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Thaksin to receive certificate of innocence following his release under royal pardon
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Foreigner Steals Taxi While High on Cannabis, Crashes into Lamp Post
From here to BKK Hilton. -
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Big Buddha boss charged with illegal land grab in landslide scandal
And how long has the monstrosity been on the hill....and not one person from the government asked any questions! -
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Taylor Swift…This Is Not A Spoof
I think more importantly her opinion is important to millions of what you call "lemmings" but the candidates call "voters". Her endorsement was a result of Trump posting fake endorsements by her, so he shot himself in the foot if her followers do turn out and vote for Harris. So the importance isn't that it changes my thinking but that of some fraction of her followers. Remembering that this election is gonna be "a knife fight in a phone booth" as far as being close. -
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Tourist confronts teen pickpocket in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit Soi 11 - video
Your username tells me all I need to know about you and the company you keep. -
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Revisiting History: The Unlikely Campaign to Vilify Winston Churchill
Churchill bitterly opposing racism, that's sadly a complete joke. "Churchill is on record as praising “Aryan stock” and insisting it was right for “a stronger race, a higher-grade race” to take the place of indigenous peoples. He reportedly did not think “black people were as capable or as efficient as white people”. In 1911, Churchill banned interracial boxing matches so white fighters would not be seen losing to black ones. He insisted that Britain and the US shared “Anglo-Saxon superiority”. He described anticolonial campaigners as “savages armed with ideas”. Even his contemporaries found his views on race shocking. In the context of Churchill’s hard line against providing famine relief to Bengal, the colonial secretary, Leo Amery, remarked: “On the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane … I didn’t see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/17/why-cant-britain-handle-the-truth-about-winston-churchill . He thought nothing of ordering planes to kill civilian colonial peoples in the Middle East in strategic bombing which pre-dated what he ordered with the Strategic bombing directive. "Winston Churchill, secretary of state for war and air, estimated that without the RAF, somewhere between 25,000 British and 80,000 Indian troops would be needed to control Iraq. Reliance on the airforce promised to cut these numbers to just 4,000 and 10,000. Churchill's confidence was soon repaid. An uprising of more than 100,000 armed tribesmen against the British occupation swept through Iraq in the summer of 1920. In went the RAF. It flew missions totalling 4,008 hours, dropped 97 tons of bombs and fired 183,861 rounds for the loss of nine men killed, seven wounded and 11 aircraft destroyed behind rebel lines. The rebellion was thwarted, with nearly 9,000 Iraqis killed. Even so, concern was expressed in Westminster: the operation had cost more than the entire British-funded Arab rising against the Ottoman Empire in 1917-18. Churchill was particularly keen on chemical weapons, suggesting they be used "against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment". He dismissed objections as "unreasonable". "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes _ [to] spread a lively terror _" In today's terms, "the Arab" needed to be shocked and awed. A good gassing might well do the job." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/19/iraq.arts Not only would Churchill forego all remnants of civilisation or moral behaviour in the pursuit of killing for the empire, he himself would have died for the empire. “Imperialism was Churchill’s true religion,” and inevitably this came with “a belief in and promotion of racial and civilisational superiority.” For Churchill, the empire was the “prism” through which he saw “almost everything else at home and abroad.” Indeed, as Ali sums him up, Churchill “was, above all, an imperial activist,” someone who “wanted to fight, to kill and, if necessary to die for . . . the British Empire.” Needless to say, the realities of colonial warfare were such that killing was much more likely than dying. While the centrality of Churchill’s imperialist politics cannot be doubted for even a moment, he was also very much concerned with how the glory of empire could be used to glorify and immortalize himself. https://catalyst-journal.com/2022/09/the-spirit-of-churchill-elitism-and-british-empire#:~:text=As Ali insists%2C “Imperialism was,up%2C Churchill “was%2C above It's pretty clear Empire was all to him. -
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Bangkok’s Rail Fare Capped at 20 Baht by 2025 with £8 Billion Boost
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What’s the best area in Thailand for expats to settle for long-term living?
I am planning to settle in here love the culture. -
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Mae Sai: Six Teenagers Swept Away by Floodwaters, Four Missing
Unfortunately those kids thought they were indestructible, as many kids do, but this time they were just not prepared for the fast currents. Mother Nature is not to be messed with. Sad for the 4 swept away and the 2 that have to live with it. -
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SpaceX Launches First-Ever Risky Private Spacewalk Mission
Perhaps the moon men are waiting for a bit of protein to go with their cheese. -
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Tanzanian Man Arrested for Hiding Illegal Foreign Workers
Who pays to sleep with such women?? -
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