Washington is the enemy of Americans and the world

I reproduced parts of an article by Paul Craig Roberts and the wicked truths he is telling his fellow Americans about, the real dangers facing humankind coming from Washington. Washington is in cahoots with the cabals and arms merchants to start wars for their own benefits and the poor Americans would have to send their boys and girls to war for them, to die for them when there is no reason to go to war. These are truths that the main media would not tell you.

“Fellow Americans, Wake Up & Escape The Matrix” | Paul C. Roberts

June 11, 2016 

Where Do Matters Stand?

On the eve of World War II the United States was still mired in the Great Depression and found itself facing war on two fronts with Japan and Germany. However bleak the outlook, it was nothing compared to the outlook today.

by Paul Craig Roberts

Has anyone in Washington, the presstitute Western media, the EU, or NATO ever considered the consequences of constant military and propaganda provocations against Russia? Is there anyone in any responsible position anywhere in the Western world who has enough sense to ask: “What if the Russians believe us? What if we convince Russia that we are going to attack her?”

The same can be asked about China.

The recklessness of the White House Fool and the media whores has gone far beyond mere danger. What do the Russians think when they see that the Democratic Party intends to elect Hillary Clinton president of the US? Hillary is a person so crazed that she declared the president of Russia to be “the new Hitler” and organized through her underling, neocon monster Victoria Nuland, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine. Nuland installed Washington’s puppet government in a former Russian province that until about 20 years ago was part of Russia for centuries.

I would bet that this tells even the naive pro-western part of the Russian government and population that the United States intends war with Russia.

Ever since Russia stood up to Obama over Syria, the Russians have been experiencing hostile propaganda and military operations on their borders. These provocations are justified by Washington and its NATO vassals as a response to “Russian aggression.” Russian aggression consists of nothing but obviously false assertions that Russia is about to invade the Baltics, Poland, and Romania and recreate the Soviet Empire, the Eastern European part of which, together with the former Russian provinces of Georgia and Ukraine, now belong to the American Empire.

The Russians know that the propaganda about “Russian aggression” is a lie. What is the purpose of the lie other than to prepare the Western peoples for war with Russia?

There is no other explanation.

Even morons such as Obama, Merkel, Hollande, and Cameron should be capable of understanding that it is extremely dangerous to convince a major military power that you are going to attack. To simultaneously also convince China doubles the danger.

Clearly, the West is incapable of producing leadership capable of preserving life on earth.

What can be done when the entire West demonstrates a death wish for Planet Earth?

Until the criminal regimes of Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama, American presidents from John F. Kennedy forward worked to reduce tensions with the Soviets. Kennedy worked with Khrushchev to reduce tensions caused by US missiles in Turkey and Soviet missiles in Cuba. ….

Today life on Planet Earth is far less secure than during the darkest days of the Cold War. Whatever threat global warming poses, it is miniscule compared to the threat of nuclear winter. If the evil that is concentrated in Washington and its vassals perpetrates nuclear war, cockroaches will inherit the earth.

I have been warning about the growing danger of a nuclear war resulting from the arrogance, hubris, ignorance, and evil personified by Washington. ….

Before it is too late for Americans and all of humanity, arrogant Americans need to recall that “those who live by the sword, die by the sword.”….

Those few Americans who have any awareness are beginning to realize that the One Percent and the western governments that serve them are re-establishing feudalism. The brilliant and learned economist, Michael Hudson, has labeled our era the era of neo-feudalism.

He is correct. The majority of young Americans come out of university heavily indebted, primed for debtor prison. When half of 25-year olds cannot marry and form households, how can anyone believe that housing sales and prices are rising except as a result of speculative investors banking on rental income from a population that cannot even pay its student loans.

The United States is the sickest place on earth. There is no public or political discussion of any important issue or of the multiple crises that confront America or the crises that America brings to the world.

The American people are so stupid and unaware that they are capable of electing a criminal and a warmonger like Hillary president of the United States and be proud of it…..

It is extraordinary that once-proud, once-great European peoples look for leadership from a country of moronic non-entities who have pissed away the liberty, security, and prosperity that their Founding Fathers gave to them.

Fellow Americans, if you care to avoid vaporization and, assuming we do avoid it, live a life other than serfdom, you must wake up and realize that your most deadly enemy is Washington, not the hoax of “Russian aggression,” not the hoax of “Muslim terrorism,” not the hoax of “domestic extremism,” not the hoax of welfare bankrupting America, not the hoax of democracy voting away your wealth, which Wall Street and the corporations have already stolen and stuck in their pockets.

If you cannot wake up and escape The Matrix, your doom will bring the doom of the planet.

Kenna Police How? Your right to due process (Hong Lim Park 18 June 16, 5 -7 pm)

Just read this message in TRE for a public discourse on your right to due process at Hong Lim this evening. It is a bit late to put this up, but nevertheless here it is.

On 18 June, Community Action Network (CAN), Function 8 and Think Centre invite all concerned members of society to join us at Hong Lim Park for ‘Kenna Police How?: Your right to due process’.

Recent events have highlighted uncertainty among members of the public about the scope of police powers and how current procedures ensure due process.  These events include Law Society President Thio Shen Yi’s February 2016 call for immediate or early access to counsel, the Benjamin Lim case, and recent police action in response to alleged breaches of the Cooling Off Day regulations.

This event has been organised to allow members of the public to share their experiences with police investigations, as well as their concerns and suggestions for how the fairness, proportionality and consistency of police action can be best ensured.  Over 100 members of the public have indicated their intention to attend on Facebook, with 300 more expressing interest in the event.

“We urge more clarity about the rights of individuals in contact with police – especially vulnerable people like children or migrants,” said Kokila Annamalai, a volunteer with CAN.  “When can the police archive your email or confiscate your phone?  Do they need a warrant?  More awareness of the scope of these powers is needed.  It’s in everyone’s interests that justice is not only done, but also seen to be done.”

