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J.D.Vance declines to criticize Tucker Carlson over his friendly chat with Holocaust Denier
Again, the Wehrmacht was poorly prepared for taking care of prisoners in the East, the letters by German officers which Cooper mentions where they complain there is no food to feed the prisoners are real. The German standard scholarship agrees that the Wehrmacht made insufficient provisions for prisoners. To see Generalplan Ost as a blueprint for what actually happened in the East is problematic. From your own link: "It was a confidential proposal whose content was known only to those at the top level of the Nazi hierarchy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost Since this plan was only known to those at the top level of the Nazi hierarchy, it is not realistic to see day to day actions carried out by Germans on the ground as motivated by this plan. In addition this plan was never fully implemented. Again, from your own link: "Generalplan Ost was only partially implemented during the war in territories occupied by Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II...However, its full implementation was not considered practicable during major military operations, and never materialised due to Germany's defeat." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost Generalplan Ost is more accurately seen as what the SS would have wanted to happen in case of German victory, it was more a plan for the future than an actual plan for how to deal with prisoners of wars on the ground during Germany's actual military operations. -
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Certificate of residence from Changwattana
The influx of Russians mostly. They were at a point for many months where they hit their daily capacity of residence certificates (300) and would turn people away after that. And that happened every day for many months. I'm not sure if it's still like that but supply & demand. -
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Must Read Its Happening - Law to Tax Overseas Income Now in Progress
The Thai tax system isn't evolved enough for this kind of global taxation. Take investments for example, there isn't a proper capital gains tax in place, it's just personal income tax for everything you make unless of course it's made on the glorious SET (which I don't trust one bit) where somehow there are zero taxes on the gains as it's exempt. If they activate a global taxation with the current structure then anyone who makes even just a few hundred thousand dollars a year will end up out of pocket a lot due to their punitive personal income tax structure. It won't affect 'the poor' which seems to be most of the people on this forum.- 1
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Must Read American 'Life Coach' Arrested for Selling Psychedelic Mushroom Therapy
Veterans Administration Hospital (VA) doctors gave me psychotropic drugs as part of my PTSD treatment. I stopped taking them because of the hallucinations they caused. When I told the VA doctors the meds were making me hallucinate, I was told, those drugs don't do that! -
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Can the Asean Now Community Mediate? Your Input is Needed!
With a foreigner calling the shots at this company, including the initiation of law suits, it seems that the Thai majority shareholder is merely a nominee and can get into serious legal trouble for it. It should be easy for your lawyer to find out all details about this company from the business registation department, including the names, positions and adresses of the members of the board, also the names of the shareholders and the percentage of shares they own, plus a copy of the articles of association and the latest statement of accounts. Your lawyer could contact the registered president or board chairman and arrange for a meeting between him, you and your lawyer. -
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Popular LK Metro Food Stalls Removed Amid Visibility Concerns
Will they be showing ping pong? -
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Just nearly sent me back home to Blighty.
There's literally only 2 embassies in the world that have terminology like this on their websites. And it's not a rule. But they can put whatever they want on their websites. To top it off, the embassies and consulate have no say in the entry policies, as that is immigration which is a completely different government agency. -
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J.D.Vance declines to criticize Tucker Carlson over his friendly chat with Holocaust Denier
How is this dishonesty? Cooper is merely pointing out correctly that prior to WW1 Germans were viewed very favourably in Britain, but then turned into demons in WWII and then again back to good guys after the war. He is right that the innate evil of Germans is a poor and unsatsifying explanation for WWII. -
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J.D.Vance declines to criticize Tucker Carlson over his friendly chat with Holocaust Denier
One can debate what might have happened had Britian accepted German peace offers in 1940, however, we know that Hitler viewed Russia and the colonial peoples as the main threat to the Germanic peoples, therefore he had always said a strong British empire was needed. Besides, why would Hitler have invaded Britain, it had nothing to offer Germany. The only reason for Operation Sealion was to knock Britain out of the war. It's not just that Churchill dismissed German peace offers in 1940, Cooper also says, correctly, that Britain was instrumental in turning the regional German-Polish war into a world war. Indeed, after the BEF fled at Dunkirk Britain had no means to fight back, apart from bombing civilians, and it was Churchill's plan to get either the US or Russia to fight Germany. So in a very real sense Churchill is the person most reponsible for WWII, according to Cooper. -
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Why is Trump Really Running for Office Again?
