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Musically - Is this as good as it gets?
I dated Eric Claptons bass player Jack Bruce's niece for over two years back in Scotland, that would be in the mid seventies. -
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The U.S. dollar is tanking — and the likely explanation is not flattering for Trump
In terms of nasty and reckless moves, one that stands out for me is the gutting of U.S.A.I.D., because it’s illegal and because it’s so flagrantly immoral and utterly self-destructive. During the first Trump term, I would sometimes have to catch myself because even though I thought and think that Trump is uniquely despicable and dangerous, the fact remains that if you just want to look at the number of lives lost and global damage done, George W. Bush really outstripped him. Trump is maybe a worse person, but the damage that he did in his first term was much more contained. I think that in the second Trump term he’s changed that very quickly. Not just by taking America’s soft power and setting it on fire in all sorts of ways, but really making these abrupt decisions that are going to kill hundreds of thousands and maybe more than a million people and he’s doing it in this incredibly arbitrary, careless way. I don’t think he has a coherent value structure as most of us understand it. I think we’re seeing a president who’s operating without anything any of us would recognize as a conscience. Truly. It is about showing what he can get away with. It’s about showing his enemies that what they support, he can tear down. It is all about displays of brute strength. He gets off on that, and in that sense, it seems not so much an autocracy but a flexocracy. Let me show you how I can flex my bicep as I use it to power my fist coming into your face. It’s not about any coherent values. It’s not about any North Star. It’s about showing that you can turn the boat 180 degrees around and that you can do whatever you want and you can bring the people who opposed you to their knees. Trump’s idea of power. If I can destroy, if I can defile and march on relatively unscathed and unpunished, that makes me powerful. Other people can’t get away with it, but that’s how dominant and superior I am. Trump would not be where he is without the deep state or a similarly sinister organization or group of very powerful people who put him in that place, and are allowing him to conduct these extremely destructive economic policies. As reckless and as poorly thought out as all this seems, I think it's actually deliberate economic sabotage. Unfortunately the average American and the average person without wealth throughout the world will end up being the victims. Tens of millions of Trump supporters will be very surprised at the end result, and it won't be a pleasant surprise. -
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British Man's Urgent Plea to Save Dying Father in Thailand
His son moved to Thailand in 2017, works in "finance." His father moved to Pattaya last May, along with his wife, to live with the son. Recently diagnosed with Diabetes and Addisons. Son quit his job to act as caregiver. -
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Chinese Nationals Flee Accident Scene After Crashing Mercedes in Chonburi
It could be one needed a restroom, the other needed a laundry service -
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U.S. Dollar based expats beware -- Trump goal is to weaken the dollar
As usual, the central banks around the world are pretty much all playing the same game. Lower and lower interest rates and weaker currencies. But they all can't win. It's a so-called "race tot the bottom." Which currency has the most staying power? What would replace the dollar and it''s reserve currency status, over the short term? It can't be nothing, and there are lots of reasons why the dollar will win out, at lest over the short to intermediate term. So the dollar may decrease in value in the USA, but in Thailand, maybe not so much. -
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Texas Children Suffer Vitamin A Poisoning Amid Measles Outbreak Following RFK Jr's Claims
Ok, that set it right. Agreed. Kennedy's reputation is overwhelming and dangerous.
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