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Why have those two people in the main photo been pixellated? Maybe unpersoned after cracking jokes about Kim getting stuck as he tried to squeeze out of the vehicle?

Mind Your Language

This is going to be interesting. Looks like the prefectures of Wakayama, Nara, Osaka and Kyoto are really going to cop it. Batten down and stay off the roof.

https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#7/33.234/136.879/&elem=root&typhoon=all&contents=typhoon&lang=en

Terrible situation, and the poor little girl is scarred for life both physically and mentally.

There's a big information gap here. I wonder if she planned to take her daughter's life then her own, but either couldn't go through with it or somebody stopped her in the process, probably the husband. I guess we'll find out as the case unfolds.

While this is a tragedy, it's a completely avoidable one. What are the French doing to stop these people arriving illegally? The French are happy for them to pass through and make them the UK's problem, and this is what happens.

The political establishment are dead scared of Trump, for all his faults, and everything they do is strengthening his resolve and that of his supporters. So now they want to resort to a televised trial? LOL. That'll polarise the population even more, highlight the establishment even more for the sore losers they are, and will very lkely backfire on them.

Remember, the putrid state of the establishment is why Trump's presidency was even possible the first time around. These people don't know when to pull their collective heads in and clean up their own act.

I'll get one as a keepsake for my son.

Nessie's seen plenty of hot and cold patches in her 65 million years of paddling around Loch Ness. I doubt she's even notice anything this year.

There's a simmering unrest among the Nordic populations thanks to their governments' lax immigration policies, which do little to encourage integration by Muslim immigrants. One of the results has been the growth of crime-ridden Muslim enclaves that even the cops avoid like the plague due to the lack of safety. Another is that more and more people are growing tired of supporting unemployable migrants through their already high taxes and the erosion of their culture, and are fighting back.

If only they would do something useful to justify it.

This is so Japanese: a wacky way to address a symptom rather than trying to fix the cause of a problem.

They're not asylum seekers, they're illegal economic migrants. If they were genuine refugees they would seek asylum in the nearest safe country to their home. The UK is clearly not that.

As for those people standing with the signs in the photo, how many of them are hosting these migrants in their own homes? Not a single one, I bet. But they want taxpayers to fund accomodation for the illegal immigrants in nice hotels while the NHS crumbles and rising living costs put more and more UK citizens on the poverty line.

The Filipinos should have hosed down the ambassador to make their point nice and clear. Diplomacy be damned, as China doesn't care about it anyway.

virusrex, your argument is a red herring.

When it comes to emergencies like the one we had, sometimes other means are necessary to trial off-label use for drugs that are already demonstrated to be safe, so there was no little to no downside to administering IVM or HCL etc when doctors in the field suspected that those drugs could be beneficial. Turns out they were - much to the detriment and disgust of the jab makers and institutions of medicine and science they own through funding and junkets.

But clinical trials are crucial before introducing new drugs to the market. And they're especially important when governments effectively mandate them in order for people to participate in normal life. Yet strangely enough, there was one major jab maker, possible more, that tried to hide unfavourable trial results and colluded with the regulator to suppress those results for decades. Why? Thankfully a court thought this was insane and forced them to release the documents, which have been dutifully ignored by the legacy media.

Ran out of oil to grease the hub?

And I mean, we all know they are right, because a good google is much more informative than a scientist who went to school for a subject, and studies it for a living.

Um, the people who figured out that ivermectin WORKS are doctors who work in the field and study medicine for a living.

Nice own-goal, Strangerland.

This is what the anti-vaxxers try to claim...

Nup, it's what people who are able to discern fact from fiction were able to figure out. An ability far beyond the limits of people who can only pull out the lame slur of "anti-vaxxer". Back to kindergarten for you, Strangerland.

Once, about 25 years ago when I'd only been in the country a few days. A bored cop who had nothing else to do asked me politely for my passport. I showed it to him, and he thanked me and went on his merry way. Nothing since.

I think that is a projection on your part. Most left-wing progressive politicians come from poor or modest backgrounds and in the service sector like educators, policymakers and community workers. Lest I remind you the vast majority of the evolution of society is from progressives (hence the name) including giving women the vote, human rights including race relations, the right for gays to marry, humanistic education, promoting environmentally friendly policies to protect the Earth etc. All things opposed by conservatives yet even they are glad to have today.

That may have been true to a certain extent in the past, but nowadays they are mainly party hacks and/or activists with little real-world experience. There's a similar pattern among many of their opponents.

Forgive me, but that's a bit too rambly for me to respond to.

In other words, you have no argument in response.

Vaccines prevent people from getting sick and dying. Smallpox. Polio.

Those vaccines weren't rushed through trials and their unfavourable results buried. There is a difference.

Most progressive politicians are not in it for power obviously because they want to create positive change, whereas rich conservatives (they're usually rich) want to hold onto their wealth by keeping the status quo.

LOL! Most "progressive" politicians are just as power-hungry as any other politicians and want to mould society into what they see as the ideal - with them in control, of course, and with minimal accountability for the damage they do.

These days most "progressive" politicians, not unlike most of their opponents, are careerists who started off as union officials and/or support staff for sitting members to pay their party dues, then go up as candidates. Some are ex-public servants. Very few have real-world experience out in the private or NPO sector where they actually have to produce results, so they have little experience with the link between actions and consequences. I'd hazard a guess that this particular politician is one of those, but thankfully in this case she lost her position.

Aldean has given conflicting statements about his stance on U.S. gun laws, though his music celebrates gun ownership.

“It’s too easy to get guns, first and foremost,” he told The Associated Press after the Las Vegas shooting. “When you can walk in somewhere and you can get one in 5 minutes, do a background check that takes 5 minutes, like how in-depth is that background check? Those are the issues I have. It’s not necessarily the guns themselves or that I don’t think people should have guns. I have a lot of them.”

As per usual with these establishment media hit pieces, it tries to muddy the waters about a person the establishment doesn't approve of. I'd clear what his position is: gun ownership is OK, as long as proper background checks are done.

I'd never heard of Aldean before the controversy flared up the other day, but given the types of people who are most upset about him, he can't be too bad a guy.

To paraphrase H. Simpson:

"55 seconds? But I want it now!"

I dunno what a "mom" is, but my fondest memory of my mum is when she held my baby boy for the first time.

I think it was a satellite or rocket body as well. It was much too slow to be a meteorite, even for Okinawa.