Bill Gates turns mad scientist with a plan to save us all
HELLO girls and boys, transformationists and so on... Well, that was a pleasant and semi-productive Thursday. We are now on Friday, May 20, Eve of The Weekend.
G7 wants Taiwan in the WHO
I'm Doing My Best
For the third time in 6 weeks, Thailand's designated 'prime minister' uttered the four magic words. It is not clear whether he meant them as a boast or apology.
After the short press conference, he ordered a convoy trip to the flooded Bang Khen roundabout, scene of massive flooding that caused hours of traffic jams in northern Bangkok.
He said he was doing his best but the rainy season downpours overwhelmed the city's capacity to pump out water.
The drainage simply could not keep up with 100 millimetres of rain.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2312726/
NOTE: The Meteorological Department has predicted a full weekend of heavy rain, strong winds and more flooding in Bangkok.
Looking out and over the floods at the roundabout, Prayut blurted:
"If the BMA (Bangkok Metropolitan Administration aka City Hall) cannot fix the flooding problem in Bangkok then nobody can."
PHOTO: Motorists slowly navigate heavy floods at the Ratchada-Lat Phrao intersection.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2312146/
At Government House Prayut suffered a second media gaggle.
Even though Thailand has been hit by crisis after crisis - from Covid-19, [the fallout from] the Russian-Ukraine conflict and the political divide in the country, the government will press ahead with its efforts to move the country forward.
When the coronavirus crisis eases, Thailand will need investment to spur economic growth.
I want everyone to have trust [in the junta's government]. In times of crisis, the government may not be working as fast as some might expect. But we are determined to tackle all problems.
We need to join forces. This is not the time for conflict, he said.
Thailand's best informed and most prolific scholar Thitinan Pongsudhirak takes an outside-the-box look at Sunday's election for Bangkok governor.
Capital poll portends Thailand's rule
Never has Bangkok's gubernatorial contest been so much about Thailand.
The poll this Sunday is not just about how Bangkok will be run but how Thailand will be ruled.
Beyond the usual grievances and issues that traditionally hang over Bangkokians' lives and livelihoods are larger forces at work.
Whoever comes out on top will have much to say about the bigger national election that has to be held by this time next year.
PHOTO: This is how Bangkok City Hall (aka Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, or BMA) kicked off the election campaign on May 9.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2312790/capital-poll-portends-thailands-rule
Related
Chadchart's (almost certain) win may 'aid unity'
An election victory for independent governor candidate Chadchart Sittipunt on Sunday could ease intense political polarisation in the next general election, says a political scientist.
Thailand's policy on potted pot
If you will wait just one more month...
The junta is promising Thai citizens that they can grow "cannabis plants for home use" without seeking government permission.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2312666/
THAILAND ECONOMY
Thailand's junta has announced it intends to hold its cap on the pump prices of diesel fuel at 32 baht - indefintely.
The chief of the national Oil Fund said this is possible because of a five-baht cut in excise tax for the heavily subsidised fuel.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2312214/
TAIWAN WEST TAIWAN (More below)
G7 foreign ministers issue statement supporting Taiwan's inclusion in the WHO
and sort-of Related, from January 2022
Taiwan troops simulate urban warfare with China FRANCE 24 English
CORONAVIRUS THAILAND
During the 24 hours of Thursday...
6,305 new Covid cases, 42 more deaths
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2312466/
Taiwan, praised for its early-warning and subsequent handling of Covid-19, has decided that shutting every school in the republic would be an excellent ide3a.
Even though it has had no effect on the SARS-2 Cov virus spread, anywhere on Earth.
Worse, the formerly solid government of Tsai Ing-wen is giving every city/county the actual say on whether to close all schools, starting on Monday.
Dr. Fauci was unavailable for comment.
PHOTO: Taipei City has already issued the order to close.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4542362
Elsewhere
North Korea's Suspected Covid-19 Caseload Nears 2 Million
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/international/2022/05/19/north-koreas-suspected-covid-19-caseload-nears-2-million/
The world. Not including Taiwan or the Democratic People's Republc of Korea.
America in a paragraph:
Chinese] Covid-19 cases are once again on the rise in the United States, prompting some government officials to begin sounding the alarm that masks may need to make a comeback. On Wednesday, the White House held its first Covid-19 response briefing in nearly two months. It was the first for new response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha, a longtime proponent of restrictions. Jha said if the Biden [junta] does not get its requested $22 billion in new Covid-19 funding from Congress, there won't be enough vaccines and treatments to go around this fall. Last Monday, the Biden administration opted not to end the ongoing public health emergency in place for the pandemic, which had been set to expire July 15.
Minnesota (a state in the U.S.A.)
78% of Covid cases are in fully vaccinated people,
as are 67% of hospitalizations.
