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Andrea
07 May 2010, 02:21
When will this end? Just what exactly do the red shirts want? They ask for
house dissolution. They get it. They say that they want a definite date.
They get it. Now they are trying to think of something else. If they want
to play their terrorist games, they should accept the consequences of their
actions.
paul
03 May 2010, 09:08
Is that the first step to reconciliation? It's up to the reds now? Are they
fighting for an ideology, or is their hidden agenda still worth dying for?
mgb
12 Apr 2010, 02:51
@Adam - think it's blowing now
Adam
25 Mar 2010, 04:11
every time i come back to thailand, there's a civil war simmering like an
overdue volcano. Every time, it gets plastered over without ever fixing the
root of the problem. One day, it's gonna blow...
frustrated
11 Feb 2010, 03:15
why is it so effin difficult to understand that it makes more sense to let
people get off the skytrain before you try to get on? why do you have to
block the effin escalator? move to the effin side if you are too effin lazy
to walk. Apart from that, it's been a lovely day :-)
Steve Marsh
03 Feb 2010, 02:15
I may have been imagining it, but I swear I saw some work being carried out
on the new Magic Bus station at the corner of Narathiwas and Sathorn. It's
only been 10 months since they finished the last section, so they are
really busting a gut to get this finished - NOT
One day, they may finally open the Sukhumvit BTS extension or the airport
link. Who knows, we might even get a decent train service... oh no, hang
on, I'm losing it now...
clancy tucker
27 Jan 2010, 02:04
Aardvark Aaron,
Send me an e-mail and I'll put you on my list or - can send you a recipe
for pickled onions.
Clancy
clancy_tucker@hotmail.com
aardvark aaron
26 Jan 2010, 23:13
I love pickled onions and i can't find them in isarn, send me some clancy
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paul
17 Oct 2009, 02:35
these floods are getting biblical
Henry
09 Sep 2009, 22:02
Note to American Tourists: Don't speak so loudly. That way you won't show
everyone how stupid you are.
Example (overheard on the skytrain today).
* American tourist to Thai Guide: Hey, wow, gee. Did you see that sign on
the building? It says Aberdeen in BIG letters. Gee. Aberdeen is just a
small town in the US.
Steve Marsh
19 Aug 2009, 19:30
There has been absolutely no progress on the magic bus route since I last
posted. Worse still, nobody seems to care...
Erwin Alber
12 Jul 2009, 00:20
Thanks for the very interesting, humorous as well as sad article about the
Thai police. I've just read some very disturbing news about a tourist
extortion racket operating in Suvarnabhumi airport. Let me know if this has
been featured on nakedfarang; if not, I'll post it.
I don't know if any of you nakedfarang (I mean under your clothes, of
course) have noticed all the chemtrails that have appeared in the Bangkok
sky and other places. Have a look at thsse photos:
Chemtrails look a bit like the condensation trails known as contrails jet
planes at high altitudes sometimes leave behind. Chemtrails are usually at
lower altitudes and consist ot toxic spray released by jet aircraft, to
make us sick and to weaken our immune systems. Now you know why so many
school children are sick with the flu. You may ask why anyone would want to
do that. This is where the plot thickens.
The global swine flu death rate has been very low, in spite of all the hype
designed to increase anxiety levels to the point of hysteria. Then, when
people are well and truly stressed and freaked out, there will be the
solution in the form of a highly profitable (but completely useless and
very dangerous) swine flu vaccine claimed to prevent the flu, but which
will in fact escalate the pandemc to one similar to the one that wiped out
millions in 1918. Please be warned: THE DISEASE WILL BE IN THE VACCINE -
just as it was in 1918. Why: the psychopaths who run the show want to get
rid of excess population.
Please join JoAnne Cremer's facebook group 'Jane Burgermeister - END FORCED
VACCINATIONS' – if you haven’t already. JoAnne needs your support to help
Jane to put an end to compulsory swine flu vaccinations which may otherwise
be used for population control and reduction purposes later this year.
There is not much time left! Here is the link to JoAnne’s group:
For those of you who don’t know, Jane Burgermeister is an Austrian
journalist who has filed criminal
charges with the FBI, concerning plans by the WHO, the Obama
administration, the CDC, FDA, Baxter, Novartis and other key players, to
further the world depopulation agenda by means of the swine flu vaccine.
For the full documentation, go here:
This first link is to the documents outlining the charges which Jane has
filed:
http://www.scribd.com/full/17044758?access_key=key-ypdpmkfrlip1gi3rqgo
This second link concerns the evidence regarding plans by this
international corporate crime syndicate to carry out a mass genocide by
using an artificial (genetically engieered) flu pandemic virus:
Please forward this information to as many people as possible – Thank you!
Erwin
Morrisey
10 Jul 2009, 20:17
There's panic on the streets of Buriram; panic on the streets of Bangkok.
I think we are in the eye of a political storm here and I don't see any way
that Thailand can avoid being dragged further down unless Thai people start
to break their traditions of class division and corruption.
Please let me be wrong...
