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That's a great list. Brings back memories and reinforces MSM reliance on fear to reduce the pace of their dwindling readership. What is very annoying is they never go back and say "oops, we got it wrong". Can also add the many Nostradamus doomsday prophecies, he was a busy fella. But daily climate change, end of the world reports (little exaggeration) takes the cake. I recall reading about 10 years ago, how all the MSM agreed to have a climate change story every day. It was a credible site, listed all the participants, about 50 of them from around the world including NYT, WP, LA Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, CNN, BBC, ABC. They were proud of undertaking their civic duty to ensure everyone understand the dire situation of the planet. The kiddies probably suffer the most.

A good sign of poor intellect. Such an inane response to a post you probably had trouble comprehending. Western politics is really very simple - Idealists tend to vote left wing and realists to the right. Swinging voters decide. And lately they're rejecting left wing parties that took their ideologies too far at the expense of their worker base. WSJ is kinda right wing, but like other NewsCorp media is capable of critiquing Conservatives and in this case, Trump. Rare to see NYT, CNN, WP, The Guardian, BBC, and all the other dying media be as objective. Just prattle to their diminishing herd, is funny to read them all regularly. Love Washington Post's Daily 7: Guaranteed 2 to 3 Trump shrills, could include an anti Musk or Hesgeth rant, always 1 climate doomsday story (like temperature record somewhere or really strong winds oooh), often a cute animal story (aw) or a sports grab and then a couple of real news items. Says a lot about their bolted on readers. You bang away BLMFem, and one day you might see there is a limit to ideologies, in the hard realities of this world.

Don't think you luvvies get it. Of course Trumps ratings will be lower - there is some pain in getting big things done. Things that both Dem and GOP Administrations have kicked down the road for way too long. For all the carping of the increasingly irrelevant MSM, much has already been achieved, which the likes of NYT and WP blithely ignore, just as they did Biden's health. Can you luvvies think of many? There are some big ones there. Because so much has to be done in a relatively short period of time, the US is having to take some medicine now - no relying on the timid status quo, ever increasing debt, waistlines and putrid anti-west, pro all sorts of silly ideologies. Let's review his ratings in two years as we might be well on the way to a much better US than last few decades.

While I a lot of sympathy for Ukrainians for what they've endured, I believe regaining Crimea is a lost cause. It has long been Russian then Soviet territory and was ceded to the Ukraine by the Soviets under Krushchef in1954 for political purposes, when Ukraine was a prominent member of the USSR. Never did the Soviets envisage that Ukraine would become independent. Over 80% of Crimea are Russian ethnics. Russian will not agree to any peace without keeping Crimea. As for the eastern parts of Ukraine, which also have large Russian ethnics, that also will be tough in the current situation. Russia now holds the much stronger cards, unless Europe can grow some, but probably too late for that.

The hypocrisy and/or shallowness of the Woke brigade is breathtaking. Western societies have had enough, the powerful ideologues went too far. You don't have to be right wing to be have deep concerns about: 1. What is taught to children regarding sex. At what age do you folk think sexual orientation should be addressed at school? Let alone treating gender re-assignment as being quite normal, and nothing to tell your parents about. Don't know how some of you can sleep at night. 2. Critical race theory - that's right THEORY became a mantra in Anglosphere. So most white people apparently suffer from unconscious racism. Taught again to kids. In Australia, Caucasion students apologizing in class for their supposed ancestors' behaviours. Lord knows what the Asian kids make of it. Crikey my Grandad was a Colonel in the White Russian army and my parents taught me to respect all races while some of their friends were gay. 3. Anti-colonialism proliferates in our universities. Monuments defaced. Slavery is portrayed as a European colonial initiative, ignoring thousands of years of slave trade along the Silk Road and widespread in Africa. Western societies led the banning of slavery, but most kids, even adolescents unaware. Is it any wonder rates of adolescent depression in the West have soared to unprecedented levels. 4. DEI has reached ridiculous levels. Company policies, applying quotas and inane repetitive reporting. Who voted for this <deleted>? Well they're voting now. Many people wouldn't be aware of the silliness unless they work in corporations. 5. Speakers from anti-woke circles are banned, sometimes by governments or often from speaking at universities. Anti-woke celebrities cancelled. The cancel culture of the Woke brigade is abhorrent and devoid of respect for another's view - talk about free speech. So often, trying to have a discussion around the subject with Woke folk is not possible as quickly degenerates into personal attacks (you're just racist, or denier of colonial injustices etc etc) rather than discussion of the issues. I tend to find these people naively well meaning, devoid of historical context and unaware of what the Humanities and Law Departments of universities have turned into. Hey, unis were left wing, as I was 50 years ago (still see myself as Centrist), but it's much more insidious now with the history distortions and contempt for capitalism. Meanwhile, the workers were left behind amongst this righteous, divisive, unproductive, and ultimately corrosive chapter in the West, most prominent in English speaking countries. The rest of the world are either bemused or in some cases virulently opposed to the Woke movement, unless they want to join the anti-colonial bandwagon.

