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Why are there 10,000 topics about Trump?
https://www.amazon.com/Obsession-Inside-Washington-Establishments-Never-Ending/dp/1684511062 -
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UK DWP minister gives update on ‘bank spying’ plans which will hit millions
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Late-Night Airstrike: Thai F-16s Bomb Cambodian Supply Routes and Artillery Positions
Thailand is the 3rd most powerful military in S.E. Asia. Cambodia is 8th. -
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A Sunday and Monday in the US?
It would require the repeal of the 2nd Ammendment to the US Constitution. This would take a great deal of time. Also, at the present time the political party in power has no desire to start any kind of repeal. It appears you are not American so you might not understand what I am saying. Just as I really don't understand the Thai legal process as well. -
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Late-Night Airstrike: Thai F-16s Bomb Cambodian Supply Routes and Artillery Positions
As in most armies or indeed armed forces of the world, the Thais too have their 'just for display' incompetents covered in ribbons, AND their tough killers. I remember my first visit to the temple ruin currently being contested in Surin Phanom Dong Rak area (a few minutes drive from my Khmer family's farm). This was mid-2012, my first visit anywhere in Thailand beyond BKK and the family farm itself which I was visiting for the first time. I was accompanied in the truck I was driving by my b/f, his aged mother, half-sister & 2 small nieces. At the ruins we first encountered 2 or 3 fairly cheerful but guarded Cambodian soldiers, to whom the family chatted away in Northern Khmer. I was very interested in the ruins & we wandered along a bit, then suddenly standing beside us & looking rather grim and SILENT was a Thai officer all in black. From my own career experience in Oz I immediately knew what he represented. A REAL soldier, a trained killer. And of course - doing his job - he wanted to know (but without speaking) what this idiot group of people chatting in Khmer & accompanied by an aging Falang was up to ... So we moved along a bit, I took photos (but not of him!), and eventually we departed & drove home ...
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