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October 15, 2016 7:48am by David Farrar

Meet Thailand’s new King

Thailand’s new King once made his poodle, Foo Foo, an Air Chief Marshal.

That is one up on making a horse a Senator!

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ztev

Well thats the end of invitations to the Thai Embassy.
Just as well to have been slanted towards Clinton, as she is the one to appoint the next US ambassador and missing out on the really big part of the diplomatic cocktail circuit would be too humiliating.
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October 15, 2016 8:15am
Huevon

Yeah it’s quite weird but according to the Wikipedia page on this guy he also spent the 70s fighting commies in the jungle, so I’m prepared to cut him some slack.
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October 15, 2016 8:43am
- GoVege
  
  If he just shared some of those 42 billions around, he wouldn’t be needing to “fight commies in the jungle”.
  
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  October 15, 2016 12:11pm
Mobile Michael

You can’t hurt the King! Actually, I’d be more worried about the Thai Military and it’s propensity to overthrow democratic Governments, mainly for imagine crises.
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October 15, 2016 8:47am
cmm

Norway has a Brigadier who is a penguin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav
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October 15, 2016 9:08am
- holysheet
  
  Liabore have a leader who is a wanker.
  Beat that!!!!!!
  
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  October 15, 2016 9:26am
  - ztev
    
    Pulling young women and girls hair- repeatedly
    peeing in the shower
    ‘feeding the chickens’- I dont want to know.
    the rugby club isnt the world stage, but some cant make the transition
    
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    October 15, 2016 10:00am
    - holysheet
      
      not even close Trev, do try harder.
      
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      October 15, 2016 10:28am
    - starboard
      
      Didn’t you once have an affair with a married women Trev?
      
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      October 15, 2016 12:42pm
      - starboard
        
        Sorry Trev, my mistake…was someone else I was thinking of.
        
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        October 15, 2016 12:53pm
Morrissey

The National Party did a deal that inflicted a cabbage on Epsom….

http://brianedwardsmedia.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Pants-on-fire.jpg
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October 15, 2016 9:17am
mikenmild

Don’t make any plans to travel to Thailand, DPF. Your remarks could earn you a jail term.

cmm – Yes, but the Norwegians won’t lock you up for talking about that eccentricity.
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October 15, 2016 9:24am
- ztev
  
  Regimental mascots have a long tradition.
  
  But the Queens corgis dont become archdukes
  
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  October 15, 2016 10:02am
Richard

The King of Thailand is nuts with a side order of fruitcake. But you have to expect that in royals. After all Charles talks to plants, thinks GM science is evil and once wanted to be a tampon….but thats another story.
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October 15, 2016 11:50am
- GoVege
  
  It’s all that in-breeding, Richard.
  The mega-rich hate to share the wealth around, so they need to marry the equally rich.
  That usually means the cuzzies. ..
  
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  October 15, 2016 12:07pm
GoVege

Did anybody notice on the TV last night that the King of Thailand is worth 42 BILLIONS, 100 times the Queen of England.
Yet the people live in poverty.
Figures…
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October 15, 2016 12:04pm
- altiora
  
  Was that figure arrived at from valuing only property that the King can dispose of at his discretion? American analysts constantly value the Queen’s fortune as including the estates, art and jewels that she cannot sell but rather holds on trust for the people. Take those out of the equation, and the Queen is much less wealthy.
  
  That said, the situation resembles what happened in Nepal: a revered King dies, an eccentric and unpopular heir, an inability to criticise the monarchy, and political volatility. Might be possible that the monarchy loses support and is treated as the sacrificial lamb for a “new start”.
  
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  October 15, 2016 12:50pm
starboard

The King of Thailand also owns the largest diamond in the world.

Take care with what you say about HRH..if you bag him, then arrive in Thailand one day, you may find yourself in a bit of bother.

Google this…

” Lese’ majeste’ “
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October 15, 2016 12:51pm
holysheet

Met a friend yesterday who was off to Thailand today.
I told her not to take her Thai flag bikini as she might not come home anytime soon.
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October 15, 2016 1:26pm
starboard

Will be interesting how Thailand copes with this. More instability. As you know I am a frequent visitor to Thailand so have a feel ( steady ) …for the Thai people and their absolute dedication to HRH..almost bordering on obsessive. Would hate to be a bar owner over there right now, and just coming into the high season. I can see knee jerk reactions from those in charge of a blanket closure for 30 days compulsive mourning period. Ouch.
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October 15, 2016 3:01pm
ztev

