The Coverup : So When Exactly Will The Report Be Made Public?

As of today Sunday 26 July 2026, that  report has not yet been publicly released. They said they will release it but it is still an Insha Allah situation. 

• Here's the sequence of events:
• 23 July 2026: we were told they had, in principle, decided to make the report public, subject to procedural checks bla bla. 

OSTB: What procedure? Three years have gone by still playing procedures kah?

• report not released three years earlier to avoid undermining public confidence while its finances and governance were being restructured. 
• publication could have triggered panic withdrawals by depositors.
• 23–24 July 2026: party poops publicly supported releasing report 
• so depositors and public could understand its findings.
• As of 26 July 2026 (today) no confirmation report has been published

OSTB: Firstly here is a list of Insha Allah promises still not delivered: 

• Prime minister term limited to 10 years. First tabled on 3rd March 2026. Then postponed to June 2026. Now 26 July 2026 still nothing. Insha Allah.
• Separation of the Attorney General and Public Prosecutor - still Insha Allah.
• Freedom of Information Act - Insha Allah
• Ombudsman Act - WT .. is that. Another Insha Allah.
• Political Financing Act - this one I can confirm GO FLY KITES.
• MPs and senior officials publicly declare assets - NO WAY JOSE.
• Equal constituency sizes / electoral reform - GO FLY KITES

MY COMMENTS: Ok lets focus on this part

• report not released three years earlier to avoid undermining public confidence while its finances and governance were being restructured. 
• publication could have triggered panic withdrawals by depositors.

This is first class bull sh_t. 

LETS USE A HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION.  

Bank Negara Malaysia has the legal responsibility to regulate and monitor the operations of all the licensed banks in this country.

Lets say through their monitoring Bank Negara finds out that a major bank in the country is facing a liquidity crisis. Due to a. poor management b. corruption c. fraud, d. incompetence and e. all of the above the major bank is facing serious cashflow and liquidity issues. (This is just a hypothetical situation. Like a simulation ok). 

Bank Negara reports to the Ministry of Finance. So Bank Negara informs the Minister of Finance 'We have detected serious cash flow problems in one of our major banks. It will certainly undermine public confidence in the bank. It will trigger panic withdrawals by the bank's depositors.'  

Now the Finance Minister - being a politician and a chameleon and having suffered far too many embarrassing bungles (at least once every week) - he instructs Bank Negara 'Dont tell the public. Lets try to manage this without informing the public'. 

What does this mean? It means that: 

Bank depositors cannot make fully informed decisions.

Investors may continue buying shares without knowing material facts.

Delayed disclosure may allow losses to become larger.

Public confidence will be damaged when the concealment is discovered.

False or misleading statements could have been made

There could be statutory disclosure obligations applicable 

Public funds were put at risk

There was a breach of fiduciary duties by somebody along the line.

OSTB: But all this was swept under the carpet. It was a big time coverup by the politicians and the regulators. But DONT FORGET - this is just a hypothetical situation. No bank in Malaysia is facing any liquidity issues.  

MESSING UP THE HOSPITALS

KSN directed immediate measures to address critical issues at PPUM
called for a meeting to discuss the matter
PPUM is a teaching hospital
immediate action on decisions reached 
discussion involved MOHE, MOH, the VC of UM and PPUM admin
policy-related issues arising from public complaints
including long waiting times
challenges in delivery of clinical services
issues related to skilled manpower and specialist expertise
— Bernama

MY COMMENTS: 

First of all the Vice Chancellor will not know anything about managing a hospital. Managing a hospital and managing a university are two different things. So they are asking a teacher to manage patients, doctors, nurses, treating the sick. This idea of teaching hospitals is of course a tried and true system since modern medicine was invented. 

But it does not mean they cannot screw it up. However today in Malaysia not only teaching hospitals but too many government hospitals are facing too many "challenges". 

Firstly the acute shortages of doctors and specialists is a direct result of the really stupid and way past shelf life ketuanan policies where numbers of doctors are still subject to some quota number stuck on somebody's wall. So now we all pay the price. And the price paid by the politicians is that you will get kicked out again and again at the next polls. Its as simple as that.

