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7 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s Public Health Ministry revealed that 70% of Thai citizens agree with setting a minimum threshold of one methamphetamine pill for initiating legal proceedings, while 30% prefer a zero-tolerance approach. The Ministry insists that this threshold is crucial for effective law enforcement and streamlined judicial processes.

 

 Well this shows the veracity of these announcements. 30% want 0 tabs and 70% want a maximum of one so 100% of Thai citizens say 1 tab or less. This is rubbish. As for streamlining the judicial system it will need to be streamlined to keep up with the huge increase of prisoners. This is simply a continuance of Thaksin's 'war on drugs'. Will the extrajudicial killings come later on down the track?

4 hours ago, pedro01 said:

Unfair poll - taken at 8am to 10am Saturday - all the stoners were still unresponsive

Doubt it but the hardcore alcoholics would be well on their way. No balance in your comment just like there is no balance in the weed narrative.

Pro-weed groups have been given no right to put forward their views. There was a ''public forum" where only the anti dope side was allowed to participate. The pro dope people want regulation not criminalisation. This is the correct way to go IMO and it's an opinion I have posted previously. There is absolutely no logic to take money out of the local market and push it back into the black market. The arguments coming from the govt. have not been supported by evidence, and what the impact of recriminalistion will be have, either not been studied or not been released to the public. Like something else we all know only one side of the narrative is being pushed.

We know you don't have enough money now for your retirement so why not spend some of what little you have on a 100,000,000+ to 1 long shot. Bt3000 p/m. That's about half of the base pension. The empty headed idiots that run the show here are an excellent example of the elitist system. All money and no brains. We'll take your money that you spend on tickets and keep it nice and safe for you. What could go wrong. Apart from this will it be means tested? Why should the rich be allowed to participate. 

Former Actress's Husband Accused of Operating a 93 Million Baht Porn Site

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

accused of distributing adult content online and causing damage worth upwards of 93 million baht.

Anyone else confused?

28 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

In an area such as Thailand with Dengue being a serious risk it has always struck me as particularly careless that we see so much of these 'water Lilly / lotus flower pots' around Thailand...  in schools, temples, houses, restaurants... 

 

 

... Its as if a creating additional breeding grounds for these Mosquito's is deliberate. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These lotus tubs usually have fish in them that eat the larvae.

This is your typical mozzie breeding ground in Thailand.....

Aedes aegypti mosquito. 

1 hour ago, mfd101 said:

No. MFP won the most votes and therefore the most seats of any party in the Lower House. BUT it did not win a majority of seats, which meant that the wheeler-dealers of the other parties could form a coalition with MORE seats than MFP and with a MAJORITY of seats in the lower House and thereby form a government.

 

Which is what happened.

And next you'll say the Junta's Senate and it's legal apparatus i.e. the CC and the EC had nothing to do with it. We all know that the majority of Thais want change. This is one thing the last sham of an election showed. MFP won by a landslide victory. PTP jumped into bed with their sworn enemy, something they said they'd never do, and sold out their base support. How will the progressive movement here be stopped next time against the will of the people? I've got a fair idea how and it may very well happen before any next election.

They say the cream rises to the top. The cream at the top here in Thailand is sour. Very sour indeed. Thailand is totally corrupt an run by idiots who are self perpetuating idiots and who maintain power through corruption and force.

27 minutes ago, bob smith said:

He IS the Prime Minister of Thailand.

 

HE and his Party won the popular vote.

 

Srettha is nothing but a puppet and a charlatan. 

 

Pitha is the only hope at moving this country forward for a change.

 

bob.

Agree but sadly as I posted above this will not be allowed. Change can happen in a democracy (very, very limited choices these days globally I admit) but Thailand is not a democracy. What it is is just another extremely corrupt SE Asian nation. Until the power of the military and the orders from above are dissipated in line with a true civilian government and "fair and free elections" Thailand stays where it is.

I said quite some time ago that the tanks are being warmed up. Not many positive reactions to my previous posts. I stand by them. The scene is being set, albeit it slowly, and has been IMO well before the last election. The royalty, the military and the elite will not stand for progressive change in this country. 

46 minutes ago, Peterphuket said:

And above all: NO comparable quality.
French wines remain superior to what the Thais think they can make.

 

Most wines I think. Being an Aussie I hold our wine in the very highest regard. Thai 'wines' are not even worthy of being mentioned in the same sentence. 

Who's going to be the 1st to say execute him? Fair chance it will be an American. Yes this is very bad but it happens globally and in some religions and theocratic countries it's not a problem. Thailand had flags at 1/2 mast for the president of a country that hanged the victim of a rape and not the perp. The world is fkd. 

49 minutes ago, itsari said:

800 baht a month many Thai pensioners live on.

Yes and that's criminal when you consider the billions of baht put into people's pockets collected through corruption. Same the world over. The system is absolutely fkd.