Victory in the War on Drugs is good. They may blame the crackdown for more than 2,500 deaths, but this is a small price to pay. If the prime minister failed to curb [the drug trade], over the years the number of deaths would easily surpass this toll.
Not disappointed you are welcome to debate your views however ad hominem attacks and rambling incoherent arguments without a scintilla of substantive fact to support them does not amount to anything other than a rant. You have the democratic right to rant however don’t expect a whole lot of interest from those of us that prefer informed logical argument.Thaivisa and the bkk post would probably provide you with a more appreciative audience less interested in the rigors of academic debate. Just a suggestion
The very reason why, once again, UMNO will win in GE 14. PKR remains emasculated by Anwar Ibrahim, who is emasculated by his wife, Puan Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who can never be Prime Minister. Yes, definitely a winning proposition. It might sell in Canberra, but it will only get you a “sedition” charge in KL.
I believe that in places like Thailand, Westerners (I mean the white ones) are generally treated differently by the police than let’s say, poor migrant workers and refugees from Burma.
Yes, do feel free to sweep. No need for the gunboats. Might as well have a free trade free for all. Why not the Golden Arches and the avuncular Colonel to join the rest of predators. The real McCoys will be “warmly welcome”, the food and of course West is best.
Beggars can’t be choosers, or is it the wonderful choice of Coca-colonisation however belated? Smashing! Smash the locals.They don’t deserve to earn a good living except as cheap labor flipping burgers. Free trade – no contest.
Better to be exploited than not they say. Better than be slave labor across the border – Burmese name “Htun Kyaing”s (“Thai Kyun” or “slaves under the Thai” in Burmese if you flip it Burmese style the vowel sounds, a kind of Spoonerism called sagalain).
Yes, let’s try to keep it all in the family. Then there won’t be any comments or postings that are not the accpeted line professed by andymac, nostitz, and others whose insight are so incalcuable and must be agreed to and accepted by one and all.
China traditionally has bad relations with Vietnam. It is no surprise that it would have supported a Vietnam-hating, Khmer nationalist regime in Cambodia. The Americans and Thais supported it too, for the same reason.
Kissinger/Nixon made friends with China to try to undermine Vietnam and the USSR. The resulting trade boom between US and China was collateral benefit that nobody considered at the time. The Marshall Plan was a strategic move to counter the USSR. Even Nobel Peace Prizes are given out to embarrass some group or other. Malice, fear, and xenophobia are the driving force of foreign policy in an overcrowded world.
– More people died at Krue sae and Tak Bai under Thaksin regime than in all previous coups.
– More innocents died during the thaksin ‘War on Drugs’ than the drugs delaers and kingpins; many of whom his financiers and MPs ae in the drug trade.
– Andymac’s rethoric and well-worn clichés have been taken up by ostitz are getting old! Populist democracy and fiscal irresponsibility to fund runaway corruption under thaksin and his surrogates was destroying democracy not nurturing it.
– In your research why haven’t you turned up the facts behind the disastrous rice scheme and who in thaksin’s family and cronies benefited from it?
– Those checks and balances cited by Andymac were almost practically ingested by thaksin, look at the attempt to turn the country into a fascist police state; with the Office of Attorney General, Ministry of Justice and Interior aiding and abetting with the whims of the former kleptocracy. It was thaksin, Andymac’s poster boy for democracy who actually undermined the rule of law.
– The ‘old eleites were being replaced by the ‘new elites’ led by thaksin who wanted to build a new social order with them at the apex.
– How does offering ports and bases translate to being a semi-colony. Using this logic that NMites agree to then Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Japan, S. Korea and so forth are now semi-colonies of the US. This is just an example of andymac’s prevarication and dysfunctional rationale that is adhered to by like-minded NMites.
– andymac should look no further than at his Thai wife to possibly realize that there are cultural differences between his cultural biases and his wife’s.