In January, as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations (UN), numerous UN member states made recommendations for Singapore to strengthen its protection of citizens’ rights to free expression.  At the time, the Singapore delegation to Geneva affirmed its support for the UPR process and stated its commitment to protect fundamental human rights.  We hope that the government will stand by its proclamations and welcome this event’s contribution to societal dialogue on advancing rights.

Among the speakers are civil society activist Vanessa Ho, who will address sex workers’ experiences with the police, Damien Chng of anti-death penalty group We Believe in Second Chances, and Function 8 member Pak Geok Choo.  Members of the public are invited to create placards at the event to express their views on police accountability and their ideas for how the protection of individual rights can be achieved.

We invite you to attend this important event and to cover it for your media channel.  For more information, please contact Kokila at communityactionnetworksg@gmail.com.

Civil Servants no direct access to internet

‘The Govt’s move to delink computers used by civil servants from direct access to the Internet is “absolutely necessary” to keep govt data and public services secure.’ Hsien Loong. When this policy takes effect in May next year, civil servants can only access the Internet through dedicated computers or through their personal computers. Hsien Loong has disclosed that there have been very determined attacks on the Govt’s IT systems and the threats are getting more severe and sophisticated. Just relying on the system’s defensive measures is looking like a losing proposition and it is best to cut the connections to the minimum. Hsien Loong quoted the possibility of personal data like NRIC numbers, addresses and income tax returns being hacked and put up for sale in the Internet. It is all about being safe and secure and the safety of citizens. Tiok, absolutely.

Given the same kind of logic and thinking, would the govt clamp down on immigration if more Singaporeans are being beaten by foreigners here or if the threats of terrorism increase, or if actual terrorist acts occurred? Or would it be too late by then? Data security cannot be more serious that personal security and safety and the threats of terrorism on our soil or in the heartland?

The preventive and proactive policies and measures taken to safeguard the data and information safety and security of our citizens should be extended to make sure citizens personal safety is protected and not compromised by the hoards of foreigners with unknown backgrounds living next door to our heartlanders or working in the same factory or office.  Why expose our heartlanders to such risks? Tiok boh? Important or not? No attack does mean we are safe. Terrorists planning to hit their home country from here do not mean we will be safe and they will not turn to hit us.

What are the govt going to do about these threats living with and among us?

Omar Mateen – Gay, terrorist or patriot?

The American establishment has been trying very hard to pin Omar Mateen as a gay or some petty rogue, anything but fighting for the cause of ISIS. They are trying to deny him the right to be called a warrior of ISIS, not to allow him or ISIS to claim credit for the attack. He is gay, he is anti gay! Maybe he is insane, mad?

But when more information came out, after speaking to his wife Noor Salman and those caught in the shooting in the Club, the picture becomes clearer. His call to 911 and what he said, ‘profess allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and also, ‘”We could hear him talking to 911 saying that the reason why he’s doing this is that he wants America to stop bombing his country,” said Ms Patience Carter,20, who was trapped in a bathroom stall at the nightclub as Omar prowled outside.’

This man was anything but mad. He was anything but gay. He had a family and a child. He was fighting for his country in a way he knew, in a way he could afford, against the American war machine that is devastating his country, killing his people. To his people, this man is their hero, a patriot, a martyr.

The Americans can call him whatever they liked, he was fighting a war against the Americans for invading his country. Was that wrong? Was he a terrorist? A gay? This man was meticulous. He picked his target carefully, did his recee several times to give him the best result when he struck. The number of deaths and injured by a lone gunman spoke for itself.

You make your judgement. And there will be many more Omar Mateens willing to fight and die for their countries as long as the Americans think it is right to invade their countries, bomb their land and kill their people. They are returning the favour to the Americans in the American homeland, to let the Americans have a taste of their own medicine.

Who is the hero, who is the villain? Who is the terrorist, who is the patriot? Would you do the same thing if the enemy invade and bomb your country and kill your people?

It is time the Americans reflect on their wars and the killings of innocent people in other people’s countries. You have no right to do that. That is not your Manifest Destiny. No one is going to condone your silly American Exceptionalism, to attack and kill people in their countries, to start wars everywhere.

But not to worry, many silly Asians and SE Asians are happy to welcome you to start a war in their backyards, in their countries.  They have spent a lot of money buying war machines and very eager to use them to prove that money is well spent, is worth it. War is fun, war is glory. War can make money and make heroes out of the dead and the dumb….and a lot of war collaterals.

China Asean Meeting – A case study on deceit and conspiracy

China and Asean just concluded a meeting in Kunming and as usual a lot of red faces. Asean issued a tough statement on the disputes in the South China Sea island claims but promptly retracted it on the excuse that it was sent out in error. The first statement read, ‘We expressed our serious concerns over recent and ongoing developments, which have eroded trust and confidence, increased tensions and which may have the potential to undermine peace, security and stability in the South China Sea.’

And the truth, two Asean countries have rejected the Asean statement that could only be issued when there is a consensus.  What is pertinent to this jumping the gun statement is that it revealed whose hands were behind this rush to send out the statement. For sure China has only two friends in Asean and a few fence sitters but several arch foes that would be sticking with the Americans. In this case some arch foes of China are Muslim states but willing to cosy up with Muslim killers for the greed of grabbing a piece of the South China Sea.

China would be interested to know who are these foes, who initiated the crafting of the statement, who authorized to send it out quickly, who is the party that did the sending, and who did the retracting.  It is not difficult for China to know the real happenings as it is reported in the media today with a Singaporean journalist calling Cambodia and Laos as Trojan horses of China. The journalist even warned these two states of cost and consequences. The pro American lackeys and the Trojan horses are standing up to be counted. This is like open cards in a poker game. Now China could identify very clearly who is doing what and should know what to do and dispense its cost and consequences as well. The whole episode is political and ‘either you are with us or against us’ depending on which superpower the Asean states have aligned with.

