7/26/2020

SCMP - Trump’s America has become an unstoppable, out-of-control bully

Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft.

Listen to the screams of panic-stricken passengers, children's voices among them, crying in terror and calling out prayers, as an Iranian airliner is intercepted and harassed by US warplanes over Syrian air space just the other day.

Passengers were left bruised and bloodied after the pilot of the civilian aircraft suddenly changed altitude to avoid a collision with one of the F-15 jets, although the US claimed it kept a safe distance and was only protecting its military base below.

There's nothing that Iran " already debilitated by US-led sanctions and ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic " can do about it, except complain to a United Nations that is powerless to confront the world's biggest bully as it gets more belligerent.

This is the new world order as US President Donald Trump, facing the growing prospect of a drubbing in an election he is desperate to win at all costs, seeks to distract voters from blaming him for the social and economic carnage wrought by the pandemic and his own abject failure to contain it.

On the home front, his administration has sparked a potential constitutional crisis by sending federal forces to crack down on anti-racism protests in cities that don't want that kind of interference upending the separation of powers between state and national governments.

To those who would argue that protest violence justifies federal intervention and media reports have misrepresented demonstrations as being entirely peaceful, that's exactly what happened in Hong Kong, remember, and yet the same US government painted every attempt by authorities here to restore order as "repression". How do you like them apples?

And now, in addition to cutting off Hong Kong's nose to spite Beijing with punitive acts that only serve to hurt the city, China's weakest link, the Trump administration has gone into overdrive to ostracise and stigmatise Beijing as the ultimate bogeyman. Washington's escalating and reckless provocation seriously risks triggering a military confrontation that could prove catastrophic for the whole world, but there is no power on the planet to counter its hegemony and aggression.

While openly coercing America's cronies and lobbying other nations to gang up against China, Trump's thuggish top diplomat Mike Pompeo made an unhinged rant of a speech this week that was beyond appalling in its ignorance and Sinophobia.

"The truth is that our policies, and those of other free nations, resurrected China's failing economy, only to see Beijing bite the international hands that fed it," he said. "We must also engage and empower the Chinese people " a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party." Really.

The most eloquent and fitting response to this nonsense came from former diplomat and veteran China hand Robert Daly, who told US News & World Report magazine: "China is not a land of innocent captives and evil master trolls. US-China relations are not a children's story. In China, the United States faces something far more formidable than Secretary Pompeo suggests: China is a vast, complex, wealthy, ambitious, aggrieved nation ...

"In confronting China, we're not dealing with a wholly good people who have been 'imprisoned' or 'enslaved' by a purely malign party. Chinese are often frustrated by a government (that) ignores their wishes, moves too slowly or moves in the wrong direction, but the available evidence is that, as citizens of the PRC, most Chinese people feel proud and enabled, not constrained."

All that's left to say to Pompeo and his master is what Boston lawyer Joseph Welch once famously told anti-Communist witch-hunter Joseph McCarthy during one of his Salem trials-style hearings: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

Yonden Lhatoo is the chief news editor at the Post

This article originally appeared on the South China Morning Post (www.scmp.com), the leading news media reporting on China and Asia.

Copyright (c) 2020. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.

PS. Above post is reproduced here in full.  It is an article worth reading to see the madness and viciousness of the Americans in their lies in pursuit of American supremacy, to control the world as they like it, as their empire. I will remove this post if SCMP has objection to my reproducing it here without their consent.


Covid19 -Travellers to high Covid19 infection countries serve stay home notices



SINGAPORE: Travellers entering Singapore after 11.59pm on Sunday (Jul 19) with travel history to Victoria in Australia, Japan and Hong Kong within the last 14 days, including transit passengers, will have to serve their stay-home notices at dedicated facilities rather than their own home, announced National Development Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday.

They will also need to take a COVID-19 test before ending their stay-home notice, in line with current requirements....

Mr Wong emphasised that this was “not something new”, as the Government has “repeatedly emphasised our border measures are not static”, adding that the taskforce is “constantly reviewing, updating” border measures based on their assessments of the viral situation around the world.

“We really need to remain vigilant both at our borders, in terms of the measures we have in place at our borders, as well as within our community to continue to ensure that we control the infection and control the spread of the virus within our community,” he said.

