And the result 😊

 

Another thing I have noticed over the years is the increase of violent clashes usually between locals and drunken Europeans/Arabs/Indians

 

While Myint occupied the top spot, it functioned as a ceremonial role because Suu Kyi was barred from holding the presidency under a military-drafted constitution.

Myanmar military hides wealth in Thailand

As the Myanmar military carried out air strikes during a brutal civil war, the junta chief's family quietly purchased luxury real estate in Thailand.

The 2021 coup plunged the southeast Asian country into civil war.

UN rights chief Volker Turk was relieved by the "long overdue release" of Win Myint but called for the immedate release of Suu Kyi.

"All those detained unjustly since the coup -- including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi -- need to be released immediately and unconditionally," he said on X.

"There must be an end to the unrelenting violence against all of Myanmar's people."

Amnesties typically take place in Myanmar each year to mark Independence Day in January and New Year in April.

2025 deadliest year for Rohingya refugees

While Suu Kyi remains a wildly popular figure, her reputation did suffer when she defended Myanmar's militiary at the International Court of Justice against allegations of ethnic cleansing towards Rohingya people.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people have fled war-torn Myanmar for Bangladesh and other countries.

New figures released by the United Nations showed last year was the deadliest on record for Rohingya refugees fleeing by sea, with deaths continuing to soar in 2026.

The UN says the boat sank in the Andaman Sea with about 250 people on board, including children, "due to heavy winds, rough seas and overcrowding".

"In 2025, nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported missing or dead in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal," the United Nations refugee agency's spokesman Babar Baloch said.

Mr Baloch said that equated to one in seven Rohingya people trying to take the journey ending up missing or dead which was "the highest mortality rate worldwide of any major route for refugee and migrant sea journeys".

Rohingya people mainly leave from huge camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar where more than a million refugees have fled to from war-torn Myanmar. 

The UN estimated 200,000 Rohingya refugees had taken that dangerous sea crossing since 2012.

10 hours ago, Old Hippie said:

The photo is not showing…this happens with some of your posts…a few other times as well… very odd… 

9 hours ago, Mekong said:

Funny but whoever did this needs to work on their photo shopping skills

While not about Gaza the same CUNT is responsible

Slide show and videos on the link but not sure if they work

The Israel Defense Forces called it Operation Eternal Darkness. In Lebanon, it’s now called Black Wednesday.

Bombs began falling a little before 2.15pm on April 8, local time.

Four minutes later, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) posted a one-sentence article:

غارات تستهدف بيروت | Air strikes target Beirut

^{04/08/2026, 02:19 PM}

Over 10 minutes, more than 100 bombs fell from a reported 50 Israeli aircraft.

By 2.26pm the official IDF accounts on Telegram stated they had hit “approximately 100 military headquarters and infrastructure of the terrorist organization Hezbollah”.

The air strikes came hours after Iran and the United States agreed to a two-week ceasefire while negotiations for a permanent peace agreement were carried out.

The IDF said Lebanon was not included in that ceasefire. Fresh hostilities had broken out between Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group, and Israel at the start of March.

ABC NEWS Verify has geolocated the sites that were hit in the 10 minutes of the IDF’s April 8 operation to map the intensity and scale of the bombardment.

We have identified many of the people who were killed and used videos posted online, testimonies from survivors and local media reporting to document one of the largest mass-casualty events since Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990.

From Corniche to the airport

Dahiyeh, south of Beirut’s centre, is notorious for being a Hezbollah stronghold and is no stranger to Israeli attack.

It has been subject to constant bombardment during the latest wave of violence between Israel and Hezbollah.

On March 10, Israel issued evacuation warnings for the areas within Dahiyeh before it was hit.

It was struck again on April 1, with at least five people killed and 21 injured.

On April 8, Ghida Fakih was at work and receiving Snapchats from her 13-year-old daughter, Naya, who was on her way home from basketball practice.

Her mother said Naya was walking along Corniche al-Mazraa when bombs began to fall.