John Doe
09 Jul 2009, 18:27
So Thaksin is now offering millions of dollars to dictators who came to
power through bloody coups so that he can get a passport and use their
banana republics as his base. Does anyone feel a sense of irony here?
It's perhaps the greatest indictment against his supposed philanthropic
politics that he never put any real efforts into education reform. After
all, would his loyal supporters be so easy to hoodwink and bribe if they
knew what their overlord was really like?
John Doe
01 Jun 2009, 19:17
A new airport closure in Thailand. Red shirts? Yellow shirts? Yellow and
green shirts? none of the above - rats have closed Chiang Rai airport...
Steve Marsh
28 May 2009, 02:17
Does anyone know anything about the new magic bus route along Rama III and
Narathiwas?
They blocked all the roads for the construction just enough to obstruct
traffic, and then they left it for a few weeks. Finally, they started the
construction work. This was finished a few months ago now and things have
come to a standstill. Are they planning to do any more or just leave it as
the new Hopewell?
Part of me feels that it might just be a poorly planned project, while the
other half of me thinks it was put on ice once the Bangkok gubernatorial
elections were won. Ho hum...
wet in the rain :(
25 May 2009, 19:02
rain, rain go away. come back again another day...and I aint talkin' 'bout
no Korean poser :)
John Doe
15 Apr 2009, 02:56
Songkran was cancelled Mr. Falang. Never mind; they added a couple of extra
days holiday to make up for it...
Falang
09 Apr 2009, 21:02
bring on songkran. yee ha
disgusted
29 Mar 2009, 05:23
i'm used to seeing selfish motorists going through a red light at rush
hour, finding their exit blocked, and consequently blocking a whole lane of
traffic, but even I was appalled today when, for no other reason than to
move themselves 5 metres forward, a car moved to block an ambulance. Karma
is a powerful thing...
Drinker
04 Mar 2009, 21:36
what's the latest on songkran? I hear that alcohol will be banned, but only
for Thais. Is this a joke? Quite apart from the impracticalities of
selective selling, Thais have little respect for the law anyway and this is
just open to abuse and ridicule. Come on. Think about it...
dd
20 Feb 2009, 03:41
hahaha, babysitter. I know EXACTLY what you mean. Hello Kitty for everyone
ikn Thailand and no responsibilities...
Babysitter
16 Feb 2009, 22:59
Thailand is full of children. Where else could you find 40 year old women
acting, dressing and talking like 9 year olds? Where else do you have to
coax adult students to study with games? Where else are people so sheltered
and immature that they believe everyone else is only here to look after
their needs and pamper them?
Mikael
04 Feb 2009, 20:54
Isn't it interesting that Democrat Minister Witoon resigned immediately
when a scandal arose against him, even though he wasn't implicated. This is
called accountability.
Equally, Apirak (another Democrat) quit as governor of BKK after his second
landslide victory when he was proven to have naively signed off a document
that previous fat boy oaf governor and future PM, Samak, had left as a
legacy of his own insatiable corruption. More accountability.
Now, compare all this with a certain Mr Thaksin and other TRT, PP etc. MPs
who clung to power amidst allegations of massive corruption while making
counter accusations and lieing through their teeth so that they could
continue to milk the cash cow that they had blindfolded. Greed, selfishness
and arrogance!!!
Now, the new government under a Democratic PM is doing good work and aiming
to make up for earlier Democrat policy shortfalls by addressing the needs
of the rural poor while at the same time tackling global and local problems
of considerable proportions.
Could somebody please tell me why it is then that the UDD are fighting
against this? Is it out of blind love for Thaksin? Is the wool still over
their eyes?
It's going to be a difficult year whoever is in charge. At least we have
some honesty in our current government. Let's add some stability so that we
can move forward together and leave this mess behind.
John Doe
01 Feb 2009, 21:05
Just when we have a (relatively) honest government working for the good of
ALL the people and not lining their own pockets, the leftovers of the
bought government start issuing ultimatums before they have given the
government a chance. I know the PAD were out of line and went too far at
times, but only when the situation demanded it. The latest demonstrations
by the red mobs (carefully chosen word) is just wrong. It is, at best,
uninformed or, at worst, spitefful revenge masterminded and funded by a
spiteful, self-serving egotitical maniac. Come to think of it, he would
make a perferct arch villain in one of those superhero comics or James Bond
movies
Mary L
24 Jan 2009, 17:32
It seems to have gone quiet on the political front. Does this constitute
stability?
democraticus
14 Jan 2009, 20:42
Well, now we have a democrat PM and a democrat governor of BKK. Could it be
that there will be less politicking about who gets credit for extending the
sky-train and it might actually be completed? It is perverse that it has
taken more than twice as long to build a 2km extension than it took to
build the whole system - all because of politics. Politics are supposed to
be FOR the people, right? But then again, so are the police and don't get
me started there
farang
11 Jan 2009, 17:30
it looks like we might be getting something like a stable government after
the latest round of by-elections and the revisited Bangkok governor
election. Support for Thaksin and his cronies is waivering and they did
much worse in these elections than anticipated. Could it be that by cutting
off the supply of free handouts the supposedly fanatical support has lost
interest? Let's just hope that Abhisit remembers to support the poor people
of the north and north east. If he does, they'll soon forget all about
Thaksin. All we'll need then is for the rest of the Bangkok middle and
upper classes to remember that Thailand is bigger than Bangkok and we might
be in for a chance at democracy.
