Taiwan - Cool and sensible advice from Alexander Mercouris for Taiwan

 

Taiwan Crisis Intensifies, Taiwan President Tsai Defies China, War Fears Grow

This is a 58 min video from the presenter on the Taiwan crisis and how the USA is playing with fire on a promise that they could not deliver, like writing blank cheque with their mouth and unable to cash. He quoted American military analyst report that the Americans would never ever be able to defend and would not defend Taiwan except stirring shit and giving the Taiwanese separatist movement false hope and confidence, leading them to a path of self destruction.

In the last part of the presentation he gave some very practical and sensible analysis and recommendations to the Taiwanese on what is best for them.

Christian Le Miere - Pretentious white men tell white lies

 Commentary: A pity China can’t seem to ditch its wolf warrior diplomacy

Despite recent exhortations from President Xi to tone down their language, China’s wolf warriors are here to stay. Their effects are not all positive, says Christian Le Miere.  CNA

Is this Christian Le Miere cockeye or drunk? Didn't he know what is happening in the world and what the Americans are doing to China, practically daily, nonstop attacking China with fabricated lies that resulted in this Wolf Warrior Diplomacy from China? 

Should he, if he is not drunk, and a well informed political observer, be writing,  'A pity US can’t seem to ditch its hostile, belligerent and irresponsible behaviour against China?' When would the lying, cheating, bullying, warmongering murderous American savages stop their primitive behaviour to live in peace with the rest of the world?

The people that committed the worse genocide in human history accusing China of genocide without any evidence and with no one in the world believing in this lie, accusing China of bullying when they are bullying China and other smaller countries all over the world, accusing China of lying when they lied and lied and lied to invade countries? Can these lying Americans be trusted?

What do you think? This man is sensible or another white biased supremacist that cannot see any wrong in white men and their reckless, provocative and gangster behavior?  American and AngloSaxon rogue behaviours are all positive? The provocation are slight, to protect countries from? China going to invade other countries, conduct regime change, support terrorist organisations and NGOs to destabilise countries? Really? In many instances the American provocation and incitement of hate could result in open war. The virus attack in Wuhan, the provocations in the South China Sea, the fabricated lies about Xinjiang, supporting unrest in Hong Kong, violation of China's rights and security by selling arms to Taiwan, passing a law to defend Taiwan against China's effort to reunite Taiwan with the mother land are all aggressive and unfriendly acts of war.

And many stupid media think it fits to publish this kind of white rubbish. What was the intent and motive to promote and sell white men's lies and hostile agenda?

Covid19 - VTL, How likely are the chances of false or error reports in the virus test?

LONDON: A COVID-19 testing laboratory in central England has been suspended over concern that it has been incorrectly giving negative PCR test results to people who are infected, the UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) said on Friday (Oct 15).

NHS Test and Trace launched an investigation into a lab in Wolverhampton after reports of people getting negative PCR test results after testing positive on rapid lateral flow devices (LFDs).

UKSHA said that an estimated 43,000 people may have been given incorrect negative PCR test results, mainly in South West England, possibly underestimating the number of people with coronavirus between Sep 8 and Oct 12.  

The above is reported in CNA. Can you imagine, one of the most advanced country in Europe, the United Kingdom, damn high quality medical standard, could give error test results, estimated 43,000 people that were positive but tested as negative? What are the implications of these test results? VTL, what is VTL, Vaccinated Travel Lane for entry into Singapore. How many of the 43,000 have entered Singapore and how many people were directly been exposed to them and infected by them?

If this could happen to the United Kingdom, listen carefully, the United Kingdom, not any third world countries when errors, cheating, fakings are the norm. If this is supposed to be a genuine mistake in the UK, how many times more would there be from third world countries or even the USA? 

How many things can go wrong with the VTL, genuine mistakes, fake mistakes, mistakes due to bribery, cheating etc etc? How safe is it to open VTL or how risky it is to have such arrangements?

Our imbeciles still think the rest of the world are like Singapore, a piece of medical paper is likely to be genuine when printed on very good quality papers. They still have not learnt from all the fake academic degrees that have flooded into this island and causing so many of our PMETs to lose their jobs. Now, how many of those coming through the VTL scheme were using fake medical certificates or genuine certificates that were from genuine mistakes or intentional mistakes? 

Would Singapore be willing and foolish suckers? This is no joking matters as the lives of many Singaporeans are at stakes.

PS.  Who are the biggest peddlers of the idea of living with the virus? Ans: Donald Trump and Boris Johnson.

What are these two famous for? Ans: Empty heads.

