It is NEVER too early to buy a strong helmet to protect against the 2031 crash of the International Space Station
Hello World. Today is (or soon will be, depending where you are camped) Wednesday, February 9.
MYANMAR ASEAN MEETINGS
 The Myanmar (Burma) military dictator says he might allow a few officials from ASEAN countries to meet a handful of imprisoned BFFs of Aung San Suu Kyi, but not the locked-up Suu Kyi herself.
 Senior General and Tatmadaw commander Min Aung Hlaing hasn't named the members of National League for Democracy (NLD) he feels can be trusted to talk to ASEAN officials. Cambodia will have a leading voice on which ASEAN members will be chosen.
 The military leader is overseeing a multitude of legal charges designed to keep "The Lady" imprisoned in the rotten Insein jail until she dies.
 And dozens of NLD party members are in prison with Suu Kyi.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-junta-chief-said-asean-envoy-can-meet-suu-kyi-party-members-cambodian-2022-02-07/
THAILAND OPINION COLUMNS
Military should ask themselves why Thai student test scores are so low
 There is no secret that past and present military governments have distorted history to sell their agenda in the classroom.
 It is also no secret that Thailand's conservative elite have gone along with the rewriting of history because it suits their narrative.
 ...For example, some public schools still teach students that Thailand has never been colonized by anyone.
 Which is nonsense.
"As a law lecturer, I am also concerned over the distortion [of history] and the unjust enforcement of the law," Ponson Liengboonlertchai, a law lecturer Chulalongkorn University, wrote on his social media page.
 And no teaching of the great pro-democracy movements between 1970 and 1995 is allowed.
https://www.thaienquirer.com/37297/opinion-military-should-ask-themselves-why-thai-student-test-scores-are-so-low/
Thailand police step up 'War on Drugs 22'
Drug suspect caught in sting, 16kg 'ice' seized in the South
 NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A major drug suspect was caught and 16 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine seized in a sting operation in Phrom Khiri district on Monday.
 The suspect was Wanchai Ratchakij, alias Chai Thonhong, 32, whose alleged drug trading activities had long drawn the attention of local authorities.
 Wanchai kept an appointment to hand over a quantity of crystal meth, or ice, to an undercover official at Wat Thonhong School in tambon Phrom Lok.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2260811/
Follow-up
CSD raids target drug network, 8 arrested
 Crime Suppression Division police raided premises in Bangkok and two southern provinces on Tuesday morning, launching a move against a major drug network and arresting a prime suspect.
 Seven other suspects were also arrested.
 The operation targeted 14 of whom 10 were arrested: 10 in Trang, three in Phuket and one in Bangkok.
PHOTO: Crime suppression police arrest alleged drug network gunman Chamras Noochong, seated in red shirt, at a house in tambon Khok Lo in Muang district of Trang province on Tuesday.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2260779/
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS TOURISM
The latest 'plan' by Thailand's junta is to establish "tourist bubbles" with China and Malaysia by the end of this month
 Junta spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said on Monday that authorities will discuss the details of a possible travel bubble agreement with China's minister for culture and tourism.
 Talks will also be held with Malaysia later this month, he said.
PHOTO: People arrive at Suvarnabhumi airport under the resumed Test & Go programme for fully vaccinated travellers who agree to periods of lockdown.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2260283/
Corona just keeps on coming
Thailand Covid-19 outbreak 'out of control
 There were 17 more Covid-19 fatalities and 10,398 new cases reported the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Tuesday morning.
 This compared with the 12 coronavirus-related fatalities and 10,470 new cases reported on Monday morning.
 The 17 new fatalities were between the ages of 25 and 99 years.
 Bangkok logged the most cases with 1,391, followed by Samut Prakan with 962, Chon Buri (545), Nonthaburi (474), Phuket (436), Nakhon Pathom (274), Ratchaburi (265), Nakhon Ratchasima (263), Nakhon Si Thammarat (213) and Khon Kaen (208).
