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Is former VP Dick Cheney a leftist? And no those were not book keeping charges. It was fraud. 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a pornography worker who said the two had carnal relations.

Yu wrote Kamala. The only Kamala I am aware of is a beachside community on Phuket. I don't see the relationship of the town to the baht strengthening. Thailand has been amassing a great deal of foreign exchange. In case you missed it, the country managed its expenditures cautiously during the Covid crisis and made allowances for the loss of tourism revenues. Now those revenues are back and the country has not drawn down on the reserves that have been growing.

Thankfully you have no authority, nor power to act on your imagined world. What we have is an allegation. In Thailand it is easy to accuse. Political factions like to point their grubby dirty fingers. Proving the case is something quite different. The PM is entitles to the presumption of innocence. The burden of proving guilt lies with her accusers.

Another conspiracy. Had the outcome agreed with your political bias, the man would be lauded as a genius.

Who are you to judge? In your homeland do you not occupy a comparable lower socioeconomic demographic?

Any Sakura restaurants left in Hua Hin? My favourite was across from the former Issan Station (now the beer bar zone). There was one near the fish restaurant strip/night market, but it closed too. I found Sakura Sushi very consistently good and miss it. Been gone 2 years now 😟

We won't. Refusal of entry of criminals, visa flippers, and of people unable to show that they can support themselves is not unusual. Deportations are a different activity and are not done at arrival. On any given day many people are deported at land borders back to Cambodia, Myanmar and Malaysia.

For doing their jobs? The person violated the visa rules last time. He doesn't even show remorse or concern, but has a smarmy arrogance.

A deluded claim and one that is misleading. China is far more implicated in international conflict than western nations including the USA. China conceals its weapons sales, while western nations are transparent and are subject to review and conduct/use conditions. The official Chinese policy of non-interference, applied to potential arms buyers, means that China will sell weapons and security equipment to a state without regard to its internal political situation or the repressiveness of the regime.It is the preferred weapons supplier of pariah states. China supplies weapons to Myanmar where they are used by the brutal despot military regime against its own people. China is the principal (sole) supplier of tactical ballistic missiles to Africa. These are powerful weapons of war and allow conflicts to be more aggressive and deadly. Western countries have intentionally avoided supplying these missiles. China prices its arms to undercut international competitors. Prior to the Ukraine weapons requirements of Russia and Ukraine, China's principal competitor was both Russia and Ukraine, especially Russia. China intentionally sold at the lowest possible price to buy market share. This is the same strategy China has used with other industrial sectors such as EV vehicles, solar power supplies, textiles, and consumer electronics. China does not co-operate with the UN arms monitoring efforts and is late in reporting arms sales to sanctioned regions. Often the information is incomplete or not reliable. A compelling case can be made to identify China as a leading contender. Unlike western countries, Chinese expansionism has often been the reason for war. Western militaries have typically acted under international authorization. For example, the Korean War initiated by China and its puppet North Korean secessionists featured heavy Chinese attacks and bombings of South Korea. Western militaries were acting under the authority of the United Nations and were not the US military or UK or Thai military when they participated. Legally, it was a defensive action authorized by the world against the war waging Chinese. Similarly, when the US was involved in the liberation of (ungrateful and unappreciative) Kuwait, it was done under the authority of the United Nations. China has launched wars against Tibet, Myanmar, India and Vietnam. The comments should be put in perspective. He is the CEO of an arms manufacturer. It is his role to encourage the support and expansion of his firm. If there was not an issue, the government would not have been supporting the expansion of his firm and the building of a new state of the art munitions plants. In his comments where you emphasize the year timeline you ignore that he also states "We are fine in three, four years - but to be really prepared, we need 10 years," The fact is that since the comment made in February, the EU has already reached an annual production capacity of 1 million 155mm artillery shells, and allocated another €500 million to its ASAP program to expand capacity again. Yes, Russia has an estimated 3 million shell production capacity, but it comes at a significant cost to the Russian economy. Russia is mass producing in haste resulting in a high number of duds and defective munitions. Worse is the diversion of funding away from critical infrastructure and social services. The Russian capacity is being paid for with the future of Russia's youth. Meanwhile, the USA is quickly closing in on an annual production of 1.2 million 155mm shells. The USA will have increased its production of artillery shells by 500% within two years. The UK will also boost its 155mm shell production 8X once the new BAE facility is complete in 2025. Sweden has increased its production capacity, and once the Canadian government stops dithering, its manufacturing capabilities will be added. The most important takeaway is that the free world has ramped up in a responsible manner, protecting their economies and environments and ensuring sustainable production goals. The manufacturing is spread across multiple nations, while Russian production is still concentrated at a few mega toxic smoke polluting facilities that poison the local areas. The Free world is planning for the long term while Putin and his cronies are just concerned about surviving for another year.

Yes, this is a likely explanation. Another is that they may have been misidentified,. Belarus and Russia air intervention system operators are scared. They obviously want to protect their nations, but are also worried about being blamed if a drone or missile gets through their screens. Morale cannot be great.

How wrong you are. Wrong because you do not differentiate between a functional and a dysfunctional government. Wrong because you do not differentiate between a government with legitimacy and one that is illegitimate. Wrong because you do not understand that there are significant differences between the two nations and their circumstances.

