buffalo_bill Posted January 14, 2014 Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 Protesters urged to look after their health In a statement Tuesday, Department of Health director-general Dr Porntep Siriwanarangsun said protesters could have a banana handy, as it was a good source of nutrition. He also urged people to not get obsessed with political issues and spend time on other activities like listening to the radio or exercising. http://www.nationmul...h-30224283.html Dr Porntep is right . Eating banana and exercise boom-boom very good for health . i hope he become Chief of Central Committee . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 At NINE PM I was at Siam station last night returning to SaphanThaksin on the sky train and the Paragon was locked up tight as a tick=closed shut- NOt good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 For Sale: A nice shade of red on a tee shirt with bold lettering, "Stick that whistle where the sun don't shine!!!". Limited stock. Order now at the special price of 299 Baht from Mr. Stupid, Ltd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Violent incidents last night ... - Hua Chang bridge on Phayathai - man and woman injured by possible pong bomb. - Ping poing bomb thrown at Abhisit's house (3 arrested) - Chartered bus that brought protesters from Songkla hit in arsonist attempt So far not more violent than an ordinary night in LOS! ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 For Sale: A nice shade of red on a tee shirt with bold lettering, "Stick that whistle where the sun don't shine!!!". Limited stock. Order now at the special price of 299 Baht from Mr. Stupid, Ltd. Give me your address and I'll post it at Asoke for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 AeroThai and SET are in protesters' sights In an attempt to increase pressure on the government, the hard-line movement Students and People Network for Thailand's Reform (STR) yesterday confirmed it planned to blockade the Stock Exchange of Thailand and the offices of Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (AeroThai) if caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra did not resign. STR coordinator Uthai Yodmanee said the group would wait until 8pm tonight - its deadline for Yingluck to step down. "If Yingluck does not resign by then, the STR will block the stock market and the Aeronautical Radio of Thailand office," he said, adding that STR leaders were designing a strategy on how to blockade the two places. Any disruption of AeroThai's services could cause chaos for civilian aircraft, including domestic and international passenger flights, scheduled to land in Thailand, as well as those flying through Thai airspace, Uthai said. STR was ready to rally at any alternative venue where cabinet members worked on behalf of the caretaker government, he said. "The STR will step up its efforts in a peaceful way," he added. Caretaker Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt said yesterday that if anti-government protesters occupied the Aeronautical Radio of Thailand compound as they have threatened, they would be charged with terrorism. Police and soldiers had been mobilised to protect all operational bases of AeroThai, whose central command is located in Bangkok's Thung Maha Mek area. The Stock Exchange of Thailand compound is located on Ratchadaphisek Road near the Queen Sirikit Convention Centre. The president of AeroThai, Prajak Sajjasophon, said the agency's operations were crucial to the safety of air passengers and international flights - so protesters should consider the country's image before deciding to disrupt its services. The main anti-government movement, the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), which leads the anti-government efforts including the Bangkok shutdown campaign, yesterday reaffirmed it would not seize airports, key transportation systems or the stock market. PDRC chief Suthep Thaugsuban yesterday declared a total shutdown of all state properties in the next few days, as well as the possibility of holding the prime minister and some Cabinet members captive to force her caretaker government to resign, to make way for a reform plan he had designed. Speaking at a rally stage at the Asoke intersection, the PDRC chief said the capital would be occupied round the clock until protesters' months-long street protests - of which the Bangkok shutdown campaign is a part - achieve their aims. Suthep said he was approached by an unnamed individual yesterday morning and offered a postponement of the general election from February 2 to May 4, but he had snubbed the offer. "Government buildings will be completely shut down in the next few days. I will take the lead," said Suthep. PDRC spokesman Akanat Promphan said the committee had no plans to seize AeroThai, the train stations, the public transport system or the stock exchange. "The PDRC wants the public to be minimally affected by its movement, and to leave them options for commuting," he added. If any PDRC ally decided to disrupt key transport systems, Akanat said, the group would negotiate with them and they would be unlikely to make any move beyond the PDRC's resolutions. About 1,000 protesters marched to the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board, as they claimed that the PM's secretary-general Suranand Vejjajiva would use the place to work. They blew whistles and urged officials there to stop work for five days. About 100 officials walked out of their office as protesters cheered and blew whistles. Having found no one left in the NESDB office, they closed the gate with a big lock. http://www.nationmul...s-30224325.