Briggsy

Watch the bond markets. They are usually the first to sound the alarm.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/AwmqP3rKFSJHiSZg9 If the link works you will see the lovely footbridge right in front of Wat Na Jomthien that the victim presumably chose not to use.

What a loser!

Of course, it is one of the first 'discoveries' you make in Thailand.

It's a long way from Suphanburi to Bang Saen on a scooter although it is not clear if that is where the deceased 15-year-old boy and his family resided.

Erin Patterson would sort that lot out.

I wonder if the student has powerful parents.

Trump will ensure he and his acolytes make a healthy profit on trading gold/ETF's/currency as he controls the decision making which controls the markets. Then he will reverse the decision (i.e. chicken out) to broadly put the markets back in the position they were and profit-take. (Of course, the money he has sucked out of the market has come from ordinary people's pension funds so when he and his buddies win, others have to lose) Self-enrichment, on an unimagineable scale, is one of his key aims during his second term.

Those who think this meeting is any serious attempt at persuading Russia to adopt a ceasefire are sorely mistaken. Will there be any reliable US observers to the entire discussion? I doubt it. Trump is absolutely not an honest broker in Russia-Ukraine relations.

You wanted it, you got it!

The reason they come is the generous welfare state. They are limited in terms of its generosity at the outset but as their asylum claims are accepted or their appeals go on for decades they get into the benefits system. The question is how many more benefit claimants with increasingly fewer taxpayers before the Ponzi scheme collapses. They are coming for the free stuff. Except it is not free it is paid for by the working population who get nothing out of it. The one in / one out scheme is just a red herring, a drop in the ocean. Virtually nobody will get shipped out.

How does one extinguish this kind of fire, burning skin with thinner as accelerant?

It bothers me that the world's media reports these talks as a discussion to end the war in Ukraine. There will be very little discussion on this point. Trump is much more interested in self-enrichment, crypto, young girls, hotel and property deals, any dirt Putin has on him and flattering his own ego.

Those Sri Racha long-tailed macaques are going to batter this Bang Poo Johnny-come-lately. He will be betrayed by his Samut Prakan giveaway accent and fashion sense.

As the Thais would fatalistically say, "Look khon rooay"