Prayut drives an electric car and thinks it's very cool.
You think you've seen double pricing? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
THAILAND TOURISM RACISM
Junta demands massive dual-pricing scheme for Thai hotels
Thailand's junta announced on Wednesday it had ordered hotels to charge foreign tourists substantially more than Thais.
The [so-called] 'ministry' of tourism and sports said the dual-tariff prices would return hotel room charges to pre-pandemic days while locals may continue to enjoy discounted rates.
GOBBLEDYGOOK
The junta sent out an official deputy spokeslady to announce the plan. No minister, including Prayut, was available to comment.
"This [dual-pricing plan] is to maintain our standards of rates and services for foreign tourists, which affects the perception of country's tourism brand," said Traisuree Taisaranakul.
 "Rates that have been reduced during Covid-19 will be maintained for Thais to sustain the momentum of domestic tourism."
While there was no immediate response to the proposal from hotel operators, the ministry and the junta-owned Tourism Authority of Thailand will soon hold talks with the Hotel Association of Thailand (also junta-owned) about the dual pricing plan.
PHOTO: A man speaks to hotel concierges at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2341012/
Effective immediately
Right now
All Thai citizens and all foreign residents and tourists
Are Banned
From Smoking, Eating, Drinking, Vaping or otherwise Ingesting Pot/Weed/Mary Jane
On every square millimetre of Buildings and Grounds of
The Royal Thai Police
Including Headquarters and Station Houses and Precincts and Traffic Operations Booths.
The exact penalty for scofflaws of this new regulation have not yet been announced, bit it will not be gentle.
GLOBAL WARMING THAILAND
Switzerland's ambasssadress to Thailand Helene Budliger Artierd owns and drives a (tax-free, duty-free) Mini Cooper electric car, and on Wednesday she let Prayut try it out. Just around the driveway at Government House, not in real traffic.
 He took the wheel, with the ambassadoress sitting at his side. He drove around, waving to news reporters and photographers. He was obviously impressed by it.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2340932/
FASTER? PLEASE! First commercially viable lithium metal battery solid state charges in just 15 minutes.
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/first-commercially-viable-lithium-metal-battery-solid-state-charges-in-just-15-minutes
THAILAND POLITICS CORRUPTION
OFF TO PRISON
Former Democrat MP and bigwig Thepthai Senpong and his younger brother Manote lose their final appeal against two-year sentences for vote buying in a 2014 local government election, and go straight to prison.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2340892/
Honey, you can't be in this beauty pageant. You're a teacher!
 Archaic rule forces teacher out of Miss Thailand Universe beauty pageant
 The Thailand junta promised outright to fire her if she tried to participate. Because a 1961 law enabled them.
 The junta's 'education minister' Treenuch Thiengthong, who is a woman, promised to update the rule. Later.
PHOTO: Teacher Kanokwan Chusuk, in red, gets moral support from other Miss Universe Thailand contestants after she was threatened, intimidated and forced to quit the pageant.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2340952/
Yes? And? Do you have a point?
Today's blacklisted American: Democrat politicians threaten local Aspen newspaper for its news coverage.
WEEKEND READ
Do not miss this one. Seriously. It's long, incredibly detailed and documented from start to finish.
After Confucius Institutes
China's Enduring Influence on American Higher Education
https://www.nas.org/reports/after-confucius-institutes/full-report
CONFUSED: Do you mean there were believers who believed they weren't?
 Police Report Proves Undercover Cops Were Embedded With J6 Protestors.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/06/21/police-report-proves-undercover-cops-were-embedded-with-j6-protestors-n1606774
What does the U.S. Congress actually DO?
This might possibly be an ordinary 'below the fold' technology story but actually it's an account of U.S. grifting and grafting.
US lawmakers push for universal chargers for smartphones, mobile devices.
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-lawmakers-universal-chargers-smartphones-mobile.html
The last of the human-wave believers in Peking are watching this very carefully. So are military experts in Taiwan and in Taiwan's friends. Just asking: Do American military officers and planners give a darn?
Why Russia Keeps Turning to Mass Firepower
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/19/why-russia-keeps-turning-to-mass-firepower/
Oh good lord... When even XiNN believes and broadcasts the story that the entire Biden White House is incapable of handling urgent-moment demands...
 'Rudderless, aimless, hopeless' says a CNN broadcast covering the current state of the Biden White House.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/democrats-frustrated-biden-lack-of-urgency-supreme-court-setbacks/index.html
https://bityl.co/D6aF
Also
After weeks of considering the Supreme Court leak on overturning the Roe v. Wade decision, the Biden White House and leaders of the Democratic Party have no idea on how to proceed.
