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Japan, IMO, does it right...if a baby is born in Japan and the father is NOT Japanese, then the
child reverts to the citizenship of the father.
Not like in the farkin US of Azzholes where they dropped babies and then get automatic citizenship!!
Good on Japan for keeping things straight!!!
“Got a problem with illegal immigrants? Yeah so did we. Not so fucking funny now is it?â€
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federally_recognized_tribes
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It would help the government's credibility in their fight against corruption if they themselves declared their assets.
NCPO not required to declare assets
Published: 18 Aug 2014
There is no legal requirement for members of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to declare their assets and liabilities to the National Anti-Corruption Commission, said NACC secretary-general Sansern Polchiak.
Mr Sansern said this in responding to an interview in wihch Gen Paiboon Khumchaya, an assistant army chief and an NCPO member in charge of legal and judicial affairs, said that NCPO members were ready to declare their assets and liabilities to the NACC.
There is no law requiring NCPO members to do so, he said.
NCPO members can submit a declaration if they wish to show their sincerity, but their declarations will not be made public.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/most-recent/427399/ncpo-not-required-to-declare-assets
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Really liked his work, just clicked with me, very sad, seems like a lot of comedians are manic depressed at the same time, RIP
Yes, Stephen Fry among others the same. He said he wont take his lithium because it will suppress his creative manic side too. he's attempted suicide too on one of his black days.
Sad loss Robin Williams..one of my favourites.
Interesting item here
..along with other fascinating stuff, he was a great fan of Rugby Union and good mates with Jonah Lomu
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I loved the email of the week in Stickman a few months ago..
You know you've been in Thailand too long, when the Prime Minister begins to look better than most of the girls in the gogo bars.
She could stir my wok anytime.
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Why would Israel waste expensive precision munitions on non-productive targets?
Everyone knows djoos are tighter than a fat broad's bikini.
Your rhetoric on this topic is hollow.
Anti Semitic and Islamophobic crap.
Racism/religionism is a crutch for idiots with low self esteem. They only feel as elevated as the last person they stood on.
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All lady down Soi 6 say I Sexy Man mak mak. They shudda gone to Specsavers.
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Crazy 99 - - Look at this video, and tell me - it is REALLY your position that Israel should simply "suck it up," and suffer thousands of rockets falling on its citizens, with no effort to fight back, and suppress the launch sites, simply because Hamas insists on firing exclusively from densely poulated civilian areas?
The first casualty of war is the truth. Check the time line of events that led to the present bloodletting.
In the 6 weeks prior to Israel’s Operation Brothers Keeper on June 12th5 Hamas rockets fell harmlessly...that’s less than one a week.
And 3 mortar rounds fired at a military target IDF forces on the Gaza border in response to 5 IDF targeted assassinations of Palestinians during that same 6 weeks. I think that shows exceptional restraint on the part of Hamas, not aggression.
This present violence all started not because of rocket fire..it was actually a period of calm. On 12 June Netanyahu launched a roundup of hundreds of Hamas members in the West Back and air strikes in Gaza, accusing Hamas of being responsible for the murders of 3 Israeli teenagers, without any evidence of any direct orders from Hamas leadership..still none to this day..Hamas vehemently denied it, and they normally like to claim responsibility.
The rest is history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2014
May 1 A rocket hit an open area in Eshkol. No one were hurt, no damage was reported.
May 21 Several [3] mortar rounds were fired at IDF forces on the Gaza border. No injuries, damages in attack.
May 23 A rocket exploded in open field in Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. No reports of damages or injuries.
June 1 A rocket was fired early Sunday morning at the Eshkol region. The rocket landed in a field and no casualties were reported.
June 11 A rocket fired from Gaza narrowly missed a main artery in southern Israel as it landed in a nearby dirt field without causing any injuries.
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Palestinians have been caught fabricating casualties over and over again. Western media and liberal bleeding hearts largely forgive this because they are as agenda -driven as the Palestinians.
I would never agree to negotiate with someone shelling me. Never.
