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Patong2021

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  1. OK, so in your opinion, the Thai request for an address is unworkable. Please share your opinion with other countries who ask the same question usually for Customs. USA -6059B Declaration form. Japan asks me for my location. Why is it so bad for Thailand to ask the question, but other countries not bad to ask?
  2. You tell them. Yes you digress. You should focus on the US blanket bombing of Hanoi and the illegal bombing of Laos and Cambodia first, since that is US owned. As you have never served in a combat zone nor been at risk, you can join the rest of the MAGA blowhards huffing and puffing. Hegseth the prison guard in occupied Cuba and PR clerk in Iraq who did not see combat but reportedly invented a story about the rock that became an unexploded grenade, can lead you into battle. Hopefully, he doesn't share the battle plans with Canada and is sober. You can try and wind people up, but it won't work, your days along with MAGA are numbered. It is only a matter of time before the deck of card collapses. There is an old saying of give a man enough rope to hang himself and the problem will take care of itself. Trump impeachment is automatic at the start of any military action against Canada or Greenland for that matter. Trump does not have support for any of this and it is showing. The cracks are forming and the US midterms will do the rest.
  3. Check with your Russian masters. They invaded Ukraine for denazification purposes and hold that there was a legal requirement to have resisted the nazis in WWII hence the punishment of the German people Russian imposed on Germany after the war.
  4. Japan has a paper system for the lazy / stupid / progress resistant people. It is also a backuop system should the Visit Japan system fail. The paper people are directed to lines where they can stand and wait. The evisa pax breeze through customs and immigration. In my case it took 10 minutes including the lines at HND. The days of saying no to a mobile device are over. Consider it a requirement to travel no different than visas and passports. Within the next 5 years, flying will depend upon E boarding passes and e linked boarding gates. It is happening now. There are no longer paper airline tickets. It is an eticket. A small group of technology resistant people cannot be allowed to disrupt security and efficiency for others. These are the same people who delay boarding because they don't have a passport and boarding pass ready to present at the gate, or who demand to board early because they are old, despite paying for and sitting in zone 5.
  5. Yes, you have no moral compass. Russian engaged in an illegal invasion and barbaric war crimes including the rape of children, the kidnapping of children and looting. Germans engaged in unalwful activities and a genocide. US nationals invading Canada for no reason other than economic expansionism would do so without support of their nation and most likely no authorization from Congress. US citizens objecting would be patriots.
  6. OK. Then why haven't they been cancelled. Not as easy as you imagine.
  7. The USA would have a difficult time waging war on Canada. Aside from the fact that most border states would be opposed due to family connections, a majority of citizens in other states would oppose a war or hostile acts. It's stuff like this; https://www.newsweek.com/one-five-americans-want-their-state-secede-join-canada-2052148 Maybe there would be support in Ohio and Mississippi, where ignorance reigns supreme, but unlikely to find any support in most stats. Russian and Maga trolls can argue otherwise.
  8. Not if they have signed on to human rights or refugee conventions. That's the problem facing civilized countries like the UK, Australia, Canada and the EU members. They all agreed in a different era to accept refugees fleeing harm. They did not anticipate economic migrants gaming the system.
  9. No it will still be the US problem. The immigration control agreement that the US wanted requires the originating nation to take back unauthorized migrants and to deal with them.
  10. Trump can come and throw paper at the locals like he did in Puerto Rico. A real humanitarian.
  11. A school supported by the general population, the majority of whom are non practicing Christians, should not have religion forced on them. If it was a Christian private school, then yes it can hold all the Christian pagan based festivals that it wants. There are chuurches close by where the parents of the students can attend services. There is a separation of Church and state. I attended a Church of England school, where we had morning prayer, grace before and after meals, and church services at Easter and Christmas. I found it rather unproductive, although I did like vicar's 2 dogs. However, as it was a private Christian school, and this was part of the curriculum and long standing tradition that went back to the schools founding with its long dead "old boys".
  12. Thaiger News is not a journalism entity and does not claim to be.They are upfront and transparent on this. It uses technology to combine information from multiple information sources and then presents the compiled product. The "news" is intended to anchor commercial offerings such as insurance, real estate listings, etc.
  13. I have its posts blocked, but why would you expect anything different from a self centered person? If it isn't the center of attention then it isn't interested.
