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Voice your bitterness, grievances or problems but be careful not to be used and exploited by the dem and its pdrc/pcad. These and some 'old elite' power opposed the rice pledging scheme and have been trying to 'murder' it. Their number at protest sites are few grannies as human shield and their numbers now at permanent secretary for defence on Chaang Wattana Road are rice farmers whom they have been oppressing, denigrating, belittled, name called, treated as not equal to BKKians.
The PDRC/PAD protesters have been declining as there is no new galvanising issue, but the ineptitude of the PTP led administration has created a new set of protesters - apparently today about 10,000 farmers.
The main protesters came out on to the streets because of the arrogance of the amnesty bill manipulation - and the protesters were not just Bangkok elites or southern agitators, there was a broad cross section of business people, health workers, civil servants and working people.
The farmers are now on the streets because of lies about subsidy payments - and they have woken up to the fact that this is purely down to administrative incompetence, and are growing even more angry at the arrogance of branding them "fake" farmers
I confidently expect that the government will screw up again in the near future adding more disaffected constituents when they run out of money to support their other schemes, but what it will be yet nobody knows, they continue to surprise with the inventiveness of their f*** ups, nationalising the banks to get their loan monies perhaps.
There is no excuse for incompetence and stupidity, which is now the hallmark of this administration, and there is no excuse for apologists who only wish to troll.
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By the very evident strength in the Baht today, it looks like a lot of money is coming into Thailand ( reversing the trend last month and December and probably reflecting higher interest rates...but no lack of confidence in the sector or the country).
Suthep and his acolytes, both well-meaning and otherwise, have done much damage to the economy. It will recover once he is in jail
Good timing with this comment then...
The baht dripped 0.5%, the most in six weeks this morning,
It's almost as if it did this on purpose to you
But before you go on about only one day, the most pertinent figure is that the baht has dropped 4% since the end of October when the protests started (according to central bank figures)
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My god I have never read such a load off rubbish in my life. After reading these posts from obviously bitter and twisted farang who have nothing better to do with there under used brains I will transfer 7million baht from BKK bank tomorrow to GSB to make this news a non event.
I hope it will get the same reaction as this scaremongering of people into withdrawing their money from GSB.
Why do some farang who are obviously very unhappy in Thailand bother to stay here only for the simple reason that they have f'all money/pensions to live in their own country like they live here.
Many posts by farang love to go on about the thais being uneducated when in fact they are highly uneducated themselves. They no nothing about interbank lending and how banks make money and economics in general.
The only thing I want is a stable government elected by the majority of the people which these protesters are hell bent on not allowing, they have reached an all time low now with the way they are playing with the millions of people who depend on rice as there source of income.
Shame on all the farang who support this puppet Suthep and his cronies. And if you cannot see that they are now playing with the farmers and have been from the start knowing full well that an inconclusive election would only result in suffering for the farmers.
Everybody needs to have a long hard look at there own education.
I hope you have 20 billion on you rather than 7 million, you may need it tomorrow
You may be surprised that a lot of people on here are highly educated but know first hand the corrupt and despicable way in which this present government acts.
I deal with people in this government regularly up to Minister level and so have first hand knowledge of exactly what they have been up to.
I have no time for apologists with no financial or political knowledge, like yourself, that can only repeat what their girlfriends tell them and cannot see past the rhetoric.
Although I am personally against Suthep as he is as bad as the Shins, but if it was not for his demonstrations, the government would not have been dissolved and the sorry mess that is the rice pledging scheme would not have been forced into the open - it would have taken another year and another 700Bn Baht to come home to roost which would have been even mor disastrous for the national economy - even as it is there are many worthy projects that will now have to be cancelled to pay for this fiasco.
This was predicted by many people who saw the financial folly of such a pledging scheme above market prices, but were arrogantly dismissed by an incompetent bunch of crooks.
If you knew them as well as I do you would know that it is family first and the farmers are way down the list of their priorities, at least until it threatens their eminent domain.
I suggest you take some time to read up on the inception of the rice pledging scheme and the economists comments at the time before posting again and criticising other members for lack of financial acumen.
Sarcasim has obviously been lost somewhere inside your vastly superior brain to me who has absolutely no financial or political knowledge or at least up to your obviously superior level.
Maybe with your dazzling knowledge of all things financial and political in Thailand you might be able to explain to me how this country is going to get out of this mess it is in.