Above is from CNA.


Are the measures on Victoria, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong additions to an already existing list of countries that have serious Covid19 infection like the USA, India and Brazil. Are people from these countries, and people been to these high risk countries, also subject to the same restriction or more severe restriction?

China cannot report 14 new Covid19 cases daily

BEIJING: China reported 14 new COVID-19 cases for Tuesday (Jul 21), up from 11 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Wednesday.

Of the new infections, nine were in the far western region of Xinjiang, according to a statement by the National Health Commission. The other five were imported cases.


The above report by Reuters is unacceptable, humiliating to Trump and his gangsters in the White House. When the Americans are reporting 70,000 or 80,000 cases a day, how can China make this kind of report, 14 cases! This cannot be, this must be fake news. China is hiding something. China please be transparent.

Yes, China must be transparent and report as many cases as the Americans. Only then would the Americans say the Chinese are telling the truth. Never mind if the Americans were lying, under reporting, under testing when the daily cases in the USA could be in several hundred thousands daily.  The Americans always tell lies as truth. China always tells truth but reported as lies by the Americans. Remember Saddam Hussein and his WMD? The idiot Colin Powell went to the UN and wave a pack of washing powder to accuse Saddam Hussein of having chemical weapons, using chemical weapons, as the truth. And 911, another big lie used to invade Afghanistan and to kill Osama Bin Laden.

China, please tell the truth that the Americans want to hear. If China does not know what the Americans want to hear, or what to report, ask the professional fat liar called Pompeo. He is an expert in telling lies as truth.

Oh, are countries still banning Chinese from travelling to their countries when the daily cases have dropped to single digit as some of the cases in China are imported? What about countries banning the Americans from travelling to their countries since Americans are having nearly 100,000 cases daily? 

Or Chinese are banned but diseased Americans are welcome, never mind if they bring in their Covid19 virus to spread around?

It is so painful to hear China only had 14 cases. It is so unbelieveable. It must be a lie. Only Americans tell the truth even if they under test and under report their infected cases. Just believe that the lying Americans, from top liar Trump, a congenital liar, to professional liar Pompeo as the truth tellers.

7/25/2020

Unity and solidarity among Asians is vital for the survival of all Non-White people


1.     White men speak with fork tongues and can never be trusted."
2.     White men try to rule all non-white people and countries by division, pitting tribes against tribes, countries against countries, religion against religion and when they are all weakened the white imperialists will attack them one by one with full force of their military might.
3.      White men's war against Islam started long ago on 2nd November, 1917, with the Balfour Declaration that England and the United States would establish a Zionist Jewish state in Palestine at the expense of the Arab muslims.   

 Unity and solidarity among Asians especially among the Arabs, the Indians, Chinese and Japanese is
vital to the survival of all non-white people in Asia, Africa, Central America, South America and Australia since the white supremacists in the US, UK and the West have openly uncovered their evil plot and scheme to eventually destroy and decimate the non-white populations in all the aforementioned continents. The Anglo-Saxons and the Deep State in the Neo-cons Jewish Zionist Rothschilds Illuminati Cabal are the powers behind Washington, London, Paris and the West in deciding all the evil decisions and evil deeds against all non-white people all over the world. At present the Jewish Zionists and the Neo-cons have hijacked all the leadership in all the vital departments in the United States administration and they are making all the draconian policies and decisions that will destroy all non-white people and countries and by their sinister evil acts they will plunge the world into destruction of a nuclear Third World War.

The white supremacists, industrialists and big pharma companies have tried to decimate the populations of Africa, Asia and Latin America with genetically modified insecticides, germicides, fertilisers and drugs and medicines. The Americans have successfully carried out their draconian system of genetically engineered Coronavirus in their biological lab in Fort Detrick in North Carolina to target non-white races all over the world though however through their miscalculation it backfired and attacked the whites too.

   For thousands of years the great civilizations of Egypt, Arabia, Persia ( Iran ) India and China lived by and large in peace other than the  sporadic insignificant local strives and fighting among the tribes of Egypt, Arabia and Persia. But for India and China there was always peace and never was there any wars and fighting between them. In fact China went out of the way to import and adopt Buddhism from India.

