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While the land might be uninhabitable, there are Gazans who have legal title to the land, evidenced through Deeds. That ownership should be recognised, and land owners compensated o No redevelopment of the land until ownership issuen an individual basis. Given that the likely buyers would be Israeli property developers, I would suggest valuation based on utility as farm land, based on Israeli land prices. Much of thancien régimee Gazan strip was used for horticulture. The Nazis might have run Germany, and indeed might have had significant support when balloted, but that did not entitle the Occupying Forces to arbitrarily seize property. Certainly the Bonn government was obliged to provide restitution in the cases of property that was seized during WW2 by the ancien regime. Israel ratified the Geneva Conventions on July 6, 1951. Israel claims the Geneva Convention does not apply to operations in Gaza, as it is not sovereign territory. Others beg to differ. Mr Trumpf might agreewith Israel, until he realises what that means. Protocol V describes the Protocol on the Explosive Remnants of War. Basically it discusses what do you do with the battlefield afterwards. Who is responsible for demining territory they control. https://geneva-s3.unoda.org/static-unoda-site/pages/templates/the-convention-on-certain-conventional-weapons/Protocol%2Bon%2BExplosive%2BRemnants%2Bof%2BWar.pdf If Israel claims its a bit of Israel, then it has no obligation to demine it. It can leave it as wasteland, left to the dogs. If Trumpf pushes Article V, he can force Israel to pick up the tab for deminng rather than expecting the American taxpayer to pay for it. Israel has droped about 90-95,000 tons of munitions over a 360 square km area of land, give or take, about 260 tons per square km. Trumpf thought it would take a 2-5 years to demine the area. This is where is lack of experience in uniform becomes apparent. He is apparently unaware of the scale fo Allied bombing sorties over Germany during WW2. Berlin, a city of about 900 suare kms, received about 67,000 tons of British and American bombs. And these weren't the smart or precision bombs supposedly used on Gaza. About 15% of bombs never exploded, and that's probably still the case. 80 years on, they are still finding live bombs in the city. I'm not sure the Israelis and Trumpf have thought this through. They have salted the earth for 3 generations, and now they own the farm. I would suggest US taxpayers forcefully remind their representatives that the US budget is in deficit, and while 30% of US civil servants are set to lose their jobs, it would be an unwise act to send taxpayer money to a foreign state to decontaminate land that they contaminated. Its a cost that sould be picked up by Israeli government, and by extension, the Israeli taxpayer. 80 years, Germany spends abotu $10m per year on bomb disposal.

Mr Trumpf stated "other places. You could have more than two......I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy,,,,, If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently" So he's volunteering to resettle Gazans in the United States of America if they want to come? There is precedent. FDR convened the Evian Conference in 1938 to discuss resettlement of Jews from Germany. I'm sure he will agree that America is a beautiful country with lots of spare space. Even more so as he is deporting so many.

Didn't the Mexican President do this not long ago, but no tariff nonsense. https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/04/12/mexico-has-10000-troops-in-south-to-stem-migration-white-house-says And the Canadian plans were largely what had already been agreed in November. I thought in 2017 Trumpf put his top man in solving the US opiod risis, Jared Kushner. I kind of assumed Trumf had succeeded in fixing it in short order, followng his election promises. So I am puzzled why he's still talking about it.

You were asked are you aware of attacks. You replied implying they are all lies. Is that the same response when asked about victims of rape "I am aware of them lying about it"? Scumbag reply when there are murders like this: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/20/brianna-ghey-found-guilty-murder Whole collection of events you consider to be nothing but lies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_killed_for_being_transgender

Good singer, cracking songs. I like singers who sing with their natural, unabashed voice. As for Wizard books written by a one hit wonder on the Dole; never read them, never will. Asked my teenage nephew what he thought of Harry Potter; zero interest in them and the films, as do all his mates, demonstrating she is no Charles Dickens (irony).n I don't care at all about the opinions of kids book writers, pop singers and comedians. Why should you? Maybe they should run for office.

Lamduan had 5 sisters. So I doubt she will be on her own.

