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1. "To submit an International Wire Request, you will need to complete a Letter of Instruction.

The U.S.A. Patriot Act requires that the purpose of the wire be included in the Letter of Instruction. Please make sure you have filled out the form completely to include the name and ABA number of the corresponding U.S. bank."

http://www.tdameritrade.com/forms/TDA818.pdf

I suppose I can get the corresponding US Bank information from Bangkok Bank?

2. Is there anyway to lock in a set exchange rate so I don't have to worry about being ripped off or having my USD exchanged for THB in the US? There is nothing on this form about sending in USD or THB.

Thanks

i will try that thanks. i have set up my atm card to take money out of locations overseas and some websites will be no problem while others decline. i think its the third party processor who does the declining, but i will give what you say a try.

Do you guys ever get tired to bitching and complaining?

Worry about your own bank account number, that is all that really matters anywhere. Are you welcome here? If you have enough of the local money you are welcome anywhere.

I think perhaps you are one of those guys who hates farang who tip too much cause its "bad for the locals".

I think it is far sadder when we see attitudes like yours who seem to think any amount of shafting by the locals and their government is ok. Let's face facts, if the country wants to be anything more than a grow food and eat it economy then they need western investment in all forms, including residents. I think the land issue is a hard one or you'd have no land for the Thais as prices spiralled out of control but visas are an easy area to accommodate foreigners.

Do they really want us ? Not even 1%. They are addicted to our money though.

blah blah blah blah

Do you guys ever get tired to bitching and complaining?

Worry about your own bank account number, that is all that really matters anywhere. Are you welcome here? If you have enough of the local money you are welcome anywhere.

I think perhaps you are one of those guys who hates farang who tip too much cause its "bad for the locals".

will he have to border run to panama every 30 days?

Thaksin is finding out "exile" is no fun and will realise its not worth all the financial illegal gains he made while he was prime minister.

Yeah it must be hard flying in a private jet to private airports and then via limousine while getting massaged by Ms. Dubai, Ms. Nicaragua, Ms. Cambodia to one first class hotel after another. He's probably down to his last $500,000,000.

btw, my current condo rental is same contract situation. after the first 12 months i am allowed to leave anytime i want once i give a months notice. at which point i get back a 3 month deposit.

your 3 month deposit has now gone towards 3 mo. rent plus, since you have not given notice yet, you owe the next month rent. i imagine that his plan is to hold your stuff until you can make final payment, plus any other deductions he has to pay as Heng mentioned.

im not sure what you expect a lawyer can do for you.

its weird that you can be savvy enough to run a factory but not understand the purpose of a 3 mo. deposit.

anyways, sounds like you are going to go broke shortly. i would suggest trying to find a partner/buyer who can provide capital so that perhaps you can salvage something out of it, be it product or capital.

in the place where you have to fill out expiration date month and year, its 2019 and every payment processor i see does not go that far. since many sites wont accept American cards from overseas locations its a bit of a pain.

I'm tired of hearing how the elites rule the country as if that's a bad thing. As Jon Stewart said... "Doesn't elite mean GOOD?"

i think its a good thing, but a bad thing when the elites appear too paranoid of everyone else behind them and trade growth for their own security. i look at the bill gate elite types as being more praise worthy. they rule and destroy but keep moving forward taking all of us with them. other elites seem to kinda just face backwards and hit anyone who gets to close with a baseball bat.

Reminds me on the Article from Shawn W. Crispin in the Asia Times

Thaksin's recent rally cries for a national uprising against aristocracy and the need for "true democracy" have echoed Jakrapob's long-held views that certain royal bodies should have a diminished future role in the country's democracy.

Nor is it clear that the UDD's provocative calls and tilt towards brinksmanship will enhance or undermine Thaksin's future negotiating position vis-a-vis his now publicly identified establishment adversaries. One UDD organizer, who requested anonymity, suggested that Thaksin's calls for a national uprising were no idle threat and that the protest group could in the weeks ahead stir more trouble at the provincial level.

He claimed that Thaksin operatives had for the past two years clandestinely funneled small arms through Cambodia to his supporters in various northeastern provinces, where Thaksin's grassroots support runs deep. The well-placed source also said the arms had been moved and distributed with the help of former Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) contacts, an ideologically driven insurgent group active in the 1960s and 1970s that frequently criticized the royal family during its years of armed resistance.

