HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great, center left, and Queen Sirikit, center right, pose with the visiting representatives of 25 royal houses from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Thailand’s Asian neighbors in the elaborate century-old high-ceilinged Ananda Samakhom Throne Hall in Bangkok Monday, June 12, 2006. (Photo: Chiangmai Mail)
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“As a group, the world’s 15 richest royals have increased their total wealth to 131 billion dollars, up from 95 billion last year,” Forbes said on its website.
NEW YORK (AFP) — With a fortune estimated at 35 billion dollars, Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the world’s richest royal sovereign, and oil-rich Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi is far back at No. 2, Forbes magazine reported Thursday.
King Bhumibol, 80 and, at 62 years on the throne the world’s longest-serving head of state, pushed to the top of the richest royals list by virtue a greater transparency surrounding his fortune, Forbes said.
It said that the Crown Property Bureau, which manages most of his family’s wealth, “granted unprecedented access this year, revealing vast landholdings, including 3,493 acres in Bangkok.”
Forbes called it a good year for monarchies, investment-wise. “As a group, the world’s 15 richest royals have increased their total wealth to 131 billion dollars, up from 95 billion last year,” Forbes said on its website.
With oil prices soaring, the monarchs of the petro-kingdoms of the Middle East and Asia dominate the list.
Sheik Khalifa, 60, the current president of the United Arab Emirates, was estimated to be worth 23 billion dollars, on the back of Abu Dhabi’s huge petroleum reserves.
In third was the sovereign of the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, 84, who inherited the Al-Saud family throne in 2005, came in with a fortune of 21 billion dollars.
The previous king of kings, wealth-wise, 62 year old Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of tiny, oil-endowed Brunei on the Southeast Asia island of Borneo, fell to fourth place with 20 billion dollars.
“The sultan, who inherited the riches of an unbroken 600-year-old Muslim dynasty, has had to cut back on his country’s oil production because of depleting reserves,” Forbes explained of his dwindling fortune.
Fifth was Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, 58, of another Emirate, Dubai, with a net worth of 18 billion dollars.
One of two Europeans on the list, Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, 63, ranked six on the list with 5 billion dollars in wealth. However the bank that is a key source of his family’s wealth, LGT, is under investigation by the United States for helping wealthy people evade taxes.
Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, 56, came in at seventh, worth two billion dollar; eighth was King Mohammed VI of Morocco, 46, his 1.5 billion dollar fortune based on phosphate mining, agriculture and other investments.
Number nine was Prince Albert II of Monaco, 50, his diverse fortune in the southern European principality put at 1.4 billion dollars.
Tenth on the list was Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, 67, worth 1.1 billion dollars.
Rounding out the top 15 were: The Aga Khan Prince Karim Al Hussein, 71 (1.0 billion); Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, 82, 650 million dollars; Kuwait’s Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, 500 million dollars; Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands, 70, 300 million dollars; and King Mswati III of Swaziland, 40, with 200 million dollars.
Forbes noted that because many of the royals inherited their wealth, share it with extended families, and often control it “in trust for their nation or territory,” none of those on its list would qualify for the magazine’s famous annual world billionaires ranking.
“Because of technical and idiosyncratic oddities in the exact relationship between individual and state wealth, these estimates are perforce a blend of art and science,” it added.
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Facts about King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Former US president George Bush (L) talks with Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej (2L) while Barbara Bush (2R) and Thai Queen Sirikit (R) look on during dinner at Palace in Bangkok, 11 December 2006. Former US president George Bush had an audience with Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who marked his 60th anniversary on the throne. (Photo: HO/AFP/Getty Images)
“Bhumibol has manipulated Thai politics to a degree far beyond his constitutional power. As a traditional conservative force he has hindered the democratic development of his country.”
- Serhat Unaldi, in Modern Monarchs: A Comparison of the Democratic Roles of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyad and Juan Carlos of Spain
King Bhumibol Adulyadej “My Way”
Bhumibol Adulyadej – Wikipedia
Having reigned since June 9, 1946, he is the world’s longest-serving current head of state and the longest-serving monarch in Thai history.
Reported to be the richest man in the world… He is immensely popular in Thailand, and is revered as a semi-divine figure by the Thais.
Bhumibol was born at the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Bhumibol finished his primary schooling at Mater Dei school in Bangkok and then left with his family in 1933 for Switzerland, where he received his secondary education at the École Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande in Chailly-sur-Lausanne. He received the baccalauréat des lettres (high-school diploma with major in French literature, Latin, and Greek) from the Gymnase Classique Cantonal of Lausanne. He was studying science at the University of Lausanne when his elder brother, Phra Ong Chao Ananda Mahidol, was crowned King of Thailand in 1935. King Ananda Mahidol then elevated his brother and sister to Chao Fa status, the most senior class of the Thai princes and princesses. They came to Thailand briefly in 1938, but returned to Switzerland for further study in Lausanne, remaining there until the end of World War II in 1945.
Sarit Dhanarajata era
Sarit Dhanarajata seized power, and two hours later Bhumibol imposed the martial law throughout the Kingdom. Bhumibol issued a Royal Command appointing Sarit as “Military Defender of the Capital” without anyone countersigning this Royal Command. The said Royal Command contained the following matters:
“The military under the leadership of Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata has successfully took over the administrative power and is acting as the Military Defender of the Capital. I, therefor, appointed Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata as Military Defender of the Capital. All the people are requested to remain calm while all public servants are to follow the Orders issued by Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajat. Henceforth onwards”.
During Sarit’s dictatorship, the monarchy was revitalised. Bhumibol attended public ceremonies, toured the provinces and patronised development projects. Under Sarit, the practice of crawling in front of royalty during audiences, banned by King Chulalongkorn, was revived…
The CPB spearheaded a plan to turn Bangkok’s historical Rajadamnoen Avenue into a shopping street known as the “Champs-Élysées of Asia” and in 2007, shocked longtime residents of traditional marketplace districts by giving them eviction notices. Bhumibol’s substantial income from the CPB, at least five billion baht in 2004 alone, is exempt from taxes. The CPB receives many state privileges. Although the Ministry of Finance technically runs the CPB, in reality the decisions are made by Bhumibol. The CPB’s annual report is for the eyes of Bhumibol alone.
