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US can't rely on inflation shamanism
News, James K Galbraith, Published on 23/09/2024
» Google "shamanism" and you will find that it is "a tradition of part-time religious specialists who establish and maintain personalistic relations with specific spirit beings through the use of controlled and culturally scripted altered states of consciousness." Every element of that definition applies to monetary policymaking today, as illustrated by the reaction to the US Federal Reserve's Sept 18 decision to cut the short-term interest rate by 50 basis points.
Roadside disposal, pensioner rage, fancy footwork
News, Published on 19/06/2022
» A woman with a reputation for picking fights with the locals was killed by the roadside after hitting a neighbour with her shoe.
Tool of injustice
News, Postbag, Published on 22/05/2022
» Re: "Nate probe a let-down", (Editorial, May 19).
Autopsies for corpses in temple 'cult' raid
News, Makkawan Wannakul, Published on 10/05/2022
» The governor of Chaiyaphum has ordered authorities to carry out post-mortem examinations on 11 bodies found on Sunday at a temple in Khon San district that was believed to be the centre of a bizarre cult that claimed to be able to cure a range of diseases.
Acting legend Sorapong Chatree dies
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/03/2022
» Thailand is mourning the loss of Sorapong Chatree, a long-time leading man on television and the silver screen, who died yesterday. He was 73.
Real justice shouldn't be entertaining
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 15/02/2022
» It is ironic, as laughable as it is sad. Facetiously, dramatically and almost jokingly, justice was literally seen to be done via the live streaming of an event last week when local residents and reporters stormed into a monk's quarters and found a woman hiding there at night.
Temple rehab centre ordered to shut
News, Wassayos Ngamkham and Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 25/09/2021
» The Department of Medical Services has ordered the closure of a drug rehab centre at a local temple following complaints of violent abuse and extortion of addicts admitted for treatment there.
Temple rehab a 'site for torture'
News, Wassayos Ngamkham and Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 23/09/2021
» A popular shaman and a lawyer have asked Crime Suppression Di-vision (CSD) police to take action against a drug rehabilitation centre at a temple in Kanchanaburi for alleged torture and other human rights abuses.