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Michael Moore splenetic in his fury at the ongoing Israeli carnage. 5 minutes in if you're busy. Also saying that Biden support for Israel could lose him enough votes in key states to lose against Trump. In the last minutes he is almost in tears of sadness and fury.

The Mother of All Talk Shows arrives at the Mother of All Parliaments.

Just read that, sorry to hear it - I hope you confound the doctors and everything goes fine. My brother-in-law has a heart condition and 5 years ago was told he could go anytime, but he is still with us and thriving. I'm always humbled by the kindness of medical staff I hope that's the same for you.

I would guess if agents are still in the game (and why wouldn't they be) then it will be £1000 + the agents cut on top. Then add on potential taxation on remittances into the country, and we have the recipe for a perfect storm.

Yup that's what I would do 30 day VOA and then a side trip to Laos for a couple of weeks and then one more month and back home or skip a year either way Thailand loses ££.

3 months visa free for Russians, and now helicopters. Thailand is probably getting a lot of hooky sanction busting oil cheap and a laundromat for Russian finance. There's no bad money in Thailand just money.

Could it be I don't spend much time on here any more and those topics aren't discussed here - you make a lot of baseless assertions. Have a nice day and calm down, dear, I'm sure you're a nice person in real life.

For the record I read the Guardian,FT ,Mail, Independent, Telegraph, NYT, WSJ , Reditt sub groups, X. Mumsnet, Spectator, Haartez, Jewish Chronicle, Economist, New Statesman, New Yorker,WAPO, The Times and numerous You Tube channels on a daily basis (paywalls busted all!) so take your pick.

She was very good in the Merchant of Venice playing a female Shylock in the 1930s London, I saw it last year in the provincial run. That said, she is a militant unapologetic Zionist who has blocked me on Twitter for posting this to her timeline. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/apr/26/tracy-ann-oberman-pays-substantial-damages-antisemitism-claims-twitter On 4 April last year, Oberman, a critic of Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of antisemitism complaints while he was Labour leader, tweeted: “So a man called @PhilipProudfoot of @FreeNorthNow has a Jew block list. I’ve been out of the twitter politics loop for a few months but is this party continuation Corbyn? Seems like it. And will it end up the same way? Seems like it. Good luck all.” Responding to the settlement of his libel claim, Proudfoot said: “I am a humanitarian researcher. I’ve seen the horrors of war in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. It is for this reason I am a supporter of the struggle for human rights in Palestine. And it is for this reason I am appalled and disgusted by antisemitism, and all forms of prejudice.” His solicitor, Zillur Rahman, said: “Antisemitism is a serious problem in our society and it is unfortunate that some people like Philip, who show solidarity with the Palestinians in their struggle for freedom from Israel’s oppression, have been falsely accused of antisemitism, which can have a chilling effect on free speech against injustices and human rights violations.”

You don't know me, and I indeed do rail about these injustices from wherever they come. I've been on the left since my pallid youth, and if the Nazis came back to power, my indelible record of action will have me marked to go to the camps along with the oppressed of whatever stripe. So you can take your antisemite smear, elsewhere, I'm not interested. I have indeed seem progressive Jews say that have been smeared as kapos probably the most egregious smear one can say for standing up for Palestinian rights. I seem to remember Norman Finkelstein has accused Alan Dershowitz of saying that about his parents, who suffered terribly in the camps. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/12/trumps-israel-ambassador-likens-left-wing-jews-to-kapos.html https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/the-good-jewish-boys-go-into-battle/200412.article

Imagine being a Palestinian driven out of your ancestral lands in 1948 by European Jewish terrorists and forced to live in poverty as a refugee from your own lands. Then imagine your anger as any Jew who can prove their ethnicity has the right to return to that land stolen blatantly with extreme violence from your grandparents. That in a nutshell is why we are where we are.

The many thousands Jewish Bloc on the regular marches begs to differ, but under this twisted hyperbole they are probably regarded as kapos. But all racism against anybody based on their race is wrong. Period. The first is Isaac Deutscher who died in London in 1967: He asked what makes a Jew. He answered: “Religion? I am an atheist. Jewish nationalism? I am an internationalist. In neither sense am I, therefore, a Jew. I am however, a Jew by force of my unconditional solidarity with the persecuted and exterminated.” The second is Marek Edelman The last surviving commander Marek_Edelman_Polen_polennuof the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, whom I met briefly in Warsaw in 1997. He died in Poland in 2009. This hero was persona non grata in Israel for remaining an anti-Zionist, and for saying about that incredible Uprising: “We fought for dignity and freedom. Not for a territory, nor for a national identity”. But the very most important thing he said was: “To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors.” Never with the oppressors. https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/jew-means-always-oppressed-never-oppressors/

You're just a troll, probably one with no options other than to suck it up probably clacking away furiously drunk in your rented condo sweltering under a fan eating mama noodles washed down with lao khao and soda and seeing if there are enough baht for another visit to Bush Mountain or failing that PornHub. Have a great day don't forget to keep taking the meds !

I have plenty of money, a house in London and a condo in Jomtien all paid for - just tired of Thailand tbh having visited it every year for 20 years, worked there for a year and overwintered for 3 months for the last 5 and if I wasn't married wouldn't be going there again. Been everywhere, seen everything in my nearly 3 years living in the country in total. There's a whole world that isn't it. Wintering in say Spain or Canary Islands with clean air, great infrastructure and natural beauty and 2 - 4 hour flights are much more enticing. I'll save say 400 quid on the flight difference and 350 quid on the visa. That's £750 into the pot from the off. So there's nothing to miss..... especially the smoke !

