7/13/2016

Chas cheaters discussed in Parliament

Dunno how many millions have been sponged by the cheats from the Chas scheme. And the cheats are the medical and dental clinics run by highly trained and professional people that are likely to be in the pool waiting to be picked up to run as MPs in the next GE.

Actually I don’t blame them with a system that is so flimsy and full of holes that a herd of elephants could waltz through. How not to want to take advantage of a scheme asking to be taken advantage of, you ask me lah? But in Parliament some doctor did not think so and did not think the problem is so big and so serious. Seah Kian Peng cannot tahan and was heard saying it is big money, big public money. And it is only the tip of the iceberg. Not his exact words but something like that.

When asked to enforce the medical and dental clinics to itemize the bills, Lam Pin Min was reluctant until an angry auntie blew up. ‘Why is it so difficult, given so many feedback on overcharging?’  Dr Lam, the current Minister of State for Health then replied that the MOH is ‘seriously considering making it compulsory’. ‘Seriously considering’ only mah. To do or not to do still dunno. Maybe auntie should shout at the top of her voice to be heard. We need more fierce aunties in Parliament to get something serious done. Auntie Bee Wah should call on the support of uncles like Seah Kian Peng to make sure things are not forgotten and swept under the carpet. Oh, now I remember the exact words Seah Kian Peng said, ‘These are serious monies that are going out, taxpayers’ monies.’ Did MOH think so and agree with him? This part not reported in the media.

You people out there, you think this Chas cheating thing is serious enough or not? Say leh, must say then they would say got feedback from the people. If not they may think not serious enough and the not so straight medical and dental clinics would continue to be very happy with this Chas scheme. Maybe they will set up a COI to study study first then make the final decision, to itemize or not to itemize.

Being doctors and dentists also chiat lat. Rental so high, how to cover cost? This Chas scheme is really a gift from God. The Chas card holders and pioneer generations would be swarming the clinics for free treatments. Who cares about itemized bills or no need bills, free ok leow. This is the best system so far. Win win for everyone.

7/12/2016

US plans nuclear attack on Russia and China

For some years USA has been building hundreds of huge underground bunkers - underground cities deep in the mountains all over the country. These underground cities are well equipped with modern facilities and amenities like roads, rails, electric power, reservoirs, hospitals and schools. USA may launch a surprise nuclear attack on Russia and China any time soon. These extremely mad American leaders think they will be safe in these underground cities . They have no qualms about how a nuclear exchange with Russia and China can kill hundreds of millions of people world wide including ordinary Americans so long as they stupidly feel they are safe in their underground cities.
America is nurtured on wars - perennial wars . The country is now run by extremely crazy and very mad people. They believe America should always be on top and no other country or countries would be allowed to come close to America's top position in military power, finance , wealth and riches in status. In view of this they feel compelled to take down Russia and China, the only two countries obstructing its path to complete world domination.
They are now turning their propaganda departments in full gear to demonise both Russia and China. Their propagandist machine is now in full swing to whip up all false reasons and excuses to arouse the people to support for their coming wars against Russia and China. They are unleashing all kinds of misinformation, disinformation, all kinds of lies , half  truths and the use of innuendos and insinuations to whip up the peoples feelings and psycho them to support their evil war plans.
They have built over a thousand military bases all around Russia and China's periphery to threaten the two nations. USA  has for years been dominating the Arabs in the Middle East and control their rich oil resources. They constantly stir up trouble, create strives and instability in the whole region to subject it to its hegemony agenda. In the course of it America is promoting and spreading terrorism. America is the world worst terrorist country and American terrorists are all over the world causing wars, instability and destruction. In fact America is the father of all terrorists when they organised and trained terrorist fighters in Alquaeda, Taliban and Isis and other terrorist groups in South America and Africa.
Now USA is shifting from Middle East to create choas, dissension and turmoil in the far East in East China Sea and South China Sea. It uses the sham excuse of "Freedom of passage and navigation" as a vehicle to start all the trouble and confrontation in the region. The fact is USA wants to dominate and control the whole of the East China Sea and the South China Sea together with its rich oil and mineral resources under the sea bed.
Before USA pivot to the East in 2009 there was peace and tranquility in the region. After its pivot to this region in 2009 it tries to drive a wedge between China and the neighbouring littoral states. It encouraged and instigated the neighbouring countries to go against China by claiming and illegally occupying Chinese territorial islands and reefs in the South China Sea. It hijacks all the powers of the Philippines and Vietnam and usurp its control of their relations with China.. USA is returning to the use of 'Gun Boat Policy of the 1840s against China. But this is the 21st century and this type of reckless action may yet backfired on the Evil Empire.
USA is risking the destruction and annililation of mankind in this world with its danger of threatening Russia and China with thermo nuclear war. All good and decent men in every country in this world must now take a stand to censor and stop the mad men in America from unleashing the world's ultimate Armageddon.
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Tuesday, July 12th 2016

