Miami Bob

What caused me to laugh was the part about using Falang volunteers to help identify the prostitutes. All the volunteers I've known in Phuket where heavily into the bar girl scene. As soon as they get off "work" that's where most of them all go!

Rape victimes will get 450
Write that in any Western press 100% of readers will believe it's a printing mistake !

450?  The article said B20,000 for rape victoms.  Maybe your converting to some other currency.

  I thing the B1690 from Patong hospital was a typo, maybe they meant B1,690,000

Western diet creeping in. When I left the USA 11 years ago figures were 60% of the population overweight with 27% of those obese. The new figures I am seeing are now 70% overweight with 37% obese. I don't think Briton is far behind from the TV special have seen. Anyway, obesity is not really a disease at least according to the head of the San Fran obesity clinic who refers to these people as "victims" of big food pushing sugary food and drink on the public especially targeting the kids. Now the corporate greed has found it's way here.

I don't see the huge potential threat, although I personally don't agree with the practice.

Since I'm very liberal I can't agree with any system that can be used and abused for control. But as someone else said, you are not forced to buy a sim. It's not like they are green shape-shifting lizard people from the 5th dimension forcing us to insert control-cards in our brains as Niburu is slowly coming back to us in the dark space, and the Annunaki beings will come to take control on their genetically modified offspring called humans........ No... I don't buy the Alex Jones and David Icke BS... Zeitgeist has good points, but somewhere people just gave in to some kind of mass psychosis...

For you who did, where you some of the guys being completely enchanted by the 21st Dec 2012 "event"?? Did you fall in love the apocalyptic horror theories? Or perhaps it wasn't the horror, but a wake up of all humanity as timewave zero reached it's end, and either we all would die to our own destruction, or we all needed to take huge amounts of DMT or Psilocybin (schrooms) to understand the REAL reality... No, I like McKenna, but I think he's just like most philosophers or scientists who sooner or later fall in love with their own theories to the point where they stop being skeptic and asking more questions unless the questions favor their theory...

This is common practice in many nations. Cambodia, India, Norway to name a few. Not Sweden for some reason, not sure why, but so far we've succeeded to bypass that. Perhaps it's not needed with all other surveillance anyway... Sure we will see an increase in more and more control. But people being paranoid of all from the Junta to Shape-shifting lizards better stop smoking for a few days and see that on an individual plane the world is not that terrible.. The only thing that has changed is this mass communication around the world, which makes it seem like the world is at a tipping point. But seriously the world as a whole is getting more and more peaceful, which can easily be demonstrated by real historical graphs...

And yea, we might be too many people, but I believe that will change as countries develop more. Look at Japan. They had a real boom in the 80's-90's. Today they have loads of old people in really good health, while the young don't get enough kids to make up for the pensions these folks claim and have the rights to. It's a pyramid upside down, but it will even out. India is for sure next. China got their ways make the population less and less, as well as Korea, like it or not. But they are kind of killing themselves by choosing to give birth to boys while aborting the girls...

I don't know why I even bother. perhaps cause I have too much free time on my hands...

You make an interesting read but please don't put Alex Jones in the same sentence with David Ike and his lizard theories. Jones functions are hard documented facts and constantly begs his listeners to research the info for themselves.

You say you are very liberal. I guess maybe if your not an American you may not realize that it is the far left liberal power structure in the US with Obama as the front man that is using the system to use and abuse the public more and more. It has been going on under other presidents also but exponentially expanding now at a faster pace under Obama.

Yea, you are right. It's not fair to put Alex Jones and David Icke together in that way, the later is obviously way further out in space. But I hold on to my notion between the lines, although it may have been lost in translation or while I was simply rambling, that they are both just over the top of paranoia.

Yes, I rather listen to Alex Jones than David icke any day of the week. My (missing) point was both have gone completely paranoid. And I must say that I have done quite a lot of research on the AJ stuff. And while he has many good points some are just not liable to perceive the bigger picture. Or to put it another way, he is trying to give the whole bigger picture, which, I personally, again believe is an artifact of the fast mass communication and bombardment of information. I'm not saying he is straight out wrong. But he is very biased and many of his proofs have been completely debunked over and over.

