The old, redundant and western thinking elites need an education to see what is really good for the people of the world

 

 

 

End the Dangerous Stupidity of Geopolitics

10 minutes of frank and truthful education for the bananas, western educated elites, to reflect on their blind belief in the superiority and goodness of the law of the jungle western hegemonic world order, designed, built and maintained to perpetuate the brutal rule of the world by the white men.

The western or American Rules Based Order is based on might is right and white men superiority, to rule the world forever.

Wake up, bananas and western educated elite, the world needs a fairer, equitable and just system for everyone, every country, regardless of their creed, colour or race.

The current American Rules Based Order is unjust, racists, brutal, vicious and unacceptable to the people of the world.

Israel's survival is at the mercy of the Arab and Muslim states!

 Nobody said this before. Nobody wants to know this hard truth. Instead, the Israelis and the Americans have been spreading the lie that the whole of the Arab and Muslim states can be destroyed by Israel(+USA). And Israel is so powerful, its defences so impregnable, not a mosquito can fly through the Israelis defence system. In other words, Israel is invincible and the whole Arab and Muslim world is at the mercy of Israel(+USA) as they are unable to defeat Israel +USA.

Now listen to this, Israel is indefensible and is at the mercy of the Arab and Muslim states. Israel can be wiped out totally within hours by the Arab and Muslim states if the latter just fire everything they have into Israel. Actually there is no need to fire everything, just 50% of their missiles, rockets and bombs from their aircraft and drones would be enough to turn Israel into dust.

Israel has several very vulnerable points that would prove crucial and critical in an all out war. One, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Eilat, and a few big cities have all the concentration of the Israeli population. A concentration of missiles and high explosive bombs are all it takes to wipe up the majority of the Israeli population, the population that counts but Israel's population is too small, and many Israelis are fleeing Israel, unreported. These densely populated cities can be held hostage against the Israelis. 

Two, Israel's nuclear sites are virtual nuclear bombs to be detonated and as good as nuking Israel when hit, and turn several large regions of Israel uninhabitable, and wiping out the Israelis within 10 to 20 miles of the radius of the nuclear sites. And their locations are no secret, can easily be pinpoint and taken out by hypersonic missiles. 

Three, Israel is just a small stretch of land. There is no where to run, no where to hide when hundreds of thousands of missiles and rockets rain onto Israel. This is not the same as the current spurious and limited attacks by the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollahs, or by Iran. The missiles and rockets in great numbers could block out the sun or the rain. Nothing would be left standing in Israel.

The American military might, in terms of military bases in the region, the warships and aircraft carriers would not be able to defend and protect Israel. In a real all out war, these bases, warships and aircraft would be blown up or sunk at the same time. They would have a hard time defending themselves to stay alive. The peace and quiet and safety of American bases, warships and aircraft carriers we see today is a delusion. They are defenceless sitting ducks. Unless they are 10,000 miles from the region.

Iran and the Arab and Muslim world should starting singing the chorus, Israel will be wiped out in an all out war. All the lies to frighten the Arab and Muslim world that Israel is untouchable no longer holds true. In the last few weeks, the myth of Israel's invincibility has been shattered to pieces. Iran and the Arab and Muslim world should use their megaphones to point at Israel, stop your aggression or we will wipe Israel off the surface of the earth. This is not a joke, not a threat, but the real and painful truth. When united and acting as one, Israel is nothing to the Arab and Muslim world, a piece of nose snot.

Israel should be the one that feel threatened, be afraid, NOT Iran and the Arab and Muslim world. In fact, if Iran were to unload what they have into Israel, it would be enough to do the same job of wiping away Israel from the face of the earth. There is no need for the rest of the Arab and Muslim world to do anything. This is the amount of weapons the Iranians have amassed to take on the US, definitely more than enough to snuff out Israel with plenty to spare.

Israel and the Americans can no longer bluff or lie with their propaganda and their deceptions to threaten Iran and the Arab and Muslim world. The real threat is against Israel and its survival as a nation state. All the Israeli big cities can go up in smokes with their population, worst than Gaza, when a full scale war starts. Israel should be afraid. The barking and aggressive behaviour against the Arab and Muslim states are just pretention of power, a show of force...acting the tough guy to strike fear. It was successful for a long time, but crumbling with the new realities. The Arab and Muslim states did not go to sleep over the last decades but preparing for a final showdown with the Israelis one day. And that day is any time now.

Indonesia to join BRICS; Singapore banned

 Indonesia to join BRICS; Singapore banned

Indonesia has started the process of becoming part of the BRICS in a sign of growing influence for the group that’s positioned itself as an alternative to the US-led global order.

Southeast Asia’s largest economy expressed its interest in joining the bloc at the BRICS Plus Summit in Kazan, Russia on Thursday, according to newly-appointed Indonesia Foreign Minister Sugiono.

BRICS, led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is the “right vehicle” to advance the interests of the Global South, Sugiono said in a statement. The bloc also backs new Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto’s priorities, including food and energy security, poverty eradication and improving human capital, he added.

“Joining BRICS is a manifestation of Indonesia’s free and active foreign policy,” said Sugiono who goes by one name.

The starting the process to join BRICS marks the first foreign policy move by the Prabowo government. It would be a major win for BRICS should Indonesia join its ranks. Within Southeast Asia alone, Thailand — a US treaty ally — and Malaysia have also expressed interest to join.

Singapore is banned from joining BRICS after it hastily impose unilateral sanctions on Russia without UN General Assembly resolutions.

Anonymous 

PS. This was written and posted before the Kazan Summit.

Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam now partners of BRICS

 Great that Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam now partners of BRICS and in time becoming full members. I think Putin is being extremely cautious now about wholesales acceptance of BRICS's membership and is taking a longer period to judge countries based on their longer-term behavior and loyalty stance in the interim.

If I am not wrong, there are now 13 countries accepted as partners of BRICS, all potential members. I believe they have been vetted as worthy to be partners in BRICS and becoming full members in time.

Just letting in one Trojan Horse can be devastating for the group. By the way, I may be wrong, but I think India is beginning to realize that its loyalty to BRICS is more important for India and is now supporting the expansion of BRICS. The willingness of Modi to talk to Xi regarding the border issue is a step in the right direction and is making the West paranoid and nervous. The USA had been putting pressure on India recently, using its attack dog, Canada, to stir shit. India realizes that enough is enough. India is still in the QUAD and needs to show its sincere loyalty to one side only. 

Anonymous

Why American terrorists love Uyghur Muslims but genocide Palestinian Muslims

 In China, the USA had the intention to instigate the Uyghur Muslims against the predominant Han Chinese. The USA in honesty has no love lost for the Muslims as we can now see in the Middle East.

Conversely, we can see that the USA's intention in the Middle East was to use Israel to be used against the Arabs and Muslims. The biggest slap on their faces is supplying weapons to Israel to commit genocide against Muslims in Gaza while shedding crocodile tears for the Muslims in Xinjiang that they have been professing. Why is that love of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang not mirrored in the Middle East?

Everything the USA does can be summed up in one word - Interest. The radicalized Uyghur Muslims had been cultivated to create chaos in Xinjiang, hoping that it will spread to the rest of China. The USA had already, in tandem, instigated chaos in Hong Kong during the Xinjiang unrest.

In the Middle East, it all boils down to USA wanting to control the region, an important geopolitical asset rich in oil and an important sea gateway for trade via the Suez Canal and Persian Gulf.

Anonymous

Christianity converted the natives in the early days of conquest by force

 I am apt to believe that Christianity is such a widely followed religion stems from the early days when it was shafted down the throats of Natives by force, enforced conversion through conquest of weak countries, indoctrination and using the carrot and stick of using heaven and hell to instill fear. Human beings have two major weaknesses that had been exploited - greed and fear. Greed for wanting heavenly bliss and fear of the unknown befalling them if they do not follow.

If Christianity is so well accepted, why did it fail in China and India and even Red Dot. Muslim countries have their own safeguards against Christianity, which forbids Muslims from being converted to Christianity. That is their 'Red Line'.

Here, Buddhism lost the edge in becoming a well adopted religion worldwide, particularly in the West, because Buddhism, which by the way is more a philosophy than a religion, believes in freedom of choice, and that belief is not handed down or imposed by parents to offspring by force. That is why Buddhism harbor this belief by advising would be followers to understand the beliefs and doctrines before getting converted.

Today, Buddhism is still a major religion in China, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar and Singapore. 

Anonymous

American terrorists stole the continent of North America, now continue to steal sovereign assets

 ‘Theft’ of sovereign assets now US government policy – Moscow

Washington’s use of the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to repay a $20 billion loan to Ukraine shows that the US has advanced “theft” to the level of government policy, the Russian Embassy in the US has said.

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced a “historic decision to leverage Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine.” The US will provide Kiev with a $20 billion loan as part of a broader $50 billion G7 package, he said in a press release.

The day before, both the EU and UK announced loans of their own, similarly to be repaid via interest from Russian funds.

The use of windfall profits from blocked Russian assets will provide Ukraine assistance “without burdening taxpayers,” Biden said.

Western countries sanctioned an estimated $300 billion in sovereign Russian assets soon after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, blocking the assets in Western financial institutions.

As of end-August 2024, Singapore is blissfully holding US$239 billion in US Treasury securities, up US$54.8 billion from US$184.2 billion a year ago. In the same period, China has trimmed its holdings from US$805.4 billion to US$774.6 billion.

