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Government Seeks Removal of Red Shirt Demonstrators from Shopping District The Thai government is seeking a court injunction to force the red shirt protesters to depart from Bangkok’s central commercial and trade district. The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship persisted last night in claiming it would not move from Ratchaprasong, the capital’s major shopping [...]

Definition of “Delusional” from Merriam Webster Dictionary 1 : the act of deluding : the state of being deluded 2 a : something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated b : a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to [...]

Lord of Suvarnabhumi By Thanong Khanthong The Nation Published on December 5, 2009 King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who turns 82 today, has been practicing two virtues simultaneously as he aims for complete enlightenment. With perseverance and giving as his goal, King Bhumibol has attained a pure soul. He guides his people to realise Suvarnabhumi, the Golden [...]

Thaksin and his nominee governments Thailand’s Monarchy has been around in Thailand for 700 years. It is an institution of great reverence. It is the strength of Thailand, not an obstacle to progress. The politicians are the liabilities of our democratic system. If the politicians are clean and really work for the progress of the [...]

The 13 Day History of the Red-shirt revolution Red-shirt revolution Timeline: How the red-shirt protest developed and ended BangkokPost.com, AFP March 26: Thousands of Thaksin supporters in trademark red shirts begin rallying in Bangkok, calling on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his government to resign and allow fresh elections. They are spurred on by Thaksin [...]

Attn: Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts of Thailand If we divide into two camps, even into violent and the nonviolent, and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree [...]

ECONOMIC BLITZKRIEG by Dave S. Brian Bloom’s latest insightful article at www.gold-eagle.com got me thinking again. In an attempt to understand the tremendous, unprecedented economic and political developments of the past few years, I am putting forth the hypothesis that the ‘powers that be” in the West are engaged in a strategy of ‘Economic Blitzkrieg’ [...]

Suspected ‘Bad Girls’ Banned from Protest Sites by David Barkdull Bangkok The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) have yet again shown their true colors by banning suspected ‘bad girls’ from their protest site at Government House. Declaring its protest site off limits to sex workers, the PAD security guards did not only warn the protesters [...]

An open letter to the Ladies Professional Golf Association ‘LPGA’ I’m sitting in Bangkok reading an Associated Press news article in my local paper entitled “English Only.” It appears that the Ladies Professional Golf Association has proposed that an English language test be imposed on foreign golfers. If someone on the street told me of [...]