[…] some 200 former Pheu Thai MPs for supporting the constitutional change. Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang has argued, as well, that actual impeachments may become more common in Thai parliaments if a proposal being […]
Sitting on the fence is a specialty of the Burmese ruling class, which includes Suu Kyi. She’s done serving her “iconic” role for the West. Global politics has moved on to other more volatile issues: ISIS, Ukraine and all of that. People are not onterested in yesterday’s news!
Suu Kyi seems to need the West more than the West needs her. So what now for the Posh Lady? She never encouraged anyone younger to rise up in her party and she likes to stay “aloof” and never talks about the day-to-day politics in Burma: UWSA, Mongla, KIA, Hpakant, Letpadaung, illegal logging, tiger parts, smuggling, bride trafficking, Rohingya, Wirathu, 969, Kyaukphru, Dawei, …
Suu Kyi wants to be part of the problem but not part of the solution.
Burma has bigger problems than Suu Kyi has!
@MoeAung
As a “newcomer from the Third World”, I don’t have your “innate immunity to the Wow Syndrome” and still cannot “shake off my Asian-self-hating-inferiority-complex”
OMG, AWESOME, WOW!
A nice example of an argumentum ad hominem
Sensitive skins indeed!
Bully for you, toch. I arrived in the West decades ago myself albeit with a strong innate immunity to the “Wow Syndrome”, a common affliction that befalls newcomers from the Third World, and many can never shake it off.
The point is to be able to see things warts and all, more than just scratch the surface, as they say in the West. Perhaps your view of the West remains essentially “Asian” replete with a self-hating inferiority complex? That’d be truly ironic.
Whatever the truth of he says she says we can only uncover the history if we kick the pappies out and convene a truth and reconciliation commission. It befuddles me that MIW’s are so secretive as to continue classifying the archives, this in our 50th. Surely there must be a glimmer of truth somewhere.
Poh had taken an oath, long ago, but it wasn’t the Hippocratic Oath. For a non-Muslim, let alone a non-Shi’ite, Poh engages in a phenomenal amount of Taqiyya, but his historical and personal revisionism carries no more truth than did Chin Peng’s.
On one occasion, Dr. Poh gave a communist courier three types of medicine – three bottles of pills for gastric pain (300 tablets), Vitamin B12 compound for injection (eight to 10 phials) and a bottle of antipyretic pills (300 tablets). On another occasion, he gave 10 phials of penicillin, a bottle of pills for gastric pain, a bottle of pills for rheumatism and five phials of B12 compound. All the medicine ended up with the armed Malayan communist army in northern Malaysia.
Say what you want, this amount of medicine is not just medical ethics. It is about supplying an army waging a unconventional war.
According to today’s CNBC “Thailand’s benchmark stock index has outperformed most of Southeast Asia since the start of 2015, but analysts are divided on whether the market remains attractive. The SET index rose over 6 percent in the first four weeks of the year, following a 15.3 percent surge in 2014. That leaves it ahead of a 5.2 percent gain in the Philippines, and a rise of nearly 2 percent in Southeast Asian peers Singapore and Malaysia, and a 0.5 percent rise in Indonesia’s Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite index. Only Vietnamese shares managed to outrun Thailand, with a near 7 percent jump.”
Could Thai investors exuberance be dampened by last night’s twin time bombs explosion at Paragon. (Was that ISIS in Bangkok already SteveCM?)
Neutral third parties have emerged, with no stakes in the 1963 events except for the truth. Recent articles carried in “The Online Citizen” and “TR Emeritus”
Mr Poh you got to be kidding yourself right? If these sites are what you consider to be ‘neutral third parties’, neutrality has just changed its meaning.
I like Richard J Tukwan’s witticism. Prayuth is not at present trying to “create” disorder. He is trying to preserve the disorder he created last year in the conspiracy with Suthep. Now without a constitution (again), and with the prospect only of one trumped up by the dictatorship, Thailand is frozen with fear in that disordered state.