Who ever said anything about far left liberals? I am neither far left or far right. Right and left are mostly the economical aspects of politics. If we add the dimensions up and down as in "the political compass" where up is Authoritarian and down is libertarian, then it's easier to pinpoint your own political standpoint on a map.

"Far left" or "Far right" tend to meet in a circle. Take DPRK as an example, they are said to be a "Far left communist state", but are they really? Or are they more are "Far right fascist state"? I guess it all comes down to what is far left or far right to you, since that seems to be different depending on whom I'm speaking with.

I like skepticism. I don't like the federal reserve or any fiat currency for that matter. But I don't believe economy should have to be uprooted all together. But to bring back a standard value that banks need to have to be able to lend money doesn't seem too far out there in my idea. I.e. gold or whatever. I'm personally not so involved in economics so I can't say much, if I do it would be a "copy paste" moment again where I'm simply repeating what others have said before, as someone stated above.

My view on liberalism/libertarianism is that I do want to have a state, but I do want the states to have less influence and power.

I am not an American, but I do like the idea of America as a nation at it's roots constitutions. However as it seems the free nation has become just another police state, including all the abbreviation mentioned before, FBI, CIA, DEA, FDA and so on and on and on. I bet soon you need a prescription to buy bananas since they contain vitamins. Ridiculous... (And I'm not saying that as a diss against USA. Sweden is not better. In fact we have insane rules as well. Like one of the new rules: "The customs have the rights to seize, destroy or return to sender, any items that they believe may become illegal in the future". That could more or less be anything they don't like.. And in the end boils down to the mood of the custom worker of the day.. it's that kind of authoritarian BS I hate... And Sweden is pretty far left in the eyes of most Americans..)

Thanks for the long reply. We would see eye to eye on a lot of things. I truly hope AJ is just paranoid but it's not just him, a lot of other well positioned people are saying many of the same things. I guess I like him because he focuses on the big global long term picture and doesn't get caught up in the left -right crap that you mentioned. He constantly trashes Obama but 6 years ago he was constantly trashing Bush. I remember going to a Green Party rally back in the mid nineties when Ralph Nadar was a third party candidate and Nadar saying " America has become a two party dictatorship". I really understand now what he meant by that...at the very top both major parties are controlled by the same global mega corporations especially the big banks.

And I love history which AJ has an amazing amount of knowledge of. I'm not sure which of his "proofs" you say has been debunked but he readily admits he has made mistakes over the 19 years he has been on air and tries to correct them. Remember a lot of the "debunking" is paid establishment shills putting out BS to make AJ look bad or just keep the official lies going. He exposes so much criminal activity of the elite and they hate him for it and use their control of the old media to try and discredit him. So be careful what you believe on both sides as I'm sure you are.

Sometimes I wish I could go back to believing all the official fairy tales but once you've taken the "red pill " and spent years digging down the rabbit hole there is no going back. I won't be looking at this thread again. Cheers, Bob

I don't see the huge potential threat, although I personally don't agree with the practice.

Since I'm very liberal I can't agree with any system that can be used and abused for control. But as someone else said, you are not forced to buy a sim. It's not like they are green shape-shifting lizard people from the 5th dimension forcing us to insert control-cards in our brains as Niburu is slowly coming back to us in the dark space, and the Annunaki beings will come to take control on their genetically modified offspring called humans........ No... I don't buy the Alex Jones and David Icke BS... Zeitgeist has good points, but somewhere people just gave in to some kind of mass psychosis...

For you who did, where you some of the guys being completely enchanted by the 21st Dec 2012 "event"?? Did you fall in love the apocalyptic horror theories? Or perhaps it wasn't the horror, but a wake up of all humanity as timewave zero reached it's end, and either we all would die to our own destruction, or we all needed to take huge amounts of DMT or Psilocybin (schrooms) to understand the REAL reality... No, I like McKenna, but I think he's just like most philosophers or scientists who sooner or later fall in love with their own theories to the point where they stop being skeptic and asking more questions unless the questions favor their theory...

This is common practice in many nations. Cambodia, India, Norway to name a few. Not Sweden for some reason, not sure why, but so far we've succeeded to bypass that. Perhaps it's not needed with all other surveillance anyway... Sure we will see an increase in more and more control. But people being paranoid of all from the Junta to Shape-shifting lizards better stop smoking for a few days and see that on an individual plane the world is not that terrible.. The only thing that has changed is this mass communication around the world, which makes it seem like the world is at a tipping point. But seriously the world as a whole is getting more and more peaceful, which can easily be demonstrated by real historical graphs...