I dislike both sides equally but I do believe in democracy find it quite despicable when somebody takes away this fundamental right and which in turn has untold hardship on the poorest 10% of the population just to score political points. Surely there are ways of doing this within the political/judicial/constitution powers in this country. Not just throw the toys out of the cot and bring the country to a standstill.
Surely cutting off your nose to spite your face is for children.
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It is pretty simple really
1) The government rice pledging scheme was not working, the offer price to the farmers was above the market price and so there was a loss pure and simple
2) Covering the loss has meant borrowing from other programs, arranging government backed loans etc. all this last year up until September - well before any protests - in effect this became a government backed Ponzi scheme with ever increasing liabilities
3) The protests happened due to arrogance and stupidity by the ruling party trying to manipulate a bill via committee stage
4) As a political manouver the ruling party called a snap election - forgetting the procedural consequences that in caretaker mode the government cannot commit new funding or raise new loans
5) The government - through the BACC, cannot now meet the liabilities to the farmers
At no point in this process was anyone, other than the PTP, to blame for the consequences and the hardship caused, you can say that the protests were a spur, but it was a government decision, taken in Dubai, to call the election and dissolve the parliament, bringing down the house of cards.
The issue you should be asking yourself is - in order to pay the farmers as promised where will the money come from? - It will be other programs that will get hit, whoever has to pick up the tab, and that will mean real hardship for some sectors of the economy and people who depend on government programs. Whoever has to pick up this mess will have a bill far larger than 700Bn Baht when all the accounting is done and the real cost of the scheme is known as it will take some rice growing seasons to unwind.
Yes there will be real hardship coming down the line, and the budgets for October 1st onwards may have to see some drastic cuts, but that is the only way out as printing money could cause a massive devaluation and a rerun of 2007.
The way out of this mess is to immediately make transparent the financial details of the scheme and the commitments - a forensic audit of the rice stockpiles has to be made independently, and the rice pledge price has to be transformed as soon as possible in line with the current market price but with the government remaining the buyer of last resort at the market price.
A competent interim authority has to take over the government finances (I am not talking about a peoples council here, but rather a competent management committee and not politicians), A complete overhaul of the criminal code and stiffer penalties for corruption (15+ year mandatory sentences for any public official, from a DPM to a traffic cop),
If Thailand could remove the 30% corruption charge going to politicians and civil servants there would be enough money in the coffers to cover the liabilities built up they should endure some hardship not just the farmers.
That is the way out of the mess
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My god I have never read such a load off rubbish in my life. After reading these posts from obviously bitter and twisted farang who have nothing better to do with there under used brains I will transfer 7million baht from BKK bank tomorrow to GSB to make this news a non event.
I hope it will get the same reaction as this scaremongering of people into withdrawing their money from GSB.
Why do some farang who are obviously very unhappy in Thailand bother to stay here only for the simple reason that they have f'all money/pensions to live in their own country like they live here.
Many posts by farang love to go on about the thais being uneducated when in fact they are highly uneducated themselves. They no nothing about interbank lending and how banks make money and economics in general.
The only thing I want is a stable government elected by the majority of the people which these protesters are hell bent on not allowing, they have reached an all time low now with the way they are playing with the millions of people who depend on rice as there source of income.
Shame on all the farang who support this puppet Suthep and his cronies. And if you cannot see that they are now playing with the farmers and have been from the start knowing full well that an inconclusive election would only result in suffering for the farmers.
Everybody needs to have a long hard look at there own education.
I hope you have 20 billion on you rather than 7 million, you may need it tomorrow
You may be surprised that a lot of people on here are highly educated but know first hand the corrupt and despicable way in which this present government acts.
I deal with people in this government regularly up to Minister level and so have first hand knowledge of exactly what they have been up to.
I have no time for apologists with no financial or political knowledge, like yourself, that can only repeat what their girlfriends tell them and cannot see past the rhetoric.
Although I am personally against Suthep as he is as bad as the Shins, but if it was not for his demonstrations, the government would not have been dissolved and the sorry mess that is the rice pledging scheme would not have been forced into the open - it would have taken another year and another 700Bn Baht to come home to roost which would have been even mor disastrous for the national economy - even as it is there are many worthy projects that will now have to be cancelled to pay for this fiasco.
This was predicted by many people who saw the financial folly of such a pledging scheme above market prices, but were arrogantly dismissed by an incompetent bunch of crooks.
If you knew them as well as I do you would know that it is family first and the farmers are way down the list of their priorities, at least until it threatens their eminent domain.
