pegman

Merica! The only part that surprised me was the father getting arrested

Greetings from the Great White North, safeguards are in place. My understanding is 2 doctors are required to sign off on each case. I find a few isolated instances were inappropriate comments may have been made in the country of nearly 40m not very concerning. With the ideological and Christian right looking under every rock for evidence to discredit the law I'm surprised more hasn't come to light. What needs to be kept in mind is that this hasn't been in place all that many years. There obviously is much pent up demand. The one person I know of that followed through with this was my daughter-in-law's aunt who suffered from Parkinson's disease for over two decades. Everything went as well as could be expected. Her family was very grateful that her suffering had finally ended. For as I'm concerned countries like the U.K. that don't have this procedure are just being plain cruel.

So better to let people die a slow death in agony? How about the BBC do some reporting in their own backyard concerning that? How many in their UK are in excruciating pain waiting for the end to come? I live in Canada and this law was long overdue and is very popular. I've seen no huge debate taking place. Some religious crackpots maybe but like their whining about us having no abortion law no one in the mainstream pay any attention. Acceptable procedures are in place so that no one is coerced into entering the system. As for the case officer that suggested this way out to veterans that person was tracked down and given the boot.

Their promoting of Brexit & the Tory party.

In no particular order, a combination of: 1.a)- Tories 2.b)- Brexit 3.c)- Tabloids

Well seems all those Royal Court eunuchs defaming & leaking about the warrior Prince to the British gutter tabloids have accomplished is making his book the fastest selling nonfiction book in U.K. history. 400k copies sold already.

In military culture there is no pushback when an order is made. This is all foreign to the top jaunta leadership. Regular Thais were never in favour of these clowns governing. Did you miss all those guys with guns in the streets when Yingluck was being toppled? It was my first coup so I won't soon forget.

555, never mind.

Just maybe a motive should be sought out before he is given any merit badges

He owned and operated brothels. That's like Al Capone ratting on Bugsy Malone

I agree completely. Personally I found it disconcerning in 2014 when the Navy started patrolling the streets. It amazed me how many farang on this site supported what was happening. A big chunk of them changed their minds about the Greens being in charge when the income letter scam from their embassies was stopped.

What a terrible tragedy. Makes one wonder how many of the large & small buildings in these poor countries are fire traps. R.I.P.

Lot of people needlessly lost their lives because of charlatans like these guys in conservative states.

Happening in many places. In Vancouver Chinese nationals were/are laundering money through casinos. Their purchasing of real estate has completely distorted the market.

The Deplorables

I don't think most, if not nearly all, his audience has been let in on that. Calling the network FOX "NEWS" might be the thing that's throwing them off.

I sure hope that network gets whacked with the maximum penalty possible.

There're not saying but by my standard and having traveled to most areas I'd peg the poor at >60%

Yes and previous to that looked into prostitution on Pattaya's Walking Street and found nada.

Biden sanctions hitting energy costs in most places while in turn providing more revenue to Russia

True but then Mr Thaksin may want to settle some scores should his daughter become PM

Easy solution. Change the law to allow employers of illegals to be criminally charged. Then put the Big Joke in charge of rounding them up. I remember after the last coup the Greens announced their plans to do something similar. Within a week all the migrants had left the country. High-rises in my neighbourhood under construction we're completely deserted. It took some powerful interest to get them to change course and months before all the migrant construction workers came back.

This should add to the confusion. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-economy-gdp-idUSKBN20B07I

There was a huge spike that boosted GDP from the Transport sector in 2019. I assume that was from Chinese tourists which then cratered with the COVID. Another spike was in Ag which I don't know what to attribute to.

Thailand was growing slower than most of its neighbours before the COVID and with this gov's policies that won't change.