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The Chinese will never agree to Trump dictating domestic law.

He's giving them away now.

Woods is a great golfer but I am not sure if that makes him a great American.  After all, he is constantly quoting himself as Thai.

Trump doesn't even pretend to be a real president any more.

4 hours ago, rabas said:

  the rivalry between S.A. and Iran for leadership in ME.  scritch, scritch, scritch  

 

... rivalry between the free world's need for stable energy supplies and the economically failed Soviet Union that depends on expensive energy exports to survive.

Darn,   Soviet Union  scritch, scritch Putin's Russia.

 

Been this way since the 1950s when Egypt was Russia's babe. Nothing on Earth that Russia Putin loves more than Iran causing trouble destabilizing the middle east to raise the price of its energy. Just like there is nothing the West loves more than lots of little powerless ME countries peacefully pumping oil and competing on price. But if you really need to see things as one bad guy causing instability (why not?) that would be Russia (dam!) Putin.

 

or there may be a more fickle finger at play.  One that cannot be mentioned through fear of everything.

4 hours ago, tifino said:

The only imporant question: 

 - raw or cooked?

Fertilized.  

1 hour ago, justin case said:

don't bring a knife to a pack of thai dogs with guns

sawn off works best for effect here. 

16 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

You are absolutely correct about the social divide in the US. Just spent some time back there. I would estimate, the top 20% are doing well. The bottom 80% are hurting. No savings. No safety net, at all. For all of the amazing things they say about the US economy, it is not benefitting the average person. And in terms of corporate policy, I would take it one step further. I would say the corporations, ARE the government. And that trend, which started a long time ago, is only increasing under Trump. 

Well said.  I have been saying for years that the next major conflict will not be national but corporate instead.  Companies are buying countries and their militaries.

13 hours ago, candide said:

Not much arm done to the USA. Iran even fighted on the same side as the USA against ISIS. So it's rather your second option that makes sense. Trump is the instrument of Saudi Arabia in the rivalry between S.A. and Iran for leadership in ME.

Actually, I was thinking of another ally. 

even the Chinese people want an end to the CCP.

3 hours ago, LomSak27 said:

I have to say, it doesn't look like a local buffalo

No.  It actually has a cock that you can see.  

5 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Sounds like everyone is taking a gun down the pub incase an argument breaks out???? RIP

One time a detective friend of mine took me to a night club up north and told me to look closely at every guy who wore his shirt outside his pants.  So, yes they do take their piece to the pub.

If a normal person doesn't go to work then he won't have any money in his pocket.  It is the same with a country and its people.  If you want the country to get rich then you have to give the people work to do. i.e. jobs.

Just for how long are these blowhards going to go on about this and that without doing anything at all about jobs?  I am not talking about a few mining jobs here and there but major manufacturing type work.

and so we begin the beguine.

They could always put 'Big Joke' in charge of the place.

Nobody knows what Trump or Kim are up to but we all know where Spotlight is.  

8 hours ago, malagateddy said:

As a British Royalist and Unionist..I tell you to speak for yourself..

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The beaches of Malaga hurt my bare feet.

10 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

Apologies but just to digress when I read the headline I thought why is Labor spelt incorrectly since the country is based on the Queens English.  When I googled it I found out why.

 

 Now there's a thing for those of you interested.

 

"The Australian spelling of labour is just like the BrE one. The reason why labouris spelled labor in Australian Labor Party is an important historical one: ... TheALP adopted the formal name "Australian Labour Party" in 1908, but changed thespelling to "Labor" in 1912."

just goes to show how interested in them I am.  After 66 years I have never noticed the spelling.  

12 hours ago, Brickbat said:

Murdoch always gets his man. And yes, Australia going dirt cheap. China buying up . Too many Gimme Pigs, bludgers and illiterate boneheads that drain a great country to mediocrity and into the hands of the Chinese. 

and, of course, the great minds and souls of Australia are all living in Thailand now.  

The smart ones are on their way to Singapore and Taiwan or even Malaysia and Indonesia.

Amazing actually how this has become a Rest of the World against America style argument.  I wonder why.

21 hours ago, howbri said:

America has not intention of being governed by a bunch of Eurocentric, globalist bureaucrats.

but they will be because they don't have enough ability to do it themselves.  Anyway, if they don't like the Europeans doing it then they can always ask the Aussies.