Orlando terror shooting – The USA cannot have its cake and eat it

My sympathy and condolence to all those killed or wounded in the Orlando Club terror attack that killed 50 people and many injured by a lone gunman identified as Omar Mateen, an American citizen from Afghanistan. No innocent life should be lost to killers and insane people whether in uniform or otherwise, whether they are part of so called terrorist organizations or in the uniform of the United States of America.  Orlando Club lost 50 lives, how many lives were lost in Iraq, Libya, Syria and the Middle East in general and all around the world caused by the American forces, legally or illegally, in overt or covert warfare? How many more lives of silly Asians and SE Asians are going to die if the American is successful in provoking a war in the South China Sea or in the Korean Peninsula?

The American has this killer strategy. Start wars everywhere except in homeland America. As long as the wars are fought in other people’s countries, far away, the Americans will be safe at home, continue to watch their basketball matches, baseball, go to dance halls, eat their American breakfast in peace, while other people are dying, killed by American soldiers and terrorist organizations created and supported by the USA.

Things are not going the way of the Americans when the rest of the world wise up. They are not going to continue to be silly and fight an endless war, continuous destruction of their economies and lives in their own countries at the behest of the Americans. They are going to bring the war into the homes and streets of homeland America.

If the Americans refused to stop their warmongering and agitations for war outside America, war will come home, to kill Americans in American soil. The USA cannot have the cake and eat it too. You want to start wars and kill other people, they will return the favour to Americans in America.

Orlando Club is only the beginning and more will happen and more innocent Americans will die, just like the innocents that died all over the world, by the bullets of American soldiers and their accomplices, the willing rogues of the ‘free’ world. The Americans cannot go on all over the world to light fires and think they can be safe at home anymore.

ISIS has owned up and is targeting homeland America with their recruitment propaganda calling on sympathizers, not just their core fighters, to pledge allegiance to the Caliphate and would be recognized and honoured as the lions, the warriors of their cause against the Americans. According to a NYT report, ‘the terror group’s spokesman Abu Muhammad Adnani last month incited its supporters to carry out killings abroad during the holy month of Ramadan.  No attack is too small, be advised, specifically naming the US as a target.  “The smallest action you do in the heart of their land is dearer to us than the largest action by us,” he said “and more effective and more damaging to them.”’

America, here you have it. The war is heading to your homeland. All your nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers and your F35s, cruise missiles, drones and stealth bombers are useless, hapless in the face of a fighter or sympathizer suicide terrorist willing to die for his or her cause. The fire you lighted far away is coming home.

Another Hong Lim Protest

I heard there is one this Saturday organized by the Community Action Network (CAN) and the topic is the recent harassment of Roy Ngerng and Teo Soh Lung.  I tried to search for this info in the net but got zero result.

I am wondering how many people knew about it or would turn out when there is hardly any information about the event. The organizers expect everyone to know or only for their friends and associates to attend? Is this a spread by words of mouth protest for those who are connected to the Community Action Network group?

The last time Gilbert Goh held a protest, there were barely 200 people. These organizers need to learn the ropes from the Pink Dot Organisers, maybe get some donations and support from big corporations if they ever think there will be people turning up for their event.

The Truth Behind US Aggressive Posture And Provocative Actions In The South China Sea And The East China Sea.

The Truth Behind US  Aggressive Posture and provocative actions in the South China Sea and the East China Sea

   
Why is US so dead against China? China has never done any harm to US both in the past and in the present. But US has always treated China with contempt. US has never conceal its great dislike for China because it is a communist state.All American leaders both past and present have always harboured the determination to take China down because they claim China as an authoritarian communist state is anathema to Western Democracy in which US is the outspoken Champion and leader.All US elites, intellectuals, military and political leaders have always uttered that China as an authoritarian state will not last and will soon collapse into the scrap heap  of history.. To enhance the quick demise of China they have always adopted all plans and means and insidious policies to make sure China become a fail state.In the 1930s and 1940s US supported the imbecile Chiang Kaishek Kuomintang against Mao Tse Tung. In 1950 US started the Korean War to involve China so as to wear down China from rising. It started trade and economic sanctions against China to prevent China's national reconstruction and development. It intervened in China's Civil War between Mao Tse Tung and KMT by stationing the Seventh Fleet in the Taiwan Strait to prevent Mao Tse Tung from taking Taiwan thus preventing China from taking the Chinese Civil War to a fruitful conclusion.

