PeterRS

Certainly he hasn't. The hostitilites have started again. A Thai soldier and 4 Cambodian civilians have been killed. Thailand has launched air strkes and it is estimated several thousand have fled the border area. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g5e1p585qt

Bullshit!

Yes, I deny that ridiculous assumption. I actually answer questions. You avoid them and never answer.

Why do you keep spouting such obvious lies? Hong Kong building construction codes are different to such codes in the UK. 1. Do you seriously think any poster believes that UK building codes take into account massive typhoon winds which occur regularly in Hong Kong with wind speeds regularly of up to 200kph? Of course they do not. Construction codes in the South of England allow for wind speeds of around 100 kph. 2. Do you seriously think any poster believes that UK building codes take into account the massive amounts of monsoon rainfall annually in Hong Kong (well over double the average in the UK) resulting in the need for different codes for buildings on hillsides which are prone to subsidence? Of course not. 3. Do you seriously think any poster believes that UK building codes take into account the massive density of skyscrapers in Hong Kong, their effect on wind movements, daylight and other secondary issues. Of course not. 4. Besides, when the Hong Kong tower blocks were conceived, how many in the UK were of a similar height? Answer - TWO! 5. And what is the tallest building in the UK now? The Shard in London competed in 2012 with a height of 309 meters. 6. And what is the tallest building in Hong Kong now. The Intrnational Commerce Centre copleted in 2010 with a height of 424 meters. Quit lying and deviation!

Major deflection once again. You know perfectly well my comment "not other nations" referred exclusively to the disaster at Chernobyl and what caused it. The comment had absolutely nothing to do with Japan. Chernobyl was an accident in a Russian MIckey Mouse nuclear reactor by Russian Mickey Mouse people who did not know what they were doing, nor that their Mickey Mouse experiment had been attempted at other Russian Mickey Mouse reactors and always failed. That is absolutely criminal - and precisely why some senior Mickey Mouse Russian officials in charge of the Mickey Mouse Chernobyl experiment found themselves in a real-life gulag doing hard labour for 10 years. Fact! Second fact. It most certainlly was not an "experimental" reactor as you claimed above.

And that's one of your real problems and why other posters just do not trust you. You just cannot take criticism of any sort.

Deviating once again. If the Russians had not built the Mickey Mouse reactor and attempted a manoeuvre they had tried on other Russian Mickey Mouse reactors which had always failed, and if the Russian sarcophagus had done the job it should have done by containing the radiation for many decades if not a century or more, there would have been absolutely no need for other nations to construct a containment shield in the middle of one of the most dangerous radiation zones in the world. Russia caused the blast and the escape of masses amounts of radiation. Not other nations. I have answred your question. Now you should answer mine. But we know you will not because you never do!

Unfortunately writing a good book - or interesting, sexy, revealing, call it what you like - is no guarantee of sales. I have had a book out on amazon for three years on a subject that is definitely interesting for a lot of likely purchasers, and even with a slew of 5-star reviews, it just does not sell on amazon! Marketing is the key, and that is usually neither easy nor cheap, sadly.

Are your pics of the basic room? Unless its a wide angle lens, it looks more than reasonable to me. Or maybe just official hotel web photos.

I will discuss the reasons if you will discuss why it was that Russia built a Mickey Mouse nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, why it was that Russian officials' cavalier safety culture in Russian reactors then fucked up a simple test and released vast quantities of radiation into the world's air, why it had to evacuate hundreds of thousands, and why thousands, if not many tens of thousands or more, died of radiation poisoning. Even today, people are still dying from the effect of that disaster. That said I take nothing away from the heroism of the Russian first responders, particularly those who entered the blast zone, the firefighters and especially the helicopter pilots, most of whom paid with their lives. The Russian Academy of Sciences estimated that as many as 830,000 were involved as part of the "clean up " teams and that between 112,000 and 125,000 of these had died by 2005. Evidence hidden in Russian hospitals as far away as Moscow and subsequently discovered showed that 40,000 were hospitalised in the summer after the explosion, many women and children. @Moses will inevitably dispute all this - as he always does. So why were six major officials from Chernobyl jailed in labour camps folllowing the disaster? Why was the test at Chernobyl being carried out when it had previously been tried at other Russian reactors when every test had failed? The fact was the operators of the test were not briefed on aspects of nuclear safety which would have enabled them to shut own the test before the catastrophe. Normally for other posters i would add, over to you @Moses. But we know you will claim these are all lies so I have answered for you.

Oh really? That has never been the caase in the past. In this and several other threads I have asked your views on a whole series of facts. In the one above it related to the facts about fires in Russia. But then to you inconvenient facts are simply not facts. They are statements to be glossed over, obfuscated and called downright lies. No one actually believes you!

And @Moses has still not responded to my question last Monday about all the Russian fires. Why were so many in hospitals? Lax Russian fire standards no doubt. But then he never responds when Russia is at fault!

There is no point even responding to @Moses specific points because they are all a load of Russian propaganda rubbish. If the Chernobyl Russian engineers had not totally fucked their so-called safety test in their flawed nuclear reactor design, the world would not have suffered from the massive release of radiation, many Soviet citizens would not have died horrible deaths and the world would be a safer place. End of story!

My guess is this was bound to happen. After their utter incompetence destroyed a Chernobyl reactor, the Russians pathetic attempt to build a sarcophagus over the zone had a declared lifespan of just 30 years. Several countries thereafter contributed to a new durable US$1.5 billion shield whch was placed in position in 2019. In February a Russian drone strike hit the shield. An inspection of the confinement structure by the International Atomic Energy Commission last week has now confirmed that the shield can no longer block radiation leaks and requires major repairs. Russia obviously should pay for these, but expecting Putin to come up with the cash is as likely as Mickey Mouse launching a nuclear missile. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/06/chornobyl-disaster-shelter-no-longer-blocks-radiation-and-needs-major-repair-iaea

Well, he didn't walk off with the Nobel Peace Prize which clearly rankled him. But now he does have a peace prize - the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize. The what? FIFA for those who do not follow soccer is the international body governing the game, best known to most as football. Next year sees the World Cup - held every four years - being staged in three countries, one being the USA. As long as you are prepared to risk being hauled into jail and deported by one of Trump's ICE agents, you might even be able to fly there to see a match. But the FIFA President, a very unremarkable man named Giovanni Infantino, came up with the idea of having a FIFA Peace Prize. Why? Only Infantino - and perhaps Trump - know why. Allegedly it is to be awarded to a person who has "taken exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace" and "united people across the world". And of all the people who could and should have been considered for such a prize, the groveller Infantino has kissed the ass of Trump and considered him the best qualified to receive the award. If anyone major personality was less deserving of the award, I cannot think of him or her. What a total joke! https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cy5gw0wv5zqo