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Mulligan and O'Hare

Tiny Tim!

if you are in a village the delivery can be doled out to local mayors who get local allykahdoos to delivery to your home.

If you are in that situation, check with your local mayor.

Any recommendations for dentists in Hua Hin.

Bad experience (continuing) with dental outfit with branches in Hua Hin and Cha Am. No names, but take a wild guess.

Charged 80,000 for root canal treatment and crowns, one which is ill fitted and still causes pain.

At initial visit, dentist dropped drill head down my throat and nearly swallowed. When I went home part of crown dislodged and nearly swallowed.

Went back and they advised that I would need one extraction, one new crown and two implants, cost Baht150,000.

The cost is secondary to health and treatment survival.

Loath to go back there, obviously. Therefore, any recommendations for good, competent dentists in local area for the type of treatment mentioned above..

Alleluia!

Where can you get a 5Mb plus internet connection-I have TOT and the max that they will provide in my area due to local line problems is 3mbish

also

if 5Mb available, what site gets SKY1,2,3, BBC, ITV, Channel 5 etc etc?

Thanks

don't see what all the fuss is about

i have Sky Sports 1, 2 and 3 ... all the BBC Channels, ITV, Channel 5 , Channel 4 , Film 4 , Euro Sport .... and its free.

all you need is an internet line of 5mb plus, and a cable to connect your TV to your laptop and away you go

It's the national drink, Advocaat, that makes them like that-made from distilled lawyers!

Bring back the Commies, the old Tuplovevs with porcelain toilets, gilt mirrors, wooden tables, perspex bomb aimer's nose cones, wash-hand basins, cowed apparachiks, paranoid crews and the obligatory on board fat, dumpy and dangerous female leather coated barking commissars. Those were the days!!

I flew LHR-BKK-LHR via Moscow with Aeroflot about 10 - 12 years ago, with my daughter who was about 18 at the time, and I think I can safely say that it was the worst airline I've ever flown with.

Never again.

The leg from London to Moscow (and back) was ok - fairly new plane, not bad service. But the Bangkok leg was terrible. Old planes (the seats on the 747 I flew back on were so worn that the sponge was quite literally falling out, and the plastic covers below the arms aisle-side were broken, jagged and sharp. The carpet was like you encounter just under the bar in a busy pub - sticky and disgusting.)

The service was appalling. Unpleasant, sullen cabin crew who were downright rude to you if you had the temerity to request a drink or anything else that meant they had to actually do something.

I laugh about it now, but it was truly grim.

But I suppose it was a few years ago. Perhaps they've changed since then.

However..............................never again........................

Watch Dog Whisperer. Dog just needs some counselling!

Amazing! Just like falangs.

I dont like dogs. Dirty, stupid, noisy, dangerous, disease-ridden ceatures that crap everywhere and stand in the middle of the road. I see no point to them at all. Dog owners are rarely any better. Both should be humanely destroyed, or castrated to prevent them breeding.

Events considered strange at Kew

are everyday things in Katmandu!

Why don't they stay in Benidorm??!!

Enough said!

4 quid a can!

I've seen it -at some point - in Ayes Deli (in the lane beside De Vinci's restaurant in town. They sometimes have cider there as well. Didn't look at the price. They're worth checking out for the mozeralla and cold meats as well.

Any African eatery or bars in Bangkok, they haul it in from Malaysia or Cambodia and its dirt cheap if you buy a pack of 24 cans. Even malta guiness, you know that one Thai people say tastes like kunumpang (bread).

Dirt cheap ??

Cans were running 190 ish a can if buying a full slab of 48 cans from wholesaler..

That doesnt seem dirt cheap to me.

Girl used to work at the Marriott Soi 2-she had apartment for rent in Omni, nice one.

Sorry, can't remember her name-try Marriott reception and ask around.

Good luck

Perish the thought!

See Swiss Franc appreciation against $US since 1950

2000 1990 1980 1970 1960 19501.68881.38921.67574.3734.3734.373Today, 2011, the exchange rate is 0.9.

Therefore, $10,000 just left sitting in Swiss Francs in 1950 would be worth $US34,700 today

without any any cash deposit interest, stock dividend, or investment appreciation of any kind.

If you are really scared. Go into Swiss Francs and keep them under the bed.

http://www.jsat.tv/fta-satellite-packages/sd-fta/australian-network.html

The above offer rugby, cricket etc. Are they ok?

The only guarantee farang satellite TV in Thailand is True Vision/ UBC. There are pros and cons on likes and dislikes for this service. If you decide to go with this system only deal with the main office which there will be in your area as all the local shops will jack up the installation cost. I would recommend that you check with http://www.jsat.tv/ a TV sponsor for your area of available of the ASTRO system. May be yes and maybe no for reception. If available its is not cheep 40,000 baht. Be aware of pirated systems. They can not be discussed on TV. Theses systems may seem great but you will be dealing with local satellites shops and their not so good expertise. If you do go with these you could very easily be out 25,000 baht and a piece of scrape metal on your roof.

