Kishore Mahbubani giving a lesson to an unthinking parrot of the West

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

Watch how Kishore gave a lesson on critical thinking and not talking like an unthinking parrot to this Ramesh Ramachandran, Senior Consulting Editor of DD News. This parrot started the session by spitting out a number of standard American lies against China, can China rise peacefully, that China is aggressive, assertive, that China is launching a debt trap in the BRI project, that the CCP is an authoritarian and unpopular communist regime and must be bad, etc etc. It was apparent that this parrot swallowed hook, line and sinker, everything he read in the western media and narrative that he thought he was telling the truth about China and Kishore would be there to agree with him.

You could see the expression in Kishore's face and how exasperated he was with this unthinking parrot that he decided to educate him on the basics of critical thinking in philosophy. The parrot was annoyed and started to raise his voice when he realised that Kishore was not in the same wavelength as him but to no avail. By the end of the session he surrendered and thanked Kishore for a lesson in philosophy and, hopefully he gets wiser a bit which I am not a bit optimistic. Parrots are just parrots, can only regurgitate, GIGO, no processing, nothing new can come out from the vacuum in between his ears. You can see how disappointed he parrot was, unable to push the American propaganda across.

It is only 27 minutes of pure entertainment and a lesson in realpolitik for the amateurs. I think many in Channel News America think and talk like this parrot without knowing why and very proud of it, thinking that they are highly intelligent to be able to parrot a few American catchphrases as if they had done the thinking.

First world Parliament in session

The above pic is from theindependent.sg showing a session of Singapore Parliament in action. A picture like this is better than a thousand words. But without any explanation, people can come up with many ideas about what the picture is saying.

Let me start by saying a few positive things about the Singapore Parliament. One, Singapore is such a well run country that there is really nothing worth doing or talking in Parliament. So the absence of MPs and ministers can be expected as they are busy with more important things to do than to waste their time in Parliament listening to lesser important matters.

Some have commented in the times of Lee Kuan Yew, no one dared to be absent from Parliament and Parliament was always full house. Maybe during Lee Kuan Yew's time there were many problems and serious matters to discuss. Today what is there to discuss but about having or not having pets in HDB flats or whatever. I could not remember anything worth mentioning.

Efficiency is the key word in a first world Parliament. There is no need to waste the time of all the ministers and MPs in a Parliament sitting when all the important issues were already done outside Parliament.  Sometimes I wonder why bother to put up irrelevant or trivial matters in Parliament. Parliament is a very important arm of the govt and also very expensive to maintain. Think of the million dollar ministers and equally million dollar MPs in attendance and the cost of their time to be there. A Parliament with only a few attendees, not sure if they have the quorum, is the best.

This is first world Parliament not machiam third world Parliament that needs the presence of as many thugs as possible in case they start a fight or turn aggressive when numbers would be an advantage.

I really cannot think of any negative things to comment about an almost empty Parliament. Oh, maybe many of them just took a brief moment to go to the loo and would be back in full force and the pic was taken in a moment that would show a side of the Parliament that would give a bad impression of the ministers and MPs that were absent.

Put it this way, with or without the Parliament, whether the Parliament is full house or deserted, the country still runs smoothly and the people are so happy and contented and would continue to vote for such a Parliament. So what is the problem?

Please don't count who is present or not present. Very the pai seh.

PS.  Maybe due to Covid19, so many ministers and MPs chose to work at home.

“America Exists Today to Make War”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHRlK3VYbI

This is a good documentary that described clearly why there are so many wars today and why the Americans are doing it and lying to the world that they are peace loving country.

“America Exists Today to Make War”: Lawrence Wilkerson on Endless War & American Empire

•Jan 14, 2020

Democracy Now!

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, says the escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran today is a continuation of two decades of U.S. policy disasters in the Middle East, starting with the 2003 run-up to war with Iraq under the Bush administration. “America exists today to make war. How else do we interpret 19 straight years of war and no end in sight? It’s part of who we are. It’s part of what the American Empire is,” says Wilkerson. “We are going to cheat and steal to do whatever it is we have to do to continue this war complex. That’s the truth of it. And that’s the agony of it.”

LARRY ROMANOFF -- Replant the American Dream.“Your USA Today is The World’s Most Hated Nation”. Why?

  https://nowarnonato.blogspot.com/2020/01/larry-romanoff-replant-american.html

 

A very punchy article by Larry Romanoff on the lies the Americans are spreading without knowing or blinded in their own arrogance and stupidity.

Covid19 - China to legislate against American lies and deceits

Beijing: A leading CCP politburo member proposed legislation that would authorise the Chinese president to impose far-reaching sanctions on the USA if it fails to give a full account of events leading to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Fort Detrick.

The politburo member closed to Xi Jinping said he was convinced that had it not been for "deception" by the American leaders, the virus would not be in Wuhan, China, where it has infected more than 80,000 Chinese.

He also said USA had refused to allow investigators to study how this outbreak started and added in a statement: "I’m convinced USA will never cooperate with a serious investigation unless they are made to do so."

