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Putin agrees to 30-day halt on energy facility strikes, Ukraine signals support
You think too much of Russia and Putin, I think. Putin is a former Soviet KGB officer, for sure. But, as you must surely recall, the old Soviet Union couldn't even hold together its empire, back in the day. It went bankrupt trying. Not only will they not make that mistake again, they don't need any of what the West has. They have the largest land mass on earth, they have all the natural resources you could possibly imagine, and at this point, they simply want to be left alone. The GDP of Russia is less than the GDP of Italy. They are not a threat to the West, and they don't want to be. -
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Thailand Legalises Alcohol Advertising After House Approval
So what use has this overwhelming decision for Thailand 😂 ? -
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Dark Days: Chon Buri Athletes Demand Lighting Fix at Local Sports Facility
These guys are all crooks! too busy lining their pockets! I've seen leaders destroy the Indoor stadium project 20 years behind, then destroyed a perfectly good facility like the Park in Jomtien off Soi 7. It is about roads and more roads doing something for the people isn't in their DNA -
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Thailand Yet to Finalise Policy on Taxing Expats’ Overseas Income
Errr.......This was cutting edge info about 20 tax threads ago..... -
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British Cannabis Smuggler Caught in Major Thai Airport Bust
As an aside, the reason it's important to keep bashing it into peoples minds that passport doesn't equal nationality is to maintain reputations and dignity whenever possible. For example I'm an American, however in 2025 being American means virtually nothing anymore. An American could be of any race, have any religion, speak any language and even explicitly hate Americans or American traditions and the founding principles. Being American now is more like a membership card to a shopping center than anything else. With that in mind I'm well aware that literally anyone from anywhere in the world could get an American passport while at the same time have zero similarities to me except maybe speaking some dialect of English and being familiar with some media or corporations. When these Americans show up in Thailand and start causing trouble you're damn straight I'm going to call them out and remind everyone that these Americans are not the same as those other Americans. This should be obvious to any expat living aboard but it's restating I guess since we always get pushback. -
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Thailand Legalises Alcohol Advertising After House Approval
It seems like a step forward now let's get rid of the 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. prohibition window and then let's go a step further and encourage the production of microbrews. Just to make sure small brewers were thoroughly intimidated, the rewrite back in 2017 also increased inflated penalties. Fines were increased from their original, almost quaint 200 baht ($6) for possession of bootleg alcohol to 10,000 ($300). For actually brewing without a license, fines were increased from 5,000 baht ($150) to a range of 50,000–100,000 baht ($1,600–$3,200), plus jail time. Reporting in 2017, The Bangkok Post estimated that in order to meet the new regulations, a brewer would need to have a billion baht—around $30 million—in start-up capital. For some, craft beer is associated with anti-establishment politics. “It’s very similar to the French Revolution, which started from a cafe in Paris, where people drank coffee,” says Taopiphop. “The fuel of the revolution is not coffee any more, it’s craft beer.” Taopiphop adds that, after the 2014 coup in Thailand, many pro-democracy activists chose to meet in Bangkok’s craft beer bars. If only the younger Thais were allowed to express themselves, be inventive, be creative, be industrious, and use their smarts and ambition, Thailand could have a future. Craft beer is needed here, and so are the young entrepreneurs. But, that future appears to be suppressed at every turn by dinosaurs, who only answer to money, money, and even more money. Money is the God of lesser men. The money first attitude is holding back Thailand on so many levels.
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