I every confidence that any intelligent Singaporean can read the self-serving poppycock disseminated above by Poh. Freedom of speech ? Please, under any putative government led by your Barisan Socialis, the first citizen to criticise you, will be hauled up as a reactionary. What is objectionable, is all the dissembling and ridiculous assertions that are supposed to pass as truth, which are mere histrionics. We have heard this all before, from Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Sukarno, Pathet Lao, Khmer Rouge, etc. Name one successful truly equitable ‘socialist’ society in Asia, and don’t say, “it hasn’t been tried”. If you want to say that you merely want Singapore to be more like Norway, I will say, “Great; it won’t work, because Singaporeans are not Norwegians and never can be”. But to the extent that one gives you the benefit of the doubt that what you are really after is a version of social democracy, well, I would say the Scandanavians now are a lot more worried about their Islamic immigrants than the PAP is worried about Malays, far more of whom serve in government positions, than do Muslims in any Scandanavian country. But of course, you are going to fix that, by ensuring there are sufficient numbers of non-Chinese Prime Ministers in Singapore, because you are a man of the people, and not just a Maoist wannabee, right Poh ? Lim Kit Siang has echoed some of the same beliefs in Malaysia for many years now, and yet, the DAP can’t win any Malay votes. They never have. Your vision of a Utopian Socialist Singapore is actually more Terry Gilliam than Vladimir Putin.
“The modern concept of “ethnicity” is quite different from this primitive racial/tribal view that many Asians still have.”
Adding others as well especially where ethnicity is defined by faith:
In the west everything is and must be PC while everywhere else even within a same faith such as Islam, a variation within be label as heresy and be dealt with such documented unspeakable brutality.
Being label a Roe Sushi or apologist is the least of the concern.
This “un-state” idea was founded on an abstract idea of “the state”, one that few states in history could live up to. There is a much more straightforward way to understand the question that this post raises. Simply look at the concept of democracy, its classic expression found in Prime Ministerial Order 66/2523, that the Thai Army assimilated in its struggle with the CPT. That concept hinges on an unmediated relationship between “the people” and those who run the state. It takes elections, politicians and political parties threats to that relationship. So, yes, Gen P is being sincere. But the only way to understand why is to understand what he is actually saying, and what he means by “democracy”.
I don’t know about Australia, but where I live calling someone a “banana” or “coconut” just because he/she adopts Western values (without being white) would be considered a racial slur. The modern concept of “ethnicity” is quite different from this primitive racial/tribal view that many Asians still have.
Coming back to Thais, I know a number of Thai students studying in the West who told me how “prestigious” it is for a Thai to have a stupid little degree from some mediocre little University in the West. Even Yingluck is an example of that. The Thai Royalty prefers German schools I heard LOL
No wonder all these Burmese ex-pats and asylum seekers go to the “exalted West” (Australia is a popular spot). Very few Burmese dissidents in China or North Korea, although the languages and skin-colour are closer, I would imagine. At least I am consistent. I live in the West, because for me Western society offers values that Asian societies lack. By the way, I do not consider myself a political dissident and I never applied for political asylum.
The roles of pump-related and calcean sartorialism – as well as portable stools – are underappreciated in international politics. In particular, coverage of the emergence of states from decades of pariah-isolationism and the processes of state socialisation of course owe much to calcean trends. Therefore Miss Cable should be commended for bringing such insight into mainstream analysis at a crucial time.
I beg to differ, toch, as you seem to think like a banana or is it a coconut?
In any case, it is true that this Sino-Orwellian use of language in many Asian cultures are designed to control and manipulate the populace and hence leads to all these contradictions, crass injustices, hypocrisies and double-standards that really look like a “big joke” for people who are used to Aristotelian logic.
All of the above applies to Western politics, foreign policy, not least socio-economic justice and, dare I say, governance. And you reckon white people with their Aristotelian logic are immune to that…LOL.
We lack legalistic and scientific language… Big deal! We can always borrow and adopt like we (like all languages in the world for that matter) have always done. My beef is with the mindlesss insertion in the Burmese language press in recent times of foreign names and terms in English without putting them in parenthesis as used to be the custom, no longer bothering with transliteration.
What the ruling elite of Asia may be found wanting is finesse, sophistication and yes, sophistry in their propaganda (a four letter word in the smarter West never mind its eternally crucial use under new terminology), but don’t you see, my learned compatriot, they are learning fast with the help of none other than your exalted West? A positive step for the swinish multitude, the great unwashed?
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Impeaching Yingluck Shinawatra
[…] some 200 former Pheu Thai MPs for supporting the constitutional change. Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang has argued, as well, that actual impeachments may become more common in Thai parliaments if a proposal being […]
Aung San Suu Kyi in 2015
Sitting on the fence is a specialty of the Burmese ruling class, which includes Suu Kyi. She’s done serving her “iconic” role for the West. Global politics has moved on to other more volatile issues: ISIS, Ukraine and all of that. People are not onterested in yesterday’s news!