COVID-19: Singapore Has Become A Pariah Country In The Hearts And Minds Of The United States of America

It is so very unfortunate that just a few months ago, Singapore has been praised skyrocketing high for being one of the most effective countries in managing the COVID-19 Pandemic in the world and now being shun by the United States of America. That was during Minister Gan Kim Yong's watch at the Ministry of Health. The present pathetic and sorrowful state of affairs in the management of the COVID-19 Pandemic cannot and must not be attributed to him.

On Monday (18 Oct), the US Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) has raised to the highest risks alert, Level 4, for Singapore - warning all US citizens and residents not to visit Singapore.

The US CDC said:

"Because of the current situation in Singapore, even fully vaccinated travellers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants!"

The US Department of State issued a similar notice on Monday, urging people not to travel to Singapore due to COVID-19.

This must be a devastating blow to the newbie, gangho, dare devil Health Minister for his grand idea of implementing the "Living (Suffering and Dying) With COVID-19" by opening up the floodgates to allow any Tom, Dick and Harry to enter Singapore to spread the COVID-19 coronavirus freely, easily and extensively as long as he/she carries a Vaccination Certificate (VC). And at the same time unfairly and unreasonably discriminated against own citizens who are not vaccinated.

Whether the VC is fake or real nobody is the wiser because no human being is able to verify with certainty within a short span of time.

Moreover, children below 12 years old, whether infected or not, need not carry a VC but still can enter Singapore as long as they are brought in by an adult with a VC.

Singapore launched its first two Vaccinated Travel Lanes (VTL) with Brunei and Germany last month.

A VTL with South Korea will open on 15 Nov 2021. South Korea is presently uner category of Level 3 in the

Eight more VTLs have been extended to countries including Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, UK and USA.

The US has a system of travel alert for travellers to destinations with health problems. The alert symptom has 4 levels. Level 4 being the highest risks destinations and level 1 is for lower risks destinations.

As identified by the US CDC:

Current Level 4 (highest level risks) destinations are Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand and UK.

Current Level 3 (high level risks) destinations are South Korea, Germany, Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam.

Current Level 2 (moderate level risks) destinations are India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka. Unvaccinated individuals at risk of severe illness are advised to avoid non-essential travel to these places.

Current Level 1 (low level risks) destinations are China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and New Zealand.

It must be noted that out of the first batch of 2,400 VTL places taken up, 40% of them are from the UK, which is among the highest level risks countries.


Conclusion

Birds of the same feathers fly together.

1. Travellers from countries that are of moderate or low risks will probably avoid Singapore as their travel destinations.

2. Travellers from countries that are of high and highest risks will visit Singapore, if and when necessary.

The bottom line is: How many more countries will declare Singapore as a Pariah Destination to avoid at all costs?


LIPS

P/S: The Riau Islands, Indonesia, have also cancelled the Travel Bubble arrangements with Singapore because of the recent spikes in COVID-19 infections in Singapore.

Impossible for US to Have Military Superiority In China’s Coastal Areas

The Financial Times (FT) quoted on Saturday several sources saying that "the Chinese military launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle" in August and judged it to be a "nuclear-capable hypersonic missile." According to the FT article, the missile "flew through low-orbit space" and could help China "negate" US missile defense systems which are designed to target the fixed parabolic trajectory of a ballistic missile. The progress of the Chinese military has "caught US intelligence by surprise," the report said.

If the FT report is to be believed, it means that there is a key new member in China's nuclear deterrence system, which is a new blow to the US' mentality of strategic superiority over China.

It is meaningless to discuss the credibility of the FT report. But it is important to note the unstoppable trend that China is narrowing the gap with the US in some key military technologies as China is continuously developing its economic and technological strength. China doesn't need to engage in an "arms race" with the US - it is capable of weakening the US' overall advantages over China by developing military power at its own pace.

In the long term, the comparison between the military powers of China and the US will be in the following paradigm：The US' overall military advantage will be maintained, while its air force and navy have higher quality and its global deployment and projection capabilities will be unmatched by China's. Meanwhile, China won't have any will to globally challenge the US' dominant position in military sphere, and the US shouldn't worry about losing its military hegemony.

However, China's military buildup will focus on the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea. It is inevitable that China will take an upper hand over the US military strength in these areas thanks to the geographical proximity and the continuous increase of China's input. Chinese society has not only strong expectations for this, but also strong determination and corresponding ability to realize this reversal. The US' conventional military superiority around the world will not translate into a guarantee of superiority in these regions.