There is also another lesson to be learnt. Asean countries have very short memories and would often love the party that looted and raped their countries, killed and murdered their people and humiliated them by colonizing them. Many of the Asean states were colonies and are still in love with their colonial masters. Some like Vietnam and the Philippines were ravaged by the Americans but are still madly in love with the Americans, with the Japanese Imperialists that massacred their people. China had done nothing but is being seen as enemy to these countries.

The moral of the story is that China must not fear offending these Asean states. China must stand up to its right in the South China Sea and kick asses if needed be. Once China has taught the asses a real lesson in how to behave, after some time, they would love China like they love the Americans and the Japanese. So China need not be sensitive and fear offending asses. Kick them real hard, they only understand when they are kicked hard, and would turn around to kiss China’s arse.

That is the lesson to be learnt from Asean history and their predictable behavior. Trying to be nice and polite to them would be seen as weak and would make them think they are a force to be reckoned with and they could push China around. If China needs a live lesson, just watch the current shadow play between Singapore and Indonesia and Malaysia and the USA. The loser would definitely turn around to kiss the arse of the bully when the bully stood firm and kick asses.

That is the way to deal with Asean states or they will get swelled headed, punching above their weights. That’s what they have been deluding themselves with the might of the Americans behind them and goading them to take on China.

Singapore is an exceptionally safe place

About a week ago Channel News Asia had a programme on the scale of TB epidemic in India and how big a group of TB patients had developed full resistance to all the available drugs, ie no current drug will have any effect on their sickness and they would not be cured. The programme also quoted figures like 4m died annually from TB and worse, the TB patients were literally walking everywhere and spreading the disease. Please correct me if I misquote the number.

The first thought that came to mind was the hundreds of thousands of Indian natives in this island. Horror! They are travelling in the trains and buses day and night, in close proximity with the natives of the Red Dot, and they have this sick habit of sticking themselves to the natives, probably part of their way of life, like the crowded trains back home. Would they be spreading TB generously to the natives here?

My mind went whinning for answers. Oh, no cases of TB here, or very few cases. This means that TB is not wide spread in the island. It must be due to the stringent medical checks and controls, the vetting, to only allow those that are medically free of diseases to enter the island. We must give a pat on the back of MOH for keeping our city free from foreign diseases and epidemic. Then I managed a smile. It would not happen here, just like terrorists would not attack here, thanks to the intelligence agencies and the men in blue.

Singapore is safe from terrorism and diseases despite half the population coming from the 3^rd world countries. This must be a miracle to brag about.

Oops, spoken too early didn’t I?  Today’s front page news, a cluster of 6 TB patients in a block in Ang Mo Kio.  How did that happen? And they are all Singaporeans, a bigger mystery. TB has more or less been eradicated here and should there by new cases, they must come in from abroad. But these 6 are all Singaporeans, suggesting that the disease could be indigenous. Or they may have been travelling overseas.  They can’t contact TB here. If that is the case, many more Singaporeans would be having TB giving the confines and close proximity to foreigners sticking together in the trains and buses.

How did it happen? While the MOH is still investigating, they also assured the public that everything is under control and the 6 are no longer contagious. There is nothing to panic. TB needs long and close contact to develop and spread. Not sure the 20 or 30 minutes inside the trains and buses would be serious enough to get TB? But base on the last two decades of experience and empirical data, no problem. TB is not going to gain grounds in this island.

Singaporeans can sleep in peace. Only 6 cases mah.

No need to be an MP or be in Parliament to ask questions

The SDP is asking questions and demanding answers from the govt on the series of lift breakdown accidents injuring several citizens. This is part of the press release by the SDP posted in the TOC.

‘SDP calls for MND to give a full account of lift mishaps

By onlinecitizen on June 13, 2016 Politics

In a media statement issued by Mr John Tan, Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), the party calls for the Ministry of National Development to give a full account of lift mishaps at HDB blocks.

The party notes that even after Deputy Prime Minister, Tharman's promise to improve lift safety in response to a lift incident where an elderly woman's hand was severed, there still have been lift malfunctions which have led to injuries and even one death.’

And these are the things that the SDP are askings and wanting the govt to take actions. Not ice the difference? They are not just asking questions but demanding answers and actions. Not just to ask questions for asking questions’ sake and be happy with whatever answers provided by the ministers. Read these,

‘Why did it take so long for Mr (Lawrence)Wong to tell the public of the measures his Ministry was taking to resolve the problem? Could more stringent and urgent steps have been taken? Could the injuries and death have been prevented?

The SDP calls on the MND to take immediate steps to prevent further mishaps from occurring. The Ministry should also publish a full account of the jobs done in the areas of maintenance and repairs of lifts throughout the island without further delay. The report should include the names of the manufacturers of the lifts and their countries of origin.’

The above questions are backed up by 7 incidents of breakdowns, dates and places and people injured or died.  They don’t simply ask questions or make a statement and claimed to have done their job, end of matter, subject closed. Those MPs in Parliament, elected, nominated, NCMPs, should take a lesson on how to ask questions in Parliament from the SDP. SDP should conduct a course on how to ask questions in Parliament and the MPs, NMPs, NCMPs can use their Skills Future fund to attend and pay for it.

What do you think?

Ideological and propaganda warfare

Below are some extracts from an article written by a Russian philosopher Andre Vitchek on the damages done to Russia and China by western propaganda over the last 200 years. It has come to a state that anything Russian and Chinese is bad, and Russians and Chinese are bad people, only the Americans and Europeans are the good people.

