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Following several high-profile civilian deaths at the hands of police officers, many Americans have called for the mandatory use of body cameras by law enforcement as a means of curbing the excessive use of force and providing clear accounts of officers’ actions. Here are some of the pros and cons of body cameras for police officers: PROS Provides accurate record of where police were when they turned off their body camera Helps to reinstate trust between Americans and surveillance Unlimited footage of police officers breathing heavily during a foot chase Turning camera askew allows officers to record beatings with stylish Dutch angles More things to watch Finally gives Americans glimpse at what it’s like to turn on that siren and gun it straight through a red light CONS Major invasion of privacy for police officer and man he has in chokehold Costs money that could be used on machine guns and armored vehicles Police brutality might lose its mystique Those could be anyone’s arms bashing citizen with nightstick Distracting to officers who must now shift focus to cinematography and mise en scène Is still only going to be the irrefutable video evidence’s word against the police officer’s The Onion

I'm pretty sure Missy is genuine, I think I had the pleasure of meeting her some time ago in Bkk.

for emphasis

"50,000 anti-Japanese Thai guerrillas, via Cambodia, Burma and Laos, who played an important role in the eventual defeat of Japan." Something I'd not been aware of too. I don't want to hijack the focus of this thread, so the following is intended to be illustrational, for comparison to the revelation (to me) that the facts of war are not always apparent. In the Gallipoli campaign, seen down under as an Australian and NZ affair, actual deaths are far higher from the UK and notably France. In our popular culture, the French have a reputation of not fighting, with jokes such as "For Sale: WWII 303 French rifle, unused, dropped once..." Obviously the French fought well, and sadly died well. As you can see from the illustration the Turks suffered also, terrible.

How intriguing

And the second chapter is so much more revealing than the first, keep it coming

Good to see you back. Support? I don't hold a position either way. The NYT says the leadership does bad things. I show this by highlighting the NYT report. I don't write the report, nor endorse it. What I did was launch a shot across the bows to 'that scrappy Thai Woman apologist' because she'd said that the current leadership was doing good overall, but she had now left the board, diminishing the quality of the debate, substantially. She has now reappeared, good, job done. For the record, if the NYT are crap with the truth, then shame on them, ---------- I've removed this bit voluntarily now I've seen KS's edit in the OP ​Me? I don't support anything in LOS, except the promotion of economically available night life and relatively cheap booze. The rest is a soap opera, being keeping me entertained for 30 years. ------------------------- BTW, apologies if my posts have been misunderstood, political discussions are so much better in person, on the other hand imagine if this discussion were conducted via twittle. There'd be hashtags for Kardashians all over the place

Oh dear - oh dear , oh dear, oh dear. Well we knew it was coming, but sadness is confirmed, 'that woman' has confirmed. This will screw the US and by extension, the rest of the world, should she succeed, should she not? then the gunners get the helm. Oh dear - oh dear , oh dear, oh dear.

---------- I've removed this post voluntarily now I've seen KS's edit in the OP

Did they storm the trailer and kill him?

A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall on a Thai island popular with foreign tourists for its pristine beaches, injuring seven people, officials said on Saturday. The improvised bomb was hidden in a pickup truck and went off late Friday night on the basement level of the shopping Central Festival mall on Samui Island in Surat Thani province, after a fashion show, the island's disaster prevention and mitigation chief Poonsak Sophonpathumrak told The Associated Press. He said authorities believed the vehicle was stolen from one of the three southernmost Thai provinces plagued by violence. More than 5,000 people have been killed since an Islamic insurgency began in the sub-region in 2004. Muslims in the area, which was an independent Islamic sultanate until it was annexed by Thailand in the early 20th century, have long complained of discrimination, and the insurgents are thought to be fighting for autonomy. The militants, however, have made no public pronouncements about their aims. Poonsak said the bomb had destroyed most of the pickup truck and damaged a few other vehicles that were parked nearby at the mall, which was located a few hundred meters (feet) from the popular Chaweng beach. "The authorities are still investigating the scene to find out more details before linking it to any insurgency groups," he said. Samui is one of the country's top island destinations among foreign and Thai tourists. It has rarely been a target of militant attacks in the past. Boom!

But would they eat their concubines?

