Sh1mon M4sada comments

Pyongyang's official Rodong Sinmun

...Must be a genius, elsewhere in China, the CCP was saying something similar, all other cities must be used a a flood sink to protect the properties of party elites in Beijing.

Common prosperity!

Could have gone either way TBH, WW could have dominated commercial office, but Softbank and Neumann underestimated the power of the REITs. Then came covid ...

Glad they failed though, could have been very ugly if they had won.

I'd like a Honda RCV213. There's a profit centre there...

But they stop transmission! ooops!

meh...semantics, doesn't deal with patient zero named, lab leak real, AND recurring infection in community with low vaccinations. I've had 5 shots so far, still walking, still have not got covid.

They made it in a lab, the gene sequence is well documented, there's no excuse for not protecting yourself or others with vaccination.

What's the bet, the investment manager for this project is or has already left the building. Work from home, covid, imminent rising interest rate makes for a poor investment in office building doesn't it?

Well that's interesting. So does that mean god didn't create gay people? Is this NOT blasphemy (to deny god's creation)?

ah....the smell of hypocrisy in the evening air....

Don’t do what we do, only do as we say! Interesting Chinese policy?!

...and is why reciprocity is the most robust foreign policy to adopt when dealing with China.

Start with SK and Japan unity to expose the air pollution that drifts east from China.

From Chinese researchers. China's air pollution has ramificatior the entire world, not just Japan and South Korea.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/07/air-pollution-linked-rise-antibiotic-resistance-imperils-human-health

I was in China recently, despite evidence otherwise, according to people I talked to, the government is telling Chinese citizens, the 1-3 reactor cores completely melted and breached the pressure containment vessel. I told them that's not correct but guess what, I can't get the IAEA report on my phone because it's blocked by the great firewall.

The entire country is a huge wall of misinformation, all to elevate the status of the CCP.

However to say China has no friends is completely ridiculous and not correct.

...and just how do you know China's friends are actually 'friends', China says Japan is a friend, but what does it do instead?

Countries like the Phillipines, unfortunately have to get its governance in order, or cede its sovereignty to a more powerful country, else China will strangle them slowly. To think Duterte was able to become president with massive electoral support, or the son of a crook who stole billions from the people is now president, shows either people are very naive or the system is kaput.

...and Germany burning more coal now than ever. But it's OK, according to von der Leyen.

OMG, this should be seen as a good development for the average Canadian. It means for the first time, news in NOT being manipulated by tech algorithms to create instability and chaos.

Many Koreans are telling me that it's only because there are foreigners that the government has bothered to round up the thousands of cars to evacuate the scouts. On other occasions, eg rising flood waters, sinking ferries, crowd rushes etc., it's up to the individuals to save themselves, government services are only there for the elites.

EV's will have to be shipped without the batteries.

BMW had previously shipped hundreds of thousands of i3s and i8s (using Samsung NCM chemistry batteries) without incidents, and Tesla has shipped millions (using cylindrical cell batteries) without incidents. The only EV fire on ships has been new German EVs fitted with Chinese blade battery with LFP chemistry.

The main stream mafia, cough media, has been towing their masters' narrative that LFP chemistry is safer but the evidence doesn't lie, a large wet pouch is more prone to fire than a structural cylindrical cell wrapped in foam and encased in a structural casing.

But Tesla doesn't advertise, whereas the German brands do, so do GM and Ford, so blade LFP is safer according to the main stream mafia.

Last October, Haiti’s prime minister and other top-ranking officials requested the urgent deployment of an international armed force to help quell gang violence.

https://theconversation.com/when-france-extorted-haiti-the-greatest-heist-in-history-137949

...and France should repay the debt morally owed to Haitians.

China declared it remained impartial

Amazing, just AMAZING, how the CCP can shaft its 'no limit strategic partner' at the same time as it's ignoring the plight of the Ukrainian people and the African countries that are suffering from food price inflation, in ONE sentence.

Yet, we still have Wall St types telling democratic governments to look to the CCP for how to run a country.

Have to say, I rarely agree with Alfie but on this occasion, can't ignore a million Nigerians who gathered for a pro-coup protest to be anything other than celebrating independence from France, or more to do the point, independence from their oppressor, Macron.

The other states supporting France, for all intent and purposes could just be acting on fear, because France still have a massive strangle hold on the CFA Franc states. Let's see if any of them would militarily support France if France decide to go in with guns.

BTW, USA should stay out of this, particularly Blinken, because as we all know, Blinken = Blunder and war.

Love it or hate it, Toyota just posted record profit, despite loosing market share in China and posting dropping income there of -25% due to 'currency exchange rate' (LOL Yuan manipulation by the CCP).

So as far as I can see, Toyota will continue to make Landcruisers, Corollas etc., because there are buyers everywhere.

The only country Toyota has walked backwards on, is China, but I'm sure Toyota shareholders don't want to compete with state subsidised competitors either.

Not in a million years, anywhere on earth, would the average worker want a central bank to raise interest rate. Except on Japan Today. LOL.

Photo says, it's very stressful.

I wonder how John Lee (of HK CEO fame) feels about this announcement. He imposed outright ban without testing, science etc., only for his boss China to test rather than ban. Cut off at the knees I would imagine...you rub with the CCP, you're going to feel like a turkey sooner rather than later. As if running in an election of one candidate wasn't shameful enough...LOL.

The election they just had was the mandate. There should be no hangups on removing barriers to democracy.

So is the Thai parliament vote for PM. Even more so...

Lèse-majesté laws need to be ended to be considered a functioning democracy. Also the ridiculous number of military members of the Senate. Should be zero.

Not sure Thais agree with this^. But even if this is the will of the majority, it has to be achieved using democratic, legal means. Pita should know this.

I don't think morally, the Royals should have that much influence eitger, but many Thais do. Don't forget Thailand have very distinct demographics, the corporate business crowd, the farmers, and the small business crowd. The Royals have saved the country from from the corporates countless times.

I hope the liberals can either get this guy through or gridlock the government until it happens.

Why? This is an example of a functioninng democracy. Senators supports the Royal family, why would they have to vote to bring in a young, impressionable, PM that wants to dilute the power of their monarch?

If you value your health, you will completely avoid Japanese seafood as we have for over 10 years now. It's not worth the risk.

You do know that the proposed radioactivity of the water will be treated to 1/40th of the allowable radioactivity levels right. For all we know, when China and South Korea, or Russia say they're discharging in a compliant manner, the water could be 40 times more radioactive than the proposed Fukushima discharge.

Holding a climate conference in the gulf, the centre of the fossil universe, is a really good idea, LOL.

So both of you have read the contract between Sony and Microsoft?

Does any one have to? A console company owning a game developer is bad for the consumer. That's like a car company owning a lubrication company, it's always going to favour its own lube.

Because the only reasons to use a paid alternative

Who said alternative? It's our current, AND preferred way to communicate with each other, so what if some of us would be willing to pay a small fee to use a proven tool.

You are srarting to look 'desperate', making up false narratives just to support a fictional proposition.

Ideologists

Stupid, or

Lazy

Yep, very, very desperate...

Politics, and the government is punishing a reliable trading partner as much as they're punishing their own businesses and citizens. CCP is the only beneficiary here. No point dragging up the same dead horse.

Even with free alternatives?

Nothing ideological there.

Moot, because if a group of people have decided a particular tool is useful, why even get everybody to experiment with alternatives? What a waste of time.

Advertisers pay for sites...

Sure about that?

https://youtu.be/A4XyIA3XqS8