Tenured academics (deputy deans even) who take sides in political disputes.
Very pitiful.
There are two sides to this political dispute and the coverage of this reality is woefully inadequate in this blog.
Red shirt Dr. Weng, another example of a partisan intellectual, who can only see human rights violations where it supports Thaksin and red shirt protests, dismissing the 2003 War on Drugs with thousands of deaths as being ok.
What exactly is the goal here of always only looking at one side of the argument?
To create a bunch of echoing mini-mes ?
One would think academics would try to set an example of even-handedness.
Being partisan blinds people to the two-sided nature of truth.
[Hierarchy and deference to authority is ingrained at all levels of Thai society, not just the highest which some obsessively focus on in their analysis.]
It’s going to be a busy week for Bhumipol, with it now reported that he will meet with outgoing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Perhaps Wen will also bring along a photo album so the two can reminisce over 60 years of Thailand’s relationship with communist China :-O
Multiple red shirt rallies well away from Pitak Siam but numerically in total swamping PS’s projected 80000 would seem to be UDD’s best bet at this stage.
We are so grateful to President Obama’s visit to Thailand and King Bhumibol. It’s the signal to the world that US is now fully supporting the elected government of Thailand not the military coupes as had happened so many times during the reign of the present King.
RANGOON, Burma – For 15 years, Aung San Suu Kyi waited in her lakeside villa, confined to the small plot of land under house arrest, dreaming of her return to the world.
On Monday, the world, or a big piece of it, came calling on her.
Looking at Obama’s visit to Thailand through the symbolic frame is truly enlightening. This paradigm provides a very interesting perspective. Thank you.
Thongdaeng (or his clone) also wasn’t present. Thai elected leaders are for more fortunate than the World Leaders to be able to get up close and personal with the King’s pet dog.
I remembered when Obama met with the Japanese Emporer he bowed (a Japanese traditional way of greeting, as I understand it) to the Emporer and was criticized for bowing too deelply.
In view of such criticism, why didn’t he bow or did the Thai version of bowing (what is it, I’m not sure) to the Thai King?
NY Times piece on Obama’s grandfather’s time with the British Army in Burma and how Obama’s grandfather is part of Obama’s identity according to his auto-biography, etc.
Best friends forever [BFF] – Australia and Malaysia.
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said the UN would benefit hugely from what Malaysia could present to it.
“Malaysia has an enormously strong case to sit in the engine room of the UN.
“I am honoured to say we will support Malaysia’s candidacy for the Security Council in 2015/2016 term,” he said after a courtesy call on Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein here yesterday.
Carr, who is on a four-day visit to Malaysia since Sunday, also thanked Malaysia for supporting Australia’s candidacy for the Security Council.
In the laureate pic, ASSK’s smile may not be as beatific as usual. Both government and NLD people were suggesting a fortnight ago that she was less than keen on this visit.
But if Obama has recovered from the profound jet-lag he displayed in Bangkok, he should be beaming in the pic. Yangon is hardly Thein Sein’s home turf. It is a very significant concession to meet a visting head-of-state outside of the capital.
Talk about a ‘pea brain’ attempt to justify 3 decades of useless careless policy or worst brilliant and obviously successful means to white wash the West iniquities, with present Kayin vs Bamar and similar conflicts.
A far cry compared to yesteryear accusations of “Genocide” “ethnic cleansing” and “Dafur”.
Hmm
A last whimper by the West, westerners and its Man Fridays?
When it was fashionable to equate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with the fate of ‘Myanmar Citizenry’, useless careless policy was the toast of every Westerners’ events despite the well documented untoward results, ALL against the citizenry.
Now it is equating “ALL the activities of Tamadaw” as being endorsed by the Myanmar Citizenry as Myanmar/BAmar chauvinism.
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Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
Tenured academics (deputy deans even) who take sides in political disputes.
Very pitiful.
There are two sides to this political dispute and the coverage of this reality is woefully inadequate in this blog.
Red shirt Dr. Weng, another example of a partisan intellectual, who can only see human rights violations where it supports Thaksin and red shirt protests, dismissing the 2003 War on Drugs with thousands of deaths as being ok.
What exactly is the goal here of always only looking at one side of the argument?
To create a bunch of echoing mini-mes ?
One would think academics would try to set an example of even-handedness.
Being partisan blinds people to the two-sided nature of truth.
[Hierarchy and deference to authority is ingrained at all levels of Thai society, not just the highest which some obsessively focus on in their analysis.]
