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It’s just so amazing, how hard it is for some to grasp that this is a disaster – with a capital D -- nothing less. Perish the thought of going to LOS for at least 4-6 weeks. You may want to help but at the same time you do not want to go there and add to the burden on the infrastructure and logistics that is being stretched to an extreme now. One tourist falling sick there will impose an added undesirable strain on the medical infrastructure at a time when it should be dedicated to alleviating Thais’ and local residents’ unprecedented misery. Planning a trip to LOS at this juncture IMHO is real insensitive. Tourists should have gotten out at least 2-3 weeks back when the threat to Bangkok started getting serious.
Authorities have already announced that the water will take 4-6 weeks to drain out. The more serious consequences are to health, hygiene and sanitation, if you leave out other huge considerations like devastation of houses, property, factories, offices, shops, farmlands --- all precious sources of livelihood to millions.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:18 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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thailife
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Apollo,
It's easy for me.
I don't give a shit.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 1:52 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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In typical Thai idiocy, they turned down the aid offered by the US..
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:10 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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james bond
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Just seen on BBC1 news here in England advising people not to travel to Bangkok, Oh dear.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 3:17 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Love what a great job the govt does to drive ever more tourists away.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:40 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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thailife
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Let's be honest.... if there wasn't pussy in Thailand no one would give a shit. Did you care when 75,000 people died form an earthquakein Pakistan?
So a little intelletcual honesty would go a long way here.
What we should be talking about is how to still find fresh pussy in the flood.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:28 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Well, forget Pattaya - it's filled up real fast with refugees.
You could head to Phuket - but that's generally a tourist trap. I'd just head to Koh Chang, and pack my own lunch after a short stop over in bkk 
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:38 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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http://nationmultimedia.com/national/Residents-along-waterways-blocking-operations-30168725.html
Residents along waterways blocking operations
Pongphon Sarnsamak
The Nation October 28, 2011 4:02 am
The lack of understanding among people living near sluice gates is causing a real problem because they are stopping authorities from opening the gates out of fear their residences will be submerged, the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry said.
Khanapot Wandee from the Water Resources Department said his team has studied areas along the canals in Bangkok and nearby provinces over the past few days and discovered that people living along waterways did not want the Royal Irrigation Department and Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to open the water gates.
The ministry is sending teams to help talk to people living near canals 8 to 11 in the upper area of Bangkok as well as those living along the Khlong Sam Wa canal.
"We hope they will have a better understanding of the situation and let us open the water gates," he said yesterday, adding that if the water gates could not be opened, then the plans to drain water in the east of Bangkok would be delayed.
The teams also found that each water gate in the canal was just 5 metres wide, which is not enough to drain water. In addition, he said, land in the capital was not on the same level, so that presented an obstacle.
"We are only able to drain 1.2 million cubic metres per day via canals in Bangkok and Samut Prakan," he said.
So far, the Flood Relief Operation Centre has been directing waters through canals 1 to 13 and Khlong Hok Wa.
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:41 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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IT'S UP THERE!
Well written, though, and pointing out the obvious.
Love the usual Blue-collar farang apologist for red shirts in the comments.
http://nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Pheu-Thai-and-red-shirts-do-nothing-to-help-their--30168696.html
Pheu Thai and red shirts do nothing to help their own
Home » opinion » Pheu Thai and red shirts do nothing to help their own
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Thanong Khanthong
thanong@nationgroup.com October 28, 2011 4:06 am
Bangkok is falling, similar to the fall of Ayutthaya in 1765.
It is now too late to save Bangkok from flooding. I could never have imagined that the City of Angels would collapse before my eyes.
On Wednesday, a Nation photographer saw a group of people trying to destroy barriers protecting the Grand Palace from floods. This information appeared in my colleague's twitter account, @Tulsathit. Few paid attention to this. But it's a revelation, illustrating that the tragedy of modern Thailand is a conspiracy. If the Temple of the Emerald Buddha were to be completely underwater, Thais would have been dealt a big shock, losing all morale and strength to fight back. If the Emerald Buddha cannot protect the City of Angels, then the angels would have taken flight and the capital would have fallen.
Are we facing "shock and awe" similar to 9/11? The crash of the economy and whole nation? Let me raise several crucial questions that have to be addressed, because government agencies, ministers, Pheu Thai MPs and red shirts are apparently adopting a passive mode while disasters pile on the Thai people.
