Moruya

2022 - Burma, Thailand with electricity

and when a young child takes the gun out and shoots somebody?...........

Cunning plan........

Does anyone have a copy of the Gantt chart?

I remember there being a milk monitor while I was at school. You got a badge to show your importance.

Then Thatcher came along - you didn't even get water in it's place.

Given Chalerm's comments on record about the south, you would be hard pushed to select a less suitable candidate

I find it rather wishful thinking on Nattawut's part to be suggesting this.

I can see no improvement in the protection of IP rights at all. You can still buy copies everywhere and everyone knows this.

"The project involves expanding the knowledge base of three age groups of Thai child intelligence developing technology"

<deleted> does this mean please???

It's big on what they want to acheive - but the "how" is non-existent.

It probably means adding iodine to the salt if past exercises are a guide

Water, water every year

And Plop just cannot think

I don't think they support drugs either: "We will completely destroy the vices that corrupt our society of Malayu Muslims." though I am aware that the vices they refer to encompass a variety of "society corruptants" - take your pick.

How does this relate to the Tak Bai incident?

Are you attempting to make excuses on Thaksin's behalf?

Are you trolling or just forgetful? Do you remember adding the war on drugs to the Tak Bai incident as a reason why there is an insurgency in the south and I asked you why?

You replied "because of deaths caused by armed forces" presumably during the "war on drugs".

I provided a manifesto from one of the insurgent groups pointing out that they wanted their "Pattani" back and would destroy anything Thai in order to do so and stated that it was a more logical reason for the insurgency than your war on drugs reason. I also tounge in cheek suggested as they wished to get rid of all vices, that they would probably have supported the "war on drugs"

And then you come up with the nonsense above. OK? If you need anything else explaining don't bother asking, I've wasted more than enough time on you than is necessary.

I'm sure that society harbours grudges about all instances of civilian death - not just Tak Bai.

Your manifesto, verbose as it is when compared to the PTP counterpart, is irrelevant.

Civilians died, grudges are still harboured, closure needs to be seen.

I don't think they support drugs either: "We will completely destroy the vices that corrupt our society of Malayu Muslims." though I am aware that the vices they refer to encompass a variety of "society corruptants" - take your pick.

How does this relate to the Tak Bai incident?

Are you attempting to make excuses on Thaksin's behalf?

This, the war on drugs and kru se should all be on the list.

Do tell us, preferably with examples, what the National crackdown on drugs undertaken by the Thaksin administration has to do with the insurgency in the South?

Death at the hands of government forces.

The horse needs to be fed......

I'm sure the PTP will offer free ice creams for every household during the brown-outs

Free Thaksin - with every new car

Free Thaksin - with every new house

Free Thaksin - with every tonne of rice

Free Thaksin - with every tablet PC

Free Thaksin - with every government policy

Free Thaksin - with every new legislation

I's a wonder there wasn't a free plastic effigy of him in every Christmas cracker and fortune cookie

If there's one thing this government needs to grow, it's some new political DNA

Now we can see if the PTP can actually do something other than waste lots of time and energy trying to free Thaksin

Udom and his board should be doing time for causing death by corruption.

They should sell his fleet and give the proceeds to the victims

the Ombudsman's Office submitted a recommendation on September 13 last year that the Foreign Ministry review Thaksin's passport status

The Foreign Ministry, which must respond to the Ombudsman within 30 days, in mid-October requested another 30 days to collect information on the issuance.

Since it had not heard from the Ministry since, Raksakecha said his office on Tuesday submitted a letter to the PM asking her to instruct the Foreign Ministry to heed its recommendation.

Much like the proverbial "I swear the check is in the mail"... the Cousin Foreign Ministry lied back in November when it said it had replied to the Ombudsman Office.

Thai Foreign Ministry Responds To Ombudsman Over Passport For Thaksin

It was revealed yesterday that the Foreign Ministry sent a written explanation to the Ombudsman's Office, reportedly countering a recommendation by the latter to revoke the travel document.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Manasvi Srisodapol said the note was sent to the Ombudsman's Office, but he declined to reveal details

The devil is in the details....