Marco
04 Jan 2009, 18:56
Happy New Year to everyone. Let's hope it's a good one for Thailand
John Doe
02 Jan 2009, 15:50
Money talks in Thailand and THAT'S why Potjaman isn't in jail, Thaksin will
return without going to jail and Newin's merry men changed sides. Hell, it
even explains why so many red shirted supporters keep backing Mr. T. I
don't see this changing any time soon, although Abhisit appears to be a man
of morals and integrity. Let's give him a chance, but don't expect miracles
right away. The tiger that is Thailand will not change its stripes
overnight.
Stormin Norman
19 Dec 2008, 00:29
Yes, common sense. Abhisit seems to have listened to Newin and is promising
to implement policies for the whole country - not just BKK. A focus on the
poor people of Isaan and the North is the one good thing to have come out
of Thaksin's destructive lust for power and wealth. As Newin said to
Abhisit, "If you spread some money around Isaan, they'll soon forget about
Thaksin". I'm still confused about why Potjaman isn't in jail, though.
AJ
11 Dec 2008, 04:48
Is common sense coming to Thai politics? I never thought that Newin
Chidchob would play such an important role in the development of politics
in Thailand but, even if he has made a nice little earner out of it, he has
cut links with Thaksin and defected to the Democrats with his posse. Even
better, he has insisted that the poor of Isaan no longer be ignored by the
government. I see bright days ahead for Thailand
Joey Boy
05 Dec 2008, 16:07
never a dull moment in amazing Thailand
Mary L
03 Dec 2008, 19:01
Now the PAD have won, we have a chance for a new start, so what happens? We
are offered either Chalerm or Newin as the next PM. Oh my God. Brace
yourselves people. This is going to get messy...
pad man
02 Dec 2008, 06:40
i can't believe the people slagging off the pad. they are being shot at,
bombed and even killed, yet they stand firm in peaceful protest against the
unacceptable corruption of taksin and the puppets in his pocket. sometimes
we have to make sacrifices to get what we want, and thailand wants
corruption-free politics.
Steve
01 Dec 2008, 19:00
Yes, the PAD have lost the plot. Yes, the PAD have turned into an ugly
monster that is a law unto itself. Yes, the PAD have murdered democracy
through their ignorance of the plight of their fellow Thais. Yes, the PAD
have brought the country to a halt and caused irreperable to the country's
tourism industry and international image. Yes, the PAD have alienated all
but the most brainwashed of their own supporters, BUT... None of this would
have hapened if it hadn't been for one greedy, egotistical, power-mad
dictator. Unfortunately, he is coming out of this looking like the innocent
victim while the yellow revolutionaries are looking like thugs and
terrorists. Open your eyes PAD - look at what you have become!!!
John Doe
28 Nov 2008, 05:30
What worries me the most is that the parasites who claim to love the
country but just leech it dry will just keep bouncing back.
democraticus
27 Nov 2008, 01:06
In the red corner, we have the largely uneducated and easily brainwashed
poor; and in the yellow corner, we have the well-educated (by Thai
standards)and easily manipulated middle class.
In my opinion, the reds never had any credibility apart from the fact they
finally were no longer ignored by politicians. The yellows have clearly
lost any credibility they ever had. The moral high ground is now below sea
level in this bloody civil war.
It's interesting that the Democrat party have by and large stayed out of
this all. Isn't it their job to oppose the government and offer
alternatives for the people?
What a mess...
johnny turner
23 Nov 2008, 18:03
these are the most depressing times i have ever known in this once
welcoming country. i hope they have a good plan B because the once solid
tourist dollar is being spent in places with less political turmoil, less
corruption, less beauracratic red tape, and more respect for the tourists
who bring in so much money to the economy.
Steve
20 Nov 2008, 15:29
What is going on in Thailand? The country seems to be heading not for a
coup but for full out civil war. It's all because of the selfish greed of a
small minority who claim to love the country and poeple but just want to
line their own pockets. Sad, sad, sad
Cyndi Lauper
16 Nov 2008, 20:52
I see his true colours shining through.
He is a dispicable, selfish, arrogant scumbag. May he rot in the hell he
has made for himself.
Jane Doe
15 Nov 2008, 23:58
I think he should come back and face the music. If he's as innocent as he
claims, he has nothing to worry about. Even if he has to spend 2 years
behind bars... take Ghandi for example who spent half his life in prison
and look what a wonderful martyr he's become. I agree with John.
So Mr. T has gotten divorced to protect his dirty money. Doesn't surprise
me.
I bet he thought his money would guarantee him a safe hiding place in
London but he went too far when he started slinging mud and trying to
incite trouble back in Thailand.
Now he's making petulant threats and acting like the deposed dictator he
is. He's an evil parasite and karma is catching up with him.
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