{"id":264748,"date":"2023-02-07T08:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T08:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264748"},"modified":"2023-02-09T06:27:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T06:27:03","slug":"if-only-normality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264748","title":{"rendered":"If Only Normality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[Siem Reap, 2\/5\/23]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Linh Dinh \u2013 Postcards From The End Feb 6, 2023 Substack.com<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>When Princess Bajrakitiyabha collapsed last December, I was in Chennai, India. Returning to Thailand two weeks later, I expected news of her death to dominate conversations. The palace never admitted she had died, however, but was just in a coma, and Thais were urged to pray for her recovery. Everywhere across the kingdom, shrines with her portrait have mushroomed. You can even find them at schools and shopping malls.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2\/6\/23, the princess is supposedly still alive, though unconscious, and if you\u2019re inside Thailand, it\u2019s literally a crime to challenge or question the king, so she isn\u2019t dead until he says so.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrants don\u2019t just control lives, but information, and here, I\u2019m also talking about the entire West, of course. When a Pfizer employee was recently taped boasting about Jewjabbing crimes, YouTube deleted the evidence, \u201cThis video has been removed for violating YouTube\u2019s Terms of Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With so much pushback against Covid lies from the Jewjacked media, YouTube disabled its dislike button 16 months ago. YouTube\u2019s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, is Jewish. Did I just commit a hate crime? Is Jewish a hateful word?<\/p>\n<p>It is, apparently. After I listed many powerful Jews behind the Jewjab genocide, Blogger\/Google deleted my post, with this explanation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Your content has violated our Hate Speech policy. Please visit our Community Guidelines page linked in this email to learn more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We encourage you to review the full content of your blog posts to make sure they are in line with our standards as additional violations could result in termination of your blog.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s OK to mass murder millions, like Jewish Albert Bourla, but it\u2019s hate speech to name the culprits. Aren\u2019t you nauseated to live in such a sick world, but that\u2019s the New Normal, eh.<\/p>\n<p>Though Klaus Schwab wrote <em>Covid 19: The Great Reset<\/em>, most people still dismiss it as a conspiracy theory. Ron Unz, for example, pays no attention to this sinister agenda. Instead, he still drones on about how Jewjabs are unquestionably safe and effective.<\/p>\n<p>Am I glad to be as far away as possible from the nuthouse that\u2019s the United States of America!<\/p>\n<p>Here in Siem Reap, I\u2019m surrounded by sane people going about their daily business. I often hear laughter and see <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/two-boys-on-skateboards-on-2-3-23-siem.html\">children play<\/a>. Most faces are maskless. Having experienced a horrible great reset not that long ago, Cambodians just want to be left alone.<\/p>\n<p>In his <em>Pol Pot<\/em>, Philip Short sums up what they were subjected to, \u201cMoney, law courts, newspapers, the postal system and foreign telecommunications \u2014 even the concept of the city \u2014 were all simply abolished. Individual rights were not curtailed in favour of the collective, but extinguished altogether. Individual creativity, initiative, originality were condemned <em>per se.<\/em> Individual consciousness was systematically demolished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To enforce such a radical regiment, many woke fanatics were enlisted to punish, torture or kill those who failed to obey. Leaders of the Khmer Rouge were Paris educated intellectuals, however, so it was a foreign ideology triggered that genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Beware of know-it-alls who are righteously convinced they know what\u2019s best for you, though some are just motivated by hatred or a twisted need for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Siem Reap, I\u2019ve been feasting on blood. Morning, I might be at Taste of Khmer Soup to have their boat noodles, a Thai dish with a dark broth enriched with cow blood. Evening, I\u2019m likely at Li La, to have their rice gruel with chitterlings, pig maw, pig\u2019s trotter and pig blood curd. It\u2019s not kosher, of course, and illegal even in Chinese majority Singapore, for they\u2019ve lost their way, but I\u2019m in Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>Last night <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/li-la-restaurant.html\">at Li La,<\/a> four white people hesitated then walked in. A disaster, I thought, and sure enough, they got up after studying the yellowed menu that\u2019s patched with white and clear tapes. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d a middle-aged white woman said as she stroked the waitress\u2019 arm.<\/p>\n<p>Though there are familiar stir fried dishes like cashew chicken, they\u2019re tucked at the back. At the front are frightful sounding entries like \u201cCooked with intestine, <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/li-la-restaurant-on-2-5-23-siem-reap-3.html\">Stomach (Big)<\/a>\u201d and \u201cSausaga (Big).