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So wouldn't this asteroid be pulled in by Earths gravity?
Looking at the trajectory in terms of distance, it is actually only a whisker away by passing by.
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There should not be abstentions allowed. Any NLA member who abstains is failing to do their duty and should be replaced by someone who has an interest in pushing this country forward.
Normally abstentions are only tolerated for reasons of personal ethics and morality. This case affects neither, and would be just for personal protection from future negative impacts on career prospects..... If you put your political career before the rule of law, you should play no part in politics, because you are supposed to be working for the country and the people..... not yourself.
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It is not so important this impeachment verdict, that only gives her the 5 year ban... She would come back in 2020 anyway and the idiots will vote her back in having totally forgotten how rotten to the core and how much a danger to the country she and her cronies are.
The defining moment will be a criminal prosecution. Even if she escapes a prison sentence and just gets a huge fine, that will be the end of her politically. Because you can NOT stand as an MP if you have a criminal conviction.
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As long as the police are going to be found not guilty of any wrongdoing, this is going to occur all the time in the USA.
The police there have full immunity, this encourages these extra judicial executions.
Eventually it is going to be one too many and that country is going to erupt. In a country with as many guns as there are over there..... It is NOT going to be a pretty sight when it all kicks off.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Wonder how much the Labour party paid for this delay? Or indeed can we expect a nice little title in the House of Lords for him once Labour get into power.
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If western countries would end their belligerent actions in the Middle-East, their Muslim populations would likely be more peaceful.
and if pigs could fly backwards.
Not so preposterous as that.
History is full of examples of aggressors who have disengaged in conflicts because the costs became too high.
The western foreig policy of interfering in the middle east has not sparked off Islamification of the west..... It has been on the agenda for over 1000 years and has been ongoing and yet held back by many wars. But now it has a real momentum that will see Europe a majority Islamic region within the next 40 to 50 years, and 100% by the end of this century.
So there is little surprise that there is a very strong emergence of right wing groups springing up all over Europe.
This will end up in a Europe-wide cultural and religious civil war that will make the last 2 world wars look like a playground scrap. Sweden is the one to watch, followed by Denmark and the Netherlands...... T-minus 10 years and counting.
Pat Condell tells it like it is in this video.
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The USA is making a rod for its own back on this issue.
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One can have some sympathy for those caught up in this scam because at the time the only way to retain your job with the PTP was to be a yes man , just how many would be in this boat who knows with all the nepotism and baggage the PTP carried, however unless there are memos or recordings stating their opposition to this scam they haven't a leg to stand on,
But when you look at the billions they will have in their offshore bank accounts, it is difficult to summon up any sympathy.
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I fail to see the need for using a paid dating website.... Just open a tagged.com account and send out multiple "meet me" requests, there are much more women on their than on any paid for dating site.
I had over 1000 Thai girls on my tagged friend list and ended up marrying one 5 years ago and am happily married and living over here now.
Also tagged does not have as many bar girls as you get with the dating sites.
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Simple to address...
Remove the drivers license..... If driver is caught driving a taxi without a license, remover the taxi number plate from the vehicle and ban it from being a taxi, if a taxi is caught operating as an illegal taxi, take the car and crush it.
To get something to work, you need to put the pressure on the owner and operators of the cars, and they will enforce anything regarding their drivers.
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Shouldn't Prayuth at least be issuing a declaration that there will be NO legal action taken against ANY of the NLA regarding this vote?
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In a restaurant, your highest single cost is food. Rent, labor, equipment maintenance, utility, paper goods, etc. will in total exceed food costs, but as a lone item food is it.
In a sit down restaurant with table service food can't exceed 25% of gross receipts. ideally it should be less.
If you're food cost is 25% and you give one away free, you are toast. There's no profit left after you pay labor and rent and utilities etc. They were probably losing money with that promotional deal.
I can't remember which famous person said this (jokingly) but he said "we lose money on every sale but we make up for it in volume."
Na.... I am sorry but you can not apply western economics to Thailand.
