Abacus Bank - Racist indictment of a small bank during the subprime crisis

The causes of the subprime crisis in 2008/9 were very clear by now and how leniently the big US banks were treated by the US govt. No one goes to jail. No big banks were indicted. Yes, all the American banks were treated with special care like they were family despite the huge fraudulent packaging of foul property products and sold to the public.

There was one incident that very few people outside the USA heard off involving the abusive indictment of a small local bank in New York for subprime crimes. 182 charges were slammed at this small bank as if it was the main cause of the subprime crisis. Why? The bank was owned by a small group of American Chinese operating in the Chinatown district of New York.

Here are some of the comments in Wikipedia about this racist indictment of a small Chinese owned bank in the so called rule of law country, the protector of human rights, rights of an individual and democracy. The police charged into the bank and handcuffed all the employees and linked them onto a long chain before parading them out of the bank like the days of black slavery. White supremacist marshalls rounding up black slaves in chains.

In May 2012, New York prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney's office indicted the bank and 19 of its employees on charges of fraud in relation to hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of mortgages that had been sold to Fannie Mae between 2005 and 2010. The bank was accused of falsifying loan applications so that borrowers would qualify for mortgages. Abacus argued that it uncovered the improper behavior itself, reported it to the regulator, and fired the employee in question. It also said it was not involved with the fraudulent packaging of subprime mortgage securities and had a mortgage default rate of 0.5%, a tenth of the national average.

Verdict
 
The bank, along with its former Chief Credit Officer and its former loan supervisor, were acquitted of all charges brought by the New York prosecutors in a jury trial in New York Supreme Court on June 3 and 4, 2015. (After a long 5 year legal battle defended by the legally trained daughters of Sun Quchen, the founder of the bank).
 
The aggressive prosecution of Abacus, in contrast to the relatively lenient treatment received by large banks, was questioned and criticized by various media outlets. It was criticized by journalist Matt Taibbi in his 2014 book The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.

The story is told in Steve James's feature-length documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, which had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 11, 2016. It was broadcast nationally on PBS Frontline on September 12, 2017.  Abacus: Small Enough to Jail was nominated for the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

The above brief showed how racist and discriminatory was the American administration in Washington and how they victimized law abiding minority citizens in fake and fraudulent charges and abusing them with the rule of law and the justice system. This was the only small bank, or the only bank attacked by the American administration for subprime crime when the guilty parties, all white banks were spared from such abuses.

You can read more about the racist white regime in the USA and reflect on how they are dealing with Huawei and the illegal and outrageous arrest and treatment of Meng Wanzhou, even knowing that the whole deal was political but refusing to admit that it was political and refusing to release Meng claiming that they were following the rule of law.  It is white man’s rule of law applied to coloured people in the USA and the rest of the world. Such injustice must be put to an end and the hypocrisy of the white men must be shamed in public.

Mahathir, Trump for National Day medals

When the next National Day comes around, we should present Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and US President Donald Trump with medals for unintended lessons in national education. We should invite them here and hang the medals around their necks. I’ve already had the names of their medals worked out. For Mahathir, I’ll simply call it the WNLYWNE (With Neighbours Like You Who Needs Enemies) medal. For Trump, it’ll be the HTBYFBT (How To Betray Your Friends Big Time) medal, pure and simple. If you find the names jarring, I apologise. But clunky names usually come with clunky acts.

First the WNLYWNE medal.  Singaporeans, especially PM Lee, are grateful to Mahathir for rising from the dead (he said at 93, he ought to be dead) to lead Malaysia on another beggar-thy-neighbour incursion into Singapore waters. Move over Pedra Branca, here comes Johor Bahru port!  While Pedra Branca only had a few Malaysian vessels flitting in and out of its waters, the JB port actually had them parking brazenly in front of our summons aunties who couldn’t do a thing about it. But why the gratitude to Mahathir? For years, our PM Lee has been talking himself hoarse about external threats without eliciting a pulse from comatose Singaporeans. Then he got lucky. Enter Mahathir who did the job for him. Now Singaporeans know mushy stuff like external threats and national defence are not play, play. They are very real - as real as the mobilisation exercise that roused those RSAF servicemen from their Sunday siesta that Dec 10 afternoon. For helping PM Lee open Singaporeans’ eyes, Dr M richly deserves the WNLYWNE medal.  

Next the HTBYFBT medal, which Trump also richly deserves. Read the headline of yesterday’s Straits Times article (28 Dec) by Leslie Fong and you will understand why - “The perils of trusting America: A reminder for Asian allies”. It was an essay on the US’ well-documented abandonment of allies - from the Hungary in 1956 through Vietnam and Cambodia in 1975 to Syria last week. When Trump precipitately announced that he was bringing the boys home from Syria after the “defeat” of ISIS, he made PM Lee’s job of justifying  Singapore’s jaw-dropping defence budget that much easier. Nobody will fight your fight for you. You will have to do the job yourself. Just read Donald “America First” Trump’s tweeter on his Syrian pullout - “Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases, do not appreciate what we are doing? Do we want to be there forever?”.  For that - and for simplifying PM’s job - Trump deserves the HTBYFBT medal around his neck. Just don’t pull it tight. 

Leong Sze Hian vs Lee Hsien Loong - Hottest wayang in town

In law courses it is often quoted cases pitching the people versus the Crown. Here in little red dot, we are seeing the people versus the PM. And this is not new, happened since Lee Kuan Yew’s time, the incumbent PM suing an ordinary citizen for libel. What is new is for the people, an ordinary people, to sue the PM. Leong Sze Hian is countersuing Hsien Loong on this ground, ‘The predominant purpose of the claim is the use of the legal process to chill freedom of expression in Singapore generally and in particular to restrict reporting on any role the Govt may have had in the 1MDB scandal.’ Leong Sze Hian ‘is seeking compensation for damages to his reputation through the issuance, continuance and reporting on the legal proceedings, as well as costs…’ as reported in thenewpaper.
 
There is now a new buzz in the air. Everyone’s eyes are wide open, wanting to know what is going to happen with this new twist. Many are wondering if this countersuing would ever end up in court or would be thrown out by the court. And if it did end up in court, you can expect it would be full house on the day of hearing. Everyone interested in the political happenings of the island would want to see a repeat of Chee Soon Juan versus Lee Kuan Yew and this time seeing how Lim Tean questions Hsien Loong in court.
 
Hsien Loong would be in the hot seat. But he has nothing to fear. He would have the services of the best of the best in the legal system, top dog lawyers like Davinder Singh, Edwin Tong or even Shanmugam would be there to defend him. Lim Tean would have to face these legal giants, all ten foot tall, while he is a midget in a way.
 
