ImanTulen

Retired senior.
*Culling mode is ON*
-Dislike Smart-alecs/Ego-seeking/Patronising/Condescending/Arrogant individuals.
-Views are my own/RTs are not endorsements

[Boo Su-Lyn @boosulyn]

I went to a hospital last Feb because I had extremely bad stomach cramps. My doctor asked if I wanted to be admitted; I declined because I wanted to go back to work. I didn’t fancy staying in a hospital.

Also the pain had gone away when I was in the hospital so I figured I’d be ok.

But I suffered excruciating pain when I got home (probably because the drugs had worn off after I was medicated on IV drip).

A specialist ordered a urea breath test and ultrasound for me, which turned out negative.

I paid for everything out of pocket — RM1,500 plus — without claiming from my insurance (the blood and urea breath tests, plus ultrasound, were pretty expensive).

People don’t go to hospital for fun just to claim from insurance. Avoiding acute pain that makes you feel like you’re dying is a good reason for hospitalization. Taking tests for peace of mind isn’t a bad thing either.

Yet insurance CEOs complained endlessly at the PAC inquiry about customers using benefits that they paid for.

Why sell “protection” for emergencies in the first place if you don’t actually want people to use the protection when they need it most?

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The Atacama Giant in Chile is the world's largest prehistoric human geoglyph, built around 1000–1400 AD. The 119m desert figure likely served as an astronomical calendar to track seasons, crops, and rainfall, and is culturally linked to the Andean creator deity Tunupa-Tarapaca.

Carved into the slopes of Cerro Unitas in Chile's Atacama Desert, the Atacama Giant stands approximately 119m tall, making it the largest known prehistoric anthropomorphic geoglyph in the world. Archaeologists believe it was created by indigenous Andean peoples between 1000-1400 AD, during a period when extensive trade networks connected communities across the Andes and Pacific coast.

Unlike Peru's Nazca Lines, which are famous for their geometric and animal designs, the Atacama Giant is thought to have had a practical as well as spiritual function. Some researchers propose that the figure's distinctive head ornaments and alignments may have been used to track the position of the moon and seasonal cycles, helping communities predict rainfall and determine the best times for planting and travel across one of the driest regions on Earth.

The geoglyph remains one of more than 5,000 known prehistoric earthworks discovered throughout the Atacama Desert, making the region one of the world's richest concentrations of ancient landscape art.

The Atacama Desert's extreme aridity, some areas receive less than 1 millimeter of rain annually, has preserved many geoglyphs for over a thousand years with remarkably little erosion.

#archaeohistories

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨A new strongest strike of retribution: Moscow continues to grind Kiev to dust!

🚨A new blow of retaliation: Russia collapses the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.
🚨Trash instead of factories: A massive blow to the Ukrainian defense industry.
🔥Kiev is on fire: Russia is destroying the military infrastructure.
🚨Detonation and glow: The consequences of the Russian strike on Ukraine.
🚨Russian missiles: The goal is complete domination and demilitarization.

[david kersten @davidkersten]

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Australia parades its warplanes and boats under China's nose on a regular basis, but goes into meltdown when China conducts a missile test.

Please, Australia.

STFU.

You're a whiny little pissant.

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[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

🚨 BIAS EXPOSED 🚨
Why didn’t a mainstream media reporter point out the anti-China hypocrisy of these statements:

👉 Defence minister Richard Marles said of a Chinese missile test that Australia is "very concerned".
👉 Foreign Minister Penny Wong labelled the test as "destabilising to the region".

So why didn’t a reporter ask them their attitudes to the far, far more regular US nuclear-capable missile tests in the Pacific Ocean?

▪️“The USA has conducted more than 80 nuclear-capable inter-continental missile flight tests across the Pacific Ocean since 2000 — the most recent was only four months ago.

▪️“Nuclear-capable US Minuteman III ICBMs are regularly test fired from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to crash into the Kwajalein Atoll lagoon in Marshall Islands lagoon.

▪️“Four nuclear-capable ICBM missile tests were fired from the US mainland across 6,800 kms of the Pacific to the Marshall Islands, in the past two years.

June 4, 2024:
An operational readiness test flight of an ICBM.

June 6, 2024:
Another operational readiness test flight executed 48 hours later.

November 4, 2025:
An operational strategic validation launch struck the target coordinates inside the Marshall Islands testing window.

