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Unless they throw him into political prison, and not the penthouse-remand-prison type of prison reserved for elderly billionaires on their death-beds. Of course not.

Why Do Thais Burn Down Their Forests Every Year In Northern Thailand? Here, let me show you - see the bowl on the right? That's why. Het Thop (Astraeus hygrometricus) or Earth Star mushrooms pokes their fruiting bodies out of their mycelial-mass networks in the mountain forests of Northern Thailand for about two weeks a year during the beginning of Thailand's "Rainy Season." During those two weeks, Thais go on a Het-Thop-Foraging-FrenzyTM to collect the mushrooms which, when they first pop up thought the burnt-out underbrush of our somewhat charred forests, can command a price between 600 to 800 THB for a "liter-weight", and which then drops to between 200 to 400 THB per liter as hundreds (to a thousand plus) of foragers scour the mountains and bring back sacks of these mushrooms. In our area we have what the locals call Het Thop Maeta, a distinct micro-climate type that is highly prized for its texture and taste. This year the roads in our area literally had a few of hundred trucks and motorcycles parked along the side of roads and highways before dawn. Each truck carried between 10 to 15 people or more, packed like sardines in the truck-bed (including scads of Myanmar day-workers hired to forage) who scoured the mountain-sides for these highly prized mushrooms, and the truck's license plates showed that they were coming from as far away as Phrae and Lampang as well as from Chiang Mai and other provinces (north, south, east, and west). Last week was pretty much it for the 2 week Het-Thop-Foraging-FrenzyTM and commercial buyers where lining the road to purchase the mushroom, which of course drives the price up for locals, who like my wife, simply wants to enjoy a Het Thop meal. But then again, many of the locals who run small business in the villages of our Tambon simply close their business and joined the Het-Thop-Foraging-FrenzyTM mushroom hunt as it's exponentially more profitable than selling noodles, coffee, and small retails store kind-of stuff, or even working at their normal day-jobs in construction, farming, or the other village occupations. So - back to the question of Burn-Season-ArsonTM - who sets all of those fires? "Shhhhhhhh." Nobody knows. 🙄 Probably Forest-Spirits and Global-Warming Gremlins! Maybe even Monkey's-With-Matches...nobody knows! 🙈🙉🙊 "Shhhhhhhh!" 🌳 🔥 🍄 Who benefits from all of those arson fires? Locals and non-locals alike. Essentially everyone who didn't develop lung cancer or other respiratory diseases which would preclude them from foraging the steep, rocky slopes of the mountains in our Amphur. 😷 So after 3 months of Killer-Northern-Thailand-Air and often "The Most Dangerous Air-Quality In The WorldTM," for two weeks Thais in our area are absolute happy-campers as they forage and feed on - Het Thop! 😁🇹🇭

I'm in agreement with you.

I'm going to give the Leftist ideologues a picture of how this is going to work. Right now - I have no intentions of voting for Trump. I don't agree with many of his domestic or foreign policies. BUT If he is thrown into jail between now and the presidential election, that will guarantee that he has my vote. Why? Because third-world Lawfare (the type we have never witnessed in America until this coordinated attack on Trump occurred) IS a clear and present danger to our American Republic - "one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and JUSTICE for all." And trust me - what I just stated is the tip of the iceberg. We have to get back to the "Indivisible" and "Justice For All" part again. Biden's message is a divided America. Trump's message (for all of his other warts) is a united America. Listen the the content of their speeches - its clear. Lawfare is a judicial nightmare - a "rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouch(ing) towards Bethlehem (Washington DC) to be born," to play on that wonderful poem by Yeats. It can not be allowed in a free, US constitutional republic. So? Throw Trump in jail - find out. To the ballot boxes on Nov 5th.

There ya go right there. Left-wing MSM talking point regurgitated to the letter by a left-wing pro-Biden ideologue. That's the Democrats, Left-wing think-tanks, and MSM strategy for the next 5 months. That's how it's done ppls!!! Personally what I expect to see Nov 6th 2024?

You don't. You also have Jill Stein and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as well as others. There is a choice that doesn't include Trump or Biden. The America public could reshape politics in one day if they weren't so dumbed-down.

