The real pains of CECA

 Below are some key points raised by Joseph Nathan in his facebook.  The full article is reproduced in TOC titled, 'What exactly Singaporeans are angry about CECA?' These points have been raised by many concerned Singaporeans but have been pooh poohed by the imbeciles as non issues. 

Singaporeans must not allowed the imbeciles to sweep these under the carpet and must keep shouting foul if Singapore is to be saved from the gullible and naive imbeciles,  and if our children are to enjoy a better life.

Joseph Nathan wrote:

.... But when it comes to CECA, signed between India and Singapore in 2005, Singaporeans remained enraged by the stupidity and gullibility of those involved in drafting and negotiating this agreement that is so detrimental to our Singapore Workforce.

With a provision for “Intra Corporate Transfer”, what this means it that the Indians can utilize their FDIs to create lucrative job and business opportunities for themselves right in our own backyard, almost effortlessly....

If those involved in the CECA agreement can be so stupid and naïve to give the Indians numerous loopholes to game our economic success, Singaporeans like myself do not blame the Indians and their politicians for taking advantage of us but are angry at them for trading away a substantial part of our economic success and employment opportunities so foolishly.

This is the core issue that many Singaporeans are angry about and it has got nothing to do with race or nationality....

When some government officials start labelling Singaporeans as racist or xenophobic for raising their displeasure over CECA, they inadvertently created an unwarranted tension between Singaporeans and Indian professionals working in Singapore when CECA was never an issue of race or nationality....

By incorporating more entities, either directly or indirectly, the same entrepreneur could marshal hundredths or even thousandths of Indians from India into Singapore under CECA and our weak regulatory framework on foreign workers.

Multiply this by a thousand and scale it across the other nationalities, you will now understand why our young graduates, PMETs, and entrepreneurs are losing out on employment and business opportunities to foreigners right in our own backyard....

CECA and our weak regulatory framework on foreign manpower are manifestations of a more troubling issue – we have become too tolerant of the incompetency of the 4G PAP politicians for far too long.

This is the root cause to many of the problems and hardships faced by our Singaporean Workforce.

As a result, it is looking like Singaporeans are doomed to be fit only to be drivers, couriers, cleaners, handymen, security guards, safe-distance ambassadors, temperature-takers, or hawkers to serve the needs of foreigners right on our shore which we called home.

Still trying to wonder why there is an increase in Malays in rental public housing or which ethnic group will be next?

To make matter worse, these politicians are not only naïve and gullible but have also become very arrogant and haughty when called to account for their actions....

What we urgently need is for our government to acknowledge where they had gone wrong on CECA and our employment policy for foreign workforce, plugged the loopholes and introduce new legislations with greater urgency to safeguard our Singaporean Workforce against unfair discrimination, exploitation, and abuse....

Singaporeans must start thinking seriously about our future as a nation and those of our children if we still believe that Singapore deserves better.

The Morrison government is provoking China to please America - Paul Keating (Former prime minister of Australia)

 

The Coalition government is ignoring Australia’s interests by pushing us towards a confrontation with Beijing, mainly to be seen in Washington as America’s fawning acolyte.

The Morrison government is wantonly leading Australia into a strategic dead end by its needless provocations against China. China is not the old Soviet Union. It is not attacking or forcibly incorporating countries into a grand union, nor is it exporting some kind of universal ideology. And it does not threaten nuclear Armageddon on a daily basis, as the Soviet Union did. Save for its front porch, the South China Sea, it broadly keeps to itself.

Its great problem is that it is now a state as large as the United States, and with the potential of being much larger – an unforgivable sin for American triumphalists. And that sin has radiated over those Australians with a fawning, obsequious attitude to the United States. How dare China shirtfront American economic pre-eminence!

This is what all this warmongering is about – China’s presence and scale. China’s rise is simply not in the American playbook – its very existence and at this scale is an affront to America’s notion of itself as the exceptional state, the proselytiser of divine providence.