I suggest you take some time to read up on the inception of the rice pledging scheme and the economists comments at the time before posting again and criticising other members for lack of financial acumen.
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Chadchart is garnering a lot of support from the Thais. My wife, like many others, is now following him on facebook, twitter etc.
The tramsport ministry trasitionally has been seen as the most corrupt and exemplifying the worst of Thai politics, so when a relative outsider came in, and actually started going in buses and trains to find out what was happening, the Thais were impressed.
This "common touch" is sorely missing in most of the politicians who are seen as elitist and self aggrandising.
If, and it is a big if, Chadchart has managed to remain uncorrupted in his short time as minister, then he could prove to be the saviour of the PT party and the way out of the current impasse.
If Yingluck and her coterie were to step down in favour of an interim administration run by Chadchart, with a remit to enact meaningful reforms and then to hold a new election, they could take all of the steam out of the protests.
My fear is that he has already been ensnared in the shin machine and could not provide an indeoendence that is needed at the present time
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It is interesting that this does not include farmers from the North and North East regions, possibly because of their loyalty to the PTP, but also possibly becuase they have been paid more than in the other regions.
It would be interesting to have clear figures on which farmers have been paid and which have not.
It is the duty of a government (rather than a single party or coalition) to govern fairly and equally for all of the countries constituents, whether they voted for a political party or not.
if there is evidence that the ruling party has favoured their supporters, then this is a clear case of dereliction of duty and would be a justification for the protesters in their fight against the current administration and its replacement.
A partisan ruling party is not a democracy.
For the PTP apologists - yes, this has been a feature of Thai politics and similar charges could be levelled against previous government, but that is NOT an excuse.
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While I support the overall concept of infrastructure spending to improve the country, this scheme, like all others from the PTP, has fallen down on the implementation - this exposes the two weaknesses of the PTO led administration - incompetence and arrogance.
It has been incompetent in the process - the feasibility studies may have been conducted by reputable international companies, but their recommendations have not been followed - the decision on the 2.2Tn loan amount is not justified according to the recommendations. This does not say that the amoiunt should be spent on upgrading the current rolling stock and lines (in fact a full replacement program with conventional rolling stock is almost as expensive as going for the high speed rail as the majority of the costs involved are on the lines, crossings, safety etc.)
The arrogance comes in because they have ploughed ahead with the high-speed for 4 (5?) lines with the Chiang Mai line a priority to appease their party constituents - this is not acting in the national best interests and shows the blatant arrogance endemic in party policies. They assume the electrorate are too dumb to understand this.
The east coast line to Rayong, being the shortest line intended, and taking in Suvarnhabumi airport and the major tourist destination of Pattaya would be economically feasible, although needing a 10-15 year return period. This could be financed by a combination of ODA (Overseas Development aid) and private equity funding at much lower costs than the overall 2.2Tn loan would need to attract.
Realising this line first, without piling on government debt, would show the feasibility of high-speed rail in Thailand, and allow for the build up of the capabilties needed to realise the longer lines.
The use of ODA and PE funding would also provide some financial oversight, together with an independent APO (Autonomous Public Organisation) so that there would be less ability to siphon off the usual 30% to a dummy contractor who is the brother in law of someone high up in the government.
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The corruption is endemic, seen to be part of the nor,al Thai way of doing business but does not have to be so.
I have been involved last year in setting up a contract between an APO (autonomous public organisation) and a company in Europe to develop high level software.
I can say that during this contract this process there have been no payments made under the table, the price paid is what goes to the company with no extra "pseudo-contractors" involved, and even I did not receive anything for setting this up.
Possibly the contract process took longer than by using shortcuts
So it shows that if the willingness is there, and the management on the government institution is clean, then this can be done
It is not true if you go one level up though - as soon as you hit the ministries then the 30% rule kicks in, so my advice to foreign companies dealing with Thailand is to ensure that they know the management of the government organisation and can guarantee a clean contract, but avoid the ministries and politicians.
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The way ahead for Thailand is to reform the electoral system, and in particular to remove the failed party list system of the extra 125 MPs which skew the election result towards the national parties of PT and Democrats.
Having all the MPs from constituencies would necessitate all members representing their constituent interests, including PM and deputy PMs, and strengthen the hand of the smaller regional parties in coalition agreements.
It would also make it more obvious who is working for their constituents and who is only interested in lining their own pockets
Alongside this has to be an absolutely independent election commission drawing up the constituency boundaries to ensure that there is no gerrymandering and all constituents are equally represented.