The group was disbanded in the 1980s, but some of its former student leaders were among Thaksin's top aides while he was in government. There are no indications Thaksin would support an armed insurgency to push his supposedly democratic agenda, but his vow to return to the country if the military cracked down on his supporters has raised new security questions. Abhisit vaguely acknowledged at the height of the recent unrest that the UDD had stockpiled weapons, but he failed to elaborate if that was only in Bangkok or more broadly across the country.

Source:

Sondhi's shooting beginning of phase B ?

Sorry but this sounds like complete BS. The communist underground party is still active in Thailand? Red shirts and CPT joining together? Sounds like some journalist is spending too much time on a nana plaza bar stool and having a laugh at his readers.

of course, he has a source who cant be named. how convenient.

Ofcourse you would disregard one of the few competent journalists in the region when it suits your agenda. Anything else wasn't expected.

Ps. We already know several anti-Monarchy, marxist and communist groups are aligned with the Reds, as they find they have a common goal [overthrowing/de-stabilizing the government]. Unless you claim that known individuals as Giles et al isn't marxist at all... Ds.

here's an idea. instead of saying "several former CPT party members were close Thaskin aides", why not actually list their names? Or are they secret names? When you see this type of journalism, constantly relying on "John Does" and "Sources anon", its a good clue that its bs.

name your sources, otherwise, there is no evidence. you are writing a fiction novel but thats 99% of journalism these days.

Reminds me on the Article from Shawn W. Crispin in the Asia Times

Thaksin's recent rally cries for a national uprising against aristocracy and the need for "true democracy" have echoed Jakrapob's long-held views that certain royal bodies should have a diminished future role in the country's democracy.

Nor is it clear that the UDD's provocative calls and tilt towards brinksmanship will enhance or undermine Thaksin's future negotiating position vis-a-vis his now publicly identified establishment adversaries. One UDD organizer, who requested anonymity, suggested that Thaksin's calls for a national uprising were no idle threat and that the protest group could in the weeks ahead stir more trouble at the provincial level.

He claimed that Thaksin operatives had for the past two years clandestinely funneled small arms through Cambodia to his supporters in various northeastern provinces, where Thaksin's grassroots support runs deep. The well-placed source also said the arms had been moved and distributed with the help of former Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) contacts, an ideologically driven insurgent group active in the 1960s and 1970s that frequently criticized the royal family during its years of armed resistance.

The group was disbanded in the 1980s, but some of its former student leaders were among Thaksin's top aides while he was in government. There are no indications Thaksin would support an armed insurgency to push his supposedly democratic agenda, but his vow to return to the country if the military cracked down on his supporters has raised new security questions. Abhisit vaguely acknowledged at the height of the recent unrest that the UDD had stockpiled weapons, but he failed to elaborate if that was only in Bangkok or more broadly across the country.

Source:

Sondhi's shooting beginning of phase B ?

Sorry but this sounds like complete BS. The communist underground party is still active in Thailand? Red shirts and CPT joining together? Sounds like some journalist is spending too much time on a nana plaza bar stool and having a laugh at his readers.

of course, he has a source who cant be named. how convenient.

she does not come from isaan so just move along ok?

girls think they are cute. they are also death traps.

How about a pretend democracy where most of the power is concentrated in the hands of a few dozen multinational corporations whose major shareholders names are rarely in the public spotlight? That way there's no figurehead to point the finger at. Oh... it's CP (P&G/Colgate Palmolive/etc.) behind this... it's PTT (or Shell/Mobil Exxon/etc) who ordered those death squads out... etc.

Once you give a company a one person personality, it gives the people someone to compare themselves to, to resent, to hate, to blame. Keep it general and distanced and the masses stay docile.

Where does Barrack Obama fit into all of that?

many commented on here that Thaksin wanted the military to kill the red shrits because it would have sparked outrage. more red shrits come out. the public turns on the military. chaos ensues. but instead, the army shows that its ready to litter the streets with dead bodies and the red leadership calls it off.

what happened?

was this just a practice session? wreck the asean and see how abhisit holds up? move back and wait for a better opportunity?

not everything is adding up just yet. there appear to be some missing pieces to why it ended early.

