William C F Pierce

The story is from 2006. Still the news travels fast in Thailand these days.

How long will it take before the government <deleted> it up.

Reminds me of the time I had to get a Taxi from Mo Chit Bus Station to the airport. having agreed on the fare with the driver. The journey proceeded, as we approached a road toll he asked for money. So I handed him the agreed fare. He spoke again (all the time in Thai). I knew he wanted extra for the toll, but I just pointed to the money I had given him and shrugged my shoulders indicating I didn't understand him. The result was, he avoided the toll and went the long way round to get to the airport. This guy mentioned here still needs to learn to ask and agree on the fare before, before he starts a journey with a taxi driver.

How sacred is Doi Suthep? A hill tribe has built a village there and the last King built a palace there. Is it really that sacred?

UFO? More like a FIG (Falling Industrial Garbage).

1 minute ago, Basil B said:

You hit the nail on the head...

 

That's whats wrong with British politics, the Opposition will vote against everything instead of voting in the best interest of the country.

Corbyn does not vote against everything he voted with the Tories for Brexit against the best interest of the country.

7 minutes ago, Basil B said:

oh, Comrade Corbyninsky does not like other peoples opinions... 

Apart from agreeing and voting over 500 times with the Tories in 20 years.

The Government is still to blame for many accidents. There are many unmarked crossroads where drivers don't know which of the 2 roads is the main road. Also many unmarked junctions and no manditory stop signs, so driver just drive straight out into a main road without looking. This is what causes many accidents. I have seen many times Thai drivers drive straight out of a blind junction without stopping to look.Drink and drugs is not the only problem. A big part of the problem is successive Thai Governments failure do proper road markings with road warning signs where they are required and most needed. If you see the amount of broken glass and red plastic in these areas you can understand why.

13 minutes ago, jonstarjon said:

Yeah yeah like the rest of you. No imagination no vision no change in approach despite a period of massive technological development bringing real democracy to the people. That's all you guys have got left a reliance on the past taken out of context to try and avoid your future deletion from history as a bad joke. What ever the labour leadership is attacked with by Blair Cronies, at least they won't be accused of war crimes lying deceit and worst of all, Tories dressed as labour sheep.

Shouldn't you mean the Corbynites dressed up as Tory Sheep. Their record of voting with them over 500 times in the last 20 years says it all.

3 hours ago, jonstarjon said:

When Corbyn came to lead the party, he was accused of not being the strong leader required for the job. Since then, the major opposition to his leadership has been the Blairite mob who have been shown to be just a bunch of has been losers. These idiots need removing. This is just one step on the pathway to acbritish government with a conscience as well as a brain. Let's start work on Chukka now another Blairite hangover pain in the butt. 

"has been losers"????? Tony Blair is the most successful Labour Leader in history. Corbyn is just an MP who has won nothing yet. He is the puppet that dances on the strings of the Hayes Militant Tendancy (MT). (I live in Hayes)

When Neil Kinnock got rid of the MT in Liverpool. A fortnight later they were suppose to investigate the Hayes Labour Party. Enough time for the Hayes MT to hide the evidence. Where does the Shadow Chancellor Hayes MP come form? Yes Liverpool the original home of the MT. Most genuine Labour supporters don't want the MT. Yes he is the original "Puppet on a String"

Anyway what does Corbyn really know about politics? Goes to Pop Festivals stands behind a microphone and he can't even sing. The best he can do is lip-sync "O Tannenbaum" at the Labour party conference. 

Corbyn is the biggest traitor to the Labour Party in the history of the Labour Party. In government he voted over 500 times with the Tories against the Labour Government. As Opposition Leader he is now part of a Caustic Toxic Coalition voting with the Tories again for the Brexit. Owen Smith should challenge him again for the leadership.

20 hours ago, Dante99 said:

Okay, humor me and please tell me where I can purchase a satellite.  Not a dish, a satellite.

Try the US NASA as long as your not Chinese at the moment.

15 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

SIN  serves a very different clientele than BKK so the comparisons made in this thread are irrelevant. I suggest the critics of BKK  look in the mirror because they are most likely a reflection of why BKK is the way it is.  The point is that the demographics of the people with a destination of SIN are such that the  immigration and management process reflects that. Handling transit pax is very different than managing the inflow of pax. 

