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Were all those armaments on display missing from NCPO storage facilities?

If so, who are the auditors, and will they audit the new active government to make sure assets don't go amiss too?

Thanks but your article was not in the OP or linked to the OP. How were we supposed to find it?

With all due respect, perhaps the same way I did. Use a bit of investigation, Google etc. Start with the name. Maung is a common Burmese name. Cheers.

With all due respect I did that's how I got the video about Lao food. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsK370vh4WM

However, having said that do you really feel it is the readers job to use google to complete the reporters job? Especially when the source is a source we can't quote here?

And where's the pictures of the child slaves?

Deja vu? Oops... but is English usage.

She smuggled it 2 years ago? That's not what we were informed.

Good luck Spaniards, but you're part of the EU. Thailand doesn't give a crock about EU opinion, until it needs to respond to it!

All this talk of addiction and abuse, its all BS, how many Millions abuse Alcohol, how many lives are destroyed by it, drunk drivers , domestic abuse , street violence all sorts of crimes done under the influence, and don't even get me started about the Tobacco industry, responsible for millions of deaths yet strangely, legal.

You smoke a plant and they'll throw you in Jail, yet you can pour as much alcohol as you want down your neck and smoke yourself into an early grave, and it's OK, huge political contributions and lobbyists works wonders to keep Alcohol and Tobacco legal.

And of course, TAX.

I challenge you to find a scientific link between Alcohol and violence.

Alcohol is implicated in many violent incidents, but by no means all drunks are violent, added to which there are wide cultural variations in the occurrence of violence where alcohol use is present - There is no scientific explanation or positive link between consuming alcohol and violence has been proven.

The mechanism between consuming alcohol and violence has not be found.

If you find it, let the scientific community know.

"While the empirical association of drinking and problem drinking to violence is well established, the etiological nature of the relationship is poorly understood. Using data collected from 1,149 convicted male felons, the acute (drinking just before the violent event) and chronic (a psychiatric diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence) effects of alcohol use on violence were analyzed. Logistic regression models were used to examine the relationship of acute and chronic alcohol effects to incarceration for a violent offense and arrest for a violent offense, with demographic and criminal history factors controlled. The acute effects of alcohol were found to be significantly associated with incarceration for a violent offense, but the net explanatory capacity of acute alcohol effects was not large. Chronic alcohol effects were not significantly associated with incarceration for a violent offense or arrest for a violent offense in the previous year. The findings were interpreted as being consistent with the hypothesis that alcohol effects violence directly, acting through the acute effects of use, rather than indirectly through the effects of underlying or mediating factors." (Collins and Schlenger, 2008, 2012; Vol. 49 Iss. 6; pp. 7-14)

Think you need to undertake a little more non-centred opinion, and research some pragmatic facts.

This jackass is the worst of the Thaksin sycophants. May he and Chalerm die in each other's arms.

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I don't think so. One of the reasons I am wary of Jakrapob is that I think he's associated himself with Thaksin more than I think he needs to - or more than is justified by circumstance. But I think Jakrapob is actually well aware of Thaksin's flaws. Just he's got another target - the traditional Thai establishment - in mind and he sees TS as the lesser of two evils. I don't necessarily think he's right. Just that Jakrapob is a more complex character than you suggest.

But, as Goethe said: “Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.”

Shylock thought he was too complicated for everybody else too, but a simple pound of flesh was his downfall. There's lots of Antonios waiting for Jakrapob, and a Portia will come from nowhere to put the knife into all his losses.

As Shylock said himself, "Let is serve for table-talk", and Gratiano finished with:

"Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself,

Jakrapob is neither that smart, not able to think beyond such.

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This jackass is the worst of the Thaksin sycophants. May he and Chalerm die in each other's arms.

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I don't think so. One of the reasons I am wary of Jakrapob is that I think he's associated himself with Thaksin more than I think he needs to - or more than is justified by circumstance. But I think Jakrapob is actually well aware of Thaksin's flaws. Just he's got another target - the traditional Thai establishment - in mind and he sees TS as the lesser of two evils. I don't necessarily think he's right. Just that Jakrapob is a more complex character than you suggest.

But, as Goethe said: “Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.”

You're giving big lips too much credit.

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In the past it was very obvious mr. j. as much as anything wanted desperately to be in the limelight / he wanted desperately to be noticed. No doubt this desire hasn't. changed.

Just wondering if the big r. might be coaching him and taking advantage of his desire for the limelight.

The big r? No shame and name here Cardsy. Amsterdam is a small player in cities of Europe.

I wonder if you'd equally get 15 years in prison for that lot, if you're a looker?

Do they actually know what 'an inactive post' means in English, or any language for that matter?

