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I am going to answer my own question here, Thai Banks don’t like dealing with American customers or more specifically the IRS via FACTA hence the reason why US Citizens face difficulties in opening accounts here

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare [2024 Movie] The British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II. Humorous Nazi killing war fest, very loosely based around true characters in history and a book by Damien Lewis, does what is expected of it from this established director Guy Ritchie prone to entertain with some Tarantino like flair.

Coma [2024 TV] A recently redundant dedicated family man’s neighborhood falls victim to the antics of a group of law-breaking teenagers. He and his wife want to move their daughter to a safer area. He confronts the leader of the group, and a split-second decision changes everything. An entertaining effective psychological thriller with two strong leads in this four-part series is worth a look.

Femme [2023 Movie] Follows a drag artist, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career as he withdraws into himself. Sometime after that event he encounters one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. A tense and well-acted revenge porn thriller.

Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer [2024 Movie] An iconic comedian tackles controversial issues such as gun control, religion, cancellation culture and consent through provocative humor. Mainly for fans of Carr's edgy humor, not his best work, the last half hour improves on the first 30 minutes which is pretty dire.

Monkey Man [2024 Movie] An anonymous young man in India unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systematically victimize the poor and powerless. An adrenalin fueled debut action fest from this director/actor lead does what it says. Worth seeing for those into the genre.

Ripley [2024 TV] A grifter named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to bring his vagabond son home from Italy. Exceptional cinematography recreates the era in an old school Hitchcockian film noire style psychological antihero crime thriller that is a visual feast. The story, a simply told plot armor, runs slow with many silent moments that work to perfection. Entirely shot in black and white, every scene mesmerizing. TV at its best that requires some suspension of disbelief.

So, enforce stricter regulations, but no word on what the stricter regulations will be. Great reporting Pattaya Mail

Note* - for clarity, this is a repost of an article from NotTheNation that was originally posted in 2011 - it is not intended to be current news or to mislead the perceptually diminished amongst us. ----------- 23 Dec 2011 BANGKOK – As the year draws to a close, Thailand’s professional soothsayers and astrologers have issued their annual predictions. Their unanimous verdict is that 2012 will be a great year for their industry, concurrent with it being a poor year for human intelligence, rational thought, and deductive reasoning. “2012 is the year we’ve all been waiting for,” said fortune teller Varin Buaviratlert. “With the continued hype around the mispenterpretation of the Mayan calender predicting the end of the world, people are genuinely terrified of fabricated dangers like no other time in recent history.” According to Varin, the year 2012 also figures prominently in a number of pseudo-scientific belief systems such as numerology, New Age cosmology, and the last season of “The X-Files” where it was chosen as the year of the alien invasion. “You’d think a TV show that ended a decade ago wouldn’t still freak people out,” he said, “but you’d be wrong.” Additionally, the continuing challenges in the world economy and national politics will also make it a very good year for the unscientific prediction industry, said Army fortune teller Lieutenant General Pattrasilp Sudsa-ngaun. “Thais really want predictions about the government and Thaksin because they’re in denial of reality,” he explained. “All I have to do is announce that I had a dream that Yingluck would be overthrown and within an hour I get 30,000 web hits and a thousand links from yellow-mad groups on Facebook. It’s the world’s easiest job.” The recent flood disasters and threat of terrorism add up to a “perfect storm of public hunger for bullshit,” said fortune teller Paweena Vasanaruengsuk. “The flooding made people feel unsafe in their own homes. Terrorism makes them feel unsafe away from their homes. And people like me thrive on exploiting people’s insecurities,” she said. “People want certainty and a sense of control over their lives in these uncertain times. Of course, no one can actually provide that. But just having a false sense of it is worth money. Lots of money.” Overriding all the other concerns for 2012 is the greatest anxiety of all for the Thai people, according to predictor Phanuwat Phanwichartkul. “As a nation and a people we’re all concerned for the health of His Majesty,” Phanuwat explained. “But since we’re not allowed to discuss the thing that we fear the most, we displace those fears into other anxieties. Thais are all feeling an itch that they can’t scratch. So we scratch it. For a fee.” Astrology Academy director Kornharis Buasuang noted that the human reaction to fear was to seek out familiar comforts, such as family or an assuring authority figure. “Studies have shown that fewer than 5% of humans think rationally when they are scared,” he explained. “And with economic recession, global crises, a crumbling environment, political failures at every level, rumors about our beloved monarch, superstitions about aliens and ancient calenders, all of it amplified by the hysterical, anti-scientific bullhorn of the Internet, 2012 might see human society devolve into complete mental regression.” “Which is good for us, of couse,” he added. https://web.archive.org/web/20120126203717/http://notthenation.com/2011/12/fortune-tellers-predict-record-breaking-stupidity-profits-in-2012/

Thailand is set to enforce stricter regulations for opening new bank accounts following the closure of over 300,000 mule accounts since November. The initiative, spearheaded by the anti-online scam center AOC 1441 in collaboration with the Bank of Thailand, the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), and the Securities and Exchange Commission, combats the misuse of banking services for fraudulent activities. Minister of Digital Economy and Society Prasert Jantararuangtong reported that these regulations, set to be implemented by June 1, require all banks to rigorously apply the “Customer Due Diligence (CDD)” approach, mandating thorough scrutiny of potential account holders and the purposes for which they intend to use their accounts. AMLO Deputy Secretary-General Pol Maj Gen Eakkarak Limsunggas shared insights into the scale of the problem, estimating that the total number of mule accounts could be as many as one million currently. These accounts are often linked to influential community figures who coerce or pay vulnerable individuals to use their identities to open accounts involved in scams. The police have also discovered instances where over 50 bank accounts were registered under a single individual’s name. https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/thailand-set-to-enforce-stricter-regulations-for-opening-new-bank-accounts-459864

