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GroveHillWanderer

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  1. This is not a high speed train project, though. As @KhunLApoints out, it's a dual track rail line project.
  2. If you watch the video, it clearly shows how this elephant (and another one) were riding in the back of a lorry.
  3. Sergei Lavrov also mentioned that they'd be happy to have him work on Russian State television. In addition to RT, and as mentioned by Forbes, "one of Russia’s most prominent TV anchors and pro-Putin propagandists, Vladimir Solovyov, also offered Carlson a spot on his web show Solovyov Live." Tucker Carlson’s Ouster From Fox Criticized By Russia’s Foreign Minister
  4. Santander is not the only bank doing this. I'm currently going through the same process with NatWest International. They've only sent me emails so far but there's been a series of them and I'm currently waiting for one that they said will require me to prove my identity using an app called Hooyu. I'm slightly dreading this as the vast majority of the online reviews (mostly from NatWest customers) say this software fails to work about 90% of the time, refusing to recognise items people are trying to scan, refusing to accept people's names, etc.
  5. They didn't simply provide anti-aircraft weapons to "villagers" in Afghanistan, they provided them to organised militia groups known collectively as Mujahideen. Also the situation in Afghanistan was completely different. The country was suffering under a foreign invasion with the vast majority of the country united in opposition to the invading foreign forces. Also, two of the main countries bordering Afghanistan (Iran and Pakistan) were firmly in support of the Mujahideen and perfectly amenable to having weaponry supplied across their borders into Afghanistan. You don't have anything like the same situation in Myanmar. And the massacre being referred to in the OP was not in the area bordering Thailand, it happened west of Mandalay, so pretty much in the centre of the country. As I mentioned, the junta's forces are killing people all over the country.
  6. I've just looked at your "answer." It doesn't hold any water. Your argument is that because on one of the many times he said that other NATO countries owed money to the US, he qualified if by saying, "as far as I'm concerned." That a) doesn't cover all the other times when he said it and didn't add that rider and b) it doesn't alter that fact that he was saying quite clearly, that he considers these other countries owe money to the US. For instance, in 2019 he said: Trump threatens to punish Germany over military spending And in 2017: Trump directly scolds NATO allies, says they owe 'massive' sums No mention of "as far as I'm concerned" there - nor on all the other times he said other NATO countries owed money to the US. You'll also notice that there are multiple articles about him making this claim repeatedly, and all of them point out that he is saying the countries owe money to the US. So it seems that pretty much everybody except you, that has read Trump's remarks on this subject, knows exactly what he was saying and it's only you holding on to this delusion that he wasn't saying that he actually said.
  7. Yes he literally said that. Not once but repeatedly. Trump keeps saying NATO members owe money to the US — they don’t Here's just one example, from his remarks at the NATO summit in 2018. President Trump Says NATO Allies Owe the U.S. Money. He's Wrong
  8. It doesn't matter how much or how little each NATO country spends on their defence budget, none of it is owed to the US. Trump never seems to have understood how NATO funding works.
  9. Except that what he's talking about is not actually NATO spending, it's simply the money each country spends on their own defence budgets. NATO has very little collective budget spending (it comes to only 0.3% of total Allied defence spending) and all NATO members contribute to the collective funding of NATO using an agreed cost-share formula derived from the Gross National Income of member countries.
  10. And let's just remind ourselves that a fact-check of Comer's allegations found that: Dissecting GOP claims about Hunter Biden
  11. Sacked from what exactly? She doesn't hold any government position that they can sack her from. She's just an MP, nothing else. Only her constituents can 'sack' her, by not voting for her at the next election. They could also try for a recall petition but again, that would be up to her constituents. The reason for this is that the MP is chosen by the people of their constituency, and so it is not up to their Party, or The Prime Minister or anyone else in Parliament to tell them they have to stop being an MP. The people chose them, the people are the ones to make them leave.
  12. Explain to us the logistics of how and to whom the West would deliver anti-aircraft weapons that could be used to protect disparate groups of villagers scattered throughout the entire country of Myanmar.
  13. That's not quite accurate. If the naming convention had just automatically followed the Greek alphabet in the correct order, the name for the variant should have been Nu. So the WHO was already not following Greek alphabetical order automatically by not calling it Nu and continued not automatically following it by not using Xi either. Nu was not used because it sounded too much like "new" and Xi was not used because it is a common family name and so violated the rule on not using personal names as designations for diseases.
  14. That's not true as far as I can tell. According to the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS): Covid 19 compared to flu as cause of death And, as the same source also pointed out:
  15. Are you sure ? The research is somewhat mixed but some medical experts say toilet paper is worse for spreading bacteria around the anal and perianal areas. In the article below, New York rectal surgeon Evan Goldstein argues for the use of water in preference to toilet paper. Bidets are healthier than toilet paper according to a rectal surgeon As he points out:
  16. As various organisations and media outlets have pointed out, James Comer is the archetypal MAGA conspiracy theorist (including election denier), Trump apologist and a proven liar, to boot. Conspiracy Theorist, Trump Sycophant, & Proven Liar. Three things to know about James Comer
  17. Did you even read that WaPo article that you linked to? It is a "fact checker" article that debunks virtually every claim that Comer is making. As it states:
  18. From what I've read, there seems a good chance that it will. A number of researchers are working on ultra fast-charging battery technology. Here's one example. Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced As the article states: And here's another, even better-performing battery technology. Revolutionary New Electric Vehicle Battery Charges in 3 Minutes and Lasts 20 Years
  19. I was using my Android phone. Try on an Android device (if you have one) and perhaps you'll have better luck.
  20. Not with all makes of AC. We have Trane air conditioners and with them you can still regulate the temperature when using "Dry" mode.
  21. Are you sure? I just checked Total AV and when I got to the payment page it offered an option for credit card payment.
  22. I did more or less the same thing, but with a UK PayPal account.
  23. The Democrats were in the minority and had no power to block their appointments.
  24. The shop owner quotes him as swearing at her, and insulting the Thai people in English, which she evidently understood.
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