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While the hosting fee is not that much, ~ $50 million USD, the total cost to stage the event is likely to be ~ $125 million USD. And the practicality? Dubious. The PM has lofty goals, and that's a good thing. But like many of his idiotic proposals (land-bridge, digital wallet) he fails to pass the bluster stage.

Identified in many outlets... son/driver: Panich Promphat father/deputy minister health: Santi Promphat https://thai.news/news/thailand/panich-promphats-night-of-defiance-a-high-stakes-encounter-on-bangkoks-streets

New York AG says $175 million Trump fraud bond isn’t properly backed, should be voided The New York Attorney General’s office on Friday asked a judge to effectively void a $175 million bond posted by former President Donald Trump to secure a much larger monetary damage award in his civil business fraud case as he appeals the judgment. The AG’s office in a filing said Trump and other defendants in the case had failed to show there is enough identifiable collateral to back the bond for the judgment in Manhattan Supreme Court. The filing notes that the surety Trump used to obtain the bond, Knight Specialty Insurance Company, is “a small insurer that is not authorized to write business in New York and thus not regulated by the state’s insurance department, had never before written a surety bond in New York or in the prior two years in any other jurisdiction, and has a total policyholder surplus of just $138 million.” https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/19/new-york-ag-says-175-million-trump-fraud-bond-isnt-properly-backed-should-be-voided.html

Did you use the magnifying glass option - after entering your passport number and country of origin - to auto-fill from your previous filing? Have you filed a TM 30 on the NEW online system?

Her remaining sentence, G2G/Rice Scheme, will be reduced (Royal decree) from five years to one year. One year gets reduced by 50%. She'll serve six months, but under home supervision (no ankle monitor). This all begs the question: Why were these two run out of the country in the first place? I think she'll be back before the end of the year, but based on the increased focus on this matter it may be a lot sooner. Maybe after the Royal Birthday (sixth cycle; a big deal so no distractions between now and then) on 28 July?

And the hearing is still scheduled for Monday, April 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM.

Trump's $175 million bond questioned by New York AG, hearing scheduled NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - A New York judge will hold a hearing on April 22 over the $175 million bond Donald Trump posted as he appeals a $454 million fraud judgment against him, the state attorney general's office said on Thursday, after asking for more details about the bond. The move does not necessarily imperil Trump's bond but will likely require California-based Knight to show that it can cover the bond. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hearing-over-trumps-175-million-bond-ny-civil-fraud-case-set-april-22-2024-04-04/

Yes. They do.

KSIC Filing... https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=NJfBycB2k9qVU06lZJUsQQ==&system=prod

Interesting that the bond is secured (between trump and KSIC) by trump's Schwab account. Why wouldn't trump just put up the bond from his Schwab account? (That is a rhetorical question.) Trump says $175 million bond is financially secure, asks judge to reject New York attorney general’s challenge In court filings Monday night, Trump said the bond secured by Knight Specialty Insurance Company is backed by Trump’s Charles Schwab account with more than $175 million in cash. Knight Specialty can take control of the Schwab account and is fully backed by its parent company to assume any risk, one of Trump’s filings said. “The DJT Trust granted KSIC a security interest in a Schwab brokerage account, in which the DJT Trust is obligated to maintain no less than $175 million in cash or cash equivalents at all times,” according to an affirmation filed in support of the bond by Gregory Serio, a former superintendent of insurance for New York state and partner of Park Strategies, a government consulting firm. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/15/politics/trump-civil-fraud-case-bond-financially-secure/index.html

Understanding the caveat that Immigration can ask for whatever documents they want... The key words in the requirement are "such as", so those are just three examples of acceptable "income". They are not the only acceptable forms of income. For U.S. citizens Social Security is not a "pension". A Credit Advice Receipt shows the "source" of the remitted funds.

Minister of Public Health is toast, he shot himself in both feet. Clueless/tone-deaf on PM.25 Defense Minister is toast, military is running roughshod over him. Finance Minister is "challenged", so he'll remain PM, but maybe take on Defense. I think Thaklsin's hands will be all over this reshuffle.

Departure gates at SIN are secure (air-side), so you have to pass security, and each BP gets scanned for entry into the gate's seating area. If an issue arises it would happen here. Sometimes BP's issued at remote airports for subsequent sectors, are required to be re-issued at the next point of departure. My guess is that you will be fine. Do you think you need to provide proof of onward travel? Are you on the return portion of a THL-BNE-THL itinerary? Do you have some sort of visa/re-entry permit?

