1/04/2021

Singapore Malaysia HSR is off - This is the final fate of this project

'SINGAPORE: The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project will be discontinued after the HSR agreement lapsed on Dec 31, 2020, the Prime Ministers of both countries said in a joint statement on Friday morning (Jan 1).

Both Singapore and Malaysia will now proceed with the "necessary actions".

In the statement, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said: "The Government of Malaysia and the Government of Singapore wish to provide an update on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore HSR Project in view of the expiry of the suspension period of the HSR Project on Dec 31, 2020. ...

"Malaysia has since allowed the HSR Bilateral Agreement to be terminated, and has to compensate Singapore for costs already incurred by Singapore in fulfilling its obligations under the HSR BA in accordance with the Parties’ agreement," MOT said.' CNA

Why is Malaysia so happy to call this off and willing to pay compensation to the tune of $50m or more? Johore UMNO is not happy as it would affect business in the state. To reconnect Johore to Singapore through other means when the HSR would do the job more effectively raise queries as to the logic behind this move.

HSR could be the link to BRI, meaning goods from Singapore could tack along and benefit from the rail connection to Asia, China and Europe. Without this link, Singapore is left out in the cold. Singapore's key advantage as a transportation hub is connectivity. The cancelling of HSR to Singapore is basically to disconnect Singapore. This is a strategic move by Malaysia to cut off Singapore from the land bridge of BRI and Singapore has no answer to it.

If China and Malaysia were to jointly develop the ports in Klang or Malacca, the strategic role played by Singapore in sea transportation would be greatly undermined. With Gwadar and ports in Myanmar and Sri Lanka growing in importance, the bits and pieces in this maritime chess board are going to take away a lot of business from Singapore. 

Singapore's strategic thinking or outdated strategic plans to plug on to the American power play is turning precarious and likely to turn bad as China continue to rise in economic power. The Americans also have no answer to this Chinese challenge as their only card left to play is military might, not economic. While the Americans continue with their destabilising the world strategy of creating wars everywhere to make nation states becoming dysfunctional, they totally neglected in developing their economic power and allowed China to rule in this area. 

As long as the Americans are unable to start a military war with China or Russia, American military might and hardware are going to be very expensive and costly waste products in this competition for world dominance. China is going to call the shot with its manufacturing power and huge consumer market and its control of marine and land transportation in Asia, Europe, Africa and SE Asia. The Americans have no chips left to play and can only hope to create wars to upset the Chinese economic bandwagon. 

Singapore has very little time to change its economic strategy, maybe it is already too late.  The die has been cast and Singapore has been fixed for good.

Weres My Money?

 

Photo credit to CNA

'LOUISVILLE: Vandals lashed out at the leaders of the US House and Senate over the holiday weekend, blighting their homes with graffiti and in one case a pig's head as Congress failed to approve an increase in the amount of money being sent to individuals to help cope with the coronavirus pandemic.

Spray paint on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's door in Kentucky on Saturday read, “WERES MY MONEY". “MITCH KILLS THE POOR" was scrawled over a window. A profanity directed at the Republican senator was painted under the mailbox.

At House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco, someone spray-painted graffiti and left a pig’s head and fake blood on New Year’s Day, police said. The vandalism was reported at around 2am on Friday, a police statement said, and a special investigations unit is trying to determine who did it.'  CNA

The poor Americans are really angry, but with the wrong people, or half wrong. The Democrats from the beginning wanted to give more to them but this was shot down by the Republicans. And this is likely under instruction from the clown Trump. The Republicans could not go to the negotiating table without a number approved by Trump. So the $600 was what Trump approved to fix the Democrats when he then objected to it and asked for $2,000, making himself looked good. If Trump had agreed to this number from the start, the $2,000 cheque would have gone to the poor Americans long before Christmas.

It was all dirty politics by clown Trump. To be fair to the Democrats, they would not mind giving the people $2,000, after all it was only a matter of printing more money. And when Trump asked for it, they called Trump's bluff by quickly getting it voted and passed, only to be rejected by the Republicans again in the Senate.

So the poor Americans are asking, 'Weres My Money'. Never mind the spelling, poor Americans are mostly illiterates or semi literates. This is how bad politicians can screw up the lives of the poor by stealing their money, oops, by not giving them a few dollars when the poor needed them badly, while they played golf and partied.

1/03/2021

Trump pardoned butchers of innocent Iraqi civilians

 


Face of an unrepentent American butcher of Iraqi civilians. Photo credit to Al Jazeera


In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press news agency, his first since being released from the prison, Evan Shawn Liberty said “I feel like I acted correctly” during the deadly shooting in Baghdad’s Nisour Square.

Liberty and three other former Blackwater employees – Nicholas Slatten, Paul Alvin Slough, and Dustin Laurent Heard – were convicted for their roles in the massacre after a protracted, years-long legal process in the US.

“I regret any innocent loss of life, but I’m just confident in how I acted and I can basically feel peace with that,” Liberty told AP.

The case sparked renewed criticism of the use of US contractors in conflict zones and Trump’s December 22 pardon of the four men has drawn widespread criticism from human rights advocates, lawyers and others in the US and Iraq.

US prosecutors have long maintained that the Blackwater employees, who were contracted by the US State Department in Iraq, launched an unprovoked attack on civilians involving sniper fire, machine guns and grenade launchers.

