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I just want to know where it is written in the US Constitution that the USA has the right to decide by fiat who gets to be the leader of another sovereign nation and who doesn't... I've looked, but I can't find it...
Just research the last 19 times the US has imposed regime change in the last 100 years and examine how they have turned out...
Manufacturing propaganda, then repeating it until it is accepted as fact is no longer playing on the global landscape... Russia and China are finally standing up to US rhetoric... Here is an interview with Putin where he calls a spade a spade...
youtube.com / watch?v=VbZDyr2LkdI
And his speech before the UN last week...
youtube.com / watch?v=q13yzl6k6w0
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I would make a comment about the capabilities of Thai IT engineers, but it would just be deleted as Thai Bashing... Just let my non-statement statement speak for itself...
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“Why can’t we talk to find a way out? It is better than persuading people to cause damage to the state,” said Mr Somsak.
When was there any "talk" on this topic before the government unilaterally announced that it was tightening censorship on Thais? As the saying goes, control the message and you control the masses...
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As expected, western rhetoric attempting to make Russia look bad because they are not targeting locations approved by the west...
On the other hand, how do you tell the difference between Syrian rebels and ISIS fighters? The answer is simple, you cannot because they are one in the same...
Would love to hear your reply if this was the US, giving the world one hours notice of the attack. I don't think you'd be saying the same thing....
If you think ISIS and the rebels are the same, you need to do some serious research. The rebels want Assad out of office. Always have. ISIS has completely different goals. Though getting rid of Assad is one of them, but for completely different reasons. IMHO, it's a disgrace to put the two in the same group. They are totally different.
ISIL compels people in the areas that it controls to live according to its interpretation of sharia law.[285][302] There have been many reports of the group's use of death threats, torture and mutilation to compel conversion to Islam,[285][302] and of clerics being killed for refusal to pledge allegiance to the so-called "Islamic State".[303] ISIL directs violence against Shia Muslims, Alawites, Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac and Armenian Christians, Yazidis, Druze, Shabaks and Mandeans in particular.[304]
ISIL fighters are targeting Syria's minority Alawite sect.[305][306] Islamic State and affiliated jihadist groups reportedly took the lead in an offensive on Alawite villages in Latakia Governorate of Syria in August 2013.[307][308]
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24403003
The Islamic Front does not include al-Qaeda affiliates like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and the al-Nusra Front, but its charter welcomes foreign fighters, as "brothers who supported us in jihad", suggesting it is willing to co-operate with them.You are quoting wiki and the Beeb? No more reliable than MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS or any of the other zionist controlled mass media western networks... See how that works, my posts and links get deleted while I have to refute yours...
Follow the money, that is all you need to do... Here is a hint, it all leads back to London and Washington...
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As expected, western rhetoric attempting to make Russia look bad because they are not targeting locations approved by the west...
On the other hand, how do you tell the difference between Syrian rebels and ISIS fighters? The answer is simple, you cannot because they are one in the same...
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From NotTheNation perhaps?
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I'll make a little prognostication... This time next year Assad will still be in power, while there will be regime change in the House of Saud...
America had it's chance to go after ISIS and has shown a lack of commitment to complete the task, all the while Russia and China have been watching events unfold, including the mass migration of people from the region to Europe... This destabilizing event for western Europe prompted Russia and China to act to put a stop to the madness... They have given Washington ample time to correct their mistakes by creating ISIS in the first place to take out Assad, but the mass migration to Europe tipped the scales... With both Russian and Chinese having military on the scene in Syria, Washington will either have to step up their actions on the ground and not their rhetoric or face losing further credibility in the action... Russia, China, Iraq, Iran and Syria have formed a strategic alliance to remove the ISIS threat whether the US likes it or not... Checkmate...
Not checkmate...Syria has nothing the Americans can use other than taking away Russia's buffer zone.
The conflict in Syria is a proxy war which was instigated and is perpetuated by the US for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar... The US is looking after Arab interests, not their own...
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I'll make a little prognostication... This time next year Assad will still be in power, while there will be regime change in the House of Saud...
America had it's chance to go after ISIS and has shown a lack of commitment to complete the task, all the while Russia and China have been watching events unfold, including the mass migration of people from the region to Europe... This destabilizing event for western Europe prompted Russia and China to act to put a stop to the madness... They have given Washington ample time to correct their mistakes by creating ISIS in the first place to take out Assad, but the mass migration to Europe tipped the scales... With both Russian and Chinese having military on the scene in Syria, Washington will either have to step up their actions on the ground and not their rhetoric or face losing further credibility in the action... Russia, China, Iraq, Iran and Syria have formed a strategic alliance to remove the ISIS threat whether the US likes it or not... Checkmate...
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But of course it wasn't a terrorist attack...
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This was Boehner's last hurray (cry) in front of the media, so of course he was going to throw the GOP under the bus... Boehner was about to lose his role as Speaker of the House through opposition in his own party due to his kowtowing to Democrats on every major issue for years... With this knowledge, he fell on his sword and is taking a last swipe at the party that gave him the power and lined his pockets... This is not the first time he was due to lose this role in the House, with the last time ending with him gaining enough Democratic votes to save his Speakership...
