Plan B

The times they are a-changin I still remember the signs in the receptions of many 5 star hotels in Phuket reading "We Do Not Accept Indians"...

The first casualty of war is truth.

For most of you who know nothing about Brazil and Bolsonaro, I suggest you watch Apocalypse in the Tropics horror documentary, showcasing the goal of right wing evangelical pastors who call on their flock to disrupt politics as usual. In the sort term it means voting in more conservative evangelical lawmakers to rule in their favour, but in the long run, the goal may be to sow more chaos to hasten the end times. Sounds familiar?

Many coffee shops in Netherlands do the same for first time customers. It's really no big deal.

Most of them will be killed by friendly fire just like the first time round.

The only reason Paramount caved in is because they need the FCC's approval for a billion dollar merge that's in the making. Trump had no chance whatsoever to win in court.

In the field of geopolitics: Doesn’t the bully, who bypasses pretenses and speaks the blunt language of self-interest, pay off there? Shouldn’t we finally abandon the hypocrisy of the “principles” of international law and allied morality? Hasn’t America always done this? Didn’t it trade with emirs and dictators whenever it suited it, hiding its Kissingerian cynicism behind the veils of humanitarian and democratic enclosures? It is worth weighing the new planetary ethos with its own criteria. To judge it not by the values of the post-war world, but by its own authoritarian standards. How to call a leadership that drools publicly, and on the world stage craves unscrupulous gifts and flattery? Is this a solid leadership or just timid and lost in its insatiable cravings? This is a country whose foreign policy everyone knows they can buy. A country that if they give enough – cash, minerals, or airplanes– they can align it with their own interests.

Of Greek descent

"Jit, the neighbour responsible for leaving the gate unlocked, admitted his mistake but said he had assumed the dog had returned to its cage." Keep the pittie in a cage?! What could go wrong?

Islamophobia "A word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons." Andrew Cummins

The stupidity of the comments is staggering!

"Concerns about AI secrecy aren’t just coming from social media. Dr. Diane Hamilton, a behavior and tech expert..." Don't you mean Linda Hamilton?...

Who writes this BS?

Now I'm confused. You're saying that if you use an agent the only way to get another extension is by using an agent again? And that if want to do it yourself then exiting and starting over is "standard MO"?? If that's how it is, I had no idea.

Some years back a Phuket based passport holder using a BKK agent got a 12 month extension from the immigration of Ayutthaya. All three 90 day reports were done in person at Phuket immigration and went on without a hitch. When the time came to extend to 12 more months, this time completely legit, Phuket immigration informed them that they couldn't accept the application as they'd been issued a warning from headquarters to not continue any extension that was previously issued by the immigrations of Pattaya and Ayutthaya. And that they had to leave the country and start the process all over again. Which was what finally happened. End of story.