The US is very concerned about China's nuclear development. There should be no doubt that China has no plans to build a nuclear force of the same size as that of the US. In other words, China has no intention of launching a "nuclear arms race" with the US. However, China will certainly improve the quality of its nuclear deterrence to ensure that the US completely eliminates the idea of nuclear blackmail against China at any critical moment and its idea of using nuclear forces to make up for the weakness that US' conventional forces cannot crush China.

Greater survivability and penetration ability of Chinese nuclear missiles is clearly being accelerated through a variety of new missiles. Such development will ensure that neither country's nuclear forces will be used as a tool to solve regional problems. This would ensure that the damage to peace, if any, would be limited and that the region would not see a deadly collision between major powers.

The US is constantly releasing rumors that China is strengthening its nuclear strategic tools, which is believed to pave the way for public opinion in the US to further increase its military expenditure from a high starting point. But no matter how much military spending the US increases and how much new equipment it procures, it is impossible for the US to continue enjoy overwhelming military superiority in China's coastal areas. 

Anonymous

FICA - Singapore will not be influenced by any foreign powers to do their biddings

 The passing of the FICA is Singapore's message that it would not tolerate foreign influence in its policy decision making process. Singapore will make its policies according to its national interest. Foreign influence and interference are when Singapore has to make policies that it did not want to. When Singapore makes policies willingly, in collaboration with foreign powers, it is not being influenced or interfered, it is 'voluntary', this is the key difference. I like, so I do, see, free from foreign interference. Singapore is an independent country and has its right to do as it likes. 

Some may ask, were there any kind of 'discussion' with foreigners before a major decision affecting foreign countries is made, and if this constitutes foreign interference or influence? I don't know. It depends on who you asked.

What about policies like cannot use Chinese vaccines? Got foreign interference or influence or not?

What about CECA and the big influx of Indians into Singapore? This one I think sure no. Because the CECA is good for Singapore, and the influx of Indians is good for Singapore, creating jobs for Singapore, including helping to recruit foreigners to replace daft Singaporeans with unsuitable skills and useless degrees. They also buy a lot of properties to sustain the high property prices. Very good for Singapore.

What about allowing Americans to use Changi Naval Base? This one sure no pressure from Americans. They are our best friends and we want them to be here.

What about not using Huawei's best 5G technology in the world, and chose more backward 5G technology from the West? I think this one depends on the people that decided what to use. If they said Huawei not good, West 5G good, then so be it. Oh, Huawei's 5G could eavesdrop on your communication, the American said so, but got no proof, just said only. Americans don't lie, always tell the truth.

What about the badmouthing of China in the media? Oops, no, just republishing articles from western media, it is a commercial decision. Nothing to do with the govt. Singapore does not badmouth China because China is our biggest trading partner, with deep historical and cultural roots. The few clowns that badmouthed China in the South China Sea dispute did it in their own personal capacity.

Any more questions?

Concerns of Singaporeans

 A brief survey over the last few months shows that Singaporeans are very concerned about the following (not in any order):

1. CECA, including job losses/displacements, fake qualifications, racism, FTA, social problems, etc

2. Covid-19, including Delta version, which vaccine? to vaccinate or not? re-infections, death, mental problems, lockdowns, etc.

3. MTF, including performance, confusing policies, social restrictions, hospital or home recovery, reopening of borders, government assistance, etc.

4. The Elected President, Ministers’ & Town Council Managers’ high salaries, performance (esp. in parliament), government secrets, etc.

4. CPF withdrawal, high cost but depreciating HDB value, etc.

5. Performance of opposition parties, esp. WP’s performance in parliament, their ability to cooperate and solve problems within the law/system, etc.

However, there is scant attention on closing of TOC and TRE (tentatively set for next Feb), or the leadership succession plan?

Are Singaporeans not concerned about having a public forum to voice their unhappiness?

What about the uncertainty that Singapore faces, in not having a clear leadership succession plan?

Anonymous

Sinopharm Vaccine: Only 3 Suspected Adverse Events Out Of 17,630 Doses!

As of Sept 30, there were a total of only three reports of suspected “adverse events” experienced by people who received the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said.

In its sixth safety report, HSA said on Friday (Oct 15) that the three reports were out of a total of 17,630 doses of the China-made Sinopharm vaccine administered here in Singapore since Aug 30 2021, when the first dose was given.

Sinovac and Sinopharm were approved under HSA’s Special Access Route only this year, after repeated requests by the public.

HSA also reported that thereq were also "no serious adverse events" reported for the vaccine so far.

