CIA has been the world's largest opium, heroin and drug trafficking and smuggling organistion since 1945.

All CIA's drug trafficking and smuggling activities can be traced down the trail from the Pentagon Industrial Complex to Wall Street and Washington's White House. Every year the American elites in control of CIA, The Pentagon, Wall Street and Washington scooped hundreds of billions of dollars in profit from drug trafficking and smuggling and of course at the expense of the suffering of millions of poor American citizens. The rogue American elites have no conscience at all and they should be rounded up and shot by the firing squad.

Some years back, most probably in 2016 I wrote a series of Five Articles describing in some details how CIA traffic and smuggle opium and drugs all over the world in the six continents from 1945 to the present. The series of articles come under the heading, "CIA, The world's Biggest Opium and Drug Trafficking Organisation. The articles can still be found in this blog.

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Support schemes for seniors - Are they adequate?

The first of three components in the Majulah Package is an Earn and Save Bonus for eligible seniors who are working. Lower- and middle-income workers will get extra CPF funds of up to S$1,000 a year 

The second is a one-time Retirement Savings Bonus for those who have not met the CPF Basic Retirement Sum. Those eligible will receive a top-up of up to S$1,500

The third element of the package is a one-time MediSave Bonus of up to...CNA

The above are the 3 components of the govt's senior support package to alleviate the high cost of living and inflation. Are they enough when passive expenditure is more than $700 per month. On their own they are obviously inadequate, just a drop in the ocean. But these are in addition to other support schemes that are existing and may help out a little when viewed as part of a total package, even if they are a one time assistance. The other existing schemes are as follows:

'The government will also enhance existing schemes such as the Silver Support scheme, Workfare Income Supplement scheme, as well as the Matched Retirement Savings Scheme, with details to be announced next year, added the Prime Minister. 

The Silver Support scheme provides a quarterly cash supplement to seniors who had low incomes during their working years and have less in retirement, while the Workfare Income Supplement scheme tops up the salaries of lower-income workers to help them save for retirement....

“Taken together, these improvements will help seniors to meet basic retirement needs, especially for lower- and middle-income Singaporeans,” Mr Lee said. “So that you can have greater peace of mind in your golden years.”....' CNA

For those that have fallen to the bottom, these assisting schemes combined perhaps would be sufficient for them to get by. For those that are in the halfway house, not that bad but unable to qualify or partially qualified, the amount they are receiving would be far from the monthly needs of $700. Then how? As long as they are alive, the expenditure is there, daily and monthly? Where are they going to find the money to live on?

 And Hsien Loong had these to say about govt assistance schemes...

 'That said, the Prime Minister noted that the government “cannot give out subsidies infinitely”. 

“The long-term solution is to make ourselves more productive, transform our businesses, and grow our economy. Then our real incomes can rise and we can all be better off.”' CNA

Here lies the real problem. Piece meal assistance is not meant to be continuous. But the daily and monthly expenses of the seniors are as good as permanent, compulsory expenditure. And the jobless seniors would not be able to be more productive to be part of the economy. So how? Feeling relief temporarily with a bit of handouts would at best be a temporary high but would go away. Life goes on, and without an institutionalised support scheme, and ten to twenty years to live, without any source of income, without govt subsidies for the rest of their lives, what golden years are there to these seniors? Can the govt simply say “cannot give out subsidies infinitely” and end of the story? The story of the penniless seniors would not end after they have used up their subsidies and handouts, but continue to their last day on earth. 

It may be too much to ask, '送佛送到西', but what is the point of having a govt that has billions and trillions in the reserves and paying generously to some in the millions and did not think it is its responsibility to help the seniors that no longer can help themselves? When losing tens of billions is small matter, how about setting a few billions to support the seniors in their 'golden years'?

What do you think?

 PS. The continuous hike in fees and bills and the increases in GST are the works of the govt, leading to high cost of living and inflation. The seniors are passive victims of these increases and inflation. The govt cannot runaway from this responsibility to compensate the seniors that are no longer economically active. Every increase is like robbing the no income seniors of their savings. They cannot replenish whatever that is taken from them when they have no income. Stop robbing the seniors and make good what is taken from them when they are completely hapless and at the mercy of the govt fee hikes and increases.

