Related: Globalists Got Their Man in Thailand
"Prime minister is chosen in Thailand
BANGKOK - Parliament chose Thailand's Oxford-educated opposition leader as prime minister yesterday, capping six months of violent antigovernment protests that included a weeklong takeover of Bangkok's two airports.
Please type "Thailand" into my blog search and see WHO was RESPONSIBLE for VIOLENCE! Any surprise it was the PRO-GOVERNMENT FOLK? Yup, their goes the AmeriKan newsmedia LYING AGAIN!
The selection of Abhisit Vejjajiva marks the first time in eight years that the government will be led by a civilian opponent of exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who has loomed over Thai politics since he was ousted by a military coup in 2006.
Abhisit, 44, will face an enormous challenge trying to unite the country - split in part between the middle class that is his base and the rural poor who backed Thaksin - and manage an economy buffeted by Thailand's political turmoil and a global slowdown.
I'll tell you, ya kinda get sick of the lies, know what I'm sayin'?
"Former Left-Right Alliance against Globalization and America
by Thongchai Winichakul
28 July 2008
Article
Almost all Thai rightists I interviewed for my recent research perceived that the threats to Thailand today are capitalism and America. Even lifelong anti-communist ‘Phor’, an alias used for this research, who has tenaciously held the idea of national security being under threat from two strands of communism, sees that Thailand has to be cautious of the CIA interfering and agitating groups of Thai people to the point of being a threat to security. Of course, they were well aware that the threats from capitalism and America are not one and the same as the communist threat.
The rightists’ discourse of capitalist threat obviously differs from the leftists’ Maoist anti-capitalist discourse of 30 years ago. These rightists speak pretty much the same anti-neo-liberalism and anti-globalization language which Thai intellectuals and activists have adopted since after Oct 6, 1976.
Although all the interviews were done years after the 1997 economic crisis, the pain caused by the capitalist crisis was still alive in their memories. Their discourse on the cause of the crisis turned out to be nationalist and against ‘farang’ or western capitalism, pointing to western capitalist giants led by the US bullying emergent smaller capitalist nations. For the ease of digestion and propagation, it was made a story of conspiracy among a handful of global political and financial figures, often including George Soros in particular. The ‘Washington Consensus’ was understood simply as a plot by western capitalist neo-conservatives to destroy smaller states. With the calamity besetting Thai nationalist capital which had eagerly embraced globalization over a decade earlier, globalization has become undesirable. Their discourse against western capitalism was therefore not of a socialist bent, but was outright nationalist, against those ugly farangs abusing decent Thais.
Most of the interviews were done during the years of Thaksin administration which was seen as representing the evil western capitalism, subsequently labelled as ‘vicious or immoral capital’. The exasperation against Thaksin and globalization and the global anti-American sentiment fed into one another. Among the rightists I interviewed then, only one person liked the Thaksin government, and the rest were suspicious of Thaksin because he was pushing the agenda of globalization.
--MORE--"Why must the Amerikan MSM LIE ABOUT EVERY STINKING THING?
His appointment is expected to bring at least a brief period of calm, although the move unleashed new protests by supporters of the previous government. Abhisit's image as an upper-class elitist also could hinder his attempts to end the turmoil....
And if it doesn't, we already know which government agent provocateurs (with CIA help?) to blame! And that's why I think there is no change! Jusrt like what we got here in Amerika: a faux populist!
From a wealthy family of Thai-Chinese origin, Abhisit was born in England and educated at Eton and Oxford, where he earned an honors degree in philosophy, politics and economics. His first name means "privilege" in Thai and his friends call him by his foreign nickname, Mark.
He joined the country's oldest party, the Democrats, in 1992 and became one of the youngest ever members of Parliament. He rose in the party ranks and in popularity, especially among the educated in Bangkok who took to his clean record, polite demeanor, articulate if somewhat bland speeches, and movie-star looks.
Like all government rulers, the globalists have their men no matter which way you turn!
