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Sanitation and clean environment has done more to prevent virus spreading than vaccines. Why Amish and Mennonite families who don’t vaccinate their kids have no case of autism and are healthier than other children? They have a strong immune system due to their lifestyle and organic foods. Government mandates and lockdowns failed among these people because there were no cases of COVID and adverse effects due to vaccination. Recent studies have proven that Polio was eradicated by proper sanitation, not by vaccination. Recent cases of polio and tuberculosis came back in areas of poor sanitation and lack of basic hygiene.

‘So it’s different than the Thailand METV. The Thai expiry date on the METV visa is the last date you can enter Thailand and you still get 60 days or more before exiting.

The OP reads that the arrival card must be submitted 3 days before arrival in Thailand (same as in Cambodia and other countries which have anlready implemented this system). So it gives you plenty of time to fill it and download it before your trip with help or no help from a Good Samaritan. If you don’t have a smartphone print the QR code on a piece of paper and stick it in your passport. The IO scans it and here you go without holding the line.

More details about this Chinese built project.

That’s what I thought, far-right ideology is purely European. It has obviously been tamed in other countries.

Before the Americans burned down the city of York (Toronto).

How do you classify the political regime of Singapore? What have they done for their successful political stability and financial achievements? Based on your list of do’s and don’t’s how does it apply to Singapore?

There are no far-right political leaders in Europe with the exception of one (see below)* but there are extreme-left political parties (total equalitarianism and social equality). These parties used to be completely proletarian but not anymore, they incorporate many branches of collectivist ecologists and other tree-hugging cultists as well as activists utopians. Far-right regimes have disappeared after the death of Franco, Salazar and the Greek Junta. The only ones remaining were the rulers of communists countries, members of the Warsaw Pact with the exception of Tito who kept Yugoslavia out of the pact. These were the true far-right rulers hiding behind a screen of Marxism-Leninism or socialism. * The only far-right leader in Europe is Führerin Frau von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. Nominated by her peers but unelected. She stands above the law and does not answer to anybody. She rules without opposition, the only opposition is among members of the European Parliament with no real legislative power against the European Commission decisions.

If it had imploded like the Titan of Oceangate, nobody would have survived. Maybe a poorly closed hatch failed during the dive.

It’s already happening across Thailand. Malls are downsizing and surviving because of anchor tenants (Banks, Utilities, Government services, food courts, etc…).

“…Federal data show that 23,700 illegal migrants were apprehended crossing from Canada into the US…” The word “apprehended “ tells the whole story. The non-apprehended must have been in the hundreds of thousands. Canada is just a springboard for entering the US. Canada has not the resources to monitor closely its border 365 days and nights of the year. Who are the fools who want to migrate to Canada? I know some people are masochist or they will complain later on that they have been cheated by the posters of the Canadian Pacific railways showing the Rockies, the grain elevators of the Prairies or the fishing villages of Nova Scotia…or the “free” healthcare.

Entering Thailand (Ranong) coming from Kawthung (Myanmar) mid-December 2024, I was asked to show an onward ticket even with a visa expiring mid- April 2025. Never been asked before at land, sea port or airport of entry. Depends on the mood of the IO. Sometimes they are “chatty” and find any excuse for conversation.

Thailand is for sale. All agricultural land is being cleared and put on the auction block. As land ownership is only for Thai, the upper class dictates the price and conditions. There is no competition between buyers, just agreements. Some areas are an ecological disaster with soil scrapped from its arable land. No farming or crops any longer possible. Then it sits for years without any takers with weeds growing back with the next monsoon unless a landslide kills any possible deal.

In 1913 you could not make a 2 week holiday trip to Thailand unless you lived in one of the neighbouring countries in S.E Asia. You cannot compare the cost of living of an average household during the last 150 years (since the Industrial Revolution). Wealth exploded during the Industrial Revolution. There were no corporate taxes, wage taxes, income taxes and very little municipal taxes (mostly tolls, fees and levies). For example West European countries were booming and the infrastructure in roads, railways and canals made it possible to take the train from London to Istanbul or Moscow. After the defeat of France in 1870, Von Bismarck requested from the French government as war damages the payment of 5 billion Gold French francs. He knew France would not be able to pay and put other harsh conditions in case the French defaulted. In less that 2 years the total amount was paid. There were not enough workers in Western Europe to work in the steel industry so a huge immigration was coming from Eastern Europe. If there was poverty it was not the fact of unemployment but lack of health, education, skills or wars. Still in 1950 the average American yearly wage was $3,300 and the average price for a 2 bedroom house was $7,700. The house was worth 2.3 times the yearly wage. Today the average yearly salary is $62,000 and the home median price is $430,000, almost 7 times the average salary. If you put in consideration the amount of taxes taken away by municipalities, sales taxes, state taxes and federal taxes, the effective salary is only $49,900. Why the average household becomes poorer is because the burden of taxes and fees. Before 1954 most European countries did not have VAT but by 1968 the whole economy was “covered by the VAT (goods and services) and other collective social benefits paid by the taxpayers to the enjoyment of non-taxpayers.

