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Kerryd

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  1. Funny.
    Yesterday it was "200,000" condos.

    Today it's 1.3 MILLION !

    Yesterday:

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    Deputy Prime Minister and Finance minister Pichai Chunhavajira confirms the government is moving forward with a project to allow foreigners to lease condominiums for 99 years, aiming to stimulate the real estate sector, which has over 200,000 unsold units.


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    real estate businesses struggling to sell a backlog of approximately 1.3 million unsold condominium units


    Do they get their numbers from the same place TAT gets their tourism numbers ? (Which is probably the same place that supplies everyone with their "lucky" lottery numbers.)

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  2. 7 hours ago, stoner said:

    walking st

    soi bukhaow

    soi diana 

    soi paradise

    soi chaiyaphum

    lk metro


    Yet somehow Soi 6 doesn't make the list. Or Beach road !

    Hmmmmm - seems strange. Almost as strange as not having "Boyztown" (sois 13/3 - 13/4) on the list.

    Sheesh, basically from Soi 1 in North Pattaya to Bali Hai and from the Beach to 2nd Road (in most places).

    And we won't mention the area in behind the Esso Station on Sukhumvit in North Pattaya.

    But as we know - the police have conducted many inspections of the area and no women (or boyz apparently) approached them and offered to have sex with them for money so that means there is no Prostitution in Pattaya !

  3. The "beer cans in the back" might be the clue. One would hope they do a blood test on each driver to see which was the drunkest at the time.

    I had an accident a couple years ago when a truck ran a stop sign at an intersection in a rural area of Rayong. I was taken to the local hospital and told they'd be testing my blood for alcohol.
    The pick-up driver never even went. Seems he dropped his g/f off at the hospital and left.

    I suspect as the accident was just after 1pm on a Saturday afternoon that he may have been coming from a "5 beer lunch" which is why he didn't stick around.
    (I hadn't drank at all. I'd had a coffee that morning and a coke at lunch. I was quite upset that they were testing my blood and not his.)

    Despite the fact that his own dash-cam footage showed him blowing throw a stop sign (that even had a red blinky light above it) - it seems no one bothered to check what he'd been doing before the accident. 
    (It ended up with him paying for the repairs to the rear quarter-panel of his truck and that's it. I had to pay all my medical bills and repair costs. It seems the police decided that because "I hit him" that made it my fault ! But - because he ran the stop sign and caused the accident - he had to pay for his own repairs !)

    Which is why you should always make sure you have insurance when driving/riding here. Lots of insurance. And then more insurance on top of that.
    As you are likely going to end up paying for everything no matter what happened.

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  4. Works both ways.
    I went "home" (to Canada) one summer a couple years (5+ it seems) ago. Was planning on spending a weekend at my "old" place clearing it out and boxing stuff to go into storage.
    I needed supplies for 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches and 2 dinners (just for me). Didn't but anything fancy. Pack of hotdogs, hamburger, buns, cheese, butter, bacon, eggs, loaf of bread, small ketchup/mustard and so on.

    $300 Cdn ! Literally one bag of groceries. 
    At the time it was close to 9,000 baht equivalent ! For 3 days worth of food.

    I average about 10,000 - per month - in Thailand on groceries and I don't skimp. 

    About 8 years ago a friend in Canada commented that she'd just paid $8 (Cdn) for a single "head" of cauliflower. 215 baht roughly.

    I went to the local "market" up the street. Bought some onions, garlic, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers and red chilies. (Photo below)
    Cost 180 baht. ($6.70 Cdn equivalent.)

    So yeah, if you're "just here on a getaway" (yeah right) and buying groceries (uh huh) and sticking with the "imported" brands of "foreign" foods, it can be fairly expensive.

    But if you are "living" here and doing your "normal" grocery shopping and buying "local" foods, it can be (is) a lot cheaper than "back home". 

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  5. 4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

    Not to be confused with Richard Barrow.

    I write this because when I read the headline, I made that mistake.


    Same here ! I had to do some googling when I first saw the story to make sure it wasn't the same person. You can bet a lot of people never bothered to check though.

    And yeah, it's common for criminals to suddenly "long for home" when they become ill and have a choice of ending up in a Thai prison (and "gov't healthcare") or a nice air-conditioned facility with a much higher quality of medical care.

