The U.S.A. White House Theme Song: Walk Right Back
Good morning kids, to the Wednesday, May 25 edition of the nearly world-famous Thailand Fishwrap, produced right here in the lavish studios at Nong Bon, Thailand.
I hope none of you was hurt during that lavish birthday fireworks display last night, it was really something, eh?
THAILAND MASKS
If you're lucky and well-behaved and follow all health orders meticulously, the alleged Thailand 'government' may allow Thais and tourists alike to remove that mask.
Some people. Some times. In some places.
This is known as 'Follow the Science'.
The draft version of New Masking Rules will state that you only need to mask up indoors (always), in big crowds (always), or if you’re a person in a high risk group. Do you know if you are?
Within three weeks (or so) completely total absolute mandatory mask-wearing will be only for people with underlying illnesses, the elderly and pregnant women.
PHOTO: If you are inside Suvarnabhumi airport you MUST wear a mask. No exceptions.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2315118/
Meanwhile, the official numbers showed another infinitesimal drop in new coronavirus hospital cases, and deaths by Covid-19.
One point of concern: 15 of the 36 reported deaths by Covid were in the Northeast aka Isan.
During Tuesday
4,144 new cases
36 deaths
47,879 active cases
7,235 recovered
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And the latest health order from the designated 'prime minister' Prayut:
World Milk Day is coming (June 1) so get to the supermarket or 7-Eleven and buy milk and DRINK IT!
The reason being, (true story) it supports the local dairy industry. Oh, and also you will get more calcium.
https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40015897
The battle over Sunday's election of populist Chadchart Sittipunt as Bangkok governor is well under way.
One thing that chattering 'political experts' and academics noted, without even getting out of their chairs, were the gains made by the Pheu Thai (ex-Thaksin) and Move Forward (progs) parties.
From his posh villa in Dubai, Thaksin himself noted that the election was "an omen of democracy", a trend he predicted would be repeated in every future election.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2314582/
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2314638/
And everyone noted the continuing death spiral of the Democrat Party, the oldest in the country.
https://bityl.co/CLUA
Ken Lohatepanont, experienced political watcher and cartoonist (see below) has a balanced analysis
Chadchart will run into many of the same problems that bedeviled his predecessors, such as a bloated and inefficient BMA bureaucracy and a limited budget, a good chunk already devoted to fixed costs.
Here are Ken's '5 Takeways' from the Sunday election:
A convincing victory for Chadchart Sittipunt, Bangkok’s next governor
Opposition parties capture the Bangkok Metropolitan Council
The Democrats lose their champion status
Soul searching for the conservative candidates
Sky-high hopes for Chadchart, but how long will the honeymoon period last?
Spoiler: Not long. Maybe none at all.
https://www.thaienquirer.com/40327/five-takeaways-from-the-bangkok-elections/
Populist Chadchart's victory aside, voters handed two opposition parties victories in votes for all Bangkok governing posts. Prayut's so-called supporting parties were shut out.
Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn traveled on Tuesday to Nong Bua Lam Phu, to pay respect to the late Luang Pu Khao Analayo, revered as the country's meditation master.
At the wat (temple, below right) the king opened the Museum of Eight Necessities of a Buddhist Monk.
https://www.matichon.co.th/court-news/news_3362719
The temple was built 163 years ago by order of the 'city ruler', Thongthip Mungklakiri. It has had constant updates and two name changes.
A cabinet at the wat holds the "eight necessities of a Buddhist monk). Known as attha parikkhara (requisites), each monk is allowed three monastic robes (orange or ochre, lower loincloth, the upper inner robe and the large top), a cloth girdle, an alms bowl, a razor to shave the head, a needle for mending clothes, one water strainer.
The U.S.A. White House Theme Song: Walk Right Back.
[U.S. President Joe] Biden made big news this morning with his announcement that the United States would defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion by China. See the triple-bylined AP story 'Biden: US would intervene with military to defend Taiwan.'
Defending Taiwan "is the commitment we made".
The triple bylines Associated Press story is here:
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-taiwan-china-4fb0ad0567ed5bbe46c01dd758e6c62b
VIDEO:
Then White House officials said Biden was dead wrong, for the third time. "Nah, there's no change".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/23/biden-japan-taiwan-china/
But White House staffers insist that Biden is president of the United States.
NOTE: While few expect China to invade Thailand in the near future... or Russia... the U.S. has a treaty commitment to defend Thailand.
Quote Unquote
"This was not a gaffe."
David Sacks Council on Foreign Relations, on Biden's Taiwan confusion
This is the communist, pro-Russia version of Biden's 'Taiwan gaffe':
We really didn't need this from the administration of Biden and Son.
The New York Times indicates divisions over the course of NATO-Russia war
The New York Times editorial titled "The War in Ukraine is Getting Complicated, and America Isn't Ready" indicates serious divisions within and between the White House and intelligence agencies over the course of NATO's war against Russia.
The Times expresses concerns about the war's "extraordinary costs and serious dangers," and states "there are many questions that President Biden has yet to answer for the American public with regard to the continued involvement of the United States in this conflict."
Ignore the source, it is actually a decent summary.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/21/nyti-m21.html
Difficult to argue. But it seems that the C.I.A. is trying to prove that it is MORE useless than the F.B.I.
It's official.
