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Then that'll be him.

No she wouldn't let me.

Americans are calling the tornado that killed over 90 people in Oklahoma an act of God. I call choosing to live in a place nicknamed "Tornado Alley," an act of stupidity.

Studies have shown that the kind of male face a woman finds attractive can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle. For example, if a woman's ovulating she'll be attracted to a man with rugged and masculine features. If, however, she is menstruating, she is more likely to be attracted to a man with scissors jammed into his eyes and a baseball bat shoved up his arse.

I was sitting on the train this morning opposite a really sexy Thai girl. I thought to myself, "Please don't get an erection. Please don't get an erection." But she did.

I used to think my second wife was a bag.

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Whilst I think these Police are idiots, they can usually find foreigners who've committed crimes, on the basis that they stand out in a crowd. Its the Thais that commit crimes they can't find, unless ordered to.

Police haven't found the poll yet, they are determined to have the Uighur story as the correct one.

And this from another news article Link >>It comes as national police chief Somyout Poompanmoung announced he was giving the reward, which was initially offered to the public for information leading to the arrest of suspects, to his officers. Mr Poompanmoung said he was redirecting the money to motivate them and to demonstrate that the country's police are good at their job. It was not immediately clear how the money, which was brought out in stacks at a news conference by Mr Poompanmoung's aides, would be distributed. <<

All is well in LOS, see we're making progress in the case, we got a suspect, maybe the wrong suspect, no actual proof he did it, just similar fixins and a fit for our Turkish, or similar to Turkish theory. Anyway, it's not Thais wot done it. Except maybe a woman, but she's a muslim so not a real Thai. So we better get the money sorted, there's nothing more important than that, the word "Alacrity" in Farangese was invented for the skill and speed that the Thai Police handle money. Got my cut, there'll be a bottle of Sangsom on the dinner table tonight.

I won't post the whole article - link here - http://www.bangkokpo...or-bomb-attacks But this excerpt got my attention. >>A source in the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) said police and military officers are jointly questioning the arrested suspect and authorities are not ruling out any possibilities including human trafficking. << Trying to link the situation to trafficking. So that they can show they are expending a lot of effort on trafficking? Good P.R. for the trafficking issues they are labouring under? Sounds more like, "let's put out a bunch of stories and see which ones fly, we'll go with the one the public accept the most". Problem solved. It would certainly explain the range of utterances from the Authoritariyah!

Thai junta broadcast unrelated suicide vest picture August 30, 2015 11:28 am BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's junta came under scrutiny Sunday after mistakenly showing an unrelated picture of a suicide vest during a nationally televised broadcast announcing the arrest of a foreign man in connection with last week's deadly Bangkok shrine bombing. In an embarrassing u-turn officials later said the vest was not among the items found at the suspect’s flat and warned people not to share the shot online. It is the latest blunder to hit an investigation that has received criticism over how quickly investigators searched and cleared up the blast site, as well as confusing and sometimes contradictory statements from senior officers and junta officials. Police on Saturday charged a foreign man after a raid on an apartment in Bangkok’s eastern outskirts. Investigators say the man was found with bomb-making equipment linked to the 17 August blast, which killed 20 people and wounded scores more. All Thai television channels ran a broadcast at 6pm (1100 GMT) on Saturday which featured a spokesman from the Royal Thai Police and a spokesman for the National Council for Peace and Order -- the official name for the junta. As official Colonel Winthai Suvaree spoke, images from inside the suspect’s flat flashed up on the screen including pictures of the man surrounded by officers, a close portrait of the man and items laid out on a rug. Another picture was then briefly broadcast showing a vest covered in bulging pockets connected by wires, held up by a hand wearing a blue surgical glove. Winthai did not talk about or make reference to the pictures. The picture of the vest was widely shared on social media, but late Saturday police took to Twitter to say the photo of the vest was not from the flat. "The picture has nothing to do with the bombing. It is not official," police wrote on their Twitter account @PoliceSpokesmen. "We would like to ask people who published that picture to stop their actions because it might bring concern to society and it could be in breach of computer legislation," they added in another tweet. National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri, who was the police official in the national broadcast, also tweeted: "The picture that you are putting in your messages might damage the country so please could you stop because the country has already been very bruised." Neither account explained how the picture made it into the broadcast. Prawut and junta officials did not respond to AFP’s requests for comment early Monday. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Thai-junta-broadcast-unrelated-suicide-vest-pictur-30267749.html Really? unrelated pix? Maybe an unrelated bomb maker?

