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The medical experts advised that people should wash their hands frequently to get rid of the virus. I suggested that the govt should provide hand sanitizers for use by the public at all public places, such as MRT stations, bus interchanges, malls and markets. Some people said - the sanitizers will run out quickly. Sure, they will run out, because they will be used quickly. How about employing people to go round every hour to fill up the sanitizers? I find it strange that many people are horrified about the cost of employing workers to fill up the sanitizers. Do they realize that so many workers are now being engaged to do temperature checking and collecting contact details for contact tracing, in case someone is infected? I am quite sure that the number of workers required to fill up the sanitizers is small, compared to the manpower now being used under code orange, and these workers are likely to be more effective in helping to stop the spread of the virus. Do you agree that hand sanitizers should be provided at all public places?   Tan Kin Lian      Read More →

By now everybody should know that the Evil Empire, USA is the source of all troubles, turmoils, wars and destructions in this world. The US like its forbears England, Spain, Portugal and Holland has definite plans for imperialistic empire building base on first the militant religious doctrine, 'The Doctrine of Christian Discovery' and subsequently the doctrines of 'America's Manifest Destiny' and the doctrine of 'American Essentialism.' A close study of these insidious doctrines will reveal that the US has every intention to bring every other country, in fact the whole world under US bondage and absolute total hegemony. The present US sinister behaviour and diabolical actions throughout the whole world in the Middle East, Asia, South East Asia and Latin America reflects the routes and ways US is taking towards world domination and hegemony. The Philippines is only part of the piece in the chess board where US intends to make use of the Philippines as a pawn to serve its self interests of its confrontation with China and its villainous illogical determination to stop China's peaceful development. Philippines independence did not come easy. It was born out after years of long painful and deadly struggle against the savage Spaniards and thereafter the life and death struggle against the most cruel and barbaric white Americans of the United States. In the 1890s the United States stepped out to help the people of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to fight for independence against the savage rule of colonial and imperial Spain. In the American - Spanish War in 1898, the United States managed to defeat Spain and got rid of Spain from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. However, the United States reneged on its promises to give independence to these three territories and on the contrary soon established itself as a new but more savage and cruel imperial master. The United States was on a new continuous course of its American Manifest Destiny after wresting an empire from Mexico in its expansion in 1840s. The promise to give independence to Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines was a ploy to get the locals to support America's fight against Spain. In truth America justified its conquest of Cuba, puerto Rico and the Philippines is based on its belief in the Darwinian theory that the fittest survive and that it is in accordance with the laws of nature for strong countries to dominate weak countries. So America is on a mission to acquire colonies in far-flung overseas empire. And the draconian policy continues to this day of modern times. The people of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines soon had to start a new war of resistance against the new evil colonial and imperial United States. The resistant fighters in the the three territories were all savagely and brutally put down by the imperial might of US military. The United States has in place a policy of acquiring and annexing new overseas colonies without having to give citizenship to the people who will after all be treated only as dependents of the United States, euphemism for slaves of the white Americans. New colonies like the Philippines and all the newly acquired islands in the Pacific Ocean are to serve as outlets for US trade, commerce and industries and most importantly as outposts for US military bases. The brave Philippino resistant fighters were so determined that the Americans found themselves engaged in a long and bloody war with the heroic insurgent forces fighting for independence. In this Philippino fight for independence more than three hundred thousand brave Philippino resistant fighters were brutally slaughtered with millions of civillians died in disease and starvatioin as the result of the war. The Philippine resistant fighters resorted to guerrilla warfare against the superior American army whose commander , General Arthur MacArthur , the father of General Douglas MacArthur adopted a military offensive which became more systematically vicious and brutal. Captured Philippino guerrilla fighters were executed as murderers and entire Philippino villages together with their farms, crops and livestock were destroyed by American troops while the surviving residents were shoved into concentration camps to die eventually from malnourishment and starvation. The Americans had treated the Philippinos as subhuman and took pleasure in killing them arbitrarily just as they had done to the American Indian natives earlier. Many philippino civillians who were suspected as sympathisers of the resistant fighters were caught and buried alive in trenches. The proud