The USA does not have open borders and does not have full price controls. The Democrat party does not propose open borders or full price controls. Price controls and open borders are not "communist". Price controls are warranted when there is an imperfect supply system and are used to prevent excessive profit taking when there are quasi monopolistic supply systems. Much of the cost control measures are state regulated. For example, rent increase controls, utility rate increases, insurance rates. The EU has open borders between member countries. Is Hungary or Poland communist? Price controls are not in themselves "communist". There are cost caps on some products such as insulin to prevent the small number of suppliers of a relatively inexpensive product from charging vulnerable people an inflated price. The manufacturer is still allowed a healthy profit.

ok. And the new format will address that. The immigration department will now be able to see how many times a person comes and goes and for how long.

What communists. The Democrat Party and its election platform are not even remotely close to communism. Why call it communist? Do you even know what a communist economic or social policy is? Are you really this uneducated?

The nazi record is proven and documented. That is why General Eisenhower insisted that the liberation of the concentration camps be filmed so that when ignorant malicious people claimed that they did not exist, the evidence would be there. Hundreds of allied POWs were liberated from concentration camps. Hundreds of allied aircrew were executed on capture after 1944. Those were the direct orders of the Hitler. Allied POWs were murdered at Normandy. And you come along to dismiss this. You blame deaths at concentration death camps on US military personnel. The comment only an malicious evil person can make. The kindness and generosity of US servicemen is excusable, and forgiveable No survivor's group has ever said anything negative. On the contrary, there was only appreciation and gratefulness for the humanity shown. Some mistakes were made but they were mistakes made by people who were traumatized by what they had seen and the injuries were limited and not anything like what you claim. Why you bring up such nonsense is offensive and is essentially a disrespect to everyone who served. I grow weary of the the Russian saboteurs spreading their lies and the purveyors of hate.

Please take your nazi revisionism and keep it for the nazi and white supremacist forums.

So now you are in agreement with the nazis. Not surprised. FYI, many people care. Multiple members of my family volunteered for service in WWII and served in Europe and in Asia. Some lived under Japanese occupation and witnessed the atrocities. To not care is to insult every veteran. I suppose I should not be surprised at a comment from someone who does not see Trump's conduct at Normandy as reprehensible.

The fact is that VP Harris has been on the road campaigning and completed a 50 stop bus tour. At every stop along the way she meets with voters and attends campaign rallies. This is called appearing in public. Your claiming otherwise does not change the reality. The public does not appear to have any complaints as 3 million donors gave her $361 million in her first full month as a candidate. That is extraordinary. More people are donating than ever before. Her visit to Savannah was the first in 30 years by a presidential candidate. She received excellent coverage in the local news media. Here's an example. https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/politics/2024/08/29/vp-harris-caps-off-georgia-visit-with-energetic-rally-in-savannah/75003732007/

Situated 14 km north of Patong it is considered the poor man's Surin Beach and is preferred by those who wish to avoid the noise and congestion of Patong.

He will not go to prison at sentencing. Not going to happen. Trump just wants to postpone the shame of being sentenced to probation or house arrest at worse, most likely suspended until after November.

Lying on the ground can be unsafe if there are water monitors and snakes in the area. Also centipedes and stinging ants are more prevalent on the ground. Animals sleep in trees for a good reason.

I made the mistake of eating at the Lotus food court. Ewwww and Yuck.

Your position is based upon gold having a fixed supply. As has been pointed out, supply and demand is a major factor in determining a commodity's value. Australia and Russia have the largest gold reserves in the ground (about 2/3 of the worlds unmined reserves), If they so wanted either one of them could flood the market and crash the value of cold. The US holds the largest gold reserves in the world, and if it wanted could release some gold and manipulate the price of gold. I offer that the value of gold is inflated through manipulation. It is not as bad as the ridiculously false high value of diamonds, but it is there. Some countries do not bother with gold reserves. It's an expense to hold and to store and for what? Gold is only one commodity. Canada does not have gold reserves, although it has about 6% of unmined world reserves. Its reasoning is sound. The country holds US$10+ billion in foreign exchange reserves, consisting of a diverse number of foreign currencies. Canada also holds massive commodity reserves in oil & gas, lumber, minerals, water, food and power generation. The Canadian government holds billions of assets in financial instruments that are used to respond to market pressures. Gold is one single commodity. A basket of diverse valuable commodities spreads risk and is far better to respond to catastrophic incidents. You can't eat gold, but you will need electricity and petro products to operate, and you will need potash to grow crops, fish to eat and lumber to build with etc. Modern wars are more likely to be fought over food, water and energy. They are not fought over gold.

The abuse of the visa system gives reason for the immigration department to change its regulations making them more onerous. Border runners play the system which inevitably results in visitors who respect the rules suffering additional regulations that would not be necessary if people respected the visa rules.

Good question. It has long been a source of problems for Thailand because many countries cannot share information due to Thailand's refusal/inability to respect confidentiality/privacy rules that apply in those countries. Thailand can access the following information; -Passport basic information (name, DOB, nationality) - Existing Thai arrest warrants or court judgements or legal hold notices, criminal records - Previous immigration, customs or agricultural offences - Thailand specific Entry and exit information, and visa history - International arrest warrants if sent to Thailand amd entered into database - Passport lost or stolen database. (There is a lag in updating the the data base) - Public health advisory information if there is a need to request secondary screening Until Thailand agrees to confidentiality or privacy standards, many foreign countries will not share information. The gold standard is in the EU and the Canada/USA data sharing and integration of national police databases.