So much of India is living in the middle ages.

Two Indian sisters to be raped as 'punishment' after brother eloped Two sisters in India - one aged only 15 years - are to be raped as "punishment" for their brother running away with a married woman from a higher caste in the latest case to shock the country. Meenakshi Kumari, who is 23, and her younger sister, will then be paraded naked with their faces blackened through the streets, according to a ruling from the all-male village council. The sisters have petitioned the country's Supreme Court to be protected from the so-called "eye-for-an-eye" ruling from the village council in Uttar Pradesh state, 50 kilometres from the capital Delhi. The family are from the Dalit caste, historically known as "untouchables". However, the brother fell in love with a woman from the higher, Jat, caste. The woman was forced into an arranged marriage in February with a man from her own caste despite her relationship, according to Zee news, citing the elder sister Meenakshi. The couple eloped in March, but returned to the village after the man's family were allegedly tortured by police. The village council then made its ruling that the Dalit family should be dishonoured to "avenge" the brother's supposed crime. Meenakshi and her sister ran away to the capital after the ruling was handed out and were able to submit their petition for protection for their family at the Supreme Court. However, they are still facing the punishment when they return home. Khap panchayats are the archaic systems of village justice that exist in much of rural India. They are dominated by the Jat caste and are almost always run by male village elders. The "courts" often order honour killings and sexual "punishments" and are frequently allowed to operate completely outside the Indian legal system, despite the Supreme Court labelling them "kangaroo courts". Jats are powerful sources of votes and few politicians have been prepared to challenge the system. Amnesty International has set up a petition against the punishment, stating: "Nothing could justify this abhorrent punishment. It's not fair. It's not right. And it's against the law." Rachel Alcock, Amnesty UK's urgent action coordinator, said: "Rape is a revolting crime, not a punishment. It's no wonder this disgusting 'sentence' has provoked global outrage. "These Khap courts routinely order vile sexually violent punishments against women. India's supreme court has rightly declared such orders illegal. "The government of Uttar Pradesh has an urgent duty to keep this family safe. "There must also be a proper, independent investigation into these barbaric and illegal orders which apparently continue to be issued by the khap panchayat courts." The gang rape of a 23-year-old student in Delhi in December 2012horrified the country and led to mass street protests and the central government vowing reform of the penal code. However, last December, the girl's father said the promises of legal reform had not been met. A BBC documentary called India's Daughter broadcast in March proved highly controversial for its portrayal of how widespread the problem of rape is in India. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/two-indian-sisters-to-be-raped-as-punishment-after-brother-eloped-20150829-gjauvn.html#ixzz3kGSXp6Pg Follow us: @smh on Twitter | sydneymorningherald on Facebook

