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Mid Isaan: Cycling Daytrips out of Si Bun Rueang, Roi Et, Nakhon Phanom
Great photos - Thanks for sharing! If you posted them in small batches, it would be easier for people to start a conversation about specific photos. -
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Pam Bondi claims Donald Trump has saved 75% of American lives in first 100 days
The grumpy guy, it's you! -
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US Greenlights $50 Million in Military Aid to Ukraine Following Landmark Minerals Agreement
Its not really about rare earth minerals, which Ukraine might have loads of, or not much at all. It depends if the Soviet surveys from 30-40 years ago was any good. And nothing is going to get mined until the emergy grid is fixed. Added to the extensive other infrastructure damage in that area, then its another 5-10 years, and by that time, who knows if we even need it, or it turns out we are all sitting on vast amounts, via 200 years worth of slag heaps (mine tailings). The deal is really about Shale Gas https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-donald-trumps-ukraine-minerals-deals-looks-to-be-more-about-oil-and/ The oil-gas market is worth trillions. The rare earth minteral market is worth low billions. The US doesn't import that much. The US needs to make money, to pay national debt yadda yadda Ukraine can provide half of Europe's gas needs. The US provides the other half. Russia provides nothing. This is key. Russia makes nothing. All it is is, as some say, a glorified gas station. Without Europe, Russia has maybe China and India as major markets. There are no pipelines to India. Everything has to go via 40-50 year old rusty tankers. Russia also needs to make money quickly because it doesn't have any. The deal, which is pretty much what Zelensky proposed to the US in the first place, is delicious. Ukraine's financial future is secure. The US makes money. The EU as a new battle trained partner. Russia is diminshed in its strategic reach. https://www.velaw.com/traditional-energy-tracker/resources/ukraine/ https://ukrainetoday.org/the-tables-have-turned-and-putins-russia-is-now-in-dire-trouble/ Contracts are already in place with Shell and Chevron for the shale gas. -
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Eighty Years On: Honoring VE Day and Confronting the Rising Tide of Holocaust Denial
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Eighty Years On: Honoring VE Day and Confronting the Rising Tide of Holocaust Denial
The cruelty on both sides is unimaginable. My parents (Estonians) lived through the first Soviet occupation in 1940, then three years under the Germans, then fled when the Red Army returned in 1944. According to them, life under German occupation was not so bad (German soldiers were polite enough not to rape local women, and they even listened to classical music!), but Estonia had only a minimal Jewish population; those few whom my parents knew disappeared. -
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