5 hours ago, rkidlad said:

And this is why you have regular elections. If a government keeps making promises it's not meeting, you can vote them out. And if a government comes in and it's terrible, at least they were voted in! 

Yes, and isn't it ironic, perhaps the ultimate irony, that if the last election had been allowed to run it's course, rather than having been forestalled by a coup which installed a junta, the elected government would now - four years later - be preparing to answer to the electorate! 

Instead we have had an utterly unaccountable junta, which shows every indication of staying in power for the foreseeable future as well.

How does the mantra go: "reforms before elections"?

Thailand had few good men as PM, honest men, non manipulative, non ex army, people who really has the good of the nation at heart but they didn't last long, they were too nice, too timid, TOO HONEST for the greedy croock to make money of so they didn't last, so in that respect, don't complain, if an ex army general get himself crowned as an emergency PM and than get stuck there and doesn't want to leave because of a law he invented to cement himself into his position, clearly there's something wrong with the constitution of the country...   

2 hours ago, MaxLee said:

First UBER and now AirBnB...... 

Thailand 4.0!

A lucky find or " targeted"?

I'm sure I am not alone in wondering what happens to this sort of "confiscated" money or seized assets? 

I'm sure that here must be a simple publicly available audit trail that explains it...

2 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

They would be better off making the Thai army a professional volunteer one with a good deal for recruits...but then again, there wouldn't be any gardeners or slaves for inactive high ranking officers anymore.

You wouldn't need the staggering number of Generals either, - one for each Division, and a slack handful for various staff jobs and arms directorates - say 45 or so. 

If you rely on your soldiers fighting because they fear their NCOs and Officers, you will be in for a bit of a shock if you come up against a real enemy, 'cos that is usually more scary...

53 minutes ago, ezzra said:

What were they expecting? an individual burial grave to each animal with a headstone perhaps bearing their names?...

No, if a lot of dogs and cats have died then a large burial pit is the obvious way to dispose of the remains, although not as haphazardly as these photographs suggest.

The issue is that those in charge appear to deny that a lot of animals have died, whilst all the evidence suggests that they are being kept in appalling conditions and the numbers simply do not add up. As with so many other activities here, it rather appears that the available funds have been diverted...

34 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

i, as a resident here in thailand, respect the law; due to the value such respect for law and order represents; can't say, tho, i see that in the others around me

Starting with those in charge...

Iran have chosen Airbus over Boeing as the plane maker to supply their new fleet of aircraft?

Of course the Trump administration will apply sanctions to Airbus...

The current US administration plumbs new depths almost daily...

38 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

It is their land now. Israel fights war the old fashion way, take what you win. None of this war for bragging rights like America. All the war in the last century and the victors hardly have any land to show for it. 

The pre 1967 borders of Israel were/are to all intents and purposes indefensible. Now of course that possibly would not matter, if the four bordering countries, Egypt, Jordan (enthusiastically backed up by/prodded by Iraq), Syria and Lebanon had not threatened, harboured terrorist groups or indeed constantly attacked Israel. But they did all this, constantly, for the first 20 years of Israel's existence. 1967 allowed Israel to seize land to make itself defensible. That's why they took that land, that's why they hang onto it.

10 hours ago, dexterm said:

You are deliberately muddying the timeline as Zionist apologists usually do.

 

Israel without provocation attacked and killed 8 Iranians on Tuesday. You expect Iran to do nothing...snip.

9 hours ago, dexterm said:

As is the racist state of Israel. Making war is only MO they know. Isn't it time they tried making peace with their neighbors by giving back land they have stolen... the Golan Heights.

 

I have no doubt that Israel with their sophisticated weaponry will ultimately prevail in the latest war they are intent on starting, but Netanyahu and draft dodging Trump will have much Israeli and possibly US blood on their hands when the missiles start flying. Many civilians on both sides will be killed.

 

Readers note who started this.

What were the Iranian Armed Forces doing along the border with Israel then - a spot of "adventure training" - rock climbing and abseiling?

There is a reason why the Israeli government hangs on to the Golan. From day one of the existence of the state of Israel the Syrians and assorted mates used the Golan heights to shell, mortar and launch rockets at Israeli settlements in the lands below. They also sniped at farmer's working land near the pre 1967 borders, and used the Golan as the jumping off point for many raids and incursions on Israeli settlements, many of which resulted in the heroic and noble murder of women and children. That all stopped when the Israelis defeated the Syrians and drove them off the height in 1967.They hung onto them in bitter fighting in the Yom Kippur war - another attempt to annihilate Israel. They aren't going to give them back, so that the Iranians and their proxies can start shelling, mortaring, sniping and raiding again. It's not racist, it's survival.