 

Singapore is not a destination for junketeers, sex tourists, or financially marginal people.

The budget transit  pax from  the labour markets are managed quite differently than  tourist  transit pax.  They are treated like cattle and do not vote in these  surveys.

 

How wrong you are. Changi makes it easy for getting to any region in Thailand I want to go to without the hasle of BKK.

I was one of those who voted for Changi in the survey, so I am not surprised other people also think so.

On 22/03/2018 at 1:24 AM, seminomadic said:

 

If it has meaning, it's not meaningless, DA. 330 million versus 55 million. You gave up your empire well over half a century ago since your socialist impulses and need to stick up for Poland marginalized your global sway. If it wasn't for us, you wouldn't be able to teach the language abroad so you can bang your skeezy whores for pennies on the dollar.

You're welcome.

Which is typical of the meaningless slang I was talking about.

Putin on the agony, Putin on the style

Thats what all the Russians, are doing all the while

And as I look around me, I sometimes have to laugh

Watching Vladimyr Putin sitting on his

Ask no questions, tell no lies

Watch a little bar steward doing up his flies. 

On 19/03/2018 at 1:23 AM, simoh1490 said:

You do not remember correctly! 

 

The WHO has a much hoped for guideline which is a target, currently, over 92% of all countries exceed that guideline by a substantial margin including London on a regular basis.http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs313/en/

For London it is a problem in a small area in the centre as a result of traffic fumes, but this is being reduce by promoting electric and hybrid vehicles. No-one is willing to do anything about it in Chiang Mai. The field crop burning started towards the end of February.  One thing no-one mentions about in Chiang Mai is the endless number of roadside and market BBQ charcoal burners. Plus of course the traffic fumes all adding up to one big toxic air suffercation.

Of course the EU doesn't see the 1000s of tiny Tuk-Tuk fishing dingys that put to sea daily from many small harbours. Very unlikely they will ever get covered by this.

On 22/02/2018 at 9:46 PM, webfact said:

Thailand ‘short of normal standards’

By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION

 

 

Amnesty report says rights defenders are facing more intimidation from governments and businesses.

 

LACK OF FREEDOM of expression has become the most prominent human rights issue globally and Thailand also fails to meet normal standards, Amnesty International said yesterday.

 

 

The NGO yesterday unveiled its 2017 report on human rights in Bangkok and revealed that defenders of human rights in Thailand and across the world are facing more intense intimidation and prosecution from the state and business sector.

 

Amnesty International has reviewed 159 countries around the globe and provided the recommendations for each country to improve their human rights protection.

 

Salil Shetty, secretary-general of Amnesty International, said that freedom of expression was one of the most serious human rights issues this year, as the governments of many countries were suppressing human rights defenders and over 100 activists were killed last year to silence them.

 

“In 2018, we cannot take for granted that we will be free to gather together in protest or to criticise our governments. In fact, speaking out is becoming more dangerous,” Shetty said.

 

The report noted that Turkey, Egypt and China were among the top offenders for imprisoning journalists for criticising the government, and Amnesty International itself also faced problems campaigning for human rights in Turkey and Hungary.

 

The situation in Thailand was not different, Amnesty International Thailand’s Director Piyanut Kotsan, said.

 

“The situation of human rights violation in Thailand under the administration of the Prime Minister and head of National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is still considered very poor, as the junta still exercises the absolute power of Article 44 of the interim Charter to stop any political activists exercising freedom of expression,” Piyanut said.

 

“Many citizens are still being held in unofficial custody, civilians are still being prosecuted in the military court, and freedom of expression and gatherings in public are limited by the use of NCPO order 3/2558, which bans the gathering of more than five persons for political protest.”

 

She said the recent prosecution of the group of democratic activists known as “MBK39” showed the government did not respect the rights and freedom of the people and they did not really cherish human rights protection.

 

She urged the junta to revoke NCPO order 3/2558 and other laws that diminish freedom of speech and expression by citizens and ensure that the violation of the people’s freedoms will not happen again.

