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They did it with some discretion. The place started deterioration around 2015 and became the unflushed toilet that it is today post Covid when the island was so desperate for money that anything goes.

Americans don't do drag like that and when they do, they tend to be older and obese. I was going to suggest Australian, but they are too muscled, so most likely Europeans.

It is 144 km. It is not economically viable. The DMK route was dropped years ago because of the passenger load. All valid points. The most viable solution would be to connect the airport to the rail service. This could transform the airport in a regional hub and take some pressure off of BKK.

The nonsensical hyperbole never ends. He was not a supporter of apartheid. It is unfair to even accuse him of something for which he was not even remotely connected. He immigrated to Canada at age 17, joining the large South African community who had fled the oppressive South African regime. His father's opposition to apartheid is well documented. He was raised in a home that was not supportive of the apartheid system. Musk is driven by ego and by profit making opportunity. He doesn't care who he deals with if it means he gets what he wants. Biden is not extreme left, nor is Harris. It shows a profound ignorance of political ideologies to make that statement. Yes, there is a predominance of red, but that is it. It is deceitful to claim that this demonstrates a dominance of Republican views. Rather , what it shows is a reflection of the USA's population distribution. 73,736,432 Americans still voted for the Democratic candidate. In some districts the margin was less than 1%. Ignoring 48% of the US population is folly. Arrogance and bullying is what will result in a blow out in the US midterm elections in 2 years. It has happened previously and will happen again.

The flight is not in the transit category. It is the passenger. Passengers in transit are the passengers who use a connecting airport to get to their final destination, and are at the connecting airport for no more than 23 hours and 59 minutes. If you look at airline fare structures, airfares will typically be more expensive for flights that have layovers that exceed this time parameter. Examples of transit flights are the *A flights which fly to BKK and then have passengers connect to Jakarta, Yangon, Hanoi, KUL, SIN via TG. The real obstacle are the airline alliances which have airlines funnel their passengers to partner airlines. Thai International is the dominant airline at BKK and it is *A. Unfortunately, *A is weak in SE Asia and the *A routes are often less frequent to support connections and more expensive than the One World airline partners (e.g. Cathay -Hongkong). Airline schedules have to be conducive to allow transit connections. PAX don't want to sit around an airport for hours waiting on a connection. SQ is set up to facilitate connections. TG is not.

Time for the US population to pay the piper. Everyone wants something from the government, but no one accepts that someone has to pay for it.

Ukraine has received enough US funding to carry it through 2025. The Biden administration will ensure that the funds Congress has approved are sent before January 20, 2025. The EU and Canada can fund the Ukraine for 2026 , at which time the US midterm elections will offer a different Congress, because there is no way, at this time, that the Republicans will hold the House.

Scum of the earth. Hopefully, all of their assets purchased through this activity are confiscated.

Can you not use a mailbox service? For example Mailbox Etc. UK will receive and forward mail to its customers, wherever they are in the world.

The vendors typically rent the carts/stalls. What's the point in fining them? They don't have the money to pay and when they go away, a new sucker comes along to take their place. Like all criminal activity in Pattaya, the activity is linked to one of the crime syndicates that operates. They are everywhere; Extorting protection money, pimping, distributing drugs, trafficking women and children, and operating legitimate and money laundering businesses. They are well known to local authorities and are untouchable.

