General Prayuth Chan-ocha Of The Royal Thai Army

Army boss General Prayuth Chan-ocha has been insistent: in April and May 2010, the military didn't murder anyone. He and his spokesman Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd, both deeply involved in those crackdowns, have repeatedly made absurd claims in spite of remarkable visual evidence.

In recent days, both have been on the warpath, sprouting more absurdities and, in Prayuth’s case, threats. AtThe Nation, Prayuth is reported as having required an “apology” from Department of Special Investigation chief Tharit Pengdit “for his agency’s pointing the finger at the Army for the deaths of many people during the unrest…”. The Army wants its impunity to remain in place, and even a half-hearted investigation could threaten that.

Tharit seemed to mumble something about it not being him who was making comments incriminating his buddies in the military.

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The Army chief yesterday angrily commented on the remarks by certain DSI officials pointing the blame at the Army. Prayuth demanded that DSI not make statements about the military’s snipers and so on. Prayuth then babbled again: “Who were responsible for these casualties?” … My subordinates did not kill anyone, but they were shot at…”. Forget all of the evidence to the contrary.

Not to be left out, Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva “warned the government of possible legal action for alleged political persecution in connection with the 2010 unrest and riots.” Abhisit seemed to think it a revelation that “certain politicians in power” linked his party to “the deaths of many red-shirt protesters in April and May 2010.” Wow, who would have thought!? Given the efforts at the International Criminal Court, Abhisit is sounding more thanalittle dull on this. We suspect that he just wants to prevent discussion and investigation of his role. If he was still in power, he’d be locking opponents up.

At the Bangkok Post, it is said that the DSI had “revealed earlier that state officers were involved in the deaths of red shirt demonstrators.” Perhaps the Post might have added that this was in legal proceedings. Why Tharit should be apologizing for his officers giving evidence seems only clear to pea brains.

Prayuth is cited: “I am not against anyone but my position needs to be understood because soldiers, police and people were killed and it is clear that officials did not fire at them…”. Further, he “also denied the army had used a sniper to shoot anyone during the crackdowns,…”. That is only clear only if one is deaf, dumb and blind and thinks everyone else is too.

This article appeared originally at Thai Political Prisoners

Is Barack Obama Barry Soetoro or just plain B.S?

Seymoursh Hersh tells me two important pieces of information in this interview. First he repeats a line I've come across elsewhere that Obama is enormously different when functioning in the Whitehouse than any other president. Not there, isolated or isolationist and so forth. I've no skin in the fake GOP DEM political divide but I do take an interest in the leadership in so much that I quite like many aspects of Obama and see an authenticity there in public interaction. However his political decisions and this gossip tells me there are other personalities and that fits into some of the most testing CIA dissociative identity disorder conspiracy theories on the internet that regrettably are the most plausible explanation for these various personalities and multi generational association with the CIA. Business International and the Ford Foundation to name just two.

The second piece of information is about the Mei Lei massacre story that Seymour Hersh broke back in the Vietnam war. Did you know the soldiers were killing for four or five hours and stopped for lunch? Back to your freedom fries, corn syrup soda and Patty Poems people.

Oh, one last nugget. Did you know that Maliki of Iraq worked as a secret policman in Syria for 20 years? Small world for the United States and getting smaller by the day.

Have Iran, US & Israel Ever Been Allies

It's true that in the mid eighties (and according to Michael Ruppert from the mid 70's) the US was selling arms to Iran through Israel in the Iran Contra scandal so the answer is yes but from time to time I come across information that says the Iranian theocracy is Western intelligence assets because they keep the facade going. I'm going to tag this under conspiracy theory because unlike straight forward conspiracy/corruption I just don't know what level the game is here. It's worth watching and there's even an appearance from an ONI intelligence officer called Jonathan Pollard who is in solitary after giving information to Israel. What caught my eye is that even Netenyahu can't spring him from prison which tells me he's not as powerful as we all think.

As ever, thoughts and feedback on this one appreciated.