Anonymous

Russia's bad experience with the rupee

India is fuming mad about the minor role of rupee in the new currency being pushed out by BRICS. Modi is pushing very hard to want BRICS to accept rupee as a major currency in BRICS. Unfortunately no one really want to have anything to do with the rupee. Russia's bad experience with the rupee is there for all to see and Putin has also decided to write off the rupee.

When Modi wanted to buy Russian oil on the cheap, he offered to pay with rupees and Putin agreed. Subsequently the amount of rupees held in the hands of the Russians surged significantly which was not a bad thing, until when the Russians wanted to use them but found out there was nothing that Russia could buy from India. India did not produce anything that is needed by the Russians. To make matter worse, for whatever left that the Russians wanted to buy from India, the Indians refused to accept rupee for payment. Yes, the rupee is not accepted as payment by the Indians. What else then can the rupee be used for? The Indians suggested that the Russians can invest the rupees in the Indian stock market. Then what? After investing in the Indian stock market, and if there are profits, assuming that the Russians accumulated a lot of rupees, what for if the Russians have nothing to buy from India and also cannot use the rupees to make payments?

What about those countries that invested heavily in India? Do they face the same problem of earning rupees and cannot use rupees to pay for Indian goods? Or they just simply reinvest all the rupees in the Indian stock exchange to earn more rupees...the big question, for what, what to do with the rupees when it cannot be used to buy Indian goods and how many things produced in India are worth buying?

Would foreign investors be in India to earn rupees for the sake of earning rupees to boast that they have so many trillions of rupees in the Indian banks, but cannot do anything about the rupees? Maybe Singapore has the answer, after all Singapore is pouring many hundreds of billions into India to earn rupees. Foreign investors are paying for their investments using good money or US$. Can they take out the same money when liquidating their investments or they have to take out only in rupees? When Indian companies or the Indian govt bought over foreign companies, they are paying in rupees! So, what to do with all the rupees, reinvest in Indian stock exchange to earn more rupees?

What do you think? I think the Indian workers in Singapore would be paid in S$ and not in rupees. Maybe Singapore can set up a consultancy on investments in India and how to take out profits or investments from Indian in other currencies and not in rupees.

Many Singapore companies are encouraged or invited to invest in India to earn rupees.

PS. India cannot dedollarise as no country would want to accept rupee for payment except for one or two countries. Not just BRICS countries but also America and the European countries. India has no choice but to use US$. No country is so stupid to want to earn rupees when India would not even want to accept rupees to pay for Indian goods.

Winners do not need underhand tactics like sabotage, sanctions, tariffs and threats

 While the USA and the West are using propaganda fabrication to win, China is using facts and reality to win. The world has learnt to separate the wheat from the chaff, the good from the bad. They can see who is winning and who is getting battered.

Everything is so obvious as to who is winning. Winners do not have to resort to underhand tactics like sabotage, sanctions, tariffs and threats to win. They win on merit and thrive on reality. Only losers resort to using unfair means to keep others down, demonize their progress, form blocs and alliances to hinder the progress of competitors. It is a double-edged sword that cuts both ways. It stifles innovation and dims the ability to compete, not to forget that competitors can always retaliate. And as competitors move forward, the gap is going to widen instead of narrowing.

So, how is the USA and the West going to compete moving forward? Will more sabotage, more sanctions and more demonization solve the problem? Already they are not able to compete in EVs and major ICE vehicles manufacturers are suffering. Not to mention that the days of the US$ hegemony is ending and with it the effectiveness of sanctions. 

Anonymous

Foolish Americans with foolish propaganda only fooling themselves

 Countries cannot remain foolish just being brainwashed by Western propaganda. And propaganda being repeated over and over again is not going to change people's mindset with truthful information readily available with a click of a mouse.

Those propaganda demonizing China have now mostly been defanged by countering on social media, not by China officially, but by vloggers that travelled to China. They are doing a good job for China, free and easy without China having to fork out hundreds of millions like the USA to manufacture misinformation and disinformation.

The lie about Xinjiang and persecution of the Uyghur Muslims are now dead and buried with the opening up of visa free travel to selected countries. Foreign visitors to Xinjiang are still searching for those concentration camps that never existed. They exist only in the fertile minds of those who lie, cheat and steal.

The lie about the Chinese Government and the CPC being a bad system for China had been put to rest with the Chinese Government lifting more than 800 million Chinese out of poverty. Which other democratic country has done that on such a scale?

Now they are lying about China's overcapacity as a threat to other countries. How is that so, when China's overcapacity is making life easier for the Global South with cheaper products from China's manufacturing overcapacity, which they would otherwise have to pay an arm and a leg to Western manufacturers. And that has been touted as bad for countries around the world? The reality is that it is bad for the USA and EU by not being able to compete on a level playing field.

Anonymous

Blinken, the mastermind behind the genocide of Palestinians hiding in bunker from Hezbollah rockets

 It is reported than Blinken had to hide in a bunker following an attack by Hezbollah on Israel. Blinken is also a Jew, the enemy, right?

Now the reputation of the 'Iron Dome' is in tatters and Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and Iran can strike at targets they choose. Israeli citizens are having a taste of what the people in Gaza have been going through. Life will never be the same again. And Israel and the USA is going to drag the Iranians into the fight. Crazy cows that do not know the danger of taunting a tiger.

The USA is reported to be supplying THAAD missiles to Israel, after all the failures or after exhausting all the Patriot missiles over the last one year. How many have been fired just to take down one cheap rocket? We know that two missiles had to be fired to take down a stationary weather balloon. Do the calculations!

THAAD missiles are going to face a baptism of fire like the Patriot missiles in Israel and this will likewise affect its reputation protecting Taiwan. Remember that the USA had been discovered to have sold faulty weapons to Taiwan. Those THAAD missiles that were gloated to be game changers sold to Taiwan could have been just dudes, LOL, just like those Patriot missiles sold to Saudi Arabia years ago that failed to fire. What a joke? 

Anonymous

Clowns galore in the USA, Ukraine, South Korea.....

 As real leaders of BRICS met in Kazan, Russia, the Juvenile political wannabes elsewhere are creating jokes for the world to laugh at. The election circus in the USA is truly entertaining. Not only the two main candidates, but the two aspiring VP are equally out of this world.

Zelenskyy is talking about a 'victory plan'. Without the slightest indication of winning, what victory plan is he talking about? He must have dreamt of that in his sleep. Most people knew that Ukraine is in its last throes, yet Zelenskyy is still dreaming about being given nukes to continue the war. Zelenskyy is using blackmail to force the USA and NATO, either to allow its entry into NATO or be given nukes. Germany is terrified of the consequences and is against Ukraine joining NATO. Ukraine in NATO means direct involvement by NATO in Ukraine, which most NATO countries are wary of the Russian war machine. Zelenskyy is mad at Germany now.

USA's ally, South Korea, meanwhile is playing the toady role to perfection by threatening North Korea about North Korean troops in Russia. What has that got to do with South Korea? It is not as if North Korea is amassing troops on the border threatening the South. North Korea had even blown up the roads leading to the South. It is burning its bridges with the South and going Northwards towards Russia instead.

Just watch what the USA and the West will do to India if its border skirmish with China is settled. The USA is already using Canada to put pressure on India, and I think Modi knows it. Suffice to say, the USA and the West will try to sabotage the peace deal between China and India, maybe a false flag should do the trick. China and India must be wary of the evil designs of the USA and the West. They will not tolerate peace, after cultivating India to counter China for decades and will not allow it to go to waste.

Oh, by the way, Navalny's wife is reported to be taking over the reins of her husband as the proxy of the USA in anti-Russia activities. She is standing for election now. Another joker rising?

Anonymous

America' back to the future strategy in manufacturing will be killed by high production and labour costs

 As Anglo-Saxon wars are failing and going back to basics is the only way out. Which is why the USA is so intent on luring manufacturing back to the USA with massive subsidies to boot. This reality has struck the USA like a bolt of lightning. 'Made in America' they are starting to proclaim. Not even started yet and already gloating like the 'mission accomplished' hogwash in Iraq.

It is too little too late, with raw materials difficult to control or sourced from, supply chains absent and needing to be built up and skilled workers needing to be trained. And not to forget the market needed to make such manufacturing feasible and cheap to compete against others. I think it is all a fanciful thought.

There are still available resources to be secured like in Vietnam, parts of Africa and Mongolia, which the USA is eyeing and salivating. The latter had already been killed by the Chinese and found unfeasible. Vietnam is rich in rare earth but needs to set up the mining logistics and processing facilities, which will be very costly. Which is why the USA is trying to be chummy with the Vietnamese after tearing the country apart and committing war crimes against its citizens. 

Anonymous

Greater Israel or the Yinon Plan. Every Arab and Muslim must watch this video clip over and over again and again

 

 

 

10 minutes on the Yinon Plan or the Greater Israel Plan. Every Arab and Muslim must view this clip over and over again to clear all the shit the Americans and the West and the Jews have planted in their heads. If they continue to be fools, their end days are near. The Plan was to sow division among the Arab and Muslim states to make it easier to conquer and steal their lands. Hope this is simple enough for the Arabs and Muslims to understand.