– andymac likes to regurgitate flippant remarks and then seek mea culpa for them as is his way. Consider his sensitive remarks concerning the amputee who was demonstrating with the PDRC, or his sensitive remarks that got him fired from his cushy Reuters post about the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
– I can’t believe that respected (in his mind) nostitz and andymac so well-known for their fair and balanced reporting who do such an outstanding job of researching for (one-sided) half-truths could not even say anything about the 30 deaths and countless injusries caused by the terrorists supported by the yingluck government, but can cite one case of Laksi why justice isn’t served. How about those deaths and injured, why haven’t you called for justice for them. Or for the innocents and soldiers who died at Kok Wua at the hands of the real men-in-black?
New Mandala is for birds of a feather, whose leaders are andymac the spiritual figurehead and nostitz who is a purveyor of slanted journalism.
With the impending transfer of refugees to Cambodia, perhaps NM could elicit an appraisal of the Cham Muslim communities, their recovery from genocide, and the likely environment of Malaysian and ME inspired Salafi radicalisation which awaits the refugees and their children.
The Khmer Rouge stripping of the Cham Muslims’ veils seems to have admirers in the present Australian Gov. Authoritarian pathology could never exist in Australia though, could it.Or?
Yes Nick sadly NM has been invaded by the denizens of Thai Visa. We can’t expect informed comment from them. Only Ad Hominem rants based on their own prejudices.Sadly many have fallen hook line and sinker for the disinformation, myths and propaganda espoused for years by the anti democratic forces in Thailand.It’s disappointing enough that many Thais buy into this patent nonsense but for foreigners that come from countries with strong democratic traditions to support this coup is doubly so.
As i do not just back up my statement with another statement, but with photos as well, i therefore may not just as well be right – i am right.
My statements, by the way, are the result of research – meaning what i have seen (and photographed) myself, and based on additional interviews with with first hand sources, which i corroborate with other sources, and that is why i am comfortable and confident enough in putting my name on what i say. I am not just voicing my opinion based on what i have read in the news or in forums.
If you introduce your comment to me with a ‘farewell’ to me, then please expect nothing different from me in return.
And i can only repeat again, for me the first premise of publications or discussions on New Mandala should be factual knowledge on the subject matters, and if that knowledge is faulty – rigorous criticism – substantiated and based on fact. I expect no different treatment when i publish pieces here.
New Mandala should not be another ThaiVisa, where every idiot can get his equal say, regardless of the quality of comment. Unfortunately this discussion here descended in large parts into an abyss of inanity and absurdity, where one travel writer even threatened a commentator over a complete non-issue.
So now why would that be unfortunately for me, Nick? Exchange of knowledge should be supported but maybe this isn’t the case here. You might well be right and I appreciate the information, but I find it funny that you’re backing up your statement with another statement of yours.
“I do not speak Thai”. So you can get nothing from reading Thai papers,listening to the news on TV and radio, or from reading blogs, twitter accounts, etc, nor from interacting with Thais who are unable to speak English. Thank you for your informed comments. BTW, ‘Thais love rules and regulations’ is the most nonsensical observation I have seen here. Was that meant to be sarcasm? Sorry if I missed that.
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Thailand’s Prayuth: Not just another coup-maker
But if only we had executed 60,000 the land will rise and our descendants will escape bad karma. Every royalist knows that.
Thailand’s Prayuth: Not just another coup-maker
Victory in the War on Drugs is good. They may blame the crackdown for more than 2,500 deaths, but this is a small price to pay. If the prime minister failed to curb [the drug trade], over the years the number of deaths would easily surpass this toll.
Burgers and social responsibility in Myanmar
A bit of a worry U Moe Aung. You now sound exactly the uncouth ed me! Can see your anguish!
Not all lost yet!
