Singapore Parliament - Guess who is not there

Meanwhile, those watching Ms Lim ask her question also noticed the rather-empty Parliament session. “Thank you Sylvia Lim for speaking up in Parliament about spending Government money wisely,” wrote All Singapore Stuff on its Facebook page. “But more importantly, who is she speaking to? How come looks like so many empty seats again?” the caption added.

 One person said that Ms Lim should have asked why she was scheduled to speak during a  near-empty Parliament sitting. Others called it “disrespectful to the voters and taxpayers”.

 Another person proposed that a session should not proceed if a certain number of MPs were not present, with penalties for those who did not attend.


The above is posted in www.theindependent.sg and Sylvia Lim was seen asking the House how Mindef determines the value and pricing of a contract, especially the one concerning F35s and the spending of $2.75b. What is not surprising is the nearly empty House, and you could literally count the number of MPs looking so indifferent and disinterested when Sylvia was talking.

Of course the picture only showed a small section of the Parliament and the rest of the House could be fully occupied. But looking at the picture it tells a very pathetic story about the Singapore Parliament at face value. Who was there and who was not there? Was there a quorum? Think should have. Even if the rest of the seats not shown were fully occupied, the picture still shows a substantial number of MPs, including the Speaker, were not there.

Is this a normal thing, something acceptable? Obviously from the comments mentioned above, they were furious and felt cheated. And half empty and very empty, not sure how empty Parliament has been a thing for a long time, often shown on CNA. By now this is taken as the norm, this is what Singapore Parliament is.  I thought when the opposition MPs spoke, the Whip would make sure govt MPs would be present to make a stand or to question and challenge them. No, not necessary anymore?

Or maybe half a house is good enough to deal with the handful of opposition MPs.

What do you think? MPs and Ministers not interested in attending Parliament or Parliament has nothing important to discuss, talking about condoms and dog and cats?

PS. This Covid19 is good for Parliament attendance. Blame it on the virus.

Covid19 -What will Singapore do next?

What will the Singapore xxxxxxxxxxxxx do next?

Lower the Code Orange to Code Yellow, remove some existing restrictions, open the floodgates to allow any Tom Dick and Harry to come to Singapore and freely distribute the corona-viruses?

Above is a comment by an anonymous blogger asking what would Singapore do next given the experience of Italy with infected cases shooting to high heavens? Now, how to answer such a question to be meaningful?  I know many people are wondering if Singapore would continue with its open leg policy to let every wildlife to come in as it means money, plenty of easy money in terms of levies and fees and also to boost up a dying economy that is struggling to stay off the recession path.

Let's look at the statistics available on the Covid19 pandemic and see if they make any good sense and can help Singapore govt to work out a sensible immigration policy that could still allow it to continue to collect easy money by allowing more wildlife to come in to provide jobs for Singaporeans. Look at the below chart provided by CNA and the countries that are most affected by the Covid19 virus.

NOVEL CORONAVIRUS CASES

PLACES	CONFIRMED CASES	REPORTED DEATHS
China	80,695	3,097
South Korea	7,313	50
Iran	6,566	194
Italy	5,883	233
France	949	16
Germany	795	0
Cruise ship (Diamond Princess)	696	7
Japan	455	6
Spain	374	8
Switzerland	281	1
United States	213	19
United Kingdom	210	2
Belgium	200	0
Netherlands	188	1
Sweden	161	0
Norway	147	0
Singapore	138	0
Hong Kong	114	3
Austria	99	0
Malaysia	99	0

Click to see more

As of 8:19pm Mar 8, 2020

Statistically speaking, not my personal opinion, there is a clear statement from the above chart that says Covid19 is a disease of rich countries. Look, other than Malaysia and Singapore, no SE Asian country or South Asian or African country is seriously affected, did not even deserve to be in the chart. What does this mean? The virus likes rich people, likes to go to rich countries, likes to go for cruises, likes to go to churches, to casinos, and other than China, S Korea and Japan, it has a penchant for Europeans, and this is only the beginning. More and more Europeans and Americans would be visited by the virus.

What has this got to say about Singapore's open leg immigration policy? Can one use the above statistics to say that wildlife from poor SE Asia, South Asia and Africa are safe bets and can continue to come in freely, free from Covid19 virus, or at least the chances are very slim? This looks like a piece of good news for Singapore's immigration dependent economy. Can continue to do as before, no need to stop wildlife from coming in if they are from poor countries.

What do you think? My use of statistics make sense or not?

Would our politicians use the above statistics to justify the continuation of the open leg immigration policy to grow our economy?

Coronavirus - Did The Virus Originate in the US?

When it started in Wuhan, the evil and irresponsible Americans quickly put the fingers at China as the origin of this virus, even leaking from a Wuhan Lab. As the story unfolds, more information and data are showing that the virus did not originate from China. The Wuhan or China strain is different from those found in Italy, Iran, South Korea and other places. And cases are sprouting out in all the far corners of the world, even in floating cruise ships. Why and how?

The only country that has all the 5 strains of coronavirus is the USA. There were few cases reported in the USA, not reported before the Wuhan incident is because the USA were not testing them. Ignorance is bliss. They did not test them, thousands of Americans died and buried presuming dying of natural death or common flu.

