In the jungle

I think you are wrong about that.

If the police cannot justify parking PC Plod on his doorstep then I cannot see the security services devoting resources to it.

I think the ball is really in America's court now.  If they were to seek his extradition the situation would be quite different.

"Mr Assange remains wanted for a much less serious offence (breaching bail). The MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) will provide a level of resourcing which is proportionate to that offence.”

From the Guardian.  Additions in parentheses are mine.

The inference I draw from that is that there would no longer be a 24/7 police presence outside the Ecuador Embassy.

You forgot GPS bracelet for tourist and compulsory tourist phone SIM.

Both real winners according to Popcorn.

Pretty sure that Elise is a Monza (series 2) roughly 11 or 12 years old.

Zinc plating is reasonably easy and cheap to get done in and around BKK.  If you need any details for that area let me know.

It is chrome I have problems with.  One company decided that a part I gave them already prepared needed further preparation so they polished the manufacturers logo and all other markings off.  It was a rare fifty year old contact breaker cover.  I am still looking for a replacement.  

Surely seeking to establish a back channel of communications with the Russians that bypasses US national security apparatus is in itself suspicious.

There are good reasons why such systems are in place.

1 hour ago, Andaman Al said:

 

 

Now what do the Trump supporters say !!

Not up yet.

Tired from all that winning.

That is from the BBC's website.

"A Russian state-run bank under investigation in the US "financed a deal involving Donald Trump's onetime partner in a Toronto hotel tower at a key moment for the project", The Wall Street Journal reports.

The paper says that Russian-Canadian developer Alexander Shnaider - who built the 65-storey Trump International Hotel and Tower - put money into the project after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from a separate asset sale - relating to a Ukrainian steelmaker - that involved the Russian VEB bank.

US investigators are examining possible links between Russian financial institutions and Mr Trump, "a person familiar with the probe" is quoted as telling the newspaper.

*Edited for Fair Use Policy

They shot themselves in the foot.

I am not particularly interested in the detail of this issue but surfing the web today I stumbled across it repeatedly.

By seeking to get Facebook to ban certain pages they ensured that the content spread to the point where their ban is futile.

Surely Trump can produce the 'tape' to prove his version of events 

"Reporters spent much of the evening camped out outside of Press Secretary Sean Spicer's office, hoping for answers.

At one point, a reporter spotted a handful of staffers, including Mr Spicer and Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, walking into the Cabinet Room.

Muffled yelling was heard coming from the area near the room, but after a reporter tweeted about the noise, press staffers quickly turned up their television volume, blasting the sound to drown out everything else."

From today's Telegraph.

It's going to be interesting to see how he is received when he visits Israel and Saudi Arabia this week.

There is an article that has just appeared in the Guardian that says that Microsoft are now providing an update specifically for this virus to members of the public with some earlier versions of Windows including XP.

I think Trump would be more of a Banjo guy.

I am not a big football fan but I thought it worth mentioning that there are two very good pieces in today's Guardian.

The first is a photo shoot of the new and old stadiums.

The second is an article on the history of the original White Hart lane stadium with photographs going back as far as the 1930s.

4 minutes ago, In the jungle said:

The "tapes" really helped Nixon.

 

They should haul Trump away in a straight jacket. 

I take that back.

Go through due democratic process and then haul him away in a straight jacket.

The "tapes" really helped Nixon.

They should haul Trump away in a straight jacket. 

The two Russians cannot contain their glee at the chaos that is Trump.

3 hours ago, hansnl said:

But the price remained the same!

 

Exactly.  That was my point.

Same price but 15% less coffee.

I did notice yesterday that a 400 gramme box of Red Cup coffee is now 340 grammes.  

Same price.

Everyone already knows the specification.

It's going to be substandard.

2 hours ago, docshock13 said:

Hi CMKiwi, maybe you or other posters can enlighten me about a strange phenomenon I noticed while driving through countryside at night: I see a single headlight coming at me from the opposite lane. Suddenly the light is switched off, the motorbike whizzes past and when I look in the rearview they switch the headlight on again! I am not being facetious, this has bothered me for years and really want someone to explain the logic behind this procedure to me. Any idea what it is all about?  Cheers! The Doc

They switch from high beam to low and low does not work.

How do you say "food poisoning" in Chinese?

Hope they have that covered.

Thai Intelligence says that the Laos submarine fleet plans an attack.