anon022

Oh my!

"He said the bills aimed "to control those who think unlike others - those who have their own mind and are not considering the thinking of the collective."

What's next, book burning?

Not about who you sympathise with or who was there first, it is that the elephants are breeding up to the stage where there is not enough habitat to sustain them.

In the past when that happened they started dying off from starvation and disease, now there are the man made plantations around which are far more productive than the jungle and the elephants are going out of the jungle to help themselves to that food resource, which means that the natural population check no longer exists and numbers can and will increase even more.

These are large beasties which need between 400 and 600 KG of food each a day, they have no fear off man and will go wherever they can to get that food and will have no hesitation in killing anyone who tries to stop them.

I have great empathy with forests and their inhabitants but know from experience in NZ that there can come a time when an animal population can get to the stage where they can destroy their forest habitat, in primitive times they would then die off and the forest would regenerate but things are different now and man has to be factored into the equation for the farmers and their crops are the ones who feed the rest of us.

What the answer is in relation to elephants is I don't know for it is an emotive subject and the wild Asian elephant is not in huge numbers but their habitat is also small and it would appear that in places the numbers have outgrown the habitat.

As far as the school is concerned a good (and cheap) option to try would be low voltage electric fences as used on farms elsewhere, they give a fearsome jolt without doing any actual damage, I know that from experience.

Wild elephants are in drastic decline, so you wasted your time.

What else is new, genocide of the Palestinians has been the main objective all along.

Splendid!

So, every single nation outside Thailand should stick to the Junta in Thailand and have no opinion on their own?

Summon every body you want with your Thainess and "attitude adjustment", but realize that everybody outside Thailand is NOT THAI and don't think as a Thai.

What, the US junta? Yes.

For heavens sake, get with it, it's 2015 you know

Does that come before or after 1984?

We are seeing the inevitable demise of socialism. Everyone finally ran out of other peoples money. The last gasp is that unelected rable they call the uropean Union. Fasten your seat belts. It will be a long ride.

Yes Socialism is dying. Socialism is the last safety net for the poor and down trodden so what will happen to them?. We do not all have a Bill Gates or Warren Buffett mentality. Maybe we could enslave them more like lobotomize them all to do the bidding of the 85 people that control half the worlds wealth(in another 50 years all of it oops the world will not last another 50 years my mistake). Maybe we could make them into a fuel to fill up our monster cars with or fuel our rockets to Mars. After robotics and 3D printing and all the medical marvels (that make us live longer for what?) further reduces the working masses by 50% or more what will these poor unfortunates do? Yes we are moving towards a Soylent Green way of life only the little cakes will be made from the living not the deceased and yes it will be a long ride to the bottom.

Yes, Soylent Green, it pops up in my mind more often lately. There's no doubt the writer was spot on with the story. Probably found a crystal ball in a cellar somewhere.

It would be great if Russia, or Iran or Venezuela started trading oil and gas in Euros instead of in dollars. And there you have it. This only can save the Euro and trash the dollar. It's that simple. Pray Russia will take this step. Iraq and Libya tried, and you know the story. Invading Russia however is out of the question.

For all those who think the Junta and the General have done a great job are you now prepared to see the truth?

The very pillar of freedom is the right to express your opinions freely and this is clearly being oppressed. It's time the UN stated with some heavy sanctions, tourists stopping coming, foreign expats left and foreign investment pulled out ... any such involvement only fuels the military's ability to hold on to power.

And talking about the military's ability to hold onto power:

After the 2006 Thai coup d'état, Prayut was appointed to the National Legislative Assembly. In this capacity, he joined the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. Prayut sits on the executive boards of a number of companies including the state electricity utility company, MEA. From 2007 to 2010 he was independent director at Thai Oil Public Co, Ltd. Since October 7, 2010 he has been a director of Thai Military Bank^[20] and chairman of the Army United Football Club.

In May 2013, Prayut sold nine plots of land in a Bangkok suburb to a company called 69 Property for THB600 million. Reporters subsequently asked him about the land sale and the prime minister's position is that the media has no business questioning him on the matter. "The land has belonged to me since I was a kid, it belonged to my father. So what's the problem?" Gen Prayuth said. "Please stop criticising me already."^[26]

In his mandatory 2014 asset disclosure to the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the prime minister listed THB128.6 million (US$3.9 million) in assets and THB654,745 baht (US$20,000) in liabilities. His assets include a Mercedes Benz S600L car, a BMW 740Li Series sedan, luxury watches, rings, and several pistols. He also reported the transfer of THB466.5 million (US$14.3 million) to other family members. ( errm, have we seen this before? ) As army chief, prior to his retirement at the end of September, the general received a THB1.4 million (US$43,000) annual salary.^[27][28]

^{Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayut_Chan-o-cha}

Jealous much? Perhaps you should address the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, and those who were responsible for it.