The question is why is Trump really running for president again at such an old age? Wouldn't he rather relax with family and play golf for the remaining sunset years of his life without any stress or pressure of the high demands required to be a useful and effective president of the most powerful country in the free world? Then the question is if he is really running for president or if he is simply running from the law and all of his pending federal criminal indictments? And is he thinking that the presidency will shield him from prosecution and provide him the power to take further vengeance upon his adversaries? It seems the answer is somewhere in the middle, but more on the side of ego and self preservation than anything else. And perhaps he doesn't even really know why he's actually running anymore. Like Heath Ledger as the Joker in the Batman film when he said "Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! Y'knnow, I just do things." He seems too cognitively jumbled and confused about what he's doing or saying at any given moment and that he simply wants to be the most powerful autocratic leader on the planet to feed his catastrophically, narcissistic ego. So, in one way or another, it's only about him and not about wanting to be the best public servant he can because he's mentally unfit to even be a presidential leader anymore. He certainly doesn't care about the American people or about making America a better country for Americans either because, if that were really true, he would simply pass the baton to someone else younger and smarter from his own party (like Biden was brave enough to do), and that would be someone who is far more suited than he is to be the next commander in chief. Thus, if he really cared about America, and all those hillbilly Americans who turn up at his rallies in support of his confused and unhinged rantings, then he wouldn't even be running at all.- 1
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The benefits of living alone as an older man
And what is so funny to a poster? -
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J.D.Vance declines to criticize Tucker Carlson over his friendly chat with Holocaust Denier
In terms of Churchill, I don't think Cooper was saying that his opposition to Germany was due in part to "pressure from unnamed financiers", what Cooper is actually saying is that Churchill's animosity to Germany was real and was already present, that he was motivated by his failure in WWI to prove that he was a capable warlord after all and that it was the British media complex and financiers that helped put Churchill in a position where he was the person fighting for Britain, and that these financiers shared Churchill's earlier support for Zioninsm. Cooper doesn't name the backers of Churchill, but he most likely means Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham, a former proprietor of the Daily Telegraph who came from a Jewish family. As to the financiers Churchill was friends with Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, and received "extensive loans" from the Rothschilds. In addition Churchill was friends with Sir Henry Strakosch GBE, an Austrian-born British banker and businessman. As a Jewish financier, the financial help he offered to Winston Churchill was exploited by Nazi propaganda during the 1930s and World War II already. "Files declassified in the 2000s showed that Strakosch provided large financial gifts to Churchill in 1938 and 1940, which enabled Churchill to pay off his vast debts and to withdraw his Kent home Chartwell from sale at a time of severe financial pressures." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Strakosch#:~:text=Sir Henry Strakosch GBE (9,Holocaust deniers in later years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Randolph_Churchill#:~:text=Churchill was a friend of,extensive loans" from the Rothschilds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Levy-Lawson,_1st_Viscount_Burnham Indeed you are right that antisemites and holocaust deniers have used this financial support from jews in their arguments, and indeed Nazi Germany already used this in their propaganda at the time. However, in this instance it is a case of the people you don't agree with having historical facts on their side. The loans to Churchill by Strakosch and Nathaniel Rothschild did happen. Tucker did not seem overly interested in this, but his interest was in why did Churchill persist in fighting Nazi Germany when he did not have the means to do so. This was of course not an adversarial interview because Tucker is a fan of Cooper. Overmans did write the standard work on German casualties in WW2, that's true. But that's not all. In Germany there is a work "Germany and the Second World War (German: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg) a 12,000-page, 13-volume work published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), that has taken academics from the military history centre of the German armed forces 30 years to finish. It is considered one of the ultimate standard works on WWII in German academia. Overmans wrote the chapter "Die Kriegsgefangenenpolitik des Deutschen Reiches 1939 bis 1945"("The prisoner of war policies of the German Reich 1939 to 1945"). Germany and the Second World War. Vol. IX. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, München. pp. 729–875. ISBN 3-421-06528-4. Overmans also wrote several standard works on prisoners of war and was editor of other major works on prisoners of war. His essay above ("The prisoner of war policies of the German Reich 1939 to 1945") Germany and the Second World War. Vol. IX. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, München. pp. 729–875. ISBN 3-421-06528-4, is where you will find his exploration of the difficulties the Wehrmacht faced in the administration of millions of Soviet prisoners, including lack of food, camps being built in the open air, lack of medical facilities, dysentry and typhus epidemics and so on. He does not absolve the Wehrmacht of mass slaughter, but explains how this mass slaughter happened. I realise you would like a moralist soundbite about this issue, but it is large and complex issue. -
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Just nearly sent me back home to Blighty.
This has been going on for several years. Immigration has been denying entry to those who spend long periods of time in the country on tourist visas and visa-exempt entries. Now, here is the answer to your question. There is no specific rule against this behaviour. There are around 11 reasons for denial of entry. So, the Immigration Officer will pass it up the chain and generally suggest Khor 2 to the colonel who puts the denial of entry stamp in your passport. Khor 2 is sufficiently vague. "No appropriate way of supporting oneself in the kingdom" By using this legislation, they "keep it legal" You can appeal if you are denied entry. Here is a link to the legislation if you can read Thai. https://www.immigration.go.th/?page_id=2577 -
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Thailand Visa Exemption (60 days) and Visa On Arrival (VOA) (15 days)
That's not true at all. Thailand has a treaty with those countries and they still qualify for 90 days through that bi-lateral agreement. Previously Brazilians and Koreans could decide if they wanted the 30 days visa exempt or the 90 days visa waiver. Now they can decide if they want the 60 or 90.
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