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They re-wrote the headlines and then try to deceive readers into believing the reputable new outlet had written those headlines ("It is entirely wrong for anyone to put fake headlines under The Independent brand."). This is deception and simple propaganda. If there was nothing wrong with it The Independent would not be so incensed and seek to have these ads removed. Yes, legal, but so is prostitution, it doesn't mean it's not lamentable. The issue is they are deceiving the reader into believing The Independent wrote the doctored headline, not the Harris team, as is actually the case.

No, the Harris team has re-written the headlines to make them appear favourable to Harris and then presents them as if the reputable news outlets, like the Independent, had written those headlines. It is diabolical misinformation and propaganda, of the kind Goebbels may have thought up, and The Independent not only condemns it in the strongest terms, but will have these "ads" removed. Good on them. "A spokesperson for The Independent condemned the practice: “It is entirely wrong for anyone to put fake headlines under The Independent brand. We object fiercely and believe it is undermining of what politics and journalism should be about. It is misleading to muddle fake headlines with any campaign trying to persuade people to vote in an election, and must be widely condemned. We will be seeking their removal.”" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-google-ad-campaign-b2596410.html

It was pretty obvious when the NATO treaty was signed that it was directed against Russia. The aim being to contain and if need be fight Russia. If some people in your neighbourhood armed themselves and issued a declaration patently directed against you, then moved ever closer to your house, maybe you would not see that as such a defensive set up. Pehaps you would get concerned, the way Russia got concerned. One man's defense is another man's offense and vice vcersa.

Sadly not, because in offensive realism it is the smaller neighbours that have to take into account the interests of the larger neighbour. Not the other way around. The US does not take Panamanian interests into account, but Panama has to do that with American interests. Same with Ukraine and Russia. In fact Russians would say that they gave Ukraine territory, infrastructure and fought for its freedom, but again, it is the smaller countries that have to take into account the interests of the larger, more powerful neighbourt. Lest events like the war in Ukraine or the invasion of Panama get unleashed. I don't think Russia can tolerate a pro American Ukraine, with nuclear weapons, as many Ukrainian politicians have demanded. For obvious reasons this is a security issue for Russia

Well, in relation to the point I was making, that smaller neighbouring countries of large powerful countries have to take account of the interests of the latter it is clearly irrelevant what political system a country has. It is just a valid dictate of offensive realism. Noriega actually had strong associations with Cuban intelligence, as well as being a drug dealer. The US did not seem to mind the drug dealing, it was when they found out Noriega was supplying Cuban intelligence with passports and shipping restricted military equipment to Cuba (Noriega was all about money), that the US used a pretext to invade Panama. I'm not equating the political systems, I am equating their real position in international relations, both were neighbours of very large powerful countries who showed a blatant disregard for the interests of that large neighbour. Panama paid the price, and so did the Ukraine. This idea that Putin wants to bing back the old Soviet Union is really just propaganda that you can't take seriouly. Putin never said that. He waxed lyrical about the joint historical roots of Ukrainians and Russians, something every Russian believes, and this was spun by the Atlantic Council and others as evidence of Russian Imperial ambitions. It's just poor propaganda. What Putin actually said was: "Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains." in New York Times 20 February 2000; a similar remark was attributed to General Alexander Lebed in St Petersburg Times (Florida) 28 June 1996 https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00016963 In the west they usually only quote the first part of that sentence, which obviously distorts the meaning substantially.

You're wrong. Putin has no problem with Ukraine being independent, all he wants is a Russian friendly neighbour. Not a pro-American neigbour. Ukrainians don't have to be "slaves". But if they think they can be cheerleaders for America, join NATO, well obviously this is not taking account of Russian interests. If you are a small neighbour of Russia, then you have to take into account Russian interests. Same if you are a small neighbour of America, as Panama found out.

If Ukraine wants to be independent it has to stop poking Russia in the eye with a stick. If you are a neighbour of a country like Russia, then you have to take into account Russian interests. Just as if you live next to America you have to take into account American interests, as Panama found out. This is just the reality. Independence is all very well, but you can't antagonize countries like Russia, if you're a small neighbour. It's just no a wise way to ensure your independence.

