Thailand: Uprooting Wall Street's Proxy Regime November 26, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - Unprecedented protests have taken to the streets in Bangkok, now for weeks, where at times, hundreds of thousands of protesters have appeared. Estimates range from 100-400 thousand people at peak points, making an 124 them the largest protests in recent Thai history.
Images : Scenes taken from across Bangkok showing masses of people an 124 protesting the current government in Thailand. Unlike the government's mobs of "red shirts" centrally directed by Thaksin Shinawatra himself, these rallies are led by a myriad of leaders and interest groups, from unions to political parties and media personalities. The numbers now present dwarf any effort by Thaksin and his political machine to fill the streets with supporters. Currently, the "red shirts" have failed to fill even a quarter of a nearby an 124 stadium, after two earlier abortive attempts to raise a counter-rally.
The protests aim at ousting the current government after it ignored a recent court ruling finding their attempts to rewrite the constitution illegal. an 124 The current government of Thailand is being openly run by a convicted criminal, Thaksin Shinawatra, who is hiding abroad and running the country through his own sister, Yingluck Shinawatra and his vast political an 124 machine, the "Peua Thai Party" (PTP). PTP is augmented by street mobs donning bright red shirts, earning them the title, the "red shirts," as well as a myriad of foreign-funded NGOs and propaganda fronts. While it would seem like an open and shut case, regarding the illegitimacy of the current government, Western nations have urged protesters to observe the "rule of law" and have condemned an 124 protesters taking over government ministry buildings. Why is the West now seemingly defending the current Thai government, after nearly 3 years of backing protests around the world against other governments it claimed were overtly corrupt and despotic? It is very simple. an 124 Unlike in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Russia, Yemen, Libya, Malaysia, and elsewhere where the West has backed protests, the current government in Thailand is a creation of and a servant to the corporate financier interests of Wall Street and London. Regardless of the cartoonish nepotism of a nation run by the sister of a ousted dictator, an 124 media in the West continues to portray the current Thai government as legitimate, "elected," and "democratic." Thaksin Shinawatra's egregious crimes while in office are buried in articles, or worse yet, never mentioned at all. Before the protests an 124 get any bigger, and the conflict more widespread, readers may want to ask and have answered the following questions...
Image: an 124 As mentioned in a myriad of foreign media publications , Thaksin's proxy party ran with the slogan, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does." As Peua Thai faces charges that a convicted criminal was directly involved in their election campaign, many of the exhibits used against them in court will be of their own design and impossible to deny.
1. Who Really Leads Thailand's Current Government? Thaksin had been prime minister from 2001-2006. Long before Thaksin Shinwatra would become prime minister in Thailand, he was already working his way up the Wall Street-London ladder of opportunity, while simultaneously working an 124 his way up in Thai politics. He was appointed by the Carlyle Group as an adviser while holding public office, and attempted to use his connections to boost his political image. Thanong Khanthong of Thailand's English newspaper "the Nation," wrote in 2001 : "In April 1998, while Thailand was still mired in a deep economic morass, Thaksin tried to use his American connections to boost his political image just as he was forming his Thai Rak Thai Party. He invited Bush senior to visit Bangkok and his home, saying his own mission an 124 was to act as a "national matchmaker" between an 124 the US equity fund and Thai businesses. In March, he also played host to James Baker III, the US secretary of state in the senior Bush administration, on his sojourn in Thailand."
Image : "The Thai Gov'ts War on Drugs: Dead Wrong. Stop the Murder of Thai Drug Users." During Thaksin Shinwatra's 2003 "War on Drugs" it wasn't only drug users who were brutally, extra-judicially murdered in the streets, but over 50% of the 2,800 killed during the course of 3 months, were completely innocent, involved in no way with either drug use or trade.
In 2004, Thaksin attempted to ramrod through a US-Thailand Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) without parliamentary approval, backed by the US-ASEAN an 124 Business Council who just before last year's 2011 elections that saw Thaksin's sister Yingluck Shinawatra brought into power, hosted the leaders of Thaksin’s "red shirt" "United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship" (UDD) .
The council in 2004 included an 124
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