How to be sure your children never get Crohn's disease
Good morning all. Today is Tuesday, but more importantly it is May 24, the birthday of Queen Victoria, and later celebrated in the Land of the Toque as the birthday of Lilibeth "Cabbage" Windsor, even though it isn't.
(Former) Queen of Canada
THAILAND POLITICS
This person, Mark S. Cogan, seems to have a bias against the 8-year-old Prayut and Associates Dictatorship. He writes at the Thai Enquirer website:
I (Cogan) reflect on [Prayut's] time in power and the disastrous consequences his authoritarian rule has brought about.
https://t.co/NFoOFe1FyO
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TAIWAN CHINA BIDEN
So we'll take that as a solid (as Hunter put it) "NO ASIANS" then, shall we? Just planning, you know...
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! White House performs cleanup after Biden says U.S. military would defend Taiwan.
Looks like Vietnam, more and more. When Russians and commies exploited everything like this.
FALLOUT: Russian Diplomat Quits Over 'Criminal' Ukraine War:
'Never Have I Been So Ashamed of My Country.'
Ver 2.0
White House Scrambles to Cancel Biden's Promise to React 'Militarily' to Chinese Aggression.
Say, do you think it would be a good idea to establish a What The President Really Means office in the West Wing? (Solid reminder of the ultra-fabulous 'What the Captain Means' of the Vietnam era. And still available on internet re-re-recordings.)
But get this.
China launches an autonomous mothership full of autonomous drones.
China christened a remarkable new 290-foot ship last week – the world’s first semi-autonomous drone carrier. It’ll carry, launch, recover and co-ordinate the actions of more than 50 other autonomous aerial, surface and underwater vehicles.
More at the link:
https://newatlas.com/marine/china-autonomous-mothership/
And this from The Guardian
UKRAINE WAR: Syria’s barrel bomb experts in Russia to help with potential Ukraine campaign.
... Barrel bombs are crude explosives packed in to a drum and dropped from a helicopter. They were used to devastating effect throughout the Syrian war.
https://tinyurl.com/5d6k2943
Comment to the above
Under Vlad Putin, Russia is transforming itself from a Third World nation with a First World military to a Third World nation with a Third World military.
THAILAND ECONOMY
Quick Hits, 2 Notes
1. There is no comment on any of these investment plans by an alleged "close friend of Thailand".
2. In 8 years, Thailand's military-supported junta has attracted the following amount of investment to meet its plans to become an EV 'world hub': Zero
Automaker Hyundai Motor Group announced plans to build a $5.5B EV manufacturing complex in the U.S.A. state of Georgia.
Hyundai plans to roll out 23 battery-powered car and pickup models by 2025, and be one of the top-three EV makers in the world by 2025.
U.S.A. President Biden's ballyhooed 'Asian tour' featured overnight stays in two countries, completely skipped China and all of Southeast Asia and made no mention of South Asia or the Quad Group.
20-year-old college students on a Gap Year see and discover a hundred times more than Biden.
https://www.ft.com/content/236f55ef-13e8-4c12-9472-d3e91312a497
THAILAND SOCIETY
Hmmm. Trending on Twitter Thailand:
#BillGatesBioTerrorist
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BillGatesBioTerrorist&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
A total of NINE restaurants in Thailand made this year's list of @TheWorlds50Best
A closer look at these top restaurants in Thailand:
http://bit.ly/3yzffbi
https://www.thailandnow.in.th/country-facts/meet-thailands-top-9-restaurants/
Prasarn Marukpitak, a senator in the days when Thailand had an elected government, writes in the Thai media this Monday morning about the never-ending battle between dictators' centralisation and the more popular policy of decentralisation of federal powers.
Nan proves villages have the answers
A small tambon (village) in Thailand's northern province of Nan has shown the way towards a different kind of self-rule.
Nan's system of partial self-rule was established about 15 years ago by a group of well-respected residents of tambon Namkian in Nan's Phu Piang district.
There, villagers have been able to tackle several tough issues like narcotics, gambling and deforestation, all the while allowing state authorities to focus on similar problems elsewhere.
... With no law endorsing their role, the 42 Warriors of Nan have made progress by successfully installing a self-ruled system.
PHOTO: Villagers in Thailand's northern Nan province create a mini-dam as part of a reforestation project. In the past decade, 13 northern provinces have suffered a deforestation crisis that has destroyed at least 8.6 million rai of land.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2314126/
[COMMENT: An ages-old maxim in Vietnam holds that
[The emperor's law halts at the village gate.]
ASEAN expert and Tuesday columnist Kavi Chongkittavorn:
Behind the scenes: Thailand's IPEF talks
Biden will announce the launch of the IPEF in Japan ahead of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad summit.
NOTE: IPEF is another of Biden's planned trade zones: the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), which currently seems as exciting as Obama's extinct plan for an Asian 'trans-Pacific Partnership'.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2314838/
Nice to know I'll never get Crohn's. I was actually counting on that.
MICROBIOME NEWS: Living with dogs (but not cats) as a toddler might protect against Crohn's disease.
The study found that exposure to dogs, particularly from ages 5 to 15, was linked with healthy gut permeability and balance between the microbes in the gut and the body's immune response, all of which might help protect against Crohn's disease.
Similar effects were observed with exposure to dogs across all age groups.”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-dogs-cats-toddler-crohn-disease.html
Bloomberg Opinion writer Ruth Pollard is spreading her vision: the Sri Lanka debacle is just a small preview of a global default crisis.
Even female writers are entitled to an opinion but one thinks Ms Pollard never has seen an actual rebellion..
... There are daily demonstrations throughout the country calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (his brother Mahinda stepped down as prime minister on May 10 after that deadly violence).
Police and security forces are pushing back with water cannons and tear gas.
It's a tactic that risks tipping the country further toward a broader rebellion.
U.S.A. POLITICS
Oh fer...
Who among us has NOT grabbed a shotgun and chased down an unarmed Black jogger? Like super-left Pennsylvania politician John Fetterman?
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/who-among-us-has-not-chased-down-an-unarmed-black-jogger-with-a-shotgun/
Looks like Vietnam, more and more. Remember when Russians and commies exploited everything like this?
FALLOUT: Russian Diplomat Quits Over 'Criminal' Ukraine War:
'Never Have I Been So Ashamed of My Country.'
FALLOUT: Russian Diplomat Quits Over ‘Criminal’ Ukraine War: ‘Never Have I Been So Ashamed of My Country.’
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/05/23/russian-diplomat-quits-over-criminal-ukraine-war-never-have-i-been-so-ashamed-of-my-country-n1600084
GLOBAL WARMING
For fellow citizens: The Age of Scarcity Begins.
For the nomenklatura... not so much.
Oh to be in Davos...
ONE NOTE: Why do WEF poobah always talk about fixing OUR behaviour and never about fixing the failures of their institutions?
