Floods are coming... but how big?
The GGM (Great Greenland Melt) will probably maybe likely sink Bangkok in ten or seventy years possibly but here are two weather forecasts for right now.
The Bangkok newspaper Naew Na. Pretty, eh? It says that the GBF aka Great Bangkok Flood of 2022 will be like the three months of floods that put much of Bangkok underwater in 2011.
It says 'heavier than normal' rain, from now until October, will cause the Greatest Flood in 100 years in Bangkok.
And floods are coming... The question is, "how big?"
Downstream provinces put on alert
UPDATE
The Chao Phraya River barrage, which controls the water flow from the North to the Central Plains Region and Bangkok, is releasing more water as heavy downpours are expected this week.
 A large volume of water has been accumulating from the North which has been hit by heavy rainfall.
 The water has flowed downstream, forcing the Chao Phraya barrage in Chai Nat to discharge more water yesterday.
 Waterways have burst their banks in two provinces: Klong Phon Pheng in Ang Thong and Klong Bang Ban in Ayutthaya - where vast tracts of farmland are being flooded
Just yesterday:
QUOTE
 This year's flood will be caused by rain in the Central Region. Exactly how much and of what duration remains to be seen. The portents from countries and cities already flooded are dire.
 It is time for new Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt to tell the public the facts about where and when low-lying areas are likely to be under a metre of water.
 - - Professor Director Seri Supharathit, Center for Climate Change and Disaster at Rangsit University
 and
 National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Committee.
Quote du jour
The economic and energy disruption and damage to Canada and the U.S. from a Line 5 shutdown would be widespread and significant. This would impact energy prices, such as propane for heating homes and the price of gas at the pump.
Melanie Joly, minister of foreign affairs, Dominion of Canada*
* Canada is a large-ish country in upper North America.
CORONAVIRUS CHINA
How's that Zero-Covid Strategy working out for you, Comrade Xi?
 China's Shenzhen enters new four-day lockdown over new Covid-19 outbreak.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/08/30/lockdown-shenzhen-COVID-19-outbreak/6111661886755/
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS
During the past day, August 31, Rona
• infected and hospitalised 994 new victims, one of whom carried the disease into Thailand from abroad (i.e. 'tourist')
• caused the deaths of 27 more victims
The 994 new cases is the lowest one-day infection rate in more than 3 months.
Since the first onset of of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, in 2019, Thailand has suffered
4,648,679 diagnosed cases and 32,278 deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/thailand/
CORONAVIRUS U.S.A. WORLD
Excess Deaths in America Are Still Excessive
The Malthusians are cheering but are they surprised?
A mass die-off is still happening in the U.S. and reportedly around the world, and we have no idea what’s coming next.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/30/excess-deaths-in-america-are-still-excessive/
Related
Also on Wednesday,
An additional 1,414 people were given their first Covid-19 shot, 1,772 their second shot and 9,321 a booster.
Which brought the total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered nationwide to 142,698,628. (Thailand population 70 million.)
BUT THOSE DARNED FOREIGNERS
Yes, what a (in the word of the Bee Gees) Tragedy. Covid leapt out of the nursing stations with stanchions and began pummelling infants about their heads.
It is entirely Covid. It has nothing to do with government responses to Covid.
 COVID-19's rising toll: infant head trauma in France, domestic abuse in Japan.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/08/30/infant-head-trauma-domestic-violence-COVID-19-pandemic-studies/1531661870760/
BEFORE THE COMBAT
Soldiers show off their wai khru moves as part of a ritual to pay respects to masters of Thai boxing.
 The performance was part of the annual wai khru boxing ritual competition held annually by the army at the Royal Thai Army Sports Centre in Bangkok.
Let's dispense with the day's Two Biggest Lies.
The Big Guy:
 Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels 5 times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?
No.
 And Do You Realize The AR-15 Can "Vaporize a Body Within Seconds"?
Hard No.
Even though these are quickly provable lies and U.S. government dezinformatsiya, Twitter downright refuses to warn readers. Also Facebook, Google, etc.
Twitter's Lie:
C'mon man, give us the benefit of the doubt here, okay?
Pheu Thai to win poll, ex-PM says
Translation: The England-born, Oxbridge-education Abhisit Vejjajiva (raised from infancy to lead Thailand) told a grand meeting (Bangkok Post Forum) that the Pheu Thai Party will win next year's election in Thailand.
That presumes there will be an election, and presumes that the army that made Abhisit prime minister in 2008 doesn't do it again.
Abhisit's evolving theory is:
 The Thai political landscape was designed by those who wanted to see a coalition government with many  parties, allowing  the  so-called "3 Ps" to hold power.
Where "the 3 P's" is the current ruling junta.
And where 'Pheu Thai' is the third iteration of Thaksin's party of the 1990s.
GETTING A REAL EDUCATION: Troy University students will train in how to combat woke corporations.
