zaphod reborn

1 hour ago, Fex Bluse said:

No, it's a historic case because Thais are all too eager to sue foreign companies who will try to follow Thai malleable laws. 

It is a historic case because it is the first trial of a class action suit in Thailand and shows that the change in the civil procedure code, based heavily on the U.S. model, works to raise consumer protection.

The defendants were actually the Thai Ford dealerships because it was primarily a breach of warranty case, and not a products liability case.  The verdict would have been much larger in the west, as the Thai courts only award miniscule damages.  For those reasons, you are completely off base in your Thai-bashing, that this verdict had anything to do with punishing farang. 

I worked for Ford on this matter pre-litigation.  It should have been settled, as Ford had done in the States.  Good result for the plaintiffs.

1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

Why enter Thailand with a fake passport when you could enter on your genuine one, and then get a fake one done here so easily.

Ask the thousands of Uighurs who entered Thailand without passports by paying 10-12,000 THB at the Cambodian border, picked up a fake Turkish passport, and traveled to Turkey so that they could proceed to Syria and fight for ISIS.

TrueVisions needs to be seriously sued in a class action.

1) lost the rights to broadcast HBO group of channels - no notice to customers

2) lost the rights to broadcast NHL games just before last season's playoffs (SI Sports Channel) - no notice to customers

3) lost the rights to broadcast UEFA Champions and Europa League (Bein Sports) - no notice to customers

I was unable to receive the channel that broadcast the World Cup, despite having a platinum subscription

1 hour ago, Benmart said:

Please share your military, political and business experience with this forum. Your keyboard capabilities are certainly revealing.

If you have read my posts to know enough about my keyboard abilities, you would know that I am a lawyer and have worked in Bangkok for over 10 years as a legal/HR/business specialist. I also have a BA in Political Science.  Am I qualfied to opine on these topics on TV?

Bill Gates is chuckling.

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

Wow. Are you reading from the Indictment issued by a Grand Jury? I better look at the news.

Just read Manafort's guilty plea.  "From in or about and between 2005 and 2017 . . . Manafort together with others, including Gates and Kilimnik, knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the United States by impeding, impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful governmental functions of DOJ, the Department of Treasury, and others to commit offenses against the United States."  https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/14/politics/paul-manafort-plea/index.html

1 hour ago, mcambl61 said:

Irrelevant? what planet are you on?

 

So the people investigating the collusion delusion admit to having no evidence then purposely leak to the press to get stories out so they can reference to them in the FISA warrant. you mean that little irrelevant fact? those are her words, twist it any way you want to meet your narrative

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/406881-lisa-page-bombshell-fbi-couldnt-prove-trump-russia-collusion-before-mueller

 

 

House Oversight & Government Reform Committee discovered an April 10, 2017, text from Strzok to Page that said: “I had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you I want to talk to you about media leak strategy with DOJ before you go.”

Then, two days later, Strzok reached out to Page to congratulate her for planting two stories that were critical of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

“Well done, Page,” Strzok wrote.

 

 

It is amazing you want to ignore actual real evidence, but if it fits the narrative you want, go for it.

 there is no doubt you will discount the soon to be released evidence and justify.

 

Leaks occurred on the Clinton side of the investigation only, mainly from the FBI director, Comey.  Most of the leaks were instigated to respond to pressure placed on the FBI by the GOP to prosecute Clinton for her personal email server.  It turns out, there was nothing of significance in Hillary's personal email account.  The hacked emails were obtained from Podesta and other DNC staffers.  That's the real evidence.

You notice that there were absolutely zero leaks about the investigation by the FBI as to Trump campaign ties to Russia.  The only leak was when Steele thought the FBI was not seriously considering his intelligence work, so took it to the media.  That wasn't a government leak, but caused the FBI to cut ties with Steele.  The next public revelation was publication of the Steele dossier by Buzzfeed.

The Hill article you cite doesn't reference when the alleged leaks from Page and Stroek occurred.  If you read the context, it was sometime around May 2017, long after the FBI's investigation into Trump's became public knoweldge.  The best the article can say is "it is likely" there were leaks before and after Mueller's appointment.

Carter Page had been under FBI investigation for 2 years prior to joining Trump's campaign.  He was a minor player, but had already been under a FISA warrant, so when he joined up with the Trump campaign, and given Papadapolous' drunk utterance, it wasn't a leap of logic for the FBI to surveil him.  After all, he publicly admitted he wanted to work for Russia as a Nat Gas specialist, and attended a conference in Moscow where he criticized US energy policy towards Russia (ie, sanctions).  Page is an idiot, so both Putin and the FBI gave up on him.