Sorry, but I would like to read the above article later.

I may not remember this correctly, but I believe that the when the US was forming it's government, they never intended the common rabble to elect anyone. They were afraid that someone like Kuhn Thaksin could get himself elected by the masses. They never intended for the masses to elect anyone except maybe the president of their local gun club or KKK membership. Certainly not the federal government. They realized that the masses were uneducated and could be swayed to vote by things other than what would be best for the country. I may be wrong, but the model of Democracy (the US) does not elect it's President by popular vote.

Half right. They didn't want minorities or women to vote.

There is a discussion on whether Abhisit is actually in charge, and to answer this question we should perhaps take a look at the glaring double standard that exists in Thailand.

When the PAD causes chaos and enormous financial loss by shutting down the country's international airport, shooting and fighting in the streets, the army did nothing. When the Reds cause chaos, the army intervenes. Corrupt politicians in the yellow camp, and there are many, are ignored by the judiciary, whereas corrupt politicians in Thaksin's camp who are the elected government of the day are hounded for infractions as small as appearing on a TV cooking program, and expelled from office.

How undemocratic. There is a school of thought that says that Thailand is not ready for a democracy, that the poor majority is too stupid to vote sensibly and should therefore have its representation diluted by the elite. That is what the PAD has said publicly, but who trusts them or the old guard generals and elite who sponsor them and who have never really done anything to improve the lot of the average Thai.

Thaksin's lot are highly unpalatable, but they were an elected civilian government, marking the first time in Thailand's recent history that worn out and corrupt generals and career bureaucrats were not calling all the shots, bickering amongst themselves, and getting nothing done. The PAD tore down a fledgling democracy that was an example to other countries in SE Asia, and replaced it with mob rule. What they should have done was show how much support they really had by beating Thaksin at the ballot box, peacefully. They seemed unable to do that, and now we are in an unending cycle of street violence and Myanmaresque military intervention.

I notice that a lot of foreigners seem to miss this obvious double standard, automatically vilifying Thaksin as the devil incarnate, while holding up Abhisit and his lot as clean and democratic. Looking at the Bangkok Post or the Nation, which most foreigners depend on for political insight, I can see why. They are clearly biased toward the PAD, and have been since its inception.

Abhisit is a nice guy in a party just as rotten as the rest of them. In charge of Thailand he is not.

It actually does not bother me if people know all of this and still support the Yellow side, but admit to the double standard and take the ends justify the means approach. its the weirdo's who say stuff like "Well, what crime really would you charge the yellow's with for seizing the airport? Its a grey area" or some other crazy shit their wife explained to them. Or my personal favorites, "This whole thing is about Thaksin's frozen 80 billion baht" and "By getting rid of Thaksin, its a step towards ending corruption in Thailand".

the leaders are giving themselves up just like PAD leaders did. that does not mean its over.

very strange. they fear looting?

was it not opened yesterday? really?

"The dead were members of an armed and hastily formed militia that fought protesters and then retreated through the streets of Bangkok's Nang Leong area."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,7533305.story

But I am sure the Thai government wont let the truth get in the way of a propaganda war.

The LA Times called this group of "locals" a militia.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,7533305.story

"The dead were members of an armed and hastily formed militia that fought protesters and then retreated through the streets of Bangkok's Nang Leong area."

> That's an additional criminal offense on his part.

Well, add it to the list. Looking at how this type of offense is prosedded for PAD leaders in the Thai 'justice' system I think it's one he can safely not worry too much about.

I don't think the issue is that the offense is prosecutable. It's an offense against the Thai people who had to watch their country torn apart as the result of the rantings of a megalomaniac, who doesn't even live in the country anymore.

Yes but did you forget what happened to the ranting PAD speaker? He got named Foreign Minister. Same Same, But Different, right?

It seems that the majority in Thailand is pro Thaksin. In any FREE election his party would win again.

What ? Is this a joke ?

No, it is pretty much a fact.

Amazing! What a problem democracy can be for the minority.

The only question I have is will Bangkok keep sinking? Where does that factor in?