Sir Dude

Sounds like a bleeding-heart far-left post there that implies that your opinion should be blanketly applied to all, CCP style, when so many disagree. Maybe you shouldn't try to oppress your will onto others? Let countries do as they see fit... even if that annoys you.

Up to Hungary, I guess... no different to other EU countries making unilateral decisions that benefit them (looking at you France, Germany, and Poland). Simple really, if you don't like it, then don't go there.

At that time the Nazis were national socialists, not fascists... Italy's Mussolini was the original facsist (black shirts) along with Spain's Franco. Only later did the Nazis become fascists because Hitler digged the ideology and how it was working out in Italy in the late 30s... and it is forgotten that many praised fascism in Italy (including many in other western democracies), plus Franco had just won a civil war against the far left communists, so it was pretty fashionable at the time. Franco even sent about 40k volunteers to fight on the eastern front (named the Blue Division, I think) for Hitler.

Well, the Volkswagon basically translates to "people's car"... and the Nazis took advantage of the VW Beetle that was designed in the early 1930s and finalized in 1938, so the car does have darkish origins as the Nazis were incharge from 1933 onwards. I guess you could say the same about Mitsubishi and them designing and manufacturing the Zero fighter and other bombers etc. too... but not like any of them had that much a say in it. Porshe also designed a rival to the Tiger 1 tank called the Tiger (P) but it lost out in trials and the Tiger 1 we all know went into production.

Where's the catch? So, people who have irresponsibly taken out debt and can't pay back have their NPLs transfered to a private company and thus pay less to help them out, thus giving them a clean slate with the national blacklist so they can borrow again... come on! There must be a caveat in all this if you apply for debt relief... wonder what it would be. What about all the responsible people who diligently service their debts and pay the sky-high interest rates at the high street banks (for example, SCB might charge you 8-9% on non commercial loans even if they are secured with land etc.)... what's in it for them? Why is it always the morons that get help? Help those that play the game and honour their committments too.

"CCP Foods" more like... no chance of them being held accountable on anything, even if they screw-up big time like they did on this issue.

Thailand is pretty high up on the trade imbalance list with the US (number 10 or 11, I think), so can see incoming tariffs for Thailand when the US gets round to it... plus a lot of Chinese goods are starting to flow through places like Thailand and Vietnam in an attempt to dodge the tariffs. However, Thailand can't really complain as anything imported here has huge tariffs on them already, think cars/wine/food etc. etc. (few are as protectionist as Thailand) and would simply be the Thais getting a taste of their own long-dished-out to foreign goods medicine (fairs fair)... can't have it both ways. Simple answer Thailand is to devalue the currency a bit and then your goods will still be bought tariffs or not, but that won't sit well with the uber rich here with all their little foreign business shenanigans.

Well, imagine that... Putler doesn't want peace. Just moronic to even think it's possible.

The government are morons... the demogrphic that spends and buys stuff is the 25-45 age group, and they are they ones left to the end. Couldn't make it up how inept and ill-informed these people in government are... huge facepalm.

I think it originated with a Labour MP (or MPs/Unions) but here's a couple of links from the Guardian and BBC... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/24/bank-of-england-unreliable-boyfriend-interest-rates https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44068508

Oh dear, a banker with little, if any, political experience in charge of somewhere like Canada... I remember him being nicknamed "The unreliable boyfriend" when in charge of the Bank of England.

I don't understand why antisemitism is being normalized but Islamophobia is being cracked down on hard. Isreal, despite its faults, is a secular democratic country that tolerales others from all religions, creeds and persuasions... which can't be said for the other side. Try to remember who kicked off the current round of hostilities by instigating a wave of killing that took 1200 people's live and more hostages. Also, if Hamas were truely Islamic, they they would have followed the teachings that to do something that causes great damage to themselves is unIslamic... that's Hamas for you... blood-thirsty fanatics. The reason no Arab countries will let the Patestinians in is because of what happened to Lebanon and Jordan when they did... was chaos. If the Arabs won't let them in, then why should anyone else? Only the far-left idiots in the West can't see reality.

Complete morons... looks like the hub of stupidness on this. Why aren't you protecting women and their space? I guess because you don't care. Not really much point having "women's sport" anymore as it will just be full of hateful violent dudes now. Can't say what I realy want to here as the thought police will chime in.

Best thing to do in any bar is to not run a tab, just pay for each beer as you get them (be organised with lots of small notes when you go out)... tip is discretionary at the end. Should have learned this long ago .

Well, imagine that.... corruption finds a way.

More debt-trap nonsense from China.... always attractive funding for countries that have nothing, but Beijing gets the infratsucture and control if there is default... look at SriLanka. I guess it works with weak hopelessly corrupt countries where the politicians have no accountability or intention to make the country better... just want to swell their Swiss bank accounts.

Talk about inconsistant and strange, but Trump says that Israel has a total right to defend itself against Muslim aggression (which I agree with), but somehow Ukraine doesn't... the optics are bad on this one. Best thing Europe can do is to man up and make itself militarily very strong, and then it can just tell everyone to take a running jump off the nearest cliff, rather like Russia, China, and the US does. If you are militarily strong you can do what you want and gives your country massive diplomatic leverage... a lesson Europe has forgotten. Time to wake up Europe.

Just cube the worst offender's vehicles instantly on the side of the road at inspection stops.

With the birth rate and demographic problems Thailand has, it's going to have to let go of this nationalistic and self-righteous nonsense on work in the kingdom... not going to fly. It's not just the falling numbers of younger people and workers, it's all those in the informal economy that don't whant a job that you pay tax on and just prefer to sit around being a micro-seller of convenience food or tat.

Funny, justify your existence... okay in goverment positions as much incompetence is perpetuated into the system through defaut these days... but will surely rile the freeloaders.

Not sticking up for Epstein, but he clearly knew too much and was silenced once the game was up for him... the story we are handed to regarding his death stinks of freshly laid brown steaming stuff.

The BBC knew exactly what it was doing and who was involved and, as usual, is pushing their far-left social engineering agenda through subliminal messaging and outright bias. The BBC should be put behind a paywall and then we'll see how many people want to watch this dross... certainly not your average taxpayer that is forced into an involuntary tax to have a TV. Such out-of-date nonsense.

Well, eating raw food is asking for it.

Well, kindnapping mothers and babies, then allowing them to die or be intentionally killed is, well, about as bad as it gets... then they can't even return the right bodies and put on a freak show in the process. Hamas/PLO is evil, no doubt about it... and if any of you are wondering why no Arab states will allow them in, then you just need to learn the history of what happened to Jordan and Lebanon when they did so back in the day, it was total chaos and resulted in years of war. Always makes my laugh when deluded people in Europe protest in their favour that have no idea who they are supporting... remember the protests with "LGBTQ+ supports Palastine" and they would be the first ones thrown off the nearest building. Idiots! Also, Arafat could have ended it as Clinton and Barak offered up the two-state solution, but he declined it in favour of a continued cycle of violence. Any country that lets in Hamas/PLO into their country is asking for trouble, hence no-one wants to do it.

The trouble with Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa is that most of these countries are teetering on the brink of being either hopelessly corrupt or just failed states (think Zimbabwe etc., was the bread basket of Africa and prosperous until Mugabe took over)... even South Africa is getting there after years of mismanagement, especially under Zuma, and you have political parties becoming popular led by dangerous racists like Julius Melena etc. Don't get me wrong, much of Africa is stunning, probably is party/nightlife central, and reasonaly priced... but politically stable and safe? No way for anyone really and crime is out of control in many places... just the MSM refuse to report on it as it doesn't fit their agenda.