The real evidence is the guility plea of Manafort.  "From in or about and between 2005 and 2017 . . . Manafort together with others, including Gates and Kilimnik, knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the United States by impeding, impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful governmental functions of DOJ, the Department of Treasury, and others to commit offenses against the United States."  That means that while Manafort was chairman of Trump's campaign, he conspired with a Russian oligarch to obstruct the DOJ's investigation of that campaign.  BOOM!

1 hour ago, Zonka said:

Shame she didnt report it in 1982 when it allegedly happened.

Hasn't bothered her for nearly 40 years!

Actually, 30 years, as she reported it to her therapist in 2012.  There are a number of reasons women don't report sexual assaults, particularly when they aren't interested in pursuing a criminal case.

This matter should be referred to the FBI.  Although Kavanaugh has been through 6 background checks, this issue has never been investigated, and it makes more sense to question relevant witnesses (Mark Judge, and Ford's classmates) in an FBI interrogation setting, rather than through the politicized Senate Judiciary Committee.

All it takes for the FBI to start the investigation is a request from Trump.  But Trump lied and said the FBI isn't interested in investigating this matter.  It would take a few weeks to do the investigation.

It will be hard to determine if the allegations made by Ford are truthful.  I am more concerned about Kavanaugh's response, particularly in light of his friend Mark Judge's revelations and refusal to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Kavanaugh has not been truthful or forthright in dealing with many questions, and his response to this allegation follows that pattern.  The least he can do is say that he often went to parties while at Georgetown Prep at which he drank, so he just doesn't recall this particular incident.  Claiming that he never went to this particular party just doesn't ring true.

2 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

That is a terrific idea to name the military base there in Poland - Fort Trump. 

The Polish President really gets it! 

What a hypocrite!!!  Trump has taken the position that troops should be removed from Germany and Korea.  Why stage troops in Poland?  How about defending Ukraine and trying to pressure Russia to withdraw from Crimea and Georgia?  One of Trump's biggest faults is that he has no agenda.  He is a day-trader and only interested in grabbing today's headlines.

15 hours ago, mcambl61 said:

I did not say a word about my searches or sources.

I wonder why no one ever talks about the text messages that

clearly and undeniably show FBI creating a story to the illusion

of collusion?

Because they are irrelevant.  Governmental officers can have political positions and express their viewpoints.  In fact, they have a Constitutional right to do so.  Do you have any evidence, even a scintilla of evidence, that any FBI agent tainted his official duties with his personal political beliefs?

Frankly, it all seems to be a wild distraction targeted at Trump's 25% deplorable base.  The great weight of evidence demonstrates that Trump's campaign had improper ties with Putin's Russian agents and traded money and election assistance for a change in the GOP platform regarding Russian sanctions.  Trump's criminal syndicate was designed so that Trump was insulated from direct illegal activity, but who was the beneficiary of the conspiracy to defraud the election (Manafort pleaded guilty to this charge) and bribery (still to be charged in an indictment)?  It really doesn't matter what prompted the investigation, as the investigation clearly has hit paydirt.

Many countries had been trying to influence American elections.  Since the breakup of the Soviet empire, Putin was particularly focused on disrupting and directing the American political system.  The FBI had leads before Trump even announced his candidacy.  Carter Page and Paul Manafort had already been under investigation.  Manafort's hire by Trump was particularly troublesome, given Manafort's 10 year history of working in Ukraine on behalf of Putin.  Manafort was a magnet for Russian influence, and Trump knowingly employed him in that capacity.

Sorry, but the Trump presidency will end in 2020, I believe by an agreement not to run for reelection in exchange for a global pardon of Trump and his family.

54 minutes ago, mcambl61 said:

what suspicious activity are you referring to or did you read it somewhere?

 

dates/names/details please

Obviously, you are using Rupert Murdoch's FoxSearch instead of Google, Bing or MSN Search, where such information is readily available.

The SAR's (suspicious activity reports) were filed with respect to $20 million in bank transfers from Aras Agalarov (one of the 6/9/16 Trump Tower meeting attendees) to NY and NJ banks.  Transfers were made immediately after the meeting, and immediately after the announcement that Trump "won" the general election.  Money moved through offshore bank accounts and LLC's that had been dormant for years.

Trump and Trump Org have close ties to Agalarov.  Agalarov hosted Trump when he attended his 2013 Miss Universe Beauty Pageant in Moscow.  Agalarov was also involved in the plan to build Trump Tower in Moscow.