In the Cairo Declaration, Potsdam Treaty and San Francisco Treaty , Japan was supposed to give back to China all the territories that Japan took from China and they include the Diau Yudao, Taiwan, the Pescadores, the Paracel Islands, the Spratley Islands and its shoals and surrounding seas. However in 1976 US treacherously handed Diau Yudao to Japan inspite of protest from Taiwan KMT and China.. In the mid 1970s when China announced the discovery of rich oil and other mineral resources under the sea bed of the South China Sea, US secretly encouraged Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia to grab some of the Chinese islands in the Spratley and Paracel group.

Though US says it is not a claiment to all these islands and does not take sides among the claiments it is adopting the most aggressive hostile posture towards China. US is openly championing and supporting the spurious illegal claims of the Philippines and Vietnam.We have yet to know by what dubious corrupted means US had used behind the scene to encourage and embolden the Pinoys and the Viets to steal Chinese territories and challenge Chinese ownership.

US is supporting Japan in the Diau Yudao and the Pinoys and the Viets in the South China Sea issues not because US believes that Japan, Philippines and Vietnam have a genuine case . US support of the Japs, Pinoys and the Viegts is part of the US calculus to bring China down by all means economically, politically and militarily. The Diau Yudao and the South China Sea issues are exploited by US to serve its agenda and excuse of open confrontation with China. The crap that US is constantly harping that it is challenging China in the South China Sea for freedom of passage is hogwash because China has never and will never stop free passage in the sea lanes of the South China sea.But free passage does not mean US has the right to conduct nefarious activities against China in encroaching on China's airspace and naval spying activity close to China's long coastline. The Diauyu Dao and the South China issues just serve as a convenient excuse and platform for US to undermine China's rights and national security and this is part of the whole conundrum of bringing China down.

US leaders both civilian intellectuals, professors, politicians, presidents and the military always openly and proudly declare that US will not allow any country to become as rich and powerful as US not to say becoming richer and more powerful than US. To the US establishment it sees China as committing a sin of becoming rich and powerful now. Therefore US has to take down China. It tried economic sanctions on China before but it didn't work. So now US is tinkering with the thought of using the military means to destroy China. US is using the Diaoyu Dao and the South China issues as a heaven sent excuse for opening hostilities against China. It is intent on luring China out to fight with its provoking spying overflights and naval incursions.which threaten China's sovereign security. US believes whether rightly or wrongly that it now has a chance to destroy China by military means with its overwhelming military might of fourteen aircraft carriers, hundreds of warships and nuclear armed submarines and twenty thousand bombers both conventional and nuclear armed as well as space armed satellites and thousands of nuclear armed rocket missiles.

So it is not true that US is fighting for freedom of passage in the South China Sea and neither it really believes that philippines and Vietnam have a strong case in their nefarious claims on Chinese territories . It is a twisted logic for US to  falsely and insidiously  accuse  China of trying to grab  its neighbours' territories.. It is just US establishment look at a rich and powerful communist China with jaundiced eyes and its inherent hatred for China is so great that it feels it has a mission to destroy China. Another reason is that US has a latent desire to secure hegemonic control over the East China Sea and the South China Sea and the rich oil and mineral resources under the sea bed respectively. But US may have miscalculated for China is no more "The Sick Man of Asia " as in the last century , but is now a rich and powerful nuclear armed military power with second strike capabilities. US mistakenly thinks it can kill the Chinese without incurring injury to itself. An attack on China now could be the  last battle for US and the demise of USA itself. Well, man proposes but God disposes. The earlier the moronic US establishment comes to its senses the better for mankind.

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The USA can play a constructive role to defuse the tension in the South China Sea

Tension has been mounting in the South China Sea due mainly to an intransigent stand taken by the USA and its hidden agenda in the pivot to Asia policy. The tension and dispute in the South China Sea and the East China Sea could be history if the Americans were honest and honourable to face the historical facts and legalities concerning the status and sovereignty of the so called disputed islands. These islands are not disputed islands and the Americans knew the full facts and the legal agreements that they have helped to sign immediately after World War 2.

On 8 June 16, the Assistant Director of the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore, Ms Tsai Chi Yuan wrote to the Straits Times and clearly stated the how Taiwan has been administering the South China Sea islands since the 1930s with full acknowledgement by countries in the region and the world.  Here are some of the key points raised by Ms Tsai:

‘Whether from the perspective of history, geography or international law, the Nansha (Spratly) Islands, Shisha (Paracel) Islands, Chungsha Islands (Macclesfield Bank) and Tungsha (Pratas) Islands, as well as their surrounding waters, are an inherent part of Taiwan's territory and waters.

When France attempted to occupy nine of the Shisha and Nansha islands in 1931 and 1933 during its colonisation of Annam (known today as Vietnam), Taiwan responded to this challenge by ordering its embassy in France to issue statements of sovereignty.

