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4 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Remember, motorcycle taxi stands only exist and are only there to funnel undeclared income to senior people, usually police and military. They are part of an illegal economy which is protected by a number of means, violence prominent amongst them.

Really? ....I thought they existed to shuttle people to and fro over short distances for not much money.

26 minutes ago, baboon said:

I despise Fox as much as the next man, but that video was nonsense. It provided no context whatsoever.

The video is titled "70 awful displays of sexism on fox news"...how much more 'context do you need?

1 hour ago, sgtsabai said:

 

it was absolutely terrible what the bombing and the unexploded bombing did in Lao, please take my word for it, when you are on the ground and it looks like all is lost the bombs are a godsend.

 

Really?

10 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Agreed.  But either way, he has a legal extradition request from Sweden.  He's just using the other issue to avoid going back.  Is he guilty?  Seems so.

Right... So you agree now that no guarantee has been offered, but you are just going to step over that and say he must still be guilty 5555555

What is he guilty of exactly, please provide specific details of what is being alleged?

25 minutes ago, JAG said:

I don't know the details, if you want to know yourself I'm sure that they could be found on the net if you are prepared to search.

I already know the details, so I know it would never fly in a uk court in a million years.

How you can think you're opinion holds any value when you've not even bothered your arse to research what is being alleged...it's simply silly!

3 minutes ago, JAG said:

 

I already have - its in my post (number 43), I said :

"Assange has reportedly refused to go to Sweden because the Swedish Government will not guarantee that he will not be extradited from there to the USA. They (the Swedes) cannot make this guarantee if the decision is ultimately made in the courts."

 

Right.... And you're still wondering why he doesn't want to go back to sweden?

55555.... Talk about not seeing the wood for the trees.

1 minute ago, Anthony5 said:

 

But he hasn't been convicted yet, they first want to question him to figure out if it is rape or not, so on what is the UK extradition decision based?

They already questioned him in Sweden and released him without charge.

Why dont they just come to the embassy and question him.....again?

4 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Yes, it has been answered.  With a link saying the US will not extradite him.  Again, so why not go?

Who said he wouldnt be extradited?

1 minute ago, craigt3365 said:

People far more educated on this subject are asking for him to appear in Sweden.  Why not go to clear your name? 

Already been answered... You need to read the thread again.

44 minutes ago, JAG said:

Are you seriously suggesting that the Swedish Government would be party to the "extraordinary rendition" of someone who is in their judicial processes?

 

Blimey, that really does stretch the imagination!

If not, then why have the swedish goverment refused numerous times to guarantee he would not be extradicted to the US?

Assange has said he would return to Sweden if they could provide this guarantee....so how do you explain their refusal to do so?

1 minute ago, JAG said:

No. I said that I am not a lawyer. Nor am I an expert on sexual crime.

 

Thats why I said "may well" .

If you dont what is being alleged then how can you know if his extradition from the UK is valid under uk law?

You might not be a lawyer but I'm assuming you've had sex before....and have a basic understanding of rape and sexual assault?

47 minutes ago, JAG said:

What Assange is alleged to have done may well not be classified as rape in the UK, but it may well have been regarded as sexual assault,

 

What is he alleged to have done which would be regarded as sexual assault in the UK?

Please go into specific detail...

14 minutes ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

Find me an announcement by a terrorist group anywhere in the world that can be verified as a fact.

I knew you would get there in the end.......

11 minutes ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

If it were not Muslim separatists then a Malaysian state news agency would not say it was them,

Research the difference between 'hearsay' and 'verified fact'.

12 minutes ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

6 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

And yet I can't find them... So please tell me the allegations behind the rape charge.

Assange is a known womaniser. He had consensual sex with one of the woman in the evening.  The next morning he spooned her while she was still dozing and didnt use a condom.  She didnt object or try to stop him.

She then proceeded to go alone and buy breakfast for them both at nearby shops.

After breakfast Assange left and didnt call her again. 

The one night stand with the second women is probably a variation of the above.   Somehow these two women met or knew each other.  They were pissed he didnt call them again.  They initially went to the police and demanded he be tested for STD....the police refused.  They also started talking to journalists about selling their story.  ...then likely smelled money, attention and revenge so they started talking about rape because he didnt use a condom without explicit consent.

Assange has always said he should be happy to go to Sweden if the Swedish government could gurantee he wouldnt be extradicted to the US...which they refused!

Assange has already been questioned by the swedish police on swedish soil but was released with no charges...it was only when the media circus rolled into town and the US began to look interested that they started saying they wanted to question him again.

according to a state-run Malaysian news agency.....and unnamed commander said

Then it must be true.

10 minutes ago, Usernames said:

 

History didn't begin in 1975. Read a book.

Nobody claimed it did so you can put away the straw man.... However I did look up your claim which is why I asked for the year .......... Are you going to tell us the year or not? What with you being interested in history n'all

14 minutes ago, Usernames said:

 Yes, the bombing campaign came in from Udorn.  But the Lima Sites were not US Air Force or US anything else.  The Air America guys, for example, cannot get a government related pension.  If they were CIA, they would have.  The best thing to compare them to is the American Volunteer Group in China during World War II.  In fact a lot of the early Air America guys, through CAT, came from Chennault's Flying Tigers origins. Funny how the Flying Tigers were heroes when fighting against Imperial Japan, but the Air America guys are considered villains by some for trying to hold back the biggest genocidal ideology in history, communism.

What a load of BS ..... Air America was run by the CIA and used for anything they wanted to do off the books.

1 hour ago, Usernames said:

 

After the Geneva Accords the US actually left Laos. 

You sure?.... If so, what year?

As I understand it the US left Indochina in 1975 after an ass kicking from a bunch of barefoot rice farmers using antique weapons.

1 hour ago, trogers said:

Mummify him!

5555

22 hours ago, DennisF said:

 

I suppose I have just become jaded with the so called powers that be and their transparent lack of intellect, forcing the populace into submission through  subliminal threats.

We're still waiting for the real world examples of how this has directly effected you to the point where you want to leave Thailand?

I have a sneaking suspicion you would feel significanttly less jaded by logging off Thai visa for a while.

7 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

So you don't approve of democracy then? Only Scotland can vote, and the other members of the UK get no say. Usual nationalist tail wags the dog theory. Scotland isn't currently a sovereign nation - get over it. It's an integral part of the UK. Any change to the UK should be put before the whole of the UK people. Not just a tiny part where less than half support the notion.

 

Following your logic the whole of the EU should have been able to vote in the referendum.

If the total number of bombs is known and the fail rate....then estimating the unexploded is fairley simple.

First time I went to Laos was in 1995, very limited infrastructure and only one real Road to speak of......I remember reading the following...

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From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped more than two million tons of ordnance on Laos during 580,000 bombing missions—equal to a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24-hours a day, for 9 years – making Laos the most heavily bombed country per capita in history.

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...thinking what Laos must have been like in the 1960's & wondering <deleted> were they bombing exactly, farmers and hunter gatherers?

Apparently scores of ancient temples were destroyed as these were the only landmarks the American airforce could find on their maps of Laos.

A war crime of the highest order....