What kind of questions would Lim Tean posed to Hsien Loong? Would he be able to put Hsien Loong in an awkward position? How would Hsien Loong answer questions impromptu, without being submitted two weeks in advance? Would Lim Tean be able to do a David and Goliath act in the Singapore court?
And the verdict, if this case did get into court, would be closely watched. Who is the lucky judge to be picked to preside over this case? Any volunteers?
 
Would this wayang be played out in court and be broadcast in details in the main media? Everyone is very eager to want to know. What can be more exciting with Hsien Yang throwing his money behind Leong Sze Hian and Lim Tean as reported in the mothership site?
 
The importance of this case can be judged by it being reported on page 16 of the newpaper and somewhere in the middle pages of the ST. Front page news of thenewpaper was about a 60 year old auntie wielding a knife and needed to be tasseled before being disarmed.

Meng Wanzhou’s arrest – China’s next move

The Americans are imposing a domestic law to arrest citizens of other countries for violating this law. Americans are putting a sanction on trade with Iran. Any country or people trading with Iran face arrest by the Americans in any part of the world. This is as good as an American domestic law becoming an international law and the whole world must abide by it or faces arrest by the American Empire.
 
China must learn this from the Americans. China must go ahead to enact a law to stop anyone or country selling weapons or goods to Taiwan and deemed as violating China’s national interest. Once this became a law, China can then go around the world to arrest Americans and American companies selling arms or unwanted goods to Taiwan.
 
China, just do it. Do as the Americans do. You cannot be on the receiving end of bad American politics and bullying. Use your law against the Americans like the Americans are doing to Chinese citizens.
There is no point complaining that the Americans and Canadians are violating international laws when your citizens are being arrested by the Americans or under threats of arrest by them under their laws. Use the same methodology to get even with the rogue regimes in the USA and Canada. Legislate more laws against American interference in China’s domestic affairs under the excuse of violating China’s interests and sovereignty, territorial rights and go ahead to arrest any Americans violating these laws in HongKong, Taiwan and China friendly countries.
 
To make things more antagonistic, act like the Americans, no need to prove a case, just allegations would be enough to arrest someone for violation. Yes, allegation is good enough. And China can put many Americans, Canadians, Brits, Australians and New Zealanders behind bars too if they dare to sell arms or undesirable goods to Taiwan or sail their warships into the South China Sea.
 
Important point to note, China cannot be civil when dealing with rogues, gangsters, kidnappers and state sponsored terrorists.

When papa is gone, boy PM screwed up big time

The country was in a roll. Economy was doing well, Chinese tourists poured in dollars to boost up the economy. Relationship with China was excellent. His papa did a good job and was treasured by China as a good old friend for defying American pressure to establish diplomatic relations with China. Trade with China was growing and more and more trade missions were making their ways to Beijing. People to people relations between the two countries were very good.

Then things took a nasty turn for the worse and everything collapsed right before his eyes. All the goodwill developed by his father went up in smokes. All because the Americans flattered him and requested his help to fix China. And he stupidly fell into the trap of the Americans, and went blindly to fix China pretending that it was all about the rule of law. Canada is a rule of law country. Everything operates under the rule of law, ie, China has no law, disregard of rule law, a lawless country.

While the boy PM was only in office for a few years, the honeymoon suddenly was over. His popularity with the people plunged. Now the citizens are cursing at him for his stupidity. American's fight with China has nothing to do with his country. Now, for arresting Huawei's CFO, Canada's relation with China is rock bottom. Three Canadians were arrested in China in retaliation to the arrest of Meng. The Canadians are in disgust, lamenting that if only he is half as good as his father, Canada would not be in this shit and gaining nothing perhaps maybe a pat on the shoulder by Trump or an invite for tea in the White House.

Actually cannot entirely blame this empty head boy PM for the mess. Of all the people he had to listen to the girly FM who is equally another nut case, not knowing what realpolitik is all about. America is the Number One super power, good to curry the favour of the Americans to fix China. And thinking that using the catchphrase 'rule of law' would save her skin and Canada. Canada is so innocent, Canada is just following the rule of law, a rule of law country. KNN dunno who taught them this stupid catchphrase.

Whither Canada, still stubbornly refusing to acknowledge their stupidity and release Meng immediately thinking that they could get away with it with the Americans behind their back. Wait for China to arrest Canadian number 4, and more Canadians not coming home for Christmas or the New Year because of the stupidity of the boy PM and empty head girly FM.

Thank you very much for your stupidity. The papa must be turning in his grave. The two children still would not want to admit that they have been made a fool of by Trump and would not want to walk away from the silly mistake that had nothing to do with Canada. It was a clear case of not wanting to mind their own business and now with feet stuck deeply in shit. This is a case of having nothing to do and put the fingers into a hornet's nest thinking it is so clever and so fun.

Trump said 'Fuck you' by Michael Moore

https://youtu.be/ezjMu1etJdQ

The above link posted by Matilah is a 4 minute video produced by Michael Moore on Donald Trump, the anti Establishment, the anti Christ of sort. He is godsend to destroy the Establishment and return it to the dispossessed people of the USA and the rest of the world.

The people have been robbed of everything, their jobs, their cars, their dignity and self respect, their savings etc etc except their right to vote. 

Nice Christmas present.

Terrorism and terrorists

In the media, terrorism and terrorists are often associated with religious extremists and fundamentalists, suicide squads and attacks on the streets. And there are countries that were branded as evil, the Axis of Evil. The repetition of such usage and the branding of certain countries in the western media have directly or indirectly implanted in the minds of innocent readers who are the terrorists and countries that subconsciously become the bad countries. And you can be sure that anyone that has been fed daily by the western media would spurt out names and groups and countries unconsciously as those related to terrorism and terrorist activities. Why, because the western media said so, and saying everyday, like telling a lie and turning it into an unthinking truth. No one reading the western media would ever think or association terrorism with the USA and western countries despite the hundreds of thousands of innocent people dying or killed or maimed by their wars and indiscriminate bombings in the name of fighting terrorism. They even roared into laughter at the mentioned of those killed by their bombings and called them innocently as war collateral.
 
Let’s look at this definition of terrorism in the Wikipedia.
 
‘There is no universal agreement on the definition of terrorism. Various legal systems and government agencies use different definitions. Moreover, governments have been reluctant to formulate an agreed upon and legally binding definition. These difficulties arise from the fact that the term is politically and emotionally charged. In the United States of America, for example, Terrorism is defined in Title 22 Chapter 38 U.S. Code 2656f as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents."
 
It is the use of violence or threat of violence in the pursuit of political, religious, ideological or social objectives.
 
It can be committed by governments, non-state actors, or undercover personnel serving on the behalf of their respective governments.
 
It reaches more than the immediate target victims and is also directed at targets consisting of a larger spectrum of society.
 
It is both mala prohibita (i.e., crime that is made illegal by legislation) and mala in se (i.e., crime that is inherently immoral or wrong).’

