US - The Financial Highway Robber And Sanctions

US is bankrupt and has an insolvent debt of 26 trillion dollars. It is now resorting to chicanery and unorthodox means of extorting money from other countries by way of sanctions other then printing billions  of petrol dollars in fiduciary issues,

US is the only country in the which illegally uses sanctions as a means to to rob other countries of billions of dollars to fill its coffer. Sanctions have always been used by US in trying to bring down adversary countries to economic destruction. But does it really work?  US Imposed sanctions on China for decades from 1940s to 1970s. The sanctions might have resulted in China adopting the impromptu Great Leap Forward in the later part of 1950s for economic survival and may be the Cultural Revolution in 1960s to get rid of internal class enemies and economic saboteurs as well as the Kuomintang ( KMT ) the US Fifth Column operating in China under the direction of CIA. But the sanctions failed in its objective to raise a counter revolution to bring down the Peoples' Republic Of China ( PRC ). Instead through grit and gumption and the indomitable spirit of the Chinese people China not only survive but grow ever stronger from year to year. US also imposed economic sanctions on many other countries like Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, Venezuela and Cambodia. It didn't work for all these countries survived the American sanctions.

Then why do the Americans continue to use sanctions against other countries. There is a hidden agenda in the use of sanctions. The hidden agenda has many other objectives other than bringing adversaries down economically. It serves to bring American friends and allies under strictor American control and dominance. But the most sinister objective is that it serves as a robbing machine, a banditry organ to extort and rob from friends and foes of multi-billion dollars to fill the US coffer.

US will pick a country to sanction. Then it announced that no countries are allowed to trade or have financial transactions with the country under sanctione. This is tantamount to economic war against third countries which will be exploited, abused and treated with contempt with impunity by US. Using sanctions is US crooked ways of helping American companies to sell their products to the third countries at very much higher prices than what they can buy from the country under US sanction. Thus US is exercising extraterritorial rights through the medium of sanctions..

Under this American bill of sanctions foreign banks and enterprises are subjected to crippling US restrictions, lawsuits and gigantic fines. Companies that trade with the country or countries under US sanctions will pay to  a substantial heavy fine of billions of dollars to the US government.

A Singapore based company CSE Global was subjected to a fine of 12 million US dollars to settle apparent violations of Iran sanctions by its subsidiary  in 2013 for non-US goods and services lawfully rendered by CSE Global and CSE Transtel both based in Singapore. The fine was imposed by US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control ( OFAC ) ,

In July 2015, under a UN deal, Iran gave up its right to develop nuclear weapons and thus international sanctions was lifted. However US retained its own previous sanctions.So under this US retained sanctions any foreign banks or enterprises that transact business with Iran especially Iran's oil and gas would deemed to have infringed serious legal, political, financial and reputational risks and would be subjected to US fines of billions of dollars and US regulatory agencies as well as deprived of insurance coverage and cyber security and other future business opportunities.

US is thus wantonly and illegally exercising extraterritoriiality power against other countries. US seems to be getting away with this mafia style behaviour because it has built up a vast obscure legalistic network to impose its will on the free world economy. This is possible due to the omnipresence of the petrol dollar, unrivalled spywork and intelligence gathering and strong arm twisting and intimidation.

US is indeed using sanctions as an instrument to serve the interest of US industry and economy. The United Nation must denounce this extraterritoriality of US legislation as unlawful and formulate universal laws against the Extraterritoriality of US legislation. US adopts a deceitful outlook as a benevolent country that can only do good but which in actual fact its demonic thick wall of legislation has the precise intention to use its laws to serve US economic and political imperialism with the objective of gaining exclusive economic and strategic advantages.

Armed with this toxic legislation US will always purportedly in the fight against corruption and terrorism righteously pursue any country, entity or person legally against the alleged offender but which in actual fact is to collect illegally the sanction related fines of billions of dollars for the US treasury.

In 2014 France leading bank BNP - Paribas was fined 9 billion dollars for the fake accusation that it used dollar transfers in deals with countries under US sanctions though the transactions were perfectly legal under French law except that the payment was transited by way of U S where it was detected.