Although Bhumibol is held in great respect by many Thais, he is also protected by lèse majesté laws which allow critics to be jailed for three to 15 years. The laws were toughened during the dictatorship of royalist Premier Tanin Kraivixien, such that criticism of any member of the royal family, the royal development projects, the royal institution, the Chakri Dynasty, or any previous Thai King was also banned.
The publicity materials at the Yale University Press website originally described the book as telling “the unexpected story of (King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s) life and 60-year rule — how a Western-raised boy came to be seen by his people as a living Buddha, and how a king widely seen as beneficent and apolitical could in fact be so deeply political, autocratic, and even brutal… Blasting apart the widely accepted image of the king as egalitarian and virtuous, Handley convincingly portrays an anti-democratic monarch who, together with allies in big business and the murderous, corrupt Thai military, has protected a centuries-old, barely modified feudal dynasty.”
The New York Times noted that the book “presents a direct counterpoint to years of methodical royal image-making that projects a king beyond politics, a man of peace, good works and Buddhist humility.” McCargo praised Handley’s “understanding of Bhumibol as a political actor, as the primary architect of a lifelong project to transform an unpopular and marginalized monarchical institution—on the verge of abolition more than once—into the single most powerful component of the modern Thai state.” McCargo also praised Handley’s “brilliantly intuitive grasp of the seedy interplay between money and power,” regarding the workings of the Crown Property Bureau.
Thailand’s Royal Wealth
How Thailand’s Royals Manage to Own All the Good Stuff
Thailand: Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation
Around 80,000 women and children have been sold into Thailand’s sex idustry since 1990, with most coming from Burma, China’s Yunan province and Laos. Trafficked children were also found on construction sites and in sweatshops. In 1996, almost 200,000 foreign children, mostly boys from Burma, Laos and Cambodia, were thought to be working in Thailand. (Mahidol University’s Institute of Population and Social Research, “Trafficking of children on the rise,” Bangkok Post, 22 July 1998)
Enforced disappearances a blight on Thailand
Thailand is a democracy, or so we claim, but we have yet to face the uglier side of our society – the forced disappearances that have been occurring throughout Thailand. The Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP) has compiled 90 cases of disappearances throughout Thailand, six of which took place last year. It is interesting to note that Kalasin, one of the poorest provinces in Thailand, has the highest number of reported cases of disappearances, violations of human rights and extrajudicial killings. The police force in the province systematically abuses its powers with impunity. Each year, hilltribes suffer at the hands of security forces. For instance, the Lahu hilltribes in Chiang Mai’s Fang district reported 15 disappearances. Most of the cases occurred between 2003 and 2004, and the main perpetrators were said to have been members of paramilitary forces. There has not been any progress in these cases. Although the Constitution and the penal code carry punishments for those who carry out enforced disappearances through random or other means, they contain no provisions to punish the perpetrators when a disappearance is the result of dark political forces at work.
Thai State Crimes
Thailand’s King Bhumibol is a traitor
The role of King Bhumibol in the most recent and the other coups in the past in Thailand is highly questionable to me. He never really defended democracy. Because he obviously is anti-democratic if you look a little deeper. He always supported the Military or at least kept quiet when they staged another coup. Would the military ever even stage a coup without the prior approval of King Bhumibol? They for sure consult him before each coup. Bhumibol never disagrees, condems or even publicly calls for resistance in case of any of the past coups. Bhumibol, you are a traitor. Shame on you.
Who Owns the World
The hidden facts behind landownership
King Bhumibol of Thailand third biggest landowner with 126 million acres
Land ownership is an increasingly topical subject that affects us all in one way or another. Kevin Cahill’s book Who Owns the World provides an in depth and informative resource on the subject, no matter where you live on the planet.
Child prostitution, trafficking, and sex slavery in Thailand
Recent International Labor Organization research suggests a speculative figure of 12,000 children per year being trafficked for sexual exploitation in South East Asia, mostly to Thailand. Thai non-governmental organisations and the Thai government estimate that 30,000 to 40,000 prostitutes are under 18. A proportion of prostitutes over the age of 18, including foreign nationals from Asia and Europe, are also in a state of forced sexual servitude and slavery.
Royal book ban stirs debate in Thailand
Thailand’s banning of a rare “warts and all” biography of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej could risk an eventual explosion of pent-up political tension, an academic says. “Banning books is usually something we associate with fascist and repressive regimes,” Australian anthropologist Annette Hamilton told a seminar on the book The King Never Smiles at an international Thai studies conference in Bangkok on Thursday.
Thailand’s military junta tightens its hold on power
The Thai military junta strengthened its grip over the weekend by appointing a retired general as the new “civilian” prime minister and imposing an authoritarian constitution that sanctions the September 19 coup. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who supported the military takeover, approved the arrangements.
Made in Thailand, made in hell?
Thai government blocks YouTube over insult to monarch
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery in the Kingdom of Thailand
Thai junta wins royal blessing, begins purge
Sex banned on Thai king’s birthday
Thai govt toughens laws against criticism of feudal monarchy
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VORRANITTHA // August 23, 2008 at 11:48 am
THIS IS THE FAKE RATING IN THE WORD
Thai people // August 23, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Fobes, you are lierใ
August 23, 2008
BANGKOK (AFP) – Thailand’s government hit out Friday at a US magazine’s claim that the country’s revered monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, is the wealthiest royal sovereign in the world.
Describing the report as “inaccurate and inconsistent”, the foreign ministry said Forbes magazine had wrongly attributed assets to the King that were not part of his personal fortune.
Forbes’ royal rich list of the 15 wealthiest monarchs was released on Thursday and placed 80-year-old King Bhumibol top with an estimated personal fortune of 35 billion dollars.
