Monthly Archives: April 2011

Everyday is groundhog day in Thailand…

Posted on April 29, 2011 by jfl

In the midst of a typically rambling ‘news’ article the Bangkok Post makes known its ‘elite’ view that political change is impossible in Thailand… Weekly highlights Despite the five-year political ban he is still serving, and the jail sentence handed … Continue reading →

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Where were the idiots from the Puea Thai party?

Posted on April 27, 2011 by jfl

House passes Public Gathering Bill The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Public Gathering Bill in the third reading with a vote of 217-8 with 41 abstentions and six “no votes”. There are currently 474 MPs in the House … Continue reading →

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Japan’s nuclear crisis far from over

Posted on April 27, 2011 by jfl

8 June – Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate Inquiry launched into nuclear disaster as studies reveal contamination more widely spread than first thought by Justin McCurry TOKYO – The amount of radiation released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power … Continue reading →

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Election watch on coup-appointed EC

Posted on April 25, 2011 by jfl

Election watch on gunmen for hire Crime Suppression Division police throughout the country have been instructed to keep a close watch on the movements of known gunmen who may be hired to kill political rivals ahead of the general election. … Continue reading →

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That was then… this is now…

Posted on April 25, 2011 by jfl

There was great outrage at Thai military aggression in February… …but now aggressive war in Cambodia is – as with America’s wars – just ‘what we do’? And the Thais and Cambodians’ll just have to get used to it? Sansern: … Continue reading →

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Boonsanong Punyodyana (1936 – 1976)

Posted on April 25, 2011 by jfl

PPT has posted Michael Sloggett’s translations of both Somsak’s first and second open letters to HRH Princess Chulaporn. The Bangkok Pundit had previously published a translation of Somsak’s 8 points of reform of lèse majesté law. New wave of Thai … Continue reading →

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The war against Cambodia

Posted on April 23, 2011 by jfl

Cambodia sends letter to UNSC accusing Thai’s “large-scale attack” Cambodia sent a letter to the president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Friday, asking it to interfere in the most recent armed clashes took place Friday morning between … Continue reading →

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Can There be an End to Our ‘Troubles’?

Posted on April 23, 2011 by jfl

Gavan McCormack writes in Can There be an End to Japan as a Nuclear State? The challenge is fundamentally political: can Japan’s civil society accomplish the sovereignty guaranteed it under the constitution and wrest control over the levers of state … Continue reading →

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I like poems, do you?

Posted on April 23, 2011 by jfl

Birthday Poem, 2011 by MARC BEAUDIN A night of rain gives way to a morning of snow falling reluctantly from hawk-filled skies with a bad back I hobble, slower than my grandfather ever did, out to the barn to feed … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 22, 2011 by jfl
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