TR EMERITUS

In the recent G20-B20 Summit at Bali, participants sat in awe at the feet of the non-elected father of the New World Order to listen to his marching orders. Crouched somewhere in his speech full of the usual platitudes to the organising country Indonesia, and motherhood statements of environmental sustainability issues and economic... 

As I sat down to blog about FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the first couple of lines of a Robert Louis Stevenson poem floated across my mind -- "The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; She shines on thieves on the garden wall."  There's a rustic imagery of a bright moon over a burglar on a wall I once saw in a kiddy... 

Several reports from the western media, and from Channel NewsAsia and SCMP of Hong Kong said that the wave of covid infections had overwhelmed the health system in China and covid deaths were soaring. They suggested that the official statistics of covid deaths in China was grossly under-reported due to a change in definition...