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Panicked Trump Lashes Walmart for Telling Truth on Tariffs
Your concern for my life is touching. Should I be flattered or alarmed? Thanks for your unsolicited opinion; I'll file it under 'irrelevant'. -
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Moving to Phuket in June- Stray Dogs an Issue?
I used to live in the Rawai area there were not that many strays where I lived. But a neighbour had one of his three dogs attacked by an idiot walking his pit bull which he let off the leash. The owner had a struggle to get the pit off his dog which subsequently died a month later from the injuries. -
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Ship carrying 200 people hits the Brooklyn Bridge as search and rescue operation underway
Wow! Such ignorance. Watch this and learn something. -
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Health Six Dead as Covid Cases Surge in Thailand
As we and others did by filling up the food lockers they had about town in Bangkok..... -
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What exactly is a Thai pink ID card?
I have a pink ID. It is NOT necessary but it has proven itself useful on more than one occasion. When I first obtained it, my wife's family split a gut laughing, as they noted it was a ID than many of the very VERY low paid foreign laborers had to get. They thought that funny given my visa is an LTR-WP visa. The Pink-ID has been useful in obtaining Thai price at some Thai national parks, but not at others. When asked for passport at dentist office (they should NOT need a passport) I provided my pink-D. I used it to successfully register online for COVID jab during COVID times, ...I have no idea if it sped up my getting a jab. I nominally (when traveling within a couple of hours of my condo) don't carry my passport. I carry my pink ID. However the Banks so far for me still insist on seeing my passport. My pink-Id and yellow book enable me to renew my Thai drivers license without having to get a residence letter (COR) from the local immigration. That was handy. When applying for the LTR visa, I needed to buy some Thai government bonds as part of my investment in Thailand. Two banks refused me. Finally Bangkok Bank branch manager stated he would allow me to buy Thai government bonds through his branch ONLY if I had a yellow book and Pink-Id. When buying the government bonds, the computer form had a place where one must enter their Thai tax-ID. I had no Thai tax-ID. Instead the bank entered my pink-ID number (in the Thai tax number field), and the Thai bond order proceeded successfully. If left blank the bond order would not proceed. I could NOT do this with just a passport!! The BIGGEST benefit, by far (worth a few hundred thousand dollars) was I was able to use it to unfreeze a foreign trading account. The foreign institution wanted my Thai taxation number to unfreeze my foreign account (which had a significant amount of money it). I applied for a Thai ID but I was refused. Previously, when applying for the Thai Tax ID, the tax government official noted my pink-ID number could end up being my tax ID number, after it was activated (but he was not yet going to activate it). In case curious, the reason I was denied a tax ID is I have no Thai income, and I am bringing no money into Thailand. Rather years back, when I was not a resident of Thailand, I brought a very large amount of money into Thailand and I live off of that. Since I have no income remitted to Thailand, nor income earned in Thailand, the official did not see the point to give me a Thai tax ID. So I passed the Pink-ID number to the foreign financial institute, advising them it was not yet activated as the tax ID. They were happy with that and they unfroze my account. I was immediately then able to trade equities again, and fortunately with the unfrozen assets picked an equity that within 6-months earned me a few hundred thousand US dollars. Could I have done this without the Pink-ID? Possibly. possibly not. For certain I could not do this with just a passport !! I note that when applying for a tax ID that the Thai government tax official did not seem to care that I needed a Thai tax ID for foreign account reasons. I debated with him a bit, but not too much. I did not want him to lose face. I might have had to go over his head at the tax department, which I did not want to do. Fortunately the Pink-ID worked. My cases are obscure. Clearly very obscure. But in life one never knows. The pink-Id (and yellow book) were, I recall, a MAJOR pain to get. Getting such for me worked out, but for sometime I was annoyed at how much effort needed. I think clearly for most expats a pink-ID will have little benefit (except to make one's Thai friends and Thai family laugh). -
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United States credit rating
It's not as if all that money will be invested tomorrow, right? It's a long term strategy. As for the price of oil going higher? No problem. Of course it will. Let Trump be Trump and watch him continue to destroy the value of the US dollar. Of course the price of oil will increase. Or rather, the purchasing power of the dollar will decrease. Either way, the Saudis can afford it. So let me get this straight — Saudi Arabia, which is running a deficit, is supposed to invest $600B (60% of its GDP) based on a Trump handshake and the hope that oil prices magically spike… …but at the same time, Trump’s "drill baby drill" policy is supposed to drive oil prices down? You can’t have it both ways. Either oil needs to stay expensive so the Saudis can afford this fantasy deal, or it gets cheap — and their entire economy, and this investment, falls apart. Which is it?
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