The UK police issued an Interpol Bue Notice. Quite clever. No need for an extradition. Armitage would have had no choice, as n o country would want his with that hanging around.

Bloody hell, an actual sexpat.

So why did they bother packing victory parade uniforms? Russia had a 10 day plan to seize Kyiv, and then complete the full annexation of Ukraine by August 2022. What's your evidence that Russia was not trying to annex all of Ukraine. Putin's speech on 24 February 2022 is not evidence.

As to whether Twitter/X is now free. Only selected features are free. Other bits you have to pay for. Should someone tell the committe about that Pedo business? If he is offered it, it should be a joint award with Bill Gates, to show what two men with billions to hand can do with that money. https://x.com/i/premium_sign_up

I've concluded this account is some sort of AI-generated comedy account.Its not a particularly original approach. You see this dead pan approach elsewhere, so hackneyed. Do you perform sand dances as well? Cha cha.

One of the impacts of the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic is the increased surveillance capacity in most countries. When we look more carefully, we see more things. This is a good thing, People are properly diagnosed, and better treatments delivered. Every pandemic leaves its mark on medicine. if we count from 1918 flu; the impact from that was the idea of PPE and distancing. The 1920s saw the start of a 40 year polio pandemic. The iron lung came about because of that, but disappeared because of the success of thr polio vaccine. But the lasting legacy of polio was Intensive Care Medicine, invented in Denmark as a response. And now we can't think of medicine without it Another benefit of polio; the FDA. Prior to Salk's polio vaccine, there was no FDA. There were no clinical trials. Salk developed a polio vaccine, which reduced Eisenhower to tears. His approach was to use inactivated polio vaccine. Key was using formaldehyde to kill the virus. Contracts to make millions of batches went to 3 companies. One of these companies didn't know how to make formaldehyde, with the result 200,000 kids were infected. The FDA was formed as a result, to provide regulatory oversight to the companies making medicines. End of the 50; China or Mao flu; 20 years earlier, Australia developed the first flu vaccine (remarkable, as the flu virus was only discovered in the 1930s). The vaccine had only limited utlity unless you knew the serotype of the virus in circulation. In 1957, a lab in Singapore, with Walter Reed in US, for the first time identified the serotype of a circulating flu virus, allowing vaccine to be manufactured in response. This stopped the 1968 Hong Kong flue from becoming a pandemic, thanks to production of an The work really initiated the whole area of molecular diagnostics, and transformed the role of the path lab. We know from improved diagnostics that the measles vaccine is not as effective as previously though. It does not prevent infections. In a population of vaccinated kids, PCR will show the virus circulating. But the burden is reduced such that the kids won't develop measles. Time tell what the lasting legacy is from COVID. Initially I thought it might be increased diagnostics capacity; before covid, not all countries could carry out PCR at large scale.. During COVID, there were massive investments into labs, which in theory should have left a skilled workforce, setting the scene for better cancer diagnostics. But that capacity was quickly stood down.

But would you give an adult with Downs Syndrome the chance to clean toilets? Do you feel that Down's Syndrome adults can make any sort of meaningful contribution to society, pay their way etc, or should they be killed before birth? Or do you prefer that they become a burden to society. Are they human?

Clint Eastwood, you might was to read this document: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/Order_3930.3C_withCHG1.pdf Note, the FAA employs about 45,000. Opportunities in that organisation are wide, from toilet cleaners, binmen, janitorial staff through to the ATCs that keep you awake at night. ATCs have to meet medical requirements outlined in the document. If you sincerely think that the FAA are actively hiring mentally impaired personal, such as cretins, Down Sydrome adults, into safety critical posts, then I assume that right now you are conducting a writing campaign to your political representatives, the interim head of the FAA, and other officials, the President, every US and foreign airline with destinations in the United States, imploring them to immediately halt all air operations over the United States, including military deployment missions, because of the extreme risk to life and limb. And if you are not in the US, you are planning a placard campaign at your local embassy. If you are in the US< then you should be driving or taking a bus to the capital, to demonstrate to raise this important issue that you have uncovered. If you haven't done any of that, then clearly you are just looking for likes on an irrelevant forum created for alcohol soaked old blokes sitting in bars in the SEA moaning about women, lady boys, gays, your wife, your ex-wife, your boyfriend, your ex boyfriend, the increased costs of prostitutes. None of it matters. Refer to the section Page 25