Of course the main parties would not wish to see this happen, but it is the only way forward out of the current impasses
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The army will not be needed to secure the election as this will now be postponed.
A constitutional court date scheduled for the 9th/10th January is likely to recommend the banning of 312 politicians who were signatories to the senate change bill and also a disbanding of the PtP due to "voting irregularities" having taken place during the last reading.
Due to this and the EC recommendation to delay the election, the postponement will be announced on January 11th by the army chief of staff and an interim administration is to be set up including military, central bank, academic, commerce and community leaders with a remit to provide a reform agenda within 6 months.
The reform agenda shall include party affiliation and contribution limits, stronger corruption and vote buying penalties, a strengthening of the EC, house and senate party list reforms and cinstituency boundary allocations.
Per interim the government departments will cintinue to function under the direction of the permanent secretaries, however no new spending allocations will be allowed and the annual budget process will not be taking place.
The current water and infrastructure spending plans will be suspended until further notice although ongoing activities for waterway repairs will be continued.
All government departments will instead be allocated a raise in line with inflation on 1st October.
If the reform agenda is completed then this will be submitted to national referendum on 1st November followed ratification of the constitutionsl court and by new elections after 90 days if the referendum is successful.
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For a minute there I thought I was going to read about Thailand's new space program, which would have caused me to fall on the floor in a hysterical fit of laughter. Good to hear he is going up elsewhere.
No doubt he will be taking a photo of The King with him, and that will be an incredibly proud moment for Thailand.
You may be surprised to know that Thailand actually does have a space program and a space development agency.
You can fall on the floor if you wish....
Go Mink (Pirada), I hope you get through
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What this book will not tell you is how badly organised these trips are.
Last minute changes to schedules
No proper planning
Groundwork for meetings and agreements not coordinated.
An example was the last trip to Switzerland, Italy and Montenegro.
Along for the ride were the Science Minister, Preepan, and others.
the schedule was supposed to include a visit to France in the Friday by the Thai Science minister and the French Science Minister cancelled other meetings so that he could meet his Thai counterpart.
It was not until late Thursday that the French minister was informed that the science minister had to go to Montenegro with Yingluck and so would not be arriving at all.
The French were very p***ed at this.
On the agenda was a discussion for France to sponsor a set of science scholarships - probably will not now happen.
I hope the increased trade from Montenegro makes up for this.
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If you take 50kl and you spread that out in a film level thickness, it can cover a huge area. so yep, i buy the 50kl estimate to a rough order.
but the film size may actually be less. If there any remote sensing guys out there please correct me.
You cant actually "see" the film from satellite. But you can see what the film does to other measurable factors.
I wont bore you with measurement details for remote sensing but i think this is just the Aug1 shot and only from Aug1. maybe water vapor affected wavelengths combined with IR. a better measurement would have been to subtract a "control" of this date with the Aug 1 shot. Then the oil slick would be the primary difference and should show up a bit more clearly.
but still seeing the differences from day to day. ie, the july29, july31 and aug1 shots clearly shows the slick moving and only hitting the northern side of the island and getting smaller.
Yes you can see the difference between the oil and the water in the radar image, the reflection is different, just as an optical reflection is "seen" by your eyes to be of different colours
The x-band radar signature is not affected by normal water vapour or IR, but can be affected by heavy cloud containing lots of ice particles, but that is not the case here.
There are also observations in the C-band from the canadian radarsat-2 satellite which are even less effected and they also show the extent of the slick
The X-band Cosmo-skymed has been more usefuk in this case as it is a constellation of 4 satellites and so there is a greater frequency of imaging,
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I have a registered thai limited partnership with my wife for the last 7 years, and have paid Thai company taxes
We are also now registered for VAT
Up until recently the company was used for my consultancy work done abroad, but I have just been given a contract by a Thai government agency
They have told me I have to register the company with Thaiconsult - run by the ministry of finance
I have tried to do this (the website is only in Thai), but always get an error
Is this because our company number is a limited partnership ans we have to convert to a full limited company to do this?
Any advice welcomed
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One of Germany's main goals in establishing EU bilateral free trade agreements is the reduction and elimination of tariffs and import taxes on EU vehicles, particularly luxury cars.
It is a big issue in the EU-India FTA at the moment as the Indian car manufacturers are complaining about the tariff reductions.
I hope the EU-ASEAN FTA would be accomplished, if only to get rig if the iniquitous Thai import taxes, that only encourage corruption, but I would guess that there will be one government shouting for an exemption on this part.
