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How do you dress when you go to the town dump?
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To a certain extent you have a point. However, please keep in mind the human loss that Ukraine has sustained. Ukrainians have eroded the Russian military strength and died and westerners have benefited from a weakened Russia. Russia's economy is seriously damaged, there has not been investment in its human capital or infrastructure for almost a decade. The USA has gained from that. Bullying Zelenskyy and trying to humiliate him in public, or anyone for that matter never ends well.
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Allow me to dumb it down for the MAGA collective: A majority of the USA's critical drug active pharmaceutical ingredients are sourced from China, India and the EU. Tens of millions of Trump supporters would be devastated if they could not get their Ozempic and Wegovy (API is sourced from Denmark). Cancer treatments would slow down. Anti virals, antibiotics and critical vaccines would disappear. Now amount of warp speed projects in the USA could replace those products in less than 2-5 year, and the cost would be in the tens of billions of $. There was a time when USA products meant quality and longevity. Those days are long gone. No one really wants USA made products, not even US citizens.
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President Zelenskyy's response was understandable. Vance was intent on insulting Ukraine and in making the Ukrainians grovel. That is not diplomacy, nor the appropriate methodology to encourage a nation to accept terms and conditions that dismiss the human losses Ukraine has suffered. Trump was not presidential. What he said was best said behind closed doors. The manner in which Zelenskyy was treated and the Ukraine insulted made it impossible for Zelenskyy to accept any terms imposed by the USA. The takeaway, is that every US ally, including those who think they have an iron clad guarantee from the USA, countries like Japan, South Korea, Australia and Israel had better think again. The USA is not a reliable or trustworthy partner and can no longer be considered anything more than a potential business market. If Zelenskyy has the connections, now is the time he should enter into an agreement with China to develop his mineral wealth. Linked up with China, there would be a near monopoly on rare earth metals. He could charge the USA the prices it merits. The same goes for every other economy. If anyone needed a clear message that the USA is not a friend, nor an ally, it was given by the Trump and Vance outbursts. Let the tariff madness begin next week, and oh, how the US economy will suffer. A large number of the people who voted for Trump are finding out now, More will find out in the coming months.
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No he is not.
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Shocking Incident in Jomtien: Man Chases Tourist, with Large Knife
Patong2021 replied to Georgealbert's topic in Pattaya News
No one asks to be chased by a knife wielding madman. The fact that the assailant is wearing a helmet indicates an intent to conceal identity. -
Shocking Incident in Jomtien: Man Chases Tourist, with Large Knife
Patong2021 replied to Georgealbert's topic in Pattaya News
Well what do you expect when there are height differences? -
Does size really matter in Thailand?
Patong2021 replied to BigLek's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Size of what? Size matters when you are flying. -
Thailand Faces Backlash Over Secret Uyghur Deportation to China
Patong2021 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
The reality is that there will be no cost to Thailand for doing this. It's not as if anyone will take action is there? The international community doesn't care. Perhaps a few empty words, but no action. Western students and the usual cadre of protestors won't protest since it isn't Israel bashing. How many people will cancel their holiday in Thailand? No one. How many muslim countries will reduce their trade with Thailand. None How many Thai muslims will protest? Very few if any. And this folks is how radicalism finds a place to grow. -
Trump: EU was formed to 'screw' the United States
Patong2021 replied to Social Media's topic in World News
It can't. The USA has restrictive trade barriers too. This is nothing new. The USA has been using subsidies, import tariffs, quotas, packaging requirements and licenses as trade barriers for the past century. And yet it carries on as if it is a victim. The USA demands easy access into the economies of other nations, but erects barriers in return. The USA is not competitive because the typical American worker often does not have the skills for the work that needs to be done. Companies do not invest in training because they are focused on short term returns. Americans want immediate returns. Other countries like China, play the long game and invest in their people. Look at the defect quality of US built motor vehicles compared to the Japanese vehicles Look at the quality of residential building construction compared to Germany Look at the quality of US agricultural products. The USA relies on hormones and antibiotics unlike that the EU and Canada The USA cannot compete because as of 2024, 21% of adults in the US are illiterate. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level and 20% are below 5th-grade level. If Trump was serious about making America great, he would focus on education and teaching job skills. In the USA there is disdain for the skilled trades. Back in America's growth spurt, kids grew up wanting to be an astronaut or explorer or builder. Today, Kids wants to be a rapper, or an influencer. Few want to be the scientists and innovators. There was a time when the USA was a smart country, where innovation and hard work was rewarded. Not today. it's all about vulture capital, pump and dump and bullying. You can't build with that mentality.- 181 replies
