Pax Indo-Pacifica and the Quad - Implications for Asean

 

Jag Singh 2 weeks ago

Regarding Ladakh conflict, PM Modi already admitted at his congress speech on Jun 19, 2020 that China did not enter into territories of India but Indian soldiers entered territories of China in Jun. That is why in June Indian soldiers were beaten by China soldiers (about 23 Indian soldiers fell into the river so died of coldness). India invaded China's territories so started the conflict. This was the truth. 

 

In the same way as the Americans spreading wild and baseless lies against China as expansionist and aggressive to stoke hate against China and Chinese, and using it as an excuse to smear China and incite fear of China, India is copying the same trick to smear China to cover its aggressive nature and intent to covet Chinese land. By pointing an accusing finger at China, the Indians took the opportunity to send more troops and tanks into the border area, attacking Chinese positions when China did nothing and said nothing.

 

The cockiness and aggressive Indians are best manifested by a stupid and brazen colonel marching into a Chinese camp, tore down the tents and burnt them.  Can you believe that? What was this Indian colonel thinking inside his head?  Behaving like English raj roughing up Chinese soldiers as if they were Indian subjects? This led to a brawl and many of the Indian soldiers were chased into the nearby freezing river.  They eventually died of cold, including the arrogant Indian colonel.  And despite such hostile behaviour on their part, they, like Trump, just spread lies about China as aggressive and wanting to conquer India.  As I said before, why would China want to invade this piece of shit land to invite more trouble? What is there in India that is worthy of invading when such an act would end up in endless warfare? China has enough land and does not need another inch of Indian soil. It is the Indians that think whatever the British rajs took from China during the height of the British Empire must also belong to India. They knew and the whole world knew that the British simply wrote away Chinese land as part of the British Empire when China was weak and powerless to object or to fight back.

 

The intent of the Indians were crystal clear. Such lies and allegations were just an excuse to cover their ambitious and aggressive designs. Their grand plan is not only about taking over Chinese land, also about making Nepal and Tibet their protectorates. And this is not all, think of the concept of Pax Indo-Pacifica. India thinks and wants to be a super power and think of a hegemonic empire with the US over the whole region from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

India is now actively courting Japan, Australia and the USA to formalise a military alliance through the Quad. It regards itself as an equal partner among the four nations to rule the Indo Pacific region or Pax Indo-Pacifica. 

In pushing for this ambitious goal of regional hegemony, India totally ignores the existence of the Asean states. It sees itself as a big power and in collaboration with the US, Japan and Australia, the Indian will rule the two oceans, not just the Indian Ocean.  Indians have no respect for the Asean states, thinking and behaving like a big power.

Where would this put the Asean states? Asean, with big brother Indonesia, have been very quiet about the ambitious Quad hegemony, the new Imperial power to rule over them. Would Asean welcome a new military alliance as the regional power in the region, the heartland of Asean states? Did the Quad members ever consider the interest and feelings of the Asean states and whether Asean states would welcome the new overlord meekly and submissively?

What audacity for India to want to be the hegemonic power of the Indo Pacific region and inviting the Americans, Japanese and Australians to lord over the Asean states? The Indians are drunk by their deluded sense of greatness and completely ignore the existence and sensitivity of the Asean states and the Asean people as if they don't exist or did not matter.

PS.  Happy Deepavali to Indian brothers and sisters.

The Main Cause Of A Country's Collapse

 1984 George Orwell said...

People change as they get older. Everybody. Not even a single exception.

People with money, tons of them, crazy rich and filthy wealthy, change even more than ordinary folks.

People with power, prolonged power, unfettered power and absolute power, change beyond recognition and understanding by the common folks. Even their relatives and friends cannot recognise or understand them anymore. And even they are not able to recognise or understand themselves. Ultimately, they don't even know what they are speaking about, especially when they speak in public. Why?

Simple. After so long in power, the power becomes a form of opiat, a kind of drug even more powerful than the power itself. This power drug gets into their heads. They eat with power. They sleep with power. They dream of power. They even shit out power. Then they start to imagine and hallucinate that they are Gods, or Mini-Gods, or Sons of God, or God's right-hand and left-hand Angels, or God's annointed Saviours, or God's Appointees or at least God's Gifts to mankind.

That's where the downfall starts.

The rot starts with their inner selves. Soon it manifests outwards. Then it permeates into the society and environment, perversely and pervasively all-encompassing. Then the whole nation rots together. Majority of the common folks don't even know what hits them.

The ultimate collapse is inevitable. It is not a matter of if but a mater of when.

The power incumbents will try to delay the collapse as long as possible. Meanwhile, painting a rosy picture to the world, a fantastic too-good-to-be-true pseudo self-imagined vision of the future - for example, a smart city, an eco-city, Shangri-la or Swiss Standard of Living, etc.

As they dull and lull the minds of the masses, they quickly hasten themselves to fill up their own bank accounts at all costs. Time is the essence. Time is $MONEY$. To them.

When the inevitable happens, the common folks are left to carry the babies. To suffer the unspeakable and unimaginable consequences. But those who have enriched themselves have already flown far away, together with their families, relatives and cronies - into another world, another dimension....

This is the irony of trust, of truth and of transient existence.

PS. Posted on behalf of 1984 George Orwell

Parti Liyani - Shanmugam has spoken

As expected, Law Minister K Shanmugam went to great lengths to deal with the obvious as well as unsaid issues – from his end of the debate, that is.

'Nine hours is lengthy, as parliamentary debates go. That was the amount of time spent in Parliament on the PartiLiyani case. But it will, by no means, settle the question of whether justice will ever be impeccably served, not if a substantial portion of the proceedings was taken up essentially by a detailed, if well-delivered, self-defence of the current system. Not by a long shot, I am afraid, if the government insists on believing that it can OwnselfCheck Ownself.'  Tan Bah Bah in Yahoo News.

