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6 hours ago, ronnie50 said:
When SCB stopped it's online banking I asked them why. I was told they could no longer keep up with the increasing IT risks (of hackers I guess).
That, and the related cost cutting, are I believe what's behind all this on the Thais' part....
There are Thai companies still running Windows 98 and similar as their servers, and if I recall correctly, many of the Thai bank ATMs were/are running on outdated / insecure OS software.
IMHO, it's a problem of their own making for failing to maintain (and pay competent tech staff capable of maintaining) secure tech systems, which most first-world banks seem to be able to manage most of the time without giving up on their platforms.
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9 hours ago, JAG said:
Volunteer interpreter? Possibly French to English - Police probably have English speakers but unlikely to have French speakers.
But having her wearing an official Immigration police uniform / vest (as opposed to some kind of civilian garb) seemed a bit strange....
Don't think any full-on foreigners can become official Thai police officers (as opposed to civilian volunteers, interpreters, etc.)
One thing's for sure... she's definitely not "luk kreung" (part Thai-part farang)
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"The law cited by Trump's proclamation places National Guard troops under federal command. The law says that can be done under three circumstances: When the U.S. is invaded or in danger of invasion; when there is a rebellion or danger of rebellion against the authority of the U.S. government, or when the President is unable to “execute the laws of the United States,” with regular forces.
But the law also says that orders for those purposes “shall be issued through the governors of the States.” It's not immediately clear if the president can activate National Guard troops without the order of that state's governor."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trumps-deployment-national-guard-troops-la-protests-122622792
From the same source above, the Civil Rights era National Guard deployments involved the president invoking the Insurrection Act, which is clearly the one legal scenario where the governor's consent is not required:
"The Insurrection Act and related laws were used during the Civil Rights era to protect activists and students desegregating schools. President Dwight Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect Black students integrating Central High School after that state’s governor activated the National Guard to keep the students out."
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16 minutes ago, KannikaP said:
I subscribe to an IPTV company in UK, no names, and for 30 quid a year I get ALL channels I will ever need, movies, series, sports, and it works on B,stacks on my PC perfectly.
Together with NORD VPN I can get ALL UK channels, with catch up etc.
Yep, in my many years of experience and having tried and tested most of the major providers, Nord is the one MOST friendly and compatible with all kinds of streaming service activity.... whereas many others claim to support streaming, but when you actually go to use their servers, they're often blocked or get recognized as VPN services and draw the "you're using a VPN" error message.
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10 hours ago, Evil Penevil said:
U.S, law allows the President to federalize (bring under federal control) the National Guard of a states without the request or even agreement of the state governor. The President can thereby order National Guard units into action or to "stand down," with their place taken by federal troops.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/guide-invocations-insurrection-act
I read a recent Brennan Center article on this just by chance earlier today. Their upshot was that MOST situations are going to require at least the consent of the state's governor, even if the NG troops are under federal control.
The one exception to that would be the president invoking the Insurrection Act, which would really be a step into political/constitutional outer space, but not one I would put past Trump.
The President’s Power to Call Out the National Guard Is Not a Blank Check
November 18, 2024
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"The Guard’s June 2020 operation in D.C. was unprecedented; § 502(f) had never before been used for a federally requested deployment in response to civil unrest. Historically, when presidents have desired to deploy the military for this purpose, they have invoked the Insurrection Act and deployed either active-duty federal troops or federalized National Guard. The District of Columbia’s unusual status within the United States’s federal system presents a second question: whether the deployment of unfederalized, out-of-state Guard troops into a nonconsenting jurisdiction would be lawful if that jurisdiction were a state. The answer to both of these questions is no.
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The word “request” in § 502(f)(2)(A) is significant. The president or the secretary of defense may ask a governor to deploy National Guard troops, but the governor is under no obligation to acquiesce. This reading is supported by 32 U.S.C. § 328, which makes clear that a governor is the party empowered to order National Guard troops to duty under either prong of § 502(f). A governor’s right to refuse was evident in the summer of 2020—the Trump administration asked a total of 15 governors to deploy their Guard personnel into Washington, but four declined to do so.