The silver lining, China has removed the malicious divide planted by the Americans and the Jews between the Shiites and Sunnis so that they would not fight each other anymore and can look at the big picture clearly. If they choose to continue to be foolish and trust the Americans and the white men, they deserve to be driven out of their lands by the Americans and the Jews. And there will be a Greater Israel from the lands they lost to the Israelis. Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and parts of Turkey will form the Greater Israel. The message in this 10 min clip is ominous, telling the fate of the Arab and Muslim states around diminishing Palestine and the expanding Israel. 7 Oct was part of the Israeli Yinon Plan.

Another silver lining, most of the Arab and Muslim states have awaken and aware of the danger facing them and their countries. Big question, would they be easily duped again by the Americans and the Israelis and keep on bickering and fighting among themselves while the Americans and the Israelis are plotting to take over their land and drive them from their homeland?

Genocide in Gaza is just the beginning to the demise of the Arab and Muslim countries in the region. It is astonishing to see silly Arab and Muslim leaders forming a queue to Washington to beg the Americans to save them. For decades, the Americans were making the Arabs and Muslims fight and killing each other while they schemed behind their backs to seize their lands to create a Greater Israel. And liar and schemer Blinken was in Saudi Arabia to force the Saudis to gang up with Israel, meaning distancing from Iran and other Arab and Muslim states like before, driving a wedge between the Sunnis and Shiites.

The above video is produced by The CJ Werleman Show.

Please help me counter injustices in Muslim world by supporting my journalism and CJWS here: https://www.patreon.com/c/cjwerleman

Mickey Mouse watching the Americans carefully in Ukraine

 The war in Ukraine is of special interest to the Mickey Mouse that were roped in by the Americans to provoke the dragon. They have been sold the idea that siding with the Americans is a sure win thing. The whole American military might and NATO would be at their bidding and disposal. There is no need to fear the dragon.

But the war in Ukraine is giving Mickey Mouse cause for concern. Why? The war is not going the way the Americans wanted it. It was designed and planned to be a short war of a few months at the most. A quickie for the Americans. The Europeans also were convinced it would go that way. Zelensky was even more convinced, more excited and inspired to throw his country and country men under the bus, for a quick victory. The clowns in Washington, oops, the military experts and strategists, had put their numbskulls together and thought they had a great plan. Russia would face the mother of all sanctions and would collapse in double quick time. For their 'brilliant' amateurish plan, they boldly offered Mickey Zelensky a blank cheque, we would give you everything you need, just ask and you will get. Mickey Zelensky is still asking for the sky, but lately the sky is not responding as before.

Mickey Zelensky is losing the war and a defeat is on the card. Would the American clown thinkers and military strategists stick to their words, or be planning to abandon ship and let Mickey Zelensky sink alone with his Ukrainians Zionists in it? The European states are having cold feet, with their economies in recession, forced to join the war, coerced not to trade with their biggest trading partner, China, they are losing their pants. Oops, cannot use the word force or coerce by the American terrorists. According to some dimwits in Asean, the Americans never force or coerce their allies, never try to influence their foreign policies and surely would not force or coerce their European allies into a war, and into a losing trade war.

The Europeans are starting to drag their feet, starting to negate their contribution to the war against Russia. They have to think of their national interests and their people. Ukraine was never their object of interest but forced into it by the Americans. They are all ready to call it quit when the going is tough. Without the European footing the bill, the Americans would have to go it alone. And with a mountain of debt themselves, could they last another 6 months? Would the American pull the rug under the feet of Mickey Zelensky? All the Mickey Mouse are watching, especially those in the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea. Whatever the Americans do to Ukraine would be done to them later.  Once the Americans fail to honour their commitments, and let Mickey Zelensky fight alone, the rest of the Mickey Mouse would know their own fate and would be wise not to continue to be Mickey Mouse of the American Hollywood cartoon Production.

The Americans would have to stay put and see it through. But knowing that clowns are clowns, the Washington clowns may not be dependable to own up and would flee. After all, some of them would lose their jobs after the Presidential Election. Looks like Mickey Zelensky would have to fight the war alone and no more blank cheque, no more getting whatever he needs or whatever he asks. His ending could be quite tragic.

The Mickey Mouse are all watching! Would the Americans run away like pale face did, from the Ukraine War?

PS. Be warned, desperado Zelensky is showing his full colours, a psychopath, he is demanding NATO  boots in Ukraine immediately or would go nuclear. Playing with the wrong Mickey Mouse can be extremely dangerous.

American economic woes about to explode like a nuclear bomb

 The democratic system is failing big time in USA. The MSM will not talk about it. Janet Yellen will keep harping on the strength of the USA economy. The MSM will keep gloating on the daily record highs set by USA stock market. The USA Government will keep fabricating the rosy jobs market despite all the business closures and tech layoffs.

Banks in USA are in deep trouble. There is a massive mountain of losses hidden in their books after years of investing in USA bonds as stipulated by the USA Government, with the banking watchdog closing both eyes to the problem. All the frenzied money printing ended up in USA banks with investing in bonds necessary to fund the USA deficit spending. This cannot go on forever, as the banks are carrying the losses unknown to the public. Depositors are in for a rough ride as losses cannot be covered anymore. Either way, even if the FDI were to cover the losses, such coverage will come from public funds, from the taxes levied on USA citizens. It is just robbing Peter to pay Paul.

To get a good idea of the USA's economic problems, which have been avoided being discussed by the MSM, I recommend readers to go to the Youtube site of Ric Bender, a treasure trove of USA economic news with well explained dissection of the economic problems in the USA.

Do not get carried away either by the rosy picture painted of the economy, about retails sales being better. It is all a mirage. The uptick in retail sales figures are all about price increases of everyday products and nothing about improve sales numbers. As inflation hits, things will get more expensive, but people just buy less. Still the values will go up, right.

As for the rosy job statistics, that is all a mirage conjured from thin air. If the USA job statistics can be caught out by hundreds of millions in subsequent adjustments, can we ever believe in them?

There is another tsunami arising from property crashes and foreclosures resulting from all the business failures and store closures. This has never been discussed much in the MSM as well.

In the USA, everything today is interpreted as great, resilient and rosy. Did anyone say purple as well?

Anonymous

USA and EU putting much pressure on Saudi Arabia on de-dollarization and BRICS membership

 The USA and EU are putting much pressure on Saudi Arabia against following de-dollarization with its BRICS membership. We probably will hear nothing about this in the MSM. We have to remember that the Saudi Royal households, fifteen thousand in all, all have massive investments in the USA and Europe together with movable assets like yachts galore, which are under threat. MBS himself is therefore under pressure to make sure asset seizure as happened with Russia, is not going to happen to his country.

The USA is attempting to create animosity between Iran and Saudi Arabia, as it is not in its interest to have these two power players in the Middle East getting friendlier after the peace deal brokered by China. Saudi Arabia is being pressured to take sides, which if against Iran, is not in MBS interest. Either way, MBS is in troubled waters. Moreover, the USA probably wants the Saudis to counter the Houthis, as it did before the peace deal with Iran. This is in the interest of the USA, with weapons sales and keeping the Houthis at bay or busy around the Gulf region instead of targeting Western naval vessels in the Gulf and Israel.

Of course, if Iran gets its nuke, the USA will just let Saudi Arabia sleep-walk into the nuclear club without the usual threat to the rest of the world mantra.

Anonymous

USA thinks it is easy to program Asian and Global South minds

 The USA thinks it is easy to program Asian and Global South minds like programing White mice. The White mice in Europe have been programmed to die for the USA, to sacrifice themselves for the USA. Not the Africans. Not all countries in ASEAN, Middle East, South America or Central America. The world can see the lies that the USA had fabricated to start the Iraq War, supporting the genocides in Gaza, the formation of allies to die for the USA's interest in trade and technology wars against China.

Now Japan is in the crosshairs of the USA, being forced to sacrifice itself for the USA to counter China. If Japan refuses to sanction China over chips and machinery, it will face the wrath of the USA. Japan is finished either way. China is Japan's main trading partner and market for chips and following the USA's dictate is suicidal.

India is not that ready to de-dollarize for a reason. India still keeps its relations with the US$ as the Indian rupee is not well accepted by others for trade purposes, unlike the Chinese Yuan. Therefore, India will keep straddling two boats in the immediate future and losing out on Chinese investments. Not that China needs India to invest in after suffering all the negative impacts.

Anonymous

China to benefit from the Ukraine War and War in the Middle East

 Never expect China to benefit so much from the Ukraine War in cheap energy, food and resources.

Now history is repeating itself with the Israeli/Hamas/Hezbollah war. China will take over the market for sales in smartphones in the Middle East, which is already cannibalizing Apple's position globally. The Lebanese and Arab countries must also remember that Japan and South Korea are on the side of the USA vis a vis the Israelis and must also be avoided. That means their smartphones are equally dangerous to own.

You never know, the danger could even extend to EVs made in USA, Europe, Japan and South Korea. Prevention is always better than cure. Those batteries if tampered with could be a real time bomb that puts the pagers and walkie talkies explosion just mere child's play. 

Anonymous

De-dollarization is the Archilles Heel of the USA

 While the Brits lost its Empire due to lack of financial resources to upkeep its administration in the colonies it occupied. The USA. learning from the Brits, believes that having bases in countries on top of its money printing privilege is the way to control the world. This is a belief based on the assumption that the US$ hegemony does not fall. The USA can always resort to its unilateral privilege of printing toilet papers to upkeep these bases and logistics today. Once the US$ hegemony ends, its empire will fall like a house of cards just like the British.