And before you go all CNN on me (didja see the CNN garbage today about American Christians supporting Israel?) I'm an atheist. CNN has really lost all modicum of respectability. It's worse than even BBC now.
try the Daily Mail then...usually an ardent supporter of Israel
I've always loved Israel but this brutality breaks my heart
By MAX HASTINGS
Were the world’s attention not overwhelmingly fixed on the fate of Flight MH17, it would have more to say about that of the Palestinian inhabitants of Gaza. Bombed and battered by Israeli air and firepower, they are dying in scores, victims alike of their own leadership and Israeli ruthlessness.
Some of the dead are Hamas fighters. But many others are women, children, the helpless old. Israel is exacting vengeance at its usual tariff for Hamas rocketing, and the murder of three Israeli students by terrorists. For each Israeli killed, the lives of many times that number of Palestinians are forfeit.
Israel says: they started it; we have a right to retribution. But much of the world says: the Jewish people have been historic standard-bearers for civilisation. Does Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign in Gaza represent that — or instead barbarism?
A Palestinian man, in clothes stained with the blood of his father, who medics said was killed by Israeli shelling, mourns at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday as Israel's attack continued
Israel’s tragedy is that the only democracy in the Middle East has fallen prey to a succession of Right-wing governments, which derive much of their electoral strength from Russian emigres and extremist religious parties.
A historian friend, himself a Jew and an uncommonly astute observer of the world, said to me a while back: ‘Consciously or unconsciously, Israel has decided that it prefers a state of permanent war to making the concessions to the Palestinians that would be indispensable to any chance of peace.’
Israel has become more inward-looking, less receptive to foreign opinion, than at any time in its history. Its economy is booming. Tel Aviv boasts a thrillingly buzzy café culture. Barack Obama, the only recent U.S. president to try to persuade Jerusalem to moderate its policies, has been thwarted by Netanyahu and his friends in the U.S. Congress.
Few Israelis seem to show much concern for world discomfort about the bombardment of Gaza, and indeed about their policies towards the Palestinians.
Yet even so, many other Jews are deeply dismayed. Three years ago, a team of Israeli documentary-makers produced a brilliant film about the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank entitled The Gatekeepers. For this, they persuaded five former heads of the Shin Bet, the nation’s security service, to be interviewed on camera.
The outcome was fascinating, and devastating. Each chief in turn described the ruthless policies he had enforced to sustain Israeli dominance. Most agreed that repression had been counter-productive.
Part of the explanation, they said, was that since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish fanatic back in 1995, no Jerusalem government has pursued a serious political strategy for peace.
The security forces have simply been left to impose varying degrees of repression, while Jewish settlers grab ever-larger areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem. In a remarkable moment of frankness, one former Shin Bet chief said: ‘Occupation has made us a cruel people.’
I still felt the same in 1973, during the Yom Kippur War when Israel reeled before a devastating Egyptian and Syrian surprise attack. From amid the Israelis’ camp fires, as a correspondent I wrote expressing my admiration for the nation, for what it had created from a near-wasteland: ‘They are a very great people, who have come closer to destruction than blind Europe seems willing to recognise.’ The veteran journalist James Cameron, who had known Israel since its inception, wrote me a generous note after that piece was published, saying: ‘It is quite impossible to work in combat with the Israeli army without this response, if you have any sense of history and drama.’
But then he added reflectively: ‘I have sometimes wondered over the past few years whether this irresistible military mesmerism hasn’t clouded for us some of the political falsities.’
Some 40 years on, I have become sure that Jimmy Cameron was right. Too many of us allowed ourselves to become blinded by military success to the huge injustice done to the Palestinians.
Israelis, confident that they can defeat any Arab military threat, bolstered by almost unqualified U.S. support, assume that they can persist indefinitely with the creeping annexation of the West Bank, and the subjection of Gaza.
But I have also watched the soldiers of the Israeli Army that I once loved disport themselves among the Palestinians like other arrogant occupiers through the ages, displaying at best casual rudeness, at worst murderous brutality.
Israel aspires to exploit its military dominance to create irreversible facts on the ground in the West Bank and Jerusalem, heedless of Palestinian rights.
Ahron Bregman, the Israeli whose history of the Occupation I mentioned above, now lives and works in London rather than in his homeland. He ends his book by saying that all successful imperialist powers have sought to persuade subject peoples to work with them, allowing them to gain some advantage despite being conquered.