Also in October 2016 US fined Deutsche Bank of Germany a whopping 14 billion dollars although it had already paid hundreds of millions of dollars earlier to New York State. This horrific illegal fine due to sanctions may yet cause an European financial crisis.

US is imposing more severe sanctions on North Korea and is tinkling with the idea of stopping all countries from trading with DPRK either in goods or services. This is clearly aimed at China where hundreds of Chinese companies have traditional business with North Korea. Thus not only many foreign companies will be hit but Chinese companies will be hit the hardest. China is US biggest trading partner and so in threatening the economies of China it will seem like US is lifting a stone to drop on its own toes.

It must be seen that all the new bills regarding each and subsequent US sanctions are just a series of US legislative measures to curb and break down other countries national legal sovereignty and create stealthily a globalized US hegemonic jurisdiction in which US can sue anyone or any country for anything with ultimate investigative force and prime enforcement power held by the US government.

Thus the full weight of US sanctions must be seen in the light of its sinister agenda : ( 1 ) To impoverish the country under sanction and destroy it economically.  ( 2 )  Using sanctions as a basis to collect billions of dollars in illegal fines by the mechanism of US legislation and US Treasury of Foreign Assets Control. In short it is trans border armed robbery.  (3 ) Laying the footprint of US Exceptionalism and Extraterritoriality Power.  ( 4 ) Act as fait accompli for US globalized hegemonic jurisdiction and political control.  ( 5 ) Sanctions as part of the means to stop China from becoming a super power.

It is the US petrol dollar that enables US to sinisterly and illegally impose its sanctions. China, Russia and all the BRIC countries are now working hard to break the grip of the US dollar . Once the US petrol dollar loses its value and power US will rot fast and become as poor as a third world country.

Southernglory1

Friday, 8th September,2017

Americans setting ground rules and conditions for invading the USA

Over the years the Americans have been setting and defining the conditions to invade a country. The same conditions would be the legitimate reasons for the invasion of the USA. And when other countries are able to do so, the Americans cannot cry foul, that only the Americans can use these reasons to invade other countries but other countries cannot do the same to the Americans.
 
One condition is to call for a regime change on grounds of a dictatorship or authoritarian govt that is not a democracy, and to add one more for good measures, when they violate the American version of human rights. Is Trump a dictator, or was George Bush/Obama a dictator in sheep’s clothing?
 
Another infamous reason to invade the USA is the possession of WMD. Hmmm, this one shall stick to the Americans like elephant glue. The Americans possess the most number of WMD in the world and should be a good and legitimate target for an invasion to remove the WMD.
 
Testing of weapon systems especially missiles and nuclear weapons are also legitimate grounds to invade a country, and the USA is no exception. When they next announced the testing of missiles or nuclear weapons, it will be for the rest of the world to decide to invade the USA to remove these weapons.
 
Harbouring of terrorists or supporting terrorism and terrorist activities are valid grounds to invade the USA. There are plenty of evidence and historical records of the Americans conducting terrorist activities all over the world, including the assassinations of heads of states. American support for the ISIS is well documented and attacking the Americans to restrain and cut off their support for terrorist activities is absolutely a good reason to do so.
 
Nuclear proliferation is another ground established by the Americans for an invasion. Should the Americans be caught for spreading nuclear weapons or nuclear knowledge, they deserved to be invaded just like anyone else without any exception. Had the Americans been spreading nuclear weapon technologies to their allies? Ask Israel and Japan.
 
The Americans are setting the fine examples for others to follow them. They are the guiding lights for countries intending to do justice, to defend human rights, to prevent nuclear proliferations, to do exactly what the Americans have been teaching the world to do so. Just follow the leaders. The Americans are the guiding lights of the world in invasion and regime change. Just do what the Americans are doing and you cannot be faulted by the Americans for invading the USA and to conduct regime change when there is a rogue govt or a mad leader in charge. Bad govt, mad man in charge are good reasons to invade the USA. Are Trump and his gang mad? Talking about precipitating a nuclear war?
 
