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His lawyers were negotiating with the DOJ. He was told if he ran he'd be subjected to maximum sentencing. He's still hoping for a deal. Also he traveled to NYC knowing he was liable for arrest. Watch the arrest video, he didn't put up any form of argument, he just walked off with the FBI. Racketeering requires co-conspirators. None have been indicted by the FBI yet. I expect Combs will be in full Stool Pigeon mode now.

This thread is disgusting. Do you think the Feds would seriously arrest Sean Combs for private sex parties? How stupid are you? What do you think the chances would be of the Biden Department of Justice arresting a high profile homosexual/bisexual African-American man for his private sex life? 🤣🤣🤣 Here's a sample of the charges: Sex trafficking, ( which ya'll are assuming relates only to prostitutes ). Forced labour. Kidnapping. Arson. Bribery. Obstruction of justice. I could post a video right now which would get me banned from AN. I suggest all of you saying "it was only prostitutes, who cares" go quiet. This man is in serious trouble. And the fact that the Biden DOJ charged him should indicate how serious.

The tax man will ask. Some of you are forgetting that some visa types in Thailand demand financial sustainability. They literally ask you to prove THAT YOU have an income. NOT YOUR WIFE. I genuinely think that hasn't occurred to some of after reading this thread.

Can I ask again how old is this development? From what I understand re it's location I visited one of these villas in 2010. As mentioned, it had fantastic views and the villa I visited was likely the first built ( I think around 2009 ).

I'm of the opinion that Harris will win. All she has to do is avoid a total meltdown and rely upon a deep hatred of Trump to carry her to victory. So far, Trump has done nothing in this campaign to move the needle and he can't rely on being shot another couple of times to win. However, it wouldn't be AN if we didn't throw a couple of grenades. First, Harris is irritating many African-Americans. Second - there's plenty of people out there that just won't vote for a woman-of-colour as President.

I posted this earlier in the thread. "Anyway, the slaves are long dead - if they spoke about some form of compensation for those who suffered from Jim Crow who are STILL ALIVE - that would be more credible. The last thing they should do is issue money. Maybe free healthcare or free education for their living descendants would be a fair offer." Let6 me clarify what I mean.................... Most people who suffered the true depravations of Jim Crow are now elderly. Providing them will free healthcare ( for example ) would be a fair thing to do. You could extend Jim Crow reparations to their grandkids, great grandkids etc as an argument could be put forward re "generational wealth accumulation" being denied to those punished by Jim Crow. But there has to be a limit.

How old are these villas?

I do take the attitude that reparations for slavery were paid in the blood of Union soldiers. It's over. Unless you are a low-wit who will no doubt still be arguing about reparations two hundred years from now.

The reason I'm against cash being handed out - More than once I have seen working class colleagues receive cash windfalls due to redundancy or in one case, a historical pay correction. Lump sums up to the equivalent of $100,000 were handed out. While some banked the money, paid of their mortgages etc, far too many went on alcohol and drug-fuelled binges. The undertakers were busy bringing out the dead. Conflict within families soared as the rat brigades tried to intimidate or weasel money out of relatives. So the jails filled up due to assault charges. I don't know of anyone murdered, but I do know a few who "choked to death on their vomit" and several rumours of people surprisingly "overdosing." Ahem. . I dread to think what it would be like if guns were freely available.

What if I'm white but descended from American slaves? It's just utter stupidity and it will occupy the thoughts of the low-wits forever. Anyway, the slaves are long dead - if they spoke about some form of compensation for those who suffered from Jim Crow who are STILL ALIVE - that would be more credible. The last thing they should do is issue money. Maybe free healthcare or free education for their living descendants would be a fair offer. Hand out cheques worth a mere $20,000 each and it will be carnage.

She doesn't have any ADOS blood so she doesn't qualify.

They have someone under arrest for Shakur's murder. His trial is scheduled for November 4. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/keffe-d-tupac-shakur-murder-suspect-house-arrest-bail-trial-judge-says/

This. Anyway, the figure I saw banded about was $15 trillion. Let me tell you what will happen even 10% of that is distributed to ADOS. 1. The murder rate will soar to wartime levels of death. 2. Approximately 1 million ADOS will die premature deaths due to addiction overflow etc 3. Race relations will deteriorate to at least Jim Crow levels of hatred, and the hatred will flow from allcomers, not just the white community. In short, and there's more I can mention, it would be an utter catastrophe for ADOS, and a catastrophe for the USA. And that's even before you try to work out who is due reparations. Barack Obama is not ADOS, and you will be totally amazed at the number of white people who are descended from ADOS.

