Two elephants fall into flood-swollen creek and drown
Good morning, good morning it's a bit after sunrise in East Nong Bon on the last Friday of July, 2022.
Thailand's Covid marches on
In the 24 hours of Thursday, July 28, the SARS Cov-2 coronavirus
• caused 1,902 new disease infections
• killed 32 more Thais.
Cumulative Statistics
Since the first Covid-19 State of Emergency declared by Thailand's junta on March 19, 2020, the coronavirus has
• infected 4,584,070 people in Thailand
• caused the deaths of 31,293
And still counting.
The worldwide Covid statistics, up to midnight last night:
578,973,709 virus infections
6,412,967 deaths by Covid
MYANMAR LYNCHING
The day after ASEAN condemned its Myanmar partner for publicly killing four anti-coup men, the United Nations go off its butt.
The Security Council passed a resulution criticising the Tatmadaw junta for the murders.
China and Russia joined the unanimous 'Yes' vote.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2356321/
His Majesty Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun delivered a speech on Thursday to members of the royal family, senior government officials and dignitaries who gathered to wish him a happy birthday at the Amarindra Vinijaya Throne Hall inside the Grand Palace.
 -- PHOTO COURTESY THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD BUREAU
His Majesty Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun delivered a speech on Thursday to members of the royal family, senior government officials and dignitaries who gathered to wish him a happy birthday at the Amarindra Vinijaya Throne Hall inside the Grand Palace.
 -- PHOTO COURTESY THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD BUREAU
THAILAND CRIME
Home invasion team steals 2 million baht
Armed robbers broke into the home of a wealthy Frenchmanh and his Thai wife in Chaiyaphum province in the north of Thailand.
Stephan S., 55, and his wife Warisa, 32, told police robbers went into their bedroom and made off with 2 million baht - about 54,700 U.S. dollars.
The couple were hosting a "Welcome Back From France" party, and when it broke up at midnight, the hoodlums hit.
https://www.thairath.co.th/news/crime/2457264
Fake news du jour
Two (2) Thai news outlets report this morning that a 40-year-old man in Phuket has contracted the country's second case of monkeypox by allowing a number of foreign men to screw him in the butt.
The problem: Vajira Phuket Hospital director, Doctor Weerasak Lawtongkum, said that lab tests confirmed by the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, said the man had chickenpox.
Can the Bangkok Post and Thai PBS climb down?
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2355301/
Also: Nineteen (19) Phuket residents who knew the one (1) Nigerian monkeypox victim were clear of the virus. The man fled to Cambodia and is still there.
THAILAND TOURISM
British Airways will overfly Thailand
The U.K. flag carrier announced that its Southeast Asian stop (singular) will be Singapore.
And the airline probably won't land in Thailand next March, either.
https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/07/27/british-airways-snubs-bangkok-for-singapore/
The kidnapping craze continues
Police on Thursday arrested three Chinese men for abducting a Chinese businessman in Vanuatu, and transporting him to Bangkok to pay a ransom of 10 million Thai baht in real money - US #275,000, 351,000 loonies.
Police caught the three at Suvarnabhumi airport, minutes before they boarded a Qatar Airways flight to the Middle East.
The crime was first reported on Wednesday. The victim's girlfriend described a dramatic scene, where the three kidnappers in a Toyota Fortuner blocked the victim's Mercedes.
Two elephants caught in a heavy rainstorm at the Heo Narok waterfall in Khao Yai National Park.
They fell into the rocky creek and drowned. Park rangers have closed off the area to all visitors.
In Other News...
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/patama-chantaruck-discusses-what-is-holding-women-back-in-thailands-it-sector/
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/kbanks-first-female-ceo-kattiya-indaravijaya-on-equal-opportunities-for-all-genders-in-the-banking-sector/
WORLD U.S.A. RECESSION
 U.S. Fed hikes interest rates by 0.75 percentage point for second consecutive time to fight inflation.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/27/fed-decision-july-2022-.html
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE?
IS THIS WHAT STATE MEDIA LOOKS LIKE?
 Biden White House talking points redefining recession quickly embraced by media outlets.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-white-house-talking-points-redefining-recession-quickly-embraced-by-media-outlets/ar-AA102dTl?fromMaestro=true
S&P Global Ratings says:
China's property sales plunge 30% - worse than in 2008
 "China's property sales will likely drop by about 30% this year - nearly two times worse than their prior forecast. A growing number of Chinese homebuyers are 'suspending' their mortgage payments."
