Today is Chinese New Year in Singapore

 Most businesses and govt departments are closed for the Chinese New Year holiday, today and tomorrow in Singapore. But all essential services are operating as usual, hospitality businesses are also operating as normal, unlike in the West when every service is down, can't even buy a sandwich during Christmas Day. Singapore has the advantage of different races covering for the other during their respective holidays. Those working will still be paid double wages for working on a holiday.

China will be having a major break, 10 days holiday for its people to go home to share time with their families and loved ones. Many Chinese are as good as working 'overseas', ie working in Chinese cities far away from their homes, the villages or small towns. Chinese New Year is time for reunion, with the biggest migration of people, hundreds of millions on the move to be home, to catch up for lost time, especially the one child family with children left in the care of parents and grandparents while the mothers and fathers work in the big cities.

However, Chinese productivity does not stop. Factories continue to operate, without light, without sound, without workers, like the major ports, fully automated or with robotic workers that do not need rest, break or holiday. This is the productive capacity of China in a new tech world, to earn more than one US$1 trillion in trade surplus operating 24/7. And there is no fear of ageing population when robots and machine are taking over from human beans..

What are the West doing in the same time? They are talking about national security, meaning their security versus the world's insecurity. They are still talking about building empires to rule the world. Their security is the world's insecurity. Their daily news coverage is about wars, threatening wars, about control and gangsterism, not about productivity, not about manufacturing goods and services for the good of mankind. And they are unhappy that China is making US$1.2 trillion trade surplus for year 2025 by working nonstop.

The American terrorists, with thousands of nuclear warheads, are demanding that Iran must not have nuclear bombs. If Iran refuses, they will bomb and kill Iranians. What kind of logic or morality is that? Anyone questioning why this is so, or accepting that this is the right of the Americans? Who do the Americans think they are? They have behaved like international terrorists for decades. The Europeans had been and still think they are the international gangsters, to bully and rule the world. They decide how the rest of the world should do and live by.

Why not the rest of the world be telling the Americans to disarm, dispose off all their nuclear weapons or the world shall kill the Americans? Of course the rest of the world did not have the military heft to do so. Only the big bully, the American terrorists, can terrorise the world, to dictate to the world in their own terms. They write the rules for the world.

This is changing. The rest of the world will not accept this anymore. Iran is the last frontier, the last wall to stop American bullying and aggression, to think they can go around the world to kill people as they like with impunity. The American terrorists are saying, We have the right to kill!

While China is all about manufacturing of goods and services, the Americans and the West are all about conquest, domination and killing. And they branded China as aggressive and expansionist, and called themselves peace keepers. What an irony!

Happy and peaceful Chinese New Year.

It is catastrophic when those at risk choose to go against their own kind

It is catastrophic when those at risk choose to go against their own kind. They left loopholes for others to exploit and is very sad indeed.

I came across the story of Yeo Hiap Seng and the family feud that resulted in the loss of a US$300 million empire (?) falling out of the family's control. The company is now in the hands of the Robert Ng, the eldest son of Ng Teng Fong, with his majority stake acquired during the family tussle.

While the family were fighting each other, two billionaires were looking at the Yeo Hiap Seng piece of factory land along Bukit Timah Road that was to be developed into private residential housing. Quek Leng Chan and Robert Ng we both looking at the piece of Yeo Hiap Seng land, which was later to be taken over by Robert Ng.

Yeo Hiap Seng is still operating at another location in Senoko Way, while the Bukit Timah site had been turned into a residential enclave.

The Chinese had this saying - 'The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the sparrow behind'.


Anonymous

American terrorists killed by the millions, but no war crimes

 The propaganda machine of the West is very dangerous and all encompassing. Brian Berletic on his site 'The New Atlas' said that the USA and the West have the most dangerous weapon - control of the propaganda media. And they have never refrained from using it to fulfil their sick agenda.
There is now a new mantra about 'war crimes' committed by the Myanmar Military Regime. Every country trying to stabilize internal civil unrest with crackdown on CIA inspired terrorism and insurrection is being condemned as committing war crimes. Fortunately, in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, the Chinese military did not intervene during the unrest instigated by the CIA, otherwise Xi and his other leaders would be accused of 'war crimes' as well, lol.