 KNN, 9 hours still not enough ah? Still got doubts meh?

Shanmugam has spoken. The god of Singapore's law and enforcement system has spoken that there is no wrong doing, no favouritism for elites, all is fair and just. Singapore's legal system and the whole govt will not stand if there is biases in the legal system to protect a certain group of people, ie the natural aristocrats as some quarters seemed to suggest, or the social media seems to say so. For saying so in Parliament, just like Hsien Loong made his defence in many cases about the integrity of the system, the integrity of the legal system and Singapore's pristine incorruptible and fair and just system stay clean and above reproach.

' Shanmugam also reiterated a problem which he said he had brought up before – that of police officers working under tremendous pressure but which he nevertheless recognised as being part of a larger manpower shortage issue.' The pressure the police officers are facing is due to work overload not the kind of pressure that came from political interference or the heavy weights of the elites sitting on them. Get this clear. 'Equally important, there shall be no soft, less obvious,corruption where old school ties or family connections will grant one special dispensation.'

 'And he was satisfied from the ministry’s investigations that the AGC and police had not veered from their professional impartiality.

And Attorney-General Lucien Wong? Shanmugam: “I can be categorical; there was no influence by Liew MunLeong. It was treated as any other theft case and handled accordingly.”'

There shall not be any doubt that Singapore has an impeccable and unquestionable legal system and govt, or else Singapore would not be able to look at other countries and stand tall, full of righteousness and correctness. Everyone in Singapore is treated fairly and equally under the law, even for foreigners also.

So, Parti Liyani has been treated fairly in the Singapore legal system. Anyone that has done wrong, or done her wrong, has been checked and cleared. No one that has done her wrong is free or go Scot free under the Singapore law. 

Case closed. Let's move on. No more talks of whether justice is seen to be done. Singapore has a perfect or near perfect govt and justice system that will check itself, ownself checks ownself and beyond repute. 

Singaporeans are so lucky. This is like paradise. Parti Liyani can go home now, feeling good that she has been fairy treated in Singapore.

Tan Bah Bah ended his piece by asking, 'Will there be an end to the public disquiet? A big No, unfortunately.' 

Sob, sob. It's over. It's over.

PS. The moral of the story, natural aristocrats must not try to gain differential access to the judicial system or govt system for their own advantage.  Oops, thank God none of them ever try and get caught for it.  Heng ah.

What is this?

Lawyer M Ravi, who has been representing a number of inmates on Death Row lately, said on Wednesday (Nov 4) that he had filed a suit on behalf of Gobi Avedian against the Attorney General (AG), the AG’s office, Lucien Wong and eight other Public Prosecutors.

Mr Ravi wrote: “This suit is filed on the ground of abuse of power in the manner in which the 9 prosecutors dealt with Gobi’s case”.  theindependent.sg

Trump cards to remain in the White House

The furious spate of activities in the White House in the dying days of Trump's presidency is abnormal. The way he goes about his daily schedule and of his staff as if nothing has changed  is creepy. Trump is not conceding defeat and the evil lump of lard Pompeo is embarking on a European tour to foment more hate rhetoric against China and Chinese and lying to bring in more silly national leaders to join him in his impending war against China. The urgency and need to bundle the Secretary of Defence out of his office and reappointing another Trump loyalist in this presuming last days of his presidency hint of more nebulous plans up in Trump's sleeves.

It is quite obvious that Trump is clinging on to his seat and would want to stay on in the White House comes what may. His seriousness on this matter cannot be treated likely and Biden/Kamala might be in for a rude surprise if they are blocked from entering the White House. 

The legal challenge on the validity of the election is a foregone conclusion, not going to work. More desperate measures need to be put to work if Trump is going to seize office in his undemocratic and dictatorial way. A war or major conflict domestically or with another nation cannot be ruled out.

A war with China by provoking Chinese reaction over Taiwan or in the South China Sea may be difficult to precipitate into an open war. China reads Trump like a book and would not take the bait, not when they had endured Trump's ruthlessness and recklessness for so long and it is only a few more days before the rascal is evicted from the White House.

An easier proposition would be a false flag attack on US naval ships in the Persian Gulf ala the Tonkin Incident. Iran could deny but would be in vain if the Pompeo and his hound dogs continue to bite and refuse to let go, that Iran is guilty and the one that attacked the Americans and with the western media roped in to sing the chorus.

The caveat is that Russia and China may step in and the consequences would be uninmaginable and the price too high just to stay in the White House.

A more manageable and easier conflict would be the shooting of a few blacks in the streets of America on the pretext of protesting the election. For the whites, especially the white supremacists to conduct such a vile attack would be a piece of cake. And Trump would have full control over the situation, with his fingers on the hot buttons and can press or withholding all at his finger tips.

A racial conflict on the streets with guns firing would be the most convenient excuse to bring in the National Guards and declare a state of emergency and for as long as he wants. The white extremists would be most loyal to him and would act and react as ordered by Trump, the perfect and disciplined attack dogs on harness, to be released to run loose as and when needed. They see themselves as the patriots that would save white America.

Trump should triumph in this lethal and deadly game of death and will be laughing his guts out inside the White House. Poor Biden and Kamala would have a long long time to wait in the side line or until Trump the dictator is pleased to vacate the White House. 

The world should hope that Trump would seek this last option and not drag the world into WW3. It is the lesser of the two evils.

What do you think? Never take a mad man's threat lightly and there were at least two in the White House.

The combination of Trump and Pompeo, two liars and equally evil men in the White House, is too dangerous for the Americans and the world. They would be very busy during this short span of time to blow up the world or America just to stay in power. Look at that sinister look of Pompeo when he spoke about preparing for a second term of Trump Administration. He looked so evil and slimy.

