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News Forum - Trump plans to ‘make America great again,’ after he faces 30 charges of business fraud
Precedents are important but I don't see the fuss about absence of precedents: there has to be a first time for everything, so there shouldn't be any surprise that sometimes something happens for the first time (making it -- by definition -- unprecedented). As a fact it isn't even accurate: Desi Bouterse was sentenced to 20 years in prison while being ex-president (for the purists: he was president at the time, but since it was his 2nd term he was an ex-president as well). If for no reason the argument "but that wasn't a real democracy" is injected: what about Benjamin Netanyahu, Silvio Berlusconi, Najib Razak, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Nicolas Sarkozy, etc. ? For the USA, it may be the first time (but only after ignoring all leaders in the USA on all lower levels in all of history), so limited to that context it rightfully can be called unprecedented. Still, if someone cries "unprecedented" with a couple of question and exclamation marks attached, despite all that effort it remains a word to simply describe that an event happened for the first time. -
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News Forum - World’s most visited Van Gogh Alive exhibition comes to Bangkok
Not too sure about that, isn't art supposed to be subjective and are some people like sheep and perhaps believe someone who tells them that a work of art is great, so they believe it is great. It is to me no different than looking at a pile of bricks or a banana gaffa taped to a wall and someone telling me that's art, do we need to be told what's good and what's bad. What am I missing when I look at a Van Gogh, whatever it is I just don't see it, but look forward to earing from you. -
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News Forum - Russian tourist to be deported from Bali for naked pic on sacred mountain
Yuri needs to go home and join Wagner. All those ex-convicts would love his holiday snaps.- 2
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News Forum - Thailand releases Pad Kaprow flavoured condoms | Thaiger News Weekly
https://youtu.be/-g1l0g_tbFM In Thailand, police officers have been charged with large–scale corruption and face lengthy prison sentences. The officers allegedly accepted bribes from a construction company to help them win a bid to build 163 five–storey flats worth 3.7 billion baht. The Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Case initially handed down life sentences to … The story Thailand releases Pad Kaprow flavoured condoms | Thaiger News Weekly as seen on Thaiger News. Read the full story
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