Astro are advertising a BAHT16,000 package providing the above.

http://www.jsat.tv/fta-satellite-packages/sd-fta/australian-network.html

Does anybody know if this offer is on the up and up and is it available in Cha Am, Hua area?

Thanks

And there's more.... from the London Financial Times, no less:

The New Slavery

Tiny financial elite, is looting public treasuries in order to cover its speculative failures, reducing entire populations in the process to the status of “indentured” servants.

quote

In a revealing admission concerning the relationship between capitalist governments and international financial interests, the Financial Times on Tuesday wrote of “Europe’s dirty secret.”

The newspaper editorialized against the plan of the European Union, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund to loan Ireland tens of billions of euros in order to guarantee in full the investments of international bankers and bondholders in the country’s failing banking system.

Under the plan, Ireland will effectively surrender sovereignty over its economic policy to the EU and the IMF and agree to claw back the latest bailout of the global financial elite by imposing a new and even more savage round of attacks on the wages and living standards of the working class.

The Financial Times argued that using the €440 billion European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to cover the bad debts of the financial elite by propping up zombie banks, while driving the Irish state closer to default, would be “a fatal mistake.” The Times insisted that such a policy was shortsighted and self-defeating, since sovereign defaults would trigger new financial panics and bankruptcies.

“It would,” the Times wrote, “keep the Irish people indentured to those who recklessly fund their banks: EFSF funds must, after all, be paid back by taxpayers. It would also give an official EU imprimatur on Europe’s dirty secret: public treasuries will do anything to make private bank creditors whole.”

What the Financial Times calls a “dirty secret” is hardly news to those who have followed developments since the collapse of Lehman Brothers 26 months ago. What is remarkable, however, is the bluntness with which this organ of British finance capital acknowledges the existence of a dictatorship of the banks over government policy throughout Europe. Nor is it any different in North America, South America, Africa or Asia.

The newspaper admits that a tiny financial elite, which it describes as “reckless,” is looting public treasuries in order to cover its speculative failures, reducing entire populations in the process to the status of “indentured” servants. It is this single-minded pursuit that drives the decisions of governments throughout Europe.

Regardless the nominal political coloration of a particular government—whether “left of center” (as the social democratic PASOK regime in Greece and the Fianna Fail government in Ireland) or “right of center” (as the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in Britain and the Gaullist regime in France)—it takes its orders from the major banks. This is the meaning of the recurrent references by government leaders to “market realities.”

The Times’ acknowledgement of the “dirty secret” of bourgeois politics lifts the veil on the fraud of so-called democracy under capitalism. Governments uniformly pursue anti-social policies in defiance of popular opposition. The state is, as Marxism has long explained, the instrument of the corporate-financial ruling class for the suppression of the working class.

Over the past year, finance capital has intensified its offensive against the working class. The Irish events, following the Greek debt crisis of last spring, marks a new stage both in the objective crisis of world capitalism and the response of the ruling classes to this crisis.

Taking their cue from the United States, governments all over the world initially reacted to the financial crash of September 2008 by pumping trillions of dollars in public funds into their respective banking systems to prop up the major banks. This was the essence of the so-called “stimulus” programs enacted by governments around the world.

In part to prevent an uncontrolled collapse in consumption and a downward spiral into global deflation, and in part to provide political cover for the looting of public funds to rescue the financial aristocracy, governments enacted limited relief measures to minimally buffer the social impact of the recession. These measures enabled the ruling classes to buy time.

By the second half of 2009, however, when it was clear that the immediate threat of collapse had been averted, that the bankers and speculators would suffer no consequences for their semi-criminal activities, and that no serious financial reforms would be enacted, the stock markets bounced back, along with bank profits and CEO bonuses.

The most powerful financial firms were allowed by the political elites to emerge from the first stage of the crisis more dominant and wealthy than ever. Emboldened by these developments, at the end of 2009 global finance capital intensified its offensive, targeting Greece to establish a precedent for a global shift from stimulus to budget-cutting and austerity.

Last spring, under pressure from the banks and bond markets, the European Union adopted its program of austerity, launching historic attacks on what remains of the welfare state and all of the past social gains of the working class. The Irish crisis represents a new stage in this class-war offensive.

Its aim is a fundamental realignment of class relations worldwide. Whatever remains of welfare programs are to be obliterated. Wages in developed capitalist nations are to be slashed to a level comparable with low-wage “developing” countries. Conditions for the working class are to be rolled back to those which prevailed a century ago.

Such a social transformation cannot be carried out within the framework of the traditional methods of bourgeois democratic rule. In one country after another, workers and young people protesting against the budget cuts—in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain—have faced state repression.

