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China: Ailing US Democracy Not Fit for Purpose! (21.3.2024)

21/03/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

D’Alema was one of many speakers who expressed concerns about money politics. Anthony Carty, an Irish professor of international law, told Xinhua that widespread “financial plutocrats” across Europe and North America have corrupted media and politics to serve their interests, leading to distrust between the public and the political sector.

Inequality poses another major threat to Western democracy. Citing a survey from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Georgios Katrougkalos, former Greek foreign minister, said that today majorities in all Western countries believe that their governments are not acting to promote the general interest but to “promote the interests of the wealthy and the powerful.”

Turdtowns: Twerton in Bath [Somerset]! (15.3.2024)

15/03/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

One tactic the Local Councils use to assist the tyranny of private land-lords is to have disputed properties declared “unfit for habitation” – and begin eviction and/or demolition procedures. Once tenants (or even “Owners”) are out of the properties – quite often the Local Council hands back the property to the Landlord and STOP all punitive action – as if the condemned buildings have suddenly repaired themselves! I know this because it happened to my parents – who live in Torquay. The rule of law only matters when the Local Authorities want us to do something – the rule of law is quietly ignored when it clashes with the corrupt will of the rich!

UK: Was the Birmingham March Just a Trotskyite Wet Dream? (22.1.2024)

22/01/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

This explains exactly why Jeremy Corbyn sold his far-left soul to the devil when he became Labour leader and got ever so close to the coveted prize of genuine political power in the UK! Diane Abbot and her cronies, in true cosmopolitan style – contributed to the Trotskyite fervour that ensured his failure – and all this was done to an individual with a long track record of anti-China racism and true Trotskyite adherence! One is left wondering what a Trotskyite would do to their most trusted of friends – given half the chance. Perhaps beat them – as George Orwell once did – when he was an Imperial British Police Officer working for the British State in the colony of Burma! Meanwhile, Orwell’s poorly written (but officially supported) books entitled ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’ – are still taught in UK schools – designed to inoculate British schoolchildren against against any form of (Marxist-Leninist) Socialism – or positive interpretation of the Soviet Union!

Hong Kong: Trial of Former Tycoon – Jimmy Lai [黎智英] – Opens! (19.12.2023)

19/12/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

One full-proof way of ensuring a mighty (and immediate) PRC victory over the US Neo-Imperialist Leviathan – is to STOP using the so-called “American” version of written English when translating Chinese language texts into that foreign language! American English is infantile and the bastard-child of US-Isolationism and US anti-intellectualism! Furthermore, the Eurocentric assumptions encased within this distortion of “English” (the language originating from within England) are entirely RACIST and DISCRIMINATORY in nature – representative of the defunct British Empire and NOT the “Socialist” Britain that emerged after WWII! Let working-class (British) English translate your articles!

UK: British Museum Faces Renewed Calls to Return Cultural Relics! (7.9.2023)

07/09/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

“They are the subject of loot. They were illegally taken out of the country,” Tijani said. He demanded the British Museum give back the Benin Bronzes, which British forces took in 1897.

“It is irrespective whether they are safe there. That is not an issue. The issue is that these are stolen artefacts, and they should be returned to Nigeria to the communities that they belong to,” he added.

Bell Ribeiro-Addy, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations, threw light on the “insulting ridiculousness” of the British Museum’s refusal to return artefacts to their country of origin on security grounds.

“One of the most insulting reasons that they’ve given is that the other countries that these items belong to would either not be able to take care of them or they are likely to be stolen,” she said. “But you’ve got people in this country putting them on eBay.”

World Insights: Fentanyl – Solely A Homegrown US problem – So Why Blame China? (19.7.2023)

19/07/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

CHEAP, ABUNDANT STREET DRUGS

Fentanyl and its derivatives sufentanil, alfentanil and remifentanil are all synthetic phenypiperidine drugs, which are synthetic opioid receptor agonists.

A painkiller for countless patients, fentanyl has many side effects. The drug has gradually become a menace to social security across the United States, a society long plagued by opioid addiction and abuse.

Statistics by the Council on Foreign Relations in April indicated that opioids, primarily fentanyl, are the leading cause of U.S. overdose deaths, which have roughly quadrupled over the last ten years for which data is fully available. In 2021, the death toll surged to 80,411, more than 10 times the number of U.S. military service members killed in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

There have been three waves of opioid abuse in U.S. society, with fentanyl being the “main character” of the third wave.

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