Year of the Monkey for Asia and SE Asia

The Year of the Monkey is not even into its second week and big things are happening and developing in Asia and SE Asia. War is coming, if not in the South China Sea it would be in the Korean Peninsula. It could have started earlier in the South China Sea if the Chinese did not restrain themselves in the face of intimidations and provocations by the Americans. The Chinese are squeezing their balls real tight and tolerating the aggressive acts by the Americans.  Any reaction or miscalculation would have blown up into full scale wars. The Chinese are trying very hard to avoid a war with the Americans in the South China Sea. China would have nothing to gain and a lot to lose should a war break out with the Americans.

This is not the case between the two Koreans. The South Koreans are really very happy to go to war with the North Koreans. They could not stomach the North Koreans sending up their own satellites to space and chose to call it provocation, developing its missile and nuclear technology and capability. Can North Korea, a sovereign state develop its own weapon system to defend itself? This kind of thinking is like an Asean state crying for war because its neighbouring state bought better weapons of war, better aircraft or naval ship or submarine. All these acts, in the eyes of a bully, can be used as an excuse to condemn and start a war.

What is going to happen in the Korean Peninsula and to the two Korean people? War is inevitable with the South Koreans thinking war is a tea party. They are so eager to go to war. And with the Americans and Japanese waiting to push them into it, a false flag incident is so easy to create. So you will have war coming very soon in East Asia.

Who would be the first to die and their countries destroyed? No reward for the correct answers. The two Koreans would soon be killing each other and bombing their country to pieces. And the Americans and Japanese would only be too happy to help in a big way, to kill more Koreans and destroy that country.

Then the Chinese and Russians would have no choice but to come in to help the North Koreans, and more Koreans on both sides would be killed, and some Americans and Japanese would also be killed together with some Chinese and Russians.

Who would next to send their boys to be killed in Korea? The eager beavers of course, The Philippines, Australians and some SE Asian states would also be drawn in to fight for the Americans and to die for the Americans.  I just hope that Asian countries are smart enough not to go to war for the Americans. But with so many eager beavers wanting to prove themselves, with some silly American blue eye boys that would do anything the Americans asked them to do, SE Asian countries would be involved for sure.

And there will be many dead heroes and people with no arms and no legs returning to SE Asia to be celebrated by their people. There will be war memorial to honour them, there will be dead heroes day, a lot to cry about and a lot to celebrate.

Who is the real winner? When everyone is made a monkey of by the merchants of war, by the evil Empire, 2016 is indeed a Year of the Monkeys. And many monkeys will be from Asia and SE Asia. Stupid Asians would be going to war like monkeys not knowing why they become monkeys in a deadly circus.

Chinese missiles in the Paracels

This is the latest good news reported by Fox News. Whether it is western media fabrication like the WMD in Iraq or real, the deployment of military assets in view of the provocative actions by the American gunboats aircraft sailing into the area is necessary and urgent. China must put in real missiles, fly in their fighter aircraft and sail in more naval ships and submarines into the region to protect its national sovereignty or be violated by the Americans at wil, and be seen as weak and unable to defend its territorial integrity.

‘South China Sea dispute: Chinese missiles in Paracels, says Fox
News

Feb. 17 (Sydney Morning Herald) -- 

Fairfax exclusive, May 2015: China puts weapons on its new artificial islands

The Chinese military has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of its contested islands in the South China Sea, Fox News reported, citing new civilian satellite imagery.’

And little Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is telling the Chinese to stop reclamation and construction work in the Chinese islands. Who does she think she is, the Foreign Minister of the Empire?’

 

China should use the provocations by the Americans as a legitimate reason to militarise the South China Sea in the same way the Americans are using freedom of navigation to justify their military presence in the region.  China cannot let the Americans threaten its sovereignty and appear weak and do nothing when confronted by the American missile destroyers. No country would back out and do nothing in the face of foreign military intimidation. The Americans are using freedom of navigation to for military intervention. The Chinese should thank the Americans for the provocations as the reason to militarise and defend the islands.  They should move in more military hardware to match the American ships and aircraft in the region.