Konstantin Samoilov is a "Survival University Teacher". After serving in the military for several years, he discovered his latent magical abilities and was recruited to the Grand Lodge. https://wodoneshot.fandom.com/wiki/Konstantin_Samoilov Yup, sounds like a great source on the military developments, good job, Jinthing. 😂

Oh I'm sorry, I thought you wanted to discuss the question seriously. My bad. I see you have no real points to make.

Great video. You gotta love Musk.

It's very obvious, there are a number of objectives: 1) Since Ukraine's military was losing on the real fronts quite badly they wanted to raise moral by showing they can strike big in Russia itself. 2) Russia continues to sell gas to Europe and this gas goes through Kursk. One objective was to sabotage this source of income for Russia. This has failed according to the most recent reports in Russia. 3) Ukraine was hoping that Putin draws experienced troops from the main fronts and deploys them in Kursk instead. Again this has failed as Putin has only diverted troops from lesser combat areas. 4) Ukraine had the misguided idea that attacking civilians would ferment revolt and interior unrest, stoking oppostion to Putin. Again, this has failed 5) Zelesky realised he has to accept a negtioated peace soon, and wanted to get some territory to improve his negotiation position. Basically though,it was an act of desperation, since UKraine had run out of options in the main militar theatre. We have seen this in the past when countries facing a numerically superior army decide to strike at civilians instead. Obvioiusly they cannot seriously hope to hold these meaningless villages for longer than a few months at best. Overwhelming Russian numbers will soon defeat the Kursk invaders. They know this and have been running and hiding, like in real guerilla warfare, evading fights with Russian brigades that have now poured into the region.

Interesting topic for me, because I eat sushi a lot, and always wondered, seeing it lie there unrefrigerated at Central, how they ensure this salmon is safe. But so far, though I ate it a lot, never had a single issue.

Hahahaha, I like English people. Salt of the earth, just those people were heavily tatooed, very loud, demanding, it really was an irritant, glad when they left.

Chai n Thai is an interesting Indian restaurant, because it has a South indian menu including dosas. Good quality, but sadly the atmosphere is not great and the last time there were very low class English people there.

A very interesting point. In reality this is a double edged sword, because having far more expats also means that you get way more quality items in the supermarkets of major cities in Thailand, you have a lot more interesting cafes and restaurants, more fun tourist things to do. Indeed there are downsides, as sadly the quality of expats in Thailand can not be controlled, and you have a greater numbre of undesirables in Thailand. But Philippines too seems to attract a criminal element from the USA, Australia and other places,the quality of expats there is not necessarily a lot better, and mostly confined to guys hunting for Filipinas. If you're in BGC or Boracay in Phil, you'll certainly see a lot of expats from all over the place too. Depends where you are in the countries.

All the Ukrainians have demonstrated is that like other nations in history before them, who were hopelessly outgunned and facing a numerically vastly superior military, Ukrainians too are happy to take the war to civilians. We have seen this many times before in history. A nation facing an overwhelming numerically superior army decides out of desperation to take the war to the enemy's civilians. There is no glory in injuring children, killing civilians and making civilians homeless. Militarily Ukraine's little incursion into Kursk with 1000 troops is the first sign that Ukraine realizes that military defeat is inevitable. This was pure desperation There have been many minor terrorist raids into Russia by Ukraine before. It is nothing new that Ukrainians do this. But to send 1000 troops into civilians areas in Russia, now increased to around 10,000 troops, is basicallly sacrificing your soldiers idiotically. It's not just military experts who are calling this desperate Ukrainian attempt to entice Russia to bind reserves in the Kursk region and to divert forces from the Donbass militarily useless. Even Ukrainian analysts and Ukrainian troops on the ground see the move as the hopeless operation it clearly is: "But to some Ukrainian servicemen, the attack is nothing but a “distraction” designed to cheer up the public. “Things in the east are pretty bad, and this raid will for a while blind everyone at home – ‘Look, how ballsy we are. We’re kicking a** on their turf,’” Taras, a serviceman strolling in central Kyiv while on a break from the eastern front lines, told Al Jazeera. He withheld his last name and location of his unit in accordance with military regulations." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/8/whats-behind-ukraines-surprise-incursion-into-russias-kursk-region As this Ukrainian soldier realises "things in the east are pretty bad" for Ukraine. And this raid in Kursk is only going to make things worse for Ukraine, because: 1) Ukrainian troops are, according to Russian reports, firing on civilian houses indiscriminately, waging a terrorist war and killing civilians and injuring children. Therefore Russia will intensify its own war on civilians, which can be made far worse. 2) The Ukrainian troops, by all reports about 10000 now, stand abolutely no chance in Russia, against a numerically vastly superior Russian army, and first reports now are already indicating that the advance has been stopped. 3) More volunteers in Russia have now signed up to defend the motherland, counter terror operations are already under way, and we all know what happens to those who invade Russia. In addition battle experienced troops from low priority areas in Ukraine have already been redeployed to Kursk. Makhnovka has already been retaken by Russia, and as Russia keeps sending brigades to Kursk it is clear that the Ukrainian troops have no chance whatsoever to continue the incursion or hold territory long term. In fact Ukrainian troops now are hiding and moving around to avoid combat with Russian forces, in line with the terrorist/guerilla nature of this incursion. Ukraine was basically heading for defeat on the actual fronts, so they threw a handful of troops onto Kursk to unleash terrorist war on cvilians and then pumped more troops in once they saw Russia was naked there. The hope was that Putin would divert major troops from the actual front to Kursk. But he is not doing that. Putin has not even declared a state of war, which he could do to impose martal law, but he hasn't. He has only declared a counter terrorism operation, which shows that Putin is not overly concerned in a military sense. Even gas supplies to Europe through Kursk are not affected, it has been confirmed. Most likely Zelensky has accepted a negotiated settlement is inevitably going to happen ahead of the US election, and wanted to put Ukraine in a better position for negotiation, but once his troops are kicked out of Kursk, as they will be, that notion too will fail.

