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Farang do, no Thai. Farang think too much!
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This Louis Vuitton handbag looks very convincing! I'll .... erm ..... take it back to the police labs .... for further analysis .....
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8 minutes ago, rhyddid said:
NSH has been already given as a gift to Trump by BS BJ and he is coming to get it before elections !
Once BS BJ will win election he will give as present US with any company worth a quid and UK will be the biggest financial disaster ever seen in western countries !
I can see that English isn't your first language, but just like Yinn, every poster has something valuable to contribute ???? Welcome to the forum! Are you from Thailand?
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12 hours ago, sonos99 said:
Yes but the US govt is paying out $16 billion in aid to farmers due to loses caused by Trumps trade war.
Last time I checked, $16 billion was a smaller number than $80 billion.
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12 hours ago, bristolboy said:
What you are claiming makes no sense. Apparently, you think that because the tariffs hurt China's exports to the US that somehow that means it can't be hurting US consumers. Those tariffs are paid for by the importers and those higher prices result in higher prices for consumers. Only in the alternative universe of Donald Trump do American citizens not pay higher prices when things cost more.
You didn't read what I said.
Chinese goods have not got more expensive for US customers. Here is why:
QuoteSome China manufacturers are lowering prices to help their American clients pay for their orders now that the cost of doing business with them has gone up. Others are moving lower-skilled, labor-intensive manufacturing to Vietnam, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and India. That's a cost of blue-collar labor for China, a country that wants to move up the value chain and make microchips and develop code for video games. Odds that the stitch-and-sew factory worker can do that are slim.
Yes, importers have also taken some of the cost, but so far they have been absorbing this rather than passing it on to the customers.
These importers will be looking at other countries to see if they can supply the same products. South Korea and Taiwan are rubbing their hands their hands with glee. Which is the WHOLE POINT of the tariffs - reduce the US's dependance on China.
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17 minutes ago, bristolboy said:
And given that in effect it's a consumption tax it's the poor and middle class that are disproportionately paying for it.
The Chinese are paying, not the US.
Prices of goods from China have not risen since the introduction of the tariffs. Chinese manufacturers are bearing the brunt of the tariffs. If they increase their prices, they know that South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and others will step in and take over.
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I am no fan of Trump's trade negotiations, but nobody seems to mention that the US is collecting a lot of tax money on the back of tariffs.
The US collected $7 Billion in September, which would equate to an annual total of over $80 Billion by September 2020.
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On 11/30/2019 at 11:45 AM, simple1 said:
How about accepting I was providing you and others, if they are interested, factual reporting on the current far right terror threat in the U.K., rather than trying to be argumentative for no reason. Some quotes from the linked report I provided which indicate the level of resourcing that must be applied by HMG security forces rather than on Islamist terrorism.
A quarter of all terrorism arrests in the past year were linked to far-right violence.
A third of all terror plots to kill in Britain since 2017 – seven out of 22 – were by those driven by extreme-right causes.
Factual? More like lying by omission. Let's look at the FULL quote from The Guardian:
QuoteA quarter of all terrorism arrests in the past year were linked to far-right violence.
The far-right caseload of counter-terrorism police jumped from 6% to 10% in the last two years.
Referrals to Prevent, the anti-radicalisation programme, had almost doubled between 2016 and 2018 for the far right, from 10% to 18%, and were expected to rise further.
A third of all terror plots to kill in Britain since 2017 – seven out of 22 – were by those driven by extreme-right causes.
10% of their caseload, eh? So what do counter-terrorism police spend the other 90% of their time investigating?
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1 hour ago, kingdong said:Any man can have justice in England provided he pays for it.sir Gerald nabarro.
It's funny that you should mention that.
You are probably aware that lawyers with the title Q.C. (Queen's Counsel) are regarded as the best lawyers in the UK. It is a title only given to a few elite barristers. Lawyers who have attained the title of Q.C. are notoriously expensive to hire.
