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A cruel and evil activity that reflects a culture's ignorance and savagery. The people who attend these events are often the same people who engage in criminality and who think nothing of cheating farangs. The have little compassion or appreciation of the concept of right and wrong.

Someone was watching the annual screening of Casablanca.

Except that is not how the Trump appointees and entourage live. Theirs is one of ostentatious display and pretentious conspicuous consumption.

The Biden administration has done rather well. What exactly did it do wrong? Ukraine: It has supported Ukraine's resistance against an illegal and barbaric invasion from despot Putin's Russia. Gaza: Gaza started a war with its breaking of a truce and continuous firing of rockets and missiles into Israel. What did you expect the USA to do? It has provided large amounts of humanitarian aid over the decades that the local arabs have misused. Syria: What did you want the USA to do? Invade? You would be complaining if teh USA had a presence in Syria. Make up your mind. Haiti: What do you expect the USA to do? Haiti is a sovereign nation. Again, you expect the USA to intervene. To what point? There is no benefit to the USA of a presence in Haiti. You complain for the sake of complaining. Wait. Trump will create an international mess the likes you haven't seen since a National Lampoon movie.

You are speaking from a position of absolute ignorance. The USN is under the control of career naval officers, most of whom received their command commissions during the Trump administration. Their first duty is to the US Constitution. The fact is that friendly fire losses are a common occurrence in a battle zone. Who are you to 2nd guess the loss ot the F16? Have you ever commanded a naval vessel during a missile attack? No, but here you are to blame anyone and everyone because it fits your ignorant political agenda. You can blame Biden all you want, but Trump left US political relations in a shambles and Biden's administration spent years repairing the damage. Yesterday, Trump threatened Panama threatening to invade a sovereign nation and seize a canal that is not the USA's That's the ignorant mindset of his collective. If that is done, the USA will be subject to the same sanctions as Russia is in the Crimea. Trump won't be happy until he has alienated the USA from the world. Eventually, Americans will be prisoners in their own fetid nation unwelcome in the world and unable to travel except to their lackey nations.

Actually, Biden restored the USA's reputation and stabilized its standing. The Trump collective believes that it can go it alone and does not need peaceful relations with anyone. What they forget is that the USA economy relies on exports. Keep alienating the customer markets and they will go elsewhere. Trump is going to ignite Latin American nationalism and he will be the first President in a century to unite Canadians by creating a seething rage against the USA. America is one step away from an internal civil conflict and Trumpians will regret being at war with the world when they start killing each other.

Poetic map making 🙂

This is just what is reported. The Russian practice of transfering oil between tankers at sea is leaving large spills on the open ocean.

Another high quality taxi driver on display.

Air India has a well deserved, negative reputation. It should not be part of *Alliance .

Please educate yourself. Very different models of infection and at risk people. Tomato flu aka Hand, mouth foot disease is a manageable viral infection caused by Coxsackievirus A-6 and A-16 of the enterovirus group. It is most likely in children age 5 and under. It infects tens of thousands in Thailand. It is a predictable annual seasonal epidemic that spikes in June, July and August. It is most severe and frequent in Bangkok, and less severe in provinces with lower population density. It is an expensive illness because of the toll it places on families. MPox aka Monkey pox Monkeypox is caused by monkeypox virus of the genus an Orthopoxvirus. This a disease that was initially imported from Africa, most likely by Europeans. The initial western outbreaks were traced back to raves and sex fetish events in Spain and Germany. Visitors to these events brought the disease back to their homelands and from there to Thailand. The western quick response was instrumental in containing a pandemic and the vaccination of at risk individuals acted to slow and in some countries stop the spread of disease. Unfortunately, enough infected westerners entered Thailand and had intimate relations with Thais, most likely sex workers, to result in 800+ infections as of August 2024. It was being managed through vaccinations of at risk Thais. It all changed last August when the new deadly Clade Ib strain of the virus appeared in Thailand. The carrier was a European who had arrived in Thailand on August 14th on a flight from the Middle East, but his journey had originated in Central Africa. Fortunately, he was quarantined and all of his Thai contacts tested negative. (Whether the Gulf based airline informed its at risk passengers is uncertain.) The quick and well directed intervention by the MoH protected Thailand's national health security and helped prevent a national catastrophe. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2859542/first-case-of-new-mpox-variant-recovers. Thailand then took further steps to protect its people by adding a screening requirement for the disease for the countries already on its Yellow fever screening list. Thailand's response was textbook near perfect and deserves praise. Most critics of public health and Thais in this forum are oblivious to how close Thailand came to a health catastrophe that could have destroyed tourism for 2024 and created a real fear of foreigners. Thailand's response to a possible norovirus outbreak can be expected to be no less top quality. I would expect that the MoH is first investigating. It is often difficult to quickly differentiate between the standard food poisoning that we can all get vs. a norovirus infection. I prefer to let the quiet, non headline chasing health professionals at the MoH do their job and am confident that they will respond appropriately.

