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And why would those with Danish citizenship give up free Healthcare, and a safety net for seniors? In Denmark, the welfare state is characterised by an extensive social security system and a high degree of income equality. All Danish citizens have equal access to education and health care regardless of their social and financial background. Similarly, every citizen is entitled to a limited compensation for loss of income due to unemployment, disability, or illness – just to name a few of the public services that the welfare system provides. The welfare system does indeed benefit each individual citizen but the main purpose of the Danish welfare model is to ensure healthcare and education for all citizens in order to provide high quality human capital/first class employees of great benefit to the taxpaying companies and hence to the Danish economy. https://denmark.dk/society-and-business/the-danish-welfare-state In other words, the polar opposite of the US, where if an older couple does not have hugely expensive health care, they could lose everything with one illness. So, why would any Dane choose to be American? A land owned and controlled by Big pharma, corrupt lobbyists, greedy out of control corporations and a highly dysfunctional government. They would have to be insane.

Only historic for Trump, as he has far more that dislike him than most. And give it some time. Alot of his policies are inane and foolish and four years is a long time.

If the police took their work seriously, they could simply set up dragnets on those streets, and impose a stiff fine and confiscate the bikes for a month. Word would get around and the problem would be solved. People can be thick, but not entirely unteachable. There has to be a deterrent. It is a weird concept known as law enforcement.

I wonder how the passengers were even aware of this issue? It does not sound like anyone was ever in much danger. Perhaps the engine caught on fire, or was blowing out alot of smoke, easily visible to passengers? Glad everyone arrived safely.

Well he should have been detained on the spot, brought into a room and beaten up, at a minimum. That might have showed him that ridiculous behavior will not be tolerated. As far as the so-called netizens moaning about Thais being treated differently than foreigners that's someone questionable. I see a lot of Thais getting away with a lot of nonsense especially when it comes to traffic. Though they very rarely ever urinate openly in airport terminals. We can leave that to the low life foreigners that Thailand seems to be attracting these days, with their open legs visa policy.

He could, but he won't. It will cripple the US economy, those tariffs are not something that a foreign nation pays for, those tariffs are a huge tax hike on the American people. I know that, he knows that and this is nothing more than a bargaining chip by a man who thinks he's a good negotiator, although many of us know that's absolutely not the case.

There was no reason whatsoever for them to have been in the flight path to begin with, especially with an approaching commercial jet full of passengers. That makes absolutely no sense and it had to have been pilot error on the part of the fool who was flying this chopper, or a serious breach on the part of air traffic control.

The Blackhawk was totally responsible and it was an astonishing and horrific mistake. Hegseth should answer for this. The buck now stops with this incompetent.

With regard to the cancelation of all aid assistance, this is such a misguided move. The amounts involved are tiny, when compared to defense or his massive tax cuts to the super wealthy. Take from the poor, and give to the rich. That is just who Trump is. We bombed them. Now, we reject our responsibilities. Trump is NOT a man of the people, on any level. It is one huge charade. On the Thai-Myanmar border, sick patients are being sent home from hospital. In Laos, school meals have been interrupted. And in Cambodia, hundreds of staff at the agency responsible for clearing land mines have been furloughed. The U.S. State Department on Friday announced a 90-day freeze on nearly all foreign aid, followed one day later by a suspension of global demining programs, according to the New York Times. Japan provides more to those countries, but the U.S. has gradually increased aid to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar from $380 million in 2015 to almost $520 million in 2022, according to Grace Stanhope, a research associate at the Lowy Center who works on its Southeast Asia Aid Map. The pause has also already impacted a number of exile media newsrooms, which rely on small U.S. grants to provide open information in a country where journalists are routinely imprisoned, forcing a number of them to suspend staffers. U.S.-funded programs in Laos range from maternal health to demining operations, a critical need in a country that remains the most heavily bombed in the world, per capita, as a result of U.S. aerial attacks in the 1960s and 70s during the Vietnam War. Less than 10 percent of land in Laos has been cleared of unexploded ordnance, according to Sera Koulabdara, CEO of Legacies of War, which works on education and advocacy around removal of landmines in Southeast Asia. “It is absolutely essential that we hold ourselves accountable for the devastation we caused,” she said. “Just this month in Laos, a 36-year-old man was killed while simply cooking, an innocent victim of an American war that continues to plague the country.”

With regard to the cancelation of all aid assistance, this is such a misguided move. The amounts involved are tiny, when compared to defense or his massive tax cuts to the super wealthy. Take from the poor, and give to the rich. That is just who Trump is. NOT a man of the people, on any level. A huge charade. On the Thai-Myanmar border, sick patients are being sent home from hospital. In Laos, school meals have been interrupted. And in Cambodia, hundreds of staff at the agency responsible for clearing land mines have been furloughed. The U.S. State Department on Friday announced a 90-day freeze on nearly all foreign aid, followed one day later by a suspension of global demining programs, according to the New York Times. Japan provides more to those countries, but the U.S. has gradually increased aid to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar from $380 million in 2015 to almost $520 million in 2022, according to Grace Stanhope, a research associate at the Lowy Center who works on its Southeast Asia Aid Map. The pause has also already impacted a number of exile media newsrooms, which rely on small U.S. grants to provide open information in a country where journalists are routinely imprisoned, forcing a number of them to suspend staffers. U.S.-funded programs in Laos range from maternal health to demining operations, a critical need in a country that remains the most heavily bombed in the world, per capita, as a result of U.S. aerial attacks in the 1960s and 70s during the Vietnam War. Less than 10 percent of land in Laos has been cleared of unexploded ordnance, according to Sera Koulabdara, CEO of Legacies of War, which works on education and advocacy around removal of landmines in Southeast Asia. “It is absolutely essential that we hold ourselves accountable for the devastation we caused,” she said. “Just this month in Laos, a 36-year-old man was killed while simply cooking, an innocent victim of an American war that continues to plague the country.”

