Singapore Airshow 2024 - Chinese not allowed...

 

Airbus staff refusing admission of Chinese to a German Airbus aircraft A400M.

 

This happened a few days ago in the Singapore Airshow in Changi. The Airbus staff refused to let Chinese into the German Airbus aircraft. Wondering who gave this order to ban Chinese into the aircraft, a very racist and offensive thing to do in a nation state like Singapore where 80% of its citizens are Chinese. Though the racist act was targeted at Chinese from China, it was still very insensitive to do it in Singapore where the Chinese from China look no difference from the Chinese in Singapore. 

Did the German Airbus staff also checked the passport of everyone looking like Chinese, when most of the visitors that looked Chinese are Singaporeans? The Singaporean Chinese are Chinese, ethnically. To discriminate against Chinese is not going to go down well here. To demand and check the passports of Singaporeans in an Airshow in Singapore is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated by Singaporeans. This is a Singapore Airshow.

Though Airbus has made a public apology for this rude and racist act, it still left a very bitter and unpleasant taste, and very bad PR for Airbus and Germany in the eyes of Singaporean Chinese. This is practising racism in Singapore soil in the 21st Century.

What do you think?

Budget 2024 - Cocktail party gossips versus kopitiam talks

The Budget 2024 is now going around the circuits of cocktail parties and kopitiams with the rich and the ah pehs having a say on what it should have been. In cocktail parties, the key words of the rich are handouts, dependency, weaning, fine tuning, crutch mentality etc etc. Let me just deal with these rich words before lowering myself to join the ah pehs in the kopitiams where I am more comfortable with.

I must say it is a privilege to be rich when one has no worries about the price of kopi or chap chye png. In cloud 9, looking down at the hoi polloi, the pathetic lot, it feels so good to make judgement about how they should live their lives better. And the Budget, this is dangerous as the pathetic ah pehs are going to develop a dependency on it, a crutch mentality, expecting govt handouts. This is bad. They must be weaned from such expectation of getting handouts from the govt. And the handouts must be fine tuned to make sure only the really needy gets it. The rest, they better wake up, find a job to look after themselves and stop waiting for handouts.

Now what should ahpeh60s do when he cannot work, or cannot find a job, for some reasons? How is he going to help himself? More trainings? Yes, more training would help ahpeh60s. At 60s, still can learn a few new tricks and maybe some employers would take him in. What about ahpeh70s, ahpeh80s and ahpeh90s, would training help, would they get hired? This is not an issue. No one should be living on govt handouts and expecting this to be forever. The only thing they should be expecting that is forever are tax hikes, fare hikes and fee hikes, as money is needed to pay the employees. If no money how to pay them in the millions? And they must have more money to allay the high cost of living cost by inflation that are imported. Who actually is behind the inflation, the high cost of living? Must be the hawkers in the kopitiams, hawker centres and food courts for anyhow raised the prices of food.

What do you think the ahpehs in the kopitiams are kpkb about? They also say, the rich must not develop a crutch mentality, expecting that they will always be paid in the millions. They must be weaned from always thinking that they will be receiving millions as a right. Also, paying millions is ok, but must be fine tuned. Not everyone having the same job title should be paid the same millions. Some have tougher jobs with the same job title while some are like working in a holiday camp, nothing much to do and have to figure what to do as there is nothing much to do.

What do you think? Should the ahpehs be weaned from the crutch mentality to expect handouts from the govt? Who is raising taxes and hike fees and fares that the ah pehs must pay, got money or no money it is their fault if they cannot pay, cannot afford fee hikes, fare hikes, food price hikes, cannot afford a cup of kopi or pay for $6 chap chye png. Not to be over reliance on the govt?

PS. The trillion dollar reserves were created from the contributions of the senior citizens. This is the indirect savings of the senior citizens. It is only fair for them to be rewarded with some dividends for what they contributed in the past. Who do you think are the greatest beneficiary of the nation's reserves? Be grateful. Why begrudge the seniors for having a few dollars from their hard work in the past? KNN!

Nethanyahu and Blinken's foolish deadly plan

 Nethanyahu openly said that his plan is to terminate every single Hamas. Is this really achievable? The more Hamas he killed, the more angry would be the Palestinians, and more Palestinians would become Hamas. The anger and hate are being seeded by the Israelis onto the Palestinians, and also to the Arab and Muslim world. And they think the Arab and Muslim world would forgive them and pretend nothing had happened? This is the 21st Century and there are the convenient news media, main media and social media to do the necessary. Genocide and crimes against humanity cannot be covered up forever. 

