CECA - the most controversial agreement Singapore has signed

 

 

In a post on Thursday (Apr 29) evening, Mr Ramachandran wrote: “WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!
WE WILL NOT GO AWAY!
WE WILL NOT MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR!
CUT AWAY 1 HEAD AND 10 HEADS WILL TAKE UP ITS PLACE!
WE WILL KEEP RISING LIKE A PHOENIX FROM ASHES!”

“Please help share the below link to invite fellow Singaporean patriots to join this group to support the fight back to take back control of our Professional, Management, Executive & Technical (PMET) jobs for Singapore citizens”, he added.

Above were copied from theindependent.com

The mentioned of CECA drew intense anger and disapproval for this one sided agreement signed between India and Singapore leading to a disproportional number of Indians working in Singapore and the loss of thousands of Singaporean PMET jobs. Accepted that it is difficult to prove the co relation in the numbers of PMETs losing their jobs to the Indians being employed, it is a known fact that a few hundred Indians are employed here on Employment Pass and Work Permits and thousands of PMETs are now unemployed or underemployed or prematurely retired, wanting to work but unable to find decent work relevant to their experience and skills. This is very painful and financially crippling to many Singaporean families when the breadwinners lost their jobs and unable to sustain the families. Financial hardship and emotional and psychological stress and hurt followed.

How on earth is this CECA allowed to continue for so long and being extended over and over again when so many PMETs are losing their jobs and having to downgrade, to look for lower paying jobs? How could anyone turn a blind eye to the anger and haplessness of Singaporeans, and taking for granted that the Singaporeans that were victims of this notorious agreement would continue to support the govt and accept their fate and unemployment, unable to put food on the table as normal?

And why was Facebook banning this group? Who told Facebook to ban this group appealing for the termination of CECA?

When would Singaporeans be treated fairly in their own countries? Why are Singaporeans made to suffer under this agreement? No, not true, this agreement has nothing to do with the unemployment of Singaporeans, it was all because they were not skilled, not qualified, their skills no longer needed in the market?

This is a crime against Singaporeans but is there anyone listening to their cries and doing something positive to alleviate their plight?  Anyone really care or just giving some lip service to their problems while Singaporean PMETs got fallen along the wayside?

Would the termination of this CECA help in some ways towards bettering the lives of Singaporeans and their families? For now the pain and suffering of Singaporeans continue unabated.

Shanmugam has challenged Leong Mun Wai to a debate on this CECA. It is about time that this is seriously discussed in Parliament and MPs would pose as many questions as if they are asking questions about pets and dogs and climate change. For the debate to be meaningful, maybe the govt should provide some data on the employment of Indians here under CECA over the last 15 or 20 years versus the number of Singaporeans in India, the number of PMETs that have lost their jobs, retired, underemployed etc etc.  The other thing of interest would be the qualifications of the Indians, how are they vetted, what are accepted university degrees etc etc. Data on the number of Singapore companies in India versus the number of Indian companies here, how many jobs have Singapore companies created in India for Indians and how many jobs Indian companies here have created for Indians and Singaporeans.

Oh, another thing, how about some numbers on Singapore's investments in India, how much have been invested and how much have Singapore made or lost in the last decade?

PSP should take up this challenge and look at this CECA in totality, how much it benefits both countries in terms of investment and job creation. etc etc.  Singaporeans would be looking forward for an airing on this CECA that many have very strong misgivings rightfully or wrongly. Shanmugam could explain the govt's position on this, the pros and cons of this agreement in the debate to allay the fears and unhappiness of Singaporeans, especially on how much Singapore has benefitted from the agreement both in Singapore and in India.

Who is the benefactor, who is the beneficiary, who is the loser?

Covid19 - Its origin, going full circle and coming back to Fauci as the source

 

Smoking Gun Video: Fauci Project Manager Confesses to Creating Covid-19 (infowars.com)

 While the Americans have been trying so hard to point the finger at Wuhan, China, to cover up the trail that started from the USA, the truth is getting clearer and clearer and there is no way the Americans are going to get away from this crime against humanity.

