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It seems very clear that Churchill prized the British empire above everything. He was willing to die for it, and willing to kill any number of civilians for it, even gas them if necessary. Churchill's early opposition to Nazi Germany no doubt stemmed from his awareness that Germany would be economically and militarily stronger than Britain and that this would endanger the existence of the British Empire as he knew it.

It's funny that people would credit Churchill for saving the world from the Nazis, that honour should really go to the millions of Russians who left their blood on the battlefield against the Wehrmacht, unlike Churchill. In reality Churchill and the British played an exceedingly minor role in the actual defeat of the Wehrmacht. It's easy to forgive Churchill's sins if they didn't affect you, but the people in India whose relatives he starved to death, the people in Iraq whose relatives he had killed, and the children, women and old people who were turned into living torches by his strategic bombing campaign might see it differently.

Aren't her male fans put off by her 43 exes and general promiscuity?

Music, bars the usual.

Is there night life on Koh Chang?

Oh I realise how popular Churchill is. It's understandable, he's had an amazing life, an interesting character, a witty mind, and he was courageous. This is all true. However, it is also true that Churchill was a greater racist than most Nazis, argued for gas warfare, experimented on bombing civilians in the middle East in the 20s., and made the world endure war which, in the West, could have ended in 1940. "I cannot understand this squeamishness about the use of gas," he wrote in a memo, external during his role as minister for war and air in 1919. "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes," he continued. "People sometimes question why on Earth did people not listen to Churchill's warnings about Hitler in the late 1930s," says Charmley, "to which the short answer is that he'd used exactly the same language about Gandhi in the early 1930s." "Churchill was very much on the far right of British politics over India," says Charmley. "Even to most Conservatives, let alone Liberals and Labour, Churchill's views on India between 1929 and 1939 were quite abhorrent." Despite supporting Zionism, Churchill was also anti-semitic: A 1937 unpublished article - supposedly by Churchill - entitled "How the Jews Can Combat Persecution" was discovered in 2007. "It may be that, unwittingly, they are inviting persecution - that they have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer," it said. "There is the feeling that the Jew is an incorrigible alien, that his first loyalty will always be towards his own race." His views on Islam were not much different: Weston was quoting from Churchill's 1899 book The River War, in which he wrote: "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia [rabies] in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. And to cap it all even Churchill's official biographer Martin Gilbert says Churchill was corrupt: "In return for a fee of £5,000 two oil companies, Royal Dutch Shell and Burmah Anglo-Persian Oil Company [later BP], asked him to represent them in their application to the government for a merger," Gilbert's official biography stated. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29701767

Not true. A war economy is like 1944 Germany where the economy is mostly geared to produce products for war. That's not the case in Russia, which is two thirds a civilian economy. Which, btw, is doing great.

So true. I lived on 7 mile beach in the Caribbean. Paradise for a short while but after a year you're bored to death.

Surely a mistake. How can Taylor Swift have male fans?

She just looks courageous. It's those slav cheek bones.

You have to admit it is a bit strange, police and onlookers identified the shooter long before he did the deed, yet police only did a peek a boo on him and then disappeared, frightened, to call for back up. One would have thought a suspicious man with a rifle would lead to immediate action, but no. I know policemen are useless on the whole, but this was unusually useless.

I don't think attractiveness is the issue. Famous incel Elliot Rodger was not repulsively ugly. it was more an attitude problem. He thought he was so good looking and such a gift to the world that women refusing him shattered his ego and sent him down an anger path. They expect too much, incels. but they're not necessarly physically repulsive.

"These effects can be subtle but significant, Collins said. For example, a conservative Swiftie might find those two identities at odds with each other and begin to question their beliefs. "People may find themselves in cognitive dissonance, where their identity and how they see the world are in conflict with other parts of their identity," he said. "There has to be some sense of reconciliation."" That professor of marketing sure has a fertile imagination. Which conservative person would sit down and question their beliefs because Taylor Swift endorses Harris? This is ludicrous surely. Anyway, it's all women, that demographic is lost to Trump anyway.

Ok, thanks.

I meant Ko Phangan, did you have internet at the beachfront?

It's admirable this beautiful woman is fighting for her husband. It seems she has a suspicion there may have been purpose behind the denial for tighter security for her husband. On the face of it though, it just looks like policemen being cowardly and stupid, and as we all know policemen are unusually stupid. All they had to do was alert the G-men earlier. Why they didn't do it, it's a mystery, but most likely it's just stupidity.

How was the internet there?

I suppose that's true, it's more the media blowing things up. But the whole idea that someone like this would influence politics, it's so strange.

Oligarchy central underpinned by pop singe with 12 year old fans. And this is the number one place in the world. Unbelievable.

Bang Na in Bangkok. Great air quality.

One can smell the whiff of rotten democracy in the air when an air-head blonde pop singer is considered a major influence on the outcome of a presidential race. What times we live in.

Will her 43 exes vote according to her direction?

If you put two murderers next to each other and one killed 360 and the other 180, would they not both be seen as equally repugnant?

I think that's irrelevant, it would have happened that way either way.