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Be precise, what did I make up, I offered my opinion which is, I'm sure, held by the majority, governments are not in charge, stock markets, wealthy investors, big corporations, like Black rock, the Military industrial complex, central banks, the civil service and international events control countries, ministers are the suits in the public eye that react and if they jump the wrong way they are out....see Liz Trust, a very short performance because she thought she was in charge, the bank of England, the pension fund managers and the stock market greats told her she wasn't.

Whatever that system was, the farce has no exceptions.

Belief is an admittance that you don't know, I know today is Friday, I don't need to believe it. All religions and spiritual practices depend on belief. The spiritual practice of self inquirey (who am I) by Ramana Maharshi for instance is neti,neti, not this, not that, a long series of negation where you arrive at zero, it doesn't give you an answer but dissolves the questioner, any following conclusions from then on are based on assumptions ie beliefs. The oldest still practiced religion, Hinduism and it's close relation Buddhism are based on logical philosophical steps of reasoning through deep meditation but are still a product of mind. To say consciousness is fundamental is probably true but conscious awareness still needs a mind which is inevitably interwoven with ego resulting from indoctrination, memory of past experience and genetic make up so really nobody is free enough or capable of seeing truth. Even Christianity has had its deep thinking mystics, Meister Eckhard, the 14th century German monk was highly respected and rose to a high position but when he suggested that god was a product of the godhead, a dark silent place of potentiality (quantum physics anyone?) he narrowly avoided execution by the Catholic church who strangely enough revere him today. Belief brings comfort to billions but belief isn't truth.....it doesn't need to be.

Like the system you grew up under was any better, there are those with wealth and power and the majority without, even a so called 'communist' revolution in Russia didn't change that, only the names in the front row changed.

Another day, another nutter on the loose.

There is nothing that can be changed, it's the same the whole world over, nobody likes their own government because everybody knows no matter what form of government one has it's a farce, a government is never really in charge as the strings are pulled elsewhere, I'm just surprised that the average Thai knows this.

Yes, a little like Himmler, he will have dirt on anybody who matters and will show it when the time is ripe, it isn't only the 'witnesses who have to be fearful, I'm sure his superiors are more than a little worried.

They actually don't see the rubbish, it's a normal part of the landscape for them.

Not a work permit in sight......arrest the do gooders.

Because they are only nominally in charge, they are just suites, window dressing, the experts in the ministry make the decisions, the boss rubber stamps everything and gets the best salary and the opportunity to scrape some cream off the top.

Monkeys are woke too, nobody cares what a chicken thinks.

Entertainment, you don't get this much action in the leafy lanes of Surrey

How can you ban Accessoires that every true young council house Brit needs for his entertainment and income, this will mean a surge in the sale of baseball bats.

You obviously admire this low life person so I think it only right that when his time comes you should have a piece of the noose as a souvenir.

Every government everywhere has to react to internal and external forces, the problems are the same for whoever is in power and the solutions have a tightly constrained path which usually means it doesn't matter who is in government, since the technocrats, the paid experts, provide the logical solutions which government figures follow (if they are wise enough), cabinet ministers and PM's may have university degrees but they aren't experts at anything except politics. Whether the cat is black or white doesn't matter, as long as they catch mice. Governments are like extras in a film, the real story unfolds in civil service and advisors offices.

I think what she meant was 'the slush fund will be increased'

I don't think it will surprise anyone when the journalist withdraws her complaint and goes on an expensive fully paid for holiday.

One shudders to think what advice he had been offering.

I got pi$$ed off at the weather today, it was fierce mild.

The MFP mean well but are politically naive, Thaksin is a master political player.

A can of petrol and a fire pit is even cheaper. Even if the family did nothing he would still be cremated. I met a monk in Surin who was collecting donations for someone's cremation whose family couldn't afford the cost, there was no need for them to fly to Thailand.

Her sphincter did but that's a story for another day children, off to bed.

He can't decide that, he isn't the PM.......oh wait, of course he is.

according to Einstein she was weightless for a few seconds

and some clean underwear.