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Moreover, achieving a successful soft landing requires more than that holders of dollar-denominated assets be tranquilized into catatonia while they lose their shirts.
But, as the anti-establishment, pro-Thaksin “red shirts” staged huge protests of their own against the army’s suppression of their fellow demonstrators in April-May of last year, the men in uniform became agitated.
Mobs wearing red shirts to symbolize their loyalty to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are now camped out in two major commercial areas, paralyzing a large part of the local economy.
In late 2008, anti-Thaksin mobs wearing yellow shirts and led by prominent business figures occupied Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport with impunity, seeking to annul the result of a general election in which pro-Thaksin forces gained power, despite Thaksin’s exile overseas.
Now Thaksin loyalists – the “red shirts” – are doing much the same, demanding change through mob behavior.
The red shirts are not blind to Thaksin’s excessive corruption.
Not bad for a summit that some feared would not happen at all: an earlier meeting planned for April in Bangkok had been disrupted by protesters – “red shirts” who support ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Long-sleeve shirts, long pants, and insect repellants can help minimize bites when staying inside isn’t an option.
Thailand’s color-coated crisis pits largely urban, conservative, and royalist “yellow” shirts against the predominantly rural “red” columns of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Some individual investors will certainly lose their shirts, but the impact on economic growth will most likely be close to nil.
Other mothers’ groups march wearing shirts or holding posters with the faces of their missing children.
Even here, behind prison bars and 24-hour surveillance of the type that he experienced for so long, I can conjure the warmth of his broad smile, merry eyes, and those colorful Hawaiian-style shirts that he wore with such panache.
Chinese bloggers, American Tea Party activists, British Europhobes, Egyptian Islamists, Dutch populists, Greek ultra-rightists, and Thai “red shirts” all have one thing in common: hatred of the status quo and contempt for their countries’ elites.
Fans at Trump’s rallies have worn shirts emblazoned with the words “Rope.
On one side are the "good guys," the Azzurri (the Italian national team, in their blue shirts), led by a manager who, because he was successful in business, is convinced he will be successful at managing the state.
For starters, free trade suffices for selling shirts, but trade in services requires detailed legislation and institutions (such as sector-specific authorities) to enforce it.
Indeed, Brazil’s upcoming election this year is like a soccer match between big teams, where supporters of one candidate and the other are solely distinguished by the colors of their shirts, since the strongest teams accept the rules of the game and even tactics are similar.
It is to compromise with the brown shirts for fear of the reds.
Multilateral summitry lends itself to familiar gibes about wildly expensive photo opportunities, set-piece speeches endorsing pre-cooked lowest-common-denominator communiqués, and more time devoted to parading around in silly shirts than to policy substance.
Two years later, after the military regime rammed through a new constitution, Thaksin’s proxy political party won another election, as his popular base of “red shirts” in Thailand’s downtrodden northeast and northern regions remained loyal to him.
In April 2009, and again in April-May 2010, the disenfranchised red shirts camped in the streets of Bangkok to demand new elections, but were dispersed by the army, with 91 fatalities.
Despite their setbacks and lost credibility following the torching of Bangkok’s central business district, the red shirts have grown in number and demonstrate monthly against Abhisit’s government.
And, after two years, PAD yellow shirts have also returned to the streets to show their disillusion with Abhisit.
These masses, along with the urban poor, make up the bulk of the red shirts.
Around the country, many red shirts are persecuted, and several have been murdered under mysterious circumstances.
And so, more and more of us now lecture in short-sleeve button-down shirts like those worn a half-century ago by the denizens of CalTech (even farther south, in Pasadena).
It is also boosting its purchases of shirts and other goods made with Fairtrade cotton.
Many work overtime to meet their daily production quota of 100 shirts per hour.
And their green tee shirts were emblazoned with the message that for these Americans, there has been no recovery.
She herself went several times to their own room and, without paying any attention to the people she met, brought back with her sheets, pillow-cases, towels, and shirts.
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