Warning - Do not park your money in US or western banks

 The world better wake up fast. In recent years, the USA has been using regime changes to create unrest, forcing legitimately elected Governments to crack down on protestors instigated by them, and then using human rights as a reason to punish those Governments.

Now seizing the assets of those other countries is becoming the norm. Venezuela, Afghanistan and now Russia's state and individuals have been targeted for seizure of their assets using 'frozen' to fool the world. This is daylight robbery, and using Mafia logic.

Countries of the world better think deeply and act with open eyes before putting their money in Western Banks, and keeping assets in Western countries, all of which are members of a Mafia gang lead by the USA.

The danger to any country is simple, and it is easy for them to target any country that they think is not towing the line, by supporting political opponents and using fake NGOs to instigate unrest, thereby forcing crackdowns which could lead to sanctions and seizure of assets. And we know they have doggies supporting their actions.

Those so called NGOs, like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc are devils in disguise, angelic in theory, but they conduct activities that are less than savory on behalf of the White Curse. Think of why the USA alone, apart from the Europeans, have to set aside US$300 million a year to fund those activities.

After Russia, the question is 'Who is next'? 

Anonymous

Greetings from America

 

Enjoy friends, enjoy. What war? There is no war here.

For those warmongers and war lovers, let them have a good time. Send them more weapons to make a bigger firework.

The weekend is coming. Enjoy. Peace, peace.

Peace in America, peace in Asia, peace in Africa, peace in SE Asia.  

What a life!

Covid 19 - Hong Kong again competing with Singapore for top honours

The Asian financial hub is in the grip of its worst coronavirus outbreak, registering tens of thousands of new cases each day, overwhelming hospitals and shattering the city's zero-COVID strategy.

More than 200,000 infections have been recorded in the last two months, compared with just 12,000 for the rest of the pandemic - while its death rate is currently four times Singapore's.

For two years, Hong Kong kept infections largely at bay using a strict zero-COVID strategy but an outbreak of the highly infectious Omicron variant has been tearing through the city since January....

In recent weeks, Hong Kong has seen overflowing hospitals and morgues, shortages of medics and ambulances, panic buying and a frantic expansion, with mainland China's help, of spartan quarantine camps and temporary hospitals to house the infected. CNA

Singapore is also have a surge with more than 20,000 cases a day. The latest was 24,000 in an island of less than 6m people.  If Hong Kong is left alone to its own doing, without China putting its foot down to stick to zero Covid policy, Hong Kong is likely to shoot pass Singapore in infection rate given the density of its population. Latest Hong Kong had 50,000 daily cases.  Clever, very clever.

China is getting angry with the situation in Hong Kong. Perhaps China can rethink its strategy about Hong Kong and apply the one country two systems policy, let Hong Kong has its way and do what it likes. It would be a win win situation. Hong Kongers would love to have their freedom and this would be something they could cheer for. They could then try to outdo China by curbing the virus the Hong Kong way. Maybe they could follow Singapore and promote the use of mRNA vaccines as the main vaccine to fight the virus, with boosters, and hopefully lower the infection rate and do better than China.

The other advantage is the economy. Hong Kong could be as free as Singapore and resume its key role as the gateway to China, adopts Singapore's live with the Covid policy, open the gate wide wide to do more business with the rest of the world. And compete with Singapore to see who is freer, who opens the gate wider, or else it would lose out to Singapore like what the western media said. 

China can maintain its zero Covid policy as this serves China very well with its factories all running in full steam, no need to open up to all Tom, Dick and Harry to come in to infect the whole country. But anyone coming into China from Hong Kong must go through the stringent control protocols. Hong Kong could be a hot bed for the virus as the virus would also enjoy the freedom like Hong Kongers in a western style democratic system.

When Hong Kong opens up like Singapore, Singapore would have a hard time chasing after Hong Kong again. Both would try to outdo the other.

No ASEAN country should trumpet own Ukraine stance

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has brushed aside a request from 25 ambassadors in Bangkok, asking his government to take a stand against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"We should maintain balance at this point," the prime minister told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

With the exception of Singapore, which has forcefully denounced the invasion, much of Southeast Asia has responded with little more than cautious expressions of concern. Thailand came under pressure to change that on Monday, when the envoys visited Thani Thongpakdi, the permanent secretary for foreign affairs.

The ambassadors represented a long list of nations: the U.S., U.K., Japan, Canada, Norway, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Hungary, Belgium, Czech, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Denmark as well as the European Union. Together, they urged Thailand, as a member of the United Nations, to speak up for the rules-based international order and denounce the invasion as a violation of the U.N. charter.

The kingdom has stuck to neutrality since the invasion began last Thursday. The Thai foreign ministry expressed deep concern over the escalating tensions while supporting a peaceful settlement through dialogue. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Saturday published a statement with a similar tone.

In rebuffing the ambassadors' request, Prayuth used the bloc's statement as cover. "It's a regional matter now," he said, arguing that countries should avoid trumpeting their own stance once ASEAN has clarified its position. 

Anonymous

The US and NATO have never been sanctioned for starting wars. Why?

 

The reaction to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, no matter what you think about it, has exposed the West’s and Singapore's double standards

The West has taken an extreme stance against Russia over its invasion in Ukraine. This reaction exposes a high degree of hypocrisy considering that US-led wars abroad never received the punitive response they deserved.

If the current events in Ukraine have proven anything, it’s that the United States and its transatlantic partners are able to run roughshod across a shell-shocked planet – in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, to name a few of the hotspots – with almost total impunity. Meanwhile, Russia and Vladimir Putin are being portrayed in nearly every mainstream media publication today as the second coming of Nazi Germany for their actions in Ukraine.

There must be a convincing reason for a country to authorize the use of force, thereby committing itself to what could be considered ‘a just war’. Thus, the question: Can Russia’s actions today be considered ‘just’ or, at the very least, understandable?

In his now-famous speech to the Munich Security Conference in 2007, Vladimir Putin poignantly asked the assembled global powerbrokers point blank, “why is it necessary to put military infrastructure on our borders during this [NATO] expansion? Can someone answer this question?” Later in the speech, he said that expanding military assets smack up to the Russian border “is not connected in any way with the democratic choices of individual states.”

The real cause for Moscow’s alarm came when the US and NATO began flooding neighboring Ukraine with a dazzling array of sophisticated weaponry amid calls for membership in the military bloc. What on earth could go wrong? In Moscow’s mind, Ukraine was beginning to pose an existential threat to Russia.

In December, Moscow, quickly nearing the end of its patience, delivered draft treaties to the US and NATO, demanding they halt any further military expansion eastwards, including by the accession of Ukraine or any other states. It included the explicit statement that NATO “shall not conduct any military activity on the territory of Ukraine or other states of Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia.” Once again, Russia’s proposals were met with arrogance and indifference by Western leaders.

It’s not like Russia woke up on February 24 and suddenly decided it was a wonderful day to start a military operation on the territory of Ukraine. 

Anonymous