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 […]
Category: Politics
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 […]
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 […]
THE SATANIC PSYCHOLOGY OF THE TRUMP CULT
The MAGA cultists surely realize that Trump is all the horrible things the media say about him: 34-count felon, child rapist, grifter, etc. He is the most horrible person imaginable. He is often compared to Satan. Yet his followers still worship him. Why? It is worth examining the literature on the psychology of Satan worshippers, […]
I WITNESSED CRITICAL RACE THEORY AT THE U.S. EMBASSY
The system was invented to discriminate while appearing to be fair. I wanted to apply for U.S. citizenship for my half-Cambodian son. I assembled a vast amount of documents for the big interview at the Embassy. However, the rule states that I must pay for the interview online, through a website called MyTravelGov. In order […]