Israel has never felt a need to offer this, says the author. Instead, it treats the Palestinians merely as tiresome blots on a landscape that many Israelis believe is rightfully Jewish anyway. For those who loved what we thought Israel used to be, it is heartbreaking to see what it has become today.
That the current crisis is giving rise to some ugly displays of anti-semitism in parts of Europe is utterly contemptible.
But it is also contemptible that some apologists hurl charges of anti-semitism at all Israel’s critics — many of whom are admirers of so much that this great nation has achieved.
Most of us merely attack Israeli excesses as we do those of Russia, Burma, China, Syria, the U.S. or any other government that deploys disproportionate violence against those at its mercy.
Israel’s people deserve a less unworthy leader than Benjamin Netanyahu, and a higher vision than that of reducing Gaza to rubble. This can breed only a new generation of alienated, embittered Palestinian radicals, who will sustain their desperate struggle through decades to come.
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How many rockets must be stored in a school before the name reverts from school to weapons storage area? Infinity? Same for mosques and hospitals. Palestinians have little regard for their own children. What parent would send their child to a school knowing weapons are stored there? Pencils, books and chalkboards normally don't cause massive, secondary explosions -- a dead giveaway.
Hamas fighters certainly get around ..
They hid in the thousands of houses damaged or destroyed.
They hid in 84 schools and 23 medical facilities.
They hid in a cafe, where Gazans were watching the World Cup.
They hid in the ambulances trying to retrieve the injured.
They hid themselves in 24 corpses, buried under rubble.
They hid themselves in a young woman in pink household slippers, sprawled on the pavement, taken down while fleeing.
They hid themselves in two brothers, eight and four, lying in the intensive burn care unit in Al-Shifa.
They hid themselves in the little boy whose parts were carried away by his father in a plastic shopping bag.
They hid themselves in the “incomparable chaos of bodies†arriving at Gaza hospitals.
They hid themselves in an elderly woman, lying in a pool of blood on a stone floor.
They hid themselves in a UN school where civilians were sheltering from our shells and bombs.
and last night they hid themselves amongst sleeping children in a refugee centre for 3000 people instructed by IDF to escape to this safe haven, whose coordinates had been given to the IDF 17 times.
...couldn't for once Israel admit that it makes mistakes or has been reckless in firing missiles and tank shells in such a built up area,, where the likelihood of killing innocent civilians is almost 100%.
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Jai Rai posted long portions of the original article - but the actual article is even longer - and it is the best, and most balanced summary of the situation that I have ever read - anywhere.
Jai Rai did not post the full article, and the final two paragraphs of the full article are profound, and worth reviewing:
If you have 38 minutes to spare, and you want to see the "manifesto" of what the emergaing Caliphate have in store for every place they conquer, take a look at this video (the first 16 minutes are boring - the following 22 minutes are chilling):
http://www.livingsco...ch.php?v=MzU2Mw
Keep in mind - the brutality that you are seeing in the video is being inflicted by Muslims, upon other Muslims who are just a different "flavor" of Muslim. Think about that, and ponder how they would treat YOU.
Israel and Gaza are a flashpoint - and everyone sees what they prefer to see. After trying to look at both sides of the argument, here is what I see and believe:
1. Isreal would like nothing better than a peaceful, prosperous Gaza - which Israel could help turn into a showplace success for the Islamic world. This would be a disaster for the Islamic fundamentalists, so they will NEVER let this happen.
2. To Hamas, Gaza is nothing more than a large firing position. The inhabitants of Gaza are useful ONLY as human shields, and as sacriificial corpses to be used to vilify Israel. Not some, not most, but ALL (that is each and every) Hamas rocket launching position is located near, in, or adjancent to a school, mosque, hospital or children's playground. This is by doctine.
3. Hamas has created an immense tunnel system under Gaza - with much early-stage work done by Palestinian children who died in the process. Despite this, there are none - ZERO -shelters available for Gaza's civilians, during Israeli shelling of Gaza. This is by Hamas design - they want to absolutely maximize civilian casualties at every turn. When Isreal drops leaflets urging Gazans to leave a weapons-infested area, in advance of an Israeli attack, any Gazans who attempt to relocate arre brutally beaten back, and forced to remain in their Human shield positions.