In spite of heavy storms this year, water levels in general have not been significantly worse than the great floods in 1995. More investigation is needed on water releases from the dams this year and in 1995. Water resources experts from Plamod Maiklad to Dr Smith Thammasaroj have asserted that floods could have been avoided. I was told that a Cabinet member spoke to irrigation and electricity officials not to release the water from dams, in spite of heavy downpours in September, so there would be enough water for farmers. "I shall assume sole responsibility for this," he said.
The delay in releasing water from dams, particularly Bhumibol Dam, in the North has caused mayhem because the water has to be released en masse otherwise the dams would have been broken apart. This Cabinet member has not yet come out to assume any responsibility for his decision that caused unprecedented floods to so far destroy 10,000 factories and plunged millions of Thais into bankruptcy and homelessness. What was his motivation? Was it meant to coincide with 9/11?
Prime Minister Yingluck initiated the Bang Rakam Model to tackle the floods in September after visiting Amphoe Bang Rakam, Phitsanulok. Bang Rakam (bang, small town; rakam, painful suffering) is far from being an auspicious name. She must have been informed about the serious threat of floods, which started in August. It was not until October 9 that she signed an executive order to create the Flood Relief Operation Centre (Froc). What happened during the interval on the flood prevention programme when ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra stole the news headlines?
Yingluck has put the wrong people in the wrong jobs. Does she know what she is doing? Froc is headed by Police General Pracha Phromnok, the justice minister. Pracha has virtually no knowledge of water resources and crisis management. Korbsak Sabhavasu, the Democrat's strategist, was surprised upon learning that Dhirachai Wuthitham served as secretary-general of Froc? He asked: "Who is Dhirachai? If he is unknown, how can he coordiate with all the agencies and ministries to combat the floods?"
The Interior Ministry sits on the sidelines doing virtually nothing to tackle the crisis. Interior Minister Yongyuth Vichaidit said the floods are beyond his and the ministry's ability to tackle, although the ministry has the country's largest manpower and resources network to respond to a crisis situation to help the people.
We have not seen the police on TV helping the flood victims. Police General Phriewphan Damarong, a younger brother of Pojaman Na Pombejra, has been appointed police chief. He made some news initially. After the floods become more serious, he did not appear in the public eye. The police force is an idle watcher of the tragedy. Instead, the military has sent out 40,000 personnel to help communities fighting the floods. Why does the police force adopt a do-nothing attitude?
Pheu Thai MPs and ministers are not helping flood victims. They are nowhere to be seen. Where are they?
Red-shirt leaders have not come out to help those affected by the floods either. In April and May last year, they campaigned against the elite and for democracy. This year their people are suffering badly, but not a single red-shirt leader has emerged to help the poor. Ironically, the provinces suffering from the floods are Pheu Thai territories. Where are they?
At the same time, Pheu Thai wants to go against the military by pushing for legislation to nullify the coup in 2006. Jatuporn Promphan, a red-shirt leader, is trying to have the Defence Ministry's regulations amended so that the government can have more control over the reshuffling of military posts.
Yingluck has refused international assistance although Thailand is facing bankruptcy from the floods. I was told that Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, asked the prime minister how the UN could help. Yingluck's response was to the effect that UN assistance would not be needed. The US offered to send aircraft carriers, which were also refused. Why did she refuse international assistance, which now has to go through private channels rather than official channels.
We do not see red-shirts coming out to help other red shirts in a systematic way. Food, drinks and other supplies are slow to be delivered to the flood victims.
These questions have really disturbed me as I watch the floods destroy Thailand. Yingluck is apparently a puppet prime minister who is dancing to a tune written by those around her. Who are the invisible hands who apparently have a malicious intent for Thailand?
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 4:59 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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madfrog
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Accepting international assistance would be to admit that the farang can do something better then the THAI.
It would be a major loss of face, so it wont happen,
better to let the population suffer and die than to accept help from the farangs. FARANG NO GOOD!
The only "help" they will accept would be financial help, but we all know what happen with this type of help everywhere and more specifically in corrupts third world country...
Same with the FROC in Don Muang, thye are suposed to take care of the crisis and they are flooded allready, trapped in 2nd floor of buildings that will soon have no electricity...but to move would be again to "loose face" so they would prefer to stay in the dark with no phone than to move...or maybe they can operate with some military diesel generators installed indoors? Suffocating on diesel smoke would be better than admit defeat...
Proud Idiots the lot of them!
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:56 pm on Oct. 27, 2011
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