In a New York Times letter to the editor published on Friday, John Patarinithe, the FBI agent who led the investigation into the incident, said he “spent many hours with the innocent Iraqi victims who are permanently maimed and crippled because of the actions of these Blackwater guards, and the heartbroken family members of those killed”.

“I am embarrassed for our country,” he wrote. “I believe we will pay a heavy price in our relationships with other countries as a result of these pardons.”

For their part, the convicted contractors have said they were acting in self-defence and their lawyers have said the shooting began only after a white sedan broke from traffic and approached the convoy in what appeared to be a threatening way.

The sedan actually held a medical student and his mother. 

Prosecutors have said one of the former contractors, Slatten, “was the first to fire, without provocation”. He was sentenced in 2019 to life in prison without parole for the murder of Ahmed Haithem Ahmed al-Rubia’y, the medical student who was driving his mother to an appointment.  Al Jazeera

4 hired American killers, conveniently called contractors, contract to kill, gunned down innocent Iraqi civilians and lying in court that they were killing them in self defence. Can anyone believe in this white lie?

Think of how many levels of command were involved in making this order to kill Iraqi civilians. Was Trump involved in the decision making that he had to pardon these murderers of Arabs? And to think that these hired killers got the cheek to claim that they fired in self defence and feeling good about it, not a trace or remorse and repentence, and the racist American President Trump pardoned them. And this is the evil country that shout for human rights and freedom! 

Do the Iraqi civilians have any human rights, and freedom to move around freely in the streets of Baghdad and not be killed in broad daylight by American hired killers? Or to theAmericans the Iraqis/Arabs are subhuman beans, free to be killed at will by the white Americans, and no crime committed when the white American President set them free?

How evil can the white Americans be? Look at the face of the murderer, butcher above? His face said he did not care a damn about the innocent lives he took. He could sleep peacefully, no sense of guilt, no wrongs?

And no condemnation from the supposedly 'morally high' western media and the worshipers and believers of the white evil American Empire.

2020 - The year Americans proved to the world, beyond any reasonable doubt, it is a nation of liars

Pro-Trump Lawyer Mocked For Claiming Mike Pence Guilty Of Treason

David Moye
·Reporter, HuffPost
Sat, 2 January 2021, 6:23 am SGT


A lawyer who has failed in his attempts to overturn the election of President-elect Joe Biden was mocked on New Year’s Day after arguing that Vice President Mike Pence would be executed for treason.

L. Lin Wood made the prediction in a post Friday on Twitter, part of a bizarre series of tweets falsely claiming that high-ranking Republicans such as Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Chief Justice John Roberts conspired to deny Trump a second term.

In his fact-free tweets, Wood predicted that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would “save the election” and Pence would be jailed for treason and later “sing like a bird” to avoid execution.

RawStory pointed out that Wood never actually explained why he thinks Pence is guilty of treason.

The wacko tweets were on brand for Wood, who earlier in the week falsely claimed that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is still alive despite his death in custody.

Many Twitter users mocked Wood for bringing the cray-cray.

The above HuffPost article is one among the bountiful prints in American media, in social media, twitters, facebooks, blogs etc etc telling outright lies by Americans, including its President Donald Trump, the man occupying the highest office, down to the average Americans. And this kind of white lies are being repeated daily all over by Americans and more than half the Americans believe in these lies.

The Americans are not only good in telling lies, it is their second nature, and to some, like liar Pompeo, it is also their profession. And the Americans love the lies and choose to believe the lies as long as they are what they want to believe in.

This is how great the Americans have evolved, from the undisputed super power to a nation of liars, telling lies, fabricating and manufacturing lies, believing in their lies and demanding the world to believe in their lies.

Many Americans still believe the Covid19 is also a lie. And they believe it is not true, the 20m Americans infected is not true, the more than 350,000 Americans dead because of Covid19 is not true.

In a way this is a blessing. As the Americans continue to live in their lies, refusing to stare at the virus in the eyes and continue to live their wayward lives, the Covid19 virus would not lie and would keep doing the necessary, to rid the world of all the liars and their white lies.

The native Americans may have a chance to pick up the pieces and take back their land when this pandemic is over. 

Another dangerous lie is to fabricate an excuse to start a war with China reported by theindependent.

'The Trump administration recently received unconfirmed reports that China paid non-state actors to strike American soldiers in Afghanistan, and was declassifying the information.

According to two senior administration officials who spoke to Axios, the US president was briefed on 17 December with the reports.

It was not clear when the plans were dated, or who was behind the intelligence.

If they are confirmed, it could drastically alter the United States’ already strained relations with China, which has so far played a limited role in the conflict.

American intelligence agencies have since been working to confirm the intelligence, which was provided over the phone to Axios on Wednesday.

Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, said on Thursday the allegations were “completely nonsense and completely fake news”.

"China supports the process of peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan, and does not get involved in the internal conflicts in Afghanistan," he added.'

 

PS.  Liar Mike Pompeo tweeted out a series of upbeat posts on Friday about how America is full of “swagger” since he’s been top diplomat, furthering speculation he’s eyeing a run for president in 2024.

“We’re so much safer today than four years ago,” secretary Pompeo began. “Over the coming days, I’m going to lay out the mission set, the huge wins, personal stories, and a lot more. Just me, Mike.”

With 20m infected with Covid19, 350,000 dead, and the number going exponential, this piece of lard is claiming he did a very good job to make Americans safer! This liar would be more dangerous than clown Trump.  Yahoo News

Remember Julian Assange? Fear of American atrocities and brutalities.

John Shipton does not mince his words.

