Thailand

When I started one of the first punk rock record labels in America back in the late '70s, most rock radio stations laughed at our records and refused to play them. The first big station outside of the San Francisco Bay Area to play the 415 Records artists was WBCN in Boston. We went from being a label that measured sales in various Bay Area neighborhood stores to suddenly shipping boxes of albums to stores in Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire. And, because WBCN was such a huge and successful station, other stations around the country started playing the records as well.

Power flows from institutions and those without them have no power.February 14, 2014 (New Eastern Outlook - Tony Cartalucci) - Occupy Wall Street, ideologically speaking, could not have been any more universally appealing. It was the 99% against the 1% (or more accurately - the 99.9% vs. the 0.1%), with the realization that big money had taken over politics and society to the detriment of all, regardless of political affiliation.

Image: A protester sits at the feet of policereciting prayers from a book in defiance ofregime orders to clear the streets and returnhome. February 14, 2014 (ATN) - The regime of accused mass murderer, convicted criminal and fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra chose the sacred Buddhist holiday of Makha Bucha to carry out a bungled crackdown on the now month-long "

February 13, 2014 (ATN) - Having spectacularly failed to defend the incompetent and now terminally ill regime of Thaksin Shinawatra and his nepotist proxy, sister Yingluck Shinawatra, the Western media has resorted to slander, gossip, and deferrals to discredited propagandists passed off as "experts." The British "Independent" newspaper, in their article, "

February 11, 2014 (ATN) - What may have seemed like an isolated incident perpetrated by one of the more unsavory supporters of the current regime of accused mass murder, convicted criminal and fugitive, Thaksin Shinawatra, now appears to be more systemic - the abuse, mockery, and neglect of Thailand's handicapped.It was reported in "Senior Reuters Journalist Mocks Disabled Man," that pro-regime propagandi

And how to pick them back up...  February 10, 2014 (ATN) -The West has praised Thaksin Shinawatra and his "populist" policies for years as an example of very best of modern progressive principles in practice. Cheap loans, free computers, and rice subsidies were hailed as democracy in action by the Western media - and those who questioned the unsustainable, corruption and scandal fraught policies were swiftly condemned as "elitists" who rejected equality.

Statesman Kasit Piromya weighs in on the ongoing Thai political crisis - peels off Western label of "anti-democratic protesters." February 9, 2014 (ATN) - In Part 1, protest spokesman Akanat Promphan enumerated the grievances of his movement and attempted to correct disinformation being intentionally propagated by the Western media. Image: Veteran statesman, a forme

With a regime and system rendered illegitimate with a sweeping boycott of sham elections - Thailand must find alternatives to patching itself together beyond the broken ballot box. February 5, 2014 (ATN) - Thailand's February 2, 2014 elections produced the worst ever voter turnout in Thai history with a humiliating 46% coming out to cast their ballots.

Less than half the nation bothers to vote at polling stations uninterrupted by protests indicating a vote of no confidence in both the current regime, or the so-called "democratic process" it presides over. Image: Nepotist-appointed proxy PM Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of deposed dictator Thaksin Shinawatra would complete the humiliation of the regime's sham elections February 2, 2014, by placing her ballot witlessly into the wrong box.

Government buildings are being trashed, ransacked. It is happening in Kiev and Bangkok, and in both cities, the governments appear to be toothless, too scared to intervene.
What is going on? Are popularly elected administrations all over the world becoming irrelevant; as the Western regime creates and then supports thuggish ‘opposition movements’ designed to destabilize any state that stands in the way of its desire to fully control the planet?
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