We will continue to look a little into the Passport Bros movement. In particular, how the West; the American ideal of “family” is so messed up and there numerous people who are upset about this. And it is really heartbreaking. So many lonely girls, and at the same time, so many men are showing zero sympathy.
Is this America today?
I cannot believe it. The USA is so damn fucked up!
I suffer and feel for all the single mothers in the video. I feel for the lonely guys, and the confused people who are just looking for some appreciation and love and care and concern.
But ideology keeps getting in the way.
Ugh!
Do not get too caught up. Focus on your friends. Focus in your family. Be kind and caring. Expand outward. Control your thoughts and control the circle of people that surround you. Your life will be so much easier.
Ok, here’s a video…
When Women Regret Feminism – Strong, Independent Woman Can’t Find A Man
Yes. There is a biological clock that ends in a hard wall. If you are a woman in your early 30’s check for fibroid cysts. It’s normal, but they will really mess up your insides when it comes to having babies.
And, please, I know many of the younger women are so full of themselves, but the clock of life is harsh.
Show some sympathy.
Show some empathy.
It is a tough and difficult world out there.
Give people a chance.
Show some compassion. Do not be the jerk who laughs at others tears!
June 3, 2023 – 17:6
TEHRAN – A Qatari news website reported on Friday that Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Oman are to form a joint naval force under China’s support in line with increasing maritime security in the Persian Gulf.
Al-Jadid said China had already begun mediating negotiations among Tehran, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi aimed at reinforcing navigation’s safety in the strategic body of water.
Back in March, China successfully helped broker a deal between Tehran and Riyadh according to which Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to reestablish diplomatic ties after seven years of estrangement.
According to analysts, the consent of the Persian Gulf states to Beijing’s mediation in such sensitive matters shows China’s growing influence in the region as opposed to Washington’s declining influence.
Iran has long been saying that only regional countries can guarantee the security of the Persian Gulf.
Iran, Saudi Arabia to form naval coalition in northern Indian Ocean
Iranian Navy Commander Shahram Irani also announced on Saturday that a naval coalition will be formed in the northern Indian Ocean with the involvement of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Pakistan, India, and other countries in the region.
Meanwhile, the UAE has announced quitting a U.S.-led naval force.
On Wednesday, the website of the Emirati foreign ministry said Abu Dhabi had withdrawn from the Joint Maritime Forces that operate in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
The ministry said the Emirates had decided to ditch the naval coalition following an extensive evaluation of its security needs.
Analysts say Abu Dhabi has made the decision in line with its ambition to diversify its security relationships.
The Rise of Men Going Their Own Way #2
Mean and women going “their own way”. Ugh!
Please show understanding and compassion!
I’m telling you…
Laugh at these people now, suffer their fate later on!
https://youtu.be/ojBkdOrtftI
LGBQ+ everything
“GOD Please SAVE Me!” | 35+ Yr Old Women Hit The Wall HARD
I am actually horrified. I am so sad for the girls here. I am really sad that the young men are laughing about it.
People need compassion.
Anyways, the wall exists.
Network with friends and family. There is no such thing as strong and independent. Do not fall for that lie.
Stay Calm in the Midst of Chaos
Always stay calm. You are a rock. You are her rock.
Be calm when she becomes emotional. All women are emotional to an extent. You can’t change it.
There is no point in even trying. But also, do not run away from the situation. This doesn’t work either and she’ll resent you for it.
What you must do is face her head-on like a MAN.
Do not react to her.
She’s testing to see whether you can be pulled into her un-needed drama.
She wants to see if she can bring crazy storms into your life – don’t give in.
A hallmark of a great man is composure.
So many fights can be avoided if you just don’t give into her chaos and stay grounded.
That’s what she wants – but she won’t tell you. You’re suppose to know this.
Obviously, if it’s a serious issue, than handle it with compassion and respect.
Otherwise, staying calm, humor and positivity is usually the way to go 90% of the time.
队长YoungCaptain/黄礼格 – 11 『Cause you know 爱意就像大雨落下怎么能让人不牵挂。』【動態歌詞】
There’s no point in holding dialogue with a bully
Much has been made recently of a “close call” incident whereby a Chinese fighter jet intercepted an American F-16 in the South China Sea at close proximity. The incident, a clear show of discontent from Beijing towards the United States, prompted condemnation from Washington who subsequently demanded “dialogue” and “communication” in order to prevent mistakes from being made. This theme carried on into the Singapore based Shang-Ri La Dialogue last week, a forum which is of course used by the US and its allies to advance their geopolitical goals. H ere, US Secretary of Defence Llyod Austin again reiterated a call for open channels, but he did not get a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, amidst protests over him being sanctioned by the United States previously.
Austin of course, continued in presenting his vision for a “free and open indo-pacific”, which as American politicians do, depict themselves as a bringing of peace, stability and freedom for the nations of that given region against so-called “coercion” and “bullying”. In reality, the United States is aiming for the comprehensive militarization of Asia in the bid to contain China, and of course frames Beijing’s reactions to this hostile activity, be it Taiwan or the South China Sea, as acts of aggression and instability, with the US frequently of course then prescribing itself as the solution to the problem they are subsequently creating. Likewise, China’s lack of willingness to “cooperate” is then spun as being unreasonable.
But this is manipulative and completely misleading in so many ways. If a bully decides to move into your garden, sets up camp and brings weapons, is it reasonable to object to it, and of course to be hostile in response? Yet, on demanding that bully leave and stop interfering with your property, do you think anyone would take it seriously if he then says that you are the one being unreasonable? And that you should talk with him to make sure you don’t get into a fight? As that is exactly what is happening here. The US is response is literally this: “We’re going to continue to get new bases around you, we’re going to continue to build new alliances targeting you and bring more military assets into the region, and continually sale warships off your coast, but oh, please make sure you talk with us just to make sure no problems arise from it.”
In doing so, the United States has no intention of changing course or “understanding” China more, let alone respecting its interests and finding a position of co-existence. Rather, it is about gaslighting Beijing as the aggressor and using a misleading logic that frames China as the one being unreasonable. The United States knows that the more it can provoke and fan the flames of tensions in the region, the more it can subsequently advance its own military agenda and thus force other countries to take sides. The US does not respect the neutrality of ASEAN, and will make regional harmony, economic and political integration, as well as trust, completely disintegrate in the bid to escalate its own ideological conflict.
