Dogmatix

As we all know, the whole raison d'être for ignoring the result of the election to install this government of brigands is allow the old guard to maintain control and keep their myriad corrupt schemes alive to fleece the taxpayers. Srettha is a part of that and all he says about anti-corruption is just play acting. I'm not suggesting MFP would be totally clean in government. They are already showing they have a number of bad eggs. But the last thing the establishment want is those young orange politicians in power trying to take away their iron rice bowls. How will they be able to afford mansions, fleets of S classes and overseas educations for their brats on government salaries? MFP in opposition is scary enough for these people, e.g. an MFP MP just demanded to know why the permanent secretary for higher education has been on 32 overseas "business" trips in 15 months. He is currently in the US and will be in Mexico in a week's time. He is the senior civil servant in the ministry but chooses to spend nearly his whole time swanning around abroad at taxpayer expense, assuming he actually went on the trips at all and didn't just claim the expenses.

Great idea but he should have taken a closer look at the ministers he has just appointed, many of whom have been involved in criminal activities and numerous corruption scandals and all of whom are anxious to recover their election outlays pronto and start making a profit before the government collapses. If he really attempts to stop them and Thaksin from making fast money, he will be dumped faster than Thaksin originally planned to get rid of him. Anyway how clean is Srettha himself? There are the Chuvit allegations and the time he spent as a “special advisor” to Yingluck in the thick of her rice pledging scam. He doesn’t look like an innocent.

Srettha serves one family - the Shinawatras who put him in power. When he stops doing that, he's gone.

Thaksin in Cambodia in happier days before he was suddenly taken so seriously ill. my_way (360p).mp4

Thailand has the best justice money can buy.

BTW I looked for information about the announcement that Thais are entitled to retain their Thai citizenship when they naturaluralize as Germans since 2012 but couldn't find anything about that. All I could find was that Swiss and EU nationals resident in Germany are automatically permitted to retain their other nationalities. Do you have a source for this? I have a Thai friend living and working in Germany who has avoided applying for German nationality because she believes she will be forced to renounce her Thai nationality, which is not an option as she owns Thai land. Admittedly the German nationality law looks set to be changed to permit dual nationality for citizens of most countries to bring Germany into line with most of the rest of the EU which has gradually been removing or reducing restrictions on dual nationality.

Not a lot that Thai Immigration could do about them, given that there is nothing in the Nationality Act providing for revocation of Thai citizenship from Thais born to a Thai parent. To make things even clearer the 2017 constitution prohibits revocation of citizenship from anyone Thai from birth. Hopefully Immigration has better things to do these days than trying to enforce non-existent laws. It seems odd that the Thai embassy and consulates in Germany would have put such nonsense on their websites when the Foreign Ministry has long posted advice to Thai citizens with dual nationality on how to travel, i.e. use the Thai passport to enter and leave Thailand and the foreign passport for the foreign country. Could you please post a sample.

The female applicants are nicer looking than the ones I recall from my interview batch. Do you think the one on the left with the little boy is a model hired by DOPA?

That is interesting. There was a rush by UK citizens entitled to German citizenship to apply before Brexit became effective because once the UK was out of the EU Germany no longer allowed Brits to claim their German citizenship without surrendering UK citizenship. I am surprised that Thais are allowed to retain Thai citizenship and many don't seem to know as they have still been renouncing their Thai citizenship to obtain German citizenship since 2012, as reported in the RG.

So he had COVID two years ago like most of the rest of the world. Big deal. He is not suffering fatigue and stress wearing leg irons and having his fingers broken with the warder's billy club like the other prisoners.

One of my friends lost his US passport that he kept in an unlocked drawer and couldn't find it anywhere. Eventually when some other stuff went missing that couldn't have been taken by his maid or anyone else, he realised his live in Thai gf who had a background as a hooker had taken it. She confessed she had sold it to some crook for 10,000 to pay off gambling debts. For some reason he was head over heels with this tart, who wasn't even good looking or fun to talk to, and didn't kick her out at the time and even gave her some cash to pay off her supposed debts. Eventually after more stuff went missing he came to his senses and gave her the boot. Don't leave valuables laying around and cut losses early in this type of situation.

If you like her, stick with her and enjoy it as far as it goes but get a bit detached and don't invest too much emotionally in the relationship. It doesn't sound as if she is. Have an open mind about following up other opportunities. It sounds like she might be doing that.

Should Khunying Potjaman dust off the cobwebs or will his old flame the luk thung singer Bai Toey come and perform for him in the hospital for a million baht and a free house again.

Thailand has the best justice money can buy and we are seeing what kind of service you can get as a convict, if you slap down a billion baht - soon to be recouped from taxpayers. New airport projects already announced.

It could be a criminal as well as civil matter because he stole the fitted furniture, even though no resale value.

If you rent out a residential property long enough, you will have a bad tenant who will do excessive damage, annoy neighbours and default on rent. My estimate is around once every 10 or so years. It is a risk factor that has to be factored in.

I think they might. Thaksin is very impetuous and came out very anti-drugs when his son was allegedly being seen at hi-so parties as high as a kite on various substances, resulting in his implication in 2,000++ murders of people claimed to be in the drugs trade.

The Champion of Democracy thing was only invented by him for the consumption of naive Western media after he got the boot. While he was in office he used to say things like, "Democracy is only a means to an end." and "The UN is not my father", criticised by the UN Rapporteur on human rights for murdering thousands of alleged drug dealers, who were mainly just on police hit lists for not paying protection money or not involved with drugs at all.

It is pathetic. They should report the truth. Corrections Dept and Police hospital doctors paid off to pretend he is sick.

I am sure the Patek Philippe Watch was brought for Pravit as a conciliatory gesture but obviously wasn't enough, or maybe Pravit already had that model, as he didn't even show up to vote for Srettha and most of the senators that voted for him were Prayut's appointees not Pravit's. BTW the way I didn't see anything about Thaksin being brought to Thai customs to pay tax on the watch or other expensive items.

We will soon see Thaksin getting his police rank back again. He retired as a captain but promoted himself to Lt. Col. when he was PM. He will probably emerge as a major general soon.

He's in the Police General Hospital.

There were calls to ratify the Rome Statute and have the International Criminal Court put out an arrest warrant for Thaksin for the 2,000+ murders he instigated. Of course, no government could ever do that because it would implicate so many police in the murders. The case involving the Ratchadapisek land looked a totally sound conviction to me and that was during the time he had a nominee as PM. I think the other judgements were sound too but didn't look at them in detail and they took place when PT was out of power. The point is that Thaksin was massively corrupt but just never thought he would ever be taken to account and then just whines that his corruption cases are political for Western consumption because all Thais know the truth, Prayut, Pravit and just about everyone else who has ever been in government in Thailand are also corrupt and deserve their days in court. But that doesn't make Thaksin less guilty.

By now there are a lot of Thais who would like to see both Prayut and Thaksin get the death sentence or at least lengthy prison sentence with the same conditions as other prisoners. Since they are now close buddies, they would enjoy being cellmates.

According to the Land Code this practice is illegal and punishable by prison terms for the foreign buyers and Thai nominees. It used to be easy to do very easy to do, nonetheless. but in 1996 it was made harder by a letter to Land Offices from the Interior Ministry ordering to investigate companies with any foreign shareholders, directors or even a foreinger lurking around at the land office and send suspicious cases to the director general of the Land Dept. That is not to say it was made impossible but definitely made harder. Land officials have been known to ask nominee directors about their business plans and why they want to spend the company's entire share capital on an ocean view villa in a resort area. If they can't answer the transfer is rejected.