Archive for October, 2017
For months, Donald Trump has been gloating through his big mouth. Special Counsel Robert Mueller couldn’t find any evidence linking Trump to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Well, the U.S. president should have had kept his big mouth shut simply because he can’t be 100% sure that his boys are really innocent. […]
... written on Oct 31 2017OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, and non-OPEC partners, led by Russia, is playing a simple but risky game. They try to game the world crude oil prices by controlling how many barrels of oil the world can get. They have agreed to take 1.8-million bpd (barrel per day) of oil off the market by cutting […]
... written on Oct 30 2017Najib son of Razak must be really desperate for pulling his trump card at this hour in order to fish for ethnic-Chinese votes. If his speech on Budget 2018, to be presented later today, is revealed to be too good to be true, then a snap election is very, very near. His latest drama – […]
... written on Oct 27 2017When President Donald Trump meets President Xi Jinping next month, the world will watch with great interest on what the U.S. leader has to say to the Chinese supreme leader. And the U.S. leader should behave, or at least pretends to behave, because the same person whom Trump met in April at his Mar-a-Lago estate […]
... written on Oct 26 2017Saudi Arabia is the source of the world’s extremism. To be precise, the oil-rich kingdom is the biggest sponsor and supplier of terrorists, the product of its extremism policy. And thanks to Saudi, it gave birth to terror groups such as al-Qaeda and Daesh (ISIS, ISIL, IS), among others, because Muslims were being radicalized as […]
... written on Oct 25 2017You might think that a wealthy Saudi Prince Alwaleed have more integrity and dignity than an ordinary guy – at least in money matter simply because he was already so rich. After all, he’s worth US$17.7 billion today (Forbes). But it turns out to be true that rich people are actually greedier, and Alwaleed is […]
... written on Oct 24 2017Trump was right about United Nations when he criticised the world body for bloated bureaucracy and mismanagement during his first visit to its New York headquarters recently. And it didn’t take long for the U.S. president to prove how his allegations. It seems the U.N. is not only incompetent, but is fabulously corrupt too. Otherwise, how do […]
... written on Oct 23 2017Get real, Americans love fast food. Enjoying a McDonald’s hamburger, Kentucky Fried Chicken popcorn nuggets, or Taco Bell burrito seems to be the pleasure of all Americans – rich or poor. In fact, fast food is perhaps the only thing that unites Americans. Even Donald Trump loves fast food and he indirectly promoted McDonald’s during his […]
... written on Oct 22 2017The reputation of Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon – Aung San Suu Kyi – is in tatters for her failure to condemn her country’s so-called “clearing operations” in Rakhine State. Once a darling of the West, her portrait was even removed last month from public display by Oxford University UK, the same college she studied politics, philosophy […]
... written on Oct 19 2017The F-35 was supposed to be the ultimate flying machine, a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired. At least that was the marketing pitch trumpeted by its manufacturer Lockheed Martin. The “one design fits all” would see the F-35 serves the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy. The marketing […]
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