CoronaVac a likely victim of sabotaged. Another evil white men's plot.

 RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's health regulator said on Monday (Nov 10) it had suspended clinical trials of a Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccine after an "adverse incident" involving a volunteer recipient, a blow for one of the most advanced vaccine candidates.

The regulator, Anvisa, said in a statement it had "ruled to interrupt the clinical trial of the CoronaVac vaccine after a serious adverse incident" on Oct 29....

CoronaVac has been caught up in a messy political battle in Brazil, where its most visible backer has been Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria, a top opponent of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro has meanwhile labeled it the vaccine from "that other country," and pushed instead for a rival vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca. AFP

The above report smell like a rat. The Bolsonaro govt has been anti China and out to condemn the Chinese vaccine. Now they claimed this spurious cannot be told 'adverse incident' to stop the trial of CoronaVac in Brazil that is supported  by Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria.

Who would have special vested interest to want to stop or slow down the progress of CoronaVac so that their own vaccines can move ahead? Has someone ordered Bolsonaro to act against CoronaVac?

This evil man in the same make as Trump would be a criminal if he deliberately sabotaged the vaccine trial by a hoax incident to stop the trial. The CoronaVac has been on trial in several countries and no adverse incident has been reported and suddenly this so called 'adverse incident' in Brazil to cut it down, like cutting down Huawei.

If this is the truth, Bolsonaro must be condemned as a wicked man, going against the interest of Brazilians and humanity as the vaccine is to save life and should not be politicised and becomes a victim of evil politics. Brazil has nearly 6m infections and desperately waiting for a vaccine. Bolsonaro could be condemning the Brazilians from a vaccine by his reckless and irresponsible act.

Should wait for the reports of trials in other countries to prove that this is all a black ops and you know who is behind it. No need to second guess as the competitor is an American candidate, AstraZeneca that had gone through a few bad patches earlier. Someone is trying to slow down the progress of Chinese vaccines to favour the American vaccine, like what they had done to Huawei.

The evil whites would try all ways to stop the progress of Chinese vaccines and to promote their own vaccines. They can hype and lie about how good are their white vaccines.  The test is in the pudding. The quality and truth of which vaccine is better would be put to test when they are eventually used. Fake vaccines can never be faked for long, and many innocent people could be killed by them. This is a life and death matter and no fakes is allowed to endanger the lives of the innocents.

Evil men would deserve their justice in a matter of time, just like Trump and his gangsters.

PS. Watch this observation of mine. If the cheating West is condemned to decline, the vaccines they are gloating about would turn out to be poison or ineffective, like hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir.  

China would continue to use its own vaccines and would show the world how effective they are, just like how effective China contained the spread of Covid19 in China while the West failed miserably and lost control, being overwhelmed by the virus. 

The West can continue to refuse to talk about Chinese vaccines, ignoring them, silencing them, badmouthing and even smearing them. Only time will tell and when they would have to go down on their knees to beg for Chinese vaccines.

We shall see who's vaccines would save the world.

India on the way to become the biggest Empire of the 21st Century

 
The top Indian-origin politicians who have broken barriers and shattered glass ceilings in other countries include New Zealand’s first-ever Indian-origin minister Priyanca Radhakrishnan, senior Republican leader Nikki Haley, Minister of National Defence in the Cabinet of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Harjit Sajjan, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, Ireland’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and Singapore’s first Leader of the Opposition Indian-origin politician Pritam Singh.

- Hindustan Times 

 

With Kamala Harris taking over as Vice President of the USA, and could be the first ethnic Indian President if Biden for some reasons cannot continue to perform as the President, Indians would virtually become the biggest Empire on earth if Rishi Sunak takes over Britain as its next PM. And Indians are gradually taking over the govts of Canada, Ireland, New Zealand as well. Taking over Singapore is a given as they are almost there and is a matter of time. Once Hsien Loong is out of the picture, no one is strong enough to stand in the way. There is likely more Indians in Singapore today than the Chinese if all the workers in the construction industry are included, or nearly there.

After invading and conquering corporate America and Europe, and now taking over the govt of the USA, and many countries on the line, India and Indians are fast rising as the next colonial masters of the new world, and yes, without firing a bullet and with these white countries willingly conceded that the Indians are superior to them and better than them.

So India, please, there is no need to gloat or harp about a China threat and better than China in everything that you are not. There is no need to talk your way to greatness. Just focus to take over these white countries will do the job to prove to the world that you are better than China and Chinese and become the biggest super power of the 21st Century. Another Empire that the sun will never set. 

The Indian Empire will stretch from North America, across Europe, southern Asia and Southeast Asia to Australasia with Australia and New Zealand added in for good measures to complete the dots.

Well done India and Indians. Luckily the elites of India speak English and Singaporeans also speak English.

Trump calling his good friends

Burning bridges and making friends. Trump cards of a deal maker. 

When you are down and feeling lonely...and in the darkest night...

Just call on me, you got a friend.

Hi Modi? 

Soree, wrong number. Oh Kamala, India welcomes you?

Pence! ...Barr! ....Pompeo! Where is everyone?

Let us all savour these new four years without the liars and cheats and evil men in the White House. Presumably the new resident and his team are not. Time will tell.

The next 75 days could be very dangerous for the world and for Americans.  This is what his niece Mary Trump said in yahoo News.

President Will Start 'Breaking Things... With A Vengeance,' Mary Trump Warns 

9 November 2020

President Donald Trump, infuriated by an election loss he’s refusing to acknowledge, will have “meltdowns upon meltdowns” until he leaves the White House, his niece Mary Trump warned in an op-ed in The Guardian Sunday.

Trump is “not going to concede. ... He’s not going to engage in the normal activities that guarantee a peaceful transition. All he’s got now is breaking stuff, and he’s going to do that with a vengeance,” she wrote.