 

WW2's third nuclear bomb

10 minute clip on the carpet bombing of Tokyo in 1945. It is in Chinese with English subtitles.

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is well known in the history of mankind. Atomic bombs were used to test the destructive nature of these bombs. I said 'test' because the war was about to be over and Japan was about to surrender. There was no need to drop the Atom bombs on Japan. But the evil Americans wanted to test the bombs and they chose to drop them on Japan instead of Germany. That was how much love the Americans had for the Japanese.

The result, several hundred thousands of Japanese were cooked or microwaved and several hundred thousands suffered severed burns and radiation. And the Japanese love the Americans since then till today, sleeping with the Americans and making love with the Americans as if nothing of such had happened.

There was a third 'Atom' bomb that was dropped on Tokyo. At least it had the same destructive nature as the two Atom bombs. It was carpet bombing of Tokyo by 500 B29 bombers. 4,000 tons of bombs were dropped. The same result, Tokyo was flattened and nearly 84,000 Japanese died and more than 100,000 Japanese were maimed, more than a million Japanese were homeless. 

There were two early attacks on major Japanese cities, each time involving 200 to 300 bombers. The massive destruction of Tokyo was quietly set aside, not to be mentioned. The Japanese just swallowed the punishment by the Americans. Maybe it is even scrubbed from their history books, like the invasion and massacres in China, Korea and South East Asian countries.

The Japanese really forgotten about these tragedies in their motherland?

"The West - The Anglo-Saxons UK & USA and Japan Owe China Tons of Blood-Debt Which Have Yet To Be Settled."

The article appended below will wake up all Chinese people to the Forever-Danger that China and the Chinese people face from the savage West and Japan. The only reason for their wanting to destroy China is that China and the Chinese people have committed a cardinal sin for being too smart and intelligent and too innovative and hardworking for them to be able to compete successfully in a fair playing field. 

The success of UK & US industrialisation  in the 19th and 20th century is due in large part to the endless hundreds of billions of dollars that the two states derived from their illicit and illegal Opium trafficking and smuggling in China that financed their industrialisation. They used the force opium trade not only to make easy money but also to destroy the soul and spirit and cohesiveness of Chinese society and to eventually break down and disintegrate China into semi-colonial status under the control of Western extra-territorial rights. 

The appended article below is written by Professor Fan Yongpeng,  Vice-President of the China Research Institute of Fudan University. The article revealed how the West in general and the US and UK in particular grew fabulously rich with illegal and illicit opium trafficking and smuggling in China and how their society lived an ostentatious pompous life, all at the expense of China and the Chinese people who suffered tremendously due to UK and USA evil trafficking opium in China. The illegal opium trade enabled 

PART     ONE : Practically every American president from the 1800s to 1920s indulged in trafficking and smuggling of Opium in the illicit and illegal opium trade in China.

"73% of the US Presidents' ancestors indulged in Opium and Drug Trafficking and smuggling in China. Most of the capital accumulation in the US comes from Opium.

Professor Fan recently said in a program: "When I was taking a course at Stanford University in the United States , a history professoor told me something. He said, Doctor Fan , do you know that the vast majority of the capital accumulation of our early industrialisation in the United States came from our Opium trade in China.?'

"Although the opium trade may have been the patent of the "British" in the impression of many, the United States of  America, the eldest of the British Empire, was in fact deeply involved with a trade share of as mush as 42 percent. The new dignitaries produced by these opium trade are the main forces in the political and economic life of the United States since then. Of the 45 presidents of the United States, 33 have a direct relationship with opium traffickers in blood.

In 1805, the first American drug-trafficking ship was loaded with 124 bales and 51 cartons of tobacco from Smyrna , Turkiye, to the United States and then to China. The three brigs are generally believed to have been the start of the evil opium trade with China. 

