Thailand has more wild tigers than you can shake a stick at.
Good morning folks, have you noticed it's the last day of July 2022?
On the pretext that it's just one huge coincidence, most Thai media this Sunday morning had pretty-much identical lead stories, like:
 With the parliamentary no-confidence debate finished
 Government is 'likely to serve out its term'
 The no-confidence debate from July 19-22 caused little damage to the government as all 11 cabinet ministers including Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha survived the onslaught.Â
 It was the fourth and last such debate of this regime.
Why 'government' means the junta in general and the alleged 'prime minister' and former army general Prayut Chan-o-chan is particular.
'Full term' means 'at least until next May 1'. Prayut has backed calls for a general election in the first half of next year. There is litle chance that he will stand as a candidate.
Good news. But still, don't leave that helmet at home.
 Headline: Rocket booster won't hit Thailand
The Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda) says debris from the 21-tonne rocket booster of China’s Long March 5B rocket will not hit Thailand and is likely to fall into the Indian Ocean today.
The Space Technology Research Center said the satellite won't even pass over Thailand. THUS
Do not panic!!
You may want to meet Miss Thailand Universe 2022 - a true rags-to-riches story.
Anna Suea Ngam Iam. Or 'Ann' to friends and family. 19 years old.
Ann is the daughter of garbage-dump scavengers.
Many more excellent phots of the Saturday-night contest at
https://www.matichon.co.th/lifestyle/social-women/news_3481400
Next Stop:
The 71st Miss Universe pageant will be held in San José, Costa Rica.
More tigers than most
Thailand loyalist 'minister of natural resources and environment' Varawut Silpa-arch, Thailand has more wild tigers than any country in the area.
He praised a conservation programme, initiated in 2010.
He said the tiger population in the Thungyai and Huai Kha Khaeng wildlife sanctuaries increased from 42 in 2012 to 100 this year as a result of the 'smart patrol system'.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2357491/
LAOS CHINA COLONY DRUGS
Shufferin' Shuccotash, Stop with those 'Chat Girls!'
Thai businesses in the North have demanded that the notorious Chinese-owned Kings Romans Casino stop trafficking young and attractive employees known as Chat Girls.
The casino is often mentioned but never proved as part of human trafficking and the Golden Triangle's immense drug operations.
Kings Romans Casino is part of the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (SEZ) that Laos has ceded to Chinese operator led by the often-suspected and never-convicted tycoon Zhao Wei.
Zhao's agents have organised a major flimflam boilerroom operation where the 'girls' are required to cold-call men and 'encourage' them to send money to buy shares in various Zhao-run businesses.
New report claim that casino managers have 200 Chat Girls under control - and literally beat them up if they complain about working conditions. Most of the young women are Lao.
PHOTO: The Kings Romans is a large casino/club/hotel that overlooks Chiang Rai over the Mekong River, right at the Golden Triangle intersection.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2357684/
A Chinese-Australian businessman shot and killed his 65-year-old mother in the 9th-floor Sukhumvit Road condo where they lived.
Kevin Shuo Gao then threatened to kill his wife and children (aged 7 and 2), but then sat down and waited for police to come. He surrendered peacefully.
Gao told the cops his mother was an alcoholic control freak who drove him crazy with her attempts to take over the family business, a plastics and LED light factory.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2357661/
Effective Monday...
The speed limit for private cars on all expressways (including Bangkok, photo) is 100 Canadian kilometres (62 miles) per hour.
Blinken Resists Push to Label Russia a Terrorist State
Despite calls from Congress and Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wary of a move that might snuff out any vestiges of diplomacy with Moscow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/us/politics/russia-terrorism-blinken.html
CANADA POLITICS
So Canada's second most-hated "Justin" was in Prince Edward Ialand province on a one-day business trip.
He stopped for lunch at Lone Oak Brewery pub in Charlottetown, and pressed some flesh and joked a bit with customers and staff, as politicians do. Pub owner Jared Murphy posted some phots of the prime ministers visit on the pub's social media.
And the Trudeau haters crawled out from under their slimy Canadian rocks for hate-filled comments and phone calls.
