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The protesters, rioters(?) or social media posters were arrested, tried and sentenced quickly and efficiently, exactly in line with the Home Office and Starmer's announcements before their arrest. Ricky Jones (Labour councillor) was caught on video making his statements demanding that throats should be cut. It will be over a year before his case will even come to trial.

Clearly not a risk that was considered when making statements before the arrest and trials of protesters, rioters(?) or social media posters.

One of the "selling points" often made for the Grippen is that it is capable of landing and taking off from roads. What is usually ignored is that these stretches of road are specifically constructed/reinforced to take the stresses of having aircraft landing and taking off on them. Furthermore just about every road in Thailand is lined ( often on both sides) with concrete utility poles.

In all the places where alcohol is not to be sold on the 31st of January.

The bloke (bodyguard) in the front right hand side of the Mercedes was wearing a seatbelt, he survived the traffic accident. I owned a Fiat Uno for a short while. It was the ultimate in crap cars, and I have owned some appalling heaps over the years, I used to buy old bangers on EBay and throw them away when the tax or MOT expired! If I wanted to stage an accident, or get involved in high speed dodgems with a big heavy Mercedes it would be my absolute last choice.

....through the eye of a needle at 30 paces!

You haven't answered the very relevant point made by @Petemcc64, that with the overwhelming evidence against the children's killer, it would be virtually impossible to put his trial at risk of collapsing.

They're working on that one!

1) I am not particularly anti - American, although I admittedly dislike Trump and his regime ( rather like a lot of Americans). That dislike has been reinforced by his demands for other countries to allow themselves to be subsumed into the US. I very much doubt that any regime put in place in Greenland would be remotely as benign as the one you describe applies to Alaska!

I am rather partial to a glass of cider from time to time - I wouldn't know about health benefits but it certainly makes be feel good. In my youth, when assiduously plied to young ladies, was known to aid procreativity!

Third, I worked for an Admiral for a while in the MOD - his staff warned me he was barking and - boy oh boy, were they right!😂

There is an alternative narrative. The US takes Greenland. Their medical and social programmes are handed to the less than tender care of the American insurance companies, (effectively ended). The big mining corporations move in to exploit the islands resources (the real reason for Trumps demands). The indigenous people, who are largely Inuit, will be ignored, the Danes amongst the population will be expelled. We all know what happened to the Indigenous peoples within the mainland US when any resource wanted by big businesses was found on their lands! Within 10 years Greenland will be like Puerto Rico with a much higher chill factor, the native people rotting in reservations, and the landscape scarred by mining. Incidentally "The Greenlanders, who are not native to the island have been exploited by the Danes for years." The Greenlanders, Danish or Inuit, have been living on the island for longer than the USA has existed - arguably in fact for longer than White people have been settled in North America!

Without a doubt the way in which the WHO is run is in need of thorough reform. It is however the only organisation in the world which fulfils that role. Health and fighting disease are global problems which pay no heed to political and national boundaries. The world stands on the brink of another pandemic - avian flu, which is reported as having already crossed into other species, in the US of all places! Wearing a red hat is clearly not working! Moreover I would not be surprised to see funding and the role of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cut dramatically.

Quite possibly - some of not all the various steps suggested in @JimHuaHin's post before yours may well be put in place. Any dissent or opposition within the Republican Party will be destroyed, and voter repression will take care of opposition outside.

Perhaps. But will there actually be an election in 2028? Something framed perhaps along the lines of: Trump won a mandate in 2024, he needs more time to fulfil that mandate ... Let us see what happens in the mid term elections.

So how many will die, in the US and worldwide, as a result of Mr Trump's grandstanding? Evil fellow that he is!

I'm British, and I find both of them pretty loathsome. I dislike nationalist bullies and socialist aparatchniks equally.

I honestly don't think shame even registers. He is an out and out racist. It is a foul creed, but he revels in it!

He needs to open up "investment opportunities" for a number of very wealthy people who gave him an awful lot of money. "Here is Greenland, drill baby drill, dig baby dig" would be well received.

When Mr Trump next needs to distract/deflect from something that has gone wrong he will "release the files"!

When he next needs to distract/deflect from something that has gone wrong he will "release the files"!

Chap in a black uniform demands to see " your papers". No papers, into the bus and off to the camps! Been done before - anyone care to suggest when and where?

Thank you.

Basically, can it be done? I "manage and arrange" a weekly English Language Mass at the RC Cathedral in Chiang Rai. All our English Language hymn books were written off in the floods, and currently I am printing off 50 or so copies of the Order of Mass and the Hymns (5 pages a copy) every week. The Cathedral has two projectors and screens which are linked to the Bluetooth network which would allow for a PowerPoint presentation instead of printing paper. Can it be done from an Android Tablet? Bear in mind that in technological terms, I am jolly good with steam locomotives and sailing ships, not so much computers!

I am not sure using the military will be an option anymore - under their "new management". The time constraints are a bit of a problem: Monday is recovering from the weekend, Wednesdays is "happy hour" down at the strip club, which rules Thursdays out, and Friday is getting ready for another weekend session...