De-dollarization is the Archilles Heel of the USA. China and Russia are not using the military option to bring down the US hegemony unless pushed to the wall, like in Ukraine. Russia and China lack all the resources and the money printing privilege for a military confrontation against all the USA bases around the world. The former Soviet Union fell for the trap of trying to take on the USA in military spending and bankrupted itself. How could the Soviet Union do the impossible, knowing the USA had the money printing financial muscle to outspend it.

The formation of BRICS is for the purpose of bringing down the US$ hegemony through de-dollarization. Nothing more nothing less. BRICS is not a military bloc like NATO nor about Russia or China wanting to become the next superpower. It has a more important mission which is de-dollarization.

Trump is beginning to realize the consequences of de-dollarization picking up pace and already threatening countries from joining de-dollarization, which inevitably means joining the BRICS bandwagon. He wants to erect 100% tariffs against those countries joining de-dollarization. Trump is going to fast track the de-dollarization movement with this move if elected. What has the USA tried to do that did not end up shooting its own foot?

People always say, man proposes, and God disposes. There is nothing that man proposes that will last forever. Not Empires and not Dynasties.

Anonymous

Iran retaliated by bombing American bases in Syria. Why?

 The Israelis attacked Iranian military targets with aircraft and missiles. On Sunday night, Iran retaliated again, this time against American military bases in Syria. Why not hitting Israel but American bases? As usual, the Americans and Israelis presumed that the Iranians were stupid and did not know where the attacks came from and who were the attackers. The Israelis might have launched a few missiles over Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq skies as a show of force,... that they did it. 

As for the attacks by aircraft, it was a tall order. The distance would mean limited bomb loads and also air to air refueling over Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Iraqi airspace. These Arab states had agreed not to let Israeli aircraft overflying their airspace or they would become targets of Iranian attacks. They would also be forced to fire at Israeli aircraft over their skies. Therefore, it was unlikely for the Israelis to fly their aircraft to attack Iran. Then where did the aircraft came from? Put 1 and 1 together, it was very highly likely that they were American aircraft in American bases in Syria and Iraq, maybe even in Saudi Arabia, and flown by American pilots in the attack. No one is wiser if they were not shot down and no American pilots were caught. The American had done it many times in many wars in the area. In the sky, no one knows whether they were Israeli or American aircraft and who were flying them.

The Americans thought the Iranians were fools, including the Russians. But both were watching the skies and could track and trace the source of the aircraft, where they came from and where they returned to. Such cheap tricks by the Americans and Israelis were workable in the 1960s or 70s, not in the 21st century when there were not only radars but satellites monitoring the sky. Once the Russians and the Iranians knew where the aircraft were from, the retaliation would come surely, at the real culprits.

Massive bombings and massive explosion were heard in several American bases in Syria. These were not fire crackers, but meant business. Would the stupid Americans be scratching their heads silly and asking how did the Iranians know? Or they knew too, no need to think too hard, but had to pretend not to know, and took it in their stride without raising ruckus with the Iranians.

Do not underestimate the Russians and the Iranians and their allies. They also have eyes in the sky.

American/West start on the presumption that Arabs and Muslims are stupid and hapless

 Anyone listening or reading the media, main media and social media, and if the speakers or presenters are Americans or westerners, they would come away with the impression that whatever came out of the presentation or broadcast, is always one sided, all the thinking and assumptions are one sided, in favour of the Americans and the West.

It is very clear that all the analysts, scholars, journalists, researchers and reporters start from the same premises...that the Arabs and Muslims, and the Global South, are daft, unthinking, unintelligent beans, unable to defend themselves, weak and hapless and waiting to be slaughtered or attacked by the Americans and the West at their own time and own choosing.

Look at the situation now facing Iran. All the talking is about how the Americans and the Israelis are planning and preparing to nuke or attack Iran, at targets of their own choosing. And Iran cannot do anything about it. The Iranians are either sleeping or unthinking or plain stupid, or did not have any weapons to defend themselves, did not how to defend themselves. So it is how the Americans and the Israelis are going to whip the Iranians freely and happily. It is a one way thing, like the Iranians are being tied onto a stake and waiting to be dealt with by the Americans and the Israelis?

Is this kind of thinking real, that one side is so intelligent, so clever, have all the brains and weapons, to whack the other side that is weak and hapless, unable to do a thing, not even know how to hide or run?

The Arabs and the Muslims also came from an ancient Civilisation that was known for having many wise men, intellectuals and once had their own empires that ruled the days. They are not inferior people or Civilisation. They were the most talented and the best at one time or another. They cannot be so stupid and hapless, and not be thinking of how to respond to an immediate existential threat.

Why can't the Iranians be planning to send 100,000 missiles into Israel, not only on military targets but all the big cities, including Tel Aviv, to flatten every city and destroy their population in a live or die war, either they be wiped out or they wipe out the Americans and the Israelis? Would anyone believe the Iranians are all sleeping, or waiting helplessly in despair, to be nuked or destroyed by their enemies? Or would it be that the Iranians have no friends and would be allowed to go up in smokes, alone with no allies coming to their aid? Remember what happened to Syria? Syria would have gone up in smokes if the Russians did not take the initiative to step into the war. If the Russians can do that to save the Syrians, very likely telling the Americans it would be war with the Americans if the Americans did not stop their aggression, the Russians could have already told the Americans of their intent to take on the Americans and the Israelis, to save Iran.

Are the Americans and the West and their so called scholars and thinkers still thinking that the Iranians are a gone case, to be devour freely at the mercy and pleasure of the Americans and the Israelis? The Americans and the Israelis may be thinking and planning, the Iranians, the Arabs and Muslims and their friends are also thinking and planning to do the same to the American and the Israelis. It is NOT a one sided affair. Stop thinking that the rest of the world, especially the Arabs and Muslims and the Global South are daft and dumb and hapless, too weak and unable to hit back.

Saudi Arabia are having joint military exercise with a common enemy. Saudi Arabia is no longer the puppet on a string, to be pulled and act against its Arab and Muslim neighbours by the Americans and the Israelis. The other Arab and Muslim states, used to be the puppets of the Americans and Israelis are going to break free, to join Iran and the rest of the Arab and Muslim states against their common enemies, the americans and the Israelis and the rest of Europe.

American Election - Blowing the Wall Street bubble for a bigger bang!

 We are witnessing the fall of an Empire - the denial, the threats, starting more conflicts to distract, more desperate moves that are backfiring without careful thinking, banks failing, economy in ICU and needing life support.

Forget about what you hear about Wall Street breaking records every day. It is all related to frenzy money printing entering the stock market. Forget about the economy being strong with retail sales all rosy, when it is just supported by higher prices when people are actually buying less. Forget about the job statistics which we now know is all fabricated. What is hidden is not what you get.

After November, if Trump wins, and tariffs on countries joining de-dollarization put in place, the USA will be on fire with inflation causing widespread chaos and people in desperation. They have to live with the Government they have chosen, or should I say the Government being chosen for them actually, to screw them blind. The USA election is a Hobson's choice, between choosing a rock and a hard place.

Anonymous

BRICS' rise attracting more detractors

 Those detractors of the de-dollarization movement are trying to downplay BRICS as an inconsequential bloc and will be unable to do anything to the US$ hegemony. They claimed that BRICS serves no purpose to further the ambition of Russia or China trying to become the next superpower. Is that the mission of creating BRICS to help Russia or China become the next superpower? I thought Russia and China wants a multi polar world instead.

They are also claiming that China is trying to impose its influence over BRICS using its financial clout that is making India unhappy. Is that the reason and if so, why is Russia such an influential entity instead when it comes to setting rules and regulations over the acceptance of new BRICS members?

As de-dollarization moves forward, more of such demonization will be fabricated in a Propaganda House set up in the West and disseminated to echo chambers like CNN, BBC, WION, Channel News America and Social Media sites like China.... this and that, which should be avoided as they spout misinformation and disinformation like the MSM.

Clicking on Social Media sites like those China...... is like clicking on a scamming site. Strange that such sites seem to be attracting much traffic, true or not, real or fabricated, is debatable. I guess stupidity has no cure is never out of date.

Anonymous

It is public knowledge that the American/West want to destroy Russia, China, Iran and North Korea

 The West have the audacity to claim that these four countries are threatening global security - Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. They have no shame saying that when they are the ones starting wars and the USA being the lonely nuclear terrorist that everyone knows for a fact. Now using propaganda to whitewash their sins and putting the blame on others.

They claim just being dictatorship equates to security threats to the rest of the world and democracy is peace loving when all through the centuries it was the democratic Whites that have been going around fighting wars and stealing lands. Has the world forgotten who was the only country that ever used two atomic bombs on another? There were many occasions that that global terrorist had wanted to use nukes against North Korea, against North Vietnam and against China on numerous occasions. Who is the real threat to the security of the world and leading proxies to threaten others?

Anonymous

Americans still lying about their collapsing economy and lying about China's 5% growth as crumbling

 The Anglo-Saxon doctrine of might is right and how the Whites rose by using war and conquest is not lost on the rest of the world. The USA and the West have done that for centuries in North America, Middle East, Africa and they attempted to do that to China as well for centuries.