Before 1805 the United States could only export fur and precious metals to China and suffered from the huge trade deficit caused by tea and silk. British control of opium plantations in India and Myanmar makes them seem to have monopolized the trade. But the ingenuity of the Americans opened the door to the opium trade with China.

They found another opium growing site in Turkey and developed a new trade route. Despite the long journey, the price is almost three times the cost, and it is a well-worth business.

The poor quality of opium produced in the Middle East , but its low price  suddenly opened up the "sinking market " in China. It received a warm welcome from the ordinary people, so that opium no longer become the exclusive of the rich class "Fushou ointment." The Chinese have also made this distinction , calling Turkish opium a small soil and Indian opium a big soil, which of course has led to many Chinese adulterers mixing small soil into the big soil for the second time.

After developing raw material sources in the Persian Gulf, its profit margin has increased by 25 %, because the opium smuggling trade only required money for corrupt Chinese officials and did not need to pay taxes, it was easier to do than the original legal trade and attracted a large number of American businessmen.

Between 1805 and 1834, the United States imported 16,305 chests of opium to China, accounting for 42% of the total opium shipped to China in two years 1817-18.

Many merchants also took advantage of it, such as John Jacob Astor, the first millionaire in American history, who started trading furs with China and had to find another way after losing its share of the trade to the  war of 1812.

In 1816 he began to engage in opium smuggling trade. John first went to Turkey to buy 10 tons of opium and resell it to China. It is generally believed that between 1816 and 1825 John delivered hundreds of thousands of pounds of opium to China, becoming his most profitable sideline."

PART      TWO : England launched the First Opium War in 1839 to force China to open some ports and cities to opium trade.

Britain and America compete and collude with each other in the opium trade. The Americans used cheap Turkish tobacco to open the market, the British are under the cruel direct large-scale expansion of production, suddenly pulled down the price of opium in India, the profits of the Americans greatly damaged. Later, however, the British allowed the Americans free passage on the route between Calcutta and Canton.

Since the United States began importing opium to China, the United States has imported much less to China. In 1836 there was only less than one million Yuan per year, compared with about 4 million Yuan two or three decades earlier, which made the Qing silver famine even more serious.

Before the Opium War, the opium trade between China, Britain and United States was in fact a small fight and the scale after the Opium War was even more terrible.

The anti-smoking campaign o1839 uncovered a large amount of smuggled opium, the third largest in the United States. Without the opium trade, their trade advantages and most viable commercial activities would be terminated, which is obviously not what they want to see.

So the next story is familiar to you. In 1839 Britain brazenly launched the First Opium war against China and encountered little decent resistance in the next two years with only a few examples of anti-British warfare, such as veteran Guan Tianpei's defense of Guangzhou and Zhenjiang's 2400 martyrs.

On August 29, 1842, the Qing Dynasty and the British government signed the humiliating "Nanking Treaty", in which there was no serious negotiation. However, the ministers of the Qing Dynasty felt that the most humiliating thing was that the name of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was written side by side with the name of of the Huang Maao Yi woman ( Queen Victoria ), rather than cutting the land indemnity to open the trade or so on .

In 1844, the Americans followed and signed the "Treaty of Wangxia" with China which was similar to the condition of the British. 

In fact the Qing government felt that these treaties were generally considered expedient , and that foreigners could be fooled and deceived at will. The text of the Treaty of Nanking was not promulgated at all, and was kept in the yamen of the viceroys of Guangdong and Guangxi. The treaty stipulates that the British can go to Guangzhou to live in the future, but local officials do not perform  all kinds of Taiji. The Chinese do not regard the British as human beings or as not human "narbarians", which is angry with the Anglo-Saxon nation.

Of course their best means of revenge during this period of time is to import opium into China frantically, corrupting the whole society of China. In the five trade period the whole southeast coast " a piece of erosion", Anglo-Saxon American opium spread all over the place.

In 1847, Shanghai imported 16400 cartons of opium. By 1859, Shanghai had imported 33786 cases of opium, a figure that was the sum of the whole country 20 years ago. Opium trade accounted for the first place in many trade ports in China, while the United States accounted for 1/3 of the opium trade, ranking second. Huge opium sales have also directly offset the trade deficit between China and the United States.

