True: Thailand is a narcotics transit hub
Wakey Wakey Children and girls and boys and all the rest. Another weekend's gone.
Another week begins on Monday, September 5.
Canadians are asking: WWBBD?.
GLOBAL WARMING RATIONING
Old Blighty. You took the wrong choice this time, mate. You're going to get it GOODER and HARDER.
Life in Blackout Britain:
Experts warn energy rationing this winter could see people told not to cook until after 8 p.m., pubs close at 9 p.m., 'three-day-a-week' school, care homes cancel outings for residents, swimming pools left unheated.
Kathryn Porter, from consultancy Watt-Logic, fears that the crisis will cost lives in the coming months: 'We should keep our fingers crossed for a warm and windy winter'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11173211/Life-Blackout-Britain-Experts-warn-energy-rationing-winter.html
Related:
Russia's Gazprom indefinitely shuts gas flow to Europe.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/russias-gazprom-indefinitely-shuts-gas-flow-europe
TAIWAN CHINA U.S.A.
United States announces $1.1 billion-with-a-"b" weapons sale to Taiwan, and the Chinese Communist Party is just so darned angry.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/taiwan-gets-arms-sale-china-freaks-out/
ON THE ONE HAND, LET CHINA FREAK: Taiwan Gets Arms Sale, China Freaks Out.
On the other hand, FJB is dying for a war so he can suppress internal dissent.
Rice 'cartel' is coming for you
A two-year, two-nation campaign to raise the prices of rice is ready for signing.
Between them, Thailand and Vietman ship and sell the most rice in the world. And their 'cartel' is set to exploit that.
Neighbours and alleged so-called "experts" have said for two years - No Way. But the cartel is ready to go.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2383623/
THAILAND POLITICS FOREIGNER
Protestor di tutti protestors
Two afternoons of anti-junta, anti-Prayut and even anti-royalty demonstrations went off without serious problems on Saturday and Sunday.
Except for the German guy from Rayong.
Special Branch security police set up a special unit to watch 35-year-old German Moritz Pfoh. His X-marked photo of 'caretaker prime minister' Prawit Wongsuwon is on every front page and TV news broadcast.
He has been warned that "enough is enough" and police are poised to remove his resident visa. Pro-royalty activists are urging the police to take action and get rid of Pfoh.
Thai law is generally unfriendly towards foreigners who intervene directly in politics.
Pfoh's wife, who lives with him in Rayong province, said he was obsessed with Thai politics and she has never asked him to stop. So far.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2384020/
And speaking of the rallies...
The vexatious 'novel coronavirus'
• infected and hospitalised 1,631 new victims on Sunday
• and it killed 25 more
'Medical experts' and scientists ordered everyone in Thialand to get an anti-virus booster shot.
Because, said the most Number One Top virologist in the entire Thailand Doctor Yong Poocvorawan
The Covid-19 virus does not just invade our body head-on, but also mutates or disguises itself, so the soldiers cannot identify it as a threat and the virus eventually sneaks past our defence.
By 'soldiers' the medical expert means doctors and such.
https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/national/40019637
And what does this mean for you and family?. It means, and we quote:
QUOTE
You can contract Covid-19 no matter how many jabs you have had.
Yes, you!
UNQUOTE
Oh, and Doctor Yong also said the Covid transmission rate is falling.
Covid-19 will become a respiratory disease that commonly spreads during wet and cold months, said the Chulalongkorn University virologist.
CORONAVIRUS WUHAN CHINA
After a mere 3 years of failure*...
China to enforce nationwide health code system after public complaints about travel hassles
HONG KONG: China's National Health Commission has announced that it will enforce mutual recognition of its health code system nationwide, as travellers continue to battle with health code apps that do not communicate well between provinces.
*And the laughworthy 'Zero Covid' policy dictated by chief dictator in complete charge Xi Jinping doesn't work. And never will.
https://www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/cefi/eng/lsfw/t1836343.htm
Why yes, yes it is!
'Thailand is a narcotics transit hub'
Drugs czar warns of influx from neighbouring countries.