Lone Oak took down all the social media photos, but the hate isn't going to stop for a while.
Apparently not all Canadians are nice.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-politics-prime-minister-hate-filled-comments-1.6535354
Everybody's talking about the bird
Otherwise, she seems nice
U.S. Democratic Party congressladyperson Linda Sanchex was trotting to first base after drawing a walk during the annual U.S. congressional baseball game, and suddenly. literally without warming, an extremely upsetting traumatic misogynistic incident broke out.
She had no choice, literally no choice except to flip off the Republican Party dugout. Right?:
Pure Democratic athleticism
 Walks, for non-baseball fans, require almost zero work on behalf of the batter. When she took her base, she decided to throw decorum out the window as she flipped off the Republicans in their dugout. Then she claimed they were the source of the painful misogyny that she detected.
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/linda-sanchez-democrat-flips-bird-congressional-baseball-game/
WITH VIDEO: https://www.newsweek.com/linda-sanchez-flips-bird-gop-team-congressional-baseball-game-republicans-1729084
A-well, a bird, bird, bird, well-a bird is the word
A-well, a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a don't you know about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word
 -- Surfin' Bird, The Trashmen, 1963
 Prince Philip's will to stay under lock and key
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2357206/
Oh, Ruby
Don't take your guns to town Canada
Yes, the Canadian government has set about seizing guns of law-abiding Canadians.
Ottawa offers $1,337 apiece for AR-15 rifles under mandatory buyback program
The federal government is proposing $1,337 in compensation for turning in an AR-15 rifle under a mandatory buyback program.
These are the 1,500 assault-style weapons now prohibited in Canada. "It will be mandatory for individuals to participate in the buyback."
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/gun-buyback-here-s-how-much-the-feds-are-proposing-to-pay-for-banned-firearms-1.6006129
[NOTE] One of the reasons that Canadian authorities want AR-15s is because they look a bit like the real assault rifles shown in the (much-praised) 26-part Canadian documentary 'The Ten Thousand Day War' released in 1980.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174323/reviews
U.S.A. CDC WORTHLESS
[Big Sigh] C.D.C: You had ONE (1) job,
Yes, sure. But wouldn't you agree that the "current" mode of transmission is different?
 Study finds important differences in monkeypox symptoms between current and previous outbreaks.
U.S.A. POLITICS
GLOBAL WARMING
Shark sightings in the Midwest could become more common
 'Experts say'
 There were already two known sightings in the Mississippi River. You remember them, right? One in Alton, Illinois, in 1937 and another in Missouri in 1995.
A group of Thais finally managed to get and use tourist visas to the U.S.A. and it was completely logical to check out the fabled El Lay.
And they saw this.
Also in America, NOT San Francisco.
'Night of Terror': Prison Guard Sells Jail Keys, Allowing Male Inmates to Rape Female Prisoners.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/07/29/night-of-terror-prison-guard-sells-jail-keys-allowing-male-inmates-to-rape-female-prisoners-n1616698
TECHNOLOGY
NO WARNING NO DISCUSSION
 Twitter blocking Epoch Times
 No warning and no explanation
https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-censors-all-content-from-the-epoch-times_4631372.html
I dunno. It's so much like the historical "NO ASIANS" policy of the current top two Biden family members, eh?
Semiconductor subsidies have all the hallmarks of a classic Washington boondoggle. The wrong action at the wrong time for the wrong problem.
 But the 'right palms' will be greased, count on that.
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=52106
And speaking of countries that can't sell EVs even to citizens who get huge subsidies
Indonesia runs road test for biodiesel with 40 per cent palm oil
https://www.todayonline.com/world/indonesia-runs-road-test-biodiesel-40per-cent-palm-oil-1954421
CULTURE U.S.A. CANADA
Kenan Thompson: 'It might not be a bad idea' for Saturday Night Live to end.
You can only be avant-garde for so long before you become just plain old garde.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/kenan-thompson-it-might-not-be-a-bad-idea-for-snl-to-end/
THREE YEARS OLD! With
A plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.
