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They're clearly intended to help poor countries to get vaccines under an international agreement struck early on. Ex ept for the US where the then president cut WHO funding for vaccines. It seems some posters here who like to engage in gratuitous Thai bashing can make a pig's ear out of a silk purse. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/29/covid-vaccines-must-be-redirected-by-september

Australia threatens Twitter with fines after surge in hate speech complaints. "We are also aware of reports that the reinstatement of some of these previously banned accounts has emboldened extreme polarisers, peddlers of outrage and hate, including neo-Nazis both in Australia and overseas." The move comes as Twitter is undergoing a regulatory "stress test" from European Union officials focused on its handling of user content and whether it is equipped to meet online safety regulations. If Twitter failed to respond to the eSafety commissioner's notice within 28 days, the company could face maximum financial penalties of nearly $700,000 a day for continuing breaches, she said. https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-threatens-twitter-with-fines-after-surge-in-hate-speech-complaints/9f62436a-49d9-4fe6-b35e-1a1cabdb47f8

Crazy, isn't it? I can remember exactly what I was doing every day 18 years ago.

As Donald Trump and his lawyers head to court once again to face a second defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, he faces the very real prospect of a jury awarding her up to $100 million in punitive damages should a jury find in her favor. According to a report from New York Times' Benjamin Weiser, Carroll's attorney is looking for a win and financial penalties at the outermost edge that will get the former president to cease smearing her client and that may come in the form of a massive punitive damage award. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-e-jean-carroll-2661745479/

Same reason as people vote for him.

Same old mantra. Are lefties blind or something?

Time to rename The Thames to De Nile.

Nothing screams partisan hack like behaving as a partisan hack. Gary Shapley is now ghosting the Democratic-led IRS-oversight committee following its several-hour-long meeting with his attorney, and has called off a planned interview with the panel. “Committee staff on both sides agreed with counsel to meet directly with the whistleblower next week, however the whistleblower has since backed out of that agreement and declined an attempt to reschedule,” a source on the committee told The Independent. Shapley’s distancing from the committee comes as he revs up to lay out evidence regarding his allegations before the GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee in a closed session Friday. https://www.thedailybeast.com/irs-whistleblower-in-hunter-biden-probe-is-ghosting-dem-led-senate-committee

Sheldon Whitehouse, Daniel Goldman, Ted Lieu or Hakeem Jeffries.

No Democrats of note have ever said that her replacement would have to be a woman of colour. Please justify your allegation. There is no presumption that Harris would automatically get Biden's place if he were to drop out.

The IRS said in a statement that it "is deeply committed to protecting the role of whistleblowers, and there are robust processes and procedures in place to protect whistleblowers."

Manchin is likely to become a Republican soon.

Was he correct? Is Xi not a dictator?

No need, they have CCTV cameras along most main roads in Bangkok and Pattaya now.

That ship had sailed, that's the point. Was Blinken not meant to raise the question of the balloons or aid to Russia or something? In your rush to dump on Biden you'd have America kowtow to Xi. There's a time for soft diplomacy and a time for hard diplomacy. The Chips Act was an example of hard diplomacy and Xi is peeved about that. It was a fantastic example fo doing the right thing and protecting America's interests, markedly in contrast to boosting inflation by putting a tariff on Chinese goods.

Biden's sent his sons off to fight for America. One died as a direct result of his service. Previous president lied about bone spurs to avoid the draft and none of his three sons ever served. On a visit to Arlington, Trump asked his secretary of state whose own son was buried there "What was in it for them?" Unlike his son, Mr Biden never served in the US military, having received five student draft deferments and a conditional medical deferment while studying at the University of Delaware and Syracuse University in the 1960s, the latter following a physical exam in April 1968 that led to him being classified as I-Y, which meant he could only be drafted in the case of a national emergency. When he was chosen as Mr Obama’s running-mate in 2008, a spokesperson explained that asthma had been the reason given for the exemption at the time. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/did-biden-serve-military-record-b2044210.html

There's about a thousand of them on the footpath along beach road.

Oh, Comer investigating again. Biden must be shaking in his boots. You must have missed where Comer et al had to back down from the last allegations because they could produce the tapes.

So he should tug the forelock to a dictator who wants to be an enemy of the US and the free world?

Blinken was rebuffed by Xi and this is payback. Great to see a president with the guts and the courage of his convictions stand up for his country for a change.

Blinken was clearly snubbed. This is payback. https://www.voanews.com/a/china-snubs-us-military-outreach-ahead-of-expected-blinken-visit-/6910896.html

It was quite intentional I can assure you. A man of conviction who isn't just out to grift cash for his family criminal enterprise. Quite obviously the far right jibes about accepting bribes from the Chinese are from a parallel universe.

You don't have any objection to Xi actively supporting Putin and threatening Taiwan with invasion? Not to mention his recent efforts to establish an alternative reserve currency which would greatly undermine the world order? Stealing islands off the Philippines? You don't see Xi as a major threat to world peace and order?