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Moreover, regardless of Congress’s intent, deployments of the National Guard in Title 32 status must in all cases respect the co-equal and territorially limited sovereignty of the states. As a constitutional matter, the deployment of unfederalized Guard personnel into a nonconsenting state is never permissible. If the president wishes to unilaterally deploy military forces into a nonconsenting state, then they must do so through the statutory mechanism that Congress has provided for this purpose since 1792: the Insurrection Act. [emphasis added]
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5 hours ago, KannikaP said:
Install Bluestacks Android Emulator on your PC, then you can put all your phone banking apps onto that. Big screen and mouse.
Sorry impulse, didn't see your earlier advice. Works fine for me.
Thanks too for that suggestion. I'd used Bluestacks in the past for Android video streaming app stuff and it was fine for a time... But then they kept coming out with new versions of the BS software, and every time I upgraded to the latest version, the user experience and functionality seemed to get worse! And BS also didn't support required DRM in some Android video streaming apps. So at some point, I gave up on that, uninstalled it all, and went to just using Google TV streaming devices instead....
But the banking apps only approach within Bluestacks, that certainly might be an interesting alternative to explore!
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6 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:Move with the times or tech will get harder and harder
I'm fine and very well versed with tech...
So, whenever tech makes it easier to type and do business on a mobile phone keyboard and 6 inch phone screen vs. my full size desktop keyboard and 24 in monitor, that's when I'd begin to prefer using the mobile app.... But we're nowhere close to that right now.
Phone apps are OK when all you have to do is tap presented choices or scroll displayed info... But they're nowhere near as fast or convenient when you actually have to type to enter content.
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1 hour ago, OJAS said:As do the "I absolutely hate banking apps" people like myself (& @TallGuyJohninBKK by the look of things). Thank goodness my account with Krungsri is my dedicated 800k one for IMM purposes - so, as far as I'm concerned, they can stick their app where the sun never shines.😡
I have a particular practical gripe with the Thai banking apps... apart from not liking to do personal banking stuff and having to do typing for that on a small 6 inch phone screen.
On my phone, I use several very essential for me extensions that require the use of "accessibility services" in Android to be turned on. And, the Thai banking apps don't allow that, meaning, every time I want to use the banking app, I have to go into my Android settings and turn off 3-4 accessibility service settings one by one, and then go back and re-enable them when I done with the banking apps... It's just an ANNOYING HASSLE!
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23 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:
I did not decide that, two separate immigrations judges decided that. They ordered him to be deported, just not to El Salvador.
You get a little chubby when you see him? Do you wish it was you he was slapping around?
I know you're not big on the rule of law. But just in case you haven't heard, U.S. Supreme Court rulings OVERRULE lower court rulings, including those of immigration court judges.
And, it wasn't just the Supreme Court that called his deportation illegal, but the lower federal courts had also issued orders against his deportation and keeping his presence in the U.S.
Bottom line - his deportation was illegal from the start, and every court that's heard the case since he was deported has found exactly that.
Timeline: Wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador
"Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native living Maryland, was mistakenly deported in March to a mega-prison in his home country of El Salvador -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution -- after the Trump administration claimed he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13, which his family denies."
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April 4, 2025
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, at a hearing in Maryland, grants a preliminary injunction and orders the government to "facilitate and effectuate" the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States by midnight on April 7.
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April 10, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules that Judge Xinis "properly requires the Government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador."
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2 hours ago, Porthos said:The next bank stopps internet banking on the website.
https://www.krungsri.com/en/personal/digital-banking/internet-banking
I HATE that... I HATED it too when SCB recently did the same thing.
I really dislike trying to do personal banking stuff on a mobile phone screen. I'd 100% rather be doing it via my personal computer, large monitor and web browser at home.
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5 hours ago, Yellowtail said:He does not have to be convicted to be deported.
As long as he's in the country illegally, which he is, and has no legitimate asylum claim, which he does not, he can be deported.
Glad you're deciding all those things, because the courts thus far certainly have not.
Somehow, you're missing the part where the U.S. Supreme Court very recently ruled that his earlier deportation by the Trump Admin was illegal/unlawful.
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The underlying message here is pretty clear about what's really going on:
"The case also prompted the resignation of a top supervisor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Nashville, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter.
