Russia abandoning 'no space tech' USA in ISS

 

 Fri, 27 November 2020, 12:54 am SGT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia should consider revising the terms of its participation in the International Space Station, a Russian space industry executive said on Thursday, because it wants to focus on forming its own orbiting outpost after 2024....

"We have to reconsider the terms of further participation in the (ISS) programme and focus on the implementation of orbital station programmes," Vladimir Solovyov, deputy head of Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, was quoted as saying by the Scientific Russia internet portal.

The state-run company oversees the Russian segment of the ISS, which was launched in 1989 by the Russian and U.S. state space agencies....

He said a lot of the equipment on the ISS was starting to age and that it needed to be replaced. He said there would be an "avalanche" of broken equipment there after 2025.

The ISS is used for space and Earth exploration by 14 countries, including Japan, Canada and members of the European Space Agency. International agreements on its use are valid until 2024.  Reuters

Russia was conned by its arch enemy, the USA, to joint develop the ISS thinking that the Americans were more advanced in space technology only to be duped. Finally they have found out that the Americans were far inferior to the Russians, and the moon landings were but a big hoax. Other than cheating on the Russians, the other major interest of the Americans was to shut out the Chinese from the space programme. After cooperating with the Americans for the last 30 years the Russians now know that the Americans could contribute nothing but taking the Russians for a ride, depending on the Russians to bring American astronauts to the ISS. Without the Russian rockets the Americans could only land in the Arizona desert.

The Russians are now pondering on going it on their own in the next ISS when the current ISS's lifespan comes to an end in 2024. In fact it should end this year, 2020 but being stretched for another 4 years risking the lives of the astronauts and cosmonauts in the expired ISS.

When the Russians pulled out from the next ISS completely, the American would be left dangling in the air, in hot air and nothing else, unable to build their own space station and their astronauts got no where else to go. Maybe they should repeat their moon landing feats in the Arizona desert and with the latest digital technology and Hollywood, put up another big fake man landing on the moon with Trump and Pompeo as the astronauts.

Meanwhile the Chinese Space Station is taking shape and should be open for business this year or next. But the Chinese has already put up a sign, 'No Americans Allowed' on the door of CSS. The rock that the treacherous Americans rejected is now the corner stone of a new space church built by China.

Good riddance to fake technology. Well, they can prove it this time with their new attempts to land man on the moon. If they can do it, they should if they had done it so many times with old technology. If they can't, then it all goes to prove that they had not done it before. Here is the latest announcement.

 'CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: NASA has named the 18 astronauts - half of them women - who will train for its Artemis moon-landing program.

The first woman and next man on the moon will come from this elite group....“The history is awesome, but we’re here to look toward the future,” Acaba told reporters after the announcement. .' AP 10 Dec 20

Yeah, prove it or it would become a big embarrassment. This time the rest of the world will be watching and the Americans cannot produce whatever fake news and images they want to con the world. The world has the technology to monitor the flight to the moon, no more fakes or Hollywood stuff.

This statement speaks a lot about the awesome history of America's moon landing missions. '“We are dreamers, but even more so, we’re doers," McClain said.' How can the Americans still be dreamers, dreaming, when they claimed they had done it so many times in the past. Their dreams already fulfilled, a reality in the 1960s! Isn't that the truth? Or is this the first time they are going to the moon? Why are they still dreaming of men landing on the moon today as a damn big thing when it was chicken feat then, 60 years ago? They had been to the moon umpteen times, so they claimed. They should be sneering at anyone wanting to go to the moon today as Johnny comes lately, nothing new to achieve, nothing great. They have done it long long ago.

PS.  The Americans claimed to have brought back 382kg of moon rock but now asking China for samples of moon rock taken back by Chang e 5. Why?

Singapore asking the citizens for feedback on a cooperation pact between SIA and Vistara

SINGAPORE - Singapore's competition watchdog is seeking public feedback on whether a proposed cooperation pact between Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Vistara for flights to and from India could adversely affect passengers.