Then there is not enough money to pay for all the medical services. The gomen just announced that they are cutting RM3.0 billion from medical services.  Report: Treasury Wants RM3b Cut To Health Ministry’s 2026 Budget By CodeBlue | 29 April 2026

Despite no money there is wastage / leakage in procurement, building new facilities, follow through services etc. Building new facilities is crucial. The gomen must build even more facilities. But the wastage and the leakages occur through overpricing, who gets the construction contracts and things like that. Old ketuanan style. Nothing has changed. 

I know one gomen hospital where they would tell some classes of patients that their medication would be delivered to their houses - for free. Wow! I know because I  was a beneficiary.  So someone must benefit (projek dan kontrak)  from  getting the contract to deliver the meds to peoples' houses. There must be thousands of home deliveries. 

Lately they have changed this a little. I must pay a fee of RM10.00 if I want them to send the meds to my house. (You can also pick up the meds at the hospital pharmacy but you may have to wait - sometimes for hours). So I pay RM10 and the guy sends the meds to my house. But  I live 40 km away and I can assure you the cost of the delivery will be more than RM10.00. Even the packaging itself is expensive. First there is a cold pack for some meds, then they pack it inside sterile plastic, sometimes there is styrofoam and then the whole thing is put inside a nice cardboard box.  And it must be delivered by car with air conditioning. All this costs money.  Then toll, petrol plus the delivery driver's salary. I used to tell them, "Look I am already here let me pick up my medication from the pharmacy". They will say, 'Takpa Encik. You go home. We will send it to your house'.  As I said someone has to benefit, someone makes money from the projek dan kontrak to provide the delivery services. This is wastage.  And they want to cut RM3.0 billion from the medical services budget. 

Back to the UMMC issue.

The oldest teaching hospitals in Europe are hundreds of years old.  In Holland the Dutch University Medical Centre (UMC) system is a distinctive model in which the medical school, teaching hospital, specialist care, and biomedical research are integrated into a single institution. Rather than a university merely being affiliated with a hospital, the hospital and medical faculty operate as one organisation.

Perhaps this is the model they are trying to establish here. But it will not work as well here. (I have a suggestion). Here the culture is different. Here they are not as professional. Here, regardless of the very high qualifications, the staff still behave like kampong people.  I get really irritated when the doctor refuses to talk or even smile at me. And then you have the village idiots who gossip with the other staff about personal matters, while treating the patient. As though the patient is a nuisance and they are doing you a favour. And I have seen the staff at hospitals play with their smartphones instead of attending to the patients. So the professionalism is lacking. It is still kampong behaviour. 

But not all. The pharmacists, nurses and staff who went out of their way to assist me. But these were individual examples of par excellence.  It is not built into the system. The system as a whole does not guarantee excellence. It is almost random. Like it must be your lucky day. Or not your lucky day. 

Believe me I dont expect the KSN or the KSUs to understand all this. Too much reading on a Sunday. Or on any day. Retirement is close anyway.

Here is my suggestion: place the administration of all the teaching hospitals (staffing, procurement, maintenance etc) under the Ministry of Health. Create a department - Department of Teaching Hospitals. WHY? Because the MOH are the content experts. Or they shud be. They know best how to own, operate/manage and maintain a hospital.  The universiti VCs do not have the skills to manage hospitals.

All staffing, procurement, maintenance, ops shud be under the MOH - like any other hospital. Except the teaching and the curricula part should be left to the medical faculty of the university that is affiliated with that hospital. Plus the university shud have an input on the selection, promotion etc of the teaching staff. Leave the rest to the MOH.

The UMMC is not the only teaching hospital that has problems. The problems become more acute when these outfits become 'semi-privatised'. This means they start behaving like private hospitals and charge the patients very high fees. How exhorbitant? RM10,000 for an angiogram, RM40,000 if a stent is also involved  (but that was NOT a teaching hospital - just a gomen hospital turned 'semi-private'.) 

I think these gomen hospitals turned semi-private are getting carried away. They charge so much money, like many of the other predatory private hospitals we have in the country. The difference is the gomen hospital was set up using MY MONEY!! I already paid for the building of the hospital, for the doctors and nurses salaries, for the medicines etc. You use my money to build a hospital and to pay yourselves salaries and then you charge me money again - for the second time.

So what is the final outcome of all this? Kick them out. I am not going to vote for these idiots. Just kick them out.  Negeri Sembilan is coming up in SIX days. KICK THEM OUT.

MUST WATCH: THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY

 

MY COMMENTS:  I  have a collection of books about the Malayan Emergency, which I have read. I totally disagree with the story surrounding the Emergency. The Malayan Emergency was not what we have been told about. 

