Destroying those they do not like

Arrogant ideologues and disdainful politicians have been contemptuous of everyone else as second-rate, while behaving as if they themselves were so very exceptional, said the president of Russia.

Get-out-of-jail cards now available

Elon Musk says accounts suspended for “dubious reasons will be freed from Twitter jail”.

A S’pore Chinese view on the Taiwan situation

Former Singapore foreign minister George Yeo’s Oct 22 interview with the South China Morning Post — video below.

USA bombed Chinese embassy in Belgrade (1999)

On 7 May 1999, an American B-2 bomber dropped GAMs (GPS-Aided Munitions) on China’s embassy in Yugoslavia.

Five of the precision-guided bombs hit the embassy in central Belgrade, killing three Chinese nationals.

Why today is an important date in history

20 Oct 2022

Martial law begins today in the Donbas, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson as the Kremlin goes on a war footing.

Chairman Xi’s thoughts on Taiwan and the Chinese nation

China president Xi Jinping, in his address to the Communist Party‘s 20th national congress, said his country is further strengthening its military and willing to take all measures necessary to ‘reunify’ Taiwan with the motherland.

PAS more genuine than DAP

“… the Bangsa Malaysia Kool-Aid is perhaps the biggest con the opposition has ever come up with,” wrote Malaysiakini columnist Thayaparan in his Sept 15 article a fortnight ago on the eve of Malaysia Day.

I shall fine-tune Uncle Thaya’s hypothesis and observe that the DAP’s ‘Bangsa Malaysia’ snake oil is most certainly a big con.

Deterministic link between bahasa and bangsa

Beginning tomorrow (Friday), people living in eastern Ukraine will vote to decide if they prefer becoming Russians.

The four ‘oblasts’ (provinces) of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are each holding a referendum from Sept 23 to 27.

Comparing the Najib, Guan Eng ecosystems

UPDATE: Najib’s conviction is upheld by the Federal Court and his jail sentence begins today.

Putin’s curse strikes again

Vlad the Impaler

Clashes at Al-Aqsa

Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police clashed at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound earlier today, reported the AFP news agency.

Mucking about in other people’s religious spaces

Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus was torched a few days ago, reportedly by Palestinian vandals.

Hannah Yeoh: “Clueless and mindless PAS”

Dah 2 tahun sejak PAS masuk Putrajaya melalui Langkah Sheraton tapi masih guna kad yang sama untuk takutkan orang Melayu – "semua salah DAP". PAS – a party with no new ideas and simply no idea about governance. Clueless and mindless PAS. https://t.co/1Hh54UfaOR

— Hannah Yeoh (@hannahyeoh) February 19, 2022

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With friends like the Yanks and Brits, Bosnia doesn’t need enemies

Tribalism is the natural order of things. Pluralism (multiracial, multi religious diversity) is a forced framework imposed on unwilling groups.

‘Is Bosnia on the brink of war?’, the Turks want to know.

PAS, DAP two ends of a horseshoe magnet

Lebanon: “Do you think we should be worried about a return to civil war?”

‘Yup’ said a straw poll (below) featured in You Tube yesterday.

‘So how did the country get into such a mess?’ — professor

“Lebanon sits on the brink of a complete and catastrophic collapse,” says Prof. James Ker-Lindsay in a video commentary today.

Afghanistan — the graveyard of empires

Vengeance is mine, saith the USA president.

Joe Biden, btw, is the man they’re telling you had received more than 80,000,000 votes from the American public in their November 2020 presidential election.