One sided biased western views of things

 

Global condemnation of mounting threats in the South China Sea by Kazi Mahmood.  Below are a few paragraphs from this mischievous one sided anti China article written by a pro western reporter. Notice how biased and slanted the words were chosen and used to discredit China?

It first claimed that Chinese ship entered into Vietnamese territory. Then in the same mouthful it said it was disputed territory. And the distance from Vietnamese shore was 56 miles. So this is fuelling tension and risking conflict.

What about American and western warships, not a civilian giant crane ship, entering Chinese waters with the Americans entering the 12 nautical miles territorial waters? Not provocative, not fuelling tension, not risking wars and no condemnation from the European warmongers? Look at the similarities and difference in the Chinese crane ship and those of American and European warships in Chinese EEZ and territorial waters. Why only condemn China and not the Americans and their cronies?

'On August 24, a Chinese survey ship moved closer to the Vietnamese coast right after the Vietnamese prime minister and his Australian counterpart expressed concern about China’s activities in the disputed waters.

The Haiyang Dizhi 8 vessel first entered Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) early July, where it began a week-long seismic survey, says the South China Morning Post.

This triggered a tense stand-off between military and coastguard vessels from Vietnam and China.
The Lan Jing which came 90km (56 miles) from the Vietnamese coastline further fuelled the risk of a maritime confrontation between Vietnam and China.

In a repeat of the July stand-off, regional and international leaders and observers were quick to respond to the presence of the Chinese vessels in Vietnamese waters.

From Brussels, the European Union condemned China’s actions. A spokesperson says, “Unilateral actions during the past weeks in the South China Sea have resulted in mounting tensions and a deterioration of the maritime security environment which represents a serious threat to the peaceful economic development of the region.' Yahoo News

Descendants of convicts spreading lies about China

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says “the war has already started” with China, while Australia has “politicians who seem stunningly blind to the danger.”
 
In his talk show, this descendant of convicts claimed that China has stolen the South China Sea. Stolen the South China Sea from who? His twisted logic is understandable given his bad DNAs. You can’t expect descendants of convicts to tell the truth, to know the difference between truth and lies. They will lie even through the skin of their teeth. The islands in South China Sea were uninhabited islands and the Chinese have founded them many centuries ago under the principle of finders keepers. China did not steal the islands from anyone. Every littoral states of the South China Seas are claiming islands as their own.
 
What this son of convicts has conveniently forgotten is that their forefathers have stolen the continent of Australia from the original natives of Australia whom they called aborigines and ill treated them, abused them and treated them as sub human species. They were not the original people of Australia. Australia has its original people. But they came and they stole and they refused to talk about it, refused to admit it, refused to look at the mirror to see the real thieves.
 
The white Australians, like the white Americans, the white New Zealanders, stole the land of the natives of the respective countries and claimed them as their own. And they got the cheek to accuse China of stealing the islands in the South China Sea. This is the white lie they are spreading to the English speaking world, with many ignorant of history and unthinkingly accepting this twisted and distorted truth. And this Andrew Bolt spoke about it with eyes wide and unblinking believing that he was telling the truth.
 
Please go and ask your ancestors who stole Australia from the aborigines! As for the unthinking white bananas, please check your history and don’t accept this white lie blindly.

The perfect time proven strategies for raising transport fare

Yes there is going to be another transport fare hike, a maximum allowable under the official formula and all the brilliant reasons to support this hike. To me, all the hikes experienced so far are textbook formulas that are applicable only in this island. I have done many years of research on this matter and have crystallised the thinking and methodology behind transport fare hikes. The strategies are also applicable to other industries and services with a bit to tweaks and twits here and there.

There are several basic formulas to use to justify and raise transport fare.

1. Tell the commuters that if they want good service they must be expected to pay more. This formula is useful during normal times when the system is running normally and there is no good reason to raise fare except to 'improve services', better service. Add a few tv monitors in the train cabins, add a few monitors to tell the arrival or departure times of trains or something like these, would be improving services that the commuters can see. Hurray, train services improving and deserving of fare hikes. Got free in train movies or actually ads and also can tell when train is coming or going though in a small town when there is hardly any difference between a 2 min or 3 min wait. Nobody dies waiting for a train that is late by a minute or two.

2. Another formula during normal time is to tell the commuters how many long years no pay hike so it is time for another hike. No other good reasons needed.

3. Another formula is to use operation cost, like higher pay or higher oil prices. Never mind if the fares are not reduced when oil prices hit rock bottom. Just explained that oil prices have little effect on operating cost, or say the electricity is generated from using gas. But when oil price is up, just use it as a reason for higher operating cost, maybe tell the commuters that since oil price is up, it is good to use oil and thus affecting operating cost.

4. A more tricky formula is to hit a bad patch like daily breakdowns and disruptions, many times a day, over many places until travelling by train is affected, when train services are unreliable, when trains have to travel below the recommended or normal speed. Let the people experienced what is bad service.

Then put in furious work, buy more new equipment to return train to normal operation, travelling at normal speed and claim that it is an improvement, big improvement in service, nevermind if everything is just back to normal. This back to normal operation can be touted as improvement and thus justify transport fare hikes. Brilliant isn't it?

5. One more formula is to tell the commuters that you are hiring the best talents and paying them top dollars, in the millions to provide good services. So there is an obvious reason to raise transport fares or else unable to attract top talents for the jobs, even if the job is basically system maintenance not rocket science.

Caveat, apply these strategies and formulas in other countries at your own risk. These are uniquely Singaporean strategies that only work in our special environment and conditions.