In 1945 after the end of World War 2 Britain was almost bankrupt. During the postwar reconstruction which began almost immediately  there was a boom in raw materials, including rubber and tin.  The rubber estates and tin mines in colonial Malaya began churning profits for British commercial interests as well as tax revenues for the British Crown. In no time Malaya was the single largest revenue earner for the entire British Empire. Then in 1946 Dato Onn organised all the Malays, he torpedoed the idea of the Malayan Union, he established UMNO and immediately began agitating for Malayan independence. The Independence movement picked up steam quite quickly. This made the British very uncomfortable. 

And - more importantly - on 17 August 1945 Soekarno had declared independence for Indonesia. Which resulted in the Indonesian War of Independence which lasted for FOUR years until the Dutch gave up and withdrew in 1949. There was serious fighting in Indonesia but there were no Dutch soldiers to do any fighting. Because the Dutch had lost Indonesia to the Japanese, Holland had been occupied by the Germans and there was no more Dutch colonial influence. So after the Japanese surrender, the British who had landed about 100,000 troops  to reoccupy Malaya and Singapore  offered to help the Dutch regain Indonesia. (Very white and neighbourly colonials).

British troops from Malaya were sent to Indonesia to fight Soekarno. The British Royal Air Force took off from air bases in Singapore, Johor, Melaka to bomb Indonesia. The British did not do all that for free.  The British secured concessions from the Dutch to exploit oil and gas deposits in Indonesia. Plus other goodies of course. 

Because the British seriously needed the colonial revenues to help prop up London.  Then in 1946 Dato Onn Jaafar was very successful in organising the Malays to defeat the Malayan Union, he founded UMNO in 1946 as a 'united Malays national organisation' and he wanted independence for Malaya - all this in 1946.

The British had a major trump card in their pocket - the single supreme leader of almost all the Communist organisations in Malaya at that time was a British secret agent. At that time 1945 - 1948 there were the:

Communist Party of Malaya (CPM / MCP)

Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA)

Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Ex-Service Comrades' Association (MPAJA Ex-Service Comrades' Association)

Malayan Democratic Union (MDU) – not a communist party, but worked closely with the CPM in the constitutional struggle.

Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Unions (PMFTU) – communist-dominated.

New Democratic Youth League – CPM youth front.

Women's Federation – CPM women's front.

Min Yuen – underground civilian support organisation.

Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA - mentioned in the video)

etc etc. (The list is not exhaustive).

The name of the supreme leader was the Vietnamese Chinese Loi Tek. Also known as:

• Loi Tek / Loi Teck
• Lai Tek
• Lai Teck
• Lai Te
• Loi Tak
• Mr. Wright (or simply Wright)
• Light (sometimes used in English sources)
• Chang Hung (also rendered Chang Hong) (who signed the Blantan Agreement)
• Wong Kim Geok
• Lee Soong
• Vietnamese names attributed to him
• Phạm Văn Đắc
• Hoàng A Nhạc (also written Hoang A Nhac)
• Nguyễn Văn Long (reported by Leon Comber)
• Lai Rac
• Trương Phước Đạt (or Truong Phuoc Dat) – before he appeared in Malaya in 1936.
• Other reported aliases
• Wong Siu-tong
• Lao Wu Huang
• Huynh Kim Ngoc
• Ly Minh Son
• Huang Kuo-
• Total number of aliases
• Japanese historian Yoji Akashi and later researchers have suggested that Lai Teck may have used more than 50 aliases during his career as a communist organizer and intelligence agent.
• His many identities reflected his extraordinary career as a triple agent, successively serving the French Sûreté, the British Special Branch, the Japanese Kempeitai, while simultaneously rising to become Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Malaya.

Then in March 1947 the British informed their master spy Lai Tek that his cover had been blown. So on 6 March 1947 Lai Tek escaped to Singapore and beyond. He also emptied the funds belonging to the Communist Party.  The Communists in Malaya were totally embarrassed, insulted and made fools of. The British had totally played them like playing a guitar. 

Just over 15 months later on 16 June 1948, the Communists launched those revenge attacks against the British planters in Sungei Siput in Perak and killed  Arthur Walker,  John Allison and Ian Christian.