Treachery in The Hague

The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague is due to pronounce the most farcical judgment in the history of this international tribunal that would drag its reputation to the bottom of a smelly pit. From being an impartial and legal institution, it has allowed itself to become a political quagmire, to be manipulated by interested powers to do its bidding. It’s hearing on the South China Sea dispute filed by the Philippines that it has no jurisdiction under UNCLOS and its stubborn insistence to make a political judgment would be the beginning of its road to ignominy, to be seen as anything but a just court.

Why is this so? So far no one has heard the names of the members of the Court hearing the South China Sea case. Read the following comments from Yoichi Shimatsu about the conspiracy and intrigue that end with the hearing of the South China Sea dispute and the key participants that made this treachery becoming a 21st Century farce. The full article that has 2 parts are available at the 4th Media, http://www.4thmedia.org/2016/07/abes-henchmen-rigged-the-spratlys-kaw-case-against-china/#.V4G4AUDUTsE.gmail

By Yoichi Shimatsu | Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 323 views


 

First in a 2-part series, this investigative report exposes a high-level intrigue by pro-militarist Japanese diplomats in rigging “Philippines vs. China”, a law case in The International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), which will soon render its decision on the maritime dispute over the Spratly Archipelago (Nansha in Mandarin). The second part to come will uncover the Tribunal’s political bias in favor of Manila’s marine environmental complaints against China in blatant disregard of the Philippines’ worst-offender record on ecology.

This investigative report is an open call to the UN Committee on the Law of the Sea and the Secretary General to launch an internal investigation into the political influence-peddling and corruption at the International Tribunal for The Law of the Sea (ITLOS), which has compromised the impartiality of the judicial panel for Philippines versus China.

The evidence so far indicates that the Hon. Shunji Yanai, the President of Court of Arbitration/ITLOS, encouraged and facilitated the Philippines case on orders from the office of Shinzo Abe and Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conspirators’ objective was to promote intentional bias and prejudicial tactics in the court proceedings in favor of the Philippine government in its dispute with the People’s Republic of China over sovereignty in the Spratly Islands (Nansha group) in whole as an archipelago or in part as separate sub-groups.

The evidence so far indicates that the ICA-ITLOS President, Shunji Yanai [柳井俊二], unlawfully and unethically promoted acceptance of Philippines vs. China into the Tribunal schedule at the behest of the Government of Japan. The tactical plan in the conspiracy involves judicial misconduct with the aim of influencing the United Nations and world public opinion to categorically reject without fair consideration all of China’s claims to the Spratly region. These illegal activities include a disguised effort to usurp jurisdiction from the International Court of Justice on principles of sovereignty as applied to maritime boundaries.

Since the predictable outcome for this one-sided case, throughout which only the Philippines side has been represented, will be to inflame regional tensions in East Asia and the Pacific to the military-strategic advantage of the Government of Japan, along with its pro-militarism supporters and criminal associates.

The principle suspects in this conspiracy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and their chief strategist Shunji Yanai, should be investigated for tampering with the court with the intent of launching neocolonialist aggression in violation of the UN Charter and Constitution of Japan….

