The CECA Debate In Parliament Separates The Boys From The Real Men

 The 11 hours debate in Parliament that lasted until 12:30 am, past midnight, has brought out the characters of certain PAP MPs and Ministers. The background voices spoke even louder while opposition speakers were speaking. I take off my hat for the two PSP members who stood firm, steady and never loss their cool amidst the coordinated and concerted onslaughts of various PAP heavyweights and jeering jesters of the party in the background.

From YouTube snippets and TodayOnline's report, if you are alert and discerning, you can easily distinguish between the PAP's spoilt brats from the PSP's gentleman and lady.


Read the excerpts from TodayOnline:


"Mr Leong told TODAY that Dr Balakrishnan had indeed called to convey his apology for what was said on a “hot mic”, adding: “I accepted his apology. Let’s put our time to better use for Singapore and Singaporeans.”

He, however, said that he is curious as to who the other persons in the conversation are, and wants to know why they held the institution that he had attended “in contempt”.

PSP secretary-general Francis Yuen made a veiled reference to the incident on Wednesday evening in a Facebook post on PSP’s maiden parliamentary motion.

“Yes, (the motion) may have been rejected by Parliament. But we believe the public knows and understands why we had to table the motion and get this debate going,” Mr Yuen said.

"Unlike some quarters who may find dissenting voices illiterate, we have confidence that our fellow Singaporeans are enlightened and educated, and will not miss the woods for the trees.”

PSP chairman Tan Cheng Bock also weighed in on the matter in another Facebook post.

“Our two NCMPs fought hard. Despite difficult odds, they endured relentless attacks and even disrespectful insults from PAP (People’s Action Party) MPs. Yet with great courage and tenacity, they persevered – and I am very proud of them,” Dr Tan wrote.


Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/vivian-balakrishnan-apologises-leong-mun-wai-after-illiterate-comment-parliament-goes

LIPS

Please do not make contemptuous remarks about others

My apologies for having to activate the moderation function every now and then, especially in the night. I am sure all of you would understand why it is necessary to do so.

This blog and myself have recently been under constant harassment and attack by a mean little guy who have been posting offensive comments, calling people names, and nasty remarks against whoever he disliked. As a result I have chosen to inconvenient everyone once a while by activating the moderation function to prevent this ass from posting his offensive comments here. By now I have a heap of his comments on hold and hope I do not have to use it one day as proof of his mischief and rogue behaviour.

Whatever we post, let's be civil and courteous to one another, treat each other with respect and decorum even if we don't agree with his views. The last thing we should do is to pass ridiculous remarks at another blogger. It may hurt or offend him for a while, but what is important is that it reflects very badly on the one who made the remarks. It also reveals the meanness in the person, his true ugly self that often may be hidden behind the facade of a fake smile and appearance of politeness.

Beware and be warned, whatever you post here would be you yourself telling others about you, about your upbringing, about your true self, about your character, some good, some unpleasant, some obnoxious. Do not let a Freudian Slip gives yourself away.

Your integrity is on display and only you alone can tell people who you really are, by speaking bad about others.

Let's keep this blog civil by being civil, not by pretending to be civil.

Thank you.

Redbean

PS. I confessed I did use foul words now and then but very selectively. Mostly reserved for evil and hypocritical white men that deserved every word I wrote about them. But I would not use it on any decent person even if I disagree with him. This is basic courtesy of an average guy with no pretensions to be seen a priest, to walk around pretending to be a priest.

COVID-19 Singapore: Discrimination Against China's Vaccines Is Too Obvious And Unwise

Whatever the reason/s China's Sinovac and Sinopharm have still been left out of the National Vaccination Program is/are only known to themselves (Singapore COVID-19 Multi-Ministry Task Force). Since the government has not provided any good reason as to why it has stubbornly refused to be fair to those senior citizens who wish to be inoculated with Sinovac or Sinopham, I can only speculate the possible reasons/causes.

There could be several reasons/causes why Singapore government is not using Sinovac and Sinopharm, or any other vaccines approved by the World Health Organisation, other than Pfizer and Moderna. These four are the most likely I think:

1. The Anti-China and Pro-Western political, diplomatic and military standing policies for the past years could have been carried until today, down the four generations of leaders. The continued allowance of the United Kingdom and the United States to make use of Singapore as a military base to operate and show their military muscles in the South China Sea against China's growth and progress, is testimony to this fact.

2. The GIC and Temasek Holdings have invested heavily in Pfizer and Moderna. Therefore, there is a strong inclination and consideration to protect the interests of own investments. Temasek seems to be the key mover and provider of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the National Vaccination Program. To the calculation of the millionaire money-minds, monetary gains is more important than the lives, health and happiness of the older Singaporeans.

3. The Government has probably signed a sales-purchase agreement with Pfizer and Moderna that include a clause that it cannot use vaccines produced by other companies, just like the coffee-shops owners having to sign agreement with the Pepsi company not to sell Coke, or with Yeo's not to sell Pokka drinks. This is actually against the Law, Singapore's own laws on monopoly and unfair trades and International Laws.

4. Behind the scenes, someone very powerful, internally or externally, could have influenced the decision-making process either subtly or indirectly. This possibility cannot be ruled out.

Whatever the reasons known to them, there is no valid reason to discriminate against the older population who only wish to be treated fairly and have safer vaccines that are produced in the traditional way, and proven to be effective in many countries that have used them, especially in China and those countries which are not in the grips of Western powers and influence.

