Revolt in Bangkok, thousands demand PM resignation

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=60c688a414684268

In Thailand, tens of thousands of demonstrators have been demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, rejecting his call for early elections in April as a ploy to retain his hold on power.

Tens of thousands of Thais, wearing yellow hats and bandanas, rallied at a Bangkok fairground late Sunday chanting for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to leave office.
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Critics say Mr. Thaksin lost the moral authority to govern after his family sold nearly $2 billion worth of shares in the company he founded to a foreign investor, without paying any taxes. The tax-free sale was legal, but it angered many Thais. Critics say the sale also placed in foreign hands strategic assets, such as satellite and telecommunications licenses.
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Its like Bush selling our ports to Dubai......

[Erika]

1. We're becoming one big global nation

With the politicians and the rich at the helm.

What reason is there any longer to have separate nations. As Savage says, borders, language, culture is what makes a nation.

[0rganism]

7. One big happy feudal empire

"There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today." -- Arthur Jensen, Network (1976)

[Mnemosyne]

2. We had hundreds of thousands last September

and the media barely mentioned it.:(

I hope the world noticed we were trying. :)

I hope they can kick Shinawatra, he sounds as crooked as the *'s.

[mom cat]

3. And now the "yellow" revolution. Was this planned by the guys who planned

the "orange: one?

[John Q. Citizen]

4. I don't know, but adopting a color as a symbol of unity is always a

good tactic and has been done forever.

[shrike]

5. Why can't we do that?

Oh, I forgot, we're Americans.

[raccoon]

6. You beat me to the punch, shrike. I was thinking too,

If ONLY Americans would do that!