An adverse event for vaccination is any undesirable medical condition that occurs after taking the vaccine, which does not necessarily have a direct link to it. It may be coincidental or related to an underlying or undiagnosed disease.

The big question is that since the Sinopharm vaccine, made in China, has been proven in the Singapore environment to be such a safe COVID-19 Vaccine, much better than Pfizer and Moderna which long-term effects have yet to be made known,

WHY IS THE Multi-Ministry Task Force NOT INCLUDING IT IN THE NATIONAL VACCINATION PROGRAM? 

PS. No foreign pressure or interference?

LIPS

American idiot exposing his ignorance

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdZJXX4rRQ8

Listen to this idiot and his nonsense. If only he could think. There are so many of them in Fox News and other American media, and in Washington, uttering through their arseholes, exposing their lack of depth of what is going on around the world except to keep believing it is their goddamn right to be rich and powerful without knowing why. American Exceptionalism, can keep on printing money without working for it and all will be fine.

This is only 3 minutes of idiocy from Washington.

Parathletes cash incentive doubles. Why no cash incentive for Masters Athletes?

 

SINGAPORE: Five-time Paralympic gold medallist Yip Pin Xiu will receive S$800,000 for the two gold medals she won at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in August, said the Singapore National Paralympic Council (SNPC) on Saturday (Oct 16)....

SNPC announced on Saturday that DBS will match the council's Athletes Achievement Awards (AAA), the cash incentive scheme for Singaporean athletes who win medals at major para games....

"(DBS') initial commitment will span two Paralympic Games cycles, until the Paralympic Games 2024 in Paris," said SNPC. The funding by DBS will also cover the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Para Games, Asian Para Games and the Commonwealth Games. 

The move comes in the wake of public discussion over the disparity in cash awards. Joseph Schooling received S$1 million for the gold medal he won at the 2016 Rio Games.

Yip was originally awarded S$200,000 for each gold medal won at the Paralympic Games. She was presented with two cheques amounting to S$800,000 at the 2021 Athletes Achievement Awards and Appreciation Ceremony on Saturday.   CNA

It is most welcome to reward the parathletes for their devotion and contribution to the sports, for their time, effort and training to win medals for the country. This is a small step towards recognising sports men and women as winning international events did not come easy. The athletes must put in a lot of time, effort, pain and financial resources to be competitive at international level.

For so long, the recognition has been only for normal athletes and parathletes. There is completely no support for Masters athletes, no mention of their existence, silence, as if they did exist. Aren't Masters athletes also athletes, also humans that can make do with some kind of govt support to keep them going? Is this some kind of discrimination against oldies, or the Masters athletes do no deserve any support from the govt?

Who are the Masters athletes? They are the Pioneers and Merdeka Generations. They built this country from scratch. Their contributions were the foundation to the success the present generation are enjoying today. Why is the govt ignoring their existence as if they are garbage that is best left in some unknown corners, not to be seen or heard? Used items need to be discarded and forgotten?

No one shall be left behind? 

'DBS Singapore Group Executive and Country Head Shee Tse Koon said DBS "readily agreed" when the council approached DBS to ask if they would consider sponsoring the AAA. 

"All of us can do our part to create a more inclusive Singapore. As a Singapore brand, we also believe in supporting and nurturing homegrown talent," said Mr Shee.'

Is it ok to exclude the Masters, the senior citizens in all inclusive Singapore?

What If Singapore Became A Western Power's Military Base?

Once Singapore becomes a military base of the Five Eye, China will not respond kindly. Even Russia will do something. The other ASEAN countries will not take it sitting down either.

The whole geopolitical situation in the region and world stage changes.

Singapore cannot tell the world that it is neutral anymore.

It cannot say it's balancing the superpowers anymore.

It has openly become an appendage of the Western Powers, specifically the White Supramacists, and therefore will be seen and treated by the Arab countries, ASEAN, China, India, Russia and North Korea as such.

What will those countries do?

1. Diplomatically, they may express disappointment, disapproval or displeasure. Some may sermon the Singapore Ambassador for consultation and questioning. Some may cut off diplomatic relationship altogether.

2. Trade and commerce. Some may boycott Singapore's exports or impose sanctions on Singapore's key exports/imports, especially China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

3. Sanctions. Sanctions may also be imposed on Temasek Holdings, GIC and their subsidiaries, and many Singapore key personnel, by China and Russia, even Indonesia and Malaysia.

4. Banking and Finance. Singapore's banking and financial institutions in other countries may be badly hit by new punitive restrictions imposed by retaliating host countries.

