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Thailand Plots Economic Talks with US for Prosperous Future "How many military bases would you like us to build for you?"

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Wealthy Brits need illegal migrants to subsidizes their ageing parents assisted living fees. Nice!

Unless you land in Dover in a rubber dingy and then you are fast-tracked to UK citizenship. And while you wait you get free lodging in a 5 star hotel, free medical, free food, and a stipend. In the meanwhile, British Gen-Z sleeps rough on the streets unable to afford rent or the cost of living.

So Trump isn't Hitler anymore, he's Mao. I'm sure he'll be Stalin soon enough.

Dude, you've just kicked the Chinese-Haters into "DRIVE." They'll be out in full-force now spewing, "I Hate China" word salads and "All Chinese Student's Poop On The Streets" rhetoric. Bring up weather and you get China, Russia, and Trump falling like cats and dogs.

Like this though October. Sometimes rain; sometimes not rain. Yeah, I put the air purifiers away yesterday. I've got some seedlings planted but now it looks like I'll bag planting starts and just plant seeds directly into the garden this year. 🪴 Looks like the Weather Oracles are predicting a wetter than average year so hopefully the reservoirs will get topped off this year, and of course - naam tuam, it will flood..."We never saw these floods coming, they were a total surprise. What can we do???" (Kick the can down the road to next year? 😁) The Ping River in Chiang Mai is already pretty high, and I don't think the Rain Season has even officially begun. So it looks like we'll have a good productive year in the garden this year.

The goal of the US, Europe, and NATO have been the strategic defeat of Russia, the overthrow of the Russia government, and the breakup of Russia into balkanized regions that are controlled by Western proxies. Which is the purpose of pushing NATO right up against the Russian border while screaming about "Russian aggression." Read foreign policy papers by RAND Corp think-tanks and authors who are members of the Council on Foreign Relations and publish these screeds in Foreign Affairs magazine, or read neo-cons like Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger - it's right there in plain sight. And we are supposed to believe that the US wouldn't have any problems with a military force comprised of Russia, China, and Latin American countries pushing right up against the United States and spewing belligerent rhetoric toward the US. The US and the West want to "rule the world" and rule it by force and coercion. The rest of the world wants to trade and to have their trading partners stay out of their domestic affairs. All Ukraine is is a battering ram aimed at Russia. The rhetoric about negotiations being dependent only if Russia agrees to a ceasefire is the same ploy as the previous Minsk agreements which were never implemented and were later revealed by Holland and Merkel as being used to arm and equip Ukraine forces for an assault on Eastern (Russian speaking) Ukraine. Then again in March 2022 when the EU convinced Russia to pull Russian troops from Kiev in order to show good faith for the Istanbul accords which Boris Johnson was send to blow up in April 2022. If anyone thinks that Russia is going to accept a "ceasefire" for any reason and for any length of time before a comprehensive peace agreement is signed, well they're snorting some pretty good stuff. And if a peace accord is signed, how long before NATO is rearming Ukraine. I see one of two outcomes: an unconditional surrender by Ukraine or World War 3 with NATO driving their forces East toward Moscow...again...like they haven't learned how that turned out in the past. Hey? Third time's a charm, 'eh? Too much of the US and EU economies are built on selling weapons and promoting war. There is no profits in peace. And if peace begins to happen, the West is right there building conflicts and creating enemies which need to be overthrown and countries sanctioned - it never, ever ends. Will there be an negotiated end to the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine? I doubt it. The EU and UK "leaders" want war with Russia, they come right out and state it. They want that strategic overthrow of Russia that they know they can't accomplish it by themselves, so they want Big Daddy USA to do it for them. Boots on the ground and forever war until Russia is defeated and broken up and divided among the NATO victors. Sniff some more of that Ukrainian Marching Powder and maybe the war fairies will grant your wishes. I expect Russia to keep marching toward the Dnieper River and carving out defacto buffer zones in Western Ukraine, all while the EU/UK growls and the US threatens. I fully expect this to evolve into a full-fledged World War with the West on the wrong side of history. No problem, the West is good at rewriting history - they already have the script for WW3 written with Russia, China, Iran, and the DPRK (among a host of others in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America) as the villains whose "aggression must be stopped at any cost." Get the Western Gen-Z cannon fodder ready. <Que Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome> "Ladies and gentleman; boys and girls... Dying time's here!"

I always find it interesting when family start looking for grown adults. I can understand looking for a kid or teenagers, but a grown man? Many times people disappear because they don't want to be found. They want to drop off the radar and live their lives.

How many people were killed on the roads. Covid "deaths" pale by comparison. And I'll never trust the stats as there is dying "with" Covid vs dying "of" Covid." In reality, those who died probably died of comorbidities or pneumonia. There is still a push to scare the commoners with scary pandemic-talk.

Presenting mind-numbing rote-learning in a new and improved package guaranteed to confuse teacher and students alike.

Probably. In addition to the stack of paper I bring to those "extension" appointment, but IO generally add a few other documents to the even larger stack of documents that are plopped in front of me to sign. Dang, I need an auto-pen like Joe Biden.

The West and their allies and proxies don't commit "War Crimes," that's all "Collateral Damage." Don't 'cha know!

These hypocrites book private planes to fly to their "Stop The Oligarchy" events. There needs to be term limits and Citizen United vs the FEC needs to be overturned. But that ain't gonna happen so the billionaires will continue to fund the clowns and jokers to do their bidding once enough money is injected into the election process to swing the elections to their candidates. I don't hold out any hope for the US political system - none.

Rolling the elderly dorf out to prove that he's "as sharp as a tack" and in the process proving he belongs in a home for those with advanced age-related dementia is a sad statement of both the Democrat Party and The Biden Dynasty as a whole - both who believe they are still relevant. I'd be interested if both the Republican and Democrat dinosaurs would step aside and let the next generation to move forward. But in reality it's not just the parties, it's the "stupid" voters, the tyranny of the majority of whom simply can't stop voting the same person into office over and over and over and over and over again until you have people in their really advanced years pretending to be a Congressman or Senator. It's a joke, and a poor joke at that.