General Milley reluctantly reads the room. Charity begins at home and if Trump stops these US -centric wars then that's worth voting for on that single policy alone. I'm not in the US, but if I was, I would be part of the Leftists through Gritted Teeth for Trump. $7 trillion and millions of live squandered on Afghanistan and Iraq to make the world a more dangerous place, whilst your infrastructure crumbles away and the national debt soars to record levels. Great Empires decline and fall inevitably, and ultimately through their own decadence and external threats. The financialisation of the economy and the looting by the financiers of the system, gaming it like one huge casino, has consequences and those particular chickens now are coming home to roost He sees the debate in Congress as a test of whether you think US support for the rules-based international order is important. He sides with those who say that not backing Ukraine is “signalling a deathblow” to that order. Does he think part of the problem is that Americans have just seen two decades of war — in Afghanistan and Iraq? “Absolutely. 100 per cent,” Milley says emphatically. “They’ve kind of had it with wars and forever wars.” https://www.ft.com/content/3a8ab059-4710-4e56-ad04-87eb623d79ac In China the system has shaken down some of their billionaire class by execution, prison and re-education to make sure they work for the State and are not above it. In the West, we watch in awe as the Bezos, Musk and Branston play with their rockets lording it over us in their toys in space whilst our high streets are hollowed out and collapse. The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them - VI Lenin, indeed they will, comrade !

This looks like a money grab pure and simple to balance the government books. Probably something to make their embassy network self-financing, maybe ? Whatever, for my usual 3 months IMM-O marriage visa to go from £60 to £365 is borderline criminal and if the MFA is on a fund-rasing drive I would fully expect the shake-down to be right across the board. And if the 3-month visa free still exists for Russians continues past the current expiry of 30th April 2024 - double ouch ! https://visaguide.world/news/thailand-introduces-higher-visa-fees-for-new-zealand/ https://fukuoka.thaiembassy.org/en/content/ac041023?cate=5ee71d3eb58aa61433490366

Thanks, Thailand just back from a 3 months stay in our condo spent around 350k fed up with the smoke and filthy air. Will give it a miss next year so you can kiss goodbye to another 350k. Your loss.

Has been discussed already. https://aseannow.com/topic/1320861-new-visa-fees-beginning-on-19th-march-2024/

If this is true my marriage 3 month Imm-O UK visa will go up from £60 to £385 I was considering giving next year a miss anyway and letting my wife go solo if this happens I'm out. They can shove it up their fundament.

Crikey have just looked at his site and that link that's crazy. Either it's a mistake or it's terrible news. No change in the UK https://london.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/81755-visa-fees?page=5d6636cd15e39c3bd00072dd&menu=5f4b6eb3f6ae4b236972c562 Late last week the Thai embassy in New Zealand published its new visa rates schedule online. From March 19, the embassy itself won’t accept visa applications anymore and all visa applications must be made online. With the new online system, the fees for a visa to Thailand have increased dramatically. There has been disbelief and shock at the massive increases in visa fees which will see a single-entry tourist visa increase in price from $NZ 60 to $NZ 300. A single-entry non-immigrant visa (the visa needed for a work permit or a retirement visa or a marriage visa) will increase in price from $NZ 120 to a whopping $NZ 800! For reference, $NZ 1 = 22 baht so a single-entry tourist visa will be priced at the equivalent of about 6,600 baht, getting on for $US200. That means a single-entry non-immigrant visa would be the equivalent of around 18,000 baht, or $US500! A multiple-entry tourist visa will cost $NZ 1,000 and a multiple-entry non-immigrant visa $NZ 2,000!

And yet he might win the election. Triangulate that. I'll stick my neck out and say whatever happens, he won't make America great again. That ship has long since sailed.....to China who is patiently sitting out forever wars whilst simply doing business.

Don't worry the election of a skilful gob<deleted>e has so upset little Risshi Sunak he had to get out his lectern and spew nonsense about Broken Britain he and his fellow compatriots helped to break. If it is indeed broken.

Spot on my friend. And since most Hamas devotees no longer have a problem with martyrdom, Israel's savage response has played into their carefully laid trap. In the coming decades, there will be no turning back for Israel, abandoned by many friends outraged and disgusted by their pitiless bombing of the most densely populated place on the planet. Couple that with a burgeoning non-working Orthodox growing constituency with large families existing on welfare and increasing numbers of young diasporic Jews rejecting Zionism and a reverse migration from the state, the days of Exodus idealism and communitarian kibbutzes will be long gone only to be replaced a murderous, increasingly authoritarian ethno-fascist state. You can add to that 100s of thousands of murderous Palestinian intent on revenge who can and will try to enact that at some point. Violence just begets violence and generational no justice means no peace. Israel have created their very own Taliban who won't even fight for their country. When Israel was founded, 3% of Israelis were Haredi. Today the figure is 13%, 18% of 18-year-olds and almost a quarter of newborns. As Haredi education expands in both numbers and per-student funding, the very existence of an independent school system tailor-made for insularity has begun to reshape how other Israelis think of the education system, which is already divided by religion and language. https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-new-state-budget-favors-haredim-and-hurts-them/

Sounds like you have swallowed a woke dictionary without the Palestinian add-on that goes with it.

This sort of nonsense does a disfavour to all the victims of Nazism and reveals a real weakness in the modern psyche to imagined horrors. Well, Israel needs fresh blood for all the real estate they are flattening in their rage, and if you're under 40 the IDF can use your talents. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/antisemitism-uk-london-israel-b2501340.html