WAR ON DRUGS TRAFFICKING SMUGGLING
Prayut says he is ready to back an amendment to the Narcotics Code that includes empowering the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) to take the lead in case investigations.
EVERYONE KNOWS
A new narcotics code is the key to resolving the drug issue as everyone knows narcotics pose a threat to families, society and the nation. That is why illicit drugs must be eradicated, Prayut said.
... In addition, penalties for drug users will be revised and classified according to the severity of the offence.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2312186/
Directly related
The ruling junta's 'justice minister' Somsak Thepsutin said the new Narcotics Code will include drug-arrest rewards for investigators and whistleblowers.
PHOTO: The ONCB is currently holding an auction of 8 billion baht worth of assets seized from drug traffickers: jet skis, a yacht, luxury watches and gold amulets.
ANALYSIS
ONCB is a quiet, mousey agency that falls under the office of the prime minister in the Thai government chain of command.
Prayut's proposal would centralise all anti-drug, anti-narcotics operations directly under... himself.
The last time a Thai prime minister tried to control the policing of drug trafficking and smuggling was in the late 1970s, when then-prime minister Kriangsak Chomanan and the Royal Thai Army were acknowledged as the world's top government officials involved in narcotics and drugs - both smuggling and trafficking.
THAILAND POLITICS SUBVERSION
In the words of Monty Python, "Now for something completely different".
Thailand's junta has agreed to allow each individual primary and secondary school in the kingdom rule on the acceptable length of hair of its students.
The back-story is that pupils and students throughout Thjailand have become sympathetic, or outright "members" of a pesky, troublesome, anti-coup, anti-Prayut group called (real name) Bad Students.
In order to mask its (very real) opposition to the military regime and calls for reform of the monarchy, the organisers of Bad Students has focused, successfully, on national education rules and regulations such as haircuts and uniforms - and the junta is beyong useless at suppressing them.
The 'ministry of education' and its Prayut-appointed "minister" may be the country's single greatest centre of corruption, but it is out of control.
PHOTO: Three Bangkok members of Bad Students display placards and signs calling for education reform and 'hairstyle freedom' - and there is absolutely nothing that military police and elite poalice units dare to do anything about it - where "absolutely" is an absolute word.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2312050/
It is Friday and time to award the world-famous Headline Of The Week Trophy:
UFO Hearing Provides No Sign of Intelligent Life
https://victorygirlsblog.com/ufo-hearing-provides-no-sign-of-intelligent-life/
Hey, Scotty, are you deaf? I said "BEAM ME UP"
There is a new development in last Sunday's shooting at a church at Laguna Woods, California.
The shooter, David Wenwei Chou (photo below), 68, of Las Vegas, has connections to a Chinese communist front group.
Chou, a native of Taiwan, has close ties to the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification (CCPPNR), an entity under Beijing's United Front Work Department (UFWD), a powerful Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agency charged with overseeing foreign influence operations.
Before he actually opened up on the congregation of the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, Chou chained the doors and squeezed superglue into the locks.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/southern-california-shooter-has-ties-to-the-communist-regimes-united-front-work_4474258.html
You will not read or hear any of the above in any U.S. mass media outlet.
Weirdly enough...
There is a Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in Bangkok (曼谷台灣基督長老教會) in Phra Khanong district. Parishioners worship in Thai. Some photos here
https://ggle.io/56Lq
RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR
Without doubt, not subject to debate, Putin has one achievement from his invasion of Ukraine.
And one must hope Sad Vlad is happy with is one (1) single only achievement:
Switzerland Weighing Possibility of Enhancing Ties with NATO
Switzerland! Boggled, the mind is.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/05/switzerland-weighing-possibility-of-enhancing-ties-with-nato/
And now Putin aims at a double achievement:
Russia takes first steps to withdraw from WTO, WHO.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-takes-first-steps-to-withdraw-from-wto-who/
Although to be honest, why would anyone (except China) want to "belong" to the World Health Organization?
IT'S A REAL MYSTERY: Say, where have all the public-school students gone? "Over one million students have evaporated from public school rolls over the last two years, the New York Times reported late yesterday. ‘No overriding explanation has emerged yet for the widespread drop-off,' writes reporter Shawn Hubler."
Plus: "To be fair to Hubler, she offers at least two obvious explanations, but seems more concerned about the impact on public schools from them rather than the students."
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/05/18/nyt-say-where-have-all-the-public-school-students-gone-n470157
OLD AND BUSTED: In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous For 15 Minutes.
THE NEW HOTNESS? In The Future, Everyone Will Be Winston Smith For 15 Minutes.
Biden and Friends already poised to shut down the evil "Disinformation Board".
Can Nina learn to code?