The number of terrorist activities, bombings, street attacks, if one bothers to count them, are really insignificant when compared to the daily bombings and wars conducted by the American forces in all guises. The number of people killed and wounded by terrorist acts was so small compared to the number of people killed and wounded by the countless wars being waged by the Americans and their cronies and the indiscriminate bombings conducting by them. A good example was the cruise missile attack on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Did anyone call it a terrorist act? Did the western media called it a terrorist attack or they simply brushed it off as a mistake in reading an old map and the unthinking simply accepted the explanation.
 
Why were the violent acts of Americans and their cronies, they called it war on terrorism, abstained them from being labeled as terrorists or acts of terrorism? Simple, they wrote the narratives, they controlled the western media written by western authors. They would not call themselves terrorists or rogues or gangsters. They would call themselves the soldiers of goodness and righteousness and their victims were bad guys and deserved to be terminated. With the western media deliberately refusing to tag them as terrorists, the readers were simply conditioned not to think they are the world's Number One Terrorists.
 
This is how powerful the media is, especially the western media and how they write words in the minds of their readers. Words like terrorism, terrorists and fundamentalists would never be attached to the savages of the West, the mercenaries that were armed with the most deadly weapons to kill people of the rest of the world. By not attributing such words on themselves, their readers would not relate terrorism and terrorists to the real terrorists that have been killing innocent people wantonly and indiscriminately.
 
Beware when you read the western media and their narratives. It is one sided, they are the good guys and the rest of the world are the bad guys. Good guys can kill bad guys. Good guys killing bad guys are called wars on terrorism, wars on terrorists and not the other way round.
 
Think and ask and question why your thinking is such and who is planting ideas into your head on what is right and wrong and who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. Many bananas are the victims of such manipulation of their subconscious mind without them knowing. Communism is bad, North Korea and Iran are bad, the Axis of Evil etc etc etc. China is stealing western technology. What is there to steal when China has more advanced technologies than the west? Why would China want to steal backward technologies? What is there to steal? But they keep harping on this narrative and innocent readers would just repeat this thought, that the West is the most advanced in technology and China is desperately trying to steal them.
 
Who is more advanced in space technology? Who is more advanced in rocketry? Who is more advanced in drone technology? Who is more advanced in quantum physics and AI? Who is more advanced in electric cars? Who is more advanced in high speed train? Who is more advanced in infrastructure development? Who is more advanced in supply chains? And yes, who is more advanced in 5G technology?
 
Who is stealing whose technology? Only the Chinese are hacking into western systems, the West, especially the Americans, are so innocent? Heard of wikileak and Snowden and what did they expose?

Heard of the phrase State Terrorism?

Mischievous article - It is China's fault again

Blood jades: The dark side of Myanmar's trade with China

By Pearl Forss 08 Sep 2018 09:24AM (Updated: 12 Sep 2018 06:40PM)

The jade trade between Myanmar and China is worth an estimated US$30 billion a year - about half of Myanmar’s GDP. But jade mining is a bloodstained business built on drug addiction, slave labour and massive environmental destruction. Who should be responsible for the dark side of jade?

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/blood-jades-the-dark-side-of-myanmar-s-trade-with-china-10694720

I watch this 6 minute clip presented by Channel News Asia. It talked about the primitive mining processes of jade in Myanmar and the low skilled labour that went scouring for jade in the country side and the mines. The poor workers took to drug addiction and many even died when mines collapsed or when there is a landslide.

Who is responsible for this? According to the author, China is responsible. Why, because China is the biggest buyer of jade. Oh, logical thinking. Is China involved in the mining? No. Who regulates the mining, the mines, the mine owners, the pay of the workers? China or the Myanmar govt or the mine owners? 

The role of the Chinese jade merchants is simply to go to the jade market in the streets and shops to buy jade. They have no role in the mining of jade. Everything is controlled by the Myanmar govt. Incidentally Chinese companies would not be given licence to operate jade mines in Myanmar. This is a national treasure that only Myanmese are allowed to engage in.

So, why is China responsible for the plight of the workers, their deplorable working condition, the exploitation of the workers, their drug addiction? Who employed these workers, paid them, who supplied drugs to these workers? China?

The CNA commentator interviewed a Myanmese in the clip and the Myanmese also conveniently claimed that China, the Chinese govt is responsible for the plight of the jade workers. Believe it? Third world mindset, blame others. I can't blame the author Pearl Forss because as a white man, all the problems in the world are created by China and other counties except by the whites. The whites are the angels and the saviours of human civilisation through conquest, invasion, colonialism and imperialism. China is the bad guy in everything.

Here in the jade industry, if the Chinese would not be the buyers and not spending billions annually in Myanmar, there would be no problem of jade workers suffering from exploitation and drug addition. They would live better lives and Myanmar would be richer. It is all China's fault. China should stop contributing half of the Myanmese GDP and Myanmar and the Myanmese would be richer and happier people.

My recommendation is for China to cease buying jade from Myanmar and all the problems would go away. Maybe if the white men were to start buying jade from Myanmar instead of China, the fate of the jade workers would be better. They would intervene and tell the Myanmese govt how to run the jade mines and imposed safety regulations, minimum wage and hygiene and good living conditions for the workers.

This kind of  one sided mischievous articles blaming China for everything in the world, even the exploitation of jade workers, when China has no right to interfere, is the modus operandi of subversive western media. They simply accused and alleged that China is responsible for the plight of Myanmese jade workers even when China has nothing to do with them except spending billions as buyers of jade. Unwary and unthinking viewers would simply be taken in by this one sided presentation of the author.

The same logic can be apply generally to Singapore as we buy everything from the rest of the world. So if the farmers or fishermen were ill treated, took to drugs, underpaid in their countries, the Singapore govt is responsible. Is this logical thinking or subversive reasoning? 

Next time if you patronise a hawker centre, make sure the old uncles and aunties cleaning the tables are not badly treated, paid well, and not indulging in drugs. Because as a customer, you are responsible for their welfare and good health, not the employer or the govt.

The whites would continue to create such rubbish and stir up shit to smear China and the Chinese people given the opportunity, and the little USAs would be ready and most willing to give a helping hand. This is the same western smear like China giving cheap loans, helping to build infrastructures but if the recipient country miscalculated, mismanaged then it is China's fault.

PS. How would such articles be classified, fake news, disinformation, mischievous article or responsible/irresponsible or objective news? 

SMRT hit by bad luck again

The problems of SMRT did not seem to want to go away. We thought with the new and very good CEO in place, all the past problems of SMRT would be history. The new CEO has also been credited and praised for the improving quality of the train service.

Just last week, two accidents hit the SMRT again. One is an act of God, strong winds and trees fell on all places but a group of SMRT having a party in a park. Why would God want to do this, like He is picking on SMRT workers? The tree could fall anywhere, but must fall on the SMRT workers, not other people in the park. If this is not bad luck, what is? Oh, such accidents cannot be attributed to poor management and work process surely.

