Thai airline pilots organise anti-foreigner campaign

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Get Out of Our Cockipts!
Thai pilots organise against foreigners  

The Thai Pilots Association strongly opposes a government proposal to temporarily ease restrictions on foreign pilots flying for Thai carriers.
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Thursday that one major obstacle for the tourism sector has been the slow resumption in flights. A post-pandemic personnel shortage has been one of the reasons cited by airlines worldwide.
The government has already asked airlines to increase flights and expand their fleets to help spur the recovery of tourism, he said during a visit to the Thai offices of Agoda, the world’s largest travel booking platform.

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China Is 'Aggressively Recruiting' pilots from the USA and NATO countries
To overcome their shortcomings, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has beenaggressively recruiting Western military talentto train their aviators, using private firms around the globe that conceal their PLA ties and offer recruits exorbitant salaries.
Also Epoch:https://shorturl.at/LoYDD

Hotel checkout
PATTAYA: A 43-year-old American guest leapt or got pushed from his seventh (7th) floor hotel room and died instantly when he hit the parking lot.
Police were called, and reported that the man left behind 'scraps' of his marijuana, and drug paraphernalia including numerous syringes. There were no witnesses and no sign of violence.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2804820/

All Games broadcast by ABC (U.S.) CBC/Radio Canada
The most hilarious running gag in professional sports by alleged 'reporters' is that because teams had Nine (9) Days since their last competitive game -- which they won, after all -- the teams will be completely lethargic and players will be unable to even remember how to play their sport.
Coupe Stanley Calendrier Total 2024 Tous les Jeux a 0700 aussi8 p.m.heure de New York
Game 1 Edmonton at FloridaSunday 9 June(aka Saturday 8 June)
Game 2 Edmonton at FloridaTuesday 11 June(akaMonday 10 June)
Game 3 Panthers at OilersFriday 14 June(akaThursday 13 June)
Game 4 Florida at EdmontonSunday 16 June(akaSaturday 15 June)
Game 5 probably Edmonton at FloridaWednesday 19 June(akaTuesday 18 June)
Game 6 possibly Florida at EdmontonSaturday 22 June(akaFriday 21 June)
Game 7 maybe Edmonton at FloridaTuesday 25 June(akaMonday 24 June)
Gamblers Only
 Florida is a -139 favorite (risk $139 to win $100) and Edmonton is a +117 underdog. The over/under for total goals scored Game 1  Edmonton is a +117 underdog, and the over/under for total goals scored Game 1 is 5.5.

GLOBAL WARMING

 80 percent chance Earth will exceed Paris Climate Agreement warming limits in next five years.
So... obviously we need to nuke China.https://t.ly/FbXF3

Court to consider Move Forward case on June 12 (Wednesday)
The Constitutional Court said that it had accepted the written defence from the Move Forward Party in its dissolution case and would consider the matteron June 12.
Election victor MFP faces a campaign by the dictator-appointed Election Commission.
The party's election campaign proposed to amend or abolish Article 112, the ridiculously harsh Thai lese majeste law -- and that is now against the law.
If the court decides against the progressives, they will face a total ban on the political party and 10-year bans on party leaders, including the almost prime minister Pita Limjaroenrat (left, below).
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2805631/

Directly related, update
by Thitinan Pongsudhirak, professor Chulalongkorn University, senior fellow senior fellow Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS)
Move Forward case reveals autocracy

The Constitutional Court's announcement that it will consider the Move Forward Party's (MFP) written defence in its dissolution caseon June 12ornext Wednesdayappears ominous. After several attempts to make its argument that a campaign pledge to amend the lese majeste law against royal insult is not tantamount to "overthrowing Thailand's democratic regime with the King as head of state", the party's time is up.
The MFP's dissolution is perceived as a foregone conclusion. Such a revelation might risk Thailand being perceived as an autocratic regime based on legal manoeuvres, and power plays that do not derive from voter preferences.
Harvard grad Pita Limjaroenrat (above) who came so close to being prime minister a year ago, faces a probable lifetime ban from Thai politics.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2806469/

Minister sets lofty goal for human trafficking fight
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2806306/
PHOTO: Police meet and begin briefing and interrogating Thai victims of scamming rescued from Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Thailand aims to achieve Tier 1 status in the U.S.-indexed human trafficking suppression, according to Social Development and Human Security Minister Varawut Silpa-archa
But first... government and the Royal Thai Police must honestly face and address the twin problems of the rising scam industry and trafficking operations which have moved online.  

