That is both stupid and inaccurate. The people who do the things Paul mentions are not arrested in the west. They may be fired from their job, but that is stipulated by the contract that both parties agreed to.
I plan to protest Mr. Heinecke to the fullest by staying 3 nights in his delightful Anantara Resort Si Kao next week. Drinking Mai Tais at the beach and protesting in between 5 star luxuries.
Seems to me a bit hard to interpret these data. On the face of it, if you don’t know how your spouse voted, that seems to weaken the assortative mating hypothesis, so this group should be added to the spouse-voted-differently-from-me-group. Presumably the people in this group don’t care very much at all about how their spouse votes: for them, party choice is irrelevant to partner choice. Doing it this way, the results are not far from 50:50. Commonsense interpretation: politics is important to some people, and so likely to influence partner choice. For the many others for whom politics is a bore or a turn-off, partner choice will be largely independent of politics.
For a minute I thought this was a commentary on Japanese female teenage political fetishism, but then I realised it really was supposed to be about Indonesia, as much as the tone of the commentary is very tweeny Japanese (щнФц│Хх░Схе│щЪКуВвуГлуВ╣).
“I wonder whether – “Kamu pilih Jokowi atau Prabowo, sayang?” – will be the make or break question among courting couples.” If this is indeed the make or break question among courting couples, in Indonesia, which I highly doubt, but were that to be the case, then I would hope Indonesia would ban courting, advocate asexuality, and enforce Hudud laws throughout the Nation, punishing “felicitous in delicatus” by death.
Hang Tuah,
You’re obviously not a Sabahan. We do not have a Menteri Besar like you do in Malaya.
The future of Sabah is in the Sabah people’s hands- not the Kitingans, though they are important figures.
We’ll show you.
How you guys gonna feel if someone say get out of britain when you haven’t done anything wrong. The royal family they haven’t done anything wrong so why they have to get out from them own country? Any reason??
“–How do “abuses” of the Rohingya–generally despised by other Myanmar Muslims, especially in Rakhaing State–stack up against the genocide practiced against the Mayans in Guatemala by pro-US regimes in the 80s?”
again. Might just not be incline to label George Thomas as did.
[…] The long-term implications are the most important for Thai politics. There are now four critical Thai political institutions where there used to be only three: the military, the monarchy, and the bureaucracy. Since the 1990s, a fourth institution, civilian democratic institutions and parties, has wrested itself onto the political stool threatening the prerogative of the others. The popularity of the Shinawatras, whose political machine won six straight elections (four with outright majorities), offended royalists who saw crass civilians as trying to be more popular (and legitimate) than the King. But the monarchy under Rama X is going to be a much weaker institution. It will have less popular legitimacy, command less respect and deference from the military and bureaucracy, all at a time when popular agency is growing. The generals may claim to be trying to restore Thai democracy, but for more than 50% of the population, it was working as it should. […]
Rohingyas are not just Muslims, they are considered “ethnically incorrect” in Burma, so the Burmese officially deny the existence of the word “Rohingya”. Many Burmese (or Myanmarese?) would simply say “Rohingyas are not ethnics”. By ethnic they count only the 135 officially recognised groups (I’m not sure whether the vanishing tribes of Tarong and Salone/Moken are included). According to some facebook pages that I looked at, a number of Burmese are “very concerned” about the “preservation/purity of race/religion (and skin-colour/eye-shape lol)” and that’s the reason behind these new laws against “interfaith-marriage” and stuff. Most Burmese believe that if there is any need for some influx of “alien Y-chromosomes” then the upper-class Burmese would obviously prefer that of the Chinese of which there are plenty in Burma. The Korean/Chinese look seems to be the “in” thing and hair-bleaching and skin-whitening is a must for the Burmese entertainment industry (just observe the ads in Burmese newspapers and journals). Some Burmese diplomat (a former general) even said that Rohingyas look like “ogres” (Balu in Burmese). It is true that there are a lot of Rohingya and settlers from Bangladesh over the last 200 years or so, most