In 2022, I thought a Putsch by the military was possible; an unecessary war with Ukraine was threatening to degrade their carefully cultivated empires just as the new professional military was emerging, with new kit genuinely comparable to the West. I thought the relative non-involvement of the Russian Air Force meant something; you would have thought the war would have been started by Russia first dominating Ukrainian airspace, removing the need for much conflict between ground forces. The airforce, even now, largely operates from Russian air space, preserving its capabilities. Compare that to 1990 and 2003, where the Western coalition utterly pulverised Iraqi ground assets from the air, resulting in a quickly concluded groundwar and routing of the enemy. I had thought that the emerging Generals of the 2020s, following decades of close observation and genuine working with their western counterparts would have left a mark. But these Generals didn't get promoted because they were good at teir jobs, but because they were loyal to the boss (a process happening in the US now). They genuinely don't care about their commands, their men. They don't care that instead of T14 Armatas, their tank crews are now using 70 year old hulls with scallding bolted to them. and that battle buses are literally that; UAZ-452 Loaf vans, with all the literal sophistication of a 1959 Ford Thames Van, are now the main mode of transport into conflict. When Wellington said his army were the Scum of the Earth (in response to a Fremch comment that French soldiers were all highly educated), it was said as a source of pride. When a Russian talks of their army, its with much fear (when they go back home). Putin has taken a hybrid-Gaddafi approach to holding power. He knows that the Russian Revolution started among the Russian military (the Imperial Russian Navy I believe), so he has created an internal network of rival militas, such as the National Guard, reporting to him, not the Defence Ministry, meaning that makes any of them too weak to overthrow him. But the Wagner Mutiny showed that internally, Russian forces were paper thin, with, ironically, only the air force under a central unified command. I wish the Russian would stand up like they did in 1991.

Its happening to both sides sadly. Part of the motivation of Putin's aggression was demographic certainty. Putin has always bewailed the loss of the Soviet Union. and it being a great tragedy. But its a Russian saying that. The reason he sees it as a great tragedy is not the loss of fraternal relationships with other Soviet people, but the fragmentation of Rus people, who are left scattered. He couldn't care less about the other peoples; they existed to serve the Russian people. He feels a sense of injustice at the end of the Cold War, and we might think, like the Versailles Agreement, there is something in that. Hitler felt great injustice with Versailles because it left Germanic peoples fragmented. Like many others before him, Putin has misjudged the winds of change, just as those misunderstood the words spoken in 1918, 1945, 1988, 1990, 2001, 2003. Whether it was the end of WW1, the defeat of Nazi of Germany, the Polish shipbuilders strikes of 1981, the 1991 collapse of the USSR, the defeat of Iraq, 911, 2003 Euromaidan, what Putin has failed to understand is that history is the product of movements, not individual people. In his positoon as an isolated autocratic ruler, he believes he wields great power, as an individual, and we see that in Russian government footage of him hectoring officials, and the basis of his supposed expertise in many areas. He thinks this is how the world is run. I suspect Trump thinks this as well, because that's how he ran his dad's companies. The United States is in the midst of a struggle between two peoples with differing visions for the US. I'm not sure how that will play out. It may well end up in a transformation of the settled status of North America, like Europe after 1918 and 1988. I wouldn't say that means a bigger US, but a different US.