See, the Americans said so and have done it. Just do what the Americans are doing to the Americans. American Exceptionalism? Show them the middle finger.
By the way, the Americans demonstrated and said it is ok to fly nuclear bombers along the coast of the USA, to conduct freedom of navigation with naval destroyers along American coast, deployed missile systems along the borders of the USA and also conduct major military exercises with American neighbours simulating an invasion of the USA. You name it, the Americans have done it. So everything is ok.

US Sinister Stratagem In Korea vis-a-vis DPRK

US the rogue empire behaviour in Korea reminds me of a big bully in school  decades ago. It was recess time. Many groups of boys were playing marbles in the playground. In one group a big bully was harassing a smaller boy. He was taunting him with insulting remarks. The small boy just kept quiet when he was challenged to a fight. This happened for many days and weeks. Even some of the small boy's friends called him a coward and joined in to jeer at him. Even a few of his closest friends left him to side with the bully.

But one day the unexpected thing happened. The bully went overboard. He disrupted the small boy and his friends marble games and insulted his parents. All of a sudden hell got loose and freaking fast like a bolt of thunder and lightning he launched a sudden fierce pugnacious attack on the bully and brought him down to the ground. Everyone stood in awe and was astounded by the change of event. The atmosphere of fear of the bully was changed to one of friendliness and respect for the small boy.

Later the small boy confided to one of his trusted friends that his parents warned him not to fight and to bear with patience and if he really had to fight he must strike his adversary down so hard and with suddeness and ligntning speed that he would not know what happened to him and thus in future he would never dare to bully him again.

Now isn't North Korea experiencing the same scenario as described above. DPRK has been pushed to a corner and has to react like a tiger being pushed to a wall. The Evil Empire has been harassing North Korea for almost seventy years since 1950 and since the end of the Korean War in 1953. With the help of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) DPRK managed to fight America to a stalemate and an armistice was signed. However year in and year out US and its minions Japan and South Korea have been continuously carrying provocative acts against DPRK.

For many years China tried to broker a Korean peace treaty. Each time when terms and conditions of the treaty was agreed and finalised , America would reneged and walked away from signing the treaty by imposing new terms and conditions.

America is untrustworthy and has no genuine interest in peace for the Korean peninsula. They do not want to be bounded by a peace treaty where it is obliged to have its troops and military vacating from South Korea and Japan. US wants to continue its provocative acts and when DPRK reacts to US  vile tactics it ironically turn the table and blame DPRK for being aggressive, provocative and begging for war.

Every year and ever so often US will carry out joint military drills involving all the arm forces with South Korea and Japan, simulating a real life invasion of North Korea. Time and again DPRK warned US to stop all the provocative war drills. As U did not heed the warning but continued the military drills, DPRK had to react with its own missile and nuclear tests to show America that it takes two to tango.

Now the US cunningly and despically using the UN and its mass media lied to the world and portrayed DPRK as a rogue country and that its missile and nuclear tests are provocative and post a danger to the region and the world. What hypocrisy is this ? After often tearing out the agreements and walking away from signing the peace treaty by unilaterally imposing new terms and conditions and then carrying out extreme provocative military war drills the Evil Empire expect DPRK not to react.

US expects the world to believe its hostile military drills and its over four hundred military bases in South Korea , Japan. Guam and Philippines are for peace. US has indeed caught itself in the quagmire of its web of vile intricate plot of evil.

Do not blame North Korea for all its missile and nuclear tests for it is but a reaction to US wild acts of extreme provocation and is its only means to secure North Korea peace and security and a deterrence to US aggression.

The world had indeed witnessed how the outrageous and untrustworthy US and its allies in NATO destroyed Libya in 2011 and brutally murdered Gadaffi after he agreed not to arm his country with nuclear and chemical weapons. In the same manner US, NATO and its Australian and Sunni Arab allies attacked and destroyed Iraq earlier in 2003 and brutally murdered Salem Hussein after falsely accused him of having armed Iraq with weapons of mass destruction. Under its Doctrine of American Exceptionalism, US will just get rid of any regime which does not toe its line or dictates.