The GOP and their base has been incensed with the leadership of the GOP party in both the House and the Senate since the Nov 2014 mid-term elections, when GOP candidates ran on a platform of opposing Democratic initiatives... This platform handed the majority of both houses of Congress to the GOP... After the elections, both Boehner and McConnell have usurped those objectives and have bent over on every major issue proposed by the Democrats... The base is pissed and this is the result... A member of the GOP leadership has already called for McConnell to resign too...
Call them angry if you like, but I would be pissed too if I elected someone to Congress or the Senate, only to have them do the exact opposite of what they promised to do... But isn't that what all politicians do?
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It's all about image and face to these people.. To hell with facts, as long as things look good in the media...
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This will all end in tears as these "refugees" will wind up in camps in the EU, where their dreams of a better life will be shot down just like MH17... Then they will revolt and begin reeking havoc all over the EU because there are no jobs, social welfare is limited and their dream will become a nightmare, not only for the "refugees", but for the citizens of the EU...
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My buddy Somchai down the soi has some pretty nasty things to say about the Royal Family... Is is my responsibility to defend his beliefs and for me to be held responsible for what he thinks? I think not...
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Pretty much the same in any country that requires degrees for the simplest jobs! USA springs to mind!BA`s and MA`s are not worth the paper they are printed on in Thailand.
Don`t think they are recognised abroad.
You don't know what you're talking about.....!
Unless a young Thai person has outstanding qualities that shines through, then they are just another one of the millions of Thai people that have a degree.
Correct-o-mundo... A foreign national with a MA or MBA can get a H1B visa from a US company in a heartbeat... The only downside is the pay will be 60% of what a US employee would make and you are more or less a slave as the company can revoke your status at any time... No sponsor, no visa...
On the other hand, there is a glut of US college graduates with MA, MBA and PhD degrees that are living at home with mom and dad because they can't get a job... Why, because all the H1B foreigners took our jobs!!!
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How much can a degree from a university behaving like this be worth anyway?
About 500 baht on Khao San road...
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If you are bored and have that been-there-done-that mentality, it might be time to look inward for fulfillment... Take up meditation and contemplate the fuzz in your navel... You might find that it recharges your spirit and reinvigorates your desire to get out and enjoy life... Either that or take a trip to Pattaya for a week!!!
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Talk is cheap on the campaign trial...
No one holds a candle in shamefully shredding the US Constitution like our sitting President...IMHO
Examples please.
I think Dubya ignored it more.
Good point... Both parties in the US have shat all over the Constitution since 9-11-2001... Dubya began with the Patriot Act, which the original drafts were created years before the "terrorist attack" in NYC and DC... It would almost appear that there is an agenda from within to subvert American sovereignty...
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Oh please, since when does The Nation participate in US partisan politics? This is becoming ridiculous when a 3rd rate rag takes a shot at republicans on this topic, especially when you consider how the current DEMOCRATIC administration has shit all over the Constitution for the last 7 years... Get a grip, then get a life...
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Once again Jeb gets confused on his platform... How can he be against multi-culturalism and support an open borders policy?
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WaaWee Coffee... My GF is hooked on their Ice Boom Cappuccinos...
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The kidnappers should have picked a better spot because the governor of the Davao province has death squads and is not afraid to use them...
My friend in DC speaks highly of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
Death Sqauds may be too much for some, but Duterte has been elected to several terms and keeps a tight lid on crime, especially street crime.
I was in Davao City in 2013 when a group of kidnappers got taken out by these guys... They were holding a woman they had grabbed in Manila a few weeks earlier... There was a brief fire-fight in the street a few hundred meters from my hotel and several of the kidnappers were killed, the woman was released... You don't mess around in Davao...
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The kidnappers should have picked a better spot because the governor of the Davao province has death squads and is not afraid to use them...
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If you want to acclimate to the weather, you need to get out in it... Find an activity that gets you outside for extended periods of time... Play golf, go cycling, go hiking, go to the pool, just get outside... I enjoy the heat and after some of the places I've lived, northern Thailand is not hot to me... I do admit to using aircon in the evenings, but just to knock the edge off the humidity in the house...
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We are at the dawn of a new US tactical error. Such action will only result to weld a little more Muslims against them and by extension against all the West.This conflict is not ours. It pits two factions of Islam in a land already destabilized by the American military intervention, coming after the painful rout in Vietnam and also before the same in Afghanistan.It should be time for this great country to finally learn the lessons of the past ...
Unfortunately this will only lead to more war... War is the only thing that will cover up the financial malfeasance of western banksters and declining economies, plus it will rid the world of some "useless eaters"... Always remember that the winners write the history books...
I need a good Company that sells Health Insurance in CNX
in Chiang Mai
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I have my health care insurance through a French company named ACS Worldwide, brokered by the folks at Assist Thai Visa on Chiangmailand Rd... Broker is an English bloke named Andy, so no language barrier... Can't comment on the quality of the insurance coverage as I've yet to need it, touch wood...