Western costs are way higher than Thai costs... Rent is 18,000 a month, I know this because we are on the list as the next tennants if these leave. Electric is only for lighting and refrigeration, according to the building owner averages 5000 a month. wages on 5 staff is 500 a day, so 15,000 a month. charcoal only 10 baht per table maybe less, napkins are a few baht, chopsticks a couple of baht, ice they charge 10 baht for so make a profit there. A few green veggies on a plate is cheap to provide.
The only extra costs to them on that offer is pork, and that is about 200g per serving.. They are selling 2 servings for 318 baht and giving 600g on average at a cost of 100 baht (ish) leaving them 218 baht to provide everything else.
You don't even have cooking costs because the customer cooks it themselves. The only thing you need to cook is rice and that is sold as an extra and makes its own margin.
So based on the very conservative 100 baht per table turnover gross profit, That is 300,000 a month..... Probably a lot more when you add drink sales of which they sell a lot.... I would say they are probably making over 150 GP per table. But based on a conservative estimate, they can pull in 200K a month net profit if their costs were monthly 100,000 which they are not.
I would say it is nearer 300,000 a month.
This is not the UK, this is Thailand..... costs are a hell of a lot lower here.... I have run a restaurant myself... I can look at one and know roughly what the minimum is they are making, and I know what ALL the costs are in Thailand in this industry. My wifes family own a string of them, as well as hotels.
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Interesting situation.
Be dammed if you do act and be dammed if you don't act.
The road to reconciliation is ion reality a minefield with those mines being placed in position by all political parties and hues.
However it is somewhat disturbing that the Rothschild seem to involved in Thailand's matters.
One is led to wonder just what inducements may have been or were offered to these international banker bandits to be so interested in Yingluck or Thailand itself or the Shinwatra clan.
Probably because they are sitting on the trillion baht that is missing from the coffers.
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As unfair as it may be, I admit I'm hoping for some disruption, including street protests, to be started by a decision to impeach and remove them from politics.
That will cause a further slide in the Thai Baht against foreign currencies, especially the U.S. Dollar.
And that Baht slide will help my monthly dollar pension, and get me more Baht every month for my Dollars.
That may be unfair, but what has Thailand done for me lately?
And yes, I don't mind getting a little "payback" now for the years of (29.x) Baht to the dollar now that the Baht to Dollar rate is above 32 Baht to a dollar.
Any protest coming from this is nothing more than a badly veiled threat that simply will never happen.
Everyone knows that ANY disorder will be dealt with almost immediately.
We are still under martial law you know.
In the meantime.
Members of Pheu Thai Party said an invisible hand was pulling the strings from behind to lobby some moderate members of NLA to impeach former premier Yingluck.
Meaning those who are quite relaxed with massive corruption in the politisphere.
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A few months ago, a korean BBQ (Neuryang) opened up just down the road from us.
When it opened it was running a "buy two - get one free" promo on its pork at 159 baht each.
The restaurant opened in a location where there has been a string of failed bussiness attempts, I recall at least 6 in 5 years. There was already a very successful korean BBQ close by, and this one basically took its entire customer base away from it and forced its closure, and all because of the buy two, get one offer. Everything else was very same same.
This place has about 45 tables that provides about 180 total covers and it has been boomong since it opened. Most times you have to wait for a table. I have estimated that they turn over at least 100 tables perr night. I also estimated that they make between of 100 and 150 baht gross profit from each table. I know their rent is 18K per month and they pay their staff only 100 baht a night of which they have 5.... So even based on 100 baht profit, per table after costs and bills etc.. They are making an absolute minimum of 200,000 Baht a month and as much as 300,000. A nice little earner for a couple of young Thais.
One of the owners actually bragged to my wife that they make 500K profit a month, but personally I do not believe it.
Now here is the car crash.....
In their greed, they done away with the buy two get one offer, and lo and behold.... You guessed it. over the following 2 weeks their trade has dropped to no more than 5 tables occupied at any one time. I would go as far as to estimate that their costs are now more than their GP and are in fact losing money.
I asked one of the owners why do they not just reintroduce the offer?... That is clearly what their success was based on in the first place. But was just met with a vacant stare. They seem convinced that the customers have found somewhere new to go to... I dont think so, there is nothing we have heard of opening up in the area that could suck away so many customers. They have basically just become nothing special now they are trading in line with their competitor pricing.