Where, by "neighbouring countries", we mean Myanmar.
And the 'drug czar' is Police three-star lieutenant general Sarayuth Sanguanpokhai, commissioner of the NSB (Narcotics Suppression Bureau).
Sarayuth states the obvious:
So it is even more convenient for traffickers to smuggle drugs into Thailand before shipping them to the country of destination, especially when China reopens after the pandemic.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/2380736/
OF COURSE HE DOES, THAT'S THE JOB HE WAS ASSIGNED, IS COVER-UP: Garland Doubles Down on Cover-up of FBI Misconduct in Mar-a-Lago Raid.
Remember how close the world came to having this Tammany Hall student as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/08/31/garland-doubles-down-on-cover-up-of-fbi-misconduct-in-mar-a-lago-raid-n1625609
Very weird. China and the U.S.A. are not at war. But they are at
SPACE WAR
NASA and China are eyeing the same landing sites near the lunar south pole. Send the Space Marines to Shackleton Base.
https://spacenews.com/nasa-and-china-are-eyeing-the-same-landing-sites-near-the-lunar-south-pole/
PLA overheard frantically ordering US warplane out of Taiwan Strait
China claims US plane violated its sovereignty by entering its 'territorial airspace'
The PLA Air Force broadcaster can be heard saying in Mandarin, "I am the Chinese Air Force, you have entered my airspace, a serious violation of our sovereignty, leave immediately, leave immediately!"
The U.S. pilot, a little less angry: "I am a United States military aircraft conducting lawful military activities in international airspace and exercising these rights as guaranteed by international law. I am operating with due regard to the rights and duties of all states."
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4641205
True story. That is, to be clear, 100% true.
The world's leading maker of chip making equipment ASML, can't get the chips it needs to make its equipment to make the chips it needs. (Tom's Hardware)
I'm not quite sure how things got this screwed up, but we've long known that a 100% efficient system can fracture under any minor stress that comes along.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-shortage-of-commodity-chips-disrupt-trillion-dollar-industries
Also completely true
A nightclub in Sydney, Australia, has banned staring at other patrons, threatening violators with a call to law enforcement.
An Australian nightclub imposes a "No Checking Out the Opposite Sex" policy.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/26/club-77-staring-harassment-policy-sydney-australia-nightclub/#:~:text=A%20nightclub%20in%20Sydney%2C%20Australia,%E2%80%9Cat%20someone%20from%20afar.%E2%80%9D
TECHNOLOGY
When you see one of those Chinese-controlled articles or TV features about "smart homes", this is exactly what they're talking about.
Twitter had a new plan to fight "extremism" - then Elon Musk arrived. (The Verge)
If you're guessing that "extremism" means normal people opposing fascist lunatics and the "new plan" was more annoying popups and account bans, then you're absolutely correct.
https://www.theverge.com/23334224/twitter-extremism-features-health-research-team-elon-musk-acquisition
The first cool part is that Elon's bid to buy Twitter caused so much chaos internally that the plan was still-born, with management decisions delayed and many of the key censors fleeing the company for even shittier fields.
The second cool part is that an upset would-be censor who tweeted their wish that current CEO Parag Agrawal and former CEO Jack Dorsey "all fall down a very long flight of stairs" was reported for threatening a co-worker and fired.
USB 4 version 2 also does 120Gbps - in one direction. (Angstronomics)
And 40Gbps back. This is very handy if you want to dock your laptop with an 8K 120Hz screen with integrated I/O and networking.
Sony's Xperia 5 IV is basically a smaller version of their Xperia 1 IV. (Liliputing)
While a 6.1" screen isn't small, the device is basically all screen, making it similar in size to 5.5" phones from three or four years ago.
https://liliputing.com/sony-xperia-5-iv-is-a-compact-flagship-by-2022-standards/
It also comes with a 1/8" headphone jack and a microSD slot, two endangered species in the phone space.
Not cheap though at just under $1000.
Politician discovers ISOC. And there can be only one survivor.