You will be the talk of the town

Ditto

Well some know them as LBFMs, here it seems is evidence that the moniker is apt, highlighting is mine... ________________________________________________________________ A recent anthropological study shows that Philippine women are having sex right after giving birth. They are even more sexually active than before getting pregnant and way more active than Western women, who wait 6 weeks to have sex after giving birth. In the Philippines, women are having more sex in the weeks just after giving birth than they had before getting pregnant. Several studies have – according to ScienceDaily – shown that Women from the West are completely focused on the little one and not giving much attention to their partner during the first six weeks after giving birth. Michelle Escasa-Dorne, biological anthropologist from University of Colorado in USA, decided to investigate, if you would find the same pattern in non-Western populations, where people rarely get divorced. The scientist made a study in Manila with 260 women. The women were between 18-35, well educated, married and had in general 2-3 children. Their answers showed that Philippine women who are breastfeeding are more sexual active than before getting pregnant. According to ScienceDaily, this shows that the Philippine women have found a way to combine the role as a mother and as lovers. The study is published in the magazine Human Nature and published in Danish media Videnskab. http://scandasia.com...r-giving-birth/ _____________________________ "Philippine women have found a way to combine the role as a mother and as lovers." I would suggest that Western women have found a way, not to combine the role as a mother and as lovers.

On a serious note, not that safety in the airline industry is not serious, but my usual posts are intended to amuse, this one is not: If the Thais are worried about air safety, and they should be, they would be better to be seen addressing the issues quickly and effectively. The usual response of defensive, face protecting, faffing around, with untruths and harebrained misinformation, is not effective and just engenders cynical disbelief in the rest of the world. Thailand has a well documented history of failure when it comes to transport safety, and buses and ferries seem to explode, sink, fall into ravines on a weekly if not daily basis, (today - One dead, one missing as ferry burns and sinks near Phuket), Trains seem to fall off the tracks with monotonous regularity, backpackers are poisoned, beaten, thrown off balconies, we all here, see this, all the time. The world's travelling public, has a basis for expecting Thai air travel to be safe, because they abide by the rules. Until they don't. If the Thais don't abide by the safety rules, there is not a fear, that Thai air travel will become dangerous, there is an expectation.

Though, and I don't wish to insult anyone on the board, who lives in Udon Thani, some of the Farang residents I've encountered, make your typical Pattaya Yobbo, look suave, sophisticated and proponents of a dapper dress sense.

Medication for stress apparently.

Senior transport officials to discuss aviation crisis with ICAO, Germany and Australia In a bid to ease the country's current aviation woes, the Transport Ministry is seeking help from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and preparing a team to visit Germany and Australia, while South Korea decided yesterday to temporarily allow Jet Asia Airways to operate charter flights to the country. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Senior-transport-officials-to-discuss-aviation-cri-30257602.html ______________________________ Meanwhile the Thais think that Public Relations is all about making 'Good News'. then all the problems go away... ______________________________ Tourism rebound rise in spending expected to hike GDP by 3.5% The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry, and Banking still believes that gross domestic product can expand by 3.5 per cent this year, as the rebound of tourism and the expected increase in private and public spending in the second half should be able to compensate for the slump in exports. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Tourism-rebound-rise-in-spending-expected-to-hike--30257582.html and TAT expects Songkran foreign tourist arrivals to rise 30% The lifting of martial law is expected to result in more foreign tourists visiting Thailand during the Songkran festival, whereas Japan and South Korea's banning of Thai chartered flights should not affect foreign tourist arrivals into the kingdom, said Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) acting governor Chuthaporn Roengronasa. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/815688-tat-expects-songkran-foreign-tourist-arrivals-to-rise-30/?utm_source=newsletter-20150408-1201&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news ______________________________ Maybe I should try it - Ahem - Coss expects that Coss will be a billionaire by years end, because this is an announcement...

Interesting that the initial moves were to 'clean up the beaches' after decades of Thais renting everything from Umbrellas to Baby Elephants and cluttering up the place. Now the enforcement morons are slapping the Tourists around. I've never wanted to go to that part of Thailand in the first place, because of the Thai's attitudes as they've been widely reported, less likely to go there now. Much much better beaches in the Pacific Islands, Australia and NZ.

Caved ? http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korea-bans-new-charter-flights-from-thailand-1428391069

The Glorious People's Republic

They must be doing a good job. look at how popular they are, people queuing to see them