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Of course they won't extend the time for Miss Y.

The PM's impeachment must be timed to match the period where there are no elected senators and the legitimate speaker of the senate is still sidelined.

This is what the yellows refer to as Absolute Democracy, a system for selecting a PM in which not a single elected representative of the people is involved.

You need to question why they are being impeached, why they are/will not be in their positions any more in the future!!

If they did the work honestly and represented the people as they were elected to do, they would be beavering away at their desks improving the lot of the people and not enriching themselves illegally off the back of the self same voters who were bribed and promised unrealistic benefits that have devastated Thailand. To make matters worse, it has been at the expense and to the detriment to those who put them there!!!!

It's quite clear why PTP politicians are being impeached.

The butchering of the 1997 constitution has created a system whereby a small unelected few exercise unjust control over what are meant to be independent bodies to serve their own selfish and undemocratic purposes.

the thai people voted to have it "butchered".

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Of the four regions of Thailand the North historically has the highest rate of suicide, hanging being the method of choice. The North is of course the poorest of the four regions, the Central Region being relatively wealthy. The Bangkok banks have made the current predicament of many Thais in the North particularly severe.

Farmers are staying home being patient, biding their time while the elites slug it out in Bangkok. Farmers are too smart to allow themselves to be exploited by the PDRC and the DP against the government which is making every effort to assist them.

If the DP by some force majeure should win an election, farmers know they are screwed. If the so-called "People's Council" comes to pass, the farmers know their political allies in Bangkok will be purged from politics, the government and, very likely, the country itself.

http://www.academia.edu/248988/Suicide_In_the_North_of_Thailand

How many Thai farmers do you actually know?

Have you ever met one?

My Thai friends have taken me up into the hills outside Chiang Mai to visit villages and to meet villagers, to see three-room school buildings, and to visit the homes of people whose dwellings are constructed over dirt floors. The further one goes into the forests, the more unpleasant the experience becomes.

The farmers and their families are staying home because they have the political awareness not to be exploited by the virulent opponents of the government, which also shows the solid and unified support the government will get if the chronic opposition of the EC to a new election can be overcome.

they maybe farmers in Thailand, but I'd wager they aren't Thai farmers.

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Tell the EC to cease its systematic and premeditated obstructionism toward any election this year so the country can go out to vote. Let the people of 'Thailand, the Thai people, vote. No thugs at the polls. Just vote. The Thai people. Let them vote.

the people you describe you met and call thai farmers are staying home because they can't vote.

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Are you talking about the 13 farmers who committed suicide, those people who lost their lives?

Of the four regions of Thailand the North historically has the highest rate of suicide, hanging being the method of choice. The North is of course the poorest of the four regions, the Central Region being relatively wealthy. The Bangkok banks have made the current predicament of many Thais in the North particularly severe.

Farmers are staying home being patient, biding their time while the elites slug it out in Bangkok. Farmers are too smart to allow themselves to be exploited by the PDRC and the DP against the government which is making every effort to assist them.

If the DP by some force majeure should win an election, farmers know they are screwed. If the so-called "People's Council" comes to pass, the farmers know their political allies in Bangkok will be purged from politics, the government and, very likely, the country itself.

http://www.academia.edu/248988/Suicide_In_the_North_of_Thailand

How many Thai farmers do you actually know?

Have you ever met one?

My Thai friends have taken me up into the hills outside Chiang Mai to visit villages and to meet villagers, to see three-room school buildings, and to visit the homes of people whose dwellings are constructed over dirt floors. The further one goes into the forests, the more unpleasant the experience becomes.

The farmers and their families are staying home because they have the political awareness not to be exploited by the virulent opponents of the government, which also shows the solid and unified support the government will get if the chronic opposition of the EC to a new election can be overcome.

they maybe farmers in Thailand, but I'd wager they aren't Thai farmers.

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"It's so different to our rights agencies, who always visit us in groups," Ms. Euangfah complained."

Anyone who knows what those "our right agencies" are ?

She is probably referring to the AHCR, the Asian Human Rights Commission. They have a more "respectable" name in the Human Rights department in Thailand than the NHRC. The NHRC are perceived to be, how shall we say, "suggestable" a perception not helped after their controversial report "Descent into Chaos" was published. An insightful and intelligent critique of that report was written by Prach Panchakunathorn. An example:

The NHRC’s report never mentioned that most of the protesters killed during April and May 2013 were killed by a single shot in the head or at one of the crucial points on the upper body. Neither does the NHRC mention that nearly all of the protesters had no weapon in their hands when they died, and none were clad in military-style black clothes (contrary to the CRES’s claim that many of those killed were the militant “men in black”). http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2013/08/18/human-rights-the-law-and-violence-in-2010/

april and may 2013. insightful and intelligent critique of what exactly? he can't get the simple facts straight, how did that get published without proof reading?

I don't think she should be treated like other politicians, I think she should treated like the unpaid rice farmers.

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Good. There's no room for violence in this struggle. Punish them to the max.

And no room for coup-mongers. Punish them and their enablers to the max.

Without them, everything would be running smoothly, including parliament and any planning for upcoming elections by all sides.

Explosions and all acts of violence such as this, regardless of the perps, all goes back to those seeking governing power outside elections, aided and abetted by biased groups and courts.

In this case what came first, the chicken or the egg, the answer is clear.

go on then, don't leave us in suspense like this. was it the chicken or the egg?