How lucky we are to live in Thailand, because you can walk into a restaurant where they make their noodles fresh. Try finding a restaurant in Italy where they make their noodles fresh, almost impossible unless you go to 5 star places.

It's not just that, but they seem to want to use these terrible crimes set in social media posts, to viciously attack a person because politically they don't agree with them. It's pretty sad.

It is a bit rich, after the claims you have made, to think you know what is right or wrong, when you don't appear to have even the semblance of a clue of what happened. You seriously persist in going on how restaurant businesses are to blame themselves when they failed in the pandemic? And how do you suggest businesses like restaurants are supposed to make profits in a situation when the government deprives everyone of their liberty and stops them from going out of the house? How are e-commerce operators mean to keep their business going when container prices went up by 1000% during the pandemic? You do not appear to have even the slightest clue of what happened during this time. Restaurants are to blame. Sure. Noooo! There is somebody else to blame! And those people were all the politcians, and all the hysterics who supported them shutting down the entire country for extended periods. Those are the people to blame. Not small business owners, who had no chance without customers. Or when container shipping went up 1000% in price. Even a 12 year old can understand that. Sweden's policy did not "fail". Sweden had among the LOWEST excess deaths of any OECD nation, considerably lower than the UK, US, Italy, Spain and France. Sweden's policy was a spectacular success, they resisted death threats and pressure by others and stuck to their guns and trusted individuals to make their own choices. And they were vindicated and their results were better than most other nations. Your claims are false. And how. One of the largest factors in inflation were wage increases? WHAT??????? Have you followed the news at all? Pandemic, Ukraine war and rising energy prices as a result of idiotic western politicians curtailing Russian oil and gas imports, this did not cause inflation then? I mean, seriously. What you are spouting is just beyond the pale. The governments did their best? It was their job to evaluate if the Cassandra cries by people like Neil Ferguson should be heeded and if lockdowns would be worth it or not, and they failed miserably to do their job. They put in place lockdowns that ruined people and caused massive problems for the economies of the world, which we still, today, all have to shoulder. They kept the nation up and running? They shut the nation down. If we are still up and running, it was DESPITE politicians. Not because of them. And these problems were because of people like you, who want security at all cost and beg government to provide it, no matter what the cost to anyone else. Because you do not understand the implications. You can read them here: "Most despotisms come into being not because a despot has seized power, but because people willingly surrender their freedoms in return for security. Until March 2020, it was unthinkable that liberal democracies should confine healthy people in their homes indefinitely, with limited exceptions at the discretion of government ministers. It was unthinkable that a whole population should be subject to criminal penalties for associating with other human beings and answerable to the police for all the ordinary activities of daily life. When in early February 2020, the European Centre for Disease Control published the pandemic plans of all 28 then members of the EU, inc. the UK, not one of these plans envisaged a general lockdown. Not one. The two principal plans were those prepared by the UK Department of Health and the Robert Koch Institute, the official epidemiological institute of Germany. They came to remarkably similar conclusions. The great object should be to enable ordinary life to continue as far as possible. The two main lessons were, first, to avoid indiscriminate measures and concentrate state interventions on the vulnerable categories; and, secondly, to treat people as grown-ups, go with the grain of human nature and avoid coercion. The published minutes of the committee of scientists advising the UK government show that their advice was on the same lines right up to the announcement of the first lockdown. In the UK, the man mainly responsible for persuading the government to impose a lockdown was Professor Neil