The only reason for invading Iraq and Libya is US and the West covet of Iraq and Libya's oil and their strategic location to contain Russia. Syria is under similar situation but is lucky to have Russia's strong intervention on its behalf though US and NATO have not given up hope of subjugating Syria in future. The game in Syria has not ended. It is not over yet.

In Korea US has been manuafacturing fake news and lies about DPRK to serve as an excuse and basis for it to permanently station US troops and military bases in South Korea and Japan so that it can continue to spy on and to contain Russia and China.

US is playing a dangerous game. We must bring US to its senses and stop it from plunging the world to a Third World War where no one will be a victor but for sure it will be the end of human life on earth for eternity. It will be an  armageddon.

Southernglory1

Wednesday, 6th September,2017

Lim Tean – Fair Jobs for Singaporeans

The above is taken from a post by Cynical Investor posted in TRE.
Fair Jobs for Singaporeans!
 
I shall be organising an event at Speakers’ Corner in the 2nd week of September under the aegis of my Movement – Project Freedom , with the theme of ” Fair Jobs for Singaporeans ! ” .
 
We will not be discussing diabetes , pre-school or smart nation at the event but on the critical topic of what our Government should be doing to protect the rights of Singaporeans to find good jobs in their homeland !
 
Singaporeans are finding it increasingly difficult to get jobs whether you are a fresh graduate or a PMET who has been displaced by a foreign worker . The landscape for jobs in Singapore gets bleaker by the day . Our government has done little to prepare our workers for the revolution that is about to engulf the world as a result of automation .
I am crowdfunding for $ 20 000 to organise the event . A breakdown of the estimated itemised cost is as follows :-
1.Stage and tentage
2.Sound system
3.Barricades
4. Security personnel
 
Please support generously by donating to the following account ;
POSB Savings Account No : 404-14132-5
 
I call on 16 800 Singaporeans ( so far $ 3200 has been raised ) to please help give $ 1 each ( and in the process show the displeasure of the neglect of the government in this area ) and to share this meaningful event with your friends .
 
I look forward to seeing you at Hong Lim Park !
 

The above is taken from a post by Cynical Investor posted in TRE. The job situation for Singaporean graduates and PMETs has never been so bad that many of them have gone on to the retired list while quite a number are underemployed after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a good degree from our world class universities. The number of Singaporean graduates becoming part time workers, contract workers or even becoming taxi or Uber/Grab drivers is no laughing matter. It is not just a shame but a crime against our very own Singaporeans to end up this way.
 
Today we have someone serious and credible in Lim Tean to take up this cause for our pathetic and lost Singaporeans. Many have given up, no idea on what to do to improve their lives. Here is a man that could make a difference to the lives of jobless and unemployed Singaporeans. Lim Tean could be the man Singaporeans have been waiting for to come forward in critical times like this to make a change for the better.
 
Singaporeans cannot continue to languish in hopelessness, hoping and waiting for jobs from MOM’s job banks or to attend NTUC classes to train them to go to work in third world countries to earn third world currencies that would not be enough to feed their families and pay for the expensive HDB flats.
 
The cause that Lim Tean is taking up is a worthy cause and very important to the well being of Singaporeans. This is a cause worth supporting. I will do my little contribution to this calling. Something serious must be done now to stop the destruction of the Singaporean PMETs from the employment market. They have families to feed and a son is critical to be able to live in this most expensive city in the world.
 
Please support this cause and support fellow Singaporeans. It is a shame to see millions of foreigners walking into this city as tourist and get a permanent job while Singaporean were left on the shelf, lamenting what is happening to their lives, to their degrees, to their abilities and their self esteem.
 
Lim Tean is asking for a dollar from each Singaporean. I am sure every Singaporean can do better than this for their fellow Singaporeans. This is like the building of Nantah when the ordinary Singaporeans dug deep into their pockets to help the ordinary Singaporeans. Forget about the millionaires. They have more important matters to care for. They don’t have time for the ordinary Singaporeans, the so called losers.