The father of Julian Assange says he believes the US wants to extradite his son and “break him” in revenge for having helped expose what he says were war crimes.

If he is sent to the US and convicted of computer hacking and espionage, he faces a sentence of up to 175 years imprisonment in a high security jail in Colorado, likely held in a single cell for 23 hours a day under so-called Special Administrative Measures.  Independent

The True And Ugly Political System Of USA

 

SSO said...

The True And Ugly Political System Of USA

The political system of the Unlawful States of America (USA) is basically a two-party system (Democrats and Republicans) that take turns to hold power as each of their members ascend to the Presidency and sits in the White House in Washington DC. It is more like a child's play of the game called "Musical Chair" - whenever the music stops, the one who is caught not sitting down becomes the chosen one, i.e. the Puppet (President).

In every election (at national and state levels) in the USA, there will be political campaigns. These political campaigns are opportunities created by the political system to enrich the political hacks, masquerading as "do-good-for-the-people" pseudo politicians. They raise donations through these campaigns. Donations come from common men and women in the streets as well as big donors such as the Multi-National Corporations, the Media tycoons, the Wolves of Wall Street, Bankers, Oil traders, weapons and drugs manufacturers and middle-men. Through these donations they can raise hundreds of $million during each campaign. How these money are spent, no one knows vividly for sure.

The whole US political and administrative system is nothing but a facet put up for the rich and powerful to reap benefits from the country at the expense of the masses. Over the years, it has been polished to an art of telling lies, of cheating, of stealing, of false flags and of assassinations and killings.

There is actually no Democracy and no Human Rights, the two tenets that the US leaders have been pushing against other countries to conform and follow. Yet, they themselves do not follow. "Do what I say, not what I do" is their modus operandi.

There are, in fact, countless undemocratic happenings every year and countless violations of human rights everyday in the US.

Lobbying has become the norm for US businesses and other influential conglomerates to buy favours from the US politicians holding key and important positions in the US government. The most significant of whom is the US President.

Lobbying is a legalised direct form of corruption through giving of donations to political campaigns in exchange for favours, such as huge lucrative business contracts or an ambassador post in a cushy country where not much work is done throughout the year. Or, even to become the favoured news media, like Fox News for example.

All the US political parties and political leaders are beholden in one way or another to some big corporations and money-spinners, or filthy rich individuals, in one form or another.

The whole US political system is a legalised corruption system. Even President-Exit Donald Trump keep claiming that the US Elections System is corrupted and fraud with cheating in his numerous tweets, speeches and press interviews, and the numerous law suits his campaign has been putting forth to the various courts in the USA.

Year in and year out, throughout the 247 years of the short US history, the politics of the US has been the politics of coercion, corruption, intimidation, assassination and violence. This is in the nature of the characters in play. This has been in the blood of most of the American people. The numerous wars and invasions the US Armed Forces have conducted around the world over the last one hundred years are testimonies to this fact.

The US was created through invasions, massive destruction, pillage, violence, murders and massacres . As such, it continues these evil habitual behaviours and actions of invasion, destruction, pillage, violence, murder and massacre within its own territories as well as across the whole world.

A nation born of bloodshed, lives in bloodshed and ends in bloodshed. This was, is and will be the fate of the Unlawful States of America, the Evil Empire that terrorises the whole world with impunity.

Let's hope the end of USA is near!

Happy New Year!


SSO - 1st January, 2021

1/02/2021

Importing electricity - Fools will never learn

SINGAPORE: A trial which will see Singapore import electricity from Peninsular Malaysia will be a "useful first step" in preparation for further moves to connect to the regional power grid, said experts.

Announced in late October, the trial will see Singapore import 100 megawatts (MW) of electricity from Malaysia for two years. This will make up about 1.5 per cent of Singapore’s peak electricity demand.

The move is part of Singapore's plan to strengthen the "regional grid architecture", said Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing in a keynote speech delivered at the opening of the Singapore International Energy Week in October. 

“This will allow the region to share the clean energy sources that different countries may have, and we’ll start this with Malaysia," he said. "Once the concept takes off, we’ll be able to extend this to other regional players." CNA

The above article proudly told the story of Singapore experimenting with importing electricity from Malaysia. Unbelieveable is the word that came to my mind. Stupidity has no cure also popped up. Would Singapore ever learn from the past, the painful past when we were squeezed by the balls by Malaysia, threatening to cut off our water supply?  Even Indonesia at one point wanted to cut off our supply of natural gas. Now they cancelled the HSR with very serious consequences for Singapore.

What do these mean to Singapore's viability and survival as a nation state? How can a nation, so small, so vulnerable, allows its essential services to be dependent on foreign suppliers, especially those that have exhibited very hostile behaviour towards Singapore and wanting to use the supply and control of essential services to strangle us?

In time of peace, everything looks so fine if one just look as far as the tip of the nose. But politics and international relations can turn sour, turn foul over night and the sleeping partner could turn enemy. Is this too difficult to understand?

But we need more electricity, more power, more water! Really? Nobody is forcing Singapore to expand its population beyond its limited land and resources. Nobody is saying that economic growth is only through population growth. Anyone toying with unlimited population growth is toying with our future, endangering our future. It is an existential issue.

Do not put too much into the mouth and get choke to death. Knowing our limitations and live with those limitations is only being rational and practical, not delusional and gambling with our future. Unless there is new technology that can create water/electricity without depending on our potential enemies, then go ahead. To pursue ambitious economic growth and compromising our security and survival by placing trust and dependency on external parties that have proven untrustworthy is stupidity in the extreme.