Then another worker had his leg amputated on the track by a maintenance vehicle. How could this happen when they were working and knowing the danger of moving vehicle on the track after the last accident that took at least one life? Never learn from bad experience and incidents? Cannot be, after the last tragedy, everyone must be very alert and extremely careful about workers on track. Many procedures must have been put in place to prevent a recurring of such tragedy.

Yet it happened again almost in the same manner, workers on track and hit by moving vehicle on track. No one at the site saw it coming and unable to stop it? There is no need to set up a BOI or make statements like we would make sure it would not happen again.

The only reason I can think of is bad luck. And if it is bad luck  it would not go away but would happen again and again. I would recommend more prayers and exorcism to cleanse the tracks to prevent more bad luck happening to SMRT workers. But I dunno what to do about trees falling on SMRT workers. Maybe prayers would also be needed to bless all SMRT workers, starting from the top. How about rearranging the office layout of the CEO? Call a geomancer. It just might work.

Iran sanction – The Evil Empire continues to bully the rest of the world

No one can trade with Iran by order of the Emperor of the American Empire. The reason, Iran is not keeping to its promise not to build nuclear bombs. Is Iran doing so? The European powers to the denuclearization of Iran said no, but the Evil Empire said yes, just like the WMD lie against Saddam Hussein. When the Evil Empire said so, no one can dispute this lie. The European powers tried but were ignored. They are also expected to comply with the sanction or face punitive measures from the Evil Empire.

Only 8 countries, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Greece, Taiwan and Turkey are given temporary exemption from this sanction, ie 180 days. And the Evil Empire ration them to buy only a fixed amount from Iran, eg China is allowed to buy 360,000 bpd while South Korea is allowed a quota of 130,000 bpd. They all have to comply with the edict of the Evil Empire or else.

The crime of Iran, and also of North Korea, is that they want to build some nuclear weapons as a deterrent against a nuclear attack on their countries by the Evil Empire. They did not build these weapons to attack anyone but for defence. The Evil Empire is the only country that has been threatening to attack other countries with nuclear weapon. It refused to commit itself not to use nuclear weapons.

Why is such an Evil Empire allowed to build so many nuclear weapons and threatening to use them against countries it demonized and the world, the UN, accepts this position? And while pointing an accusing finger at Iran, the Evil Empire is not stopping its nuclear programme. It has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and has announced that it is going to develop more and even more destructive nuclear weapons. And the whole world just lower their heads and keep quiet, unable to say no, unable to protest, while the Evil Empire continues to build more nuclear weapons to threaten and use against countries it calls enemies.

How unjust can the world be? How useless is the UN to allow the Evil Empire to dictate and bully the whole world with military and nuclear weapons? The Americans are saying that they can do anything they like, have as many nuclear weapons as they like and others cannot have any. And they can use nuclear weapons on any country with impunity.

And how many silly leaders are still saying that the Evil Empire is the most peaceful and benign hegemon and want to invite the Evil Empire to be the policeman of the world? How many silly leaders are going to remove their blinkers and call a spade a spade, an Evil Empire a Evil Empire? When would the rest of the world stand up to the bullying of the Evil Empire?

Boy PM and girl FM lost in the world of adult politicians

Little boy Justine and little girl Freeland are now lost for words as what to do next with the arrest of a third Canadian by China. The only thing they could do is to regurgitate the phrase ‘rule of law’ to hide their lawless arrest of an innocent Chinese citizen. But this would not work anymore and after repeating it over and over again it becomes so lame, sounding to hollow and hypocritical.
 
Oh yes, they can still go crying to bid daddy the USA. Try to threaten China with the military might of the Americans. The Chinese would tremble when threaten by the American aircraft carriers. No? It won’t do either. China today would take on the Americans if needed to. The temperature and tension are rising and China is not going to back down and be bullied by this little USA. China is going to teach the little boys and girls a lesson in politeness and not to be rude to people carrying a bigger stick.
 
I think there is one possible way to get out of this tricky situation and come up on top for Canada. Try to get help from Singapore. Singapore had a great experience handling a similar situation like the Canadians when its armoured vehicles were detained in Hong Kong. How did Singapore do it and successfully got its armoured vehicles back? The details are classified of course. The only thing that could be gathered was from the information available in the media.
 
One thing, the Canadian ministers must talk tough. Apply the rule of law on China and demand the return of the Canadians arrested or else face consequences, like real. Next Canada can hire our retired diplomats who are very experience in handling China to assist them. Yes, Canada can learn from these diplomats to punch above its weight and give China a few black eyes with their loud mouth undiplomatic diplomacy. China would definitely cower where hearing the loud voices and rhetoric against them.
 
To add more pressure, hire some of the anti China journalists or expurts to write articles to smear China, calling China a bully, not following the rule of law. Keep publishing such articles in the main media to embarrass China. And there are many hostile Americans, Jewish and Indian writers that can reinforce the message, to attack China repeatedly.
 
When all these forces are working in unison, China would capitulate and release all the Canadians arrested. And Canada can continue to play with its ‘rule of law’ to detain Meng and even extradite her to the USA for 30 years of imprisonment. And China would not be able to do a thing. QED.
 
Retired diplomats can still be very useful in handling international disputes and can be paid handsomely for their experience and expertise in managing China. In this world today, only Singapore has diplomats of such standing, reputation and stature that would make China tremble when they opened their mouths. Just their looks would send shivers down the spines of Chinese leaders.

Huawei – The Americans spreading fake news and white lie

Was Saddam Hussein’s WMD fake news or American white lie? Some western idiots and bananas would still say not sure, still in a state of denial that their godly white Americans cannot lie and would not lie, that Saddam still could have hidden his WMD somewhere but not found.
 
The latest fake news and white lie is that Huawei’s 5G technology is a national security risk to America and the 5 eyes countries. Raising national security and security threat is the American’s escapee, an excuse it is using everywhere and every time when they deem fit, when all other reasons failed to make sense. China’s buiding islands in the South China Sea is a threat to American interests and security, Huawei’s supremacy in 5G technology is a threat to American national security etc etc. Everything is a threat to American interest and security, read American dominance as the Number One super power.
 
The sicko John Bolton started another white lie. China’s investments and aids in Africa is another form of colonialism. This white colonialist is accusing China of colonizing Africa? Who colonized Africa and robbed the Africans of their wealth? Who hunted down Africans and turned them into slaves to work in the cotton fields? Who practiced apartheid in Africa? Oh Africa has its own ‘bananas’ that believed the whites are the gods sent to help them even after centuries of deprivation and inflicting poverty and war in all the African countries.
 
