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Agree and way back in the early days of Thai Visa I also posted about this ruse, stating that it was not legal and to back this up, a contract signed using this "pretense" could be ruled as null and void if it came down to the wire. On the subject of using a Thai nominee to buy/build a house, a friend of mine had bought a villa using this route and when his lawyer sold it in the absence of my friend, he took it to court, expecting a favourable outcome, however the ruling was that the original contract/agreement was illegal anyway, so he had no comeback whatsoever and lost everything. A hard and expensive lesson to learn.

During a lull at a White House dinner, Melania Trump leaned over to chat with Elon Musk. "I bought Donald a parrot for his birthday. That bird is so smart, Donald has already taught him to say over two hundred words!" “That’s very impressive," said Musk “but you do realize he just speaks the words. He doesn't really understand what they all mean.” "Oh, I know", replied Melania, “but neither does the parrot!”

Please go and educate yourself about BSE, but then again your post already shows that you don't know what you are talking about....ignorance is bliss, they say!!! Prions: BSE is caused by a prion, a misfolded protein that can cause other proteins to misfold, leading to a build-up of these abnormal proteins in the brain and spinal cord. Contaminated Feed: Cattle become infected by eating feed contaminated with prion-infected material, such as meat and bone meal from other infected animals. Classical BSE: Classical BSE is caused by feeding cattle protein products from other cattle, which may carry BSE prions.

This is very interesting so see it through until the end....... WATCH ALL THIS IT IS A STUNNING INDICTMENT OF USING TARIFFS FROM THE U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN FROM 1987. THIS IS JUST AS RELEVANT TODAY AS IT WAS 38 YEARS AGO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEtSN-dV6q0mi

I like and agree with your posts and thought I would add something to this last one of yours........ For all of Trump's faults and they are manyfold, he has cottoned onto the fact that his "poorly educated" supporters will take on board whatever he says, because not only are they poorly educated, they are gullible and in many cases, plain dumb. A case in point is years ago when he started referring to Biden as the "Biden Crime Family" and he used this phrase as often as he could and gradually won over the goobers and they repeated this, as can be seen often on AN. Despite the fact that accusations were made against Biden and his family, especially his son, no amount of investigations turned up anything specific or evidence of a crime. Sure his son was a drug addict (now reformed apparently) but that should have had no bearing on the family. So, what I'm saying is that the trump cult goobers have been won over by the words of the supreme grifter and nothing will shift them from this stance even when they are proven wrong as is often the case. Such a shame that the great USA elected such a clown, it just goes to show that a huge percentage of the US population are just what trump likes – – poorly educated.

Please don't post self portraits!!

Thanks for the info and I am going to look at that shortly.

Well it has been said that his "team" are as dumb as he is and that certainly seems to be the case, especially with JD Vance mouthing off about "Chinese peasants"! Add to that the fact that the dumbo's in the White House are now arguing amongst themselves and you have confirmation that an idiot picked a team of idiots – – how great is that for America? A long-time China hawk, Navarro has been one of the most hardline voices on tariffs, and targeted Musk in an interview with CNBC. “When it comes to tariffs and trade, we all understand in the White House, and the American people understand, that Elon’s a car manufacturer. But he’s not a car manufacturer – he’s a car assembler in many cases,” Navarro said. “If you go to his Texas plant ... the batteries come from Japan and from China, the electronics come from Taiwan.” The row came a day after Navarro insisted in an opinion piece in the Financial Times that the tariffs were “not a negotiation” – only for Trump to admit later that he was in fact open to some negotiations. The spat is all the more unusual because of the mesh of loyalties involved.

As is my wont these days with regards to older movies that I haven't seen, I downloaded and watched one starring Elliott Gould called, "The Long Goodbye" and was expecting a very good movie according to IMDb which gave it a rating of 7.5. However I was extremely disappointed in the whole movie and struggled to stay with it until the end, which I did. It certainly didn't do it for me and a chain-smoking Elliott Gould really didn't seem to fit the bill of the private eye Philip Marlowe, as well as others have done. I did actually watch the original "French Connection" the other evening and rather enjoyed that one.

So it is blank.........just like trump's tiny mind!!

Utter nonsense and if you do the research you will find that the mRNA vaccine technology was being worked on in the early 1960s, so the testing period was many years, and as for the "eight mice"......did they live happily ever after? LOL.

To torch a whole World economy based on some theory based on last century or pay back countries that Trump thinks have been " ripping off the U.S" is unbelievable. It's like letting a toddler play with a chemistry set. The U.S economy was handed over to this fool in great condition. Inflation was tracking down along with interest rates. Now inflation will rise and the World could be tipped into recession. Trump has shown that he is dumb and poorly educated, just like the MAGA supporters he likes the best.

Mmmm...... the problem I will experience is that I have Skype loaded on my computer and that's the medium by which I call relatives in Australia and also my bank in New Zealand; BUT when trying out the "Teams" app, from what I can see, I won't be able to connect to the Contact Centre at my bank because it is an inert entity. Has anybody found a Skype replacement which basically mirrors the features of Skype?

Forgot to add the HPV virus to my list, for which a vaccine is now available. "In general, more than 90% of anal cancers are tied to HPV infection. Most penile cancers and mouth and throat cancers are linked with HPV infections too". You may remember that when Michael Douglas (actor) had throat cancer, he remarked that it was from too much oral sex (he was more specific in his description) and his wife was absolutely livid with him!! Also worth remembering that vaccinations are used to prevent bacterial infections...quote: Vaccines work by exposing your body to a harmless version of a virus or bacteria, teaching your immune system to recognize and fight off the real pathogen if you encounter it later.

Hardly cherry picking when I have witnessed first hand the disastrous results of the poliovirus, and also would like to point out that the following virus infections have been eliminated or reduced in my lifetime: – smallpox, measles, rubella, hepatitis B, chickenpox – – all through vaccination. All of the Covid information I have studied through my research and associations with medical establishments has debunked the Covid vaccination misinformation, and most pleasing is the fact that the technology used to develop the mRNA vaccine is now being put to good use to fight cancer in some areas and shows great promise.