Australia is a continent sharing a border with no other state. It has no territorial disputes with China – indeed, China is 12 flying hours away from the Australian coast. Yet the Morrison government, both through its foreign policy incompetence and fawning compulsion to please America, effectively has us in a cold war with China.

It is true that China, like all big states, has become ruder as it has got bigger. Under Xi Jinping and in its new foreign policy adolescence – its grand coming out – it expects other states to afford it deference and jump to its tune. But big states are invariably rude; it is the role of foreign policy to navigate the dangers without pulling the roof in – without military conflict. For big-state rudeness, we need look no further than Iraq and Vietnam.

But we now have an ambassador to the United States, Arthur Sinodinos, usurping the role of the foreign minister by making declaratory statements to claim that China’s coercion in the Pacific is now a bigger threat than September 11 terrorism and that ANZUS will hasten military and economic tie-ups to counter Beijing. Sinodinos has even invented a Chinese challenge to “the way we run our domestic economy”. Would any sane person suggest the various Chinese trade bans are a cause for war – or anything like a cause for war? But Sinodinos does.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton says Australia needs to be in a position to defend its waters in the north and south – implying, without any basis whatsoever, that China may be a military aggressor. that’s a posture China has never shown any sign of.

The Morrison government is needlessly and irresponsibly pushing Australia towards a headlong confrontation with China – and doing it, in the main, to be seen in Washington as America’s fawning acolyte. The whole notion of Australia’s right to an independent foreign policy – a right to be itself and act in its own interests – is being suborned by a government determined to subordinate its interests to those of another country.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the conservatives put all their strategic faith in Britain. Now, dull as ever, and with the same fear of abandonment, they are placing their faith in the United States – having no faith in Australia’s ability to make its way in Asia as a proud, resourceful and intelligent state in its own right.

Biden's Art of War

 

The American general is warning the Taliban that a civil war is likely to happen. You know why he knew? Because the Americans are behind it, supporting, supplying and financing the rebels.

These white warmongers would not walk away from a defeat quietly.  They need to do something to regain some pride and also to continue to stir shit to destabilise Afghanistan. War is their occupation, their job. War is business, a profitable business for the American military.

Without wars they have no reason to exist and no reason to increase the defence budget to enrich themselves and to keep their jobs.

Pfizer-BioNTech - The Most Cunning Modern Money-Making Machine (5M) In The World

 

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech has been a blazing and stunning success in every aspect, though not respect. Already made more than US$20 billion within months, it is now poised to make at least US$35 billion by end of this year.

Through its skillful and ingeniously crafted legal documents of sales and purchase, and with the help of many highly desperate, gullible and willing government leaders, Pfizer-BioNTech has more or less dominated and monopolised the world's Covid vaccines market, and won the vaccines war together with Moderna.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said last week that the company's scientists are now researching every coronavirus variant that emerges to determine if it "can escape the protection of our vaccine."

Bourla said that so far no such variant has been found.

Then he added, "But we believe that it is likely that one day, one of them will emerge."

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky agree with Bourla's view.

Rochelle Walensky, probably in the sexret payroll of Pfizer, stated in July 2021:

"These vaccines operate really well in protecting us from severe disease and death, but the big concern is that the next variant that might emerge - just a few mutations away - could potentially evade our vaccines."

Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief. edical Advisor to President Biden, is also concerned about vaccine-resistant variants. He warned in an interview in early August that there could be an "ample chance" for a variant to emerge that current vaccines won't be nearly as effective against.

Birds of the same feather always flock together, especially so when they are free to drop their droppings everyday everywhere from high up in the sky and nobody can do or refuse to do anything about it.

Some independent self-indulgent healthcare experts outside the US are quick to support the 'doomsday' view.

On 26 July 2021, a group of scientists in the UK released an analysis that stated it's "almost certain" that coronavirus variants will emerge "that eventually leads to current vaccine failure."

All of these depressing and negative opinions might sound like it is hopeless to depend on the present mRNA vaccines to fight the Covid-19 coronavirus.