Bangkok bombing: Who are the Turkish terrorist group the Grey Wolves? Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John-Paul II in Rome in 1981, arrives a hotel after he was released from prison in Ankara, Turkey. Photo: AP Police arrest suspect over Bangkok shrine bombing Bangkok: Neo-fascists from a Turkish terrorist group called Grey Wolves have emerged as key suspects in the Bangkok bombing after the arrest of a man believed to be Turkish in the Thai capital with bomb making material. The group's death squads have stalked Turkey since the 1960s, murdering left-wing and liberal activists, university students and journalists and engaging in street battles and attacks. Mehmet Ali Agca in 1983: a Grey Wolves collaborator. Photo: Reuters They gained international notoriety in 1981 when Mehmet Ali Agca, one of their collaborators, shot and nearly killed Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Square. The Grey Wolves are known for their distinct hand sign, which represents a wolf head, made by holding up a forefinger and little finger. The group's ideology centres on the glory days of Turkish history, seeking to unite Muslim Turkic peoples from the Balkans to Central Asia in a pan-Turkish extension of the Turkish nation-state. Pope John Paul II lies seriously wounded in his open car moments after he was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square on May 13, 1981. Photo: Reuters The group extended operations in the early 1990s into post-Soviet states with Turkic and Muslim populations, including the Nagorno-Karabakh war in Azerbaijan and Chechen conflicts. The group is believed to have ties to Turkish crime gangs that operate in Bangkok that could have provided logistical support for their attack, security analysts say. Thai police have been searching for Turkish nationals who arrived in Thailand in the 15 days before a blast tore through foreign tourists and Thais at the Erawan shrine on August 17, killing 20 people and injuring more than 120 others in an unprecedented attack. But their breakthrough in the investigation came when residents of a predominantly Muslim district of Bangkok on Saturday reported to police the suspicious activities of a non-Thai speaking man renting five rooms in a seedy, four-storey apartment block. After more than 100 police surrounded the building they found a man believed to 28 years old in a room with a stack of false passports and bomb making equipment similar to that used in the shrine bombing, including ball bearings, pipes and fuses. The bearded man with short cropped hair has been charged with possession of bomb making material and is being held in a Thai military base pending further investigation. Anthony Davis, a respected Bangkok-based security analyst with IHS-Jane's, said last week the Grey Wolves were likely to be behind the bombing because they had both motive and capability, although he did not rule out other possibilities. "They are violent and operate below the radar," he said. Mr Davis said the group had "latched on to in a big way" Uighur Muslims in western China who claim they have suffered years of persecution from Beijing. Thailand infuriated the Uighur movement in July when the country deported to China 109 Uighur men who had been separated from their wives and children. Ethnic-Chinese tourists appear to have been targets of the shrine bombers. Mr Davis described the Bangkok attack as potentially the nightmare that has worried security agencies, a link-up between terrorism and organised crime. http://www.smh.com.au/world/bangkok-bombing-who-are-the-turkish-terrorist-group-the-grey-wolves-20150830-gjavjz.html

Supplementary note to self. Deny being Turkish, the passports were fake, ergo I have no Turkish connection, therefore I am innocent.

Thailand arrests suspect in deadly shrine blast LINDSAY MURDOCH Last updated 08:21, August 30 2015 SUPPLIED An earlier sketch of the suspect and a photo released by Thai police of the man they arrested. Police have arrested a key suspect in the Bangkok shrine bombing in a seedy apartment building in a predominantly Muslim area of the Thai capital. The 28-year-old man, believed to be Turkish, was found in possession of a stack of passports and bomb-making materials, including motorcycle ball bearings similar to those used in the bombing of the Erawan shrine on August 17. He was late Saturday charged with being in possession of bomb making materials including pipes and fuses pending further investigation. SUPPLIEDThai police at the apartment building where the man was arrested. One of the seized passports carrying the man's photograph had two expiry dates, indicating it was a crude forgery. There was no date of issue and the expiry date was repeated twice. The arrest has reinforced suspicion that an extreme right-wing Pan-Turkic group was behind the bombing that killed 20 people and injured more than 120 in the worst attack in Thailand in years. SUPPLIED The suspect's passport, published in Thai media soon after the arrest The group known as Grey Wolves has been linked with Muslim Uighurs in western China. Thailand's deportation of 109 Uighurs in July infuriated Uighurs who regard themselves as being of Turkish origin. However police insisted after the man's arrest early Saturday afternoon it was still too early in the investigation to point the finger at any one group. SUPPLIED Thai police question the suspect, right. Police released photographs of the shabbily-dressed unshaven suspect with short hair sitting handcuffed in a corner of the room where he was arrested after more than 100 police surrounded the apartment building. The name shown on the fake passport was Adem Karadag. The man was taken on Saturday night to an army base for questioning. Thailand has been under military rule since May last year. Police said the man had been renting five rooms in the apartment block since July 21. The Bangkok Post quoted a source saying local residents of the budget Poon Anand apartments in the Nong Chok district tipped off police about the man who could not speak Thai and appeared similar in appearance to a police drawing of a key suspect shown in grainy CCTV footage leaving a backpack stacked with explosives at the Erawan shrine. But police said it was not yet clear whether arrested man was the suspect shown in the CCTV footage. "We believe he is part of the same gang," said national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri, referring to the shrine bombing. Police earlier said up to 10 people may have been involved in the bombing that shocked the nation that has endured a decade of political instability. Another suspect kicked a similar bomb into a Bangkok canal 25 minutes after the shrine bombing. That bomb exploded the next day but no-one was injured. No-one has claimed responsibility for the bombings. Bangkok-based security analyst Anthony Davis said last week the Grey Wolves were the most likely group to be behind the bombing but did not rule out other possibilities. The group has close links with Turkish organised criminals who are know to have a presence in Bangkok. Grey Wolves' operatives were at the forefront of an attack on the Thai consulate in Istanbul in July. Until Saturday's breakthrough Thai authorities had been criticised for making contradicting and confusing statements about the bombing investigation. Officials initially said the bombings were not likely to be the work of international terrorists in an attempt to allay the fears of tourists. They instead suggested the attack may be linked to the country's tumultuous political feuds. Tourism accounts of more than 10 per cent of Thailand's faltering economy. http://www.stuff.co....ly-shrine-blast