He said his "COVID-19 Accountability Act" would require the president to make a certification to the People's Congress within 60 days that USA had "provided a full and complete accounting to any COVID-19 investigation led by the China, or UN affiliate such as the World Health Organization (WHO)".

It would also require certification that the USA had closed all "meat factories" that have the potential to expose humans to health risks, and reinstate all advocates removed from their posts in post-pandemic crackdowns and in opposing the premature reopening of businesses, he said.

The Bill would authorise the president to impose a range of sanctions, such as asset freezes, travel bans and visa revocations as well as restrictions on loans to American businesses by Chinese financial institutions and banning American firms from listing on Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges.


The source of the above information is yet to be verified. But it is likely fake news similar to those spread by hostile western media against China.

Covid19 - The Original Sin

The sin of China is to be the first to discover, isolate and identify this Covid19 and presented the genome sequence to WHO.  This started a continuous sequence of events when countries started to test for Covid19. And the more they test, the more cases of infection they discover. And this kept growing, from neighbouring states of China to Iran and Italy and the rest of Europe. Then the USA found their first case in March, (they deliberately refused to do any testing before this and classified their earlier deaths as from pneumonia and common flu) and other countries in Latin America also found their Covid19 cases.And the more Americans tested, the more cases appeared while at the same time they fabricated all sorts of excuses not to test, not enough test kits, etc etc to keep the numbers low. Even at token rate of testing, the USA has the most cases in the world, more than the rest of the world combined. Why?

These events led or misled many to think that Wuhan was where the virus first jumped to human beans. And from Wuhan it spread across Asia then to Europe and the USA. It is so convenient to think that this is the natural movement of the virus. And when they discovered that the strains in Europe were not the same as that in Wuhan, they conveniently assumed that the virus has mutated to a different strain. This same strain was also found in the USA, presumably spread by Europeans entering the US.

And subsequently when the virus was detected in Latin America, in Brazil, and the strain was found to be similar to the European strain, it must have come from Europe. This is a very simplified explanation that many have been made to believe. Is this true? Is this how this virus spread across the world? For the moment just exclude the virus found in American submarines and warships that were out in the sea for several months and had no contact with people in affected countries. How did the virus appeared in these remote vessels that had no contacts with people on land? The mischievous and those that would want to point the guilty finger at China would not want to discuss about this aberration. And the virus also appeared in nursing homes and prisons when they were tested. How?

OK, what if Brazil or some African or Latin American countries were to do the testing before Europe and the USA? Would the story then be that the virus travelled to Africa and Latin America first and then went over to infect the USA which in turn infected the Europeans. Instead of assuming that the virus moved from A to B, C and D, it could be from A to D, C and B. Get the picture?

Put it in another way, if the Americans were to test for the virus before the Europeans or the Latin Americans, would everyone be saying that the virus jumped from the USA, after China, to  Latin America and Europe. Or, if the virus were not discovered first by the Chinese in Wuhan, no one would be wiser and would go about their lives thinking that all those that died were due to common flu and pneumonia.

There is a high possibility that the virus was already present all over the world before it was isolated and identified in Wuhan, China. There are now more evidence and suspicion that the virus were already killing many Americans even before it was discovered in Wuhan, many months earlier and the dead Americans were misdiagnosed as dying from common flu/pneumonia.

The sin of Wuhan, China was to be the first to discover this virus and be blamed as the source of this infection, The Original Sin.  If the Chinese scientists were not attentive and thorough enough and treated all the cases as common flu, then no one would be wiser, just like in the USA when thousands were infected and thousands died and diagnosed as common flu, no big deal.

The big deal will come when the Americans were tested positive, posthumously, those that died in the months before this virus was identified in Wuhan in December 19. This will prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the virus originated from the USA but planted in Wuhan, China to genocide the Chinese. And they quickly called the virus Wuhan or Chinese virus just like they called the Spanish flu that came from Kansas, USA, not from Spain.

The truth shall surface and it is a matter when.  And the truth can be proven scientifically, not guess work and a matter of opinions of jokers or mischievous trouble makers to achieve a political objective. China would be vindicated and the liars and cheats would be paraded without their clothes on, naked, for all to see. There will be no place to hide.

Covid19 white lie - The Americans accuse China of wanting to steal their vaccine

Can you believe it, the most incompetent country in the handling of the Covid19 pandemic accusing China of wanting to stead their vaccine! HAHAHAH. The Americans have the vaccine? Or are the Americans thinking that their bleaches are vaccines, the cures for Covid19?  This is like accusing China of trying to steal 5G technology from the Americans, something like a beggar accusing a king of wanting to steal his money.

But don't laugh, this is serious matter. This is the modus operandi of the Americans, just make wild accusations, allegations or even fabricate lies, just blame someone else. The intent is to redirect the attention away from themselves, from their own incompetence and their crimes against humanity. When they do this, all their cronies and lackeys will instruct their media to repeat what the Americans said like reporting the truth. And many of these western controlled media would simply do it and many unthinking readers would read and think it is true.

