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Unfortunately, that is not the usual outcome. Typically, they run into people or animals or property, injuring or killing or damaging the property of the victims.

I am ambivalent. I was previously situated there prior, but left several years ago. Had not been back since Covid. We went for a visit about a year ago. Really shocked by what I saw. It has lost the little Thai flavour that it once had. Too much traffic for the inadequate infrastructure. Over developed.

You are not providing complete information. For Canadian residents, they can qualify for Old Age pension at 65 years+, are a Canadian citizen or a legal resident and have have resided in Canada for at least 10 years since the age of 18. For Canadian citizens living outside Canada, they can qualify they can qualify for Old Age pension at 65 years+, are a Canadian citizen or a legal resident on the day before they left Canada and have have resided in Canada for at least 20 years since the age of 18. In addition is an old age guaranteed Income supplement, and the respective Canadian or Quebec work pension plans, which are relatively generous. If the 20 years applies to you, it is because you were not living in Canada and most likely not paying taxes sufficient to fund the pension obligation. In respect to the spousal visas they are difficult to obtain because of the risk of human trafficking. The US and Canadian approach is the same and it is based upon there having been a problem with women trafficked in until the visa rules were tightened. There was a big problem in Canada with eastern European women brought in for sex work, and that resulted in restrictions put on many visas. Some eastern Canadians travel to Cuba and the Dominican Republic where they meet a spouse. (It's usually western women seeking out husbands). The past experience was that these were spouses of convenience. People would divorce shortly after receiving their landed immigrant status. The UK has had similar issues with women coming back from North Africa with questionable partners. The expenditure of tens of millions on repatriating wives of ISIL terrorists and their children from Syria, and the former misuse of the visa particularly by Haitians, North Africans and Indians and SouthEast Asians did not support continuation of easy spousal visas.

PM Johnson made 26 foreign visits during his time as PM. The UK has had an historical relationship with Ukraine since 1945 when the UK actively recruited Ukraine workers. There were multiple visits between their leaders. Even PM Thatcher visited Ukraine. The UK could not have close relations with Ukraine while it was still under the yoke of the Soviet Union's tyranny. However, once the Russian tyrants temporarily withdrew , relations grew. You seem to forget that the UK was involved in the Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons. Your fixation on the PM's visits to the Ukraine are irrelevant. PM Johnson visited 3 times over 2 years. prior to the war, President of Ukraine president Victor Yuschenko visited the UK 3 times in one year. The visits to the Ukraine were important because Russia had invaded Europe and violated previous agreements. The invasion put European allies at risk. PM Johnson also visited nations who had been targeted by Russian military threats and incursions. These visits included; Poland, Estonia, Sweden and Finland. PM Johnson visited India at a time it was facing border tensions with China and Pakistan. He also visited Rwanda and the UAE (2X). Why would you expect the PM of the UK to visit the Congo? The UK did not have a significant relationship with the country. Belgium and France are the Congo's key allies. The UK has 34 agreements and MoUs in effect with Ukraine dating back to 1991 when diplomatic relations were restored after the Russian occupational forces influence diminished. Until then, Russia did not allow Ukraine the freedom to establish relations with other nations without Russian approval. https://uk.mfa.gov.ua/en/partnership/881-ukrajina-velika-britanija/593-dogovirno-pravova-baza-mizh-ukrajinoju-ta-velikoju-britanijeju

Don't be so sure of that. Trump claims he knew nothing about it despite it being steered by close confidants who served in his administration. When MAGA talks about a deep state, this is an example, except it is the Trump faction acting as a state within a state.

Perhaps you imagined. The bond is $175 million and is underwritten by Knight Specialty Insurance, which only holds a B++ A.M. Best rating. As reported by Forbes, Trump secured his bond with his Schwab brokerage investment account as collateral. The Schwab investment account "allows you to buy and sell a variety of investments, such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and ETFs. " I mention the B++ rating because it reinforces the refusal of bond issuers to underwrite the trump bond because of underwriting concerns. Almost all lending covenants with well financed financial institutions require insurance to be placed with insurers who have no less than an A or A- rating.