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That one's been solved. It was the egg.

damn, I had my money on chicken.

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I looked into it a few years back, not for me as I do mine every 2 years in oz for work, but for the missus. the Red Cross does do it, in thai. They will run the course once they have enough people on the list, though there seemed little demand as they ran it very infrequently. I tried encouraging her friends to join in to make a group up but they didn't see the point.

Demand might have changed since then, they might actually run it more regularly these days.

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Good. There's no room for violence in this struggle. Punish them to the max.

And no room for coup-mongers. Punish them and their enablers to the max.

Without them, everything would be running smoothly, including parliament and any planning for upcoming elections by all sides.

Explosions and all acts of violence such as this, regardless of the perps, all goes back to those seeking governing power outside elections, aided and abetted by biased groups and courts.

In this case what came first, the chicken or the egg, the answer is clear.

go on then, don't leave us in suspense like this. was it the chicken or the egg?

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News just in: some homeopathic medicine may actually be effective:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/25/homeopathy-contains-medicine

Just because it may contain a trace amount of something, doesn't mean it's necessarily effective as a cure. Homeopathic 'medicine' if processed correctly is pure water. If it has a trace of something other than water, which is detectable, then it is not homeopathic.

I once went to a metals recycling plant in the US. I showed them a gold coin, but they wanted to test it to see. Their multi-thousand $$ metal detection device came up with readings for: platinum, and and several other metals, ...but no gold. And that was for a 100% gold coin!

did you read the article?

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There is a clear thaimetable...

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The more left you are, the more right you become.

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the yellows had their military coup in 2006, abolished a democratic constitution in 2007[\b], deposed several governments through courts, and now they still want a full control over the democratic processes, including a new constitution and dictating who can, and who can't, stand for an election

abolished a democratic constitution by popular vote in a referendum.

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I'm curious, have any of the charges the DSI has ever filed stuck?

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A fair bet all a publicity stunt, attacked by their own people to garner support for the new community radio station. Proof - a 10 minute gun fight with AK47's and no causalities - come on now enough fire power for a proper all out war.

interesting, the group Ko Tee had been provoking have M16s.

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must have been those unarmed and non confrontational pdrc guys....

with the peaceful unarmed redshirts returning fire.

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It was not known who fired at the group of people but Mr Abhisit and Mr Suthep were compelled to take responsibility for the result,

Now this has to be the most ridiculous jump in legal logic in the history or man.

proven beyond all reasonable doubt.

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Run? I thought she injured her ankle.

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There's a shop in pantip plaza also.

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I said it before, and I will repeat it, Suthep is not a nice man who will turn the other cheek. Shortly after the last attack, a red leaders house was sprayed with automatic weapons fire. I'm not suggesting he did it....but I would stay away from his house.

was that the sprayed with 2 bullets incident?

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Now abhisit has had a fall. Broken clavicle, requires surgery.

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Govt. to look into the Court's interpretation of last week ruling

BANGKOK, 26 March 2014 (NNT) - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has assigned the Council of State, Deputy Prime Minister Pongthep Thepkanjana and Minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office Worathep Rattanakorn to meet on the interpretation of the constitutional courts ruling to strike down the February 2nd general election, in order to respond to the court’s instruction properly.

The instruction came during yesterday’s cabinet meeting, of which top agendas included the reinstatement of Mr. Tawil Pliensri as the Secretary General of the National Security Council and the appointment of Lt. Gen. Paradon Patanatabutr as an Adviser to the Prime Minister.

During the cabinet session, Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul informed the meeting that his ministry had informed the international community regarding the current political situation in Thailand.

Mr. Surapong particularly specified that the Charter Court had ignored the voice of the majority and violated their rights by annulling the polls. He urged the international community to keep a close watch on the turn of events in the kingdom's political arena.

Prime Minister Yingluck also urged Mr. Surapong, who is also the Chief Adviser of the Center for the Administration of Peace and Order, to quickly seek legal action against those who have violated the Internal Security Act law. She also instructed officials to beef up security at key government premises and residences of prominent political figures after the recent rows of violence.

-- NNT 2014-03-26

seems they've already "looked into it", now they're trying to work out how to spin it.

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"He said if the Democrat Party agreed to take part in a new election, it could bring about a government that could kick-start reform and which served only one year before another election under the new reform was called."

and then

"Nuttawut said if the UDD gained victory, it would reform independent agencies, especially on their power to remove political office holders."

despite my confusion about the UDD ever being able to reform independent agencies, this is the reform they want.

seriously bad idea...

"seriously bad idea.."

De-politicizing independent organizations and the judiciary so their deliberations are respected by all, is a seriously bad idea?.

not de-politicising, but re-politicising... Or removing, as Nuttawut said.

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There's a big red blob in the rain radar just north if CNX now.

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"He said if the Democrat Party agreed to take part in a new election, it could bring about a government that could kick-start reform and which served only one year before another election under the new reform was called."

and then

"Nuttawut said if the UDD gained victory, it would reform independent agencies, especially on their power to remove political office holders."

despite my confusion about the UDD ever being able to reform independent agencies, this is the reform they want.

seriously bad idea...

"Three bombs that exploded in Chiang Mai province on Friday night may be related to anti-government groups, according to Pichit Tamoon, leader of the Chiang Mai pro-government red shirt group."

he is not wrong, it seems anti-government groups were the targets.