‘These days you may get hugs from many common people in the Middle East or Latin America when you say that you are Russian, but such emotional outbursts are mainly intuitive. After being bombarded by extremely effective and negative Western propaganda for years and decades, people of the world still know very little, if anything, about two enormous countries that have been proudly resisting the Western imperialism – Russia and China.

I recently spent five weeks in Latin America, where the West openly supports the entire wide spectrum of counter-revolutionary movements, literally overthrowing one progressive government after another. I worked alongside the left-wing intellectuals there, helping to define the way forward, to rescue the Process.

But I was shocked by how little is known there about both Russia and China – for decades two natural allies of the patriotic Latin American Left…

. It is easy to understand the reasons behind all this. Even in some of the most revolutionary nations of Latin America, the Western mass media outlets have been managing to retain their presence, often through the right-wing big business cable TV and satellite distributors….

And so the negative and misleading messages about Russia and China are spread constantly. People are bombarded with them from the television screens, from the pages of mass-circulation newspapers, and from the imported (Western) films….

And the situation is much worse in Asia.

There, the Empire has truly and fully mobilized all available resources, in order to discredit its two main adversaries.’

Speaking to my friends and colleagues in such places like Indonesia and Philippines, I was told that most of the people there know little, even close to nothing about Russia. It is still perceived through the Cold War and post-Cold-War stereotypes. The Western propaganda apparatus has been portraying Russians as cold, aggressive, brainwashed and dangerous….

China is being targeted with an even greater and more malicious force than Russia. Successful and Communist China is the worst nightmare for the West and for the local, Asian ‘elites’.

The entire propaganda apparatus is now in overdrive, spreading ideological attacks and negative messages. The most peaceful major country on Earth is being portrayed as an aggressor and threat to regional and world peace. In the Philippines and elsewhere, the global Western regime is arousing the cheapest and extremely dangerous bellicose forms of nationalism.

The local Chinese diaspora of Southeast Asia that consists mainly of the anti-Communist elements, descendants of the people who left China after the revolution, are playing an extremely important and destructive role.

Nobody seems to notice that the United States/NATO is encircling both Russia and China with its military bases, while deploying new offensive missile systems. Nobody talks about those tens of millions of people who were massacred during the Western invasions of Asia during the 20th century.

And the situation is not much different in Africa and elsewhere….

The war against imperialism should be fought not only on the battlefields; it should be fought on the airwaves, at the printing presses, in the concert halls and theatres. Kindness, humanism, internationalism and knowledge can often serve as weapons much more powerful than missiles, strategic bombers and submarines.’

I just want to point out this statement to the Chinese diaspora, particularly the bananas to take note of. This is an observation by a Russian philosopher from far away. He could see how silly and destructive the bananas are to China under the heavy influence of American and western media. Here is the statement:

‘The local Chinese diaspora of Southeast Asia that consists mainly of the anti-Communist elements, descendants of the people who left China after the revolution, are playing an extremely important and destructive role.’

Well done bananas, for blindly betraying your roots and civilization. The Americans will be laughing themselves silly at the silly Chinese hating anything Chinese. And they will say, ‘Good boy’, you learn well, to hate yourself.

Coming to terms with Orlando shooting

It is far away, but the killings were splashed across the pages of our papers like it was in our very own backyard. The world is getting so small, so close and events happening on the other side of the globe would be known in an instance. We could feel and share the pain, but not the pains of those being killed daily in the Middle East, with many more killed and wounded, daily, with many children going hungry and not going to school, forever on school vacations.

The Orlando killing is getting too close for comfort. The motive, other than being a part of the ISIS world wide terror war against the infidels, this one is more specific. It was about the gays, the LGBT that they have very little tolerance for.  And we just had a rousing gay party in Hong Lim Park, a great success, with many corporate sponsors, some foreign and getting on the nerves of the govt. No, the govt was edgy for different reasons until the Orlando shooting.

Now the govt has a legitimate reason to raise the alarm.  The Pink Dot Party could be another terrorist target for sure.  Shanmugam said, ‘te madness is not going to stop and Singapore must be prepared to respond “hard and fast” if such acts hit home.’ Uh, to respond hard and fast if it happens? Better make sure it does not happen. When it happens, say at a Pink Dot Party in Hong Lim with 20,000 people, no joke. The carnage could be worse than in Orlando and the news will be in the front page and centre spread of all the media in the world.

What is the govt going to do about it? The internet threat to the govt’s computer system is leading to a ban on civil servants from frolicking in the net. Would there be a ban on gay gatherings here? And how would the LGBT group reacts to such a ban? Or would it be another case of it would not happen here, like the Bangla terrorist cells?

Would anything change here after Orlando? Or would thing be as per normal?

The tactics of the ISIS is to attract lone wolf terrorists that are self radicalized through the net to attack whoever they want to attack, the infidels. These are highly unpredictable individuals that could be the best of friends, a model citizens but turned rogue overnight.  There is just no way of telling who’s who.  The danger is clear and present.

Shanmugam has called for all Singaporeans to come together as a nation and to be prepared against terrorist attacks. That is easy. The difficult part is that half of the population is foreigners. How to educate them and bring them together as a nation?  Maybe that is a non issue as all the foreigners coming here are good foreigners and would not attack Singapore and Singaporeans even if they are terrorists. They all have a soft spot for Singapore. Singapore is so good to them.

The danger comes from Singaporeans that are easily radicalized, not foreigners. See, so far no foreigners have tried to attack Singapore. Singapore is safe from foreigner terrorists?

Indonesia will not allow Singapore to act against its citizens

This is the latest coming from down under, the big brother of Asean.  Singapore thinks that by passing the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act it can then go around arresting anyone it likes for violating this law? The Americans can do it, passing all kinds of silly transboundary laws and go about applying to countries around the world. That is American Exceptionalism or America is the Empire and can impose any laws onto anyone. Small little countries must know their places and stop believing in myth that it can punch above its weight.