She argued that Trump has never won anything “legitimately” in his life but has never before lost anything either.

He “thinks that even if you steal and cheat to win, you deserve to win,” said Mary Trump, a psychologist who wrote the Donald Trump tell-all book “Too Much and Never Enough.”...

Trump: I won, I won!

 

General Post Office - A day to remember

 

(Enlarge the photos to see the details of the facial expressions) Credits to Fullerton Hotel

The above photos were taken from Fullerton Hotel gallery.  I happened to be there and found them every interesting. The photos are very well taken, well preserved and tell a story of what life was in the times of colonialism when white men stole this island and kept it as their own. Like all colonised land, the land, the assets and people, belonged to the white men when they seized the island. Present USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and many islands in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic Oceans are still possessed by the white men as their land.

Credit to the photographer for taking the moment with the expressions of the colonial masters clearly showing who was the boss than and the natives in their attentive meekness, not knowing the they were the real owners of the land and they should be the boss, not the white men. The white men came and stole their land. The remaining surviving native Americans should take note of this.

Would Singapore again become colonised by foreigners and taken over by foreigners and the above pictures be repeated again, with the foreigners behaving like the boss and we Singaporean natives, some imbeciles still insisting that we are migrants, having to be attentive and meek in their presence?

It is already happening in many organisations when the foreigners are calling the shots and the meek native Singaporeans being managed, roughshod and even sacked at the whims and fancy of the foreigners, and many native Singaporeans now knowing their place in the pecking order like the natives in the photos above.

It would be truly sad if I would have to take such pictures for posterity to remind them of what it was like when foreigners took over Singapore and ruled over us.

Trump lies, lies and lies - It is truly a normal American behaviour

 “IF YOU COUNT THE LEGAL VOTES, I EASILY WIN THE ELECTION! IF YOU COUNT THE ILLEGAL AND LATE VOTES, THEY CAN STEAL THE ELECTION FROM US!” he said. Officials are currently counting legal ballots and there is no evidence of any kind of widespread or decision-altering fraud.

The above bold sentence is tweeted by Donald Trump, the President of the USA. In Singapore, anyone posting such a tweet stands a possibility of being arrested for spreading fake news, misinformation and inciting riots. Officials of the presidential election have repeated many times that there is no fraud and Trump's allegation is baseless, as many times as Trump had been tweeting. 

And the danger of trump's allegation is that his mindless and unthinking supporters could be agitated to revolt or turn aggressive as many of them are preparing for apocalyse, with weapons and ammunition ready for a civil war. This is how dangerous Trump's tweet is. Trump could have been 'pofma' in Singapore for inciting violence using baseless and reckless allegations. All the main media refused to believe him and calling him a dangerous and reckless liar.

For the last few weeks, Trump has been displaying the most ugly side of the American culture and behaviour, a fine examples of cheating, lying, fabricating fake news and insisting that they are truths. This is exactly what American propaganda is all about and on the international scene Pompeo has been doing the same, to badmouth China, to smear and demonise China with his own slate of lies, fake news and wild allegations without any ounce of proof. Just make wild allegations as loud and as often as possible and expect the world to believe in his lies.

Trump and Pompeo are not unique specimens of the notorious and evil Americans.  They are the norms, as can be seen by all the previous administrations, presidents and foreign secretaries.  It is all about spreading lies and making false and wild allegations against nations without having to show proof, like what Trump and Pompeo are doing.

It is a rude lesson of what American culture and bad behaviour are all about, a nation of liars and cheats, and very dangerous for the rest of the world and also for Americans. Trump could start a civil war with his false allegations. Pompeo could start a world war with his equally false allegations. The world must take note of these and not to take these likely as so called American Exceptionalism, that they can lie, cheat and steal and do anything they want without having to be responsible for their criminal actions.

Fox News also cannot stand Trump's lies.

New York (CNN Business)Top personalities at Fox News on Wednesday baselessly called into question the legitimacy of the presidential election, parroting the dangerous rhetoric from President Donald Trump aimed at portraying the contest as rigged.

The network's prime time lineup of pro-Trump propagandists spent the evening suggesting the election was potentially rife with corruption and implying Democrats might be stealing the election.

"Tonight every American should be angry, outraged and worried and concerned about what happened in the election and the lead up to the election," Sean Hannity declared on his program.

Parti Liyani - It takes only a maid to bring down so many people

 The storm of Parti Liyani is still brewing. Karl Liew is now in the hot seat. Shanmugam is also in the hot seat, for what he said would be watched and scrutinised very closely not only by Singaporeans but also in Indonesia. Maybe the whole of Indonesia is watching this case, from Widodo to the man in the streets and the maids here and everywhere. The bottom line is that justice and fairness must be seen to be done.

This case is like the proverbial tiny hole in a dam that could bring down the whole dam and all the dam is trying to hold. Many people involved in this case, from the judges, prosecutors and investigators, are going to be tainted by it one way or another. Some may just get embarrassing red faces, some could be quite bad.

At the moment it is like a slow motion movie, moving frame by frame and act by act. It may run loose and drag many things and people down with it by the time the show is over.

And it is not only the characters in the play that are under the spotlight. The whole judicial system, criminal justice system, the coterie of elites and the whole image of Singapore are thrust to centrestage. It is like a house of cards, pulling out one card could bring down the whole house.

Shanmugam had to be very careful, extremely careful, in what he said in Parliament. The opposition MPs are sharpening their knives, so to speak, ok, ok, no murder is going to happen in Parliament. No one is going to be struck by a knife.  Don't get too excited, don't over react. Just sit tight and watch calmly.  

Yes, stay calm, stay calm, everything will be alright. Do not panic.

