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This is the Fishwrap, early edition, of 22 March 2024, Friday.
  

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of cheques.
  

I need you back.
-- Joseph Biden, president, U.S.A. pleads for the votes of Latinos 'who are the reason I won in 2020'.

We Regret the Error
of missing an entire two (2) days of publication
merely because our Deputy Chief Assistant (Rewrite) was a tad Under The Weather
from the indispensable task of Knowing Everything From Everywhere and pounding the highlights on keyboard.

There are 285 days until parties for New Year's Eve 2025, Year of the Snake.
On this day in 2005, the American cofounder of Twitter Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet in the history of the Universe: 'just setting up my twttr'.

In 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter proved that politics and sports mix perfectly -- and announced that the USA would boycott the Moscow Olympics.
In 1925, the U.S. state (province) of Tennessee outlawed the heinous, anti-God teaching of evolution, which kicked off the making of several of the century's greatest movies.

In 1765, nitwits of the Parliament of the (formerly Great) Britain passed the Colonial Stamp Act, assuring the loss of England's greatest colony, soon to be known as the U.S.A.


THIS! Is Thailand.

Hazardous smog cloaks 50 (out of 77) provinces
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2761089/
Related: This is the plan:
Thailand to ban maize from field-burning countries
 Clean Air legislation to make it legal will be passed this year -- within the next 9 months from now.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2761208/

This is the official government-approved version of It's Not Our Fault, Must Be Those Pesky Foreigners.

THAILAND CAMBODIA DIPLOMACY
Thaksin's baby daughter and future Thai prime minister Paethongtarn (aka Ung Ing) Shinawatra is off to Cambodia, literally in her dad's footsteps to bow at the feet of Hun Sen and his boy, Manet.
This is the three of them when Hun Sen paid a 'courtesy call' at the mansion of the extremely ill good friend.

Hun Sen (centre) explained on social media,

 I visited my God brother at his home in Bangkok. He is unwell, but welcomed me as a brother. Also present was Ung Ing, his youngest daughter, and president of the ruling Pheu Thai Party.

https://t.ly/RsNG9
God Brother: That's a new one.

Our nose burns, our throats get stuck and our eyes turn teary. It has been this way since February.
 -- Phattanik Masa of Mae Sai, in a line to offer alms to monks.
Further details: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/environment/smog-04172023135125.html

Related: CNN discovered that all but one of the world's 100 worst-polluted cities are in Asia -- 83 of them in India.
Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand all had cities that exceeded WHO PM2.5 guidelines by more than 10 times.
https://shorturl.at/jwCLP

Violent Kiwi rowdies deny assault charges against Phuket policeman
The attack on Royal Thai Police senior sergeant-major Somsak Noo-iad of Chalong Station, Phuket province, was witnessed by dozens, and there are photos and video.

On the other hand the pair of New Zealanders have an extremely wealthy mommy and daddy who have very seriously important connections.
The mixed martial arts brothers are in lockup awaiting trial, and the Immigration Bureau has declared them personna non grata.
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2024/03/19/two-kiwi-tourists-deny-assault-charges-against-phuket-police/

THAILAND TOURISM AIRPORT AIRLINE

Surprise! Bangkok Airways buys 15% of the thriving Utapao airport.
The purchase reduced the ownership share of Bangkok train operator BTS from 55 percent to just 40, 'resulting in UTB’s transition from a subsidiary to an associate company,” according to the BTS letter to the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) noted.
Purchase price: a paltry 1.61 million million baht in real money -- call it US$45,000, roughly 61,000 loonies.
https://www.nationthailand.com/business/trading-investment/40036520

WOEING BOEING AIRLINES
United Airlines can't get its Boeing 777 motor started
It was the 10th 'incident' in two weeks for UAL

SAN FRANCISCO United Flight 35 to Osaka taxied around for an hour while the pilots
 tried to crank Engine Number 2 (photo) and finally ordered all 257 pax and crew to get off so that the airline's crack mechanics could work on the problem. They fixed it and the airliner took off five hours later.
UAL's crack and un-selfaware PR office sent out a press release noting that flying is the safest form of transportation.
Newsweek: https://t.ly/7W1pw

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U.S. economy faces 1970s-style stagflation as inflation sticks around
Another Wall Street strategist warns the economy has gone from ‘goldilocks to stagflation,’ and investors are ignoring it at their own peril
https://shorturl.at/nquyC

USA CANADA ECONOMY INSURANCE

Why auto insurance costs are rising at the fastest rate in 47 years.
In general, the numbers of crashes, injuries, and fatalities are up, and inflation has made the cost of repairs more expensive, AAA spokesperson Robert Sinclair told Yahoo Finance.
VIDEO report: https://t.ly/Ldg_v

USA POLITICS
Next week, Wednesday March 27 to be exact, the 'third party candidate' for U.S. president Robert F. Kennedy aka RFK Jr. will announce and hug his candidate for vice-president on his ticket.
Strongest speculation is ex-pro rassler and conspiracy nutjob Jesse Ventura, but RFK Jr. isn't talking,
Kennedy (prediction) will not be elected, but he is supposedly the 'strongest third party candidate' since Li'l Texan Ross Perot lost to Clinton in 1992.
Being the strongest third-party candidate seems a lot like being the fourth highest scorer on the Toronto Raptors.
Epoch: https://t.ly/vnmvp

Exclusive
How To Make A Word Salad Extraordinaire.
By Kamala Harris, U.S. Foreign Policy Ace https://shorturl.at/aryC7 https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1767996970251989190

What do snowboarders do in the summer?
  Olympic snowboarder Jenny Jones is pregnant! British bronze medalist, 42, reveals she is expecting her first child with partner Dan this summer.
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11906719/Olympian-Jenny-Jones-pregnant-Snowboarder-42-reveals-shes-expecting-child.html

Trans Pentagon employee Jason Beck aka Aidan Gray says U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment should be repealed.
Three (unanswered) questions: Yes? And? So?
The Postmillennial: https://shorturl.at/diOP7

A comfortable seat, perhaps even a sofa. A kitten as warm companion, or puppy; we'll not judge you. And articles worthy of consideration.
U.S. convinces Canada, Britain to join its 'secret' disinformation agency'.
The United States has suborned the two governments to join the shady Department of State Global Engagement Centre (GEC) -- in effect, the central U.S. office for indoctrination.
The Guardian: https://shorturl.at/dsuOV
Directly Related
The Twitter of pre-Elon had a secret FBI portal that deleted all Twitter posts after two weeks. Completely illegally.
This U.S. Global Engagement Center thingamy demanded the suspension of more than 250,000 accounts -- and Twitter humbly complied and kept it secret.
The Post Millennium: https://t.ly/rRQjH

Hockey-stick horrors
On the verdict against Mark Steyn & Rand Simberg.
 The big day was February 8. And what do you suppose the verdict was? If you have to ask, you weren't paying attention.
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2024/3/hockey-stick-horrors
ILLUSTRATION: Thomas Rowlandson, 'Court of Common Pleas, Westminster Hall' hand-coloured etching