    Like the former "godfather of Chon Buri" who did a runner after being released from prison on bail (where he'd been sent after being found guilty of arranging the murder of a political rival). He was charged in a land fraud case so that let him apply for bail (Thai law) to fight the charges and - of course - immediately disappeared and didn't reappear until many years later - when he was very sick and needed to go to a (good) hospital.

    And the wannabe terrorist Joshua Boyle from Canada. Stages his own kidnapping so he can join the terrorists his former wife had praised so highly. Spent 5 years trying to convince everyone he was being held in Afghanistan when he was actually in a Haqqani safe house in Pakistan.

    But when one of the daughters he had while a "captive" got sick - he couldn't take her to a Pakistani hospital so they arranged to be "spotted" by American drones. He needed people to believe he was still a captive so he  wouldn't be arrested and thrown in prison when he returned to Canada. (Not that terrorist-loving Trudeau would have ever considered that of course.) So his terrorist buddies drove him to a drop off point where they had tearful farewells and then he was "rescued" by the Pakistani Army who were sitting there waiting.

    And supposedly it's why a certain former PM criminal on the run suddenly decided to return "home". Having "his people" running the gov't certainly made it easier. (Thought you have to wonder because it's not like he couldn't have afforded the best medical care available in the UAE which is probably top notch based on all the "money" in that place. I doubt you'll find too many "doctor's degrees from a back alley medical schools in Delhi" working in Dubai hospitals.)

    He sure did make a miraculous recovery once he got home though ! 

  6. Apparently the "I used to be one of Epstein's high-end Escort/Nude models" look still plays.

    Yeah. Look up her history. She was working as a (sometimes nude) model and apparently her "agency" would provide "classy" women to parties attended by the rich and powerful. People like Trump.
    The women would be there to be "arm candy" and be "available" to the men at those parties if they caught the eye of any of them.
    (Basically what Epstein and Maxwell were accused of. Arranging "women" for rich and powerful men.)

    And Melania did get noticed by a "rich person" at one of those parties in 1998. Apparently Trump's wandering eye spotted her and when his wife (#2) went to the bathroom he "slipped" Melania his private number.

    (Another article states he was at that party with a different "date" - who wasn't his wife either. She also claims - now - that he asked for her number and she refused and asked him for his number instead so he gave her a couple of his private phone numbers.)

    Supposedly they began dating in 1998 and Donald divorced #2 in 1999, but didn't marry #3 until 2005. 

    She was pregnant with their son in 2006 while Donald was banging former Playboy models and porn star actresses.

    It was somewhat hilarious when Trump was elected. You used to be able to find photos of Melania on a whack of Facebook pages. Suddenly, he's the President and the photos are gone.
    I found one and tried to post it in a group and the instant I hit "post comment" - it was deleted. Instantly. Tried a couple times. Tried renaming the pic so it wasn't even remotely close to the original filename. Didn't matter. As soon as I hit "post" it would be instantly deleted by Facebook.

    And it's not hard to imagine why Epstein so quickly "suicided" himself in jail. She didn't have the pull to get it done, but Trump did and you can bet his name was all over Epstein's "client lists". I suspect her name was in his books as well.

    Makes you wonder if those lists will ever see the light of day or if they end up buried along with Hoffa, Kennedy's brain and all the original photos and negatives from the "moon landings". (Yes, NASA claims the "originals" were "accidentally destroyed" many years ago.)

    (Insert spooky conspiracy movie music here.......)
     

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  7. I would trust Al Jazeera reporting about as much as I'd trust Fox News. 

    Qatar plays fast and loose on both sides of the fence.
    Yes, they are a "US Ally" and host a large US Military contingent - which also keeps them safe from attack.

    Remember when a small group of "rebels" started an uprising against Assad in Syria ? The "West" initially supported them - until they found out that the majority of the rebels were actually members of different terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and other hard-core fundamentalists.

    Qatar continued to support them.

    It created a lot of controversy at the time because factions like Turkey and Qatar were supporting the terrorists while being "allies" of the US (and others) who were opposed to those same terrorists. (And lol - it seems the "Syrian" rebels - initially - were actually part of a CIA attempt to overthrow Assad - because he'd rejected a proposed "Saudi-Qatar" oil pipeline that would have gone from Saudi Arabia, through Jordan and Syria and into Turkey.)

    Qatar (and Al Jazeera) have also supported the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (and it's various chapters) for decades (financially and politically).
    Note that after the "Arab Spring" and the Muslim Brotherhood's ouster in Egypt in 2013, Saudi Arabia and a number of GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council which includes the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait) cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood.