Now let's take a look at the list of the lawyers who represented Usman Khan and his fellow terrorists at the April 2013 appeal:
QuoteJoel Bennathan Q.C. for Usman Khan
Brian O’Neill Q.C. for the Mohibur Rahman
James Wood Q.C. and Hossein Zahir for Omar Sharif Latif
Andrew Hall Q.C. and Frida Hussain for Abdul Bosher Mohammed Shahjahan
Jim Sturman Q.C. for Nazam Hussain (all instructed by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals)Alison Morgan (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown
You will notice that all the terrorists are represented by a Q.C. However, the single prosecutor in the case is the least senior lawyer in the courtroom, with no Q.C. title.
How is it that the 5 terrorists in the case can afford the best legal representation in the land, despite being funded by Legal Aid?
And yet the Crown could only afford to hire one sub-par lawyer to prosecute the case? No wonder all the terrorists won their appeals to be let out early.
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1 hour ago, katana said:
On his profile at Doughty Street Chambers, they list his achievements and successes:
A first-rate silk with in-depth experience across all areas of serious crime, Bennathan is praised as an "eloquent advocate who can grasp the attention of the judge or jury as needed." "He is a ridiculously clever barrister who is very good at putting clients at ease." ...
In recent years Joel has had convictions for murder and terrorist offences overturned in the Court of Appeal...Wonder if they'll remove that last bit as not a particularly great achievement in light of what his client went on to do at the recent London Bridge attack...
https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/joel-bennathan-qcIf you click on the "Terrorism" tab, it lists a few of the terrorists he has got off the hook. A couple of days ago, that section mentioned Usman Khan by name. But he seems to have deleted it now for some reason!
Also, Joel Bennathan made his Twitter account private a couple of days ago. I wonder why?
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2 hours ago, sirineou said:
Missing a zero, but I am glad that the only thing you could find wrong with my reply, was a keystrock that did not register.
To be fair, that's a pretty serious factual error. Can you not edit your original post to correct this?
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5 hours ago, Credo said:
There may not be much left of Japan by the time they get a nuclear weapon put together. It's also not necessarily a sure thing that the US would help them, given that Trump isn't the most reliable of allies and he has a friendship with Kim.
NK has 50kg of weapons-grade plutonium. Japan has 10,000kg. I wouldn't bet against Japan in a nuclear exchange.
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2 hours ago, Credo said:
That force is rated on conventional warfare. NK is nuclear.
Japan launched their first satellite in 1970, and built their first nuclear power plant in 1966. They have nuclear weapons in all but name. Their ICBMs would probably work, too.
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On 11/30/2019 at 5:20 AM, Rookiescot said:This is excellent news for Scotland.
Independence is guaranteed.
Bye bye Conservative voting England and thanks for the fish ????.
And you'll have wee Jimmie Krankie as your new Prime Minister! Enjoy! ????
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14 hours ago, DannyCarlton said:Not let out early. He was originally given an indeterminate sentence which would have made his release subject to the Parole Board and allowed the authorities to detain him for life if the Parole board weren't satisfied that he no longer posed a threat to society. This type of sentencing was brought in by the previous Labour Government as part of their counter terrorism measures.
Unfortunately, whilst serving his sentence, the Tory Government removed this sentencing option from judges and, as a result, Kahn appealed his sentence which was changed to a straight 16 years. He was released automatically after serving half of his sentence as per Home Office rules.
Rubbish. The appeal had nothing to do with the change of the law in 2012 regarding IPPs.
The truth is that Usman Khan launched an appeal with the help of barrister Joel Bennathan QC. Lord Justice Leveson and the Court of Appeal changed his sentence because he believed that Khan was not enough of a danger to the public to justify him having an IPP.
Well, it looks like Lord Levenson was wrong.
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7 hours ago, DannyCarlton said:If you try very hard and manage to read the OP, you will see that the opposite is true. The indeterminate sentence policy (IPP) was started by the Labour government and was still in place when he was sentenced. Unfortunately, Cambell cancelled the policy and`causd Kahn's sentence to be changed to 16 years, and would automatically be released after serving half of his sentence, which is what happened.
But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of a bit of mindless right wing rhetoric.
That isn't what happened.
His IPP sentence wasn't cancelled. Usman Khan launched a Legal Aid appeal to his sentence in April 2013, who paid for him to be represented by top barrister Joel Bennathan QC.
The Court of Appeal believed Khan's lies about how he had been reformed. Lord Justice Leveson reduced his sentence so that he would be automatically be released 5 years later.
