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Or, there's another possibility that what RFK Jr. is selling is somewhat less than it's being hyped to be. Note the key sentence from the OP report above: "Despite this, Kennedy is moving forward with a campaign that urges food manufacturers to voluntarily transition away from artificial coloring. [emphasis added]. Let's repeat that for emphasis... "a campaign that urges food manufacturers to voluntarily transition away from artificial coloring." Per the usually very reliable blog "Your Local Epidemiologist" by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina: "Red dye #3 is already out the door [prior to Trump taking office], and the new HHS administration is trying to phase out the rest. Last Tuesday, HHS announced the initiative. What actually happened: Only two rarely-used colors—Citrus Red 2 and Orange B—were officially revoked. For the remaining six, which are more widely used, it will be entirely up to the food industry under a voluntary “understanding”—not a formal ban. [emphasis added] Response from industry members so far has been mixed; some have pledged support, while others are maintaining their safety. Some key context: Contrary to popular belief, five of these six colors are allowed in Europe whose regulatory body follows a more cautionary hazard-based approach to food safety. They just use different names on their food labels. Dr. Andrea Love created a great table (see below)." [emphasis added] https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/novavax-confusion-food-dyes-measles Personally, I'm not advocating for or against all of the above RFK Jr. stuff... The science and evidence appears to remain largely up in the air... As the OP report noted: "Critics point to research linking synthetic food dyes to hyperactivity and neurobehavioral issues in children, though the scientific consensus remains debated." But for the time being, just saying, there's arguably a lot more "urging" going on here than actual rule-making or enforcement. As Jetelina concluded: "What does this mean for you? It’s unclear at this point. The impact on you as a consumer will depend on how—and whether—the industry chooses to shift. But again, let’s not lose the forest for the trees. For real progress to make America healthier, we need a number of systematic changes that tackle root causes"

I guess it depends on how well read a person is: Per the Associated Press tonight: "the authorities in Spain have yet to provide further explanations for what caused one of the most serious blackouts to ever take place in Europe. ... Spain’s meteorological agency, AEMET, said that it had not detected any “unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomena” on Monday, and no sudden temperature fluctuations were recorded at their weather stations. Portugal’s National Cybersecurity Center on Monday dismissed speculation about foul play, saying there was no sign that the outage resulted from a cyber attack." https://apnews.com/article/spain-portugal-power-outage-electicity-533832bb4ceae92eaa68c23dc0b5db18

There's also a substantial thread running on the same topic right now in the Thailand News section:

What time of the day did you go rolling into BKK CW this year? Time of day can make a difference on the time needed to complete the process.

Perhaps knowing the standard provision of the Thai legal system that admitting your guilt prior to actual sentencing typically gets you a half reduction in the length of one's sentence.

It's all about Trump and RFK Jr's campaign to Make America (and the World) UNhealthy Again (MAUNHA)!!! Just like the tub of lard president and the worm-eaten brain HHS secretary he appointed.

From what SCB reps told me recently, the Thai government's digital ministry issued a list (or lists) to Thai banks earlier this year identifying people whose mobile phone name registrations didn't/don't match their bank account name registrations.

The full headline that got curtailed in the OP post in fact read -- "Constitutional Crisis" From the OP news report: Trump has signed 124 orders in less than 100 days. Scholars warn this is a constitutional crisis 23 April 2025 "As Donald Trump nears the end of his first 100 days in office, he has issued a record-breaking high of 124 executive orders, while signing a record-breaking low of just five new bills into law, and caused concerns among constitutional scholars. [emphasis added] “These orders are extraordinary, not just in their number, but in their breadth,” said Rory Little, a law professor at the University of California- San Francisco said at a recent panel discussion. “The current state of affairs can be characterized I think with no exaggeration as a crisis, a challenge to the rule of the law in the United States.” [emphasis added] ... “While some may legitimately applaud the policy goals that underlie some of these actions, I hope we can all agree these policy goals should be pursued lawfully, lest we end up living in the type of system envisioned by the president, where he is the only law,” fellow professor Jodi Short said. [emphasis added] (more) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-executive-orders-constitution-law-b2738186.html That's what a dictator is and does... attempts to rule unilaterally without feeling the need for governing via laws promulgated and enacted by the elected legislators, in the case of the U.S., those being Congress.

