BN’s election fraud:
In the 12th GE 2008, Pakatan Rakyat won Selangor, since 2008, the Selangor electoral rolls have ballooned by 22% (over 340,000 voters) to more than 1.9 million, compared to a national average of 16.3 %.
Up to 90 % cent of ballots cast through postal votes support BN!
31,294 voters have been transferred out of their 2008 state & parliamentary constituencies without their consent, the incumbent CM of Selangor too.
42,000 voters whose citizenship cannot be verified by the National Registration Dept still on the roll.
The electoral rolls carry 65,543 voters who are 85 yrs of age and older; and 1000 voters aged more than 100 yrs.
15,855 voters on the roll have NRIC numbers showing they are of a different gender from that listed by the EC.
4500 voters who are spouses of police officers are registered as postal voters in breach of the law.
Over 400,000 dubious voters are on the electoral roll, enough to swing 35 federal seats either way to capture Putrajaya!
Gerrymandering in 55 yrs enables BN to win 51% of the seats in parliament with just 15.4% of the popular votes cast. Up to 1 million Malaysians residing overseas denied their right to vote by the EC.
No scrutiny – Malaysia has refused access to int’l election watch groups after the 1990 general election!
Yet articles like this and related one stroke the fire of intolerance by pitting one group as victims against another while everyone is under the goad of abject poverty.
The continuing legacies of past 2+ CENTURIES that has brought about this present tragedy need to be addressed in toto.
Until then this periodic spasm, one aspect of Myanmar racial/religious quagmire shall continue, for sure while the NGO and token HR advocate continue to profit.
Excellent and thanks. You encapsulated the local Buddhist thinking in those five sets. I reckon Tin Win’s wife is as feisty as Burmese women come and refused to convert and he really loves her.
It strikes me that there are too few foreign academics and journalists — those who often dictate the outside world’s view of Myanmar — with the Burmese language skills to hang out in tea shops or beer stalls and really take the temperature out on the streets.
This type of barbershop chatter is very revealing and it’s not the sort of talk one hears when visiting a neighborhood for an hour with a translator.
To you I would say that the most successful members of the Thai middle class have all too often succumbed to temptation and gladly sold out the middle class and the poor to become one of the rich.
Of course this coercion is achieved in a variety of ways, but effectively it’s a bag of carrots – and sticks.
B/t your ilk and U.N. Quintana, Myanmar quagmires is but the problems of “yours general”. Therefore yesteryear blaming the generals must apply, eh.
The existing problems are still the same as those right after independence in 1948.
Most if not all of them the legacy of colonization and WWII.
As long as these historical origin of these quagmires:
Ethic, racial strife are not address properly these continuing military exploitation of the country will continue enriching self through “Unity”.
UN with it past knee jerk reactions only could have addressed the issues of autonomy of various groups through thinker like the professor and various historians yet it choose to dictate and intimidate without means to alleviate the quagmire once more.
If we take things at face value the Nazis must be socialist and represented the German workers. Totalitarianism is where the extreme Right and Left meet.
China today is a good example of a totalitarian capitalist state with global ambitions, a very different beast from Maoist China, the worst of both worlds but definitely modern and prosperous just the ticket for economic determinists like your good self. Your generals would have loved to go the Chinese way except that was no longer the option so the Gorby way it is.
I have wondered about the crawlers’ unions of Thailand, and the scarcity of independent unions that genuinely represent the interests of labour. Could it be because the interests of capital are policed by cheaply hired hit-men? That could also explain why the topic is seldom even discussed.
Most, possibly all Thais (save those with vested interests I discuss the broad politics of Thailand with(in Thai)readily express the view that they are heartily sick of getting the rough end of the pineapple from employers (and others) who uphold double-standards to which they are required to conform. Of course, having worked here in Thailand half my life, I’ve experienced a lot of this first hand too, but I don’t have the legal option of working for myself. Much of the stratification of Thai society which underpins this unfairness is invisible to me, but the growing willingness to express such dissatisfaction openly is healthy. One glaring weakness in the Thai polity is of course the dominance of company unions and public sector unions compared to the independent unions which made vital contributions to progress in countries like Korea and Australia. IMO it is independent unions which are needed to properly inform and mobilize the masses, not big capitalists primarily concerned about private wealth rather than the common wealth of the country.