But the illegal war in Iraq, based on fabricated evidence by the USA and UK was not considered a 'war crime' with millions killed for no real reason. The UN, obviously complicit in the atrocities by giving the go ahead, was equally incriminated. Which is why it does not push to highlight the 'war crimes' committed by the USA, UK and those countries having blood on their hands by participating as the 'Coalition of the Willing'. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Magdalene Albright, Tony Blair and military leaders of all countries involved were all 'war criminals' like Adolf Hitler and Military leaders of Japan during WW2. Ironically, only the leaders of Germany and Japan were punished, but not the leaders of the illegal Iraq War. Where is justice being served.

Having said that, what about Trump and his administration being complicit in the genocide in Gaza by providing the weapons, together with Netanyahu. They will almost certainly get away with murder, while the rest of the world are being told to go against the Myanmar Government because they do not toe the line by going against the USA involvement via the CIA. 'War crime' is the only avenue opened to the USA to start another war front to seize Myanmar's rich resources and provide the USA a base closer to China with a long border, just like in Ukraine against Russia.


Anonymous

Total Defence is meaningless when not knowing what to defend

SINGAPORE: In Singapore, Total Defence Day is commemorated on Feb 15 – the day that Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942. Besides being a date of historical significance, Total Defence Day reminds Singaporeans of our collective responsibility to defend our sovereignty and way of life.

Against the current backdrop of a weakening international rules-based order, Singapore’s territorial integrity cannot be taken for granted. Middle powers and small states should invest in their collective resilience – which has been a fundamental cornerstone of Total Defence for more than 40 years....

Besides hardware and infrastructure, a country’s resilience depends greatly on its people’s readiness....Collective resilience also includes looking out for one another in times of crisis and disruption....Singapore has shown a willingness to take legal action against potential malign actors, signalling that coordinated foreign interference in Singapore’s domestic politics will not be tolerated. CNA

What is Total Defence? What are we defending, and defending who, defending against who? The words, Total Defence, are coming out from the mouth of many people, quite freely, like a medicine for the good of all. When Singapore was taken by the Brits, no one was calling for defence of the island. When the Japanese invaded Singapore, no one was calling for the defence of Singapore. In the first instance, Singapore was not a country. The concept of nation state was alien to the inhabitants of the islands. In the second instance, Singapore was a colony of the British Empire. The inhabitants were not citizens. Singapore belong to the Brits. It was meaningless for the inhabitants to be defending the island for the Brits.

Then came self rule, then became a part of Malaysia and Confrontasi. Indonesia wanted Singapore as part of Indonesia. The war was against Malaysia. What was the status of the inhabitants in the island? The incident happened at a time, a brief moment in history that the people in the island were still rubbing their eyes about Malaysia and their being Malaysian citizens. Only when Singapore became an independent nation state that the idea and concept of nationhood started to take on meaning to Singaporeans who then became citizens of the island.

National Service was introduced in 1967. We have a nation called our own to defend. Yes, we finally owned a piece of land, a bit small though, but it was ours, it belonged to Singaporeans. This is something worth defending for, to defend against the island being taken over by foreigners. This concept seemed simple enough. Now we are bringing in foreigners to be Singaporeans so freely. There are now more foreigners ie new citizens than the original Singaporeans. We are sharing our little island with foreigners that we once thought we must keep out, to protect our little piece of land. All Singaporeans are co owners of this island. But did anyone ask the Singaporeans if they are happy, agreeable, to let so many foreigners to come and take a share of their island?

What is the difference between foreigners taking over our island with our consent and foreigners wanting to take over our island by force, without our consent? If we are so glad to share our island, our national reserves, our way of life with so many foreigners, the question of defending our island becomes fussy? Hypothetically, we can let 10 million foreigners in to share our little island without knowing that we are giving our little island and everything to foreigners.

There is no longer the need for foreigners to interfere with our affairs from outside. They can officially interfere with our affairs by waving a pink IC and do what they please. It becomes their right to interfere with our domestic and national affairs? Think about it! Think about the long term consequences further from the tip of your nose.

What about Total Defence? What is so Total about Defence? Defending our land, our way of life, our hard and soft asset? As mentioned above, there is no need to defend our land when we are serving it on a silver platter to foreigners. What about our way of life? The academics can write tomes of books about this topic. Simply put, our way of life must be the way we lived, 'we' meaning the original Singaporeans. Now we have more foreigners than the original Singaporeans, and our teh or kopi is now teh susu or kopi susu of various shades, definitely not the same as before. We are being adulterated or to put it crudely, bastardised, to be more like foreigners than ourselves, if the number of foreigners is greater than us. This is simple math.

