Thai Court Nullifies Rigged Election Scam*

Thai Court Nullifies Rigged Election Scam*

Rigged one-party elections that were boycotted by over half the voting population have finally been voided by Thailand’s Constitution Court. The regime of Thaksin Shinawatra now has neither a democratic mandate, nor any legal ground to continue holding power.

After facing months of growing protests in the streets, Thailand’s Constitution Court ruled on Friday that February 2, 2014’s elections were invalid since the elections were not completed in one day, as required under law, marking yet another setback for the embattled regime of US-backed billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra. Bangkok Post in its article, “Court voids Feb 2 general election,” reported:

According to the charter court, the poll breached the law because it was not completed in one day. Twenty-eight constituencies of 375 nationwide were unable to hold voting because no candidates were registered amid anti-government protests. Under the law, a general election must be held on a single day nationwide.

“The 2013 royal decree on the House of Representatives dissolution stated that the general election must be held on Feb 2, 2014. But on that date, no election was held in 28 constituencies,” the court said in a statement.

“Re-elections for the 28 constituencies after Feb 2 are therefore impossible because it would mean the elections were not held on the same date throughout the kingdom.”

The Constitution Court hearing was held at the request of the Office of the Ombudsman following a complaint lodged by Kittipong Kamolthammawong, a law lecturer at Thammasat University.

The regime responded to the anticipated ruling by launching a grenade attack against one of the judges’ residences the night before the ruling, as well as denouncing the ruling immediately after it was read. The regime claims that the court has no authority to rule on the validity of the elections, but failed to suggest what agency – if any – did. It also claimed that the decision penalized the “20 million” who came out to vote.

It should be noted, however, that the elections were boycotted by over half of eligible voters, and out of those that did vote, many elected to deface their ballots or mark “no vote” in protest of both the regime and the democratic process it has hijacked and hid behind for now nearly a decade of political turmoil.

While new elections are expected to be announced within the next 60 days, the opposition has already made it clear it will once again boycott them.

The Court’s Decision Was a Technicality Amid Much Broader Illegitimacy 

While the elections were invalidated on the technical grounds that the process was not carried out within a day as required under law, much larger inconsistencies existed that would have voided them had they been carried out in any other nation.

The current regime in Thailand is led by Thaksin Shianwatra, a convicted criminal, living as a fugitive abroad, evading multiple arrest warrants, a 2 year jail sentence, and a long list of pending court cases. He is also an accused mass murderer with by far the worst human rights record in Thai history.

Despite this, he – by his and his party’s own admission – openly runs the current regime, with his sister Yingluck Shinawatra serving merely as his nepotist-appointed placeholder. The election campaign slogan for the general election in 2011 was literally, “Thaksin Thinks, Puea Thai Does,” Puea Thai being his political party.

Forbes would report in their article, “Thaksin in Exile: Advising Sister, Digging for Gold,” that:

Regarding his behind-the-scenes role in the party and policy, he is not shy: “I am the one who thinks. Like our slogan during the campaign, Thaksin thinks, Pheu Thai acts.”

The New York Times admitted in an early 2013 article titled, “In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype,” that:

For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the most important political decisions in this country of 65 million people have been made from abroad, by a former prime minister who has been in self-imposed exile since 2008 to escape corruption charges.

The country’s most famous fugitive,Thaksin Shinawatra, circles the globe in his private jet, chatting with ministers over his dozen cellphones, texting over various social media platforms and reading government documents e-mailed to him from civil servants, party officials say.

There is no question then that Thaksin Shianwatra is illegally running Thailand by proxy. Being unelected, Thaksin Shinawatra is by all accounts a dictator, and his “government” a regime, however cleverly they try to dress it up.

This would be unimaginable in many of the countries lending support to the current regime in Thailand, including the United States. Still, editorial boards of papers like the Washington Post, and even US Congressmen have been weighing in on the side of Thaksin – calling those standing up to this poorly disguised dictatorship “anti-democratic militants.”

With Thaksin’s Puea Thai Party running in any election, protesters will continue to protest, opposition parties will continue boycotting the elections, and the courts will continue ruling against the overt criminality carried out by the regime while it clings to power.

