Organ Harvesting at Myanmar's Shwe Kokko Scam Hub

              (Staff post from the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST on 22 July 2023.)

Survivors of Myanmar’s Scam Mills Talk ‘Torture,’ Death, Organ Harvesting—and the Battle To Escape: Those in charge of Myanmar’s scam centres don’t want the world to see what’s going on inside. Phones are confiscated upon arrival and work devices are wiped before anyone leaves, as scam bosses go to great lengths to hide their crimes.

Jane and Max, two Filipinos forced to work for one of the criminal outfits along Myanmar’s border with Thailand, were made to wait an additional 10 days before their eventual release in early July to allow their wounds to heal. “They held us because of our bruises,” Jane said, showing scars on her back and shoulders. “They didn’t want anyone to see.”

Despite these cover-up efforts, evidence of widespread and severe abuse is mounting. Footage supplied to This Week in Asia by victims and anti-trafficking activists shows electrocutions, beatings and workers who are handcuffed, blindfolded and forced to sleep in overcrowded rooms.

Myanmar Cyber-Scam-King Sent Back to China

          (Staff post from the ABC Australia on 12November 2025.)

Alleged Myanmar scam kingpin She Zhijiang extradited to China from Thailand: An alleged Chinese racketeer linked to a hugely lucrative scam hub in Myanmar has been extradited from Thailand to China.

She Zhijiang had been in Thai custody since 2022 after spending more than a decade on the run from Chinese authorities, accused of ties to the Myanmar gambling and fraud hub Shwe Kokko. A Thai appeals court upheld China's extradition request this week for the 43-year-old, who also held Cambodian nationality, after lengthy legal wrangling.

He was flown out of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on Wednesday afternoon, local time, a Thai police official said. The businessman was escorted from the airport's police station with his hands braced behind his back by armed and masked Thai police, an uncommon practice for local officers.

An Interpol red notice published in May 2021 and obtained by AFP said Mr She faced criminal charges in China related to running online gambling and fraud operations. He and his company, Yatai, have already been hit with sanctions by Britain and the United States.

TELOMERASE: Carol Greider’s Nobel Winning Story

               (Staff post from the SOLO TRAVELLER on 11 November 2025.)

Christmas Day, 1984. A 23-year-old grad student went to the lab to check her experiment. What she found would win the Nobel Prize—and rewrite biology. Most people spend Christmas Day with family or friends, opening presents, eating too much, enjoying the one day when the world slows down. Carol Greider spent hers in a laboratory—chasing the smallest secret of life.

It was 1984 at the University of California, Berkeley. Carol was in her first year of graduate school, working under molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, studying chromosomes—the threadlike structures made of DNA that carry our genetic information. Specifically, they were studying telomeres: the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, like the plastic tips on shoelaces that keep them from fraying.

Scientists knew telomeres existed. They knew telomeres shortened every time a cell divided—DNA replication couldn't quite reach the very ends of chromosomes, so a little bit got lost each time. Eventually, after enough divisions, telomeres would become too short. The cell would stop dividing. It would age. It would die. This explained cellular aging. It explained why our cells don't divide forever.

China’s BYD and Cherry Dumping EVs in Australia

            (Caleb Bond’s post from the SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA on 10 November 2025.)

China's dumping ground: Labor actively encouraging foreign firms to flood Australian market in pursuit of ambitious 2035 EV targets. Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen’s net zero goal of multiplying new electric car sales many times over is punishing Australia and enriching China.

Australia has become a dumping ground for Chinese electric vehicles. And it’s a perfect business model for Chinese manufacturers because the federal government is effectively paying them to do it while they artificially squeeze everyone else out of the market.

As widely reported, a number of locations off the beaten track have been commandeered to store the swathes of cars China is sending our way. Jamberoo Action Park, about two hours down the road from Sydney, was turned into a storage facility for BYD until Kiama Council intervened and forced the cars to be moved this week.

Communist China Has Suddenly Become Cool?

(Kaihann’s REDDIT post + Shaoyu Yuan’spost from CONVERSATION in April 2025.)

TikTok is one very reason behind how China is suddenly becoming cool. The comparison TikTok videos in what middle class life looks like between the US and China to be the most influential. Of course, TikTok will not have that impact if China’s middle class was impoverished and downtrodden.