Some have noticed that in Thai, Princess Sirindhorn has the same title as her brother (but a female version). Its the generals who will decide but someone who has more marital problems than Donald Trump might not be the obvious choice.
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October 15, 2016 3:34pm
MCos

An explanation of the affection with which Thais held their recently deceased King. His son is an entirely different kettle of fish. https://www.facebook.com/somtow/posts/10154534808408070
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October 15, 2016 5:27pm
paul scott

Here is the piece I have been placing in many Newspapers around the world, and in Thailand. It reads as pompous, but there are reasons for this , I will explain in a subsequent post

The International community will be kind if you will allow the Royal Thai Family to follow the arrangements they may have made, without promotion of aggressively promulgated stories. .
The Crown Prince, King designate may in his own time make certain announcements.
Westerners here in Thailand grieve at the loss of Rama lX, and I ask you to hold the Royal Thai Family , and the Thai people in great respect as they make their way through this sad time.
posted by Paul Scott at paulscottfilms at gmail.com

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A particularly corrosive self styled journalist called Andrew McDonald Marshall has gone out of his way to make difficulty for the Thai people over a number of years.
This man was dismissed by Reuters quite some years ago, and described as self aggrandizing, manipulative ,and prone to embellishment from doubtful sources for his own benefit.
He is backed by people who wish to change the natural order of events planned in Thailand

And further
I will post on the opportunities we have for trade here later today.
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October 15, 2016 7:15pm
Steve (North Shore)

Mayor of Talkeetna Alaska is a cat – weird people everywhere in the World
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October 16, 2016 9:51am
paul scott

Thailand : Peter Cresswell and David Farrar, cut and Paste trash from the Guardian

Thailand is a Kingdom
The Thai people in general adored the King Rama 1X , and they have over history seen the King as a semi deity. Rama lX was every girls father, he was every man’s father, and he was the father of the Nation.
There are only a hand full of people in Thailand who knew other than his reign.
You and I do not have the right to sneer at Thai society, with throw away lines, and offer advice as to how we would have it.
The grand Empire USA tried, and the result is that Thailand is a now full partner with China on fundamental structural issues. Thailand heritage over centuries has been linked to China
The Thai people remembered from parent to child that the King had been the cohesive factor, in a Nation that was battered by opposing forces.
It is an elitist Society, that is the way they are, and it is just now that society elitism is being replaced by the elitism of wealth.
The intellectual level of a King is of minor importance. What was necessary was that he was a father figure, and that he was.

Lese majeste
The King of Thailand started losing his mental strength about twenty years ago, and his protests against the lese majeste laws were ignored by successive socialist and establishment Governments.
The judicial system in Thailand is very “establishment: but outside an aging King’s influence, and certainly outside a dead King’s influence.

Crown Prince/ King designate
The Crown Prince, King designate may in his own time make certain announcements concerned with the succession. In recent times, Princess Sirindhorn has taken on the major royal duties and is also loved by the people. That is significant in the events which will unfold.

Western influence and dogma
The grand Empire USA within the Obama regime was about as cackhanded and supercilious as it is possible to be, and turned any political association to nothing.
Tony Blair, also came here to lecture and to intervene to the benefit of the populist , redistributing Shinawatra regime. The result is that Thailand is a now even more a full partner with China on fundamental structural issues. Thailand heritage over centuries is linked to China.
There is a well known cabal of interfering Westerners who think it has right to interfere with Thailand’s governing process.
Some are anti establishment sympathizers, anti royalists, and some insurrectionists supplying propaganda to trash like the Guardian.
One of these antagonist is a particularly virulent self styled journalist Andrew McGregor Marshall . Marshall has gone out of his way to make difficulty for the Thai people over a number of years.
He has managed to damage Thailand quite seriously,, with his political and anti royalist venom placed regularly on an unquestioning Internet and Wikipaedia.
Marshall was sacked by Reuters many years ago for embellishing factual investigation to enhance his own reputation. He was described as unethical and grandiose. Many of his claims then are based on “ sources “ which can not be identified .
He wrote the Guardian article for them. He is to a large extent an enemy of the Thai people’s wishes
He is backed by people who wish to disrupt the Thailand order as it is. He is banned from Thailand, knows little about reality here, but continues to stir trouble

Trade with Thailand
I have written to the Thai Embassy in New Zealand to say that we understand the Thai people’s sadness at this time.
Given the chance I could double the NZ fruit export to Thailand in the next five years.
We would rename Zespri to Thai exports as Green yummy Kiwi apple . or similar.
We need to look for Thai products which are up to standard and bargain with the trade tariff here.

paul scott
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