Personalities
Do you remember what you were doing on June 29, 2006? That was close to 10-year ago and you could probably still schooling. But that was when the Federal Reserve pushed the key rate to 5.25%, for a 17th straight time since June 2004, and the last time before they do it again almost 10-year […]
... written on Dec 19 2015He is the first Portuguese footballer to win three FIFA / Ballons d’Or, and the first player to win four European Golden Shoe awards. In September 2015, he scored his 500th senior career goal for club and country. He has a US$50+ million a year salary (with bonuses) through 2018 and the world’s most popular athlete, with 108 million […]
... written on Dec 18 2015Vladimir Putin is not insane. He’s simply a bully with brains. But is a bully with brains more dangerous than an insane dictator? That depends on what you make of Adolf Hitler. Was the former German supremo an insane dictator or a bully with brains? Whatever you like to call the Russian president, people are […]
... written on Dec 16 2015Turkey, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is playing a very lethal game of Russian roulette. Instead of loading a bullet into the chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at his own head, Erdoğan pointed the gun at Putin’s head instead. And he shot the Russian […]
... written on Dec 07 2015All the predictions and statements by pro-Najib bloggers about the Malaysian prime minister’s bravery haven’t materialized. It’s true that it’s extremely hard to force Najib son of Razak into early retirement, thanks to former premier Mahathir who had fortified the position before he retired in 2003. Najib, his advisers and his band of bloggers knew […]
... written on Dec 04 2015The United Kingdom voted to extend bombing missions conducted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to Islamic State targets in Syria, which prior to an “11-hour” debate in the House of Commons, were limited to targeting ISIS in Iraq. But it wasn’t Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron who managed and secured […]
... written on Dec 03 2015Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail, 39, was a military attaché at Malaysia’s Wellington embassy with a military rank of warrant officer. Rizalman and his family – wife, a former student at College of Nursing in Kuala Lumpur, a toddler and two primary students – returned to Malaysia on May 22, 2014 at 1.15pm by Malaysian Airlines flight MH130. […]
... written on Nov 30 2015ISIS-affiliated hackers, calling themselves the “Islamic State Cyber Army”, has published what they claimed are names and addresses of people who have worked for the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency, the FBI, the CIA, the National Counterterrorism Centre, the National Guard and other American organizations and agencies. The “wanted to be killed” lists released on Saturday also include […]
... written on Nov 23 2015Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak must be super proud of his family, for the wrong reason. Najib himself is easily the most controversial prime minister the country has ever produced. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth by virtue of being the eldest son of Abdul Razak Hussein (the second Prime Minister), he got […]
... written on Nov 22 2015After hours of waiting, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the bloody Paris terrorist attacks last Friday is confirmed dead. He was killed in a six-hour gun battle with police when French sniper hit his head and then blown to pieces by grenades during the raid in the suburb of Saint-Denis. Now we know why it […]
... written on Nov 20 2015