And yea, we might be too many people, but I believe that will change as countries develop more. Look at Japan. They had a real boom in the 80's-90's. Today they have loads of old people in really good health, while the young don't get enough kids to make up for the pensions these folks claim and have the rights to. It's a pyramid upside down, but it will even out. India is for sure next. China got their ways make the population less and less, as well as Korea, like it or not. But they are kind of killing themselves by choosing to give birth to boys while aborting the girls...

I don't know why I even bother. perhaps cause I have too much free time on my hands...

You make an interesting read but please don't put Alex Jones in the same sentence with David Ike and his lizard theories. Jones functions are hard documented facts and constantly begs his listeners to research the info for themselves.

You say you are very liberal. I guess maybe if your not an American you may not realize that it is the far left liberal power structure in the US with Obama as the front man that is using the system to use and abuse the public more and more. It has been going on under other presidents also but exponentially expanding now at a faster pace under Obama.

Brilliant idea. Can work even for tourists and foreigners. If for any crime prevention or safety, it's a good idea.

Tha's exactly how they want us to think and why were done,,,wake up. Ignorance is very deadly.

Do some goole and youtube serches.

Yes these type of things are always sold to the public as a way to protect us from crime or "terrorism".There are some people who will never wake up no matter how much verified information you put in front of their nose. They will go to the grave still believing whatever disinfo has been fed to them their whole lives by the controlled mainstream media so don't waist your time on them bro.

My phone went 'Mobile Operation not in operation' last week. I moved the SIM card to my old phone. Then I got 'Unregistered'. So I took it to AIS. They asked me to wait 20 minutes. They issued me with a new SIM card [old one 2G new one 3] and my number remained the same. And they asked me to register. This involved writing my name and signing at the bottom.

It's no coincidence at all that the army comes in all ready to take large steps like having all foreigners and all phone numbers registered. No, it will not be paper registration nor will all documentation they presently gather. There computer system will surely be given to them will rules and regulations, and where to send the funds.

When a new government, per-say, is placed, it always comes from the direction of the IMF families. Yes the IMF is privately owned as is banks with names like

THE FEDERAL RESERVE, CENTRAL BANK OF such and such,,,,,every country has one. They want us enslaved and need records to watch and control us.

It's not the USA, it's the people who are doing the same to them. The people behind the scenes run all governments. 130 countries went bankrupt to the IMF people in 1930, it was then they created the Birth Certificate. The 130 countries promised to repay the IMF people with our labor, without our permission. Other countries have fallen since then and all will.

Watch what the so-called Alcida (sorry, no spell check for this word yet) will do with the Middle-east over the next 5 years. One new Arab state like the Euro nations. A common Americas, a common Asia, not sure where Russia will fit in or whether there will be a fight or not but the end goal is to control all of us in their NEW WORLD ORDER. We work and they enjoy. By the way,,,there are way too many of us on this earth to keep them happy. Many of us must leave.

I'm sure many of you know all this but please do educate others that don't.

Google any portion I just spoke about above.

Alcida is American CIA which was set up for the IMFs interest...Period...the same goes for the new "privet" army they say will be needed in the US.

Thailand will never be the same.

Sounds like you have been listening to AJ...he gave a great speech in Dallas last month. You can watch it on todays addition of the infowars website

You can't be serious! At least you gave me a good laugh this afternoon...thanks.

if they succeed the membership rolls of the Thailand Ferrari and Lamborghini owners clubs will be shrinking!

The official stated purpose of shutting down normal TV programming is to keep the public informed with accurate information [ read - what the military wants the public to believe ] . Wouldn't it be better to just cut in with a message and then go back to normal programming? The way they are doing it now as soon as the Thais realize they cannot watch their soaps they will just turn the TV off and will receive NO MESSAGES AT ALL! There I go again trying to interject logic into Thai thinking.

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Every time I see one of these threads with "superior" farangs going on about Thai drivers I always wonder what it would be like back in farang countries if the police suddenly announced they would no longer be stopping drivers for DUI, speeding, red lights, etc. ? I suspect they would drive even worse than Thais especially in places like Italy or Miami. Considering that there is no fear of police intervention here I think the Thai's are actually RELATIVELY restrained. And to be honest I think I actually prefer having to be extra careful here in return for not having to constantly be looking in my mirror for the police or cameras sending me a ticket in the mail for some minor infraction like in the states or Briton.

