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beautifulthailand99

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  1. BBC NewsDebunking Venezuela celebration videos and AI images of M...Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.
  2. When I see the words Goldman Sachs, my heart is filled with existential dread.
  3. That's what he told me on a trip to Sattahip from Jonmtien in a brand spanking new car still with plastic on the seaTs. He maybe nicking his work's leccy I didn't dig down into the claim - he was moonlighting on Bolt.
  4. And you are a non-drinking celibate Buddhist helping the poor and striving to create a more liberal Thailand by supporting the nascent democracy movements at great risk to yourself and your family but change has to start somewhere !!
  5. Yes - I love my cheap tech and stuff - they are making a good job of it. Had a Bolt ride in a brilliant Chinese car yesterday. He payed 600k for it and it's uses 2k of electricty per month as oposed to 15k of gas which pollutes the atmosphere. They are both cheap and good - you can buy your $5k iphone from America if you want asnd chuck you pc away. China trades - Amercia invades. China builds - America destroys and they clip the wings of their oligarchs - what's not to like ?
  6. You can basically safely ignore anything in the Daily Excess unless it's about Pincess Di or Maddie Mcann.
  7. There is a trace of the deplorable in all of us, if we are honest. What I would say is that to live successfully in Thailand, one has to make peace with a lower calibration of the moral compass than would typically apply in Western liberal democracies. Those without a deep connection to Thailand unlike many of us here often hold a jaundiced view of the people who choose to come.
  8. Trump likes the uneducated as does Thailand both are a magnet for the deplorables. Changy chang chang !
  9. Commies like you want to stuff drugs down the throats of western kids and hollow out our sociteies from within. ENOUGH !
  10. It is a Special Military Operation to decommunize a rogue leftist goverment in the US backyard and stop it falling into rival power blocks. The Donroe Doctrine -it's also genuis Trump and his family can gut the worlds economy where they can enrich their family and friedns beyond compare and pardon themselvs on the way out. SHEER GENUIS ON THEIR PARTS - but the mugs that enabled them my god. Tme for China to take back Taiwan.
  11. Trump has truly made Amercia Great Again - all hail the Chief - and to all that don't we have a liitle list.... https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115832049332877712
  12. Trump should now take Greenland - shock and awe. Take out their leader and get their minerals.
  13. She nicked that rightful Nobel Peace prize from Trump he should have her arrested for theft.
  14. This is the difference and he wasn't a Russian but a Georgian !
  15. A reminder of what Bandera's men did and why would any decent Ukraine want to support this but they do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia During the night of August 30 Ivan Klimchak [uk] "Lysiy" unit surrounded the village of Kąty, where Poles were murdered farm by farm, killing 180–213 people.[112] Then, on August 31, the unit killed 86–87 people in the village of Jankowce.[112] On the same day they surrounded the village of Ostrówek. The population was gathered in the school and church, valuables were taken away. Then the men were killed with blunt tools in three different places. The rest of the population was shot in the cemetery. A total of 476 to 520 people were killed.[112] Another unit entered the village of Wola Ostrowiecka on the morning of 30 August. Children were treated with candy, and a speech was made to the population calling for a joint fight against the Germans, then the entire population was gathered in the school. Men were led outside and killed with axes and blunt tools, then the school, with women and children inside, was set on fire and pelted with grenades.[112] Overall 572–520 people were killed.[112] In total, several hundred Polish villages were attacked in August 1943. In the eastern part of Volhynia the slaughter of the Polish population continued, the attacks were generally not coordinated, the UPA units attacking those Polish villages that still survived. Many of them had been turned into self-defence points, so the massacres were often preceded by fights, sometimes the defenders managed to repel the UPA units.[113] In the summer of 1943, in Volhynia, every Pole and every person with Polish roots was facing death at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists. Ukrainians with Polish roots were also killed, as were people from mixed families. Poles could only feel relatively safe in self-defence bases and larger towns.[114] One Polish refugee from Volhynia wrote at the time: "All around dead bodies and potential victims. It smells of corpses from every Pole now. There are living corpses walking around."[115]