The strong objection and statement are testimony to might is right and when one is small, it is better not to be too overbearing. You can only punch above your weight if the bigger party allows you to do so. Indonesia would not allow Singapore to act against its citizens even if their acts affected and hurt Singapore and Singaporeans. What can Singapore do about it?  On the other hand Indonesia is arresting fishing boats from China, Malaysia, Vietnam etc and their citizens for violating their territorial waters. Not sure about the rest, but in China’s case, Indonesia is acting like it is punching above its weight against China. They believe China could not do anything against the Indonesian Navy. In reality, it is China that is allowing the Indonesians to punch above its weight. Anytime China could withdraw this privilege like Indonesia is doing now to Singapore, and arrest Indonesian naval ships when it decided enough is enough.

There is one area that Singapore can punch above its weight. Throw money around. We have a lot of money to throw and those who needed money would come crawling to plead with us, to let us feel important, full of dignity, and to throw our weight around with our money to punch above our weight, …and to look silly after that when the money is gone.

How many millions do you want, $100m, $500m or $1b?

Orlando terror shooting – The USA cannot have its cake and eat it

My sympathy and condolence to all those killed or wounded in the Orlando Club terror attack that killed 50 people and many injured by a lone gunman identified as Omar Mateen, an American citizen from Afghanistan. No innocent life should be lost to killers and insane people whether in uniform or otherwise, whether they are part of so called terrorist organizations or in the uniform of the United States of America.  Orlando Club lost 50 lives, how many lives were lost in Iraq, Libya, Syria and the Middle East in general and all around the world caused by the American forces, legally or illegally, in overt or covert warfare? How many more lives of silly Asians and SE Asians are going to die if the American is successful in provoking a war in the South China Sea or in the Korean Peninsula?

The American has this killer strategy. Start wars everywhere except in homeland America. As long as the wars are fought in other people’s countries, far away, the Americans will be safe at home, continue to watch their basketball matches, baseball, go to dance halls, eat their American breakfast in peace, while other people are dying, killed by American soldiers and terrorist organizations created and supported by the USA.

Things are not going the way of the Americans when the rest of the world wise up. They are not going to continue to be silly and fight an endless war, continuous destruction of their economies and lives in their own countries at the behest of the Americans. They are going to bring the war into the homes and streets of homeland America.

If the Americans refused to stop their warmongering and agitations for war outside America, war will come home, to kill Americans in American soil. The USA cannot have the cake and eat it too. You want to start wars and kill other people, they will return the favour to Americans in America.

Orlando Club is only the beginning and more will happen and more innocent Americans will die, just like the innocents that died all over the world, by the bullets of American soldiers and their accomplices, the willing rogues of the ‘free’ world. The Americans cannot go on all over the world to light fires and think they can be safe at home anymore.

ISIS has owned up and is targeting homeland America with their recruitment propaganda calling on sympathizers, not just their core fighters, to pledge allegiance to the Caliphate and would be recognized and honoured as the lions, the warriors of their cause against the Americans. According to a NYT report, ‘the terror group’s spokesman Abu Muhammad Adnani last month incited its supporters to carry out killings abroad during the holy month of Ramadan.  No attack is too small, be advised, specifically naming the US as a target.  “The smallest action you do in the heart of their land is dearer to us than the largest action by us,” he said “and more effective and more damaging to them.”’

America, here you have it. The war is heading to your homeland. All your nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers and your F35s, cruise missiles, drones and stealth bombers are useless, hapless in the face of a fighter or sympathizer suicide terrorist willing to die for his or her cause. The fire you lighted far away is coming home.

Another Hong Lim Protest

I heard there is one this Saturday organized by the Community Action Network (CAN) and the topic is the recent harassment of Roy Ngerng and Teo Soh Lung.  I tried to search for this info in the net but got zero result.

I am wondering how many people knew about it or would turn out when there is hardly any information about the event. The organizers expect everyone to know or only for their friends and associates to attend? Is this a spread by words of mouth protest for those who are connected to the Community Action Network group?

The last time Gilbert Goh held a protest, there were barely 200 people. These organizers need to learn the ropes from the Pink Dot Organisers, maybe get some donations and support from big corporations if they ever think there will be people turning up for their event.

The Truth Behind US Aggressive Posture And Provocative Actions In The South China Sea And The East China Sea.

The Truth Behind US  Aggressive Posture and provocative actions in the South China Sea and the East China Sea

   
Why is US so dead against China? China has never done any harm to US both in the past and in the present. But US has always treated China with contempt. US has never conceal its great dislike for China because it is a communist state.All American leaders both past and present have always harboured the determination to take China down because they claim China as an authoritarian communist state is anathema to Western Democracy in which US is the outspoken Champion and leader.All US elites, intellectuals, military and political leaders have always uttered that China as an authoritarian state will not last and will soon collapse into the scrap heap  of history.. To enhance the quick demise of China they have always adopted all plans and means and insidious policies to make sure China become a fail state.In the 1930s and 1940s US supported the imbecile Chiang Kaishek Kuomintang against Mao Tse Tung. In 1950 US started the Korean War to involve China so as to wear down China from rising. It started trade and economic sanctions against China to prevent China's national reconstruction and development. It intervened in China's Civil War between Mao Tse Tung and KMT by stationing the Seventh Fleet in the Taiwan Strait to prevent Mao Tse Tung from taking Taiwan thus preventing China from taking the Chinese Civil War to a fruitful conclusion.

In the Cairo Declaration, Potsdam Treaty and San Francisco Treaty , Japan was supposed to give back to China all the territories that Japan took from China and they include the Diau Yudao, Taiwan, the Pescadores, the Paracel Islands, the Spratley Islands and its shoals and surrounding seas. However in 1976 US treacherously handed Diau Yudao to Japan inspite of protest from Taiwan KMT and China.. In the mid 1970s when China announced the discovery of rich oil and other mineral resources under the sea bed of the South China Sea, US secretly encouraged Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia to grab some of the Chinese islands in the Spratley and Paracel group.