Being screwed once is painful but still bearable and we can pick ourselves up, like the water problem by building our own water resources. This is not enough a lesson to learn to be independent? Being screwed a second time, by offering our ass, what to call it? And making long term national plans without the benefits of hindsight, without considering historical precedents, is simply naive and exposing signs of ignorance. Putting faith and trust in the goodwill of potential enemies are simply unmentionable.

It is only 1.5% of our peak requirement, so it is safe. Is that so? Do we want our balls to be squeezed a second time? Drug addiction always starts small and then gets to the point of no return, quite similar to our growing population policy. The balloon must keep on growing....

What do you think?

PS. Just stop the dangerous plan to keep on increasing our population to a point of no return, to undermine our viability as a small island state. Plan to live within our means is an age old wisdom. If we don't have wild ambition of unlimited population growth, we would not need to gamble and make precarious plans that could compromise our well beings and existence. 

In the past we have depended on real foreign experts from the first world to formulate our economic development plans. Then we did not have the talents to do so. Today, do we still need to depend on foreigners to plan for us, do we blindly follow the recommendations of foreigners without thinking and analysing the merits of the plan? Maybe we need to, because we have no talents anymore even after paying them in the millions. And any foreigner is a better talent than our millionaires despite the many frauds that were exposed in the academia.

Did someone say first world Singapore is now depending on third world talents to move back into the third world? If third world talents are so talented, their talents and great ideas would make their third world countries first world, they need not be here to teach the first world nitwits how to progress to third world. 

How to tell the kids in awe of the magicians that their magic is not real?

1/01/2021

Singapore: Ushering In The New Year 2021

 SSO said... Singapore: Ushering In The New Year 2021

To usher in the new year 2021, Singapore has gladly imported 27 new cases of COVID-19 infected people and MOM has reported at least a total of 30 confirmed cases in its first instalment of creative reporting of COVID-19 infections of the day. The second installment of the creative reporting is expected to be done by MOM in a press release tonight.

As such, Singapore has steadily reached a record total of 58,629 confirmed Covid19 infected cases, for the whole year of 2020, and happily counting for more cases to be added in the year 2021. Such enthusiasm is unparalleled in Asia!

There are also three cases detected in the community, an indication that no report of community infections in the past few weeks does not necessarily mean that there are no infected people walking around freely in the community. It only means that the detection system is weak or non-existent.

One of the three newly detected persons in the community is a family member of the PSA Marine harbour pilot whose infection was confirmed yesterday, 31 December.

Another two cases are the close contacts of the marine surveyor at Lloyd’s Register Singapore and a 14-year-old Raffles Girls’ School student, probably just came back from India.

The 27 imported cases have only been carelessly put on Stay-Home Notice but not quarantined. Amongst them, 5 are Singaporeans (possibly new citizens from India?), 8 are PRs (possibly from CECA Indians?) and 14 are foreign domestic workers (possibly from Indonesia, Philippines and Myanmar?).

MOM does not want to report which nationalities and countries the imported COVID-19 infected persons are from. We no choice but have to keep guessing and speculating and assume that they are most probably from countries that have highest numbers of COVID-19 cases, such as USA, Brazil and India.

As for the imported infected domestic workers, we have to assume that they are from our main sources of supply, i.e. Indonesia, Philippines and Myanmar. Can't go far wrong, is it not?

With creative reporting being the fashion of the day, our receiving-end brains must rise up to the occasion to be more creative in our thinking and deductions, so as to get a more realistic picture at the end of the day.

Wishing all a more thinking new year, 2021!


SSO - 1st January, 2021.

Trump's $2,000 gambit at the expense of the American poor

 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's push for bigger $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks stalled out Tuesday in the Senate as Republicans blocked a swift vote proposed by Democrats and split within their own ranks over whether to boost spending or defy the White House. Yahoo News.

The Republican lawmakers and Trump are thick in a game of deceit using the suffering of the poor Americans as their gambling chips. When the two parties of the House were negotiating for the amountof relief for the poor Americans, the Republicans bid down the sum proposed by the Democrats and eventually settled for a miserable $600. The Democrats could not push for more as this sum looked like the position of Trump as the most he would agree and the case was made by the Republican lawmakers.

And when this was presented to Trump for signature, he promptly refused and asked for a bigger sum of $2,000. When didn't Trump told his Republican lawmakers in the first place and this could save a lot of haggling and time and the cheque of $2,000, instead of $600 could be sent out to the American poor before Christmas?

Why the conflicting positions between Trump and his Republican lawmakers.  Did they talked about this and agreed to it? The Republican lawmakers could not go to negotiate with the Democrats without knowing what Trump wanted. Did Trump instruct them to push it down so that he could turn it down to demand for more? The whole thing looked like a fix up by Trump and his Republican lawmakers to make Trump looked good at the expense of the poor Americans not getting their relief cheques before Christmas.  They were at the mercy of Trump and his Republican lawmakers they trusted and voted into Congress as their representatives.

The Democrat lawmakers looked back for putting up a miserly $600 for Trump to approve. They saw through the scheme and quickly put up a case for $2,000 as demanded by Trump to call Trump's bluff. By rushing this $2,000 cheque through, the Democrats are saying they too agreed to the sum and it was the Republican lawmakers that were opposed to it. Trump could not claim credit for it.