\u201d The latter is illustrated by a dark photo of four <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/li-la-restaurant-on-2-5-23-siem-reap-2.html\">curving phalluses<\/a>, or fossilized turds, chopped up. With your meat or blood, you can order a 50 cent portion of rice gruel or steamed rice.<\/p>\n<p>Rhyming with cruel, rice gruel is so much more evocative than porridge, a pussified word suitable only for babies. Can I have more porridge, mommy?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of moms, I returned to Siem Reap with dark, free flowing fantasies of <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/3.html\">eating often<\/a> at Best Mom, but since I couldn\u2019t book a room near it, I\u2019ve only been there twice.<\/p>\n<p>At Best Mom, I was happy to meet again Max, whom I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/brits-in-shallow-pool-american-genius.html\">a while back<\/a>. A font of embellished tales, he\u2019s always great for a conversation. This time, he told me about the Russian gangsters who used to frequent Mikey\u2019s. Their main business was white slavery, so little Susan from Illinois, say, could certainly disappear from a Siem Reap sidewalk, only to end up as a penetrable footstool in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you already have a garage filled with Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentleys and Aston Martins, what more do you want? A white slave, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a proof of this trade, Max cited the case of Johnny Gosch, from his home state of Iowa. Four decades later, Gosch reappeared, said Max, except he didn\u2019t want to go home, for he had gotten used to a comfortable life in Arabia. This didn\u2019t happen, of course. Like millions of American children, Gosch is still missing. Powerful American pedophiles always need more boys and girls. After you\u2019ve robbed or bombed millions of innocents, what more do you want?<\/p>\n<p>Struggling to explain the unspeakable crimes of the Khmer Rouge, Short brings up, rather oddly, the case of Tat Marina. A \u201cstunningly beautiful young actress,\u201d she was the mistress of a government minister, Svay Sittha, so Sittha\u2019s wife retaliated by staging an acid attack on Marina.<\/p>\n<p>Short, \u201cThe parallel with Khmer Rouge atrocities is striking. One way to try to understand why the Cambodian communists acted as they did is to enter into the mind of a well-educated, intelligent woman, who exacts vengeance by pouring acid over a young girl\u2019s head, watching as it eats away her body and every hope of happiness in her life. What can be more odious than to destroy a child\u2019s future? The Khmers Rouges, at least, could argue that they were acting for a cause, not out of personal evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An even more famous case was the murder of Pisith Pilika, a mistress of Hun Sen, the leader of Cambodia since 1985. As with the attack on Marina and many others, no one has been punished. The most powerful Cambodians are free from prosecution, it seems, but that\u2019s true of many, if not most, countries on earth, including Western \u201cdemocracies.\u201d Typing that, I laughed so hard, I almost burped up pig\u2019s or cow\u2019s blood. They taste about the same.<\/p>\n<p>Since history is generally bad news, it\u2019s best to stay clear of historical figures. Sell enough rice gruel with blood curd, so you can buy something else to eat, and hope your children don\u2019t become orphans by dusk.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, I took a bus from Saigon to Phnom Penh. Just outside Wat Ounalom, I ordered a can of Angkor from a 12-year-old waitress. Eager to practice her English, she chattered away. I hope she\u2019s doing fine, this clearly bright girl.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago at Best Mom, another girl of roughly the same age was cleaning the plastic covered menus. That\u2019s her chore, then she brought me a can of Angkor. Proud of her own competence, she briskly performed each task, and when I left, she gave me the brightest smile.<\/p>\n<p>Shouting towards the back, I said to her mom in the kitchen, \u201cBye, mom! I\u2019ll see you later!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If only such normality could reign everywhere, all the time.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_264750\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Phnom-Penh-2-20-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264750\" class=\"wp-image-264750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Phnom-Penh-2-20-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Phnom-Penh-2-20-18.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Phnom-Penh-2-20-18-480x321.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-264750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Phnom Penh, 2\/20\/18]<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_264752\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Siem-Reap-2-3-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264752\" class=\"wp-image-264752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Siem-Reap-2-3-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Siem-Reap-2-3-23.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Siem-Reap-2-3-23-480x321.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-264752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Siem Reap, 2\/3\/23]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Postcards from the End is a reader-supported publication. 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