jaywalker2

No, I opened a bank account with a tourist visa ten or so years ago. When I spoke to immigration, I was told that all the banks knew there was no regulationi against opening an account on a tourist visa. You just find the right branch. It's this increasingly strict "money laundering" rules that make it difficult.

I've lived in Japan, France, Thailand, and several states in the US, and I never had any trouble opening a bank account until recently. I could open an account at Citibank from overseas. In Hawaii, I had an account that was happy to let me use a Japanese address. It's only recently that this nonsense has taken hold. If you're rich, I bet you don't have trouble opening a bank account.

These requirements are ridiculous and they're occuring worldwide, not just in Thailand. My friend had just as difficult a time opening a bank account in France. Many brokerages and banks in the US and UK are closing down accounts of people who don't have a local addresses. This is all under the excuse of preventing money laundering but it feels a lot more like a mean of social control. It's a bank account, for God's sake. You can't function without one and it should be a fundamental right.

I have to commend them for their integrity. They could have just failed to show up and yet continued to collect their stipends, as most of the senators appear to do

All true. The Constitutional Court is one of the primary reasons for the regressive nature of Thai politics. The current justics should all be replaced and the court's jurisdiction severely curtailed.

Doesn't your building have a maintenance staff? Have them put it in.

Not with criminals...a government of criminals

Especially Gropec**t Lane

What is it about agents that sets certain people off to such an extent? I don't get it.If you don't like agents, just ignore the post. And why do some people need to know a person's life history in order to answer a simple question? Oh, well.

What he's saying is that the Constitution allows for the banning from political office of anyone who has been involved in insurrection. Colorado has already ruled to keep Trump off the ballot but has stayed the ruling until the Supreme Court rules. The issue isn't whether the Constitution permits this but whether Trump actually engaged insurrection since he hasn't been convicted of anything yet.

We are not living in medieval Europe under the control of the Catholic Church. This doctor has a twitter acount, a YouTube account, a Rumble account. He's been on TV and interviewed numerou times by online media. He has right-wing politicians in his corner. He's making a career or being anti-vax. He isn't Galileo.

Read the article in the link. Untrue. Read his twitter feed. It's full of invective. His father died from a heart attack and he blames the vaccine. That's what has triggered him. As I said, there are so many studies that have found the vaccines to be safe and effective (including the Cochrane Review). The risk from myocarditis and pericarditis is well established. It is rare and mainly limited to young men, so it can easily be avoided. Do you believe the studies or this guy?

This has already been debunked numerous times. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N3490M3/ It's useless to debate these things anymore. You either believe that the entire mainstream medical establishment and global health authorities in all major countries are lying or that these rogue doctors making outlandish (and unprovable) claims are the only the only ones telling the truth. Your choice.

I'm so sick of hearing the term "soft power."

Most of that area has changed from what I understand. The shophouses on Ratchadamnon Avenue were taken over and rennovated, the zoo expelled, Royal Plaza closed to the public. The Red Cross now has to have its annual fair at Lumpini Park. Apparently, most of the land belonged to the king and he decided to take much of it back. Sanam Luang was given particularly special treatment because the area become a hangout for the homeless, drug addicts and prostitutes. But I haven't been over there for years either. Perhaps someone else could provide more up-to-date information.

It's considered part of the royal palace complex and still is used for various royal events, which I think is the main issue. It was also, if I remember correctly, made off limits to the public as part of the King's rennovation of the area. It was fenced off, although that doesn't appear to be the case anymore. It stirred a lot of controversy when it was closed to the public, if I remember correctly. It used to be just an area of dead grass and concrete. Looks like they've spruced it up a bit, though.

I don't know about Chiang Mai but Sanam Luang isn't used for recreational activities, I believe.

I think most people in Thailand had the Astra Zeneca vaccine, which has since been suspended for use in Europe due to possible blood clot complications.

Odd, you'd think they would have been a little self conscious as the only ones sunbathing on that vast sea of green like maybe that isn't the kind of thing you should do there. Possibly?

Yeah, simply amazing. That's why one half to two thirds of Europe was wiped out by the Black Plague and 300 million people were killed by smallpox, which wiped out entire native populations in the Americas,

1,200 people dying a week is not trivial

So if you travel, you can't log in to your account?That's ridiculous. I use a VPN (Windscribe) with Fidelity but I always change the region to Eastern time. Otherwise, I tend to have problems. I also try to log in using the same IP location each time just to be on the safe side. Citibank offers a Global Executive Account that avoids these problems as you can have an overseas address and telephone number. It does cost $25 a month however. Of course, you can also have an overseas address and telephone number with Schwab and Fidelity as long as your account has enough money in it!

Three kids by the age of 22, the first at 15. This girl is not all there.

At least Bangkok Bank customers still have Internet banking, unlike the rest of us

David Gorski does a close analysis of the French hydroxychorloquine study at respectfulinsolence.com. I should note that he is pro-vaccine just to get that out of the way. https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/01/10/did-hydroxychloroquine-hcq-really-kill-17000-covid-19-patients/