3/07/2020

Covid19 -13 new cases in one day, 5 Mar.

SINGAPORE: Singapore announced 13 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday (Mar 6), the highest daily jump since the outbreak started here.
This brings the total number of new coronavirus cases in Singapore to 130 since the first case was confirmed on Jan 23.

One more patient has recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of discharged cases to 82.
Out of the new cases, nine are linked to the cluster involving a private dinner function at SAFRA Jurong on Feb 15.

Seventeen cases have been linked to this cluster so far. In a briefing on Friday, the Ministry of Health's (MOH) communicable diseases director Vernon Lee pointed out that not all the cases were at the dinner.

"We are still doing investigations. Not all of the cases were at the dinner. Some were family members or had links, but they were not necessarily at the dinner.  CNA

KNN, just as we thought the situation in Singapore has stabilised with 2-3 cases a day, now this looks like an explosion, 13 cases in one single day. And from the reports, these individuals are highly sociable and probably been sharing their new acquisition quite freely and more cases are going to stand up to be counted.  No wonder the politicians have been heard talking about expecting more cases everyday. They must have been briefed of this SAFRA Jurong cluster now ballooning with 17 cases to its credit.

Thank God that the church clusters have quiet down and not sprouting more new cases or else we are going to be on a run. The next few days are going to be closely watched and many people would be on tenderhooks when the possibility of a bigger number is very high now.

Don't pray pray. My karaoke group made a wise decision to stop meeting until further notice. If there is another explosion of this scale or bigger, some countries may start to put Singaporeans on quarantine or ban Singaporeans from visiting them completely.

3/06/2020

The United States & Its European Allies Caused The Destruction of Muslim Civilization.


PART      ONE

It is the tradition of white supremacists and racists to kill and destroy other civilizations in order to maintain their hegemony and total control of all countries. Traditionally they have been treating muslims as die hard enemies and the killing of muslims and  destruction of the great muslim civilization was expedited by the Americans and the British immediately after the First World War and the momentum of the killings exploded with great speed and brutality immediately after the Second World War. The American genocide of the Middle East muslims continue unabated to the present.

In past milleniums the Muslim Civilization shone in glory and splendour. It was as great and glorious as the Chinese civilization. Like the Chinese civilization it was in the frontline of science, mathematics and technology which were very lacking in European countries. The European countries were then very primitive and perpetually indulged in constant warfares against each other.  To the Europeans the muslim civilization was in the olden days a light of knowledge and learning and a torchlight to the way of progress for the future.

How then in the last five hundred years the Europeans were able to stole a march on the Arab muslims and the Chinese? The key to this answer lies the cause of the fall and destruction of the muslim civilization and the Chinese civilization at the hands of the marauding European and the American  barbaric aggressions.

Having learnt much of the science and technology from the Chinese and the Arab muslims the Europeans quickened their pace in mustering the science and technology of manufacturing more effective guns and cannons and the building of war ships. Armed with their new found superior weaponery they the Europeans and thereafter the Americans went on a rampage to attack and conquer other countries both in the old world of Asia and Africa and in the new world of the Americas  and Australia.

Religion and militant political doctrines play a huge part in the downfall of the muslim civilization. But the main cause of the destruction of muslim civilization is the determination of the white supremacists of Europe and the United States to destroy muslims at any cost and at all cost.

The white men of Europe and America see the muslims as some sort of a contagious dangerous disease and so they coordinate their efforts to take down all muslims wherever they may be.

On the religion aspect both the muslims and the white European and American Christians have been using religious doctrine to justify their mutual hatred and killings of each other. The Arab muslims justify their killings of white men who are infidels or non-believers of Islam and the white Christians similarly justify their killings of muslims who are known as heathens or non-believers of the Christian faith. However, the white supremacists of Europe and America eventually triumphed over the muslims because of their great advancement in Science and technology in the last five hundred years.

