American Police brutality against students and professors in Emory University, USA

 

Two short clips showing police violence against student protestors in Emory University. The brutish thugs in uniforms, supposedly the pride of America, the protector of American citizens, behaved like gangsters and savages, attacking women and girls, students and professors, like they were hardcore criminals. They even fired rubber bullets at the students.

This is American police violence on display to the world. They were real cowards, only acting tough against unarmed women and girls. What a show of bravery of the savage brutes. They are more feared than the thugs on the streets of America. The students and professors need to be protected from these violent thugs in uniforms.

America must be very proud of them. They are definitely better than the Hong Kong police. Everyone is very proud of the men in blue, the gangsters in uniform of the USA.

Pelosi must be grinning widely watching these beautiful sights to behold.

Student protests started in Columbia University, are spreading across the USA and also in universities in other parts of the world. It is not only a nation wide protest in the USA. It is a universal movement against the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by the Americans and Israelis.

Health subsidies scheme like no subsidies at all

 As a senior, I used to be very thankful for the health subsidies given by the govt, particularly in dental care. I could go for a filling and walked out not paying a cent as the cost was mostly absorbed by the subsidies for seniors. I only visited NTUC Dental Care.

My last couple of visits were quite shocking. For a small filling, and did not ask for scaling but this was done, I had to pay out of pocket in cash, more than $200 despite the subsidies for seniors. On another visit, I specifically said no scaling, thinking that I could bring down the amount of cash that I had to pay. I still had to pay about $200. The additional increase was for counting the teeth and blank in my mouth. This was once a one time procedure when one first seen by a dental surgeon, called consultation fee. Now it seems that this is a regular procedure, think, once every 6 month or something like that, because after 6 months, the dental surgeon can claim subsidies from counting teeth and blanks in your mouth. And for this action, the amount charged is about $60 or $70. Daylight robbery?

After my last visit, I received an SMS message for feedback. One of the question asked, would I recommend people to visit the clinic. My answer is NO. Though the quality of service was expected from a professional dental surgeon, the cost is just too high. Mind you, this is after subsidies for Pioneers.

Would the govt step in to really reduce the cost of medical and dental care. $200 or more for a visit to a dental clinic for a simple filling and other minor services that may not be needed, is just too high for seniors and retirees, especially after substantial subsidies from the govt. Can you imagine how much was the total bill without subsidies for such simple procedures?

This is a red flag incident and must be investigated and stopped immediately before more seniors and pioneers are made to pay so much for so little, despite the govt's intent to bring down the cost for the poor seniors with substantial subsidies. Something is not right.

This can be something for the new PM to look at.

PS, Cleaning up this dental subsidy scheme to help the seniors from being robbed is a job cut out for Lawrence Wong.

Washington clowns surrendering markets to help China to grow

 Sanctions, sanctions and more sanctions. The one trick ponies in Washington can't think of anything else but sanctions. It was effective when the Americans were ruling the world and no one dared to violate their sanctions. North Korea and Cuba had been under the cruel sanctions of the evil Americans for more than 70 years. But they are surviving and finding ways out of the sanctions. And with the rise of China as the factory of the world, these countries can go direct to China, bypassing the American sanctions, to get what they need. This is also applicable to all the countries in the Global South. 

There is no more need to buy Americans when they could get all they want from China, cheaper and better. Thus there is no more need for the use of the American dollar. The Americans can sanction all they want. The ultimate effect is isolation of themselves from the rest of the world.

The economic sanctions of Russia, Iran, Venezuela etc etc mean that all the American allies and crony states cannot trade with these countries. This could be a death knell to the victim countries in the past. Today, the void was immediately filled by China. China could sell all the goods needed by these countries, and in return they could sell all their oil and resources to China. A perfect match made in heaven.

The biggest beneficiary of these sanctions is  China's new energy vehicles, EVs. Russia, Iran, Venezueala and many countries are now open to China like a monopoly, without competition from the Americans and the West. Chinese EVs are given a big boost in a crucial time like this, to make a mark in these sanctioned countries, to gain market share and user confidence. It is boom time for Chinese EVs. And EVs are not the only product that China is selling to these countries. It is the entire scope of goods and services, now fully supplied by China. Huawei's 5G, the entire mobile phone industry of China, and military hardware, weapons, once the monopoly of the Americans and the West, now become the major exports of China.

