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Thanks, I wasn't aware of the option for tagging. I will ask Wise about that.

I just got my annual statement from Bangkok Bank for renewal of my marriage visa extension. Some of my monthly transfers show the correct description "Foreign T/T" but other don't, even though I use the same method to send money from Wise each month. Wise have an option for "Funds for long term stay on Thailand" which I always use. Is there any way to get Bangkok Bank to correct this as I suspect its going to cause an issue at immigration.

Well, you just blew your own argument out of the water. Have you even considered how many of those excess deaths are due to the response to Covid? Depression, suicide, lockdown-induced drug and alcohol abuse, missed cancer diagnoses, vaccine injuries etc. The list is endless and unquantified, because no government wants to admit it got the response to Covid totally wrong.

But of course you have absolute confidence in western countries' Covid death numbers, despite the fact that they all had different definitions of what constituted a Covid death (from Covid, with Covid, run over by a bus within 28 days of a Covid infection) and most of the death certificates showed multiple co-morbidities, any one of which could have caused the death. I admire your faith in these governments' openness and transparency.

As does the flu and other common respiratory infections. So your point is what exactly?

i.e. a normal winter flu season.

Oh yes, you're free to kill whoever you want the rest of the year. Why don't those eager reporters hanging on to the police chief's every word ask him after the event (when another 700-odd people have died) " How did that crackdown go, then?". I know, that would be losing face.

There are also thousands of other people, mostly up here in Isaan, in the same situation as this young man. They have no alternative but to return to Israel to work and pay off the huge debts their families took on to get them there in the first place.

You have hit the nail on the head, sir. Qui bono? The UK NHS lowered its threshold for cholesterol levels a few years ago. From being below the threshold, I was suddenly redesignated as 'at risk' and put on statins. When I found out how much of my GP's revenue comes from prescribing such drugs I took myself off them. And have stayed off them (and healthy) ever since.

What?

.....or doesn't work, as the US wars for the last 50 years have shown.

Settled.....as in how the issue with the Taliban was settled? Handing the country back to them after 20 years, trillions of $ and thousands of US lives lost. Ditto Iraq. The US cannot 'win' these regional wars, they just create another generation of terrorists that grow up hating the US.

What a great success that turned out to be.

Be patient. Early on recovery seems to go quickly, then slows down a bit. Took me 6 months for complete recovery.

Good sound advice from Sheryl as always. I just had a second colonoscopy with removal of polyps (10 year interval) done by Dr Pitulak at Samitivej Sukhumvit. She is excellent.

Just had it done at Samitivej Bangkok. 37k including biopsy for one polyp. Moderate sedation, don't feel a thing. Excellent colorectal specialist who clearly explains all the potential issues.

The US government says? Now I know it's not true.

Oh yes it is.

.....and produce some loaves and fishes while you're at it.

RFK Jr.

Utter nonsense. That's equivalent to saying no-one should ever be able to sell inherited property.

Be careful with Emirates. They bumped me off a pre-booked business class seat down to economy in DBX, due to 'overbooking'. Vowed never to fly with them again.

That's exactly what we're talking about and why western democracy is a sham. We're allowed a meaningless vote every 4 or 5 years to lull us into thinking we have some choice over how the country is run. The technocracy then completely ignores our wishes and carries on with its own agenda, regardless of the people's vote. Did anyone vote for Net Zero or half a million net immigration every year? Re Singapore, an example of marginal freedoms is freedom of the press. This used to exist in the UK, even though the mainstream media (including the BBC) was largely controlled by a small elite, all shades of opinion were tolerated and editorial freedom was sacrosanct. Now alternative views are suppressed by both MSM and social media platforms under the guise of 'disinformation'. Singapore has never made any secret of what can be published and what can't, there is a red line and everyone understands where it is and accepts it as a trade-off for the other benefits the government provides - prosperity, security and institutions that work,

Totally agree. The UK, like other western 'democracies', is becoming more authoritarian by the day. Witness the debanking scandal (which is much wider than Nigel Farage by the way), where faceless bank bureaucrats can make someone a non-person just because they don't like their opinions, or the censorship of any views which contradict the official narrative on Covid 1984, climate change, Ukraine etc etc. A benign dictatorship like Singapore, where the people give up marginal freedoms in exchange for prosperity, no corruption and a well-managed economy is preferable to a pseudo democracy like Thailand, where corruption is rampant and most of the country's wealth is controlled by an all-powerful elite.

Potential shock......? The only person shocked by this seems to be Mr O'Connor of the Thai Examiner. This outcome has been obvious since the election results were announced.