Though US says it is not a claiment to all these islands and does not take sides among the claiments it is adopting the most aggressive hostile posture towards China. US is openly championing and supporting the spurious illegal claims of the Philippines and Vietnam.We have yet to know by what dubious corrupted means US had used behind the scene to encourage and embolden the Pinoys and the Viets to steal Chinese territories and challenge Chinese ownership.

US is supporting Japan in the Diau Yudao and the Pinoys and the Viets in the South China Sea issues not because US believes that Japan, Philippines and Vietnam have a genuine case . US support of the Japs, Pinoys and the Viegts is part of the US calculus to bring China down by all means economically, politically and militarily. The Diau Yudao and the South China Sea issues are exploited by US to serve its agenda and excuse of open confrontation with China. The crap that US is constantly harping that it is challenging China in the South China Sea for freedom of passage is hogwash because China has never and will never stop free passage in the sea lanes of the South China sea.But free passage does not mean US has the right to conduct nefarious activities against China in encroaching on China's airspace and naval spying activity close to China's long coastline. The Diauyu Dao and the South China issues just serve as a convenient excuse and platform for US to undermine China's rights and national security and this is part of the whole conundrum of bringing China down.

US leaders both civilian intellectuals, professors, politicians, presidents and the military always openly and proudly declare that US will not allow any country to become as rich and powerful as US not to say becoming richer and more powerful than US. To the US establishment it sees China as committing a sin of becoming rich and powerful now. Therefore US has to take down China. It tried economic sanctions on China before but it didn't work. So now US is tinkering with the thought of using the military means to destroy China. US is using the Diaoyu Dao and the South China issues as a heaven sent excuse for opening hostilities against China. It is intent on luring China out to fight with its provoking spying overflights and naval incursions.which threaten China's sovereign security. US believes whether rightly or wrongly that it now has a chance to destroy China by military means with its overwhelming military might of fourteen aircraft carriers, hundreds of warships and nuclear armed submarines and twenty thousand bombers both conventional and nuclear armed as well as space armed satellites and thousands of nuclear armed rocket missiles.

So it is not true that US is fighting for freedom of passage in the South China Sea and neither it really believes that philippines and Vietnam have a strong case in their nefarious claims on Chinese territories . It is a twisted logic for US to  falsely and insidiously  accuse  China of trying to grab  its neighbours' territories.. It is just US establishment look at a rich and powerful communist China with jaundiced eyes and its inherent hatred for China is so great that it feels it has a mission to destroy China. Another reason is that US has a latent desire to secure hegemonic control over the East China Sea and the South China Sea and the rich oil and mineral resources under the sea bed respectively. But US may have miscalculated for China is no more "The Sick Man of Asia " as in the last century , but is now a rich and powerful nuclear armed military power with second strike capabilities. US mistakenly thinks it can kill the Chinese without incurring injury to itself. An attack on China now could be the  last battle for US and the demise of USA itself. Well, man proposes but God disposes. The earlier the moronic US establishment comes to its senses the better for mankind.

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The USA can play a constructive role to defuse the tension in the South China Sea

Tension has been mounting in the South China Sea due mainly to an intransigent stand taken by the USA and its hidden agenda in the pivot to Asia policy. The tension and dispute in the South China Sea and the East China Sea could be history if the Americans were honest and honourable to face the historical facts and legalities concerning the status and sovereignty of the so called disputed islands. These islands are not disputed islands and the Americans knew the full facts and the legal agreements that they have helped to sign immediately after World War 2.

On 8 June 16, the Assistant Director of the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore, Ms Tsai Chi Yuan wrote to the Straits Times and clearly stated the how Taiwan has been administering the South China Sea islands since the 1930s with full acknowledgement by countries in the region and the world.  Here are some of the key points raised by Ms Tsai:

‘Whether from the perspective of history, geography or international law, the Nansha (Spratly) Islands, Shisha (Paracel) Islands, Chungsha Islands (Macclesfield Bank) and Tungsha (Pratas) Islands, as well as their surrounding waters, are an inherent part of Taiwan's territory and waters.

When France attempted to occupy nine of the Shisha and Nansha islands in 1931 and 1933 during its colonisation of Annam (known today as Vietnam), Taiwan responded to this challenge by ordering its embassy in France to issue statements of sovereignty.

On April 29, 1930, at the Far Eastern Meteorological Conference in Hong Kong, the Taiwan-operated observatory in Tungsha Islands was acknowledged as the most important in the South China Sea. The Philippine representative for the Manila Observatory's suggestion that Taiwan set up meteorological observatories on the Shisha and Chungsha islands to enhance navigation safety was also passed unanimously….the International Civil Aviation Organisation's conference in Manila on Oct 27, 1955, a resolution was passed for Taiwan to provide weather reports on the Tungsha, Shisha and Nansha islands….

After World War II, with assistance from the Allies, Taiwan took formal possession in 1946 of South China Sea islands formerly seized by Japan.

The San Francisco Peace Treaty, which entered into force on April 28, 1952, and the Treaty of Peace between Taiwan and Japan signed on the same day, reaffirmed that the South China Sea territories occupied by Japan should be returned to Taiwan.’

And Taiwan is part of China under Chiang Kai Shek that claimed to rule the whole of China as the Republic of China until the PRC replaced the ROC in the UN in 1971.

The historical facts quoted by Ms Tsai were known to the Americans. The Americans cannot plead ignorance to the Treaty of San Francisco and the Treaty of Potsdam. And the Americans have also signed the following treaties with Spain and Britain that were very clear on the sovereignty of the South China Sea islands and the delineation of the Philippines territories. The Chinese islands did not belong to the Philippines as recorded in the 1898 Treaty of Paris between the US and Spain, the 1900 Treaty of Washington between US and Spain and the 1930 Treaty between Britain and the US, all excluded the ‘disputed’ islands as Philippines territory.