Why would you need links for events that are widely reported. The number is now 3 cruise ships and 300+ passengers & crew. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-12-20/norovirus-sickens-hundreds-on-three-cruise-ships-cdc The reason why cruise ships infectious illness outbreaks are known is because they are now reportable. Previously, such occurrences did not have to be made public. We can thank the US CDC for requiring that level of disclosure. The Cruise industry has tried for years to have the reporting requirement reversed. These outbreaks are not spontaneous. They occur because infected people board the cruise ships and infect people. In most cases, the passengers know that they are sick, but still board anyway. Many infectious diseases are imported to a geographic zone by foreigners. This is a known fact and it happens whenever a domestic population is "disrupted" by foreign agents. Covid as a mass infection was first identified in the Koh Samui area and was prevalent amongst the European tourists who were visiting Thailand. They in turn infected other Europeans who brought the disease back to their homelands. The local Thai service industry staff, who were infected, carried the disease to their home areas. A more brutal illustration was the 2013 cholera outbreak in Haiti. Nepalese UN personnel were cholera carriers and their sewage waste contaminated the community where they were billeted. Because an illness is not reported or is under reported does not mean that it does not exist or is not present. We are currently seeing a resurgence of Covid infections, Flu and RSV. in western nations. The infections will be transported to vacation destinations by infected visitors.

Indian or Middle Easten?

Tell that to the 2 Holland American cruiseships and the hundreds of passengers vomiting and crapping their pants.

Google what? The new cabinet is in place and Freeland will be forgotten in a month. You forget how only a few short months ago there were demands for her to resign.

You seriously expect anyone of intelligence to accept the claims of the Hindustan Times? It is aligned with PM Modi, the Indian who authorized assassinations and spying in Canada. India has an ongoing dispute with Canada that includes India's shielding of scam call centers, organized crime groups and political intimidation.

It is not the most prestigious. It has a political agenda just as the right wing newspapers in Israel do.

I am.

Full responsibility rests with airline. It also violated safety protocols. This was Air Asia, the airline with a poor service reputation. Next time you are considering flying this airline, don't.

It requires administrative and regulatory filings. There is a good reason why banks around the world do not offer tourist bank accounts,

A considerable contribution to benefiting the public.

That's a list of washed up nobodies from the 1980's. Becker - bankrupt criminal. White- a successful snooker player, but hardly notable aside from his taking up with a young lady nearly 1/2 his age. I suppose it plays well with the Pattaya crowd. Van Damme - he would have been in his coke head phase when visiting Thailand. Great endorsement. Jimmy Page -Another druggie, and while a hero to people from the 60's and 70's, no one under the age of 40 knows of him. Unreasonable demand. Thailand has enough problems with money laundering. Try opening a bank account in western and north asian countries. Few banks will allow it and when they do, there are tax id numbers or visas required.

If a death penalty was ever merited, I suggest it is due here.

Gaza was left to its own independent way, Israel was not occupying and there was a truce agreement in place despite the daily missile and rocket attacks from Gaza. Gaza had access to the Arab world via Egypt. It was receiving generous aid shipments via the Israeli border crossing. If they wish to declare a war or a resistance (sic) operation, then they should do so. However, when Israel responds accordingly, they should not play the victim, since they declared a hostile action. Your mention of Lebanon and Syria reveals a double standard. 14 million refugees, 500,000+ dead were created by Assad, Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, not Israel. Hezbollah is an occupying state within Lebanon and it was Iran and Syria who started the Lebanon civil war. Israel's error was in trying to make peace with the Palestinians. Until they are humiliated in defeat as were the Egyptians and Jordanians, the Palestinians will not make peace.

The budget was not going to expose corruption. That's your own biased attempt to promote your political agenda. Who is. this next in line who resigned? It is no big secret that both Anita Anand, and Chrysta Freeland harbour aspirations of becoming PM. There has been a movement in the party and caucus to get Mark Carney to take over, first as a finance minsiter and then as the party leader. Freeland was going to be asked to lead the. Trump negotiations, which she didn't want to do again. No big secret. Freeland felt she should get Trudeau's backing.