Poor America and poor Americans

If you listen to the narratives of Donald Trump, Americans, you would believe that the Americans are being raped by China. So pitiful. If you listen to Trish Regan, China is taking advantage of the Americans, China is bullying the poor Americans and the Americans are so cornered that they have to fight back. The poor victim, the Americans are being bullied by the Chinese!

Similarly, they moved more than a hundred thousand troops tens of thousands of miles to the Straits of Hormuz to be threatened and bullied by the Iranians. The Americans are so frightened of the Iranians, that the Iranians are going to attack them, attacking commercial shipping, shooting down American drones. Why are American drones flying around Iran, on holiday, freedom of flying drones?

How many of you believe in these shits? The biggest rogue nation, the biggest bully in the world, the biggest gangsters in the world, is being bullied by a militarily weaker country called China and Iran? Who is the real big bully? Who is the one that has been doing the bully then and now?

The Americans are losing their way. The Americans have forgotten the principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty? Heard of the accusation and pronouncement that Huawei is guilty of espionage against the US and the rest of the world? Or at least it could happen, that Huawei may be doing it under the behest of the Chinese govt in the future, in the future not now, no evidence to prove so? So Huawei is guilty and Americans and their allies cannot do business with Huawei, before Huawei has been proven to be guilty of the alleged crime made out by the Americans.

China is a thief, China is stealing intellectual properties from the Americans. The Americans are hapless and lost everything to China. And oh, the Americans are no thief, they don’t steal, they don’t spy on others? Remember what Pompeo said in Congress, 'We lie, we cheat, we steal!'. He said this with pride and to the cheers of the American leaders in Congress.

China is stealing American intellectual properties amounting to US$600b! Is there anything left in the US that is not stolen? Did the Americans lay out their secrets and IPs for the Chinese to steal? And China is launching an all out war against the Americans. Now who has been spreading all the lies and smears about China in the world media for more than a century and still doing it today, daily, 24/7? 

Read all the western media, even Singapore media reproduced western and American authors badmouthing China. Did anyone read any similar articles in the main media smearing and bad mouthing Americans except in mysingaporenews that is just doing that little bit against the main media of the western and English world?

Who is badmouthing BRI, AIIB, who is attacking Huawei and 5G technology, who is sending hostile offensive aircraft and warships into the South China Sea, infringing into the 12 nautical miles territorial limits of Chinese islands, into the Gulf of Oman, threatening WW3?

Poor America and Americans, being bullied and beaten by China, China, China! God please help this poor big bully being bullied by China. God please protect this Evil Empire from being raped by China. China is so bad to bully this big bully and Evil Empire.

Really? Who is bullying who? Who dares to bully the world’s number one bully?

Oh, China is a Communist country, Communism is bad, bad, bad. Only liberal democracy is good, good.

Just heard Pompeo said the American people has suffered and lost for decades under the current rules. Who set these rules, the Chinese? Who dictated trade rules for the world under the American Empire? The Americans are saying they set the rules and forcing others, including China to accept their rules and they are suffering from their rules.

PS. 

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Friday (Jun 21) he aborted a military strike to retaliate for Iran's downing of an unmanned US drone because it could have killed 150 people, and signaled he was open to talks with Tehran.
An Iranian surface-to-air missile destroyed a US Global Hawk surveillance drone on Thursday. Tehran said the drone was shot down over its territory and Washington said it occurred in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/trump-us-strike-iran-casualties-drone-11650558

Let’s talk massacre Part IV

Below extracts were written by Richard Spencer in Seoul from telegraph.co.uk
 
Korean War civilian massacres, Daejeon Massacre Busan Massacre Namyang Ju Massacre Truth and Reconciliation Commission
 
Authorities in the country have discovered mass burial sites containing thousands of bodies, including scores of children.
 
Trawls of records including declassified files in Washington have uncovered evidence of the massacres of at least 100,000 people suspected of having sympathy with the North Koreans.
 
In some cases, American forces are alleged to have been present and in at least one case an American officer authorised a massacre of prisoners believed to have left-wing sympathies.
The Korean War, in which South Korean, American, British and other allied forces fought the North and their Chinese allies to a standstill, was particularly bloody….
 
