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What are you having for Dinner tonight?
Big difference in the price to start with, We had a Prime burger on Sunday, -
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THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Monday 11 August 2025
Military Installs 9.8km Razor Wire Fence Along Border Canal Pictures courtesy of InsideThailand. Military forces have begun installing a 9.8-kilometre stretch of concertina razor wire along the Khlong Phrom Hod border area in a bid to block illegal migrant crossings and disrupt cross-border criminal activity, including call-centre scam networks. Full story:https://aseannow.com/topic/1369382-military-installs-98km-razor-wire-fence-along-border-canal/ -
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Crime Police Raid Construction Site, Arrest 58 Foreign Workers
I don't know, might depend on who they are. Certainly doesn't end up as public knowledge! -
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Military Installs 9.8km Razor Wire Fence Along Border Canal
Pictures courtesy of InsideThailand. Military forces have begun installing a 9.8-kilometre stretch of concertina razor wire along the Khlong Phrom Hod border area in a bid to block illegal migrant crossings and disrupt cross-border criminal activity, including call-centre scam networks. The operation, led by the Burapha Task Force and the Aranyaprathet Special Unit, covers the stretch from Aranyaprathet Checkpoint 20 at Khlong Luek Bridge to Checkpoint 31. Work has already been completed on 6.3 kilometres between Checkpoints 08 and 20. The move is aimed at strengthening defences along a high-risk section of the Thai–Cambodian border, where the natural terrain has long been exploited by illegal workers and transnational crime groups to evade detection. Military officials say the concertina wire barrier will close off escape routes and restrict movement, making it harder for offenders to operate. The initiative is part of a broader national strategy to combat transnational crime, tighten control over migrant labour and enforce border laws more strictly. Authorities hope the reinforced border measures will boost security, deter illegal crossings and provide greater peace of mind to communities in the frontier region. Adapted by Asean Now from InsideThailand 2025-08-11 -
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Crime Indian Man Arrested for Fake 90,000 Baht Payment in Pattaya
Well the type who spends 90,000 baht on food and drinks yes, the type who doesn't pay, very much no! How much would one need to consume to run up such a tab....400 over priced beers? -
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Why manufacturing won't return to the U.S. - former CEO Motorola
It’s a total mess. As the Ford Motor chief executive Jim Farley courageously (compared to other chief executives) pointed out, “Let’s be real honest: Long term, a 25 percent tariff across the Mexico and Canada borders would blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.” So, either Trump wants to blow that hole, or he’s bluffing, or he is clueless. If it is the latter, Trump is going to get a crash course in the hard realities of the global economy as it really is — not how he imagines it. Ecosystems? Listen a bit to Beinhocker, who is also the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. In the real world, he argues, “There is no such thing as the American economy anymore that you can identify in any real, tangible way. There’s just this accounting fiction that we call U.S. G.D.P.” To be sure, he says, “There are American interests in the economy. There are American workers. There are American consumers. There are firms based in America. But there is no American economy in that isolated sense.” The old days, he added, “where you made wine and I made cheese, and you had everything you needed to make wine and I had everything I needed to make cheese and so we traded with each other — which made us both better off, as Adam Smith taught — those days are long gone.” Except in Trump’s head. Instead, there is a global web of commercial, manufacturing, services and trading “ecosystems,” explains Beinhocker. “There is an automobile ecosystem. There’s an A.I. ecosystem. There’s a smartphone ecosystem. There’s a drug development ecosystem. There is the chip-making ecosystem.” And the people, parts and knowledge that make up those ecosystems all move back and forth across many economies. As NPR noted in a recent story about the auto industry, “carmakers have built a vast, complicated supply chain that spans North America, with parts crossing back and forth across borders throughout the auto manufacturing process. … Some parts cross borders multiple times — like, say, a wire that is manufactured in the U.S., sent to Mexico to be bundled into a group of wires, and then back to the U.S. for installation into a bigger piece of a car, like a seat.” Trump just waves off all of this. He told reporters that the U.S. is not reliant on Canada. “We don’t need them to make our cars,” he said. Actually, we do. And thank goodness for that. It not only enables us to make cars cheaper, but also better. All that a Model T did was get you from point to point faster than a horse, but today’s cars offer you heating and cooling and entertainment from the internet and satellites. They will navigate for you and even drive for you — and they’re much safer. When we can combine more complex knowledge and complex parts to solve complex problems, our quality of life soars. But here’s the catch. You cannot make complex stuff alone anymore. It’s too complex. And if you are not part of these ecosystems, your country will not thrive.” And trust is the essential ingredient that makes these ecosystems work and grow, Beinhocker adds. Trust acts as both glue and grease. It glues together bonds of cooperation, while at the same time it greases the flows of people, products, capital and ideas from one country to the next. Remove trust and the ecosystems start to collapse. Trust, though, is built by good rules and healthy relationships, and Trump is trampling on both. The result: If he goes down this road, Trump will make America and the world poorer. Mr. President, do your homework. 1. Imposing massive tariffs on nations worldwide, and ignoring the fact that the US became the world's largest economy specifically because of very low tariffs. Duh! 2. Insulting and alienating close allies and friends. 3. Demonizing opposing political parties. 4. Taking advice from unhinged extremists, who know nothing about anything, because you think they are cute. 5. Siding with dictators who are genocidal and untrustworthy, and making them the exception to the tariffs. 6. Spending as much time as possible on the golf courses. 7. Threatening sovereign nations with a takeover. 8. Appointing neopytes with no experience and no management skills to head massive departments. 9. Pretending it is all a big success.
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