Russian friends tell me ANY Russian earning over 60,000 euros a year is involved in crime, with very few exceptions. They may look respectable, but?

I now bow down to the new king. Just like Zuck, Musk and the others.

When someone has nothing to offer, and is an empty suit, they engage in PR stunts like this, to try to convince naive people they are actually doing something.

Add the most important blacklist of them all. The Russians. Stop the Bratva from operating in Thailand. Don't invite in crime families.

Isn't it a bizarre thing to witness when three different members completely take over a thread like this one, with petty arguments back and forth? Yikes.

You really seem to have DDS (democrat derangement syndrome). Can't just let something go, you have to respond to every single statement that doesn't agree in lockstep with your own personal beliefs? Wow. That must be painful.

Of course they do, would someone deliberately choose to spend thousands of dollars taking care of a minor illness instead of having free healthcare? Who in their right mind would do that? There are elderly Americans who lose their homes due to a hospital bill that runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nobody would choose to be part of that, instead of a very good socialized healthcare system.

It was likely some sort of lizard. It was huge. And it hated the insect spray I liberally doused it with. It sort of passed out. I then removed it from our bedroom ceiling eve, where it was making a real nuisance of itself.

Yes I do, however the WHO is a toxic organization along with the FDA, the CDC, and many others. When we're talking about small local charities it's a whole different story, a whole different level of productivity, and so it's much more helpful if you compare apples to apples.

All insects and crawling creatures hate insect spray. I used to have this problem when I lived on Samui and I used half a can of raid to tranquilizer a 1 M long gecko. It acts as a tranquilizer on their central nervous system and dulls them to the point where you can basically just pick them up and get rid of them.

Of course I do but Trump is not the man to address it do not forget he added almost 8 trillion dollars to the deficit in his last presidency this is not a serious man despite what you think and his trillions of dollars in tax cuts are not going to help one iota. I do think that foreign aid should be looked at and examined, but the money that is being given to many of these organizations is a drop in the barrel. It is the wrong place to cut costs and it is cold, ruthless, heartless and very symptomatic of just too Trump is. He does not have a charitable bone in his entire body and it is likely that he and Musk might be the two least charitable people in history based on their net worth.

In general I don't have an issue with Muslims either, but if you asked me to single out one issue with the moderate Muslims amongst us, it would be their propensity to have way more children than they need, way more children than they can afford, and way more children than the planet needs. That is an issue for all of us.

For centuries now, super rich, famous, or important, high profile men, have been using very low profile, very discreet agents, or escort agencies, so that they are able to have some fun and dalliances, without being discovered, and without causing hurt or humiliation to their families, companies or institutions they represent. These agencies insure that. It happens with movie stars, famous athletes, race car drivers, and many others, and their discretion is protected. It was this man's depravity, arrogance and lack of willpower and foresight that got him into the mess he was in. Same applies to arrogant nimwits like Tiger Woods (too arrogant and too cheap to pay for it, from what I hear from guys who knew him personally) Kobe Bryant (arrogant, reckless and depraved, and no doubt guilty of tape), Roger Ayers, Clinton (protected at the highest levels), Bill O'Reilly, and many others, who suffer humiliation due to their hubris and lack of wisdom.

There's absolutely no question in my mind that he did not die from suicide. There have been testimonies of people who have been locked up in that specific wing of that particular prison, and they all stated that there is no ability to kill yourself in those cells, the sheets are made of a fabric that similar to tissue paper, and the beds are two feet off the ground. There's a 0% chance that this was suicide, and even embracing the narrative, and the possibility that he killed himself to me feels like sheer nonsense. He was very close friends with Donald Trump for 10 years, he spent time with Prince Andrew Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and countless other powerful people and he had a lot of stuff to spill. Nobody in a very high position of power wanted that.

Something must be done to keep out the extremist super freaks. Their religion may work for them in Saudi, Kuwait, Yemen, Sudan or Somalia. That same ultra conservative fanatislcism, is not wanted, needed, nor desirable in Western nations. Only moderates need apply should be the policy. And there should be a standard of willingness to assimilate, and the burden should be on the family to prove the burden is met. I believe immigration policy should be reformed to the point where it should be staged, and all Muslim families should show a willingness to assimilate. I also believe that families with Muslim daughters who are teenagers can start by proving that they have participated in a bikini contest, and for teenage boys they must show a burden of proof that they're not affiliated with any of the local madrasas. Huge and very strict restrictions should be put on their ability to immigrate, essentially they are not wanted and they are not needed, and for the most part they are not of any benefit to a society that let them in, as it is very unlikely they will ever integrate. Why am I anti Wahhabi? Why do I think all Saudis should be barred worldwide from immigrating to any nation? Why do I consider the Saudis so dangerous to mankind? But it is an ideology that divides the world into the realm of Islam and the realm of the infidel, or the realm of war. So it trains the readers that they live behind enemy lines – they must be passing through, they cannot take abode here. You only have two reasons for being in the land of the infidel. One is to convert people to Islam. The second is to acquire either money or skill which you can bring back with you to help you and others engage in jihad, and in this context, it is quite clear that they mean that in a military sense, because they go on to talk about tanks and bullets, and things of this kind. One of the things you certainly cannot do is become an American citizen, because no Muslim can be ruled an infidel. That is the particular ideology which is being taught. You must not have any good contacts, warm relations with anybody – not only with unbelievers, but with any Muslim who is not of the Wahhabi type; they are also often denounced as apostates. That is the major theme of concern in that report. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2005/05/03/the-global-spread-of-wahhabi-islam-how-great-a-threat/ Are we serious about keeping our nation's safe from extremists, or not?