It would be interesting to see how much of the Russian oil industry is dependant on Western tachnologies. How much was built or upgraded, to replace Soviet era infrastructure, and then we get a better idea how much can Russia repair. Ryazan Refinery There was a contract awarded in October 2021 with Italian contractor Maire Tecnimont to construct a vacuum gas oil hydrocracking complex, but I guess that never happened. Kstovo Refinery Maire also won a 2018 contract here: https://www.enerdata.net/publications/daily-energy-news/maire-tecnimont-upgrades-lukoils-kstovo-refinery-us527m-russia.html Chevron Lummus Global, McDermott's joint venture with Chevron, also won a 2018 contract at this plant https://www.mcdermott-investors.com/news/press-release-details/2018/McDermott-Awarded-EPC-Contract-for-Delayed-Coker-Unit-for-LUKOIL-Refinery/default.aspx Volgograd Refinery Tecnicas Reunidas (Spanish) did work in 2013-15 http://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2013/02/lukoil-picks-tecnicas-reunidas-for-upgrade-project-at-volgograd-refinery/ I suspect there are a fair few people on this forum with quite a high level of understanding of the oil refining industry, maybe specifically in Russia, or can provide a general assessment. When these works are bombed/attacked, it always seems there is a lot of damage. Is this damage more superficial than it looks, or is it genuinely significant. Its probably not that much different to a fire breaking out. When damaged by fire, what sort of parts are replaced? Are parts typically "off the shelf" or custom made, fabricated For controllers and electricals/electronics; is it easy to substitute one type of part for another type of part. eg. American components switched out for Chinese/Indian parts. (not to get into a debate about quality; can they be straighforwardly subsitituted) Knowing which parts are ciritcally dependant on foreign parts would help Ukraine plan how to use drones strategically. It also wouldn't catastrophically damage the Russian Oil Industry; these aren't being degraded in a way that would utterly cripple the Russian economy post-war, which is perhaps an off-ramp for Putin's Oligarch backers who might want to stop all this nonsense coming from Putin.

For balance, since you are actively monitoring the media, what is the Eastern MSM telling you, and do you believe those reports. Are you a Russian hospital administraor or health ministry employee. Because I'm not sure how you are in any position to discount Russian losses of "thousands of troops a week". The other way I suppose is to analyse death notices placed in Russian media. I suspect you are automatically discounting any source West of Minsk, on the basis of perceived bias, and instead have built your own spreadsheet of KIAs, to effectively counter Western claims. Care to share that, to get the "truth" out, or are you only trusting of the Russian government? The same Western sources were probably compiling losses in Iraq etc that you probably seized upon immediately as the ruth,

So what religion do these WEF bankers/globalists follow? We had the same arguments from your lot 90 years ago. You change the words, but we know what you mean. Canada has no control on the people US Immigration authoraties allow to enter. You actually mean Emigration policies. America is much the same. When you enter the US, a passport officer scrutinises your paperwork, lets you in or not. When you leave, there is no contact with a passport officer. They check you have left, but the US doesn't care where it exports terrorists to. One examples of a terrorist the US let leave its country is John Crawley, a former US Marine who joined the sectarian terrorist group the IRA to murder soldiers and civilians. He got q0 years for being a terrorist. He now lives in the US profiting from his time as a terrorist by pulblishing books and charging at speaking engagements. He celebrates being a terrorist, rather than being contrite. Another, Californian, William Quinn, known in the IRA as Joe the Yankee, was part of the Balcombe Street Gang, a murderous group of cut throats who carried out at least 10 mass murder attacks in England. He got life for murdering an unarmed off-duty policeman who was bravely trying to arrest him. I could also add the well known examples of US politicians, of both parties, who have hosted in their homes and official offices terrorists. You want an example of an illegal immigrant from Canada? Elon Musk. He came in on a non-immigrant F-visa, as a student. He transferred his visa to Stanford. Didn't study a single dayn there, instead, used corrupt officials to fix it for him. Not Canada's fault they let in the Grandson of a US-born Social-Credit-Technocracy Nazi from Apartheid Sud Afrika. You are an Apologist. You are literally spouting that you want the US to overthrow the governments of the collective democratic west. No wonder we all think you elected a Russian stooge. Where does it end if we refuse to comply. You will nuke Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe?

