So much for the much lauded Thai soft power, what they need is to get their naïve heads out of the sand and do some serious thinking about where they are in the global economy.
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The Tsunami buoys cannot be properly maintained by Thai personnel, except for basic maintanence. They are very sophisticated and initial cost was over one million USD per buoy when deployed after the 2004 Tsunami.
These buoys are useless as stand alone and for accurate data they must be used as an array (at least 3). They are initially tethered to the seabed, but due to nature, fishing nets and actual cable theft they can drift, which of course renders any data practically useless.
The towers and the buoys were great knee jerk reaction ideas after the Tsunami (albeit very good ideas), but without money and resources allocated for long term maintenance they become obsolete..sad but true.
What a toxic crowd of sore losers the far left have proved themselves to be. Not only was Jill Biden and Blinkin the dem officials awarding last years women of courage awards but there was no right wing outcry about it. Zilch. It’s an important day and event for those women. Yet here we are and all I’ve read is pure hate by the far left directed at the First Lady and questions about why Rubio was there. Pathetic ignorance to an important day.
I agree reductions in dividends are a possibility. The shares I own have a policy of paying 50% of net profit in dividends.
Financial institutions in Australia are paying quite healthy interest rates - 4.5% on 1 month terms, up to 6.5% for 1 year.
I am mostly cashed up, shares are 20%, cash is 80%.
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