But under the South's military dictatorship, the crimes of its own forces were rarely discussed. The new findings suggest there was a pattern of disposing of those suspected of left-wing sympathies as the North Koreans advanced, and then again of those who were accused of collaborating as they retreated….
When the South Koreans and Americans army swept back north, a local police chief in their district, Namyang Ju, ordered those suspected of collaborating to be rounded up, along with their families.
 
The massacre in Namyang Ju was eventually brought to a halt, but not before 460 had died – one of many such killings documented in painful detail by the Commission.
 
Research in US archives has found one exchange in which a US colonel gives approval to a massacre in which 3,500 suspected leftists were shot….
 
The white American angels never commit massacres, only the coloured people?
See the lies they are spreading now to justify the massacre of Iranians, amassing more than 100,000 troops around Iran with two aircraft carriers and lying to the world that Iranians are threatening to attack American forces and Iranians are raising tension in the region. See the false flag incidents they started and putting the blame on the Iranians....

Can retailers sell cheaper that producers of electricity?

How can electricity retailers offer cheaper electricity than SP Group?

Retailers in the Open Electricity Market are either the retail arm of power generators or independent retailers which buy electricity in bulk from power generation companies in a wholesale market where prices change every 30 minutes depending on demand and supply....

Retailers are also able to customise price plans, including the bundling of other services or products, and can impose contract lock-in periods or early termination charges....

As with energy markets overseas, several retailers are likely to be successful in the long run, said Professor Subodh Mhaisalkar, executive director of the Energy Research Institute at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

Companies have to innovate and offer differentiated services in order to adapt as the market evolves, he added...

The prices offered by retailers will change as the underlying cost of energy changes.

“While price may seem the most important factor for now, consumers must understand that lower prices today are not a given in the long term regardless of whether you stay on the current scheme or change to a new retailer,” said Geneco’s Mr Low.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/how-do-electricity-retailers-charge-lower-prices-than-sp-group-11208792

The above extracts from Channel News Asia were used as explanation for the recent intiatitves to have more alternative retailers selling 'cheaper' power to the users. One simple question, if the retailers can sell cheaper without the production processes and cost, why can't the producers of electricity sell at the same price as the retailers or even cheaper? The retailers now have excess cost in marketing and sales that needs to be paid and can sell cheaper? This is an economic miracle. The added manpower must be added cost, cannot be free, must come from somewhere. And the retailers are not charity organisations, they can sell cheaper and make a profit?

Another strange thing from the discussion is the cost of natural gas that was used to produce the energy and the computation of the selling price that included oil prices that were not part of the production cost. Slimy isn't it? Read this,

'The energy cost, or cost of imported natural gas, is tied to oil prices by commercial contracts, which change depending on global market conditions. It is based on the average price of oil and the average SGD/USD exchange rate in the previous quarter.'

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/how-do-electricity-retailers-charge-lower-prices-than-sp-group-11208792

And here is another report made in different circumstances, the failure of Hyflux in its entry into energy production to highlight how much the price of gas has fallen, meaning lower production cost, but not much of this benefit was transferred to the retail users.

'Due to oversupply of gas in the market, the projected reserve margin for electricity demand in Singapore increased to 70 per cent in 2017 from 30 per cent in 2011, it said. The reserve margin measures the excess capacity at peak electricity demand.

This resulted in the fall of the wholesale electricity price.

"The average wholesale electricity price has dropped from about SGD220 per MWh in 2011 when the Tuaspring project was awarded to an average of SGD81 per MWh in 2017, resulting in significant losses from electricity generation," the letter said.'

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/olivia-lum-deeply-saddened-investors-sias-dividends-salary-11247804

If we put all these facts together, it means that the producer of energy has gained a lot of savings from lower gas prices and they could sell energy to the people at a very cheaper price than it is. There is no need to have more retailers, with more marketing and sales costs, to sell energy cheaper to the consumers. Right?

What do you think is the scheme of things?

'An elderly woman who lived near me met me at the bus stop.
She said – Mr. Tan, I agree with what you wrote about the retail electricity supply. As an elderly person, I do not know what to do choose my electricity supplier. Why don’t the government just get Singapore Power to reduce the electricity price, instead of asking us to look for our supplier. I find life to be very complicated....

I also read that some electricity suppliers are exiting the market, because it is too costly and too wasteful to be marketing the supply.

