Prayut and his junta loyalists survive 'non-confidence' vote by parliament.
A-a-a-a-a-nd just like that, it's Sunday again, July 24 of the third year of Covid lockups.
Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. Another day to go!
And if not, hope you have something fun planned for the rest of Sunday.
Monkeypox Man found in Cambodia - as expected
Phnom Penh police picked up the Nigerian victim near the Doeum Thkov market of Phnom Penh.
City deputy governor Keut Chhe said that Osmond Chihazirim Nzerem, 27, of Lagos, was just trying to blend in with Phnom Penh's large Nigerian expat community.
He was secured and handed over to a division of the Cambodian ministry of health. An operation to trace and track everyone contacted by the Monkeypox Man is under way.
The Nigerian arrived in Thailand on October 21, 2021. Before he was diagnosed, frightened and stigmatized, he was living in a condo-apartment in Patong, Phuket.
The amazing coincidence is:
In two days, Thailand and Cambodia each has one monkeypox victim ever, in the entire history of both countries.
EARLIER
Monkeypox Scofflaw
A Royal Thai Police spokespersaon said Sunday that it appears that the Nigerian fellow with the first case of monkeypox in Thai history probably had walked to Cambodia.
He apparently fled Thailand last Thursday evening via the border crossing at Aranyaprathet, east of Bangkok.
The 27-year-old Nigerian may even have swam across Klong Luek to get to Cambodia. He probably had friends in Cambodia who picked him up.
His cell phone was turned off, or ran out of battery power.
Plenty more details at
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-police-say-nigerian-with-monkeypox-may-have-fled-to-cambodia/
The scariest part: Thailand's designated 'minister of public health, Anutin Charnvirakul, said he thinks the monkeypox carrier had a good time in Phuket bars, including 'sexual relationships with an unspecified number of women.' Which is a method of spreading the virus.
Kind of but not really related:
The Greatest Typo In The History of Typos.
In the 24 hours of Saturday, the coronavirus infected and hospitalised 2,578 more people. One of the cases was carried into Thailand from abroad by a tourist. The disease killed 29.
In all, since March of 2020, Covid has killed 31,127 people in Thailand - including 9,429 this year.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2352314
Filed under the News Category of Unsurprising...
Prayut, junta loyalists survive 'non-confidence' vote by parliament.
The designated 'prime minister' thanked the MPs for their support, saying that the result will serve as a morale booster for him to work harder for the country and the people.
The overall vote on the government was 256-206 for Prayut.
The lowest vote of support was for the [so-called] commerce minister Jurin Laksanawisit, 241:207 with 23 abstentions.
Full vote results at:
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-pm-and-ten-ministers-survive-latest-censure-debate/
Chonlanan Srikaew, designated leader of the Opposition and Pheu Thai Party leader conceded defeat. He vowed to challenge the pro-juntra political parties in the next general election - expected in the first half of 2023..
Spyware? Pegasus? Not us!
Thailand's 'minister of digital economy and society' Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn who said last week that the junta spies on 'suspicious' activists by smartphone malware, explained yesterday that he never said such a thing. Chaiwat told parliament that he just meant that in general, some governments used spyware like Pegasus in matters of national security and drug smuggling. He didn't mean this junta of Thailand.
"I did not say that it existed in the Thai government." But actually, he did.
Cellphone merger
For eight (8) months, DTAC mobile phone provider from Norway (second biggest by number of subscribers) and Number-3, Thai-owned True have discussed a business merger to take on the undoubted Number One, AIS.
Thailand's junta has opposed this, claiming it would create a monopoly.
Push has come to shove. DTAC's Sigve Brekke (right, in photo) and True's CEO Suphachai Chearavanont held a press conference to explain that the junta-owned and managed National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) is a regulator. It can issue guidelines and such but has no enforcement power in the merger deal.
"You can't stop us," said Brekke. And if the junta even attempts to step in, "see you in court".
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2351974/
THAILAND TOURISM
About that 300-baht admission fee to enter Thailand...
The junta has put the idea on the back burner. i.e. You don't need it just yet.
CHINA FINANCE CROWD CONTROL
Well, we know WHY, don't we?
