Pita is the new People's Choice as Thai prime minister
The fasting month of Ramadan is half-finished.
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The early edition of Fishwrap for Monday, 25 March is ready to be read.
In the poll, Pita comfortably led other politicians suitable to be prime minister. Confidence in the current PM Srettha Thavisin is slipping.
Pita 42.75 percent of thumbs up in the poll.
Srettha (second favourite) 1775 percent.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2763931/
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There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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I'm not familiar with the term even though Jesus was born not that far away from here.
 -- Netanyahu responds to Biden's hot mic vow to have a 'come to Jesus' meeting with Israeli PM.
THAILAND NATURE
The problem explained in two lines, a headline and a kicker:
 Sick dugong 'cause for deep alarm'
  Seagrass loss endangers mammal
There has been a decline in the amount ot seagrass in waters off southern Krabi province because of "human activities and climate change."
PHOTO shows remains of a dead dugong that washed ashore on a southern island earlier this month.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2763808/
THAILAND POLITICS
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2763931/
The latest, weekly Nida Poll released yesterday showed there is a new People's Choice.
Pita Limjaroenrat, who led the progressive Move Forward Party to a slight election victory last May, has increased his lead over other politicians as the ideal prime ministerial candidate.
One of the missing
Twenty years plus 12 days ago in the Deep South, prominent civil rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit was abducted by a gang of police, and disappeared.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2759913/
It happened one day after Somchai had filed a complaint that police had kidnapped, tortured and forced false confessions from several villagers.
The State of America in One Headline: https://t.ly/cHgOd
 Illegal Alien Released on Gun Charges, Shoots Trans Illegal Alien, Authorities Helpless.
That terrorist attack in Moscow: 166 dead and counting
The single most deadly direct terrorist assault since 2001 and 9/11.
Putin tries to blame Ukraine, which is daft. https://t.ly/xivUE
 Kyiv strongly denied the Russian propaganda attempt and
 the ISIS group based in Afghanistan claimed credit/responsibility.
The Islamic State said it was retaliation for Putin's military action in Syria. Credible if far-fetched.
Quite Related
STRATEGYPAGE: Can Russia Continue the War After 2024?
https://strategypage.com/qnd/russia/articles/20240320.aspx
And thoughts on the Russian explosives supply chain from Trent Telenko.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1771643483847062000.html
But here's the story
With world's attention on Gaza, ISIS is making global comeback?
Or at least attempting to.
And with the death toll at 133 and climbing, it's the worst terrorist attack since 9/11.
https://www.newsweek.com/gaza-attention-isis-global-comeback-1882346
also AS EXPECTED
except...
Fentanyl is flooding into Britain
There is a good story here pointing out just how slowly this attractive 'artificial heroin' has spread. For example, Thailand: Totally meth, no fentanyl.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/americas-opioid-crisis-is-coming-to-britain/
ISRAEL USA GAZA
Epoch: https://t.ly/pJybP
Benjamin Netanyahu Says No to Antony Blinken
This is super-credible.
Poll: 71% of Palestinians Support October 7 Massacre, Majority Wants Hamas Returned to Power in Gaza.
Legal Insurrection: https://shorturl.at/CKMZ6
They are faked, and here's how the Gaza fatality numbers are faked.
https://shorturl.at/vKP18
HEALTH REPRODUCTION
For people who haven't been paying attention for 10 years...
The Global Baby Bust: Fertility rates expected to fall worldwide, pushing population down.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2024/03/21/fertility-rates-population-decline/1861711033827/
America's Newspaper Of Record
[The Monday Morning Joke]
A photographer from a well-known national magazine was assigned to cover Southern California's wildfires. The magazine wanted pictures of the heroic work the fire fighters were doing as they battled the blazes.
When the photographer arrived on the scene he realized that the smoke was so thick that it would seriously impede, or even make impossible, his obtaining good photographs from ground-level
He requested permission from his boss to rent a plane and take photos from the air. His request was approved and via a cell phone call to the local county airport necessary arrangements were made. He was told a single-engine plane would be waiting for him at the airport.
He arrived at the airfield and spotted a plane warming up outside a hangar. He jumped in with his bag, slammed the door shut and shouted, "Let's go!"
