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Well, look at it this way all bureaunazis in all English speaking nations (and some non-English) are placing more restrictions and burdens upon their citizenry to make their own lives easier. They only asked for proof of residence which is fairly anal since you are on the other side of the planet and may have a new abode however, they haven't gotten around to you passing over your genetic material yet as proof of existence. There is always that.
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My apologies "hear" should be "here" above. Afraid I have the flu something awful and make minor errors.
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It is obvious few around hear has ever dealt much in the fishing and/or marine industry in these parts. The fishing vessel operators will not feel the pinch as much as one would think. Cargo transfers at sea to other flag vessels to legally clear into other ports to discharge and sell there or cargo forward on is done daily. That is not the North Sea out there, most time the sea at dawn is like a mill pond, working on it is not that tough and there are plenty of island coves if required. I have done it many years past out there (and no, it was legal, and not drugs). The various owners have agreements with ship owners in other Asian countries, many of whom are family relations and have been doing the shell games since their grand dad's time or before. This is done with fish, fuel, cement, virtually any cargo. They may take a slight financial bump but in the end it is just the cost of doing business to be amortized over many years in operation.
The only way to stem this is to go for the juggler. They must make the owners and their companies and board personally and severally responsible and accountable with heavy fines and mandatory serious jail time and any other penalties they can dream up. Otherwise it is just biz as usual. Doubt we shall see that however.
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"World Happiness Report 2015, a landmark survey of the state of global happiness,", who does this drivel. Every Swiss and Dane that I know are not very happy. When I go to Switzerland or Singapore they are a miserable lot. Seriously. Who did they poll in these places, tourists?
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No problem. The USG has it all worked. We won't deal with you terrorists, understand? However, we will come over and kill the hostages for you. Can you say cluster<deleted>? What bunch of RE<deleted>s.
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..."So in the year of 2013 they had one more earthquake, bringing the total to 2,5 earthquakes, than they did in 2008.
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How is a near doubling the same as 70 times the amount.
How do you have 1.5 or 2.5 earthquakes. Did they happen at New Years Eve?"
You may want to reread the statement, partner. I concur on the 70 times comment. It appears it's a lot more. It says,
"Earthquake activity in Oklahoma in 2013 was 70 times greater than it was before 2008, state geologists reported. Oklahoma historically recorded an average of 1.5 quakes of magnitude 3 or greater each year. It is now seeing an average of 2.5 such quakes each day, according to geologists."
So 1.5 quakes per year to 2.5 quakes per DAY. 2.5 quakes x 365 days = 912.5 quakes per year. That is a sh#tload. 912.5 / 1.5 = 608.3x / year more in 2013 than was in 2008.
Perhaps they are including other smaller quake data not given to the reader here. In any case, that ain't normal.
I was in the oil & offshore biz for 14 years out here and I know for certain water reinjection caused quakes in Kalimantan as it was the oil coy geologists that brought it up.
I wish them good luck back there with this, oil is king in America and it's political, financial and media cartels will pretty much back whatever they say.
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Larger taxis with more room for people and goods should get a higher rate. Fair. Fin.
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No they need a submarine. If no other reason to keep up with the Joneses. Hell, they already have the Dept set up for it, buying the damned thing is the easy part. Now they could do what the Indos did and buy old refurbished East German subs and then upon hand over and delivery promptly drive them into the ocean floor off of France. A modern military sub is possibly the most complex machine built and operated today. One needs some serious skills, knowledge and training to operate it though. Of course, we are assuming we a not talking about the Thais getting an Akula or Virginia Class sub but a small littoral type sub of which there a number of good ones around. The new Jap one is possible (the Aussies are looking at it) and Taiwan is building theirs now. These are small, quiet, minimal crewing and made for shallow water and not overly expensive in comparative military equipment terms. It will be interesting to see what they do but it is a great loss of face for them not to have any and little Singapore has multiple. This can not be allowed here. Trust me.
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Good. There was no doubt he was going to get a sentence such as this. With what he knew and where the skeletons were in the closet and war crimes and thefts, etc, etc done by politicians, military, contractors in that fiasco that he could hang out to dry, there was little doubt it would end like this. He probably was more concerned about turning up dead as a result of this witch hunt then any serious sentencing. And yes, Dorothy, at his level and knowledge RHIP.
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A war of cowards.
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It is a start however, in fairness it is not the first time nor very effective. The naivete of most people about the sea in general just makes this issue more difficult to grasp and to handle. Unless one has actually worked out on the blue water one fails to grasp the enormity of the thing. It is a REALLY big ocean out there. Transferring cargo ship to ship, stealing whole ships is normal in Asian waters hell, 200 ships a year go missing of which 10% of these are over 100,000 tonnes in size. One can go a week without seeing another vessel. Archipelagos like Indonesia are virtually impossible to police as even the mighty American Seventh Fleet had admitted that years ago when they were having problems in the Straits and further south in the 80's. The Americans have the largest and finest fleet in the world with satellite assist and they could not do what they wanted how then a local Marine Police. This is a serious and complex problem that can only be handled by seriously throttling the funds and freedom of the vessel owners and fish processors. Do that and one might stand a chance, do not, then...
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You bring up an interesting point of Admiralty law. This is a gray area to say the least. As it is already in port salvage would be difficult as the vessel itself is not abandoned "at sea" or in danger of sinking. However, If abandonment is confirmed by the authorities then the vessel can be sold by the crew for back wages. In this case, even scrap value would get everyone of the crew paid one would assume. Now as to the fishery debtors they may make claim on the vessel but under most maritime law the crew is compensated first then debtors afterward, even banks.
