2/13/2022

China pushing back the Americans from its shores in the western Pacific Ocean

WASHINGTON: The United States vowed on Friday (Feb 11) to commit more diplomatic and security resources to the Indo-Pacific to push back against what its sees as China's bid to create a regional sphere of influence and become the world's most influential power.

In a 12-page strategy overview, the Biden administration said it would focus on every corner of the region from South Asia to the Pacific Islands to strengthen its long-term position and commitment.


"Our collective efforts over the next decade will determine whether the PRC succeeds in transforming the rules and norms that have benefited the Indo-Pacific and the world." Reuters/CNA

Any unwary readers reading the above paragraphs from Reuters would be deceived into believing that China is the aggressor, trying to push the Americans out of the western Pacific region. The readers would not be told that the western Pacific region is actually China's front yard, several thousands of miles from the western American coast. The Americans have expanded their influence and control over the Pacific Ocean right to the coast of China and are now accusing China of wanting to push the Americans back. What kind of biased and one sided perspective? 

The western Pacific region is China's natural area of influence, 200 nautical miles out from its coast to the ocean is China's economic zone. The Americans have seized these areas as part of the American Empire, in fact all over the world.China is doing the natural and obvious, wanting its own natural area of influence. It is the Americans that are encroaching on China's region of influence and control, This region does not belong to the Americans. A more balance situation would be a line in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to delineate each country's area of influence and control. It is high time that China retake and control what is naturally China's.

The second point is China's transforming the rules and norms that have benefited the Indo Pacific and the world.  The existing rules and norms are written and dictated by the Americans to favour the Americans. China has been playing by these rules and wanting some to change to be fairer to the rest of the world. The irony is that the Americans are disillusioned with their own rules and wanting to change them to make them even more favourable to the Americans. The Chinese could live by these rules and still beat the Americans hands down.

And yes, the Americans want to dominate 'every corner of the region from South Asia to the Pacific Islands to strengthen its long-term position and commitment.' The Americans have been the dominant power for the last 70 years. China is saying that it wants to have an equal say, not a semi colony of the Americans like Europe, Japan, South Korea and the Anglo Saxon countries.

What is wrong with that? Only semi colonies of the American Empire would be coerced to be part of the hatchet team to ward off China's rise and to protect the American Empire, to continue the American hegemony in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. India is as good as gone, becoming another semi American colony with the Americans in control of the Indian Ocean and cannot do anything about it. The American Fleet are sailing all over the Indian Ocean with its HQ in Diego Garcia, in front of India's doorstep, in control of the whole of the Indian Ocean.

India's hope in the long term is to combine with Russia and China to push the Americans back to their shores if it wants to be the dominant power in the Indian Ocean. If China is successful in pushing the Americans back to the eastern Pacific Ocean, India would have a better chance to do the same in the Indian Ocean.  Looks like India has given up this dream, the Americans are in the Indian Ocean and they did not know, did not want to know.

China is trying to stop the Americans and the AngloSaxon tribe from coercing the whole world, to dominate the whole world. Japan and Australia being coerced into it is understandable as both semi colonies of the Americans. What the hell is India becoming? An American stooge, an American semi colony?

PS. The Americans are hell bent on starting a war in Ukraine. It is hyping about an imminent Russian attack, announcing that all Americans should move out of Ukraine, and the crony countries also do likewise to create fear. And it is warning that there would be aerial bombing by the Russians. 

This is the obvious sign of a pending false flag incident, so easy for the Americans to send a bomb into Ukraine and blame it on the Russians to start a war. This international terrorist must be stopped at all cost. The whole world is watching the evil Americans' every move and must not be deceived. 

The poor Ukrainians, Russians and Europeans are going to be the casualties, their countries are going to be destroyed, in a war that they did not want but planned and directed by the evil American Empire.

China's popular mini for the young

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlt7qnRrZ0g


 This car reminds everyone of the minis in the 1960s. Cheap and good for the young, and allowing the young not only the freedom of a car to drive around, also their creativity to redecorate and redesign the car with all kinds of attractive modifications.

The price of this car is about the price of 3 iphones.

Singapore went through that stage of development when the young could enjoy life with relatively cheap things. Today the young hardly could afford to pay for a small car without cutting off an arm or a leg.

China's rejuvenation is bringing the good life to the masses, to the average Chinese. Hope they did not do the silly things to raise the prices of everything so that only millionaires could afford and gloat about and to flaunt their wealth at the lesser rich.

