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Everybody who pays some sort of tax including the 80 to 90% of the people who cannot actually use the systems, simply because they don't live in Bangkok.

Thank you. The pupils Mother was presumably told the school rules before her daughter was enrolled and should have known and understood the rules. Having seen a couple of video interviews with the head teacher she was honest and open about the religious side and even the High Court agreed with her, I feel sorry for the girl, but not for her parents, who put her in that position.

Then the war will carry on and more people on both sides will die until somebody has the balls to say that enough is enough and intervene. Who that will be I have no idea. Personally, I think that it should be President Biden and the USA, but he and the USA have enough internal problems in this election year to cope with.

How can I select a 365 day time period without saving it as a new stream? Every time I try and then go elsewhere and return it reverts to the time period since I last posted.

For a sophisticated military force who can target the roof of a moving vehicle because some IDF soldier "thought" 3 vehicles were taken over by Hamas, why would they destroy an apartment building to target one apartment and perhaps kill the occupants and NOT kill any other people or destroy the building? That IMHO, is an overkill unless they intended to do so in the first place. Do you really believe that if Hamas released all the hostages that the war would instantly stop and all the IDF would return to Israel? Netanyahu has said that he wants to, in his words, destroy Hamas in Gaza completely. If he does, do you believe think that the war will instantly stop and all the IDF would return to Israel? What if all the hostages are released, Hamas destroyed in Gaza, and the war does not stop? Where will he attack next? The West bank, Lebanon. Jordan or anywhere else there are Palestinians? Will Hamas keep fighting Israel and the IDF until the last warm Palestinian body in Gaza has died and then the war will be over? IMHO the war will never be over until the current leadership in both Hamas AND Israel are removed, and replaced by non religious leaders with common sense, who are sick of the slaughter by BOTH sides.

There is very little information that I can find about Thai Newsroom apart from the About Us part of their website, which says Veteran journalists starting afresh The team of journalists launching this news portal have decades of experience and are dedicated to bringing readers both in Thailand and at every corner of the world the very best news about Thailand and of course rest of the world. We want to use the wealth of knowledge and experience we have gained through years of hard work to bring timely, accurate, insightful and balanced news that will help our readers stay ahead of the game of life, be this a small issue at home or a major national or international development. We will be by your side every day to help shed light on what is actually going on and really value your support. The internet has described by Eric Bleecher as the “first mass medium in history with almost no barriers to entry and practically unlimited content-carrying capacity” and we are fully part of this new digital wave and will remain digitally close to you by being just a few clicks away. Sincerely, Nina Suebsukcharone (Founder and acting Editor) Nothing about the ownership, the staff, how long they have been in existence. In fact until this thread I had never even heard of them. Are they a major supplier of Thai news to all and sundry including the Thaiger and ANN or just the latest New Kids On The Block?

But was the pupil concerned, "forced" to go to that particular school, or did she attend voluntarily and then try to change the rules into her (minority) favour?

Ignorance of the year award. Really? Where are all YOUR explanations, diagrams etc referring to what happened? I learned a lot more about ammonia leaks and ice plant from in a few minutes than I could ever learn from your posts in a lifetime. He discussed the subject, provided links and easily understandable drawings. And you discussed and provided what? Just what knowledge did you provide on the subject, other than a cheap and stupid insult?

Equally as a start Israel could stop attacking the Palestinians in Gaza. Sadly that is just as likely as Hamas releasing the Israeli hostages, and so the unceasing slaughter on both sides will continue. Negotiations don't seem to work as one side or the other or both sides reject the outcome of every negotiation. IMHO the only way to some sort of "peace" is for 1 or more western nations to come into the area with armed forces to impose it. However the nations who impose that peace had better have a lot of body bags with them and be prepared to wield a very big stick.

What a load of BS from the Thaiger again. NOBODY recovers from a critical illness in "just a few days" especially if they are supposed to have been in a hospital for 6 months before that. It is however a report from the Thaiger, in which both the truth and the "Thaiger" are only tenuously connected. The Thaiger also studiously ignores the fact that Thaksin was deposed in a military coup, and that NONE of the generals have ever been punished for it, nor for the subsequent military coups.

It seems that according to my government (UK), they only supply 0.42% of weapons to Israel.