Two days later on 18th May 1948 the British declared the Malayan Emergency. The young woman in the video Prof Rachel Leow, professor of History at Cambridge University raises the question (and the doubts) why did the British have to declare a state of Emergency over the whole country over the shooting of three planters in just one area Sungei Siput, Perak?  She says it was such a disproportionate response for the British to despatch 40,000 British troops to Malaya, organise 250,000 Home Guardsmen and mobilise another 60,000 Commonwealth troops over the death of three British rubber planters. It was not an all out shooting war by the Communists. It was just a Communist hit squad that was sent to shoot those planters. 

Well we can argue till the cows come home. But once the Brits declared the Emergency in 1946 the whole idea about Independence, Dato Onn's ground work was all pushed to the back burner for another 11 years.    British revenues were intact for another 11 years - until 1957.

And why did the British agree to our Independence in 1957? Again it was money. After the end of the Korean War in 1954, the rubber prices had crashed. There was an economic slowdown around the world. Colonial revenue from Malaya was also affected. The British had to fork out money to pay the salaries of Civil Servants in Malaya. So they cut us loose and "gave" us independence on 31 August 1957.

Chin Peng said Lai Tek was killed by his communist comrades in Bangkok.  When I was in school in Ipoh (early 1970s) I positively remember the Straits Times carrying a news report that Lai Tek the British agent had escaped to London. 

GUTSHOT PODCAST EP 99: DR M AS PRESIDENT OF DAP, ANTHONY LOKE AS PRESIDENT OF PAS

 

TRUMP TARIFFS MALAYSIA AGAIN.

 

By  PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON

July 24, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners 

The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 trading partners accounting for 99% of U.S. imports

The new tariffs will take effect just as temporary 10% worldwide tariffs expire at 12:01 a.m. Friday. 

'make it clear that this conduct carries consequences..' - signed by SIX US Congressmen.

 

Google AI describes this letter as follows:

This document appears to be a formal letter signed by several members of the U.S. Congress, including Greg Landsman, Josh Gottheimer, Jimmy Panetta, Dan Goldman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jared Moskowitz, Brad Sherman, and Jake Auchincloss. The text visible in the image urges the recipient to suspend IMET (International Military Education and Training) funding if Malaysia does not reverse a specific policy within 15 days. The letter emphasizes that certain conduct carries consequences and seeks to address a discriminatory policy through financial pressure on foreign aid.

My Comments: 

Hero dari jauh bolehlah. 
Tak payah angkat kaki untuk berjihad pun. 
Gempak sikit-sikit cukuplah.

SITUATION CRITICAL FOR UKRAINE. NO MORE AIR DEFENSES.

There is much intrigue inside Ukraine. The Minister of Defense has been fired and there are protests against the unelected government. The Minister of Defense (Fyodorov??) was advocating for drone warfare which has not been successful against the Russians. Last week in Turkey NATO pledged US$70 BILLION annually to fund the war against Russia. The new drone warfare supply chain (in the EU and NATO) is eyeing this money. The old guard is also eyeing this US$70 billion.  

Here is a three minute video of the port city of Odessa. The Russians say 'Adiyessa'. If you double the playback speed on YouTube you can watch this in 1.5 minutes. 

This is part of the Russian summer offensive of 2026. Prior to this Odessa was largely unmolested.  As you can see the port is burning. Odessa has been effectively put out of commission. It does not function as a port anymore. When the Russians take Odessa Ukraine will lose access to the sea. 

Other things are moving at a rapid pace. Ukraine has lost all its air defenses. There are no more American made Patriot anti-aircraft missiles in operation in Ukraine. Each Patriot battery costs US$1.0 billion. Ukraine had EIGHT Patriot missile batteries (ie US$8.0 billion). They were supplied by NATO. Now all these Patriot missile batteries have been destroyed by the Russians. The Americans are not able to resupply Ukraine with the Patriot missiles because of the situation in the Middle East. I say 'situation' because there is no real war in the Persian Gulf. The Iranian regime has resorted to shooting at Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain and other Gulf states. So the Americans are strengthening their Patriot batteries in the Middle East. The Patriots in the Middle East have far better success against the Iranian missiles. 

In Ukraine the Patriots were never able to shoot down any of the Iskandar and Khinzal hypersonic missiles which the Russians kept firing. And the Patriots certainly cannot shoot down the super hypersonic Oreshnik missile. (The Russians say 'Ariyeshnik').