Ben Schrader, who was chief of the office’s criminal division, did not explain the reason for his resignation but posted to social media around the time the indictment was being handed down, saying: “It has been an incredible privilege to serve as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, where the only job description I’ve ever known is to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons.” [emphasis added] He declined to comment when reached by The Associated Press on Friday.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyer calls charges ‘preposterous’
“This administration … instead of simply admitting their mistake, they’ll stop at nothing at all, including some of the most preposterous charges imageable,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said."
And who's there to help announce the criminal charges against Abrego Garcia -- none other than Trump appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, better known as the former criminal defense attorney for Donald Trump and also the one who defended other Trump luminaries such as Rudy Giuliani associate (and convicted criminal) Igor Fruman and former Trump campaign chairman (convicted criminal, and later Trump pardoned) Paul Manafort.
"Blanche left the firm and founded Blanche Law to represent former U.S. president Donald Trump.[9][6] He is a defense attorney in the 2024 criminal trial of Donald Trump.[6] Following Trump's May 30, 2024 conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, Blanche stated Trump's defense team plans to appeal the verdict.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche
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7 minutes ago, frank83628 said:
Back to face charges amd prison time... well done dems
Innocent until proven guilty in court....That's why the U.S. has a legally binding Constitution, even though the Trump Admin acts like that document doesn't exist.
And given the following, there's good reason at the outset to be doubtful / suspicious of the credibility of the charges being brought against him. Let's see what happens in court.
"Abrego García has no prior criminal history in either the U.S. or El Salvador, his lawyers have said in court records. For several months in 2019, during the time period officials say he was smuggling, he was being held in immigration detention successfully fighting efforts to deport him.
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"The decision to indict prompted the resignation of a supervisor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Tennessee that brought the charges, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it." [emphasis added]
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3 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:He was in the country illegally
I don't know about that, given that a federal judge ruled the government had no right to deport him in the way they did, and now in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, he's magically back in the U.S.
Supreme Court Affirms Lawlessness of the Removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Supreme Court Affirms Lawlessness of the Removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The constitutional crisis has arrived, unsurprisingly with someone particularly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse caught in the crosshairs: a non-U.S. citizen, working-class father of three small children. Kilmar Abrego Garcia fled El Salvador as a teenager and sought refuge in the United States. He gained legal permission to remain in the United States and established a life here. But in March of 2025, Mr. Abrego Garcia would find himself unlawfully deported and detained in a Salvadoran prison with the very gang members he had fled.
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On April 10, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its ruling on the Government’s request.9 In a unanimous decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court affirmed the lawlessness of Mr. Abrego Garcia’s removal to a Salvadoran prison, observing that even “[t]he United States acknowledges that Abrego Garcia was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the removal to El Salvador was therefore illegal.”10 The Court largely affirmed the underlying District Court order, maintaining its effect while also suggesting that Judge Paula Xinis’s directive that the Government “facilitate and effectuate the return of [Abrego Garcia] to the United States by no later than 11:59 PM on Monday, April 7, 2025”11 should be clarified.12 Specifically, the Court explained that the District Court should exercise “due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”13 The Court also instructed the Government defendants to “share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.”14 [emphasis added]
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Beginning to sound like the Trump Admin's federal criminal prosecution of this guy is basically a politically-motivated attempt at payback for challenging and winning the fight against his illegal deportation:
"Abrego García has no prior criminal history in either the U.S. or El Salvador, his lawyers have said in court records. For several months in 2019, during the time period officials say he was smuggling, he was being held in immigration detention successfully fighting efforts to deport him.
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The decision to indict prompted the resignation of a supervisor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Tennessee that brought the charges, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.
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Abrego García, who made a brief appearance in federal court in Tennessee on Friday, was among more than 200 migrants deported by the Trump administration to the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador in March. His removal violated a standing immigration court order forbidding U.S. officials from sending him to El Salvador because it was more likely than not that gang members there would persecute him." [emphasis added]
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Clash of military titans!!!!
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My grandmother left me a wonderful fruitcake recipe some years back.
If I had known today was going to be fruitcake day at the forum here, I would have brought some cake for everyone, or, well, at least for certain posters here!!!
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24 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:
What is Dr. Andrew Kaufman scientific background and training ??
Is he a Virologist or a medically trained professional ??
