American madhatters

Pivot Insanity: Why US Goading China?

MIKE WHITNEY | Saturday, May 30, 2015,

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‘US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is willing to risk a war with China in order to defend “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea. Speaking in Honolulu, Hawaii on Wednesday, Carter issued his “most forceful” warning yet, demanding “an immediate and lasting halt to land reclamation” by China in the disputed Spratly Islands.  

Carter said: “There should be no mistake: The United States will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows, as we do all around the world.” He also added that the United States intended to remain “the principal security power in the Asia-Pacific for decades to come.”  

In order to show Chinese leaders “who’s the boss”, Carter has threatened to deploy US warships and surveillance aircraft to within twelve miles of the islands that China claims are within their territorial waters. Not surprisingly, the US is challenging China under the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a document the US has stubbornly refused to ratify. But that’s neither here nor there for the bellicose Carter whose insatiable appetite for confrontation makes him the most reckless Sec-Def since Donald Rumsfeld….’

 

Mike Whitney called Ash Carter a madhatter not for no reasons. We taught George Bush Junior and Donald Rumsfeld were bad. Now the combination of Obama and Carter is going to make them look like angels. Bush and Rumsfeld took on countries that cannot hit back and for the control of oil. This Ash Carter, with his mouth in his anus, is thinking to taking on China, a country that not only can hit back, but can nuclear the US homeland as well. Sure, the Americans got a bigger dick and many dicks. But one good dick is enough to KO the Americans.

These two madhatters are playing with fire in the name of freedom of navigation when not a single ship of any nationalities has encountered problems navigating the South China Sea. And the Americans got no reason to be plying in the Chinese claimed islands but insisted on sailing there to tell the Chinese who is boss and who is in control of the South China Sea.

All those asses that are still siding with the madhatters, that the Americans are a peace loving country need to go and see the shrink. The Americans like this Carter is saying, is all about power and hegemony. The Americans want to be “the principal security power in the Asia-Pacific for decades to come.” It has nothing to do about freedom of navigation. It has nothing to do about protecting the interests of SE Asian countries. It is about Pax Americana!

And failing to snook the SE Asian countries into a war they did not want, the Americans are tearing off their mask of innocence and warning the Chinese that it would be war. The world’s Number One warmonger has spoken. No one believes in their hype on threats to freedom of navigation.

It is Redcon 3 in the South China Sea.  The gangsters are ready for a fight to bring war to the region. What pivot to Asia? The Americans do not come for peace but war.

Singapore should be confident to hire the best in the world

The issue of Singapore for Singaporeans is raised again in the ST on 15 Jun. And as usual, Singaporeans were told to be brave to employ the best from the world and not by nationalities. This is the same message that a blogger in my blog who thinks damn highly of himself has been spreading. Just because he is lucky and got to a slightly better position he thinks this is the right thing to do, hire the best not based on nationalities. These smug asses would not even know if his father and mother were sold to the dogs. They think they would stand a chance against the best of the world!

The statistics say there are 3m Singaporeans against 6b people out there, if hiring is based on merit, the best Sinkies would be replaced by the foreign best with the wink of the eye. The best in the world are not only the best but too many to reckon with. Please, don’t talk like a fool and still thinking that you are smart. Singaporeans do not stand a chance to compete with the best in the world. Even the call for a level playing field shows how naïve daft Sinkies are. You don’t compete with the rest of the world on a level playing field in your own country. No country does that except silly countries and silly people waiting to be replaced by foreigners and chased out of their own country.

As it is, Singaporeans are already being made fools of, hassled and cheated by people from the 3^rd world, by fakes and people with no university educations. How are they going to compete with the real talents when they could not even measure up to the fakes and cheats?

How many Singaporeans out there still think they will be holding on to their jobs or be sacked if the Govt really practices this policy of hiring the best from the world based on merit? How many in the political leadership would be there to enjoy talking nonsense if political leadership is open to the best in the world?

Are Sinkies that daft? You tell me. No they are not daft, especially the successful ones. They think and believe they are as good or betterer than the best in the world. This is the height of lunacy.

To say Singaporeans are stupid is to underestimate their stupidity.

Poor man of Asia coming to save Rich Europe

As the world embarks on its journey into the 21^st Century, Europe is waking up to a new reality that its heydays of colonialism and conquest are over. Europe would have to sustain a lifestyle and standard of living without the loot and largess from the colonies, and would have to live within its mean. The hard truth of small is small and would not be able to throw its weight around, except for an island in SE Asia, is sinking in fast.

 

China, the poor man of Asia, the victim of Europe’s looting, is going to the aid of the ailing European economies with a blank cheque. Europe could simply ask and the Chinese would oblige. But the Europeans are still stuck with their superiority complex that they were the empires and this new kid in the block could not offer them anything except cash. And the new kid is up to no good except that they could not figure out how or why.