"General Nipat Thonglek has been removed from the Defence Ministry permanent secretary post and is now chief adviser to the Defence Ministry"......

....is, but the first example... the list follows suit.... and none are in 'inactive posts'..... boggles the mind.

If you're going to fire them... then fire them, and have done with it. It's up to them to find a new job! {then again, maybe this is Big Bro' is watching you, we know where you are}

Be nice if they considered reducing automobile import duty from 300%, for the legitimates of us of course.

Nice to see some diversity of thought here, with impetus on "social enterprise for sustainable"... Well done Missy!

"But there is a problem. Some of the businesses are guilty of employing slave labour. Some of these labourers don't even make it alive to the shore because, as a way of cutting overhead cost, they are murdered and dumped in the high sea.

Others are sold from ship to ship and often stay out in the sea for months before they see the shore."

Was this written by a Thai reporter? Got any evidence about the content?

Need for immediate action against human trafficking

All of a sudden.

What's he gonna do fer a face when King Kong wants his arse back?

Borrow yours?

Go back to the playground, Victor Mature.

Many reactions on this topic today remind me, in minor, thank God, of the general attitude in my home country's intellectual circles, with in front university professors, human rights activists (Amnesty International, ...), NGOs, and socialist party leaders, defending, with teeth and claws, sponsoring, the marvellous experience the peacefull father Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge were bringing to Cambodia in creating a new, just, social, egalitarian society for the happiness of all citizens... Some even resisted, remaining in denial, years after the truth about the killing fields had started to emerge... Intellect is a privilege, it's precious, important, but it should not become obsessive, masking off the perceptions of sheer common sense. And History is full of well mannered, well educated, good looking, sweet talking people, who were in fact despicable personalities, full of evil, hatred and violence, and mostly very vain and self centered. Please try to remember you defended Jakrapop with such stamina, when the truth comes out, and don't hesitate to make your mea culpa in front of us here then...

please do remember, that thai state did support khmer rouge by political, financial and military means.

http://www.yale.edu/gsp/publications/ThailandResponse.html

Thailand's Response to the Cambodian Genocide

Dr. Puangthong Rungswasdisab, Research Fellow, Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University

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II. Alliance with the Khmer Rouge

III. Doing Business with the Khmer Rouge

Are you Peter Pan, or do you argue like a little boy until you get angry and hit somebody, and then fly off?

Many reactions on this topic today remind me, in minor, thank God, of the general attitude in my home country's intellectual circles, with in front university professors, human rights activists (Amnesty International, ...), NGOs, and socialist party leaders, defending, with teeth and claws, sponsoring, the marvellous experience the peacefull father Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge were bringing to Cambodia in creating a new, just, social, egalitarian society for the happiness of all citizens... Some even resisted, remaining in denial, years after the truth about the killing fields had started to emerge... Intellect is a privilege, it's precious, important, but it should not become obsessive, masking off the perceptions of sheer common sense. And History is full of well mannered, well educated, good looking, sweet talking people, who were in fact despicable personalities, full of evil, hatred and violence, and mostly very vain and self centered. Please try to remember you defended Jakrapop with such stamina, when the truth comes out, and don't hesitate to make your mea culpa in front of us here then...

Intellect as you pertain to does not involve the persons you refer to, of which whom are also nameless in your assertion. Care to mention some/any?

You two want to get a bed together somewhere down Sukhumvit 25, whilst we don't listen to your gibbersh en-passants?

Is it just me or does his head look strangely out of proportion to the rest of his body ?

LOL! He does look like he has strings working him.

A bit like his old boss I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic1KXCq1Dbk

How heavy is a sack in this case?

I think that they are 50kg sacks. I don't know for sure.

50 kilos? I doubt the average Thai (or non-Thai slave?) labourer weighs that much!

Most sacks weight 50kg after, or even before, processing. Storage bags generally weigh 80Kg or 100Kg, pending if the mill has lifting machinery. Bags are sold from rice farmers, usually the smaller family types, at 50Kg, and usually for 500/600 Baht, before processing. Derek Hatton's honour!

I'm still trying to work out if the troops actually found 91,000 sacks missing from Pathumtani, and if so where else did they find them, or if they found out that 91,000 sacks had been missing but didn't believe they were missing, or if indeed they found out that 91,000 sacks were indeed still missing OR THOUGHT to be missing and didn't indded find them. I can get my head around this. Bizzare.

Why on earth does it take 7 agencies to tackle 2 problems?

Some of us are old enough to have remember "death on the highway" films in high school &/or traffic school.

Do you rememebr Mike? He could swim like a fish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9FsEi2us88

Or Angus Windsock? ... riding his bike?