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I do like a good fig in the morning.

No different from any other government. Politicians aren't experts at much at all, they have their advisors who are experts but they have to concede to the political ideologies of the day if they want to stay in their job. It may be that AI as a guiding tool has a future but getting good advice is one thing, taking it is another, 'Yes Minister' showed the truth. We are all human and hence prone to making mistakes but add arrogance, power and a sense of self entitlement into the mix and the mistakes can cost billions and cause misery for millions.

I don't think EV's are the way forward, if every driver had one the grid couldn't handle it. There are alternatives in the making with hydrogen engines being one of them.

Obviously mentally ill and a danger to others, one can only hope he is caught quickly.

I understand now why my sister always said, stay away from doctors.

Actually the Euro and pound have strengthened against the dollar even though the interest rates will fall in the Eurozone, probably in tandem with the dollar, and yet both currencies have weakened somewhat to the Baht.

Of course we impact nature but we are also a product of nature, every animal impacts its environment, sometimes positively, often negatively. The greatest danger will be to the third world, it will be every man for himself and the weakest in every country will get short shrift, it will be no time to be disabled, unqualified or old but mankind will survive. One mustn't forget the possibility of geoengineering, there are several plans already but have never been tried out as what would be positive for the west could be detrimental to Africa and India by altering the monsoon rains for instance but if push comes to shove I doubt these problems would concern governments of rich nations. Enormous progress has been made getting energy from nuclear fusion, many industrial nations are working on this together, including Russia and China as clean cheap energy is a number one priority for the planet.

Yes, no borders but no means of transport either and they didn't know whether it was any better elsewhere, it took several generations just to move a few hundred kilometers, following herd movements. Today adaptions will be by means of technology. In Alice Springs in Australia the Opel miners built homes underground, it is also possible to build underwater cities, if that were to become necessary mankind would obviously be thinned out as would many species of mammals. Strangely enough it is now thought that several species of dinosaur survived thousands of years, maybe a million, after the extinction event, life isn't so easily wiped out, sentient beings are the only thing giving qualia to the universe.

So your EV (electric vehicle) is more toxic basically than a modern petrol engine when taking its production into account and where does the electricity come from that you tank up with.....sun flowers?

When Hannibal crossed the alps the mountains were snow free. People have always adapted to climate, they even live in the Amazon jungle and lived during the ice ages. Harvests will change although man's ingenuity knows no bounds, there are now flood resistent and heat resistent rice strains

The irony of his statement will be lost on him.

So are car exhaust fumes, let's ban cars. I've read somewhere that making an EV produces such toxicity that you would have to drive it for 15 years to equate.

I believe wise is also included in the CRS agreement as a vehicle of money transfer. There seems to be a false assumption here that a banks confidentially duty can hide your assets, CRS has done away with that as far as taxation is concerned.

That's assuming one pays tax in a DTA home country, if not a DTA wont be of any use.

Trump loves Trump. It isn't only the left that dislike him, any reasonably educated person can see that Trump's low IQ is a danger to society in general and an embarrassment to the country. His red neck supporters love him because they can understand his 3rd grade English, his lack of knowledge is on par with their own so that makes him one of their own. He has lied and cheated all his life, he has not only refused to pay lawyers bills and county bills for his rallies but also bankrupted SME's by refusing to settle accounts for work done on his properties (yes, he loves the American worker).

I asked the German tax office about taxation, they told me that my pension isn't taxed in Germany because they assume it would be taxed in Thailand, so I haven't paid tax anywhere for 20 years,....... now is pay day.

My Grandfather died of stomach cancer at home 70 years ago, the doctor would make daily visits to give him morphine, eventually my grandmother begged the doctor to help him on his way, he said he wasn't allowed to do that but he could increase the morphine dose to ease the pain, an hour later my grandfather was dead, so the doctor had let his humanity rule over laws in the end.

Their amulets were a bunch of cr@p

Not really, if it had worked the tree wouldn't have fallen on her car.

Of course, all before my time, I'm referring to normal everyday living, like not getting shot by cops or having your children murdered in school, things like that.

No, I wouldn't say a sheltered life, I'm quite adventurous and have changed my environment several times and have worked in several European countries and changed professions 3 times, I learned to speak German fluently and learned to speak Bavarian through a romantic affair with a German bar girl and now here I am since 20 years in an Isaan farming village. I've never suffered violence of a physical nature, that isn't to say that I haven't encountered dangerous situations, a threatened mugging in Switzerland (he got nothing) and a threatened stabbing in Turkey by a group of youths but I was always able to deescalate situations by talking calmly, that was difficult in Turkey as my intestines felt as if they had turned to water but bravado with a little humour has always helped me get out of situations unscathed, using martial arts in Turkey would have got me stabbed. In Belgium I was picked up by some workmen in a lorry who started asking pointed questions about having to have a lot of money to travel around Europe (I had a stack of DM in my pocket) I could sense where this was heading and convinced them I had to work my way otherwise I would be taking the train, they threw me out after 1 km. when lying it's important to act relaxed and naive, never had to use violence and as a skinny 21 year old I would have come out worse. It's a case of using your brains and listening to your instincts.

Trump will be tweeting his fingers raw now.

A relationship maybe.

From who? The zombies.

About time too, even pets are allowed a merciful death if terminally ill and in pain. It's disgusting that anybody should suffer in pain from a terminal illness if they are willing to die.