A deep sense of helplessness in Sin City

The failure of the opposition parties to make gains into Parliament GE after GE and by election after by election has led the citizens that were looking forward to change into a state of despair. Nothing is going to change and the people will have to live with the PAP as the ruling govt for the next 50 years. Lee Hsien Loong knew this and that he would remain as PM until he chooses to retire at a time of his own choosing, that is when he is 70. This is only one of the unbearable hard truths that Singaporeans would have to live with and feeling helpless about it. And the helplessness did not stuck with just the political system.
 
There are many things that Singaporeans felt are very wrong, or not to their likings but, yes, helpless to do anything about it. So they would just have to live with them and make the best out of a bad situation, or a very bad situation.
 
The influx of foreigners into the island, as job hunters, as PRs and eventually given citizenship, is so huge and so disproportionate to the number of citizens is a big sore point. More than half of the population, including many new citizens, is foreigners, not locally born. Did the Singaporeans agree to it? Were they asked that this is ok? No, but they could not do anything about it. It is a fait accompli dictated by the political party they elected to Parliament, to be their govt.
 
The problem of the influx of foreigners is not just a number. Singaporeans lost their jobs, high cost of living, inflation, high property prices and rentals, and stress on the infrastructure especially public transport, housing and medical. What can the Singaporeans do about it? Nothing.
 
Many have been cursing about their life time savings in the CPF that they thought were something to look forward to at retirement, ie 55 years old, only to see their savings slipping away from their fingers. The govt keeps changing the rules to keep them from touching their life savings, at times with ridiculous nonsensical reasons. Some jokers even openly said the savings of the people in the CPF are not their money. What can the Singaporeans do? Nothing. Just as helpless as if the money is really not theirs. And many of the natural aristocrats are grinning at their stupidity and helplessness.
 
Recently there were many noises about whether the HDB flats they lived in belong to them or the HDB ie the govt. Are they owners or lessees? If they are lessees, why are they made to pay property taxes and for the upkeep and maintenance and repairs of the HDB flats? No matter how much kpkb, nothing happens and the people lan lan continue to pay their property taxes on the lease property, their HDB flats accepting that they are the real owners of their HDB flats.
 
And now the case of the Elected Presidency. The govt changed the terms and conditions to the Elected Presidency. Only a handful of super rich elites can stand for election as the EP. This is no longer the right any citizen like before. This used to be the right of every citizen but no more. So, what can the people do about it?
 
The govt also decided that a Parliament appointed president can also count as an elected President despite everyone knowing that the first elected President was Ong Teng Cheong. Tan Cheng Bock went to court but his case was thrown out. The govt has the absolute right to determine what is an elected president and what is not according to the court rulings.
 
The govt also has the right to decide who is a Malay or who is not a Malay to be eligible to stand for the reserved election for a Malay President. A non Malay or half Malay also can if accepted by the President Election Community. What can the people do? Nothing. Helpless.
 
What about the case against the WP in the management of Town Council? Were there more serious cases of bigger losses and mismanagement than this case? This time the WP looks so helpless and waiting for the guillotine to slam down on their necks, as sure as the sun will rise. What about the people? They can only look at the case helplessly. There is nothing that the people can do about it to speak out and defend their elected representatives in Parliament.
 
What about the foreigners taking charge in the job market, recruiting and filling good jobs with more foreigners citing that Singaporeans are daft, no skill, lazy, incompetent etc etc and foreigners are the best fit for top jobs? The helpless Singaporeans only try to help themselves by applying to be taxi drivers or be content with part time jobs or contract jobs. What else can they do?
 
Helplessness is everywhere, if one bothers to look, in Sin City. Fees, taxes, transportation costs, prices of everything are going up and up. The helpless people just have to live with them.
 
PS. Actually this picture of helplessness is not true. Many Singaporeans are buying bigger houses and bigger and more expensive cars. The helplessness only happens to the losers, the Singaporeans that are jobless, underemployed or unemployed.
But what about the foreigners? They have never had it so good. It is like landing in paradise, away from their slum filled countries where jobs were hard to come by, to a land where pots of gold are everywhere and fortunes are made. Many went home rich, became landowners and starting their own businesses. Some even retired and no need to work anymore, living as the nouve riche in their original home countries where they were once poor ordinary folks.