Alert New York police finally arrest the man who attacked and crippled Thai model Bew Jirajariyawetch. Three months ago.
Children, please calm down. I know it's Saturday, February 19, but we have news.
The Man of Isolated Sorrow
The former army commander and four-star general who went coup-coup in 2014 and eliminated the bothersome elected government poses with all his political friends as he works in an anteroom before gracing Thailand's parliament with his presence for the second day in a row.
He noted to the country that Thailand's economy is pretty much the best, or close to the best in the world.
 "Thailand is better able to deal with inflation and the rising cost of living than other countries.
 "Inflation and the high prices of goods caused by the economic impacts of Covid-19 are a major concern for the public, and the government is stepping up efforts to address the problems.
 "I believe efforts to ease the debt problem will deliver tangible results this year," Prayut wrote on Facebook.
Members of the opposition were openly amused.
By actual count, Prayut has lots more supporters and more political support than any government leader in recent history.
The sometimes fierce two-day debate in Thailand aims to toss him out of office and force a new general election.
But Prayut's off-the-cuff claim on Friday to be Thailand's 'king of kings, promised by the Hindu tale, Ramakien, has not gone over well.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2265903/
Charges filed over Bew's assault
New York City police finally arrested the man they say is responsible for a savage, near-fatal attack on Thai model Bew Jirajariyawetch, 23, while she was waiting for a subway last December.
 The man has a long criminal record. Now he faces charges of attacking, beating and robbing Ms Bew.
 Kevin Douglas, 40, is currently charged by the New York Police Department with second-degree robbery, third-degree robbery and second-degree assault. It is likely his lawyer will 'talk down' the charges and creepy Douglas will face prison time ranging from zero to close-to-zero months.
 Ms Bew was attacked while waiting for a train home to Queens, a section of New York City.
 Surveillance CCTV showed a man, probably Douglas, yanking her back, throwing her to the ground and punching her.
 While she was down, Douglas, who has a string of prior arrests, allegedly touched her private parts and fled with her purse.
 "Allegedly". Sure.
 Before his arrest on February 10, Douglas had been arrested 44 times and faced charges for assault, robbery, drugs, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal tampering dating back to 1997. His bail is $75,000 for those who feel obliged to help.
PHOTO: Bew Jirajariyawetch, followed by the career-criminal creep Kevin Douglas, who attacked her in the New York subway, and the result of his assault.
NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH: Here's the link to the actual CCTV of the attack and robbery last December 16.
NOTE: There are tonnes of items about Bew and her lawyer ripping New York police, justice and court authorities.
Here is the best start:
Bew Jirajariyawetch biography: 10 things about New York model from Thailand
 Bew, on Douglas:
 "Nothing can change what happened to me but I am happy to know he cannot do this to someone else."
 When she was attacked, she was on her way home from a New York City show by rapper Daboway (yellow shades).
https://conandaily.com/2022/02/13/bew-jirajariyawetch-biography-10-things-about-new-york-model-from-thailand/
Read. Think. Absorb.
The Anti-Asian Hate and Violence All Seem to Be Coming From Those 'Enlightened Blue Zones:
 Memorial for New York City Asian Woman Murdered in Chinatown Is Vandalized.
PHOTO: A memorial to Christina Yuna Lee, the woman murdered after a homeless man followed her into her apartment and stabbed her 40 times, was vandalized. The memorial, which was outside of her former apartment, was destroyed.
https://bityl.co/Azs4
And ANALYZE THIS
Unless you are an American who gives a s**t, you'll need a bit of background when you read this.
 But you definitely NEED to read it, American or not.
 Why Asian Americans like me are the rising new parental power
 During 18 months of online classes, my son was completely unengaged in school and wasted his time all day, every day, playing video games.
 But San Francisco Board of Education members Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga did not recognize or try to fix the problem - instead they focused on renaming schools.
 Then they ignored protests from the Asian American community and canceled the merit-based admissions system at Lowell High School.
 Adding fuel to the fire, Collins blatantly discriminated against Asians with her racist tweets. Such as...
 "Many" Asian Americans "use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and 'get ahead.' "Being a house n***er is still being a n***er." The charming Ms Collins is finally, thankfully, unemployed.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/16/why-asian-americans-like-me-are-the-rising-new-parental-power/
SAME-SAME BUT DIFFERENT: Canada, Thailand.
Prayut. Again: 'It's not my fault, darn you!'
The junta's designated 'prime minister' refused once again to accept even a tiny smidgeon of blame for the fifth large outbreak of Chinese Covid-19.
He blamed provincial governors, including the one he appointed in Bangkok.
Prayut ordered the governor of every one of the 77 provinces  to  "mitigate the spread" of  Covid-19  infections. Whatever that means.
The country  suffered more than 18,000 new cases of Chinese coronavirus on Friday. There were 27 deaths.
This is why (educated) people keep making fun of Prayut and Maha Justin as Hitler.
 Hitler's agreeable Reichstag passed the "Enabling Act of Germany" which authorised the Fuhrer to declare new laws, decrees, national orders, etc. Without legal challenged.
 Like Canada’s Emergencies Act, and Prayut's 2016 Emergency Decree, all uses of the laws were required to be temporary.
 But none of them in the past 83 years has been temporary.
 Maha Justin isn't Hitler, but...
