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1 hour ago, BarraMarra said:

Khun Thaksin has an agenda to jail the army chiefs who stole his premiership and send  his sister into exile. He hasn't forgotten who stabbed him in the back. By the way when the older members who mention how Thailand was in the good days remember Taxi was in charge then.

I doubt that was part of the mission given to him....

13 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

no, but it was spread far & wide by all the bought out MSM, implying it was what was actually said , millions of msm viewers think that was what DT said, when it was FALSE...basically schiff was spreading 'misinformation' (as you guys are so quick to point out when it comes DT). but lets give it a pass when it comes to those 'fact checkers'...double standards . com!! 

Not true. The MSM published the original transcript from the WH, as Politico did.

Which misinformation did Schiff spread, exactly?

https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/sep/30/context-adam-schiffs-dramatized-version-trump-zele/

7 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

so, thats a NO then. otherwise he would been convicted....same as the non existent  rape conviction, 

 

and yeah, i prefer him to creepy ol' joe aka '10% for the big man', the 50yr career politician thats worth millions on a basic salary... but you guys are blind to the fact because.....Trumps bad M'kay. pull your heads  out your arses. 

The usual baseless claims. You can check the sources of his wealth in his tax returns which have been made public for years (unlike the Orange man)

12 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

yes, i know it was, did you read the transcript? pencil neck schiff made his own fictional version up and tried to impeach trump over that, it didnt even happen, purely in PN's head and exactly why the impeachment was another 'nothing burger' like Russian collusion, and everything else they have politically thrown at DT.
show the transcripts from a direct source like the white house rather than an edited version....

The first sentence of the Politico article:

"The White House released a readout of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski"

Schiff presented an interpretation of the phone call in a speech, he never claimed it was the original text.

On 4/26/2024 at 2:25 PM, dinsdale said:

He's a powerful operator who has been in control of PTP since he fled the country. Everyone knows this. He was the one that organised the deal to get himself back and his sister with what I would imagine to be a very expensive deal with the military elite. Thought PTP might win the last election but that didn't happen so I'm sure it cost him extra big time to pay off the senators so as deny the rightful victors government to form a coalition with what the PTP has always been opposed to. The military elite. So many Thaksin supporters will not forget this. He jumped into bed with the enemy.

His return has been decided at a higher level than the military elite....

12 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

I guess we now know at least one of the items that was up for discussion the other day when Teflon Thaksin had His meeting with the P.M.

10 hours ago, DaddyWarbucks said:

Dear Poo is almost home free at last.

Thaksin's meeting with Srettha the other day probably began with the invocation "Let us prey", and proceeded to work out the final details.

In Thailand, the government certainly doesn't control the NACC and the Judiciary. It's decided at another level.

7 minutes ago, johng said:

You fail to see my point that China will allow a "different" set of speech

not free speech no-one allows that  but a different set of opinions to combine many different sets of speech/opinions then you can make up your own mind..

(not the CIA,NSA,CCP well hopefully)

China has no say on what is allowed or not  in the U.S. They cannot "allow" a different set of speech. U.S regulations apply. Since the servers are in the U.S.

2 minutes ago, johng said:

Why the heck does it matter if its a Chinese shareholder  spying on you

or an Uncle Sam shareholder...both are terrible   but having 2

(more's the better ) competiting "systems" at least allows some small degree of diversity of thought,expression,opinion...some would call different opinions mall,miss,diss information or propaganda..I'd say the more speech,viewpionts ,opinions  and platforms to express them the better.

Since when is China promoting free speech and free thinking? Lol! Try to write Winny the Poo on Wechat when you are in China.

If I have to be spied on by the U.S. only, or by both the U.S. and a fully authoritarian and rival State like China, I prefer to be spied by only by the U.S.

41 minutes ago, johng said:

No B.S.

It is completely about censorship and control...facebook,Google etc collect as much if not more "user data"..the difference is they spy for the CIA ,NSA,FBI 

so all's good right ?

 

Warrantless searches all hunky dorey "for your own protection"

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/12/what-is-fisa-warrant-surveillance

 

I know that. But the aim of the bill is not to increase censorship or surveillance (of course, TikTok is already spied by the NSA, just as Google). It's above removing the Chinese shareholder.

Edit.

