Bangkok BTS fares reduced to 20 baht - - on some lines.
Hello World this is the earliest edition of Fishwrap for Tuesday Number 197 of the panic to flatten the curve.
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Do not refer to militants, soldiers, or anyone else as 'terrorists.'
-- George Achi, director of journalistic standards, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
ISRAEL HAMAS THAIS
So far 7,540 Thais have filed forms at the Royal Thai embassy in Tel Aviv:
 • 7,446 want evacuation, back to Thailand
 • 94 intend to remain in Israel
A third group of evacuees will arrive this evening at Don Mueang airport aboard Royal Thai Air Force aircraft.
Prime Mnister Srettha Thavisin is looking for more aircraft for the repatriation project.
Many workers in Israel lost their passports during the Hamas assaults. The Foreign Ministry is shipping 8,000 'reserve passports' to Israel.
Labour Minister Pipat Ratchakitprakarn (photo) said full evacuation from Israel could take another month.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2664553/
The United States will stand with Israel today, tomorrow, and every day...
The quite secretary of state (foreign minister) of the United States Tony Blinken went to the Mideast with an entourage. But not too close to any risk of injury.
Although he touched down in Jordan and in Israel. He was granted audiences with Mahmoud Abbas, supposed head of the Palestinian Authority (West Bank, not Gaza), and with Benjamin Netanyahu, the elected prime minister of Israel.
Naturally, he had a press conference. In Egypt.
 We came here with four key objectives.
 • to make clear that the United States stands with Israel
 • to prevent the conflict from spreading to other places
 • to work on securing the release of hostages, including American citizens, and
 • to address the humanitarian crisis that exists in Gaza.
At no time, in no place, was the word 'terrorism' uttered.
But everywhere in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Egypt he found a shared view to get assistance to Palestinians in Gaza who need it, and we're working very much on that.
Two U.S. Navy CSGs (carrier strike groups) are offshore and hands-off.
Substack news roundup by Heather Cox Richardson: https://shorturl.at/epxRV
United Nations supremo António Guterres suggested that Hamas should release their hostages immediatement and implored Israel to grant access for "humanitarian supplies and workers" because Gaza "is running out of water, electricity and other essential supplies."
Israel has not promised it won't bomb 'relief trucks' because they could easily be 'military supplies trucks'.
Biden (president of the U.S.) appointed career ambassador David Satterfield as Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues, with orders to help Palestinians in general, and Gazans in particular.
Biden said, specifically:
 Hamas embraces 'a vision of death, of destruction, of nihilism, of terrorism. That's a vision that does nothing to advance aspirations for Palestinians.
Thailand got a very quick mention by Tony Blinken:
 Hamas killed at least 1,300 people, of whom more than 1,000 were civilians, 30 were Americans, 12 were Thais (actually, 28 were Thai), and 2 were French.
That was all, for Thailand but Blinken added:
 Hamas also took 126 hostages, including not only Israelis, apparently, but also 8 Germans, 5 U.S. nationals, and 2 Mexicans.
OPED ANALYSIS THAILAND MIDEAST
Opinion: When Deadly Conflict Between Israel and Hamas Affects Thailand
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin made it clear that Thailand is not taking side in this war in a faraway land despite 24 Thai workers having been killed in Israel after a week and over ten taken hostage.
He may be concerned that if he takes sides with Israel, Thailand could become a target for Arab and Muslim extremist terrorist attacks. And there is no way that Thailand, even with Israeli help could screen or prevent Arab and foreign Muslims visitors from launching an attack against Thai targets.
https://shorturl.at/CDFHQ
Since 1972, terrorists have targeted Bangkok often. A brazen example was in March, 1994.
It could be an entire movie:
 A hijacked truck laden with explosives was intercepted on its way to carry out an attack against the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok.
 After hitting a local motorcycle, the terrorist fled the scene. The body of the murdered driver was later found in the vehicle by local police.
Japan offers condolences for Thai casualties
The head of the Press and Public Diplomacy Department of the foreign ministry is in Thailand on a diplomatic business visit.
Kobayashi-Terada Maki condemned Hamas for the "terrorist attack".
