Old Thai red shirts tell yellow-shirt dinosaur Sondhi: Oh, do shut up.
Allo, allo, allo, what's all this about here, eh?
This is stately award-eligible and internationally admired Fishwrap, for the fourth and final Thursday of Month 11 Year 2024
Thaksin and his (ruling) Thai political party get happy
What's the difference between an Irish funeral and an Irish wedding? One less drunk.
If Moo Daeng (Thailand's pygmy hippo) hadn't withdrawn from the race for U.S. president, she would have got 91 percent of the vote.
-- Princess Ubolratana joking with Thais during a dinner in London.
THAILAND ENTERTAINMENT CUTBACK
Straight out of the Maleenont Building, Bangkok...
Channel 3, once the greatest, most-watched TV station in the country (Royal Thai Army ran Channel 4, now extinct), has sent pink slips to more than 100 employees and announced a 'significant restructuring plan'.
It is the country's first commercial broadcasting outlet, and the largest, most successful producer of soap operas, not to mention foreign-language shows.
Channel 3 currently has four different streaming channels but as always -- climbing back to Number One is 10 times more difficult than falling off.
Another mass killing in Isan. CCTV catches murderer in black pulling a pistol on a man in a white shirt.
NONG BUA LAMPHU PROVINCE, Wednesday morning
After the victim fell to the ground, the gunman fired more shots at him before walking back across the road.
He then ran towards a woman who sat on a bench on a nearby roadside. Having heard the gunshots, she ran for her life and managed to escape.
Then it got worse...
Police said publicly last night what they always say.
We expect to make an arrest shortly. https://t.ly/XUIYS
THAILAND POLITICS DINOSAURS
Spat of the Shirt-Colour Veterans
Nattawut Saikua, former and current leader of red-shirt Thaksin supporters and street fighters yesterday laughed at old yellow-shirt organiser and ex-press mogul Sohdhi Lim's "plan" to resurrect mass demonstrations.
He can't rally the masses like he used to. People are way smarter now.
Sondhi posted on his Facebook account last weekend that he will 'rally the masses', using the controversial Thailand-Cambodia dispute over a small area of joint development.
Red Shirts including their 2006 anti-coup organisation of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) believe that even Thaksin's daughter and Prime Minister Paethongtarn Shinawatra, better known as Ung-Ing will conduct negotiations with Cambodia openly.
ANALYSIS: Nattawut is probably correct. The chances for an old man's resurrection of his 20-year-old Street Dreams are currently close to zero.
Actual red shirts (political) still for sale at (dwindling few) Bangkok stores. Try The Imperial Mall, third floor.
POLITICS OPINION
OPINION – PM Paetongtarn's leadership embodies empathy, emotional intelligence, and commitment to a safer future for children
By Lynn Sasinpong, news writer and opinion-ator
The school bus fire (below) that killed 23 children and teachers in the Bangkok suburbs brought the prime minister bursting out of her shell that some took as fear of being the country's leader.
A Propos of not much
-- Courtesy Bangchak Oil
If you really really need to know how this compares with U.S. prices
Multiply the price-x-4 (4 litres to a gallon, roughly) and divide by 35.3 (baht per U.S. dollar).
PM Ung-Ing calls in Thailand's overseas trade reps
https://thainews.prd.go.th/nbtworld/news/view/712003/?bid=1
by Veera Prateepchaikul, life-time reporter of Thai politics, former editor Bangkok Post
Court ruling emboldens Pheu Thai
Well, being acquitted and let entirely off the hook can do that for you.
For Thaksin, the ruling constitutes retribution against his political opponents who have been hounding him since his return home from 17 years of self-imposed exile abroad.
The court's ruling will, certainly, boost the morale of Thaksin and the party, and will also embolden them to challenge their opponents more aggressively.
AYFKM ASEAN ANALYSIS
by Kavi Chongkittavorn, veteran journalist on regional affairs
Really? This is now the solid policy of ASEAN?
Regional antidotes to counter Trump
Trump (Literally Hitler)'s 'America First' mantra sends a clear message: No mercy. U.S. interests come first and above all.
Washington's effort to promote democracy abroad is taking a back seat. Therefore, Southeast Asian nations should not depend on the sole authority of American democratic narratives.
Kind of got that one completely wrong but there's lots of time left, eh?
