Malaysia rejects plan to build high Thai border wall

Fishwrap Regrets
that unforgivable mess-up mix-up about the subscriptions yesterday.
Here is a partly brand new with some repeats that you should know
that make up the earliest edition of Fishwrap of the weekend.

K.L. Home ministry wants a high-tech solution to track the 'rat lanes' used by smugglers and criminals from Thailand into Malaysia -- and vice versa.
"This fence is expensive and its maintenance is also expensive," said Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
There are several solid 'anti-smuggling' walls along the border, mainly to try to trap drug traffickers.
The proposal for a Mexico-sized wall along the Golok River opposite Narathiwat would have changed the Thai South and Kelantan province irrevocably, so now it won't be built.

TEAM HAMAS CANADA

York University’s (Toronto) student unions issued a declaration just after the October 7 attack calling the barbarism a "justified and necessary" act of resistance. The student groups found widespread support among York's professors.
A politics department faculty committee demanded the university enforce a definition of “anti-Palestinian racism” that encompassed any expression of sympathy for the right of Israelis to exist within their own state.
Opposition of all types was banned. You can't trust those Jews.

CANADA POLITICS HUMOUR
Other Things About Justin that you might know.
Trudeau believes that the government of India conspired to hire gunmen to blast a Canadian citizen in Canada India denies it, he can't prove it and no other country's leader supports the slander.
Justin believed that even if his wife Sophie Gregoire took their children and found a new bedmate, at least the kiddies would remain faithful, the little shits.

THAILAND POLITICS
Last of the military dictatorship's political prisoners, maybe
Rukchanok "Ice aka Rook" Srinork is a 'progressive', charged by the old army regime with lese majeste -- disrespect of the King and family -- and, just to add years to that possible 15-year sentence "misuse of a computer" to send out her messages in 2021.

She's a political giant killer for the now-renamed People's Party that came within a hair's breadth of winning the 2023 Thai elections.
Her defence in court and public opinion is simple: she didn't do it. The military dictators ordered her arrest for tweets about the early Covid vaccines. She is out on 500,000-baht bail, begged and borrowed.
All judges of all courts that she faces were appointed for life by the small band of generals who seized all power in Thailand in May, 2014.
Reasonably objective report:
https://thaipoliticalprisoners.wordpress.com/decidedcases/rukchanok-srinork/

Folk singer killed by neck massage

Popular Mor-lam Luk Thung (Thai folk-and-country) singer Chayada (say CHA-ya-da) Prao-hom went for a three-series upper-body and neck massage, and died quickly, in severe pain.
In short: the unregulated massage saloon and her severely untrained masseuse simply snapped her neck. Her spine broke, then severed. And blood vessels in the neck.
Horrible details: https://t.ly/jikgO

Singaporean gets three Thai massages without a happy ending
PHUKET: Vacationing Lee Mun Tuck, 52, and wife enjoyed the southern island beaches for several days.

Lee bought three 45-minute massages at an oceanside shop, one per day, until on Day Three he passed out, and never recovered.
His huffy widow hissed, "No autopsy" and scurried aboard a hasty flight home 'for religious rites', with his remains in a box, below. Sounded very Islamic but who knows?

The Easiest Opinion-Editorial to Write In History
Massages Need Better Rules and Regulation
The Public Health Ministry has (again) showed its lack of oversight, meaning there is no protection of customers from malpractice.
[Details on the massive difference between law and actual regulation at the Oped site. ]

THAILAND ANIMALS
If you're beginning to reconsider getting one of those
full-body Thai massages they're always talking about,
think carefully before your nice guide takes you to a real cool place.

Tourist killed by wild elephant in Phu Kradueng park
'Tourist' means Thai visitor. Thais enjoy Thailand, too.

Fishwrap recommends it. A few thousand feet up the mountain is a perfect time and place to greet the dawn -- close to zero degrees.

Anyways, for the first time at this mountain site, a wild elephant wasn't pleased about the invading two-legged mammals.
The 49-year-old victim from Bangkok was just meanering along the trail when Old Ragin' Bull trampled her into raspberry jelly.
TRIVIA Phu Kradueng is famed for its maple leaf trees which turn red in November. Thailand isn't a place that springs to mind about 'red maple leafs' but there's a good photo at the link.

BREAKING
Because that elephant crushed that Bangkok tourist, the government of Thailand is closing the entire Phu Kradueng. Which is fantastically short-sighted and actually harmful. But there are other cool mountaintops for us visitors.

OPINION ANALYSIS MIDEAST
by Eli Lake
Assad's Fall Has Humiliated Washington
Syrians are free from Assad in spite of the Biden administration, not because of it.
Biden-Kamala have pleaded for Israel to accept steps certain to lead to the fall of Israel and another genocide of the Jews, even holding up diplomatic support and threatening even to halt vital arms shipments.
This is Biden-Vietnam/Cambodia Episode Two.

COLORADO Gateway to Pot, Krathom, free meth
is conducting tests for the new Shroom 'clinics'

Click here to see if you could qualify for the
state-government supervised five-hour Psychedelic Sessions.
The Magic Mushroom courses have only one hard-and-fast rule:
NO SCHIZOs
We know who you are, and you can't come in here.


Bangkok! Are you even paying attention? Or
are you dumber than we had thought.
Most New Yorkers loathe Kathy Hochul's congestion toll, says eye-opening poll.
[Kath is the governor of the entire New York state of America, not just New York City.]

A majority of New Yorkers (New York City folks) oppose the guv's looming congestion toll on Manhattan commuters.
It is supposed to begin on January 5 -- and cost US$9 per entry -- 305 baht in real money.

ENGLAND CHILDREN PUBERTY
Limeys. But it's a start better than nothing.
The U.K. bans puberty blockers for minors indefinitely, citing unacceptable risks.
From David Strom at Hot Air,
The repressive, fascist Limeys turn out to be actually less insane on this issue than the U.S.A.
Britain already had banned puberty blockers on a temporary basis for new users -- they still allowed it for those already ruined by puberty blockers.
Now they make that ban permanent, or, at least, "indefinite."

Time's Person of the Year Is Donald Trump... Obviously
But spare a tear. That must have really hurt.
The wokeist magazine that once awarded Hitler the honour (we're talking about the actual, real Hitler who was the Time Magazine Man (not 'person') Of The Years
wants you people to be clear that this award to Trump, who is Literally, Hitler
is not intended to give legitimacy to the president-elect. No!

The Shortlist for Time mag was
Kate and Kamala, Elon and Bibi, Yulia and Claudia, and of course Joe Rogan.
Caitlin Clark Is TIME's 2024 Athlete of the Year. This is so typically the (new) all-left all-identity politics it makes you want to cry.
Take yer game and shove it
This is girls basketball LaMont!

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