The favourite to replace Trudeau, Mark Carney, would be interesting to listen to. Dr Carney; actual economist. Its generally said tariffs only hurt the consumer, as the increase is passed on. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 caued the Great Depression. The Great Depression allowed Hitler to come to power, and ultimately the impact of the US raising tariffs caused World War 2. But not strictly true if the consumer has a choice. That's Trump's imaginary solution. 80% of Canadian oil is exported to the US. But why does the US need Canadian or any foreign oil if it can drill baby drill. https://www.fuelstreamservices.com/why-the-u-s-cant-use-the-oil-it-produces/ For cars, its utterly dependant on imported oil, or expect sharp increases at the pump, and ultimately, in the supermarket (eg price of eggs). About 80% of medical equipment is imported, albeit made by US companies. Trump should ask his mate Putin how he got on onshoring the Russian medical industry post-2022. Russia has a lot of technical knowhow. They put a man into space first, They have nukes. They have incredible scientists. That's probably what Putin thought when he formed a panel to look at what medical equipment and medicines coud be Made In Russia Again (medicines and most medical equipments are not sanctioned, but they are now much more expensive in Russia, since 89-90% were imported). The response was not much. Its not just about know how; that will take years to develop, but in healthcare, doctors generally don't want to kill their patients with some hokey solution. A lot of politicians, East and West, don't understand this. They think its just about Will and Ingenuity. This was played out during COVID and Ventilators. With good reason. there was expected to be an increase in demand for Emergency Ventilators, only they weren't mass produced, generally only made, quite slowly, to order. We didn't have enough ventilators. So there was a worldwide, and unseemly scramble for available inventory. Anyone remember when Putin made America a gift of Russian ventilators, and other medical equipments in March 2020, to help out in New York. The President at the time thought it was a big deal, and he was very thankful. None of it made it anywhere near a US hospital. It went straight to the scrap heap. No American doctor was willing to risk their patients being hooked u to a shonky bit of kit that could actually kill them. Lots of countries had lots of people from industry to rethink how to make ventilators. In the US, Trump got GM and Ford, in a WW2 style effort make 50,000 ventilators in 100 days. In the UK, the government got the military involved, formed the "Uk Ventilator Challenge", lead by defence contractor Babcock to take the same approach as we did to Afghanistan, with "Urgent Operational Requirements", think out of the box, how to make a back to basics ventilator, war style, after thats what made the Sten gun brilliant.... James Dyson put in his awl, saying ventilator makers were idiots, and he was a genius rethinking the concept of the ventilator, in the same was he reinvented the hoover and changed how we dry our hands. Pretty sure Elon Musk pitched in. Trumpf must have loved this, all these fellow geniuses getting things done, a can do spirit. Only no one spoke to the doctors. For the same reason they didn't want Russian ventilators that catch fire anywhere near their hospitals, they didn't want ventilators screwed together by someone a week earlier who was screwing together a F150, nor a ventilator designed by a hoover maker using coke bottles and chicket wire. And this is what Putin found. Russian doctors wanted to have the same medicines as before, the same ultrasound as before, the same IVD tests as before. Not Russki knockoffs. The Healthcare supply chain is complex; I am working with certain national agencies to understand the supply chain landscape supporting their healthcare needs, using their own data that they can't understand. They were worried about the stresses revealed by COIV. They are genuinely worried about another COVID. But they are worried about the effects of Typhoons, Hurricanes and other natural weath events, and how that impacts supply. They are worried about financial failure. Did you know, there is a influenza testing device sold in the US, by a top US makers, it provides rapid and accurate testing for a battery of viruses. They assemble some of it in the US, they assemble another bit in their China subsidiary (the consumable, because they need that to be really cheap if scaling it up for population level usage). They don't know much about electronics, so they use a US contract manufacturer to design and make a reader. This CMO farms that out to its Singaporean subsidiary, who ultimately get it made in their lower wage Malaysian factory. Meanwhile, this test,, is worthless if it doesn't have reagents. Luckily, they can do that inhouse, except for the Control. Control is something to prove the test works. Its an inert derivative of the virus you are trying to detect. It can only be made in a laboratory that is growing active virus to actually quite large amounts. Its a lab that needs particular containment measures, of the sort seen at the Wuhan Virus Research Institute. This major US manufacturer sources its killed control from a little Dutch sub-contractor, from their little Dutch BS3 containment facility. The manufacturer operates with a 8% margin; it squeezes its suppliers because its responsibility is not to provide cheap tests for patients, but to provide return to its shareholders. For this US manufacturer, about 40% of volume goes to the US. It has a leading market share in the US, but is more pressured in the EU and China thanks to less strict regulatory oversight. It has to pay the tariffs. It could pass all of that onto the providers in the US, or it can try and squeeze its suppliers some more, raise prices in non-US markets. Or it might say, Fk It, the cost of business in the US is already quite high, lets reduce our exposure there, and focus of expanding market share in those fast growing markets in APAC. Revenue is revenue. With less competition in the US, prices rise, but also device/medicine efficacy falls; manufacturers have no incentive to improve things. Its US companies that have largely created the global ecosystem of trade that Trumpf rails against ("the globalists"). US sales are very important to them, or course but so are non-US sales. That proportion varies by industry. In the traditional industries, lke cars, American car makers still sell most cars to Americans, and that will always be like that. Its in the Tech industries where its very different, the same tech industry that Trumpf is pinning his hopes on with the US re-industrialization strategy. Its going to work for traditional industry. One outcome is your frying pans (skillets) will no longer be mostly Chinese, but American. They'll be more expensive, but American. But guess what, people don't use skillets so much any more. Its all about air fryers now. Tech firms have the largest proportion of revenue from outside of the US. Now Trump wants then to reshore their operations, making them less compeititive in the markets they have always existed in. He'd have to devalue the US Dollar to do that. Oh wait, he doesn't want to do that, because the USD is strong.