Without independent unions for protection, only the very brave or desperate dare to speak out.
Both Ne Win’s appendages and faux socialists, the latter gave the army a taste for money making, then became the arch agent provocateur in 1988.
And why do you think this particular military dictatorship lasted as long as it did? Their staunch anti-communism. So if it ain’t broke why fix it? Doing so brilliantly fighting commies, impoverishing the country and enriching themselves.
I think about time ‘Thailand Corruption’ gets a revisit. The Yingluck government will be embarking on a massive Baht 2 trillion infrastructure projects and borrowing spree. Quite easily, that Baht 2 trillion figure will be twice or thrice padded by the 30% palms-greasing going-under-the-table-rate. Expect project overruns, expect project declays and expect pay-offs and kick-backs aplenty.
Will that 1997 Thailand Financial Crisis be revisited too?
And there I was thinking you were just another Thaksin stooge practicing the politics of division. As to whether or not others try to pigeon-hole me as a royalist or republican or whatever, I’m sure that’s a lot easier to do for those poor who only see such complex issues in black & white.
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BN’s election fraud:
In the 12th GE 2008, Pakatan Rakyat won Selangor, since 2008, the Selangor electoral rolls have ballooned by 22% (over 340,000 voters) to more than 1.9 million, compared to a national average of 16.3 %.
Up to 90 % cent of ballots cast through postal votes support BN!
31,294 voters have been transferred out of their 2008 state & parliamentary constituencies without their consent, the incumbent CM of Selangor too.
42,000 voters whose citizenship cannot be verified by the National Registration Dept still on the roll.
The electoral rolls carry 65,543 voters who are 85 yrs of age and older; and 1000 voters aged more than 100 yrs.
15,855 voters on the roll have NRIC numbers showing they are of a different gender from that listed by the EC.
4500 voters who are spouses of police officers are registered as postal voters in breach of the law.
Over 400,000 dubious voters are on the electoral roll, enough to swing 35 federal seats either way to capture Putrajaya!
Gerrymandering in 55 yrs enables BN to win 51% of the seats in parliament with just 15.4% of the popular votes cast. Up to 1 million Malaysians residing overseas denied their right to vote by the EC.
No scrutiny – Malaysia has refused access to int’l election watch groups after the 1990 general election!
Everyday ethnic tensions in Myanmar
Patrick
Thank you for your summation of the purposefully ignorant ‘foreign academics and journalists’.
From Nich article here
http://www.newmandala.org/2013/03/08/hundreds-of-bags-of-fish/
anyone especially NGO and UN must realize the ‘tinder box’ status of religious intolerance, a proxy for hopelessness due mainly to abject poverty.
Yet the self serving, self perpetuating desire of NGO, which UN is the largest one persist.
I do not see any conflict of such kind where the majority are Buddhists and there are NO abject poverty.
http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/8920-rohingya-camps-more-like-prisons-says-un-envoy.html
Yet articles like this and related one stroke the fire of intolerance by pitting one group as victims against another while everyone is under the goad of abject poverty.
The continuing legacies of past 2+ CENTURIES that has brought about this present tragedy need to be addressed in toto.
Until then this periodic spasm, one aspect of Myanmar racial/religious quagmire shall continue, for sure while the NGO and token HR advocate continue to profit.
Everyday ethnic tensions in Myanmar
Excellent and thanks. You encapsulated the local Buddhist thinking in those five sets. I reckon Tin Win’s wife is as feisty as Burmese women come and refused to convert and he really loves her.
Everyday ethnic tensions in Myanmar
Excellent post.
It strikes me that there are too few foreign academics and journalists — those who often dictate the outside world’s view of Myanmar — with the Burmese language skills to hang out in tea shops or beer stalls and really take the temperature out on the streets.
This type of barbershop chatter is very revealing and it’s not the sort of talk one hears when visiting a neighborhood for an hour with a translator.
Campaigning on lèse-majesté
Your post was not up: I was replying to Vichai.
To you I would say that the most successful members of the Thai middle class have all too often succumbed to temptation and gladly sold out the middle class and the poor to become one of the rich.
Of course this coercion is achieved in a variety of ways, but effectively it’s a bag of carrots – and sticks.