“The Crown Property Bureau has clarified that the report is inaccurate and inconsistent,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
“Forbes has included land and other assets belonging to the Crown Property Bureau, which is not in His Majesty’s personal net worth,” it said.
Bangkok also said that the magazine’s reference to the king’s alleged role in the military coup of September 2006 was “incorrect”.
King Bhumibol, the longest-serving head of state with 62 years on the throne, had played “no role”, it said, in the coup that deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who now seeks political asylum in Britain.
The foreign ministry explained in a rare clarification by the government of the monarch’s role that the king had acted in strict accordance with his constitutional role in giving his assent to the military’s takeover.
Forbes published its list of wealthy monarchy noting that because most royals inherit their wealth, share it with extended families or keep it “in trust for their nation”, none would qualify for the magazine’s famous annual world wealth ranking.
Khon Thai // August 24, 2008 at 3:23 pm
A better article about Thai King’s wealth here:
http://www.forbes.com/magazines/global/2008/0901/032.html
What needs to be made clear is that the $35 billion figure includes the $31 billion worth of thousands of acres of prime real estate in Bangkok. However, this land the Thai King leases out at very low rents to state agencies and low-income people. In 2005, the income from the $31 billion valued properties amounted to a meagre $80 million (using current exchange rates).
Thai guy // August 24, 2008 at 3:36 pm
The $35 billion is misleading, since, as stated clearly in the new Forbes Article, the thousands of acres of prime real estate holdings in Bangkok are worth $31 billion.
Research for 2005, shows the total income of Crown Property Bureau (CPB) at $280 million (adjusted for current exchange rate). In that total, $200 million was from company dividends, and $80 million from the real estate. This is consistent with the recent Bangkokpost citation that most of CPB’s land is leased at low-priced, below market rate to state agencies, NGOs, and low-income tenants. It was also stated that only 7% of the land is leased at commercial rates. Paul Handley makes the same comment in the new Forbes Article that the CPB is not charging market rates, and that “raising them would cause serious repercussions, especially for its thousands of low-income tenants.”
How much of the annual income generated by the CPB goes to charity is unknown, but I am sure a good share of it does go to charity.
So, don’t treat the $35 billion figure as if it was the King’s disposable income. It is not. The greater bulk, ie. $31 billion, is Bangkok real estate, and most of the rest is in share holdings which are invested in the long-term.
The new Forbes Article makes the point that the CPB’s goal is: “to aid the country’s development by investing in key industries and providing below-market-rate housing for low-income citizens.”
I think the King is using his assets wisely and for benefit of Thailand.
pjwalker911 // August 24, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Then what do you say IS his “disposable income”? What do YOU say is his actual personal net worth? I am sure it is well into the billions IF you are honest about it. The only question is, can you be objective and honest about your own country’s faults as I am about my own? I seriously doubt that.
Also, this is the 21st century. You live in a theocratic, feudalistic military dictatorship controlled by generals and overseen by a monarch whom you worship as a god, who MAY NOT be criticized unless you want to go to prison, in a country that has the worst sexual exploitation on the planet and which has the highest rate of boys seeking sex changes for the prostitution market.
What is so wonderful about that? Do you ever look yourselves in the mirror?
treekhwan // August 24, 2008 at 7:42 pm
How fobes wrote these things without evidents. Even most of thai could not understand the word personal asset vs nation asset which is used with king. Of course, fobes don’t know. At least someone gave fobes a lot of money to wrote these with incorrect information.
we love our king as dad. People could not love other easily in deep. The time prove. How hard he work for people
Also please do not look down others. I bet you only know some of Thailand, really.
pjwalker911 // August 24, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I want you to observe the photo above. Observe first the absolute gold-plated opulence that your king lives in, then look around you at all the poverty, pollution and prostitution in Thailand. Then go to that web link and look at the rest of the photos. Realize that most of the richest and most powerful royal families in the world came all the way to Thailand to congratulate your king for sitting on the throne for I think 60 years where he is actually a dictator who cannot be touched by the law, who cannot be criticized, who is treated like a god, a perfect god, when in fact he is nothing more than a very wealthy man with great political power even though he doesn’t have to run for office.
Then realize that all these famous wealthy kings and queens, princes and princesses came to Thailand to see him togther in one big celebration. Then understand that these people are conspirators in a diabolical plan to rule the entire world, to create a single Global Government where no one is free, which is totally controlled and dominated by them through technology. This is the fate of every country including Thailand and your king is a part of this elite conspiracy, part of the “Illuminati” as they all are.
I am sorry, but you are like children worshiping this Big Daddy who supposedly takes care of you. That is like the British worshiping Queen Elizabeth as Big Mommy or Americans worshiping George Bush. I know the Thai people don’t have the knowledge about the Illuminati and the New World Order. This is the problem. Thai people need to wake up if they want to be free, but I also realize that most people do not want to be free. They instead want a parental figure to take care of them, even if he is actually enslaving you as pawns in his game. Americans do the same thing with their politicians, but at least some Americans have begun to wake up to this game. If just a few Thais can begin to wake to the reality of the New World Order, originating from the Royal Houses of the world, the Vatican and the international banking interests, then there is some chance for true freedom in Thailand. As of now, you do not have it, nor does anyone else and the situation will continue to get worse because people refuse to grow up.
Chris // August 25, 2008 at 11:44 am
PJwalker, have you ever read Paul Handley’s book about Thai King called, “The King Never Smiles”?
P. Handley says this about the Thai King in his book,
- “His prestige has survived unscathed, by virtue of his sheer longevity and his personality – earnest, hardworking, gentle, and with an impeccably simple lifestyle.”
- “To be sure for more than five decades, Bhumibol has been genuinely dedicated to good works. He has tried to bring into Thai society the poor and marginalized. He quietly intervenes on behalf of those abused by Thai officialdom, and he has been a constant reminder against destructive greed. And all the time he – though not his family – has shown little interest in the luxurious trappings that a bejeweled crown could bring.”