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"Let him rot in jail". Really ? For $200. Ok, he had the temerity to escape multiple times. Fair enough. But seven years for $200 does not sound like justice to me but then it was the US in 1967. It was fairly hard then on criminals, actually more hard on smaller ones then bigger ones. Americans can not abide punk thieves. Americans like really BIG thieves as can be evidenced today. I am with the guy that said arrest him and have him do a little time, a day and a few weeks, then out. I am sorry he got old badly but, obviously he was not that bright to begin with, I mean who gets caught stealing $200? Send him off, why should the taxpayer foot the bill by keeping a man in prison or hospital who is obviously not a threat to society?
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Wow, now there is a surprise. Of course, there is, duh. Netanyahu and the Zionist band of renown and their groupies in the US and Europe are demanding that Goys go fight more wars for them, give them more free money, apologize for things that happened 80 years ago that they had no part of and then one wonders why someone is upset by this nonsense. Really? They are getting off light so far IMO. It is unfortunate that the Goy can not tell the difference between Jews and Zionist. Not all Jews are Zionist and not all Zionist are Jews. Most Jews just want to live normal lives without problems, now Zionists on the other hand... Now if the world made a concerted effort to eliminate all Zionists then the world as a whole would be a much nicer place to be in.
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During the war Westmoreland said, "We can see light at the end of the tunnel". We who actually had been in them used to say "what the F' does that <deleted> know about tunnels". Same applies here.
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Outstanding. About time.
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Not much can be done unless they are willing and able to go back to the practice of the past. In the 1980's when there was the "boat people" problem with Thai trawlers basically being full on pirates and raping and pillaging was common course and slave labor onboard was very common. The Thai govt of the time was made to do something by the international community so they started to arrest the owners of vessels that were caught being pirates or using slave labor onboard. Well, that stopped it pretty quick. Now of course, the wealthy owners bought themselves out but, some had to do some time first and some were arrested multiple times but, it was effective. Unless they are able to do that again I don't expect any significant changes in this situation here.
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Outstanding. I am sick of this PC western nonsense. This is Asia and they have their own laws and ways to do things, mostly pragmatic. If you got a problem with the way they do things then just ignore them and go back and watch more CNN. Get you PC fix.
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This is a tough one. In some places full democracy just does not function. Something has to be done to stop future politicians purchasing half the countryside for their votes to maintain their power which is what has been happening in the recent past. How to do that and be fair and equitable to all? Where is that guy Solomon?
The western countries have not fully figured all of this out yet so I don't know how these people are going to succeed at it in such a short time. It is trial and error for a while more it seems. Of course, there is no changing the fact that those with power are not going to give it up willingly, no one here has so far that I have witnessed. So it is going to be the same business as usual and make the best compromise deal you can get at the time.
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Comment not necessary, you gentlemen beat me to the obvious retort. However, this time no British and Indian assistance no doubt.
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For those of you not so blessed to have been in and lived through the previous coups and the respective governments over the past 30 plus years only to emerge out once again into the same morass of political corruption, greed and nepotism that there was prior to said coups, be it known that though he does seem to shoot his mouth off rather too quick does not necessarily mean he is not correct. (apologies for the run-on sentence)
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Russell, here's a hint. Take that money you made. Go to Pakistan, China, Vietnam, Albania, Cambodia or other such fashionable country. Obtain a citizenship there then return and apply to Australia for citizenship and you are assured of Australian citizenship. If you have any doubt it works just go to Sydney and look around.
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Only fitting one supposes. He didn't allow it when he was alive so, not allowing free speech and protest in that model "democracy" in his honour when he has recently died, works. He would appreciate it.
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Outstanding. It is long overdue. America has had it's time and like Rome and others before it either has to adapt or get pushed aside and face the consequences of it's decisions. The difference is that if America can get it's collective head around the fact their manifest destiny is not be the world police and not to dictate policy and attempt to control the planet through financial and forceful intimidation but to be another good citizen-state of the world then they may end up faring better. If they don't, then they don't and must deal with the consequences and the rest of the world that does not agree with them.
World War 2 and the Cold War are over, deal with it.
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Strong baht aside, export sector needs structural changes, economists warn
in Thailand News Headlines
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Thailand has some major hurdles to jump to increase it's exports. Numerous major mfrs have left recently shifting to Vietnam or Indonesia. My group is looking to install a multi-million dollar factory for new electrical products and have been discussing with several Asian govts on the criteria, advantages and incentives of establishing in their respective countries. No decision is reached as yet mainly because one must determine the level of automation one wants on a factory today vs the host country's ability to supply the proper labor and infrastructure to support that level chosen. We wish to have a high end automated factory bordering on robotic almost. I can say categorically Thailand REALLY wants that factory to showcase such high end facilities operational here however, from the studies so far there is no way that is physically or commercially possible. They have no coherent coordination between departments for permits let alone operation, it is more like loose association of fiefdoms even up to the BOI level each of which can do as they please at any time which no central authority and planning. Not a very good confidence builder for an investor. The interesting thing is on the personnel side if one places a factory of this type in Thailand you can not imagine the number of highly qualified engineers, etc that really want to come and work here fro Europe (ok, maybe you can imagine) because of their perception of quality of life. An interesting conundrum. Add to this the corruption and xenophobia surrounding visa issuance it is doubtful Thailand will be chosen which is a shame on several levels IMO.