GroveHillWanderer

"Apparently" - according to whom? I haven't seen anyone saying that Ukraine is winning convincingly. Do you have examples?

They most certainly do. A number of examples of such fires occurring in Thailand have been posted on this forum within the last six months or so. Also, both the Luton airport and Liverpool Echo Arena car park fires, that destroyed around 1,500 vehicles each, were started by parked ICE vehicles that caught fire. About 1,400 cars destroyed in Liverpool car park fire Luton Airport car park fire that destroyed 1,500 vehicles was accidental, fire service report says

That says WikiLeaks had made money on Bitcoin (and had raised money in Bitcoin). Again, it does not constitute evidence that he was given money in exchange for US secret documents.

I'm not sure that's quite true. Here's a picture of him arrriving in Saipan. Doesn't look much like a homeless guy to me.

There's nothing I can see in that article that says Assange was paid money in exchange for leaking US documents. Can you point it out to me?

Well yes, as the article states, it would be too logistically complicated to introduce two completely novel, advanced fighter jet systems into Ukraine at the same time. My point is that out of the two systems, the Gripen is much better suited to the current conditions in Ukraine, so if you're going to choose one to introduce first, it should be the Gripen.

And that is why I think Ukraine would be better off with Gripens rather than F-16's. Unfortunately, according to a spokesman for the Swedish Defence Minister: Sweden pauses plans to send Gripen jets to Ukraine A short-sighted decision by these "other countries" if you ask me.

Can you provide a link for that claim, please? Genuine request.

I'd say it was pretty accurate. There was one phrase in the middle that I didn't quite catch and there was some repetition but most of it was pretty much spot on.

Based on what was in the article, there's a possibility that another reason for the attack may have been that as stated therein, "According to the riders, the foreigner had parked near their base ..." I'm not saying that this is actually what happened but if a group of motorcycle taxi drivers had attacked a foreigner simply for encroaching on their turf and the police were involved it would surely serve their interests to claim, as a mitigating circumstance, that the foreigner had insulted them by using an obscene gesture.

It's not a phrase to start with, so on that basis alone, I'd say it's hardly likely to be true. For instance, a Google search for that phrase brings up precisely zero results.

Can you provide a source for that? I've looked and can't find anything that would support that claim. On the other hand, I find several sites that specifically say that is not the case. Here's just one example. Navigating Historic Allegations of Sexual Abuse I think you're getting confused with the time limit on a person making a personal injury claim for sexual abuse, which would be a civil matter, and quite different from a criminal prosecution. Is there a time limit on bringing a sexual abuse claim? Guide To Personal Injury Court Proceedings

There is no statute of limitations generally speaking in the UK for criminal offences, except for minor or summary offences tried in the lower courts where criminal proceedings must be brought within six months from the time the offence was committed. Statute of limitations

Potentially "game-changing" battery unveiled at this year’s ASEAN Automotive Supply Chain Conference held in Thailand between June 18 and 19. New breakthrough EV battery goes 1 million miles, handles -22°F to 149°F As the article says, "If claims about the battery are true, this could be a game-changer for the EV market in the future."

There's nothing wrong with guidelines for proper ethical and moral direction in life. However that doesn't mean that one specific religion's tenets should should be displayed in state schools (and to the exclusion of all others) - especially when the US Constitution calls for maintaining a separation between church and state. It's not as if all these ten commandments are the best way to teach moral or ethical values for today's world, anyway. For instance, what useful moral value does, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image," teach? Or, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," or "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy," for that matter? They express religious values, to be sure, but moral or ethical ones?

I've seen people saying that it's not working if you use AIS Play but on True ID (which I use) it works fine. Not all the games are on PPTV36, for instance some of the games today were/are on MCOT channel 9. That's also working fine.

No, it absolutely does not mean that. Do you really think there are only two possible sources of propaganda in the world? That's a ridiculous proposition.

Yes, you're missing something - evidence that any of these "male Ukraine supporters" travelled from Ukraine to attend the match. Or that they were all Ukrainian nationals anyway. In case you weren't aware of it, a lot of people have a lot of sympathy for Ukraine and that translates to them supporting their football team when they're playing. Although as a previous poster pointed out, there were around two million Ukrainians in Germany well before the Euro 2024 tournament even started. So even if they were all Ukrainian males (which is not evident) there's no reason to think they travelled from Ukraine to be there.

A peripheral vision test will not detect if you have glaucoma. It can be an indicator that you might, but peripheral vision loss can be caused by a number of different eye conditions. Glaucoma is only one of them.

OK, but the millions of wild birds were not culled. Nor were the tens of thousands of seals that have died, for instance. This virus is rapidly spreading to more and more different animal species that were never affected by it in the past. So far, at least 26 species of mammals are known to be affected. This rapid spread began in 2020, "when a new strain of H5N1 emerged [that] could maintain itself in wild bird populations year-round." 'Unprecedented': How bird flu became an animal pandemic

Wow - that's a highly persuasive, reasoned argument right there. Colour me convinced.

The issue you raised wasn't whether the west is also duplicitous, it was whether NATO had the right to tell China what to do, despite the fact that NATO had not done that.

And how do you know these children had been menstruating for three years? Or that they had had any boyfriends - or that they were 'attending' bar areas? You don't. Some of these girls are recruited directly from their villages. Some are recruited by others already working in the establishment. They don't need to have been anywhere near a bar area before being recruited. You obviously know nothing about how these kinds of establishments recruit the children they exploit.

OK, I'm sorry your cousin was robbed and intimidated by a 'local gang' in the US. But while this was taking place, did they also vouchsafe to him their immigration status?

He's not telling China what they can or can't do. He's highlighting (and criticising) their duplicity.