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The Chinese are trying to bust into the trouble making foreigners league.

True democracy is a myth, unless of course you have managed to see such a strange creature.

Are we to gather from your post that you don't like him?

He's OK

results for what? I am lucky with my genes, never ever had any health problems despite my smoking, everybody else I know in my age group or younger suffers from some age related problem or other, knees, back aches, arthritis etc while desperately clinging on to their 'youth' with diets and exercise, I continually surprise myself, waiting for aches and pains that never come, I am still stronger than my 16 year old son.

I'm just jealous, if I do anything at all I walk 2 or 3 km around the lake here, at 76 running seems to me to be an exaggeration. I'm actually quite fit and slim and will climb on the roof to clear rain gutters, cut the grass etc, play with grand kids but there has to be a reason for my activities, the lure of a computer and air con are hard to resist. My brother is a keep fit fanatic at 70, mountain bike and sailing, 6 months ago he broke his neck biking but survived, my father did a lot of sailing and heavy gardening, his third heart attack killed him. At my age I see no point in being the fittest corpse in the crematorium. One has to enjoy what one does, if running is your thing go for it, my earlier post was tongue in cheek, no offense intended.

A dance misstep.......

Anyone running a marathon in this heat has a mental problem and deserves a heatstroke.

For every dish you will have the can.

Manage the compensation for the damaged car? Who is going to pay?

This time next year they'll be trillionairs

Ahhhh, the company one keeps.

The falang is having a hands on experience.

You forget that at that time there was only one country with nuclear weapons. These days its use is a threshold that nobody should even consider crossing, once that taboo is broken Pandora's box is opened.

Seems like a lesson on how to ruin your health while on holiday....... talk about excess.

No they don't but they are sensible enough to realize where strength lies. It's easy enough as a keyboard warrior to be brave and principled until you yourself are threatened with financial ruin or violence if you don't tow the line, it's called accommodation, accepting the reality of things as they are. Who here wouldn't dump his principles for the chance of making some huge profit......lots of oligarchs in London owning mansions in Knightsbridge bought with suspicious money, the authorities don't look too closely. How long did it take the justice system to nail the Kray twins in the UK, it was difficult because police and influential figures were on the take. Mocking others is easy if you don't look to close to home.

Whereas the Germans and the allies never engaged in such activities. Every nation has its historical dark side, especially the UK and the US. It is a mistake to judge a whole nation on its leaders, ordinary people just want to get on with their lives but governments, outside interference, ideology, religions and the greed of the elite make that impossible, especially with the media with vested interests is standing on the sidelines cheering on their benefactors.

The court case has nothing to do with his visa. Anutin has the power to revoke his visa and is basically telling Urs how it is, 'You can appeal but it will fall on deaf ears, stop wasting my time and go home'. Anutin wants his brownie points from the press. When one reaches a certain level in any government one is no longer a public servant but a lord and commander, sometimes all it takes is a traffic cops uniform.

Disgusting, he probably has a mind like his body, I do hope he gets found and thrown out.

It's BS. I painted the rice barn in my back garden 5 years ago when coincidentally 4 IO officers came round checking visas, they were impressed with my work, my missus told them that I had been on the roof that morning cleaning the rain gutters, one of the officers (20 years younger than me) said he could use me at his house as he wasn't fit enough for that type of work. However this is Isaan, things seem to be more relaxed here and nobody gives a $hit what I do, especially in a farming village. During the harvest I am also in the fields helping out, nobody has ever said a word.

The itch is the same everywhere, king or beggar, monk or politician.

It was Henry Kissinger who said, "To be an enemy of America is dangerous but to be its friend is fatal." Let us start with the premise that no major power is benevolent. If we take an old democracy like the UK we can see that during its long history it has invaded more countries than any other nation. When you say the US which US are you referring to? The industrial military complex, the government, CIA, its Central bank, the FED, Wall street, all of whom have enormous power, or the ordinary people who have no power in the daily workings of government.? People are like sheep, they are easy to manipulate, every government is aware of the power of propaganda through the media which is controlled by the elite for their own nefarious purposes. 'America bad, Russia good', 'Russia bad, America good'. It is impossible for the normal citizen to see beyond the curtain of lies propagated by every country and government. As Churchill once said, "A lie can travel half way around the world before truth has its boots on'' The truth doesn't matter, perception is everything. Mccarthyism, 'reds under the bed' is a typical example of how the Industrial military complex was able to make vast amounts of money (and still does) by fearmongering, dissenters were classed as communists. Likewise the Soviet governments (the elite) were able to keep their grip on power by identifying the West as fascists who wanted to destroy the 'workers paradise'. Both the Soviets and the US have crushed the will of the ordinary people worldwide if they dared to vote for a system that brought them out of their respective control, the CIA and MI6 were veritable experts at the subtle undermining of the peoples will while the Soviets were unashamed at using brute force. Some have made a lot of money from the Ukraine/Russian war but not the tax payer (sheep). It has caused turbulence in the whole world, increasing inflation and interrupting supply chains for industry. Nato (America) (the elite not the people) seeks to widen its sphere of influence and Russia (the elite not the people) perceives itself as threatened. Georgia was offered Nato membership, Russia invades, Ukraine in talks regarding Nato and EU membership, Russia invades. America put rockets in Turkey, Russia puts rockets in Cuba....the Cuban crisis. It's poking the bear, it doesn't end well. Nobody asked a farmer in America or Russia for their opinion because if the truth be known all they want is to get on with their lives. Ukraine is a pawn, a plaything.

Exactly, what??? Democracy, like communism, is a philosophy, a theory, they don't exist in reality. Asians have their own philosophies and are doing nicely thank you, they don't need Caucasians to drag them into their wars. Australia and NZ aren't Asian societies and already cooperate with the West....AUKUS and the 5 eyes are examples. Japan, South Korea and the Philippines already brush shoulders with the US while keeping their respective Asian identities while Thailand is pragmatic, dodging and weaving, shadow boxing and placating, it serves them well. Keep your cold wars and arms races in the labyrinths they are already locked in and don't make the world even more dangerous than it already is. Nato, i.e. the US caused the Ukraine/Russian war by poking the bear in this region for years, talks of Nato and EU membership (against all agreements) were the last straw but it's never the US that suffers the consequences.

Sad, sad, sad

Well I'm pleased to say that this isn't something that I have witnessed. I have noticed that the steel beams painted light blue that hold up the car porch roof gets a soot like dust film that I clean off once every two years. One has to look at field burning as something that happens once a year as opposed to traffic pollution which is all year round, especially in big cities, it wasn't too long ago, before leaded petrol was banned, that the dust collected on window sills in London contained enough lead as to be of a mine able quality and that had gone on for 60 years. All human activity produces some form of pollution. I'm not saying I agree with field burning but one has to offer farmers (who aren't well off) alternatives, to say, plow the rice stalks into the ground, ignores the fact that plowing is expensive.