TR EMERITUS

For more than half my life, I knew nothing about Operation Coldstore which took place on 2 February 1963. When I had the opportunity to meet and know several of its victims/survivors, I was angry and sad. How could a government that claims to respect the rule of law and vowed to govern in the interest of the people unleash Operation Coldstore on them with just the sole aim of winning a general election and retaining power? There was very little information about Operation Coldstore until the past ten years. I suspect many of its victims prefer that it be forgotten. But when more than a hundred innocent people were arrested in the wee hours of that fateful day, can historians ignore the incident? What is disturbing about Operation Coldstore is the fact that those arrested were not ordinary people. They were top opposition politicians, professionals, trade unionists, renown journalists and brilliant students. They form the cream of our society. Why were they not given the chance to serve Singapore? On my occasional visits to parliament as an undergraduate, I had wondered why it was always so empty and why ministers and members slept in those big and comfortable leather chairs pretending to hear what was going on. I didn't know why there was no opposition in parliament. And I didn't know why one election after another failed to send any opposition candidate into parliament. It was not uncommon in the 1960s and 70s for people to compare the calibre of opposition candidates with that of the PAP. They said the PAP candidates were better qualified and experienced. Really? Surely J B Jeyaretnam and Chiam See Tong have qualifications higher than many PAP members. Yet they were time and again rejected by the people until 1981 and 1984. In the last ten years, I came to realise that the root cause for the absence of opposition presence in parliament was Operation Coldstore. Operation Coldstore had decimated the opposition. How can democracy survive when the leaders of all the opposition parties and trade unions were arrested and imprisoned without trial for decades or deported to countries of their birth even though they have made Singapore their home? Just look at the names of the detainees below: Lim Chin Siong – General Secretary, Barisan Sosialis Linda Chen Mong Hock – Malay scholar Dr Lim Hock Siew – CEC Barisan Sosialis James Joseph Puthucheary – Hon Adviser and member of Barisan Sosialis Ho Piao – Paid Secretary, Singapore National Seamen's Union Said Zahari – Editor, Utusan Melayu, Chairman of Partai Rakyat Dr Poh Soo Kai – Asst General Secretary, Barisan Sosialis S Woodhull – Vice Chairman, Barisan Sosialis Hussein Jahidin – Member of Partai Rakyat and journalist A Mahadeva – Secretary of Singapore National Union of Journalists Tan Kok Fang – Graduate of Nanyang University The list goes on. The entire central committee of Barisan Sosialis and Partai Rakyat were wiped out. (Part of the list can be found in “The 1963 Operation Coldstore in Singapore, Commemorating 50 Years” edited by Poh Soo Kai, Tan Kok Fang and Hong Lysa). So many brilliant minds locked up without trial, some for 20 years. In Operation Coldstore, the PAP was aided and abetted by the Tunku and the British. They used foul but legal means to destroy democracy in Singapore. They were afraid of losing the general election which they were going to call in September 1963. They were cowards and bullies when they used the law to arrest and imprison their political opponents so as to prevent them from contesting the election. The PAP was victorious in 1963 but at what moral cost? “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36 King James Version). In three days' time, it will be the 55th anniversary of Operation Coldstore. Let us remember the hundreds of brave and brilliant people who sacrificed their freedom for us.   Teo Soh Lung      Read More →

1. Someone asked me. What your take on the new Philippines - US deal ... Do you think the Philippines got it wrong by allowing America access to four new bases ? And what do you think the Chinese government needs to do or how should they respond. 2. Here is my reply. The US govt will spend a lot of money to maintain their bases in the Philippines. This will create jobs for the locals and boost the economy. The Philippines need the spending. America will have access to these bases in addition to the dozens of bases that they already operate near China. This will increase the military threat to China, but it may be not significant. China has already built its military capability (including navy, air force and missiles) to counter the threat from America. Several simulations (conducted by American think tanks) indicate that China will win a war near its shores against America. I do not know if these simulations are reliable. They may be manipulated to show a result that allows the US govt to increase the military spending. I expect that China will continue it's current strategy to strengthen its military capability and also develop its economic partnership with the Philippines.   Tan Kin Lian      Read More →