Such a large scale smuggling trade naturally has the acquiescence of Qing government officials. Coastal officials in particular often charge opium peddlers three percent of their gross sales and colluded with Britain and the United States to exploit the people and sell drugs that could roam the streets as long as they were not in the presence of high-ranking officials.

But despit this, Britain and the United States still feel that the income is not enough to make a profit, and they want to compete for the next commanding heights: the legalization of the opium trade. The Treaty of Wangxia stipulated that the treaty could be amended 12 years after it was signed, but the Qing government did not intend to renew the contract. Britain and France started the Second Opium War in October, 1856, under the pretext of the Arrow incident and the Ma Abb incident, and the US and Russia sat in the rear to reap the benefits of the fishermen.

The British and French allied forces broke into Beijing and set fire to the Old Summer Palace, which became the eternal pain of the Chinese nation. After the Second Opium War, the four countries forced the Qing government to sign the "Tianjin Treaty" and "Beijing Treaty", which further expanded the invasion of trade with China, and finally put the opium trade on the "legalization" coat, and even some Chinese provinces began to cultivate the opium sales.

Since then, opium began to run amok in Chinese society, drugs in the spirit and material erosion of this ancient nation. The United States also made huge profits from the opium trade in these decades, which greatly promoted the Second Industrial Revolution.

PART    3:         American opium barons financed the building of US ports and cities, roads, railways, hospitals, schools and universities like Princeton, Havard, New York and many others. These opium barons control American politics.

Because of the evil opium trade, the American society produced a new group of powerful elites. The birth of these new powerful elites marked that the United States had completed the initial primitive accumulation of capital before the Second Industrial Revolution, and played a great role in promoting the industrialization process of the United States. There are three main ways to promote American industrialization.

(1) Large numbers of investment in infrastructures, such as investing in philanthropy, building hospitals, railroads and schools, created a large number of early American cities.

(2) Use this money to open up factories. The creation of more wealth greatly promoted the early industrialization of the United States.

(3) These wealthy Americans control American politics through "individual alliances". The United States government  is fully prepared for industrialization.

The Perkins family from Boston best exemplifies the rise of America's new elite. The Perkins family was one of the first American families to set up a trade office in Canton for the purpose of selling opium.

The family owned only seven ships, but in 1826 it became the first millionaires in American history. After getting this money, the Perkins family and other new Boston dignitaries immediately repay the villagers and actively participate in the construction of their hometown of Boston.

Salem state university historian Dane Morrison said: " The Opium Money changed the face of Boston and made it possible for Boston to develop a reputation to become one of the world's true civic cities." 

These "ill-gotten gains"  (opium trafficking was legal in the United States at the time ) were transformed into "charity money" in the United States.

Thomas Perkins first invested in the railway between Quincy quarry and Boston . Some istorians call it the first true railroad in American history. The Perkins family also invested extensively in steamships, mines and railroads.

Massachusetts, where Boston is located is in the public expenditure is hevily dependent on the opium trade. They used the money to huild a lot of roads and bridges and maintain the courts and fire departments and schools and hospitals. On the other hand, the Opium Trade promoted philanthropy in Boston. The Perkins family financed the Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital and the Boston Athenaeum Hospital, libraries, colleges, secondary schools, orphanages, and schools for the blind  all bearing the names of opium magnates.

The contributions of these opium tycoons to their hometown made Boston the "most human looking" city in the early history of the United States, but this "human feeling" was based on the sufferings of  countless Chinese people across the ocean.

The American historian Haddad had to admit: "Opium was indeed a way for the United States to be able to shift China's economic power to America's industrial revolution." ( Opium was really a way that America was able to transfer China's economic power to America's Industrial Revolution. )

Phyllis Forbes Kerr compiled a book about her great-grandfather , Robert Bennet Forbes, who was an opium baron.

These histories were not widely shared in America, and the descendants of opium barons in Boston almost never discussed the origins of their families' wealth, but there were American intellectuals who knew and were ashamed of it.

