Dogmatix

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   What does that have to do with the thread topic ?

We have also been asked numerous times to stop giving history lessons 

Of course, the history of Palestine and Israel began only 7 Oct.  

No need to worry about Big Joke. His father was the police driver for Thaksin's father-in-law and Thaksin is now back in power and looking for a new police chief available to start in October.

"Murderers" in the title is a bit of an exaggeration.  The men who were convicted of the murders would be more accurate.  The murderers are still at large on Murder Island.

6 hours ago, Hummin said:

Don't even bother, just a few spineless cowardly typewriter worriers! They think they express themself with emotions when have nothing better to say, or just constantly ignorantly hammering the same statements over and over, again and again defending war on terror with terror! 

 

Israel using overwhelming excessive force because they can! 

 

They lost my respect and sympathy when my friends started to come back from serving in Unifil Battalion early 80'ies. 

 

7. October was a result of decades of suppressing palestines, and the western countries who supports Israel, did not manage to keep them or the palestines in check. Right now after bombing the Irani consulate, they again violated international rules. I see New york Times tey to explain why this was not braking international laws, but, really? 

 

The constantly interruptions with western countries supporting different loose fractions of rebellion groups in midle east as well, wars and revenge bombings, contributes to unstabillity in the whole region. And for every innocent civillian killed and mutilated (especially kids and women) you create x new terrorists/freedomfighters, choose your own definition. 

 

Still this do not legitimate Hamas action against civilians, just explain why it happened because of decades of hostility, abuse, use of excessively force every time they revenged incidents and attacks, as well continuesly establishing new settlements on stolen land. 

 

 

The connections and clean up after ww2 formed how many countries today see the west, and one of them is Iran who supports and use the Palestinians for their cause and revenge for what was done to them when they had their first democratic election, who was overtrown in coup, and the Sha became the puppet for the new world order. 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

 

And that is only one of the details innthe aftermath of ww2, + other despots who was played and used as long they where useful, and for then turn the back on them, and create caos in the name of democracy. 

 

Iraq, Lybia, Zyria 

 

For those who is interested

Israel bombing Iranian consulate/embassy. I got to read it for free once. 

 

Israel bombed an Iranian Embassy complex. Is that allowed? 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/world/europe/interpreter-israel-syria-embassy.html

 

Now back to my holiday. Just thinking how lucky we are, to be allowed to express our thoughts and meanings from a safe distance without risking anything worse than an confused emotion or two! Have a great safe journey and a good wherever you are, and remember how lucky you are! 

Nice pic.  Is that the view from the waterfront condos in Gaza that Jared Cushner and Ivanka Trump are going to develop?

On 3/30/2024 at 8:40 AM, Ben Zioner said:

More TBA [Thai BellyAching].

 

But the Merkava looks great, mighty.

Some people think the mighty merkava looks better being towed away as a blackened hull with a hole punched in the weak spot near the engine compartment by a Yasin RPG. It's purely a matter of taste.

I hope that police call centre gang will get the message and stop trying to call me within 30 days.

1 minute ago, Wobblybob said:

Most haven't condemned the 7/10 atrocities, not sincerely anyway!

There has not been exactly fulsome condemnation of Israel's atrocities by Western governments either (even though there has been by the populations they claim to represent).  So let's just call that evens.

Funding a hand out equivalent to 3% of GDP is just a mere detail. 

It seemed to me that what they were trying to do was give some limited tax concessions to Thai companies issuing tokens as an alternative to issuing shares. In addition to VAT exemption they offered a flat rate of 15% on distributions made to token holders which would be like dividends which are taxed at a 10% flat rate. 
 

Interest is also subjected to a withholding tax of 15% but it is not a flat rate tax in as much as you have to declare interest earned over 20k and it will taxed at your top marginal tax rate, if this is more than 15% with the withholding tax used as a tax credit. There is a different treatment for dividends in respect of which you can choose to accept the 10% withholding tax and leave it at that without having to pay any more than that but you may claim tax back on the basis of getting a tax credit for the withholding tax and the corporate income tax paid by the company using a slightly complicated formula. The idea for distributions of income to holders of company tokens seems to be that they can accept the 15% withholding tax and don’t have declare it and pay more, if their top tax rate is over 15% but can’t claim a credit for tax paid by the company issuer of the token.
 

in the case of onshore crypto traded there is withholding tax of 15% on gains from a 2016 Royal Decree that has never been implemented because the coup government issued the decree without thinking how this law could be implemented. But anyway the idea was that you had to pay more tax, if your top tax rate was over 15%. That means that you have to declare your gains on a PND 91 tax returns and pay tax on them. If it is a gain on crypto overseas, you pay tax on the gain earned after 1 Jan 2024, if you remit it to Thailand but not otherwise. Thailand has no specific capital gains tax. So you have to lump it in with your income and pay tax at up to 35%.