Fauci, so innocent, the authority and the fighter against this pandemic, is now seeing all the arrows pointing at him as the one who started it. He was the one that authorised the weaponising of Covid virus and ended with this unforgiveable pandemic. Fauci's manager confessed of their involvement in this project.

Watch this video. It is made in USA. And at the end of it they still blame China for it, but not before calling Fauci and Gates criminals and needed to be stopped and arrested. Oh,  they are not just criminals but traitors to America. The American devils started it to benefit China and China will be blamed for it. 

Fauci was exploiting the concept of  'gain of function'  research that was banned by the US govt to push the boundary to weaponise coronavirus and then deceived the Wuhan Lab to continue with the experiment under the pretext of future good of humankind. The Wuhan Lab collaborated with Fauci, with funds approved by him to create Covid19 virus without knowing the evil intent of Fauci. 

And yet the presenter Alex Jones, conveniently dragged China and the CCP into his smear campaign and rhetoric to demonise China. This part the presenter got deranged and lost his plot by claiming that Fauci and his globalist collaborators were working with China to spread the virus to the world so that China could depopulate the world and control the world.  Didn't make any sense right? Fauci and his globalists, including Bill Gates and Obama, wanted to let China control the world? They wanted to destroy America! What rubbish! Listen to him talking about Bill Gates wanting to play God and depopulate the world...not China.

What is pertinent in this exposure was the role of Fauci and his project manager in wanting to create dangerous coronavirus as biological weapon by combining 5 different viruses into one deadly bioweapon....Covid19? and with approval from Obama.

This video is more than circumstantial evidence but letters, memos, interviews and documents to prove the people involved, including Bill Gates and Obama. Take note of the facts and make your own interpretation. The presenter has his own hate China interpretation using the same facts.

This is a very important video to view to understand how it all started. At the last part it also touched on mRNA changing human DNAs...ie mutation!

Chas Freeman - Playing War Games with China

Below is the introductory paragraphs of an article by Chas Freeman. The full article can be viewed at Playing at War Games with China    – Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (chasfreeman.net)

Playing at War Games with China   
Remarks to the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.)
Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
By video link, Washington, D.C.  11 February 2021

Fifty years ago, Richard Nixon decided to ignore Napoleon’s advice to “let [China] sleep, for when it wakes it will astonish the world.”[1]  I was there when China opened its eyes.  And I have watched it transform the various orders of the world and become an American obsession.

Every generation of Americans feels obliged to reinvent the China policies it inherits from its predecessor.  We can be sure our country will eventually get its policies right – after we’ve exhausted all the alternatives.  But we have not yet done so.  And, for many reasons, our latest policies toward China are almost certain to prove self-defeating.

We have just exited the most bizarre presidency in our history.  One of its distinguishing characteristics was the substitution in our foreign relations of unrestricted economic warfare for diplomacy.  Bluster and bullying replaced dialogue and reason aimed at convincing the recalcitrant to see that it could be in their interest as well as ours for them to do things our way.

In the last half of the last century, we Americans made the rules.  Others got into the habit of following us.  To some extent, that habit – though fading – has outlasted our adherence to the principles we once stood for.  So military posturing, economic intimidation, diatribe, and attempted regime change are becoming the norm in international relations.  China is a case in point.  Sino-American relations now exemplify Freeman’s third law of strategic dynamics: for every hostile act there can be an even more hostile reaction.

Americans have an inbuilt missionary impulse.  We enjoy protecting, tutoring, lecturing, and hectoring other peoples on how to correct their character to approximate our idealized image of ourselves.  We are offended when others insist on independence from us and on preserving their own political culture.  China has never wavered in its determination to do both, wishful thinking by American politicians and pundits notwithstanding.