Professor Kenneth Mak It's really an Irony in life that "Experts" who claim to "follow the science" but got it so wrong in so many aspects right from the start of this mass vaccine (V) program, would character assassinate those people who didn't believe in them and their crappy narratives, as "unscientific nuts" but yet got so many issues and predictions right about the V. These Experts are just humans, not God. They have their weaknesses like everyone else. They presume they know something more than everyone else just because of the fanciful titles they have acquired in their professional life. But they had forgotten that they didn't really know anything about this new CV as well as the technology m R n a these V are using. People like me are nobody with no expertise in this field but I am just armed with my knowledge in statistics and honesty with no preset agenda. Science isn't that simple but neither it is that complicated. Theories are put up with past fundamental accumulated knowledge, hypothesis formed to be tested clinically with rigorous statistical methodology. I had the Statistical knowledge but not the professional technical knowledge required to understand the various theories and possible hypothesis. So I need to read and read and read and learn Almost non stop reading and learning during my free waking hours. It's really like a compressed crashed course on various topics and research publications. That doesn't make me any Expert and most probably I would still fail any examination in biology or any modules in medical science. But that's enough for me to understand the fundamental basics to use my common sense and analytical minds to formulate hypothesis and use raw data to determine the Truth and Lies. The first claim that was put to test is that elusive 95% efficacy to prevent Infec. The preliminary data did not support that at all, even before we have more robust mutated variants. When we put out the findings, it was not disputed but the so call " Experts" started to change narratives. We also concluded that the data didn't support the claim that the V could prevent transmission or infec. Thus, the Experts' claim that we could gain herd immunity if we could get 70% of population vaccinated is actually an impossibility. Inspite of our findings backed by data and robust statistical analysis, we were called all sorts of nasty names and people just believe the "Experts". I didn't stop there. I dug deeper, learning that Covid-19 (CV) is a RNA virus and the nature of such cirus is that it will mutate rapidly and it is almost impossible to have V to catch up with its mutations fast enough. That was the already KNOWN scientific theory that these so called Experts should know. But why did they keep such basic knowledge from us, the public? Why were they just pushing for V (like snake oil salesmen) in which known scientific knowledge would already predicted it would neither stop infec nor transmission? Why did they give FALSE HOPE of Herd Immunity when such basic scientific knowledge would already regard that as impossible? Did they just do all these for pushing everyone to take the V, which were made using relatively New technology which safety and efficacy were not known at all because there wasn't even long term data?! I was full of doubts by mid May 2021. The datas from US VAERS, UK Yellow Card and Eudra Vigilance sent shock waves through my mind. Local murmurs of serious side effects also added to my concerns. I always maintain that Public Health Policy should always err on the Safe side because lives are at stake. It was also apparent to me that by the limited statistics we had back then, majority of those who really suffered from CV were people with weakened immune system due to comorbidities. Thus the fundamental question is, why were they pushing EVERYONE regardless of age and health status to take the experimental V? All basic standard cautions were thrown off the table with the fuzzy narrative of " benefits outweigh the risks". By the end of June 2021, nobody could doubt our preliminary findings that the V doesn't stop infec and transmission. They shifted their goal poles and narratives to "the V prevent serious illnes & death" from CV. Such assertion wasn't base on the Gold Standard of Statistical clinical trials of Randomized Controlled Trials but casual analysis of a potentially bias natural selection. The only meaningful inference we could possibly get from the unrandom data is quite clear, regardless of V status, majority (99%) of CV deaths were those with weakened immune system like elderlies or people with pre existing comorbidities. When we raised the alarms of potential V injuries, we were all shot down with another falsehood... The V will stay at the injection site. This claim, by the very same "Experts" again, were proven categorically wrong, by the confidential Pfizer animal test reports sent to the Japanese gov. But they were never POFMA or "Fact Checked" on social media platform. As I have explained, common sense and logical deductions would lead us to the conclusion that if the V could possibly travel to other parts or organs of the body, they will create inflammation as this is what they supposed to do, invade the cells in these organs, create spike proteins and trigger or trained our immune system to attack it. Subsequent researches, more and more of them, are surfacing to prove that this theoretical mechanism of harm to our organs, especially the hearts, are indeed real threats. We do not really know about the long term impact on our bodies from such mechanism. Yet the snake oil Experts continue to push for V, even babies and toddlers are not spared. More Real Experts with conscience have come forward with their Research publications explaining and predicting what would happen if we continued such reckless mass V. Many have called for a halt to the V program, initiating a thorough investigation on the potential short and long term harm the V would bring to us. Some have concluded that with the massive signals we are seeing, data analysis would imply benefits no longer outweigh the risks of V. However, we continue to have operation gaslighting from the establishment "Experts", providing all kinds of possible reasons for the worrying Excess Deaths trend and increasing Sudden Deaths incidents. I am NOT an Anti V. Nope. I was hoping a real safe and effective V would surface but the current ones aren't the ones I hope for. Right from the start, the signals of harm were pretty alarming which cannot be ignored totally. When Pfizer documents show that they have listed 1291 of adverse side effects of major concerns, every so call " Expert" act deaf and dumb. Who are the ones perpetuating "misinformation"? The ones who are always vindicated and proven right most of the time or the ones who have been proven wrong repeatedly? You be the judge. It's not a difficult IQ test at all. There are real and genuine safety concerns with regards to the V. The signals are becoming stronger and more devastating in the form of prolonged Consistent Excess DEATHS along with the increased of unknown Sudden Deaths. It is fundamentally flawed to attribute deaths to only pre existing conditions while neglecting the possibility that something else could have triggered such deaths when these comorbidities exist. It applies to CV infec, it should also apply to V as well. I hereby, once again, call for a Halt to the V program because whatever concerns we have raised in the interest of Public Health, are not baseless but supported by many emerging studies and research publications. A much misrepresented statistical Quote taken out of context by the "Experts" should be rewritten: Correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation BUT Strong Correlations warrant attention and concerns for further scientific investigations.   Goh Meng Seng      Read More →