I also get calls from a well spoken Thai woman in English saying she is with Amex and wants to sell me personal accident insurance. Very annoying if Amex has sold my personal data which I believe is the case as they more or less admitted that it once when I called to complain. The calls stopped for a bit but started again and always the same woman. I am polite with her as she is polite. Just tell her I am not interested.

I get calls from a Thai call centre gang who pretend to be cops. They have my full name and address and ID card number as well as phone number. They pretend to be cops and have background noise designed to sound like a police station. I listened to a lot of the spiel the first time. They said I had done an online bank transfer to a certain Thai name on a certain date and they were investigating that person for money laundering and drug dealing. Asked several times, if I knew him and had transferred money to him. I got suspicious and asked him for the “cop’s” name and rank and the name and address of the police station or office he was calling from, so I could look up the fixed line number and call him bank. He started talking in a very threatening way then, so I hung up realizing it must be a scam.

Another one called from a different number a bit later but I hung up after hearing him start his spiel. Then I got about 30 more calls from unknown numbers in quick succession which I blocked without answering. The funny thing is that they always use 06 mobile numbers which I block but they come back with more 06 numbers. 5 months later they still call from time to time. The missus picked up an 06 number on my phone a couple of weeks ago and it was the same sort of voice trying to pronounce my full name. So I told her to hang up. Then another 06 number followed as usual. 
 

Apparently the scam is to scare people into handing over a bank statement to prove they didn’t transfer money to Somchai on that date. Then there will be a loud slurping noise as they suck all the money out of the account.

i found out that Thai cops never call people like that as part of an investigation. They either send a witness summons notice by mail or show up at your house, if they have good evidence. I guess they must have bought a job lot of 06 numbers. I think it is TRUE. Perhaps I miss some genuine calls by not answering them but that’s too bad. They can send a message. 
 

The call centre is probably just over the border in Cambodia or Burma within reach of Thai mobile signals. They are quite scary and obviously bought a large batch of personal data from a corrupt official at a bank or government office. I can understand why Thais fall for it and they are very persistent. It is probably a lucrative business with protection from genuine Thai cops.

On 12/1/2023 at 5:57 PM, freedomnow said:

In Thailand using upbit do you have to pay tax on trading ?

 

Is this changing if no in 2024+

Gains from onshore crypto trading in Thailand are taxable for Thai tax residents (those who spend more than 180 days a calendar year in the LOS) unless your total onshore income is under the threshold which is 150k plus basis allowance of 60k and any other allowances you may have for kids, aged parents, life insurance, being over 65 (190k).  Any income earned offshore after 1 Jan 2024 from any source and remitted to Thailand is also taxable.

No explanation of why Torsak was also transferred. There are no charges or allegations against him.  Sounds like something cooked up with Thaksin.  Big Joke was up in Chiang Mai supposedly providing security for Thaksin, Srettha and some cabinet ministers and no doubt a deal was done.  Torsak is pursuing money laundering charges against Big Joke but Torsak has only 6 months to go before retirement. So two months sitting on the bench will derail the charges against Big Joke who will remain eligible for police chief in October and is young enough to hold the job for 6 years.  A percentage of all he makes over 6 years would be a tidy some not to be sneezed at by Thaksin who needs money to rebuild his political brand and hates spending his own money.

Sounds similar to something that happened to me in a bar in Pattaya that employed Russian go-go dancers.  One of the Russians hassled me for a drink and I had zero interest in her.  So she kicked me in the groin.

22 hours ago, eisfeld said:

 

Exactly, the police summons are optional. So why were the security guards at the estate threatened with arrest for not letting the police onto private property?

 

Also an arrest warrant can only be issued by a court. "Will be issued" is not up to the chief of police. They can request a warrant. They can't issue them.

No reason to suppose a judge would refuse a request from the police chief to issue an warrant for refusing to comply with a police summons.

Big Joke was obviously busy brown nosing Thaksin and cabinet ministers in Chiang Mai over the weekend.  If he can clear this, he is still in the running for police chief in September and is young enough to stay in the job for 6 years. Lucrative deals could be made out of that with Thaksin and others.

1 hour ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

coming soon  money in the bank  for visas quadrupled!!

Probably coming soon anyway.  The last time cash in account/ monthly income for retirement visas was increased was about 20 years ago, if I recall correctly, and the lump sums were increase by several times. The fee for PR was increased from 50k to c180k at the same time.  But the old timers who had been on retirement or marriage visas continuously for a few years before it went up were grandfathered in and still only have to make the old rates, if they are still alive.