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Krataiboy
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cigarettes. . .would contain THC the cannabinoid that makes people highCan it really be the case that tobacco companies are to be given the green light to lace their nicotine-laden cancer sticks with another potentially addictive product, THC?If so, this is nothing short of an act of public betrayal from a Government which has spent millions of baht of taxpayer money on anti smoking propaganda and other measures - not least the recent big hike in cigarette prices - in an alleged bid to shrink the market.The good news for the tobacco companies is the prospect of an even bigger market and fatter profits. The bad news is an increase in smokers will mean a bigger contribution from Thai victims to the seven million deaths a year worldwide caused by smoking. Not to mention yet more serious smokers' diseases, resulting in increased pressure on the creaking national health system.Keeping the tobacco monopoly in clover appears to be a higher priority with the current incumbents of Government House than does caring for the nation 's health. What a pity the Thai electorate was unaware of this reality before they voted the general election.
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7 hours ago, NotYourBusiness said:
I can see you didn't watch the video in post #3 ???? because, it can't be argued. You have it backwards.
I didn't but you are right. Just checked my source and realised I'd misread a chart which shows that it is actually the wealthiest countries which tend to have no minimum wage.
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Dissing dodgy allies when it suits them is burger and fries for incumbents of Capitol Hill, as the as Manuel Noriega, Sadam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and a host of other casualities of US fickleness could testify.
As Henry Kissinger once admitted in a weak moment, "America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests'.
They should engrave this on the tombstone of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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6 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:I think it's interesting to observe Corbyn's behavior. He has lots of people in "his" party who want a second referendum. And he has lots of people who don't want it.
A couple of days ago when asked about how he would decide he said he is no dictator. The members of his party will decide. And they did. I guess that is democracy at work even when many on both sides won't be happy with it.
Another interesting part, not only for labor, are how people insist that everybody wants A or B. It seems for many of us if we talk to 10 people and maybe read the media we chose then we all get the impression "everybody" thinks just like us. Except of course those people in the other groups who read the other media...
He's a coward who doesn't want to shoulder the responsibility for making a decision which he knows could destroy Labour's electoral base.
Can you imagine a gutless wonder like this running the country?
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21 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:
I hope it ends well ????
You mean in a happy ending.
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1 hour ago, NotYourBusiness said:
Singapore has no minimum wage.
Neither do most of the less prosperous Asian and African economies which, it could be argued, need them most.
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called for "retribution" for the massacre of 50 people at mosques in Christchurch
So Sri Lanka wasn't enough?
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5 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:
Can any of the experts here explain why recent converts to islam seem so compelled to carry out terror atrocities? Is it just an unfortunate co-incidence, or is there something in the islamic teachings that encourage it?
It's all those virgins waiting with open arms for a martyr.
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7 hours ago, PatOngo said:
Was it not just yesterday we read that 2 in 3 workers were happy? I guess they have a morbid sense of happiness. Good luck and stay happy!
Read another way, one in three workers are not happy. That's quite a lot of Land of Smiles folk with nothing to smile about.
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OK, Einstein. We'll believe you. . . until we don't.
THE UNIVERSE MIGHT BE A BILLION YEARS YOUNGER THAN WE THOUGHT
https://www.apnews.com/fac50d45a19f4239848b1712cfd22c3
Scientists were a little bit off target with their calculations, according to a new study by a Nobel Prize winner.
Then there's this, published in The Oxford Student today: "Dr Young-hae Chi, Professor at Oxford’s Oriental Institute, believes in a strong correlation between climate change and alien abductions".
For some inexplicable reason, the University has declined to give the prof a debating platform to explains his theory.
Next they'll be telling us we've only got six years, not twelve, to save the world from burning to a crisp.
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18 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:
No one in Thailand has any integrity whilst the baht is their master.
Which is, of course, something which Thailand shares with the rest of the world. Only the currency is different.
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“That an economic superpower has the ideals and conscience to build a community of common destiny with other countries, both big and small, is heroic wisdom and a tender and respectful gesture from a civilised country, one that should be regarded as a role model,” he said
Civilised, tender and respectful - and a role model?
Not exactly how most people would grovellingly describe the autocratic Chinese regime - or, for that matter, the perpetrator of 30 years of violence and repression who uttered them.
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Ah. . . Now I know why so many Chinese run laundries.
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13 hours ago, elliss said:What is the alternative to hope less non chance .
UK is finished . Not proud to be british ..
Rather than feel that way, do something constructive to help change our rigged political system.
We must take the power over our lives out of the hands of the political elites in Brussels and Westminster and return it to the people.
This means pulling the plug on the quadrennial game of musical chairs which characterises our broken two-party system and has resulted the Great going out of Britain.
The best way to begin this process is by making your mark in the upcoming European elections and the next UK general election, whenever it is called.
A vote for a mainstream candidate is a vote for more of the same. Consider switching to one of the alternative parties such as UKIP or the Brexit Party, or independents like Tommy Robinson, with agendas for radical change
Time to put on those MBGA hats!
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Any President prepared to push back against the UN as a putative world government is worth voting for.
Even one as personally obnoxious as the present POTUS.
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What an irony - billions of people reduced to mere bystanders in their own controlled and regimented little lives paying through the nose for a dose of digital escapism.
You couldn't make it up. But Hollywood, propaganda tool of the power elite, just did - and got stinking richer in the process.
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I get my instant six pack for a pittance from the mom and pop store.
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Birth.
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By "recreational drug" they presumably are not referring to alcohol, a legal drug which causes far more societal harm than all the illegal drugs combined.
Welcome to our Alice in Wonderland world.
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Kraft is accused of visiting the day spa twice in January, including on the morning of the day the Patriots defeated the Kansas City Chiefs to earn a Super Bowl berth.
Reckon the old guy had earned a happy ending.
Still, gave a cops a break from their usual racial profiling duties.
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10 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:
And if that doesn't work, they'll start to pay people to get their asses here.
You mean like they did with crazy Finance Ministry scheme - abandoned earlier today - to give 1,500 baht handouts to Thais who chose to holiday in LOS.
One begins to wonder if Government policy is formulated on the hoof, jotted down on bits of paper by ministers on their way to work.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro shocked by high number of penis amputations
Not as shocked as their owners, I'll bet.
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40 minutes ago, elektrified said:
I think they use helium but I could be wrong. Supposed to be completely painless.
Only balloons prefer helium. If you want to die with a smile on your face, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is your poison.
According to an article I've just read on the subject: "With nitrous oxide, what tends to happen to people is that they become quite euphoric and quite relaxed, giggly. . . "
Must have a word with my friendly local dentist, just in case!
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Trust your instincts and act on them.
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Whats the business model for your average 'GoGo bar' in Thailand?
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Whats the business model for your average 'GoGo bar' in Thailand?
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