Child dies after being left in school bus
Hello World. It is Friday, or it soon will be if you're living in one of those Yesterday nations.
In fact... Today is the beginning of Week 138 under Lockdown, Lockup and Masks-On!
TAIWAN CHINA WAR
Taiwan Shoots Down Drone Off Chinese Coast For The First Time.
It was the third day in a row that Taiwanese soldiers have been forced to fire live ammunition at drones intruding over Kinmen's islands.
China stamps its little feet in anger
Taiwan is warning that its military won't hesitate to exercise right of self-defense and to counter-attack in the event of Chinese forces entering its territory.
Plenty of details (Taiwan source) at
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4644541
Story and Photos:
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4642419
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4645000
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-shoots-down-intrusive-civilian-drone-chinas-coast
Kinmen (Quemoy island) defenders shot down a suspected Chinese UAV over Shiyu Islet after it failed to heed warnings
PHOTO: Taiwanese forces fired 'warning flares' at the Chinese drone before shooting it down.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4644541
Japan will most likely take part if Taiwan Strait conflict breaks out
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4644871
and
US, Taiwanese warships seen in Taiwan Strait as Chinese ships lurk
PHOTO: U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) with two Taiwanese warships visible in background. (U.S. Navy photo)
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4644815
Activists to go ahead with anti-junta rally
The Kana Lomruam Prachachon (Melting Pot Group) is going ahead with its weekend protest in central Bangkok despite admitting it is not quite the right time to successfully bring down the ruling junta.
Jatuporn Prompan, group co-leader and chair of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), announced yesterday he will be heading to the protest at the Skywalk at Pathumwan intersection tomorrow and at midtown Ratchaprasong intersection on Sunday.
UIGHURS CHINA XINJIANG
Even the United Nations and more startlingly even the BBC finally report that darling China and the CCP "may" have committed crimes against humanity.
After long delay, UN releases report on China's abuses against Uyghurs
May have.
Even the United Nations failed to censor this:
"New U.N. Special Rapporteur's Report on Contemporary Forms of Slavery concludes that forced labour is taking place in Xinjiang.
The Special Rapporteur, Tomoya Obokata, further found that "the nature and extent of powers exercised" meant that "some instances may amount to enslavement as a crime against humanity.
Some instances. Seriously concerned.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4644752
https://theprint.in/world/china-in-tight-spot-after-un-report-confirms-human-rights-violations-in-xianjiang/1099146/
Cuba runs out of milk and then runs out of beef and then runs out of bread.
In front of the bakery on Carlos III, one of the few that still sells “released” [unrationed] bread, the elderly, physically disabled, kids, mothers and all kinds of people begin to show up.
https://babalublog.com/2022/08/27/reports-from-cuba-after-milk-and-beef-bread-disappears-from-the-cuban-table/
7-year-old dies after being locked in a school van.
A teacher assigned to ride the vehicle and account for the children miscounted.
'Medical Expert' Doctor Adisak Plitponkarnpim, director of the National Institute for Child and Family Development (NICFD), said it happens two or three times per school year, but usually to very young students.
https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220901101951040
Several children on the bus said bullying was definitely involved.
Bangkok taxi fares going UP again
Starting 'soon' (date to be announced, it will cost you 45 baht to get into a Bangkok taxi, a rise of 10 baht.
Some longer trips will have a 50-baht drop-meter price, and that may include all airports.
Taxi associations (rental agencies) have convinced the junta's 'ministry of transport' that the rising prices of petrol, diesel and LNG are the immediate reason. But drivers have been hit hard by fewer customers during the past three years of Covid.
https://bityl.co/E8q8
CHINA SPACE MYSTERY
SPACE RACE INDEED China Briefly Had Two Secretive Spaceplanes In Flight, And One Is Still Unaccounted For
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2022/08/28/china-briefly-had-two-secretive-spaceplanes-in-flight-and-one-is-still-unaccounted-for/
GLOBAL WARMING ENERGY
GOODER AND HARDER, COLORADO: Thousands of Xcel customers locked out of thermostats during 'energy emergency.'
