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  1. 7 hours ago, JonnyF said:

    Correct decision.

     

    Just as I said last week, $464 million was a ridiculous amount solely designed to stop him appealing. Good to see sense prevail, although I still think $175 million is essentially a Trump tax. If it was Joe Bloggs it would have been a fraction of that amount.

     

    Hopefully these silly games stop now and we can let the voters decide who leads the US, not judges.

     

    Joe Bloggs is a multi-millionaire now? Inflation really is getting out of control.

  2. 4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

    "You want to change the climate via rain-seeding airplanes? Might as well invest in Aboriginal raindancers to come and have a jump about for all the good that will do"    read what i wrote I never said use rain seeding planes , That's what the Government said.

     

    'Drones, police and rangers to observe the fires that any idiot could simply go to a website showing the latest satellite imagery to observe? Why? What's the point? They know where they are, I could list the ones for yesterday if you like." , i don't want them to use drones to see fires , BUT catch those going into the

    forests to set fires ...

     

    It seems to you we are doomed , nothing will change anything , I would hope one day something will

    be done , and I am not giving up on that .

     

    regards worgeordie

     

     

    Sorry, didn't catch that was the Government's idea.

     

    It doesn't have any easy solutions, since the conglomerates are responding to the market by producing a lot of cattle and commodities to feed them and other cash crops. They don't have to deal with the issues caused by the burning because they're one step or more removed and the government won't hold them accountable in Thailand while the government doesn't have much control over what happens in the rural areas in Laos. Not that there's a huge amount they can do about it if they require those commodities to serve their large markets which are mostly in Thailand.

     

    The EU and other developed countries are implementing new rules that govern the origin of the major commodity crops that are imported into EU countries. These are aimed at preventing conversion of forests to cash cropping or plantations. However, the vast majority of these areas that are currently burning aren't good quality forest, they're swidden agriculture fields that are in various stages of fallow, so that regulation won't apply. Eventually one would expect that with the large number of sensors that are available and AI to handle a lot of the analysis load they're going to eventually drill down to source on everything and assign carbon and biodiversity costs to it all. But that's going to take quite some time. I don't see how you can get widespread permaculture in the sloped lands unless they're just really crowded and everyone is only into farming. But that's not really the issue in Thailand, there's lots of migration for employment in the cities and other economic alternatives.

     

    As to the "mushrooms" and swidden agriculture, that has been going on for hundreds of years including the entire time when things were tolerable in the dry season. The rate of swidden hasn't really increased significantly since it's subsistence agriculture and there's low population growth in the poor rural areas and there's a lot of out-migration and availability of food from elsewhere.

     

    This is just business.

  3. 1 hour ago, helloagain said:

    Total cop out, fix it. Send up your jets with GPS.  Then army choppers with a few guns and land office to find out who owns the land then drag them into court with jail time. Next make contact with neighboring countries who also still burn that blows over Thailand. 

     

    You think the current jets don't have GPS? Wow. And you think that the number of land owners is so small you could chase after them with choppers and coppers and haul them all off to the land office? LOL. And what's the plan once you "make contact with neighboring countries"? Hold onto the phone while they try to stop laughing and answer your ridiculous questions?

     

    Here's a hint about why this ain't changing. Those people you wish to conduct air raids upon and throw into jail are also known as the majority of the voting population in the North of Thailand. Capisce?

  4. 1 hour ago, Robert Paulson said:

    Government needs to get out of the airline industry completely. Get rid of the tsa. Our flights would be easier and the costs would drop dramatically.

     

    i got a promotional 1 baht flight to phuket once and I seriously could not believe how much the taxes and fees were. I can’t remember the exact cost but I think it was about 40 bucks, for a free flight! 

     

    Sure, take away the agency responsible for security at airports and that will fix everything! The Guv'ment shouldn't be involved at all! They shouldn't build the airports, hire and regulate the Air Traffic Controllers, set safety standards for airplanes and airplane components, make sure the pilots are well-trained and up on their certifications, enable the international transfer of passengers and luggage, undertake immigration and customs duties...

    Because it's the marvelous private sector that can do all these things much more effectively and efficiently, amirite? Such as has been done successfully numerous times, including in....oh, problem. It's never been done successfully. But we can point to some things where for example we can compare the Public Sector approach to the Private, such as Health Care. There's one country that seems fixated on private sector health care, that is the USA. As it is also the world's main proponent of a capitalism-beats-all approach, then they would surely be able to show the rest of the "commie" world how good ol' fashioned American know-how and get-it-doneness can overcome the sluggish creep of socialism. And the results prove it conclusively! The costs for health care per capita are ranked:

     

    https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

     

    Guess who's number one? But of course, you'll point out, this is because they get the best health outcomes with their far more high-tech and efficient approach:

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/05/us-healthcare-system-ranks-last-11-wealthiest-countries

     

    Hmmmmm. So the private sector approach is the MOST expensive of the different ones taken by the most developed countries in the world and also doesn't even appear within the lists of the best health outcome countries in the world.

     

    In my opinion, the private sector approach works well for much of the economy but absolutely and utterly fails when it comes to provision of necessary services. These include health care, environmental and safety regulation, law enforcement, education and the military. Those are clearly best left to government to manage as demonstrated by numerous studies and the US' valiant efforts to prove the social democracies pre-eminence in the modern age.

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  5. 5 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

     

    To be clear, can I declare my belief that the Israeli government has a long standing history of acting like an unspecified reprehensible historic government without fear of being called out for it?

     

    Oh you think that's being subtle, do you? You'll need to get a bit more vague to get to the point of it being a dog whistle which appears to be your objective. A noble one to be sure.

