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An interesting article on Denmark's long relationship with Greenland, and what the Greenlanders hope for in the future. Denmark vs the US: What Greenland really wants - BBC News https://search.app/xKkhNiKbe3tmFxsw7

Thaksin'a idea of important legislation is legalise casinos, political control of the central bank and anything that benefits his family and associates. He has no interest in genuine reform of the education system, military and civil service. He realised way back before his exile that if he could win enough upcountry provinces with populist policies, he would have enough votes to form a government and could ignore the cities, middle class and more educated populace. In the past when he was PM, Thailand was sometimes called a police state because he controlled so much of the media. Newspapers that criticized him were starved of state advertising, many, many journalists were sued, he used his wealth to persecute any opposition. He is an authoritarian who has no genuine interest in Thailand becoming a more meritocratic, what you know rather than who you know, society,

American booze taken off Canadian shelves https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cqjvg82lg4yt?post=asset%3Ae8ea9bf5-a89a-49a1-9784-035b889c55c8#post

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/31/us/dc-plane-crash-victims

'You're losing': Onlookers blast 'dumb' Trump as he officially 'launches a trade war' Various comments on Trump's move. Economic policy expert Brian Riedl said, "When the international community wants to hammer an enemy's economy, it isolates that economy by imposing a trade embargo. Only the U.S. government is dumb enough to impose a trade embargo on itself." Journalist S.V. Dáte said, "Donald Trump announcing here that he has increased taxes on Americans by $297 billion a year." Journalist Josh Marshall said, " I can only imagine what this does to industries which have been designed to work back and forth across US-CA-MEX border like the auto industry." Economist Marc Lévesque: "So, it's official. Trump has just violated the Canada-US-Mexico Free Trade agreement that he himself signed."

Trudeau says that less than 1% of the fentanyl flowing into the US comes from Canada. "Trump Calls Canada a Big Player in the Fentanyl Trade. Is It? - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/canada/canada-fentanyl-trump.html

"Donald Trump imposes tariffs but Canada and Mexico hit back - BBC News" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c627nx42xelo

So what's your definition of an American?

51% is not a landslide.

Blimey, Trump scraped in with 51% of the vote and you're calling that a definition of an American?

Do you really think Thailand is a democratic country?

Tell me how many applicants suffering from the disabilities you mention have been actually hired to be air traffic controllers? And why haven't there been countless accidents as blind and deaf air traffic controllers miss planes? lol

Look, try and get it into your head, they may try to recruit from a wider base but no-one is going to pass the stringent tests to be an air traffic controller unless they can actually do the job. Now if they said, 'dwarfs, one armed lesbians, blind blacks, apply now for jobs as air traffic controllers, and it doesn't matter that you can't do the job, will accept you anyhow,' then sure, everyone has the right to kick up a fuss. Show me some evidence they recruited and employed people not up to the job, and if they did, why didn't Trump dismiss them from 2016-2020? And why were there no accidents?

If you believe the FAA employed people with intellectual disabilities to actually work as air traffic controllers, then: 1. Why has there been no civil airline accidents since 2008? duh! 2. Do you seriously believe the FAA would actually employ in control towers people with intellectual disabilities? Dumb and dumber.

Here's the report: FAA Faces Controller Staffing Challenges as Air Traffic Operations Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels at Critical Facilities Not sure A continuous decline in air traffic controllers during Trump's first presidency. A national disgrace. Thank god Biden increased the numbers.

We can't talk in depth about this but Hunz, do you and Bild, Thaksin supporters, accept the notion that Thaksin was allowed to come back to counter the rise of Move Forward? At the same time Army forces in Bangkok have become concentrated under a single authority, the same authority that has Thaksin on a string. How can this be progressive? It is concentrating power in very few hands.

The family requested her name not be released. But the transgender pilot, Jo Ellis, posted a Facebook ' proof of life ' video on Friday to refute all the Maga idiots who wanted to pin all the blame on her for the crash. Idiots!

A leopard doesn't change its spots. Domination- once in the mobile phone sector, and then in politics. Thaksin's modus operandi, the only way he knows how to play.

"Five key impacts of Brexit five years on - BBC News" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrynjz1glpo

Stay strong Narisara. May you have good news soon. ‘I told my son to keep strong – let’s wait for dad’: Thailand hopes for return of its last Hamas hostage

The former cage fighter returns to his home, a cage.

So long Marianne, it's time that we began To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.