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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 Despite supporting Zionism, Churchill was also anti-semitic: A 1937 unpublished article - supposedly by Churchill - entitled "How the Jews Can Combat Persecution" was discovered in 2007.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.

Churchill bitterly opposing racism, that's sadly a complete joke. "Churchill is on record as praising “Aryan stock” and insisting it was right for “a stronger race, a higher-grade race” to take the place of indigenous peoples. He reportedly did not think “black people were as capable or as efficient as white people”. In 1911, Churchill banned interracial boxing matches so white fighters would not be seen losing to black ones. He insisted that Britain and the US shared “Anglo-Saxon superiority”. He described anticolonial campaigners as “savages armed with ideas”. Even his contemporaries found his views on race shocking. In the context of Churchill’s hard line against providing famine relief to Bengal, the colonial secretary, Leo Amery, remarked: “On the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane … I didn’t see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/17/why-cant-britain-handle-the-truth-about-winston-churchill . He thought nothing of ordering planes to kill civilian colonial peoples in the Middle East in strategic bombing which pre-dated what he ordered with the Strategic bombing directive. "Winston Churchill, secretary of state for war and air, estimated that without the RAF, somewhere between 25,000 British and 80,000 Indian troops would be needed to control Iraq. Reliance on the airforce promised to cut these numbers to just 4,000 and 10,000. Churchill's confidence was soon repaid. An uprising of more than 100,000 armed tribesmen against the British occupation swept through Iraq in the summer of 1920. In went the RAF. It flew missions totalling 4,008 hours, dropped 97 tons of bombs and fired 183,861 rounds for the loss of nine men killed, seven wounded and 11 aircraft destroyed behind rebel lines. The rebellion was thwarted, with nearly 9,000 Iraqis killed. Even so, concern was expressed in Westminster: the operation had cost more than the entire British-funded Arab rising against the Ottoman Empire in 1917-18. Churchill was particularly keen on chemical weapons, suggesting they be used "against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment". He dismissed objections as "unreasonable". "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes _ [to] spread a lively terror _" In today's terms, "the Arab" needed to be shocked and awed. A good gassing might well do the job." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/19/iraq.arts Not only would Churchill forego all remnants of civilisation or moral behaviour in the pursuit of killing for the empire, he himself would have died for the empire. “Imperialism was Churchill’s true religion,” and inevitably this came with “a belief in and promotion of racial and civilisational superiority.” For Churchill, the empire was the “prism” through which he saw “almost everything else at home and abroad.” Indeed, as Ali sums him up, Churchill “was, above all, an imperial activist,” someone who “wanted to fight, to kill and, if necessary to die for . . . the British Empire.” Needless to say, the realities of colonial warfare were such that killing was much more likely than dying. While the centrality of Churchill’s imperialist politics cannot be doubted for even a moment, he was also very much concerned with how the glory of empire could be used to glorify and immortalize himself. https://catalyst-journal.com/2022/09/the-spirit-of-churchill-elitism-and-british-empire#:~:text=As Ali insists%2C “Imperialism was,up%2C Churchill “was%2C above It's pretty clear Empire was all to him.

No, the audio of course.