Thailand fireworks factory explodes, kills 22

My ultimate one liner compilation for people who don't have time for long-winded jokes! -- Jimmy Carr
If you took all the money that we in the West spend on food in one week, you could feed the Third World for a year. Not sure about you, but I think we're being overcharged on groceries.
  

Thaksin Should Be Released
Opposing someone's politics does not justify using the legal system as a tool for political retribution.
Thai Enquirer -- https://t.ly/7UUt8

Suphan Buri fireworks factory explodes, kills 22
It was the second time the downtown factory blew up. Ten people still are 'missing' from the Wednesday morning explosion.
 The force of the blast spread debris in a radius of 100 metres, with human remains scattered everywhere.
Local residents said that about 20 workers had arrived to work at the factory in the morning and no one came out after the explosion.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2725802/

THAILAND MARIJUANA CANNABIS
Back to the Future of ALLEGED medical marijuana
Thailand looks likely to take a giant step backwards in its alleged 'legalisation' of cannabis, by requiring a note from a doctor for every sale.
The Public Health Minister, Cholnan Srikaew of the ruling Pheu Thai Party, said yesterday, 'Our new cannabis bill is different from the one that just failed' in parliament.

 The new law will be very clear.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2725832/
Below: A customer checks out the selection at one of the many cannabis shops on the young-tourist mecca, Khao San Road.

As of a week ago
 The drafting of the new cannabis and hemp control law is still not complete and it has not yet been forwarded to the cabinet for approval.
 -- Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2721671/

Would you please stop not having babies
Last week's 'request' by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for a (much) higher birth rate is going to the top of the National Agenda.
Srettha and government now face a daunting task: Reverse 50 years of one of the world's best birth control projects, and make Thailand's population rise again.
Experts admits
that if the younger generations don't stop not getting pregnant, well,
Thailand's slowly shrinking population of today will drop to about 33 million by the Year 2624.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2724629/

Oh, the irony
Below: Over-the-counter pills are available, without restriction, including free upon request at most government-run clinics and hospitals.

IT'S BEYOND UNCLEAR: How to convince independent young women to reverse their lives and get pregnant without substantial payment and other benefits from the cash-strapped Srettha government.

BOEING BLINKEN SWITZERLAND IRONY
Another Boeing Woeing
Blinken Stranded After Boeing 737 Breaks Down on Davos Trip.
Apparently, the U.S. Secretary of State's private taxpayer-purchased VIPlane 737 had an oxygen leak.
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/01/17/stranded-in-davos-antony-blinken-is-stuck-in-switzerland-compliments-of-a-boeing-737-oxygen-leak-n2168841

ASEAN INDONESIA ELECTION

They all are eligible to vote for Indonesian president on Valentine's Day.
But analysts say the millions of 17-to-35 year olds will have little if any effect -- on the election, or on post-voting government polity.
Benar News: https://t.ly/wDQTD

USA POLITICS
Healthy, normal democratic processes at work

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1747411965490671783

New map of USA shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur.
 This was a massive, multi-year collaborative effort between federal, state and local governments and the private sector,
 Refreshing fact: The word 'expert' was not used in this report.
 NOTE the New Madrid in the center of the USA.
 NOTE 2: Not a prediction: No one can predict earthquakes. However, by investigating faults and past quakes, 'scientists' can better assess the likelihood of future earthquakes and how intense their shaking might be.
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-earthquakes.html

USA POLITICS RACISM ANTI-ASIAN
Uugest intertubes flame war of the week... over this
which astoundingly large crowds of American dumbasses could not accept as satire.

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1747386203064696856

Also RACIST ANTI-ASIAN
"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent."
 Which Vivek Ramaswamy does not have -- but anyhow that's U.S. President Joe Biden

https://twitter.com/i/status/1747390733361742260

Have a Sunday Read
at TheMessenger.com...
Russia's Creeping Rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin
 In brief: The only downside to winning the Cold War peacefully was that Russia was never 'Decommunised in the way Germany was Denazified.
Little Recognised, Seldom Explored, Rarely Published Fact (not trivia; fact)
The Communist Party of Vietnam is, and openly describes itself as Stalinist. The Policy, basically, harks back to Ho Chi Minh and his total fidelity to Communist International, years before he even thought of establishing the The Communist Party of Vietnam/Indochinese Communist Party in 1930. Ho and the VCP never have wavered from their loyalty to the Soviet party and Russia in general.
https://themessenger.com/opinion/joseph-stalin-vladimir-putin-russia-gulag-ukraine-war-genocide

Moscow enjoys its own John Kerry-Jane Pleimannikov weekend
  Russia is hit by huge civil protest in support of anti-Ukraine war activist as 10,000 take to the streets and clash with riot police.
  Putin speechwriter warns (falsely) 'This is how the Soviet Union collapsed.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12973275/Russia-hit-huge-civil-protest-support-anti-Ukraine-war-activist-10-000-streets-clash-riot-police-Putin-speechwriter-warns-Soviet-Union-collapsed.html

ANALYSIS TEAM-HAMAS-USA JEWS
The Return of the Swastika

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/the-return-of-the-swastika

Related, also Team Hamas USA Plus ça change
Team Hamas USA Out In The Open
 American multimillionaire couple funds Marxist group coordinating anti-Jew 'protests'.

They are Neville Roy Singham, a U.S.-born entrepreneur who made millions after founding and selling the IT consulting firm Thoughtworks, and his wife Jodie Evans, the co-founder of left-wing ALLEGED anti-war group Code Pink.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/the-return-of-the-swastika