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/27/chinas-property-sales-set-for-a-worse-plunge-than-in-2008-sp-says.html
A U.S.A. federal judge (spoiler: U.S. Magistrate Judge John Anderson) has just ruled that we cannot publish the following information again.
Anderson and Saint Fauci claim that if we publish this (again), that several of Fauci's close mercenaries will be sad. Too bad.
 The Chinese scientist being protected by the case in question is Kangpeng Xiao of South China Agricultural University.
 The American we cannot identify is Jesse Bloom. a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researcher.
 These two and others exchanged lots of information concerning a coronavirus "very similar to SARS Cov-2" that was extracted from
pangolin.
 The subject, rather obviously, was gain-of-function in the pangolins' virus infection.
And speaking of the coronavirus that definitely did not come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology...
The lockdown followed discovery of four (4) Rona cases.
China Locks Down 1 Million Wuhan city Residents, like in 2019-20)
[BBC] Almost one million people in a suburb of Wuhan - China's central city where the coronavirus was first recorded - have been placed under lockdown.
Jiangxia district residents have been ordered to stay inside their homes or compounds for three days after four asymptomatic Covid cases were detected.
China follows a "zero Covid" strategy, including mass testing, strict isolation rules and local lockdowns.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62322484
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the best way to blind your children is to feed them puberty blocker drugs (aka puberty inhibitors or hormone blockers). Specifically: they cause "brain swelling and permanent vision loss for children."
 Puberty blockers are used for gender transitions (aka sex changes) by children:
 The absolutely certain next step will be a large and organised and extremly well-funded campaign to defund, cancel and burn the agency to the ground.
Info and links:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2022/07/26/fda-warns-of-brain-swelling-and-permanent-vision-loss-in-kids-taking-puberty-blockers/
TECHNOLOGY
The U.S.A. offered a bounty of US 5 million dollars for the North Korean hackers, and no one offered to help.
So now Washington doubled the reward to 10 million dollarss.
If you have information about Andariel, APT38, Bluenoroff, Guardians of Peace, Kimsuky, Lazarus Group... - bring a large suitcase, step right up and get your cash.
https://bityl.co/DWNU
But wait! There's more!
Now there's a new hackgroup stealing huge amounts from people, especially Facebook users, who aren't securing their identities or their internet browsers.
Ducktail is all-Vietnamese.
Read all about it, at
https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/new-ducktail-infostealer-malware.html
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook-parent Meta reported on Wednesday its first quarterly revenue drop and a plunging profit as the social media powerhouse battles a turbulent economy and the rising phenomenon of TikTok.
Reinforce success, not weakness
 SpaceX requests spectrum to upgrade Starlink mobile services.
https://spacenews.com/spacex-requests-spectrum-to-upgrade-starlink-mobile-services/
Island, an Israeli company, has released an internet browser that is, maybe, the safest on the net.
Cisco just poured 10 million-with-an-'m' bucks in, so there must be something good about Island.
Works on Windows and Android:
https://island.io
HUMAN RIGHTS VIETNAM
90-year old sentenced five years for 'abusing democratic freedoms'.
Strange story that involves the Vietnam Communist Party, of  course, and the "oficial" Buddhist group.
The old man, Le Tung Van, was the Zen headmaster of the Tinh That Bong Lai Buddhist monastery, aka Peng Lai Temple aka Thien Am Ben Bo Vu Tru (a small meditating temple on the edge of the universe) in Long An province, south of Saigon aka Ho Chi Mink City.
Official charges: The old man and friends used the temple to get charitable donations from all over, and immediately embezzled and used the donations for themselves.
Oh. And also. Incest, fraud and abusing democratic freedoms.
For years.
He pretended to be a monk, and the others faked being his followers.
Seems like a lot of work for peanuts. Much more of the story:
RFA: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/vietnamese-police-suspend-incest-and-fraud-investigation-into-buddhist-group-07272022005331.html/ampRFA
More at: https://www.thevietnamese.org/2022/07/the-case-of-tinh-that-bong-lai-temple-what-you-need-to-know/
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 https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/elderly-man-receives-jail-for-abusing-democratic-freedoms-4490669.html
Long version at 'TheVietnamese.org'
https://www.thevietnamese.org/2022/07/the-case-of-tinh-that-bong-lai-temple-what-you-need-to-know/
AND: https://the88project.org/profile/569/le-tung-van/
 What was once a common word is now "derogatory". Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones pisses off midgets dwarfs little people.
https://www.outkick.com/jerry-jones-joke-has-little-people-of-america-seeking-apology/?utm_source=aimtell&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=campaign-2493
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