This Ukraine war has proven the total collapse and inadequacy of all Western weapons systems against Russian weapons. The Russian technology is far superior. Even in the drone war a high percentage of Ukrainian UAVs are being shot down by Russian anti-drone defenses whereas the Russian made jet-powered Geran drones now rule the skies over Ukraine (picture). The Geran drones are quite unstoppable. They carry 50kg - 90kg warheads and fly at 500 km/h with a range of 450 km. 

This week a few EU ambassadors in Moscow asked to meet the Russian Foreign Ministry. They proposed a ceasefire but according to the same terms the EU / NATO have been repeating the past few years. So the Russians sent them away.

In April 2026 there was an exchange of remains of soldiers killed in combat.

• Russia returned the remains of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
• Ukraine returned the remains of 41 Russian soldiers.
• The ratio was 1:25 (Russia : Ukraine).

In a more recent repatriation of remains of soldiers the Ukrainians returned the remains of 500 Russian killed. The Russians returned over 10,000 Ukrainian killed. The ratio was over 1:20 (Russian : Ukrainian). 

The Hamas war was executed on the orders of the Muslim Brotherhood which is based in Turkey, Qatar, Europe and the US. The people of Gaza knew little about it until it happened.  Likewise the Ukraine war was executed on the orders of the British and NATO. The people of Ukraine have nothing to gain from this war.  

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HOI ANTHONY LOKE - SO AUGUST 16TH STILL GOT MEETING AH? WHAT FOR? WASTING TIME ONLY.

 

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 17 — DAP will not leave PH coalition 
despite recent electoral setbacks Anthony Loke has said
CNA interview, Loke rejected suggestions DAP go it alone 
after disappointing performances in recent state elections
governing through coalition only realistic way to shape country’s future

OSTB:  What future? Two terms for PM also sudah mati.

“I dont think DAP can go far if we just go solo” Loke said

• OSTB: But you got your backside kicked 8-0 in Sabah. 
• In Johor you got your backside kicked. 
• In SIX state elections you got your backside kicked. 
• Your pintu belakang partner won ONE seat in Johor and ONE seat in Sabah. 
• So are you planning to go farther than that?

scrutiny over DAP’s future within PH following losses in Sabah, Johor 
to effect change in government, you have to be in a position of power 

OSTB:  What changes have you 'effected' ? Nga Kor Ming has delivered Building Plan approval in 24 hours. Development Order approval in one week? Fantastic. DAP = Developers Action Party. Developers are happy. But what about the 34 million other Malaysians? 34 million Malaysians must wait longer than the property developers?

He added that withdrawing from PH would only play into the hands of political opponents who wanted to push DAP out of government.

• OSTB: 
• NO NO NO. 
• Anthony Loke PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE  do not pull out of the gomen. 
• Please stay in the gomen. 
• So that in GE16 you will get kicked out. 
• Then good riddance. 
• The voters will kick you so hard you will fly into orbit in outer space.

For Loke, slower reforms are preferable 
forced DAP to accept compromises 
what matters is delivery,” he said
Loke said realities of gomen meant progress slower than hoped.
proposals to limit prime minister’s tenure to 10 years encountered setbacks 

OSTB: Except if you are a property developer. For property developers

Building Plan (BP) approval: targeted completed within 24 hours
Development Order / Planning Permission: targeted at 7 days 

The remaining 34 million Malaysians can wait patiently for the Slow Boat from China.

we know these might not necessarily translate into support on the ground 

OSTB: Then whose support are you looking for? Who are you working for?

the beauty of democracy 
the beauty of elections 
you send a message to gomen 

OSTB: But he who harvests the durians is heard more loudly. The trick is to juggle between the durians and the voters.  

HOI ANTHONY LOKE - SO AUGUST 16TH  STILL GOT MEETING AH? WHAT FOR? WASTING TIME ONLY. 

You want power so you are NOT going to pull out of PH.
You want power so you wont pull out of gomen.
You want power so you wont give up your GLC positions.
So why waste time with that meeting on August 16th? 

Just cancel the meeting lah. Save taxi fare, save travelling expenses, save hotel expenses, save flight tickets. What is there to discuss? There is nothing to discuss. You want power. So you will stay in gomen.  End of story.  

RM178 MILLION CONTRACT TO THE BROTHER!! HOI ANTHONY LOKE CAN YOU EXPLAIN?

CLICK ANYWHERE HERE: "Ah Loke mahu komen kenapa beri kontrak RM178 juta kepada adik A--m B--i dua bulan lalu pada Mei 2026 tak?"

