Archive for the 'Society' Category
Bangkok’s 9/11
The events of the passed few weeks, days and hours will be burned deeply into Bangkok’s psyche. Our Bangkok will be back. Not tomorrow, not next week – and any other attempt to hold a colored mass protest masqueraded as peaceful will ring alarm bells. Warning, graphic, this is what happened on May 19th, 2010.
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The Stockholm Syndrome & Kraisak Choonhavan’s Letter To ACHR
One of the most amazing observations these days is the hardening of hearts and minds. Have to find yet a red shirt supporter or an opponent of the red shirts who changed to the other camp. Yes, there was a coup once, but we were way beyond that. And no, Thaksin is absolutely not out
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Carte Blanche
Say what you want here. Post your anger, fear, regret. Post a link, a photo, whatever matters. What’s next? A shut mouth catches no flies. Silence is golden. Still, everyone has a strong opinion right now. This site takes the useless pride in having warned from the beginning all the reds have is escalation. That’s
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Thailand: A Chinese Colony?
So what about that Thai identity. The kingdom has so far been spared the racial chasm that openly split Indonesia and still today Malaysia. Are ethnic Chinese the shadowy masters of Thais? Name a leader here. They’re all of Chinese descent. Except, yes. There is no Singapore without them. But what would Thailand today be
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Thitinan & The Symbolism Of Ratchaprasong
Full house at the FCCT once again when a kind of The Last of the Mohicans among local academics, Ajarn Thitinan Pongsudhirak, took the floor only hours before the red Ratchaprasong rally culminated in a conditional declaration of victory. The reds want government guarantees and Abhisit shall not look like a hero. Enough is enough,
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Dr. Weng Talks: No Thaksin Protector?
Well am not really a fan of the current red tactics, no, there isn’t any real strategy for any betterment. What looks red could easily be yellow – hey both want democracy with the king as the head of state. But that doesn’t mean that one has to concrete-caste one’s head. So I took a
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The Unbearable Lightness Of Civil War
Considered myself to be in the middle, neither pro anyone nor against any party. But since that FCCT presser with the red shirts’ Khun Jaran speaking casually about the possibility of civil war I had to take a side. Made a turn, albeit reluctantly. Today’s headlines are dominated by the gloom and doom of a
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TFY
TFY – Think For Yourself. But first: am stuck in Europe. About to head back to the realm, but Icelandic volcano ashes grounded some 16,000 flights. Well looking at the Central European sky this sunny Saturday afternoon I cannot see a single darkish cloud. Satellite images show marginal ash contact with outer Continental Europe. Yes
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Making Good Use Of The Poor
Probably traveled too much through the former Soviet Union and the old Eastern Bloc before the fall of the Berlin Wall, but to hear the communist terminology of class war out of the mouth of the probably most monopolist figure in Thailand’s recent history makes it not hard to have a good laugh. You witness
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Red Inside Story
Al Jazeera, unfortunately not carried by Thailand’s monopolist cable TV company TrueVisions – an offspring of Thaksin’s old IBC – recently aired this 24-minutes “Inside Story: Thailand’s Blood Sacrifice” embedded below. Something to sit back and relax a little after those nervous days. Worth a watch. The London School of Economics’ Tim Forsyth does most
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