Suu Kyi seems to need the West more than the West needs her. So what now for the Posh Lady? She never encouraged anyone younger to rise up in her party and she likes to stay “aloof” and never talks about the day-to-day politics in Burma: UWSA, Mongla, KIA, Hpakant, Letpadaung, illegal logging, tiger parts, smuggling, bride trafficking, Rohingya, Wirathu, 969, Kyaukphru, Dawei, …
Suu Kyi wants to be part of the problem but not part of the solution.
Burma has bigger problems than Suu Kyi has!
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
@MoeAung
As a “newcomer from the Third World”, I don’t have your “innate immunity to the Wow Syndrome” and still cannot “shake off my Asian-self-hating-inferiority-complex”
OMG, AWESOME, WOW!
A nice example of an argumentum ad hominem
Sensitive skins indeed!
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
Bully for you, toch. I arrived in the West decades ago myself albeit with a strong innate immunity to the “Wow Syndrome”, a common affliction that befalls newcomers from the Third World, and many can never shake it off.
The point is to be able to see things warts and all, more than just scratch the surface, as they say in the West. Perhaps your view of the West remains essentially “Asian” replete with a self-hating inferiority complex? That’d be truly ironic.
Detention without trial: Going beyond Coldstore?
Whatever the truth of he says she says we can only uncover the history if we kick the pappies out and convene a truth and reconciliation commission. It befuddles me that MIW’s are so secretive as to continue classifying the archives, this in our 50th. Surely there must be a glimmer of truth somewhere.
Detention without trial: Going beyond Coldstore?
Poh had taken an oath, long ago, but it wasn’t the Hippocratic Oath. For a non-Muslim, let alone a non-Shi’ite, Poh engages in a phenomenal amount of Taqiyya, but his historical and personal revisionism carries no more truth than did Chin Peng’s.
Detention without trial: Going beyond Coldstore?
On one occasion, Dr. Poh gave a communist courier three types of medicine – three bottles of pills for gastric pain (300 tablets), Vitamin B12 compound for injection (eight to 10 phials) and a bottle of antipyretic pills (300 tablets). On another occasion, he gave 10 phials of penicillin, a bottle of pills for gastric pain, a bottle of pills for rheumatism and five phials of B12 compound. All the medicine ended up with the armed Malayan communist army in northern Malaysia.
Say what you want, this amount of medicine is not just medical ethics. It is about supplying an army waging a unconventional war.
Impeaching Yingluck Shinawatra
According to today’s CNBC “Thailand’s benchmark stock index has outperformed most of Southeast Asia since the start of 2015, but analysts are divided on whether the market remains attractive. The SET index rose over 6 percent in the first four weeks of the year, following a 15.3 percent surge in 2014. That leaves it ahead of a 5.2 percent gain in the Philippines, and a rise of nearly 2 percent in Southeast Asian peers Singapore and Malaysia, and a 0.5 percent rise in Indonesia’s Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite index. Only Vietnamese shares managed to outrun Thailand, with a near 7 percent jump.”
Could Thai investors exuberance be dampened by last night’s twin time bombs explosion at Paragon. (Was that ISIS in Bangkok already SteveCM?)
Detention without trial: Going beyond Coldstore?
Neutral third parties have emerged, with no stakes in the 1963 events except for the truth. Recent articles carried in “The Online Citizen” and “TR Emeritus”
Mr Poh you got to be kidding yourself right? If these sites are what you consider to be ‘neutral third parties’, neutrality has just changed its meaning.
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
Thailand can not afford another incident similar to yellow shirt take over and shutting down of Suvanabhhumi for weeks again.
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
I like Richard J Tukwan’s witticism. Prayuth is not at present trying to “create” disorder. He is trying to preserve the disorder he created last year in the conspiracy with Suthep. Now without a constitution (again), and with the prospect only of one trumped up by the dictatorship, Thailand is frozen with fear in that disordered state.
Detention without trial: Going beyond Coldstore?