4. There have been some attempts by groups of Gaza civilialns to hold protests against the Hamas rocket-launching activities. Protesters have been immediately rounded up and summarily executed by Hamas operatives.
5. Any calls for "cease fire" are meaningless as long as ANY Hamas BARBARIANS remain. Hamas does not want an end to fighting in any way. All they want is for Israel to be blocked from fighting back.
I support Israel as the only civilized society in the Middle East. Here is another good article, from the perspective of a friont-line Israeli officer (Captain): http://www.americant..._of_heroes.html
Israel is imperfect - but much preferable to any alternative in that part of the world. Since 1946, they have accomplished more, starting with less, than any other country. Japan, Germany, and South Korea were all rebuilt by America after their wars (and much of the UK, as well). Israel turned barren land into a highly productive area.
Cheers!
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What a load of Israeli apologist cliches and tripe.
I suggest you learn a bit more about the background to the conflict at http://www.palestineremembered.com/
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Professor of International Affairs, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
AIPAC Is the Only Explanation for America's Morally Bankrupt Israel Policy
Posted: 07/22/2014 1:59 pm
The official name for Israel's latest assault on Gaza is "Operation Protective Edge." A better name would be "Operation Déjà Vu." As it has on several prior occasions, Israel is using weapons provided by U.S. taxpayers to bombard the captive and impoverished Palestinians in Gaza, where the death toll now exceeds 500. As usual, the U.S. government is siding with Israel, even though most American leaders understand Israel instigated the latest round of violence, is not acting with restraint, and that its actions make Washington look callous and hypocritical in the eyes of most of the world.
This Orwellian situation is eloquent testimony to the continued political clout of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and the other hardline elements of the Israel lobby. There is no other plausible explanation for the supine behavior of the U.S. Congress--including some of its most "progressive" members--or the shallow hypocrisy of the Obama administration, especially those officials known for their purported commitment to human rights.
The immediate cause of this latest one-sided bloodletting was the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli hikers in the occupied West Bank, followed shortly thereafter by the kidnapping and fatal burning of a Palestinian teenager by several Israelis. According to J.J. Goldberg's reporting in the Jewish newspaper Forward, the Netanyahu government blamed Hamas for the kidnappings without evidence and pretended the kidnapped Israelis were still alive for several weeks, even though there was evidence indicating the victims were already dead. It perpetrated this deception in order to whip up anti-Arab sentiment and make it easier to justify punitive operations in the West Bank and Gaza.
And why did Netanyahu decide to go on another rampage in Gaza? As Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Group points out, the real motive is neither vengeance nor a desire to protect Israel from Hamas' rocket fire, which has been virtually non-existent over the past two years and is largely ineffectual anyway. Netanyahu's real purpose was to undermine the recent agreement between Hamas and Fatah for a unity government. Given Netanyahu's personal commitment to keeping the West Bank and creating a "greater Israel," the last thing he wants is a unified Palestinian leadership that might press him to get serious about a two-state solution. Ergo, he sought to isolate and severely damage Hamas and drive a new wedge between the two Palestinian factions.
Behind all these maneuvers looms Israel's occupation of Palestine, now in its fifth decade. Not content with having ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in 1948 and 1967 and not satisfied with owning eighty-two percent of Mandatory Palestine, every Israeli government since 1967 has built or expanded settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem while providing generous subsidies to the 600,000-plus Jews who have moved there in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Two weeks ago, Netanyahu confirmed what many have long suspected: he is dead set against a two-state solution and will never--repeat never--allow it to happen while he is in office. Given that Netanyahu is probably the most moderate member of his own Cabinet and that Israel's political system is marching steadily rightward, the two-state solution is a gone goose.
Worst of all, the deaths of hundreds more Palestinians and a small number of Israelis will change almost nothing. Hamas is not going to disband. When this latest round of fighting ends, the 4.4 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza will still be Israel's de facto prisoners and still be denied basic human rights. But they are not going to leave, mainly because Palestine is their homeland, but also because they have nowhere to go, especially given the turmoil in other parts of the Middle East.