The whole peaceful scenario changed with the advent of the Evil White Race in Asia in the Middle East, India and China in the fall of the 17th Century to the present. The Evil White Races from Europe which invaded Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand were from Spain, Portugal, Holland, England, France, Belgium, Russia and Germany.

Before the Evil White Race went out to plunder Europe was a very poor continent with very few natural resources. Their lives were very miserable and pathetic. But after the invasion of the Mongols they were fired with imaginations of the rich civilization of China especially with stories and reports by the Italian spy Marco Polo. The endless stories of the wealth, glory and splendour in  China was the catalyst that sparked the European Renaissance and more important their Reformation .

Genghis Khan in his invasion of Europe and Russia in the 13th Century,  had brought with him thousands of Chinese artisans, scientists, engineers and technocrats to help him in building the technical and engineering support for his conquests. For the first time European kings and rulers never feel safe in their fortified castles. They were easily attacked and destroyed by Chinese guns and cannons.

In the aftermath of the Mongol conquests the Evil White Race learnt and copied many of the Chinese scientific and technological inventions. They learnt to make gun powder, guns and cannons, the mariner compass, paper making, printing especially block printing and many other technical gadgets.

Then from the 15th Century and armed with guns and cannons the Evil White Race set out on their voyages of conquest. They created companies in partnership with their kings, prince and rulers. Every company equipped their voyages with guns and cannons which terrorised the lands they set on and invaded. Then in every land they invaded they built fortified forts in towns and cities to maintain their rule. Then armed with their militant religious doctrine and policy they claimed their Christian God gave them the divine power and right to conquer other non-Christian lands and to have the full domineering control over all non-white people. Wherever the white men went they wantonly killed the natives by the millions without remorse as they claimed their God and their lord Jesus Christ would always bear the burden of their sinful evil deeds. Armed with this same demonic principle and policy they set out to invade India, China and the Arab lands of the Middle-East.

India was attacked and invaded by the British East India Company in the 1760s. The British invasion happened during the decadence of the Indian Mughul Empire whose military was greatly weakened. The British invasion faced no strong opposition from the Indians and it soon established many towns and fortresses especially in Bombay, Madras and Calcutta. Under very brutal and rigid British military rule the Indians suffered tremendously. The many different Indian tribes were not united in their resistance to British imperial rule as the British had sown seeds of hatred, suspicion, hostility,enmity and dissensions among these diverse tribes and local chiefs or rulers. Many times they revolted against the British but as the Indians were not united they were easily and violently put down by the might of the British army. In all the British white imperial army slaughtered many millions of Indians mercilessly.

As the supreme ruler of India, England secured full control of India's economy - industries, trade, commerce, agriculture, banking and finance. England exploited India to the full and all the wealth and resources of India were appropriated and sent to England. India was a great producer of cotton but the Indians were not allowed to have cotton and textile industries. All the cotton was sent to England to feed the hundreds of textile mills there to be manuafactured into textiles and then reexported to India with tremendous profits. In the 1830s to 1930s large swathe of agricultural lands planted with rice and other food crops were forced by imperial decree to change to planting poppies for the production of opium which was illegally exported to China at very huge profits. Opium was then forbidden by the Chinese government and so the trade was illegal. However, the British then imposed the Opium Wars on China in the 1830s and 1850s to continue their illicit opium trade.

But in 1857 - 1858 the Indians revolted and fought a very fierce and bloody war against the British. The Indian rebellion was brutally put down by the vastly superior weaponery of the British forces. The failure of the revolt was also largely due to the seeds of division, hatred, suspicion and atagonism planted among the various Indian tribes,  kings, prince and rulers by the ruling British. In short the British adopted a policy of divide and rule.

Being very secured in India the British was looking for imperial territorial expansion into China. In the 1830s to 1930s China was weak and in decadence. All the European imperial powers were coveting for a part of China to conquer.   Imperial zarist Russia was stealing Chinese territories in Siberia. Japan took away Chinese territories in the island of Sakhalin north of Hokkaido, Liu Chiu Dao ( Japan renamed it as Okinawa ) and Taiwan. France took large parts of South-eastern China in Indo-China. In the meantime in 1912 to 1915 England illegally acquired large swathes of Chinese lands in Tawang and in Auk Sai Chin just along the border north of India as well as large tracts of Chinese lands in Yunnan to British ruled Burma ( now called Myannmar ).