Philippinos will never forget these American atrocities to their fellow patriotic brothers and sisters in just this recent past. It is not until the 4th of July, 1946, in the aftermath of the Second World War and due to the fear of Soviet Russia communist influence in taking over the islands that the Americans unwillingly and grudgingly were compelled to give independence to the Philippines. The United States then did not help the Philippines in any way to help the development of the islands but out of self interests it granted massive help to Japan and the European countries as its allies which became revitalised very rich industrial and trading economies to the benefit of US which was indulged in the Cold War power struggle for world supremacy with communist Russia. After half a century of diabolic US imperial rule the Philippines remain a very poor and impoverish country as its wealth and natural resources like copper and sugar industries were exploited and shipped to the United States almost for free. Now the United States has adopted an illilateral diabolical confrontational policy against China. The Chinese in the last forty years were able to develop with astonishing speed its trade and commerce, its finance and banking, its industries and technology, its scientific development and innovation and lastly its military prowess and technology. The Evil Empire looks at China development with unreasonable awe and fear partly because it found itself lacking behind China in many areas of the new science and technology, in Artificial Intelligence, in 5G and The Internet of All Things. Therefore being irrational and mentally deranged it begins to view China as an enemy to be taken down by all means. Hence it has adopted an undeclare hybrid warfare against China viz the trade war, tariffs, sanctions, massive propaganda and demonization against China in its world dominated mass media, cyber attacks and hacking, vicious and unfounded accusations against Huawei and the illegal kidnapping of its Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wan Zhou, the US coordinated attacks and riots in Hong Kong and Xinjiang and its illicit and dangerous interference in China's internal affairs in selling offensive weapons to the renegade Chinese traitors in Taiwan and its dangerous military harassment of China in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Being unable to make any headway to take down China it now conducts biological germ warfare against China as seen in the Coronavirus epidemic in Wuhan. What is most fearful is that in its last card the desperate Evil Empire may throw caution to the winds and provoke an open warfare against China. In this scenario the United States will definitely drag its so called allies especially the Koreans and the Philippines to fight in the front line as proxies to be sacrificed and slaughtered and may be their countries to be destroyed in a nuclear exchange. . Therefore President Duterte of the Philippines is far sighted and wise to waste no time to announce the abrogation of the one sided treaty of the VFA . Just recently after the broad day light assassination of the commander in chiefs of Iran and Iraq , the Iraqi people and their government ordered the Americans and its allies to leave Iraq but US refused to leave giving the spurious reason unless Iraq pay compensation for all its military installations in the country. First Iraq did not and never invite US into the country. US just invaded Iraq to covert its rich oil and mineral resources and use Iraq as a military base to outflank Russia from the south to destabilise Russia. The Philippines must not be caught in the same evil insidious plot and scheme of the white Americans. The Americans try to portray China as the enemy of the Philippines and South East Asia countries. The Americans first has to demonize China to give a semblance of legality as a self appointed protector of the Philippines and South East Asia countries. But in actual fact and reality the US don't give a damn but thinks the US as a super power reserves the right and the might to make use of Philippines and the South East Asian countries as pawns in their struggle and confrontation against an innocent but peaceful China. The Philippines and other South East Asian countries and for that matter all Asians and the world must bear in mind that for thousands of years China has been the richest, the strongest and most powerful country on earth but she has never conquer any country or take an inch of other people's land, whereas the US like its forebears England and the European powers have for the last five hundred years been savagely rampaging throughout the world conquering, killing and taking by force all lands, resources and properties from all the non-white countries. Even now China goes all round the world to talk and discuss trade and commerce, help other countries to develop by giving financial aid, build infrastructures like roads and railways, buildings and factories, schools and hospitals, ports and cities. China believes in helping other countries in a win-win situation where everybody develop and prosper together and every country big or small is treated equally with due respect and dignity. On the contrary wherever US and it western allies go they treat others with disdain as inferiors and think only of their only self-interests and self aggrandizement just as Trump repeatedly like to drum into others ears that Americans will only make America First and all others can perish which is of no concern to the Americans. It is frightening all white people have been thinking in like manner for hundreds of years and that's how they severely exploited and impoverished the people of their colonies in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Central