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Let me guess, the most effective/vocal/leading human rights expert on the panel was a German? Nicaragua where Senor Ortega won the 2018 election having banned the opposition party, imprisoned his opponents, suppressed the Church for having criticizing his human rights record,(one Bishop has been stripped of his citizenship and sentenced to 29 years most of the rest of the bishops and clergy have been expelled from the country), put his wife on the ballot as his Vice President and is no doubt looking forward to a resounding inevitable success in this years Presidential Election. He. Is so popular that his party won all the seats in the 2022 municipal elections! I wonder, what is the correct radical chic scarf or garment to wear when marching in London or Washington DC in support of this much maligned democrat? It really is a "through the looking glass world" isn't it?

They claim that Email is not secure. The Army send out a statement for my Army Pension every year. Last years (April) had been opened at Suvarnabhumi Mail Centre ( it had been resealed with a sticker telling me that it had been opened). Written on the back of the envelope, in Thai script was a brief summary of what I received, annual and monthly. So much for the security of mail! Good luck with your efforts to make them accountable. They are civil servants. Back along (30 years ago) when the Army received its "new rifle", it was known amongst the troops as the "civil servant" as it rarely worked and couldn't be fired!

I was lampooning the bigotry which drives MAGA Republican hatred of both Ms Willis and Ms James ( New York AG) rather than lampooning either of those individuals. Fairly obvious I would have thought!

We are a country of pushing 70 million people, and one of the top ten economies in the world. Why on earth do we have to rely on The Netherlands ( for whom I have a lot of time) for our international postal system?

They have a built in ten day delay to answering Emails. Forget the phone, they don't answer it. Eventually after repeated Emails they accepted that the mail system is hopeless, and (their suggestion) sent the letters to my brother in the UK, for him to open, scan and send to me by Email. That rather torpedoes their claims that they can't use Email for security reasons! Mind you, my pension has been delayed by over two months. Friday my brother received letters from DWP and City Bank to tell me that the money would be in my account by the 4th of March. It wasn't. It isn't. Oxygen thiefs. They lied.

Yes, let's not pull our punches shall we, that "something we can’t put a finger on that we don’t like" is that she is an uppety black woman!

Underfed eh? That gets the Americans off the jolly old hook!

Scrubbed up well for the OP photo didn't she?

A "cows egg" is an English slang term for one of those 2 litre plastic bottles of pasteurised fresh milk. The taste I refer to has been noticeable over the last couple of weeks. In fact the worst example being from the partnership you mentioned. I ended up throwing half of it away, a shame as it is my preferred brand.

You are in a "sandwich massage" yet can manage to post on AN! Such dedication to social media!

I gave up last year with Krungthai. It was just so difficult, even going into the bank, to get their app to work. The final straw was when I got a new passport. The number of course was different. They asked for the old one, I brought it in, they looked at the expiry date, and the clipped corner, and said this has expired. Yes, that is why I have a new one. That utterly defeated them!

I sketch those two scenarios because they are frequently demonstrated within the USA gun culture. Personally I have no beef with hunters or target shooting enthusiasts. They are not the ones doing the mass killings. As for the rest, well the thread title emphasized personal opinion. I have given you mine. Feel free to ignore it.

Ironically that Second Amendment was written to allow for and encourage a "well regulated militia" to defend a largely agricultural society dispersed across the countryside, in a nation with no standing army. Not to encourage fat knackers to strut around (well more often waddle) like bizarre mannequins for the Walmart Gun Counter catalogue; nor to allow the occasion paranoid misfit to emerge from behind a computer with a rifle and boxes of ammunition when his putative prom queen rejects him!

Their clientele is largely made up of young women who like dogs, can't own one themselves, and go there with their friends to play with cute doggies. Nothing wrong with that, in fact perhaps it is a rather charming trait! I will be honest, and admit that for me one of the attractions of living in Thailand is the preponderance of attractive young ladies knocking around, going about their business, many dressed in shorts and tee shirts! Young women will attract old men who assume that all young women in Thailand are "available" - hence likely the altercation and glass throwing. Silly old sod, could have probably got a couple of spectacular legovers with 10K if he had gone to the right place in the evening!