I am sorry that I missed your post, my apologies. If that is what you believe, fair enough. I look at the numbers of killed and wounded on each side and I find that far more Palestinian men women and children have been killed than Israeli's, coming up to 100 to 1, Palestinians v Israeli's. A vastly disproportional ratio, especially given that about 60% or more were unarmed women an children. That is of course discounting those Palestinian men, women and children still buried in the rubble of their houses and apartment blocks. Then of course who knows how many people will die of starvation, dehydration (no water), no medicines, no hospital care, no electricity etc. But it will be reasonably certain that none of those will be Israeli.

I'll never forget wossername.

But you did not answer my post. If Israel is allowed to attack other countries consulates, then it must equally be OK for other countries to attack, murder people and destroy Israeli consulates and embassies and murder the people in them.

Thank you for the quote. https://www.econlib.org/show-me-the-man-and-ill-find-you-the-crime/ It actually came from Lavrentiy Beria who was Joseph Stalin's secret police chief, and is the paradigmatic example of what the rule of law is not. And if there was no crime, then Beria would find anything and make it fit.

Thank you for your response. I spent about 20 minutes this evening unrolling and straightening out a 50 metre roll of hose pipe. Part of the time I was in my workshop with a commercial size fan running flat out just blowing warm air around. It was around 35C in the shade and I stopped a couple of times for a break. I am 79 and it buggered me. I came back inside and sat with2 fans blowing on me, and it was only 33C. I also drank about half a litre of coldish water before I really cooled down. If Thaksin was out in the sun, for 20 minutes (no hat that I could see) he must have been broiled. I know I couldn't do it now.

So it would be OK if Iran did the same thing, specifically targeting the Israeli government and military leaders?

OTOH in the BBC news this morning there was this report https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68830552 In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a group of Israeli settlers storm a Palestinian village and, captured on CCTV, a masked man sets fire to a car parked in a garage, under the watch of at least three Israeli soldiers. The incident was part of a rampage by Israeli settlers that, according to local officials, killed four Palestinians over four days. Sameh Abu Alia, his cousin, said Jihad, who would get married in June, was trying to prevent the settlers from storming the family's house. "It wasn't the first time settlers attacked us. But we weren't expecting a huge number of them," he said. "They shot at the water tanks, the electricity network, and the internet. They were planning to isolate us from the outside world." Settlers, armed with guns and stones, returned to the village on Saturday. Shaul Golan, a photographer for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said he was attacked by a group of between 20 to 30 people, some of whom were armed and wearing IDF uniforms, as he hid under a table in one of the burned houses while trying to cover the rampage. "They beat me mercilessly, breaking my finger and taking my bag to burn all of the photography equipment inside," he said in an interview published on the newspaper's website.

IMHO he will have a lot of people who want to be his friends, and he will probably find a lot of new family contacting him as well. If it were me my answer would be, "What ever you want, the answer's NO".

Ask all the businesses down in Khao San road and in all the other tourist areas rghar the government sanctioned if they closed down. Probably half the shops out here in rural Kamphaeng Phet were closed and the other half were open. All of the 7/11 shops were open as normal and probably all the beer shops too. The Monday market in the village was open as normal.

According to USA Today the share price yesterday 16 April https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/04/16/trump-truth-social-stock-price/73341300007/ At close on April 16, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp share price fell to $22.84, down 14.17% today.

IMHO as long as Netanyahu is in power along with his murderous war cabinet, there is a very good chance that within a year, he will certainly threaten Iran with nuclear Armageddon and perhaps he will make good that threat. At 74, why should he care how many people in Iran will die, or for that matter how many people in Israel and the rest of the world will die? The problem that he may have is whether the IDF will even load and arm the weapons, let alone drop them. He may have the generals in his pocket, but from what I have read recently, he is losing the support of his people. What sane person will vote for their own, and all their families deaths, to satisfy the ego of one old man full of hatred and bile? I really hope that there are enough Israeli's willing to stand up and say that enough is enough, and to kick him and all his war cabinet out of power for ever. Then perhaps the real peace talks can begin. At this point only the POTUS has the ability and the power to stop him. As for me and my Thai family, I will stay here in Thailand.

Sensible countries would put in diesel generators as a back up.

Good luck for him. Sure have a party for your friends and neighbours, but keep the rest of your money for yourself and close family only.

Then why don't the money grubbing shops buy and supply their own trash bins, and pay a decent rate for the trash clearance?