GroveHillWanderer

Oh, I would say you should fear the disease way more. It has a case fatality rate of over 50% in humans. Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO

Not for the smaller village rocket festivals, they're not. For some I've been to, only the local people knew about the festival and they definitely didn't advertise it anywhere or notify anyone in authority (because it was totally unauthorized). The rockets were still plenty big enough to cause major damage to an aircraft - some of them required 5 or 6 guys to carry them to the launching platform.

Classic example of protesting too much, methinks.

If that's your criterion for believing something is true, I'd say you're in big trouble.

You think what is a huge exaggeration? That thousands of Ukrainian civilians have died from Russian missile strikes? According to the monitoring organisation Action on Armed Violence, as of 20 March 2024, 6,034 Ukrainian civilians have died from explosive violence, with 67% of the casualties coming from missile strikes, artillery shelling and rockets. Ukraine: AOAV explosive violence data on harm to civilians So I think it's a fairly safe bet that at least a couple of thousands of those civilians have died from the myriads of Russian missile strikes. For instance, as per the UN report below, in just one "wave of Russian drone and missile attacks launched in late December and early January [...] hundreds of civilians were killed and wounded in the course of just 10 days." Casualties and Destruction from Wave of Russian Missile Attacks in Ukraine

You really don't understand this case do you? (Or apparently, the English language). The charges do not state, or even imply, that anyone was carrying out official duties in their home. And Paul Pelosi is just a member of the public, he just happened to be married to a well-known politician.

Again, Paul Pelosi is not a politician (and never was).

Paul Pelosi is not a politician. But even if he were, are you seriously suggesting that politicians whose policies you personally don't like, deserve to be beaten over the head with hammers, to teach them to "create better policies"?

I'm sorry, but in what way does that allow us to know the source of the original article?

I'd noticed this too. How are we supposed to gauge the reliability of any of these articles when we have no idea what source they're coming from?

Not sure where you're getting that idea from. The instructions on the UK government website make it clear that the only thing required to check your appearance when there's no countersignature are the photos in your old passport and your new passport. It doesn't make any sense for VFS to need to assume anything regarding the agent, in relation to appearance verification, when the instructions are clear that a comparison of your old and new passport photos is all that is involved. There is no hint anywhere in the passport application instructions, of the applicant having to appear in person when there is no countersignature.

Rather sounds like it. Matches the description of the guy in this case almost to a T. In any event, I'd hate to think that there were two such nutters wandering around in Hua Hin.

You were objecting to the following statement: "The felony comes when fraudulent accounting is used to conceal a crime." Whether you agree with the way the statutes are being interpreted and whether you think the second, underlying crime being charged is justifiable, or will be upheld by the jury, it doesn't alter the fact that the statement is true.

In what way, no? That is exactly what the prosecution is alleging. Trump’s defence makes opening statement in ‘hush money’ trial

No ammunition and no weapons? They may have been running low in recent weeks but they've already started receiving the promised new arms shipments from the US (and others). https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/politics/ukraine-weapons-us.html

That was not actually a fire - if you read the report it says there was smoke (but no fire) coming from under the hood. Later reports established that the smoke (again, not fire) came from a wiring problem with the vehicle's 12V lead-acid battery. So the incident, which caused virtually no damage to the vehicle, had nothing to do with it being an EV.

From what I can tell, it's just one small provision in a wide-ranging agreement. I have no info about wine tariffs, I only looked for info about illegal fishing.

There are apparently provisions in the FTA that refer to Thailand pursuing the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and forced labour. As I understand it, the idea is to ensure that any exports of fish to the EU from Thailand are from legitimate sources.

Totally agree that it varies widely. FWIW (and of course anecdotal evidence proves nothing) pretty much everyone says that our half-Thai, half-English daughter looks completely European, with barely a hint of Asiatic features. For instance, she has a distinctly aquiline nose, a feature very common with the women on my mother's side of the family. We know other Thai-European couples with children who look almost completely Thai - although I'd say most look like a 50-50 mix of the two gene pools.

No, you've got that wrong. The campaign finance violation is not the felony in this Trump case. Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He has not been charged with any campaign finance violations.

How about the evidence of his own words, spoken in recorded interviews? Donald Trump's unsettling record of comments about his daughter Ivanka

It's interesting that you say that when a) the link you posted shows that "there was no deal ready to be signed between Russia and Ukraine," and b) the main person to have been pushing that narrative is Putin himself. Makes one wonder where you're getting your talking points.

Why are you peddling this falsehood? The US is not sending billions of dollars to Ukraine. The vast majority of the funds approved by the Senate will be spent in the US. What the U.S. Has to Gain from Supporting Ukraine

Well I don't remember any such thing. Do you have a link to a reliable source for that? I have to say, it sounds highly unlikely to me, given that during his presidency, he thought that Ukraine should be part of Russia and when the invasion actually happened, he called Putin a genius for doing it. Donald Trump Trump thought Ukraine ‘must be part of Russia’ during presidency Trump calls Putin ‘genius’ and ‘savvy’ for Ukraine invasion

The actual data shows that the temperatures have hit new records in multiple parts of the country. Thailand reels under heatwave as some regions hit record high temperatures