of them very poor, living in Rakhine State who the Burmese think of as “illegal immigrants” and a threat (also because of the rise of global fundamentalist Islamism according to Suu Kyi) to “racial purity”, but it is also true that in places like Mandalay, Lashio, Muse, Mongla, Letpadaung, Phakant or even Kyaukphru there are is an influx of Chinese “settlers” who own and run most of the economy, but they are considered “friendly paukphaws” or cousins and so they can bribe corrupt Burmese officials to get fake Burmese ID cards and get (buy?) themselves Burmese brides. Well if Burmese fear that the Muslims will takeover their country with the help of these wretched Rohingyas then they should have a closer look at what the Chinese are doing to their country. It seems like bullying poor people beneath you and sucking up to the people who have money and power is the way the Burmese oligarchy operates. It’s true that Burmese are not allowed to complain about Chinese but it’s OK to scapegoat the “Muslim threat” and of course the UN an the NGO’s if they “care” about the Rohingya more than they “care” about the Rakhine. Burmese think the UN is biased although strangely enough the UNHCR actually helped a lot of ethnics and dissidents from Burma (whether they are fake or real) in their refugee camps on the Thai border and even settled the “lucky few” in Western countries (Bergen, Norway, Fort Wayne, Indiana, you name it) but the UN helping Rohingyas is considered to be a “bias”. Go figure!
Conclusion: In my opinion what’s happening in Burma has more to do with racial discrimination than a religious conflict combined with blatant hypocritical double-standards and Sino-Orwellian double-speak which seems to be ubiquitous in many parts of Asia 9especailly amongst the upper ruling classes).
Freedom of speech is an illusion!!! We don’t have it here in the west!!! We have the nonsense PC brigade who would have me arrested for calling someone fat, ugly……… I mean i cant even express opinions on our ridiculous immigration policies, criticise Islam……… Where’s our freedom of speech???? This lady is causing civil unrest, best she shuts up, or finds a more articulate way of wxpressingm herself.
It is what it is: Just a fairy tale with a happy ending. BTW Orwell called ‘Animal Farm’ a dark fairytale, so there’s not necessarily a happy ending to DOFP either.
And my suspicion – given the timing and execution of the coup – is that you might be a little late on this, at least concerning conscious brain activity.
And nowhere is the punishment so harsh and nowhere is it so broadly applied as in Thailand.
There is a difference between the Dutch man who was fined 400,- Euros for calling the (now former) queen Beatrix names (I won’t go into detail, but it was really insulting) and someone rotting for 15 years in a Thai jail.
And still the question remains: If he is really loved so universally, why can’t there be any discussion about “The Institution” here in Thailand.
How convenient that it wasn’t broadcast, otherwise someone might want to prove all this hearsay.
And in my experience this seems to be the main way the king did charity: He told people that he has decided they should donate …while the coffers of the CPB are growing steadily.
Most of us here did our research, some even with books that are not accessible in Thailand.
…and you can’t be serious that “Thai people live happily before the Taksin regime” – how about the reigns of Thanom and Sarit, how about 1976 and 1992 and how about this: http://robinlea.com/pub/RedDrums.html
Yes sure, with all his Por Piang bullshit he is basically telling the millions of farmers that they should stay in their place because that’s the natural order of things.
the people in London who are threatening and vandalising property for whatever reason (incuding some misguided so-called loyalty to the Thai monarchy) should be treated as common criminals under British law
It won’t be banned. I don’t think the dictatorship has quite got the guts for that (not a Thai site). More likely the site will be flooded with military sponsored stooges posing as academics etc
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That is both stupid and inaccurate. The people who do the things Paul mentions are not arrested in the west. They may be fired from their job, but that is stipulated by the contract that both parties agreed to.
Read the law, Paul.
Mr. Heinecke cannot have his coup and eat it too
I plan to protest Mr. Heinecke to the fullest by staying 3 nights in his delightful Anantara Resort Si Kao next week. Drinking Mai Tais at the beach and protesting in between 5 star luxuries.