Tanks are being put on the streets in China to protect the banks.
Otherwise, people might get the dumb idea they can withdraw their own cash money, and that's unacceptable.
O CANADA!
The pope of the Roman Catholic church arrives today in Canada. What will the Chief of Residential Schools say? Will he even apologise?
The CBC has no idea.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-visit-rome-1.6529192
Okay groomers.
Twitter Censors 'Groomer' Term After Left-Wing Pressure Campaign.
Okay, groomers.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/22/twitter-groomer-media-matters-james-lindsay/
GLOBAL WARMING
Also wrong, pfui!
When it's a cold snap they tell us weather is not climate.
Wrong, Legacy Media, Climate Change Is Not Causing Summer Heatwaves in the U.S. and Europe.
And now they're doing it in Canada, previously known as a cold nation.
St. John's Pride parade postponed due to heat warnings
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/st-john-s-pride-parade-postponed-due-to-heat-warnings-1.6530299
Canada cancels Tely 10 Road Race because of all that heat (equivalent to 4 a.m. in Bangkok)
[NOTE: Canadian Heat Wave: 28 Celsius. Are you kidding us, Canada?]
Related (Thailand. Excerpts.)
Related
About that Northwestern European Heat Wave
https://bityl.co/DQNz
To the worthless security-theatre managers of TSA, this makes sense.
The TSA which has never stopped a terrorist act or arrested even one terrorist believes it is useful to allow illegal aliens to use their Civil Immigration Arrest Warrants as an ID to Get on Planes.
Including the plane you're flying on.
https://bityl.co/DPyZ
Become a theater critic in your approach to the news. Because I assure you, you are watching a performance.
Walter Kirn
Cool, but what about the other 746 things he was wrong about?
New York Times Economist Paul Krugman Admits He Was Wrong About Inflation.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/new-york-times-economist-paul-krugman-admits-he-was-wrong-about-inflation/
AFTER Fauci retires (currently set tentatively for 2025) his pension for doing nothing will be more money than the president of the U.S.A. gets for doing something. And doesn't include any of those 23 secret royalty payments Fauci received from still-undisclosed payers and unknown amounts between 2010 and 2020.
Meanwhile, Fauci's wife Christine Grady is still 'working' for her husband's National Institutes for Health, at a salary higher than the vice-president of the United States.
https://bityl.co/DPyr
TECHNOLOGY
Twitter has suddenly blocked Thailand-based website Asean Now, previously known as Thaivisa.
No reason as been offered. Asean Now continues to operate.
Facebook app is getting a makeover that splits it into a personalized TikTok-like video experience and a separate side feed for family and friend posts. Facebook parent Meta says the changes can give users more control over what content they discover.
The move shifts Facebook further from a social network and toward an entertainment and shopping platform. Like TikTok.
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/21/facebook-tiktok-feed-changes?utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Samsung Electronics filed paperwork outlining its plans to invest 192 Billion-with-a-"B" U.S. dollars on 11 semiconductor plants in Texas over two decades.
If successful, it would be the largest economic investment ever made in central Texas.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2022/07/22/samsungs-texas-presence-could-one-day-grow-to-11-chip-plants-costing-200-billion/
Christmas shopping now begins all the way in July for most buyers - especially Gen Z.
According to recent Salesforce research, 42% of shoppers worldwide are planning to buy gifts earlier this year, with inflation the biggest motivator behind that trend.
https://firework.com/us/gen-z-labs/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=inside-newsletter&utm_campaign=christmas-in-july
Gym video du jour
Arrrgh, the gym is crowded today.
For people of our (increasing) age...
This is a new (2022) documentary and it is quite splendid. It details how Don McLean got the idea, then wrote, then recorded one of America's truly iconic songs, 'American Pie'.
I don't know about you cowboys but I vividly recall Big Bopper and Richie Valens and Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
It's 94 minutes, and ranges between interesting and totally engrossing.
NOTE: The link goes to an Australian website but so what? Strines 'get it' too.
With a narrative running deeper than a catchy tune and cryptic verses, American Pie is a musical phenomenon woven deep into the history of American culture, entertaining audiences around the world for over 50 years.
https://bityl.co/DQNp
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