4/14/2020

Covid19 - Is community spread threatening Singapore?

Community spread of this virus is starting to grow in Singapore. The above map is from theindependent.sg. Just before April Fool Day, things were still manageable with the spread limited and community spread still traceable. With the current state of affair, the task of contact tracing is huge, extremely tenuous to think the team could trace so many people in so many places. And quarantine them is another mammoth problem.

There were 233 new cases on 12 April, 167 with no links and nearly 30 clusters all over the island. And on 13 April a new record was hit, 386 cases with 94 unlinked cases, ie community spread. How did we get here, from gold standard to becoming the epicentre in Southeast Asia. If the rate of infection continues to grow, we will be there. At this point, with such numbers, containment is not going to be easy, even difficult. Singapore is likely to graduate from containment to mitigation.

There is this fear that the foreign workers could pass the virus to their girlfriends and cause a new front in the homes of Singaporeans. Contrary, the foreign workers could be infected by their girlfriends and brought the virus to their dormitories, to Mustafa Centre. Strangely, the infection rate of domestic maids is very low. Is it because they were not tested or few were infected?

How did Singapore, the envy of the rest of the world just a couple of weeks ago, deteriorated to this sorry state of affair? No, things still under control, the spread is not serious?

What do you think?

PS.  A qualification, we are not the epicentre yet. Hope the 386 daily number will not continue. If this number grows, we will get there in a matter of time. The bigger the number, the harder to trace, the easy to loose control and things will just explode.

4/13/2020

Insane USA politicians & Pentagon tinker with the idea to start a war against China at the end of the Coronavirus Pendemic.

   With madmen and insane crooks and scoundrels and charlatans running the United States government and administration the chances of a worldwide nuclear conflagration in a Third World War is getting very close to reality.

   The coronavirus was created by the United States military biological laboratories to kill Asians and Africans and especially to kill the Chinese whom the evil empire considered as its strategic competitor. However, the monstrous evil plot backfired and the coronavirus are now coming to America.  But the USA leadership is indifferent because they strongly believe the virus was created to attack ethnic races only with the yellow skin or dark skin genes and would not attack white men. So with such strong belief they gingerly adopted a couldn't care less attitude. The epidemic is now engulfing the whole of the USA with great severity but the politicians are still quarrelling and fighting and Trump and his officials are only obsessed in demonizing China. Instead of fighting the deadly coronavirus pandemic the United States concentrates on demonizing China and bullying other countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea and many more others.

Now the Trump administration  find it hard to fight and contain the coronavirus. Being untrustworthy and irresponsible they try to deflect the people's attention from their inefficiency and incompetence in dealing with the pandemic by playing the blame game of accusing China and the World Health Organisation for all the faults except their own.

The Covid-19 may cause havoc to US economy, trade, commerce and finance. They may find it hard to extricate themselves from this havoc and coming economic disaster. The United States now has an unsolvable debt of about 28 trillion dollars and it is increasing every day. The fear now is the United States in desperation may start a war with China or Russia or attack any of the smaller weaker countries like Venezuella, Cuba, Iraq, Iran or North Korea to solve this critical crisis it created. But war will not solve their problem. It will deepen their crisis and hasten the end of US imperialism.

A New York Times report which is posted in Straits Times on Tuesday, 7th April, on page A16 stated. " US military seeks more funds for Pacific region, post -  virus. Additional $29 b sought for 2021 - 26 to bolster deterrence against China once outbreak ends."

But why deter China? What is there to deter China? China has never attacked any other country and has no intention to do so. On the other hand China like many Asian countries has always been on the receiving end of Western aggressions and occupation. China has decided these western and American aggressions have to stop. In the last few decades China and the Chinese people have with grit and gumption simultaneously built up a strong economy and a powerful military to preempt any future foreign aggressions especially those from the US and its western allies. The US is not happy to see China's exceptional rapid development. They arrogantly believe that only the white people have the prerogative to development and to enjoy riches, wealth and glory. But every Asian country and every other country in this world has the right to progress and improve the livehood of their people. The United States feel a strong, rich and powerful China will prevent US from continuing its grave exploitation of the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America. It is this reluctance and inability of US and its western allies to accept China's phenominal rise and its wicked and evil plots to contain China's development which  is the cause of all troubles, instabilities and wars in Asia and beyond. All other allegations about deterring China's ambition in Asia and the South China Sea is hogwash and hubris. It is a smoke screen, a veil to cover US monstrous objective to hold sway over Asia and the Pacific cum Indian Ocean region under continuous US domination and hegemony. This can be seen in the over 400 US military bases in the Pacific Ocean region in Japan, Korea, Guam, the Philippines, the Marshall Islands and the Bikini Islands as well as Diego Garcia Islands in the Indian Ocean.

China's position in the East China Sea and South China Sea is clear and transparent. The Chinese islands of Diau Yudao in the East China Sea, the Paracel Islands, the Spratly Islands, the Pratas Islands and all other smaller islands, shoals and islets in the South China Sea were occupied by Japan during the Second World War. However, after the Second World War  all these islands were  legally returned to China  by the United Nations Organization under the Cairo and Potsdam  treaties duly signed by all the great powers inclusive of US, UK, Russia, China and Japan. Pretending to forget or ignore these legal bound international treaties doesn't make any difference to China's absolute sovereignty over all these Chinese territorial islands and seas in the South China Sea region. The Evil Empire should stop instigating the littoral states in the region to make false illegal claims to Chinese territorial islands and seas.

