The Thai Military Coup — In Blog Posts And Pictures
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19Sep posts a blow-by-blow, man-on-the-street account of the military coup in Thailand, which fairly serves your recommended daily allowance of good ol’ schadenfreude.
For things to see, here’s a Flickr photo set that plunks you right in the middle of all that shit.
Bold future projections of where this is headed, blogwise: executions and purges of oppositionists available in real time in stunning, high-resolution digital photos, with General Sonthi Boonyaratglin blogging his innermost thoughts on a Xanga account, matched only by Thaksin Shinawatra’s newly-acquired penchant for super-depressive poetry written around the heartwarmingly sappy theme of, “Why must good things end?”
via WIRED
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