China is becoming cool because: it has a strong and improving middle class; world class infrastructure; cutting edge technology in many new fields; safe and clean cities at a scale unmatched by many Western peers; has a foreign policy which is benign and magnanimous relative to the US ( not without flaws but its relative); is not engaged in constant war.

China is becoming cool because: it is a major supporter for development in other emerging market countries; has a growing number of recognizable consumer brands; on the right side of the tariff dispute, standing up to a bully; has a 144 hour visa free policy for many countries encouraging tourism; many tourists documenting their visits over video refuting US narratives of a police state and genocide.

New York is Fucked: Defund Islamist-Leftist Mayor!

       (Josh Christenson’s post from the NEW YORKPOST on 07 November 2025.)

House GOP clashes over ‘ludicrous’ bill to defund NYC under Mamdani: The only Republican lawmaker representing one of New York City’s boroughs in Congress is lambasting members of her own party for seeking to defund the Big Apple after socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s win.

Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told The Post Friday that she will “push back on any attempt” by fellow congressional Republicans to “punish” New York City. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) told Fox News on Thursday he was introducing a new bill, the Moving American Money Distant from Anti-National Interests Act, or MAMDANI Act, to block federal funding for the Big Apple.

“I’m going to fight Mamdani’s radical socialist policies — but I’ll also push back on any attempt by my own party to ‘punish’ our city,” Malliotakis said. “I love New York and will always fight for it.” “The mayor-elect did not receive a mandate on Tuesday; nearly 50% of voters opposed his election,” she added. “I’ll never stop fighting for hardworking New Yorkers who believe in the American Dream and the uniformed services that protect them.”

New York Has Fallen: Muslim-Indian-Socialist NYC Mayor

                    (Staff post from the NEWS WEEK on 05 November 2025.)

MAGA Reacts to Zohran Mamdani’s Victory in New York: Zohran Mamdani has defeated former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa to be elected the next Mayor of New York City, something which has come at the dismay of MAGA and conservatives, who have quickly flocked online to share their reactions to Mamdani’s historic win.

Why It Matters: Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, has become the first Muslim and Indian American mayor. "Today we have spoken in a clear voice: Hope is alive," Mamdani said during his victory speech.

Democrats saw wins across the country, flipping governorships in Virginia and New Jersey and sweeping judicial races in Pennsylvania. The results could signal a shift in where the country is politically, acting as a litmus test ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Many Republicans expressed feelings of doom, and a sense that New York had crossed a line.

UN expert calls Myanmar election 'sham'

                (Staff post from the NHK JAPAN on 30October 2025.)

The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar has described the elections the military plans for December as a 'sham,' noting opposition parties are excluded.

In a Wednesday press conference, Tom Andrews said, "I made it as clear as I possibly could that these elections are a sham. They're a fraud." He added "you cannot have a free and fair election when you arrest, detain, imprison, and torture the leaders of the political opposition."

He also noted that the humanitarian conditions in the war-torn country are worsening, with nearly 22 million people requiring aid.

The military says the voting will take place in phases starting December 28. Campaigning kicked off on Tuesday with 57 political parties registered. But pro-democracy groups including the National League for Democracy, or NLD, which won the 2020 election, have been disbanded after refusing to take part in the process.

English Convicts' Bloods Dominant in Modern Australia!

             (John Harland’s post from the QUORA on 17 February 2020.)

The now-celebrated First Fleet of eleven English convict ships brought convicts, marines, and their families from Britain to Australia, arriving in January 1788. The primary purpose was to establish a penal colony to relieve overcrowded prisons in Britain. The fleet carried between 750 and 780 convicts, and their arrival in Sydney Cove marked the beginning of European colonization and the transportation of convicts to Australia, which lasted until 1868. 

“Has the gene pool in Australia truly been affected by the fact that a certain number of convicts were sent there as settlers?” It had a strongly positive effect. The people who were sent represented a far broader genetic range than the relatively inbred gentry of Britain. They were also people whose ancestors had faced more-rigorous selection pressure than those living in relative luxury.

Their designation as “convicts” resulted from circumstances. Many were refugees in their own country, having been thrown off the land of their ancestors through the Enclosure of Lands, where the local lord decided that broad-acre agriculture earned him more than having smallholders each farming part of the land.