    Except Qatar of course. 

    (Note that Qatar supported the Arab Spring uprisings, including the ones in Libya (which was also about oil) and Syria. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and other "US Allies" brutally suppressed those uprisings in their own countries).

    Qatar also supports Hamas financially and politically and then has the ****s to say: "the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, said "We support all Palestinian people. We believe Hamas is a very important part of the Palestinian people." The Emir told CNN, "We don't fund extremists."
    Note: "More money flows from Qatar to Hamas than any other country."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terrorism )

    I see when reading up on the conflict in Yemen that Qatar initially opposed the Houthi (Iranian backed Shi-ite rebels) but changed their stance. Seems they've been at odds with their fellow countries and even had relations with them suspended on numerous occasions over their (and Al Jazeera's) actions.
    "Saudi Arabia and other countries have criticized Al Jazeera and Qatar's relations with Iran. Qatar explained that it had provided assistance to some opposition groups, including Islamist groups (such as the Muslim Brotherhood)."

    Qatar also tried to claim that "Al Jazeera" had been "hacked" at one point when they published an article praising Iran as a "stabilizing force" at the same time Iran was backing the Houthi rebels as well as Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists (and Assad in Syria of course).

    Qatar also hosted Taliban delegations and Doha, the capital of Qatar, was where the US surrendered to the Taliban when Trump's gov't agreed to stop attacking the Taliban and pull out of Afghanistan in what is now known as the "Doha Agreement".

    Qatar has been accused to allowing numerous "terrorist financiers" to live openly and freely in Qatar despite being on terrorist watch lists in many other countries.

    Qatar simply shrugs it's shoulder's and claims they don't recognize many of those organizations as being "terrorist". It seems in 2014 Qatar's "Terrorist Watchlist" had exactly - zero names on it.

    And if you recall when the current Gaza crisis started - just after Hamas attacked Israel and murdered over 1,200 people - reporters showed a number of people wearing blue body armour with "Press" badges trying to shoo other reporters away from certain houses and even hospitals.
    Those "other" reporters weren't reporting or recording anything but were really concerned about legitimate press taking pics/videos of them.

    Why ? Because they weren't actually "Press". They were wearing the same gear that real reporters wore to act as "human shields" to protect Hamas Safe Houses and weapons caches (and to try and keep the real press from seeing Hamas fighters entering/leaving the hospitals they had lied about having tunnels and bunkers hidden under).

    Some were flat out Hamas fighters/supports and some probably claimed to be "freelance Al Jazeera" reporters when it's convenient (or expedient).

    Hamas knew that Israel would be reluctant to attack any target that had reporters close by because of the fallout they'd get if they killed any (real) journalists.
    Hamas has routinely used human shields to protect it's rocket launchers whenever they attack Israel. A favoured tactic of Hamas for decades is to set up rocket launchers on top of hospitals, apartment buildings and in school yards.

    Because they want Israel to retaliate after they've fired rockets at them and they are hoping Israel will bomb those launchers and end up killing lots of innocent civilians so Hamas can parade them in front of the cameras to score sympathy and Public Relations brownie points.

    Al Jazeera also uses "reporters" to write propaganda anti-gov't articles in places they want to stir up dissent. Like after the military overthrew the corrupt Muslim Brotherhood gov't in Egypt less than a year after they took power.
    They had "Egyptian" correspondents writing anti-gov't propaganda and when those reporters were arrested - they whipped out their (Canadian or other country) passports and cried to their "new" countries to save them.

    (One of them was an Egyptian immigrant to Canada who, once he had his magic "get out of foreign jail free" passport, returned to his native Egypt to work for Al Jazeera. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison for writing anti-gov't propaganda articles for Al Jazeera and, naturally, whipped out his shiny new Canadian passport and begged Canada to save him. He even offered to renounce his Egyptian citizenship. So Egypt accepted and deported him to Canada where, no surprise, he started slamming the gov't that helped free him and announced he'd immediately be trying to reclaim his Egyptian citizenship.)

    And you see it in the news and in movies - people wearing "press" can often get into places others can't - especially if they know the people at the gates.
    Good way to move people, weapons and ammo around. Especially if one side are "good guys" who don't want to do anything that might result in "bad press" and the other side don't give a c-rap about the rules. 




     

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