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'Damning non-answer': Vance refuses to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 election
Interesting that one of the words came out of Vance's mouth in response was "Censorship!" - to excuse his "damning non-answer." Then the refusal to engage, "We've talked about it, I'm happy to talk about it further - " but not right now, not right here at the debate, right Vance? It's Vance's own "Haitians are eating dogs and cats" moment. That question shouldn't have caught him off-guard. Or maybe he didn't prep, a la Trump? -
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Frozen in time: British expats losing out on pensions in Thailand
What are you talking about All income is taxable including state pension once you go over the Personal allowance in total no matter what the origin of that income If you dont want next Aprils rise am sure many charities will happily accept it even if the Tories (and not Labour) froze the personal allowances level previously whilst in power -
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Watch: Man Sparks Outrage by Smashing $4,000 Autographed Taylor Swift Guitar
It's just a nearly insane super freak, with too much cash on his hands, showing fealty to his political master. Be obedient my boy. You know me if someone says something bad about me I hate them, and If I don't like someone, you shouldn't either! -
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UK frozen pension returning to UK and going overseas again at a later date!
When I returned to live in the UK I was automatically entitled on day one to receive NHS care. Also from day one my pension was increased to the non frozen amount, thus increasing by a large % amount, if I had returned to a frozen pension country within 2 yrs of returning to the UK my pension would have reverted to the frozen amount, as it is I’ve remained her since my return receiving a nearly 100% increase in state pension. -
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Frozen in time: British expats losing out on pensions in Thailand
That makes absolutely no sense - as the US is one of the countries where a UK state pension isn't frozen. Are you sure she wasn't from Canada and changed planes in New York? -
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Prawit No Longer Accepts Salary, Entitlement Pay As MP
Nobody knows the extent to which these top generals and top ministers have enriched themselves over the years, we could be talking about billions of baht. Nobody knows, because no investigation is allowed and journalism here is inhibited to the point where one truly has to question if Thailand is anything resembling a democracy. This is just a symbolic gesture intended to deceive the most naive amongst us. -
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Concerning Harris: What is the most, for you, appropriate tune that comes to mind?
Apologies for this late addendum which I had intended to include in the original Topic: She's so Cold....too! I mean, she's not exactly the burning bush, or anything....imparting great wisdom....as once happened in Biblical times..... -
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Thai Parliament Set to Decide on Controversial Liquor Bill Today
The wine import duties in Thailand are insane, and the government is denying themselves a potentially huge industry in fine wine at wine shops, good hotels, wine events, wine festival. The wine could be promoted on so many different levels and there's no doubt that if they got rid of so many of the taxes that are applied to wine and reduced the import duties by 80% across the board at the wine industry would be 10 times larger than it is now. -
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Frozen in time: British expats losing out on pensions in Thailand
Yep I said the other day on seperate thread and produced another link from DWP saying the state pension is "not sanctionable"- 1
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To retire "in comfort", fine. What about your children?
Good advice to get started early. You could just invest in an index linked fund for them, with 100 USD a month they'd be guaranteed to be millionaires by retirement age. Provided there is no catastrophic event in the markets. Or, you could adopt the Kyoasaki method like KhunLa and buy land and hope it appreciates. Shares and land are the two classic options. I will teach them to trade FOREX, as I suspect the returns would outstrip land and index linked funds, if done right. -
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Thai Parliament Set to Decide on Controversial Liquor Bill Today
Thaopipob Linjittkorn, or Thao as he is more popularly known, a lawyer and homebrewer, was very publicly arrested in 2017 for making beer. He used that publicity to win an election to Parliament in 2019, along with 80 other members of the Future Forward Party. This progressive, pro-democracy party included in its platform a detailed plan to deregulate the beer industry, as well as a proposal for the legalization of marijuana, citing both as ways of putting money into the pockets of small businesses and local farmers. The opposition that Future Forward was up against is a military-backed, hardline government that supports the duopoly with strict regulations that allow it to control over 99% of Thailand’s estimated 180 billion baht ($5.8 billion) beer industry. The duopoly was originally made untouchable with the first Thai Liquor Control Act in 1950, a law which has been amended several times since to push legality even further out of reach of any small brewer. Prayuth's administration has done much to reinforce the isolationist and nationalistic policies that Phibul established in the 1940s and ’50s, and has called again and again for citizens to display a certain level of “Thainess,” which the PM defines in part as unquestioning loyalty to the government. Do not be disobedient! For some very small men, 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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Frozen in time: British expats losing out on pensions in Thailand
If you were living in Thailand and getting the winter fuel allowance... - I would stay quiet and not complain about it's disappearance. Also not really sure why you're blaming Labour for the decision to freeze the personal allowance as that was taken by the previous government. Now you could maybe blame Starmer and Reeves for saying they're going to stick to Tory spending limits, but not for things decided by the previous government. -
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I Love Donald Trump
Pretty sad Trump lives rent free in your head (keep posting about him) LOL not surprised 🙂
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