An article in the Wall Street Journal this week, headlined “Crisis of Democracy Faces Euro Zone,” notes that the establishment of an EU-ECB-IMF troika dictating Irish economic policy means that the country’s “independence is no more than notional.” The author warns of the danger of social upheavals because “designing a new form of government that does not have democracy at its heart will anger voters and provide an opening to extremists.”

None of the measures being taken can resolve the crisis of the world capitalist system. More than two years on, it is clear that the crisis is not merely a conjunctural downturn, but rather a systemic crisis of the system as a whole. As in the 1930s, slump and austerity go hand in hand with ever more bitter international economic conflicts and the slide toward world war.

The global financial elite is on the offensive not because the working class accepts its demands. Workers in country after country have demonstrated their willingness to fight, carrying out mass strikes and protests. These struggles have to date been sabotaged and defeated because of the treachery of the trade unions and their allies in the official “left” parties and middle-class pseudo-left organizations.

New and greater struggles are coming. The critical issue is the building of a new leadership and new organizations of struggle, the fight for a socialist and internationalist program, and the development of revolutionary consciousness in the working class. This is the key to mobilizing the working class internationally to break the dictatorship of the banks and establish genuine democracy and social equality on a world scale.

Global Research Articles by Stefan Steinberg

Global Research Articles by Barry Grey

The banks are like drug pushers and we are debt junkies.

WE made the banks and their feckless venal politician servants.

We didn't have to borrow, excessively on mortgages, remortgages, credit cards etc etc.and create mountains of debt

that the banks exploited, packaged, CDO,d passed-on and then brought the house down around us.

We didn't have to drive land and house prices beyond reach.

If you leave your front door open expect to be robbed.

We re-morgaged the houses and bought the merc.

We fueled the feeding frenzy in consumer spending-BAHT30,000 mobile phones, holidays etc.

The economic barometers all scream "consumer spending is down, up, static."

But consumer spending is fueled by debt.

The question was never asked: "where is it all going to end?" When will we get the bill?"

The answer is now: with failed banks, failed countries, ruin, hunger, economic depression, mass unemployment, worthless currencies, zillion per cent inflation to come.

The Weimar Republic all over again, mass unemployment, depression, mass migrations of starving people with nowhere to go, on a global scale and what follows:

The rise of Hitlerism, fundamentalism, paranoia, racial and religious scapegoats, the break down of law and order and

conflicts between Looney Tune right and left that leave the rest of us floundering in the middle.

Somebody said in an article above: "Buy gold! Buy silver." If you do, who is going to buy it FROM you when the system collapses.

The only thing that people give away for free is worthless advice.

What's the solution? Maybe the Chinese and Asian will keep the world economies from collapsing.

Here's hopin.'

massive equity bull market on the way-there is nowhere else for money to go unless you can find some alternative investment opportunity.

This should rejuvenate other markets and buoy - up the banks and get the merry-go-round moving again.

Anybody know Claudia Schiffer's address??

I know our German friends are into some funny stuff, but if you look at this, I dont see nothing wrong! it looks like he is fixing something, the insides of the boot are laying on the floor near the car and he climbed in to get a better look at what he wants to fix.

Apparently the poor French bloke was driven mad by communication problems:

When he mentioned a pas de deux, the barman congratulated him on being father of twins and

when he replied c'est et un coup de grace the barman brought him a lawn mower

and when the French guy asked for les crudites, the barman showed him his genitals

and when he mentioned fin de siecle, the barman thought he was talking about the tail light on his bicycle

and the the last straw was when the French guy used the term esprit de corps the barman served him embalming fluid.

Notice to Barmen: Be very careful of French customer walking around with a van Gogh under his arm.

work out how long it takes to read these posts and it will give you some idea as to how long it will take to learn SEO.

Sovereignty?! I hardly knew yeh!!

and of course it is in the UK's interest that Ireland does not fail

'➢ 16% of all Irish exports are bought by the U K, €13.5 billion in 2009

➢ British exports to Ireland are 3 times British exports to China and 5 times the exports to India

➢ Trade with Ireland exceeds total U K trade with Brazil, Russia, India and China

➢ Every man, woman and child in Ireland spends an average of £3,607 per year on British goods, one of the highest per capita spends on British products in the world

➢ Last year, British food and drink exports to Ireland totalled over £2.4 billion, keeping it comfortably in the number one position as the world's greatest importer of British food and drink

➢ Ireland is also the world's largest importer of U K fashion and textiles. In 2009, British fashion and textile exports to Ireland totalled nearly £1.2 billion

➢ There are 43,000 Irish directors of UK companies'

from http://ftalphaville....itains-problem/

I don't think you will see UK support for any bailout for Portugal or Spain ?

neck like a jockey's whatsits!

can any body recommend a good colourful climbing plant(s) - roses, bouganvillia etc that grow quickly?

Thanks