Bloomberg has also said this about the Thai King,
“For all of his wealth, Bhumibol shuns the billionaire lifestyle. He eats the cheapest form of unmilled rice for its health benefits, according to Handley’s book. After his brother’s death, he and his immediate family moved out of the gold-spired Grand Palace, whose grounds cover 60 acres, and into the smaller Chitrlada Palace in the Dusit area of central Bangkok. Bhumibol has traveled outside his homeland only once in the past 40 years, to neighboring Laos. ”
Mr. Pjwalker, whoever you are, please educate yourself. The Thai King is human and like all humans can do good and wrong. You seem unable to accept that there is good about the King. Please keep an open mind. Many people say the royalists are blind. I think when I meet the anti-royalists, they can be even more blind to me sometimes.
pjwalker911 // August 25, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I don’t think you read the book either, because according to the liner notes on Amazon:
“…looking beyond the widely accepted image of the king as egalitarian and virtuous, Handley portrays an anti-democratic monarch who, together with allies in big business and the corrupt Thai military, has protected a centuries-old, barely modified feudal dynasty.
When at nineteen Bhumibol assumed the throne, the Thai monarchy had been stripped of power and prestige. Over the ensuing decades, Bhumibol became the paramount political actor in the kingdom, silencing critics while winning the hearts and minds of his people.”
So there it is in a nutshell: anti-democratic (ie, Fascist like all feudal monarchs are noting that most monarchs wear the same basic ceremonial fascist uniform regardless of country), allied with corrupt business and the military dictatorship, nurtures his own political power behind the scenes while presenting himself, through carefully orchestrated PR and propaganda, and image to the public of a wise, all-knowing, all-compassionate Buddha-like being who just does nothing but love everybody and help them, even though the raw reality of Thailand is very different if you just look around at all the masses of little girls and little boys who are forced into prostitution and kept as sex slaves because their families don’t have enough to eat.
There is nothing good about a king who puts people in jail and shuts down websites for criticizing him and who is ultimately behind the military dictatorship. And of course he eats the unmilled rice because it’s better for health. The elite always eat the healthy organic foods, while they and their business partners sell the junk food, the GM crops and all the other highly processed and contaminated products to the commoners to keep their numbers down.
And yes, “old money” tends to be more frugal than “new money” since they already have everything they could possibly want taken care of. That’s true around the world. Meanwhile old money wields enormous power in the world far beyond what one or a few people should have. And old money always hides behind “philanthropy” and “charitable works” because after all, who dares to criticize charity. Handing a few crumbs out to the masses while keeping the entire loaf for oneself. Some charity!
No, it is you who remain ignorant and uneducated about the real world that we live in, a world that is controlled from the top down by a ruthless and cunning elite whose only desire is for more power and to enlist the masses to build their own prison camp planet in the process. This is what the New World Order is, and it is run by the high initiates of the Illuminati, including Bhumibol.
So just keep defending and protecting this mafia dictator. That is your choice.
Chris // August 26, 2008 at 10:31 am
Oh, deary me! How it’s been such a pleasure to read your rantings, Mr. PJwalker. I must admit that I am impressed that you did take on my advice about educating yourself… the liner notes at Amazon is not a bad place to start… we all have to start somewhere don’t we, Mr. PJwalker.
Since you may suffer from reading deficiency, I will have to repeat what I had already said above, that you, Mr. PJwalker, seem unable to accept that human beings such as the Thai King, is capable of both good deeds and bad deeds. So your reply to my first comment simply proves my point. All you can see is the negative side and you are unwillingly to accept anything positive, or even the possibility of it. It seems to be a very paranoid world that you live in, perhaps spending so much time on this blog is not so healthy?
Anyhows, I am looking forward to your further rantings, Mr. PJwalker. It’s a good amusement show!
pjwalker911 // August 26, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Chris, you are obviously just another sociopath, and probably a freemason or a knight of some kind to boot. At least you talk like freemasons and knights who use “good deeds” to cover up their evil deeds. I notice you don’t deny his evil deeds after all, but that is no problem for someone with a psychopathic mindset. All high Illuminati use charity as a front to cover the fact that they are working towards this New World Order system, of which Bhumibol is a part.
The Thais “love” their king in the same way that Germans “loved” Hitler or the Russians “loved” Stalin or the Chinese “loved” Mao. The British “love” their Queen too, though more and more have caught onto the royal scam and are calling for the abolition of the monarchy. Rightly so. People only “love” their oppressor because they don’t know any better and because they believe the false pictures and promises created through heavily funded propaganda. They don’t know anything about their leaders, yet tend to worship them as gods. This is just a historical fact, but is not by mere chance.
You are also obviously a brown-noser of royalty, never doubting for a moment that they deserve to sit on high, holding all the high cards, untouched by the same laws that the common folk are ruled by. Another trait of freemasons and knights.
If you are not a freemason or a knight, then I suggest you to join up because you will fit right in with the rest of the elitist scumbags.
Chris // August 27, 2008 at 10:58 am
Ahhh, Mr. PJwalker, how predictable you are. I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist responding to me, and have now delivered me more free entertainment. Your site is truly a great find for me. A gem amongst blogs.
What wasn’t predictable however is that your paranoidal tendencies would lead your mind to conjure up a story about freemasons and knights. But that’s what so entertaining about you, Mr. PJwalker, you are both predictable and unpredictable.
So from a mafia dictator defender to the freemason/knight/elitist scumbag, I am really wondering what next? But what I know is that I will continue to get my free entertainment from you, if not tonite, then tomorrow. Sooo predictable, yet sooo unpredictable. Yes, Mr. PJwalker, you are so much fun!
pjwalker911 // August 27, 2008 at 8:43 pm
You already made your position clear Chris:
You don’t give a damn about the tyranny that is exploding across the planet in the form of the Illuminati’s New World Order agenda, but you do however defend those wealthy elite “gods” like Bhumibol who are a part of it.
