Andaman Al

Fletch

I cant thank you enough for your considered and comprehensive reply. Much appreciated. I will start preparing additional paperwork tomorrow (and bulk out the rest ????  ). I will also take a look at TMB thanks for the heads up.

Hi

I have  personal and business accounts with the Bangkok Bank. I want to approach the Bangkok Bank HQ (I will have to go to Bangkok) concerning the business account to accept DLC's and SBLC's. Of course to do this they would need to set me up a non operational credit line activated on the arrival of the authenticated instrument. The letters of credit are for some major commodity contracts I have been given on a plate outside Thailand. Values initially would be around 10M USD up. 

Has anyone done this in Thailand or can anyone recommend a lawyer, maybe financially regulated that can assist with negotiating this type of arrangement with my bank. I need to go to the city as the local town where my accounts were set up cannot begin to handle the discussion it is like watching tumbleweed blow across the plains when I discuss it with them. Very happy to engage with someone via PM etc. Thanks.

16 minutes ago, riclag said:

Is it wrong for me to assume or ponder, the NAFTA agreement negotiations has wording that will address the Mexican Government paying a handsome amount toward the wall!It's about  making deals.They want to trade! We have a 60 B TD with them! They can help pay for the wall!

Have you ever wondered why the US has such a huge deficit with every other country? It is greedy, most of it's major manufacturers have moved out of country and nobody else in the world wants crappy US cars, overpriced drugs and medicines and food full of fructose (designed to keep you on those expensive medicines all your life). Nobody needs to buy American (or wants to), but the US NEEDS to buy from the rest of the world. If they build a wall then US citizens will pay for it as they will pay the burden on any tariffs or trade adjustments the US impose on Mexico. Trump has you on the road to nowhere. 

9 minutes ago, utalkin2me said:

One thing I do not understand is they seem to take it on the news like Trump's tweets are under oath. 

 

Theoretically, Trump or anybody can say anything in public, but the story he tells investigators is what counts. Isn't it?

 

If I brag at a party i robbed 10 banks, but my story to the feds was i didn't I was just boasting to impress people and my story checks out, i am innocent and nothing happens to me. 

 

We all know the guy is a liar, but that is not agaist the law. I am not a trump fan just making the point that his official statements in the investigation seems to me what would be what counted. To the other stuff, can't he just say "I am a politician, I was trying to rally my troops". I do not think lying is an actual offense. This does not seem to be reported this way in the news. 

You set a very low bar for Heads of State.

The issue is what Trump is actually saying. With his current batch of lies comes evidence of obstruction of justice and also conspiracy (that's collusion for the uneducated). Trump will go down, the question is will it be on his own or how many American lives will he take with him when he predictably tries to call on his base and incite violence in his last desperate throws to save himself and his three little piggies.

10 minutes ago, mcambl61 said:

do not put all those that are not liberals in one basket.

 

it's not about it being a big deal, it is about trying to use it to destroy a legally elected president, understand?

How much time do you spend reading QAnon? Have you got a T-Shirt yet?  Trump is destroying himself and unfortunately the rest of the once great USA in the process. What will be interesting is how the party of Law and Order - the Republicans will react when all of Trumps crimes are actually revealed. Will it be "Lock him up", or "Well tax evasion and Grand Fraud really isn't so much of a crime"'. The mightier you are, the harder the fall (that's the USA not Trump).

1 hour ago, morrobay said:

Racist shmacist. That WALL from the Pacific to the Gulf should have been built in the 80s. Trump is just getting labeled for correcting a problem. Ilegals and gangs MS 13 . By the way black employment is at a high now according to news reports. 

I think before you concern yourself with MS13 ya'll need to get a grip on solving the problems with the Bloods, Crips, Mongols, Aryan Brotherhood, Gangster Disciples, Vagos, Trinitarios etc etc. But American thugs good, foreign thugs bad, Shootings by white christian Americans OK, shootings by an American muslim - Jihad. Please, build the wall, I will donate to a crowd funding page, I will even start it, but just go all the way around.

9 hours ago, bushdoctor said:

 

The Russuan meddling in the election while Obama was president is not being disputed. The facts are, there is no evidence of collusion by Trump. 

Oh, it's coming. Justice has no expiry date.

12 minutes ago, wayned said:

46 minutes ago, Andaman Al said:

The fact is Trump is not guilty of any crimes.

The last twenty five  indictments were post-faced with the words that these indictments do not include any involvement by Americans.  I expect that this will be the last time we will hear this statement and the next round of indictments will include Americans and possibly some of the President's inner circle and immediate family.  It could be one reason that the DOJ has not yet indicted those individuals as it will cause extreme anger in Trump and he will immediately sharpen his pardon pencil and  the put in motion the firing of Mueller and Rosenstein!

For the record that is not my quote, nor would those words ever come out of my mouth. That was stated by Bushdoctor.

