Ukraine - Ukrainian Counter-Offensive Forces Destroyed

 In the past 24 hours, Russian forces eliminated 48 tanks, 46 infantry fighting vehicles, 37 other combat armored vehicles, 8 pickup vehicles with large-caliber machine-guns and over 1,200 Ukrainian servicemen.

Russian forces routed the units of the Ukrainian army’s 128th separate mountain assault brigade redeployed from western Ukraine to participate in the offensive.

Russian forces delivered strikes by ground-based precision weapons, eliminating over 200 Ukrainian militants and about 40 foreign mercenaries in the Dnepropetrovsk Region.

Strikes by ground-based precision weapons in the Aleksandrovka area of the Dnepropetrovsk Region destroyed the following targets:

1) the temporary deployment site.
2) an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army’s 1st tank brigade.
3) over 200 militants, including 40 foreign mercenaries,
4) more than 20 armored vehicles.
5) a large amount of artillery shells.

Over 100 militants of the Ukrainian army’s foreign legion and Kraken armed formation were killed in Russia’s strikes in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

The strikes destroyed 52 Ukrainian artillery units, manpower and military hardware in 142 areas. The Russian forces also wiped out three missile/artillery arms and ammunition depots near the settlements of Sarny in the Rovno Region, Krivoi Rog in the Dnepropetrovsk Region and Vernopolye in the Kharkov Region.

Russian Aerospace Forces obliterated the production workshops of the Intervzryvprom factory in Krivoi Rog in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, which produced explosives for the Ukrainian army.

In the city of Krivoi Rog in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces wiped out the production workshops of the Intervzryvprom factory that produced explosives and other items for the Ukrainian troops.

In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 278 Ukrainian combat aircraft, 148 helicopters, 1,837 unmanned aerial vehicles, 370 surface-to-air missile systems, 4,539 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 822 multiple rocket launchers, 3,357 field artillery guns and mortars and 5,136 special military motor vehicles since the beginning of their special military operation in Ukraine.

A-Non-Yes-Mouse 

Crumbling credibility of the Empire of Lies in collusion with UN and ICC

 The USA gave US$150 million for ASEAN countries to enable them to build patrol boats to patrol the seas around ASEAN also. Now, this is how the devil sneaks into the house, using sneaky tactics on the pretext of help to patrol the seas.

It is the same modus operandi of using USA funded NGOs on the pretext of giving help to countries to uphold democracy, when the objective was using the NGOs to ferment unrest, oppose legally elected Governments and supporting illegal opposition groups against Governments of countries failing to tow their line. Just look at Venzuela and what the USA is doing to them, supporting a stooge claiming he is the legitimate ruler.

I would not discount the claims that they also funded terrorist activities in Xinjiang, biological labs in Ukraine, supoorting genocides in Yeman by supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia to kill innocent Yemenis. What about supporting Israel committing genocides in Palestine? All these no one on MSM dared to mention or report. Not the UN, not ICC. All conveniently swept under the carpet on the instructions of the world's No. 1 terrorist.

Have the UN investigated the water boarding accusations conducted at Guantamano Bay? Or the genocides happening in Yemen and Palestine? Or punish the perpetrators of the fabricated and fake evidence that led to the Iraq War that killed millions of innocents wormen and children? And they had the cheek to claim that killing half a million children was worth the price for an illegal Iraq War? How atrocious!

Of course those investigations are not allowed. The UN and ICC can't even get to smell the atrocities committed by the worldd's de facto terrorist in chief. But compare now, how new found vigour the UN and ICC are behaving, so busy investigating and gathering war crimes evidence in Ukraine, because they were told to do so to build up a case against Russia.

Would countries trust the UN or ICC doing the investigating? United Nonsense and International Criminal Conspirators they are.

Anonymous 

Pioneer and Merdeka Generations - The meaning of real sacrifices

 

These are the people that built Singapore with their bare hands, blood, sweat and tears. Not the 21st century highly pampered third world foreign workers. The latter came when Singapore was already built, from a fishing village to the first world. 

The times of the pioneer and merdeka generations were tough, with little laws to protect them, with no good hearted organisations and civic minded citizens to offer them shelter and a helping hand. There were no or few such organisations and civic minded citizens then, as they were also in the same pathetic state of living, trying to make ends meet. No finances to have the luxury to be kind and good hearted. They were like the saying, 'mud buddha crossing the river, they themselves are at risk'.

They earned pittance, trying to make ends meet every day, not millions and not living in good class bungalows and fine dining and holidaying overseas. Their working conditions were not better than the foreign workers today, especially the pioneer generations.