We have subsequently seen the exact same situation pan out in regards to Ukraine, where it has already started a major war, which has been wholly to American benefit. China has made it clear they do not want such a war, and it is not in their interests to do so, yet that does not mean the United States will change its path or stop provoking, thus forcing Beijing to continue to respond in tandem. In other words, the cycle of escalation or “the security dilemma” is already well underway, and no matter how many sweet words the United States may speak about dialogue or talks, the structural reality of what they are pursuing is not going to change and therefore the risk of conflict continues to grow irrespectively.
There is little walking away from the emerging arms race now, and while China must avoid making abrasive decisions, and it is absolutely right nonetheless that there is no point in talking to the United States and taking heed of this gaslighting about “communications” and “guardrails”, because it distracts from the obvious reality that the perpetrator is trying to project on the victim and force it to be responsible for a situation it is creating. The US has chosen the path of confrontation, and must subsequently bear the consequences for it. You do not be nice to someone who moves into your garden.
Woman That Got KARMA On Divorce Court!
Show compassion , understanding and empathy. Put yourself in the shoes of others.
https://youtu.be/HBgz6smgTwA
Xinjiang’s 5G Network Reaches Every Corner: 39,000 Base Stations and Counting!
Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region had built 39,000 5G base stations by the end of April 2023, amid the region’s efforts to push head with 5G networks, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Currently, all the region’s prefecture-level cities, all its counties and 99.16 percent of its townships are covered by 5G networks. There are 15 5G base stations for every 10,000 residents in Xinjiang.
Last year, Xinjiang’s information and communication industry invested 1.7 billion yuan (about 244 million U.S. dollars) in building 5G base stations, said Ma Zhuqing, head of the regional communications administration.
Xinjiang is also speeding up integration and innovation of its key 5G industrial applications, with 70 major 5G applications in relevant industries underway, including the construction of a smart land port in the China-Europe freight train (Urumqi) assembly center, Ma said.
Terry Zhong – Goodnight Stranger (feat. 习谱予 Cheryl Xi)
Nvidia founder: don’t underrate China’s resolve to make advanced chips
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang warns about China’s resolve to build its own advanced semiconductors
The Taiwan-born American entrepreneur says mainland China has dedicated a ‘massive’ amount of resources to build its own high-end chips.
Nvidia and its US peers must ‘run very fast’ to stay ahead of Chinese competitors, Huang says during Computex Taipei.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang Jen-hsun said China’s ability to catch up in chip technology should not be underrated, as the country pours massive resources into shoring up the sector amid mounting export restrictions by the US and its allies.
The world’s most valuable chip maker, which has been barred by Washington from selling its most advanced chips to customers in China, must “run very fast” to stay competitive, Huang told reporters at a round table at Computex Taipei, an annual technology industry expo, on Tuesday.
“Whatever the regulations are … of course we will absolutely comply, but I think China will use the opportunity to foster their local entrepreneurs, and that’s why there are so many graphics processing unit start-ups in China,” Huang was quoted as saying by Nikkei Asia and several Taiwanese media outlets.
Graphics processing units (GPUs) have simpler architecture than central processing units at the heart of most personal computers, making the former easier to design.
“If you weren’t in the chip industry and you wanted to start a chip company, what company would you start? You would start a GPU [company]. And there’s a whole bunch of GPU start-ups in China,” Huang reportedly said.
“The amount of resources that has been dedicated to this area in China … is quite massive, so you can’t underestimate them.”
Huang made similar remarks in a recent interview with the Financial Times, warning the Biden administration to be “careful” with its semiconductor restrictions, because “if [China] can’t buy from … the United States, they’ll just build it themselves”.
To comply with Washington’s rules, Nvidia currently offers lower-end versions of its most advanced GPUs that are tailor-made for the mainland Chinese market.
Huang’s net worth is US$36 billion and he is Chinese who was born in Taiwan.
Judge Judy on Fathers’ Rights to Their Children
What are some of the most heartbreaking images of poverty in China?
After China eradicated extreme poverty in 2019 — 2020, there is no heartbreaking images of poverty in China.
Here’s a poor village in China.
SHADOW OFFICIAL VIDEO – 朱婧汐JING
Is the US considered a third world country?
Now that you mention it, I was forced to cook part of a meal outside over an open flame even though the weather was cold the other day.
That’s because it was Thanksgiving, and the oven had been full of other food since 6am that morning, preparing for a 5pm meal. Yes, eleven hours of cooking different things, and it still wasn’t enough. That’s how much food we had. I had to cook the ham outside on the grill.
Well, it’s not really cooking the ham… it’s reheating a pre-cooked, pre-sliced 10-pound ham. The most difficult part of the entire thing is opening the bag of charcoal.
I spent the day after Thanksgiving playing video games, answering questions on Quora, and shopping online. Some of the things I bought in the morning were delivered that afternoon.
My plan for today is more of the same.
If this is what it’s like to live in a third world country, I don’t see what’s so bad about it.
【Engsub】侠客(Xia Ke)|The Knight | 老胡khufu – Lao Hu Khufu | Rap vibe
An Englishman staggers, ashen-faced, into a roadside bar, demanding a large brandy. The barman is concerned. (source: Reddit)
An Englishman staggers, ashen-faced, into a roadside bar, demanding a large brandy. The barman is concerned.
“Well,” says the man, “I was just driving along and my BMW suddenly gave up the ghost! So I cruised into the layby just along the road here and opened the bonnet. But I have no idea how these modern cars work! I was about to call the Automobile Association when I saw two horses come up to the fence and peer at the engine. And one of them actually spoke! Clear as day! Couldn’t believe my ears!”
“Oh, yes – what did it say?”
“Well, this is the extraordinary thing – it told me to press down on some bit of plastic until I heard a click. So I did that – and then this horse told me to try the engine – and it started immediately!”
“Ah,” said the barman. “And tell me, what color was this horse?”
“Color? Color? Whatever do you mean? The damn thing spoke to me, clear as day! In fact, it was a brown horse!”
“Thought so,” says the barman, polishing the next batch of glasses.
“Thought so? Didn’t you hear what I was saying? This horse dam’ well spoke to me!”
“Well”, says the barman, “I thought it would be her. The white one knows nothing about BMW ignition systems!”
Should I allow my 13 year old to lock their bedroom?
Do you want to walk in on them when they are masturbating? Or perhaps your daughter taking her bra off? Or your kid doing a handstand, so you would directly hit them and break their neck in result?
