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7 hours ago, tumama said:

U.S and its lackey states are at it again with their blatant hypocrisy. 

 

1. Ukraine illegally violated Russian territorial waters.

2. Ukraine refused verbal orders to stop.

3. Ukraine ignored warning shots.

 

 

You may be right, or not. The strength of your assertion does suggest that you do have inside information on the matter.

9 hours ago, Topdoc said:

Independent journalist Graham Phillips reporting on this story from Crimea

 

He may, or may not be, 'independent'. Given who he (apparently) works for, as shown on his broadcast, it's not perhaps entirely surprising that what he has to say is rather STRONGLY anti-Ukraine & anti-NATO. People can draw their own conclusions.

8 hours ago, stevenl said:

So the EU and other countries, some in the EU, condemn this. What don't you understand?

What he doesn't understand (I assume) is that legally the EU is a separate entity from its members. It is in fact what Brexiters would refer to as 'Brussels'.

The depth of venom reserved for the Thaksins always surprises me. We don't live in a perfect world where evil is on one side and perfection is on the other & we just get to choose between them. Actually everything is grey and, in a VERY imperfect culture like Thailand's (or Usofa's), we get to choose between rather poor alternatives.

Does Thaksin the Elder's get-rich-quick life mean that any person with the name Thaksin shall hereafter be condemned out of hand? Personally, I prefer to judge people on what they do, individually.

And was Yingluck 'corrupt' in a fingers-in-the-till sense? I doubt it. Why would she bother when she obviously had enough to be going on with? Her policies may have been 'corrupt' in a political sense (eg designed to favour the in-group rather than the out-group) but all politicians do that everywhere in the world. Is that a reason to hound her thru the courts? I think not. On that basis every Thai politician & general since the year Dot would be in prison.

And the same applies to Prayut & the lads. They do some good things, they do some bad things ... like every government everywhere. Their main sin is the sin against freedom & democracy. And for that they should be defeated soundly in the upcoming (we hope) elections.

3 hours ago, Kiwiken said:

There is more chance of Britain stationing nukes there than giving it back

I wouldn't count on it. The Little England that's just being born will have little will & little capacity in a few years to look after the remaining reminders of Empire.

And we wonder why some Thais seem hostile to falangs ...

Barbarism fairly evenly distributed all round, I should say.

5 minutes ago, Max66 said:

They want your money in their bank .  That's it. I have my $$ in stocks ,bonds, CDs and mutual funds invested in my country that earn a hell of alot more than what I get here in a 3rd world thai bank. Im not going to start tearing apart my portfolio for this .

Bottom line is that they dont want foreighners here..(unless their chinese.) Lol

I've heard many times, thais dont like foreighners but love the money.

 

Fine, so you'll be saying goodbye then, will you?

I doubt that his '"masters" - if they wear uniforms - actually understand these things.

A good guy who actually does his job properly. Hope he doesn't have an accident. Needs some protection on high, I should think.

Well, how to choose between what remains of British neo-imperialism and Spanish revanchism?

As in the case of the Malvinas woops Falklands, the only modern & democratic way to decide the fate of The Rock is to let its current inhabitants choose. And, as with the south Atlantic, we know in advance what the answer would be.

But, given the wonders that Brexit is already wreaking on the British economy and society, the answer might possibly be different in both cases in another 10 or 20 years. (Yawn)

42 minutes ago, Derek B said:

Why does it have to be a Thai bank I wonder?

 

So they can check it themselves and not have to rely on unreliable witnesses such as Embassies.

46 minutes ago, cheshiremusicman said:

Seems to me, that the Thai authorities should start to look at a scheme where they look at your track record and start to say 'This person has meet the necessary requirements for the past 5 years', so instead of granting an extension of one year why not make it two, and when you have been here for say 10 years make it a 5 year extension. Surely, if you have been here for that length of time you have proved that you can sustain yourself with your income no matter what it is!

You're being rational again!

1 hour ago, connda said:

“Of course this letter is no longer needed if the embassy no longer issues it,” Col Archeep explained to The Phuket News today (Nov 22).

 

This gets the mealy-mouthed, clap-trap, stupidest, contrived, nonsensical, Captain Obvious Award of the Week. 

And was he speaking in English when he said it?

First Contact. Always fascinating.

There's a marvellous short film from Papua in about 1932 as the first Aussie administrators arrive in a particular valley for the first time and the locals approach slowly to greet them. Very moving.

Good show. Wish he lived near me. I have to call for my bf to come running whenever I find one outside all of 12" long & as thick as my thumb ...

All's well that ends well, for the moment.

The idiot got what he wanted & is now no doubt sitting on the right hand of the right hand. And the natives got some peace'nquiet for the next couple of years till the next moron arrives to try to kill them with his bacterial & viral infections.

A smallish market, but rich ...

Interesting that the Indian Police took no preventative action. It is after all a no-go zone. I guess they figured it would be cheaper to let nature take its course ...

22 minutes ago, tropo said:

Really? You are feeling rather confident. Are you going to apply for an extension before the end of this year? I will be getting mine in the first week of January before the Australian Embassy cuts the service on January 7, hoping to use it in late June next year, but not feeling nearly so confident as you. What is the basis of your confidence? Leading people into a false sense of security is worse than scaring them into taking active measures to ensure continuity of annual extensions. Running scared, I have 3 backup measures:

 

1. Starting to transfer 65k per month to my Thai account.

2. Getting the 800k ready to transfer and season for 3 months.

3. Obtaining my income letter 6 months early, in case they are still accepted.

Excellent. ✓✓✓ Precisely what EVERYONE should be doing.

One of the many things I learned working in the DoD in Canberra for 17 years was that the military spend most of their time watching & jostling each other, rather than - as we civilians tended to think - trying to put us down.