The application for collaboration between the two airlines, submitted to the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) in November, could merge 16 routes that the two airlines now ply separately, including flights from Singapore to Indian cities including Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

Concerns that the reduction in flights could affect ticket prices and seat capacity can be submitted to the CCCS till Dec 21. ST

If this pact is seen as important enough to ask the public for their opinions, not just for show, do you think the bailing out of a failed Indian bank, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, involving at least $460m is more important and warrants a similar opinion from the citizens whose money are at stake? Don't say it is not the people's money, any big losses someone has to bear and it will go down to Singaporeans bearing it. And Singaporeans are feeling cheated when their CPF savings did not seem to belong to them when all kinds of schemes, supposedly good for the Singaporeans, are introduced to take money from their CPF accounts, by legislation, without their consent or even asking them if they agree to it like this SIA Vistara pact.

We are all watching how the bailing out of the failed Indian bank going to turn out and how much of public money is going to go down the drain if it fails. Looking at all the sharks lining up to make claims against DBS India is frightening and shocking. Were these claims and lawsuits taken into consideration before plonking $460m into the exciting deal? If the creditors succeed, is there a bottom line to pay for the debt of Lakshmi Vilas that have nothing to do with DBS?

Why no asking of public opinion on such a big sum of money being spent? Oh, ok, commercial decision. But then, how much time were put in before this decision was made? How much due diligence? 

Do you think the people should be consulted?

No Country In The World Can Be Corruption-Free

 

 1984 George Orwell said... No County In The World Can Be Corruption-Free

There is no such a thing as a corruption-free country. Corruption is free, yes. Not corruption-free.

Not a single country in the world is not corrupted in one way or many ways. Most of them are corrupted in many ways and many forms.

Even the US system is a corrupted system through and through. Lobbying by itself is already a very obvious form of direct corruption - using donations (as an alternative word to "bribes") in exchange for a favour.

Corruption is not just about taking bribes. It permeates much deeper and wider in the daily life and running of the country.

Doing something for someone as a favour, or as a result of fear,and threat, coercion, or own ill-will, is actually a corrupted mind working in the devil's workshop.

Corruption encompasses anything that affects our life, our living conditions and our living environment.

It encroaches into the political system, the economic system, the education system, the financial system, the social system, the cultural system, the civil service system, the legal system as well as the parliamentary system.

No sub-system can be free of contamination if the overall system of the country is already corrupted in one way or another, in one form or another.

As long as human beings are imperfect, as long as humans have very strong desire and ambition, as long as humans have greed, and the desire and tendency to want to control others, to subordinate the masses to their will, as long as we have leaders who are only interested in their own high pays, by hook or by crook, as long as we have leaders who raise their sons to White Horse status and given preferential treatment, we will not be "corruption-free" but "corruption-is-free"!

Yes, corruption is free, free to practice freely, but don't get caught!

Anyone thinks or believes that Singapore is really corruption-free?

1984 - George Orwell

Wolf Warrior Diplomacy too rough for the West to handle?

A speech by vice-minister of foreign affairs Le Yucheng at a Beijing forum over the weekend looks to be one of the most important references in gauging the guiding principle of future Chinese diplomacy.

Le addressed a key talking point regarding China’s international relations – its “wolf warrior” style of diplomacy. To many analysts and experts, including scholars within China, Beijing’s diplomatic apparatus is sometimes too confrontational to be constructive – there must be more sophisticated ways to engage than yelling at each other in the public domain.

The argument often goes that, if China wants to win respect in the international community, Chinese diplomats must be, well, more diplomatic. As such, the recent quarrel with Canberra seems unnecessary.

The above is from a post in SCMP by Zhou Xin. The argument, China is undiplomatic, not diplomatic enough, China is yelling, China needs to be more diplomatic. How true or justifiable are these comments? 