If you smell weed, smoke, hear screams, moans, loud obnoxious music, then have a problem with it. In the end, don’t you think a screwdriver or a bobby pin would easily unlock their door?
Knock on the kid’s door, and ask if you can come in. Give at least some fundamental privacy.
YOU’RE The Reason The Passport Bros Are LEAVING
More confusion.
Both sides need to come together.
Find solutions do not seek perfection.
How can America become as competitive as China in manufacturing?
Amerikkka has literally never managed to even develop without plunder. They understand very well that Amerikkka has no resources (unlike organic civilizations, settler states are artifically founded and hence don’t respond to material conditions). That’s why they have exclusively relied on plunder their entire history and why they terminally collapse clinging to endless wars, because they have no other options. This is internally well understood by every Amerikkkan regime.
Truly wealthy countries are like China: they develop at record breaking speed without plunder at all (which means, this is perpetual, unlike short-lived, self-imploding plunder), and keep inflation consistently low due to material abudance. Notice that this is not some historical aberration either (like the anti-competitive and very short lived post-WW2 world that artifically propped up the settler Amerikkkan regime, suffering a brutal depression beforehand), but the historical norm: the region where China is has been the most prosperous on the planet across all human history, that’s why China never needed plunder. Unlike what western orthodoxy claims, ideology is also a product of material conditions, not the other way around. Because China never needed plunder due to its material conditions, it never developed colonialist ideology. Because settler/colonial regimes lack resources, they invented their ideologies to justify their plunder. A big indicator of a nation’s wealth is the ability of that nation to create peace and benefit from it. China’s assistance in this process is yet another consequence of China’s immense wealth. Another huge problem for Amerikkka is the fact that it is geographically isolated, removed from the center of the global economy (EurAsia), which further imposes higher costs and yet another barrier for Amerikkka to compete. Reminder that the true scale of China’s reserves are only known by China. China is a massive gold producer and no gold ever leaves China. China has been getting rid of useless Amerikkkan debt for a long time, and ultimately getting more gold.
America was facing terminal collapse even before WW2, stuck with a brutal depression. Only the huge historical aberration that was WW2 artifically extended the regime. They were literally stuck in a decades-long depression before WW2, precisely because they never naturally developed, they relied exclusively on plunder (sounds familiar? Amerikkka now suffers the same problem and it has no way out). Amerikkka developed the fastest when it was literally a widely non-competitive world, the highly anti-competitive colonial and post-WW2 era. Today, that’s just impossible to redo, which is what drives the Amerikkkan regime so deranged.
Anyone can claim to compete in such environment because there is no competition. The post-WW2 era was not competitive to begin with, and Amerikkka terminally collapsed since the moment they had to compete. What matters is how you deal with inevitable competition and Amerikkka can’t compete at all. It literally had to destroy Japan, its own neocolony and threatened its European vassals with military means in order to “compete”. China literally developed at the fastest speed in history in that highly-competitive environment, because China has vast resources and capabilities, it never depended on plunder. Why do you think it started a trade war (which lost in catastrophic fashion due to lack of resources)? meanwhile Chinese car manufacturers today outcompete everyone in the most competitive era in history. Ford (which benefited from the Nazi war machine) never achieved that. In fact, it has terminally collapsed since the moment it faced competition, like every Amerikkkan industry ever.
The fact that China has started banning Amerikkkan semiconductor companies outright indirectly reveals the high degree of maturiry in the fully Chinese semiconductor chain.
Reminder that, years ago, China appointed intelligence experts to all Chinese semiconductor companies and institutions to protect them from leaking any information about breakthroughs (for example, it’s well known that China does the same with its supercomputers to the point it doesn’t list them anymore), which is why these developments have caught South Korea, Amerikkka, Japan and Taiwan completely off guard. This once again shows why you should never assume you know everything that is happening or has happened, what you don’t know far exceeds what you know, especially if you can’t speak Chinese and don’t live in China. China doesn’t care about propaganda or boasting, it doesn’t need to announce what it does because it focuses on self-sufficiency. The Western propaganda is of course pure copium. The “worldwide demand” never existed, it was always “China’s demand”. Those “supply chain realignment post pandemic boom” excuses no longer work, just like they didn’t work for the alleged “temporary inflation” in Western economies. The results speak for themselves: south korea’s semiconductor industry has collapsed, Amerikkkan semiconductor companies suffer devastating losses as they shrink and reduce operations (e.g. intel reporting its worst losses ever), Taiwan entered a recession, and Japan now suffers permanent deficits vs China, with no way out whatsoever. More information that leads to the same inference: China is ready to terminate Micron too. This wouldn’t be happening if there was any degree of uncertainty in China’s capabilities. Meanwhile, Chinese companies keep growing at accelerated rates, having free access to the, by far, largest semiconductor market on the planet. With the money they get from that, plus the exceptional investments only China can afford, they expand even more. It won’t be long before these companies go global, much like the Chinese car industry has displaced Japan and Europe to become the largest exporter worldwide.
Amerikkka has neither the talent, nor the resources, nor the market, nor the investments, nor the infrastructure to create such industry. It’s the same reason why Amerikkka has no industry to begin with, it’s not by choice but due to material reality. Without access to the Chinese market Intel could have never survived no matter what it did. The only reason why the Amerikkkan semiconductor industry could justify itself was by having access to that huge and growing market, but they lost it, and it will never come back. They were afraid of Chinese competition because they knew full well they couldn’t compete, so they bet it all on sanctions but lost (much like incompetent Western economies as a whole bet it all on the trade war they lost in catastrophic fashion). This is typical behavior of incomeptent Amerikkkan monopolies who want to impose a global monopoly due to the terminal collapse of the Amerikkkan economy. It’s the inherent incompetence and corruption of these monopolies. Thriving, innovative companies behave like Huawei or Chinese car manufacturers and are never afraid of competition. Theatrics can’t remotely change material reality, and Amerikkkan semiconductor companies understand that well too as they rapidly shrink and suffer devastating losses, while refusing to invest. The whole point of the theatre was the same as in the trade war: they really thought their theatre could serve as leverage against China, but China never fell for it. China correctly never considered empty propaganda as leverage and simply moved on. Now that the theatre collapsed, you should understand the reason for the existential panic and impotence of Western economies. The same desperate theatrics Amerikkka also tried to use regarding Taiwan, but China didn’t fall for it because desperation is never leverage.
