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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 ?

First and foremost the TAT aren't looking at what is happening in the tourists homelands, inflation, unemployment, rising rent costs and general uncertainty about the future. In the UK food banks are even being used by the employed in increasing numbers and even Germany, once the European power house, is faltering, winter is around the corner and people don't know how to pay their energy bills. An exotic Asian holiday needing expensive flights isn't on many people's radar and if it is there are cheaper countries in the area. Stop dreaming TAT and do your homework, like asking your embassies about the financial strength of the people in the main tourist countries, you might be surprised.

The German ambassador knows from which direction the wind is blowing, just like anybody else who lives here, talk to the organ grinder not the monkey.

My ED.

No, it happens very rarely (twice in my 20 years of being here) and they don't even check thoroughly, just a cursory look to show they are earning their wages,

Who cares, the debt is already so large it can never be paid back, the trouble will be finding anyone stupid enough to lend the US any more money.

I tried a police station once and got the third degree treatment, they eventually telephoned the pu yai of my village who had to drive 17 km to the police station to say he knew me, that I was a good person, attended the village temple services, was never seen drunk etc. the captain then grudgingly stamped the form (no cost). Since the village has become a Tetsabaan I now get it done by the mayoress for free with no hassle.

10 is hardly a tide of the great unwashed, you would need to go to farang land for that.

They can't all have dementia surely?