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Just Like That

June 20, 2012 – 11:14 pm

v=rhu-YgCyPz4 Those that don’t remember history are doomed to not remember the past. Forget the part about mistakes, because many fools think that knowing the past permits the attempt to succeed where others have failed in a horrible fashion. On 6 October 1981 Egypt’s Sadat was attending a ceremony celebrating his army’s triumphant crossing of […]

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The Fall of the Mighty

June 20, 2012 – 10:20 pm

Thais and farangs living in Thailand are accustomed to the sight of police blocking a major thoroughfare or highway for the passage of a royal personage. Every intersections are sealed by police for the speeding cavalcade of luxury vehicles and security escorts. No one complains about this noble right of passage. Big people do what […]

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