Two of three existing cases (Malfeasance/bidding on a project, Transfer of person) against her have been dismissed by the courts here. The remaining case is the G2G Rice Scheme for which she was sentenced to five years (in absentia). I think she'll get the Shinawatra Amnesty Deal, which by now has been standardized. Sentence reduced by Royal Decree to one year. Six-month maximum sentence. Can be served under house arrest. Seems like she'll be back before the end of the year.

I think the OP is currently airborne on SQ 256 for BNE-SIN. They could be DBed at the departure gate in SIN, assuming proof of onward travel is required for this passenger.

APIS. Advance Passenger Information System Have you arrived in Thailand? Do/did you have proof of onward travel, assuming it is required.

Negligible. I guess there's a chance you'll get asked in SIN (at the departure gate) for the final sector (SIN-BKK). But I suspect SQ has refined their OLCI/kiosk self-check-in procedures, and that there was no need to refer you to an agent (check-in desk) at BNE, based on your passport/travel record-history.

I think it was ratified/codified several times including after state-hood. I wonder how people feel about travel bans, for those who would leave a state to obtain an abortion where it is legal. Or how they feel about the restrictive state prosecuting a woman who did get an abortion elsewhere? The right-wing fought long and hard to overturn Roe. They caught the car, and now seem intent on driving it off a cliff. This decision comes just one day after trump's rambling "statement" on abortion, where he changed his mind for the thirteenth time. This is going to be tough for Republicans to hide from for seven months.

Seventeen of the twenty are presidents of Christian-aligned schools. Props to Coach Staley, I thought she handled the question with poise, honesty and class. She's qualified to offer her opinion given her storied career as a player (three Olympic gold medals), and coach (38:0 this year, also one gold medal as a coach) I think there are ~ 520,000 NCAA student-athletes. Some ~ 40 identify as trans, with most competing in team sports. So 0.015% (assuming a 50/50 split). AFAIK, the NCAA is not planning a total ban, but like most sporting governing bodies, has rules that most find acceptable. Many individuals have remarkable physical assets that offer them a significant advantage. I see you Victor Wembanyama. Why not ban tall people? We have weight classes in many sports to offset these advantages. And even have girls wrestling boys in HS, sanctioned in Iowa for example.

Hmm. No. It was the Arizona State Supreme Court. Kari Lake disavows Arizona abortion ban ruling Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake on Tuesday came out against an Arizona state Supreme Court ruling that bans nearly all abortions, with exceptions only to save the mother's life. "I oppose today's ruling, and I am calling on [Democratic Gov.] Katie Hobbs and the state Legislature to come up with an immediate commonsense solution that Arizonans can support," Lake said in a statement. But Lake said in 2022 that the near-total ban the ruling upholds is a "great law" and said it sets an example for other states. https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/kari-lake-arizona-abortion-ban

Not sure, the 1864 law makes no exceptions for rape or incest. But in the long run it's probably not good politically for republicans.

Arizona abortion rights amendment backers says they've gathered signatures needed for 2024 ballot PHOENIX — Groups working to put reproductive rights in Arizona’s state constitution say they have exceeded the signature threshold to put a constitutional amendment on abortion on the state’s ballot in November. Arizona for Abortion Access, a coalition of reproductive rights organizations including the ACLU of Arizona and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, says it had gathered 506,892 petition signatures as of this past weekend, with more than three months to go until the July 3 deadline to submit the signatures to Arizona’s secretary of state. The threshold to put a measure on the ballot is 383,923 signatures, and while some typically get invalidated in the verification process, the amendment appears on track to go before voters this fall. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-abortion-rights-amendment-backers-says-gathered-signatures-nee-rcna145922

Arizona steps up, and reverts to an 1864 law. Arizona's top court revives 19th century abortion ban April 9 (Reuters) - Arizona's top court on Tuesday revived a ban on nearly all abortions under a law from 1864, a half century before statehood and women's suffrage, further restricting reproductive rights in a state where terminating a pregnancy was already barred at 15 weeks of gestation. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled, opens new tab 4-2 in favor of an anti-abortion obstetrician and a county prosecutor who pressed to implement the Civil War-era statute after the Democratic attorney general of the key presidential battleground state declined to do so. States were given the go-ahead to adopt such bans after the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned its landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade that had made access to abortion a constitutional right nationwide. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/arizonas-top-court-revives-19th-century-abortion-ban-2024-04-09/

It is already the 10th of April, one would have thought that they had a schedule prepared after declaring this three-week "soft-power" event? I expect that since a committee must be formed, we'll see the schedule by June.