The European countries and white America make no pretensions that they are justified in killing muslims and taking away their lands even though the muslims do not do anything wrong to them or give them any provocations; but just for the simple fact that muslims are heathens and therefore reserved to be killed. The white racists and supremacists insist that it was written in the Bible that all nations which do not acknowledge the  authority of the white Christian western powers were sinners and so it was their right and duty to make war upon the muslims wherever they could be found and to make slaves of all the muslims they could take as prisoners. Unfortunately this evil white Christian policy was also applied to other people who are non-muslims but also non-christians. This hate muslim policy, the anti-muslim policy and anti-non whites policy has been the US state policy and has been in place since the first years of United States independence in 1775. In fact it was given emphasis by Thomas Jefferson, US second president after George Washington.

The extension of this insidious white supremacist Christian policy continues to this day and is carried out mainly by the United States. The killings and genocide of muslims have not stopped. In fact it has intensified with the advancement of modern weaponery like rockets, missiles, drones and jet bombers.

The killings of muslims have been a long time western obsession. It started with the Christian crusades marching to war against the muslims in the 15th century. It was a long drawn out struggle of life and death between the European Christians and the Sunni and Shia muslims. After more than a millenium of wars and fighting it culminated with the defeat of the muslims. The defeat of the muslims was made easy  partly due to the infighting among the muslims between the Sunni and the
Shia sects which was highly exploited by the christian European powers. The end of Islamic power and glory came pretty fast in the 19th Century and after the First World War. The Turkish Islamic Ottoman Empire in the whole of Middle East became the spoils to be absorbed by the British Empire. However due to fear of Russian encroachment the British was forced to break up the previous Ottoman Empire into separate independent states under British protectorate. Hence there are the independent entities of of Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Abu Dhabi, Oman, Lebanon and Palestine.

However, after the Second World War and with the discovery of rich deposits of hundreds of billions of tons of oil and trillions of tons of natural gas in almost all the newly independent Arab states, a new form of western colonialism and imperialism came in the form of United States capitalism to exploit these resources.

To carry out this new western capitalist colonialism the British and the United States adopted an operandi based on divide and rule system. In 1948 by using intrigue and subterfuge they illegally detached a large part of the Arab state of Palestine and planted the Jewish state of Israel in the midst of the Arab world.

Thus the illicit birth of Israel has been the start of the great sufferings of the Arabs in general and the Palestinian Arabs in particular. In addition  the United States and UK insatiable greed for Arab oil and natural liquified gas result in several ruinous wars initiated by US in its determination to dominate the Middle East region under its total hegemony  and full control of the oil and natural gas resources.

Other than the love of Arab oil and natural gas the Americans and the British seem to have a natural hatred for the Arab muslims. And perhaps that's the reason they have to plant Israel there to look after the interests of the US and UK. The United States wars on Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Yemen and Somalia are state terrorism and the most cruel perversion and criminal act against human rights.

Just as George H, Bush and Obama , president Trump does not care to hide his deep hatred for Arab muslims. He called for a total and complete shutdown of muslims from entering the United States.

The American wars against the Arab muslims are most brutal and destructive in criminality. It is a one sided affair of might is right. So they have been using their military might to the fullest. Their endless mass bombings not only killed hundreds of thousands of Arab military personnels but also millions of civilians which they brushed aside without betting an eye lid as collateral damages. The indiscriminate mass bombings not only kill the people but also cause great wanton destructions to buildings and properties. The use of cluster bombs, chemical and biological weapons as well as depleted uranium on the Middle East Arab muslims to maximize the effect of mass killings show wanton disregard of  humanity and utter contempt for Arab feelings of self respect and dignity. It is in short American state terrorism with no precedence.

With the killings of Arab muslims by the millions and the wanton indiscriminate destruction of Arab muslim lands and properties  by the western powers headed by the United States of America, can the old glorious muslim civilization be revived.

There is some hope only if the whole non-western world and the United Nations Organization condemn in unison the American state terrorism and demand it to stop this terrorism in the Middle East  immediately. Also the illegal state of Zionist Israel which spond some of the worst crimes against the muslims in cahoot with the United States must be shut down and the lands return to the Arab Palestinian muslims. All the Jews will then be safely repatriated to all the European countries and the United States where they originally came from.  The Arab muslims must get rid of their old illogical scism between the Sunnis and the Shias  The west conquests of the muslim world have been made easy and enhanced by the unnecessary quarrels among the muslims of the Sunni and the Shia sects. The Evil Empire, the atrocious United States imperialist always exploit local differences of a national state or national states and capitalise on their differences to instigate fear , suspicion, hostilities and even foment wars to fit its agenda of domination and hegemony over every other country.