5. There are many other ways to skin a cat - the Singapore fat cat that has turned dangerous, nasty and confrontational.

So, in conclusion, the stakes for Singapore to allow the White Powers to make use of Singapore as their major staging area to launch military operations in Asia and South East Asia are very high and very risky.

Only cowardly fools will succumb to the White Supramacists pressure.

If that happens, the independence of Singapore over the last 56 years becomes null and void. All the nation building efforts simply gone to waste.

And Singapore's leadership will lose the trust and respect of their citizens and foreigners alike, forever!

Think 3 times before you act.


SSO

Westlite Incident: Excessive Use Of Ugly Force

The mass media, mouth pieces of the PAP government, tried to play down the incident by saying that MOM had sent in insufficient resources. The truth is MOM had sent in the wrong types of resources. Read the Open Letter from the Westlite Dormitory's Workers below.


"Open letter to Minister of Manpower Tan See Leng:

Please do not call us “your brothers”

If we are truly your brothers why do you surround us with riot squad and policemen?

If we are truly your brothers why do you send in armored vehicles to surround our work camps?

If we are truly your brothers why do you allow the work camp bosses to treat us so?

Do you not know that the food we eat is infested with worms, flies and maggots?

Do you not know that the Covid-19 infected and not infected are all huddled together in the same room waiting to get infected and maybe die if help does not arrive in time?

Do you not know Minister that some of us have taken to sleeping on the cold hard floor in corridors to try to escape from the contagion?

Minister we are not your brothers.

We are only your work slaves!

There are two thousand of us here, a quarter of whom have been infected?

Why do you send in armored vehicles instead of ambulances?

Why did you not send in doctors and nurses. Instead you send in soldiers and policemen?

Truly Minister we are not your brothers because brothers do not treat each other like criminals.

We are here to work to build your industries your infrastructure and your homes.

You must not forget we are workers and not work slaves. The least you can do is to accord us some respect and treat us decently as human beings.



Workers from Westlite Dormitory."

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Original letter in Chinese below:

致：新加坡人力部部长陈思龙

请不要称我们为“你的兄弟”

如果我们真的是你的兄弟，你为什么要用防暴队和警察包围我们？

如果我们真的是你的兄弟，你为什么派装甲车来包围我们的宿舍楼？

如果我们真的是你的兄弟，你为什么允许宿舍的老板这样对待我们？

难道你不知道我们吃的食物里都滋生了蠕虫、苍蝇和蛆吗？

难道你不知道受感染的和还没受感染的都挤在同一个房间里等待被感染，如果沒及的被送院处理都可能会死的？

你不知道部长，我们中的一些人已经习惯睡在走廊里冰冷的硬地板上以避免被感染。

部长 我们不是你的兄弟。

我们只是你的工作奴隶！

我们这里有两千人，四分之一被感染了。

你为什么派装甲车而不是救护车？

你为什么不派医生和护士来。 相反的，你却派士兵和警察來？

真正[sic]的部长，我们不是您的兄弟，因为兄弟不会被像罪犯一样的对待。

我们在这里致力于建设您们的工业和基础设施和您们的家园。

你一定不要忘记我们是工人，而不是的工作奴隶。 你至少能做的就是给我们一些尊重，把我们当作人一样体面地对待。



Westlite宿舍的工人
14.10.21


The President must immediately launch an investigation at the national level, covering not only the Westlite Dormitory but all the Dormitories in Singapore, to find out the bad living conditions, ill-treatment of foreign workers, lack of medical support and supplies, segregation of Covid infected from the healthy ones, and more.

Somebody has to be made responsible for the bad and strong-arm handling of this issue and be sacked!

Whoever gave orders to deploy the armoured vehicles and police special forces ought to be sent to IMH for psychiatric observations, and charged in court thereafter.

The burning fire of anger must be nipped in the bud/butt.

May Justice prevail!


LIPS

Noel Lee exposed the fake interview by CNN with an escaped 'Chinese police officer'

 This is a 10 minute video showing how the white men staged interviews to lie to their viewers and the unthinking about cruelty to Xinjiang minorities.

I just have one comment. The white interviewer travelled from Hong Kong to Norway to interview this 'ex Chinese police officer' supposedly was working in Xinjiang. Now, this 'Chinese police officer' escaped from China, why would he ran away illegally from China and still brought along his Chinese police officer's uniform along with him, with all the insignia and badges, and certificates etc etc from a police force that he ran away from? Why would he be so proud of his police uniform and all the certificates and batches, and wore them in such an interview in far away Norway?

