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ThaiFelix

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  1. 33 minutes ago, swissman53 said:

    With my pink ID, which I get only with the yellow book, I can be registered at the government Hospital. If I get sick or have an accident, every government hospital in Thailand can get my history through my ID card number.  That could be very helpful.

    I think you will find the same can be said about passport number.  Thats how I found it with all hospitals up my way even through the covid pandemic.  I didnt register for the Mor Chor? covid app but instead they were able to source my info with passport number when having my vax's/boosters etc.

  2. On 10/30/2022 at 11:50 AM, oxo1947 said:

    Have you seen the 'The Fog of War"  by Robert S. McNamara the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson. Its quite compelling, he admits the wrong doings and the lies , even went back to apologies to the Vietnamese. He also revisits the Fire Bombing of Japan,  100,000 people burnt to death in 9 hours, mostly all civilians.

     

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

     

     

    Yes, brilliant expose.  McNamara crunched the numbers and calculated what no-one aroiund wanted to hear.....that it was impossible for the US to win that war.

     

    With the Fire Bombing of Japan, what many dont realise is that Japanese Cities then were mostly wooden.  Add to that the inhumane use of incendary bombs (napalm), most Japanese cities were already more than 50% destroyed BEFORE the nuclear bombs were dropped.   This fact prompted McNamara to ask why was it necessary to drop them.  We all know the answer to that.

  3. 10 minutes ago, kwak250 said:

    I have a velcro one and depending on how much it rains its usually dry but every so often I might get a very small amount of rain in when we have a good storm.

    Lots on Lazada for around 2000 baht.

    Used to have a carryboy  version on a Vigo which was excellent and had an electric lift but I prefer the roll up velcro one for ease of use .

    Too much hassle to remove the lid if I ever needed bigger items moved.

     

    Saying that it was a good excuse to not help out some annoying relatives. 

    Back in Australia I always had utes (pick-ups).....and hence a lot of friends too lol!

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  4. We use one of those large ice boxes in the back.  Handy to keep the shopping dry and cool, even frozen stuff.  It can be locked with a padlock and we also use a chain to the same padlock so the box cant be nicked.  Box can easily be lifted out if need to cart sand etc.  Very cheap for what they are and very handy as we live remote and have to travel for some shopping needs.

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  5. 2 hours ago, xylophone said:

    https://www.history.com/news/the-gulf-of-tonkin-incident-50-years-ago  

     

    Some Excerpts from the above to consider: South Vietnam “was essentially the creation of the United States,” the Defense Department would later admit in the Pentagon Papers. 

     

    It also sent over more and more military advisors, some of whom participated in raids despite ostensibly being there only for self-defense. As part of one such covert operation, the United States trained and directed South Vietnamese sailors to bombard radar stations, bridges and other targets along the North Vietnamese coast. Meanwhile, U.S. warships such as the Maddox conducted electronic espionage missions in order to relay intelligence to South Vietnam.

     

    At this point, U.S. involvement in Vietnam remained largely in the background. But in the pre-dawn hours of July 31, 1964, U.S.-backed patrol boats shelled two North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin, after which the Maddox headed to the area.

     

    Read more from the link above; and especially the paragraphs regarding the lies from the Johnson administration as it never disclosed that the US backed raids were taking place, and a second attack almost certainly never occurred, and later on the Navy issued a statement saying, "it is now clear that North Vietnamese naval forces did not attack Maddox and Turner Joy that night!

     

    So I will continue to watch the series, as so far as can be ascertained, what is being portrayed appears to be true.

     

    I dont know about that news article but I was talking about Burns' documentary still blaming the North for the attack.

     

  6. 2 minutes ago, ThaiFelix said:

    One of my favourite subjects, I will look out for it.  However is it factual?  The last doc I watched on the subject was by Ken Burns and while it was very well put together it was still tainted with the old US lies such as the North Vietnamese being the aggressor in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, even though it was admitted by the US  years ago to be untrue.

    Apologies, I just discovered it is in fact the same series sadly.

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  7. 1 hour ago, xylophone said:

    I think it was mentioned on this thread a while ago, "The Vietnam War – déjà vu" which was the first episode of the series of 10 episodes of a documentary made in 2017.

     

    So I watched that and managed to find the rest of the series on 1337x.to and have just downloaded them to watch later, mainly because the first episode was so full of information of which I had no knowledge whatsoever, so watching the rest is an absolute must IMO.

    One of my favourite subjects, I will look out for it.  However is it factual?  The last doc I watched on the subject was by Ken Burns and while it was very well put together it was still tainted with the old US lies such as the North Vietnamese being the aggressor in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, even though it was admitted by the US  years ago to be untrue.

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  8. On 10/16/2022 at 10:37 AM, giddyup said:

    The book was pretty cheesy as well. I gave up on that after a few pages, likewise the TV series after 10 minutes. From memory it was supposed to be based on actual events experienced by the author. Some of it is, like his prison sentence,  the rest is pure fiction.

    I very much enjoyed the book and thought the series was ok too.

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  9. 13 hours ago, davemos said:

    A step in the right direction .I hope that this agenda also includes  education for vulnerable  kids .Drugs are a chioice ,but just because it feels good doesnt mean its good .Prehaps kids to hospitals and before and after scenarios.Only education and peer pressure can stop the perceived glamour of drugs . 

    Exactly!  Like for example they could hand out free pics of Keith Richards to all the kids lol

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