Context matters. The last time illegal border crossings really peaked was in 2020 during the last year of the Clinton term. it was a period of civil unrest and economic problems in Central America. The numbers started to increase again with the Trump administration. This increase accompanied civil unrest in migrant nations. Had it not been for Covid, which allowed the legal closing of US borders, the USA would have seen a massive influx of migrants. Once the border closing was lifted, the pent up migrations came back and surged. Border walls could not stop these migrants. What was needed was increased personnel and processing potential to legally remove the migrants quickly. That was why there was a bipartisan effort to fund the border. Everyone knows that the border is screwed up. President Bush (the son) had a decent border agreement ready to go, but extremist Republicans blocked it. It was a progressive, effective piece of legislation and would have prevented the problems we see today. the only way to address the border problem is a combined bipartisan approach. The Trump faction trying to impose its solution that can be challenged in the courts isn't going to work. nor will the "pathway to citizenship" free for all for illegal migrants work. Go back and reconsider the Bush era legislation. it will require give and take from all interested parties.

The simplistic labeling of various interest groups only serves to support your biased views. How about you deal with the existing facts; Iran is a supporter of international terrorist groups. The October 7 attack on Israel was in large part intended to prevent the normalization of relations with KSA and continued building of a relationship with North African Arab states. Iran is not an Arab nation and has always been at odds with most Arab nations in large part because it is Shiite and the Arabs tend to be Sunni, the original Islamic faith. When the Arabs were at war with Israel, Iran was a strong Israeli ally. When the Arabs started making peace, Iran was an enemy of Israel. it also warred with other Arabs. Iran is an international troublemaker, meddling in the foreign affairs of the Arab world and supporting reactionary Shiite groups. The hand of Turkiye is not far removed either. As the former colonial oppressor of the Arab world it still harbors designs over regaining its influence. It is Turkiye that is one of the principal reasons why the Arab world was left in a mess. It was the Ottoman Empire that controlled what we now call Syria and Lebanon today. Israel was a department of Damascus and there was no "Palestine". There was Arabia. The Arabs rose up and with the support of France and Great Britain gained their independence after WWI. Jordan, the land now called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, (carved out of Ottoman Assyria), and the current nation of Israel all owe their creation to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the ensuing British, French and Arab agreement. Erdogan mourns his nation's loss of influence. He is angry that Israel is developing the oil and gas fields in Israeli territorial waters with Egypt, Greece and Cyprus. Turkey uses Iran to further its own political interests as disorder in the Arab world gives Turkyie an opportunity to have influence. The despotic mullahs are the source of the problems and they must be removed. The Iranian people have been denied an opportunity to have anything other than an Islamic dictatorship since the overthrow of the Shah. Give the Iranians a chance to choose, and they may very well remain an Islamic state, but they would most likely choose to have their oil revenues directed to social services and development rather than terrorism and war. if there is a war, it will be because of Iranian aggression. The Arab world for the most part won't care if Iran is neutralized, and on the contrary will most likely covertly assist.

Come back and ask me when the arrest warrant is issued. What exists now is the opinion of Karim Khan, a prosecutor.This opinion is legally questionable and is not final. As a reminder, in his capacity as ICC representative leading prosecutions against ISIL in Iraq in 2021, he did not bring any significant islamic jihadists to justice. He did however, achieve his fame defending mass murderer Charles Taylor, the despotic cannibal strongman of Liberia. He also represented Sudanese rebel leader Bahr Idriss Abu Garda in the case where Garda's group undertook a mass murder of OAU peacekeepers, and he was the Lead Counsel for Saif al-Islam Gaddaf, the Libyan murderer. No doubt that he is a competent counsel. Unfortunately, he seems a man of curious actions.

And how many of them have done so? Why would anyone wish to open themselves up to IRS tax filings? The trend for the wealthy is to avoid USA tax exposures. So, answer honestly, how many of your Thai middle class friends have purchased land and houses in the USA?

FYI, the original Jamaicans are believed to have been Arawaks an indigenous people who migrated from South America. The Europeans brought slaves from Africa to work their farms. Therefore the term Afro Jamaican to describe a person of African heritage is accurate.

Do you want to revise your claim, now that the polling results show her surge? The GOP is in a state of panic. Vance's cat lady insult did not go over well. What is your motive for insulting VP Harris? Is it pettiness, jealousy, resentment? VP Harris is obviously anything but a moron. She is educated, successful and was a well respected prosecutor, state attorney general and senator. VP Harris was "never given the job of stopping 3 million immigrants". The VP has no legal authority to oversee immigration or border security. There is no position called border Tsar. The person responsible for border security is the Secretary of Homeland Security. The brown woman comment is pathetic. It really is. No he did not. The border wall was a financial fiasco. He spent billions ona fence that was soon easily dotted with breaches. Trump’s administration only built 52 miles of new primary border barriers. Last October, the Biden administration started building 20 miles of new primary wall. Border walls are not an effective solution. Smugglers cut through the metal bollards with a handsaw that can be purchased at any local hardware store. Fencing requires frequent repair and round-the-clock monitoring. Trump sabotaged the bipartisan border security bill that would have provided the funding to patrol, monitor and secure the border. Border fences are an environmental blight as they interfere with animal movement and migrations.

On the contrary, you have made up an interpretation of New York state law. Trump’s New York concealed carry license was suspended on April 1, 2023, following his indictment on criminal charges in New York. Two of the three pistols he was licensed to carry were turned over to the NYPD on March 31, 2023, and a third gun listed on Trump’s license was reportedly moved to Florida. (This was an allowed move as he was not yet convicted.) The law requires the surrender of firearms upon conviction of a felony. The only way the surrender can be reversed is to obtain a certificate of relief, which gives permission to have the firearm, or to have the conviction overturned at appeal. This was reported on and is public knowledge. Is the conservative New York Post an acceptable reference for you? https://nypost.com/2024/06/01/us-news/donald-trump-must-surrender-firearms-after-felony-conviction/

No. That is not historically accurate. Russia unilaterally annexed Crimea in 2014. The invasion of Ukraine began on February 24th, 2022. The peace talks only began on February 28, 2022. These were held outside of Lyakhavichy in Belarus. The talks continued for weeks as fighting raged. The Russians has assumed that they would rush through Ukraine and destroy the Ukraine military quickly. The Russian position was a demand for unilateral surrender. As the war continued, the Russians realized that they would not have an easy time, and the peace talks then moved to Turkey in March. As Russian atrocities like the Bucha mass murderers and tortures, the Ukrainianians were forced into an untenable situation: They could not give in to the Russians who had undertaken these atrocities. No he did not. PM Johnson went to Ukraine in early April to show support to the country, particularly after the Russian war crimes were discovered. Ukraine was hurting and he did what a responsible international leader should do.

And yet, she won the most important poll of all when Joe Biden was elected President, since she became the Vice President. BTW, the current polls indicate that she has eaten in Trump's lead, so she has to be doing something right.

The people who were going to vote for Trump 6 months ago, will still vote for him, Same as the people who would vote for Biden, will now vote for Harris. Nothing anyone says or does is going to change these core voters. they don't want to know or hear about anything as their minds are made up. Same as in the forums here. What will change are the relatively small number of voters who were not likely to vote because they disliked both Trump and Biden. Biden is gone, and for voters who were hesitating, the reason has gone.

Not a good idea to pack in luggage because the devices, can and do combust. The design and quality is neither regulated, nor consistent.

Please provide context. When did he last agree to a release of hostages because as of 24 July 2024, 115 hostages remained in captivity in the Gaza Strip, 111 of whom had been abducted on 7 October 2023; the other four hostages having been captured earlier. All decisions on the hostages are made by Sinwar and others who are safe in Qatar. Perhaps you are unaware, but the hostages are not all held by Hamas. Multiple groups hold the hostages. The likelihood of these groups releasing the hostages has always been remote. The sad reality is that the hostages were lost once several weeks passed. They are only held now for the pleasure of their captors.

That's quite something, considering that VP Harris did not run in this election's Democratic primary.

What is the point of making nonsensical statements? Your claim reads like talking points from a Russian propagandist. Calling President Zelensky a cokehead is infantile. What evidence do you have? The Ukraine war was initiated long before the Russians invaded the Ukraine in 2022. Russian backed militias as of March 2014 were actively killing Ukrainians. These militias were under the control of Russia. In July 2014, using Russian supplied antiaircraft missiles, the militia murdered 173 people onboard the Malaysian airline when they shot it down. The free world supported the Ukrainian resistance when Russia formally invaded in 2022 because Russia unilaterally attacked and invaded a smaller, weaker nation.

This claim is false. Austin Private Wealth did not short sell 12 million shares of Trump Media on July 12, 2024. I will make it simple for you , please provide the documentation that supports the claim. A nonsensical allegation from Instagram, Rumble or X is not acceptable. Austin Private Wealth is an investment advisory company based in Austin, Texas. US SEC records show that the firm filed a July 12 report that did show a "put" amount of 12 million on Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (DJT) The put was for the quarter that ended June 30. This was not a day or so before before the PA event. A PUT option is NOT short selling. A put option (or “put”) is a contract giving the option buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell a set number of the declared securities at a predetermined price within a specified time frame. This predetermined price at which the buyer of the put option can sell the underlying security is called the strike price. Ever since DJT was launched, analysts have stated that it was overpriced and that the share price would be corrected down, and that is what occurred; From April 8, 2024 https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/04/08/trumps-stock-officially-down-50-since-first-day-peak--trumps-stake-down-over-3-billion/ Former President Donald Trump’s social media company’s stock market slide continued Monday, as the more than $10 billion valuation scored by Trump’s company’s just two weeks ago looks to be fleeting. (It reduced by 50%) The company is a meme stock. It generated $40 million in revenue in 2023. That kind of revenue cannot support the stock price, which means that the stock price will fall. This then brings us back to why larger investment firms would have registered their rights to sell securities. Prudent traders typically buy Puts when they expect the stock’s underlying asset to fall, i.e. the value of DJT corrects. The DJT stock performed as expected. It has been up and down like a toilet seat. IMO the small investors who bought the stock will lose much of their investment.

Depressing topic. Having survived the Covid pandemic peak, I hope that we do not have to go through another pandemic in my lifetime. Yes, Covid is here to stay. Unfortunately, unlike other respiratory illnesses we still are not managing as well as it could be. The mortality rate from an infection is still far too high. Worse is the dismissal of the infection by some because it doesn't kill off younger people. What they forget is that it is an inflammatory disease and we do not know what its long term impact is on those who have been infected. Remember when childhood chickenpox was not deadly, but then it comes back with a vengeance in older people as shingles and can leave people in pain for months.

Spare a kind thought for the Iranians who most likely assisted the Israeli agents. A large number of Iranians are not supporters of the religious regime. As we can see from the Iranians who have fled Iran for the west, they are often educated and secular, and have no use for Hamas, Hezbollah and other radical groups. I anticipate that the Iranians will be torturing and killing many Iranian dissidents in the weeks to come.

There will not be a landslide for either political faction. The election will continue to be decided in a small number of states. Harris may hold most of the states the Democrats won previously. She may also put some 1 or 2 red states into play.

You do not mention that there are almost 3 million "temporary" Canadians, who are not citizens (or passport holders of convenience). Proportionally that's higher than in the USA. Like in the USA, those temporary residents are paying minimal taxes, but are taking advantage of the healthcare, education and housing. The end result is that Canadian citizens are unable to access affordable housing and face long wait times for services. The business lobbyists had stated that they only needed approx. 250,000 workers. What happened is that certain groups exploited the educational visa programs and the family visit/reunification programs to bring in hundreds of thousands of marginal people who are an economic burden to Canada. As in the EU and USA, economic migrants as bogus refugees, overwhelming the refugee program. You will find now that much of the country has turned against the immigration policy of the current government and that even if the party leader changes, the Liberals will be thrown out of office for the next 2 elections.