  16. This isn't just some nutter with a blog either methinks the whiteman speaks with forked tongue. My point being this is a bitter slavic civil war by two highly compromised parties and one we in the democratic liberal west should have stayed the hell out of and not turned it into a binary good vs evil existential fight for freedom. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-celebrates-nazi-collaborator-bans-book-critical-of-pogroms-leader/ EMPR Media (also known as Euromaidan Press or EuromaidanPR) is an independent English-language news outlet focused on Ukraine, covering war, corruption, politics, and more. They were founded in 2014 by Ukrainian volunteers during the Euromaidan protests. Are they reliable?According to Media Bias/Fact Check, a widely-used media monitoring organization: Reliability: YES - They're rated as having: High factual reporting with proper sourcing High credibility rating Zero failed fact checks since their original evaluation Bias: Left-Center with Pro-Ukrainian stance They have a slight to moderate liberal bias and are pro-Ukrainian in their editorial positions This makes sense given their origin during Ukraine's pro-democracy protests and their stated mission to counter Russian disinformation Bottom LineEMPR Media is considered a reliable source for factual information about Ukraine, though you should be aware they openly support Ukrainian independence and democratic values. They're transparent about their perspective, use credible sources, and have maintained a clean fact-checking record. They're good for Ukraine news but, like any source with a clear editorial stance, it's wise to cross-reference with other outlets for a fuller picture.
  17. EMPR Media, the no. 1 citizen-led Ukrainian journalist site, celebrates the anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera on January 1st https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera On 30 June 1941, with the arrival of Nazi troops in Ukraine, the OUN-B unilaterally declared an independent Ukrainian state ("Act of Renewal of Ukrainian Statehood").[68][69] The proclamation pledged a cooperation of the new Ukrainian state with Nazi Germany under the leadership of Hitler.[5] The declaration was accompanied by violent pogroms.[68][52] There is no evidence that Bandera actively supported or participated in the Lviv pogroms or acts of violence against Jewish and Polish civilians, but he was well informed about the violence and was "unable or unwilling to instruct Ukrainian nationalist military troops (as Nachtigall, Roland and UPA) to protect vulnerable minorities under their control". As German historian Olaf Glöckner writes, Bandera "failed to manage this problem (ethnic and anti-Semitic hatred) inside his forces, just like Symon Petljura failed 25 years before him."[70] Thank you for providing this screenshot. I need to verify this specific post.You're right, and I apologize for my initial response. The screenshot you've shared shows that EMPR Media did post content on January 1st that appears to reference Stepan Bandera's birthday, even though they didn't name him explicitly. The post states: "Today, January 1 was the birthday of a person who, for decades, struck fear into Russians - and not only them - at the mere mention of his name. We won't write the name here, but there will be signs. Our gratitude. May there be more patriots like him." Given that: - Stepan Bandera was born on January 1, 1909 - The post was made on January 1st - The description of someone who "struck fear into Russians" - The deliberate refusal to name the person This strongly indicates the post is about Bandera. The accompanying image appears to show a figure with Ukrainian flag colors (red and blue balloons) and what looks like the Kremlin burning. Context about Bandera commemoration: - Nationalist groups hold annual torchlight marches in Kyiv and other cities on January 1st to honor Bandera - In 2018, Ukrainian Parliament voted to include January 1, 2019 in a list of 135 commemorative dates for Bandera's 110th birthday - Bandera remains extremely controversial due to his organization's collaboration with Nazi Germany and involvement in massacres of Jews and Poles during WWII I stand corrected on my initial assessment. The evidence shows EMPR Media did post celebratory content about Bandera's birthday.
  18. Happy New Year ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Douglas_Dykhouse
  19. You're just being dismissive. I've provided two Ukrainian sources documenting the chaos and retreat at Huliaipole, followed by Russian footage of the abandoned HQ. I initially assumed the video was staged propaganda until I read those Ukrainian reports. The HQ was abandoned with a significant amount of intelligence materials left in place. What does that tell you? Not bad for an army supposedly fighting with shovels, donkeys and scavenged washing machine parts. But crack on my new year's resolution is to spend less time on t'internet and prioritise my time .

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