If there is a moral story behind this episode it is that all civil servants and public officers must be professionally correct in whatever they are doing at all times. Do not think something is too small to do any harm and can be glossed over or be swept under the carpet. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.

Key questions to ask, who had been cavalier? What could be done better by which department as Shanmugam put it?  Which departments have been found wanting?

Theindependent.sg reported this below, which is a serious allegation of wrong doings. Who was she referring to about tempering with evidence?

Singapore — The Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) released on Wednesday (Nov 4) a statement by former domestic helper Parti Liyani on the conduct of police officers during her trial on theft charges involving items from the family of former Changi Airport Group chairman Liew Mun Leong.

HOME is a Singapore charitable organisation that was founded in 2004.

Ms Parti said: “On 3 July 2020, I submitted a complaint against several officers of Tanglin Police Division. I requested the Singapore Police Force Internal Affairs Office to conduct an inquiry into their conduct of the investigations and trial against me.”

She added that “in court, there was possible tampering with evidence in an attempt to cast me as being untruthful”.

China halts Australian imports - Should have done this long ago

 China to Halt Key Australian Imports in Sweeping Retaliation

Bloomberg News

November 3, 2020, 2:58 PM GMT+8 Updated on November 3, 2020, 5:15 PM GMT+8

• Goods including barley, sugar, wine will be barred from Nov. 6
• The notice was delivered verbally to importers, people said

China has ordered traders to stop purchasing at least seven categories of Australian commodities, ratcheting up tensions with a key trading partner in its most sweeping retaliation yet.

Commodities traders in China won’t be able to import products including coal, barley, copper ore and concentrate, sugar, timber, wine and lobster, according to people familiar with the situation. The government has ordered the halt to begin on Friday, one of the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is sensitive.

The notice was verbally relayed to major traders in meetings in recent weeks, one of the people said. Iron ore, Australia’s biggest export to China, won’t be included in the halt, the people said.

The order represents a dramatic deterioration in ties, which have been strained since Australia barred Huawei Technologies Co. from building its 5G network in 2018 on national security grounds. Relations have been in free fall since Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government in April called for an independent probe into the origins of the coronavirus.

“China seems determined to punish Australia and make it an example to other countries,” said Richard McGregor, a senior fellow at Sydney-based think tank the Lowy Institute. “They want to show there’s a cost for political disagreements.”

China has already barred meat imports from four Australian slaughterhouses, delayed lobster shipments from clearing customs, slapped tariffs of more than 80% on barley, and said it won’t allow timber from Queensland state because of pests. Wine is also under an anti-dumping investigation while Chinese power stations and steel mills have been told to stop using Australian coal. Cotton purchases have also been suspended.  Bloomberg

China is retaliating against Australia.  China should have done this long ago. There is no reason to trade with a country that openly talked about China as its enemy and blatantly insults and provokes China in everything. The Australians must be thinking that the Chinese are stupid and would continue to throw money at them after being attacked and smeared by them.

The Australians must take note that China is now not a pushover. Australia is, and China would roll over Australia as and when it likes. The Australians must be grateful and thankful that China did not do it. But if the Australians continue with their stupidity and arrogance to defy China, to treat China as an enemy, China must treat Australia as an enemy as well.

The white Australians still living in the past when the whites ruled the world. Not anymore mate. Be nice and humble, the day has come for China to rule over you, to tell you to behave and to kick your ass when you are naughty and disrespectful.

Continue to behave like a rogue and China will cane you like a rogue. Have no doubt about it.

Trump Is Troubles

Trump spells nothing but troubles for the American people, except only his supporters (those thugs, hooligans, violent-prone people that cheat, con, lie, bully, intimidate, blackmail, assault, maim and kill).

The US is in a state of tension, pending huge civil disturbances, riots, looting, killing, murders if Trump loses.

He has got groups of his violent supporters ready to cause mayhem throughout the US.

He has got his legal intimidators ready to do battle for him in US Courts.

He has got the Supreme Court ready on his side, to help him to regain his position and status.

He has got the Police, CIA and FBI ready to do his callings.

Most important of all, he has got the vote counters ready to count the votes in his favour. And he has said, but later denied, that he is going to declare himself the Winner of the November 3rd 2020 Presidential Election even before the counting is completed. He has decided to WIN AT ALL COSTS (does it ring a bell somebody in Singapore said something like this before? GROW THE GDP AT ALL COSTS?)

With such a determined MAD MAN as the President of the United (or Unlawful) States of America, everything, anything is possible.

The White House has become a House Of Possibilities and the USA has become an Unlawful Country in the Eyes if the World. 

SSO

Time to liberate the American Natives, African Americans and Latino Americans from the illegal Anglo-Saxon white invaders.

      William Shakespeare said, "Wherever an Englishman set foot that place is England." The British Anglo-Saxons have since 500 years ago executed this militant dictum in all practicality to invade and conquer other countries. In addition  this bellicose dictum is galvanized by the militant religious doctrine, The Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Thus with these bellicose militant doctrines the British Anglo-Saxons and the Europeans set out to conquer other people's lands both in the old world and the new world of the Americas.

The barbaric Anglo-Saxons first landed in North America in 1603 and founded the first British settlement called Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Just like the earlier Spanish and Portuguese Christian marauders who swarmed Central and South America with white immigrants from their countries and Europe, the British would soon flood north America with British immigrants and other white immigrants from Europe too.  Within a period of over 400 years North America was overwhelmed with white Christian immigrants who not only displaced the indigenious native population but also carried out a systematic genocide of the natives. 

In subsequent years after the invasion of the Americas the white immigrants soon realized they needed a lot of slave labours to work in the farms and cotton and sugar cane plantations. White slave trading companies began to capture negro slaves by force of arms in Africa and ferried them in chains in ship holes below deck to America where the slaves were sold in market places like cattle.