Eventually another ceasefire will be negotiated. The dead will be buried, the wounded will recover, the tunnels now being destroyed will be rebuilt, and Hamas will replenish its stockpile of missiles and rockets. The stage will then be set for another round of fighting, and Israel will have moved further down the road to becoming a full-fledged apartheid state.
Meanwhile, U.S. politicians and policymakers continue to back a brutal military campaign whose primary purpose is not to defend Israel but rather to protect its longstanding effort to colonize the West Bank. Amazingly, they continue to support Israel unreservedly even though every U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson has opposed Israel's settlements project, and the past three American presidents--Clinton, Bush and Obama--have all worked hard for the two-state solution that Israeli policy has now made impossible.
"The explanation for America's impotent and morally bankrupt policy is the political clout of the Israel lobby."
Yet as soon as fighting starts, and even if Israel instigates it, AIPAC demands that Washington march in lockstepwith Tel Aviv. Congress invariably rushes to pass new resolutions endorsing whatever Israel decides to do. Even though it is mostly Palestinians who are dying, White House officials rush to proclaim that Israel has "the right to defend itself," and Obama himself won't go beyond expressing "concern" about what is happening. Of course Israelis have the right to defend themselves, but Palestinians not only have the same right, they have the right to resist the occupation. To put this another way, Israel does not have the right to keep its Palestinian subjects in permanent subjugation. But try finding someone on Capitol Hill who will acknowledge this simple fact.
The explanation for America's impotent and morally bankrupt policy is the political clout of the Israel lobby. Barack Obama knows that if he were to side with the Palestinians in Gaza or criticize Israel's actions in any way, he would face a firestorm of criticism from the lobby and his chances of getting Congressional approval for a deal with Iran would evaporate.
Similarly, every member of the House and Senate--including progressives like Senator Elizabeth Warren--knows that voting for those supposedly "pro-Israel" resolutions is the smart political move. They understand that even the slightest display of independent thinking on these issues could leave them vulnerable to a well-funded opponent the next time they're up for re-election. At a minimum, they'll have to answer a flood of angry phone calls and letters, and, on top of that, they are likely to be blackballed by some of their Congressional colleagues. The safer course is to mouth the same tired litanies about alleged "shared values" between Israel and the U.S. and wait till the crisis dies down. And people wonder why no one respects Congress anymore.
To be sure, the lobby's clout is not as profound as it once was. Public discourse about Israel, U.S. policy toward Israel and the lobby itself has changed markedly in recent years, and a growing number of journalists, bloggers and pundits--such as Andrew Sullivan, Juan Cole, Peter Beinart, M.J. Rosenberg, Max Blumenthal, Phyllis Bennis, Bernard Avishai, Sara Roy, Mitchell Plitnick, David Remnick, Phil Weiss and even (occasionally) Thomas Friedman of the New York Times--are willing to speak and write candidly about what is happening in the Middle East. Although most Americans openly support Israel's existence--just as I do--their sympathy for an Israel that acts more like Goliath than David is fading. The ranks of the skeptics include a growing number of younger American Jews, who find little to admire and much to dislike in Israel's actions and who are far less devoted to it than were previous generations. Pro-peace groups such as J Street and Jewish Voice for Peace reflect that trend and show that opinion among American Jews is far from unified.
"The lobby is still able to keep roughly $3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel flowing each year; it can still prevent U.S. presidents from putting meaningful pressure on Israel; and it can still get the U.S. to wield its veto whenever a resolution criticizing Israel's actions is floated in the U.N. Security Council."
Moreover, AIPAC and other hardline lobby groups could not convince the Obama administration to intervene in Syria, and they have been unable to convince the Bush or Obama administrations to launch a preventive strike against Iran's nuclear infrastructure. They have also failed to derail the nuclear negotiations with Tehran--at least so far--though not for lack of trying. Pushing the U.S. toward another Middle East war is a lot for any interest group to accomplish, of course, but these setbacks show that even this "leviathan among lobbies" does not always get its way.
But the lobby is still able to keep roughly $3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel flowing each year; it can still prevent U.S. presidents from putting meaningful pressure on Israel; and it can still get the U.S. to wield its veto whenever a resolution criticizing Israel's actions is floated in the U.N. Security Council. This situation explains why the Obama administration made zero progress toward "two states for two peoples": if Israel gets generous U.S. support no matter what it does, why should its leaders pay any attention to Washington's requests? Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry could only appeal to Netanyahu's better judgment, and we've seen how well that worked.