Therefore, since you are probably not among the top elite and are serving merely as one of their useful idiots, you are in alignment with those knights and masons. You are either sympathetic to their cause or you are one of them. Either way, it is very simple: you are just another scumbag who hates the truth.
And to top it all off, you find it all very amusing and entertaining which is a sign of a sick, demented, disordered, psychopathic mind. The only way you can change that situation is to educate yourself, admit your mistakes and do some deep soul-searching, but then again, it may be too late for you. I hope your problem is just a manifestation of temporary insanity and that eventually you will come to your senses and apologize, but I won’t hold my breath for that.
BY THE WAY, I have added a few more fun facts about your favorite god/king. see above. And will be adding more as time goes by.
Dr. Chris // August 28, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Awww, Mr. PJwalker, don’t worry, you needn’t use the CAPS for “by the way”. Afraid that I won’t notice that you have been slaving away in full compliance with my advice to educate yourself? That you still have these childish attention-seeking tendencies, is in fact rather sweet, Mr. PJwalker (Btw, found yourself a girlfriend yet? they usually find attention-seeking guys quite cute, though your paranoic behaviour might scare them off, but we can fix that soon hopefully).
I must admit, I am very flattered, Mr. PJwalker. My other comment had caused you to go off searching and reading the liner notes at Amazon (15 – 25 mins. of time, maybe?), and then this later comment has now caused you to labour away adding much more new material to your blog, WOW! Please let me know how much of your valuable (?) time that took you, Mr. PJwalker. Yes, please flatter me more with the power that I have over you.
Now, Mr. PJwalker, is it me who has to do the soul-searching? I have browsed around your website and noticed quite a consistent behavior on your part towards people who hold different views than the ones you do. Have YOU, Mr. PJwalker, ever thought about why you are so AFRAID of different views that you would have to resort to the kind of tactics that you do to try and scare people away? (instead of engaging them in meaningful debate)
And why is it Mr. PJwalker, when you meet someone like me, who you have been unable to repel away easily like the others, that YOU, Mr. PJwalker, would allow ME to have so much POWER over you, just by hanging in and not being affected by your (rather lame, but admittedly highly imaginative) insults.
How many hours, Mr. PJwalker, have you been labouring away (happily?) with finding the “fun facts” as a result of my actions? And how many more happy (?) hours, Mr. Pjwalker, will you have to slave away at it, unable to stop yourself (even though stopping might make your life happier?).
These are the first few soul-searching exercises for you, Mr. PJwalker. I am estimating a treatment period of about two months. Do take those soul-searching exercises seriously. More to come after you complete these.
pjwalker911 // August 28, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Chris, the more you write, the more you expose yourself as a psychopathic creep whose only interest in life at this stage in your pathetic life is to try to diminish what I say on this blog (not doing a very good job of it either). You prove it by coming back here day after day to attack and smear when you could be doing other things. It’s also amazing how many words you use to say so little, and that little that you do say is all pathetic BS with zero substance.
I am only defending my point of view from my own turf. You are the one coming to me, attacking me. I didn’t go to your site to attack you. And in your attack, you flatter and congratulate yourself for having some kind of mysterious “power” over me merely because I answer your sick babblings. Maybe you are right about that, maybe I shouldn’t waste my time on you, but you came here making your point that Bhumibol is a good guy, and all I did was to show you that you were wrong, and you immediately take offense to that. So on and on it goes. But I go through these exercises for only one reason, to show others the truth and to show that there are are people like you who do nothing but try to block that truth.
I have no illusions about converting you to the fact that there is an evil New World Order run by a rapacious, parasitic aristocracy that includes Bhumibol. What this little exchange will show to other readers is that you are a pathological liar pure and simple and don’t have the moral backbone to handle the truth. That makes you corrupt and cowardly, but then, psychopaths tend to stick up for other psychopaths. And all psychopaths do their damnedest to try to derail anyone who is speaking the truth. It’s been that way for thousands of years.
You come here claiming that Bhumibol is a good guy and that I am nuts for criticizing him. When I show you different information, you just ignore it. I have proven and will go on proving that he is not the loving god that you make him out to be, that in fact, he is quite the opposite. For those with eyes to see, and brains to think with, they will see plainly that I am just telling it like it is, and that you on the other hand are just trying to obfuscate the issues.
Others, I have no hope for, including yourself.
beatrice // August 28, 2008 at 11:26 pm
pjwalker911.
Your arguments are strong, and I agree with you.
pjwalker911 // August 28, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Thanks Beatrice, appreciate that vote of confidence. I think that says you are able to look at the data, establish an informed opinion on your own and come to the same conclusion that I have. That is what logical objective reasoning tends to do. Independent thinkers will tend to arrive at similar conclusions based on evidence. All they have to do is think it through a bit. Most of the those who comment on this blog are thoughtful, decent people like you trying to find the truth and gain accurate information in a world where information is controlled and highly distorted to cover an Agenda.
Some are merely misinformed and I try to be gentle with them. If they say “I love my King. He is my God and my Big Daddy”, I am not going to pounce on them for that. I just accept that is where they are at in their psychological and political development. They just don’t know any better.
Chris on the other hand…well, what do you expect from a psychopath? I get on average two or three sick individuals per month coming here to attack me as a “paranoid” or a “tinfoil hat” etc just because I point out that there is an elite aristocratic class that is implementing an undemocratic system toward a totalitarian world government. You see, psychopaths don’t like that. The are like vampires caught out in the sunlight. “Aargh!” they cry, shielding their eyes from the light of truth. And then they proceed to deliver their invective and their evil laughter trying to taunt and disparage. But it’s more pathetic than anything.
Sarah // August 29, 2008 at 1:44 am
Dr. Chris,
I think your estimate of two months treatment is too low. This PJwalker guy is obviously a total luney. Yes, I do believe attention-seeking guys are cute, but someone like PJwalker would really be annoying.