The Hill. Of course! MSM - "Trump's a Convict and most Americans want him to drop out. Grrrr!" Most of the Left which includes virtually every MSM outlet (including The Hill) are now mounting a coordinated "Get Trump The Convict" campaign which will be unending vitriol and questionable "polls" until November 5th 2024. In the meanwhile: Trump commands massive crowds during campaign stops and impromptu appearances like UFC 302. I've left off the rousing chants of "Let's Go Brandon," which of course were not "Let's Go Brandon!" Biden commands a few dozen supporters at his campaign stops which MSM cameras crop-out of the scene, and like 2020 he will probably spend most of the next five months in his basement in the White House or Delaware as the far-left MSM talking heads spew how "massive crowds of supporters show up at the White House in support of the President," (although most are pro-Palestine/anti-genocide protestors). Expect nothing but the inversion of reality for the next 5 months.

What's up next - government endorsed marriage of young children to satisfy the sexual perversion of "Youth-attracted persons?" How about legalized marriage between humans and animals? Hey - why have limits? I have no problem with same-sex marriage between consenting adults. But there are limits. Children are off-limits. Bestiality is off-limits. Anything that harms people is off-limits. So Srettha - what sort of perversion do you plan on promoting?

That's the thinking of your average citizen clone who gets all their "news" from main-stream media instead of studying history (especially the history of the British Empire and which was taken over by the United State post WWII) as well as Geo-politics. Start with The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Subscribe to Foreign Affairs and read how the Neo-cons think and plan. Read The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk. Read the history of the British Empire and the kind of thought during 18th and 19th centuries that drove their empirical conquests. Read Sir Halford Mackinder's The Geographical Pivot of History and understand The Heartland Theory and its effect on the thinking and action of Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the current crop of neo-cons driving US foreign policy which is taking us to the brink of nuclear annihilation. I'm discussing this with rather ignorant people who get their view of the world from cable new networks and then believe they understand the realities of interplay of global geopolitics with the US playing Team America - World Police. Nope. People like you don't "get it" so ignorance is bliss. "You’re wrong so don’t worry- stop thinking too much..." Let's revisit that in a year.

2.72GW will power one AI data center - partially. The coming AI (and eventually quantum) data centers will suck upwards of 5GW of electricity each. Again - get real. Your "solar will save the world" ideologues simple dismiss reality. You cover large land masses with solar panels and completely discount the ecological damage they themselves cause because as ideologues you refuse to comprehend the obvious. The same goes of windmill farms especially offshore wind farm - you deliberately shut your minds off to the ecological damage these wind farms do. You defend killing the planet to "save the planet." Again. The new generation of nuclear plant are safer, more resilient, and produce significantly more energy than wind or solar. And are at a time when there is plenty of natural gas to drive the planet's energy need - until - fusion energy technology reaches commercial maturity in the coming decades. Then you'll have copious amounts of "green" energy powered by the same dynamics as the Sun.

What could possible go wrong with floating solar farms 🤔 Oh right - weather, wind, and then waves. https://twitter.com/i/status/1777941616562733520

This pretty much sums up the history of the Ukraine conflict. You'll get the history of the Western players, their goals, and how we got to where we are in Ukraine in the first 1/2 hour of this interview. For a background on Professor Sachs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs Interview on May 28th 2024: https://www.jeffsachs.org/interviewsandmedia/lhklf2aek7dtlkd9waelcy3xp8pd8a

I stand corrected. Natural gas. Doh! Nice chart regarding the dams (4%) Wind and solar - Wow! (5% when there is wind or sun). But - hydrocarbons rule the roost. However, like I said - Thailand really needs to look into nuclear. Wind and solar ain't gonna power AI data centers or EVs. FYI - I like solar for offsetting electricity at home. Home solar rocks. But for commercial power generation? It's a loser. Once Thailand joins the BRICS+ they can work with Russia to establish some Gen 3+ nuke reactors. Well - unless we are all nuked before that (different thread). Let's carpet farmland, lakes, and deforested forests with solar panels. <laughs> I wonder how much farmland you need to cover with solar panels to run a 5 GW AI data center? This is what I love about this. "We need solar to save the planet from CO2." Yep - by cutting down forests and covering productive farmland (you know - the green thingys the suck in CO2 and spit out O2) with solar panels. And when the solar panels down work anymore. Throw them into a landfill and allow the toxicity to leach into the groundwater. Great idea. We need hydrocarbon based energy and hydro-electric where it can be produced, and nuclear. That should give the planet time to get us to when fusion-powered reactors become a reality, then we can all look back on this "Green Energy" nonsense (wind - solar) and have a good laugh.