What China is doing is purely defensive in nature. The missiles are to protect the islands from being attacked, unlike the B52s, F22s and missile destroyers deployed by the Americans.  Compare these to the militarization of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, Guam and many other Pacific Islands by the Americans, the Chinese action is legitimate and non aggressive in nature. The Americans are deploying offensive weapons in Diego Garcia to control the Indian Ocean and India is hapless and could not do anything, and in other Pacific Islands as well as military bases in South Korea, Japan, Australia, the Philippines and other South East Asian countries. They are moving all their big guns into the region for war. And China must to everything it can to defend against the Americans should the Americans start to attack China or Chinese islands in the South China Sea.

The American military allocations into the region is many times more hostile and offensive than the North Koreans sending satellites into space. The latter is a peaceful and commercial mission. What the Americans are doing is preparation for war, to attack China and North Korea but harping about peace and not to raise tension.

China must intensify its military build up in the South China Sea and prepare to defend them or face an American attack like the Japanese attacking the British colonies in WW2. The Americans are the provocateurs, the aggressors, the invaders. The Chinese are the defenders, defending their own territories.

What is a rogue President?

Lye Khuen Way:

February 16, 2016 at 7:13 am  Lye Khuen Way(Quote)

It’s probably time to do away with this wayang Elected President thing. Why? From President Ong onwards, we never had any Presidents, Elected or Appointed who dare to ask probing questions of the Government of the day.

With impending changes that will make further mockery of this institution of an Elected President, let’s not fool ourselves that it’s for Singapore good.

Then what? No symbolic Head of State? What State is my retort! Aren’t we a place that belongs to Everyone? I didn’t say it. One PM did and he is still the new PM!

 

The above is a comment by a blogger in TRE. Lye is very cynical and suspicious about the purpose of this ‘wayang Elected President thing’. What was Lye Khuen Way saying in this sentence, ‘From President Ong onwards, we never had any Presidents, Elected or Appointed who dare to ask probing questions of the Government of the day.’? These Presidents cannot be rogues right? Everyone is an honourable man, high net worth, with plenty of money, ‘chiat buay leow’, how can they be rogues?  Not asking probing questions is not a condition to be  a rogue. And when everything is fine, country so well run, all the reserves so well taken care of, what is there to ask? And when the govt is making all the right policies and supported by the people, elected by the people, lagi no reason and no question to ask. Like that how to blame them?

There is no point asking simple questions or silly questions just to be put on record that one actually spoke up right?  The president is not like MPs, need to speak up in parliament or to ask questions to be seen to be working.  There is no need to waste people’s time asking questions that meant nothing or take too long to answer.  As the most dignified person in office, the President cannot anyhow open mouth to ask question when there is no question to be asked. To be presidents, all must be very smart and know when to ask questions when they know something is wrong.

The impending changes must be good, how can it be a mockery? Have faith in the popularly elected govt to do the right thing for the good of the country. Cannot anyhow cast doubts and demand an explanation like asking opposition politicians to explain everything. An elected govt is not the same as opposition parties.  Everything tip top, everyone honourable and integrity cannot be doubted. That is why the people trusted them and elected them to be the rulers of the country.

Anyone knows what is a rogue president?

Operating nuclear power stations or super computers

Operating nuclear power stations or super computers plugged into the exchange trading systems incurs the same risk of self inflicted disaster when there is no where to run or hide

 

One Of The Biggest High Frequenecy Traders Warns Of Potential Market "Catastrophe"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/04/2016 09:20 -0500

 

Here is part of an article in www.zerohedge.com that told of stupid men and women in charge and courting a catastrophe that they have no control over and did not know enough of. The high risks are obvious and well documented, but they stubbornly stick to a dangerous practice like they were bought and controlled by the high frequency traders to do what they want, freely, and risking a total system collapse.

This is like men and women flirting with the sexiness of operating nuclear power stations, knowing the risks and the inability to provide a failsafe system but ‘die die’ still want to have nuclear power stations. Should a country like Singapore go the nuclear road, would it be due to stupid men, clever men or too clever men’s recklessness or desperation?

Read this article to understand and know who are responsible to expose the ignorants to such high risk with little regards to protecting them from it. Look at how irresponsible men and women can be, how reckless they can be by turning the other way, not wanting to see the elephant in the room just to achieve their private interests.

 

….Below is part of an article in Back in April 2009, we wrote what may be the first seminal article predicting the failure of capital markets as a result of widespread predatory high frequency trading and fragmented market structure when we laid out "The Incredibly Shrinking Market Liquidity, Or The Upcoming Black Swan Of Black Swans." Several years later, and countless flash crashes, we have been proven right, however one thing is missing: "the catastrophe" that finally wakes up people to the dangers of all the individual things we have warned about over the years.