By making such allegations, particularly in the case of Huawei, when no American company could come near to Huawei in 5G technology, the Americans hope to shut Huawei out of the American market. They also put pressure on their allies to ban Huawei from their respective markets. Some like Australia and Japan would be most willing to do so for their own reasons. Britain is hesitating as they know that without 5G they would lack behind when competing with China and other European countries. The British are too smart to miss this boat just like when they jumped into the AIIB as founding member.
 
Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and several other European countries would go ahead to welcome Huawei into their market. What the Americans have done by spreading this white lie and restraining their allies to use Huawei is to keep them in the dark ages of communication technology. They would be left behind because of the American pressure. Would the Brits want to be left behind while France and Germany ran ahead with 5G? This is exactly how and why the ‘has been’ American Empire would degenerate further and lack behind other nations by their backward and selfish policy to shun the latest 5G technology.
 
I bet the British would turn against the Americans again in this as they fear being left behind in this technology race to the future. The British has been declining since they lost the empire and cannot afford to fall further behind to other European countries like Germany and France for not embracing Huawei’s 5G technologies. It is suicidal for the British and those that abided by the American pressure and lie not to use 5G. This is how the Empire will fall and fade into oblivion for not wanting to face the new reality repeating what happened to the Qing Empire in its dying days.
 
Huawei has the technology that is most relevant and wanted by all the countries wanting to move forward, not backward to Stone Age. It is not only a super technology, it is a technology that would change the world. The Americans are gripped with fear of Huawei’s 5G. A good product is a good product by any names. The American allegation is just a red herring to stop Huawei but did not come up with any evidence to support their allegation except casting doubts. Huawei is not guilty unless proven and does not need to prove it is innocent. But the white men are now expecting Huawei to prove its innocence just because of the American allegation and lie.
 
PS. When a country uses Huawei’s 5G and equipment, the equipment would be installed in the respective country and would have its native people managing the system. In other words they are in control of the system and equipment and could manage and prevent any mischief using the equipment, protecting their national security. So what is this American white lie about Huawei’s security threat? Huawei’s staff would not be in control or in charge of the equipment and system. Once they have accepted the system, they could ban Huawei’s staff from the system.
 
The main objective of the American white lie is to kill Huawei and its 5G technology. Period. And it is the Americans that are violating a UN Resolution on trading with Iran, not Huawei, China. The US is the only country imposing this sanction against Iran when Europe and the rest of the world are abiding by the UN Resolution and permitted to trade with Iran. This American sanction is not UN approved but a unilateral American sanction. Why no Europeans were arrested for trading with Iran?

PS. China arrested a third Canadian.

The Kidnapping of Huawei's CFO, Meng Wanzhou May Lead to War of Unknown consequences

            Is the US trying to exercise extra-territoriality over the kidnapping of  Huawei's CFO, Meng Wanzhou. If so it is just foolish and wishful thinking. The kidnapping of Meng Wanzhou is an act of banditry which must be strongly denounced and condemned by the whole civilize world.

The kidnapping of Meng Wanzhou is a criminal banditry act which will have far reaching and far ranging worldwide disastrous consequences and implications not only for China and the Chinese people but also for all countries which value freedom, independence and full sovereignty of their countries.

Meng Wanzhou should be freed without conditions. failing which China is obliged to complement the precedent set by USA and all Americans and its western allies will face similar predicaments not only from China but also from other countries which have been bullied by US and have been the target  of US illogical illateral sanctions.

USA, a rogue and thuggery country must seriously take note, China and the Chinese people will not be humiliated again to be subjected to US practise of extraterritorial legality.

From the Opium Wars of 1830s to 1940s , a dark age in Chinese history. China was attacked, invaded and occupied by many European countries viz England, France, Russia, Germany, America and Japan. Each of the invading country subjected China to great shameful intolerable humiliations. They each and every one imposed on China a punishing war indemnity where China was forced to pay to each of the occupying powers hundreds of millions of silver dollars . ( In today's value it is worth a few thousand billions of dollars ). This served to impoverish China and the Chinese people for over a hundred years until 1049 when the Peoples Republic of China stopped the payment.

The British, France, Russia, Germany, America, Italy, Holland and Japan occupied large areas of Chinese lands in the coastal ports of Shanghai, Ning Po, Dairen ( Port Arthur ), Canton , Amoy and others. In these ports and other occupied areas they exercised extra territorial rights . They collected all the revenues, taxes, duties, port dues and deprived the Chinese government of any revenues at all.This further impoverish China in conjunction to the war indemnities.

In the occupied areas the Westerners were not subjected to Chinese laws. Also Chinese people in occupied areas were subjected to foreign laws and not Chinese laws. Thus when westerners or Chinese commit crimes they could just escape to foreign occupied areas and escaped punishment from Chinese jurisdiction.

The most humiliating part was when they carved up China and divided China among themselves as their sphere of influence and insultingly called it "the cutting of the Chinese water melon." They detached large swathes of Chinese lands and incorporated or annexed them to British India ( now the cause of border trouble between China and India )and Burma, to France Indo-China and to Russia's Far East ( mostly taken from China ), and to Japan which occupied Liu Chiu Dow ( which the Japs renamed Okinawa ) and Taiwan.

Now, in the case of Huawei and Meng Wanzhou US thinks it can exercise extraterritoriality over a Chinese citizen and thereby over China. US must stop thinking foolishly that China will allows its citizen who has not committed any crime or breach any US laws to be kidnapped to be tried in USA. It is wishful thinking if it thinks it can fix Huawei or Meng Wanzhou and thereby exercise extraterritoriality against China.

USA has run foul of the rules of international laws. It has defied  United Nations ruling under United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 which calls on all countries to drop sanctions on Iran as part of the 2015 Nuclear Agreements. Yet the recalcitrant USA is alone in defiance of the resolution and rejects the Security Council's role in such matters.

The kidnapping of Meng Wanzhou is illegal, unlawful and extremely provocative. Here I quote Professor D. Sachs of Columbia University

"When global trade rules obstruct USA gangster tactics, then the rules have to go according to Trump."

"The unprecedented arrest of Meng is even more provocative because it is based on US extraterritorial sanctions, that is the claim by US that it can order other countries to stop trading with third parties such as Cuba or Iran. US would certainly not tolerate China or any other country telling US companies with whom they can or cannot trade."

"US has no right to unilaterally sanction Huawei base only on US rules. It should be based on agreements according to United Nations Security Council if there is a case."

"The Trump administration, not Huawei or China is today's greatest threat to international rule of law and therfore to global peace."

The implications of Huawei-Meng Wanzhou's case is that if US is allowed to kidnap a Chinese citizen and hold a China's top company to ransom and get away with it , that would mean US rules and laws can be applied on any Chinese or any Chinese firms be it whether they are domiciled in China or outside China. That would be acceding to US extraterritoriality . It would mean US rules and laws supercede Chinese rules and laws even in China. Ultimately that means China will lose its independence as a sovereign nation and come under US rule and dominance.