Just compare to what Trump and that ugly fat slob called Pompeo and their diplomacy or undiplomacy, what China is doing in reaction to these thugs is child play. China has been on the receiving ends for centuries, derided by the West, oppressed by the West, contained and isolated by the West, demonised and smeared by the West. Till today, and everyday, the West is still attacking China daily using all kinds of lies and disinformation.

Why is it that no one is commenting or critising the rogue and aggressive and lying behaviours of the West, the regular provocations and intrusions into Chinese territorial waters in the South China end, challenging the Chinese navy to a war? In the case of the silly brat called Australia, the 14 sins of Australia were accepted as normal behaviour against China when what China did was to trade and to invest in Australia, sending billions of dollars to Australia, did nothing to criticise or attack Australia.  The same also applies to the evil Empire. China is playing by all the rules set up by the West, in the WTO, but being accused of violating these rules when the Americans violated everyone one of the rules it set up to contain China and disadvantaged China.

Who is or are the real rogues in international relations and diplomacy? China's wolf warrior diplomacy is a response to the rogue and aggressive behaviours of the West. China does not engage in such diplomacy only till now.  The aggressors and rogues were the West led by the Americans and Australia. 

When they attacked China on a regular basis is a given, a normal behaviour and China has to accept the beating and not to retaliate.  When China hits back, it is unacceptable. What kind of rubbish logic is that? When you hit at China, you must be prepared to get a black eye in return. There is no such thing as a one sided diplomacy of aggression.  This is passe when China was weak and cannot hit back. Its embassy in Belgrade got hit by cruise missiles for no reasons killing several diplomatic staff. It is the victim of American unilateral trade war initiatives and all kinds of abusive attacks and prohibitions, tariffs, bans etc etc. 

SCMP, please grow up and stop accepting the bashing of China as a norm and agreeing that hitting back by China is unacceptable. China is no longer the Sick Man of Asia, to be kicked around by the West and still has to say thank you and sorry. When the rogues kick you, you have all the rights to kick back. Unless you are still living in a white man's world, under the rule of the evil American Empire and has to move around with your heads bent in the presence of white men.

Look at it the other way, if China were to do to the Americans and Australians what they were doing to China, would China expect them to sit idle and not reacting? They will hit back at China hundred times more than wolf warrior diplomacy. Just try sailing your warships into American islands to provoke the Americans using the scam called freedom of navigation or fire a cruise missile into an American embassy and see what happen.

China must be prepared to take the evil Americans head on, tic for tac, or forever be oppressed and ridiculed and attacked by them and still be called aggressive and belligerent. The evil Americans only respect one thing, might, military might is right.

What shall we call fat slob Pompeo's lying and gangster diplomacy? Wild Boar Diplomacy? China has called it 'Mad Dog Diplomacy'.

Huawei - Who is spying and monitoring your comms?

The Americans have been attacking Huawei furiously that its 5G network is comprising the security of user countries but till now has not a single proof of this. Britain and Germany have done their due diligence and came out with nothing on this to find Huawei guilty of this accusation. More than 170 countries are now using Huawei 5G and have no security problem with Huawei equipment. 

Who do you think is spying on you, listening on your comms and monitoring on you? Ask Julian Assange and Edward Snowdon. What was the new security laws after 911 in America about telco companies obligation to provide information to the American intelligence organisations?

There is one big reason, other than losing out in its technology and competition with Huawei to want to cut Huawei off from American soil, and this is the inability to monitor and spy on the users by the Americans.

Huawei is actually the safest equipment from spying and monitoring by undesirable agencies. It has been proven by many testings and checks by national intelligence agencies that Huawei equipment is safe and not as alleged by the Americans. To be free from American spying and monitoring, the safest equipment to use is, yes, Huawei 5G. 

This is what makes the Americans furious and so angry with Huawei 5G. Use Huawei 5G for your own safety and protection. The Americans can't get you, can't spy on you.