China’s offer of aid and infrastructure development is laden with hidden agenda and not transparent. The clever Europeans are so perplexed and confused by the Chinese magic box that they are trembling in fear, just like what they said of the Africans. The Europeans have been warning the Africans that the Chinese development and trade agreements are biased to exploit them, like the colonial West putting a gun at the African leaders of the past. The only truth that they refused to see and acknowledge is that the African leaders are not duds of the past, and China is not pointing a gun at their heads.

Similarly, China is not pointing a gun at the heads of European leaders to force them to accept whatever trade agreements and infrastructure development aids it is offering. China does not go to Africa or come to Europe with warships and big guns to rob the natives. And the natives in both Africa and Europe cannot be duds and fools that cannot think and read and be readily conned by the poor Chinese. Can that be the truth? What is this fear of the Chinese coming with baskets of cash to offer to the Europeans?

As Jonathan Eyal wrote in his article in the ST on China’s Silk Road and Maritime Belt, it is the Chinese money that is at risk. China is gambling on the projects with its own money. What have the Europeans got to lose? They have gained roads, highways, bridges, nuclear power stations, ports, high speed trains, all financed by the Chinese and paid by the Chinese. What the fuck are they quibbling about in fear?

Are the Europeans so stupid that they cannot read and count and did not know what they are doing with the Chinamen? Are they acknowledging that the Chinamen are smarter than them and are out to cheat them but with Chinese money? They needed the money and the Chinese are coming with their hard cash to put it in their hands.

What is wrong with the Europeans? Lost their minds, loosing confidence in their ability to negotiate a good deal to their advantage without a gun pointing at their heads? The Europeans are shivering in their pants when the Chinamen come calling with money in plane loads in tow.

Can you believe that? The Europe of today has lost all initiatives to economic growth, and is bankrupt. Their economies are no longer sustainable and the Chinese money is the drug that they need to keep going. They don’t have to colonise and loot China with their warships. The Chinese are offering them money on a silver platter, willingly, with hundreds of billions for the European Infrastructure Fund.

SGX – Smart computers and super computers

Computers are smart. If not we would not be paying millions or hundreds of millions for them. We don’t expect computers to make mistakes, only human make mistakes. When computers made mistakes, it is either that they are programmed with mistakes or input with mistakes, GIGO.

The latest fiasco by SGX, sending investors CDP statements with errors in the number of stocks they have or did not have, is a grave error. 1% of 460,000 investors means 4,600 would have received error statements. And the nature of such errors is like banks sending monthly statements to their clients showing their deposits, more or less, could be a very harrowing experience. Some may die of shock if seeing their millions disappeared, or died from disbelief when a few millions appeared in their statements.

A mistake like this in the banking industry is a cardinal sin. It is also no small matter in the stock broking business. The stocks are money in another form and people can also die from shock when the differences are huge and unbelievable. And if it is a number game, the plus must come from somewhere, and the losses must go to some where, it is a vicious circle to unentangle. Where would the disappeared stocks go to or the increase come from, from whose accounts to whose accounts?

How could it happen? The errors must be due to some input, deliberate or otherwise, through a modification in some programmes or data entry. Given the fact that so many people are affected, it is likely to be a programme or system error, and a new one. Or it could be the deliberate act of someone or some maleware in the system. A human error due to negligence is likely to affect very few people. When more than 4 thousand people are affected, it is no small matter, not likely to be due to negligence or carelessness of an operator.

Hope SGX is on top of this problem and could rectify it fast.

Amos Yee – The world’s youngest Prisoner of Conscience

Below is what Kenneth Jeyaratnam posted.

Amos Yee: World’s Youngest Prisoner of Conscience to be recognised by Amnesty International

At the beginning of this month I started exchanging correspondence with some contacts in Amnesty International sharing my view that Amos was  a prisoner of conscience.  I am delighted to say that after monitoring and considering the situation they have just written to me to say that they concur. Amnesty International will recognise Amos Yee as a Prisoner of Conscience.  Amos Yee does fulfill their criteria because his actions, though offensive, should not have been criminalised.

And this is the reply from Amnesty International.

Dear Kenneth,

Well, the IS has considered it and judge that he is indeed a POC by Amnesty’s definition. What he said falls under the kind of edgy and sharp expression of opinions that may annoy or insult, but it was peacefully said and doesn’t fall under the definition of incitement etc and is not grounds for criminalization. WE will speak out and expect to issue a statement ahead of the 23 June court hearing.

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Warmest wishes, xxxx

I feel very sorry and sad to know that Amos Yee is having suicidal tendency and they are handling him like a mental patient, tying him to his bed. His mother is trying all she could to save her child and is in desperation, alone fighting the whole world. I salute Kenneth for speaking out for Amos Yee.

Where are the decent men and women in this island? The silence is pathetic and a shame. If they don’t speak up for Amos Yee, they must remain silent for the rest of their lives. No one will give them any respect for anything they say henceforth.

Is there a conscience in this piece of rock? Or has everyone been turned into a piece of rock devoid of compassion, moral righteousness, kindness, empathy, decency, justice, heartless….?