How then can the Americans be constructive and defuse the problems and tension in the South China Sea? It simply calls upon the Americans to be honest, honourable, to acknowledge and recognize the terms of these treaties that all clearly said the islands belong to China. It calls upon the American to honour all legally binding international treaties and obligations, to obey the rule of law that they are violating but accusing China of committing when China was playing by the rules of law.

By not wanting to talk about these treaties that were crafted by the Americans and pretending that they did not exist, the Americans are not only dishonest, dishonourable but also very mischievous. The irony is that the Americans are accusing the Chinese of using coercive tactics and might is right to intimidate and bully its neighbours. When the Americans are honest and honourable, and to wave these treaties to the claimant countries and telling them to recognize the terms in these treaties, all the claims by Japan and the Asean claimant countries would become irrelevant, illegal and unfounded. It would then be a case of unreasonable claims by Japan and the Asean countries on Chinese territories. And the issue of coercion, might is right or freedom of navigation will come to a natural end.

Would the Americans do the honourable thing by being honest and tell the historical truths that are written in these treaties that the Americans wrote and signed? There is no dispute in the South China Sea and the claims were based on fallacies and spurious logic and the Americans knew. It is time that the Americans stop their mischievous agenda and defuse the tension in the South China Sea by telling the truths in these treaties.

The criminal and fraudulent stock market makes its first killing

I have written many times about the fraudulent and flawed stock market trading system coming out from the West when computers and computer traders were legally allowed to cheat the innocent traders, including the big funds that do not operate high speed computers and the retail traders. And the whole exchange system was redesigned to facilitate the computers and computer traders to make their cheating of other traders easier, more convenient and faster. I am not going repeat what I have said before but just to point out this piece of news coming out from London.

‘Dark Days at the Folly as Nomura Traders Join Europe’s Jobless
2016-06-08 04:00:00.3 GMT

By Liam Vaughan
(Bloomberg) -- They made their way in dribs and drabs. Hundreds of displaced bankers, shuffling up Suffolk Lane to All. Bar One and along Upper Thames Street toward the Folly, the only pubs in the City of London open that early on an overcast
Tuesday morning.
   

It was April 12, and Tokyo-based Nomura Holdings Inc. had just informed about 600 traders, analysts and advisers that they were no longer needed. The bank was pulling out of equities in Europe, affecting roughly one in five employees in the region.’

Even a big operator like Nomura with 600 employees in equity trading could not survive this fraudulent trading system. More will follow suit before the equity market freezes up with no more traders in the market except the computers and computer traders. And no one is looking at the elephant in the trading floor. And all those responsible for the fiasco are pretending that everything is fine.

It would not be long, the damage is so severe to all the stock markets around the world that were forced to adopt this criminal system that not only traders are fleeing, even the companies are starting to delist when it becomes foolish to pay listing fees only to see the value of their stocks turning into smokes and risked being taken over. No clear thinking companies would want to list their companies in the stock exchanges any more. Only those that are thinking of making a quick buck will do so and with the opportunity to buy back all the stocks on delisting at a fraction of the listing price. It is going to be the trend.

Watch for the curtains to fall and everyone will plead ignorant and innocent and would blame everything under the sky except the elephant they brought into the trading system.

More concrete evidence, hard facts that China owns the islands in the South China Sea

In a letter to the ST forum on 8 June, Ms Tsai Chi Yuan of the Taiwan’s Representative Office in Singapore spelt out clearly some of the facts as hard proof that the South China Sea islands that the Americans and the West were claiming in support of some upstart countries as ‘disputed territories’ were clearly under the control of Taiwan since the 1930s.  And these facts are well know to the world, especially the Americans and the western powers but conveniently and mischievously refused to remember and talk about.

The years, 1930s are important as before these dates, countries like the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia were all non countries. They were colonies of the Americans, French/Japanese and the British and were busy fighting for their independence as resistance and nationalist forces.

Below are some of the facts stated by Ms Tsai:

‘Whether from the perspective of history, geography or international law, the Nansha (Spratly) Islands, Shisha (Paracel) Islands, Chungsha Islands (Macclesfield Bank) and Tungsha (Pratas) Islands, as well as their surrounding waters, are an inherent part of Taiwan's territory and waters.

When France attempted to occupy nine of the Shisha and Nansha islands in 1931 and 1933 during its colonisation of Annam (known today as Vietnam), Taiwan responded to this challenge by ordering its embassy in France to issue statements of sovereignty.

On April 29, 1930, at the Far Eastern Meteorological Conference in Hong Kong, the Taiwan-operated observatory in Tungsha Islands was acknowledged as the most important in the South China Sea. The Philippine representative for the Manila Observatory's suggestion that Taiwan set up meteorological observatories on the Shisha and Chungsha islands to enhance navigation safety was also passed unanimously….the International Civil Aviation Organisation's conference in Manila on Oct 27, 1955, a resolution was passed for Taiwan to provide weather reports on the Tungsha, Shisha and Nansha islands….

After World War II, with assistance from the Allies, Taiwan took formal possession in 1946 of South China Sea islands formerly seized by Japan.

The San Francisco Peace Treaty, which entered into force on April 28, 1952, and the Treaty of Peace between Taiwan and Japan signed on the same day, reaffirmed that the South China Sea territories occupied by Japan should be returned to Taiwan.’

The above are hard facts and proof that Taiwan was administering these islands then. And Taiwan is part of China under Chiang Kai Shek that claimed to rule the whole of China as the Republic of China until the PRC replaced the ROC in the UN in 1971.