They shot the golden goose in an attempt to gain more profit per table. They now are running at the same level as the previous incumbants that went broke one by one.
All I know, is that we have now put our name down as the next tennant when this lot go bust also, and we will be re-introducing the buy two, get one offer. It is a proven business model for the area, because the closest place offering the same is a 10 KM drive away. Start up cost will be around 80K, its a no brainer.
The classic Thai business car crash, based on greed.
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There is very little need to encroach on more than 50% of the sand anyway.... I have never seen one of those bamboo ghettos more than 50% full, so why the need to cover the beach all the way to the water?
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The display of such aggressive defiance that Yingluck was neglegent in this scheme suggests one thing..... Thaksin is aiming to keep Yingluck in Thai politics.
If there was any intention for her to move away from politics, then an impeachment would be of little consequence to her, Thaksin and PTP. Why would they care about a 5 year ban if she has declared herself free from politics?
This is the thing the NLA and the Junta need to recognise as a threat to future political stability, because time is a great healer, and in say 18 months when the country goes back to the polls and Yingluck pops up to stand with PTP...... Then there is a real possibility all the negativity of the past government will be forgotten and the brain dead masses will once again vote themselves into oblivion.
The country then will be cast backwards instead of forwards..... So Yingluck MUST be banned, becase she WAS neglegent.
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Absolutely ridiculous. These scams are well documented, but seems nothing ever gets done about it
S0 this guy was allowed to keep 50K from the bill in his illegal bar?
Or can we assume that 50K went straight into the pockets of the police and the bar owner got the more realistic 4080 baht?
The police are really not interested in Thailands tourist industry are they?
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The Brazilian police execute almost daily on the spot and with no trial.
Drug dealers, gang members or anyone they dont like the look of.
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It's a sad state of affairs really...
I wonder how it will all end ?
It will end in a series of religious and cultural civil wars within many western countries, which would probably end with the complete banning of Islam in many western countries, those nations who fail to abolish it will succumb to total Islamification and Sharia law.
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If Suthep had not gone on the streets, this rice scam would stioll be running, stockpiles would be approaching 30 million tonnes and a few more years of the scheme hand in hand with the serious drop in tourism, this country would be on the verge of economic collapse by 2017.
Even PTs most ardent supporters know this scam was a complete disaster. If anything, this defence will lose these idiots a hell of a lot of future votes.
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The army will never stage a coup. If they ever had any intention of doing so, it would have been during that very dark week where police and their terrorists were killing people on Phan pha bridge and children were murdered by Thaksin's militia.
The courts will annul this election and another won't be called until the election process can be reinforced to make them free and fair and devoid of Thaksin's interference... won't take long, maybe a week or two.
In the meantime the courts will almost certainly remove Yingluck and probably the rest of the PTP party and a few of their 'owned senators'.
Nice house cleaning and new elections held. But hopefully any party suspected of being under the influence of Thaksin will be immediately removed from running in the election. (How it should be).
Declare Thaksin an outlaw and official terrorist.
The reds rise up against any of this, martial law declared nationwide and the head cut off the snake. Taking out all the red leaders and basically outlawing the movement and anarchical secessionists as an official terrorist organization.
That;s what I would do anyway.
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Yingluck.... Take a look at this picture.
These are your exterminators.
Time is up for these old dinosaurs.
The interconnected, multimedia, smart phone owning, internet savvy younger generations cannot be kept in the dark and fed the same BS their grandparents were raised on.
Access to information abounds, no more secrets for anyone - not even the CIA can keep its dirty laundry hidden anymore.
This diaper wearing geriatric generation of appointed civil servants should do the country a favour and shuffle off to spend their remaining years on earth enjoying the vast quantities of "brown paper bag" money they've accumulated over their decades of malfeasant service.
Yingluck has nothing to worry about from these old plodders.
Seek help.......
Now on my ignore list along with probably everyone else's
Goodbye.
Isaan Poll shows 67 percent of people are indifferent with Ms Yingluck's impeachment
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I also live in Isaan and I can tell you that nobody here gives a flying fart what happens to her.
They know full well that the rice scam was a farce and that their industry has suffered a lot at the hands of that dopey b******.