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Exactly bullying on a national level. Sickening.

'War' cannot be used as a justification for a large number of casualties. Besides this is totally hateful and symptomatic of the low moral quality of the folk who support this vile war.

I don't think the US are serious with their two state talk. They are simply waiting for Israel to eradicate the Palestinians entirely or push them into Egypt and steal the land. The US are sending arms to ensure it happens, you wouldn't send arms if you wanted a two state solutions if the arms were being used to eradicate the potential population of one of the states, now, would you? Same old duplicitous, lying US.

The Economist is a shameless rag full of capitalist and imperial propaganda. I'm surprised anyone reads it any more.

Wherever liberal ideology overtakes common sense you tend to have chaos.

Two friends have been through court cases with unlicensed juveniles and their families. Both lost and both time it cost a large-is amount of money, ~500K in one case that seemed clear cut to a western eye (no licence, underage, no helmets and 3 passengers on the motorbikes the police had asked for 100K from his family). He explained to me that Anglos (himself) tend to be consumed with fault or 'blame', whereas the courts seem to be less concerned with 'blame' and more concerned with who was hurt. But of course this was only my friends opinion, he did say he wished he had known this before going to court.

Worthy things or people are generally not newsworthy....perhaps this says something about the news consuming human race?

Now Thaksin is free can we stop having articles about him.

Governments propose things, but people implement the proposals....people like the police, at least that is how it is in all the other countries I've lived in. To be fair, it's actually pretty easy for Anutin or Srettha to say, "clean up the air" and then say, "OK that's my job done." What is immensely more difficult to do is to implement the brilliant idea you came up with. Governments don't implement anything.....they call for change, which is the really easy part, then they duck out to leave the heavy lifting to the grunts. I drove along a highway today and saw literally hundreds of fields on fire in Nakhon Ratchasima. Fires visible for miles, but the police were invisible, which means no one has actually implemented anything. Perhaps I am being unfair as the meeting with the governors was not until today.....but the issue of illegal bringing and crap air quality has been going on for months and no one in government has done anything about it except make stupid announcements to the press. Call a press conference when you have actually done something you <deleted>s

The Koran does not prohibit travel using Ramadan.

As I was saying the less well educated.....

Ergotamine is very effective or was for me, but it made me vomit. In the UK they have it as a spray. I agree with @Mahseer above, Relpax, at about 250 baht for two tabs is very effective and widely available. It is made by Pfizer.

It's actually been around a thousand times longer than 4 million years. You should check your sources.

I'm sure it is all part of the natural immune system of the planet. It has been infected by a disease called humans and is not developing a fever to try to rid itself of this human parasitic pestilence. It's like human's own immunity, when you get an infection, your temperature goes up. Hopefully the Earth's response will harm humanity to the extent that it changes its ways and lived in harmony with the planet.

Troll presumably means someone whose opinion you disagree with. You are meaning it as an insult, I know, but it comes across as bigoted and rather stupid. Take a chill pill.

Yes, several years ago. It was ok, just ok and your mrs is right about the price. It was not good value.

You are simply full of hate. And the term 'muzzers' that you have used I n other posts betrays you as a racist and a bigot.

No he's not obfuscating. He's explaining to the less well educated what the actual meanings of the words are.

I can't help feeling that the EU and Nato and the US are being reckless and playing with fire here. Basically they have been wrong about everything. Wrong about the Maidan coup; wrong about Russia's reaction which was to seize Crimea to protect it's warm water port there; then wrong about NATO expansion into Ukraine and Russia's reaction to it; then wrong about refusing to engage with Putin in discussions about Russia's security; then wrong about the bad faith Minsk agreements they made; then wrong about supporting the nazis and the mad idiot in Kiev; then wrong about sanctions; wrong about Russia's ability to survive and even outgrow the west in economic terms; wrong about the impact on EU's economy; and my prediction is that they will be wrong about the timing of Russia's firing of nukes. Keep up the provocations US, the strategy is working so well, so far. You will get your wish of ww3 but it won't work out well, it will be the same as everything else you have been wrong about. Yes, Russia will be gravely hurt and might not survive, but neither will any Nato country including the US. China will then have the world, or what is left of it as their oyster.

Yes the whole thing looks like a nasty con job. I'm crippled from either the vaccine shots (mRNA) or from a very mild dose of COVID that the vaccine didn't prevent. Over two years now. Yes, I know some will say, the vaccine could have prevented a very much worse does of COVID. But I say, where is your proof that in this particular case the vaccine prevented hospitalisation and or death? The problem is the suppression of evidence by authorities that made a series of wrong calls and who now don't want the truth to come out. Anything that ran counter to official narrative was censored by social media and the medical press or slandered.

I think the simple answer is no to a state unless you are prepared to live in the UK. You probably have time to take her to the UK where she could live and work and pay taxes, and become naturalised. I think then she has a shot of a part of your pension. You could also name her as beneficiary of your private pension (but usually if you have to marry before enrolling in the pension plan).

Have you been tied up or something?

Why are farangs above good manners when they are in other countries? I take it you don't speak Thai or know anything about the culture and don't respect it? Wow you must be a great guest here.

I've just read the discussion which was pretty good until some one started with the insults. Good on you ThaiBeach. You have not been infected with Western Propaganda Disease (WPD) as so many of your detractors have. And I support your judicious use of the ignore function. With so many commenters blinded by WPD and getting their news exclusively from based western sources the ignore function is a necessity. It is refreshing to hear from an informed commenter who is knowledgeable and able to withstand the assault from the WPD sufferers.

Has fallen. It had to, the city was the source of most of the shelling in the Donbass and responsible for killing 15000 Russian civilians since 2014. A centre for the nazi elements of Ukraine's armed forces. And something heartening for Mr Putin to announce to his nation on the 24th or 25th which is the second anniversary of the war.....but it seems to have been going on much longer. If only the Ukrainians had abided by the Minsk agreements, there would have been no need for war, but French and German leaders told us that the Minsk agreements were negotiated in bad faith and the objective was to buy time to build up Ukraine's military. But in war there are often no winners, and this conflict seems the same. Russia has kept its warm water port in Crimea out of US hands, but NATO is all over Ukraine, so Russia even if it keeps the newly acquired oblasts, hasn't won much; hundreds of thousands have lost their lives or had their lives blighted by the war, what with dead kids on both sides. Time for Ukraine to surrender and save what it has left, kick it lying, idiot President out in Ukraine and replace him with someone sane, and to kick the demented idiot president out of the US and replace him with someone whom is not a warmonger.