At first, she was not concerned.

“I heard one boom, but we disregarded it because we thought it was either a sonic boom or a strike somewhere in Dahiyeh. It never crossed my mind it was near my house,” Ms Fakih told ABC NEWS Verify.

In a video, Naya hears a loud noise overhead and turns to her father Mohamad.

There are six explosions as Naya and Mr Fakih run for cover.

“She calls me, crying. I can’t understand what she’s saying,” Mrs Fakih said.

Then the line cut out.

The mother of three said a building with a nut roastery called Rifai was targeted as her daughter and husband walked in front of it.

Nader Khalil, a veteran mixed nuts seller, was killed in the explosion.

At 2.15pm, CCTV from inside the Habibona Snack Restaurant in Corniche al-Mazraa, close to Rifai, showed panic as bombs fell.

The video time stamp shows 1.15pm — an echo of Lebanon’s daylight saving which ended 10 days earlier.

In the video you can hear at least five explosions before the restaurant is filled with smoke and dust.

Mrs Fakih’s two sons, aged 11 and four, were at home in Salim Salam, about 400 metres from the nut roastery.

With her sons at home and her daughter hiding in the streets, Mrs Fakih was torn.

It wasn’t just central Beirut that was hit.

Near the Rafik Hariri International Airport, south of the city, Hayy al-Salloum, one of Beirut’s poorest areas, was also struck.

In this video, which ABC NEWS Verify geolocated, the Nassereddine market in Hayy al-Salloum can be seen completely destroyed.

According to local media, Salim Salam, Talet El Khayat and Corniche al-Mazraa were the first to be hit by the IDF in the 10-minute strike, along with the suburbs of Borj Abi Haidar and Bashoura.

L’Orient reported these areas were not given prior warning.

Laura Sidaoui’s aunt Afaf and cousin Hassan were in their apartment building in Talet El Khayat when it was hit.

They both died.

“It broke me,” she said in an Instagram post.

“The pain is unbearable. So unfair.”

The next strikes hit the villages of Kaifoun and Bshamoun east of Beirut, and further out in Aitat.

The IDF, via its Arabic-speaking spokesperson Avichay Adraee on X, had earlier that morning told residents to evacuate seven southern Beirut suburbs: Haret Hreik, Ghobeiri, Laylaki, Hadath, Burj al-Barajneh, Tahwitat al-Ghadir and Chiyah.

A funeral in Bekaa and the southern strikes

As IDF planes were flying overhead, residents of the village of Chmistar in the Bekaa Valley were holding a funeral for one of their own.

The cemetery, on the south-west of the village, was reportedly bombed in the first wave of air strikes, with the earliest reports coming through local news agencies at 2:18pm.

In a local television news segment a man identified himself as a witness to the bombing.

“We were burying my grandfather … a natural death,” he said.

“They hit a mass for the funeral procession.”

Hezbollah, a group that Australia has proscribed as a terrorist organisation, identified at least six members killed in the air strike.

The Lebanese Army said four soldiers were also killed.

Also in the Bekaa Valley, local media reported Israeli strikes on the villages of Hermel, Karak, Ferzol, Boudai and Sohmor.

In the southern Nabatieh district of Lebanon, a local resident Telegram channel monitored by ABC NEWS Verify saw strikes reported in the villages of Zifta, Qseibeh, Bediass, Sir al-Gharbieh, Ansar, Sharqieh, Baissariyeh, Houmin and Qaaqaaiyet al-Jisr.

An Israeli strike on an al-Zahraa compound in the southern city of Sidon reportedly killed and injured at least 15 people.

Lebanese media said Sheikh Sadek Naboulsi, a professor and commentator well documented as being affiliated with Hezbollah, was killed.

Further south, the exact timing and location of the April 8 strikes have been harder to geolocate.

Hezbollah and the IDF have exchanged fire in the areas south of the Litani River for years and the damage is widespread and difficult to attribute to a single strike.

The IDF released a map showing its April 8 strikes, with multiple areas south of the Litani River among the places targeted.