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  6. 1 minute ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

    Could it be I don't spend much time on here any more  and those topics aren't discussed here - you make a lot of baseless assertions there. Have a nice day and calm down, dear, I'm sure you're a nice person in real life.

     

    Or could it be you're a pontificating anti-semitic liar like Ozimoron? You're the one who asserted that you're the noble fighter against injustice (except against the Jews obviously) who never shirks a battle. So I went to observe you jousting with your enemies but found you not even on the battlefield. Unless of course it had to do with Israel, there's always an exception to every rule. And that exception, remarkably, always seems to be Israel for some folks. I don't think you're likely to be a pleasant person in real life, it's why I'm quite Left Wing but don't hang out much with those people. Wet, boring and generally unhygienic in my experience.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

    You don't know me, and I indeed do rail about these injustices from wherever they come. I've been on the left since my pallid youth, and if the Nazis came back to power, my indelible record of action will have me marked to go to the camps along with the oppressed of whatever stripe. So you can take your antisemite smear, elsewhere, I'm not interested. I have indeed seem progressive Jews say that have been smeared as kapos probably the most egregious smear one can say for standing up for Palestinian rights. I seem to remember Norman Finkelstein has accused Alan Dershowitz of saying that about his parents, who suffered terribly in the camps.

     

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/12/trumps-israel-ambassador-likens-left-wing-jews-to-kapos.html

     

    You're correct that I don't know you, and doubt I ever would have - self-righteous narcissists aren't my cup of tea. Look at you proudly marching yourself to the camps with the Jews you hate! How precious, I can already see you making your noble last speech to the evil Nazis as you condemn everyone you're supposedly dying for. You're a threat to nobody of consequence. And yeah, there's your proof, your "progressive Jewish friends" have told you about the Right-Wing scumbag lawyer Trump named as Ambassador who thinks Liberal Jews are "kapos"? LOL. That's one instance by the sort of person who knows Donnie Diapers well enough to be named Ambassador to Israel and nothing at all like you said in your original post.

    Just to check your statement, I put your name as the author in the search function and checked whether there had been any posts about Sudan, Myanmar, Nagorno-Karabakh, Eritrea, Syria, Nigeria. Nope! Israel though gets 34 posts. Save your BS for your lentil-weaving "friends". Ever wonder why they're all so temporary? It's because you eventually find something incriminating from their background and that's it, they're off the list.
     

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  8. 11 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

     

    You calling me racist doesn't make it so. I will go to bed tonight, like every other night, confident in my personal integrity. I am also confident that one day your thinking will be seen to be on the wrong side of history, and that people of all races and religions will look back at the horrors of what's currently happening in Israel with aghast bewilderment that so many, seemingly, good people at best did nothing.

     

    You're correct, my calling you a racist is simply the opinion of one person.

     

    The EC on the other hand making official statements on its website about what constitutes anti-semitism is the opinion of a large body of serious people including lawyers from a number of different countries and backgrounds and who take these things very seriously. THEY are the ones who think what you wrote is Anti-Semitic and have published explicitly on their website why that's the case. That you have read it and continue to hold that opinion tells everyone that you, in fact, are an Anti-Semite. So if you sleep happily with that, it just tells us that you're deeply flawed and should seek therapy. I do hope that one day you and your ilk are exposed for your hate and that you experience a reasonably degree of personal discomfort and consequence as a result.

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  9. 1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

     

    Be on firmer footing before calling me a iiar.

     

    Israel does not accept that the court has jurisdiction over its control of the West Bank

     

    However, the ICJ, the UN's top legal organ, will only be able to issue an advisory opinion since the case was brought as a referral from the UN General Assembly. Israel does not accept that the court has jurisdiction over its control of the West Bank

     

    You wish to debate that you wrote "refusing to recognize or be held accountable by a world court"?

     

    If that was so, why did they send a team to the World Court to testify in the case? Would you send a team to present a case to a court you don't recognize? Have you presented any evidence that "Israel does not accept that the court has jurisdiction over its control of the West Bank." I didn't see it. As far as I can tell, the ICJ is NOT deciding whether Israel can have control over the West Bank. So how could Israel "not accept that"? You don't seem to understand that when you write things down and present them as fact, that people will check those statements out and if they were simply made up on the spot by you making a reference-free assertion, we're going to find that out and point out that you're lying. As I did. As you've once again FAILED to provide any evidence against.

     

    If you're not a liar, then why have you only provided an attempt to explain one of the three lies I pointed out? Do you think that only having 2 lies in a 3-sentence post makes you something less of a liar? And your attempt to rebut the lie was a failure too. You're just spouting hate while pounding the keyboard angrily.

     

    You still are conflating non-Israeli Jews with Israelis. None of the people in this news story were identified as an Israeli.

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  10. 1 minute ago, RuamRudy said:

     

    What others define it as doesn't take away from my point. Except in this case, apparently - if it walks like a duck and squawks like duck, just don't call it out or you will be demonized.

     

    For the record, Jew, Muslim, Christian or jedi, I couldn't care less what sky fairy you believe in. If you are a decent person then I have no truck with you. If you behave like a despot then I will call it as I see it.

     

    Yes, when multi-lateral organizations who carefully consider these issues and officially and explicitly state what constitutes racism, it DOES TAKE AWAY FROM YOUR POINT. It essentially says "RuamRudy, you're actually saying reprehensible stuff that is racist and so common amongst racists that we had to publish this sort of thing just so that you would be able to see that what you're saying is racist and unacceptable." So okay, you accept that you're a racist. Perhaps you should dress accordingly as per this discussion, I'd suggest Hugo Boss as your design beacon.

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