Tim Page is alive and fighting on

The name of the day is Monday, and it is May 23, 2022
Just one day to go until the Magic May 24

Canadian Folk Chant
The 24th of May is Firecracker Day
If we don't get a holiday, we'll all run away.
Tim Page is NOT dead. But the news isn't optimistic.
Sad news from a reliable old friend:
I just heard from a friend that Tim Page has died of cancer.
THAT IS PREMATURE.
But his wonderful girlfriend/caretaker Marianne writes, this morning:
Tim was diagnosed with a cancer that has spread and is quite aggressive.
He was in hospital for two weeks but is back home now. Not in pain (a bit of discomfort from the internal cameras poking around), tired, lost weight but home.

Hello... period.
Full text of the message by U.S. President Joe Biden to North Korean Marshal Jim Jong-Un.

Thailand broke the 5,000 mark for new coronavirus cases during the 24 hours of Sunday - going downward.

[REUTERS] Shanghai is still an excellent place to avoid
Shanghai district to require all shops to shut, residents to stay home
https://bityl.co/CJXL

Chinese-controlled World Health Organization opens campaign for a 'Global Pandemic Treaty'

[Heavy influence by Bill Gates in this.]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/05/alarm-sounded-over-whos-global-pandemic-treaty/
The British Medical Journal has weighed in:
Pandemic treaty: a chance to level up on equity
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1279

Israel, Switzerland report first monkeypox cases as virus spreads
There are no reported cases of monkeypox in Thailand.
Not yet.
It's a nasty virus spread sexually.

In dire need of 'the next emergency' to exploit, Thailand's junta picks monkeypox.
'Experts' set up a centre to monitor the virus.
As of this morning, more than 100 infections have been found in 12 nations, none of which is Thailand.
Be Prepared
According to the junta's Department of Disease Control (DDC), which is almost always wrong, monkeypox is transmitted to humans through close contact with an infected person or animal, though human-to-human transmission is limited. Animal hosts include a range of rodents and non-human primates.
Dr. Opas  Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Department of Disease Control (DDC), said the centre will keep a close watch on the progress of the outbreak, despite the fact the virus has yet to be detected in Thailand.
WARNING: Nasty photo.
https://www.matichon.co.th/foreign/indepth/news_3358076

Pride festival in Gran Canaria — which was attended by 80,000 people — is linked to Spanish monkeypox outbreak as well as two cases in Italy while European total reaches 100.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10839877/Monkeypox-outbreak-Europes-biggest-100-cases-reported.html
China-owned World Health Organization is way, way behind on this case.
[Well it was the weekend and they were busy]
 After 100 Monkeypox Cases Reported in Europe, WHO Calls Emergency Meeting.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/05/after-100-monkeypox-cases-reported-in-europe-who-calls-emergency-meeting/

ECONOMY INFLATION KOREA U.S.A.
Hyundai Motor Group to invest more than $10 billion in Electic Vehicle (EV) production in U.S., zero in Thailand
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/hyundai-motor-group-invest-5-billion-us-through-2025-2022-05-22/

Thailand's version of E Pluribus Unum
Out of 21 candidates, one winner of Bangkok's election for governor - former minister of transport Chadchart Sittipunt.
 The populist independent was the favourite by a wide margin, and arrived to vote on his two-wheeler.
 He may try (and fail abysmally) to put Bangkok's 15 million residents on two wheels.
 But Sunday's actual elections in Bangkok and Pattaya exposed the harsh truth that voters reject the ruling junta and its appointed dictator Prayut.

Political cartoonists and Oped editors have all been virtually open fans of Chadchart for more than a decade.
The Monday morning cartoon features the iconic Giant Swing of Bangkok - but the headline is contentious.

The honeymoon is over before it starts
There has not been this much media adulation since the Thaksin election sweep of 2001 - when virtually the entire Thai press supported Thaksin.
The troubles for Chadchart will start shortly, about that "support across the board" claim.
The question is 'why?' Why are the media's editors and reporters so incredibly invested in Chadchart, who actually has no record of achievements?
Political pundits will tear that headline to shreds, and there won't be any moderation about it.

Large signs, small protest
Student-led political activists in Khon Kaen, northeast Thailand, staged an anti-coup, anti-Prayut protest on Sunday.
 The march was so small that the police didn't even bother to beat any of the marchers - from the Khon Kaen Democracy Monument to the Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat Monument

THAILAND ECONOMY
The problems of the
Baht on a tightrope
The currency depreciation looks great for shippers and the tourism sector, but it leads to an array of problems for importers.

