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I'm inclined to think that less jingoistic warmongering, not more, would be a more sensible strategy. We hear lots of expressions of support for Ukraine for "as long as it takes." As long as what takes, exactly?

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss....

Are you sure they were 'Kings', unless you were there...........????

The Romans conquered the island which they called Britannia more than 800 years before there was even anything called England, or even inhabitants who spoke English. At that time, the locals were a bunch of Celtic tribes who wore nothing but paint and animal furs, a practice which has largely died out, at least in the southern parts of the islands.

You don't get many of those to the pound....

Probably. It's easier to become fixated on Covid than it is to return to normal. They're now agonizing over an illness which by their own figures, now kills on average 1 person every day, out of the 1,500 Thai citizens who die every day, on average. That suggests there are dozens of conditions which are killing more than Covid on a regular basis, but the authorities can't bring themselves to care so much about those.

Yes, congratulations, Yanhee Hospital.....

Anyone except Donald Trump.

During that same period, 197 people were killed on the roads, according to Industry Ministry sources cited in a newspaper which may not be linked to. The continued focus on Covid to the virtual exclusion of everything else is idiotic and damaging.

It is "recommended" according to the PA announcements. About 90% of Thais do wear masks, and about 10% of non-Thais, is my estimate. The only public transport entity which demands a mask is a particularly unpleasant female ticket collector on the number 40 bus route, who makes a point of bellowing at anyone not following her rules on the subject.

I think it makes a lot of sense. The man's appeal is largely based on repeating "those bad guys are coming to get us" and now he has proof positive, as he sees it, to show to his fans. Of course they will rally behind him at such a time. From what I see, Trump is the only Republican candidate who could possibly lose to Biden in 2024....

Yes, we should always believe without question what the Chinese authorities tell us ....

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5. Always make sure that you are worth more alive than dead.

That was the same story for the Covid virus itself for most age groups where vaccination reduced a diddly-squat risk to a diddly-diddly-squat risk. It didn't stop governments becoming totally unglued and demanding everyone get vaccinated, though. It's a pity that the "health experts" never understood (or pretended not to) the difference between relative risk reduction (RRR) and absolute risk reduction (ARR).

Protecting children is general morality, and part of that is understanding that they are not mature enough to make life-changing decisions. We don't even hold children criminally liable for their acts until ages around 12-13, and there are equally good reasons for forbidding them from drinking alcohol, smoking, and so on.

To suggest that morality has no place in medicine places you in a very, very dark category.

It's not a "medical issue"; .there is nothing physically wrong with these people (to begin with, anyway). It is a psychological issue, and should be treated as such. Apart from the transgender issue, there are now considerable numbers of young people who identify as trans-species, that is, they identify as cats, or wolves, or "otherkins", and demand to be treated as that animal at all times. I do not think that it is beneficial to society to continually give in to these childish delusions, which gain a lot of airplay on social media and are most definitely encouraged as healthy alternative lifestyles. A final note: it is simply wrong to suggest that you have to be over 18 to engage in this process. One of the main preliminaries is the use of puberty blockers, and the Mayo Clinic says that treatment can begin around the ages of 10 and 11. These are not harmless drugs; they use the same drug that is given to "chemically castrate" rapists. Once again, I do not support a society that allows children of these ages (and younger) to make profoundly life-altering decisions, especially when they are being pushed and manipulated towards those decisions by activists and social media. The whole thing is morally indefensible.

There's no maybe about it - they certainly feel more comfortable "coming out" now; young people are actively encouraged and incentivized to adopt any "marginalized identity" they can. But the accompanying idea that there was an invisible transgender army back in the 1960s who were pressured socially not to reveal themselves doesn't fly, according to the data. Because parallel to the explosion of people identifying as "transgender" has come a corresponding huge increase in suicide among young people, especially the transgender ones, showing that this is a new and tragic phenomenon which is being promoted by activists and enabled by social media.

The exponential rise of people in the West (not just the US) wanted to have an "LGBTQ identity" is because there is a lot of narcissistic social cachet associated with being a victim, of being from a "marginalised community." Assumed victimhood can be lucrative as well. It doesn't have to be gender-related, either - pretending to be black or from an indigenous or religious minority is also quite popular, as evidenced by people such as Raquel Evita Saraswati, Rachel Dolezal, Jessica Krug, Kay LeClaire, It's a toxic mix of narcissism, resentment and self-loathing, enabled and boosted by the artificial world of social media. It encourages the view that "if I say I am something, then I am that thing, and anyone who denies that is a bigot encouraging genocide." That way, madness and destruction lie.

That asteroid can’t come soon enough, can it?

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Trump in 2023 is rather like the comeback tour of a heavy metal band. After a platinum best-seller in 2016, the new version has nothing new or fresh to offer, has no coherence, and is just rather a jumble of noise which people are increasingly tuning out. Perhaps he has become a hostage to Trump Derangement Syndrome, where he feels that his strongest move is to outrage people at every turn. Not forgetting that he did the world an enormous favor by stopping Hillary Clinton becoming President in 2016, but he's hitting a lot of wrong notes at the moment.

Russian numbers are down, comparatively speaking. Yes, 8 times as many Russians entered in Jan 2023 as compared to Jan 2022, but that ratio is much higher for other countries such as New Zealand (20 times), Australia (14x), Vietnam (158x) and Malaysia (264x). Russian increases were less than those from Poland and Czech and generally on a par with other European countries. As total figures go, there was a 15-times increase in the number of international arrivals in Jan 2023 compared to the same month in 2022, from 133,828 to 2,144,948, according to the relevant ministry. Just imagine how this country could have been be booming for all of last year if there were any competent officials here capable of assessing the true risk of the Covid virus, rather than remaining in a state of unglued panic which was in no way justified by the data.

Well, the Chinese lab in question was being funded by US government departments such as NIH and USAID - double-billed, in fact, according to CBS, for research which "involves dangerous pathogens and risky research". https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/government-agencies-may-have-been-double-billed-for-projects-in-wuhan-records-indicate/ar-AA18yT1T If the whole murky story is allowed to emerge in timely fashion, then several people high up in the US medical bureaucracy. even if they are over 80 years old and have recently stepped down, are going to be in the frame for outright lying to various political entities, cover-ups and suppression of data.