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  1. I'm getting damned close to that myself, though I'm thinking of demanding a recount. The nice thing is not having to work for a living anymore . Social Security and Veterans Disability payments provide me with more each month than I often made when I was a university lecturer!
  2. Internet has been farked for a long time. I just found my way back.
  3. https://rumble.com/vni63o-the-budweiser-frogs-are-back-with-an-important-message.html?fbclid=IwAR14PtvrzUosEYBw4w28-75QXrLcP-7brdDZimQ6tVDsOAaGS9t14jy_VHc
  4. They were arrested for a very simple reason. Making or appearing in pornography is illegal in Thailand. Have you forgotten about Nong Nat and the police going after her? The policed released her after a waning and a small fine. I expect that will happen here too. p.s. Everyone knows the police are watching all posts in Thailand, but apparently this couple thought they were special. Guess what, they ain't!
  5. And now the more familiar Thai version:
  6. https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30403453 The National Committee on Communicable Diseases has approved the use of vaccine passports in Thailand, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced on Monday. Under the measure, travellers with vaccination certificates will have their Covid-19 quarantine reduced from 14 days to seven days.However, travellers from South Africa, where a highly contagious coronavirus variant is rife, will still have to undergo the full 14-day quarantine. In Thailand, Covid-19 vaccination certificates will be issued for a fee of Bt100 by hospitals administering second doses of the vaccine from March 21. The certificates can be used for international travel once the World Health Organisation (WHO) has finalised criteria for vaccine passports. The Thai vaccine-passport certificate will be valid for one year. Anutin revealed the reduced quarantine applied to three categories of traveller: First, foreign travellers who have a vaccination certificate dated not more than three months and not less than 14 days from date of entry. Travellers from South Africa still face 14 days of quarantine. Second, Thai nationals returning to Thailand with a vaccination certificate dated not more than three months and not less than 14 days from date of entry. Third, foreigners who have a Covid-free certificate but not a vaccination certificate will have their quarantine cut to 10 days. The measure is due to launch in April, said Anutin. Meanwhile, the communicable diseases committee expects Covid-19 restrictions to be lifted once 70 per cent of the population has been vaccinated. It also announced plans to procure another 10 million doses of vaccine.
  7. If you can believe anything these days. Every group of "experts" comes out with a different theory. Pick the one you prefer.
  8. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/2079491/patpong-on-its-last-legs?fbclid=IwAR2ogMC-rDRsWM9To8-Stps8uNrcyhcdb-r1qGxgtOGfh-GpADaMaanlQ4E Patpong 'on its last legs'
  9. Proud Boys, Black Lives Matter leaders hold joint conference: We 'denounce White supremacy' https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/1/proud-boys-black-lives-matter-leaders-hold-joint-c/?fbclid=IwAR2J5CtuodZ_eYHJPR2xVazx9YH88dZIWhDJfRg40Xpih32dgp6C1sZ_loY
  10. No one has ever confirmed the JFK planned that. But no, there was no such executive order. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_actions_by_John_F._Kennedy I think I'd put Afghanistan ahead of the VN War as the biggest mistake. Just what the hell are we doing there, if not defending the opium fields, the way the conspiracy folks insist? US troops have been there 19 years, FFS! The Brits tried in Afghanistan - and failed. Russia tried in Afghanistan - and failed. And the US? I don't know one Soldier or Marine who has been there and doesn't think we should get out. They all tell me that as soon as we leave, the Taliban will take over again. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47391821 As to the US participation in the VN War achieving nothing, one can make a good case that if it hadn't done so, the communists would have conquered Thailand as well. I remember when when the Thai military was engaged with communist ":insurgents" at Khao Kor and other places. Malaysia was also very worried and openly supported South VIetnam. When the communists ruled Laos and Cambodia, the domestic communists would have been a serious threat. Thailand had a military government at the time, which was not necessarily very popular outside of Bangkok. Yes, the Thais were overall contented with their government, but so were most South Vietnamese with theirs. The communists didn't care in either country. They wanted power. In the 1970s my university students were donating blood and contributing money to help the Thai soldiers fighting against the communists at Khao Kor, while the commies had support from Hanoi and Beijing. NVA soldiers had been killed on several occasions inside of Thailand. http://outbackthailand.com/khao-kho-thailands-forgotten-war/ https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000012498.pdf p.s. In the 1970s I had a nodding acquaintanceship with the Thai commander at Khao Kor, while today I know several Thai ex-communists. They've said to me, "I made a mistake."
  11. I can't see it happening, since the police would lose too much money if it is made legal.
  12. Sex workers in Thailand have launched a petition calling for prostitution to be decriminalised and urging authorities to remove all penalties for selling sex. Empower Foundation, a group that supports sex workers, said it hoped to collect 10,000 signatures and present the petition to parliament to help persuade lawmakers to consider changing the country's prostitution law. "The law punishes sex workers - 80% of whom are mothers and the main breadwinner for the whole family," said Mai Junta, a representative from Empower. "It turns us into criminals," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday. More than 1,000 people had signed the petition since it was launched on Saturday. Although predominantly Buddhist and deeply conservative, Thailand is home to an extensive sex industry, largely catering to Thai men. Hordes of tourists also flock to the bright lights of go-go bars and massage parlours in Bangkok and the country's main tourist towns. Women and LGBT+ rights activists say the current law, which made prostitution illegal in 1960, does little to protect sex workers, while repeated arrests and fines for doing sex work has driven them further into poverty. The women's affairs department at Thailand's Ministry of Social Development and Human Security said it was in the process of amending the prostitution law and would launch an online public hearing next year, without giving further details. "We are aware of complaints regarding rights violations of sex workers due to this law... and we are not neglecting their suggestions (to repeal the law)," a spokesman said. A 2014 report by the UN agency fighting AIDS estimated that there were 123,530 sex workers in Thailand but advocacy groups put the figure at more than twice that number and say it includes tens of thousands of migrants from neighbouring Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Prostitution is currently punishable by a fine of up to 40,000 baht or two years in prison, or both. People who pay for sex with underage workers can be jailed for up to six years. More than 24,000 people were arrested, prosecuted and fined for sex work-related offences last year, according to the Royal Thai Police. Surang Janyam, director of the Service Workers in Group, a Thailand-based support organisation for sex workers, said the prostitution law should be repealed to allow sex workers to be protected under labour laws. "The sex industry generates massive income (for the country), but there is no mechanism to protect (sex workers)," Ms Surang said. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1989843/sex-workers-petition-to-decriminalise-prostitution?cx_placement=underbox#cxrecs_s
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