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Whitmer is good, but there's also Amy Klobuchar. I agree that it would be better to have Whitmer than Harris, considering that Harris has to carry the baggage of Ukraine & Gaza. How about Cory Booker for the VP slot? Check out his education. He would be an excellent follow on to Whitmer in 8 years, to be hoped.

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My doctor friend said that it was acetaldehyde. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-search-of-a-cure-for-the-dreaded-hangover/

My doctor friend said that it was acetaldehyde. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-search-of-a-cure-for-the-dreaded-hangover/

Biden should have set to work after the 2000 election to have a plan in place. Unfortunately, bureaucrats on the ground seem to have been in a bubble until provinces started falling day after day. It was much too late by then. I think that the writing was on the wall as early as 2006 that it was only a matter of time before the Taliban returned to power.

It's about time that the State Department be reformed. Their doddering bureaucracy is not fit to handle a humanitarian crisis of the magniture of the Afghan debacle. Maybe it needs a unit that can respond by cutting through the endless hurdles to get the job done early with time to spare. It would need power to override resistance from the ninnies higher up, to communicate and coordinate directly with military and intelligence.

The Supreme Court's recent presidential immunity decision will probably shield Biden from criminal indictment in US courts, but maybe the question is whether he is covered for civil liability. The others are not protected by the Court's decision, however.

Cognitive ability only goes down from here. Unfortunately, they chose Kamala Harris as VP, an uninspiring person who had been polling even lower than Biden before the debate. Now some say that Black voters will be offended if she is not given the chance to run for president if Biden withdraws. It's a quandary that they should have considered before they chose her 4 years ago. Maybe Gretchen Whitmer as presidential candidate with Senator Cory Booker as VP would be a sensible ticket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker There is one catch. This year Booker needs to run for reelection to his Senate seat, and the other Senator from New Jersey, also a Democrat, is in serious legal trouble.

I looked into Medicare at least 10 years ago. For me I understood that I would have to live in the US 5 years before I could qualify. I have been a non-resident of the US since 2004, and I never accumulated the 40 credits, so I when I looked at this I would have had to pay around $400 per month, probably for Part A. Maybe there was an assumption in the guidelines that a person in my situation was not a US citizen, just a green card holder. Perhaps the law was written based on this assumption, but I have no time to investigate this dead end.

Exactly. Netanyahu would like to prolong to war to make Biden lose the election (besides keeping himself from being convicted of corruption). Then with Trump in power annexation of the West Bank can be done, and Saudi Arabia can become a client state of Israel!! If Trump and Netanyahu have their way, the Palestinians in Gaza will be left to rot, if they don't depart.

I wonder whether your 90-day online rejection problem could be related to the introduction of the new online filing system for TM30. The latest version (to my knowledge/memory) was around September last year. Have you filed TM30 online since September last year? Also the gap between November 23 and March 24 must be more than 90 days.

Usually they follow the non-interference principle, so abuses in India and Burma are not contested, either.

I looked into Medicare, but living in Thailand officially means that I am ineligible. Maybe you have to live in the US for 5 years before applying.

Surrogacy for straight and gay couples using IVF as needed.

Israel is resisting the two-state solution, so any deal will be held up until after the US election, with the expectation that Trump will win. Then Netanyahu hopes to get a deal with meaningless gestures to the two-state solution and neutralization of the Saudi Peace Initiative of 2002. It's unlikely that Biden will do anything serious to stop the Gaza war, so Netanyahu will avoid getting ousted until the never-ending war is "over", and by that time Trump may already be in power again.

I read that 4 hospitals in Bangkok have the XBB vaccine, for what that's worth.

Infections in a restaurant spread from one table to another because an air conditioner propelled the droplets 4 meters or so. This was an anecdotal observation rather than a study.

I don't think that long Covid has gone away. We are only beginning to understand long Covid, and for those affected it can seriously debilitate.

It might happen if the World gets sufficiently agitated.

The photo could not be anywhere near Somphet Market which is beside the moat. I am not sure where the mentioned fountain is either.

The problem is that as both the treaty and the technical explanation make clear, the credit is allowed but limited by US law to foreign tax paid on foreign-source income. I have yet to discover how someone without foreign-source income can override US law when the treaty states after article 25(3): "Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the determination of the source of income for purposes of this Article shall be subject to such source rules in the domestic laws of the Contracting States as apply for the purpose of limiting the foreign tax credit." These are links for the 1996 US Model Tax Treaty and its Technical Explanation: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/Treaty-US-Model-1996.pdf https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/Treaty-US-Model-TE-1996.pdf These can be compared to the specific versions for Thailand. I have not done this comparison yet. Anyway, you should read page 31 of the NY Bar report 1313 which addresses the specifics of the Thai and Indian treaties with the US regarding allowable credit.

The problem is that as both the treaty and the technical explanation make clear, the credit is allowed but limited by US law to foreign tax paid on foreign-source income. I have yet to discover how someone without foreign-source income can override US law when the treaty states after article 25(3): "Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the determination of the source of income for purposes of this Article shall be subject to such source rules in the domestic laws of the Contracting States as apply for the purpose of limiting the foreign tax credit." These are links for the 1996 US Model Tax Treaty and its Technical Explanation: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/Treaty-US-Model-1996.pdf https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/Treaty-US-Model-TE-1996.pdf These can be compared to the specific versions for Thailand. I have not done this comparison yet. Anyway, you should read page 31 of the NY Bar report 1313 which addresses the specifics of the Thai and Indian treaties with the US regarding allowable credit.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion You can deduct up to $120K of foreign earned income from total income on US taxes. So if you earned that in Arabia for example, then that could be taxable in Thailand besides the other income reported (and taxed) in the US.

France also taxes on worldwide income of residents.

Then what article of the tax treaty allows me to allocate US-source income to foreign-source income in form 1116? I looked through the whole treaty and don't see any clause to cite in form 8833. The quote from the 8833 instructions (see original post) means a tax treaty with a provision for overriding IRS rules, and that would be for example re-sourcing. Other treaty provisions might give the country where the US citizen resides the power to tax some kind of income that would normally be taxed in the US under IRS rules. That is the purpose of form 8833, to cite the relevant provision in the particular treaty in question. It could be that IRS being understaffed does not check back to see whether re-sourcing is provided in the Thai-US tax treaty and thus an 8833 claim is not challenged. Most treaties provide re-sourcing.