Economic frustration ie high cost of living, low income will lead to social and racial divisions

 PM Wong warns economic frustrations can deepen social, racial divisions in Singapore

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong says Singapore is not immune to such pressures, pointing to racist comments online and divisions between foreigners and Singaporeans.  CNA

Lawrence has said it, the pressure on the populace caused by wars, instability and high cost of living, couple with low income, is going to take its toll on the people. If people earning $1m, $500k or $100k are feeling the stress or discomfort of money not enough, what about those in the lower rung of the income ladder? What about those living from paycheck to paycheck, and those still finding it not enough to get by? Then what about those that have no income, the unemployed and the retirees? It is so scary to see prices running away everyday when one has no income, no saving or little savings.

The frustration, fear and the struggle to live, to put food on the table are real, to be able to afford 3 meals in the richest country in the world but unable to do so. Then there are stupid schemes that taxed on the poor that are struggling with every cent they have but have to pay for plastic bags and bottles. Are these really clever ideas? The cost of implementation is not peanuts compare to the savings, and savings for who? The hardware, software, the people to manage the system, and the millions of Singaporeans crawling around like ants to get a few cents or a dollar refund. Millions of people have been set in motion to bring plastic bottles, cans and whatever just to claim back a few cents. What about those seniors that were unable to crawl to the machines to claim their 20 cents? To those that have to forfeit claiming, it means that they are paying more unnecessarily.

To the millionaires, what is a few million dollars? To those at the bottom of society, every cent counts. Stop squeezing blood from stones. Squeezing a few cents from the poor is going to increase the frustration and anger of the have nots. Oh, they did not know a few cents here and there can be very painful to the poor Singaporeans. Oops, there is no poor Singaporeans. They can afford to pay for a few plastic bags, a few cans, a few plastic bottles. I just found out that these are paid in advance in FairPrice supermarkets. So very clever. Deserving of being paid in the millions. Ooops, oops, oops,

Who really cares about economic frustration when mindless schemes are introduced to pinch on the already no money in the pocket citizens? Oops, better not say more. When so much pressure is being built up by so many things over time, a straw will break the camel's back. The anger is there waiting to blow up. It just needs a spark.  Oops, just my opinion. No need to believe this will happen.

What is economic frustration? Actually it is relative. To some, it means missing on the $1m or $100k bonus, to some it means missing on the $10k pay hike. To some it means having to pay another 20 cents, or another $1 for beer cans. A bit like Donald Trump. What I want I take. Who is there to stop me?

On social media I always come across one particular moron blaring....

On social media I always come across one particular moron blaring about things collapsing in China and demonizing China over everything under the sun.

There was one video put up about the whole of China on fire due to EVs being used all over China. Vehicle fires happen all the time, even with high-end cars like Lamborghinis and Ferraris. But to him, it seems it only happens in China, nowhere else.

There was another video put up about another pandemic in China with people unable to gain medical treatment at a certain hospital because of so many sick people already there, just by looking at the packed car park. That information came just by looking at satellite pictures without being ever being in China. The real reason was that there was a medical conference being held at the hospital and delegates from all over were taking up the parking spaces.

There was also one unbelievable fabrication put up about not having one sale to foreigners at the Yiwu International Trade Market, the largest wholesale market in China and the world. Really unbelievable!

There was also another video put up about no visitors present at a Chinese Technology Exhibition, with exhibitors sitting idle. Elsewhere on social media, others were posting videos of crowds galore. Those were people visiting the exhibition, not someone not being there but talking dick.

This is the same guy talking about China's tofu bridges, buildings and ports breaking up and collapsing. Infrastructures collapse everywhere around the world, not just in China. Buildings are also sinking in the USA, some leaning to compete against the leaning Tower of Pisa, some on seafront estate of California collapsing and being washed into the sea, and others on the Outer Banks off North Carolina being taken back by nature from erosion by massive waves. As I always say, he who laughs last laughs best.

How this delusional moron managed to garner so many hits on his site is unbelievable. But you know how Youtube works, right? Please understand that I am not one of those watching his filth, as I know that site uses sensational clickbait which I do not click on but just avoid. Just a look at the sensational horseshit puts me off.

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Who is speaking up for the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Agent Orange in Vietnam?

Like Japan where all the sufferings from the after-effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are long term but discreetly covered up and never talked about. Japan is different, being a colony of the USA. The control of Japan is total. At least in the USA people have raised sensitive issues to put the USA Government in trouble at times, But Japan is so stifled and unable to utter a whimper over the treatment meted out to it by the USA. Where is the Samurai spirit of old? Gone with the wind and dead and buried.