Of course they do. What else do the poor, unemployable ba*tards have to work on?
But you know, before we had 'scientists', 97% of scientists huddled up and invented the scientific term for thia: GIGO.
NO MORE COMPUTER MODELS OF ANYTHING: Â Scientists Now Claim Their Model Shows Rocket Launches Damage Ozone Layer.
Related
And also, it was a lab leak. Also, Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell didn't kill herself.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/scientists-now-claim-their-model-shows-rocket-launches-damage-ozone-layer/
JUST ASKIN'
Would you trust the U.S. Federal Bureau of Insurrectionists with your child's info?
 The FBI's Child ID App is as Fishy as It Sounds.
Or would you think, Hmmmm those FBI fellas have been acting kinda fishy?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/the-fbis-child-id-app-is-as-fishy-as-it-sounds/
Himmler dances a jig under his Black Sun.
The former Canadian one-hit singer: They are not really our children.
This is Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC OQ, the Canadian woman who invented that gender-neutral line of clothing for children that didn't sell very well, even in the  Walmart outlet in Hell.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/himmler-kidswear-by-celine-dion/
Actual real question asked on the internet - and answered by an otorhinolaryngologist:
When did Celine Dion lose her voice?
Or
In the words of the great English philosopher James Anthony Patrick Carr:
You've lost your voice because you have nothing to say.
U.S.A. CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE
The U.S. state of Maryland is rubbishing its ridiculous requirement of 'Good And Substantial Reason' for issuing a gun permit to U.S. citizens and legal aliens.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/maryland-will-drop-its-good-and-substantial-reason-requirements-for-wear-and-carry-gun-permits/
CORONAVIRUS THAILAND
Here is the Ban News Bared for the 24 hours of Wednesday, July 6.
Short version: The people who couldn't stop the Covid-19 infections and deaths cannot stop the Rona infections and deaths.
The documented number of new coronavirus cases rose well above 2,000 once again, and the number of deaths by Covid is unacceptable.
• 2,428 new cases
• 22 deaths
• 24,792 active cases
• 727 serious cases
• 2,049 recovered
GIMME A BOOST
This crowd, photographed Tuesday at the packed-out Bang Sue Grand Station, pleaded mostly for booster shots for the Covid-19.
R.I.P.
Sombat  Plainoi,  a  national  artist  and writer, died yesterday from complications caused by Covid-19. He was 93.
Better known by his pen name 'Sor Painoi', Sombat was a news reporter before he became a full-time writer.
TECHNOLOGY
Speaking of vaccines...
On this day in 1885, the 9-year-old boy Joseph Meister, who had been savaged by a rabid dog, received the first anti-rabies vaccine from Louis Pasteur.
And it worked. And he lived.
His story had the saddest of endings. Young Meister became caretaker at the Pasteur Institute. His story, however, ends sadly. In 1940, days after the Nazis marched into Paris, he urged his family to flee Paris, but refused to leave his post at the Institute. Somehow he got it into his head—falsely—that his family had been captured and killed. He therefore killed himself. They returned to find him dead.
Much, much more including the story of the development of the vaccine at
https://historydaily.org/the-life-and-death-of-joseph-meister
Amazon will now help you cancel your Prime account
The retail giant has listened to the complaints.
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/amazon-makes-it-easier-to-cancel-prime-membership
U.S.A. THAILAND DIPLOMACY FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Third time lucky?
Blinken due in town for security talks
[Blinken has scheduled trips to Thailand twice, but in both cases decided at the last moment to overfly the country. Bur now?]
Blinken will meet Prayut and 'foreign minister' Don Pramudwinai in Bangkok after he looks in on the G-20 conference in Bali.
The American embassy posted on its website on Tuesday that Mr Blinken would travel to Bali and Bangkok from yesterday until July 11 (i.e. next Monday) but it did not specify the dates of his visit to Thailand.
Blinken will attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bali, where he will reinforce the United States' commitment to working with international partners to confront global challenges, including food and energy insecurity and the threat Russia's continued war against Ukraine presents to the international order.
Repeating AND Updating
Private information - including police records - on a billion people has reportedly been stolen from "the Shanghai National Police database" (which doesn't actually exist) and is up for sale for 10 Bitcoin. (Nikkei Asia)
In a novel twist, the data has been stolen from China.
