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"For a country to be classified in the "active" or "moderate" enforcement categories, at least one major case needs to have been commenced or concluded in the past four years."

Bit of a problematic rule if there just is no bribery to have a major case over in in a given country.

Small wonder Thailand can't seem to qualify ....

Thats odd, I could've sworn that Sondhi Limthongkul was sentenced to 20 years for corruption - sounds like a serious case of corruption if you ask me.

Their agenda is deindustrialisation, nation implosion and segmentation, desovereignisation, extermination of the middle classes, and mass-enslavement under the ironshod boots of national debt.

OK, then what happens? Whats the point?

The point is that soon enough there'll be 10 billion people on this mudball & they have to be controlled. If they are not controlled then the ruling global elite and their offspring will lose all their privileges. Its a paranoid philosophy of population control by reducing former multi-class sovereign nations to entirely peasant-class police states, where your only right is to shut up and work. The "ultra-class" at the top of the world society do not need money, so they do not require a productive successful industrial economy anywhere on Earth. You can see examples of the IMF crippling nations economically, and the industries being shut-down and asset-stripped. This is because manufacturing economies provide real-wage and union work, and affluent middle classes. Those things are threatening to the ultra-class. This is the difference between today and a hundred years ago when they still wanted to accumulate wealth and so they allowed manufacturing economies to flourish. Now wealth is a non-subject to them, it is replaced by desire to maintain power and control in the face of volcanic population growth and growing awareness of citizen rights.

Oh, OK, if you say so.

This is SHOWBIZ. It is intended exclusively for audience enjoyment. You can file this piece under 'the mouse that roared' etc. plucky Thailand standing up to the nasty World Bank.

But it is showbiz. Behind the scenes, the same people who control Thaksin, also control the World Bank, IMF, UN, and they all play golf at the same golfclubs and they all go to dinner at eachothers palaces. There is no dispute at all, it is all choreographed, and the occasional bit of public showbiz fun like this story.

Why is it a bad thing that the offshore corporate government controls Thailand via the Carlyle stooge Thaksin? Their agenda is deindustrialisation, nation implosion and segmentation, desovereignisation, extermination of the middle classes, and mass-enslavement under the ironshod boots of national debt. This is historical fact globally, and the agenda is being played out slowly but steadily here in Thailand. The offshore corporate government do not want strong sovereign nations with independant powerful leaders, successful industries and low debt. All the governments installed by the international banking oligarch cartel, were governments designed to fail, to implode economies and extinguish sovereignty. Until Thailand banishes the Shinawatra cartel and their backers, this nation will only race to the bottom like so many other nations have in the last hundred years.

Their agenda is deindustrialisation, nation implosion and segmentation, desovereignisation, extermination of the middle classes, and mass-enslavement under the ironshod boots of national debt.

OK, then what happens? Whats the point?

What were 23 people doing in the back of a pickup truck? What were they trying to go for the Guinness book of records title for the most number of passengers carried by one pickup truck? Maybe Thailand should ban passengers from traveling at the back of a pickup, period. One need just go to nearby countries to find that nobody travels at the back of a pickup in such countries as Malaysia, Vietnam and China. Why can't Thailand follow their lead? The Vietnamese think traveling at the back of a pickup is for cows or pigs, not humans. Go figure...

You're right of course, nobody said you could beat the Vietnamese on transport efficiency,

Sounds like Alongkorn is the man for the job. Had the sincerity to turn down an offer of a high ranking post with another party but still maintains his line that if the Democat Party doesn't reform in a year he's off.