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Very little to do carbon zero/green policies. The wholesale price of electricity depends mainly on the most expensive resource used - which is usually gas. https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electricity-pricing

Nothing new about this, has been going on for years. Seizing all the laundered money is a nice little earner for the UK government. Cannabis and Vietnamese nail bars are the same - a money laundering operation.

Free speech in USA? Not if you support Palestinians (I do not mean Hamas). Israel of course, is always right and Palestinians are Evil. The truth is somewhat different. Fake news, mass Immigration and wokeness gone mad has created a lot of problems in the UK, but still a hell of a lot safer than USA.

Neither EU or UK use USA wheat any more, i think. THE UK's top 9 sources of imported wheat do not include the USA. I guess the only countries which need it are those suffering severe drought and famine. And those rely on USAID programs ... oh crap, there gonna starve.

OL, you got me, i should have said what the AI said! Actually only 15 years, thats when i came to live in Udon. But if you have been trying to catch me out and it took 15 years, I think that is a damn good record!

Amazing. Some people are so far down the rabbit hole, No point in trying to explain MMCC to you. We al know what happened to dinosaurs, Or maybe you think it was the great flood....

Exactly my thoughts.

Hmm manners. you scorned my claim, and i politely pointed out you were wrong, You didn't dispute the New Zealand data i provided. Thus, you were not fully informed. Hence need to educate yourself more on this subject.

You need to consider what happens if you cannot find a legal job. You say you are on a marriage visa. Do you have 400,000 baht in a Thai bank? Do you have an passive income stream in your home country providing 40,000 baht every month? You need one or the other to get a visa extension of stay, How much cash do you have? Enough to provide 400,000 baht a year for the rest of your life? What about a pension? will your home country provide one in 30 years time? You have to consider the future. My wife has a shop like you suggested your wife will do. I can tell you no way will it provide an income sufficient to support a family of 4, except at poverty level. Another factor, Once you are in Thailand, your wife can divorce you, and the kids will not be allowed to leave the country unless your wife agrees. You are gambling with your future.

In Udon Thani never felt it, Even 2 dogs slept through it.

Apparently constructional steel was taken away for testing from the wreckage, suspected to be inferior? New building regulations came into force in about 2009 which meant that new buildings need to meet earthquake standards - older buildings do not. The fact it was the only high-rise building to collapse does suggest failure to meet construction standards, The blame game now starts.

You mean a new dark age - at least for the rest of us. And if Trump doesn't pull it off?

The level of Religious intolerance on this forum is unbelievable. Better not post while you are in the UK. 😱

Ask the politicians who set up the formula. The SLC just administers the loans - it is the University or college who should check attendance - the fraud is being done by private 'universities' who pocket the tuition fees, allowing the fake student to get the loan. For a start, SLC should only be allowed to provide loans to UK citizens.

Funny really. Many of the Maga fanboys on here accuse the Democrats of being Marxist's. To most Europeans, The Democrats are right of centre. The Republicans are far to the right of nearly every European party. The fanboys wouldn't know what hit them if they had to deal with a real Marxist.

The reality is that UK (and most of the rest of the world) cannot go green overnight, There will still be many cars running on Petrol in 15 even 25 years time. I believe in going green, but we need to ensure we have some oil and gas until then. Just use these new resources in a miserly way to cut down on imports - not for export.

I do not understand what Caesium 137 has to do with Iron smelting - it is a product of Uranium fission so only found in nuclear waste or radioactive fallout and is practically unknown in the natural environment. How the hell did it end up coming out of iron smelting?

So, once the 25% tax on vehicle parts kicks in, it will increase the cost of American cars by about 10%, maybe more. That does not include any increase in cost of raw steel and Aluminium, already under new tariffs. Then if those foreign car part makers cut production, due to higher cost, there will not be enough parts to import to make the extra cars America needs.... I give it about 6 months before the US auto industry is in disarray. it might be better in 2-3 years time, but maybe not. As someone said, Europe now sees the USA as an unreliable source for military equipment. In the short term they might buy more, but the EU is putting in place a subsidy for buying EU only. F-35 sales already curtailed, and anyway it has proved to have low reliability (under 50% at any one time) and is too expensive. Ukraine's drone expertise will be leveraged for EU's rearmament. I am sure many other countries will also think twice. Thailand's exorbitant tariffs will come home to roost, they can hardly increase them! With the car industries in Europe, UK, Japan and Korea struggling to adapt, China will be well equipped to make inroads in the developing world.

New Zealand gets earthquakes. after the Christchurch earthquake a few years ago, parts of the coastline rose by about a metre. I think your 12 mm per year figure for sea level rise is wrong, and maybe you meant 1.2 mm. Here is a wikipedia link about sea level rise in New Zealand, suggest Thaibeachlover educates himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise_in_New_Zealand#:~:text=Sea level rise in New Zealand poses a significant threat,for infrastructure in coastal areas. from the link above: and

This is cherry picking. Sea levels in san Diego are rising, and have risen by about 6 inches in the last 100 years. Remember California is an earthquake zone (Subduction of the Pacific plate) which tends to cause uplift of continental crust. There is a reason why the Rocky mountains are on the West coast... so sometimes, in some areas, land goes up. elsewhere it goes down. Read the link below: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/research/climate-change-resources/faq-sea-level-rise-and-california#:~:text=In the last 100 years,sea-level rise is accelerating. If to lazy, here is an extract from the site

Yes the OP is all nonsense. As said, icebergs are already in the sea, so melting has no effect on sea level. Also the bit about threats to plankton is crap too. Actually, the melting of the iceberg will release trapped nutrients and cause a plankton bloom (therefore good for fisheries in the Antarctic), There would be some disruption caused to South Georgia wildlife purely because of its size blocking part of the coastline probably for years.

Just build a bloody big concentration camp on an uninhabited island. House them there until they are either found to be legitimate asylum seekers or otherwise useful migrants. Rest deport or if unable to do so, keep there.

Rwanda is not safe. Involved in a proxy war in the Congo, danger of turning into a regional conflict. Cancelling the plan was fortuitous.

Of course. My ex-wife was African. Exchange rates - I use a UK fee free Credit card at the counter in my Thai bank. Only fee is the interest before i pay it off. exchange rate beats wise usually.

Never had a claim rejected. Saved 40,000+ GBP - No Insurance....