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  1. Ukraine Foreign Minister is making dramatic claims they have intercepted cellphone data of two Russian colonels chatting about the attack and that they now have reports that the aircraft turned out to be civilian and with many casualties.

    The minister has claimed to have handed the phone number to reporters.

    This data can be tailored to look like what they want it to, but if true, then Russia will have no choice but to distance themselves from the rebels. But if this doesn't hold up to independent scrutiny and proves to be faked for propaganda reasons, then good luck to Ukraine because that could trigger a full scale Russian invasion to remove the government.

    If the Ukraine can get it to hold up, then that is going to pave the way for huge international support for them to go in and wipe out the pro-Russian rebels.

    Whatever happens, this is going to escalate, because there is no way the Russians are going to sit back and allow it.

  2. Lufthansa have just announced they will stop flying over this area. I guess others will follow. Shame they didn't all do this sooner.

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    The Brits had already a few days ago sent out an international recommendation and advisory that all airlines avoid that particular airspace.

    The airlines obviously thought more about their economics than heeding the advice of the British.

    Then this is what happens and as an instant reaction has now been globally recognised as a 'no go' zone.

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  3. Why or why must the Shin faithful insist that any comment or action against them must be politically motivated?

    Really, you think she's innocent, that not bothering to turn up for one single meeting she was supposed to chair, that all the comments about there being no missing rice or corruption, all the false promises to pay farmers was all acceptable?

    But of course, you've reviewed all the evidence, witness statements in coming to your learned opinion.

    The NACC believe there is enough evidence to indict her. She should come back and robustly defend herself. She has the money to hire the best lawyers, although explaining how not bothering to turn up and doing anything is not negligence is a tad difficult - and certainly not political motivated.

    I have faith in no one and I have no reason to believe she is innocent.

    There have never been any credible reports that rice has not gone missing.

    Her government was blocked from paying the farmers by the EC.

    I am waiting to review the evidence that will be presented at trial just as you are.

    I agree with you wholeheartedly that these charges and the trial are and will not be politically motivated. It would be a crime to say otherwise.

    I think you will agree with me that nothing in the past 15+ years in Thailand has been more political than the rice scheme itself.

    I agree that Yingluck does have access to enough funds to hire the best lawyers in the world to defend herself. Will that be enough money, considering who she is up against?

    For someone so sure of himself it must be quite embarrassing to get even the most basic facts wrong :-)

    The payments to rice farmers, according to both the then PTP government,the banks and the rice farmer associations stopped in September 2013.

    The EC did not get involved until Yingluck stepped down in November 2013, 2 months after the payments stopped.

    See what happened there? :-D

    Actually, I will expand on your comment.

    The PTP stopped paying at the end of September, you are right there.

    The EC did not get involved until December with the dissolution of the house and the first request by the finance minister for money from the EC was around January 20th which the EC rightly turned down because we were 2 weeks away from an election which would have given PTP a MASSIVE boost in popularity and a huge advantage at the polls.

    They only ever asked once more which was in March for 20 Bn and it was granted by the EC.

    So just goes to show what this guy knows about events.

    Red history which is about as twisted and spun as you can get it.

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  4. I said it early in this thread, others have said it, but I stick by my first impressions. This smells like a deal to let YS go and spare the country a divisive trial and perhaps imprisonment. YS is very popular in some circles. This would drag out for years and both sides would play the blame game.

    It reminds me of when US president Nixon was impeached for crimes. Rather than stand trial he resigned. By US law the vice president Gerald Ford was immediately president, and he quickly pardoned Nixon to avoid a long public trial. Nixon was already ruined for any future. I thought it was best for the country which would have been embroiled in a long Senate trial when there were far more pressing issues at hand.

    Maybe this is a similar desire of the current government to make it just go away. I don't know if I'm right, but time will tell. If it's true, I don't blame the general for wanting it to stop being a distracting focus.

    I am not so sure a deal was struck to avoid division.

    While in exile herself and big bro can continue to point fingers, claim political motivation, accuse the Dems of engineering this and keep up a campaign to create international contempt for the Junta et al.

    I think it is better for all to go ahead with her prosecution with all the evidence laid out on the table for the whole world to see exactly what the Shins have been doing to the country and why the takeover was indeed justified.

    Thing is... Now this is going to court, I am not sure exactly how the statute of limitations goes on this one.

    I was of the opinion once you have been arraigned in court, then that dispenses with the SOL and you become a fugitive of the court and can be judged and sentenced in absentia..... if you are not yet arraigned, then the court can not proceed to trial and the SOL is still in effect. Meaning she could be free of all charges in 10 years.

    Thaksin was already arraigned so he sentenced and now must serve his time, but Yingluck seems to be getting out of the country literally days before her arraignment.

