If fact there is hardly no free anything. Unfortunately the so-called “academics” are at the forefront of putting lipstick on the pig.
What the mighty “West” have is Rentier Capitalism with all little majority ripped off every single moment by the “Have’s” who write the law so that they are always on the right. TPP, TTIP . The modern and improved version of NAFTA which bankrupt the United States of Emptiness except showbiz and gossip.
It is admirable that even at this 11th hour of demise, the Rentier Bandits can still find a Virgin Blood to suck on, freely spewing forth.
The only time the oligarchs actually give any hard cash (as opposed to sweet talking them)to most of their poorer brethren is at election time, so why is it bad? Of course mechanization of voting threatens to remove that source of income.
Very useful paper – because it helps explain one of the two pillars on which Duterte built his victory: his massive success in Manila. This is interesting because the other pillar was the exact opposite – purely primordial voting patterns whereby he swept the board (almost) across all of Mindanao and in central Cebu. Even the ‘Solid North’ of Marcos and (especially Binay) paled into insignificance beside that.
I am not always convinced about the hype re the effectiveness of social media especially outside of election periods, but this paper was definitely worth reading.
Dr. Weng and wife Tida were former communists leaders who fled the forests to elude the crackdown/bloodbath Thammasart U massacre provoked by the move to bring back Thanom-Prapas by the rightists to stem the threat of communism spread in Thailand in the bloody 1976 Thailand dark history.
To the core then, Weng/Tida are communists first, extreme left leaning. So the Yellow shirts: Weng briefly joined Maha Chamlong to oppose Suchinda but left soon the yellows soon enough predictably would NOT be acceptable to Weng and wife.
Thaksin, a deeply manipulative corrupt capitalist, with cashrisma to boot and enrich-the-poor Esans populist message would DO nicely thank you, said Weng and wife. And they remain Thaksin diehards, amply rewarded of course, ever since.
Chris Beale- Since you obviously believe that Weng and Thida somehow exemplify UDD leaders who are not “only Thaksin diehards”, why not make the case rather than just assuming it to be true and asking a noted Thaksin/UDD/redshirt-hater to disprove it?
Please keep in mind that Jerry Rubin was a Yippie before he turned Yuppie and that Mussolini was a leading European socialist before he assumed the mantle of fascist Il Douchebaggery.
To be accurate, Potjaman and Damapong are not in the Panama Papers, but the set of leaks that came previously and has been out there for several years. The online database clearly lists that when the search is completed.
Now that’s the elephant, nay mammoth, in the room on a global scale, don’t you think? It’s the system, stupid! to paraphrase that slogan.
The generals’ robber baron capitalism enforced by the gun is only a crude reflection of the whole on a lower rung of the evolutionary scale of the same old capitalist world order, re-branded New World Order or whatever. The NLD hopes to distance themselves from them and aspire to generate a ‘take off’. You know then whereabouts China is on the ladder – capitalismwith a human face?
Free trade, the basic tenet of the one true God, the Almighty Market, must be followed, never mind the swinish multitude. Trickle down and scraps from the masters of the universe a.k.a. the lord’s table more than enough for them. Be grateful for a job, for goodness sake!
VichaiN – if you think the UDD and Red Shirt leadership are “only Thaksin diehards”, then how do you explain the history of, for example, people like Dr. Weng Tojirakarn, and his wife Thida ?
“Can the NLD therefore improve the quality of life for the tens of millions of Myanmar citizens who scrape by on a few thousand kyat per day? They often do backbreaking work, in extreme environments, with little prospect of greater reward. ”
But what local mechanisms for exposing local vote-buying exist? Media? Public interest groups?
Local media would not seem to be an option.
Murder rather than defamation lawsuit is often the recourse for unwanted media revelations as Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) publications document.
Despite the Duterte victory, powerful local clans are still key in bringing home the local vote as PCIJ blog infographics demonstrate: “2016 PH Elections: Celebrate The Vote!”
So does Duterte’s people’s revolution really spell the end of clan-based political dynasties, political oligarchy of tycoons and land-owners such as Aquino and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the election buying that comes with it?
Seems more like a distraction from a persisting reality of clan-based political dominance.
Not as much money as the established elites have.
Decades after Marcos, the country is still mired in extreme corruption and violence. labourers and maids are still the main export. Do you define that as a failed state, where a large proportion of its citizens have to seek low quality jobs elsewhere?
Hi Frank, shifting masculinities is predicated on the view that gender is shaped by society and as societies change, so can gender, masculinities. I use masculinities because there is not just one but a multitude, consistent to Raewyn Connell’s findings (1995/2005). By comprehensive peace, I mean peace that is based on equity and social justice, similar to Johan Galtung’s conception of positive peace. I was just in the Philippines where I voted on Monday. I am based in Canberra as a PhD candidate at ANU.
