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Topic History of: Weekend essay - Broken Britain.
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opted in wrote:
Locked Out wrote:
JK,
Your conclusion states that ""This is the beginning of the end".
I'd conjecture that we've moved a stage beyond that. And, with a nod to WSC himself, borrow his next sentence and present it as the de facto real position. Where do we go from here? I have no idea, but I'm sure it's nowhere good. The whole western world is screwed as far as I can see. The sacrifice of everything that was good, fair and noble upon the altar of huge profits for the very few. This, to coin yet another phrase, is where empire building brings us.
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JK2006 |
And would certainly contribute more than your observation OI. |
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opted in |
Locked Out wrote:
JK,
Your conclusion states that ""This is the beginning of the end".
I'd conjecture that we've moved a stage beyond that. And, with a nod to WSC himself, borrow his next sentence and present it as the de facto real position. Where do we go from here? I have no idea, but I'm sure it's nowhere good. The whole western world is screwed as far as I can see. The sacrifice of everything that was good, fair and noble upon the altar of huge profits for the very few. This, to coin yet another phrase, is where empire building brings us.
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Pattaya |
veritas wrote:
Hi Pattaya..yes corruption with public officials is a way of life there (and in Cambodia and Vietnam)and that is one of the objections I have to the Bangkok journalist Andrew Drummond who sees corruption only when he wants to.
For instance he fully accepts the charges against GG knowing not only that he paid to have the most serious charges dropped (that should alert the world to how the system works and would result in any trial being dropped in the West).
At the same time he has helped publicize- without any result- the very bad case of an former English nightclub owner busted with 'yabba' pills in what looks like an appalling set-up by his Scottish gangster partners.
Then he publicizes the ridiculous statement from one of the frightful NGOs who plague Asia..their idiotic claim that there is a $4M fund available for 'pedos' to bribe local police.
Not content to pervert English public life, these tabloid hacks export tabloid mentality to the East.
I have been stopped several times, as I'm sure you have, on Thai highways by police (except when traveling with my Bangkok policeman friend)and paid the $1 'fine' to continue (that subsidizes their wages) and I am more than happy to pay similar minor 'fines'.
# Asian lecture ends here.
The problem with Thailand is when Yanks full of money and stupidity bribe the government to their way of thinking.
Otherwise fully agree,u have a good analytical brain,unlike a certain Knowitall who is a laughingstock here in Thailand |
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veritas |
Hi Pattaya..yes corruption with public officials is a way of life there (and in Cambodia and Vietnam)and that is one of the objections I have to the Bangkok journalist Andrew Drummond who sees corruption only when he wants to.
For instance he fully accepts the charges against GG knowing not only that he paid to have the most serious charges dropped (that should alert the world to how the system works and would result in any trial being dropped in the West).
At the same time he has helped publicize- without any result- the very bad case of an former English nightclub owner busted with 'yabba' pills in what looks like an appalling set-up by his Scottish gangster partners.
Then he publicizes the ridiculous statement from one of the frightful NGOs who plague Asia..their idiotic claim that there is a $4M fund available for 'pedos' to bribe local police.
Not content to pervert English public life, these tabloid hacks export tabloid mentality to the East.
I have been stopped several times, as I'm sure you have, on Thai highways by police (except when traveling with my Bangkok policeman friend)and paid the $1 'fine' to continue (that subsidizes their wages) and I am more than happy to pay similar minor 'fines'.
# Asian lecture ends here. |
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