Robbo

Cambodia but for 11 years worked as a pharmacist in one of the most remote spots of Australia.

#FOAMed

[Dara Mech @MechDara1]

When international and local organisations, especially @IOMCambodia, have failed to provide support to victims of human trafficking. Some victims claimed to have contacted the IOM but have not received a response. I have seen a few Africans who have been mentally ill. They talked to themselves while wandering down the street.

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

The American here is William Chandler White, 27, from Jacksonville. Before he turned up teaching in Phnom Penh, he picked up a felony case in Florida in 2017 at 18, fraud and auto theft tied to a car dealership, pleaded no contest, sentenced as a youthful offender. Violated probation in 2020. In Cambodia by the next year.

[Robbo @BiteTheDust]

I hope he is found and charged by the police

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Someone in Cambodia has been posting TikTok videos with sun bears. They’re a protected species here, where keeping or selling one is illegal.

[Daniel Best - Author @20thCenturyDan]

On 1 July 1999, the Sydney Morning Herald detailed Tim Fischer's career, upon his announcing his resignation from politics. They compiled his high (and low) lights. This is about the worst thing he ever said about Pauline Hanson.
#auspol
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[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

This is barking mad. Rabid Rinehart wants to give chunks of Queensland to Israel.

[Robbo @BiteTheDust]

Oh @PressClubAust you are turning to a lickspittle organisation. Power of the Press seems to be a term you are becoming uncomfortable with.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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[Robbo @BiteTheDust]

Hahahaha but don't block the main scamming co. Urination tool, Telegram

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

So Cambodia blocks Discord after user complaints, and TRC says it acted to protect the public. 🙄

But Telegram… where scams run rampant, recruitment ads for illegal work post openly, and the marketplaces trade in plain sight, stays fully accessible. The platform that’s the source of endless criminal activity in this country isn’t touched, and the government’s concern lands on Discord. This wasn’t thought through.
https://t.co/19CYlchYZ4

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

A Rezvani Vengeance parked on the Kampot riverside. Armored SUV built on a Cadillac Escalade, $285,000 before options and past $780,000 once you add the bulletproof glass, run-flat tires, and the pepper-spray dispenser that comes with the military package.

Cambodia’s minimum wage is $210 a month. At that rate the base price is over a century of work.

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Sar Sokha, the Minister Leading Cambodia's Scam Crackdown, Hired US Lawyers to Fight Scam Sanctions

Interior Minister Sar Sokha has paid two US law firms more than $250,000 to fight the sanctions push against him, according to filings with the US Justice Department. He signed with Seiden Law and Nelson Mullins in May; the agreements surfaced June 1 in FARA disclosures.

Seiden's brief covers OFAC and the congressional committee weighing a bill that would make sanctions on Sokha mandatory, naming him among officials it links to scam operations victimizing Americans. Hun To, a cousin of Prime Minister Hun Manet, appears in the same bill. Nelson Mullins takes the diplomatic side through July, lobbying Congress, the administration and US media on Sokha's behalf.

The exposure runs back to Ministry of Commerce records listing Sokha as a Jinbei Investment co-director with Chen Zhi, whose Prince Group drew US and UK sanctions last year before Chen was extradited to China. Sokha denies any part in scam operations. A ministry spokesperson called his contact with Chen "a normal social relationship" and said the accusations were slander that had endangered Sokha and his family.

Sokha took over the ministry from his father in 2023 and now directs Cambodia's crackdown on online scams and trafficking.

https://t.co/RETDtaV87B

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Cambodia's ACU Says Two Generals Were Paid to Keep a Scam Operation Off the Raid List

Cambodia's Anti-Corruption Unit put out an open letter on June 2 laying out how it says a deputy immigration chief and a deputy Phnom Penh police commissioner took bribes to shield an online scam operation. What prompted it was a Facebook post. Phi Kimsong, wife of one of the charged men, had written that her husband Yat Kosal was an innocent former monk who ran a home coffee shop and drove taxi on the side, and got grabbed delivering a single coffee to a football field while still owing the bank $70,000 to $80,000 on his car and house.

ACU's version runs differently. It says a man called Tony, who ran Morgan James Co. Ltd inside Phnom Penh's Twin Tower, paid Meas Marin $10,000 a month to keep his operation from being inspected or raided, and that Meas Marin pulled in Lt. Gen. Uk Haysela of immigration and Maj. Gen. Sor Samnang of the municipal police. The split, per ACU, was 40 percent to Meas Marin and 60 percent to Haysela, who kept $4,000 and passed $2,000 to Samnang. When inspectors were due at Twin Tower, the three made sure every company got checked except Morgan James. The money moved through a chain ACU says was built to hide it, running from Tony through Meas Marin and the two wives of Samnang and Meas Marin before it reached Haysela.