But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of a bit of mindless left wing rhetoric.
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2 hours ago, DannyCarlton said:
The problem with that hypothesis is that it fails at the first hurdle. It's the right wing tabloids in the UK who identifies as a Pakistani Muslim. Everyone else, probably even himself, identifies him as a British Moslem. I haven't yet seen any evidence that even suggests that he's even ever been to Pakistan.
This is the problem with the rhetoric of the right wing racists who are convinced that Brexit will sort all the problems with the likes of Kahn out.
1. It won't affect immigration from outside the EU in any way.
2. The majority of Islamic terrorists that have caused the most death and destruction in the UK are British born and bred. You can't deport a Brit from Britain.
He is definitely British by birth. However, he had travelled to Pakistan. Here's an article from The Guardian:
QuoteIn a July 2013 report the independent reviewer of terrorism wrote that Khan was one of three men from Stoke who had travelled to Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas (Fata) and planned to fund, construct and take part in a terrorist training camp in Kashmir, with a view to carrying out terrorist acts in the future.
QuoteHe had planned to establish a “terrorist military training facility” on land owned by his family in Kashmir, according to sentencing remarks.
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3 minutes ago, melvinmelvin said:
Good thing Mirvis is off the front pages, what an a-hole
terrible when relig. leaders use their position to skew normal runups to elections
well, they are free to express their opinions, so are others when the fancy banging jewish leaders on their heads
that is not anti-semitic by the way
Religious leaders of other religions are genuinely welcome to make their case.
As a Norwegian, why are you so excited about the UK's General Election? Some posters might mistake you as being British, so it would be useful for you to explain why the UK General Election means so much to you. Thank you my Norwegian friend.
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I wonder where Number 6 went? Perhaps he needed a Number 2 ...
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1 minute ago, MRToMRT said:
But that makes him an anti-zionist (along with a LOT of other people around the world) and not an anti-semite.
I am not a Corbyn supporter but this is all a crock.That may be true, but there is quite a thin line between anti-zionist and anti-semite. Ken Livingstone crossed that line and lost his job.
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1 minute ago, Number 6 said:
Where is the incident of anti semitism in the article?
That's what prompted my initial post. Seems just like scapegoating and propaganda.
Alarmist, fake news but not surprised.
Well, I go on to mention it later on:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47400029
QuoteMP Luciana Berger's decision to quit the party over anti-Semitism was Labour's "worst day of shame" in its 120-year history, Tom Watson has said.
Labour's deputy leader said Ms Berger had been "bullied out of her own party by racist thugs".
But apparently Luciana Berger and Tom Watson are liars.
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Just now, Number 6 said:
For what my Jewish friend?
You tell me. I abhor antisemitism, What about you?
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6 minutes ago, Number 6 said:
Card carrying member of JDL.
What was the poison again??
Ah, so you blame the Jews. Thanks for letting us know where you stand.
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18 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:It’s a little more complicated than that:
From what I've read, the main point of contention is the price of US drugs.
A large proportion of all the drugs that the NHS use were developed by US companies. Everyone has heard of the likes of Pfizer, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson.
Drugs are 2.5 times more expensive in the US than the UK on average. The US would like us to buy their expensive brand-name medicines, instead of far cheaper identical generic drugs. They would like us to extend the length of drug patents originating in the US, again making drugs far more expensive.
The end result would be a windfall for US drug companies of several billion dollars a year, which the NHS would have to pay for.
This would obviously be a very bad thing for the UK and the NHS. However, it is worth noting that these proposed changes were only intended to be the starting point in negotiations with the US. The final deal may well have been rather different.
However, the talk of "selling the NHS" is silly, and over-the-top. It is designed to appeal to Labour voters, but I don't think Labour are doing themselves any favours by exaggerating the issue. It would be nice if politicians from both sides would try to present the facts rationally, instead of parroting slogans.
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More Indian tourists want to visit Phuket but limited airport slots make it impossible
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Which bus company is this?
BKK to Phuket is 845km, so the average speed of the bus would need to be 211kph, or 131mph. I can only assume that they are using this rocket-powered bus to make the journey (367mph, Phantom fighter jet engine, 42000 bhp):