Our hardware and infrastructure are something similar to our land, physical assets. What about our software, the soft assets? With so many foreigners in the system, in critical operations and top management, with so many unknowns among the foreigners, some could be wildlife, some could be poison that could destroy whatever we have built, sleepers waiting to do damage to us, Total Defence is going to be a creepy subject. How to defend a henhouse when wolves and foxes are welcomed to live among the hens? When wolves and foxes are invited to share the henhouse, to partake and consume what they want, what is there to defend?

Total Defence is supposed to be a very comprehensive, complex and thorough concept, to be awared, to know that many things need to be protected, everyone must be on the lookout for the good of Singaporeans. When there is no difference between We and Them, when We means them and us, the naive and innocent Singaporeans never question the foreigners if they are with us or still them, does Total Defence still makes any sense? When there are so many foreigners being regarded as us, without Singaporeans having a clue of their intent, presuming they are all good, like one of us, Total Defence is sitting on a very thin and fragile line, amounting to being fiction or fatuous. When our enemies are living with us, among us, working alongside Singaporeans, being treated as one of us, and presumed to be harmless, and we are talking about Total Defence so freely, like real. The enemies that Singapore welcomed in as new citizens or PRs will not have horns on their foreheads. They will all look very sweet, very polite, very likeable, like angels.

When the We and Them no longer exist, blurred, where are the enemies to look out for, to defend against? We no longer have enemies or potential enemies. Every foreigner is our friend, our potential citizens. We are now so hard up for more citizens that taking every worm, insect and predator into our island, into our homes, praying that all will be well...is the new mantra for survival.

What do you think? Are you thinking? Or others are doing the thinking for you?

Trump happily and confidently sending American boys and girls to be killed

 Oops, oops, this is only my perception, my interpretation of the new reality. To Trump, America is still the Empire with the most powerful war machine. Only the Empire can go out to kill people. No one can fight back or kill American soldiers. This has been the way of the Empire. Millions had been killed by the Empire at will. So sending American boys and girls to the Middle East is a straight forward process, go there and kill the Iranians. The Iranians will not fight back, cannot fight back, did not have the means to fight back. It is just like another hunting party, have fun, and come back as war heroes, and claiming how many Iranians they have killed.

The D grade brain of Trump cannot appreciate that the world has changed, that Iran is not a little hapless child sitting there waiting to be hit, to be killed. To Trump, if one carrier strike group is not enough, just send in another. Trump does not think there will be casualties on the American side. Maybe he did not, or think the casualties will be too small and acceptable. Barron Trump would not be there to risk his precious life.

After Syria and Venezuela, both Xi and Putin cannot afford to lose Iran and will stop Iran from falling, at all cost. This attack on Iran is a decisive battle for both sides, will decide the fate of the American Empire and the fate of the rest of the world.

Trump is still bragging about his beautiful armada, fighter bombers, Tomahawk cruise missiles and bunker buster bombs to do the damage and the killing...Americans killing Iranians. He does not want to know what if. He does not want to know that China, Russia and friends of Iran have joined in to defend Iran with the best weapons that are as good if not even better than what the Americans have. What is the sinking of an aircraft carrier as long as Trump can claim to have won the war?

Like it or not, believe it or not, many American boys and girls will die and be sent home in plastic bags. The Iranians can hit back and will hit back just as hard. Up to this point, no one is highlighting to Trump how many American boys and girls will die. The more Trump sent, the more will die. No American Exceptionalism is going to save the lives of American boys and girls. Trump has been warned.

The black swan moment will be the actions of the Arab and Muslim states. What will they do? Trump and the Israelis still believe the Arab and Muslim states would not react and let them destroy Iran and kill Iranians like before...under coercion from both Americans and the Israelis, and will always be so. We will kill the Iranians first, then we will kill the Arab and Muslim states one by one. Just be nice and pray that we will kill you last. Will the Arab and Muslim states still be docile, allowed the 18 American bases to be on their soil forever to control them? Will they not want to get rid of them when there is a chance now, to be really free and independent nation states and people?

The world is waiting for the sinking of an aircraft carrier to kill the American invincibility myth. Trump can find consolation in the number of Israelis that will also die when Iran strikes back. The good thing is that the hillbillies are thinking just like Trump, so happy to see American boys and girls going to kill Iranians. Same low thinking, only thinking of winning, only thinking that Americans can kill others and will not be killed.

Hallelujah, hallelujah! God will be on the side of the American terrorists! God will be on the side of white mass murderers!