and South America. Remember the words from the bulldog Pompeo, "Wherever we go, we cheat, we steal and we kill." In the words of Mike Esper, America's military bases in the Philippines will bolster US presence in the region to confront China in this era of great-power competition and the Philippines is a strategic location for US military operations against China. China has no interest in confronting with any country and less so with US. China just want to live in peace and harmony with all her neighbouring countries. That China has signed and ratified border treaties in a peaceful settlement with 14 neighbouring countries out of 16, ( except Japan and India ) testified to the peaceful nature of the Chinese people and country. If China had wild ambitions the whole world would have been conquered and colonised by China long ago at the time when no European country can be called civilised and developed. Before the 1500s all the civilized and develop countries in splendour and wealth were found in India, Mesopotamia ( now Iraq ), Egypt, Persia ( now Iran ) Turkey and China. The European countries took off after learning all the science and technologies from China through the Arabs and the Mongols in the early 13th to 15 th century. Thereafter it is all history when the savage European hordes went on a rampage to conquer and terrorise every corner of the globe. This white men's trait of aggressive wars of conquest and terrorism is now carried on by the white Americans whose aim of of world domination and hegemony is reflected in its perennial wars all over the world in the Middle East, in Africa, in Asia and in Central and South America. In view of this can the Philippines and ASEAN countries still trust the white Americans whom the native American Indians have always been warning others that "White men speak with fork tongues and can never be trusted." President Duterte must be wary of CIA and many of Philippines selfish and self-interest egregious turncoats who have been recruited as American spies and agents to turn against their own country. The sooner the Philippines get rid of the Americans and round up all their fifth columns and saboteurs the better it is for the peace and security of the Philippines and perhaps indirectly for all Asia including the South East Asia ASEAN countries. China and the Philippines have both been victims of western colonialism and imperialism. The Philippines people can be assured China will never invade the Philippines. China and the Philippines have never been enemies and will never be one forever. The evil white Americans have always been driving a wedge between China and her neighbours to serve its imperialistic aggressive interests of perennial conquest and world domination. So let the Filippinos beware of the evil and insidious plot of the wicked satanic white Americans. Thus getting rid of the Americans and its diabolical military bases is a sound and wise strategic move. Kudos to President Duterte and the Filippinos.  Read More →

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue The Democratic Party is currently trying to choose the candidate that they hope will be able to remove the Occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue this November. While Bernie Sanders, America’s favourite “socialist” has had a narrow victory in the New Hampshire primaries, the field looks pretty confused and inconclusive. While Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren may be popular on college campuses, its easy for the Republicans to portray them as “crazy socialist” (socialist being a dirty word in American politics). The former Vice-President Joe Bidden is an uninspiring candidate and a cloud of suspicion on his basic integrity lingers from the Occupant’s impeachment hearing (there are enough Trump supporters who argue that their hero was victimized because he was trying to dig up dirt on Joe Bidden). While Pete Buttigieg may have many of the “right credentials,” (religious combat veteran) and comes across well on TV, he’s had problems attracting people of colour and the question remains – is America, the land that has yet to elect a woman, ready for a homosexual? There is, however, one candidate that may have a chance of upsetting the Occupant. That candidate is Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York and founder of the Wire Service that bares his name (in the interest of disclosure, I’ve been fairly successful at getting people interviewed by Bloomberg when my main source of income was PR work). Mr. Bloomberg is in many ways not the ideal candidate. After three years of a “billionaire” in the White House, having another billionaire as president may seems like a recipe for disaster. Mr. Bloomberg has vowed to fund his campaign out of his pocket and this has made him vulnerable to attacks. Both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have pointed out that Mr. Bloomberg’s vast fortune in politics is precisely the problem of politics being dominated by “Big Donors.” Mr. Sander’s attack on Mr. Bloomberg’s wealth can be seen at: [ LINK ] Mr. Bloomberg has not been flawless in his campaign and has made mistakes. His “stop, question and frisk policies,” while Mayor of New York, which happened to target brown and black men have come to haunt him. Mr. Bloomberg’s flaws as a campaigner can be found at: [ LINK ] Having said all of that, there are reasons to pay attention to a Bloomberg candidacy and to even want that candidacy to succeed. In many ways, Mr. Bloomberg is the “real” version of why people voted for the Occupant. One of the reasons why people voted for Trump in 2016 was his often-publicized wealth. Not only did people site his wealth as plus, they also said that as a successful