... Or, is he a psychiatrist and self-proclaimed medical theorist known for promoting controversial and widely debunked views on infectious diseases ??
It seems this fruit-cake is your only source of information in all of your Anti-vax threads.
This is the fruitcake you're talking about above:
The Psychiatrist Who Calmly Denies Reality
Dr. Andrew Kaufman made the rounds in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic by claiming the virus did not exist. Now, he leads anti-maskers in public demonstrations and tells hundreds of thousands of YouTube users that everything they know about medicine is wrong
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- Dr. Andrew Kaufman, a psychiatrist essentially turned naturopath, has become very popular on YouTube for denying the existence of the coronavirus
- He claims the coronavirus is instead an exosome, a natural transport vehicle made by our cells, and while exosomes do have some similarities to viruses, there is undeniable evidence that the coronavirus exists
- Dr. Kaufman is part of a conspiracy movement that believes the pandemic is being manufactured to take away people’s rights, and his calm and confident demeanour can appear very convincing even when he makes outrageous claims like that appendicitis is simply constipation"https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience/psychiatrist-who-calmly-denies-reality
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10 minutes ago, FlorC said:
VAERS database is usually under reported.
But ok , you believe what you want to believe.
Overreported or underreported, NONE of the VAERS numbers, on their own, represent any actual evidence or medical finding that the vaccine CAUSED the side effect being reported.
I could report to VAERS that my brother died from a COVID vaccine, when I don't even have a brother, or if I did, he might never have been vaccinated. But my report would still be there in VAERS as a "report"! And you'd be posting a meaningless, misleading chart about it.
Confusion Over VAERS: Why the Vaccine Safety Reporting System Should Be Renamed
"Anyone can submit a report to VAERS. The presence of a report in VAERS does not mean it is vaccine-caused. As noted in the Annenberg report, the CDC says VAERS reports “may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable.”
To illustrate this point, one doctor famously reported to VAERS that after getting a flu shot, “his skin turned green, his muscles grew and he started having rage problems,” signs that he may have been turning into the Marvel Comics superhero the Incredible Hulk. That report was flagged for its unusual nature, investigated, and removed with the doctor’s consent.
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Guess what folks, some 1.2 million American have died of COVID since the start of the pandemic, and they're still dying from COVID even now at the rate of about 1,000 per month.
Around the world, some 14 BILLION COVID vaccine doses (per the WHO) have been administered since the start of the pandemic, and related, confirmed vaccine-caused deaths have been EXCEEDINGLY RARE!!!
It's hardly surprising in the misinformation filled world in which we live that someone who's had a family member die from COVID, or anything else for that matter, might be inclined to think maybe it had something to do with the COVID vaccine they received at some time in the past... And thus presto! a VAERS report is created.
McGill University
Office for Science and Society
Separating Sense from Nonsense
"The COVID vaccines, administered over 13 billion times, are really, really safe. A massive review looking at 41 randomized controlled trials of 12 different COVID-19 vaccines on a total of nearly half a million participants concluded that there was probably little to no difference between most vaccines and placebos when it came to serious side effects. Yes, rare serious side effects do happen, and scientists are trying to figure out why, with their early clues misused by anti-vaccine activists to paint these vaccines as genocidal."
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5 hours ago, FlorC said:
Point 9 in graphs:
Ahhhh... the ever-predictable nonsense ploy of hard-core anti-vaxers like U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and posters here to present this kind of false and misleading info.
The above charts don't show COVID vaccine deaths... They show REPORTS to a U.S. database (VAERS) that can be made by ANYONE claiming ANYTHING, without any evidence or actual proof or any actual medical findings....
The VAERS database itself clearly says that the reports made there are NOT confirmed and NOT any proof of any actual real link between the death and the supposed cause being reported by whomever. But it's nonetheless a long-time favorite of anti-vaxers who like to portray the VAERS numbers as real causes, which they're not.
From the federal government VAERS website:
Evaluating VAERS Data
When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html
But hey, that doesn't stop the anti-vaxers from filling the gutters of the internet (Rumble, Bitchute, etc), and this forum, with this kind of false nonsense:
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28 minutes ago, frank83628 said:
Simple answer, deny his asylum based on this attack, then deport them, simple.