The new bill was quickly tabled for the Senate to pass.  And guess what, the Republican senators again pulled the rug and rejected this new amount. What game is Trump and his Republican lawmakers and senators playing? Who is suffering from this game of deceit?

Did the poor Americans know who is playing around with their sufferings? Did Trump and his Republican representatives and senators really care about the well being of the American poor? Who is lying to the American poor and treating them as pawns to this power play?

Happy New Year to everyone. Hope the poor Americans could celebrate their New Year and not starving because the relief cheques came late.

12/31/2020

Colonialism is a vile crime against people and humanity

10 greatest crimes against humanity committed by the white colonialists

1. Invasion and colonisation of countries of the world.

2. Looting and plundering of countries of the world.

3. Stealing the lands of natives of the world.

4. Genocides and atrocities against native Americans and natives of invaded and colonised countries.

5. Slavery of Africans leading to untold sufferings and miseries.

6. Poisoning millions of Chinese with opium leading to untold sufferings and miseries.

7. Butchering of Arabs and Muslims. 

8. Endless wars and endless killings of human beans.

9. Abusing Christianity that led to the murder and massacre of millions of non believers all over the world.

10. Using weapons of mass destruction, ie atomic bombs, biological and chemical weapons that destroyed lives and the environment.

Western media and historians wrote about Colonialism as if it is something glory in nature, a triumph of the West against the people of the world.  The above are some of the major crimes of Colonialism inflicted on the people of the world with no regards to human rights, rights to properties, national territorial integrity and the subjugation of natives of respective countries turning them into slaves aka subjects of the Empires. Colonialism in short is about killings and forcefully taking over other people's lives, land and properties.

The glorification of Colonialism and the propaganda pushed out by the West with their control of western media have numbed the minds of the colonised people to the point that they accepted them as part of natural history for the West to conquer, kill, loot and plunder their land and subdued them as sub humans, totally forgetting about the violations to their rights as human beans and their human rights to live as free people. The robbing of their land and resources have been passed off as an acceptable process, nothing to quibble about.

The debt Britain owed to China alone is so huge that the selling of the whole British Isle to repay China would still not be enough. The crimes committed by the British against China and Chinese people include the following:

1. Forcefully selling opium to the Chinese people by British gunboats for several decades.

2. Conducted two wars against China just to sell opium to the Chinese people, leading to death and destruction of millions of Chinese people and properties.

3. Burning down of the Summer Palace but before looting all the treasures in the Palace.

4. Forcing China to pay war reparations and indemnities in the hundreds of millions of silver taels that bankrupted the Chinese government of the day for more than a century, leading to poverty across China.

5. Forcing China to sign Unequal Treaties ending in losing control of Chinese sovereignty and income from trade and tariffs.

6. Signing of concessions of Chinese land in Shanghai.

7. Seizing Hong Kong and New Territories from China for 150 years.

8. Semi colonised China and humiliating China and dignity of Chinese people for more than a century.

Just these eight items alone, if quantified into monetary terms, would be more than the value of selling the whole British Isle to compensate China for the sufferings and destruction of the two Opium Wars and other wars fought to subdue China.

The British must remember that the debt to China must be paid one day. And so is the debt to the rest of the colonised countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific Islands. The conquest and rule of India for more than two centuries would be a debt far greater than what they have to pay to China.

Britain would one day be carved out by the rest of the world that had fallen victims to the British Empire. Every 'Commonwealth' country has a right to demand for compensation from the British for invading their countries and plundering their countries and depriving them of human rights and human decency.

And the British is not alone.  All the European powers would have to pay back as well. Their crimes against the world has yet to be settled and will be settled one day. Covid19 is doing the weakening of the western ex colonial powers for a start. The reset button has been activated.

Wars are vicious, cruel, uncivilised, destructive to lives and properties and must be stopped. Civilised people do not resort to wars at the slightest excuse. Only wildlife, primitive aggressive beans that could not be civilised, would want to fight wars everyday.

 


Rolling Out The Experimental Westerners Covid-19 Vaccine Of Pfizer (Without Liabilities) With A Fanfare

 Blogger 1984 George Orwell said...Rolling Out The Experimental Westerners Covid-19 Vaccine Of Pfizer (Without Liabilities) With A Fanfare

The US, UK and EU have rolled out the westerners-based experimental Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 in a big way, with a fanfare like never before happened in the history of medical science.

It is advertised and publicised so vehemently, vigorously and widely as though it is a huge global political campaign to win the hearts and minds, and the approval and acceptance, of the voiceless and powerless masses (as if they are so important to the propagandist and the protagonist).

Sing-along Singapore will also begin its Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination "exercise" on December 30, with health-care workers at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) the first to be guinea-pigs to go through this mass experiment of a lifetime.

Other health-care workers at public health-care institutions as well as private hospitals will be experimented in the subsequent weeks.

Next in line will be the seniors aged 70 and above. They will receive their jabs from Feb 2021 onwards on a voluntary basis (unlike your coffin money in your savings with the CPF Board being siphoned off by compulsory premium deductions annually without your consent).

Other Singaporeans and free-riding long-term residents who are medically eligible for vaccination will follow on after that. No one will be left behind.

The MOH statement said that the "Expert Committee on Covid-19 Vaccination", which MOH had convened to make recommendations to the government on Singapore's vaccination strategy to tackle the disease, submitted its recommendations on December 24.

The cost of each jab is a jealously guarded secret. Though thr vaccination is said to be free. The money has to come from someone somewhere. Money doesn't drop from the sky. Bird shits do.