Australia's Anthony Albanese Sworn in as Next Prime Minister
Albanese is promising action on climate change and wage rises
He headed immediately to Tokyo for Quad 'summit'
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-22/australia-s-anthony-albanese-sworn-in-as-next-prime-minister
Also official
Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai still under lockdowns.
What is wrong with this graphic posted by the University of Western Ontario, which is in Canada? Take your time.
(And chastise yourself for missing International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. You did, didn't you?)
If you guessed, what in hell is Western doing, showing kissing of two women in hijabs, claim your prize.
Western has a well-paid "Associate Vice President of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion," who removed the picture from Instagram and then ruined the entire jibber-jabber with this silliness: "Western understands how ‘complex and intersectional...'.
FASTER, PLEASE
Meanwhile, some scientists and medical experts are still at work.
First Patient Injected With Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus in New Clinical Trial.
https://www.sciencealert.com/first-patient-injected-with-experimental-cancer-killing-virus-in-new-clinical-trial
Good News for Autocrats.
You've got your Monkeypox hysteria read for launch.
BUT WAIT, I WAS JUST WARMING UP TO THE MONKEYPOX!
'Experts: Syphilis surge is 'next' public health emergency.'
https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/05/experts-syphilis-surge-is-next-public-health-emergency/
Updating the story a little bit...
There are no confirmed monkeypox cases in Thailand or the region.
We all know how you get monkeypox.
Therefore, it is necessary to show the correct amount of alarm by a junta order to mask all children from 5-to-10 years old to wear masks at all times - because of monkeypox.
Whoops, so much disease panic, almost forgot.
There is an outbreak of 'monkey malaria' near the Thai border with Cambodia.
It's rare, but it is passed along to humans exclusively by those pesky Anopholes mosquitoes, just like other malarias.
Alleged 'health experts' are urging residents in the risk areas, and tourists, to take proper precautions against mosquito bites, and avoiding getting near or touching monkeys.
https://bityl.co/CMCO
Also
Keep frequent flyers and tourists of all nationalities on their toes.
Airports on alert for monkeypox symptoms
The Department of Disease Control has introduced strict rules for screening visitors travelling from countries where monkeypox has been found.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2314594/
Vietnam is still unable to do anything for itself without the help of kindly Americans.
USAID helps ease congestion at Vietnam's busiest container ports
The ports are Ho Chi Minh City, Haiphong, Da Nang, and Qui Nhon.
The USAID-supported program results from the fact that inefficient border procedures, including customs clearance at ports, are preventing Vietnam from improving its trade competitiveness.
(Take a deep breath)
For that reason, the five-year program is supporting the Government of Vietnam to adopt a risk-management approach to customs and specialized inspection, strengthening the implementation of the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement of which both Vietnam and the United States are members.
PHOTO: Saigon port, now called Cat Lai.
http://hanoitimes.vn/usaid-helps-ease-congestion-at-vietnam-busiest-container-port-320832.html
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tbh The American 'Port Panic' is about freeing the traffic jams of ships trying to get into west coast ports.
The abject Vietnamese panic is about trying to get ships (and cargo) out of the ports where they're stuck.
INFLATION U.S.A.
This guy isn't just pessimistic, he's a downright skeptic.
Invasion of the Body-and-Soul Snatchers.
The formula shortage will eventually ease. But something else will take its place.
The litany of potential disasters under Joe Biden is endless, each baleful new development replicating like the pod people of Don Siegel's classic 1956 film, sucking the life out of human beings and institutions, absorbing mind and memory, and leaving nothing but husks behind.
https://the-pipeline.org/the-column-invasion-of-the-body-and-soul-snatchers/
Struth! These SpaceX moon and sunrise Starlink satellite launch photos are just incredible.
https://www.space.com/spacex-moon-sunrise-starlink-launch-photos
A separate and new look at a story published late last week.
Wuhan Institute of Virology Publishes New "Gain of Function" Study Featuring Avian Flu Virus.
They couldn't have done it without Fauci's generosity. Which raises the question:
If Fauci were a hostile space alien, what would be differently?
Prove it wrong:
If you can't sustain an anti-gun narrative without lying, then just go ahead and lie your extreme lower backside off:
Ministry of Truth: Politicians and Media Misinformation Shape Public Misperceptions of Violent Crime and Guns.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/ministry-of-truth-politicians-and-media-misinformation-shape-public-misperception-of-violent-crime-and-guns/
RUSSIA UKRAINE CANADA WAR
This is a hugely pro-Russian anti-Ukraine series (now on Part 4) by American commies and simps, and it ain't pretty. And it's by (CAUTION) the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
Canadian imperialism's fascist friends — Part 4:
How Ottawa provided the Ukrainian fascists refuge and incubated and promoted far-right Ukrainian nationalism.
For the Western imperialist powers, there were no better allies in their "Cold War" crusade against the Soviet Union than the fascists and ultra-nationalists complicit in the Nazi regime's historically monstrous crimes against humanity.
... Canada's War Department saw the creation of the UCC as a means to mobilize the Ukrainian diaspora for war. As the UCC notes on its website, "The final and conclusive impetus for unity came from the National War Services of Canada which was anxious that young Ukrainians enlist in military services."
They are going to stop after Part 5, coming shortly.
PHOTO: Bear in mind... this is 1927, in Winnipeg.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/24/orre-m24.html
IMPORTANT NOTICE
No member of the nomenklatura was killed, injured, harmed, delayed or inconvenienced in any manner during the making of this video.
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