They still want to do that today, in Europe against Russia using Ukraine, in the Middle East using Israel against the Arabs and Muslims, and still having their mindset about recolonizing China, which has never faded. But China today is not the China of the days when China was deeply divided and weak. But China will not resort to using wars to counter.

China's peaceful rise is just as eye opening as communism giving democracy a fight for the money and a lesson in how the battle is changing the perception of the whole world. Communism was never believed to be able to lead to the rise of China. It was a stifling ideal, inferior to the democratic superiority myth that existed for decades.

China changed that perception, once and for all with its peaceful rise. And countries are not blind to the changes that communism brought to China. It was nothing stifling, nothing holding back economic progress, with all the infrastructures, the manufacturing, the domination by China in many sectors to show. Who dares to belittle communism, with not even the beacon of democracy, the USA, daring to tout again the superiority of democracy triumphing communism.

That narrative died long ago and now the USA, and the West is using manufacturing overcapacity by China and all the hogwash associated with it and using the world as scapegoats to carry the burden of being threatened by China's overcapacity. That is such a lame argument, when the whole world is benefitting from cheap products made with China's overcapacity. It is the USA's inability to compete that is the only interest that made the USA to fabricate narratives against China's overcapacity. Nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous

US extorting US$2 billion from Taiwan in the sale of weapons

 TAIPEI: The United States has approved a potential US$2 billion arms sale package to Taiwan, the Pentagon said on Friday (Oct 25), including the delivery for the first time to the island of an advanced air defence missile system battle tested in Ukraine...."This proposed sale serves US national, economic, and security interests by supporting the recipient's continuing efforts to modernise its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability," it said in a statement. CNA

It is so easy to extort money from willing suckers. The sale of some radar and air defence detection system is not going to make Taiwan safer should the rebel govt leaders choose to declare independence from the motherland. When China is raining missiles onto the island, there will never be enough defensive missiles to take them down. Israel, claimed to be impregnatable with several layers of defences, the best the Americans can offer, the best the Israelis could do for themselves, is now a myth, torn and tatters when Iran rained missiles on them. The PLA's military might and assets are beyond the imagination of the Taiwanese pro independent rebels, much more destructive than the Iranians'. It is a total mismatch, a foregone conclusion should China decides enough is enough. 

The billions spent or extorted by the Americans could be put to better use for the benefits of the Taiwanese people. Why keep on allowing the Americans to put their hands into the coffers to the Taiwan govt and the Taiwanese cannot say no? As the above quote said, the proposed sale serves US national, economic and security interests more than the interests of Taiwan. Taiwan is the first line of defence of the American Empire. In the event of a unification by force, the first country to attack and bomb Taiwan would be the Americans. They have said so, that they would destroy Taiwan's industrial complex making advanced chips to prevent them from falling into the hands of China.

Taiwan is America's first target to blow up in the event of war with China. Thank you America. The Taiwanese must be feeling very safe with this. Or they did not know, did not want to know that they are target number one for the American bombers and missiles? Taiwan will be the first front line defence to be destruct by the Americans.

Taiwan is paying the Americans US$2 billion to defend the American Empire. And this is only the beginning. More would be demanded over the years.

Asians thinking like Americans

 China should be more upfront about its strategic intentions when doing so does not compromise its national security. Failing to do so undermines its ability to persuade the world that its desire to be viewed as a benign hegemon is a genuine aspiration, says Dr James Char, a Chinese military expert at NTU’s RSIS....by James Char.  CNA

This is a typical kind of statement coming from a banana that thinks and behaves like an American or westerners and seeing the world, especially China, from an American perspective. In another word, anything that China did is wrong as it did not please the Americans and the West. The statement itself is full of holes but invisible to a banana. China's missile tests are so limited compared to what the Americans and the West did. China has not detonated a nuclear weapon in the South Pacific while the Americans and the West had done so many times, using the Pacific Islanders as their white mice to study the effects of nuclear radiation and harm on the Pacific Islanders. Not cruel, no crimes, no human rights violation?  Many bananas would not know and would not want to know about such cruel acts against the Pacific Islanders. Many died, many suffered a whole life from radioactive wounds and crippled for life.

Why must China be blaring to the world, or have to blare to the world about its strategic interests or intention when the Americans are not doing so? Actually China had told the world of its strategic interests but the Americans and the West would not want to listen or want to know. China have reiterated its position many times but the Americans/West and bananas refused to listen and keep repeating or asking what is China's strategic interest or goals, just like repeating the fake news of ethnic discrimination and genocide in Xinjiang like WMD in Iraq for the unthinking and bananas to talk about. They just keep pretending that China is not transparent and keep on asking. Can bananas think? Oops, bananas is a fruit without a brain.

The real intention of China or any nation state is in what they did and not in what they said or claimed to be. It does not need one to be a professor or expert in geopolitics to understand this. China has made its intent clearly to the world many times, and by its actions and policies, but ignored by the malicious American/West. It is the same as no genocide or ethnic abuses in Xinjiang, but the American terrorists keep insisting so and repeating it to be so and the brainless bananas just gulped it up like the gospel truth. Just keep on repeating to make it sounds real!

Whether China talks about its strategic intention or not, would not and would never compromise its national security. Thinking that it does is naive and childish. Anyone asking about China's strategic intention out of ignorance is excusable.  The Americans is asking out of malice and mischief, refusing to know and using it as a tool to demonise China. And what world is this James Char talking about? The world consists or more than 190 countries, not just the American and European states. One Kiribati, an American protectorate ordered to complain is not reflective of the world. Whether China is a benign hegemon or an international terrorist like the American Empire is all out there for the world to see. By the way, China has said many times that it would not be a hegemon like the Americans. Only the blind cannot see and more pathetic are those that have eyes but cannot see, have ears but cannot hear.

Which country is starting all the wars in the world, inciting and raising tensions and fighting wars, committing war crimes, genocides and crimes against humanity? China or the USA?

No prizes for the correct answer. Even a primary school kid will know the answer, except bananas. China does not have to persuade the world of its intention. The long queue to join BRICS speaks for itself. The Global South is abandoning the screw up American Rules Based Order for a new multi polar world. The world, yes the world of mainly Global South countries, are in full support of China and Russia in creating a new multi polar world. Even countries in the EU are having second thoughts of remaining as colonies and doggies of the evil American Empire. Some have shown interest of wanting to join BRICS.  Turkey has joined. Be precise and specific when using the term 'world'. The white men's world or the rest of the world, the Global South. When the white men talk about the world or international community, they are referring to the AngloSaxon and European world, the white men's community, NOT the rest of the whole world.

Quotes from Putin in RT

Putin names ‘standard’ for international relations
Other nations would be wise to look up to Moscow and Beijing, the Russian president has said....

“We can say with full confidence that they’ve become a standard for how relations between two states should be built in the modern world,” the Russian leader stated. He also maintained that cooperation between Russia and China is one of the “stabilizing factors on the world arena.”

PS. The world view of scholars in Lee Kuan Yew School is more attuned to that of LKY. Not sure Rajaratnam would utter the same view as the scholars in the School using his name. Their views are more like American world view or parroting American views.

Macron going to ask the USA and Israel to stop provoking Iran?

 The Anglo-Saxons are blatantly evil in nature and plotting evil in all sorts of ways. They created wars and when they cannot extricate themselves when the shit hits the fan, will ask neutral countries to step in and get involved. This is exactly what Macron wants to do, to drag China into the Middle East War, which they have been trying to do now, just like in the Ukraine War trying to force China to take sides.

Why should China ask Iran to just sit by and let the Israelis and USA provoke Iran and get away with murder? The USA and Israel have been provoking Iran for years, threatening to strike at their nuclear facilities to prevent Iran from making nuclear weapons. Why did Macron not do the logical thing by asking the USA and Israel to stop provoking Iran. What are they afraid of if Iran goes nuclear. Isn't it true that the USA had gloated that it has thousands of nukes which could be used to overwhelm Iran and should not be afraid? Trump already threatened North Korea that he has a bigger nuclear button against Kim Jong Un's tiny nuclear button.

The USA should stop using the template narrative to tell the world that Iran going nuclear is a threat to the world, just like North Korea. Did North Korea threaten the world other than the USA, Japan and South Korea with their constant provocations? The whole world now can see the lies being fabricated by the USA just to create conflicts.

The USA and the West are funding and escalating the war in the Middle East by supplying weapons to Israel to commit genocide in Gaza and now in Lebanon. China must never get involved as it is an exercise in futility and will only tarnish its image if nothing concrete comes about. And as long as the USA and the West is involved in supporting the war, just like in Ukraine, a peace deal is beyond reach. 

Anonymous

USA and EU are paying the price for the stupidity of the clowns in Washington

 The USA and the West are now building toilets when the urge to poo is very urgent, so goes a Chinese idiom. They are basically going backwards to build infrastructures, logistics, looking for raw materials after thinking about bringing back manufacturing, which they already lost decades ago.

Acting on the spur of the moment is the modus operandi of the USA and the West. They do not even think of the consequences in some of their actions. Look at the sanctions they imposed on Russia and the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. Did they ever think of the consequences befalling the EU? I guess they do, but knowing that, making the EU the scapegoat and benefitting from the sale of expensive energy to the EU is all to cater to the interest of the USA. What happens to the EU is just collateral damage, nothing personal and worth the sacrifice.