To understand how defeated the Amerikkkan regime internally sees itself, it’s important to understand why the Amerikkkan regime can’t stop producing useless propaganda, only for China to defeat Amerikkka and continue to ignore it (e.g. Xinjiang, Hong Kong, trade war, Taiwan, etc.). The Amerikkkan regime has literally no wealth at all, so it can’t offer anything in material terms, hence why it tries to use propaganda as leverage as a substitute for actual wealth. The broke and incompetent Amerikkan regime truly thought China would have considered propaganda as leverage against China and reached an agreement, but China never fell for it, so Amerikkka cornered itself and has no way out. Trade and real wealth define relations, not the ambiguous colonialist mindset Westerners shamelessly repeat. People can’t eat ideology, they need real things to develop. Who do you think produces those things while others can’t? Ask yourself why Brazil openly dumps the dollar and doubles down on integration with China. Even Bolsonaro doubled down on integration with China, theatrics aside. Material reality, not ideology, define the world. People will never understand the sheer panic of Amerikkka if they don’t understand how terminally collapsed and impotent Amerikkka is as a result of having no wealth at all, of not being able to plunder anymore (this is manifested in the brutal shortages, inflation, deficits, recession, collapse of life expectancy that plague the Amerikkkan economy).
For example, people should listen to what Huawei’s chief has said to understand that propaganda like “Alibaba begins rollout of its ChatGPT-style tech as China A.I. race heats up” has little to do with “AI race”: the overwhelming majority of AI (98%+) is not facing the public but is used internally by industries, that’s where the real value of AI is. Why do you think China has pushed 5G so hard across all industries? because you need that kind of infrastructure for AI to be viable at large scales. Look at how the actual industry actually uses AI to understand how AI is actually used and applied in the real world to solve very complex problems (see here or here or here for examples). This is where the real value of AI is, anyone who thinks AI is like in the movies has no idea what they are talking about. Trying to pass stuff like ChatGPT (has anyone ever asked how this would serve the real, physical economy, or the people, in any productive sense? It’s a word mangler that literally makes up false information, it can’t fix or alleviate ignorance, the same way search engines didn’t fix ignorance in societies which suffered from it) as the focus is a manifestation of the fact that Amerikkka has no industries to speak of. You can’t make use of AI if you have no real economy to begin with. Terminally collapsed Western economies don’t even have decent telecom infrastructure.
There is not redeeming quality whatsoever in post-colonial societies, they can’t continue existing at all so everyone suffers (that’s the root reason why the Amerikkkan regime and its propagandists are having daily existential panic attacks). See, for example, life satisfaction polls, life expectancy collapse, suicide statistics, or anti-depressant usage to understand the brutal scope of Amerikkkan and European post-colonial misery. Notice how China has been systematically moving all investments away from Europe due to the recessions plaguing European economies. shrinking economies stuck with brutal shortages and inflation are terrible places to invest (as German companies doubling down on moving to China know). That money is better used in any BRI country with growth opportunities or useful resources.
It’s funny to see China humiliate Amerikkka by using Amerikkka’s incompetence against them. The Amerikkkan regime has to beg now and China just says no, and no country thinks China is being unreasonable. It also shows how defeated the Amerikkkan regime sees itself internally, but it can’t do anything else due to propaganda. Hence why China set this great trap. This is the new world order and there is nothing Amerikkka can do about it. No begging or crying can change reality:
US defence secretary Lloyd Austin wants to meet Li Shangfu, China’s new defence minister, at the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore in June. However, arranging such a meeting is fraught with difficulty because Li was sanctioned by the US in 2018 in relation to Chinese imports of Russian arms when he was serving as a general.
The US has told China that the sanctions do not prevent Austin from meeting Li in a third country. But several people said it would be almost impossible for China to agree to a meeting while they remain in place. Li became defence minister in March.
The root of Amerikkkan self-destruct is white supremacist ideology, which is widely explicit, as the crimes against humanity of Europe and Amerikkka in the Middle East have shown. Amerikkka is literally founded on proto-Nazi ideology and served as direct inspiration to Hitler’s regime. USA only joined WW2 when Soviet Union was threatening to liberate the continent, and spread revolution to European countries. At the time there were socialist movements in France, Britain, everywhere. Up to the point USA joined the war they never went against Nazi germany in any form, going as far as to negotiate with Nazi germany on a large scale and their elite literally funded the rise of Hitler (Bush family dynasty) and the Nazi regime’s war production (Ford, IBM etc). And when Nazi Germany got defeated by the Soviets and the war was over, USA founded NATO and guess who were invited to be top ranking officials of NATO? Yep, Nazi Germany officials. Mainstream media never talks about this, for obvious reasons.
In few words, USA was never ideologically against Nazi germany. Which is why Nazi Germany fell in the 40s but up to the 60s black people in USA didnt even have the same civil rights as white Amerikkkans. And which is also why white supremacy culture is still extremely dominant in USA, and USA is the Number One exporter of this ideology to the rest of the world.
What is different now is that with the terminal collapse of Western regimes, these proto-Nazi regimes can no longer control the extremism domestically, which is why that extremism has further destroyed Western societies, even as Western regimes tried to mitigate the damage. Ultimately, there is no dialing back decades and decades of indoctrination and extremely bad levels of education, which is why Western regimes double down on repressing their own people and trying to sedate them with propaganda. They internally know that the problem can’t be solved. Amerikkkan media did everything they could to hide its history. They called the WW2 generation heroes, they made movies showing the bravery of their soldiers, they built a narrative to be taught in schools that their soldiers defeated the Nazis. But if you study history, they are basically the forefather of the Nazis, and the Nazis were basically noob compared to Amerikkkan when it comes to actual, endless holocausts. British colonialism directly inspired fascism. Hitler literally said “the Russian space is our India”.
It’s important to understand material reality because otherwise you will never understand why the Amerikkkan regime (or colonialists in general) behaves as they do. Under Western-centric assumptions, one has to also conclude that Amerikkka has willingly chosen to terminally collapse, instead of actually develop, but everyone knows that’s just not true, Amerikkka tried it all and lost due to its post-colonial material poverty (the trade war showed this clearly: mass scarcity in Amerikkka is what drives Amerikkkan inflation, shortages, deficits and recession), hence why those assumptions should be reconsidered.
