herfiehandbag

It will continue, and continue, until some lunatic or group of lunatics kill someone or a group of people. Then, unless very firm action is taken to shut down these people, it will descend into an asymmetric civil war. I also rather expect that if Trump loses there will be political and racially based "revenge killings". If he wins we will see vigilante groups rounding up and holding any they regard as "illegals".

Lieutenant Generals in real armies command Corps, made up of two or more Divisions, or are the directors of major arms and services in posts such as Director of Infantry. They don't help out at hospitals!

Sure, and Mussolini made the trains run on time! You asked for names, I gave you a link, with two names, dates and places. You still say it was nothing to do with Prayuth! He had just staged a long planned coup; nothing political, nothing, happened without a nod from him. They were murdered, in a particularly gruesome way, and it was made sure that their bodies would be discovered - it sent a particularly powerful message to the "established opposition". What is the saying? Oh yes, there is none so blind as those who will not see!

We'll just have to keep the existing Senate, as caretakers, for the time being (at least until the next election) whilst they investigate and thoroughly search the long grass. Shouldn't take more than 3 or 4 years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46965839

She looks like many Israelis, who for several generations have mixed European and Middle Eastern "races". Hasn't worked there has It - stopping attacks on them I mean. It is not inherently racial, it is inherently religious.

So this is what happens, cutting pages out of school science textbooks to support political positions!

What a revealing comment!

I trust our bold gendarmes have paused their investigations to consider the context behind these protests!

Finding his political opponents floating in the Mekong River, their bodies weighted down by filling their eviscerated stomachs with concrete was perhaps one of less harmless and refreshing aspects of his regime!

He is bitter, his laptop hasn't worked properly since he spilled Chang over it, and the only charging point is too far away from his favourite bar stool!

"Break of gauge" is no longer the chaotic business it used to be. Containers have simplified it massively. Transfer of passengers is also straightforward, especially if they have to detrain anyway to go through immigration.

Then look at long distance bus, van and truck traffic - do the taxes they pay, including on fuel, cover the costs of constructing maintaining and controlling the road system? Transport and the infrastructure it requires is realistically a cost to be born by a society. If it wishes to develop. Rail is the most ecologically sound system readily available. As an additional plus, you can collect engine numbers!

There have been that many record breaking new train services announced over the last few years that Nong Khai station must be looking like the country end of Clapham Junction!

That just might be because the people (who they?) voted for one government but instead got a very different one, in which the previous regime, which they rejected emphatically, still has a substantial presence?

No, because the victims on the 7th of October were Jews, and, by historical precedent, in certain theological pronouncements and in (just) living memory, Jews are supposed to line up meekly to be slaughtered. Unfortunately for many zealots, religious and political wingnuts, the current incarnation of the Nation and People of Israel have developed this notion of "never again"!

The " Palastinian Chronicle" according to an earlier post.

Al Jazeera is possibly not to be trusted, given that the female hostage was being held in the house of one of their journalists! Still, if you have lost what could probably be described as one of your lead hostages - a pretty girl, with a heart rending back story of a dying mother hoping against hope to see her again before she dies - creating "a massacre" at least gives you something I suppose. Mind you, if there indeed had been killing on that scale (which I I don't for a minute believe) what were two children doing playing unconcerned in the wreckage? Cynical, Moi?

But if you had joined the IRA they would have had you, within weeks of not less.

Tell you what matey, I wouldn't have taken the hostages in the first place, in "my book"! That is why the IDF attacked those two locations. That they got all four hostages out alive, suggests to me that they moved extremely quickly, to get to the hostages before Hamas could kill them. In and out, hard and fast, get the hostages and get them out. Don't muck around hunting down civilians to massacre them. That is what " the book" teaches. I have seen various figures quoted for casualties, from 55 up. Israel seems to reckon that 20 of those casualties were Hamas terrorists. The civilian casualties are, I say again, and will continue to say, an inevitable result of Hamas's despicable and cynical policy of using it's own civilian population as human shields. In this case probably close up human shields. Finally, "Of course one can't believe what Israel says"! And one can believe Hamas? Only a couple of weeks ago, even the UN ( hardly the most impartial of sources) revised their estimates down significantly. At that time Hamas was claiming 30,000. Despite the revision their claims were then increased to 35,000 and are now standing at 37,000. These claims are entirely unverified, and no verification is allowed. Hamas is widely known, accepted, expected, throughout the International Community, to wildly inflate it's claims of significant casualties. The same frenzied dramatic arrival of ambulances, filmed from different angles, is presented as different casualties. Film exists of rows of shrouded bodies moving to scratch themselves, assuming a more comfortable posture and even sitting up to drink from bottles of water. The news media, a hard-bitten bunch in my limited experience have a phrase for It - they call it " Pallywood footage". I have no doubt that there have been many civilian casualties. That is inevitable when one side in battle is deliberately using the civilian population as shields. I don't think that the numbers are anywhere near those claimed. If they were in the claimed area of 37,000, one would expect expansive coverage of massed graves, that part of the jigsaw is missing. I was at Srebrinicia in Bosnia not long after the massacre of some 9000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys. I can assure you that you would need an awful lot of real estate to bury, 37,000 bodies. An awful lot of space. Gaza is one of the most heavily surveilled places and one of the most crowded places in the world. If nothing else, you can't hide the bodies, or their graves, and you certainly can't hide the smell. My book, and some experience as a soldier.

If Hamas had not taken the hostages in the first place, held them captive in houses in a built up area, and ensured that civilians were not used to shield those guarding the hostages, then there wouldn't have been any casualties. Of course what we don't hear from Hamas is how many of those killed were their fighters - Israel suggests around 20.

What a gob on her - imagine waking up next to that!

So not so much "Video killed the radio star!" as "Government killed the radio star!"

Effectively no.

Well, no, within at the most a couple of months Hamas will start firing rockets again into Israel, and continue preparing for their next raid on Israel.