Global warming closes 12 Thai marine parks

Good day and honest welcome to all who dived in here.
You are reading the Bulldog edition of Fishwrap for Saturday, 11 May B.E. 2567
  

The person who invented the Ferris wheel never met the person who invented the merry-go-round.
They traveled in different circles.
  

Her arrival in Bangkok marked the beginning of the necessary but almost terrifying adventure into that strange and still half-barbaric country.
Hollywood's official descriptions of Thais and Thailand for its mostly fictional movie Anna and the King of Siam [Irene Dunne, Sir Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, 1946, 2hrs 46min]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038303/

NOTE The movie has no Thai or other Asian actors. The lives of Kings Mongkut and Chulalongkorn are as well known as the fact that Anna certainly never danced with them. In this flick, Rex Harrison sounds more like Charlie Chan than a Siamese monarch. Nevertheless.
Certain things in the moving picture are real, such as
Anna's 7-year-old brat Louis [in the movie] became a true Siamophile and in 1905 founded Louis Thomas Leonowens (Thailand) Limited, aka LTL. It is a leading, if now the leading marketing and trading company in Thailand, today. Louis died in the Spanish flu pandemic, 1919, in England.
https://www.louist.co.th/about-us/

THAILAND POLICY
The Prediction
Thai foreign policy to shift with new foreign minister
It's not comforting to discuss Thai foreign policy at the moment, as one can hardly tell what is going to happen next.
But all is going the way that the dismissed and disrespected Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara planned it all along.
Taking the 'Myanmar war centre' at Myawaddy (PHOTO below) as example, the cross-border trade volume has dramatically reduced in the past month due to the flighting, leaving the provincial authorities to hope that normalcy will be restored soon.
by Kavi Chongkittavorn, veteran journalist on regional affairs
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2788009/

Related and looking back just one month. And kept secret from the public.
yanmar dictator and army in Myawaddy asks Thailand to shelter its officials
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin confirmed that he had given permission to the Burmese dictatorship for a Myanmar Air Force plane that landed at Mae Sot Airport in Thailand's northern Tak province on Sunday. He claimed,

 there were no soldiers or weapons onboard the mystery flight. Which might be true.

Khao Sod (Fresh News) https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2024/04/08/myanmar-army-in-myawaddy-asks-thailand-to-shelter-its-officials/

The road to the office of 'Senior General' Min Aung Hlaing and loyalists at Nay Pyi Taw, the Myanmar capital.
The new dictators hold Aung San Suu Kyi in a prison.

Also Related and Still Developing
Escalating Myanmar refugee crisis
Thailand must act quickly to avert a major crisis amid a growing exodus of people fleeing conscription and conflict in neighbouring Myanmar.
https://www.nationthailand.com/world/asean/40037363

Related and ABOUT THAT SECRECY OF THE PRIME MINISTER

Srettha denies pressuring the Bank of Thailand, but acknowledges that he is 'concerned' about its policy on interest rates.
The prime minister claimed that, 'I understand the independence of the BoT' and will strive to work together with the national bank.'
 Which might be true; However

 If there are demands, I will voice them and engage in dialogue.

EXAMPLE: Pheu Thai Party leader and Thaksin's youngest, Paethongtarn Shinawatra, last Friday said the Bank of Thailand (BoT) is an impediment to economic development.
https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/news/policy/40037799

THAILAND EMERGENCY
Now, that's nasty.

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1788485055322738895

Map Ta Phut is in Rayong province, just east of Pattaya.

Chinese navy, the PLAN, seems to be making Cambodia the newest colony
Prime Minister and defence chief Hun Manet (West Point grad) insists there's nothing sinister about two ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy docked at a section of the Ream naval base, just down the western coast from Thailand.
 It's not permanent.
Right, the two PLAN ships have only been docked at Ream for five months. And no Cambodians or foreigners are allowed into the section of the naval base that armed Chinese have fenced off.
And China has fenced off another large area in the northern part of Ream 'because an expansion of the naval base is required urgently.'

No kidding?
The U.S. Has Never Pivoted to the Indo-Pacific
And now? China is trying to achieve hegemony.
https://spectator.org/the-us-has-never-pivoted-to-the-indo-pacific/

PANDEMIC COVID VACCINE
The Real Covid Reporting has barely started
You may have fantasised that obedient media would collectively wash the memory of the most horrendous global social experiment ever devised down the drain.
Wake Up! You'd be wrong. We'll start with a too-real headline that AstraZeneca has pulled its vaccine off the market -- because it killed 'too many' people
https://spectator.org/real-covid-headlines-are-just-getting-started/

And check this out

 I am taking ... a regular dose of Ivermectin. Ivermectin was a boogeyman during COVID. That was wrong. We were given bad information about Ivermectin. Joe Rogan was right.

-- Chris Cuomo, who used to pretend on CNN every day that he knew everything about Covid and ivermectin.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chris-cuomo-makes-ivermectin-face-210453781.html
So why did he diss Ivermectin?
The quite ignorant Cuomo attempts to CYA with this:

 Part of the reason Ivermectin was so vehemently rejected was that there was no profit in a drug that was already inexpensive and widely distributed.

Which doesn't come close to answering the question and accepting responsibility to broadcasting his ignorance worldwide.
The "Don't Speak on a Subject Unless You're an Expert" rule is not a rule, it's a con.

GLOBAL WARMING
Thailand has closed 12 national marine parks following the discovery of widespread coral bleaching (photo below) blamed on all the climate change that's going on.
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40037914

THE EV MARKET IS DEFLATING:

 Lucid, Tesla, Rivian, and Fisker Have Another No Good Very Bad Day.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/lucid-tesla-rivian-and-fisker-bad-quarter-2024/

PHILIPPINES CHINA USA
LAOAG, Philippines: Thousands of Philippines, Aussie and American troops are in Ilocos Norte (President Ferdinand Marcos' home province) for a heavily augmented military Operation Balikatan -- Shoulder-to-Shoulder in Tagalog.
Military attaches and diplomats from 14 countries watched as the thousands of troops simulated a foreign invasion, and even sank one of the ships of the invaders.
PHOTO shows some of the U.S. troops trudging in the noonday sun.

We're under the gun. We don't have the wherewithal to be able to fight all of this bullying coming from China so where else will we go?
-- Jose Romualdez, ambassador of the Philippines to Washington
https://shorturl.at/fhjyX

Biden Says the U.S. Will Not Supply Israel With Weapons to Attack Rafah
President Biden's remarks reflected a growing rift between the U.S. and Israel.
The Weakest Link: Biden acknowledged that American bombs had killed innocent Palestinians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/biden-israel-weapons-rafah.html
Interesting Point ref Fishwrap: This is almost exactly the same strategy Biden and several legislator-allies used to deny all aid and force the surrender of both Cambodia and Vietnam. By 1975, all U.S. aid, participation and military advice was barred by Biden-sponsored legislation. Then-senator Biden also sought but failed to deny all search, rescue and resettlement of Indochinese refugees -- "Not One Nickel".
It remains to be seen whether Biden will help China by using the same denial-of-aid to Taiwan.

The governor of New York state (which is in America) doubles down.
Yes, it's satire.