It was easy then, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries to genocide and exterminate 100 million native Americans without telling the world. No one really knew what was happening in North America other than the murderers and butchers of the native Americans. No news could get out of North America to the rest of the world. Thus no protest. Also, the rest of the world were weak, and many colonised and ruled by the savages.

Today, the massacres are being seen by everyone with a TV screen or a handphone. You cannot hide or lie to the rest of the world. The Arab and Muslim world would not allow it no matter how much coercion were slapped on them. They may not oppose openly, would not rebel, but they would do whatever they could to help the Palestinians to fight the butchers of their brothers and sisters. The Arabs and Muslims are not stupid and easily suppressed and coerced to obey the butchers slaughtering their own tribe. A breaking point is near.

And there is the rest of the world seething in anger at the despair of the Palestinians. They would not stand idly by. They would unite with other righteous and morally upright nations to put an end to this cruel injustice and atrocities against a hapless people. 6 million Jews would not be allowed to slaughter several millions of Palestinians in broad daylight, in their faces. Add in 300m  Americans and a couple of hundred  millions of Europeans too would not be allowed to genocide the Palestinians thinking the rest of the world cannot do anything about it. The forces of good in the rest of the world would stand up against the forces of evil, the savages would be stopped in a matter of time. 

The only permanent solution for peace, for the good of the Israelis, for the good of the Americans, for the Palestinians and the rest of the world, is to resettle the Israelis to the USA. America has ample land to provide a safe state for a new Israel with 6m Jews, and many more, as they live in peace and prosperity, and multiply freely and happily without wars and conflicts.

The existence of Israel in the midst of the Arab world is an anomaly and like a thorn that must be removed once and for all, to have permanent peace in the region. Israel is like poison to the Arabs and Muslims and whatever temporary peace created would not last. The two races have too much hate and animosities over the centuries and cannot live in peace in the same piece of land. Too much blood has been spilt.

The Americans must be bold, generous, magnanimous and sincere to find a long lasting solution, not a fake solution by coercion, lies and oppression. Definitely not be genocide. Let a new Israel be born in North America to live free and in peace forever. Their presence in America would be beneficial with the abundance of Jewish talents to make America great again. Let the Palestinians have their land back and live like normal people of the world, in peace and with dignity. Let the historical baggage of enmity between the Jews and the Arabs be left behind as a forgotten chapter of human civilisation.

The Arab and Muslim states would never be subdued and controlled again by the Americans with their divide and rule scheme. The evil fantasy of the Americans to control the Middle East is over. This also applies to the wild dreams of the 6 million Jews to dominate and rule the Arab and Muslim states as if the Arabs/Muslims would be fools and weak forever.

Raping America

 Who is raping America? According to liar Trump, it is China. And if one is reading the American hate narratives, it is China. What is the truth? Has China sent soldiers into America? Has China sailed warships around America? Has China formed military alliances around America targeting America? Has China built military bases around America? Who is starting all kinds of silly wars against China? 

The answer is obvious even to the hillbillies that never stepped out of America. It is the Americans that are threatening China, sanctioning China, fabricating lies to demonise China, and even invaded China in the 19th Century. The Empire of Lies is spreading lies against China with an annual budget of US$1 billion dollars, hiring professional liars to write hate speeches and articles about China and calling China its greatest threat, calling China an enemy of America.

What did China do? Did China ever call America its enemy?

Who are the real rapists of America? They are coming in in swarms across the borders, mostly from the South. It is the immigrants that are coming to rape America, daily in the thousands, and in the millions over the years.

Actually this is the second rape of America in the history of the USA. Yes, America was raped before, also by immigrants. The immigrants came from Europe, from across the Atlantic Ocean. They not only raped America, they massacred the native Americans, committing genocides on a national scale, the biggest genocide in human history. And they stole the land from the natives and called it their own. The Europeans that called themselves Americans today, were the first and most vicious rapists of America.

And they got the cheek to pass cruel and racist remarks about the new immigrants. Beware of the immigrants. When they come in unrestrained numbers, in big numbers, they would eventually rape the country and take over the country, like America, and called it their own, and would cast demeaning hateful remarks of future new immigrants. It also happened in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They would pass white racist laws to keep others out once they have stolen the land from the natives.

Who raped America first? Who were the first and most cruel rapists of America? The Empire of lies would not tell you the truth. They would only lie and put the blame on others, blame the innocent China across the Pacific Ocean.