The muslims in the world, all the muslim countries , especially the Middle East Arab muslim countries can only gain back their self-respect and dignity and redeem their glorious past  by uniting together to get rid of the bellicose Americans from their countries. To this momentous objective Pakistan can help its muslim brotherhood in the Middle East with its nuclear cover and strengthen deep cooperation with Russia, Iran , DPRK and The Peoples Republic of China.

Unless and until the Evil Empire, the United States is destroyed there will be no peace and security for the muslims and other people in this world.

Southernglory1

Friday, 6th March, 2020

















When teachers are unintelligent and policy makers confusing the purpose of education

An exam paper of a primary school girl has been circulating around exposing the unintelligence of teachers, maybe one teacher setting the question and one marking, or one teacher doing both, and how a poor child that was so confused by the questions because of her exceptional intelligence ended being marked wrong for her exceptionally clear answers.

One question showed 3 pairs of ducks facing each other and the question asking how many ducks were there. What was confusing was that at the answer column, after a space for the answer was a picture of a duck facing one side. Without this picture, the answer was obvious, 6 ducks. But with the picture of a duck added, and facing one side, a child could read the question as asking how many ducks were facing the same direction as the picture next to the answer. The child put down 3 and was marked wrong.

Another question was a picture of 9 dogs in various positions and the question asked how many dogs were there. Same problem, answer should be 9. But at the answer column, after the space to put the answer was a picture of a dog lying in a particular position. And only one of the 9 dogs was lying in that position. The child's answer was 1 and was marked wrong.

Who was right and who was wrong? An average child would have given the answers that an average teacher wanted, 6 ducks and 9 dogs. An above average child would give the wrong answers as the child above, to an average thinking teacher. Whose fault is this? The painful thing is that the child would have gone bonkers trying to figure out why her answers were wrong, all because of unintelligent teachers and unintelligent questions.

Is this the reason why our education system is producing duds that cannot think outside the exam questions and could only produce unintelligent answers and thus found wanting when applying for jobs or for top positions in an organisation? We pay millions and millions for good teachers and good education system but the above situation is appalling. Something is very seriously wrong in this robotic fashion of teaching.

And I read in the papers that the school system is going to teach the child mental health and in the same breath acknowledging that teachers that have proper training on mental health would not be qualified to offer professional support to troubled children. If teachers after being properly trained may be found wanting, how much would the children learn from such classes? There are so many things that our children are expected to learn from their school curriculum that wanted to turn them into superman and superwoman but ended turning out duds and people knowing a bit of nothing in everything.

If this is the way the schools are being made to do, I would suggest a few more important topics to prepare the children other than mental illness, disappointments and accepting failures as part of their life after going through our very expensive and confusing education system. Let them know that they are not supposed to be the best in their studies as that would hurt the feelings of less academically inclined children. Let them know that being good academically is nothing to be proud off. If they are good academically they must hide in the closets and not to talk about it. Academically smart children are frown upon by society as they made others looked bad.

And prepare them to accept low paying jobs, to be underemployed, to willingly take on part time jobs, and not to feel bad that they cannot get a job and not to be angry with foreigners that went through half baked education system that did not teach them all the good things in our education system but taking all the good jobs.

The schools must tell the children that despite being taught so many things and paying so much for it, even travelling overseas to understand other people, they would not get the good jobs and may end up jobless. The good jobs would go to foreigners that paid a pittance for their makeshift education, did not go on exchange programme, but just teaching them the 3 Rs and what a basic school education is meant to teach.

Yes, the school can teach everything, from brushing the teeth, how to take a shower, how to go dating, how to use condoms etc etc. The question is what are schools meant for in the first place. With every change of minister for education, the roles of the schools have changing and deviating from its original mission. Let's get back to first principles and let the schools do what they should be doing and not all the nonsense that are good to have, that are desired by a few parents or policy makers, things that parents should be teaching them.

What do you think? Is it the problem of our education system or confused policy makers trying to do things beyond their field of expertise, not trained in education and telling the teachers what to do? Oh, the above teacher or teachers setting and marking those questions are exceptions to the rule despite being paid top dollars as the best teachers money can buy. We have many good teachers, just let them teach what the schools should be teaching. Non teaching professionals should meddle less with the teaching professions.

