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Why are there chosen, not elected, senators? 1.5 billion Baht. who gave the EC the right to chose who those unelected senators are? 1.5 billion Baht? what is the purpose of the senators and the EC? 1.5 billion Baht.

3/4 billion BAHT kicking around? The financial temptations (sorry I meant implications) will be considerable!

"Fire Discipline", the language / voice procedures used by artillery to control fire has a new phrase: as well as "at my command" ", "bearing", fuze details, time schedules, "elevation", it now has " if Joe Biden approves"! "Fire Mission Battery, grid 123456, direction 2000 mils, target supply convoy crossing bridge, at my command, ten rounds in effect, if Joe Biden approves!" Cynical yes, but having to fight a war with one hand tied behind your back inevitably leads to greater casualties and defeat. There has not exactly been any restrictions applied to the widespread Russian missile and air bombardment of Ukraine!

So, if the process to appoint a new senate ( it really is a stretch to call it an election), fails to produce the desired result, then the conditions now exist to decare it null! A cunning plan, Baldrick would be impressed!

Scotland Yard, The Surete Nationale, The Bundespolizeipräsidium, The FBI, and just about every other National Police Authority in the world are absolutely aware whenever Vorayuth is in their jurisdictions. However, as he will be travelling on a valid passport, likely a diplomatic one, and Thailand has, for "reasons unknown" continued (for 13 years) to not make any requests for his detention and extradition ( not dependent upon extradition treaties - they simply formalise and regulate the processes) there is nothing governments can do , short of declaring him "persona non grata" and expelling him. An action which they must weigh against possible consequences for their nationals in Thailand. Pragmatically, as they are aware that " influence" ensures that Thailand will not bring him to justice, and they will be aware that same "influence" could result in a venal reaction, they will do nothing.

Not at all, it happened! Goodness me, a comment, out of the blue, on a tongue in cheek 10 day old post, itself made in passing! You really must be digging down to find stuff to pick a fight! Have you thought of a hobby - train spotting has many devotees, and may satisfy your obvious passion for recording and cross referencing things to make lists for future contemplation!

Perhaps no presidential candidate has screwed a porn star (and I am sure it was for money - I doubt Ms Daniels did it out of unbridled list for his body), paid her off using political campaign funds ( money donated for political purposes) and then gone to the extraordinary lengths which Mr Trump and his cabal went to to conceal. Ever. Anywhere. In New York or Wyoming. Whilst I understand your aim is to be seen as an "honest broker" in the commentary on Mr Trumps legal imbroglios, lately perhaps "your slip has been showing"? An honourable mention for laying the ground work for a possible "we were robbed" scenario?

Hard to break the habits of a lifetime.

That should ensure any such programmes will "crash and burn"!

I doubt she will go to jail. Fined and bound over is my bet. Principal sanction is that she will have a criminal conviction.

Trump has been "taking" all his life!

A son who, it does appear, is suffering from mental issues and drug addiction, and who might benefit more from supervised treatment than revenge driven prosecutions; fuelled perhaps by the grandstanding Vice Presidential ambitions of the wicked witch of Georgia?

1) Norway was not neutral in WWII. It was invaded by Germany, defeated and occupied. The government went into exile in Britain. It maintained an active resistance organisation, and was liberated by Britain in 1945. 2) Being recognised by various countries, and international agencies will be of little comfort to the leaders of Hamas when Israel catches up with them.

1) Norway was not neutral in WWII. It was invaded by Germany, defeated and occupied. The government went into exile in Britain. It maintained an active resistance organisation, and was liberated by Britain in 1945. 2) Being recognised by various countries, and international agencies will be of little comfort to the leaders of Hamas when Israel catches up with them.

I doubt that this will have any impact on the vast majority of us. Let's face it, despite various TMxxs, 90 day reports, computerised systems and so forth they fail to keep track of some spectacular overstayers! This is, I suspect, aimed at those Thai nationals who have significant often inexplicable assets overseas, and receive income from them. Mind you, it could be entertaining - those people are often themselves " influential" or well connected to people who are!

Does a diet of cheeseburgers, fries and diet coke show up on urine tests? The man is a germophobe we are told ( maybe that is why he likes to keep "his hands clean") and doesn't drink - always a bad sign!

Especially before boasting about buying smuggled cigarettes from Burmese men in Patong perhaps?

Oh dear, just when you thought it surely couldn't get any weirder, more bizarre or deluded, the advance wave of cavalry come over the brow of the hill! The descent of this thread from a discussion of the facts (Mr Trump has been convicted in a public trial by a properly constituted jury) into a swirling maelstrom of conspiracy theories and frothy mouthed babbling is proving to be such a metaphor for the mess of deceit and extreme media manipulated delusion which which is this Presidential election, and American politics in general. How can anyone swallow the barefaced lie which was the "I never said lock her up" statement made on TV over the last weekend? It was both howlingly ludicrous, yet disturbing that it went unchallenged!

Well done the French Security Services. However, to paraphrase a well known terrorist: "we only have to be lucky once, you have to be lucky every time!"

If I may suggest - and I understand you were RAF, then your training was based on the supposition that any nuclear strike on airfields and their surrounds would be accompanied/ followed by a massive saturation of persistent chemical agents. The nuclear attack would destroy or damage infrastructure, the persistent chemical would result in personnel not being able to operate to repair or replace infrastructure for a long period. So the effect would be to take the airbase or whatever "fixed facility" out of the game effectively permanently. The current scenario is rather different. Firstly NATO, even if the US chooses to sit things out, still has with the UK and France an effective deterrent and counterstrike capacity, submarine based and invulnerable to destruction in an initial strike. Secondly modern forces are more agile and better equipped and able to survive on such a battlefield. Massive strikes on civilians targets would be counterproductive, and the size numbers of and dispersion of population centres throughout Europe is much greater than in Russia, where they are much more concentrated. The same is true of fixed defence installations like airfields or naval bases. Nuclear war would be terrible, it would cause massive damage to society, infrastructure and cause huge civilian casualties, but it would basically be survivable, and more so in the West than for Russia. Don't for a minute go away with the idea that I am endorsing it, of course I am not, but like @billd766, my training and professional education gives me a clear understanding of it. For much of my long, if not particularly glorious, military career, in several posts I served in, it was a field which I both studied, planned and trained for. Thank God I never had to test my training or planning. It would be terrible. We would survive.

Well why not, we've been listening to you bang on uncritically about entirely uncorroborated claims, with no supporting evidence for the last 8 months now!

Bit like Messrs Blair, Brown and Mandelson's New Labour then?

If I may quote your soulmate @Red Forever, "If it waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck it's probably a duck." It is standing in many constituencies, it is trying, we shall see how effectively, to get in touch with the electorate, gain their support, and translate that support into seats in parliament. Sounds remarkably like a political party to me! The smears of " far right" and now claims that it is not a political party rather suggest to me that certain groupings on the UK's political spectrum are worried by them, Tory and Labour. In what is, for me, something of a political epiphany, I am now thinking about some form of proportional representation.

Indeed - although as an Englishman I am not particularly familiar with the case of the "Central Park Five". Fairly thorough perusal of these 50 odd pages has confirmed that rationality is not really a feature of "Trumpian" supporters! Nor, would It seem is the concept of fairness; an openly selected jury, scrupulously directed by a meticulous judge in a public trial, convicting on evidence and testimony, is after all regarded as "unfair"!