Secession - Taiwan has a choice

 Texas and California are talking about seceding or breaking away from the United States of America. Why not? Every state has a right to break away, and Taiwan can also do so. The only question is whether they have the means to do so. Texas and California have a choice, Taiwan also has a choice.

The thing is that the process of breaking away from the motherland is not like talking cock or cocktail party gossip. It involves a lot of heartbreaking and soul stealing effort. The good thing is that Taiwan is fortunate to have a slow motion movie now playing in Europe, in Ukraine telling them what to expect. Yes, every state can wish for everything. The trick is how to execute it, and how much would it cost.

Ukraine is paying the price with billions of dollars on weapons and bullets and hundreds of thousands of lives and people wounded, its citizens fleeing, and its cities flattened, and a thriving country turning into a graveyard. This is not fiction or disinformation. It is all happening in Ukraine, a real life play for all to learn from.

Are the Taiwanese willing to pay the price to secede from the motherland China? Even if the Taiwanese wanted to die fighting to the last Taiwanese, would they be able to secede from China after the last Taiwanese has fallen?

The reunification with the motherland is not an option. China would make it happen, sooner or later, peacefully or forcefully. Would Taiwan want to return to the motherland in one piece, with nothing missing, with no one dead, all the infrastructure intact, or be like Ukraine, half the country flattened and half the Taiwanese dead or maimed for life, and the rest fleeing as refugees from a peaceful and prosperous Taiwan and a good life?

Go for it Taiwan, secede from the motherland, but prepare to die and be destroyed like the Ukrainians and Ukraine. Be brave and the Americans and the Europeans would send you all the money and weapons you need. Fight and die like the numbskulls in Ukraine. Oops, like the brave Ukrainians. The Americans and the West would clap for you and honour you with epitaphs in their cities. You will be remembered as the stupid that volunteered to change your good life for the peace in the cemetery.

You have a choice!

 

PS. Reflect on the fate of the daft Hongkies that fled Hong Kong, gave up their homes and good jobs, to become beggars in UK, their staunchest supporter of 'freedom and independence'. When they failed, they would be left in the lurch by the Brits and the Americans. No more pretention about caring for them, about their welfare and freedom. They would be left to wallow in self pity and poverty.

Stupidity has no cure.

American spaceship finally made it to the moon

 WASHINGTON: The first American spaceship on the Moon since Apollo is "alive and well" following a drama-packed touchdown, the company that built it said Friday (Feb 22) as it worked to download data and images from the uncrewed robot....

 Odysseus is the first success for a new fleet of NASA-funded lunar landers designed to carry out science investigations that pave the way for the return of American astronauts to the Moon later this decade, under the Artemis program. CNA

Oops, wait a minute...

Intuitive Machines, the company behind this first-ever lunar landing by a private company, initially posted on social media that its hexagonal spaceship was upright, but CEO Steve Altemus told reporters on Friday that statement was based on misinterpreted data.

Instead, it appears that it caught a foot on the surface and tipped over, coming to rest horizontally with its top perched on a small rock -- taking some shine off an accomplishment widely hailed as a historic achievement. Yahoo News

The final story, the lander is well on the moon surface but lying on its side, still able to send data and images, but not going anywhere. Well, it is the best effort of the Americans so far. The big question, if it could not even land a lander right side up on the moon, could it land a rover on the Mars right side up? Of course they could, if not how to send back data from Mars. Really? Who is there to prove that the data really came from the rover in Mars, or was the rover really in Mars?

And the bigger question, did the Americans really land on the moon in the 1960s? Of course they did. They landed on the moon many times, with many astronauts strutting around, jumping and tumbling on the surface of the moon. Really? Sure, the Americans said so. Then how come they could not even land a simple lander on the moon with today's advanced technology? That is the problem. Today's advanced technology is too advanced, too far ahead for the lander to keep up with. No?

Actually, the truth is that all the moon landing technology and data were stolen by China and the Americans have nothing left to work on. So they have to start from scratch. First, must make sure they have a rocket to take them to the moon. Next, they must learn how to land a lander upright and not sideway. Thirdly, they have to find out if humans can survive passing through the Van Allen Radiation Belt. The Americans are still testing this. They have forgotten that they had many astronauts flying many missions through this Belt and came back alive. So they must confirm that this is still the case before sending their astronauts to the moon again!