Meas Marin, a Khmer-American the letter describes as a retired US military officer now holding a brigadier general's rank and an advisory post at the Ministry of National Defense, has fled. Yat Kosal, his assistant since 2023, was sent to collect that first $10,000 from Tony in person. ACU's answer to his wife is that she didn't know what her husband actually did, while he, the court, and the unit do.

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Chinese Hostages in Sa Kaeo Sent a LINE SOS. Their Captors Were Thai Police.

Four police sergeants and a civilian were arrested in Wang Sombun, Sa Kaeo on May 17 after holding five Chinese nationals for ransom inside a house in Wang Mai subdistrict. The demand was 300,000 baht per hostage. Two of the men had already transferred $2,000 each in crypto, about 120,000 baht combined, before the raid.

The case broke when a hostage sent a LINE SOS to an immigration officer in Bangkok, who alerted Sa Kaeo Immigration. A joint team with Wang Sombun police and Burapha Task Force soldiers raided the house the same day. The sergeants are from Highway Police, Khlong Hat station in Sa Kaeo, and Ban Plaeng station in Chanthaburi. Police seized four semi-automatic pistols, 24 rounds, and two Toyota pickups.

A police captain reportedly part of the crew escaped before the raid and is being hunted.

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Battering Rams, Tactical Shields, and One Guy Who Got Spanked

Inside the Wyndham Grand Phnom Penh Capital during last night's scam raid. The building sits directly across from the French Embassy in Daun Penh. 311 foreigners detained, equipment seized. Cameras rolling, multiple attempts at the door before they finally bust through. Full tactical gear.

See if you can spot the cop who gives one of the detainees a little smack on the way past.

[Robbo @BiteTheDust]

@HonTonyAbbott Every time you open your mouth you show why you are unfit for any public duty

[sarah @sahouraxo]

A French journalist in Iran confirms Trump and Israel bombed:

• 8 pharmaceutical factories — including a cancer medication facility

• 60 pharmacies

• Hospitals

• One of the oldest medical research institutions in the region

These aren’t military targets
They’re lifelines

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Pauline Hanson has suddenly become the barometer of intelligence according to One Nation supporters on my feed. This is someone who called Trump “Senator,” struggled to pronounce Netanyahu, claimed Trump has “freed” Iranians by bombing them, (including schoolgirls) called for Australia to join an illegal war, couldn’t understand how submarines work while sitting on the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee, didn’t understand election promise costings, has been objectively found by Australian courts to be racist, and in 30 years has not introduced a single piece of successful legislation to fix one thing she’s spent three decades whingeing about.
9.1 million people watched a Rear Admiral have to school her on how submarines work when she sat on a defence and trade legislative committee. Yes-about defence! The bar for leadership is seriously underground for this lot.
And One Nation supporters flooding my feed with insults and abuse. That’s all they’ve got. No argument. No facts. Just noise. The videos are doing the rounds. You’re welcome.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

JUST IN: Iran officially declares the Strait of Hormuz is NOT closed to the world—it is ONLY closed to the US, Israel, and their allies. Global shipping can pass freely. Washington's narrative of a global blockade just collapsed on live TV.

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Yacht parties with politicians. $30 million a day from pig butchering. A diplomatic passport to visit the US. Gifting watches to world leaders while workers were beaten in his compounds. Bloomberg's most detailed look at Chen Zhi's empire yet.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Laura Loomer flew to India.

Before she left she deleted all of her anti-Indian tweets. Thousands of them. Gone.
She thought nobody would notice.

An Indian uncle noticed.

He read them back to her on camera.
Every one. Her own words. Her own bigotry. Directed at the people whose country she was visiting as a guest.

This is the woman who has the personal cell phone number of the President of the United States.

This is the woman who shaped immigration policy from Mar-a-Lago.
She deleted the evidence before crossing the border.

The internet is forever.

The uncle is a hero.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

In a disturbing resurfaced 2006 audio clip, Donald Trump says he has “no age limit” for sleeping with girls — and claims he’d only stop at “12 year olds.”

Let that sink in.

This is the same man blocking Epstein files.

The same man demanding “trust.”
The same man lecturing America about “morals.”

And they still defend him.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

George Galloway:

The massacre of 167 girls, aged 7 to 12, at an elementary school in Iran is the greatest atrocity committed by the United States since the Vietnam War.

It is the largest mass killing of schoolgirls ever recorded in world history.

Yet no one is talking about it