My observation of his behaviour is that he is the typical type of guy who has very few friends (if any friends, then would be the same paranoic types – they just make each other worst by talking their conspiracy theories), and surely he is sexually frustrated, probably depend too much on pornography also. Should go out more and try to find a girlfriend (but must treat his mental problems first though, go see a doctor or something)
Anyways, Dr. Chris, it looks like PJwalker is very angry at you. Congratulations Dr. Chris, you have succeeded. It’s so funny to read this thread. PJwalker is obviously the loser, his over-reactions to your comments stands a testament. He probably been spending a lot of stressful and angry hours over this. hahahaha
Jonathan // August 29, 2008 at 3:33 am
PJwalker, you say that Chris came here to claim that the Thai King is all good, but from reading his comment, I think he made it clear that his point was that the King has done both good deeds and bad deeds. It appears that it is you who is the liar by misrepresenting what he said.
I read the Forbes Article, the Crowning Fortune, which Chris provided the link. Forbes is a trustworthy source and so is P. Handley who worked several years on biography of the King. The fact that most of the King’s land is being leased very cheaply to low-income tenants and state agencies is clearly a good thing.
It appears to me that you unfairly cast everything about the Thai King in a negative light. While, Thailand’s democracy has been stunted by the existence of the monarchy, the institution itself has also been beneficial to the country, it does provide a kind of balancing power check to the political system which is often dominated by very corrupt politicians.
It is also clear to me that the Thai King does care about his citizens and lives a relatively simple lifestyle, as P. Handley notes (he is usually very critical of the King in general).
As for Chris’s observation about your behaviour towards people with different views, I have also browsed around your blog a bit and did notice that you like to bully people with insults, pretty much a suppression of freedom of speech (perhaps intended or not, I don’t know). If you know what you say is the truth, you wouldn’t have to act so scared towards different views either.
I do think it kind of not nice for Chris to barge into your home like this (metaphorically) and basically bully you in your own home (looks like he is quite successful at it also – you should just ignore him, if you can do that, requires a bit of control over your own emotions/anger). If you continue to fight, you have lost.
But having seen your own bullying behaviour towards your site visitors who express different views, it is quite difficult for me to have sympathy for you because as the saying goes, what comes around goes around. The Thais believe it very much also, ie. you reap what you sow.
Maybe if you start being more nice, gentle/compassionate towards others, then all the suffering which you are now going through will not repeat itself.
The natural law of nature has no mercy. Beware. Natural law does not laugh at its victims, but there will be people like Chris and Sarah above who will. Don’t let them have fun over your suffering. Just be a good guy PJ, change yourself, and good things will come to you! have faith!
treekhwan // August 29, 2008 at 3:37 am
Please do not use the word “worship” with our king, but use “mostly respect” instead. I really feel the word “worship” is too over.
Worship should be used in religious believe e.g. God, Buddha, Angel , important person who passed away ,whatever.
Also please do not compare our king as God. I think Christian also don’t like som people to compare anyone as God.
Also “someone” in country which had no king from the past could really not understand this.
In the past, before we has democracy system. In the war ,all kings has to fight in order to protect country or empire. However at lease Thai people should feel greatful kings. Some thai people who talk badly related HM King Bhumibol should get out and stay in other countrys that without king. Whatever our country need kings, they need to accept this. If don’t like, just out.
pjwalker911 // August 29, 2008 at 5:35 am
Johnathan, Sarah and Chris:
You all are like members of a kind of personality cult. When you see someone rightfully criticizing a tyrant, you naturally go on the attack, implying that I’m the one who is crazy.
No, it is you who are crazy, and too lazy and corrupt to question your own reality. You call this abuse and bullying. I call it just telling the truth. Of course you hate that and then go on to try to hit me with slander and BS because you don’t have any rational counter-arguments. Not one, because deep down, you know I am right. When I am politically incorrect and tell the truth, of course people like you attack me. That isn’t bad karma. It’s just part of the battle against evil which never gives in easily and always attacks whatever is good. That’s just the way it goes, but I will never shut up about the Illuminati. The Illuminati, which you all are defending.
People of this world have been struggling for freedom for centuries against kings, queens and theocratic tyrannies of all kinds because they naturally do not want to be slaves under feudal masters. You want to interfere with that process. I want to help it along. That’s the difference between you and me.
Some Thai people did attempt to reduce or eliminate the power of the monarchy in the early part of the 20th century and it was reduced. But along comes Bhumibol, born in the US, educated in Switzerland and a member of the Illuminati with deep ties to European royalty. You would think a modern, Western-educated prince would go along with the enlightened trend, to diminish the power of the monarchy. But no. He immediately supports a military dictatorship, brings back the custom of crawling before the king, takes control of the country’s finances and proceeds to make himself one of the richest men in the world. He has gone way beyond his constitutional powers and presided over a military dictatorship ever since. Talk about seeking attention. Sarah, there is no one on this Earth who seeks more attention and power than people like Bhumibol. Don’t fool yourselves. It is not a democracy. Not even close.
Bhumibol has sucked the country dry of it’s wealth. The economy is so bad that children are forced into sex-slavery such that Thailand has the biggest flesh trade in the world. Everybody knows this. Thailand, as a result of Bhumibol’s tyranny, is a very corrupt country. Most Thais will admit that corruption is rampant and you only need to look at the source. The top.
He has increased his powers of lese’ majeste’ to the point of making it an imprisonable offense to criticize anyone in the extended royal family. Most Thais are terrified of saying anything that might be construed as criticism. This is not a free society. It is an enslaved society. All these actions are those of a tyrant. But such power-mad tyrants throughout history have used propaganda to brainwash their people, make them bow and scrape before his image. All the big dictators and tyrants did this. Women swooned and threw flowers to Hitler and Stalin. It is no different with Bhumibol. Brainwashed people are not rational. They are incapable of reason as you are. You are all under a magic spell and it’s time for you to wake up.
