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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Less than two months after President Donald Trump convinced U.S.-backed Thailand and China-assisted Cambodia to sign a peace agreement stopping their deadly border war, the two Buddhist-majority neighbors have exchanged hostile rocket and gunfire for the first time.
"If President Trump can help persuade Cambodia to comply with these [peace agreement] terms, that would be welcome, it would ensure Thailand faces no further encroachments," Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Wednesday (Oct. 8).
On Monday (Oct. 6), the border feud spread from the battlefield to the economy when Cambodia's de facto leader Senate President Hun Sen told his countrymen to boycott Thailand's goods and currency, use Cambodian currency or U.S. dollars, or else "you may face heavy losses."
Mr. Hun Sen ended his X post saying: "I would like to attach a video in which a Thai national displayed my photo to shoot at, in order to win prizes."
The video showed a uniformed man shooting at a carnival contest's targets, all of which displayed Mr. Hun Sen's face, life-sized, already shot in the forehead by other players.
‘Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan’
Attributed to Count Ciano
How very true. Thunderous self-congratulations echo over the temporary ceasefire in Gaza that many hope will end two years of massacre, kidnappings and war crimes in this open-air prison camp.
President Donald Trump, hot in pursuit of the Nobel Peace prize, claims authorship of the just concluded ceasefire and prisoner release. His American supporters and legions of sycophants are heaping praise and accolades on him. Trump says he may shortly fly to the Mideast to ink an agreement.
I call this political kabuki. Like the so-called Abraham accords in Trump’s first term, the Gaza agreement is a sweetheart deal between US allies and satraps. Its primary object is to deflect the worldwide outcry against the genocide in Gaza fueled by US money, arms and diplomatic cover.
- for RawStory
- October 9, 2025
Pay attention to this professional liar:
“I’m the only president in modern history who left office with a smaller national debt than when I came into office.”
That’s quite a whopper. Fact check: “During Trump’s presidency, the national debt actually increased by $7.8 trillion, nearly 40 percent and more than any president in history.”
The fact check is courtesy of Thom Hartmann. Indeed, Hartmann’s new book, The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-Chief, and much more — a disturbing dive into the roiling miasma of self-aggrandizing, self-deluding, psychologically shattered, wailing man-child who is Commander-in-Chief.
Don’t read Hartmann’s book twice, as I have. It’s not just the nightmares it induces; it’s the fact that you’ll wake up to the nightmare that is our new reality.
“Then they came for me . . .”
I can only begin here, at the emotional knifepoint of the ongoing ICE news. ICE in Chicago!
“More than 1,000 immigrants have been arrested since an immigration crackdown started last month in the Chicago area. The Trump administration has also vowed to deploy National Guard troops in its agenda to boost deportations.
“But U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters which pop up daily across neighborhoods in the city of 2.7 million and its many suburbs.”
The Sumud Flotilla began its journey in early September 2025 as part of an international maritime initiative aimed at breaking the Israeli blockade of Gaza. It started its journey from various ports around the world, including Barcelona, Spain
On October 2, 2025, under the order of Crime Minister Netanyahu, the Israeli pirates intercepted 40 vessels from 44 countries who were carrying humanitarian aid (food, medicine, toys, and baby formula) to the two million Palestinians under siege in Gaza. All 500 members (including 22 US citizens) of the Flotilla were kidnapped by the Israeli pirates.
Prior to the Israeli interception of the Flotilla in international water, the vessels came under attack 9 times.
* 9 bombs were dropped near the vessels.
* 4 vessels were hit.
* 3 sulfur devices landed on board.
* Some vessels were damaged.
* No serious injury.
We begin GREEP Zoom by honoring Loretta Swit, MASH’s “Hot Lips” Houlihan, who has just left us.
We also note that Japan has just gotten its first female Prime Minister, who may also be pro-nuclear, a radioactive Maggie Thatcher.
We then hear from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN who provides a brief leap into levity with an account of Portland’s upcoming “Naked Bike Ride,” being timed to connect with the possible arrival of the National Guard.
Mimi pays tribute to the Trump-appointed Judge Karin Immergut’s ruling that Trump can’t send federal troops wherever he wants. Meanwhile we deal with reports that ICE has been tear-gassing the Chicago Police (!!!).
We also note that the Trump Regime is sending Federal e-mail to fired employees blaming Democrats for the governmental shut-down.
Political activist DOROTHY REIK lauds Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker for suing to keep ICE out of his state and describes the horrifying ICE attack on a Chicago apartment building with no warrants.
California’s DR. RUTH STRAUSS opens the door on Larry Ellison buying the American media.