March 3, 2026:
Test flight GT-255 completed its trans-Pacific trajectory to test guidance system accuracy.

https://t.co/PvqRia4puU @ABCnews

[SilencedSirs◼️ @SilentlySirs]

🚨⚡️ A new military scandal caught on camera in Kyiv.

A U.S.-made Patriot air-defense missile, launched by Ukrainian forces, reportedly veered off course and crashed directly into a civilian residential neighborhood.

You will never see this in Western media.

[Brian Tycangco 鄭彥渊 @BrianTycangco]

Trump taking Venezuela’s Maduro and attacking Iran to gain leverage over China by taking away two of its largest oil import sources but China anticipating the move years ahead by building up 1.3 billion barrels in strategic reserves when oil was low and then ceasing most of its oil imports during the Iran war that ruined Trump’s plan and forced him to deplete US strategic reserves in order to drive oil back down to stop high gasoline from ruining chances in the midterms and China now happily buying back oil below 70/bbl is a wild theory that never made it to anyone’s 2026 bingo card.😅

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

LV did not become hated in China because it won an intellectual property lawsuit.

Foreign companies have sued Chinese companies before.
Chinese consumers understand trademark protection.
They understand intellectual property.

But this case crossed a different line.

LV did not merely protect a brand.

It exposed a much uglier logic:

take ancient Chinese motifs,
register them as private property,
turn civilizational memory into corporate assets,
then sue Chinese companies for touching patterns rooted in their own cultural soil.

That is why Chinese people are furious.

LV has registered 45 Chinese-style ancient patterns.
Patterns that came from Chinese decorative traditions.
Patterns that appear in Tang-era art, Dunhuang murals, Suzhou garden windows, Fujian floor tiles, and everyday Chinese aesthetics.

And now a French luxury house acts as if these symbols belong to Paris.

This is not ordinary trademark protection.
This is cultural occupation through paperwork.

Ancient people did not have trademark offices.
They could not file applications.
They could not defend their heritage in modern courts.

That does not mean dead civilizations are free for corporations to loot.

If this logic stands, anyone could repackage Hanfu patterns, Terracotta Warrior imagery, Dunhuang murals, Buddhist motifs, or even classical works like Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, register them, and then tell Chinese people they no longer have the right to use their own cultural inheritance.

That is absurd.
That is dangerous.

And that is why LV won the lawsuit but lost China’s face.

The tea brand used a jasmine flower because it sells jasmine tea.
The cultural soil is Chinese.
The public emotion is Chinese.
The backlash is Chinese.

On the day the ruling came out, Molly Tea gained massive public support because Chinese consumers understood exactly what this was:
not a French brand protecting creativity,
but a Western luxury house privatizing Chinese heritage and biting the people whose civilization made the pattern possible.

Even more humiliating for LV:

while Molly Tea was facing millions in damages, its home region was hit by floods, and the company donated 1 million yuan for disaster relief.

So the contrast became clear.

One side took from Chinese culture and sued.
The other side bled money and still gave back to Chinese people.

LV may have won US$1.5 million.
But it reminded 1.4 billion people what Western luxury often means:

steal civilization,
monopolize beauty,
sell it back as status,
then sue the original owner.

This has never been about luxury art design.
This is colonial property logic in designer packaging.

[جهاد العبيد @JihadAlobaid]

لويس فيتون تواجه رد فعل هائل في الصين بعد أن قامت بمقاضاة متجر شاي صيني بـ1.5 مليون دولار بسبب انتهاك مزعوم للشعار.

الصينيون غاضبون لأن هذا النمط كان موجودًا في الصين منذ مئات السنين قبل ميلاد Louis Vuitton، ويمكنك رؤيته في كل مكان في الصين حتى اليوم.

[William Yang @WilliamYang120]

Beijing’s missile test on Monday “demonstrates the progress in China’s advanced missile capabilities, sends a signal to regional countries, including Australia and other Pacific states, about Beijing’s ability to respond resolutely to what it views as a challenge to its interests, and allows the PLA [People’s Liberation Army] to maintain regular military drills across the Asia Pacific region,” I told @Telegraph.

@CrisisGroup

https://t.co/WEH6pDzmgE

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired at least two missiles earlier at a pair of commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, with both ships being hit and suffered significant damages, but no casualties, according to Axios’ Barak Ravid.

[StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭 @StarboySAR]

📢 Reuters: “China & Russia hold naval drills off Qingdao plus follow-on Pacific patrols”

As usual, Reuters forgets the context: a US alliance "kill‑chain festival" of 3 overlapping drills is taking place at the same time: RIMPAC the biggest U.S. alliance fleet show ever off Hawaii; Overlapping with Valiant Shield 26 + Resolute Dragon war‑games directly on China’s doorstep

Washington does the encirclement and actual war preparation, Reuters reports only on the “reaction” Neat division of labour

Every time Washington runs its "drills" and expands AUKUS/QUAD logistics and calls it “stability,” it’s “defence cooperation” 🤡

When China and Russia do scheduled drills off China’s coast, it’s suddenly “escalation.” The reality: this is signalling — to Tokyo, Manila, Canberra and the Pentagon — that the Pacific isn’t a private American swimming pool with a NATO lifeguard. And yes, China's sub nuclear missile test and DF-17 demos are the punctuation marks
https://t.co/A5peF8WpHc

[Robert Cettl @RobertCettl]

(from interview 🔽) "And it is important to note that since Australia does not deny that Taiwan is part of China’s sovereign territory, intrusions by Australian warships or Australian aircraft into Taiwan’s waters or into Taiwan’s airspace, are in fact intrusions into the territory of China. And it could be argued quite reasonably I think that China has the right to defend itself and, if necessary, forcibly repel such intrusions. We’re very lucky that China has until now chosen not to take that kind of action...

So Australia’s policy with regards to Taiwan’s status is paradoxical because on the one hand we say yes Taiwan is part of China’s sovereign territory and on the other we say we have the right to conduct freedom of navigation operations in China’s sovereign territory...

And so that translates very quickly to the whole question of China, and Eldridge Colby, one of the United States warmonger strategists, made it very clear in his book The Strategy of Denial that it was the intention of the US to use Taiwan both as pretext and proxy to instigate a war involving China again with the purpose of bogging China in a protracted conflict which would inhibit its economic growth and impede its capacity to cooperate in economic development with other countries...

And the US has made it perfectly clear that it expects Japan, the Philippines and Australia to come to the defense of Taiwan. So that (the 3 countries) would be part of the network of proxies that would be used to embroil China in a war that would distract it from its peaceful development, cooperation right across the Global South."

- John Lander, former AU Deputy Ambassador to China (1974-76), former 1st AU Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran (1985-1988).

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

China’s response to the angry protests from Japan, Australia and New Zealand was ice-cold:

We notified you before the launch.

We told you it was routine annual military training.
We told you it was consistent with international law and customary international practice.
We told you it was not directed at any specific country or target.

The process was safe, standard, and professional.

And still Japan, Australia and New Zealand went into hysteria.

Why?

If the test was not aimed at you, why are you panicking so loudly?

Maybe the problem is not the missile.
Maybe the problem is what you have been doing around China.

Sending warships through the Taiwan Strait.
Militarizing China’s doorstep.
Dragging outside powers into the South China Sea.
Turning every Chinese defensive capability into a regional “threat.”

You provoked.
China demonstrated.

You tested red lines.
China showed capability.

And now you want China to stop because you feel uncomfortable?

Who are you?

China is not asking for your permission to conduct lawful military training in international waters.

If you are so nervous about a publicly notified, legally compliant, non-targeted exercise, maybe you should ask yourself what guilty conscience is making you tremble.

You do not oppose escalation.
You just oppose consequences.

[Tong ZHAO @zhaot2005]

Many operational details of China's latest submarine missile test remain unconfirmed. With that in mind, I wanted to share a few preliminary observations in case they are helpful in informing our collective analysis.
A short🧵:

[The Golden Mean @TheGoldenMean2]

U-shaped Chinese ACs are flying off the shelves amid Europe’s heatwave.

No drilling—it hangs on the window frame, ideal for old buildings.

That’s the edge of #MadeInChina: affordable, innovative, and built around real needs.

Stay cool, Europe🍂

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

It's called the Ames Room, and it was invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames Jr. in 1946 to screw with your brain.

[CodeBlue @codebluenews]

Are We Paying For Health Care Or Hospitality?

https://t.co/XpUo3cpsB4

[CodeBlue @codebluenews]

Private Hospitals Say They’re At The Mercy Of Big Insurers

https://t.co/oqY8zFxZ3M

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

Chinese nuclear ballistic missiles launched over Japan and the Philippines deep into the Pacific, the message is very clear.