80% approval is laughable. How can you possibly think a poll would be valid when it is illegal to speak out against the rulers. Now you have a women arrested facing 10+ year jail sentence for saying ja in a Facebook message. And you think people will be honest with a pollster from the government?
Still think the Thaksin amnesty was a good move by Yingluck RN England?
Come to think of it, the Pheu Thai Party had always been about Thaksin and only Thaksin, and nothing else. UDD and the core Red Shirts leadership are Thaksin and only Thaksin diehards.
Had Yingluck not blindly heeded her brother’s amnesty demand. . .and then again . . . Thaksin is the only cause and purpose.
This good article is marred by over-reliance on out-dated MacGregor Marshall perspectives. Such perspectives are based in turn on out-dated WikiLeaks sources.
It is pretty clear now that Thailand’s Royal succession is now no longer contended (if it ever was). At least for the foreseeable future. A deal has been done. This is a fundamental reason for the success of the 2014 coup – which was largely un-opposed. The vast Red Shirt gatherings on outer Bangkok went home peacefully. The huge Isaarn and Lanna “water-melon” armies were not rallied into the very considerable force they could have
been, especially if combined with those Red Shirt masses on the edge of Bangkok. As The Economist noted, Isaarn and Lanna troops under command of the Crown Prince were many of the better paid, and better trained, in Thailand.
The assertion that the amnesty united the country against the Yingluck Government is little more than repetition of fascist propaganda. Those inflamed against the military by the 2010 mass murder may not have liked the amnesty, but they would have still supported Yingluck because they had nowhere else to go. The amnesty was an attempt to unite the country in reconciliation under the Yingluck government, which was the last thing the fascists wanted. The fascists had to strike when they did because they could not afford to let their only asset, their huge investment in hatred, go to waste.
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Policy conundrums under the NLD
There surely is no free trade.
If fact there is hardly no free anything. Unfortunately the so-called “academics” are at the forefront of putting lipstick on the pig.
What the mighty “West” have is Rentier Capitalism with all little majority ripped off every single moment by the “Have’s” who write the law so that they are always on the right. TPP, TTIP . The modern and improved version of NAFTA which bankrupt the United States of Emptiness except showbiz and gossip.
It is admirable that even at this 11th hour of demise, the Rentier Bandits can still find a Virgin Blood to suck on, freely spewing forth.
The king still never smiles
Beale is quick to condemn McGregor Marshall as outdated yet doesn’t excoriate Handley, whose excellent book is much older. Why the double standard?
Massacre, memory and the wounds of 1965
[…] : Hélène Poitevin Source (Ariel Heryanto* / New Mandala) Massacre, memory and the wounds of 1965 Photo : Julius Livre […]
Machines and money in the Philippine election
The only time the oligarchs actually give any hard cash (as opposed to sweet talking them)to most of their poorer brethren is at election time, so why is it bad? Of course mechanization of voting threatens to remove that source of income.
How Duterte won the election on Facebook
Very useful paper – because it helps explain one of the two pillars on which Duterte built his victory: his massive success in Manila. This is interesting because the other pillar was the exact opposite – purely primordial voting patterns whereby he swept the board (almost) across all of Mindanao and in central Cebu. Even the ‘Solid North’ of Marcos and (especially Binay) paled into insignificance beside that.
I am not always convinced about the hype re the effectiveness of social media especially outside of election periods, but this paper was definitely worth reading.
Thai junta to get its report card
Dr. Weng and wife Tida were former communists leaders who fled the forests to elude the crackdown/bloodbath Thammasart U massacre provoked by the move to bring back Thanom-Prapas by the rightists to stem the threat of communism spread in Thailand in the bloody 1976 Thailand dark history.
To the core then, Weng/Tida are communists first, extreme left leaning. So the Yellow shirts: Weng briefly joined Maha Chamlong to oppose Suchinda but left soon the yellows soon enough predictably would NOT be acceptable to Weng and wife.
Thaksin, a deeply manipulative corrupt capitalist, with cashrisma to boot and enrich-the-poor Esans populist message would DO nicely thank you, said Weng and wife. And they remain Thaksin diehards, amply rewarded of course, ever since.
That’s the Weng and wife fairy tale Chris B.v
Thai junta to get its report card
Chris Beale- Since you obviously believe that Weng and Thida somehow exemplify UDD leaders who are not “only Thaksin diehards”, why not make the case rather than just assuming it to be true and asking a noted Thaksin/UDD/redshirt-hater to disprove it?
Please keep in mind that Jerry Rubin was a Yippie before he turned Yuppie and that Mussolini was a leading European socialist before he assumed the mantle of fascist Il Douchebaggery.
Thai junta to get its report card
To be accurate, Potjaman and Damapong are not in the Panama Papers, but the set of leaks that came previously and has been out there for several years. The online database clearly lists that when the search is completed.