Get real. Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand Mae Mot coal generation plant in Lampang has added capacity. What hydro? From the Mekong River? Renewables? Where? I hear a lot of "We're gonna do this and that scheme." Thailand? We need a lot less talk and a lot more action. If they are smart they'll get serious about nuclear. Solar and wind is a waste of money and inefficient on a good day. In the meanwhile? EGAT keeps the lights on with coal.

Which neo-con sponsored think-tank wrote this pablum? Here - let me summarize it: The solution to Russian and Chinese totalitarianism, and "far-right populism" is - Fascist totalitarianism wrapped in a package labelled "Liberal Democracy," wrapped in an EU and US flag and endorsed by unelected EU technocrats like Ursula Von Der Leyden. In a typical 1984-esque manner, unelected is the new "Democracy." There, fixed it!

Very few people will survive a strategic nuclear war with the exception of those in "continuity of government" bunkers build by national entities and perhaps some millionaire and billionaire types who believe there will be something left on the surface that they can leverage to enrich themselves in a Mad Max sorta way. For some reason the neo-con "crazies-in-the-basement" think that there is going to be such thing as a Limited Nuclear War. It's not going to happen. Russia's nuclear doctrine calls for a full strategic nuclear response to any nuclear attack on its territories. The neo-con thinking is that "Russia is bluffing." Yeah - I doubt that Russia is bluffing. Nor China. Nor the DPRK. If nukes fly - they all fly. Now survival. Well, if you are in a "continuity of government" bunker your long-term survival may be better than most - assuming that the "continuity of government" bunker you are in isn't already targeted by a bunker-busting nuke. Then you'll no doubt live the life of a "Morlock" as the psychopaths who create this Hell On Earth go underground to breed the future of humanity <laughs>. Something like the final scene of Dr. Strangelove. For the plebs? Probably depends where on Earth you're located. Will there be survivors? Maybe. My guess they'll most likely be in under-developed, agrarian societies with the most societal cohesion and where there is enough sunlight to still grow food. Most people? Not going to survive. But for those who wish to paint a rosy picture of the life of an Eloi-existance post-nuclear-armagedon for the plebs who don't get immediately roasted - try places like here. https://thebulletin.org/2022/10/nowhere-to-hide-how-a-nuclear-war-would-kill-you-and-almost-everyone-else/#top Personally I'd rather be at ground zero. You're in the PI? Maybe you'll survive based on "computer models" (garbage in - garbage out) <laughs>. Or not.

Good cars. Had a 1950-something Anglia back in the day.

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I thought the British cops just beat the snot out of you for waving a British flag nowadays. And Lord Almighty, don't pray in public. You'll end up in prison.

Nope. Why?

I might not be correct on the timeline. Before 2025? Maybe. Sometime during 2025. Maybe. But imho most likely before 2026. But we are at a tipping point no less serious than the Cuban Missile Crisis. At my age I thought I'd gork from old age - now? Probably nuked. If in Chiang Mai - crispified at a few hundred million degrees Celsius. If not in Chiang Mai - probably slowly "nuclear-winter frozen" or slowly dying of radiation poisoning. : "You're nuts - that will never happen." Of course not. But in the meanwhile keep reading analysis by someone other than a cable news clone or military analysts who are aligned with Western foreign offices. "This is a continuation of the pattern in which the NATO forces recognize they are losing the war in Ukraine, with the fragile lines of defense breaking, and the NATO response is to escalate. This is not accidental, but very deliberate. It is not the first attack on the Russian nuclear triad. The ideological folks are seeing their world crumbling, after flying the rainbow flag over conservative countries and [waging] perpetual wars. They are frantic and could escalate to nuclear war to get out of the bind. They are taking a series of baby steps, and respond that ‘they don’t do anything in response,’ and so they keep taking baby steps until one of them lands on a land mine and we are into World War III. (…) Putin is very aware of the disconnect in the West, who keep saying he is just saber rattling, but he is not—he is informing the West of the dangerous reality.” - Col. Richard H. Black (JAG), former US Senator, Virginia There are more and more military analysts who are warning of the same outcomes.

Yep! #MeToo. But if I do buy an EV? I'll buy a Communist Party of China (CPC) BYD EV. Zoom-zoom, but quieter. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Drivers-Overwhelmingly-Prefer-Gasoline-Cars-to-EVs.html

A massive battery on wheels. The primary cost of the EV - the battery. Once the battery is shot. Good-bye EV. Built-in obsolescence extraordinaire. "But they will save the polar ice caps!" Of course they will.