In this 21st century if US still thinks it can exercise extraterritoriality on China or any other country it is foolish and wishful thinking for it would be tantamount to declaration of war.

China should not take chances but must be fully prepared for all out war against a desperate rogue evil empire

Let other countries big or small be aware if the rogue evil empire dares to commit travesty with a powerful China now, what chances have they if one day US turns against them and exercise extraterritoriality against them base on flimsy fabricated reasons as in the case of Huawei-Meng Wanzhou as well as bullies under illateral US sanctions on many other countries like, Iran, Cuba, Venezuella, Turkey, Cambodia and many more others.

It is time for all other countries on earth to wake up to the evil intent of the rogue US which intends to bring the whole world of all countries under its abominable dominance and total hegemony. People of the world and of all countries must unite to defend and uphold their independence and sovereignty and destroy the Evil Empire before it can destroy the beautiful world on earth.

Southernglory1

Wednesday, 19th December, 2018

Why sugar tax? What's next, salt tax?

Does sugar cause diabetes?

There are two main types of diabetes – Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
In Type 1 diabetes, the insulin producing cells in your pancreas are destroyed by your immune system. No amount of sugar in your diet – or anything in your lifestyle – has caused or can cause you to get Type 1 diabetes.
With Type 2 diabetes, though we know sugar doesn’t directly cause Type 2 diabetes, you are more likely to get it if you are overweight. You gain weight when you take in more calories than your body needs, and sugary foods and drinks contain a lot of calories.
And it's important to add that fatty foods and drinks are playing a part in our nation's expanding waistline.
So you can see if too much sugar is making you put on weight, then you are increasing your risk of getting Type 2 diabetes. But Type 2 diabetes is complex, and sugar is unlikely to be the only reason the condition develops.   Diabetes UK.

The above statements by Diabetes UK said it clearly. For Type 1 diabetes, sugar is not a cause of diabetes. Period. In the case of Type 2, sugar is only one of the indirect cause of diabetes. Fatty food, carbohydrates all add to the sugar level in the blood. Fat people are more likely or have a higher chance of getting diabetes. So don't blame sugar as the main culprit. Incidentally Type 1 is the more serious of the two types of diabetes as in this case the pancreas is not producing enough insulin.

The idea of a sugar tax was politely shot down by an Australian professor from Monash, saying that it was ineffective and at best with a small impact. There are many other factors that would lead to diabetes eg lack of exercise, genetics and stress. So if sugar should be taxed because it is one of the indirect causes of diabetes, what's next? Tax on carbohydrates, tax on people not exercising, tax on fatty food?

Why is sugar been identified as a factor to be taxed, and why is tax a solution? Funny reasons and funny solution? Is it all about money, about squeezing more money from the people? Is this another desperate move to raise tax because the govt needs money? And the govt needs your view on whether to tax you or not to tax you and the people are to commit themselves to being taxed?

What about people that need to take sugar, especially children that have an active life and need more sugar while they are growing and playing? Normal and healthy children would easily take care of their sugar intake without fearing diabetes. Personally I need a bit more sugar than usual to keep me buzzing. A lack of sugar will make me drowsy and slow. Sugar is important for people leading an active lifestyle. Sugar is energy. Why should people be penalised and taxed just for living actively? I also have to add salt to my drinks after active physical training. I get cramps when my salt level is low. Would salt be the next thing to be slated for higher taxes? High water tax not enough, sugar, salt also want to tax when these are the basic life necessities, basic building blocks for a healthy lifestyle?

No one is encouraging people to take excessive sugar. A simple solution would be to regulate the sugar content in drinks. Even this does not ensure people consume less sugar as one can drink more packs or bottles instead. But the effect will be there to the casual drinkers. A sugar tax does not directly lead to lower consumption of sugar nor lowering of diabetic cases but lead to more money to the govt coffer.

How many silly buggers would want to tell the govt, please tax me more for consuming more sugar to stop them from taking more sugar? 

Once tax is levied on sugar, many many food items would end up being taxed as sugar is a component of the food and leading to higher cost of living.

Canadian govt - A bunch of innocent boys and girls in govt

Reading the western media, especially from their political commentators and even govt officials, one cannot get away from the notion that the Canadians are so angelic, so innocent, just like little boys and girls, in the arrest and harsh treatment of an innocent Chinese lady while transiting Vancouver airport. She was arrested not because she committed a crime. The Canadians knew that she was innocent. But they have to arrest her and subjected her to treatments befitting a hard core criminal, under the pretext of rule of law. The Canadians lived by the rule of law. And they are having a great time enjoying the arrest of Meng.

So, under what rule of law did they arrest Meng Wanzhou? Oh, they have an extradition treaty with the Americans. So when the Americans told them to arrest Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese national who did not commit any crimes, they did so, because that was the rule of law, arresting an innocent citizen of another country also can. There is no other condition attached to such extradition treaty? Of course there are. The person being arrested must have committed a crime, and the request must not be politically motivated or for any other reasons than committing a crime.

Did the boys and girls in the Canada govt know that the arrest of Meng Wanzhou was politically motivated, a kidnapping of another country's citizen to be used as a bargaining chip, to shut Huawei out of the western market? No they did not know. Really, the children did not know. And that is true. How could a little girl made Foreign Minister, and a little boy PM know the difference between a crime and rule of law and a political and commercial plot schemed by the thugs in Washington? They could not have known. They only know how to play with their toys, and if the thugs in Washington told them to arrest an innocent citizen from another country, little innocent and ignorant boys and girls have to believe the Americans were doing it because of a crime committed, and because of the rule of law.

So everyday they uttered about the rule of law and nothing else, like all innocent boys and girls trained to do, it is the rule of law, it is the rule of law, Canada is a rule of law country. China has no rule of law, so China arrested the two intelligence operators is lawless, did not obey any rule of law. The two Canadians arrested in China are also innocent boys that did nothing wrong and China is behaving like thugs to arrest them without observing the rule of law. They could not see anything wrong with what the two Canadians were doing in China, sooooo innocent.

What if there were evidence that the Americans were lying to them, that the arrest of Meng was a politically motivated ploy, that she was a bargaining chip in the China trade war and trade negotiation? No, cannot be, the arrest was a rule of law thing. What about the American President saying that he would intervene to set her free if this could end up making a trade deal with China in the interest of the Americans? Is this not clear enough that there is nothing about a crime or about the rule of law? Now that Trump had said it in front of the media and shown to the whole world, what did the little girl do? She pleaded with Trump not to politicise it. She used the word 'politicise' because she knew. But if Trump would to listen to her and keep quiet henceforth, she and other little boys and girls could continue with their lie that it is not politics but the rule of law. And these children can live happily with that like nothing happened at all.

