This could mean one meal a day and no money to buy shoes or typhoid medicine.
In 1980, a child working 11 hours a day, in a workshop in Bangkok, would earn £36 per year!
Great for the Americans getting their cheap shoes and clothes made by child labour.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej
In 1946 King Ananda was found shot in his bedroom in the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
This ensured that the teenage Bhumibol became king.
And it ensured that pro-American Field Marshal Pibul became the power behind the throne.
The fascist Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram (Pibul) was Prime Minister and military dictator of Thailand from 1938 to 1944 and 1948 to 1957.
King Bhumibol has a difficult job, surrounded as he is by certain 'corrupt fascist' generals who allegedly have links to the CIA.
Thailand has hosted one of the CIA's secret prison sites.
The CIA has met its al Qaeda friends in Pattaya in Thailand.
Reported CIA and MI6 links to al Qaeda in Chicago, Pattaya...
King Bhumibol
The military is said to have links to drugs and karaoke bars.
Pattaya - child abuse, murder, mafias and spooks.
In 1992, when there was an uprising in Bangkok, the generals killed hundreds of people.
Thaksin's policies reduced rural poverty[2].
Thaksin provided affordable health coverage to the people.
Because of this, his main support base has been the rural poor.[1]
Thaksin made "new strategic overtures towards Beijing" and undermined "the US's near monopoly on military-to-military training in Thailand.
Yingluck Shinawatra (right) who became Prime Minister in 2011.
(US, Thailand: A conflicted alliance)
Thaksin was toppled by the military in 2006.
Bangkok
(Asia Times 7 August 2008 US, Thailand: A conflicted alliance)
The coup "was orchestrated by several Thai security and military officials with close and long-time ties to Washington.
"They include CIA-trained Squadron Leader Prasong Soonsiri and the US-trained General Winai Phattiyakul, former director of the Directorate of Joint Intelligence at the Supreme Command's headquarters where US intelligence officials are allegedly in residence.
Boyce with General Surayud who took control of Thailand after Thaksin was toppled.
(US,Thailand: A conflicted alliance)
Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck are most popular in the RED areas shown above.
Currently there are attempts to topple Yingluck.
In Thailand it has been the Red Shirts (supporters of the Shinawatra family) against the Yellow Shirts (traditionalists).
The big question is - does the CIA support the Red Shirts or the Yellow Shirts?
Or, does the CIA simply want to cause Libyan-style chaos?
Tony Cartalucci altthainews.blogspot.ca Destabilization and Breakup of Thailand?
The Economist gives us a clue as to what the CIA may be trying to achieve in Thailand.
The Economist recently suggested that we may see the Destabilization and Breakup of Thailand?
Yingluck Shinawatra's government could flee to the north and set up a separate state.
Tony Cartalucci (altthainews.blogspot.ca) refers to the modern imperial agenda of divide and rule.
Chatham House corporate member Robert Amsterdam is currently representing Thaksin Shinawatra.
According to The Economist:
"Many red shirts say Bangkok is already lost."
Courts have ruled that he is responsible for deaths and injuries sustained by red-shirt protesters during the political unrest 2010. He thus faces murder charges.
He was also found responsible by a Court for the assassination of Italian journalist Fabio Polenghi, who was covering the 2010 protests. [13]
According to The Economist:
Suthep has nearly free rein in Bangkok, closing down most government offices.
The police have charged him with insurrection and seizing state property, but no attempt has been made to arrest him.
Political crisis in Thailand: You go your way, I'll go mine
Yingluck Shinawatra and son
He writes that Yingluck Shinawatra's government "has bankrupted a disastrous vote-buying rice subsidy and has subsequently failed to pay rice farmers..."
He suggests that the Shinawatras are increasingly unpopular.
Tony Cartalucci writes:
"The Thai 'civil war' Western analysts have long been predicting ... would most likely only materialize using the 'Syrian-model' of covert invasion combined with a coordinated propaganda campaign already being carried out by the Western media.
Northern Thailand
"Secession and 'civil war' in Thailand are impossible.
"Thailand is not divided. If anything, now more than ever it is united in purpose against an increasingly destructive, perpetually self-serving regime that has long since overstayed its welcome..."
The CIA may be supporting all the different factions.
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