Military Goes Full Coup d’Etat In Thailand – The Wire

Going to Guinness World record for number of coups! Thaksin Shinawatra, the brother of the now-deposed prime minister, had been removed from office in a previous coup that took place eight years ago. But the family has maintained power, and protests started up late last year when Yingluck Shinawatra, prime minister at the time, dismantled the lower house of parliament. She was ordered removed from office by a Thai court earlier this month for allegedly abusing power, the BBC reports.

This is the country’s 12th coup since 1932.

via Military Goes Full Coup d’Etat In Thailand – The Wire.

McDonald’s Has Its Own Employees Arrested In Hamburger University Wage Increase Rally – The Wire

Uber-Throwback Thursday – in 1930’s style union busting move – McDonald’s employees were among the over 100 people arrested for criminal trespass during a protest against the company’s wages.

Anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 people showed up to the protest outside the fast food giant’s Hamburger University campus in Illinois, including 325 employees in uniform. They “stormed through the company’s campus entrance,” Bloomberg reports. About 110 of them were arrested, including several employees, by police wearing riot gear. Also arrested was Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, which has underwritten the employees’ efforts.

The protest was for increased wages, an issue employees have been trying to organize around (at McDonald’s and other chains) since at least 2012. One employee told Bloomberg that she wanted to earn $15 an hour and be able to join a union. She currently makes $7.50 and is on food stamps (something McDonald’s recommends its employees sign up for). Full-time fast food employees earn a wage of $9.08 an hour and $18,880 a year on average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson earned a base salary of nearly $1 million in 2013. His total compensation was worth $13.8 million.

via McDonald’s Has Its Own Employees Arrested In Hamburger University Wage Increase Rally – The Wire.

Nigel Farage and Ukip’s bigoted populism | @guardianletters | Politics | The Guardian

Nigel Farage continues to insist that we should be worried if Romanians move in next door (Farage remarks branded racist by three senior Labour figures, 20 May), while YouGov finds that 51% of Ukip voters think immigrants and their families (including those born here) should be encouraged to leave Britain. This merely confirms what was already obvious, yet apparently needs to be spelled out: Ukip is a party that spreads and feeds off racism and xenophobia.

For many years the rightwing tabloids have waged a campaign of hysteria about asylum and immigration, while both main political parties have either contributed or pandered to an increasingly fact-free discourse based on the prejudiced assumption that foreigners are a burden on society. The emboldening of Ukip’s bigoted populism is just one of the entirely predictable consequences of this trend.

The class represented by Ukip’s millionaire backers and personified by its leader – a public-school-educated former City trader and professional politician – has a vested interest in diverting social and economic anxieties away from the rich and powerful and towards our friends and neighbours.

via Nigel Farage and Ukip’s bigoted populism | @guardianletters | Politics | The Guardian.

UKIP reported to police for shockingly racist leaflet

Glad my dad and his dad left Oldham in 1913 and that they are both gone now – so they would not have to be ashamed of racism in Oldham.

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)

According to UKIP’s deputy leader Paul Nuttall, Oldham is the “birthplace of UKIP”.

Very appropriate then that Oldham UKIP has just been reported to the police for a shockingly racist election leaflet it’s been distributing.

The leaflet includes this paragraph which explains how Labour candidates supposedly keep winning in Oldham:

UKIP leaflet oldham

Here’s the full story from the Manchester Evening News:

Fresh election race row hits UKIP over claims Asian candidates are intent on rigging the poll

And here’s the offending election leaflet in full, if you can stomach reading it:

UKIPLEAFLET

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Ironic that in the leaflet UKIP complains the police won’t interfere in elections.

Because they are now.

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Related articles by Tom Pride:

Meet UKIP’s PR officer doing a spot of public relations:

A handy detailed guide to UKIP’s policies on the main problems facing Britain today:

Nigel Farage and the man who trashed the pound. Twice.

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Jean-Marie Le Pen suggests Ebola as solution to global population explosion | World news | theguardian.com

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right Front National, has suggested the deadly virus Ebola could solve the global “population explosion” and by extension Europe’s “immigration problem”.

At a cocktail party before an election rally in Marseille on Tuesday evening, days before the European elections in which the FN is leading the polls in France, Le Pen spoke of the “demographic explosion” in the world.

“Monseigneur Ebola could sort that out in three months,” he said in front of journalists.

Later, addressing supporters, Le Pen, 85, said he feared the French population risked being “replaced … by immigrants”.

“In our country and in all Europe, we have known a cataclysmic phenomenon – a migratory invasion that, my friends, we are seeing only the beginning of today.”

Le Pen, who is standing as MEP for the south-east seat, added: “This massive immigration risks producing a real replacement of populations if we don’t arrive in power soon enough to put an end to the politics of decadence that has been followed for decades.”

He said that religion added an “aggravating factor” to this problem because many immigrants were Muslim and Islam had a “conquering vocation … and even more conquering when it feels strong and they feel numerous”

S.peaking in Marseille, which elected an FN mayor in one of its districts in recent elections, Le Pen was followed on stage by his daughter, party president Marine.

Once again, her father undermined her campaign to convince voters the FN has evolved from its days as a vehicle for the extreme right and Nazi apologists.

via Jean-Marie Le Pen suggests Ebola as solution to global population explosion | World news | theguardian.com.

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