This situation is a tragedy for all concerned, not least for Israel itself. A Greater Israel cannot be anything but an apartheid state, and exclusionary ethnic nationalism of this sort is not sustainable in the 21st century. Israel's Arab subjects will eventually demand equal rights, and as former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned back in 2007, once that happens, "the state of Israel is finished."
Unfortunately, AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and assorted Christian Zionist groups continue to exhibit a severe case of tunnel vision. Because defending Israel no matter what it does is their main raison d'etre (and central to their fundraising), they are unable to see that they are helping Israel drive itself off a cliff. Similarly, those pliant members of Congress who cravenly sign AIPAC-drafted resolutions are not true friends of Israel. They are false friends who pretend to care but are really only interested in getting reelected.
Historians will one day look back and ask how U.S. Middle East policy could be so ineffectual and so at odds with its professed values -- not to mention its strategic interests. The answer lies in the basic nature of the American political system, which permits well-organized and well-funded special interest groups to wield significant power on Capitol Hill and in the White House. In this case, the result is a policy that is bad for all concerned: for the Palestinians most of all, but also for the U.S. and Israel as well. Until the lobby's clout is weakened or politicians grow stiffer spines, Americans looking for better outcomes in the Middle East had better get used to disappointment and prepared for more trouble.
Excellent article...says it all.
Palestinians are never going to win militarily. They should practise passive resistance, all be issued with Icams and record their daily humiliations and beatings at the hands of the occupying Israelis in the West Bank. Let the images go viral.
Then outbreed their occupiers. Root your way to equality in a one state solution. Way to go.
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My point is the selective nature of the outrage. It should be wrong no matter who does it, not just Israel.
I agree that it is wrong whoever does it.
I suppose Israel cops a lot of flak because it professes to be a democracy, is one of the closest friends and allies to USA with $3b in aid too, is virtually European from many of its Jewish migrants and cultural links. If you have been there it feels like a developed country.
I suppose we have much higher expectations of Israel than basket case countries, and why we are more critical when it behaves this way.
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You seem very fond of this "Well others do it too" argument, somehow legitimizing the obscenity of the killing of innocent children or treating people as 2nd class citizens.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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It’s the children..the chidren’s deaths and suffering that moves me most. Picture one of your most loved ones as the face of one of those blooded Gazan toddlers. You have to have a heart of stone not to feel sorrow and disbelief as to how this could be happening right on Europe’s doorstep with the seeming indifference other than mere words of European, Australian and American leaders.
While heaven and earth are being moved to ensure the recovery of the bodies of innocents murdered on MH17 caught in another regional conflict, sanctions increased, UN resolutions, leaders threatened with boycotts.
But the kids in Gaza are Palestinians, so they don’t count. It’s a weird world.
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I don't see what the flap is all about. Is there some sort of commission or panel that checks to see which ones have already been mutilated and which ones are unmutilated?
Think how relieved all those 47 year old ladies are.
Sick to make a joke about such a heinous crime against children.
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Barbaric.
As an aside, I believe that a medical examination for FGM of any child in Australian (hope others would follow) refugee centres should be conducted. If the obscene cutting has been performed and clearly parental permission was involved = automatic rejection of refugee application.
If later on, after a girl that arrived intact is later found to have been cut, and an investigation reveals it was done in Australia or on an overseas trip on a child under 18 = automatic jail of parents, and compensation, whether the now adult wishes to press charges or not.
Word would soon get around.
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Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are equals IMO.... all forms of discrimination are crutches for lack of self esteem.
I'd like to see them both consigned to the trash can of history.
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A crackdown on crackdown.
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Journalists worry over tight media control
The Thai Journalists Association (TJA) is fretting about a new order of the military regime, saying the tightened grip on the media could impede the right to information of the public.
- Published: 19/07/2014 at 05:59 PM
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/lite/topstories/421347/journalist-club-worry-over-tight-media-control
A man watches a TV screen displaying logos of the National Council for Peace and Order Peace and Order Maintaining Council. The military regime has tightened the grip on the mass media with a new order issued on Friday. (EPA file photo)
The order on "cooperation'' from the press issued on Friday night could obstruct the right to information of people, it said in a statement released on Saturday.
