I’ve been watching events unfold in Trump’s America – rampant corruption, cruelty, disregard for the rule of law, etc. However, I live in Cambodia, reputed for years to be one of the most corrupt nations on the planet. In recent weeks, the ‘pig-butchering’ scandal has emerged. (look it up for details, or read my previous […]
Author: whatimnothearing
CAMBODIAN PIG- BUTCHERING IS A REALLY BIG DEAL
“Pig-butchering” is cruel cyber-slavery. Cyberslavery, or “pig-butchering”, as it is known colloquially, has become really big business in Cambodia, although most Cambodians are unaware of its existence or influence. The criminal industry kidnaps and forces into slavery as many as 100,000-200,000 individuals from various countries. According to Business & Human Rights Resource Center, “scamming has […]
TRUMP’S AMERICA AND THE KHMER ROUGE
A lot of media sources are pointing to similarities between Trump’s America and Hitler’s Germany. Here’s a different take: compare Trump’s America to Cambodia’s Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge auto-genocide. Victims of the ‘Killing Fields’. Coming to America? Most historians agree that the horrendous Khmer Rouge phenomenon was caused by resentment of rural people towards city […]
A US Govt Website? Unsafe?
A couple of months ago, I wrote in this blog about how the U.S. Embassy in Cambodia had insidiously blocked me from registering my 1-year-old son as an American Citizen. Their website, mytravelgov.org, would not allow me to enter because I hadn’t linked to an Authenticator app. So I set up the authenticator, which gave […]
HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS? — A FALSE RED HERRING
In a word: “No!” They’re not eligible. The US Government shutdown has produced a lot of misinformation about healthcare for illegal immigrants. That seems to be taking on the role of the central issue of debate. First, the very term used usually indicates which side you are on. Republicans will say ‘illegal aliens’, while Democrats […]
GAZA — YAWN!
I haven’t written about Gaza and Hamas for quite a while, mostly because I am pretty bored with the same killings day after day. I think a lot of people, like myself, are just tired of seeing Gaza in the news every day. The media report that Israel has just bombed a high-rise building, but […]
PCHUM BEN AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
From time to time, my wife takes me on deep dives into Khmer culture. Every September we travel to her native village to celebrate Pchum Ben, the highest religious holiday in Cambodia. Very briefly, Pchum Ben is the festival of offering food to the ghosts of ancestors who leave hell for a fortnight. Indeed, when […]
HONORING CHARLIE KIRK
I want to examine the honoring of Charlie Kirk by comparing it to the honoring of other Americans. Think of famous Americans honored by statues, etc.; they are often honored in spite of their other weaknesses. We all know that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington owned slaves. Still they are not honored because of their […]
VACCINE SAFETY AND THE TROLLEY PROBLEM
One study, reported by the European Medicines Agency, found that the Covid vaccines caused 8.2 deaths per million vaccines. That is .0008% Another study in https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2837831, showed that Covid vaccines saved 2.5 million lives. Are those 8.2 deaths a reasonable sacrifice for saving a million lives? This is an extreme version of the ‘Trolleycar Problem’, […]
A NEW RED LINE — MURDER
Last week, a small boat was seen in international waters. No one knows who was in it, what it was carrying, or where it was headed. But the Trump administration declared – with no evidence – that they were Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members headed for the US with drugs, so Trump murdered them […]