The pilot taxied out, swung the plane into the wind and roared down the runway. Within just a minute or two of his arrival they were in the air.
The photographer requested the pilot to, "Fly over the valley and make two or three low passes so I can take some pictures of the fires on the hillsides."
"Why?" asked the pilot.
"Because I'm a photographer for a national magazine," he responded, "and I need to get some close-up shots."
The pilot was strangely silent for a moment; finally he stammered,
 "So, you're telling me you're not the flight instructor?" [h/t Ace]
There are people... "negotiators" at the United Nations who are working to recognise and add "gender apartheid" as a crime against humanity.
 First target: Taliban, Afghanistan, because
 Women in the country have been stripped of protections and rights, resulting in increased violence against women and human trafficking in the form of child and forced marriages.
Some people recognise a slippery slope when they see one, right?
USA TRAVEL AIRLINES WOEING BOEING
Nervous U.S. travelers canceling or changing flights to avoid getting on a Boeing airliner.
 'I am not willing to take that risk' of flying on an aeroplane made by Boeing.
NBC News USA https://t.ly/NoidD
Straight Outta America
Six in 10 Democrats* believe Covid-19 pandemic isn’t over
https://unherd.com/newsroom/six-in-10-democrats-believe-covid-19-pandemic-isnt-over/
*Supporters of the Democratic Party, i.e. Biden, Obama, etc
SPORTS POLITICS
The Maddest sports selector in the history of the United States and the Universe is
Peggy Flanagan, the far-out leftist Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota
who made and published an entire March Madness (U.S. college basketball) 'bracket' and bragged her chosen winners
 are located in a state that protects access to abortion care.
And her chosen tournament finalists are the University of Connecticut aka UConn and Gonzaga University.
Who is going to tell her?
https://twitter.com/LtGovFlanagan/status/1770913694802678207
U.S. FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) issues a warning that the April 8 solar eclipse will 'disrupt' air travel
Aircraft should be prepared for potential airborne holding, reroutes, and/or Expect Departure Clearance Times (EDCTs) that may be issued for all domestic IFR arrivals and departures. Traffic Management Initiatives (TMIs) are possible. In order to assist FBOs with staging aircraft and to ease ramp congestion, aircraft departing airports along the eclipse path are strongly encouraged to coordinate their departure times as early as possible.
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/domesticnotices/dom24008_gen.html
Debate: Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?
What, if anything, should we do about TikTok?
 Is the forced sale of the fastest-growing social media platform in the world a commonsense step to protect America from the influence of the Chinese Communist Party? Or is legislation that would mandate the app's sale or ban a threat to free speech?
Also VIDEO:GC: TikTok has been a bad-faith actor. They've been lying, they’ve been obstructing. They’re not being honest about what’s been happening in China and the fact that their parent company has been involved in serious human rights abuses in China. They've been spreading propaganda. We can't have that in a democracy.
WK: Oh yes, we can. In fact, we need that. In fact, the competition between different sorts of propaganda is exactly what Americans,
with their free speech rights and their free press rights, are allowed to scrutinise and need to scrutinise.
SPORTS POLITICS PROPAGANDA
Presstv aka government of Iran: Calls mount for IOC to kick out genocidal Israel from Paris Olympics
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/21/722275/Calls-mount-for-OIC-to-kick-out-genocidal-Israel-from-Paris-Olympics
Israel has killed "at least" 99 'Palestinian' football players -- said the Palestine Football Association (PFA).
Also worth reading
Why do men dominate chess? By Carole Hooven at Quillette
https://quillette.com/2024/03/22/why-do-men-dominate-chess/
and
Blinken does Israel https://t.ly/1heJO
Remember that 'AI' means Artificial Intelligence and then it's easier
to tell if Chat GPT has been used to author a scientific paper.
 Just look for the phrase "as of my last knowledge update."
https://www.404media.co/scientific-journals-are-publishing-papers-with-ai-generated-text/
Actual headline (New York City)
Trans woman left sobbing in JFK airport after TSA agent hit her testicles.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/26/trans-woman-claims-jfk-airport-tsa-agent-punched-her-in-the-testicles/