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Expat Arrested for Keeping Exotic and Protected Wildlife
Patong2021 replied to Georgealbert's topic in Central Thailand News
Your attention is directed to the WILD ANIMAL CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION ACT, B.E.2562 (2019) -The licensing requirement is set out in Section III -There is a registration requirement that obliges the keeper of a wild or exotic animal to comply with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora - The care of the animals is set out under the above referenced Act. If the man has his licenses and can show that he is compliance with the applicable regulations, then he is in the clear. If he is not, then he has a problem on his hands. -
Mob of Teens Beat up Driver in LA Third Time in Months
Patong2021 replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Juvenile offenders don't really get locked up. Not enough room for them in detention centers. -
Mob of Teens Beat up Driver in LA Third Time in Months
Patong2021 replied to Social Media's topic in World News
I predict that one day a victim is going to let off a few shots from a legal fire arm and then we will hear about how the dead and injured were such good kids. -
She was not protesting against war. If she was, she would have her selection of wars that need attention now. For example. - A few days ago, 70 Christians were beheaded in the Congo by an Islamic militia. It is part of the targeting of African Christians. Is her lack of concern because they were Christian? -Islamic militias have so far murdered 100,000 Black Africans in the ongoing genocide in Darfur. They have also raped and mutilated thousands of children. IS her lack of concern because they are Black? At the very least she would condemn the atrocities of Hamas on both Israelis and the Gazan arabs. Apparently, she has no concern with the fact that the Gazans strangled two Israeli infants and then mutilated their bodies, nor is she disturbed by the inhumane shows that Hamas is putting on as it forces hostages to read speeches as they are paraded in public. She is a vile creature and will get her just reward one day.
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Thankfully, Thailand is a nation that believes in the vaccination of children. If you cannot accept this, then please get out of Thailand and take your diseased mentality with you. This is one foreign belief contagion that Thailand should do its utmost to rid itself of.
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It is about the resistance to a vaccine that has been in use for 50+ years and that has been proven safe and effective in preventing needless pediatric brain damage, blindness, kidney damage, CNS damage and sometimes death. There are 124 infected children in this cluster aged between 5 and 17. 1 is already dead. 18 are in hospital, with several at risk of life changing injury. 1 was released. Of the 104, they are recovering at home. 5 of the infected were vaccinated and had mild symptoms. A 16% hospitalization rate is unacceptably high and the cost to the taxpayer will be in the hundreds of thousands of $$ because most if not all of these kids will be covered i=under Children's Medicaid. None of this would have happened had they been vaccinated.
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You have taken the above out of context and presented it in a manner so that the conclusion is intentionally distorted. The very small number of deaths were in subjects with serious pre-existing medical or who had accidents following vaccination such as a fall. The study you cite does not claim any direct link between the MMR vaccine and death. We all get it that you are opposed to a safe and long used vaccine. Why not just say that and not try to mislead people with your misinterpretation and misuse of an article. The authors of that study would rebuke you and hold you out as deceitful for what you are trying to do because their position is to recommend the vaccine.
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Well, we now have a reasonable explanation for the cognitive impairment.
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There is no need for a study because the data is available There are no documented deaths in Texas attributable to the MMR vaccine. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4599698/ There are no documented deaths from the MMR Vaccine in the USA. And before you regurgitate some nonsense from an anti vaccination website, note that drawing broad cause and effect conclusions between vaccination and deaths based on spontaneous reports to VAERS, some of which might be anecdotal or second hand, is not a scientifically valid practice. In fact, a review of the VAERS data reveals that many of the death reports that anti vaccination campaigners cite for the MMR vaccine involved children with serious preexisting medical conditions or were likely unrelated to vaccination (e.g., accidents).
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British Man Arrested in Thailand After 25-Year Visa Overstay
Patong2021 replied to snoop1130's topic in Chiang Mai News
Inheritance, trust fund. -
British Man Arrested in Thailand After 25-Year Visa Overstay
Patong2021 replied to snoop1130's topic in Chiang Mai News
The man arrived when the system was still paper based. It was easy to dodge back then. Once out of the loop, he just stayed low. -
Pai's Big Bust: 7 Tourists Nabbed for Public Cannabis Use
Patong2021 replied to snoop1130's topic in Chiang Mai
The cannabis smoke is sticky and clings, just as diesel smoke does.