Assortative mating and the election
Seems to me a bit hard to interpret these data. On the face of it, if you don’t know how your spouse voted, that seems to weaken the assortative mating hypothesis, so this group should be added to the spouse-voted-differently-from-me-group. Presumably the people in this group don’t care very much at all about how their spouse votes: for them, party choice is irrelevant to partner choice. Doing it this way, the results are not far from 50:50. Commonsense interpretation: politics is important to some people, and so likely to influence partner choice. For the many others for whom politics is a bore or a turn-off, partner choice will be largely independent of politics.
Assortative mating and the election
For a minute I thought this was a commentary on Japanese female teenage political fetishism, but then I realised it really was supposed to be about Indonesia, as much as the tone of the commentary is very tweeny Japanese (щнФц│Хх░Схе│щЪКуВвуГлуВ╣).
“I wonder whether – “Kamu pilih Jokowi atau Prabowo, sayang?” – will be the make or break question among courting couples.” If this is indeed the make or break question among courting couples, in Indonesia, which I highly doubt, but were that to be the case, then I would hope Indonesia would ban courting, advocate asexuality, and enforce Hudud laws throughout the Nation, punishing “felicitous in delicatus” by death.
Sabah – UMNO’s fixed deposit?
Hang Tuah,
You’re obviously not a Sabahan. We do not have a Menteri Besar like you do in Malaya.
The future of Sabah is in the Sabah people’s hands- not the Kitingans, though they are important figures.
We’ll show you.
Thorns of the Thai rose
Huh? This comment makes no sense.
Aside, it doesn’t matter how you feel, it matters what the law says.
Someone my tell the Queen get out of Britain. It may or may not make her feel bad. But there is no legal requirement for her to get out of Britain.
Days of future past in Thailand
Seminal BBC coverage of the coup, as it begins from moment one : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27522909
Thorns of the Thai rose
How you guys gonna feel if someone say get out of britain when you haven’t done anything wrong. The royal family they haven’t done anything wrong so why they have to get out from them own country? Any reason??
Rohingya: denied the right to be human
On behalf of George Thomas, please try reading
“–How do “abuses” of the Rohingya–generally despised by other Myanmar Muslims, especially in Rakhaing State–stack up against the genocide practiced against the Mayans in Guatemala by pro-US regimes in the 80s?”
again. Might just not be incline to label George Thomas as did.
Mr. Heinecke cannot have his coup and eat it too
[…] The long-term implications are the most important for Thai politics. There are now four critical Thai political institutions where there used to be only three: the military, the monarchy, and the bureaucracy. Since the 1990s, a fourth institution, civilian democratic institutions and parties, has wrested itself onto the political stool threatening the prerogative of the others. The popularity of the Shinawatras, whose political machine won six straight elections (four with outright majorities), offended royalists who saw crass civilians as trying to be more popular (and legitimate) than the King. But the monarchy under Rama X is going to be a much weaker institution. It will have less popular legitimacy, command less respect and deference from the military and bureaucracy, all at a time when popular agency is growing. The generals may claim to be trying to restore Thai democracy, but for more than 50% of the population, it was working as it should. […]
Rohingya: denied the right to be human
Rohingyas are not just Muslims, they are considered “ethnically incorrect” in Burma, so the Burmese officially deny the existence of the word “Rohingya”. Many Burmese (or Myanmarese?) would simply say “Rohingyas are not ethnics”. By ethnic they count only the 135 officially recognised groups (I’m not sure whether the vanishing tribes of Tarong and Salone/Moken are included). According to some facebook pages that I looked at, a number of Burmese are “very concerned” about the “preservation/purity of race/religion (and skin-colour/eye-shape lol)” and that’s the reason behind these new laws against “interfaith-marriage” and stuff. Most Burmese believe that if there is any need for some influx of “alien Y-chromosomes” then the upper-class Burmese would obviously prefer that of the Chinese of which there are plenty in Burma. The Korean/Chinese look seems to be the “in” thing and hair-bleaching and skin-whitening is a must for the Burmese