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Funny you should mention that last item. Returning to UK from France many years ago on a ferry, the purser collected my and my Thai wife's passports in advance of our arrival. Result? We were waved into the strip search channel, and our car was almost completely dismantled. The reason? We'd travelled down to the South of France looking for land for a small holding, towards Marseille. Click click click, 1+1=3, Thai/French Connection. When they were finished, one of the customs people had the gall to say "Well sir, if you've got it, you've got away with it. Welcome to the UK." The dike female officers enjoyed examining my wife though by what she told me afterwards. Ugh. Borderforce? Useless scumbags.

A bit off topic maybe, but I actually enjoy watching it. The duel between batter and pitcher a bit like cricket. It just it has that effect. Set the alarm for the top of the ninth!

30 minutes of baseball usually does the trick for me.

Modern day passports have a chip in them containing the holder's biometric data, including photo, as supplied to the passport issuer. I believe the immigration process compares the data on the chip with for instance the photo, or facial recognition record, that's taken of you. So they have realtime verification. Not sure of the complete dataset stored. Fingerprints are also included as a prerequisite on some passports. AFAIK the UK dataset doesn't include fingerprints. The chip is reprogrammable but heavily encrypted by PKI. Already hacked by a variety of sources. But see below for full fascinating, on topic, link. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/07/01/there-is-no-ukraine-fact-checking-the-kremlins-version-of-ukrainian-history/ Somebody, millions actually, don't agree.

And you believe whom?

And your own estimates are....?

Word processor? Worker's Party?

Er, Putin says he hasn't talked to Trump in 4 years. Who's lying?

And what of Kit and the scumbags across the border? Is there any coordination between the Khmer and Thai police? Apprehension of Chinese suspects in and around gangster town Poipet? Or is it just mafia controlled? Is there any intergovernmental activity on this? The Shins and Huns are close enough.

And a hamburger is the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast, pre getting whacked, that is. I thought Prompow was off to join Kla Dharma. A twisty tale to be sure.

So all the sources I quote are also lying? Where do you go for your information?

They all quote similar figures. Can't you read?

Links to the refuted figures please. I posted 3 links to those figures. Here are some others. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel–Hamas_war https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-hamas-war-death-toll-1-year/story?id=114458943 https://www.ochaopt.org/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1422308/palestinian-territories-israel-number-fatalities-and-injuries-caused-by-the-israel-and-hamas-war/ https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15944.doc.htm And so on.

You bet? Oh boy.

Search as I might I can't find any retraction by FEWS, only references to it by 3rd parties. Where does FEWS announce its retraction? Not on their website as far as I can see. The Nov 12th post is the last on the subject there. Maybe you have a link to it?

And more distortion from you. This was an entirely US backed report and it was only when they read it did they and the Israeli government throw up their hands in horror and hastily get the counteroffensive of denial and denigration going. Obviously they've tried to totally discredit it. But it won't work. The cats been out of the bag for a very long time.

And here's the full statement from Al Jazeera. I've already reported you once for calling me a liar. Twice won't harm. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/26/retraction-of-us-backed-gaza-famine-report-draws-anger-scrutiny

Your sources are all Israeli biased. Even the Colombia professors are. But as I said before, FEWS is a division of USAID. So don't blame the Palestinians if the US gets it's facts wrong, which incidentally, I don't believe it has. It wasn't the Palestinians who produced this report. Right? Here's the link again. I don't see any sign of a retraction. https://fews.net/middle-east-and-asia/gaza/alert/november-2024

I thought UNWRA was a proscribed organisation? FEWS.NET published it. They are a USAID sponsored organisation. https://fews.net/middle-east-and-asia/gaza/alert/november-2024 Check it out. Read the sources. You're just reading the US/Israeli reactions.

FEWS.NET is an American sponsored organisation. They published the famine alert, not the Palestinians. But of course the American ambassador and Israel don't like any adverse publicity, even their own.

Your facts, my lies, right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel–Hamas_war https://www.statista.com/statistics/1422308/palestinian-territories-israel-number-fatalities-and-injuries-caused-by-the-israel-and-hamas-war/ https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-12-16-2024-9f7c8f0df71dc4c97a6b31aed6e13304 Need more? Try googling it. Every single source agrees. Don't try gaslighting me. "have difficulty with facts"? You haven't presented any.

Absurd post. If I was an infidel why would I look to the Koran for my destiny? Israel uses propaganda constantly. Look at the link to the Jewish News Syndicate.

Your sources?

Why Muslim sources and not Jewish? You trust those photos in the Jewish News Syndicate? What incredible bias! You don't think Israel uses propaganda? They've been bombing and blockading Gaza for over a year. What do you think the likely effects of that might be, in addition to the deaths of over 45,000 civilians, and the wounding of over 100,000? The only reason they can get away with it is because of the White House's fanatical supporter for fanatical Israelis. And the blind support from islamophobes such as you.