What the American President said was just what he said, nothing to affect 'the rule of law' arrest of Meng. The little boys and girls in Canada only want to believe that they were playing a game of rule of law and anything else they would not hear, could not understand. This is what you will get when a govt is run by a bunch of innocent and ignorant little brats. They believed that they were doing all the right things and China was doing all the wrong things.

They are so innocent, so cute and so naive, they could not have done anything wrong about wrongful arrest of an innocent citizen of another country or ill treating her and violating her human rights. When would these vicious little brats wake up from the world of childish make beliefs? It is the American's fault, not the Canadians. They just arrest Meng because the Americans asked them, nothing to do with them. Oh, so cute!

John Bolton the repulsive warhawk & Anti-China rogue

         
                    John Bolton the repulsive warhawk and disgusting Anti-China rogue.

            It is important to take note of what others always say of USA. America always takes advantage of others by guiles and deception. Lying is an American culture. US can tell lies straight to your face without blinking an eye. They masquerade lies as truth and as part of its insidious propaganda they can repeat all lies repeatedly millions of times so that people unconsciously begin to take it as truth. Trump like all past American presidents and politicians are consummate dishonourable liars. So is John Bolton, Peter Narvarro, lighthiger, Pompeo, Schiff, Schumer and many more others who are also China haters. Also the world is constantly reminded by native Americans that "White men speak with fork tongues and can never be trusted."

John Bolton , just by his look you know he cannot be trusted. He has an inhuman look like that of a cross breed between the hyenas and the leopards. Indeed he looks damn bloody horrible and repulsive like that of a poisonous snake, a cobra which needs to be killed and destroyed for the safety and security of all non-white countries. He is an inherent warhawk and like those warhawks, rogues and savages in the American administration, in CIA and the Pentagon he is aversed to peace on earth other than in USA itself. He and his likes of savage white Americans and its western allies or poodles advocate permanent wars. With permanent wars they aim to make humongous profits by the hundreds or thousands of billions of dollars in sales of weapons to all warring parties in wars fomented, incited and instigated by the Americans.

The sinful money from wars and the pains, sufferings and disasters of of others will forever keep the Pentagon's Military Industrial Complex humming non-stop with activities. The Pentagon's Military Industrial Complex war industries contribute 70% or more of USA's annual GDP. So wars are important and a way of life to the Americans for it is an important factor to their economic survival.

China spends all its energy and money on trade, commerce and civilian industries for the well being and better livelihood of mankind in a win-win situation for every country in this world. China is opposed to American policy of beggar your neighbour. China is sincere in wanting to share its wealth and prosperity with all countries especially third world countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America. Therefore to this end it has for decades been helping third world countries in building schools, hospitals, infrastructures like roads, railways and ports as well as industries to uplift them from poverty. But America has since after the Second World War been selfishly interested in exploiting poor countries rich resources to enrich itself especially its bankers, business tycoons and commercial conglomerates or in short the 0ne percent of its elites . So in view of this and all the harms USA is doing to this world the third world poor countries it is of the utmost significance that every government in third world countries must constantly alert their people to the danger of the untrustworthy white Americans whom the native Americans have been warning us for hundreds of years that white men speak with fork tongues and can never be trusted.

Third world countries must beware when USA economic hitman or officials appear at your doorstep with promises to help treat them like poison or leper and keep them away at a safe distance. More often than not their promise of help turn out to be obtrusive as when they through agency of help in their total control IMF and World Bank tend to exploit and impoverish the victimise countries while at the same time enrich America tremendously.

Remember when things are good for your country you never hope to see the Americans or white men. But when the white Americans do appear at your doorstep you can be sure they have evil intentions.

Southernglory1

Monday, 17th December, 2018.

Waiting for ‘angmoh cun’ or white man’s ship

The wheel of fortune is turning and would continue to turn and fortune changes. In the 60s, the tourists coming here are the Americans and some Europeans. They were the rich and free spending tourists. The local shop keepers loved them. Every time an ‘angmoh cun’ is in town it will be boomtown Charlie. Business flourished, the service industries, food, hotels, shopping centres boomed. This state of affair went on till the end of the Vietnam War when the American GIs stopped coming. The waiting for ‘angmoh cun’ became a waiting game with no more Americans coming ashore.
 
The next group of free spending tourists was the Japanese. They came in the 70s and 80s. And they were the darlings of the tourist industry and the retail and service trade. All those involved in the tourist industry were eagerly waiting for the Japanese to arrive and to throw their money around. This came to an end too when Japan went into a recession, or its economy went to a stand still, with little growth. The free spending Japanese don’t come anymore. They had their moment of attention like the Americans.
 
Today the tourists that everyone is waiting for is Chinese tourists. They are the big spenders, much bigger spenders than the American and Japanese tourists and in bigger number. They did not just come to Singapore, to travel all over the world. And Singaporean shop keepers are not the only one waiting for them, the whole of Europe and America, Japan, Korea and SE Asian countries are waiting for the Communist Chinese to come. Some laid down red carpets to welcome them. Some European countries went to the extent of hiring Chinese policemen to protect them from local thugs.
 
The whole has indeed changed. The poor communists from China are now the rich communists that are throwing money all over the world. When they stopped coming, the local tourist industry wind down, the shop owners started crying. Where are the rich communists? We love them, we want them and we welcome them.
 
For centuries, the Chinese, especially the overseas Chinese, are ashamed to be called Chinese or identify themselves with anything Chinese. Even the Chinese also have very little pride and confidence in themselves. Today, the Chinese in China are very proud of being Chinese. The Chinese in Taiwan, once despised the mainland Chinese and wanted to call themselves Taiwanese, or even Japanese, are starting to think Chinese and feeling more comfortable calling themselves Chinese.
 
Chinese or being Chinese is no longer a dirty word. Chinese is now about being the richest nation, the most powerful nation in time to come, being rich and technologically superior, as good if not better than the West. The West is afraid. Never have they been challenged by another nation or civilization that can compete with them head to head in science and technology. The Chinese are telling the West your days of glory and supremacy are numbered.
 
China and the Chinese will upstage the Americans and the West in everything. Made in China 2025 is about China over taking the West not just in being the number one economy or number super power, but in science and technology. The Americans are trying to put a stop to this by starting this trade war, to prevent or slow down China’s rise as the most industrial and scientifically advanced nation on earth.
 
The wheel of fortune is turning and China is unstoppable. Singapore would be hung high and dry if the Chinese ships refuse to call at Tuas. Tuas would be a ghost harbour, a white elephant. Yes white elephant, if Singapore continues on its careless way to be on the wrong side of the Chinese equation.
 
Who cares about ‘angmoh cun’ any more? Everyone all over the world is waiting for the rich communists to throw money at them, in Europe and in the Americas as well.

