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11 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

In Thailand that would be apocalyptic predictions of a continued junta government.

Lame.

But that's about as logical as connecting the potential effects of climate change to one's personal troubles.

It it is perfectly logical for children to have "personal troubles" - i.e. feelings of anxiety, fear and depression, for example - through being irresponsibly pumped full of climate change propaganda. 

Why else do you imagine the poor little buggers are going on strike and marching?

If I had my way, I'd take their governments to the Court of Human Rights for child abuse.

Macron is not the first French leader to talk about either abolishing the ENA or narrowing the wide gulf between France's grandes ecoles like the ENA and its public universities.

Yeah, let's dumb the whole lot down. Otherwise, some people might learn to think for themselves.

6 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

fanatical extremists may indeed be well educated but if indoctrinated you can throw reason, logic and sanity out the window.

look at japanese kamikaze pilots. educated, intelligent and highly trained/skilled and chose suicide crashes to inflict more damage on the enemy.

 

 

 

 

https://abcn.ws/2PuOufl

The awful irony is that all too often they puppets whose strings are being pulled by much larger, darker forces.

Al Qaeda and its even more bloodthirsty offshoot ISIS did not receive their funding, training and equipment from Allah, as a little judicious research will confirm.

Kim Jong Un says peace on Korean peninsula depends on U.S. attitude

In which case, if form is any guide, there won't be any.

"Titular star". . .  For a moment I imagined we were going to get our first transgender Bond.

How woke would that be?

Obviously, a meeting of minds.

20 minutes ago, khunpa said:

I hope they do not have any meetings in Chiang Mai during burning season. If so they need to add gas masks to the list.

And I they do! Issue them N19 face masks and firefighting equipment and tell them to make themselves useful - for once.

With suicide rates among the young rising dramatically, we need to discover why and find ways of reversing the trend.

For starters, schools should stop brainwashing children into believing the apocalyptic predictions of the climate change lobby.

Childhood should be a time for feeling happy and having fun, not taking on the world's woes and striking or marching for dubious causes beyond even most adults' understanding.

Gesture politics. Have a Skype conference call instead. Or don't bother, for all the good these vast assemblies of empty talking heads generally do.

4 hours ago, soalbundy said:

I can never understand this excessive emotion when a family member dies (with the exception of a small child) Death belongs to life, it is natural and inevitable. Many of us are old ourselves it can hardly come as a surprise when a sibling or parent dies. My mother died recently in Australia at 93, shooting across a busy road on her mobility scooter, as my sister said when she informed me of her death,"She died as lived, without a care in the world and without ever having looked at the highway code."

We're all different when it comes to dealing with death. Our response generally depends on the kind of person we are and how close we were to the deceased. Interestingly, in my experience women seem better able to cope with the death of loved ones than men are, though of course there are exceptions.

Be careful, Thailand. The Red mandarins learned a lot from the IMF on how to plant debt traps - and spring them.

7 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

The plot thickens...this could become very interesting...????

Starting to sound more like the Brexit fiasco every day.

Different political agenda, but clearly capable of becoming as much a nuisance to the Thai elite as Tommy Robinson is proving to the UK establishment.

Tenacious Tommy - a villain to some and a working class hero to millions - has bounced back from a jail sentence and another imminent court appearance by announcing he'll fight for a seat in the upcoming EU parliamentary elections.

For Thanathorn's sake, one can only hope he's as tough and persistent as the much-maligned lad from Luton.

From what I can gather, palliative care for ordinary Thais routinely means a terminal cancer sufferer being sent home from hospital with a bottle of paracetamol.

You sometimes wonder whether these academics ever leave their ivory towers long enough to discover how the rest of actually live - and die.

Do the idiots on the HSC have children or grandchildren? If so, perhaps they would like to explain to them why they are cynically putting their young lives at risk.

3 hours ago, TGIR said:

Me Too..............

 

At last - Thailand has its very own "Me, too" movement!

Plus photos of us together in all rooms of the house the one in the bedroom both sit on the bed in an embrace 

Bloody kinky lot in immigration these days, if you ask me.

On 4/24/2019 at 4:13 PM, Eligius said:

This is all very well and good (they certainly should stop glamorising rape in Thai soaps) - provided it does not go so ludicrously far as in the West (America in particular), where simply saying to someone 'That's a nice shirt' can be deemed as 'sexual harassment'!

 

Or referring to a bloke who is under the mistaken impression that he has become a woman as a man.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/canadian-man-fined-55k-for-misgendering-transgender-female/

unreported cases of sexual harassment remain rampant.

If they are unreported, how do they know? 

6 hours ago, simple1 said:

Which contradicts intelligence analysts who claim the Easter attacks were in planning for months, with multiple intelligence warning, with specific names, during the months prior.

The consensus view is that the local terror cell involved would have needed outside help to plan and execute of such a complex and devastating operation. Experts have been warning for months that ISIS, smarting from its decimination in Syria, was likely to initiate revenge attacks against targets in Europe and elsewhere.

One of the alleged jihadists, currently in police custody, is said to have deliberately changed his name to that of one of the most prominent members of ISIS heirarchy in the run-up to the Colombo outrage .

The inexplicable failure of the Sri Lankan security forces to act on intelligence reports of imminent attacks on Christian churches echoes the Bush adminstration's tardiness when faced with similar warnings before the Twin Towers catastrophe seventeen years ago - an oversight which led to the US declaration of the seemingly unending War on Terror.

Once bitten. . . 

3 hours ago, ocddave said:

With any hope, the Western Countries will say they have had enough of this circus and refuse to have any further dealings with the Junta. No more cooperation, no more investment, sanctions on any Junta led initiatives, sanctions/blacklisting of all Junta cohorts, and freezing of all money/assets abroad until a true democratic government is elected.

The Chinese will still love them.

the ban would be on a voluntary basis.

Good luck with that.

Zelenskiy, best known for playing a fictitious president in a TV show. . . 

You couldn't make it up. Life literally imitating art - or what passes for it in these digitally-dumbed-down days when billions live in a lala land of narcissistic make-believe.  

Goodness knows how it is all going to end. In tears, I'd guess.