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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.

Small modular reactors would be a good solution for Thailand. As of 2020 there were many ideas. Some are small enough to fit the modules in shipping containers. There is some construction to prepare the site, of course, but the complications of a major reactor are avoided. SMR_Book_2020 table of contents.pdf SMR_Book_2020.pdf

Americans cannot get a tax credit in the US if they have no foreign income. For them, the alternative would be to get a credit in Thailand for taxes paid in the US. Then Thailand may get nothing. Credit on US taxes is complicated because the Thai-US tax treaty does not contain a provision for what is called re-sourcing, unlike other US treaties negotiated in the same time frame. Strange, since over the years there were model treaties containing these rules. It seems like it is time for overhaul of the Thai-US treaty. Under many US tax treaties this re-sourcing means that for income tax paid to the foreign country under its rules, the income reported on that foreign tax return can be considered foreign income for the purposes of calculating the US foreign tax credit, even though in reality the US taxpayer did not have any income in that country or any other foreign country.

Maybe "unpatriotic". If there were just a few, they would be called "self-hating Jews".

Australia is an example of settler-colonialism. After years of maltreating the aboriginal population, It seems that they are making an effort to make amends. Let's hope that Israel wakes up and puts Smotrich and Ben Gvir and many others in prison for life. Actually, Smotrich should get multiple life sentences and the body should be kept in lockup until all sentences have expired.

“Palestine will be free from the river to the sea” has a non-violent meaning. Many in the movement for Palestinian rights had given up on the two-state solution because there are so many settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. For them, the answer is to end apartheid in Israel and the Occupied Territories and to accept the one-state solution. I think that this is naive. Perhaps they should be saying “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea. End Apartheid Now”, so that Australians and others do not mix this up with true anti-semitism. The founder of Human Rights Watch made an important comment about the anti-semitiam issue in discussing Gaza yesterday: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/05/26/gps-0526-icc-charges-against-israel.cnn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh_Neier

The Home Office should get creative and tow their vehicles. If they don't want to pay, then why don't they use the Underground. But of course they wouldn't want to pay the "tax", must ride for free. Those arrogant colonial scofflaws!!