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I thought he was in Dubai?!

With you writing

"It appears as though 4 witnesses and a forensic report was not enough to prove that it was the army that fired the fateful bullet. Oh, well, according to some posters on here that can only mean the red shirts were responsible for his death but that's not what the inquest verdict states."

You suggest something is wrong with the 'appears', 'not enough', 'Oh well'. You don't say what might be wrong, but you merely hint at it.

So back to the OP with a clear statement on the forensics and reasoning why the inquest has led to an inconclusive result. The victim seemed to remember being shot at a shop, but was found at a petrol station nearby. The army was fighting armed terrorists who were also shooting. It takes an expert interviewer to get proper details from witnesses. Probably the first account was not too clear.

You may easily see

"he was shot by the army'

'he was shot, and 'the army was shooting'

'he was shot' and 'the army was shooting nearby'

'he was shot' and 'nearby army was exchanging fire with militants'

'he was shot' and 'militants nearby were shooting at the army'

'he was shot' and 'bulltets were flying back and forth'

Conclusion: Oh well, 88 more cases we will try to pin on k. 'kill me some' Abhisit and k. 'running into it' Suthep.

When I say it appears etc, it seems that sarcasm doesn't transfer well. But still rather than copy and paste, I have opinions. I have a bit of difficulty about what the nation reports as to what the inquest result was. The other paper has a more believable version in that the court basically decided there was not enough evidence on who fired the bullet that (eventually) killed Boonmee without the rest of the embellishments.

Likewise these "armed terrorists" you say that the army were shooting at in this instance - more from your imagination?

As for the 'he was shot' rap, <deleted>?

What would you call 'peaceful protesters' who just happen to be shooting at the army? 'martyrs for the just cause fighting amat and their tools'?

As for the 'he was shot', well that seems to be the only thing we know for sure

I would call them something like contesters of united nations treaties

What kind of finance does Nattawut need to buy a million dollar home?

What kind of finance does Jatuporn need to send his kid to a 3/4 million baht per year school?

Socialists?

My posterior!

Mercenaries.

Are you watching Thida or sold your soul too?

Has the government decided to continue the scheme into 2013? I thought it had.

When sales scale back to "normal" levels, what will happen to the staffing levels?

It remains to be seen which sub-groups protest this year and how the whole thing takes shape.

Whilst those getting a big rise to the new minimum wage may be happy, those who are made unemployed or who were on a similar salary already and received no increase due to budgets will feel miffed. The THAI dispute may be the tip of the iceberg for large firms and further strikes may become a feature acriss some industries. If that includes the electronics and car-making sectors, then things get interesting.

The Preah Viharn issue won't go away - the PAD and others will see to that. Does the PTP distance itself from the UN espoused bodies and bury its head in the sand or does it follow the ruling? It's difficult to on the one hand to send your legal team and minister to the hearings and then say that it doesn't recognise the court. Where does the red shirt request to the ICC now fit? It seems to have gone all quiet. Was that just a sham to keep the UDD happy that was followed up by the nonsensical DSI charges?

The "amnesty" nonsense is another one that won't go away. This is one that the red shirts will be most sensitive about. When the charges against the UDD leaders and lesser members start leading to serious convictions the heat will well and truly be on the PTP to resurrect the Charter change or some kind of amnesty bill and the Dems and Yellows won't let that go quietly.

The ridiculous rice scam is just building to a head. Either corruption, inability to continue housing the stock, deterioration of massive quantities of rice, WTO sanctions or the government breaking the law on expenditure will see to that. Other farmers such as sugar cane, rubber, tapioca will be seeking some form of equality at the table. Shrimp/prawn exports will be another area where the government may take a hit if the US decides to ban them.

Household debt, exacerbated by the recent car schemes, will bite in a different way in 2013. If unemployment does start to hurt the workforce coupled with high inflation then the haves and have-nots will be even further apart.

Thaksin is a one-club golfer. Pay your way into government, pay your way out of trouble. That only works when you have enough money to do so and with debt spiking at ridiculously high levels, that club is running out of sustainable steam.

Mob rule pays high.

The billy-cart to Perdition. Free bananas for all.