Trump, Vance and clowns are the best circus in the world...in leadership

That brings me to J. D. Vance criticism that Britain has been 'failed by its leadership' over the last two decades.

Can I safely say it is just the pot calling the kettle black. How about the USA itself? Is it really that great now under Trump and J. D. Vance leadership? J. D. Vance is afraid of looking into the mirror, but he should have done so before dishing out criticism of the British. He is no better a leader than the Brits. At least the Brits had no drag queens within their ranks, lol. I love it when the Anglo-Saxon Whites start to throw each other under the bus. Nothing makes my day just watching the clown show.

Now that Britain is going to appoint a new PM, J. D. Vance is trying to start the ball rolling by interfering in the choice of the next PM. Of course, the Brits do not have the marbles to accuse the USA of doing that. That would be a thief calling another as thief. The USA wanted to be in a position to choose the next leader for the UK if possible, just like in Venezuela but failing in Iran.

I have a feeling that Iran is purposefully holding the funeral of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khameini on July 4th, four months after his assassination just to coincide with the USA's Independence Day also on July 4th. It holds a significant message that his death is not forgotten, and vengeance is not going to be forgiven. On this day that the USA is celebrating Independence Day, the USA must remember its crime against humanity.


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Trump wants Iran to buy American soya beans using money he robbed from Iran

Another very significant sign of USA's desperation has now been revealed with Trump asking Iran to help USA farmers by buying its corn, soya and other farm products. Imagine attacking a country and then trying to ask that country for help. Only a shameless person like Trump can do such a thing. The thief asking the victim to help sounds weird.

The hogwash reason that Trump gave was that Iran is now short of food and therefore Trump is very magnanimous, offering to sell food to Iran. Now before we get the wrong idea, Trump is going to use the seized Iranian assets to pay for USA farm products. The robber who robs the shop is returning with the loot to buy from the same looted shop to help the shop owner to recover some losses, thinking he is doing a 'benevolent' act. What a sick joke!

Having said that, Trump is showing more desperation by removing some tariffs on essential farmer's requirements to help the farmers, like fertilizer from Morocco. It seems that the tariffs have backfired badly on the USA.


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Can you believe this, there are countries waiting to be attacked and taken over, but doing nothing about it?

 We know that there are countries that are in the process of being taken over, and pretending not to know, and not doing anything to prevent being taken over, as if they are willing to be taken over, or working with foreign countries to take them over. We also know that there are countries that are working with foreign powers to take over and their people are either ignorant or haplessly waiting for it to happen. We know that there are countries that have already been taken over with full support and cooperation of their political leaders but the daft citizens still did not know what is happening. The most crazy example is the USA. It is like a lie that is so big that no one think it is possible or is real. It cannot be. How can the world's number one super power be taken over by a Mickey Mouse country? 

Practically all the Arab and Muslim states in the Middle East know that they are being targeted to be taken over. This is not about conspiracy, not about lies or fake news. The Israelis said it everyday, showing proof and justifications that they are the historical owner, by their Jewish folk lore and legends and grandmother's tales, of the Middle East. They are claiming these grandmother's tales as authority from the God, and many white men, especially the American terrorists, are supporting such fictions as good enough authority.

And the Israelis are not just dreaming and hoping for it to happen. They have full military plans to take over the Arab and Muslim lands, and are executing it right before the eyes of the Arab and Muslim states, with the full backing of the American terrorists. The Israelis are gaining grounds everyday, with more massacres and genocides, and the momentum has been expedited in recent months. They have fully taken over Palestine with only a few pockets of West Bank pretending to be still in Palestinian hands. Now the expansionist drive is into Lebanon and Syria, 

The massive attack against Iran could be over if Iran is not able to fight back, unable to resist the combined attacks of the American and Israeli terrorists. At the moment it seems that Iran is holding its position well and may not fall. Caveat, if the American and Israeli terrorists did not go nuclear.

The Israelis are so confident of their expansionist plan that they are telling the Turks that they are next in the line of fire. And what did the Turks do? Nothing, just waiting to be attacked, like all the Arab and Muslim states. The plan to attack 7 Arab and Muslim states were fully executed as planned.

