Krataiboy

What makes Brexit enthusiasts think we will be allowed to pull out of the EU even if this is the will of the majority of UK citizens?

According to George Galloway (love him or hate him, he is usually on the ball) the fight to regain our lost sovereignty will begin in earnest AFTER a majority vote to leave.

Powerful forces inside and outside the EU which have been backing the Remain campaign, including the Germans, are determined to ensure that Britain stays wedded to the ailing United States of Europe.

Support for Galloway’s view comes from Paul Craig Roberts, a former advisor to Ronald Reagan and the US Treasury. In an interview available on YouTube, he asserts that the EU is “a CIA operation” – which would help explain Obama’s unprecedented intervention on behalf of the Remain lobby.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otn_5LVQq8.

What makes Brexit enthusiasts think we will be allowed to pull out of the EU even if this is the will of the majority of UK citizens?

According to George Galloway (love him or hate him, he is usually on the ball) the fight to regain our lost sovereignty will begin in earnest AFTER a majority vote to leave.

Powerful forces inside and outside the EU which have been backing the Remain campaign, including the Germans, are determined to ensure that Britain stays wedded to the ailing United States of Europe.

Support for Galloway’s view comes from Paul Craig Roberts, a former adviser to Ronald Reagan and the US Treasury. In an interview available on YouTube, he asserts that the EU was originally “a CIA operation” – which would help explain Obama’s unprecedented intervention on behalf of the Remain lobby.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otn_5LVQq8.

Is the picture of the temple? It looks more like a luxury resort. So that's how the monkhood roughs it. . .

Great news! Can we now look forward to all those male models with rock-hard six packs being replaced by ordinary blokes with bulging beer bellies?

And yes, I am available for a photo shoot!

What a timely decision! It's almost that someone had told them the Remain lobby needed a leg up.

why was he allowed to have a scarf, in cases where suicide may occur prisoners aren't even allowed shoelaces elsewhere.

Flip-flops don't have shoelaces to turn a blind eye to.

How about giving Thais free education up and including university level? The education ministry has one of the biggest budgets in the world, per capita yet still somehow contrives to produce one of the least successful government school systems in south-east Asia.

Some of the billions of baht wasted by this white elephant outfit should be diverted directly to help students who have the talent but not the means to benefit from higher education.

Young Thais are going to have their work cut out helping support a massive ageing population, without having the burden of paying back massive loans to contend wth.

Investing in the next generation isThailand's best bet for being able to compete in ASEAN and across an increasingly global marketplace. This is far more important than the grandiose infrastructure schemes at which the present junta is throwing money like confetti. It's time to rethink priorities.

It was only after travelling to Thailand and meeting with his online sweetheart that he actually realised she was a he. For some reason, an argument started. . .

For some reason?

Actually, the reporter is being politically incorrect. The sweetheart with the silicone cleavage should, of course, be referred to as "she" not he, because he (sorry, I mean she) says he (sorry, I mean she) is a she and he (sorry, she) obviously knows best.

Geddit?

For those who may be unfamiliar with "progressive" thinking on the subject of what determines gender these days, allow me to elucidate.

You may possess the Y chromosome, be described as "Male" on your birth certificate and have fathered several children. But none of these traditional determiners of sex and gender need to be considered if, on a whim, you fancy "coming out" as a woman.

This is because, in advanced" societies such as the UK and the USA, the political and social agenda is increasingly dictated by fashionable minority groups, such as the vociferous LGBT lobby, who are standing traditional attitudes to just about everything we used to believe in on their heads.

It matters not whether you are young or old, a teenager or a wrinkly old geezer with a gaggle of grandchildren. Simply slip into a frock and pair of heels, inform friends and family that you are tired of being a woman trapped in a man's body and the politically-correct response should be high fives all round.

Anyone rash enough to raise an incredulous eyebrow deserves to be dismissed as just another sexist bigot seeking to perpetuate the patriarchal society and rape culture which (as we all know from being constantly reminded by man-hating Fourth Wave feminists) makes the lives of all Western women a misery.

In less enlightened times, a heathen scribe wrote that those whom the gods wished to destroy they first made mad. I reckon he was on to something.

I love the way the media is trying to turn this appalling tragedy into another "terrorist" story. According to his wife, the guy was bi-polar. End of story.

I was raised in the USA, where King George of England was portrayed as the 'bad guy' in the history of our revolutionary war. So when I first arrived in Thailand, I was somewhat mystified by the adoration of the Thai people for their King. But after some reading of Thai history, and of his policies - Most Especially the Self-Sufficiency Economy Principle - I came to have great respect him and his decades of hard work for the Thai people - saving them from both the threat of Communism, and the threat of Neo-Colonialism via so-called 'globalization'. Just as they survived Colonialism v1.0, Thailand has managed to walk a narrow bridge between massive fires of destruction - suffering burns, yes, but never being consumed by the flames of these foreign-forces, as were many of their neighbors. If only we Americans were fortunate enough to have someone with the wisdom, patriotism (vs 'jingoism'), long-term vision (vs 'quarterly profit reports'), and influence of His Majesty, the King of Thailand.

The self-sufficiency principle is a cornerstone of national-sovereignty and national-security. Unlike some misguided "agri-utopia" fantasy, technological development is also encouraged, to the extent that it can be carried out without sacrificing self-sufficiency of basic needs. If a nation can be held hostage by foreign powers - in these times "transnational corporations" - on which it is dependent for the basic needs of its people, it is neither sovereign nor safe.