NORTH AMERICA TARIFFS
Literally Hitler announced Tuesday evening that on Day One of his administration (translation, January 22, 2025) he's putting a twenty-five (25) percent tariff on all products from Mexico and Canada into America.
Adding
until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this invasion of our country, meaning the U.S.of A.
They can solve this problem easily.
But until that happens, "It is time for them to pay a very big price!"
Ars Technica and Financial Times: https://shorturl.at/17lvH
And then there's China. Literally Hitler said
China must account for fentanyl. I will impose a ten (10) percent tariff on all Chinese products on top of the tariffs already levied on those goods. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
We often hear that term 'ASEAN' but we almost never hear, any longer, about the pathetic Burma, now known as Myanmar.
Yuka Kiguchi of Mekong Watch, a Tokyo-based NGO, is trying to change that, writing (logically)
End Japan's loans to Myanmar's Tatmadaw (The Tatmadaw being the army, and its generals' dictatorship)
The Japanese government continues to provide Official Development Assistance (ODA) and public funds that benefit the military junta. Despite the sacrifices of the Myanmar people to end the Myanmar military's decades-long oppression, Japan's "assistance" risks burdening survivors with enormous loans , enabling the Tatmadaw to continue its atrocities against the very people it is meant to aid.
Read the whole thing. And also this shocker:
Aung Ko Ko's death shines light on Royal Thai Army impunity
Thai soldiers beat the long-time Burmese resident in Thailand to death. With witnesses.
So the army located a witness and had him charged as the killer -- and he's in prison over it.
TAIWAN CHINA CANADA
O Canada! What a tragedy
China frets over Taiwan leaders' plans to visit North America
China's foreign ministry calls president’s putative trip to Hawaii 'separatist provocation'
USA NATIONAL HOLIDAY
This lady loves to eat meat including wild turkeys. She just wants to ensure that they die peacefully.
Turkey killing axe murderer: True story.
And you Americans, on this last Thanksgiving of the year in the world
Tell the people you love and respect what you're thankful for, without use of the word "football".
World's Best Cities with more than a million population
1. London, England
2. New York City
3... Paris, Tokyo, Singapore... blah blah and so on and so forth
15. The Big T-O
32. Bangkok Official Description:
Asia's City of Angels is a unique metropolis where spirituality and hedonism coexist. Business is booming, too. The city’s four universities, relative affordability and #3-ranked nightlife pull in young talent and billions in foreign investment.
Erm... Needs editing.
USA TRADITION THANKSGIVING
Q: What did the turkey say to the chicken?
Supposedly, in 1621 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Pilgrims who had just arrived from England and mostly peaceful Wampanoag Indians had the first American Thanksgiving dinner and, well, thanks.
Which is unacceptable, that citizens should be able to decide religious and racial matters, so the American Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday of every November along with a Detroit Lions game.
A: Nothing. Turkeys can't talk!
USA POLITICS ILLEGAL
Border Czar Nominee Tom Homan: "Resistance" Governors and Mayors Who Block Deportation Efforts Will Be Prosecuted for Harboring Illegal Aliens
Homan said federal law supersedes local sanctuary laws, and refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could result in charges for obstruction and harboring illegal immigrants.
So, the proper amount of nuance on this issue is none.
Homan, along with the next U.S. attorney-general Pam Bondi will determine if sanctuary city policies violate federal law..
Which they pretty much do.
Beaten down and Beaten up...
Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics But No One Believes Her
I am staying in the fight. Which is a very long sentence for The Kam.
So will she try again to be president in 2028, or just run for governor of Calif in 2026?
Questions, questions...!
GLOBAL WARMING
For the 29th Uuge meeting in a row, your United Nations has not only failed completely to do anything to even slightly mitigate all that global warming that's going on, it has descended into an American style Fight Over Genders. It's close to amusing.
About 25 of the national delegations to COP 29 at Baku refused even to show up for 'Gender Day'. However, here we are.
And effective immediately
If you try to claim that a man in a dress cannot be pregnant, you are a climate denier.
Should you oppose the "right" of biological men to play in women's sports, you are a climate denier.
It's official U.N. policy.
If you say that there are two genders, you are a climate denier.
GLOBAL WARMING MASSACRES
Team Hamas (Sweden)
Swedish Meatball and millionaire-Asperger's expert young Greta the Grate doesn't spend all her time celebrating that time Hamas killed lots of pesky Jews and kidnapped uninvolved Thais, but when she does, she always wears her keffiyeh.