The US didn't go to "conquer Afghanistan". They went to support the Northern Alliance against the Taliban. They successfully instilled a Northern Alliance government. Subsequently, Afghanistan had several elections and changes of government. The USSR actually went to conquer Afghainistan in 1979, using Spetznatz to wipe out the existing presidency. Putin;s war aims were to topple the Kyiv government and take over Ukraine as a client state. During the original Russian debacle, Russian supply convoys were intercepted containing, of all things, dress uniforms, intended for a victory parade through Kyiv. Russian officers had also placed dinner reservations in the city. Among the troops captured in that invasion wave were OMON and SOBR troops. OMON is a gendarmerie in Russia, used for riot duty. Back in those days, we thought this nonsense would have been ended, because among these POWs were a pair of pretty sensible OMON officers, a grizzled Colonel (Lt. Col. Astakhov Dmitry Mikhailovich) and a wounded Major. Both were clearly police professionals, who had been deployed to Belarus with Russian troops to support an exercise, so were somewhat puzzled about what subsequently happened. Among the kit captured was OMON issue riot gear, with Russia anticipating the need to suppress civil unrest. The full plan by OMON and SOBR to decapitate Kyiv is remarkable (https://thedebrief.org/know-no-mercy-the-russian-cops-who-tried-to-storm-kyiv-by-themselves/) Putin fully intended to conquer Ukraine. You are an Apologist.

In 1941, Singapore wasn't a country. It fell after a lightening campaign by Japan through Malaya, with a bit of Thai help. It mattered not a jot that it was protected by what was then the most powerful passport in the world. At the start of WW2, the Philippines was an unincorporated territory of the United States. The Japanese kicked your arse there as well, but Thai help wasn't needed to achieve that. If I'm on a plane that's hijacked by neck cutting terrorists, there are two passports I really wouldn't want. The current state of the world is due to people like your boy. Him and they created it, and are part ocf the problem. This is what happens when you have a drift to technocracy. The so-called experts (Trump the bankrupted businessman, Putin the spook from a failed state) turned out to be complete, and this is an under used but missed word, plonkers.

So that's also your price to betray your country. Lot of cheap wannabe traitors in Thailand.

Its a 25th Amendment tactic. You remember Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Trump is Prince Ruprecht. The Art of the Grift.

$1 million is not a life changing amount of money. If you are 65 years old, it buys yiu an annuity of less than $49,000. Given the average Greenlander is wealthier than the average American, that's your price to betray your country? $1 million is all it takes you to become pro-Chinese Communist/Pro-Russian. You're cheap.