China found out because it was the first country that had a widespread and tested it. Now that every country is testing it, they quickly found that the coronavirus is in their country. The more they test, the more cases are found. And many have no contact with virus affected countries. The virus flew from Wuhan China to the Seattle Nursing Home in Washington state? How?  What about the cruise ship floating outside San Francisco? Why were there so many Americans affected by the coronavirus in Diamond Princess? These only prove that the virus is everywhere in the USA, and started spreading much earlier than in Wuhan. China has locked down cities to stop its spread. The virus from China could not be spreading all over the world overnight.

Read the article below to have a better idea. Only one country that have the 5 strains of coronavirus and is just starting to test them in a very small way. If they could they would not want to test them, not wanting to know that the virus is all over the USA. The USA could be the breeding ground for all the coronavirus but blaming China for it to mislead the world that they are not to be blamed, they are innocent.

Who is not transparent, who is lying to the world about this coronavirus? Stop the white lie.

 

Japan, China and Taiwan Reports on the Origin of the Virus

The Western media quickly took the stage and laid out the official narrative for the outbreak of the new coronavirus which appeared to have begun in China, claiming it to have originated with animals at a wet market in Wuhan.

In fact the origin was for a long time unknown but it appears likely now, according to Chinese and Japanese reports, that the virus originated elsewhere, from multiple locations, but began to spread widely only after being introduced to the market.
More to the point, it appears that the virus did not originate in China and, according to reports in Japanese and other media, may have originated in the US....


Taiwan Virologist Suggests the Coronavirus Originated in the US
Then, Taiwan ran a TV news program on February,27,(click here to access video (Chinese), that presented diagrams and flow charts suggesting the coronavirus originated in the US. (6)....

One of his main points is that the type infecting Taiwan exists only in Australia and the US and, since Taiwan was not infected by Australians, the infection in Taiwan could have come only from the US.
The basic logic is that the geographical location with the greatest diversity of virus strains must be the original source because a single strain cannot emerge from nothing. He demonstrated that only the US has all the five known strains of the virus (while Wuhan and most of China have only one, as do Taiwan and South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam, Singapore, and England, Belgium and Germany), constituting a thesis that the haplotypes in other nations may have originated in the US.
Korea and Taiwan have a different haplotype of the virus than China, perhaps more infective but much less deadly, which would account for a death rate only 1/3 that of China.
Neither Iran nor Italy were included in the above tests, but both countries have now deciphered the locally prevalent genome and have declared them of different varieties from those in China, which means they did not originate in China but were of necessity introduced from another source. It is worth noting that the variety in Italy has approximately the same fatality rate as that of China, three times as great as other nations, while the haplotype in Iran appears to be the deadliest with a fatality rate of between 10% and 25%. (7) (8) (9)
Due to the enormous amount of Western media coverage focused on China, much of the world believes the coronavirus spread to all other nations from China, but this now appears to have been proven wrong. With about 50 nations scattered throughout the world having identified at least one case at the time of writing, it would be very interesting to examine virus samples from each of those nations to determine their location of origin and the worldwide sources and patterns of spread.
The Virologist further stated that the US has recently had more than 200 “pulmonary fibrosis” cases that resulted in death due to patients’ inability to breathe, but whose conditions and symptoms could not be explained by pulmonary fibrosis. He said he wrote articles informing the US health authorities to consider seriously those deaths as resulting from the coronavirus, but they responded by blaming the deaths on e-cigarettes, then silenced further discussion. …
The Taiwanese doctor then stated the virus outbreak began earlier than assumed, saying, “We must look to September of 2019”.
He stated the case in September of 2019 where some Japanese traveled to Hawaii and returned home infected, people who had never been to China. This was two months prior to the infections in China and just after the CDC suddenly and totally shut down the Fort Detrick bio-weapons lab claiming the facilities were insufficient to prevent loss of pathogens. (10) (11)
He said he personally investigated those cases very carefully (as did the Japanese virologists who came to the same conclusion).. This might indicate the coronavirus had already spread in the US but where the symptoms were being officially attributed to other diseases, and thus possibly masked.
The prominent Chinese news website Huanqiu related one case in the US where a woman’s relative was told by physicians he died of the flu, but where the death certificate listed the coronavirus as the cause of death. On February 26, ABC News affiliate KJCT8 News Network reported that a woman recently told the media that her sister died on from coronavirus infection. Montrose, Colorado resident Almeta Stone said, “They (the medical staff) kept us informed that it was the flu, and when I got the death certificate, there was a coronavirus in the cause of death.” (12)

We cannot ascertain the number of such cases in the US but since the CDC apparently has no reliable test kits and is conducting little or no testing for the virus, there may be others.

 In the past two years (during the trade war) China has suffered several pandemics:

• February 15, 2018: H7N4 bird flu. Sickened at least 1,600 people in China and killed more than 600. Many chickens killed. China needs to purchase US poultry products.
• June, 2018: H7N9 bird flu. Many chickens killed. China needs to purchase US poultry products.
• August, 2018: outbreak of African swine flu. Same strain as Russia, from Georgia. Millions of pigs killed. China needs to purchase US pork products.
• May 24, 2019: massive infestation of armyworms in 14 province-level regions in China, which destroy most food crops. Quickly spread to more than 8,500 hectares of China’s grain production. They produce astonishing numbers of eggs. China needs to purchase US agricultural products – corn, soybeans.
• December, 2019: Coronavirus appearance puts China’s economy on hold.
• January, 2020: China is hit by a “highly pathogenic” strain of bird flu in Hunan province. Many chickens died, many others killed. China needs to purchase US poultry products.

The standard adage is that bad luck happens in threes, not sixes.
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Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.

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.

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.

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Friday, 6th March, 2020