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The Barmbeker

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  1. 1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

    Really? how many tourists read the Bangkok Post back home? Thailand is teflon coated, once this covid is under control the bars will reopen like the hotels and the girls, the main attraction for the three week punters, will be back 'joking you'.

    ...but...they have 0 new infections for months, now!

    How much more (alledgedly) "under control" can it get?

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  2. 5 hours ago, Walker88 said:

    Since I'm assuming you have no experience in intelligence and have never held a security clearance, I will try to explain why it is of great significance.

     

    Before anyone is granted a security clearance, particularly something like TS/SCI, a thorough background investigation is carried out to try to uncover if there is any compromising information in one's background. Debt levels are part of that. (A POTUS automatically gets a security clearance without any background check, so 45 would have avoided such an official investigation, unless something disconcerting came up in the normal course of intel collection, e.g., hearing foreign individuals discussing him).

     

    The reason debt is a concern, and high debt normally disqualifies, is that it gives the lender leverage. The lender can threaten to call loans unless the borrower does something the lender seeks. The source of the funds is also of great import, because a foreign entity could have enormous leverage over someone by virtue of the debt.

     

    45 runs a highly leverage enterprise. He has made foreign policy moves that make no sense to anyone (e.g., allowing Turkey to take control of Syrian lands where Peshmerga Kurdish allies of the US, but who are an enemy of Turkey, were present. Subsequent info revealed that 45's company was then granted licenses for business and construction in Turkey. It's a very bad optic, if nothing else.)

     

    45 has known funding from China of at least $30 million. Other funding comes from Deutsche Bank, albeit via SIVs (Special Investment Vehicles), which are off-balance sheet entities and where Deutsche funnels large depositor funds to special borrowers. This is not illegal per se, but the covenants of the loans and the sources of the funds are important. If the loans are callable, that gives the lender enormous leverage, as calling loans can render an organization instantly insolvent.

     

    THAT is why it is a national security issue. In the espionage business, high debt is one of the hooks case officers use to 'encourage' targets to reveal classified information. The corollary is that high debt is a reason why the US would decline or revoke a security clearance on a US Govt employee.

    "Since I'm assuming you have no experience in intelligence..."

    Unwillingly spot on!

    ????

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  3. 12 hours ago, Yinn said:

    Be careful na.

    i will complain the police. You will have big problem. ????

     

    170 post complain about USA guy complain the chekslovakia guy who complain with police and lawyer about the USA guy complain to much. Now barmbeher complain about Yinn complain about member who complain that.

     

    Now the court will take long time, the lawyer will complain, the judge will complain waste the time, and the USA guy will complain about jail. His wife will complain not fair, his kid will complain not see dad. 

    It never will end. 

     

    Better if not complain. Be strong.

    It's BARMBEKER, Yinn!

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  4. Did you "Thailand is THE BEST- if you dont like it, go home"- crowd even bother to read the guy's explanation?

    "We would like to stay at your hotel"

    "Go online!"

     

    "Could we see a room, before booking, please?"

    "No!"

    "Oooooh well...if you inmsist on it, we show it to you..."

     

    That hotel would have heard a loud and clear "*** you very much and goodbye" from me!

     

    Later, he states that they were having a drink ON THE BEACH!

    OUTSIDE of the restaurant!

    We are told over and over, that there are no private beaches in Thailand!

    So how can a resort ask for corkage on a PUBLIC Beach?

     

    I dont agree with the dude on his slavery remarks...that was just dumb!

    But he other wise had the right to complain about this kind of "service"!

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  5. On 9/24/2020 at 5:52 AM, Mama Noodle said:

    Remember: 

     

    The narrative was that police were serving a no-knock warrant and entered the wrong house, unannounced. 

     

    The reality is that they were serving a lawful warrant on the correct house, and announced themselves, and only when nobody answered the door did they enter by force, whereby the boyfriend shot at police. 

    How does it feel, to be wromg...on every count?

    The got a no-knock- warrant, based on lies, they already had the suspected drug- dealer under arrest, they DID NOT announce themselves, they bashed in the door and entered the appartment, they were not in uniform, their body- cameras were off...anything else, I can clear up for you?

  6. 23 hours ago, Nice Boyd said:

    I hope they follow the Good Doctors Advice 

    So does everybody in Big Business- CP, Thai Bev etc!

    An army of unemployed, to hire and fire for 100 THB a day!

    Forget minimum wage, forget labor- protection...just starve the poor until they swallow every little bone you throw to them!

    And some foreigners sing the hi- praise of this madness, because they don't care for the people of this country!

     

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