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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."

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.

They can't all have dementia surely?

His association with Trump hasn't improved his Asperger syndrome, he seems to be becoming more unhinged by the day.

How true, when my wife gets snappy I know it's time to remain quiet, in the beginning I would ask whats wrong and she would then flare up, "you can see I'm worried about something, leave me alone", after 30 minutes or so she's back to normal. This morning was a point in question, turns out our son (17) who has just returned from army training is ill but he went to school anyway to catch up on his lessons he missed when training because the end of term exams are just around the corner so she decided to pull him out of class and take him to the doctors, he remonstrated against this but she just left to take him anyway, that stressed her, when she's stressed out I leave her in peace.

Anything for a punch up. He has put on weight, prison food must agree with him.

How true, nobody could plan the mess the world is in. It's best to believe only your own experience as every news outlet, every political party, every religion has its own agenda. Read if you must but believe little.

The most sold and least read book, isn't it online already?

The human race has survived worse and even thrived in the ice age, perhaps in a 100 years Antarctica could be a viable place to live, the countries in the northern hemisphere will no doubt have a renaissance with improved weather conditions. Sorry about the southern regions though, many will be partially submerged if conditions worsen but there's plenty of room in Siberia, it may even be possible to grow rice there later.

Two unstable leaders, Trump and Putin, what could go wrong when things escalate.

or a passenger plane or reentry capsule.

That's what they say openly at least... just in case. How they actually vote is another matter.