France's World Cup winning streak ends at one
Hello kids. And others. I know you're all excited about to get back to work at the mine face after that weekend holiday, but c'mon, keep it down.
Current plans mean that this will be the final big holiday train trips from Bangkok's historic Hua Lamphong station. [More below]
SPORTS SOCCER WORLD CUP QATAR
It's All Over Now, Bébés Bleux
Of course Messi scored the winner in overtime. Of course.
BBC: One of, if not THE best World Cup final of all time! (Not counting a really boring first half.)
The fun part of the sometimes boring match (well, soccer!) was the repeated commercials by Thai TV that, Never Mind, We will have English Premier League by Saturday.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63932622
China predicts The Winter of Nothing But Covid
Chinese Party-controlled "medical experts" reckon there will be three "major waves" of novel-coronavirus -- one of them already under way.
[Who knew China had 'medical experts'?]
Fortune tellers and the epidemiologist Wu Zunyou have just predicted three big outbreak-waves:
From now to mid-January, the Chinese New Year (January 21)
From mid-January because of travel and parties at the New Year
From late February, centred in workplaces as people return from the New Year's celebrations.
"Current vaccinations levels offered a certain level of protection against the surges and had resulted in a drop in the number of severe cases."
The Party says more than 90% of all Chinese have been vaccinated.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64018467
Vaxx report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59882774
China has developed and produced its own vaccines, which have been shown to be less effective at protecting people against serious Covid illness and death than the mRNA vaccines used in much of the rest of the world -- which wants no part of the Sinovax.
Long story short:
• There will be no Chinese tourist wave in Thailand for at least another year.
Thailand railway adds adds extra trains for holiday weekend travel
The State Railway of Thailand announced yesterday that it will be able to handle 100,000 passengers per day of the four-day New Year's holiday weekend - December 30-to-January 2.
New Year is Thailand's major national holiday.
After all tickets were sold, the SRT announced six extra trains - two from Bangkok to the North and four to the South.
All trains operating during the holidays, from Dec 29 to Jan 2, will have the maximum number of cars. Please credit and share this article with others using this link:https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2462805/srt-to-raise-daily-capacity-to-100-000-for-new-year....
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2462805/
Did we write "the South"? ZOMG we did, didn't I? Welp...
This is the rainy season in the South region of Thailand. At midday yesterday, Hat Yai Junction listed the cancellation of three trains, and it's very likely there will be more.
No. 172 Su-Ngai Kolok - Bangkok
No. 38 Su-Ngai Kolok - Bangkok
No. 464 Su-Ngai Kolok - Phatthalung
call 1690 for latest updates.
Photos courtesy @ThaiTrainGuide
For example:
Today's weather forecast for the South of Thailand.
And right across the border, where it's also the rainy season...
Landslide at public campground kills 24, numbers still rising
The landslide fell from the side of a road from an estimated height of 30 meters (98 feet) and covered an area of about three acres (1.2 hectare) [photo].
Rescuers with flashlights dug through soil and rubble.
https://tinyurl.com/3rzsd838
FreeMalaysiaToday: Heads must roll following landslide tragedy
The prime minister responded that there has been no decision yet to form an investigation committee.
The local government and development minister too was quick to point out that the campsites were unlicenced, as if they are the main culprit in this tragedy.
Typical of Malaysian politicians, he was asking the wrong question.
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2022/12/18/heads-must-roll-following-landslide-tragedy/
Show your love
Bangkokians show affection for Princess Paht
Effective today, City Hall will open "tribute book" rooms for an extra two hours per day at Chulalongkorn Hospital (photo) and 50 district offices.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/2463034/
There are believers... and there are profiteers
A 66-year-old 'lifetime spiritual practitioner' was arrested for selling tickets to a "ritual to revive HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendiradebyavati and cure her 'ailments'.
Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau wondered how much more inappropriate anyone could get.
They arrested ex-professor Suvinai Pornavalai, 66, charged him and released him on bail.
He went straight to Facebook and wrote,
"I was trying everything in my power to help.
"All my life, I've practised spiritual rites, [but] I did not realise that [offering my services] was inappropriate and misleading."
NOTE: Thailand is not a world centre of reviving the dead. You're thinking of voodoo.
NO! Fergawdsake NO! It's two weeks to New Year's Eve!
