Friday , August29 , 2008
- Ian
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- Does Dignity & Respect exist in a Thai workplace ( VERTIGO )
- Andrew Walker Wrote: Samak Shows Remarkable Restraint ( Dalmasian )
- How Many PAD Demonstrators Are There Altogether This Time Around? ( Dalmasian )
- Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 28-September 3, 2008 ( wisekwai )
- Are there any intelligent people in Thailand? ( Ian )
- Webcast Aug 28 ( vodcast )
- The PAD ' s Result ( Hs )
- Stepff sends us his version of PAD ( veen )
- Panlop says he will take over if Chamlong is arrested ( Yoon )
- Is cold war coming? ( allen )
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Thursday , August 28 , 2008
Are there any intelligent people in Thailand?
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| Are there any intelligent people in Thailand? I think the answer must be YES. So the real question is where are they and what are they doing? Where do we look for such people?Can anyone help me out, any suggestions? .... |
Wednesday , August 27 , 2008
Scapegoats:-)
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| Ever since the "escape" of the Thaksin family from Thailand, and the PAD behaviour becoming more and more violent, I have noticed that those bloggers who support the PAD have become increasingly vitriolic in their comments about the West and in particular the UK and the USA.It seems as if they refuse to admit that Thailand's problems are homegrown, the result of a multipronged power strugg.... |
Thursday , August 21 , 2008
The Gary Glitter questions
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| The recent events regarding Gary Glitter has made me think about how things work in our global society. It has created a number of questions for me that I cannot answer.One question is that we know under UK law that a UK citizen that engages in paedophile activity whilst abroad can be punished by the British judicial system even if his actions were not illegal in the country where they took place.How.... |
Tuesday , August 19 , 2008
Olympic medals table
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| I don't normally take much interest in sport but the Olympics are difficult to ignore, they are the headlines every day in the media.I was looking at todays Olympic medal table http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/medals_table/default.stmIt seems to me there are many different ways of looking at this, I remember reading that at the previous Olympics Slovenia came out top percentagewise, just one .... |
Monday , August 18 , 2008
One article, two observations
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| Whilst scanning the BBC website today I came across this articlehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7563456.stmIt was about Gary Glitter and sex tourism.The headline was The government is "turning a blind eye" to British sex tourists and failing to prevent abuse despite having laws in place for 10 years, claims a charity. Ok a fairly standard rant from the anti-paedophile mob. Then I noticed this.... |
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