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Something to add now that I have watched the final episode of "The Narrow Road to the Deep North".......I had always known about the terrible and inhumane treatment the Japanese inflicted on POWs and others whom they "conquered" and at one time in my life after visiting the Peace Park at Nagasaki, I vowed that nothing like that (the bombing) should never happen again. However again seeing the inhumane /brutal treatment dished out by the Japanese, and including that done to the citizens of Nanking, I now could not be persuaded from thinking that the bar stewards got exactly what they deserved......the Japanese in general paid for the crimes of their soldiers. So be it. The series overall was good, but nothing outstanding IMO and made for a solemn viewing over two nights.

I was using pycnogenol for a few years and although it was expensive, I kept buying and taking it to try and cure my BPH, which it didn't. Later I tried to find an alternative and found out that pycnogenol was a trademarked name and was processed specifically from French maritime pine bark, using a patented process – – which meant that no other manufacturer could sell something of the same name even though it came from the same tree. Somewhere I did have information about a similar product which tested favourably but which couldn't be called pycnogenol, but could be called "pine bark extract" or similar, but I've lost that information in years of computer mishaps, and the best I could find is the following which appears to have similar properties and may be worth a try..... https://mb.cision.com/Public/20679/4058674/a211c74441b287ef.pdf

I too grimace when I read the anti-vaccination nonsense and the nonsense about there being no such thing as a virus or bacteria and it makes my blood boil. I too was born in the UK just after the Second World War and remember getting the MMR vaccination and my mother was very pleased that I did, however polio was still around in those days and I had many experiences with kids who had contracted it, so my mother was extremely pleased when the vaccination became available for polio sometime in the mid-50s. But already the effects of polio on children were all around us and the leg irons and wheelchairs were a common sight. In fact I spent the first seven years or so of my school life being the "carer" for a boy called Peter who had contracted polio and was paralysed from the waist down, pushing him around in his wheelchair in the two schools that we went to. I also remember other kids with leg irons on and in those days I wondered what had caused this, and of course as the information about polio and the vaccine to prevent it became available, it became quite clear. One of the saddest times was when I was in my teens and there was a particular coffee shop in my town which kids of my age would use as a meeting place, and in that coffee shop I met a quite lovely/very attractive girl who would have been about 17 or 18 and she had contracted polio and she was basically paralysed from the waist down so she wore the leg irons, but she had a great personality and didn't seem to let it bother her. Furthermore her parents were fairly wealthy, so they bought her a little three wheeler car (similar to the Reliant Robin I think) and adapted it so that she could basically drive it (don't ask me how) and that's how she came to visit our coffee shop. I hadn't seen her for a while and wondered as to her whereabouts, and it was then that I heard she had died, having crashed the little car and being trapped in it because of her leg irons, and was burnt to death – – poor girl. So all in all, I don't have good memories of polio and I'm so pleased that I was able to get vaccinated and the amount of vaccinations I've had over my life, including quite a few for tetanus for injuries, and from football, and various vaccinations for diseases when I worked overseas in Africa, have probably saved my life. I haven't counted how many but it would easily be in double figures. I admire the posters on here who take the time to do their research and explain the ins and outs of vaccines and vaccinations and the stats which are provided, including trying to disprove the absolute nonsense which is posted, but as can be seen, it is an uphill task trying to educate those that cannot be educated.

Following on from my post, "The World will Tremble" in which I mentioned the Nazi death/concentration camps, I started to watch the series "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" and the brutal treatment of prisoners by the Japanese was also a very grim feature of the series. I haven't watched the full series yet, but will finish it over the next couple of nights and no doubt there is more cruelty to come, and this made me think about how war seems to turn every day average citizens into brutal murderous fiends. As for the Japanese treatment of prisoners of war, well it wasn't just confined to POWs, because if one reads the book, "The Rape of Nanking" then not only does that outline the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese (ripping unborn babies out of pregnant mothers and parading them around on the end of their bayonets) it also contains some gruesome pics. Iris Chang, the author who researched this particular book and others relating to the Japanese treatment of Chinese folk, later committed suicide and it was posited that the depression she had been fighting for quite some time was as a direct result of the research she did into these atrocities.

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Last night I watched the movie, "The World will Tremble" and I enjoyed it although it was not what one would call a blockbuster, all the same it was based on a true story and highlighted the plight of the Jewish folk in Nazi Germany. Watching it brought back memories of when I was a teenager in the early 60s and I had watched a documentary on the BBC which showed footage of the concentration and death camps which were uncovered by the Allied troops at the end of the war, and it was shocking, nauseating and almost unbelievable what happened to these poor folk. I remember going to work in the factory where I was serving my apprenticeship in England and spoke to an older German guy (tactless as I was) about what happened to these Jewish folk and how come that there were towns and villages not far from these camps, so surely somebody must have seen or suspected what was going on? His reply was that nobody else knew, but this was later laid bare by a second documentary which showed footage of the time whereby German citizens in the towns and cities were catching and beating Jews, so the hatred of these people was not just confined to the Nazi death camps. Such a sad episode in the history of the world.