  14. So what if Hamas is removed? Hamas initially had the support of Gazans because of the horrible corruption of Fatah. Hamas initially did a better job of caring for the gazans. Replacing Hamas with the PLA which is Fatah ,will only shift the underlying problems. Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood which is why Egypt is not particularly sympathetic to Gaza. Who is supposed to run Gaza? One of the other more violent terrorist groups? Islamic Jihad? Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)? National Resistance Brigades: Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)? Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades: Popular Resistance Committees (PRC)? and so on. The only option is to treat Gaza like a failed state and to put it under guardianship. Perhaps, an arab led multinational with international support that can teach responsible government. Then after 5-10 years, a proper election.
  15. Perhaps in some cases where there are criminal charges.. In other cases, if the visa is revoked, then there is no right to due process. Remember that immigration is a civil procedure. There is no criminal due process under a civil procedure. Due process is only involved if the person has been charged with a criminal act such as fraud. The visa can still be revoked for fraud, but as a civil law prrocedure. The INS/Homeland Security has been doing this for decades.
  16. The student visas in some cases would not have been granted had the applicants declared their intent to engage in political activities. First the DS 160 form must be completed truthfully. There are country specific questions. There are questions asked about whether or not you have a social media presence, membership in certain political groups. For example, the Afghanistan DS 160 will ask about clan or tribe membership, Taliban affiliation, military or militia service. Then in the interview, there are direct questions asked. One of them is whether or not there is support or sympathy for groups deemed to be terrorist or against national interest. Alhough green card holders can engage in lawful peaceful protest, some of the students have been identifed because of their participation in unlawful, non peaceful protests. Others have been implicated in the support of groups classified as terrorist.
  17. There are in excess of 1.1 million foreign students in the USA. The revocation of the visas of 300 people who violated their visa conditions is hardly a crisis. The vast majority of foreign students are decent law abiding people.
  18. They are not admitted on student visas on the basis of engaging in political activities. They are admitted to study.
  19. None of this matters. It gets to their visa and the basis on which it was granted. A student visa is given for the purposes of studying. It is not intended to cover sectarian political activities. Had the applicant stated their intent to engage in political activities, the visa most likely would not have been granted. A student visa can be revoked with warning and explanation. The current visa revocations is not strategy. This was done by previous administrations. After 9/11 the US required host academic institutions to be verified. After the verification process concluded, almost 1/2 were found to be bogus.
  20. Put your political views aside and consider it from this perspective: - Foreigners are allowed into a country to study. - They are generously given preferential status over general visitors and temporary workers. - The foreigners then engage in political activities that are disruptive to the general order of their host nation. Keep in mind that they were allowed entry on the basis of studying and not as activists or as protestors or as agitators or even as advocates for social change in a foreign country. The student visa does not allow for sectarian political activities. - Had the host nation been aware of the intent to engage in activites other than studying, the visa would not have been granted and their entry not allowed. The middle east politically involved students are only one group of people acting outside their visas. Other visa violators are criminal gang members, people engaged in work activities outside their visa authorization, and long term visa overstayers. The students are getting attention because of the political aspect. The reality is that thousands of other visa violators are also being removed. It is not unreasonable to expect guests of a host nation to refrain from sectarian political activities while hosted. Once they leave or are citizens, then they can engage in political activities to their heart's content.
  21. I was on the beach in Hua Hin oblivious. I only learned of the quake as I tuned in the foreign radio news via internet I listen to. I didn't get an emergency alert on my phone, although my friend from Bangkok did. He received an automated emergency advisory and a request for a personal safety confirmation from his Singaporean employer, which I was impressed by. They even sent him instructions on what to do in the event of a tsunami and his helpline contact number. Far more impressive than my western based employer.
  22. Looks to me like the typical Pancake collapse. As one floor collapses onto the lower floor, the floor cannot support the weight and it in turn collapses. It is similar to the collapse of the WTC twin towers on 9/11.
  23. I see that the neo nazis and Russian trolls are out in full force. Have a nice time.
  24. What's your point? An individual is offering a vile tshirt design for sale that is contrary to the website social responsibility guidelines. It got through,most likely because the website IT workers in India don't check the uploads of individual vendors. The vendors sign agreements not to upload products like this. It will be removed if the design is brought to the attention of the hosting company. Tee Public is owned by Redbubble which in turn is owned by Articore the Australian company. It has an active Diversity policy. It also has a stated anti hate policy. It has removed less offensive vendor products in the past.
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