In America’s pas de deux with China, we have consistently been the initiator of the dance and taken the lead.  We developed some well-founded complaints about Chinese economic behavior, so we launched a trade war with it.  We were alarmed about China’s potential to outcompete us internationally, so we decided to try to cripple it with an escalating campaign of “maximum pressure.”  We saw China as a threat to our continued military primacy, so we sought to contain and encircle it.  Cumulatively, we have:

• declared China to be an adversary and called for regime change in Beijing;
• launched an invective-filled global propaganda campaign against China, its ruling Communist Party, and its fumbled initial response to COVID-19;
• sanctioned allies and partners for failing to curtail their own dealings with China;
• replaced market-driven trade with China with government management of economic exchanges based on tariffs, quotas, sanctions, and export bans;
• abandoned or attempted to sabotage international organizations in which we deemed Chinese influence to be greater than ours;
• kneecapped the WTO, trashing the rule-bound order for international economic relations we had taken seven decades to elaborate;
• attempted to block Chinese investment and lending in third countries;
• blacklisted Chinese companies and delisted them on our stock markets;
• curtailed visas, criminalized scientific exchanges, and banned technology exports to China;
• closed a Chinese consulate (losing one of our own as a result) and initiated tit-for-tat reductions in reporting by journalists;
• sought to terminate Chinese sponsorship of language teaching in our country, and discouraged in-country study by potential federal employees;
• reidentified the United States with Beijing’s civil war adversary in Taipei and violated the Taiwan-related terms of U.S. normalization with Beijing;
• stepped up provocative air and sea patrols along China’s borders; and
• begun to reconfigure both our conventional and nuclear forces to fight a war with China in its near seas or on its claimed and established territory.

These actions have gotten China’s attention, much as they got Japan’s when we applied a range of considerably less hostile measures to it in 1941.  Japan reacted by attacking Pearl Harbor.  China has not yet lost its cool.... 

Covid19 reset the world for China like World War 2 did for the USA

 By the end of WW2, the world stage was set for the rise of the USA as the sole and dominant super power. The war destroyed practically every country on earth, economy ruined, people died and homes broken.  Every country was on a limp, trying to pick up the pieces, to put them together to build a new country together. But because of the war and the crumbled economy and infrastructure, every country was broke with no manufacturing capability and money to rebuild themselves.

The only exception was the USA. Other than the initial surprise attack at Pearl Harbour, which was crippling in a way, the American economy was intact, the infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities, factories and skilled workers were practically untouched by the war and ready to steam along in higher and greater capacity to meet the demands of a hungry and devastated world short of everything.

While the rest of the world practically had to start from ground zero, America and its economy were steam rolling and benefiting from its advantageous position to become the biggest economy in the world, providing goods and services to the world and becoming very rich and powerful in the process.

The story is now so familiar with what is happening to this pandemic. China suffered its Pearl Harbour in Wuhan. A sneaky virus attack that led to a complete lockdown of the city and province. Through providence and good leadership, China quickly got its act together, contained the virus, limited the losses while the rest of the country could go on life as normal, protected from the virus attack.

On the other hand the virus engulfed the whole world. Practically no country is spared. The power and rich nations, the more powerful they are the worse they were inflicted with the virus. Economic destruction is widespread, country wide and world wide. Many economies were in ruins, unable to function or operate as per normal but in limited capacities, some dysfunctional. America, Europe, Japan etc etc were all struggling and still struggling to get a hold of the pandemic. Unfortunately the virus keep mutating and each wave becomes more serious than its predecessor.

The whole picture is like a world war, World War 3, involving every country, destruction and death everywhere. China alone was like the USA in WW2, after recovering from its Pearl Harbour, it shielded itself from the pandemic, protected its people and economy and the Chinese economic engine continues to roar along in greater pace and speed, just like the American economy during and after WW2.

The pandemic is still in its early stage and could take years to recover but not before it brings down many countries and their economies, like WW2 bringing an end to the colonial industrial powers to their knees. When the pandemic is over, China will be the biggest and probably sole beneficiary of this WW3, and would be in the best and most advantageous position, the benefactor of the world, exactly like the USA after WW2, to save the world, to provide the goods and services needed by the world from its massive industrial capacity, factories and workforce.

