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Srikcir

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  1. Thai owner might make a significant capital gain on sale? Us the to help pay off Thai's household debt.
  2. A mere assertion that MAGA must investigate government waste and inefficiency is a means for MAGA to manipulate government agencies into beneficial waste for MAGA individuals. No specificity as one might expect from MAGA. Here is the present situation on government waste and inefficiency. It has been operational for some time. GAOverview: Understanding Waste in Federal Programs; Published: May 09, 2024 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107198 (sorry this requires reading) Types of waste in federal programs and strategies to address it: Programs may be vulnerable to waste due to mismanagement of assets. Personnel may engage in wasteful practices by not following policies and statutes. Program officials do not always establish adequate oversight procedures. Improve asset management capabilities. Ensure that officials know and adhere to policies and statutes. Develop adequate oversight procedures. For example: Ineffective software asset management increases the likelihood of waste. Trump and Musk would have you belief there is nothing in place. But apparently POTUS #45 had no issues during his last term.
  3. A mere assertion that MAGA must investigate government waste and inefficiency is a means for MAGA to manipulate government agencies into beneficial waste for MAGA individuals. No specificity as one might expect from MAGA. Here is the present situation on government waste and inefficiency. It has been operational for some time. GAOverview: Understanding Waste in Federal Programs; Published: May 09, 2024 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107198 (sorry this requires reading) Types of waste in federal programs and strategies to address it: Programs may be vulnerable to waste due to mismanagement of assets. Personnel may engage in wasteful practices by not following policies and statutes. Program officials do not always establish adequate oversight procedures. Improve asset management capabilities. Ensure that officials know and adhere to policies and statutes. Develop adequate oversight procedures. For example: Ineffective software asset management increases the likelihood of waste. Trump and Musk would have you belief there is nothing in place. But apparently POTUS #45 had no issues during his last term.
  4. Becoming more popular in airports are single and double sleeping pods, ie., Hanoi Noi Bai airport. See video by Probably Lost. There is Boxtel near the airport about 4km away. How successful has this been for transit traveller's?
  5. Who are clearly self motivated for riches over public good. So no.
  6. Why would presumably any advanced civilization likely light years from Earth be interested in a planet whose people that can't even travel beyond its moon about 240,000 miles away? Especially given our Milky Way galaxy (almost 14 billion years old) is estimated to contain between 100 and 400 billion stars that could have more possibility of advanced civilizations. With Earth located in the Orion Arm, roughly halfway between the center and the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, I would expect that if there are even advanced civilizations within the Milky Way, I would expect more interest towards the galactic core area where stars are much more denser and more easily visited.
  7. I guess former PM Prayut's peace initiative that started with active dialog primarily with PM Yingluck (then passed on to succeeding regimes) with Malaysia and the insurgency leaderships is not going well, if at all given the RTM's traditional opposition to any dilution of Thailand's sovereign territory - being one proposal for the area described as the former Kingdom of Patani become semi-autonomous. But then it took the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) decades for a final peace process. Coincidentally, Malaysia also participated in the peace initiative.
  8. No. In terms of trashing the public, as of 2024, there are 813 billionaires in the United States, which is about 2.4 billionaires per million people.
  9. These are perfect for Thailand now facing an energy crisis. "Small modular reactors (SMRs) can take between 2–3 years to build, which is much faster than the average of 8 years for large reactors. This is due to the use of prefabricated building elements and modularization, which can help to reduce costs and speed up construction." They "can produce up to 300 megawatts of electric power and 7.2 million kWh per day." (Generative AI) SMRs also may mean less issues with spent nuclear rods than large nuclear plants.
  10. Trump was POTUS for four years. What did he accomplish on identifying and eliminating government waste? President Donald Trump had been violating the Constitution since January 20, 2017. He violated the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses and failed to divest from his businesses. He enriched Ivanka who had patents pending in China approved by Xi regime and Jaraed Kushner's private equity equity fund received Wealth funds in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar in the millions and possibly billions of millions of dollars while a senior advisor to Trump.
  11. Essentially Musk will head up The Department of Loyalty to Trump, a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assultant.
  12. Trump doesn't eat olives. Try money.
  13. Who would have guessed Israel would take such action? Especially in the light of POTUS elect Trump. But if sources and methods used by the US government to obtain such information clandestinely is revealed, the arrest of Rahman is justified.
  14. Tell me a time the SC ruled against military coups, military abolishment of Constitutions, military rewrites of the Thai constitutions, military appointments to the House and Senate, change in Head of Government without a National Election, etc.
  15. Glory to white national supremacists! According to Trump, immigrants in the U.S. illegally are "destroying the blood of our country, they're destroying the fabric of our country."
  16. I understand that the Revenue Department will amend the law to collect taxes from residents who have income from abroad, even if that income is not brought into the country. As such it would apply in the determination of Thai taxed income relative to any foreign resident's country's Double Taxation Treaty if applicable. Thai taxation may exceed foreign citizen's home country's taxation (ie., higher Thai tax bracket than foreigner's home country tax bracket). The amendment would be consistent with the principle of taxation of worldwide income, such as required in the case for US citizens regardless whether they bring that income into the US or not. For US citizens (I don't know if this is unique or similar for other countries), it also triggers the mandatory annual Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR) to identify foreign funds held under almost any kind of ownership that exceeds cumulatively $10,000. Failure to file has a very high penalty.
  17. Leftist realist. Right wing propagandists can't face truth because fear of the unknown disappears.
  18. The majority Senate did not elect Trump MAGA candidate Rick Scott as majority leader. Trump insisted on a public vote but the vote was by secret ballot. That's a MAGA defeat. Expanded powers for Trump voted down because of one Republican. As Democrats found over the last four years, a slim majority doesn't always get its way:
  19. Note that Senate "Republicans" elected John Thune as their new leader, replacing Mitch McConnell Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell. Rick Scott is MAGA endorsed by Trump for Senate majority leader. Also note that Trump demanded a public vote vs a secret vote. As such Trump lost.
  20. "they" - More politically known as congressional opposition. Aside, when it comes to whining, Trump has shown over the last ten years that he is the King of whining.
  21. A "partner" can have a number of meanings. In this case the "partner" and foreigner are equals. If a foreigner cannot own a business, it would seem a partner would also not own it but both could operate it.
  22. Why would there be a new owner? Maybe you're just being funny? "The main owner of the shop was a Thai national who legally registered the store." This might be the owner. There is the business partner (Thai unless an illegal foreign nominee?). But "There is no report on whether Daniel’s Thai business partner was involved in the criminal activity. Police have not planned to summon the Thai national for questioning" So it would seem only why Daniel as a "partner" would not remain in the business.
  23. Not according to the USSC. It ruled that there are circumstances immunity applies when POTUS acts in the duties of the POTUS and not immune when he acts in any other capacity, as a private citizen. Its decision was that lower court judges must make such analysis. Thus, a lower court can find Trump acted without POTUS immunity and be subjected to criminal prosecution. For example, Trump acting as a POTUS candidate running political office is not conducting himself as POTUS but as a private citizen. A further example, paying a porn star to be silent through a private attorney so that such revelation does not affect his candidacy for POTUS.
  24. Don't you mean MAGA - the party of Trump? MAGA and Trump have made clear MAGA excludes Republicans in Name Only ("RINOS") and/ or GOP who have not sworn fealty to Trump. While the number of MAGA/GOP are small in the House and Senate, we have seen in the past combined with Democrat votes they can potentially block MAGA legislation. But I understand the attempt to show super political strength by using the now collective term Republicans...it's a Trump thing.
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