China has the goons in Washington to thank for. They vacated and paved the way for the dominance of Chinese goods in these countries. Once time tested, the reputation and reliability of China's products would gain loyal customers and put an end to their reliance on American and western products. 

Japan car industry is the biggest casualty, unable to sell in these countries. Japanese automobiles have already been sinking with sales declining by a huge margin. Also thanks to their stubbornness not to move into EVs in full force. Now their consolation is to pretend that hybrids are better than EVs, but for how long can this self deception holds?

Washington terrorists threaten ICC judges

 Notice how the doggies are coming out together to protect war criminal Netanyahu being issued an arrest warrant by ICC. If Putin can be labelled a war criminal by the ICC, it boggles the mind that Netanyahu is not given the same dishonor for his genocides in Gaza, according to his Western backers. That would be the 'mother of all double standards'.

You know what the Mafia clan will do now to scare the ICC leaders to change their minds? The USA, not a signatory to the ICC itself, already used threats of annihilation against ICC leaders if they ever bring war crime charges against leaders like George Bush, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair and even military leaders, over the Iraq invasion. In the face of those malicious threats, the ICC leaders were cowed and backed off and did nothing. A war criminal is a war criminal, and forcing ICC not to level charges against those they harbored does not change the reality. Shit is shit and smells just as bad even if we were to call it perfume.

My bet is that the ICC will also back off this time, because the Israeli Mossad and CIA underworld are famous for assassinating those they are up against their interest. How many Iranian military leaders have so far fallen to the USA/Israeli assassination squad is clear for all to see.

The ICC even went so far as attempting to issue an arrest warrant for Rodrigo Duterte, the former President of the Philippines. For what? For cracking down on the drug lords. This is atrocious. I am apt to believe that those drug lords have strong connections to the CIA, probably the de facto 'Al Capone' of all the drug lords in the Philippines. The ICC leaders knew Duterte will never be able to raise a finger to threaten them, and as an act of heroism wants to show the world it is doing right. People can see the hypocrisy.

If the ICC does back off against Netanyahu, the ICC should realistically just be dismantled for good. Ironically the ICC was another tool in the toolbox created by the Anglo-Saxon Whites that had been used by the West to further their agenda, against those they cannot agree with. And ironically, it is turning out to haunt them in a very sticky situation involving Netanyahu.

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America's fictional economy growing strongly at 1%, helped by money printing

 The USA economy is still solid as a rock according to Biden, with job creation reaching for the moon. Such a view is not shared by Trump, who labelled the job market a 'cesspool'. Wonder how the voters will look at it.

As Profession Richard Wolff puts it, USA's economic growth is all about printing toilet papers, that goes into the stock market to create a bigger and bigger balloon. That is growth in the context of the USA. When BRICS gets it house in order with its currency, settlement system and control of its in house 'grain and energy exchange', that will end the toilet paper printing and put the printing machines out of business.

China is still said to be collapsing with a 5.2% growth in the first quarter of 2024. Huawei was thought to be tottering or even collapsing from the sanctions earlier but still reported a staggering 564% profit growth year on year. USA chipmakers on the other hand are sinking deeper into losses and are of course not collapsing anytime soon. Biden will throw more subsidies into the black hole to keep them alive. What is the truth, or the alternate truth? Do the sanctions work so far against Huawei? Wonder how other sanctions will work against China that is said to be coming up.

I just wonder what TSMC, Samsung and other USA chipmakers are thinking now about their investments in Arizona and prospect moving forward. Their future looks bleak, considering that Huawei is growing stronger by the day and now even making its own lithography machines and selling them cheap. Oh, those are junks they will say, but never forget the junks that China used to turn out and now dominating the market in EVs, solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and even shipbuilding, the traditional niche of Japan and South Korea in the recent past.

And were not Chinamen also relegated to merely suitable to be cooks and laundrymen? Why is the West now fearful of those Chinamen eating their lunch? Keep denying, go to sleep and everything will turn out fine when they wake up.

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