Old samurai warrior Shintaro Abe was assassinated and blamed on a religious sect from South Korea. New samurai wannabe, SanaeTakaichi, snuggles up to Trump like a schoolgirl fan itching to meet her idol in person, with a stupid smile like Jack Nicholson as the joker in a Batman movie. The resemblance is uncanny.

The cover up over the aftereffects of Agent Orange has been ongoing for decades. The USA tried to distance the connection over the number of children born of parents affected by Agent Orange, calling it a co-incidence. Some USA veterans are also affected and suffering in silence. Karma works in mysterious ways.

What is worrying about Vietnam is that a generation down the line is still being affected, suffering abnormalities and deformation. More so with the things grown on soil contaminated by Agent Orange and consumed in ignorance at home an abroad, with Vietnamese drinking the contaminated water extracted from the ground and landmines still crippling and killing innocent Vietnamese.

Who is speaking up for the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Who is speaking up for the Vietnamese families still suffering the after-effects of Agent Orange. All the useless world bodies see nothing, hear nothing and says nothing. What are they for?


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PS. Who is speaking up for the Palestinians and Iranians?

When your friends are the real terrorists, mass murderers and war criminals...what does it say about you?

 Who you are is defined by the friends you keep. The Operation to kill Iranians has been ongoing for more than 6 months. The genocide in Gaza in particular and the Middle East in general has been ongoing for decades. Two things stand up like a sore thumb. One, no one is calling out the real terrorists killing the Palestinians, the Iranians and the Arabs and Muslims. Even after the notorious pro western ICC has named Netanyahu, Trump and several ex American and British leaders as war criminals, nothing happens. These individuals are still travelling freely like pop idols in their own sphere of influence, among their friends that do not call them terrorists. The second sore thumb, many of the Arab and Muslim states are still very friendly with the unmentionable terrorists, the Americans and the Israelis. They are showering the real terrorists with warmth and kind gestures and even throwing money at them.

Do the Arab and Muslim leaders know or recognise the American and Israeli terrorists as their staunch enemies, bombing and killing their people? Why would they not call them terrorists and break relations with them? Why are they still partying with the real terrorists and even asking the real terrorists to defend them and kill their Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters? Which side are they on?

What would their people be calling them for being friends with the real terrorists? What would the people of the world be looking at them and thinking what kind of people they are, being friends of the real terrorists? And this queer phenomenon is not unique to the Arabs and Muslims. Many American allies and cronies are still refusing to call out the Americans and Israelis as terrorists. The latest development is that the Europeans are distancing themselves from the American and Israeli terrorists, refusing to be roped in to be accomplices in the genocide of the Palestinians and the killing of Iranians.

The American and Israeli terrorists are alone but not alone. The hypocritical western media still glorifying them as the defenders of democracy, freedom and human rights and calling their victims, the Arabs and Muslims, the Palestinians and the Iranians as terrorists. Congenital liar Trump just called to justify his killing of Iranians by linking the Iranians to the 911 Incident when the whole world knows Iranians had nothing to do with it. The American terrorists will keep on spinning their lies and there will be the cronies and brain dead that will believe in them. The perpetrators were identified as Saudis. But the American terrorists used the occasion to terrorise the whole world, especially the Arabs and Muslims that are dying to kiss Trump's ass and call Americans as friends.

Maybe the world should leave the Arabs and Muslims to make love with the Americans and the Israelis. Oops, count the Iranians out. They and their freedom fighter friends are about the only real independent fighters against the American and Israeli terrorists.

Who are keeping the real terrorists as friends?

White House press secretary is still vacant and perhaps Palki Sharma should apply

While the USA has a propaganda machine churning out fabricated news about China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, India has its own propaganda machine - Palki Sharma. Any little opportunity about China or involving China, she will pick it up and blow it up to gigantic proportions. The irony is that she is the de-facto propaganda mouth of the cult leader Modi, and the Hindu fanatics took to her like a duck to water.

I am glad that Mr Hunzi is doing a good job of countering her, but of course in India, the Hindu fanatics demonized Mr. Hunzi for denigrating their propaganda queen. She is so good in twisting fiction into facts that they cannot have enough of her twisting. She is good, so good that comparing her to twisters like Karoline Leavitt, she has endured quite successfully, leaving Karoline Leavitt in the dust. Karoline Leavitt meanwhile has now ended her days of twisting. She lost her favor with Trump over Natalie Harp and declared to herself- leave it (Leavitt), lol.

Now, the position of White House press secretary is still vacant and perhaps Palki Sharma should apply for the position. What she has achieved thus far should qualify her for the job, hands down. Maybe Modi ought to recommend her to Trump. It will be a loss to Modi and India nevertheless but much to gain in favor for Modi from Trump. Since Israel is already the fatherland of Modi, USA could be the new motherland of the cult leader. Fits nicely that the fatherland and motherland are working hand in glove against Iran, a country that has an axe to grind with Modi.


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