Sanctions is basically the symbol of Amerikkkan utter defeat. So anyone can just issue sanctions to pay debts? Anyone can just scream out of panic to pay debts? sanctions are not wealth, they don’t serve as leverage at all. It’s basically trying to use propaganda as leverage, which China has consistently laughed at. It’s not China’s problem that Amerikkka is so poor that it has no real leverage. From a material standpoint, sanctions are not leverage either, as China has made very clear by humiliating the Amerikkkan economy in the trade war. Amerikkka has been defeated, which is why China just ignores it. Why do you think it’s China’s duty to waste money on Amerikkka? look at 2023 trade data: BRI countries eclipse all of Japan, Europe, Amerikkka combined in terms of trade with China.
Westerners know there is a way to measure how an economy deals with resources right? China has consistent trade surpluses, a much higher population, and low inflation due to material abundance (this is also the historical norm, not some aberration). The total opposite, which is what colonialists suffer, is a clear indication of material scarcity. Rich and wealthy countries don’t need plunder to develop. We already know the world order that results from natural material conditions, history didn’t start with colonialism. That region of the planet could never sustain high populations for a reason. I suggest you do some reading on how the world was before the colonial era, because that’s the word where we live today, colonialism has terminally collapsed. The era of civilization states has returned. Colonialism was just a historical aberration. Stealing is not and never was development.
The colonialists can’t do anything even as their puppet Nazi regime has been annihilated, Nazi Arming Terrorist Organization (NATO) has been disarmed in the process. All of them are suffering stagflation, including Amerikkka. There is a reason why they are so desperate in the first place (in fact, if you don’t understand this, you can’t understand the source of their desperation): they have no answers whatsoever because they can’t plunder anymore. Let the colonialists suffer in utter impotence as their crumbling regimes terminally collapse and their people violently revolt against them. Check how foreign entities are getting rid of Amerikkkan debt to grasp the terminal collapse of Amerikkka. Why do you think dedollarization has rapidly accelerated? why do you think the whole Arab world has ditched Amerikkka? China, as the largest trading nation on the planet, already uses Yuan more for cross-border transactions. In ASEAN, people in trading houses trade with China for years with little usage of USD as possible. Increasingly, USD usage drops each year in terms of border trade. For example, see how the ASEAN, the fastest growing economies besides China, rapidly switching to other currencies for trade. Same all over Asia (the Iran-Saudi Arabia deal facilitated by China naturally entailed that). Trade is what defines this. This is enormous, especially when you see the collapse of the dollar as global reserve (already below 45% and plummeting fast). Furthermore, the usual propagandists can’t track this info, since the systems used to process the transactions are beyond their reach. It’s a catastrophe for Amerikkka, it can’t even diagnose the terminal collapse of the dollar. Another reason why global dedollarization rapidly accelerates naturally: the parties involved are from the Global South and China is their largest trade partner. Even better: these economies are developing so they have a lot of room for even more growth (especially with Chinese investments), which in turn means even more market for China. It truly is a “shared future”. What’s funny is that, seeing what’s happening, even NATO regimes like France turn against the Amerikkkan regime. Nobody wants to starve with Amerikkka after all. More and more to follow.
Most importantly, the Western propaganda hilariously relies on invoking the long debunked western copium notion that China and Russia “don’t trust each other”, which reality has already destroyed. Merely two years ago, western “experts” claimed that China and Russia were secret enemies (makes no sense to begin with, that’s the intellectual depth of western “intellectuals”). Today, China and Russia openly say they enjoy a “relation without limits”. Why would it be remotely surprising that China and Russia like each other a lot? They are neighboring countries and both are essentially self-sufficient, they don’t need to plunder. It’s completely natural that their relation has developed they way it has. There is nothing wrong with China and Russia cooperating militarily too and they do so at an increasingly deep level: from patrolling around Japan to keep the ruined the delusional fascist Japanese regime in check, to having each other’s units under each other’s command, to cooperating in formation of new forces, etc. This relation won’t stop just because NATO lost, and is precisely what China means by “shared prosperity”, and China, by virtue of its vast wealth and capabilities, can demonstrate that, since China doesn’t need plunder at all. The only ones bothered by this, and trying to find bizarre justifications, are NATO regimes, because they know they can’t ever hope to compete with them. It’s hillarious how NATO regimes think they are the only ones that can cooperate militarily, anyone else must not cooperate for some reason. Again, what kind of logic is that? NATO’s inferiority complex perhaps, since they know China + Russia are much larger than all of them combined?
NATO applies the same logic to economy: NATO is very spooked by Brazil calling for a common currency in South america, while NATO themselves can have their own currency in Europe. But, sadly for incomeptent NATO economies, it goes deeper than that: South america is also dumping the dollar and the worthless euro with it, as they develop deeper integration with China. The annihilation of NATO in Ukraine follows the annihilation of NATO in Afghanistan. The humiliation of NATO is traumatizing for NATO regimes because they know the Global South is watching this, and taking notes. That’s why global dedollarization has rapidly accelerated, and why sanctions against Russia or China are completely ignored by them. The Global South has resources which NATO can no longer access in a multipolar world order based on cooperation, and NATO economies can’t continue existing without plunder. This is not true at all for China or Russia. You see, USA can only hold hostage the non-competitive colonial economies. The Global South has no problem with this, as you can also see in the way they easily control inflation. Westernized narrative ignores the superior material conditions of non-colonial countries.
Notice how life has no value in western societies, the pandemic has shown that clearly. See also how Western societies treat their elders and children, and then visit any city in China to see what elders and children do in public, with no fear, no discrimination. This is the eternal curse of settler regimes and why they never stood a chance at surviving like civilizations. Their inevitable fate is to suffer dissolution (e.g. land back movements) amidst brutal violence and scarcity as we already see in america too (e.g. brutal inflation and shortages because the american regime can’t plunder anymore). This also can be observed in Kkkanada, which is a dystopian horror movie, as the brutal depression and suicide statistics of those stuck there also shows. The settler regime even asks people to kill themselves . As the settler regime crumbles, the land back movements will partition KKKanada, as they should. The settler land theft were bound to be dystopian short-lived experiments, because they never had the material conditions to exist as a civilization, they exclusively relied on ephemeral plunder to artificially prop themselves up. But once that plunder ends, so do the settler regimes.
The reason why Western societies face countless psychological traumas as they suffer terminal collapse is also because they can’t deal with reality and the obliteration of the lies they told themselves. Their terminal collapse means their illusions are completely shattered and are no longer of any use to stomach their depressing lives. That’s why the amount of late-stage terminal collapse unhinged propaganda in Western societies is highly correlated with depression in Western societies.
