
Diagram of Thaksin's network and operational bodies using Poseidon.
This is a first attempt to get a glance of huge complicated Thaksin's network.
Please note: This diagram is not yet complete and all the associations might not be correct and/or proper labeled. All symbols are not necessarily represent the same designation as in UML sphere. Poseidon was used because of its ease of use to create such diagram.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Thaksin's Network Diagram #1
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A new order
The Economist had an article in 2002
"A new orderAs of today, 7 years later, everything was just like every Thais expected. When Thai people says let the karma gets them, it proved that Thai justice system had fail people once more.
Feb 28th 2002
From The Economist print edition
Thailand's 16th constitution provides the perfect guide to stability and
prosperity, says Edward McBride. Now all the country has to do is live up to it.
AS MURDER investigations go, the killing of Suvichai Rodwimud seemed quite straightforward. The unfortunate police sergeant-major was shot dead in full view of dozens of revellers at Club Twenty, a Bangkok nightspot. Although the bar is normally dimly lit, the manager, according to most accounts, had turned up the lights just before the shooting. That gave patrons a chance to see Duangchalerm Yubamrung, an officer in the Thai military supreme command, having
a furious row with Mr Suvichai. Allegedly he then drew a gun and shot him in the head. The police say they have plenty of witnesses.
Many Thais find this easy enough to believe. Mr Duangchalerm and his two brothers are notorious rowdies who have been accused of involvement in nine previous violent incidents in the past four years. Yet most Thais also doubt that justice will be done. In a recent poll, only 13% thought the courts would handle the case fairly. A full 62% expected political interference. To this day, the rich and well-connected, Thais seem to believe, can literally get away with
murder.
Mr Duangchalerm's father, Chalerm Yubamrung, is the political boss of Thonburi, a suburb of Bangkok, and a former police officer. At the time of the shooting, he was deputy leader of one of the parties in the present coalition government. His three sons all landed plum jobs, despite their reputation: Mr Duangchalerm, for example, had worked in the defence minister's office. Several court cases against the trio have come to nothing. No wonder so many Thais fear that this case, too, will vanish into thin air. Mr Duangchalerm did, after all, manage to flee the scene, despite the presence of many policemen; indeed, one officer was charged with accompanying him off the premises. Immediately after the murder, the local press carried reports that
both the armed forces and Mr Chalerm knew where the suspect was, but a few days later everyone suddenly denied any knowledge of his whereabouts. Military officials loudly questioned the civilian authorities' right to arrest or try Mr Duangchalerm.
Mr Chalerm announced that a member of his son's entourage, who had also vanished, was the real killer, and produced witnesses to dispute the earlier claim that the lights at the murder scene had been turned up. He also says he has misplaced two guns he owns, of the same calibre as the murder weapon. Meanwhile, reports emerged that the accused had slipped across the border to Cambodia. His family, at any rate, suddenly took to visiting Cambodia at weekends. The crime took place at the end of October, yet four months later, as this survey went to press, Mr Duangchalerm remained at large. Ordinary Thais' anger at the handling of the case is spilling out in chat shows, letters pages and online discussion forums. Several senators have demanded an
inquiry. Angry citizens handed out stickers reading "Fight for Suvichai " in central Bangkok. A public appeal quickly netted 1.15m baht on behalf of the dead policeman's widow and child. One group of protesters even held a public ceremony to curse the Yubamrung family.
Here we go again. One reason people are so upset is that Thailand is supposed to have put this sort of thing behind it. From the 1950s until a few years ago, an unaccountable and unscrupulous elite of politicians, soldiers and bureaucrats had run the country for their own benefit. They got away with it because for the better part of 50 years the economy was growing at a blistering average of over 7% a year.
But with that economic growth came an expanding middle class that began to resent the rickety coalitions, the coups and the corruption. In 1992, a military strongman's attempt to suppress student demonstrations and install himself as prime minister prompted a vigorous campaign for political reform. A new constitution was drafted in 1997, just as Thailand's economy collapsed. The baht lost half its value, half the country's loans turned sour and output plummeted.
In the wake of this disaster, politicians did not dare resist the adoption of the new constitution, even though it was designed to curb their excesses. It incorporated a battery of checks and balances to prevent those in power from abusing it. It also gave ordinary people an arsenal of new provisions to defend their rights and enforce the rule of law.
