Star of the Day - Secret Temple tours
Good morning kids. Now that we've put Monday out of its misery we face the Day-After-Monday problems.
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS
Contrary to earlier predictions
The pandemic continues
 The DDC predicted yesterday that Covid has become a seasonal disease: worst between June-September and November-February.
 The DDC, Department of Disease Control, reported yesterday that during the week of December 4-10, there were 3,961 new Covid infections recorded, and 212 deaths. As of Monday evening, 385 of the victims were on life support in hospital ICUs.
 Prominent virologist Doctor Yong Poovorawan, speaking from his office at Chulalongkorn University's faculty of medicine, added that no available vaccine can contain the SARS Cov-2 novel pandemic. One vaccine is like another; they all manage to reduce the severity of Covid, and prevent many deaths.
Thailand, January 2020-December 2022
Recorded Covid infections: 4,715,489
Deaths by Covid-19: 33,391
CORONAVIRUS CANADA
Support struggling Canadians
Save lives. provide relief. ease the burden.
The impact of Covid-19 is far-reaching.
 Job loss and layoffs, worsening mental health, an increase in domestic abuse, and much more.
 You can help those who need it the most.
https://uniteforchange.com/en/covid-19-relief/
CORONAVIRUS CHINA
Queues at China's fever clinics
Interesting claim that NOW, China has "virus experts".
 REUTERS
People queued outside fever clinics at Chinese hospitals for Covid-19 checks on Monday, a new sign of the rapid spread of symptoms after authorities began dismantling an apparatus they used to surveil residents and curtail movement.
Three years into the pandemic, China is now acting to align with a world that has largely reopened to live with Covid.
Signs of Covid spreading as China opts to live with it
App used to track people's movement to be shut down
Top virus expert says COVID peak may come in a month
PHOTO: A medical worker in a protective suit collects a swab sample from a man at a nucleic acid testing site in Shanghai.
https://tinyurl.com/4t35pcma
Why wasn't the Fishwrap informed of this?
Streamed orgies from Pattaya - 24/7
Immigration Bureau police yesterday busted a Pattaya-based gang that organised and broadcast sex orgies - for money, to watch.
Police currently believe the online gang was actually controlled by a Chinese criminal group based in Chiang Rai. Which is about as far from Pattaya as you can get and still be in Thailand.
Their website broadcast 'nothing but sex' - straight and gay - all day, every day.
Arrests yesterday included alleged actors (six hours a day, every day), a cameraman, an IT expert to run the site -- along with one Chinese national and his interpreter.
The site advertised that it had 30 actors, who were paid 3,000 to 4,000 baht per day.
Subscribers paid by the day, week or month for access to live shows and video clips.
You should follow these revelations about U.S. government censorship.
 TWITTER FILES DUMP NUMBER 4: How Donald Trump was banned.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/12/10/twitter-files-dump-number-4-how-donald-trump-was-banned-n517024
THAILAND RELIGION TOURISM
The new and unexpected star of Thailand's depressingly poor tourist campaigns is a home-grown programme of "secret temple tours" - and you have until Sunday to join.
 Organisers call it "Unfolding Bangkok", where they take excursions to some of the city's lesser-known, historically valuable Buddhist temples.
 The Creative Economy Agency, Tourism Authority of Thailand and the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau announced jointly yesterday that they will continue "secret temples" for at least four more months - although there is no announced schedule after Christmas Day.
 So far, guides have taken groups to five of the city's less-known wats.
 There is "last for now" tour set for December 17-25. It will focus on Wat Phraya Siri Aisawan-Wat  Suaansawan  and  Wat Kharuhabodi in Bang Yi Khan area.
The Chiang Rai operators allegedly fled before the Immigration narcs could get them.
PHOTO: A Hidden Temple group gets a light-and-sound show at Wat Phumarin Ratchapaksi in Bangkok Noi district, across the river in Thon Buri.
More details at
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2458137/
THAILAND POLITICS
While seeming to do so little, Anutin "Mister Marijuanas" Charnvirakul has attracted a known 30 Thai mambers of parliament to his Bhumjaitai (Proud to be Thai) Party. He seems likely to become the next prime minister- and without the blessing of the junta's current premier Prayut.
 The wealthy central Thailand businessman has already sloughed off any and all support by Prayut.
 Anutin's gains all are Prayut's losses. In the case of an election in May or so, Prayut has few-to-no political allies.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2458097/
THAILAND PILGRIMAGE DEATH
Muslim pilgrim dies aboard flight from Saudi Arabia
 The 71-year-old Bahaem Saesoh was known to suffer from severe asthma. He had received multiple vaccinations, including against Covid.