TJA president Pradit Ruangdit said journalists perform their duty based on facts, accuracy and balance, and the National Council for Peace and Order already has the authority and existing laws to take action against the media violating the rules.
The military's announcement on Friday asks for "cooperation" from the media to not criticise the NCPO operations. Failure to do so will result in an immediate ban of the media in question and, subsequently, legal action.
The call covers all platforms of the media — from print to electronic and online — and ownerships, whether they are run by the government or privately owned.
They may not interview or invite scholars, former civil servants or former employees of courts, judicial offices and independent organisations to give opinions in a manner that may create or escalate conflicts, distort facts, confuse society or lead to violence, the order says.
It is also mandatory for them to disseminate all information issued by the NCPO.
As well, they may not propagate confidential information of government agencies whether they are voice, images or video clips.
Provincial governors are also required to stop any assembly in opposition of the NCPO without delay and seek help if they cannot handle it.
The TJA showed concern about a lack of clear directions for the authorities to take action against the media deemed failing to abide by the order. The vast power given to the authorities without checks could be a setback, it added.
The association representing journalists plans a meeting of editors and executives next week to find a common solution to the latest order.
- Published: 19/07/2014 at 05:59 PM
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MAS was just unlucky.... shot down by low IQ terrorists.
Number of flights by different airlines over the conflict zone in the last 7 days
http://www.spiegel.d...813-726883.html
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http://www.popularme...click=pm_latest
"What person with a sane mind would fly over a combat zone where there is chance of hostile action?"
Thai
BA
KLM
Finnair
Singapore Airlines
Lufthansa
Alitalia
Swissair
...apparently.
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>>The NACC in May decided to indict her and forwarded the case to the Senate for her impeachment. However, after the military coup, the impeachment motion was put on hold, as the junta dissolved the Senate. Yingluck might be banned from politics for five years if she is impeached.
... well, of course she will. That's the whole idea.
It's a pity that politicians worldwide could not be brought to court for every broken election promise or incompetent decision. Blair, Abbot and Bush would be behind bars now.
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Ironically, when tourists try to do the right thing obtaining a visa, you can only use it as a back to back type visa run.
A double entry visa issued by any Thai consulate in Australia must have the 2nd entry activated within 90 days of issue. On the net I found the consulates in LA and Cardiff, UK allow 180 days for activation...lucky you if the websites info is up to date.
· Visa issued 14 days before depart home country as recommended in their advice notes..need 3 business days to process...meter already ticking
· 60 day tourist visa used..16 days left before 90 day expiry to tour other SE Asia countries
So pointless getting a double entry if you want to spend >16 days outside Thailand in between. And, you’ll have to waste another 3 days in some other nearby country filling out the same form over again to obtain a new tourist visa.
But for the visa runner working illegally maybe...no worries
· Activate the first visa..then spend a couple of days enjoying another Asia city, so as not to attract in/out attention
· Activate 2nd visa
· When next 60 days expire, get a further 30 day extension from immigration
· Fly out for a few days to obtain another double entry visa.
TIT
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Are you saying the centuries old system of democracy in the UK is undemocratic and not an example to be followed
It would be wonderful if Thailand followed the model of the UK House of Commons.
The House of Lords is just a glorified retirees debating society with no power to prevent legislation. Its composition is unrepresentative and anachronistic too... including 26 bishops from the Church of England..Rabbis, Imams and Catholics need not apply and 92 hereditary upper class twits, the vast majority of whom are male heirs..only 2 women. All very quaint but a waste of UK tax payers’ money.
I notice you side stepped the question, Flash..
“Would you like an unelected upper house appointed by Obama in the USA?..and if not, why not?â€
..over my dead body probably, but such a system is OK for the plebs of Isaan, who are unfit to vote anyway, according to Singha heiress Chitpas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/world/asia/thai-beer-loses-esteem-after-heiresss-remarks.html?_r=0
Japan: The Land Without Muslims
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Yes, we in Oz have our rednecks who don't see the irony in their racist rants either.