What's the Point?
Well, I started writing this 2 days ago and, somehow, there was a meltdown and, you guessed it, it disappeared – and, believe it or not, I didn’t say a word. What’s the point?
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Global Gab
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OB BA DI
For those who have been waiting anxiously for the next issue of GLOBAL GAB, I thank you for your patience. In looking over the multiplicity of potential entries for this edition, I am struck by the f…
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As the World Turns
Well, it’s been a whole month since the last gabfest and, frankly, the whole news cycle seems to be SSED (Same Sh-t, Every Day …you can buy your own vowel). Every day, Donnie Doofus spews some more o…
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The Truth is Paywalled but the Lies are Free
I wish that I could say that these words were facetious or, seeing as they aren’t, that I had said them first. Unfortunately, neither is true – the quote is from Current Affairs on August 8th and it…
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Figures Don't Lie, Liars Figure!
Good day, all – I hope that you are all well and doing everything possible to stay safe.
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The World’s Gone Quackers!
On June 30th, 2020, the Nikkei Asian Review’s headline was succinct, “China retreats from 50-year pledge of Hong Kong’s autonomy”. The next day, July 1st, the National Security Law went into effect,…
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Sad, Very Sad, Yugely Sad
Well, it’s been 3 days since my last rant and, judging by the amount of immediately favourable responses, maybe I should give up on reporting the news and stick to rants and raves LOL
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“V” Stands For?
Remember when people used to declaim about “the good old days”? Generally they were ‘old’ ie. 60+. And they were generally talking about times that were 30 or more years back ie.
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Lapse
It’s been 2 months since my last …… submission (for those of you who thought that I was going to say, “confession”, I confess that I am not Catholic, except in some of my tastes ?.
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FOS
I am sorry to say that it seems to me that almost the entire cast of characters leading the world’s countries seem to be cut from the same sorry bolt of defective cloth – to wit in no particular orde…
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OY–OI-AIIIAH
> NOTICE TO READER – I started writing this column 10 days ago and stopped as the news was just too bleak and I was hoping that something lighter would come along. As we all know, nothing has, culmin…
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Coincidence
One of the major tests of how well the UK is going to fare on its own is how well it adjusts to and accommodates its trading partners – after all, trade is, in its most basic format, an accommodation…
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Bloomberg Interview re: Coronavirus Concerns ***PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT***
Good afternoon from Canada – so that there be no misunderstanding, I state unequivocally that the following and the attached are not political in any way, shape, or form. There has been an enormous a…
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Gimme Another Beer; Make It A Corona!
This is NOT going to be my ‘regular’ column about an irregular world. Instead, I beg your indulgence in that I want to solely address what has become the major news item worldwide (no, Donald, sorry…
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Who Let The Rats Out?
On Saturday, according to the Chinese zodiac, it will be the Year of the Rat (although some people are now translating it as ‘mouse’) – I guess it depends on the lobby, LOL According to tradition, th…
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No Doubt!
As we close off this decade, I have come to the conclusion that logic and common sense in today’s world are, far from being attributes, quite probably more in the nature of currently being liabilitie…
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The Turkeys are a-Clucking
My wife has suggested, make that strongly suggested, that I make these articles shorter….I replied that our name is Little but there is lots of news! ? All kidding aside, this column is starting to h…
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Lest We Forget
Well, we are heading into the retail season – Singles Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas – but it has been a long time since I have seen a mood less exuberant. Almost everywhere one looks it seems that the…
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Canadian Thanksgiving
It is very hard to believe that we have already hit 30 editions/episodes/epistles– hopefully you believe that it has been quality as well as quantity ?
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Stand With Hong Kong!
Hong Kong is not just a city – it is a state of mind.
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Who's Laughing Now?
It’s now the day after China’s National Day – 70 years since Mao Zedong (Mao Tse Tung) oversaw the raising of the flag of the People’s Republic of China on October 1st, 1949, at the Gate of Heavenly…
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Language Lessons
I hope that everyone is having a nice weekend – the fall weather is starting and leaves are starting to turn. Luckily, the weather service was wrong yet again and today is supposed to be a nice day w…
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Yugely Sadly
The news is ‘in’, so to speak – the US economy was down in August and actually was less than every single prediction provided by professionally accredited Bloomberg contributors. And Hong Kong’s was…
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Whoosh
No, please don’t think that I’m in any way doing an infringement on Nike (FYI, they use Swoosh)…this is WHOOSH ie. the sound the toilet makes when you’re flushing. Ever since Mike prevailed upon me t…
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Lost in Translation
Is it me or has the world gone totally off on a tangent?
