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Nothing to celebrate because Iran will retaliate. Hopefully, not with one of its nuclear devices, even a dirty bomb. The missiles Iran will fire will pass over some arab countries and there may be collateral damage. Iran may even attack UK and US interests in the region because they are seen as the enemy too, since they back the Gulf Arabs against Iran. The Iranian dissident community social media is running with "thank you uncle Benny" jokes, which is in keeping with Iranian "black" sense of humour. I hope that the missiles fired between the two are restricted to military targets. I have a feeling that Israel is going to get clobbered, but whether it happens nor or in a year, it was inevitable because the Iranian nuclear talks were going to fail and Iran has lied about its nuclear stockpiles.

The article does offer the proof. For example, if Trump says he called up the National Guard in Minnesota, and the legal documentation shows that it was the state governor who did so 7 hours before Trump threatened to do so, then yes, Trump lied.

You obviously do not understand that there are quality differences. There are different types of fabrics, weaves, and thread types. The thin synthetic fabric shirts that sag and shine are different from the crisp cotton that harmonizes with body form. The cheap synthetic fiber clothes trap odor and are uncomfortable in the tropical climate, whereas the natural fabric shirts are comfortable and clean. M&S shirts last. Very few big box brands can offer similar quality. John Lewis was one of the few. A gentleman understands the importants of sartorial workmanship. I suppose it does not matter if one only wears a brown shirt

The false claims are annoying. There is no evidence of this being an aircraft structural issue. There are suggestions of engine failure, in engines which are not manufactured by Boeing because of a visible lack of thrust, and suggestions of pilot error because of flap position, and again because of a lack of thrust. Air India has a history of allegations of deficient maintenance of its aircraft. If one goes by the general condition of the Air India cabins, it is not unreasonable to suspect general maintenance. Until the flight data recordings are analyzed, nothing is certain, so why speculate? Due to conflict with Pakistan and the proximity of the airport to Pakistan, I anticipate social media to be flooded with claims of terrorism. To those promoting the claim that Boeing is unsafe, the B787 until this event had never had a fatal incident, nor catastrophic crash. Your unfounded bias serves no purpose. Most airline crashes are a result of pilot error, weather and general maintenance deficiencies, not aircraft structural defect. If you are concerned, then avoid all aircraft travel. Aircraft had just left the tarmac. Event is reported as occurring before gear up stage. Your claim is unfounded. Aside from the initial tragedies, the aircraft since its return to service has one of the safest operating records. It is a heavily surveilled aircraft. The aircraft is such a failure that Boeing had a backlog of 5,943 737 MAX aircraft, according to Reuters. This backlog includes 303 new orders booked in May 2025. Boeing has delivered 164 737 MAXes, in 2025 . The airline leasing companies and the airlines have a different opinion than you. How is it you know more than they do? According to you these customers who signed purchase agreements in 2025 are wrong; Singapore-based leasing company BOC Aviation - 50 Japan Airlines -17 Korean Airlines -20 Now that the tariff issue is on hold with the USA, China is again taking delivery of B737 Max and a new aircraft landed in China on June 10. Qatar and United took delivery of their aircraft last month too. And so on. Everyone in the airline industry has it wrong.

A vile and disgusting false claim. There is no association of the company with Zionism. It is a malicious claim that attempts to incite and to promote hate. The largest shareholders are shown below. None of the investors is a prop of Zionism. On the contrary, a closer look will find some Arab investment. For example, The Al-Futtaim Group is an Emirati conglomerate based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it owns the franchise in Hong Kong in Hong Kong and Macau. Al-Futtaim operates 72+ Marks & Spencer stores across 11 markets in Asia and the Middle East, with its flagship store in Dubai. Marks and Spencer is a public corporation. There is no single controlling shareholder. The company is not owned by one individual or entity. Institutional shareholders own 79% of the company, of which financial institutions dominate. The balance of shares are public and private ownership. There is no Israeli ownership. Name Equities % Valuation RWC Asset Management LLP 101,424,531 4.937 % 512 M p Schroder Investment Management Ltd. 97,791,409 4.76 % 494 M p The Vanguard Group, Inc. 75,728,000 3.686 % 382 M p Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd. 60,086,115 2.925 % 303 M p Norges Bank Investment Management 47,202,000 2.298 % 238 M p BlackRock Fund Advisors 46,732,524 2.275 % 236 M p Capital Research & Management Co. (World Investors) 43,378,000 2.111 % 219 M p Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 40,953,791 1.993 % 207 M p BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd. 38,201,114 1.859 % 193 M p BlackRock Advisors (UK) Ltd. 32,403,000 1.577 % 164 M p Do you spew hate for fun or is it your raison d'etre?

M&S products are still available https://www.central.co.th/en/marks-and-spencer for now................. My understanding is that Central owns the Thailand franchise. The pricing of products would be in large part a reflection of the franchise holder, Central. Anger should be directed at Central and not M&S. This reminds me of the disappearance of Family Mart. In 2023, Central ended its franchise agreement with Family Mart and converted the stores to its own Tops brand. M&S had the foods of my childhood, or at least reminders. Unfortunately, aside from Digestives now on sale for 84 baht, the food selection in Thailand was rather grim. I remember going into the London food hall with my mum, as a child, and being delighted by the variety and assortment of options. It was like visiting the world all in one place. Pity, that Thailand was never allowed to experience such a fantastic and delicious offer. The food courts at my local malls with their KFC and Thai slop are no match.The world moves forward and changes, but sometimes it isn't for the best. RIP Marks & Spencer Thailand Ltd.

Oh yes, because a barely ambulatory 95 year old has the energy to plot world domination. Truly, an idiotic suggestion.

The desperation or the stupidity to do such a thing. I feel sorry for the man. It was wrong, but one must be in a very bad state to do this.

Russia can take Ukraine, but it would require a national mobilization and a commitment of resources that would damage an already damaged economy. Russians are fine with a war in Ukraine as long as it is the far east Russians who are dying and coming back missing limbs. The day the Russians of St Petersburg or Moscow have to suffer is the day the support for the war ends in Russia.

Russia forced Finland to join because of its multiple threats and violations of Finland sovereignty.

And yet no mention of a vaccination program for the at risk population? What are they planning, a die off of the elderly and the vulnerable?

It has everything to do with Russia. The Chinese and Russian ships which are currently violating Canadian sovereignty in the far north are not visiting on a goodwill visit. they are there mapping and surveilling with an intent to steal mineral and energy wealth. Your attempt to troll and initiate an outburst are a poor reflection on you.

No mention of the corruption that allowed the vehicle to enter in Thailand and to be registered.

No. Russia has been building up its military on Finland's border and has already threatened both Sweden and Finland.

If there is a conflict, the west can thank Trump for forcing them to be better prepared than they were 5 years ago. On Monday the Canadian government announced a massive increase in defense spending and it will meet the NATO defense budget goal of 2% of GDP this fiscal year. It previously was at 1.37% of GDP, one of the lowest of NATO nations until the change. Because of Trump, NATO nations have started building ammunition plants and upgraded their self defense capabilities. Might can act as a deterrence. The withdrawal of non essential personnel is a prudent measure in response to Iran issuing new threats against US installations in the middle east. Turkey was seeking to expand its territory and to slaughter ethnic Kurdish arabs. Article 5 was not intended for that.

Every country has visas. The issue is not visas themselves. It is their administration and the lack of consistency in their administration. The Visa policies are unreliable. Each immigration office seems to have its own interpretation of the rules. The big issue is the poor value proposition. Visitors have been saying this for years. We all know it too. For example, there is no need for the almost 100 jet skis and power boats at Patong Beach. People can't use the beach in peace.

Please prove your statement. Since a virus is not contagious, you should have no qualms to sit in the same room as a person infected with ebola or Marburg. Rabies should present no risk to you. Your ability to save the world is endless. How is it that you have not been able to convince anyone in the research community or public health of your position?

The term "to catch a cold" is a euphemism", a common expression for saying one has a cold. No one said that a cold can be caught like a ball. One becomes infected from exposure to the contagion, whether a virus or otherwise. You keep repeating a false statement. You have been repeatedly told that viruses have been documented, their structures identified. their genetic codes mapped and their mode of infection documented. Your claim is not an opinion. It is an intentional false claim and should be treated as one treats any flagrant lie. You are applying the term "dead" to an entity that does not follow the conventional definition of life or death. A virus lives through its infection in hosts. The virus' primary encompassing purpose is to replicate. A virus is not cell debris, because a virus is not a cell. It is non-cellular, simply strands of dna or rna enclosed in its capsid/envelope. This too has been documented. You make all manner of deranged false and idiotic claims, and have absolutely no evidence to substantiate your position.You rely on the nonsensical conjecture of people with no credible medical or science credentials. Yours is not an opinion. It is the dissemination of ignorance, and is a willful intent to cause harm to others.

She repeatedly exposes her flesh, which is offensive to muslims. She should have modest dress. She was traveling unaccompanied by a family member, with muslim males. This is haram and not allowed in much of Gaza.

I do not believe that the Marines , with the exception of NCOs or officers would have lethal ammunition. They are reportedly being used to guard the ICE detention center. Those centers are being guarded by LASD, and federal law enforcement, not LAPD, so it won't really help the LAPD deal with the city center, which has already been pacified with the curfew and the rapid intervention units. My point is that combat soldiers are not trained for civilian policing. It is a different methodology and mindset to combat. The soldiers are not being used for civilian relief, but suppression activity, and that is not what they are trained for, nor what they enlisted to do. The civilian authorities are capable of managing the situation.This is what a police force is supposed to do.

How do you know it was not. These criminals typically exploit vulnerable young people.

It was never Palestinian land. Do you know why they are called Arabs? It is because they come from the Arabian peninsula, the land where Saudi Arabia is located today. The Arabs migrated into the land that was settled by the Hebrews and that land had various names, Israel, Judea, Sumeria. Jews have that name because of their association with Judea. Jewish people and Israel were in the region long before Islam was invented. Christians were in the region long before Islam was invented. The arab people who were prominent in the area were Bedouins. When the arab migrants arrived, they took the Bedouin grazing lands and claimed it for themselves. The arab migrants also chased off the hebrews/Israelites because they wanted what they had. Then the Romans came and screwed things up, and then the Turks came and screwed over everyone, especially the Arabs.

The criminal activity you refer to occurred in one district was not associated with a federal building, nor did it interfere with ICE activity, since there was no ICE operation at the time of the protest. There was no open border. Thousands were being arrested and deported every week.

2 hours is not sufficient time for crowd control training. There is a reason why the LAPD provides 30 hours basic + 10-20 hours continuing training to its intervention personnel on top of the basic training. The police academy program is 26 weeks. The USMC basic training is 13 weeks. The reason there is a different time spent on training is because the police have a different responsibility, Please do not offer that 2 hours is adequate or even meets the basic requirement for crowd control, because anyone with common sense will know that it isn't.

Please quote the full information; Smith said the Marines have received “in excess of two hours” of training on the use of less than lethal force in cities, or crowd control, and that they would have shields and batons as their equipment. He could not say how much in excess of 2 hours. In contrast, as of 2007, all LAPD personnel receive a basic 10 hours in crowd control. It doesn't matter whether they work traffic or homicide, all personnel are required to take the training. This is before the training given to the specialized units. This basic training requirement was implemented after the MacCarthur Park mess, when the LAPD contained an immigration enforcement protest through an over use of force. There is additional training for crowd control with time designated for specialty. There is a mandatory 6.5-hour course on deploying 40mm rounds for crowd control, plus an additional 4-hour training for supervisors. An additional six hours are dedicated to “the application of less-lethal force.” Every two years, officers take eight hours of training as a refresher. There is a 24 hour continuing education requirement to be completed every 2 years. Within that requirement are refresher courses on perishable skills that include; Arrest & Control - 4 hour minimum, Use of Force - 4 hour minimum. The takeaway is that the police tactical response unit members tasked with crowd control intervention have 30+ hours of training to begin with and then an additional 10-20 hours every 2 years plus practical experience of dealing with civilians every day. This is in sharp contrast to the USMC personnel who have been given 2 hours of training and some batons. That is not appropriate, nor fair to the marines. That is not what they volunteered for. And as a reminder; The Marines will not have arrest authority. Under the Posse Comitatus Act, U.S. service members are barred from policing citizens on American soil. The Marines cannot be used against the protestors, otherwise there will be a constitutional and legal crisis that will not end well for the Federal government. There is little point in deploying military personnel under the present circumstances other than to make a political statement. Let the police respond first. If they cannot do the job, then there are legal grounds to intervene.