Today, we are one step closer to that day, when none other than the head of one of the biggest high-frequency trading companies, Mark Gorton of Tower Research,warned that there are several faultlines in the structure of increasingly electronic, automated financial markets that could lead to a “catastrophe” in the long run,according to the FT. 

To be sure, Mark Gorton, has a clear conflict of interest: being one of the largest HFT members himself, with his company dominating program trading on the NYSE with his Latour Trading subsiiary, the founder and head of Tower Research Capital argued that exchanges have become far more efficient with the advent of more computerised markets, but "cautioned that increasing complexity brought new dangers that needed to be mitigated."

In other words, don't blame the HFTs, blame the markets, which is to be expected from a person who will be out of a job if HFT is banned.

He further adds that "The recent evolution of markets from manual to electronic trading has had huge benefits and investors save money every day due to the lower cost of trading. But electronic trading brings with it a number of new risks, and we need to continue to strengthen the resiliency of electronic markets,"Mr Gorton told the Financial Times.

What keeps Gorton up at night? The short answer: the lack of safeguards at exchanges to prevent HFT firms like his from dragging the whole thing down:

The high-frequency trader is particularly concerned over the lack of risk controls at exchanges, which he said constituted a “large hole in the middle of the system that needs to be filled”....

 

Nonetheless, exchange-level risk controls remain “limited at best” and should assume there will inevitably be glitches, bugs and errant trading algorithms that could cause problems in the wider market, according to Mr Gorton.

Glitches from algorithms, he forgot to add, such as the one Tower uses each and every day to scalp and frontrun billions of trades in order flow.

However, his warning, conflicted as it is, is spot on: the market will crash again, it is only a matter of time, simply because the HFTs have captured market regulators so well, nobody has any idea what is going on any more: “We need a regulatory framework that assumes that any single system(can alsoread nuclear energy) in the market will fail and insures that we have multiple redundant levels of checks that can catch failures in other parts of the system,”he said.

What is Gorton's suggestion?

Mr Gorton highlighted in particular the lack of a centralised position-tracking mechanism for the US stock market, the need to refine and synchronise market circuit-breakers between highly correlated markets, such as cash equities and futures, and the absence of clarity over what it takes for trades to be declared invalid.

In other words, focus on the symptoms, shutting down markets when things go haywire, not the underlying cause, which as we have said since 2009 is simple: broken markets, designed to benefit just one group of traders….

Who would it benefit if Singapore goes nuclear?

Asean – Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Asean countries have been invited by Obama to Sunnylands estate in California for a retreat. The agenda has been crafted by the Americans for Asean to join the Empire to go knocking their heads against China, the top trading partners of many Asean countries.  According to Dr Tang Siew Mun from the Yusof Ishak Institute, ‘The US will pitch for explicit support for US actions in the South China Sea but Obama may leave Sunnylands disappointed.’ This is not the picture the western media like NYT, AFP etc are saying. Instead they reporting that the Asean countries are all living in fear of China and would join arms to fight China.

Asean are not the pieces on a chess board and the Americans are moving them together to form a united front against China like the socalled League of Nations 8 western powers invading China. Would the Asean countries be made to fight a war against China for the interests of the Empire? The heightened tension would be great opportunities for the Americans and their war industries to start selling weapons that the Asean countries would now need to defend against an enemy the China chose for them.

China is now the biggest trading partners to many Asean countries and investing heavily in them. Would Asean trade the economic benefits for war that would only lead to the destruction of their economies and the killing of their people?

In Sunnylands the Asean leaders would have to choose between a military super power and an economic super power, to chose between war and peace, to choose between economic growth or instability and destruction.

To the Americans, the best thing for Asean is tension and war with China. After 60 years of peace and stability, would Asean be foolish enough to want to court war and destruction for the benefits of the Americans and the Empire? Every summit, meeting, conference with the military power is about war. Every meeting with the economic power is about trade and investment.

It is not so right to say between the devil and the deep blue sea. It is more between war and peace, between destruction and construction, between wasting money in buying weapons or infrastructure development and trade.

Would Asean leaders be tempted by the devil to bring destruction to their countries and people?