The coverage on Fox of the Russians who have been indicted is absolutely disgusting. This is painful to watch. We actually have these people defending the Russians and making this out to be nothing. This is what the USA has come to. It is an utter disgrace. This is how the Trump supporters are enabling the down fall of a once great nation. Traitors. 

2 minutes ago, bushdoctor said:

It might be that your taking a lead from Strzok in that answer. 

 

Strzok first said he didn’t mean that he had affected the investigation, then said he didn’t remember sending the text, after explaining he sent it late at night.

You are completely disingenuous just like the Congressmen (it is an embarrassment they hold that title) who displayed themselves yesterday as utter fools lacking even the slightest integrity at the Congressional hearing.

Learn and watch with Strzok what a real American Patriot is. He has done more to protect his country and the American people than anyone on here ever will.

22 minutes ago, bushdoctor said:

The fact is Trump is not guilty of any crimes.

Well n the same vein neither is Weinstein But we all know he is going down.

Neither is Hillary Clinton but you all call her a criminal.

Trump will end up being guilty of a list of crimes as long as your arm and the Republican party - the "law and order party" will try and give him a free pass, because..............well just because............

What was it in the Military "God, Country, Corps"

Current Republican Party . "God, Party, Country"

Did someone mention traitors before?......I think they were bang on the money.

So here is a really really interesting development. The two latest people to be poisoned (the woman died) had a bottle containing the nerve agent in their home. Me thinks the surviving man has some serious explaining to do.

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Salisbury poisoning cops find bottle of Novichok in victim Charlie Rowley’s home

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Now the Met has confirmed a small bottle found in Charlie and Dawn's home contained the same nerve agent which left the former Russian spy and his daughter fighting for their lives.

More tests will now take place to see if the bottle which came to be in Charlie's house contains the same batch of substance used to poison the Skripals in March.

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6774123/salisbury-poisoning-novichok-amesbury-home-victim-charlie-rowley/

Now this could prove to be fairly significant. Are these two the people that poisoned the Russian and his daughter? Ouch! We may get some answers after all and it is unlikely to be as straight forward as everybody (The British Government) first thought. 

Ooooh LOOK. a nothing burger !

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12 Russians indicted in Mueller investigation

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The Justice Department announced indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election against 12 Russian nationals and accused of them of engaging in a "sustained effort to hack into the computer networks" of the DCCC, the DNC and "the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and release that information on the internet under the names DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 and through another entity."

All 12 defendants are members of the GRU, a Russian federation intelligence agency within the main intelligence directorate of the Russian military, who were acting in "their official capacities."

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/13/politics/russia-investigation-indictments/index.html

Now then, timing is perfect. If Trump smiles and backslaps Putin he should be impeached immediately. The nemesis is coming Trump supporters. A witch hunt eh!

I am quite sure by tonight Rachel Maddow will have all the names and be making all the links between Russians and Americans. Popcorn!!!!

A brilliant piece by the great columnist of the Irish Times, Fintan O'Toole. I have always enjoyed reading his articles but this hits the nail on the head (or is that the hammer on the nail - for one of our dear members ?  ). Anyone with a modicum of intelligence and even the slightest propensity for rational thinking should enjoy this thought provoking piece. Lengthy but worth it.

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Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow

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To grasp what is going on in the world right now, we need to reflect on two things. One is that we are in a phase of trial runs. The other is that what is being trialled is fascism – a word that should be used carefully but not shirked when it is so clearly on the horizon. Forget “post-fascist” – what we are living with is pre-fascism.

 

It is easy to dismiss Donald Trump as an ignoramus, not least because he is. But he has an acute understanding of one thing: test marketing. He created himself in the gossip pages of the New York tabloids, where celebrity is manufactured by planting outrageous stories that you can later confirm or deny depending on how they go down. And he recreated himself in reality TV where the storylines can be adjusted according to the ratings. Put something out there, pull it back, adjust, go again.

 

Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375

10 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Dow Jones is ready to bust 25,000. My 401K is back on track. Haven't got time to read all the non sense, I'm inport for a few hours, busy making money and supporting the USNavy. Looks like his plans for NATO nations to pay more worked. Perhaps not the most tactful but it's the results that counts.

Well of course it is ready to bust 25 000. It is not so long ago that it busted 26 000 and what happened. Tax cuts and trade wars and the Dow lost over 1000 points. Nice. Since the start of the financial recovery by Obama not even Obama managed to lose 1000 points on the index. Trump just keeps on winning. Careful with your 401K, Trump will see the Dow at 15 000 before he is jailed. Mark my words.

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Looks like his plans for NATO nations to pay more worked. Perhaps not the most tactful but it's the results that counts.

