welshbairn Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 "sources" have been quiet about North Korea recently, here's a little stocking filler. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/squidgame-11232021180155.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/1/turkey-lira-crashing-will-currency-crisis-worsen Erdogan continues to stare down the IMF and the EU over Turkish interest rates. They basically want to give Turkey the Greek treatment and make ordinary Turks bail out EU banks who stupidly lent Turkish banks huge amounts of money. Erdogan being a mad b*****d gangster is telling them to f**k off. The hilarious thing about this is western financial media ranting that Turkish rates are too low despite the fact that they are 30 times than the UK rate and the EU actually has a negative rate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 (edited) China building high speed rail into Laos. Go 40 miles south of the US border and it's bandit country controlled by drug cartels. Laos is an amazing country. Hopefully they have a bright future ahead. Edited December 5, 2021 by Detournement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 44 minutes ago, Detournement said: China building high speed rail into Laos. Go 40 miles south of the US border and it's bandit country controlled by drug cartels. Laos is an amazing country. Hopefully they have a bright future ahead. Would be good if they extend the line into Nong Kai from Vientiane. Would quite fancy that trip to Kunming. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 China building high speed rail into Laos. Go 40 miles south of the US border and it's bandit country controlled by drug cartels. Laos is an amazing country. Hopefully they have a bright future ahead. It's worth noting what terrain that's going through. Yet we still can't sort out Rest and be Thankful... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 25 minutes ago, dirty dingus said: Would be good if they extend the line into Nong Kai from Vientiane. Would quite fancy that trip to Kunming. I would imagine that long term they will be looking to extend it into Malaysia. As @DiegoDiego points out we are going to be left behind this century. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, Detournement said: I would imagine that long term they will be looking to extend it into Malaysia. As @DiegoDiego points out we are going to be left behind this century. The transformation I've seen in Cambodia has been mental since China moved in. I was there before covid and Phnom Penh looks like a modern city down by the river side which is a vast improvement but a lot more expensive and Sihanoukville is turning into Vegas with huge hotels and casinos, they also turfed out all the small cheap beach bars and expats. Even Koh Kong at the Thai border has been getting Chinese built casino resorts to attract Thai tourists. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 5 minutes ago, dirty dingus said: The transformation I've seen in Cambodia has been mental since China moved in. I was there before covid and Phnom Penh looks like a modern city down by the river side which is a vast improvement but a lot more expensive and Sihanoukville is turning into Vegas with huge hotels and casinos, they also turfed out all the small cheap beach bars and expats. Even Koh Kong at the Thai border has been getting Chinese built casino resorts to attract Thai tourists. 10 dollars for a lobster dinner in Sihanoukville and 4 beers for a dollar back in 2008. Good times. Siem Reap looks different now as well to when I was there. When we went to Angkor Watt we barely saw any other tourists now it's heaving like Edinburgh Castle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 This is somehow not a parody headline. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59556613 US staging a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 15 hours ago, Kima Greggs said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59556613 US staging a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. How will China survive this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 22 minutes ago, Detournement said: How will China survive this? Those bobsleigh medals will be meaningless without Kamala Harris there to watch them handed out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) It's that time to hype Russia invading Ukraine for some abstract reason no one can actually explain. Edited December 7, 2021 by Detournement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 20 hours ago, Zetterlund said: This is somehow not a parody headline. Are American men the only people in the world who have haircuts with corners in them? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Detournement said: It's that time to hype Russia invading Ukraine for some abstract reason no one can actually explain. Every good official baddie needs to be a cunning tactical genius who poses a threat to all decent democracies, while also simultaneously an unhinged lunatic who will carry out completely suicidal acts of stupidity for no reason. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Someone needs to tell this man that Russia is not a small defenceless Caribbean island which will stand by and watch as someone parks aircraft carriers off its coast to "rain destruction" on them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 It just shows how much of a joke America is that this Senator can threaten nuclear war and the global reaction is basically lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Detournement Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 This pretty much sums the Greens up. Boycotting the USA is on the To Do List right after rent controls. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 It's that time to hype Russia invading Ukraine for some abstract reason no one can actually explain. It's being peddled by the SFA . Perhaps the Ukrainian football team will be unable to fulfill their fixtures thus handing a walk over to their opponents. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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