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So everyone here is confident that that is a woman? (I'm going by the picture shown in the newsletter headline section.)

With VPN (Nord) = 33 without = 235

The Grauniad reported that this lady had been approached by Liverpool F.C. to become their next manager. However, the Manchester Evening News reports (May 1, 2074) that she is being actively solicited to become the next manager of Manchester United.

thought at first glance it was a woman. I do hope he is not deported to Trudeau's utopia...too many of his type already there.

Miss Cauto, you are a very tiresome poster. However, your fatuous splenetic comments do have the virtue of demonstrating the depth of your ignorance. Did you not know that it is your lot (those Democrats who believe that the foundations of Western Civilization are entirely racist) have spent the last few years claiming that mathematics is "racist". And therefore our children should be allowed to claim that 2+2 = 5, because that is "their truth". Welcome to the lala land of the likes of Meghan Markle (and J Cauto).

How tragic that you fail to remember that Mr Joseph Biden was absolutely brilliant under Mr Obama......

Anyone seeing this woman as "intelligent" must have a screw loose. She is the dumbest thing on two legs, running the Big Man very close in the lack-of-brain dept.

Well, I was going to lament that the pupils would now be prevented from learning about the Religion of Peace, when along came this informative list of what the poor souls would be missing.

It's probably best to be cautious about this poll, since it was done online. However, the detailed questions are very interesting, especially question #44. https://echelonin.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/April-2024-Omnibus-Topline-EXTERNAL.pdf

I assume the PM did not arrive in HH by train (single or double track)???

What utter balderdash! Who the eff cares who has this or that orgasmic satisfaction? This gobbledegook comes from some $hite term paper of some woke Ph.D. candidate in a backwater US university. Not worth a nanosecond of your time. (Soon you will be able to see her working as a barista in some godforsaken part of the Mid-West.) (And also: why does EVERY article on a general subject (like this) on AN sound like it has been churned out from ChatGPT????)

Your faith in "science" (which of course is always changing) is touching. The climate cultists are every bit as ready to eviscerate you for "wrong belief" as was the Spanish Inquisition. One religion is much the same as any other....it always involves believing that some other schmuck's religion should be swept from the face of the earth.

So you believe in Hell, eh? Maybe, instead, you might want to join the Climate Cultists, because they keep telling us we are all going to be "frying" very soon if we don't do as they say....

I laughed out loud (as they say) when I saw this one-liner. Yes, I'd have to admit that it is difficult to imagine some of the yobbos on here bending down reverently before sidling into the pew. But then on further thought, it has to be admitted that ignore it (wonderful pseudonym) and I both belong to all "this lot"......

Like your pseudonym: you do appear to be indeed a noob.

It is not going to end peacefully if the US sets the precedent that it is OK to steal another country's property. (As opposed, of course, to stealing it in warfare, of which history has millions of examples.) There are billions of dollarsworth of infrastructure which American businesses have had to abandon in Russia in the last two years. Stealing from the Russians will in effect forfeit all that infrastructure. Maybe you're ok with that....but you do see the ramifications, right?

tch.com/investing/index/dxy That is a good graph to show (and I go there myself every day). However, if you look closely at the numbers (and the surrounding stories) you will see that there has been some weakening of the dollar. Not so many weeks ago the dollar index (versus gold) stood at about 102 (now it is 104, and so a strengthening of the dollar. But it is strengthening because of global expectation that US Treasuries will go up (see the story below the graph). If Treasuries go up, it is because the "market" expects further inflation and further rate increases. The rate increases will come because of the huge deficits being run by successive administrations. (That is why whoever wins the next general election is going to have to somehow solve this problem of deficits as far as the eye can see. But who has the balls to do what needs to be done??!!)

I'm surprised that no one on this thread has mentioned the most obvious reason (among many) why gold has climbed so much in the last two years. It relates to the American imposition of sanctions on Russia at the beginning of the Ukraine business. When countries around the world with strong economies saw that the US was likely to suddenly freeze the assets of any country the US disapproved of, they began to organize against the same thing happening to them as happened to Russia. So, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, & S. Africa) began the process of setting up a payments' system in opposition to the dollar system that has prevailed since the end of WW2. (The Brics countries have been joined, last year, officially by Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the UAE.) Russia of course got around American sanctions by trading oil for Indian rupees or for Chinese yuan etc. That was the beginning. It is already leading to a slight weakening of the dollar. Much more dangerous for world peace & stability is an idea originating in Washington that (in order for Congress to finance the carnage in Ukraine) the US should SEIZE (that is, steal) $300 billion in US Treasuries that belong to Russia. If that idea comes to fruition and the theft is committed, it will herald ...well, who knows what ...but the consequences could be extremely serious. Nothing written here is secret or conspiratorial. It's all easily available in numerous sources in financial and political journalism.

Have you got a screw loose?

He takes his orders from Brigitte. It is alleged by some that she is not even a "birthing person".

Yes, it may come as a surprise, but most Thai women (imo) clearly enjoy sex (especially if they have been neglected by their Thai husbands). An enormous amount of women in their late 30s to early 50s (as is also the case in the West) have long ago forgotten what sex is all about. Difference is that women in the West have gone to seed, whereas Thai women who have stayed away from KFC or Macdonalds stay attractive long into middle age.

I see you have dreams of rabbithood....

I once asked my then GF (now wife) why she loved me (as she claimed). She gave me 5 reasons that immediately came to her head without thinking: 1. You don't shout. 2. You take shower daily. 3. You don't smoke. 4. You are "lor" (translation left to reader) 5. You are "nam jai" (ditto). It no doubt helps that the ATM is my friend. But I think a lot of Thai women, like my wife, silently enter marriage with the notion that "I take care you; you take care me". Simple but effective "contract."

Much ado about sweet FA. But normal non-story from GBNews. As long as the putative Brit boycotters don't turn up in LoS instead.....

On narrow-guage all the speedy way from Bkk to Hua Hin and beyond? Clickety-click, clickety-clack???