All the forces are colluding and collaborating to put China in a position of strength, to pick up the baton as the number one super power on earth. The divine forces are on the side of China and are unstoppable. It is China's destiny as it was the USA's destiny after 1945. 

The shining star standing tall and fully intact after this 'WW3' is China.

The uncanny similarities in the effects and position of China and the USA as a result of WW2 and this pandemic are stark and unexplainable. The plots, players and factors at play may be different, but the end results are the same. The world went into a crisis and massive destruction to clean the slate for a new chapter in human civilisation. The USA then was the chosen one to emerge as the next super power. China now is the chosen one to emerge to replace the USA after this pandemic. Heaven is favouring China like it once favoured the Americans. The USA could not be destroyed by its Pearl Harbour.  China could not be destroyed by its version of Pearl Harbour in Wuhan. The enemies would end up the losers.

PS.  Some asshole has reported this site as deceptive. I have replied to Google.

Covid19 - Brisk walking Indian told to put on mask and kicked

Pic from TOC. A Singaporean Indian chastising an India Indian on wearing of mask.

The recent act of violence against an Indian woman accused of not wearing her mask while brisk walking and then kicked by the accuser was definitely uncalled for and unacceptable. The attacker, a Chinese man, was arrested for assault and under police investigation. 

With the Covid pandemic raging in India and the spread of dangerous variants around the world, many are getting highly sensitive, paranoid, to the virus infection. In this assault case it was raised in Parliament and leading to Shanmugam saying that racism and if not stopped, more Indians could also be attacked here. To be precise and not to misquote our Law Minister, this was reported in thenewpaper, 'Concluding his speech yesterday, Mr Shanmugam said: "(Singapore) will fail if we allow racism and xenophobia to become prevalent,..." Ok, Shanmugam did not exactly say that the attack was a racist attack. He also warned against fanning the flame of racism.

This racist interpretation is understandable given that the attacker is a Chinese man and the victim an Indian. A similar incident happened in Pasir Ris Park where an Indian man behaved aggressively against an Indian couple for a similar reason, fear of Covid virus spreading here. It was reported in thenewpaper today that the Indian man was arrested for making racist remark, between an Indian and another Indian!

'The wife said in an email to Mothership that her family were shocked to witness the unprovoked and overtly “racial comments” directed at them, which was the first time they experienced here. The family was said to have been in Singapore for the last 10 years.

She told Mothership that she was concerned about her children would be most affected by the incident.

She alleged that the Singaporean man taunted her family initially by continuously shouting in their direction, “Bloody Indians go back, spreading virus here.”'

How this latter case was also seen as racist in nature is puzzling as both were ethnic Indians. Can a Singaporean Indian blasting out at an India Indian be called an act of racism? Can anyone explain this?

Actually in both cases the problem was about wearing of mask and the fear of virus spreading. The case was not so much of against Indians but people coming from India that is now facing a very serious virus catastrophe.

It was convenient to stoke the racist demon to make a case but would it be better if the racist elementbe handled with special sensitivity and care? If every incident is treated as a racist act then the flame of racism would burn extra violently and more anger and hate would be stirred leading to very unpleasant and very unacceptable consequences.

Racism and racist rage have been on display in the US and UK in its worse form when people were attacked for no reason, no better excuse than just the colour of their skin. That is racism pure and simple. The above two cases may have some tinge of racism for those who would like to see it from that angle, but the main issue was not so much of race but the fear of the virus. In the latter case it was nationality involved, not race per se. It was about people coming from India where the virus is running out of control.

It would be wise for people to look at the issues involved and not try to thread on the dangerous ground of racism.  Many racists have been stoking the fire of racism at every opportunity, true or over exaggeration and attacking innocent people with racism the furthest from their minds, like putting on an act in a party or dressing in different ethnic dresses.  Kumar got to be very careful with his acts and comments during his performance or the racists will accuse him of racism.

What do you think?