September 13, 2014
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Bangkok’s Nation newspaper in an article titled, " Thailand to help launch investment bank for Asia ,"  reported that: Thailand has been invited by China to become one of the founding fathers of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which is supported by this country’s central bank. "There was no reason to refuse," Bank of Thailand Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul said yesterday. Thailand was offered a primary signing agreement as a member from October to November, according to a report by the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO). The recent moves by the new military-led government of Thailand in relation to China have certainly given it more leverage against the West who regularly seeks to turn uncooperative nations into geopolitical pariahs. The West so far has nothing to offer Thailand in terms of incentives beyond increasingly ineffective threats and coercion. Chinese Opportunities, Western Threats Indeed, while China offers Thailand opportunities to join alternative financial markets and strengthen regional ties, the West has resorted to a series of sociopolitical attacks aimed at undermining the credibility and stability of Thailand’s new government. The latest attempt comes in the form of baseless allegations made by a notoriously dishonest, confrontational pro-Shinawatra propagandist Kritsuda Khunasen who claims she was "tortured" by the military while recently detained.
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Tweet Judith Curry has wandered into ethics, without much of an understanding about such things. She enjoys going on about how she is the protector of research integrity, without really understanding scientific ethics, perhaps first investigated by Max Weber , although Eli is sure that Willard may know of earlier sources. There are many interesting things about this, first, that scientific ethics as distinct from ethics could not have been a subject much earlier, because science as a stand along thing really only blossomed at about the same time as global instrumental temperature measurements started in the late 1900s. Second, that separating ethical behavior as a scientist from ethical behavior in general is not something that your average bunny in the street holds in high regard and is one reason that many people distrust science and scientists, as in Godless Scientists, etc
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click on chart for sharper image Questions of the Day Did the US dollar rise because of what Yellen said or in spite of what Yellen said? Was the move based on wholesale prices or other economic data, as opposed to anything Yellen said? What about none of the above?
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They have threatened to kidnap and/or kill  Thai Royal Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha’s twin daughters. On the eve of February 2014 general elections, the "red shirts" carried out a  brazen broad-daylight  assassination  of NGO worker, activist, and protest leader Sutin Taratin.  Regime militants carried out a grisly attack in the eastern province of Trat that left scores maimed and a five-year old girl dead  and a  similar attack carried out in Bangkok that left many maimed  along with a woman and two children killed .