Does anyone remember them and the hardship they went through? Anyone crying for them, to help them, instead of helping the new foreign workers? A few of them are still alive. And some have fallen back to the hard days of having no money in their pockets, and still owe money to the govt because of compulsory CPF Medical Insurance Schemes that they did not ask for it, cannot afford it, and most of them don't need it. They are now debtors to the CPF, being kindly reminded to pay their debt by the CPF.

The only good thing is that many would fade away soon, leaving behind their debt to the CPF Medical Insurance Scheme.

Would there be more kind and caring compulsory CPF insurance schemes to help them, for their own good?

US and UK attempting to take control of the Pacific Islands

26 Aug, 2022 

Pacific nation snubs US request to dock ship – media

A vessel of the US Coast Guard was prevented from entering the Solomon Islands for a routine refueling stop, because the Pacific nation’s government did not respond to its request for port access, Reuters has reported, citing an American official.

The USCGC Oliver Henry was out patrolling for illegal fishing in the region when it attempted and failed to gain access to Honiara port for refueling, the news agency wrote on Friday.

The Solomons’ government “did not respond” to the US request for diplomatic clearance, Kristin Kam, public affairs officer for the US Coast Guard in Hawaii, told Reuters. Kam said the US Department of State was “in contact” with Honiara and expects “all future clearances will be provided to US ships.”

The US vessel was instead diverted to Papua New Guinea, another official told the news agency.

Reports on social media suggested that a British navy ship had also been refused port access this week. The HMS Spey was also taking part in monitoring waters for illegal fishing for the Pacific Islands Forum, which holds annual surveillance operations with help from the US, Australia, New Zealand and France.  RT

The Americans and Brits are sailing their coast guard patrol boats, uninvited, to take control of the seas around Solomon Island under the guise of patrolling for illegal fishing, as if they are in American and British coastal waters. The seas around the Solomon Island belong to the Pacific nations, not to the Americans or British. Who gave them the right to be patrolling in the seas around the Solomon Islands as if the island nations belong to them?

These rogue Anglo Saxon gangsters have also announced that they would send their coast guards to patrol the waters of South China Sea, as if the South China Sea is American and British territorial waters.  China would definitely not allow this to happen. Would Asean allow it to happen, for the Americans and Brits to take control of the waters in South China Sea and be the de facto owner? Which Asean country would invite and allow American and British coast guards to patrol their waters for illegal fishing and commercial activities? This is amounting to surrendering their sovereign rights to the Americans and British, a new process of colonialism.

The Solomon Islands have seen through the ruse and would not allow these pirates to take control of their surrounding seas. Coast guards are the equivalent of police force guarding coastal waters of respective countries. If the American and British coast guards are patrolling the seas around the Solomon Islands and the South China Sea, they are effectively claiming ownership of the seas in the region as well as the islands.

Watch out, the white devils are coming back to seize control of the region.

Taking Off Your Mask? Think Again! Omicron Reinfections Increase Risk of Long COVID - Part 2

Some large studies in Denmark, England and the United States show 20 per cent to 30 per cent of people who tested positive for COVID-19 experienced at least one post-acute symptom, up to 12 months after infection. Symptoms included loss of smell and taste, fatigue, shortness of breath, reduced limb strength, concentration difficulties, memory disturbance, sleep disturbance and mental or physical exhaustion.

In England, the prevalence of persistent symptoms was higher in women and older people. Obesity, smoking or vaping, hospitalisation and deprivation were also associated with a higher probability of persistent symptoms. Those who were hospitalised with COVID-19 in the UK showed even more severe outcomes.

In the US, younger survivors were at higher risk than people over 65 for heart-rhythm disturbances and musculoskeletal pain. This is consistent with other observations that long COVID is not a disorder only of older age.

Older survivors had a significantly higher risk of developing certain conditions, including kidney failure, clotting disorders, cerebrovascular disease (stroke), type 2 diabetes, muscle disorders and a variety of neurologic and psychiatric conditions.

A US study involving more than five million people shows the risk of long COVID increases with the number of reinfections.

ADOPT REGULAR MASK USE

There are lessons from the 1918-19 influenza pandemic that we need to bring back into our repertoire, not for a month or two but for the long term.

Japan adopted mask wearing as a key public-health element on a short list of available measures. As science writer Laura Spinney notes in her excellent 2017 coverage of the flu pandemic’s history, it “probably marked the beginning of the practice of mask wearing to protect others from one’s own germs”.

In Japan, mask use was compulsory for some, such as the police. In some towns, people were not permitted on public transport or allowed to enter a theatre without a mask.

Japan had the lowest death rate of all Asian countries in the flu pandemic and is looking to be close to the lowest cumulative mortality in the OECD for the COVID-19 pandemic.

We would remain stronger and healthier – and reduce the burden of long COVID – if we increased vaccination coverage and universally adopted Japanese-style regular mask use and physical distancing.

Queen of Hearts