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  1. papaya leaves juice is a traditional remedy, also for recovery. Very bitter, mix with sugar. Do denqvaxia in a few months time
  2. world on the brink of ww3, and he teases russia to strike harder. ukraine is de facto part of Nato since 2014. Zelensky's main policy during his electoral campaign was peace with russia, that's why he won presidential post, with many votes of 13mln ethnic russians living in ukraine. During several rounds of peace talks ukraine has agreed not to join Nato and be militarily neutral. That is the red line for russia, existential threat. Ukraine well knows this. Stoltenberg is just political figurehead for Nato, his military posturing has nothing to do with fact, that Nato is unable to provide constant supply of ammunition to ukraine. Ukraine has run out of it's own stock of ammunition and is unable to produce any at all. Just a few days before that he admitted to coming serious shortages. So "long term" for him means bad for ukraine, the "short term" in no ammunition, back to wall and peace negotiations on russia terms
  3. cancelling a public holiday in name of militarisation has nothing to do with democracy. Democracy stands for peace and social development, progress. Militarisation stands for death and destruction, taking humanity backward. Placard hold by protester on the photo sums it up - undemocratic pigsty. Protest was held outside the parliament and it was the largest for tens of years. Opposition wanted referendum, that shows significance how opposition, as well as large part of population, treats this act of aggression on their rights. Some 477k signed petition against. That holiday survived for 350 years, through all wars Denmark experienced, including 2 world wars.
  4. if you mean $, my gastroscopy+colonoscopy full anaesthesia was 10 400b so $300 in bkk in december, governmental 3 months waiting time. Cost of operation in governmental is 100-200k, that data is slightly outdated, probably by not that much. ICU at the same hospital is total 3200b/night - 1600b room (meals included), 1200 nursing, 400 medical service.
  5. I don't know, but I would temporarily give the kid to grandparents, siblings, relatives, friends, carers. Pay them good money and visit kid on weekends for quality time.
  6. go to the governmental hospital, not the top private hospitals. yearly check ups, including blood, xray, egk, fob, urine 1950-4400b. mri private on t1.5 is 7k, contrast 2k. Same price as in Au. Govertnmental cheaper, but waiting line several months. there were 2.8mln medical tourists in 2019. They come for price and quality. Sometimes insurance pay, sometimes the government for their citizens, if their own health service can't offer timely treatment.
  7. he is mafia, murderer, awaiting trial. "Billy’s death now a murder case as four national park ex-officials charged" https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/national/40018923 He was also implicated in masterminding other murder "On September 10, 2011, unidentified gunmen shot and killed Tatkamol Ob-om, a Thai activist from Billy’s network, shortly after he helped Karen villagers report on alleged abuses, violence, illegal logging, and poaching committed by park officials." https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/04/20/thailand-prominent-activist-feared-disappeared Corruption case of 14mln for deforestation in 2019 in Keng Krachan against him will expire on 29th March. The previous park chief tried to speed up Chaiwat prosecution, but was toppled by a sting investigation involving Chaiwat himself (he recorded giving his bribe and reported to police)
  8. out of many holidays, including those related to state oppression, like constitution day, the government cancels a religious holiday which is part of easter, the greatest christian holiday. That might don't bound well not only with christians, but the other religions, especially those standing for peace, including judaism, from which "beat swords into plowshares" comes from. Can be suspected, and hoped, that workers will organise boycott if this rule, which is encroaching on their labour rights. That bland act of militarism will backfire into danish state, as it shows, that they are diverting to war mode of production. There were already street protests against https://www.dw.com/en/denmark-abolishes-public-holiday-to-boost-defense-spending/a-64846302
  9. Zelensky trusted Bennett, but at the end declined meeting putin. He refused mediation by vatican and even reprimanded their ambassador. Several presidents also have tried , including erdogan and most recently Lula. Now he wants to try Xi, possibly his only and the last chance. Thats why. Role of mediator is to fascilitate and guarantee the deal. China has declared help. That is the second superpower, the USA are part in this conflict.
  10. That former official is a goner, not involved in the present government policies. In contrary, Zalouzhny is still an acting commander chief and he still holds neo-fascist views, thus would be influencing Zelensky's talks to Xi and Putin. He should be dismissed from service. In the other countries he would be prosecuted, but not in Ukraine.