Nope. He said, if you don't do as I say I am taking my ball home. So everyone said Ok because they were mature enough to do what is best for the team. Europe will meet their two percent obligations and in the mean time you have 20 world leaders hoping Trump's next s**t is a hedgehog, and one world leader - Putin who wants Trump to have his babies. You will see if its the 'result that counts' the next time the USA want a coalition of the willing and nobody is willing.

14 hours ago, bushdoctor said:

I watched the entire video...Peter Strzok refused to answer questions and in the end is threatened with contempt. He cites FBI “policy” over law. 

Sad. 

Can you point me to your posts criticizing Jeff Sessions and others for refusing to answer questions claiming 'Executive Privilege' where absolutely non existed. In the video, Trey Gowdy is a true representative of trump, he is a grade A a_sshole. Strzok has quietly, unassumingly done more for the protection of the USA and it's people than Gowdy or Jordan could do in a hundred lifetimes.

9 hours ago, alocacoc said:

There are no news related to this. Otherwise I would know it.

Don't consume cheap propaganda. Critical thinking. Try it.

Sent from a so called Smartphone using an App.
 

Well at least the phone is smart.

22 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Was great to see Trump sticking it to Germany about them paying large to Russia for energy, then expecting the US to protect them from Russia, while paying too little for their own defence.

Meanwhile Trumps trade tariffs have led to China, Europe and elsewhere putting billions into the Russian (Putins) piggy bank in extra trade orders. His actions in Iran are leading to China taking over the 5Bn contract in the South Pars Gas Field, as Total pull out over fears of further American sanctions. 

I wish Germany had the balls to tell the USA to get the frakk out of all the air bases and FOB's the US use in Germany. Trumps behavior yesterday was disgusting. I was proud to fly into a war zone in formation with US aircrew, if I were asked to do the same now I would not wish to. Trump has almost got the US back to the 1820's...Make America Suck Again.

12 hours ago, bushdoctor said:

 

“Go Mueller”

First it is only a charge, not a conviction. Second how does this relate to Russian collusion by Trump? 

 

Because it’s cool? Because we hate Trump? 

Absolutely we hate Trump. Unlike you I tend not to court the company of people charged with child sex, people with 17 accusations of sexual harassment (Weinstein has only been charged and people still bay for blood), people who have made a career out of ordering the construction services of others and then simply refusing to pay them or offering a fraction in the dollar as recompense, leading to the victims bankruptcy and ruination, People strongly rumored to be involved with the Mafia in New York, people who are pathological liars and I haven't even started on Trump as President. He really is a most disgusting character and WILL be jailed, but I guess we all support the people we would most like to be like. Carry on supporting the Sex Pest in Chief if you must.

As regards Mueller or any other law enforcement agency, if they are investigating a possible crime and uncover evidence of many other crimes are they supposed to say "oh that's nothing to do with us"? They are LAW ENFORCEMENT. Get used to the idea, Trump will go to jail, and by the look on the face of John Kelly at the NATO breakfast yesterday he would gladly lock Trump up himself.

6 hours ago, heybruce said:

6 hours ago, Skywalker69 said:

http://thesource.com/2018/02/11/donald-trumps-former-campaign-manger-tim-nolan-sentence-to-twenty-years-in-prison-for-child-sex-trafficking/

 That one was so unbelievable I checked other sources to see if it's true.  It is.  Tim Nolan was Trump's campaign manager in Kentucky, and is total scum.

 

Trump keeps interesting company.

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Nolan is not the first former Donald Trump campaign manager to get in trouble for child sex charges. Late last year, former Oklahoma campaign chair Ralph Shortey pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking after he was caught in a hotel room with an underage boy.

And there is the "alleged" child statutory rape by Trump on a 13 yr old girl. Quite a pattern setting up ! Go Mueller go.

3 hours ago, hansnl said:

It's not a big weapon, also.

It's just a revolver, suitable to fire .357 and .38, which is around 9 mm.

.38 about the same power as a 9mm, .357 more powerful.

But only 6 cartridges in the weapon.

 

 

It will blow your frakking head clean off, it really is big enough. It won't fit in your pocket either. I doubt the 7 hostages were thinking "only two bullets left" they were thinking "he can still kill two of us stone dead - maybe 4 if we stand one behind the other" ?

1 minute ago, Anythingleft? said:

This loss of face is the most stupid thing I have ever come across, I also believe it to be a get out clause for the most part.
How anyone can be that humiliated by someone beeping a horn at them is ludicrous, the attacks that happen in any manner are dumbed down by this statement. It's an easy excuse and is also easy for the police to deal with with the minimum of exertion. A few quid passes hands and everybody walks away...

All true! BUT........the fact is, it is a real phenomena and people will shoot you or beat you up no matter how stupid or ridiculous you think it is.

12 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

How sad that he is no longer with us.  Perhaps we would have had another classic piece titled "Dim orange stain".

Made my day thanks.

Every time now I listen to Carl Sagan his voice reminds me of Agent Smith in the Matrix...............hey wait a minute...........