Thailand’s Prayuth: Not just another coup-maker
Not disappointed you are welcome to debate your views however ad hominem attacks and rambling incoherent arguments without a scintilla of substantive fact to support them does not amount to anything other than a rant. You have the democratic right to rant however don’t expect a whole lot of interest from those of us that prefer informed logical argument.Thaivisa and the bkk post would probably provide you with a more appreciative audience less interested in the rigors of academic debate. Just a suggestion
PKR MPs on tour down under
The very reason why, once again, UMNO will win in GE 14. PKR remains emasculated by Anwar Ibrahim, who is emasculated by his wife, Puan Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who can never be Prime Minister. Yes, definitely a winning proposition. It might sell in Canberra, but it will only get you a “sedition” charge in KL.
Burgers and social responsibility in Myanmar
What about employing Rohingyas?
Thai Police: Intent to reform?
I believe that in places like Thailand, Westerners (I mean the white ones) are generally treated differently by the police than let’s say, poor migrant workers and refugees from Burma.
Burgers and social responsibility in Myanmar
Yes, do feel free to sweep. No need for the gunboats. Might as well have a free trade free for all. Why not the Golden Arches and the avuncular Colonel to join the rest of predators. The real McCoys will be “warmly welcome”, the food and of course West is best.
Beggars can’t be choosers, or is it the wonderful choice of Coca-colonisation however belated? Smashing! Smash the locals.They don’t deserve to earn a good living except as cheap labor flipping burgers. Free trade – no contest.
Better to be exploited than not they say. Better than be slave labor across the border – Burmese name “Htun Kyaing”s (“Thai Kyun” or “slaves under the Thai” in Burmese if you flip it Burmese style the vowel sounds, a kind of Spoonerism called sagalain).
Here endeth my rant.
Thailand’s Prayuth: Not just another coup-maker
Yes, let’s try to keep it all in the family. Then there won’t be any comments or postings that are not the accpeted line professed by andymac, nostitz, and others whose insight are so incalcuable and must be agreed to and accepted by one and all.
A numbers game: Social media and political legitimacy
In your research and reporting, how many people would you say turned up to the Phuttamonton rally?
Review of Brothers in Arms
China traditionally has bad relations with Vietnam. It is no surprise that it would have supported a Vietnam-hating, Khmer nationalist regime in Cambodia. The Americans and Thais supported it too, for the same reason.
Kissinger/Nixon made friends with China to try to undermine Vietnam and the USSR. The resulting trade boom between US and China was collateral benefit that nobody considered at the time. The Marshall Plan was a strategic move to counter the USSR. Even Nobel Peace Prizes are given out to embarrass some group or other. Malice, fear, and xenophobia are the driving force of foreign policy in an overcrowded world.
Thai Police: Intent to reform?
money matters to everyone even to thaksin and his ilk, the new but prematurely ejaculated elite too.
Thailand’s Prayuth: Not just another coup-maker
Here are some more facts Andymac and Nostitz:
– More people died at Krue sae and Tak Bai under Thaksin regime than in all previous coups.
– More innocents died during the thaksin ‘War on Drugs’ than the drugs delaers and kingpins; many of whom his financiers and MPs ae in the drug trade.
– Andymac’s rethoric and well-worn clichés have been taken up by ostitz are getting old! Populist democracy and fiscal irresponsibility to fund runaway corruption under thaksin and his surrogates was destroying democracy not nurturing it.
– In your research why haven’t you turned up the facts behind the disastrous rice scheme and who in thaksin’s family and cronies benefited from it?
– Those checks and balances cited by Andymac were almost practically ingested by thaksin, look at the attempt to turn the country into a fascist police state; with the Office of Attorney General, Ministry of Justice and Interior aiding and abetting with the whims of the former kleptocracy. It was thaksin, Andymac’s poster boy for democracy who actually undermined the rule of law.
– The ‘old eleites were being replaced by the ‘new elites’ led by thaksin who wanted to build a new social order with them at the apex.
– How does offering ports and bases translate to being a semi-colony. Using this logic that NMites agree to then Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Japan, S. Korea and so forth are now semi-colonies of the US. This is just an example of andymac’s prevarication and dysfunctional rationale that is adhered to by like-minded NMites.
