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Zelensky, and by extension Ukraine, do have a certain stake in the matter!

It is all, as always, about control. The (predominantly clad in uniforms - green, brown or khaki) part of society have identified a new field of activity, agricultural and/or for pleasure, over which they wish to exert control. Given their less than stellar success in other longer term efforts (management of road traffic regulations for example) it will likely become a bureaucratic nightmare, fail to be implemented and be ignored. As for involving village heads - ha ha ha. Our clown cannot even organise the rubbish collection (apart from collecting the money) or keep the water supply flowing!

Personally, I don't hate America. I dislike what Trump is doing to it. He is turning it into a reflection of his personality, and since I find him amoral, deceitful, boastful, fundamentally dishonest, brazenly suppressing and hiding truth, racist, sexually exploitative and perverted, utterly self centred, and physically and intellectually bizarre and ridiculous; then I dislike what it (the USA) is becoming. Perhaps @Tug and some others on here, Americans or not, feel similar? All those traits will be evident, no doubt, both individually and nationally in the forthcoming meeting.

Clever actually.

I suspect we may be making too much of the whole ballroom question? After all, towards the end and just after the end of the last Trump Administration they ( ballrooms) played a central role in the storage of classified documents; in fact, a certain ballroom and it's adjacent khazi in Florida might be set to have set the "gold standard" in such matters!

I see that this ground-breaking deal has been celebrated with the introduction a new £20 banknote, in a plastic laminate so that it doesn't get damaged by water during "ad-hoc" channel crossings!

They will have to increase the pension age then!

I wasn't getting "in a tizz". I was merely expressing an opinion, on what I suspect may happen, which I perhaps naively imagined was rather the point of a discussion forum, which encompasses a range of views. As was@The Cyclist

I misread the headline as : Judges Doubt Govt. as Trump Just Debt Misleads & Dodges Orders. Two conclusions: 1) not particularly surprised. 2) must investigate a new pair of spectacles!

Of course - "everyone knows" that! Not a very secret "secret directive" though!

I rather suspect that Rickey Jones's trial, after perhaps an initial hearing will be further delayed, probably effectively indefinitely. Wouldn't it be ironical (although perhaps not surprising) if Lucy Connoly completes her sentence whilst he is still awaiting trial.

She would be unwise. The same ludicrous political zealotry which gave her such a rapid trial and savage sentence will have no compunction at all in finding a reason to recall her to serve the remainder of her sentence. The problems we read of in the OP, chaos and inadequate resources in the prison and probation service, will certainly not get in the way of supervising her.

Is that what is known as doing a "Vance"? - the sofas of course, I am not accusing the esteemed Vice President of being a cocaine user!

Apropos of Swiss Chocolate - why is Toblerone triangular? Well, obviously, if it was square it wouldn'tfit in the box!

Well if that organisation is a bank, and the individual has a record of defaulting on loans, then yes!

Other witnesses?

She is not actually convicted perjurer. She is a convicted felon - one might say not the only person involved in the scandal to be a convicted felon!

Now she has said he was not involved there are two options for dealing with her - release her or "make her go away".

In fairness, when she was around him, his umh, interests and enthusiasms, were probably directed elsewhere!

99 Baht flip flops - pretty hi so!

Yes, I suspect it may do, although the "timeline" of his political career perhaps makes it unlikely. He was a Governer from 1982 (?) so would have found it difficult to conceal. Once he had finished being President he would have still been protected by the Secret Service, so again, it would have been difficult to conceal.

It is something of an open and consistently discussed question. Personally I suspect that, on the balance of probability he did. I am aware that is not "conviction evidence", and I am also aware of the extraordinary (and ultimately no doubt unsuccessful) efforts to cover up such evidence. Why did "the Dems" not release it? I suspect because senior/influential members or supporters of their party were also involved. We will know in time. As for Judge Canon, it was a tongue in cheek comment!

These are supposedly dead logistical personnel, some way behind the border - the result of air strikes on depth rear area positions.

He is a self declared "non denominational Christian" (I am not sure what that is, but it sounds more like an excuse than a faith). He is most certainly not a Catholic. He is a great friend of Benjamin Nethanayu, I am not sure that is the same thing as a great friend of Israel. I would describe myself as a convinced if not uncritical supporter of Israel, but I think that Nethanayu is the worst thing to have happened to Israel for a generation!

If there are 2500 dead lying around in the relatively small area in which the conflict was fought, they would by now, in this climate, be obvious from some distance away.