https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenTo each his own. When all school age children are forced to adhere to the quran, when all the women must be dressed head to toe, when a foreign power are at your doorsteps ready to invade....remember you condoned it.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:43:56 +0000Wow he's really good at dodging the facts! Maybe the Dodgers can sign him. I'll be your agent. I get a 10% cut up front. 🤣Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:43:39 +0000I just do the hard stuff which is much healthier if you know your limits. Beer and red whine are nice but don't enjoy the gut :)Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:43:26 +0000☝️👏 Never mindMon, 08 Jun 2026 11:41:59 +0000That's just your little opinion Once again it must feel really empty to have no evidence of his sobriety when there's plenty of evidence right on Fox News of his chugging champagne at work on the job. But you surely have evidence of his sobriety now But I guess you can't provide that cause you're just a empty suit with nothing. Bless your Heart ❤️Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:41:24 +0000What an incredibly sad life that must be.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:41:15 +0000People in general are guilty in exposing themselves for such risks.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:40:35 +0000Its a misleading article. Most of the kit the ANA had were not supplied during the Soviet era, but were Western supplied. This included, ironically, Soviet era equipment. At one point the UK was supplying MI-17s and other kit; you can buy these things on the open market, mostly ex-WP (ex-Bulgarian) or Yugoslav. Qinetiq, Helisota and others would refurbish, and upgrade them. I used to see them flying over Salisbury Plain. Russia literally signed a deal with the US DoD to supply equipment: https://verticalmag.com/press-releases/russianhelicopterscompletesmi17v5suppliestoafghanistan/ During the fall of the Afghan government, some of the Afghan MI-17s were in Ukraine undergoing an overhaul. These were subsequently transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The remaining Soviet kit that was there in 2001 is pretty much all scrap now. What the Taliban have discovered is that they have scared away or killed the reliable ANA techs. I believe most of the ANA Air Force got away to Tajikistan.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:40:13 +0000I can't answer that, sorry. I just know tgat my last self assessment was very easy. I found the HMRC website very user friendly.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:39:46 +0000Thank god for Churchill !! Following the invasion of Poland and the rapid fall of France, public perception changed. The public realized that Hitler posed a direct, existential threat to Britain. By mid-1940, with Britain standing alone, the desire to only be on the defensive transformed into total national mobilization.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:39:46 +0000Yeah, labor in the tank for Israel.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:39:19 +0000It was my point in the first place, you are just attempting to claim credit for it. A bit sad, but I am flattered. You've just found yourself in the same back and forth, using exactly the same phrases and tactics...again. Try it differently next time. I gave you the opportunity to engage normally, perhaps in good humour, but you are incapable of such an interaction. So you get what you always got. Up to you.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:38:44 +0000Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:38:43 +0000Bring the evidence brother, enough of your lame chin-music.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:37:50 +0000Heavily abridged. Hyperlink to article in title. Those who championed free speech in the UK and US now wage war on it. And here’s why: Palestine Mehdi Hasan The Guardian: 8 Jun 2026 It was once an article of faith that even those who speak words we disagree with deserve protection. As regards Palestine, that’s now not true. In Britain, where I was born and raised, the government proscribed the direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation – with the shameful support of 385 votes in parliament from across the political spectrum. We have since witnessed priests and elderly and disabled people grabbed by the police for holding signs that simply said, “I oppose genocide; I support Palestine Action”. Their real crime was daring to speak out against a UK-enabled genocide. Last week, the British state took another extraordinary step in its campaign of repression against pro-Palestine figures, blocking US commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK. The Home Office did not explain its reasoning. This isn’t even about Uygur or Piker’s views. Whether one agrees with everything either man has ever said is irrelevant. Piker, for example, referred to some Orthodox Jews as “inbred” and once said the US “deserved” 9/11, both offensive comments for which he has since expressed regret. Defending free speech is most crucial when that speech is controversial. You cannot show your support for free expression only by defending opinions you already share. The Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestinian voices and, in particular, foreign students should be seen as one of the most severe assaults on free expression in modern American history. Don’t take my word for it. Even a rightwing, Ronald Reagan-appointed judge denounced the crackdown on student protesters as a “full-throated assault on the first amendment across the board under the cover of an unconstitutionally broad definition of antisemitism”. On Wednesday, Republican congressman Randy Fine said Piker, a US citizen by birth, “shouldn’t be allowed into America” and called him a “terrorist”. Congress, meanwhile, keeps proposing and passing resolutions designed to stifle criticism of Israel. At the state level, laws opposing the boycott of Israel are spreading fast. Academics have been targeted. Journalists have been smeared. How can any of this be justified in a democracy? No foreign government should be granted immunity from criticism. Not China. Not Saudi Arabia. Not Israel. And yet the self-proclaimed Jewish state occupies a uniquely and weirdly protected place in our political discourse. Criticism that would be considered routine in any other context – don’t bomb hospitals! Don’t kill kids! – is cynically rebranded as anti-Jewish bigotry. A genocide abroad is helping usher in fascism at home. Poll after poll shows the UK and US publics have switched their support from the Israelis to the Palestinians. And the response from the pro-Israel people in power, having seen that they cannot win the argument on Palestine, is to now prevent the argument from happening. Because once we give our governments the power to decide which political opinions are acceptable, why on earth would you assume that they will stop at Palestine?Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:37:00 +0000I told you I do not watch Fox News, and I have not referenced Fox News, you just made it up. + Why do leftists here all seem to rely on dishonesty? Are none of them able to formulate a coherent argument?Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:36:42 +0000I have no doubt that they will listen to him! 😀Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:36:21 +0000As I already pointed out earlier, there is a bank of devices as you approach the queue for immigration where the form can be completed. There are staff milling around who can assist. If you resort to this, this will most likely result in a delay passing through immigration. You will find many half-wits (mainly Chinese) who didn't/couldn't complete the form in good time prior to their arrival. Surely you have all the information you require now?Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:34:36 +0000As i have already said here in the western world theses ideologies are hypothetical and wont work due to mans greed and ambition, but socialism is thriving in chinaMon, 08 Jun 2026 11:34:27 +0000Your posts here have no basis in reality thus far. You wrote about alcohol when there is none. It's you who is attempting to sling mud. Why would you do that? Unhinged, is why. Flailing around, instead of being connected to something fundamental. You are welcome to point out any of my posts that seem disconnected.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:33:54 +0000Don't think any of us were around 100 years back.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:33:23 +0000And that's the bald truth 😊Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:32:41 +0000Thanks. Very interesting, This cremation site in Anlong Veng??Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:31:14 +0000If you’re wondering what inspired me to post this topic, you can thank GG. He posted about dogs pooping on the carpet, and it got me triggered. If I’m being honest, what really grinds my gears are the tiny dog poop smudges plastered across Europe’s crowded city streets. Everybody has a feckin’ dog, and when they walk it, it’s like a twisted game of “connect the poops.” Except instead of a masterpiece, you’re left with little sad streaks smeared across the sidewalk. Some walkers, in a fit of civic pride, bring a tiny bottle of water and pour a bit of it over the mess, as if a few drops will magically erase it. Spoiler: it doesn’t. It just makes the poop softer, stickier, and far more likely to hitch a ride on the bottom of your shoes. The best part? These smudges are so small and subtle that, if you’re walking at a normal pace, stepping in one is basically a rite of passage. I used to see them and think, where’s the rest of it? Then I caught a dog walker in action, and suddenly it all made sense. It’s a delicate ballet of poop: the dog leaves a gift, the walker picks up the major portions, then “washes” what’s left, and the rest of us get a surprise souvenir on our soles. Honestly, it’s kind of reprehensible. People drag their dogs through packed narrow streets while the rest of us have to navigate a minefield of microscopic turds. All so someone can keep a dog in a city that clearly wasn’t designed for pets defecating on the streets to begin with. Europe, I love your history, your architecture, and your cafés, but your streets? They smell like a betrayal.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:30:56 +0000Sorry, I forgot. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-armed-conflicts-by-typeMon, 08 Jun 2026 11:30:46 +0000