USA history of hypocrisy looms over South China Sea arbitration

USA is full of evil and full of hypocrisy throughout its history. It is through its hypocrisy in dealing with the various self-governing Native American Indian tribes and through insidious plots, intrigues , subterfuge and treason that USA is able to extend its original territory of about Six Hundred Thousand Square miles of the thirteen states during the year of Independence from England in July 4th 1775, to the present day of Three million Seven Hundred Thousand Square miles , all at the expense of the native American Indians and the Mexicans. ( USA through brute military might forcefully and illegally acquired one milliom six hundred and fifty thousand square miles of land from Mexico in the years between 1840s to 1890s . It had also genocided not less than eighty-five million native American Indians in all. ) In 1905 USA deposed the queen of Hawaii and conquered Hawaii, after its army  brutally brought down the government of the queen of Hawaii with the slaughter of more than two hundred thousand  of the patriotic Hawaiian resistant fighters  USA always twist international laws, dishonour treaties and twist human rights to suit its own agenda. Below is an article from China Daily on the hypocrisy of USA regarding the South China Sea issue and the comments from its readers.

US history of hypocrisy looms over South China Sea arbitration
By Zhu Junqing Source:Xinhua Published: 2016-7-10 19:08:01

The US-led Western countries have been good at maximizing their private interests and committing illegal acts through implementing double standards under the cover of international law and regulations.

The recently-released British Iraq War Inquiry Report found out that there was "no imminent threat" from Saddam Hussein in March 2003, who the US claimed possessed weapons of mass destruction that have still not been found to this day.

Though the report sidestepped defining the nature of the war, the US-led invasion of Iraq is widely considered to have been an illegal and unjust war that circumnavigated the United Nations (UN) and overturned a sovereign nation by a unilateral military action.

Such behavior should be criticized, condemned and eliminated as international law and the UN authority should never be toyed with and peace and stability should never be sacrificed to serve some groups' interests.

The US has always been hypocritical when talking about international law. The global superpower is skilled at intentionally applying and misinterpreting international law and norms to attack its "rivals," while it gives itself the right to choose whether or not to resort to international law.

Examples abound. In 1986, the International Court of Justice ruled that the US had violated international law by supporting the Contras rebels against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua's harbors. However, the US refused to participate in the proceedings after the Court rejected its argument that the Court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case.

In 2002, the US unilaterally withdrew from the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems, leading to its termination. Recently, Washington used international law as a "knife" to attack Russia over the Ukraine crisis.

In the South China Sea dispute, the US not only instigated the Philippines to submit an arbitration application to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, but at the same time it also smeared China's law-abiding image and sowed discord between China and its neighbors.

China has reiterated that the arbitration goes against international law for the following reasons.

The Philippines' unilateral initiation of the arbitration violates its agreement with China to resolve any dispute through bilateral negotiations; the unilateral initiation violates the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); the Philippines' unilateral act violated the right that China enjoys as a party to the UNCLOS to seek dispute settlements of its own choosing, and undermined the UNCLOS' authority and integrity; the Arbitral Tribunal has violated the UNCLOS and abused its power by hearing the case.

Obviously, the US, a self-proclaimed "international attorney," is an expert in jurisprudence, but to maintain its dominance in the Asia-Pacific region, Washington chose to ignore facts and engage in mud-slinging against China.

It is advisable for Washington to readjust its attitude toward China, as China will firmly safeguard its own territorial sovereignty and legitimate maritime rights as well as peace and stability in the South China Sea.

The author is a writer with the Xinhua News Agency. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn

Posted by Southernglory1

Below are some comments from netizens of China Daily
 Michiko

When one tends to see a country as individual, USA is definitely a teenage psychopath who's robbing and killing and lying all over

    French philosopher Clotaire Rapallie says: "These levels (i.e. imprints have to happen as a child) are very different from one culture to another. Some cultures are very reptilian, which means very basic instinct. American culture is a very basic instinct: I want to be reached now; let's do it. There's a bias for action. Just now, America is very adolescent when other cultures are more cortex, very control, control, control." (His interview with PBS in 2004.)
   
    Michiko Ray

    Hillary Clinton kind of awful woman is really "American" in this definition, except her age.
    So having her as President is the best match to America.
   
FACTS: Since the sixties the US has sanctioned Cuba for daring to throw out Bautista and his US gangsters and repel the US sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion there by humiliating America, something it can't forgive.

The Us invaded Vietnam at a cost of 58 thousand US soldiers and 3.5 million Vietnamese lives, left in disgrace leaving a destroyed society behind.