Everything is worth the sacrifice as long as it benefits the USA. Even sacrificing the lives of half a million Iraqi children is worth the sacrifice for the USA to seize Iraqi oil. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein is probably the side dish and not the main course. Introducing democracy into Iraq is an even more grotesque reason.

Anonymous

Gordon Chang has a chance to redeem himself by writing about the collapse of USA

 Just repeating what Gordon Chang said twenty years ago with his predictions that China is collapsing is not going to happen. Gordon Chang already lost his credibility long ago. Instead, throughout those twenty years of collapsing, China has risen beyond recognition. And instead, it is the USA and the EU that is collapsing. Gordon Chang should re-orientate his views to indicate the real situation. But he cannot do that for sure.

Never trust the gloating about how Wall Street is breaking records every day. It is just window dressing to help the Democrat's in November to mount any semblance of a chance for the White House. The Fed's cutting of rates runs counter to all the attempts to paint a rosy picture of the USA economy. It is all grandstanding without any sensible basis.

With BRICS coming out with its alternative global currency and settlement system, the US$ hegemony is facing a oncoming storm that it has never faced before.

De-dollarization is undoubtedly giving Trump worrying nights, knowing he has to deal with it if he gets elected. He is now openly hostile, threatening countries joining de-dollarization, which means joining BRICS. He is going to use 100% tariffs against them without thinking what this will do to the USA economy and inflation that USA citizens have to face. If I may say so, this is going to escalate the de-dollarization movement rather than slowing it down.

Countries will join BRICS in droves to stay away from the US$ by trading under a system which the USA is not even able to monitor, not to say that Trump will know who is trading with whom and supporting de-dollarization. It will all be done outside the US$, outside the purview of the SWIFT system. Which country is Trump going to target? The whole Global South, including India, it's troublesome in trying to control ally?

Now, even trying to pinpoint who is still buying Russian oil is impossible, other than China, India and Saudi Arabia. For all we know, even EU countries are now still buying Russian energy under the nose of the USA. And these are the countries sanctioning Russian energy. What a sick joke!

Anonymous

EVs are non starters in USA. They are stuck with ICE

 Trump knows the USA is not ready for EVs. Just charging stations alone is a big big problem to overcome. Without those charging stations, EV sales will never pick up in the USA and EV makers will just bite the dust. The USA will just stagnate in EV innovation and fall further and further behind the rest of the world.

Keeping EVs out of the USA does not solve the problem. Raising tariffs to the moon will not solve the problem as well. Such measure only serves to punish USA consumers, not countries like China from producing EVs. China's EV production will not collapse because of the USA tariffs. China can sell EVs elsewhere, which the USA can do nothing about.

The real reason why China can produce EVs so cheaply is because of cheap Russian energy, abundant skilled workers and a complete supply chain existing inside the country. It has nothing to do with subsidies, a measure which the USA is doing out of proportion compared to China. If subsidies were fueling manufacturing, the USA would have overwhelmed China in its manufacturing capacity with all the billions thrown around. 

Anonymous

ASEAN - Geopolitical dynamics moving towards BRICS, not the G7, which is a dying horse

 If tariffs are the cure all, every country should erect tariffs to solve their economic problems. Why is Japan not doing it for more than three decades struggling to put its economy on a firmer footing. Abenomics was touted to be a game changer with three arrows that missed their targets by a long shot. Kishidanomics was next to suffer ignominy. Japan's new Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishida probably will start with another new age 'nomics' to continue the saga. These are all basically old stuff in new packaging.

China is now telling its Chinese investors not to build factories in the USA. Malaysia is benefiting now by working with China. Indonesia will also benefit greatly if China were to pivot its investments to Indonesia. It is in fact a no brainer to do so, with wages so low in Indonesia and cost of production a fraction of that if Chinese companies were to invest in Indonesia instead of the USA or EU. It is a win win situation now for Malaysia and Indonesia.

Chinese investments in Vietnam and Thailand are already well established and chugging along. Vietnam is aware of who is buttering its bread and is joining BRICS for more trade and investments from China. Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia know that the geopolitical dynamics in ASEAN is moving towards BRICS, not the G7, which is a dying horse. 

anpnymous

Kindergarten kids playing with basketballs

 

 

Chinese kindergarten kids having fun with basketball. A simple sign of a peaceful country with children growing up and enjoying their lives as children.

Children playing with balls instead of with guns.

Trump's rhetoric on immigrants and its serious implications which he must honour.

Dotard Trump said, "Immigrants bring bad genes to the United States. Immigrants who injure or kill Americans must face the death penalty". Good, the native Americans and the whole world must hold him and salute him on his statement. But make sure he knows what he is talking. We will grant to him his wish, but make sure he and his pack of white ruffians will not reneged on his declaration. His rhetoric on immigrants is only half truth, disinformation and misinformation. He tries to obfuscate the genuine Americans, the original native Americans with the white savage invaders from Europe in which Trump is one of them. 

Trump and his ancestors from Europe didn't come in peace as immigrants but as cruel warhawk invaders. They killed and genocided almost all the native Americans and thereafter claimed North America as theirs to occupy. So according to the truth and relevance of his claim, all European white invaders of North America inclusive of Canada and the United States have been bringing disastrous bad and evil genes to the continent must face the death penalty for their systematic killing and genociding the natives the real original people of North America inclusive of the present USA. Thus Trump and his fellow hordes of barbaric white invaders must according to his psychopath logic should all face the death penalty. 

The world especially the United Nations Organisation must take notice and carry out Trump's wish. Do not allow Trump and all evil white invaders especially the Anglo-Saxons to obfuscate white rampaging invaders with the natives, the genuine Americans. 

Southernglory1 Saturday, 26th October, 2024

NASA desperate to want some moon samples from China...because all they have is fake

 NASA is desperately talking to China for some samples of moon soil that China brought back, even hinting that they would resort to force or theft to get them. The more desperate the Americans are in wanting to get the moon samples, confirms only one thing, the Americans did not have any real moon soil or moon rocks. The hundreds of kilograms of moon soil they claimed to have is sounding really hollow now. They do not need any sample from China as they have so many in their possession and have done great studies and researches into these fake samples and going no where. By hook or by crook, they must lay their hands on the genuine moon samples the Chinese brought back from the moon.

The big issue now is whether China will relent, ...and according to some comic commentators, China would want to appear to be generous, magnanimous, and would eventually give in, despite all the bullying, killings, sanctions, wars, bombing of their embassy and killing Chinese nationals, supporting separatists movements in Taiwan, selling weapons to Taiwan, stationing nuclear missiles to threaten China in Japan, South Korea and now the Philippines, and the daily disinformation and misinformation to agitate and incite hate and ill wills against China, nonstop, to contain and suppress China. Not to forget the humiliation against Chinese space scientists, banning China from the ISS, and the equally humiliating laws against cooperation with China on space exploration. 

Have the Chinese leaders forgot that the Americans called China as ENEMY? Top in the agenda of the Americans is to destroy China, to invade China, to bring down China. Would the Chinese leaders be that foolish to want to share everything with the American terrorists when they are stopping all chip technology to China? Only Ah Q would be stupid enough to appease the Americans. Ah Q may even bow down to the American terrorists. When the Americans openly identified China as their enemy, and launched all kinds of wars against China, would China think it is appropriate to kiss the American's ass, and share the moon sample with the enemy, the USA?

Some comics are predicting that China again will behave like Ah Q, forgetting about all the attacks and humiliation, and threats of wars, just share some with the American bullies and terrorists. After all, Ah Q has no dignity, no pride, shameless, and can't think either, and deserves to be kicked around and bullied.

So, would China bow to American pressure and be Ah Q once again and again, to please the Americans and to say to the Americans, keep on bullying, keep on sanctioning and humiliating China, killing Chinese, Ah Q would not mind, Ah Q loves it. Here, here, take all the moon samples you need... and bend down to be kicked in the ass and say Thank you?

If China ever be cowed again, then they deserve to be Ah Q forever, to be bullied and killed by the Americans over and over again, never to be treated as an equal by the Americans.

Indonesia is a huge market for smaller EVs

 China is the market for vehicle makers around the world. Sinkieland is just a minnow in the eyes of China as far as EV popularity is concern.

If you talk about Indonesia, that is a big matter. With a population of more than 284 million, that is not a small market to sniff at. Sure, Indonesia is still relatively poor and developing, but it is rising in the world in terms of affluence and the market is going to grow with it just like in Africa. Moreover, EVs are much cheaper than ICE vehicles however you look at it. China is also making electric motorcycles that should catch on in countries like Indonesia, Vietnam and other Indochina countries. Not to forget about Africa.

If the war in the Middle East escalated and Iran joins the war and if Israel does attack Iran's oil installations, that is going to result in oil reaching for the sky. And that scenario is going to make EVs a no brainer adoption in many countries without oil. And who is going to laugh all the way to the bank?

Anonymous

Euro Nuts in trouble for joining the American mafia

 Euro Nuts joined their Secret Mafias Society, the EU and NATO and stupidly became pawns and cannon fodders for their Big Bros and the UAssA.

They had to follow the wishes of those who picked fights and quarrels and sanctioned China on their own interests.

Germany and France for example sanctioned China for their economy industries' interests and the rest like Spain etc who have no their manufacturing industries that compete with China became suckers when China hits hard at their industries.

So these imbeciles lost more than those who sanctioned China for their own interests.