ALAMAK INI KALI KAPAL ADA TAPI MISSILE TAK ADA

This is taken from the South China Morning Post, click here. 

• Malaysia’s US$500 million warship set for delivery, minus the missiles
• navy’s first littoral combat ship arriving 
• without anti-ship missiles meant to give it offensive teeth
• Published: 15 Jul 2026 
• warship fully equipped for anti-submarine, anti-air and electronic warfare 
• except a way to sink an enemy ship
• After nearly decade of delays, financial scandal, shipyard mismanagement 
• first littoral combat ship finally due in December
• But it will arrive missing any anti-ship missiles

• Norway decision to revoke export licence for Naval Strike Missile 
• the ship itself sails ahead regardless
• vessel would still carry anti-submarine, anti-air and electronic warfare systems
• ship will not carry, for now, a way to strike enemy ships 
• the capability that was meant to define the class.
• missing missile system left “gaping hole in conventional naval deterrence”.
• Turkey and South Korea potential missile suppliers

• More than 60%  of naval fleet over 40 years old
• driving up maintenance costs and straining operations
• search for replacement surface-to-surface missile system will be crucial
• vessel can still handle surveillance, disaster relief, search-and-rescue 
• Maritim Malaysia (coastguard) already does that
• navy never meant to double as coastguard
• replacement surface-to-surface missile system will be crucial
• 
  

• A troubled history
• five Maharaja Lela-class LCS costing roughly RM10.2B or RM2.04B each
• Built to the French Naval Group’s Gowind-class design
• due for delivery in stages through 2029 (originally due in 2019)
• mismanagement at the debt-laden Shipyard caused delays
• Public sentiment soured against programme in scandal’s wake

newest warships capable escorts with no sting

MY COMMENTS:

• five Maharaja Lela-class LCS costing roughly RM10.2B or RM2.04B each

Originally six Maharaja Lela-class LCS were ordered.

Original contract (2011–2014): RM9.13 billion for 6 ships.
This worked out to roughly RM1.52 billion per ship on average.
By 2022, gomen already paid RM6.08 billion, but no ships delivered.

RM10.2 billion +  RM6.08 billion =  RM16.28 billion.

I asked ChatGpt, at today's prices,  what can be bought for RM16.28 billion. Here is the answer from ChatGpt :

A budget of RM16.28 billion (about US$3.8–3.9 billion, depending on exchange rates) is large enough to buy a substantial naval force. The exact number depends on weapons, sensors, logistics, training, and local construction, but here are four realistic examples:

Option. Approximate purchase within RM16.28 billion.

1. Modern frigates. 3 FREMM-class frigates. Large 6,700-ton multi-role ships with anti-air, anti-submarine and anti-ship capabilities. Individual ships have sold for roughly US$1–1.3 billion depending on configuration.

2. Modern submarines. 3 Scorpène-class submarines. Similar family to Malaysia's existing submarines. Modern export prices are roughly US$1–1.3 billion each with weapons and support.

3. Japanese Mogami-class frigates. 6–7 Mogami-class frigates. Japan's latest stealth frigate is designed to be relatively affordable compared with larger Western frigates. (Pictured here).

4. Mixed fleet. 2 submarines + 2 modern frigates A balanced force providing underwater deterrence plus surface combat capability. This would fit broadly within a US$3.8–3.9 billion budget depending on weapons and support packages.

MY COMMENTS: Why pay less when you can pay more?

WILL / SHOULD THE US TAKE KHARG ISLAND?

 

• US strikes hit southern Iran 
• strikes overnight on Saturday 
• explosions in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island 
• US warplanes struck city of Shadagan in southern Iran on Sunday (today)
• eighth consecutive night of strikes against Iran 
• hit Iranian coastal surveillance and air defense facilities
• Several locations on Qeshm Island in Strait of Hormuz targeted by US strikes

My Comments:

The past eight days the US has been striking targets in southern Iran, around the Bandar Abbas, Straits of Hormuz area (report above). The media is speculating that the US will invade Kharg Island, Iran's oil export terminal which is located far to the north hundreds of kilometers from Hormuz. Kharg Island exports 90% of Iran's oil.

However with the US reimposing the naval blockade against Iran since the 14th July invading Kharg Island will not serve any military objective. Iran's oil exports are now effectively zero because of the naval blockade against the entire Iranian coastline. They do not need to invade Kharg Island, and also risk casualties, to cut off Iran's oil exports. 