At first glance, the Duangchalerm case raises doubts about how far Thailand has travelled along the road to fair and transparent governance. Admirable as the new constitution is on paper (in this instance, a special aspen-wood parchment), it seems to make little difference in practice. Yet optimists see progress of a sort. Even five or ten years ago, they think, this kind of incident would have been hushed up; now embarrassed politicians have sworn to see justice done. According to Phongthep Thepkanjana, the minister of justice, the case will be a test of the reforms instigated by the new constitution. Naturally, he wants the system to acquit itself well.
There are other heartening signs. The high command, anxious to distance itself from the furore, quickly sacked Mr Duangchalerm for absenteeism, and conceded that the rules granting soldiers special privileges on arrest needed updating. An earlier investigation into claims that the Yubamrung brothers had dodged the draft was reopened. Mr Chalerm's wife resigned from her job as a judge. Her
husband surrendered his party posts. He retains his seat in parliament, but the pundits agree that his political career is over. The policeman accused of helping Mr Duangchalerm escape was suspended, and the suspect's two brothers are being put on trial for impeding his arrest at the scene of the crime. Prosecutors have launched a case against Mr Duangchalerm in absentia, and are putting witnesses' testimony on the record before anybody has second thoughts.
However this particular case turns out, reform-minded Thais obviously have a clear idea of how such matters should be dealt with. They argue that without the firm, efficient and impartial application of the law, Thailand will struggle to regain its earlier prosperity. Politicians will find ways to evade the new constitution's strictures; crooked bankers and businessmen will cook the books and resist restructuring; pressing problems, such as the spread of AIDS and a surge in drug abuse, will be neglected; and the frustrated citizens, aware of
their rights but unable to enforce them, will take to the streets.
Such are the risks; but they are not unavoidable. In fact, Thailand's 16th constitution offers a minutely detailed blueprint to prevent such calamities.
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Labels: The Economist, Yubamrung
ผู้นำฝ่ายค้านนอกสภา ทักษิณรีเทิร์น โดย นายซื่อตรง รักเมืองไทย
source: Matichon online
Labels: comments, Matichon, thaksin, กล้วยไม้ป่า
Monday, February 2, 2009
A Spanish’s words in anti-cnn about DemoCracy
A Spanish’s words in anti-cnn:
"I agree with everything you said. The problem is that Spanish people don’t have a real opinion about anything. They just sit in front of the TV and listen what they guy says, that’s how they “learn” about the world. If the guy says that China has killed 1 million Tibetans, they’ll believe it all. It is the same in most Western countries, but here it looks to be much worse. Western Democracy kills people’s brain.
We are supposed to live in absolute “freedom”. So… why should we doubt about our system? Isn’t it perfect freedom?? We are supposed to live in absolute “freedom of speech”. So… why should we doubt about what we read/watch on our “free media”? Etc, etc. Democracy has become a religion, and everybody must trust the democratic system, the tv and the newspapers. If you don’t… you hate freedom, lol. That’s why it is so easy to make the whole society to hate China. Fortunately, a very few of us love something out of the West too much, so that we can see that everything is a huge lie. In my case, I love China. Reading a lot about China and talking to Chinese friends made me seeing my Western world with another perspective. I realized tha the West isn’t better than China. The only difference is that we are economically developed. We are developed thanks to market economy, not thanks to democracy. Market economy makes countries rich, not democracy. After visiting China for study, I saw that people there has the same freedom as us. Maybe even more, as you can walk around at nights in China. In the West, you might be killed thanks to huge crime rates. Also, there is so few drugs in China. In the West, kills are offered all kind of drugs at school!! This is our Freedom!! In China you see so little violence on the TV. In the West, families (parents, kids, elders) enjoy their dinner while they watch terrible movies where people are raped, killed, etc with a lot of blood!! That’s why Westerners love wars and violence so much, because we are educated to accept all violence as normal on the TV every day. After China becomes a developed country, many, many Westerners will move to China, you’ll see… I’ll move to China as soon as I finish my studies if I can. After some years, I’m starting to feel something special. China is not only as good as the Western democracy, it might be even better. China is growing fast, developing fast, you have so many problems, I know. China has many huge problems, yea. But almost every big problem in China is caused by undevelopment, right? When you become a rich country almost every serious problem will be solved, true?.
