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chooka

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  1. If THAI airlines don't comply with International Safety standards - and from all reports they do not - then passengers should book with a safe airline.

    I wrote to THAI this week and said that unless I was assured an Internationally Accepted Safety ruling - with no ifs or buts - I would cancel my family's July trip - even though it means a loss of the fares.

    These "functionaries" of THAI do not have the right to play with lives of passengers and crew, nor to destroy what little reputation THAI have left.

    Don't worry. If THAI doesn't comply by June 2, they won't have landing rights at any foreign airports that are under the jurisdiction of the ICAO and you won't be able to book with THAI anyway.

    if THAI doesn't comply by June 2, they won't have landing rights at any foreign airports that are under the jurisdiction of the ICAO

    If that should happen, which is a possibility, that will send Thailand into a tailspin of economic disaster that will take years to recover from.

    How hard would it be for TAT to adjust the figures, tourism will go through the roof.
  2. Mid season draft is an interesting idea.

    Imagine you were a club with goal kicking issues but on the cusp of making the finals. Your top forward has been injured in round 4. out for the season

    Mid way through the season you recruit yourself a top forward from a rival club

    The club you recruit the forward from then goes from being near the finals to missing out

    Your club makes the finals

    would the prized free agents have to wait until the end of the year or could they go mid season and play finals.
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  3. AFL Football Operations Manager Mark Evans says a mid-season draft 'has merit'

    AFL Football Operations Manager Mark Evans says a mid-season trade period "has merit" but admits he'd be hesitant to sign off on any change.

    Speaking on Sports Today, Evans told Gerard Healy and Dwayne Russell he could see some positives in tinkering with the current system but that clubs would be against losing players mid-season.

    "My position, when I was at a club, was that I'm not sure I'd want to lose that intellectual property off my list to go to some other list," the former Hawthorn general manager said on 3AW.

    "I'd be very reluctant to trade out.

    "You wouldn't want it to be done for that reason.

    "But I do accept it's worked in some other sports and I don't think we should be against having that debate."

    Mitch Brown and James Magner both impressed during the NAB Challenge while playing as top-up players for Essendon and Evans said he'd much prefer a system that gave players not already on an AFL list a second chance.

    "To me, that's got more merit," he said.

    listen...

    http://www.3aw.com.au/news/afl-football-operations-manager-mark-evans-says-a-midseason-draft-has-merit-20150407-1mg8yc.html

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  4. The killers were not soldiers, they were "paramilitary" as in vigilantes.

    The military apparently allows these "security" agents to operate independently in the South without military supervision to terrorize the population into submission. An appology from the Junta is meaningless until it stops its military occupation of the South. But now with the military conquest of the North, the military is unlikely to use a lower profile in the South and this mistake is as likely to occur ANYWHERE in Thailand.

    They were Rangers a Corp of the Army.
  5. The apology is a good sign, and should at least dilute the vitriol that is bound to hit the fan down south. This is the second time in seven months the army killed civilians and then put guns nearby, or in the case of the little boy last year, the volunteer ranger actually put the gun in his dead hand.

    To me it sounds like the PM General is trying to control his army better, and knows how to do it.

    But, but the junta would never do anything like that, they are as pure as snow, it was the reds who planted the guns.
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