In addition, for the long-term national and security interests of Singapore, it is very unwise to antagonize China in this way. China's leaders may be very diplomatic and nice, but they are not soft and stupid. They can easily see through the poorly veiled hypocrisy in the diplomatic front of Singapore.

Furthermore, treating the older portion of the citizens with discrimination and disdain will not do well for the PAP politically. These oldies are the ones that have supported and voted the PAP into power for the last 56 years. To treat them so unfairly, especially regarding their health choice, is tantamount to being ungrateful and treacherous. Such obvious discrimination and ill-treatment will probably have serious consequences in the next voting season to a certain extent, if not significantly.

It is not too late to make amends. Better late than never. Including the Sinovac and Sinopharm in the National Vaccination Program will not only defuse the unhappiness and anger of the senior citizens and help to reduce the overall number of infections and hospitalizations, but may also be politically sound and wise. It will go a long long way for the economy and political stability of Singapore.

Think again.


LIPS At Your Service.

CECA debate in Parliament - A case of chicken and duck talk

Who is confusing who in Parliament? Shanmugam kept saying that he was confused by Leong Mun Wai's position. Tan Chuan Jin also said the same.

What was PSP's motion? To protect jobs and the livelihood of Singaporeans, aka citizens of Singapore, not foreigners. What was confusing is that the govt side was talking about how well the locals and residents did because of CECA and FTAs. Anyone notice any difference in the two positions?

Locals and residents are not all Singaporeans or citizens. Locals and residents include foreigners that are PRs here.  Not sure if they include EP holders. So, PAP has done very well for the foreigners and some Singaporeans. Not sure more foreigners benefitted from PAP's policy or more Singaporeans aka citizens. There is no attempt to show any statistics to separate Singaporeans/citizens from PRS/foreign citizens. To the govt, they are very happy to lump the two together with Singaporeans. Why?

If PRs/foreign citizens benefitted more, what is there to gloat about?  Did the govt know that it is the Singaporeans/citizens that voted them to be the govt and their primary duty must be to look after the interest and welfare of Singaporeans/citizens? The benefits to locals and residents that are not Singaporeans, not citizens should be incidental and secondary?

It is unfair to Singaporeans/citizens for a govt that repeatedly use the misnomers 'locals and residents' to include foreigners as if they are citizens.

Stop treating locals and residents that are not Singaporeans, not citizens in the same level as Singaporeans and citizens. These foreigners are the responsibility of their respective govts and they have a country to scoot back to when there is a storm in the island.  The Singaporeans have no where else to go and have to stick it out here for good or for back. When they are jobless, sacked, replaced by foreigners, they still have to survive and try to make a living here.  Stop confusing the two into one and the same.  They are not the same, they must not be the same.

The Singaporeans and citizens must be the top priority of a govt elected by the citizens. What the shit talking about non Singaporean locals and residents? If they are the responsibility of the govt, ask them to vote, give them the right to vote them to power.

Quack, quack, quack. Cock, cock, cock.

Covid19 - Why Singapore still refuses to include Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines in the national emergency scheme?

 In the early days of announcement of western and Chinese vaccines, the western pharma companies arrogantly declared that their vaccines were more than 90% efficacy. Chinese pharmas humbly declared their efficacies to be around 70%.  This immediately gave rise to the impression that western pharma vaccines were highly effective compare to Chinese vaccines, on paper and on self proclamation using their own data.

Western pharmas could easily doctored their data to suit their intent and purpose as the trials were conducted by themselves using their own select samples and at full liberty to include or exclude whatever sample, data or results they chose to have. Who was there to check on them to make sure they don't discard what they don't like and include what they chose to include to show a result that was near perfect?

It is like counting of votes, can choose to disqualify or include whatever according to the discretion of the counting officers. 

In China's case, they had to accept whatever data independent countries submitted as the trials were conducted in foreign countries. And some of the anti China countries could mess around with the data, could be bought to make the data less attractive.  China had very little control over the data submitted to them.

And some countries chose to accept these data wholesale, claiming that they did their own checks but no one actually disputed the claims of the pharmas. The data presented by the western and Chinese pharmas were more or less taken as the whole truth. The rest is now history.

Today, with more evidence of the effective of the vaccines on the ground, the Sinovac vaccine has proven to be no less effective than western mRNA vaccines, or at least both were equally ineffective to Delta variant virus. In fact Sinopharm vaccine has proven to be even more effective than the Pfizer, Moderna and Astrazenca vaccines or at least better, not worse off.

With these new evidence, why is the Singapore govt still adamant in not including the Sinovac or Sinopharm vaccines in the national emergency scheme? The people that chose not to risk using mRNA vaccines and wanting to use inactivated virus vaccines are getting very angry and suspicious of what is going on and why they are discriminated and forced to pay for non mRNA vaccines.

There are many unpleasant theories and reasoning in the market place about this sordid state of affair. Would the govt ever allow the non mRNA vaccines to be used officially and subsidised by the govt and those choosing these vaccines need not be discriminated and unfairly treated, and hurting their own pockets?

Why is the govt doing this to its own citizens, treating its own citizens so unfairly? Everyone has a right to choose what they would allow to be jabbed into their own body. The least is for the govt to let them have a fair choice and not dictating on the people what to be jabbed.

What do you think?

PS. The lesson of signing the silly CECA that tied the hands and legs and balls to allow Indians to flood this island was not learnt. Looks like there is another silly agreement in the mRNA vaccines that tied hands, legs and balls to prevent the use of Chinese vaccines. Who would be so silly to sign agreements that let the other party to control and limit one's freedom of choice?