America could not have developed and come  this far without the exploitation and abuse of free labour from the negro slaves of Africa. The free slave labour was reinforced with cheap Chinese labours from the 1830s to 1890s when the Chinese workers were needed to build the railway tracks across the whole of America.

The most despicable thing and wicked deeds the white invaders do was the systematic killings, murder and genocide of the native Americans. Within a period of about 400 years over a hundred million native Americans were genocided by the invading white European Christians. The remnant survival of about a hundred  thousand native Americans are now forced to live in squalid conditions in slave camps called Native Reservations. The white invaders also treated the negro slaves like animals and many suffered torture and ill treatment and died in pitiful conditions. Even the Chinese who were brought in to build the railways were treated badly and often lynched by gangs of white hoodlums, hooligans  and quite often joined in by the white police and national military guards.

The white American invasion of Hawaii started in a subterfuge manner. They started with American christian missionaries landing in Hawaii in the 1830s to evangelize their Christian religion to convert the Hawaiians into christianity. This was followed by the second wave of businessmen and big corporations who owned huge fruit and sugar plantations. These big plantation corporation owners exploited the Hawaiian workers to the bone with the barest minimal pay. When the Hawaiian Queen government wanted to tax the big businessmen and the big corporations they lobbied the rogue US government to annex Hawaii. Before long the US government covert Hawaii as a colony. In 1880s US military naval officers were deployed to bring the local government of the Hawaiian queen under US administrative control. There was strong resistance by the Hawaiian's queen soldiers and the Hawaiian people. In this fight against US imperialism thousands of Hawaiians were slaughtered. Eventually the Hawaiian queen was deposed and the island kingdom came under US direct control. Hawaii was officially and illegally annexed by US in 1959.

White American invaders atrocities and brutal systematic ill-treatment and torture of native Americans and African Americans and the Latinos or Mexican Americans cannot be allowed to continue forever. The free world countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America must unite in solidarity to take down the inhuman white supremacist invaders. The United Nations Organization must take the lead to legally liberate the native Americans , the African Americans and the Latinos from white bondage and slavery. The free world countries must help to create, support and fund native American and African American resistant fighters to organize their political parties  to struggle against the injustice of the white American invaders. Guns and other vital weapons must be provided to the resistant fighters to fight guerilla wars against the whites both in the towns and cities as well as in the countryside. The struggle must continue until the native Americans, the African Americans and the Latinos have their own separate independent states.

In this noble objective of liberating the oppressed and suppressed native Americans, the African Americans and the Latinos, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and ASEAN countries must play a vital part in providing funds, arms and weapons and other essential materials to the resistant fighters until the objective of their independent states is achieved. The struggle may be long and tedious but it is necessary and worth it.

May God continue to destroy the evil and wicked white supremacist American fascist dictatorship with the Coronavirus or COVID - 19.

Soiuthernglory1

Wednesday, 4th November, 2020.

Main media - How much truth or untruth are you reading?

  I think Singaporeans especially those well educated need to understand there is no press freedom in Singapore, the MSM has become a state media with political agenda and objective in forming opinions from their news, reports and surveys. Recently there was this FT survey saying almost all Singaporeans are very happy and open to foreigners, trying to put into our minds we should be happy with more foreigners imported towards their 9.9M population plan perhaps? Then there is this news that foreign company decided to go Shanghai because of FT issue. I think all of us need to understand that to achieve their political objective and agenda, the state will keep churning out these fake news and even sponsoring articles on foreign media to keep brainwashing citizens. Citizens need to up their ante by thinking deeper and analysing the trend or investigating facts or logic. If FT policy does not affect locals or they create more jobs for locals, why there is so much needs for social media, ministers and news to keep repeating the answers to locals? The logic here is if it is in good condition, why fix?

We locals have become very dependent on govt on news and answers, we have actually lost instincts to think, we have become sheep. There are people who still keep insisting there is no evidence or statistics to prove but from what you see around you, can’t you feel it in your heart? This explains why most statistics are made complex and hidden from citizens, so when there is no real proof, citizens always happy to accept rubbish. This FT policy since 2011, they said they will curb FT population, now the population grew from 4M to 6M, isn’t this the logic that they continue to bluff locals?

Use more of your brains, instincts, investigate or whatever, just do not believe all that is printed on MSM or on foreign media (probably sponsored).

Michelle Teo 

The above is the second half of an article y Michelle Teo in the TRE. The first half was about the lawful or unlaw arrest of Lim Tean by CAD officers and how the people perceived the arrest from the truth or half truth they read in the main media. It is all about conditioning the minds of the readers to read and then think what the media want you to think and to think that that is the truth.

How many of you agree or disagree with Michelle Teo on her comments above and how many of you are victims of the media, made to think what the media want you to think or made not to think and accept the media as the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

The next big point is about thinking Singaporeans or unthinking Singaporeans? Why are Singaporeans not thinking, unthinking, and accepting the realities or fake realities in their face? Is this because life is too good, everything is there, food, clothing and housing and money to spend, that there is no need to think anymore, no need to worry about the future. Let the govt or the media think for you?

The surveys about Singaporeans loving to have more foreigners here despite many losing their jobs and become PHVs and delivery boys and girls, said a lot about the intent of such surveys. No?

No need to think is best.

 

Singapore: Perennial P1 Registration Problem

Volunteers in school activities to help out the school have top priority for the registration of their children for primary one. However, they still have to go through balloting like all the rest.

Recently, some volunteers (probably PR foreigners with the entitlement mentality) insisted that the Ministry for Education should "guarantee" their children a place in the school they have volunteered to help out.

However, some netizens feel that it would be unfair to all the other children, especially those from poor families. They said that the more well-to-do families are able to commit time to volunteer in school as they can depend on a single-income stream, especially people such as the wives of PRs who robbed Singaporeans of their high-paying jobs.