2 American Children Were Sent to Honduras With Their Undocumented Mother The children, 4 and 7, were put on a plane with their mother, who was deported. The family’s lawyer said the mother was given no choice but to take her children, which the Trump administration denied. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/politics/us-citizen-children-deported-honduras-trump.html U.S. citizen children, including 4-year-old with cancer, taken to Honduras on mother's deportation flight, legal advocates say Two siblings, ages 4 and 7, were flown out of the U.S. on their mother’s deportation flight before attorneys could reach them, according to the National Immigration Project. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/two-children-us-citizens-4-and-7-year-old-deported-honduras-rcna203208 "The White House is digging in on its refusal to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, viewing the controversial fight as a political winner that keeps the focus on an issue of strength for President Trump. Democrats and civil rights groups have been in an uproar about the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing had been sent to a notorious El Salvador prison by mistake. Abrego Garcia is a 29-year-old Salvadoran national who fled that country as a teenager to escape gang violence. He was protected from deportation by an immigration judge in 2019, a fact courts this year have underscored in calling on the administration to bring him back to the United States. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5252735-trump-administration-refuses-bring-back/ 'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad April 16, 202511:56 AM ET President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. Speaking Monday, minutes before a press briefing alongside El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, Trump could be heard embracing the concept. ... The proposal has drawn condemnation from some legal scholars, who said it would represent an unprecedented encroachment on the civil liberties of U.S. citizens. ... "It's obviously unconstitutional, obviously illegal. There's no authority in any U.S. law to deport U.S. citizens and certainly not to imprison them in a foreign country," said David Bier of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, D.C. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-jail-u-s-citizens-homegrowns-el-salvador All of the above are hallmarks of a would-be American dictator who believes himself to be above the laws and not constrained by federal court rulings or the actual Constitution.

The Biden era moratorium was hardly some crazy illegal scheme.... It was considered by and even endorsed by Congress at one point, was arguably supported by a prior law, and later one version of the moratorium was upheld by a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling involving the Trump era court, as the NYT article below recounts. But later, a divided high court shifted its opinion and their ultimate ruling brought the moratorium to an end... And that's the way the legal and government systems are supposed to work -- unlike the nonsense with Trump and his administration's open defiance of court rulings. Supreme Court Ends Biden’s Eviction Moratorium The ruling followed political and legal maneuvering by the administration to retain protections for tenants. It puts hundreds of thousands at risk of being put out of their homes. Published Aug. 26, 2021Updated Nov. 7, 2021 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Biden administration’s latest moratorium on evictions, ending a political and legal dispute during a public health crisis in which the administration’s shifting positions had subjected it to criticism from adversaries and allies alike. ... The administration’s legal maneuvering might have failed, but it bought some time for tenants threatened with eviction. In unusually candid remarks this month, President Biden said that was part of his calculus in deciding to proceed with the new moratorium, which was set to expire Oct. 3. ... Many states and localities, including New York and California, have extended their own moratoriums, providing another layer of protection for some renters. In some places, judges, aware of the potential for large numbers of people to be put out on the street even as the pandemic intensifies again, have said they would slow-walk cases and make greater use of eviction diversion programs. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/us/eviction-moratorium-ends.html PS - A national measure to protect tenants from COVID era evictions hardly belongs in the same discussion or category as leading an attempted U.S. government insurrection to overrturn a lawfully decided presidential election, or wrongfully deporting people with legal standing to remain in the U.S. at the time to foreign countries and/or foreign prisons.

That's not been my experience at all, and none of my current mobile numbers are post Jan. 2022.

That was a different regimen, AFAIK... Now, you have to ensure that the name details on your mobile accounts and your bank accounts match exactly right down to the smallest detail. Or, face the prospect of getting cut off from access to mobile banking and who knows what else...

That's been my experience also in terms of older mobile accounts getting caught up in this... My current mobile accounts were opened years back, and that didn't stop me from getting reported on the government's "not in compliance" list that was given to the banks.

The accountholder names on the bank accounts and the mobile service accounts need to match EXACTLY, right down to the smallest detail.....

I don't think I've ever had any direct contact from any of my Thai banks about this, thus far... I only found out when suddenly I discovered SCB some weeks back had cut me off from being able to contact their Customer Service call center because my name was on the government's "not in compliance" list that had been given to the banks sometime earlier this year... And, I never have gotten any explanation of why SCB was enforcing that now, at least in terms of accessing their Call Center, when supposedly the government deadline for being in compliance isn't until April 30, and all my problems and dealings with them on this happened weeks prior to that.

Sadly, no, it's NOT that simple... I needed to get SCB to remove an odd name reference (MISTER) that they had listed as part of my account name many years ago... I did that, and processed that name change at my local SCB branch so everything mobile and bank related matched exactly... But, a week after that, I was still cut off from being able to contact SCB by phone, and kept getting the recording about my bank account name not matching my mobile account name.. Went back to my SCB branch a second time, and as I reported above, they had no idea why their prior name change to my acccount hadn't fixed the problem. But ultimately, when they finally got a security guy at SCB HQ on the phone, he explained that SCB HQ also had to report back to the Thai government so the Thai government would remove me from their prior "not in compliance" list of accountholder names that the government had issued to the banks. And the simple account name correction I'd done in the branch prior had not triggered those additional steps on SCB's part.... YEESH!!!

