CNN put up a warning, Gulf states are short of defensive weapons against Iran. What a bull!

 What is CNN trying to say or implying? What is the intent of such a bullshit statement?

Singapore primary education - Parents want the best for their child, ... hopefully no parents will be jailed for this

Commentary: Parents want the best for their child, but P1 registration cannot be only about 'me first'

Before considering bolder changes, we need to decide how to balance individual competitiveness and our collective values, say SMU’s Jacqueline Ho, NIE’s Jason Tan and NUS’ Vincent Chua.

SINGAPORE: In a high-stakes, credential-conscious environment, parents understandably want to deploy every available resource to secure their child’s educational future.

Recognising these pressures, the Ministry of Education recently announced adjustments to the Primary 1 registration framework. There will be more reserved places in Phase 2C for children with no prior connection to the school, up from 40 to 60 spots. Additionally, twelve schools in neighbourhoods with more private housing will offer a two-track Phase 2C to include those living beyond the usual 2km radius. CNA

Can anyone fault the parents for wanting the best for their children, especially in education? The Singapore govt understands this very well and is trying to do everything it could to satisfy their aspirations, love and devotion for their children and their future. This move will be music to the parents in Singapore.

Anyone thinks more should be done for the parents and their charge? Parental or motherly love must not be seen as a crime, or a serious crime that warrants jail sentences. Would the wise and clever men and women understand this?

"The stated goals of Phase 2A and Phase 2B are to preserve school culture through alumni, clan and church connections, and recognise volunteer or grassroots contributions. For decades, these priorities have defined the boundaries of what Singaporeans imagine the P1 registration framework can and should accomplish.

Yet while these policy objectives sound reasonable in theory, the registration rules meant to achieve them have become gameable levers of advantage in practice." CNA

A crime is a crime. But is gaming for a place in a good school for a child be seen in the same light as a violent crime or gaming in a casino or in the stock market? If so, then parents should not be allowed to do volunteer works for schools to gain points for admission as well. It is also a form of gaming. No?

What do you think?

China is building this and that, very good....BUT

 

Testing the waters? Businesses weigh China’s new trade shortcut to Southeast Asia

The Pinglu Canal provides China’s landlocked southwest region with a much shorter water route to the South China Sea - and Southeast Asia. But turning early business interest into sustained demand will be the bigger test, say analysts.  Melody Chan, CNA

Not to worry, anything China does will fail. China is going to collapse soon, or already collapsed 26 years ago. China's EVs, solar panel, EV battery, AI, chips, anything China seeks to do will fail. China's factories will collapse, China's robots will collapse....  They will look good initially, BUT will fail. China is doomed and will never overtake the Americans.

Happy? The brain dead Anglophiles can start to celebrate the collapse of China, after wishing for China's collapse for so long. I guarantee that Trump will collapse before China will collapse. Maybe the rogue America Empire will collapse before China. 

Who are the analysts that are praying for China's collapse everyday?

The Anglo Saxons do not know what is good and what is evil

The Brits, the forerunner of the USA, stole the North American continent from the Native American Indians by force. That was the biggest robbery in history. The USA stole most of their manufacturing expertise from the Europeans in the past but will never admit it. It also stole all the resources from other countries to fuel its manufacturing in the past but will never admit it as well. It is stealing oil from Venezuela, just outright daylight robbery in fact. The USA is going to steal all the resources of Greenland under its new agreement with Denmark. Watch the USA strangle Denmark into compliance.

USA committed the biggest fraud in history by pulling out gold in support for the US$ in 1971. What countries held in their hands were basically left with toilet papers supported by thin air, nothing more. To remedy that they conned the Arabs instead into using oil to support the US$ in 1973. Oil that the USA does not truly control to be used to support the US$ hegemony. To be able to con the Arabs into agreement, the USA used their mantra of protecting the oil installations in Arab countries by building military bases in the Middle East. The Arabs invited the devil into the house and have not been able to exorcise it ever since, digging a bigger hole by investing their oil wealth in the USA.

Iran is the only Middle East country trying to counter that for years and the USA knows it has to get Iran out of the picture. With no practical reason to take out Iran, the only avenue to exploit was demonizing Iran enriching Uranium to make a bomb. Iran, under religious constraints had never intended to go nuclear. That Obama agreement already did the necessary. And that agreement did put a stop to what the USA could do to Iran, until Trump just unilaterally tore it up. Now attacking Iran is open season for Trump with no agreement in place. And now Iran is going to make a bomb, sooner of later.

Do the Arabs now realize that the USA is unable to protect their interests in the Middle East? What is even more clearly exposed is that the USA is even unable to protect its own military bases and installations in the Middle East. A whole can of worms had now opened up for the Arabs to think about.

Now another front for conflict is opening up against the Saudis. The Bab Al-Mandab for navigation is under serious threat, with insurance premiums shooting to the sky. The Saudis are paying the price for its war against the Houthis. The Houthis have nothing to lose or fear, while the Saudis are being strangled and begging the USA for help.


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The dogs barked, but the caravan moves on

As reported by some mischievous sites showing Xi hospitalized and in an intensive care unit in a hospital, why is there a Xi Jinping now shaking hands with Trump? Must be AI generated, like the one about Xi in hospital. Or was that a stand-in for Xi, lol. Putin has so many stand-ins. So does Kim Jong Un.

So much speculation about Xi's health lately came to naught. It destroys the reputation of those anti-China social media sites. Putin's health had been under scrutiny for years. He was supposed to have died many times, like the collapse of China. Even Kim Jong Urn's non-appearance for a few weeks cannot be left un-propagated.

Now there are much speculation circulating about Xi's hold on power in China with opponents going for his removal. How true are those? That video of Hu Jintao being removed from a meeting was given a real boosting by anti-China bots, with much speculation about the reason, but not really touching on the real reason.

There was also much speculation about Xi's departure from the BRICS summit in India and his non-attendance at the gala dinner hosted by Modi. The speculation even said that Xi suffered a minor stroke. Another was speculating about Xi's anger over Modi's criticism over China's rare earth control. Yet another was speculating about Xi being afraid of being poisoned consuming food in India. Only the fertile minded can come up with such mischievous ideas.

But, as they say, the dogs barked, but the caravan moves on.


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