Well bob it really is not about superior farangs, but all about Superior driving laws, superior training, superior policing,superior license testing..........i could go on forever. alt=rolleyes.gif>

Well use of the superior word may have side tracked people from the main point of my post but I can't help but think about some of the crazy farang drivers I have rode with here in Thailand and all the drunk farangs coming home from the bar in their pickups drunk on their ass. A bit hypocritical. I keep remembering my friend in Patong who bragged about being in 11 motorbike accidents since he has come here, all drunk of course. Certainly they are no less threat than the Thais with their bad driving habits.

Every time I see one of these threads with "superior" farangs going on about Thai drivers I always wonder what it would be like back in farang countries if the police suddenly announced they would no longer be stopping drivers for DUI, speeding, red lights, etc. ? I suspect they would drive even worse than Thais especially in places like Italy or Miami. Considering that there is no fear of police intervention here I think the Thai's are actually RELATIVELY restrained. And to be honest I think I actually prefer having to be extra careful here in return for not having to constantly be looking in my mirror for the police or cameras sending me a ticket in the mail for some minor infraction like in the states or Briton.

. As someone else has said, these were the tools we used to gain our freedom.

Freedom from the native Americans?

No, freedom from "mad #king george ". I think it was george the 3rd.

Investigate + find guilty = transfer,

In a civilized county (which omits Thailand), it would be...

Investigate + find guilty + suspension + prosecution + conviction = Fired, Fined, Jailed.

Don't be so hard on Thailand. In the US and no doubt most other "civilized" countries top government officials regularly commit crimes far, far, far worse and nothing happens to them.

Of course a young Thai women is marrying an older farang because he has more money/financial security than a young Thai man.....the only real question to ask yourself is....is that the ONLY reason she is with you?

One reason why renters want to hold your passport is so you will bring the bike back and they won't have to go retrieve it from the airport parking lot. Technically not even the Thai police can take your passport, only immigration can do that.

Mobile phones don't work at 35000 ft, even over land. No calls were made from mobiles on 911, that was BS fed to the public.

Why has no one mentioned the possibility that the plane was taken over by remote control and not necessarily by someone on board. I know " conspiracy theory", but it is a fact that planes can be controlled remotely now, tech has been around for a long time. Lots of possibilities still out there.

Here is another prospective.

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/01/thailand-regime-plans-to-counter.html

Keep in mind that the current regime/Shinawatra family is backed by wall street and other big global banks and the muti-billionaire global elite crowd in general. Here is an article a couple weeks old that goes into areas you won't read about in the controlled mainstream media owned by those same elites.

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/11/reuters-accidentally-exposes-thai.html

For next year you might want to put the whole 800K in a Thai bank at least 90 days before applying for your extension and then try using the income letter first without showing them the bank letter to see what happens and if they reject you based on that notation they put in your records this year then use your bank letter. We all know the rules of the game change from year to year, location to location and officer to officer but that bank letter is always your ace in the hole.

I didn't even know where I would end up when I left to wonder but I think most thought I would move back to the states some day...11 years later still here. A few have come to visit and one even stayed for a year but when I went back three years ago to visit for a month nobody even ask me anything about Thailand. They seemed to have no interest, acted like I had never left and were just into what's going on in their own world.

It indeed is a problem. Ordinary trains are not being maintained, accidents are frequent, and the risks contained in a hi speed project like this are great. But then again, Thailand has a right to a prestige project. If they do like UAE, they will have an international company run and maintain the train system, and it will be OK. With suitably high ticket prices that system might even sustain itself and does not need any public funding

Great if they were to do like UAE but it would be a huge lose of face to let foreigners run such a prestige project so unlikely they would ever do that.

You could also limit buses to say 70 kmh ? I believe European rules require a rest every 4 hours ?

This is the one annoying thing about Thailand as I have lost a number of friends due to the dangerous roads

Thailand's roads aren't dangerous, its drivers are.

And that is why there are so many crashes as bus drivers roar along at 130 kmh , limit this to 70 and you will see a crash reduction