So far only Iran is brave enough to fight back. The rest of the Arab and Muslim states appear to be shivering in their pants, hoping and praying that if they keep quiet, don't open their mouths, they might not be attacked and taken over next. Keeping quiet and praying to Allah is about the best thing they can do. Oops, crawling to Washington and crying to the Americans is still their best hope, that they still trust the Americans to save them from being taken over by the Israelis. In reality, being taken over by the American Empire.

Is this real? Nation states are so hapless when faced with aggression and threats of being taken over? And they are buying more and more weapons and spending more and more on their military and soldiers. For what? Next to Iran, Turkiye is supposedly the biggest military power in the Middle East, many times bigger than tiny Israel, but behaving as meek as the Palestinians in Gaza.

There are so many reasons why having children in Singapore is losing traction

There are so many reasons why having children in Singapore is losing traction.

There is the education system minefield that keeps changing every now and then. Even teachers themselves have lost their expertise trying to keep up and needed upgrading to do so. And parents could no longer act as tutors to their kids unlike my generation.

Then there is the cost involved in bring up a child. A tin of baby milk powder costs an arm and a leg for low-income families, on top of shrinking contents. A kilogram tin has now shrunk to 800 grams; a half kilogram is now 400 grams. This is just based on my outdated quotation, as my children and grandchildren have all grown up. I still remember paying S$15 for a kilogram tin of baby milk powder in early 1980s, if I remember correctly. Now this is what the Chinese used to say - paying more money for less ingredients.

The milk powder manufacturers keep telling consumers that this and that has been added just to justify the price gorging. Some even claim that their milk powder improves intellectual competence. Can I just ask, what intellectual competence if the child is born without the brain capacity to study? Can just drinking the milk do the job? The generation of LKY and GKS did not have to rely on such baby milk powders to nurture them into such outstanding thinkers. They probably grew up on condensed milk, nothing fanciful.

This same argument can be applied to the elite schools chalking up accolades for stellar performances over decades. How can that not be so when they have the choice of the cream of the crop, leaving other normal schools to try their best with mediocre students. If students from such elite schools cannot produce stellar results based on their cream of the crop intake, something is seriously wrong somewhere.

On top of that parents have to contend with after school tuition fees in order not to land in ITE, although that route is becoming more conducive rather than a university education that is losing traction in the jobs market with AI doing the thinking. I am amaze at the number of young graduates doing hawking today, which is unthinkable in the past. However, it is quite apparent that tuition centers are a lucrative business, with even students from the elite schools needing to go for tuition and giving tuition centers the opportunity to boasts about having such elite students in their midst.

Another factor is that nowadays both parents need to work to make ends meet due to the high cost of living, thereby leaving the kids to the maids and that is another added cost that poor parents can ill afford. Not all maids are reliable and may impart different upbringing mindsets in kids. Complaints about maids can be heard more frequently than praises.


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Distrust of the white men started during Deng Xiaoping's time....hide your strength, keep your head down....

China wanting to serve the Global South countries is a fact accompli. It is already well and truly a done deal. China saw the whole picture more clearly since Trump's first term when he started the trade war. China knows this is the beginning of the end of China's flourishing trade with the USA and over the years, China had already decided that decoupling cannot be avoided.

So, what had China done before and after Trump's first term? In fact, thinking long term, China and Russia already started the ball rolling with the formation of BRICS in 2009, followed by China's BRI project in 2013, well before Trump's first term, having seen the trajectory of the USA's agenda against China under Biden and Obama.

It is rather difficult to pinpoint the straw that broke the camel's back that pushed China to prepare itself for the oncoming anti-China mantra over the last two to three decades. But it was a blessing in disguise that China took the bull by the horns and decided on a path that was plainly seen as a decoupling move, slow but undaunted mindset.

Which is why serving the Global South countries is so important a step to be taken. The preparation was strategic; the commitment total and the result is positive enough to make the USA worried and paranoid. Otherwise, why is Trump unnerved by de-dollarization and even threatening countries joining BRICS with punishing tariffs. Trump can do what he does best, but countries are still giving Trump their middle finger and queuing to join BRICS.


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