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NATO chief on Ukraine war: ‘Be prepared for bad news’
beautifulthailand99 replied to CharlieH's topic in The War in Ukraine
Apparently, she spends a lot of time with her husband which should be some of the safest spaces in Ukraine. It may well be the Russians sending out a chilling message we can get you anywhere or it could on on outside probability be internal power struggles within the high command. There are a lot of dark forces on both sides. If Western aid falters or withdraws there will be a brutal power struggle for control of the country. The Kyiv mayor has already made his feelings clear. https://gazette.com/news/wex/kyiv-mayor-issues-harsh-condemnation-of-zelensky-as-internal-tensions-grow/article_f552efb6-0d63-58a7-a0a6-0c07fc639717.html This could be tit-for-tat revenge as could be this. https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-partisans-claim-killed-24-russia-soldiers-arsenic-in-vodka-2023-12 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illia-kyva-pro-kremlin-ukrainian-politician-assassinated-near-moscow/ -
It was a long time ago and most of my information was gained second-hand and he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer - maybe he went here without informing the authorities and got slapped down - I honestly don't know. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/advice/sex-offender-registration-information
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Bye bye Thailand, thanks for nothing!
beautifulthailand99 replied to ujayujay's topic in General Topics
Thailand has always screwed the poor that's why it's so cheap to live here relatively. As a quid pro quo though they should probably have just one price at the parks and attractions. After Covid virtually every counrty is in big trouble, half the councils in Britain are going bust as well as most of the public servies in one way or another so it's not surprising that every goverment is looking to shakdeown all the money that they can. -
Tourist rubles ensure warm welcome for Russians in Thailand
beautifulthailand99 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
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Australian Hells Angels Gang Leader Arrested In Thailand
beautifulthailand99 replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Probably thought because there was a senior Thai who did time in Australia for heroin smuggling he would be amongst friends. -
White House warns Ukraine aid is running out
beautifulthailand99 replied to CharlieH's topic in The War in Ukraine
Abu Dhabi has just laid out the red carpet including a flypast with Western jets to welcome Putin to the Kingdom. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/06/putin-makes-rare-visit-to-the-uae-saudi-arabia-to-talk-relations.html -
I do believe that there is a cohort of the US electorate that will vote Trump in for a laugh. When I was at school we had an election for head of the 6th form and we voted in the class joker who was a recalcitrant rebel. He won by a landslide and then the headmaster basically annulled the election on the basis that he was unsuitable.
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I knew a jobbing builder who spent a lot of time in Thailand, he worked for cash for most of his life and was on the sick for a bad back and depression and had done a spell at Her Majesty's Pleasure. He had a council flat in an outer suburb of London and was on pension benefit so his flat was paid for and had pretty much a full pension and still did odd jobs for cash. Was as white as you like and racist to his bone and spent 3 months whoring in Thailand whilst being the tightest person it was ever my displeasure to meet.
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These 2 events were a severe wake-up call as to Iran's capabilities in the new era and the US projection of hegemonic power. They put long-range missiles onto a US base with pinpoint accuracy defeating AD systems on a US military base and setting 5% of their oil reserves on fire. Then add Russia to the mix with satellite intelligence off the scale of mad. Cheap drones are a real game changer - Ukraine has been the theatre where a lot of lessons will have been learnt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Martyr_Soleimani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq–Khurais_attack Oil would go to the moon and global economies would crash. Buy gold now if you think that could happen expensive as it is.
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Could you be a beach bum for a year?
beautifulthailand99 replied to bignok's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
I almost didn't believe that then I looked it up.Bleedin' hell - what should we carry to the beach just in case such an event was to occur? https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-016-1931-8 -
Thanks but not to worry she does all the money side of things in Thailand I just do due dilegecne asking you excellent gentlemen for your collective wisdom. Much appreciated. The banking cartels here rob the peole dry. In the UK I'm getting 5% interest on easy acess with Tandem app only bank and commercial interrest rates are around 6% so roughly 1% is their cut. In Thailand I think they are charging similar for loans and giving at best 1.5% - a hefty cut indeed.
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It is when you have the rose-tinted spectacles on and a peg on your nose. It's the Ryan Air of cheap places to live - you wanted cheap and you got cheap but don't complain because it's cheap. We bought a condo in Jomtien so I'm invested but only for 3 months of the year - that's enough. It ticks all the boxes though - cheap condo, cheap transport, close to the airport plenty of markets and malls and plenty of your home folks to talk to when you need to. But if my wife wasn't Thai I would never consider it. Just too hot, too dirty and too mono-cultural. There are only so many cover bands playing the hits that I can take before going mad!