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Reunion Ends in Heartbreak as Man Electrocuted in Phuket After Six Years Apart
No need in Thailand,special electric here. -
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K bank E-mail with Tax Forms attached ?
You are missing the fact that you are making decisions based on something you read from complete strangers on an internet forum - do you really think a major bank would go to all this trouble unless they had to??? -
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Am I Stupid?
he worked his entire life, didnt he? you saying we should get rid of pensions? -
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Driver Surrenders After Dragging Victim Over 1 Km in Fatal Hit-and-Run
4 hours to drink 1 beer, yeah right, -
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Thaksin Announces New Anti-Drug Task Force Led by PM Paetongtarn
The picture posted in the article for sure has been photoshopped, because the puppet strings have been remove, and you see the other Muppet in the picture as well, who is ruling the country, its not hard to see.,🤓 -
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7 Types of Used Cars to Avoid in Thailand
start with ..... zero dollar tours Human waste is used as an agricultural fertilizer in China knock offs .. such as unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted material, trademark infringement, trade secret theft, and patent infringement. . which covers just about everything they make -
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Where Does It End? First She Wants Breast Implants, Now a Brazilian Butt Lift!
Get her to save up for it by working, oh yeah that's what she's doing with a falang -
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Who is "doomed"?
Russian healthcare is crippled. Before Putin's War of Aggression, about 90% of medicines and 80% of medical equipment was imported. Firstly, healthcare is mostly not subject to sanction. The exception is certain dual use equipment blocked by the US State Department, which means replacement medical lasers. But sanctions, and increased cost of shipping, means the availability of medicines has decreased. Early on, Putin put a challenge to Russian industry to backfill the supply gaps. They have failed to do so. On the one level, medicine inflation is quite modest; prices are up 4% in 2024. But Russian government healthcare procurement has declined. And the availability of medicines has fallen by about 10%. Before the war, most Russians used private medicine, mostly paid out of pocket. It was a growing industry, because State healthcare was so lousy (one of the memorable disasters of Russia's Pandemic, was when they decided to daisy chain ICU patients to save on ventilators. A leak incinerated the ward). When the war started, Putin prioritized the state for medical supplies. The private sector was all but dead. The decline in the availability of medicines but only a modest inflationary impact means that there has been increased imports of cheap generics, probably from India and China, and a much narrower range. Hospitals in the regions bordering Ukraine have been ordered to form combat brigades; essentiallt doctors and nurses are being co-opted as field medics, with a concomitant decline in the availability of medical services to citizens. Headway, a Russian Analytics company, has noted the biggest cuts in the Federal budget are in purchase of medicines to treat severe illnesses. ie. mortality rates from cancer and heart disease, will tick up. There is a 20% decline in these medicines. DSM believes the healthcare budget has been stripped to pay for increased armament spending. I recall that before the Aggression, Siemens had won the contract to overhaul the switchgear of the Russian Rail network. The network is still largely a decrepit Soviet era system. That work all stopped. Siemens won the contract because Russian companies were incapable of fulfilling the requirement. Russian army reserves, and most of the armament factories, thanks to WW2, are in the Far East. The Rail Network is absolutely critical to the integrity of Russia. It takes 6 days by train to get from Moscow to Vladivostok, and a brutal 118 hours to drive there. The road isn't mile up mile of shiney highway, but mostly potholed single lane, sometimes without a tarmac surface. In winter, the road is impassable. If the rail system fails, the Far East becomes cut off from Moscow. Obviously this affects the movements of goods and peoples, but it also affects the integrity of the Russian Federation. Then headlines like this: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-trains-derailment-mystery-1925131 Its not the work of Ukrainian special forces. Its indicative of a rail network under pressure.
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