I every confidence that any intelligent Singaporean can read the self-serving poppycock disseminated above by Poh. Freedom of speech ? Please, under any putative government led by your Barisan Socialis, the first citizen to criticise you, will be hauled up as a reactionary. What is objectionable, is all the dissembling and ridiculous assertions that are supposed to pass as truth, which are mere histrionics. We have heard this all before, from Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Sukarno, Pathet Lao, Khmer Rouge, etc. Name one successful truly equitable ‘socialist’ society in Asia, and don’t say, “it hasn’t been tried”. If you want to say that you merely want Singapore to be more like Norway, I will say, “Great; it won’t work, because Singaporeans are not Norwegians and never can be”. But to the extent that one gives you the benefit of the doubt that what you are really after is a version of social democracy, well, I would say the Scandanavians now are a lot more worried about their Islamic immigrants than the PAP is worried about Malays, far more of whom serve in government positions, than do Muslims in any Scandanavian country. But of course, you are going to fix that, by ensuring there are sufficient numbers of non-Chinese Prime Ministers in Singapore, because you are a man of the people, and not just a Maoist wannabee, right Poh ? Lim Kit Siang has echoed some of the same beliefs in Malaysia for many years now, and yet, the DAP can’t win any Malay votes. They never have. Your vision of a Utopian Socialist Singapore is actually more Terry Gilliam than Vladimir Putin.
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
“The modern concept of “ethnicity” is quite different from this primitive racial/tribal view that many Asians still have.”
Adding others as well especially where ethnicity is defined by faith:
In the west everything is and must be PC while everywhere else even within a same faith such as Islam, a variation within be label as heresy and be dealt with such documented unspeakable brutality.
Being label a Roe Sushi or apologist is the least of the concern.
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
This “un-state” idea was founded on an abstract idea of “the state”, one that few states in history could live up to. There is a much more straightforward way to understand the question that this post raises. Simply look at the concept of democracy, its classic expression found in Prime Ministerial Order 66/2523, that the Thai Army assimilated in its struggle with the CPT. That concept hinges on an unmediated relationship between “the people” and those who run the state. It takes elections, politicians and political parties threats to that relationship. So, yes, Gen P is being sincere. But the only way to understand why is to understand what he is actually saying, and what he means by “democracy”.
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
I don’t know about Australia, but where I live calling someone a “banana” or “coconut” just because he/she adopts Western values (without being white) would be considered a racial slur. The modern concept of “ethnicity” is quite different from this primitive racial/tribal view that many Asians still have.
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
Please remember, General Prayuth is not trying to create disorder, he is trying to preserve it.
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
Coming back to Thais, I know a number of Thai students studying in the West who told me how “prestigious” it is for a Thai to have a stupid little degree from some mediocre little University in the West. Even Yingluck is an example of that. The Thai Royalty prefers German schools I heard LOL
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
No wonder all these Burmese ex-pats and asylum seekers go to the “exalted West” (Australia is a popular spot). Very few Burmese dissidents in China or North Korea, although the languages and skin-colour are closer, I would imagine. At least I am consistent. I live in the West, because for me Western society offers values that Asian societies lack. By the way, I do not consider myself a political dissident and I never applied for political asylum.
Press coverage reaches new heights in Naypyitaw
The roles of pump-related and calcean sartorialism – as well as portable stools – are underappreciated in international politics. In particular, coverage of the emergence of states from decades of pariah-isolationism and the processes of state socialisation of course owe much to calcean trends. Therefore Miss Cable should be commended for bringing such insight into mainstream analysis at a crucial time.
Soldiers with democratic hearts?
I beg to differ, toch, as you seem to think like a banana or is it a coconut?
In any case, it is true that this Sino-Orwellian use of language in many Asian cultures are designed to control and manipulate the populace and hence leads to all these contradictions, crass injustices, hypocrisies and double-standards that really look like a “big joke” for people who are used to Aristotelian logic.
All of the above applies to Western politics, foreign policy, not least socio-economic justice and, dare I say, governance. And you reckon white people with their Aristotelian logic are immune to that…LOL.
We lack legalistic and scientific language… Big deal! We can always borrow and adopt like we (like all languages in the world for that matter) have always done. My beef is with the mindlesss insertion in the Burmese language press in recent times of foreign names and terms in English without putting them in parenthesis as used to be the custom, no longer bothering with transliteration.
What the ruling elite of Asia may be found wanting is finesse, sophistication and yes, sophistry in their propaganda (a four letter word in the smarter West never mind its eternally crucial use under new terminology), but don’t you see, my learned compatriot, they are learning fast with the help of none other than your exalted West? A positive step for the swinish multitude, the great unwashed?