are great and knock socks off those from back home in the west with their fat ugly backsides and there femi-nazism.

Strange not think that if all of those reform voters had stuck with Tory there would be no landslide. Indeed the switch to Labour from 2019 (adjusted to reflect changed boundaries) was only 1.7% in the latest election. Hardly a landslide switch. What I think is that 4 million voters voted for Tories in the past but then changed to Reform this town. Tories were down 19.9%. Think if Reform didn't exist and those 4 million vote went to Tories, then they would have increased there share vs 2019. What does it all mean. 1) UK has a very unrepresentative system with the appointed HoL and the FPTP system that totally robs millions of their say in the running of the country 2) the Tories still have the problem of the renegade tories (the Brexiteers), I tend to feel that the people who voted for Reform and those that voted Tory cannot be held within one party. 3) Lib Dems as usual did nothing, yet got 71 seats from a handful of voters.....ridiculous. These are clowns that were pushing for proportional representation in the coalition government.

Say what you like he was right about the Iraq war (one of the few).....or do you think the Iraq war was good for Britain? He's also right about Israel and Russia, as history will tell us.

Shame....I like Galloway.....a man with no fears of speaking the truth to power. No mealy mouthed career politician here, concerned about his career prospect. And he destroyed the US Senate in his deposition with them exposing them for the posing monkeys they are. Neil Kinnock, the wannabe PM who was never a Labour man anyway, a Tory in drag. Feasted afterwards on the rampant corruption in Brussels as a Euro MP.

Yes the upselling drives me insane. One cardiologist told me that I had the heart of a 50 year old after an echo stress test, but I might consider a cardiac MRI at 50K to detect post COVID micro fractures in the heart muscle. I asked him if there was any treatment for such micro fractures? No he said. Then why would I want to spend money on this test, I asked?

Yes come home Yingluck.....best PM we've had in Thailand since I hit these shores in 2008.

Should we jettison "morals, ethics and step into the abyss". We already did, or our leaders did , several decades ago.....in the US it was during the Vietnam war. The problem is that honesty and the truth underpin morality, and when your whole life, your values and ethics, are fake, there is nothing left to do but to use AI/AR to create another more appealing you.....one that is super fit, one that is razor sharp....aka one that is a lie.

Thailand can't even organise a decent election. Shame on you, some on the EC, shame on the CC, and shame on the senators for blatant rigging even if it is not specifically prohibited in the constitutional documents.

No crisis. The world managed to get by with many fewer people in the past. The crisis if there is one is with the obscenely rich. Bigger markets mean bigger profits which the obscenely rich capture to increase their wealth. Few people mean smaller markets and less profits as service providers, manufacturers and retailers have to compete. Our notion of measuring everything by GDP growth is flawed.

Let's face it the GOP is not exactly loaded with talent as we saw in the primaries, there is a dearth of talent if warmonger Haley is the second pick after Trump. If I were making the decision I would go with Tulsi Gabbard because she probably the only honest politician the US has had for the past 30 years. If I were her though I wouldn't want to be tainted by Donald, who seems to corrupt everyone he comes in touch with. If Biden is the Dem candidate he doesn't need to have someone with their own following....but if the Dem's throw up a Newsom or some other piece of vile baggage who might be popular (I've no idea if he's go anyone following him outside CA) then Trump may need someone with national popularity.

Just think....a new cabinet....anchored by decent people Rayner, Reeves and Starmer. I feel the honeymoon will be short lived though....and in any change there are winners and losers. To date in history the poor have always lost except for a spell after the war and during Harold Wilson's tenure....what I am sad about is 'growth' and pursuing growth as an objective. Governments used to have as their objective 'full employment' but Thatcher changed the objective to the never ending obsession of GDP growth....why? Well here's the secret....all of the profits from GDP growth go into the few obscenely wealthy member of the elite. They pay no taxes and threaten to leave any time reasonable changes are made to the tax code. The change that is needed is to get back good and decent lives of ordinary humans as the objective of government. The feral wealthy can fend for themselves. What Britain needs to do is to say no to child hunger; say no to homelessness; say no to public service cuts for disabled people and the elderly; and say yes for tax increases for businesses and the wealthy.

I prefer never to eat cornflakes or any other adulterated food produced by the food industry giants. To hell with all of them.