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
It’s going to be a busy week for Bhumipol, with it now reported that he will meet with outgoing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Perhaps Wen will also bring along a photo album so the two can reminisce over 60 years of Thailand’s relationship with communist China :-O
Red Shirts in Bang Pla
Multiple red shirt rallies well away from Pitak Siam but numerically in total swamping PS’s projected 80000 would seem to be UDD’s best bet at this stage.
The Shinawatra family tree
Well, the king has tens of thousands of volumes, most saying much the same….
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
Bet he doesn’t pay taxes in the U.S. like all citizens and permanent residents do when overseas.
Before jumping to too many conclusions, this is just a dig on the tax liability (or not) of the CPB.
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
We are so grateful to President Obama’s visit to Thailand and King Bhumibol. It’s the signal to the world that US is now fully supporting the elected government of Thailand not the military coupes as had happened so many times during the reign of the present King.
Mr Obama goes to Myanmar
David Nakamura-Washington Post:
RANGOON, Burma – For 15 years, Aung San Suu Kyi waited in her lakeside villa, confined to the small plot of land under house arrest, dreaming of her return to the world.
On Monday, the world, or a big piece of it, came calling on her.
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
James – Donald Trump would probably ask for Bumiphol’s birth certificate – and never believe it was real when he got it.
The Shinawatra family tree
I think if the King merits only one volume of 300+ pages (TKNS), then Thaksin and Pojaman needs probably only 2 chapters to do them justice.
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
It is going to be harder for the right wing royalists to overthrow Yingluk now she has added legitimacy from pro democratic Obama.
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
Looking at Obama’s visit to Thailand through the symbolic frame is truly enlightening. This paradigm provides a very interesting perspective. Thank you.
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
Worth noting that the King was born in the U.S. and so qualifies to be a U.S. citizen with the right to run (however inexplicably) for U.S. President.
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
Thongdaeng (or his clone) also wasn’t present. Thai elected leaders are for more fortunate than the World Leaders to be able to get up close and personal with the King’s pet dog.
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
I remembered when Obama met with the Japanese Emporer he bowed (a Japanese traditional way of greeting, as I understand it) to the Emporer and was criticized for bowing too deelply.
In view of such criticism, why didn’t he bow or did the Thai version of bowing (what is it, I’m not sure) to the Thai King?
Bhumibol, Obama, Yingluck
Link to YouTube Thai tv video of Obama standing, shaking hands with the Thai King on Sunday evening.
Mr Obama goes to Myanmar
NY Times piece on Obama’s grandfather’s time with the British Army in Burma and how Obama’s grandfather is part of Obama’s identity according to his auto-biography, etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/world/asia/in-myanmar-obama-will-see-land-that-shaped-his-grandfather.html
Bob Carr and electoral reforms in Malaysia
Best friends forever [BFF] – Australia and Malaysia.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/11/8/nation/12291268&sec=nation
Mr Obama goes to Myanmar
The head of a state most responsible for the excesses of the West now recognizing the useless careless of past policy.
A policy that has wiped out the remnant of exchanges in Education/ideas that existed even under similar butcher Ne Win.
Will Obama redirect the West fixation onto the dire need of the citizenry instead of the excesses of the military?
Unfortunately Rangoon Arts and Science University is fast becoming an area of contested real estate.
Its functions of education relegated to multiple campuses in Yangon outlying area.
Real education need in Myanmar is the secondary school. An area even this present government is begging for assistance.
Mr Obama goes to Myanmar
In the laureate pic, ASSK’s smile may not be as beatific as usual. Both government and NLD people were suggesting a fortnight ago that she was less than keen on this visit.
But if Obama has recovered from the profound jet-lag he displayed in Bangkok, he should be beaming in the pic. Yangon is hardly Thein Sein’s home turf. It is a very significant concession to meet a visting head-of-state outside of the capital.
Will Karen State go to war again?
Myanmar Chauvinism
Talk about a ‘pea brain’ attempt to justify 3 decades of useless careless policy or worst brilliant and obviously successful means to white wash the West iniquities, with present Kayin vs Bamar and similar conflicts.
A far cry compared to yesteryear accusations of “Genocide” “ethnic cleansing” and “Dafur”.
Hmm
A last whimper by the West, westerners and its Man Fridays?
When it was fashionable to equate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with the fate of ‘Myanmar Citizenry’, useless careless policy was the toast of every Westerners’ events despite the well documented untoward results, ALL against the citizenry.
Now it is equating “ALL the activities of Tamadaw” as being endorsed by the Myanmar Citizenry as Myanmar/BAmar chauvinism.