The whole experimental vaccine exercise is not free. Money ultimately has to be paid by the taxpayers - that's YOU!

The corrupt politicians, the corrupt approving authorities' officials and the owners of the big pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna will be laughing all the way to their banks, and also laughing at the guinea-pigs.

Moral of the story:

In desperate times, the desperate who knows benefits from the desperados who don't know.

Merry Christmas!
(12 Days Of Christmas) 

1984 George Orwell

PS: Has anyone ever wonder how can there be an Expert Committee on Covid-19 Vaccination" when the vaccination exercise has not even begun? These thick-skin elites baffle me no end, really.

12/30/2020

Patriotic Chinese scientists answered the call of the motherland and returned to China to help build up the defense and security of the country.

           This article on overseas patriotic Chinese scientists return to China in answer to motherland's call to help build up the defense and security of China is written as an adjunct to Chua Chin Leng's article on Thursday, 17th December, 2020  entitled 'Over one thousand Chinese researchers have left the US to make China greater than America.'

Professor Joseph Needham a prominent British scientist in Cambridge University once said: " Every modern science and technology has its basic foundation in China." And he further said in early 1960s: "Give China a hundred years' peace and she will produce wonders in the world."

Professor Qian Xuesen and many of his contemporary Chinese scientists were educated in China and graduated from prominent Chinese universities largely in Beijing and Shanghai. After graduating from Chinese universities largely from Beijing University, Xinhua University and Jiaotong University in Shanghai they went overseas for further studies to procure a doctoral degree in professorship.

In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s it was  turbulent times in China which  was then facing endless aggressions from Western countries and brutal invasion by the Japanese. Thus the atmosphere was not conducive for the young Chinese scientists to pursue their scientific research . Therefore they had to go overseas to continue their line of studies and research in the fields of Mathematics, physics, nuclear physics, engineering, technology such as railway engineering, rocketry and missile development.

At the end of the Second World War in 1945 most of these young patriotic Chinese scientists heard the call of the motherland to return home to help build up the defense and security of China so as to prevent any future aggressions and bullies from foreign countries. 

It was fortunate for China that many of the Chinese scientists who returned home were highly qualified in the fields of missiles and rocketry and in  thermonuclear technology. Both the rocketry and missiles scientists and the nuclear scientists cooperated and coordinated their work and effort in making Chinese missile and rocketry and the development of the thermonuclear bombs a great success.

In 1964 China became the Fifth country to possess thermonuclear weapons. Earlier in the 1950s and 1960s the People's Republic of China of Chairman Mao and the Chinese Communist Party faced intense hostility from America, Russia and England.

President Harry S. Truman ordered ten nuclear-armed B-29s to the Pacific Fleet during the height of the Korean War 1950 - 1953. General Curtis Lemay was a chief proponent of a nuclear strike on  China and he suggested that US should drop a few nuclear bombs on China. 

In the Mid-1950s President Dwight D. Eisenhower threatened to nuclear bomb China if China tried to take back its island of Taiwan by military means. 

In the later part of 1950s during the Soviet Russia and China ideological split and in 1969 during the intense border skirmish between China and Russian armies in Xinjiang and Heilongjiang region President Khruschev of Russia also threatened to nuke China.

Lastly in 1961 England threatened to nuke China if China were to take back Hong Kong by force.

Facing such hostile military threat from all quarters Chairman Mao officially authorized the Chinese atom bomb project in January 1955 in response to America nuclear threat. Chairman Mao said, "We need the atom bomb. If our nation does not want to be intimidated we have to have this thing."

In 1948 Chinese nuclear physicist Professor Qian Sanqiang who was first involved in the American project "Fat Man plutonium implosion bomb at Los Alamos" returned to China in the 1950s and helped start the Chinese nuclear program.

Professor Chian Sanqiang is known as "The father of the Chinese Atomic Bomb." In 1948  in Beijing he founded "The China Institute of Atomic Energy." In 1951 a Chinese radio chemist Professor Yang Chengzong procured ten grams of radium to support the Chinese people in their nuclear research.

Professor Qian Sanqiang and Professor Yang Chengzong started the construction of the fledgling Chinese nuclear complex  at the Northwest Nuclear Weapons Development Base in Haiyan, a research facility. They also created other important nuclear research and testing sites such as the Lanzhou Uranium Enrichment Plant, The Jiuquan Plutonium Reactor and The Lop Nur Test Site.

China's nuclear program was renamed 596 in commemoration of the split in joint China-Soviet Atomic bomb research program on June 1959.

Professor Qian Sanqiang and his team of Chinese nuclear scientists proceeded to construct the first Chinese atom bomb base on highly enriched uranium from the Lanzhou facility. 

In the debacle of the "Great Leap Forward" Chairman Mao and Premier Chou Enlai decided the nuclear project must continue "Even if the Chinese had to pawn their trousers."

The Lanzhou enrichment plant produced the first highly enriched uranium ( HEU ) in January 1964. By the summer of 1964 all atomic materials were sent to the Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Base for assembly. And on 16th October, 1964 China successfully tested its first atomic bomb with a force of 22 kilotons from a 330 feet steel tower code name 596.

With the successful completion of the atom bomb test China made an official statement:  " This is a major achievement of the Chinese people in their struggle to increase their national defense capability and oppose U.S. imperialist policy of nuclear blackmail and nuclear threats."