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/02/17/trudeau-isnt-hitler-but-n1560144
Now do Thailand:
UH OH: DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) internal polling show majority of voters agree Democratic Party's pandemic response went too far.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/02/17/dccc-internal-polling-show-majority-of-voters-agree-dems-pandemic-response-went-too-far-n449460
As if there were a choice...
Queen Sirikit Centre will host 2022 Apec summit
 The Apec summit is still scheduled to be "sometime later this year", aka November.
 The Queen Sirikit Centre opened in 1991. It is being "upgraded" and is to reopen in September.
PHOTO: The 31-year-old Sirikit Centre is a low-rise building close to the city centre, with limited parking.
It was named to honour the 60th birthday of the Queen (now the Queen Mother), who officially opened the complex on August 29, 1991.
Thais are far past the point that they are shocked by crime and corruption by their Buddhist clergy. This guy is worth noting, though.
Senior monk faces temple fund theft rap
Cleric suspected of stealing 110 millon baht - about US$3.4 million or 4.4 million loonies.
NAKHON NAYOK: Police arrested a deputy chief monk of the province yesterday on suspicion of stealing 110 million baht over nine years from local temple funds in collusion with a missing former chief of the National Office of Buddhism.
Police searched the living quarters of Phra Sitthi Woranayok, abbot of Wat Khao Durian in tambon Khao Phra of Muang district, at about 6 a.m. on Friday. The abbot is also the deputy monastic chief of Nakhon Nayok.
He was charged with embezzling about 110 million baht of development funds intended for local temples from 2007 to 2016 in a conspiracy with Nopparat Benjawatananun, the missing person.
["Phra" is a title of respect given most often (but not exclusively) to monks.]
PHOTO: Wat Khao Durian is well known as the pink temple for obvious reasons.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2266591/
BACKGROUND and MANY PHOTOS at
http://lopezthai.over-blog.com/2021/07/watkhaothurian-nakhonnayok.html
Toronto Sun newspaper: BOMB CANADA?
Until the Berlin Wall was smashed to pieces by popular revolt, all of East Berlin had armed checkpoints.
Same as Ottawa*.
One of the Ottawa checkpoints is already named 'Checkpoint Trudeau'.
[NOTE: Ottawa is a city still serving as the capital city of Canada.]
https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/warmington-cold-war-era-east-berlin-had-armed-checkpoints-now-ottawa-does-too
The campaign calling on the U.S.A. to begin bombing Canada got under way in 2001.
Really good for a larf and worth filing.
 NOTE: PDF document
https://www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Bomb-Canada.pdf
AVIATION TOURISM
THAI plans direct flights to Riyadh
In May. And Saudia may fly directly to Bangkok in May, also.
Thai Airways International (THAI) is reportedly planning to launch direct flights between Bangkok and Riyadh in May.
Nond Kalinta, the airline’s chief commercial officer, said THAI has filed a plan for the flights to the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT).
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is also preparing to launch tourism marketing campaigns to attract Saudi tourists. Last year, there were 467 of them.
Dinner is served
Charity workers deliver food to workers in northern Bangkok after Laksi district chief Sombat Kanokthippawan  ordered the closure of an Italian-Thai Development construction camp on Soi Vibhavadi Rangsit 25 for 10 days after 96 workers initially tested positive for infections of the Chinese Covid-19.
 Of the 845 workers at the site, 288 are now confirmed infected.
THAILAND TOURISTS ECONOMY
If you are quite rich and stuck in Bangkok over the weekend, here's what you need:
Paragon hosts festival for the pampered traveller
 Until Sunday, The "Siam Paragon mall" in Bangkok offers up "A Luxury Summer Escape", is pushing top hotels around the country, eager to get your cash in return for a luxurious room or suite.
 Among the "bargain" (aka "expensive") hotels on offer are chains such as AWC, Accor, Conrad, Four Seasons Thailand, Hyatt Thailand, Marriott Thailand, Minor Thailand and Ritz Carlton.
PHOTO: The Hyatt Regency Koh Samui is just one of the available deals.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-and-lifestyle/2264367/
Tales from The Global Warming Scientists
Sediment cores from ocean floor could contain 23-million-year-old climate change clues.
 Sure. The SUVs from 20 Million Years B.C. caused global warming. And the line of 97% of scientists who accept, believe and broadcast the story is forming now, on my lef. My far left.
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-sediment-cores-ocean-floor-million-year-old.html
Also True History
Obama DOOMED Democrats With Working-Class Voters
But as the infallible Krystal Ball remarks, you can't argue with this:
POLITICO:
Democrats' own research shows that some battleground voters think the party is "preachy," "judgmental" and "focused on culture wars."
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/15/gop-culture-war-attacks-alarmingly-potent-dccc-warns-00009265
Analysis: https://bityl.co/AzrF
How come it is ALWAYS the mice who are getting the good news from science and medicine?
 Gut bacteriophages associated with improved executive function and memory in flies, mice and humans.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-02-gut-bacteriophages-function-memory-flies.html
Does anyone have an update on the number of Canadians arrested and charged with sedition or insurrection or secession?
Or is it just the same as in the U.S.A.?
Or, like, you know, like, punch the son of a bitch in the face repeatedly and call your local prosector's office to get charges of mopery going..