I also didn't realise that Will, but there are those out there who will surprise with their ignorance and stupidity and as I don't suffer fools gladly, I have put those very people on ignore!! So I will see no more of their posts, thank goodness.

Thanks Will......and to follow on from my previous post it can be seen, yes, there for all to see, that the post by Stiddle Mump in which he said: "None of these quoted, are caused by a virus Sir". is plain nonsense and if I am labelled as having a "superiority complex" then it wouldn't hard given the stupidity shown by others on here.

Well, you couldn't be further from the truth with regards to being "full of anger" – – never was and never will be, although I do get annoyed when folks like you and the others in the cabal ridicule proven medical research and results by experts in their fields, and that makes me annoyed and amazed because I just can't believe that such ignorance exists in this day and age, but it does and you and the others are proof. I don't know how else to describe the blatant stupidity and ignorance I've seen on here and I was sincerely hoping that AN would take some action, but now it appears that anyone can post any nonsense they want and it won't be challenged – – so sad. So for anyone wanting to believe that viruses don't exist, that disease cannot be spread from human to human, and that vaccinations now and in the previous decades were useless and dangerous, then this is certainly the forum for them. Richard_smith237 has certainly put out some great posts with great and truthful information, however whatever he posts will be strangled by the likes of you and the others in the cabal. And yes I have put quite a few people on ignore, especially the likes of the people who say that viruses don't exist and so on, because it's a plain and utter nonsense. And for the record I wouldn't have to put people on ignore "to create a fantasy world where I am the genius among fools" because it's pretty plain that one wouldn't have to be a genius to be smarter than the posters here believing this nonsense. So in effect you and the others have elevated me above the likes of you and those posters, and for that I thank you!! No, I don't have a superiority complex, I just believe in the science, the research, the results, the peer reviews and the experts in their fields who have made major advances in medicine and who are not afraid to publish their results/papers, despite folks like you and the others who don't believe in the science and the great work which has been carried out by these experts and how many lives they have saved in the process.

Just the one??? Plenty of them race dangerously up and down Patong roads, seemingly with no-one to stop them......the French Africans being the worst.

Great, informative post @richard_smith237as are your following posts on the subject of vaccines, their history and how they work. I am surprised that you are even entering into discourse with these dipsticks and bozos, because you are clearly at a level so far above them and all they can do is to repeat nonsense that they "pick up" from somewhere, probably from a book like, "how to appear stupid without really trying" or from damaged grey matter. You will also note that the "thumbs down" emoji has been applied, probably by this little cabal of idiots, so best move on as you have no hope of "educating" them, thank you for your intelligent and reasoned responses and just for the record I have these dipsticks on ignore because I saw the low level of their intelligence many posts ago.

No she just looks like a man.......but she is as mad as a Hatter!! Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and her husband Perry Greene made headlines in December 2022 when it was revealed that they were officially divorced after 27 years of marriage.

Me too and I would think that you have MANY supporters on AN who would agree with you.....including me.

Well that will help the "poorly educated" trump fans!!! Maybe trump should read it because he doesn't understand what causes a trade deficit either!!

MTG is an out and out nutjob........and of course a staunch Republican!

He was the boss of the "Absolute group", the timeshare outfit of old, esp in Phuket/Patong.

You are wasting your time with this nut job.....I quoted viruses that are known to exist and which are capable of killing humans, but to no avail. As my dear old Mum used to say, "he isn't the full quid" and that is why I put him on ignore some time ago as I have no time for his nonsense.

Putin is still in charge despite trump saying he would bring the war to an end on day one of his presidency. This is how its going.......Vlad is holding the winning cards. LoL

Picking up on that point, or at least one related to it, I read an article regarding China seeking to reduce the amount of rare earths which were previously exported to the USA, which are vital to the electrical and electronics industries and came across this little piece of information relating to a factory which was built in the USA to produce rare earth magnets...... "After the embargo in 2010, the Japanese company Hitachi Metals, which changed its name in 2023 to Proterial, responding to concern from the administration of former President Barack Obama, built a rare earth magnets factory in North Carolina from 2011 to 2013. The Hitachi Metals factory, with several dozen employees, had higher costs than the giant complexes being built in Ganzhou. American companies proved unwilling to pay extra for magnets produced in the United States and switched to Chinese suppliers. Hitachi closed the factory in 2020 and the equipment went into storage". So in effect, the American companies switched their buying to China because it was cheaper to do so, NOW the orange buffoon thinks he can quite easily bring back the manufacturing to the USA and all will be well – – yeah right. The American companies wouldn't pay back then, and there's no reason to suspect they will now either, especially with the cost of labour and other essentials being higher at the moment than they were then. The poor American public were promised that manufacturing etc would come back to the US and all would be hunky-dory, but in the real world, NOT Magaland, the reality is quite different.

Keep drinking the Kool Aid as I have never posted a "conspiracy theory" about the convicted felon, compulsive liar, multi bankrupt, charity thief, University scammer and grifter (still wearing your gold sneakers?) because the truth is out there and is plain to see. Touche.

Well I am not a Biden bro/supporter and if you really think that trump would give that much money away without some form of recompense from elsewhere then you truly are one of trump's poorly educated Maga goobers. LOL!