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Crime Pattaya Teen Gunman, 3 Others Arrested in Beach Shooting
The shooting incident marks the first time the youth has been caught in such violent activity. - There we go corrected the statement -
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THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Thursday 14 August 2025
Myanmar Man Fatally Stabbed on Bangkok Footbridge by Gang Picture courtesy of SiamNews. A Myanmar national was brutally killed in the early hours of 13 August after being chased and attacked by a group on a pedestrian bridge in the Khlong Toei area of Bangkok. Full story:https://aseannow.com/topic/1369662-myanmar-man-fatally-stabbed-on-bangkok-footbridge-by-gang/ -
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The age you should stop boozing to avoid dementia
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Here we go
Its not obvious, after all, you support terrorism. 1. Jail for criminals 2. Psychiatric help for loons 3. Assistance for those who want it I bet you lose about 25 % of the homeless when the police move in. DC is legal weed and legal weed attracts what in my day would have been called hippies. They will head to greener legal pastures. -
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US and Russia suggest ‘West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’
Your headline "US and Russia suggest ‘West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’ is highly misleading, and you should have issued a rebuttal of the vacuous nature of it. There is nothing in the article this is a position proposed by Russia. Every position put forward by Russia is that, consitutionally, Russia regards the occupied territories as part of Russia. Its a position put forward by the Americans. Even if Ukraine were to accept that premise, which they won't, there is no way Russia will accept that. They have already russified millions of Ukrainians. They have bussed in Russian colonisers. You completely ignore the fact that in 1988, Jordan renounced all claims to the West Bank in favour of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as “the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.” Its extremely important that the world does not recognise these annexations. By not recognising them, Russia will have great difficulty in raising investment to rehabilitate the areas. They won't be able to sell land to foreign investors, because they have no legal right to the land. That will mean they will either leave these new oblasts to rot. Or, its the Russian state that will pour funds in there, to buy support, like they did in Chechenya. But there is a difference. Chechenya is Russian. Even so, 90% of the money going there is Russian government money. Virtually everyone works for the government, even if that job is not real. The occupied areas of Ukraine cover 4-5 times the population of Chechenya, withc about 4 times the area. Chechenya has sucked about $100bn over that last 20 years of Russian subsidy. Rebuild costs are estimated as over $1 trillion ($1000 billion). The total Russian government budget is $400 bn. It won't be able to raise loans on the international markets. It will probably need to divert 20-25% of the annual budget into this area. Any bonds issued would be illegal. There would be some illegal money going in, but a piffling amount. Russia culd strip mney from the other regions or its budget. But its military is decimated, and we know there are elements of the Russian armed forces not happy about this (viz, how parts of it reacted to the Wagner mutiny). Reducing funds to the poorer parts of the Russia, such as thr Caucasus, would likely hasten the dissolution of the Russian Federation, and increase the threat of civil war, or they could just print money, and get Weimar like inflaton. Putin might not want to give these areas up, but he won't be around forever. Make it too big a cost to bear.
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