What to do, oh wait, run away, they'll be looking for me. Maybe if I put the fixins under my prayer mat, no one will look there.

Note to self, next time I make a boom device, do not go home and wait in an apartment, with all the fixins and false passports and general disrepute of my neighbours.

Or Leopards from Tigers. I'm with you on this, if they're being paid for what they do, they should do it right.

Well gay behaviour, in LOS, seems to me much more tolerated than in the West. I think it's something to do with Hetero Thai males being three drinks away from gaydom.

Floundering Bomb Investigation Deepens Doubts About Competency Investigators canvas the scene after the 17-Aug bombing of Bangkok's Erawan Shrine. By Todd Ruiz BANGKOK — Less than a year after Thailand’s last high-profile criminal investigation left observers scratching their heads, the competency and professionalism of its police are under a new level of scrutiny, only this time much more is at stake. Eleven months on from a widely-panned investigation into the murders of two tourists on a resort island, those hoping last week’s horrific bombing of Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine would bring gravitas and professionalism to the ensuing investigation have instead seen the same baffling pronouncements and self-contradictory assertions. “When you consider this follows on the back of a number of high-profile incidents in which the competency of Thai authorities has been called into question, this was the chance to set that narrative correct,†said Gregory Poling of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. Fourteen of the 20 people killed 17 Aug. hailed from outside the kingdom, leaving regional partners waiting for answers that so far have been in short supply from a state apparatus with “poor message management,†said Poling, the center’s Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies. “The most important thing is that people are watching, and you see frustration building over notions of whether Thai authorities are really capable of investigating this professionally,†he said. As much as during the height of the investigation into the murder of two Britons on Koh Tao, priorities have seemed obsessed with optics instead of substance. This has left the public to settle for briefings that sometimes fall short of deductive reasoning. “I don’t believe Thai people are the perpetrators … because the incident is a behavior that is too cruel for Thai people with Thai hearts to do to their fellow Thais,†Deputy Police Chief Chaktip Chaijinda said yesterday. In a short span of days, top officials alternately have implied the attack was carried out by domestic elements, speculated it was a foreign operation, discounted that theory and said they have no idea. A state media report today quoted police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang saying no one could be ruled out. It also mentioned police interrogation of three Uighurs in the eastern province of Sakaew, “not because they are accusing the trio of involving in the two explosions in Bangkok, but police need information from all sources they could find in order to solve the case.†Unable to control the message in the social media age, authorities have made increasingly aggressive demands they be entrusted as the source of information while failing to satisfactorily deliver it. Somyot on Monday said police would seek the prosecution of anyone spreading false information, whether it was spread through a smartphone or television broadcast. Meanwhile the investigation seems to have run into a wall. The biggest development this week was the release of an arrest warrant yesterday for the suspected Sathorn Pier bomber. A warrant that describes the man only as “Asian†between 25 and 30, 170 centimeters in height. Police Chief Somyot today expressed confidence it would “lead to his arrest,†despite lacking a nationality or name. That lack of visible progress, aggravated by conflicting statements and off-the-cuff speculation, have left the public and media to speculate – sometimes wildly. Vectors of Blame Within hours of the attack, gut-check blame was extended to the Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim ethnic group in western China. In July, Turkish nationalists had stormed the Thai consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in response to Thailand’s decision to deport more than 100 of them back to China against their will. A pattern of circumstantial evidence, such as reports investigators were looking for a person of interest who might have used a fake Turkish passport, fueled theories the attack could have been an act of revenge. At a Monday evening panel hosted by the Foreign Correspondents Club, a regional security expert laid out his leading hypothesis: The attack was perpetrated by far-right Turkish fascists known as the “Grey Wolves.