– andymac should look no further than at his Thai wife to possibly realize that there are cultural differences between his cultural biases and his wife’s.
– andymac likes to regurgitate flippant remarks and then seek mea culpa for them as is his way. Consider his sensitive remarks concerning the amputee who was demonstrating with the PDRC, or his sensitive remarks that got him fired from his cushy Reuters post about the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
– I can’t believe that respected (in his mind) nostitz and andymac so well-known for their fair and balanced reporting who do such an outstanding job of researching for (one-sided) half-truths could not even say anything about the 30 deaths and countless injusries caused by the terrorists supported by the yingluck government, but can cite one case of Laksi why justice isn’t served. How about those deaths and injured, why haven’t you called for justice for them. Or for the innocents and soldiers who died at Kok Wua at the hands of the real men-in-black?
New Mandala is for birds of a feather, whose leaders are andymac the spiritual figurehead and nostitz who is a purveyor of slanted journalism.
Review of Brothers in Arms
With the impending transfer of refugees to Cambodia, perhaps NM could elicit an appraisal of the Cham Muslim communities, their recovery from genocide, and the likely environment of Malaysian and ME inspired Salafi radicalisation which awaits the refugees and their children.
The Khmer Rouge stripping of the Cham Muslims’ veils seems to have admirers in the present Australian Gov. Authoritarian pathology could never exist in Australia though, could it.Or?
Burgers and social responsibility in Myanmar
The KFC staff in Times Square on Sukhumvit (Bangkok) are deaf as well.
More information here:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/322464/
Thailand’s Prayuth: Not just another coup-maker
Yes Nick sadly NM has been invaded by the denizens of Thai Visa. We can’t expect informed comment from them. Only Ad Hominem rants based on their own prejudices.Sadly many have fallen hook line and sinker for the disinformation, myths and propaganda espoused for years by the anti democratic forces in Thailand.It’s disappointing enough that many Thais buy into this patent nonsense but for foreigners that come from countries with strong democratic traditions to support this coup is doubly so.
Thailand’s Prayuth: Not just another coup-maker
As i do not just back up my statement with another statement, but with photos as well, i therefore may not just as well be right – i am right.
My statements, by the way, are the result of research – meaning what i have seen (and photographed) myself, and based on additional interviews with with first hand sources, which i corroborate with other sources, and that is why i am comfortable and confident enough in putting my name on what i say. I am not just voicing my opinion based on what i have read in the news or in forums.
If you introduce your comment to me with a ‘farewell’ to me, then please expect nothing different from me in return.
And i can only repeat again, for me the first premise of publications or discussions on New Mandala should be factual knowledge on the subject matters, and if that knowledge is faulty – rigorous criticism – substantiated and based on fact. I expect no different treatment when i publish pieces here.
New Mandala should not be another ThaiVisa, where every idiot can get his equal say, regardless of the quality of comment. Unfortunately this discussion here descended in large parts into an abyss of inanity and absurdity, where one travel writer even threatened a commentator over a complete non-issue.
Thailand’s Prayuth: Not just another coup-maker
So now why would that be unfortunately for me, Nick? Exchange of knowledge should be supported but maybe this isn’t the case here. You might well be right and I appreciate the information, but I find it funny that you’re backing up your statement with another statement of yours.
Thailand’s Prayuth: Not just another coup-maker
“I do not speak Thai”. So you can get nothing from reading Thai papers,listening to the news on TV and radio, or from reading blogs, twitter accounts, etc, nor from interacting with Thais who are unable to speak English. Thank you for your informed comments. BTW, ‘Thais love rules and regulations’ is the most nonsensical observation I have seen here. Was that meant to be sarcasm? Sorry if I missed that.
Thai Police: Intent to reform?
Thank you for sharing with us your example of one that proves the police are on the road to reform.