While some may wonder why the courts hadn’t ruled Thaksin’s Puea Thai Party ineligible to run for office back in 2011, the answer is quite simple. Impunity. Thaksin Shinawatra is a multi-billionaire backed by some of the largest lobbying firms on Earth – he himself serving the corporate-financier interests of Wall Street and London for well over a decade. However, with the current massive and protracted protests, this impunity has been whittled away – thus giving the courts a rare window of opportunity to apply the rule of law and hold accountable an otherwise unaccountable, authoritarian dictatorship.

The Waiting Game

While the regime claims the court’s rulings constitute a “judicial coup,” this is no different than a criminal hollering at a judge as they’re dragged away to a well-deserved jail sentence. Washington’s lobbyists will continue spinning the news to suit the regime, but on the ground in Thailand, the regime has no support base left and further alienates the Thai people with each and everyday it insists on clinging to power.

It has utterly failed to cobble together any sort of substantial counter-rally. Many of its once stalwart supporters – particularly rice farmers – are in fact joining the anti-regime protests. While the regime is threatening the prospect of a “civil war,” demographic statistics taken over the years have definitively proven that at best, the regime is only capable of carrying out large-scale, but manageable, terrorism.

The only factor that is keeping the regime in power is the fact that it is being driven by Thaksin Shinawatra from abroad along with his foreign backers – none of whom face any real danger as they direct the chaos unfolding in Thailand from afar. They believe there is nothing to lose, no matter how small the odds are of winning may.

For Thailand’s protesters, the battle is already won. Time is necessary to wait for the regime’s residual impunity to crumble away before the courts and law enforcement can finally sweep it from the pages of Thai history. In the meantime, the protesters must continue building the framework for real political reform and pragmatic programs to address the myriad of political, social, and economic crises created by over a decade of national mismanagement under Thaksin Shinawatra.

Massive one-day rallies will also be carried out by the protesters to remind both the regime and the people it has wronged that the protesters have not gone anywhere, and are simply waiting for the regime to collapse under its own weight. Unlike in Kiev, Ukraine, where armed Neo-Nazis seized the capital, Thailand’s protesters have remained peaceful and patient and must continue to do so.

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Syrian Victories Betray Last Year’s WMD Lies*

Syrian Victories Betray Last Year’s WMD Lies*

This is why the U.S. and the U.K. have sending and selling more military hardware and software to Saudi Arabia

By Tony Cartalucci

Since the beginning of 2013, Syrian troops had begun an irreversible push to take back territory overrun by foreign-backed militants, including along Syria’s borders with Lebanon and Jordan. Today, cities long lost to these militants once again have the Syrian flag waving above them, their people liberated, and the deadly toll of occupation finally being tallied before the global public.

The strategic turn in Syria’s favor was noted by geopolitical analysts long before the Damascus chemical weapons attack in the summer of 2013. When Western nations used “desperation” as a motive for the attack, which they squarely blamed on the Syrian government, those watching Syria’s systematic victories against the West’s proxy militants immediately suspected a false flag attack – one that was carried out by either the West, or one of its regional collaborators.

The now fully discredited 4 page White House “intelligence assessment” regarding the attacks, claimed specifically:

The Syrian regime has initiated an effort to rid the Damascus suburbs of opposition forces using the area as a base to stage attacks against regime targets in the capital. The regime has failed to clear dozens of Damascus neighborhoods of opposition elements, including neighborhoods targeted on August 21, despite employing nearly all of its conventional weapons systems. We assess that the regime’s frustration with its inability to secure large portions of Damascus may have contributed to its decision to use chemical weapons on August 21.

The Washington Post, in its usual role disseminating and reinforcing official fabrications, claimed in its article, “More than 1,400 killed in Syrian chemical weapons attack, U.S. says,” that (emphasis added):

The document proposes a possible motive for the attack — a desperate effort to push back rebels from several areas in the capital’s densely packed eastern suburbs — and also suggests that the high civilian death toll surprised and panicked senior Syrian officials, who called off the attack and then tried to cover it up.