Zis is the truth

Speaking of excessive amounts of gold.....wonder what ever happened to Tim Ward

Even if not going drinking, don’t wear all your gold on show, coz ya look like a prick

Gentlemen, ladies, in order to avoid posting an apology, perhaps I should be clear. The statement that one may have one's drink spiked, because one is wearing gold, is clear, but unintentional, in my original post. What I meant to convey, is that some get their drink spiked, regardless of being weighed down by gold. And that the theft of such gold, whilst related to one being comatose, likely from drink spiking, is primarily confirmation, of the comatose nature of one's drunk, or spiking. And to belabour the point, when going drinking, don't wear all yer gold.

Looks to me as if the man on the motorcycle stopped out of curiosity, then got aware of the necklace and took it.

People who spike others don’t allow their victim to leave Bar / Nightclub / Room etc and follow them down the street until drugs kick in. Poor excuse

1/. Put on your best expensive gold necklace and or bracelet. 2/. Go drinking in Pattaya/Bangkok/Thailand/SEA. 3/. When/if you wake up, if the gold is gone, yes, your drink was spiked. https://thepattayanews.com/2024/05/01/laotian-man-passed-out-on-pattaya-street-says-he-was-robbed-of-80000-baht-gold-necklace/ *note, the Lao man, may have just been an inexperienced drinker.

Gentlemen, boardmembers in fear of suffering a heart attack after entering a romantic relationship with a willing lady under the influence of stimulating pharmacy like for example Viagra might be interested to learn as follows: A heart attack is the result of a blockade of the coronary arteries, usually result of previous mistakes like smoking, high level of cholesterol, overweight and so on. In other words, result of a lengthy process. I remember a documentation on the German TV soon after introduction of Viagra where Pattaya barworker "Wee" confirmed that some of her customers according to her experience " Did not come" , meaning after swallowing a dose of Viagra they developed a hardon like never before but could not ejaculate, resulting in consecutive effort but leading into death. The famous " Sudden cardiac arrest ". In this respect I wish to adjust the findings of the honorable Samut Prakan police forces. So have no fear. As long as you do not overstretch your related potential, you should be on the safe side. I am an expert in this field because I survived a cardiac arrest in 2011 whilst executing my daily 100 push-ups, both feet on a chair. You get maximum 10 minutes til somebody comes round the corner with a defibrillator. They did.

That Facebook page is special 55555 https://pattayaone.news/thai-taxi-driver-dies-of-heart-attack-after-taking-viagra-at-orgy-in-samut-prakan/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR392Ii65shD_J5VkZe-O5cx_a7fnJhsk_VXzHP5zoDH-USv-SQVwwqOGtA_aem_AcQOW26DsPy7Vpx2TBCf8FLKDS7gGdQp7OA5Hcj2awKEt-mmGT5B2F-ZFyJWgBOiDCjdgF3Siyf3bK_FS19KQD8v

The “Isetan” sticker, as mentioned in the article gets me. “Isetan” is a Japanese Department store that pulled out of Central World / Thailand four years ago

Somebody has obviously be left out of the carve up.

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has instructed the police to take serious action against the ‘taxi mafia’ at the Ratchaprasong area. These taxi drivers reportedly do not use meters and extort tourists. The premier ordered the police and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to look into the issue of ‘taxi sticker’ bribes, particularly taxis idling in front of the CentralWorld shopping mall. Following images shared on the “Taxi Driver Thailand” Facebook page showing taxis parked in a special lane in front of CentralWorld, it was noted that these taxis, identified by a sticker on the back window, are allegedly allowed by officials to pick up passengers without using meters, creating a negative image for tourism. etc etc etc https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/pm-orders-crackdown-on-taxi-mafia-at-ratchaprasong-bangkok-459632

more - Trump's Truth Social Russian finance According to The Guardian, in December 2021, two loans totaling $8 million (~$8.87 million in 2023) were paid to Trump Media from obscure Putin-connected entities as the company was "on the brink of collapse". $2 million was paid by Paxum Bank, part-owned by Anton Postolnikov, a relation of Aleksandr Smirnov, a former Russian government official who now runs the Russian maritime company Rosmorport. $6 million was paid by an ostensibly separate entity, ES Family Trust, whose director was the director of Paxum Bank at the same time. As of March 2023, prosecutors in the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York were investigating the Russian ties.[50][51] The Washington Post reported that Trump Media paid a $240,000 finder's fee as part of the arrangement, allegedly to a party associated with Digital World.[52] The federal probe into investors of DWAC, according to The Washington Post, discovered that a wealthy investor in the company was allegedly connected to attempts to allegedly move assets from Russia, Ukraine, and China into the Caribbean, and other intermediaries such as Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Belize. According to a government transcript, an informant referenced the process as "the full Singapore with a double dip, as we call it, with having the U.K. thrown in there, just to give it that added cleanliness and polishing off."[53] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social