 Bahaem and four family members were on an 'umrah pilgrimage', a recognised Muslim trip outside the time of the haj.
 He boarded the Thai Airways International flight in Jeddah. During the flight, his seatmate noticed that he seemed unconscious. The airline crew and a foreign nurse were unable to revive him.
PHOTO: Responders remove the victim's body from the airplane. An autopsy may reveal the exact cause of death.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2458599/
SPORTS SOCCER FOOTBALL WORLD CUP FIFA
Hunter Biden sneers -- if your bribes can fit into a suitcase, you're small fry.
Vice-President of European Parliament arrested in Qatar corruption investigation.
The main people of interest are Italian or closely related to Italian suspects.
Plus
The Belgian newspaper L'Echo reported that,
 "several bags full of (money) notes" were found at Ms. Kaili's Brussels home, which police decided to search after her father was caught carrying a large amount of money in a suitcase.
https://bit.ly/3Hsakxd
Oxfordshire proposes "The Fifteen Minute City" -- a scheme in which you would always be within 15 minutes' distance of your home, or else.
Well... Oxfordshire is in England, so
1/ the 15-minute rule  will be enforced with roadblocks and fines for leaving your prison block.
2/ Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum is a huge fan of the scheme.
GLOBAL WARMING
'Travel could become impossible'
Northern "Sunny California" celebrates 48 inches of snowfall, 122 centimetres
With hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-storm-sierra-snow-san-francisco-los-angeles-rainfall/
The PHOTO below is Toronto, which never received much snow until the onset of Global Warming.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/record-breaking-snowfall-snarls-travel-in-toronto/1128176
TERRORISM
Libyan suspect in bombing of Pan Am 103 has been on the run for 34 years
Alleged Lockerbie bomb maker held in US custody
Abu Agilah Mohammad Masud is the Libyan intelligence officer who actually made the bomb that brought down the flight over Scotland and killed 270 people.
[All 259 people on board the airplane, and 11 on the ground, were murdered.]
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alleged-lockerbie-bomb-maker-held-in-us-custody-07g09cvg0
The Wheels Of Justice Grind Slowly
 But at least they grind.
The new Space Race, and Japan is in. And the United Arab Republic.
The lander rockets toward the moon with UAE's first Arab world's lunar rove Rashid.
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/live-uae-moon-mission-set-for-historic-launch-today
HMM: Retired [American/Canadian gridiron] football players more likely to report age-related diseases.
 "NFL players, especially former linemen, had fewer disease-free years and earlier high blood pressure and diabetes diagnoses.
 "Two age-related diseases, arthritis and dementia, were also more commonly found in former football players than in other men of the same age."
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/12/09/football-players-age-faster/5401670595796/
GLOBAL WARMING
Just askin':
 Are we finally reaching peak climate hysteria?
 In this article, we'll talk about global warming and climate change and their long-term effects. We'll also discuss how you can help protect the environment and make real change for our planet.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/09/are-we-finally-reaching-peak-climate-hysteria/
The editorial that writes itself
Biden Administration Buys Luxury Bidet Equipped With "Effective Enema Function" for the U.S. Navy. And only five hundred dollars each - 17,400 baht in real money.
Bio Bidet's BB-1000 has "the absolute strongest spray pressure of any electronic bidet seat on the market."
https://upstract.com/x/afc96b5d7f524a3d
https://www.amazon.com/Bidet-BB-1000W-Supreme-Elongated-Toilet/dp/B004GDQZZ6/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_bdcrb_top
Amazon reviews:
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TECHNOLOGY
Sam Bankman-Fried hopes to find new suckers to fleece of $10 billion so he can set that on fire too. (BBC)
Err, pay back the previous suckers. That's totally what he meant. Because it is a Ponzi, no other description fits.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63911363
Also. Can we send this guy to jail already? Just to make him stop talking.
Finally!
 The Gibson's Bakery Family Has Been Paid By Oberlin College. News and Background.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/12/finally-the-gibsons-bakery-family-has-been-paid-by-oberlin-college/
'EXPERT'
hahaha555 You are allowed to giggle. Except this 'expert' is right.
 Expert warns New York City's new 'rat czar': ‘The rats are going to win'.
WITH VIDEO
https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/ernie-schicchi-warns-nycs-new-rat-czar-the-rats-are-going-to-win/
