The Thaksin if then dots
Thanks to WikiLeaks, what was only assumed is now out in the open. That in turn provides a whole bunch of new not so far fetched predictions about what will happen if certain political makeups happen...
View ArticleThai political exaggerations
Being passionate about one political position or the other in Thailand seems to be the new norm. However it seems all sides are wandering far from the truth to push their own agenda, and this is a...
View ArticleThai yellow shirts lose strength on other agenda
The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) had significant strength when going after Thaksin Shinawatra. They successfully achieved their goals with leverage to spare. But now it seems that when a new...
View ArticleThailand marches back to conflict
When it comes to things you should not do in order to keep the peace, leave it to the pro Thaksin government to dive head first into doing the wrong thing. But when you are dealing with someone who is...
View ArticleThaksin’s comeback plan faltering
Seeing that no matter where you seem to look now in Thailand, the reality of a forced reconciliation plan is Dead on Arrival. The hopes of both sides that the plan would force the other side to change...
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Thaksin style corruption to big to hide again
In what appears to be a repeat of 2005 when then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra huge amounts of corruption was just to big to hide, the Thaksin supported rice pledging scheme appears to be a repeat...
View ArticlePro vs Anti Thaksin numbers
Looking at the size of pro and Anti Thaksin mobs tells a lot about how people feel. When you start to consider all the factors like people being paid to attend pro Thaksin rallies with some of them...
View ArticleThailand’s political problems all come down to education
Saying Thailand’s education system is very far below par is an understatement. It is the root cause of the political problems that have been plaguing Thailand for many years. But to say the Thai...
View ArticleThaksin proxy Government crumbling
It is fairly clear to any casual onlooker that the Thai Government is in trouble. The behaviors seen are consistent with other Governments just before they collapsed. The behaviors include blatant and...
View ArticleThai Government’s comical attack blunders
Let it not be said that some of the efforts of Thaksin’s proxy Government to attack anti-Thaksin protesters are without humor. The attacking methods they are using are backfiring one after the other...
View ArticleIdentifying the Anti-Thaksin protest attacker Part 2
Things were quiet and the people of Thailand welcomed the September 2006 Coup with open arms. That quiet lasted about 90 days and then bombs started going off in and around Bangkok. It first was...
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The political educating of rural Thailand
It was not that long ago that the people of rural northeast Thailand felt that the political happenings in Bangkok were worlds away and really made no difference in their simple but poor lifestyle....
View ArticleThailand’s evolved Red Shirts Part 1
When the Red Shirts first appeared, they were fairy mainstream along one of Thailand’s political ideologies. But in the past year or so they have been drifting to the more radical to enforce their...
View ArticleThailand’s evolved Red Shirts Part 2
As the Red Shirts continued to evolve they became more bold and violent. They changed from simply protecting their own turf to actively attacking others who were trying to show their political views...
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Coup d’état in Thailand 10 years on
It was perhaps the most real-time documented Coup d’état in history. Hundreds of ex-pats were posting on a popular internet forum what was going on outside there window, and the server was swamped....
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