Lithium is toxic
Hoo-ray, it's another Weekend Eve. When all your buckets are full, you may leave.
CORONAVIRUS THAILAND
The official (preliminary) report of coronavirus victims on Thursday, June 23:
An additional 3,955 positive results from antigen tests are under diagnosis.
Health authorities in Phuket reported on Thursday that the number of Covid cases is on the rise.
Bad news. Because the junta counts on Phuket to attract another magnitude of tourists.
More than half of local hospital beds are now occupied.
The new outbreak began last weekend - people seriously ill with lung inflammation.
PHOTO: Tourists consider their luck at a market street in Phuket town.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2332443/
EVs ELECTRIC THAILAND
This will break a lot of junta hearts, first of all the alleged 'prime minister' Prayut.
European Union Poised to Label Lithium As Toxic
There is likely to be a horrible decision by Christmas.
This piece of regulation could drive up prices across the battery supply chain.
Should the European Commission take this decision, it may undermine Thailand's barely coherent hope to be an 'EV Hub' of eastern Asia.
https://silverbearcafe.com/private/06.22/lithium.html
WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING
Thai police fanned out in five provinces on Thursday, looking illegal sales and smuggling of wild animals.
One of the men they arrested was the owner of a small 'tiger zoo'.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2332483/
Coming out of my dance with the HQICC on Wednesday, I nipped down Phaya Thai Road on the way to eat. I spotted this, for the first time.
It's kind of a boutique hotel, facing right on the main street. A lot of Internet reviews seem to add up to around three stars, and it gets constant praise for being clean.
Rooms start around forty bucks a night, or even lower.
In case any of you are interested.
CORONAVIRUS SINGAPORE
The Lion City has banned (for now) all the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccines for children 6 months and older even though Joe Biden himself says it's totally and absolutely safe.
 Singapore is going to perform its own study of the effectiveness and safety
https://bityl.co/Cqsv
It has not occurred to the U.S. president and supporters to ask why the other 194 countries aren't. 'We're the Only Country in the World’ giving Covid vaccines to children.
 The United States is the first country in the world to offer safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old.
 The United States is also the only country in world doing this.
https://bityl.co/CqTL
MALTHUS PETER SANDS
 The head of an NGO predicts millions of deaths by starvation because of the Russia-Ukraine war.
 Peter Sands heads up the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
 The thing is, Sands told the French news agency AFP during a convention at Yogyakarta, that it's not just the starvation. Millions and millions will die because the lack of food will cause them to have weaker defences against infection diseases," he forecast. "We can be talking about millions of extra deaths because of this." And another 1.5 million by tuberculosis.
FISHING MEKONG
Bass fishers, unite!
Cambodian man catches world's largest freshwater fish ever recorded
661 pounds, aka 300 Canadian kilogrammes.
Zeb Hogan, Wonders of the Mekong NGO: The fact that the fish can still get this big is a hopeful sign for the Mekong River. About 70 percent of giant freshwater fish globally are threatened with extinction"
The previous record was a 293-kilo catfish caught in the Mekong in northeastern Thailand.
Which is all very well... but how did it taste? Ooops. They put a tracking device on the ray and let it go.
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/largest-ever-freshwater-fish-caught-in-cambodia/6626987.html
Can you imagine that fisherman in a bar? "I caught a fish this big," spreading his arms. "No, bigger."
AIRLINE THAI AIRWAYS
The chief financial officer of Thai Airways International aka THAI says total, complete final debt rehabilitation will be "completed in less time than expected.
 "Operating results have improved as the current Covid-19 pandemic situation subsides," said Chai Eamsiri.
 Translation: THAI is flying more, charging higher airfares.
 However, Chai did not specify when the rehabilitation process will be completed. The airline told the Bankruptcy Court that it planned to restructure its business over a seven-year period.
PHOTO: Thai Airways Airbus takes off from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport.
https://www.thaienquirer.com/41080/thai-airways-executive-says-rehabilitation-to-be-completed-sooner-than-planned/
THAILAND MUAY THAI BUAKAW
Thailand's best known muay Thai fighter Buakaw Banchamek is not only still active at 40 years old. He has a championship bout coming up in two weeks in Cambodia at the World Open Martial Arts Championship.
PHOTO: Buakaw will be a top entrant when the World Open Martial Arts Championship tournament kicks off (pun intended) in Cambodia next month. https://www.wfmaf.org/en/championship/
When Wall-E went to war, Skynet smiled.
Ukraine Unveils Mini "Terminator" Ground Robot Equipped With Machine Gun. Killer robots with machine guns enter the battlefield, and this one seems as if it was WALL-E that went to war.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ukraine-unveils-mini-terminator-ground-robot-equipped-machine-gun
ICYMI, Americans don't need guns because the police will protect them.
As soon as they wind up their rock-scissors-paper tournament.
https://bityl.co/CqVR
Director Steve McCraw of the Texas Department of Public Safety says even normally incompetent policee could have taken down the Uvalde school shooter in 3 minutes. But the police on the scene weren't normal and were far beyond incompetent.
While they waited, without even checking the classroom dour that could not even be locked, from the inside.
While the Cowardly Cops waited and waited AND WAITED 18-year-old Salvador Ramos kept killing and killing. If a 7-year-old Texas student had a gun, she would have done better than all of the police 'responders' put together.
Why one of the wealthiest empires in history disintegrated in 17 years
Not very long, and it contains unfortunate facts.
Why one of the wealthiest empires in history disintegrated in 17 years
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/why-one-of-the-wealthiest-empires-in-history-disintegrated-in-17-years-35673/
WARNING: Sovereignman.com is a strange website ('sovereign citizens', geddit?) but you absolutely will not lose use of any vital organs if you read it.
No. Are there any other questions?
 Will California heed President. Biden's state gas tax holiday plea?
What's it all about, Alfie? On Wednesday, Biden begged the U.S. Congress to suspen all all federal fuel taxes for the summer, and then asked all U.S. states to do the same.
California's elected lawmakers believe this whole fuel-cost inflation is nothing but 'gas price gouging'.
https://bityl.co/CqsA
The Unfortunate Truth
TECHNOLOGY
A Russian-backed hacker group launched two new hacking campaigns against Ukraine. The cyberattacks came through fake emails that contained malware-infected files.
It's disconcerting that experienced Ukrainians think here in 2022 it's cool and safe to click on email links and attachments.
https://www.cyberscoop.com/ukraine-russia-hacking-apt28-trickbot-follina/
Worth a read and, yet again, a caution:
INTERPOL raids hundreds of scammy call centers in sweep. Investigators found scammers involved in human trafficking.
A worldwide sweep of more than 1,770 call centers suspected of telecommunications and email scams resulted in the arrests of 2,000 suspected scammers' money launderers.
https://tinyurl.com/5n8b8c9k
GET WOKE GO BROKE
Is anyone so incredibly old and wrinkled but breathing enough to remember when Disney made films for children. Or the entire family including gramma?
Disney's stock price has lost 50% of its value after one year of leftie-wing political electioneering and badly received woke programming:
 Buzz Lightning (Toy Story IV) has been banned in fourteen (14) countries and counting.
 It's an animated film for children. But not Singaporean children or Malaysian. Definitely not Indonesian children or Egyptian. Also not Chinese children or Lebanese...
LeBron James was not available for comment.
PHOTO: 'Disney is NOT going to modify the material.'
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399695.php
https://www.techarp.com/home/lightyear-banned-kiss-scene/