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-administration-considers-shutting-down-disinformation-board-amid-blistering-criticism-report/
Totally useless U.S. FDA views YouTube videos from Sri Lanka, suddenly decides to pretend to act
FDA Suddenly Cares About Babies, Strikes Deal With Formula Maker.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/fda-suddenly-cares-about-babies-strikes-deal-with-formula-maker/
HEY! TEACHER, LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE
Do you have some other use for American public school teachers?
The School District of Philadelphia encouraged teachers to attend a conference on "kink," "BDSM," "trans sex," and "masturbation sleeves."
https://www.city-journal.org/philadelphia-schools-tout-radical-transgender-conference
U.S. Congress still polluted by Jew haters
'Squad' Members Introduce Anti-Semitic Resolution.
The Democratic Party has shown to have no desire to oust or even criticize the anti-Semites amongst its ranks.
Absolute Hoss. A kid with a bright future
Two-year-old Texas toddler orders 31 McDonald's cheeseburgers with mom's phone.
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/2-year-old-kingsville-boy-has-31-cheeseburgers-delivered/503-9e465084-996b-4a36-83b4-6ecbac2cb0fe
Weekend Read
The 19fortyfive website has this partly startling article:
Europe And East Asia: All Part Of The Same 'Theater' For America?
Two theaters or one? The Biden administration seems conflicted. Do Europe and East Asia comprise a single theater for U.S. diplomatic, economic, and martial endeavor? Or are they multiple theaters—implying a hierarchy between them that governs how Washington apportions finite national resources?
PHOTO: A Blue Angels aircraft flies over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75).
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/05/europe-and-east-asia-all-part-of-the-same-theater-for-america/
And the Reuters news agency writes out on an actual foreign policy agenda of the new Philippines president Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.: Spoiler: It's all about China. He hopes Beijing will 'shift into higher gear'.
https://bityl.co/CGlI
TRUE STORY
Bill Gates has a mad scientist vision for global health control
... Among his recommendations: a global health database, governments armed with quarantine powers and a quick-time vaccine development system that replaces the current years' long safety and efficacy testing time with six months.
And here's the eerie promise: "No one gets left behind, because we've already worked out how to rapidly make enough vaccines for everyone," Gates wrote.
PHOTO:¨Bill Gates discusses his book 'How to Prevent the Next Pandemic' in New York.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/may/17/bill-gates-has-a-mad-scientist-vision-for-global-h/
U.S.A. ECONOMY
aka
The Hunger Games
Don't depend on the U.S.A. to feed you.
CORRECTION: THE WORST OF IT, SO FAR:
Massachusetts high gas prices keep hitting records every day: ‘We may be in the worst of it.'
https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/05/16/massachusetts-high-gas-prices-keep-hitting-records-every-day-we-may-be-in-the-worst-of-it/
WATCH: 'I will end this'
All right, let's get some points on Badevil Gunnzz out of the way.
1. "The stricter the gun laws the lower the gun violence" (Chicago, anyone?)
2) "You can't yell 'fire!' in a crowded theater" (Mm, Yes, actually you can; that nonsensical dicta was overturned more than 50 years ago, the Professor from Vanderbilt had no clue about it)
3) Speakers have to be held accountable for others' actions.
(Fake footage of the moment when Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was shot)
MAKE BELIEVE BUT BELIEVABLE
Not to mention the hilarious response by KTLA-TV: "Melinda, you look Chinese, get down to Orange County and cover this Taiwanese shooting thing. Okay, Melinda? Move it, gal, we need to get back to our wall-to-wall coverage on the Al Jazeera chick killed by heavily armed Jewish people with assault rifles MOVE IT Melinda!"
John 11:35
By "investigators" these lackadaisical alleged "reporters" mean what the Orange County Sheriff's department gave them in a carefully prepared PR packet.
And note in a related "report" by the KTLA 5 TV station:
Officials release details of deadly church shooting
The ubiquitous, conspicuous USA Today newspaper has just issued its annual Top 10 List of theme parks in America.
See if you notice anything weird about this year's list, below?
https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-theme-park-2022/
SeaWorld Orlando – Orlando, Fla.
Silver Dollar City – Branson, Mo.
Kings Island – Mason, Ohio
Busch Gardens Williamsburg – Williamsburg, Va.
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay – Tampa, Fla
Cedar Point – Sandusky, Ohio
Dollywood – Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
Six Flags Magic Mountain – Valencia, Calif.
Holiday World – Santa Claus, Ind.
HersheyPark – Hershey, Penn.
Did you notice something strange/missing?
The prime minister* of the Canadian province of Alberta Jason Kenney mocks U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden for rejecting the 'ethical oil' of Canada.
Hey! Biden!
You don't need the US Navy's Fifth Fleet to patrol the Great Lakes.
* The political leaders of Canada's provinces are more commonly called 'premiers' but their actual title is 'prime minister'.
Background, links and stark-staring satire at
https://tinyurl.com/34krvw4h