Ferguson, an epidemiological modeler based at Imperial College London. His work was influential both in the UK and elsewhere. In a press interview in February 2021, Professor Neil Ferguson explained what changed. It was the lockdown in China. “It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought… And then Italy did it. And we realised we could.” It is worth pausing to reflect on what this means. It means that because a lockdown of the entire population appeared to work in a country which was notoriously indifferent to individual rights and traditionally treats human beings as mere instruments of state policy, they could “get away with” doing the same thing here. Entirely absent from Professor Ferguson’s analysis was any conception of the principled reasons why it had hitherto been unthinkable for western countries to do such a thing. It was unthinkable because it was based on a conception of the state’s relationship with its citizens which was morally repellent even if it worked." https://www.robertmenziesinstitute.org.au/institute-news/lord-sumption-a-state-of-fear This article is about you, Patong. And what you don't understand, apart from the fact that all your claims are false and that it is you providing the false information, is that there are limits to what government can do. And we saw that in the pandemic. They will never be able to keep you safe. Look at the global death toll of 7 million souls, do you think it is better than most flu pandemics before, when there was no lockdown? No, it is not. Your total safety, and the competence of your politicians are an illusion. But none so blind than those who cannot see. And the worst part of all this is, that this surrender to government despotism is here to stay, because governments never give up the powers they once acquire. And the next pandemic will come. And when, again, the politicians incarcerate everyone and fine people for associating with each other, achieving nothing, you can thank people like Patong for entering into the bargain of giving up civil liberties for illusory security. Which will not be provided.

Lord Sumption: "The way that that this one-size-fits-all approach has been justified adds to its totalitarian flavour. One argument which we heard, at least in the UK, was that uniform rules applied to people with different levels of vulnerability are necessary for the sake of social solidarity. There are two kinds of solidarity. One is the solidarity of mutual support. But this was a different kind of solidarity. It was the solidarity of intolerant conformism. It is irrational to treat every one the same, when the impact of the problem upon them is very different. The other argument that we heard was that it would be too difficult to enforce rules that differentiated between different people according to their degrees of vulnerability. In other words, the rules were couched in indiscriminate terms to make life easier for the police. When convenience of social control becomes itself an object of public policy, we are adopting part of the mentality of totalitarianism." https://www.robertmenziesinstitute.org.au/institute-news/lord-sumption-a-state-of-fear

Sorry, but this is intolerable bs. What happened was the wholesale incarceration of people, dying elderly people deprived of seeing their relatives before they die, the greatest deprivation of liberty we have seen in our lifetime. And when businesses failed they failed because of the totally overdone and unnecessay lockdowns which prevented people going out at all. No matter how good, how profitable a business was, without customers it was doomed to fail because of the decisions of our politicians. Which again, were completely unnecessary as the results in Sweden showed, where they did not impose the same lockdowns but came out far better than the UK, US, Germany, Italy, France and Spain. Wages are catching up? Not even in your dreams, when you factor in inflation. If we are going back to a semblance of normality now it is DESPITE the criminal negligence of our politicians and not because of it.

Oh I'm not saying I'm beautiful, I'm saying when I picture it with a hot young girl it's a beautiful image. Sadly, she's on Netflix and tik tok all day while I slave away in the salt mines.

Same here when I think of you doing it. When I think of doing it it is a beautful exerience though.

You my friend, have entered the fantasy of the soul...otherwise known as ...."love"....just be careful. And remember...it is only a fantasy.

Lacessit will be available when she's 40.