  11. in face of chinese peace negotiations, what would be world's reaction to Xi taking selfie with Mao, or Putin with Stalin and publishing them on official social media pages of their parliaments? But Ukrainian's commander-in-chief Zalouzhny selfie with thumb up with portrait of fascist Bandera was published on 1st January on tweeter of ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, an ukrainian parliament. He is the second senior ukrainian official, after Zelensky. Zalouzhny has not apologised. He might be neo-fascist. He was not dismissed for that scandal, not any reaction from Zelensky or any other ukrainian politician. Putin has the right to call members of ukrainian state authorities fascists. "The celebration was marked silently, but it still managed to trigger yet another controversy around the past with Poland. It originated with the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament, tweeting a photo of the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valeri Zaloujny, giving the thumbs-up next to a portrait of Bandera to celebrate what would have been his 114th birthday." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/01/12/stepan-bandera-the-ukrainian-anti-hero-glorified-following-the-russian-invasion_6011401_4.html
  12. does he has on mind peace talks with china help on his own conditions? "Zelenskiy open to China’s peace plan but rejects compromise with ‘sick’ Putin" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/zelenskiy-open-to-chinas-peace-plan-but-rejects-compromise-with-sick-putin That's not how to start genuine ceasefire calling the opposite side "sick", it won't go nowhere. It's just posturing, muscle flexing, that is not how diplomacy works. Zelensky is below level china works internationally, that is long term and stable relationships. Xi is invited this year to Moscow, but whether he will meet Zelensky personally before that is very questionable. Talks between leaders start with meetings at lower diplomatic levels, ambassador to Kiev to start with. And there are not such happening yet. So Zelensky is just acting, his political carrier comes from tv comedy show. Still comedian he is
  13. but Kozak's story is still not confirmed by ukraine or by himself. All just 3rd hand anonymous gossips. Talks in Turkey were progressing from 22.02 from time of this article, to the beginning of April, when they were torpedoed by Johnsonn. Under pressure Zelensky has changed his mind, with promise of more advanced armaments from NATO.
  14. sorry for quoting you. But you gave links and titles, but content of those articles is contradictory to your claim. Looks like you haven't read those articles. from the first link: "Even if Putin had acquiesced to Kozak's plan, it remains uncertain if the war would have ended. Reuters was unable to verify independently that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy or senior officials in his government were committed to the deal." The rest of info in that article is based on many third hand and anonymous sources, on level of gossip, who are sometimes contradicting each other. Their statements are not reliable on their own. That's why Reuter tried to confirm with the top ukrainian authorities, but they failed to reply. Why they did not reply? Kozak has also failed to reply, from the second link: "Zelensky said he would still demand complete withdrawal of Russian forces from his country and international commitments to Ukraine’s security. Meanwhile, the Kremlin said talks with Ukraine are moving “much more slowly and less substantively than we would like,” according to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitri Peskov in his daily call with reporters." That article is from 22.03, so pertains to Bennett's talks in Turkey. Yet before they came to fruition 10 days later.
  15. there were peace negotiations started already 2 weeks into war, they were progressing nicely, with full knowledge of biden, macron, scholtz, until Boris Johnson made an unexpected visit to kiev in April and stopped them. Those talks were initiated by Zelensky with help of the former Israeli PM Bennett, who went to Moscow and putin agreed. Meeting were taking place in ankara, Erdogan tries to take credit for them. https://jacobin.com/2023/02/ukraine-russia-war-naftali-bennett-negotiations-peace Naftali Bennett, the former PM, on 6.02.2023 put on his youtube channel an inverview, those negotiations are mentioned in 2h 55" into this broadcast. It's in hebrew, but english subtitled. Also chinese state media, as well as many minor outlets, published an english transcript. Further attempts of negotiations by Turkey failed.
  16. That article is dishonest warmongering rather then peacekeeping. The end of article: ".. send the russian army to follow the trail of the russian warship “Moskva”. Ukraine is ready for immediate cooperation with foreign countries to implement a peace strategy, end the war, and prevent new russian aggression against other countries." so he sees a chance for peace only after russia military defeat and not diplomatic solution involving russia now, to stop war. Rather military collusion with the other countries against russia in hope of winning. Foreign countries can be involved to facilitate negotiations, but not siding with any side. That won't work. Author of this article works in ukrainian embassy in Bangkok, he should know about diplomacy. But he also is state employee and has to follow an official line. His employment was not mentioned in this article, only his previous one as an academic at kiev university. https://thailand.mfa.gov.ua/en/embassy/55-spivrobitniki-posolystva-ukrajini-v-korolivstvi-tajiland on margin - worth spot the difference in using capital letters in reference to russia and for president of ukraine. That is not how diplomacy should be done by skilled participants
  17. if that bad, they should have a screening program for early detection. There are 4 stages, so catching early and controlling progress, including medication, would solve problem. Because there is a serious issue with transplants, doctors should ask family members to contribute. That also increases chances for successful operation, immune system won't overreact
  18. that is murder, but the cop should not try to overtake but just follow for as long as it takes. I think highway police are also armed, he had chance to blow tires, front windscreen - on road or at the nearest traffic lights or traffic congestion. On front of the accident site there is warning sign about roadworks and limit 60km/h. The driver probably have argued in his defence story, that he changed lines because his line was closed. But siren was blaring and probably emergency lights on motorcycle were on. Cop probably haven't seen those signs or ignored them. Sometimes there is only one sign, if those roadworks are small and short. That roadwork was at the end of bridge so if not properly marked with many signs it could not be seen. RIP for cop, probably media will try to make him a hero, but it also his bravado which killed him
  19. utapao probably has longer runway, but not likely to have ever 1717 room hotel as in Haneda.