†For nearly five decades, the Grey Wolves have carried out assassinations and terror in the name of Turkish supremacy, mostly against Kurds, and have reached out to Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang province. Anthony Davis, an analyst with IHS Jane's, said they were one of the only groups with both the motive and the means. Starved for developments, international and local media issued a volley of reports on that speculation in the likes of Forbes, Financial Times and Reuters. Reuters yesterday reported Turkey saying it had received no inquiries from Thai authorities. Saying nobody could be ruled out, the center’s Poling said the involvement of the Grey Wolves was as likely or unlikely as other group. He said the attack didn’t fit their pattern, just as it didn’t fit that of yellow-red political violence or the southern insurgency. “What would be the point of carrying out an international attack and then not take credit for it?†he said. Only five weeks passed between Thailand’s widely criticized move to deport the Uighurs and the Erawan Shrine bombing. And some by some accounts the perpetrators might have been in Bangkok for at least eight months. International Relations Prof. Paul Chambers dismissed speculation of Uighur involvement as “empty smoke†and a false lead chased by police fixed on finding an Arab suspect. “Uighurs are treated badly in Cambodia, too,†said Chambers, who teaches at the Institute of South East Asian Affairs. “But why not bomb buildings in Cambodia?†A Challenge to Legitimacy? The attack, compounded by the failure to convince the public it is being investigated competently, is drawing frustration both within and without Thailand, Poling said, which could pose a threat to the military government’s stated raison d’etre. “It undercuts the junta’s claim to legitimacy. They’re saying that, whatever else, ‘We've brought stability,’†he said. “If that narrative gets undermined, then who knows what the reaction might be?†Chambers sees it differently. His most likely suspect in the attack is some element within the state apparatus, whether military or police. He said of all the players on the board, Thai security forces had the most to gain and the greatest capacity to carry out the attack. “It will actually enable junta to rationalize their rule to stay in power longer,†he said. Government representatives have dismissed out of hand any suggestion they might have been complicit in the attack. Not knowing who attacked the nation and why makes it difficult to anticipate whether to expect or prepare for future attacks. Poling said the Erawan Shrine bombing was likely an “outlier†that doesn't necessarily put international terror on the threat board. “Do I think this is a harbinger of a future where Thailand has to worry about being a front in Islamic terror? Probably not.†Additional reporting Teeranai Charuvastra. http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1440762991

It does take some of the seriousness out of the situation. This is why, even though I'm now a primary fan of a different country to LOS, I still follow the news and politics of Thailand avidly. There's a TV series in this lot. As noted above, when there's a serious situation, two bombs exploding in the centre of the LOS universe, the guys in charge, amongst their other blunders, rush to one of the most famous red light districts on the planet, which the Police are notorious for having significant if not overwhelming financial interests in, and stage a public meet and greet to 'reassure' foreigners for whom sex and gogos is great entertainment. This points to two things for me. 1 - the real idiocy of the Thai centrist view of the world, or Thai-ness. 2 - the actual importance of the dollar spend of the Falangs visiting the sex industry.