 

 

The demand to allow freedom of expression was one of the NGO’s seven recommendations to the Thai government.

 

The other suggestions included improving interrogation strategies to solve the southern insurgency, pass a law to prevent torture and enforced disappearances, stop prosecutions against human rights defenders, respect the non-refoulement of refugees, abolish the death sentence, and amend the lese majeste law.

 

Meanwhile, NCPO spokesperson Colonel Winthai Suvaree said that the NCPO order 3/2558 is a vital tool to keep peace and order in the society and this regulation does not violate the freedom of most people.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30339475

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-02-23

"does not violate the freedom of most people"? Thats because most are cowed into silence with the restriction AI mentions. Makes you wonder if they are students of the Putin school of control, control, control.

On 22/02/2018 at 7:24 AM, Bluespunk said:

Also know as, a BS artist.

That is Astrologically incorrect. It should be Taurus Ecrement or TE artist.

On 05/03/2018 at 12:53 AM, seminomadic said:

 

Whatever your esoteric interpretation of the word, the writers are, in fact, using the word correctly. We're in the 21st century. The word means the same as bribes but with gifts rather than money. It's you who needs the English lessons, DA.

 

Check yourself before you criticize.

Yours and their misuse derives from the USAs obsession of abusing real English with meaningless slang as a language.

On 23/02/2018 at 2:19 AM, krabi local said:

It’s most unusual for English companies to ask for a Police record check.  This is normally only requested if working with Children or in healthcare.

 

What job have you applied for or are you just speculating that you may need one ?

You also need clearance with a background check if you want to work in fashion or entertainment with children. A Police record check here would just be a first step to getting the certificate that verifies you.

On 09/02/2018 at 4:59 AM, Ossy said:

Not sure whether you're serious, here, WCFP, with your 'bad English' criticism of those two fine news media, but 'graft', a term originating in US, has even made it to the 'posh' English dictionaries; here's the Cambridge deftn:

graft noun (INFLUENCE)

› [ U ] mainly US the act of getting money or advantage through the dishonest use of political power and influence:

The whole government was riddled with graft, bribery, and corruption.

 

Given the tone of your post, though, I think you'll be happy to add this modern meaning of graft to those more deeply rooted in your dictionary.

Personally, I, too, put some of the blame for Thailand's susceptibility to graft on its dreadfully passive education, whereby, from what I read, kids are mostly encouraged to rote learn old dogmas, rather than to be lectured in the pros and cons of life and decision-making and the difference, from a humanity perspective, between lying and honesty and giving and taking.

I spent a sickening half-hour, earlier, reading about Thailand's international standing on its perceived corruption rating and, more worryingly, the depth that the Junta is directly involved in corruption . . . and graft. Just pop these key words - the diplomat thai junta corruption - into Google and prepare to be enraged  "Junta out, Junta out, Junta out" will soon be the cry.

 

"The UK ENglish is hard graft" "A grafter is someone who works hard" "Originally grafting was digging massive defensive earthworks" which takes it  well back into English History. The earliest dates being mid 19Th Century.

a grafter | WordReference Forum

On 09/02/2018 at 2:14 AM, canuckamuck said:

 

 

Hate to defend the educations of The Nation's editors but

 

Wrong the origins of the word graft goes back beyond the medical use. Its use proceeds this in its use in farming as with grafting trees. Hence the meaning deriving to work hard. Quoting it as American English to mean corruption is in itself a corruption of the English Language.

On 24/01/2018 at 2:27 PM, Eligius said:

And of course Suthep is going to be found guilty and will spend years and years in jail - of course ...!

If found guilty the law also allows for him to be exacuted.

On 10/01/2018 at 9:51 AM, Just1Voice said:

Well, during the reign of Rama I, a fortune teller made a couple of bold predictions.
1.  The Chakra dynasty would only last for 10 generations.  We're on #10 now.
2.  The ocean would rise up and swallow Siam where BKK now sits.   That one would be interesting, to say the least, as it could also bring the first one to fruition as well.  

 

 

Number 2 happened in 2011 and its been and gone. Your left with number one, so a civil war and a Thai republic is it not that far off?