On April 29, 1930, at the Far Eastern Meteorological Conference in Hong Kong, the Taiwan-operated observatory in Tungsha Islands was acknowledged as the most important in the South China Sea. The Philippine representative for the Manila Observatory's suggestion that Taiwan set up meteorological observatories on the Shisha and Chungsha islands to enhance navigation safety was also passed unanimously….the International Civil Aviation Organisation's conference in Manila on Oct 27, 1955, a resolution was passed for Taiwan to provide weather reports on the Tungsha, Shisha and Nansha islands….

After World War II, with assistance from the Allies, Taiwan took formal possession in 1946 of South China Sea islands formerly seized by Japan.

The San Francisco Peace Treaty, which entered into force on April 28, 1952, and the Treaty of Peace between Taiwan and Japan signed on the same day, reaffirmed that the South China Sea territories occupied by Japan should be returned to Taiwan.’

And Taiwan is part of China under Chiang Kai Shek that claimed to rule the whole of China as the Republic of China until the PRC replaced the ROC in the UN in 1971.

The historical facts quoted by Ms Tsai were known to the Americans. The Americans cannot plead ignorance to the Treaty of San Francisco and the Treaty of Potsdam. And the Americans have also signed the following treaties with Spain and Britain that were very clear on the sovereignty of the South China Sea islands and the delineation of the Philippines territories. The Chinese islands did not belong to the Philippines as recorded in the 1898 Treaty of Paris between the US and Spain, the 1900 Treaty of Washington between US and Spain and the 1930 Treaty between Britain and the US, all excluded the ‘disputed’ islands as Philippines territory.

How then can the Americans be constructive and defuse the problems and tension in the South China Sea? It simply calls upon the Americans to be honest, honourable, to acknowledge and recognize the terms of these treaties that all clearly said the islands belong to China. It calls upon the American to honour all legally binding international treaties and obligations, to obey the rule of law that they are violating but accusing China of committing when China was playing by the rules of law.

By not wanting to talk about these treaties that were crafted by the Americans and pretending that they did not exist, the Americans are not only dishonest, dishonourable but also very mischievous. The irony is that the Americans are accusing the Chinese of using coercive tactics and might is right to intimidate and bully its neighbours. When the Americans are honest and honourable, and to wave these treaties to the claimant countries and telling them to recognize the terms in these treaties, all the claims by Japan and the Asean claimant countries would become irrelevant, illegal and unfounded. It would then be a case of unreasonable claims by Japan and the Asean countries on Chinese territories. And the issue of coercion, might is right or freedom of navigation will come to a natural end.

Would the Americans do the honourable thing by being honest and tell the historical truths that are written in these treaties that the Americans wrote and signed? There is no dispute in the South China Sea and the claims were based on fallacies and spurious logic and the Americans knew. It is time that the Americans stop their mischievous agenda and defuse the tension in the South China Sea by telling the truths in these treaties.

The criminal and fraudulent stock market makes its first killing

I have written many times about the fraudulent and flawed stock market trading system coming out from the West when computers and computer traders were legally allowed to cheat the innocent traders, including the big funds that do not operate high speed computers and the retail traders. And the whole exchange system was redesigned to facilitate the computers and computer traders to make their cheating of other traders easier, more convenient and faster. I am not going repeat what I have said before but just to point out this piece of news coming out from London.

‘Dark Days at the Folly as Nomura Traders Join Europe’s Jobless
2016-06-08 04:00:00.3 GMT

By Liam Vaughan
(Bloomberg) -- They made their way in dribs and drabs. Hundreds of displaced bankers, shuffling up Suffolk Lane to All. Bar One and along Upper Thames Street toward the Folly, the only pubs in the City of London open that early on an overcast
Tuesday morning.
   

It was April 12, and Tokyo-based Nomura Holdings Inc. had just informed about 600 traders, analysts and advisers that they were no longer needed. The bank was pulling out of equities in Europe, affecting roughly one in five employees in the region.’

Even a big operator like Nomura with 600 employees in equity trading could not survive this fraudulent trading system. More will follow suit before the equity market freezes up with no more traders in the market except the computers and computer traders. And no one is looking at the elephant in the trading floor. And all those responsible for the fiasco are pretending that everything is fine.

It would not be long, the damage is so severe to all the stock markets around the world that were forced to adopt this criminal system that not only traders are fleeing, even the companies are starting to delist when it becomes foolish to pay listing fees only to see the value of their stocks turning into smokes and risked being taken over. No clear thinking companies would want to list their companies in the stock exchanges any more. Only those that are thinking of making a quick buck will do so and with the opportunity to buy back all the stocks on delisting at a fraction of the listing price. It is going to be the trend.

Watch for the curtains to fall and everyone will plead ignorant and innocent and would blame everything under the sky except the elephant they brought into the trading system.