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Carnival atmosphere in downtown Bangkok by Nirmal Ghosh, The Straits Times Thailand's government ceded the streets of downtown Bangkok on Monday to protesters clamouring for the resignation of caretaker Premier Yingluck Shinawatra. Nine bullets lodged in the plate glass window of an empty cafe on the ground floor of the opposition Democrat Party headquarters at 2:30am were no deterrent. Crowds in the thousands chanted "Yingluck awk pai" (Yingluck get out) and turned Bangkok's upscale downtown retail and business district into a carnival. Rock music, live graffiti art and sloganeering T-shirts proliferated on Sukhumvit Road. When a police helicopter hovered briefly overhead - virtually the only sign of a police presence - the crowd jeered and blew the shrill whistles that have become the signature of the movement. Vendors made a killing on food and merchandise. One peddling "Bangkok Shutdown" T-shirts at 150 baht (US$4.55) apiece sold 1,000 during the day - and these were still flying off his trestle table at the Ratchaprasong intersection, one of the seven intersections blockaded yesterday. While hooded graffiti artist Crude spray-painted a massive sign with the words "Shut Up Down", students from Silapakorn University, an art college*, used stencils to spray-paint posters and print them on T-shirts. Vijira Pasomsapya, 17, who cannot vote until she is 18, was there with her family. They had taken the skytrain from their home in Lad Prao to Ratchaprasong, where they joined the anti-government protesters. They will return to the intersection today. "We are here to protect Thailand from Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother Thaksin Shinawatra," said Vijira. "There is so much corruption in this government. We want to reform before we have another election." The protesters gathered under the banner of the People's Democratic Reform Committee led by veteran Democrat Party politician Suthep Thaugsuban, who calls the movement a "people's revolution" against corruption and electoral fraud. The reference is to Thaksin, loathed by Bangkok's conservative elites who view him as a corrupt, vote-buying populist who, though he lives in self-imposed exile abroad, is the puppet master of the ruling Puea Thai party. Across town at another rally site, Manat Thongyort, a 25-year-old student at an Islamic school, said: "Today is the first time I have joined the protest because today is a big day. We want the prime minister to leave." He added: "My mother and father support me being here. Our whole community supports this. Thaksin made problems for the Muslim community in the deep south and the military has done many wrongs there." As darkness fell and the lights of downtown Bangkok came on, at the Asoke intersection a few kilometres up the road from Ratchaprasong, a rock band took to the makeshift stage belting out Gloria Gaynor's 1978 hit, I Will Survive. http://www.asianewsn...news-56091.html *Well, one faculty anyway ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Just heard that the going daily rate for one protester is....2500 Baht!!! Billions of Baht are pouring into these protests...and "you" think the people that put up the funds will not be looking to get something back? and that will be the "new corruption"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Absolutely follow the money. There has been ENORMOUSand I mean massive infrastructure funding (trains BTS eveyrywhere you name it) of which off the top "cost" is about 25-30%...Now who will get that money?? Thaksin and Suthep are fighting for the end game. Can one image in if the Demo or Republicans in the USA dediced to walk out of work then take to the streets and then say if they did not get their way for an unelected "council" they would kidnap perople or hold the Black Bush hostage- Think Kent State- Thaksin is a maniac but is this a better way to insitgate change? Mai roo ...mai nae... INMO both the reds and this group are wayy out to lunch I takes alot to get me posting here again I will give it a rest.Thanks for listening. TIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 At NINE PM I was at Siam station last night returning to SaphanThaksin on the sky train and the Paragon was locked up tight as a tick=closed shut- NOt good. Most dept store have announced early closing ours. Late at night is when "incidents" happen ... bombings, drive-by shootings etc. It is wise to stay home at night. I wonder how long this will go on. Yingluck clearly has wanted to resign for some time, but Big Bro won't let her. She is really caught in the middle and never even wanted the job in the first place. What kind of a guy would do this to his own baby sister, who had no interest in politics and was happy working in the family businesses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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