3/05/2020

USA - when will the accidental country's luck run out?

Federal health employees were sent to interact with repatriated Americans quarantined for exposure to the novel coronavirus without wearing protective gear or receiving training, a whistleblower complaint cited by US media said Thursday.

The filing, which was seen by the Washington Post and New York Times, was submitted by a senior official in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) who said she was improperly re-assigned after raising her concerns and threatened with being fired if she did not comply.

According to the two newspapers, the incidents were in relation to two California air force bases, Travis and March. More than a dozen workers were sent to each site.  AFP


As cases of COVID-19 continue to spike around the world, the CDC warned on Tuesday that Americans should prepare for the likelihood that the coronavirus will eventually spread here. Amid escalating outbreaks outside of China, it’s clear that there has been undetected transmission of the virus from countries with which the U.S. has not restricted travel. While there has not been a corresponding spike in cases within the U.S., many health experts are warning the coronavirus may already be here. That remains an unknown though — in no small part because the U.S. has done very little testing for the virus. And thanks to problems at the CDC, including the distribution of a faulty test kit for the coronavirus, it’s not clear when the country’s testing capacity will improve.
“We’re testing everybody that we need to test,” President Trump insisted on Wednesday during his first press conference on the coronavirus. He’s almost certainly wrong....

According to the CDC, 445 people have been tested for the virus as of February 25, resulting in 15 confirmed coronavirus infections, including two cases resulting from person-to-person spread, and one case of unknown origin. Those totals only include cases detected and laboratory-tested inside the U.S.....NY Intelligencer


The above comments from two American media sources said something very typical of the USA, the accidental country. They are fumbling along with the way they are handling the Covid19 pandemic. bad gear, bad protocol, bad test kits, no test kits and a disinterested attitude in testing Americans for infection by the Covid19.

But all will turn out well like in the past in this accidental country. Luck is on their side....question is for how long. The USA has been thrusted to become the most powerful and richest country in the world for nearly a century. When would their luck run out and bring them down on their knees as they fumbled along from accident to accident and coming up on top?

If the end of the Empire is near, this Covid19 could be an accident too far. The numbers of affected cases in the USA is low, only 60 plus, not because it is low but because they were not testing them, just like H1N1. They still did not know the truth and the truth could be very ugly. And recent cases in the USA are indigenous, with no known contact with imported cases.

Or maybe their tidak apa attitude is due to the fact that they already have the vaccine and have no cause to be alarm and to panic.Or is it that they know the virus is all over the USA and it is better not to test, better not to know?



3/04/2020

Racist attack on a Chinese Singaporean in London - No arrest made

Detective Sergeant Emma Kirby, who is the officer in charge of the case, said the attack left the victim "shaken and hurt".
"There’s no room on our streets for this kind of violent behaviour and we are committed to finding the perpetrators," she said.
“I am keen to speak to anyone who has information about this assault. I would like to identify and speak to the four men pictured who may be able to help me with our enquiries."
No arrests have been made, and police have asked witnesses to come forward. CNA

The above is reported in CNA. Do you believe that detective sergeant saying that they are committed to find the racist attackers when they have CCTV images of them, clear for all to see who they are? Is London such a big city that no one knows who these 4 rogues are? The London police are so incompetent that they could not arrest them after so many days?

Or is this another case of the white racist police protecting their white racists rogues?

What is the Singapore govt going to do about it? Keep quiet? Our govt are always first in sending greetings to some foreign dignitaries birthday or whatever day that offers a chance to be the first to send congratulatory messages. Now a Singapore citizens has been brutally attacked by some white racist rogues in London. Ionly hear 'tiam tiam'.  Not a single sound was heard. Did our High Commissioner or govt leaders say anything to the British govt to apprehend the attackers and bring them to justice quickly?

Or is it another case of nevermind lah, white men beating Singaporean is ok. It happened, nothing can be done about it, let's move on? What happened to shouting for our rights, for justice, for the rule of law when it now affects our very own citizen? This is the time to punch above our weight as it affects not only the personal safety of our citizens but also our standing as a sovereign state, big or small.