The short cut is for the Americans to beg the Chinese to return all the data and technology stolen by China. See how easy the Chinese land their rover on the moon, like a piece of cake. Thanks to American's 1960s backward technology. Maybe the Chinese can sell the data and technology back to the Americans as a goodwill gesture.

Poor Americans. the Chinese also stole their 5G and 6G technologies until the Americans cannot put up a workable 5G network in America, and too shy to beg the Chinese to return the technology to them.

Let's all wait for more spins from the lander Odysseus now lying on the lunar surface. It is still alive and well. Perhaps the Americans can ask the Chinese rover, moon rabbit, for help to give the Odysseus a nudge to turn it upright. Oops, ask the Indians, they also have a rover in the South Pole of the moon, definitely nearer to the American lander.

Help, Hollywood, help!

Budget 2024 - A Robin Hood Budget...?

 People of former British colonies are all familiar with the legend of Robin Hood and his merry men. And the moral of this British legend is about robbing the rich to give to the poor in an English society mired with corruption and abuse of power. In several ways, the 2024 Budget came close to the image of the Robin Hood legend, a lot of takings and a lot of giving back to the poor. 

After all the taxes, fee hikes, fare hikes and whatever increases in revenue that the govt can think of over the years, the incessant hikes must have reaped in a lot of revenue to spread around. Now sure how much was brought in from the investments in our trillion dollar reserves. The govt now has a lot of money to give back, which is a good thing.

Here are the differences from Robin Hood. The taxes and fee and fare hikes took from everyone, from the poor as well as the rich. And the GST, without fine tuning, is taxing the poorest as well as the dead and the unborn. Robin Hood was supposedly robbing only from the rich and giving to the poor. This budget gave to everyone, to the rich, to businesses and the poor, the difference is how much. What the average Singaporeans are concerned is how much is given to the poor, and were they adequate.

Who are the poor is obvious and Lawrence Wong has put in much thoughts to this group of Singaporeans that needed financial help badly. The most badly hit are the senior citizens and the retirees and the jobless. For the seniors and retirees, mostly from the Merdeka and Pioneer Generations, they have been hit for many years, primarily from having no income, and the never ending increases in taxes of all kinds, and hikes in fees and fares that led to a runaway inflation of food prices in the kopitiams. Oops, oops, maybe not so serious as the official inflation statistics is probably around 3% only. But this does not hide away from the fact that price increases in basic items like teh and kopi and chap chye png have gone up by 20% or more. These are real and hit the seniors and retirees very hard. Spending time drinking kopi in their clubhouses, ie kopitiams, is no longer cheap and affordable.

On a rough estimate, the average payout to the retirees and seniors is about $4,000 to $6,000 a year from this budget. Without an income, and runaway inflation, it looks like govt handouts to the seniors and retirees are going to be a permanent feature in future budgets, to keep them at least fed daily. Perhaps there should be a specific budget allocated to take care of the ageing seniors and retirees going forward.

The Merdeka and Pioneer Generations were the main contributors to the healthy reserves of the state. It was accumulated at a time when their income were much lower, and cost of living as well. Today, after several decades of inflation, tax, fare and fee hikes, whatever savings of the seniors and retirees, if there is anything left, would have their values shrunk by at least half. A hundred dollar is now worth maybe $50, depending on what it is spent on. It would really be nice and appropriate to tap on the national reserves to provide for the people that contributed the biggest share to it, as dividend payout.  A way to compensate taking a cut from the reserves for the seniors is to remove the cut for new citizens that did not play a part in its creation, at best a token now, and only in the future.

Without any income, the govt must bear in mind that any increases in taxes, fares and fees would hit the seniors real hard, especially those that already run down their savings. It is like robbing the poor when they have nothing to be robbed. High inflation and high taxes, fees, fares are threatening the life and existence of the seniors that are not millionaires. Robin Hood only rob the rich to pay the poor, not robbing the poor and give back a little that is not adequate to get by. The seniors and retirees are hapless and silent victims of high inflation, taxes and fee hikes. They have no choice, no option, no way to defend or help themselves. Maybe, crudely to some, old furniture that is a sore eye and better to be forgotten.

While American terrorists are at wars, China is doing this

 

2 min clip on China's island development near Hainan Island. Money well spent instead of wasting on wars, weapons and killings like the American terrorists. China is building bridges, railways, roads, ports, cities etc etc, what are the Americans doing? Starting wars and inciting wars everywhere, spending billions and billions on wars and weapons.

Mysingaporenews is back!!

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I was notified to appeal for reinstatement of my blog. It is now back.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone.

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