Limey pedophile arrested for deportation
It is Tuesday morning of June 7 and this is the internationally acclaimed, prestigious Daily Fishwrap of that day.
All readers of all persuasions are allowed, indeed encouraged to find a warm kitty or warm small doggie or even puppy (no judgement here) to curl up in your lap as you read.
"Almost" "Nearly" "Not quite" "Virtually" "Maybe" "Soon"
The Covid-19 pandemic is 'nearly over'
ACHTUNG ATTENTION
IRONY AHEAD
Thailand may be almost ready to treat Covid-19 as an emdemic disease. Not yet, though.
The person saying this, yesterday afternoon, at a forum sponsored by Forbes magazine, was the Dean Doctor Professor of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University - Doctor Prasit Watanapa.
The "renowned" doctor (the word of the Bangkok Post) is famed for failing to make any accurate analysis or predication about the novel virus since January of 2020, which is even before the junta's Covid Lockdown.
As of today, he analysed to several invited guests, "
We can say that we are nearing the end of the [Covid-19] pandemic. Many people are talking about the announcement of endemic status even though the World Health Organization [WHO] has yet to issue any formal guidance on the matter,
Thailand has done very well to bring the death rate down to 0.09%.
[As for his own Siriraj Hospital, it is] now in the process of developing AI technology to identify patients living with depression using algorithmic analysis of muscular activity caused by changes in an individual's facial expressions during examination alongside corresponding changes in vocal tone.
To put it another way
The pandemic is not over, the emergency lockdown will continue until morale improves and outbreaks of Covid 'variants and mutations' seems certain.
PHOTO: Doctor Dean Professor (left) instructs invited gueses to the forum. Also in attendenace: junta 'finance minister' Arkhom Termpittayapaisith (centre) and Worachai Bhicharnchitr, vice chairman of the Bangkok Post company.
https://forbesthailand.com/events/think-ahead-future-next-2022.html
THAILAND TOURISM PAPERWORK
Yes, well, don't we all?
Minister wants Thai Pass axed
Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakan said he will ask Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to propose that the Thailand Pass registration scheme be axed at the next meeting of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).
By coincidence, Phiphat accompanied Pryut to Phuket yesterday "to inspect education and tourism policies". During their trip, Phiphat did not ask Prayut to rubbish Thailand Pass.
All arriving foreigners, by air or sea or on foot, require a Thailand Pass or go back home. It is not required for Thai nationals.
The bulky, time-inefficient Thailand Pass is part of the junta's claim that Thailand is 'completely reopened'.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/easy/2321542/
https://consular.mfa.go.th/th/content/thailand-pass-helpline?cate=5ddbe42115e39c4768007e1d
Maybe this will work?
Phuket hosts global ice skating event
The International Skating Union’s 58th Ordinary Congress began yesterday.
The ISU Council and the Figure and Speed Skating Association of Thailand welcomed ISU member delegates at the Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort & Spa.
Have you had your 4th shot of anti-Covid vaccine? Because
Thailand's junta-loyal 'ministry of public health' is investigating your need for a 5th shot.
The lucky first-in-liners, said Opas Karnkawinpong, chief of the Department of Disease Contol, are those who must urgently travel to China or Japan.
And by coincidence, at the same time, the extremely mysterious four-star general who heads the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) claimed that the junta will start rolling out the fifth shot as the vaccines it has in stock are about to expire.
[The junta-appointed director of the CCSA deniability office was quite suddenly identified on Monday: four-star general Supoj Malaniyom. Go ahead. Look him up.]
The Bangkok governor also said he is in favour of allowing all night spots to stay open until 2 a.m.
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/no-masks-outdoors-to-be-proposed-by-new-bangkok-governor/
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS
The number of confirmed, new Covid cases and the number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus both dropped on Monday.
Covid-19: UPDATE for Monday
2,162 new cases
27 deaths
29,509 active cases
761 serious cases
4,879 recovered
Related
Walk-in vaccination services launched at all of Thailand's sub-district hospitals
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/walk-in-vaccination-services-launched-at-all-of-thailands-sub-district-hospitals/
PRAYUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING CORRUPTION
Prayut said on Monday he is against human trafficking, "“a significant threat to national security".
He spoke to a small forum on National Anti-Human Trafficking Day, organised exclusively by aides in hgis office.
He "accidentally" let slip an alleged statistic:
The number of cases rose by 41% to 188 cases last year - up from from 133 cases in 2000.
NOTE: Prayut was also 'prime minister' during the last murderous surge of human trafficking in 2015.
Remember this?
