Julian Assange (2)

April 13, 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------------- I’ve been inactive for months, but my blog Fast Edi Thoughts and Comments is not dead. Back on August 17, 2012, I wrote about Julian Assange here. Seven years later, he is back in the news. He was arrested at Ecuador’s embassy in London on Thursday. In Facebook, I asked my friends to give me their thoughts about this. Here are some of the comments: . Shame on Ecuador. . To leak the truth can be sin. . The Ecuadorian embassy shall forever smell of cat hair. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I also went through many comments from different people in YouTube. Most people were on the side of Julian Assange. Most people were against the U.S. Government and Ecuador’s new president Lenin Moreno. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa slammed Lenin Moreno, the current president, accusing him of selling out to the U.S. Government, betraying his own country and jeopardizing international law of human rights and asylum. He added that Moreno did money laundering and hid his corrupted money in an offshore company in Panama, which Julian Assange knew and wrote about. The U.S. Government had made a deal with Moreno by giving him financial assistance in billions of dollars through the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and in return Moreno would and did kick Julian out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ By now, the whole world knows that the Iraq War was an illegal war based on lies that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. It had no connection with 911 at all. The truth appeared to be that Saddam Hussein did not want to sell oil in U.S. Dollars, so he was taken down. Through Bradley, now Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange exposed the war crimes of the U.S., most widely known to be so in a collateral murder video, which showed that some journalists and civilians were killed by American shooting from a helicopter. So who are the war criminals? Former U.S. president George Bush, former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, former prime minister of U.K. Tony Blair and their whole top gang! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is my point? My point is that there is no true justice in this world. Why are war criminals not prosecuted but people who told the truth? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is death penalty in the U.S. Also, it was a fact that CIA tortured their detainees by calling it an enhanced interrogation technique. For these reasons, I hope Julian Assange’s lawyers can fight to stop his extradition to the U.S. However, I am not too optimistic, are you? Fast Edi Thoughts and Comments

Hong Kong - Macau - Zhuhai Bridge

The world’s longest sea-crossing bridge has opened. The 55 km (34 miles) Hong Kong – Macau – Zhuhai Bridge links Hong Kong to Macau and mainland China, cutting travel time many times faster. This impressive engineering feat to create connectivity between Hong Kong and mainland China is praised by some but criticized by others. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the positive side, it is believed that it will help economic development of and bring prosperity to the Greater Bay Area which covers 11 cities and 68 million people. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the negative side, it is said to be a waste of money. China bashers can’t lose any chance to bash the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC), complaining that it drags Hong Kong closer to Beijing’s grip. O My God, the China / Hong Kong border has been erased! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my thoughts and comments: Hong Kong had been a British colony for 156 years. It returned to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997. Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, so did Macau in 1999. Which makes more sense, to strengthen the Hong Kong / China border, or loosen, even erase it? Under the Schengen Agreement, most European Union (EU) members allow free flow of people between nations. But easing the border and allowing the free flow of people of Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, all Chinese people of the same country is wrong? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The idea and request of building this bridge originated from some Hong Kong merchants and business people, not out of Beijing’s desperate need to drag Hong Kong to its grip. Hong Kong and Macau are already within Bejing's grip. Rather, Beijing supported this mega project for the benefit of China and the Chinese people, especially the Greater Bay Area. China bashers talk like Hong Kong is still a British colony or an independent country, and the evil Chinese rulers are coming to take over Hong Kong. The truth is this: in 1997, China did not “take over” Hong Kong. China “took back” Hong Kong from the Brits.

Marijuana in Canada

Marijuana has become legal in Canada. I have received different comments from my friends in Facebook. Without going to long discussion, these are my comments: Some people like it, some people don't. People have different views, but it has become the law of the land. Legal weed is liberation to some, but disappointment to others. Children should have no access to marijuana, whether it is legal or not.

Donna Strictland

Canada's pride. Canadian Donna Strictland is one of the three scientists who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. Congratulations!

Burt Reynolds

American actor Burt Reynolds has passed. He was 82. RIP Burt!

Ed Schultz

Ed Schultz, an American broadcaster, has passed. He was 64 years old. He was anti corporate greed, a good man. RIP Ed!

Steel and Aluminum

Donald Trump is an agitator. He has been stirring up all kinds of political, economic and military storms everywhere, and then his words and positions are ever changing from one day to another. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trump is not only against China in her so-called unfair trading, but now he is also against Canada, Mexico and the European Union (EU). So far it appears that he is good at breaking deals, but not making deals. I am waiting to see what he is going to do with the upcoming summit with Kim Jong-un of North Korea. I still wish him success in bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regarding Canada and U.S. relations, it just doesn’t make any sense for Trump to say that the U.S. is under threat and security risk of Canada. Why subject Canada to steel and aluminum tariffs? Please don’t give me a stupid answer of why not.