GroveHillWanderer

No, he is being prosecuted for falsifying business records related to the payments made to Stormy Daniels. He claimed on his tax returns that these were just originally legal expenses, when they were not. Not to run them as his own personal fiefdom, without any input from anyone but himself, no. For instance, the President is not entitled to decide all by himself, which media companies are allowed to have broadcasting licences. Under Trump's plans, he would be able to do exactly that. As stated by his advisers, if Trump gets back into power, they plan to purge the federal government of even non-politically appointed career employees who aren't loyal to Trump, and replace them with only the most hard-core loyalists. They would also appoint general counsels who will aggressively implement Trump’s orders and skeptically interrogate any career government attorney who tells them their plans are unlawful or cannot be done. In other words, he’s looking for people who would be prepared to break the law for Trump. You should read up on the unitary executive theory. It basically aims to turn the entire mechanism of government into the president's personal plaything.

I must have missed the part where Biden revealed his plans to fully embrace the unitary executive theory and expand the powers of the presidency into control over all aspects of the federal government and bureaucracy.

I can't quite believe any American with the capability of rational analysis, would choose to vote for Trump. He has made it perfectly clear what he plans for the US, should be be re-elected. He intends to turn it into an autocracy, under his control. Donald Trump Isn’t Even Trying to Hide His Authoritarian Plans for a Second Term

While most Ukrainians can speak Russian, I'm pretty sure that nowadays they tend to eschew it, for obvious reasons.

I haven't seen anything saying 51% of Thai milk comes from New Zealand and Australia. Do you have any source for that? There are articles saying that approximately that percentage of imports of all dairy products into Thailand is from those countries but that's not the same as 51% of all milk sold here. In addition, much of what is imported, in the form of concentrated milk or milk powder is then used to produce dairy products that are exported from Thailand. See article below. A quick stop at Thailand’s dairy sector

Cattle feed being too expensive wouldn't explain why fresh milk completely disappeared from the shelves for several days and then reappeared at the same price or (at least for one brand) slightly lower than before.

There have been a couple of relatively recent posts from people held in IDC. By all accounts the conditions are every bit as bad as the regular prisons here, if not worse in some ways (sometimes more overcrowded apparently, for instance).

Actually, when milk finally resurfaced in Lotus in Hua Hin Market Village, at least one brand was actually reduced from what it used to be (and all the others were exactly the same).

So if an FD-1023 form is not an FBI document that contains raw, unverified information from a confidential human source (CHS), then what is it?

The two people referred to were not descended from immigrants though, they were actual immigrants. They were both born outside the US, neither was a US citizen at birth. Both immigrated to the States and acquired US citizenship later in life.

It doesn't matter what the putative crime is, nobody should "receive the death penalty immediately" i.e. without due process, which is what Trump is proposing here

Yes, you can foam it - I've often done so. I've also driven past one of their farms and seen the dairy cows in the fields. This picture is from their website but it matches exactly what I saw when I drove past it.

I have a container of Dutch Mill Selected full fat milk in my fridge right now. The label says it's 100% pasteurized cow's milk. Their website also says their Selected brand milk is 100% pure cow's milk and it is pasteurized. You don't need to pasteurize powdered milk, so that, along with the fact that their site says they operate 764 dairy farms and 18 raw milk centers in Thailand, would seem to suggest that their product is fresh, locally-produced milk. Dutchmill Group

I would imagine it's this one. Aussie teen’s suspicious death in Thailand fuels family’s heartfelt repatriation quest

No, and I didn't say it was but the question asked does not go to the heart of the issue which apparently (at least if that previous EC ruling is anything to go by) is not how many shares are owned but whether the amount of shares was enough to affect company policy.

I was there today and saw that sign. It doesn't explain much to me though. What on earth is a "dry cow situation during the milking break"? I showed this to my wife and she said she doesn't understand what the Thai wording is supposed to mean, either.

The point is that the amount of shares owned does make a difference. As mentioned above, "the EC dismissed a case against a Democrat MP possessing 200 AIS shares on the grounds the number was too low to affect company policy."

It's a practice known as "shrinkflation" - instead of raising the price, they reduce the size of the product. I've noticed a lot of local restaurants, street food stalls etc, doing the same thing.

He claims that he did that. The shares were already transferred, apparently. It's all bogus anyway. As has been pointed out in a number of articles, on March 7, 2007, the Office of the Permanent Secretary notified ITV of the termination of their broadcasting contract and Ultra High-Frequency (UHF) operating agreement. As a result, ITV lost its status as a mass media company. Its shares were also delisted from the Thai stock exchange in 2014 and could no longer be traded. For many years thereafter, in its financial statements, ITV stated it was "a holding company principally engaged in the non-financial business." Then, for some unknown reason that was changed to “television media” in 2022, in what Pita reckons was part of a deliberate attempt to have him disqualified from politics. I must say it does seem strange that a company that had not been involved in broadcasting since 2007 and with no change in its actual status, would suddenly start describing itself as a television media company in 2022.

That wouldn't explain why all the locally-produced brands were also out of stock, though. Also, if such a thing were going on, why would it only affect milk?

As far as I can tell, most of the milk brands you find here are locally produced from dairy cattle. Production volume of milk and milk products in Thailand

The only evidence I was going off, was the article I quoted. You're right, it could be inaccurate. Other articles I've seen (that were written earlier) said that Takeda was intending to apply for approval in Thailand. But since this one was dated more recently, I thought they must have done so.

No, Hua Hin - but my point was that if they accept it, it can't be a mandatory provision. However, as is often pointed out on here, individual IO's (or offices) can come up with additional, non-official requirements - and often do. The bottom line I think though, is that if they've accepted the application and given you an "Under Consideration" stamp, it's pretty much a done deal.

I don't believe that's an official requirement. We've always used my wife's son (my step-son) as a witness. It's never been a problem.

I think you're conflating the two different Dengue vaccines. Your first point about it working better if you've already had Dengue, only applies to the Dengvaxia vaccine. Also, Dengvaxia can actually be dangerous if you haven't had Dengue before as it can make the disease worse when you do get it. The new Takeda TAK-003 vaccine, marketed as QDENGA, does not have the same drawbacks as Dengvaxia - it works well, whether you've previously had Dengue or not and it doesn't carry the risk of enhancing the disease when you get it. It's true that there isn't clinical trial efficacy data for people over 16 but it has been shown to elicit a potent immunological response in older people and has been approved for all individuals aged over 4, in the EU, the UK and other countries. According to the article below about QDENGA, it has been approved for use in Thailand but when I checked at one of the local clinics last week, they said it wasn't yet available for sale anywhere in the country. QDENGA vaccine