Also if the extensive oil facilities on Kharg Island are destroyed the US will certainly take the blame. World opinion will hold the Americans responsible for any disaster on Kharg Island. 

Looking at the intense bombardment of southern Iran and also against the SEVEN islands in the Straits of Hormuz - Qeshm Island, Greater and Lesser Tunb, Abu Musa Island, Larak Island and Hormuz Island (plus one more) - it appears that the US may take these islands instead.  Militarily this would be the better option - the forces required to take these islands would be much smaller (except Qeshm Island), potential casualties could be minimised and holding these islands would be less taxing on the US Navy. 

Strategically speaking, taking these SEVEN islands would completely knock out all the Iranian staging and launching areas for attacks into the Straits of Hormuz. The US would completely own the entire Straits of Hormuz - both on the Iranian and the Oman sides of the straits. 

The US must face the fact that the Iranian regime is never going to surrender or negotiate terms. This is not a democracy. Iran is no more a theocracy either. The IRGC has completely taken over the country and the era of the mullas has actually ended. The mullas are never coming back. The IRGC will not allow them back. And for all intents and purposes Mojtaba Khamenei is dead. 

With the Israeli Mossad and the CIA having so much influence in covert operations inside Iran, it is not impossible that the regime change has already happened. But they do not know it yet.  Maybe Iran is already in a transition phase.

Since the IRGC will not surrender the US may have to put boots on the ground. But it would be suicidal to put American boots on the ground on the Iranian mainland. Also it is not necessary.  That naval blockade and taking those seven islands in the Straits of Hormuz can bring things to a conclusion. 

Things are drawing to a conclusion quite fast. Lets see what happens.  

p.s. I feel that what is happening has been planned all along - by the US and allies.

China is now the world's No 1 Science power.

Leading Russian chemist and materials scientist Artem Oganov, who received China’s top international science and technology award, said the honour from the world’s No 1 science power was a sign he was “on the right track”.

Oganov, a distinguished professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow and long-time China collaborator, and eight other experts were awarded the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award by Chinese President Xi Jinping during a ceremony in Beijing last week.

After Oganov visited China in 2008, he told colleagues and friends in Europe that the country was “on the way” to being No 1 in both industry and science, but said this was met with scepticism at the time.

MY COMMENTS:  Too many people around the world are not even aware that China is a super modern, super advanced and super scientific society. And they are just getting started. 

Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader from 1978 to 1992, began China's Four Modernisations in ernest.  

China's Four Modernizations were first proposed by Zhou Enlai, not by Deng Xiaoping.

• 1963 – Zhou Enlai first outlined the idea of modernizing four key sectors of China's economy.
• 1975 – At the Fourth National People's Congress, Zhou formally presented the Four Modernizations as China's long-term development strategy.
• 1978 – After emerging as China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping made the Four Modernizations the centerpiece of China's "Reform and Opening Up" policy and began implementing them on a large scale.

The Four Modernizations are:

1. Agriculture
   • Increase food production and farmers' incomes.
   • Introduce more efficient farming methods and reduce collective farming.
   • The later "household responsibility system" gave farming families much greater control over production.
2. Industry
   • Modernize factories, improve productivity, and introduce advanced technology.
   • Encourage foreign investment and joint ventures.
3. National Defense
   • Modernize the armed forces with better equipment, training, and technology.
   • Shift from a large but outdated military to a more capable modern force.
4. Science and Technology
   • Expand universities and research institutions.
   • Train scientists and engineers.
   • Import foreign technology and send students abroad for advanced education.

These reforms dramatically reshaped China. Over the following decades:

• Hundreds of millions of people were lifted out of poverty.
• China became one of the world's largest manufacturing economies.
• Special Economic Zones such as Shenzhen Special Economic Zone became laboratories for market-oriented reforms.
• China emerged as a major exporter and later as a global leader in areas such as high-speed rail, telecommunications, and renewable energy.

A phrase closely associated with Deng Xiaoping's implementation of these ideas is:

"It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice."

This expressed his pragmatic view that policies should be judged by whether they worked, rather than by whether they were considered purely socialist or capitalist. While versions of this saying predated him, Deng made it famous as a guiding principle for economic reform.

MY COMMENTS: China made the correct turn in the road. 

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