Xcel is Colorado's electricity company
News of Interest to Wrinkled People
Your blood type could predict your risk of having a stroke before age 60
"The study found that people with early stroke were more likely to have blood type A and less likely to have blood type O (the most common blood type) - compared with people with late stroke and people who never had a stroke."
Related
Black tea may reduce death risk, government study says.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/08/30/black-tea-lower-mortality-risk-study/3501661784714/
Oh, those Russian Accidents. They are so common, right? All the Time, right?
Head of Russian oil giant Lukoil dies after "falling from hospital window", reports Russian state media.
"The chairman of Russian oil and gas giant Lukoil - which spoke out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine - has died after falling out of a hospital window, state news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS reported."
TRIVIA that you might be asked at the next Pub Trivia Night.
Measurements, especially for cooking
A tad 1/4 of a teaspoon
A dab 1/8 of a teaspoon
A pinch 1/16 of a teaspoon
A smidgeon 1/32 of a teaspoon
A nip, or a drop 1/64 of a teaspoon
A hint, or a trace 1/256 of a teaspoon
President Joe Biden, President of the United States, claiming existence of a Hypersonic Bullet.
President Joe Biden, who is President of the United States, wrote and published a claim that "AR-15s just rip the body apart" which is false or a lie or misinformation or U.S. government dezinformatsiya, Some Of The Above Or All Of The Above.
Lie. The United States banned "assault weapons" before Biden was born.
It is possible that Joe still thinks that "AR" in front of a rifle's designation means "assault rifle" which it absolutely does not.
So the reader must judge if this is an outright lie, misinformation, or U.S. government dezinformatsiya.
WEEKEND READS
Angelo M. Codevilla is an analyst whose works fly under the spotlight too often.
His latest essay, written for the Claremont Review of Books:
The Original Fascist takes the overused and now silly adjective apart to its proper reductio ad Hitlerum use to fascism's reality, beginning in Mussolini's fevered mind, 107 years ago.
Rather than force, Mussolini’s primary means of government was the management of interests. That, plus exhortation. Force was reserved for outright opponents in the act of opposition. The kidnapping and murder of socialist member of parliament Giacomo Matteotti at the hand of fascists is so often mentioned precisely because it was such a rarity.
A fascinating piece, at
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-original-fascist/
Think about this on your weekend, fellow Americans.
More Whistleblowers Come Forward: Wray Has Lost All Respect at the FBI, and Cannot Continue Effectively As Its Leader
Kerry Picket for the Washington Times:
Rank-and-file FBI agents say they cannot see how FBI Director Christopher A. Wray stays in his position after The Washington Times' exclusive report about a senior bureau official stepping down under scrutiny for suspected political bias affecting investigations.
Says the Whistleblower in charge:
"I'm hearing from [FBI personnel] that they feel like the director has lost control of the bureau. They're saying, 'How does this guy survive? He's leaving. He's got to leave."
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/30/allegations-political-bias-widespread-misconduct-p/
Vitit Muntarbhorn is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University.
He has also helped the U.N. as a pro bono Special Rapporteur, Independent Expert and member of UN-appointed Commissions of Inquiry on Human Rights.
Beating scams, trafficking no easy task
There is [he writes] a duplicitous chain and enchained situation whereby a scammed person might be forced to scam and swindle other persons.
RESCUE
Police and officials rescue 99 Thai workers lured to Phnom Penh to work at an online casino, in this file photo from November 18, 2021. {Photo courtesy Royal Thai Police)
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2381646/
Deterring China requires boost in defence capacity
Takatoshi Ito, a former Japanese deputy vice minister of finance, is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
His example:
While Japan tried to maintain a peaceful status quo regarding the Senkaku Islands, China continued chipping away at it, gradually increasing the frequency of its encroachments into Japan’s EEZ and territorial waters.
Now, a similar effort to change the status quo is underway around Taiwan.
Maintaining the status quo will require that Taiwan build a sufficient deterrent capability.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2381486/