Boston Athenaeum Hospital, for example issued a statement saying "Our own heritage, like that of many historic institutions reveals its inherent contradictions. We acknowledge that the Perkins brothers have built their fortune at the expense of the lives of others ... while supporting numerous educational, medical and cultural causes through generous philantrophy."  ( Our own legacy, like that of many historic institutions, reveals inherent contradictions. We acknowledge that the Perkins brothers built their fortune at the expense of the lives of others ... while supporting a great number of educational, medical and cultural causes through their generous philantrophy. )Boston Athena Hospital also encourages people to dig into this history to alert the world.

PhyllisForbes Kerr, a descendant of an opium baron, once wrote a book about her great-grandfather, Robert Bennet Forbes, which exposed such evil practices. She also revealed that when relatives and grandmother had dinner together, they once satirized her great-grandfather as a drug dealer. The old lady was very unhappy.

There are many similar cases, these magnates became the vanguard of the early industrialization of the United States, greatly promoting the development of the Second Industrial Revolution. As Professor Fan Yongpeng, vice-president of Fudan University's Institute of China's studies relayed: The vast majority of the capital accumulation of America's early industrialization came from the Opium Trade with China.

Since then, 33 of the 45 presidents of the United States have been tied to the Opium Trade, accounting for 73 percent of the total. Among them, President Roosevelt's grandfather, Warren Delano Roosevelt was one of the partners of Qichang Foreign Company. Eleonora Randolph, the grandson of Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, also married the opium dealer , Sir Joseph Curry ( Joseph Coolidge IV ).

Although the opium trade was fruitful, with the development of the Second Industrial Revolution and the development of the West, this trade eventually died out and was formally abolished in the 1880 treaty between China and the United States, with China becoming a supplier of raw materials and a dumping ground for American i

American terrorists can support and supply weapons to Ukraine, others cannot support and supply weapons to Russia!

 A month before the Russian Ukraine War broke out in February 2022, Russia bought lots of weapons like helicopters and drones from China in bilateral trade. The USA is now making an issue of this, accusing China of helping Russia in the Ukraine War, by supplying weapons to Russia. Why should China suddenly stop its weapons sales to Russia after the war started? China and Russia had a good business relationship and will not stop its weapons sales to Russia that is bound to sour relations. This is just plain logic, and afterall Russia needs weapons in the Ukraine War.

The narrative now being touted is that China is not neutral and is taking sides. What is wrong with that? If China condemns Russia or breaks off good relations with Russia, it clearly means China is openly supporting the USA and its allies against Russia. This means China's stand is not neutral either and taking sides as well. So, what does taking sides mean to the USA? Perhaps under their 'Rules Based Order' it means that China supporting the USA by sanctioning Russia is not taking sides, but China supporting Russia is construed as not a neutral stand but is taking sides. What kind of warp logic is that?

China is now basically supporting Russia not covertly, but is an open secret now, since whatever China does is construed as against the USA and its allies. The USA can continue to generate all the witch hunting propaganda, but will ultimately fall on deaf ears on the Chinese side. This is perfectly logical, since the USA just conveniently takes the Chinese point of view as merely noises to brush aside. The USA can threaten all kinds of consequences, as if China, in its present position, has no retaliatory means to do a tit for tat.

Consequential threats have lost much of its relevance, just like the sanctions imposed on countries such as Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran and Russia. Joe Biden threatened Saudi Arabia with consequences after his abject failure, by flying personally to Saudi Arabia to coerce MBS to extract more oil. Instead MBS reduced oil production and what consequences did he faced? When faced with a formidable adversary, the USA behaves like a paper tiger. Now dangling concessions hoping to sway MBS decision to join BRICS, trade with China in Yuan and not to use Chinese communication system in the country.

Similarly, the USA is threatening Niger military regime of consequences, with ECOWAS threatening invasion, that never came after the expiry of its ultimatum. On the contrary, support for the military regime in Niger comes strongly from neighours and overwhelming support also came from volunteers all over the world. The USA and France are basically propping up support for their ousted stooge President, their puppet on a string.

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