So why joined these stupid alliances when they put you suckers and thrown you all under the buses for their industrial interests that compete with China?

Your other industries and trade with China is not affected by China exports to these competing countries.

So why so stupid that you lose and they laughing at your stupidity?

China knew how to hits hard with their brilliant brains and trade data of who to whack and shall caused ripple effects and dissatisfaction amongst you idiots.

Stupidlty really on these hillbillies.

Virgo49

Trump's clever solution to USA's economic problem - 100% tariffs

 Now Donald Trump's trump card and one stop solution to the USA's economic problem is tariff. Lots of it. 100% cannot work, 200% and so on. This is economic theory 101 that only Trump alone learnt throughout his life. Everyone thinks it is a no brainer, except Trump the Great American revolutionary leader. I think even Professor Richard Wolff did not learn that and thought of that.

Trump probably thinks every suggestion of his will work like his nuclear option of sending a nuclear missile into a hurricane to stop it. Or drinking horse de-wormer, Ivermectin, to stop COVID, since it worked on horses and COVID is caused by a worm in his head. Or his theory of injecting insecticide to cure COVID, like killing insects inside his head. Or go sunbathing to prevent COVID infection as sunlight kills germs. During COVID, Trump was the expert on all the cures. Yet the USA ended up the champion of all deaths from COVID.

Sanctions are not working, so tariffs are going to be the cure all for the USA's problem. The whole world joining de-dollarization are urinating in their pants over Trump's tariff threat. And that I understand is the reason for the US$ rising. Investors are jumping the gun without realizing the folly of Trump's idea. 

Anonymous

Iron Dome hype turning into Iron Doom, as good as useless

 When the Arabs and Muslims did not try to test the 'Iron Dome' myth, they were ironically held hostage by it for decades.

It just took the Lebanese using cheap rockets and then everything about the 'Iron Dome' fell apart. Hezbollah probably formulated the idea first. Iran had the formula for overcoming it now. The Houthis, supported by Iran are not left out of sharing the useful secret.

The USA is now providing Israel with THAAD (Thermal High-Altitude Area Defence) system. So, now it literally confirms that the Patriot System is useless. This is not to say nobody ever doubted the Patriots ability, but its failure in Saudi Arabia blew a big hole in its reputation earlier already. And Hezbollah had an inkling of the Patriot's Archilles Heel.

Suffice to ask, what can the THAAD system do with multiple rockets, drones and missiles raining down that the Patriot System is unable to do? Business-wise probably it makes sense, as more weapon sales means more money for the Military Industrial Complex. 

Anonymous

PS.  American weapon superiority are all claims and hypes made by the Americans. They are the best, world best, top of the world, like the clowns running for Presidents, the smartest clowns, world best clowns. When put to test, in real actions, they failed miserably. They are only good when there are no competitors, like the one eyed Jack.

Only brain dead investors are rushing to India to earn rupees

 India cannot trade in its own currency, the rupee, as it is not acceptable to others. BRICS system is for the purpose of allowing members to conduct bilateral trade outside the US$ and in their own currencies in a much cheaper and faster way instead of roundabout conversion to US$ and back, not to talk about the loss on exchange in conversion. Moreover, such trade will be outside the control of the USA, if done outside the purview of the US$. De-dollarization is the prime motive of creating BRICS.

India can only trade with other countries using the US$, as the rupee is not widely accepted, and this is I think the stumbling block that cannot be resolved. Even Russia does not want to accept the Indian rupee for energy and weapon sales. India's export to Russia is not large and Russia does not want to accumulate too many rupees lying idle without being able to recycle them. Moreover, the Indian rupee has devalued much over the years.

China is different, as its trade with Russia is much bigger, with China's payments for energy and food in Yuan that could be utilized by Russia to pay back for consumer products like construction equipment, computers, EVs and smartphones, as two-way trade is expanding.

It was a big mistake for BRICS to get caught by overlooking this important issue when bringing India into the bloc.

Anonymous 

PS. I need to push this out earlier as I have a similar piece that I would be putting out soon. Holding it back for too long already.

BRICS intrigue and India's role as the stumbling block in the organisation

 

BRICS 2024 has been touted as a success with a joint declaration and the announcement of BRICS Pay, BEICS currency and a BRICS banking system. Dedollarisation was quietly swept under the table. Expansion of BRICS with more new members was also quietly forgotten, not to be spoken, and substituted with a partnership scheme with 13 new countries that have applied to be full members, Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

The big quarrel and opposition by India against dedollarisation and membership expansion cannot go unnoticed. Modi came, strutted around for two days and prematurely left before the closing ceremony, to report to Biden that he had done his job, no expansion of new members. In a way Modi won against China and Russia. Putin and Xi could not do anything about it, were held at ransom by Modi and have to settle for a partnership scheme, not full membership. 

In another way, Putin and Xi could be having a high 5, we done it, 13 new members despite India's opposition. One can wonder whether Putin and Xi played out Modi, or Modi was with them, and played out Biden. It is unbelieveable that BRICS could be held at ransom by a third rate power without the financial clout, without the military clout, and boldly stood in the way of its expansion and to play a bigger role in international politics and the dedollarisation process.

Not all is lost. Putin and Xi managed to squeeze in 13 new members, though called partners, but are de facto members with almost every right as a member, and only waiting for the next opportunity to be embraced as full members. BRICS internal division would have come to the open with a yes or no membership expansion crisis. BRICS cannot move ahead without admitting new members if it were to be seen as an effective organisation for the Global South. But India is strongly in full opposition to admit new members for fear of its influence in the block being diminished. India is the odd man out, the only country that is not just a friend of the Americans, but also steeply anti Muslim countries and also anti China, opposing everything that China wants to do.

To push aside India's opposition to new membership would be effectively telling the Indians to quit the bloc. For the time being, India is still needed and to tell India to go at this early stage of the game may be a big blow to BRICS unity and survival. So the compromise, no new members, but new partners, and not just a handful, but 13 in one go. Putin and Xi would like to bring in all the applicants for full membership disguised as partners, but India would not allow it.

There is now a temporary truce within BRICS, with partial admission of 13 new countries that would eventually be made full members. It is better to have them one step in than to be left outside the club. India scored a big victory, the sole objector to BRICS expansion, but had to concede to let in 13 new partners and to accept that 7 more Muslim states are among them.

The next step would be how to get rid of India, the stumbling block, from BRICS in the next summit. India is totally out of sync with BRICS and its aspiration. India is also striding on two ships, whispering to the Americans and taking orders from the Americans that are hostile to BRICS' objectives and existence.

India must go. It is a matter of when. With India inside BRICS, BRICS would be a non starter. India should find its place in G7, if the whites would want to accept a pseudo white like India to be their full member. BRICS should wish India well in joining G7 and play a more active role in the Quad to oppose China, oppose the Islamic world instead of undermining BRICS from inside.

BRICS has no other option but to evict India in the next Summit. It is a matter of when to do it. India is like a sore thumb in BRICS, with nothing of value to contribute except 1.4b poor people to add to the numbers.

Salient thoughts, truths and facts in brief. ( 2 )

Dear fellow netizens: It is good to notice so many worthwhile comments by so many netizens. But the setback is that most of these netizens do not put down their names. There is nothing to fear in putting down our names so long as we do not touch on controversial local politics. By not putting down our names to our comments we are playing into the hands of the evil West headed by the terrorist rogue state - the United States. The West will play on our fear and work on our fear through seamless demonic propaganda in the mass media, the main newspapers, television, fliers, pamphlets, magazines and podcasts. When we put down our names to our articles or comments we are not only showing pride of our ideas, our relevant contribution to knowledge and current affairs but also telling the world especially the evil West not to mess with the affairs of all countries of the South for we know the truth about the evil and wicked ways of the West especially the Anglo-Saxons 5 headed by US and UK. We don't want appear to be ghost writers for that seems to be so if we don't append our names. At least append your initial or your pen name. My name is Southernglory which is the direct translation of my Chinese name Yang Rong Nan. 

The United States begging China for Moon Soil and Moon Rock Samples. Bill Nelson, the head of US space agency - NASA, asking China for 'moon soil and moon rock' samples under the guise of wanting to join the world scientists in analysing these moon elements. China should not only not entertain any of US shameless approach for moon rock samples but also must forever rebuff their shameless approach to China to let their scientists to work with China's space craft and space technology. China should not allow the space 'Helen of Troy' to happen. 

The United States have no space station of its own. In the past they only worked with Russian scientists in the Russian space station with the generosity of Russia. Even this Russian space station will soon be dysfunctional. And that leaves China's space station as the only space station in the world. For umpteen years the US had previously took strong positions to foil and stop China's ability in space technology and space craft. That is the result of US arrogance in world hegemony. Consequentially US has put itself in a tight spot and now has to shamelessly appealing to China for cooperation under the guise of joint effort to analyse moon soils and rocks. Surely China does not need US for that. China must be mindful of native Americans warning, 'White men speak with fork tongues and can never be trusted.' 

Below is the revelation by Global Times about US shameless and undignified approach to cooperation with China on space programmes. OPINION / OBSERVER US' predicament in seeking lunar soil samples from China a self-inflicted problem By Global Times Published: Oct 24, 2024 09:55 PM Illustration: Liu Rui/GT Illustration: Liu Rui/GT The lunar soil samples collected by China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft have drawn significant attention from the US. 