China vs USA – Who is the Real Superpower?
The US warships are several generations behind of Chinese warships as shown in the the US agrressive & provocative actions in Taiwan straits. The US has lost its military superiority to PLA over Taiwan & the SCS. Why are US so lousy militarily?
The US military-industrial complex produces lots of useless junk, like the Patriot surface-to-air missile system:
Recently, Zelenskyy claimed Ukraine shot down some Kinzhal hypersonic missiles using the Patriot system. No. Ukraine did not shoot down a single Kinzhal using the shitty Patriot missile system. That would be like claiming that Kim Jung-Un beat Usain Bolt in the 100-meter sprint. Zelenskkly’s story would’ve been more credible if he had claimed Ukraine shot down the Khinzals with slingshots.
The US doesn’t even have a hypersonic missile. For crying out loud, Iran now has hypersonic missiles:
These dumb US and British reporters (redundant) doubt Iran has hypersonic missile capability. Hey, US and British dumbbells, hypersonic just means going faster than the speed of sound. Iran isn’t claiming to have solved the riddle of dark energy. Iran is claiming capabilities other countries already have, just not the US.
In high school, American History was largely propaganda. Lots of Americans believe that we’ve never lost a war, despite mostly losing after World War 2. Lots of American dingbats think the US won World War 2 single-handedly. Russians did most of the fighting and dying. Without Russia, we’d all be speaking German and giving the sieg-heil to ridiculous dickless Adolf statues.
Teaching Americans propaganda is the problem with the US. We have a bunch of fat, stupid fuckers who believe we’re the best at everything. The only potential some of these fat fuckers have is self-imploding into a black hole. If that happens it will happen first in the US and should be celebrated, These days, the US has little else to celebrate.
Joe Biden excels at falling down. He can fall off a bike. He can fall going up the ramp of a plane. If there’s one sandbag within a ten-mile radius, Biden will find it and trip over it.
Biden has another neat trick. He can imitate a wind pavilion, like the one in Figure 1. Biden stands in the breeze and lets the wind blow in one ear and out the other. The wind resonates in his hollow head and gives off a hum which is certainly more pleasest than listening to Biden butcher a speech.
Figure 1. Wind pavilion.
I think the US is in the “mad emperor” stage of empire decline. We have clearly mentally deficient people running the empire. We’re teetering on the brink. Economic catastrophe is close at hand. Hell, it’s already here.
Why aren’t there more homeless people in China?
Mars Snow Globe Ditches Snow For Swirling Martian Dust Storm
Designer, Dan Abramson (previously), is at it again with the Mars Dust Globe, a modern twist on the classic water snow globe, where the snow is a mesmerizing Martian Dust Storm.
Features detailed texture of Valles Marineris, the Tharsis volcanoes, and Olympus Mons – the solar system’s tallest known planetary peak. Sculpted by the talented, Tim Barry.
More: Kickstarter h/t: neatorama
The globe had to not only achieve a great swirl, but it also had to eventually settle and become clear. Adding too much material would stain the water, and too little was no longer stunning.
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Pennsylvania Dutch Meat Loaf
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1 cup fresh bread crumbs
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 (8 ounce) can Hunt’s tomato sauce, divided
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
- 2 tablespoons prepared mustard
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, lightly mix beef, bread crumbs, onion, green pepper, 1/2 can tomato sauce, egg, salt and pepper. Shape into a loaf in a shallow baking pan.
- Combine remaining tomato sauce with remaining ingredients. Pour over loaf.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 1 1/4 hours. Baste the loaf several times during baking.
Yield: 6 servings
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The Ukrainian Military Is In Bad Shape
Erik Kramer and Paul Schneider are two former U.S. special operations soldiers who have been in Ukraine since 2022 to train Ukrainian troops.
At War on the Rocks they paint a dark picture of the state of the Ukrainian military. Their intent is to get money for more training, thus the real picture may be less dark than they describe. But even if one takes that into account it is still a sad state for an army that has been at war for more than a year. Some excerpts:
Based on our nine months of training with all services of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, to include the Ground Forces (Army), Border Guard Service, National Guard, Naval Infantry (Marines), Special Operations Forces, and Territorial Defense Forces, we have observed a series of common trends: lack of mission command, effective training, and combined arms operations; ad hoc logistics and maintenance; and improper use of special operations forces. These trends have undermined Ukraine’s resistance and could hinder the success of the ongoing offensive.
What ongoing offensive?
Under mission command, the German Auftragstaktik, the leader disseminates his intent (“to attack through the northern woods to take town x”) and authority to subunits that is passed down with the mission to empower subordinates at all levels. Each subunits can make its plans to coordinate and execute the mission as best as possible. The contrast is an order command where every detail of execution is ordered from the top down. Both have advantages but to have a mixed system, as Ukraine currently has, is the worst of all places.
In our experience, across many units and staffs, the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not promote personal initiative and foster mutual trust or mission command. As Michael Kofman and Rob Lee recently discussed on the Russia Contingency podcast, elements of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have an old Soviet mentality that holds most decision-making at more senior levels. Amongst military leaders at the brigade level and below, our impression is that junior officers fear making mistakes.
But to use mission command down to the lower levels of a Platoon one needs noncommissioned officers (sergeants) to run the show. Those the Ukrainian military had are by now probably dead:
Having trained every component of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, we have continually seen a lack of an experienced noncommissioned officer corps. It is common to see field grade officers running around during training counting personnel and coordinating for meals. In the United States, it takes years to develop just a junior noncommissioned officer.
The next big lack is combined arms training and use. Tanks protect the infantry, the infantry protects the tanks, the artillery covers the battlefield to allow tanks and infantry to maneuver, command takes care that all three coordinate their actions.
The armor/infantry relationship is supposed to be symbiotic, but it is not. The result is that infantry will conduct frontal assaults or operate in urban areas without the protection and firepower of tanks. Also, artillery fires are not synchronized with maneuver. Most units do not talk directly to supporting artillery, so there is a delay in call for fire missions. We have been told that units will use runners to send fire missions to artillery batteries because of issues with communications.Most of the military’s operations are not phased and are sequential. Fires and maneuver, for example, are planned separately from infantry units — and infantry units plan separately from supporting artillery. This mentality also carries over to adjacent unit coordination, which is either nonexistent or rare and causes high rates of fratricide. Unit commanders have concerns about collaborators and thus are hesitant to pass on critical information that can be used against them to sister units.