For a perfect example of what can be done to nations which do not follow the dictates of transnational corporations, see Venezuela. They did not have their own toilet-paper factory, so when they had the audacity to claim ownership over their nation's natural resources, their foreign-sourced supply was simply 'turned off', as punishment. Another example is Yemen, who was dependent on 'food-aid' from the USA. When they voted the 'wrong way' in the UN-Security Council on Gulf War I, the US UN-Ambassador told them, "That was the most expensive vote you ever cast," and their aid was cut. Look at what has happened in Yemen since that time. People lacking basic-needs rarely behave in a civilized fashion, which fuels the 'order out of chaos' model of regime-change - a staple of Western foreign-policy - as foreign-money, press-accolades, and often weapons pour in, to support an 'opposition' party/candidate/regime.

The ability of a nation and its citizens to support themselves through the pendulum-swings of the business cycle - often now an international cycle - is addressed by self-sufficiency. When economic times are bad, a self-sufficient nation and its people are not held-hostage by foreign interests. They need not "sell off" their national assets for pennies on the dollar, for 'bankster permission' to renew unpayable debts, owed to the very same foreign-interests who engineered the economic downturn in the first place (see bond-ratings downgrades and Greece). This denies a nation the ability to circulate future profits from those national-assets in their own economy and/or use them for the economic-development projects which benefit the citizenry. As a planned and executed 'downturn' and its attendant suffering wrecks the lives of 'ordinary' citizens, foreign-interests and sold-out local 'elites' cash-in on derivative-bets, foreclose on mortgages, and claw-back all the capital - even pensions - which the 'little guys' accrued through hard work.

The only sane defense to this cruel and capricious international economic cabal, is a combination of national, local-community, and family self-sufficiency - exactly the prescription offered, and financially supported, by His Majesty.

Not sure that this is the purpose behind what is being proposed in Thailand, unfortunately. I suspect it is more to do with ensuring the Elite continue to profit at the expense of the rural masses.Signing up to the Transatlantic Trade Partnership (TTP) would slam a big nail in the coffin of self-sufficiency.

Dracula The Impaler will have an answer to this criminal.

Vlad, not Dracula, but your heart's in the right place.

The good news is that at least it isn't a Friday.

That concrete must have been pretty special to cost 74,000 baht a meter.

What AP conveniently forgets to mention is that most of the time the mainstream media reflects the Establishment line. If it is true that most of the UK Press are backing the Brexit game, then maybe for once it is listening to the people and not its puppet masters.

Religion, as the late Christopher Hitchens shrewdly observed, poisons everything.

Wlth apes like this loose in Paris, one can understand why many EU citizens would like the Brits to vote for Brexit.

My wife, who like many Thais has a very sweet tooth, used to take three heaped spoonfuls of sugar in her coffee. Nothing I said about the health consequences of over-indulging in the "white death" had the slightest effect - until I took over the coffee-making and surreptitiously and gradually began to reduce the amount of sugar in her cup.

Now she happily gulps down her morning brew with half the amount sugar, blissfully unaware of how she has been conned.

The moral of this little story is that instead of hitting consumers by raising the tax on overly-sweet drinks, the government should persuade manufacturers to cut back on their sugar content. Be honest - could any of us tell the difference if our can of soda pop contained five spoonfuls of sugar rather than ten?

The drinks companies would end up making bigger profits from having to use less sugar - and both they and the government would be making a contribution towards lowering the rate of sugar-related diseases across the Kingdom - everything from tooth decay to diabetes.

If the sugar cane industry were forced, as a result, to lay off some of the (largely immigrant) sweated labour used to harvest crops, so be it. Progressive can producers long ago switched from men to machines for this backbreaking, dangerous and arguably inhuman work.

Oh, so that's how propaganda works. Thanks for telling us.

As much as I despise the toad, I do believe that if this had been a person from the other side of the political divide, the sentence would have been suspended.

I cannot help but feel that there is a lack of impartiality at the moment.

In the context of how Jatuporn said what he did, i think the sentence is completely appropriate. He was using his speeches to incite violence and disorder. The lies he told were intended to whip up anger and hatred on a large scale, leading to bloodshed. Regardless of what side of the divide a person is on, they should be punished properly for that, not just a slap on the wrists.

If you regard even two minutes, let alone two years, behind bars in a Thai jail as a slap on the wrist then you clearly know nothing about the Thai penal system.

After Turkey, maybe Cambodia will be invited to join the EU. Britain could do with a few million more immigrants to keep the captains of industry happy..

I'm off to do a 90-day report at Hua Hin soon. Do I need to fill in one of the new Foreigner Personal Information forms which have been doing the rounds?

Has it become a requirement to submit a completed Foreigner Personal Information form with every 90-day report - or has this irksome idea been dropped?

Off to Hua Hin Immigration soon, so it would be helpful to know if anybody has personal experience.

well done the authorities for making a serious effort to control this trade.the task is uphill, though, as the industry is deeply entrenched at all levels of society.

A little premature, I would have thought. Time will tell whether the "authorities" are really serious about controlling sex trafficking or just pursuing a personal vendetta through a red mist.