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  1. bust

    Usa Thread

    Bit of chatter on some of the independent media outlets that Dozy Don may step doe as POTUS (didn't say whether it was temporary or permanent) with JD Vance taking over. Now here's the twist. JD Vance as President would then be able to pardon Trump in relation to any involvement or accusations in the Epstein Files. Far fetched I know but equally within his cunning way of thinking.
  2. No sympathy from me. Is she the one selling $140 sweat shirts using a logo she stole from Travis Kelce
  3. Just imagine what else could be potentially floating in the water Restaurant business booms as monsoon rains cause river to flood in Thailand Monsoon rains and high tides have caused the river near Pa Jit to flood. (AP: Sakchai Lalit) In short: A flooded Thai restaurant has reeled in customers by offering them the chance to enjoy meals while fish swim around them. Business has doubled since monsoon rains caused a nearby river to burst its banks and inundate the restaurant. What's next? The restaurant is likely to benefit from a few more weeks of heavy rain and high tides. When a river flooded into this restaurant in Thailand and fish began swimming among the tables, the owner's heart sank. "I thought there would be no customers for sure," owner Pornkamol Prangprempree said. "But then there was a customer who posted online showing that there were fish. Then a lot of people flocked here to eat." That was four years ago, and ever since, there's been a steady stream of customers coming to the restaurant, Pa Jit, which is about 30 kilometres west of Bangkok. They have been drawn there for a unique dining experience — enjoying a meal while sitting in floodwaters, surrounded by live fish swimming about. Diners feed fish as they wait for their meals at the flooded Pa Jit restaurant. (AP: Sakchai Lalit) The river next to Pa Jit breached its banks 11 days ago, and the flooded riverside restaurant has again become an internet sensation. Customers keep coming, keen to pose in the lapping brown water or toss food to the fish and photograph the feeding frenzy. Enthralled toddlers gawp at the river fish flapping around their thighs. And waiters in waders gingerly carry bowls of fish soup or chicken noodles between tables. Fish reel in customers Ms Prangprempree said floods had boosted her business. Her profits had doubled from around 10,000 baht ($471) to around 20,000 baht ($942) a day. Customers say the Pa Jit restaurant is the only one offering this kind of dining experience in Thailand. (AP: Sakchai Lalit) Chomphunuth Khantaniti was there with her husband and son. She said she could not resist a visit. "It's good because we can bring the children here. When the children see the fish, they become less fussy," she said. "I think in Thailand, there's only this place where you can see fish coming up like this." Bella Windy, 63, came to the restaurant because she wanted to feel the fish nibbling on her feet. "Normally, if the water is very high, the fish will come here. The nature experience here is the highlight of this restaurant, and it attracts people." Pa Jit should be able to cash in for a few more weeks, with floods expected to linger through the end of monsoon season. (AP: Sakchai Lalit) Pa Jit can expect another few weeks of inundation, as high tides and the tail end of the monsoon season keep water levels up. Though the flooding has brought an unusual boon to Pa Jit, it has devastated many other areas of Thailand. Since late July, 12 people were killed and two went missing due to flooding, according to data from the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation. On Friday, it reported that more than 480,000 people in 13 provinces, particularly in the north and central, had been affected by floods. AP/ABC
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    Usa Thread

    While POTUS has immunity those who surround him are being reminded they don't. A common shortcoming of your typical sycophant 😊
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    Laos

