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Be safe! Get your boosters regularly!

Bank of England raises rates to 2.25%, despite likely recession That's the characteristic of stagflation: Rapidly rising inflation during an economic recession. Just allow bankers to give themselves obscene bonuses and all will be better (for them, the common folk don't matter).

She should sue for defamation.

I met a bargirl one time who married a "rich man" from Portland, OR. She lasted less than six months before divorcing the guy and moving back to Thailand. If you've ever lived in Portland, it's pretty obvious why. A dark, dank, dismal place to live most days out of the year. Beautiful when it isn't raining or ice-covered after an ice storm, or when the cloud cover lifts. That ain't often. She should have talked her hubby into living in North Hollywood. Much better there and Thai friendly.

My wife made noise about wanting to work in the US at one time years ago. I suggested she fly to Mexico and have a coyote take her across as she'd probably be able to obtain a green card and citizenship quicker than if she went with me. And I explained how the inflated US price will eat her paycheck and that she'd be living in poverty while making money that would make her a "rich women" in Thailand. Oh, and good luck finding authentic Thai food and a Buddhist temple.

Just say "No."

Look left, then right. Look left and right again - then get hit from behind and killed. There's no winning here.

Like, you don't have to go to immigration to get a residence form that are required by some Thai bureaucracies, like the motor vehicle department. I've got one. It saves the occasional hassle of having to drive to immigration (30+ km for me). Just saying. It doesn't buy you much.

Trial data. But what the hay. The rewards outweigh the risks. Get those shots today! https://www.evusheld.com/en/hcp/clinicaldata

LAAB is cilgavimab and tixagevimab (Evusheld). Essentially is a monoclonal antibody prophylaxis regime. I guess Thailand will furnish long-term test subjects for AZ. What is cilgavimab and tixagevimab? Cilgavimab in combination with tixagevimab is an experimental medicine being studied for the prevention before exposure of COVID-19. It is not yet known if cilgavimab and tixagevimab is safe and effective. Source: drugs.com "Tixagevimab/cilgavimab, sold under the brand name Evusheld is a combination of two human monoclonal antibodies, tixagevimab and cilgavimab targeted against the surface spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 used to prevent COVID-19. It is being developed by British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company AstraZeneca. It is co-packaged and given as two separate consecutive intramuscular injections." Source: Wikipedia FDA info https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-authorizes-revisions-evusheld-dosing

"What? We can't buy votes!!!??? Oh well, back to handing it out under the table." My wife's view: "Just take money and vote for people you like."

But I bet they don't. Power-junkies don't willingly give up their power.

So they want to re-peg it to the USD like pre-1997. Works for me. A guaranteed ฿35/USD? Not bad.

It's ideologues who can only envision one side of a global crisis who become an existential threat to humanity. They take a side, dehumanize their 'enemies', and wail for blood. At the risk of sounding like a globalist, its best to align to this side if you must choose a side: The brotherhood of mankind. It's when people grasp their nationalism and reject other races, ethnicity, and the domestic interests of other countries that the world goes completely off-balance and teeters on the edge of chaos. This goes for the East, West, South, and places in-between. Personally I watch this Geo-political dance and just shake my head. Man has the capacity for infinite wells of compassion as well as well as bottomless pits of hatred and greed. The latter are willing to genocide a few billion souls if it supports their interests and agenda. Ideologues encourage their leaders to embrace the "Samson Option" and to pull the world down on their own heads to project and protect their own interests and hatreds. It's simply sad and unnecessary.

Ex-President Dmitry Medvedev further clarifies with the following quotes yesterday: "The Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk) republics and other territories will be accepted into Russia." "Russia has announced that not only mobilisation capabilities, but also any Russian weapons, including strategic nuclear weapons and weapons based on new principles, could be used for such protection." Source: Rueters Sep 22 By weapons based on new principles my guess is he is referring to hypersonic missiles and hyersonic intercontinental ballistic technology. Just a guess. Scary stuff imho. This reinforces Putin's statement, "If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people," and it reinforces Russia's stated nuclear doctrine which asserts that attacks on Russian territories can be met with a nuclear response. The only problem being is that once the nuclear genie is let out of the bottle, the Earth as we knew it ceases to exist for all of us except for the 0.01% of the elite population which will head underground to their respective national bunkers.

Wait until the cognitive dissonance sets in. ????

It doesn't matter. A tactical strike by any country will escalate into the use of strategic weapons globally and then all surface dwellers die. The elite will go underground. You won't be invited to survive. What I find deeply disturbing is that a segment of the Earth's population believe that tactical nukes can be used without global consequences. That's a flawed assumption. Pray that you're directly under one of the resultant blasts as dying of radiation sickness will give you plenty of time to reflect on the insanity of that position.

I'm just happy I live here and not in the EU or UK.

This is his exact words: "Washington, London and Brussels are openly encouraging Kiev to move the hostilities to our territory. They openly say that Russia must be defeated on the battlefield by any means, and subsequently deprived of political, economic, cultural and any other sovereignty and ransacked. They have even resorted to the nuclear blackmail. I am referring not only to the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which poses a threat of a nuclear disaster, but also to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia. I would like to remind those who make such statements regarding Russia that our country has different types of weapons as well, and some of them are more modern than the weapons NATO countries have. In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff. The citizens of Russia can rest assured that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be defended – I repeat – by all the systems available to us. Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around." Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69390 There are no winners in a nuclear war. Every sane person world-wide should be encouraging all sides of the conflict to deescalate and open a sincere dialogue. Just stop - talk now! Regardless of who strikes first with nukes, the world ends. Mutually Assured Destruction. The only ones who escape will be your "leaders" and their closest corporate friends. They all have little incentive to stop this madness because they know they will survive. You and I? We will not.

Sounds like a human trafficking scam.

So they are due to shortages, but the shortage are created artificially, ie, via the monopolization of supply and distribution.

Btw. Just bought chicken carcasses for the dogs. Last trip to Marko they were 38THB/kg. This trip they're down to 28THB/kg.

The vegetable inflation is a urban phenomenon. Local vegetable are plentiful and the prices in rural Thailand don't budge. You neighbor selling at the local market isn't gong to jack the prices of veggies you yourself can grow. If the prices move locally, we'll just extend our garden.

Lamphun province. It's off the chart for most farangs.

Well stated. Ditto!