Wealthier families may also have extra perks such as having a helper/maid or more flexible working hours.

Conversely, lower-income families may not have such luxuries and advantages. Also, for the “top schools” located in wealthier neighbourhoods, lower-income families do not have the option of moving nearer to these schools.

Actually, such Primary One Registration problem has been continuing to plague the Singapore’s education system (Is there a system? Or rather a System Of No System?) for many years, despite assurances by Million Dollars Salary
Ministers of “Every school, a good school.”

In reality, I believe that anyone who spouts "any school is a good school" is either deliberately lying or is mentally sick. No fingers are of equal length. This is commonsense knowledge. So how can every school be the same?

Nevertheless, it depends on your interpretation of "good" school.

Fair is foul, foul is fair. Good is bad, bad is good.

P/S: MOE can also mean Ministry Of Experiments, or Ministers Of Expediency.


SSO

Trump said - Americans cannot be trusted

Trump, true to his colour, is lying all the way to win votes. He will do anything in order to get re-elected for a second term. SSO

All of us, in fact the whole world, have been given a treat with no holds bar on the true nature of the Americans. They are all liars and cheats, starting from Donald Trump and his gangsters in the White House like Pompeo and Esper and many that he had sacked. There is no more need for any explanations or ifs and buts. Trump has been lying through the skin of his teeth, not just about Covid19, saying black is white and white is black to his advantage without blinking his eyes. Many viewers were so exasperated that this is the President of the USA and this is his character of a man, a liar, a cheat and a conman, not to mention his other attributes like morality are reprehensible and unacceptable.

While everyone has gone gaga at what Trump is and how the Americans feel so proud of him and all his character flaws, a reflection of how shameless the Americans as a people is, to elect such a man as their President, there is one point that we all missed.

Trump has been repeating daily that the Americans as a people cannot be trusted. Look at the irony of it all, smearing and demonising China and Chinese people as untrustworthy when he admitted on national TV, that the Americans are cheats, liars, and everything and cannot be trusted. 

Now when did Trump said these unpleasant truths about the despicable Americans? Did you hear him saying it? Of course you did but not paying attention. Trump is telling his Americans and the whole world that the American election system is fraud, cannot be trusted even run by the Americans themselves. Can you beat that? He would not trust the Americans administering the election process and would not accept the results! The cheating is systemic and widespread and all the Americans involved in the whole election process, including the referees, supervisors, the checkers etc etc. all cannot be trusted.

Trump is the best man to reveal this truth. He spent all his life cheating and conning people. And he knew that other Americans are doing the same, cheating and conning and lying. This is a good example of setting up a thief to catch a thief. And Trump knew that all the Americans are like him, cheats and conmen and liars, cannot be trusted.

I rest my case. I may have wrote about it. Many people also have wrote about it. But everyone would have their doubts. Now we are hearing it from the President of the USA, an American in the highest office that don't even trust the Presidential Election Process and the Americans behind the system. What more proof is needed to confirm what Trump is saying is the truth? 

Thank you Trump for this revelation and confirmation, that all Americans are cheats, liars and conmen and cannot be trusted. In fact the whole American system cannot be trusted. And please tell that fat slop, the lump of lard, not to walk around making a fool of himself. No one in his right mind would believe that liar, cheat and thief in one pack. Every leader was being polite by not calling him out as a liar.

People of the world, please wake up and see the ugly Americans as they truly are. Take note of Trump's confession and stop being a blind believer that would only make you look stupid and silly. They cannot be trusted. America is a nation of cheats. Trump said so.

Singapore's 15 year olds top in Pisa study

Singapore's young have repeatedly top in international competitions to test their knowledge and understanding of world issues.  This time they even better themselves against Canada in second place, Hong Kong in third, followed by Taiwan and Scotland.

This apparent good news, repeatedly happened many years and decades ago, should be a recognition of the quality of our young. Unfortunately the prowess of our young often did not turn out good when they joined the market. Yes, they would continue to do well in their studies and scoring straight As in their O and A levels and even universities. But when come to seeking a good job, many would be found wanting by foreigners from funny universities with funny degrees.

Many would have to attend interviews by foreigners, called foreign talents by the imbeciles, and found to be poor in everything, no drive, lack of creativity, lack of initiative, even lazy and without skills and knowledge that would fit the jobs. And the interviewers would be the unplaced in Pisa study, ranked probably at the bottom, from unknown and unranked third world countries. 

Even if our best would to be hired, they would likely to work under the so called talents, yes the unplaced talents from third world countries and from funny universities. And they would be booted around and often be asked to leave as they are deemed to be unsatisfactory by these so called foreign talents.

This is the sad state of affairs when the judges of the ability of our young, our talents, are the third world talents that would not feature in Pisa test.

How come, you ask me, I also dunno. No body judge the judges once they are put up there on top of the totem pole and presumed to be gods, and given the power to make judgements against those under the totem poles, the Singaporeans.

For so many decades, our promising and young talents, recognised as the best in Pisa test, mostly turned into duds, unemployed or under employed while those that never featured in Pisa test, came from no where, are now the sought after talents.

What a pathetic state of affairs. How come?

This reminds me of the appraisal system of the govt and political office. They kept changing and modifying the tools without a second thought on the users of the tools. Are the appraisers competent to do the appraising, that they understand the tools and would diligently use the tools to appraise their subordinates objectively? What if the appraisers are the duds and treat the appraisal exercise as a joke for them to write whatever they suka?

No tools can do a good job if the users of the tools did not know how to use the tools or did not want to use the tools correctly or even abused the tools. An appraisal system, an appraisal tool is as good as the users and their competence.

Bilahari Kausikan - Would Singapore distance itself from what Bilahari said?