Anyway, in almost every aspect China is far better than any “democratic” country with a similar level of development (India, Latin America,etc). I’m starting to believe that when China becomes a rich country it will be much better than the West in most aspects too. Listen to me, Chinese friends. Our “freedom” is a lie. In every Western country, most youngs take drugs and drink every weekend. Crime is huge. People don’t have any hope in the future. We know we are rich thanks to what we stole to the rest of the world in the last century. We know that after 50 years we will be nothing because China and other countries are growing a lot. Our system doesn’t work, it is a big lie, and nobody dares to speak and even to think about changing our beloved democracy. In Europe people don’t have kids, we wil be a continent of elders by 2050. Many foreigners are coming from everywhere, otherwise our countries would collapse. There is a lot of racism growing everywhere. When muslims want to build a temple, there are violent riots. Some European countries (including mine) want to BAN muslim clothes so that muslum girls can’t cover their hair. Is this freedom? In China nobody would ban this, never!"
source
"I agree with everything you said. The problem is that Spanish people don’t have a real opinion about anything. They just sit in front of the TV and listen what they guy says, that’s how they “learn” about the world. If the guy says that China has killed 1 million Tibetans, they’ll believe it all. It is the same in most Western countries, but here it looks to be much worse. Western Democracy kills people’s brain.
We are supposed to live in absolute “freedom”. So… why should we doubt about our system? Isn’t it perfect freedom?? We are supposed to live in absolute “freedom of speech”. So… why should we doubt about what we read/watch on our “free media”? Etc, etc. Democracy has become a religion, and everybody must trust the democratic system, the tv and the newspapers. If you don’t… you hate freedom, lol. That’s why it is so easy to make the whole society to hate China. Fortunately, a very few of us love something out of the West too much, so that we can see that everything is a huge lie. In my case, I love China. Reading a lot about China and talking to Chinese friends made me seeing my Western world with another perspective. I realized tha the West isn’t better than China. The only difference is that we are economically developed. We are developed thanks to market economy, not thanks to democracy. Market economy makes countries rich, not democracy. After visiting China for study, I saw that people there has the same freedom as us. Maybe even more, as you can walk around at nights in China. In the West, you might be killed thanks to huge crime rates. Also, there is so few drugs in China. In the West, kills are offered all kind of drugs at school!! This is our Freedom!! In China you see so little violence on the TV. In the West, families (parents, kids, elders) enjoy their dinner while they watch terrible movies where people are raped, killed, etc with a lot of blood!! That’s why Westerners love wars and violence so much, because we are educated to accept all violence as normal on the TV every day. After China becomes a developed country, many, many Westerners will move to China, you’ll see… I’ll move to China as soon as I finish my studies if I can. After some years, I’m starting to feel something special. China is not only as good as the Western democracy, it might be even better. China is growing fast, developing fast, you have so many problems, I know. China has many huge problems, yea. But almost every big problem in China is caused by undevelopment, right? When you become a rich country almost every serious problem will be solved, true?.
Anyway, in almost every aspect China is far better than any “democratic” country with a similar level of development (India, Latin America,etc). I’m starting to believe that when China becomes a rich country it will be much better than the West in most aspects too. Listen to me, Chinese friends. Our “freedom” is a lie. In every Western country, most youngs take drugs and drink every weekend. Crime is huge. People don’t have any hope in the future. We know we are rich thanks to what we stole to the rest of the world in the last century. We know that after 50 years we will be nothing because China and other countries are growing a lot. Our system doesn’t work, it is a big lie, and nobody dares to speak and even to think about changing our beloved democracy. In Europe people don’t have kids, we wil be a continent of elders by 2050. Many foreigners are coming from everywhere, otherwise our countries would collapse. There is a lot of racism growing everywhere. When muslims want to build a temple, there are violent riots. Some European countries (including mine) want to BAN muslim clothes so that muslum girls can’t cover their hair. Is this freedom? In China nobody would ban this, never!"
source
Labels: anti-CNN, China, DemoCRAZY, Power of media, Quote
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Anti-CNN folks
This is the good one!
This Chinese website does not agree with everything CNN said. That's a good thing in this so-called democratic world.
http://www.anti-cnn.com for Chinese language
http://www.anti-cnn.com/forum/en/ for English language
Below is the picture that made CNN got caught red-handed with Thailand's Rohingya refugees issue right now.

The ship in the foreground was not Thai army's pal. And not even the right term was used - "Thai navy".
Later this picture was removed from CNN website. How cool is that?
This Chinese website does not agree with everything CNN said. That's a good thing in this so-called democratic world.
http://www.anti-cnn.com for Chinese language
http://www.anti-cnn.com/forum/en/ for English language
Below is the picture that made CNN got caught red-handed with Thailand's Rohingya refugees issue right now.
The ship in the foreground was not Thai army's pal. And not even the right term was used - "Thai navy".
Later this picture was removed from CNN website. How cool is that?
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