Interview with Professor Michael Aung-Thwin
@28.2.1.1.1
Not too fast
Ko Moe Aung
Gorby’s way.
B/t your ilk and U.N. Quintana, Myanmar quagmires is but the problems of “yours general”. Therefore yesteryear blaming the generals must apply, eh.
The existing problems are still the same as those right after independence in 1948.
Most if not all of them the legacy of colonization and WWII.
As long as these historical origin of these quagmires:
Ethic, racial strife are not address properly these continuing military exploitation of the country will continue enriching self through “Unity”.
UN with it past knee jerk reactions only could have addressed the issues of autonomy of various groups through thinker like the professor and various historians yet it choose to dictate and intimidate without means to alleviate the quagmire once more.
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Campaigning on lèse-majesté
So was I.
Interview with Professor Michael Aung-Thwin
If we take things at face value the Nazis must be socialist and represented the German workers. Totalitarianism is where the extreme Right and Left meet.
China today is a good example of a totalitarian capitalist state with global ambitions, a very different beast from Maoist China, the worst of both worlds but definitely modern and prosperous just the ticket for economic determinists like your good self. Your generals would have loved to go the Chinese way except that was no longer the option so the Gorby way it is.
Campaigning on lèse-majesté
Clearly, I was referring to INDUSTRY unions.
Hopefully, I don’t need to define that for you.
Campaigning on lèse-majesté
I have wondered about the crawlers’ unions of Thailand, and the scarcity of independent unions that genuinely represent the interests of labour. Could it be because the interests of capital are policed by cheaply hired hit-men? That could also explain why the topic is seldom even discussed.
Interview with Professor Michael Aung-Thwin
Your slip showing again.
Ko Moe Aung
Commie = Totalitarianism = Dictatorship
Just because Stalin fight Mao and vice versa as in Ne Win/Tin Pe fight BCP Than Tun does not disqualify them as lesser Totalitarianism followers.
As for Ba Maw Tin Aung a prolific nationalist author, his legacy beyond a left leaning figure is up for debate.
Campaigning on lèse-majesté
Does that union calling themselves The Red Shitts of Thailan qualify as an ‘independent union’ by your dictionary thaifarang? If not then why is that?
Campaigning on lèse-majesté
Most, possibly all Thais (save those with vested interests I discuss the broad politics of Thailand with(in Thai)readily express the view that they are heartily sick of getting the rough end of the pineapple from employers (and others) who uphold double-standards to which they are required to conform. Of course, having worked here in Thailand half my life, I’ve experienced a lot of this first hand too, but I don’t have the legal option of working for myself. Much of the stratification of Thai society which underpins this unfairness is invisible to me, but the growing willingness to express such dissatisfaction openly is healthy. One glaring weakness in the Thai polity is of course the dominance of company unions and public sector unions compared to the independent unions which made vital contributions to progress in countries like Korea and Australia. IMO it is independent unions which are needed to properly inform and mobilize the masses, not big capitalists primarily concerned about private wealth rather than the common wealth of the country.
Without independent unions for protection, only the very brave or desperate dare to speak out.
Interview with Professor Michael Aung-Thwin
Both Ne Win’s appendages and faux socialists, the latter gave the army a taste for money making, then became the arch agent provocateur in 1988.
And why do you think this particular military dictatorship lasted as long as it did? Their staunch anti-communism. So if it ain’t broke why fix it? Doing so brilliantly fighting commies, impoverishing the country and enriching themselves.
Corruption in Thailand
I think about time ‘Thailand Corruption’ gets a revisit. The Yingluck government will be embarking on a massive Baht 2 trillion infrastructure projects and borrowing spree. Quite easily, that Baht 2 trillion figure will be twice or thrice padded by the 30% palms-greasing going-under-the-table-rate. Expect project overruns, expect project declays and expect pay-offs and kick-backs aplenty.
Will that 1997 Thailand Financial Crisis be revisited too?
Domesticating royal power
Ditto: delete ‘poor’ in line 3
Domesticating royal power
And there I was thinking you were just another Thaksin stooge practicing the politics of division. As to whether or not others try to pigeon-hole me as a royalist or republican or whatever, I’m sure that’s a lot easier to do for those poor who only see such complex issues in black & white.