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There is just too much BS being talked here on this subject.
If you work for a USA company that has no Thailand offices etc and you are paid into a US bank account then you do not need a work permit if you are just doing work on your computer.
I know this because over the years I have checked with immigration IN PERSON and asked the exact same question, each time the immigration officers have told me
1/ We are not interested in these circumstances and
2/ You cannot apply for a work permit in these circumstances anyway.
I appreciate (of course) that work permits are not issued by immigration and so i have checked answer 2 with the relevant authority and it's confirmed.
Of course, depending on how you read the law (written in Thai of course, and don't expect an accurate translation on here) you may disagree on how the letter of the law applies, but as with everything it's the application of the law and the way it's interpreted that matters.
Regarding the tracking down and deportation BS, show me 1 instance of someone being deported for 1st offence of working without a permit.. you cannot, the maximum penalty is a small fine for 1st offence and thats for real working without a permit like running a shop or a bar etc. In fact it's much more serious to have an inappropriate work permit or to have a work permit and not be working!
This is probably the closest reply you will get
If your company is in the US and does not intend to set up a Thai branch or office, then you are not officially "working" in Thailand and the authorities are not interested in you as you are not working for a Thai company or selling goods or services in Thailand.
Without a company you cannot get a business visa, cannot get a work permit etc.
You are therefore on a tourist visa and like every other tourist who gets calls and e-mails from his office you deal with these - the Thai authorities are not interested in checking every tourist to see if they are doing work e-mails.
I presume there is someone at the company in the US taking care of the day-to-day aspects.
The problem you will have is that you will always be on 30 day tourist visas and if/when the Thais want to crack down on this and only allow a certain number of these per year - or a mandatory gap of some months between visas, then you could be screwed.
You will also be in trouble is the app you develop gets sold in Thailand as then you will be earning money in Thailand and subject to the work laws, so at that point you better get fully legal.
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The purpose of the re-enactment is to show the alleged detailing the crime, so that the confession is not challenged as coerced.
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Very much a case of a reporter here finding an isolated incident to justify a rant.
I have children at one of the international schools and so we know a lot of the Thai children there and their parents.
The vast majority at the schools are foreign or mixed parents, but there is a small and growing element of Thais sending their children to these schools as they see it as a better education system than the Thai schools.
Most of the Thai students are day students, and so their primary language remains Thai at home, but is English at school or with their school friends, but we do not experience that their Thai is diminished, in many cases it suffers less from the bad colloquialisms that most teenagers pick up.
There is a very small minority - only one or two cases in each school, where the Thai parents living locally do send their children to the school to board - we know of a couple of cases where the parents are doctors who do this.
Because of this the students have less exposure to Thai, as their parents and family are not always around and they are in the same situation as any boarding school student in a foreign country - their exposure to the local language is only through language lessons and excursions outside of the school at weekends and holidays.
I believe it may have been such cases that the reporter has found and used as justification, but as in all lazy reporting with the nation - did not bother to look at the background and explain the circumstances of the children which would have made for a more rounded article
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i would have thought it would take more than a cctv footage af somebody re-enacting hitting somebody, thats not going to stand up in any court, it needs cctv footage of him actually doing the crime i would have thought. Unless theres more evidence i would think he will walk free, he could quite easily say he was re-enacting some thing from tv or what ever.
i want to see him hung out to dry as much as anybody else but cant see how.
As for the school i would imagine they just want it all finished, it was after all centered around a bar that speialises in a certain service and their head of English was in there if only looking for the owner of the car.
I think it depends on the other witnesses and what they had to say, plus the medical report on the injury - also Adams version of the incident if he can remember.
A lot of the bars around that area are local open-to-the street-bars, and not there just for the services you are alluding to, and by the accounts I have Adam was there playing pool as he does often.
this from a website describing the bars...
Starlight Bar
Drinking bar. Beers start at 29 baht for a small Leo up to 75 for a large Heineken. There's a food menu including a cooked breakfastCrobe
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He is well connected with Pattaya police and immigrations so he will get bail for sure and then run. He has also 'helped' MANY people leave Thailand that needed to get out quick.......
There is no way he will get bail, the rich business people and top police around pattaya send their children to Regents. This is big new to the students there who inform their parents. Someone running a visa shop will not have connections to trump this. This case will go through the proper channels of justice, hitting him was essentially the same as hitting one of the elites. Had this happened to some other person, I would agree with your comment.