And there are many more historical records of the Ming and Qing Dynasty’s rule and administration of these islands. Nothing further need to be said about the hypocrisies of the counter claims by non nations that only became nations after the end of World War 2. They were non countries, irrelevant legal entities. No rights to claim island in the South China Sea. 

Why did the Americans refused to acknowledge these historical facts? Why are they so dishonest and dishonourable and mischievous?

Civil Servants no access to internet

‘The Govt’s move to delink computers used by civil servants from direct access to the Internet is “absolutely necessary” to keep govt data and public services secure.’ Hsien Loong.

When this policy takes effect in May next year, civil servants can only access the Internet through dedicated computers or through their personal computers. Hsien Loong has disclosed that there have been very determined attacks on the Govt’s IT systems and the threats are getting more severe and sophisticated. Just relying on the system’s defensive measures is looking like a losing proposition and it is best to cut the connection to the minimum. Hsien Loong quoted the possibility of personal data like NRIC numbers, addresses and income tax returns being hacked and put up for sale in the Internet. It is all about being safe and secure and the safety of citizens.

Given the same kind of logic and thinking, would the govt clamp down on immigration if more Singaporeans are being beaten by foreigners here or if the threats of terrorism increase, or if actual terrorist acts occurred? Or would it be too late by then? Data security cannot be more serious that personal security and safety and the threats of terrorism on our soil or in the heartland? How badly exposed are Singaporeans to terrorism with so many foreigners here?

The preventive and proactive policies and measures taken to safeguard the data and information safety and security of our citizens should be extended to make sure citizens’ personal safety is protected and not compromised by the hoards of foreigners with unknown backgrounds. Tiok boh? Important or not? No attack does mean we are safe. Terrorists planning to hit their home country from here does not mean we will be safe.

What are the govt going to do about these threats? Should we cut down the human connections as well or at least reduce the numbers here? Terrorists can also wear suit and ties among the professional ranks.

Power and the exercise of Power

Power is sexy, intoxicating and tempting. People who grew up in the HDB heartland and found themselves in position of authority and power would suffer an initial cultural shock. Wah, I have so much Power, I am so powerful. Suddenly, from a neighbourhood Ah Kow, the heartland kid becomes a somebody. Walk also different, talk also different, dress differently and eat differently, even smell differently. Suddenly from a nondescript nothing to look at kid, the kid becomes so attractive, so sexy.

Power can be very wonderful and can change a person, his character. From a meek little kid, he may now talk very big, even turning himself into a monster or a bully.

Power can come from many sources, money, position of authority and in politics, political power, the most fearsome when abused. People in position of authority and power should, ok this is spoken from the point of a person without Power and could fall victim to Power, exercise Power with a little humility and sensitivity. The very reason for saying this is that this is a democracy, I think it is though some may disagree, and your position in Power can be taken away by the very people that gives you the power and the very people you are throwing your power at.

You just do not know when you will lose your power, and become Ah Kow again, though you may not live in the HDB heartland anymore. But Singapore is such a small place and you are going to bump into people that were at the receiving end of your Power when you exercise them abusively. I bet you it would not be a pleasant encounter and experience should that day come.

When one is stripped of Power, the playing field will be level again and an Ah Kow will be treated as an Ah Kow.  Be more foresighted and circumspect and prepared for that day when you are Ah Kow again.  Exercise your Power, the temporary Power bestowed upon you by virtue of your current position and authority with a little care.  It is not going to be with you forever. Hope the day would not come when abusive Power is thrown at you, when you are on the wrong side of Power.

Life is temporary, everything is temporary and changing. Don’t be cocky.

When Asean states are transparent and irrelevant

The Shangri La Dialogue came and gone. What happened? It was a forum for bickering between the two super powers, the US and China and how they compete for control and domination of the South China Sea. Where is the voice of Asean and Asean states in the Dialogue, hosted by Singapore and supposed to be a forum about Asean countries and their interests?

The Americans were telling the Chinese that it was all about freedom of navigation when freedom of navigation was never an issue in the first place. But freedom of navigation was an excuse for the Americans to threaten the Chinese with consequences and vowing to take actions should China continue to build structures in their islands. And China responded by saying it does not create trouble and fear no trouble, 无事不找事，有事不怕事. China is reclaiming land from the sea and building infrastructures inside its own territories. None of the Americans business.

And into the fray came more secondary powers or bit players as Sam Bateman called them, from all corners of the world from as far as Canada, France and the European Union and neighbouring India and Japan, all using this opportunity to claim their right to conduct military patrol in the South China Sea. Whose South China Sea is that? What about the littoral states of the South China Sea, what about Asean, the countries with EEZ in the South China Sea? Do they have a say in who should be patrolling the Sea?

With all the clouds and haze being spewed all over the South China Sea by the Americans, a country far far away and has no territorial interest in the South China Sea, the Americans and distant and near countries now conveniently claimed the right to the South China Sea, wanting to control the South China Sea militarily with no regards to the Asean countries, without having to ask the Asean countries for their opinion and their consent like the South China Sea belongs to them.

Such insolence and arrogance can only come from the European powers and young upstart second rate Asian powers  or bit players thinking that they are now military powers and can bulldoze their way all over the South China Sea. The blame should be placed squarely on the Asean states for their ignorance, foolishness and their reticence, for inviting the foreign powers to meddle with affairs in their region, and not protesting. They did not even know that they have served the South China Sea in a silver platter to the powers of the world and given up their interests in the Sea.

Asean is no longer relevant or material to the South China Sea. It has been hijacked by the big powers from far away under the guise of freedom of navigation, and taken over control of the South China Sea. Asean states are now transparent to the issue. Everyone is here to grab a piece of the sea to divide among themselves leaving Asean in the cold.

Do the Asean states know what is happening to their South China Sea? Most appeared to be like innocent school boys attending the Dialogue without knowing that their lollipops had been snatched away right under their noses. Stupidity has no cure.