Johnathan, your concept of cause and effect is perverted. As far as karma goes, I have no problem fighting with and berating corrupt people, which you all are obviously (except for true believers like Treekhwan who just don’t know better). You don’t deserve any respect from me whatsoever. I have no worries at all about it. I have spent my life working for good causes and helping others in need. This site is a testament to it. Good people thank me for my service. Rotten people criticize me. My conscience is clear. Is yours? Ha! I doubt it. And Sarah, you are especially sleazy, and sound like a cheap whore. How much do you charge?
It is no sin to put you down. It is a sin to attack people who are doing good, trying to share the truth. And that is going to come back on all of you eventually.
Dr. Chris // August 29, 2008 at 10:30 am
Hmm, it appears that you, Mr. PJwalker, have not done your homework, namely, the soul-searching exercises I prescribed to you yesterday. From your latest comment, I can see that your condition is not improving and your mind is still totally imprisoned by paranoia.
Ms. Sarah, btw, I did a thorough assessment of Mr PJwalker by reading a lot of his comments on this blog. I really do think he can be treated in around two months, but I must admit it also depend’s on the patient’s cooperation. You mention his sexual frustration and overuse of pornography. I have those suspicions also, that is why I asked about whether he has a girlfriend. It was a serious question, which he hasn’t answered. My evaluation of his behaviour is that a large part of it is due to the fact that he lacks love, care and attention. This lack of love affects him deeply, though he is probably not conscious of it. If he manages to get a loving girlfriend this would help speed up his treatment and recovery to normal mental conditions very much.
Mr. Pjwalker, that does beg the question, which I will repeat: do you have a girlfriend? Don’t be afraid to approach girls. For many of them physical appearance (assuming yours is probably not good at all) isn’t the most important factor. While your paranoiac personality would probably repel them, after some soul-searching exercises that I prescribed you and if you do them properly, I think you can manage to go on a few dates quite successfully. Spending too much time on this blog is getting you nowhere in terms of health mental and emotional development.
BTW, many seem to suggest that I am here to “bully” Mr. PJwalker. That is absolutely not true. I am here to help him. He obviously has emotional and mental problems which he alone cannot overcome. It is evident everywhere I look at this blog. It is a very sad sad affair indeed. Though my methods may seem rather cruel and uncaring, I am doing all this in his best interests. The provocation of anger and stress, this is merely a method which will in fact bring knowledge and self-discovery to Mr. PJwalker.
So, please, Mr. PJwalker, for your own sake, please do the soul-searching exercises I prescribed to you yesterday and report back the results to me as soon as you can. Then we can start work on the next set of exercises.
pjwalker911 // August 29, 2008 at 10:48 am
“Dr” Chris,
I can easily remove any of these sick, perverted comments of yours from this post but I let them stand to show others who have any sense of morality what an evil disgusting low-life piece of shit you are.
You and your whore/girlfriend Sarah can go to hell. (By the way, do you run a brothel there in Thailand? What do you specialize in, ladyboys?) You have nothing to say about the substance of this whole thread because you have absolutely nothing to defend your rotten positions with. Therefore, your whole attack is on me personally.
I take it as pure psychological warfare in a pathetic attempt to get me to stop telling the truth about the “God King” of Thailand. Which is fully expected since it is considered a crime to breathe a word of criticism about him in the Land of Sex Slaves, Thailand. What the hell do you possibly hope to gain from that? You are really dumber than I thought. It is completely useless and you can say whatever the hell you want here. People with any sense left in their heads (and there aren’t many unfortunately) will realize what you are doing.
I realized it from your very first comment.
pjwalker911 // August 29, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Just a clarification, for those reading through these comments who think I am too harsh on these people and overreacting, paranoid, crazy, scared of other points of view, whatever, hey that’s fine. Think whatever you want to think. At least I am allowing them to say whatever they want to. And of course I am criticized quite often for telling the truth. This blog is entirely dedicated to exposing the tyranny, crimes and corruption of the neo-feudal elite worldwide. So naturally that is going to offend a lot of people with vested interests in keeping the status quo going. Therefore, I know very well going into this that I am going to be harassed, attacked and criticized for it as I am every few days from all sides. That isn’t really a problem though because it just makes me more determined to dig deeper and get to the roots of these issues. So I actually welcome your attacks. Bring them on.
Just realize that my critics are actively defending and protecting an extremely corrupt feudal military dictatorship over which Lord Bhumibol has presided for decades. I have provided sufficient evidence for this in the notes above and any educated Thai should agree that there is something very wrong with the government there. Thailand became a military dictatorship immediately when Bhumibol took the throne and it continues to be one today, held by his iron grip on absolute power. He personally funds and approves every coup which are just shakeups to maintain the status quo at the top. Farangs (foreigners) do not realize just how powerful Bhumibol really is and that is the way it is intended. But he has the Thai people firmly under his control. He is the Big Boss, the Big Daddy. His word goes. If he ordered every Thai to get down on all fours and crawl around barking at the moon like dogs, you would immediately see them get down to it. Such is the extent of his power over their minds.
With one royal decree, he could virtually irradicate corruption, the drug trade, poverty, child prostitution and most crime simply because the people will accept and carry out any order from him. But he will not do that because it is not in his interest to have a truly free and economically fair society. He owns the country. He owns the land through the CPB (which he controls) and leases it out to the poor public who don’t have enough money to buy property even if it was made available to them. Yes, he has to keep his rents low because otherwise, the people would be huddling under bridges and there would be even more uncontrollable chaos than there is right now.
I am not exposing this feudal tyranny out of hatred for the Thai people. Just because I criticize the king, does not mean I criticize all Thai people, though there are those who would argue that “an insult towards the king is an insult towards the people”, which just proves how controlled they are. But look, you can criticize my so-called leaders here in America all you want because I know they are evil and corrupt. I know they have an evil agenda that they are working toward. I know that they are willing to lie, cheat, steal and kill to push that agenda through. They have been at it for a long time. They are thugs wearing smiles and tailored suits. So if you insult my leaders, you are not insulting me. You are just observing the facts. Okay? And believe me, if you just take a look around this blog, you will see what I mean if you don’t already understand what the New World Order is all about.