The real Chua Mui Hoong

Opinion editor of ST, Chua Mui Hoong, has for many years been on the receiving ends of brickbats defending the PAP in her opinion pieces in the ST. Many unkind words were used against her and her tribes in the organization with scant reservation.
 
Han Fook Kwang too was not spared though in the last few years he has taken a bolder front in criticizing and sharing contrarian views against govt policies and positions. In his retiring years, the restraints placed on him when he was the chief editor have seemed to be loosening and it is time to say what he really wanted to say for so long.
 
Chua Mui Hoong, though much younger and still far away from retiring, has finally taken a stand and stood up in defence of Alfian Sa’at, our local poet when the latter was attacked by Ong Ye Kung. This was what Chua Mui Hoong wrote in the Sunday Times, ‘I was disturbed by the way Education Minister Ong Ye Kung cited a few lines from Alfian Sa’at’s poetry to pain him as someone who might be disloyal to Singapore.’ She went on further to say this, ‘the 4G is a chip off the old block. Inheriting the same political DNA as the first three generations of PAP leaders, it is now merely showing its true colours. Online, some commenters drew this conclusion, citing the use of tactics of name-calling, character assassination and adhominem attacks to label critics negatively. The 4G in this view is just new wine in old bottles, and Singapore’s political development is as stymied as today as in the 1980s and 1990s.’
 
This is about the strongest statement someone from the establishment could say in print against a minister. This is the true Chua Mui Hoong, sharing the same feeling as Han Fook Kwang, Leslie Fong etc etc, that after so many years of being bottled up, it is time to let it go, establishment or not establishment.
 
The use of character assassination has been very effective in the past and many opposition candidates fell and suffered lifelong stigma with their life totally destroyed. Chee Soon Juan is one of the victims and till today, many unthinking still harboured this anti Chee Soon Juan trait and attacking him, hating him is second nature. The young of today and the bottled up old of yesterday could not and would not stomach such personal attacks any more.
 
New wine in old bottle is still new wine and those who have seen the history of Singapore’s politics, grew up with such abuses, have very little tolerance and deference to new wine to do the same. Time has changed and the personalities have changed. To be stymied and trying to live and behave like in the 1980s and 1990s by young upstart is very uncomfortable and difficult to bear.
 
A young shoot of revolution is sprouting not in the young but in the not so young, that the old, harsh and uncivil ways to deal with political opponents, all Singaporeans, all wanting to do good for Singapore, to smear them and call them names, is not only out of fashion but also out of context, out of time and character. For an opinion Editor like Chua Mui Hoong, still very young in life, to openly saying it out in defiance of the old ways is very telling. The revolt is coming from within. The new wine does not have the same hold on the old stalwarts of the establishment and the seniors at large. They don’t hold them in awe and in fear. They just don’t have it to be acting and behaving like the old guards, with nothing achieved and no authority to swagger around like untouchables.
 
There is a silent revolution in the making, led by the old wise of yesteryears that do not see much in the 4G that have nothing to show but acting as if they have arrived just by being put up there. Remember the tortoise sitting on top of a 20 foot pole? How did it got up there?
 
Would there be more Chua Mui Hoongs, more Tommy Kohs to rattle the status quo?

Swine fever outbreak so innocent?

BEIJING: China's agriculture ministry on Wednesday said a new outbreak of African swine fever had been confirmed in Sichuan province in the southwest of the country.
The highly contagious disease was found on a farm with 102 pigs in Jiajiang county in central Sichuan, infecting and killing 21 of the animals, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.

China, the world's biggest pork consumer, has reported more than 140 outbreaks of African swine fever disease since the first case in August last year.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-reports-new-african-swine-fever-outbreak-in-sichuan-province-11729128

Swine fever or African swine fever originated from Africa.  Lately it seems that swine fever happily sprouted all over China like it is in the soil. The Chinese agricultural industry and farming have taken a great leap forward and are modernised unlike the Third World farming industry. Why is it that swine fever finds itself so comfortable in Chinese farms and is spreading like wild fire?

Heard of chemical and biological warfare?  Many Asian countries are also affected, Korea, Japan, and Asean countries with Vietnam the worse hit. On the contrary, swine fever or the bacterial do not seem to like western or American soils. At the most they would visit some East European countries.

Could some countries be incubating and harvesting swine fever bacterial and spreading to countries that they deemed fit? The danger about biological and chemical warfare is that they are very difficult to contain once left in the air. It can travel widely and to the most unpredictable countries. Any country lighting this fire would soon be burnt as well. What goes around would come around.

The advances in Chinese farming make the spread of this disease very suspicious. The spread is like deliberate, like the riots in Hong Kong. At the moment it is only suspicion until someone is caught red handed. The evilness of mankind knows no bounds. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

The Americans are accusing the North Koreans for hiding their swine fever cases. How did the Americans know there are swine fever cases in North Korea when no foreigners are allowed into their farmland? Did the Americans did something and knew that what they did would cause swine fever in North Korea and thus confidently declaring that the North Koreans are hiding these cases? Is this a Freudian slip, the evil hands exposing themselves unintentionally?

The evilness of the Americans for the last few decades after WW2 is beyond comparison. Millions have been killed by them, many millions maimed and made homeless, wars everywhere, all kinds of wars, military, economic, biological, chemical, pyschological and covert wars to cause chaos and troubles everywhere. Many people are dying of hunger and starvation because of their economic wars called sanctions.

How many idiots are still believing that the Americans are angels? I know that is at least one die hard believer in this blog, where everything American is good. No amount of killings and destruction would change the mind of this idiot. And there are many such idiots in this island.