England under its officer General MccMahon  arbitrarily drew the boundary line separating China and British ruled India and called it the McMahon Line. This political boundary line, the McMahon has always been objected by China. England and China had agreed to negotiate for a final settlement. But as negotiations were going on it was interrupted by the First world War and the Second World War. At the end of the Second World War England intentionally dragged its feet and gave independence to India in 1947 before settling the border question with China. So the present quarrel and dispute over the boundary between China and India was due to the historical baggage left over by the evil British imperialist. The British imperialist was wicked in refusing to settle the China - British India boundary prior to giving India independence. It was evil white British imperialist wicked intention to plant the future seeds of dissension, suspicion, hostility, quarrel and even wars between independent India and China. Thus the present India - China border dispute has its roots in British imperialism.

But China managed to settle the boundary issues peacefully with fourteen out of sixteen countries which have disputed boundary problems with China. Only Japan and India have yet to negotiate a peaceful settlement with China on the border dispute.  China, India and Japan are all Asian nations and it is imperative that they should unite against aggressions by Western Imperialist hegemonists especially the United States and England. The Western imperialists especially the Anglo-Saxon United States and the British have always thought of Asians as inferior race to be dominated by the white race in peace or in war. To achieve this evil objective they are using their traditional loathsome and wicked means of sowing suspicion, dissension, enmity, hatred and quarrels among the Asians so that they can continue to lord over the Asians even in peace time by way of being domineering in political, economic, banking and financial control over all Asians and non-white people. India and China  and Japan knowing the evil ways of the white race must negotiate a peaceful settlement of their borders in a give and take spirit. Though India and China are not to be blamed for the border problem as it was the result of British imperialism yet future generations should not have to bear the suffering of this problem if the present Indian and Chinese governments do not have the wisdom to have a give and take spirit to accommodate each other for a final peaceful settlement.  To successfully achieve that both India and China need to let go their false pride and egos which is the actual stumbling block to a final settlement. Also India and China must realise England, the United States and the West will always try to put a damper to their negotiation for a peaceful settlement so that a divided India and China will allow them to exploit the two countries forever. India, China and Japan can be sure that the white race in the United States and England strongly believe in white supremacist policy and will forever harbour ill-will towards Asians hoping that Asians will always be divided so that they can dominate and lord over Asians forever.

If only the Indians, Chinese and Japanese have solidarity then the 21st Century will belong to Asia and the the Asians will have a bright future which will have positive prospect for the rest of all undevelope countries in Africa, Central America and South America.


Southernglory1

Saturday, 25th July,2020












The Blame Game - The Game Of Political Irresponsibility

Introduction

Playing the blame game is a reflection of self-guilt and the lack of self-confidence and self-esteem. It suggests the inability to act for the welfare of the common good. It degrades your political conviction, commitment and action. In other words, it is basically a game of your political irresponsibility!

It is human nature to blame someone when things go wrong. Sometimes, you blame correctly. Sometimes, you blame wrongly. But most of the time, you seldom or never will blame your good selves.

Actually, this blame game has been with us since God created man. God blamed Adam for eating the God Forsaken Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge (GFFFK). Adam blamed his Eve for influencing him to eat the GFFFK. Eve in turn blamed the Serpent for instigating her to eat that GFFFK. The cunning Serpent blamed God for creating the Tree that produced the GFFFK and for purposely labeling its fruits as "Forbidden". Taking the cue from the Serpent, Adam and Eve blamed God for creating the Serpent, the Tree of Knowledge and themselves. In addition, Eve also blamed God for his lack of foresight, carelessness and total negligence by putting them near the two highly dangerous creations of His. God got so angry with Eve that he cursed all women to be afraid of serpents and to suffer the pain of childbirth forever.