Tesla still has 39.9% of EV market share in Thailand despite all the bad publicity made on Musk. Space X stock doubled its value to US$200 (not publicly listed) and X valuation reached US$44 billion (from US$10 billion in September) so it’s back to the purchase price. Not bad…

Meanwhile Tesla stock is on the rebound (+5.27%) and BYD share is down 7% with a debt of US$7.04 billion. Just to mention that Warren Buffet sold his <5% ownership in BYD due to its ballooning debt. The total debt/equity ratio for Tesla is 10.7% while BYD’s is 29.26%. Huge advantage for Tesla which is not overly reliant on borrowed money to finance its operations. Its debt is well covered by operating cash flow (189.4%) while BYD debt coverage is 62.1% only. Tesla balance sheet is very strong. Once it’s driverless automobiles hit the market the stock will be a “darling” of the NASDAQ

The US are the first destination chosen by the Thais wishing to emigrate. The 350,000 US-Thai residents came by successive waves during the Vietnam War, after the Amerasian Immigration Act of 1982, the Asian financial crisis and after some of the coups d’état. Rama 9 was born in the US where his parents graduated as MD from Harvard. So there is a connection between the 2 countries. Many of the infrastructures built in Thailand comes from the US during the Vietnam war (airports, harbours and other places for supporting the population and contractors collaborating to the war effort. Most of the military equipment used by Thais between the 1970s and 2000s came from American inventories left in S.E Asia. Never forget that more than 50,000 US soldiers were stationed in Thailand (to be added to the thousands more coming from Vietnam for rest and recreation).

What about Ukraine? No more opposition either in the main street media and no more elections in the distant future. Anyway elections would be a no-value until all Ukrainians are back home.

French President Felix Faure died making love with a prostitute in 1899. He had a seizure in her arms. It must have happened more than once.

Let's start by having fair elections in Ukraine without any involvement of the EU, the US and Russia. Zelensky has postponed the elections using the war as an excuse. Let's have a durable cease fire and get the Ukrainians back home.

Just wanted to add that you need to carry your luggages into a special room when checking for departure. Luggages are open and checked for eventual forbidden items. It seems that no scanners have been installed making the checking process long and tedious.

Always amazed by these bamboo bridges in Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia. Especially the ones supporting the weight of vehicles.

Things are not improving in Siem Reap. I was there mid-February 2025 and the hotels were empty, hardly a dozen people in the swimming pool. Not many people visiting the temples. It seems most people are part of tour groups arriving for one day visit and leaving the next morning. Restaurants and stores are empty. We were the only aircraft on the tarmac when we arrived from Bangkok. Only half-a dozen arrivals and departures for the whole day. Sad to see some beautiful hotels without clients. Maybe Cambodia should start avoiding charging people heavy fees in US$ and should allow land ownership to foreigners.

You have to do better than that as you seem to have answers for everything. The EU commission has always been cleared about its choice about the EU heads of state. EU subsidies require EU states to be obedient to the Führerin Frau von der Leyen. EU has been promoting firewall policy to keep right wing parties out of coalition government. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-10-2025-000150_EN.html https://capitalresearch.org/article/george-soros-romanian-ghosts-explaining-the-democratic-society/ Soros has been very active in Romania for the last 6 months. We may see a new “Maidan” type of revolution but this time it may backfired because Obama’s Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is not there to fan the flames.

Could it be another reason for the absence of Chinese tourists? There have been several documentaries about factory closures, lack of jobs, people fleeing cities, real-estate developers filing for bankruptcy, empty airports and railway stations as well as mall closures. Any lately visitors to China witnessed this exodus?