I don't want to get off the main topic of your thread, Jing... But in recent months since the last election, I've been giving a lot of thought to the prospect that the Democrats might nominate another woman as their presidential candidate in 2024, and I'm very concerned and fearful about that.... Not because I don't think women can make great presidents or because I don't think any of the leading Democratic women are qualified and capable... I absolutely believe they are both. And I voted for Harris last time without hesitation, because I clearly knew what Trump was going to become, as he and his minions had made no secret of it prior to the election, for anyone who actually was paying attention. Rather, in a country as divided and polarized as the U.S., I believe sadly, there probably are a sufficient number of Neanderthal non-MAGA Republicans and independents, and maybe even some Bluedog Democrats, who may talk about opposing Trump's Republican idiocy. But when push comes to shove, they just won't or can't bring themselves to vote for a Democrat woman candidate as president. Who knows, for some, maybe wouldn't vote for any woman nominee. And it's my fear, there are enough of those wrong-headed folks in the country, who if faced with a woman Democrat nominee, could well end up giving the narrow edge to another Republican presidential election winner.... And that I have to spell out that fear... is a really sad thing.

I ran into this some weeks back and it was a nightmare involving SCB.... Almost 20 years ago, when I first opened my SCB account here, some lady staffer who handled the process for some reason listed my account name as "MISTER Tallguy John," even though obviously there wasn't then and never was any "Mister" in the name shown on my passport. That never mattered for almost 20 years until recently.... when I discovered, SCB had cut me off from even being able to call and speak with their Customer Service Call Center, and I knew this because when I called on some misc. other matter, I got a recording on the phone saying the registered name of the mobile account caller did NOT match the name of the SCB account holder, and then basically cut me off. And no way for me to get thru to them via the phone to fix that....or even ask for an explanation of what the heck was going on.... So, I had to schlep down to my local SCB branch, where the CSRs had no clue of what was going on... Finally, it took a manager to get involved, and she said there was nothing she could do, but did get some security type at SCB HQ on the phone, who then told the branch people what they needed to do, which involved them processing a name change to remove the MISTER reference from my SCB account name, and then the SCB HQ having to report back to the Thai government to remove me from the "non complying" list that the government previously had forwarded to the banks.... I also along the way had to go to several of my Thai mobile providers, to get them to add my middle name to their account records, because even though that has always been listed on my passport, the mobile folks when setting up my accounts in the distant past had only used my regular first and last name, which was different than my passport and all my now updated bank records... And again... probably for almost 20 years, it never mattered until NOW!!!

Neither Obama nor Biden were trying to take over personal control of the U.S. government in violation of the Constitution and lawful court orders. And, the U.S. government under Biden timely complied with court orders when they were issued regarding COVID policies held by the federal government -- instead of ignoring court orders as Trump's admin has done. Biden's admin defended its policies in court as they were entitled to do, and in those cases where they lost, they followed the applicable court rulings.

Presidents Can’t End Birthright Citizenship https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/presidents-cant-end-birthright-citizenship Another federal judge blocks Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship "Following a hearing on Thursday, Coughenour — a Ronald Reagan appointee who has been on the bench since 1980 — issued his own injunction. Trump is simply trying to amend the 14th Amendment — which grants citizenship to those born in the U.S. and subject to its jurisdiction — for political reasons, the judge said. “The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or something ignored, whether that be for political or personal gain,” Coughenour said. “In this courtroom and under my watch the rule of law is a bright beacon, which I intend to follow.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/another-federal-judge-blocks-trumps-order-ending-birthright-citizenship President’s Third Term Talk Defies Constitution and Tests Democracy The 22nd Amendment is clear: President Trump has to give up his office after his second term. But his refusal to accept that underscores how far he is willing to consider going to consolidate power. New York Times https://archive.ph/4fKq0

Deporting people in violation of federal court orders and then refusing to comply with lawful federal court orders that they be returned... That's just a small piece of a much larger tableau. Also, trying to rule by executive order.... instead of thru lawful legislation. News the other day said Trump by the first 100 days of his current admin had issued more exec orders than any pres. in history, and had signed the fewest pieces of actual legislation during the same period. And of course, quite a few of those executive orders have been challenges as unlawful and quite a few already have been found unlawful by the federal courts that have heard the cases thus far.... Not to mention, Trump already talking about running for a third term, which legal experts and former judges have widely said would be unconstitutional. Same with his announced plan to try to remove birthright citizenship from the children of undocumented people who are born in the U.S.

You could have gone on with more, considering there's a much longer list... But that's a pretty good synopsis for starters! 🙂 I'd add, attempted insurrectionist, first president to have a felony criminal conviction, first president to be twice impeached in the House, etc etc. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/donald-trump-first-convicted-felon-elected-president-1.7375060 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/majority-of-house-members-vote-for-2nd-impeachment-of-trump https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-pardoning-jan-6-insurrectionists-would-endorse-attacks-democracy

I think that makes him someone who believes that all people should be treated fairly and equally, regardless of their gender or how they identify their gender.

Kettle pot....

Ya, pretty much figured you wouldn't understand the notion of creeping authoritarianism and politico-corporate oligarchy....