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I don't support terrorism; neither do I condone apartheid and genocide. What I'm saying is that the Israeli-Palestinian issue is much more complicated than the reductionist narrative of one random isolated terrorist attack inviting a massive state retaliation. It goes back to the British...

Right analogy, wrong application. If we were to liken the separation of Malaya into modern (West) Malaysia and Singapore to the separation of British Palestine into Israel and the Palestinian state, then what Israel did to the Palestinian state (West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza) since its...

And the Hamas attack just came out of the blue, no previous trigger, no context? Turning a blind eye to 76 years of Israeli apartheid, atrocities and genocide and the defiance of every single UN resolution since the founding of Israel? Hamas may be a terrorist organization, but Israel is a...

Trump is a narcissistic megalomaniac. Everything is about himself, his image, his family, his concept of America as an imperial power, his need to have everyone bow to him. He is not interested in the American ppl, in rebuilding American infrastructure, in giving the ppl good education, jobs...

The art of moving without doing the move.

China Now is the most watched current affairs show in PRC. Zhang Wei Wei is a well-known public intellectual. This is a good summary of how the Chinese side sees the tariff war and economic/technology/geopolitical situation. (AI translation.) When Trump was reelected last year, foreign media...

2 hours is nothing - many companies already have 1 1/2 hr lunch breaks. In Italy, everything shuts down, even shops, from 12N to 4pm during their siesta.

Regardless of IQ, Trump has narcissistic personality disorder. People with NPD generally have low EQ and don't make inspiring leaders. They usually achieve their goals through a top-down approach, sometimes using force if needs be.

Agree that you can't go wrong with ikan bakar (I recently had the good fortune of trying the delectable Ana Ikan Bakar Petai in Kuantan), but I guess the owner was thinking of introducing a new genre of cooking to the Malays instead of competing in a very crowded segment of traditional Malay...

For all its mistakes, atrocities and pigheaded policies in the early decades, the CCP did one thing right: raise the social status of women through education and laws enforcing gender equality. In many areas, the women have outstripped the men, especially in the international sporting arena...

The is the start of the demise of the USD as the world's reserve currency. The world will fracture into currency blocs based on trade, given that there's no serious alternative to the dollar, yet. For BRICs, gold and commodity will be the collaterals to back the currencies used in trading...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-21/trump-s-trade-war-puts-us-dollar-bonds-safe-haven-status-at-risk?embedded-checkout=true Markets Are Discovering the Real Trump Trade Is ‘Sell America’ The president’s attacks on the Fed are pushing the world further off its American axis, as...

Good on her. Seems she has found happiness with Stephen. For years she was treated like a whore by Leon Lai, who refused to acknowledge her as his parter, didn't want to be seen in public with her, and never popped the question.

Trump has zero understanding of economics and trade.

The Empire Talks Peasants. China Responds Like a 5,000-Year-Old Civilization. Only in the delusional corridors of Washington do you wage an economic war against a 5,000-year-old civilization, insult its people as “peasants,” and then expect a smiling trade delegation to show up and shake hands...