Doubts raised on auditing firms worldwide

Singapore regulators investigating Noble’s auditor Ernst and Young. This is not unusual as the big four auditors, Deloitte, KPMG, PWC, and EY were also under probe in the UK according to a Bloomberg report. Below are a few paras of a report by Bloomberg on MAS’ investigating EY after the fall from grace of Noble, once a hot favourite of punters in the Singapore Exchange. Its share price had fallen to a few miserable cents and the stock has been suspended from trading pending a refinancing and restructuring exercise to save the company.

‘Noble’s accounting has been in focus since early 2015, when
a previously unknown group called Iceberg Research started
criticizing the company, saying it had inflated the value of
long-term commodity contracts and carried billions of dollars in
profits on its books that would eventually have to be written
down.


Since then, the once $12 billion company has lost billions
in value, reduced to a rump by untenable debt and writedowns --
including on many of the contracts that Iceberg had been
criticizing.

"You see repeated clean audits, and then suddenly you have
these big writedowns," Lee Boon Ngiap, assistant managing
director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, told Bloomberg.
"That’s something regulators will pay attention to – and move to
ask questions, press more."’ Bloomberg

The blind faith in western auditing firms is another angmoh tua kee thing. Anything western must be good, no need to question, sure to be done professionally and honestly. One of these firms was the auditor of the AHTC accounts and the cross examinations in court revealed many loopholes and personal opinions that were anything but factual from rubbish heads.

Not only auditing firms, the western banks were reputed to be highly professionally run, with impeccable records, transparent and unquestionable trust in what they said until the banking crisis when all the top western banks, reporting billions and billions of profits, suddenly declared insolvent. How could this happen, cooking the books all the years, hazy accounting and management practices, the biggest money launderers, but not discovered by the reputable auditors?

When reading the glorious reports of billions of dollars of profits by the local banks, the scenario of the collapse of western banks keeps appearing in my mind. So similar, would they be adopting the same hide and seek accounting? Are they using the same auditing firms? Hopefully not as Singapore is reputed to have the strictest banking regulations under the watchful eyes of our incorruptible and most conscientious regulators.

The western media too were taken as the publishers of truth, unquestionable truth, and accepted as the authority of all news and information in their prints. Today every one of these western media are churning out fake news and disinformation. Unfortunately silly bananas would still regard them as the messengers to truth, nothing but the truth despite Trump, the US President, discrediting every one of them as untrustworthy. Would the lies and rubbish churned out by the western media be accepted as the truth and would not be questioned by our ministry in charge of fake news and disinformation?

Is there anything left in the West that is honourable, worthy of being trustworthy and reliable and not cheats, conmen, tricksters and liars?

Canada’s faux pas – A lesson for American cronies and little USAs

Canada was an innocent party in the trade war between China and the USA. So the daft Canadians claimed. For whatever reasons, Canada deemed it fit to arrest a Chinese national on transit in a Canadian airport under the instruction of the Americans for violating American sanction against trading with Iran. Now Canada has offended China by this arbitrary arrest of a foreign national that did not commit any crime in Canada nor in the USA. To make matter worse, in its zeal to please the Americans, the Canadian police and legal institution put Meng Wanzhou, a top female executive of Huawei under handcuffs and leg cuffs as if she was a hard core criminal that could break free and harm other people around her. And the silly judge imposed ridiculous conditions to let her out on bail but not before trying to keep her in prison for as long as they could.
 
The mischievous antics of the Canadian police and judicial system have forced China to take retaliatory measures against the Canadians, cancelling a trade delegation from Canada and arresting of an ex Canadian diplomat and a businessman for activities against the national interest of China, ie American intelligence operators. More arrests of Canadians are rumoured to be on the card. The Canadian govt now found it necessary to send out a warning to Canadians not to visit China for fear of being arrested.  This is so stupid and so unnecessary.
 
China Canadian relations are now at rock bottom. What has Canada hoped to gain from this faux pas? More praises from the Americans for being a good puppy? What were the consequences for Canada? Would Canada gain a bad reputation for the irresponsible and reckless arrest of a citizen of another country, China, and the silly police and court antics? Canada is now seen as a rogue country, a country of kidnappers, an American crony.
 
China has no choice but to retaliate and to hit hard at Canada. For not doing so it would compromise China’s interest and Chinese nationals would fear stepping out of China. Not doing so would mean other American cronies and little USAs would be emboldened and encouraged to do the American bidding to arrest Chinese nationals at the behest of their American masters. Not doing so would discredit China as a respectable world leader and as a dependable partner to fall back on when pressured or attacked by the Americans and its allies and cronies.
 
What are the lessons for American cronies and little USAs? Would they want to be like the little good puppy, Canada, and do the bidding of the Americans to do the dirty work for the Americans and suffered the consequences? The Americans would not hesitate to make their cronies and little USAs to be the commandos, to charge first and to die first for the American Empire. Canada just had a bad taste of this American treachery.
 
Would the American cronies and little USAs want to antagonize China, likely their number one trade partner and lose the goodwill with China and become an enemy of China when they don’t have do? What have they got to gain and what to lose if they are to do and act like the Canadians?
 
I think the best option is to shut up and pretend not to see, not to hear and not to say anything. Why get in between two elephants fighting and get trampled into flatten mud shit?

Hishamuddin called for action against Singapore

The territorial dispute between Singapore and Malaysia is likely to take a notch higher with Hishamuddin of UMNO calling on the Malaysian govt to stop talking to Singapore and take action, just do it. What did he meant by just do it?
 
When he was the Defence Minister, he wanted to send Malaysian warships to fight with China over the South China Sea island claims. He was infamous for drawing the kris and threatening a May 13 on racial issues. He is growing impatient with the talks between Singapore and Malaysia govts and provoking the Malaysian govt to take action against Singapore, to defend Malaysian territorial rights. He is likely to draw his kris again on this territorial dispute.
 
This very friendly and nice man was the Defence Minister of Najib when relations between Singapore and Malaysia were extremely good. I think he was also a party to the Durian Party in Singapore. Now that he is out of power, thank God, he is pushing the Mahathir govt to be tough with Singapore. This is how precarious relations with Malaysia can become, one day hot one day cold, depending on the weather and who is in power.
 
With tension rising, the Singapore side would have to be wary of the worse, a scenario that is unthinkable yesterday but increasingly turning into a reality. Wait for the signals calling for jihad or running amok and hell will break loose. Luckily the Mahathir govt, though can be very kuai lan, still have some good sense not to allow this dispute to turn bad. Both sides are winding down temperature and going to the negotiating table.
However it pays to be prudent and be ready for all circumstances. Singapore cannot let its guards down when very nice and friendly people can turn amok the next moment.
 
Singaporeans are best advised to avoid Malaysia during this time of unpredictability. When is the Foreign Ministry going to issue a statement to caution Singaporeans going north during this festive season?