However, after the Korean War 1950-1953 and the Indo-China War 1965 - 1975 the US illegally handed the Diau Yudao to Japan and then sabotage and undermine China's sovereignty over the South China Sea islands by promoting the insidious United Nations Convention of the International Laws of the Seas in 1986 to create space for illegal claims on Chinese territorial seas and islands by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei  and in a way Indonesia which claims part of the Chinese territorial seas around the Spratly Islands. All these silly illegal and illicit claims took place at the instigation and goading of the United States.

China has always been the same China and it has always been in this part of Asia unlike US which came over from England to steal the North America continent from the native Americans after genociding almost all of them or around one hundred million of them in the last 300 years. China had not and has never expand its territories at others expense. On the contrary China had lost millions of square miles of territories to other countries like Russia, England, France, Japan and India during the century of humiliation from 1830s to 1940s.

China does not station any of her soldiers outside China and has no military bases overseas unlike the US which has over a thousand military bases all over the world. Surely the American military bases overseas are not for peace, With these military bases the United States has always threatened, bullied and took aggressive actions to force other countries big or small to submit to American dictatorship. America has always used its military might to exercise its illegal extra-territorial rights on other countries so as to secure their wealth and vast natural resources practically for free for the American elites, the Wall Street crooks and scoundrels and the Deep State of the Anglo-Saxon American Jewish Zionist Rothschild Illuminati Cabal.

US has stated openly that it intends to increase tension against China in the Asia-Pacific region after the end of the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak by increasing its armaments of new radar warning systems, more new cruise missiles, additional forces and new intelligence-sharing centres to improve and enhance US military's ability to confront and deter the People's Liberation Army.  US Defence News stated clearly that its military and the Pentagon is preparing to face increase tensions against China amid the pandemic and the post pandemic. It stated that its current and former national security officials have strongly supported increase in its military power to shore up its illicit operations in the region. They intend to focus more urgently on threatening China's economy and military after the pandemic.

While in a threatening mood against China, US lawmakers and military strategists at the same time expressed fear of the accuracy of the powerful lethal Chinese missiles. It said US needs  to disperse its forces in Asia other than those now largely concentrated in Japan, South Korea and Guam.

Where else can it disperse its forces? Vietnam will not entertain American forces in its territory for US aggression against China for it knows it doesn't pay to antagonize China. The Philippines, may be, may be not , depending on the whimsical judgements of the government of the day. Like Vietnam no sensible Philippino government will allow US forces to use its territory to launch attacks against China. Taiwan, definitely not for it will be tantamount to open declaration of war against China. In such a scenario Taiwan will be devastated and both USA and China will not escape unscathed and the destiny of the world will be held in the balance from unlimited nuclear exchange. Are the mad and insane Americans and its allies  ready to accept such a scenario.

The days when US or any of its allies or any combination of hostile forces can attack China with impunity are over. Don't press China too much. It doesn't pay. China has yet to take revenge and demand compensation  for the hundred years of humiliation it suffered at the hands of US and the West. Any country which trifles with China now will be signing its own death warrant.

US may start a war against China but it may not be able to stop it short of mutual annihilation. Is that what the bellicose insane politicians and warhawks in US want it? Is it worthwhile to be insanely aggressive against China now? In a nuclear war nobody wins. Think hard and pull back and don't let your false ego and fake honour to default to go over the brink of armageddon for you may not have a second chance. China does not want war, but China is not afraid of war either, and if forced to China will fight to win.

Southernglory1

Monday, 13th April, 2020























Solidarity Payment - All Singaporeans would get $600, non Singaporeans also get $300

Last Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced that all adult Singaporeans aged 21 and above would receive a one-off Solidarity Payment of S$600 in cash....

A one-off payout of S$300 will also be given to permanent residents (PRs) aged 21 and above this year who have a Singaporean parent, spouse or child, said MOF.

The S$300 payout will also be given to Long-Term Visit Pass-Plus holders aged 21 and above this year.  CNA

During this difficult time, every Singaporean is affected by shut down with some getting hurt more financially than others. PRs and non Singaporeans too would be affected but this is not our problem. Why should it be our problem?

For PRs with Singaporean spouses or children, giving them $300 is reasonable. But why the heck is the govt giving $300 to Long Term Visit Pass-Plus holders who are not citizens, not even PRs? Definitely never to NS.

Is this a case of too much money dunno what to do, or is this a case of OPM can anyhow give away? And don't forget, the reserves were built up by Singaporeans for Singaporeans and their future generations. Why is the govt giving money taken from our reserves to give to non citizens?

What do you think?

4/12/2020

Covid19 - Singapore cases going exponential

This is a chart dated 11 Apr 20 provided by CNA. The number of cases is blowing away with the new average about 190 cases in the last 4 days. If the rate goes on, we are in big trouble. And to compound the problem 119 cases were unlinked yesterday, saying that the virus is in the air. Put on the mask when outside. You cannot feel safe now.

Covid19 - Should China sell medical supplies to pariah countries like Brazil?

Mandetta said last week Brazilian states are well stocked for now, but Brazil had to turn to several countries before it could find a taker - China - for its 1.2 billion reais (US$228 million) order to restock.



Brazil's education minister has also accused Chinese suppliers of profiteering on the pandemic, and mocked Chinese accents.

The minister later said he would apologise if China agreed to sell Brazil 1,000 ventilators.  CNA

Now why would China send medical help and supplies to such ungrateful and unfriendly countries? Brazil is not alone, there are the USA, Canada, Australia, to name a few. Do these pariah countries think that China has no choice and must send them the medical supplies, and they have all the choices to get them else where? The Americans have set up an airbridge to ferry badly needed medical supplies from China by flying several flights daily on this mission. And UK is asking for more ventilators from the Americans that are getting them from China.

The best thing for China is to ignore such countries and let them curse themselves to death. There is no need to be nice to unfriendly and hostile people and countries.