Policy conundrums under the NLD
Now that’s the elephant, nay mammoth, in the room on a global scale, don’t you think? It’s the system, stupid! to paraphrase that slogan.
The generals’ robber baron capitalism enforced by the gun is only a crude reflection of the whole on a lower rung of the evolutionary scale of the same old capitalist world order, re-branded New World Order or whatever. The NLD hopes to distance themselves from them and aspire to generate a ‘take off’. You know then whereabouts China is on the ladder – capitalismwith a human face?
Free trade, the basic tenet of the one true God, the Almighty Market, must be followed, never mind the swinish multitude. Trickle down and scraps from the masters of the universe a.k.a. the lord’s table more than enough for them. Be grateful for a job, for goodness sake!
Thai junta to get its report card
VichaiN – if you think the UDD and Red Shirt leadership are “only Thaksin diehards”, then how do you explain the history of, for example, people like Dr. Weng Tojirakarn, and his wife Thida ?
Policy conundrums under the NLD
“Can the NLD therefore improve the quality of life for the tens of millions of Myanmar citizens who scrape by on a few thousand kyat per day? They often do backbreaking work, in extreme environments, with little prospect of greater reward. ”
Why?
Machines and money in the Philippine election
But what local mechanisms for exposing local vote-buying exist? Media? Public interest groups?
Local media would not seem to be an option.
Murder rather than defamation lawsuit is often the recourse for unwanted media revelations as Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) publications document.
Despite the Duterte victory, powerful local clans are still key in bringing home the local vote as PCIJ blog infographics demonstrate: “2016 PH Elections: Celebrate The Vote!”
So does Duterte’s people’s revolution really spell the end of clan-based political dynasties, political oligarchy of tycoons and land-owners such as Aquino and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the election buying that comes with it?
Seems more like a distraction from a persisting reality of clan-based political dominance.
Machines and money in the Philippine election
Not as much money as the established elites have.
Decades after Marcos, the country is still mired in extreme corruption and violence. labourers and maids are still the main export. Do you define that as a failed state, where a large proportion of its citizens have to seek low quality jobs elsewhere?
Mindanao after 9 May
Hi Frank, shifting masculinities is predicated on the view that gender is shaped by society and as societies change, so can gender, masculinities. I use masculinities because there is not just one but a multitude, consistent to Raewyn Connell’s findings (1995/2005). By comprehensive peace, I mean peace that is based on equity and social justice, similar to Johan Galtung’s conception of positive peace. I was just in the Philippines where I voted on Monday. I am based in Canberra as a PhD candidate at ANU.
Thai junta to get its report card
80% approval is laughable. How can you possibly think a poll would be valid when it is illegal to speak out against the rulers. Now you have a women arrested facing 10+ year jail sentence for saying ja in a Facebook message. And you think people will be honest with a pollster from the government?
Machines and money in the Philippine election
Fine,
but how much did Money Play into Duterte’s success? He could not rely on old Manila-Money….
Thai junta to get its report card
Jesus, where did you get the 80% approval from. If they have 80% approval, they would go to the polls in an instant to legitimise themselves.
This is the problem with Junta supporters.. no logic whatsoever, only guns and crap..
Thai junta to get its report card
Still think the Thaksin amnesty was a good move by Yingluck RN England?
Come to think of it, the Pheu Thai Party had always been about Thaksin and only Thaksin, and nothing else. UDD and the core Red Shirts leadership are Thaksin and only Thaksin diehards.
Had Yingluck not blindly heeded her brother’s amnesty demand. . .and then again . . . Thaksin is the only cause and purpose.
The king still never smiles
This good article is marred by over-reliance on out-dated MacGregor Marshall perspectives. Such perspectives are based in turn on out-dated WikiLeaks sources.
It is pretty clear now that Thailand’s Royal succession is now no longer contended (if it ever was). At least for the foreseeable future. A deal has been done. This is a fundamental reason for the success of the 2014 coup – which was largely un-opposed. The vast Red Shirt gatherings on outer Bangkok went home peacefully. The huge Isaarn and Lanna “water-melon” armies were not rallied into the very considerable force they could have
been, especially if combined with those Red Shirt masses on the edge of Bangkok. As The Economist noted, Isaarn and Lanna troops under command of the Crown Prince were many of the better paid, and better trained, in Thailand.
Thai junta to get its report card
The assertion that the amnesty united the country against the Yingluck Government is little more than repetition of fascist propaganda. Those inflamed against the military by the 2010 mass murder may not have liked the amnesty, but they would have still supported Yingluck because they had nowhere else to go. The amnesty was an attempt to unite the country in reconciliation under the Yingluck government, which was the last thing the fascists wanted. The fascists had to strike when they did because they could not afford to let their only asset, their huge investment in hatred, go to waste.