Envious about dishonest wealth? Are you serious?

The original and true meaning of jealous is something you may like to learn about.

You haven't met my ex yet!

Where were all the NGOs when Thaksin complete destroyed the freedom of press?

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation wrote some very nasty white papers about the Thaksin regime and certainly on restriction of press freedom, buying of the media companies (ITV) etc.

I know them very well and often popped by their office for a coffee and make use of their library.

They suffered greatly during the Nazi years. Many of those students and leaders were send to the concentration camps when Hitler came to power.

As the FEF is affiliated with the SPD and they use Thailand as a base for the annual reporting of each country in Asia I think the Thai Army should be a bit more careful, otherwise they might can export their products only to Asia and possible have problems with the E.U.

Furthermore the German Foreign Minister is from the SPD and the Deputy Chancellor is SPD too.

My guess will be a diplomatic protest is currently been evaluated and the Thai Ambassador will be called in to the German Foreign Department.

I would say Thailand goes very backwards and this is just the start.

And where were the NGO's when TS ordered the crackdown and killings at Tak Bai? Where were they during the War on Drugs? Where were they when TS said, quote, "I'm going to kill them!", unquote, and ordered the extra-judicial slaughter of suspects, and anyone who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time?

For all those who think the Junta and the General have done a great job are you now prepared to see the truth?

The very pillar of freedom is the right to express your opinions freely and this is clearly being oppressed. It's time the UN stated with some heavy sanctions, tourists stopping coming, foreign expats left and foreign investment pulled out ... any such involvement only fuels the military's ability to hold on to power.

And talking about the military's ability to hold onto power:

After the 2006 Thai coup d'état, Prayut was appointed to the National Legislative Assembly. In this capacity, he joined the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. Prayut sits on the executive boards of a number of companies including the state electricity utility company, MEA. From 2007 to 2010 he was independent director at Thai Oil Public Co, Ltd. Since October 7, 2010 he has been a director of Thai Military Bank^[20] and chairman of the Army United Football Club.

In May 2013, Prayut sold nine plots of land in a Bangkok suburb to a company called 69 Property for THB600 million. Reporters subsequently asked him about the land sale and the prime minister's position is that the media has no business questioning him on the matter. "The land has belonged to me since I was a kid, it belonged to my father. So what's the problem?" Gen Prayuth said. "Please stop criticising me already."^[26]

In his mandatory 2014 asset disclosure to the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the prime minister listed THB128.6 million (US$3.9 million) in assets and THB654,745 baht (US$20,000) in liabilities. His assets include a Mercedes Benz S600L car, a BMW 740Li Series sedan, luxury watches, rings, and several pistols. He also reported the transfer of THB466.5 million (US$14.3 million) to other family members. ( errm, have we seen this before? ) As army chief, prior to his retirement at the end of September, the general received a THB1.4 million (US$43,000) annual salary.^[27][28]

^{Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayut_Chan-o-cha}

Jealous much? Perhaps you should address the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, and those who were responsible for it.

They forgot to add the adj. "Chinese"

This IPhone model must be very valuable. A girl in China did offer her virginity for one. Now a Thai architect risked life and limb over it.

Thai girls on facebook sell their virginity's for 10000 baht. So for the price of the i phone 6 the Chinese girl was asking you could get two and a half Thai virgins.

Who says?

Send me a private message and we'll talk about the details.

You may know already...Being the head of anything in Thailand has nothing to do with being smart, skilled or talented. It's all about who your daddy is or who you paid to get your position. In Thailand, it's not the "cream" that rises to the top.

You might as well ommit, "In Thailand". It's universal, or do you think "W" was a smart president, Kurry a smart Secretary of State, or Palin a smart Repulblican running mate?

Get a life, delete FB

At last. But the "never enough" mentality has already been firmly rooted in today's consumption addicts.

Reform, reconciliation and happiness are just pointless words aren't they. Her primary crime is being elected by those "buffalos" who dared to think they may be entitled to a voice in their own country.

And please, no Chang fuelled barroom theorising or claims that she wasn't elected. Only a fool would claim such (although these forums seem to host a few who claim so over and over).

No, her primary crime was believing for one second that with zero experience, she could be the Prime Minister of Thailand.

Ego, stupidity, greed, coercion...whatever it was that made her make that ridiculous decision sealed her fate.

It was doomed from the beginning. Anyone that believes that just because she was "democratically" elected somehow gave her superpowers to be PM is a fool.

A housewife as PM. Really? Clownshoes.

Housewives and soldiers don't really make a good P.M. One cries under pressure and the other throws temper tantrums and spits the dummy. Both should still be at creche together as politics is way out of thier league.