I'm pretty sure it was pegged at 25 to the $ through the Eighties. It was a big step to release the peg and without getting out of my comfort zone ( I'm not an economist ) the release and flow of money supply contributed to the Tom Yam Kung crisis. The enduring result of that crisis has been an enduring worry about the public debt ratio. Thailand's is unusually low, which stifles investment in public services, but still more than double what it was before the crisis.

All true. Gawd forbid you arrived in that golden period after the Tom Yam Kung crisis and thought that 90 baht was going to last forever. I have a recollection that the official exchange rate was fixed until the early 90's, although you could get a better street rate? I did see a street rate of around 37 in approx 2019, a fair few expats exited around them but also from memory that was at the height of the TM30 debacle. Thailand seems to present the expatriate community with a new crisis every couple of years.

He wasn't talking about that. He was trying to indicate that anti-Indian racism originated with Westerners and spread to Thais. It's a laughable contention.

From the BBC - "Authorities have not yet disclosed a potential motive for Routh, who has a history of legal problems and varied political affiliations." Can we not just agree the guy is a nutter and move on?

Interesting to see the more delusional Dem reactions to this story. One of the Krassenstein twins posted that it was effectively no-harm-no-foul. Apparently it wasn't really an assassination attempt because he didn't fire a bullet towards Trump. Never mind the fact that the guy was set up with an AK-47 on the hole ahead of Trump and only ran when a SS agent started firing at him. It's just appalling, and anyone trying to lessen this crime needs their head looked at.

Are you drunk? Maybe a touch of dementia or a wee bit of lifetime IQ problems kicking in? There is nothing controversial in my comment. The people I know from Buriram can speak Khmer and I don't know if they use it as their daily primary language. The end.

43 isn't a bad rate over the last few years. The last time I remember the rate being quite healthy was around Jan 2016 when I got 54.7 baht to the £. Ah, those were the days.

Hold on, wait - you tagged me in this delusional post? Wow. And there was me trying to be polite. Lets try again. You are talking utter cra*p, you are an embarrassment. You are of the opinion that mass sex tourism by Caucasian males which only started in any type of numbers in the 1980's and soared through the '90's infected the Thai populace with a new racist disdain of Indian people? I swear to Gawd, I have never heard such drivel on this topic in my life. Are you aware that one of the former moderators of this forum was a Thai-Indian? Their family arrived in the Kingdom in the 1880's. Are you aware that many of the properties in the Nana area are owned by dynastic Thai-Indian families? Do you know the local nickname for the Sois in Lower Suk? Are you aware that the Indian community ran sex shops and brothels decades before the Vietnam War began? I mention that as you can use that period as Year Zero for the establishment of the LBFM trope. Man, one of best and most reliable mates in Thailand was of Indian heritage, the man was born in the Kingdom and died in his mid-70's. Thai and Middle Eastern people have traded in the Kingdom since the days or Marco Polo. Islam, introduced by Middle-Eastern traders, was introduced to Siam in the 13th Century. The Portuguese followed Indian and ME sailing routes to Siam in 1508/9. There's a compelling argument that the arrival of the Portuguese introduced the word "farang" to Siam, as the Middle Easterners used a similar word to describe Europeans, a word rooted in the time of the CRUSADES. And here's you persisting in an argument that a few bar owners in the 1990's caused Thais to be racist to Indians. It is utter stupidity. The aforementioned people were in the Kingdom hundreds of years before a single Western sex tourist arrived. Thais had long since decided their attitude to both. Just give it up. Your beat. And you should know better to mix it with people here that actually know what they are talking about.

As I said, I don't know anyone that doesn't speak Khmer in that area. Whether they use it as their primary daily language is doubtful.

This comment is spot on, excellent. People need to quit with the delusion that Westerners have a long track record in Thailand. Tourist visitor numbers in 1979 were a mere 100,000. The majority were the Hippy Trail type or intrepid international travellers, often monied. They were backed up by returning US servicemen. For the Brits, the year that "oh this year I'm off to sunny Spain" was a chart hit ( 1974 ) British tourist numbers in Thailand were near ZERO.

Yes, also known for being extremely passive aggressive and it sometimes boiled over. I watched Israelis being evicted from a hotel in Vientiane as they had taken ownership of the kitchen area. Very hard-nosed people but I will say the Vientiane incident was IDF that had just completed their service period, I could understand why they were highly wound up. There was also organised repatriation missions by the Israeli government in Goa, and to a lesser extent, Thailand, as quite a few former IDF lost the plot and descended into opiate use. Their families were flown in at government expense to persuade them to come home.