This is the main reason why the Americans are accusing other countries of genocides so that no one would turn to accuse the Americans of genocides, past and present. They will accuse other countries of acts against humanity and human rights so that no one would accuse them of their killings and abuses of human rights and humanity at home and abroad. Today they are still killing the blacks like their slaves.

They are also accusing other countries of making wars, starting wars and war crimes. And you know it, the Americans are the world's number One warmonger, war instigators and committing war crimes everywhere. But by accusing others, they made others not only busy trying to defend and refute the allegations, they made others forget about the crimes of the Americans.

Unfortunately this stupid act of crying wolf, calling everyone bad and they are the good ones, the angels, is falling flat and on deaf ears. No one is going to believe the evil whites anymore. The internet and social media would tell the truth, would expose the evilness of the evil Americans and the whites.  They are no longer the superior race by being able to kill others with their superior weapons and soldiers.  The day will come soon when they will be hunted down in every corner of the earth for their crimes against humanity.

Today they are still attacking people of colour especially the blacks and Asians. Soon the coloured people will be attacking the whites just because of their skin colour, or pale colour. The whites cannot go on bullying the rest of the world and treat them as their punching bag. The day will come when they will become the punching bags, to have a taste of their own medicine. The day will come when they will be attacked in countries around the world because they are whites, not welcome.

Keep on lying, there is not much time left before this privilege is passe.

Covid19 - The inept of the USA and UK is a laughable, unbelieveable

We have seen how the Trump Administration fumbles and tumbles through this pandemic and showing the world that it was run buy a bunch of clowns headed by the biggest clown of all times. The number of infections and deaths are all for the world to see, from 1 case to nearly 1.5m to date and more than 80,000 dead and still climbing. No country can ever catch up with the USA.

Britain is next on the list, though it started a bit later but is fast catching up to be the two most affected countries in the world. Their failures to provide for all the basic and essential medical equipment and PPEs is not funny at all as their health care workers are dying while trying to save the sick. How could this be, did not have enough and proper equipment for healthcare providers is a sin, a criminal act, a disgraceful act of incompetence.

Though they bragged about their national stockpiles but when needed, many of the stocks have already passed their use by dates, expired, unuseable. And no one bothers to upkeep and check on these stocks and replenish them when required.  This is like the American nuclear arsenal, many would not work should the fire button be pressed due to ageing and lack of maintenance, old expired stocks.

Then there is the lack of test kits. They do not have test kits and went on a match scramble to acquire them. And when they ramped up their production capacity, most of the test kits are unworkable, faulty, unrealiable. My God these are two of the most advanced nations on earth and everyday laughing at developing countries like China for being backward and still have to beg China to sell them the needed test kits.

Until today they are still under testing their people for lack of test kits. Can you believe that? And in the case of the USA, without proper testing and a sizeable number of tests, they are opening up their economy and risk a bigger spread of the disease. Economy more important than the lives of Americans.

There are more to the test kits than just test kits.  All test kits are different and some work, some work with 95% accuracy, some 80% or less. Anything less than 90% accuracy is as good as useless. The American's version of rapid testing is failing for low accuracy. They dare not talk about it.

Having test kits is not the solution. The procedure to test is vital for it to be effective. The testers must be trained to take the sample for testing and the test must be done asap. It is a joke in the USA to do a test and wait for more than 10 days to know the result.What is the point? Even 2 days is too long. In fact after a test the same subject could be infected in the next few hours or days when exposed, or already exposed but not yet enough virus to pass the test.

Today there is another report of the incompetence of the Brits when one of their testing facilities failed to deliver. They sent 50,000 test kits to the US for assessment. How long would it take to do that, how many days before the subjects be finally informed of the results? This is an ex Empire and doing such basic testing in such a clumsy way and sending test kits to the most inept country, the USA for validation? Unbelieveable that these supposedly advanced countries are so amatuerish in handling a straight forward procedure as testing.

And while they failed miserably in testing, which they thought would be enough, they failed again miserably in contact tracing. No need to hazard a guess.  The sheer volume of people testing possitive daily would mean they need an army of people to do contact tracing, which they did not have, did not bother to have. So, what is the point of testing? What is testing for if contact tracing is ignored? And quarantine is hardly heard of other then staying at home.  If they were to provide for quarantine facilities like what Singapore did, can't imaging what kind of space they need to cater for the hundreds of thousands needed to be quarantined.

So much said and so much bragging but exposing a bunch of incompetents and clowns. Come to Singapore and learn how to do it the right way. Do not feel inferior when talking to our super talented million dollar ministers. They are the best money can buy. Oops, we also have a few hitches here and there but not for lack of test kits, lack of contact tracing personnel, but, well....Our foreign worker infection rate is an exception to the rule. Not counted. Nevermind if recovered patients can still be reinfected. Nevermind when asymtomatical cases can still infect.

The most important thing to note is that community spread is well under control and we can even be thinking of having a General Election very soon, I think. Where got community spread? The 20,000 plus infected foreign workers are all in dormitories, kept out from the community. Very safe.

Ok, don't laugh. I mean don't laugh at the Americans and Brits. Just praise them for doing so well, especially the Americans, they have prevailed as the number One most Covid19 cases, dead or alive.