These issues are compounded by unreliable communications between units and with senior leadership. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have a hodgepodge of radios that are vulnerable to jamming. Further, battalion missions are mainly independent company operations that do not focus on a main effort coupled with supporting efforts. The armed forces do not combine effects, so operations are piecemeal and disjointed. The separate missions are not supporting each other, nor are the missions of lower level units “nested” under a higher level mission. Sustainment is not synchronized with operations, either.
Due to the wild mix of weapons and for lack of trained mechanics logistics and the maintenance of equipment are a mess.
This lack of coordinated maintenance and logistics also translates into medical care. Medical evacuation and care are haphazard. Experienced Ukrainian combat medics have repeatedly stated that many of the evacuees would have survived it they had reached definitive care in a timely manner. The Ukrainian Armed Forces can solve this issue with a systematic logistics process.
Ukrainian special forces are mostly used as infantry even as they should be used for more demanding missions. There also are gimmick missions:
Ukraine special forces units comprised of international volunteers shop around their services to conventional unit commanders without a mission being tied to a strategic or operational goal. One example of a mission was a conventional brigade commander who had reported to his command that he had occupied a village taken from the Russians. When he realized that the information he had was mistaken and they had stopped short, he asked the international special operations forces unit to go into the occupied village and take a picture of a Ukrainian flag placed on top of a building in the center of the village.
A suicide mission to hide the commanders false reporting …
The authors claim that most of the above problems could be fixed by more ‘western’ training which they are more than willing to sell. However, what has become of the last armies ‘western’ forces have trained in Iraq and Afghanistan? Both fell apart. An army must reflect the local society and culture. It can not be formed top down by outside forces.
Since 2015 the Ukrainian army has been build up and trained by U.S. and British forces. What the WotR authors describe is the result of that.
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Pepper Hash
This is an old Pennsylvania Dutch recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 head cabbage, shredded
- 2 green bell peppers, coarsely ground
- 1/3 cup vinegar
- 1/3 cup honey or granulated sugar
- Salt and pepper to your taste
Instructions
- Shred and chop the vegetables.
- Add the vinegar, honey, salt and pepper.
- Serve.
The situation will in all likelihood turn sour even more because NATO cannot stop its woeful warmongering and waging endless wars.
We are living in turbulent times indeed. Vital volumes of history are being written right before our very eyes.
You may have noticed that “Dr Doom” is sending out doom-and-gloom messages yet again. Fortune reported back in April that Nouriel Roubini (aka Dr Doom) is warning of painful stagflation caused by a new Cold War with China and the balkanization of the global economy.
Al Jazeera also reported on Roubini’s downcast views, saying, “the world is headed for dark times in the next 20 years.”
No wonder Dr Doom, who leapt to financial stardom by predicting an economic catastrophe in 2008, is now warning the world that the conflict between the United States and China is simmering – and surely not only in the area of economics.
However, the global situation is so frighteningly serious that it will most surely crescendo into a double-dip recession for a plethora of other factors as well as from the prevailing sentiments in the Pentagon predicting a forthcoming war with China.
We are living through truly turbulent times. There are countless politically crucial things happening globally that boggle the mind. If one remembers the events only this January when Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary-general, visited Japan and Korea, one can sense, to paraphrase Shakespeare, “something rotten in the state of NATOstan”.
During the course of both fleeting visits, Stoltenberg pledged to foster bilateral relations due to the historic challenges that NATO is dealing with, such as the war in Ukraine. He went on to brag that NATO already has established liaison offices globally, the main ones in New York and Vienna, and particularly indicative is the one in Ukraine. At its foundation at the inception of the Cold War in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization comprised 12 nations set up at the behest of the U.S. The military bloc now comprises 31 members and is increasingly appointing itself with a global role.
As a reminder, NATO already has permanent liaison offices in the following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. A proposed Japan office caused considerable commotion.
NATO claims to be based on the right of states to determine their own foreign policy and to exercise collective self-defense. Despite lofty claims of upholding “democratic values”, the U.S.-dominated military alliance has been strong-arming a number of countries to join without their populations exercising a democratic mandate by holding referenda.
NATO likes turning its alleged allies into geopolitical dwarves held at gunpoint, regardless of their size or geography. Claims by the military bloc – that opening a regional liaison office in East Asia is merely an indicator of changing global security environment – sound euphemistic.
Some political analysts have observed that if NATO meanders into Asian affairs it will likely bring Russia and China even closer together. Ironically, the expansionism of the U.S.-led military bloc brings with it self-fulfilling prophecies. The global insecurity it incessantly warns about is of its own perception and making.
Nevertheless, Beijing is fully aware that if NATO places its head in a crouching tiger’s mouth, then one day it might get bitten off.
NATO has already brutally provoked the war in Ukraine, yet now the U.S.-led military vehicle wants to expand to the Far East. Its solicitous focus on Japan is particularly alarming given the vile history of Japanese genocidal aggression toward China.
That is a toxic thorn for China stuck into Asia and it will be therefore pulled out, according to the Global Times. The news outlet can be seen as reflecting the thinking of the political leadership in Beijing. The Chinese are thus fully aware of NATO’s encroaching thorns and they will not be sleep walking into disaster.
The Global Times continued: “Japan should not forget that while the Meiji Restoration made it richer and stronger, it also brought about the Westernization of Japan and its policy of leaving Asia and entering Europe, which at one time made the desire for empire extremely strong. The madness of pursuing Asian hegemony and sphere of influence led it to become a militaristic war-mongering demon, which brought deep disaster to Asian countries.”
Moreover, the Global Times’ editorial warned: “Japan wants to introduce NATO into Asia for its security. However, Japan’s security can never be achieved by relying on the military support of the U.S. or NATO. In fact, the more closely Japan cooperates with the U.S. or NATO militarily, the less it will obtain the security it wants, and the less likely it will be able to change its image as a geo-strategic dwarf.”
Don’t you just love how Beijing is calling a NATO spade a spade? “The sewage of the Cold War,” is how the Global Times referred to the U.S.-led military bloc.
And all that comes in perfect unison with Moscow’s increasingly contemptuous views of NATO as a threat to world security.