It costs US $22,000 a year to send your child to Troy University. Unless you live in Alabama, which you don't - 800,000 baht in real money.
PROMISE?
We May Never See Another Lifelong Public Servant Like Anthony Fauci.
https://newrepublic.com/article/167532/anthony-fauci-retires-government-career-public-servant
Single Point of Failure
Richard Fernandez: "In the [Chinese] Covid case, Anthony Fauci picked up the phone when the threat was inbound and no one dared question his judgment. 'Fauci now had a virtual carte blanche to not merely approve but design and run the kind of research projects he sought — and could do so with no oversight structure above him,' is the way Rindsberg puts it. And he may have overreacted, events now suggested."
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2022/08/29/single-point-of-failure-2-n1625011
TECHNOLOGY
Reported for Facecrime: California's new age verification law is a privacy disaster. (TechDirt)
The proposal here is to prove your age whenever you visit any website by recording a video of yourself repeating a random phrase, and using AI analysis to estimate how old your are based on your facial characteristics. Seriously, that's what they're suggesting.
Just block California at the firewall and be done.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/29/age-verification-providers-say-dont-worry-about-california-design-code-youll-just-have-to-scan-your-face-for-every-website-you-visit/
Disclaimer: And your little dog too.
Austria decided to block a bunch of servers belonging to Cloudflare. (Bleeping Computer)
Cloudflare delivers some absurd percentage of global web traffic, so the results were as hilarious as they were predictable.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-cdn-clients-caught-in-austrian-fight-against-pirate-sites/
ENERGY GLOBAL WARMING
Russia suspends gas flow to Europe amid energy crisis
Russia shut down its main gas pipeline to Europe for three days Wednesday amid one of the worst energy crises the European Union has faced in recent memory, a move that led to speculation over claims of making repairs.
But Paul Krugman is mounting his white steed to ride to your rescue. That's what he says.
Krugman
Europe's gonna party like it’s 1979 all over again
... Even if the war in Ukraine goes on, Europe will both develop more sophisticated systems of energy allocation and gradually wean itself off its dependence on Russian gas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/opinion/europe-prices-oil-gas-supply.html
WEEKEND READS
You hardly see "T.D. Allman" any more, which is our loss.
From his place in France, T.D. sent along his latest the other day, and it's as thoughtful as ever.
It is from his archives, October of 1991 to be specific.
Mikhail Gorbachev [1931-2022]
He changed the world.
He did not change Russia.
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1991/10/the-man-who-saved-the-future
More straightforward
Mikhail Gorbachev [the guy with the purple map on his forehead, remember?] was the last leader of the Soviet Union to climb into a coffin, dead at 91.
If you have a wide definition of the word "leader".
Zero Hour in Ukraine
On Monday afternoon, the Ukrainian military announced that it had launched its long-awaited counteroffensive. After six months of playing defense and losing territory in the east, the Ukrainians are now trying to push forward in the south, toward the strategically vital city of Kherson, which sits on the western bank of the Dnipro River.
https://puck.news/zero-hour-in-ukraine/
Womp Womp: Washington Post Will Lose Money This Year After Shedding Subscribers
 Democracy Dies In Debt
Everyone recalls the scene in the brilliant documentary 'This is Spinal Tap' where the struggling band is playing in a high school gym and producer Marty DiBergi asks band manager Ian Faith (played by Tony Hendra) if the tiny venue is a sign that, uh, uh...the popularity of the group is waning?
And Ian replies: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no...no, no, not at all. I, I, I just think that the.. uh.. their appeal is becoming more selective.
Is this story related? Is the Washington Post becoming more selective?
Struggling, 'Lazy' Washington Post May Cut 100 Newsroom Positions.
Frustrations Mount at Washington Post as Its Business Struggles
Great headline. The New York Times would like you to know that its competitor, the Washington Post, is struggling.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/struggling-lazy-washington-post-may-cut-100-newsroom-positions
WEEKEND READ
Trump Acted as Though the Military Swore an Oath to Him Personally
Trump believed the military not to be an instrument of national power but an apparatus for personal use.
https://www.thebulwark.com/trump-acted-as-though-the-military-swore-an-oath-to-him-personally/
On this day exactly 144 years ago, the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company of Boston hired the world's first female telephone operator.
Comedians around the globe have praised the decision to hire the operatorette, named Emma Nutt.
The extremely progressive prime minister of Canada, Wilfred Laurier, allowed Alberta and Saskatchean to join the confederation.
German Nazis, on this day in 1941, decided to allow every single Jew in the country to wear a golden star.
In 1951, kindly Srtrines and Kiwis permitted the United States to become part of ANZUS.
The United Nations announced that Earth's population had reached three (3) billion. Unacceptable!
In 1730, Canadian prime minister John A. Macdonald married his first cousin, Isabella, touching off the hinky behaviour which has made Canada so very famous.
