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Maybe he abused her and she’d had enough of the regular beatings. Plenty of men like to keep their women in check with their fists, or their belt, or a baseball bat.

This is - among other things - what Russia has in store for ‘enemy’ states: “Russia targets Netherlands' North Sea infrastructure, says Dutch intelligence agency.” https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-netherlands-infrastructur/update-1-russia-targets-netherlands-north-sea-infrastructure-says-dutch-intelligence-agency-idUSL1N3500G0 THE HAGUE, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Russia has in recent months tried to gain intelligence to sabotage critical infrastructure in the Dutch part of the North Sea, Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD said on Monday. A Russian ship has been detected at an offshore wind farm in the North Sea as it tried to map out energy infrastructure, MIVD head General Jan Swillens said at a news conference. The vessel was escorted out of the North Sea by Dutch marine and coast guard ships before any sabotage effort could become successful, he added. He also said that not 10, but 17 Russian ‘diplomats’ had been expelled from The Netherlands last week.

Even Putin’s OWN spooks believe he is a ‘bullying narcissistic liar who can’t be trusted’. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21344313/putin-spies-leaked-bullying-narcissistic-liar/?utm_campaign=native_share&utm_source=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native

Very disturbing news, if true: China may be on brink of supplying arms to Russia, says Blinken. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/19/china-may-be-on-brink-of-supplying-arms-to-russia-says-blinken

Looks like people are busy lighting fires again. This map already looks much worse than yesterday’s one. And I’m sure tomorrow and the day after will be worse again.

Had several neighbors in Chiang Mai who collected all the dead leaves and stuff from the garden every day and set it on fire every night, even when the smog was already thick enough to cut with a knife. You could see it all over the neighborhood. And it was always those little fires that don’t really burn, but just smolder and smoke for hours on end. I asked a few neighbors if they could stop the burning and maybe make a compost heap or something, but just got blank stares and looks that told me to mind my own business. Also had a landlord who collected all the garbage from the tenants of the row of six houses that he owned, put it in a big barrel and burned it. Didn’t matter what it was, plastics and everything, he just burned it every day, great big black clouds of (probably toxic) smoke. I saw many more examples of this kind of behavior, and came to the conclusion that most people up north just like to burn stuff.

Just read in a Dutch online newspaper that The Netherlands are going to expel another 10 Russian ‘diplomats’. The Russian trade representation in Amsterdam is going to have to close as well. I guess relations between the two countries are at a new low. Good. Hit them where it hurts. Now all the EU has to do is confiscate all the seized assets and money from blacklisted Russian oligarchs and hand it over to Ukraine so they can keep financing their war against the fascist and terrorist regime in Moscow.

If you think for one second that the Russians have any interest at all in negotiating (and I mean in a sincere way): just listen to what Putin and Lavrov and all the other Kremlin mouth pieces say and have been saying.

I feel very sorry for the 10-year-old daughter. On the other hand, she will probably be much better off without that POS father in her life. Hope she will find a place to stay and grow up in peace.

If I’m not mistaken, this no-burn rule has been in place for years, and it’s never been enforced, at least not seriously. Like it is with most rules and laws in Thailand. Authorities are useless, RTP are useless and every winter millions of people in the north breathe in that wonderful pristine air and develop respiratory diseases for the rest of their lives.

I strongly agree with the first sentence: “weapons are the only language Russia understands”.

Almost never happened in Holland (my home country) about 20 years ago, now it happens on an almost daily basis. Apparently it’s a sign of the times.

I agree she did the hit and run, which was very wrong, and she should be punished for that. Sending her to jail for decades, like one poster here advocated, seems a bit over the top for me, though. Depending on the circumstances of the accident, of course. Like I said already, maybe the young man suddenly crossed the street and she couldn’t avoid hitting him. Or maybe she was texting or playing on her phone and not paying attention, in which case her punishment should be much more severe. Hopefully things will become clearer once she has returned to the States.

But on whose part?

“Russia’s army is estimated to have lost nearly 40% of its prewar fleet of tanks after nine months of fighting in Ukraine, according to a count by the specialist thinktank the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS).” ???????????? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/russian-army-has-lost-up-to-half-of-key-battle-tanks-analysts-estimate-ukraine

I’m not sure the actual circumstances of the accident are clear yet. Maybe the young man was drunk out of his skull or high as a kite (6 a.m. on New Year’s Day) and ran across the street just as she was passing through, who knows? Of course it’s very wrong to leave the scene of the accident and then fly to Bangkok three days later, but that doesn’t automatically mean that she is guilty of manslaughter. Guilty of leaving the scene of the accident, that’s for sure. Other than that, we don’t know yet.

Spent a glorious winter in Chiang Mai in 1988\1989, nothing but sunshine and clear skies, nice temperatures, even up until the end of March. I decided right then and there that I wanted to live there when I retired. Been back to Chiang Mai a few times since then, last time in 2011/2012, and I’m quite sure now that this is not where I want to live anymore when I retire. Every year it’s the same, authorities keep vowing they’re going to do something about the horrendous air quality in the winter, but every year nothing happens and the air quality gets worse and worse. Such a shame. This is a picture of Chiang Mai’s air quality of today. Looks pretty dismal to me.

Why you put the word crime in quotation marks is not clear to me. What this school director did was obviously a crime, and a pretty revolting one at that. I think the poster you quoted just wanted to express that sentiment. And we all know that the Thai law is often sketchy at best, because it mostly depends on how much the accused is willing or able to pay to make their problem go away.

We’ve seen quite a few Russian commanders being fragged by their own troops, so hopefully a disgruntled Wagner mercenary will soon end Prigozhin’s miserable life. Anybody else is welcome to do that as well, for that matter. Most of the Kremlin clique could do with a bullet between the eyes as soon as possible.

Guardian: Iran smuggles long-range combat drones to Russia for war against Ukraine. I see the evil regime in Teheran still has no qualms whatsoever to provide the equally evil regime in Moscow with weaponry to continue its illegal war against Ukraine. https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/guardian-iran-smuggles-long-range-combat-drones-to-russia-for-war-against-ukraine

More than 5,000 pregnant Russian women flew to Argentina already so their babies obtain Argentinian citizenship once they are born. There were 33 pregnant Russian women on one flight alone. I think someone is making a pretty penny off of this….. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64610954

Here’s a novel idea: there are thousands and thousands of men employed by the State, wearing a brown uniform, and most of the time they sit around with their thumbs up their ***. Either that, or they’re shaking down someone. Would it be too much to ask of them to start doing their actual job? I’m sure a couple thousands cops, if they put their mind to it, can stop a hell of a lot of burning. Same goes for the north, by the way, where the air quality in many places is already (and has been for a while) at dangerous levels.

I am quite sure he’s got dirt on many high ranking officials, securely stashed away at different undisclosed locations. I’m also quite sure that these high ranking officials know very well that all that dirt would become public knowledge if anything untoward were to happen to Chuwit.

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) addressed the UN security council, he was invited to speak by Russia. In a 4 February interview, Waters held the west and Ukraine largely responsible for the Russian invasion. In his address to the UN security council, he had changed his viewpoint somewhat. This is what he said, among other things: “The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms,” he said. “Also, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked, so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/roger-waters-pink-floyd-un-security-council-ukraine-russia

These people really live in an alternative universe. The Russian army/air force have been bombing cities in Syria to rubble for years, killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians. So why would any Syrian be fighting on Russia’s side? Thousands of people in and around Aleppo took to the streets and celebrated when they heard that a certain Russian air force general (or colonel?) who had bombed half the city to smithereens, had been killed in Ukraine. No love lost between Syrians and Russia, I’m quite sure.