The beaches were closed because of what people did there. The public consumption of alcohol and drugs, the rowdy behaviour by youth and yobs, and close contacts were the problem. Because people refused to behave responsibly and insisted on engaging in high risk behaviour, public health authorities were obliged to temporarily restrict public gatherings. People could still go outside to get their exercise and vitamin D. You are mistaken. Ivermectin was promoted as a cure all before there were any clinical trials. Its promotion defied commonsense and was based upon data that was often falsified or manipulated. (This has been repeatedly proven.) Covid 19 is an inflammatory illness caused by a virus. Ivermectin has been around for years and its mechanism of action was well documented. This mechanism has no known impact on viruses. The worst aspect of the Ivermectin nonsense is that it delayed the rollout of known low cost anti inflamatories because the promotion of the ineffective ivermectin eroded confidence in health research and medications. For reference sake; Ivermectin binds selectively and with high affinity to glutamate-gated chloride ion channels in invertebrate muscle and nerve cells of the microfilaria. This binding causes an increase in the permeability of the cell membrane to chloride ions and results in hyperpolarization of the cell, leading to paralysis and death of the parasite. Ivermectin also is believed to act as an agonist of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), thereby disrupting GABA-mediated central nervous system (CNS) neurosynaptic transmission. Ivermectin may also impair normal intrauterine development of O. volvulus microfilariae and may inhibit their release from the uteri of gravid female worms. Much of the evidence for ivermectin in COVID-19 relied on pre-print in vitro data, and the clinical utility of the data was not proven. Due to a number of factors - for example, the relatively low number of patients per trial and the speed at which these trials were conducted - studies on the use of ivermectin in COVID-19 were characterized by statistical errors and accusations of plagiarism. In addition, the use of aggregate patient data in large-scale meta-analyses (as opposed to individual patient data (IPD)) was shown to disguise otherwise blatant data errors, such as extreme terminal digit bias and the duplication of blocks of patient records. Ivermectin was an illustration of what happens when unqualified people with financial self interests promote untried and untsted potions. The continued support of the ineffective Ivermectin demonstrates the refusal of the magical conspiracy promoters to consider actual scientific facts. they just can't accept that they are wrong and that their actions resulted in deaths.

There was no mismanagement by either Biden, nor Levine. On the contrary, Dr. Levine has had a clean record. Not one complaint of wrongdoing or professional misconduct and no scandals during her tenure as head of the PSHCC. What exactly did she do that was wrong, and please not your imagined wrongdoings, but actual errors and/or wrongdoings.

There is insufficient demand. The existing pod stations are not used to full capacity. I pass by during peak and off seasons and there are many vacancies. On what basis do you say there is demand? The Miracle Transit hotel on floor 3 almost always has vacancy as does the landside Novotel. There are 50+ hotels within 4km of the airport. They range in price from 500 baht to 5,000 baht+. What is it that you want?

The lines are no longer than in Hong Kong or Narita. Certainly better than PEK and PUD. Taking baggage on the airport link is an easier setup than the train from NRT or the subway link from HND. It is not anymore difficult than at YYZ, FRA or LHR. Singapore airport taxis have a surcharge of S$8 and the fare to the city is between S$25 and S$40 approx 700-1000 baht. My taxi fares from BKK are typically less than 500 baht. Singapore is a city state with a population half the size of Bangkok.The distance from the airport to the key central districts is 15-20km. The distance from BKK to the key central districts is twice as far. It is to be expected that there will be differences.

The BKK bashers are out in force. How about some honesty? I am a frequent flyer and have had an opportunity to fly into some of the major airports in the world and BKK is one of my favourites. Compared to most airports in the EU and North America, BKK holds its own. I clear customs and immigration relatively quickly. My bags are delivered quickly. There are some days I am off the international flight and walking to my driver pickup or hotel in 30 minutes. How about looking at the original models? Singapore was always set up as a transit hub. The Singapore flights are not delivering visitors to Singapore. Thailand's flights were delivering visitors who stayed and spent money. Singapore had 13 million visitors in 2023. Thailand had 28 million visitors in 2023. Now Thailand is looking to picking up some easy business by attracting transit flights. It won't have to do much to be successful. It is not a "disaster". On what basis can you term the airport a disaster other than your own bias? The airport has some of the lowest delays in the region due to tarmac and ramp congestion. It has baggage delivery times comparable to ICN, NRT and HND. Customs and Immigration are relatively fast for most people. Have you ever considered that there has to be a demand for such options? There are many low cost 4* quality hotels all within easy access of the airport, so smart transit passengers don't bother with the pods. I usually stay at the Novotel. It is comparable in cost to the HND hotel. NRT and TPE do not have in terminal hotels. The Holiday Inn at SIN is further from some arrivals than the BKK Novotel and more expensive. The Regal at HKG is further too and more expensive, and not as nice. The airlines stopped flying to BKK because there wasn't a customer base to support the operation of the route. BA has resumed flights to BKK. There is no need to lure anyone away from SIN. The airlines will consider the potential for 5th Freedom flights. EVA does it now for VIE, LHR and AMS. Air Canada is a relatively new addition to Bangkok and is looking at a regional shift because of the issues with China. The same goes for US based airlines. There is nothing wrong with the AC. You do know that Bangkok is in the tropics and the daytime temperature regularly reaches 32C+ and sometimes 40C. The terminal temperature is usually at 23-25C which is more than acceptable. Asian people often find the terminal cool. The new Satellite terminal is very cool.