I have seen quite extensive dairy farming in some parts - around Pak Chong and on the Korat plateau for example - although it is chiefly comprised of family operations with small herds. What I have noticed is that a couple of times I have bought a "cows egg" ( I drink quite a lot of milk) they have had a distinctive taste - I suspect the old reconstituted stuff is being mixed in with the fresh milk when their is a shortage. I suspect that the high prices of other dairy products are due to a lack of volume in sales - outside western circles it doesn't really feature in the normal diet here.

Ahh, the good old "partisan sources"; I don't suppose it is possible that they are linked with any ministers who suspect that they are vulnerable to being replaced?

So many skills were lost once we had finished off the last of the Mohicans!

1) The two mass shootings in the UK which led to much stricter gun control, Hungerford (1987) and Dunblane (1996) were both carried out with legal weapons. 2) The UK response was to simply drive to remove guns from society as far as possible. Dunblane led to one of the few examples of overwhelming public pressure leading to rapid government action. Legal restrictions were increased to drastically limit ownership, and guns were confiscated/bought back. It was at times controversial, some people felt their rights to own guns were infringed, but it reduced, dramatically, the weapons in circulation, legal and illegal. We haven't had a "mass shooting" since. Australia and New Zealand have done very much the same thing. It can be done. It requires a government which is sensitive to public pressure, and not one in which one of the majority parties is totally beholden to the gun manufacturers lobby.

Yes, yes, yes, that's all very well, but when it is tied up outside the Admirals office it will fill the neighbours in awe!

Owning a gun to stop an oppressive government? Just how long do they think a band of " militia" equipped from the Walmart catalogue, will stop an infantry company group and supporting arms? 10 minutes, 15 tops!

I wouldn't put it as the world's most corrupt supreme court, there are those which are merely rubber stamps for dictatorships. It has certainly one notably corrupt member who continues to sit despite blatant political and financial entanglements, which surprisingly don't seem to bother his fellow members, and who seems immune to criticism or sanctions. It has certainly become politicised, and is strongly suspected of being politically beholden to one of the two protagonists in the current election (Trump). There is a risk that it will become little more than a rubber stamp for Trump if he wins. That could possibly hand him control of all three branches of government, executive, legislative and judicial; a blow which could finish American democracy. Trump obviously cares little for the Constitution, but it is ironic that the restrictions imposed on the court, both in terms of size and life tenure for it's members has made it's political subversion so much more possible.

How would he wear a lettuce?

OK, so let us break it down. "Anti Israeli and anti Jew are separate, 1 should be tried for war crimes and the other should be condemned by all right minded people" 'How can "anti" something or other be tried for war crimes?" THe OP is differentiating between "anti Jew", a racial hatred of an ancient ethnic and religious group and "anti Israel", a politically inspired opposition to the existence of and actions of the State of Israel. He is suggesting that the latter should be supported by prosecuting the Israeli State for "war crimes". Actions conducted by individuals from combattant states in war, which breach the various rules and conventions which govern behaviour in battle, can constitute war crimes. So for example the massacre of American POWs at Malmedy by German SS troops during the Battle of the Bulge was a war crime. The Geneva Convention, to which the Germans were signatories, forbade it, the bodies were recovered where they were shot, there were surviving witnesses and the perpetrators were found, identified and faced a formally constituted court. Clearcut. My observation is that a wide range of allegations, often with no clear evidence of who did what, and who actually suffered, are now collectively described as war crimes and deployed in the propaganda battle. So for example, the (Palestinian) rocket which misfired and fell on the hospital in Gaza is claimed as an Israeli war crime. If Israeli troops come under attack from Hamas sited in a mosque, school or residential building, then returning fire is a "war crime". It is not. The political thrust is to extend the quite tight definition of war crimes to allege that Israel is committing a war crime because the IDF is better equipped, better trained, better led and better directed than its opponents, who let us not forget, started the whole bloody business with a murderous dawn assault on the Super Nova Rave Party and the savage attacks on the villages adjacent to the Gaza Strip.

What? Perish the thought! Now he moves once again amongst us, I was intending to elevate him to the role of my personal messiah in approaching the challenges of the expatriate life!

I rather suspect that they are hoping and praying that once they have "played their part" in delaying the trials until after the election, that Trump is convincingly rejected by the electorate. If it is at all close then the antics and claims of cheating will start up again, there will be a faux legal mess and they will find themselves in the middle of it!