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Israel’s Strikes Leave Iran Reeling Amid Escalating Conflict
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Carnet de Passages en Douane (CPD)
Hello everyone! Has anyone successfully obtained a Carnet de Passages en Douane (CPD) for a Thai-registered car or motorbike while living here in Thailand? If so, I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience and the process you followed. I was previously told it might be possible to apply for one in Malaysia, but it seems that service is no longer available. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! -
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Was the Senator Padilla incident the beginning of true authoritarianism in America?
I was quite shocked to witness the takedown of Padilla as he attempted to ask a simple question of Kristi Noem. The level of intolerance that this administration has shown toward people who have the audacity to ask a simple question about policy has been rather alarming. Though the White House goons insist that he lunged toward her and that he walked into the room without anyone knowing who he was, in this interview he clearly states that he was escorted into the room by an FBI agents and a member or the National Guars, so it was clearly known who he was. The rest is just morally bankrupt distortion, deflection and lies. Chaotic scenes in which Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was pressed to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents set the political world aflame Thursday. Padilla had come to a news conference being held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, raising his voice to ask questions. Agents, reportedly including at least one member of Noem’s official security detail, swarmed Padilla, moving him to a corridor before pressing him to the ground and placing the handcuffs on him. The sheer potency of the Padilla video is more powerful than anything else. The most widely circulated clip, which lasts less than a minute, begins with Padilla standing relatively close to where Noem is speaking, but not within arm’s reach or making any sudden move toward her. Agents begin to push him further away. As they continue physically pressing in on him, the senator says, “I am Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary.” Padilla begins to make remarks that he never gets to finish related to “violent criminals,” and he is pushed into an adjacent corridor, briefly out of view of the camera. A voice — presumably Padilla’s — says “hands off.” Moments later, with three agents surrounding him, he is told to get “on the ground” and to put his hands behind his back. At least two of the agents have their hands on Padilla holding him to the ground at this point, and cuffs are placed on him. A voice from an unidentified man then tells the person filming the events on their cellphone that no recording is allowed. But the shocking nature of seeing a sitting senator treated in such a way resonated immediately, taking over cable TV networks and social media and sparking a political firestorm. But liberals and Centrist democrats also see the immigration question as part of a bigger picture, in which Trump has sought to exert his muscle against universities, the media, judges and law firms, as well as his political foes. To them, he is a president exceptional in all the wrong ways — in his intolerance of dissent, and his willingness to use the levers of government power to crush it. The images of Padilla being handcuffed crystallizes their case. Padilla says it’s false to suggest nobody knew who he was, even before the melee erupted, because a member of the National Guard and an FBI agent escorted him into Noem’s press conference from elsewhere in the building in the first place. Even so, members of the Trump administration plainly believe that adopting the president’s “never back down” approach will pay political dividends. An Economist/YouGov poll this week highlighted the split. It found that 47 percent of surveyed Americans believe Trump’s approach to immigration is too harsh, 40 percent believe it is about right, and 7 percent believe it is too soft. The same poll found 87 percent of surveyed Americans supporting the deportation of migrants without legal status who have committed violent crimes — but 61 percent opposed to deportations of those who had not committed violent crimes. In short, the politics of immigration is more nuanced and more changeable than hard-liners on either side make it appear. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5348010-senator-padilla-incident-political-tensions/ -
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Israel’s Strikes Leave Iran Reeling Amid Escalating Conflict
Iran reeling indeed............... “Where is our air defense?” “How can Israel come and attack anything it wants, kill our top commanders, and we are incapable of stopping it?” A Miscalculation by Iran Led to Israeli Strikes’ Extensive Toll, Officials Say https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/world/middleeast/iran-israel-strikes-nuclear-talks.html- 1
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