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Not yet darling, not yet...

Well it used to be the Roosevelts, the Rockefellas and the Rothschilds, I'd be interested to see if there's an updated list of people who actually run the world...

The three or four times I've been there, I've visited on the way to somewhere else and haven't partaken. The ladies are however, a useful collective visual barometer, with which to base one's evening, on.

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How significant is this?, I've seen statements on Al Jazeera from Iran condemning the strikes and from Saudi Arabia saying things like, 'We are the big dog here, it's time to show this'. Links and excerpts below http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dd53ad1a-d37f-11e4-99bd-00144feab7de.html#axzz3VWuLlcXk The price of oil rose on Thursday as Saudi jets bombed Houthi rebels in the Yemeni capital, raising fears that the civil conflict in the Gulf state could escalate into a regional war. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/saudi-arabia-targets-strategic-areas-around-yemen-in-heavy-bombardment/2015/03/26/4e455830-d343-11e4-8b1e-274d670aa9c9_story.html Saudi Arabia launched intense airstrikes on neighboring Yemen on Thursday, as part of a bold Arab-led offensive against Shiite rebels that threatened to expand into a war involving ground troops. Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies plunged into the Yemen crisis after a rebel advance forced the country’s Western-backed president to flee and left the Shiite insurgents, known as Houthis, on the brink of controlling the country’s two largest cities. http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-arabia-launches-operation-yemen-ambassador-234725579.html Warplanes from a Saudi-led Arab coalition bombed Huthi Shiite rebels on Thursday in support of Yemen's embattled president, as regional rival Iran warned the intervention was a "dangerous" move.Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi, on the eve of a regional summit in Egypt, declared his full support for the strikes against the Huthis who he said had carried out a "coup" in Yemen.

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more... The broker said agents then sell the slaves, usually to Thai captains of fishing boats or the companies that own them. Each slave typically costs around $1,000, according to Patima Tungpuchayakul, manager of the Thai-based nonprofit Labor Rights Promotion Network Foundation. The men are later told they have to work off the "debt" with wages that don't come for months or years, or at all. "The employers are probably more worried about the fish than the workers' lives," she said. "They get a lot of money from this type of business." Illegal Thai boats are falsely registered to fish in Indonesia through graft, sometimes with the help of government authorities. Praporn Ekouru, a Thai former member of Parliament, admitted to the AP that he had bribed Indonesian officials to go into their waters, and complained that the Indonesian government's crackdown is hurting business. "In the past, we sent Thai boats to fish in Indonesian waters by changing their flags," said Praporn, who is also chairman of the Songkhla Fisheries Association in southern Thailand. "We had to pay bribes of millions of baht per year, or about 200,000 baht ($6,100) per month. ... The officials are not receiving money anymore because this order came from the government."

http://www.nzherald....jectid=11423387 The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home. Just a few yards away, other workers loaded cargo ships with slave-caught seafood that clouds the supply networks of major supermarkets, restaurants and even pet stores in the United States. But the eight imprisoned men were considered flight risks - labourers who might dare run away. They lived on a few bites of rice and curry a day in a space barely big enough to lie down, stuck until the next trawler forces them back to sea. "All I did was tell my captain I couldn't take it anymore, that I wanted to go home," said Kyaw Naing, his dark eyes pleading into an Associated Press video camera sneaked in by a sympathetic worker. "The next time we docked," he said nervously out of earshot of a nearby guard, "I was locked up." Here, in the Indonesian island village of Benjina and the surrounding waters, hundreds of trapped men represent one of the most desperate links criss-crossing between companies and countries in the seafood industry. This intricate web of connections separates the fish we eat from the men who catch it, and obscures a brutal truth: Your seafood may come from slaves. The men the AP interviewed on Benjina were mostly from Myanmar, also known as Burma, one of the poorest countries in the world. They were brought to Indonesia through Thailand and forced to fish. Their catch was then shipped back to Thailand, where it entered the global stream of commerce. There is a lengthy article at the source, with pics, well worth the read, Thailand seems to be the 'Hub' of illegal fish distribution.. big surprise! http://www.nzherald....jectid=11423387

A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain. Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines. Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn. Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: eight bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour. Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding. Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat. Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends. Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

Satire? Shouldn't their offices be attacked and burnt to the ground so we can all go Je Suis Wadiya on them?