“Every time you fly, sulphur, which is naturally present in jet fuel, is emitted into the lower most stratosphere causing a small cooling effect." Huh? Thought we weren't meant to fly these days, but maybe sail 😅

My 98 year old F I Law lights up when I visit, or when he sees me on WhatsApp and says "farang, farang" like some long lost chum. As far as his Isaan geography goes, his youngest daughter of many, lives much of her time in "farang". My wife and I often use the term, to differentiate between a Thai or a Caucasian who did this or that. Or maybe the person was Chinese or Indian. Is simply a way of saying Caucasian as far as I'm concerned, and never felt the slightest bit offended. And agree with another poster who explained Thais routinely use aunt, brother rather than their name, and often distantly related. Tia is Ma Fa as she is an older sister who adopted Fa. Find it amusing that people could be easily offended, but is a sad sign of the times. Precious snowflakes abound.

Lived in Indo twice and traveled quite extensively, was like a 2nd home for me last century. You're right about the south, last time with the family 30 years ago. Stopped by Ubud last half a dozen times among visits to other parts, Lombok & Gili T, though not been to northwest Bali other than travel thru to Java. Is the only Hindu society outside of India and quite a special place, outside the 24 hour party zone.

What odds! My first visit was 1976 and those few bungalows 🥰 Again in 1986 with our young family followed by a couple of regional sales meeting visits and witnessed the same gradual demise. Last visit about five years ago was private and decided it was a lost cause. It seems to have got even worse in the last few years. Bali visit late last year showed it has similar problems, but agree Phuket is definitely worse.

Haha bendejo I've a global finance career behind me and don't need to follow Fox when I can get all the light relief I need from ABC, BBC, Guardian, Washington Post and New York Times amongst my serious media of Politico, Al-Monitor and The Australian. But I still read the left/green shrills to get some balanced perspective and you? As for market manipulation, hardly hair splitting when it either is or isn't. The SEC won't find a case to answer, while all the petty benign luvvies and legacy media can knock themselves out.

You'll to have to do better than that. Which friends, which shares? How much, when did they sell and when did they buy back? You're also assuming it was his plan all along when the media is casting it all as a panic, knee jerk response.

Everyone knew it when he advised before his announcement, "This is a great time to buy" so no insiders! Had he not said this, there might be grounds for insider trading, yes?

How can it be insider trading when he advised everyone hours before the announcement that it is a great time to buy? So everyone got the tip before his 90 days deferment. Who are the insiders? Also flies in the face of legacy media purporting that Trump had to change his mind in a panic as bond markets reacted. Bessent and Trump discussed the scenario on the weekend and Trump spent a couple of days monitoring and ultimately deciding to change tack. In the meanwhile, many countries have already started trade negotiations with the White House and China is isolated. Looks like a great outcome at this stage but lets see how it all plays out.

Will try freelance, manage my trades and other investments digitally wherever I go. Live 6 months of the year out of Thailand, and travel fairly extensively inside and out. So I'm a digital grey nomad 😅

I work remotely managing my active portfolio (super fund), plus fixed securities and a rental property - hoping that will get me across the line. Anyone have any experience with this?