However, CEO Bourla sees this as another opportunity to make more money. He is confident of Pfizer's ability to rapidly adapt to any new variants.

He revealed, "We have built a process that within 95 days from the day that we identify a variant as a variant of concern, we will be able to have a vaccine tailor-made against this variant."

That's a remarkably quick turnaround from the first identification of a potential variant that's resistant to current vaccines to the development of a new vaccine that can fight the new variant.

Bourla's time frame doesn't include the testing that would be required for any new vaccine version.

Pfizer and BioNTech are not alone in the ability to respond quickly to emerging variants. Moderna President Stephen Hoge said in his company's second-quarter conference call that it's likely for significant increases in breakthrough infections to occur with the Moderna vaccine. But he added that Moderna is being vigilant in responding to new variants.

There is another good opportunity for Pfizer (also for BioNTech and Moderna) to make more money, if variants that are resistant to current vaccines appeared. The scenario would increase the demand for newer vaccines that could provide protection against the new variants. Such a situation fits finely into the greater schemes of things within the Pfizer CEO's grand slam strategy.

Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology offers a way to rapidly develop new vaccines that hold the potential to be effective against emerging variants. As the leaders in mRNA vaccines, Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna would be the most likely to be able to quickly develop and test new vaccines to replace current vaccines.

It is also possible that the coronavirus might not mutate enough to render current the vaccines ineffective, especially with those vaccines produced in China and Russia. However, if it ever happens, the leading vaccine producing machines would soar even higher than they already have.

No wonder they have gone all out, out of the normal, to discredit and demonise the traditional vaccines produced by China, India and Russia!

The world now is not only being ruled by the 5-Eyes but also by the 5M!

Help Us, God!


Queen of Hearts.

Covid19 - Only 253 case daily

 

Chart credit to CNA. Chart looking like going exponential soon.

SINGAPORE: Singapore reported a record number of new COVID-19 community cases for the second straight day on Saturday (Sep 4).

Of the 253 new locally transmitted cases reported on Saturday, 246 were in the community while seven were in dormitories, figures from the Ministry of Health (MOH) showed. On Friday, Singapore reported 210 new COVID-19 community cases. CNA

Only 253 cases, no problem.  China in the recent outbreak also got about this number of cases. So the problem is very small. This is one way of looking at numbers. There are many ways to look at numbers depending on your intent and motive. With the same number of cases, China locked down several cities. But Singapore is smarter, no need to lock down at all. In fact Singapore is going to open the legs wider, oops, the door wider, to let in more people in the island. Never mind if these people come from well controlled countries or countries that have lost control of the virus or countries that have Delta variant virus everywhere, considered dangerous by WHO.

Singapore is in good hands, the pandemic is being taken care of by million dollar ministers and professionals, not one but at least two million dollar ministers. With such an expensive approach in manpower and resources, what is 253 cases, or even more? There is nothing to worry about. And Singapore is using world best mRNA vaccines, once touted as 95% efficacy.  You only have to look at USA and UK to see how great these vaccines are in preventing infection and transmission compare to how serious it is in China using inactivated vaccines.  The situation in China is so bad that they are still controlling entry into the country with stringent and draconian measures. 

Going forward, Singapore would be living like a normal country very soon, with its population 100% vaccinated with mRNA vaccines. China would still be closed to the world, unable to be normal like the rest of the world where the virus is treated as endemic, like flu.

Singapore has a population of about 6 millions, including residents, locals and visitors. The US has a population of 50 times that of Singapore. Proportionally, Singapore's 253 cases is equivalent to USA's 253 x 50 = 12,650 cases daily.  In the same way, with India's 1.3b population, the Singapore's daily equivalent would be 110,000 cases. Not bad really. 

Singapore would not reach this kind of numbers like the USA or India. Even if the cases exploded by doubling or tripling, the number would be 500 cases or 750 cases daily. No problem. 

Singapore is in safe hands. Singapore is so safe. Can open up wider.