There was tear gas everywhere, say survivors
Hi kids. That weekend went by too quickly, don't you think?
Here we are at Wan canthi, Senin, lunedi, lunes, Segunda-feira... Monday! That's it, October 3, 2022, Day Number 927 of the Official Emergency and Lockdown.
125 Indonesians trampled to death
Remind me again how to say 'stupid police' in Bahasa Indonesia? Oh, wait, I remember.
Polisi Bodoh
Saturday night, there was a soccer aka football match at Malang, East Java. The result of the game did not please the fans of Persebaya Surabaya, so right at the final whistle they invaded the pitch.
The polisi bodoh assigned to ensure safety went nuts, panicked like little girls and fired tear gas into the crowd on the pitch, who all fled and stampeded and crushed and stomped 125 football fans to death. Including 17 children. And badly injured 180 others, or so.
PHOTO: Friends carry an injured man from Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang.
https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2022/10/02/death-toll-from-east-java-football-riot-climbs-to-129.html
IN BRIEF
• The game ends at about 10:45 p.m. Persebaya defeated Arema 3-2.
• After the final whistle, spectators pour into the field.
• Fans throw bottles and other objects at players and football officials, and rioting spreads outside the stadium.
• At least five police cars are toppled and set ablaze and many more are damaged.
• Riot police respond with tear gas, which is banned at stadiums by FIFA, world football's governing body.
Repeat
Tear gas, which is banned at football stadiums
Final death toll from East Java stadium stampede is 125
https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2022/10/02/death-toll-from-east-java-football-riot-climbs-to-129.html
There was tear gas everywhere, say survivors
Not to mention bodies of the dead
Here is a timeline of an immense tragedy
and
REPEAT
Police fired tear gas, resulting in the stampede.
https://bityl.co/EpvM
Well, yes. That didn't work well, did it?
Indonesian president Jokowi orders safety review in wake of deadly Indonesia football stampede
Also, he banned all Liga 1 soccer games.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/jokowi-orders-safety-review-deadly-indonesia-football-stampede-2980326
12 Signs that show you’ve been in Thailand for a long time
Or... too long?
And over your shoulder... you're watching for those speeding motorcycles coming right down the sidewalk. (aka footpath aka pavement)
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/12-signs-that-show-youve-been-in-thailand-for-a-long-time/
Storm gone, floods remain
As of this morning, first responders and provincial governors are reporting 'extensive flooding' in the North and Isan (Northeast) from ex-cyclone, tropical storm Noru.
The Cats move in
Clean-up crews work on Highway 11 in northern Uttaradit province.
https://bityl.co/EpZ3
The former editor of the Bangkok Post finally writes it out loud:
Silently complicit in a far-fetched ruling
 Translation
The entire Prayut affair wasn't justice. It was fixed.
 The Constitutional Court's ruling is far-fetched.
 It is contrary to a glaring fact that is well known to most of us. But that is the way the law of the land, be it the constitution or other laws, works and is interpreted.
 A justice in the minority of the 6-3 ruling wrote:
 Not only should the law matter, but good conscience and the morals of people who are in power and tradition should be taken into account too.
because
 ... For many, eight years under the leadership of the "three Ps" (Prayut, deputy prime minister Prawit Wongsuwon and interior minister Anupong Paochinda) are eight wasted years for the country and its people.
PHOTO: "Shut up," he explained. Prayut arrives for a meeting with his 'government'.
The Department of Tough Job But Gol-Durnit Someone Has To Do It reports:
US, Australia and Japan vow to work together against China
[AFP] HAWAII
"We are deeply concerned by China's increasingly aggressive and bullying behavior in the Taiwan Strait, and elsewhere in the region," US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said as he welcomed his counterparts from Australia and Japan to the US military headquarters for the Pacific region.
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/us-australia-and-japan-vow-to-work-together-against-china/
Stressing his point, 2,533 kilometers to the northeast...
Taiwan Navy to acquire 3rd guided missile corvette by end of year
TAIPEI: The Navy's third Tuo Chiang-class guided missile corvette, also known as an "aircraft carrier killer," will take to the water by the end of December.
PHOTO: Taiwan's second corvette, the Ta Chiang.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4674211
Indonesia is doing most of the work to organize the APEC summit in Bangkok on November 19, and getting ASEAN into line.
For example:
 Indonesia Won't Recognize Russia's Claim of Four Ukrainian Regions
https://jakartaglobe.id/news/indonesia-wont-recognize-russias-claim-of-four-ukrainian-regions
and on that note...
Biden vows Russia won't 'get away with' Ukraine annexation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and its allies hit back at Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday, slapping sanctions on more than 1,000 people and companies including arms supply.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4673627
HMM. Who knew there was any link?: Scientists unveil first-ever ‘atlas’ describing links between fungi, cancers.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/09/29/fungi-cancer-study/6831664469681/
 Antonio Inoki, RIP
Inoki was an athlete, a trainer, both a real and a pro rassler, died at 79.
In 1976 he challenged world heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali to a fight, which became the epitome of world-class foolishness and ridiculousness.
PHOTO: Ali spent most of the bout taunting Inoki to get up and 'fight like a man' - and most of the 14,500 fans who had paid to get into Tokyo's Nippon Budokan stadium to see the farcical 'War of the World' agreed.
In 2010, he was, of course, inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/01/antonio-inoki-dies-aged-79-as-wwe-leads-tributes-to-wrestling-pioneer-17484315/?ito=push-notification&ci=LRO1bqQllj&cri=6DDxH4rrow&si=32291327&xi=0b64ba8b-206b-407c-9945-c007b78d9477&ai=17484315
[The Monday Morning Joke]
Two statues in a park
One was a statue of of a naked man, and one of a naked woman. They had been facing each other for a hundred years across a pathway, when one day an angel comes down, and with a single gesture brings the two to life.
The angel tells them, "As a reward for being so patient through a hundred blazing summers and dismal winters, you have been given life for thirty minutes to do what you've wished to do the most."
He looks at her, she looks at him, and they go running behind the shrubbery. The angel waits patiently as the bushes rustle and giggling ensues. After fifteen minutes, the two return, out of breath and laughing.
The angel tells them, "Um, you have fifteen minutes left, would you care to do it again?" He asks her "Shall we?" She eagerly replies, "Oh, yes, let's! But let's change positions. This time, I'll hold the pigeon down and you shit on its head." (ht TNDeplorable)
[Feelgood story du jour, This is a goodie.]
Isaiah Garza is a fashion designer and online personality. He approached a 100-year-old gentleman and asked if he'd like to go to Disneyland with him.
He would, and he did.
Totally heart-warming, with pix.
https://www.boredpanda.com/man-takes-100-year-old-veteran-to-disneyland/
An interesting idea from a trade expert at Project Syndicate:
Biden has launched a trade war against himself
[which was dumb]
U.S. President Joe Biden's protectionist trade policies are in open conflict with the rest of his domestic and foreign=policy agenda. In the name of slogans like "Buy American," the administration is making it even harder to address climate change, inflation, poverty, and the erosion of America's global standing.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-trade-policies-undercutting-fight-against-climate-change-inflation-poverty-by-anne-o-krueger-2022-09
