Re: [CTRL] ANALYSIS -- As the neocons, the corporate news media, and the international banking class push the world towards more military showdowns -- re are some important crosswinds blowing around the world that may stop them dead in their tracks.

[Bill Z]

-Caveat Lector- Dear List,   I live in Thailand but not in Bangkok. I have been receiving comments of concern from friends in the West because of the misleading media coverage so I thought I would write to the list to show what I wrote to friends and family.   A day in the Thailand coup   The coup started last night, so together with a few phone calls to Bangkok into the early hours of the morning I was checking computer forums. Very quickly Thai tv had been withdrawn, and soon after that the satellite BBC and CNN were withdrawn. Waking this morning I caught up with the forums, BBC and CNN were still off.   Then I went out of the door to brace the stress, strain and tension of Thailand's national Martial Law following the Coup d'eTrat. I had a Thai lesson so as was usual I went to Pu's rahn-aa-haan for Kaao-tiang - lunch. Then I had my Thai lesson where we discussed everyday vocabulary such as rot tang (tank) and ratabrahaan (coup).   Following the lesson I came across violence - I went for a massage where longstanding shoulder injuries were being successfully treated.   Then I went to the bus station to cancel my ticket to Bangkok for tomorrow, and drifted home to check the latest on the net.   Where I live the police presence was less as the schools were closed and so there were no traffic police. And that was it, that was the coup in small=town Thailand - and I couldn't see any of the dyslexic pigeons either. (This was a reference to a joke I had circulated – Newspaper warning – Thousands of dyslexic pigeons seen in Thai airspace looking for the coup.)   I do hope that the intentions of the coup as are expressed, and that a new election and prime minister will end the strain of the heedless arrogance of the recent corruption with its divisive politics.   Your analysis is spot on from this end. It frightens me what the west might do as western media are stirring up. However things do seem very tight amongst the coup makers – CDRM so hopefully they will withstand western manipulations. I lament the annoying westerners flooding the forums with their bleetings about temporary censorship. This man, Thaksin, controlled the media and as with every good elected dictator he used that control to feather his nest. Between my anger I am amused to see the Traditional of Thailand called communists.   Hope you are keeping well,   All the Best   Bill Z         Sep. 20, 2006 -- ANALYSIS -- As the neocons, the corporate news  media, and the international banking class push the world towards  more military showdowns in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and wherever else  they can provoke a crisis, along with their ultimate goal -- a "Clash  of Civilizations" -- there are some important crosswinds blowing  around the world that may stop them dead in their tracks.   First, the pro-democracy military coup in Thailand should be examined  outside the spin and puffery emanating from the editorial and  production desks in New York and Washington, DC.   Yesterday, while Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a Rupert  Murdoch- and Silvio Berlusconi-like corporate media and  telecommunications baron, was preparing to rub shoulders with his  fellow "coalition of the willing" war criminal George W. Bush at the  UN General Assembly summit in New York, he was deposed in a pro- democracy and bloodless military coup at home. Although the neocon  media tried to paint the coup as having some nefarious purposes  (pointing out that the coup leader, Army Commander Gen. Sondhi  Boonyaratkalin, is a Muslim), the coup's aim was to wrench Thailand's  government away from the corruption, nepotism, and anti- constitutional government of Thaksin, his family, and his cronies. As  far as the backing for the coup, it is well known that Gen. Sondhi  maintains a close relationship with the King -- and the King is the  supreme Buddhist leader of the nation. So much for the neocons trying  to link the coup to Al Qaeda and their other bogeymen like Jemaah  Islamiya, the group's Southeast Asian branch. But the neocon media  are now painting the coup as a "dangerous" precedent -- because the  generals did not accede to the "civil society" efforts to depose  Thaksin. That is, of course, Council on Foreign Relations/global  governance claptrap that often emanates from the "enlightened"  limousine liberals -- the same bunch who have decided to support  Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election in California.   As with all deposed dictators, Thaksin was forced to retreat into  exile in gilded splendor, in his case in a suite at the Grand Hyatt  Hotel in Manhattan and then to fashionable quarters in London. The  Thai military, which was supported in their move by the Thai  opposition, placed Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense  Minister under arrest. Thailand cleaned house in one of those rare  moments when the military steps in to restore or bring about  democracy. It has happened in Portugal, Spain, the former Soviet  Union, Romania, Venezuela, Philippines, Sao Tome and Principe, and  other nations. Nazi Germany serves as an example of the military  attempting twice, but failing, to return the nation to sane  leadership by ousting Hitler in 1942 and 1944. Marshal Pietro  Badoglio's 1943 coup against Benito Mussolini serves as another  example of the military ousting a tyrant.     www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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