What a wasteful practice. What an incompetent government.'
Tan Kin Lian

Nathan Rich – Hongkongers protest for the sake of protesting

As a responsible government, I feel obliged to find a way to deal with the Taiwan murder case so that justice can be done for the deceased, her parents and society, while at the same time address the deficiencies in our system so that Hong Kong will not become a place for criminals to evade legal responsibility. 
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/carrie-lam-hong-kong-speech-extradition-bill-in-full-11630390

The above is Carrie Lam's comment in her long speech on the Extradition Bill that has since been suspended due to the street protest. Nathan Rich, an American working in China gave a more detail explanation for the Extradition Bill and the irrational Hongkongers protesting against this Bill.

In Nathan King’s video on the recent protest in Hong Kong against the Extradition Bill, he explained it clearly the reasons for this Bill. Nathan Rich is an American, a creative tech nerd working in China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCokRDKR89c

In short, the Bill came about when a Hongkonger brought his girl friend to Taiwan, murdered her, put her into her luggage bag and dragged it out of the hotel. He subsequently disposed her body and returned to Hong Kong to brag about it. The Taiwanese could not bring him back to face murder charges due to a lack of extradition treaty between Taiwan and Hong Kong. Though the crime was committed in Taiwan, I am puzzled why Hong Kong could not prosecute him.

This is the story that led to the Extradition Bill proposed and initiated by the Hong Kong govt, not by China. Initially there were a lot of opposition just like the Huawei and anything related to China, it is bad, can be bad, could be bad. The strongest critic by an anti China lawyer for fear of this new law being abused for political prosecution eventually accepted the Bill after several provisions were included against such possibilities. The Bill will not be used for political prosecution etc etc.

Still the protest went on and such a big scale. Why, the Hongkongers could not understand the Bill, protest for the sake of protesting, just being anti China when the Bill was proposed by the Hong Kong govt to ensure that justice is done and criminals would not get away from their crimes, or there is something more sinister to the protest, instigated by foreign elements?

As Nathan has said, this is an irrational protest, creating irrational chaos. This is lawlessness and the law is supreme against lawless people. There is no excuse to engage in lawlessness.

I agree that the protestors should be put down. All the baseless allegations cannot hold water in this case about abuses, just like the American dubious allegations against Huawei is mischievous.

Protesting against this Bill is saying, murder, crimes by Hongkongers overseas are ok and should not be prosecuted. The Hongkongers are protecting their criminals from foreign prosecution.

If this is not obstruction to justice what is?  What do you think?

New nation new priorities

Singapore will be celebrating its 54th year as a new and independent country, and 200 years of colonial rules. Oops, Singapore has been independent since 1965. As a new country, a new nation, there are different priorities, mainly nation building, building the country, building our assets, infrastructure, systems of administration and building a people to govern and administer our country and its assets and institutions.

During the time of the pioneering leaders, Goh Keng Swee set the training of Singaporeans to be masters of our own country and destiny, to be in charge of our assets and planning the well being of our people, as top priority. One of his most conspicuous policy in manpower developing, to be self sufficient in the top echelon of management was in the finance industry. Singapore was evolving into a major banking and finance sector. So, despite the angmoh tua kee, and angmoh everywhere, Goh Keng Swee set about a process to ensure that Singaporeans would be trained under the angmoh doing business here, to be the leaders of tomorrow, the industry leaders of their respective fields.

Goh Keng Swee did not stop at the banking and finance industry, he wanted Singaporeans to be in charge in all industries and no need to say, the govt as well. That was the beginning of a new nation and nation building. We are the masters of our own country and our own destiny. Many baby boomers benefited from this policy and many rose to the pinnacles of their industries without knowing why, thinking that it was their own abilities and blessing, failing to acknowledge the invisible hand of Goh Keng Swee and to thank him for their good fortunes.

Has this policy change. In a way yes and in a way no. The top leaders of industries are also held by Singaporeans, even govt leaders. The main difference is that many are foreigners and they need not have to train native Singaporeans to replace them. They replaced Singaporeans but statistically, the posts would be held by Singaporeans.  How so?

These foreign imports would be given the pink IC and called themselves Singaporeans. So we have many new Singaporeans in the top posts, even in govt. The end result is the same, Singaporeans in charge, being masters of Singaporeans and charting the destiny of Singapore and Singaporeans.

Any difference between what Goh Keng Swee did then and what is happening now?