According to Reuters on Wednesday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson stated that NASA and Chinese officials are engaged in talks to let American scientists analyze the samples, expressing that the talks will end "positively." However, the report also reveals that some US officials are hesitant about a potential agreement thinking it could weaken the US posture of toughness toward China. This highlights the distorted mind-set underlying the desire for US involvement in studying the Chinese samples while not giving up its zero-sum approach in its relationship with China. 

NASA has been eagerly eyeing the lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-5 for quite some time. Since October of last year, when China announced that the Chang'e-5 lunar samples would soon be open to international applications, NASA has shown great interest in the samples. Reports have even revealed that an internal NASA email stated the application for access was necessary because of the "unique value" of the Chinese samples, which had been "made available recently to the international scientific community for research purposes." However, a US domestic law known as the Wolf Amendment has significantly hindered a range of China-US space collaborations, including joint research on lunar soil. 

The Wolf Amendment prohibits the use of government funding by NASA, the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, or the National Space Council for any collaboration, hosting, or bilateral coordination with China or Chinese-owned companies without certification from the FBI. This strict, bigoted ban has become a self-imposed constraint for the US in the area of space cooperation with China. 

Amid the continuous exaggeration by US politicians of the "China space threat" theory, NASA has consistently viewed China as a rival, attempting to suppress and block its space development. However, the US doesn't hesitate to seek China's lunar soil samples and share the fruits of China's space exploration when it suits its own needs. The US has apparently displayed a double standard. Shen Yi, a professor at Fudan University, told the Global Times that the reason for this hypocrisy is the US' persistent belief that it remains the most advanced country in space exploration. 

Moreover, the Wolf Amendment, intended to limit China's space development, has utterly failed. On one hand, China's space industry continues to advance rapidly. On the other hand, many in the US aerospace sector have come to realize that the law has effectively backfired, restricting American technological progress. Keeping the Wolf Amendment is in "every sense a bad idea" for the US. Shen believes the US' self-imposed restriction is the inevitable outcome of American hegemony. The Wolf Amendment has caused the US to lose its ability to progress while also preventing potential collaborations with China. Ultimately, this predicament is one that the US has brought upon itself. 

China's stance on space exploration cooperation has always been clear: The country's collaboration with international partners is based on equality and mutual benefit, leveraging their respective scientific resources, facilities, and expertise. China has also consistently been open to exchanges and cooperation with the US in this field. Yet, the primary obstacle to current China-US space cooperation lies in irrational legislation in the US, such as the Wolf Amendment, as well as the US Cold War mind-set that treats China as a rival. 

Bian Zhigang, deputy head of the China National Space Administration, once emphasized: "If the US side sincerely hopes to promote cooperation between the two countries, it must take practical measures to remove these obstacles." By insisting on a hardline stance toward China, the US is allowing its space sector to be further poisoned by anti-China politics and containment strategies, thereby weakening and hindering beneficial cooperation between the two nations while closing the door to broader exploration opportunities. 

 Southernglory1 Friday, 25th October, 2024

Americans are the most hated people in the Arab and Muslim world, their enemy Number One

 When lies and deceits, discrimination and conspiracy against the Arabs and Muslims over decades are exposed in the most blatant and naked way, the Americans can no longer hide or continue to decide the Arab and Muslim people and the people of the world. The continuous open support for the Israelis to genocide the Palestinians have gone too far for any Arab or Muslim to stomach anymore. The Americans are now seen as their enemy Number One, conducting ethnic cleansing and stealing the land of the Palestinians. They are hated by every Arab and Muslim states in the Middle East and the world.

The most problematic situation is the fate of Arab and Muslim leaders that are still cozying up to the Americans and sleeping with the Americans and unable to condemn the hideous crime against humanity, against their Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters in Gaza and Palestine. These leaders have been seriously compromised by their support of the Americans and the Israelis and their lives are endangered. They are now the pariahs of the Arab and Muslim world, for being on the side of the murderers of their Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters.

Many Arab and Muslim states may still be keeping mum about the criminal behaviours of the Americans in the Middle East while under the pressure and control of the American terrorists. Given a chance, they would be the first to want to kick out all American presence and interests in the Middle East. The Americans have condemned themselves completely in the Middle East and the Arab and Muslim world as the butchers of the Arabs and Muslims. They are their enemy Number One. There is no going back. No more American lies and treachery.

The same applies to the American doggies, the colonies and cronies. All have been reticent about the genocide, and worst for those that were openly in support of the Americans and the Israelis genocide. Now they are all in a bind, complicit in the crime against the Palestinians. The doggies Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia etc etc are also seen as members of the American terrorist gangs against the Arabs and Muslims and cannot be trusted, for silently supporting the genocide.

The cries of Americans go home would be stronger and stronger everyday. The Americans are finished in the Middle East, The Arab and Muslim states are waiting for the opportunity to chase them out of their countries. Poor Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar may also be hit when the deep hatred sentiment against the Americans and the Israelis blows up in the open, into the streets.

The American terrorists have charted their final chapter in the Middle East, in their relations with the Arab and Muslim world. No more pretences and lies about protecting the Muslims around the world. Caveat, some Arabs and Muslim states are still dreaming and wearing blinkers, still believing in the Americans as friends, buying weapons and aircraft from the Americans. Hopefully they cannot be conned forever.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Humanity does not apply to terrorist USA

 That fear of Israel's invincibility is fading by the day. The myth of the unbreakable 'Iron Dome' has been demolished by the Lebanese and Iranians. Even the most heavily protected sites like miliary camps, airfields, hangars and even MOSSAD headquarters have been breached.

It is just fortunate for Israel that Iran had not resorted to targeting civilian sites like what the Israelis did in Gaza and Lebanon. Those are not that well protected by the 'Iron Dome' and can easily be destroyed. As Yanis Varoufakis said of the Chinese, they are more humanistic than the USA and this objectivity also applies to the Iranians. Did I hear the accusation that only Dictators are cruel?

But humanity does not apply to the USA, which for decades have conducted carpet bombings, killing civilians by the millions at the start of an invasion. And now NATO too, which conducted more than two months of continuous carpet bombing, 77 days to be exact, of Yugoslavia. It was claimed that the air bombardment only killed 488 Yugoslav civilians, with a substantial number of refugees that cannot be verified. Can we believe that? Of course, the USA also played a major part in the Kosovo War as a member of NATO calling the shots.

Anonymous

Gaza holocaust will churn up unending supply of Hamas leaders

 When one Hamas leader is killed, another will rise. How could there not be so when more than 41,000, half of them women and children, have been killed by the Israelis? Their children, relatives, siblings are not going to just forgive and forget. In any case Hamas is bigger than one man. Hamas is an ideology, not an existence based on one man. It is not going to fall apart so easily. Just like a country, when one leader dies, no matter how influential, another can always take over.

It has been reported that Israel too suffered greater than reported deaths of IDF soldiers than it admitted. This has been played down by the Israelis to keep up morale of the IDF. There has been much censorship against social media reports of the atrocities committed by the Israelis, including burning Palestinians alive in tents. The Israelis are taking a leaf from the Nazis and committing holocaust against the Palestinians.

So, will the death of the Hamas leader end the war as Biden and Netanyahu are gloating? Not so easy but what is more worrying for them is the fate of those hostages. Hamas will never let them go now. Their lives hang more in the balance if Hamas were to exact revenge over the killing of its leader. That is precisely the purpose of taking hostages, using those hostages as a bargaining chip. When the chip is no longer effective, getting rid of them is the logical step.

Biden is gloating about a great day for the USA, Israel and the world over the killing. He is living in a world of fantasy of his own making.

Anonymous

Europeans using religion to colonialise Qing Dynasty China

 Ref: Anonymous 11:17am
Yes, the wicked European Christian warmongering powers always use their evil religious conversion couple with deculturalisation to make easier inroads to colonize other non-Christian countries. Once you are converted to their Christian faith they demand you to give up your traditional beliefs and native culture. In other words they subject you to their brain washing. You are then under their intellectual control and have no say in matters vis-a-vis your country's interests and their country's interests. In short you are not suppose to think and see with your eyes but only to swallow and believe in their lies.

Thus from 1689 to 1890s China lost millions of square miles of lands to Christian Catholic Russia when treacherous Cathodic Jesuit priests who had the trust of the Ching Dynasty emperors betrayed China by persuading and inducing China to sign the lobsided treaties in favour of Christian Russia. The Chinese emperors did not realize that all the time the Jesuit priests were sabotaging China's interests and subordinating China's interests to the Russians who were also Catholic Christians.

By their treacheries not only against China but also against the natives of North and South America, Africa and Asia the faceless and shameless white European and Anglo-Saxon powers not only make a mockery of their Christian religion but also by their deception and subterfuge practices cause all non-white and non-Christian countries to lose their lands and countries.

Thus the bellicose and demonic Western so-called Christian countries realise it is so much easier to conquer all non-Christian countries in Africa, Asia and the South and Central America countries by using their evil religious conversion couple with deculturalisation.

It's high time that all countries of the South put to an end the evil religious malpractices of the white people of their lethal toxic Christianity.

Chong Kuo Shen : Taipeh , Taiwan 

PS. According to the Bible, Christians cannot go to heaven until they are judged by Jesus on Judgement Day. Before Judgement Day, no Christian can go to heaven. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying.

PS.