Singapore—Retired diplomat Bilahari Kausikan, who found himself in trouble concerning remarks he made on Friday (Oct 23) suggesting that Cambodia and Laos be expelled from the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has dismissed accusations that he is a foreign agent.

He made these remarks at a round table discussion organised by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, saying, “To state things bluntly, I see Cambodia and Laos teetering precariously on the edge…They have some difficult choices to make. And if they should make wrong choices, they will confront ASEAN as a whole with difficult choices. We may have to cut loose the two to save the eight.”

Mr Bilahari emphasised this point further in a Facebook post on Oct 24, writing, “Not imminent or something ASEAN would do lightly or willingly, but if a limb turns gangrenous, amputation may be the only way to save a life.”

On Tuesday (Oct 26), an unsigned letter allegedly from former and current Cambodian diplomats was published in Fresh News, a Cambodian news site, calling Mr Bilahari a person who is “attention-seeking, inconsistent, and incoherent.”

The letter writers called out Mr Bilahari and ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute for pushing the notion that Cambodia is a puppet of China, and questioned whether this is the Singapore Government’s the official position.

“Bilahari and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute should stop pretending as if they have the monopoly on knowledge and wisdom. [S]peaking of agency, which was the whole gist of Bilahari’s paper, one wonders for which power is he and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute acting as ‘agents’ for?” the letter reads.

“What we find repulsive is his arrogant and condescending tone, not just about our country, Cambodia, and Laos, but even towards our current Asean leaders, a behaviour unbecoming of a former diplomat. He made a barrage of misleading and flawed claims that are intellectually deceitful and normatively detrimental to the region, especially Asean,” the letter writers added.

 Above is from Yahoo News.

Actually I did not want to waste time talking about Bilahari. He is passe, history, irrelevant.  Now that this piece of information is everywhere, let's ask a few questions about where he is coming from and his intent and motive. Hopefully this is not Singapore's position as it did not appear in the ST, I think. If it does, it may implicate Singapore as it already implicated ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute.

Why would this Bilahari be making such a strong view at this time when the evil Americans are gearing up to start a war with China, with lol Pompeo, Esper and a few others all out to smear and demonise China? Is this part of a coordinated American campaign or just a private individual's view, not related?

The position taken as if he is speaking with some authority in Asean, wanting Asean to sack Laos and Cambodia for being friendly to China, just like Singapore being friendly to the USA, and for letting China build a sea port in Cambodia as an act of a proxy while Singapore offering a military base for American warships as not a proxy, call for a lot of questioning of his intent and where he is coming from. 

It would be very unfortunate for an ex govt official to be making such a strong stand, coming out as someone with an agenda and with Singapore being thrust to the forefront of the American's anti China war conspiracy. Would the Singapore govt deem it necessary to dissociate with this man, that he is no longer with the govt and his view does not reflect the govt's thinking?

Bilahari and a few others were very vocal against China during the silly Aquino fake court case in the SC Sea island dispute. That event let to the unfortunate Terrex Incident and souring of relations between China and Singapore. Subsequently nothing more was heard from this gang of four. But it seems that Bilahari is the only one left standing and still spouting his anti China and pro American stand. The others have been made to hold their peace or silenced.

What do you think? Is this undiplomatic outlash good for Sino Singapore relations when a lot is at stake? Singapore is trying to latch on to the Chinese economic growth engine to drive its lethargic economy and cannot afford to have a loose cannon firing at China that could be misinterpreted as the govt's position. Singapore cannot afford to make the same mistake again and ended with another Terrex Incident and flung all its effort to reestablish trust with China into the longkang.

What do you think?

US destabilising South China Sea in attempt to turn it into an American pond

 The United States will deploy Coast Guard patrol ships in the western Pacific to counter what it described as “destabilizing and malign” activities in the region by China, the country’s top security adviser said on Friday.

The US Coast Guard was “strategically homeporting significantly enhanced Fast Response Cutters … in the western Pacific,” White House National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said in a statement.

Describing the US as a Pacific power, the statement added that China’s “illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, and harassment of vessels operating in the exclusive economic zones of other countries in the Indo-Pacific threatens our sovereignty, as well as the sovereignty of our Pacific neighbors and endangers regional stability”.

 

The above is reported in the Al Jazeera news. The Asia Times also had this in his headlines, 'US Coast Guard churns South China Sea tensions'.

 

These news of the evil intent of the aggressive American adventurism in South China Sea is raising concern among Asean states.  Coast Guard ships are mainly for patrolling territorial waters equivalent to a police force, not the military or marines. The Americans deployed its Coast Guards to guard the territorial waters of mainland America and surrounding seas of its islands like Hawaii and Guam. 

 

To deploy American Coast Guards in the South China Sea is as good as signalling to the countries in the littoral states that the Americans are making a claim to the not only the islands in the South China Sea but the South China Sea as American territory.  This illegal and provocative behaviour of the evil Americans is dangerous as it stokes the fire of war in the South China Sea. Not only China would be provoked, the expansionist intention of the Americans would not be welcomed by the Asean states.  Any such moves by the Americans could mean war in the South China Sea.

 

The evil Americans are bent on starting a war in the South China Sea and turn the region into another war zone. This is all the American's doing, sailing warships and coast guard ships thousands of miles from American shores to the western Pacific, an area owned by China and some Asean states.

The evil Americans have dropped its mask of pretension. It is going to seize the South China Sea after failing to agitate the Asean states to fight China.  It is claiming territorial sovereignty of the South China Sea! The evil Americans are going to do it on their own, to confront China and Asean states, and China would have no choice but to fight the Americans to protect its territorial waters and islands.

The Americans are going to start WW3. The Americans are solely responsible for this massive war of destruction of the human kind. It is aggressive American provocation, provocation and provocation all the way.

 

PS. My Saturday contribution as I will out early in the morning and unable to post on Sat.