Archive for June, 2017
The only remaining police station in Kista in the troubled Järva area is forced to be closed. The pledge by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven to step up the fight against drug gangs in vulnerable areas in Sweden, delivered roughly 2 weeks ago, came too little, too late. Swedish National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson has begged […]
... written on Jun 30 2017Facebook has surpassed 2-billion active users. Officially, the social media is also used by 27% of the entire planet Earth. Its CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter of congratulations to Facebook users, thanking them for using his product. While it took 8 years – from 2004 until October 2012 – to reach the first billion […]
... written on Jun 29 2017The United States Navy is extremely strong. But they’re not invincible. What you need are complacency, incompetency and arrogance of power (the US and Japan prefer to call it “professional negligence”) and voila, you would see a tragedy like the collision between guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and a much larger ACX Crystal container ship, […]
... written on Jun 28 2017How do you deal with an evil monster you cannot possibly beat? You either join the monster or leave the monster alone; hoping that one day a bigger monster would deal with it. After all, how could you fight a US$650 billion mighty company? First introduced around 2000, “Don’t Be Evil” has been the motto […]
... written on Jun 28 2017Liberal mainstream media tries very hard not to make it sound like a great victory to the person they despise the most – President Donald Trump. Their headlines read the “U.S. Supreme Court will hear Trump’s travel ban”, refusing to acknowledge that the court actually allows Trump administration to proceed with the travel ban from […]
... written on Jun 27 2017Flight D7237 was supposed to depart and arrive smoothly for Kuala Lumpur from Perth on Sunday morning with 359 people on board. Little did the passengers realize they were about to experience the scariest 90-minute ride of their life. Adding salt to injury, Malaysian airlines – both AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines (which went bankrupt before […]
... written on Jun 27 2017Najib son of Razak will soon learn a painful lesson. The Malaysian prime minister will learn the real meaning of “a bird in hand is worth two in the bush”. He should have had honoured the deal that his administration made with IWC-CREC (Iskandar Waterfront Holdings-China Railway Engineering Corp) consortium and let the 1MDB scandal […]
... written on Jun 25 2017Acting as a Saudi Arabia’s middleman, Kuwait has presented a 13-point list to Qatar in order to end the diplomatic crisis. But the demands are insanely extreme that if Qatar agrees, it would be as good as surrendering the small kingdom’s sovereignty to the big bully Saudi. Perhaps that’s what Saudi tries to do – […]
... written on Jun 23 2017Forbes has just released its compilation of the richest person in every state of the United States of America. The U.S. has more billionaires than any other country in the world, at least that was what Forbes claims. China would, of course, dispute this claim as a different study showed the Middle Kingdom of China […]
... written on Jun 22 2017As predicted by technical charts, oil is toast, as the crude sank more than 2% on Tuesday. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures ended Tuesday’s session at US$43.23, down 97 cents, the weakest settlement since Sept. 16. At US$43 a barrel, that would be its 9-month closing low, not to mention the lowest of the year […]
... written on Jun 21 2017