    Never waste a good Cab Sav. Un-Kiwi even if in a foreign land 🍷
  6. Pretty amazing. Hopefully the rink works. Some pretty amazing images. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-14/aurora-australis-southern-lights-november-2025/106004326
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  7. But let's move on to more important things 😛 Kim Kardashian revealed she failed the California bar earlier this year and has blamed ChatGPT and psychics for the shortfall. Iconic! “I’m just letting you guys know that all the f–king psyhics we have met with and are obsessed with are all f–king full of s–t because they all collectively, maybe four of them, told me I was gonna pass the bar,” the “Kardashians” star, 45, raged....
  8. Here ya go Dozy Don. Let's see you do your magic hear. If only RSF had fishing boats
  9. Satellite imagery matched to Sudan's El-Fasher shows the brutality of a massacre What does satellite imagery tell us about what is happening in El-Fasher, Sudan? (ABC NEWS Verify/Vantor) In a series of WhatsApp messages, Abdullah* describes how everyone he knew at the Saudi Hospital in the city of El-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region is dead. "All my patients, my staff, and everyone else in the hospital were killed. They shot them all." He is reluctant to speak about much else because he is afraid for those that remained trapped when the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of the city in late October. The RSF are a former state-aligned militia, now the major opposition to the Sudanese Armed Forces. At his workplace the World Health Organization (WHO) reported more than 460 patients and their companions were killed. At least six healthcare workers were also abducted. "We left through the northern gate at the beginning of their incursion and infiltrated the city towards the north," Abdullah says. Thousands of refugees, like Abdullah, were forced to flee — some travelled more than 70 kilometres away to Tawilah. The RSF control much of the west — including, as of late last month, the capital of North Darfur State, El-Fasher, which had served as the Sudanese Armed Forces' (SAF) last major stronghold in Darfur. The city fell to the RSF after a 500 day siege. Looking at El-Fasher Accessing cities like El-Fasher is difficult and dangerous. Who is fighting in Sudan and why? The latest chapter in Sudan's civil war has captured the world's attention. To understand what's happening now it helps to understand some of the country's history. Monitoring of the war is largely left to aid groups still operating on the ground, videos posted online, and satellite images capturing developments from space. On October 27, around the time when El-Fasher was taken by the RSF, war crime investigators at the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, noticed a series of "reddish ground discolouration" and "light objects". Those discolourations and objects are blood and bodies, according to executive director for the lab Nathanial Raymond. A satellite image that is highlighted showing black and grey burnt out cars in a field of dirt "They did not appear in the baseline imagery from a couple days before. There was no presence of objects between 1.3 to 2 metres in length and that range on the object is critical because a human body lying horizontally in 30-centimetre satellite imagery will measure in terms of pixels between 1.3 to a full two metres," Mr Raymond says"The discolouration. It's usually about a half-a-metre in size and it occurs when the bodies first appear and that's the blood discolouration. We mathematically measure it and it comes back mathematically as true red." The analysis says vehicles can also be seen blocking roads in western El-Fasher. At a university building on October 278 — the scene repeats. A satellite image that is highlighted showing areas in a town OCT 28 Supplied: Airbus ABC NEWS Verify has geolocated a graphic video showing bodies strewn on the ground floor and an execution, to inside the main building of the university. Nearby, at the Saudi Hospital — those "objects" are again seen in imagery from October 28. A satellite image that is highlighted showing areas in a town OCT 28 Supplied: Airbus On the outskirts of town — at an embankment constructed by the RSF to encircle the city — satellite imagery shows burnt out vehicles and bodies, from October 31. The aftermath of this carnage was filmed by the RSF, and posted online to an RSF-aligned Telegram account. ABC NEWS Verify geolocated the videos to the same location, matching the angles of the burnt-out cars. A satellite image that is highlighted showing black and grey burnt out cars in a field of dirt OCT 31 Supplied: Vantor A video posted by a RSF-aligned Telegram account shows the aftermath on the outskirts of El-Fasher. (Supplied)"What shocked me is how little the world has cared," Mr Raymond tells 7.30. "Unfortunately, I've seen this many, many times before, including in Sudan — but here's what's different — the scale. We're talking a quarter of a million people potentially, at least 200,000 in the kill box." 'This is very horrific to watch' For families of El-Fasher residents in Australia learning the fate of loved ones means watching gruesome and heartbreaking propaganda videos of massacres posted by the RSF or RSF-aligned social media accounts. Musab Hassan has been scouring the RSF accounts in the hopes of catching a glimpse of his family and friends. "This is very horrific to watch, especially on your own people. And you know that you have people there, whether they're facing the same fate or they are already being killed, you don't know," Mr Hassan says. Musab Hassan is a member of the Sudanese Zaghawa community. (ABC NEWS Verify/Jonathan Hair) Mr Hassan is the Sydney leader of the Zaghawa community — one of the indigenous non-Arab tribes which has been persecuted by the RSF. "I myself witnessed a genocide when I was a child, but what I'm seeing now from five or six thousand miles away is horrific, something beyond my mental health's bearing." He says his cousin Abdelazziz had been in El-Fasher as an aid worker on October 26 but was kidnapped by the RSF and held for ransom. The last video Mr Hassan has of Abdelazziz is a tour of his office after it was shelled by the RSF, days before the incursion. "Hundreds of our extended family members, they were inside El-Fasher when the attack happened. Now we have nothing, we have no information about their fate," Mr Hassan says. After the kidnapping, he says someone claiming to be an RSF soldier demanded six million Sudanese pounds ($15,000) for Abdelazziz's release. Mr Hassan says his family, based in Egypt, paid immediately. "This money was transferred straight away, in a matter of hours. They said 'if you don't send, you have to forget about them' … and then everything cut off again. They disappeared." Families kept in the dark Sudanese community member and humanitarian specialist, Sara Sinada, says it is almost impossible for citizens to share what is happening inside Sudan. "The biggest fear was for RSF to get anyone's phones and find a photo or a text message that documents what's happening," Ms Sinada says. "Because what happens immediately is the person is killed. "And this actually happened to my cousin who was sadly abducted by RSF over nothing but a voice note that he sent on a WhatsApp group criticising RSF." She says this threat to life has meant information from sources not aligned to the RSF is rare. Humanitarian specialist, Sara Sinada says information coming from Sudan is often from the RSF. (7.30/Daniel Fermer) "[It's a] really sad situation to say the least, but it does reflect the amount of danger that anyone within Sudan is in if they even attempt to report this to a group of friends, or retell what's happening to family," she says. "That just goes to say that it's huge under-reporting and the amount of things that we see coming out of Sudan are mainly taken by soldiers and RSF members themselves." For Mr Hassan, being kept in the dark about his family has been the hardest thing to grasp. "We know that we experience losing our loved ones, but the [more] painful thing than losing loved ones … is the uncertainty of your loved ones, whether he's alive or she's dead or she is a hostage," he says. "The RSF is not like any other criminal organisation. They do the crime, they document it themselves, and they send it to you right away to your screen."
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    Lest We Forget

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  11. bust

    Any New Jokes

    A lost dog wanders into the jungle. A lion spots him from a distance and thinks, “Huh… never seen one of these before. Looks edible." The lion starts charging. The dog freaks out until he notices some bones nearby. Thinking fast, he blurts out: “Mmm… that was some tasty lion meat!” The lion slams the brakes: “Wait… this little dude eats lions?! Nope, I’m out.” But high up in a tree, a monkey saw the whole thing. He scampers over to the lion and spills the truth, hoping to score points. The lion growls: “Hop on my back. We’ll get him together.” They storm back toward the dog. The dog sees them coming, panics harder… then yells: “Where the hell is that monkey? I told him to bring me another lion an hour ago!"
  12. Be a Venezuelan Drug Cartel wouldn't it 😀
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    Usa Thread

    https://didtrumpgolftoday.com/
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