Prayut: Human trafficking cases to be sped up - Thailand
https://reliefweb.int/report/thailand/prayut-human-trafficking-cases-be-sped
Effective today, Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Conservation has confirmed dual pricing today, dual pricing tomorrow, dual pricing forever.
https://royalcoastreview.com/2022/06/dual-pricing-reconfirmed-in-thailand-national-parks/
https://bityl.co/CXo8
THAILAND ECONOMY EXPORTS
Biden invokes defence law, waives solar-panel tariffs on Thailand
Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to spur US solar panel manufacturing and exempted tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations for two years as part of his push for clean energy.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2321650/
Briton wanted on child porn charges arrested for extradition
The suspect, identified only as 'William', was previously arrested by Scotland Yard police in England on charges of producing, having in possession and disseminating child pornography between 2008 and 2013.
He was released on bail during the legal process and fled to Thailand, where he now has stayed for more than eight years.
PHOTO: Plainclothes police show an arrest warrant to British national 'William' at a home in Bang Lamung, near Pattaya.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2321546/
BREAKING...
Musk threatens to dump deal in letter to Twitter, SEC.
"Capping off a four-week fight over the true percentage of bot content on the platform, Musk's attorneys warned the current Twitter board that Musk would terminate the deal if Twitter continued to stonewall him on that data."
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/06/06/breaking-musk-threatens-to-dump-deal-in-letter-to-twitter-sec-n474293
GLOBAL WARMING
But... Wait!... We were assured they were total goners. Dead. Extinct.
Monarch butterflies make huge comeback
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/06/02/Mexico-monarch-butterfly-population-comeback/5431654182852/
Britain's governing Conservative Party held a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He won, barely. But hold your applause.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61707571
The Wapo is just askin'.
The Washington Post deleted portions of two of its collusion hoax articles, slapped them with corrections, and completely changed the headlines to reflect the truth. The publication said it "could no longer stand by the accuracy of those elements of the story."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-corrects-removes-reporting-steele-dossier
Laugh or cry? Your choice.
Chinese natzys in Hebei lock a family behind a glass door.
That does not seem efficient.
https://www.sohu.com/a/541951621_260616
America's Paper of Record:
Amber Heard Lands Endorsement Deal With Charmin Toilet Paper.
https://bityl.co/CXXO
FOOD SHORTAGES
I read all of these on a phone over a brunch of khao moke (biryani) with massive beef knuckle and fresh oxtail soup.
Food security is national security and a crisis is coming.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/food-farm-national-security
Related: Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/26/team-biden-might-be-purposefully-crushing-the-middle-class/
Plus: Looming food shortage is the next 'slow-moving disaster' to hit world.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/looming-food-shortages-is-worlds-next-slow-moving-disaster/
Why no one trusts the press much, any more.
Ann Althouse
The "slight to Islam" that everyone condemns but no one repeats or explains:
"I have now read several reports on the subject of this 'slight to Islam' and not one of the articles have told me what was said or what the insulting words actually were. Why?"
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/06/i-have-now-read-several-reports-on.html
Related (and a bit more helpful)
Comments on Prophet Muhammad: Gulf Countries Condemn Insults by Modi's BJP Party
India rushes to quell outrage after insulting remarks on Islam
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/06/1103271374/muslim-countries-angry-india-insults-islam-prophet-muhammad
But even NPR and The Associated Press focus exclusively on "Muslim countries pounce" and refuse competely refuse to say what the terrible "comments" and "remarks" were.
Sure, the Grand Mufti of Oman described the "obscene rudeness" of Modi's party toward Islam as a form of "war." Sure. Of course he did. Bur you are un-allowed to know that happened and why the Grand Mufti is so disturbed.
PHOTO: This photo is halal.
KAVI CHONGKITTAVORN
Thailand's leading journalist on foreign affairs reviews
Leadership changes in the Indo-Pacific
Quick summary
New leaders in the Indo-Pacific region - Australia, South Korea and the Philippines - will significantly impact the future trajectory of U.S.-China relations.
Their policy shifts, even nuances, could either moderate or harden the two powers’ strategic rivalries.
PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden, with, from left, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2321930/leadership-changes-in-the-indo-pacific/
NATO RUSSIA UKRAINE TURKEY
Many 'experts' and pointy heads have recommended that NATO be disbanded.
This Turkish journalist believes in contrast, that NATO should embrace Finland and Sweden, expel hostage-taker Erdogan and Turkey.
... Erdoğan seems to think that he has found a golden opportunity to blackmail the entire Western alliance, and get the maximum out of a list of official and unofficial demands. Erdoğan also seems to be hoping to reset Turkey's badly strained ties with the West, most notably with the U.S.
PHOTO: This photo is totally completely halal.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18586/nato-expel-turkey
