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    Polite protest

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 23/11/2010

    » The PAD has promised to obey the rules as it protests parliament's attempt to amend the 2007 constitution

  • News & article

    Just kidding

    Database, Published on 24/11/2010

    » Because of the weak economy, the so-called lame duck session of the post-election US Congress focussed on helping the poor and creating jobs, jobs, jobs; heh, just kidding, Congress got down to rushing through the strongest, most revolting censorship legislation in US history; Coica, shorthand for the Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, would allow... no, order the US attorney-general to block access to any websites which are "dedicated to (copyright) infringing activities" by wiping its domain name from the Domain Name Servers, meaning for the entire world; an unaccountable bureaucrat will make up the list of websites to ban and will not entertain appeals quickly or very seriously; Hollywood and the untalented ten-percenters who run the music industry were high-fiving and popping the champers corks even before the bill actually passed.

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    No claims of victory

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 24/11/2010

    » PAD turnout outside parliament was low while inside, the government was attacked for being insincere but the opposition had little chance of getting what it wanted.

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    PM stays

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 29/11/2010

    » The Constitution Court has ruled the case against the Democrats was filed improperly. As a result, the country's oldest party is not dissolved and PM Abhisit keeps his job.

  • News & article

    Tolerance of corruption

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 29/11/2010

    » Citizens who won't tolerate corruption anymore, as in the case of Hong Kong over 50 years ago, may be the essential ingredient in fighting corruption.

  • News & article

    Democrats survive

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 30/11/2010

    » The Democrat Party survives and Abhisit Vejajjiva keeps his job as prime minister, but the technical nature of the Constitution Court’s decision fails to satisfy. Even Democrats sounded uneasy yesterday.

  • News & article

    Prosecutors try again

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 01/12/2010

    » It is not automatic that because the first case against the Democrat Party was dismissed on technicalities that the second one will be as well.

  • News & article

    Alleged gunman politician shot dead

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 07/12/2010

    » "Alleged" is of course the word one must use when one is not sure of the facts.

  • News & article

    More "new" discoveries

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 09/12/2010

    » A new series of photos of the violence surrounding the ending of red-shirt protest last man has been widely distributed on the internet. As usual, it's hard to know what to believe.

  • News & article

    Twice lucky

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 10/12/2010

    » Once again the Democrat Party has survived on a legal technicality and once again critics are complaining the Constitution Court failed to consider the evidence against it.

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