A person running out of a country illegally, would not want to have anything to give him away from his past and true identity.  This guy is so proud of his police uniform?

Only the gullible would continue to believe in such white lies. How credible is CNN to come up with such a fake interview?

Thank you Noel. This staged interview is an insult to the intelligence of CNN viewers.

Shenzhou 13 - Chinese is the International Language in space

 The stupid Americans told the Chinese that it was unacceptable to use Chinese language in China's Space Station. What, what? The Americans wanting to tell the Chinese to speak English in the Chinese made and owned Space Station?

The Chinese of course would not entertain these clowns that are going to have no home station by 2024. The International Space Space that they hijacked from the Russians would have to be decommissioned by 2024, it runs out life. In fact this should have been scrapped by 2020, but they have extended its lifespan by another 2 and now 4 years, risking the lives of the astronauts in the ISS. It can break apart anytime now.

China's Space Station would be fully operation by 2022. By 2024, there will only be one space station above earth, ie the Chinese Space Station. This is frightening the shit out of the Americans, terribly embarrassing to have all the astronauts trained, all dressed up but no where to go. Perhaps they could pay for a ride on Jeff Bezo's or Elon Musk's space planes for a joy ride.

Several countries are cooperating with China to have their astronauts working in the CSS, and all of them are learning Chinese voluntarily. The American astronauts would have to learn Chinese if they want to work in the CSS, as all the signs and instructions are in Chinese. This would not only be difficult but embarrassing for American astronauts to have to use Chinese to communicate with Chinese taikonauts.

Anyway, the Americans need not bother. They would not be allowed inside the CSS. TCSS and the crew on board.  They would not only steal Chinese technology, they could also try to undermine the CSS operation. They post too much a threat to the safety of the crew on board. 

They would be prohibited to enter the CSS in the same way they banned Chinese from entering the ISS. Even their laws forbid them from working with the Chinese in space. They would become an international laughing dog if they changed their law to allow Americans to work with China in the CSS, exposing their stupidity and silly pride to keep China out of the ISS. Now even if they go down on their knees to beg the Chinese, China would show them the middle finger.

All the astronauts working in space, in China's Space Station, would be speaking and writing Chinese. The Americans can continue to work happily in English in their space station in the Californian desert. And can scream, America First. They can pay Hollywood to produce a few series on their conquest in space under the night sky of California using Hollywood props. Hollywood has a lot of them from Star Wars and their sci fi movies.

One thing the world should think about, the Americans claimed to have visited the moon 7 times or there about, so easily done, using 1960s backward technology, but now unable to even have a space station a few kilometres above the earth. Can you believe that? What is fiction or what is American white lie about moon landings?

CSS calling America: 美国你好吗? 

PS. Shenzhou 13 launched on 15 Oct 21 and the 3 taikonauts, 2 men and one woman, are now in the CSS, the second batch to stay in the CSS. This time the duration of the mission is 6 months.

 

China's Shenzhou-13 crew Rendezvous With China's Tianhe Space Station

According to the China Space Agency, the three taikonauts onboard the Shenzhou-13 spaceship have entered the core module of China's Tianhe Space Station on Saturday 16 October, 2021.

After Shenzhou-13 successfully completed a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the orbiting Tianhe module, the Shenzhou-13 crew Zhai Zhigang,Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu entered the orbital capsule of Tianhe, marking the country's second crew to have entered China's Tianhe space station core cabin.

Just like everyone else when they first enter their new home, the first thing that the Shenzhou-13 crew did was to check out their sweet cozy bedrooms and connect to the Wi-Fi. A livestream video shows that Zhai, who was the first to enter, was so involved and excited to settle in that he was floating upside down in the air.

The three then set up the wireless headphones for space-Earth talks.

After a brief reporting about their safety to the ground control center, the crew have their very first lunch in their new home.

Among the three new residents, there are the country's first spacewalker Zhai Zhigang, first female taikonaut to have stepped inside its own space station Wang Yaping, and first taikonaut who was trained in an international space agency Ye Guangfu. They will stay in space for six months, double the time of the Shenzhou-12 crew.

They are expected to return to earth in April 2022, which means they will celebrate a special, unforgettable Chinese Lunar New Year in space.

They are tasked to carry out two to three extra-vehicular activities, better known as spacewalks.

Wang Yaping will participate in at least one spacewalk, becoming the first Chinese woman to achieve such a feat.

They are also expected to install transfer gears linking the big and small robotic arms and related suspension gears for future construction work.