Source The detention of an infamous rogue fishing vessel off Phuket deserves special notice and praise. Authorities apprehended the ugly-looking ship after it was chased by various nations for years. It has gone by an assortment of names and sailed under numerous flags, but always with criminal intent. The 625-tonne vessel was known and blacklisted worldwide for illegal fishing in and around the Antarctic. The maritime police chased and caught the ship on March 6. It is currently called Kunlun but is also known as Dorita, Black Moon and Galaxy. Its flags have included North Korea, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Panama, Indonesia and Equatorial Guinea. Police have detained the Kunlun and its crew - 31 Indonesians, four Spanish officers and a Peruvian captain. A Spanish officer who apparently attempted to commit suicide is being treated at a Phuket hospital. The ship's owner is officially unknown. There is quite a lot of bad news in the accomplishment of this feat by police. The capture of the Kunlun poses yet more problems for Thailand in its continuing, even escalating diplomatic battles. It turns out the Kunlun specialised in fishing for Patagonian toothfish, a highly regulated species near endangerment. Most Thais and visitors may know little about the toothfish, but millions are familiar with its other name - the snow fish, in Thai pla hima. Seafood and Chinese restaurants, including at top-rated hotels, feature snow fish on their menus of "luxury dishes". It is popular for obvious reasons. For anyone who enjoys eating fish, it is by any name a succulent main-course ingredient at any dinner or banquet. Steamed, poached or pan-fried, the fish is extremely popular at any price. It is impossible to think of a more damaging conflict of interests than the capture of the criminal Kunlun ship, and the widespread availability of a supposedly regulated species. The government remains to be heard from on the matter. But if there are any enforced regulations about importing, buying or selling Patagonian toothfish, aka snow fish, no market or restaurant operator seems to be aware of them. Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, who is responsible for enforcing fishing regulations, said last week he did not know why Thailand faces criticism and possible sanctions from the European Union. He told media the military is trying to improve fishing standards. All but about 3% of fishing boats are registered and licensed. And now, from a completely unexpected direction comes a rogue ship with tonnes of illegal fish in its hold. When detained by marine police - not the navy - the Kunlun had 182 tonnes of fish in its refrigerated holds. The manifest and the ship's captain told police boarders they were grouper. A quick inspection revealed most, if not all, the fish are snow fish. The ship was supposedly on its way to sell the illegal cargo in Vietnam. Catching the fugitive ship and crew is a praiseworthy achievement. On the other hand, it now serves as stark reminder of just why the EU has turned on Thailand and threatened sanctions. The country has plenty of laws and regulations to deal with illegal fishing and trafficking in regulated seafood. As with human trafficking, however, those who are concerned want to see action against violators, rather than hear about new laws and paperwork. The capture of the Kunlun should lead to a crackdown on both sellers and buyers of protected seafood. If crew and cargo of this serial poacher are to be punished, so must others who profit from such illegal fishing. __________ What this article, in it's effusive praise of the Thai authorities fails to mention, is that the NZ Navy shadowed the vessel in question in Antarctic waters, photographing the capture of tooth fish. The NZ Navy received criticism for not sinking the illegal fishing vessel, but apparently you can't just sink vessels in International waters, according to maritime and other law. The NZ Navy then alerted Interpol and a combined international effort tracked the vessel to Thailand where the Thai authorities were handed on a plate, the true identity of the vessel, the nature of it's illegal fishing and it's the aliases. On a plate. This vessel has been linked to known Spanish Criminal entities whose representatives promptly arrived in Phuket, to presumably grease some palms, for the ships release. This may still occur.

You might be surprised to know, that it's well known and used amongst the cognoscenti of the board.

Sauce A heavy downpour for more than one hour around noon Tuesday in inner Bangkok has caused floods on several roads and traffic jams. Traffic police reported at least seven locations in Bangkok were flooded. In some areas, the water is as high as the footpath level. Flooded areas are Asok Montri Road, some sections of Phetchaburi and Ratchadaphisek roads, Soi Suan Phlu, Sukhumvit Sois 1, 2 and 24, Phloenchit Road, Mitmaitri Road near the Thai-Japanese Stadium in Din Daeng and Silom Road.

Well it does look like the author is intending humour, I thought muslims didn't have any, vile infidel practise and all that...

Source BANGKOK, Thailand - With THAI having already cancelled direct flights to Moscow and analysts expecting 100,000 fewer Russians to Pattaya and secondary Thailand destinations, the future is looking challenging. A crisis created by dramatic decrease in crude oil prices has plunged the Ruble into a 40% drop in value and still heading south. Many Russians are offloading recently purchased condos and that is placing an additional worry and strain on the area at this time. Hotels and tourism businesses hoping to offset occupancy losses of upwards of 80% must avoid the possible terminal decision to fill beds with low spending Chinese tourists. Bottom end Chinese tourists are lowering the bar and creating a serious situation affecting all other associated tourism. This could bring down the future of Thailand tourism very quickly. The money spend is not sufficient to recover refurbishment costs and increased maintenance. This leads to serious poor reviews, impacting future bookings due to the pace of the internet highlighting the trend. Thailand's tourism, like the national airline (TG), needs a wake-up call. There is absolutely no future in double digit growth of bottom end Chinese tourism. It's not a savior, it's a nail in the coffin. Losses to tourism and property businesses in Pattaya could reach 1 trillion baht spend reduction in Pattaya/Jomtien by May 2016. --------------------- <sound of bubble bursting>

http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-a-Snake

including - containing as part of the whole being considered

4cm would not be dangerous IMHO, except for biting, but you hit it on the head with a brick or something, easy.

Only if you're ass backwards

Some images that made me smile

Keep advertising that, and the taxi drivers will be queuing to take your fare, money and dump you.

4cm, so allowing that the skin would have dried and shrunk, we can assume that the snake is roughly 4cm in diameter, not a small snake. Likely to be a constrictor, i.e. python, non poisonous, but that's a guess. IMHO a very good candidate for a curry.

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Here comes another one, just like the other one, Apocalypse The Second World War. 6 x 45 min episodes. Just like the one I posted about above, only WWII. Required viewing for any modern citizen of the world. 10 out of 10. Magda Goebles was Hitler's biggest fan, when Hitler went, She and Hubby suicided after poisoning their 6 young kids. ​After this war, the winners created the United Nations so there would not have to be any more wars... Laugh, I nearly shat myself.