"Housewives and soldiers don't really make a good P.M."

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Housewife. Soldier

Thatcher was forced out of office, because of incompetency remember? Besides that, she rode the waves of the short lived UK oil boom, and wasted the proceeds on the Falklands and populist policies, leaving the coffers empty y the time she was ousted.

I know the administration of some of the schools is looking at ways of cutting down on the number of foreign teachers used in schools. This is especially true of Western teachers. Some schools are starting to use Native speakers only for English language instruction and to increasingly use Filipinos for other subjects (especially in Bilingual and mini-English type programs).

Filipino teachers are increasingly being used for homeroom teachers for KG level programs.

I am guessing that the need for Western native speakers is fairly high. We recently had the administration allow us to hire two native speakers for whom we had no position, something that it the past was unheard of. The Admin would never allow for such an expense unless they were in short supply.

I was surprised at your post, I have a Filipino gf who has more than 20 years experience and teaches Maths/English. She is currently teaching in Pattaya area and finding it very difficult to receive a salary commensurate with her experience. Her English is very good.

Unfortunately for her, most Thai Admin people don't speak English well enough themselves to know if her English is very good or not. Also, for every job she applies for there will be 20 or so of her fellow countrymen also applying who will work for considerably less.

That said, the min. requirement score is 600. Very frustrating working with PI teachers because of this. Half the time you're busy rewriting their speeches and plays, and they can act hostile whenever you try to correct their spelling and grammar mistakes.

If you were a English teacher, Then you would understand that Nothing Is Demanded,,,, It is Asked for only

Undercut, ( I am English) The Wording "DEMAND" means (I order you) ,,,, You do NOT Demand .....You ask

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say no more

I know the administration of some of the schools is looking at ways of cutting down on the number of foreign teachers used in schools. This is especially true of Western teachers. Some schools are starting to use Native speakers only for English language instruction and to increasingly use Filipinos for other subjects (especially in Bilingual and mini-English type programs).

Filipino teachers are increasingly being used for homeroom teachers for KG level programs.

I am guessing that the need for Western native speakers is fairly high. We recently had the administration allow us to hire two native speakers for whom we had no position, something that it the past was unheard of. The Admin would never allow for such an expense unless they were in short supply.

I was surprised at your post, I have a Filipino gf who has more than 20 years experience and teaches Maths/English. She is currently teaching in Pattaya area and finding it very difficult to receive a salary commensurate with her experience. Her English is very good.

"Teaching abroad is an attractive option for many Filipino teachers, who stand to earn as much as 25 times their standard salaries in the Philippines. In Baltimore, which has been actively recruiting in the Philippines since 2005, Filipino teachers earn as much as $45,000 a year, as compared to an average of $3,500 earned for teaching public school in the Philippines (and slightly more for teaching private school)...

Sumber : http://philbasiceducation.blogspot.com/2014/05/teachers-salary-in-philippines-must-be.html#ixzz3PSHlRQqR

$ 3,500 per year in the Philippines for real teachers with a teacher's license from their country. Let's see, that's around 112000 baht a year, or 9,333 baht a month, considering the greenback on 32 baht.I know quite a few Filipinos, most of them couples where both have a salary of 25,000 baht, while some Thai teachers are on a starting salary of 9,000 baht.

I've just interviewed 14 Thai English teachers today, who applied for a teaching position at our school. The one woman we finally hired has an outstanding command in English, she's Thai and has quite a few years of teaching experience. She'll have a starting salary of 11,000 baht teaching in the EP.

I made a very difficult test, which most of the Thais passed. My colleague from the PI was asked to answer some questions, but he completely failed. Only one out of ten was right.

Our male Filipino teacher's English is really very questionable, compared to our new Thai colleague's English.

The Filipino can't even write a simple speech for a third grader and even tops the O-net test question makers from Bangkok.

And he makes more than twice of her salary per month. Would you consider that fair?

Show your girl girl friend this link and consider to move to the States.......

Huh? "command in English"??

Not just Palestinians then, was to be expected, what else is new? Aren't they God's chosen ones?

Since most have left since the purge, there should be a higher demand than a year ago, if not much higher.

It's pretty much a lawless district, Bang Buathong Village, the villagers had to organize themselves and start a neighborhood watch, this was in 2009, when things had already been getting out of hand for a while, and with a total of three police men, it wasn't getting any better. Local government, red, controlled the money. It took over ten years to finally do something about the ever deteriorating condition of the streets, sewage system. It still couldn't prevent it from flooding in Oct. 2011 though. This lasted over 2 months with 160 - 200 cm standing water inside the houses. 10 people were found dead, floating inside their homes - electrocuted - because the local government had neglected to shut down the electricity - Nuff said