The story even has a Bangkok angle, as it appears Goldstone, who set up the Trump Tower meeting, and his business partner, took what appears to be a sex vacation in Thailand to relax, after the Trump Tower story went public. 

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By July 24, 2017, about two weeks after the New York Times broke the story about the meeting, Goldstone had left for Bangkok. He told congressional investigators that he wanted to take time off, equating it to a college student’s “gap year,” so he could write a book. But bank officials questioned his financial behavior there, particularly a series of 37 ATM withdrawals totaling about $8,400. The last of those withdrawals was made in November 2017. His business partner, David Tominello, appears to have traveled to Bangkok as well, making 51 withdrawals during the same period for about $7,600. Bankers noted that the withdrawals came shortly after news broke about Goldstone’s role in the Trump Tower meeting.

 

On Aug. 31, 2017, while they were still overseas, Goldstone and Tominello tapped into a home equity line of credit to withdraw money. The two received the loan on an apartment in New Jersey and used the funds to transfer about $32,000 to Oui 2. Examiners said the two men were essentially using a loan to make “payroll,” which bankers thought was unusual, especially when they had such a lucrative source of income through Kaveladze’s company. They also found it “concerning” that the home equity line of credit funded ATM cash withdrawals in Bangkok.

 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/trump-tower-meeting-suspicious-transactions-agalarov

3 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

It's all going to come out now. 

Get ready for the indictments. 

Are they going to release Trump's tax returns and all the bank Suspicious Activity Reports with regard to transfers made to officers and directors of the Trump Org?  Mueller already has them, so it won't be long for the indictments.

3 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

Reeling? 

Hardly. The woman's story doesn't add up. Cannot even remember what year the incident supposed to have Taken. 

A cheap political trick at the last minute. 

Let's take a look at Kavanaugh's school buddy, who attended the same all-boys prep school for bratty, pampered, white supremacist, rich boy trash.  Yes, this is the guy who was in the room with Kavanaugh when he committed the sexual assault.

Mark Judge - author

God and Man at Georgetown Prep (2005)

Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk (2007)

Judge says his own blackout drinking while he and Kavanaugh were Georgetown Prep students “reached the point where once I had the first beer, I found it impossible to stop until I was completely annihilated.” He writes that the school made students do community service on Sundays in an effort to try to keep them from drinking too much the night before.

He describes, for instance, what happened after a night of heavy drinking with friends at a Georgetown bar. “The next thing I knew, I was lying on a bathroom floor. I was curled up in the fetal position with saliva running out of the side of my mouth,” Judge writes, explaining that he had inexplicably woken up inside a nearby Four Seasons Hotel. He writes that he called his mom for help getting home. “I must have come over here and passed out,” he tells her.

In his 1983 high school yearbook, he wrote, "Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs." Judge uploaded “sexualized videos of young women” on YouTube. An investigation into Judge’s social media postings, many of which have been deleted, cited “internet sleuths” who “found a YouTube channel that appeared to belong to Judge onto which he uploaded bizarre videos that intercut innocuous visuals of books and cityscapes with sexualized videos of young women”

He also has written numerous times about his anti-black and anti-gay viewpoints.  These white boy preppies need to be expunged and barred from government service.  Frankly, if I was the GOP, I wouldn't tie my horse up to this cart.  They can find plenty of conservative judges through the Federalist Society.  Trump only added Kavanaugh to the list, because of his radical, unconstitutional opinions on executive power and immunity of the President from subpoenas and indictments. 

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FEMA said in a statement the alerts can only be used for national emergencies. The president has sole responsibility for determining when the national-level alerts are used.

Given Trump's record of distorting the meaning of "national security" to impose unconstitutional bans on immigration and tariffs, we can expect "national emergencies" to include "Hillary is a crook", "Obama is a Nigerian Muslim" and "get me a diet coke".

Wht don't they start with Cambridge Analytica and Steve Bannon?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/16/steve-bannon-cambridge-analytica-whistleblower-suppress-voters-testimony

2 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

The author of this piece has been following swamp critter Manafort for a long time...

 

What Paul Manafort Knows

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/paul-manafort-cooperating-mueller/570364/

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I have never invested much significance in the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016

What the author of this article doesn't know:

US$20 million was transferred by Russian oligarch, Aras Agaralov, to NY and NJ banks per SAR reports from the banks.  The recipients were 2 "unidentified" meeting attendees,  The money was funneled through dozens of offshore bank accounts and LLCs that had been dormant for years.  The transfers were made immediately after the meeting, and immediately after Trump won the general election.  The author knows a liitle about Oleg and Stone, but dropped the ball on the most recent development in the Russia scandal.