Of course, even at face value, nothing about the White House’s “assessment” nor the Washington Post’s analysis adds up, including why the Syrian government would attack “densely packed eastern suburbs” and then be “surprised” by a high civilian death toll. More logically, those seeking to incriminate the Syrian government picked packed suburbs specifically to exact a high civilian death toll.

Now with the Western media incapable of covering up Syria’s tactical and strategic gains against even the most entrenched militant strongholds, the tenuous nature of August 2013’s lies spun by the West, including citing “desperation” as a motive, are more apparent than ever.

Lessons Learned? 

As the West pursues a dangerous confrontation with Russia via the Eastern European nation of Ukraine and the newly independent region of Crimea, the global public must recall how events like the August 2013 Damascus “chemical attack” were insidiously executed, lied about, and eventually buried when their political capital was spent.

With snipers attacking both Crimean and Ukrainian troops in Crimea, seeking a pretext for the West to further intervene in the standoff, the public must draw from a much longer collective memory, or once again blindly grope from one crisis to the next with habitual, practiced deceivers holding their hands.

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U.K.s Chancellor Gives Power to take from Personal Bank Accounts*

They would get a bigger ’harvest’ claiming the unpaid tax from the big corporations they let get away without  paying a penny…

By Asa Bennett

George Osborne, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer

George Osborne has given HMRC the power to delve into Britons’ bank accounts for money that officials think is owed in unpaid taxes, in a move which critics have warned leave officials “a law unto themselves”.

The Chancellor slipped details of the move out in the Budget’s Red Book, which stated that HMRC will be able to take money from people who owe officials over £1,000 in tax.

Officials will only be able to use the power for Britons who have been asked “multiple times” by debt collection officials to pay, and must leave at least £5,000 in the account.

“This brings the UK in line with many other tax authorities which already have the power to recover debts directly from an individual’s account, such as France and the US,” the Budget reads.

Once HMRC takes the money, the taxpayer will have 14 days to get in touch and set up a payment plan, otherwise officials will keep what they have taken.

Osborne’s Budget also gave HMRC the power to take money from those they suspect of unfairly avoiding tax, with money only handed back – with interest – if the taxpayer wins a legal challenge in the courts.

Dr Eamonn Butler, director of the Adam Smith Institute, told HuffPostUK:

“I am always very suspicious when officials take power to remove people’s assets. There are already perfectly good laws obliging people to pay their bills, including their tax bills. And there are punishments if they don’t – but those punishments only come after the sentence of a court.

“If we allow the authorities to take cash from our accounts for any amount they think we owe them, then none of us is safe. They become a law unto themselves. This is a very worrying threat to civil liberties. And just because it is done by other countries that do not have our common-law safeguards, it is no reason for us to do it.”

Emma Carr, deputy director of Big Brother Watch, warned:

“Today the taxman has to go to court to size your money. Now he’ll be able to do it with a click of a mouse. People won’t object to HRMC having legal powers to pursue people who owe them money but they shouldn’t be able to do it without any independent oversight.

“At a time when the Government is looking to reign in the number of public officials who can enter your home without a warrant it is bizarre that the taxman is getting the power to raid your bank account. These powers could have a serious impact on people’s lives and as a basic step of protecting people’s liberties they should not be exercised without a court’s approval.”

Richard Murphy, director of Tax Research UK, said:

“There are two issues that need to be separated here. One is about people not paying tax debt. Measures to help recover this are reasonable, including the power to take assets. The other is taking payment when the debt is disputed. That is unacceptable.

“When a debt has not been proven there should be no right for HMRC to take cash. This new rule does therefore require proper protections including a fast track appeals system against any threat of recovery that must be administered independently of HMRC or there is real risk of abuse here.”

Meanwhile, Telegraph blogger Willard Foxton wrote:

“Fighting HMRC in the courts is already one of the main causes of small business and personal bankruptcies – and this change won’t affect that. Anyone who has ever had to submit a contentious claim – especially a VAT bill – should be quaking in their boots.”

“The police still need warrants to seize property or cash from criminals under the Proceeds of Crime Act – so people with debts to HMRC are literally going to have less rights than criminals.”

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