Wanna buy some land? Thailand (maybe) is selling.
Hello kids, it looks like a lovely Saturday July 16 out here in East Nong Ban. It's 26 Canadian degrees with just a bit of a breeze.
Yet another Rona Weekend
As revealed here yesterday, these 'official' coronavirus statistics should be taken with teaspoonsful of salt.
But for now, they are the best that Thailand's junta can do.
The number of cumulative cases in the country since January 1, 2022, stands at 2,331,541.
The country’s total caseload from Covid-19 stands at 4,554,976 – 4,499,975 of whom have recovered, 24,043 are still in hospitals and 30,958 have died.
The unvaxxed keep coming
1,854 people were given their first Covid-19 shot in the last 24 hours, 2,625 their second shot and 26,441 a booster, bringing the total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered nationwide to 140,651,239.
About twice the country's population.
Yesterday was the beginning of Buddhist Lent - a period somewhat similar to the Christian Easter.
Deciding what to give up for the three-month Lent period is difficult for many Buddhists. Typically, they give up eating all beef products.
THAILAND TOURISM WEALTHY
Thailand's junta has issued a plan to sell one rai of land to wealthy foreigners who show plenty of money, and promise to build a home/residence on the land.
NOTE: One rai is 1,600 square metres, or about two-fifths of an acre.
This project has been put forth before, and the usual groups lined up against the junta:
Academics, The private sector, Non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Thailand's so-called 'government' sent out a spokesman to get an idea of public response. Prayut himself was fearful of backing such a plan.
The spokesman said the property-sale plan was being drafted by the Land Department, and leaked a few other hazy details:
To be eligible, foreigners must invest at least 40 million baht (one million U.S. dollars-plus) for at least three years, within designated sectors of the economy - "designated", that is, by junta rules not yet known.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2347033/
The commanding general of Thailand's IV Region and six others were injured when their Black Hawk crashed into a forest in southern Songkhla province.
4th Army spokesman Colonel Pramote Prom-in said the chopper, carrying Lieutenant General Kriangkrai Srirak, commander of the 4th Army region, developed engine trouble on departing from Senanarong military camp in Hat Yai district of Songkhla, en route to Sirindhorn camp in Pattani's Yarang district.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2346938/
CORONAVIRUS U.S.A.
Covid Deaths Double In One Week As BA.5 Variant Takes Hold
https://offthepress.com/u-s-covid-deaths-double-in-week-as-ba-5-variant-takes-hold/
By 'overseas' they mean Germany, Switzerland, and Turkey.
People With Long Covid Are Traveling Overseas For Expensive 'Bloodwashing' Treatments.
The Lipid Center North Rhine in Germany has done the procedure on thousands of patients and claims to have good outcomes.
Apheresis supposedly reduces the stickiness of the blood and improves circulation in the smallest of blood vessels by removing microclots in people with long COVID.
Key word: 'supposedly'
https://www.sciencealert.com/people-with-long-covid-pour-life-savings-into-bloodwashing-procedure
Pay or Get Out
The mandatory 300-baht entry fee has been repeatedly postponed since it was proposed in January this year, with an uncertain timeline for its launch.
The programme will start when all ports of entry are equipped with feasible collection methods.
But know this:
The 300-baht entry fee will apply to all entrants who are not Thai citizens, regardless of nationality or visa type.
https://t.co/QIU8n3syed
Thailand's junta-owned 'parliament' begins yet another five-day no-confidence debate, beginning on Tuesday.
Junta-directed newspaper editorials tell us. ..
Debate must dig deep
The political temperature will rise substantially next week as the awaited censure debate is due to start on Tuesday, even though [so-called] 'prime minister' and former four-star army general Prayut Chan-o-cha's administration is likely to survive - because it holds a majority of seats.
As such, the live broadcast of the five-day censure debate is worthy of attention.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2346588/
QUOTE du jour
America Has Become Unsafe
-- Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO
Schultz said there will be "many more" closings.
So we know that Howard Schultz will not be the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 2024 because it is Double Ungood to say that 'crime is bad' and also be a member of the Democratic Party.
So who does that leave? Mark Cuban?
The horrible part is that Ivana "fell down the staircase" right after two sensationally popular TV movies/mini-series on husbands who tried to cover up their murders of their wives by claiming their wives 'fell down the stairs'.
Newspaper Publisher: We need two blank pages tomorrow for the Conspiracy Theory stories.
Also in the news
United States attempts to organize a pissing contest in a brewery. Fails.
U.S.A. organisers of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon scramble to fix visa issues and fail again.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/sports/2346923/
Former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.
Joshua Schulte had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing release of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.
https://offthepress.com/whoa-biggest-theft-of-cia-data-ever-results-in-conviction/
This is just ... sad!
After Sri Lanka, Globalist Green Agenda Pushes Ghana on Brink of Collapse.
Ghana? Really? People feel proud of ruining Ghana?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/after-sri-lanka-globalist-green-agenda-pushes-ghana-on-brink-of-collapse/
RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR
Dear Russia, you Stalin-worshipping fools,
If you are drafting or 'recruiting' 50-year-olds, you're losing.
Simple as that.
Russia has begun a "volunteer mobilization," where every region must generate at least one volunteer battalion. The term "volunteer mobilization" likely implies that the Kremlin ordered the 85 'federal subjects' (regions, including occupied Sevastopol and Crimea) to recruit and financially incentivise volunteers to form new battalions, rather than referring to literal mobilization relying on conscription.
[Click on image to embiggen greatly.]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russia-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-13
Lil' Mike Bloomberg's agency tells me:
Haven't had Covid? Maybe you've just been lucky. Which sounds jealous as all get-out.
There's a trend for experts who've yet to test positive for Covid to explain their disease virginity on social media, detailing all the steps they've taken to evade the increasingly pervasive virus.
Covid virginity is becoming more special now that it describes a shrinking minority. The lucky few, like weight-loss gurus, are only too happy to share their secrets to success.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/china-killer-doctors
SUNDAY READ
China's Killer Doctors
Take your time. The Chinese organ removers/sellers are back!
Brain death requires that the donor is unable to breathe by themselves. An oxygen mask—as the papers unambiguously attest, using the Chinese term 面罩 - means that they must have been able to breathe. In other words, they were alive and breathing as the surgeons cut their hearts out.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/china-killer-doctors
This is a thoughtful (as always) piece by always-reliable John Tierney.
Don't blame Twitter for Cancel Culture:
Our Problems Aren't Procedural.
Woke ideology existed long before the Internet. It reigns now in institutions because of a generational shift as the baby boomers retire.
https://www.city-journal.org/our-problems-arent-procedural
