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Money is neutral, it doesn't care who owns it or what it's used for. People however can use it pragmatically, invest it to strengthen a company and increase jobs or for good in a philanthropic manner or for evil which causes harm to others while enriching oneself, it is a truly democratic medium which allows all things to all people. I think it was Mark Twain who said, "Man is the only animal that blushes....or needs to", but you can't blame money for greed, that is an intrinsic part of mans nature.

Using a pedestrian crossing in Thailand is asking for trouble.

Money never cared about politics unless it felt threatened by policies, money is pragmatic, all it wants to do is multiply in safety.

Him, he should have been kicked in the nuts.

and checked for HIV

Nature's cull is coming, she's trying to reach equilibrium in the human species as she has achieved with all other species, cross the line for the ideal number and you get decimated back to sustainability.....but we keep thwarting her with vaccines so maybe mental illness, war and low fertility combined with starvation due to our destruction of the environment will do the job just as well.

It's bleeding obvious unless you're woke and stupid, unfortunately they have enough judicial power behind them to ruin the lives of the sane who refuse to call Joe Blogs she, her, they or them. Thailand has it right, they are Katoeys, neither men or women, the third sex. I note with dismay however that the press in Thailand has copied the west and now referrers to such deviants as Trans=women instead of the time honoured designation Katoey used by the general public.

Sounds more like a Thai divorce to me.

Clog him!!

They don't stand alone, I rather think that Israel is being used as a proxy by the west, especially with regard to Iran.

She wanted to take the high road and ended up on the low one and didn't get anywhere before anyone.

The west isn't in a war in the middle east although Britain and France have caused enough reason to be involved in one from past colonial decisions and Israel can't 'drag' anybody into one. Historically Jews have been persecuted and cheated for centuries by various European countries, pogroms were useful for states to avoid paying debts to wealthy groups of Jewish merchants.

A lot of the trouble with Iran stems from British and American interference starting with the inauguration of the Schah by the UK, now it's too late to shut Pandora's box. There are laws of causality which are always valid and they sometimes go back hundreds of years. The effects of the UK trading opium with China and then starting a war with them when they started to fight back against the addictions this was causing still resonate with the Chinese to this day.

It seems to me that the CIA has been the inadvertent midwife to several terrorist groups through plain ignorance.

That's what I would have said in his position.

Now just watch the CIA make things worse.

Ah, by jingoism, the times when we could squeeze out other countries for our own good has long gone, now we have food banks that even the employed have to use.

Yes, Novichok was reckless but it didn't cause mass deaths, botched as it was. Israel would bomb a whole restaurant to get one person of interest while some Arab states would blow up a full aircraft to make a point. The Americans didn't care about collateral damage during the Iraqi freedom operation, all states are ruthless when their interests are at stake, be it ideological or oil or counter terrorism, the end will justify the means.

Like the CIA, or MI6 via the SAS, or government agents in a Turkish embassy or the French DGSE in Algeria, you mean?

No, it's more, let's stop pointing fingers in outrageous indignation, these things happen and no state can raise its hand and say I'm innocent.

They killed the target as efficiently as a bullet, indeed there was a certain elegance in the delivery of the polonium into Litvinenko's body. Certainly the Novichok operation was botched, it didn't kill the targets but killed an innocent person when the agents carelessly discarded the left over Novichok. The CIA's many attempts at killing Castro were so botched as to be comical.

Cockroaches is the right description. He lied about the 'benefits' of Brexit which was his masterpiece in lowering the living standards in the UK.

Political assassinations aren't new nor are they the sole reserve of Russia alone, America, China, Israel, Turkey, and even the UK, in their fight against the IRA ,have all been implicated, as has France in its Algerian conflict so we shouldn't get too precious about Russia, politics is a dirty business and murder by proxy isn't unusual.

Yes, I would be asking, "what do they want, it can't be in our interest."

and this guy would help the elderly get on and off the bus ?