entertainment industry (just observe the ads in Burmese newspapers and journals). Some Burmese diplomat (a former general) even said that Rohingyas look like “ogres” (Balu in Burmese). It is true that there are a lot of Rohingya and settlers from Bangladesh over the last 200 years or so, most of them very poor, living in Rakhine State who the Burmese think of as “illegal immigrants” and a threat (also because of the rise of global fundamentalist Islamism according to Suu Kyi) to “racial purity”, but it is also true that in places like Mandalay, Lashio, Muse, Mongla, Letpadaung, Phakant or even Kyaukphru there are is an influx of Chinese “settlers” who own and run most of the economy, but they are considered “friendly paukphaws” or cousins and so they can bribe corrupt Burmese officials to get fake Burmese ID cards and get (buy?) themselves Burmese brides. Well if Burmese fear that the Muslims will takeover their country with the help of these wretched Rohingyas then they should have a closer look at what the Chinese are doing to their country. It seems like bullying poor people beneath you and sucking up to the people who have money and power is the way the Burmese oligarchy operates. It’s true that Burmese are not allowed to complain about Chinese but it’s OK to scapegoat the “Muslim threat” and of course the UN an the NGO’s if they “care” about the Rohingya more than they “care” about the Rakhine. Burmese think the UN is biased although strangely enough the UNHCR actually helped a lot of ethnics and dissidents from Burma (whether they are fake or real) in their refugee camps on the Thai border and even settled the “lucky few” in Western countries (Bergen, Norway, Fort Wayne, Indiana, you name it) but the UN helping Rohingyas is considered to be a “bias”. Go figure!
Conclusion: In my opinion what’s happening in Burma has more to do with racial discrimination than a religious conflict combined with blatant hypocritical double-standards and Sino-Orwellian double-speak which seems to be ubiquitous in many parts of Asia 9especailly amongst the upper ruling classes).
Thorns of the Thai rose
Freedom of speech is an illusion!!! We don’t have it here in the west!!! We have the nonsense PC brigade who would have me arrested for calling someone fat, ugly……… I mean i cant even express opinions on our ridiculous immigration policies, criticise Islam……… Where’s our freedom of speech???? This lady is causing civil unrest, best she shuts up, or finds a more articulate way of wxpressingm herself.
Days of future past in Thailand
It is what it is: Just a fairy tale with a happy ending. BTW Orwell called ‘Animal Farm’ a dark fairytale, so there’s not necessarily a happy ending to DOFP either.
Thorns of the Thai rose
Wow, that was a real high quality remark!
And my suspicion – given the timing and execution of the coup – is that you might be a little late on this, at least concerning conscious brain activity.
Thorns of the Thai rose
And nowhere is the punishment so harsh and nowhere is it so broadly applied as in Thailand.
There is a difference between the Dutch man who was fined 400,- Euros for calling the (now former) queen Beatrix names (I won’t go into detail, but it was really insulting) and someone rotting for 15 years in a Thai jail.
And still the question remains: If he is really loved so universally, why can’t there be any discussion about “The Institution” here in Thailand.
Thorns of the Thai rose
How convenient that it wasn’t broadcast, otherwise someone might want to prove all this hearsay.
And in my experience this seems to be the main way the king did charity: He told people that he has decided they should donate …while the coffers of the CPB are growing steadily.
Thorns of the Thai rose
Most of us here did our research, some even with books that are not accessible in Thailand.
…and you can’t be serious that “Thai people live happily before the Taksin regime” – how about the reigns of Thanom and Sarit, how about 1976 and 1992 and how about this:
http://robinlea.com/pub/RedDrums.html
Thorns of the Thai rose
Yes sure, with all his Por Piang bullshit he is basically telling the millions of farmers that they should stay in their place because that’s the natural order of things.
Thorns of the Thai rose
the people in London who are threatening and vandalising property for whatever reason (incuding some misguided so-called loyalty to the Thai monarchy) should be treated as common criminals under British law
Thorns of the Thai rose
It won’t be banned. I don’t think the dictatorship has quite got the guts for that (not a Thai site). More likely the site will be flooded with military sponsored stooges posing as academics etc