TAIWAN CHINA
Taiwan launches newest 600-tonne coast guard vessel
The Yong Kang (永康艦), domestically built for the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) was launched and docked at Kaohsiung.

https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202406020005

By CNA, official Taiwan government news agency
Scholars agree, as they always do, that
China will continue to try to squeeze Taiwan for another 10 days.
Last Friday, China announced a plan to suspend the preferential tariff rates for a total of 134 Taiwanese imports that had been part of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), effectivefrom June 15.
Beijing's announcement drew an immediate protest from Taiwan, with the country's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) calling Beijing's plan a "unilateral" decision made without consulting Taiwan.
Taiwanese scholars specialising in cross-strait relations said that Beijing's economic measure, including 'military exercises' around Taiwan and its outlying islands from May 23-24, were part of a series of "expected" actions after the inauguration of a new president by Taiwan.

MIDEAST ISRAEL HAMAS
Israel Defence Force (IDF) hits UNRWA 'school' housing 30-to-40 terrorists.
NOTE: UNRWA is HAMAS. https://t.ly/ulP5b

The Fire This Time
Hezbollah is at war with Israel. Attacking Israel with rockets and other munitions across its northern border, Hezbollah has displaced some 80,000 Israelis from their homes.
 The depopulation, you might say, is rising.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/06/the-fire-this-time-8.php

PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS EXCESS DEATHS
There's a lot of this post-pandemic information coming out. 3 millions deaths is quite a lot of dying.
High Excess Death Rates in the West 3 Years Running Since Covid
 Serious Cause for Concern: A study highlights persistent high excess death rates in the West from 2020 to 2022, despite COVID-19 measures and vaccines. Over three million excess deaths were reported in 47 countries, urging a reevaluation of pandemic policies and their effectiveness.


The President of the U.S.A. and His Personal DOCTOR Go to Normandy

Analyst David Burge writes
In fairness, he was able to contain the urge to mumble a World War 2 cannibal anecdote and challenge the D-Day vets to a fight, so I'm calling this a win.

USA CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRESS
Since 2020, the Number of New Gun Owners Equals the Entire Population of Florida.
https://shorturl.at/KWZFb

TECHNOLOGY
We were kind of expecting an Earth-shattering kaboom: SpaceX's Starship's fourth test flight went without any serious mishaps. (Ars Technica)
A suborbital hop followed by splashdown of both the booster and second stage in the Indian Ocean about an hour apart.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/spacexs-starship-took-a-beating-but-held-on-for-first-return-from-space/

UPDATE:
Good news all round. (Tech Crunch)
Boeing's Starliner has successfully docked with the ISS.https://t.ly/xqGj1

AI company Humane is up for sale at an asking price of $1 billion -that's $100,000 per customer. (Engadget)
The company sold just 10,000 of its massively hyped AI pins.
Good luck in bankruptcy court, guys.

HSBC believes that Indian edtech company Byju's is now worth approximately absolutely nothing. (Tech Crunch)
Formerly valued at $22 billion, reduced to $250 million in a recent fundraising round, and HSBC believes that is still wildly optimistic.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/06/hsbc-believes-indian-edtech-byjus-currently-worth-zero/

XPG's Nia handheld gaming device has upgradeable RAM using CAMM2. (AnandTech)
Welcome change. Every competing device has soldered RAM.

TECHNOLOGY
BOEING Starliner: Is this thing cursed?https://t.ly/-6ZSk

OUT: AI-based news is the future.
NEW RATIONALE: We'll trust AI, carefully,  when it stops making up stuff.

It could be simply that Skynet is trying to crash the markets as part of its takeover plan.
The NYSE publishes a statement (possibly true) that they are investigating a "technical issue" which sent many stocks down 99%+. Oh, the old 'Computer Glitch' nonsense. Gotcha!

The rumours were correct, and at Computex Taipei, AMD announced new CPU is due in stores next month. (AnandTech)
The Zen 3 based eight core 5800XT (a minor speed upgrade over the 5800X) and sixteen core 5900XT (a major upgrade over the twelve core 5900X) will refresh the AM4 platform.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21420/amd-launching-new-cpus-for-am4-ryzen-5000xt-series-coming-in-july

Oh, and Zen 5 will also be out next month. (AnandTech)
These will arrive in the form of the 9600X, 9700X, 9900X, and 9950X, with TDPs ranging from 65W for the first two, to 170W for the 9950X.

PROOF that Not All News Is Bad News (medicalexpress)

Cancer patients often do better with less intensive treatment, new research finds.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-cancer-patients-intensive-treatment.html

Somebody's killing the seriously ill hospital patients.
 Medlines recalls 1.5M adult bed rails after 2 die by asphyxiation.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/05/31/medline-recall-bed-assist-bar/4771717189488/

WELL, GOOD: Statins, metformin associated with lower risk of brain aneurysms.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2024/06/06/statins-metformin-brain-aneurysms/8641717691513/

The sport that might finally convince Americans and Canadians to love soccer.
https://x.com/Enezator/status/1798237318400409741