Thailand: Revival of the Century
Good Morning World, awake to the final Sunday of August, 2022, celebrating 144 weeks of Lockdown, and still going on
Thailand: Revival of the Century
You have to go back to 1970, dig up that unforgettable speech by Richard Nixon:
The War on Drugs
Or, just drop by Bangkok, where the whole darned thing is set to Replay, Repeat.
The centrepiece is not heroin, it's marijuana.
SPECIAL REPORT
And also kratom.
Cannabis may have been decriminalised but its use is far from liberalised as experts warn of potential problems with enforcing the laws connected to the plant and the cannabis policy being politicised.
Concerns from many quarters have mounted after cannabis was dropped as a narcotic and instead listed as a controlled herb under the Traditional Medicine Wisdom Protection and Promotion Act.
https://thethaiger.com/news/national/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-current-cannabis-situation-in-thailand-this-is-thailand
THAILAND POLITICS
The still-prominent Prayut political group started broadcasting its message on Saturday:
Prayut is still prime minister of Thailand.
Prayut unleashed his newest (Number Three) spokespersonlady on Saturday, and here's the line:
Number Three (3) deputy government spokespersonwoman, the quite fit Tipanan Sirichana says:
The Constitutional Court ruling that Prayut had to step down as the junta's 'prime minister' is just a temporary bit of nonsense.
Prayut remains as prime minister. His "temporary suspension" is only until the court delivers a ruling on when Prayut's 8-year term actually ends.
Ex-army commander Prawit is sitting in, temporarily, "So we can be relieved there is no vacuum in national administration."
Prawit and Prayut, together or separately, cannot and will not dissover the House of Representatives and call an snap election. That won't happen.
PHOTO: New spokesladyperson and hard Prayut loyalist Tipanan "Onnie Sweety" Sirichana.
Democrat Party leader Jurin Laksanawisit said the "government coalition" is intact and united.
Well, we will see.
For the first time in about 900 years, The New York Times is shocked and ahhh'd about revealing intelligence souces.
It has NEVER before been concerned about revealing such sources. It has serially and continuously ignored government appeals based on such sourcing.
But now, in a case that is totally, absolutely* domestic politics, The New York Times can't hold back its sobs. Orange Man Bad, man.
gfad
*where "absolutely" is an absolute word.
GLOBAL WARMING
How it started: Global warming is killing the Great Barrier Reef, study says.
-- CNN.com, April 18, 2018.
How it's going: Parts of Great Barrier Reef record highest amount of coral in 36 years.
-- CNN.com, August 4, 2022.
I REPEAT: GHISLAINE MAXWELL DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE
However:
Former Phoenix reporter who broke story of Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting found dead.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2021/06/13/former-phoenix-reporter-who-broke-clinton-lynch-tarmac-story-dies/7679503002/
Not yet, but probably coming soon:
Deathbed Confession: "They Faked It"
U.S.A. ENTERTAINMENT
America's Newspaper of Record:
Exciting New Reality Show
Apple TV+ Announces New Show 'Clintons In Cars Killing Witnesses.' "'Get in the car! We’re going suiciding!' yelled Hillary Clinton to her daughter as the cameras began rolling. 'You got the snacks, right? Faking a hanging always makes me hungry. Bodies are so heavy!'"
https://tinyurl.com/5h8p24du
This is the NEW and still largely obscure SPACE RACE:
China makes progress in reusability with secretive second flight of suborbital spaceplane.
PHOTO via CCTV: A Long March 2D carrying the Yunhai-1 (02) satellite lifts off from Jiuquan in 2019. The unrelated suborbital spaceplane also launched vertically from Jiuquan, with no further details provided.
https://spacenews.com/china-makes-progress-in-reusability-with-secretive-second-flight-of-suborbital-spaceplane/
U.S.A. CIVIL RIGHTS:
Federal Judge Strikes Down Texas Law Banning Adults Under 21 From Carrying Guns.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/federal-judge-strikes-down-texas-law-banning-adults-under-from-carrying-guns/
CORONAVIRUS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY VACCINE
The crisis is over, Let the Litigation Commence
Billions of U.S. dollars of profits for anti-Covid vaccines aren't enough, so...
Moderna wants unspecified monetary damages but said kindly it didn't want to force its competitors to take their vaccines off market.
Moderna is suing Pfizer and BioNTech, accusing them of patent violations.
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/26/moderna-sues-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/moderna-sues-pfizer-biontech-over-mrna-patents-but-vaccines-are-safe/
SUNDAY READ: Not long, and to the point
The Sin of Margaret Atwood
The article is far less about doddering, un-nice Canadian poets than about today's political wars.
Atwood has been assisted in her crusade by hundreds of academics. Professors have forced thousands of students to purchase and read Handmaid’s Tale, just as I was forced. MIT’s Heather Hendershot, writing in Film Quarterly, states that since 2017, sales of Atwood’s book have “spiked 200 percent,” spurred on by rhetoric around the election of Donald Trump and subsequent premier of the Hulu TV series.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/26/the-sin-of-margaret-atwood/
Also U.S.A., worth a Sunday read. By Victor David Hanson:
Oprah and LeBron James are victims. Sure.
Elites' divide & conquer failure: How middle class now view their rulers with rightly earned disdain.
The results of these contortions were surreal. The twenty-something who coded a video game that went viral globally became a master of the universe, while the brilliant carpenter or electrical contractor was seen as hopelessly trapped in a world of muscular stasis.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/how-middle-class-now-view-their-rulers-with-rightly-earned-disdain/
U.S.A. POLITICS HANDOUTS
Refund! Ree-fund!
U.S. national advertising campaign:
Non-profit AAN: Stop the College-Loan Bailout for Rich Kids