From the illustration, who was at fault? Actually, all were at fault and all were not at fault. It depends on who you are and how you perceive and interprete things. It depends on your up-bringing and how you were taught. It also depends on many other factors, e.g. cultural background, historical precedence and personal belief.

Singaporeans are also good in the blame game, without exception.


Blaming the Majority Voters

In the last 4 to 5 years, some people kept blaming the 69.9% who gave the PAP a super majority mandate in GE2015, mainly due to the passing of the 1st Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew..

Prior to GE2015, some people blamed the majority voters who "voted" to return the PAP again and again without fail.

For next 5 years, some people are bound to blame the 61% of voters who supported the PAP again. In fact, it has already started the moment the results for GE2020 were announced!

Maybe, you have been blaming the wrong people, barking up the wrong tree? That's why it won't work? Maybe you should be blaming someone else?

Blame Someone Else

1. Blame that someone who masterminded the whole political system?

2. Blame that someone masterminded the whole election process?

3. Blame that someone who wield so much power that a climate of subtle fear of being "sodomize" or sued has existed to deter anyone from speaking out?

4. Blame that someone who keep shifting the the goal posts of the number of constituencies and candidates?

5. Blame that someone who kept increasing the candidacy deposits.

6. Blame that someone who engineered the Group Representation Constituencies?

7. Blame that someone who engineered the redrawing of constituencies boundaries?

8. Blame that someone who took away your right to vote if you chose not to vote or absented yourself from voting? And also penalized you with a fine if you want to be reinstated into the eligible voters register. The right to vote must be a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution. The choice to vote should also be a fundamental right. No government people or organization should deny any citizen these fundamental rights to vote and to choose not to vote.

9. Blame that someone who monopolized the use of the People's Association and its grassroots organizations for his own selfish political aim and objectives?

10. Blame that someone who monopolized the trade unions and mobilised them for own political interests?

11. Blame that someone who made use of taxpayers' money as carrots to dangle in front of voters just before the elections were called in order to entice and "bribe" them for own political gains?

12. Blame that someone who engineered the whole legal system that is "subordinated to" the Ministry for Law and also "subordinated by" the Parliament?

13. Blame that someone who engineered the whole educational system to discourage students from political awareness, from participation in political activism and political activities?

Maybe, blaming that someone else is counter-productive? How about blaming yourself for a change?

Blaming Your Good Self

1. Blame yourself for not cultivating an inquisitive mind with discernment and political awareness?

2. Blame yourself for not supporting the Opposition/Alternative Parties enough, wholeheartedly, actively?

3. Blame yourself for not influencing others to support the Opposition/Alternative Parties?

4. Blame yourself for not participating actively and strongly as Opposition activists, moral, financial and Logistics sipporters, and backers?

5. Blame yourself for not coming out to be counted - to stand for elections?

6. Blame yourself for being Kiasu and kiasi to offend the PAP in order to safeguard your businesses and livelihood?

7. Blame yourself for being too greedy for the carrots thrown at you, for that chicken wings dished out to you to buy your hearts just in time for the GE?

8. Blame yourself for having kpkb one way but voted the other way?

9. Blame yourself for behaving like a well-trained obedient dog, oops sorry, I mean obedient soldier?

10. Blame yourself for not thinking for your children's future and future generations?

11. Blame yourself for not speaking out when it is your duty and responsibility to do so inside and outside Parliament?

12. Blame yourself for not protesting when needed but prefer to suffer in silence as a coward would be?

13. Blame yourself for thinking that it is none of your business to meddle with the political equation, and the status quo, because you were having a good time making money and enjoying life?

Conclusion

Every citizen has the individual as well as collective responsibility to ensure that there is fair play in the country's political system. Why? Because the political system curves out the political leaders who will govern the country and these leaders' decisions directly influence your life and livelihood. Not only to you. But also to your loved ones and to your future generations.

The state of affairs in Singapore's political culture today is a direct result of the political irresponsibility of most Singaporeans - those in power, those with power and those without power alike.

It's time to do a thorough and deep soul-searching. It's time to take responsibility. It is time to stop blaming others but yourselves. This game of political irresponsibility must stop!

Wishing all Singaporeans a bright and progressive future!

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SSO - 25 July 2020.

Postedon behalf of SSO