businessman who would run the country like his successful businesses. I’ve heard someone argue that Donald Trump’s wealth made it impossible for him to be bought and he was not beholden to big monied interest. The voting public have also argued that if they went with Trump his experience in getting rich would help them get rich too. Think of it, Donald Trump started a show called the “Apprentice” which was all about people killing themselves for the opportunity to work for Donald Trump and find a path to riches. If you can apply that argument to voting for Donald Trump, you have to apply that very same argument to Michael Bloomberg, whose wealth is many times what Donald Trumps’ is (Forbes estimates Donald Trump’s net worth at around three to four billion. By contrast, Mr. Bloomberg’s wealth is estimated as 40 to sixty billion). Using the wealth factor to compare the two men is important in as much as Mr. Trump makes it central to who he is (we are talking about someone who sued Forbes for underestimating his wealth). What’s particularly important here is not so much the net worth but how they made their money. Let’s start with Mr. Trump, since he talks the most about his billions. Mr. Trump made it in real estate, an old-fashioned industry. Mr. Trump consistently brags about how he has the best buildings in the best city in the world, which is an indication of his superior intelligence and by extension his right to run the country. However, there are several problems here. Firstly, a good portion of his wealth is inherited. In fairness, he’s built on what he’s inherited. However, his skill was not business management or creating something new. In his journey to more wealth, Mr. Trump needed to be bailed out from bankruptcy by his father on more than one occasion. As he’s argued that John McCain shouldn’t be a war hero because he was captured by the enemy, we should ask if he’s really a businessman as he’s needed to be bailed out on several occasions. Let’s not forget that Mr. Trump is associated with business that are considered easy to make money in, namely real estate (buy land, they’re not making more of it) and casinos (the house always wins). Mr. Trump’s genius is not management but producing hype. His real asset is his brand, where people pay to put the Trump name on their buildings. While a good brand is an asset (I’m part of the brand building business), there’s a problem in that brands can be damaged easily – think of Trump University. Mr. Bloomberg has built a different type of business and while he was not born into poverty, Mr. Bloomberg did not inherit the wealth that Mr. Trump did. The original capital came from his stint at Salomon Brothers (It takes skills to build capital over a period of years in the investment business) and the genesis of what we call Bloomberg LP came from his insight that large finance houses would pay for top quality information delivered as quickly as possible. Mr. Bloomberg understood that this could be done through the development of the right technology. What we call Bloomberg LP a precursor to today’s tech unicorns. The testament to Mr. Bloomberg’s competence as manager and business builder can be seen from the growth of Bloomberg LP from nothing much to a multibillion company employing 20,000 plus people in 167 countries. The left wing has mistakenly used Mr. Trump’s famous managerial incompetence to discredit the notion that CEO’s can become successful Presidents. In Mr. Trump, America did not get a businessman or managerial genius – they got a bullshit artist who got promoted beyond his level of competence. By contrast, Mr. Bloomberg is a real businessman who has built something. Mr. Bloomberg had an idea and executed it. A person who can come up with fresh ideas and execute them is the very type of person the world needs at its helm. That’s not all that favours Mr. Bloomberg. He was a competent Mayor of New York, which is a complex global city. While Mr. Bloomberg is by no means a saint (there are reports that Bloomberg was a bit of a fraternity and there have been law suites leveled at Bloomberg LP for sexual harassment), Mr. Bloomberg has kept his private life just that – private. Mr. Bloomberg has at the very least pretended to respect the rules, something which Mr. Trump seems to ignore. Mr. Bloomberg left the company he founded to become Mayor of New York and there is no indication that there was any peep of Bloomberg LP benefiting from Mr. Bloomberg’s position as Mayor. The area in which Mr. Bloomberg should be applauded for is keeping his family out of his business and his political offices. Mr. Bloomberg’s second daughter, Georgina, who is an established equestrian in her own right (she overcame a spinal disorder) and is reported to have said that “Having the last name Bloomberg sucks.”) Mr. Bloomberg’s kids have not used their name as an asset to be milked for its worth. Perhaps the best thing about Mr. Bloomberg is that he knows how to hurt Mr. Trump’s ego. When Mr. Trump tried to mock him for his short stature, Mr. Bloomberg hit back, talking about the Occupant’s fake tan and fake hair – the message could not be clearer – Mr. Bloomberg may be a short man but his achievements are gigantic – Mr. Trump by contrast is a weak and insecure man using political office to hide his obvious flaws. America, which became the world’s greatest power in history on the premise that an individual could succeed on his or her own talents regardless of birth, stature or religion, should be lead by a man who built great things through his talent rather than continue to stick with a man so weak that he can’t take on anyone stronger than a 16-year-old with Asperger.   Tang Li *The author blogs at https://beautifullyincoherent.blogspot.com/ .      Read More →