Kennedy has the deaths of 83 children and young adults to explain. It is an incident that should be brought to public attention at a Senate confirmation hearing. - In 2018, there were 2 deaths that followed measle vaccination. Samoa suspended its vaccination program while it investigated - Kennedy, an ardent and vocal opponent of childhood vaccination visited Samoa to pursue his opposition of vaccinations. - Vaccination rates plummeted following the Kennedy visit, where he praised a local opponent of vaccinations as a "hero". They went from approx 65% to approx. 30%. - The investigation showed that the deaths had nothing to do with the safety of the vaccine. It was human error attributed to the nurses who had mistakenly mixed the vaccine with a muscle relaxant and not the appropriate sterile water. - Even when the error was identified, Kennedy's group refused to acknowledge the finding. - In the decades prior to 2019, Samoa did not have any measles deaths in vaccinated people, nor epidemics. Because of the drop off in vaccination, Samoa experienced an explosion in measles infections and it resulted in 83 deaths. Kennedy is a public health menace and his actions should not be kept from the public.

And there are alot of people who believe that 9/11 was an inside job and that president Bush brought the Twin Towers down. There are also alot of people who believe that aliens have visited them in the trailer park and carried out anal probes. The selection of a Cabinet member is a serious undertaking and is quickly becoming a farce. He was not. The police department chose not to proceed further. The Monterey police department is relatively small and is in a county that has had an unusual number of lawsuits alleging police misconduct. The local jail has lost its 6th consecutive case. The most recent was a wrongful death case where the Monterey PD took a woman to jail where she died. This certainly does not make Hegseth guilty, but does lend credence to the suspicion that the police may have not given the case the attention it deserved. Of concern is the fact that the case came as a surprise to the Trump transition team. Had they been following proper protocol and allowing the FBI to do background checks, this would have been discovered before the nomination was announced. At the very least, the nomination merits proper review by the US Senate.

Incomprehensible.

The social restraints that once held people back from being rude and impolite have been lifted by the Trump election. Opportunistic bigots and bullies are crawling out from their hiding places. This is not what a majority of people who voted for Trump asked for. There will be a backlash once young girls are sexually assaulted and the mothers, grandmothers, wives, sisters and girlfriends of men are attacked.

Bad choice. At some point, when these poor choices start to negatively impact the US population, and they will, the people will turn on the Trump administration. RFK has no respect from the vast majority of the scientific community . He still insists on a link between childhood vaccines and autism despite the claim being shown to have been a fraud.

Is it still a thing? Do people still do that thing? It's so 1990's.

You are regurgitating common talking points favoured by populists. Yes, property crimes are not thoroughly investigated. It has been that way for 30+ years, and is due to the inability to respond to all of the reports. I don't like it anymore than you do. However, sexual assaults are investigated. You have confused the failure of the crown prosecutor office to lay charges with the police not investigating. The police are compelled to investigate physical sexual assaults, just as they are compelled to investigate threats of terror and mass incitement of physical harm. You have added all sorts of tangents to dress up your claim, none of which is germane. Look at what occurred. A person is alleged to have incited violent physical acts against a visible minority group. As is the case for other threats of mass violence, the police were obliged to investigate and that's what they did. No one was detained or arrested. No one was hauled into a police station and questioned. Pearson's legal and civil rights were respected. The investigation was politicized by Pearson for her own purpose.

Not strange. The French sector has benefited from a shared common goal between industry, public, labour, and government. Also better managed and more focused.

Not if the skilled and educated officers are "purged" and only rank driven yesmen are left. I The US military is made up of a diverse range of officers and it it has its share of Major Frank Burns types. If the US military becomes politicized, by a cadre of non command experienced social dinosaurs, it risks losing some of its best command officers, who won't put up with the politicization.

None.There is no need to own and operate an oil refinery. The federal government does exert an indirect control through regulation. The US Federal Government also has the right to take full control of any industry under provisions of various statutes such as the National Emergency Act. You already know this. What's your point? The US oil industry is controlled by US companies, This is different from many other countries who are still subject to predatory economic colonialism. It is seen in Africa and in Canada. European oil interests such as the French, Dutch, and Italians put the USA to shame with their ruthlessness. And now, China is quickly moving in on the crown of evil.