The rendezvous and docking happened at 6:56 am on Saturday morning, six and a half hours after traveling on a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China's Gansu Province.

Docked at the bottom of the Tianhe core cabin from a radial direction, the spacecraft safely and smoothly delivered the second batch of residents to China's space station.

A combination flight has been formed, consisting of the Tianhe core cabin at the center, and Shenzhou-13 manned craft, Tianzhou-2 and Tianzhou-3 cargo craft on the side.

China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) has designed a new rendezvous path and circling flight mode to support fast-docking in the radial direction.

As beautiful as the "space waltz" was, it was a lot more difficult than the front and rear docking with the Tianhe core cabin as the Shenzhou-12, Tianzhou-2 and Tianzhou-3 missions had exercised.

For front and rear dockings, there is a 200-meter holding point for the craft, enabling them to maintain a stable attitude in orbit even when engines are not working. However, radial rendezvous does not have such a midway stopping point, and it requires continuous attitude and orbit control.

During the radial rendezvous, the spacecraft needs to turn from level flight to vertical flight with a wide range of attitude maneuvers, posing tough challenges for the "eyes" of the craft to see the target in time and ensure that the "eyes" will not be disturbed by complex lighting changes.

The success of this new docking method would be another sign of China's new space technology capabilities. 

LIPS

Is Singapore a US colony ?

  Can the US decide to grant permission to a third country to use Singapore facility ?

Australian and US military forces should integrate further under a “collective deterrence strategy” aimed at China’s rise, giving Canberra access to American operations in the Philippines, Singapore and Guam, a new report argues.

The allies should look at new “combined access arrangements” among a number of ways to strengthen “integrated deterrence” against Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the region, according to the report released by the Sydney-based United States Studies Centre on Friday.

“Greater Australian access to US operating locations in Guam, the Philippines and Singapore could significantly augment the Australian Defence Force’s strategic footprint,” says the report authored by Australia’s former consul general in Honolulu, Jane Hardy.

Washington operates a number of major military installations on Guam, a US territory, and has access to facilities in Singapore and the Philippines under a pair of security pacts. 

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USS Connecticut - Another American white lie?

The accident involving the American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut has been reported all over the media. It was a small accident. They did not know what the submarine hit because is was really a small accident. Could be a whale or a small ship or a floating stone in the ocean. And only a few soldiers suffered minor injuries, nothing serious at all. Everything would be fine. 

After all, after 5 days or how many days, how did the nuclear submarine crawled back to Guam, no one knew about it. It was such a small matter that no one knew how it happened, where it happened. The submarine would be repaired in Guam and it would take only a few days and it would be up and snooping around in the South China Sea again.

Funny, it was reported somewhere that the repair facilities in Guam were inadequate to repair the minor damages to the submarine. And the submarine could not survive the journey across the Pacific Ocean back to the repair yards in the USA.

And there were some reports that not only 13 sailors were injured, but more than 30. And the injuries were very serious in some cases.

What really happened to the Connecticut? How many sailors were hurt and how many seriously? How many died? How long would this submarine be out of action and be laid in the repair yard in the US, if they are able to drag it home?

There seems to be a lot of questions waiting to be answered. The accident, so minor, and only 13 sailor suffered light injuries should not be anything to worry about. Is it? Who provided all the information about the Connecticut and the accident?

What do you think? How much of the news coming out from the Americans were white lies? We know they are masters of spreading white lies. Washing powder could become weapon of mass destruction. A mountain can be turned into a mole hill. 

Is it so easy to bang into such a sophisticated submarine when nothing could get to within 10 km without being detected?  Most cars today also can avoid accident with cameras and software embedded.

COVID-19 Singapore: Are The Generals Of Any Help To Our Fight Against The Coronavirus?

 
To me, the generals are practically useless. These are my reasons why I said so:

1. They don't even realise that the Covid-19 Pandemic is a Virus War against Humanity, until more than one and a half years later, it took a non-military geberal Ong Ye Kung, to realise and said so - that the Pandemic "is like a war".

2. They didn't even have any tactical plan to start with. So, don't have to talk about stratrgic plans.

3. They didn't even organise the country for war. They just resorted to "monitoring closely" and than reacted, and most of the times, reacted too little too late.

4. Always waiting for hindsight. Leaders plan ahead, using their vision and wisdom, which they have none. Followers wait for hindsight and orders. Without hindsight and orders, they are lost; they simply do not know which direction to go. They simply cannot work.