While Professor Qian Sanqiang and his team of nuclear scientists were busy building up China's nuclear program in defense of China's sovereignty and security Professor Qian Xuesen and his team of rocket and missile scientists were simultaneously busy constructing China's ballistic missile and space technology. Both Professor Qian Sanqiang nuclear project program and Professor Qian Xuesen's rocketry and ballistic missile project program cooperated closely on the successful completion of nuclear tipped rockets and ballistic nuclear missiles.

In 1955 when Professor Qian Xuesen returned to China from U.S. he immediately began work on China's ballistic missile technology. Part of his program was to train large cohorts of young Chinese rocket and missile scientists. 

While Professor Qian Xuesen was in the US he was largely responsible for the successful construction and development of the American rocketry  and ballistic missile program. Upon his return to China in 1955 Professor Qian Xuesen was put in charge of the missile and space program known as "The Fifth Academy." Professor Qian Xuesen is widely known as the father of Chinese Rocketry and space program.

On October 25th, 1966 China tested its first nuclear missile. Marshall Nie Rongzhen of PLA declared,"The missile was deadly accurate. China which had long been backward but now has its own sophisticated weapon."

Beginning in 1960 Chinese scientists began to develop thermonuclear weapons under the leadership and guidance of Professor Qian Sanqiang. China tested its first H - Bomb on June 17th, 1967 with a force of 3.3 megatons. China acquired thermonuclear weapons only 32 months after its first atom bomb test, much faster than US which took 7 years and the Soviet Union which took 4 years respectively after their first atom bomb test.

Other prominent Chinese nuclear scientists  and ballistic missile scientists which took part in their work in helping China's defense of its sovereignty and security are as follows. The nuclear scientists include Deng Jia Hsien, Yang Chen-ning, Sun Yuen-chi, Wang Bing-zhang, Zhang Ying-yi, Sun Jia-tung, Wang Chien-chang and Lee Lu. The highly qualified and distinguished rocket , missile and space program scientists include Zhao Jiuzhang, Chieh Chien-chang, Dr. Cheng Shiying, Guo Yanghuai, Xu Guozhi, Luo Pei Lin, Luo Shi-jin, Yang Nan-sheng, Lu Qiang, Chen Yuan-jiu, Qian Ji, Yang Jiahui, Wang 
xiji and Wei Yiqing.

Also in their ambition to safeguard China's nuclear technology and the rocket, missile and space technology in order to secure for China's future safety, security and sovereignty from foreign aggressions these renowned Chinese scientists have an ongoing programme to train thousands of young scientists every year to take over their portfolios when they retire.

China is now living in a dangerous world of renewed Western aggression headed by the United States. America has no intention of giving up its diabolical scheme of world domination under its total toxic hegemony. 

America does not accept the peaceful rise of China. It does not even care to pretend that it is giving up the policy of containment of China but has every intention now to use force to take down China on all fronts viz economically, financially, politically, militarily and technologically against China's cyber net and space program.The coming home to China of these Chinese scientists and their eventual vital work in their various fields of expertise have great significance not only for the peace and security of China but also for the peace and security of all the non-white countries which face constant threats from the United States and its Western allies. The contributions of these scientists have enabled China to hold in check the never ending threats, bullies and aggressions of the warmongering United States.

The Evil Empire's government wants the Americans and the West to hate and fear China. It is the deranged politicians of the bi-partisans Democrats and the Republicans to constantly adopt manipulated campaigns to make Americans and the West consent for a paradigm of constant demonization of China and a permanent war with China. 

US real motive to undermine China and other powers like Russia, Iran and DPRK is to maintain its world hegemony. The outrageous lies about the Uyghurs' problems in Xinjiang and the Hong Kong issues is to win American support for attacks against China. Similarly its continuous harping on the South China Sea issues which are of no concern to US and its demonstrations of raw power by sailing its warships and flying its jet fighters and bombers close to China's shores and coastal areas is a sign of utter desperation and a danger to world peace and harmony. 

As China's economy continues to outpace the U.S. American evil self-centred politicians and US mass media  will make more incredible attempts to heighten propaganda to influence Americans to hate and fear the Chinese government. CIA works very closely with the US mass media like New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN and Fox TV to manuafacture lies and falsehoods against China, Russia, Iran North Korea, Bolivia and Venezuela.

America is directing vast series of hostilities against other world powers to hide its own shortcomings and incompetence and in the hope to maintain its world hegemony. If America keeps on doing this continuously it may cause Third World War and drive the world to self-destruction and the demise of all humanity and civilizations.

Amidst such hostile American aggressions the Chinese nuclear and missile and space scientists have done a great job of empowering China strategic challenge to America's bellicosity. And together with China's vast economic development and increase military power, China must become a country too strong and powerful for USA and its allies to suppress or destabilize. Hopefully China's all round strength and power will help insane America to realize that cooperation with China is the best option for USA and its allies national interests. There is no other way for this is the ultimate principle for US and its allies to follow if the world is to survive.

Southernglory1

Wednesday, 30th December, 2020.








DBS vs LVB: Sweet Meat For The Wolves, Game Of The Century

 

SSO said...

DBS vs LVB: Sweet Meat For The Wolves, Game Of The Century

The Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) Deal is the most "lucrative" and "enticing" business proposal ever made in the history of banking and finance. Some more, it was made by such a distinguished and outstanding government of India, under the steady steering hands of the well-known PM Modi of CECA fame.

Simply speaking, it is "Too good to be true."