At 2.25pm, multiple local media listed confirmed strikes on eight locations within or near the city of Tyre including Bazourieh, Abbasieh, Bedias, Ain Baal, Batoulieh and Deir Qanoun al-Nahr.

The toll

The Lebanese Ministry of Health’s latest update has the death toll from the April 8 strikes at 357, with 1,223 people wounded.

Social media has been flooded with tributes.

Restaurant workers, a mother, a poet, a pharmacist, a radio presenter and a journalist, families, a schoolteacher, a politician, soldiers, and children still in kindergarten are among the dead.

Israel maintains the bombardment was targeting Hezbollah.

In a Hebrew post on the official IDF war diary page, the 10 minutes was described as “based on accurate intelligence information”, which it claims was “carefully planned over many weeks”.

In a statement to Lebanese broadcaster Ennahar, Brigadier General Imad Khreich said the death toll would likely increase.

While direct and in-direct negotiations are ongoing, US President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire.

For Ghida Fakih, whose daughter and husband were metres from death, she still has hope they will be able to return to their lives.

“My family and I left Beirut,” she said.

“Naya is a strong girl … My four-year-old is refusing to go back home.

 

22 minutes ago, Old Hippie said:

Cannot see…

The pic? Or you referring to shit photo which incidentally I didn't take 😊

I like pub trivia

 

Cooked these bad boys the other night 😋

What an idiot 🙄

Pete Hegseth Reads Tarantino’s Fake Bible Quote From ‘Pulp Fiction’ at Prayer Service

Samuel L. Jackson's iconic speech gets presented as a Bible verse, with the Secretary of War vowing to strike down enemies with "great vengeance and furious anger."

So Trump went after this guy but pardoned all the J6 lot

"Since that day, Dan has been locked up in maximum security, an ordinary Australian going about his business who broke no Australian law," she said.

"We do thank thousands of Australians who have continued our support for our fight for justice.

Dan Duggan and wife Saffrine with their children in regional New South Wales. (Supplied: Duggan family)

Ms Duggan described them as an "Aussie family" that had had "our feeling of safety stripped away from us".

"We are very disappointed by this ruling and we will consider our options carefully, but make no mistake: we will not give up," she said.

"We have been here for three years and we will continue."

She said they would "continue to advocate" for Mr Duggan, "especially with our government, asking them to protect Australians from … US overreach and malicious prosecution".

We have the available land and conditions in central Australia to build a big enough solar farm to power the entire country and some. The problem is the cost to maintain and feed the grid outweighs the benefits according to politicians. We also could do the same with wind farms. Unfortunately nobody has the courage to push for it but given the current situation I am sure it's going to get raised again.

Unfortunately our politicians owner worry about their future not the planet's. EV sales soared by 88.9 per cent to 15,839 units so far this year, representing 14.6 per cent of the total market which is encouraging. We even have a healthy bio-fuel production capacity which is underused.

Pure EVIL

Troglodyte

Italian magazine L’Espresso’s cover featuring a photo of an Israeli man mocking a Palestinian woman sparks controversy

➔ The photo, taken during the October 2025 olive harvest, shows an Israeli in military uniform—who had seized Palestinian land—mocking a Palestinian woman, and has drawn global attention

➔ Some pro-Israel social media accounts claimed the image was AI-generated

➔ However, journalist Pietro Masturzo released footage from the day, confirming the authenticity of the story

➔ Masturzo: Israeli soldier addressed Palestinians as if they were his own animals

➔ Israel has sought to prevent the spread of the image, accusing those who share it of being “antisemitic”

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXHNeTOlpoY/

Good. Should be more of it. Social Media is producing a generation of total morons. Add to that the "Influencers" of the world it gets worse.

Gone over someone's head? 😊

 

I don't think it produces fuel only distributes it however still a tad inconvenient

A ball each

Sounds very fire islandish

 

My theory.

Epstein worked for Mossad

Israel has Trump by the balls