GroveHillWanderer

On 3/28/2025 at 2:00 PM, KannikaP said:

This thread is about the one today around 13.30. 

7.3 in Myanmar at 06.50 this morning.

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar took place at 06:20 UTC, according to the USGS website.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us7000pn9s&extent=20.08175,95.27256&extent=23.91599,97.53025&range=week&magnitude=4.5&timeZone=utc&list=false

5 hours ago, Mises said:

These people are morons, anything still standing will stay standing. 

That's not necessarily true - not if they have already suffered structural damage and there are strong enough aftershocks.

The following NASA article explains how melting icebergs do raise sea level, albeit only slightly. 

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A floating object, like an iceberg or other sea ice, displaces its own weight in water. But fresh water is less dense than salt water. So, when floating ice melts and becomes liquid, it takes up more volume than the seawater it displaced when it was ice, raising sea level. This has about 3% the effect of grounded ice-melt and raises sea level.

Melting Ocean Ice Affects Sea Level – Unlike Ice Cubes in a Glass

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/261/melting-ocean-ice-affects-sea-level-unlike-ice-cubes-in-a-glass/

On 3/22/2025 at 2:43 PM, Yagoda said:

Have you read the Act?

I've read it and it states quite unequivocally that it can only be invoked under two specific sets of circumstances, as follows. 

1. There is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government ....

2. [If] any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government ...

Perhaps you can tell us which of those two sets of circumstances you think apply to the current situation.

3 hours ago, Wuvu2 said:

It's not as if there has been a manhunt all these years, they caught him on re-entry to Heathrow. Sounds like he could have ridden out of his years in Thailand. Dumb move to return to the scene of the crime 😔

He could not have "ridden out his years" here. If you read the Independent article that @Moonloverlinked to, they had already tracked him down in Thailand using AI-based facial recognition technology and Cheshire Police had started the process for extradition.

7 hours ago, BritManToo said:

And it was the old guy starting trouble at the young peeps front door.

Which was probably why the olds got charged, in Asia they are very protective of residents on/near their property.

 

Elderly foreigner starts trouble and gets an excessive beating.

Best to avoid all confrontation.

Not sure where you're getting this from. The video starts with the young man coming onto the older couple's (leased) property, picking up their plant pots and dumping them at their front door, then waving at their camera and yelling to gain their attention. All the footage comes from the same viewing angle, so it's clear that the entire video is from a CCTV camera at or above the older couple's front door and everything we see takes place in front of their house.

This is also made clear by the narrative of the events in the interview they gave to The Sun newspaper. And although the older guy did aim a slight kick at the younger guy, even if he made slight contact (which it's not clear that he did) that is absolutely no justification whatsoever for prolonged frenzy of violence he was then subjected to. 

The older guy was punched twenty-two times in the head, after he was already lying unconscious on the ground. And these were not light taps, these were full swings of each arm, against a motionless, unconscious and therefore defenceless older opponent. In what universe is that justified by an attempted kick out that as far as I can tell, might not even have landed?

10 hours ago, advancebooking said:

do you have a link that has the video on this attack

Yes, it was already posted on this thread, on the first page.

3 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

They said he had to sell in order to cover the legal fees so make of that what you will. 

Some of the reports seem to suggest that, but in The Sun article that seems to be the original source of the story it sounds more like they were selling because they no longer felt safe there.

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"[We are] selling our dream retirement home – for our own safety. We can’t be at risk of attack again."

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33737639/brit-couple-retired-thailand-beaten-neighbours-prison/

4 hours ago, jas007 said:

 Notice it's the "Ex" head of Social Security.  They're now an Ex Head for good reason. 

The current acting head (a Trump appointee) is apparently saying more or less the same thing.

Social Security’s acting chief privately admits DOGE ‘will make mistakes’ while cuts delay processing of claims, report says

https://fortune.com/2025/03/08/social-security-cuts-layoffs-doge-delays-processing-retirement-disability-claims/

31 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Any confrontation with a Thai can lead to extreme violence!

Just telling them they're wrong is enough to start a gunfight.

OK, but the person they first went out in response to, was British. His Thai wife didn't show up till later in the piece. And actually, from the video it seems that they didn't even go outside till he'd left. However after they were outside, he appears to return along with his wife.

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I'd just tell the landowner, and let him sort it out.

We don't know that they didn't do that, but when they saw their neighbours ripping up plants in their garden and went out to see what was going on, they surely never expected the situation to descend into such extreme violence.

1 hour ago, wensiensheng said:

I think it has to be pointed out that the attackers have brought a court case, which I guess is their legal right. It hasn’t gone to court yet, so there is no miscarriage of justice. Reading about the evidence, it seems quite likely that the case will be dismissed and justice done. 

It's not just that the other couple brought a court case though. It was the police that came and arrested them, confiscated their passports, fingerprinted them and charged them with multiple offences. 

As for it being likely the case will be dismissed, the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette reports the couple as having been warned that they will most likely be going to jail.

4 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

as neither of them can own land... how did they end up in a land dispute ?

You can have a land dispute over the land that you currently occupy, whether you own it or not.

For instance, let's say you have a lease on a property. If a neighbour then comes and builds on part of the property you are leasing and you dispute their right to do so (which is what appears to have happened here) then you have, de facto, a land dispute.

10 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

This is just two FARANG fighting together, it seems.

 

Both aggressors are from the UK.

Not quite - it was a British man with a Thai wife and a British couple that were involved. And if you watch the video, I don't think you can really call both couples "aggressors" - the younger couple was mercilessly pummeling the other with punches, kicks and knees, while the elderly couple were just trying to stave off the attacks they were being subjected to.

Just now, Grumpy one said:

Out of curiosity how can you say he was hit 22 times, was it on video or what 

Yes, and I posted a link to the video already.

On 3/7/2025 at 9:34 AM, SLOWHAND225 said:

So very predictable

 

https://x.com/nypost/status/1897795317833080963

That headline is a tad misleading.

Although there was not unanimity on a final communiqué, the EU did agree to continue to provide funding to Ukraine.

Here's an extract from an announcement made by the Council of Europe after the meeting. 

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The European Union will continue to provide Ukraine with regular and predictable financial support. In 2025, it will provide Ukraine with EUR 30.6 billion ...

Ukraine

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/03/06/european-council-ukraine/

Also don't forget that two days earlier, Ursula von der Leyen announced a fund of $840 billion to allow EU members to increase their defence spending. 

And as she pointed out, that would among other things, mean that: 

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"With this equipment, Member States can massively step up their support to Ukraine… 

As Trump halts aid to Ukraine, EU unveils $840 billion defense investment "ReArm Europe" plan

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-trump-eu-defense-investment-rearm-europe-plan/

On 2/25/2025 at 9:49 AM, Moonlover said:

Just google 'limestone cave at Khao Sam Roi Yot'. There are plenty of images that confirm that it is indeed the same site.

It's not the cave where the remains were found. The picture shows the Phraya Nakhon cave. The remains were found in the Din cave, as stated in the article below.

 Thailand’s oldest human skeleton discovered in Prachuap Khiri Khan

https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/news/general/40046675