"International cooperation is required to stop this escalation," she told the Thai media. "We need to have solidarity."
The new Japanese foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa met her new Thai counterpart Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara last Thursday. They discussed economic development in ASEAN, maritime security, food security and climate change.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2663869/
Talk about your harsh retaliation. Oh, the humanity!
America's newspaper of record:
 Israel Cuts Off Gaza From All Updates On Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce.
https://shorturl.at/txFHY
And here's the first big story that distraught, deprived Gazans missed:
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce hold hands in public for the first time
 Taylor and Travis grabbed dinner at Nobu in New York City on Saturday.
https://n9.cl/cmxa0
THAILAND TRANSPORTATION SKYTRAIN BTS
With Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin in the chair, Thailand's cabinet approved a new fare for the Purple and Red Lines -- maximum, 20 baht.
The new fare immediately went into effect at all 29 stations.
It was a campaign promise by Pheu Thai Party... except the 'promise' was for the entire BTS-MRT, not just two lines.
https://x.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1713774957430448203?s=20
TECHNOLOGY CRYPTO FTX THAILAND PROSTITUTES
FTX, Thai Prostitutes and Chinese Bribes
The disgusting testimony of his former collared squeeze and crook Caroline Ellison (right, above, leaving the courthouse) made felonious Sam Bankman-Fried and his collapsed FTX look even worse than we thought.
She testified, entirely credibly, that she used used accounts owned by Thai prostitutes to hide transactions.
Ellison claimed that FTX insiders tapped the sex workers in a bid to try and reclaim US$1 billion worth of funds frozen by the Chinese government for investigation of money laundering.
And she knew the identity of the Thai hookers, although she's saving that juicy part for later.
https://decrypt.co/201038/ftx-thai-prostitutes-chinese-bribes-caroline-ellison
SBF faces seven criminal charges. His trial could start next month.
His FTX, once the most recognised brands in the crypto space, quickly and unexpectedly went bankrupt a year ago.
https://decrypt.co/200769/caroline-ellison-sam-bankman-fried-billions-ftx
PANDEMICS SAVIOUR BILLGATES
Bill Gates is handing out US$40 million for mRNA vaccine development. In Africa.
The 'investment' will fund new technologies to cut the costs of such vaccines in half.
Officially inscribed as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the billionaire favoured a biotech company in Belgium, two mRNA factories in Senegal and South Africa, and assorted others who are officially approved by China-owned World Health Organization, WHO.
https://n9.cl/f2w9v
TECHNOLOGY (Cont'd)
JavaScript has no place on the server part one: The barrel file debacle. (Marvin H)
After all these years, it's still a toxic hellbrew of bad decisions. Not so much JavaScript in itself, which is merely meh, as the choice to use it in server applications where it is obviously completely unsuitable, to do so via an event loop, which is obviously completely unsuitable, and then to add the worst package manager ever devised, a software version of the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus.*
https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-7/
JavaScript has no place on the server part two: The hidden performance cost of Node.js. (Software at Scale)
This problem was solved all the way back in 1961, before the geniuses behind Node.js decided to inflict it on a whole new generation.
Biden's brother whips it out
The 'younger' brother Frank of U.S. President Joe Biden confirms that, yes, that is his picture, naked, on that gay dating site.
But he didn't put it there and his phone was hacked and 51 former U.S. intelligence agents may be preparing a statement that the dic pic has all the hallmarks of an operation by the Russians.
Fishwrap will never print Frank's photo, nude, which is between him and his wife.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12610551/Joe-Biden-brother-Frank-naked-selfie-GuysWithiPhones.html
STRATEGYPAGE TAIWAN CHINA UKRAINE GAZA
Austin Bay warns:
Pay Attention Taiwan! Don't let Ukraine-Gaza lead to WWIII.
https://strategypage.com/on_point/20231011224630.aspx
Seems accurate. Hard to argue.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1712094933958398038
RIP ENTERTAINMENT MOVIES
Piper Laurie, 3-time Oscar nominee with film credits such as The Hustler and Carrie, dies at 91.
It was on the internet, so it must be true.