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Truth, Sanity & Reason
It has been an interesting week. The Donald labelled China, “a currency manipulator”. Leaving aside the fact that every single country ‘manipulates’ (sic) its currency to some degree, overtly and/or…
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The People Are Singing But is Anyone Listening?
So, at long last, Boris Johnson is now, as Ivanka Trump put it so cogently, Prime Minister of The United Kingston. Notwithstanding his previous adamantly categorical assurances of a No-Deal Brexit be…
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Let's Be Careful Out There
So I’m taking a break and decided to write the column today…I’m in the process of negotiating a reasonably complex deal between someone in Malaysia who wants to sell wood, someone in China who can cu…
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Flakier Fake News
President Erdogan of Turkey – oh, hell, let’s call him Emperor…I mean the guy just moved into a new 1000 room (no, I am not making it up) ‘office’ so shouldn’t he have a title commensurate with the b…
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It Ain’t A Pretty Picture
I sat down to write what I thought would be a simple column but how this stuff adds up….it accumulates faster than Kangde Xin Composite Material Group Company’s manufacturing of profits; for those of…
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And The Hits Just Keep On Coming
Some interesting facts issued forth this past week – I use the word, “facts”, deliberately and advisedly as so much of what we read/hear today only loosely fits that classification (if at all). I am…
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The Jerks Are Jerking Us Around
Good afternoon from Canada – land of the stockpiled canola and the embargoed pork.
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Nothing serious?
1. ##### Only a guess
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And They're All Painted Black
Good morning – or, rather, it’s morning but there’s not much good about it news-wise. Everywhere one looks it seems like the Rolling Stones sang, “and they’re all painted black”. Just a few months ag…
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Just Saying!
Good afternoon…by the time you all (or should I say y’all) will be reading this, it will be Friday…so the 13th issue of Global Gab is coming out on a Friday – I did not and do not intend to make fun…
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Through The Roof
Man, I don’t think that The Donald is draining the swamp, so much as he is roiling it! I have written this week’s ‘weekly’ (more or less) column twice already and deleted same because they were stale…
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Building "Charming" Developments
One of the foremost lessons of Sun Tzu in The Art of War is that a good general does not seek to fight and always looks for an alternative, particularly a back door. The Government of Taiwan especial…
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Don't You Just Love The Adjectives
To all you wonderful folks out there in la-la land, Happy May 1st….if you’re in (most of) Europe, you get a day off; in China, you are getting 3 days (and, no, you unacclimated Westerners, this does…
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If there’s no report, it didn’t officially “happen”
I hate to say it but it seems that we are getting to the point when it is going to be the inmates who are going to be running the asylum. In Dallas County, Texas, the District Attorney the other day…
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May you live in interesting times
To all you loyal readers clamoring for a resumption of the column, thank you and here it comes. For those of you just sparing a few seconds from an already hectic schedule, thank you for the time. I…
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Many More Wish They Could
Due to matters beyond my control, this is going to be the last in the series, for awhile at least.
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Diversion From My Daily Grind
While Mike Michelini thought that I, seeing as I have been doing the HK/China/Taiwan/Korea circuit for 30 years or so, could provide some interesting insights for an ‘occasional’ column, I never thou…
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What a difference a day makes
Welcome to the latest version of Global Gab. First, just a few points:
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The cracks are starting to appear
Ever notice how almost all the people who should know better don’t ever seem to, at least publicly?
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Wasn't That A Party?
Further to my comments on Irrational Exuberance, here are some excerpts from data that took place:
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Stop the world, I want to get off!
Well, it’s been a week….there’s an old Chinese curse that translates as, “May you live in interesting times”, and these times sure are interesting. What was that old musical – “Stop the world, I wan…
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It's Going to Get a Lot Messier
Well, this being the first of who knows how many (or how few), I am going to take a minute to posit some guidelines: