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Both points already addressed and you obviously haven't checked the sources.

Update: So my wife went to the Thai embassy in Paris and obtained the two documents which were required for me to renew our 12 year-old son’s passport in Thailand in her absence: Letter of consent (หนังสือให้ความยินยอม) Power of attorney (หนังสือมอบอำนาจ) I would advise calling the embassy beforehand to check exactly which documents are required, in order to avoid any unpleasant surprises. In our case, the Paris embassy needed five sets of documents and a pre-purchased envelope from the Post Office, though these two requirements were not specified on the checklist shown on their website. The envelope is used to send the documents at a later time as they need to be approved by an upper-level manager who isn’t on premises. My wife received the documents four days after her visit to the embassy. She sent them to me in Thailand via express post with tracking – the price was 65 euros (2,500 baht), which I think was worth it as I received them within 3 working days and could follow the process step by step online. Then off I merrily went to renew my son’s passport at the local government office, which all went very smoothly, the price was 1,000 baht.

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You know the drill, social media is where the quacks are, the science-abiding educated folks (vastly represented on these premises) don't stoop to such abyssal depths of mediocrity… or so I thought.

I thought FaceBook was not a reliable source for vaccine-related information?

Indeed, he's a creature of the medical establishment, which is why it is so telling that he reluctantly admits that lawsuits are coming and that the vaccine makers are toast.

All I have to say at this point is that we are in the era of fifth generation warfare. I just found this definition which I think sums it up well: Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) is a new type of conflict focused on ideas, narratives, and information manipulation rather than traditional military force. We are in an information war and, in my view, nothing can be taken at face value. By now, even Trump's most staunch critics acknowledge that he is not the buffoon the media have portrayed for ten years. The balance of power is shifting from globalism to multilateralism and Trump is the most prominent face of that shift. Pence, Barr, Musk… all characters in a show for the masses… It is impossible to make sense of it, unless you take the highest possible view and see the bigger picture. What matters is the result and we are much better off today than ten years ago, on the core political issues. The major difference is that 99.99% of people never used to pay attention to these issues, whereas now, more and more people do, and that is, I think, the greatest evolution we have known in recent times – knowledge is power. If Obama had been subjected to that level of scutiny and standard, via decentralised media, he probably would have been removed from office in his first year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I do think he did a lot better this time, don't you ?" A lot happened between 2020 and 2024 and Trump didn't waste a minute of those four years. His favourite book is Sun Tzu's The Art of War… and for those who have read it, that is all one needs to know. A couple of excerpts: “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” And that was my 2 baht's worth

I wonder why he didn't get his nose tattooed. Kinda sticks out.

To the handlers of this account, I recommend dropping the "innits" to make it a little less unrealistic.

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said on CNBC yesterday that RFK Jr’s fall autism report will link aluminum to autism, sparking lawsuits and driving vaccine makers out of the market: 9:27: "I think what he's setting up is to declare in his autism report in the fall that there's a link between aluminum and autism. I think that's where this is heading. If I was to make a prediction, if he does that, that will open the door to litigation under the vaccine injury compensation program and create a whole wave of lawsuits that I think will drive a lot of vaccine makers out of the market." This is from the same person who tweeted in 2015 that "the purported link between autism and vaccines is one of the most carefully studied, and thoroughly debunked, clinical questions", so he is initially not on RFK's side at all. However, the above statement in that interview is very interesting, as it is an admission of reality as it exists. Lawsuits and companies driven out of the market aren't things that happen for no reason. The Overton window has undeniably shifted on this issue. I am particularly interested in exchanging with the posters of this forum who consistently dismiss the link between vaccines and autism as "debunked", "pseudoscience", "conspiracy theory", "quackery", etc. Do you really believe, in good conscience, that there isn't a remote possibility that there could be an ounce of truth behind this? That perhaps you were misguided? History repeats itself in cycles: not that long ago, the reality of the Holocaust unfolding in Germany was ignored and downplayed for various reasons, by established media. This was covered in a book, Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper. Here is its description on Amazon: An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939–45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist tendencies of The Times' Jewish owner, and the ethos of mid-century America, all led The Times to consistently downplay news of the Holocaust. It recalls how news of Hitler's 'final solution' was hidden from readers and - because of the newspaper's influence on other media - from America at large. Buried by The Times is required reading for anyone interested in America's response to the Holocaust and for anyone curious about how journalists determine what is newsworthy. From a historical perspective, one consistently observable process is that nothing can stop the truth: no matter how powerfully repressed, the truth always comes out eventually. On which side of history will you be?

I like Jeff Childers, never read an article of his which wasn't good. This part is compatible with my previously-mentioned take on tech, i.e. it's a tool and what matters is who wields it: But ChatGPT pulls up studies your doctor hasn’t read. It explains side effects in full sentences instead of hastily scribbled warnings. It doesn’t interrupt, rush, or dismiss. It doesn’t condescend. It politely answers every question, no matter how many you ask or how dumb they are. The real threat to medicine isn’t that AI makes mistakes. (So do doctors. A lot.) The threat is that AI demystifies the process — and proves it was never magic to begin with. It’s just pattern recognition, obscure vocabulary, hoarded data, and access to knowledge. We are going through a paradigm change for the best. That's just the reality as I see it.

And to my knowledge, unless you were going to the US or Indonesia, it was a rumoured threat as the authorities never stopped anyone unvaccinated from travelling. I travelled to Europe in 2021 (flight from Bangkok to Geneva via Amsterdam and into France by land) and all that was needed was a negative PCR test, shown only once at the check-in counter in Suvarnabhumi. That was a valuable lesson for people too, I think: don't believe rumours and always check information independently. Several people on this forum were adamant that vaccination would be needed to renew visas, though the Thai authorities never even suggested that might be the case.

Or it was a sabotage operation which saved us from an unfathomable and irreversible nightmare. Trump always leans into the enemy's dynamics before neutralising it. Let's not forget what the alternative to Warp Speed was: The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse. […] It was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide if not worldwide. Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back. https://brownstone.org/articles/the-cdc-planned-quarantine-camps-nationwide/