It's not only the NSA. Since TikTok servers are located in the U.S. for U.S. users, its data is subject to the same laws as Google and others. It means that the U.S. agencies have the same access as with Google and others.

34 minutes ago, johng said:

Ever heard of BRICS ?

Have you ever looked at China trade statistics? And BRICS is neither an alliance nor a trade zone.

The main trade partners of any BRICS country (apart from Russia) are NATO countries and allies.

Here are the China trade statistics by country.

http://english.customs.gov.cn/Statics/e1351568-5e17-4534-affd-c369e3506613.html

15 minutes ago, bradiston said:

Thanks. Very enlightening.

Oh, and I forgot to stress that the title of the OP (Schoolchildren are converting to Islam 'out of fear' in German schools: Study warns) is misleading.

In the BZ original article, the title is that a member of security forces sayd that, not that the study stated it.

6 hours ago, johng said:

Anyone noticed that so called liberals are suddenly in favour of no freedom of speech,censorship,cancel culture  done a complete 180 on "my body my choice"  and now  fully support the deep state

(CIA,FBI,NSA etc etc) intruding into every aspect of their life ?

B.S. That's not the issue. The issue is about removing the Chinese shareholder, not about censoring Riot on.

2 hours ago, thaipo7 said:

Tug - Your answer has merit.   China is buying cheap oil from Russia and Iran.  Trump had Iran in a box and your hero Biden let them out and gave them billions more to boot.  The oil Iran is selling is funding Iran to fund all the terrorist groups in the area.  Biden - Always on the wrong side of history.  John McCain warned us how bad Blinken would be and he is right.  Biden and Blinken are both anti-semantic.  The Blinken State Dept. put out a 103 page report on countries guilty of war crimes and the name at the top of the list is Israel.  They, together want to destroy Israel and the United States and are doing a great job of it.  thaibeachloves posted the truth. 

Complete B.S.!

And Blinken would be antisemitic? Are you really that ignorant? 😅

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

 

What's he going to do, slap him with a wet fish?

 

Blinken has proven himself to be a nothing, a tinkling bell of insignificance, a man without integrity, a liar and a loser, IMO.

 

The US is attacking China on various fronts, so it's a bit rich for Blinken to go there and make demands.

 

China has countries it makes money off, and allies. The US is not in the allies category.

Russia is an ally, and China will support it, so nuts to Blinken.

 

Anyway, the whole thing is blatant hypocrisy writ large. The US sends billions of $ worth of weapons to Ukraine but demands that no one supports Russia. What planet is Blinken orbiting, Uranus perhaps?

China's trade is dominantly with NATO countries and allies such as Japan, SK, OZ, etc.... and the U.S. is the first trade partner.

2 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

Yes -- and maybe this will be helpful explaining it to the jury.

Thanks for the picture! I understand better now! 😁

4 hours ago, frank83628 said:

yes, pencil neck was a fantastic name given to him by DT, the impeachment based on a telephone call?, which he actually didnt hear, just made up how he thought i would have gone.

not bashing Mueller, just the 'nothing burger' report

 

yawn. 

The phone call was recorded. 😆

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/25/trump-ukraine-phone-call-transcript-text-pdf-1510770

13 minutes ago, bradiston said:

There seems to be a trend on AN to not publish any sources for their lead articles. As commentators, many of us do do just that, so why don't you?

See my post above.

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

I hope you are right, but even if they do, there are going to be few of them, and I suspect fewer military people, although there may be a huge group of Thaksin fans.

It's not a real election of Senators, rather a selection, and the government is not involved in it. It will likely be controlled by the old elite.

6 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

You mean like when you guys claim he's guilty of 91 crimes, but none of you seem to know what they are? 

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

 

No, I asked what the people that the topic of this thread have been charged with, and because you don't know, you post an irrelevant link, and then when I point out that you don't know, you call me names.

 

Not only did you not know the answer, but you also didn't even know what was being asked. Typical. 

And it's not like you would have mentioned 91 crimes... 😀

3 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

You must give him credit? as he is good consistent at it

Right. He's more talented than Bignok/Dolf was.

Anyone noticed that right-wingers and conspiracy theorists are supporting the ownership of TikTok by a Chinese company?  😀

29 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Attempting to overthrow democracy, but we can wait three years to prosecute them, got it. 

 

What are the charges? 

Again.