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Does anyone know what time the office get a re-entry permit at the airport closes? About 3 years ago, I was planning to get one at BKK, but was told that the office had closed for the night. I seem to remember that it closes at 22:00? I was able to get a re-entry permit, but I'm not sure how I worked that out. Maybe there was another after-hours office in the airport? I can't remember.

Not sure how you can deny it. The NED and other organizations are backing the opposition. I sent you the NED page listing their funding. So there is no conspiracy, it's openly funding the opposition. I realize this is inconvenient for your belief that this homegrown opposition. I'll post it again in hopes that you say, "OK, I admit it, the NED is providing money to opposition groups in Thailand." But I guess you'll tell me "That's how democracy works"? I think that's how foreign interference works. The US backing opposition groups doesn't turn out well. About you this royalist you mention in this very posting: I don't have to be an Assad loyalist to think that the U.S. was wrong to back any opposition parties in Syria, Libya, the menu of nations overthrown in South America to the detriment of the people. The NED and other so-called human-rights organizations have a history of simply forcing opposition. Are you going to skate around the fact that the operates NED overthrows governments? Here are just a couple of examples: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001126mag-serbia.html Who Really Brought Down Milosevic? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26468720 No need to give examples in Latin America, right? I'll repost the WaPo article clearly stating that the NED serves to overthrow governments, cuz I think you didn't read it. Please do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/ NED = new world of spyless coups, NED is in Thailand. But they're here for democracy, right? Hm, that's not what that WaPo article suggests... I don't have to support the regimes in power to know that what comes after an NED-backed uprising is worse. Truly tragic for the people. I pity what will become of the people in Myanmar as the violence there grows, violence that wouldn't have gotten anywhere without foreign backing.

>>"Meeting an ambassador by some teenage is not a proof of CIA manipulation, funding." Direct funding by the NED is proof of foreign manipulation, organizations closely involved with the protests, such as iLaw, and other Southeast Asian organizations. https://www.ned.org/region/asia/thailand-2020/ I'm sure you know already, but I'll post this for other readers. The NED is a CIA cut-out. It is funded and overseen by the US Congress. This has been well-covered in mainstream press: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/ Just to stress the headline and the point of the article: "Spyless coups" I'm sure you are well aware of this, I'm more posting it for other readers. It seems you find this acceptable when the US does it and calls it democracy, when it is in fact nothing more than foreign interference for the benefit of the US. Again, the US Dems had a fit with so-called Russian interference. And then the so-called Russian involvement in promoting Brexit. But I guess this is how democracy works, foreign interference. Worked out great for the Arab Spring. Worked out great for Syria. Working out great for Myanmar?

>>along with external, international pressure. I don't think these protests would be getting very far without external pressure, namely the NED, other CIA cut-outs etc. Oppositions and protest leaders have met with US organizations (Thanathorn hiring US lobbyists during his visit to the US, Penguin meeting with Ambassador Davies, etc.), cuz they well know that their movement wouldn't be going far without foreign funding and support. Foreign interference doesn't end well, and is hardly ever done for the benefit of the people of that country. Whatever legitimate grievances these protestors may have against the current gov, those protests are pushed and manipulated external organizations (NED, USAID, Human Rights Watch, etc.) that most definitely don't have the Thai people's best interests in mind. It's the same pattern that has played out so many times Latin American coups, the current mess in Ukraine, etc. The Arab Spring.... That external and international pressure you mention is foreign interreference. It's against the UN charter, and no country should stand for it. People in the UK had a fit when they thought Russia had a hand in influencing opinion towards Brexit, in the US when the Dems thought Russia helped Trump win. Let's not support this external, international pressure. Let Thai people do this on their own before another undesirable political party is pushed into power by external, international forces.

Whoa! I didn't even know that it's available at Big C! Many thanks for the tip

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Jesus, please open this thing already... it's been going on for years like this. In two months, within the next few months, this summer, early next year, soon at the end of year... can't imagine success with the economic fallout from covid economic decisions, though

If the attempt to overthrow the government grows stronger, then we will see far more refugees fleeing Myanmar. As now-violent uprising continues, the various ethnic groups in Myanmar will turn against each other, and we will see a massive increase in refugees. Whatever you may think of Saddam Hussein, is Iraq better off now? Whatever you think of Gaddafi, is Libya better off? Same question for Assad in Syria. Looking at the migrant crisis that followed the fall of those regimes, are the people of Europe happy with the results? Myanmar faces the same chaos that continues to rage in the Middle East, and what we are seeing with the flow of refugees from Myanmar described in this article is only a tiny part of what will follow.

I just assumed they were masked up in order to prevent the nasty water from splashing into their mouths.

The border is not closed. I traveled there over the weekend of 23-24 October. I had to pass through 4 military checkpoints, guys with AK47s. All 4 passengers in the van with me had to show proof of vaccination, but the soldiers hardly checked. Requirements are at the time of this email: at least a single dose of AZ, or two jabs of Sinovac or Sinopharm. Down in Betong (Yala), open-air restaurants were operating normally, but many were shutdown. >>Have you asked at your local hospital? What insightful advice! Great posts like this make this website so helpful.

I want to fly from Bangkok to Hat Yai ASAP. Does anyone know how I get the ATK/PCR test done for flying domestically? As of last Friday, flights now require double vaccination or a ATK/PCR test within 72 hours. My second AZ vaccination isn't scheduled until mid November, so I want to get the ATK done so that I can fly. I will need one done in Bangkok, then another test in Betong (Yala) for my trip back. I plan to fly to Hat Yai, and then drive to Betong (Yala). I want to know what the requirements are for the ATK/PCR test so that I can arrange to have it done in Betong for my flight back to Bangkok. It would be great if the self-kits were allowed, and I could just do it at the airport, but I imagine that isn't possible? I have a couple of ATK self-tests, one of the brands recognized by the Thai gov. I couldn't find the info that I need on the Nok, AirAsia, or Lion websites. Please let me know if you have any leads on going about doing this.

Once it has spread through the population, it is here to say. It will spread, rising and falling in cycles as all viruses do, independent of lockdowns or mask mandates. But if lockdowns and mask mandates are put into place, then once the spread drops as it naturally will, the gov will say, "Our lockdowns have clearly worked." And when the spread seems unhindered by lockdowns and mask mandates, then the anti-lockdown people will be blamed. This nicely keeps the population focused on attacking each other, rather than directing all their energy at the massive mistakes that the gov made.

I jog past that park about 3 times/week. It's really coming along. It's going to be a beautiful area when it's finished.

"It is often said that Thais are not a very sarcastic people. They don't even do much irony." Thai people are super sarcastic, and hilarious at it. I generally only hear these "Thais-don't-get-sarcasm" comments from old farang who speak zero Thai, and are disappointed that the surrounding Thai people don't get their bad jokes. Thai people are geniuses with satire and sarcasm. Anyone who hasn't figured this out yet needs to start hanging out with some different people.

So I gotta virtue signal here? Gotta know whether I'm a loony anti-vaxer or not? Or that I deserved to get long covid cuz I'm not vaccinated? Yes, I am vaccinated, although I have natural immunity (having caught covid before vaccines were around). Natural immunity has been shown to be more robust than the vaccines, so I don't need to be vaccinated, but I did it to avoid conflict at my work. I am young and healthy, and don't fear any issues from the vaccine, so I went ahead and got it as soon as it was available to me. That said, the religion and mentally behind people pushing these vaccines, and the way that the unvaccinated are perceived is outrageous, the unvaccinated have become the way that the extreme right spoke of vermin immigrants destroying their society, the way that the Christian right expressed distain for godless heathens who have sex and do drugs.