PHOTO: People wait at the Central Vaccination Centre, inside Bang Sue Grand Station, near a sign announcing the availability of intradermal vaccination against Covid-19.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2260631/
Temple in Khon Kaen closed by Covid
 The temple in the town district has been closed until Feb 14 after nine more novices were diagnosed with Covid-19, raising the number of infections among monks and novices there to 15.
 Earlier, six monks and novices tested positive at Wat Nong Waeng, a royal temple on Klang Muang Road in Muang district.
 Khon Kaen municipal mayor Theerasak Theetkhayuphan said on Tuesday that subsequent antigen testing of 245 monks, novices and vendors found nine more novices with Covid-19.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2260823/
THAILAND ECONOMY TRADE
 Exports are expected to rise by 5% in the first quarter from a year earlier, helped by a global economic recovery, the Thai National Shippers' Council said on Tuesday.
 For 2022, the group maintains its export forecast at a 5% to 8% rise, the group said in a statement. Exports rose 17.1% in 2021.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2260795/
Thailand's ruling junt complained of falling revenue
 The Ministry of Energy is planning to gradually increase the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for 1 baht per kilogramme as the subsidy fund faces hurdles from a global surge in fuel prices.
 Currently, LPG and diesel prices are capped with support from the state oil fund, which now has a deficit of 14 billion baht. LPG prices are fixed at 318 per 15-kilogramme gas cylinder, so is diesel at no more than 30 baht per litre.
 The measure to cap LPG prices will end on March 31, and the prices will likely rise to 333 and 363 on a quarterly basis, said Permanent Secretary for energy Kulit Sombatsiri.
https://www.thaienquirer.com/37309/energy-ministry-to-raise-lpg-prices-as-financial-burden-heightens/
Rakhine fighting continues in Myanmar
The Myanmar "Buddhist army" rebel group responsible for killing Muslims by the village-load, fights the Tatmadaw.
Junta troops attacked the Rakhine group in the far-west province.
 A military spokesman said the ruling forces of the Burmese army is trying to destabilise the only region of the country that has seen no post-coup crackdown.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2260227/
International Space Station likely to crash in 2031
97% of scientists believe it won't fall on your house - the same scientists who said all snowfalls would end in 2000
 You'd be better off getting a sturdy safety helmeet. Just in case.
https://www.ksl.com/article/50341739/the-international-space-station-could-fall-from-the-sky-in-2031-what-happens-next
About that CNN falderal:
 The CNN Sex Party Comes To An End.
 Under Jeff Zucker, it was pretty clear the fraternization rules were viewed more as suggestions.
 Quite a few CNN employees sleeping together (see: Dana Bash and John King) or pleasuring themselves on video chats with no consequences (see, actually don’t see, Jeff Toobin). With 2 former producers being linked to paedophilia and one current anchor being sued for allegedly shoving his hands down the pants of a man, CNN is like a sex club from hell.
 The end of the orgy isn’t what upset CNN staff, it was something even worse…for people with no scruples or talent – they are terrified that their next boss might want some accountability.
 As Dawn La-Mon puts it:
 Thank you Jeff Zucker for everything you did for everyone at this network and for what you did to the entire country.
 I mean FOR the entire country.
We need to ask Doctor Fauci and his monsters to testify under oath where they were during the month of December. Because...
 A strain of gonorrhoea – described as super-gonorrhoea – which is resistant to antibiotics has been identified in England.
 Three new cases of Neisseria gonorrhoea have been confirmed by the UK Health Security Agency, bringing the total to four in recent months, after the first case was discovered at the end of last year.
 A woman in her 20s in London and a heterosexual couple also in their 20s in the Midlands have recently been diagnosed with the STI.
 This particular form of gonorrhoea is resistant to the antibiotic ceftriaxone, the Daily Mirror reports.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/mutant-super-gonorrhoea-spreading-across-26164794
The Weeping of the Warmists
The Science is Settled
97% of all British scientists agree that snowfalls are not going to end.
2000: Snowfalls are just a thing of the past
 Independent newspaper (of London), 20 March 2000
2022 'Snow coming' as 10-inch dumping set for one day next week
 UK Meteorological Office, 8 February 2022
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/met-office-say-snow-coming-26166731