Invaded Afghanistan creating a dysfunctional society after 13 years with the Taliban again encroaching

The us invaded Iraq on the basis of a lie creating a completely dysfunctional society after the deaths of over a million and eventually leading to the rise of Isis.

The US and the west in general sponsoring and helping rebels including Neo Nazis in Ukraine to topple
a democratically elected government killing hundreds and then trying to shift the blame on Russia when the Crimean parliament allowed a vote by the population as to whether or not it wanted to rejoin Russia. The results were to rejoin Russia (91%) PS: there was no loss of life just a civilised transition. America howled it was illegal. Wow!!

Their only success seems to be their invasion of Panama to capture the drug runner Manuel Noriega.It was a near thing but the Americans persevered and finally got him: all 5 ft.4 in. of him.

Now the west is bombing Iraq and Syria without UN authority and is again on a killing spree. And we wonder
why these people hate the west?

The US has done nothing but screw up one country after another and has learned nothing except how to kill and to be a bully. They do the same thing over and over. Who or what is in charge? Anyone?

cherrysan

The American lawyers and politicians depend on dumb silly Asians who buy their lies. They cleverly package white lies, make deliberate omissions of their own violation of international law. Only foolish idiot Asians buy US lies. This show many of them are still third world mentality with no brains even as they improve their economic status. When people like Hillary talk of Rule of Law, she mean it does not apply to US but only to others.

China should sue PCA for breaking international laws in its dealing in SCS and intruding without all parties consent and for not doing due diligence and for acting In an interested and biased way if provisions are there in icj.

    cherrysan

    Fool! It will be a Slap Down for PH. If PCA is fair, it will kick the complaint PH filed within her 200 NM EEZ to the ICJ for further deliberation. Remember, Land Over Sea mantra. This is how it works in international law where maritime law depends on land sovereignty settlement First. As for Nine Dash Line, totally kicked out as PCA will find PH have no locus standee.
   
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BasicRules

China will soon sue PCA for intruding and breaking international laws and acting in an interested and biased manner.




7/11/2016

Singapore does not take sides in foreign policy – Chan Chun Sing

Speaking to Chinese youth in Beijing. ST 7 Jul, Chan Chun Sing told his Chinese audience that Singapore does not take sides in foreign policy.  In recent comments by govt officials, it is very difficult to believe how this is the case when the position was so clearly pro USA and anti China. At one point a diplomat had to retracted his anti China comment by claiming it to be a personal comment and not speaking in an official capacity to represent the Singapore govt’s view.  Clearly the personal view was anti China.
The recent China Asean Foreign Minister Meeting in Kunming also created doubts as to the position of Singapore, whether it is neutral or anti China. Vivian Balakrishnan was the co chairman of the Meeting but chose to be absence when a closing comment was to be delivered by the two Chairman. What did his absence got to say about the neutrality of Singapore? And in the same Meeting, an anti China joint statement was issued by Malaysia for obvious reason only to retrieve the statement when Cambodia protested.

What about the recent comments by the Ambassador at Large, Bilahari Kausikan in Japan and in his lectures at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy? They were anything but friendly to China. They were anything but neutral. Was he talking in his private capacity or as a spokesman for the Singapore govt? If the latter, his view must be the official position of the govt ie, not neutral but pro American.

Simon Tay has this to add about what Bilahari said in his pro American public lectures about Trojan Horses in Asean. Simon said that while we ridiculed countries becoming Trojan Horses, we shall not be seen to be little USAs. These are not the exact words used by Simon, but the intent is similar. Asean states must not become the cronies of the USA while pointing the fingers at other countries, calling others as Trojan Horses. Isn't this the same, that some Asean countries are the Trojan Horses of the Americans too?

Is this the position of the Singapore govt? Does Chan Chun Sing know about it? Is Chan Chun Sing aware of the govt’s position or is he not? Or is Chan Chun Sing’s position the position of the Singapore govt and Bilahari’s position is not? Are they the same Singapore govt's position on relations with China and the USA?
Which is which, cannot be both are the govt’s position when they are conflicting views? How would these views make of Chan Chun Sing’s official statement that Singapore does not take sides in foreign policies?