5. They didn't lead the charge against the enemy (coronavirus) by example. They hid inside their ivory towers and pretended that they were all there for you, uttering: "No one will be left behind". But in reality, on the ground, many have been left in the wayside, hospitals and homes to suffer and to die.

6. They didn't have the will power, the spirit, the courage, the patience and the resolve to fight on until victory is achieved. Halfway on the march towards the foothills of the counterattack, they put up the white flag and simply surrendered to the Enemy's Special Forces, the Covid-19 Delta Variants.

7. They are only good in taking umbrage and giving orders, pushing their subordinates down the gutters, while they themselves grab the honor, prestige and rewards.

Such are the fast-tracked, incubated, inexperienced generals of papers, not of deeds, that we are having?

I hope I am absolutely wrong.


SSO.

COVID-19 Singapore: Prolonged Entrenched Political Power Breeds Ills To Party And Society

 

A regime that has held power for far too long (more than 5 decades) is bound to become arrogant, cocky, over-confident and self-assured. Never made mistakes?

Over the past 20 months or so, we can clearly see that the Millionaires' Multi-Ministry Elephant Task Forced (Into Our Throats) is devoid of common sense and proper forward planning. Every policy, protocol and measure is reactionary, after-thoughts, based on hindsight instead of foresight.

When a group of highly educated and intelligent persons refused to use common sense, they resort to conjectures, theories, double-edged fork-tongue advice from non-experts masquerading as experts, fancy dreams and fantasies.

Outsiders can see through their blunders and mistakes but they themselves couldn't. This is the present state of deep shit affairs.

Moreover, with a ruling party filled with people who have always excelled in their academic results, and acquired top scholarships, never tasted failures nor downfalls, and never admit mistakes (one cannot learn and make corrections if one does not identify and admit mistakes first), how can they see or realise their own blunders and mistakes?

Furthermore, with the habitual and strong desire to hear only sweet music to their ears, and the frequent and incorrigible urge towards self-praise, there is very little hope that they will be able to hear or discern the repeated suggestions, recommendations and warnings given by the public in the various social media platforms.

However, that doesn't mean that we should give up and stop our unpaid, free, efforts to continue to alert them and warn them. This is our country and we are part of whether that happens to our country.

We are the affected party on the ground, at ground zero. They are at cloud 9, high above in their comfortable and grand six-stars ivory towers. Usually, the communications wave get lost in the wavelengths that travel from the bottom to the top because there exists too many layers of filters, and safety and security protections surrounding them.

Millionaires are afraid to die.

Millionaires with unfettered powers are only afraid of ghosts - the three ghosts of The Christmas Carol - of past, present and future, and nothing else.

Hope the three ghosts will visit them soon, to kick them in the ass and wake them up to carry out the long delayed necessary changes to themselves and to their relationship with society.


Early Merry Christmas!


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Covid19 - Would Singapore become a mini India, a basket case?

 5 days in a row with more than 3,000 infected cases. Sat was the highest with 3,703 cases and 11 deaths in a day! Looking at this number it seems small compares to neighbouring countries with 8,000 to 10,000 cases. Having 3,000 cases daily are now normal. Without proper and systematic testing, with so many people just stay at home or in the dormitories, how many cases are there really?

India now has about 20,000 daily cases and soon would have no cases in a matter of days. But India has a population of 1.3b.

If we extrapolate this, how many cases would Singapore have if its population is 1.3b? India's worse case was 400,000 daily. At 3,500 daily cases, Singapore would have an equivalent of 800,000 daily cases!

The big question is when would Singapore become a basket case like India, when hospitals are fully filled and patients are all over the place? When that happens, given this trajectory, the whole world would shun Singapore.

At one time Singapore proudly went around selectively to open special travel corridors with countries with small numbers of infection. Now this is not going to happen. Though many are deceived by the nominal 3,500 daily cases, and still some are talking about vaccinated travel lanes with Singapore, the counterparts are likely from countries that have lost control of the virus.

Do not be surprised that this could be only temporary as the cases could explode and all countries would be issuing travel warnings to avoid Singapore.

Let's pray that the millionaire magicians are right or Singapore would be a mini India with more cases per million, could be the highest in the world.

Would this become a norm, that Singaporeans are not welcome?

 

This news could be a rude warning of more to come if the infection rate in Singapore continues to grow. The MTF is planning and thinking that the virus infection would be within their expectation and manageable and would not run wild, reach a reasonable and acceptable level to other countries. If this is not the case, Singapore would be in for deep trouble. Instead of opening up the economy and receiving more visitors, no one would come except for the lepers and desperadoes.Now it is up to the virus and the unseen hands.