    Why are the NACC waiting till next week to send this to the court? What is wrong with Friday and have a special arraignment hearing before she goes?????

    At least if she never returns, she can't use the SOL and must stay away for life.

  5. While apparently guilty as charged (yet to be proven in court), I can't help feeling that Yingluck had no say in the matter - a pawn in the game played by Thaksin and his powerful clique. Makes no difference though, she was officially in charge and will be held responsible.he would be foolish to return and face the music.

    A 'knowing' and 'willing' pawn who aided and abetted one of the largest ripoffs of the public treasury in the history of Thailand. It is not too late to withdraw her permission to travel since the original permission was based on different presumptions. I can see how bail will be granted but her brother has demonstrated the family propensity to abscond.

    There is still time to cancel her permission to leave.

    That was granted BEFORE the NACC publicly stated that she is almost certainly a criminal, and needs to be charged.

    If anything, I believe that Yingluck was told in advance that this ruling was coming about and thus initiated her plan to flee with her son. Her son being the big red flag here.

    I don't really think this has been agreed between the perties to save face and save stirring up resentment. When she fails to return and makes all her statements to the foreign press, that will be enough to get their red supporters raging. It really won't work in the Junta's favour. They are not stupid, of course this will have been considered.

    If you ask me... I would say huge sums of money have changed hands to get this permission. That's just the way it's done in Thailand, and they potentially have hundreds of billions to play with.

    Politically motivated my ar-se... The evidence is all there to be seen, even the staunch red shirts up north can't argue that one. When 500 Bn is missing along with a load of rice, they know heads are going to roll, political motivation or not.

    If Cameron, Hollande or Obama were caught with their hands in the till or even just guilty of complacency. We know full well they would all be languishing in a prison cell from the day the power seize happened and that goes for any nation, African and a selection of other nations would have executed them already. Would this be deemed as political motivation?... hell no. It is only because it is a Shin that stupid red supporters cling to that futile addage.

    As for the title of the thread having already convicted her..... That is the funniest of the lot. Of course the NACC found that she is guilty and recommended she go to court for trial. They have the evidence of her 'guilt'. Simple as that really.

    Stop trying to use 'political motivation' as a get out for every bent politician on the planet. It is beyond pathetic.

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    Last time we heard about cleaning the immigration status of illegal workers, it was about the Cambodian nationals => they went back home but Thais realized they badly needed them => Cambodians came back.

    Same story here? No => Thais DON'T NEED English teachers from abroad because millions Thais speak a perfect English and can teach to the children.

     

    Wrong

    Millions of Thais do not speak perfect English. Maybe a few thousand do.

     

    Please, have you not seen the poor written English in these TV forums--perfect English is hardly the question.

     

     

     

    Erm..... Considering that probably 50% of the members on ThaiVisa are not English speakers as a first language, I have been quite impressed with the level of English ability across this forum.

     

    The real dunces are those who don't realise that certain little detail.
     

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    Don't most countries have qualifications and working visa requirements for teachers? What's wrong with Thailand doing the same?

     

    OT: I am just going to take a wild guess here: unqualified students with ED visas of convenience will be next in the clearing out.

    In case you have only just woken up, it comes down to money, qualified people can make more in other countries, why come to Thailand and settle for maybe 30000 baht a month. Thailand needs english teachers more than english teachers needing Thailand. Hope this isn't to hard for you to understand.

     

     

    Actually, maybe I don't understand and perhaps you can clarify your point. So are you saying that Thailand should allow anyone who wants to come here to teach English, to do so illegally on a tourist visa waiver, earn money, not pay taxes and do so without a work permit? Should there be a special exemption of immigration and labour law just for English teachers, whether qualified or not?

     

     

    You are right.... you don't understand.

     

    Nothing in his post suggested anything near what you suggest.

     

    But he is right. Thailand needs English teachers more than English teachers needs Thailand.

     

    My heart goes out to all those who are settled with a girlfriend and assets here, now they have to walk away from the lot if they don't qualify for any of the other visas.

     

    Thailand will certainly suffer, and there will e a hoo haa from the education system when all of a sudden they are minus 60 or 70% of their best English teaching options.

     

    Most teachers in Thailand are NOT of the Thai qualification criteria. I have met enough to know that. But they do fill a void.

     

    Also, the poster who claims Thailand won't suffer for not speaking English.... say the same in the next 20 years when almost nobody can speak proper English... Only the people born into high class families and the average farang isn't likely to be rubbing shoulders with those sorts.

     

    This is going to drive up salaries for western English teachers, because it is a supply and demand thing... Bigger the shortage, higher the premiums. Once Thailand starts feeling the effects, the prestigious schools are going to snap up all the fully legal and qualified teachers and the ordinary schools are going to have to go without.

     

    I personally know a retired Thai English teacher (retired) She is married to an Aussie and her English is crap at best.
     

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