Lest we forget, the United States has instigated the vast majority (80 per cent) of the 200 or so armed conflicts that are estimated to have occurred globally from the end of World War Two until 2001. If we include the post-9/11 decades up to the present, the American responsibility for global violence might be as high as 90-95 per cent. And this is for a nation whose population is only 4.25 per cent of the globe. How utterly nefarious and condemnable is that odious record?
Shall we now mention some significant military mathematics? The Economist reports on research comparing military power of the U.S. vs China. The U.S. military budget is four times bigger than that of China. But the Chinese Navy surpassed the U.S. Navy as the biggest in the world sometime around 2020. The Pentagon continues using euphemisms, such as it considers China a “pacing challenge”.
The dilemma that appears to exasperate Western military commanders is whether China can continue on the same path and expand its military capacity to challenge the U.S. hegemony, or whether China’s relative power might be reaching its peak. The shipbuilding industry requires exorbitant investment since it requires a booming industrial base. The dilemma for the U.S. is its economic stagnation and the number of its warships are declining, in contrast to a sharp increase in the number of Chinese ships.
As for the total number of military vessels from aircraft carriers to submarines, frigates and destroyers, China surpasses the U.S. by a ratio of 390:296. It is forecast that China will have 400 warships in the next two years whereas the number of American ones will decrease to around 290. The ones which have fallen into obsolescence are to be written off. The Chinese advantage stems from having the biggest shipbuilding industry in the world. Some 44 per cent of all the ships built worldwide in 2021 were from Chinese yards.
China and its military forces are currently fully focused on Taiwan whereas the U.S. forces are scattered around globally in over 800 bases owing to untenable hegemonic ambitions. China has pledged to reclaim Taiwan if necessary by force, so tensions are running high on both sides.
Time though works in Beijing’s favor.
In the long run, the situation will in all likelihood turn sour even more because NATO cannot stop its woeful warmongering and waging endless wars.
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China sets record in sixth rocket engine trial of crewed lunar mission
China recently completed the sixth test run of the main rocket engine for its future crewed lunar missions, setting a new record in the sector, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
The 130-tonne class liquid oxygen kerosene rocket engine had a cumulative test run time of 3,300 seconds after this recent trial, a new record for the longest trial of a single 100-tonne class engine in China, according to the corporation.
As the main engine for the country’s future crewed lunar missions, the device needs higher comprehensive performance and reliability.
The trial broke the previous record for the longest test run, which was achieved less than six months earlier, according to the corporation, adding that the operating time of the engine in the trial exceeded its required mission by more than 10 times, which it said verifies its reliability.
Crewed lunar landing before 2030
China plans to achieve a crewed lunar landing before 2030, Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency, announced on May 29 at a press conference.
Lin said China recently initiated the lunar landing phase of its manned lunar exploration program, aiming to achieve China’s first manned landing on the moon by 2030 and carrying out lunar scientific exploration and related technological experiments.
According to Lin, China is also aiming to master key technologies, such as an Earth-moon manned round-trip, a short-term stay on the lunar surface, a human-robot exploration, performing multiple landing, roving, sampling, researching tasks, returning, and forming an independent capability of manned lunar exploration.
The international lunar research station
China formally established its lunar exploration “Project Chang’e” in 2004. In December 2020, the Chang’e-5 lunar probe brought back 1,731 grams of samples from the moon, marking the completion of the three-step lunar exploration program of orbiting, landing and returning.
In 2022, the China National Space Administration announced a plan to begin the fourth phase of the lunar probe program, including launching three missions dubbed the Chang’e-6, Chang’e-7 and Chang’e-8, and the construction of an international lunar research station on the moon, said Wu Weiren, the chief designer of the lunar exploration program.
The Chang’e-6 mission is expected to retrieve lunar soil samples from the far side of the moon around 2024, which will be the first time humankind will collect soil samples from the far side of the Earth’s natural satellite.
The Chang’e-7 mission is prepared to land on the south pole of the moon, looking for traces of water, Wu said, adding that the Chang’e-8 mission, which is planned to be launched around 2028, is designed to work with the Chang’e-7 to lay the foundation for the building of a lunar research station on the south pole of the moon, and facilitate a series of experiments on lunar resources exploration and utilization.
The chief designer also said China welcomes partners and scientists from across the globe to join the construction of the international lunar research station on the moon, as the country plans to launch multiple spaceflight missions to finish the station’s basic structure by 2030.
Former FBI agent REVEALS truth in UFO whistleblower story
What impact could the rare victory for journalism in Hong Kong have on the press freedom movement in Asia?
The abuse of press freedom was more evident in Hong Kong during the chaos a few years back, if that’s what was considered a victory.
That rare victory sent ripples through press freedom movement in Asia like when readers consider journalists as script writers for a fictional political drama.
True journalism is as dead as a do-do bird can be.
Our neighbor’s 8-year-old drops by our house almost every afternoon and chats away about anything and everything until we ask him to leave. He’s a sweet kid, but it’s becoming a pain; what should we do?
I hope you don’t mind, but I would like to tell you my story.
I was that 8 year old child once.
My father was an alcoholic, my mother severely depressed. I raised my sister and provided her with the emotional support when our parents were too immature and abusive to give that to us.
I would get beat up, thrown against the wall, kicked, punched repeatedly on the head by my father, his rage would shake my soul. My sister and I would drown ourselves in books, homework and play as quietly so we wouldn’t anger our father. Our mother was verbally abusive, she would break everything in our home.
My father would tell us to get lost, to get out of his way, to shut up, leave him alone, brain dead kids.
He hated us.
One day my sister and I went to the neighbors house and asked them if they had candy.
It was an elderly lady and her husband. They giggled and came out with candy for us and told us to have a good day.
A few days passed and we knocked to ask them again. This time they pulled out some chairs and sat down with us. We talked for a few hours. We told them about our hobbies, favorite books, favorite everything. They gave us candy and told us to go home and not be out so late.
The next day we visited the elderly couple and they played the piano for us. We were so amazed by their warm atmosphere, love and kindness.
Some days we would go visit and they would just sit on the front porch showing them our sweet rock or toy collections, our art and we would even sing classical songs with them.
With time they began to tell us they were busy, then they didn’t open the door anymore.
We wanted to do something nice for them and picked out flowers for them and left them at their doorstep.
I still look back and I’m thankful to have met such a sweet couple. I strive to be like them one day as an old lady with my husband.
You have no obligation, but for me those strangers meant something worth remembering in my rough childhood.