Walkabout

I have seen war, got hungry, seen my house completely destroyed, all that in the name of Democracy  but in reality for the control of the copper industry (Congo vs Katanga, 197-1973)

8 minutes ago, mark131v said:

The fastest growing refugee crisis in a generation and you reckon it's just NATO quelling a bit of dissention?

 

People and countries are judged on their actions and there are consequences for all not least the innocent people being murdered by Putin, shame on you! 

Do you really believe people are judged by their action? It is the winner and the powerful who determine the history . . .

Here we go again with the (mostly) negative comments towards Thailand . . .  Why do we need to take a position (against Russia)? Why only white versus black, “who is not with us is against us”  . . . ? We do not know anything about the real thoughts and actions of politicians, military and other rich and powerful men, none of them having righteous motives

Many things are in the play, Freedom (we cherish it . . . euh . . . hello Covid vaccination mandate), Democracy (we fight for it . . . In the EU, the Commission takes the decisions, the Parliament handles only less important matters, just like in the old URSS), Economy (selling arms, controlling energy – think of North stream 2, . . .)  . . . these are some of the visible reasons. But there are more obscure reasons, one of them being the need for the USA to rally its NATO and EU allies to quell the beginning of some dissensions withing the group . . .

For me, it is wise for Thailand to take a neutral position.

I condemn the action of Russia but I just as well do not approve the actions of our western friends. The USA, Europe, NATO, are teasing the Russian bear ever since the fall of Yeltsin and are now “astonished” to see the bear react. The Russian operation in Ukraine is not different from what the USA and its allies have done in different parts of the world since the end of WW2 . . .  Thailand would be wise to stay out . . .

Thailand to “focus on quality tourists who can spend more”.

Well, those quality tourists will spend their money in the higher quality tourism businesses (mostly owned by the richest and well-connected upper-class) and leaves the smaller operators, the Mom-and-Pop shops, . . . and the ten thousand lower class Thais without proper income . . .  

They need time to figure out how to get their cuts . . .

"the ACT said that the deletion of the punitive clauses, in Sections 144 and 185 of the current Constitution". . .

This was left there to get at the Shins, but they now realize it can be turned against them . . .

Does this mean 7 days for 7 $, even 30 days for 30$?

3 hours ago, redwood1 said:

And why are the vaxx manufactures not taking responsibility for their products? 

Because of greed, blackmail and stupidity. And do not think it is only the Thai . . . All governments, US, Canada, Europe, . . . all, waived the responsibilities of the vaccine manufacturers and that for experimental and not fully tested vaccines

I wonder how she looks like without make-up . . .

Favipavir, drugs, vaccines, all based on serious studies and rigorous tests . . .

Here is a serious opinion:

"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine." -Marcia Angell, MD ("Drug Companies and Doctors: A story of Corruption." NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2009.)

The IDP is not actually a driving license but more an official standardized translation of your driving license. In theory and, in many places, in practice, you have to show your driving license together with the IDP