2/12/2022

Tree of Life in NFT - A gift from Mother Nature

 rar Tree of Life 1/20 

The mysterious image of the Tree of Life revealed by Mother Nature as it is. This was captured by the camera for a brief moment in time and now can be seen with the naked eyes by the Art of RAR technique of photopainting. It is a very important image, and extremely rare. Never seen before by humankind. A very precious token for churches, priests, pastors, evangelists, believers, museums, scholars and collectors. Important: Only 20 limited copies would be minted. 

Tree of Life, has been painted many times for centuries by human beans based on their imagination and interpretation. This is the first time Mother Nature has painted this naturally, without the biases of human beans. Scholars and believers may want to contemplate and study the meaning and significance of this image. The images are very vivid. The lower images were less well formed as they emerged but got better as they moved up the tree. How could these happened naturally? The more you look at the painting the more you will discover the complexities in it.

This is also the first image that appeared to me that launched me into this journey of photopainting using the Art of RAR technique.The first painting of monumental importance, like the face that launched a thousand ships, this painting launches thousands of paintings.

3 similar pieces are on offer at https://opensea.io/collection/rar-tree-of-life. This is a limited edition of 20 copies only. Not enough to satisfy the demands for such a mysterious and important painting. This is a gift from Mother Nature.

PS. All rar art paintings started similar to this image below, a photograph of water. RAR stands for Reflection and Refraction.



ASS - DBS/POSB Accounts Getting Hacked, Drained Without Clicking On Phishing Links

 



All Singaporean Stuff has posted an article with the above titled that DBS/POSB accounts were being hacked and several readers have also added that their accounts too were hacked. There were unauthorised withdrawals and charges to their accounts. The biggest issue is that none of them did anything to their accounts, did not clicked any links, did not use their 2FA to authenticate. This is frightening.

Some were questioning how did the scammers get hold of the client's particulars, used the 2FA, which means they have the clients' phone numbers and could intercept and authenticate as if they were the clients,...without the client's knowledge, without DBS/POSB even aware of the hacked transactions. Where is the protection for the client's accounts? 

With the new rulings that the banks would not be responsible for such losses, how irresponsible and dangerous this means to the clients, the article said some are closing their accounts or keep a minimum sum for essential transactions. Credit cards were also affected, with charges to Amazon.

If this continues, there will be a loss of confidence in our banking system and the consequences would be horrendous. What are the banks doing? What is MAS doing? It cannot be the faults of the clients, and losses due to hackings are the clients' responsibility. How can this be? So convenient, banks are not responsible?

Is this fair to the clients?

The Independent.sg reported this about MAS's action. 'The authorities are progressively working on securing digital banking. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on Feb 7 that it is imposing an additional $930 million capital requirement on DBS, and directing the bank to acquire an individual expert to review such incidents.

MAS concluded its announcement with this warning: “MAS will take appropriate supervisory action against any financial institution that falls short of our regulatory expectations”.'

What is more frightening is to invite the foxes into the hen house. Singaporean expertise is no guarantee, what's more if the expertise were foreigners with unknown backgrounds.


Remembering Our First Elected President Ong Teng Cheong, who passed away on 8 February 2002

Unlike President S R Nathan, there was no state funeral and no tributes in Parliament for a lifetime of service to Singapore.

His was a life of dedication and above all, conscience. He did what he deemed was the right and ethical thing to do.

The interests of Singaporeans were at the heart of all that he says and does. His conscience informs him no other.

Twenty years ago, we disenfranchised his death and the collective grief of Singaporeans. Grief remains a verb twenty years on.

Today, he is greatly forgotten by the generations after him. Only his children are left to restore his dignity through an obit notice in our newspapers annually.

There appears to be a deliberate amnesia about Singapore’s first elected President, Mr Ong Teng Cheong.

The media is silent. The community is silent. Our politicians are silent. Our political parties are silent. The institutions he helped build are silent.

Between Yusof Ishak and Halimah Yaccob lies an awkward silence.

This is a tragedy to our nation and may this be rectified someday.

Today, on the anniversary of his passing, many children today will look at him and see only a bespectacled middle-aged man and never know his contributions to Singapore.

Yet he was also Deputy Prime Minister of a young nation. He sanctioned the Hydril strike and ensure that workers received their 13th-month bonuses even during the 1985 – 1986 recession.



Written by Alvin Tan
First posted at TRE on 8 Feb 2022.


Reposted by A-Non-Yes-Mouse