GroveHillWanderer
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Hunter Biden's former business partner tells Congress about Joe Biden calls
No, it absolutely does not prove that at all. Let me give you a concrete example from my own life. I have a grandson who runs a business with partners (though for the purposes of the argument he could just as easily be my son). I have met most (if not all) the partners that he runs his business with. Yet I can assure you that I have never discussed his business dealings with him.
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Hunter Biden's former business partner tells Congress about Joe Biden calls
Again, how does meeting some of a person's business partners prove the contents of any conversation that you have had with that person? (Hint - it doesn't).
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Hunter Biden's former business partner tells Congress about Joe Biden calls
The allegation that Joe and Hunter Biden sometimes exchanged remarks over the phone with Hunter Bidens business associates in the room means "the net is tightening" in what way, exactly? Can you imagine the conversation in a court of law? "Yes m'lud, I can prove that the accused committed the crimes he is accused of. The fact that he sometimes spoke to his son on the phone is incontrovertible evidence of his guilt."
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Hunter Biden's former business partner tells Congress about Joe Biden calls
Neither meeting somebody, nor writing college admission letters, provides any evidence of the contents of any conversation between Joe and Hunter Biden.
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Hunter Biden's former business partner tells Congress about Joe Biden calls
Where is your evidence that it's a lie? Do you have a transcript or recording of any of their conversations, to prove what was said? If not, then it's a baseless claim.
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The chance of Trump winning another term is very real
No, he is being prosecuted for falsifying business records related to the payments made to Stormy Daniels. He claimed on his tax returns that these were just originally legal expenses, when they were not. Not to run them as his own personal fiefdom, without any input from anyone but himself, no. For instance, the President is not entitled to decide all by himself, which media companies are allowed to have broadcasting licences. Under Trump's plans, he would be able to do exactly that. As stated by his advisers, if Trump gets back into power, they plan to purge the federal government of even non-politically appointed career employees who aren't loyal to Trump, and replace them with only the most hard-core loyalists. They would also appoint general counsels who will aggressively implement Trump’s orders and skeptically interrogate any career government attorney who tells them their plans are unlawful or cannot be done. In other words, he’s looking for people who would be prepared to break the law for Trump. You should read up on the unitary executive theory. It basically aims to turn the entire mechanism of government into the president's personal plaything.
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The chance of Trump winning another term is very real
I must have missed the part where Biden revealed his plans to fully embrace the unitary executive theory and expand the powers of the presidency into control over all aspects of the federal government and bureaucracy.
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The chance of Trump winning another term is very real
I can't quite believe any American with the capability of rational analysis, would choose to vote for Trump. He has made it perfectly clear what he plans for the US, should be be re-elected. He intends to turn it into an autocracy, under his control. Donald Trump Isn’t Even Trying to Hide His Authoritarian Plans for a Second Term
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Russian Elites Are Transforming Thailand’s Biggest Island as They Become More Unwelcome in the West
While most Ukrainians can speak Russian, I'm pretty sure that nowadays they tend to eschew it, for obvious reasons.
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Nationwide Milk Shortage
I haven't seen anything saying 51% of Thai milk comes from New Zealand and Australia. Do you have any source for that? There are articles saying that approximately that percentage of imports of all dairy products into Thailand is from those countries but that's not the same as 51% of all milk sold here. In addition, much of what is imported, in the form of concentrated milk or milk powder is then used to produce dairy products that are exported from Thailand. See article below. A quick stop at Thailand’s dairy sector
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Nationwide Milk Shortage
Cattle feed being too expensive wouldn't explain why fresh milk completely disappeared from the shelves for several days and then reappeared at the same price or (at least for one brand) slightly lower than before.
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Immigration jail, What's it like?
There have been a couple of relatively recent posts from people held in IDC. By all accounts the conditions are every bit as bad as the regular prisons here, if not worse in some ways (sometimes more overcrowded apparently, for instance).
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Nationwide Milk Shortage
Actually, when milk finally resurfaced in Lotus in Hua Hin Market Village, at least one brand was actually reduced from what it used to be (and all the others were exactly the same).
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Trump wants to execute people who engage in human trafficking.
So if an FD-1023 form is not an FBI document that contains raw, unverified information from a confidential human source (CHS), then what is it?
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Trump wants to execute people who engage in human trafficking.
The two people referred to were not descended from immigrants though, they were actual immigrants. They were both born outside the US, neither was a US citizen at birth. Both immigrated to the States and acquired US citizenship later in life.
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Trump wants to execute people who engage in human trafficking.
It doesn't matter what the putative crime is, nobody should "receive the death penalty immediately" i.e. without due process, which is what Trump is proposing here
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Nationwide Milk Shortage
Yes, you can foam it - I've often done so. I've also driven past one of their farms and seen the dairy cows in the fields. This picture is from their website but it matches exactly what I saw when I drove past it.
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Nationwide Milk Shortage
I have a container of Dutch Mill Selected full fat milk in my fridge right now. The label says it's 100% pasteurized cow's milk. Their website also says their Selected brand milk is 100% pure cow's milk and it is pasteurized. You don't need to pasteurize powdered milk, so that, along with the fact that their site says they operate 764 dairy farms and 18 raw milk centers in Thailand, would seem to suggest that their product is fresh, locally-produced milk. Dutchmill Group
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Australian teen on ko tao. What happened?
I would imagine it's this one. Aussie teen’s suspicious death in Thailand fuels family’s heartfelt repatriation quest
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Pita ordered to suspend doing his duties as an MP
No, and I didn't say it was but the question asked does not go to the heart of the issue which apparently (at least if that previous EC ruling is anything to go by) is not how many shares are owned but whether the amount of shares was enough to affect company policy.
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Nationwide Milk Shortage
I was there today and saw that sign. It doesn't explain much to me though. What on earth is a "dry cow situation during the milking break"? I showed this to my wife and she said she doesn't understand what the Thai wording is supposed to mean, either.
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Pita ordered to suspend doing his duties as an MP
The point is that the amount of shares owned does make a difference. As mentioned above, "the EC dismissed a case against a Democrat MP possessing 200 AIS shares on the grounds the number was too low to affect company policy."
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Where is the Mars?
It's a practice known as "shrinkflation" - instead of raising the price, they reduce the size of the product. I've noticed a lot of local restaurants, street food stalls etc, doing the same thing.
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Pita ordered to suspend doing his duties as an MP
He claims that he did that. The shares were already transferred, apparently. It's all bogus anyway. As has been pointed out in a number of articles, on March 7, 2007, the Office of the Permanent Secretary notified ITV of the termination of their broadcasting contract and Ultra High-Frequency (UHF) operating agreement. As a result, ITV lost its status as a mass media company. Its shares were also delisted from the Thai stock exchange in 2014 and could no longer be traded. For many years thereafter, in its financial statements, ITV stated it was "a holding company principally engaged in the non-financial business." Then, for some unknown reason that was changed to “television media” in 2022, in what Pita reckons was part of a deliberate attempt to have him disqualified from politics. I must say it does seem strange that a company that had not been involved in broadcasting since 2007 and with no change in its actual status, would suddenly start describing itself as a television media company in 2022.
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Nationwide Milk Shortage
That wouldn't explain why all the locally-produced brands were also out of stock, though. Also, if such a thing were going on, why would it only affect milk?