GE2025 - Anything interesting to watch?

 We are in the middle of the GE campaigning and nothing unusual or exciting has cropped up other than the usual stuff. Overall, this GE is going to look like the past GEs and at best hoping for some surprises or upsets. The eastern part of the island is looking like a contest between the PAP and WP, but the results are likely to be the same as the last GE. WP is likely to hold on to their gains but not looking to make more headways. If there is any, it is likely to be from the SMCs.

What is interesting to watch is on the western front. Paul Tambyah of SDP is looking like the most electable opposition candidate and is facing Liang Eng Hwa of PAP, not exactly a heavy weight in Bukit Panjang SMC. The best of the opposition facing an average PAP candidate.  There is really nothing much to fault this professor and not much mud can be thrown at him. PAP would have a hard time trying to present Liang Eng Hwa as a better choice than Tambyah.

The biggest contest is likely to be in West Coast Jurong GRC. Desmond Lee is the anchor man of the PAP team, a measured politician that does not court controversy or involved in grandstanding. Would he be enough to carry a team that is not looking that spectacular against Tan Cheng Bock of PSP and his team? Cheng Bock is an old hand with many supporters built over decades in politics. He is supported by an increasingly popular Leong Mun Wai and Hazel Poa. The two minority candidates also have solid credentials, making the team fairly formidable.

Cheng Bock and Mun Wai combination is about the strongest available from the opposition camp. This is going to be a tough battle for Desmond Lee and his team. Tharman is no longer there to helm the team and nothing needs to be said about Iswaran's legacy. If there is any major upset in GE2025, this is where it gonna happens.

PSP is optimistic, throwing all their big names into West Coast Jurong GRC. PAP's big guns are somewhere else. This is a big test of Desmond Lee's weight as an anchor minister. He is carrying all the weight himself against PSP's big guns. It is going to be very close.

The more Trump lies, the more he discredits himself

 Trump now claims that Xi called him regarding the tariff war. Beijing categorically denied everything that is trotted out by the USA, claiming no such event is happening and are just fake news. Now, who do we believe?

Trump already caved to China earlier as most people are saying, by talking about bringing down the tariffs against China in the face of demands by Beijing that any talk can only proceed with Trump's tariffs out of the way. That stand is as clear as daylight, with claims that Xi called Trump just an illusion. Words must be matched by action, not just releasing hot air. China is waiting for Trump to get the tariffs out of the way first before talks can proceed.

Is this a move meant for the stock market to shoot up again for his cronies to make more money? I would not discount the motive.

Anonymous

Silly Asians courting dangers for their Women folks

 Silly Asians that allowed the Americunts Barbarians and Savages Military to have their Bases in their Countries are courting dangers for their Women folks.

The Americunts soldiers sre deemed to be immune to their Civil Laws as they are protected by their own Miltary Rules and Laws.

They could caused havocs and only their own Provost or Military Police could handle them.

As usual in their damn BS justice where their own could simply closed their eyes and pardoned all their own kakis and lackeys and cronies no actions would be taken against them.

For a Facade, they might said that they are been punished but what's the Hell you know behind their enclosed Miltary Bases and Camps.

They might be even be feasbted as Heros! For their BRAVO!

See when their Naval Forces are in any Country's ports of calls, their own SP, Sea or Special Police are always be seen on the shores as a
deterrent to warn them of causing troubles.

To them the Civil Laws or that country Police are NOT allow to touch them.

Our time in 60s, i.e in 67 and around 69 when we first started our own of building up our SAF where at that time Singapore still followed the International Rules of Miltary Ordinance, our own Provost which we were known at that time were tasked with the duties of enforcing the discipline and arrests of any Foreign Military Forces in our country at that time with the co-operations of also their own MPs or SPs.

Also our own soldiers are also subjected under the SAF Act Miltary Rules and Laws to be under the supervision and lawful arrests only by the Provost or Miltary Police.

One time Matland had their one KD Singapura in the North of our Island.
Their Personnel also subjected to Miltary Rules and Laws and our own MPs used to handle their boisterous behaviours as most if not Miltary Servicemen are usually the Gangsters and Unruly Ones in our time of the 60s to 70s.

Now different scholarly Ones.

Now Singapore SPF are empowered to arrest the SAF soldiers and also any Foreign Military Personnel if they were to commit any offences.

But frankly, only our own, the UAss Miltary Personnel or other Allied Forces, still pang chance lah.

Refer to their own justice with exception those really seizable and penal offences.

So the South Koreans, the Japanese are foolish to have these White Barbarians in their Countries.

Ask For the Pinoys, aiya welcomed for their monies and sins.

No eyes see

Virgo49

China retaliates with rare earth and food ban, waiting for farmers to cry to Trump

 China does not need huge responses to counter the USA. Just a tiny retaliation using rare earth causes massive pain. Such a calibrated retaliation costs China relatively little damage to its citizens but reaps massive benefits for China. China's retaliation is calibrated to induce massive harm to the USA.

China retaliated against the USA's agricultural sector during Trump's first term trade war, creating chaos for USA farmers and in this second Trump's term is going in for the kill by wiping out most USA farmers and their livelihood. These are also the MAGA base of Trump voters, besides manufacturing, and are turning them against the Trump administration.

Farmers in USA are unlikely to find ways to go back to business as usual with China ever again. Farmers in Brazil, Argentina and Russia are taking over their businesses with China forever. The Chinese market is gone for them, with no credible substitute for volume and size to match. This is what 'Make USA Great Again' is turning into and is making China even greater.

China does not ever been known to shout about 'Making China Great Again' and let the reality shout for itself. The USA can shout itself coarse but reaps little benefit. Empty vessels make the most noise.

Anonymous

So many new faces in 2025 joining the fray for political leadership but can they measure up to the task.

 All political parties must ensure new aspirants for political leadership measure up to the high demanding criteria require of politicians.

All new aspirants taking up politics must be asked to list out their criteria for wanting to join. Their lists of criteria must then be published for the public to scrutinize and if possible to comment.

First and foremost politicians must be sincere in really wanting to seriously serve their fellow countrymen and country with all their hearts and with all their minds and soul. They must not be hypocritical in promising to serve the people before election but after being elected demand that the populace serve them. Will they devote all their time and energy to serve sincerely as ministers or MPs and resign from their existing jobs. Or will they take their political office as part time job while devoting their usual selves to indulge in their own business.

They must not think of enriching themselves by way of Parliament. They must know the Parliament is a sacred public institution to serve the country and the people. If they want to grow rich they should go into the business world and not enter into politics.

Whatever it is they must help the government to form good governance for the good of the people and country. 

It is important for politicians to take note of some importants aspects that a discerning government must keep in mind .

A good careful government must avoid sliding into the fake system of  American democracy the governance of which advocates extreme capitalism that follows the Darwinism principle and theory of survival of the fittest which caters only to the benefit of the one to ten percent elitist society at the detrimental expense of the by and large ninety percent ordinary populace. This type of Darwinism governance will lead to disaster, chaos and turmoil and eventual demise of the  country. The fake American democracy is in actual truth a fascist regime of the elitist oligarchy.

It is good for Singapore to follow a socialist democracy in which the people equate the country as a big family consisting of an aggregate of thousands or millions of diverse families that look upon the government with responsibility to take care of the interests, well being and welfare of the people.

A good socialist government should not straddle between the  self interest  of the dangerous fake American democracy and the hypocritical concepts and malpractice of the fake socialism of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'.

Southernglory1

Saturday, 26th April, 2025