Also how do you know he helped other people get out of thialand quick? If this is true those same people would have told him it was ok for him to return, so why did these same people not shield him from arrest?
You are correct.
Adam was one of my kids teachers at the Regent's last year and he was very well liked.
As this school depends on continuous recruiting of overseas teachers, this incident has massive effect on their ability to attract candidates.
It has gone up the chain to the minister for Education and the ministry of Justice - so I think there will be little that the local police can do to stop the process or allow him to buy his way out
At least you would hope so.
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chalk up another success for the NRA
RIP - no-one should go this way
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There are some unanswered questions on this:
1) The planes planned to be used on this mission are converted spy planes. The media show pictures of a very large 4-engined plane but we are told that there is not enough room on board for a Thai observer. Why?
2) The Nasa chap in charge of the mission said that equipment had already been transported here. This was denied by our government in the wake of the outcry. Did somebody 'mis-speak' or was this just a plain old lie?
3) Who planted the rumor that the quid pro quo for permission to use U-Tapao was a US visa for Thaksin? Was it Yingluck, or was it someone from the Democrat camp seeking to make a cheap political gain?
4) Why do we only hear about the temporary weather mission in the media now? What happened to the permanent loss of sovereignty from the 'humanitarian' mission...this appears to have faded into the background? Is this an intentional fading so that we have a big hue and cry about the weather mission and then parliament then approves the permanent US base?
5) Why is U-Tapao so essential to the mission....planes are moveable things...why can't they take off from some other airport, and fly to the Asian cloud? Is it that the long runway is essential to getting the spy-planes into the air?
I'm not someone who usually makes predictions but here is one....this is a spying on China mission by the US military using NASA as a front...as such, the request will be resurrected by the US in the not too distant future, and it will become a permanent fixture on Thai soil.
You answered the first question yourself, the plane is a "converted" spyplane - it was never built to take passengers and any extra space is now taken up by atmospheric sensing equipment
The NASA plan was to ship the equipment by boat on the 1st June - which is where the "already shipped" rumour came from - but with the hold in approval this was not completed.
And to the last question - because of this plane needing a very long runway and the past ties to Thailand (such as the Cobra Gold) the base at U-tapao is the most suitable in the region
As to your other questions it is all politics, but I would also like to know who it was that made the first connection between this campaign and the visa for Thaksin- maybe it was not a politician at all, maybe it was all made up by the newspaper...
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Seriously? They are still talking about this thing after it has already been killed and buried? Dealing with the issue now in order to save time next year may be a waste, for there has yet to be any talk about doing the project next year. Strange...
Its a face thing now....but quite like miss yinluck's comment..."The premier said that once the joint sitting concluded the matter, it would not be necessary to bring it up again once the US space agency decides to continue the project next year"
"Once" shouldnt that be "if"
It should not be "once" or "if" - it is "not"
I talked to some friends in Goddard yesterday and they said that the budget is now to be reallocated for this year.
They will not allocate any more funding for this issue in the fiscal allocation for political reasons.
They have heavy pressure from republican congressmen to de-fund all climate activities under NASA and re-allocate the budget to manned space - if the republicans win the white house in November this is what will happen, and no allocation will be in the 2013 NASA request.
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t sounds to me like the police know that certain foreigners are selling and taking drugs in that area. So they have got together with immigration so that the people caught can be deported. That is a very sensible thing to do. if that was their aim then there is no point targeting Thais. The aim of this exercise is probably to deport undesirables.The article is brief and doesn't go into much detail, so no point speculating too much. The bottom line is don't take drugs.
You are correct that the article is brief, but you have no evidence to suggest that foreigners were selling drugs - there was no report of anyone arrested for this, only for testing positive.
99% of drugs come from the local Thai population, even a foreigner selling stuff to his friends gets his supply from a Thai further up the chain
It is very obvious from the article that they were only targeting foreign (suspected) users, the Thais who must have been there selling the drugs mysteriously melted away before the raid happened perhaps - warned it was happening maybe - because if it was so much of a surprise they might have caught someone in the act of selling.
A properly organised raid would have tried to make sure they did.
More than 105 billion baht withdrawn from GSB accounts in 4 days
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GSBs liquidity (reserves that it can call in) is quoted around 200Bn baht, so this represents just under a third.
Cause for concern but probably no action as yet, but if the outflows hit 120-150Bn then action would have to be taken to shore up the banks capital.
It is not certain that the government in caretaker mode has the authority to a bailout, but the BoT probably has
Nevertheless it might be one more headache for any new administration to solve.