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Replace "intervention" with "aggression and theft", and everything comes into place. When Americans are around check your pockets whether everything is still there. Ask the Venezuelans where is their oil.

It is not a real story if there is no gofundme begging.

WTO membership or not, do you think the Chinese would be happy to manufacture t-shirts and flip flops forever on miserable wages? Like it or not, the East is rising fast and appears unstoppable. There is no reason in the long term a Swiss taxi driver to earn 15 times more than a Thai for essentially same jobs.

WRT tax efficient salary, check first with the people that pay you whether they are willing to pay you to a foreign account. If they are not, you are likely to be taxed in the country where your payer is based. Most big companies in Australia won't bother paying someone to a foreign account unless you have some leverage with them.

I worked remotely with non-O retirement for 6+ years, then switched to DTV for flexibility. For genuine remote working IMO DTV is the best, the cheapest option with the least interaction with the immigration.

Edge out of Latin America? So all the Latinos are going to stop buying Chinese goods and start buying American made? Or the US companies are going to build infrastructure for them like ports or railroads? Dream on.

Yup...they are trying to fool a bunch of broke retirees to like Russia. Money well spent.

I got bunch of items from AliExpress delivered in January, no issues, no delays. AliExpress charges VAT per country, but supposedly duties were going to be introduced since 1st of January. No duties on anything I ordered.

I think his care factor was zero at that time...

More likely he got upset with the rising costs of treating sick buffaloes....

You are quite correct but this is only a part of the story. Throughout the centuries the Jews figured one thing right - knowledge is pretty much the only thing which can't be taken away from you. When you are persecuted and everything you have can be confiscated, the knowledge is the only thing which stays with you, so the Jews started valuing the knowledge and education more than anyone else in the West. Unfortunately for them now there is another tribe with the same values, except they are 1.4 billion. The change of guard looks inevitable. I haven't met a Jew who is not a morbid China hater, usually covered by things like "I like the Chinese but don't like CCP". China is also a place which is very difficult to be infiltrated as an organised minority. Moshe can rename himself to Ling Long, but he is very visible and different.

Vietnam is not relying on attracting the low class from the west as their engine for growth. They emphasize on education, infrastructure and high added value manufacturing. They are still at the beginning of the road and it will take time to catch up with countries like Malaysia. The top FDI countries in 2025 were all Asian with strong hi tech manufacturing.

That place is reserved by the Philippines, the US puppet state in ASEAN. It is already overtaken by Indonesia and Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to follow. The trend is unmistakable.

It is likely that you are going to get hit with taxes on your super and investments in most of the countries there. Currently nothing beats the Oz zero tax on super pensions.

Make that most of them....if the alcohol in your blood is above certain level payment is denied. Rightly so.

There are plenty around that price in Northern Greece. But anywhere in Europe there is winter, no matter how mild it is. Nothing beats the endless Thai summer.

It may look odd in your circles but there are pensioners who don't get a cent from the government and still pay taxes on investments. Unfair as it is, but we still don't encourage foreign powers to topple the government.

True, I live in Samui but pay my taxes in Australia. And then the government pays people like you to live god knows where, cand call for foreign countries to invade Australia. If we get invaded how do you get your welfare?

This is very bad idea, they'll raise my taxes and increase your welfare.

It is an offence under the Commonwealth law and may result in prison sentence. "Instigate a non-citizen to invade Australia or its territories."

Encouraging foreign powers to invade your own country is an act of treason.

Russians will be fine, according to the Murdoch press they are fighting for years with shovels and washing machine parts, they don't need much money for hardware.

Indeed last few movements are a bit left leaning, A proper government should stop your welfare, cancel your passport and force you to work until you die, instead of posting garbage on forums all day. I think we need to call Xi Jinping.

It depends on.the manufacturers. I've used Ugreen powerbanks in various conditions probably more than 200 times last year. Great devices, same things for Anker. I wouldn't buy a powebank at the night markets.

You must be living on another planet where good people and countries provide loans without collaterals. If you default on your mortgage payments the bank repossesses your home.