Thailand’s People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) is starting to show it’s strength as the Thaksin Regime otherwise known as the People power Party (PPP) steps back from it’s threat to forcibly remove the PAD protesters Saturday. With the law and court rulings on the side of the PAD, removing them by force would just open up another can of worms for the government. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Politics from around the world.
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Dealing with high prices Thai Style
Once again Thailand struggles with high energy costs. A court ordered an injunction against buses raising fares, however bus operators when faced with losing money or making no money, the lesser of two evils prevailed and 10,000 buses now sit parked in the greater Bangkok area. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Thailand escalating battle with Thaksin
Thaksin once again employs his dirty underhand work to fight the Thais who truly have Thailand’s best interest in mind. The events of the last 48 hours are remarkably similar to events just before the 2006 coup. Failure of the police to protect peaceful protesters from Thaksin’s paid thugs is just the start. Blood in the streets is not that far away. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Thailand vs the Thaksin Regime
Once again the phrase Thaksin Regime has found it’s way into the news in Thailand. If you have been following the happenings in Thailand over the last 2 or 3 years, you will know that the coup in September 2006 was staged to stop the Thaksin regime that was hours away from assuming complete control of the country by removing all that could stop them. The last remaining item for the Thaksin regime was controlling the military, however the military moved first stopping the Thaksin Regime with a bloodless coup. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Thailand moves closer to another coup
Thailand’s government took another step closer to a coup in the last 24 hours. This gathering of bad boys has once again shown that they are only concerned about themselves and not the country. Of the people polled, Prime Minister Samak’s popularity ratings, compared to the 45.4% of support from the people he garnered in February, that figure has now dropped to 21.4% in May. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Hold on one second sweetie
The fact that this even found it’s way to the media shows what a fanatical state political correctness has achieved. As I said political correctness is truly for politicians and Barack Obama is a politician. The sad thing is society is mimicking this absurd level. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Hillary’s time to concede out has come
Looking at the political landscape, the time for Hillary Clinton to throw in the towel. Beyond today lies the few states that just don’t add up to the numbers she needs to win. Although Hillary waged a strong and long fight to win the democratic nomination, the people have spoken and have planted their support behind another Banner. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Fast track to a Coup
Thailand’s government is playing with fire by wanting to change the constitution for self serving reasons. The reason they want to change the constitution is because several parties face dissolution for not following the rules during the elections. So it is very obvious they wish to whitewash themselves to stay in power. Continue reading Post ID 49
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The world is not ready for freedom and democracy
If you take a good hard look around the globe you will see some good things and some bad things when it comes to governments. When asking yourself the question is the world ready for freedom and democracy, you will either blindly answer based on the concept of freedom and democracy, or you will discover something else. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Burma’s Shotgun wedding
In a few days the junta in Burma will hold what can only be defined as a shotgun wedding with their new charter. Vote for the military or else is the message. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Politically incorrect Thailand politics
Thailand is a wonderful country filled with marvelous sights, beautiful women, and some very corrupt politicians. For the typical tourist the political scene is all but invisible, but to people that live in Thailand, the reality of political corruption is all too real. Where political correctness should be reserved for politicians, there are a few political parties in Thailand that shun being politically correct all together. Continue reading Post ID 49
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The Hot Torch
It started as is has for many years, the Olympic flame is kindled from the sun at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece. Then the flame is carried by runners to the great games. However this year the Olympic torch has lit many fires of protest along the way. Not about the Olympic games, but about the bad human rights reputation of this year’s host country China. Tibet is just the tip of the iceberg as even Korea is getting into the act because of forced North Korean repatriation of defectors that often results in an execution of that defector. There certainly is a lot of discontentment to go around. Continue reading Post ID 49
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Global Warming and the very real Food Shortage
I thought global warming would be a good place to start this blog. I think it is very important to consider what they are not telling us about how dire the situation really is. We have all heard about global warming and many if not all of us have had our lives influenced by it. One thing that I have noticed is the tipping point is much closer than people realize if we have not past it already. The tipping point as I define it is when nature will do what the politicians can’t or won’t because of greed or other such self indulgence.
Less we forget we are all part of nature but in our ultimate arrogance as humans we see ourselves as above nature. We tamper with genetics and managed to mess up the planet in the relative blink of an eye. When nature does what nature does to bring back balance is it not subtle or politically correct. When something is out of balance nature will fix it as it has done for as long as anyone can remember.