Opening exchange rates in Thailand on Monday morning.

INTERVAL

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CHURCH SHOOTING CALIFORNIA TAIWAN COMMUNIST
The attempted mass shooting at the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church at Laguna Woods, California has got almost no mass-media coverage. Because nothing about it meets the U.S. mass media's requirements for a narrative.
Details do continue to emerge.
Now it turns out that the church shooter, 68-year-old pro-Beijing immigrant David Chou, is associated with a Chinese Communist Party front group, the Las Vegas Association for China's Peaceful Unification. The group is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, and demands that Taiwan surrender to Beijing.
PHOTO: Present at the Founding
Church shooter-murderer David Chou (left) holds up the banner of the pro-Beijing Association for China's Peaceful Unification at the group's first formal meeting in Las Vegas, three years ago.

Hands up, everyone who knew that the Communist Party of China finances and controls a major anti-Taiwan front group, in Las Vegas.
Details at
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/shooter-05172022104957.html

[Comment:
[Good on Radio Free Asia and The Epoch Times for assigning news reporters to dig into the Chou shooting.
[Shame on the U.S. mass media for sitting on their ample duffs and accepting whatever an uninformed county sheriff "allowed" them to write.]

GLOBAL WARMING

Colorado, man. Famous for its official state motto: If you don't like our weather, wait 10 minutes and we'll change it for you.
May snowfall pastes Colorado 24 hours after 90-degree heat
A blast of winter-like weather dropped several inches of snow across much of Colorado.
WITH VIDEO
https://www.9news.com/article/weather/weather-colorado/may-20-snow-totals-denver-colorado/73-16eff930-3521-45f8-a624-5258a965dfe2
https://bityl.co/CJWA


POLITICS BIDEN
Two thugs hired by the U.S. SS to protect U.S. President Biden were whisked out of Seoul and sent back to the U.S.A. because they started a drunken fight with Koreans over a taxi.
 The U.S. Secret Service (SS) went into full denial/cover-up mode.
 The White House denied that Biden threw punches or was involved in the fisticuffs.
[REUTERS] https://bityl.co/CJWb

If you like peanut butter...
The J.M. Smucker Company issued a voluntary recall of Jif, which may contain salmonella.
Salmonella can make you

• sicker than a dog and wish you were dead, or,

• dead.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/jif-recall-peanut-butter-salmonella

Ahhh that's so sweet that it takes an American news agency to tell the tale:
Australia's next prime minister came from humble beginnings
https://apnews.com/article/climate-sydney-australia-government-and-politics-77139715f40287ece5cf86dfe815c081

Might be more useful to ban stoked-up producers who use them to kill.
California tries to ban guns on movie sets.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/05/21/california-tries-to-ban-guns-on-movie-sets-n470987

I do not know the exact size of the Empire State Building but so long as Asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) flies right by, I'll be happy.
Asteroid 4 times larger than Empire State Building to fly past Earth on Friday night.
 Much less urgently, I kind-of hope the asteroid will also slip by Earth in 2194 and not hurt my grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/05/20/Asteroid-fly-by-Earth/6321653072667/

ANALYSIS
A columnist of The New York Times planted his opinion in the Bangkok Post newspaper that
Long Covid-19 shouldn't rule my life
[It doesn't so I've got that covered.]

Return of the Limits to Growth
English cleric Tom Malthus (1766-1834) and the orgy of the Club of Rome (1972) began beating the drums again on Monday. So maybe the pandemic is really over and we're back to screeching normal?
A Chinese professor living in Germany assures us this morning they were both right. So why is he asking a question?
Have we hit the limits to growth?
 "The reason physical limits to growth exist is that the planet's biosphere cannot grow exponentially."
SPOILER: Although there are no surviving eyewitnesses, it seems Malthus was such a pill he almost never was invited to dinners or parties. Still is.
Around a third of "educated" people believe the Earth is flat.

RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR VIETNAM
These are the same people, and their students, who thought in 1975 that they could sweet-talk Hanoi and the Vietnam Communist Party into negotiating a peaceful settlement with the Saigon government, when North Vietnam was clearly winning the war.
 They are true ivory-tower know-nothings.
 Growing Chorus Is Urging Ukraine To Sue for Peace in a Compromise With Putin
https://www.nysun.com/article/ukraine-resists-growing-calls-to-appease-putin

"Experts"
Fertilizer Shortage? Try Peeing On Your Plants, Say Experts.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fertilizer-shortage-try-peeing-on-your-plants-say-experts

BANGKOK AUSTRALIA
 Thailand's king has granted the name "Soi ArunMcKinnon", after Ambassador Allan McKinnon, be given to the road on which the Australian Embassy is located in Bangkok.