You can no longer see permissions required by an app in Google's Play store. (BlueSpace)
 You can still see them, but only after you have downloaded and installed the app, which is a bit too late if you wanted to check if the app was safe to install in the first place.
https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/google-play-permissions-list/
This is just where Thailand is, right now:
I have a hard time imagining anything more destructive of freedom than laws that makes everything (or almost everything) presumptively illegal. For employers, there really isn't anything you can do that can't get you into hot water.
 - Gail Heriot
CORONAVIRUS CORRUPTION GRAFT
Even (most) Americans have no idea who is the highest paid person among the (virtually countless) White House staff.
 It's Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes for Health. He presided over NIH while thousands around him got millions in graft, grift, covered-up secret royalty payments.
 Now he's getting $300,000* a year (5,800 bucks a week) as Acting Science Adviser to Resident Biden.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-nih-chief-is-now-highest-paid-member-of-most-expensive-white-house-staff-ever_4577973.html
*10.8 million baht in real money. How can anyone even survive on 202,000 baht a week, eh?
What the...? Did someone say they missed them?
Five months after iconic singer-songwriter Neil Young removed his music when Spotify didn't give in to his demands to fire podcaster Joe Rogan, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, the supergroup that features the star, is back on the streaming platform.
https://bityl.co/D5Qg
Neil Young's hasbeen mopes also slunk back to Spotify. Their boycott lasted five months.
In case you're doing international paper work, or just trying to get your expense-account claims in order....
The Thai baht is at a 5-year low.
Exchange rates, as of 0800 today, July 7
 = "Previous" means the business day before, or yesterday.
The value of the baht continues to sink, but extremely slowly.
That said, as of yesterday evening...
Gold prices tumble as dollar gains against euro
The domestic gold price was down 300 baht to 30,250 baht yesterday, while spot gold stood at US$1,772 an ounce, a six-month low.
Gold prices tumbled as the dollar appreciated against the euro to its highest level in more than two years, Â sparking a heavy selloff amid concerns that the Federal Reserve will implement more aggressive rate hikes to beat inflation, a move that could significantly slow global economic growth.
46 years ago this week
 Operation Thunderbolt. Israel showed the world that the spirit of 1776 lives.
The sad part is that the manure spread doesn't kill the stench of government. Even the Dutch government.
Oh, whew! Just in time for National Skinnydipping Day, on Saturday!
Never Do These Things at a Nude Beach
There are etiquette rules you need to know.
https://lifehacker.com/never-do-these-things-at-a-nude-beach-1849142296
There Is No Such Thing As A Lone Wolf Episode elua haneri kanaonokumamakolu.
ONE of the things that is terribly wrong with the U.S.A. is the constant, interminable brainwashing about 'the Lone Wolf Terrorist'. It's B.S.
Example: the rotten little incel who had fantasies of being Wake The Rapper and then bought two rifles and then shot up a parade in suburban Chicago, killing six people, was well known as a dangerous, probably psychopathic wannabe killer. For years. Cops knew about him. The useless F.B.I. had thick dossiers on him. He wasn't at all lone. On the contrary, he was a Known Killer.
Robert Crimo planned his parade attack for weeks. No one noticed enough to do anything about the twerp.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/highland-park-killer-captured-sent-signals-for-years/
Related
The little soiboy creep, dressed in women's clothing bought 2 semi-auto rifles and 3 handguns and then went out to murder 7 people and shoot up a few dozen others. Chicago police and the stationary F.B.I. knew this, even visited the guy twice to tell him not to hurt anyone, and then left him alone.
 Lone Wolf? There's no such thing. Once again, a Known Wolf.
https://bityl.co/D6ac
April 2019: Suicide attempt
September 2019: Family member said Crimo threatened to "kill everyone" and police removed 16 knives, a dagger and a sword but found no probable cause to arrest.

#BEAGLEGATE
One step at a time
Doc Fauci and the U.S.A. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that he owns has cancelled the next cruel test of allergy medicine on beagle puppies.
Saint Tony has also cancelled his plan to send a bunch of puppies and a large sum of money to China for Chinese 'scientists' to test them.
Still pending: A search for the a*s*hole who approved all this puppy-killing.
Still unapproved: Cancellation of Saint Tony.
https://bityl.co/D6a5
https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2022/05/13/buzzfeed-how-wcw-cut-the-nih-wuhan-lab-grant/
One advantage of the Chinese SARS Cov-2 novel coronavirus and the lockdowns: It has given time to watch the documentaries I skipped over during busier times.
Currently Watching: Forbidden Planet (1956)