Good day, chaps and chapettes. We're at work by anticipating another four-day weekend. Anyways, I know youse Americanos are still recovering but you'll be fine!
BORDER CONFLICT
Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs bluntly attacks Cambodia. A public statement blamed Phnon Penh for saying one thing and doing another. Cambodia broke is own promises to resolve all border issues by our joint committees.
We signed an agreement on peaceful solutions, but Cambodia has broken its own word.
PHOTO: The alert Royal Thai Army has closed all public border crossings into Cambodia.
Hot water Heaters: hot water needs heating?
Thanks to science, you can now fly almost anywhere in half the time it will take you to wait for your luggage after you get there.-- Bill Vaughan
Did y'all eve'yone hear about that earthquake and huge tsunami in Thailand on Saturday? Yeah... only people who depend on Facebook for their news heard. Totally fake. Post Today (in Thai)
POLLUTION PM2.5
Anti-smog director Preeyaporn Suwanaged looks on the bright side of her battle against air pollution. It's not going to be a full-on crackdown, but there will be rewards for those who help and harsh punishment for others. Preeyaporn estimates 'Pollution Season 2025' will start around the end of October.
GLOBAL WARMING Toronto, largest city of The Great White North hit 31 degrees yesterday. And humid! Also Saskatoon.
DANGER DANGER Heat Warning Heat Warning
Bangkok yesterday was 33 of the same degrees as the Canuck towns. Again.
Avoid exerting yourself. Head for air conditioning.-- Environment Canada believes 31 degrees CelsiUs is dangerous.
THAILAND TARIFF SURRENDER The Tiny Thai 'negotiating team' ran out of options in its attempt to avoid an export tariff of 36 percent to America. Like Canada last week (cartoon), Thailand is going to attempt to inform its American counterparts that it will waive taxes on U.S. imports. It is literally the last moment. The racist U.S. president who is literally Hitler promised 36 percent tariffs on all Thai goods by tomorrow -- especially including the goods that China attempts to launder through Thailand.
Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira will run up that white flag to Washington, tomorrow.
From the Canuck chain of Sun newspapers
Pichai and other political midgets are hoping against hope that the U.S. Chancellor will reply. The U.S.-Vietnam tariff set a benchmark, or so they say. Thai businesses don't believe that.
ASEAN is on a slack-rope, with each nation seeking its own trade-and-tariff deal with America.
Here is one: On July 2 (last week), Vietnam agreed to a provisional trade agreement with the U.S. that drops its reciprocal tariff down to 20% for most goods. It left a 40 percent tariff in place for goods suspected of being "transhipped" from China. In exchange, Vietnam will allow tariff-free entry to all imports from America. The top No. 1 poobah of the Vietnam Communist Party, To Lam, took personal charge of the negotiation.
ASEAN on the hot seat in US tariff negotiations ASEAN members seeking common ground with the USTR have offered to go on major 'buy U.S.' sprees to cut their trade surpluses.
Speaking of nonsense... the Cambodians are going to try to take 'The Border Issue' to the U.N. General Assembly. And also, the Facebook reported over and over that Thailand suffered the greatest earthquake which caused the greatest tsunami. Ever. This happened on July 5, the day that Facebook officially overtook The Associated Press as chief of Fake News. And Wikipedia. Quake Fake Explainr (the Thaiger, with several quaint fake photos, so worth a read, in English)
Oh, almost forgot... Poorly regulated mines in Myanmar are dumping arsenic-laden sludge into the Mekong. This is taking place near the Golden Triangle where the Mekong meets Laos, Thailand and Burma (PHOTO).
PROBABLY TRUE
Iran's terrorist regime is wounded, not dead It is still a revolutionary Islamist state that sees the U.S. as the Great Satan. Iran sees Israel as a cancer, and believes that its divine mission is to conquer and export its Islamist revolution to the West. So now comes the difficult task.
The Brave One proves that Jodie Foster is one of the world's best actors, ever. Although we knew that. She's a private person. Apart from acting, we'd barely be aware, except her unwitting role after the assassination of Ronald Reagan. It's a two-hour 2007 flick made in New York -- what they call a thriller, with well-written characters. The moving picture tells the story of a female serial killer, kind of like Charles Bronson's Death Wish but wholly different.
We welcome all other John Hinckley jokes, so please send.
Those poor little peg-legged immigrants, victims of huge ginger hausfrau. Stopp Grabschen! Wry comments here
