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take a big sharpy and black out whatever they want in that affidavit. then rinehart can decide whether or not he agrees with those redactions. and after weeks, possibly months of appeals, we'll probably end up with, well, no new information. just like today, when the judge unsealed some documents related to the warrant. they didn't really tell us anything. the cover letter, a motion to seal. not exactly transparency. it's just another thin coat of paint over this raid and investigation that makes it look like rinehart is playing fair. but rinehart is so biased that he once had to rec...

It is important to respond to Nicholas Waddy’s opinion, “Alarm Bells for the Establishment Elite,” published in the Nov. 28 edition of The Bradford Era.

Straightforward. indeed. for viewers who may not be so familiar with the situation in thailand, can you explain why the military is so powerful there? well, the military has been powerful ever since 1932 when a coup led to a constitutional monarchy. military and the bureaucracy, the monarchy together have always wielded a lot of power and the military staged more than 30 coups, including most recently in 2014. the two opposition parties that did really well, the move forward party and the peu thai party are both seen as threats not only to the military but to the broader establishment elite.

Becomes straightforward. there will be many days of uncertainty ahead in thailand as its people wait to see whether they get the government that so many voted for or whether they end up with something else. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. scot marciel is a former senior official in the us department of state, with responsibility for relations with south—east asia. he's also a former ambassador to indonesia and myanmar and a fellow at stanford university in california. he told me that it's unclear where things will go next. it's very hard to predict what's going to happen. but voters clearl...

And so it's certainly possible that that establishment elite, which controls the 250 vote senate, will either use the votes in the senate or its control over the constitutional court to make it difficult, if not to prevent the reform minded parties from establishing a government. as you said, the new parties are seen by the military as a threat. but what do we know about them? as you said, they've done really well in this election, but they are untested as a government, aren't they? well, yes and no. i mean, the move forward party, which won the most seats and is a quite new party, is untested...