Who are these low level judges that think they override the president?
Guaranteed they wouldnt cross biden or obama.
These judges should be removed, theybhad their 15minutes... license removed..bye
1. The judge here is a federal district court judge, and has the power to issue the order he did.
2. You need to read the news more. During Biden's presidency, right-wing groups filed many lawsuits in Texas where conservative, often Trump-appointed district court judges overturned or halted various national federal policies during Biden's time.
But I'm sure weren't expressing outrage over judicial overreach when the various Trump-appointed district court judges blocked or overturned various Biden Admin national policies. You just don't like it when the shoe's on the other foot.
One example:
"Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk (/kæsˈmærɪk/;[1][2] born 1977) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump in 2017 and sworn in for the position in 2019.
Conservative groups and the Texas Attorney General tend to file cases in Kacsmaryk's jurisdiction so that he is likely to hear those cases, as he reliably rules against Democratic policies and for Republican policies.[3][4] His court has been hospitable to conservative lawsuits that many lawyers consider meritless.[
Conservative groups have strategically chosen to file lawsuits challenging many Biden administration policies in Kacsmaryk's division. Kacsmaryk is the only federal judge in the Amarillo Division of the Northern District; 95% of lawsuits filed there are assigned to him.[34][3] By March 2023, the Texas Attorney General's Office under Ken Paxton filed 28 lawsuits against the Biden administration in federal district courts in Texas; of those, 18 were filed in single-judge divisions, including Kacsmaryk's division and a single-judge division held by another Trump appointee, Drew B. Tipton."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Kacsmaryk
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"Soliman arrived in the U.S. in August 2022 on a tourist visa that expired in February 2023, McLaughlin said in a post on X. She said Soliman filed for asylum in September 2022 and was granted a work authorization in March 2023, but that has also expired.
Hundreds of thousands of people overstay their visas each year in the United States, according to Department of Homeland Security reports.
Soliman’s wife was born in Saudi Arabia and is an Egyptian national, according to her lawsuit. She is a network engineer and has a pending EB-2 visa, which is available to professionals with advanced degrees, the suit said. She and her children all are listed as dependents on Soliman’s asylum application." [emphasis added]
https://apnews.com/article/boulder-attack-vigil-mohamed-soliman-173ac2795d12ae6b416010d45aa6fe91
I'm not a federal immigration attorney. But I believe, either on the basis of the suspect's pending asylum filing and/or the wife's pending EB-2 visa application, that the wife and the children would NOT currently be on illegal status in the U.S.
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Judge issues order halting deportation of Colorado antisemitic attack suspect’s family
Updated Jun 5, 2025...
"The suspect’s wife was surprised when she learned her husband had been arrested, her lawyers said in the documents, according to the Post. She said that she and their five children should not suffer the consequences of Soliman’s arrest.
“Punishing individuals — including children as young as four-years-old — for the purported actions of their relatives is a feature of medieval justice systems or police state dictatorships, not democracies,” family attorney Eric Lee said in a Wednesday statement to CNN. [emphasis added] “The detention and attempted removal of this family is an assault on core democratic principles and must provoke widespread opposition in the population, immigrant and non-immigrant alike.”
Soliman’s family members have not been charged in the attack." [emphasis added] ... Soliman told detectives after he was arrested that “no one” knew about his attack plans and that “he never talked to his wife or family about it,” according to the affidavit for his arrest filed Sunday.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/us/boulder-colorado-terror-attack
Krungsri online banking discontinued from 1 October 2025
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Another Thai banking app related malady....
Lately, the Thai government and banking system began requiring customer facial recognition via the banking apps in order to perform certain kinds of transactions...
But low and behold, that setup was apparently only available to Thai nationals via their ID card registration, and not available to foreigners at all... So at least some Thai banks, SCB in particular, allowed foreigners to voluntarily waive participation in the facial recognition scheme.... OK, no problem about that...
So now in the last day, I get an app popup message from SCB saying that the bank is ENDING their waiver program for facial recognition.... And, I wish I knew more details about just what's going to mean for farang accountholders....
Except, when I tried to click to read the SCB message, the SCB app gave me an error message and wouldn't open unless I first turned off all the Android accessibility settings on my mobile phone!!!! YEESH!!!