  20. John Kirby from the US National Security Council gave an interview to Fox, deflects the second question whether if the US were to undertake mission like that would the white house had abligation to inform congress in advance. He just repeats his answer to the first question, that US or it's allies don't have anything to do with blowing nord stream. He is picked on this by some journalists from publication The Hill. They also have plan to invite Hersh for interview
  21. Aforementioned Jeffery Sachs was speaking at the UN Security Council meeting a few days ago. He urged Council to request investigation findings from Denmark, Germany and Sweden, as they keep them secret, citing national security issue. For me, he knows, what he is talking and that't why he was invited to that meeting, even if he doesn't represent any country or even any organisation. That's why independent opinions, outside politics and state propaganda, do count: "He went on to note that a recent report by the Washington Post news outlet revealed that the intelligence agencies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries have privately concluded that there is no evidence that the Russian Federation carried out the act. Denmark, Germany and Sweden have reportedly carried out investigations of the Nord Stream terrorism incident, and while Sweden has perhaps the most to tell the world about the crime scene, that country has kept the results of its investigation secret from the rest of the world. It has refused to share its findings with the Russian Federation and turned down a joint investigation with Denmark and Germany. " https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15206.doc.htm At the very same meeting the UK representative said, that there is no urgency in solving this act of terrorism, as only 5 months has passed since then. He pointed, out that russia, by calling for and investigation under the UN General Secretary, tries to deflect from their military defeat - as if blowing pipelines and Russian heavy loses were somehow related.
  22. estradiol 2mg is form of pills is available OTC, but notin every pharmacy and occasionally out of stock. That includes imported brands, I think from belgium. Carrying a stock of 80g bottles with glass packaging and risking expiration doesn't make sense.
  23. Looks like yesterday's UN Security Council meeting has refused to set up an investigation under proposed lead by the UN General-Secretary. Some argued, that because there are already other investigations completed or ongoing, there is no need for UN one. UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding “one thing is certain: whatever caused the incident, its fallout counts among the many risks the invasion of Ukraine has unleashed” - she connects ongoing war with killing nord stream. She is not sure what caused this act of terror. Certainly she doesn't have a clue, who done it and most likely even doesn't want to know. Just an "incident". https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/02/1133752
  24. let the UN run referendum now, yet before kiev tries to take over crimea. That's how border conflicts with mixed ethnicities supposed to be solved. There was no expellation of ukrainians. They simply boycotted that referendum. Further attacks on crimea will face retaliation. To bear in mind reaction to bombing of crimean bridge. Blinken knows that. Kiev might be risking further military support from NATO, which has put conditions on supplying heavy weapons - don't use them over the border. There is an article "Competing claims on Crimea show why Russia and Ukraine can’t make peace" from December Washington Post.
  25. Crimea is over 58% russian population (a very large part of ukraine, up to 12mln, are also ethnic russians) - data from the UN refugee agency: "Ukraine: Treatment of ethnic Russians" https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab0b38.html In a referendum they have voted 95% to leave ukraine. Many ethnic ukrainians boycotted that referendum, some of them left Crimea since 2014. That referendum was hold a week after Kiev disbanded Crimean local parliament. That parliament was pivotal in protecting russian Crimea majority rights within ukraine, giving them authonomy. Kiev, EU and the USA said this referendum was illegal. "Crimea referendum: Voters 'back Russia union' " https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26606097 But since then Crimea became part of russia, confirmed by Duma. That is why any military action on Crimea is a red line for moscow. In this private, yet leaked, conversation, Blinken is also sending stop signal to Kiev, to rethink attacks on crimea - there were several such attacks several days prior. Nuwlam orygin is from ukraine (her father was born there), so she might differ. So if ukraine wants Crimea by force, they will have majority of population against them, with a slim chance of getting their local parliament back
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