TECHNOLOGY
Top story
Semiconductor research group IMEC has published a roadmap taking the industry far beyond 1nm. (Tom's Hardware)
The roadmap looks forward to the 3nm and 2nm nodes that are already under development at TSMC, Samsung, and Intel - and then beyond all the way to what they call A2 - a nominal 0.2nm - sometime around 2036.
Much, much more at
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/imecs-sub-1nm-process-node-and-transistor-roadmap-until-2036-from-nanometers-to-the-angstrom-era

Also Page One
Apple is planning to expand manufacturing outside China. (9to5Mac)
But not Thailand.
The company is looking toward India (where labour relations have been somewhat fraught) and Vietnam.
But not Thailand. Not yet.
https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/21/report-apple-suppliers-to-expand-manufacturing-outside-of-china/

Apple is also dumping a Chinese display manufacturer and sourcing from South Korea instead. (WCCFTech)
BOE reportedly decided to adjust the designs for their iPhone 13 screens to cut costs - without bothering to tell Apple.
https://wccftech.com/boe-may-lose-out-on-iphone-14-display-orders-for-cheating/

Reports and anecdotes have it that Amazon's free one day delivery has become free one week delivery. If you need something quickly, tough luck.

Russia is turning to China for CPUs. (The Register)Unfortunately for Russia, China's CPUs are dogshit.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/19/export_bans_prompt_russia_to/

Google's AI is smart enough to understand your humour. (CNet)
How very lovely. But I wasn't planning on sitting here and telling jokes. Google's AI can't do anything about banning the spam before it hits my inbox.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/no-joke-googles-ai-is-smart-enough-to-understand-your-humor/

A new 1:720  model from Revell just dropped.

Russia has banned Joe Biden from entering the country - and 962 other American citizens.
It was not known if Biden intended to take a vaycay in Russia.
The Biden ban is 'lifetime'. Also banned from visiting Russia are secretary of state Antony Blinken, US senate majority leader Cuck Schumer, defence secretary Lloyd Austin and CIA head William Burns.
 Several on the Russian government's list of undesirables wouldn't have been able to make the trip anyway; they are already dead.
 The Guardian had a comment:
The latest action by Russia forms part of a downward spiral in the country's relations with the west since its invasion of Ukraine, which prompted Washington and allies to impose drastic sanctions on Moscow and step up arms supplies to Ukraine's military.
https://bityl.co/CJQA


The Monday Morning Joke

A golfer was involved in a terrible car crash and was rushed to the hospital. Just before he was put under, the surgeon popped in to see him.

"I have some good news and some bad news," says the surgeon. "The bad news is that I have to remove your right arm!"

"Oh God no!" cries the man "My golfing is over! Please Doc, what's the good news?"

"The good news is, I have another one to replace it with, but it's a woman's arm and I'll need your permission before I go ahead with the transplant."

"Go for it, doc," says the man, "as long as I can play golf again."

The operation went well and a year later the man was out on the golf course when he bumped into the surgeon.

"Hi, how's the new arm?" asks the surgeon. "Just great," says the businessman. "I'm playing the best golf ever. My new arm has a much finer touch, and my putting has really improved."

"That's great," said the surgeon.

"Not only that," continued the golfer, "my handwriting has improved, I've learned how to sew my own clothes and I've even taken up painting landscapes in watercolors."

"That's unbelievable!" said the surgeon, "I'm so glad to hear the transplant was such a great success. Are you having any side effects?"

"Well, just two, said the golfer, "I have trouble parallel parking and every time I get an erection, I get a headache."

The U.S.A. left has switched its position on free speech, and expecially on Twitter by 180 degrees. Now they're against it.
Part of a complicated karma for opposing Twitter is the creation of a bogus sex scandal against African-American billionaire Elon Musk.
He used (IRONY ALERT) Twitter to give that campaign the full respect it preserves.

Americans: This is your first (not final) notice on your Energy Situation.
 U.S. Energy Officials Issue 'Sobering' Warning About Widespread Summer Blackouts Triggered by Closure of Fossil Fuel Plants.