Preparing for a Champagne Shortage
As we head into celebration season, are our flutes in danger of running dry?
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/drinks/a42188429/champagne-shortage-2022/
Yes! Yes indeed there is a new Space Race:
China completes seventh space launch inside 10 days.
https://spacenews.com/china-completes-seventh-space-launch-inside-10-days/
Thailand railway adds extra trains for holiday weekend
The State Railway of Thailand announced yesterday that it will be able to handle 100,000 passengers per day of the four-day New Year's holiday weekend - December 30-to-January 2.
New Year is Thailand's major holiday.
After all tickets were sold, the SRT announed six extra trains - two from Bangkok to the North and four to the South.
All trains operating during the holidays, from Dec 29 to Jan 2, will have the maximum number of cars. Please credit and share this article with others using this link:https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2462805/srt-to-raise-daily-capacity-to-100-000-for-new-year....
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2462805/
The Twitter Files Part 6. Episode Two
Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were more than 150 emails between the FBI and Yoel Roth, the Twitter Trust and Safety chief.
Most of them are "requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation", even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.
An F.B.I. spokespersonlady lied and replied:
The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors' subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities.
It is believed that her use of the word "the" is truthful.
The liar also said:
A lot of companies we deal with are adversarial to us. Like, T-Mobile is totally adversarial. They love leaking things we're saying if we don't get our process right.
Repeat: An FBI agent and spokesperson said that.
It is extremely difficult to write, and it is truly difficult NOT to write that the FBI is crookeder and more corrupt than Spiro Agnew. After all the decades of movies and TV and books and fawning media* the FBI openly (and one must think "gleefully" ["Hey, we might get away with this"] the FBI and the U.S.A. mass media contend and brag that they have no duty to do the right thing, and to do it the right way.
You can follow on the internet the preparations by America's postmodern leftists to find the dirty and identity attacks being plotted:
• What ethnicity is Matt Taibbi?
• Where was Matt Taibbi born?
• Who is Matt Taibbi father?
• Where did Matt Taibbi go to college?
... If only the U.S.A. had an honest law enforcement agency to turn to.
The summary of all of the above, in text form:
The gist was expressed by MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, who's taken over the role of Ardent Establishment Moralist from Rachel Maddow, who had a firm grip on it until she spent three years bollocking the Trump-Russia story.
Mehdi's got some questions for Elon Must: The Mehdi Hasan Show
8 and a half minutes. In English.
Everyone's entitled to an opinion. The official opinion of The Fishwrap is Why in the Hell isn't the U.S.A. MSM reporting or analysing or opinionating about any of this?
Not that President NO ASIANS would care, but this campaign will turn off approximately exactly 100% of Asian Americans, including restaurant and grocery store owners.
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR GAS STOVES
Consumer safety board to weigh regulations on gas stoves.
Trumka, who is the son of the late labour organizer of the same name, called for an outright ban on new gas stoves and "It'a real possibility."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/consumer-safety-board-weigh-regulations-213249163.html
Loving Monsters
Glenn Harlan "Mr. Instapundit" Reynolds, From 19 years ago in a column that aged well:
The effort to remake the world so that it is safe for predators seems rather odd to me.
What sort of person would rather be prey?
The sort who lives in upscale neighborhoods, and campaigns against hunting, apparently. I suspect that over the long term this isn't a viable evolutionary strategy in a world where predators abound.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100722185536/http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2003/11/loving-monsters.html
Totally by coincidence...
The very readable Boulder Daily Camera writes about the recent sightings of cougars in the vicinity of Boulder - Colorado's best-known centre of human prey.
Mountain lion sightings in Boulder prompt warning from CPW
C.P.W. - Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Colorado has one of the highest mountain lion populations in America. While it’s hard to get an exact number due to mountain lions’ solitary lifestyle, the estimated population for adult mountain lions is 3,800 to 4,400, according to the CPW website.
CPW’s website at cpw.state.co.us/lions features this list on how to handle an encounter with a mountain lion:
Fight back if a lion attacks you. Remain standing or try to get back up if you fall down.
AND REMEMBER that the C.P.W. and every person quoted in this newspaper article believe that cougars have the right to co-exist with their human prey.
https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/02/06/mountain-lion-sightings-in-boulder-prompt-warning-from-cpw/
Appreciate the work you are putting into your articles.