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Good news for Americans: Trump is giving $600 rebate to everybody
To each according to his ability. I do not think it is the proportions that are the problem, but rather the mAcroscopic overall budget expenditure. Due to money squandered left and right. There is a need to cut the coat according to the cloth available. That way the wealthy can stay wealthy and the poor can be eased out of poverty. Where governments create conflict, both global and local, they do so because they are prodded into it by big rentier-capitalist interests. The country, and everyone else, including the relatively well off, suffer. Overall returns on investment in the US 'defense' [armaments] sector are said to have almost equalled 1,000% over the course of the Afghan War. Did the expenditure of bombs, projectiles, ammunition, and all the rest add to the wealth of the United States and its people? No, of course not. It was a redistribution of wealth from working people of all categories to big-time manipulative speculators. A consortium of loose, informal pressure-groups of overlapping interests, often referred to as the Deep State. Statistics showing the increase in wealth of the richest citizens following each successive crisis is quite convincing proof of this phenomenon. Footnote: When a government creates funny-money out of thin air because its income is insufficient to meet its expenditure, the population may be made to pay in two inter-related ways: 1. A tax called "inflation". This is not a revaluation of goods and services but rather a devaluation of the currency, due to an excess of supply. 2. A debt whose repayment is kicked down the road, perhaps to be met by a future generation. This can be avoided if inflation is high enough that debts can be repaid in a much devalued currency, in effect legally defrauding the creditors. A default in all but name. -
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Ceasefire Fails to Reassure Foreign Tourists Amid Thai Border Violence
Obviously both nations do not have the ability to back away from military confrontations. Perhaps Thailand and Cambodia can make a joint request for a UN Peacekeeping force to occupy the alleged border areas until civilized behavior by both country's Governments can discuss resolutions. Thailand has been a significant contributor to UN peacekeeping operations, having deployed over 20,000 personnel to more than 20 missions since 1950. -
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Economy Rising Costs Threaten Thailand's Once-Thriving Restaurant Scene
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Thailand Eyes Concrete Wall Solution for Cambodian Border Tensions
some cheap 2nd hand wall left over to rust by Bidon is available to Thailand -
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Expat Discontent in Thailand
I also noticed they are trying to get young people to start taking them. Having said that, if you have high amounts of plaque (calcification) in your main arteries, statins and that other drug (zetia?) could reduce the chances of a heart attack or stroke and give you a few extra years. You can get a CT scan of your main arteries attached to your heart after the age of 40 (men) and 55 (post-menopause women - apparently estrogen protects against artery plaque prior to that age). You wouldn't know your vulnerability unless you took the CT (CAC) scan. Western countries with universal health plans try to avoid offering the scans (too many would want one - so they aren't advertised), and that's why so many seem to drop dead at 65 (especially smokers) whose doctor just gave them a clean bill of health after doing little more than listening though a stethascope once each year. -
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Thailand's Gripen Fighters Make Combat Debut in Cambodia Clash
It hasn't really proven itself in combat yet. Dropping some ordonnance on a country without air force and hardly any air defense doesn't make it combat proven. Not much different from the missions in Syria. The countries that Gripen has been sold to are pretty stable, and Thailand is probably the only one that had this long running border dispute with its neighbor.- 1
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