I know Thailand is much like any other country. There are good and bad people and the worst ones always rise to the top because evil gravitates to power most of all. It is the same in every country. It is not that I am just focusing on Bhumibol’s bad points and ignoring his good points as claimed. That is like saying I shouldn’t criticize any dictator or criminal because he has some good points. It is ridiculous. My point is that no matter if he has some “good points”, still his administration of the country is disastrous for the people there. Fine, he eats wild rice from the rugged mountains. Wow! I am exposing it because the Thai people deserve to live in freedom and some kind of economic and political stability which they never had under the yoke of Bhumibol.
If you see a company and that company is irresponsible, it is run like a prison military system, you see a lot of corruption going on there, a lot of criminal activity and the service is poor, then you know something is wrong with the management, at the top. It is not the fault of the lowest employees. It is the fault of the guy sitting in the director’s chair, and in the case of Thailand, that director is Bhumibol.
I’m not angry at these critics for attacking me. I am angry at them for defending this evil. That’s it.
Now you may all continue defending and praising the feudal dictator’s “good points”.
Thank you.
yoohoo2 // October 29, 2008 at 8:43 am
chris i agree with you, but it’s a sad but true fact that a lot of people who haven’t experienced what goes on can have whacky ideas.
the king has done so much for the thai people, he doesn’t abuse his role as monarch, there are endless lists of royal projects he has devised and implemented that better the lives of thai people. the thai army during the time of the coup was not corrupt. The Thaksin government was and the army were trying to get rid of him. The Ex prime minister was basically tweaking all the corporate laws so he could promote his business and evade taxes and was using the thai national savings as if it were his own bank account, lending it for cheap overseas so they would do business with him.
You can’t compare the King’s position to that of a “director’s chair”. It is not the King’s place to interfere with politics as stated in Thai LAW, but only in the most dire situations will he advise, which is the only thing he’s allowed to do.
Pj walker, you say you’re telling “the truth”. Hate to break it to you, but dude, that’s not right. You say the King lives in a gold plated palace. His palace in thailand has not undergone any fancy tweaks. Instead he’s got a fish pool, a rice-mill and a dairy farm for educational purposes. His ‘beach palace’ in HuaHin, instead of having those fancy gardens like they do in europe, he lets the students from a local school grow vegetables in the flower beds.
Not to mention all those agricultural projects he’s done to help farmers in the rural areas as well the artificial rain making process which happened to save thousands of people’s lives when the hurricanes hit south east asia.
and in regards to:
“Bhumibol has manipulated Thai politics to a degree far beyond his constitutional power. As a traditional conservative force he has hindered the democratic development of his country.”
- Serhat Unaldi, in Modern Monarchs: A Comparison of the Democratic Roles of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyad and Juan Carlos of Spain
— HOW THE HELL COULD YOU COMPARE THAILAND TO SPAIN?! The conditions are totally different! HELLO!?!?! That is the stupidest thing I have heard this whole year.
And as stated before, he only supported the coup so that the CORRUPT GOVERNMENT could stop STEALING and TAKING ADVANTAGE FROM TAX PAYERS. jeez!!
he’s very good at what he does, and i’m very proud to have him as my king.
yoohoo2 // October 29, 2008 at 8:46 am
and EXCUSE ME? “land of the sex slaves, Thailand.” are you on crack? It’s not like amsterdam or any other city in this world doesn’t have that. Are you honestly ignorant enough to believe most of the people in thailand are in that industry. PUHLEASE, grow a brain why dont you.
yoohoo2 // October 29, 2008 at 8:48 am
you’d only think that way if you truly didn’t KNOW the nature of thailand. and if that’s the case i really don’t think your opinion holds much weight.
pjwalker911 // October 29, 2008 at 9:00 am
I’m not condemning all Thais, although it is a very corrupt and chaotic country. I am condemning the royal family because it is completely fraudulent and inherently tyrannical as all monarchies are.
Your opinions hold about as much weight as a peanut shell because you are just another blind royal ass-kissing fanatic.
So screw you.
Sam Carepenter // December 26, 2008 at 4:11 am
As an American who has spent over one year in Thailand, I am not surprised by this derogatory yellow journalism. Firstly, deposing of Shiniwatra was widely supported by cosmopolitan Thais, secondly the kind has traditionally supported fete accomplis in the political arena as an exofficio member of the government it is the only logical position. Thirdly, the kind lives in a modern apartment style residence in Bangkok and lastly, he and his family spend their whole lives centered around working for the Thai state and their people.
Thais love their king! That is why they all wear yellow!
pjwalker911 // December 26, 2008 at 7:55 am
Dear American Farang Great White Bwanana in the Land of Corruption,
Oh the wonders and joys of feudalism where you go to jail for criticizing any member of the supposedly royal family. The king approves each and every PM. He is the sole proprieter of the Crown Property Bureau. Whatever he says goes in that unfortunate country. He and the Queen also have control over the PAD which admits it is anti-democratic, ie monarchist. Its only function is to sow the seeds of chaos. The reason is to keep the country is constant turmoil with a new PM every month, so as to maintain the feudal system as the only solid core of power in the country. The peasantry who “love” their king, who don’t know any better, are kept as ignorant children seeking an all-powerful daddy figure. Of course, this entire system of total corruption is heartily approved by the European Royalty and their cousins in the US government like the Bush family. American-born, European-bred Bhumibol in fact models his system after the British and all the Thai elites go to Eton and Oxford. The new PM models himself after Clinton and Blair, claiming to bring Thailand into the Global Government system. The Land of Smiles is actually the Land of Lies.
You should do a little research sometime. It might clear up your brain-fog.