It is so good that it simply cannot be turned down by any rich investor with a huge capacity of cheap funds, using other people's money of course, lying around in the hands of eager-beavers ever-ready to make a kill in his/her name, so that at year-end he/she could reap another unimaginable hefty sum of $millions in annual bonuses, and retires in comfort, laughing all the way to the bank everyday.

But, but, but the thing is:

If the deal is so good...too good to be true, why didn't the Indian Government buy over LVB wholesale by itself? The Modi government could not see the "lucrative" long-term returns-on-investment? The hawkish Modi leadership was out of wits and funds and therefore could not go in for the kill by itself? As such, it has to invite lucky DBS to grab it for a song and also write-off the shares of the previous owners of LVB with ease, without having to worry about potential repercussions?

Or, Why didn't any of the big and rich local Indian companies take over the in-deep-shit LVB and immediately owns 350 banks throughout India, which took LVB almost 100 years to build up? So wonderful! So easy! Why no takers?

Questions aside, whichever way one may look at it, under such circumstances, there is always big money to be made in the shades, under the shadows and enclosed in darkness, behind closed doors, over a sumptuous dinner, by some shrewd, crafty and cunning big players in the Game Of Cheat, in this Game Of The Century.

The meat is so sweet and fresh, and therefore, the greedy and hungry wolves are many. Like the Hollywood movie "The Wolf of Wall Street", this is the "The Wolf Of Madrass" in real life.

In my mind, the first suspected wolf is the one who proposed the purchase of LVB to those that count.

The second suspected wolf is the one who influenced the decision-maker to go ahead with throwing good money after bad loans.

The third suspected wolf is the one who made the decision to buy over the LVB in accordance with the Modi Government's alluring proposal of a life-time.

The fourth suspected wolf is the PR guy, the one who looks like a white-collar criminal with corruption written all over his face when he spoke with the intention of influencing the unguarded about how good it is to invest in India Tamil Naidu.

The fifth suspected wolf is the middleman or men in this Game Of The Century.

The sixth and subsequent suspected wolves are those in the other camp, right from the top to the bottom.

Last but not least, I simply say only, the glaringly suspected wolf is the "Honourable" Judge who presided over this case, who has holds the power, who made the judgement, and who aimed and shot two arrows, one after another, straight
into the Heart of DBS, just like what Robin Hood would have done.

I believe the CBIB would have already started to get busy investigating deeper and wider into this "too good to be true" fishy Game of the Century.

Keppel's Brazil misadventures, for 13 long years, are still very fresh in our minds, except for those who have dozed off.

So, what now, DBS, going forward?


SSO - 4 Dec 2020.


PS: CBIB stands for Cheats and Badass Investigating Board.

35% premium hike for Medishield Life is so merciful

Come 2021, Medishield Life premiums will increase by up to 35%.

It adds to our already high cost of living but we have no choice but to pay up.

Foong Swee Fong posted a short article on this in the TRE.

I am tired of talking about this and how our CPF savings are being depleted and we can't do anything about it. And now and then some imbeciles will open their mouths to deride our lack of savings and to increase our CPF contributions to make sure we save enough for retirement.  The point is that we are having the highest rate of savings in the world and after saving for a life time still find ourselves not having enough of savings for retirement and have to work till the last day of our lives.  Where did our CPF savings go to? Why we cannot save enough for our retirement?

Below are some of the comments in response to Foong Swee Fong's article that said it all. But the imbeciles would close their eyes and ears and pretend they did not see or hear any complaints. They just shut out everything and do as they want with your CPF savings, without your consent. They said this is a rule of law country.  Everything done to your CPF savings is legal and lawful.

 

  • So what else is new?:

    35% one shot rise!
    Daylight Robbery is what it is.
    They do it just because they can!
    61% gave them full permission !
    Who can speak up for the voiceless in sg?
    They keep us in virtual shackles and try to make us believe they do it for our own good.
    Is this LHL’s punishment on us for his bad showing at the polls few months ago???
    He loves to see us suffer fobt he?

  • xoxo:

    onLEE 35 PCT,WHY NOT 350 PCT?!!!!
    WTF! After LOOTING $100 BILLION N GRANTING US $600 ON A SUPPOSED PER CAPITA OF $23K,This govt wants to $crew us more!

    They promise no gst increases till later but screw us on medishit lie premium all the same?

    This groupie of ar$ehole$ need to be axed!!!

  • 3Ts:

    That’s how the SG Govt give free vaccination by increasing the Medishield Life premium etc!

    Give u a free drumstick & takes back a whole chicken!

  • Vampirical Increase:

    35% increase is really Vampirical.

  • Vote them Out:

    MediShield Life is a HOAX?
    https://www.tremeritus.net/2020/10/28/medishield-life-is-a-hoax/

    Useless Medisafe life is going up by whopping 35% which is approximately an increase of $400 for the elderly old. Two elderly old means $800 increase to be paid for by their children if they have no money. That means [2 X ~$1600 = $3200] to be paid for by their children Mandatorily excluding the premium of themselves.

    There is no reason whatsoever to keep voting for them, absolutely without any doubts. Why? I cannot understand.

  • Harder Truths:

    The Evil Regime just gave billions to FT companies for no reason during the pandemic rather than give the people directly. How else are they going to get this back? Expect more rises in taxes and other stuff as well.

    PS. And mind you, this is what you voted for. So don't complain. Be grateful that the increase is not more. It is for your own good. It is also for the good of those that would benefit from the 35% premium hike for sure. You have to thank them for being so merciful.