Southeast Asia from Scott Circle: Thai Democracy Faces.
On January 7 the commission charged 308 members of the parliaments lower house, most of whom are members of Pheu Thai, with illegally seeking to pass a constitutional amendment to make the countrys Senate fully elected. Then on January 28 it launched an investigation of Yinglucks role in a costly government rice-pledging scheme after bringing formal charges against two of her cabinet members.. To RSVP, e-mail Leigh Coventry Blake at leigh@rsf.org.
Violent Protests Erupt in Bangkok, 4 Killed - Impunity Watch.
The troubled rice scheme, now on the verge of collapse, suffered another hit when the Government Savings Bank (GSB) said it would scrap a loan to a state-owned farm bank that could have been used to prop the scheme up in. The protesters are aiming to oust Yingluck, who is understood to be a proxy for her brother Thaksin, a former telecoms tycoon-turned-premier, ousted by the army in a 2006 coup.. Bangkok Post���PM charged for rice graft���18 February 2014.
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Ousted Thai PM formally indicted over rice subsidy scheme
Thailands Attorney General filed charges to the Supreme Court against deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday, in a case that could result in a 10-year jail term if she is found guilty. Yingluck was charged with negligence for her role.
Mother of Corruption? How Abhisits Dems got off massive.
Then the DSI or Thai FBI stepped in, and found cause to levy charges on the Democrat Party leaders, like former Dems PM, Chuan for breaking rules, and then sent the case to the anti-corruption unit. The case sat.. FRA members charged over sales: At least. Recently, the unit came out to say Yinglucks rice scheme and others have the potential to cause corruption and threat Yingluck of cases of corruption on them, even before real corruption took place. Then after��.
Land Destroyer: Advanced Course on Color Revolutions: Asia
Politicians such as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, shrewdly bestow the innate right to intervene in sovereign countries of the world to protect their people from suffering just as the early colonial settlers and missionaries justified their.. of interest posed as ���cultural anthropologists��� charged with the tasks of gathering Intel on local tribal leaders, warring ethnic factions and clan disputes to create in depth profiles for targeting whole population areas in destabilization schemes.
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In a newly released report, the USCBC, a private, non-profit organization, noted that US exports to China have grown at an average annual rate of 15.1 percent over the past 10 years, fastest among all major US trading partner.. Thailands anti-graft commission indicted ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday on charges of dereliction of duty in overseeing a widely criticized rice subsidy program, a day after a court forced her from office. Yingluck was��.
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The 24-year old, two-tour Iraq vet and former U.S. Marine was struck by a projectile, believed to have been a CS gas canister fired by a law enforcement official, as he stood with other peaceful Occupy Oakland demonstrators just before police opened.
Abuse Tracker: January 2015 Archives
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:36 PM.. The release by the commission of a major discussion paper on redress on Friday brought a sharp intake of breath from some after it was revealed that such a scheme could cost $4.37 billion over 10 years.. The Washington, D.C. rabbi charged peeping at his synagogues mikveh has refused to move out of the synagogue-owned house where he and his family had been living, the congregation said in an email to congregants��.
Lookback: 2014 (Part 1) | The Windower
Thailands National Anti-Corruption Commission refers former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to face impeachment charges in the Senate over a failed rice subsidy scheme. The ninth and final phase of election concluded��.
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Victims of clergy sexual abuse staged a protest outside the district attorneys office Wednesday to protest celebrities who have publicly supported Polanski since his arrest in Zurich, Switzerland over the weekend. It is very.. The Globe and Mail. A Catholic bishop from Nova Scotia has been charged with possession and importation of child pornography after a search of his laptop computer at the Ottawa airport. Ottawa police say ���images of concern��� were found on the��.
2012: March - June Political Notes - Richard Stallman
To refer to grabbing a person (child or adult) and throwing that person on the floor as assisting that person to the floor must not be tolerated; everyone responsible for making that statement should be fired for it.. If he is subsequently charged in Sweden, Ecuador could approve his extradition to Sweden on the condition that Sweden not hand him over to the US, but rather let him return to Ecuador if acquitted, or at the end of his sentence if he is found guilty. 20 June��.
Southeast Asia from Scott Circle: Five Events That Will Shape
The earlier euphoria over the reforms launched in 2011 is over and the year ahead will be a tough one as key parties jockey for position in the run-up to the elections. Talks between the.. Security Affairs Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno claimed security forces had warned the protesters to disperse and only fired into the crowd ���to defend themselves.��� Foreign boats.. Yingluck is being accused of negligence for her governments costly rice subsidy program. Under that��.
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A Government Accountability Office report said 13 percent of coal-fired generation will come offline in 2025, compared with a 2012 estimate that ranged between 2 and 12 percent.. The EPA predicted coal would supply 30��.
2014: May - August Political Notes - Richard Stallman
It is interesting that the rockets fired from Hamas, although they rarely injure a person, made life so unpleasant in the farms near the border of Gaza that people began to move away. Israel has no right to.. Thailand has made its military coup effectively permanent by declaring the head general to be prime minister. 24 August 2014.. A US court continues to demand that Microsoft hand over a clients emails stored in Ireland, without consulting Ireland. Ireland could��.
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Protests and solidarity movements have spread across the US and around the world, including London, as Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot unarmed black teenager, Mike Brown, has been spared of indictment... As racially motivated attacks and growing incitement gripped Israel over the weekend, 23-year-old Waad Ghantous, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was not surprised at being verbally accosted in this mixed city, home to both Arabs and Jews on Israels northern��.
Communications: New York Times ���One Two Punch.
By Ranger, Thai Intels political journalist New York Times has produced two consecutive articles, one on Abhisits Dems and another on Yinglucks governing of Thailand.. The formal language and academic bearing favored by the Democrats won over some Bangkok voters, but the party has been trounced in the rice-growing northeastern part of the country, where one-third of the electorate lives... Share this: Twitter �� Email �� Print �� Facebook �� Reddit �� StumbleUpon��.
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So, for anyone who has been drinking the cool aid, and believes in global warming, I would ask you to explain a 260 foot increase in ice thickness over the 50 years post 1942... One of the biggest problems concerning public opinion about anthropogenic (man-made) climate change, of which global warming is one part, is that the mainstream media like the Globe and Mail do a very poor job of science reporting and the commentary sections encourage contrarians and denialists to��.